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VOLUME 8. CAPK ISLAND. NEW JERSEY. Ttl URSU A AUGUST 28. X UMBER 13-

I A XtllmlMf: u. Mr. KXMmrfm gophlar Mr. "Take the Uu "1 Com* Freemen of, the land, Com* meet th* l.i'l Demand ! litre's • Pi*«s of Work in hamf, « . Fat it through ! litre's s Log across tbe way Wo bar* stumble.! on all day. litre's the- Plough-share in tbe Ulay, Pat it through ! litre's a country that's half free And -it waits for you and me 'I'o say what Its fate shall be, I'at it through ! Whits on* traitor thought remaiua— Whit* MM-apot its banner stains One link of all its chains, l'nt it through ! Knar our brothers in the field. i Steel .your swords as theirs are steeled. Learn to wield the area they wield, Pot it through ! I«ock the shop and lock tbexntore, Chalk tola upon the door. ■■We're enlisted for the War Pat it tbroagb I For tire HirthrighU yet tnftdd, , j»For the History yet uotoM. J J \Fbr the Fatdre yet nnroMed, • f Pat it through ! Last oar children point with shame, ftn thu fathers' dastard fanre. • Who gave up a nation's muA>, Put It through I i Father Abraa, hear us Cry "Wo cau follow, we oau die." Lead your children then and try Pat ft through t J Here's the work of God half done. „ Here's the kingdom of His Son With its triumphs jun begun, Put it through f Father Abram, that man thrives Who with every weapon strives— , Bsc our twenty minion lives ! ' Pat it through ! 'Tit to you the Tdhl b given I % "Tie hy van tbe Belt i« drivuu ! ■ By the- Very God of Heaven, j Drive it throbgh ! i [Itosich Deily Advertiser". ream* Ah " Waver) j Mxfcasmc." WVK? tffk OK IP, • Dory him deep in utabthurn mold. Hnvy hitp deep in the grave so cold ; Hnry bini there hy a snolhern river. <Ch»h-W1w-bm* - wberh the daBMill* quiver; Then1 let hisbndy in quietude rest. Rut bury Ms name hi tbe nation's breast. Bright o'rf bit grave shall tbe.snn shine on. dfwt brighter tbe H ime'bis deeds have woft; Falrlegeotls of truth, they sbull liv«,in story Brighter because they are crimsoned and got* ; Children and maiden*. and men of one land, a Craven in Ihvr lei hit memory stand. Sopd the last camp G re shall die- id tbe > rohib. Hoot the lisaf carve Trout' the renegade's * month; Soon ths'l nut count r v. united forever, Dai-e to UelV every rKft to sever : OnrtU wfcrlsf itiwe who have fell • jk Freedom shall wbisperr*"/!/ dime, all is Shrined its the heart of a grateful land. Ever or. blsthn's pawe to stand ; Sort here soldier, proudly *» cherish Thoughts of thy valor, that »«.»r shall $1 perish ; .Sleep Uien in peace, though ibey bury then low. Down where the southern »• unlets flow. ' resuaf nlKuj rec at_- re»/w - a mm aoLoixa. , A fow dhye sWice a chHd, o'*<rtfl ifve itionUis old,' wax buried from the resitlrnrto of •' family reading in AMfr street; aibote Oirard' avenue. lire ' 4 * burikl . «f tbn child elicited the following fecU regarding the parentage nf the tame, and' the manner in L* t vrttldi it became an octapant of tlie L. howo from which It wwt t»nri"d. Some time since tbe father of tl.e child enlisted la tbe Eighth Pennsylvobia Cavalry, and left his wife aadfkmily without jtdequale means of support. About MDeu Weeks jdnco the mother pUced the - child i rhcently buried in charge of a family in Alder street, with the intimation* that she could not take care of it, sad-prom-ised to pay tire iu«: of two dollm per week for itsmpport: From that time until within a day or two past, mulling could be Itsrasd -of the whereaHb.u of tbe ujotber, and thr amount agreed to child failed to make its appearance. A letter, bowevar, lauly received by. m.I« ttait 2 1. tw wi" *<7 y- BcCwh,'. b, fe : .''■■■ L

