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VOLUME XXXIII.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1862.
[M3BER 14.
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From the Fnijuirir.
THE GUERRILLAS.
Awake and to horse ! my brothers,
For the dawn is glimmering gray.
And hark in the crackling brushwood,
There are leet that tread this way 1
Who eometh ! A friend ! What tidings ?
Oh God ! 1 sicken to tell;
For the earth seems earth no longer,
And its sights arc sights of hell.
»
There’s rapine, and fire and slaughter,
From the mountain down to the shore:
There's blood on the trampled harvest;
And blood on the homestead floor !
From the far-off conquered cities
Comes the voice of a stilled wail, •
And the shrieks and moans of the houseless.
King out, like a dirge, ou the gale!
I’ve seen, from the smoking village
Our mothers and daughters fly !
I've seen where the little children
Sank down iu the furrows to die I
On the banks o( tbe batt'e stained river
I stood, as the moonlight shone.
And it glared on the face of m v brother,
As the sad wave swept him on !
Where my home was glad, are ashes,
And horror and shame had been there;
For I found on the fallen lintel
The tresses of my wife's torn hair !
.They are turning the slave upon us.
And wiih more than the h lends worst art,
Have uncovered the tires oi the savage,
That slept in his untaught heart! .
The ties to'our hearts, that bound bim,
They have rent with curses avsay.
And maddened him, with their madness,
To be almost as brutal as they.
With halter, and torch, and fcible,
And hymns, to the sound of the drum.
They preach the Gospel of murder.
And pray fot lust's kingdom to come !
To saddle ! To saddle I my brother .'
Look up to the rising sun,
And ask of the God who shine there,
Whether deeds like these shall he done I
Wherever the vandal eometh.
Press home to his heart with your steel,
And wherere’er at his bosom ye cannot.
Like the serpent go strike at his heel!
Through thicket and wood go hunt him !
Creep up to his camp lire side.
And let ten of his coipses blacken,
Where one of our brothers hath died.
In his fainting, footsore marches—
In his flight, trom the stricken fray
Iu tbe snare of the lonel} ambush.
The debts that we owe him pay!
In God’s hand, alone, is vengeance,
But he strikes with tbe balds of men.
And bis blight would wither bur manhood,
If we smote not the smiteij again!
By the grave, where our fathtrs slumber,.
By the shrines, where our umbers prayed,
By our homes, and hopes, and freedom.
Let every man swear, on hq blade,
That he will not' sheathe nor slay it
Till from point to heft it glint .
With the flush of Almighty juttice,
In the blood of the felon loel
They swore; and the answering sunlight
Leapt red Irotn their lifted swords,
And the hate in their healls made echo
To the wrath in their burning words!
There's weeping in all N.w r England,
And by Schuylkill s bank a knell,
And the widows there, and the orphans,
How the oath was kepi can tell
Correspondence of tie Richmond Enquirer.
From ibe* 4Vc»t.
Camp NeaI Tupelo, Miss. )
July 27th, 1862. i I
Messrs Editors : An old friend essays j
to give votf and your readers some account
of military affairs in :he Great West, lhe
war in the South-west has not been so I
distinguished for brilliant victories, splen
did achievements, and overwhelming tri
umphs, as it has been in the East. The
authorities in Richmond attach so much
importance to the defense of that city,
and at the same time, possibly underrating
the power of the enemy here, left this see- ,
tion in a comparatively defenseless condi
tion. The l'ederals madenosecret oi their i
projected Hank movements last Spring, by
means of gunboats and transports up the
Cumberland and Tennessee rivers. I he,
Northern papers for months beiore reitera-;
ted the plans of Haileck tor his great
Southern Expedition, which promised so
much for them. . , - , !
The Cumberland was miserably deteuct- j
ed, by a miserable fortification, in a miser
ably selected position- Eort Henry, b.r
like reasons, offered but a feeble resistance .
an overwhelming force, protected and
assisted by iron-clad gunboats The con- ;
sequence of all this was, that Johnson bad
to hurry with indecent haste out of how
ling Green, to avoid being cut ofi by a
heavy force in his rear advancing up the
Cumberland, with Buell amenacmg him
in his front. You will observe that from
Eort Henry the Tennessee is almost par
allel with the Mississippi, as tar as 1 ltts-
burg Landing. By advancing up the
Tennessee, the Federate forced us to evac
uate successively Columbus, Island Ko.
