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Corrosoondence of the Telegraph.
■)i iinkcnm-ss Among I lie Officers
or ilie Army.
Occasionally our anns have met with serious
disaster. I.ast year we sustained a defeat in
the West, and it was cautiously whispered that
the officer in command was drunk. At Port
Koval the defence was marked with anything
hut good judgment, and crowned with any
thing hut success. It was surmised that
drunkenness was the cause. Humor now at
tributes the failure to capture the army of Mc
Clellan helore Richmond to the tardy move
mints of one of the Major Generals. Was that
owing to imbecility from habitual intemper
ance' Two charges were made by our troops
in the recent battles on the Chickahominy,
which were attended with prodigious slaugh
ter. They were made, it is said, by our gallant
fellows, in obedience to impracticable orders,
issued by drunken commanders. Are these
things so ? If my country is in danger of sub
jugation, and iny estato of confiscation—if my
son is unnecessarily exposed to death — nay, to
murder, by the drunkenness of men appointed
to lead the armies of the Confederate States, ]
have a right to know it, and to denounce the
fact as an outrage upon humanity, and, as infi
delity, gross and unpardonable, both to a pub
lic and personal tiust. My country is betray
ed, and I am wronged as a man. It is one of
the melancholy things of this melancholy day,
that responsibilities under which an angel
might stagger, are committed to unreasoning,
brutal drunkards. Whatever may be false in
the specifications of rumor, or in the inuendocs
of the pre-s, it is still undeniably true, that the
.uister curse of this war is drunkenness. Ex
pediency, sometimes rightfully, restrains the
exposure ol official delinquency. But this is
no time for temporising measures—for mealy
“ObangiDg the Base of Operations by a
Flank movement-*’
McClellan in his address to the "Soldiers of the
Army of the Potomac/’congratulatee them they
have succeeded in “changing the base of their
operations by a flank movement.’’ The perils
and difficulties attending this "dangerous move
ment" which he says was executed with unim
paired organization and spirit, are detailed in
the following notes by the Sew York Tribune
Reporter, which were published in that city
simultaneously with the address of McClellan.
It is a beautiful commentary upon the address:
TIIK FLANK MOVEMENT AT OAI.NEs’ MILL — ROUT OF
TOE YANKEES
We condense the following from the corres
pondence of the New York Tribune :
My note book says that, at six o’clock, the
enemy commenced a determined attack on
our extreme left, evidently with a design of
flanking us. It was an awful firing that re
sounded from that smoke clouded va ley—not
heavier than some in the earlier part of the en
gagement, but more steady and determine It
was only by overbearing exhausted men with
fresh ones that the enemy succeeded in turning
that flank, as at length he did succeed, only
too well. And he accomplished it in three-
quarters of an hour. At the expiration of that
time, our officers judiciously ordered their men
to fall back ; the order was not obeyed so judi
ciouslv, for they ran back, broken, disordered,
routed. Simultaneously the wounded and skul
kers about the buildings used as hospitals
caught a panic, whether from a few riderless
horses plunging madly across the field, or from
instantaneously scenting the rout, does not ap
pear. A motley mob started pell mell for the
bridges. They were overtaken by many just
Iroin the woods, ai.d it seemed as if Bull R
were to be repeated.
Meanwhile, the panic extended. Scores of
gallant officers exdeavored to rally and re
form the stragglers, but in vain, while many
officers forgot the pride of their shoulder straps,
and the honor of their manhood, and herded
with sneaks and cowards. O, that I had known
| the names of those officers I saw, the brave and
>ut
From the London Times, Jane 17.
Such battles as those of Shiloh and Rich
mond cannot fail to have a strong effect on the
mind of the Northern people. Already, indeed,
we seem to hear the quiver of apprehension in
which the shout for each so-called triumph dies
away, and to detect the falter of doubt in the
uneasy earnestness of each man’s assertions.—
For the Fedeial victories, though great, glori
ous,splendid, and so forth, have to be explained.
Indeed, you would hardly know they were vic
tories unless you were told so by some one who
was in the secret It needs to be demonstrated
by arguments and diagrams that Secession is
being daily crushed by the anaconda and swept
away by the avalanche, and engulfed by the
moral earthquake, as foretold in the figu
rative language of its opponents. We now
have an elaborate comparison of advantages—
how the loss of a battery of artillery is compen
sated by a successful bayonet charge, and a
slaughter which is known to be heavy by a
slaughter which is concluded to be enormous.
The Confederates did not attain their object—
therefore it was a Federal victory. Gen. Me
Clellan’s army recovered the half-mile of ground
and still holds its old positions—therefore it
was a Federal victory.
The siege of Richmond still goes on—there
fore it was a Federal victory. Such is the high
ly scientific basis of the Northern jubilation.—
But the Federals must feel it rather a descent
to become strategical and topographical. The
battles may be very good battles, very fit fora
future domini to describe. They may exhibit
interesting facts for the student respecting ex
posed wings or the position of batteries, attack
in column, attack in line, and what not. lithe
Federals come to delight in the art of Horace
Yernet and Yvon, they may cover vast expan-
From the Charleston Cornier of the 11th.
Na rativc of an Escaped Prisoner.
AYm. C. Bramlet, of the Eighth Virginia Cav
alry, Colonel Jenkins, gives us the following
account of his capture, supsequent escape and
suffering in his efforts to get back to the SoutlL
He was captured in November, 1861, and
taken to camp Chase, four miles West of Col
umbus, ar.d was kept in close confinement un
til March, a period oi five months. On the I2th
of March some laborers being sent into the pri
son to ditch the prison grounds, Mr. Bramlet
entered in:o conversation with them and find-
to Sandusky, thence to Toi
Detroit, and getting on boarc
landed upon the Canadian silk
ed Windsor, Upper Canada. X
Hon. Mr. Elliott, Queen’s Count
him to his place at London. Ho
bly and kindly received by the citl!
place, and a contribution made up for n.- he j eav 2
was also given lree transport or right of way oj b 0 fo]
the Grand Trunk Railway to Quebec, with a
letter of introduction to the Hon. Mr. Portman,
M. P., an intimate friend of Gen. Wade Hamp
ton. Mr. P. and his friends here made up an-
Ky
ing them Southern men in principle, informed other contribution, by which means he was en-
them that ho meditated an escape. They at
once expressed their sympathies with his con
dition, and offered to as*~n him as far as lay in
their power. He sugg. -d, as the most feasi
ble plan, a change of clothing in his barracks
substituting a laborer’s suit for the uniform
he then wore. The laborer’s suit was procur
ed, the change made, and being furnished with
a spade, he joined the laborers about half an
hour before sunset, leaving the grounds with
them at the hour of closing. Following his
new companions to the tool house, be, with the
rest, deposited his spade, passed on through
the Yankee camp and outside of their pickets
to the turnpike. The party there seated them
selves on a lumber wagon used for bringing up
the plank for the lepairof the pr~on walls, and
were taken to Columbus.