^^^e^^rfiscloM^h^Tigihnce^fr^he^ mastering officers and snrgeons, and en- *• tered the tanks of a tonrpany in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, tbe eamc to which her husband is attached, and has performed satisfactorily, -all the j duties of a soldier, being it her post through ail the bard nsagcr through which tbe regiment has passed, and most likely fighting side by wide with her husband in oil tbe battles in wbicb the regiment-has been engaged. A. member of the regiment, who has lately returned, and who appears to be cogniz- ' ! ant of :he fact of her having enlisted, ^states that she looks every inch the sol- . dier, and remarked that tbe only dislinI, , guisbing mark between bar and any of ; the men was that she worn a red sash, most likely meaning that she was an officer of. rai uoT rank. ' i fThs child, thus thrown to tbe tender mercies of tbe world was cared for as v well cs tbe circumstances of tbe family to whqse care it waa confided would permit, died of snmmer complaint and was buried through tbe kind offices of Mr. Ueo Hteckbarger, of the neighborhood, who, assisted by some residents in the i vicinity, mostly belonging to tbe<jiirard - Avenue Market, bore the expense of the burial. The wyrnqfr's spirit and patriotism is of a higher order tbsu her maternal affection. — Philadelphia In - fuirtr. LAST HOURS OF'OSX. MBCOOK. j. Tire following aro the particulars of /Jen. McCook's death: llis brigade were oil the way below the Tennessee state line, to Decherard, on the 5th inst. thin. McCook, who was nuwell, was thifelling in an ambulance about a mile : and a half in advance of liis command. Lie asked a'uan whom Ire met where ' there wss a gooApIace ufVicauip. The I mtn replied on the Inll beyond wes plenty of waljr. and seemed anxions for him « "to go on. Wnon tho spot wns reached ! tbe umbnlence stopped, and at the same moment a shot waa.lired at it. but withi out effect. The general then gave or- '• i ders for the umbnlence to be turned y\ back, as the guerrillas were upon tbem% iL^hw was dont, and lire horses started at ,, \ fall spce I, lire guerrillas pursuing and firing Eleven sbois went throSgh the ^ wagon, only one of which slruek general. ' McCook. Ilcfore this shot was fired a « : rebel horseman ordered tho driver to stoj», at the enme time leveling a pistol acrosshis saddle. A« the driver was attempt - * ing to check bis horses the order was re- ; pealed, and at the same time the pistol was discharged, the ball pitrciug the ; general's side. Another rebel- then II ; rode up v iih a pistol cocked, but tien, {, McCook told him there was no uw 19' " | shoot n> Ire wW mortally- wouWQea." r. The geucrul was thsn taken into n iousc B | where he died. His negro driverXescapeifto a cornfield, as the fcusbwactjers I threateiied to kill tbe "Vanwee niggir." e ! The corrcapo^ipt of tbe Cinoiuuali ' "Coiiimercial^Jgtves the following atf- ! count of tbe general's Jast moments ; e Gen. McCook said to Capt. linrt, j. "Andy, the problem of life will soon n ; be solved for rac " In reply to Father e ! Hetty, if he bad any message for hi* . e j brother Alexander, he said, ' Tell* h'lm * t, ; and the, rest that I1 havo^IiiBfr to' live as a man, aud die atteifipting'tbsdfi ' my j j doty." To Captain Burt he said, "My n gocd boy, may your life Ire longer and j I to a better purpose than mine." F'atb- _ r5f"]^tty, tlie brigade wsgonmaster, was with him in bitlasl moments. ^Hasping his hands in the death straggle he said |f lo hltn, 'I am done with life; .yes, ibis j e ends it all. 