10, and Memphis itself. „ f
A series of disasters followed the fall of
Fort Henry, which nothing but the in
domitable pluck and patriotism of the
Southern people could ever have repaired.
Thousands of dollars worth of army sup-
j plies, collected from the fertile regions of
Western Kentucky and Middle I ennes-
see, were captured or destroj ed. Tenoi
fifteen thousand of our best troops were
captured, a great amount of heavy ord
nance and small arms, the labor of months,
was, in the space of a few weeks, transfer
red from us to the possession of the enemy.
Nashville was in their possession, the at
mory of the West. The Cumberland, the
Tennessee, and the Mississippi, as far as
! Memphis, could not boast of a single Con
federate craft. To use a rather inelegatu
saw, ‘our hind-sights are always bettei
than our fore-sights.’ We can see now
how all this could have been prevented.
If obstructions had blockaded the Tennes
see and Cumberland—if Forts Henry and
Donelson had been made impregna-
able-if we had had eigjit or ten gunboats
on the Mississippi, such as the Arkansas,
Grant and Butler would not this day be
fulminating their infamous and brutal or
ders from Memphis and New Orlans. The
I poof women and defenseless little chil
I dren would not be driven trom their own
j doors, to wander abroad without the pro
| tection of fathers and brothers, lhe la-
' dies of New Orleans would not be com-
| pelled to smile at the detestable brutal
j hordes from up the river, for fear of being
i treated by them as harlots. Andrew
j Johnson, Nelson and Etheridge would not
I have dared to return to Tennessee. Three
j' months ago despondency was depicted in
i the face of every one. The timid and
wavering were almost ready to sign an in
denture of eternal slavery to the Yankee
invaders. The most confident and hope
ful were in doubt, and main- thought that
all was lost. The scene nas changed.—
Daylight has broke forth upon a long
night of darkness* Nashville is now held
by a most uncertain tenure. Murfreesbo
ro,’ thirty-two miles irotn Nashville, has
been taken with 1,200 prisoners, including
two Brigadier Generals, by a gallant dash
of the inimitable Eorrest. Curtis, with
a large army, has been chased out of Ar
kansas, after great loss and extreme suffer
ing to his command. The Federal fleet
has been crippled before Vicksburg, and
that devoted city has proven her impreg
nability by a water attack. Butler is on
a bed of thorns at New- Orleans, in fear oi
a spontaneous revolt of the people against
the tyrant. Morgan has struck the Fed
erals in Kentucky with terror, and even
Cincinnati, New Albany and Jefferson
ville are tilled with alarm. The State ar
chives are being removed from Frankfort.
Prisoners, railroads and army stores of
the “Feds” are some of the trophies of
Morgan’s triumphial march. The Blue
Gras: region is in open revolt, and it is
beiieved that Kentucky will strike an ef
fective blow, which she has already with
held too long. Our partizans are sweep
ing over Missouri like a hurricane, and the
poor deluded Gamble militia are venting
their fruitless cries for aid from the Fed
eral Government. Southern men, last
summer, sought a covering in the moun
tain fastnesses and the dense thicket, and
now the Union traitors give forth wailings
from the same places. Forty Federal
sheriffs in Missouri are said to have bit the
dust for attempting to enforce the collec
tion of the Federal w-ar tax.
The ranks of our army here are being
rapidly filled by volunteering and conscrip
tion. Onr army is in excellent health and
spirits, and only asks to he led against the
enemy. The Federal army at Corinth
has been greatly decimated by disease
and desertions. They have a considerable j
force, say 20,000, about twelve miles '
South of Corinth. *W all ace, with ten or j
fifteen thousand men, left five or six weeks !
ago for Memphis, and it is supposed has
gone to Virginia. Buell, with thirty thou- |
sand men, has gone in tbe direction of;
Chattanooga, where he will probably ]
catch a stroke of lightning. Logan’s Il
linois Brigade has its headquarters at 1
Jackson, Tenn., and the troops are garri- j
soiling the country towns of the Western |
District, swearing those who are willing, j
and imprisoning those who decline to take !
their odious oath.
