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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, Tl E SD AY, JUL Y 22, 1862.
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COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAR, 1802.; ed, and proposed to soil, cheap for
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S)AYg, ©AYS. and bridle/’ A crowd soon collected
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made. But t!te price was considered
too high, and the owner was about to
mount, when a young man, who wa?
notorious for bis speculating tenden
cies, proposed that the horse should
through my soul ami brought^ tears from
my eyes: “I have been in the service of
of my country fifty years, and this is the
first time lhat I have had to turn my bach
to an enemy. If I had a good pair 01 legs,
I would give the
before I die.”
ing “ 1 lie sea ! the sea !” were not more any time attack you—we are prepared to
glad than we. 1 meet them. I have personally established
th
Porter’s entire train was brought over your lines. Let them come, and we will
e Chickahominy before the battle of; convert their repulse ii
Friday hence nothing was lost there. At
e Yankees one good fight | Savage’s, when that place was abandoned, withtl
lie was a refugee from his j 1,700 cubic feet of ammunition and eimr- this, o
be put up and raffled for. The idea j (here were times when we should not fight,
was a good and timely one, as most ^ 0,1 should have seen the old hero’s face
of the boys .had spare change enougi
at that moment.
Such a glow upon his
! tace! such lustre beaming f'n.m the eye!
in hand to take a cliauce. After some j showing the intensity of the patriotic fire
discussion it was agreed to put up the | within. lie replied: "My God, sir!
(Idle and bridle, at one I uu- k wlien is ' , . he < ,imc u e / h, ; uld . not , fi S h, . ! 1
; know of but one, and that is when there
1 sic no Yankees on our soil to fight.”
I reverence the spirit of that toil-worn
convert their repulse into a final defeat.
Your government is strengthening yon
he resources of a great people. On
I .,. ww .uu,, u. UU1IVUU1U..U «.iu ti,”.- mis, our nation’s birt liway we declare to
home it! New Orleans, accompanied by his ■ mous heaps of quartermasters’ and sutlers’ our foes, who are rebels against the best
stores, offieers’baggage, and soldiers’ knap- interest of mankind, that this army shall
sacks, were destroyed, and at every loti- | enter the Capita! <3f the socalled C’onfeder-
ting place since, the fagot has been busy j_a C y; that our national constitution shall
with whatever could be transported no fur- prevail, and ihe Union which can alone in
tlier. I can form no estimate of the eu- , sure internal peace and external security
tire value, but it is immense. One thing to each State must aud shall he preserved,
is certain, hut little has fallen into the ene
my’s hands.
1 close to ride to the rear—now our
front.
j only son and servants.
| On one occasion, a gcutlemen remarked
that Gen. Forney was wrong in his deter-
I mutation to defend Mobile, as he thought
Al.I. Ql'IET
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TO-MCIiT.
Kinder? in Wonllic
Milledgevilltj, March i'.lth. 1 ~C1.
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COURT C ALLENDER FOR 1802.
SUPERIOR COURTS.
JANUARY.
3d Monday, Chatham*.
"Floyd
FEBRUARY.
1st Monday,Cluik
t Lumpkin
3d Monday, Campbell
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
Folk
Glascock
Merriwether
Walton
4th Monday, Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
Walker
MARCH.
lit Thursday. Pierce
let Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Coweta
Columbia
Ciawford
• Gwinnett
>1 adison
Marion
Morgan
2d Monday, Butts
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayett
Greene
Pickens
Washington
Webster
3d Monday, Cobbt
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Tattnal
Ware
Thursday after White
Friday alter, Bulloch
4th Monday, Clinch
Putnam
Rabun
Chattahoochee
Lee
Twiggs
Wilkes
Johnson
Milton
Thursday after l{a!>erskam|ter th
4thThursday, Montgomery
JULY.
Lt Monday, F.oy.l*
AUGUST.
1st Monday Lumpkint
2d M mdav, Campbell
Claik
Dawson
3d Monday, Fuisyth
PolK
Glascock
Merriwether
Walton
Itli Monday, Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
Y\ alker"
Thusday after, Pierce
I The following poetical gern we copy from r.
Western paper. Th« original was found in tin
pocket of a volunteer who died m camp „u the
Potomac:]
“AH quiet along the Potomac,''they say,
“Except now and then a stray picket
is shot, as he walks on his beat, to arid fro,
By a rifleman hid in the thicket *’
Tis nothing—a private or two now and then
Will not count in the news of the battle :
Not an officer lost—only one of the men,
Moaning out, ail alone, the death rattle.