Upon arrival at Columbus, one of the labor-
ers to avoid any suspicion motioned Mr. Bram
let to follow him, and commenced talking very
violently in the Celtic tongue, our friend ap
parently answering and nodding assent. They
passed on through one ot the principal streets
turned into an alley and from thence to the cot
tage of the laborer. Here Mr. Bramlet remain
ed until about ten o’clock, when his friend told
■nmuh< d whispers, or official reticence. The Hie cowardly, that here, now, I might reward
evil i mi enormous as to threaten the indepen- and punish by directing upon each individual
lienee of the South, and its correction admits no i^e respect or the contempt of a whole people,
no delay. 1 he drunkenness of an officer on That scene was not one to be forgotten.—
the day of a 'conflict which involved our na Scores of riderless, terrified horses dashing in
>- a lu,:t Dot to be longer hid Irom every direction; thick flying bullets singing
. ... I.. .1, I,.. il,„ «„l.l TL., J , . . ■ ’ , '
ses of canvass wi’th the masterly manoeuvres him that as everything was then quiet, it might
and dashing charges at Williamsburg, Shiloh, I be unsa,e for h,m to remaln ln the . clt 7* u
and Chickahominy. But this is not exactly what
we were led to expect. Anything less like
crushing and sweeping it has seldom been our
lot to hear of. It must begin to dawn upon the
would be well for him to continue on his road
llis friend guided him through a back street
to the turnpike and accompanied him on his
way to a plank road about a mile distant, where
minds of most people that'.f this kind of fight- be the necessary directions as to how he
ing is to go on, the conquest of the Southern sh oulU proceed
view by the smoke of the field. The war of
artillery may not silence the w ail of its victims,
by, admonishing of danger; every minute a
man struck down ; wagons and ambulances
ami exultation over a brilliant victory may not and cannon blockading the way ; wounded men
ippre-s the in i indignation of an outraged limping, and groaning, and bleeding atnid the
people
I throng ; officers and civilians denouncing and
How it happens that so many men hold high reasoning and entreating, and being insensibly
! osition in the army who are addicted to a vice, borne along with the mass ; the sublime can
indecent and degrading every vt l.ere and always, nonading, the clouds of battle smoke, and the
iid which disqualifies for the duties of any : 9un j us t disappearing, large and blood-red—I
office, it is difficult to say. " ' " ~ ... . ..
been charged upon us i
and with truth, ln political life at Washing
ton, diunkenucss i: the rule—sobriety the ex
ception. It pervaded thy^riny of the Union,
as depravity pervades the race. ~
ol the army, with a few exceptions, constitu
ted a corps of lopera, whose habits were con-1 . , ... . • , •
’ e stragglers—lor the cr. dit of the nation be it is
the government. Long years of| . w A .. A
Slates will be a greater achievement than even i
the acuteness of Mr. Lincoln anticipated.
The truth is that every successive month
shows more clearly the impossibility of restor
ing the Union by force of arms When we
look back on the delusions which reigned little
more than a year ago at the North, and which
were shared to some extent by many of us in
England, we are astonished at their magnitude,
and the absence of any trace ol truth. It was
asked with wonder a few years since how the
English in Iudia could have lived in constant
intercourse with the natives, and vet in total
faith- I get
Drunkenness nas cannot picture it, hut I see it,and always shall.
~ national vice, i
THE RETREAT TO JAMES RIVER.
in i moil The same correspondent gives the annexed
1 The officers description of the commencement of the retreat
U*,000
to James River:
Huddled among the wagons were
/■> 5 , Lie j I said: that four-filths of them were wounded,
nl the idleness of barrack hie made T?’ .. j i ia
them such, almost necessarily. It may there
fore be admitted, that Mr. Davis had but a
scant sober list bom which to select his offi
but it is strange that his appointments
sick, or uttetly exhausted, ar.d could not have
stirred but for the dread of the tobacco ware-
I houses of the South. The confusion of this
; herd of men and mules, wagons and wounded,
men on horse, men on foot, men by the road-
si., u d have been made apparently without any ‘ ‘“ ■y”:,"
reference to the habits in thi- regard o( h.s ap- 1 men perched on wagons, men «*rch.ng
” r I for water, men famishing for food, men lame
poiniiis. .. . , . and bleeding, men with ghostly eyes, looking
\\ c mav tolerate fAuLbul we do not tolei ate re- ‘ h i
’.. , , . , i out between oioodv bandage.-, that hid the lace
tatn’ng men in responsible commands who have .
v , , . turn to some vivid account ol the most piti-
lurn to some vivid account of the most pit
’ ful part of Napoleon’s retreat from Russia, and
t so ii. uriK as to nun a division upon iiievna- r r
hi ui.it profitless destruction. On they went fiU out U ‘ e the grim gaunt bloody
, , . , . , 7. .i i picture ol war in its most terriolc features.
,1, ,th, in obedience to orders, whilst he, the l . , . .. mnvil nn , Ilirinir
tile, because too drunk to obey an order,
trunk as to hurl a division upon inevita-
stcr of their lives, reels and raves in drunk’
i-ii tcurity in the rear. How the President
deals now with such cases 1 do not pretend to
know with certainty, but I am satisfied, with
a leniency must injurious to the public service.
We are informed by the newspaptrs that lien
eral A or R has been trane/erred. II that is
all, the penalty is a mockery.
perpetrate like wrongs upon thecoun
It was determined to move on during the
night. The distance to Turkey Island Bridge,
the point on James river which was to be
reached, by the direct road, was six miles. —
But those vast numbers could not move ever
one nanow road in days ; hence every road no
matter how circuitous, had been searched out
,,„ - by questioning prisoners, and by cavalry ex
ile .. sent else- Eve b r / one was (M by one of the >" secession.
. „ r, to p,, pmaie use wrongs upon ‘»-.ou.. advancing columns. The whole front was in
try. 1 he President of the Confederate Slates motjon « p M Uen Keyes in C011lUiand 0 f
is an able statesman, and a virtuous patnob— | ‘ L _ a * J
I have no sympathy with those who studiously
bring his administration into disfavor.
the advance.
rode with Gen. Howe’s brigade of Couch’;
Mr. Bramlet traveled all that day, but fav-
ing just recovered from a severe attack of ty
phoid fever, he was unable to make any fast
progress and found that he only walked that
day fouiteen miles. Arriving, about half an
hour before sunset, at a station called Le« is
Centre and seeing an express train come up, he
stepped into the car and took a seat. Upon
the conductor’s asking him for a ticket, he re
plied he had noie but that he wished to go to
Sandusky, that he had but one dollar with him
and would ride us far as that would pay.
abled to reach St. John’s, N. B , from whence
he embarked on board the schooner Blanche,
on the 7th of June, and arrived at Nassau on
the 24th.
Mr. Bramlet is now in this city. He says he
found the people of Canada, much to his aston
ishment, almost a unitin favor of the South.—
He had been led to believe that the Canadians
were all abolitionists, whereas, on the contra
ry, he found but two during his stay, and those
were Yankee traders, who had settled there on
speculation. The Canadians say the free ne
groes are a great evil in the community. These
negroes, they say, who are run into Canada
by the Abolition fanatics, are the only paupers
and pauper population they have. In some
places they are taxed pretty heavily lor the
support of this part of their population. They
are a lazy, thriftless set, some of them starving
themselves in their wretchedness rather than
work. The Government has frequently to make
contributions to them. The Canadians would
rejoice to see them all packed off South where
they might be made useful. The Canadians,
Mr. Bramlet says, are really Northern men with
Southern proclivities.
