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BATTLE OF SOUTH MILLS.
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i niy. The sun was shining beautifully, and the
birds were singing merrily amidst the shining
4 0i, A. St. U right ami tbo lid Georgia. apple blossoms in the orchard, where but a
j short time before, whizzing balls and bursting
Company Bivouac, Souiii Mills, N. C.,) bombs were scattering death. Here and there
April 24th, 1862. j
i >ur monotonous life was somewhat enliven-1 some misgui
LEGAL WIT.
— riilumes did I say?—whole tions, though he sometimes gave good shots,
“H hen I cannot talk sense often got as good as he sent. Asking a witnt
volumes of s noke-
The profession of the law is in England, al encyclopedias . 1 eanr,ot talk sense often got as good as he- sent. Asking a witness
most more than among ourselves, the great av I talk metaphor, aid Curran; and many of why he lived at the very veige of the court, the
enue to political place, honors and emoluments. his brethren imitate him. Mr. (afterward Sir ready reply w as, “In the vain hope of escaping
, . It is in fact, the only road by which men of tact R») Dallas exclaimed in one of his speeches, the rascally impertinence of Dunning."
adaik enmson spot marked the place v.here and industry, but lacking hereditary rank, may “Now we are advancing from the starlight of A witness with a Bardolphian nose coming
misgoi •< ->eing ireathed his life away; hope to arrive at once at wealth, fame and ti- c '‘ cumstantial evidence to the daylight of dis- in Dunning’s way, he said to him, “Now, Mr.
" 1 - ■■ - " ••• ----v i nope to arrive at once at weaitn, iu..._ ...... .. ... - - ... „ ...j, ^
d last Saturday by an engagement with the w hilc now am tlicn a small pile of brains show-, tilts. Among the men now famous in British 1 covery; the tun at certainty has melted the Coppernose, you have been sworn. What do
:iemv. Who confident of the success w hich . "T™ T‘V*° r WPetetl was hurled in ‘<> history as Government leaders and administra- ! darkness, and we have arrived at the facto ad- you say J”
. ... . ett- indj without time to murmur a prayer or tors few can be found who have not studied united by both parties; and Kenyon once ad- “Why, upon my oath,’’replied the witness,
and practiced the law; and many of the most( dressed the bench: "Your lordships perceive ! “I would not exchange my copper nose for your
celebrated were eminent as lawyers long before . wu 8taII< * here as our grandmother’s ad- brazen face.”
. prayer
rare well to those around him. In one
tempted to capture the bated 3d. As you will I place eleven Zouaves lay buried side by side,
great.y superior numbers ought to secure, at- sa y
probably have seen before this reaches you,
they did not quite succeed in carrying out tlicir
w ell-laid scheme, and the Bloody 3d (as they
term it) is still able to do some service for Mr.
Jell' Davis and the Southern Confederacy.
Our regiment was stationed at intervals
along the road from South Mills to Elizabeth
City, a distance nf fourteen miles, with only
three companies at South Mills. On Friday
night, we, the lower companies, received orders
from Col. Wright to return to South Mills to
act in conjunction with the companies there,
and a little after sunrise the next morning we
started to that place—the Yankees common'-
mg to shell the city as we left, throwing their
shell with such precision that one ot them
passed through a house in which a company
of cavalry were quartered, thereby hastening
their departure. Learning that they intended
coming up the l’asquotank river, which the
road ctossis eleven miles above the city, lor
the purpose of cutting oil our return ( not re
treat) the order to ^double quick" was given,
and the boys “struck a trot," which in the
short space of tiro hours cXrricd them over
. the fourteen miles. Here let me sav that on ar
with their names and company on “head-
boards.’’ In another lay six or seven, and in
another some graves had tw o tenants. None of
them were buried more than a foot deep, owing
to haste and the swampy nature of the ground
The Yankee's artillery made sad havoc with
the tops of the pines, and their infantry galled
them severely around the artillery position of
Capt. MrComas.
The field was strewn with various memen
toes of the battle, in the form of grape and
canister shot, and fragments of shell, and the
curious in such matters might have gathered
any number of these “souvenirs of friendship.”
Returning from the battle field, we, at 5
o’clock, I*. M., proceeded to pay the last sad
tribute to our fallen comrades. The regiment
was formed in line with arms reversed, and as
the ambulance moved its head, the band com
menced playing, and we slowly marc’ ed to the
village burial ground, where five graves, side
by side, were ready lor the gallant dead.
lawyers long . .
they became eminent as statesmen. But many tninistrators de horns non; and really, my
- - - - . . - lords, it does strike me that it would be —i
years of briefless waiting have been and are
necessary ere this eminence is reached. 01
Scott, atterward Lord Eldon, it was said that
“he waited the exact number of years it cost
to take Troy (ten,) and had formed his deter
initiation to pine no longer, hut leave the law
to becomejumor partner in a grocery business,
when Providence sent an angel, in the shape
of Mr. Barber, with the papers of a fat suit
and a retaining fee.” His first success was
rapidly followed by a heavy business and pros
perity which never left him till he was Lord
Chancellor.
Lord Erskine was first in the navy, then in
the army, for a little while a chaplain, and fi
nally studied law. He had for some years so
little to do, that when a friend met him in
Westminster Hall, and congratulated him on
his good looks and high spirits (which never
torso, k him in his most desperate straits,) le
_ I j replied, “1 ought to look well, for I am like
thought, as wo slowly defiled through the al- I Lord ihinger’s trees, I have nothing to do but
most deserted village, that it was hard for , t 0 g riw "
these poor fellows to be placed in the earth j Thurlow
without a tear to wet their graves. Men are,
at best, callous in their natures, and the army
afterward Lord Chancellor, was
the son of a poor curate ; and for many years
after he was called to the bar was wholly un
known. He had to -resort to the most extraor
dinary expedients to pay his expenses ; such
as once pretending to buy ahorse, riding him
on trial to the next assize town, and returning
him with a threat against the dealer to bring a
a mon
strous tiling to say that a party can now come
in, in the very tce'h of an act of Parliament,
and actually turn us round, under color of
hanging us upAn the/oof of a contract made
behind our burls.'"
