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YOL- XX.
SANDERSVILLE, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14,1866.
CASTELIAW & GILMORE,
•KPITOIIS AND PROPRIETORS.
TERMS, $3 00 per annum iu adraace.
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Surrender of Cornwallii
A MILITARY SKETCH.
It was £great day for Dogtown, be
fog -no other than the anniversary of
-annual militia muster, ana on this oCca-_
iffion not only the Dogtown Blues were
■on the parade upon the village green,
but tire” entire regiment of which they
formed a Dart, commanded by the gal
lant Colonel Zephania’h 'Storkey, post
master and variety store-keeper, was to
•engage in a sham fight, representing
•the surrender of Cornwallis. There
was no attempt at historical costume,
but it was understood tha-t-Storky,' with
•his cowhide boots and rusty spurs, bis
long, swallow-tailed blue coat, and
threadbare chapeau with a cock-tail
feather in it, mounted bn his seventy-
live dollar piebald mare, promoted bom
the plow and ‘dump cart,’ was the rep
resentative of General Washington*
Major Israel Peasely, his second in
com'mand, a native of the rival village
of Hardscrabble, was to figure a3 Lord
Cornwallis, and the selection was the
more appropriate, since the private re
lations of the two great men were any-
tilling but amicable, and they espoused
•opposite sides in politics. Dr. Galeni-
•us Jalap, an apothecary and surgeon
of the regiment, a man with a hatchet
lace, hook nose, and thin, weeping
‘whiskers, the color of sugar ginger
bread, undertook the character of La
fayette, at very short notice, and a very
dim conception of the character he
had.
The entire population of«£>ogto\vn
and Hardscrabble turned out to wit
ness the stupendous military operations
of thd‘ day. On the American side
were the ©agtown BIue3, with four
companies of uniformed militia, armed
with rifles, fowling pieces, and rusty
muskets, and typifying the continental
array. Tlrelr artillery consisted of two
liglvt field pieces served by a select
band of volunteers Tlrescfoeccs w-ctc
posted on r.11 eminence commanding
. he entire plain. On the foot c/f this
bill, Colonel Storkey drew up his
iroops in line of ba&tfo, his left wing
protected by an impassable frog pond,
whose extent prevented the enemy
trom.ijienjntr hi.-j flank in iliat diicction. j
On the descent of an opposing crai-
inence, likewise strengthened by two!
guns, Major Peasely placed The Hard -1
.scrabble Guards, the Sheet Iron Ilifl.e-!
TiveTi, the Mudholiow Invincibles, the]
Dandelion Fire-E iters, and the Scruff-j
town Sharpshooters. A thousand'
’ bright eyes, from the commanding ein- j
inence looked down on the serried j
ranks of bayonets, the brazen-throated i
^artillery, the pan< pied plow horses J
riie plumed commanders, the rustling
banners, an 1 all the ‘pomp, pride, and
circumstance of glorious war*
Preliminaries being thus settled, the
commanding officers put spurs to thei-r
horses and met in the centre of the
plain, there saluting with their scythe-
blade swords.
“Major Peascly,” said the.Colonel,
rising in his stirrups, “the follerin’ are
the odder of pufibrmanees: we open
with our artillery—you reply .. ith
y.mrn. Under kiver of our guns we
advance to the attack. Yeou du the
aume to- meet us—firin’ like smoke.
Arter a sharp scrimmedge you retire
—send us a flag of truce with terms—
and finally lay down your arms.”
The Major bowed till his ostrich
feather touched the mane oF his wall-
eyed plow horse, then turned bridle,
and regained his ranks at a gait some-
thing between a stumble and a rack.
The representative of Gen. Wash
ington rejoined his men at a hard trot,
rising two feet from his saddle at every
concussion of his bony steed.
“Fellur sogers !” roared the tempo
rary father of his country, “yonder
stands Cornwallis and his red coats—
only they haint got red coats, partiker-
larly them in blue swallcr tails. We
air bound to lick ’em—hurrah for our
side ! Go inter ’em like a thousand of
bricks failin’ off a slated roof. The
genius of Amerikin liberty in the
shape of the carnivorous eagle, sorin’
aloft on diluted pillions, seems to mut
ter E Pluribus Unum—we are one of
them. Hail Columbia, happy land!
Sing Yankee Doodle—that’s the fine
tune—cry havock, and let loose the
dogs of war.”
