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BATTLES AND CAMPAIGNS OF THE ARMY OF TEN TT E ! S SEE. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES, IIV COL. B. W. FRO BEL. •CHAPTER X. occupies Corinth with 4<),000 men—Van Dorn and Price left to bold him in check—Battle of Corinth— •Sue, ess of the Confederates—Maury charges “ College Hill”—la at first successful, hut is finally iepulscd— Van Dorn retreats—End of the campaign—Beanregard's plan—Difference between his and the plan adopted— McClellan’s instruction to General Iluell—Hope tJ arousing Kentucky—General Bragg—His fhilure In this campaign—lieview. Upon the withdrawal of onr army from Cor inth, Rosecrans, with forty thousand men, had immediately occupied the position, while Van Dorn and Price, with three divisions, were left to hold him in check and cover the Charleston A. Memphis Railroad. Yun Dorn, however, de termined to offer battle, and on the morning of the 2d of October, moved towards Corinth. Late in the atternoon ho approached within a short distance of the place, and here he halted for the night. BATTLE OF COBINTH. Early the next morning—the disposition for battle having been previously made—the ad vance began. occupied Louisville, destroyed the canal and established batteries at the falls of the Ohio. This would have closed the river at two points, forcing the enemy to assume the defensive against the dashing raids of those distinguished officers, Forest and Morgan, who, penetrating ! into Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, could have laid waste the country from the Ohio to the lakes, and broken tip communication with the East by i destroying the railroads in that section. And then the final but grand object of the campaign would have been to drive the army from West Tennessee and resume command of the Missis sippi. For this purpose, it was Beauregard’s inten tion to concentrate at GrandJunction the Trans- Mississippi army under General Price, together with all the troops that could be spared from Vicksburg. From that point he would have made forced marches on Fort Pillow, which at : that time could have been taken with very in- j considerable loss on our part. It is evident | that this move would have cut off the forces at i Memphis and Yazoo City from communication j by way of the river with the North, prevent j their reinforcing Kentucky or Cincinnati, and finally compel them either to surrender, or else ! cross into Arkansas without resources, where I they must have fallen into the hands of General j Holmes, who was on that side of the river. ■ From Fort Pillow General Beauregard believed I he could compel th6 army at Corinth and Jaok- ! son, Tennessee, to fall back precipitately to f Humboldt and Columbus, their lino of commu nication being broken, and that by a vigorous pursuit he could drive them across the Missis sippi at Columbus, or over the Ohio at Paducah. This would have relieved Vicksburg, freed Mis sissippi and West Tennessee from the presence of the foe, and recovered all of our lost ground, except New Orleans and the mouth of the river, and this with the loss probably of only a few hundred men. General Price could then have been detailed to Missouri, where his presence alone was worth an army to the Confederacy; and the sons of Kentucky could have aroused the spirit of that State, and hastened to a con paradise of indolence and poverty, and the American Isthmus is no exception to the rule. Here the native Indians, negroes. Creoles and Mestizoes live in rude, thatched huts; their mere animal wants easily supplied by lavish na ture; their intellectual and moral wants never awakened. They are naturally kind and hos pitable, and although they fight furiously among themselves, they generally respect well-behaved strangers. They are more cleanly in person than the lower classes of the Andean region, in the interior; but this is not saying a great deal for their cleanliness. III. ■auvj The Fedorals had also marched ( . . ... . out of their trenches, and were advancing to summation (he organization of regiments, brig- meet Van Dorn, who succeeded, after a brief struggle, in driving them back to within a short distance of their fortified camp. Here they again attempted to make a stand, and opened a spirited fire; but Van Dorn ordered his whole line to charge, and the men, advancing with a yell, drove them in confusion behind the shelter of their works. There was now a complete pause in the battle. Not a foe could be seen, the last ades and divisions which had been so speedily begun during Bragg’s short raid within her bor ders. It was believed that in case an army could oc cupy and hold the State, even for three or four months, large accessions would be made to its strength by volunteers from among a people, many of whom had, up to this time, been held down by the strong arm of military despotism; one having withdrawn. The firing had ceased; | while others had in the beginning been deceived the yell, the shout, the fierce cry of defiance had died away. Not a sound broke the stillness save ! the low groan of anguish from the wounded, as j they lay where they had fallen, while the smoke | which had rolled in great, surging waves over i the battle-field, drifted away on the light morn- j ing breeze or hung in fleecy olouds along the i distant woodlands. Suddenly