The technical phrases of British law docu
ments form, however, a serious clog in clear
ness of expression. Many of the commonest
terms of the English and Scotch courts must
be worse than Greek to laymen. Thus, when
in Scotland a judge wishes to he peremptory in
an order, he “adains the parties to conde
scend;" when he intends to be mild, he “re
commends them to lose their pleas.” If a man
thinks proper to devise his estates for the ben
efit of the poor, he is considered to mortify
them. Witnesses are brought into court upon
a diligence and lietorc they can tie examined
they must be purged. It a man loses his de
ceased elder brother’s estate, it is called a con
quest; and there are current such elegant ex
pressions as “blasting you at the horn,” “poind
mg your estate," and “consigning you to the
fi.-c," to which such phrases as “villains in
gross,” “seized in fee,” and “docking an entail,”
are mere trifles. Of the last term, by-thc-way,
there is a good story. A physician reproach
mg a lawyer with what Mr. Bentham would
have called the “uncognoscibility” of law tech
nicalities, said:
“Now, for example, I could never compre
hend what you meant by docking an entail.”
“My dear doctor," teplied the barrister, “I
tends greatly to blunt our finer sensibilities, so
I expected no display of emotion, but in this I
was mistaken. Woman is the same the world
oyer—keenly alive to the sufferings of others,
and even in this out of the way" place there _
living at our entrenchment ovght miles from were those who kindly dropped a tear upon the suit against him for°attempt to swindle by se.l"
the city, we were drawn up in line and waited i soldiers giave and heaved a sympathising sigh j n( , him a broken-winded hack. When he ac
lor tho approach oT the enemy, t upturn Mci'o i lor the sorrowers at home. Our chaplain feel- 1 cidentally found an opening for the display of
iij artillery supporting our little battalion, ingly performed t ie usual ceremonies, and the his talents he astonished the bar, and never
The enemy not appearing, however, we resum- "’hole regiment having been divided into three alter lacked oriels.
ed the march, having halted about thirty min* divisions, lited the customary salute. Alter ( Kenyon was doomed, term after term, to sit
utes, ami arrived at our allotted position, about 1 "inch wo were marched hack to the parade ojj the hack benches, unknown, with scarcely
10 o'clock A. M. 1 and dismissed. any change of success. But he would not be
Col. W right having learned that the enemy l he day Jilter the battle rcmtoreincnts were discouraged. He studied diligently j constant-
had landed at ( amdeii Court 1 louse, in force, 1 down, consisting of the •> 1 Lil, and two jy increased his knowledge of the lawj and at
ami were inarching tow «rds South Mills, detei- , companies of the 22d Go., with eight com pan- fortune favored him. He was not eloquent;
mir.ed, although he had i* greatly inferior nil-* ie>ot N. C., volunteers, so that we now have a he had perseverance, industry and indomi
mei al-loic*'", to givt^them battle. Choosing force here ol about 30u0 infantry, one company* table resolution ; and by these qualities raised
hi> position, lie disposed his torcesand station* ol artillery, ami two companies of cavalry which himself (a noble example for struggling youth)
ed thf* aitillery, three pieces, according to the General Blanchard c inimaiids in person, much step by step, from obscurity to honor—from
advantage tillered by the ground—the artillery to our regret —he is loo slow. Col. \\ . sent the desk of a stingy attorney to the presidency
1 oinvTiaitding u straight lane, up which the 1 an- **P before the battle for the -2d and 4th ha., yf the first court of justice in Britain,
kees we»e expected to advance. A narrow belt ; md he (the General) promised that he should Pratt, aflervvanl Lord Camden, though the
*»i woods skirled the fields on either side of the he here by 10 A. \1., Saturday. He failed to son a Chief Justice of the King’s Bench,
lane, running across and at right an gles with it, ^tart them until that time Sunday, and if it struggled with bitter poverty for eight or nine
and in this the advanced companies /three in had not b<*n for the gallantry of Co 1 . W. and years, and at last determined to give up the
number) were drawn up in line—the others his men, we would all probably have been 011 law, when a friend to whom he had communi-
heing held 111 reserve uii the other side of the our vva^ to foit \\ arren. fortunately, Gen. catedbis resolve got him retained as junior
woods in some fields, finding that a large Boring came over from Suffolk to day and in-* counsel to himself in an important suit, and
house about three hundr ed yard- irom the end formed us that if we had another fight, he then wiUlully absented himself, thus throwing
ol the lane would likely atlord^he enemy pro would command us, and bring 4o00 to mir as t|, e entire duties of the defence on Pratt. The
teetion, it was burned to the ground, ano a sistance from Sandy Cross, at w h ch p aee he latter so distinguished himself that he at once
U-nre. -ti the edge ol a deep ditch, running pa had lelLlliose \v ith w hum he had started to aid ,-ecured the admiration and the business of the
rallel to our line was torn down, thrown into “=*• _ court. Mr. Holroyd, afterward an eminent
the ditch and on their approach set afire, to ‘ ol. \\ right has just said he intended to judge, was spoken of when in his fortieth year
prevent their using the ditch as * cover against leaver for home in six days. He is the idol of ., s u “rising young man." Murrav, the ccle-
us. both men and officers and could lie unanimous brated Lord Mansfield, one of England's great-
A bout 10 o'clock the enemy were seen advan- lyre-elected. Luring says there will be no est lawyers, of whom Pope wrote that noted
c ng up the lane, apparently unconscious ol the more lighting here. I am 1 r jken down on the distich :
presence of a foe, and they were allowed to march ever since the fight, otherwise well. «Ble»t a» thou art, with aiitheiiuwr-r of word*,'
march quietly on until within about five-eighths S. So fcuowa, so honored, in the Uoaeeor L-. rd-,"
ol a mile, when our arLiller3'opened upon them * —* —— was lor many years in the greatest straits,
dealing death and spreading conlu-iifli among NORTHERN AFFAIRS. hardly known as a lawyer, and unable to sup-
them. They soon recovered, and bringing their The underground railroad brings the New , port himsell by his profession. He was only
artillery to the front, returned our fire, their shot Y’ork Herald, of April 11th, a hasty perusal of continued in it by tli - liberality of a rich fi ietid ' to the battch, lor “being the most eminent spe-
and shell going wide of llitir mark, and flying which gives us the following items : who, hearing of his difficulties, allowed him eial pleader tl the day!” So grave an offense
over the top-of the pines, bene uh which our The telegraphic accounts of the battle of two hundred pounds per year till he got into demanded severe punishment, and Mr, R. was
men w ore stationed. Finding they were getting Shiloh slate that there was 70,000 men on each business.