Then commenced the horror of the
sham fijht. The Continental guns
opened in thunder tones. The British
artillery hurled back their terrible
echoes. Bang! bang! boom 1 boom!
The canopy of heaven was sLained
with the sulphurous smoke. The
drummers rattled away on their sheep
skins—the fifers distended their cheeks
till they resembled blown bladders. Iu
the midst of all this noise and tumult,
the undaunted Storkey, and the indom
itable Jalap, rushed to and fro with
clanking scabbards, and brandished
scythe bladeB, twain thunderbolts of
war.
‘‘f Dr r ard » ™ arcl \'” roared Storkey.
With the yell ot demons, his fierce
followers advanced to the onset, firing
•their blank cartridges with desperate
valor.
Equally •ale?* were Major Peasbly ,
Nad his followers. i
A PHugest Document.
The following card appears in the
Hew York Day Book:
“Their sword.-t ware a thousand, their bosoms w*r«
oue."
A CARD.
To the People of the United States :
During the late civil war in the
Their faces begrimmed with powder, 1 United States, in the marching of ar-
their eyes gleaming with ferocity, they • m ' ea and desolation of our country,
descended to the plain—an avalanche ! our P eo P^ e have lost millions of money
of heroes. The soul of Headley would a « d a.vast amount of every coneeiva-
hare swelled within- him had he seen bj e kind P ro P ert J> embracing car-
them * riages, horses, gear, wagons, buggies,
For more than an hoar that deadly aad e / cr J ma . nncr of machinery neces-
consumption of blank cartridges enJ^ming ; coltt, muieS cattle,
dared, and then Peasely and his troops i saddles, biiules, blankets, and every
Unhappy Marriages among Men i A Touching Appeal.—A number
OP Genius.—The rare occurrence of of freedmen in Selma have published
NUMBER t.
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retired in good order.
“Boys,” said the Major, “old Storkey
wants us to gin oat—-send a flag of
truce—a white pocket handkerchief
•on ii bea-a pole—and propose to sur
render. But it goes agin my grit for
Hardscrabble to cave in to Dogtown,
when we could knock the hindsights
off’em, if we was only a mind to.”
“Hurray for the Major.!” responded
*tlie flardscrabblers.
“I’ve got a grudge agin the Kamil,”
said the Major, “and if you’ll stand by
me, I’ll take it out of Vm> What
say ?”
“Agreed !” was the spontaneous re
sponse.
While Storkey was waning for the
covenanted flag of truce, he saw the
hated Peasely in his Stirrups, and heard
his stentorian voice roar out the word,
“Charge 1”
A deafening shout answered bis ap
peal. In an instant HardscfaBfJle and
its allies were down on Dogtown and
its defenders. The latter stood for a
moment, but Peasely knocked the Col
onel off of his horse, the surgeon had
his nose pulled, the Dogtown Blues
justified their name by their looks, and
seized with a sudden panic, fled—-fled
ingloriously from their native training
field. The audacious outrage Was
consummated—history was violated—
and General Washington was beaten
by Cornwallis.
Dire were the threats against Poase-
ly uttered by the Colonel, as be was
carried home on a shutter—nothing
short of -a court martial was the slight
est menace. But no court martial ever
took place. The military pride and
glory of Dogtown were wounded to
the quick ; the force of popular opin
ion COJUPtilWI lo r«a\gn, und
to consummate his chagrin, his treach
erous rival was chosen colonel of the
regimeivt. S > vms'&fi.ble are human
honors —so ungrateful are republics !
Short Catechises or Tfffi Union
League—It is supposed that rro one
can enter the inner door of the League
room without being able to answer the
following question*, in the language
given below. It is a dark chamber ;
dark business; all about the darkies.
All is silent as the grave. The G. D.
U. S. C. M. P. breaks the spell by ad
dressing the noviciate thus:
I. For what purpose are you here ?
Answer. To worship the nigger.
II. Who are the niggers.
The superior race of mankind. The
most exalted-, wise and beautiful peo
ple of the .earth.
III. For what was the world-made ?
For niggers.
IV. Can you give me the origin of
the beautiful race ?
They had no beginning—existed
from eternity. They were present
when the world was created, and first
suggested the creaton of the white
trash.
