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MARGINALIA
OR,
GLEANINGS FROM AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK.
BY "PEKSONNE,"
AIUiY CORRESPONDENT OF THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864,
By F. G. DeFOXTAINE,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Confederate States, for the District of
South Carolina.
INTRODUCTION.
The object of the present work is three-fold — to perpetuate the memory of the outrages of an infamous foe — to exhibit the virtues of the Southern people, and to preserve to posterity a selection of Sketches and Incidents illustrative of the different phases of the Southern war. Compiled as they arc from various sources, it is unnecessary to apologize' for the fact that some of the anecdotes herein presented have been published before ; but for the first time they are now given to the world in an aggregated form. It is believed that they will entertain and instruct the reader of the present generation ; yet, if no other purpose is served, they may supply the future historian with " facts stranger than Gction," and, t6 our children and children's children, exhibit the lights and shadows of the times in which thrir fathers lived.
The incidents of " Marginalia " are characteristic of every class of persons on both sides — Presidents and People — Generals and Privates — Soldiers individually and collectively — self-sacrificing civilians — noble hearted wo- men, brave boyf , impulsive children and devoted slaves. The highest moral integrity, and the lowest human depravity, are blended in their exhibition with the humorous, religious and heroic; and the compiler deems it no fault, if, in the miscellaneous arrangement of his subjects, the thoughts of his readers trip suddenly
" From grave to gay — from lively to severe."
TO
HON. GEORGE A. TRENHOLM,
SECRETAKY OF THE TREASURY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES,
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THIS VOLUME OF
INCIDENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION,
Js dedicated a* to one who, in bis own person, nobly represents the highest type of
Southern character.
INDEX.
Page.
The Two Causes 1
Tbo Two Races 1
Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons 3
The Persistency of Hate 3
The Piety of the Confederates 3
Hemes 4
General Lee 5
Liberty's There Yet *. 6
Didn't Wish to Expose his Hear <>
Portrait of Stonewall Jackson 7
A Yankee Opinion of Southern Woman's
Hate 8
Worthy of Their Sires 8
The Agonies of th.- Battle-field 9
Shoulder Straps do not Stake an Officer.. !•
"Stonewall" administers the Sacraaient 9
The Mountaineers of Virginia 10
A Noble Slave 11
Federal and Confederate Generals 12
Turks and Yankees 12
A Pillaging Expedition 12
Pen Portrait of Gen. John Morgan 13
The Battle-field 14
Gallant Exploit 15
Fidelity of our Negroes 16
A Good Caution 17
Hurrah for tie- I >.■ » 1 1 17
Running a Fal Lady: 17
Issuing his Rations 17
Barbarous Federal Generals 18
Waifs from a Clamp Diary 19
Negro Dignity' 20
An Incident of the Battle, of Fredericks- burg 20
Yankee Reverenoe for General Lee 21
The Spirit of our Homes 21
The True Spirit 22
litj of our Blares 23
A Southern Florence Nightingale 2.>
An Apt Reply i i
A Noble f'omp imenl 21
I D
id his Wife 2.,
':■ Bident Davis and his Chil- dren 27
The Sport of our Soldiers
A Nob|e Boy 29
29
,",ii
■nwchr 31
Our '
\ i onthful Hero
G<mi. ey .1 ohnston. '.
Pettigrew .",1
31
Men
Col. I
How a Brave Man can Die 35
PagH.
Model Speeches by onr Generals 39
Individual Prowess , 40
A Brigade of Heroes 41
A Spiritod Dash in the Enemies Lines.... 41
The Lone Sentinel 42
A Touching Inoident 42
Yankee Cruelty 43
Vandalism in Jackson, Mississippi 43
Richmond during the First Year of the
War 44
Curious Item , 44
X/Uss 'em for Me 45
The Latest Mud Story 45
" 1 >hiii Mine Eyes for Two Hours" 45
Samson aifd Gen. Popo 46
Stuart's Cavalry 46
Bnby Patriotism 47
Col. Ashby 17
English Tribute to Southern Soldiery 48
They W n't Hun 49
A Yankee Hero 49
Gen. Jenkins' ParolingJProccss _ 50
\ Beautiful Document 50
Vandalism in East Tenn 51
Weak in bis Religion 51
Brutal Treatment of Confederates 51
A Confirmed Lunatic 52
Fighting Joe Hooker at Chancellorsville. 62
A Peeress of "Molly Stark" 53
A True Girl '. 54
gro vs. Yankees 54
I on a Dark Subject 55
Borg 56
Death of a Brave Man 56
Interest ing Soene 57
All Quiet on the Ogeechee 57
The Si ar. 5S
Id A Iventure
An Independent North I arolinian 59
Incidents of Oak Hill 59
Grai e Robbers
Romance and Reality 60
Sharply Shot S3
" The Shtone Man" 62
Morg Telegraph Operator
Yankee C, )
[ncidenl 64
... 86
II . i ' . Vioktburg— Bill of I an ..
Life Amonr; th«' Picket.-
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Benj. F. Batter
ting 7n
<e Love for tho Negro 71
INDEX.
Teanesseeans «n a Charge 7 1
■ :il Negro
Like- m Postage Stamp
In'l Talk
Selling a Colonel
An fncident
A Base de Qaerre *■
Moral tb. Brute Force
■in;: Incident T ti
Yankee Testimony 77
The Climax of Vandal Fiendisbncss 77
■ thing Rick
How Old Smith Escaped 7^
Had a Reputation 7'.1
Taking the Oatl 7'.'
The Yaiiki. ro 7'.'
81
81
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Wanted to be Taken
Boy Heroes 82
ral Atrocities in Baltimore 83
Supi'lie. and Information for Rebels 86
r 86
Don't Like Forrest 87
The Pions Slave 88
Yankee Raiders in Richmond 89
Milroy in Winchester, Virginia 89
Admirable Retort PO
A Brave Negro 90
. Randolph Blockaded 91
Gen. Stuart and the Miller '.'1
Jackson after the .Main Chance 92
Whiskey and Turpentine 92
Northern Testimony concerning a North- ern Prison 92
Stung by a Bung 94
Death on the Battle-field 94
Major A: M. Lee and Son 94
Piety of a General 96
Oar Rag 90
Without Saddle or Spur 90
The John Brown Raid 96
Laconic 97
A Bloody Charge on a Stove Pipe 97
A Good Thing from Gen. Bragg
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To tubs and a Lazy Soldier 99
.' 99
Confederate fanatic 100
Lovers vs. Substitutes l DO
Gun 100
Scathing Satire .101
A Western Banger and his Revenge 104
Rebel-ions 106
tfol Drunk 106
be Battle of Gettysburg... 1 06
A Council of War 106
How Did he Die 106
Willie P. Mangum 107
Gen. Joe Johnston a Shoemaker 107
Camp Fun 107
Scene in a. Hospital 108
Army Signal Corps 108
Our Cavalry" in ' raia lio
A Laughable Mistake im ■
P»ee.
Outrages on Chnrrhr? Ill
112
Late 1 12
m the Rappahannock 118
•\ .Military Execution 114
For Three Years or the War L16
B i 116
[uoorrij 110
Dr. Warren Stone of New* Orleans' 116
A Candi I Witness 117
A Brutal Murder 117
Tombstone Harangue 1 IS
How to Obey Orders 110
Yankco Barbarity 120
Siege of Vicksburgby Moonlight 121
f S :nkee Officers 122
A Devil in a Stove Pipe 123
The Old Lady and Black Flag 123
Execution of two Spies 124
Joe Parson 8 of Baltimore 12S
A V'w War Cry 129
Fool Cavalry ISO
A New Inquisition with Old Horrors ISO
Novel System of Exchange 132
A Yankee llero 132
Incident — Annie Clark 133
Serenade — Scigel 133
A Substituted Stay Behind 134
The Frenchman's Preference 134
Narrative — Lamar Fontaine, 185
" Bress do Lor' I is Seoesh V t" 136
The Ubiquitous Jackson 137
Female I 137
.An Item for the Northern Press 137
Lamar Fontaine on a Scout 138
Southern Ladies 141
A Brave Boy 141
Last Moments of Captain Wise 142
Wasn't Skeered 143
Horrors of War .' M !
Keen Retort 144
A Heroic Cirl 146
Yankee Outrages in Memphis, Tenn 146
11 Jackson's Secrets 115
An Incident of the Rappahanock 146
A Household Angel 146
The Ladies of Fredericksburg 147
Old Blizzard 148
Departure of Confederates from New Or-
:,148
Afraid of Fire 150
ing South Carolinian 151
ate Flag, 151
Fun in the Federal Camp 152
' Rule in New Orleans 153
of Them .'. 155
Who's Bat 155
K< i ping Cool 150
• ■ ("ill 150
Aunt Betsey...; 166
The One Hundred California Cavalry 150
Ahead of All 157
An Exemption Story 158
Gen. Johnston and Judy Paxton 158
Wanted to Trade 15'.)
A Yankee Brigadier and VirginiaMatron.150
INDEX.
r.iee.
The Martyr Mumfonl 159
Norah McCarty 160
A Dusky Volunteer 1G2
A Battlo Incident 162
Enormities in the West 163
Jeb Stuart and Gen. Bayard 163
A Noble Mother 16-1
A Providential Rescue 164
A Lean Trio 164
A True Heroine 165
Singular Battle Incident 165
Narrow Escape of Stonewall Jackson 166
r a Faithful Servant 166
A Feat of Daring .' 167
Cavalry Pictures 168
Abe's Latest Joke <. 170
A Vigilant Sentinel 171
An Incident of the Siege of Vioksburg....l71
Three Wild Irishmen 172
An Adventure in thu AVest 173
The Private Soldier 174
Presence of Mind 175
"Here's Your Mule" 170
Yankee Officer at Vicksburg 1 76
A Joke on a Chaplain .176
Maintaining the Honor of the Flag 177
Dis Am Massa Linkun's Proclamation.... 178
The Nigger Minister in Washington 17!)
What Nassau Darkies Think of Yankees.180
Fighting a Jew 181
Romantic Incident 181
Morgan in Kentucky 1^2
A Patriotic Mother..
A Document of Evidence 185
Brilliant Charge 187
Badly Frightened - 1S8
. on lake Grelnbaoks 188
• deracy in January, 1S63 189
A Heroine at Vicksburg 189
The Pugnacious > 190
Well Put 191
The Cutest Above the Graves 192
Juvenile Joke ,192
Incident of the Columbus Fight 192
Jackson's Last Hours
Bu tier's Perquisites 196
Gen. Hardee and the Arkansian
8 tuart's Exploits 196
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Incident of the Battles on the Rappa-
I; 200
-in 201
.■ the Battle of Williamsburg.,
A Poser
■ I ween Two
ei and < bildren in Battle
Uabama
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Parting with the Stonewall I
The Hero among Children 207
Pag*. Recollection of the Stonewall Brigade. ...208
The Last Scene of All 208
Jackson and Lee 209
Could'ut Get Board 209
Gen. D. II. Hill 210
Sti phen D. Lee 210
An Incident 210
Won't Some One Kiss me for my Mother.211
Push them to the Slaughter Pen 212
National Statistics 213
Brute Butler 213
How Lincoln Recruits his Armies 2! I
Anecdote of Gen. Sherman 214
The Right Sort of Spirit 214
Incident of the Campaigu on the South- Side 215
The Creoles of Louisiana 215
John Robinson 216
Wendell Phillips , 216
Scenes on the Mississippi 217
A GallantAct 217
An Army Wedding 218
Incident pf the Battle of Oostanaula 220
Affecting Incident 220
The Ne Plus Ultra of Yankee Impudence. 221
Gen. E. C. Walthall 221
Seigel's Equestrianism 222
Pillow's Conscripts 222
A Warrior's Death 223
A Gallant Sergeant 223
Worthy of his Father 223
How Gen. Polk Got into an Indiana Ke-
giment
and His Mother 221
Exciting Partisan Adventure 225
An Incident 225
Interesting to Yankee Purchasers of Beal
Estate 226
Dwight Sherwood
Arrested by Ladies 227
Backing a 5 in
o Patriotism
it for the Times 228
field 229
230
(.'.ii i Fare 233
A Rebel Lieutenant apd his Broth
■ v Miller -The Young Warrior 234
iy in the Yankee Lines
A Nighl in Charleston
An Ii
The Rebel I
Lincoln upon the Battle-field — More of
Pr< ridential Jokes
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MARGIN-ALIA;
OR,
GLEANINGS FROM AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK
THE TWO CAUSES.
"Let it be remarked," says the London Index, u that while all other nations have written thci* own histories, the brief history of the Confederates, already so full of imperishable glory, has been written for them by their euemies, or at best by lukewarm neutrals. AboVe all has the Confederate nation distinguished itself from its adversaries by modesty and truth, those noblest ornaments of human nature. A heartfelt, unostentatious piety has been the source whence their army and people have drawn their inspirations of duty, of honor, and of consolation. The North has produced no such man as Stonewall Jackson; and to Davis, Lee, and Longstreet, it can oppose only an Abe Lincoln, a Hooker, and a Pope. While on one side of the Potomac internal peace has never been disturbed, freedom of speech and of the press has never been impaired, and the rights of the citizens have remained sacred, though the body politic was straining in an agony of des- perate self-defence ; on the other side of that stream, though no enemy's foot has yet trod the soil, a military despotism maintains itself bv a reign of terror. Surely these are palpable facts which might weigh against unsupported slanders, whether clothed in the meretricious charms of fiction, or uttered by blasphemers of the Beecher and Cheever school "
THE TWO RACES.
In the year 1*34, M. Michael Chevalier, the distinguished political economist of France, was sent to the United y M Thiers, than
Minister of the Interior, on the Bpscial mission of inspecting the public works of the country. Hut. extending his sojourn and cnla; of hit observations, he BpenJ two year- in visiting 1 parts of the
then Union, and studying the characteristics of its • ion-, and
the working of its political machinery. His i ns and imprei
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were communicated to the Journal det Dibats, in a Becies oT letters, which ■were deemed of sufficient value to justify their transfer, subsequently, from the columns of that pap< r to a book. As the book is not of easy access, we make from one of his letters, written at Charleston, May 28, 1834, the fol- lowing extract, showing the difference which he then discovered as existing between the two great people now at war:
"The Southerner of pure race is frank, hearty, open, cordial in his man* . noble in his sentiments, elevated in his notions; he is a worthy endant of the English gentleman. Surrounded, from infancy, by hiJB slaves, who relieve him from all personal exertion, he is rather indisposed i i activity, and is even Indolent. He is generous and profuse. * * * * To him "the practice of hospitality is at once a duty, a pleasure, and a happi- ness. Like the Eastern patriarchs, or Homer's heroes, he spits an ox to regale the guest whom Providence 'sends him and an old friend recommends to his attention; and fo moisten this solid repast, he offers Madeira — of which he is as proud as of his horses — that has been twice to the East Indies, and has been ripening full twenty years. He loves the institutions of his country, yet he shows with pride his family plate, the arms on which, half effaced by time, attest, his descent from the first colonists, and prove that his ancestors were of a good family in England* When his mind has been cultivated by study, and a tour in Europe has polished his manners and refined his imagination, there is no place in the world in which he would not appear to advantage, no destiny too high for him to reach; he is one of those whom a man ,i3 glad to have as a companion and desires as a friend. Ardent ami warm hearted, he is of the block from which great orators are made. He is better able to command men than to conquer nature and subdue the soil. When he has a certain degree of the spirit of method, and 1 will not say will (for he has enough of that), but of that active perseverance so common at the North, he has all the qualities needful to form a great statesman.
"The Yankee, on the contrary, is reserved, cautious, distrustful; his manners are without grace, cold, and often unprepossessing; he is narrow in his ideas, but practical ; and possessing' the idea of the proper, he never rises to the grand. He has nothing chivalric about him, and yet he i3 adventurous, and loves a roving life. His imagination is active and original, producing, however, not poetry, but drollery. The Yankee is the laborious ant; he is industrious and sober, frugal, and on the sterile soil of New England, niggardly. * * * lie is crafty, sly, always calculating, boast- ing even of the tricks which he plays upon the careless or trusting buyer, because he looks upon them as marks of his superior sagacity, and well provided with mental reservations to lull his conscience. He is little given to hospitality, or rather he displays it only on rare occasions, and then he
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does so on a great scale. He is a ready speaker and a close reasoncr, but not a brilliant orator. For a statesman, he wants that greatness of mind and soul which enables a man to enter into and love another's nature, and leads him naturally to consult his neighbor's good, in consulting his own. He is individualism incarnate. But if he is not a great statesman, he is an able administrator, an unrivalled man of business. If he is m>t suited to com- mand men, he has no equal in acting upon things, in combining, arranging, and giving them value."
MR. SEWARD TO LORD LYONS.
" My lord, I can touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen in Ohio. I can touch the bell again, and order the imprisonment of a citizen in New York; and no power on earth but that of the President can release them. Can the Queen <♦{ England/ in her dominions, do as
murh?"
the 1'ersistency of hate.
Just twenty years ago, in the Federal Congress, Mr. Dcjlct, of Alabama, asked Mr. Adams, of Massachusetts, whether he understood him to say, "that in God's good. time the abolition of slavery would come, and let it come."
31 r. Adams nodded assent, and said with great earnestness, " Let it come."
Mr. JDellet. — " Yes, let it come. No matter what the consequen let it come, said the gentleman. Let it come, though women and children should be slain, though blood should flow like water, though the Union itself be destroyed, though Government shall be broken up. No matter though five millions of the people of the South perish."
Mr. ADJLlfeS. — " Five hundred millions, let it come."
THE PIETY OF THE CONFKDEIIA
A Baltimore correspondent, writing to the London Indexj says : " But before 1 close, [ must tell you of the beautiful humility ami heroio which seemed to pervade tin' heart! of all the Confederates I saw. I have never seen a siron- religious sentimt tii mi ■_■- aerally prevalent as I find them. < >f twenty men with whom I ooovened one rifteinoto, tei n were profenors of religion, and tl nth said In- was a man
■ ■I' pray< r, and looked to God m liu pn lector. A plain, no let boy naid : ' Jn all my Lot with tie w Yankees, I 1
them alio . .ik about what twenty mill-
ion! of nirn 'in dn, and what hundreds of million- cm do, and
what their powerful navy can do; but they ieulution
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altogether j but, sir, the Lord is our trust, and He will be our defence.'
The Rev. was with me daring a part of my tour. Il<- was
i on one occasion to lead in pltyer, in a barn fillol with wounded, deaf SharpsburLr. Alter a season of most solemn and affecting devotion, a young man called the reverend gentlemen to his side, and said : ' ] am dying, sir; but I am not afraid to die, for I hope to go to heaven. Nor am I sorry that I have been slain in battle, fur 1 would willingly sacrifice a dozen lives, if I had them, ior such a cause as we are fighting lor.'
"Time and again I heard the one hnndred and twenty-fourth Psalm quoted : ' If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against usj then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us. Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.'
"They are not given to vaunting themselves; there is nothing at all of the spirit of bravado about them ; and so far from manifesting a ferocious disposition, they very frankly confess they are tired of the war; but at the same time they are animated by a determined resolution that, God helping them, they will never be subjugated. When one of them was asked if he did not fear that the prodigious armies now organizing against them would utterly overwhelm them, he replied that, ' With God above, and General Lee at their head, they feared nothing that man could do.' History, sir, furnishes no legends more touching and glorious than are exhibited in the sacrifices and endurance of the Southern people. Such a people merit the admiration of the world, and deserve to achieve their independence."
IIEROES.
Heroes more often die unknown than known. Battles are won through deeds of valor that Sal Eddin might envy, and the doers thereof are seldom named. Much praise is lavished on brave generals individually; the pri- vate obtains his collectively, and collective praise is of no more value to tho individual soldier than the collective prosperity of a nation is to the" starv- ing workman out of employ. Pillow was brave at Belmont. Pillow always is brave; but there were many hundreds just as brave as Pillow on that field whose names will never be heard in connection with it. Among them was one Dr. Brooks, originally froifl Illinois, but, at Belmont, a member of Colonel Tappan's regiment. When our forces were beaten in the early part of the action, the greater number obtained shelter beneath the jutting bank that there skirts the river's side. On that bank, for some ten minutes stood' Brooks returning the volleys of the enemy from his solitary rifle. Federal bullets were whistling a sort of orchestral version of Temps' " Kill, kill," duet around him, but Brooks continued unhurt and unmoved. Finally, a
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shell dropped near hiin, exploded, and shattered his skull. On that hank ho lingered, unattended and unoared for, till found hy Dr. Creiirhton, a Mcmphian surgeon, from Thursday, the day of battle, till the following Saturday, and then died. How long would a genera] have been left thus unattended after a display of such heroism ? Now this would seem hard, yet there is good reason for it. All eyes are on a general, the movements of all depend upon iiim, and, in some eases, the safety of all." Cases of individual bravery and prowess in such an army as ours become so nume- rous that they are regarded as a matter of course; and in lueb a stru^o-le, the reward the brave soldier should seek is the knowledge of duty done, and the patriotic pride of feeling that his country'^ freedom is due to him and such as he.
In the same battle a Mississippian gave singular evidence of possessing that sang fro! <1 which has been so long the peculiar characteristic of the French zouave. He was out of percussion caps; an old-fashioned shell happening to land near him, he cut off a fuse that waa attached to it, and continued touching off his gun with it from his left hand, pointing the instrument with his right alone. He, too, was killed, cut in two by a ball from one of our own guns which the enemy took in, the early part of the day.
The tenacity of Southern courage was finely exemplified in the case of young Lieutenant Walker. When his captain was shot down, he assumed the command, and with flashing eye, and lip quivering with anxiety "to do something," led his men toward the foe, as eagerly as though life, wealth, and bliss were only to be found in their bristling lines. He, too, was killed, shot down in the very fever of his glorious excitement. ISut even when on the ground, he strove to be leader still, and complete exhaustion alone, con- quered him. One man, striving to relieve a wounded comrade, approached the river's edge to obtain a bucket of water, amid a very hail-storm of bul- lets. He filled the bucket, turned from the river, received a .Minie ball through his brave and tender heart, and fell forward — dead. It may be doubted whether greater individual bravery was ever displayed than that which turned the surprise of Belmont into a glorious victory. Enough to fill a volume might bfl gathered from the eiperieneea of a single regiment.
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You cannol imagine a plainer or more unostentatious looking man than the Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate armies — Gteneral Lee. Take a human form, ten inches in height, its well knit
together, full in it- proportions, and ye! without superfluity. Add to it a
well sh;i].cd, squarely built head, with a front whoi ked
with energy and geliui, ■ pair of keen, -brown in the parlor,
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hut Mack in the field — that sc< • * a glance; a
handsomely si i.W nerelsj a
mouth indicative of an iron will, and i countenance whose natural expres- Bion is one of gentlei — and benei rthel i. month and 1
part ni' the bos with a heavy growth of ah rt, grey hair ; invest the whole figure with grace, and an ui of strength, purpose and
tionj lei it speak to you in i voice whose tones of politeness never vary, whether uttered to the highest or the low< -t in rank, and yon bai lull and complete a description as I sen give of the distinguished man wb.o, at tlii— moment, holds in the hollow of his hand the destiny of his oountry. The genera] is as unostentatious and BDasauming in dress as be u in man* Oolonel's coat (thrt-< .-tars without the wreath), S good deal faded, bine pantaloons, high top boots, bine cloth talma, and a high felt hat. without adornment, save a small cord around the crown.
"LIBERTY 'S THESE YET."
Captain McFarland, describing some of the scenes of the first battle of Manassas, relates the following:
" Meanwhile our reinforcements were pouring by, and pressing with
enthusiastic cheers to the battle-field- On the other hand, many of OUt
wounded were borne past us to the rear. One poor fellow was shot through the left oheek \ as he came past me he smiled, and muttered with difficulty, ' Boys, they 've Bpoiled my beauty.' lie could say no more, hut an expres- sion of acute pain flitted across his lace, and shaking his clenched fist in the direction of tl passed on. Another came by, shot intbe breast.
Hi- clothing had 1h.ii stripped from over his ghastly wound, and at every
breath the warm life-blood gushed Groin his bosom. 1 rode up to him. as, leaning on two companions, he stopped fpr a moment to rest, ' My poor fel- low,' said I. '1 am sorry to see you thus.' ' STes, yes,' was his reply. 'They've done for me now, hut my father* i there yet! our army'* there yet! ow oattse it there yet ! ' and, raising himself from the arms of his compan- ions, his pale face lighting up like a sunbeam, he oried, with an enthusiasm I shall ni -.'and Uberty't there yet!' But this spasmodic exertion
was too much for him; a purple flood poured IVom his wound, and he swooned away. I was enthusiastic before, but I felt then as if I could have ridden singly and alone upon a regiment, regardless of all but my country's cause."
did'nt wish to expose ms rear.
When Prince Napoleon visited our army at Manassas, his supper the fin t night was a half-picked bone — provisions beis ee, and the fibre of
our generals so scanty, that nothing hetter could bo provided irom the
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vicinity. The next day he rode over the battle-field, but turned very sick at the sicrht and odor that met his 3 *' luently, he reviewed our
troops. While riding down the line, he express ire to pass hack in
the rear. Lieutenant Colonel* Skinner, ol the First. Virginia Regiment, who was by the side of the Prince, for the moment was placed in a dilemma, but recovering himself quickly, a flush mantled his ragged face, Bfl lie replied in French : " Your royal highness, we would gladly take you to tli" rear, but the fact is, the linen of the men is in rather an exposed condition. It being a part of the person which we never expect to show to the enemy, our men think rags there of but little consequence."
PORTRAIT OF "STONEWALt" JACKSON.
Imagine a man about five feet ten inches high, rather thick set, full '. bread, stalwart shoulders, and. indeed, the whole physique indicating what is commonly called a ''well made" man. He is the picture of health, yet there appeals no redundancy, of flesh. His face is slightly bronzed, from the constant exposure of his campaigns. It was said of 1 ir that if he had not been a conqueror, he would have excelled all his contemporary - as a boxer or athlete; and so I should say of Jackson, he would be a dangerous antagonist at fisticuff. His appearance at first im-
a with the idea of trreat powers of endurance, strength, and i tieity of i'r.mi . 'i he I (pression of his fac rather than dimini
the general effect.
There you see self-command, perseverance, indomitable will, that seems neither to know nor think of any earthly obstacle; and all this without the
' admixture of vanity, assumption, pride, fool-hardiness, or aOythil the kind. ■ a disposition to assert its prel asions, but froiu the
, conviction of his relative position, which seta the vexed i test— e peculiarity, I would remark, of g minds. It is only the little and the frivolous vho art btrnding
be world. His far- mage in
tli. higl . and Ins phrenological developments indicate a
nd activity. - broad and prominent, the
; ital and sincipital 1 well balanced: eyes
of mildness, energy, and 001 :md nose both long and well formed. Hi
A slightly braid. 1 on t! I tie' col'... irk of a major
ral.
of our n
• wall. To military fame which tfa the
UflNGfi fROM
simplicity of b child, the straight-forwardness of a Western farmer. Last Sunday he irae dressed aa sbove, ami oommon a horse as one
could find in a summer day.
It is said he is a fatalist, aa Napoleon was, and has no fear that he can be killed before his time OODies. Hf is as calm in the midst of a hurricane of bullets as he was in t ho pew of his church at Lexington, when he was pro- fessor of thr institute, lie appears to be a man of almost superhuman endurance. Neither heat nor cold makes the slightest impression upon him. lie cares nothing for good quarters and dainty fare. Wrapped in his blanket, he throws himself down on the ground anywhere, and sleeps as soundly as though he were in a palace. He lives as the soldiers live, and endures all the fatigue and all the suffering that they endure. His vig- ilance is something marvellous. He never seems to sleep, and lets nothing pass without his personal scrutiny. He can neither, be caught napping nor whipped when he is wide awake. The rapidity of his marches is something portentous: He is heard of by the enemy at one point, and before they can make up their minds to follow him, he is off at another. His men have little ba'_"_ra'-e, and he moves, as nearly as he can, without encumbrance, lie keeps so constantly in motion that he. never has a sick list, and no need of hospitals. In these habits, and a will as determined as that of Julius Csesar, are read the secret of his great success. His men adore him, because he requires them to do nothing which he does not do himself, because he constantly leads them to victory, and because they see he is a great soldier.
A YANKEE OPINION OF A SOUTHERN WOMAN'S HATE.
Rev. Dr. Storrs, in his anniversary address at the exercises of the Hol- yokc Seminary, Massachusetts, said that a returned prisoner lately re- marked'that while at the South he could easily endure the taunts of the men he had never before realized -what and how terrible was the stinging hate of woman — so intense, bitter, and beyond all belief; and he had come back with one additional mercy for which to thank God — that the devil was not a woman.
WORTHY OP THEIR SIRES.
On which side of the present conflict is the blood of the old Revolution of 1776 r* On the side of the South, many of the very names which adorn the pages of our revolutionary history are now conspicuous in the contest. In the "allaut and accomplished General Lee, we have a son of Light- Horse Harrj Lee, on whom Washington so confidently relied during the •whole of the war of the Revolution. In the late General Garnett, the ^blood of the brave Mercer, who fell at Trenton, by the side of Washington,
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coursed its rich stream. (ieneral Magrudcr, who commanded at Bethel, bears by descent the revolutionary name of Bankhead. Major Randolph, who so effectually manoeuvred the howitzers on that occasion, is a grandson of Jefferson, the immortal author of the Declaration of Independence; and Captain Brown, who commanded one of the batteries under Randolph, is a grandson of a gallant soldier, who carried to the grave a bullet from the field of Guilford. General Johnston is the son of an officer who served under Lee in his legions. Floyd is of revolutionary stock, descended from the Prestons and Lewises. Governor Winston, in the field with his regi- ment from Alabama, is a grandson of Patrick Henry; and Hampton, of South Carolina, with his splendid legion, equipped at his personal expense, is a grandson of Wade Hampton, of revolutionary fame.
THE AGONIES OF THE BATTLE-FIELD.
A writer relating the scenes he saw at the first battle of Manassas, says: "In a little clump of second-growth pines, a number of wounded had crawled for shelter. Many of our men were busy doing them offices of kindness and humanity. There was one New York zouave who appeared to be dying; his jaws were working, and he seemed to be in great agony. I poured some water down his throat, which revived him. Fixing his eyes upon me, with a look of fierce hatred, he muttered : ' You d — d rebel, if I had a musket I would blow out your infernal soul.' Another pale youth was lying in the wet undergrowth, shivering in the rain, and in the cold of approaching death, lie was looking wistfully towards a 1 warm blanket spread across my saddle, and said, in his halting, shivering breath: ' I 'in so cold.' I spread the blanket over him, and left him to that end of his wretchedness which could not be fur distant.",
SHOULDER-STRAl>S DO NOT MAKE AN OFFICER.
During one of the campaigns in Virginia, an altercation took place between an officer and one of his privates, who was in evcrv wav, socially and intellectually, his superior. In the course of (ho conversation, the rdinate made some irritating remark, when the officer exclaimed : "If you repeat that again, I will lay down my rank and fight you." "Lay down your rank." was the indignant response ; "that wont make you a thinan \ oowardlj V.iiik.. would fight with straps on his shoulders, but it takes b gentleman to fight for eleven dollars a month."
"STONEWALL" ADMINISTERS TIIK BAGBAJfXNT.
On the morning of a battle near H Perryj after a sennon 03
of his CI 3tonewall Jackson, who, by the way. was an Elder in the
byterian Church, administered tie saeraflfc hureh members in
•J
10 OLEANINGS FK< M
hlfl armv. He invited all Christians (o ].avt ii ijiate in this ci Mtiony. A ISaptist, the Btraightest of his beet, thoroughly imbued with the idea of close communion, was seen to hesitate, hut the occasion, ami the man who presided, overcame his scruples, ami thus it has happened that the prospect of a fight and the eloquence of Jaokson made a Baptist forget that baptism is the door into the Church. In all Jackson's army, an oath is rarely uttered! A religious enthusiasm |ferrades it. which makes every man a hero. Conscious of the justice of our cause, and imhued with the strongest convictions "i" patriotism, his men are irresistible: In this incident we have an explanation of General dackson's invincibility, and we are thus enabled to understand why his men are all heroes, and why they endure, without a murmur, the severest hardships to which any troops have been subjected during the war. When peace is restored, it will be honor enough for any man to say, " I belonged to the army of Stonewall Jackson."
THE MOUNTAINEERS OF VIRGINIA.
In an appeal to the people, published by Colonel Imboden, commanding the Confederate forces in the neighborhood of Staunton, this officer relates some characteristic anecdotes of the patriotism, hardihood, and simplicity of the mountaineers of Virginia.
"On a certain occasion," says Colonel Imboden, "I halted, near sunset, by a log cabin in one of the wildest gorges on the Dry Fork of Cheat. An aged mother and several daughters were the only members of the family at home. The lather had been in Camp Chase over a year, on a charge of being a rebel ; an only son is a soldier in one of my companies. I asked for corn to feed over three hundred horses. The old lady said they only had a little, raised by herself and daughters, but I was welcome to it if I needed it. I took half she had, and paid her for it, when she seemed to doubt the propriety of receiving money from a Southern soldier, as she thought it a duty to give us what we wanted. Her son's company was not along, and she did not see him. The eldest daughter said : f Colonel, tell brother we are all well, and doing well. We expect our papa will soon bo released from Camp Chase and come home. Tell him to be contented in the army, and write to us if he can. If we had known you were coming we would have had his winter clothes ready to send to him, but we will have no other chance when you leave. Tell him we have made enough corn to do us, and have plenty of meat. We have caught five large bears in a pen, and salted them down for winter. The Yankee sheriff came with five soldiers along to collect the taxes, and wanted to take the mare, but I had sold the bear skins for money enough to pay him, and I hope it is the last time I will ever have to pay Yankee taxes.' I thought, as I rode away into the wilderness, that the strippling soldier — but seventeen years of age —
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whose home I had just left, would hereafter, in the eyes of a just and impartial posterity, have a prouder claim to honor than the son of any heartless speculator, though he inherited millions of his father's ill-got t tii gains."
The Colonel refers, in another place, to an old mountaineer, seventy-five years of age, wh" has ••killed more Yankees than any man in the- command nine the war began." He hunts them as he does large game, and rarely tails to bring down his man at two hundred yards with a long old rifle. He got two shots last week, and says at the second shot " the Yankee behaved mighty curious ;■ he put his hand to his side at the crack of the gun, and laid down on the horse's neck, like he was sick, and then fell off." Such was the old man's simple account of the fate of one of the invading Bcoundrels.
A NOBLE SLAVE.
The following incident is related by an eye-witness — one of upwards of fifty who arc cognizant of the facts. Such instances of genuine loyalty have their parallel nowhere so frequently as in the pages of Southern his- tory, and give a flat contradiction to all the partial and puritanical state- ments ever made by Mrs. Stowe and her tribe of worshipping abolitionists ;
" The night before the attack of the abolitionists on Secessionvillc, (June 10, 1802,) Daniel, a servant of Lieutenant Bellinger, of Lamar's Artillery, had taken his Blaster's sword and pistol to a house about one hundred yards in rear of the fort to clean them, and haying fallen asleep, • lid not awaken until the alarm of the assault was given, just at daylight. Suddenly, remembering that his master was without his weapons, he seized them and tnshed to the fort through the hot fire with which the em who had flanked the work -weeping down the men in the rear.
Daniel attempted to enter at the usual place of entrance, but teeing that it irae certain death to proceed further in that direction — three of our men, who, like himself, had slept out of the works* were killed at his side — he tried another place. But th< itorm of projectiles shut him out there,
rmined, however, to do bis duty, he rushed across the line of fire, ami
fell, mortally wounded, pierced by three balls. But, faithful even unto
th, he entn ated the men near him to carry the sword and pistol for him
to hu 0 • that it v. r w.i-
killed. • Mj iW, ' they kill- 1 him 1
no | sword.' And, forgetting tin f his own wounds, he upbraided
himself for hit which he believed 1 loath.
- the fight ml Bellinger, 1 Daniel's
. to where he lay, and the faithful fellow, upon hearing
his name called, raised his languid eyes, ^nd exclaimed : ' Al
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told rae you were dead, but, thank God. if 1 'in to die this day. that it's mc and not vmi.' and. taking the pistol from his bosom, he gare it to the lieu- tenant. Baying: ' I tried to carry your sword to you, but they shot mo. and when 1 fell it dropped, and 1 'm afraid it 'a lost.' ' Come, Daniel,' raid his master, 'don't trouble yourself about that now. we '11 take you to thi and he 11 BOOn make you all right.' Daniel, however, expressed no hopes of ■ry. and lamented that he could not see his master's children hefore he died. • Tell them at home,' he raid, 'that 1 promise)) to take care of you, and that I tried to do so to the last of my life.'
"lie lingered several days, and died. The last words he c\. being, ' Duncan and Normie will he sorry when they hear 1 'm dead.' Those were the names of his master's children."
FEDERAL AND CONFEDERATE GENERALS.
In reading the reports of the battles in Mexico, and remembering the positions now occupied by the various officers, some curious coincidences are found. Thus, Magruder gives special credit to Sumner, and Joseph E. Johnston is warm in his commendations of Heno. After the battle of Churubusco, Major Loring reports to his immediate superior, Earl Van Dorn : " The rifle's were accompanied throughout by the distinguished young Lieutenants, Beauregard, Smith, and McClellan, the two latter in command of a portion of the engineer corps. All, I am happy to say, bore themselves with the greatest gallantry."
At Ohnrnbnsoo, McClellan was under the immediate command of Lieu- tenant Gr. W. Smith, subsequently street commissioner in New York, and now one of the generals in the Confederate service.
TURKS AND YANKEES.
A historian of the Saracen conquerors says: " It was, moreover, a common injunction to spare as much as possible the countries they invaded. 'De- stroy not palm trees,' says Ahabeker to Yesuf, 'nor burn any field of corn; cut down no fruit trees, do no mischief to cuttle, only such as ye kill to eat.' "
Compare these Turks of more than a thousand years ago, in the very mid-' night of the ages, with the Yankees of this day, who organized expeditions for the express purpose of doing what the most savage and barbarous people of the world would not permit.
A riLLAOINQ EXPEDITION.
The St. Louis I)< mocrat contains the following account of the movements of a cavalry brigade under Colonel Cornyn, of the Federal army:
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"This brigade left Corinth, Mississippi, on one of the last days of May, 'for the purpose of making a path of desolation through a section of country not heretofore traveled by our forces.' It was the intention (to quote more of the select language of the narrator) to 'play the devil generally,' and to leave on the minds of non-combatant people 'a vivid impression as to what war really is.' The brigade was five nights in the saddle, and in that brief space their abolition eulogist claims that, among other acts of signal ven- geance, they burned seven cotton factories (all private property), costing an average of two hundred thousand dollars each, the largest of these contain* in:; three hundred looms, being valued at one million dollars, and employ- ing hundreds of men, women, and children, The stock of manufactured goods on hand is described to have been more valuable than the buildings and machinery. Steam flouring-mills, steam saw-mills, private dwellings, yellow, waving wheat-fields just ready for the sickle, were alike destroyed in the wantonness of vengeance. Speaking of the immense amount of forage committed to the flames, the jubilant narrator says: 'Immense is not the word — language cannot describe the scene — the smoke rising from burning- corn cribs in every direction, and for many miles on each side of our path.' Great numbers of slaves were brought away, but this was a matter of course."
A PEN PORTRAIT OF GENERAL JACK MORGAN.
The following sketch of this redoubtable chief, though somewhat florid
of the most graphic that has been given to the public : "Morgan is precisely six feet in stature; his limbs arc faultlessly sym- metrical, and his action is the very poetry of motion. His hair is auburn bis eyes blue, his forehead high and broad; his face wears the flush of hale health, and is radiant with the light of thought. Mis hands and feet are small, and in his locomotion there is a remarkable elasticity and trrace. His brow is of an eminently mental mould. Decision flashes from his eye* and his lip indicates a firmness beyond the reach of embarrassment. His address captivates everybody — 'the girls all love him. and the boys all ;■ by him.' lie is, in the broadest and most comprehensive sense of the terms, a gentleman lar, a soldier, and a Morgan. Wary, intrepid.,
circui ml bold, he is endowed with the rare capacity of Belf-p
;n the very jaw- of peri) — he can think, and deliberately d- cide what it will behest to do, however great tie danger. 11 ;• oeptiv< :'. olties are preeminently fine. Intuitively he comprehends in a twinkling all mai of riddles, whether they come in the form of a 'weak ini the
em ui_\ .' or iii the more ' questionable shape ' (,i
Hi- predominating cl His
<juick, his decision qaick, and hi
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"In the puritv of hi- sentiments, the elevation of his principles, the daring of hifl spirit, :uul the manly oomeliness of his person, he is emphat- ically a Chevalier Bayard. Of one briirbt. noble quality ho is the fortunate possessor, which shines conspicuously — looms ap over all ha ''ilur brilliant I allude to the holy awe with which he views tb character and feelings of that connecting link between good men and angels, commonly
called woman. When he captured that train of ears between Nashville and
Louisville, with about i doeen women and four Yankee officers aboard, one of the women, who was the wife of one of the captured officers, rushed op to him, and i 1: 'Oh, Captain Morgan, I implore you don't, for
II. awn's sake, hurt my poor little hushand.' ' Madam,' replied the Colonel, 'I am a Southern soldier, the proper definition of which is, an honorable gentleman. The soldiers of our army, madam, arc not fighting for plunder, and we therefore respect private property. "We are not capable of poltruon- crv. and we therefore invariably treat with the profoundest respect the There is a locomotive and train of cars, madam ; they are valuable to your Government, and would be still more so to mine. I cannot consent, how- . that youtself and the ladies who are with you shall be turned into this forest without protection. Take it. madam, and with it take your poor little husband, and go home.' "Whereupon the astonished and delighted feminine Yankee grasped his hand in a spasm of ecstacy, and rained upon it a flood of grateful kisses and tears.
"That feature in his character which is seen first, and remembered longest by all, is his unaffected modesty. It sheds a soft and sweet fra- grance around and over his whole character. Whenever yon praise any (feed of his daring, his response is : ' Ah, sir, it was the boys did that — the boys, sir, the boys.' "Wherever he is, he is always the centre of attraction — tie observed of all observers. Yet he never seems to be aware of it. Old men stare at him. and all the young ones shout for him; but he moves along just as though nothing had occurred."
Till: BATTLE-FIELD.
Dr. Cross, in the Holston JourAal, thus describes the field of battle on the day after the fighl of Murfreerooro'*:
•'Ah ! how many expired with the year. Here they lie, friend and foe, in every position, a vast, promiscuous ruin. ,
•Tliey rieep theix loai sleep ; thej bare fought their last battle; No souud can awake them to glory again.'
• After a pretty thorough inspection of the ground in the rear of our lines, from Stone's Iliv r to the extreme left, 1 ride to the front, where the dead lie thick among the cedars, in the proportion of five Yankees to one
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Southron. Here are sights to sicken the bravest hearts — sad lessons for human passion and oppression. Here is a foot, shot off at the ankle, a fine model for a sculptor; here is an officer's hand, severed from the wrist, the glove still upon it, and the sword still in its grasp ; hero is an entire brain, perfectly isolated, showing no Bign of violence) as if carefully taken from the skull that enclosed it by the hands of a skillful surgeon; here's a corpse sitting upon the ground, with its back against a tree, in the most natural position of life, holding before its face the photograph likeness of a good looking old lady, probably the dead man's mother; here if a poor fellow, who has crawled into the corner of a fence to read his sister's letter, and expired in the act of its perusal, the precious document still open before him, full of affectionate counsel ; here is a handsome young man, with a placid countenance, lying upon his back, his Bible upon his bosom, and his hands over it, as if he had gone to sleep saying his evening prayer. Many others present the melancholy contrast of scattered cards, obscene pictures. and filthy ballad-books — 'miserable comforters' for a dying hour, but an instructive commentary upon the Yankee cause. One lies upon his face, literally biting the ground, his rigid lingers fastened firmly into the gory sod; and another, with upturned face, open eyes, knit brow, compressed lips, and clenched fists, displays all the desperation of Yankee vengeance, imprinted on his clay. Dissevered heads, arms, legs, are scattered every- where; and the coagulated pools of blood gleam ghastly in the morniiu' sun. It is a fearful sight for Christian eyes."
G U.LANT EXTLOIT.
The following incident is related, and its accuracy vouched for, by an officer under whose command it Occam d ;
"Sergeant Gray, of Captain Wood's company, of Septt's Thirty Seventh Virginia Regiment, captured in one of Jackson's recent battles a Yankee captain, lieutenant, and eleven privates. Be overhauled them, and com- manded a halt, when the captain ordered his men to fire. They did without inflicting serious injury upon Gray, who rushed upon the. captain, took his sword from him, and told him if he did not opmmaad his men to .he would kill him ins! The gallant captain succumbed,
when e,. h pri bed singly np ind laid his arms at the eon-
r hi had -• i an d all, he shoulden d the eleven muaki and marched the thirteen Yanks into caap. This is what one resolute man did, and were the i for, it would I ■> bo
iii'i'
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Till: KIUKLITY OF uoes.
The fid- thus far. 1i:l> been as much a subject of
gratification t i us as of surprise to the enemy. It has b en though! that . slave would gladly avail himself of an opportunity to regain his free- dom, but the i v • been disappoint* d, \ characteristic Inoident is related by ■ respectable gentleman whj) livi q Fairfax Oourt-House and Alexandria.
II owner of ah old man and two younger men. Having confi-
■ in their faithfulness, and the honi sty of the Federals, he left them on his plantation. The latter, however, visited the premises, and ask< 'I the old man if he did uol wan! his freedom. The old fellow told him no; that lie wa- living near the line, and if he desired it. could have obtained bis liberty any time within the lasl twenty years, Bimply by crossing over. As he was old and infirm', they left him, but carried oil the two boys. General Tyler, for it v, 1 them if they did not want their freedom. '■ Oh,
yes," said one of them. "Would you fight for us?" "Yes, sir, and I would Bhoot my old muster the very first man." This gave the officer ■ confidence in the artful hut faithful respondent. So they put him in uni- form, mounted him on horseback, and treated him with other mark-; of He, however, had not wavered in the slightest degree in his fidelity,) and was taking observations of the various points. After having possi himself of all the ry information, he started off before day, one
morning, and came to this place. His master carried him to General Bon- ham, who obtained from him very valuable information, as be had not only
i lined the location of the Federal batteries, but the number and cali- bre of their guns. The other boy remained in Alexandria. Another incident, equally characterisac, is recorded of a free negro — a
ndant of the slaves manumitted by-Oeneral Washington — who owns
and occupies a far f one hundred and fifty acres in Fairfax County, near
Mount Vernon. This man has offered twenty-eight acres of his farm, to be sold, that the procee Is might be used in the defence of Virginia, and he is willing to fight himself.
This reminds us of still another incident, though it has but slight appli-
d to the subject. A gang of slaves were, rolling a cargo of bomb-shells on a small steamer, for transportation to 'a fort. One of the darkies, not understanding their use, exclaimed, "Q-orra mighty! what de white folks gwine to do wid deso big balls?" " Why, you fool nigga," replied a know- ihg-looking comrade, " dem is Davis pills, to work de Vankecs out ob Fort
ens."
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A GOOD CAUTION.
At one time there was ;i fear that the President, for some cause, would attempt to depr egard of his command. Wigfall, of Texas, a bold,
dashing, independent, plain-spoken man, referring to the subject on one occasion, in the presence of Davis, rem irke I : " Mr. President, don't touch him. Whenever a man becomes so popular that the men of the country name their race-horses and steamboats, andthe women name their babies after him, don't touch him, let him alone!"
Ill URAII FOR THE DEVIL.
While the Yankees were occupying Canton. Mississippi, a little boy, five years of a ng by a bevy of soldiers, shouted, "Hurrah for Jeff.
Davis." '-Hurrah for the devil," was the indignant response. "That's right," said the little fellow; "you hurrah for your captain, and I'll hurrah for mine."
RUNNING A FAT LADY.
During one of the raids of the Federals in North Carolina, they entered the house of a venerable lady, and deliberately proceeded to hew and hack her elegant furniture. She remonstrated against this vandalism, when the brutes drove her out of the house, and, at the point of the bayonet, com- pelled her to donble-qnick around the premises, amid ,thcir gibes and laughter, until the ; tan fell, exhausted. A fact which adds to the
barbarity of th nt is, that the lady was so portly as for several years ¥
• e been an invalid. The wretches, when they left, had thcaudaci: say that "the exercise would do her good."
rma his rations.
After thi ■? Boonsboro* in Maryland, when our army fell back,
one of our pic) ikee, and order. -d la soften.'
P the Confi lerate suddenly mounted the Yankee,
and made him a pri for camp. He did not know exactly
course to traveled in the direction of Shar]
the end of th . • neral Evans, of South Carolina, and
•■ Wh ib -re? ' was the inqni
"W:ili. I. '.nt l reckon he '-
. we '11 git inthin' I Dothin' f;ir thn
the reply where have you
] - ■ ul.KANIN'-.S IROM
"Ben J v.l.v. -.\. Ve ben lost) and as (bribe livin' ;>art. I jest concluded I '■! turn commissary, and press pervisiooa to keep me and the Yank, so i marched bim but we 've ben
two of th , Gineralj i bone. JTer haven't ■
drop eorjul' i
Portnnatelj the general bad; and, considerably mollified by i Btrong i»ull at t li . • Bask, die Confederate resumed bis journey!
: ai. • 1 1 : N" I : U A I , ■: . — J \\ I ORS.
Tne North, even — we mean the h >t. conservative portion of the peo- ple— aro pU( to shame at the infamy and atrocities of some of her military tyrants. The Philadelphia Evening Journal has an article on "Barbarous Federal Generals," in whicb it speaks out thus boldly:
"Whatever may be the final result of the present sanguinary war — whether the seceded States become subjugated or independent — the future impartial historian will pronounce the judgment of posterity against a few names that have figured conspicuously in the I '• d< ral service.
•■One of those worthies is Ken. Butler, who commenced hid military Bethel, and ended it at New Orleans, where he played such fantastic trioks against humanity that the administration was compelled to remove him. and appoint a man whose instincts are not so brutal-»-who, in oompafison, is a gentleman — we mean General Banks. Another one is Turchin, of Illinois, a colonel who was tried by court-martial for permitting and encouraging his men to arson, murder, plunder, and rapi — mho was condemned and ordered to be dismissed in dishonor from the service, which ace was approved by General Bnell and promulgated, but who was immediately promoted from his colonelcy to a brigadier-generalship by .Mr. Lincoln, and is now in service under General Roseorapz.
"Another is an adventurer from the land of the blue-noses, named McNiel, who in cold blood ordered ten innocent non-combatanttj to be shut, becatise thej resided in the neighborhood of one who had been abdu from his borne by a guerilla band. The flimsy pretext for this barbarity was, that it was done in retaliation for his murder, but his Bubsequ£n1 return, sale and sound, destroyed the last prop upon which such an infamous, wholesale murder was sought to be justified. 1 1' the heart-rending agony of the ten widows, and the wailing of their orphaned children, do not lvach hi.- conscience, then he will suffer all the more in hell, where there are / saints in comparison to bim.
■• Another name i> that of Milroy, a canting, Methodistical preacher, who has embraced the opportunity of civil war to wreak the petty vengeance
and malice of his narrow soul upon the unfortunate, heart-broken, and impoverished women and children of Virginia. His conduct in West Vir-
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ginia was bad enough, but his ferocity in the valley around Winchester is shocking. Bui a short-time since he ordered a family out of the lines, and would not permit them to take their clothing with them. Jt is said that even their crinoline was denied them, although they had treated our troops in the must kindly manner. Be moved into the mansion immediately, and. appropriated it for bis headquarters, together. with the spoons, pianos, &c, and, in j^tit of generosity, presented one of the pianos to a female who was residing in one of the camps thereabouts. This family, although it was Well known to have sheltered and succored our BQldierS when the fate of war had thrown them captive in the neighborhood, was thus cruelly and unnecessarily thrown helpless upon the world, to gratify the lust of pillage of this general.
" Aii.'tln r n nne is that of Steinwehr, whose complicity in the shocking of the burning of New Market will be remembered. It was proven that those who were trying to escape from the burning houses were driven back into the flames with the sabres of ferocious soldiers. Can the mind of man contemplate a greater scene of horror than was presented by frantic citizens, driven from their homes by the torch of the incendiary, shrieking and terror stricken? How they must have cried for mercy; bow their piercing shriek- must have risen above the roar of the crackling flames, cuveloping their own homstcads. But these did not pierce the heart of this general. No; nor were any of his accomplices punished for this deed of infamy and horror.
"These incarnate fiends, without having any military ability whatever, have driven the people into hostility, when they might have hern secured as friends. This article will aed into b disparagement of our army
and it« officers; but let us tell those who would do so, that nothing dispar- -o much, either at home or abroad, as the neglect to seek out and punish such offenders. The administration cannol plead ignorano
The acts of Butler, M i 1 Milroy were brought to their
protest of the enemy, while those of Turohin and Steinwehr
brought forward in tic evidence before the court-martial. ln< I and promoted by the administration, wh tenant Edgerbj tic Democratic ticket in '»
Hampshire, and Lieutenant Van 13 uren for permitting hii h' n-i i insure promotion — rob, murder, and destroy; to incur dia-
ry and inhumanity, or vote tie
vw ix
I
loridians," n]
ckoHtujf to a small I r be came across.
20 QLEAJIIM
In the fi-ht ligo, South Carolina^ one of our aharpt - hod
a fiddle strapped to hi< back. 1 found him li:iril nt work, trying to get id, With tlic d — d Yankees for making Mm lose hu 1 oir. man, wit!
in death; But Yankees, true to country, will till they die, and then — '.'■ *tiU.
NEQRO DION! n
Private Gibbs, of Charleston, was captured and sent to Hilton Head, :ni<l :i negro, in uniform and armed, was placed as g lard over him. A mis- chievous idea oocured to Gibbs, to test the negro's sense of "freedom and i quality with the white man." So, stepping up to him in an unguarded moment. Gibbs asked him, authoritatively, -Whom do you belong to?" Taken by surprise, the negro answered, submissively, "To <le 'stare of Ged- ilis, on <le main, sir." meaning an estate on the main-land — -then, recollecting hie changed condition, he walled his eyes angrily at Gibbs, and said: "Look 'ere! stand off dare. Didn't you know I put here to guard you? 1 belong to Mister General Hunter and myself, now;" and he strutted forward and baok with pompous dignity.
AN INCIDENT OF THE BATTLE OF FREDERIC!
The Lexington (Virginia) Gazettegires the following extract from a letter written by ay officer to a citizen of that town. It relates an amusing inci- dent, which the officer says, "unlike most good things of the kind, is true:"
"On Monday succeeding the battle of Fredericksburg, the Yankees asked and obtained a flag oi" truce, to collect and carry off their dead. As sunn as it was understood that this was the case, there was a cessation of the pre- vious incessant firing between the skirmishers on both sides. Soon the men of both parties began to lay down their arms and walk out into th«' neutral ground between, and talk and swap newspapers, tobacco, coffee, &c. Then the lines grew more confused and mixed, till at last there was do separation between the advanced lines of both parties.
"About this time, one of our fellows, a tough, wild-looking specimen, with his tues (nit. of his shoes, his bushy hair protruding from the topless crown of his hat, ragged pants, and no coat, with a dingy, chocolate tint pervading his whole person, was rambling around generally, with nothing to give, but ready to accept anything, from a newspaper to an overcoat. Presently he espied a braa new Belgian musket lying abandoned on the ground. This, was precisely the thing our Confederate Adonis wanted to complete his equipment and costume; so he picks it up, and starts off for his lines. Just then he is spied by a Yankee major on horseback — a fellow
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got up in the highest style of military tailoring, with new coat and trap- pings, and, above all, a superb pair of patent leather top-boots. He rides up quickly, and calls out, rather sharply:
'" Put down that musket, sir! You can't have that.'
"Our Brummell gives him an edgewise dance of incredulity, and making no reply, purtucs the even tenor of his way. Fretted thai his appearance and authority should hot have produced more effect upon such a looking fellow, the Yankee rides up close to him, and calls out, very curtly and st i rnly:
"'Don't you know, sir, that you can't come within our lines and carry off guns under a flag of truce ? Put it down, sir, and go back to your reg- iment.'
• Mercury looks up at him kindly and inquiringly, as if to be satisfied that he is in earnest, and, shaking his head at him, but without even slack- ening his pace, or weakening his hold of the musket, coolly replies:
"'Never mind, sir! I '11 shoot you to-morrow, and get them hoofs.'
" Do you think it will make much difference with that fellow whether the Government gives him shoes or not?"
YANKEE REVERENCE FOR GENERAL LEE.
When the army was passing through Pennsylvania, the ladies frequently ciime out of their hou>cs to show their feeling of hostility to us, and to dis- play some evidence of it. At one place, a beautiful girl ran down the b1 of an elegant mansion, and, standing on the tefrac< in front, waved a min- iature United States flag in the face of our troops. Behind her, applauding her act, Wat grouped a party of ladies, all richly and fashionably attired, nging 1" a family of some not-. The troops pasted by qui- ilt to the flushed beauty as she flaunted her flag in their At that moment General Lee rode up. His noble far,., and quiet, reproving look met hot 1 the waving tie.' wa^ lowen 1 lor a
moment she looked at him. and then, throwing down the miniature ha:
Dted audibly, as the clasped her white ha' her: - < Hi ! 1 wish
be M The flair v, ] up, but with ham]- Mill held
tightly together, and i sad, thoughtful fa n< back to thi
.No further attempt to sb^w Onion sentiment wn
THE SPIRIT or 01 B Hum \ few instances il "Mr. J I fourteen
old
in the w.v
12 ilOM
"General Jos ph Grab m, of Lincoln County, North Carolina, has left a name renowned la history ae b Revolutionary hero. 3U mantle has fallen upon hie d Hi- youn mot Win. A. Graham,
baa fire bow in the army. Hia Bistor, the youngest daughter of General Graham, and wife of .the Rev. I'r. Robert II. Morrison, has two Bona and four sons-in-law in I ■ the latter being 'BetfcaL' Hill and
' Stonewall ' Jackson
•• Th" Shnlet family, originally from Orangeburg District, Boata Caro- lina, exhibit a representation of fifty-one names in the Confederate service. • sriing family have in Confederate service Bixty-three representa- tives, all hailing fopm South Carolina.
"In Cleveland G i at ■ N irth Carolina, Mrs. Ham rick, a widow, haa but
a children, all suns, six of whom she has devoted to the Southern
She would devote the seventh, and her all, hut that he is a small
too young for the army. At aha first call of her country, this noble
mother urged hi r Bona to the field. With 3u<?h sons and such mothers, we
fear nol the issue.
••In the list of casualties of the Fifth Virginia Regiment at Fredericks" burg, we see among the killed Lieutenant Bell, of Augusta County, the ninth killed out of twelve ol that family in that regiment/
'i in. tki i: BPIEIT.
In these limes of trial to nun's souls, a modest exhibition of genuine patriotism and courage, in soldier or citizen, woman or child, commands the admiration and sympathy of all. What language ran describe the emo- tions o! those who fully appreciate the unyielding heroism with which the patriotic preacher. Rev, Peyton Harrison, of Cumberland County, Vir- ginia, hear- the weighty afflictions imposed upon him by this unholy war? At Manassas, the flower of the flock fell, at the head of his company, and with perfect resignation he bowed to the stroke. At Fort Donelson, another ion, Rev. Dabney Can- Harrison, a joint-heir, with his brother n to their lather's love, fell while gallantly leading hia men in defence of that position. Closely following upon the tele-ram of Captain Dabney Harrison's death, the news of hia daughter's death came upon him — a lovely young lady, who breathed her last at Brandon, on dames River, a d;iy or two since. And yet, in the face of this battalion of sorrows, he evinced that undying spirit, the bulwark of Southern independence, when he said, in a quiet and determined manner: "I have two more sons left to devote to our cause J when they, too, are gone, I will shoulder the musket myself." •
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FIDELITY OF Oil; SLAVES.
The characteristic exhibitions' of Yankee character and purpose do us, incidentally, great benefit in affording instances of the well-tried fidelity of the servants.
\<i old • ..nit woman, who had been faithful Under all trial- am] tempta- tions, went to the Yankee who had the basket of keys belonging to her mi-tress, and demanded the smoke-house key. b, as her mistress
had had neither breakfast nor dinner, she was determined to cook her some- thing to eat before she left. This faithful ne^ro cook happened to be pos- 1 of a tongue which could run, when provoked, as fast ami foul asa fish- woman's. When the Yankee refused to let her have the key. to ^ct her mistress something to cat, she poured out upon him a stream of denuncia- tory epithets which he richly deserved, but which it would not do for u- to publish. The reJder may form some idea of what she said from the Fol- lowing, which are some of the mildest epithets used in the old woman's vocabulary: " You mean, low, trifling, dirty, poor white trash, you ain't fit for nothing I"" tO rob and steal. You poor, cowardly robbers, that'.- fit to steal niggers, and den rob jler masters and mistresses, what ain't got nothing to fight you wid. Why don't you go up the Valley, whar Massa Jackson is. H( S _ : guns, and swords, and bayonets, just like you is; why don't you go up dcre and see him. you mean, sneaking, cowardly, poor wl trash, de wua kind in de world." The old cook gave him "Jessie," and. ae she was in tin panoply of an Ethiopian skin, they were compelled to take it.
A sorniKRN FLORENCE MUIITi v ,.\ I : .
A few years ago, Sir John Musgrave and bis beautiful da ited
New York, bringing with them the | od name, and wearing
the livery* lent of manner.-. Tbev ■■
by the merchant pi eat commercial m. trop-
olis. The daughtei >■ [ant son of Henry Grinnell
ous and noble-hearted merchant ol New Fork, who bath | - now, the unflinching and daunt.. South, and who
I tb.' Lincoln Government in tin . . of a bold and manly
opinion in our behalf, and in tie manifestation of the m ,Pa] aid
Sir .John and nia daughter returned to England, and - fter his impanied I ,1,,. :- of that ministra- tion nl wound* r. ( >n her return
• Grinnell mi t her in I
where thi all the luxui i,irh
the princely wealth of I ben could so well afford them. Colonel
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, of Virginia] had often met Miae Mnsgiave in New York, and
whilst passing down the street in Richmond, suddenly and unexpectedly wearingfhat bland and joyous Bmile and expression of recognition which iitaparta Buch a beautiful benevol nee to her oonntenanpe. •• Mfei
• iitl — : ; " I W.i D have expected t<> B66 an angel
from heaven! Pray, Miss Musgrave, how came you hen
II, ■• jtorj •• Id, with most unaffi r leaving
York." saidvlie, "1 returned to England, and went with Florence i tin gale to the Crimea. On my return home 1 married Mr. Grrinnell, and pn the breaking out of the war in America, my husband avowed his rminatfon to link his fortunes with the South; and I aceompanied him. lie soon raised a company— fitted them out at an expense to himself of fifteen thousand dollars — preferred that some one of more experience should lie captain, taking for himself a lieutenancy — aud he has gone to fight for the South, and 1 am here in one of the hospitals of Richmond, a" the best 1 can for the wounded and dying soldiers of the Confed- eracy." And she passed on — if not an angel from heaven, certainly an angel of earth — the Florence Nightingale of America!
AN APT REPLY.
"When the streets of Montgomery were crowded with soldiery, and in- spiriting martial music stirred all hearts, a lady chanced to pass along one of the principal thoroughfares, when a volunteer, who probably i'elt the "one touch of nature which makes the whole world kin," very politely saluted her by raising his hat, and remark i n g : " Farewell, my good lady; 1 'm "oing off to fight for you;" to which she instantly and very composedly repUecl: "And I intend remaining here to pray for you, sir." There was something in this reply so apropos — so womanly — that there" was a general raising of hats anion- the group, who doubtless felt that a warm and truly POttS heart heat in the bfcsom of the fair creature who had pledged her- self to invoke the benediction of Heaven upon them.
The following noble compliment, nobly won, was conferred on a private in his army by fjeneral Beauregard, Mr. Jones is a native of Fairfax County, but a resident t)f Warrenton, Virginia, and his town, county, and State will do well to he proud of the young hero, who has won such uncom- ,,„,,, honors. The order which follows was read at the head-of every regiment in Beauregard's whole army. All praise to the general who thus honors merit, even in the ranks:
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'•Headquarters Army op tiik Mississippi, Corinth, MissiSjUfMj April 12, 1.862. "[GFXERAL ORDERS No. 14.]
"The Commander of the forces desires to call the special attention of the army to the intrepid behavior of Private Eicon Jones, Company K, Seven- teenth Regiment Virginia Volunteers, while on detached service in the signal corps, dnring the bombardment of the upper or Rucker's Battery at Madrid Rend; when the signal-flag, having been twice shot from his hand, was, nevertheless, promptly recovered by him, and his messages accurately transmitted without interruptions.
" Preferring the post of danger and of duty to the relief proffered by his
commanding officer, Private Jones remained at his perilous position for six
days and nights, affording an example of patriotic devotion and personal
valor eminently worthy of the emulation of his young couutrymeh-in-arms.
"By command of General Beauregard.
F. H. JORDAN, Assistant AdjiUa't //."
FEMALE HEROISM.