All quiet along flie Potomac to-night,
\\ here the soldiers lit peacefully dreaming;
Their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon,
Or ibe light of the watcl tires are gleaming,
A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night wind
Horse, Stic
dretl dollars; there to he twenty
i chances at five dollars a chance. The
requisite number was soon obtained;
my friend of the Confectionery aud
myself agreeing to take the 7 tli chance,
(there’s luck in odd numbers you
, know,) he and I to ‘‘go halves” in the
| chance. After the preliminaries were
arranged, the raffling began. There
were three dice and three throws.
Up to the 7f ii chance, only had
been thrown. My friend insisted that
I should throw. Away went the dice,
one, two, three times, and the aggre
gate showed the handsome figures 4->!
Ail declared I was the successful man,
as the sequel proved. Here began
my difficulties. Iliad never content-L
plated such a
sol,lie:*—that hero of many battle-fields.—
How much like the great Patrick Uenery
when he exclaimed. “Give me liberty
or give me death!” Let the mantle of
Gen. Twiggs fall upon many now in the j ;lre stragglers
held defending our liberty.
cost what it may in time, treasure and
blood.
geo. b McClellan,
Major General Commanding.
The following extracts will conclude
Yankee Doodle’s veracious history ot the
great Union victory near Richmond:
The Yankee killed and wounded.
The Yankee loss in the recent battle
must have been fearful. The Northern
here and there, the sending of the wound
ed to different points in the North. For
I Ti
strategic movement.
In the. Baltimore Sun of the Oth inst, is
found a letter from the New York Post’s
correspondent relative to the battle of
uesday July 1st, at Malvin Hill. The
u , , ,, i .....ederates were, of course, driven from
result and was wholly t!ie fie i d t
Hi] * re pa red ior it. Neither my friend | A graphic description of the battle then
nor myself had a stable, or any money ! foHn ' vs - in V - Wc h it is stated that the
I Yankees numbered30,000, while the Reb
els numbered three times that many!
bumming up.
I shall have to hurry to the result. Our
lo.-s of yesterday may be estimated at 6,-
000. Many of these are prisoners. The
Pennsyl vania reserve were again in the
thickest- This morning they do not mus
ter 3,000 men. Arfld to these 1,000 who, , . . ,
, 7 -1, • i papers are filled with paiagraplis noting,
lers and will yet come in, and \ J r , ., v „ *, ?
the number is less than halt what they
began with at Beaver Dam. They
.«rr oi .JirCiriian’KjBr- ! J? st ! ev . ereI Y ‘l.ere, they were more j Ell irer pf tbe 7th we „ t the following
fen.. decimated the next day at Gaines ; rev datff,n for a single da£
Yankee Doodle has. according to Lfo I “I 1 ” 1 ®»d yesierdav they shrank to | Fortress Monroe, JulyU^Tbe I.ouis-
ttsual custom, endeavoured to induce j M^cSub” evwd'y womTde/anTin The i Jf? [«•* Washington with four
,i,„ i ft,.,* at .i*m„h„„ l I , , J , hundred and thirty wounded; the Kene
the woilu to l.elioxe that McClellan has enemy s hands. Onr brigade com- * , , , “ , , , r,-, . t i,,
. . . , . , . . i n r r „ ! beck with one hundred and ntt>; and the
ach.eved a great victory, performed a | mander. Gen. J J. Retmolds a. pnso- j g u , eof Maino with five hundred, have
masterly retreat, and executed a brilliant ! jv 1 ,, Aucnnionfl another Greneral (xeonre , just sailed; tiie former to Annapolis, the
latter to New Yoik. The Daniel Web
ster has just come in with a very large
number of wounded from up the James
liver.
young soldier who was io. nd dei d with
his Bible in his hand, and bloodj- finger
marks at the passage, “In my lathers
house are many mansions.” One day
while telling this incident to an acquan-
• tnce, a lady, some tweniy-five years old,
the effecting was entirely lost by her . in
stantly saying, “Poor fellow, if his father
did have many mansions there, he was
dying where they would do him no good.”
Wasnot that wonderful knowledge of the
Bible?
# * • * •
Every word of the above is true.
While salt is high, and meat is scarcer,
would it not be worth while for some t<*
ask themselves, which is the best econo
my, to kill their lings and lose * lie meat, be
cause. they have not salt enough to salt it'
all well; er to kill less and save what
they do kill by using plenty of salt? There
is much complaint about, spoilt meat. It
may le late to make suggestions, hut bet-
t-r a e than never. My opinion is that
meat beeps better when salted in a pickle*
ban in any other way. There should
always he liom lialfa peck to a peck more
sait to a barrel than will dissolve in the
brine; this is not wasted, forit can he. used
again, and the brine, after being scalded
is as good the second as the first year; this
is tor pork, not for beef. Then the meat
while in the brine, should always be cov
ered by it, if not packed closely enough
to stay down of itself, it should he pressed
down ivitli a weight. Be sure, though,
not to kill unless you intend to use sait
enough to 6ave.