V. What is the chief end of the
white men?
thing used in stables; sofas, pianos,
chairs, stools, clocks, settees, tables,
and everythingU3ed to furnish houses;
cloaks, coats, vests, cravats, necker
chiefs, shoes, boots, stockings, socks,
ap.d every manner of garments worn
by men, women and children; watches,
lockets, rings, bracelets, keep-sakes,
muffs, furs, and everything used toj
adorn the persons of ladies ; tbeologi-
1 cal, legal, historical, classical, poetical,
and every manner of books, ancient
and modern, in all of the dead and the
living languages; spoons, dishes, plate
of every kind—all- have been stolen
from us, and may be found on the ta
bles, on the persons, in the barns, in
the stables, in the houses and libraries
of the people, many of whom claim
rank and respectability in the North
ern States—amorg whom are the fam
ilies of lawyers, ministers* captains,
colonels, generals, professors in col
leges,, with thousands of privates in
the army, and chaplains and governors
of States. Our people, although suf
fering from fire and tfie riot of armies
unknown in any Christian country for
tire last three centuries, could, with
comparative comfort, live, and build
up their churches, stolen and occupied
by troops for hospitals, by invaders to
preach strange doctrines. We can
build anew the gravestones of the il
lustrious dead, whose honored ashes
have been reposing in our midst, re
vered by mankind. We can build
anew our houses, barns, and other
buildings devastated by barbarism.
But in the name of common honesty
and •common decency, let us have back
•our stolen goods. If this is done, we
will need neither charity nor alms from
anywhere. Property thus stolen may
be returned to the place from whence
stolen, or notice of the same le:t at the
office of the New York Day Book, or
any other papers of the o-mntry that
will act for us. We most respectfully
request the publication of this notice
in every piper in the country, and re
quest the ministers of the pulpits of
the United States to read -this notice to
their congregations, as it may lead to
the return of millions of dollars’worth
of property to the proper owners, and
do justice to those in distress, who
scon to receive charity from those
who have robbed them of their prop
erty.
On behalf of the Southern people.
Many Southern Ladies.
P. S.—Her. Henry Ward Beecher,
and Rev. Bishops Simpson, Ames and
Mollvaine are requested to read this
notice in their pulpits, and request
their ministers to have it read, as it
may secure to us much of oiiT prop
erty.
genius with domestic comfort is perfect
ly awful. Take Dante, the exile, who
left his wife, never Wishing to see her
more; take Taaso, wifeless; Petrarch,
wifeless ; Ariosto, wifeless ; Milton,
thrice married, but only once with
much comfort; Dryden, wedded, like
Addison, to a title and discord; Young
lived alone till past fifty; Swift’s mar
riage is no marriage; Sterne’s, Church
ill’s, Byron’s, Coleridge’s marriage,
broken and unhappy. Then we have
a set of celibates—Herrick, Cowley,
Pope, Thomson, Prior, Gay, Shenatone,
Gray, Akenside, Goldsmith, Collins,
Cow per, and I know not how many
more of our best poets. Johnson had
a wife, loved, and lost her. It is almost
enough to make womea tremble at the
an appeal to their former masters, con
cluding in the following earnest but
respectful terms:
Dear friends and former masters:—
We know there is a large number of
widows and crippled men, who are
well educated ana hare no employment
by which to make a living. These
persons we wonld be pleased to see
taking an interest in teaching our chil
dren, and training them «p in the way
they should go. We are greatly in
want of schools, and to persons who
will establish them we will guarantee
Lieut. Gens. Stewart .and For
rest.—Mr. Trueman,the special trav
eling correspondent of the Hew York
Times, writes from Memphis;
“ I have met in this City ievtfral ot
the prominent war men of the late
Contederate armies, among whom I
may mention especially Lieut. Gens.
Stewart and Forrest-. Stewart is an
elegant man, and will ever be found
among the faithful. He says he can
not go into ecstacies oyer his defeat-^-,
he cannot jump up and hug the fellotV
who knocked him down, but he will
hold himself in readiness to help that
fellow knock anybody else who comes
our undivided support. Our own peo-! along. Gen. Stewart says there is opt
pie are the proper ones to teach us, and
we sincerely wish them to do it. And
why should they refuse ? They raised
and taught us all that we know, as car-
To glorify, worship and honor the
niggers.
VI. For what was the revolution
fough t ?
For the nigger.
VII. What is the chief object of the
Federal Constitution ?
For the black race.
VIII. What is the most important
country of the world?
Africa.