Two of the late Judge Clopton's daughters had a servant hired at Fortress Monroe, and could not get her by Bending. Thev made one of their ser- vants row them to the fort in a boat; they were armed with revolvers, and demanded admittance; the sentinel refused; they insisted, and were. told that they would be fired upon ; they said fire, then, and drew their revolvers and entered the fort. They told the officers that they had heard that the Hampton 1 not throw up sand-hanks, but that it should be
done, if the ladies had to do it; that they would head a company of I to do it. The officers said, if th nens of the ladies, they did
not know what the men of Hampton wonld
OLD ABE AND III v. | it.
Russell, of the London '/'■ irnisheol the following concerning the
eupants of the White J
•• I. hubbub and phiz-drinks a;
than now Mr. Russell to the aristocrati
the White House. Th* servant who took ti
QVit< d. ,rv. ' par-
ticularly inqui 'ion in life; ami wha
i,: to be ' and ters dinin .x.ed,
I
GLEANINGS FROM
i that it would 1 to no iudig-
. and informed me that i was about to participate in a prandial enjoy- ment of no ordinary character. Mr. Jeams having been thus conciliated,
•om. ••Mr.-. Lincoln was-alreadj 81 is of the
middl '.:, of a plom.pi aerating to the embonpoint
natural to her years; her features arc plain, her nose and mouth of the ordi- I her manners and appearance homely; stiffened, however, hy the consciousness that her position requires her to be something more than plain Mrs. Lincoln, the wife of the Illinois lawyer. She is profuse in the use of the word 'sir,' in every instance, which is now almost an American- ism confined to certain classes, although it \ so common in England. '.all not attempt to describe, though it was very gorgeous and She handled a fan with much energy, displaying a round, well-proportioned arm, and was adorned with some simple jewelry. Mrs. • in struck me as being desirous of making herself agreeable." The portrait of the host is thus given in another chapter: " Soon afterwards there entered, with a shambling, irregular, almost . a tall, lank, lean man, considerably over six feet in height, with stooping shoulders, long, pendulous arms, terminating in hands of ordinary dimensions, which, however, were far exceeded in proportion by his feet. He wt 1 in an ill-fitting, wrinkled suit of black, which one in mind of an undertaker's uniform at a funeral 3 round his neck a rope* of black silk was knotted in a large bulb, with flying ends projecting beyond the collar oi his coat; his turned-down shirt-collar disclosed a sinewy, muscular, yellow neck, and above that, nestling in a great ma black hair, bristling and compact, like a rulf of mourning pins, rose the strange, quaint lace and head, covered with its thatch of wild republican hair, of Lincoln. The impression produced by the size of his extremities, and by the flapping and wide-projecting ears, may be removed by the trance of kindliness, sagacity, and the awkward bonhomie of his face; the mouth is absolutely prodigious; the lips, straggling, and extending almost from one line of black heard to the other, are only kept in order by two deep furrows l'rom the nostril to the chin; the nose itself — a prominent organ — st. nels out from the face, with an inquiring, anxious air, as though it were sniffling some good thing in the wind; the eyes, dark and deeply set, are penetrating, but lull of an expression which almost amounts to tenderness; and above them projects the shaggy brow, running into the small, bard frontal space, the development oi v, liieh can scarcely be estimated accuratelji owing to the irregular locks of thick hair carelessly brushed across it.'' /
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A PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT DAVIS AND HIS CHILDREN.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writiug under date June 17, 1861, describes as follows:
"The parlors of the President, at the Spottswbod Hotel, this evening have been the locale of a pleasant interchange of courtesies between himself and the members of the Virginia Convention. On the first day of their session, the body passed a resolution instructing the Chairman bo address Mr. Davis, and ascertain when it would be convenient to receive them. He responds], naming the evening, upon which a resolution was passed that the members should pay their respects in a body. They accordingly assembled at i o'clock, and, headed by the venerable Ex-President John Tyler, and Hon. John Janney, the President of the Convention, proceeded arm in arm from the Capitol to the hotel. Arriving here, the door of the private entrance was thrown open, and the procession ascended to the Presidential pai where were present the Chief Magistrate; Hon. Robert Toombs, Seer of State; Hon. Mr. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy; Hon. Mr. Meinmi; Secretary of the Treasury; and Mr. Win. M. Browne, Assistant Seen of State. As the gentlemen severally advanced, they were introduced by Mr. Ewbank, the Secretary of the Convention, and in ten minutes the apartments were filled by a hundred or more of the 'solid men' of Virginia, each one happy in. that happiest of all reflections, that he was looking his very 1
" The President always looks well, but never, to my mind, is he bo much in his element as when the cefltre of an admiring throng; throwing out brilliant scintillations of thought with which his fertile mind is so pregnant This was especially the case this evening. Not only was each ■man met with a kind and different greeting from that received by his neighbor, but, after the formalities of the introduction were over, the free- dom with which he moved hither and thither, dropping a complimenl one, calling up some reminiscence of to another, touching gently
anon t!ic « vrnts of the time to a third, relating a brief but appropt aneci L making himself eminently a
fail to pro luce upon the mind n the im|
a who sj ir» the
the forum or the fi Coml with the caution of the
giving full scope to
puts more into ts, with less r h eflbrt, tl >uld
to. Yon J ■ yet involuntarily d
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Boon forget that you arc talking with the President of the Southern Tnion, and remember only the man. Such is President Davis in the parlor. What
nan, and soldier, the world already k^ "/Moving around in the crowd were two microscopic Danrises — Maggie
and Jeff., Jr. — as handsome and brilliant a pair of household i - ever
heart. Maggie is what the ladies would call 'a perfect
She has large, brown, ex; long lashes, whioh, but for
natural vivacity, would give her an almost pensive cast of countenance; round, rosy cheeks; a' sweet little nose and mouth; a dimpled chin; i fine growth of black hair, dipped short on the heck, and a clear, rosy complex- ion. Add to these charms a tiny form, pretty enough to belong to a divinity, and you have a pen-and-ink portrait of a diminutive specimen of humanity who would make a jewel of a picture in any kind of setting, whether she belonged to a President 'or any other man.'
"The other Davis — young Jeff. — is a chubby, broad-shouldered, gray* . big-headed, brown-haired chap, five years old, fat, fair, and fresh as a rosebud; but beyond these points, he is a boy like any other.
"The father seems proud of both these bantlings; and as they edged through the crowd and took a place by his side once or twice, though engaged in conversation with a number of gentlemen around him, he still found time to bestow upon them the smiles and caresses of affection."
THE SPIRIT OP OUR SOLDIERS.
The full story of moral heroism, personal sacrifice, and gallant deeds writ- ten in blued during this war, can never be transferred to history. We can only preserve such instances as occasionally find their record in the columns of the pn
"A mother had proposed to hire a substitute. The son replied : 'No, I say now that I will never leave my flag in the hour of peril. Come weal, come woe, I will always be found fighting under the Confederate flag until liberty and peace are restored, and the Southern Confederacy is acknowl- edged by the civilized world. If you have any money to spare to lure a substitute, you had better do it; though, if you hire five hundred it will have no effect towards bringing mo home, for I intend seeing this war out, if I live.
"A mere youth, who belonged to the cavalry, rode by a poor, weary, and forsaken soldier, and observing that lie Wis barefooted and the blood run- ning from his feet, immediately jerked off his boots, .and, throwing them to him, said : 'Take them, I have a horse and you are a-foot ;' and rode off before a reply could be made. The result was. the poor little fellow took pneumonia and died.'-'
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A Northern paper contains the following:
"A rebel major, -who was wounded and taken prisoner, said, after one of onr surge"ons had dressed his wounds : 'Gentlemen, I did not expect such kind treatment at your hands; but I tell you, in all candor, you never MM capture Richmond, unless you do it over the dead and wounded bodies of fifty thousand men. We have' resolved it; we shall endeavor to perform it.' This sentiment is shared by all the prisoners we have captured." '
"During one of the adventurous raids of General John Morgan in Ken- tucky, a shell struck a Sergeant McDaniel on the leg, crushing and man- gling it so terribly that he died a few hours after. As the. general rode by him, he called out: 'How are you, general;' and as the general turned around* he said: 'Don't mind me, I am past cure;' and calling to some com- rades who were near, said: ' Here are some few cartridges — you will need them.' These were about the last words spoken by the poor fellow. Another poor fellow, who was shot through the intestines, as the surgeon approached him, said : 'Doctor, don't mind me; my wound is fatal; goto those whom you can assist.' "
A NOBLE BOY.
A friend from Holly Springs related to us the following incident, which < ■■.■furred in Jackson, Tennessee. Little Bennie Malone, a boy about ten years of age, and son of Dr. B. J. Malone, of Jackson, resented manfully an insult offered his mother, by one of the infamous Yankees quartered there by striking him a severe blow on the head, with a rock. Standing by a squad of Yankees on t)\< Ik, he heard one of them use sonic insult-
ing language about his mother, ai -he passed them, when ho said: "Sir. she is my mother;" to which the chivalrio Yankee replied: "I don't care a d — n if she is." At this moment the little fellow let fly a rock, which ight the accursed Eankee to the ground, whence he was carried to his quarters. "When last heard from ho wad oonaiderod to be in :i precarious fion. and fears were entertained that he might recover. Little Bennie ted and carried before the military authorities, but on a hearing of ti • was released.
A Fl.\';i i I, ORDKAL. <in the battle-field of Gaines' Mill, near Richmond, on the L'Tth of June
1862, Colonel ■ ,.„],
Carolina Volui II. Taylor, was hi] . having i
down tin lag ||,
I fell, and thi Shubriek
Hayne, who, in like tm lawn; when a fourth, Alfred <;.
l'inckney, took them from Haync. and aim ntfy fill, mortally
30 GLEANINGS FUOM
Avoundcd, across the body of his friend. Gadsden Hoil I ready to
i . a tlinn, in turn, but fell} pierced with several balls, b- fore the oppor- tunity occurred. Hayne was l»ut eighteen, and (he other three not twenty- one j Thus in a few mom< nte were offered and accepted apoo
the aitar 0$ their country five as noble spirit- as ha\< aced the
annals of any history, upon their iirst battle-field.
Not long before, while their regiment was drawn up in line, their colonel had said t" them of the colors: "l'ie by them, hoys, but n<i,r Let them trail." How faithfully was this order carried out. Surely, such heroism ie grateful remembrance of their country.
TREATMF.NT OF FEMALB PRISONERS.
The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Exchange says :
"'J'he 'grand army of the North/ no Longer running from Richmond, is now warring against wtpnen. A constant reader of your paper, I notice your moderate notice of these 'female rebels,' and for the sake of truth, send you the enclosed, leaving with your discretion to do with it what your judgment suggests; for mine, awed by the surrounding bayonets, dare not venture beyond the truth, and even trembles at this. But to facts. Imagine a listener, rather than an actor, relating her experience.
•• ( hi Saturday, at eleven, A. 31., Mrs. , entertaining her Bister, a
lady friend was much surprised to see two men inter ami announce that she was under arrc.-i, and her family also. Immediately, armed men placed themselves in her parlors, at all the doors, and around the house, while the two men proceeded up stairs, throwing open the saored doors of her apart- ments, forcing Open drawers, desks, wardrohes, boxes, tearing the Redding from the beds, searching the pockets of dresses, with an activity which threatened destruction to everything. Remonstrance was vain, for they Were told to hush, or else they should have guards placed over each one of them. Their hands were violently seized because a pocket-book was de- tained, and the unfortunate female pushed into a room with a soldier over lei-. They were grossly insulted, bringing the tears into their women's eyes. Every insult, in act and Bpeech, was shown to them; and when their desks ami pockets had been robbed of their contents, they were all huddled into one room, with armed men to guard them.
■• I have long wished for some term to define a mass of vulgarity, ruffianly conduct, and insult to unprotected Women, and have lbund it in a New Ywrk detective policeman. The prisoners have four guards over them. They turned them out of their parlors; sleep and smoke on their solas; an- swer the bell when their friends call ; their cards and notes .arc all exam- ined. They illuminate the house, seated at the front windows, with their legs over the chairs; thrust themselves whenever the ladies meet together
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(the family being large) to hear their remarks; have examined and threat- ened the servants if they did not toll. The prisoners cannot get a pitcher of water without a guard being sent with their servants. Their mail is taken possession of, and their privacy intruded up in every way.
'• \nw, as there i> a God in heaven, have I stated exactly what this nine- teenth century has allowed. Isolated from all their friends, thus arc they left to the yengeanoe of this Government. The charge of treasonable cor- respondence cannot he sustained. No letter has ever been written to any Confederate leader; nor can proof be found to sustain this arrest. They are entirety ignorant into whose hands they have fallen, and arc as much guarded as if they were the veriest convicts on record."
THE BRIGADIER GENERAL ADOLPH VON STEIN WEIIR.
Among the many aspirants for infamy in the Yankee army, there is no officer of rank so little known to the Southern public as the Brigadier Steinwehr, who, in his late order to his understrapper, Steadman, exhibits a enM-blooded impudence which is truly Gothif. lie is a genuine Yankee fee, fau, fum general, who proffers the hospitalities of his tent to Virginia gentlemen with the condition annexed of shooting or hanging one of his From a gentlemen, whom chance threw much in the way of this truculent general long before he was the imposing brigadier that he nov we have obtained some interesting particulars of his life in America, which we propose to lay before our i
Brigadier Steinwehr is, as his name implies, a German, and hails from the little principality of Saxe Gotha. His family have been respectable; and an uncle of his is now a General of that picayune Government. 8( wehr, the Yankee general, first made his appearance in the old United in the character of a draughtsman, in the hvdro^rajdiical bureau, under Professor Bache, ami. ry <it' three dollars a day, worked in
Mobile, under direction «-t Captain , of the United who
iged in the survey of the . \u iotimi > up
, and their oondnet gave rise to a y
mdal. As the details would I- ;.p ears polite, we ■
then over in siiem with maotionifl
intimacy. Madam left Mobile the divorced wife of a dishonored I iwehr beat ompany, mark* !. for life, with th
liin.
nr Yan-
• STork at able
■
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the enchanted ground, the inner circle of the elite. German barons W< drag in tin- market; a Japanese Tommy was worth barons at that
time. < )ur Yankee fledgeling general left the metropolii in disgust, and turned up in Albany, New York, litre barons were Bearoe, and as the Baron Steinwehr had i V • 1 1 the knife and boots of Americans, and ethers, be droped a peg or two, and tried the scientific and injured ihnooenoe caper.
In Albany. 1 • •.ited himself to the \'an Koti-clhvrs, Ten Kycks,
Townsends, Bayards, and others, as a German noble, who, suffering from his
1 »ve of liberty, his contempt of rank. ,y.c. and being an outcast from the land of his lathers, deprived him of his vast possessions, was forced to fall back upon his acquirements for a living. He met with a great deal of sym- pathy and encouragement, lie made a great noise; he was to write a book; ! i drawing: make a physical geography, Ac; in short, he "got into and all went swimmingly with him for a time. But it was not long before he displayed qualities which did not increase his popularity. He obtained endorsements on bills which he forgot to honor; borrowed books aud other articles of value, and pawned them; borrowed small change which he never repaid, and at last — "breathe it not in Gath" — be was sus- pected of stealing what he could not borrow, lie cheated at cards, and was tabooed in Albany. For this same trick he had been kicked by the less re- fined inhabitants of New York. City. Albany refused him, and he was obliged to leave his drawing pupils untaught, and his projected physical geography unfinished.
A penniless rowdy, he returned to New York City about the time "Honest Abe" made the discovery that seventy-five thousand Yankee volunteers could not sqUftloh "the rebellion." He saw in the disorders and ■ ssities of the tames an opportunity for a position; and a brewer, named Bpeyer, upon whom he had been sponging, saw an opportunity of getting rid of a heavy encumbrance. Speyer, who ruled a large portion of the r-sclling and drinking community, set himself to work, and raised a iment for Steinwehr; and the latter, having lived in Albany, knew the modes of doing business there, and had little difficulty in obtaining the com- mission of colonel. How he rose to his present position can be briefly told. Not deficient in pluck or impudence, he stood while others ran; he worked while others loafed, and is now a brigadier general. The styling himself A. Steinwehr, is an attempt to Anglicise his name — the " Baron Adolpb vmi Steinwehr" being played out, Should he, at any time, fall into the hands of our troops, the following description will ser.ve to identify him: In height, he is about five feet four inches, compactly made, but rather sbort- leg^ed, broad shoulders, quick in his manner — in all'ectation of the French style; bald head, what hair there is left being sandy; bluish-grey eyes; nose aquiline, and slightly flattened by a blow; mouth large, but well
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formed; chin prominent; moustache Bandy, sprinkled with gray, and a frightful gash on the left cheek, from the eye to the goatee — a touvemr of Mobile.
OUR OLD MEN.
A gentleman, who has been traveling through the country, relates the following: Riding up to a house, he called for a drink of water, and in- quired of the lady who sent it to him, if there were any young men who wished to volunteer. He was told that she thought there was. During the conversation, the old man came limping to the door, and heard the inquiry for volunteers, when the old lady remarked: " Why, old man, you can go;" and, turning to the recruiting officer, she said: " ILo can't get about much, to be sure, but then, he can sit in a fort and touch off cannon."
At the time South ('arolina seceded, a venerable citizen of that State was residing in Galveston, Texas, and, there being a prospect of her coercion, expressed his determination to return and volunteer. His extreme age was suggest) '1 to him, by an affectionate grand-daughter, as a reason why he should remain at home. " Why, grand-pa, suppose you went, what good could you do?" "What good!" replied the old sire, with spirit; "why, I could stand by and say, hurrah, boys!"
A YOUTHFUL IIEUO.
Among the many youthful heroes who fell, dying or wounded, at the bat- tle of Williamsburg, was John Tyler Wall r, the same who at' received the approbation of General Evan.- lor his heroic conduct.
Young Waller (fourteen years of age) belonged to the gallant "Home Guard," of Lynchburg, Virginia, Captain Otey, whose company was in the. thickest of the fight during the entire pi riod of the action. When met by hie lather, who was deeply distressed, he remarked : "IhtJier, T/cll dt fend- ing my dear moth* r't grave." God grant him recovery from his wounds.
\TKAL A T.T.I MB HDNSI .TOIlNSTuN.
AiShiloh, the brave and heroic Sidney Johnston directed the First Mis-
i bo a Ivai I . and then riding to where an Arkan
barrel of a musket in his hand, and cried <.ut: "Von Ark , can
and led a chai which i! k in
dismay, but not until one of th< it ad am '1 bullets had struck thi man upon the field, and he who saori: Van But a few mon - wound, the
let of the Southern . frith
Yankee wounded, groaning pitifully. Tun , the
GLEANINGS rUOM
ouly one of his staff with him, he said : "Co back and mitigate the sufier- I those poor, miserable devils." The Burgi on declined, upon ground that hi.- proper position \ I to Johnston.
But the general re] . • and hia Burgeon left him to attend to
of the enemy's wounded. A few momenta afterwards, Gen- eral Johnston received a Bevere wound in the thigh, from the hemorrhage of which he died. Sad bis surgeon hem present, the wound might have the hemorrhage stopped, and his life saved. As it was, he i the fact of his wound, continued to lead forward his successful columns, and finally perished, the victim of his own magnanimous, heroic nature.
GENERAL RBTTIGREW.
lie received a disabling wound through the lungs, and as he was being carried off the field, he inquired of his attendants, "How goes the battle?" The reply was, "Against us." "Then," said the gallant Pettigrew, "lay me down, and go and fight." He was laid down, and was made a prisoner.
BRECKINRIDGE AT EATON ROUGE.
A correspondent of the Mobile Tribune, writing from Grenada, says: •• Honor to whom honor is due," and it is but right that the fact should be recorded, that the Kentuekians won the most glory in the Baton Kouge battle. They distinguished themselves for gallantry, as they had done at Shiloh, under the same loved leaded Breckinridge, too, acted with the intrepidity of a Marlborough. At one critical period, when the fall of General Clarke was, apparently, about to throw the army into a panic, he rode quickly forward, and eloquently exclaimed : "Come, my brave boys, and follow me — I will lead you on to victory!" The next moment, a whole phalanx of bayonets was rushing like an avalanche upon the foe, and the victory W8S ours!"
Ml.N Wliosi; NABOBS SHOULD never die.
When Brigadier General Garland, of Virginia, fell, mortally wounded, on the bloody field of Sharpsburg. his aid rode up to the dying hero, with the inquiry : "Are you hurt, general?''
"Ye-," he answered, "I am dying — go tell the senior colonel of this brigade to assume the command."
But not among generals alone do we find ever-memorable illustrations of all that is ennobling, and all that is divine in human impulses and charac- ter. The armies of the South furnish from among the common soldiery instances of heroism, and of an inextinguishable love of glory, which no
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recorded example of human greatness transcends in ennobling characteris- tics.
When Sergeant S pi thaler, of the "Swiss Rifles/' fell, mortally wounded, on the battle-field of Perryvillc. his thigh crushed and torn by a cannon- shot, Colonel Tyler, his commanding officer, went to him, saying: "Let me have you removed to the rear."
">"o!" said the expiring hero, "let me die on the battle-field." His name should never be stricken from the rollfrof his company, and whenever it is called, let some war-worn comrade answer, as was dom one who fell thus in the old war for Independence — let some old vet. ran answer: "Dead on the field." *
colonel Colquitt's gallantry at jackson.
Lieutenant Hutchinson, in command of the color company (Uarris County, Georgia), of the Forty-Sixth Georgia Volunteers, In the battle of Jaokaon, thus alludes to the gallantry of Colonel Colquitt, in a private letter:
"Perhaps no man ever behaved with more coolness and bravery on the field of battle, than did Colonel Colquitt. He was with us, side by side* during the action of three hours, and when tme asked, 'where he was!" ' There he sits,' was the reply, 'on his horse, the balls whizzing around him, and cutting the leaves over his head.' At one time, I heard his voice above the noise of musketry, shouting, ' Stand firm, meal Remember pern an Georgians J imt us /all together 1 " The whole brigade arc pleased with his bearing, and none more than the Forty-Sixth Georgia, who would not exchange him."
H"W A BRAVE MAN CAN DIE — COLONBL ROBERT A. SMITH.
GtafiaAx HoaprrAx Bio. 1. RiOHMOifD, Febmary I I. 1
My Dl \k SlE: At your request, T willingly furnish you with the follow- in? narrative of the last houn of the Doble and devoted Colonel Robert \. Smith, who commanded and bravely led the Forty-Fourth Georgia Volun-
on the bloody field of Ellig »n's Mill, Dear the city. 1 fully a with you, that th< P that Christian gentleman, polite and aocotn-
plished soldier, and intrepid Warrior, should find a permanent phu rar.
lo- n«l Snsith had l,e<n in a very 1 ;li — confined mueh of the
tune to bifl 1" 1 The BYi ttit . | hil mar-
•with Ti is usual kind welcome, he invited me in. I for a few min ■
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ercd in, with orders. With a conn- trim, a.« if considering some
gubji dy well I rdeis, and
soon the couri<
u w, i . t*m gi t ready to-night fin* the work of to-mor-
row."
-What is that, Colonel?" I asked.
Ee then briefl) gavfc th< i t your men oook their
rations w< 11." ^
"Colonel." said 1. after a moment's silence, "you will not be able to go out with us." -for he had raised himself, and was sitting on the
side of his bed a moment — as if in i de< p rev* iddenly, lifting his
drooping eyes, i hteniug up, said, " Y< , Captain, I shall go, if I <
lie then. reclined upon his bed, and closed his eyes, l saw that he was quite feeble, and felt little like talking, and 1 left his tent.
All was BOW hurry and bustle in camp. Some with gloomy countenances, sonic with buoyanl spirits, vent to work preparing for filling their canteens and haversacks. I was busily engaged, for several hours, in getting my company all r<
At ode o'clock, A. M., on the 26th, we were to leave our camp to take up the line of march for the hanks of the Chickahorniny, on the Mechan- UJSVille road. About midnight, 1 went to the colonel's tentj he was awake. I silently approached his bed, "Ah!" said he, "you up already? Well, soon will be the time." lie was quite feeble. 1 said to him : "Colonel, you are not trying to go out this morning, are you?" " 1 have thought but little about it," said he.
- quite anxious to have him go With us, had he been able; but I knew
he was not able. Every man. haw each been consulted, would have said
that he wanted Colonel Smith to be in command when we went into the
fi'dit. But all would now say, he cannot go this time. I remonstrated
i.-t his going, but to no effect : he said, •• L Bhall go."
Soon the order oajne lor us to get into line. I was with my company
until the regiment was formed. When we we're ready to march, Colonel
gmjt.b eame out, and was assisted to mount his horse. We were ordered to
"jcit. fact ," and "counter-march," as we should move forward Kit in front.
We started towards the Mechanic- ville Turnpike, but the 'road being
very muddy, and the night very dark, we had to stop frequently, half an hour
at a time, in order that the troops abend of us might get out of our way.
1 was inarching jusj behind Colonel Smith; and about the second time we
Stopped, which was before we bad ^ot more than one-half mile from camp,
the colonel beckpned me to him. When 1 was by his side, he said to me:
•■ I am very sick; help me de>wn."
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I took hiui under each arm, and assisted him from bis horse. When I had led him to a log, he sat down, and very .soon began to vomit. I held his head some time; he was very sick. Alter he became easy, I entreated him to return to camp, or go to some house, assuring him that he was not able to proceed further.
"No," said he, "1 will go on."
I assisted hiui to and upon his horse, and again we moved forward. About day-light, we reached the Mechaniosville road, and halted. Again I assisted him from his horse. lie could scarcely stand when he was on his Very soon he was vomiting again, and, while holding his head, I found he had an ague. I told him that he was doing great injustice to himself to :i; but he persisted, and said that he was determined to go. I knew that it WW to urge him further, since he was determined to go.
■me half or three-quarters of an hour, we marched on until We were within half a mile or' the ChickaKoaainy, where we iuclined to the right of the road, under cover of a hill, and in a beautiful grove of majes- tic oaks, we were hall id, and ordered to "stack arms" and rest. Soo*n the troops of our ((ioneral Kipley's) brigade were all down resting. I went to Colonel Smith, and asked him how he felt. " Very poorly," he replied.
I then asked him if he wished anything. After he had a bed fixed of leaves, with a blanket spread over them, he laid down, and said to me:
" "Captain, you will be detached this evening, as skirmishers — your com- pany, with three oth
" Well,'' I replied, "I will do the best I can."
"Yes, I know you will discharge your duty; I hope you will come out
il." 1 then left him. I knew from his flushed chocks that the fever I ng upon him. '• Poor l<llow," thought I, "how he is sufl ■ n, all around was still. I ■;,,,,.
There one sits apart, meditaf iboul home and its end
let they lie, with tht earth for their b sd in slumber,
:i'l and n.v. d ou< - I ild we know |
v> io a he !:■ - |h epiag b p, ju^t upon the eve of a terribh
and in full view oi I - beHreoched in g I in
hum
r <Tic more embr. that
his darling little ol that cur one
;ing v.ith ili«.i;. -acrifice D]
Here
] in
38 GLEAMN'.- FROM
humble, jet bold, supplication. ' See, he smiles. Oh ! little he thinks of the hi terrible hour just ahead; 1 1 <-. perhaps, i< by thai fond mother's > i < 1 e , telling her how he lias fbu»ht to win his country".- freedom. Well, niv pleasant-looking fellow-soldier, 1 hops all your fond dreams maybe real- ized. But here is the betrothed lover; see that placid oonntenaneej how calm
He wots not that the confln •• r at hand. !!<■ B
as he trusts in his GoUj yet he aski ta spend ■ little sacra time with the idol of his heart. But hear, the order is going round to ub« ready," and soon we start.
Pray excuse this digression. A deeping army, just before agreat battle! Oh! who would survive the conflict?
I went to my e lonel, and Baw that he was already up, and prepario the Geld. 1 was ordered to take my eompany and report to General 11 ill for orders. Soon J was o If. After the skirmishers had made the reeonnois- sance ordered, and gotten possession of the bridge over the Chiokahominy, the brigade orossed, and 1 Baw Colonel Smith, as he rode along ahead of his ment Soon thereafter I saw him assisted from his horse, a gentleman actually faking him in his arms, as he would a little child. Having drawn his sword, ami formed his line of battle, lie Bpoke a oheering word or two to his men, when General Hill ordered the whole line forward, to char battery.
; hat noble man and gallant soldier, Colonel Smith, as* he dismounts his horse, and marches off on foot, telling his men to follow him. Onward, and yet onward he goes! Though weak and faint from physical debility, and Buffering with scorohing fever and aching pais, ye1 bo strong in devo- tion to bis country's cause, that, even when he was not able to mount his horse without assistance, he could gallantly lead his devuted regiment over a wide space of ground in double-quick time, and under a perfect storm of shot and shell.
My company being ordered on the Hank of the brigade by the general commanding, i did not see the colonel when he was wounded; but from others, who saw him, I learned that he most bravely rushed on until. he fell, pierced hv t! had- Then, ai'tcr he had fallen, to those who went
to assist aim, he would cry-aloud: "Charge, men, charge If
Deal Colonel Smith, he is gonej but never was a truer patriot, a braver soldier, or humbler Christian carried upon a litter from the battle field.
As you are advised, he died a lew days alter he was wounded. His death, no doubt, was caused by his. extreme physical debility at the time he went into the action of the 20th day of June, thus showing his self-sacrificing devotion to his country. He knew that his whole regiment loved him; he knew it had confidence in him, and he knew that it would fight under him" better than any other living man And as he was devoted to his mcn; and
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wished their reputation to be Sustained, and wished them to succeed in the great conflict in which they were about to engage, he willingly sacri6ced his life. He is gone; but be was a good man. He has fallen, but to rise again. He is dead, yet he still lives — yes, lives in (he hearts of his coun- trymen. But with the men of his regiment be lives in Christian example and noble actions. By his men he will ever be remembered.
MODEL SPEECHES BY OUR GENERALS.
On reaching Fairfax, President Davis v I with deafening shouts
of welcome, and the rejoicing soldiers were importunate for a speech from the gblden-tongued orator. Their desire was gratified by these pointed, stirring, and eloquent words J
" Soldiers : Generals Beauregard and Johnston are here, the orators of the day. They speak from the mouths of cannon, of muskets, and of rifles; and when they -peak, the country listens. I will keep silence."
While on his way to Jackson, Tennessee,- to take command of the Con- federate H neral Bragg made the following brief, pithy, and sensible h at Meridian, ppi : "Fellow Citizens: In deference to your repeated calls, I appear, only to
.nd he seen, and to tender you my thanks for your kindn. " This is a time for acts, riot words. Experience has taught me. too, that every man should stick to his trade. In many efforts, I believe I never made but one successful speech, and that was in a few words, when I courted my wife — the result then being due less to any merit either in the speech or the speaker, than to an unfortunate habit with young ladii deciding more from impulse than n ison, b- which, as in n.v case, tie v ire be unfortunate. lender well, then, my f"llow-citizens, this piece .vice: never call on an old soldier for speeches; and, if yon will par- don me the liberty. I will add m vr Bend. politicians to emnmand your' time our cause will prosper." 1 1 Jos Johnstln, while in Mobile, was serenade.] at the reside ■
of General MeCall, with whom i journing, by quite a niob of '
Lilians. They called (or him, loud and long. Finally he appeared, w!
thr. e loud shouts r< plii : Man istas i- nol
Charleston " Thr f|
'I'm whiol do one i •
n that bl inder our
tie -, ;],. in w< ;. m,.,.-' v. •
" and reti; ,at hedio
stop to answer.
40 ANINGS FROM
OUTRi UBS.
As one of the latest, but by do means ■■ . we take fie fol-
lowing from the Staunton (Virginia) Spt 'tator, referring I of some emissaries <>i Mr. and Mrs. General Mill family of Mr.
Lloyd Lo ■ ,n. whose only offence was the oba itment of a day of special prayer:
M One of them stepped up and demanded all the keys bel the
premises. Mrs. Logan refused I up. But in the meantime
had taken possession of every room, from the basement tt the attic, in- chiding the chambers of her daughters. One of her daughters, Who had just left her chamber, and had witness 1 what they wore doing, ran down ;<nd besought her mother to give them the keys, as they were breaking • lock in the house. The k then given to them.
. room, and ransacked every drawer, and stole. whatever they could lay ■ Is upon. Ti all the money they found, and would not
allow Mrs. Logan to take a single garment of clothing belonging to her hus- band and sons. They did 'condescend.' however, to allow her and her daughters to take part of their wardrobe. One of the Yankees drw himself up in one of Mr. Logan's suits of clothes, and no douht thinking that. U he had en a gentleman's clothes, he looked more like a gentleman than he ever did hei'ore, walked up, with an air of pride, and asked one of the daughters ' how she thought lie looked in her father's olothesF She wilted him with the pntmpt reply: "You look, sir, the personification and embodiment of a rogue, which u you? true character.'
" Mrs. Milrov. worthy to be the wife of her husband, had arrived, with the view of taking possession of the line mansion. When this family were thus thrust from their own home, Mrs. Miiroy clapped her hands in exulta- tion, and exclaimed: ' Go, ye secesh, i hope you may he made lo starve.' They were taken, under guard of sixty ca\airy. lo Newtown, where they were left, as the Yankees .supposed, without the means of getting further."
INDIVIDUAL PROWESS.
At the battle of Brandy Station, when the enemy's cavalry came upon Stewart's horse artillery, which were unsupported, Kdwin Sully, son of Sully, the celebrated painter, Sprang to his piece, and loaded and fired it three times alone and unaided. One horseman rode up to young Sully, and ordered him to surrender. Sully refused, and ordered the Yankee to sur- render to him. The dragoon's pistol, which was leveled at the time, snap- ped, when he drew his sword, and, dashing the spars into his horse, tried to cut Sully down ; hut our hero was ready fur him, ami as the fellow made the blow, be avoided it, and as the horse dashed past, seizing his rammer
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with both hands, and swinging it around his head, he brought it down with all his force on the back of the Yankee's head; killing him instantly, and tumbling him headlong from his horse, of which, with the accoutrements, he took immediate possession.
Young Sully was highly praised by his immediate officers, and by Gen- eral J. E. B. Stuart, who mentioned him favorably to General Lee, who spoke of him in the highest term-.
A BRIGADE OF HERO] t
President Davis, in communicating by telegraph to Governor James Whit- field, of Mississippi, the sad tidings ol Barksd de's death, added:
" I le fell like a hero, at the head of a brigade of heroes." A just tribute to tie1 brave y, is issippiana.
IRITED DASH INTO THE ENEMY'S LINES.
t
Sergeant Mickler, of the Beaufort Troop, South Carolina cavalry, Com- pany B, t by Colonel Butler, with General Hampton's permission, out of our lines, to act as scouts, and do whatever damage they could to the vees. He had command of a squad of picked men from the regiment, and some few from the Fir.-f North Carolina cavalry. He has been all along very successful in keeping the authorities well apprized of the move- ments of the Yankees in the section of country to which he was sent, and varying the monotony by capturing, from time to time, Bquads of Yankee cavalry, helping thereby to arm, mount, and equip our hard-rl . cent. But the handsomest affair that they have yet been engaged in,occti the little town of Brentsville, Prince "VYilliam County. Two of the squad were sitting in a house, near a high road, -as of danger, when, on looking out of the window, one of them observed a squad of seven Yankee cavalry coming up to the leu e. They managed to slip out of the house unol up £ eant Mi< '. and reported i him. He immediately took fiv. .'] of the same regirm nf, and went in pu • the
■I the village of Brentsville. He chn the seven with
. only three, who were well -nc-
rl in what | heae
thr | 'iicklcr and I ^Lr< d, of
!•. I "in] of the Brooi.
K.
I run- Unl) one ol them 8U( .'.. ._• his
6
42 &0M
ir gallant little party of throe ng in tumbling ftve of
them from 1 1 1 . i r horses in ilio streets of Brentaville, ihr. e of tin m dead, and two wounded: They captured, moreover, om of them unhurt.
The Yankees fought with plaok to the last, but th( ad vim of the
attack was too much for them! They were Michigan men, and wcto quite indignant at being called " Fant<
rate Schoolbred particularly distinguished himself/ kilting, according tu tl. in of hia comrades, two, and wounding and taking prisoner a
third, a Yank. ant, lately promoted for gallantry. II.' Baved his
own life ami took the lieutenant by his admirable self-possession. Bi riding ahnos( >i'h' by side with the lieutenant^ and had Bhot every barrel of his pistol, when the latter, observing this, turned on him with a fresh \ and, putting the muzzle close to him. exclaimed : "Now, I have you, y0U ,] — ,1 rebel." Sehoolbred, with great coolm as, threw his empty pistol :,t bim, and. with great ^ < ■ < > ■ 1 fortunej struck the pistol pointed at him, and knocked it nut of the hand of the rankee. He then drew another pistol and Bhot tlie Yankee, who, rolling off his horse, cried out: "I am wounded : [ jive up."
T1IF, LONE 8ENTIN1 !..
Iu the General Assembly of the Pin sbyterian Church, held in Columbia, i Carolina, one of the members, Colonel Preston, of Virginia, in speak- ing on the death of Jackson, related the following:
At the battle of Manas- is, the victory was decided in our favor by the ■ ration of the armies of Johnston and Beauregard. Johnston's army, leaving their camps, with the foe in front of them, Buddenlj crossed the mountains, and, by bia forced marches, first gained lor Jackson's troops the name of fool cavalry. Jackson that night ordered out his usual pickets, but the ..llicer of the guard came1 to bim and told him that tin' soldiers were all
asleep, completely exhausted, and asked whether he should arouse them.
'No,' replied the general, 'let the nun sleep, 1 will watch the camps;' and silently he rode around thai sleeping best, the only sentinel, until day broke in the ca.it."
A TOUCHING [JNOIDENT.
On receipt of the news id' General A. 11. (iladden's wound, at Columbia, South Carolina, Nancy, a slave of his (who, for faithful conduct to his wile in her last ilkiess, to heT infant, .Mary, and to himself, in an attack of cholera in New Orleans, had received some privileges,) jel out to join her master at Corinth, with the necessary documents from the headquarters of Governor Pickens. Hearing at. Huntsville information of the place being occupied by the enemy, she, with others, had to come by Mobile, fondly hoping to be permitted again to nurse the wounded soldier and patriot.
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But, alas! his spirit had fled, and the sad news that reached her deeply affected her. Being thus far South, and having i boo in .\ew Orleans, and learning that Lieutenant Gladden, his nephew, was wounded also, Bhe i
permission to pass on to attend him and si e her son, which was granted, and she left for New Orleans. Oh! ye ol the North, if jour souls could appreciate the relations of master and servant in the South, you would appreciate such affection as this. But you arc dead to such a sentiment, and must be left to your idol — the almighty dollar — your measure of sentiment, religion, justice, and right.
YANKEE CRUELTY — FORTY-THREE NEGROES DROWI One of the most atrocious incidents of the whole war, has- been re' ( by a gentiem*n who obtained the facts from Captain James G. White, of King William County, Virginia, who for the accuracy of the -
meat Winn the Yankees made their raid to Aylett'- risited the
plane of Dr. Gregg, living in the neighborhood, and took from their com- fortable homes forty-three negroes, who were hurried off to York River, and placed on board a vessel bound northward. Along with these negroes, as a nor, was a gentleman named Lee, a resident and highly respectable citisea of King William, who has since b< • i. and allowed to return
to his bora . He States that when the vessel arrived in Chesapeake I the small pox made its appearance among the negroes, that disease having
to some extent among the same family before they were dr. from their homes in King William. The captain of the Yankee \
were greatly alarmed at the appearance of thi on board
and very soon determined to rid the vessel of the presence of the Degroes. Vv ithout attempting to make the shore, and not consid. rjng for an ins! the inhumanity of the cruel deed, the wh ,, thrown into
every one lei h by drownin one, perh
die cruel i,y those win. profesi to be their
ear: - and wannest sym]
YAM'AUsM IN . II.
The following extract from ■ letter n i sired fr b ■ but in keeping with the eon duet of the en battling :
* * "I
;dcs destroying every pound
Ufd milk ■ hardly Thi an(j
D mi the mud , tOf>]| I
14 GLiAimi
chopped his piano and nieb'dcon to pieces, and oven carried off his robes.
be church the
"TM f robbed a " Ltb ftm? children of her cow and : . her
la-t pound oi' bieal from her, and rel leav* any for her children j
and even took off a cake tint was cooking, Baying they intend. 1 to starve
.nit. Ladies' wardrobi \ king torn I . and
thing like jewelrj 0 prisoner taken had ti:
welry. Fenci -. and shrubbery were wantonly
• that a fiendish malignity oonld ]'ut I will not shock you further with the r< cital oi' these cruel wroi
ni<HM<iM» DURING TI1K 1 Ml OF VHi; WAR.
Tents multiply on the hill-sides around Richmond. Turn your eye in any direction, and they whiten the landscape. Main street is .■ r all timed tilled with straggling Boldiers, in every variety of uniform. Not the i ezhilirating sighl is that of squadiions of newly-arrived cavalry dashing through I ; and a cheering sound is that of the artillery rumbling
incuts. Richmond may lie likened somewhat to Paris, when the allied i camped there in 1815, and when and Spaniard,
Highlander ami Hungarian, from the four quarters of Europe, min
in wild confusion. Here wc have the representatives of those numerous and peculiar communities sprea ! over the broad surface of the hern Confederacy. The wild, uncouth, shaggy ranger from the banks oft!. randc; the genteel but heavily-bearded Marylander, who
mounts bis uniform with a curious sngarloaf-shaped hat, with goW hand; the red-shirted Arkans: oatmanj the tall, straight, active
mountaineer from the Blue Ridge or A the sallow turpentine-
.er from the old North Carolina shore; the easy, self-reliant South Caro- linian, with the inevitable Bprig of Palmetto in his hat; the moustacl close-croppM1., BCarlet-trqUSered Zouave, from New Orleans; and a d< other varieties of Confederate Boldiers might he named, who enliven the streets of Richmond with their presence. Several r .: off
day, hut their ] 1. iilled up before night. Twenty companies
within a lew days.
CUKloi 3 m-:M.
There is a curious Item in "no oi :h< Yanl . in which the writer
ant of a regiment raising in New Xork'City, to he called tho
iloium Light Sharp " The colonel's name i> Berdon, and the
lieutenant colonel is Edge, the well-known pyrotechnist (who used to soil
large quantities oi his fireworks to the South). The calcium lights are to
be used to discover rebel camps on dark nights. Edge is making a tremen-
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dons quantity of novel projectiles. One of his inventions is an incendiary shell, to be fire 1 from a mortar weighing only twenty pounds. It can he thrown half a mile, and when it bursts it forma a ball of fire two inch' (lianfeter, which can only be extinguished by immersion in water. Wit these shells the "sharpshooters" expect to set fire to the entire Southern Confederacy.
SS 'EM FOR MB."
Blunt, of the Twentieth Tennessee, and now of General Stuart's staff,
tolls a story of a little girl he met during a recent tour in East Tennessee.
The little maiden was vexed with a party of gentlemen who were teasing
her, when Blunt walked up. ''Look here," she said, "you look like a
i' man — cuss 'cm for me, wont you V
TIIE LAST MUD STORY OUT.
We have some tough stories of ''Virginia mud." but tho following
lot from a letter written by a Federal soldier from Stafford Court-
N bo I Northern paper, beats all the mud stories extant:
Vs an illustration of muddy traveling, I may relate a story of a march,
which came from one of the officers on Colonel Slocum's staff. As he rode
to the top of an eminence, on the way down, he says: 'I saw a driver
astride of a team, in a distant mud-hoie, jerkfl at the single
line with which he drove his four mules, and waving his hat furiously
above his head. At fir>t 1 thought he was trying to ur^e his team over
>n saw that it made no progress forward, while the driver con- tinued his exertions, and the thought of deserting hi- saddle appeared
1 his head. 1 reached the spot, but the hand and head of thi' driv tw him throw his hat
rds me with a eoi heard him give three cheers fox
the American Union, and the mud
" I
k. T urchin, 01 '
said tt hie troops: •• I shut mine eyee for one hour." <»n being hour was hot long < It "1 ll 'hen lot I
"Tie
thin
wives and D hands a'
■
46 oom
1 of all their wearing apparel tzcept what they had on — in a word, fcted, and i ••. I in, that i
and brutal Beldiery towards less and
alarmed population. This is an everlasting • '.'- oan never be
: from the page of history. «I am responsible for thes< Is. 1 have no mop
occurred, just than 1 hai enoe. 1 know similar
win n we o icupied Bowling I tacky, and the matter was hushed np, to sa lit of our army, hop-
ing it would occur, no' more; but this 'leni led to have its proper efl
and it is no longeT endurable."
In republishing the above, the St. Louis Republican says:
"We could hardly give credence to the a iy, but are told that it
i d worse than this correspondent relates. The conduct of some of
the worst a licentious and brutal soldiery could inflict upon
- Willi, u; so vile, indeed, that an officer of the army, who regards
the honor Of his cloth, has determined to lay the matter before the &0T«
ernment."
Bubeequently, Turchin was tried by court-martial, convicted, and cashiered for his barbarities, and received from Lincoln a brigadier general's commis- sion, in token of his Gracious Majesty's approval of his conduct 1
SAMSON AND GENERA! POPE,
A ehapl lin, reading the Bible to the sick soldiers in one of the hospitals, hit upon the story of Samson and the incident of his slaying thousands of
Philistines with the jaw-bone of an ass, when he was suddenly interrupted I., b wounded man, apparently asleep, with the inquiry: "Who told that '.'" "It is from the Bible/' solemnly responded the chaplain. "Well, hang me if 1 didn't think it was a despatch signed 'John Pope, Major General commanding.' "
STUAUT's i'AVAI.KV.
A party of five hundred of our men, who had been captured at various times, were on the route to Berkeley, Virginia, and having been "double- quioked'1 for two miles ormon .sat down to rest by the road-side. While in this situation, one of the Federal ambulances, with a pair of frightened horses, ran away, and came lumbering down the turnpike. As quick as thought, one of our men jumped to his feet, and exclaimed: "Boys, here's Stuart's cavalry coming, hurrah!" In the words of the narrator, "such a skedaddling, kickiug 114) of heels, anu scattering through the woods, as im- mediately took place, you never saw in your life. We had two regiments, one of cavalry and the other of infantry, guarding us, aud for live or ten
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minute? the majority of them were out of Bight." 3ome twenty or thirty knowing ones, taking advantage of the excib ment, made their a the
confusion. It was as much a^ B man's life was wort!) bo SBy "Stuart" again until they reached their destination.
BABY PATRIOTISM.
Soon after the occupation of Memphis by the Federals, a party of the soldiers were walking on the principal street, when a little three year-old rascal, supposing them to he Confederates, left the side of his mother, rao in anion- them, and, in the most Cordial manner, shouted at the top of hit lungs: "Howdy, soldier! howdy, soldier! hoVrdy, soldier!" shaking Lands with half a dozen of them, who seemed delighted at such a w&rm'demoi; tif >n of sympathy — the first 'they had ne t with since landing on the bluff But while in the midst of this hand-shaking, he suddenly screamed out : ••.\.>\v go Bboot de Yankees — shoot 'em all dead — kill de Yankees;"' ami it was amusing to witness the change that came over their smiling faces. Hands dropped, curses were mattered, and, aa they "resumed their walk, a hearty laugh followed from the crowd ol 10 had wit net enc.
A lady and child were srossing to Edgefield, Tennessee, in ■ boat with some Federals, when tic little patriot shouted for Jeff. Davis. "Madam," said the Federal, "do you teach yenr children that';" •• Y< - replied,
bravely; "al*0 to bate yOU from their eradesto tl: <;., home,
you wooden-nutmeg manufacturers: the spirit of the South is invincible, the rebel flowers thrive hen trampled upon. "Out of the mouth-
babes and pit."
LON1 Ei A8H91 . ■•M.MA RANG]
A Northern writer tlr; | tribute to one of the nobfost
her' • vert di< d on the battle-field:
"Ashby has displa; nius in the management of his men, which
nder. He prot cti d the n tn at of Jack- admirably^ 1 1 and alwaj
through these mountains and fi
.. in the hunt of the fox and deer, and has often i,im-
nioriL' the still eh
Virgiuiai i. Whil | , will throw 1
tl,.
.1- will dr^p t
a man ot I
48 * GLEAN 1N<
quiet demeanor, a silent man, wh !. and is held in the
fabulous regard by his men and inferior o He i- a Christian,
and B man
Hi- appearance is not striking. He ifl of small stature, but a
:tli with those for whom he is sti y are the
elements Of an almost womanly nature and of a hero combined, that it is not until his sabre is waving abuve his head, his clear, thrilling voice ri out, "Follow mel" and bis eye flashes with a battle-light^ that th. conies as it were transformed to a giant, and performs the deeds that have
bjfl name famous throughout the land.
AN ENGLISH TIUBUTE TO SOI . SOLDIERY.
Mr. Lawley, the correspondent of the Londdn Timet, pays the following
compliment to Southern troops:
"In the shelter of the dense woods about Culpcpcr, in wonderful spirits, with physique ineffably improved since the bloody day at Sharpsbnrg, are clustered the tatterdemalion regiments of the South. It is a strange thing to look at these men, so ragged, slovenly. s, without a superfluous
ounce of flesh Upon their bones, with wild, matted hair, in mendieants' and to think, when the battle-flag goes to the front, how they can and do fight. 'There is only one attitude in which 1 never should be ashamed of your Boeing my men, and that is. when they are fighting.' These were Gc'n- eral Lee's words to me the first time 1 ever saw him; they have been con- firmed by every other distinguished officer in the Confederacy. Ther triumphs of daring which these poor, ragged men have attempted, and mpted successfully, in this war, which have never been attempted by > Sybarite opponents. Again and again they have stormed batteries, formidably* defended, at the point of the bayonet; nothing of the kind has ever been attempted by the Federals. Again and again has General Stuart's cavalry surprised Federal camps at eightj no Confederate camp has beeo surprised since the cniiiiuencenient of the war. One or two regi- ments of these tattered nun will stand linn, though attacked by overwhelm- Cumbers of the enemy, and will constantly, under such circumstances, successfully hold their ground."
A Federal officer, writing after the battle of Chancellorsville, adds the following praise from an enemy:
"Their artillery horses are poor, starved frames of beasts, tied on to their carriages and caissons with odds and ends of rope and strips of raw hide. Their supply and ammunition trains look like a congregation of all the Crippled California emigrant trains that ever escaped off the desert out of the clutches of the rampaging Comanche Indians. The men are ill-dressed, ill-equipped, and ill-provided — a set of ragamuilins that a man is ashamed to
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be seen among, even when he is a prisoner, and can't help it. And yet they have beaten us fairly, beaten us all to pii ten us so easily that
we are objects of contempt, even to their commonest private soldiers, with no shirts to hang out of the holes of their pantaloons, and cartridge-boxes tied round their waists with strands of rope."
"THEY WONT BUN!"
A Mobile physician, just returned from the North, *was one day in a rail- road car, in which were a number of Lincolnite soldiers, who were discuss- ing matters connected with their service. One of them exclaimed : ""Win- is it that our boys can't be brought to charge the ^outharncrs ? Can you tell me. sir?" turning to our friend, the Alobilian, whose incog, was val- uable to him, and who disclaimed any opinion on the subject, saying that he was a doctor, and knew nothing of the matter. "Whereupon a comrade of the soldier spoke up, and said: "I'll tell you the reason our boys wont charge — they know the Southerners wont run'.'"
A .YANKEE HERO.
During General Longstreet's investment of Suffolk, and on the day that Colonel Connolly's Fifty-Fifth Kcgiment North Carolina troops reinforced the rifle-pits in such splendid style, an incident occurred ludicrously illus- trative of Yankee chivalry, and which — though there was an awful fire from the enemy's artillery at that time — produced a shout of laughter in that, gallant regiment. A Yankee regiment was sent out, under cover of tbeir artil- lery, to prevent Connally from reinforcing the pits. The colonel of this :ient advanced it through a partially cleared ground, where there was once a dwelling-hous* , A solitary chimney stood where the house had been. Behind this chimney the heroic colonel "took his stand," while his regiment moved forward. They had cry far, however, before the
fifty-fifth opened on them, causing them to waver and halt. The redoubt- able colonel stuck his head out ir in behind the chimney, and ch< them on. Another volley, I What arc
ymi running for, you COWirdly" (whiz went I bullet by his heal, which im-
;.iz. and another duck of the . j. "I> — n you, go back. What >u — running for?" (T
words we veen alien of the h.
med from behind the chimnej Batitwaf"M
ii behind that ch
' at doubl I roars of
laughter front our boys.
;>0
ETKIN81 P LR0LQN3 I
While General Jenkins was in Hagerstown, he exhibited many traits which it is to be hoped are char ol the man. An i n *-i < K-n t will
illustrate. About i ne aant and five men, wearing the
uniform df Union soldiers, crept out of some of th< town,
where they had been hidden, wad delivered themselves op. When they made their appearance before General Jenkins, the following conversation occurred :
//,. •' Halloo! who are you, and where ili'l you come from?"
Lieutenant. "We belong to the Union army, or did belong to it, but
don't wish to fighl any longer against our Southern brethren] bo, when our
1 behind, and to day we come out to be paroled."
Jenkins. "What did you say about 'Southern brethren!' Bj God, if I thought I had a twenty-fifth cousin who was as white-livered as you arc, I would kill him, and set him up in my barn-yard to make Bheep own their lambs. I'll show you how I parole such pukes as you are. You are too d — d miserable to be paroled in military style."
So saying, he ordered a detail of six men and a sergeant — "good, lusty fellows, with thick hoots" — who parole 1 the recreant Federals' in the west border of the town, where the paroling]'! sed, and the detail and
crowd came back, highly pleased with Jenkins' mode of paroling cowards.
A BEAUTIFUL DOOtJMENTl
Admiral Goldsborough, in command of the Yankee frigate Minnesota, issued the following notice, which was published in tin- Norfolk (Yirgiuia)
/ Hi'. a :
"Flag Ship Minnesota, Norfolk Earbob, duly 30. "William W.Lamb, Wbuldrfrt Mayor,
ami tin Rebels generally of Norfolk^ Virginia:
v Whereas it is reported to me that ahem twenty-five thousand infernal blackguard rebels an' making their way from Richmond, through Suffolk, to drive out the soldiers of Abraham Lincoln, and cut the throats of the Union men of Norfolk-. Therefore, take notioe, thai on the first appearance of the first d — d r< idrel within these Lines, I'll blow you and your
city to h — .
"('fell this to your women.)
-Yours, GrOLDSBOROOGff,
Admiral, dc." Th iir.-t idea that will probably occur to our readers, after its perusal, is, that the above publication is spurious. Jjfo decent man euuld well suppose otherwise. But there is no spuriousness in the case. It is a genuine docu-
AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 51
ment, from the pen of "Admiral, &c, Groldsboroughf," and as such we pub- lish it. u ;i striking record of the times.
There is DO doubt tli.it GroldsbOTOUgh was drunk when he penned the infamous production. But this is bo palliation of liis offence. We are not surprised at such a beastly exhibition by a Lincoln admiral, because we expect nothing better from mail a source. Bat what will bo thought in Europe of a naval commander who could, under any conceivable circum- stances, degrade himself, his profession, and his country, by such a vulgar, filthy, blackguard production.
ABOLITION VANDALISM IN EAST TENNESSEE.
A reliable gentleman, from East Tennessee, writing from Shelbyville, gives an account of one achievement of East. Tennessee tories :
"A party oi leans went to the house of s good Southern
lady, Mrs. Cheslej Williams, living in Eaglevilfe, Williamson County. Ten- e, with the avowed intention of every thing they could put
their roguish hands on. The first place they entered was her smoke-house, and 1 ':, r monstrated with them for taxing her ment, they knocked
her down, beat her, and finally choked her until she could not speak. I saw her eight or nine days after it occurred, and she was then unable to move. She is now a cripple for life."
" WEAK IN HIS HI
the battle of Kins ton, when the shells were exploding around the
ry of artillery, a chaplain asked ode of the soldiers, sitting on his
r he was supported by Divine Providence. The soldi&r
replied: Ninth New
BRUTAL TREATMENT <>F OONFXD
The exchanged officers and privates, I hundred in number, who
have arrived by flair of truce boat from Old Point, all speak in the D
unqn mi of the inhuman treatment to which they were aubj<
by the Federal guard at Can I Columbus, Ohio There ws
tinetinn B ' . but all were alik 1 to
lothing, ral T. .1 Churchi Arkansas Posl
■ by the ill manm . - though :
who : >-n Virgin-
al th h lie
Mabama,
GLEANINGS FROM
who fought nobly on the Peninsula <jf Virginia, under General Magruder, WU made to haul oil his shirt in the presence of Yankee women, who chuckled heartily at the sight of a denuded gentleman.
Captai:; .a brother of ral, who was taken near Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, was subjected to i .: _nity. and when he
ostratedj and stated that Federal »rere not I by Con-
hut his mouth, a d — d secesh scoundrel; if he did not, he would be knocked down."
A CON1XRMED I.i'NATIC.
The humorous editor of the Richmond Whig published the following advertisement :
" Strayed. — A liberal reward will be given for the apprehension of a con- firmed lunatic, named old Stonewall, who escaped from the asylum, in this place, early in the spring of the present year. lie endeavors to avoid de- tection by calling himself T. J. Jackson, and fancies he is an otlieer in the Confederate army. When last heard from, he was offering personal indig- nity to an aged and feeble ex-Senator of the United States, who had n done him the slightest harm. He is reported to have misdirected an imbc- cible cobbler from .Massachusetts, who was making his way peaceably towards Staunton, and innoculated a Woolly Horse with the blind Btaggers, besides molesting, and sometimes even maiming, other good and loyal citizens of the United States.
"It is thought that he is attempting to make his way to Washington, near which city he was caught lurking a week or two since. He is marked by an excessive irrascibility, a propensity to steal wagons and munitions of war, and an indisposition to sit down quietly and behave himself. The entire efforts of the United and Confederate Governments having failed to -t him, the undersigned is constrained to offer an adequate reward to the powers of France and Great Britain to assist in facilitating his perma- nent stoppage and detention.
"BY ORDER OF THE SUPERINTEN DENT
OF THE LUNATIC ASYLUM AT STAUNTON."
riGBtTINQ JOE HOOKER AT CIIANCELLOItSVIELE.
There is a page in the history of the campaign that culminated in the battle of Chancellorsville, which has never been written — a page that sets forth Hooker in his true colors, as the most dasta/dly of the many braggarts the Yankee nation has furnished during this war. ^Yc have the facts from such a source that we unhesitatingly vouch for their absolute authenticity It will be seen that "fighting Joe Hooker," the great paladin of the North,
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sought, in th« hour of danger, to shield himself from Confederate shot behind Confederate petticoat.-!
When the Yankee army suddenly made its appearance at Chancellors-
ville, four Fredericksburg ladies — Mrs. Forbes, the mother of Mr.
John Forbes, late member of the legislature from Fauquier, Miss Kate Forbes, and two others — were in the house which gives name to the local- ity. IIonk< r refused to permit them to come into our lines, or to send them to the rear of his own. 'On the morning of Sunday, the 3d of May, when the groat battle had begun, and whet) the Confederate line was drawn up within five hundred yards of the house, the ladies again applied to Hooker, who was standing in the porch, and entreated him not wantonly to expose their lives, but to permit them to go to a place of safety. This he refused, telling them that General Lee would not fire upon the house so long as they were in it.
They asked him if he supposed that General Lee would risk the safety of bis army, and perhaps of the Confederacy, on account of the lives of two or three women. "Well," he replied, "he didn't fir- upon Fredericksburg under similar circumstances." Tie then ordered the ladies to go up stairs, and show themselves in the balcony, where they would be in full view of our whole line of battle. The ladies obeyed, but scarce had they gotten upon the balcony, before a cannon-shot struck a pillar of the porch below, against which Hooker was leaning, kuocking him to the ground, and injur- ing him, it is believed, very severely. In the next moment a shell cnt the roof, and set the house on fire. All was now panic and confusion, and Hooker, finding that the presence of the ladies was not likely to protect his D, ordered them to the rear, and took care to send them by S route directly across our line of fire. By a miracle, the; I Unhurt,
and have since been permitted to return to their friends. The house con-
I at the time of its burning two hundred and fif't) wounded Yanl and tlir< e Confi derab . one of whom was a lieutenant colonel. They were all burned alive.
A i r.w.K."
The following incidei I I ; the patriotism an
railway car, and is WOltl ntly
from Sooth Carolina was riding up Baltimore i in
conversation with anotl the day.
elderly lady Wl . and list'
\ i ry
I '.; J when "If the m< n of iter what was
54 GLEANING.- FROM
lay, the women will." The gentleman replied: "Madam, f <lMii"t think you peed to be alarmed upon that point, for I am satisfied, from what I - i sterday, from the anarmed men of Baltimore, that if you j arms in their hands they will face any danger in defence of their rights and their homes. Now, if you have a hufil and, and boys that are able to carry . 1 advise you when yon g I i make them arms in
defence of the cause of the South." She replied: "I have been a widow for twenty years; but I have two I to bear anna, ind if they do not
fight in defence of the Smith, they > '< ill i another plati of mint"
Of the truth of this incident there can he no doubt, as the author is well known in Baltimore.
A Tun; GIRL.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Confederacy writes:
"A most touching incident occurred a( the cars when we readied Wytho- ville. They were crowded with wounded soldiers returnuig'to their homes from Richmond. A young lady, on our arrival at the aforesaid place, of elegant manners, and of bright, philanthropic face, appeared in the ears, bearing in one hand a large basket, filled with pies and other refreshments, and in the other bandages and lint, for the wounded, accompanied by a young clergyman, with two large buckets lull of butter-milk. As sbe passed along, she inquired of each soldier if she could administer in any way to their relief. They were perfectly overcome by her kindness, and asked her who she was. She replied: 'Never mind my name; the only compensation 1 ask is the consciousness of having relieved the sufferings of the soldiers who have hern fighting the battles of my country.' With one voice they exclaimed : 'God bless the good Samaritan;' and many an eye was hedimmed with tears as she passed through the ears on her errand of mercy."
BQUTH CAROLINA NEGRO VI'.Rsi s YANK
The Huntsville Confederate has the following:
" When at Atlanta, recently, we were struck with the excellent face and polite manners of an old negro man, who acted as a porter for us. As we dropped a douceur into hifl hand, we could not hut compliment him. 'Ah.' said he, with evident pride, 'Master, I'm a South CarTma nigger. You ' catch me standin' about de streets, but, when you see me on de street, I 'm on some business.' ^y acknowledgment to him that South Carolina and Virginia negroes were the politest -we had ever seen, induced him to draw nearer to us, and in a m08t confidential and confident tone, he said : • Master, don't you think we South Car'lina niggers could whip de Yank. We do."
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LIGHT ON A DARK SUBJECT.
The New York Vanity Fair has an excelli at hit at the " intelligent con-
trabands," who figure so largely in the correspondence of the press from the
v;ui' if war, and at the verdancy of editor! an-! readers who helicve
one -won! in twenty spoken by the colored individuals in question. Here is
f Vanity Fair's squib :
"You b'long to de army, Mars'r?" asked the Intelligent Contraband, uneasily.
u Yes. That is — T am — yes; T am with the army, sir," replied the Trib- une correspondent; "and I would like. sir. to ask you a few questions. Where is Beauregard, at Corinth or Richmond f"
In' Contraband. " Yi.-. Mars'r."
Tribune Correspondent. " Where, at Richmond f"
Int. Con. "Yfe, Mars'r."
Trib. C<>r. "And how many men has he?"
Int. Con. "Niggers, Mars'r?"
Trib. Cor. • Idiers."
Jut. Cm. "'];< ut sixty hundred t'ousand, 1 'spi
Trib. Cor. "Whatl Are you sure? Are n't you mistaken ?" . Mars'r."
Trib. Cor. " Well, when did he arrive here?"
Jht. ('<>?). " Oh, two, trei . lour munts ago."
Trib. Cor. " Fou mean week'--, don't youT'
hi. Co* Mars'r."
I'rih. Cur. " Do you think the rebels will evacuate lliehmond?"
Int. Con. "<)!.. v,v. M..r-'r; dey '11 fitc like de debhil !"
Trib. Cor. "You don't understand mc, sir. I mean, will th<
Int. Con. "Yis, Mars'r; dey alien runs away."
Trib. it if Met'lellan had attacked the city three ireekj i
I have killed them all, couldn't b< //<■' M.ir-'r ; lie killed 'em all. . . r a
At tl, - poia the mind of th- iir •ntrahand ft . med
illuminated by tie
u. and :,
' kin',
Th' i
It ot druu,. ness. To which tie ntrahand rei lied :
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" Now. Mars'r, dnt's jes* wat I want,"
'• Whose Blave were you?" asked the correspondent, after a pause.
Int. Oon. " Mars'r Davis's.
Trib. Cor. "What, fyti. Davis T
Int. Con, '• Vis, Mars'r."
Trib. Cor. "And lie treated you with great brutality, no doubt '.'"
Jut. Con. "Tifl, Marair, treat me fus' rate."
Trib. Cor. u But you want your freedom, don't you?"
Jut. Con. "Oh, yis, Mars'r."
Trib. Cor. " How would you like to go North ?"
Int. Cor. « Putty cold Norf, ain't it?"
Trib. Cor. « Oh, no. Ever been North ?"
Int. Con. "Yis, Mars'r."
2Vi&. Cor. « To what place ?"
2»*. Cbn. "To Floridcr, Mars'r."
2VtJ. Cor. "Florida?"