I could tell much more of these gentry,
but I have already written more than I in
tended. Our army, under the administra
tion of General Bragg, is being well dis.-
ciplined, drilled, and effectively oigan-
ized. North Missouri.
Th«- London Times ou Aiuericnu Afl'nirn.
From the London Times, of July 26,
we copy the following :
We must do the New York press the
justice to say that, so far as we have seen,
it treats the disasters of' the Federates with
sufficient fairness. Though, to a certain
extent, echoing the mendacious bulletins
of the Government, and the pompous ad
dresses of General McClellan, it is still in
dependent enough, and honest enough to
let the country understand the whole truth.
While Falstaff and Bubadil describe their
exploits, the newspaper correspondents
quietly exptaiii matters in a manner that
has filled the Northern cities with con
sternation. Since the battles hardly a
single prediction lias been hazarded of the
ultimate conquest of the South. Exhor
tations to persevere, to send reinforce
ments, to deliver tiie Federal army from
its difficulties, to avenge the dishonor of its
flag bv a triumphant entry into Richmond,
have "of course, been plentiful, but, as to
anything further, there is a dead and most
portentous silence.
In fact, it is felt that the defeat of Mc
Clellan's army has changed everything.
But a fortnight before, a vast and well
provided lorce was investing the capital
city of the South—defended, as it was
thought, only by a few starving regiments.
All w as joy ana ignorant confidence. Now
the truth is revealed. • A whole popula
tion is seen to have risen in arms.; enthu
siasm and devotion Lave made good all de
ficiencies ; Generals of consummate skill
are at the head of a soldiety of fanatical
coulage, and an army equal to the gteat-
est of those with which European rulers
make war, guards the frontier of the Con
federacy, after having crushed the main
force of the invaders. The Northerners,
though they have shown themselves more
liable to delusion than any one could have
believed of such a people, are not fools ;
and, in spite of the boasting and lying ot
their government, they are receiving the
conviction that such a people as the Con
federates can never be subjugated. If it
were a war for a fortress ora frontier, they
would not be discouraged ; but when they
reflect on the object of the present inva
sion, and remember that they have under
token not only to defeat the armies of Lee
and Beauregard, but to utterly destroy
them to octupv the whole Southern terri
tory and garrison it, year after year, with
a standing Amy of at least a quarter of a
million of min, it may well be imagined
hat they ate cooled and sobered by the
prospect, we cannot but think that a
2>'eat cbnngi of feeling is likely to take
place at the iortl. I lie undercurrents of
the popular jmind are at first not visible;
it is only wlffu they have gained volume
and strength that they can change the
course of the stream. But there is enough
to show- that multitudes of the Northern
people are becoiqing w-eary of this put-
poseless slaughter.
About the temper of the business men
there can be but little doubt; they have
been for many weeks giving to the cause
of peace all tbe influence which their own
timidity and the coustitution of American
society will allow- them. But now we have
fail grounds for believing that matters
have gone further, aid that the great body
•of the people are slowly coming round to
the opinions of tlieir less shortsighted
countrymen. That these will be candid
iiul confess their own madness is not to be
expected. A people never recants. But
.hey may show their rulers, by signs not
10 be mistaken, that they will tolerate no
more of Mr. Lincoln’s crusade. The ques
tion will be soon determined. If this war
is to go on, the immense levy ordered by
the President must de actually rnade.-^-
The 300,000 men must be forthcoming it
Virginia is to be conquered, or if even
Tennessee is to be held. But they will
not be forthcoming.
W e are told in the last dispatches that
the volunteering makes slow progress, and
.that the question of a conscription contin
ues to be discussed. Our correspondent
declares that in eleven days only 15,000
men had come forward, in spite of the
enormous bounty, amounting in all to
8150, that was offered to each man by the
Federal and State Governments. Draft
ing for service, or in other Words, a con
scription, was talked about; but we should
think it would he only talked about. The
scheme of a forcible levy of troops in are-
public to subjugate and hold down anoth
er republic is one that will hardly be se
riously proposed, even by the more fanati-
•al of Mr. Lincoln’s advisers. All now,
therefore depends on the enlistment that
is going on under the President’s procla
mation. If this fails, then all is over, and
after a few- months the independence of
the South must be acknowledged, as it
might have been with profit a twelvemonth
ago.