the worst of it with artillery, the 9th N. V. side—a total oi l40,000 men in the battle;— Dunning (Lord Ashburton) studied inten-e-
Fin Zouaves were ordered to charge our hat- that the Federal loss was from 7,000 to 8,000, ly-lived poorly taking dinner and supper lo-
teiv, and foolishly enough,, the regiment in and that John C. Breckinridge was taken pris- gether to economize time And money and yet t!cal joke on
: nr ranis advanced up the narrow lane to the oner. . lor many years he remained unknown. But
i .rce, until wilhin seventy live or eighty The Bebels had evacuated Santa Fe. It was once in business he soon became a leader at the
3 aid.-, when a round Irom the artillery and a reported that orders for them to tall hack bar, and died, at the age of fitly two, worth one
a i II directed volley from the infantry cut a lane into Texas bad been intercepted by the Union bundled and titty thousand pounds. He was
ir.uii one end ot their line to the other, sending troops. three years at bar without receiving so much
tl,. in ha. k in confusion. They soon recovered Among the prisoners taken at Island No. 10 “ s a hundred guineas, all told. During the last
ver, and advanced to the charge again and wcn > M,j. Gen. Marshall and Brigadier General lwe l» e years of Ids hie his practice brought
Gault, Walker and Sehaum, of the IVmfcderate 1,1 l roni 1‘ltj’ to sixty thousand dollars per
army. „ year.
These, and many other examples, show that
patience and industry are necessary, even to
He was remarkably ugly. A client of his
once inquired tor him at a coffee-house. The
waiter did not know such a person.
“Go up stairs,” said the cheat, “and see if
there is a person there with a face like the
knave of clubs; and if so, tell.him he is want-
ed.” 4
The waiter went up, and at once found Dun
ning.
Examining a woman in court, he asked of a
certain man, "Was he a tall man ?”
Witness. “Not very tall, your honor ; much
about the size of your worship’s honor.”
Dunning. “Was be good-looking?”
• Witness. “Quite the contrary; much like
your worship’s honor; but with a handsomer
nose.” •
Dunning. “Did he squint ?”
Witness. “A little, your honor; but not so
much as your worship, by a good deal.”
Whereupon Dunning declared himself satis
fied, and sent the witty old woman down. He
was very coarse, which led “honest Jack Lee”
to give him the following severe rub: Dunning
was telling, one day in court, that “he had just
bought some good manors in Devonshire.”
“I wish, then,” said Jack,- “that you had
brought some of your good manners here w ith
you.”
Lawyers not seldom get back their own.—
Jeffreys,who was notoriously coarse to witness
es, once called out, "Now, you fellow in the
leathern doublet, what have you been paid for
swearing ?”
The man looked steadily at him, and a*>d,
lori
[From o
'his, Apri
condition of affaiijg,
here from what
The Federal gu
leans without reducing
Phillip, General Lovell iei
ry and able bodied tu
surrendered the citj
and property would'SV'^rotW li<
in the banks and the
removed from the city. ”*i_|
City was burnt.
General Lovell is at Pass Manehoe
Ponchartram.
The ram Louisiana and. one gunboat
Fort JacKSOn; the rest are destroyed,
emy lost several of their boats. %jo»i ai7 _
General Beauregard has issued ordiotb- atlair;
destruction of all cotton within the4
run 1
tiv^
reach.
Tne armies near Cormth are very active
a battle is considered imminent at that poi
The weather out here is good and favorable
ta military operations.
The bombardment of Fort Pillow continues,
but with whit result has not transpired.
kermei: mi ,
Bute, not oth«
with j
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TRANSFER OF PRISONERS.
The Confederate officers who are prisoners
at Columbus have been ordered by the Secre
tary of War tc Sandusky—the lormer place be
ing regarded as unreasonably near to rebel
precincts and rebel spmpathizers. Moreover,
the servants which they have been allowed to
have with them are not to accompany them to
Sandusky. They are* in respect to attend
ance, to bo required hiryafter to do as is re
quired by tiie Confederate authorities of't*ri
C'nio.- prisoners they hold—that is, to attend
aux’
— “SSnnHnwr
•-v- : platina, iininanuraO
beorgia
fishery, asked a witness, “Dost thou 1l improv
“Ay,” replied he, with a grin, “but 0cs of
Cockle sauce.” 0. .fear:
•It is the business of a lawyer to bur side
credit for readiness,
however, from the merit of such as this passage
of Jekyl: Lord Ellenborough, who was a se
vere judge, was one day at an assize dinner,
when some one offered to help him to some
fowl. “No, I thank you," said his lordship ;
“I inean a to try that beet"
don’t wonder at that; but 1 will explain : it is “T rulv Rir if you have no more foriyini/*’ gk
waat your profession never consent to—suffer— ■ - - - ■ ■ ^
ing a recovery."