*‘8ilation” ©f the Yankee Arm/, a« Stated
by Thcmaelrea
Yesterday, we published a brief extract from
a letter in the New York Tribune, dated Har
rison’s Landing, July 2. The letter shows ve
ry clearly the "situation” of the Yankees after
the fight, and we give fuller extracts from it:
As we approached the wharf,
land to the left was a dead level,
with the covers of our baggage
were here drawn up in an iuimense-, ; .
which we had taken to be tents p , L
the steamer’s deck. To the right '
gently from the river until it reaebt^ ls ra,s
lion of perhaps thirty
vateil plain and along
our sick and wounded
the rain, without tents, or knapsacks, or arms.
: ng gi-tfce-
generally Ct
-o to clear i
■ intS
meet
win
cal
•: io ci£8
fc-’Y or
"“taoee
rtev t u
> w
NX >.■
so si
that sti.
hitn.
The Cincin!
which purport
announcing thai
navigation for I t
fugitive, to be a forgery.
Secretary Stanton is repo> ''
that the call for three hundred -v ,
tional troops has been responded bj V
promptly than the Government 1 !)*
On the other hand, the New Y : I j-
clares that the “call’’ has not yt wo Te sterdaV j-U
first flush of enthusiasm ; that “dis^ Morgan at -V
like a pall,” and that "a sullen gloo’i.‘ nor “jjj ca< CaiUti oraer
The people are coldly,rhomd *. part of
ijla. The army is still in good 1
VOLXP
[E
rived at Louisv*
Has have been 1
'silouies have been buF
XX?'"* around Salem i
-Tom fl
from
uiauiug iu
tracts from it: s i pose of me
rf, I notice ■’ .‘yy menL In
', an< jt’"Vicneral8 I we ^ PXCI -
;e tr; , , # ^comi
on every heart
less.” The New York Tribune rejoices qTJon-M
gratifiy ing belief that that conception of ineiu-
ble stupidity, the great Union anaconda, is
defunct After recapitulating the series of re
verses which the “anaconda” has occasioned,
the Tribune anathematizes that military reptile
as "a blunder, a humbug, and a nuisance.”
The N. York World is of the opinion that an
additional hundred thousand, if they could be
brought into the field in twenty days, would
throttle tils rebellion : but both the World and
the Philadelphia Press concur in staling that
recruiting for the new levy goes on very slow
ly. The Press says there seems to be a with
holding of support on the part of the public
journals. There is not that unity of effort
among newspapers throughout the North which
yielded such gratifying fruits a year ago.” Un
der these circumstances, it is intimated that
drafting may have to be resorted to tor the pur
pose of meeting the exigencies of the Govern-
financial circles there is, moreover,
itemenL Stocks and public securities
coming seriously unsettled. Goldadvan-
»,\terday to seventeen and a halt per cent.,
, oVJ rate for bills of Exchange on Europe
f j-^p proportionately. The news from Eu
°I?nay possibly have had something to do
perturbation
taaf;
army at Last.—A few days since
of the t(?Aie o e ‘b** U-'ted States i
the tents havejeen extended
the river almost to the very doo;
mansion at Berkeley. By the
camp fires Tuesday evening, it wa'
supposed that the enemy had advantad^
what from the immediate banks of
mir 1ft tend to piata speedy end
ederate troons-ttiTTV
Here and there a single Sibley tent was visible, ' to the ? °
MU.I1*
CoNce to
has e
] >v«try, kill met;
“call 6f’t'*re si
untee r s 1 were ppear
be cor* infantry', rJiich. -Di’Jyjnahue, now a cap
ry of the Mutiny was the history of seemingly I working on the rail road from Columbus to vvhile their shoes and boots had several i can ‘ T ’
inexcusable error on the part of statesmen, I Cleveland, he was asked as to his lameness.— 0 f the nasty yellow stuff stuck into chival- jnteUigenc^SigSi-ft.—A j{g N congress.
generals and magistrates. ! He told them that he was a Canadian by birth, ; around them. Whole regiment were iniffiefsed | Tj^Tdefeat of McClellan
But what were these mistakes to the de-lu- | had emigratedto the Southern part ofOhiojust 1 10 • J a r knees, many up to their waist-, in the
The conductor took his dollar and told him to as a i so a sprinkling of white-roofed baggage
t off at Crestline Station. Walking on about wagons.
The scene presented as I landed defies all des
cription.
Under some trees which lay arouir^ 'n.dus
ters our men were crouched. They Rjftked as
unconsciousness of their nature. The . „ .
ful Sepoy,” the "mild Hindoo,” were implicitly i a mile from this station he stopped all night
trusted. Just as much as it was taken for; with a German and next day walked seven
granted that the Silkli was irreconciliably hos- ■ miles and a half, leaning upon an elder stick,
tile, the native Princes ambitious and eager to ' being otherwise completely broken down. He ^
take advantage of our weakness, while the pop-! stayed that night with a young man, whoshar- j jf they were more dead than alive, they were
ulations were anxious to escape from their ; ed his supper with him, and the next morning j covered to the crown of their heads with mud,
power to the shelter ol British law. The histo-1 again started. Coming across some laborers j their faces and clothes were literally coated-_
troops
are
keep navigat!
to ■ VRlfsbii
- esidenj^ters «.„ r age
bco^rab.^^j the
ampshire vol
Irishmen, will
TJj^Tdefeat of MUiWellan and the decimation
of his army has caused the question of arming
sions of the Northern people respecting the before the break ng out of the war, taken the ; ye llg a river, with branches of trees and pieces and employing the slaves as a military power
muiunion and j Typhoid Fever, which had fallen into his limbs ofs 11 *,^*, washing and scraping oft’ the dirt.— to be renewed in the Y'ankee Congress. It is
itercourse with | al> d made him b cripple, and that he was en Oaf* 5 - <y men were out so tar trying to get a j now advocated as a necessary measure of rein-
itn them, call - j deavoring to get uome to his friends in Canada i./lio. , wah h,” that the water reached their sad- forcement, and seems likely to meet with offi
ent water courses by which he was aiJor our
most completely surrounded. It is pip about '
known that heavy reinloicements have »» | (l ^ .