the spell is bro- ken, and the deep thunder of artillery rolling ! Cumberland. I ti along our front tolls that the work of death has j that I regard the begun anew. The enemy has brought up more j batteries, and a furious cannonade ensues. In ! the midst of it, the order to charge again rings j forth. Forward the men rush, facing the storm j of lead and iron which sows death broadcast j among them. The first line of works has been j carried, and with the bayonet they charge the I enemy in the ditch beyond. A scene of , the j wildest confusion ensues, but the field so far | has been won, and the foe driven headlong be- { hind their second line of defenses. Meantime, the day with its horrors had faded ! away, and night comes down and shrouds with j a mantle of darkness the banquet hall where | death has held high revel. But long ere the | stars have faded from the eastern sky the order is passed for the soldier to resume his place in the ranks, and again prepare to charge the foe. Silently, in the gray dawn they are marshalled, artillery moved up, and then again the banquet of death begins. On it rushes, louder and louder as the darkness passes away, and a glori-, - , . „ ous sun rolls up in the eastern sky. But his ; sxtitliorxty of the General Government, face is obscured by the smoko, and his rays i inhabitants of Kentucky may rely look ref and angry as they stream down through th.t m.htat,™. w,H , into the belief that the war was made by the North solely for the purpose of preserving the Union, the Constitution and the Government made by our fathers. On assuming command of the Federal armies, General McClellan had issued the following address to General Buell: “ l'our operations there in Kentucky will be confined to that portion of the State east of the I trust I need not repeat to you importance of the territory committed to your care as second only to that occupied by the army under my immediate com mand. It is absolutely necessary that we shall hold the State of Kentucky. Not only that, but that the majority of its inhabitants shall be warmly in favor of our cause, it being that which best subserves their interests. It is possible that the conduct of the political operation in Kentucky is more important than that of our military. I cannot certainly estimate the im portance of the former. You will please con stantly bear in mind the precise issue for which we are fighting—that issue is the preservation of the Union, and the restoration of the full au thority of the General Government over all por tions of our territory. We shall most readily suppress this rebellion and restore the authority of the Government, by religiously respecting the constitutional rights of ail. I know that I ex press the feelings and opinion of the President when I say that we are fighting only to preserve the integrity of the Union and the constitutional On the 8th of October, Bragg fonnd himself gardens or farms; no mills, factories, shops, or confronted by a foe greatly outnumbering him, ! other evidences of steady industry. The region and was forced to retire, while the forces under i of the plantain and the banana is usually the Van Dorn utterly failed in an attack on Corinth. Hence, a retreat followed, and what should have been an invasion and an occupation of the State degenerated into a short and only par tially successful raid. But aside from the main issue involved, Bragg has been severely censured for what is generally termed “his failure in the Kentucky campaign.” Let the reader take the map, and, after carefully studying the various positions, in connection with attendant ciroumstacces, decide whether this is in all respects just. And here the ques tion at once arises: were the means placed at Bragg’s command sufficient to enable him to overcome the many obstacles with which he had to contend ? We have seen that the whole Confederate force operating in this section, when combined, was not able to hold Kentucky, and that while we commanded the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, and had the Mississippi also blocked np. At the time Bragg’s movement begun, all these rivers were in the hands of the enemy, and only a temporary suspension of operations on the two former had taken place, owing to the low stage of water incident to that season- of the year. This tact enabled Bragg to cross both the Ten nessee and Cumberland without opposition, and to retreat across them without molestation, which would not have been the case had the gun boats been able to navigate them freely. The enemy were investing Vicksburg, and this necessitated the presence of a large Con federate force at that point. They also held Corinth with forty thousand men, and hence Bragg felt compelled to leave three divisions to hold these in check, lest he should have an army in his rear, numbering as many men as his own, and left without hindrance to destroy his communications, overrun the country, and in case of disaster, insure his inevitable destruc tion. It was Beauregard’s intention to have The Pacific terminus of the railway is near the cite of the ancient city of Panama, knd therefore some distance from the populous dis tricts of the present city of that name. As we drive through its narrow, serpentine streets, we involuntarily think of the Pizarros, who made this old city the base of operations