«raker SdoodSr
instance, in a letter in the Philadelphia
more ».■> • n e ,,
M <
table, or any money
to buy board and lodgings ior out*
on did young horse. N\ litit was to' A correspondent of the Times is next
done? I thought of the -nan who I quoted as follows :
SEPTEMBER
1st Monday, Appling
Cnattoc
Gher.k
Columbia
■pa
t
i-ta
Crawford
Madison
Marion
Morgan ,
2d Monday, Butts
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayette
Greene
Gwinnett
Pickens
Washington
Webster
3d Monday, Cobbt
Calhoun
Hall *
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Ware
Bulloch
Iluirsdnvafter White
|4th Monday. Clim b
Putnam
Chattahoochee
Lee
Twiggs
Wilkes
Johnson
Slilton
Rabun
Thursday after Habersham
.Monday af- )
4th > Echols
Monday
Monday al- j t i,
. i.i \i f Krliola
day j Effi, 1 * ham
OCTOBER.
1st A 2d Mon. Uuiroll
1st Monday, Dooly
* APRIL.
Emanuel
lut A: 2d Mon.Curmll
Franklin
let Monday, Dooly
Early
Franklin
Fulton
Emanuel
Gilmer
Early
Gordon
Fulton
Taylor
Gordon
Warren
Pike
Wilkinson
Taylor
l’tke
Warren
Thursday alter Banks
Wilkinson
2d Monday, Fannin
Thursd’yafter Banks
2d Monday, Hancock
Richmond
Han is
Laurens
Miller
. Sumter
Tuesday after, Melutosh
3d Monday, Glynn
Haralson
Henry
Jones
Liberty
Murray
(Iglctlmrpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Monday Worth
after * 'Bryan
4th Monday,Wayne
Decatur
DeKalb
Houstoir
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Whitfield
Wilcox
Friday after, Telfair
Camden
Thursday after, Irwin
Monday “ Berrien
Charlton
MAY
1st Monday. Clayton
Seriven
Gilmer
Randolph
Ups) >*i
2d Monday, Catoosa
Jefferson
Chatham
Fannin
Mitchell
Muscogee
3d Monday, Bibb
Burke
Quittman
Spalding
Troup
Union
Baker
Thursday after Towns
4th Monday. Dade
Terrell
Last Monday, Colquitt
JUNE.
1st Monday, Lowndes
Dougherty
2d Monday. Brooks
Clay
3d Monday, Thomas
Richmond
Hancock
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Suu.ter
3d Monday, Glynn
Haralson
Henry
Jones
Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Union
W«rth
Thursday after Towns
Thursday ) Montgomery
| after »
(th Monday, Wayne
Decatur
I
Tl.T' ugh the forest lea’
While the stars up above, with glittering eyes,
Keep guard—for the army is sleeping.
There's only the sound of the lone sentry’s trea.
As lie tramps from the rock to the fountain,
Arid thinks of the two on the low trundle bed,
Far away in the cot on the mountain
His musket fails siack, his face, tiaik and grim,
Grows gentle with memories fender,
As lie mutters a prayer for the chi.'drt u asleep—
For their motfier, may Heaven defend her !
1 he moon seems to siiine as brightly as then,
That night when the love yet unspoken,
Leaped tip to his lips and low murmured vows
Were pledged to fce ever nnbr. ken ;
Then drawing his sleeve ron».‘: - over his eves.
lie dashes offtears that or.* wclimg.
And gathers his gun close up to it- place,
As if to keep down the he„rt swelling.
He passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree,
I h ’ footstep was b'gging and weary.
Yet onward lie goes through the broad belt o
light.
Tow ards the shades of the forest so dreary.
Hark! was that the night-wind rustled tin
leaves 1
Wa s it the moonlight so wonder fully flashing ?
It looked like a rifle "Ha .'—Mary good bye
Aud the life blood is ebbing and plashing.
Ail quiet along the Potomac to-night.