7/tf. Con. " Yis, Mars'r."
ZW&. Cor. "Why, did Jeff. Davis ever live in Florida?"
Jut. Con. " Oh, yis, Mars'r; he lib dar some forty, fifty year, I 'spec's."
The evidently untrustworthy nature of the replies of this man and brother began to strike the correspondent at about this juncture, and he shut up his note-book and retired.
SLAVES AT VIC%SBT3RG.
After the surrender, General McPhcrson, the general who superintended the departure of our men from the city, was willing that all the negroes who chose might accompany their masters. It was nothing but right, he said, that freemen, as he contended they were, should make their own elec- tion to go from or remain in the city; but in this determination he was overruled, and only the servants of the officers were allowed to go out, if they chose. Colonel Watkins' negro man was offered every inducement by the Yankees to remain with them. Finally, on being promised, if he would remain, a plantation on the Mississippi, after the war was over, should be given him, he replied, as any other negro would have done: "Of what use would a plantation here be to me without negroes to work it?" So he accompanied his master out of the city.
DEATH OF A BRAVE MAN.
A gentleman, just from Isle of Wight County, gives the following particular! of Lieutenant Ganibrill's death. They stamp him one of the bravest men this war has produced. Lieutenant Gambrill was overhauled near Barham's Cross-Boads, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, by twenty-one
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of the enemy, who immediately demanded a surrender. lie instantly re- plied: "I never have surrendered, and never intend to," at the same time drawing his revolvers and emptying the barrels of each before he fell. Seven of the enemy were killed and two wounded in the brief space of four minutes, wben the lieutenant fell, mortally wounded. The survivors then repaired to the house of Mis. Ely, in the immediate vicinity, and told her that a particular friend of hers was lying dead in tbe mud, a short distance off. Upon asking his name, and being told that it , was Lieutenant Gam- brill, Mrs. Ely replied, "That she would bury him, if it cost her life." "You ought to." rejoined the Yankee, "for a braver man never lived," and they then related to Mrs. Ely the particulars of his death, and how despe- rately he defended himself. A lieutenant who commanded the gang, said to lily, that he t:i tught, at one time, Gambrill would have killed him, but added that, had he done so, it would have consoled bis friends to know that he met death at the hands of as brave a man as ever breathed.
True to her | Ely procure I a cart, and calling upon a couple
of ladies in the neighborhood, secure'! the body, washed it, ami with her own hands, . by her lady friends, gave the body of Lieutenant Gam-
brill sepulture.
INTERESTING SCENE.
An army correspondent of a Northern paper says that the following scene took place in the army of tbe Potomac not long since. A chaplain wan a horse, and without much ceremony took one belonging to a Virginia farmer, but his possession of the property was very brief, as the following convt hows: The chaplain rode into the presence of his superior
officer, ami was asked where he got that horse? The chaplain says: " D on the road there." The officer remarked : " You had better take him back - haplaia Bays : •• V, ,n earth,
an ass from hi o ride in !<m." Tbe offn « r
replied: "You arc- aristj that is not a iu arc not on
way to Jerusali m; and the sooner you restore that horse to its owner, tbe better it will be
At. I.
A good urn d ;it '
1
I '•'• l a! to h s mouth and
it, as loo I
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THE SOLDIER'S 3 I
The Richmond Whig reports the following incident, which Bhows the stuff <>t' which our volunb ade :
•■At the Richmond) 'Varieties,' Mm'lle Boisverl was singing the touching song of 'Home, Sweet Home/ when the attention of a portion of the an- diem traefced by the frequent sobs of a Mississippi volunteer, as fine
a specimen of manhood as one w6uld wish to gaze upon. The soldier was dunking of his home and the loved ones a thousand miles away, and became entirely oblivious of the hundreds gazing upon him. At the conclusion of the song, he vociferously called out an encore, offering five dollars it' the lady would sing it over again. The pretty cantatrice came forward, and Bang in its place the c Marseillaise,' with her usual lire. The Mississippian, with a yell of triumph, raised himself to his full height, exclaiming: 'I was a child just now, but now I am a man. Hurrah for Jeff. Davis and the Southern Confederacy J*"
A BOLD ADVEN! I BE.
The Washington Chronicle gives the following particulars of a bold adventure hit upon by a number of our brave officers, while being conveyed, on board of a steamboat, to Fort Delaware, having been refused exchs It is decidedly good, and shows what a few fearless and daring spirts may do:
"The steamer Maple Leaf, Captain Win. II. Deal, left Old Point for Fort Delaware, having on board ninety Confederates, all commissioned officers, who, it was understood, were not to be exchanged for the present. Every- thing went on quietly until the steamer was just beyond Cape Henry light, when the prisoners gradually approached the guard, only twelve in number, and Buddenly disarmed them, placing them and the officers and crew under close arrest, and would not permit them to see in what direction the vessel was Bteaming.
"After proceeding about forty-live miles beyond Cape Henry, the steamer was run in near the Virginia shoro, where all but twenty-six landed in the yawl-boats of the Leaf, They piloted the steamer themselves, and attended to the fire-room and engine. It is said that the muskets of the guard were without .and unloaded, and each man was seized by full r of the
Confederates, thus rendering resistance useless.
"During their possession of the boat, they refrained from doing any dam- age to the steamer, and treated the officers and crew with civility. The ringleaders of the party were a son of Semmes, of the Alabama, and a man named McGowan, of Texas.
"The entire party were mostly from the extreme Southern States, were all dressed in new and handsome uniforms, and seemed to be in possession
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of a considerable amount of money. As soon as the party had effected a landing* Captain Deal resumed the command of the steamer, when she put back immediately, to report to General l>ix."
AN INDEPENDENT NORTH OABOLINIAN.
The following incident is related of Mr. Xichol Hunter, Clerk of the Court, and one of the sturdy citizens of Kinston :
When the Yankee army halted, he was carried before General Foster, who mot him thus :
"Well, sir, what arc you here for?''
" That is precisely what I came here to find out, sir."
"Who are your"
"I am Clerk of the County Court."
"What are your predilections?"
"Intensely Southern, sir, and I thank God for it."
"You are very bold and frank in your expressions; have a care how you talk to me, sir."
"I am not bolder or more frankly spoken than every man with Southern 1 in his veins, and I do not hesitate to tell the truth anywhere."
" You can go, sir." Efe went.
INTERESTING [NCXDENTS IN THE OAK HILL VICTORY.
Mr. John A. Quarles, a young man of Arkansas, who had boon prevented by illness from joining a company which went to Missouri from Ins neigh- borhood, left home as soon as he became well enough, with a view of joining McCulloch'a army. He arrived just in lime to take part in the great b and fought as an independent volunteer in the hottest part of the field. Be and another young Arkansian, A. McNeill, w< re taken prisoners in thebi I their gun and all their money stolen from them, and they them-
■ neray in front of the ranks, and finally I placed in the front of Siegel's battery, that they might be killed by their own friends. During the tcrriM.' storm of balls thai came rushing from our I of mind
n that they should fall u round, as
though killed, [t was not
md they }• fight nndi
the fi. ndi
\
to the gi
no ou • BOM
pelf, and paw with her own eyes Beveral coffins opcn< I, and the 1m »tl io>=
that she saw the body of a lady who died aboul four" months
before; that she saw wh< : lur fingers had been cut off; and she also
.■ body of a little ohi about two or
She ;: that the} had opened all the vaults hut
one.
ROMANCE AND REALITY OF Till: WAB.
The Holly springs correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat narrates rienoe of a cotton-buyer among the Mississippi guerrillas, as iws :
•• The experience of a Mr. Cones, who was ' gobbh - now yclept,
near LaGrange, was n lieved by Borne flash* - "i humor, which may be an apology for the very emphatic language which was used by the actors.
"Cones, in company with two or three other buyers, had bought some cotton out at Moscow, twelve miles from LaGrange, -just before our army marched from the latter place ) and as General Quinby's division had just, removed from there, they thought the sooner they got the cotton into La- Grange the better j consequently, four of them, besides the drivers of the teams, Started out after it. Cone- was thr only one of the four who was not armed, and was not on horseback, he riding in one of the wagons. They succeeded in getting the cotton, and hurried back, until they (•aim- in Bight of the Union pickets at LaGrange, and then Cone's three friends, thinking the teams were out of danger, left him and rode on into town.
'"(inly two or three minutes after they had left, and as the wagons went down into a hollow, out of sight of the piCkot-guard, five guerrillas da out ol tin woods, and were alongside in an instant. ' Halt!' livery one of the teams halted, as though they had run against a Btone wall. The next in-taut tin' muzzle of a revolver was at the ear ol' every one of them, Cones
included, who was riding on the cotton.
•••An- you armed V asked the guerrilla who held his pistol at I car.
'"No, sir.'
" ' Then get down and unhitch them mules, ami turn 'em d — d quick !'
" It was done in the time speoifii d.
"Guerrilla. ' Have you a matoh? T want to touch ofFthis cotton.'
"Cones. 'No, sir. I am glad to say 1 haven't'
"Guerrilla. f Then get on that mule, quick 1'
"In an instant Cones was mounted on what he says was ' a wouderful sharp-backed nude.'
iving the mule a terrific slash with the wagon whip). ' Now, d — n you, lick them mules up; make 'em go; give 'em thunder!'
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"And away they went, at a pace which to Cones, on his razor-back, he thought must split him in two before many miles, three guerrillas behind lashing the mule at every jump. Five miles or more they went at this rate, and not another word had been spoken by any one, when they turned out of the main road into an old and unfrequented path, that wound it- zigzags through one of the densely wooded creek bottoms. ' Halt!' said the guer- rilla, and he who gave the command commenced hurriedly to relieve him* self of some of his accoutrements, as though he was about to go to work in good earnest at some devilish deed. The place was lonely, and fittin sueh murderous intents, and Cones felt a cold sort of chill run down
the lull length of even his long li
"G\ the cork of his canteen). 'You look like a pi
I feller. Let 's take a drink ; and for fear you might think it 's pizen, rink first.' ' And suiting (he action to his words, he placed the canteen to his lips, and turned his I sition of one martfing astronomical
lions. After a long pull, he passed the canteen Qm r. -. who thought
it ' might n't be piz< a,' and imbibed.
Now, lick up them mules; give 'em thunder; hurry up.' \ nd each injunction he . n the rear of the flying mules
with his whip.
''They bivouacki I in a thicket that night, but early next mornio tlv ir jeorney . M 3 of that
i into a rude-looking camp, which turned out to be the neal of Rich- d and his guerilla Pillow. I
mom< r a num-
d : " Well, sir, I ll pai
. had :ii'.
ain't a g -oh' that d— 1
;rn- -d if I h
- poon writfen. and. mu
lie was t<
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capture, and who 1 -way sulky because the colonel would not shoot
' that J — d cotton-buyer,' instead of paroling him.
was unarmed, and began to ha\ apprehensions of what
illow, when the guerilla said: ' ( >ld feller, let's take, a drink.' Cones' heart felt lighter immediat a."
►TKR BHAKPLY SHOT.
Pen rsburg Expr< rei llowing :
•• A gentleman informs us of the death of one of McCl
•i the Peninsula, under circumstances which possess interest sufficient public. Several ofour men, it B •" killed while
going to a Bpring near by, but by whom no one oould imagine. It w
mined to stop this inhuman game, if . even at the cost of
killing the hireling himself, who was thus, in cold blood, butchering our nun. Su a sharp lookout was kept for this sharpshooter, and the next time ■ed, the smoke of his rifle revealed the locality of his pit. That night :i pit was dug by tl I liers, commanding the position of the
Yankee sharp ad arrangements made to get rid of the annoying
r this purpose a young Kentuckian was placed in our pit, with a trusty ritle, and provisions enough tn last him until the next night. N morning, man was dispatched, as usual, with two buokets, to go to
the Bpring. He had proceeded about one or two hundred yards, when the Vankec marksman elevated himself, and, placing his rifle to his shoulder, about to pull trigger, but the Kentuckian was lob quick for him, for he pulled his trigger first, and simultaneously therewith the Yankee fell. Upon repairing to the spot, which the Kentuokian did immediately, he dis- covered a rifle-pit, and a sturdy Yankee in it, in the last agonies of expiring nature. The pit was provided with a cushioned chair, pipes and tobacco, liquor, and provisions. But the rifle which had been used was really :i valuable prize. It was of most Buperb manufacture, and supplied with the latest invention, an improved telesoopio Bight upon its end. The pit had a dug at night, and its occupant had Keen provisioned at night; so hut for a sharp lo the Bmoke of his '-run, there is n > saying how long
this Xankee vandal would have enjoyed the luxury of killing Southern men. without even a chance of losing his own worthless life. We aro .'ratified to know that, he at last met with so righteous a fate."
'•nit; shtoni man !".
"When there were flyilg rumors that Jackson had captured two thousand of the enemy, and was pushing Pope "to the wall," the departments were silent upon the subject, and no one could <^-{ a (due to the facts. The Yan- kees realized the truth of a trite observation, made by one of our prisoners,
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"Faith," Baid ho, "but this Shtone man, Jackson, wid u wall in the handle to hia name, is worms than an Irish hed
mnd it, and ; r it. and Sivil kin a moo do in a
dilemmer, bat ter fall into it gracefully? Cush la, but I think our Pope .do a bull ov it this time, shure."
MORGAN AM" Tin: TELEGRAPH OPERATOR.
One Sunday morning, daring the summer of 1862, Captain Morgan, with forty of his men, suddenly appeared at Gallatin, Tennessee, twenty-eight miles the other Bide of Nashville. After catchiugjall the Union men in the place, and confining them in a guard- house, Captain Morgan, dressed in a
nil uniform, proceeded to tl li office, at the railroad dej
short distance from the town. Entering the office, the following eonvi tion took place between Captain Morgan and tlw telegraphic operator, a I fellow :
iy, sir. What news have you ?" " Nothing, sir, except it is r . !, Cap-
tain John Morgan, is this -ide of the Cumberland with some of his cavalry. I wish I cook! ' of the d — d rascal; I 'd make a hole through him
than he would find pic;. While thu og, the operator drew a fine navy revolver, and flour-
I it, as if i speratetf he would use the instru-
ment in < id meet with the fami in.
" Do you know who / am V quietly remarked Captain Morgan, contin- uing u.
•• 1 have not t!,.it ; ,'(,r.
"Will, /am <'.ipt-ain Mor_ atlemen.
-\: the
: he sank to 1 1 » « - floor. He literally
Aft r tin; frighten* 1 individual ha I
bville. Then, takii with him as a
'i with his mi □ Bowi;: G ille.
In due timi
■ cd it to QtOA
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thousand atoi rd with his prison-
mp.
TRUING a van..
A _< otli man of a Virginia regiment, writing to his moth r, gives the fol- lowing aeoount "1' an adventure Ik- had in one "i' the recent battl -. We m ilir Examim r : •• [ niu-t tell you of a prisoner tb [spied the villain in the
road, and put after him. lie dismounted, and, leaving his horse in the [, took to the woods on foot As the limbs of I - impeded my
■ a time 1"-; Bight of him. But, ha tred bis b
and effects, 1 followed in the direction in which he had disappeared, rode under a tall pine, with the muzzle of my gun elevated, 1 was af ished to hear him, from the tret my head, sing out: 'Don'! b!
mender,' The Bcoundrel saw the glittering ui' the gun-barrel, and thought that 1 was aiming at him. ! pretty soon got him down, and car- ried him to the roar, having first I hia personal effects, which I of Baddle and halter, a of milk, six pounds of bacon, pounds of coffee, ditto Bugar, one pound of butter, a cap, one frying-pan, one spade, a p ap* a curry-comb and brush, one oil-cloth, two blan-
a .-mall tent, and a half-bushel of corn and oats — the fellow ne only a saw-mill to be fully equipped."
A HEROIC INOID]
We clip the following from the Mobile Register: " We an- indebb d to high authority for the fact of the following occur- rence in New OrieanB) intelligence of which has reached this city. 11. M. Eyams, wife of the Lieutenant governor of the State, passt I i d the i a number of Xankee officers) sitting in a doorway as she went by. .One of them arose and followed her a few steps, and, arrcstii by placing himself in front of her, told her that she had omitted tu bow in attempted to avoid the ruffian, when he repeated, his remark, and asked her if .-he had not read General Butler's 'Order No. 28/ with rence to the treatment of Union officers and Boldiers with respeot. En- ass the follow, he threw his arm around the lady's waist, and
],r, :d lips upon her i the villain released her from his
embrace, the Southern lady coolly drew a pistol and shot him through the that he fell dead at her feet, in the insolent flush of his cowardly triumph over the insulted virtue of a feeble and unprotected woman.
"Another of the officers immediately aros iproaching the noble
and COU1 lOk her by the arm, and told her, so that the other
Federals could hear, that she must accompany him before General Butler.
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He immediately placed her in a cab and drove away, but not to the Beast's qaurters. He directed the cab out of the city, and through the line of sen-
. and further on still, until beyond the reach of the tyrant's out; Tli'' act of the heroine had made a hero of the witness. He told her that he considered her act justifiable and noble, and that in a moment he had mined that slie ah mid Dot be sacrificed to Butl< r'a vengeance, and had ed the expedient by .which he had rescued her. Tic continued to • her on her journey through the country, until they arrived in the Southern lin< a at Camp Moore, when he delivered himself up to the Cou-' federate authorities, to be dealt with as a prisoner or otherwise."
;;er of a female volunteer.
Among the registered enemies of the United States Government who ■ been pent across the lines from New Orleans, there was one in Jack- Mississippi, a lady whose adventures place her in the ranks of the Molbj Pitchers of the present revolution. At the breaking Out <>f the war, Mrs Laura .7. Williams was a resident of Arkansas. Like most of tli<- a of the South, her whole soul was enlisted in the struggle for inde- pendence. Her husband was a Northern man by birth and education, and man. After Arkansas seceded from the Union, he went to aecticut, he said, to see his relatioi^ and settle up some business, sirs. Williams suspce*'d his purpose, and finally she received information that he had joined the fankei army. The Jackson Mi \ ,,f
her story :
SI' 1 herself in a Confederate uniform, and adopting the name
<»f r Henry Iknford," she proceeded to Texas, where she raised and
an independent company, and went to Virginia with it
enaut. She was in the bail Bbnrg, and seven] skirmishes:
but finally, her sex having b i red by tin surgeon.of the regiment —
is Volunteers, to which the company had been attach) 1 —
After remaining the: • time, she
h, and WSJ in the | 3hiloh, where she displa
1. but. ol i she did not make herself k' .irn. In
WSS wounded in the head, and w the r
rass him. >\r 1 while -
was OS]
I with ■ .r uniform . and
' appoarar
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before General Butler in a Southern homespun dress. She refused to take the oath — told him she gloried In b i — had fought side by ride
with Southern men for Southern rights, and if she ever lr .
would do it again. .Butler di acorrigible sho
. hi- had ever met with. By ord< r of the I was placed in con-
finement, when' she remained three months. Some tin. she ■ ' 1 for carrying on "contt no I correspondence," and kept in a
dungeon fourteen days, on bread and wati r, at the • xpiration of which time Bhe was placed in the State Prison, a langerous enemy. I!«r husband, it so happened, was a lieutenant in the Thirteenth Connecticut Regiment, and on duty ac guard in the city. He accidentally found hei
and asked if she wanted to Bee him. She senl him word she n< rer wa
■• him so long as he wore the Yankee uniform. But he forced himself upon lnr, tried to persuade her to take the oath, and get I release, when he £uid he would resign, and take her to his relatione tecticut. She
indignantly spurned his pn he left her to her fate. When
ral Bank.- a-surued command, he released a great many prisoners, but kept her in confinement until the 17th of May, 1863, when she was sent .across the lines to Meadesville, with the registered enemies.
HOTEL DE VICKSBURQ.
The Chicago Tribune published the following bill of fare, found in one of the camps at Vicksburg. It was Burmounted by an engraving of a mule's head, behind which was a hand brandishing what mi bi en a Bowie,
or a carving knife. The Tribune thought it a melancholy burlesque. The mosl melancholy thing about it was. the reflection whicb it must have sug- gested to a thoughtful Yankee — if there be such an animal — on the pros- pect of conquering the men who could live and jest on Buch I
HOTEL DE YK'K-
BILL bf i'auk roit July, 1863;
Soup — Mule pie.
.,/ — Mule bacon with poke greens; mule ham canvassed. Roast — Mule sirloin; mule rump stuilcd with rice. Vegetabletr— -Peas and rice.
Entrees — Mule head stuffed, a la mock ; mule beef jerked, a la Mexicanaj mule ears fricasseed, a lagetchj mule side stewed,' new style, hair on; mule liver hashed.
Dishes — Mule salad; mule hoof soused; mule brains, a la omelette; mule kidney stuffed with peas; mule tripe fried in pea-meal batter; mule tongue cold, a la Bray.
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Jetties — Mule foot.
Pastry — Pea-meal pudding) blackberry sauce; cottonwood-berry pies; China-berry tarts.
Dessert — White-oak acorns; beech nuts; blackberry-leaf tea; genuine Conf
Liquors — Mississippi water, vintage of 1 ins, superior, •?•'!; lime-stone Water, late importation, very fine, S2 To; spring water, Vicksburg brand.
Meals at all hours. Gentlemen to wait upon themselves. Any inatten- tion on the part of servants will be promptly reported at the office.
JEFF. I 'AVIS & CO., Proprietors.
Card. — The proprietors of the justly celebrated Hotel de Vicksburg, having enlargi d and refitted the same, are now prepared to accommodate all who may favor them with a call. Parties arriving by the river, or by Grant's inland route, will find Grape, Canister & Co/s carriages at the landing, or any depot on the line of entrenchments. Buck, Ball & Co. take charge of all b No effort will be spared to make the visit of all as
interesting as possible.
A HELLISH OUTRAGE BY YANKEES.
By a letter from Wetzel County, Virginia, we learned the particulars of a revolting outi aitted by 8ome Yankee fiends upon the person
of the wife of Mr. L. S. Hall, member of the State Legislature from Wet- zel, and one of the first advocates of secession in his section.
Mr-. Hall had her clothing tied over her head, and in that condition
0 the street of ^eif Markotville, her husband's place of nee. 1\< • that an which death is preferable was
r ii The Yankee hell-bounds afterwards burned down Mr. Hall's out-houses, and ransacked his house.
When our an ion
:. -in try of the '
I not do
and who, standing in a -all mat
a-^ tie 'in makiii
th at a tall, | ,jn
rcast, exf ter tear that th h — 1 on breastwor..
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This so completely "took her down," that she has n't made an ugly face since.
LIFE AMONG THE PICKETS."
"One of the Garrison," in a diary of the daily progress of the siege of Vickstrarg, recorded the following as among the incidents of the 21st of June :
The brass band of the First llcgimcnt Mississippi Light Artillery per- formed to-night some soul-stirring :iirs at the breastworks on General Baldwin's line. Contrary to the expectation of many, the enemy did not lire upon the musicians — thus proving good the saying that ".Music hath charms to soothe the savage," &c. They prized the music, but said the serenade would not be complete without " Yankee Doodle." They were told that Yankee Doodle did not circulate in "Grant's Bull-Pen," as they classically dubbed Vicksburg. Captain Sublett, of the Forty-Sixth Missis- sippi, was our spokesman. He went outside the lines, and chatted for some time with the pickets of the Fourth Iowa. The latter seemed anxious to know how we intended celebrating the 4th of July, and what we were to have for dinner. Sublett enumerated a mouth-watering catalogue of lux- uries, such as oysters, duck, roast mutton, <fcc, to which a nasal-twanged Yankee added: "and pea-bread." Sublett soon after returned to our line.
A good thing is told of the opposing subterranean working parties at General Shoup's line. It was discovered that the enemy designed blowing us up at that point, so General Shoup promptly started a countermine, and soon the working parties could hear each others picks. Making a small hole through the thin partition now separating them, they conversed freely and friendly. Our men asked if their neighborly diggers had anything good to eat or drink. Plenty of cheese, sardines, crackers and whisky, was the reply; and at the same time our men were assured that if they would make out a requisition in proper form, it would be promptly tilled. Of course, the requisition was soon drawn up according to army regulations, and our boys had a feast.
BRILLIANT EXPLOIT.
A party of our daring marines started to get a steamboat. The party was under the command of Captain James Duke. After experiencing rather hard fare in the marshes of the Mississippi for some days, they discovered the Boston towing the ship Jenny Lind, loaded with ice, up to New Orleans. • This was some three miles from the Pass a l'Outre light-house. The brave fellows hailed the 'ship, and a line was thrown out to them; they were in an open boat. On getting aboard of the Boston, the Confederates made a very pretty display of revolvers, when the captain of the ship remarked:
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"I told you they were d — d rebels." ■ It was too late; the fastenings were instantly cut, and our men were in possession of the steamer. In coming round at sea, they met the bark Lennox, from New York, loaded with an assorted cargo, principally stores, to which they helped themselves, and, re- taining the captain' and mate as prisoners, sent the passengers and crew ashore; they then set fire to her, completely destroying the vessel.
There were about forty on the Lennox. About an hour afterwards, they came up with the bark Texana, also from Xcw York. They did not take anything from her but the captain and mate — the balance they sent ashore. The Texana was then set on fire, and was burning splendidly when she was left. There were about seventeen prisoners on board of the Boston. She Was a staunch tug, running about twelve knots an hour, and was a propeller. In the Mississippi Kivcr the Confederates were for some time within speak- ing distance of the United States man-of-war Portsmouth, sixteen guns, and about half an hour previous to their capturing the Boston, a gunboat had passed up within gun-shot of our men.
HOW YANKEE GENERALS PECEIVE THEIR TROOPS.
At Cold Harbor, near llichmond, after the fight was over, a wounded Yankee called to one of our officers, and besought him to tell him what devils had been fighting them, as he had "never seen such a fight before." The officer satisfied his curiosity, and among other forces, mentioned those of dackson. "Was that devil here?" replied the Yankee; "why, yesterday, .McClellan had an ord^r read to the army, saying that he had been cut to pieces in the Valley."
CARRYING "THE FLAG" INTO THE NORTH.
\mong the. paroled prisoners who reached Richmond, from the flag of truce boat, was C. S. Clnncey, color-bearer of the First Louisiana Regiment. who was taken prisoner in the battle of the 2d July, 1863, at Gettysburg, whilst bearing his colors up to the very front of the enemy's breast w amidst a perfect tornado of shell and bullets. Finding himself cut off from
kpe, and certain to be either killed or captured, Clancey tore his dready bullet-torn flag from its staff, and secured it underneath his shin. \\v Wa.s taken prisoner, and carried to Fori McHenrj, Baltimore, and from th. sent to Fort Delaware, carrying his flag with him,n"t floating to the bn
. but furh- i bi oeatfa his shirt I , M,f nolle
in the. fbrt» and when the. sick and wounded pi -elected to
sent southward, i- I was pat on board the
mer, with a number of others, still holding fast to his rogimentaJ oolors which he brou away, and exhibited in Richmond. The flat,' bean
the | ■ as of upwards of two hundred bullets, and one shell; and the
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piece of another passed through it in the fight at Gettysburg. Clancey is the sixth color-bearer of the regiment, fire having fallen in battle, with the
identical flag in their grasp. The sixth, Clancey, has carried the flag for nearly a year, and he certainly can claim to have carried it farther into the North than the Confederate flag has ever yet been advanced, and, what is better, back again in triumph.
GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER.
Mr. Yost, the editor of the Staunton Vindicator, who attended the Charleston Democratic Convention, where he met General Butler, who was a delegate to that body from Massachusetts, gave the following account of him :
"A more craven-hearted coward never walked the earth. With the most revolting countenauce ever worn by man, he is the impersonation of a horse- thief or land pirate. Without a particle of courage or honor, he is endeav- oring to ape the man of war. Driveu with brickbats and sticks back i'rom his passage with his regiment through Baltimore by unarmed citizens, he has recently signalized his cowardice by offering insult and contumely to the people of that city, when their hands were tied. We have seen the mis- erable creature snubbed, spit upon and insulted beyond endurance to a gen- tleman, with no other response than trembling fear and poltroonery. During the sessions of the Charleston Convention, he was bought with a price, and ■ when called to an account, by young Smith, of California, for some Yankee trick, he begged like a whipped spaniel, and cowered before the gaze of a brave and honest man. The man, in fact, is a brute. He looks like one — acts like one. For such a creature to talk of couriering the South! For such a miserable poltroon to threaten to invade Virginia!"
RAPID FIGHTING.
The rapid succession of battles which has characterized the present war has, we' believe, no parallel in history. The languor and lassitude which seemed to have overcome both armies the first year, have been totally re- versed. An activity almost inconceivable has succeeded; and achievements almost incredible Marches of hundreds of miles, performed in marvellously short periods, have shown that our troops and our officers arc not a whit be- hind the renowned generals and the famous armies of European history in this important branch of the art of war. Battles on a scale equalling the -Teatest of European battles, and campaigns- of much more extraordinary magnitude than are ever seen in Europe, have demonstrated the resources and the energy of the people of this continent. We do not remember any other war which compares with the present, in these particulars. Those of Frederick and Napoleon possess more similarity than any others, in the
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rapidity of movement and number of battles by which they were character- ized. The Italian campaign of 179G has always been regarded an replete with battles to such an extent as to defy competition. But we think the Virginia campaign of 1862 tar excels it. In his Italian campaign, Napo- leon fought the battles of Montenotte, La Favorite, Castaglione, Milesimo, Lndi, Areola and Kivoli. There were other combats, but these, we think, were all the pitched battles of magnitude. Now let us see what was done by the army of Virginia during the campaign of 1862, commencing on the 1st of March. It fought the battles of Karnstown, McDowell, Front Royal, "Winchester, Strasburg, Cross Keys, and Port Republic (constituting the Valley campaign), Williamsburg, Barhamsville, Hanover Court-House, Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern TI ill (constituting the Richmond campaign), Cedar Run, Manassas Junction. .Manassas Plains — August 29th — Manassas Plains — August 30th — (constituting the campaign of Northern Virginia), Harper's Ferry, Boonesboro' Sharpsburg (constituting, in part, the campaign of Maryland). Histm-y does not record a series of battles like these, fought by one army, in so short a space of time.
YANKEE LOVE FOR THE NEGRO.
An officer who* participated' in the attack on the Yankee forces on James' Island, and captured a number of negroes of the Fifty- Fourth Massachut gays: One of the prisoners told me he was in Beaufort the day the negroes captured in the Combahee raid were brought in. The men were ordered into the ranks, and every one who refused was bucked and gagged in the most inhuman manner until they consented to enlist in the ranks. Some of these poor wretches were kept trussed up for three or four days, and bucked and gagged at intervals, until they gave in their adhesion, and took a place in the ranks. The officer says ho conversed with several of the prisoners and they all gave substantially the same account. Many of the negroes had been induced, with the promise of freedom, to run away from the plan- tations.
JINM-TANS ON A CHARGE.
An ancient Tenncsscan, who had been driven from bis home in ftfurrn boro' by the prowling wolves of I m, amused us, in a discourse the
r day, with several on ditt of the ; Shiloh. Having three I
in Beauregard's army, he naturally betook himself, after ea
in a Tenm ment, which had a
co with rifles from their own |ikQ
of many colore, alter the wild 1 done wit
man "had on'" just what he left his home in, tad that* i by the
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wear and tear of camp. For head gear, a coon-skin cap, with a fox tail for ornament, was the height of the fashion. When, at length, arms were re- ceived in camp, this regiment was offered the Enfield rifle ; but after consul- tation they declined the Enfield in favor of their own old household rifles, which they better understood.
The battle of Shiloh at last found this regiment in the field, actively drawing beads on the foe. In the distance a Yankee battery, planted on an eminence, was pouring grape and canister upon our columns, and orders came to charge it. Breckinridge, who commanded the brigade,' forgetting that his regiment had not a bayonet in the whole crowd, passed the order over to it, and, with a whoop and a yell, off it started to execute the mission. And they filled the bill to a nicety. The Yanks did not wait to see that no bayonets were coming, but fled in dismay before the impetuous charge of the coon-skin Tennesseans. When the guns were all taken, and order was restored, the colonel addressed his regiment — told them they had done very well, but yonder was another battery they might just as well take, now their hands were in. With another terrific yell, off they started, and with a like result. Here they were about to venture again on a third, but just in the nick of time they were told it was a Confederate battery, and they had better leave it alone. That was a charge without the bayonet — a real charge, too.
A LOYAL NEGRO.
A committee was appointed in Portsmouth, Virginia, to urge Robert Butt, a negro of that place, of worthy repute, and who rendered himself famous for his kindness during the prevalence of the yellow fever, to become a can- didate for Congress, to represent that District. The negro, more loyal than Scgar or Cowper, promptly sent the following response, which was copied
from the original :
. Portsmouth, December 22, 1362.
To John Council, John 0. Laiorcnce, Nicholas Buthr, and others, Committee: Gents: Accept my grateful acknowledgments for your flattering invita- tion to become a candidate to represent the District in the Thirty-Seventh Congress of the United States.
There was a day, in the history of our once glorious country, when such an invitation would have been received with some consideration, but now things are very different, and to accept such a position when I know, if elected, I cannot represent the voice of the people of this District. In my humble opinion, gentlemen, any individual who would suffer his name to be used in this connection, and under the existing circumstances, would dis- grace himself, and show but little respect for his friends of the District who aro beyond the lines of the United States Government, fighting for our
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t
very existence. I must decline your invitation to become a candidate to be voted for by ballot for a seat in a Congress which knows no law, except the higher law, and are every day enacting unconstitutional measures, thereby disgracing the capital of the country. Xo, gentlemen, I will leave this position to some one who is more anxious to act the traitor, and have his name written high upon the page of infamy, than one who has ever borne within his bosom the true motto of his mother State — "Down with the tyrant."
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
Your obedient, humble servant,
BOBERT BUTT.
"like a postage stamp/'
In the capitol square, in Richmond, a drunken soldier accosted the Pres- ident:
"Are you Mr. Davis?"
"I am," was the stern reply.
"Are you the President of the Confederate States?"
"I am."
" Well, I thought you looked like a postage stamp."
could n't talk.
After the capture of Winchester, Lieutenant General Ewell and Major General Early went to Fort Jackson, one of the enemy's strougholds, to rai.-e the Confederate flag which had just been made by the young ladies of Winchester, from two "Stars and Stripes" which formerly floated there. As they came down from the hill, they met the party of young ladies who had made the flag, who, as the generals passed, gave "three cheers for General Ewell." He replied: "Thank you, ladies, now call on General Early for a speech." "Speech from General Early," was the cry from the party. He stopped, raised his hat, and said: "Ladies, T never could muster courage to addren one ladjf, much lesa such a crowd as this," and passed on, amid much laughter from the fair workers.
BELLING A COI.uxeL.
The Point Coupee Ei ho tells the following story :
" There is an inate spirit of reckless devilment among our 'soldier boys,' that u oft< a atuiu ngljf illustrated, and not anfrequently at the expense of th.> officer*, of winch t lie following ia a prtfttv fair sample. But we will let
the victim, Colonel C , tell it his own way, hi iish for a
joke, even at his own expense : 10
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- "'Shortly after reaching Port Hudson,' says the colonel, 'I selected my encampment, and established my headquarters on the road leading to Clin- ton. One of the boys, for the want of better employment, executed a very neat signboard, in large letters, 'Headquarters — th Regiment, Arkansas
Volunteers, R. II. C tt, commanding,' and nailed it to a tree, facing
the road. My attention was first called by seeing people stop in passing to read it, and I ordered it to be taken down. Missing it a day or two after- wards, I supposed my order had been observed, and thought no more of the matter, until rather unpleasantly reminded of it. I was sitting one evening, in front of my tent, in company with some brother officers, when a lean, lank specimen of the country gentleman rode up, dismounted, and, hitching his 'critter/ approached the crowd, and inquired :
" ' Is any of you gentlemen Colonel C tt ?'
" ' That is my name, sir.'
" ' Well, colonel, I came in to see if you was ready to pay for them chickens?'
" ' Chickens ! I presume you are mistaken, sir.' " ' Nary time, colonel, and you '11 save trouble if you '11 pay up.' " ' But, my friend, I never bought any chickens from you.' %
"'Well, I didn't say you howjht 'em, colonel, but you can't say you did n't git 'em.'
" ' But I do say that I did n't get them ! Never saw you in my — ' " ' Easy, colonel, easy. I '11 leave it to these gentlemen. Aint this your signboard ?' hauling it from the breast of his overcoat. " ' Admitted, sir; what then V " l Aint this your name on it?' " < Well, what then V
" ' Well, just this : last night, when me and my old woman went to bed, there was thirty-two hens, besides the old rooster, in the hen-house, and when we got up this morning (and then it was nigh sun-up, for we waited for the old rooster to crow for day), there was nary darned chicken on the place, but this here signboard was stuck up on the hen-house door; and as it 's got your name on it, why, it stands to reason you tuck the chickens.'
" Amid a perfect roar of laughter from my companions, I ' paid up.' . The old fellow, counted his money, and handed me the confounded signboard as my ' receipt.' Mounting his horse, he started off, but turning in his saddle, he drawled out :
"'Good-by, colonel. When you come again, leave the old rooster and the scttin' hens, and don't forget your siyn ." "
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AN INCIDENT.
The following incident is related to have occurred at the battle of Shiloh : " It appears that our commanding generals were short of battle-flags, and sonic of the brigades were compelled to dispense with this necessary appen- dage. As all the brigades and divisions were placed in battle array with their battle-flags, with the exception of General lluggles', he rode up to the general on whose staff he was, and asked the reason why he had none. Just at that moment a rainbow appeared, and the general, pointing to it with his sword, exclaimed: ' Behold my battle- flag !' "
A RUSE DE GUERRE.
1 luring the fight at Manassas, Lieutenant Turnbull was ordered to take his company and scout in a certain quarter. He set out on this perilous duty with twenty-eight men, the strength of Company A at that time. After advancing some distance, the little party came to a fence, and was about to cross over, when suddenly about one hundred Yankees sprang to their feet on the other side, cocked their pieces, and leveled them at the scouts — one with fixed bayonet was aiming at the lieutenant, within a few feet of his breast. "Hold on," said he, pushing aside the presented musket at the same time, "don't shoot your friends; will you shoot a fellow, without giving him a chance? Who are you'/" Just at this crisis one of Lieuten- ant T .'s party came up to the fence, a short distance off, and discovered the enemy, and, without being dismayed, exclaimed : " Lieutenant, here 's lots of the rascals right here now." The lieutenant, seizing the opportunity, said: " Well, boys, you had as well- surrender — our whole brigade is just back here!" Ten laid down their anus, and delivered themselves up pris- oners of war, whilst the others skedaddled for dear life.
MOItAT, VKUSUS HRUTE FOIU E.
Tt is a significant fact, illustrated in various episodes of the war, that the bullies and blackguards are invariably the greatest cowards, and the first to^ run in battle. On the contrary, the m le '. retiring men, with no appa- of character, from whom little or nothing has been expected, are the belt fighters. Why it is that the " shoulder-hitters," "1 "wharf-fats," and men of desperate renown, who have lived amid - excitement and personal adventure all their lives, thus prove recreant to their reputation for r< ckless daring, we cannot explain ; but it is emphat- ically true thai the gentli men of the land, those who con- . to the bosom of their families, their pi nr trades, and even to idle and enervating pui >wn the I .oral courage, ami the - ir 1 for personal safi
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Tn proof of this singular fact, we may mention a circumstance that oc- curred on Roanoke [aland, in the fight that preceded its capture. There were two men who went from the same town, and were in the same'eom- One was celebrated as the "game-cock of nty" — a huge,
muscular hulk of a fellow, who could out-jump, out-walk, and out-whip everybody in the neighborhood — a terror to all men smaller than himself; the hero of countless fights (in tl. of which he had the honor of los-
ing one ear and a portion of his n 131 by m I, and a dare-devil
generally of the first water.
The other was a quiet little man, an humble book-keeper in a store, and occasionally the manipulator of a yard .-tick. Everybody wai his friend, and he was regarded as a harmless, modest, innocent individual, who would not hurt a chicken.
Well, war-time cam<>. and the call was made for volunteers. The little man promptly went forward and registered his enlistment, but the bully held off, until popular pressure became so strong that he could not resist. In the course of events, their company was ordered to Roanoke Island, and the battle soon after occurred.
The reflective character of the two men now stood out in bold relief. The "game-cock," at the very lirst discharge of the big guns, commenced to vomit violently; the clerk, too small to work the heavy artillery, was ap- pointed to fill the station of the powder monkey, and did his work as if it was. so much sport, passing fearlessly front the magazine to the men amid the lire, raising his hat in salutation to the shells, and Binging and Bhoutlng in high glee. Very soon a shell burst in the works, not far from the bully, and, to use the language of our narrator, '• a frightender man you never seen. He acted like a man with the delirium tremens, and screaming: 'Oh, Lord! oh, murder! I 'm killed, I 'm killed — let me get away, let me go,' started in a bee line for the ' rat-hole,' from which nothing but main force could have brought, him out till the end of the action."
The little man, however, stood bravely to his post throughout the fight, won golden opinions front the company, proved himself as gallant a soldier. as the best, and is now lieutenant of his company, while the miserable, craven-hearted wretch of a " game-cock " is living at home in disgrace, with all the manhood that he ever had cowed out of him.
All T.CTING INCIDENT.
Frederick Llubbard, of the New Orleans Washington Artillery, and Henry Hubbard, of the First Minnesota Infantry, brothers, were both wounded at Manassas, fighting on opposite sides; and after the battle met, i'or the first time in seven years, iu a stable, where they and nine other wounded men were laid. The artillery-man, being the less wounded of the
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two, was found ministering to his brother. The case excited so much interest, thai a surgeon at once dressed the Yankee's wounds, and had him removed to his own hospital.
• YANKEE TESTIMONY.
Willingly or unwillingly, the Yankees are giving expressive and signifi- cant testimony against their own themes and pretensions, and in favor of the South.
The following account of the horrible condition of the slaves in Nashville is from the charge to the grand jury, by Judge Brien, on the Act for the Punishment of Slaves :
" We of the city of Nashville are absolutely cursed with the presence of a
iie^m population which we find it impossible to control. Nashville is made
tic general ren fezvous for all the runaway negroes in this and some of the
adjoining States. They thrust themselves into the houses of our citizens,
and defy the owners to ou*t them. They pilfer, they steal, they scruple at
nothing; they respect nobody; they regard no law, human or divine.
•• of them are engaged iMJiOSpitals, hut they are so numerous that this
haps only a fractional part. They promenade our streets; they crowd
our sidewalks ; they thread our alleys; they fill our houses, cellars, garrets.
They are too lazy to work; too ignorant to distinguish between liberty and
license; too shameless to respect common decency, and too degraded to ob-
• the ordinary rules of morality. The men are thieves and burglars,
the women prostitutes and vagrants. There is scarcely a stable, a hog-pen,
or a hen-roost that does nit hear the impress of a long heel and hollowlcss
>. These negroes are a curse to the army, a cancer . a blight
upon honesty, morality, and decency, and a leech upon the Government."
THE CLIMA3 of VANDAL FIENDI8H1
Mississippi has been reserved for the capping of the climax to Yankee ility. N d with burrin t-.nn-
houses, and plantations, their barbaric instincts found rent in the perpetra- tion of an act at which humanity revolts.
The Monl Kit? contained the following:
"Two gentlemen fn>in Canton. i ns, and relet
ly what foil we cone ,,n,l
heartless brutality of which the incarn I guilty dun: I war :
ir«. M K. Fort
lity, and supposed to be *roi was visiting tin- hi x miles f
of her v.
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the oountry for the purpose of hiding lier money, wont, with a gang of De- grees; to the house, at two o'clock in the morning, took her out of bed, and whipped her until six o'clock — four hoars — to make her till where her money could he found. She had do money, and, of coarse, could not satisfy the savages. The wretched lady died under the torture of the lash."
. SOMETHING EICH.
Bimon Cameron, late Secretary of War of the United States, was singu- larly exercised about the body of his deceased brother, Colonel Cameron, of the New York Volunteers, killed at the battle of Manassas. Actuate 1 by a silly pride about addressing General Johnston on the subject, in the latter's proper official capacity, he resorted to every device to secure his object. A flag of truce came to our pickets, and sent in the following note to Colonel J. E. B. Stuart, of the cavalry, commanding at Fairfax. Court- House ;
"War Department, July 30, 1861.
"To whom if may Concern: The bearers, Messrs. Gormon, of Baltimore, Applegate, and Sterling, visit Richmond forihe single purpose of obtaining the remains of the late Colonel Cameron. All United States troops will show them the utmost courtesy and protection going and returning.
"SIMON CAMFUOX, Secretary of War."
Colonel Stuart returned the communication with the following endorse- ment:
" Headquarters Fairfax C. II., August 2, 1861.
"The within communication has been sent me, but being addressed 'To whom it may concern,' is returned, for the reason that its object does not concern me, nor any one else, that I am aware of, in the ('on federate States of America. J. E. B. STUART,
"Colonel Fvr&t Cavalry, Commanding"
The gentlemen were also informed that General Johnston, when properly addressed on the subject, would give any aid in his power for the recovery of Colonel C's remains.
HOW OLD SMITH ESCAPED.
"Old Smith," an old German drummer in the Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment, was notorious for straggling On the march. Whether advancing or retreating, he was always in the rear.
In General Jackson's great retreat from the valley of the Shenandoah, after whipping Banks, old Smith got some miles behind, and while sitting on the roadside, solitary and alone, resting and eating his beef and biscuit, he observed a full regiment of Yankee cavalry approaching. He jumped
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out into the woods, and as the Yankees came near, he thundered away on his drum, beating the long roll with a terrible vim. [The long roll is the signal c»f an enemy at hand, and to form line of battle.] His trick was suc- cessful, for the Yankees, supposing, of course, that there was an infantry regiment lying in the thicket, faced about and skedaddled in the regular Bull Run style. Old Smith, replacing his drum 00 his shoulder, came out into the road again, with his beef and biscuit in one hand and drumsticks in the other, and resumed his march with his usual equanimity.
HAD A REPUTATION.
Among other incidents of the battle of Murfrcesboro', we heard of one in which a soldier observed a rabbit lopping across the field under a heavy fire. " l!un, cotton-tail," he said; "if I had n't got a reputation to sustain, I 'd travel, too !"
TAKING THE OATH.
A very shrewd, sensible man, in Maury County, Tennessee, who had been a strong Union man until the Yankees got there, but who, after that, became equally as strong a Southern man, went to Columbia one day, and Wta brought before General Negley. "Well," said the general, "Mr. B., you must take the oath before going home." .
" Very well," said B., "just have it boxed up, general, and I '11 take it out."
" Oh," said General Negley, "you don't understand me; you must take the oath to support the Government of the Unit b.m
"Why, general," said friend B., "I have a wife and several children, and it is as much as I can do to support them. I am a poor man, and I can't think of supporting the whole United States; that's rather too much."
By this time Negley became rather impatient. " Here," said he, hand- ing 1>. the printed oath, " read it for yourself."
u I can't road."
"Well, then," said Negley, turning to the Provost Marshal, "give him a pass anyhow; he h c."
And thus h< me without taking the oath. The Yankee general
that time. We give this incid< i laon prisoners.
TIIK ' AND THJ
A Nod ti of
January 18, If
Since the ls( of January, tho chihjfon "f I'™1 :iTO bavin • me
of it. They an Fn », with do one ( half
SO ui r.AMNiis ntOM
clothed, and worse fed. God only knows what will become of the poor creatures.
"Colonel ^lssey, post commandant, is a true gentleman, and vfell liked. Prompt. courteous, and like, he is a gjood man for the position.
Every day negroes are eomiog into the damp with their little bundles, claiming protection and food. Thursday afternoon the following actual event took place :
"J. B. Pillow, brother of the rebel general, who has a beautiful planta- tion a fevf miles from Helena, and who was worth half a million of dollars previous to the war, came into camp, through the lines, with one hundred and eighty-three negroes, of both sexes and of all ages. At the head of his servants, who followed in single tile, he walked to the colonel's headquarters, where the following conversation took place :
" ' Good morning, sir.'
" ' Good morning, sir.'
" ' Where is the commandant of the post ?'
" l Before you, sir/
" ' Well, colonel, here is my small charge, in the shape of free American citizens of African descent, which I deliver over to you. Here is a correct list of their names, ages, sexes, and occupations. Please send them on to the President, with my compliments, and say to him that if he wishes any- thin"1 else under my roof, on my grounds, or in my pockets, all he has to do is to ask and receive.'
" f Mr. Pillow, I cannot "receive these people; I have no food for them — have nothing for them to do — have not food enough for our soldiers, hardly.'
" ' And I cannot use them. I had bacon to keep them, but it has been stolen. I had corn, but it has been gobbled. Now, I have nothing for them to eat ; and as Lincoln has turned this army into a nigger boarding- house, you will please seat this people at your table.'
" < But I have no such power.'
" 'Then give them work. If you fail to manage them, I will teach you. The art can bo learned in about thirty years.'
" ' I have nothing for them to do.'
"'Nor have I. You will not see them starve, I hope. I am a loyal man — have been a prosperous one, but can no longer care for these people. You have surely some use for them. Nearly all trades are here represented among the men. The women you can find use for somewhere.'
" ' Well, I can't take them.'
" ' My God, what will they live on? Can you sell me corn and bacon? They will starve unless you do.'.
u ' No, I cannot.'
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" ' And you cannot keep them ?'
"'No.'
" • Well, God only knows what will become of them.'
"At the head of his ol>l servants he left, and the free people followed him crying, and wondering what next would come in their behalf. The poor creatures come into camp, steal provisions, &c., are kicked and cuffed .tbout by all hands, and are* at times most unmercifully pounded by some sol- dier who will not stand their 'sass.' The only idea ninety-five of every hun- dred of slaves have of freedom is, ease, freedom from labor, theft, and lust."
CAMP ANECDOTE.
A correspondent of the Kutaw Whig and Observer wrote thus from
Fredericksburg:
" A young, stout, hale, hearty man in a South Carolina regiment, went to
General Lee for the purpose of getting a furlough, when the following
amusing incident took place:
"General Lee: 'Sir, do you knew the position of a soldier?' •
"Soldier (saluting the general). ' I do, sir.' m
"General Le< . % A^ume the position of a soldier. I want to see if you
can execute two or three orders as I give them.'
// Lee (viewing him closely, and scrutinizing his position,) said :
' About face, forward, march !' and never. said halt."
TOO GOOD TO BE LOST.
A countryman was in the town of Lumpkin, and some one asked him how he liked the war news. lie replied: " Very well." "Are you ready y" he was asked. " Yes," he replied. "Are you not afraid?" "No. If I should see a Yankee, with his gun leveled and looking right at me, I would draw out my pocket-book, and ask him what he would take for his gUO, and right there the fight would end."
: N.
While resting on the roadside, a citizen came ridincr down the' line, afford - . butt lor the remarks which were mercilessly thrown out fn side. As he rode through the n tie fellow — flat on hi- bark in a
fen c1 corner — noticed an enormous white beaver tl i the citi;-
head, and called out, very peremptorily : "Come down OUt of that hat, sir; • try to hide ; I know j ■."' The
luckli spurred up, but, a lew ] by the
following
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on, one soldier called to another across the road : "Bill, that fellow is like a ship." "What for?" asks Bill. " 'Cause the rigging cost more than the hull." This was more than human nature could stand, and the citizen put whip and spur to work. Nor did he pause until Kershaw's brigade was far in the distance behind him.
WANTED TO BE "TOOK."
Referring to the fact that many of the Federal soldiers are seeking cap- tivity for the purpose of securing a parole, the Kentucky Statesman relates the following, as having occurred in the vicinity of Lexington :
" A Confederate soldier, exhausted, laid down by the roadside to rest, and falling asleep, was left some distance behind the army. When he awoke, he found a Yankee soldier sitting by his* side fanning off the flies, and patiently waiting to be taken prisoner. Of course he was accommodated."
BOY HEROES.
While the "musrjuito fleet" of Commodore Hollins was on the Missis- sippi, an attempt was made to dislodge the enemy from Point Pleasant, near 'Island No. 10. After firing several rounds, the enemy retired, without re- plying. Just at this moment several persons, supposed to be women, came out on the balconies of the houses and the bank, waving white flags. The * captain of the Pontchartrain ordered her to approach the shore, which she, did cautiously. When within about forty yards of the shore, the supposed women, with other Federals, commenced a very brisk fire on the boat with their muskets, killing one and wounding two others. The one killed was a boy of fourteen years, known on the boat as powder-boy. He deserves to be written down a hero. While strong and stalwart men were seeking a hiding-place under the bomb-proof shelter, this brave,, manly boy, stood to his post till pierced by the fatal ball. He had hardly fallen, when little Johnny lleeder, of about the same age, stepped up to the captain, amidst a shower of bullets, and spoke with heroic firmness: "Captain, I will be your powder-boy now." We scarcely know which most to admire. Both were brave, and gave striking evidence of the folly of our enemies in supposing they can subjugate us.
The Nashville was saved from the enemy at Beaufort by two young lads, the sons of Captains Pegram and Sinclair. On hearing that the Yankees were about to invade the town of Newborn, they "drummed up" a crew, ran the blockade, and arrived safely in another Southern port.
Two half-grown lads were out hunting in the neighborhood of Ncwbern, and were discovered and accosted by a Yankee lieutenant.
One of the boys wore 'the letters " N. C" on his cap, which attracted the Yankee'.' attention, and ho inquired of the boy what they meant. The boy
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replied, "North Carolina," whereupon the lieutenant ordered him to re- move them. This the boy declined doing, when lie was again ordered to take them off, and again refused to do so. The lieutenant then remarked that he would take them off himself; and was in th.c act of dismounting from his horse to do so, when the boy winked to his .comrade, who took his meaning, and in a moment the guns of both the boys were leveled at the, head of the Yankee officer, and he was commanded to surrender.
Seeing the utter hopelessness of his case, and perfectly astounded at the spirit displayed by the boys, the Yankee gave up his pistol, and on being ordered to dismount, did so. The boys then secured him, and again plac- ing him on his horse, conducted him to Kiuston, where he was safely lodged in jail.
The Columbia (South Carolina) Guardian says :
"Dr. Patterson, who has just returned from llichmond, has left at our office a musket carried by a noble and gallant boy from Georgia, Garvin Wightman. The gun bears upon it the evidence of hot work, the stock having no less than five bullet marks, four of them apparently from grape- shot, and the other evidently from a Minie ball. In a note to Dr. Patter- son, the youth says: 'This was shot in my hand while retreating from a .battery that we had taken, but could not hold. It was struck with grape shot and ball; take care of it for me, as I captured it at the battle of Wil- liamsburg from a Yankee. It has killed five, and done service in the bat- tles of Williamsburg and Richmond. '
"Dr. Patterson states that Garvin is only about fifteen or sixteen years of age, and was at first detailed to guard the requisition stores, but finding .that this duty would prevent him from participating in the battles, he joined a North Carolina regiment, and went into action. Hifl father and family, we are informed, are Charlestonianfl.
asides the scars on the gun, Garvin received sundry other favors from the Yankees. Two balls passed through his cap, and his clothing has .sundry bullet holes. In his ease, too, we have another of those remarkable occur- renees showing a special Providence. In his left breast pocket, or between his vest and his shirt, he carried his Sabbath-Sohool hymn-book rolled up. 11 entered this book, and penetrated through the outer folds, lodging in the centre, thus unquestionably saving bis life. The book with the ball is in the possi ssion of i;r. Patterson."
FEDERAL ATROCITIES IN BALTIMORE.
The following letter, from a neutral source, tells a story tliat would re it qo4 i by a thousand Bimilar i
both in Baltimore an
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Quebec, October 4, 1S61. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle:
Sir: The horrors practiced by the Lincoln Government upon the people, of that once beautiful and refined city, Baltimore, have earned for it the name of the Warsaw of America. At this moment the most honored and talented men of Maryland are pining in the fortress cells of that city, deprived of the commonest requisites of the hum/Jest condition* of life, made tu endure nauseating circumstances that the meanest fekm,*is fret from; seven and eight gentlemen forced into a cell, without bedding, blankets, water to wash, or changes of linen from week's end to week's end ; and, with a refinement of cruelty and mental torture, unknown in any civilized country in the world, cut off from all intercourse or knowledge of their families or of the outor world.
Men alone are not the only victims of the wicked and accursed tyranny, but even ladies of rank are similarly situated, their crimes being receiving letters from absent husbands and fathers, or Wearing red and white ribbons or dresses, or having given charity to the widow or orphan of some one who died in the Southern army. Against the men no charges are made, and the only warrant upon which they are held is, that their names are inscribed by Mr. Lincoln or Mr. Seward upon a list in the hands of a convicted mur- derer and burglar. The experience of one week in Baltimore, and the hor- rors inflicted upon the unhappy people of that fated city, would appear to any man used to the actions of a regular government — even of the greatest European despotism — an exaggeration, did not the papers in the service of the- tyrannous fanatics, who despotically wield the government of the land, themselves foreshadow the gross iniquity, and call upon the gaping and frightened crowd to fall down and worship the bloody idol they have set up before them.
The prime executioner and minister to the vengeance of Lincoln and Seward is of the most abhorrent stamp, and has inaugurated their reign of terror in Baltimore only as such a wretch could conceive it. This man is a pardoned convict, named Berrett, who, after receiving sentence of death for murder and burglary, and having been known to have committed six assas- sinations, was released from prison, and made a jailor, but was dismissed for misconduct; he was the captain of a. murderous crew, called the "Blood- Tubs/' and when all honest men shrank from him, President Lincoln and his minion, Seward, sought and employed him as the minister of their ven- geance. This ruffian has daily interviews with the President, and returns from Washington with a fresh list of proscribed victims. Berrct has chosen the tools and habits of his old trade of burglar to do the work of his employers.
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The universal terror and abject subserviency of the Northern States to the dictates of their oppressor, lias been shared by Maryland, and it lias, therefore, been deemed more prudent to make the domiciliary visits in the dead of the night. Berrett takes with him several escaped thieves, his former " pals," and, accompanied by a file of soldiers, g tea forth after mid- night to do the bidding of the "best and freest Government in the world," by breaking into the houses of their victims, dragging them from their beds, and thrusting them, handcuffed, into the cells of Fortress Mc Henry. General Howard, an old gentleman, the candidate for governor,. aud his son, Mr. F. Howard, were taken from their beds and from the sides of their vivos between one aud two o'clock in the morning by berrett and a file of soldiers, who wound* d with their bayonets Mr. F. Howard's little son, six - old, and so ill-treated Mrs. Howard that she died on the Sunday fol- lowing. . Mr. Lincoln thought "she was served too well, and declared tjiat the wives and brats of traitors deserved to be threaded upon red-hot jack- chains." To the suffering children and wives of his victims he replies to their request to be permitted to see their parents with a refusal couched in obscene and brutal language, or with some filthy jest, that could not be put upon paper.
rrett, upon Seward's order, broke into the mansion of a lady of rank, whose husband is in Europe, and with his file of soldiers pulled her from her bed, without permitting her to dress, or even putting on her shoes; the fellow forced her to go with him from the attic to the cellar in her night- gown, whilst he tore up the carpet, forced the doors, and cut to pieces the
■s, brocaded chairs, sofas, &c., and turned out every trunk and drawer, leaving the beautiful residence a total wreck. No reason has been icd for this outrage, except that his patron, the President, willed it. On the following night, the house of a venerable gentleman was forcibly entered, and every bed cut to pieces; his throe daughb rs were pulled out of their beds, and subjected to brutal indelicacies the heart sickens at. The following morning the colonel of these honorable and gal] lers
of their count: Wilson, wis taken int. various rol
rty having been found in his shop in Brooklyn, New York. The house of I 1 no connection with politic;-, bed'
for arms; of c found, but a quantity of wine was, and
•land oft table ami :>iy carried it off.
ward has
throw:: rid them, and thn i
Mr. from thi
■ 1 in at
Mr. '
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bing hltu of all the money he had with him. Lincoln, when told of the yenng ladies' grief, and that their dresses were wet with tears, ridiculed 'u\ and made filthy aud obscene jokes at their expense. .Mr. Wallis, President of the Senate, a man of refined miud, elegantly educated, who held his large fort une as a trust for every good and benevolent purpose, whose eloquence and high talent vied with his goodness and his virtues, has been consigned to a narrow cell, with six other gentlemen, without the commonest conven- ience that the poorest beggar can command for the wants of nature — torn from his wife aud family while suffering from severe sickness, without a change of linen, and robbed of all his money. Mr. Ross Winans, nearly eighty years of age, was taken from his splendid mansion in the middle of the night, and, for a second time, consigned to a cell. This time his crime was giving food, daily, to twenty-five hundred poor people. His last release from prison cost him fifty thousand dollars bribe.
Mrs. Davis, a lady of large fortune, had fed nearly one thousand poor daily. Mr. Seward commanded her to desist from doing so; she refused, and published his command and her letter of refusal. The paper that pub- lished it has been suppressed, the materials of the office carried off, and the editor imprisoned.
SUPPLIES AND INFORMATION FOR TIIE REBELS.
"A Yankee upstart, belonging to Milroy's command, when in the Valley of Virginia, summoned an aged citizen to appear before him, to furnish some information. When duly arraigned, the Yankee began :
" ' Do you know of any one who has furnished supplies to the rebels?'
" Old Man. ' I believe I do.'
"Yank. 'Who was it?'
"Answer. l General Panks.'
''Yank. ' Sergeant, take him to the guard-house. Wait a while. Now, old white-headed rebel, mind whose presence you are in, and answer cor- • rectly. Do you know any one who has been passing through our lines and back again to the rebels, carrying information ?'
"Ans. ' Yes, sir, I do.'
" Yank. ' Who was it ?'
"Ans. 'General J. E. B. Stuart.'
" Yank. ' Sergeant, take him to the guard-house.' "
NOT A STRAGGLER.
On the morning after the great battle of Manassas Plains, Sergeant ,
of Company A, Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment, being barefooted, straggled off from his command, traversing the battle-field iu pursuit of a pair of shoes, which some frightened Yankee might have thrown away in his flight.
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After looking for ;i long time in vain, he at test saw a' pretty good pair on the pedal extremities of a dead Yankee. He sat down at the, feet of the •lead Yankee, pulled off his shoes, and put them on his own feet. Admir- ing the fit, and complimenting himself upon this addition to his marching abilities, he arose, and, with knapsack on his back and gun in hand, was about starting to overtake his regimmit, when he observed coming towards him a small squadron of cavalry, all of whom, as it was drizzling rain, were wrapped in their large rubber oil-cloth overcoats. It will be remembered that the cavalry are frequently assigned to the duty of picking up the stragglers, and hence there is no good feeling between the infantry and cav- alry. As they approached Sergeant , the foremost one asked : " What
are you doing here, sir, away from your command ?"
"That 's none of your business, by G — d," answered the sergeant.
" You arc a straggler, sir, and deserve the severest punishment."
"It 's a d — d lie, sir; I am not, a straggler; I only left my regiment a few minutes ago to hunt me a pair of shoes. I went all through .the fight yesterday, and that 's more than you can say; for where were you yesterday when General Stuart wanted your d — d cavalry to charge the Yaukees after we put 'em to running ? You were lying back in the pine thickets, and could n't be found; but to-day, when there 's no danger, you can come out and charge other men with straggling, d — n you."
The cavalry-man, instead of getting mad, seemed to enjoy this raking over from the plucky little sergeant, and, as he rode on, laughed heartily at it. As the squadron was filing nearly past the sergeant, one of them inquired :
" Po you know who you were talking to?"
" Yes, to a cowardly Virginia cavalry-man/'
" No, sir; that 's G-cncral Lee."
"7/-0-'; — mhati** And his mouth expanded from a pucker to its most astonishing dimensions. "General Lee, did you s;i;
'• \n d hie Jtafff"
"Y
iz-t-K-z-on to grind. I 'm a gorner!"
With th;s exclamation the sergeant palled nff his hat, and, readjusts oyer his disl nded eyes, Btru le-quick on th< r his
l
"Tin1 prisoners, y, were remarkably impudent
Uy il Seers. One of tl ral
For-
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rest demanded a surrender, and the Yankee negotiators were trying to get the best terms possible, Forrest appeared suddenly to get very mad; swore he would wait no longer, that he would rather kill the whole of them than not; ordered his couriers immediately to direct the commanders of the separate batteries to place them on separate points or hills ; and or- dered four separate regiments to be formed immediately at particular points in line of battle; and that the couriers absolutely dashed off as though they were going to have the orders executed. And as they dashed off, Forrest 'told them his signal gun would be fired in ten minutes — when, in fact, he said, the rascal had but two little cannon, and not more than a half regiment of men alb told. That Forrest was nothing but a damned swindler."
THE TlOUS SLAVE.
A letter from the South Carolina coast contains the following character- . istic anecdote:
" I happened to notice, one morning not long since, on the wharf of our island, a very old negro oysterman -drawing out his boat on the shore, in order to dip the water out that had collected during the night, preparatory to going out among the oyster-banks. A regular soldier was assisting him, partly for amusement, and partly to hear him talk.