——
3bii'htuou<( or YI'asEiin^ton.
A released Yankee prisoner, w-lio had
been confined in Richmond, writes to the
Boston Courier, that the issue now is
whether Richmond or Washington shall
fall .
But how shall that city be made to fall,
which has so long resisted ns.successfully ,
which is this day stronger than ever be
fore, through additional fortifications and
larger numbers of a desperate foe, flushed
with victory ?
We have no child’s play before us; no
war which can he carried on by hirelings.
Go to the South, walk the streets of Rich
mond; there is no business there but the
business of war. Shops and warehouses
are closed, or if open, it is for military pur
poses only. This is a wretched state of
affairs, but the people glory in it; they
live but for one object, to fight those
w-hom they call the invaders of their homes.
The men are ail soldiers, and the women
cheer them on. •
Whether the despotism of Jeff. Davis
keeps the Union sentiment out of sight, 1
know not; but there is none of the latter
to be seen, and, on the other hand, death
would be considered light, to the chivalry,
compared with entering into a new Union
with the hated Yankees. Our blockade
has deprived them of all the luxuries, and
most of the comforts of life, but their spirit
is unbroken.
Can such a people be subjugated ? If
we avail of our strength, yes! as surely as
twenty is more than eight.
But the work cannot be done by dollars,
nor by talk. ‘Poor white trash’ may be
ignorant and ragged, but they have mus
cle, and we shall soon feel it, nearer home
than we have done, unless the torpid blood
of Lexington and Bunker Hill arouses it
self. I walk the streets of Northern cities
and find their very respectable inhabitants
engaged in the usual avocations of peace
ful life as unconcernedly and with as much
apathy as though there were no such thing
as war in the land—as though a volcano
were not about to buist o\er them , with
no more apparent conception of‘the situa
tion’ and their disgrace before the world,
than a child unborn.
They continue to indulge the strange fa-
talityof over-estimating themselves and un-
. (^’-estimating the South. A soldiery that
has been unpaid for months; has lived on
half rations of course food lor two months,
and continues to do so; that never had
any clothes, and dosen’t want any now;
that has only one idea. I say such an ar
my is not to be lightly esteemed, and is
not to be crushed by appealing to Govern
ment, and offering it dollars to shower at
traitors. The Government, on the contra
ry, appeals to you, and as you do not pos
sess virtue to answer that appeal, it should
show its power, and compel you to save
your country, if you will not do it volun
tarily.
We are already threatened. It is al
most too late to save our armies and border
cities, but by prompt measures something
may be done.
Happy Omen.—At serenade given in
compliment to VicePresident Stephens,
on Tuesday evening, iu this city, he
commenced his eloquent speech on the
occasion by saying lie did not expect on
this, his first visit to our beautiful city,
to be thus honored, but considering his
official position, he recognized the right
to be cal led on and to be asked “Watch
man ! what of the night V” As his clear,
shrill voice rang out the question on
the night air, he paused, and from the
watch tower hard by came back the
pealing answer, as if from the clouds—
‘All’s well.’ A thrill passed through the
hearts of the company, an^l on all sides
was heard the exclamation, “Happy
omen !”—Columbia South Carolinian,
Aug. 14.
Fron i the Atlanta lirtelil^ncer. •
In lercKtiug From Obit.
Speech and Vision of Dr. Olds—Extracts
from the Louisville Journal,
Lieut. J. A. Holtzelaw, oi the Macon
Jackson Artillery, now at Nickajack N'ave
Tennessee, having become possessed of
tlie Louisville Journal, oi the 4th instant,
clipped from it the following extracts, and
kindly forwarded them to us, for which we
are under many obligations to the gallant
officer as our readers will also feel when
they persue the extracts.
The first extract to which we call the ht-
tention of our readers is one from a speech
recently made by Dr. Olds to a “lJemo-
cratic Club” in Berne’Township. Fairfield
Co., Ohio. This Dr. Olds will be remem
bered as an old and leading democratic
member of Congress from that State, pre
vious to, and for two sessions, we believe,
after the Mexican War, and has always
exercised great political influence in Ohio.
Ori the occasion referred to, the Lancaster
(Ohio) Gazette reports him as follows: *
Extracts from Dr. Olds' Speech.