the Yankee McClellan, and it is believq ...l
his army now numbeis nearly or quite J** s w *
men. alf their
We have reason to believe y night nine boats
movement has been made Cj they beineb»' :
forces, but the particular- wile. , „ , if
few days, and we refrain, for' l “ e •- e<le
reasons, from giving them here«-*pt ure
nection, we subjoin an article fromsed to*-S
er ot yesterday, entitled the "situati r Has U
The movements of our army, for ’
days, have been entirely strategical ’
ing of importance has transpired, f OURTI^
for some days, so far as our as ad_,
none need be expected. It is s ! Lribune fr
to known first, that McClellan lation has , l
urging ed b e f uru Richmond, and second this 111
taking i medlate pi ans j n changing his, ss i3 Si p p i ’•Is
Se“s dthr ° USh the SUpen Y point
It will require an Herculean bc res *
to retrieve his failing lortunes, ‘
will require time, patience and
ergy. It is considered a physical,
for him to recruit his army in time
and earnest resumption of his "(? ra
mond” march. His statue at pres' cbes
not an idle one, is not and cannot taken i
as our own. At no period in the Iterates i
war has the Confederate governmejg sarr
e 1 a more dashing and energetic ,
that which is now permitted to antl
commanders of our army, althougff be Co
race which lived in
constant commercial a
them, which bought and sold
ti Na4
cial sanction at the Y'ankee capital. We give an
extract from the recent debate on this novel
ed them fellow citizens in electioneeering One of the laborers gave him a quarter of a while they vigorously scraped themselves
speeches, sent its children to be educated at the dollar. With only this in his pocket he got a nd their weary steeds. Many of the mao had |
same school, sat side by side with them at ho- aboard the next train and told the conductor ; no t had a dry biscuit for twenty-four huufs.— a *td very extraordinary proposiron:
tels, served in the same regiments, sailed in the j he wished to get to Sandusky, but hsd only I met an officer who was wounded in the eye, j Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, said the question was
, , , - i,. ■ same men of war, boasted with them of Amer- \ twenty five cents, with which he desired to go as his face covered with blood and mud. He was whether the negroes shall be employed to help
anil nieeding, men vyitn gno.uy eyes, looaig greatne ss in European company, and to for as possible. The conductor informed him j vainly offering $o something to eat. I movhd the rebels. The time had arrived, in his judg-
where he would get off but on arrival at the place . U p ihe hill through awful pools of mud, sinking ment, when military officers should be compel-
andas he was about to leave the, car the conduc- do wn to the knees at every step. I passed a ! led to call into service all loyal men to suppress
>ling 1
the foreign spectator seemed part of the same
people, one and indivisible? They now recol
lect that the Southerners clanned together, that
they despised the Northerner, that they hated
him as a plebian and a creditor, and that while
appearing to glory in the Union, they were
ready, almost to a man, to destroy it at the
bidding of the leaders in whom they confided.
How the Southerners hid their impulses and
their resolutions, indeed, is extraordinary, for
to the last the chief men in the Union did not
l a ieve tnat even South Carolina was earnest
tor seeing his condition kindly told him to keep , house which had the appearance of having been the rebellion. Heretofore these negroes had
temptation, "foreign interference,”
even more brilliantly and seductr.
ever. The war has at length becon,
est one, the Confederate governme'"
ed all parley with the rest cf th' —see *)•
relying upon right and her own Hf,. ,oi
determined to pursue it to the bitter er
would be imprudent to publish the move^n.,,..
which are now being made by our army. .
public must be satisfied that they arc w&
practical and essential to the success of th
struggle.
Up to 8 o'clock last evening our pickets had
his seat and that he would take him to Sandus- | deserted by its owner, as there were no doors worked only for the rebels, and done all the brought up no prisoners the first day thev
ky. ; or windows visible. This house was so crow-J labors of the camp for them. He was in favor i c,;u,i ,t„ \e„r'i„n >„ r.
He arrived in Sandusky in the evening, with-; ded with sick and wounded, poor, miserable
men, that a doctor who came up while I was
1
Hv'hns' faults——if he iiad none,"he 'would be no division, taking a wagon track through dense
min, but a descended god. 1 admire—I honor woods and precipitous ravines winding sinu-
him. But no man shall inteivene between me ously far around to the lfctt, and sti iking the
-in! lav country. And if he cannot hear and river some distance below Turkey Island turn-
Aill not heed th suggestions of those who, like- mencing at dusk, the inarch continued until
bin ell, have no interest to subserve hut that daylight- I he nl F b J was dark and fearful,
ol ou. common country, he is unworthy the Heavy thunder rolled in turn along eicli point
high destiny to which he is called. Ore heavens, and dark cfouds spead the en-
AYhat remedy is there for these things r ll tire canopy. W e were forbidden to speak aloud;
non.-, let us prepare our necks for the heel ol or, lest the light of a cigar should present a tar
ft,, despot, and bind our sons hi shambles, like get for an ambushed rifle, we were cautioned
-heep tor the slaughter. Let us all shout ho not to smoke, len miles of weary marching;
an..alls to the great god of misrule, drunken- with Irequent halts, as some one of the hund-
, and sink together to the level of an abject red vehicles of the artillery train, in ourcentre,
conquered people. That under the rules of by a slight deviation crashed against a tree,
the* .vice, and the articles of war. it is com wore sway the hours to dawn whenwede-
petent for the proper authorities so to deal with bouched into a magnificent wheat held and
the evil, as to suppress it, I have no doubt, but j the smokestack of the Galena was >n sighfo-
•f not, Congress should ai once apply the rem- Xenophon’s remnant of the ten thousand
A law should be passed, without hesita- i shouting, llie sea The soa. were not more
. . ■ • * / • rrln/1 llitlti tt’o
edy.
, s.ngle instance of in- gi a ^ than we
« m i I) M1 AP C ATI 1
lion or clulav, making a s.iiuia mawnw: VI •»»-I o-”- ---- ^ . , . I * -1 ~
loviation, in un officer of any grade, a forfeit-! Porter s entire train was brought over the
u,. ol his commission. The axe should be Chickahominy before the battle of Friday,hence
, i d at the root of the tree. It should be made j nothin,, was lost there At Savage s, when
a badge of irretrievable dishonor. The most I that pUce was abandoned,
able and gallant man in the service, should be ! ammunition and enormous heaps of quarter
consigned, with remorseless rigor, to infamy. ! masters aru sutlers stores, o^ers baggage
I. i- no reply to say, that such a law would ; and soldiers knapsacks were destroyed and
deprive ns of the be'st men in the service-. In j at every halting since, the lagot has been busy
no sense are drunkards the best men. No ca
pacity is worth a groat, when smothered, or
with whatever could be transported no further.
I can form no estimate of the entire value, but
it is immense. One thing is certafo, but little
infuriated by liquor. The higher the cipacity, . . A . . , ,
the more the danger. The genius of Marlbo-1 has fallen into the enemy’s hands
rough, with Matlborough drunk would be a Addres8ofOon . McClellan to the Army of
cui- and Napoleon drunk, would be cither a | the Potomac,
nr a dolt. W
adman or a dolt. We have men enough to
lead our armies without making drafts upon
the obscene list.
Let us entrust our our destinies to our Lee,
Stonewall, Bragg, Polk, and others. They are
the- men for the times. The muse of history
will find no colors bright enough, for the por
traiture of their renown. The least of my ap
prehensions is the want of men. Southern
chivalry is but beginning to il.ustrate its in
vincibility. II we had them not, the cause and
the crisis, would make them. With or with
out West Point, we shall triumph gloriously.