"The oysterman was indeed an interesting specimen of humanity. He was bent and stiffened by age, his head was as white as cotton, while as happy a smile played upon his shriveled countenance as ever wreathed the face of beauty, and his deep-set black eyes beamed with kindness and hu- mility. His boat was a very old canoe, full of holes all along the sides, and I asked him if he was not afraid to venture out on the water in such a , thing. He said he was not; that the old boat and old man knew each other, • they had worked together for many years; that he did, not know which would give out first, but- that one thing was certain, we all had to die at some time, and there was no way to get away from death wheu he came; that his Master above could take care of his old servant as wejl in the old boat as on the land; that that kind Master had permitted him to live some eighty- six years, had given hinivfood, drink, and clothing all that time, to prepare for death, and if he were not prepared and ready to die now, he would be the greatest sinner in'the world. He concluded by telling us. that we were all' slaves — slaves to sin, to our passions and appetites — and that death alone could make us perfectly free and happy in the Paradise of God. How far superior, thought we, is the simple and child-like faith of this honest fcld negfo to all the day-dreams of philosophers, that have constructed their systems apart from the sublime philosophy of the Redeemer of mankind. This sable eon of Africa was fully imbued with the glorious faith and doc-
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brines of St. ■ Paul, that made Felix tremble, and almost persuaded King Agrippa to be a Christian."
YANKEE RAID-MAKERS IN TOWN'.
Thirteen Yankees, including one Lieutenant, named Marsh, all belonging to an Illinois regiment, and attached to a raid-making party, arrived at the Libby prison, from Tunstall's Station, where they wore taken by a portion of General Wise's command. Sundry other members of the detachment were brought in, by citizens and sojdiers, who picked them up straggling on the roads, hatless, horseless, and hungry. One ludicrously appointed indi- vidual, having seen the spires of the city from afar off, and being anxious to get shelter and something to eat, directed his steps thither; and, meeting a gentleman on the road, addressed him :
•■ 'Ere you keeps mit der Lippy brison?"
"What?" said the gentleman, reining his steed, and looking curiously at the woe-begone excursionist.
"I vants to go to brison — umph, yaw!"
"What do you want to go therefor?" asked the gen^cman, seeing at once that he was one of the strayed-off raid party, but wishing to chat awhile with the poor devil.
" I bes so sick as der belle von dis var— - und I kom you gleb meinself up — yaw." '
" Where did you come from?" inquired the' gentleman.
" Vrom Yankeeland, mit a tam officer, for to break into der railroad und shpile die passengers. Vcre 's der brison?"
Finding the tired and hungry Dutchman in a hurry to get along, the gen- tleman directed him to keep the road, and he would soon reach the object of his wishes. Into town the fellow came, and. overcome by heat and fat i
at down in front of the telegraph office and went to sleep, where be was soon observed, and his character being ascertained, he was put in "der brison" — the only Yankee (and he a I'utclnnan) who has yet "entered Richmond" on his own book.
The party captured were sent down for exchange, with others, by fla ■ truce, making rather a short stay.
MILRoy IN WIN' B \ IK' IMA.
The reign of this officer rivalled in brutality and robbery thai of Butler in New Orleans. A private letter says:
"'i : Is full of hospitals. They have Taylor's Hotel, V<>rk House,
Union Hotel, and when I left, were turnii g th< ■ A th< r fa
take hospitals of them. The soldiers have been camped aboul in town all winter, and such B 'lirly plaO< hurch op:
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taken for a stable, and we had the horses quartered all around us. The typhoid lever has at last become so bad that it has grown to an epidemic, and ■ there is scarcely a family in town but have two Qr mere, and in some cases the whole family is down, and dependent upon their neighbors for help. All the servants have gone, and the people have been worked and worried to death.
* ■ * * * *
"The Yankees will not allow the people to buy anything without taking the oath, and we would rather starve than do that. We could get nothing either one way or the other, and just had to live on bread, , and sometimes had butter. They would not even allow us to buy a bone of meat to make soup for the sick. When the Confederates came towards Winchester, the Yankees or;co surrounded with six hundred of their men about fifty of ours, and did not kill one — all escaped. Old Milroy was ripping mad, swore ter- ribly, called the officer who had command, and said: "Why is it that six hundred Yankees having one hundred rebels surrounded, let them all escape ? " The officer said : " All I can say is, the rebels fought with daring bravery, and the Yankees like cowards." They put the officer under arrest for forty days. Milroy never goes out. He had his wife and four or five children — ugly little red-headed things — with him. They had Mrs. Logan's fine house. Yrou heard, I suppose, they sent Mrs. Logan and family over the lines. They took possession of the house and everything in it. Instead of coming up the Valley to fight the men, they stopped in Winchester and fou<rht women and children. The women were, firm and faithful; never would give up one step. When Milroy's wife first came, she had one little trunk, and when she left she had five, very large ones — carried off every- thing she could lay her hands on. They say they will not leave a negro in town when they leave."
ADMIRABLE RETORT.
A lady went to General Milroy and asked for a pass to go over the lines. He said : "I will give you a pass to hell." She told him she did not know his lines extended that far; she had often heard it, but now had it from his own lips.
A BRAVE NEGRO.
In the battle of Belmont, Lieutenant Shelton, of the Thirteenth Arkansas Regiment, and his servant Jack were in the fight'. Both Jack and his mas- ter were wounded, but not till they had made most heroicefforts to drive back the insolent invaders. Finally, after Jack had fired at the enemy twenty-seven times, he fell, seriously wounded in the arm. Jack's son was upon the field and loaded the rifle for his father, and shot at the enemy three
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times after he was upon the ground. Jack's son hid behind a tree, and when the enemy retreated they took him to Cairo and refused to lei him return. Jack was taken from the field in great pain, and brought to the Overton Hospital, where he bore his sufferings with great fortitude, till death relieved him of his pain.-
GENERAL RANDOLPH "BLOCKADED.."
One afternoon our estimable Secretary of War, General George W. Ran- dolph, visited the lines below Richmond, and after spending an agreeable hour or two at General Lee's headquarters, started for the city. He pro- ceeded without interruption until he reached the picket's post on the "Nine Mile Road," where he found several citizens who were returning from a visit to tbe camp. They had been stopped by the sentinel, who informed them that he had orders to allow no one to pass in or out of the lines who did not give, the countersign. General Randolph informed the picket that he was the Secretary of War, and that the orders he had received could not apply to him. The soldier replied that he did not know whether he ■was Secretary of War or not — a Yankee spy might say the same thine* but be that as it may, his orders were to allow no one to pass who could not give the countersign, and, having a ball and two buckshot in his musket, he would enforce the observance of his orders by all comers and goers.
Here was a "fix" for a party of gentlemen, with night coming on, and a heavy drizzle of rain descending. The officer of the day was called, but he could do nothing, as the adjutant of the post had neglected to obtain the countersign from headquarters. At length somebody rode to headquar- ters, about a mile distant, and returned with the countersign. The Secre- tary and other camp visitors were then released, and went on their way rejoicing, though previously, it is said, in a very bad humor, believing that the sentinel had exceeded his duty.
A somewhat similar incident is related of Napoleon. He tried to pass one of his sentinels, but the Old Guard told him he could not pass without the countersign, if he were the "Little Corporal" himself — meaning Napo- leon. The sentinel was rewarded by Napoleon for his fidelity to his tl by the decoration of the Legion of Honor.
GENERAL STUART AND Tin; Mil
On a scouting expedition to Massaponax Church, General Stuart rode ■] bo a mill around which the enemy had just been encamped, to see what information ho could obtain. The old miller looked at bin closely, and paid, " Seems like [ 's Been .you afore." "Yes," said the General, " ] .
recollect, on a scout a few d M v nam* u Btuart." The
old fellow seemed mucfa phase! "Gen ;,H
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around here last night and this morning. They said you had been a bothering them a long- time with your cavalry, but that now they were going to get w your rear and cut you off, and the first thing they knowed youdrapped right in behind them. 3 la! ha! ha! Give it to 'cm, General."
JACKSON AFTER THE MAIN CIIANCE.
After .Jackson took Harper's Ferry, he had a conversation with Colonel Ford, (a Federal officer,) who detailed the following incident: "While we were in conversation," says Colonel Ford, "an orderly rode rapidly across the bridge, and said to General Jackson: 'lam ordered by General McLaws th report to you that General McClcllan is within six miles, with an immense army.' Jackson took no notice of the orderly, apparently, and continued his conversation ; but when the orderly had turned away, Jackson called after him, with the question: 'Has McClcllan any baggage train or drove of cattle?' The reply was, that he had. Jackson remarked that he could whip any army that was followed by a drove "of cattle, alluding to the hun- gry condition of his men."
"WHISKY AND TURPENTINE.
The dhattanooga Rchel told the following:
One of the Yankee prisoners here asked a guard if he knew "where a feller could get a drink of whisky ? "
"Well* no," said the ragged custodian, "but, stranger, ycr kin git a first- rate artikle of turpentine round the corner, and I reckon that won't, pizin your blue, stomach ! "
"What does he say, Bill?" said another prisoner.
"Why he wanted I should drink abcout a gill of turpentine; feller warnt tu burn us coutj wish to h — 1 I was ter hum!"
NORTHERN TESTIMONY CONCERNING A NORTHERN PRISON:
An Ohio paper published the following:
"It must not be forgotten that there have been from six to seven hun- dred political prisoners at Camp Chase at a time, and although seven hun- dred have been discharged without trial, there* are yet there some four hundred. One or two hundred of these have arrived from Kentucky and Western Virginia. Tdicse men arc taken from their homes, some from their beds at night, some from their houses in daytime, and a great many of them are picked up in their fields at work, and never suffered to see their families before being spirited off to Ohio and incarcerated in this celebrated ]>astilc, which will soon be as famous as Olmutz itself.
" Our Ohioans are put into the same prison with these men from other States, and from them we have learned Mine facts, which the people of
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Ohio ought to know. Many of these men have been kept in this prison for over one year, a great many for five, six, seven, and eight months, without even seeing outside, or being allowed to communicate personally with any one, not even wife, child, father, mother, or stranger.
" They are furnished with nothing but a single blanket, even these cold nights, unless they are able to purchase additional comforts with money they may be able to command. Many are poor men, and unable to pur- chase; they were not permitted to bring along a change of clothing, and many had on, when seized, nothing but summer wear, and that has become filthy, worn out, and scarcely hangs upon their backs.
" They have no bedding, and are, therefore, compelled to sleep on the bare boards. They have not enough wood furnished to keep fireS up all night, and hence the suffering is intensified by the cold weather. If they attempt, after night, to walk out in the yard to take off the chills of the dreary night, they are instantly threatened to be shot by the guards, as ordered by those in command. •
" Dr. Allen, of Columbia County, Ohio, said he laid on a bare board until his hips were black and blue. The wood furnished them is four feet long, and they are compelled,* each mess, to chop it up for themsclvesfcand, the provisions being furnished raw, they have to cook for themselves. Recol- lect, always, that these are political prisoners, against whom no one appears as accuser, and no trial is permitted.
"The prison has become filthy — awfully so — and the rats are in droves. If the prisoners attempt to kill one of the rats, they arc forbidden, and threat-. ened with being shot instantly. Recollect, always, as wc have said above these are political prisoners, against whom some malicious negro- worshipper has created a suspicion of disloyalty, but whose name is kept a secret, and henoq there ran be no trial.
"The place is perfectly alive with lice, and no chance ia given to escape the living vermin. A dead man, one of the prisoners, was carried out to the dead-yard, and laid there over night, and when visited in the men by other prisoners, who heard there was a dead man there, they found the hair on his head stiff with lice and nits — the lice creeping into hi greal numbers, sad, as he lay with his mouth open, the lire were thick, crawling in and ou( - I ith.
"Two of the pi I int.. a scuflle in trying their . and
finally into a fight, as wz .], and several other persona rui bed t<> part
them, when t!. From the lookout fired on them, lulling an old i
by the name of Jon nia, and tlic ball grazing the skull
fell, and as killed ;hcr*
"I tie' ball« pa ■ i thi ird at the bend of a sick mo i'
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pital. and only escaped him by a few inches. The two men engaged in the scuffle were, not hurt.
"We might go further, but God knows this is enough for once. It is enough to m;.ke one's blood run cold to think of it.
" Now, if any one doubts this — if tin; authorities at camp or at the State- House doubt it — if the Legislature, when it meets, will raise a committee, we promise to name the witnesses, who, if sent for, will, under oath, prove all thi< and as much more, some of which is too indecent to print iu a newspa- per for the public eye."
"STTJ.NG BY A BUNG."
"Hermes," the correspondent of the Charleston (South Carolina!) Met- cury, related the following incident :
"At Sharpsburg, General Lee, meeting one of the many stragglers, in- quired : ' Where are you going, sir ?'
" ' Going to the rear.' •
" ' What are you going to the rear for V
"'Well, I've been stung by a bumj, and I 'm what they call demoral- ized.'
" This was enough. General Lee had n't the heart to say more to an in- nocent who had been ' stung by a bung' — meaning, probably, that he had been stunned by a bomb — and the soldier departed on his way."
DEATH ON THE BATTLE-FIELD.
A correspondent of the Due West Telescope stated that a Christian soldier was pierced by a Minie ball in the left breast, during the first charge of our troops at Perry ville ; and in reply to a friend who proffered him assistance, said : " No, I die. Tell my parents I die happy. On, on to victory. Jesus is with me, and can give me all the help I need." A gasp, a shud- der, and all was over — all of this world's pain and sorrow.
MAJOR A. M. LEA AND HIS SON. N
One of the most affecting incidents of the brilliant and successful recap- ture of Galveston by the forces, under Major General Magrudcr, was the meeting between Major Lea, of our army, with his eldest and fondly-loved son, who was first lieutenant of the Harriet Lane. Nearly two years ago, the father,- then residing in Texas, had written repeatedly to the son, then on the coast of China, suggesting the principles that should determine his course in the then approaching struggle between, the North and the South 'of the United States, and saying that he could not dictate to one so long ob- ligated to act on his own judgment; and that, decide as he might, such w;is his confidence in his high consciousness, he would continue to regard him
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•with the respect of a gentleman and the affection of a father; but that, if he should elect the side of the enemy, they would probably never meet on earth, unless perchance they should meet in battle. /
The father has served nearly eighteen months eastward of the Ml sippi, and, through unsolicited orders, arrived at Eouston, en route for San Antonio, when, hearing of the intended attack on the Harriet Lane, aboard of which he had heard was his son, also placed there simply in the order of Providence, he solicited permission to join the expedition, in expectation of nursing or burying his son, whose courage wag obliged to expose him fatally to the equal daring of our Texas boys. During the fight, Major Lea was ordered by the general to keep a lookout from a house-top for all move- ments in the bay. As soon as daylight enabled him to see that the Lane had been captured, by permission of the general, who knew nothing of the expected meeting, he hastened aboard, when he was not surprised to find his son mortally wounded. Wading through blood, amidst the dying and the dead, he reached the youth, pale anl exhausted. " Edward, 't is your father." "I know you, father, but cannot move," he said, faintly. "Are you mortally wounded?" "Badly, but hope not fatally." "Do you suffer pain?" "Cannot speak." he whispered. A stimulant was given him.
w came you here, father t" When answered, a gleam of surprise and gratification passed over his fine face. Tie then expended nearly his last words in, making arrangements for his wounded comrades. His father knelt and blessed him, and hastened ashore for a litter, and returned just after life had fled.
When told by the surgeon that he had bat a few minutes to live, and ■sked to express his v. isbi 9, he answered^ confidingly : " My father is here," and spoke not again. He was borne in procession to the grave frpm the headquarters of General Magruder, in company with his captain, and tin v buried together, with appropriate military honors, in the presence of many officers of both armies, and many generous citizens all of whom
heir deep sympathy with th< lemo
r the Episcopal ( hurch for the burial of the dead, and then a I thi^ brief add;
My friendi nan ha i time to rejoi<
wlv n w< (hat
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to believe, whilst I our rights wit!
that those we m< cf in battle maj I - oar
own. We have !;■ re buried two brave and 1
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TIETY IN A GENERAL.
The chaplain of the Fifth Kentucky Regiment writes of Kirby Smith : " Before going into the battle at Richmond, Kentucky, he spent a season alone in his tent in prayer. "When the battle was over, he returned to his tent, and gave thanks to God for the victory. When at Lexington, Ken- tucky, the minister at the Episcopal Church refused to officiate on thanks- giving uay, and General Smith arose, read a chapter, led in prayer, and finished the services. In the Kentucky campaign, General Smith was the only general who succeeded in his part of the programme."
OUR RAGGED BOYS.
At the battle of Murfrcesboro', the Yankees captured a young rebel, who wore a gunny-bag with a hole in it for a shirt. "Could n't your Govern- ment afford to give you a shirt?" said his captor. " Shirt, the d — 1," aajd he of the gunny-bag, ''do you expect a man to have a thousand shirts?"
WITHOUT SADDLE OR SPUR.
The following "joke" is told of an army surgeon, who got on a little " bender" while his command was passing through Mobile :
Surgeon was dressing a wound at the battle of Murfreesboro' — soldier came by on a Yankee's back, actually riding him to the rear.
" Doctor," cried the lucky Confederate, from his novel perch, " if I had them spurs you went to bed in at Mobile, I 'd give this feller hail Columby. Get up, here, you whey-faced Yankee son-of-a-gun," and he drove his heels into the sides of his jaded " animal," and pushed on, amid the roars of laughter from the surgc6n and his corps of assistants.
THE JOHN BROWN RAID — AN IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE.
Mr. Sumner was reelected to the United States Senate by the Legislature of Massachusetts. Mr. Swans, member of the Senate of that State, al- though a Republican, would not,' it seems, vote for Mr. Sumner, and gave the following reasons for refusing :
" I come now, Mr. President, to what is known in history as the John Brown raid. This expedition was planned and fitted out in Boston, and its expenses defrayed by subscription. The day he started for Harper's Ferry on his deed of murder, he dined in room No. 4,. Parker House, in company with some of the most ardent and zealous supporters of Mr. Sumner, and for this reason I allude to it. The Republican party now disown the act, they call him a monomaniac, an insane man ; but when the telegraphic wires, with lightning speed, brought the news of his death to New England, so de- praved at that time was the public sentiment here, that the village church-
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bells tolled out his funeral knell, and the ministers of Got], with a few lion- . orable exceptions, prayed in their pulpits that the spirit of the 'departed saint ' might rest in peace. This act, Mr President, was the deathblow to the peace of the Union. Witho it it, Virginia would not have seceded, and God grant the names of the persons who were engaged in this transaction shall leave a record of them for history.
"Another deed of murder, Mr. President, and I will not detain you longer. When Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave, was confined in the Court-House in this city, a meeting was held at Faueuil Hall, to consider the subject. Theodore Parker and the Rev. Thomas W. Eiiggiosoo were there. Mr. Parker, in concluding an eloquent speech alluded to the fact that a slave was confined in the Court-House, and exclaimed, in substance: 'Why stand we here idle? To the rescue!' A rush was made for the Court-House. and at the door stood a poor laboring man, a Mr. Patchelder, a night-watch. His wife and two children were sleeping at home, possibly dreaming of him as he was toiling for their daily bread. • The crowd de- manded admittance; he refused, and was immediately assassinated on the Who killed him the world never knew. These men, Mr. President, were the confidential friends and supporters of Mr. Sumner, and for this reason I have alluded to the subject."
LACONIC
Kites (a member of the Legislature, and Confederate District Attorney for West Tennessee) returned to his home in Memphis, and gave some sort of parole, by which he protects himself and property. He writes to a friend outside of the lines as folio?
"Dear Vance: Come in and save your property.
Vance answei
'■/>ir L'.-f's: Come out and save your character. \ A
A BT/ioi>v CHARGE ON A STOVE-PIPE.
Having had a special but temporary object in view in taking p Munson's Hill, in \ irginia, it was do( deemed necessary I that
Put lest the V light h.ir.i--v the tr
■r artifice
i on the II, with ii-
tuni' . . ii" black cylinder
ian. An aeronaut 9 I his car and a-cmd to
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immense size, and several regiments were ordered to capture the gun and dislodge the Confederates.
Bight gallantly did the Yankee aoldiera rush to the charge. But their fears being silenced by the retreat of our troops, in the absence of danger, their desire for plunder was inflamed, and before they had gone half- way up the hill, they scattered in different directions in quest of booty. The ma- rauders mistook the columns they belonged to, and on their way to the main body they met, and in their excess of valor, fell upon each other. The battle raged fiercely for some minutes, for Yankees are the very people to fight Yankees. Obstinately did each contend for the victory, and before the blunder was discovered, eight Lincolnites lay low in death, and forty more were pierced with bullets. They captured the stove-pipe.
A GOOD THING FROM BRAGG.
A correspondent wrote :
"A soldier who had been favored by fortune faith the extraordinary good luck of having obtained a leave of absence to visit North Carolina, tele- graphed General Bragg, commanding the army of Tennessee, that he had ■ been married a week, and desired an extension of his furlough. Mis wish was seconded by friends of the general, with but little hope, it is true, of succeeding in the darling wish of the darling husband. In the course of the day, the loving swain was delighted with the following electric response :
. " ' Your leave is extended for thirty daj^s. I refer you to Deuteronomy, twentieth chapter and seventh verse, and twenty-fourth chapter and filth verse.'
"The Bible was instantly called into requisition, and, upon reference, the following quotations were developed :■
" 'And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife and hath not taken her? Let him go and return unto his house, lest he die iji the battle and another man take her.' — Deuteronomy, twentieth chapter and seventh verse.
" The second reference disclosed :
" 'When a man hath taken a new wife, he shaM not go out to tear, neither- shall he be charged with any business : but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he has taken.' — Deuteronomy, twenty-fourth chapter and filth verse."
A NOVEL INTERVIEW.
As one of Wharton's scouts was riding leisurely along near Lavergne, he espied an enemy approaching about sixty yards down the lane. "Who goes there?" he challenged. " Wilder's scout," was roughly returned. "Who
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there?" Wharton's scout: "Surrender or die." "Never surrender;
come on!" But Wharton's scout did not "come on." The truth is, he
said, t hat his antagonist was loaded down with six-shooters, and "he wai
• never good at the d — d things." There was a pause. Both parties eyed
each other. "Can't we coinnromi-e this thing?" erics Yankee. "No;
surrenderor I'll shoot you." "Shoot and be d — d. Never surrender;
come on." Pause. Then Wharton's scout exclaimed : " I '11 tell you what
I '11 do." " What?" " (live me the road, and I '11 let you off." "Done."
The Yankee turned aside, and our man slowly passed, head erect, as fierce
as a Hon. "Good by." "Good by." And the two rode their ways.
Wharton's scout considered it a pretty good "get off," when it is taken into
account that the ground was far into the Yankee lines. He said he was n't
particular about a fight, and only wanted to save Southern honor.
GENERAL TOOMBS AND A LAZY SOLDIER.
Quite an amusing scene occurred mar Warrenton, Virginia. General Toombs ordered the "fatigue" to "tote" rails and fill up a bad place in the road, when one soldier said he could not tote a rail; whereupon the general dismounted, and told the fellow if he would hold his horse he would do it. 'The man held the horse, and the general shouldered the rail and carried it 1 threw it across the hole which he had ordered filled. The soldier was a large, strapping fellow, and the rebuke the general gave him caused after peal of laughter, while the man looked as if he would have liked to have been in the hole, covered from Bight by the rails he "could not
THE TK5ERS.
A good story was "towld" of the gallant Captain Atkins, of Wheat's ccle-
1 battalion. Atkins, who is well known as the "Wild Irishman,"
being SIX feet two inches in height, and of the ('barley O'Mallcy school, was
formerly of the British Legion in the army of Italy, where, meeting Colonel
Wheat, he 1" came so attached to him, that he afterwards came over to this
try to join him. It was Captain Atkins who led Wl ttalion at
r the noble Wheat fell wounded, leading the celebrated
f of the Louisiana I -li a bare shillalah. In the battle in which
lorious Wheal fell, Atk; ling the roll of bis company the
. but one | ..i,,^
il a man but m Howivcr, 1 immediately pi tton
the only onanimi
. the chip of
'old / i. h.
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did splendidly.' Pid n't they, says T. 'They did,' scz he. 'and desarve pro- motion.1 Well, then, says I, they Ve got it, for ivory mother's son of 'em
iave been put on the staff of Colonel Wheat in heaven, and the only man left was unanimously elected a lieutenant this morning. Wi' that the gen- eral orders nie to Richmond to fill up me company with conscripts; so, calling me lieutenant, I gave him strict orders as to the discipline to be ob.-arved in me absence, and left him in charge of the company until me return."
CONFEDERATE FANATICS.
The captured Yankee officers at Richmond seemed to have a high respect for our infantry* One of th*em remarked that the cavalry-men were not as well built oor as courageous as their cavalry; but the infantry were too des- perate lor than. " For," said he, "when the ragged infantry come upon a battery, it is no use to try to hold it. They are j^oir.g to have it, and if Napoleon's men were behind it, they could not stop them. They, are crazy about batteries."
LOVERS VERSUS SUBSTITUTES.
We knew a young lady who was engaged to be married to one who was in the army. He suddenly returned home. " Why have you left the army?" she inquired of him. "I have found a substitute," he replied. " Well, sir, I can follow your example, and find a substitute too. Good morning." ■ And she left him in the middle of the room, a disgraced lover, because a disgraced soldier.
TOBY TRIES HIS GUN.
Toby is a high private in- the first regiment of the Mississippi army.' His company is armed with the breech-loading Maynard rifle, "warranted to shoot twelve times a minute, and to carry a ball effectively sixteen hundred yards." Men who fought at Monterey and Bucna Vista call the new-fangled thing a "pop-gun." To test its efficacy, Toby's captain told the men " they must try their guns." In obedience to the command, Toby procured the necessary munitions of war, and started with his "pop-gun" for the woods. Saw a squirrel up a high tree — took aim — fired. Effects of shot immediate and wonderful. Tree effectually topped, and nothing' of the squirrel to be found, except two broken hairs. " Pop-gun " rose in value — equal to a four-pounder. But Toby would n't shoot towards any more trees — afraid of being arrested for cutting down other people's timber. Walked a mile and a quarter to get sight of a hill. By aid of a small telescope, saw hill in distance ; saw a large rock on hill; put in a big load; shut both eyes — fired. A« soon as breath returned, opened eyes; could sec, just could, but could n't tear; at least could n't distinguish any sounds; thought Niagara had broke
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loose, or all out-doors gone to drum-beating. Determined to sec if shot hit. Borrowed horse, and started towards hill. After traveling two days a#d nights, reached place; saw setting sun shining through the hill. Knew right away that was where the shot hit. Went closer — stumbled over rocky fragments scattered for half a mile in line of bullet. Came to hole — knew the bullet hit there, because saw lead on the cdircs — walked in, walked through; saw teamster on the other side "indulging in profane lan- guage;" in fact, •• cussin' considerable," because lightning had killed his team. Looked as finder directed — saw six dead oxen in line with hole through
■
the mountain ; knew that was the bullet's work, but did n't say so to angry teamster, [thought best to be leaving; in consequence, didn't explore path of bullet any further; therefore, don't know where it stopped; don't know whether it Stopped at. all; in fact, rather think it did n't. .Mounted horse;, rode back through the hole made by bullet; but never told captain a word about it ; to tell the truth, was a little afraid he 'd think it*& hoax. " It is a right big story, boys," said Toby, in conclusion, " but it's true, sure as shooting. Nothing to do with Maynard rifle but load her up, turn her north, and pull the trigger; if twenty of them don't clear out all Yaukee- dom. then I 'm a liar, that's all."
SCATIIINt; SATIRE.
The following mild (?) and philosophic' views of Yankee nature, exhibited in their adulations of the Beast, is from the columns of the Richmond Examiner :
"To the well-regulated mind, the beastly practices of beasts excite no
disagreeable emotion; and it is said that the scientiflc intellect fipd
world of enjoyment in the contemplation of the disgusting utility of the
t order of creatures. Surely, the feast of the vulture upon carrion is
not reprehensible, and occasions in the beholder no special wonder, and
any anim ' for gratifying his peculi..'
the tiger that lap* bjood, and the beetle that gorges excrement, arc but I Yankees of the animal kingdom, accommodating the. wants of nature; and illy to impute to them improper motives in partaking of their cening repatto. It followi that our fe<
:
i in it her by rage nor Man
miaation to interp a them ai
• iral ■ • find t.">.
oalmne m of m ,ons
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'• The foregoing reflection-; are naturally enough, by the account
in Yankee newspapers, of Butler's triumphant progression from New York, to Washington, and back again to Boston. A great hue and cry has beta raised at the South because the spawn of Northern cities saw fit to prostrate themselves before this new Haynau — this modern Verres — returned from his conquests — this Beast emerging from hjs cave filled with dead men's bones. Why this outcry ? Wherefore assail the Brute, clotted with gore, or the chimpanzees that danced and chatted. at his coming, and beslobbered him with praise? What had this hog-hyena done contrary to his instincts, that we should so berate him and his worshippers? He had hung Mum- ford. That was true -Yankee courage. lie had issued a hellish order against the ladies of New Orleans. That was unaffected Yankee gallantry. He had' put the mayor and hundreds of others into dungeons. That was the Yankee conception of the proper method of administering the laws of ' the best Government the world ever saw.' He had banished from the city more than twenty thousand people, who refused to perjure themselves by taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. That was the Yankee idea of justice. He drove those people off without a change ol clothing, and with only fifty dollars in money. That was the Yankee idea of human- ity. He confiscated property by millions. That was Yankee honesty, lie supplied the rebels in Texas with munitions of war, and pocketed the pro- ceeds of the cotton received in exchange. That was a smart Yankee trick. His troops were whipped af Baton Rouge while he was in New Orleans. He was never under fire, and never smelt gunpowder, except at Hatteras, when the long-range guns of his fleet opened upon a mud fort which had no ordnance that could reach him two miles off, and on the strength of this he issued an address as pompous as Satan's speech to his legions in the bottomless pit. That was making material for Yankee history. After in- flicting innumerable tortures upon an innocent and unarmed' people — after outraging the sensibilities of civilized humanity by his brutal treatment of women and children — after placing bayonets in the hands of slaves — after peculations the most prodigious, and lies the most infamous, he returns, reeking with crime, to his own people, and they receive him with acclama- tions of joy, in a manner that befits him and becomete themselves. Nothing is out of keeping; his whole career and its rewards are strictly artistic in conception and in execution.
" He was a thief. A sword that he had stolen from a woman — the niece of the brave Twiggs — was presented to him as a reward of valor. He had vio luted the laws of God and man. The law-makers of the United States voted him thanks, and the preachers of the Yankee gospel of blood came to him and worshipped him. lie had broken into the sales and strong boxes of merchants. The Now York Chamber of Commerce gave him a dinner.
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TTc had insulted woraon. Things in female attire lavished harlot smiles upon him. He' was a murderer. And s nation of assassins have deified him. He is the representative man of a people lost to all shame, to all hu- manity, to all justice, all honor, all virtue, all manhood. Cowards by nature, thieves upon principle, and assassins at heart, it would be marvelous indeed if the people of the North refused to render homage to Benjamin Sutler, the beastliest, bloodiest poltroon and pick-pocket the world ever saw."
A NOBLE REPLY.
A Yankee pii^oner told General N. G. Evans, at Leesburg, that the-South could not triumph in this war, unless they were prepared to "wade knee deep in Norther;; blood."
The general replied: "Sir, we shall go breast Jeep, if necessary; only leave our arms free to cut down our enemies."
ANECDOTE OF STONKWAI.L.
The Richm ml correspondent of the Charleston Mercury ;:'vos the follow- ing an" idote of Stonewall Jackson, the niyht after the battle of Fredericks- burg :
"On Sunday night, a friend of Old Stonewall, invited to share his tent, turned in about eleven, and wrapped up snugly in the blankets. At one o'clock Jackson entered, and just as he was, bran new uniform, boots, spurs, and all, pitched into the pallet, was snoring in fifteen minutes, and in fil more had robbed his friend of all the blankets. After a hard struggle, this friend managed to gel hack enough cover to keep him from freezing — the night was very cold — and slept, as he supposed, "five minutes. He was aroused by Jackson, wli himself of every particle of
raiment, opened th . and went forth in puris naturalibtu.
He called for his old negro man — tin' same who knows when a battle is off by the fervor of his rs— and made him d
him two large buckets of water, which had been standing in the ft air. This done, he returned to the tent, rubbed himself dry with a lonned his new uniform, and went OUl J then jusl hall ;
and told him t
LID AT&0<
the
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case, which makes the hlood run cold. The daughter of one of the most prominent citizens (whose name has been given) was seized, disrobed, and then whipped by these worse than savages. Her alleged offence was the utterance of some "rebel" sentiment that offended the miscreants. Such are the scenes which have been inaugurated since the victories of the Sogth near llichmond. • This is their revenge for a fair defeat in an open field.
A WESTERN RANGER AND I1IS REVENGE.
During the political canvass of 1860, there appeared a champion of the Douglas Democrats in Tennessee, an athletic, hair-brained, go-ahead indi- vidual, of ready address and bright mind, who made much repute as a rough-and-tumble occasional elector and orator. When hard knocks and sore bones were to be given and received, he was usually chosen as the best butt and representative. "When an. appointment could be filled by none of the regular speakers, he was sure to be sent as a proxy for the absentee. Especially at the night mass, or the sudden impromptu gathering, was this Old Zach of the Douglas men peculiarly felicitous and at home. He knew everybody-^-hc was good at local hits — he had the issues all at his fin ends. Comely, sanguineous, and good-humored— a big, manly voice, and a clear, honest eye — he put many an older and abler speaker to the right about before the canvass closed. Add that he was one of the first soldiers, most zealous partisans, and most efficient organizers when the war began, and • none, who have had much acquaintance with Tennessee, will mistake the portrait tc be other than the redoubtable politician and dauntless guerrilla chief — Dick McCann.
As a captain in Rains' regiment for the first ycar; and leader of an inde- pendent band during half of the second, and afterwards major of cavalry, McCann has immortalized himself locally. He is the John Morgan of .Middle Tennessee. Familiar with every highway, path, and by-way, he moves invisib'ly, and strikes always where least expected. Some of the most daring exploits have been done by him. His operations have been limited, because his command has been small, but not less useful or bril- liant. Always up and doing — always ready, ambitious, and spirited — always full of animal life and vim — always quick-witted, shrewd, and courageous — he has illustrated to a nicety the dashing traits which ever made him a darling with the mob, and has reenacted his political career over the same field, as a military campaigner and soldier. Such is Dick McCann.
Many months ago — immediately succeeding a superb raid of his up to the very breastworks of Nashville — he was outlawed by a Federal proclamation. Under this (one of the bloodiest documents of the war) " his premises, out- houses, fences, and crops, and all things pertaining to the same " (as read
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the order), were " remanded to the proper authorities, to be destroyed hy fire." The order was ohcyed to the letter. A regiment (the Thirty-Second Illinois, Colonel Moore) inarched out to the place, and deliberately executed each detail, leaving a once fair farm a heap of charring ruins.
McCann wrote to Rosecranz: "Hum and be d — d; but if I don't give you and your officers who do so h — 1, my name 'a not Dick McCann." His boast has not been idle. For months, cold and wet, early and late, he has been seen in his saddle, flying, with his little hattalion of picked men, from point to point, and many a Yankee has paid the bitter penalty of his com- mander's folly. Some time since, however, Major Dick performed the crowning act.
(lathering his clan, he left Unionville, thirteen miles out of Shelbyvillo, at sunset. He pushed, by roads best known to himself, to the left of Mur- freesboro', until he reached Antioch. This is a depot nine miles out of Nashville, on the Chattanooga railroad. Here he waited for dawn, and the out train of cars. Doth came in season — the one loaded with mist and rain, the other with a regiment of Federal troops. From a copse Borne distance off, .McCann and his party fired two rouud volleys. J.1 he engineer was killed; several blue-coats rolled down the embankment; the whistle blew shrilly and long, and, after much confusion, the cars stopped. Too late! too late ! McCann and his one hundred riding men were off, off to the woods, where letHhem follow that dare.
The cars went no further than Lavergne that day. One of MeCann's nun slipped thither in disguise, and spent the night. He reported th< ualtics at forty-two killed and sixty-seven wounded.
"REBEIi"-I01
The Chattanooga (Tennessi i Rebel perpetrated the followin Pat dreamed that the immortal spirit of Stonewall Jackson knocked at the gal - of Paradise. " ' Wh i omea there?' inquired the good St. P< " 'Jackson,' was the reply. " 'What Jack wall !' '• • ( kmu in ; bully for you.' "
" 'i pie who ; • about bi
their la>t drop of b I irtionlar ab< ul the I
'•'! ;il attendant oi <//>,• but
officer who run- at the ti; 1 1
inc. is men
NOT DRl NK.
A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, speaking of General Jack- son, related tlie following:
"He is said to be, under ordinary circumstances, inclined to take 'cat
and before and during the battles around Richmond, he took I regular slumber. One evening, as he was riding with a single companion! he was observed to be asleep, and to be nodding. His companion wondered) but did not wake him. 1'rescntly they ; ass< d a man lying on the road-side. who cried out: ' Hellow, where did that man get his liquor?' This woke Jackson, who said : ' Well, 1 think I M better keep awake qom
GENERAL EWELL STRUCK IN THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
During the battle of Gettysburg, General Ewell, reining in his horse, and calling one of his aids to him, said: "] have been struck, assist me to alight."
Having helped him from his hur-c. the aid inquired whore the general had been hit.
"Here," said General Ewell, pointing to his wooden leg; " I '11 trouble you to hand me my other leg."
The fractured artificial limb having been removed, and a fresh one jiut on in its ])lace, the brave old general remounted his horse, and again rodi the front. %
A 001 NOIL <>F WAR.
"Dixie," of the Jackson Appeal, told the following:
"Here is a good story of Old Stonewall, for the accuracy of which 1 do not vouch, though it came to me directly from the camp. The night after the battle, a council of war was held l>y General Lee, to which all his gen- erals of distinction were invited. General Jackson slept throughout the proceedings, and upon being awaked and asked for his opinion, curtly said: 'Drive 'em in the river, drive 'em in the river.' "
HOW I > 1 1 > HE DIB?
A doting father, as he was riding into Savannah from the country, after the tirst battle of Manassas, was met by a mes enger, who reported to him the sad news of the death of a favorite sun. " How and where did he di was the instant interrogatory. ''.Under Beauregard, at Manassas, fighting against odds two to one," was the reply. "And lunv went the day?" was immediately ejaculated. " The enemy were routed and put to llight," was the response. " Thank God !" said the lather; "I am satisfied, then; I give up my boy."
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WILLIS P. MAXfiUM.
One of the most interesting incidents of the first battle of Manassas was related of Willie P. Maogum, Jr., son of ex-Senator Bfangam, of North Carolina. The tan was attach mel Fisher's regi-
ment, and owed" the preservation of hia life to a copy of the Bible pre- Bented to him by his sister. Ete bad the good honk in his left bi coat pocket. It w\ - ruck by a ball near the edge, But the hook ohan the direction of the bullet, and it glanced off, inflict in re hut not
dangerous flesh wound. The hook was saturated with blood, but the ad- vice written on a fly-leaf by the sister who gave it, was perfectly legible. It read thus: "To my brother. He will read a portion of this blessed Word every day, and remember hia sister."
GKNl ELAL 101 JOHNSTON TURN- BHOXMAKBB.
officer, while riding by the quarters of the general one day, with a sad- dle on hia hack, inquired of a person standing by if he knew where to direct him to a shoemaker. "There is one," was the waggish answer, pointing at the same time to Johnston, who was in citizens' clothes. Onward strode tie interrogator, until he reached the general. He then threw down the ;'\ at the general, with his hands in bis pockets, the word of command : "That saddle must be ready in one hour, sir." He then turned to depart. "Hold!'- said Johnston. "What did you "I said, have that saddle ready in an hour," responded Captain a know who I am V ■ Y< ■<; you are a shoemaker, and I want you to hurry up, too." "I am General Johnston, sir," shouted r. In another moment the saddle \vn- picked up, and the in in retreat. " If ated the general; "who I >ld you I w
i officer, sir — I do n't know his name." Then leave the 1 return in an hour, precisely." He heard, and he obeyed. In one hour ' aded, and in 1 -ion. " N
nr country m I have endeavored to ob
h ia the min who D
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Tb }lir.
• followin n of soldiers' wit :
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"A 'cavalry-man' cornea, rejoicing in immense top-boots, for which, in fond pride, he had invested fully forty dollars of pay; at once the cry from an hundred voices follows him along the line : ' Come up out'er them boots; come out; too soon to go into winter quarters. I know you're in thar; 1 Bee your arms stickin' out.' A bmnpkin rides by in an uncom- monly big hat, and is frightened at the shout: 'Come down out'er that hat! Come down; 't aint no use to Bay you aint up thar ; I see your legs hangin' out.* A fancy staff officer was horrified at the irreverent reception of his nicely-twisted moustache, as he heard from behind innumerable trees: 'Take them mice out'er your mouth; take 'em out; no use to say they aint thar, see their tails hangin' out!' Another, sporting immense whiskers, was urged to 'come out'er that bunch of bar. I know you 're in thar; I see your ears a workinV Sometimes a rousing' cheer is heard in the distance. It is explained: 'Boys, look out; here comes Old Stonewall, or an old hare, ono or t' other;' they being about the only individuals who invariably bring down the house."
SCENE IN A HOSPITAL.
Lady (at the bed-side of a sick soldier). " How d' yc do ? Is there any- thing you want?"
Soldier (curtly). " No, I believe not,"
Lady. " Is there nothing I can do for your"'
Soldier. " No, I think not."
Lady. " Oh, I do want to do something for you. Can't I wash your hands and face V
Soldier. "Well, if you want to right bad, I reckon you can; but if you do, you will be the fourteenth lady who has done so this morning."
THE ARMY .SIGNAL CORPS AT NEW ORLEANS — HOW MESSAGES ARE COMMU- NICATED— NOVEL WAY OF CONCEALING DESPATCHES — CURIOUS SIGNS:
Though the signal corps is a regular and important arm of the military service, few persons know of its uses and objects. The following from the New Orleans correspondence in a Northern paper, of the signal corps in that department, will ,^ive some interesting information on a subject of which very little is known outside its own members :
''The signal corps department connected with this division of the army in Louisiana, is a well-regulated, well-instructed, and most efficient arm of the service. The system of signalizing now in use- in the service, originated with .Major Myer, an officer of the regular army, and is probably the most
, iplete and thorough code of the kind, and for the purpose intended, now
extant in any country. By this method of signalizing, messages can be read through the telescope at the distance of twenty to twenty-five miles.
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Despatches can be sent in the sole of the carrier's boot, in the hair of his head, or in the stitches of his coat or breeches, and that, too, without the scrape of pen or slip of paper; indeed, the carrier himself is as ignorant of the code, and of the interpretation of the message he carries, as the rebels would be into whose hands he might chance to fall, or whose prisoner he might become. Not a single line, or sentence, or word, could he, or they, or both united, ever make out. None can read or decipher the messages, or understand the signals, but those familiar with the code, and none but the most reliable of commissioned officers (and these, even, are sworn under penalty of death should they divulge the secret, cither to friend or enemy), are ever taught it, Another safeguard thrown around the system is, that it is all unwritten. The instruction is oral, without books or written teach- ing. The knowledge of the art cannot be gobbled or pilfered, and thus rendered subservient to the armies of the enemy.
"On the battle-field, flags arc generally used in transmitting messages from point to point and from station to station, throughout the whole line, and these little tell-tales of discomfort to the enemy are looked upon by the generals with feelings of intense bitterness, hence the extraordinary efforts of his sharpshooters to pick off the signal-officer from his eyrie or keen lookout.
"At the battle of Napoleonvillc, several officers of the signal-party had their horses shot under them, and during the engagement several others were wounded. In dense fogs or storms, when, flags arc not available, mes- sent by sound of cannon, muskets, drums, or other noises, intelligent to the signal-officer, and as readily distinguished as other Bigna of the code; and besides those above described, there may be other methods of mining messagi a and conveying intelligence of an enemy's movements, not here enumerate
"In the department of the Gulf there arc permanent stations f<<r signal- Orleans, Algiers; Camp Parapet, and the Unit* bar- - below the city, on the 1. f: bank of the distance from the old battle-ground of General Jackson, and where the English General Packenham was killed in the war of 1 I lie face of ;?ry in this part of tl
• •■I UpOO the roofs of houses and tl:
Tl: 1 p Parapel i- fifty feet from the ground,
and is built in the top "fa giant 0 mk, and
lire* tly with
any
• oe from - I pon ■
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take the exact line of the custom-hem s<\ and remains there a permanent fix- ture. Ther^ is also upon this first stage a firm seat for the signal-officer, and from which he issues his orders and sends or receives his despatches. Upon the upper stage the flag, or light, or whatever signal may be used, is placed, under the care of some experienced operator, who knows the Blgn and motions of the torch or the flag which he handles in obedience to the signal-officer upon the stage below, but who does not know a single word of the message or the information which his motions and waves and other tures tell out to the station at headquarters. The watchmen at the stations are relieved at intervals of from two to four hours, and the penalty for neglect of duty or sleeping on the post is as severe as in any other part of the service."
OUR CAVALRY IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Our soldiers helped themselves to fresh horses of the Dutch farmers in Pennsylvania as they went aloug. A correspondent of the Now York Tri- bune describes how it was done :
" The performances of the rebel cavalry are as shrewd as they are dash- ing. They could not be more correctly posted if they had exact inventories of every pound of horse-flesh in the country. They order the farmers to bring out their steeds forthwith. Nothing less than true statements avail. 'It is a military necessity,' they say, 'and they are sorry for it;' but mentaj reservations are of no use. ' Smith, you have ten horses, here are only eight.' 'Jones, where 's the roan mare — I do n't see her here.' Miss Mar- tha had ridden the roan mare to meeting. They were sorry -to annoy Miss Martha, but the roan mare must have a chance for glory. They call all the blacksmiths from their devotions, and irreverently improvise a sort of horse- shoeing tournament. Everywhere there are scenes of rollicking bravado mixed with humor. 'A short life and a merry one,' Messieurs les
Butternuts."
s A LAUGHABLE MISTAKE.
A correspondent of the Chattanooga Rebel told the following on an honorable M. C :
"At Knoxville; my exceedingly good-looking and urbane friend, Hon. Wm. < i . Swann, was hurrying on to the railroad station to bid adieu to a lady friend, who was on the eve of her departure to a Southern city. When he had n eared the depot, and at the moment when his glance met that of the lady in question, two stalwart men, William Murphy and Zeke Grillain, of Kucker's peripatetic 'body-snatchers,' accosted him :
" ' Well,' said one of them, 'you can't make the trip this time;, we want you up at Colonel Blake's, where they provide quarters for conscripts.'
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" ' Ah !' answered the smiling Congressman, < I am the representative from this District in the Confederate States Congress.'
" 'You can't come that game,' said Gillam; 'we have already sent to the camp of destruction upwards of fifteen bonajidy Congressmen.' •
'• ' Well, but I 'm not joking,' said Mr. Swann.
•• - Nor are we,' said Rucker's men. ' You must march.'
•A distinguished lawyer and a great railway king came to the rescue of the Congressman. All without avail — Mr. Swann traveled to headquarters, more than a mile, was there identified, and dismissed.
" He hardly knew whether to laugh or swear as he moved himself down the street, lie would indulge a sort of smile now and then, but instantly would clench his fist and stamp his foot, when he reflected on the disap- pointment to which he had been subjected at the depot, by the operation of that pet measure of his, the Conscript Act."
TITK ABOLITION OUTRAGES ON CATHOLIC CHURCHES AND MINISTERS.
The New York Freeman's Journal, after referring to the outrages commit- ted by the Yankees upon Catholic churches and ministers, at Jacksonville Florida. Jackson. Mississippi, and Parkersburg and Martinsburg, Virginia, recited the following :
But a deeper cry of anguish reaches us from Louisiana, A gentleman 6f New Orleans, a devoted Catholic, writing to bid us farewell on the eve of his quitting that city, furnishes us with the following facts, which our correspondent assures ua cannot be discredited:
"Alter the Hartford and Albatros had passed Port Hudson, the crew of the Hartford, Admiral Farragut's flag-ship, landed at Point Coupee, some twenty-five miles above Baton Rouge. They commenced to plunder the place, and assaulted the Catholic church. The church is in the midst of the old parish 1. The monuments there erected to the memory of
the dead were broken and' defaced, and much wanton damage oommitl r Mittlebron'e house waa then visited — he being absent at another ;i. All that they thought oi sufficient value was carried off, and the of hi- movables broken or destroyed. Next they broke into the church, overthrew the tabernacle, and took from it the vessels they found there. Tins was sot enough. The Blessed] , os the
ground, while the called out For the Catholics -to corns and look
at their God 1' On Liction Veil, < i 'this will be
a nice blanket for my horse, when i gel 01
h entered complaii ragut. His r. plj was: 'It , you it wa- not the crew of I
i. or you would ha
i di for tie' damned b< ■■• -h rebels.'
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"Soldiers of a Massachusetts regiment, aboard the same vessel, were meantime busying themselves at another poor little Catholic chapel, at Shenale, a short distance away, also in charge of Father Mittlebron. Iu its neighborhood they intercepted the good priest, and demanded of him the horses he was driving. As he refused, thej seized the horses, ar- rested him, and finally transported him to Baton Rouge, where he was imprisoned ten days. At the end of this time they put him on a dry bluff in the middle of a crevasse, with two negroes and a barrel of pork and a barrel of biscuit, telling him to 'wait there till the rebels came for him!' This little island was swarming with alligators and poisonous snakes. Never- theless, after three days, he found means to escape, and reach his desolated home."
CITASED BY LADIES.
We were driving Sedgwick's infidels across Banks' Ford, when a Yankee officer was seen making his way through the streets of Fredericksburg, where we had no troops at the time, in order to gain the opposite side of the river. A number of ladies, standing on a porch at the time, saw the runaway, and cried out "stop him, stop him ;" when .Miss PRillippa Barbour, a niece of Colonel Phil. Barbour, of Virginia, with a number of other ladies, gave chase, and ran the Yankee officer nearly down, who, convulsed with laughter at the sport, and the idea of being pursued by ladies, be- came nearly exhausted, and gave up on being hemmed in at the corner of a garden fence ! The ladies took him prisoner, and locked him up in a room until our troops again entered the city.
LIKE TO HAVE SPOKEN TOO LATE.
The Chattanooga Rebel related the following as having occurred in that city :
As one of the hospital wagons was proceeding slowly toward the grave- yard, the other day, with a load of coffins, the driver was disturbed in his chant (he was whistling " Dixie" to the time of a dead-march) by a rattle in his rear. He turned and looked iu trepidation upon the long, narrow boxes. Rap ! Bap ! The reins fell from his hand. Thump ! Thump ! Then a voice cried out: " Hallo ! ho, there !" Driver was sorely frightened, and replied: " What's the matter ? Can't you rest quietly and peaceably T. What's the use of takin' it so hard for V "But I 'ni not dead!" returned the voice, making a desperate effort, and wrenching out two screws from the lid. " The devil you say !" "No, I'm not, let me out of this." "Oh, go along! You'd better be quiet, we '11 be there presently." " Be where?" " Why, to the grave." Another prodigious plunge, and three more screws out. Lid by this time half off, and one arm and part of a leg protruded.
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"Oh, Lord!" roared the terrified driver, "do n't, they'll lay the whole of it to ine." "Well, let me out then." The driver cracked his whip, the horses dashed forward, and away 'went the dead, and the semi-dead, and the would n't-be-dcad at all, at a gallop, the coffin of the obstreperous corpse creaking, and rocking to and fro, and the voice of its inmate crying, "Wait till I get out o' here, and if I do:; m — !" At length the
grave-yard was reached, where the poor fellow was relieved by the workmen and *sextons present. He was full of fight and swore roundly against the "darned rascal that wanted to bury him, dead or .'.live," but on explanation and expostulation, he agreed to be pacilied, and rode back tq town sit! Upright in his own coffin. lie recovered, and returned to his command.
ENES ON TIIK RAPPAHANNOCK.
While the two armies were confronting each other at Fredericksburg, many pleasing incidents occurred between the pickets stationed alon" the pahannock, the distance from each other being less than two hundred yards. A correspondent wrote thus of those scenes:
Two of our privates went over the other day, as I am informed, and took dinner with the commissioned officers on the post ; and two of the Yankees came paddling across the river while i was present. Their great anxiety is to obtain tobacco; and a plug or two laid on a small board, with a paper sail stuck in it to waft it over the Rubicon, will invariably bring back coffee, sugar, or anything else they have to exchange. A paper held up at any time will bring a dozen men flying down to the river bank, each with a Herald, Trtbun r't Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated, or some 1<
light of the newspaper firmament, each anxious for a barter. Of course in these interviews manyvharp and funny things are said, but the best of feelings apparently prevail, and, by the Ya; daily, are sought to be
vated.
Not Ion of our men, an Alabama lawyer, cried out to his oeigh-
pposite :
"] say, Yank, when are you coming over again '.•""
" Look here, 'butternut,' 'simmer down ' on that point; we don't waul 11."
" \\ hy, did n't we treat you well?" was the rejoinder — " did n't we give jou I
!>ut you led us a of a dance. \V
time do< - your music play in
"BnllS ipt reply — "i;. for our side, and
Bally for you — whoop- vou
after I
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" Don't want'er see jcr — Been i oongh of you already."
"Go to ," (and the worsted Yankee mentioned a hot place.)
" Sorry I can't accommodate you," said the Southerner; " but old Satan
has pent word to General Lee that the place was so full of Yankees already
tin 3 have to hang on by the window-sills, and he won't take in Southern
men no how."
Such is one of the thousand interviews which the " voice of the waters,"
could it speak, would tell. of this strange phase of the war.
A MILITARY EXECUTION.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writing from Kinston, North Carolina, thus described a military execution :
"The mournful cortege, consisting of a rude wagon drawn by a pair of mules, a sad-looking prisoner, with his hands tied behind him, and a dozen troopers as a guard, passed through the streets, and soon gathered in its train a motley crowd of black and white, who followed in procession to the place of execution.
" The name of the culprit was Michael Bryant, of the Sixty-Third Reg- iment ofxNorth Carolina cavalry; his age, about thirty-six; and his offence, desertion — not, however, to the ranks of the enemy. Arrested, he was duly tried by a court-martial, and it being necessary that an example should be made to check a growing evil in the army, he was sentenced to be ' shot to death.' It was not until the morning of his execution that the poor fellow became aware of the day or hour that was to terminate his careen, but he had evidently been 'preparing for the crisis, and when the fact was an- nounced, it fell upon a heart nerved to brave death, come in what shape it might. This composure never left tyira.
"Reaching the place of execution, which was in a field adjoining the encampment of his old command, the cortege halted in front of an ominous- looking black coffin, behind whieh was a stake. The guard alighted, and the prisoner, strong and buoyant, as if he was the least among the actors of the drama, also leaped lightly from the vehicle, and took his seat upon the narrow box that was so soon to enclose him forever. An officer then advanced and bound him by the arms firmly, with his back to the stake. I now had an opportunity of observing the prisoner more closely. He was clad in an evcry-day suit of citizens' clothes, with his pantaloons carelessly tucked in the top of his boots, and as he sat there, watching the prepara- tions for the tragedy, looking upon the faces of his old comrades, with whom he had been associated in camp and field, alone and helpless, with the agony of death so .near, and eternity already opening to his vision, the acutcst observer would have failed to detect the faintest indications of
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tremor on his person. Stern, strong, calm as a statue, he waited until the regiment, on foot, was filed into position before him.
"After a lapse of live or six minutes, came the squad of twelve, who were to act as his executioners, and stood twelve paces distant. The adjutant of the regiment then advanced, and read the verdict of the court-martial. This done, one of the guard approached to tie a handkerchief over the face of the prisoner. Then, for the first time, did I notice anything in his bearing whicb scenied to indicate that he was not already totally dead to feeling. A glance of his eyes to the heavens, as if he was invoking Divine mercy, a barely perceptible change of countenance, and an expression of unutterable sadness, told of a fearful struggle that was going on within. A moment's pause, and the officer in command, in a low tone, gave the order : ly, aim (twelve rifles, six with blank cartridges, were bearing on the prisoner's heart, and the click of the twelve triggers left but a second between life and death), fir
" Hardly had the smothered word issued from the lips, when the body of the unfortunate man, pierced by six balls, shrunk convulsively from the shock, the head dropped upon the breast, and a deep sigh told of an ebbing life. The surgeon of the regiment now advanced to feel the pulse, and at line instant the colonel exclaimed: 'Attention!' Half a minute had already elapsed, but at that word the dying man raised his bandaged head, and, as if he was peering, through the <larkness to take a long, last look at the fading world, slowly turned it from side to side; then dropping it upon his breast, it rested there for several seconds, while the n tors looked on with a silence that was disturbed only' by the rustling wind. 0 it arose and fell, and again and again, until finally the short, -
icceeded by a death-like repose, showed that the soul of the :ter had returned to the God who gave it.
"On examining the body, I found that ouc ball had entered at the base of tic two the left, and three the right side. The coffin was then
opened, the body enclosed, and, in half an hour, all that remained of Michael Bryant was six feet under ground."
B DURING THE WAR."
Tli • <'] ; iioo correspondent of the Mobile Reguter told the follow of a prr m : "I: illy Iri-h lad took it inf :< ce
of calic > for the (• rm of 'thv v n daring the war.' * V he,
do yc's dd yc's stand qi for tl
• or duriu' the w..
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" 'Faith, I could,' said Maggie; and so they both went to the priest, and were married. After the ceremony was concluded, Pat said to the priest : 'Mind ye, this contract is but for three years or durin' the war!' 'No, no,' said the priest, ' it 's for life and forever.' ' Peril a bit/ replied Pat, pulling a paper from his pocket, ' here is the contract between me and Maggie yonder, and it reads, according to her consent, that she enlists as my wife jist for three years or durin' the war, and not a day longer !' And Pat rushed off with his three years' bride, leaving the priest in utter amazement."
AN INCIDENT OP THE SIEGE OF TORT HUDSON.
The Natchez Courier' published the following:
"At a charge of our men on the Federal cotton breast-works — when they took, burnt, and spiked the enemy's guns — it is said fifteecn Confederates were taken prisoners. The guard took them before General Banks, who said : ' They are men too brave to be my prisoners ; conduct them to Gen- eral Gardner, and say to him, for humanity's sake, to surrender his works, and stop this effusion of blood.' The prisoners were accordingly conducted to General Gardner, who, having the like number of Federals within his works, immediately ordered their release, allowed them to inspect the whole of his fortifications, and then directed them to be conducted by his guard to the Federal line, with this injunction : 'Tell General Banks that you have inspected all of my defences; you know their strength; and, for the sake of humanity, request him to give up further contest, and save the further . effusion of blood in his army."
THE INCORRIGIBLE JOKERS.
The Yankees are determined to have their fun, if their leaders arc afraid to fight On the 1st of April, 1863, between four thousand and five thou- sand of them landed near Pocotaligo (South Carolina), and, with au air of boldness that augured something terrible, took up. the line of march inland. General Evans, hearing of the movement, immediately dispatched four reg- iments to engage them, and dispute their passage. On coming in sight, the Yankees were found in full retreat to their boats, but a tall pole had been stuck in the ground at the turning point, and on it inscribed, in large letters, "April fool."
dr. warren stone, of new orleans.
All the world knows old Dr. Warren Stone. He is celebrated for his great surgical skill, as well as for his greatness of heart, independence of character, and dovotion to the South. This truly great man was Selected by Brute Butler as a " shining mark," upon which to cast his venom. He
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■was accordingly arrested, and brought into the presence of the tyr:;nt. The doctor walked up to Butler, without waiting to be asked, arid said, in an abrupt, curt manner : " Here I am, General, and I want to know what I am arrested for." Butler looked at the doctor from head to foot, and said, con- temptuously : " I had you arrested because you are a great rebel, and the influence of such a man as you are is dangerous to the community. T shall send you to Fort Jackson, to get you out of my way." The old doctor looked .steadily into the repulsive, crooked eyes of his wicked enemy, as he indignatly replied : " Great rebel, hey ? You'll send mo to Fort Jackson, .' I glory in being a great rebel; you can send me to Fort Jaekson, and be. damned." When about to be sent on board the boat that was to convey him to the fort, Dr. Stone was informed that if he would pay a of five hundred dollars he could avoid going down; but the old patriot scornfully retorted : "Tell General Butler that it seems to be a matter of dollfira with him, but it is a matter of principle with me, and I would not give him five cents !" No man in the community was more boloved and ad- mired than Br. Stone, and as soon as it became known to his friends that he could be relieved on paying a fine, they sent the money to Thief Butler, and the noble old man was released.
A CANDID WITNESS.
A correspondent of the Milwaukie News, writing from Arkansas, cave some very strong testimony as to the influence and result of Yankee med- dling and effect's on the condition and prospects of the negro. lie said :
With no one to care (or them, without food, clothes, or medicine, they sicken and die here by the hundreds — freed at last. Back of General Washburn's headquarters, but a short distance, is a peach-orchard, the little graves in rows so <lose that one can hardly step between them. Here, about two feet und -r the ground, arc over a thousand dead negroes, ami day after fliers, who have starved to death, are being added to the nameless list. And there are a dozen negro grave-yards in Helena, each ! pidly
filled with beings who were once happy and contented, in health and ( l<>r. of use to themselves and the world.
A SOUTHERN LADY'S BROTHER VURDBRED TOR p] BOM
INSULT.
We found the following in the Baltimore tn:
" A ladj dquartcrs to obtain from him a j
tiding thi ived her with his usual politeness, but rod I thai she
the Confi \y, in th' - "i. mildly
: thai it would, perl ,:nce
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without such a decoration. 'I have a right, sir, to consult my own wishes as to what I shall wear.' 'Then, madam, ' replied the general, 'permit me to claim an equal right in choosing with whom I shall converse ;' and the dignified lady had to withdraw from his presence. Subsequently, the proud daughter of Secessia returned to the general's office without the offensive brooch, and, making a slight apology for her indecorous conduct on a for- mer occasion, reiterated her request for a pass, which was promptly filled up and handed to her.
" The lady proceeded to Suffolk, and, after visiting her friends, she very
• injudiciously walked around among the provost guard of National troops, wearing the brooch above mentioned in a very conspicuous portion of her dress. The attention of the soldiers was at once attracted to the emblem, much to the gratification of the giddy girl. A very polite and gallant officer, of the Thirteenth New York, accosted her at once, and told her it would be better for her to remove the brooch out of sight, or it might cause •a difficulty, but the young lady heeded not the admonition. Passing along, she was met by a soldier, who told her she must not wear the ' Stars and Bars' now, as it was nothing but an emblem of weakness and evacuation. She said to the soldier that she w,ould not remove the brooch for any Yan- kee hireling; whereupon the soldier snatched the hated brooch from the girl's bosoiji, and removing the colors, he handed the golden bauble back to its owner. Some citizens observing the act, fell upon the soldier, and were belaboring him pretty badly, when he drew his bayonet from his scabbard, and striking one of the attacking party several blows, he foiled him to the earth, and injured him so badly that it was feared he would not recover.
• The injured man was the silly girl's brother."
4
A TOMBSTONE HARANGUE.
A correspondent of the Richmond Examiner, writing from Winchester, related the following occurrence during the time the Yankees were in pos- session of that place :
On Sabbath morning notices were sent around to the pastors of the dif- ferent churches, to the purport that there would be divine service that evening in the cemetery lot of the town. The ministers, supposing it to be the occasion of the funeral of some citizen, and not knowing the Source from whence it emanated, read out the notices to their congregations. A large number of persons assembled, when, instead of a funeral sermon, a miscreant, in the shape of an abolition preacher, mounted a tombstone, and commenced his discourse in this strain :
" My colored friends, hearken unto me. You are the children of Israel, and we come to give you freedom. You are oppressed, and we come to deliver you from your thraldom. I stand in Moses' shoes, and President
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Lincoln stands in Jesus Christ's shoes. Jesus Christ was a very good sort of a man, but he did n't make the sin of slavery plain enough."
At this point in his remarks the disciple of abolition was set upon by the white citizens present, who threatened to mob him unless he took himself off, which he did.
HOW TO OBEY ORDERS.
When the Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment was quartered at Corinth, the guard around their encampment received all sorts of complicated instruc- tions, some of which were forgotten as soon as delivered, while others were rigidly adhered to by the sentinels.
On one occasion, George Wood, of the Adams Light Guard, was in- structed by the corporal of his relief not to permit any private soldier to cross the lines, unless accompanied by a commissioned officer ; nor was he to permit any cakes, candies, fresh pork, fruit, or whisky to enter the lines, upon any pretence whatever.
"I b'lieve I 've got 'em all," said George. "Let me see : nary soldier to go across the lines on his own hook, that's one; no cakes, that's two; can- dies, is three; fresh pork, is four; fruit, is five; and whisky makes up the half dozen. All right, corporal, you can toddle."
George had walked his beat but a few moments, when an immense porker came grunting along, evidently well satisfied with his prospects of obtaining a good breakfast from the garbage lying about the camp. lie by-and-by approached close to the lines, when George suddenly shouted :
"Halt!"
A significant grunt was the only response from his porcine friend, who still came nearer.
"Halt! I say, yelled George, ef you don't I '11 be dad blamed ef I don't shoot."
The pig steadily advanced, when bang went George's musket, and down dropped the pork< r, as dead as a nail.
The colonel, who was enjoying his late paper a few feet off, started up at the report of the musket, and exclainn id :
low dare you, sir, discharge your musket without order.-!'' Call the iorporal of the guard."
