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at the North.

Ro ke Island has set all Lincolndom in a blate. They have fired guns and hoisted the flag everywhere. The papers teem with flaming announcements — capitals are lavishly, and in every variety, spread over their columns, setting forth the mighty achievements of Burnside! Even little Edenton has a fame it never knew before, being presented to the world in such immense capital letters that the world will take it to be a capital of the first class. The Federal forces are said ‘"to be advancing on Edenion!"’ That is terrible. The Confederacy must indeed be done for in such an exigency!

The Herald hurried up its exaggerated account for the last European steamer, and chuckles with delight over the circumstance.

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