Besides club gatherings it was, and still is,
customary on the [wincipat circuits in England
to hold at certain intervals a court lor the trial
of all breaches of professional etiquette. The
court is held at the cir uit table after the dinner
cloth is cleared, anil the junior member ol the
circuit presides as recorder; the others, not be
ing prosecutots or culprits, acting as jury.—
The trial takes place on presentment made by
an}' member of the circuit. It the accused is
found guilt} - he is fined, and the penalty is paid
into tiie wine fund of the tness. Some of the
presentments are absurd enough, but all tend
to maintain good humor among the rival bar
risters. An eminent advocits, who has a
namesake an eminent comedian, was lately pre
sen ted on circuit lor having inserted the follow
ing outrageous puff of imuseif in a prominent
newspaper: “Mr. delighted usexcecdnigly
on Monday. We do not remcinl
seen so much genuine « it displayed j *on tl
stage” was Ip-re erased] without the slightest
coarseness, lie is the smartest individual in
his line whose performances we have ever wit
nessed." A fine of half a crown was forthwith
imposed on this vain-glorious paragraph wri
ter. The papers announce the execution of one
John Smith, who had keen convicted of murder.
On whatever circuit there is a Mr. John Smith,
lie is immediately found guilty of being han
ged, and fined tor so heinous an offi-nse. When
Lord AbingeV was at the bar, he presented Mr.
Kichardson, a great plea Jet, afterward rVsed
wait upon themselves. In respect to the
adoption of this rule, there was some hesitancy
, - - : tor lyinjk"’S* Jbr a^ibile on the part of the Secretary of War,
I tor swearing,you might wear a leathernocap* [cv^ -inclusion finally is that to do as we
let too. <ans have
Sergeant Cockle, in a suit for the ripHiltipliec
finally
Ms by should be the rule—except, in--
as!*ur treatment ol Confederate prisDii-
k ^distinguished in contrast by being
ks :i ianu -
witted ; aid it may be that lie whoifenu'”. k<ve pt!** 8 /? ®® cers Hurrahing; for tho South,
sharpened in daily encounters deserved mL. 1,le B *! t, “ ore Amcncan 8 ets the followin S
*•“ 1: ~~ This docs not detract, ^ ^ onl a reliable source —
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graced with jjfeaten with more
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“If you do, mv lord.” said Jekyl, instao 1, ’ksh’ * n f-Le
will he hung beef.”
Chief Justice Holt once, during the Revolu
tion, committed to jajj one of the fortune-tell-
xcecUnigly j j n; , i m p 0s tors, then called French prophets^- i ff. p r p ,yi tt |oJ)ew ri
remember to have | Nl, ;x t day a disciple of this man calledt llri* _! .. j-^ 10
enuine «it display ed [ 'oil the j ( idg e ’ s house and demanded to see him, tLStb). * **
loyal and
while no off
qputngst us.
Itppets. mi- f ‘
Col. Woodruff, of the 2d »-egiineiit, Kentucky
Volunteers, who was a prisoner in Richmond,
good fellow who has done his duty, and who is
ready to do it again.”
To a Welsh Judge, famous as well for his neg-
A number of distinguished secessionists of Sir Charles Wethercll received $35,000 for o|
Lexington, Mo., have been taken to St Louis posing the Municipal Corporations Bill at the
to be tried for treason and conspiracy against bar of the House of Lords, the laic Lord Tru-
the government. In view of the many cases ro’s retainin' fee in an important cause was
of this kind likely to come lie'ore the Court, $15,000; and these instances by no means lect.if personal cleanliness as for his insatiable
Judge Treat has.requested all the members ol stand alone. [ desire for place, he saiil, “My dear Sir, as you
the Court, including the Grand and Fetit But besides fortune, a good position at the ■ hwwe asked the Ministry for every thing else,
Jurors, to take the oath of allegiance to Abra- bar brings with it an enviable place in the most "’hy have you never asked them for a piece of
ham I. intelligent and desirable society. Lawyers have s oap and a nail brush?” Kenyon, before men
Wall street was again dull yesterday, and a been the best club men; and the clubs of Lon- ; Boned, was somewhat noted lor parsimony.—
desire was expressed fur official reports of the don have become famous for the wit and wis- , Some one told Jekyll that he hail been down in
; . j victory at Pittsburg. Tin- stock market was doin which they have, in times past, brought , Dot’d Kenyon’s kileheti, and saw his spits shin- __
IVI. Wright finding inactive, and pri s a shade lower in the morn-1 together under one rook Even that exclusne in K *- s bright as if they had never been used.— before exchangtngairdsand settiingfor^ahos
enemy were attempting to flank n>, ing ; in the afternoon, there was rather » better old clique which calls itself “Tho sublime So- j hv do you mention his spit?” retorted the j tji e meeting. Coleraine went to his brother
feeling. Money was easier; six per cent is lie ciety of Beet steaks, with its “gridiron oT 1735 humorist; y ou must know that nothing turns \ George to ask his advice and assistance. Hav-
slanding out in proud relief from the celling of ",P on that.' A rascally little attorney named | P g told the storv, “I "acknowledge,” said he
the refectory,” and its funnily conceited motto Disc addressed him : “air, I here that you have “that I was the aggressor • but it was too bad
of “Jieef and Libe ty”—even this, the most called me. a pettifogging scoundrel. Have you . u, threaten to pull my noJe What should I
nobbish ami conservative of clubs, which had done sor ‘Vvr, was the reply, with a look of J 0
coming the rule for call lt>aus. Foreign Ex
change is quoted af"l 12j for bankers’ sterling,
5,<i0 a 5,o5 tor trancs. The cotton iparket waa
steady yesterday, with sales of about 1,000
hales, closing on the basis of 27J a 28c. for
Middling Uplands. The government sale ot
541 hales of Sea Island cotton came off, and
bciiiv. ui,soiled to American manufacture, the
but each time with the same result. In
stead of taking the battery, many of them took
tlicir leave ol the world. The other Y'ankee
regiments, Jite. making six in all, had deployed
soon after we fired the first gun, and wye in
line across the open fields, pouring volley alter
volley into the woods, but the wind b.ing fa-
\urahie to us, blew the smoke ot our gubs to
il mis them, and this, with their had shooting,
rendered their lire useless and ineffectual.— : Theaiumher of rebel troops at ami near Y’ork-
I ime and again they attempted to drive us from town, cannot be less than 100,000 men ; and it
■ ir position, and letting them cotqe up to with is reported that they are commanded Ijy Gen.