"Corporal of the guard, posl No. '•'! The d — 1 to pay here, on my line!" fihout-
"Arrest. that man," said the colonel, aa the oorp ml i le hi- appearanee. "Well, that 'a nice," rejoined G t a Fellow for
orders is tight papers."
"I niver gave yeez any orthflH to do the like," said the corporal.
v>0 QLBANINQS.raOll
v i n'f » n»nli< • ; " bold on, here. Did n't you •
jr^r-^^sis---*- ibj
an officer PJ
« I did, av coorse !" . i:«M?»'
.. U, ».tyOT toll n,c cot .0 (el eny eak« eo„,c .nto the m> -
>• Thrue for yeea I"
•• 3<m about candies?"
" That 's all right !"
" Then there was fruit?"
«Yis!"
« Whisky ?"
" fT/S'r veiled George. « You do n't 'sposc I was going to " Aml-"" "* 7 V i vlu.n T knew it was against orders,
let that hog pass my hue do you, when I knew it was „ When you catch me on post, you can bet your hfe I a *arl
"S »wtl into a roar of laughter, and ordered the sentinel to resume his duty. The injunction against admitting fresh pork over the lines was for the time being laid- aside.
A CASE OF YANKEE BARBARITY.
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vested bultolk, a snaip a j *v,«„,<yl. i,u l10U^e The \ankees
''/ c,c e t the wood, and into the Confederate hnes, .hen she tempted to eseape w entering her limb,
™ ■«* "£ hi Ih trin t, r ; minutes, from b. of blood. The mst below the hip, she Ukm in i j
,,iMren. frightened, bid Aemselves ... the b^™le^ After s,,„ ,!„„,, upon the gronnd by ta^*£ ""^^i^urf him to take . « W ^^^tS^STSU be put. the dead ' T1-' %£ I Ld c n cd it into town. On hi, arrival in town ho -
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gruffly told to take his wife to the ^rave-yard and bury her. He carried her to her brother's, John R. Kilby, Esq., and a few friends prepared her for burial, Mr. Kilby not being allowed to leave the house, or to attend the remains of his sister to the grave-yard.
'• Nor did the cruelty of the fiends stop here. Mr. Smith was denied the privilege of going in search of his little children, and for four days and nights they wandered in the woods and among the soldiers, without any- thing to eat or any place to sleep. The baby was taken up by a colored woman and nursed, until some private in the Yankee army, with a little better heart than his associates, took it on his horse and carried it to town."
:VTIIP' SKETCH — THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG BY MOONLIGHT — MI.V- TIIE REBEL WORKS.
A Yicksburg correspondent of the Cleveland Herald furnished the fol- lowing description of the operations of General Grant against Vicksburg:
" Let us climb the parapet and see the siege by moonlight. In front of us, beyond the enemy's works, but hidden from us, lies the city of Vicks- burg. Look carefully, and you can distinguish the spires of the court- house and two or three churches. The rebels had a signal station on the forme'r when we came, but our shells made it too warm for them, and they withdrew. The mortars are playing to-night, and they arc well worth sec- itrg. We watch a moment, and in the direction of Young's Point, beyond the city, suddenly up shoots a flash of light, and in a moment the ponder- • ous shell, with its fuse glowing and sparkling, rises slowly from behind bluffs; up. up, it goes, as though mounting to the zenith, over it comes rds us, down through its flight trajectory into the city, and explodes with a shock tb it jars the gr »und for miles. There are women and tender- children where those shells 'fall, but war' is war.
■inch monsters arc grumbling far way on the right.
playing — we can even see tin: cannoneers be-
thcin at < Our's will open at midnight; then there will be
music to your heart's content. Meanwhile, let us go to the front. A hun-
dn 1 yards to the right of where we now are we enter a deep trench, i
lowing this, as it winds down around the hill, we reach the opening of a
or miii". The air within is damp and close, like that of a van I dies arc burning dimly at interval- he ir a hum of voices far within
and ■• ; : rocecd, and presently meet two men carrying a bar-
row of earth, for OC Ifork night and day. Finally, we r- MD the
moonlight again, and emerge into a w
the covered way. I d, and filled v i protect •
ing party. A : of cotton bah I 00 tin
enemy, and we must mount them to look 16
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"We arc now within sociable distanoe of the chivalry. Those men lying
on the ground, ten to thirty yards from as, are our hoys, our advance pick*
but that gray fellow, with the bright musket, which glistens >. a few
step? beyond, ifl a {reb .' long-haired and hot-blooded, one of Wall's famous
jion — a bull-dog to fight, -are.
•• Now jump down and enter the mouth of the pthcr mine, which leads towards the salient of the enemy's work. Stumbling along, we reach the end where the men arc diggiatg. The candle burns very dimly — the air is almost stifling. Never mind, let us watch them. Sec that Blender, bright- looking fellow Bwinging that pick. Great beaded drops of perspiration trickle down his faoej there is not a dry thread in his coarse, gray shirt; but no matter, the pick swings, and eAcb stroke Blices down six inches of the tough subsoil of Mississippi. That fellow was 'Jim,' once a tender- handed, smooth-faced, nice young man, whose livery-stable, billiard and bills were a sore trial to his worthy governor. Jim sa\ - that he used to wear gloves and 'store-clothes,' and that girls called him good-looking, but that 's played out now; he is going for I'nclc Sam.
" But wc return to the fresh air. Look over the parapet again towards the turret, where we saw the rebel picket. Do you. see the little gray mounds which cover the hillside so thickly? — ten, twenty, thirty, you»carf count on a few square rods. Ah, my friend, this is sacred ground you arc looking upon. There our boys charged; there they were slain in heaps; but they pressed on, and leaped into the ditch. They climbed the parapet, and rolled back into eternity. Others followed them; their flag was planted, and they sprang over, to meet their certain death. An hour passed, and one returned; the rest were dead."
MORALS OP YANKEE OFFICERS.
The most lamentable fact that has been brought to my notice is the large number of officers who have lately been tried by court-martial. The com- mission of atrocious crimes and all sorts of disgraceful offences by officers, high and low, from colonel to lieutenant, is of daily occurrence.. One officer has been guilty of theft, another of drunkenness, a third has proven himself a coward, a fourth has had a fistic encounter with a soldier, a fifth was caught in the company of negro wenches, and so on, <cJ infinitum. A lieutenant was recently found in a miserable log hut, long after tattoo had been sounded, in a condition of drunken bestiality. A few cedar logs were heaped together in the fire-place, and the fire leaped cheerily up the chim- ney. In the centre of the room, a barrel served as a table, and around it, there sat the lieutenant, in the full uniform of a United States' officer, play- ing cards with three blubber-lipped, greasy negro wenches! A court-mar- tial was convened, and the offender was charged with violation of one of
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the articles of war, or, in other words, with conduct unbecoming an officer. To this charge there was a single specification, setting forth the time, place, and circumstances of the alleged offence. The court sat in due form. The charge was read, and the accused plead not guiltj'. The specification was recited, and to this the accused naively plead guilty! Here, then, was the height of abolition extravagance. (Juilty of keeping company with ne- gresses, but not guilty of conduct unbecoming an oil':
MAJOR U. W. FKY's PIOUS PAUTTNO COMPLIMENTS — A DEVIL IN A
STOVE-PIPE, from Saturday, the day of the surrender of Roanoke, till the following Wednesday, Major Fry was confined in a room in the house of Dr. flitters, on the island. In this room the major discovered a portion of a keg of fiowder, the private property of Dr. Rittera. Understanding that he was to be removed on shipboard, the major took about twenty pounds of the pow- nd rolling it in a sheet, made a sort of cartridge, and rammed it up the pipe of the stove that stood in the room. In the course of an hour after completing *he job, the major was removed, and, his mind being other- wise occupied, thought little more of it. From some of our wounded, who had been left at Klizabeth City, we learn that t^ne rainy day the Yankees, for the first time, built a fire in the stove. In a few minutes thereafter, a portion of the house frantically lifted itself out of place, and fifteen or fWcnty Yankees were lying in various disreputable attitudes upon
several being killed. One oi* the survivors remarked, that he had in the Scriptures of bad spirits in men, women, and hogs, but it was it time he ever knew of a devil in <t stove-pipe.
THE OLD LADY ANI> IK FLAG.
The correspondent of the Savannah Republican related the following: Op the morning after the nighl of loth September] the army bad on the !' with the enemy pressing upon our heels, but dared not si
after US. Tiny CUT* I Bl d v. ire sf BJ from the opposite bank, threatening every minute to make advance. "We happened to go into the
little villa 'ii, which is just on the south bank, i
ford where the arm; . and in j a ling by I
small dwelling we ' tome wtf flag bung in
'portico, much I b, and we* herl lie bold people
;tt dwell': | rniiglit to SUcb di
compelled oul that awful sign of n lady
•unded <>n the . sad
relieved our d<
carried in her hand a bright-ban
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« ■wanted, and we answered, water. " Very well," said she, " do you see that,"
pointing to the flag. We answered in the affirmative. "That means n,o
quarter, and this," pointing to the revolver, " is to Bhi t the first man that
into that yonder cabbage-patoh." It is niost sincerely hoped that the
Yankees will give us as little cause to exercise our firmness as we did that good Virginia lady the use of her small lire-arm.
OUTION AT FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE — DETAILED PACTS AND HISTORY
OF 1\\.'
A correspondent of the Nashville Press, writing under date of Franklin, Tennessee, June 9, 1863, related the follow]
" "Last evening, ahout sun-down, two strangers rode into camp, and called at Colonel Baird's headquarters, who presented unusual appearances. They had on citizens' overcuats, Federal regulation pants and caps. The caps were covered with white flannel havelocks. They wore side-arms, and showed high intelligeucc. One claimed to be a colonel in the United States army, and called himself Colonel Austin; ihe other called himself Major Dnnlap, and both represented themselves as inspector generals of the United States army. They represented that they were now out on an expedition in this department, inspecting the outposts and defences, and- that dav before yesterday they had been overhauled by the enemy, and lost their coats and purses. They exhibited official papers from General llosen- cranz, and also from the war department at Washington, confirming their rank and business. These appeared all right to Colonel Baird, and at first satisfied him of their honesty. They asked the colonel to loan them fifty dollars, as they had no coats, and no money to buy them. Colonel Baird loaned them the money, and took Colonel Austin's note for it. Just at dark they started, saying they were going to Nashville, and took that way. Just as soon as their horses' heads were turned, the thought of their beiDg a struck Colonel 'Baird, he says, like a thunderbolt, and he ordered Colonel Watkins, of the Sixth Kentucky cavalry, who was standing by, to arrest them immediately. But they were going at lightning speed. Colonel Watkins had no time to call a guard, and only with his orderly he set out on the chase. He ordered the orderly to unfiling his carbine, and if, when he (the colonel) halted them, they showed any suspicious motions, to fire on them without waiting for an order. They were overtaken about one-third of a mile from here. Colonel Watkins told them that Colonel Baird wanted to make some further inquiries of them, and asked them to return. This they politely consented to do, after some remonstrance, on account of the lateness of the hour and the distance they had to travel, and Colonel Wat- kins led them to his tent; where he placed a strong guard over. them. It was not until one of them attempted to pass the guard at the door that they
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even suspected they were prisoners. Colonel Watkins immediately brought them to Colonel Baird, under guard. Xhey at once manifested great un-
• <ss, and pretended great indignation at being thus treated. Colonel Baiid frankly told them that he had his suspicions of their true character, and that they should, if loyal, object to no necessary caution. * They were very hard to satisfy, and were in a great hurry to get off. Colonel Baird told them that they were under arrest, and he should keep them prisoners until he was fully satisfied that they were what they purported to be. lie immediately telegraphed to General Rosencranz, and received the answer that he knew nothing of on// such men — that there were no such men in his employ, or had his pass.
"Long before this dispatch was received, however, every one who had an opportunity of hearing their conversation was well satisfied that they were
I. Smart as they were, they gave frequent and distinct evidence of duplicity. After this dispatch came to hand, which it did about tw o'clock (midnight), a search of their persons was ordered. To this the. major consented without opposition, but the colonel protested against it, and
I put his hand to his arms. But resistance was useless, and both sub- mitted. When the major's sword was drawn from the scabbard, there wen.' found etched upon it these words: ' Lieutenant W. G. Peter; Confed
rmy.' At this discovery Colonel Baird remarked: ' Gentlemen, you have played this d — d well.' 'Yes,' said Lieutenant Peter. famd it ■ near being a perfypt succeu.' They then confessed the whole matter and upon further search, various papers showing their guilt were found upon their persons. Lieutenant Peter was found to have on a rebel cap, secreted by the white flannel havelock.
olonel Baird immediately telegraphed the facts to General Roflecrani and asked what he should do, and in a short time received an order 'to try
d by a drum-head court-martial, and, if found guilty, hang tL diati //.' The court was convened, and before daylight the case was decided and the prisoners informed that they must prepare for immediate death by
Dg.
•• At, daylight, men were detailed to make a scaffold. The i
lith Illinois, who, upon the;, t, admin; ;i< in. Ti. ]H,;r
••-. elry, silver cup-, and other I
" i \ lOted by I wild chem
i in a v. ry public hing within eight feet of the ground. A )C^
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Diinutes past nine the guards conduotcil the prisoners to the scaffold. They walked firm and steady, u ii' unmindful «il* the fearful precipice which the}' were approaching. The guards did them the honor to march with arm- I
"Arrived at the place of • execution, they stepped upon the platform of
the cart, and took their respective places. The Provost Marshal, Captain aoder, then tied a linen handkerchief over the face of each, and adjusted tin- ropes They then asked tin- privilege of bidding a last fare- well, which being granted, they tenderly embraced each other. This i the cart moved from under them, and they hung in the air. What a fear- ful penalty '. They swung off at half-past nine. In two minutes the lieu- tenant ceased to struggle. The colonel caught hold of the rope with both hands and raised himself up at three minutes, and ceased to struck" at live minutes. At six minutes, J>r. Forester, Surgeon Sixth Kentucky cavalry, and !(r. Mess. Seventy-Eighth Illinois infantry, and myself, who had been detailed to examine the bodies, approached them, and found the pulse of both full and strong. At seven minutes, the colonel Bhrugged his shoul- ders. The pulse of each continued to beat seventeen minutes, and at twenty minutes, all signs of lii'e had ceased. The bodies were cut down at thirty minutes, and encoffined in full dro.«s. The colonel was buried with a o-old locket and chain on his neck. The locket contained the portrait and a braid of hair of his intended wife — her portrait was also in his vest pocket — these were buried with him, at his request. Both men were buried in the same grave — companions in life, misfortune and crime, companions in infamy, and now companions in the grave.
"I should have stated, in another place, that the prisoners did not want their punishment delayed, but well knowing the consequence of their acts, even before their trial, asked to have the sentence, be it by hanging or Bhooting, quickly decided and executed. But they deprecated tho idea of death by hanging, and asked for a commutation of the sentence to shooting.
"The elder and leader of these unfortunate men was Lawrence Williams, of Georgetown, D. C. He was as Jine-Im.king a man as I have ever seen, about six feet high, and perhaps thirty years old- He was a son of Captain [Williams, who was kilkod at the battle of Monterey. He was one of the most intellectual and accomplished men that I have ever known. I have never known any one who excelled him as a talker, lie was a member of the regular army, with the rank of captain of cavalry, when the rebellion broke Out, and at that time was aid-de-oamp and private secretary to General "Winficld Scott. From this confidence and respect shown him by so dis- tinguished a man, may be judged his education and accomplishments. He was a first cousin of General Lee, commanding the Confederate army on the Eappahannock. Soon after the war began, he was frank enough to inform
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General £cott that all lift sympathies were with the South, :w his friends and interests were there, and that he could not fight against them. As he was privy to all of General Scott's plans for the campaign, it was not thought proper to turn him loose; hence he was lent to Governor's Island, where he remained three months. After the first I>ull Rua battle, he was allowed to go South, where he joined the Confederate army, and his subse- quent history T havi no1 been able to learn much about. He was awhile on ral Bragg's staff as ehief of artillery, hut at the time of his death his inspector general. When he joined ih^ Confederate army he altered his name, and now signs it thus: « Lawrence W. Orton, Col. Cav. P. A. C. S. A..' (Provisional Army Confederate States of America.) Sometimes ho wrote his name 'Orton,' and sometimes 'Anton,' according to the object which he had in view. This we loam from the papers found on him. These facts in relation to the personal history of Colonel Orton I have gathered from th< I himself and from Colonel Watkins, vbo
knows him well, they having I to the same regiment of the regular
army — Second cavalry. I Watkins, however, did not
-nizc Colonel Orton until after he had made himself known, and now mourns his tragic i 'id.
"The other victim of this delusive and reckless daring was Walter G.
r, a lieutenant in the rebel army, and Colonel Orton's adjutant. He
was a tall, handsome young man, of about twenty-five year.-, thai gave many
on and roflnement.
•• Of his history, I have been unable to gather any thin-. II. played hut
Colonel Orton ■ • .d, r. and did all the talking and
managing Such is a succinct account of one ->f nter-
icb were the < I u]i.,
I the awful trag "History will hardly furnish its parallel in the character and standing of the | 1 daring of the enterprise, and the •
with whiol ry and punishment them. They <
our c^nij', and went all through it, minutely ii . and forci s, wi'li a ' uterous insignia upon t;
tho l.oldness of th> ';eir flimsy su'
ful. " To the 1 . '. i. :,,. d ilia! ;'■
'•ndo.iv u • thnmgl our lines in ordei the
' and in Europe. Bttl poorly matured, thai wl
either told it, it w BT, and I
. four;
I tOM ,
except C. I the ignomy of be; : fl ey were ton well in-
>t to know that, upon conviction of being Bpi< -. they must E they expected i;. and made do complaints. "Colonel Orton, who 1 Colonel Watkini he saw him,
told him that he barely escaped hia ! a the ai made — that he
I aid on his pistol to kill him and escape — that had it bees any one I ere, he would have done so. "('el' nil Orton delivered his sword and pistols to Colonel Watkins, ami told him to keep and wear them. He also presented him hi "Inch
raloed at live thousand dollars, and asked him to treat it kindjy lbr his sake.
" Wc arc all Bad over this event. There is a doom upon every face. Although we are fully satisfied that the mission of th< our destruction, and that even they recognized their punishment just, ac- cording to tin- accepted rules of war among all nations; still, to see such men Buffer such a penalty, has filled our garrison with sadnee
JOE I'M: | BALTIMORE.
In one of the hospitals of Alexandria is due Parsons, of Baltimore. Joe
enlisted in the. First Maryland Regiment, and was plainly a "rough"
■ illy. * we pa -■ ! along the ball; we first saw him, crouched near
an open window, lustily singing, "I 'm a bold soldier hoy;" and observing the broad bandage over his < id: u What 's your name, m\
low?"
;r," he answered, " Joe Parsons:" .1 what, is the matter witfi you V '■ Blind, sir — blind as a bat." " In battle?" » JTea — at Antictam. Both, eyes shot out nt one clip."
doc was in the front, at Antictam Creek; and a Minnie ball had ed directly through his eyes, across his face, destroyitfg his sight for- Ile was hut twenty years old; but he was as happy as a lark! " It is very dreadful/' I said.
" I 'm very thankful I 'm alive, sir. It might ha' been worse, yer sec," he continued. And then he told. us his story.
" I was hit," he said, and it knocked me down. T lay there all night, and next day the fight was renewed. 1 could stand the pain, yer sec, but balls were flyin' al] round, and I wanted to- get away. I couldn't seo nothin', though. So I waited, and listened; and, at last, I heard a feller min' beyond me. ' Hollo!' says I. ' Hello, yourself',' says he. 'Who be yer?' says I — ' a rebel V ' You're a Yankee,' says he. 'So I am,' says 1; 'what's the matter with you i" 'My leg's smashed,' says he. 'Can't
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yer walk T ' No.' ' Can yer see ?' ' Yes." « Well/ Fays I , ' you 're a d— d rebel, but will you do me a little favor?' ' I will,' pays he, ' ef I ken.' Tin;. 'Well, ole butternut, I can't see nothin*. My eyes is knqeked*
out; but I ken walk. Come over yere. Let's Lrit oat o' this. You p'int the way, an' I '11 tote yer off the field, on my back.' ■ Bully for you I1 he. A.nd so we managed to git together. We shook hands on it.. I took a wink outen his canteen, and h« got onto my shoulders. I did the walkin' for both, and he did the oavigatiu'. An' ef he did n't make me carry him Btraight into a rebel colonel's tent, a mile away, I'm a liur ! Ilows'ever, the ael came up, and says he, ( WHax d' yer come from? who be yer'/" I t »l 1 him. If" said 1 was done fer, and could n"t do no more shootin'; an' lit me over to our lines. So, after three days, I came down here with the wounded boys, where we 're doin* pretty well, all things considered."
" But you will never see the light again, my poor fellow," I so sympathetically.
1 That 's so," he answered, glibly; " but I can't help it, you notice. 1 did my dooty — got shot, pr>p in the eye — an' that's my misfort'n, not my fault — as the ole man said of his blind boss. But —
'i'ma bold soldier bDj,*"" he continued, cheerily renewing his song; and we left him in his singular merriment.
A NEW* WAH-CRY.
to! J of an Arkansas colonel, stationed at Port Hum The < • irrence, it must be understood, happened shortly after the arrival
kausas troops at that place, and prior to the departure i Butler from New Orleans, and also that his men had been fed for several on rath( r y to their disgi
»nel had I ,ent out for drill, and several carriages, filled
with fair ladies, w< re pi I i to him I
•n a "war-cry," and, considering the lily, nothing could be better than "Butler the Beast." ,v banu d the outi \,,w>
• :id — i'orv ... —
iiutler the Beasl I' ' Butler I
anxious
'1 with a
Butler the B I "bull t» i
in- 1 the last thai
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STONEWAU JACH OT I AVAI.RY
< i rn< ral Jackson, who never wore a uniform^ or any other mark of his grade or rank, was ■ corn-field one day, and saw a long, lank-aided
Con: He hallooed to Confederate:
ime out of that corn-field." •■ i , i to bell," Confederate.
• I '11 report \ " Bays the general.
"Report and bed — d to you. I belong to Jackson's loot cavalry, and he allows us to i at as much corn as we want!"
The general rode on, laughing, while Confederate eontinued pulling eorn in "feed dackson's foot cavalry."
A NKW INQUISITION WITH TI1K OLD H0B&0B8.
The New York World contained an account, several columns long, of the mode of conducting operations at the provost marshal'- office there. When g man was arrested for supposed disloyalty he was not allowed to send forwit- n« --< -. hut his "affidavit " was taken and sent to Washington. A bell was then struck, and a soldier appeared, who, upon the "that's all, sir," of the provost, collared the unhappy prisoner, and took, him into a cell "below" — which means under the building. When the man would be again heard of was a matter of conjecture alone. The following is one of the cases related in the World?* account:
An individual was brought in for refusing to give his name to an en- rolling officer.
Provost Marshal — "What is your name, sir?",
own — "Well, I declined to give my name there, and I think I shall here."
Provost Marshal — "Oh, you think so. Now I'll tell you what I think. 1 think you '11 give it before you've been here a great while."
lie sprung the bell again.
"Here is a man who won't give his name. Take him down and givl him number four. He will probably give his name before many hours."
The young man, who was not ahove twenty years of age, seemed like a person hardly compos. He was pale-faced and gaunt-looking, was seedily dressed, and had the appearance of having just come off a night's debauch. He was taken down to the detective office, again interrogated, and again de- clined to gi.vc his. name.
'• Qive him numbt r four," said the officer in charge; and he was at once seised and hurried oil' to the fated locality.
Horror ol horrors! Possibly no place since the black hide of Calcutta or the prison hulks of the revolution could compete with cell number four at police headquarters.
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Under the reign of the provust marshal, it became part and parcel of the machinery of the office, and was used, as occasion rMJcd, to hold fast thi Wont class of the prisoners arrested, or such as were considered the most flagrant cases.
Ming through the outer room of the detective office in the basenv yon come into the sitting-room— a close, badly-ventilated chamber — the larger hair of which ia underground. Midway in the room at the right ii I mall half glasa <loor, cut in a partition, through which you ent< r upon a narrow corridor, racing (bur sun* cells. These are numbered, beginning the south etui : one, two, three, four, the .latter being at the extreme i as you enter the corridor, which is scarcely wide enough to admit the paaaage of a man.
The sides of cell number four are sealed up with boards to the top. It la about three feet wide by six in depth. A stationary board fifteen in
iaputOO the right baud for a sleeping pallet, and a three-cornered pine block, fastened to one end of the board, serves as a pillow — there being neither bed-clothes, mattresses, or straw. A wal and dipper in one
corner complete the furniture of the cell. The sides of the place are thickly coated with whitewash, in the vain effort to purify it. Tlie door is composed of iron bars about one inch in width, and a quarter of an inch in thickness, arra:, . so as to intersect each other at every two
and a half inches. At the top ia a small aperture eight inches square, ire place swarms with vermin. In d p. hen 'the cell
hut, and the door and windows leading to the oute] apartmenta I I, the atmosphere was stifling in its character, while the retain ran the unfortunate victims, who 0 her lie down BOI
•i from very agony, sometimes imploring, in I ., letout,
if oidy fur a few moments, tn tl
be. d confined in this <■, ,. two ,,|' tip m -
: the ihii I iull lengi
evidencing' Outbid horror and mi-fry.
■ ■ ,\idual above alluded to, who would n
Was shut and
door
In lilt' < d minutes b
I I will j The
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Lous villain, is wished no I te than u d within its walls.
"Number four" is a Dy-wor^l among the officers and frequenters of head* .quarters, and is proniised aaa b ri of bugbear to suoh inmates of the de- - behave themselves unruly.
One of the individuals who had been arrested for some criminal offence, upon reading an account in the paper <«t* :i rebel victory, laid the paper down as if in disgust, and remarked, " Th it 's the way with our boys — just prick 'enTand tiny ruu." The WOrdfl n rted up stairs, and the order came
down : •» » *
" Place him in number four. lie will be pricked where he can't n, The history of this awful receptacle for prisoners can never probably be fully told ; and we hive only briefly sketched it, to show some portion of th-o machinery used in conducting the business of the provost marshal's office.
NOVEL BY8TKM OF EXCHANGE.
A correspondent of the Savannah RepublicaiPgpye the fallowing account of the manner in which an exchange of newspapers was effected between the two armies in Virginia :
Lieutenants "Williamson and Heard, of the eighth regiment, called upou me, and among other items of interest, told me how they effected an ex- change ot papers with the Yankees at Fredericksburg. They constructed u little boat, about two feet long, loaded her with tobacco and Richmond papers; and, taking her some distance above, adjusted the sails and started her across. In large letters, the name- " Alabama — Captain Senimes," were painted upon her. As soon as she landed, one of the Yankees proposed to destroy her, when a stalwart Irishman stepped foward, and said: " No, faith and be jabers, if she's the 'Alabama,' we '11 parole her and turn her h> Loading her with coffee and a New York Herald, he started her back to this side, which she safely reached after a half-hour's sailing.
A YANKEE HERO.
Colonel McLana, of the Eighty-Second Pennsylvania Regiment, who was *
killed in the battle of Cold Harbor, has been eulogized by the Northern. papers tor courage and brilliant daring. From a general in the Confederate States army, who saw the colonel on the field after his death, the Kichinond Examiner learns that he was loaded down with armor — having not only u breast-plate, but steel harness for his arms, and the lower part of his body. The bullet which gave his heroic soul its quietus entered in the rear of his left shoulder, and came out on the right side of the abdomen. He was, ap- parently, shot while lying on the ground.
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AN INCIi>ENT OF TTIK WAR.
The Cairo correspondent of the New York World furnished the following
alar incident: Quito :i romantic incident was developed here to-day, and for the henefit of your readers who delight in tales of adventure, it shall be related. A woman, named Annie Chirk, arrived from Louisville, ■ eeded to Gen-
. ml Shuttle's headquarters) bearing in her hand a letter requesting transporta- tion South. According to her story, her husband joined the reb< 1 firm Inks, Mississippi, his place of residence, and she, bein°- de
ing in the same cause, assumed male apparel, and became a member of the Louisiai i '< ..iliy. where she remained, doin£ the duties of a t^ol- dier, s-ven month " iming dissatisfied with her position, she
1 and joined the Eleventh Ten: Regiment, in which I
remained seven months. She was i<i all the skirmishes, and took part' in the I hiloh. While the army was encamped, she frequently went
over to her husband's regiment to see him. Upon that memorable field her husband fell. She buried him with her own hands, but her attachment to the soldier's life was not lessened. She continued with her comrades until
fight at Richmond, Kentucky, where the was taken prisoner. Do all this trine her sex was not discovered. It remained for a Yankee to do that. Soon after her captufl q( to the prov. ; marshal in Louisville
for a parole, and while waiting, .-1m- ha] pened te The wily marshal
the sound, and declared no man ever sneezed like that. The truth v.:- out, ai I
waited upon General , oc.
icks with the rebel pi their fare. The
leral could nol i adure to see a female inbji menl .. ,;,, in l
which would 1 1 by Major Merrill, Provost Marshal, and
he, I I, would furnish her with I ;i to Dixie in a manner
it thirty years of :
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HIRED A I.\I>.
We have heard of many cases of nun lial soription hiring Sub-
stitutes to take their places in the ranks; hut the in- | orted below is
uncommon ami noteworthy. Th>' young v ilunteer who hired a substitute
iii!i'! with the ordnaoee vrngon, while he hastened to take part in
_'ht. was Seaborn Williams, of '1 Alabama, a very modest ami
: ut courageous youth, of leas than - -. who was killed in
the fight near Murfreesboro'. The a< ant which we copy is from a letter
from the ca]. tain of his company, which formed part of the Forty-Fifth
ama Regiment. Captain A.bercrombie wrote thus concerning the'
matter:
•• The day before the fight, I Received an order to detail a man. to Btay
with the ordnanoe train, to bring ap ammunition when it was needed to the
company.. I detailed Seaborn. I noticed that he left his place in line very
reluctantly, and went hack to the train. KarlyTicxt morning I saw bim again,
with his gun, in line. I went up to him, and asked him why he was there.
He replied, 'I have hired another man to stay behind with til.' wagon) and.
if you will let me, I prefer to he with the company in the fight to-day.'
Unwilling to mortify him, I consented to his stay.
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"lie was conspicuous for his almost reckless daring and coma. though immediately fronting the enemy's artillery, which was hut a few yards from us, and was sweeping lanes through our ranks, he boldly and fearlessly pressed Btraigbt forward, while others would attempt to home shelter iroin the intervening trees. His arm seemed to he the first to plant a victorious hanner upon the enemy's artillery. But he was too con- spicuous a mark to pass unscathed through .the shower of halls and canister that tin' enemy was raining upon us, and just as the enemy was giving way, u iatal hall entered his bowels, and passed through them, lie fell, hut, looking up from the spot consecrated by a brave soldier's fall, he saw the enemy flying in dismay, and his comrades in hot pursuit to avenge his fill."
THE I'UE.NCU.MAN's I'll KFKK I AC i
Bhorth after the fall of Sumter, when it had become evident thai ■ lengthy war was imminent, a Frenchman loft New Orleans, and started for I'aris. '-Why," hewasasked, "doyou goand leave a prosperous business ?" His reply was: ''Ah ya. Suppose I die before zee war ovair — I cannot he entcrre in l'ere la Chaise, eh ?" The truth of this was evident: "But," asked his interlocutor, "don't, you think you could be accommodated with a grave anywhere else?" Shrugging his shoulders, the Frenchman said: ••J would razzare not die at all, zan die and he buried anyvere except J a Peri la Chaise.
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RBMABKABLI NARHATTVK. *
The Richmond correspondent of the Charleston Merciyy, alluding to
I lishop Elliot's proposition for a moMinent to the unknown dead, said uthc
topic of unknown heroes was frequently introduced in conversation, and
mentioned a number of those In -rocs, among them a cavalry-man from Texas,
who, unable to walk a step, carries a pair of crutches on horseback, and
tnem h;is continued to perform all the,arduou» duties required of him."
This soldier is Lamar Fontaine, a private in the "Campbell I'm
:it Virginia cavalry. lie is the eldest son of rend
Edward Fontaine, an Episcopal Minister, residing star Jackson, Mississippi, who commanded th<j Rurt Rifles, of the Eighteenth Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, in the first battle of Manassas, and who is honorably mentii in General Beaur< >rt of it. lie was born in Washii uity,
Texas, in 1841, while his pareuts resided there, and was named after bis father's intimate friend, General Mirabeau Lamar. Previous to the pr< revolution, Laronr Fontaine lived in his native State, was educated in Austin, •lemy in Bastrop, and learned practically the i ' t'.al dutii h a Texs and hunter on the froi I
of Western Texas, where he was unsurpassed as a dexterous rider and skill- ful marksman sippi, and rivate in the first company organised -for the defence of the ippi Rifles, of Jackson, commanded by Captain Robert Smith, the heroic th who foil .it Mumfordsville, Kentucky. reel lent officer he served (in infantry toldier, and then as an artillerist, until hi | to bis father's companv in army of I lac. A' ■ , rely
t, which passed under bis feet, bruising on ;i badly. Ii<n was unwilling I d, and his father procured
him a transfer to Captain iment
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Minic I9II penetrated the back of his Deck, pa a near his spine,
to find it hen,
hia rit • ■■ have remained paralysed. He ri sufficiently
itaia leavi i al in Charlottes vj 11 everal
-lit with Iii.s company in performing military duty, with lition he fonght seven battles — I River Bridge, Warrenton Springs, tin- Rappahannock or Wat< Bridge, the battles of the 29th, 80th 1 od 81st, at Manassas, and the battle of Germantown.
W.hilc the enemy were shelling Warrenton Springs, General R. EL An- no wished to ascertain what division of the army occupied the north bank of the Rappahannock, .opposite 1 a. Bevolunb bring
him the necessary information, swam the Rappahaqnock, surprised three of the enemy's armed pickets, and brought them across the river to the general, the erutohed hero a certificate • nting Ins skill and gal-
lantry, .'• attlo of Hazel 11. inie bad broke one of his
crutches, and Qne of th*1 enemy's horses, without a rider, ran against him and broke the other. In the second day'.- fight at Manassas, he had a killed under him, and another the day after at Q-ermantown. V. iiing the enemy's cavalry, a pistol-shot penetrated, his cap, graced his temple, and k: im from his horse. SiuCQj he has been pronounced
incompetent to perform military duty, on account ol" his wounds, and while acting aa a volunteer on hospital furloughs, be has captured six prisoners without any assistance, and killed many of the enemy. In different battles he has hud six horses killed under him, and 1 have no doubt has killed more of the enemy than any soldier in our army.
"BLEBS DE LORl>, I is si u -n VKT."
A private letter from Winchester, describing the scenes which occurred there during its occupation by the Federal General, Milroy, related the fol- lowing incident :
u They had an old darkey umhr arrest I i e would not work, and
said he was 'secesh.' They put him in the guard-house and kept him for three days on water. The fourth day the officer went, and said, 'Arc you Beoeshyet?' The faithful old fellow, clapping bis .hand-, said, 'Bless da Lord, Mas.-a, J h yet." They then took him up to the general's, and
put very large iron balls to his legs, and set him to splitting wood. Brother Alexander went by and saw him. # It happened that the officer who was guard- in" him was the same who had searched our bouse, apd arrested brother. He was cursing the poor old negro dreadfully ; said he ought to have a ball on his neck and one OB both arms. The. old fellow went on splitting, saying all the time, ' U>rd, Maesa, anywhere you can put it. You can
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kill de body, bul you can't kill de soul, and when da( gets to heaven it, will be seeesh yet.' Brother oalled to the officer, and said, < Halloa, Grant, is th it what you call freedom ?' Mother and John Godfrey M. were standing on th.e steps, laughing and talking. Jusl a< the moment, pome, little children were laughing and making fun of the Yanket : (iencral Olutara 1 by, and thought mother and John were laughing at him with the children', and took them both up to headquarters, where they were kept for ral hours. So, you see we were not allowed even to laugh."
the UBIQUITOUS jackson! iff,?
A citizen of Richmond was conversing with two wound, d Federal officers on a train coming from the battle-fii Id. when one of the latter remarked that n was fully aware of all the movements of the Con fed crates — that nothing transpired on our lines of which he was not immediately informed. "Ah," said the citizen, "perhaps, then, you can tell me where Stonewall Jackson is at present." ''Oh, yes," replied the Federal, "he is in the Valley, and has I ly reinforced." "Indeed," was the rejoinder ;
" now what Would you say if I was to tell you that Stonewall is now in the
our army on the Chickahominy, with a fair prospect of gii McClellan a worse rout than he gave Hanks on the Shenandoah?" Tl • rarted as if he had received another shock from a bomb-shell, and at once subsided into silence.
FEMALE PATRIOTISM.
The Mobile TYibwie related an instance of female patriotism which is
ih Lansfbrd, of Cherokee County, i a dying condition, with no hope of recovery. While
■ pairs of jeans pant ' her husband that he tend the d< In Such i
ble mothers of our racy.
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LAMAB fONTAINE OB A BOOUT. The Mobile Register published the following interesting letter from the father of Lamar Fontaine, urthor of "All quiet along the Potomac to- il igbt»"
Lamar is continually in the saddle, and cmplo)-ed in very hazardous en- terprises. His last (bat of armi was the most daring lie has yet performed.
lie left my house .May 24, under orders from Qeneral Johnston, to I ■« ir a verbal dispatch to General Pemberton, in Vicksburg, and to carry a supply of percussion caps to our troops in that besieged city. I parted with him, hardly hoping ever to see him again alive; fori knew that Vicks- burg was closely invested on all side-. The enemy's lines of eircumvalla- tion extended from Snyder's Bluff, on the Yazoo, to Warrenton, on the Mississippi, and the rivers and (heir opposite shores are filled and lined with their forces.
He was well mounted, hut was burdened with forty pounds of peronssion caps, besides his blanket and crutches. He has no use of his broken [eg, and cannot walk a step without) a crutch ; and in mounting his horse, he has to lift it over the saddle with his right hand. But he accomplishes this operation with much dexterity, and without assistance. 1 loaned him a very fine sabre with a wooden scabbard, to prevent rattling, and a very reliable revolver, which has never missed fire when loaded by mc.
The family were called together for prayer, and we prayed fervently that, the God of our fathers would shield him from all danger, and enable him to fulfil his mission to Vicksburg successfully, and give him a safe return to ns all. I then exhorted him to remember that if it was the will of God for him to live and serve his country, all the Yankees owned by Lincoln could not kill him; but if it was the divine will that he should die, he would be in as much danger at. home as in Vicksburg, and death would certainly and him, no matter where he might be. J charged him to u I endeav-
ors to kill every one of the jackals who should attempt to stop his course, or come within the reach of his sword or pistol.
lie crossed the Big Black River that night, and the next day got bc-
tween their lines and the division of their army whicb was al Mechanics- burg. He hid his horse in a ravine, and ensconced himself in a fallen tree, overlooking' the road during thai day. Prom his hiding-place he wit- nessed the, retreat of the Yankees, who passed him in considerable haste ami confusion. After their columns had gone by, and the night had made it safe for him to move, he continued his route in the direction of Snyder's Bluff. As he entered the telegraphio road from Xazoo City to Vicksburg, he was hailed by a picket, but dashed by him. A volley was fired at him "by the Yankees. He escaped unhurt, but a Minie ball wounded his horse mortally The spirited animal, however, carried him safely to the
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bank of the Yazoo River, where he died, and left him afoot. He lost one of his crutches in making his escape. This was jerked from him by the limb of a tree, and he had no time to pick it up.
With the assistance of one crutch, he carried his baggage and groped along the Yazoo until he providentially discovered a small log canoe, tied by a rope, within his roach, lie pressed this into his service, and paddled down the river until he met three Yankee gunboats QOtning up to Yazoo City. He avoided them by running under some willows overhanging the water, and lying concealed until they passed. Soon afterwards he floated by
ler's Muff, .which was illuminated, and alive with Yankees and participating in the amusement of a grand ball of mixed races. Be lay flat in his canoe, which was nothing but a hollow log, and could hardly be distinguished from a piece of drift-wood — and glided safely through the ■oats, transports and barges of the amalgamationists. lie reached tli«' back water of the Mississippi before day, and in the darkness missed the t of the Yazoo, and got into " Old Kiver." After searching in vain tor ft pass into the Mississippi, day dawned, and he discovered his mistake, lie was forced to conceal his boat and himself, and lie by for another tie had been two nights without food, and began to suffer the pang hunger.
At night he paddled back into the Yazoo, and descended it to the ML-- ;, pi, passing forty or fifty of the Yankee transports. Only one man d him, ironi the stern of a Steamboat, and asked him where he
plied that he was going to his fishing-lines. In the bend
ksburg lie floated by the mortar fleet, lying flat in his canoe. The
■ re in lull blast bombarding the city. The next morninir he tied
a white handkerchief to his paddle, raised himself up in the midst of oar
• Vicksburg, at i loud huzza for Jeff. Davis and the
cy, amid the ur sailors, wh< .Jul
Mnn. and teral Pet
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from < i. octal Pea , on his i
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Lad left him there, and •• cainp was not far distant He ex-
Idled th 1 1 mounted him, alter turning
the colt.
ber ridiu-T so as to avoid tin ition of thV Yankc-
ooantered one of the thieves, who was returning to it horn a successful plundering excursion, lie was loaded with chickens and a bucket of honey. He commenced catechizing Lamar in tnn- \ ankee style, who concluded it
to satisfy his curiosity by Bending him where he could know all that the devil could teach him. With a pistol bullet thruugu his forehead, lie left him, with his honey and poultry, King in the path, to excite the con- jecture s of Lis fellow thi
He approached with much caution the next settlement. There l;e hired a guide for iifty dollars to pilot him to Uanker.son's Terry, on Big Black River, which he wished to reach, near that point, without following any road. The fellow he hired proved to he a traitor. When he got near the ferry, Lamar sent him ahead to ascertain whether any Yankees were in the vicinity. The conversation and manners of the man had excited his sus- picions, and as soon as he lcit him, he concealed himself, but remained where he could watch his return, lie remained, much longer than he ex- pected, but returned and reported that the way was open, and that no Yankees were near* the ferry. Alter paying him, he took the precaution to avoid the ferry, and to approach the river above it, instead of following the guide's directions. By this he flanked a force of the Yankees posted to intercept him ; but as he entered the road near the river bank, one of them, who seemed to be on the right of a long line of sentinels, suddenly rose up within ten feet of him, aud ordered him to halt. lie replied with a pistol shot, which killed the sentinel dead, and, wheeling his horse, galloped through the bottom, up the river; but the Yankees sent a shower of balls after him, two of which wounded his right baud, injuriug four of his lin- gers. One grazed his right leg, cutting two holes through his pantaloons, aud another cut through one side of my sword-seabbard, spoiling-its beauty, but leaving a mark which makes me prize it more highly, ^eveu bullets struck the horse, which reeled under him, but had strength and speed to bear him a mile lrom his pursuers before he fell and died. Lamar then divided his clothes and arms into two packages, aud swam JL>ig Black River lid not walk far before a patriotic lady supplied him with the only horse she had — a stray one, which came to her house after the Yankees had carried off all the animals belonging to the. place. On this he reached Raymond at two o'clock in the morning, changed his horse lor a fresh one, carried his dispatch to Jackson that morning', and rejoiced us all by an unexpected visit the same day.
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BOUTKKBM LlOIXS.
A correspondent of the Charleston Cowriar writes: The indomil
spirit, patriotic resolution, and heroic self-denial of the ladies of this Con- ia unconquerable. Tu Williamsburg, they cheered on our men,
nraged them by words arid deeds, implored them to strike down the barbarian, and next day refused to let any federalist, officer or privati
ite their threshholds. As an illustration: Two days before the battle, the wife of a certain hotel-keeper gave birth to a beautiful boy. The father and husband was in the Confederate service. When the place fell into the hands of the Federals, one of their officers came to her house and demanded to*sce her. She arose, dressed herself, and met him at the do<>r. " What do you wish of me?" -aid she. " I want to bring you before the general," was the response. " What for?" " four husband is a rebel, and you have entertained .rebels and given them information." "I understand it," said the heroine; " I keep a hotel; offices who defended my home lodged here • I wish I ifculd inform them of the means of destroying all of your accn- horde, and I would cheerfully do so. You have come to arrest me, but that can be done only when you or I, one or the other, is dead ; i lect your choice." And he left without her ! Speaking of this incident to McClellan, Dr. Cullea recently said : "How can ycu ever expect to con- quer are so unconquerable?" To which ' you;. onded by a despondent .-hake of his head.
A : - <>v. Among the many acts of heroic bravery, so widely circulated among the
flood and field," in the battle of " Plains, on th< L, non< m rves a passing me-
: Louisiana, a ' i ict
ilina. Tl, only four! ra old, and a member of
ompany, in the Han | ,„uorablc
r'n t, whose name the <• mns This little f< and
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This so fired his young heart thai he then insisti d, un going to his grand : i c- 1 . that he should h? permittod to joinUhe
on Guards, under Captain Gary j and said that he was- determined to fight die Yankees to the end of the war; and hia grand-mother at length yielded, and sent a big, >w to take oari of him. On the
■I'the memorable battle, Devi n aev< ral days, but
with a light breakfast and a blister on him the size of a ran seven miles as well as any of them, and when in the mrdsl of the
rest part of the fighting, after being five hours on foot, shut an ofl and advanced upon him, under a heavy fire, Boms distance in fironl of his company, and captured a sword from hia p< rson, whioh he now baa in Uis own possession. lie killed u soldier, and took his gun also, in another part of the fray.
After the action, and subsequently t>> the disorderly retreat of the grand army, when once more upon his sick pallet, Mr. John Nicholson, a brother ier who had more experience,. advised him to go back. to Richmond to reeruit his health, but turning over, with his teeth firmly set, he declared that he would never do that until the Confederate army had raptured the city of Washington. That nothing should deprive him of being present on that occasion, and true to his instincts, he is still lingering in the field, awaiting the slow but certain approaches of the army to that result.
LAST MOMENTS OP CAPTAIN WISE:
A letter, from Bonaoke [aland, published in the New York Herald^ gives the following report of a conversation whioh a Federal officer held with Captain 0. Jennings Wise, in his dying moments :
While referring to the officers, it may be interesting to relate the particu- lars of an interview which took place between 0. Jennings Wise and Ma- jor Kimball, of the Ninth New York volunteers, who, it will be remembered, allantly led the of that regiment in the taking of the rebel bat-
teries. The former, after his capture in the boat, was conveyed to the hospital near the above, where -Major Kimball was introduced to him by \)r. Col.-, of the Wise Legion.
•• I Mil Wily tO See you under these circumstances," said Major Kimball, as the WOUnded man turned towards him, his face betraying the intense agony he endured; " L hope your injuries are not fatal, and that you will recover."
Wise shook his head with an expression that -bowed his belief that hLs days were numbered.
"I hope, Captain Wise," said Major Kimball, continuing, "that the time will come when we shall be re-unitcd under that flag — the Union colors."
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shook his head again, and. in a firm, hold (nno, ejaculated, " Never!
never! We will never live under ili.it, flag again. Every man, woman and
child in the South is willing to pour out the last drop of life's blood before
•11 be go. You may possibly annihilate us, but can never reduce Dfl to
the condition of a conquered province."
" Well, Captain Wise," responded Major Kimball, "you cannot be igno- rant that the North is determined to enforce the laws and the Constitution and have tbe Southern States acknowledge the supremacy of that flag. Our people are as firm as yours in the matter. But there is no use in discuj
■ affairs now. The war, I hope, will continue to be conducted on b<jth aides in accordance with the principles of civilized nations."
replied he was glad it had been so far, and also hoped it would con- tinue
ir Kimball then offered the Wounded man any assistance in his power. for which "Wise returned his thanks very warmly. The surgeons in atten- dance now interdicted any further C mvcrsation, owini: to the weak condi- tion of their who lingered on, until the next morning, when he died.
A correspondent of the Richmond Di >atoh writes: "When the steamer arrived at <1urrituck, fieneral Wise directed that the coffin containing the remains of his son be opened. Then, I learn from
red thai wonb cannot describ , Thn old hero bent over the body of his son, on whose pale face the full mooa threw it- light, kit • 1 the cold brow many times. ,md exclaimed, in an
taon : •• < >, my brave boy, you have died fir me — vr,u have for i
That powerful old hero of Eastern Virginia, as famous for the impulse- of his joul as for his indomnitable bravery and proWi
from his illness — and nerved, perchanee. ronglv, by the
ned, wiil fight the enemy with an energy and | n thai will m ara ly i' i by the
fr< i dom and humanity. •
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Cincinatti respoi
\ re] of this city, in a r- on<
called upon President Lincoln. In t( tor
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A correspondent of tiho Columbus I ollowing graphic
ami harrowing account of what he saw in a Richmond hospital after the
battle- around thai city :
ii after we "stacked arm .' I a lar:.ro ho pital, which
had j built for the e the wounded
. oh, ray God! what a harrowi I of human suffer-
ing! And it' this picture be terrible, wl have been tb< bloody
battle-field on which the noble t'«!! ■ • and fell! Bere ia a poor
unfortunate, leaning on his last arm. looking so wistfully ami Bad, wl right arm has iu<t gone, before the balance of his 1,0 '■ Iture.
There lies another, near him, whose leg has just been amputated-. Another,
mils out a large Minie ball from liis pocket, and, to a ghastly wound in bis side, tella us how he suffered, as he lay, the long night through, without water, or food, or gentle words, on the field*, just where he fell. We pass row after row of those wounded in the limbs; for this cl.is- constituted, perhaps, four-filths of the whole number.
But away over yonder, in the corner of a building, where a large group o illected around the lowly couch of the sufferer, is tl .: of
all. An intelligent looking man, some thirty-live or forty years of age, who was wounded in the abdomen tin; day before, is dying. His mother, sisters, wife — where are they? Alas, tiny are, perhaps, at this moment, praying for his safe return. No familiar face meets his sinking vision, as bis earnest begin to glaze in death. But many of the noble hearted wives and daughters, and sisters of Richmond, like angels of mercy, crowd these halls
itorrid suffering, and they gather kindly around the stranger's hun bed, to wipe away death's gathering dew .ami with their gentle mini-na- tion-, mitigate the agonies that crowd his mortal hour. God Mess the noble ladies of Richmond. Every Southern soldier — wounded or well — is made the beneficiary "I' their unbounded hospitality. And they are kind and eentle even to the Yankee prisoners — the vandal thieves who started hero to inaugurate a rule in Richmond like that which curses New Orleans.
KKi:\ It T. TOUT.
AVhilc the Yankt i officers, captured by Forrest, at Murlrecsboro', were
pas ' rings, a lady of that village, at whom they stared
rather impudently, sarcastically remark id that they were a good looking
of Yankees. ^ Yes, madam," responded one of the captured officers,
. wc all wish to marry."
'' "Well, sir," rejoined the lady, " when you have subjugated the South,
or failing in that, emigrated to Liberia, 1 will guarantee each of you a robust,
Woolly-headed QegTO wife."
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A Ilf.non.' GIRL The Memphis Appro! relates one of the most heroic acts of the war, which occurred near German town, Tennessee. Two Federal soldiers entered the dwelling of an old citizen, and after being well treated, they demand.
the old gentleman's money, and one of the ruffians sought to force a compliance with their demand by levelling his gun at the head of the h The old lady interposed herself between the gun of. the miscreant and her husband, and while the cow ited to shunt, a daughter of the
ile came from an adjoining room, and seeing the situation of afl seized a double-barreled shot gun, with which she shot the ruffian through
head, killing him instantly. His companion fled, while the inmates of the house remained uninjured.
r4.NK.EE OUTRAOES IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.
Captain Reading, a citizen of Memphis, having made his eseape from that city, informed the editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, among other things, that <ct of the Yankees to the inhabitants in the
vicinity of Memphis was brutal in the extreme. They are literally n • He related an instance of a holy living about mill - from Memphis, who was called upon by B F Yankee ma-
rauders. The robbers took ; of the house and beautiful grounds,
and ordered the servants to prepare dinner. After having satisfied ; appetites, they amused themselves by disfiguring the grounds and portions Learning that the lady's bti band and BOM were in the rmy, the officer in command informed her that her prop' rty
led from her neco\. red her to give it up. This she refused to do, when he called on two ol li bold her, while a third took off the rross. '( be*
Miniature of a dead child, which she hid in her This is a sample of the way in which the Yankees are run up ;. bug . which will a 1 with it
! the South.
o: 1: has comC to be *]j know
the old 1 ;n how he eamc to b< so much ii '•aid he. " massa i know i- this — massa ?ays nil it h of bed two or three time? ir, I
k, for I knowi I
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AN INC1M.V.
The following extract front letter from Fredericksburg, written by an in Gem I Lee's army, re! i sanl incident in camp life, which
do donbt helped materially to reiii
It is acknowledged thai the Federals, with :ill tlicir faults, haw
capital bands in their ranks. One of these organizations came down
to the river Bide opposite Fredericksburg, and favored our buys (who
bad gathered in large numbers to list* a) with a variety of popular pi
in the best style. Applause from the audience on each side followed. The
band then struck, up " Dixie," and executed it in- a credible manner. At
our Boldi np such :i shout as made the welkin rim:.
wasjbllow 1 I ■•• " Yankee Doodle," when a burst of applause from the
Federals followed. Finally, the band played "Home, Sweet Elome," ■
ly which all could feel and appn 1 when it was hushed, Buoh
a Bhout went ii]) from both armies as I doubt has ever been beard on
earth. I looked around me, and saw t- ars coursing down many a furrowed
and battle-worn cheek, and if the frantic cheers that went up from the
Other side of the river were any criterion, our neighboring enemies were as
much affected.
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A HOUSEHOLD ANGEL.
The editor of the Knoxville Register relates the following touching incident:
A.fter the battle of Sharpsburg, w< ssed ever a line of railroad in Cen- tral Georgia The disabled soldiers from General Lee's armies i inrn-
ing to tlu'ir homes. At every station, the wives and daughters of fanners came on the cars and distributed food and .wines and band among the sick and wounded. We shall never forget how very like an angel was a pretty little girl 5 how blushingly and modestly she went to a real rude, bearded soldier, who had carved a crutch from a rough plank to replace a lost leg; bow this little girl asked him if he was hungry, and how he ate like a famished wolf. She asked if his wound was painful, and in a voice of soft, mellow acconts, " Can I do nothing more for you ? I am so sorry that yon are so badly hurt; have you a little daughter, and wont she cry when she sees you ?" The rude soldier's heart was touched, and tears of love and gratitude tilled his eyes. Be only answered, " I have three little children. God -rant that they may be such angels a.s you." With an evident effort, hi repressed a desire to kiss the fair brow of tho pretty little girl. lie took her little hand between both his own, and bade. I . r ■• _• l-bye, ' rod bless you." This ohild will always be a belter woman because of th< ■ lessonl of practical god-like charity stamped ineffaceably upon her youni' In art.
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THE LADIES OF FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA
gentleman, highly esteemed by his numerous friends in tbe array for his hospitality and kindness to the soldiers, for whom a scat is alwfn -
11 as for his numerous other attractive characteristics, not the least of which is having his home graced by three beautiful dfi . find-
ing it impossible to obtain even a temporary country,
Ived to remain in town during the bombardm ■, to
;i 1 property from plunder. After the occupied
by the enemy, he was seised by a couple of soldiers and taken before th<- eolonel of one of the regiments occupying the town, without ev< d knowing barge upon which he was arrested. Bis ■
itit'ul and accomplished young ladies in the city, hearing of the circumstance a moment after its occurrence, immediately set oat to rind her father, whom - overtook*, and accompanied to the preience of the
colonel. "Sir. he, "my father has been arrested without a oh
is innocent of any crime. I have come to ask his release. Your i are m re than cowards — they are J. " Madam," replied he, "you are
right, they are fiends ; your father is at HI (company you home."
re they had returned home, a party of drunken soldiers, accompa
by an officer, had gathered in front of the house, apparently with the inten-
"f offering further violence or insult, while the ladies and children
left without a protector. No sooner had the second daughter (who is
i lovely and interesting lady) noticed this, th.-fh she drew an old family
-bard, and ; in the do
er the hous In vain did the officer | With 8]
11 held her place. "Mad I he, "you areexoii
f, hjr; I am only d that
will find it to his cost." And thus she remained until the return of father, wl, tot but i
found in one h
.ire in danger ; will
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ut if my I
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11* I08 from
The Fort Penibi rton correspondent of the Jackson Appeal said of Gen- \\m. Loriog :
leral Loriog is called "OW Bliisard-1" throughout the whole camp,
from the following circu: : The daj before the enemy came down, if
mined to remove a 1 i . from the right wing of our works to
ft. It was brought over, but the mud was that the gun stuck
bout twenty 8b ps from the platform upon which it had to be placed.
ral Lioring came up in person and assisted in getting it out of its perilous position: He urged the men to renewed labor, telling them the smoke of the gunboats was not more than twelve hundred yards distant. A desperate attempt was made, and the gun was got into position, just as the boat lit. He jumped up on a cotton bale upon the parapet, took
off his hat and waved it, shouting] "Now, boys, give them * blizzard!" The conical m was sped, and we had the satisfaction of seeing it
strike the gunboat in the bow.
DEPARTURE OF OONFEJ FEOM NEW ORLEANS.
A writer iu the Jackson Appeal furnishes the subjoined graphic descrip- tion of scenes and incidents attending the departure of paroled Confederate prisoners from New Orleans :
The day has risen which, to all our city, is a day most memorable — one which, when even thought of, will make the blood oi S iuth< rner — of
every man — bound more quickly — of one of the events which would alone raise a barrier between the-North and South; which even stirred the alugglish blood in the coward veins of those of Louisiana's suns who have hoping to profit by and enjoy the liberties their noble brethren will win. Friday, the 20th of February, was one of Louis- iana's Bweetest days. 1 will venture tosaythat the subject discussed at* every breakfast table that day was the great event all had been looking for- ward to — the departure of our paroled prisoners. All were enjoying the idea that, though but for a Few brief hours, we should enjoy the sight of the dear grey uniform again on our streets. The humblest that wore it — no matter how rough the material — was looked upon as a hero; was followed by the loving eyes of all ; was bid God-speed by the lips of. the old, the young, the beautiful. Nine o'clock came. Our streets commenced to fill. At eleven, there was not a gallery, window, house-top, from Canal street as I r as the eye could reach, that was not crowded. A little later the levee, ,i the river's bank to the sidewalk, was impassible. The boat; on which our boys were to leave lay near the foot of Canal street. It was to leave at one o'clock. The deck was already filling fast with the prisoners, and at
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each fresh arrival the crowd would cheer, wave their handkerchiefs and little flags.
Suddenly we were addressed from the top of a barrel, by a little, Sneaking Yankee, who. in a voice tremulous for fear, said: "This crowd is ordered to disperse; thirty minutes is given to it." No move followed. Suddenly a company of infantry appeared upon the scene; marched rapidly through the crowd to the river brink; formed in a long line, and when ordered to charge, deliberately and boldly walked forward, h;<
crowd of women and children, who moved slowly before them, most of the ladies wnvtoig their handkerchiefs over their shoulders, defiantly, in the of the fankt c scamps. As soon as they were pressed on to the pavement, tl»*- ladies, instead of retreating, coolly flanked the line of soldiers, and turned to their post. This was constantly repeated. Suddenly, al thundered three companies of cavalry and artillery. One noble woman, nothing daunted, went farther up the river, and our levee, for the rest of Friday, was lined with the crowd to Cnrrodton. At about eight in (he ing, we heard the prisoners would not leave till the next day. The 1 on the ippeareCT. Many a husband then went home, ex-
' i find a wife or child there for whom he had been hunting all d
many were disappointed. Many a father that ni?ht nursed a mother-
and probably learned to appreciate more fully the value of a wife.
When driven off the levee, many ladies got on the steamer Laurel* HilL
She is under Fans roL They were ordered ashore, but refused to
The captain then put out into she stream. Instead of Frightening
them, and the boat, from the number of hand- kerchief- w.r. though covered with a cloud. I never heard They were can turn, where they were kept all day. At about six in the evening, i brought back y. Upon I the wharf, instead of
i nek up i Blue Flag." A
;:ers was then taken on I nin.
01 sit 1 at four there was a large eroW'i which tie
and . ^fand galleriis. ] )iere
ther nt in am.
. turned theii • ut(\
150 ■ ■ • •
kces returned. This was repeated tl: y drove
out. Amoan ; that ] could till your
r with their recital, and thee >unt one-half. But one I mml
mention. It was that of an ol I h lady, who, when the Yai,
opted to drive her at the point oi' rself behind a
big fat darkey, and told the Fankees, •• ii • will have
■ it through your dearest friend a They were insulted that day in - I aaw one . her
umbrella over a soldier's head. •• beggars bion. [f tl
was a concourse of thirty thousand. A negro girl '• well, if 1 've got to be sent to the forts, it shall he for something — hurrah forJefl Davis! hurrah for Beauregard!" Just then a soldier made a kiud of lunge at her, and over she rolled; she j icked herself up, an 1 got otr, still hurrahing. Many ladies were arrested for wavin n,( reifully and generously dig be next slay.
AFRAID OF FIRE.
Colonel . with his regiment, was being carried in a train to Grenada,
Mississippi, and, like a great many warriors who have never drawn their bartle-blade, he was more intemperate in the expression of his valor than comported with a nice discretion or Che modesty which accompanies bravery, lie was like the Irishman at Donncybrook, "spilen for a light," and could n't get anybody to tread on his coat tail. When the conductor asked for his ticket, the colonel wanted to know if he intended it for an insult, and the meek " no, but," in reply, Beemcd rather to disappoint our hero. At last, however, a chance occurred. The journal ofoneol the* cars became heated from the friction, and the oil and cotton used to. grease the wheels look fire and blazed up, awaking the colonel from his nap. lie was furious, BWOre that the conductor had set the ears on- tire, and he would blow his il — d head oil' on sight.
The train stopped, and out jumped the colonel and the conductor, fkofl to lace. , •
"What in the h — 1 do you mean, setting this car on fire?" exclaimed the former.
" Why, colonel, you ain't afraid of that little lire, are you?" asked the conductor.
•• y,s, by — , I am, and if you try it again, I'll blow your head off."
" Well, colonel, if that little fire scares you, you had better «ot go to Grenada, i tell you, for the Vankccs won't let you stay there five minutes."
This cured the colonel of looking up a light, and he is nowjalways ready
to take a hand when required, but don't go out of his way in search of
» one.
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% TTIK DYING SOUTIT CAP.OT.INI \ V
"Next morning after Ihc battle of Gaines' 'dills, as I was looking for im- plitneata with which to bury the dead of my company, T came upon a quiet Bpot where the ambulance corps had brought to ■■ ther ■ numbef of our poor fellows, too desperately wounded to !>• to the field hospitals in
the rear. Hire they mull conveniently be furnished with water, and tlic few other comforts which their condition allowed during their remaining hours. My Attention was particularly attracted to one whose stalwart form and manly features made him ■ marked object, even among the heroes who lay around him. It was evident that his end was nigh, though his face was calm and his eye still bti
••Going to him, 1 inquired if he was much hurt. lie replied : ' Y< must soon die,' and showed me his wound. A grape-shot had shattered hia shoulder, and j enetrated deeply into his vitals. I the shot still re-
mained in his body. Struck with the resigned expression of his counte- nance, I asked him of his preparation to meet death. He told me that be left hoi d been a careless sinner, hut since entering the
the army, he had been reading his Bible, and this had led him to serious rerli I now, th he felt that, though a great
sinner, he could trust In titration. He tad i
and that was, the thought of how much paifl his death would give hia ra and his aged father, whose only son he WM ' own
the dying soldier, i the grief these loi
at home would suffer. Still his i the will oT
" My duty allowed me but a few mo; gr with him, and with a
- appropriate to his situation, I pi | bade hi
him to the bl nt was i
■rward in pun and I never saw tl nan
But t t of him, and if ■ . [uentJy 04
BJM tl
and p« acim firs mind in which he met death, and wl
■ " 1 would invi Wlittei
i only rcii an oulj
he h
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run i\
Line tin have fun in them, and seem td be living '• in Bead the following V.
1 :mi living luxuriously, tl present, on the top of every >le fenoe,
anil : >tuously ou throe granite biscuits a day, an
i brandy. A high private in the Twenty-Second Regiment to let me have one of bis square pooket-handkerchiefs for :i the first rainy night, and i 1 on my conifortaUe willow
brush without thinking how many poor i world
who have I on hair mattresses and fi la all their Uv< - Be-
fore the great ru-h of Fire Zouaves and the rest of the menagerie com- in. no . .ded exclusively on a front stoop in Pennsylvania avenue, and need to Brnmber, regardless of expense, in a well-con duoted ash box; but the military monopolize all such accommodations now, and 1 give way for the sake of my country.
I tell you, my boy, we're having high old times here just now. and if they get any higher, I shan't be able I i affor I The city is '• in
.. r" every bour, and, as a veteran in the Fire Zouaves remarked, tl
iugh danger lying around loose on Arlington Beighta t<» make
v g od blood-and-thunder fiction, in numorons pages, [f the vigilant
and well - ■•ntinols happen to *er on the npper Bids of the
Potomac, they sing out : "Here theyoome!" and the whole blessed army
is snapping oaps in less than a minute.