against the j Incas of Peru, in the days of Spain’s greatest j prosperity, when the gouty Charles the Fifth [ was King. Old mouldy buildings, moss-grown j towers, crumbling convent walls and sombre- i looking oathedrals, appear like spectres of the i sixteenth century. We involuntarily think of J the prelate Luque, who furnished the town with j spiritual consolation before there was a church j edifice in North America; an ambitious seen- i lar priest who furnished the illiterate, but lion- hearted Pizarro with money to prosecute his j Peruvian campaign, and who was subsequently j shamefully betrayed by him. We are now trav- | ersing the streets of the oldest town in America, j Some of its church edifices are as old as Euro- i pean civilization on the Western continent. | Their styles of architecture bear unmistakable ; traces of their origin. That Moorish civiliza- I tion which lingered in Granada long after the Koran and the Crescent were supplanted by the | Bible and the Cross, was never known in the complete.) Birds of prey, attracted thither by an unmistakable odor, swarm in troops about the premises, contending with the scurviest of dogs and the dirtiest of negroes over that which finds no purchaser. It is a visit one never cares to make a second time. The cost of living is not high, and with his own cook, and with proper care and management, a foreigner may live quite oomfortably, and have little occasion to visit the apothecary. In the absence of any very considerable revo lution, by which I mean a revolution of more than three weeks duration—tax on city property is about two per cent, on the assessed valuation; but the assessments are usually high, and taxa tion frequently burthensome in the extreme. Here, as elsewhere in the Republic, strangers are generally well treated, when they deserve to be. The naturalization laws are very liberal. It is easy to become a citizen of the Republic, but I believe I never heard of an Englishman or Ame rican availing himself of the privilege. It is just and proper to add, however, that the State of Panama has always been the poorest, as it is the meanest-governed province of the Co lombian Union. On the table lands of the interior, as I may sometime have occasion to show, there is quite a different country, inhabited by a very different people; a people whose intelligence and refine ment fit them to grace any society, and many of whose professional and public men would take rank in the great marts of the world. W. L. S. PERSONALS. forced these troops to retire by a rapid move- | jg ew World; but in Panama some of the older rnent upon their line of communication at Fort j et iifi ces attest the fact that the mind of the Pillow (as the works at Island No. i0 were called) j Moorish architect lived in that of his Castillian and having occupied these and cut off their sup plies, to await an attack behind a strongly forti fied position. It was believed that this position could be held, and this would not only have necessitated the withdrawal of Rosecrans from Corinth, but also the abandonment of Memphis and the seige of Vicksburg, releasing thereby a large body of our troops and enabling them to reinforce the army in Kentucky, and at the same time giving to our people the courage of renewed hope and confidence. But Van Dorn attaoked the army at Corinth while strongly in trenched, and was repulsed. He retired and they held Corinth. We see, too, that the Confederate forces were divided into three armies, neither of which was able successfully to cope with that opposed to it. Note—General Beauregard gives the following as the entire force at Corinth on the first of April, 1862 : Polk’s command, infantry ana artillery, - - - 9,136 Bragg’s command, infantry and artillery, - - - 13,566 Army of Kentucky (Hardee and Breckinridge) in fantry and artillery, - -- -- -- -- -- 18,228 Untrained cavalry distributed with the three torpa. 4,365 the sulphurous cloud which hangs like a death pall over the contending hosts. Again the order is given to charge, and a por tion of our lines rushes into the streets of the village only to be swept away by the artillery which commands every approach. A work on “College Hill” commands the town, and this must be carried before the place can be held. A column under Maj. Gen. Maury is formed for the purpose. The signal is given for the ad vance, and the men rush up the hill. Rosen- crans sees the danger, and every battery is turned upon that devoted little band ; but on they go, while at each moment the artillery pioughs wide lanes through their ranks, and the riflemen mow them down by hundreds. At length the hill is scaled, and the works reached. Over ditch and bank they rush, and after a fierce and bloody struggle the work is won and its defenders driven out. But the • guns o( the enemy enfilade the position, and so soon as their men have retired they open, at short range, a furious fire on Maury’s column, massed in that narrow space. Rank after rank goes down be fore it; human endurance can stand it no longer, and the column is forced to retire. The work which had been carried at such a fearful sacri fice is abandoned and the day lest. After reinforcing, and again offering battle, without, however, being able to induce Rose crans to accept it, Van Dorn began to retire slowly towards Ripley, having suffered