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A Batter-cry from Baltimore.

--The Baltimore South publishes a spirited battle-song, of which the following is a taste:

‘ For gold let Lincoln's legions fight,
Or plunder's bloody gain;
Unbribed, unbought, our swords we draw,
To guard our rights, to save our law,
Nor shall we strike in vaiz.

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