Kien all the reporters telegraph to their paper-; in New York aud Phila- delphia that " Jeti'. J>avis is within two minutes' walk of the capitol, with a few millions of men," and all the free States send six more regiments OS to crowd us a little inure. 1 shan't, stand much more crowding, for my fence is full now, and there was six applications yesterday to rent an improved knot, hoje. My landlord says that if more than three chaps Bet up house-keeping on one post, he '11 be obliged to raise the rent.
The greatest confidence in General Scott is felt by all, and it would do you good to sco the gay old hero tuke the oath. He taker it after every meal, and the first thing when begets up in the morning.
Those Fire Zouaves are fellows of awful suction, I tell you. Just for greens, I asked on% of them what he came here for: "Hah!" says he, shutting one eye. " We came here to strike for your altars und your
fircs especially your tires." General Scott says that if he wanted those
ohapfl to break through the army of the foe, he 'd have a fire-bell rung for district on the other side of the rebels. He says that a half a million Of traitors could not keep the Fire Zouaves out of that district five minutes. 1 believe him, my boy.
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■ oral Butler wore a coat of mail, which was clearly discernible on his c i to his hips. In his office, two revolvers lay con-
tinually oo h\< desk, which ho often handled, t<> impress or intimidate. Until after the entire population had b< en disarmi 1. he o< v. r appeared 00 the streets except in • ' nd surroui
troop of horsemen, all armed to the I back
oo the cushion were as cruel.
havior was full of ostentation and bravado. m t" have been bred in a vul rity
could ini] ler /bat he was aught but rider,
e'of Butl "Colonel" J rench, whilom
eneral of Louisiana, bul in New Orlean which I r than join the arm
In the first named office tins man committed unparalleled Uthough entil I thing but his pay as a ff, hisprofi mi one to twd thousand dollars per day.
inks arm r he directed i.
were more tl ■ 1 1 of the V During Bu ' b had three carrid
11, four bu He
idence in The
e of Mr
iring under a surfeit of Mr. Sur-
thnt all migl t ki
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\ poor Irish woman, far advanced in pr< gi Batler'a innumerab her under do
oircu to take the oath. She was dragged I general, who
into one of hia paroxismal heaped upon her tl. ts, and
directed ao orderly to confine her in a -lark room, od bread and water, until she divulged the name of her reverend adviser. Thia Bhe refused to '1", and she Mas probably r<
The most disgusting and characteristic act of the hyena1 (mora
revolting even than his causing the tomb of General Albert Sydney John- Bton to be burst open, and hia coffin searched for gold and Bilver,) was the affair of Mrs. Phillips. This lady is the wife of a gentleman in Alabama, who was formerly M. C, from that - ! law partner of the Hon.
Rev< rdy Johnson. She, was standing on her balcony adjoining, when the funeral of a lieutenant, killed whilst marauding near Baton Rougi along the street. I served by an officer to smile at some remark,
she was forthwith reported to the commander-in-chief, who had her arr< and brought before him on the charge of indecently rejoicing at the Vau- th. He offered her the alternative of*the oath and a public apology or unlimited solitary confinement at Ship* Island. She refused the apology and the perjury, and was subsequently sent down to the island.
About the same time, a man named Kellar, who keepa an old bookstore, labelled the skull of a Mexican, which had been lofl in pawn by a medical student, with the word " Chicahominy," and placed it in his slow window. For thia grave offence he also was condemned to Ship Island, and the gen- eral order published on the subject stated that he should " be allowed no communication, verbal or othcrwi>e, with any person on the island, e.\ with Mrs. Phillips/' Kellar, who is a man of family, was induced to be- lieve this was the notorious Matilda Phillips, a wealthy courtesan, :is well known in New Fork, Huston and San Francisco, as in New Orleans, begged this part of the order to be rescinded. Accordingly, another general order was promulgated, abrogating "bo much of general order No. — as author- ized the said Kellar to hold communication with Mrs. Phillips." Such was General Batler'a subterfuge, striking at the good name of a virtuous wife and good mother, to relieve himself of the odium attached to his unmanly conduot.
"Arc there no bolts in hcuvcii, -:i\. v. h.u . rvc for the tluiiul .
Another general or. lei- was published, advising the negroes thai whenever a slave reported his or her master or mi.- tress lor having weapons concealed about their dwellings, and the weapons were found as reported, the slave should be liberated directly, and the owner incarcerated. Tin- result has been, in instances without, number, that tie have thrown old muskets,
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i or pistols into obscure corners with their own hands, <_riven the infor- mation, boon freed, and their innocent masters are now suffering on the dreary Bands of Ship Island, with ball and chain, hard labor, and salt-1
The testimony of a slave is received without eommentor objection. The indignant remonstrance of a Confederate is cnt slmrt with "Sil< sir! the oath of a traitor and a rebel is not worth that of a loyal black."
HAD ONI OF Tli
\ gentleman who was at Manassas, saw a negro man, belonging to an
Alabama officer, march a Zouave into camp. The negro, a short, thick-set fellow, had two guns on his shoulder, and drove his prisoner before him. The Zouave was a pert looking fellow, and wore his arm in a sling in con- sequence of his wound. As the negro reached the company in which the officer was standing, he handed over his prize, saying : "Mass*, here one ab dese debbils who ben Bhooting At us, Bah."
" WHO 'fl DAT ? "
i called on Colonel Scott, of flie Louisiana cavalry. You have often heard of him in v While in Kentucky, his l
who has followed him since th< and assumed the garb of a Federal serg< ant. While on his way to Rich- ly a ventriloquist, one of the trilx imiD, learned I con- 1 with the negro's apparel After nightfall, when the negro was ing, with a valise b< tween his feet, a d<
kc up ; them "> mj on.
&*«— Who's dal ?
lis protruded a fool when the earpet- aack began the colloq
— I'm lehabod Smith, of the '1 1 1 ir r ■
V'ni rob I my clotl i
. aranl '< m i n, '1 — i! ■ In less than a mil II Tie n I in the fire-
night His teeth • • d, and I
! i which In tli- war. Wlfc
i nor worn in New En m will live and die I
1T' I
••iallv in '
GLEANINGS FROM
'<>L.
During the fight at Ma in ol a Brooklyn company was sitting
down by the sidi of :i brook, out of the way of the .-!; ■•:. when one of his men ii to fill his canteen. He said: " Our first lieutenant is dead,
:i i the second one on the grounfl woundi He replied: "I told tl
it would be SO ii' they staid there,*' an I 1 fanning
DISGRACEFUL.
A gentlejnan at the Twenty-Seventh Precint Station be atten-
tion of the police to* an outrageous affair, which, he Baid, had taken | at Washington Market. Mr. John Matthews, of the Fire Zouaves, he brought with him from Virginia a little mula whom he kept
at his fish Btand, 335 Washington Market. During the absence of Matthews, several loafers took hold oi 'he boy, and. lifting him by the seat of his bn threw him ou his head to test the hardness of his skull,
which entertainment resulted in the poor boy's head being severely bruised. The experiment was repeated until the boy was knocked senseless. No arrests were made, but the brutes arc known.
AUNT BET8Y.
Amongst the ordnance captured by our troops at Manassas was one old piece, of very heavy calibre, which the Lincoln soldiers had dubbed "Aunt ay." This favorite old gun was ordered to " Sewcll's Point," and as it Bd along the streets in Richmond, one of the wounded Hessians hap- pened to raise his head, and discovering the old gun, exclaimed : " I will be d — d if they aint got Aunt Betsy, too."
THE "ONE HUNDRED" CALIFORNIA CAVALRY — WHAT THEY HAVE I AND WHAT Till 'i ARE TO DO.
The astonishing feats already performed, and the still more darii brilliant exploits in store for the California cavalry, recently arrived at lies- ton, are thus detailed in the Herald, of that city :
Our citizens have done well to give the excellent cavalry company from California a fitting welcome. The members of the company are all fine fellows, (.very inch men, and are true l.-vcrs of their country, for the ser- vice of which they have cheerfully left remunerative employment in Cali- fornia, which is entirely out of the draft, and have buckled ou the harness of var. Their arrival here, and especially their appearance in the streets Boston, have excited the liveliest curiosity of our citizens, who hate been full of wonder to know what the Caliloi uians were like, how many ludiaus they arc in the habit of killing before breakfast, and whether they
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ave themselves white men or aborigioeea of the western coast. Conse- quently, we have heard the most marvelous sti iu1 our guests. It
has been currently reported in one place of popular resort, that every man in the company could pick an apple from the ground on the point of his sword while riding at a full gallop. In another place, we heard thai men were native Califo ry expert with the lasso, and that they had
been brought east expressly to get Jeff. Davis, ]5ob Lee and old Stonewall JacksOQ " on a string;" and they certain! their lassoes with them,
one ot them having been seen by a member of the Charlestown surpri.se party.
It is common talk that the men ride with equal facility and <:racc on the top or bottom of a horse, and that when they make a eharge nothing will hut the tails of the horses. We have heard an absolute state- nicu', moreover, that when the rolls for enlisting the company were opened two hundred thousand men put their names down, and this hundred were chosen alter a trial in a grand tournament, iu which they overthrew all eon.; billing many. Our fellow-citizens seem to be so well informed
D tell them but little that will be new about the Californians.
We desire to add, however, on idubi table testimony, that each of these gallant fellows has a thousand scalps, which he has taken from the wildest Indians of the mountains, without the consent of the owners, and that their favorite Bporl is to ,20 bird-nesting, mounted upon the agile mustang, which climbs a tree wi;h perfect ease and bad feature of the case is
this — they have been .-0 accustomed to riding horseback that they cannot walk has a horse killed under him, he is obliged to throw
another before he can do the enemy any further injury. With this ligh! the men are all that can be c\ civilized
white men who were born iu ho..
A.H1 LLL.
the job got up in camp, but we think this ode will "extri-
Hince the 1 n of
1 rival r anxiously
I>.
imui rid to his adjutant,
hwith. I
ihwith, "for. '. . this tin.
: ROM AN . UMPTION STORV.
A Western paper relates the following exemption Btory: " Doctor, it' the lame foot won't answer, I have another all-sufficient d — one that you cannot refuse mo exemption for." " What is it?" aaked the doctor. "Why, the fact is. doctor. T havi sej I am
an idiot," solemnly replied the applicant. " Ah !" said the d r, ■ what proof have you of that ? What evidence can you bring?" "Proof con- clusive," said the applicant. "Why, sir, 1 voted for Jim Buchanan; and if that isn't proof of a man's bcin<r a d — d idiot, 1 don't know how idiocy could be proven."
GENERAL JOHNSTON and JUDY PAXTON.
Wc heard of a little incident that may proQt some of our Northern foes if this paper fail into their hands, and they will take trouble to peruse it.
General Joe Johnston was receiving his friends at the Lamar House. He was surrounded with many gallant officers who had called to pay their respects, and conversation was at flood tide, when there came a smart rap at the door. An officer, shining with stars and gold lace, opened the door, and there stood a venerable negro woman with a coarse sun-bonnet on her head, and a cotton umbrella under her arm.
" Is this Mr. Johnston's room?" asked the American lady of African descent. .
The glittering officer nodded assent.
" Mister Joe Johnston's room?"
Assent being again condescended, the swarthy woman said : " I want to sec him." In she marched, sans ceremonie, and familiarly tapped the great military chieftain on the shoulder. He turned and clasped her bony hands in his, while she, for a moment, silently perused b;s features. At length she spoke :
" Mister Joe, you is getting old."
What followed ? We cannot record the conversation, but we do know that as the general affectionately held his nurse's hand, and answered her artless inquiries, large tears rolled down his soldierly cheek, and among ( the dashing and reckless oflicers who witnessed the interview, " albeit, un- used to the melting mood," there was not a dry eye, Wc may say, in the words of a well known ethiopian ditty, " the tears fell down like rain."
The venerable ncgress, who made the commander of the armies of the West cry like a baby, was Judy, slave of Dr. Paxton, who had "toted" Joe in her arms when he was not a general, and nobody knew that he would be.
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I • WANTED TO TRADE.
A captain of Munford'a cavalry, (Second Virginia,) on picket after the
battle of Fredericksburg, was accosted by the Yankee picket opposite to
him, with the query — -'Have you a sorry corporal with you?" "No,"
ered the captain, "but what do you want with him?" "We want to
trade you Burnside for him," was the reply.
A YANKEE BRIGADIER AND A VIRGINIA MATRON.
The Richmond correspondent of the Memphis Appeal tells the the fol- lowing good story oi Stonewall Jackson in the valley:
Yankee brigadier, excessively pompua and conceited, formed much alter the model of the lamented John Popo of sorrowful memory, was conading in the presence of a worthy Virginia matron, living not far from Martinsburg, of his own military prowess, and was bitterly satirical on Jackson's personal appearance. He said that in one of the battles in the valley he had bom thrown very near the general, and might
easily have killed i iim a prisoner, but that he could not have
supposed such arr uncouth, clownish, ill-bred looking fellow to be the much- lauded hero of the rebel cause. " You kill General Jackson, or make him a prisoner," said the noble woman, " why, sir, if you had suspected for a moment that yon were in ten steps of General Jackson, you would have put spur.- to your horse, and never stopped running till you had crossed the PotOttU
THE MARTYR Ml ' W ORLEANS.
annual message to the people |)f Louisiana, said j of the patriot Mumford has placed his name hi the li-i of niartyn leral army reached Now I ■
' f marine- who hoisted their flag on the mint.
United Stab .r had they
»1 in tin ion. William Y>. Mum-
wn the di with his i
t in full view of the scaffold, hi pall his heroic soul by
:li. "Wit; of tl they offered him life on tl that be would ab
*rt with ; has
traa i will do
«h< n under d
D
100 f.I.F. \N1\-C.S FROM
Thus far, Missouri has the better of tility for the real
romance of war. y, the fight tl I with
fiercer earnest than aim ' the
country, the rough, unhewn ohi the intensity and
ity of thi lited, and the general nature of the compli
reduced to a warfare essentially partisan and frontier, gave to wild aspect, peculiarly estive of
of romantic interest. None oi these Btrnck as more foroibly than irah McCi rb j tl e J< ai She Lived in the interior of Missouri — a litl jirl,
with a soul as huge as a mountain, and a form as frail as a fairy's, and the courage and pluck oi a buccaneer into the bargain. Her father was an old man — a secessionist. She had but a single brother, just growing from boy- , to youthhood, but sickly and lamed. The family had lived in Kansas during the troubles of L 857, when Norah wag a mere girl of fourteei thereabouts. But even then her bean rid devil-m pirit were
known far and wide, and many were the stories told along the border of her Bayings and doings. Among other charges laid to her door, it is said she broke all the hearts of the young blcods far and wide, and tradition dies n go so far as to assert that, like B< b Acres, she killed, a man once a week, keeping a private church-yard for the purpose ot decently burying her (had. Be this as it may, she was theu, and is now, a dashing, fine looking, liwdy girl, and a prettier heroine than will be found in a novel, as will he seen, if the good-natured reader has a mind to follow us down to the bottom of this column.
Not long after the Federals came into her neighborhood, and alter they had forced her lather to take the oath, which he did partly be ;ause he wag a Very old man, unable • to take the field, and hoped thereby to save the Becurity of. his household, and partly because he could not help himself; not Long alter these two important events in the history of our heroine, a body of men marched up one evening, whilst she was on a visit to a neigh) and arrested her sickly, weak brother, bearing him off to Leavenworth City, where he was lodged in the military guardhouse.
It was nearly night before Norah reached home. "When she did BO, and discovered the outrage which had beep perpetrated, and the grief of her old father, her rage knew no bounds. Although the mists were falling and the night was closing in dark and dreary, she ordered her horse to be resad- dled, put on a thick sin-font, belted a sash round her waist, and sticking a pair of ivory-handled pistols in her bosom, started off after 'the soldiers. The poet was many miles distant. But that she did not regard. Over hill,
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through marsh, under cover of the darkness, she galloped on (n the head- quarters of the enemy. At last the call of a sentry brought her to a stand, with a hoarse —
" Who goes th'eh
" No matter," she replied, "I wish to see Colonel Prince, your command- ing officer, and instantly.
i,i'\vliat awed i'; f lie presence of a young female on horseback at that late hour, and perhapa struck b}- her imperious tone of command, the Yan- kee guard, without hesitation, conducted her into the fortifications, and thence to the quarters of the colonel commanding, with whom ahe was left alone.
" Well, madam," quoth the Yankee officer, with bland politeness, " to what have I the hunor of this visit
" Ts this Colonel Prince?" replied the brave girl, quietly.
"It is; and yourself?"
" No matter; 1 have come here to inquire whether you have a lad by the nam'' of McCartey, a pru
M There is such a prisoner."
'■ May I ask for why?"
"Certainly; for being suspected of treasonable connection with the y."
" Treasonable connection with the enemy ! Why, the boy is sick and lame. II les, my brother; and I have com immediate
■
The Yankee officer opened his eyes; was sorry he could not comply with the request of so w inn in Ucant; and must really bog her to d<
and leave the fortr<
'• I demand his r< l< ase," cried .--he, in reply.
"That you cannot have," returned he ; " the boy is a rebel and a traitor, and D . retire madam, I shall be I arrest you on a similar
ul I ] rebel and a traitor, too, if you wish.
with inc. •
muzzlo of it direct ■• I
will l f lead in -an call a single s-
tO yen;: ,
Th
I
i r,2
st;irt Lier, whoovwered, like ; . r before flames, 01
her burnii •
I It was too much. Prince ind it. IK- bade her lower her
■nal weapon, for (h raid be forthwith liber
ive the order first." • 1. unmo1
And the order w . the lad > wing his arm
in hers, the gallant Bister m the plane, with one hand grasp-
one of his, and the other hold of h( r trusty ivory-handle. She mow her horse, bad ' up behind, and rode home without
lent, before midnight.
a
Now that is a fact stranger than lie: ion, which shows what sort of metal is in our women of the much abused and traduoed nineteenth century.
' A DUSKY VOLUN1 ;
A c ')•;■ -• lenl of the Mobile Advertiser, writing from the camp of the
Thirty-Eighth Alabama Regiment, i the following :
Some weeks ago, a young man came to camp and proposed to volunteer. He was accepted, there being nothing in bis physical appearance to indii the singular denouement which followed six weeks afterwards. Whil drill, he was recognised and claimed as a runaway slave, lie enlisted by the name of Solomon Vernoy; but afl r his arrest, owned up to be nick* named Pleg, and being a runaway. He Bays that he has a boss> but that "by right/' he is free. Tie says that his mother was a d< 1 [ndian,
who was unlawfully sold into slavery, and run off from Kentucky. His looks do not indicate the African, and if hi >od lawyer, and
his "by rights," there will he a pretty law suit, sun-,' the master will have
to rebut the presumption of color by proof. lie must, at least, admire ihe 'iotism of Vernoy, or Pleg, as the case may he.
A BATTLE INCIDES P.
A friend writing from the army, said: "When Stanford's ha tt cry on one occasion at Brurfreesboro', was preparing to open fire on the enemy, wc
saw just in front of our pi 06 thirty yards distant, a Confederate
soldier, who seemed to be busy picking up some guns. We hallooed and rmed at him to get out of the way, hut he paid no attention to US, and he continued to pick up guns, until ho had some six or eight in his arms. One of our men now went up to him to lead him away, when it was dis- covered that the poor fellow had been struck on the head with a bullet, which had partial'; 1 him. As hew: led behind our pieces, still
carrying his guns, he said, with a sort of ^uisiool wink : " You don't take mo for a Yankee prisoner, do you?"
AN An MY NOTE-BOOK. 163
YANKEE F.NOIlMITTEfl IN THE WEST.
A disgusted Federal staff officer, writes to the Philadelphia .1/ rctury as
folic
I beliere the time has come when I am ashamed to acknowledge that I belong to the Union army.
I tell you the truth when I say we are abo in a mob a3 ever
walked on the face of (he earth. It is perfectly frightful. If I lived in this country, 1 never would lay down my anna while a "Yankee" remained on the soil. 1 do not blame Southerners for being secessionists, now. 1 could relate many things that would be laughable if they were not so hor- ribly disgraceful. For instance, imagine two privates in a carriai
;o some wealthy Southern nabob, with a splendid span of horses, riding in state along the road we are marching over, with a negro coael, holding the reins in all style of an English nobleman, and then two small drummer boys going it at a two-forty pace in an elegant boggy, with I horse, and the 1 ii rgy loaded with a strange medly of household furniture and k jt< hen utensils, from an elegant parlor mirror to a pair of fire dogs, all of which they "cramped" from some fine house, which, from sheer wanton o
n rifled and destroyed. Htu I such scutes are constantly
occurring along the line of our march. lous and absurd as they are
a boi me to the army ol the Union — to %ay i> com-
mitted hy the toldiery i ne.
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rinc- the w< i k of battles in front rd w nt
• forn old comrade in
J. I. B. 6 dry. Previous v> tins
war.
pany; but Jcb. wa
;
him
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I
hich
bot1
1*'l OLEANTV
A
At 1 irnt by -; . and om I had
thus villainously hit ho
with her on the bank from lack
i'or him. Be asked
•' Madam, hai o yon a father, broth* re, or an] a i "
The lady was quite with two j five and
ide. Ber i bo tl
and nine months invader and subjugator of Old Abe's. Sh< 1, in
soldering ruins of her b •• I have two brothers in the army; and if yon keep on this' war twelve - Longer, (pressing the hi I shall have two tons toj
till their death I i expect nothing i i tter than murder and arson l'rom ir tribe." The commander sloped to his gun room, while the lady sod red
the departure of the Queen of the RT< ■ Bonny Blue Fls
A PROVED** . i.\l. .. -CUE.
Colonel Stearns, a bold and dashing part. r in Tennessee, having
.ty of the enemy, alter killing and Wounding a number who were pillaging in the vicinity of Ready ville, Ten- forty miles from Nashville,) learn< i thai three of the prowling sooundrels had just gone to a private residence in the outskirts of the vil- A squad of the rangers iras put u] on the tra< and that they
had just forced their way into the bi r of a young lady. A i
made for the room, revolvers in hand, and the ruffians had barely time to realize their doom, when their bodies, pierced by a dozen bullets, were bed lifeless on the floor.
A WAN TKIO.
The Richmond correspondent of the Knoxville Register perpetrates the following pleasantry at the expense of three of our highest officials:
U the STankeea knew to what i .mine may he endured, and how
very liW human life — if they had all ident and
rident, and our Beoretary of V^ar, the idea of resorting to famine,
Dt of hostility td a people whose leaders are the very impersona- tions of hard times, would never have been adopted. President Davis is the shadow of a man, Vice-President Stephens is imponderable, and Mr. Idon's bones rattle when he descends the stairways of the Spottswood. The genii of famine conduct this revolution.
AN ARMY NOTE BO I IC5
A TRIE HXBOINB.
When General Forrest arrived at Black Creek, three miles from Gads- den, Alabama, in hot pursuit of the vandals, he fi und his pn by a swollen stream and demolished bridges, -while a detachment of the I b< hind to dispute his passage to the opposite side Ignorant
of the ford, if, indeed, there was an}-, General Fori* . k in
n y information. At the first house, lie made the inquiry
whether there was any person who could pilot bis command across the
stream, to which a young lady made re] ly— uo male person being present
lie knew th< ford, aad if she had a horse, she would accompany direct him. There being no time for cer< renewal Forres! pro]
that she should gel np behind him, to which, with no maiden coyness, hut actuated only by the heroic impulse to serve her country, she at once con- d. ikr mother, however, overhearing the suggestion, and sensitively alive to her daughl y and honor, interposed the objecti
child cam accompany a strange; " Madam," respectfully uri
the far-famed chieftian, " my oame is Forrest, and 1 will be responsible
rejoined the good woman,";' r ith you." 1 behind the : 1 him across the stream, exp<
to the whistlii he enemy; nor did she retire from L ,
j r until tlie last man liad safely crossed, and the column seen in con- tinua • rapid pursuit, ac< omj ai
5 ansom, who deserves to be long
Ut INCH): ' There wore many incidents in the battle of Stone's River that have not
chai Third Kentucky was advancing
friends and n<
mutually
mac
t. and, in dozens of in- old feu . the hrown away, and at it , pulling, and gouging in rough and tuml in a mai r-on
I '-'.tor ht, when the Twenty-Third Ken! rig them a
flanking th quite a Dumber ofpri
their I when the Ninth I I
e up <ni the dou : inks,
succeeded in < taking in retui
man v of the 1 As the late belligerents were conducted to the rear,
they appe tten all thoir late anim i were now on
beat terms imaginable, laughing ting and joking; and as the
re well supplied with whisky, their ci n teens were readily hai about from one to the other, until they all became as ji the circumstances.
OF GENERAL ja< m Oil u kk.
Coming to a bridge, he was about to cross, when on the bridge he die- red a cannon planted and trained upon him, and the enemy in force behind. It was too late to retreat precipitately. So, with a coolness and an air that was characteristic of the man. Jack!
the piece, said, in a tone of authority to the guard : "Wh a to
place that piece tl, move it and plant it on yonder height"
men io charge moved to obey, and Stun, wall, buttoning his coat, turned his
nor8< | „ bis staff, and dashed off at their head. Too late the Yan-
1 who their \ i an 1 hastily unlimboring the piece, fired
r him without effect. A rapid pursuit resulted in the capture
two oi his staff, hut the gallant chief escaped, to fight them "another
under more favorable • uccs.
PETER, A FAITHFUL SERVANT.
It is with much pleasure that we chronicle the faithfulness and devotion
oi Peter, a servant of Major Furiow, who was with the lam
Furlow, in Virginia, in obtaining the body of his decea
and transporting it hum.: under the must trying, and to many persons, in-
mountable difficulties. After of the death of Captain Furlow,
r earnestly sought permission to visit the battle-field in search of his
.; this, however, was denied him, and it was aot until next morning
ten of the body. En view pf the heavy loss which
the Twelfth G giment had sustained, and the designed pursuit of the.
enemy, it was determined to bury all who had yielded up their lives in the
AN AK.MT NOTE-TV I (17
cause of liberty. This Peter insisted should not be done with the bod)- of Captain Furlow ; he besougbt thorn fur permission to carry it home to his sorrow-stricken and bereaved family. For a time, his entreaties were unavail- ing; at length, however, the devotion of thia humble boy overcame the rude -ities of war, and consent was given him to take charge of ('apt;; in Furlow'a body. After much difficulty, Peter obtained a wagon, for which ho paid twenty-three dollars, to transport the body to Staunton. It was now •mined to place several other bodies, among them Lieutenant Turpi n, of Peter; thia was done, and with them all, ho entered upon his sad journey, we ha\ e no doubt, with a heart comparatively light. At Staun- he procure 1 coffins for all his charge, paying for them with his money, and that of his deceased young master. (Of curse, this has been refunded.) It is needless to recount the numerous an I tly recurring difficulties
9 mournful journey home ; no one who has not traveled under similar circumstances can appreciate them. Suffice it to say, that many a torn ami iing heart is indebted to this jlave I '• he melancholy, though
;mable pri watering with their tears the graves of their loved
With a tearful eye and quivering lip, Major Furlow acknowledj lebt of gratitude h Peter, and, in the depth of his thankful-
knows not how to regard him, henc< forth, as a slave. We commend unyielding affection of the slave to th( of the race, who are warring upon us; a seri i
sidcration of it would improve their morals.
A VF.AT OP DARI1
I correspond t of the Chattanooga Rebel vouches for the ;: following n from official s^v
Two <!■• Murfreesboro', First Lieutenant C. 0.
alf a
mile in front ol dree men add
with tin ; by
thou
bim, call
his
tf FROM r.WALrV P]
N* Importe, the correspondent ofth Mobile R
bion of a ■ il Van Dora's cavalry *at Spring
Hill, Tei
Here ire are/ on an extensive p.ir.i-]'- ground, to see a ill" largest body of cavalry atinent.
dust lb flying in huge clouds in i v. rj dii sti mj and the tram] isanda
- notice of the approaob of the cavalc • rat-
tling along the stony pike, oarryin eious burthens of I tning
to witness the review. Presently, the column b< gins to assume proper shape, and as far as the eyi can take in the view, along bl . down in
the valleys, and away over the hill-toj.s, an unbroken line of horsemen nt their '.. irds you.
Still another column approaches, at the head of which is a well built, stout rider, with large, fierce moustache, and imperial of reddish cast, mounted upon a sprightly, .sorrel animal. That is General W. II. Jackson, at the head of his division. We have spent half an hour now in thi hot Bun and choking dust, awaiting the formation of the troops for review, and they are now ready at last. Two large columns, with ten thousand horses and horse- men are all facing towards us. That light, blue-eyed youth galloping towards us is Lieutenant Martin, of Jackson's staff, who rides up to General Van Dorn, and informs him that the division r parade What a
sight is now presented to the eve ! Thousands of horses formed in tin tend as far as the observer can take in the north and south, while on either flank you catch an occasional flash of the brass batteries as the sunlight plays upon the pieces. At the head of each regiment you observe the com- manding officer in his neat suit of Confederate grey, or less gaudy jeans'. At the head i :"' brigadier and staff
Everything is ready for inspection — the high-spirited boys, the dancing hors is, the gleaming .-runs and glittering sabres. From the centre in front away dashes Van Dorn, the general commanding, and his staff. Off they gp iii a gallop to meet the senior commander, Forrest, and then, aocompa- nied by him and his staif away the whole party dash at a running gallop he end of the column, until tiny are lost in the distance] sudden lj back again bney come, as rapidly as they went, upon the rear of the first column.
The party now approach to where Central Jackson, the other division commander, is, and after the usual salutations, Forrest and staff ride off, and their places are taken by -;ackson and staff, who ride in turn along the md line, only stopping Bn instant for the commanding general to doff his hat and salute the brigade commanders; theu back again tluy go around the rear vl the column to the right flank, where Van Dorn and
AN ARMY NOTK-HOOK. 160
staff leave thfl division commander and resume their position once more, after a long and dusty gallop, in the centre, and about a hundred yards in front of the entire body.
The command is now given to pass in review. Wheeling by companies to the right, the eye is relieved by the change which gives us a side view of the command" as it now marches past us, the band at the head of each brigade, the stand of colors and regimental officers at the heads of regi- ments, and the company officers slightly in advance of their companies. The head of the first division passes the general fcommandin^, and from the front, an officer, followed by his staff, gallops to Van Dora's post. He is a large and well proportioned man, six feet in height, of commanding form. His hair aud beard are rapidly changing from black to grey, as is his moustache. He has a fine, clear eye, with some expression fire and, but his features otherwise ;irc expressionless, the tout entemJblc giving one an of s bold, daring, defiant man. J I is conversation is earnest and his words spoken with a firmness that betokens will, but it is instantly perceivable ker was not the- recipient of a college education. This is Kriua ;\\t r General Forrest, than whom there is no more daring officer in our
miliar as a household word throughout the icy. His veteran Tennesseeans, who have pained for him by their hard" blows his well earned renown, pass on in review. The second brig approach*
Out turns another general officer and staff. This handsome, dashi fellow sits his horse with incomparable i_<race and ease, and displays a pet- ■thnwlon, which is the soul of daring chivalry. That :icr
ral Frank ('. Armstrong, and pray notice the flutter among the la in tie 1 (1m number of immaculate white kerchiefs whiel
[uisition. Now pai mental flag literally torn to pieces by bullet holes, in
f whieh, as it flaunts before him, tie commanding Thai i- (he pallant Third A.rkatM won rcn un from Oak Hill to Spring Hill. And her rol-
licking, r. head one
that ring presence of Whitfield, with hi= ily form, his '
I 8 Texan and bob!
featui
In hit man apparently twei ;h wavy
black hair, black moustache, an olive complexion, fine ex] and '.- the brigade ir:
' the wounds of the field and ills of tl
What singular looking custon Texans are, witl
170 GLEANINGS FROM
brimmed hats, dark features, shaggy Mexican mustangs, and a lariff, long enough for & clothes line, arottnd the pummel of their saddles. They are said to be unmerciful tu prisoners, but are a tower of strength when there is a fight on hand. When passing a farm at full run on horseback they lasso B hog, jerk it upon their horses, skin and quarter it without stopping.
I observed at headquarters, a pass from General R. B.* Mitchell, the Yankee commander at Nashville, to "'pass C. Hooper through the lines on all the pikes and return, for tm days." and asked where the bearer of it was. I was informed that our Texas pickets caught him and sent in this pass with the laconic and significant message : " We have lost Mr. Hooper."
Hello ! there goes Jack Wharton, the famous Texas rangor, at the head of his regiment, for he is commanding it in the absence of the field officers. " Who is Jack "Wharton '/" Who is n't. he ? Who in the command do n't know this jolly, rollicking fellow, who tells an anecdote with as much gusto as he skins a Yankee? -Jackson now turns from the head of his division as it passes, and joins Van Dorn, Forrest and Armstrong. He is a study, and with those singular dancing eyes, I cannot give his picture.
"Just look at that wax doll in general's uniform," exclaims an enthu- tic young lady, and our attention is attracted to young Brigadier General Cosby, of Kentucky, petite in figure, with wavy black hair and moustache, and bright expressive eyes. He is youthful in appearance, and looks as delicate and refined as a lady. Is probably thirty-five, though looking ten years younger Was a lieutenant in the regular United States army, and is known as a skillful and daring young officer. His brigade consists of Mississippiaos, all of whom have become much attached to their young commander.
Last of all, comes King's Missouri battery, of glorious fame, under young ( ihurchill Clark, of Elkhorn, lately under King and Johnson, at Spring 11 ill, where his battery charged the enemy in advance of our infantry and cavalry, and lastly on the Cumberland, where it suuk a number of transports and disabled a gunboat. All honor to its rifled pieces and gallant officers and heroic men !
abe's very latest joke.
A gentleman called upon the President, and solicited a pass for Rich- mond. " Well," said the President, " I would be very happy to oblige you, if my passes were respected; but the fact is, sir, I have, within the past two years, given passes to two hundred aud fifty thousand men to go to Richmond, and not one has got there yet." The applicant very quietly and respectfully withdrew on his tip-toes.
AN Alt MY NOTE-BOOK. I , I
A VK1ILANT SENTINEL.
A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal relates the following
As a specimen of .the vigilance exercised by the soldiers, take the follow- ing : The other morning, as General Joseph E. Johnston approached the cars, with the purpose of getting aboard, en route for Mobile, his ears were saluted by the gruff word "Halt!" coming from the stentorian throat of a grey-coated private, who demanded, when the veteran general had come to a stand, what was his business "on this here train V The general told him he was going to Mobile. " Let me see your ceitificate/' at the same time promptly bring his piece to an " arms port." " Old man," said the watch- ful sentinel, " no one goes on- this train unless he has a surgeon's certifi- cate/' At this crisis, one of the general's aids interfered, and explained to the soldier who the ''old man" was, much to the amusement of the latter, but to the horror, and confusion of the worthy guard, who took the general's compliment to his faithful performance of duty as a reprimand.
•
AN INCIDENT OF THE SIEGE OF VH'KsliURG.
On the night of the List of May, 1862, the Third Missouri infantry, Colonel W. E. Gause commanding, was ordered to the fort to relieve tho first infantry, which was moved to the rear and again held in reserve. The men spread down their blankets behind the stockade, lay down upou them and slept soundly until about four o'clock A. M., when they awakened by a furious cannonade from two or three of the enemy's batteries placed bo as to cotuniand the fort. They seemed determined to hatter down the stockade and the little redan at its right, in which we had two pi ght field artillery, for they continued the cannonade fiercely and rap until about eleven o'clock A. M., tearing off huge Bplinters from the si ade posts, hurling them in all directions, breaking arms and legs, and knock- ing men senseless all along the rank- of the regiment, terribly braising and lacerating them, when a desperate charge was made on the fort by eight
afterwards informed us) of their best infantry. Al fifty of tl atcd the broad, deep ditch on the outside of the r.
which was "defended by the right wing of the regiment, and a stand of their & lors was planted on a slope of the parapet, within the
mouths of OUT at efforts were made by our men
U in vain — the tire was I q having
y farther, tor f< ar of I aim
r of the fire ol down in , and pi
themseWcs until night, when tl v unhurt
■lie darkm
172 OLSAMINCHB ROM
The remainder of the assaulting column were held in check, ami after a bloody fight, were finally repuhfed.
While the fifty foemeq before mentioned were lying in the outer ditches, Lieutenant 11. II. Faulkner, of Company E, Third Missouri infantry, in looking over the parapet in order to gel B shot at them, caught a glimpse of one of them gazing up at him, and as he bent farther over to get a better view, was greeted by a shot from the fellow's gun, which whistled clo.se by his head. He immediately ordered the Yank to surrender. His reply was, "Goto.h — 11!" 'Faulkner immediately picked up a six-pound cannon ball lying near him, and threw it with all his force at the fellow's head, striking him full in the face, knocking him senseless. He then ordered the re- mainder of them to surrender, which they refused to do. He told them if they did not he would light bomb-shells and throw over among them. They still refused, when the sergeant of the piece of artillery near which he was standing lighted a five-second shell for him, which Faulkner tossed over among them by handkand it exploded just as it reached the bottom of the ditch. He continued to toss over the shells, at each explosion crying out, " d— n you, will you surrender now (" until he had thrown over all that were at hand, when he desisted. Some idea may be formed of the havoc they made among the stubborn foe, when it is known that twenty-one men, dead and wounded, were found in the ditch where he tossed over the shells. The remainder escaped under cover of the first darkness, carrying with them the stand of colors before mentioned.
THREE WILD CONFEDERATE IRISHMEN.
A Northern correspondent, who was accidentally within our lines previous to the battle of Fredericksburg, writes as follow.^ :
Thinking that I could not proceed through the Confederate lines while they were advancing, I turned into the first tavern, and waited about an hour and a half, when three Confederates made their appearance, and proved to be three Irishmen, stragglers from General Early's force, who had evidently been indulging in their national proclivities. I had a conversation with these three Confederate soldiers, regarding them as a fair type of the lower order of the Confederate soldiery, and wishing to ascertain the sentiments of that class.
Their expressions were about the same as those which I had often heard from the lips of the- Confederate officers^ and only differed in the brogue in which they were clothed.
"What the divil are you fighting us for? You may bate us now, but you'll nivcr put us down. By my sowl, we '11 fight till the last man ov us is kilt, and thin, be jabers, the women will take a hand at it. You may fight us for all eternity, and thin we won't be whipped, afther all !''
AN All.MY NuTE-BOOK. 173
AN ADVENTURE IN THE WEST.
Several companies of the Ninth Mississippi were out on picket duty on the night of the battle of "the bloody crossing of Stone River," when a stout, well fnade young fellow, named Tom Billon, an Englishman by birth, who was brought up in Boston, ajid emigrated several years ago to Yazoo, Mississippi, left his company to reconnoitre the enemy's position. Private Dillon was moving stealthily along across a field on the north side of the Nashville road, under cover of the darkness of the night, when he suddenly came upon one of the enemy's pickets — a strapping Indiana hoozier over six feet.
"DTalt!" cried the Yank, "Who comes there?"
"Friend," responded Dillon, when, just then, the moon slipped out for a moment from behind a cloud, discovering to the hoozier the grey uniform of Dillon.
"Our friends don't wear them sort-of clothes," said the hoozier ; "you are my prisoner."
"Well, I took you for one of our men," said Dillon, "as some of our troops are out this way."
"Which way?" asked the alarmed hoozier.
" Why, over there," replied Dillon, poiuting to where he knew the enemy's lines were.
"Well, come on this way," said the Yank, striking off to the left in a direction nearer to our lines than his own. Just at this moment several ■hots were fired and whizzed over their heads. "Lie down," cried Dillon, "or else we'll both be shot" The Yank did so, and Dillon, watching his opportunity, fell heavily upon him, at the same time Striking him a most Btqnning blow on the nose, which he repeated in ^uick succession, while the hoozier cried out "murder" most lustily. Fearing that the D would draw our men into danger of the enemy's pickets, as well as jeopar- dize his own saf< iv, Dillon made ■ gagof his forefinger, being now astraddle of his fbe, and forced it across his mouth. "Another yell," wln'si ■ Dillon to the prostrate 1. tozier, "and you're a dead man rathatand-
: iat the Y.mk bit the finger of Dillon most severely^ be bore it n fall/, and finding that hi.- enemy was not reinfoi ide him rise, bar-
bia mask t. and marched him according to Hardee into our tamp — th . —forward, qnii
oner — file left, double-quiok, and if yo« break | .eaj ^ a
In the arrival of ] il the. pit - an
adventure by t. laagfa at the .
174 \ni: as mou
THK PEIVATK SOLDIKK.
Under this head, the Jackson Mississippi Orieu pays t lie following hand- some tribute to the private soldier :
••Justice has never been done him. His virtuous merit and unobtrusive patriotism have never been justly estimated. We do not speak of the regular soldier, who makes the army his trade for twelve dollars per month. "We do not include the coward who skulks, nor the vulgarian, who can per- petrate acts of meanness; nor the laggard, who must be forced to fiirht for his home and country. These are not the subjects of our comment. We speak of the great body of citizen soldiery who constitute the provis- ional army of the Confederacy, and who, at the sound of trumpet and drum, marched out with rifle or musket to fight — to repel their country's inv.-i or perish on that soil which their fathers bequeathed, with the glorious boon of civil liberty. These are the gallant men of whom we write, and t' have saved the country, these have made a breastwork of their manly bosoms to shield the sacred precinct of altar-place and fire-side.
u Among these private soldiers are to be found men of culture — men of gentle training — men of intellect — men of social position — men of character at home — men endeared to a domestic circle of refinement and elegance — men of wealth — men who gave tone and character to the society in which they moved, and men who. for conscience's sake, have made a living sacrifice of property, home comfort, and are ready to add crimson life to the holy offering.
'• Many of these, if they would have surrendered honor and a sense of independence, could have remained in possession of all these elegancies and oomfoi ts. But they felt like the Roman, who said, ' put honor in one hand and death in the other, and I will look on both indifferently!'
" Without rank, without title, without anticipated distinction, animated only by the highest and noblest sentiments which can influence our common nature, the private labors, and toils, aud marches, and fights; endures hunger, and thirst, and fatigue; through watchings, and weariness and sleepless nights, and cheerless, laborious days, he holds up before him Hie oue glorious prize — 'Freedom of my country;' 'Independence and my home!' If we can suppose the intervention of less worthy motives, the officer, and not the private, is the man whose merit must commingle such alloy. The officer may become renowned — the private never reckons upon that ; the officer may live in history — the private looks to no such record ; the officer may attract the public gaze — the private does not look for such recognition; the officer has a salary — the private only a monthly stipend, the amount of which he has been accustomed to pay to some field laborer on his rich domains. The officer may escape harm in battle by reason of distance — '
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the private must face the storm of death ; tlie officer moves on horseback — the private on foot; the officer carrjes 'a sword, tho emblem of authority, and docs not fight — the private carries his musket, and does all the fighting.
"In those ranks there is public virtue and capacity enough to construct ;i government, and administer its civil and military oflices. Tbe opinion of these men will guide the historiifn, and fix the merit of generals and slates- men. The opinion ( F tbese meu will be, and ought to be, omnipotent with tbe people and Government of the Confeder
" Heaven bless these brave, heroic men ! Our heart warms to them. Our admiration of their devotion and heroism is without limit. Their devotion to principle amounts to moral sublimity. We feel their sufferim: and share their hopes, and desire to be identified in our day and generation with such a host of spirits, tried and true, who* bend the knee to none but God, and render homage only to worth and merit." . •
PRE MINI).*
•
< i moral John U. Morgan left his camp, which was in the vicinity of Gallatin, Tennessee, on a tour of observation, and while absent, th*e unex- pected appearance of a large force of the enemy caused, his command to retire from it and leave it in the enemy's possession. Shortly after, Morgan, who wore kbe uniform of a Federal officer, returned to find his camp thus occupied, and himself surrounded by the Abolition soldiery. Nothing daunted, they not recognizing him, his uniform, too, deceiving them, he demanded what they were doing there when the d — d rebels were fast ad- vancing upon them from the quarter in which he had approached, and them an authoritative oommand to retire nt once in an opposite direction. This they hastily did, when Morgan himself, with no -less haste, retired also in an opposite direction, safely reaching his command.
'■ III. HE 'fl YOUll Ml). I
( tee of tin ] in die Southern army of the Fotonr.
Major General Hood, ol Kentucky. Always accessible, always kind, always brave,* hia men love him devotedly, and will follow him to the death. The ing incident illustrates both his popularity and tl of it:
A soldirr tf the Ninth Georgia, j Gtanend Hold's quart
to him: " Grenentl, will yon take ■ drink with mi t" Tl th<> canteen, over bis should* • inti-
want a drink, 'here'a your mule!'" • ral II. thanked him for his kind off. r
rr.nl Hood, wl
rol bis risibl<
pan th.it 1 liiin.
176 GLEANINGS FROM
YANKEE OFFICER KILLED AT VICKSBURO.
A ootn pondent of the Memphis Appeal relates the following incident that took place after the surrender of Vicksbur
Colonel A. B. Watts, who □ your paper for his gallant con-
duct at Port Q-ibson, has again rendered his name a glorious one. Jnsl after the surrender of the 'city, he wen! down to the landing to get a lemon from one of the boats, and had returned, and was in the act of mounting his horse, when a Yankee captain, with a guard, informed him that the horse belonged to dnole Sam. Colonel Watts informed him that he was an officer, and was entitled to his horse and side-arms. Whereupon, Captain Yank called him a d — d liar, and cursed him for some ffme, and oommenoeid abusing the women " Vicksburg, and called them a d — d set of out Colonel Watts then drew his pistol, and remarked to the Yankee; that he hated to kill as mean a dog as he was, but his honor compelled him to do 80, and fired, the ball entering the right breast and killing him. The guard cried out: " Kill the rebel !" " Out him down !" Colonel Watts presented bis pistol/and said, in very composed manner: "Proceed, gentlemen ; but I will kill four of you before you accomplish your object*" But the guard to the conclusion that he was too brave a man to fool with, and de- cided to let him pass. Tolonel Watts mounted his horse, and rede out of town, and when last heard from, the gallant young hero had arrived safely in Brandon, Mississippi, waiting to be exchanged.
A 0000 JOKE ON THE CHAPLAIN — THE "STOLEN BUFFALO ROBE."
There has been published 'a humorous letter from the Reverend T. 1>. Gwin, Chaplain of the First South Carolina Volunteers, calling upon " the man who stole his buffalo robe," and "sundry other baggage, to return the same, if he valued at all the blessings of a clear conscience, aud an improved >>cct of future salvation. The following pious and noble-spirited re- sponse to the reverend gentleman will show that the appeal, through the Richmond Enquirer, has not been altogether unproductive:
Seventeenth Mississippi Regiment, Posey's Brigade, Camp near Bunker Hill, Virginia, July 16, 18 M v DEAR GrWIN : I was inexpressibly shocked to learn, from your letter in the Enquirer, Of the 4th instant, that tlie temporary loan of your " buf- robe,,J blankets, shawl and pillow should have given you such inconve- nience, and even suspended your arduous duties in the field for a week. !ia IT known that these arlicles belonged to a chaplain, the sacred pack-
ghould have remained inviolate. But-supposing from the mark, '/ Captain," that it belouged to some poor officer of the line, aud knowing that it was more baggage than he was enti-
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tied to carry, I relieved him (if it from motives that will be appreciate! by •any officer of the line or the field.
"•i my arrival at camp, on the 1st of April, ] divided the blankets anion:' my mess, and in a sudden fit of generosity,, I retained the. buffalo hawl and pillow f'or'iuy own use.
The other members now join me in returning thanks, and feel that to your warm and gushing heart these thanks will be the richest recomyx
We are. all of us, exceedingly anxious for you to change your fi< Id of labor to this army, where the duties of chaplains are much lighter than they could possibly be anywhere else.
Here they devote themselves to trading horses and collecting table deli- cacies, with a zeal that eminently entitles them to the appellation of Bird* of Prey-
I am now patiently waiting for your coat and boots, which I presuo will send to cue, in accordance with the following injunction :
"it any man take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also." — St Matthew, chapter five, verse forty.
Fur the regulation of the amount of 1 which a chaplain in tLe
army should carry, we refer you to the following
" Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses.
" Nor scrip for your journey ; neither two toats ; neither shoes, nor yet slaves, for the workman is worthy of his meat." — Matthew, chapter ten, B nine and ten.
Anything you may have in excess of the above allowance will be n fully received by n
i remain, dear Grwin, with sentiments of eternal gratitude,
THE MAN WHO STOLE YOCK Bl ROBE
■ in, Chaplain First South Oat 'Sna 1 font*
" M BE BON OB <>F THE FLA i "
i the "Home Department" oi t! hrleans T. is ex-
■ -1 the following account of the efforts thai <lc to prevent the
in teaching the young idea ho. • 1 ward. If an; tnoreridii 1 contemptible then
the course of 1 ment in the v
iheir pupils draw rebel pictures on ;'
. I
ami I
I. i HuM
principal of a school on Car reet, evid
who poinl 1 her ind
visitation and search fri no a j • :.t as
h< r opinion thai some of her papila in the lower olas have, by way
usenient, drawn the political etui tnplained of, bul call< d on the
police officer to sustain her in the b tscrtion that in the room of the grudu- and other high clasaos of the school, an unsurpassed lady-like deport- ment had been evident, and that nothing political was (band there.
The judge remarked that the authorities felt it their duty to end that the mind of the rising generation Bhould be trained with proper feelings, and that it was necessary to Bustain t1 ing a fiue
of one hundred dollars in the present case. A short timo alter, Mrs. Roquet, principal of a school on Oai was arraigned on the
charge, of permitting seditious emblems to be drawn and cherished by the female pupils. The policeman stated that the accused had expressed the opinion that the subject was none of her concern, and not for her to inter- fere about.
Judge Hughes then explained that he felt convinced, that in the former . he had been led into an error of judgment, and that severe punishment appeared necessary. He adjudged Mrs. Loquet to pay a fine of two huu- dred and fifty dollars, which sum was, within a 1'ew moments, handed over to the receiving clerk by a gentleman, who thereafter led the lady out of the court room.
Miss Picot, said to be the principal of a school lor young ladies on Julia street, was then arraigned, accompanied by her mother. The officer who searched the establishment, and found a number of the infantile efforts at flag manufacturing in the books and on the sheets of paper belonging to the is. i-uid that the lady had stated that she had endeavored to enforce- the rule that no political demonstrations, obnoxious to the Government, should be indulged in. The lady herself, as well as her mother, expn ret at the fact that the Beoret artistic efforts} of the pupils Bhould 1 been offensive to the authorities. The judge evidently appreciated the plea, but f'1 It it. necessary to give proper e as to the punishment of
delinquent ladies who have taken on themselves the duty to teach the young minds how to -hoot in the right direction.
"DIS AM MA88A LINKUN's PROCLAMATION.0
Tl e negroes who had deserted from the military service in Massachusetts were ordered to be arrested. As the guard were taking them down to the wharf, in Boston, heavily handcuffed, on the way to Fort Warren, one of them held up his manacled hands and exclaimed : '• Die am Massa Linkuu's proclamation'." The effect can be better in an described.
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NIGGEB MINI TON.
A Washington letter in ti ,:> Republican give* a laughable ac-
oount of the reception of (he negro minister from Hayti at the I' States oapital, ami his treatment of his brother The following i.s-
bxtraoted :
Two mahogany colored individuals, each with hair showing a decided dis- \>>n to kinkine irrived here in the capacities of Minister from
i and his secretary. Their debut at the capital has raided an eX(
i in tw/i branches of Washing! whether they, are
r not. The Abolitionists have made up. their minds to admit them equality, and accordingly say they an not negroes, but Hayti while the colored folks hereabouts insist that they are veritahle darkies. It
'on will he decided ; but the observation of the writei te new comers are not negroes, then mulattocs
ire white people.
preseatative E^ooper, of Massachusetts, led off by having the two at his dinner table, and there can he no doubt of the inten: of the Abolil to introduce them into white society. Secretary
' to dine with him ; but it is customary for the nd this courtesy to all representative- of for< nations soon after their first arrival, and the premier is no doubt follow precedent more willi a inclination.
The following incident shows which way the 1! hemselves aro
inclined: A few di their arrival, the colored people held a meet
and deei'. I stablish intimate relations with tl lending their
mill'-' firs!, and then the common negroes were to
The r< lives of the free negro
c of Hayti, getting wind ol • . sent a message to the
.t they W<
them have since then made i, i b venting their indignation
at tl nt. At i their chut
of the .
ct like white men. '
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:r<'cdom. wound
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WHAT Hi" . BTMK Off TBI ^ A.NK1
Th< -] i ■ii'.icnt of tli.- ( ". trleet d I i the following
incident: \
The Fi nahip VanHerbilt, R lar Admiral "Wilkes, from llavann,
Bteamed up bo Nassau, and sent a boat ashore with dii 5 nkee
ul. The most ludicrous scene took place on the arrival oi* the small at one of the wharves. Tl and cutton bales around were
red with a swarm of Nassau n i d tl with-
hisses, jeers, taunts and groans. Blank amazement pictured itself on the laces of the crew, while the officer in c immand was evidently nervous ami nonplussed. During the Btaj <>f the boat at the wharf, the darkies in- dulged in sucli cynical reflection- : " Golly, how dcy'd put out if do 290 was in Bight." " 1 wont! - heard front I ." " 1 1* I ap o Maffit was here, he'd sink dein in two minutes." A big negro on a OOtton bale, surrounded by his satellites, gave a stentorian version of the Yankee national air "John Drown lies a mouldering tin the grave," only lie altered names and phrases to suit hie disgust for the Northern auditors. lie also produced "Dixie" and the "Bonny Blue Flag." When the officer returned, and the boat pushed off, cheers were given for Jeff. Di and three tremendous groans for old Abe Lincoln. The Yankees retorted not a word. 'When the sun rose tl..- >. xt day, the Vanderbilt had disap- peared— gone to Charleston, it is said. This ebony outbreak in favor ef '• Dixie" was entirely spontaneous.
A CONTi: \l'.'..\i> A.\h( I
An army correspondent must be responsible lor the perpetration of the
folloWl
The attempts of the darkies to imitate their superiors and exchange their Southern "lingo" fot the more classic language of tin? North, are often
amusing. Here is a case in point: 'Colonel has a negro cook, who
exhibits great shrewdness. On one occasion, he was told by the regimental quartermaster to clear up some hay which was lying loose around camp. He promised to do it, but imagine the surprise of the quartermaster, when shortly afterwards he saw the darkey mounted on the colonel's favorite horse, and riding him up and down near the brigade band, which was then practicing. The quartermaster hailed him, and pointing to the hay which remained untouched, asked for an explanation. • Darkey drew himself up proudly on his horse, and giving the -'salute" in his best style, said with all gravity: " He fac of the matter am, orderly, de hay question hah bin bosponed. De kurncl hab required me for to excise his horse mong de music to familiarize him wid de tunes.'
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FlfillTJNCJ A JEW.
A fioldicr in General James D. Morgan's brigade, writes tlio following amusing incident, which hap] ened when that brigade wa- encamped before Fapoington, near Corinth, Mississippi:
Stringent 01 bibiting officers or soldiers from going beyond the
(amp or color lines, while in presence of the enemy, w< I and en-
foroed. Sentinels were alive to their duty, and none hut a general or -tr.fi' er were permitted to stray hcyo-id his lines. In the rear of our hri^ade camp, was the headquari i neral I'., who was not only a true soldier,
but D of the iir.-t water. His orderly wifl ,,nd
Mickey Free." On the extreme left of the brigade' Was the camp of the Tenth Michigan, Colonel Lnm, and immediately on its left flank was a battery, through or close in front of which none save t] officers named above were permitted to pass.
Wisliin i the picket lines, which was II , ition day
jh the battery, but Mike was halted. With that boldness and effrontery characteristic of general's orderlies, R] not only abused but threatened to "wollop hell's delighta" (as he cli cn\\\ expressed it) out of the faithful sentry. Matters were approach ii
.< when General J'., hearin tall swe:
elain. derly of the sentry, who let him go wjth a volley of onintel-
ligible Teutonic oatl
"^'ou must n't quarrel with a sentinel," said i ral, adn.
Mike as to the danger of such a practice.
lid n't he know I was a gineral'a orderly." • with ■ •• th Mike, twisting h -,,;.
' lucl t<» him an'
■ Id n't our Saviour be livin' and d
a | Tiir Wi
.ly-Ninth Virginia toted in
• with tl ;rft
• ■ | who,
i. ad
|
MOKGSN IN
The New Xork I pin's
attack i'ii the Nashville and Louisville railr
(»; line railroad] pic at Nashvilli liting tho
: wiilf, made up a | train/ and Btarted for Lonia-
.iii time. Your correspt ! for a Beat.
The train, & r t >- i - 1 1 s i _r of two lea (every £•
•ar well filled, an express ear, containing, among other valuabli and fifty-seven thousand dollars worth of \ iper money, in charge of a nger, left Nashville at seven o'clock A. M., and proceed.' 1 as tar as v Station, half way, without molestation, or even anticipation <>f trouble on the line. At Cave City, Conductor Sweeney, in charge of the train, learned that Morgan had indeed captured Lebanon the day previous, taking Colonel Sanson, Eighteenth Kentucky, and six hundred prisoners, marching toward the railroad, with the apparent intention of cut- ting if somewhere I Elizabethtown and Lebanon Junction j perhaps the Muldrough's Hill trestle works were to be destroyed. Telegraphic com- munication with Louisville was yet pel li ot, an ! the conductor resolved •• ahead, not cautiously, but swiftly, hoping to run past the rebel column into Louisville before they could advance t«» the road from Lebanon.
Appeal' r instructions by telegraph w icticable,
and the conductor did it. He soon received -a reply to this effect: "All right: come on with your train; no robs. ;" signed " Smith," which is a name common to Louisville operators, John N. Morgan, and bund eds of <flher men. On this occasion, it was used by John. We passed through the black tunnel, winding down over the great trestle work at Muldrough's Hill at fearful it undisturbed, wo picked up. near Lebanon Junc-
tion, the garrison ol' a stockade, who had been ordered by General Boyle,- telegraphically) to "burn your camp, and come on train to Louisville." It perhaps, unnecessary to state that John Morgan acted as attorney for adier General Boyle in Bigning that dispatch. There were twenty- eight ol' these soldiers, under command ol B BeOOnd lieutenant, whose name ! not learn. They swelled the number of passengers on the train to two hundred, about twenty-live of whom were ladies.
rs realized their situation as booh as the firing commenced. Bullets whistled over, through, under and beside the bars, and the cries and sh-riiks were terrible; the rebels closing around the Cars, hallooing and shooting at the now retreatii ers. The unarmed passengers Bought
the floors of the coaches for safety, and groveled about in the ajsles ami beneath the Beats, in a wriggling, trembling, seething mass, for the night was offensively warm, and the musketry firing hot.
Hesitating a moment to destroy my watoh-guard and Becrete my purse in
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my boots, ns T had soon others fVt to do. T found when T cnmo to lie down the floor was more than occupied. I m Pat and Bhivering
Nashville Jew, who was mutl hin self that ho had "no monish," nor
"mi;. •'." and reclined upon him till we w • I / a fero-
cious rebel, crouching along the aisle, gun in hand. | nted at us
Baying: "Come, now, Yanks, get out of this; quick, too." Everybody out speedily, in obedience t<» the order, and firii Thirteea <>f tho
stockaders had already been captured, one killed, and three severely wounded. Three or four rebel horses lay dead before us. I can only • my own experience during the succeeding fifteen minutes. I was too much harassed to al other than private affairs. My feet touched the
ground, and 1 fell into the hands of a bis. dirty looking rebel lieutenant, with a United my revolver in bis hand, lie inquired for my arms.
ive him a superior pistol without a murmcr, though inwardly cursing tlv fbitunesof war. The pistol did nut satisfy the insatiate person, and he slapped all- my pockets in quick succession till he felt my Wi
id.
Iden one, worth six hundred dollars anywhere south "I1 the Ti line, and doubly valuable to mc fur associations, so I
ventured to hint, urbanely, that bo was !e "couldn't and
woul n't help it — a watch V ,;" Jje
left me in charg< of ked away' to the next perch,
dot did I see him more. The "youthful guard" opened the conversation
by inquiring if I ] did, and 1 it, aud
it I finally prevailed upon him I -the line of i
with my haversack on n r )Ufc. through the youthful .
Be anything taken Lit the robs, want* . from Clarksville
■
nd nar- row1;
I pummel
I
ping of tobacco, or "mole I I, and softly felt of the hat
I were. Be told me Ids name v 1 line of
the grovi aient." My hat, for whieh I had
. a fabulous pi lie, was not g h, so he oompro-
k a traveling cap fir im the haveraaok, o;. . now the
lying it would be just the thing for ••some of bfa 'who
short of head gear.
! found General Morgan in the centre of a 1 ..- nn-
ired in the falling dew, while all around his men were examining si property by the light of fires, lie wore no insignia of rank, b< i: _r dr< in the common round-about and pants of the rebel e and
little Basil Duke, who has risen to the rank of acting brigadier, flitted ifttlly about, and seemed to be I spirit of the party.
it div. near West Poi it, on the Ohio, the lumber wag* n, on whieh 1 had taken passage, passed through tin bea I of the Confederate column oa the match. We met several acquaintances of the previous night, but were not hindered.
A PATRIOTIC MOTHER.
A poor woman of Campbell County, Virginia, sent nine sons to the war in ono company in the Forty-Second Regiment, one of whom was below con- script age. One of tnese has died of disease, another has been crippled by
ound, but the remaining seven arc now "present ior duty." Well, thus mother of the Gracchi — said iG-racchi being unable to go to see her — came to see them the other day. She is about sixty years of age, hut walked to 'Im' post where her boys were' on picket at the time, from Guinea's Station, fifteen miles distant, in an incredibly short space of time Do you wonder now at, the performances of Jaokson's foot cavalry, when they have such mothers? But to go on with the story: The accomplished officer now in
Lmand of the regiment having mentioned these facts to General Jones, it was decided, first, that the best ambulance in the brigade should convey her bach to Guinea's, whenever it should please hi r to return; and seoond, that she should dine with himself and stall". Bearing that the wife of one of the nine, as well as another woman, mother of three sol liers in the same regiment, had accompanied the old lady, they, too, were invited. Dinner passed oil' very pleasantly. One of our guests (the mother of the three) i us that we soldiers of the second war of independence were much better off than those of the first, by telling us that she had often heard her father, who was a revolutionary soldier, tell his boys that they didn't know nothing — that he had often waded through snow a loot deep in his bare shirt-tail !
A IT OF EVIDl I
Wc <;ive plac id ask for it a
careful perusal from any in A nior the notion
that the Yankees are fighting for . civilization and the I contem-
plated by the Constitution of the ' < )ur friends abroad should
^ive circulation to tl
Outrage* of the Enemy — f?>/»>rf oft \mittec — !' ■ Mr. C
m Alabama, 1863. Committee of Thirteen, con of th< lution of thi
n, to collect and report j by
Demy upon tl- - and property of our citizens, in violation of
the rules of civilised warfare and i rt: "That they and outr i
mitted by y in only four derecy — Alabama.
''ina — and that t a small part of whi our citiz<
J!n'
. prineipl
im< ;it of enlif irit of wai
vindictive malice. ( r of robbcr-1. - , ] (,r c.
iich the i
l( five million dollars. In | tfl of
■ crops ; tlir implcti
h man an I '• i
■
i ■
L86 rsoM
and mutilab '1 the monuments In cem< h ties, and ha?e exhumed and opened coffins, either to gratify Bordid avarice or fiendish malignity. They have mutilated or removed public and private libraries, portraits and other paint- ings, statue^ and other works of art and taste, pianos and other musical in- struments, and all household furniture. They have rpbbod many persons of relics of deceased parents, children, or other relatives <>r friends, which were invaluable to them, and valueless to, the robbers, merely to torture the souls of our citizens and to satisfy their own mean and malevolent animosity. They have murdered peaceful and unoffending citizens, and have seized aqd taken many of them far from their families and homes, and incarcerated them in prisons of the United 8 they have offered the
choice of a prison or an oath of allcgiafice to the United I 'hey
have rushed by regiments, battalions x>r companies into our villages, and robbed, like banditti, both men and women, in their dwellings and on the ts, of money, watches and other jewelry. Their soldiers have indulged their brutal passions upon women, sometimes in open day and in public places, with impunity, if not by lie. n- of their officers. They have not spared either age, sex or calling. Old men, women and children, mini of religion, peaceful artizuns, merchants, men of science and letters,, tillers of the earth, and others not bearing arms, or guilty of any misconduct, have been made to suffer as hostages, or. vicarious victims, for the severe but de- fensive blows inflicted by our gallant soldiers upon these cowardly invaders. Kven those unfortunates whom the mysterious providence of God has bereft of reason, or of the faculty of speech, or the sense of sight or hearing, have not escaped the demoniacal wrath of our enemies.
"The Committee would cite examples of each of those outrages, and the imony by which they arc sustained, but it would swell the report beyond limits which will insure its publication and perusal, and as the wrongs and injuries done are not half told, the investigations having extended to' only a small part of four States, they have deemed it best, to postpone a full recital to another session of Congress, when they may make a tinal report.