“In God’s name, have we not had
enough blood? Our opponents forced this
war upon us, and they now call on us to
help them out, but 1 tell you, Mr. Lincoln,
that wheu you strke down Constitutions,
trample laws under foot, and then call on
Democrats to help you, you will not get
them- Now is not this war for these pur
poses? I tell you fellow Democrats there
16 no honor, no gain, no profit, no glory in
this war. It is all loss. It is my brother
you 6trike down.”
“I see a recruiting officer in this room,
here, no doubt, for t lip purpose of recruit
ing volunteers for this war. Now I want
to ad rise iny democratic friends abouWvol-
teeritig. Before I enlist, or before 1 entice
a single Democrat to enlist, I would first
know, Mr. Lincoln, what you are fighting
for. If you are fighting for the
Union and Constitution, say, so,
proclaim your policy. No it is not for the
Union and Constitution you are fighting
for. 11 is for those mad schemes of aboli
tion and disunion. No Democrat will en
list in this war until the Administration
changes its policy and war cry.—* # *
On the 4th of March, 1861, Mr. Lincoln
stood upon the eastern portico of the Capi
tol and swore to support the Constitution.
Did he do it? No, his every act has beeu
a violation of it from that day to this. I
denounce bim as a tyrant. He has perjur
ed his soul.—He may imprison me, but I
will still cry TYRANT! I denounce
these acts of oppression as foul acts of per
jury against the Constitution.
And now, my fellow Democrats, I am
going to have a vision, which if it were not
a vision, might be treason, but what I now
say I saj- in sleep and am not therefore
responsible.
. The Doctor's Vision.
“ J see blood at the ballot box this fall.
The President has issued his proclamation
for 300,000 more troops, and Congress has
passed a law authorizing him to draft them.
He will have to draft them if he gets them,
for these cowardly abolitionists will not en
list. There it; an election this fall, and
they want to carry it. They want to
draft Democrats, and they will draft them
to prevent them from voting.—’They have
the power, anti can so arrange it. lou
will not he cheated. I tell you wili not
submit to these wrongs. You will see blood
If they attempt to arrest us and take us
from our families to support an administra
tion in its violations of the Constitution;
we will resist even to blood. If the Dem
ocrats don’t succeed at the ballot-box,
they will succeed at the point of the bayo
net. What I m ean is that Mr. Lincoln’s
minions will sui round the ballot box with
bayonets."
How Prentice of the Louisville Journal
commented on a id relished the foregoing
plainly spoken sentiments of Dr. Olds we
know not. but vv e presume he published
them only to revile the bold speak
er.
Ou the the abolition side, we have the
following extract:
“Conway, of Kansas, abolition member
of Congress, said in a speech in the House:
For one 1 shall aot vote another dollar,
or man, for the war, until it assumes a dif
ferent standing, and tends directly to an
anti-slavery result.—Millions for freedom,
but notone cent for slavery!”
We have also the following, which ap
pears in the Louisville Journal,and which
shows that the ballot box is to be perver
ted and used oi tly by Lincoln’s minions.
We shall not be surprised if Dr. Olds’ pre
diction does not prove true in Kentucky as
well as Ohio, and that, at the polls in both
I States, blood will fiow:
“Gen. Boyle has taken all necessary
I steps to have no polls opened for any as-
j piraut to office who is hostile to the Gov-
| ernment and desires its overthrow. We
; again publish the form of oath to be ad-
j ministered to all who may be challenged
! in the exercise of any right of citizenship
I in addition to the r eguiar oath required by
| the Constitution: A ud you do further sol-
j emnly swear that yott have not entered
| into the service of th e s o-called Confederate
! States iu either a civii or military capacity;
j orinto the service of'..he so-called Provision-
] al Government of Kentucky in either a civii
or military capacity since the 11th day of
i April, 1862, nor have beeu in such ser-
I vice in either the Confederate States or
j Provisional Govern! net it since said date,
j nor taken up arms against the forces of the
] U. S. or State of Kentucky, nor given vol-
| untary aid or assistance to those in arms
i against said forces, so iiei'p you God.”
Prentice also comments thus ou the con-
1 dition oi Great Britain and France:
“If Great Britain e.nd France had ac- ...
