On past Washington;
Where the bond-slave stoops no longer,
But stands up, a Man!
O'er battle-fields of 'Ole Virginny,'
Floats the black man's song:
'Brudders, God is takin' vengeance
For de darky's wrong!
Shout, shout, for God and Freedom! Sing, darkies, sing!
Ole Massa Cotton's dead foreber: Young Massa Corn am King!'

Through the Mississippi valley,
Down the river's tide,
Hosts of patriots rush to rally
On their Country's side;
And across the green savannahs
Of the Southern clime,
Armies, under Union banners,
To this song keep time:
'March, march, for God and Freedom! Sing, soldiers, sing!
Pallid Cotton's dead and buried: Yellow Corn is King!'

Let the tidings swell o'er ocean
To another shore,
Till proud England pales and trembles
Where she scoffed before!
Ne'er again shall serpent-friendship
Rise to hiss and sting!
Cotton leagues no more with _Traitors_:
Honest Corn is King!
_Jubilate_! God and Freedom! Sing, Americans, sing
Tyrant Cotton's dead forever! Honest Corn is King!

LITERARY NOTICES.

AMONG THE PINES. BY EDMUND KIRKE. New-York: J. R. Gilmore,
532 Broadway. 1862.

Perhaps it is not altogether in rule to say much of a work which has
appeared in our pages. But we may at least call attention to what others
have said. And good authority--plenty of it, such authority as should
make a reputation for any book--has declared _The Pines_ to be in truth
a work of the highest merit and of a new order. It is a perfectly
truthful record of scenes and characters drawn from personal experience
in the South; combining the accuracy of Olmstead's works with the
thrilling interest of _Uncle Tom_. It should be fairly stated--as the
author desires it should be--that every thing did not occur precisely in
the order in which it is here narrated. But all is _true_--every page
speaks for itself in this particular. No stronger piece of local
coloring ever issued from the American press. We seem, in reading it, to
live in the South--to know the people who come before us. All of them
are, indeed, life-portraits. In one or two instances, the very names of
the originals remain unchanged.

In it the author deals fairly and honorably with the South. The renegade
Yankee, and no