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THE € CERILLA MOSEBY.
A correspondent gives tlie following
sketch of the guerrilla Moseby:
John Singleton Moseby was bom m
Virginia, in 18*52. Nothing is known of
Ills youthful career. His early achieve
ments in the war were of an insignificant
character. His operations eluting the
winters of 1862-63, in harassing our
troops encamped near Fredericksburg,
were approved by General Lee in an of
ficial report of the winter’s operations of
Ms army In consequence of these ser
vices Lieutenant Moseby was promoted
a Major. In March, 1803, he captured
General Stoughton, at Fairfax Court
House, and gained his first notoriety at
the North. In the ensuing August he
attacked the 2d Massachusetts Cavalry
at Coyle's t avern, near Fairfax, Ya., and
received a painful wound. He was un
able to resume active duty until January
1834, when (January 10) he was repulsed
in an attack made upon one of our
camps at Loudon Heights, Va. On
February 13, 18C1, he ambushed a small
force under Captain Reid, near Dranes
ville, killing and wounding twenty of
our men. He was some months after
(August 29) again wounded, and remain
ed idle until October 0, 18(>i, when he
again made himself famous among the
Rebels by attack oh the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, at New Creek, Virginia,
for which achievement, on Lee’s
reocmmer.dation, he was promoted
Lieutenant Colonel. On October 14 his
camp near Piedmont, Ya., was surprised
Iyy Colonel Gansevoort, of the 13th New
York Cavalry,, and his force dispersed.
During the campaign in the Valley,
between Sheridap and Early, Moseby
figured extensively. November Ihe was
routed near Salem. On the 21st of the
same month he was again wounded.—
December 1 he was in Richmond, nurs
ing his wounds and begging for promo
tion. This came on December 10, and
He was recognized by the Rebel Govern
ment as a full Colonel in its army. The
particulars of his killing are given iD the
Rebel accounts.
The following Intercepted Rebel letter
will give some idea of the habits of the
man and of his mode of warfare!
Paris, Virginia, November 28.—The
command of which Lieutenant Colonel
John S. Moseby is the recognized leader
is divided into six parts, * respectively
Commanded as follows: Captain I).
Richards, Captain Mountjoy, Captain
William Chapman. Captain Samuel
Chapman, Captain Peter Franklin, Lieu
tenant Hatcher. The whole force is
recognized as a battalion. Willie Mose
by,' a pleasing young man of about
twenty summers, and a brother of John
8. Moseby, is adjutant of the battalion.
Willie does not go on raids. Lieutenant,
Walter Franklin is the present commis
nary of the battalion. An officer “famil
iarly styled’’ Major Hibbs is said to be
the quartermaster. Lieut. John Russell
is Moseby’s main scout for the valley.
Moseby, when out upon a raid wears
l>is uniform—the stars upon the collar of
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 25, 1865.
his coat and a gold lace braid upon the
sides of his pantaloons. lie swears a
great deal, and does not, as a generality,
treat his men kindly. At Holland’s fac
tory is where Moseby generally stays
himself. He boards at Dick Auckner’s.
His wife also boards here. She is a
middle- aged woman, and rather hand
some. Moseby is with her often.
He always carries a small pewter
whistle with him for signaling. It. is
fastened to a guard placed around his
neck. When his men are concealed in
the bushes a low whistle is given to
“make ready,*’and a keen whistle to
“charge.” He lately received a battle
flag and bugle, and the report is his com
mand will go into Early's regular cavalry
sen 1 ice during the winter. He is well
off for greenbacks since he captured
those paymasters on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad line. When the plunder
secured on that occasion came to be di
vided up every officer and man who as
sisted got $ 1922 60.
A good deal of this money you have
already got. back. 1 will tel * you how 7 .
Old men and women," residents in the
neighborhood of Upperville, who have
gone within your lines and taken the
Oath of allegiance, have been sent by
Mosby and many of his men to Berlin to
purchase goods, such as hats, etc., arid
iiave paid for these in the captured green
backs and got the goods oof to the bat
talion.
Moseby has a sutler who goes quite
often to Alexandria to buy goods for his
command He is an Irishman by birth.
He has brought out, among other goods,
white bats, with long black plumes at
tached.
Moseby rides a blooded sorrel, and
sometimes a big, bay. The sorrel is the
swiftest animal in either army. He does
not drink any whiskey. He does dot
allow any ot his.men to drink whiskey.
