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Uoino int6 Camp.—Tiio Floyd.Legion
is ordered to go into encampment bn
Monday. ’• Tho place selected/ we un
derstand, is near Itieo's Spring, on
Beech Creek. This Will give tho com.
mnnd an opportunity to make substan
tial preparations for notive service. Wfe
hope they may have o pleasant time.—
If they are hot ordered to the front,
they will probably remain in camp but
a few days.
So mb Drafted Mem will iind an in
teresting order in another column.
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mcnls. ll. A. GARTRELL, .
Proprietor Southerner,
VI. DWINELL,
July .'in, 1803. Proprietor Courier.
there is now ho Livory-slnble in Rome.
Cannot some one patch up something
for tho accommodation of travellers?
Sts?* The Richmond Sentinel has
positive information from tho most
reliable sources that the Yankee con
scripts arc ejesorting very fas*, nnd that
tho drafted men dcolaro they will not
fight, and that the present army in
Virginia is the last ono Lincoln
get.
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.Vires of Marriabu an-I Deaths, not ox-
ding Five Linos in lougtli, mo published
stuitoasly in tho Courier, Tho friends of
«parlies aro requested to send In those no-
w accompanied with a responsible nnme
dthay will bo published with pleasure.
From the Front.
rhere is no startling news front the
inity of Cliallanoogn. Tho latest
inor is that tho enemy have never
d any thing more than strong recon-
itcring parties in Dade county.
Our troops aro becoming more and
i- confident every day, and, if Ro-
■rans does not,.fltlvunc<- before long
will "spoil for a ffght,” if they are
t allowed to vent the pent Up liros of
iriotism in somo way. He slow ' to
i'-ve bad news. Oood fui-iuui is in
e for us on tho.Tonnessee line.
Letter from Frcdericlohurg.
i c take the liberty of publishing the
lowing extract ftom n ),i-iv«tn letter
•ed ;ivo days since, ft will ho iti-
ing to all who have friends in th
cot-girt:
mi- NEAu FiiEiii!KH!K.-nriio. Aug. 28.
,r. Dwinki.l—Dkaii Sir: Thinking
I you would like to hear from us
have concluded lo 'pencil' a few liner-
brigade arrived at tliis place on
e Cth inst, since which time nothing
interest has transpired, to break the
II monotony of camp lifo. Wo tire
enjoying om-sclvcs finely, and have
tiroly recovered from the offeets of
Pennsylvania campaign, nnd all
°m ready and willing to tako another
‘1 of tho kind. The fact is, we would
soon march ns to lie up in catii'li, for
always feel bolter. Evoi-ything is
liet along tho line, except a few cava}-
sUirmislies, which are of almost dai-
occuiTonce.
I visited the ill-fated city of .Ft-edef"
sbuig tho other day, with a friend
d could sen only u fe v of the enemy,
o I supposed to he scouts, or more
nimble; wore a. set of rogues on a-
caling expedition, as the citizens of
Nctv Advertisements.
At Auction.— The house near Mark’s
Tin Shop, on Tuesday the 8th, Also
on same day a nogro women and threo
children.
B. F. Hawkins offers fol* sale his
(limitation, five miles from Rome on
the Cave Spring road. A very desira
bio place.
Forrest Artii.i.krv—road order in
another column.
Tufts. J. Davis, is nnnoungod for tho
Legislature. lie is ono of our most
substantial and best citizens, and will
make, if elected, an cxcollont repre
sentative. ,
Head the War Tax Notice by Sam’-
Johnston,
Attention Drafted illcnt
The men whose names are on lho at
tached li-t, have bom drafted to fill up
the lato cull on .tin- .SUta-for'S.UOO men
and have been n-s-dgiirtd to 'tho Rome
Guards, Co. A.,'Fk>yd Legi-in; therefore,
they are hereby c.iurmandod to report
at the Gouvt house, on this, Saturday
evening at -U o'clock foi drill, ut which
time and place all excuses will be heard.
J. McCiu-tliey,. D. • Phillips,
J. I>. Phillips, J. Reddings,
K. M. Merritt, L. D. Floyd,
A. H. Williams, I). (,'. Cat-pen Sr,
A. G. MoArker, D. dill.
A. I.icon.
By order of Col. ,1.0. YEISER,
J. B Mckoivn, Lf.
Com'dg. Co. A F. L.
