Wir geh'n die Waffen in der Hand, Zu retten unser Vaterland, Und unser Kampf ist Sieg. Wir tragen nicht Erober-Schwerdt, Wir schuetzen Weib und Kind und Heerd, Gerecht ist unser Krieg. (ENGLISH.) 'We go with weapon in our hand, And all to free our Father-land, A victory is our fight. We seek to win no foreign earth, We fight for wife and child and hearth: God knows our cause is right.' How many hundreds of thousands of Germans are there to whom these lines have become as applicable in this our 'Trans-Atlantic Germany' as when sung of old under the oaks of the Teuton father-land. When this battle shall be over, let every one bear in mind the good and faithful aid they gave us. Nor shall the Irish be forgotten, who with such desperate courage have contributed so largely to swell our armies. They are in every regiment, they have been foremost in every battle, their dead lie on every field. Let those deny it who will, we should have fared badly enough had it not been for the Irish. They have shown themselves from the beginning as presenting 'First fut on the flure, First stick in the fight.' They gave us the poet-warrior O'Brien, and the brave and generous Kearney, and the noble Corcoran--but the list is too long. Honor to them all. There are many very good sort of people who will tell you, 'I don't like Germans,' or 'I don't like Irish!' We trust that this war will drive all such dislikes among us out of existence. Those who indulge in them are generally narrow-minded, un-cosmopolite sort of people. The principles of our day and of our war--the Republican principles--are opposed to all such illiberality. The Southerner, indeed, proposes to exclude all foreigners--it is his 'policy'--the Republican would give to the brain and muscle of every living being the fullest chance for development _every where_. Free Soil and Free Labor forever! * * * * * Literature and religion have of late sustained a great loss in the death of Benjamin J. Wallace, D.D., which took place in Philadelphia August first. The deceased was a descendant of the great Harris family, which may be almost said to have founded Western Pennsylvania, and which gave a name to its largest city. Originally educated at West-Point, he subsequently studied divinity at Princeton, distinguished himself as a New-School clergyman in many States, especially in the West, was at one time a professor at Delaware College, Newark, and was well known during the later years of his life as editor of and contributor to that very able magazine, the Presbyterian _Quarterly Review_.