No sound save the rush of the river :
Wli iie soft falls the dt*w on the face of tbe dead —
The picket’s off duty forever !
u rev
! i 1
In all the engagements, Mechanicsville
and Gaines’ Mills included, can hardly fall
far short, or much exceed twenty-live
thousand men. Our loss in prisoners is
heavy, the enemy’s cavalry making easy
captives of thousands of stragglers, who
ads in our rear, and besides
these we have left thousands of wounded
j in their hands. Their loss must he at
least as heavy, and probably heavier in
i killed and wounded than our own, but in
j prisoners it fell far short, though we have
the owner of the borae, who had pock- * ak f n , ? b .° Ut ‘T 0 tb " usand from them *
, , . , , , , ,, 1 ! Included m our loss there were many ot
our finest officers, the number of line,
company and staff'officers killed and disa-
the elephant, under somewhat
imilar circumstances, and deeply sym
pathised witlv him. We concluded to
! ];ut the horse up again at S?-j 00, and i
• thus make a handsome speculation off j lined tm
of our investment of S-5 00. But no
| one responded. We then offered to
! raffle him at s-30 ()(). Still no one said
1 aye. We discovered afterwards that
lies m a tent near us seriously
wounded. Officers ol" low grade they have
lost in about the same pioportion. Of tlie
Bucktail regiment not a hundred respond
to the roll call.
Aud so with other divisions. For the
losses of the last six days cannot he less
than lo.OOO. It is only hoped that it will
not reacli ffO.OOO.
Prisoners taken h>j M'Clel/an.
The Yankee papers claim that McClel
lan took a large number of prisoners in tbe
battles before Richmond. A letter in th
I he correspondent of the New York Philadelphia Enquirer, from Fortress Mod
i’ ribune follows next, with a description ot 1 roe, says:
eted his hundred dollars, whispered
J around the secret that he was not
| worth a dollar, and he had nearly kili-
I ed him by cutting his throat for vic-
j iousness. There was one alternative
left. My father had a stable and I
j could lodge him there, and my friend
bled being unuuually large. Olll* loss ot
! guns is stated at forty, and we have ta
ken from tbe enemy perhaps two-thirds
j that number.
This Yankee Doodle correspondent then
proceeds to degnerreotype the back action
i movements of the skedaddling army in Hie
had corn meal, and for the present lie following graphic style :
j would be provided for. But, how j yy i(> Retreat.
J came I, a boy, with a horse, who had j The .« re tiring” of the Federals is thus
j never bad five dollars at one time in described by a correspondent of the New
my lift*! That was an enquiry which ^ 01 'k limes:
! 1 could not answer. But home I rode i Meanwhile the panic extended. Scores
‘iiin that afternoon.
the appearance of McClellan and his army
after the defeat.
The correspondent of the New York
Tribune, writing from Uarrisou’s Landing,
on the 4th instant, describes General 51c-
Clellan, as coming on board the mail
boat greatly perturbed. General Me- j d
Clellan we are told, met General Patter- ! u
General McClellan sent down 533 reb
el prisoners to-day, who were marched in
to Fottress Monroe in single’’file, and a
move unique spectacle never could be
dr eamed of. They wore all sorts of dress.
No two were alike, and they were dirty,
ngy and worn out. The rear was brought
i by about 20 contrabands, who, as they
non as lie stepped on board, and laid his ) stepped .ashore, grinned ghastly grins, and
massas” into the fort.
1 an Lie tdiouider and took him in
hurried manner info the aft cabin, or la
dies’ saloon. As he went in he beat the
air with his right hand clenched, from
which all present inferred there was.bad
news. To the astonishment of the writer
it was subsequently explained that tbe
whole army of the Potomac lay stretched
along the banks of the river where vve lay
having fought their way all through
from Fair Oaks, a distance of thirty
miles.
Gen. McClellan, however, claimed that
his troops “had fought the Confederates
in superior numbers every day for a week,
and whipped them every time.” To a
question as to the, location of certain divi
sions and their Generals, the answer was
followed ti.
Among the rebel prisoners are fifty offi
cers, two Colonels, three Lieutenant.-Colo
nels, and three majors. The following are
included in the number:
Major John Link, Seventh, Louis
iana.
Captain Cornelieus Page, 7th Louis
iana.
Surgeon Norton, Sth South Carolina.
Capt. J. W. Rogers, 1st South Carolina
Rifles.
Captain Kerby, 17th Virginia.
Captain Cranberry. 10th Virginia.
Captain John R. Towers, 1st Virgin-
Augnstus Shaw, Adjutant, Third Geor
glH
DeKalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Tattnall
Whitfield
Wilcox
Friday after, Telfair
Camden
Thursday after. Irwin
Monday after Charlton
NOVEMBER.
1st Monday, Berrien
Seriven
Clayton
Effingham
Randolph
Upson
2d Monday, Catoosa
Jefferson
Mitchell
Mnscogee
3d Monday, Bibb
Buikc
Quittman
Spalding
Troup •
Baker
4tli Monday, Dade
Terrell
Thursday after. McIntosh
Monday " Colquitt
Liberty
Mon. after Liberty, Bryan
DECEMBER.