(For the Courier;) ■'
8nvo Your Froyonder.
There will bo a very great and press
ing demand for Provender'of all Aorls,
during tho next ten] months— and
there Is a largo amount - of it in the
country-at this time—if “-the .fni-met's'
will take tho.trouble t.o cut.nnd lieuso.
it. Besides the unusual quantity of
luxuriant growth of crab grass, thero
aro extensive fields, of that valuable,
plant, known us tho "Rag Weed.”—-
This weod is very easily cut and Cur
ed—tho wheat harvester is the most
ready and rapid mo lo of cutting it.—
It is known to a fe\v intelligent and
thrifty shook raisers nnd farmer’s, lliut
it is n nutritious and palatable article of
food for sheep, horses and --Altlo—they
eat.up oven the largo stems.
Several hundred thousand dollars
woi lli of this, valuable provender can
be saved this month ; and if it is not
done, tho destitution may be such that a
Urge portion of tho cattle of the coun
try, nnd horses of the army will perish.
Economist.
Texas Raxutrs’ Camp,
A ml ceil be Cheek,
Eight Miles from Rome,
- August 31st, 1803.
Editor Courier: Permit mo, through
your papor, to return my thanks to tho
Rev. Messrs. Jones, Easter, Guin,
l’oaroo and Cn'dwell, of this city, and
tho Revs. J. II, Kaufman, D. F. Smith
nnd R. M. McLcos, missionaries to the
army of- Tonncssoe, nnd tho -Rev. Mr.
Hamilton, who have assisted me in
conducting the revival which has been
going on so successfully among tho Tex
as Rangers, for thq last six weeks. It
hns now closed, and to-day we start for
tho front, May tho Lord reward them
for their labors of love
Our Christian association passed unan
imously a resolution, in which limy ex
press their gratitude to these minisleri
of Christ, for them labors among us.—
In consideration of the fact,-that tlio-
Rev. J. H, Kaufman has been with us
from the beginning, and by his fidelity
in preaching Christ, in counselling
with tho enquiring and encouraging
tho Christian, and by his genial disposi
tion and oourTeous’' deportment,''JuiB
ondenred himself to the i-ogUnou-.. A
resolution was also passed, in. acknoWl-
ledgment of the appreciation of his
tint! ring labors and tho affection we
cherish for him, as a man and a Chris
tian minister.
Yours, &a„
R. F. BUNTING.
Chaplain Terry's Texas Rangers.
From tho Buglo Horn of Liberty,
f Original, j
Dod&in Around—Melqnltolly RofleU-
slums.
Rome minis.
Head QvaHtkrs Rome Guards,
Rome, Sbpt. -1th, 1803.
Special Orders.
No.
The lneinbers of the Company are
ord.ffihd io meet ar the Court House in
Rome on Monday morning, at 8 o’
clock, equipud with ono or two blan
kets, a haversack, tin cup, canteen and
three days’ rations.
J. B. McKOWN,
Lieut. Com’d'g
P. J,. Tviixi.Kv, (.1. S. Co. A F. L.
sopto
From Charleston.-,—No material
olintigo in ll:o aspect of nfTairs up to 2d
inst. The bombarding was still going
on.
From Richmond.—A fight is reported
to have taken place near Port Iloyui
on tho 2nd, in.pvhieh three brigades of
Yanlteo cavalry, with several pieces of
Artillery attempted to retake the gup-
adma 1 have boon subjected -to every j UoilW -s„t 0 lite” and "Reliance
predation of the .kind since. the
'■ups have had possession of their
Matters nt present indicate
at Meade is not going to mako an
gressivo movement soon, Wlien lie
es ire nl-o ready for hirn. Our army,
k-iiove, is in as good lighting trim as
wit was.
A considerable revival of religion has
Richmond is very quiet
lion. W, C. Hives, has published a
little card ending as follows:
"On tvJiatever'side I look I see uo
omen for discouragement, but on tho
<:o.i.ilrary, .new grounds of as.-Mrance
with regard 'to tho ultimate certain tri •
umph of tho groat cause in which wo
. t, • , are embarked. No local or occasional
going on in oui ligado tor 1] 1U | disastcr C nn chock the onward progress
tlivo cr throe weeks; principally onh e great cause so long us it L bi«s
fotigh tho instrumentality of the
ev. D. W. Gwin, Pastor of the Rome
ptist Church.. During his short stay
th us, he endeared himself to all.
e is just such a man as we neod in
e army. His farewell sermon on last
iday night was tho most improssive
dress I ever listened to. . His text,
irially, brethren farewell,R .was* well
ined, aiid had a good and lasting, ef-
ct on all who heard it. He oortttinly
as the good wishes- of hundreds who
ere the recipients of so many favors
Ins hands. He left-us last Saturday
visit Gen. Ewell’s corps.