! ted friendly and in good faith towards the i i°rbmden us to tell him anything to excite
! United States upon the fi rst breaking out | hlm . consequently he knew nothing of the
| of our ffoutheru rebellion, thev would have
jury of a great commercialrival, but it
“shot its arrow o’er the hous6 and hurt its
brother.” It has lost the subitance while
it grasped at a shadow, and t now feels
keenly its folly, while the Ufited States
are showing to the world the strength ot
their power, the intensity of tieir nation
al devotion and the inexhaustible mines ol
their resources. France, too, il beginning
G find out that starvation sttres in the
fa^ie of her population, and scarcity is
the prolific parent of all Freni revolu-
tiqis. She will want our breaigtufls this
fall more.than she will a cottffi supply.
The cry for bread has gone tjt iu the
streets of Paris as it did under jthe win
dows of Louis XYI and Marie Antoinette
before the horrors which ensanguined the
close of the last century. Louis Napoleon
on his usurped throne, cannot be stronger
than was the Bourbon, who traced his de
scent from long centuries. The. muttetings
of the distant storm are ominous, and a
whirlwind may rise on this Western con
tinent which will sweep the tottering
thrones of Europe to the dust. From the
rebellion now in progress against tree gov
ernment there may go forth a spirit which
which will make free all Europe, and let
its people know that kings are but chaft,
and dynasties but painted pageants be
fore the majesty, dignity and power of un
iversal suffrage.”
From the Richmond Enquirer.
Inrqrination Wanted
‘-Of my son, . He was known to be
engaged in last — —'s tight, and cannot now br
found —was a private in Company—, —Regiment.
Volunteers, Any tidings of him will be
gratefully received by his anxious father at
House.”
“Oli! stranger can you tell me where.
Where is my boy—my brave bright Doy!
He was the light of my hoary hair—
• His gentle mother’s life and joy.
All day have I w alked the crowded street;
Piercing the groups with an eager glance,
Vainly questioning all 1 meet—
. Searching the slow Jtawn ambulance.
“The sound of the war-trump reached afar;
We heard it by the South sea wave;
•Mid the orange groves of Florida;
If, called to the tight the true and brave.
I gave him the sword I used to wear
To wield again for his conntry’s right,
I gave him my blessing and heard him swear
He would not flinch in the coming tight.
“His mother’s eyes were dimmed with tears
As she folded her first-born close to htr heart—
His dark-eyed sister checked her fears,
And bid her woe as she bade him depart.
Hut say—uh say—you have seen him well,
Or how- shall I ever meet Mary again—
How shall my palsied tonguee'r tell
Our uoble boy’s among the slain?”
“Alas! I saw the boy too well.
Dead on the gory battle-field—
Saw where gallantly fighting he fell
While through our ranks the cannon pealed;
I saw him leap o’er tile battery's side,
Over the mortals grim and dread—
Wi en our S uthern boys, like an ocean tide,
Swept over tbe ranks of the foremost dead.
“After the tight I found him there
Under the murderous cannon’s mouth—
While many mure heads of raven hair,
Near by. spoke of the sunny South.
Brave hearts in their gory beds they fell
With wounds that still their daring slow—
How kind they were our tears shall tell;
How well they fought the foemen know.
“Oh! stranger, lead me where he lies;
Let, me kiss from his cheek the powder stain—
And let me close his glazing eyes
F.re his mothei looks in his face again;
My boy! my boy! my brave, bright boy.
Could not the cruel death shot spare!
From our Southern homes has fled the joy—
How sad ‘twill be without thee there.”
I left him mourning o’er his dead,
That saddened lather, old and gray—
O’er the brave young boy, on his martial bed,
Stricken alas! before his day;
Oh! Richmond, queen of the gory plain—
List to our Southern sisters’ wails—
Think of the precious ones that stain,
With t’neir hearts’ best blood, thy crimsoned
vales. Virginia Dare.
Outrages in Louisiana.
Eds. Sun : The subjoined letter is an
extract from one received from a young
friend in Louisiana, an exile from Md*,
prevented by tbe war from returning to
her father’s home. If you deem it, or
any part of it, worthy of publication, it is
at your service,
Respectfully, Ellen Me.
My Dear Ellen: Many long weeks
have elapsed since I last performed the
pleasant task of writing to my dear old
friend and schoolmate, from whom l par
ted two years ago. Little did either of us
think that our pleasant correspondence
would ever be interrupted by civil war.