in thirty to fifty yards, we would by a well di- J° s - E. Johnston and Jeff Davis. The entrench
leeted discharge, sjnd them reeling hack with menus extend across Uis Peninsula, and fiv
heavy iors. Once an officer was seen advancing,
sword in hand, on horseback, at a the head of
his ro ut an, cheering and urging his men on.
(in they came—on, nearer and nearer, until
within half musket range, when some of our
Imy- singled him out and took deliberate aim.
I bey fired ! and a black horse was seen ruler-
lt*» galloping from the spot. tVe have since
learned that this was Gen. Reno. Col. Haw
In.-, our old liuttcras friend, and commander
nl the Zouaves, had his arm shot off, and sev
eral other officers, an Adjutant among them,
ii ho was buried on the field, attested the pre
cision of our aim.
About 6 o’clock P. M
that th
oidered the men to fall back ahout'a mile to an
entrenchment, expecting the enemy would fol
low. !>ur company, the Wilkinson Rifles, anti
the Governor's Guards, were ordered to cover
Wic retreat, whiPli we did under a galling fire
Irom the enemy’s artillery. Having fallen back
outlie entrenchments we awaited the approach
ol the enemy, but they had already had enough
of it, and we having waited some time, laid
, down on the net gtound (the rain fell heavily
during the night) and slept.
Capt. McCoinas, of the Artillery, feught his
'men most gallantly and did terrible execution
among the enemy. One .wheel of a gun was
shot "If l>y the enemy, and in turning to order
another to lie brought up, he was shot through
the breast with a Minnie hall, which instantly
killed him. All honor to his niflne! wliiili
the 0rd Georgia will ever hoid in grateful re
membrance.
During the regular engagement none of our
men were killed, but as we began to fall hack
on our entrenchments, our regiment lost five.
W. Milton Deese, of our company, (Rdles,)
was killed by a hall through the head, while
fighting gallantly. We lost four others, (five
in all) killed, and about twenty wounded—
none of them supposed to he mortally. Lieut
Wilson, of the D.iv.son Grays, was shot in the
knee, and left on the field of battle, but wa-
ul ter wards recovered. The Yankees acknowl-
tdgelo have lost between 300 and 500 in kill-
ed and wounded^ besides some 35 or 40 prison-
■ r-, a^iiinsl luer prisoners on our side. They
iniricd abouMbrty on the battle field the night
• I the battle, and sent off the others on their
boats. About midnight one ol our men ..cci-
icotally discharged his musket, which they
heard, and supposing it to be the Signal for the-
renewal of the fight, they fled precipitately,
leaving their stolen fowls uncookel as an evi
dence of their lnste.
Now to sum up: In the main part of the
eii.a;emcot wo had about 325 men, and at no
time more than 500 were engaged on our side,
.ot including Capt McComas’SO or 00 Artil
lerists. In all, say 410, against an admitted
num'ier on their side of from three to Jite
fWwtnJ.with artillery equal if not superior to
ours.
• >ur entire loss is six killed and about twenty
wounded, nnd fout taken prisoners—making
our total loss 3t*. against our estimate of 500
on their side total lq-s. We took prisoners from
different regiments, proving conclusively
fi‘at they had between 5,OO0 and 6,000 men in
tne field against ns, with whom we successful
ly contended, seren hours, am) then scared off
• he battle field, where a portion of their dead
now lie buried.
When you put this with the captura of the
Fanny anil the Ohicaniacomie race, I do not
th.nk our {friends w ill leel a-hnmed of the 3rd
Georgia. We, in all our fighting, have been
io a country where running is fashionable, and
we have done all we could to Contribute to the
i .shibn—the only difference between us and
•he people hereabouts being that tee ran after
and they run from the enemy. •
Tuesday morning we all went out to the bat
tle-field to see the effect of our fire on the epe-
accordingly amerced in a dozen of wine.
' Mr. Sergeant Hill was very absent-minded,
anffthis made him the target of many a prac-
his circuit. He once argued a
point of law for some time at nisi prills’, and
intending to hand his papers to the judge,
gravely drew forth a plated candlestick Irom
bis bag and presented it to the bench Some
one, it appeared, had substituted a “traveler's”
bag for the Sergeant’s own. Hill was much
delighted w hen, as not unfrequently occurred,
he got the better of his persecutors. So pleas
ed was he On one such occasion, at a party
given by the Sh- ritfol Northamptonshire, that
on retiring, he by mistake gave a shilling to his
has just returned to New York. He states that •ccomphsh great results. Young
the Union prisoners in Richmond are treated 're^re then, as comforters in those
i „..i if. .. i ..v i ii . dark hours which almost always precede the
barbarously and inhumanely. He proposes to . , ■* 1
, . ... 3 11 dawn of a great success.
lecture on the subject. ... , . , •
J \\ e hear with surprise of the eiformous fees
and incomes of lead ng American lawyers, such
excellent host, and,
friends, shook hands
with the servant at the
shing Ujfl servant by ordering him to say that
he “nuljujsee him, because he came from the
Almight] Jj’’ This extraordinary message be
ing delivj .ed, Holt desired the man to he vb“wn
in, an<L „Kcd him his business. Alic
“I from the Lord, who bade- / ^ r oas#re
thee t»„. rant a nolle prosequi for Joffhe diVis-,
his servant, whcfin thou h’:rt thrown u. .o prif J
on !"