in the recent engagement an aggregate loss of 4,500 men. Thus ended the campaign for that sea- upon it, that their domestic institutions will in no manner be interfered with, and that they will receive at our hands every constitutional pro tection. I have only to repeat to you, that you will in all respects carefully regard the local in stitutions of the region in which you command, allowing nothing but the dictates of military ne cessity to cause you to depart from the spirit of these instructions.” This was on the 7th of November, 1S61. On the 12th of the same month he says: “In regard to political matters, bear in mind that we are fighting only to preserve the integ rity of the Union, and to uphold the power of the General Government. As far as milita'y necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. * * * * It should be our constant aim to make it apparent to all that their prosperity, their comfort, their personal safety will be best preserved by adher ing to the cause of the Union.” The enthusiastic reception given by nearly the whole population to Kirby Smith and his soldiers, and the alacrity with which military organizations were commenced, make it fair to infer, that had Bragg been able to hold his army in Kentucky for three months, the people of that State would have been able to rise from their prostrate condition, and with arms and time for organization, would have proved them selves a power in the death-struggle in which the country was then engaged. Who can now question that events of vast mo ment might have resulted from the occupation of Kentucky in 1862 by a Confederate army; more especially, had the Kentucky trsops serv- °7n expectation of resuming command so soon ^g in the armies of the Confederacy, and the as his health was sufficiently restored, General j distinguished Kentuckians, G. W. Smith, Breck- Beauregard had mapped out the following plan | bridge, Buckner, Hood, Hanson and others, of campaign, which; if carried out. with all ! been sent by the Government to their native the available means at the disposal of the gov- | State to assist in treeing their brethren and form- ernment, he confidently believed would result in recovering much, if not all of our lost ground. It was his intention to make a simultaneous move on Kentucky, both by way of East and "West Tennessee. From East Tennessee, his ob jective points would have been, first Louisville and then Cincinnati. To reach these with safety, it would be necessary to drive Buell from Huntsville and Stevenson, so as to secure his line of communication by way of Chattanooga. His intention, therefore, was to fall on Buell with all the force at his command, and force him j either to fight or retire. Should he retire by ing a nucleus about which to rally her legions. We have briefly placed both plans before the reader, and he will have no difficulty in deter mining the essential points in which they differ. We have seen how easily Kirby Smith marched to Cynthiana, traversing the entire State, and could have captured Cincinnati. Bragg’s march to Mumfordsville was an unquestionable suc cess. Had he been equally fortunate in striking Buell, and then, by a rapid reinforcement of Morgan, succeeded in oapturing the troops flee ing from Cumberland Gap, that portion of Ken tucky would have bees freed from the foe, and Total effective of all arms, ... 40,331 [TO bk continued.] [For The Sunny South.] RECOLLECTIONS OP SOUTH AMERICA: OR, Scraps from Note-Book. Correctly speaking, South Amerioa begins at the equator, and extends southward toward Cape Horn; but in point of fact, all that portion of the American continent south of the Isthmus is now known as “South America..” The new Granadian Confederation, or what is now known as the “United States of Colombia,”is therefore the most northern of the South American Re publics. It is composed of nine States or pro vinces, whereof Panama is the most northern. Its boundaries extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, and from Costa Rica to Brazil, Peru and Ecuador. Its population is about three and a half millions. The Panama railway is therefore in the terri tory of the Colombian Union. The Atlantic terminus of this road is Aspinwall, a city found ed in 1852, and in every respect the creature of the railway. It is one of the most unhealthy localities in the tropics, Calcutta not excepted. There is something in its general appearance, and in the very atmosphere of the place, that is exceedingly depressing. The feeling is not un like that experienced on a sultry afternoon in the temperate zone, just before a violent thun derstorm. I do not now remember ever to have heard a genuine, hearty laugh or a lively tune in the place. What may appear equally strange, I never heard of an Aspinwall suicide. Death conqueror, even in the New World, as late as the early settlement of Panama. | The population of the place is about ten thou- ! sand, comprising descendants of all types of all races and both colors. The whites are in the minority; the negro and his descendants pre dominate. The Indian has almost lost his iden tity through a succession of white sires. Fully one-third the mercantile population are resident strangers, oitizens of foreign governments. Much of the best property in the city is owned by English, German and North American citi