He sent two men off into the regular ser
vice for being intoxicated on inspection.
An order from a Federal general reach
ed Captain Moseby at Berryville. The
order is in relation to .the Winchester
Railroad. Mountjoy read the order to
his men, laughed over it, and put it in
his pocket with the remark that lie would
show it to the colonel. - The order readi
ed him last Sunday morning. He was
surprised about noon of that day. Ido
not think Moseby will interfere the with
railroad, out of regard to the property of
the citizens living adjacent to it.
Myseby’s command is not liked by the
soldiers of the regular Confederate ser
vice, but both Moseby and his men stand
high at Richmond. They are armed
only with pistols. All of Moseby’s men
have their regular boarding houses
among the farmers. Two and three of
them not unfrequently board at one
bouse. When the Federal scouting
parties come along,* tlie Confederates
take to the mountains. During the time
that General Augur and his troops were
upon the Piedmont Railroad line, the
Confederates of Moseby’s command
spent most of their time in the moun
tains.
“Short Whist,” says a descendant ol
Mrs. Battle, whose opinions on the game
are very generally known, “ is a rubber,
where two, oiff of four, are hard-up
players, unable to* settle the.*; losses.
This is very ‘short whist ’*” “Long
whist,” acids this excellent matron, “is
Mr. Battle’s constant excuse lor coming
home from his club at four o’cloak in the
morning.”
The following notice of a panper’s fmieral
from the Winst and. Conn.. Herald is worthy of
Dickens: * Exchanged his poverty for eternal
riches, and his lor a crown which lauetn
nit away—at Winchester poor-house. Nov. C,
1864, dames C. S'nutk,
bearers were few on thle side—not so many per
haps as ..they that waited on the •ahining t-hore’
aud went up with the old mac to iu* ‘l-'aihcT’s
house.’ **
The Newsboy and his Enterprise.—
The Louisville Journal has the following
sharp article: We frequently have ob
served persons stop a newsboy on the
street, take a paper from him, deliberate
ly read the despatches, with the ragged
young urchin waiting impatiently, look
ing wistfully up into the cold, hard face,
and often shivering in the cold, and then
return the paper to him and pass on
without purchasing it. Do such persons
justly consider how much they are rob -
bing the newsboys by an aet of this kind ?
Tlie papers are individual property of
the boy. He has purchased them at the
office, paid his money for them, and if
he does not sell them the loss results to
him and him alone. They are his ex
clusive property. He buys them for the
news that they contain, and for the news
he sells them to parties on the streets.—
It is to his interest to be detaineJ in
his sales as little as possible. Tele
graphic news is in demand so long as it
is fresh from the wires and the press
room ~ It is soon read, soon digested,
and almost as soon forgotten. In effect
ing its sales, with more than a hundred
different competitors on the streets, the
boy must move rapidly and make his
bargains with great despatch. Every
minute is precious to him, An edition
is often sold in less than a quarter of an
hour alter it leaves the counting room.
Then, when an individual slops a news-
Ixiy on the street, detains him while he
reads the despatches, and returns the
paper to him, without buying it, he not
only robs the young speculator of the
! news of a single paper, but perhaps of
the time in which he could effect the
sales of a half-dozen more. The loss is
to 4l*e boy alone- the poor shivering
urchin, who struggles with poverty, and,
perhaps, by his exertions and profits,
supports a mother, and keeps want from
the door of the humble home. We
write this brief article for the benefit of
the newsboy: we plead in his behalf
alone, for the sale of his papers is his
own business, and his profit and losses
do not effect the publisher the value of a
single cent. Be just to the young spec
ulator, honor his energy and enterprise,
and rather assist than retard him in his
operations.”
The Story of Certain Hymns.— Hymns
have been sometimes curiously used
in stirring times, especially about the
Reformation period, more than*once the
Ilomish preachers have been compelled
to abandon the pulpit by the vigorous
singing of one of Luther’s. They have
played their part in battle. A.t the fa
mous Battle of Lutzen, one of Her
mann’s hymns was raised by a regiment
before going into the fight, and one after
another took*it up, until ali tlie column
■were singing it as they advanced. —
‘Shall I silence them?” the General
asked, as he rode up to stern, tobacco
loving, heroic Ki ig Fritz. “No ; with
such soldiers God will give me the vic
tory,” and leaping down among the
ranks and crying “Now 7 , children, in
God's name,” ho led them into battle.