1st Monday, Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday. Brooks
Flay
3d Monday Thomas
May bolds three weeks, if necessary, at each
term.
tJud/e not reqnired to draw Jurors fortwo
we**ks ; and not obliged to hold two weeks' Court
iu counties of Cobb and Lumpkin.
The following was picked up in the Yankee
camp near Richmond and sent tons for publica
tion *.
Skedaddle.
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through a Southern village passed,
A youth, who bore, not over nice,
A banner with the gay device—
•Skedaddle !
His hair was red: his toes beneath
IVeped, like an acorn from its sheath;
V bile with a tiighii nod voice ho sm g
A btuden sttange to Yankee tongue—
Skedaddle!
He saw no household fires, where he
Might wann his tod or hominy ;
Beyond, the t.'oidilleras shone.
And trom his jips escaped a groan—
Skedaddle.'
‘*0, stay,” a cullered pusson said,
“Au' on dis bosom res’ your hod !’
1 h eOctoioon she winked her eye,
But still he answeied, with a sigh—
Skedaddle !
“BewareMcClellan. Buell, Banks—
Beware of Haileek's deadly ranks!”
'1 his was the planter’s last Good Night,
’lue chap replied, far out ol sight—
. Skedaddle!
At break of daw, as several hoys
fiuni Maine, New Y’oik. and Illinois,
Were moving southw aid. in the air
T-ey heard these accents of despair—
Skedaddle !
A chap was found, and at his side
A buttle showing how he died ,*
Still grasping in his hand of ice,
1 hat banner with the strange device—
Sktduddie !
There in the twilight, thick and gray,
Considerably played out he lay ,
» And through the vapor gray and thick,
A voice tell like a rocket stick—
Skedaddle !
For the Southern Federal Union.
A Raffle—with a Moral.
Reader, did you ever take a hand at
a Raffle? Did you ever have “a
chance” at something represented to
be worth five, ten or twenty times the
money invested, and “toss the ivories”
for the prize? You say, no. Weil,
I have. I have taken a chance at
many valuable articles, from a baby at
r of gallant officers endeavored to rally and
1 ne same even- reform fhe stragglers, but in vain while
ing I rode him several miles to see my ! many officers forgot the pride of their
sweetheart. To make secure of him, Htoulder straps and the honor of their man-
i it , - , , t. hood, and herded with sneaks and cotv-
I earned along a chain halter. Iteti- . ,, ., , T , , , ..
e aids. (J, I hat 1 had known the names
ring at <i lute hour, what was my sur- of those officers I saw, thebrave and the
D. McChesney, 12 Missis
“thev are scattered everywhere, but a-e Col. R. R. Applewhite, 12th Mississip
nevertheless in a solid, compact body; and j pi.
iu reply to another remaik it was said j Captain S
•‘what ue want is fresh men, they” the ; sippi,
troops, “are worked to death. ’ 1 he de j ( olonel Edward Pendleton, 3d Louis-
seription of the troops on a dead level on j iana.
the banks of the river, covered from head j Chaplain Martin. 3d Louisiana,
to foot, and up to their knees in mud in Captain Jinathan. Rivers, 3d Louisiana.
prise and anger, when I reached the
gate to find my splendid young -horse
“gone before”! But he had made his
mark. The gate and twenty feet of
the fence was completely prostrated.
What should I do? I did not go back
to report the disaster, but “took my
foot iu my hand,” as the low country
negroes say, and reached my borne at
a “sma hour ayant the twal
ing met with a few spirited
the City Common, associated with
a Jack and Jenny, my young horse
concluded not to “go home till morn
ing.” The next day a negro brought
him to me, the identical chain halter
still adorning his neck. The same day
I mounted him for a ride, and before
proceeding one hundred yards, he
stumbled on his knees, throwing me
ten feet over his head and burying me
almost in a sand bed. I was badly
bruised, though no bones were broken.
That night he jumped the fence in the
cowardly, that here, now, I might reward
and punish by directing upon each indi
vidual the respect or the contempt of a
whole people !
That scene was not one lo be forgotten.
Scores of riderless, terrilied horses dash
ing in every direction: thick-flying bul
lets ringing by, admonishing of danger;
every minute a man struck down; wag.
ons and ambulances and cannon blocka
ding tbe way; wounded men limping, and
groaning, and bleeding amid the throng;
liav- officers and civilians denouncing and rea-
colts on oiling,'and entreating, and being insensi
ble borne, along with the mass; the sub
lime cannonading; the clouds of battle
ud in
the soft moi«t alluvial soil, is peifectly
graphic. “Under some trees which lay
in clusters the men were crouched. They
looked, says the writer, “as if they were
covered to the crown of the head with
mud, their faces and clothes were literally
coated while their shoes and boots had
several pounds of the nasty, yellow stuff
stuck into and all around them.