From the very stones ol the battle field, will
God raise up men to lead the hosts of Southern
liberty. Washington came out from the quiet
Walks of Colonial civil life, and stands first and
foremost among the heroes of all history.
Atn I told that an anonymous article like
thi: will do no good ? I answer, that 1 have
no hope that it will reach the lefty ear of autho
rity—its voice is too feeble. The soft breeze
of'the tropics first stirs the surface of the great
Jeep in ripples; gathering strength, it piles up
thiJfcb'hty waves, and, lashed at length into
Umhestuous rage, it upheaves the very lowest
depths, and their surges roll, resistless, over
i-lands, fleets and promonitories. Public sen
timent is a moral deep. Discussion by small
beginning!, may toss it into storm, and woe be
to lmn w ho resists its power.
Without a figure, it is fully time that public
opinion be brought to bear upon this enormous
evil. Thinking men should speak of it—the
press should denounce it—and the pulpit
should lift against it its voice of warning. The
press especially should coino to the rescue.—
Fact- should be laid bare and before tliecoun
try. The note of remonstrance, waxing loud
ct and louder, should rise to such a volume as
to shake the very foundations of authority
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
RfTLEDGE.
The enemy have been displaying consider*
the Potomac
Washington, July 6.—Advices from thcAr
my of the Potomac, up to Saturday night, in
dicate that all is quiet and the army in good
spirits.
Headers, Army of the Potomac, j
Camp, near Harrison’s Landing,
July, 4, 1662. )
Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac ! Your
achievements of the past ten days have illus
trated the valcr and endurance of the American
oldicr. Attacked by superior forces, and with
out hopes of reinforcements, you have succeed*
ed in changing your base of operations by a
flank movement, always regarded as the most
hazardous of military operations. You have
saved all your guns < xcept a r ■ 1 t ?• battle,
taking in return guns and culms trom the en
emy
hie activity of movement in the vicinity of the
upper Rappahannock. They have gathered a
body of about five thousand men at W arrenton
and have also detached bodies, amounting in
the aggregate to a considerable army, at vari
ous points stretching irom Catlett;, station in
Fahquicr, through Warrenton, Amt sville, and
Washington to Spcrryville, at the ease ofthe
Blue Ridge in Rappahannock county. They
are exercising a very rigid control over the
movements of citizens, passport* be ng granted
with much reserve by Gen. Bates, who has his
h adquartets at the Warren Green Hotel, in
\Yarrenton. Gen. Rickets is quartered on the
road from Warrenton to the Springs, about two
miles from the former place.—Richmond Ln
quinr, 12 :h.
Upon your march you have been assailed
lay after day, with desperate fury by men of
the same race and nation, skillfully massed and
led. Under every disadvantage of number, and
necessarily of position also, you have in every
conflict beaten back your foes with enormous
slaughter.
Your conduct ranks you among the celebra
ted armies of history. None will now question
what each of yon may always, with pride, say,
“/ belong to the army of the Potomac." You
have reached this new base complete in organi
zation, and unimpaired in spirit. The enemy
may at any time attack you—we are prepared
to meet them. I have personally established
your lines. Let them come, and we will con*
vert their repulse into a final defeat.
Y'our Government is strengthening you with
the resources of a great people. On this our
nation’s birthday, we declare to our foes who
are rebel* against the best interests of mankind,
that this army shall enter the Capital of the so-
called Confederacy ; that our national Constitu
tion shall prevail, and that the Union, which
can alone insure internal peace and external
security to each State, must and shall be pre
served, cost what it may in time, treasure, and
blood Geo. B. McClellan,
Major General Commanding.
Since then it may be said that the North has
been deceived in everything. First it could
not beliete that theConle-derates would be able
to raise an army at all. President Line In ask
ed for 75,000 men for three months, and there
is no reason to doubt that he expected the
number and the time to be sufficiin 1 . Then it
was said that the Southerners could r.ot fight,
had not the qualities of soldiers, were too wild
for discipline, and would ubey only a guerilla
chief. Let the a tacks and still more the re
treats of the Confederate Generals declare how
far this opinion was well founded. The most
conspicuous errors have related to the unanim
ity of the South, and its position relative to the
negro race. That a large Union party would
raise wherever the Federals appeared, is a fancy
now cruelly dissipated, anil with it vanishes
the only justifications of the war in the minds
of impartial men. But a yet more remarkable
fact is the attachment of the slaves to the white
race in the South.
Both the Northerners and those who echo
them in this country were never tired of re
peating that the Confederates would not dare
to offer any real resistance, inasmuch as they
held in bondage four millions of their fellow
creatures who would obey the natural instincts
of humanity by massacreing the women and
children as soon as the men had left for the
war. But at last the crucial experiment has
been tried. The Southerners have gone, al
most to the last man, to the war, the victims to
tyranny which is described as so savage and
revolting that “it unites in itself all crimes,”
are left almost uncontrolled, and in some pla
ces absolutely masters, yet there is no rebellion.
A Federal General, stationed in a region where
the negroes are lour fifths of the population,
issues a proclamation declaring the slaves of
those States free. Y'et there is no uprising lor
liberty. It is a melancholy fact for philan
thropists and literary ladies; but there is none.
The only thing left now is to declare that the
negroes have been so degraded by oppression
that they have no desire for what is within
their grasp.
The fact seems to be that the Southern cam
monicealth is socially far stronger than any one
either at the North or in Europe had supposed.
Nothing was moie natural than lor the great
a priori reasoners to demonstrate that 300,000
slave owners could never induce several mil
lions of "mean whites” and four millions of ne
gros to aid them in an aristocratic revolution.
Yet they have done it. Society at the South is
evidently not in an artificial state; the equilib
rium is not unstable which meets such a shock
as the Northern invasion. The “mean whites,”
in other words, the small cultivators, trade
people, and artisans of the South—make up
the Confederate armies, and are bitter scces
sionists, without any personal interest in slave
ry ; and, as our correspondent tells us to-day,
the Southerners are not afraid to raise negro
regiments to oppose those whi:h the North are
said to have levied.
The Americans are too shroud not to see and
understand these things, and, should the hot
weather lead to a suspension of hostilities, we
are inclined to hope that the voice of reason
will once more be heard. Our letter from
New York gives, no doubt, a truthful picture
of the terror which restrains nen from saying
what they think. But wher we find that a
member of Congress and a representative of
New York has the courage to rebuke the sav
age passions of his people, wo are encouraged
to hope for some change. Th .* speech, or rath
er pamphlet, for it was neve" spoken, of Mr.
Benjamin Wood, is but the rt petition of wbat
we have been saying for munths. He asks,
“What is the use of a union of unwilling States,
driven into companionship at the point of the
out money, and ia a state of starvation. His
only clothes were the laborer’s suit, ragged and there could not possibly get in.
dirty,
them
caped
believ
this _ _ D
no attention, forgot his lameness, and walked i 0 its utmost capacity.