Oh ! ’tis a merciful hand that veils the fu
ture from us poor weak mortals; else every
mad house in the land would be crammed
with unfortunate inmates. Oh ! you can
not imagine what 1 have passed through,
since I last wrote you. One week after
the capture of New Orleans, Cote Keith,
of the 21st Indiana regiment, with 500
men, entered the town of Houma, in pur
suit of of some of our citizens who had
killed two Yankees that had been sent, in
company with others, to seize a schooner
loaded with arms and ammunition for the
Confederate service. Not being able to
catch the men, (who had left the Parish,)
Col. Keith, announced his intention to re
main until they were caught, and immedi
ately commenced a series of foraging ex
peditions, seizing stock of every descrip
tion, as well as provisions for horses and
men. They visited my Uncle’s plantation
searched the premises for Cousin Howard
and Wellman, who, they said, had been
actively engaged in the killing of their
men. They seized every horse mule and
beef on the place, leaving no meat for the
negroes, 150 in number. They even seiz
ed the milch cows, sheep, hogs, Ac., and
then carried off as many wagon loads of
corn, hay, etc., as they wished.
My Uncle, w^io is suffering from paraly
sis, was not aware that any man had been
kijied in tbe Parish, the physician had
saved themselves much trouble and their
j people much suffering. If they had aided
i us in enforcing our blockade, refused to re-
i cognize rebels as belli,'era nts, and severely
1 interdicted the supply of arms from their
professedly neutral ports, the supply of
American cotton won Id have been ample
for the the use of the worid, because the
Federal armies could have obtained poses-
sion of vast supplies, which have since
been burned in very w< mtonness. But now
the cotton famine doe: i not work more se-
skirmish or its consequences. He was
not a little astouinhed then, to find his
hou.-e suddeuly surrounded by Yankee
soluiers, and his sons demanded. The
next morning Friday before daybreak,
bis house was again surrounded by armed
men.— 1 he Captain told them they might
have 20 minutes to get up and dress, that
he was going to burn tbe house. When
the time expired mv Aunt was at the side
board getting Uncle’s medicine, the Cap
tain addressing her rudely, said : “Mad
am, if you do not leave this house I will
nous detriment to British manufactures ; a squad of men to drag you out.
than the loss of the A Mcrican demand for 1 - T , he y had already commenced to fire
their manufactures. The policy of the Lo 1 us J 8 ' 88Ved two bedsteads and
British government wt is directed to the in- l ^ ieo Wlt * 1 a * ew s ^ eets ? pillow-cases,
...X
etc.,a secretary, a few of my cousins
valuable books, my Uncle’s clothes.
Aunt’s, Little Sissy’s, the boys’ and my
clothes were all burned; nearly all our
winter clothing, blankets, comforts and
calico dresses were packed in a room which
was kept locked, in the hurry and confu
sion the key could not be found, and con
sequently every thing in tbe room was
lost. Barrow Bona, my little cousin, was
running ont with his shoes, when one of
the soldiers seized them and pitched them
into the flame's. My Aunt tried to save a
loaf of bread, some coffee, bee* tongue and
several little delicacies for Uncle, but they
actually took them from her hands and
threw them into the fire. 1 he negroes
acted nobly. They*ruslied in at the point
of the bayonet and saved what little they
could. A Tittle servant boy was running
out with my writing desk (which he knew
I prized highly, being a very handsome
one, and a present from his Marse, Well
man) when a Yankee told him to put it
down; he did not even stop but ran along
and hallowed out, “1 can’t, it’s my Miss
Laura’s,” so thanks to Fred’s pertinacity,
1 have my desk" and a plentiful supply of
paper. They the negroes they would not
burn their quarters, but as soon as they
finished the house they started ofl for the
cabins, and would not let the poor ser
vants save anything. They even took
bundles out of their bands and threw them
into the flames. They next set the sta
bles and corn houses oM Are; they then
went to tbe sugar houses—they wanted
to take the sugar very badly, but were
afraid that it was poisoned. They repeat
edly asked the negroes if it was. Of
course they protested that it was not,
which seemed only to convince them to the
contraiy, and it was with many a covetous
glance aud many acutseon the Southern
ers that they set on fire the sugar houses,
and a large warehouse containing 600
bhds- of sugar and an immense quantities
of molasses- After they had burned every
house even the ben house, turkey house,
and wash bouse, they left only a little
school house to shelter the family, and on
ly a half pan of clabber for a hundred
and fifty five or sixty persons to breakfast
on.