1 be weather has been oppressively
arm ior the last'month, -and we are
nnxfcps for cold jveathei* to come
Wm. Ombqrg, of. the Light
'■-u-Us, will leave for his command on
haidny next, and will tako any lottery
' m# y bo left at Omberg & Hough'- 3 .
ed with the approving smilo of Heaven
and sustained by stout hearts with un
ceasing vigilance and .unfaltering faith.”
Other prominent man of Ya. have ta
ken thostump and are ev^ry whoro
arousing tlvo people to make a grand
rally Against tho ruthloss anvadors.—
This is a good thing, and" wo 'would'
now like to see some of our Georgians;
who-m-e sometimes so fond of harangue-
ing the people, out oil tho samo patrlot-
ic.mission. The people never so much
needed information in regard to tho
condition of publio affairs and the prob
able destiny of our young republio.
.We-hayo no lato nows from tho West
jJSy The.people of. Amelia oourity,
Ya., in the most commendable spirit;
are having arrested all desprtors that
come into their county. If the people
pf ftvory county will follow tho examplb
of Amelia, we shall goon hear tio more
J of.tJesertiftns from the array.
BV BILL ARr.
The Situation.
The crisis of the revolution is lipo
us. 'I he time for BuuTlioi-n pluck l"
prove rtsclf is at hand. That period
when the wisdom and nerve of the
Confederate Gpyornmeiil should btv
exorcised to its fullest has iin-ived.—
Lot tljo people of Lie land i-niiil'oree its
arniicB, an.l let thooo.um.indei-.s thi-ro-
of mass thorn for tho overthrow of the
Federal army of the West. Where, in
God's name, n brt'rr fnW, m'.d v.i.ti,
a hotter oppurtuniiy than is now pro-
sentod along the T.-imqsseo river? Tho
main strength of tho Yankee I'orpo in
the West is drawn from the .Cumber
land and Ohio Valleys—the very How-
or of the Abolition army hundreds of
miles advanced from its former base of
supplies. They can novor get back be
yond the mountains if wo use oovud-
vuutages quickly, and well, What is.in
tho region of the lower M ississippi to
the Confederate Slates, compared with
the annihilation of Rnsenpi-ans’ army?
That whole section should be abandon
ed for the present. Affair} of weight,
let- moment demand our immediate at
tention here. Combine the armies of
Buoknerand Johnston and Bragg, and
tho plans nf ito^onpMn's, Burnside and
the Abolition War Department wiH re
sult in ruinous -I -lout and inevitable
disaster. A brilliant viotory on the
part of the South, after so many rever
sea, wpu.l I wind up ilio- summer earn-
pnign of 1863, and the idea of subjuga
tion on the part of the North would'bo
abandoned as hopeless. The reaction
in the North would boas disastrous to
their plans for our destruction us it
wotiid be eheoin-aging and oiunulaiing
to our cause and people.
This army ot tho West is the main
depondonce of tho enemy. Lot it ho
crippled, senttoterd and driven back in
confusion over (ho mountains, lin'd v.o
ai-eseourc. It will not be accomplished
by souding a single regiment from this
point and a half a brigade from tlint.
Give us tho numerical .Jvantago. Let
us havo no more retreats bofo'-o "supe
rior forces" in this neglected section.
A little more official energy, and a
little raoro of tho old chivalrous spirit
of tho South iufusod into the heart of
the pcoplo, and our suce-oss is certain—
our inaopeudenoo established.—Jieb
cl 1st inst.
Farmer with a rfcgl/tia.—“Jett look at
'that will you, and prico it—fatesft dog
skin you ever Baw—what’ll you give
for' it ?’’
r<MiuT"Don’t want ii,—don’t buy fnt
dog skinB, they are always rotten.
Farmer—"Well now—come to think
of it, 1 was jokin—the dog werent so
blanjo fat as you might suppose—I’ll
be darned if. lib didnt starve to death.”