'Wiu and I pari now, bnl ^ ! tbe Joss of ten thousand sbch Uvea eg ' years' and mine would 1 be nothing if # I their stttdfice would but save .such a m 1 govern mewt as orfrsF' I Before bis death, Gen. McCook sent y.j fine Col. Vandt ver, who drew op bis . j will. In hi* mill ha direelad that two ' favorite borees should be. given to his; * I brothers, A Wok and Itaeirl. and 'the I ' reaaindrr-or his iiropcrty |w hi* wotlfiH. ,* ■' / . , ' . ~

HEVEB TOO_OLD TO LKABA Socrnies, at an extreme nge, learned , to play on musical instruments. , ; Coto, at eighty ye^rs of age, thought proper to learn tbe UrWt-l^ngusge. Plutareh, when between seventy, aud , ' eighty comraenctfU the study oriLatiu. Boeiaeai^ was tbirty-fivo jt art of nge when Ire commenced ids studies iu polite -literature, yet he became one of the . three great masters of tbe Tuscan din lect, Dante rnd l'etrarch fading the otb- * cr two'r . Sir licnty Spelmnn neglected the sciences hi hiF yooth, but commenced i the study of them when he wis between fifty and sixty years of ago. After this ' time he became a most learned antiquarian and lawyer, j Colbert, the famoas French minister, at sixty years of nge returned1 to his Latin and law studies. Ludovico, at the great age of 125, wrote the memoirs of his own time. A 1 'singular exertion, noticed by Voltaire, wire wat himself one of the most re- | mnrknble instances of the progress of age in new studies. , Ogilby, the translator of Homer and Virgil, was unacquainted with Lulin end U reck till -be was pan the age of fifty. Franklin did not fully corttnence his philosophical pnrtirits till he lmd reach- > ed his fiftieth year. Accorso, a great lawyer, being ask- , cd wlij^lre began the study of law so late, answered, that indeed he begin it late, but be should there-lore master it tlie sooner. Drydeo, in bisaixty-eigbth yefir, began the translation of the Jliud ; and liis roost pleasing productions were written in liis old nge. PROV0TIOH OPMI. KEARHEY. The Government lias done iuelf (lie ( honor of conferring Ure.renk ol MajorGeneral of Voion leers npon Gen 1'hdip ! Kearney. Ko officer in tlie servk-.a lias more thorough knowledge of military science, and no one Ires hud half the experience. Gen. Kearney has serv.-d in Mexico, Algeria, aud in Italy. Wber1 ever Jitf Ire* served lie has won universal i applause for daring intrepidity. He is just the man to cope with - Stonewall Jackson- ; aud the nuthoritie* coahl do no more sensible thing than to organize . a flying column, similar to that of the - rebel leader, and give Mk cominmid to ■ Kearney. So furnished, and with ample , discretion, he would sooir give a splen- . did account of himself. — N. 1". Timet. We have reason to believe that ft it not impossible Gen. Kearney may, very ' soon, be assigned a command in the de- ' partment of Gen. Rope, for whtfcb, as i the Timet but truly says, he is peculiar- , ly fitted. — Newark Merrvry. , - No promotion has been madfe In * tbe army which meets with a more hear- . ty approval than that of Geu. Kearney. i It pleases the couirtry, and espJHBgf'' - Kearney's fellow Jviseymtn. i lie some weeks ago we urged In ' motion to tbe roi|k ofMsj. General, i It has corneal last. r.'nd a shout of grat- ■ itude rings in the air.' The 'uext thing wr should rrjqii-e lo see would be to , have this brave man put in ruftmund of , all the New Jersey troops now in, and r thoso to Ire put in the field. ' J*' A