“Thou art a false prophet and lying knave !’’
t' turned the Chiel Justice. “If the Lord had
sent thee, it would have been to the Attorney
General; for the Lord knowethit is not in my
power to grant a nolle prosequi."
A tedious preacher had preached the assize
sermon before Lord Yelverton. He came down
smiling, to his lordship, after the service, and,
expecting congratulations on his effort, asked,
“Well, my lord, how did you like the sermon?”
“Oh, most wonderfully.” replied Yelverton;
“it was like the peace of God, it passed all un
demanding; and, like His mercy, 1 thought it
would have endured forever.”
Curran once got out of a serious scrape by
an execrable pun. He had incurred a rich
Irish farmer’s displeasure by a severe cross-
examination in court; and some days after
ward, being out fox-hunting, his horse and the
chase carried him into a potato field owned by
this man. Seeing him there, the man catne up
publi
dinner the bottle had passed freely, and Jekyil,
as Webster, Choate, David Paul Brown, and 'who wa- slightly elevated, having just emptied
others; but the’ practice of eminent Hr tisii !,i S called to the servant, “Here, away with
gentlemen of the long rolie is more remunera- marine. A General of the Marines, sit-
tive than even that of their American brethren.
hundred cannon are said to be mounted oil the S ; r Samuel Romilly realized an income of up
line -
ward ol $75,000 in the last years of his life
o the amazement of his t and said :
in the most friendly way j “Oh! sure you’re Counselor Curran, the
_,. , . great lawyer. Now then, Mr. Lawyer, can you
C hief among the wits was Jekyll, a man who tell me by what law you are trespassing upon
had a retort ready for all comers. At a public | m y ground ?”
By what law, Mr. Malony ?” rep ied Cur
ran. “\\ by by the lex tally ho-nis, to be sure.”
The pun so delighted Mr. Malony that he
let its author off for the trespass. Curran used
to tell a story ol Lord Coleraine, in his time
the best dressed man in England, and a very
punctilious fashionable. Being one evening at
ting near the lawyer, felt his dignity touched,
and said, “I don't.understand what you mean.
Sir, by likening an empty bottle to a marine?”
“My dear General,” replied Jekyll, “I mean a
the Opera, he noticed a gentleman enter his
box in boots, and vexed at what he thopght an
unpardonable breach of decorum, said to him :
‘•I beg, sir, you will mak5 an apology.”
“Apology !” cried the stranger, “for what?”
“Why," rejoined his lordship, pointing down
at the boots,' '‘that you did not bring your
horse with you into the box.”
“It is lucky for you. Sir,” retorted the stran
ger. “that I did not bring my horsewhip ; but
I will pull your nose for your impertinence.”
The two were immediately separated, but not
no less a man than a drunken and half-paralyt- contempt, “I neversaid you were a pettifogger-
ic duke for its lion ar.-<l president, gathered its or a scoundrel; but I said that you were little
brightest members from the bar. Wilkes, Ser Garrow was examining an old spinster
geant Prime (not witty himself, but the cause
hief purchases were made lor export Ku- ‘*1 " it in others), “Frog” Morgan—so called lie
rope. The prices ranged from 29 to t!4c. ! -anse he was in the habit of quoting Constant-
Secretary Staunton is now the acting Coin- **' s ar gumcnts in Court "C robe Elizabeth,
mainler in Chiefof the Federal army under the 1 1 ro ' ie James, broke Charles, said 6role bo-
PresidenL | ln 8 a reporter who lived in those three regions
The Herald says that if Beauregard ,, aa ITooke, and many others more or less
made his attack on Saturday, instead of Sun- j lts members. Cobb was
day, he « mild have bagged the whole of Grant’s 1 * 1*7, er ' ^ et , t * r kn °" n ,n h,s l,Bne “ a P la >"
army; and with a little rest, would, perhaps, ^ * h « a '''»;or, among others, of an
have been able to cope successfully with Buell I "' 1 j an Urama ® , ' ed R ' u , na £ an, ‘ an Kn '
on his arrival. — Constitutionalist. ghsh opera, the Haunted Tower.
W hat a nusnomer it was, said Arnold, a
for the purpose of proving the tender ol a cer
tain sum of money having been made; hut
found some difficulty in making out his case.—
Jekyll, who was watching the proceedings,
wrote the following, and threw itover-tohis
professional brother :
•‘Harrow, submit—that tough old jade
Will never prove a Under maid." .
Erskine, himself a wit of whom many good
"Soap it well,” was the cool fraternal advice,
“then it will slip easily through his fingers.”
One of Curran’s butts in Dublin was a cer
tain Sergeant Kelly, known from an unconsci
ous but laughable peculiarity of his as Counselor
Therefore. He was an incarnate non sequitur,
and never spoke without convulsing the Court.
“This is so clear a point, “gentlemen," he once
told ajury, “that 1 am convinced you felt it to
be so the very moment I stated it. I should
pay your understandings but a poor compli
ment to dwell on it even for a minute; there-
trom hot
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FROM CUMBERLAND GAP.
We extract the following from a business let
ter to this office:
“Cumberland G.u, April 20, 1862.
“Editors Confederacy:
“Twelve Federals approached our pickets on
the 17ih inst. under a ilag of truce. Their bus
iness was to exchange some prisoners for the ,
notorious Dave Fry, the lory bridgebumer; ln 1 »- s, "‘ ni
but it was no go. Capt. Fry will pull a rope | blcleofnew.*
ere he is exchanged. “Yours truly, political -rnd
“ i Georgia I -I
From another correspondent’s letter dated at i Specimc _op
the Gap the 21st, we extract the following :
“The enemy tired on our pickets (advanced)
this morning, and a fight is expected every
day.”—Atlanta Confederacy.