But the men were safe for the present,
and ready to fight again if reiutorced.
The safety of the army says the Tribune,
howevei, is by no means assured, if we
may credit the statements made by this
writer. He tells us that “the enemy is
in large force on the east side of theChick-
ahoiniiiy, and threatens not only .McClel
lan’s right wing but tbe navigation of tbe
James River. * * * * *Fhe
construction of batteries so as to intercept
the navigation of the'river, would be lav-
smoke, and the sun just disappearing, large j I1( j di, ect b foge to McClellan’s position,
and blood red—I can not picture it, but I
see it, and always shall.
Huddled among the wagons were 10.000
stragglers—for the credit of the nation he
it saitl that four-fifth i of them were woun
ded, sick, or utterly exhausted, and could
not have stirred but for dread of the to
bacco warehouses of the South. The confu
sion of this herd of men and mules, wag
ons and wounded, men on horses men on
foot, men by the roadside, men perched
on wagons, men searching for water, men
famishing for food, men lame and bleed
ing, men with ghostly ejes, looking out
of the stable, arid spent the even- between bloody bandages that hid the lace
the peach orchard- — 1 - 1 - —turn to some vivid account of the most
and would place his army in a ctitical situ
ation.
Gen. McClellan rode out among his
troops on Wednesday, and was gree'ed
with the most enthusiastic applause
“Boys,” said he, “you may think that
matters look dark, but be of good courage;
all is right.” The cheers are said to have
been loud and long continued, and the
enemy believed we were receiving laige
reinforcements, Our army has most un
bounded reliance in their youg commander,
and dream of nothing hut victory under his
direction.
Next we have the address of Geo. B.
iiiQ* in tile peach orchard; where he i- \V “ ! , 7 | McClellan, Major General Commanding
rin*n., m lh-nort!„ w l,„i,l.nf, - 1 P ,l, ‘ u .‘ P ar !‘’f s re,re . at fro,n , ! the skedaddlers to t he “partner.-, of his toil”
devout ul two Ol thiee bushels of peach Russia and fill out the picture-the grim, ; and the sbares of his .-brilliant
leaves. Next morning he was dead as gaunt, bloody picture of war in its most ; p, excee( j mo - reliable.
a pickled herring. Here was a nice
victory.
ten ible features
It was determ net! to move on during
question to settle. licit troubled. 1 | the night. The distance of Turkey Is-
•soiight my friend and copartner at his ■ land Bridge, the point on the James Riv-
Confeetionerv, for consolation. Did cr which was to be reached, by the direct
Address to Gen. HI’Clellan to the army of
the Potomac.
he aive it to me"? No. But he insis-
road, was six miles.
Washington, July 0.— Advices from the
But thosevast mini- ! Army of the Potomac (James'^ up to Sat-
i > j hers could not move over one narrow road urday night, indicate that all is quiet and
ted that I should pay one half the , ; n man y fl a y H hence every by-road, no | the army in good spirits.
horse’s value, that is, -fifty dollars! and ’ matter how circuitous, had been searched
the cost of two bushels of meal which
he had advanced. I remonstrated.
He insisted. I grew mad by degrees,
and furiously worse. We quarrelled
and parted. He sued me for fifty-two
a Ladies’ Fair, to a “splendid young , ,, i g .. j J , ,
, • ’ , , . „ * „ ,/ . 9 dollars, and alter a protracted contest
horse, saddle and bridle. Hell, it is T . , , ... .
1 paid up the amount with costs, &c.,
about the “splendid young horse, sad
dle and bridle” I am going to eulight-
paia up
and thus ended the eventful history of
the raffle of a “splendid young horse,
en you. As to the moral, you can ga(]dle and bridle „ ’
draw your own. 1 a nlor al here. *
A Milledgeville Boy.
I had a friend who kept a diminu- I
tive Confectionery on a corner of oue i
of the principal streets in the good'; T/l!!efor Fighting—A correspondent
city ol Milledgeville, where he was i 0 f the Mobile* Tribune, reporting a trip in
always ready to display a good ar-tic- ! tbe interior cf Alabama, <-ays :
le, from' a stick of pale candy ton!, ^ leaving Selma, there were about
1 - . j 1,100 human beings on board ot tbe boat,
bushel of fresh corn meal. One quiet ^Vniong the soldiers, though not in service.
was the great and goad Gen. David E.