zens; whilst here, as elsewhere the world over, is seen the representative of old Jndea, speak ing all the modern languages, separate and dis tinct from the world around him, and yet taking precedence in its busy scenes of trade and com merce, ever eager in the pursuit of the all- powerful dollar, respected for promptness in business engagements, exacting in usury,praised for his frugality, courted for his money, but, here more than elsewhere, hated for his religion. Nature has done everything to make Panama one of the most lovely spots on earth. Man has done, and is still doing, much to make It one of the most undesirable places of residence within the pale of civilization. The climate is hot, but not unhealthy. The scenery is all that the eye could wish. Fountains of pure water gush from the mountain sides within a mile of the city, and at altitudes varying from fifty to one hundred feet abov9 its streets. A system of water-works would be a matter of trifling ex pense; and the streets, now exceedingly filthy, could be kept as clean as the boulevards of Paris. Gas is a recent innovation, the work of some irreverent Y’ankee. The native population are usually too constantly engaged in political discussions, in local elections, or in fomenting petty revolutions, to give their attention to the commonplace affairs of life. Tne city has prob ably never seen fifteen oonsecutive years of peace since 1810, when it became independent of Spain; and even previous to that time, it j was the scene of constant intrigue and strife : among the vie eroys and agents of the mother j country. Like most Spanish-American coun tries, its government is a sort of organized an- j archy, wherein elections are had by bullets in- stead of ballots. From the hours of six to twelve, Sunday mornings, all the retail shops are open as usual. The remainder of the day is devoted to popular amusements, such as theaters, cock and bull fights, music and dancing, drinking, gambling and carousing generally. These last named vices are common with the lower classes, all of j > iOLO WUUIIUUU TV AULA CIAII Wl UULIOCO) »»» U4 > • whom, however, call themselves Christians. | I ,rotesslon | The Prince Imperial was twenty-oneyears old on the 16th ult. i A testimonial is to be presented to Judge— ; now Senator—Davis. | Gilmore is to take charge of the Garden bear- j ing his name, after May. Chamberlain went down there with a earpet- | bag. He returns with a choioe assortment of i Saratogas. | A lunatic whom he caused to be imprisoned during his term of office, has sued General | Grant for $100,000. The poet-priest, Rev. A. J. Rvan, lectured re- ) centlvin New Orleans on “The Three Churches . which are but one and the same church. ” I In 1856 the names of Bismarck and Ignatieff had never been mentioned; to-day they are two of the most eminent diplomatists in Europe. The President will he known to future ages as j “a blacksmith’s grandson,” just as Lincoln is ; known as a rail-splitter, Johnson as a tailor, and I Grant as a tanner. | The wife of the French President has formed i a society with the object of assisting girls of | from twelve to fifteen years of age who are with out work and in want. None of Hayes’ cabinet are rich, unless it is Evarts, and as he owns a farm in Vermont he can, of course, never become an exceptionally wealthy man. He has a very large income from his practice, and he accepted a seat in the cabi net only upon condition that he be allowed to retain it. There is no statute of 1786, heretofore overlooked, as in Stewart’s case,’to prevent this, and we may expect to see the Secretary of State j journeying to New York about once a month I to look after his law cases. He says his salary j alone would make but a sorry figure in meeting | his family expenses. You remember a few years I ago Mr. Evarts was spoken of for Governor of j New York but declined. He could not afford it, j because a term as governor would break up his 1 law practice. Montague has been overrated in one respect, and underrated in another. He has been so written-up and so gushed over as a “handsome man,” that his aoting ability has been lost sight of to a certain extent, or regarded below its merit. He is not so pretty as we were led to believe, but acts much better than we gave him credit for. Tallish, slender and graceful, with a pleas ant, well-featured face and good expression and expressive power, Montague is sufficiently hand some to occasion complimentary passing remarks but nothing more. Where and wherein the en thusiasm lies for his personal beauty we don’t know. As an actor he is exceedingly easy, pol ished and capable. He belongs to the Charles Mathews and Lester Wallack school of gentle manly, graceful actors, who are on the stage as the quiet, polished gentleman is in the drawing room. It is a school where the supreme art is to conceal the art; where the exertion is to dis guise all exertion—and therefore it is, in many respects, the most delicately difficult line of the They are fanatically zealous in the observance of all church rites, forms and ceremonies. They Just at the present time the distinction of Governor Hampton’s name in the politics of the ,, 3 • luor. sumiuumtsu uv uu uuu uu&i, utui cuusuui* comes there readily enough in the ordinary * gd by ruat A cIo ’ er examination disclosed its wav~of Nashville, our troops