And thats natur—human nalur. It
uint dog uatur, nor cow natur, nor
horso natur; but its human natur jest
dodgin around. Im a poor judge of
skriptur. I dont know now good our
foiuTnthers was when old unklo Adam
was gardening on tho Yonfrates Rivor,
but my opinyuu ure that man liav foil.
If lie iiahit, then animals iiav riz.—
Brutes bar got bettor or folks hay got
wosser and no uxistaka. In f..k I rath
er risk animals—my horso dont fool
r..o, nor my cow, nor my shoep, and if
my koiftt dog sometimes barks up the
wrong treo, ho dont mean no harm h/
it, and thurs nothin that wears breach
es thats half as honest as tho wag of
my dogs tail.
Fooks lire not reliabal. If one aro
so okkashunully, it are an oxsopshun.
Ho aro looked upon as u kurosity, and
his rcimu-knb-jl konduct gits in tho pa
pers, und nre narrated and norated
about as a hextry ot-dinury sirkuinstanco.
lf. lie pays up his old debts what had
gone out of da to, it arc considered a
sort of a mirakel.aiid goes dodgin around
for a heap more than its worth—more
than likely ho broke at the fust and
got rich at last by trio-kin and trappin
and dodyinaround, lf 1 could see liim
give in liis tuxes, and didnt sme,l per
jury, ho boUlti stand fire and smoke.-
Old Diogenes might blow out-his c/ii
del, and bunt no turtlicr lor an lu-i.- si
man. '1 liars the limp und tho pi
and the siikumslaiice )ybnt iflJs
man’s soiil. ' Jest watch him and slu-ly
him as lu: gives in bin luxes—see tho
Uincliin and equlrniiu and dodyin around,
for this hero anno duinini 1803 are pow
erful hard on the root of all, evil.--
Thiii-s the city tax, and eolinty tax, und
State tax and ConledoSate tqx an.l gi; ii -
oral talc and spechal tux and church
tux and cliarlfy tax und tax in kind
and tax unkind an‘I shoo tux and' sal;
tax, and spokulntors tax in general;
mid they scrowgo a man hard, and they
sorowgo him frequent und poof hiimtiu
natur oaves in. The day a man gives
in li is tuxes lie aro poorer than any
day in tho year, nnd it wouldnt bo
wrong to assert that a kountry aro rich
cr by fifty percent, than its tuxes foot
up. This deficit ought lo he a koluinn
by itself, and ohurgud up to prejury or
dodyin around.
That's old Snooks who didnt giv
his young niggors, bbkaus as he sed
they werent no profit to him. Did
Shirk wouldnt giv in Ids notes bekaus
the stay law woiiidnt let him kollect
tun, and they might prove insolvent
before they was paid. Old l)odgo giv
his money* to liis wife a few days before
the l«t day of April. Old Grab has
been su-.-d I'or four of i.is niggers nnd
tionontgiv cm in boUmis the case
Faint determined. t,Ul Guall bought
Ids salt at 25 cents, and ho wont giv
it in any moro, bekntiso ho luiiiit sold
it and it mout go-down. Old Crib outs
down bis corn about half, for iio makes
an uUoWunco for votugo, ruluge, and
shrinkage, nnd draynge. and lossago
an.l stealage. Old Hook’s land is worth
a cool hundred thousntid, but ho re
turns it nt thirty bokntis, as ho says, ii
doti’l muko anv moro truck than ii
used to—and tlnirs all mankind in gen
end, who aro twistin and shirkin nnd
giv in their property at a heap too lit
tle, for fear of making .if a little two
muoh. Geo Wliilikins. Juba ; what a
fortune I could make, by buying fonks
property at their own valynlion—what
a power of perjury nro to be tried or
confessed on the other side of Jording,
what a criminal dookftt—what a power
uf traiqllm to those sultry and sulphu
ry regions where shado trees dont grow,
mid tnnr ain t no chance .to be dodyin
around.
akkomplished by their pokuliar drill
whioh aro kallou the system of damin
—they dam their oy'es, and thoy dum
their ears, and they dam their guns,
nnd thoir boots, and their mill saw
spurs, and they aam their hbsses to
make om, go faster, and they dam ;tKe
fences to make em oomo down, and
they dum tho poor farmer to mako him
.'dry up,’ henco I am told that Major
Mike Makin always sponks of em as
the cfa-m havalry, which expression
mout bo thought impolite, but the
Mtyjor has a way of saytn it bo flat nnd
so long, that of uotjrso ho intend it to
bo youToyistic.—What k'urious idoes of
reekrootin thevo got. Hero thoy was
sont to reki'oot thor hbsses, and l-est
otft, nnd strengthen om, and you aati
see era at it by day and by night, in a
ovorlaslin gallop goin wh'ppity whonpity.