correspondent of ihe Evening Post 1 Writes from Norway; itninc, the following account of the flight uftd fright or ' ! u lot of coward* 'in that place ; ' I A few days ago word came that, unless the q'nota for Mai tie volunteered iu- ' mediately the Gbveraor woulu' draft. * The report Ml like a ufcalh sentence j upon the ears of these niton. vE»ch one imogioed himself slreally drafted. They ^ conferred together in the night, concbidcd that there was no lime to be > lotjL and packed their carpi*. Ireg*. .and "skedaddled" -ont 1 of their back' doors to the depot and ( took ihr tarly morning train for Canada ^ Hat their trouble* were -net yet ended. lire railroad conductor, fond of a joke ' and •brave man, who bos been reward - . ' ed for saving life and 1 prqjrerty on the . ocean, h-Js nitwit: hed M seeing ao mony

ptsseugers at this depot for Canada. ^ '.lie soon- learned the caase, and while j passing through the dense swampy for- , 1 est just before reaching the Canada. | line, slowed the train anil let word go : 1 • through thkt he wjs ordered YD arrest, : the fugitives aud send them back to ' e await the dfa^L. Quick as lightning - they sprang up, seized their carpet bags ; 5 leaped from the train, and travelled on tlie doubb quick into the swamps. Our informant tells a gooJ joke ployed off : 2 by the newsboys upon Picayune Butler. oO . his landing iu New Orleans. They col- j iQCted togi-lhor.and nroctedtd to the levee. ' where Butler was to -land. At Ire stepped, * ou shore, they shouted, iu chorus, "llere is , ■ your Krtra Picayune.'1 The boys had no | papers With them, and the effect produced 1 , was irresis table. i A light t*2curt6d.ou Friday week twenty | miles south-west of Lexington, Mo., be. ; tweea 600 State troops end 36(H) rebels. 1 _ The Htale troops were defeated, with a losh j of 200 killed and wounded, mud two pirceo | ' : of artillery. f A UrxT. — A soldier belonging to the 1 Wadswurth Guard I One linDdxedCuid fonrth I If. V. volntiiaers) met n secessionist womnu ' the other day, in Warrentun, Vu. She instantly hoisted her dress to sit unusnal j ' height, and swan- around to clear him. : The soldier, who wo* attentively regarding j t (ho spectacle, cried out in' blank astonish- r - j meal : "tVlret dirty stockings!" Down; ' went tbe skirts, hidiug the friglitfnl appari- , 1 tlon from view, and llig w oman disappeared, j ® A Small bit PATBiOTir-.FiMtt.v.— In the ' 1 tho -.own of Truro, ISaruslabln county! Mass. 1 resides a family of the namu of Small, of : whom friar sons have enlisted, thf.T number : ■ being the full qudla of Truro. Tlrey ro- , 1 ceived a bounty of 8325 eadh. total, £1300; I ; . clubbed tho funds and yuirchssed a form for tins "old folks." whom tln-y K-tfvo - iu posaiission white the son* go to War. % of a pfiviircial paper ' ! rpesrks abdut his frame of JUIlfd. A con- ' tempbrstr SUg-este that ho inay bare the 5 1 frame of one, but that is allt — — ■ v 65" Mr. Ilobb any* he bar. oiieof llie t most obedient boys in the world : lie tell* , - him to do as lie pleases, and he docs it ' wi'.boat murmuring. I 45" ' ho rebel >1 organ is reported a* lv- » lux at Ctarkiville, Tennessi-e, with 1600 c | m, n. * F W The rebel* in Arkansas have been re- i B iuforcod. fisS'Tho safely dt Lexington, Mo., is certain. as Gen. Lane has reached there with S 1 reinforcement*. y #jrW,'4pt. Alex. A.Todd, a brother of Mrs. President Lincoln, and an officer in j * tho rebel army, was k illed in the late battle at ttoton Kouse. This it the second brother that Mr*, l.incolu has had kii!c9 in the