Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1859 — American Volunteers. [ARTICLE]

American Volunteers.

The London Times points to this country as invincible, by the multitude of her volunteer soldieis. It says: ‘•We have been told of late to look to the United States for examples of good administration, and we may now do so alter a fashion somewhat unex;.ected. The Americans are "volunteers” almost to a man. Their militia is an aggregate of volunteer corps, and a considerable aggregate it is. YV e have a table now beto'e us, compiled in 1853, at a time when the population of the States was considerably less than that ol Great Britain, and we find.that the military force of the Republic comprised, independently of the regular army and marine corps, no fewer than 75,382 officers and 2,127,366 men enrolled as volunteers. Conceive a force like this, in... which evi ry man was a dead shot with a rifle, ami then say if all Europe together would venture to attack it on its own soil. A Story is tola < unknown lady who called on Mr. Mor- h no St. Nicholas, New York, and askeil ...e privilege of playing a game of chess with him. lie politely acquiesced and the game lasted two hours, and was drawn. Mr. Morphy could not ascertain who the lady was, but declared that she played the best game he ever contested