Jlippity JloppityAcsl a dodgin around all over
tho land. It liav boen thought that
our kounly court done perhaps tho
biggest road business of any similar
road ihktofy in tho .State, but if a mnu
can travel any big road or littlo i-oad,
now road of old road, Imblio road or
private road, any mill trail or still house
trail, any eotv path or hog path, and
not meet from two to ton of tho cl a-m
kavult-y, thon that- camp wer moved
The Big Guns,
Tho Augusta Constitutionalist giv63
the following description of two guns:
AVo notice at the Freno}i. Store a
diagram of the thimderers, two of
whioh recently arrived.at a ConfedortUe
port. The length of the gun is 16 feot,
its diauioter at tho trunions is four
feet and 2 inches; its bore is 13 iuohes;'
tho weigh t of tho gun 4,400 ^pounds; its
range wo do not think it proper to men.
ti'on; the weight of its shot, 651 pounds,
without'tho steel point; tho charge of
powdor 50 pounds; the sizo of tho shot
12$ inches by 20; sizoofsl}ell 121 iqohes
But this prolonged war hav produced
more sublimcr specimens, ltioi'eVarious
fashuns ut dodyin. around. Of into it hav
boen my high privilege to observe the
Kavalry—tho Hos Kavalry what ever
and nnon, migi-htes atld var;,-grates and
perambulates thru and thru a blccdiu
k untry. They arc perhaps the most
magestik Bight that belongs to tho
animal kingaum, and such aro tho
profound'improshun which their august
presence do make upon a closo observ
er, that one weeks vtow will satisfy his
whole kurosity Toy tli-V n'oxt fifty years
to kum. Their brilyuni appearance
aro far too powerful for w&tk eyes to
onditro moro than about seven days in
ns many yoars, Tho Infantry and
Art,jllery nro kalled tho arms of the
servitv and do very well in their places,
but tho Hos Kavalry are the two legs—
they aro tho engine of locomoshuu—
the wheels of progross and honse oau
travel moro better and retire moro
quiker nnd okkupy a heap more ubiq-
wity. If a filosot'or wish os . to seo the
porfekshun and beauty of animal mo-
shun, lot him git on a mounting and
observe the Hos Rrivalry,, as they wind
about tho fields and tlio farms, tho
orohards and gardings, the corn patch
es and Inter patches, tho bee gums and
ohiclfon coops,And ho .will bo' filled
with ndmiroshun and astonishment at
tho way they go dodyin around. Tlio
slight apd' rapidity with which thoy
perform t-lr* 1 " 1 - -
cvolus(ons, are sod to bo
900 ® H|i|>iW>ii 11/ n' 'in
some throe days before. It takes om
Forbearance ofthc Confederate Mil
itary Forces.
Tho following is a portion of tho
otter of the correspondent of the
London Times, ..who. Aceopipanied
General Lee’s army into Pennsylva
nia. .
• Tho greatest surprise has been ex
pressed to me by officers from tho Aus
trian, Prussian and English m-mios
each of which has now a representative
hero—ono of them'(tho Prussian) quasi-,
official, tlio otKov two’private individu
als traveling for their own pleasure—
that voluntoer troops, provoked by
nearly twonty sovon months of unpur-
alloled ruthlessncss nnd wantonness of
whioh thoir country has boon tho
scone, should bo uudor ■ such control
nnd willing to act in harmony with the
long suffering forbom-aneo of President
Davis nnd Gon. Leo. Individual cases
of atrocity of course thero liavo been,
likely, if got, hold of by the Northern
press, to point mnuy an argument from
singular to universal, and to be repres
ented as tlio invariable rulo of notion
for tho rebel army. Ono solitary case
of rapo has boon roported, certain, ns
the perpetrator has been caught, to bo
visited with condign punishment, or,
nt least that long, to quit a good poun.
try alter theyo left it, for they are nt it,
mid on it, and in it, nnd,round it} anti
over it, nnd under it, till it poem liko
thoy slick aud hav to stuff off, liko a
skab on a soroback undo. Grand,
gloomy andpekulinr, ns Bonypartosod,
thoy go dodgin around, gloomy , to them
wlints got nomoth in they want, and
very -pokuliar ns they carry it off.