n rebelarmy. Off Tho President is reported as raying : Bwnks as one -of tho host T pastw jfiMfenrmy. He gives we no trouble; |H|^fl^Hlurga force or a smell foyre, PBH^PBBrs his dufy, and dee* it." Ice Creim Saloon B ; COrfPE CTf&yPPY STORE. o \|M. «KO. B3IITII hu opened *n.Iro - » ill Cream r.»il i^rp'c"-i«aery Oaluoa co Ihe Ul-nl. " la WaahUptea >d-, pf>-,KMlla Orran «t.. .whrrr she .1 I Is |.ecpa.Td to furrrl.Ji lor'^ream, Joafwtlnnrrir-, u , rakra, fruits, fcc., ioi.il who war rail. rj- Tarn -lies nitinllKl with kecrcarj and rootkrtloaary. vnd la your orders. H /."DkMN IriTRATOB'S HKTTLKMHNT p- XIOTlfctfta herrbr elrrn that the arenuat of wills son tumr aad John H. Roaa. adBtatstraUm of 5r ITirtsnaa Resa, droraaol. wllitw aud I led stared by the etrtraaste, and reported for wttlement lo Ihe Orphan -a Court of the roucly of Cap* Way, on Ihe JSth day of jAuinist et it I- "ELIJAH TOWNSIAO, Murroyslr. Surrofate't OtBre. June M. Ml | ;. f REEMOClNT 8EMINARY. T NORRlSTO H JF To., J SOR Young Men and Ran ; attuated blcli. hank ie I Mv and haantlbil. with Ten A'-roa of Grmiiul. •v! riT'^r^^nyr h^5£'t Jtlltx W. LOOM. rsinrlpAl. ie ; 1 ' O C RftoK FOUND. jr A Pocket-Rook, conlaitring money, was at founiTal the Stable of tha subscriber, at , ; Cap*. Istnd one day lost week, lire owner ' W'U Inquire of JviMia* H«ss. PAY UP, PAY UP. ' I^IIK subscriber calls upon all indebted Jl lo hlw HaMttWi up iirt-»u*a to tbe a. s-WK -ay as* ssvs eg. 1C •****" y . W ; RjrTaka tM "Ocean Warai"

NEW iERSEY VOLUNTEER. A WEEKLY POLmCAL CAMPAIGN 9 A PER FOR THF. •I FALL FXKCTION. ififik. i : Tta oppro aching electioa in probably Uw , most imporlast held since the foundation ' | of the Government. The Union, threat- ' coed by open warfare on the part or the ; ! Soatbfrn rebels, and by the insidious, bat i equally dangerous intrigues ofchelr North-, 1 *rn sympathisers, appeqj to all Its loval children for anl. The re an It of the foil elections may dec.de our fate for generation*.— - , If men are elected whose sympathies are r • with rebvlfion— men who are for • dishon- ! o rable "comproraias" with traitors, cmkfor I a degrading submission to armed rebels in • ; order to obtain '^Mpce," then indeed, will i , the glory of the Republic Mm deperted. , ' a party having tlisyje objects in view, if or1 gauized in this stutj!. and by disguising their ! purpescs, and by jnaking speVioas proles. I I ►lulls of devotio^. to -the' Union, are alrem- | ' dy formidable in number* discipline j To dofcat lliew will reqeire the onergetic i efforts of every sincere Iriond of tho Union, r Let it not bo said that while onr brethren . ; are toil ng and dying in tbe field, that we at homo have proved recreant to the high ' , trust confided to ns by our fathers ! ' i A conscioueimex of tbe importance of the i coming struggles has induced a number of j the leading Republican and Union man to suggest .that a firm, thoroagh-going • and devoted newspaper, for the campaign, , shcutd be issued at q price eolow as to ii»rurS for it a wide circnla'ion. and thu se1 cure a dissemination of correct views, and ■ sound Republican principle*- In order to I i meet this wUh, we haxe determined to is-, I sue. for tho campaign, a journal of this de- " j acription The price at which jl will bo ' ! afforded, praclades all idea of profit, and • He-trust that all who pfopufly appreciate i . the grave importance of tbi canvass this lull, will take measures for iu ggneral distribution throughout the state— particularly ' | in those districts where Republican Jour1 uals have how but a limited circulation. ' The election will determine tho political - character of both thu Executive and Leg. f Ulative branches of our State government, r j and of otir Senator and "representstivts iu' C'oogrcis. 