Twiggs. Ihe many conversations I had
with, him tended largely to edify, enlighten
and confort me in reference to the present
war. Oue remark of his sent a thrill
day, as I was sitting on his counter,
discussing politics and “the times,”
there came along an acquaintance, ri-
j ding a young bay horse. He dismount-
out, by questioning prisoners and by cav
alry exclusions. Every one was filled by
one of the advancing columns. 'I he whole
front was iu motion by 7 P. M., Gen.
Keys in command of tiie advance.
1 rode with Gen. Ifowe’s brigade, of
Conch’s division, taking a wagon track
through . dense woods and precipituons
lavines, winding sinuously far around to
the left, and striking the liver some dis
tance below Turkey Island. Commenc
ing at dusk, tbe march continued until
Reader there is daylight. The night was daik and fear-
fuT. Heavy thunder rolled in turn along
each point of the horizon, and daik clouds
spread the entire canopy. We were for
bidden to speak aloud, or, lest tbe light
of a cigtu* should present a target for an
ambushed rifle, we were cautioned not to
smoke. Ten miles ot weary marching,
with frequent halts, as some oue of the
hundred vehicles of the artillery train, in
our centre, by a slight deviation crashed
against a tice, wore away the hours to
dawn, when we debauched into a magni
ficent wheat field, and the smoke-stack
o*f the the Galena was in sight. Xenoph
on’s remnant of the ten thousand, shout-
Headq’rs Army of the Potomac, 1
Camp near Harrison’s Landing, July 4
Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac!
Your achievments of the past ten days
have illustrated the valor and endurance
of the American soldier. Attacked by su
perior forces, and without hopes of rein
forcements, you have.sncceed in changing
vour base of operations by a flank move
ment always regarded as the most hazard- While so much cloth is made by hand,
Captain A. V. Jones, 17th Virginia.
Colonel Martin Mars 16th Virginia.
Captain Robert Simpson, I7th Virginia.
«locking— Blouae-lVilarte Oniters, etc.
BV EMILY J. ROMEO.
For the benefit of those who are wonder
ing what they shall do for summer stock
ings. let me give them the directions requi
site for knitting a pair of Magic or Rail
way Stockings. I hey can be knit of the
yarn spun by almostany one living in the
country, or with that made at the cotton
factories, and at such a little cost of both
money and time, that they had in many
places been made for years before this war
began, the directions have also been prin
ted before, but so long ago, I-presume,
many have forgotten them, and will take
it as a favor to have them printed again.
< )n common sized knitting-needles, cast on
thirtv-two or thirty-six stitches and rib an
inch; then bind off, pulling tbe thread
through the last stitch, to prevent its rav
cling. Alter this, pick up all the stitches
aud knit plain, without seaming or nar
rowing, for a finger and a half, th-n drop
everj* other stitch, and pull the stocking
carefully till the dropped stitelms are run
or raveled down to the ribbing. The
stitches on the needles can be narrowed
off like the toe of any stocking. Tbe foot
will shape this stocking, and ifa piece of
cloth be sewed in on the heel, it will add
much to its durability.
Shoes aic not quite as easily made as
stockings, but they, too, can be home made
by a little effort. Cut a pattern Oy an old
gaiter, and out of a piece of homespun,
dyed some pretty color, if you can’t get
anything nicer, cut a pair of tops, and
make them by looking at the old gaiter.
Then, if you can get pair of ne w eolea, with
the holes mail'* ^ ol needle, well and
puua, you have nothing to do but sew the
tops on them, and you have a nice pair of
gaffers; but if you chn’t get new soles, use
nn old pair, or even a common piece of
leather, if you can do no better. One pair
of new soles will wear out two or three
pair of tops. It is well to have a last, in
sewing on the 6ole$ when one can be
had.
There are many useful things which
could fie made at home, if the few who
know how to do them would but publish
the directions for the benefit of the public.
ous of military operations. You have
ved all your guns except a few lost in bat
tle, taking in return guns and colors from
the enemy.
Upon your march you have been as
sailed day after day, with desperate fury
by men of the same lace and nation,
tkillfully massed and led. Under every
disadvantage of number, and necessarily
many a new beginner is-lamenting that
they can buy no dyes for it, and yet in
every district grow abundant materials,
and live women who would give receipts
for their preparation, were their attention
called to the subject.
Many a housekeeper is lamenting the
lack of lime they can’t feel as if their homes
are clean without their spring white-
of position also, you lta^e in every washing; thev need not miss it, there is
conflict oeaten back your foes with enor- plenty of white clay or chalk — it has va-
i i.» riousnames around the country--wbich will
do admirably in the place of lime, try that
till more lime-kilns are put in operation.
mous slaughter.
Your conduct ranks you among the
celebrated armies of history. None \\ .11
now question what each of you may always
with pride say, “I btl mged to the Army
of the Potomac.” You have reached this
new base complete m organizaiion, and
It will be recsllected by many that a
short time after the battle at Mannaseas,
unimpaired iu spirit, 'llie enemy may at an effecting incident was related of a
From tbe Richmond Enquirer.