Swnppin bosses are u wraknoss to which
they aro subjeok but they giv a man
mit-y. little troublo that way for .they
kin swap with him when he nint nt
home or when lies asleep jest as well
as if ho was awake and ivun lliar.
But. hurray for the Kavalry—when u
stii'lilima mauoovcrroents thoy liavo
on -icli okkasliuiiH. It wer at such a
time 1 suppose Solomon writ about em
an I sed "ho snuffeth tho battle afur
oil'-" When they are pitrsuin a panik
slink enemy or layin in wait for u
u-iiin of lcm-s or assauliin a unguarded
knravin of wagons the Koufederate
IIos.Kavalry may bo sod to be invinsi-
t-ul. On-sich excurshuns they load
ihemsejvcs down with dry goodf, and
wot goods, aiid blankets and tints, and
boots and booty, nnd liklers and kan-
teens with kontcnls noticed, I onst heard
a poor infantry say as ho was liuntln
over tlio ground iiofout, "lets go hak
Jim, tho Kavalry hav boon hero and
lioked up overy d a-m thing—after ' wo
whipped tho fight here they come je6t a
rippin aud a suortin and dodgin
around.
But taxes and kavalry can stand
usido, for they cant complete with that
nuiuorotis class who nro dodgin ICou-
skripshun—theyv kept out so long and
worked so hard to stay out still longer,
and sweat so much in dodyin around that
they vo read so much of big battles, of
so much flesh nnd blood, and such
horrible oarnuge, that the bnro sight ol'
on Etirolllq Otiicer givo om a heart pal
rotation. I licv cunt slpon fm' SnuiaSnSti
in other words, with death ; two tnur-
dors of private individuals, an offsot to
many dozens of mufdors inflicted with
impunity by the Fcderals on tho
Southrons. Among them I may men
tion the oase. of Mr. R. E. Scott, of
Fauquior county, in Virginia—a man
regarded on thin continent very much
ns Mr. Henley is in England—who.
apparently to the dolight of tho Wash
ington Cabinet, wrs rutiilosaly robbed
and murdered by somo Yankee strag
glers, hud likely to bo signally avenged
by Gon. Leo. .
But, with these exceptiftns, tlio dam
age dono to PonnsylvanA consists in
seizuro of nmny horses, cattle, store?,
wagons and much forago, in exchange
fur whioh Confederate mouey has been
paid, or, if preferred, receipts have
been given in the name of tho Confed
erate Government., Not a barn has
beeuburnod; not a shod destroyed.
Upon each side of tho execrable road
whioh loads from Hagerstown toOham-
borsburg, a broad trook as wide as
Rcgont streot has been trodden down
by the onwartl line of horse and foot;
beyond this damngo there hns boen
nono, savosuoh nsls comprised in the
•plucking of a few cherries from tho
abimdnnt cherry trees whioh grow wild
in this latitudo, and the occasional
larceny of a few ohioltonB. To-day a
speotaclo was witnessed, the- liko of
which, in my belief, has naver been
exhibited by any great Captain during
the last hundred years. General Leo
wandered a few yards away from his
quarters, nnd ebservod a rail fence
girding a field, of whioh a few rails had
been p«Ued down and a gap into tho
fiold opened. With liis own hands,
nnd unassisted, ho commonood repair
ing tho fence, until at last Dr. Cation,
of Gonra-al Longstreeb’s staff, came to
p-tation. They cunt sleep for imuginin
that theski'eoch owl is screnniin, nnd
the Boomerang howlin their funeral
dirge ; that their bones is to bloach in
somo gully, or to rot in somo thicket
far, far away, where tho gostB nnd tho
boogors go dodgin around. How rapidly
some tolks grow old in these tryin
times—what a prolifik vent- for boy
•children it wer in the year 1817. Such
nro the rapid progress of human events
in these fight in times that a man who
were only forty last year, can bo forty-
six this, j Even old father Tints havo
put on his spurs and now he goes dodg
ing around.