1 1 may be that these latter may ,\ ' drcitle the character »f the federal Con- ; pre-#, etid determine whelber it shall yield r a stCfdy nnd tirm rupporl to the govern-. mrui in the proveculiqn of ibn war, or / ■ heilirj.it shall abandon the strdggle, and ■•onrenl to the dlxineinbermentof tM Uniboj ' that ha* cost n» so inlbli blood, arid is enf d eared to us by so many sacred memnrir*. The reptaiuiiun of New Jwcsey for loyalf "l^-aiid "h-Thlitydepeuds in a large tuciuuro on the result of the election. Iiic vast ninjnrity of our citixell* ure thoroughly lov. . ul and inilliful, but Hie fcrce of imrty drill, the inflht-nce of oh] noliti-al I cedar*, ami, s ahoy* all. i hi- went of correct inArrasiion, t may, p-iwlhly, lead a' majority into thu support of * party, the loader* of which have not heotitnti'd lo declare their sympa thy with i he retH-li of the Southern states, j To prevent flu.. ii&Niing can be »o efficiWit a* lite free circulation of correct rieWa, the Iticuk-aUou, of Inyul •eulimeiita, and I lie rx- - po-uru oT Ihe deaigties of the leader* of the leaders of tho Rreckinridgo faction, who have usurped the control of tbe democralic |«arty iu this slote. i This object can readily lie necontplishcd. v j If a fun- gentlemen i» each township will "lake the trouble to Send us the name* .if II as many intiscriber* Lo THE VOI.UNu TKr R, a* they cniF collect. A circulatiuu of 10.000 could thus be obtained in a lew' week*. • THE VbLUNTKKR c tVill be issued on Saturday of each week. comineueing villi August ltith, and will be co.i'iuued to November Slli — 3 months — j kt tho foHuw;iig rate* : ' | For one copy, for the raijifmigti. Mi P | 5 copies, lo Ofib uddri-i-r, £2 01) o -to' •• .... a no ' ^ ; 2fr •• - no i And all additions! inbacribers, abos u tlm i latter number, at the same rale, vi»: 2i" . Cent* ea--h* Tho Voli'xtkkr Will be printed on a se-per'-royul sheet, contains but few, if troy • i advertisements, aud will be muinly dv Voted . lo advocating the inen and measure* of llir " | llennblyian party, lo addition to this it ' j will contain a compend or all the news or . the day— particularly all relating lo tbe • progress and rondact of the wnr. U will p be milled by K. It." Bo a war. the present na- , sislunl Kdtturfil tKfcvGazutlujand Itepubnfjlic.n, ^ Jd | We treat that every frienfl^of the Adminj lit rat ion— evert good Uhubv^taaii, who" ; desire, the success of Union ufea*tad measures. will aid in the work of disacmyiatiu^ this paper. A few men in each tow)ubin, ' by cnutribeiing a small sum of money dach, ' 'can stobpljr twenty or more persons, who otherwise would nffivr sen a Republican journal, and who would therefore be the easy j victims of misrepresentation and falsehood. Those to whom this I'roopectas i* sent, are respectfully requested lo act as Agents M»r the VOLCNTKJKR. in obtaining" subIS scriplioos, which they will please lorwanl i at the earliest day possible. As msny as II I esn be obtained should bo sent to us by *r ; tbe 9tb of Angust, in order to give us tinio to arrange our subscription books V I The low pricci at which ibis paper will bo leaned, render* it noceaea ry ilia:, lb* tubm) | ecriptionm should, i* rnv instakce, be ae; "V i eompanwd by tha cask! No other* will be 1 Afens J. R. FKKKHE. I'vttMM, T: union. K. K. Rorokx, Editor. ( Tristoe, \ J . iHfiJ,