IX. What race of mankind is the
most enlightened ?
The African, They built the pyra
mids, wrote .the scripture, built the
tower of Babel, founded Troy, inven
ted letters, discovered Americh, inven
ted the telegraph, drafted the declara
tion ot independence, and broke up
the Federal Union.
Response—Ail hail Africa.— Wayne
County (0.) Democrat.
The following is taken from the re-
E ort of the proceedings of a certairr
legislature : Bill to tax geese and
bachelors taken up. Mr. Harrison was
opposed to the provision taxing bach
elors. There was a tax already laid
upon a gowse, and any man who had
lived twenty-five year* without being
married, could be taxed under that
section. The bill was postponed.
I Testimony of Infidelity.—The
first infidel witnesses who came on the
stand after the death of Christ, testi
fied that while they (the testators) were
asleep, a man’s body was stolen frpm
1 the tomb which they were guarding.
I The points of their testimony are as
1 follows: 1st. Sixty soldiers acting
under military regulations, which pun
ish with death guards who were found
. sleeping on their posts, were all asleep
at the same time. 2d. That a number of
men (not exceeding twelve) approach
ed the tomb, rolled away a heavy
stone, and bore away the corpse with
out waking the guard so as to enable
them to arrest the accused. ■
8d. That notwithstanding they slept
so soundly as to allow these unarmed
men to carry away the object they were
guarding, they nevertheless identified
the men to be the “Disciples,” even in
the dark and in this sound sleep.
Subsequent history ..shows that in
fidel testimony from that day to the
present is of a similar character.
Sign Post ADVERTISJNG.-The Ro
chester Union s&ys : A man who is too
mean to advertise his farm land he
wants to sell, has pat up a written no
tice on a post in Arcadia Hall, In this
c'Uy. A man who was inquiring for
a small farm was pointed to the notice
on the post, He replied:—“I can’t
buy land at a fair price of any man
who does his advertising in this way.
He’ll steal the fences, the pump handle,
and the doors, before he gives up pos
session.”
Two farmers disagreed about a bal
ance of accounts, one claiming $7.11,
the other $15.50. The fpriper sued.
Result: forty witnesses and an array
of counsel: verdict for plaintiff $8.27.
Whole expense about $1,(KK>.
We once saved the life of an infant
which had been inadvertently drugged
with laudanum and fast sinking into
the sleep from which there is no wa
kening, by giving it strong coffee,
cleared with the white of an egg, a
teaspoon full every five minutes, un
idea of allying themselves with genius, 1 penters, blacksmiths, stone and brick
or giving birth to it. - j masons, painters, etc-., including work-
Take the philosophers—Baoon, like ing on the farm, driving, etc., and were
his famous legal adversary, Coke,: not ashamed or backward in perform-
seems to have enjoyed little domestic ir.g this service. And why should it
comfort, and speaks, for, as he says, be considered a disgrace to make a
“certain grave reasons,”disapprovingly living at this business in the South ?
of his partner. Our metaphysicians We make oar living out of the people
Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, Butler—are here, and, therefore, we think it our
as solitary as Spinosa and Kant. The duty to spend our money with those
celibate philosopher Hume conducts us who sustained and took care of us.
to the other great bachelor historians, The Uuited States Government and
Gibbon and Macaulay, as Bishop But- your State Convention g^ve us our
ler does to some of the princes of Eng- freedom, and we prefer you to any
fish divinity—Hooker cajoled into ] other to have the money derived from
marrying a shrew, Cbillingworth un- ( our daily labor for teaching «ur chil—
married, Hammond unmarried. Leigh- ] dren. If you all stand back, strangers
ton unmarried, Barrow also single. I will come in and take the money from
only take foremost men, the list might
be swelled with monarchs and Gener
als io marriage.
The Phenomena of Lightning.-^
A very curious paper has just been ad
dressed to the Academy of Sciences,
by a physician-who, for a long period,
ha3 occupied himself with observing
the phenomena of lightning. It is not
usually known that a great Many per
sons are annually killed by the elec
tric fluid in France. From 1885 to
1863, a period of twenty-nine years,
2,333 persons were killed—the largest
number in one year being one hundred
and eleven persons ; the smallest, for-
ty-eight. Besides those killed there
Were 6,?00 injured. It is remarked
that a much larger proportion of men
are killed than women, owing to the
material of which female dress is com
posed. Of 880 victims, from 1854 to
-1863, only 233 were women. Dr. Ban-
don mentions several very singular
cases. He had met with two person*,
each of whom had been struct: twice,
and one man had three times been
rendered insensible by lightning—each
time in a different dwelling. One-
fourth of those killed had taken refuge
under tree?. The mountainous regions
of the South and east of France are
those most subject to accidents from
lightning-*-* very small proportion
occurring in the north and central por
tions, where the land is more level.
under your hands and carry it away
to build up their own country. They
are not ashamed* to make money from
any class of men.