Tbe Price of Victory. ’
The shout of victory is ever followed by
the sob of distress. The lauiel however
bright is interwoved with the sombre cy
press.
Such is our experience now. The vic
tories won by our heroic army near Rich
mond, have saved our fair city, have loos
ened the heavy grip of war everywhere,
and have filled the farthest nook and the'
humblest dwelling in our land with over
flowing joy and with gratitude to God.—
Truly we have been favored with a great
deliverance, and we do well to utter our *
songs of thanksgiving. But when we re
member bow many of the brave men who
achieved this great good for their countiy,
lived not to enjoy it themselves ; when we
reflect that as to them the shout of victory
falls on ‘the dull cold ear of death when
we run over the sad catalogue of the dead
and count the names of dear familiar
friends, and when with that fraternal sen
timent which grows out of common devo
tion to a * common cause, we widen the
leach of our affection and claim them all
as our brothers-no wonder that our hearts
aie wrung with agony.
And there is another and still more nu
merous class that appeals to our sympa
thies and demands our friendly solicitude.
We allude to the thousands of our wound
ed. The bed on which some of ihem are
languishing, is the bed of death. Let
them hear in these their hist days, none
but words of tenderness, and let them have
every alleviation of their sufferings that
the gentlest kindness can supply. Others
are destined to longer or shortei periods of
loneliness and helplessness and suffering
ere they take their places among us agaiu ;
and others when they appear will be
maimed or disabled for life. Let their sick
chamber be cheered by the visits and the
attentions of friendly sympathisers ever
ready to promote their comfort. .
We repeat that the list of tiie slain and
of the wounded is a borrowing one. But
yet what survivor would have had the
friend he mourns do other than lie did ?
In “the perverted currents of this world”
it often happens that liberty cannot be
preserved without the peril of life. It
was so in the days of our revolutionary
fathets- It is so now. Men who perver-
led their league of friendship with us into
an unbridled despotism, and valued the
covenant which pledged them to offices of
good will and justice only as a cord which
uind the victim to the stake, arc now fill
ing our land with soldiers, and endeavor
ing with arms to enforce their arbitrary
and ruinous designs. We might have pur
chased a present peace by submission.
But who that feels the inovings of the soul
within him, would not sooner die a free
man than live a slave ? From the vene
rable building tbat still stands on Rich
mond’s highest hill, surrounded by the
Jotnbs of our colonial ancestors, Patrick
Henry spoke words which yet ring through
our land : ‘‘Is life so dear, aud peace so
sweet, as to be puichasedaf tbe price of
chains and slavery ? Forbid it Almighty
God ! For my part, whatever others may
say, give me liberty or give in& dfatli!”
Thus spoke the man best fitted of all his
generation to interpret the feelings that
auimated his countrymen. Men called
him an orator ; he was simply a wise man
with a warm heart. He was but the
prophet of his people.
Death, the fate of all, comes sooner or
later to all ; it is only a question of a few
days between a long life and a short one.
And as there is no death as glorious as
that which findsa man at the post of duty,
so the glory will increase in proportion as
the duty is invested with perils and re
sponsibilities. No wonder then that.«in ’
tiie figurative songs of the Christian as
well in the annals of human lamer it is
considered an especial glory “to die on the
field of battle,” in a good cause. The
poet after painting the terribleness of
death to such as are found in the pursuits
of domestic life, lias a different strain for
the fallen warrior victorious in his coun
try’s cause:
“But to the Hero, when his sword
Has won the battle for the free.
Death comes like a prophet’s word,
Aud in his hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.”
The poet speaks truly in the above.—
The millions of the Confederate States
will never cease to remember with affec
tion our martyrs to the cause of liberty,
while they value liberty or respect them
selves.
Nor will they forget tbe wounded and
the maimed* Their honorable scars will
be their certificates of merit and their pass
ports to favor. Let them be honored and
succored in their respective neighborhoods,
and let them experience in the hour of ne
cessity, the kind remembrance and foster
ing hand of their government.
The soldiers of the Revolution have so
long disappeaied from among us, tbat
those of us who remember them ate our
selves becoming gray-headed. But who
fails to recollect with what feeling of ven
eration he gazed when a boy, when told
“there goes a revolutionary soldier.”—
And h*»w all such fouud a home aud an
arm chair near the fire, wherever they
called ? Thus will this generation and
posterity regard the soldiers of Confeder
ate independence. Remembrance ol the
dead, assistance to the needy, honor and
affection and “thanks” to ail !