Wp, could have no communication with
Houma, and all of our friends lived the
other side of the town, so we could obtain
no help from them. About 12 o’clock,
Mrs. Barrow sent a breakfast, recently
cooked, and beef and corn bread for the
negroes. After causing all this affliction
to an innocent man, or rather one entirely
ignorant of the death of the men, the cap
tain cruelly told my Aunt that “if old
Bond were not already half dead he would
hang him up to the first tree.”
Well, Ellen, it is all over now. I am
living at Mrs. Barrow’s, my uncle is at the
house of his physician. Aunt, cousin
Howard’s wife and the children live in
the school house- Cousin Howard and
Wellman are well and have joined the ar
my. LAURA B.
To the Editors of the Enquirer:
Gentlemen—1 call your attention and
also that of the authorities, to a very im
portant particular.
It has -been noticed that, in the begin
ning of the war, when it appeared that we
would be overwhelmed by the tremendous
power that was being brought to bear
agniust us, ahd also last winter, when dis
aster after disaster were weighing us down,
that days were frequently appointed for
fasting and prayer by the whole nation.
It is certainly so that we have been
helped out of all of our troubles by the
prayerful spirit of our people, and it is all
that can ever save us.
At the commencement of our troubles
the entire laud was filled with prayer to
the great God of Battles. We saw the
effect of it.—The enemy were burled back
from our soil.
We began to slacken in our devotion;
disaster came, and with it a nation’s de
vout appeals to Him who alone can guide
us through this terrible storm to a heaven
of rest.
And now that we have been blessed
with success, that the Great Omnipotent
has saved us from our enemies, shall we
cease to render acknowledgments to Him
who gave us the victory l Shall we look
to ourselves ? Now and all the time, it
is time for fasting and prayer. It will not
do to follow it up only in time of adversi
ty. The president should appoint such
days and do so frequently. The people,
it is true can act withont that trouble, but
the nation’s attention should be called to it;
it is nothing but right.it is all that can ev
er save us.
The writer has been in the battles around
Richmond, and know by what mere clance
victories are gained. The fortunes of bat
tles are certainly picked. You may talk
of your Generals your science, strategy
Ac., it does some good, but it is evident
on the field of bat tles, how little it would
take to spoil the best plans. The merest
waver, or smallest trifle which mav be on
one side or the otheiv«ay decide a battle
which may affect nations for ages. The
Great God alone giveth the victory. It
is not to the strong nor to the weak, but
those who look to Him. Unless we look
to the Great Ruler of events we are a
ruined people.
This is a just war on our part, but its is
justness will not save us; we must look
above. May we ever be a God-loving and
God-fearing people. A SOLDIER.
The I,ale Gen. McClellan.
McClellan is meeting his fate and there
are none to pity. His government is still
stripping him of his forces. Henceforth
he is to command a squad instead of “the
grand army.” Henceforth he is to second
even to such, a man as Pope, until Pope in
his turn, “has had his day.” That sooth
ing nocturnal visit of Lincoln is to keep
him quiet under his humiliation. It can
not be known what promises Lincoln
wrung from him m his agony. Meek
submission was prooably one of them, as
the very best thing McClellan could do,
even for himself. But oh, the bitter ago
nies of the defunct Napoleon, as he thinks
what he is going to be, and what he is! .
And, as a mere personal retribution, rich
ly does he deserve it. By his false de
spatches, he raised hopes which he could
not meet. He thus prepared for himself
a heavy fall aud a pit to fall in ! He also
entered Lincoln’s service against his con
science, and it is therefore fit and proper
that he should reap nothing but disgrace.
An intelligent gentleman, directly
thrpugh, gives it as his best impression,
from ail that he has seen and hea.d in
Middle Tennessee, in the last few weeks,
that the entire force under Buell’s com
mand is about 40,000.
Brownlow has been rehearsing a
speech which he says he prepared for
delivery on the gallows, when he was
arrested by the Confederates. It is to be
hoped that he will get the hang of the
subject before he quits.