Mr. Davis.--Singular rumors con
cerning Mr. Davis are thus alluded to
by some one writing from Washing
ton :
The rmhors of the rescue of Jeffer
son Davis from prison are assuming a
new and strange character. It is hint
ed that the authorities desire his es
cape, and that facilities have been offer
ed him, but that he won’t go. There
is little room to doubt the awkward
embarrassment attendant upoa his con
finement and rejected trial. Chief
Justice Chase does not hesitate to say
that he cannot be convicted of treason,
and Thaddeus Stevens declares that lie
i* nothing more than a foreign leader,
about as much amenable to the laws of
the United States as Maximilian. I
have' it from the best authority—from
authority which you cannot question
—that Mr. Davis feels the mcBt arnpl#
security. He said, less than a week
ago, “My defence is complete now, and
rests solely upon the law, which will
be administered fairly, I know, and in
perfect accordance with civil justice.”
The shameful petticoat story will be
put to the blush when that time arrives.
Mr. Davis is at present in good health,
eats heartily, reads a good deal, and
possesses, as he said the other day, “a
An English Account of South- | good digestion and a good conscience.”
ERN Affairs.—The London Times | He receives letters from his wife three
has sent a correspondent to travel over j times a week, and keeps a journal every
the Southern States and report con-j day.
cerning the state of business and opin
ion among the people. In his last let
ter, speaking of the scarcity of subsis
tence for Gen. Lee’s army while it was
defending Petersburg and Richmond,
he says: “There were abundant pro
visions in the Carolinas and Georgia to
keep the Confederate army comforta
bly for three years. The reason why
they were not procured is simply, as I
have been assured by the strongest ad
herents of the Confederacy* that the
owners would not part with them.
They had lost their faith in Confederate
paper. In th6 meanwhile Sherman
came upon them from behind, and car
ried off everything they had, and small
is the pity I have heard expressed for
the losers. ‘They would rather,’ com
plained a Southern soldier to me, ‘have
seen all of us die of hunger than missed
a chance of making a little money;
They lent us negroes sometimes to as
sist in making forts, and claimed them
on the day agreed upon for their return,
no matter how hard was our need of
them. They cared more for their ne
groes than they did for their own sons.’
This is the spirit in which the sufferers
by Sherman’s raid are spoken of in the
South. Virginia, except portions of
the western part, in which a Union
feeling prevailed* gave up everything;
the other States gave up very little
more than they were obliged to.”
The Germans at Cincinnati are vio
lently apposed to permitting their
countrymrti to go South under con
tracts with planters, denouncing snob
contracts as a species of slavery.
Some forty such laborers were coaxed
off from the depot there the other day.
Col. Lee, late of Joe Johnston’s staff,
has engaged ninety Germans in Hew
York for his Arkansas plantation, but
he finds it a mixed question whether
he can get them through Cincinnati,
though their passage is pud to Mem
phis.
A Dream.~A fetf nights since, a
friend of ours, while wrapped in the
slumbers of midnight, “dreamed a
dream,” and imagined he was on a
pleasure excursion to the infernal re
gions. His sight was regaled with
many scenes, novel, and strange and
undreamed of in the philosophy of
man. While in the reception room of
His Majesty, the pleasant little imp
who acts as usher announced “Thad
deus Stevens!”
Satan actually trembled in his sul
phureous boots, and quickly uprising,
asked :
“What, that noisy fellow from Penn
sylvania ?”
“Yes,” responded the usher.
“Send him back I send him baok 1”
cried Satan, "there is no place here for
him.”