! of giving the President the power to call into
the service all the slaves of rebels. This Union
have failed to do so since McClellan’s forces
reached Berkeley. We presume the vigilance
wnne I was , ineserwcea.. me slaves ui reoeia. a ms emon I of McCle i lan - s rive r guard lias been redoubled,
great crowd must be preserved; and rather than it should and the crea tures who are so anxious to
I conversed with many
off as rapidly as possible. Keeping on for , nrave men who had fought theirjway with our
about two miles and finding no pursuit, the ' ar my through hosts of Confederates. They
excitement subsided and a reaction took place I were not dismayed or frightened. Quite the
and he was again as lame as before. It was j contrary. In a calm and cool manner—not noli
now raining, will hail and snow falling, and | c j ng ih e torrents of the rain falling on their
blowing a gale from the Northeast. With his | heads-theru they stood telling of the vast hordes
thin, lagged clothing, for which he had exchan- \ 0 f Confederates by which they were outnum-
draft negroes as any one else.
Mr. Collamar, ol Yermont, said the reason the j
The gr >t Koh i-noor diamond is in the Lon
ged his warm Southern uniform, it seemed as j bered. I stood io the centre of many a great
States had not called the negroes into the mili- don exhibition. The case in which it lies it
tia was because the laws of the United States gently rocked by mechanism, so that the Koh-
confined the militia to the whites.
Mr. Sherman contended that all the people
of the country, without distinction of color,
were liable to be called into the service of the
country, if circumstances demand it. We must,
i-noor is exposed in different positions in the
ig’nt, and tia-hes with a brilliancy before un
known.
Philadelphia Cotton Market.—The Inqui*
o - , l, , | — « .. -■ . .... , uirer, of th< 7 instant says: “The market is
though every blast penetrated through him group of privates who gatuered around me to to a certain extent, follow the bad example of b art . 0 f f ^ ’ small sales of good middlimr
and he was in danger of freezing to death.— j learn the re-ws from the rest of the world—for the rebels, and infuse more energy into our mil- u ,,| an j s . |e rtl „, dat41 cents cash °
Upon asking several to be allowed the privilege | they saw by my clean linen that I got among , itary movements. These rebels resort to all
of staying all night, Celling them his penniless them by some other route than Savage Station, sorts of expedients, and make the negroes work
condition, he wus refused. Continuing his , [ d j d n 0 t hear from these men one single word »nrl «-h..n ttmi is <
journey, he lost his way on a road that led oft’ 0 f murmur or complaint. They said, “We are
and fight, and when that is done, why cannot
we employ these negroes ? They hang Union
0bitoarn.
LLEUT. THOMAS S. JONES.
Lieut. JosEJ.ot the Beauregard Volunteers, 8th G*.
Kegiment, wan fatally wounded upon the bloody battle
field, aear Richmond, on the filth day of Jane of which
into a clearing instead of a farm-house, as he ! rea dy when reinforcements arrive to go at them men, but we must not talk of hanging Uaitors.
had supposed. Night came on, the rain still again.” At this time there was a schooner at , In such a way we would have ended this con-
falling, with a cold, bitter wind piercing him the end ol the wharf, and a gang of at least three test. He thought the time had come when we r a ;
through and through, almost depriving him of hundred contrabands were in line, each having should array the whole force of the Govern* mcVh day o. Ju“y GeorgiaHo.ptt*l
all sensibility or feeling. At times he would ; a box of buiscuit on his shoulder, carrying them ment in earnest, and put down the rebellion Entering with ardor Into the canae of his country at
sink knee deep in the swamp and mud, extri- ashore. 01 e . lse t we W|U nevei ; ""«*•* VVe can " ot w:ir | l SSJSS&yShft
eating himself on.y by creeping on his hands The river along the wharf is very shallow, against savages, unless we become part sava- • choice a* a private. He was soon promoted to the rank
I and only one vessel of light draught can come ges ourselves. | of-rd Lieutmant, which office he ailed wi th credit to him-
and knees.
At another tim; he became lost in the forest, I along side the end of the wharf. The portion
got entangled among thorn thickets, and seve- ; #f the Supply Fleet which had arrived lay sen
Mr. Fessenden, of Maine, said this bill pro
posed to meet any possible contingency in lack
of sufficient enlistments, and authorizes the
ral times gaYe up in despair, submitting him - \ tered in the river some di.-tance off The enemy O' sufficient enlistments, and authori
sell to fate. Finding a box of matches in one ! were throwing shells into our lines while l was President to call on all available for the
of his pockets, he determined on one more ef- on shore, which were quickly responded to by He wa s in favor ot this hill, and consu
fort and getting ) few dried chips, pulled off our men. About twelve o’clock, I took a small a true precautionary measure. He v
the bark ot an old hollow tree and succeeded ■ boat, to visit the gunboat fleet, in company with fectly to^ k»sj>wn State
in starting a fire. By means of fence rails he Lieut. Col. Daniel Elliott, Aid-de Camp, of ‘ " "
was enabled to keep us this fire, and standing , Maine, and Dr. L. Munson. The far-lamed
over it, managed to keep from freezing until Monitor lay in the Middle of the river, and as
there was not that willingness shown to re-en
list as heretofore. This was not from any want
ot heart or determination to put down the re
! and returning home he erlieted in the company of hit
a- x» moted totke rank
with credit to him-
t*eif, and although at tirst a novice in military drill, by
induatry and perseverance, he was Boon considered the
best company officer in the Regiment, lie command
ed the company in the battld of the Seven Pines, on
the 31st of May, (hie superior officer* being at the time
confined to the bed of sickneat*,) in which one third of
bis entire command were either killed or wounded, and
although nnu?t d to the carnage 01 the battle field ha
acauitted himselt with great credit and won the admi
ration and praise of bis field officers lor hia coolneaa
and the consummate skid wi h which be fondled hia
command under that deadly fire.
It was the pleasure oi the writer of thif, to have been
associated »i h Lieut. Jones irom the first organl'**
tion of the company to the time ol hia death, c
was enabled to keep us tins are, ana standing , Maine, ana y r - 1 „ I othMrt or determination to out down the re- a ^»«cUted Lieut. Jone. irom ih.fim orglm*
over it, managed to keep trom freezing until Monitor lay in the Middle of the liver, and as neart or aetermination to put aown me r,) lion „r t h e company n, the time oi uu death .a-* ioall
davlitrht Xlthoi-'h paralyzed in limbs and I the Lieutenant commanding was an old pupil | bellion, but the people feel that tne war must ; tbe various relations and association* of camp life. He
SKSd - "L, L succeeded in crowing ; of Col. Elhott, at the Colonel’s suggestion, we | ^o-ad-ted on
another strip of woods, came up to a fence,
and the welcome sight of a farm house greeted
visited tier first
Just as we left, General McClellan boarded
that there should not be such extreme tender
ness shown towards traitors and rebels. Sol-
viciims than this brave young soldier. Adorned with
every trait which maker e.timsb e ihe human char.o*
onl V a second He Dassed close bv the Monitor i the rebels, or to dig trenches when there are so -pent to society and an honor to his, lami.y. Though
only a second, ue passeu t lose oy me jaunuui r ® , .... . , ihe is lo-t to us in bodi;y presence the memory of hia
and hoarded the steamer Expiess, which was ! many friends better capable and willing to do ma ny virtues and social quail les wiu 1 ve long in tha
hearts cl his fc.low soldiers and aeso. late*, ami a g-
The President and Government may now as w111 keep lre ' a lbe tlotJ of kri
anu tne welcome sigui oi »■ * 7 n , ““ ’ , . • j. not Hire *n he evnnsed to hardshins ter—giltedby nature with uo ordinary endowment*, a
his eyes. Upon calling at the gate he was in the Galena. He came by himself, in a boat (tiers do not l.ke to be exposed to hardships> , well improved, had he been perm or a , 0 live
vited in and sat down to warm himself, hut which was pulled by sixteen men. He stayed an d death for the protection or the property of, lived he would have made au-eful citu u, an crus
was compelled shortly after, from a sickening
sensation, to go out on the porch for ventilla
tion. Upon his return, the tanner gave him a
second invitation to take breakfast with him,
which ho accepted with grateful thanks. The
storm continued, and the farmer insisted upon
his staying till it was over. To his inquiries,
Mr. Bramlet repeated the story of his Canadi
an birth, and said he would like to get work in
order to get the means to continue his journey.
