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The spirit of our people. --A correspondent of the Lexington Gazette, writing from Strasburg, June 13, announces the occupation of Romney by the Federalists, and says: "This morning as this news began to circulate among the gentry of the country, an excitement was produced the like of which this region has not witnessed since the wild days of the Revolution and the old French war.--Old men and young, men of almost every standing, rushed to their houses, took down their rifles and guns, slung their shot pouches and powder horns, saddled their horses and put right off for Winchester, almost without a word of adieu to their families.--In a few hours the road from this place to Newtown, between this and Winchester, was lined with troops, baggage wagons, and our country militia, armed with any kind of weapon, some on horseback and some on foot, all fired with a solemn and firm resolve to whip the dastardly Yankees back from Virginia soil, or die in the effort to do so. One man,
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.from the Tenth Legion. New Market, June 19, 1861. Last night our whole militia were ordered to rendezvous at Strasburg as soon as possible. Shenandoah has furnished about 1000 volunteers, and we will all go on Friday. This is hard on us. Harvest and hay-making are just coming on, (ready,) but mowing Yankees suits us very well, if we can just get to see them — that is all we want. We don't desire to leave the crops; (we have but few negroes here,) but if there was a certainty of a "show" at them, we could all hurrah Harper's Ferry is, we suppose, certainly evacuated; for what reason we are not in formed. We hope, though, to get a speedy fight. Shenandoah rifles will count. Hurrah for Sic Semper Tyrannis--three cheers for the "Circle and Cross" C.
usting in the extreme. The Israelites of Shreveport, La., have given substantial evidence of their devotion to the Southern rights, by forwarding to the Caddo Rifles, 126 men, an outfit of check shirts, drawers, and socks. Adah Isaac Menken is training horses at the North, with a view of going into the melodramatic line. She proposes to play Mazeppa and similar characters. On Tuesday evening last an express arrived at Woodstock, ordering the militia of the place to march to Strasburg, and there await further orders. Joseph C. Taylor, who killed Lieutenant Joseph G. Davidson, of one of the Tennessee regiments, a few weeks ago, in Lynchburg, is now in that city, awaiting trial. A man named Eugene Seyere was shot and killed in Memphis last Monday night by some person unknown. "Sons of Dixie" is the name of a company in Cherokee, Ala., who have offered to serve during the war. Gen. Wm. J. Lytle, a well-known citizen of Murfresboro, Tenn., died on Saturd