“But,’* responded the little devil,
who seemed to enjoy an event which
promised to knock the sand from un
der the feet of his Imperial Chief, “you
must receive him, ho caa’t go anywhere
else.*’
Satan walked the floor with rapid
strides for a few moments, when sud
denly be stopped End said* “I have it!
be may have a few bushels of brim
stone and a box of matches, and go off
and start a little hell of his own.”-
Natchez Courier:
At Sydney, in Australia, among
other advertisements on the first floor
of the printing office, is a tablet infbrm-
ming visiters that the editor eaunot be
spoken to unless paid for his valuable
time. Accordingly, everybody, with
out exception, is invited to buy a tiok-
et of admission at the door of the wait
ing room—one hour costing ten shill
ings ; half an hour six shillings; fif
teen minutes, six shillings.
! til it cease! to seem dro wsy.—Dr. BaU. competence.
For returning to its owner $25,000
in gold; found on the streets of New
Energy and frugality will secure a} York, a young- man received only $2 J may result
a man in the whole South, who was in
the Confederate army, woo is not in
favor of peace and harmony. All
those that want to fight now, would
not fight when they had a chance. I
called on Forrest at his store, and saw
the great cavalryman selling a ham to
a son. of Ham, by the way, which is
no joke—at least the American cititen
of African descent didn’t think so, for
be was growling, as the cockneys
would say, at the ham-azing high price
of the article. Forrest is about forty-
five years of age, is six feet two inches
in height, and weighs 176 pounds.
He is erect, well proportioned, has no
surplus flesh, and moves with great;
ease. His father was .a Kentuckian
and the son of an emigrant from Hol
land, who accompanied Daniel Boone
to the wilderness of Kentucky some
time ago. I believe Forrest was one
of the most successful generals of the
war, and is called by his friends the
Prince Rupert of the rebellion. He
has a stern but not unpleasant face.
Firmness and courage are stamped in
every lineament of his features, which
are set off by the fhost perfeqt and
beautiful ranges of teeth I ever saw.
He is perfectly satisfied with the COE'
dition of thing*, and is in hearty ^Co
operation with the loyal men of Mem
phis.” *
Grant’s Generalship.—Tlie Lon
don Army and Navy Gazette, edited'
by W. H. Russell, of Times corre
spondence fame, in noticing General
Grant’s report, says:
“Gen. Grant’s theory of war is sim
ply this: ’I have 260,000 men to the
150,000 of the enemy. I shall not at
tempt any strategaiic&l movements, t
shall not try myself in the open field
or ruse campaign against Lee; but l
will fight the enemy wherever X can,
in conviction that I will make him lose
as many men as 1 do, and that at last,
when I have reduced my army to
150,000, he will only have 50,000, and
that I mast then win.’ He saw no
position, practiced no grand movement,
but hammered away fill the head of
bis hammer was nearly flattened and
destroyed; but at the same time other
tremendous armies were hammering
away at the Confederates on similar
principles* and the terrible rule in
arithmetic was worked out. But who,
seriously and candidly speaking, will
pronounce that such a system is enti
tled to the praise reserved for high ef
forts of military genius ? Not General
Grant, for he appeals to the great end
in view as the justification of his prac
tice-.”
Massachusetts.—General Wash
ington, writing to Richard Henry LeC,
August 29th, 1776, said:
“ I have made a pretty good storm
among such kind of officers as the
Massachusetts government abounds in
since I came to this place, having broke
One Colonel and two captains for cow
ardly behavior at Bunker Hill; and
two captains for drawing more provi
sions and pay than they had men in
their companies, and one for being ab
sent from his post when the enemy
appeared and. burned a house just by.
Besides these, I have at this time one
colonel* one major* one captain and
two subalterns under arrest fof trial.
In short, I spare none, and yet fea« it
will not all do, as these people seem
to be only attentive to their interest.”
There has been, says the Chicago
Times, no improvement in the patriot
ism of Massachusetts since. During
the last war she was attentive only to
her own interests. Her major generals
plundered cities, and her reverend
colonels stole libraries. Her people
took contracts, furnished shoddy, shirk
ed their quotas, and hired as substi
tutes vagabonds and negroes.
reward.
From Canada,—Letters from Tor
onto say tho Government is now har
rying troops to the frontier from Lon
don and Hamilton. Sixty rounds of
ball cartridge have been issued to vol
unteers and regulars at London, Tor
onto, Hamilton and other points. From
these movements it is evident a raid or
invasion on.the western border is ex
pected. Tfle general impression is that
a small band of Fenians are preparing
a raid upon Sarnia or Windsor, for
the purpose of embroiling the Uaited
States and England in difficulties that
in .war between, the
it rise
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