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service. Speaking of the general feeling among the Irish and Germans, he thinks there is a deep, latent Union feeling; but the general poverty of their condition, and their subordinate social position, rendered them in the power of the Secession leaders. Mr. Barr was anxious to come to the North, but he was transferred to Tybee Island. When the loyalists captured Hilton Head he was transferred to Fort Pulaski, where he was made a corporal of the guard. After remaining there until December 20th he made up his mind to desert. He cut a raft of timber from its moorings during the day, and permitted it to float over to Tybee Island where our forces are in possession. About six o'clock in the evening he was on picket duty at the wharf under the fort. He told the men under him he would paddle out into the bay and obtain some oysters on which they could mess. He got into the boat and kept on his course to Tybee Island. He landed on the muddy shore, and was hailed by the pickets o