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Sensible Hotel Keepers.—We read the fol
lowing in the last Lynchburg Republican :
We learn that three out of the five hotel
keepers in Lynchburg, do not want licenses to
sell liquor. They say andYruly that the an -
noyance and trouble which the bar rooms on
their premises occasion both to themsi Ives and ' names of pub^cribere entered to an; of *ur
their guests is so great that they greatly prefer ! ...... ... _ , _
only have private entertainment licenses. It is J v J
likely the remaining two hotel keepers in the ) the Mone y, and subscribers must expect that then
city take the same View of the liquor question, names will be crossed off immediately upon the expira
tion of the term for which they have paid. No one
stories are remembered, oftce complained to T r 7\ XVlnn ’ """
i , n alii • • ; • . . tore. I snail now proceed to explain it to you
Jekyll “that he had a severe patn tnhtsUowela | as ^ible.” Meeting Curran one
and had fried remedy after remedy w.thout be- |norni „' n( , ar ,, tttrick . s Cath t.dral, he said
ing cu-ed. “Get yourself made Attorney- - ’
CONDIT
The condition
bardment,
dent of the
The fi
and shell.
aspect. The _b.tr.-.’ id. s -r splinter proofs are lhe puhlic'twe^rfight;In 8u'oe^'fon" r ‘ scribbled this couplet in answer
orn to pieces m many places ; pieces of bnck, ^ frie ^ d .. B sa|d Arno)d " |hlt was “Tl,.true 1 am 111. but I can no. com„.ai„.
timber, stone, cannon balls, unexploded pro- proof ' of 8 lts we akne^, if it took so Ion-? in ^ w e-' P T "i' f ° T" ,T W M*.'
jectile.> and shells, fragments of shell, etc., L ork)nc •» ^ “ to Mr. Lspmusse and a Mr. Lauih he retnar
strew the parade ground in the interior of the ,. v r’
work At the angle ol the breach, the arches * ou . * ” "s'"' , 'fT' ,n . ,nal rc " speaking gave a .. an great confidence
warmth ol his Hibernian heart, addressed the
Uhair, “And now my dear Mr. Speaker”—
which brought the House down with a general
sures and hurst inside, you can trace j la o-i?.. c • . • indeed the contrary is my case.” “Why.” ro-
the flight of each fragment as it ripped up the 0 " e ^Jd.-diaw was fond of boIsUn-of ^ E - raU - , ? e ’ ““ ,8 - nothin K wonderf "l “' a ' a
the cir
northwest corner in a manner that carried ter-' not had a head in y° ur whole family
ror to the Hearts of the enemy. From their
* ... Sheridan was a Beef-steak, and introduced
keu once that habit and the practice of public ' Shtridan increased the fun no little by
- 1-: - ..— . —o. ’. . ! coolly observing that “the honorable member
perfectly in order; for thanks to the min
sters, nowadays everything is dear."
ttsmpted Escape of Col. Thomas.—Liout.
Thomas, the “French lady,” confined in Fort
Lafayette for transferring the steamer St. Nich
olas to the custody of the rebels, last summer,
escaped from Fort Lafayette on Monday nigITt.
He had procured a number of tin cans, which
he corked tightly and tied about his waist,
when he took to the water and swam toward
the Long Island shore. • He was discovered by
the sentinel, and a boat being put into requi
sition he was brought back and conveyed to
his old quarters. Thomas was at first confin-
W hat’s tie on ?”
His legs," shouted Erskine as he hurried
experience they knew that was possible for
a rifle shell to pass entirely through the walls hls brother-inlaw, Linley, whose pecularity He was counsel in a suit brought to recover j ed^ in Fort McHenry in this c»v where he
of the magazine and blow it up, and with it the «j’^ a '"*11?Tub isheTa hT °' a /l Uantit >' o{ "balebone; and found made effortsto clear ouj hut not sue
fort and all its occupants. 11m induced astir- »»f ri ^j Lft Jv P wh f *k° W,ln ^f 8 80 ^p.d as not to know Clitdinsr . u tial l v oretended insanity. At
rmdt-r, and the white flag went up. It will °B ra l ,,l > ol hls tricnU l.eltlc}, »Inch, conpng the dillerence between thtek and long whale-
cost $50,000 to put the lort into the same eon ' U P be I ore the society for a review, was found hone. Driven to desperation he at length ex
dilion of defence that it was before we opened 10 open with the following Johnsonian passage claimed, “Why, man, you do not Seem to know
fire. 1 he walls lire greatly shaken, and all he- respecting his hero s birth : “Uis father waa a tho dillerence between what is thick and what
Ijave had the bombardment continued half a his mother a seamstress; a union is long. Now I will explain; you are a thick-
day 1 mger the entire wall of the paucope would which, n not first suggested, was probably ac- headed fellow, but you are not a long-headed
have fallen into the ditch amass of ruins, lhe celerau-d by the mutual sympathies of a con- fellow.” Being counsel for defendant in the themselves, (earing that she miffht fall into the
men could feel the walls of the fort tremble B"” al occupation.” This and another pas case of Robinson «. Tickell, he opened hi. I h.nTof^erMcDowell’s nrmr -BalUi^re
and quake when a solid ten-inch shot struck sa K e i «• suited general applause. The second speech to thr bench with ‘Tickell, my client, ^ American
it, and from that fact you can get the tolerably j w . as a s °bijr truiua, Stat< -' < 1 with ad nirable se- the delendant, my lord,’’ when the Judge in
correct idea of the immense force with which rjousness. it is a well known fact that nov- terrupted—“Tickel him yourself, Brother Er-
they strike. It was terrific. Out of fiiteen "H. Jtequcnl repetition, loses much skine, you can do it better than L” Having
guns and morttrs en barbette but four of them of its attraction. gained an important suit for a coal mining com-
werc serviceable. The fmlance were dismount-. be study ol tho law does not s< em favora- pany whose counsel he was, they invited him
cd, or otherwise rendered incapable of use. ", to P ur *fy or elegance of style, cr exactness to a spendul dinner given in honor of the victo-
of expression. Poor Linley was rot alone in ry
should take oflonce at the operation of a general rule ol
which thejr were duly advised before hand.
though we have heard no expression of their
sentiments upon the subject. The question
then of “license or no license” is narrowed
down to the drinking house keepers and the
groceries, and we leel every confidence that
our court will refuse any petition for license
from them with almost perfect "unanimity.