"In conclusion, the Committee feel warranted in saying that the conduct of the war, on the part of our enemies, has not exhibited the moderation, tie forbearance, the chivalrous courtesy, the magnanimity, or christian charity, which the spirit of the aire* demands, and which the practice of civilized nations for several centuries. last past has generally illustrated. It has been a war not more against our unarmed men than helpless and inno- e 'tit women and children. It has been prosecuted to destroy not only our means of defence, but our food and raiment; not only to conquer, but to exterminate. It has been a war not only against the bodies, but against the spirit of our people also; their souls have been tortured by all the base
AX ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 187
arts of cowardly despotism ; by subjecting them t<> insults and humiliati .•is if the very slaves of their enemies; by robbing them of priceless treas- ures, consecrated ' in their affections by associations with dead or absent kindred; by false reports to those within their lines, and who were cut off from communication with their fellow-citizens beyond them, of rep< defeats and disasters attending Southern arm--, and of our concessions of the if our cause; by desecrating graves, churches, and other sacred places; bj destr which do not add 4o means of hostility, but
1 in peace, and serve to promote the common and "perpetual interests of mankind. In short, it Ins been prosecuted as if with the fell purpose of subjugating both the bodies and souls of our people, or of exas- perating and exterminating them. Tt has been a war against property, both public and private; against both sexes and all classes of society; against the political, moral and religious" sentiments of our people; against their honor ;»nd their public affections; against whatever has hitherto been deemed sacred, inoffensive and exempt from hostility by all civilized nations. It has been conducted so as to insult while they injured; to exhibit towards
;-tred. It has been waged as if they wished l to have had peace with us, or expected us never to hold in future any equality with them. Its prospective policy has not been to restore
. d, or to hi iture* commerce or intercourse with us as indepen-
dent or friend -lain to c/meiliatc, and design to subjugate
or exterminate
A BRILLIANT AN I' VVL ru An<;i
trd of a very singular charge, thai oocurred at Plain's store, below lot Budson, but we are ud ;ive correctly the names of pari
in the engagement. A Federal 1 mnoyed our troops
une time, when the commanding Gonfedei r asked an unusual
queri f our battery — whether he thought his artil-
■
ae of hU • a high knoll at n
I brisk fire upon tl lb tha with the balance of his own pi
In a few D •' die ten I
upon into Yank* m from their
' . ' I -.try
UAHI.V I
V b of the Ch rier wrote oi' the tattles around
follows: the many ine' g one concerning a private in Colonel
iken's Regiment, from arolina. It appears tliat while
;,;ii_r the1 Yank line anxiety, his com pi
him, and he found himself alone in the vicinity of Williamsburg road, down which a Vermont regiment had pa i the
woods, lie came upon a i tan standing behind a tree, whom he took to be I friend. He thought that he, hind the same tree, and take
I at the Yankees in the road. Quite carelessly, and with not the re- motest suspicion who was his compai ion, Ik' inquired < "What regiment de> you belong to?" " 1 belong to the Fifth Varincount," was the natal reply. The Pain ■ of himself that at this aun luncement ; .-tuck out
like a lobster's, and he began to feel as if a thousand ants were pre< down the small of his back. The Vermonter was ever six feet tall, and had a bayonet; while he was but five feet six, without a bayonet. He reasoned, mentally, that if he ran Buddenly, the Yankee would shoot, and yet he felt prodigiously unwilling to remain where he was. What to do he did not know. Directly, the "blue coat" asked him: " What regiment
b'long tew?" "Wall," replied the Confederate, (catching at U»e
thought that he would pretend Co be a Yankee also,) "wall, I b'long to a
regiment, and 've got lost. But I 'in goin' down here behind
this tree to git a shot at the rebels, and wheu I see one, I.'m goin' to give
him fits, like all tarnation."
With this effort, our shrewd Confederate turned on his heel, walked very for a few rods, but in less than > xty seconds was tearing through the woods like a lunatic. lie brought up, after traveling, he did n't no wl in the arms of the Twenty- Fi ssippi Regiment, according to his own
confession, the worst frightened man on the ground that day.
'•DO VOU TAKE QREENfeACKS ?"
A train of oars freighted with Federal prisoners stopped at the Atlanta in, when t lie prisoners amused themselves talking to the news boys on the platform. A Yankee officer said to one of the apple boys: • •• What do you ask for your appl •• Dollar a dozen."
you take greenbacks '."' Apple boy cocked his little toe-head, winked knowingly, and
replied, with his thumb to his nos •• No; but tee t.ik. blue i ■ ll\
AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. Till: CONFEDERACY VH
The following is from the message of President Davis : Our armies arc larger, better disciplined, and more thoroughly armed and equipped than at any ] >f the war. The energies of a whole
nation, devoted to the single ohject of success in this war, have accomplished marvels, and many of <»ur trials have, by a heneficent Providence, been converted into The magnitude of the perils which we have en-
countered have 'I the true qualities and illustrated the heroic
aeterofou . thus gaining for the Confederacy from its birth a
just appreciation from the other nations of the earth. The injuries result- ing from the interruption of foreign commerce have received compensation by the d< \ our internal re^onrc< ■.-. Cannon crown our fortrt
that were ■ the products of mines opened and furnaces built d"
the war. Our mountain caves yield much of the nitre for the manufacture of powder, and promise increase of product. From our own foundries and laboratories, from our own armories and workshops, we derive, in a great nieaMire, the warlike materials, the ordnance and ordnance stores, which are nded so profusely in the numerous and desperate • that
rapidly succeed each other. Cotton and woolen fabrics, shoes and ham in cairicip .-, are produced in daily incnv pringing into existence. Our fields, no longer whiten' i not be exported, are devoted to the production of cereals and the growth of stock; formerly purchase 1 with the proceeds of .-ntton. In our noble and devoted women, without whose sublime sacrifices rould have been impossible, the noise of the loom and of spinning wheel may be heard tlr the land. With hearts
gratitude. .. t us, then, join in r<' urning th nd in bes'
e of IDs ;, '»ra-
Baaeifold . r beloved country.
BSBOINE AT \ RG.
the QUI si by an officer o.
I and on .
iiments m '.re of mi
QLKANINQS rilOM THE PUGNACIOUS NIOOKBS.
The edit it ef the Richmond 2 humor, thus
viMiii!. ted himself in L863:
Christendom is about to l> i with ■ most Borage, ridiculous, inef-
fectual and odoriferous novelty. Dispatches announce that the negro sol- dier's bill has passed the Yankee Bouse of Representatives by h vote of eighty-eight to fifty-four. " The slaves of loyal per the dispatch,
'are not to be received, and no recruiting officers arc to be sent into the border States without the permission of their Governors. Mr. Stevens said three hundred thousand men would h rmy in May. We could not
raise fifty thousand white men. Conscription was impossible."
What a confession is here ! More than twenty millions of white people, educated highly in common schools, accustomed from childhood tot) practical exercises by which the wits are supposed to be sharpened and th< body invigorated, and priding themselves upon their endowments, make war upon less than one-third their number of semi-barbarian Southerners, sloth- ful, ignorant, enervated, depraved; and after two years of war, such as no people ever waged and none ever endured, (so vast in its magnitude ami so vehement and malignant its energy.) the stronger power is forced, by the stern necessity of constant defeat and the inherent wickness of the ei to appeal from its own race to African slaves for help. How shameful the admission of weakness — how ridiculous the appeal for aid ! Three hundred thousand white men, trained in all the arts of modern warfare, throw down their arms in disgust in May, and their places are to be filled with negroes, who scarcely know the muzzle from the butof a musket, and who, there is every reason to believe, can never be taught the simplest evolutions of the line. Could the absurd folly of the Abolition crusade be more glaringly manifest than in this preposterous substitution of muscle for mind, igno- rance for education, inexperience for training, olumsiness for skill, childish- for manhood, cowardice for courage, blind brute force for patriotism and reason, Africans for Anglo-Saxons? It is the insanity of fanaticism whipped, beaten, driven to desperation. It is the last frantic, furious, use- 1 less struggle of bad men, bewildered by the breaking down of an unright- oause; in a word, it is the arrant idiocy of hopelessly defeated Bin- fulness. ■ *
Enlightened Europe may turn from the siokening horrors of a servile insurrection, invoked by the madmen at Washington, to a phase of this war, as it will be waged next summer, which, when depicted with historical accuracy and physiological fidelity, can soaroely fail to relieve its fears as to the future of the white race at the South, and conduce, in no small degree, to the alleviation of any epigastric uneasiness that Exeter Hall may expe- rience in regard to the corporeal welfare of the colored brethren.
AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. * 101
The fate of the negro, oF the white population at the South, and of tho Northern army respectively, will be decided in a brief contest, which will occur about the middle of next June, and which wc will describe as gravely and succinctly as possible. On the 1st of April, fifty thousand negroes, who have been previously drilled in various camps of instruction, will be <h harked at Acquis ('nek. Pugnacious Joseph Hooker, foaming at the 'mouth from long delay, will organize them into brigades and divisions with the velocity of frenzied impatience. But it will require six weeks of inces- sant toil to perform this simple feat. It is at last accomplished. The pon-
are laid safely and crossed without opposition. To prevent acci ' . the grand colored division is put in the van. Grecly, its comruandc mains at Acquis Creek, "with a powerful glass," after the manner of Burnside. The skirmishers of the grand colored division are thrown nut. They deploy.
The voice of an overseer calling hogs is heard in a distant field. They on the reserve. No rebels bcim: visible,, they are again thrown ward. They feel for the enemy, but he is not to be felt. They fire a' nil, fifty feet in the air, and hit it every time. The rebels' being thus driven to their earthworks, the grand colored division advance.^ at the ]><i.< de ch a Methodist refrain, to storm the enemy's position, and
to " carry the crest" at all hazards. Of a sudden, the artillery Hill's command belches forth a hurricane of shell and shrapnel. The a rising Of wool, as of quills upon the fretful porcupine, under the c ol dusky brigadiers and sooty major generals; there is a f-imultaic effusion of mellifluous perspiration from fifty thousand tarry hides; there is ft display of ivory like fifty tlv.us.and flashes of lightning; fifty thousand i of charcoal knees are knocking and one hundred thousand
Ethiopian eyeballs are rolling medly in th< drunken
and distracted moons dancing in an ebon sky ; the grand colored divi trembles like a mighty poirr n an icy pavement ; there is an uni-
.} squall, as if all Africa had b< ! upon Its .diin- ; at the
a scattering, as if all the b! sod bussards in
tioo had taken v. in To a man, the Northern army li«s i
■ re by the dark
; . rlichm .nd^
A. 1' I [ill i .
A know his
I TKsT ABO
rodent of the Now York Herald, writing froi
■ and heads ' ' mice
tended by Borne lo* until the vestiges of verdure ha ; and well trained
shrubbery baa vanished, or is hut u broken and withered ma
wood. On one grave lies under the July sun. On another lie the turn Boldl ! and saturated with his blood. a e-mail ',
bearing the words, "To the memory of our beloved child Mary." lie the .. . , cannon shc/t. In the centre of the
, enclosed by an iron fence, and containing a half ,d rails arc still standing, where they were en cted by mir soldi* rved
to support the shelter tents of a bivouacking squad. A' family Bhaft has
i fragments by a shell, an<l only the base remain.;, with a t-ion of the inscription thereon. Stun, after atone felt tlic effect of the
thai ■'• ■ tured upon the crest of the hill. Cannon thundered, and foot and horse soldiers tramped over tl e sleeping pla< es of the dead. ( )tlu r I were added to those who are resting there, and many a wounded . still lives to remember the contest above
.n vKMi. . JOKE. 0
A little boy, in , Nashville, Tennessee, a. vender of pies, started out with
his basket, when he was accosted by a Federal on a hers". A tempting
was purchased, when the Federal, susp cious by a depraved nature, requested
tkc boy tolkaste a piece ; the boy complied, returned it, and the Federal
commenced eating. The hoy, understanding ttta
hireling, immediately Bang out: " Don't yon think. I know'd which side lud
the pisin V The pie was thrown down hastily, bur, tie
and the joke.
AN INCIDENT OF Tin: OOLUJfBUS HOllT.
The Memphis Argw tells the following:
Our esteemed citizen. Lem. Farren, of this county, had a son in the fight a; Columbus, who was, perhaps, the first to d ct his death.1 Ills servant was with the company, and, in the pr he battle, missed his master.
Looking lor him, he found him cold in death. The faithful slave took his young master's musket and cartridge box, fell into* the ranks, and fought all .vith unflinching gallantry, dealing death to many a Lincolnite.
AN ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 193
JACKson^ LAST api As an}- facts connected with the character and services and fall of Gen. Jackson are interesting, the following ac.count is taken, at the risk of some repetition, from a correspondent of the Richmond Enquin
The wounding of General Jackson has been minutely detailed to me by
Captain Wilbourne, of bis staff. The facts, in snl re these: General
Jackson, in company with a number of his own and a part of the staff of
■ pal A. P. Hill, had ridden beyond the front line of the skirmishers, after
the close of the fighting on Saturday night, as was often the habit uf the
pal Winn he had finished his observations, and i\$ he was returi he Was fired upon through mistake by BOme of his own men, and wafl Wounded in the right hand and on the left arm. At the same time, all the if the party w.rc either killed orwounded — including Captain Boswell, . ngincer — exc I tain Wilbourne, and perhaps one other pei
The general at once said he was wounded, and as soon as possible was con- I to the rear and his arm bandaged, dust then the enemy began an attack, and if w.. with difficulty thai ( Jcncral Jackson was tool injured in being borne from the field, as the firing both of small arms and artillery very rapid, and the rain of sheila and halls fell thick and fa him.
nger who carried General Lee the intelligence of this severe misfortune, tells me that he found the general on a bed of straw, about four o'clock in the morning, and that when told of what 1
these: "Thank G 1 if be praise 1 that he is still
." and that he fur' "Any victory is a dear one that depri
us of the B, even for a short time." Upon the informant
mentioning that he believed it was General -1 intention to 1
n Sunday, had he not have fallen, General Lee quietly wTh( e shall be pi time risin.tr. about
mplfl fare of ham and I forth, T hear, un and made such disi
bbith a I ; our cause, even though a Jack-
had fall< i.
Dtjotod with these two great men musl Interest the mention, neral Jackson re-
• r which I
icy that ten Jack
■'
■ Willful and
atfci. il all in vain; bis
rk w.i> d 'r.c, and tl
•
]94 « gli:amn«.s from
Of Jackson it may be said, what c: n bo affirmed of hut few men that have
lived in this great struggle, thai be has fulfilled ■ great purpose in history,
wrought out tl " for which he was ordained of Providence, and that,
be has left no stain which, living, ho would wish to blot." Hi*
pie, let us hope and believe, will survive him, and in the coming fights,
I ickson's Tii < ii Bhow to the world that "a dead Jackson Bhall win the
field."
The Richmond 1 % ■
A few nights before this battle, an equally characteristic inoident ocourred that i> worthy of record, lie a issing with one of his aids the
probability and issue of a battle, when he became unusually excited. After thinking it over fully, be' paused, and with deep humility and reverence Bald : "My trmt is in God;" then, as if the sound o\' battle was in his ear,
he raised himself to his tallest stature, and with flashing eyes and a face all biasing with the fire of the conflict, he exclaimed, "1 wish they would come." Trust in God and eagerness for the fray were two of the greal elements of that marvellous success that seemed to follow him like a star, 60 that he was never defeated, or failed in anything he ever undertook.
After he was wounded, he retained his cheerfulness, and remarked to ■ friend the pleasurableness of the sensations in taking chloroform; Btating that he was conscious of everything tint was done to him; that the sawing of his bone sounded to him like the sweetest music, and even sensation was one of delight.
Conversing with an aid, he pointed to his mutilated arm and said, '•many people would regard this as a great misfortune j I regard it as one of the greatest blessings of my life." Mr. S. remarked, "all things work together for good, to those that Idve Hod." - ," he emphatically
said, "that's it, that's it."
General Lee wrote him a beautiful note, so characteristic of his own i rosity and worth.
After hearing it read, he said, with his usual modesty and reverence, "General l$e Bhould give the glory to God." He always seemed jealous for the glory of his Saviour.
When it was told him that General Stuart led Ids old Stonewall Brigade* to the charge with the watchword, "Charge, and remember Jackson," and that inspired by this, they made so brilliant and resistless an onset, lie was deeply moved, and said : "It was ji>st like them ; it was just like them. They are a noble body of men."
lie had always desired to die, if it were God's will, on the Sabbath, and seemed to greet its light that day with peculiar pleasure, saying, with evi- dent delight, "It is the Lord's day," and inquired anxiously what provision had been made for preaching to the army; and haviug ascertained that
AX ARMY NOTE-BOOK. 195
arrangements wore made, lie was contented. Delirium, which occasionally manifested itself dnririg the last two days, prevented some of the utterances of his faith, which would otherwise have; doubtless been made. His thoughts' vibrated between rcligjous subjects and the battle-field, now asking some question about the Bible or church history, and then giving an — "Pass the infantry to the front," " Tell Major Hawks to send for- ward provisions to the men," "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees" — until at last his gallant spirit gently pa the dark river, and filtered ou^ its rest where the tree of life ia blooming beside the crystal river in the better country.
butler's Perquisites.
"Three shi] ad one barque." These vessels will arrive
•ng Wharf. Tbey contain the immense wealth accumulated by General
Butler and staff, while stationed at New Orleans, which is estimated at
dollars. There arc tw< nil of diamonds,
I of childrens' silver mugs, one cradle, full of ladii hair-pins,
two bandboxes of pit hod of mosaic brooches, two
ta of altar ornamoi | Over
watches, twenty one strawbeiry boxes of gold rite a from ladies
( while walking in the TO augar boxes of silver door plates and
knobs, an : full of decanter 1
and silver ever-pointed penci one for eaob of the
i church i hack, five poodles, biz
stallions, and various other articles too numerous to mention. Colonel French, on his return, will briifg the remainder of the lot.
ar.xr.RAE t: it.
nccdotc is told of General Hardee, which sh<>ws, in a very am kind of ma! ;' which an army of v
fori;, the
;
ex's ]jf,..
I t
1 said in
GLEANINGS FROM
tAL STr ' '.OITS.
Th( some incidents cot,- the dlant
:.il Stuart, from which •• lie follow '■:
l.i aving < 'Id Church,
bed, and the column came to a stand at I Milk, on
Pamnnkey. There they destroyed the three tr lying in
river, the fourth having «'rift«'l down the On our
die Yankees were heard Bhouting r: "Didn't I tell you so,"
nne. " Old Jackson is after as." "H us, sure/' said another;
and his voice ed by a volley. The i rd a vast
quantity o to our men; hut the three were
fired, and long after, trie lurid flames len lighting ir tl ning
eky. Th< sh of our men to this*]
A few moments' b< aeoftheren gade dragoons had ridden hastily
thri ugh the place.
"What's the matter?" was asked. "Hell's after the only reply,
as the bold dragoons added fresh spu ■ ; lace of sal
Another incident — one of a true Virginia heroine — is still more into i ing. Within a few hundred yards of the - cavalry camp stands the
residence of the accomplish . ing a Yankee ap-
ohing her house, she demanded his inst mt surrender, telling him he Burrouuded by rebel cavalry, and all le vain. Though fully
accoutred, and armed with no le.-s than lour pistols, the gallant son of .Mar.; •it oi all weapons, ami very ma '• y ari endered to the youug heroine, who unceremoniously inarched him into her house, and held him there iu durance vile until the arrival of Stuart's troopers, when he handed over with all honors, the lady blushing, and gallant, dusty horsemen bing. At another time, this same heroic dam some twenty-five Federal
cavalrymen dashing along the road towards her n a she in-
formed them, much to their surprise, that they were entirely surrounded by rebel horse, that the roads and woods were full of them, and all avenues of escape hermetrically sealed. Receiving this gratuitous and pleasing information with woeful countenance, the gallant Yanki i ed a white flag, trotted meekly and modestly along the road, when, falling in with a party of our men, surrendered with good grace, delivered up their arms, and were conducted to the rear.
It is narrated that when the Federal cavalry broke and ran from their camps, uji in the apj earance of the second squadron chargiig down- the road upon them, the chase that ensued was into and rapid. While
galloping down the roads, "full tilt," amid clouds of dust, and under a cloudless sky, ladies would rush to the doors, wave handkerchiefs, and shout
AN ARMY NOTK-r.f(.K. 107
with laughter and delight, but their constant cheers were soon drowned in the earth-shaking noise of squadrons thundering along the road, and the j;ir and jingle and rush of flying artillery dashing forward with ten-1 teams. Bui one hearty old dame, standing at her gate, with waving ker- chief, insisted on being heard, as she repeatedly Bhoufcd, at the top of her voice: "Hurrah, my I>ixi" boysl i told 'em you'd come, boys] Hurry! hurry down the road after 'cm! They 're only half a mile I base
'< in away, my brjwe Dixie hoys! I've want< 1 to get rid of the hlue var- mints a long while. Hurrah for our cavalry!* "Quick, lads, quick 1" shouted an old farmer, with stentorian lun^s and with much gesticulation, "quick, or they. '11 the rascals! Cut 'cm down, and spare none of
relsl" In fact, the race of two or three miles was more 1 ke . ' MCic than aught else. Trams would .stand at the Wl
or plough — ii' : -1 cd to the fence and perched thereon, grinned
laugl ' r of bursting their eyeballs or dislocating jawa —
lied open aod out rushed the inmates, cheering — yet onward I the jingling horsemen, amid clouds of dust and joar3 of laughter, until naught could be seen of their progress but clouds of dust rising over the green landscape.
SERJEANT BUCKLER'S LAST SCOUT.
The daring exp; John Micklcr on the islands of our coast
are familiar to all South Catoliniai I so well known that he
brother ii t( rr<>r an Yan-
kee mar..: :,t William A the youngest brother of
"iicklrr. and went • in the Ham] n, a pri-
\ ' mpany 15. ,ina
Oavall constant attentiou
in c immander of scouts for than fulfilled tl immandii
1
Itfa t< n mi '.
its
II:
198 QLZAl ROM
an ill ml Privates Miller
and Willingham, Company K, Bro iks' L'roop — all picked men, and, with a. ■ingle exception, from the troops composing the Hampton 1. airy.
In addition to the men from his own regiment, ho had with him a party of
t- n men from the First North Carolina cavalry, under Hanly, and
three volunteers from the Prince William's cavalry. Ilavi: 1 for
the ntghj in the neighborhood of Deep River, and waiting the next morning for his men to assemble, he learned that a ] arty of ten Yankee cavalry, un- der a lieutenant, was making its w Is Wolf River Shoals. Corporal Mick.hr had already been detached with a party of men to scout the road in another din otion, after some of the em i id to be prowling about Upon hearing this information, Sergeant Mickicr immediately sent Hanly, with his North Carolinians, to pursue them, while he pushed on to cut them off from the ford. lJanly soon came up with the enemy, and gallantly charged them, driving them before him and oapturing a prisoner. The chase was kept up for about two miles, when llanly's men, their horses not being able to keep up, became so scattered, that but two or three remained with him. The Yankee lieutenant seeing this, rallied his men on the crest ofahiilinan open field and returned the lire of the North Carolinians. cant Miekler, who had heard the firing when Hanly first charged, had come at a break-neck speed for two miles, and now appeared on the BC So rapid had been his speed that only Sergeant Henderson and Hogan had kept up with him. He rode up to Hanly, and asked why he. did not charge them. The reply was that his men had got bo scattered in the pursuit that lie had not been able to get them together for a charge. Sergeant Miekler then immediately ordered a charge, and followed by Sergeant Henderson, Hanly and Hogan, dashed upon the enemy. Regardless of the balls whioh whizzed around their heads, they held their lire till they got within fifty yards, when they opened with their revolvers, and the Yankees broke and iled. Over the hill, across the fields, they were followed by their dauntless pursuers till their flight was partially arrested in attempting to pass thr< ;i gatej and Sergeant Mickler's party came up with them. The fight now became hand to hand, lour against nine. It was desperate, but short; One of the Yankees was wounded in two places, and four others were unhorsed and taken prisoners. The lieutenant, with his remaining three men, escaped through the gate, and continued their rapid flight across the fields. They were closely pursued by Mickicr and his men, and at last jammed in the .Miner of a fence they could not jump, they yielded thcuiselvcl prisoners to a loe they could not elude.
Sergeant Miekler now received information that a party of forty-six of the enemy's cavalry were on the way from JJrentsville to Manassas Junction. He determined to atttick them, and sent off the prisoners under a guard,
AN ARMY NOTE-HOOK. 1P!I
keeping •with him seventeen men. He laid fin ambuscade on the road be- tweeo Broad Kun and Manassas, and awaited their approach. Sparks, Hanly, Hennepin and Doolin wore kept mounted, with orders to charge the rear of the enemy's column as they came out of the ambuscade, and secure all loose horses. The remainder of the party were dismounted and secreted in the woods along the road. The Yank< • a came on with drawn sabers, on the lookout for Mickler and his men. "When they got in the ambuscade, one of them, noticing the tracks, remarked, "Some d — d rebels have been along here." Another replied, " No, our boys passed here." Scarcely had he spoke, when the Bignal gUo was fired from the rear, and a rattling volley answered along the whole column. A sreue of indescribable confusion ensued. The cries and groans of wounded men, clinging in terror to their madly rearing and plunging horses, the faint moans of the dying, as they •were trampled undi r the hoofs of their own chargers, and the wild, fearful rush to escape from this scene of death and horror may be better imagined than described.
The mounted men, -without waiting for the column to pass, charged im- petuously on the enemy, and engaged in a desperate hand to hand conflict with three times their number., Hanly's horse was shot dead under him. Hennegan'fl charger fell with him in the road, and instantly several Yankee dragoons and horses had fallen over him. He extricated himself from the Struggling mass, and crawling up the steep bank, began coolly firing with hifl revolver at the Yankees as they stumbled over the fallen men and horses. Doolin captured and brought irks followed a
\ t'aptaiu and ordered him to surrender. The reply was: "I surren-
der, sir, but I can 't hold my horse." At the same moment another of the enemy cried out : " < a; tain, why do n't you shoot the d — d rebel ?" and, taming in bis s.iddic, fired his revolver. The ball passed through the of Sparks, piercing his right lung. Surrounded by enemies, not a
nfully and danger haps mortally, his situation was critical. But his and com
him for a moment. Wl i ' n into tl
de about a hut I I the ground,
inting 001 ■ Yaokei
witi, : hand, 1 •
and deliver u] '■ ml when the I found in
tioo, with •
■ flyii
■
res alone, d the
00 GLEANINGS PROM
enemy and drive thorn headlong before them. For a mile ami a half was the pursuit kept up down the road toward Dumfries, Mickler with-
drew to secure his prisoners. The enemy lost in this affair two killed on
the spot, eight wounded and five taken prisoners; a loss almost equal to the entire number of their assailants. Bparka was so severely wounded that it was impossible to remove him on hoi and as it was reported that a
very heavy force was moving up from Dumfries, it was important that Stickler's party slmuld lose no time in carrying off" their prisoners. They sent to a neighboring house for a carriage to convey Sparks, and a young lady immediately came, like a ministering angel, to proffer her services. So they left him to her tender care, and as she bent weeping over him, wiping the bloody foam from his lips, he smiled, raised his head from her lap, and waving his hand feebly to his comrades, said: " Go on, boys, don't wait lor me."
INCIDENT AT THE BATTLES ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK..
" There is a young Georgia soldier, who, durintr the first two years of the war, fought all through the Virginia battles, except the first Manassas, and had never been touched by Yankee ball or shell until the great light on the llappahannock. There he was wounded very severely in the face, and also in the hand by Minis balls. Walking off the field, covered with blood and very faint, though still keeping his loaded gun in the uninjured hand, he saw a Yankee marching off three of our boys, unarmed, as prisoners. The Yankee called out to the wounded soldier, being quite near him, to surrender; instead of which he instantly raised his gun ami shot the Yankee dead, thus savin;: himself and releasing the three prisoners. The name of the young soldier is Jesse J. Morris, a private in General John- ston's fine company, the Thomson Guards, Company F, Tenth Georgia regiment, lie is one of four brothers now in the service.
THE WAY TIIEY FIGHT.
A person who was in the battle of Lexington, Missouri, relates the fol- lowing:
I saw one case that shows the Confederate style of lighting. An old Texan, dressed in buckskin and armed with a long rifle, used to go up to the works every morning about seven o'clock, carrying his dinner in a tin pail. Taking a good position, he oanged away at the Federals till noon ; then an hour, ate his dinner, after which he resumed operations till six P. M., when he returned home to supper and a night's sleep. The next day, a little before seven, saw him, dinner and rifle in hand, trudging up street to begin again his regular day's work. And in this style he continued till the surrender.
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HEROISM.
The New Orleans True Delta, In its account of the exploit of the Ma- ui act of chivalrous 1 by two seamen, while plmt and shell were falling thickly upon t1 icti d rves to.be held in ev mbranoe :
The Richmond now took the Vincennes in tow, and the Water Witch grappled the Preble, A\ the time keeping up a heavy fire on the ram, but without striking her except once, and then knocking down the renin h chimney over the vent of the other one. This choked up the outlet for the smoke, and as they were yet burnin tar, sulphur and tallow, the
asphyxiati it arose from it rushed down and spread throughout the
suffocate every one in a few minutes. Nothing was to >ne except for some one to go on deck and cut away the wreck, while th< t hips, less than a quarter of a mile distant, were raining their balls all around them.
! z i n tr an oxe, Mr. Hardy rushed up the companion-way, nor could Lieutenant Warlcy, who had not d;s< ,e accident, hold him back.
Austin saw him go up, and knowing that he could not stand alone on the arch llowed him up. There, on the unguarded top, Hardy cut
away the fallen chimney and its guys with the axe, while Austin, bracing his feet firmly apart, held hi All the while the balls and shells
• and around > vent was opened, and the sul-
phurous smoke rushed out, jo low were g itting suffocated.
WILLIAMSBURG.
ton T. Manning. ippi General Longstrcet, dis-
ished bin it a number of ts, among
rippi. During the the charge, h«
rds in advance in at 1 was leading, and
b limb of thrown on While
in thi i), a Yan! • and called on him to surrei.
irncd the fire, the ball i body. Manning then fired
J firing oil ■ I lines, i r of the i tiCcs
iicpartul . which, uj muc,
202 OLEANINQ8 FROM
A I
On the outer picket lines of our advanced post, near Suffolk, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Ninon, commanding the Ninety-ninth New York Volun- tas the officer in charge of the pickets, who, by mutual agreement, have decided not to fire upon each other.
Being within pistol shot of each other, the outposts converse freely together, and the following CO) on took place:
Union Picket— ''Hallo, Rehl" Rebel Pic&et — "How are you, yank':" Union Picket — "I say, Reb, can't you come over and give me a secesh
paper
Rebel Picket — ''No! Our officers don't allow it. They arc very strict now."
Union Picket — "That's all in my eye; our officers let us do as we please."
Hereupon, the rebel picket studied a moment, and asked the Union picket whether he meant what he Baid about his officers. The Union soldier replied in the, affirmative, when the rebel archly replied: "If your officers let you do as you please, why don't you <jo home?"
The interesting Union picket was Colonel Nixon, who is considerable of a wag, but a most courageous and accomplished soldier, and this poser of the butternut completely silenced him.
HALTING m/nVEKN TWO OPINIONS.
A Yankee "bold soldier" having crept up behind a tree, rather close to our works at Cold Harbor, was discovered by our boys, who brought some dozen dangerous looking muzzles to bear on him, and ordered him to "come in." Yank hesitated; bang, bang; the dirt and bark of the tree was knocked about his ears. He saw he was "in a fight," and so concluded to come in, for which purpose he laid down his gun. Seeing his object, his Y'ankcc brethren began to fire on him. This changed his mind, and lie started back to them; whereupon a whole "posse" of rebels let fly at him. Y'ank quickly came to a halt, perhaps to weigh the chances, both sides hallooing for him to come to them. Wisely deciding the rehels were the most dangerous marksmen, he turned and started for them at something a little above a double quick. The whole Yankee line fired on him; but despite of seventy-five yards of open field, and three tumbles which he took in the race, he reached our lines in safety, with an almost breathless, "Jerus'lem John! how yure fellows shoot!" He said he had been a .sea- man until recently, and gave his name as Sinbad the bailor. Doubtlea advent into the rebel lines will compare favorably with some, of the adven-' turcs of the hero of the Arabian Nights.
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FAITHFUL SLAVES.
A private letter from the army said :
Alielc is quite well, an i be remembered to each and every one afc
home. During my sojourn in Maryland, he was often separated from me for several days, and often bad my horse, and could have ridden into the y's line without the slightest difficulty, still be was always on hand when wanted, and seems devoted to me. I now consider him thoroughly tried and faithful.
One of the most touching things. I have seen since my connection with tbe army, was tbc devotion of major White's servant, an old negro ho brought from home with him. Tbe major was shot at a battery which wo charged, and from which we were obliged, from want of support, to fall Tbe news bad not reached the old man, and the next morning be rode down to the lines where we were, to bring tbe Major's breakfast, and when he learned tbat the major was dead, be sat down and wept like a child. r recovering himself, he begged to he allowed to go to the enemy's - and try to recover his master's body, and when refused bis grief seemed to increase ten-fold. All day he watched and waited, hoping Borne means to get tbe body; and when 1 insisted that be should go to the rear, the old man left very reluctantly ; me to use every meat
recover his master's remains: this, about nightfall, I succeeded in doing, by which he was much relieved. The next morning he saddled his b packed all of his master's baggage upon him, and started off on his h ward journey of nearly a thousand mii instance of greater devotion
I never saw.
A FAITH J OL ]
A soldier fi ' sttle-ficld of Richmond, has wing
the fidelity of the .Southern I record : In tin- fight <Jf ] ' "ar Richmond, a negro man named Nathan,
• Williau
J ;inkec c LI
I with a which
ral Hill tho
■ Lieutenant. William m as fait!
20-4 GLF ROM
LADIES AND CHILDREN IN BATTLX.
A correspondent of (ho Charlesl a ( describing erne of the battles
around Richmond, relates the Poll
During the battle several 1. . I ohildren had a narrow escape from
death. They were in a house near the position at which the enemy were at one time aligned, and as the latter retr< at< d our troops followed. Lieuten- ant Moultrie Dwight, the Assistant Inspector-General of General Kershaw, hearing Btrange voices within the pren I thinking they might come
from the enemy, drew his revolver and tried to open the door. It was locked. He demanded to be let in. The bolt was withdrawn from two doors and two female heads, disordered and frigh seped out
11 Any Yankees iu here ?" said Dwight. " I in here —
I declare I never wa id in my life," was the reply. N Let me in — I
want to see for myself," and Dwi I in all the closets, and under tho
bed. Under the latter lie found some babies, but no enemy was discovered, and begging pardon for his intrusion he backed out. The next morning he went to the house again, and found that the occupants, consisting of four ladies and seven or eight children, had barely escaped with tlteir lives. Seven balls had gone through and tin , er forty had struck
it in various places, the top of the chimney lind been knocked • ff by a shell, and various other injuries inflicted Upon the premises. Nothing but the presence of mind of the inmates iu lying flat on the floor prevented'them from being wounded or killed.
THE FLAG OF Till: TENTH ALABAMA.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. Shelby, in an elegant letter to Governor Watts.
committed the battle torn flag of the Tenth Alabama Regiment to the care of the State of Alabama. The I Jovernor replied with an enthusiastic, fervid letter, characteristic of the man, and accepted the honored flag, in behalf of the State, "as an emblem of virtue, valor and renown." In his letter he speaks as follows: '
This is the flag, which, at the battle of Chanccllorsvillc, was grasped by the dying hand of Jain of him who, when shell and shot fell thick
as hail, said: "The flag of the Tenth Alabama has never yet been lowered in the face of the loo; and while I have the strength of arm to keep it up- lilted, it never shall be." And he broke not his word. "When the staff was severed by a hostile shell, be grasped the broken pieces, with both hands, still kept its folds, in haughty defiance, unfurled, until his body, pierced to death, refused str< his heroic arms. Well may you say,
the stars of such a flag ''are fixed with unfading light, in the historic recol- lections" of our country's noblest battles.
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A NUT FOR YANKEES.
We yesterday received a note from an old patriot, seventy-six years of aire, residing in Tallahassee, Florida, who after referring to our account of the u Etonian Matron," in this city, who hade her two Bona defend Virginia against the Northern invaders, and die hei'ore they should disgrace them- j, relates an incident of actual occurrence, in the South, which we give in nearly his own words: Two boys, under seventeen years of <>f a
wealthy cotton planter on Lake Jackson, near Tallahassee, contracted the war fever and volunteered to go to Pensacola., When equipped for the march, and having taken leave of father, mother and sisters, they came to part with their old nurse — overwhelmed with tears, she addressed them thus: "Now, young masters, stop this weeping; go and fight for your country like men, and mind, don't disgrace me."
Here is a dare matron worthy of Yankee consideration. The father of these noble hoy* is a native of North Carolina, and of one of her most dis- tinguished families. — Charleston Courier.
RECOL1 WALL JACKSON.
The "Life of General Thos. J.J . j or John Esten Cooke,
abounds in anecdotes of the great hero, which show glimpses of the inner man which no dissertation on his character could convey to the public. " Mystery, mystery is the secret of success," was an expre- I by
very often, and the people can never he tired reading even the slightest unveil .whom they almost worshipped.
We make several extracts from the work before us:
• AT KERN8TOWK.
At Kernstown, when a portion of his Un lie ovcr-
• emy, amid a in of bulli i hand firmly 0
shoulder, said, in his brief, The
rally • ;, to
with the inexorable band upon tl I r, the ral ucd
PARTING WITH 1
to
anil men were drawn up ]i in line of battle, and their commander
appeared in front, as 1 be/ore v hen about to give
the order for a oba But now no enthusia 'icers
awaited him. All knew for whit pui and the sorrow which
filled every heart betra; ' in the deep silence which greeted Ids'
. it a sound along the line, not a hand raised in murmur even going to show that t' itain.
The bronzed faces were full of the deep st deje ■ ion, and the stern fighters
of the old brigade were like children about a rated from their lather.
Jackson approached, and, mastering ion by an effort, said in the
short, abrupt tones with which all were bo familiar:
"I am nut here to make a speech, but sim ly farewell. I first met
you at Harper's Ferry in the coinmenceiucii. of this war, and I cannot take leave of you without giving expression to my admiration of your conduct from that day to this — whether on the march, the bivouac, the tented field, or on the bloody plains of Manassas, where yon gained the well-deserved reputation of having decided the fate of the battle. Throughout the 1.
;it of country over which you have marched, by your respect for the right- and property of citizens, you have shown that you were soldiers, not only to defend, but able and willing both to defend and protect. You have alrcadv -lined a brilliant and deservedly high reputation throughout the army of the whole Confederacy, and 1 trust, in the future, by your deeds on the held, and by the assistance of the same kind Providence who has here- tofore favored our cause, you will gain more victories and add additional lustre to the reputation you now enjoy. You have already gained a proud
ition in the future history of tins our second war for independence. I shall look with great anxiety to your future movements, and I trust when- ever 1 shall hear of the First Brigade on the field of battle it will be of nobler deeds achieved and higher reputation won !''
Having uttered tie nt, and hi
1 slowly along the line, as though he wished thus to bid farewell in- dividually to every old familiar face, so often seen in the heat of battle, and BO dear to him. The thoughts which crowded upon him seemed more than he could bear — he could not leave them with such formal words only — and that iron lip which had never trembled in the hour of deadliest peril no.v (piivcred. Mastered by an uncontrollable impulse, the great soldier rose in his stirrups, threw the reins on the neck of his horse wdth an emphasid which scut a thrill through every heart, and, extending his arm, added in tones of i ;
"In the army of the Shenandoah, you were the first brigade! In tho army of the Potomac you were the first brigade ! In the second corpus of the army you arc the first brigade ! You are the first brigade in the a flee-
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tions of your general; and T hope by your future deeds and bearing you
will be banded down to posterity as the first brigade in this our second war
N pendence. I
As the last won' in their cars, and Jackson turned to leave them,
the long pent up feeling burst forth. Three prolonged and deafening
a rolled along the line of the old brigade; and no sooner had they died
away than they were renewed, and again renewed. The calm face of the
great leader flusl d as he listened to that sound, but he did not speak.
Waving his hand in token of farewell, he galloped away, and the old
de, deprived ol its beloved chief, returned slowly and sorrowfully to
camp.
A riCTURE OF Tir: LDER.
lie wore an old sun-burned coat, of grey cloth, originally a very plain ore, and now almost out at elbows. To call it sun-burned^ however, is scarcely to convey an adequate idea of the extent of its discoloration. It had that dingy hue, the result of exposure to rai now and scorching
sunshine, which is so unmistakable. It was plain that the general had weary form Upon the bare ground, and slept in the old : and it seemed to Lave brought away with it no little of the dust of the Valli ' ed to v,-ear such a garb; but
the men of the old Stonewall B their brave comrades of the
all the holi- ;niforms and I rarriors in the world. The remainder of
•!orcd as the coat; be wore cavalry
v an old i irned it quite yellow, i ! it
• ailed i" •iiin in the air in order to lo k under the rim. Hfs horse was not
■tcI, gaunt and grin
i bullet, in thi
will
■ ■
208 GLEANINGS FROM
him; and, when, one day, a little girl was standing at his knee, looking up from her clustering curls at the kindly general, whose hand was caressing her hair, he found a Letter use for the fim gold braid around the cap. He called for a pair of scissors, ripped it off, and joining the ends, placed it like a coronet upon her head, with smiles and evident admiration of the pretty picture thus presented.
Another little girl, in one of the hospil ihlo houses of that region, told the present writer, that when she ex; o a gentl wish to kiss
General Jackson, and the gentleman repeated her words, the general blush- ed very much and turned away with a slight laugh as if he was confused.
These are trifles, let us agree, . at is it not a pleasant spec-
tacle to see tli Idier amid these kindly, simple scenes — to watch the
stern and indomitable leader, whose soul has never shrunk in the hour of deadliest peril, passing happy moments in the society of laughing children?
At the first battle of Manassas, while Jw und was being dressed,
some one said, " Here comes the President." He threw aside the surgeons, rose suddenly to his feet, and whirling his old cap around his head, cried, with the tire of battle in his eye, "Hurrah lor the President! Give mc ten thousand men and I'll be in Washington to-night 1"
It was the same man who blushed when a child expressed a wish to kiss him.
HIS RECOLLECTION OF THE STONEWALL BRIGADE.
During the ride to Guinea's (after his wounds) he had maintained his serene and cheerful bearing, and talked much in reference to the battle of; Saturday. He spoke of the gallant bearing of General llhodes, and said that his commission as major-general ought to date from that day, and of the grand charge of the old Stonewall Hrigade in the battle of Sunday, which he had heard of. He asked after all his officers, and said :
" The men who live through this war will be proud to say, ' I was one of the Stonewall JJrigadc !' to their children."
With that grand modesty which ever characterized him, he hastened, however, to guard litis declaration even from the appearance of egotism, and earnestly declared that the name of " Stonewall " did not belong to him — ' that it was the name given to his old brigade, and their property alone.
THE LAST SCENE OF ALL — HIS DEATH.
On Thursday evening all pain had ceased; but a mortal prostration came on, from which he never recovered. He still conversed feebly, and said:
" I consider these wound.- a blessing; they were given me for some good and wise purpose, and I would not part with them if I could."
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From this time ho continued to sink, and, on Sunday morning it wis obvious that he could only lire a few hours longer. His mind was still clear, however, and he asked Major Pendleton, his adjutant-general, "who was preaching at headquarters on that day?" .Mrs. Jackson was with him daring his last moments, and conversed with him fully and freely. She informed him that he was about to die, and his reply was :
" Y^y good, very good , it is ail right."
He then sent messages to all his friend-, the generals and others, and murmured in a low voice his wish to be buried in " Lexington,. in the Valley of Virginia."
His mind then began to wander, and that delirium which seizes upon the most powerful minds, the vigorous brains, at the mysterious moment when the last sands fall from the glass, began to effect him. lie gave ordei the commissary of his corps, the Burgeons and the commanders. Among the last words which escaped his lips were, " A P. Hill, prepare for
D I"
After this he speedily sank, and at (ifteen minutes past three in the even- ing, he tranquilly expired.
JACKSON AND LEE.
These two men had now met (at Cold Harbor) for the first time in the
war; had seen each other at work ; and there sprung up at once between
the two eminent soldiers that profound respect, confidence and regard, which
thenceforth know no diminution, no shadow of turning. Jackson said of
■ He is a phenomenon. I would follow him blindfolded."
The regret of General Lee at this deplorable event (the woundin. was indeed poignant. The soul of the great commander moved to its depths, and he who had BO long learned I ! emotion
could not. control his anguish. " Jackson will not, he cannot die I cral Lee cxclaiyicd in a broken voice, waving every one from "him with his hand, " he cannot die!"
an board.
Tn one of our Southern cities, a new commandant fa
m, a1 the ' . one
ons in the town, with the following awful I " ' ' Wilkin- mdei of
I iffl"
Mi- r of
.ct — /am i Meatk Qood a
210 OLlANINdS FROM
GENERAL D. II. niLL A WIT.
A friend from the army gives us the following jeu (F esprit of that Chris- tian ami hero General 1>. 11. Hill:
' " Since the late order promulgated by General 11. E. Lee. allowing brief furloughs to two enlisted men, and one commissioned officer from each corn- pany in the service, a captain in the Twenty-Eighth Georgia Regiment made application for one of these leaves for a member of his company, then in the rcgimpntal band. .The document went ' approved and respectfully forward- ed ' through the offices of colonel, brigauicr-general, etc., to General Hill, who most unmercifully left the applicant without hope by the final endorse- ment thereon : ' Shooters furlougliul before footers P '*
This will explain why General Hill is said to have no ear for music.
GENERAL STEPHEN D. LEE.
As an' evidence of the fact that, the flummery of gold lace, and fancy equipments and trappings which is so often admired upon the persons of lieutenants, surgeons, etc., do not appear to be more popular with the lead- ing spirits at Yicksburg, than they arc with Stonewall Jackson and other fighting men of the army of the Potomac, the Brandon Mississippi Repub- lican gives the following extract from a letter of a correspondent:
A few days since, while General Stephen i). Lee was examining the "Whkwortlv guns, in front of General Smith's headquarters, a sentinel stepped up and ordered him off. Lee said nothing, but continued his examinations. The sentinel, with much vehemence, then said : " I order you to leave here, sir, and not touch those guns again !'' Lee then left, and proceeded to enter Generai Smith's headquarters, when the sentinel continued, "you can't" pass in there." " Why," said Lee? " Because none but commis-. sioned officers can go in there," said the sentinel. " I am an officer," said Lee modestly, as lie slipped out of the view of the faithful sentinel. So plain is General Lee in his appearance and manners, that a stranger would never take him for an officer.
AN INCH)!: XT.
v A touching romance in real life is afforded by the deaths of Captain Chalmers Glenn, of Rockingham County, North Carolina, and his faithful servant, Mat. Reared together from childhood, Mat had shared in all the boyish pranks and frolics of^ his master, and, in .later life, had been his constant attendant and faithful servant. On the morning of the battle of inesboro, Captain Glenn called Mat to him and said: "Mat, I will be killed in this battle ; sec me buried; then, go home, and be to your mistress
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ami ni}' children all you have ever been to me." From behind a rook tin: faithful fellow watched all day the form of his beloved master, as the tide of battle ebbed and flowed over that eventful field. At last ho missed him, and, rushing forward, found the prediction too truly verified — life \\;i-> already extinct.
Assisted by two members of his company, a grave was dug with bayonets, and soon the cold and silent earth held all that was dearest in life to 'Mat. Slowly and sadly he turned his face homeward, and there delivered all the messages and valuables with which hi : had entrusted him. From
that time it seemed as if his mission on earth was accomplished. Though constantly attending his master's children, and promptly obedient to the Blightest word of his mistress, he visibly declined. Finally he was taken sick, and, despite the best medical attention and the kindest nursing, ho died February 4, 1863. What a striking instance of the power of affection in the negro heart, and the strength and beauty of the tie between a kind master and a faithful servant! Peace to Mat's ashes! May the unholy tread of a "negro worshipper" never pollute the last resting-place of gallant master or his faithlul self.
won't some one kiss me for my mother?
Two or three incidents in connection with the battles around Kinston and Goldsboro, North Carolina, are not unworthy of a place in this record: The first of these concerns a noble young officer named Captain Geo. W. Bernard, from North Carolina. Brave, courteous, intelligent, chivalrous and refined, he united in a rare degree the attributes of the perfect gentle- man and the good soloier. While at Goldsboro, where he was attached t" the ordnance service, he heard of the advance of the- enemy on I and at once determined to link his fortunes with the brave defenders of the i volunteer, render whatever aid lay in his power. Before leaving for^he -field, he oall< 1 on a number of his lady friends to bid them
'he i arting hour, he sadly took their hands, an a shadow rest' d on his face, as if the angel of deatb had already left it there.
(d-bye, lad one /.•/.•>■>■ me for my • Strange as
plyil dn, I'll ' be fair inn
of her lit s n] "ii his •
promptly join at i folds!* ro During I
ill! j
• 1 nrfill' r
212 • GLEANINGS FROM
But it was ;i fatal moment.- The fragment of a shell or grapeshot struck him in the log and he fell mangled an I bleeding to the ground. His com- - carried him to the hospital, and there the Burgeons declared it impos- to save the limb. His thoughts were still of his love — his wife. " Oh ! <Jod !" was his reply, "is it possible that 1 fliust carry home to her hut a remnant of my former self?" l'our fellow ! Er< n then, the sand^ of lite were ebbing in the glass, and the scroll of his destiny being scaled. The operation was performed, bat the^shock was too great for the enfeebled system to bear, and the next morning he was a corpse.
•• Dropping t!w flesh-ro^e with a smile, bo gently did he pa Gently as spirits of the Bowel's fn m oul the new mown grass. His labors done, his r< , he only looketh'back
To sec the ble.-<ing.-i.flow for those who follow in his track."
The second incident is of a different character, but it as aptly illustrates the spirit of men "whose souls flash out naked as swords unsheathed for fiery fate :"
At the battle of Kinston, while the Ilolcombe Legion were hotly engaged, one Thomas Adams, of Newberry, S. C ., a private in the company of Captain B. V). McCreary, was wounded in the arm. Refusing to leave the field, he continued so fight on, and was again struck in the leg. Still disdaining to go to the rear, he was a third time shot, now in the side; but he clung to his musket as. he fell, and when urged to remove from danger and receive the attention of the surgeon, his heroic reply was-, " No ! I will never leave my command behind me! Load my nun for me, and I'll fight as long as I have to live." And in spite of persuasions and inducements to the contrary, there the brave fellow remained, and, wounded as he was, performed his gallant part to the last in that tragedy of war. His captain said after- wards that he himself loaded his musket for him, and stood by, while he raised himself up, and taking aim as deliberately and coolly as if sighting at a turkey, he brought an Abolitionist to. the ground at every fire.
"When the Legion fell back, the boys did not forget to bring their wound- ed comrade with them, and he is now. home, recovering from his wounds.
PUSH THEM TO TUE SLAUGHTER PEN.
One of the Yankee officers captured near Louisa Court House, Ya., says the men in Grant's army declare, that when their officers were urging them forward to the assault of General .Lee's breastworks, a ragged rebel mounted the works and called out: "That's right, officers, push them up to the slaughter pen! We will take care of them." That when the men refused to move forward any longer, the rebels shot down the officers because they could not rally their men.
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NATIONAL STATISTICS — ENORMOl S HOUSES.
The public debt of the United States ill 1862, according to the report of the of the Treasury, was $1,122,000,000 j this amount in -^l " green- backs" would, if spread out, cover 1,0 17 square acres, or :rc miles. J}' laid end to end they would reach 12 times around the earth. Allowing the ea to amount to?' per day, they would make, if laid end to end. 288 5-6 mill -, or about a locomo- tive would run in a day. Allowing the liera to average, in height 5| fe< t, they would reach, if lying head to foot, 7-32} miles; stand- ing heels and toes touching, would reach 104 miles. Allowing the arms and artillery of the 700,000 to average twelve pounds to each man, they would, if made into railroad iron, make 21 J miles of railroad iron. Allowing the clothing of the soldiers to average 12 yards to each man, it would mak< yards, or 1.772 S-ll miles. In two years, allowing three suits to each man, it would make enough cloth to reach around the earth.
BRUTE SUTLER.
A refugee from New Orleans furnishes the following incidents. They
should not be permitted to pass into oblivion, as the future historian of this
contest might find them useful in illustrating a character already infamous
lent in modern tin
Escapii g from New Orleans, I reached a plantation upon the Mississippi,
in the vicinity of Baton Rouge. Whilst receiving the hospitalitiel of my
friend, the planter, the parish priest of Baton Rouge came in, who inform-
' he was on his way from New < - he
" for the ; permit fr
le him to bring out food — for the
that But- ler had | food tO have t; : the they are our i tnd my pui ■
in our national trouble-, and V, rly 1 e o in reply,
thai ,u],l
I'd «liil. ,r, my pi:
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HOW LINCOLN RECRUITS niS ARMV.
A gentleman from Norfolk, gives the following account to the Christian Observer of a proceeding which was doubtless regarded by the enemy as a cute " Yankee trick :"
There are, in the city of Norfolk, four churches, known as the African churches, which are used exclusively by the colored people for public worship. One of these has a bell, and is known as the " Bell Church." A notice was circulated among the colored population, by order of the provost . marshal, that on the following Sabbath something would be communicated in the Bell Church in which they were interested. Their curiosity being thus appealed to, the ringing of the bell drew an immense crowd. The house was filled. Many who could not get in stood around the doors and windows with listening ears. At an appointed signal a military manoeuvre was exdeuted. and they found themselves surrounded by three hundred soldiers, with fixed bayonets. Resistance was useless — escape impossible. All who were neither too young nor too old for military service were hurried away. No time was given for farewells or for making any preparations. In their Sunday clothes they were marched on board the vgssels that were in readiness to carry them to the North to swell the armies designed for the subjugation of the South.
ANECDOTE OF GENERAL SHERMAN.
The St. Louis Republican relates the following anecdote on General Sherman :
Backwith, the commissary on Sherman's staff, went, into the general's tent a few days since, and accosted him thus : " General, we must make another contract for beef, we have not enough to last two months." " Have you enough to last for two • months ?" inquired the general. "Yes, sir."
" Well, in less than two months the army will be in , or in Atlanta ;
if it goes to the former place, we shall need no beef; if it goes to the latter, we shall find enough; so make no more contracts, Backwith."
THE RTGIIT SORT OF SPIRIT.
Lowry's gallant brigade is composed of the Sixteenth, Forty-Third, and Forty-Fifth Alabama Regiments, and the Thirty-Second and Forty-Fifth Mississippi consolidated, and is attached to Cleburne's Division. The noble men of this brigade,. when re-enlisting, declared: "We'll fight, nf the Government will give us meat and bread — if they cannot do this, on bread aloye; with shoes, if we can obtain them — if not, barefooted.*'
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AN INCIDENT OF THE CAMPAIGN ON THE SOUTII-SIDE.
We have had related to us an incident from the South-side, which shows at the same time the fidelity of the slave to his Southern master and the cruelty of his would-be Yankee brother. For many years the Petersburg llailroad Company has had in its employ, at Port "Walthall Junction, a most worthy and trusty old negro man named Columbus. "When one of <fur artillery companies moved up from Petersburg, this faithful old slave volunteered his services to them, "to wait on his young massas," and when the battle came off, the old negro might be seen making bis way over the battle-field, where the shot and shell flew thickest, administering water to our wounded soldiers. This conduct commended tbe old negro to our soldiers, and when they moved off, they carried him with them to Drewry's PJuff. Soon after arriving there, the poor old slave discovered that he had left behind him a stocking full of silver, which he had been for several y< ars Baying op from his small earnings, and started back to get it, assuring our soldiers, who were trying to dissuade him from going back, " never mind, massas; I'll soon be back to jine you." The brave, honest old negro could not bear the idea of losing his money, and returned back, but on approaching the place, the Yankees caught him and hung him from the limb of a tree. His body was discovered suspended from a tree, the victim of Yankee malignity.
THE CREOLES OF LOUISIANA.
A Massachusetts chaplain, Rev. Mr. Hcpworfh, writes of the Louisiana Crcob - :
Just beyond Carrollton is an immense and magnificent estate, owned by one of these Creoles. His annual yield of sugar is fifteen hundred hogs- heads. He might have taken tbe oath of allegiance and. thus saved his but he would not. The work of depredation commenced ; but he bore it without a murmur.
First we took his wagons, harness and mules; be said nothing*, but scowled most awfully. Next we emptied his Btables of I ..dry
1 not have even a pony left, and was compelled to tit along on foot ; still nothing v.
Next we took his entire crop, ground it in bis own sngar b oust hii
barn1.- fur the mo! eads for tbe I tbe
head of each "U. S." — no! a murmur. Then came his I i.urt-
• I come within our camp lines. '1
stili I in the mi ,ing
that he had eight insfc ad oJ '■ n
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JOHN ROBINSON.
"Sumter," the Nassau correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writing from Nassau, thus alludes to this faithful servant of. the lamented Major John B. Gallic: %
I had fin interview with an old negro, belonging to Captain Carlin's boat, and I think it due to his fidelity and honesty that I should notice him here. He is about' fifty ye/rs of age, and a native of Savannah. His mastdr was Major John B. Gallie, of Georgia, who was killed at the attack upon Fort McAllister. John was captured while attempting to run the blockade. He was taken to Fort; LaFayette in irons, and confined there eight months. Upon his release, every attempt was made by the Yankee officials, to induce him to enter their service. He was offered one hundred dollars per month, to act as pilot on one of the gun-boats designed for operations on Savannah and Charleston. Fearing he might be impressed into the service, he pre- tended that his age and infirmities prevented him from going to sea again, lie remained in New York some time, but was proof against the bribes of the enemies of his native land. Watching an opportunity, he secretly pro- cured passage for Nassau, and lie is here now, and about to leave for home, going back joyfully to his mistress and his "bondage." lie alluded to his dead master with emotion. "He never spoke a crossword to me for twenty years," said John. He'is constant in his love for the South; is willing to die in her service; thinks the New York "colored people" a poor miserable set, and the Yauke.es "nothing like our folks." It is but justice to faithful John Bobinson that his name should be placed among those who have Buf- fered for the South. Though he is aiupng the humblest of her children, let him be^ honored for his constancy.
ANECDOTE OF WENDELL PHILLIPS:
Mr. Train, in a speech in Music Hall, Boston, speaking of "Wendell Phillips, said:
That distinguished Abolitionist went to Charleston, S. C, once, before he was very well known, and put up at a hotel. He had breakfast served in his room, and was waited upon by a slave. He embraced the opportunity to represent to the negro, in a very pathetic way, that he was 5 man and a brother, and more than that, an Abolitionist. The negro seemed more anxious about the breakfast than he was about his relations and the condi- tion of his soul, and finally, in despair, Mr. Phillips ordered him to go away, saying that he couldn't bear to be waited on by a slave. "Excuse me, massa," said the negro, "must stay here, 'cause I am responsible for the silver ware."
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SCENES ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
On the 25th of March, 1863, several gun-boats — the best in the Yankee fleet — attempted to pass our batteries at Yicksburg. Unlike the Queen of the West and the Indianola, they came down the river in the broad light of the rising sun, bravely defying our guns and« challenging their power. As the first and larger boat approached our upper battery, an officer came out on top, and with a spirit that was more rash\thau wise, waved his hat at our gunners and shouted: "Shoot, you. d — d rebels. Shoot, d — d you, you can't hurt us." Our boys did shoot. They petit a couple of hundred and sixty pound balls crashing against and through the sides of the Yankee iron-clad in a manm <r that made her reel and tremble like a wind-shaken reed. It is needless to add that the Yankee bravado disappeared from the top of his boat and was not seen again. This was the opening of the grand and exciting scene. As the boats advanced, battery after battery of huge size guns opened upon them. Our gunners fired with the greatest precision. Nearly every ball took effect. The steam-pipes of the boats were soon cut, and the boats were enveloped in clouds of vapor. The boats were now*floating along in a helpless condition, and our batteries, cheered by their success, and by the shouts of the soldiers and citizens who were looking on from the hills above, continued to hurl their huge missives against the devoted boats with increased energy. A shell burstcd in the larger boat, killing all around, and bursting the. sides of the boat below the water line. She reeled, plunged, and almost instantly sunk, carrying all her crew to the bottom with her, except a few who escaped in yawls and on cotton bales and detached portions of the wreck. The other boat drii ! <ii in a helpless, wrecked condition, and was pulled on a Band-bar by the Albatros. Thousands of our soldiers were collected on the hills overlooking the river, and. as the wrecked Yankees floated by on cotton bales and pieces of the wreck, they would shout to them: " ;:rc, are you
taking a load of cotton to New Orleans'.'' Can't you land and take on a few ngers? If tl, ;> for sale, thj od a market as you can
find. Oot anything to sell besides cotton? Can you take on any more htf" and a hundred other rude expr bit! the Yankees main-
tain! I y. They wer
up i their way to our line-,
ported that there v hundred w of the I
•
\\T ACT;
In the heavy assault made by the i ncmy on Law's B on th . ituU
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, denly discovered that the rntm were almost- out of ammunition, so continuous and rapid had been their fire. To have started from the trenches for am- munition at that time, amid the shower of shot and shell that was raining upon the field in our rear, would have been almost certain death; and besides, having just taken position at that point of the line, we unfortunately had no ordnance near. Such a scene was never witnessed; for a soldier without ammunition in the hour of battle is like a ship without a rudder, or a sinner leaving the world without a hope of Christ. Old soldiers gazed upon each other with looks of earnest solicitude, of blank astonishment and solemn inquiry; their lips quivered — they could not speak — and their cheeks were blanched. Bat it was not with fear. Having begged from their neighbors and fired the last/ cartridge, they coolly fixed their bayonets, unanimously resolved, "let's give them bayonets, boys," and with the calmness of despair, prepared to die to a man in their tracks, rather than yield their position. Tell me, ye shades of Marathon and Thermopylas! can such men as these be conquered? The spirits of the patriot dead on every field returns the answer, never!
Heaven always succors such courage and devotion; and so it was with these brave men. At the critical moment, when all seemed lost, the gallant Captain Leigh 11. Terrill, brigade adjutant-general, was seen coining at a double-quick through the storm of balls in our rear, with a hundred pound box of cartridges on his head. Divining, with his accustomed foresight, the emergency that would arise, with characteristic prudence and prompt- ness, he hurried off during the first assault of the enemy, and obtained a box of ammunition from Wofford's brigade, which was a quarter of a mile in bur rear, supporting us, and returned with it, at the imminent peril of his life, just in time to prevent disastrous consequences. The troops seized on the cartridges like famished men upon bread; loud, wild, defiant shouts, coupled with the clang of a thousand rifles, rose along the line; in a trice the solid columns of the focmen were shattered into flying or falling frag- ments, and victory was ours.
Laws' "Brigade, on this occasion, killed and wounded fully two thousand of the enemy, with the astonishingly small loss on their side of two men killed and six slightly wounded.
AN ARMY WEDDING. •
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There are very few soldiers who have been in the Western army, who will not recognize in the following picture a great similarity to- many army weddings which he has seen. The marriage took place at Bull's Gap, Tennessee: . •
An Alabama soldier, who to name would be too personal, but who is uglier than the renowned Suggs — in fact, so far diseased with the chronic
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big ugly as to have failed procuring a furlough from Brigadier-General 3 iaw solely on that ground — wooed and won a buxom Tennessee maid of doubtful age. "Whilst "Special" was out that day with his gun, on a por- cine scout, for the purpose of reinforcing his haversack, he was interrupted in his reconnoissance by a husky voice emitting from a ten by fifteen pen, inviting him to halt. Entering the low door, he found a wedding was on the tapis, en route tq a happy termination. A mirthful Texan — not neces- sary to- name — had a copy of the Army Regulations in his hand, and his throat was decorated with a piece of white bandage, such as ; .- oui«
army doctors, all ready to tie the hymonial knot so tight that it could not be undone by the teeth. The bridegroom Btood largely over six honest feet in his socks, was as hairy as Esau, and pale, slim and lank. His jacket and pants represented each of the contending parties at war. I lis shoes were much.the worst for wear, and his toes sticking out of the gaping rents thereof, reminded one of the many little heads of pelicans you observe protruding from the nest which forms a part of the coat of arms of Louisiana. The exact color of his suit could not be given. "Where the buttons had been lost off in the wear and tear of war, an unique substitute, in the shape of persimmon seed, was used. The bride had essayed to wash <• AlabamV clothes, while he modestly concealed his nudity behind a brush heap, awaiting there until they wore dried.
Tbc bride was enrobed in a clean but faded dress. Her necklace was * composed of a string of chincjuapins, her brow was environed by a wreath of faded bonnet flowers, and her wavy red hair was tucked up behind in the old-fashioned way. .She. wore a stout pair of number nine brogans, and her stockings and gloves were made of rabbit skin — fur 'side next to the skin. On her fingers were discerned several gutta pcrcha and bone ri at various times, from her lover. She wore no hoops, for nature had given her such a form as to make crinoline of no use to her.
All being re.vly, the "Texas Parson" pmceexlcd to his duty, with becom- cial" acted the part of water fur both bride ami groom. ;ii" book aforementioned, the quondam parson com tin and the twain closed Up. "Hand to your partner!1' and the couple handed. "Atten-rion-to o-f-< I we all attenfioned Then the fol-
lowing was read aloud: '* I'>y order of our din stive G neral, Era
:. I hereby solemnly pronounce you man and wife, i war, and you shall cleave onl > es until the war is i then
r a famil; iblic land in i
farmer r< isidence of the bridegroom, arid you ami each of you will mul^i; be earth."