Thars the mail must be karried—tho
telegraph tended—stenmboats and kars
must travel, shoes must be made, pot
ash bo burnt—and all mechaniks must
go ahead, and then thars tlio numerous
holes nnd hidin places round a Depot
or Hospital, or the Q. M. Department,
or the Pass port oifieo, and so forth and
so forth,—but tho bulk of tho dodgin
are done oa tho ironic line. Beforo
this developin war It ivero not thought
possibul for so muoh rumptiks and
kroniks, so many sore logs and weak
backs, to exist in a limestone kountry.
Oh if I wer a doktor how I tveuld do3o
em and drug om, and fill em with
Ippeknk. T would quit my general
praktis and put out a shinglo with
'kroniks' painted in largo letters ou it.
If I wer tho Kongress thoy should be
koiupellcd to kum to my olHs at lonst
twico a wook aiid bo physiokod and
Ids assistanoo, and together they made
good tlio damage. I am told that
whenever lie hns observed them he has
either personally or through his staff,
ordered the rebel blaokbirds to desist
from pilfering tlio cherry treos.
drugged, and blistored and cupped,
I would kure oin or kill ora, and then
out- poor blecdin kountry would have
sound men or none; and thats the
way to stop this dodgin around.
Overkum by tho inelankolly aspect
of this subject I must stop for tho pros
ents, to be resoomed after a rccoss of
thirty duyo,
Yours. B. A.
Capture of Tbreo moro Vessels.
Tlie party of Confederates under tho
command of the gallant Lieut. John
Tpylor Wood, on Tuesday lost, in Ches-
sapeako Bay, off - tlio mouth of . tho
Rappahannock,- captured-thrco Yankee
transports, tho Coquette, Golden Rod
and Twin Brothers, ttvo of them
from Philadelphia, and one from Maine.
Two wero laden with anchors and ono
with coni. Tho Golden Rod was de
stroyed, and tho other two carried to a
place of safety. There were about fif
teen prisoners taken on board the thrpo,
this makes ninety prisoners,' fwo gup
boats and threo transports, .paptqrod
Xfississirrr.—When Gen. Johnston
fell back from JackBon, it will bo re
membered that there were alarming
reports of wholesale desertions from
tho Mississippi regimonts. A general
officer belonging to that army and to
whose command most of the Mississippi
regiments belonged, told the write?
throe days ago that these absen tees wore
all back at thoir posts, and that his
command is stronger now than it was
when ho joined Gen. Johnston to oicl
in tho relief of Yicksburg. It is grat
ifying to know that this is the rule of
action throughout our armies. Men
are returning to thoir colors at tkei?
.country’s call. Is it any wonder, with
honor and patriotism before them, and
disgrace, and perhaps tho death of a
deserter behipd them?—Mobile Register,
28 th.
Mrs. Mary Booton died at the
plantation of lier son, Capt. Daniel F
Booton, at 3 o’clock last Thursday nior
ning. She had been for some time jn
feeble health, but wjtljout t)qubt hqr
doqyi was hastened by the pews of tho
death of her son, W'q. M. -Bootop, who
tyas killed in the jjnttle of Gettysbup-j
She was a most lovojy exemplar of ih'o
brLioutwWqo'd, sjp“cpX B ’ .cTE
^.a.wI 1L1. L’ ‘tv v 1 * I SGtllfirv htK lnaf. rum rtf ifj mnlioBf fimnu.
mond on tjjjs 'exns^fSop—.ot its richest treas-
u?ea
The oditorial correspondence of the
Savannah Republican, from Charleston
says: •
There has been some difference of
opinion, even among military men as
it gards tho exact locationbfjtho battery
from which theso missilosT are thrown
to so great a distance. It was first sup
posed to bo on Morris Island, near the
foot, of, Craig’s Hill,' but. it has been def
initely ascertained to. bo}locatod on a
raft in the marsli, about a mile this
side of Morris Island, iind five miles
distant from the city, Some say* that
its movements are regulated by the
tide, and that it is floated off during
the day so as to avoid obsorvation and
a concentrated fire from our James Is
land batteries. This may be so, and if
true, will account for their choosing
night for their operations. There are,
as yet. but two guns in position oh the
battery, and the strain to the metal in
firing at so long a range, will acoount
far the slowness of tho fire nnd its brief
duration.
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