would be advanc-! a large force at his disposal with which to r n ; ,U the direction of Louisville. If, on the pursue the remainder ot Beauregard s plan Other hand he should venture towards Flor- But he failed to strike Buell; he failed to reach for the purpose of uniting with Rose- the Ohio; he suffered ten thoasand. ; men, at one “ ’or Grant, he would immediately coneen- time within his grasp, to escape and join the trate enough troops from Middle and East Ten- main Federal army; he took no steps to close tiuixj cuuuv, . * ,, i • tha ' i on n o n. 1 I ' n m nnrlon M rirnro on rl nessee to follow him rapidly and defeat him in a gneat battle, when he would again resume his inarch as before indicated, erecting works on the Tennessee and Cumberland so as to com mand those rivers and keep open his communi cations. For this purpose a position several miles below Donaldson bad been selected. Here the two rivers, it is said, approach within one mile and a half of each other, and a command ing position, well fortified, would enable a few thousand men to hold it against gun-boats or naval operations. Powerful water batteries, at this point, oovering a series of obstructions, it was believed, would effectually tflose both rivers until more effective means oould be adopted. j His communication being secure, the main : arrnv could then have marehsd on Cincinnati, capturing its immense magazines of military | and naval stores, and erecting works at Coving- j for the purpose of closing the river, while | strong detachment, it was believed, could hate j the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, and made no effort to resume control of the Missis sippi, without which the rest would have been a useless expenditure of time and life; above all, he failed to occupy Cincinnati, which alone would have done more to free those States from the presence of an invading foe than all else. Their territory had never been invaded exsept by the force under Lee, and the very fact that he was able to maintain a position of constant threat, kept their best army as elosely chained to Washington City as was Promitheus to his rock. Had the Confederacy been able to k,eep aH army upon the Ohio, the constant menace which this would have been to Cincinnati, Cairo and numerous other places along that stream, way. A ride of four hours, distance forty-seven miles, fare twenty-five dollars gold by the Panama railway, brings us to the Pacific coast. The country through which we pass is a succession of hills and lagoons; the former rising, in sugar- loaf shape, and covered with the rankest variety of tropical forest; the lagoons are surrounded by bamboo jungle, generally overgrown by rushes, or completely concealed from view by a kind of green grass peculiar to the tropics, which grows upon the surface of the water, sometimes fully fifty feet from the earth. The Chagres river—onoe the terror and the highway of the California gold-hunter—is a dark, repulsive stream, the very embodiment of j malarial disease. I never contemplate this hid eous river without recurring to the fabled Styx, or shuddering over Milton’s picture of the Styg ian pool, or calling to mind one of the striking scenes in Dante’s “Inferno.” Its very appear ance is suggestive of funerals. It probably con tains no brimstone, after all, but somehow it never fails to create some such impression upon the minds of strangers. Near-by is the cemetery. Its new-made graves tell a sad story of the mortality of this pestilent region. Many an adventurous European and North American has found a last resting-place on this “Monkey Hill,” as it is facetiously called; his remains coffinless and his little mound un marked by even a pine board. Verily, it is sad enough to die in a place like this, to drop out of time wholly unnotieed and unsung; but the looal rites of interment add still greater melan choly to the prospect. One of the resident foreign Consuls there told me he had known a dozen different persons to occupy by turns the same coffia. The plan is, to hire a coffin in which to carry the dead to the cemetery, where the corpse is ohueked into a hole two feet deep, and the ceffin carried back to the city to serve the next customer wbo may need it If pur- overhangin chased by a friendly hand and interred with the j verdure of oorpse, it is sure to be stolen away at night, un less striot guard be kept ever it for fully one week. IL might be induced to forego food, sleep and j country, and the honor he has won as a gentle- ’ man of eminent character, creates a national de sire on the part of the public to see how he looks. Just to get a glimpse of him hundreds of people have stood for hours at a time about Willard's during his brief stay in Washington, and with great truth it may be said that a finer specimen of an elegant and courtly man is rarely seen. In company with his friends, Senator Gordon, of Georgia, and Judge Makey of South Carolina, Governor Hampton yesterday afternoon visited Brady’s celebrated historic gallery and sat for his pictures. Two negatives were taken of im perial bust size; one cabinet and imperial card sizes, in all, ten different styles. Mr. Brady will have many of them finished and handsome ly mounted during the first of the week, and of coarse, copies can be obtained. Governor drink, but never to neglect their morning