'! b tad up witb
iracd ou: the whi' ihc
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stoic indifference manifested by the married parties on the picket line at Bull's Gap.
On our falling back from tlie.gap, wo observed the happy couple peram- bulating with the column through the mud and snow, wearing an air of perfect indifference to observation cr remade from the soldiery. Should this soldier, who captured, "the Maid of the Gap/' obtain a furlough for the purpose of locating in Pike, will not our friends of the Mail, oblige them with an introduction to our gallant Governor Watts?
INCIDENT OF THE ENGAGEMENT ON TIIE OOSTANAULA.
In the Fifty-fifth North Carol;' \ient there is a private named
Early, who exhibited a degree of courage unequalled during this war. When the enemy had thrown their men behind the redoubt in which Cor- bett's battery was placed, this man stood up in the pits, with his body half exposed and opened a rapid firing on the enemy, almost preventing them from sharpshooting; for no sooner would a Yankee raise his bead above the redoubt tban a ball would enter his brain, and he would fall dead across the work. In this manner Early had killed six, when I had occasion to go up to the point whereVhe was stationed, and was very much amused at his manner. "Get up there," he would exclaim to the Yankees, "get up and show your heata; why the d — 1 don't you take a shot at me? Now just ' raise up for a second/' and whenever a Yankee was found bold enough to accept his challenge, a bullet through his head was the reward he received.
' AFFECTING INCIDENT.
During one of the series of engagements which have came off at the front, says the Atlanta Confederacy, as a body of our cavalry was being hotly pursued by the enemy's infantry and artillery, a cannon ball came whizzing just over the head of one our boys, and passed between the legs of a brave fellow of the infantry, who was just in the rear of the cavalry, and in the act of stepping across a branch. Both legs of his pants were almost toru off, but -no damage was done to the soldier, further thau the loss of a finger, lie stood perfectly amazed at his almost miraculous escape. While standing thus, the young cavalryman, near Avhosc head the ball had passed — and, by the way, as brave a boy as ever bestrode a horse, or chased a Yankee hyena to his lair — rode up and remarked: "That is the answer to a pious mother's prayers." The soldiw was touched to the heart,- and bursting into tears, said, yes, he had a pious, good mother. He i'clt that in answer to her prayers he had escaped, almost unharmed, from the deadly missile.
A mother's prayer is a safer shield for her boy than bomb-proui' fortifications.
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THE NE PLUS rLTRA OF YANKEE IMPUDENCE.
Shortly after the taking of the town of Plymouth, N. C, one of the Yankee chaplains came up to General Ilokc, and in the blandest manner said to him: "General, I hope I shall be allowed to retain this client of theological works presented to me by my friends' from the North," pointing as he spoke to an open chest containing books.
"Certainly, sir," replied General Hoke, "the private property of the Federal officers shall, in all cases, be left to them. You scein to have a very handsome- collection," added he, carelessly taking up a volume of Scott's Family Bible, and opening it, On the fly leaf, to his surprise, he read the name of Mr. Josiah Collins. Laying it down without remark, he picked up a London edition of Butler's works, and read inscribed on the first page " Charles Pettigrew."
Turning to the chaplain who still stood beside him he exclaimed: "How dare you, you infamous scoundrel, wearing the livery of Christ as you do, attempt to palm off such a trick with me, and tell me these books were pre- sented to you by your friends in the North when they were stolen from Southern gentlemen V
" Oh, general, they were, as I said, presented to me by my friends from the North, though it is true they obtained them in Carolina."
The officer who rclaced this incident to us had it from cme of General i's aids, who was present, and himself saw the books. The last seen of chaplain he was trudging on foot with the rest of the Plymouth pi: «rs, minus his " theological library/*
When the war broke out be was District Attorney fur Choctaw District, | i, and when the Yalabusha iafics wore organized, was elected cap- tain. When Lhe Fifteenth 1 i was organized, he was elected lieu- it-eolonel of that regiment. At the battle of Wild Cat, lie Bhowed r and cooln commanded the Fifteenth ; ;ii at the • bio battle of Fishing Cr< ipon that
the admiration of every on his men. At one time, i,
firing int iment, he rata I rode to the 'r
ill about . when tl
i bis clothi i with i
Ion, Perrj
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Ridge find Resaoa, where he showed himself worthy of the position ho occupies. He has been wounded three times, but is still in the field.
seigel's equestrianism.
When Seigel was in Winchester, he took possession of Mrs. Hollings- worth's house, forcing the family to huddle in two rooms. His tent was just at the door, his officers quartered in the house, and his guards, some of them black, were all around him. He imagined himself a superior eques- trian. He would frequently boast to young Mrs. Hollingsworth (who rs quite a smart and very talkative woman) of his horsemanship. -One day, when he had requested her to come to the door lo see him ride, some one prompted her to tell him he rode like Ashby.
She looked with impressive amusement at his springing, wriggling move- ments in the saddle, his arms lashing his sides, and his legs pressed tight to his steed. As he drew near her, he said : " Veil, Mishes Holinsvort, vat you tinks of my riding ?"
'( Why, general, I thought it was Ashby," she archly replied.
" Yah, shust so, shust so. Dey often tells me I rides like Ashby, and dat I looks shust like him."
" But, general," rejoined Mrs. Hollingsworth, "Ashby would leap that fence like a deer, and all his cavalry would follow."
"Mcin Got, Mishes Holinsvort; vy, dat fence is five foot high!" ex- claimed Seigel.
" Well, general, that is nothing; all our men can do that."
" Goot gracious! Veil, veil ; Ashby vas a great man. You ton't say he tinks noting to shump dat fence? Veil, veil!" And ho rode off, manifest- ing no disposition, however, to' emulate Ashby 's feat of leaping a five-barred fence.
pillow's conscripts.
The Richmond correspondent of the Knoxville Register, tells of the per- formances of conscripts at the battle of Murfreesboro, as communicated by officers to members of Congress. It seems that General Pillow had brought to Murfreesboro, on the day before the battle, two regiments of conscripts. They were the subjects of jeers and ridicule among their veteran comrades in arms. They bore jibes and jests with becoming fortitude. The battle began. A charge was ordered, and away went the conscripts, and when far in advance of the "old continentals," they would look back, and, under a Btorm of grape and canister, cry out, "Come on, boys — here's your con- scripts!" The Yankees fled and the battery was taken, upon observing which, Leon Trousdale remarked, that "there is nothing in a battle; it consists in a succession of big scares." One of the "biggest scares" from which the Yankees suffered at Murfreesboro, was caused by the mad charge of Pillow's conscripts.
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A warrior's death.
It was evident to the physicians that death was settling its clammy seal upon the hrave, open brow of the general, and they told him so;- asked if he had any last messages to. give. The general, with a mind perfectly clear apd poss*csscd, then made disposition of his staff and personal effects. To Mrs. General II. E. Lee, lie directed that his golden spurs he triven as a dying memento of his love and esteem of her husband. To the staff officers he gave his horses. So particular was he in small things, even in the dying hour, that he emphatically exhibited and illustrated the ruling passion strong in death. To one of his staff, who was a heavy built ma.n, he said: " You' had better take the large horse;- he will carry you better." Other memen- toes he disposed of in a similar manner. To his-young son, he left his glorious sword.
His worldly matters closed, the eternal interest of his soul engaged his mind. Turning to the Rev. Mr. Pcterkin, of the Episcopal Church, and of which he was an exemplary member, he asked him to sing the hymn commencing :
" Rock of ages cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee."
He joined in with all the voice his strength would permit. He then joined in prayer with the minister. To the doctor he again said: "I am going fast now; lam resigned; God's will be done." Thus died General J. E. B.Stuart.
A GALLANT SERGEANT.
Among the Confederate prisoners who reached Richmond by a truce boat, there was a color sergeant of a North Carolina regiment, who deserves to have his name printed in all the papers of the Confi deraey, and to receive the special compliments of the President and of our whole people. He was shot down on the bloody field of Gettysburg, where he was subseque: picked up as a prisoner. As he fell, he resolved that the Yankees should not have the colors which he had borne so proudly and so Ion trip-
ping them From the staff he hid them in lifs bosom. Watchi tunity, he Subsequently sowed them beneath the lining of his jacket, and Las worn them ever since, and wore th< m home.
worthy of HIS eatiieu.
Robert Lee, youngest son of the general, after serving ^fourteen months I rivate in the Rockbridgi A: . tl< ry, ac opted a place on his I staff. "When his brother was taken prisoner, hi I him a pluco
on his staff. "Thank \ Robert, "but I have no ta:'
quarters." And he went back to the artillery.
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1IOW GENERAL rOLK'GOT INTO A;N INDIANA REGIMENT.
Colonel Frecinantle, an English officer, who has returned home from the
• - Confederate service, relates the following story, which he says was told him
by General Polk himself:
Well, sir, it was at the battle of Perryville, late in the evening— in fact it was almost dark — when Lindawn's battery came into action. Shortly after the arrival, I observed a body of men, whom I thought to, be Con- federates, standing at an angle to this brigade, and firing obliquely at the newly arrived troops. I said, "Dear me, this is very sad, and must be stopped," so I turned round, and could find none of my young men; so I determined to ride myself and settle the matter. Having cantered up to the colonel of the reg'rmcnt that was filing, I asked him, in angry tones, what he meant by shooting his own friends.
lie answered, with surprise, "I don't think there can be any mistake about it; am sure they are the enemy." "Enemy," I said, "why I have only just left them myself. Cease firing, sir! What is your name?"
" My name is Colonel , of the Indiana; I pray, sir, who are
you?" Then I saw, to my astonishment, that I was in the rear of a regi. ment of Yankees. Well, I saw there was no hope but to brazen it out; my dark blouse, and the increasing obscurity, befriended me; so I approached quite close to him, shook my first in his lace, saying: "I'll show you who lam, sir! Cease firing, sir, at once!" I then turned my horse and can- tered slowly down the line, shouting in an authoritative manner to tho Yankees to cease firing; at the same time I' experienced a disagreeable sen- sation, like screwing up my back, and calculating how many bullets would be between my shoulders every minute. I was afraid to increase my pace until I got to a. small copse, when I put the spurs in and galloped back to my men. I went up to the nearest colonel, aud said, "Colonel, I have re- connoitcred those fellows pretty closely, and there is no mistake who they are; you may go at them." And I assure you, sir, that the slaughter of the Indiana regiment was the greatest I have seen this war.
A HERO AND HIS MOTHER.
Lieutenant B. 8. Itusscl, of the Sixteenth Alabama, was among the slain at Murfreesboro, and fell in the early part of the action. When stricken •down, he felt the wound to be mortal, and at once gave his sword to a com- rade, saying: "Take this to my wife, and tell her I died bravely." The colonel of his regiment saw that the wish of the 'patriot was complied with, and in reply to the letter, the widow, true, like all Southern women, to the highest impulses of a noble patriotism, said : " I mourn the death of my " husband, but my greatest regret is, that none of his sons are old enough to take his place to battle for our liberties'."
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EXCITINO PARTIZAN ADVENTURE.
The gallant Ashby, whilst falling back before the -enemy, •who pursued him along the Valley Turnpike, alighted to aid a few men in destroying the bridge across the Shenandoah. The last caisson of his artillery had thun- dered' by, and the Yankee cavalry pursued so closely that a number had crossed the bridge before it could be destroyed. Springing upon his noble grey charger, Ashby sped along the turnpike, followed by eight of the enemy. His pistols were unfortunately empty, and he had no resource but flight. The chase continued for nearly two miles, the Yankees firing at him as they ran. As* he neared a place of safety, two of the Yankees, who had outstripped the rest, were nearly abreast of him, when one of them was shot by some of his men, and the other was killed by Ashby with his sabre.
J Hiring the latter part of the chase, a shot, fired by a long range gun at a distailCe of nearly half a mile, struck his horse in the side. The faithful animal continued, with unabated speed, and saved his rider, but the wound was mortal. He was led along the line of a regiment under arms. Our in- formant says he never imagined so magnificent and spirited an. animal. He was white as snow, except where his side and legs were stained with his own blood. His mane and tail were long and flowing, his eye and action evinced distinctly the rage with which he regarded the injury he had re- ceived. He trod the earth with the graudeur of a wounded lion, and every soldier looked upon him with sympathy and admiration. He had saved his master at the cost of his own life. He almost seemed conscious of his achievement, and on,ly to regret death because his own injuries were not _:cd. Our informant says he is aware it may be coasidercd extravagant tn attribute such intelligence to an animal, but really it ma*le the same im- pression upon all that beheld him.
AN INCIDENT.
In the battle near 3'etcrsburg, vo who had run away
from Alabama some time ago, recognized his "young master,'' and throwing down his musket, rushed to the young mail and threw his arms around his neck, :;t the same ti ming: "Yon aihw'i hurt my young masb
,Iu>t a( this time H cuflec, not so mercifully -red at the Alabamiah,
but the ball, i; hitting the object t in the body
of the repentant slave, who threw bis B tiofl aroui ttog
a/' inflictiri re wound upon him. Master and slave came safely
off the field together. The v. perly attei
. thus did ■ minute of i . . e bun 6
over! ny of hi color on the 30th of July, 184
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TO V.\M. CHASERS 01 REAL ESTATE.
General Bradley Johnson, during the invasion i land, in L8
I himseli I in what wis one bis own hi
which hi umlt r the coi • months
nt fur the Dew owner. had occupied
i». The reply was, "about fourteen months." "Well,'' said Bradley, "this house belongs to me, and unless you immediately pay mc the back ite of one hundred <1< ■! iars per month, there will be a littlo difficulty between us"." The di i occupant stirred round, and
pretty soon raised the amount, which was paid over. Upon being asked if he desired a receipt, he replied that it was nut necessary.
" W ill," said Johnson,"] will give you twenty minutes to move your things out of my house, for I am not going to rent it again. I intend to burn it." And burnt it was.
mvIOIIT SHERWOOD.
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One day, in making his usual visitations, the Rev. Dr. McCabe called in at the Maryland Hospital, Richmond, and in making his rounds, was attracied to the bed of a young and delicate boy, Buffering from the effects of protracted lever. The little fellow had seen only fourteen summers, and his thin, pale face bore marks of d t suffering. The following
occurred, as reported by the Chaplain:
" I low old are you, my son?" said the reverend gentleman.
lll was fourteen my last birthday."
"Why that is very young to be in the army?" i
" Ves, sir; but I thought it my duty."
"Where are you from?"
"Mississippi, sir."
"What is your name?"
" Dwight Sherwood."
"Why, that is a Northern aamc."
" Fes, sir; my lather was a Northern man, but he has lived in the South for many years, and is a good Southern man."
"And your mother, where is she?"
His little thin lip quivered, as he said, with an effort to suppress emotion, " She is dead!" ,
"Well, my son, you arc very young, and -you are very 'sick. You arc not able to endure the fatigues of a campaign, and if you get better, you had better return home, hadn't you?"
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\
The boy turned his out eye npon hia interrogator) and finally,
but modestly replied, as o Blight Hush pass* d 01 er his pule, express "not until the war u ov< r." '
'•Why, what can you do, yiiu are so young, and ho "delicate?" '•I am ■ marker, sir, and I hope soon to be up, an i in the field again. I think it my duty."
"Well, you ought to try and be a good hoy, to avoid everything that is wrong; and you ought to pray to Qpd licart, and to. keep
you from falling ini
"I do sir." said the little fellow, his eyes half concealing itself beneath the long, soft lash. •"My mother taughl me to pray. 1 have kept 00
ad have had no difficulty with any one but once, and 1 did not that one." The reverend gentleman then held farther conversation with the brave little fellow, and promised to see him again.
He tells us that he could not help contrasting th heroic, but
ravery, with that of so many who are seeking to obtain substil in this the day and hour of our necessitous straggle.
If — more children — arc willing to bare their bosoms to the
murderous and vindictive enemy, should not the cheek of the recn redd .■line, and that of the patriotic men who have bou
ward to re-enlistment for the war glow with honest pride, as they see such > and dare in the hour of peril and thai
.• ivc from her bosom patriotic nourishment, on which trail and recn ants would have sickened and died in their infancy.
A 1 ' STBD 7!Y LA
A 1 of 'the Macon relates the following inoideat :
ing of the 1st of 1 rumored that Uu
in Irwin county, about ten miles from the '
tiim. What are we to the
moment I They mad. tin ir mod dicr who
x. An
"|u'i ssly
■
him : <ke a seat
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and prayed, but all to no purpose ; to town they carried him and put him in jail, instructing the jailor to keep him until called for by the enrolling officer.
BACKING A YANKEE.
The Saulsbury (N. C) Watchman, tells the following, which demonstrates that all ingenuity is not of Yankee origin, and " Hardee's Tactics" not com- plete in military ord
Captain Osborne, of Iredell, North Carolina, was wounded in the battle of the 31st of May, near Richmoud, while leading his company in a charge on the enemy's batteries. His wound disabl#d him, and he fell upon the field, where he remained for some time. Fearing the. enemy might bayonet him, he drew his revolver and kept a sharp look-out as the fight progressed. After a while he saw a strong athletic man coming toward the place he was lying, and discovered him to be a Yankee, lie coolly awaited his approach. As soon as he came within certain range of his pistol, the captain hailed him and ordered him to surrender. The Yankee took a momentary glance, and seeing the captain's pistol was bear- ing upon him with a steady and deadly aim, he instantly dropped his rifle. "Throw away your knife," said the captain. It was done. "Now back yourself up to me," was the next command. "Squat down so that I can get upon . your back." The Yankee was eompliant; and the captain, with his pistol still bearing upon the trembling prisoner, crawled upon him, and ordered him to march into the Confederate camp. The rider and the ridden safely arrived at the captain's headquarters.
NEGRO PATRIOTISM.
A gentleman visiting his plantation on Edisto Island, asked his colored overseer: "George, what do you intend to do when the Yankees come?" and was answered: "Massa William, we have burried de Cotton, and when de Yankees' come, bress God! we burn de buildings." Such a people may be driven from their homes and their lands devastated, but to subjugate them is an impossibility.
A .TEST FOR THE TIMES.
The war has not subdued all the spirit of fun yet. The Knoxville (Tennessee) Register tells a joke connected with the present requisition for conscripts, as follows :
Some days ago Major Ruckcr was in conversation with a fair, fat, and forty buxom widow of an adjoining county, when, by accident, she men- tioned the age of one of her admirers, stating that he was not quite thirty-
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nine. The major made a menial note of the fact and soon departeds He went straightway in pursuit of this juvenile admirer of the attractive widow, whom he had before learned, was a little more than forty years of age. When he arrested Mr. Johnson, Rucker told him that life regretted to inform him, that he was under the painful necessity of conscripting him. " I have learned," said Rucker, " from widow that you are only thirty- nine. She says that you told her so, and I feel it my -duty to take you down to Colonel Blake."
"Oh ! ah ! yes," said Mr. Johnson, " in fact sir, to tell you the truth, sir,
I did lie just a little to widow . 1 wanted — yes, I wanted to get
married — you understand, don't you, major?"
" I don't understand anything about it," said Eucker, " you must go with me."
Mr. Johnson's knees smote one another, and in tremulous accents he besought Major Rucker to permit him to send for the old family Bible. This was agreed to. In the meantime Rucker and his new levy proceeded to Colonel Blake's headquarters. By the time they reached Knoxville, Rucker became satisfied that his follower was not less than three score years and ten. The widower's hair dye was washed away, his false teeth had been removed, his form was bent by the immense pressure of mental anxiety.
Colonel Blake wished to know why this antediluvian lrad been brought •to him; but so complete bad been the-mctamorphis of the gay widower, that even Rucker blushed when he looked upon him.
The family Bible came, and there it was, written in the faded scrawl of Mr. Johnson's grandmother :
"Silus Johrrsing, born in Bunkuta Nawth Caliny, Anny Dominny 1783.."
S THE BATTES-FIBLD.
A correspondent of the Richmond Sentinel writes: The 12th of May, 1864, will be ever memorable and ever remembered, as the day of one of the most bloody and which have
ever marl war, or added fresh horrors .to this most cruel
com
Before daylight we were moved up to the supp< rl of Haves' and Stafford's Brigades in the works, and ige of mornii
the darkness of a damp and dri; . when, after the three
bichweknewtobe the pi a charge, and a bi
md niortill thai
direction pouring out of the works it had th< re broken ■ trated mas
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through tlic gap, and moving on the flank with great celerity, were swiftly driving all before them in panic and confusion.
Instantly Pcgram's and Gordon's Brigades were formed a few hundred yards to the rear of, and at right angles to, the line of work's. All saw that a crisis was -upon us. If we failed, the consequence would be disastrous in the extreme.
In this exigency General Lee rode forward in front of our line, his position being opposite at the time to the colors of the Forty-ninth Regi- ment, of Pcgram's Brigade, and only a few yards from where your corres- pondent stood. Not a word did he say, but simply took off his hat, and as he sat on his charger, I never saw a man look so noble, or a spectacle so impressive. •
At this interesting moment our gallant Gordon, spurrin g his foaming charter to the front, seized the reins of General Lee's horse, and turning him around, said, " General, these are Virginians ! These men have never failed ! They never will ! Will you, boys V Loud cries of " No !" V no !" " General Lee, to the rear." " Go back !" " General Lee to the rear !" burst from along the lines ; and as one led the general's horse to the rear, General Gordon gave the command, "Forward, charge!" And with a shout and yell the brigades dashed on, through bog and swamp, and briars and undergrowth, to the breastworks. The enemy struck with dismay start to flee, but we are upon them like a storm, and their first line of battle withers before our impetuous onset and the cool marksmanship of our men. " Hurrah ! the works are ours,!" But we stop not. Some of the enemy, more obstinate thttn the rest, show fight with bayonets, *but it is soon over ; and dashing over the first line we pursue to the second. Here we encounter ' another Yankee line of battle, but our onset is not stayed. They stand their ground until our scattered but still advancing line, gets within ten steps, and then, without having fired, turned to run. Few, however, escape, and ordering those who remain to surrender and go to'the rear, a portion of the brigade, the Sixty-first and Forty-ninth Virginia Regiments, dash on and form our line more than one hundred yards in advance of our outside entrenchments.
SCENES AT A FLAG OF TRUCE.
" Key," a correspondent of the Richmond Diqpatek, writing from the trenches, near Petersburg, gives the following amusing account :
On Monday a truce was granted the Yankees for the purpose of burying
their dead, who were lying just in front of our works in heaps; and already
' the fumes from their black and swollen corpses were rendering our position
almost "untenable," more so by far than aould their artillery and Minic
muskets. Accordingly o.\ 4 A. M.; firing along the lines was suspended,
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and operations begun. Curiosity caused the men on both sides to cluster • n tlieir respective sides of the flag, and officers ami men who had so long oftposcd each other at more respectful distances, were brought face to faco and side by side in' front of the yawning chasm, which hud proved fatal to a few of our noble boys. This crater now is the resting-place of a large number of Yankees — blacks and whites — and is, to all appearances, nearly as before the explosion, having been filled up and levelled. The Yankees who were killed within our lines, or rather to the rear of our lines, are buried together in a ravine, and their graves occupy a very considerable space of ground. Their total number of killed, black and white, will foot up be- tween seven hundred and eight hundred. After carefully examining with a sick heart this upheaved funeral pyre of our brave boys, I crossed to the front, and though 1 have seen many of our battle-fields, never did I witness such a horrible sickening Bight. From the top of our works, for a veny considerable distance, lay the swollen, black and putrid, masses of who were but a few hours before Union- soldiers. In many places the bodies were lying across each other, uegro»and white barely distinguishable save by their uniforms and hair. In one place I noticed the unmistakable wool attached to one rotting corpse resting across .another wearing a captain's uniform, who had owned a large sandy beard. The flag, as is. the custom, planted midway between the opposing lines, and officers of all grades, and men, walked ffeely about on their respective sides; and we were glad to see that many of our officers refused to encourage that impudent commu- nicative trait which the Yankees endeavored as usual to display. I noticed particularly one Yankee major who exerted himself especially to become most familiar with an artillery major of our army. Byway of initiating himself into the good graces of our rebel major, and provingihat he wi to be most friendly, the Yankee drew froni under his coat a bottle marked nac," at the same time tapping his new acquaintance familiarly on the shoulder,, when the following dialogue ensued : t
Yankee M"j>>r. — " T say, major, here is something 'extray ;' I guess we can take a friendly nip.''
Rt bel Ma >r. — " 1 am obliged to you, sir, but I can not take a friendly nip with you."
Yankee. — "Oh, pshaw, major, | a -urc you
its prinx; good.1'
Rebel. — " 1 do QOl doubt it in I but I do not Wish to drink with
you, sir."
.,. now, maj-r. I gttdSfl if you and me had tl of this war, we ooul ind have the thing all right, with the
dice."
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RehcJ. — "I should not be satisfied, sir, to rest the fate of thc.Confederacy upon the chance of the dice. I prefer the mode of settlement you have seen fit to adopt — that of fighting it out."
Yankee. — "I guess, major, you fellows went en the principle of not shooting a white man when you could kill a 'nigger,' hey !"
Rebel. — "You are much mistaken — we all must try when we get the blacks and whites together 'to kill the whites and catch the negroes."
Yankee — " Well, now, I hold that a white man is better than a nigger."
Rebel. — " So do we, sir; but it depends altogether upon who this u-1i!t<: man is. Though it seems that you regard them all alike."
Yankee. — (Changing the subject) — " Major, I guess some of your friends would like a ' nip ;' won't you ask them up."
Rebel. — " Thank you, major, if I see any one hunting for liquor, I'll send him up," and touching his cap respectfully, our rebel mixed in with the crowd. I noticed a regular speciineu of a New York upstart striding about over the fields with a stage stride, hands rammed down in the pockets of his loose sack. His uniform denoted the' surgeon. Stepping to a coarse- looking major in blue, he balled out, " Ah, P.elcher, my boy, how cL'ye do V His manner was so New Yorky and disgusting, that I did not think it at all probable anything good could emanate from his brainless skull ; so I moved up. Near the flag stood a particularly interesting group, evidently " done up" for inspection. I asked who these animals were, and ascertained that the one on the left, a little, stiff, dried, up man, in a large blue sack, with straggling hair, about the color of a rotten rope, and eyes about the color of a spoilt oyster, was General White, the same who surrendered Harper's Ferry to us on a certain occasion — .so the Yankees told me. To his right, stood looking as though it was the occasion of one of his famous matinee entertainments, the former dancing master, now General Ferrero. His fondness for dress has not forsaken him, for he looked as nice as a frizzly headed Bowery boy. The time is not far distant, I hope, when he may be called upon to "trip it on the light fantastic toe" to the rear, to the music of our guns.
Next to him stood a tall, lean, cadaverous man, who resembled an ostenta- tious tombstone, set up by some afflicted wife six weeks before her second marriage, in memory of her departed first. He wore* his whiskers " a la militaire," out close, as was his hair. His eyes were of that peculiar color which it is impossible to describe. But I once saw a valuable dog which was being practiced on by an optician for a disease called the " hooks." His eyes closely resembled those of this General Pottcr.# They were truly the meanest, most sneaking eyes I have ever seen ; and a mouth which resembled an opening to a sepulchre, were the only features worthy of note.
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How proud it made rue Tool to turn ray head towards our works, on the frank, open countenances of our own Hills, Johnson, Mahone, and Saunders, so plaiuly dressed, that it would have been impossible to have recognized them but ior their bearings.
GENERAL LEE's BILL OF PARE.
In General Lee's tent meat is eaten but twice a week, the general not allowing it oftener, because he believes indulgence in meat to be criminal in the present straitened condition of the country. His ordinary dinner con- tests of a head of cabbage boiled in salt water, and a piece of corn br In this connection, rather a comic story is told. Having invited a number of gentlemen to dine with him, General Lee, in a fit of extravagance, ordered a sumptuous repast of cabbage and middling. The dinner was served, and behold, a great pile of cabbage and a bit of middling. about four inches long and two inches across. The guests, with commendable politeness, unanimously declined middling, and it remained in the dish un- touched. Next day, General Lee remembering the delicate tidbit which had been so providentially preserved, ordered his servant to bring " that middling." The man hesitated, scratched his head, and finally owned up.
fac is, Masse Robert, dat ar middlin' was horrid middlin' ; we. all didn't, hab nary spec; and I done paid it back to dc man whar J got it, from."
ral Lee heaved a sigh of deepest disappointment, and pitched into Ins
A REBVL LIEUTENANT AND HIS BROTHER,
The following sketch, of an incident of the field of Gettysburg, is from the Harper's Weekly, of January 30th, 186
Late one afternoon, too late for the cars,/i train of ambulances arrived at the Ledge of the Commission with over one hundred wounded rebels to bo
I for during the night. Many of them were but slightly injured, but of the number, a lieutenant, was so weak and faint that it seemed Impossible to do anything to restore him. In appearance he seemed a mere boy, with a clear innocent face, bright blue c\c^, and hair that any New England girl • worn with pride1. One of the nurses I k him in charge; but he wanted nothing; he had not been willing U) eat for days, said. Finally, however, he was induced to take a little gruel, which he keenly relished; so much so, that for hours afterward he talked of his r," thanking 1 For their
kind. it all the while h< r, and at tnidnigb
i imc; and from thai time he thoi nlyoi the
before he wa ang tin m now a .-iii. in
ll in it. " Lord, i
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then; then song? without word? — a sort of low intoning — rippled from his pale lips. His father was a Lutheran Clergyman in South Carolina, and
the lessons of his child! ood were floating hack upon him in the dark hours thv< oeh which lie was going down into a deeper shadow.
All the dav following the nurses watched him, sometimes fighting his hattlcs over, often singing his Lutheran chants, till suddenly, at the tent door, close -to which he lay, appeared a rehel soldier,* just arrived with other prisoners. He started when he saw the lieutenant, and, hurriedly kneeling by him, called him by name ; but the ears were deaf then to the call of love. Then, rising, he told the attendants that the lieutenant's brother was wounded and a prisoner not far away; upon which some of the party started after him, returning not long after, carrying him in their arms. But he too was a stranger to Henry— r for so the lieutenant was called; and the comer lay down at his side on the straw, and there remained for the rest of the day, the little group gathered around watching and listening to the strong, clear voice singing, "Lord, have mercy on me!" The. Lord, looking down, hud mercy. The day had faded and the night came on; 'but with the sunset the troubled heart grew still, and the stars, opening their soft eyes, saw only a pale face with the death dews on it in the midst of the group; A rude coffin was obtained, and the body placed in it ; but all night long the .wounded brother lay close against it, as if unwilling to be separated even from the ashes of him whose feet had pattered right beside his own all the way up from childhood to the borders of that river which all must cross some solemn day. Eut in the morning duty called — the prisoners must march ; and with tears on his face, the bereaved one went away with his comrades, leaving Henry to be buried by those who had so tenderly cared for him while living ; first, however, thanking them all for what they had done, and giving them all he had, to show his gratitude, namely, a palmetto ornament from the dead brother's cap and a button from his coat. That same morning Henry was laid away to his long sleep, a surgeon of the commission reading.the burial service, and a delegate writing his name on the little head-board of his narrow bed : " Lieutenant Rauch, Fourteenth Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers."
CHARLEY MILLER — THE YOUNG WARRIOR.
The subject oi'#this sketch i3 a boy not fifteen years of age, a native* of Louisville, Kentucky, small in stature for his age, slight and delicate in appearance, gentle, unassuming in manners, modest — we might say, timid as a young girl — and with all, one of the most gallant soldiers in the army.
"Without the consent of his parents, he left a home of luxury on the opening of the war and joined General Morgan's command. While on a raid into Kentucky, he was thrown from his horse, and being severely
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injured was loft ia the enemy'- lin ,:. ">'• h sn able he returned to li I s h in Louisville and there remained until fully recovered. His parents used every effort to dissuade hira from his purpose of returning to the army, but of no avail. General Bragg had* commenced liis retreat from Kentucky. Our hero mounted his horse at dead of night, and without, bidding adieu, took up his course for our lines, 'which he entered at 1! irdstown. He im diately joined the Fourth Tennessee Regiment. His gentle, unassuming manners soon foun 1 their way to the heart of hi
his mess, and would hive relieved him of many of the hardships incidental to the cavalry service. But this would not do for Charley^ 1 1 - iys
at his post, always ready for his share of duly, and ever the first
. ilunteer for any dangerous or desperate enterprise. During Brae retreat, WTiarton's Brigade, of which his regiment was a part, covered rear of the army, and never had cavalry such arduous duty to perform. In the daily encounters with the enemy, Charley was always on hand, and gained the encomiums of all. After General Bragg had taken up his position at Murfrcesboro, General Wharton,- while picketing in the fi being desirous of forming a scout company, called for details from his com- mand of a select number of tried,, brave, and skillful men — .: the ; licr volunteered and was selected. This life seemed to please
him. Ever on the alert, hovering aroun 1 the enemy
lessee and Kentucky, capturing couriers, cutting off pickets, etc. I quently being the hearer of reports to Wharton, he at last attracted i general's and was taken On his s a naontln hi
been the bed-fellow and mess-mate of his general. During that time he has always been on duty and has d<>:; hi p ; ilantly and nobly. In he always seen rid there, wnerevcr bullets are
thickest. At the sound of the bugle, the dull !h
the war chill, " the little G Yankee has fallen by his hand.
During "Wheeler's last raid through Middle Tennessee, (Jha of the fir iville, which, after a slight ski'm
rendered with its ■ line of pri ■ tod with in front, a
| ed from the ranks and j him with
>r. f
This boy, foi <if men, a41 manner of vice and | the wril
• cly venture tl
ie of chan
and
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seldom speaks unless addressed. ITe lias nevertheless a good education, and is .possessed of a fine intellect. A strong mental attachment exists cen General Wharton and Charley. The boy is now, 1863, en-route to the Trans-Mississippi Department with that general. They would not be separated. * ' Z.
A LADY IN THE YANKEE LINES.
A Indy writing from Cleaveland, Tennessee, to the Atlanta Register, thus speaks of the treatment of he? sex in the Yankee lines :
We think the gifted pen of Sir Walter Scott would fail to portray the proceedings of these vandal hordes. Allow me, sister Georgiana, to tell you that you will never know what constitutes the Yankee army, until you see the path of desolation and destruction carved by their ruthless hands, and feel the wants of the comforts of life, even the essential necessaries of life, deprived of your wardrobes and reduced to half rations. I have seen and felt the want of all. I have seen six or eight Yankees enter the house, demand the keys, and before they could be produced burst the door (of a locked room) down, search every trunk, drawer and box, and if you inquire what they are in quest of, they tell you contraband property, and continue to search every little nook about the room. On one occasion an officer was engaged in this daring bravery, when he seized a box four inches Equare, containing a set of jewelry. A young lady standing by, looking on in disgust, gently touched the arm of the miscreant officer, saying, "Captain, do you think that little box contains-a cavalry horso or saddle ?" His reply was no! and he dropped the jewels, and retired from the room ashamed of his cowardice, in stooping to such a petty action. I might relate many such trying incidents, but I will desist, at least for the present.
A NIGHT IN CHARLESTON.
We find in the Corith.Ul ULtgazine the following graphic account of a night in Charleston, at the time when the bombardment was still a novelty to our people :
On the 21st August, at half-past 2 A. M., I was lying on my bed in the Charleston Hotel, unable to sleep from the excessive heat, and listening to the monotonous sound of the cannunade kept up on the enemy's position from the batteries on James' Island. Restless and weary of the night, I had lighted a candle in defiance of the musquitoes, and sought to pass away the time with a volume of " Les Miscrables." It happened to be the one containing the accouut of the battle of Waterloo, and while deeply inter- ested in the description of the rushing squadrons of cuirassiers, I was startled by a noise that, from connection with my reading, resembled the whirl of a phantom brigade of cavalry, galloping in mid air.
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My first feeling was flint of utter astonishment.; but a crash, succcdedby a deafening explosion in the very street on which my apartment was situate,' brought nic with a bound into the centre of the room. Looking from the window, I saw fire and smoke* issuing from a house in which were stowed the drugs of the Medical Purveyor. A watchman was running frantically down the street, and, when he reached the corner just below me, commenced striking with his statf against the curb — a signal of alarm practiced anions the Charleston police. At first I thought a meteor had fallen; but another awful rush and whirl right over the hotel, and another explosion beyond, settled any doubts I might have had — the city was being shelled. People arc not given to laughing under such circumstances, but I will defy any one who witnessed what 1 witnessed on leaving my room, not to have given way to mirth in moderation.
The hotel was crowded with spectators, who had been attracted to the city by the sale of some blockade cargoes, and the corridors were filled with these terrified gentlemen, running about in the scantiest costumes and in the wildest alarm One perspiring individual, of portly dimensions, was trotting to and fro, with one boot on and the other in his hand, and this. was nearly all the dress he had to boast of.
In his excitement and terror he had forgotten the number of his room from which he had hastened at the first alarm, and his distress was ludicrous hold. Another, in a seini-state of nudity, with a portion of his gar- ments on his arm, barked the shins oi ^rery one in his way to drag an uious trunk to the staircase. On reaching. the hall I found a moth- crowd, some of whom with the biggest words, were cursing the Federal commanders. Whirr! came another shell over the roof, and down on their faces went every man of them, into tobacco juice and sc_-ir end-, and clattering among the spittoons. 1 need n -lass of tu
from whom the Confederacy hopes nothing; on the cmfrary, by t!' .. practiced on suffering have made th
d. If a shell could have fallen in their midsl and exterminated the whole race of hucl. would have been of great benefit to rath,
population was now aroused, the streets filled with womVn and children making fur the upper' part of the city, where tl I find- 0OH
. Tin' voluni hi out their engines, ami pari
of the citizen l zed rapidly and qui in real::
to ^i-. e where reqm
']'!:■ that reach • , nc
; , and at it tie lions shoi n the
; quaint ii
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down to the battery promenade, meeting <'ii,my way sick and bedridden
le, carried from their homes on mattresses, and mothers with infants in
their arms, running they knew not whither* Reaching the promenade, T
towards the Federal position, and presently, beyond James'
ad, across the marsh that separate.- it from Morris' Island, came a flash,
then a dull report, and after an interval of a >me seconds a frightful rushing
sound above me told the path that the shell had taken. Its flight mast have
been five miles.
A GENERAL " SOLD."
There are a great many amusing things occurring in camp daily which ar"c lost for. the want id' some one to take them down. General Fitz Lee c ing a soldier whom he found drunk, with one boot off, no hat, and half a jacket, he asked him whose command aged to.
Soldier. — ■" (Hie) — Hope's brigade, (hie) by golly."
"What Hope is that," said the general.
Soldier. — " (Hie), Hope (hie), this durncd war will play out (hie)."
The general went along a little farther, and met another with a major's uniform on. lie asked him what command he belonged to, the soldier said, the Sixth Virginia Cavalry.
General. — " You're not a major?"
Soldier,—*1 No, sir."
Gfeneral. — " Arc you a commissioned officer ?" ii r.—« No, sir."
General. — "Are you a sergeant?"
Soldier.— "No; sir."
ral. — " Are you a private?"
Soldier.—" No sir."
'< leral — (Very wrothly.) " What the devil are you then ?"
Soldier. — "I'm a conscript, sir," drawling his words out as bespoke.
The general soon left town.
DECIDEDLY COOL.
When Wright's Georgia Regiment was drawn up in line of battle to go into its first fight in North Carolina, Wright, in passing in front of his Hegimeut, observed a tall, giant fellow, with a violin case strapped to his back. Wright asked him "what he was going to do with his fiddle?" The rude soldier had never heard of Mirabeau's dying exclamation, but he almost quoted it, when he said he wanted to " die to the sound of Betsy," this being the term of endearment which he applied to his violin."
Alter the fight wad over, the fiddling soldier did not answer at roll-call. He was found with a broken leg at the foot of a tree, to which he had crawled, quietly sawing the strings of "Betsy."
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AN INCIDENT OF GENERAL LONGSTREET.
During tlic Mexican campaign, Dientenant-General Longstreet was in command of a company oi regulars, and whil< i Dgaged in one of the battles which marked that Btruggle, observed a Mexican taking deliberate aim at him from behind the corner of a house. The ball whistled by without injury. Longstreet himself had a musket, and on the re-appearance of the Mexican, both fired almost simultaneously, and without effect. The "moral* now recalled to mind a recommendation of his uncle, Judge Longdtreet the author of the famous "Georgia Scenes," which was, " Use buckshot in' close quarters;'' and taking from his cartridge-hox a bullet, he deliberately seated himself on the ground, and, with the aid of a rock and his pocket knife, cut the ball into slugs and re-loaded. The Mexican made his third appearance. The cool officer drew sight, fired, and the Mexican fell. We do not remember to have seen this incident in print, but it is so character- istic of that gallant lieutenant-general, who has occupied a prominent place in the affections of our people during the present war, that we commit the waif to the broad sea of public circulation. Since that time, probably a volumn of incidents, co^ially characteristic of the indifference of General Longstreet under fire, might be collected-
mi; REBEL CAPTAIN.
In an engagement of Wilcox's Division, near Hanover Junction, Virginia, CaptainNbrwo ml Adjutant-General to Brigadier-General Thou
became a prisoner to the Yankee . in attempting to go to our line of skirmishers, after dark, he walked up to the Yankee line instead, and much to his surprise, found himseli in the bands of the Philistines, lie was immediately marched up to Brigadier-* ifclcr,and by him found
to be a hard case, and turned him over to Major General Warren* com- mand the South-side forth Anna* Biver.
At: lor an hour and a half, adapting circuitous and cunning
irpose of eliciting information re.-] ir forces
. the Yankee genual di iptairi was marching off. he
I ; ng :
" G( oeral, is there any other information which ! can have the pleasure
. ol impud in.
■
as
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the prisoners were passing a train of wagons, the captain managed to put tuC train between himself and the guard; and biking advantage of the darkness quietly crept under a wagon until the guard had passed; then jumped into the woods and cautiously worked his way through the Yankee army. At onetime he walked straight through a brigade of Yankees lying in the road asleep; at another he crawled on his hands and knees across an open field full of Yankee wagons. Having nearly escaped, he came suddenly upon a picket of two Yankees.
They were sitting carelessly at their post, and the captain walked boldly up to them, saying in a short angry tone :
;' "Why are you sitting on your post, sir ? Get up, and hold that gun in a proper position ! If I catch you standing guard in that position again, I shall report you."
"Colonel, I beg your pardon," said the trembling Yankee. "I didn't think it was any harm to sit down, sir — I wasn't going to sleep." . " Very well sir. Where arc the next posts ?"
" Bight down there, and there," pointiug to the nearest pickets.
The Captain passed quickly*on, and' of course, did not test the vigilance of the next pickets. lie arrived safely within our lines the next day, having marched for ten or twelve hours continuously, and forded a river up to his neck in depth. He was able to give General Lee more information than he could afford to General Warren.
LINCOLN UPON THE BATTLE-FIELD — MORE OF PRESIDENTIAL JOKES.
A Northern paper says : We sec that the papers are referring to the fact, that Lincoln ordered a comic song to be sung upon the battle-field. We have known the facts about the transaction for some time, but have re- frained from speaking of them. As the newspapers are now stating s,ome of the' facts, we will give the whole :
Soon after one of the. most desperate and sanguinary battles, Mr. Lincoln - \isitcd the commanding-general and the army. While on his visit, the ennimanding-general, with his staff, took him over the field in a carriage, and explained to him the plan of the battle, and the particular place where the fight was most fierce. At one point the commanding-general said, "here, on this side of the road, five hundred of our brave fellows were killed, and just on the other side of the road four hundred more were slain, and right on the other side of the wall five hundred rebels were destroyed. Wre have buried them where they fell."
" I declare," said the President, "this is getting gloomy. Let us drive away." After driving a few rods, the President said, " This makes a fellow feci gloomy." " Jack," speaking to a companion,- " can't you give us something to cheer us up? Give us a song, and give us a lively one."
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Thereupon Jack struck up as loud as he could bawl a comic negro song, which he continued to sing while they were' riding off from the battle- ground, and till they approached a regiment drawn up, when the command- ing-general said, " Mr. President, wouldn't it be well for jour friend to cease his song till we pass this regiment? The poor fellows have lost more than half their numbers. They are feeling very badly, and I should be afraid of the effect that it may have on them." The President then asked his companion to stop his singing till they got by that regiment.
We know that the story is incredible, that it is impossible that a man who could be elected President of the United States could so conduct himself over the fresh made graves of the heroic dead. When this story was told us, we said that it was incredible — impossible; but»the story is told on such authority that we know it to be true. We tell the story that the people may have some idea of this man Abraham Lincoln, who is acandiate for four years more of such rule. If any Republican holds up his hands in horror and says this story can't be true, we say we sympathize with him from the bottom of our soul; the story can't be true Of any man fit for any office of trust, or even for decent society; but the story is every whit true of Abraham Lincoln, incredible and impossible as as it may seem.
STONEWALL JACKSON.
A chaplain in the army has recently narrated to us an incident, which strikingly illustrates the unassuming character of (icneral Jackson, and as everything connected with that illustrious and lamented hero is read with interest by our soldiers and by all our people, we take pleasure in giving it to our readers :
Immediately before the battle of Chanccllorsvillc, said the < haplain, while * the enemy were making a feint of crossing the Rappahannock, near Hamilton's Crossing, I was with my regiment in that neighborhood. Having heard that there was a fine battery on the hill near the Hamilton House, I thought I would go up and sec it. On reaching the battery I found an officer standing there, with a cap drawn over his forehead and an nil cloth over his shoulders. I took him for the captain of the battery and addressed him as such. " Wha< do yon think the enemy aregoin_ said I, " will they attack us from that quart* r '.'"
" No," replied the officer, " I think not ; they tried that at the battle of Fredericksburg, and probably got enough of it nt tint ti:
After furthei stion, the officer isked me to what regiment 1
belonged. I told him 1 was chaplain of the . "And to what church
"The 1 ii," said 1. " Well," said be, "I'm
;i Presbyterian myself. Let us sit down hi: Ik awhile
down <e of the gun-, and 'In gate his views of the dul
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and responsibilities of a chaplain, the kind of men they should be, and the vast opportunities of usefulness their position afforded them. I 'was much struck with his conversation, though he showed an unusual interest in the religious welfare of the soldiers, and set him down as a remarkably pious man.
When the conversation had proceeded in this strain for some time, the officer arose, looked steadfastly across the river, and then turning to me <aid, "you had better move away from here now, I think I shall have this gun fired directly."
In a few minutes bang Went the gun, and away sped the shot, ploughing through the enemy's ranks.
As I moved off, one of my acquaintances accosted me and said: "Well, chaplain, what was the general saying." " General," said I, " I have not seen any general." " Why, yes you have," said he. "you've been sitting down there talking ever so long with General Jackson."
Imagine my surprise when I found that the unassuming, unpretending man I had been talking with, was the great hero of the war, whose name was on everybody's lips.
This little incident is strikingly illustrative of the character of Jackson. It shows, notwithstanding his great achievements and world-wide fame, that his success had not puffed him up, that he assumed none of the airs of a superior, but was ready to enter into friendly conversation with any one who might fall in his way.
It shows, too, how his religion was always uppermost in his mind. Here he was at that moment confronting the threatening enemy, on the eve of hurling the missiles of death amongst them, and yet deliberately sitting down with a chaplain, to talk with him as to his duties and seizing the opportunity in that Way to promote the spiritual welfare of the soldiers. Noble man ! Such incidents arc. a eulogy louder than any words, however gifted or eloquent, could speak.
. THE DUTCHMAN AND STONEWALL JACKSON.
The following amusing story of the experience of a German sutler in the Yankee army is told by one of our surgeons who was left in charge of our wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, last summer. It seems that the surgeon, in passing through Hagerstown, Maryland, overheard a conversa- tion which took place on the street between the sutler and a friend of his, which was as follows :
{friend. — " Halloo ! Broom, I thought you were down in Dixie, sutlering."
Broom. — " Well you zhist take one drink o' lager beer mit me and I tells you."
They both drink, and Broom continues :
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You sec dc times git dull here about Haters town, und T tinks I gacs mit the army und sutler. Veil, I zhist takes me mine Bhpring vagon und mine negro boy, Ike, und gits mc some goots und gacs me to Villiamstown. Und dare is dc covalrce und de infondrec und de ardilleree ; und de bond plays Yonkce doodles, und Sbtar Shpongled Bonner und Hail Golumby; und dc Sbtars und Shtripes float mit de tops ov de houses mit de vind — und I tinks mc dos all is right.
Und den falls me in mit de rear ov de army und gaes mc to Martinstown ; und dare pells me mine grackers und mine sardines und mine lager beer, und gits me dc creeu backs mit mine pocket, und I tinks mc dos is good. Und den falls me in mit de army aguin und goes me mitter Zhcneral Banks to Vinchester.
Veil dare at Vinchester sells me mine sardines und mine grackers und mine segars und mine lager beer und all mine goots, und gits me dc crcen- backs mit mine pocket; und I tinks me dos is all so good.
Un den gaes me to Mr. Taylor, of de Taylor House, und tells mc dcr Mr. Taylor, now you zhust keep de shpring vagon und de negro boy, Ike, und I gaes me to Baltimore, und buys me new goots — und den mc to Baltimore, und buys me heap o' new goots — four five dollar tousand vort — und comes me back to Vinchester und gits me one house close by de Taylor House, so you can see him as you comes mit de Taylor House dis way; und puts me de nice fly paper on the vail, und i mc mine goots in mine house; und runs me two sthicks mit de door out for trow de calico agross zhust for tract de tcntion.
I'nd von day coom von nagro boy und looked bim mine vinder in und say, "Oli! vot party goots! Vot heap purty . I \ i.-h I had some
deem goots. Never mind, Sbtonevall Zhackson coom here some dese & den gits mc some deem goots!" "Und 1 say! Vot you know bout it? Sbtonevall Zhackson not can com here; dey be too many beoples ?"
Und von day coom von Yankee covalrec und shtcal mc mine goots; und den gaes me to dcr Zheneral Banks, und tells me dcr Zheneral ea von Yankee covalrce shtcal mc mine goots j und de Zheneral Bay, "I makes dat Yankee covalrce bring back d<
I i.'l de next day coom d. and pat me mil on
Ton counter, und another Yankee covalree shtcal ma mil from dc
o 1 have not so mocfa goots as before.
I'nd von day coom \ vench und price mc d>
>t£ be too high. Nevermind; ShtonevaU '/.), pome ; nothing." Und I eay, •' D
the nagro vench.
y be too man; de ladies, und price me I .
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" Dese goots be too high. Never mind ; Shtonevall Zhackson coom here some dese days j he git dese goots." Und I say, " Vot you know bout it ? Shtonevall Zhackson he not can coom here ; dey be too many beoples."
Und von day shtand me in mine door und looked me de shtreet up, und sees me von Yankee covalree coom down the shtreet, fast as he can coom — in mit one shoe and out mit one shoe, und his hair shtick shraight out mit de vind. Und I say, " Helloe ! mine friend, for vot you run so fast?" und the Yankee covalree say, " I no shtop talk me you. Shtonevall Zhackson coom," und den hears me de big gun go loose, und I tinks me dis be von skearmish in de suburps of de town, and dis be von immoralize Yankee covalree run away.
Und den looks me de shtreet up and sees me de sutler vagon coom ; and zhust behind the sutler vagon de ardilleree ; and de ardillercc run in mit the sutler vagon, and brake de sutler vagon, and dare lays de grackers, and sardines, and segars, and needles, and pins, and calicoes and lager beer, all in von grond heap in de shtreet, and zhust behind de ardillery coom de infontree; and zhust behind the infontree de covalree; and zhust behind de covalree de gray-backs ! Mine vader ! dos gray-backs ! and zhust behind de gray-backs coom von Shtonefence Zhonson init von big tin horn, and blows, " Who's been here since I've been gone ! — who's been here since I've been gone?" and me no shtay for tell him " who's been here since I've been gone !" I gooms avay mit dishgoost.
The old fellow had became so much excited that he used the words " Shtonefence Zhonson," for " Stonewall Jackson."
HOW A MAN FEELS IN BATTLE.
There can be nothing more puzzling than the analysis of one's feelings on the battle-field. You cannot describe them satisfactorily to yourself or others. To march steadily up to the mouths of a hundred cannon while they pour out fire and smoke, and shot and shell, in a storm that mows the men like grass, is horrible beyond description — appalling. It is absurd to say a man can do it without fear. During Hancock's charge at Fredericks- burg, for a. long distance the slope was swept b}r such a hurricane of death that we thought every step would be our last, and I am willing to say, for one, that I was pretty badly scared. Whatever may be said about "getting used to it," old soldiers secretly dread a battle equally with the new ones. But the most difficult thing to stand up under the suspense while wait- ing, as we waited in Fredericksburg, drawn up in line of battle op the edge of the field, watching the columns file past us and disappear in a cloud of smoke, where horses and men and colors go down in confusion, where all sounds are lost in the screaming shells, the cracking of musketry, the thunder of artillery, and knowing our own turn comes next, expecting each
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moment the word "Forward." It brings a strange kind rjf relief when "Forward" comes. You move mechanically with the rest. Once fairly in for it, your sensibilities are strangely blunted, you care comparatively nothing about the sights that shocked you at first; men torn to pieces by cannon shot becomes a matter of course. At such a time, there conies a ' latent sustenance from within us, or above us, which no man anticipates who has not been in such a place before, and which must men pass through life without knowing anything about. What is it? Where does it come from?
A COLORED SCENE ON THE ROAD TO WASHINGTON.
While the New York Seventy-first were at the Junction, between An- napolis and Washington, a very dilapidated darkey, whose garments were of all imaginable hues and a perfect labyrinth of rags, had come into camp to sell a few eggs; while he was there another ebony hued individual came in, vastly important in his demeanor, attired in clean checked shirt, blue jacket and jean pants, witb cowhide shoes and felt bat, and in every respect a Turveydrop in deportment.
"Stan' back, you free nigger," said the last comer; "de gemman don't want nuffin out ob dat baskit; wby don't you poor free niggers work and do suffin — (aside) — lazy debbils, ain't wuff der salt."
Soldier — "Are you a slave?"
Dcsrkey (with a broad grin) — "Yaas, boss, ain't nufiin else! Never seed a free nig wid sich closes as dem on, yah, yah!" — and he jerked back the lappel of his blue jacket a hi Unsworth. "I b'longs to Missus, ober on dc ridge dar^ Make plenty money now 'mong de BOger mans."
Soldier — " But you have to give the money to your mistress, don't you?"
Darkey — "Urn-mi me! Missus nuflin to do wid dat money boss! I ain't gwinc to keep hens an' have urn lay eggs for Missus. Missus don't Want 'cm. Vab-h! you only jnkin' wid nigger DOW."
Free Nigger (with a dolorous whim - ise i<le Gub'ner gone dead,
an' left me free nigger; dat my fault, eh?"
Slave (with dignity) — "Don't talk back, man; go 'wayj g'longand dem tingfl ob your'n — I knows you're hm
A BTUNNER.
A gentleman of this city, who has a r. I iding in Louisiana, not far distant from New Oriel Uy which con- tains ;m incident tbaf will I I that a 1 fttcfa of Yan- and a party of English officers, chai copy adjoining boxes at unt in the » K -e. nt I itj .'. ,'\ and pi i of the Englishmen, caused the fans ,-eus-
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sion, which they thought -would be particularly offensive to the sons of Great Britain, so the "rebellion" and "foreign intervention," were expa- tiated upon at great length. The Yankees were excessively garrulous, as most Yankees generally arc, and time and again, was it asserted, that the rebels would be immediately "squelched," and should England dare to interfere, she would be whipped "out of her boots." The Yankees got through with their refreshments first, hut desiring to see the effect of their bombast oh the gallant Britons, awaited the approach of the latter to the office where settlements are usually made, when they got up, and proceeded to array themselves by the side of the British officers. Here the remark about whipping England was again repeated, and in such a tone that the officers could not avoid noticing the braggarts. One of them instantly re- joined, "We Have hoard your remarks; we desire to enter into no discus- sion of the subject, but have a single question to ask, that is, do you remember the affair of the Trent?" This was a stunner; not a Yankee made any reply, but all hanging their heads in shame, left the building more rapidly than they entered. They had forgot, all about the Trent.
* DEATH OF REVEREND ISAAC LEWIS.
Any one who, in the last forty years, has been acquainted at Knoxville, Tennessee, will recollect a modest, quiet, inoffensive gentleman, venerable for his age, his piety and his sterling worth ; one who, from his long resi- dence there, had become one of its fixtures, a citizen of such unpretending simplicity of character — so urbane — so cordial — so hospitable — so amiable — so full of public spirit and patriotism as to have secured the esteem and respect of all who knew him, and of strangers, too, who could appreciate character and private worth. Such was Reverend Isaac Lewis, one of the oldest citizens of Knoxville, and for many years a Minister of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church in that city — a profession he only relinquished when disease prevented its longer exercise. Of late years, ho seldom preached, but when he did go into the sacred desk, all may remember the extreme reverence of his manner, the great earnestness of his exhortations, and the powerful and impressive pathos of his prayer.
In politics he was always a Democrat of the States Rights school — a strict constructionist, and of course an opponent of any administration which would elevate the Central over the State Government. He was the early supporter of General Jackson, aud of Mr. Polk, who, when in Knoxville, was always his guest. Of such polities Me. Lewis of course became, after the Presidential election of I860, an early and decided advocate of seces- sion, and of our present revolution. In this cause, though decided and earnest, he retained the good will and regard of the decent part of the Union element by which be was surrounded. It is believed that with two
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exceptions he died without a pergonal enemy. With all others, political rancor had given place to that instinct of human nature which allows to a venerahle old age au amnesty to past political antipathies, and even soothes the passage to the grave by the exercise of the pleasant charities of life to the sick patriot and the dying Christian. Such was the case of Mr. Lewis, the evening before he died the privacy of his quiet bedroom was inva-l- d by the rude knock of the Yankee soldiery at his door* One of them, when the door was opened, inquired " if that damned old rebel spy was not dead yet — the house is wanted for a hospital." He was told to come and see for himself. He entered, and nothing awed by the presence of Mrs. Lewis and her daughters standing in tears around the bed, he rudely came forward and felt the extremities of the dying man, and for three fa remained by his bed-side, impatient to see him draw his last breath. Death soon came to relieve him from this unwelcome intrusion. In words scarcely audible to his indignant and deeply bereaved family, he calmly whispered, " Be still— say nothing to him — I will soon be beyond their power and their malice — where the wicked cease from troubling — and the weary at So died another martyr to the Southern cau-e. For three months he had suffered from Yankee tyrranny and insolence. The city where his long life had bgcn spent was under a siege, in want of fuel and subsistence. His sons were in the camp or the field, and his wife and daughters soon to be turned out of homj upon the cold charitii strangers and enemies. Under these influences he sickened — under ;'
es he died. It is scarpcly to be believed, that under the uiac instigation of personal hate and political rancor, an enemy could continue so implacable and revengeful. If so,
"Be • : Wiih all your thunder 1m, Its.
[Khoxvifle and Atlanta Regi
I TV.
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connexion. The faithful and attached fellow is the slave of Captain Francis Marion Dwi inian by birt1.
| risoners at Vi.
I
U : I wrote you M hurriedly that I
the addition of another black I ■ ]r faUlj;-,
k from Franl rly, on bis « j station from heart. He was taken to General jnT
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inducements to slay with the Yankees. lie says they offered him a hun- dred dollars a month and a gun to shoot his master. He indignantly re- jected the proposal, saying: ,;Wha' sort a nigger you tek me to be — go shoot my mossa, T lub — I tell you, if I git way, I won't stay wid you for a tousand dollars a day." He said: " Missis — I nebber cus white man befo', but I cus 'em den." He was kept at General L.fs headquarters all day, and at night he ntade his escape, and went to Lieutenant Suttles, of Frank's Company, who was left badly wounded at Vicksburg. Lieutenant S. passed Patrick as his own servant, and as wounded men were allowed to carry out their servants, he brought Patrick out with him. Even after he got home, Patrick seemed scared. Poor fellow, he was wise for once. He told his captors — " You'll feed me wid soft corn now, den bum bye you'll choke me wid de cob;" whereupon, he says, they called him "a bad, sassy nigger."
TWO SMART DOGS.
During General Birney's recent raid in Florida, a bright little girl was found alone at one house, her parents having skedaddled. She was rather non-committal, for she did not know whether the troops were Union or Rebel.
Two fine dogs made their appearance while a conversation was being held with the child, and she informed'one of her questioners that their names were Gillmore and Beauregard.
"Which is the best dog?" asked a bystander.
" I don't know," said she, " they are both mighty smart dogs; but they'll either of 'cm suck eggs if you don't watch 'em."
The troops left without ascertaining whether the family of which the girl' was so hopeful a scion, was Union or Bebel. — \Yanhee paper.
A GLORIOUS HEARTED GIRL.
The Flortdian and Journal says :
Upon the arrival of the troops at Madison, sent to reinforce our army in East Florida, the ladies attended at the depot with provisions and refresh, merits for the defenders of their homes and country. Among the brave, was, in one of the Georgia regiments, a soldier boy, whose bare feet were bleeding from the exposure and fatigue of the march. One of the young ladies present, moved by the noble impulses of her sex, took the shoes off of her own feet, made the suffering hero put them on, and walked home herself barefooted. Boys, do you hear that? Will you let this glorious girl be insulted and wronged by Yankee ruffians ? Never ! Wherever Southern soldiers arc suffering and bleeding for their country's freedom, let this incident be told for a memorial of Lou. Taylor, of Madison County, Florida.
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CONSIGNMENTS THEY MAY BE FAVORED WITH.
CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED.
COLUMBIA, S. C.
The above Mills, situated on the Saluda River, two miles from Columbia, contain 10,000 Cotton Spindles, four full sets of Woolen Machinery, and eighty Looms. With these abundant facilities, the Proprietors are manufacturing
TWILLED AND UNTWILLED GOODS,
Cotton Yarn,
Osnaburgs,
Duck,
Woolen Cloths,
Of different varieties, including
FLANNEL; TWINE AND ROPE,
Of all sizes, and other articles in general demand. Orders promptly filled.
L. I). CHILDS & CO.
CQNGAREE IRON WORKS,
JOHN ALEXANDER, Prop'r. J0H\ HARRISON, Foreman.
MANUFACTURES
liIEiUtt firitiTiriiEli Ox ALL MZEI,
IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS
MADE XO ORDER AND WITH DISPATCH.
PORTABLE GRIST MILLS OF ALL SIZES.
ALSO.
TOE CELEBRATED SCOTCH BARK MILL MADE TO ORDER.
TERMS. ---Cash on delivery at the Depot in Columbia.
8&~ A list of prices sent to any one wishing it. Also, all questions in our line answered, and communications promptly attended la
JOHN ALEXANDER,
SILGOX, I10T III 4 CO.,
IMPORTERS OF
FOREIGN DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES, mmil COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
|g Have on hand a large Stock of
STANDARD AND FANCY GROCERIES,
LIQUORS AND DRY GOODS.
t&- Orders and Consignments are respectfully solicited.
SILCOX, BROTHER & CO.,
Columbia, S. C.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGIST,
COLUMBIA, S. o.
On hand at all times a large and varied Stock of
Druggists' Articles of every Description,
Goods continually arriving through the Blockade, enable him to offer one of the
largest and Best Assortment of Goods
IN THE CONFEDERACY.
JOHN INGALLS,
MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA.
ANK NOTE ENGRAVERS
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COLUMBIA, S. O.,
>p leave to call the attention of Bankers and others to their extensive stock of
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igrnettes, I^atlie Work, C2oinl>inatioii Dies,
Bond, l^anlc Note and
Commercial Papers, Sec
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►HILIP WIWEIHAN & €0., DRUGGISTS AND APOTHECARIES,
f COLUMBIA, S. 0. ^
(Formerly Xo. 29 llayne Street, Charleston, 8. C.)
vim Nassau and Bermuda all the Maple articles in their line, to which
ey invite the attention of Druggists and Physician!*. Having vipited Europe, and made
enta for the importation of Puro Articles, direct from the ! «, they
h<ro at the They n iving and have usually
Opium, Nitrate Silver, Rlue Vitriol,
psra sails. Acetic Acid, Turkey Cum Arabic,
uipli. Morphine, Knot Squills Dovers Powders.
Rlrachiiu? Powders, Terra Japonica,
relate ol Leid, Sulph. Ojiiniuc. Ri (,arb. soda,
lycyrine, \q. Ammonia, Rad Valerian,
annin, CaitharMes, Sulphur,
lum, s,tl. soda. Indigo,
Fine' Quality Teas.
•nmn being m practical Apothecary gives his special attention to the Pre- ripnon Department Orderi from the oxuntry filled with cmre mod dirj •
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT.
JAMES C. CIBBES
COLUMBIA, S. C. Goods of all kind Received and Sold on Commissloi
LARGE STOCKS OF
EMHIH MB DOMESTIC GOOOi
ALWAYS ON HAND.
Liberal advances made on Consignmenl
TERMS LIBERAL.
W. M. MARTIN. J. C. MARTIN. J. H. WILSO]
W. M. & J. C. MARTIN & C
COLUMBIA, S. O.,
Office for the Purchase and Sale of BONDS, SPECIE,
AND FOREIGN EXCHNGI
And for the negotiation of business generallj
Prompt sittoiilioii j>fil<l to ordcn from abroad.
IV. M. & J. 0. MARTIN & CO.
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