The farmer immediately recommended him to a
neighbor who h».d been enquiring for laborers.
Federal Indebtedness.—Vallandigham, of
Ohio, in a recent speech in the Lincoln House
of Representativeness, says:
The total ot actual debt and expenditures,
and absolute or contingent liability, for which
this Administration is chargeable, from March
4. 1861, to July 1,1862, item by item, is $912,
550,933 48. At the rate per month of $60,
837 330, and for every Jay during the whole
period of fifteen months $2,027,911. This does
cot include the debt previous to March 4,1861
-*$72,289,000.
Mr. Bramlet, after again thanking the farmer, 3Uiart tiring ashore, and we expected a bauie
started for the place to which he had been di : every minute.
rected, but misttking the house, stopped at! The Express, which General McC’. uwu
another farm house, the proprietor of which visited, moved up and lay omside some five or
was an Irishman, who invited him in. Here six barges, and commenced unloading her am-
he disclosed his true character. The Irishman munition. The gunboats all shifted their posi-
had been a day or two before to Sandusky, to 1 tions. The Monitor moved down the river to
collect somedues ofa merchant who, itseems, ! protect the rear, and in a quarter of an hour she
was an abolitionist, and who, he discovi
upon his arrival home, had defrauded him
While Mr. Bramlet was there this man com-
before them
4 o'clock P. if.—The firing has ceased, the
was an abolitionist, and who, he discovered, ; and others were belching forth into the woods 6ut it, expected mat tney sna i come torwaru , — rSIaflbVchlcT^mv“ ATorpaSTaod thifiS
hi,1 arrival home, had defrauded him. before them. 1 ’ "=>r hearts and souls, then he would , r e.ualu,r. K male memberoUhi. family*.are clrrumsun'
tell the . *‘Sident and the Generals that they , ce» watch make tu* death oae o! peculiar and
•1 net r*. *i i <a tltcir tifirtipp And thpir — ^li.ch euhaiiC** in bitternei** the $>rici of his luflciiui
must n i us* tneir practice ana meir coil™. (giBterp< Many have been thc ga n ftnt gpirlt9 rendered
rz—’ V~’i ° • i „ mQ n hod rrthhed ! ‘ vi^rmwlr and lnrae trniw^ I He 8il*l this alter due reflection and dellbera- up a aaoritice to this unholy -xrar, butthanhim we mo am,
bloody Tankee cogs, &c. t men who nad robot kinds i» going on vigorou.i}, and larg . t - because he thought it ought to be under- none who nobler fell, none more lamented or beloved,
him ever since he came from the old country, ports, loaded down with sick and wounded, are 1 * \ . . . ?• > „*A r f.:L -;n not dn : Ue htt * gone lo uia rcet; low lle * tht> y° n thfol warrior
."5 ij ZljSLi thp Confederates would cut ateamintr aW av down stream The mail boat I stood thal th,s wh,le kld wa t rfare not <f>. — ■ beneath the consecrated Boil oi Yirg.nia’t *cd Free-
and he wished the conieatrates wouiu cut steaming away aown stream, jne man uuh Hewould U8e a n the means known to put down dom’$ battle field. No .uter's prayen will hallow or
thom niM*DS has received an order to be ready in an hour. ..... make tarred hi* last and lonpiv ia<.*iiut dIuv-.v
bayonet, and held there there fter by a miliu-
ry power? * * *
If not brought back by negotiation, they are
lost to us forever. ♦ * * To conquer them
may be possible; but to holt. them in subjec
tion, having conquered then , would in itself
be a final repudiation of the first principle of
republicanism." Such is tl e language of a
man who sees the madness ol bis countrymen,
and will save them if it be possible. Maybe
find followers as bold and plair spoken 1 Then,
indeed, we shall begin to beli :ve in the ninety
days of the Federal prophecy. Let the North
ern people once perceive that the choice is be
tween a peaceful settlement and a bootless war,
gathering new horrors every day, and they will
not reluss tbs advice even of England.
loaded down with ammunition, and which lay i
only a short distance from tne Galena. He then
went ashore. About this time l noticed two
separate gangs of signal officers on the top ot
the high house on the hill. One party wa.-
mounted on the root, the other on the eave rf
the house. Those on the roof were signalling
to the army lines in their rear, and those on th<
eave to the gunboats on the river. A general
commotion was visible everywhere. Theresas
well understand that if this policy is to be fol
lowed by tenderness towards traitors and mur
derers, tuen will hesitate before they expose
themselves to that kind of life. He was utterly j his couairy's call of resistance to inva-iou, having join"
at a loss to see what objection there could be ed the let oa. Reg. in March, of’sl. Lniti J one he war
J . fltstuinrd ** Pen-arolfl. B n Ann w.. th*..*. —
Henkt Dillon, member of comps ay D, 8th Ga K*r ,
was killed in the battle below Richmond on Frki.
the 27th of Jane, aged 18 yeaie and 10 months.
Though so young he was one of the drst to answer
. . . stationed at Pensacola, Fla., and was thence ordered
co it. It was contrary to every principle oi , to North-western, Va., where he participated with hon*
warfare to sacrifice Our soldiers by the perfor- | or to himself and pride to his friends, in the battles of
mance of a rintv which friends stands rpa Iv to ' Greenbrier and Laurel Hill, being oae of the member*
mance os a duty wmen menus sianus ready to : who were Jour loat iu tbe famoa , retreat from the
execute. The correct principles ol war are to ! latter place. Through all that trying campaign he bore
weaken the enemy in every way, and to
strengthen yourself.
It this thing is to go on, the consequences j
may t well be understood by the President 1
without murmur or complaint its hardships and sever-
! ities, proving himself ever the genial companion, the
upright comrade, the steady friend and the unfaltering
soldier. Returning to Georgia, at the expiration of the
lime for which ho enlisted, he was honorably dlech&rg
: ed irom the serviceia March, of this year, in Augusta.