and evening prayers. And yet they are anything else than hypocrites; they would die for their faith withouta murmur. Driving out one morning near the outskirts of the city, I noticed what at first sight appeared to be only a pile of stones, loosely thrown toge ther, surmounted by an iron cross, half consum- real character and purpose. This unsightly pile, as my companion informed me, marked the place of an ancient chapel. At its base was an opening, barely large enough for a man to crawl into on knee and elbow. This led to an inner chamber or a sort of cavern, filled with human bones. Over these ghostly relics was a lighted candle; and this pious mummery was supposed to propitiate the departed “saint” whose bones Hampton also spent some time in examiningithe magnificent historic groups, of generals, poets, sailors, statesmen and men of science which adorn the walls of this great natural portrait “gallery,” and expressed himself in unqualified admiration. His own splendid picture to be added to the list will be among the most attrac tive. We have but little doubt, from what we hear, that Mr. Hall left the city iu consequence of the certainty of Tweed’s release from prison, which will take place next week, or that the price of that release, besides the surrender of large sums of money, is the exposure of parties who received the money at the hands of the Boss. That the were thus illuminated by tapers! My informant could not give the desired information as to what particular saint was once the owner of those bones, and I observed also that the skull of the saint was missing. IV. Among the curiosities of the place, is its sea wall. No one seems to know exactly when, or by whom it was built; but from the best inform ation at hand, it is probably not less than three hundred years ago; not later, certainly, than | Philip the Second’s time. During all this time, j the tide has risen against it daily to the height of eighteen feet, and it is still in perfect condi- j e x-Mayor'left the city and country as he did, tion. Tne stones seem literally ran together, by I and when he did> on accoant of th ' Tweed triai( As we approach the Pacific .side of the Isth mus, the atmosphere becomes sensibly purer, and the railroads also between the Ohio and the I and the general surroundings leas gloomy and a species of cement quite as hard as the rock itself. Prescott, the historian, says the walls of Cuzco, in Peru, were thus constructed, at the time of the conquest by Pizarro. We know that similar edifices were found in Mexico by Cortez. But the walls of Panama and Cartajena have a Spanish origin, of course. The scenery from this promenade i3 grand al most beyond conception. To the South and East, mountain peaks loom up to a clear, tropical sky; westward, the broad bosom of the Pacific is studded with green mountain islands, rising perpendicularly in conic beauty, to the height of several hundred feet, and mirrored in the calm surface of the deep blue waters beneath; while beyond extends “ the limitless expanse ot wa ter,” its shores indented by promontories and peaks, clothed in that luxuriant the tropics, of which botanists never weary. It is a scene for the artist, and yet I now remember but one sketch of the place, and that is remarkable only for its failure—a mere daub by an English artist V. A visit to the city market is recommended as a we think will be made evident to all when the full exposure of names and dates are laid be fore the public. It wiii probably appear iu the exposure how much the Tweed charter cost the city of Albany, and the sum will no doubt as tound the public if the revelation is made com plete. “ Whether the ex-Mayor was wise or unwise ir making his escape from the country is a Hit puted point among his friends, but if implieateu as alleged in any knowledge of the percentages paid to the ring, or in any way benefitted by the drafts upon the city treasury, or male le gally liable by any exposures, his more intimate friends will not blame him for getting beyond sight and reach of those who might act to his injury. In the long run truth will come to light, and just now those who passed the Tweed char ter and those who aided the Tweed charter as lobyiats at Albany will be known even though it has keen said that Tweed would never expose one of the parties who were seduced by money to act against the city. “ A statement is made that as much as $800,- 000 wa6 paid for ‘getting through the Tweed lakes, would have chained all of the available Union forces to this point, and left us Kentucky and Tennessee, and sooth of these an unin vaded territory. depressing. We, however, observe very few in habitable-looking places on the route, and these are said t« be owned or controlled by employees ‘ '-le • ■ sure antidote for a morbid appetite. The beef, j charter,’ which money found its way to Albany, naturally good, ia spoiled by the butcher, and . and that the members of the Legislature, both then rendered almost unendurable by the stallDemoerats and Republicans, shared alike; and huckster. (And, I may add, by means of garlic J that the charter was eventuidly passed by Ibe. ot»z1 nniana fc Vi A rx/vnlr t Vi u imminutinn '! T)annV>1i/ian T.arnolafnva ia " A of the railway. There are no thrifty-fooking and onions, the oook renders the abomination j Republican Legislature is known.