The Substitutes: Dramatic Dialogue. By Paul H. Hayne. (Sunny from the Southern Illustrated News.)

“How says’t thou? die tomorrow? Oh My Friend!

The bitter, bitter doom!”—

Sumter: A Ballad of 1861: By E. O. Murden. (Bohemian from the Charleston Courier.)

“’Twas on the twelfth of April,

Before the break of day,”—

Sumter In Ruins: By W. Gilmore Simms: (W. G. S. from the Charleston Mercury.)

“Ye batter down the lion’s den,

But yet the lordly beast goes free;”—

A Sunday Reverie: By James R. Randall. (E. V. M.)