Jo — -
and tht -lternment, for public opinion wilU After a week of recreation and re-union with hia tam-
not sum tiu them. The people of this country
are willing to go forward under any pressure, UcTen i\nee. Another short month ana again he met
but it i. expected that they shall come forward , hl» country's foes andhU own death upon the bloody
* . •* . . * v ' irrou» d of the Chickahominv. At. nmhin and th« iu*t
them to pieces.
Mr. Bramlet hearing this, took the farmer 1 All the mailes she brought with her she carrie:
aside and asked him to give his word of honor back, with orders to bring up from Fort Mon-
that he would u«t reveal what he wished to ; roe the headquarters mail only. Ihe Paymas-
m | the rebellion.
There was another thing he thought was a
mistake, which was the attempt to dncaive the
tears make sacred his last and lonely resting place, but
hoverii g above her boy m,; even now keep watch a*
ngel-mother. Sweeny rest, young sleeper, in thy
darksome grave” till Archangel’s tramp -hall sum
mon ihee ana u* to ioin in realms unknown lo change
disclose. W He replied he would if it was any * ters that ca ne up all return-so our men will people by ogling a defeat ‘‘a pv.V strategic '’““^ring 1 , Ga^y 15. IsSk. *
thing honorable, if not he had better keep it. . have to wait a little longer for their letters am | told the wholo ti uth^ as to what Departed this!Life.on tha *7th of June
Mr. Bramlet then told him he was a Southern- their well-earned cash. , a ^ tokUhe 'whole truth as to what Va., Willias M. Watson, ofCrawlon
er and a military prisoner, endeavoring to make
his way into Canada. The farmer grasped his
In Richmond
— co., Ga., aged
When the call was made upon Georgia
Yankee Trick.—A soldier
hand, said his h;art was with him, but that he picked up on t i, c battle field, a Yankeo a.™- ; frk r nds f riends
was a poor mar. not able to do much in the mond Dispatch,” which had been dropped by ; , f thi county n reC iselv what the patEpt. was found at
u.’_ II r„—a kirn nr,™-. I v» n u u vv« harf, nol vet seen it . tne people OI mis country precisely wuai uie the post of oguger. Struck early in the engagement by
BHT SOrae dcad Y a k navo ‘101 yet seen U, condition of thin gs is . He had been amused by a ball, he wi. Sarr led to the Hospital and fingered oil
aeunostty. It , j a caU upon the different Governors for
was wanted by the country. Deal with them j«years, .
; Rnnestl v and everv true Northern heart will ; volunteers ln the spring ot 1861, W illiam attached him
from Georgia ! “ one stiV, ana every true Aonnern neart wni ■ 9e ;, to Company B. .;th Ga. Reg., and with his comrade*
..RiJt respond. Deal with enemies as enemies and m arm-, repaired to Virgin
lankeo ItlCtl- , . r . v. r.n_ ... i toh ... w.. n.rfA—At,
irglnia. On the 81st May the gal-
11 is folly to hesitate to tell 'ant nth oa. was ordered to the fletd of battle, (Uhicka-
- hominy ) Wiliiaru, like a true patriot, was found at
Mr. Rice, of Minnesota, said the time had j cnrUt for two years He bore his aflllrtion wn
way of assisting; him. He referred him, how-
eicr, to a gentleman, the onewhobad inquired j ^ ut p ersons who have, say it is a
for laborers, saying that he was a friend to the | , 8 p^actly like this paper. The size, paper,
South, a good Democrat who expressed himself] adver tisements and all are precisely thc same,
openly, was wealthy, and would, he felt assur- , q he on jy f ca turc is the editorials. The Y’ankee
ed, be glad to aid him. | concern is full of desponding and despairing
Mr. Bramlet started, and upon arriving at , editorials, which pronounce our cause despe
the place saw tb.e proprietor of the yard. lie rate and say that McClellan is obliged to take
told him that he had been recommended to him the city. These counterfeits are no doubt sent ;
to get work. The reply was.
thought of hiring, but the weathe
he thought, with the assistance of his boys, ; ma y
and money matters rather tight, he would nation so thoroughly base?—Rich. Vis
be able to manage with what help he had. 1 * 1 i .n l t_ - n nw«r to ami Blln 'I eterna: gain, roace to ms asnes. r. «.
lie asked Mr. Bramlet what he could do.— i Jackson Promoted.—The people of the Con- J n . u ^ Departed this life on the arth ofjuneiast, in i
II.J,. P 1,..t, r jibwf SK.T.S. SM “ *« >»r-rn* “»r*jm«.iTuiri™iSI
jmd him very closely and d, d not seam to like ^ Richmond Dispatchi that lhe Government put the rebellion at at. end.
Rn mfot' revealed Hs true condit- appreciating his distinguished services, has eon- I Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, briefly explain-
f xred upon ‘T)ld Stonewall” the rank of full ; ed the features of the bill, and denied that he
1UU* UC yy ucs UUtu j . , , , . . I _l V-. ™Lo.» IznAirn to tha ( janfotlpratn i a war plrmcn tnaf th« ffftYftpnmpnt had nmi«
here he &t&id for two weeks, until he had whol
ly recovered from his lameness.
The proprietor then furnished him the means
to continue his journey. Mr. Bramlet went
- “ „ . - .... , : The writer hits known William from his cradle. Ha
300,0C0 troops, which Simply meant that the was In truth a model youth, beloved by all who linen
President and Government thought they would b > m - A duii.ul son, »u Affectionate brother, kina and
want more troops. The enemy knew this and , D^Tr-
everybody knew it. Then why not teil the • lectly teusibie, and remained so to the last. He was
I lrll »h 9 I willing to die. Ue wanted to see his mother, brothel
1 1 j and sisters—he asked nothing more. Bail a *• Y>e in
. ” rrrn unu
hi-
are
liam,
with
gues of war, thou hast ascended to that rest that
remains for the people of God. Weep not. parents and
tiends, as those who have no hope, for onr loss is his
eternal gain. Roace lo bis ashes. K. M. o.
Rich
Ga..
fiap-
tirt Church in the year 1S54. He was a noble brother,
ever ready to give a helping hand to the cause ol hl»
Heavenly Mi ster His morals throngli life good, a good
neighbo'. a dutlfhi ton an affectionate orother. He
lefthome some time aince, and repaired to Virginia
with the Ray Guards, to defend hia country’s rights--
but alaa, ’ he destroying aDgcl has cut h m doe n. May
the afflictions of a broken-neart r-d moth: r, brothers and
we, when the rebel* resort to all means, tail
from any sickly notions, and refrain from using 1
General, the highest known to the Confederate i ever claimed that tbe government had mote
service. This is a title richly merited by an forces than were needed. In regard to the stop-
officer who has shown himself at all times ac- i page of recruiting, some time since, he said
tiva, vigilant and tkUlfuL
c •, • a* • -j the afflictions of a brofcen-iKiarT'-d mothiT, orotners an
page of recruiting, some time since, he said be sanctfiied to ihci'^of each. Peace to hi
that enlistments had cessed, and it was neecs- 'ashes ” H. 0,