17 OCTOBER 1863, Page 3

The Times' correspondent at New York,-who is given, however, to

a free poetical treatment of his materials,-reports that five men were brought before the Provost-Marshal for drinking " Damna- tion to the goose that grew the quill, that made the pen, that wrote Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation," and threatened with being sent over into the enemy's lines. It seems certainly a somewhat trifling offence to damn the goose in this remote causal connection with the Emancipation Proclamation, or, at all events, a better punishment than making them swear allegiance to Mr. Lincoln, would have been to mace them drink the health of the geese, which damned the goose, which furnished the quill, which held the pen that wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.