Fauquier County.—The Y’ankees in very
small force, are still committing depredations
in Fauquier and the adjacent counties. A few
days since a body of four or five hundred visit- t* will he manifest to every basinoM man, that
ed \\ arrentoil, and carried off all the stock ol thadifferentEditioua of the Telegraph aflord unequalle
medicines of the only two drug stores in the facilities for communication with the people of MMdle
place. When our army fefi back from Manas and Southern Georgia. Business ad ert,-er S -
sas, the Confederate Government offered to „ .
purchase their medicines; but the sale was re- ;v “' themselves of the reduction in prices affordeu to
fused on the plea that there was no other drug re K ular advertisers, and to do this they should sign .i
stores in the surrounding country, and the res^ i contract. Allfflher* are liabk-to the regaljrestabllshad
idents of that section could not manag: with- : rates of artvertisiQg in the State,
out physic. The result is that the Yankees ' *
'nave bagged the whole of it—Rich. Dispatch, j
The distance of our forces on the Peninsula j
from those of the ifhemy is not more than three
hundred yards. There is a stand of United :
State colors to be seen half way between the ;
two armies, and neither party flare go after |
them.
T K LEGRAPH
“FORGIVE AND FORGET."
Kentucky Doctdh.
Yes ! that's the L’nion aa it etorxl,
Before the late upset tine:;
The South was all for giving,
And the North was all for getting.
amongst us whose heart fails, tmk, M\ unit /aunr 1'rintiua
retire into the closet, and read | ) I
ESTABLISHMENT.
ceeding, finally pretended insanity. At one
time his release seemed probable, a hen he
suddenly regained his faculties, and was de
tained und sent North. The steamer St. Nich
olas, which he managed to transfer to the rebel
authorities, was .committed to the flames in
front of Fredericksburg last week by the rebels
Arrived Here.—Mrs. Brownlow, wife of W.
G. Brownlow, and Mrs. Maynard, wife of Hor
ace Maynard, with their families, arrived here
on Saturday night from Tennessee, en route tc
_ Fortress Monroe, and thence to the North to
„ . . „ , ., .. - ,, , , -a Called on for a toast, he gave, "Sink}-our join their husbands, in obedience to an order
Some wag quotes the following as applicable his grandiloquence. Mr. Marryat*, a brother of pits, blast your mint s, dam your rivers.” I of the Confederate authorities that they should
to lhe fattlc of Shiloh: “Egypt shall gather ; the novelist, once, addressing a jury, and speak- Erskine rarely received a rebutf, in which be conveyed outside the Southern lines. They
them, Memphis shall bury them. | ing of a chimney on fire exclaimed, “Gentle- particular he was more lucky than Dunning were under escort of Lieut. Mosby ofthelCon-
men the chimney tooa fire it poured out 1 (Lord Ashburton), who, in his cross-examina- federate army.—^Lynchburg Republican.
Corinthians.
tar-Tim Job E>tadli?hi»kmt Is In charge o£gme
the host Printers in the coun'ry, and with onr tp fejjf
we are prepared to execute any hind of Print in^w-- ;^r
marhecalled for, with rs
- oyaame, tl
NEATNESS AND
AND
ON REASONABLE
WW* col-dt atr.alof onr skip
^SJkiluiiV-
y%r8st' ban the, iC»-
.to tho contrary 1
•Good for the Spirits in War Times.—If
there be a man
let that person
without ceasing the history of the old Revolu
tion. He will see there weak colonies divided
amongst themselves. In each of them a large
Tory population fighting for the oppressor. A
powerful army in possession of tbe seas, be-
seiging and taking our seaports and fortifica
tions, without a single failure. Whole States
overrun with their armies; our Generals de
feated oftener than successful, and having, too,
bitter and deadly feuds with one another.—
Treason and bribery were rile, and sordid souls
were crying “beef, beef, beef!” For seven long
years this almost hopeless darkness brooded
over the country, and the people suffered, and
labored, and hoped until there appeared for
them the dawn of the brightest age of the I
world. Then, ifhe contrasts that picture with '
ours, and !eels a touch of shame that a doubt oi^our WenlT’ T *
could have entered his mind, let him pray for tbefollowlne
strength, and go forth a better patriot.
Slight Discrepancies.—The N. Y'. Herald
imformed its readers that the Federals had cap- „ ■ <^,il
tuml 5,000 rebels at Island No. 10, and Gen. ^
nuinber’at'^fRin 6 * 0 )'" 1 L ,° U1S ’ ®. tated the ! « y» a wieh the Pa„4# Al„^5d‘.ffom one office to
number at 6,000. Com. Foot, in his official another, give both office* inT|iU.
despatch to the Secretary of the Navy, sa} r s - It is of no use to send an omerior papers without tan
that the rebel prisoners taken by Gen. Bulord money.
were 17 officers and 3ti8 privates, besides 100 Oraers lor advertising to a given amount, with tbb
’ ’ ’ ... MONEY Inclosed will he most LIBERALLY filled.
All orders for Jobs or Advertising shoutdbe accomp*
nied by cash or n city reference for Davmcnt.
if.you write on business and other matters, write on
separate thttets.ofpaper, or didere .1 cnYSi thee!
mar 16
sick and 100 employed on the transport stea
tners, making in all less than 600, quite a fal
ling off Irom the arithmetic of Gen. Halleck.
exaggeration of ten to one is quite moderate for
the Yankees.