When the battle was won the field was
strewn with dead and wounded ; it was
night, and trie soldiers were weary.—
Then one began to sing a hymn of
thanksgiving, the bands joined in, and
presently it rose from the army in full
and mighty chorus that reached mid
greatly moved the King, who turned
round, ex claiming, “What a power there
ip is in religion !” It w T ns at the great
battle ot Leipsic that Gus tavus Adol
phus sang, with his army, lannen llero
icuni, and after that he thanked God for
the victory in a stanza of the same
hymn. The Tt Deum won the fight at
Leignitz ; it was a “Poor Sinner's Song’
of Luther’s tnat the peasant raised be- ,
fore the battle of Frankenhausen ; and j
brave Earl Oldcnburgh triumphed at;
DruJkenburough by the rong of Simeon.
So curiously are the lives of these j
hymns interwoven with fiercest human
struggles and profoundest human joys,
with kings and politics and famous'
battles that determined the fate of king
doms, with poor peasant and lonely and
nameless households, with crimes that
leave trie reddest stains in history, and
softening of rugged and wild hearts
And it is pleasant to take up a hymn
that has connected itself with past
events, and can be traced into many *
house and heart by its comfortabli
thoughts. Herbersts hymn on Sunday
gains a certain mournful delicacy, when
we know that lie sung it himself upon
h:s death-bed ; that
*•1 ka a sweet swart, be warbles, he dies.
His Makers praise and his own obsequies.”
Gerhardt himself died repeating one ot
his own hymns, and even with trie ver\
words,
4 Him no death has ilower to kill.’'
And there is a touching legend, bv
which, as King Christian of Denmark
lay sick at Christmas lime, an angel
came to him in a dream and told him
he could live but eight days And on
New Year’s day, bis chaplain preached
him a farewell sermon ; but w hen his
courtiers would not sing death-songs
over him, he cried, “Then will I sing
myself, end you with me, aud it shall
be said the King of Denmaik sung him
self to the grave.” And lie lifted up his
voice, clear and strong, and they sang
the song of Simeon, but as they sung ho
. fell asleep jn Jesus.
The Atlantic TkiJegraih Cahle.-
A late issue of the l»ndon Daily News
says—‘Yesterday morning the new At
lantic. cable was commenced being coil
ed frofci the company’-'premises (late*
Glass, Elliott & Cos., ) Morden Wharf
Greenwich, on board the Amethyst Ad
miralty vessel, for eonveance to the
Great Eastern at Klk ernes?. The. neces
sity of keeping trie cable constantly im*-*
der water has led. to the erection of eigh
enorm us tanks on the company's prem
ises, into which tlie cable is daily being
coiled from eight corresponding dosing,
machines, at the rate of 80 miles pm -
■week. • From these tank- it was, for tin
first time yesterday, ; van Terri.! vj tanks
on board (he Amethyst which will Yrz'tiJ
i 110 miles.
1 Another vessel, named the Iris, aho
lent by trie Admiralty from Chatham.;
Dockyard, has been altered and fitted
with tanks, which will hold 158 miles.
The coiling from the premises on board
the Amethyst is proceeding nt the rate ol
two miles per hour. The Great Easter. ,
has been fitted with five large tanks, and
will occupy three days in
the cable from the Amethyst to that
vessel. The distance from The vest
coast of Ireland to Trinity Bay is H'»o(k
nautical miles, and the length ofe&blt in
preparation is 2300 knots, leaving Too
knots for inequalities at the bottom of
the ocean and other contingencies. The
cable will be laid .across the Atlantic by
Messrs Canning and Clifford to June
next. The Greet Eastern will have
hands on board, with a weight of 15,500
tons, including 1,500 tons of cable and
8,000 tons oi coal,”
“On a Bkndkh ”—After the batik a>\. *.
Pultowa, Charles XII. of Sweden,forced
to flv to Turkey, took up his residence
at tinder, but became after a while ob
noxious to the Porte, end was ordered to
depart, which he i mused to do, and was
attacked by twenty thousand Turkish
janissaries and Tartars. He attempted
to cut his way through the whole force,
in broad daylight, with only twenty. m< i\
mostly domestics, to back him. O*
course he came to grief. So the phrase .
“On a bender. ! came to be applied
to young men who, under the i>
fiueucc of trial <up winch inehr af».>
somewhat mor. than it cheers, under
took to cut tlidr way through iu)gr_.
bodied policemen. T toe phrase dichi„
originate in that way. how did ft <
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