The Yankee Secretary of War proposes there cheers
--When the news of the Union victory was received at the War Department in Washington, the Secretary was holding his public receptions. The Secretary was found, as usual upon such occasions, standing in the corridor of the department, with a crowd of eager visitors, awaiting their turn to be received. The dispatch was received and read aloud by the Secretary, who proposed three cheers, and a shout went up that made the old roof of the War Department tremble. Another reading was called for, and again three times three of irrepressible huzzas so ended through the building. They were echoed in every room. The Navy Department caught up the sound, and repeated the shouts over the victory.
