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Sljc Wcckln (f oiistitutioiuilist.
BY JAMES GARDNER.
A NEW WEAPON.
Tne Marion (N. C.,) A’.rj’wss says that Dr. J.
G. Patterson, of that place has invented a pis
tol which may be regarded as the ne plus ultra
of revolvers. The editor says:
It is a twenty-four shooter, constructed upon
SO neat a plan, that we can carry it in our vest
pocket, with little inconvenience. It has two
liars of tribes with twelve tubes in each tier, and
so arranged that ail the chambers can be fired |
without halting, except to depress the barrel,
which is done in an instant, preparatory to the
discharge of the second circle ot chambers.
The Doctor has determined to put up a rifle
on the same plan, which in the absence ot can
non, could never be conquered. Each soldier
might catrv two er three loaded cylinders in his
pocket, and when one round of 24 shots was
fired, be could attach another cylinder in a mo
ment, and continue his tiring.
J The Atlanta Confederacy of this morn
ing contains the following private dispatch to
E. M. Bruce <fc Ca.:
Memphis, April 9.—Billy Bell was badly
wounded. Island 10 is surrendered. The
right has ceased at Corinth. 1 leave for that
place in the morning. A. J. Armstrong.
A Terrible Rain.—Night before last we bad a
ram storm in this vicinity which may be well
called terrible. Incessant thunder and lightning
pealed and flashed during the whole night, and
the rain poured down literally in torrents, for at
ie&st eight or ten hours. The wash in the streets
and roads has been great, and travel has been in
terrupted on all the railways, except the Macon
and Western. The Southwestern and Muscogee
« trains were stopped by washes a few miles out of
town, a dup to ten in the morning no Central
train had arrived. We doubt if such a ram has
fallen within the last fifty years.
if aeon Telegraph VLfh,.
Corinth.—A gentleman just from Chattanoga.
who was able to obtain some items of interest
from the battle of Monday, informs us that Buell’s
armv numbered some 65,000 men, and ours 35,-
000, u at we took between 6,000 and 7,000 pris
oners and all the batteries of the enemy on Sun
day ; that the fight on Monday was furious and
desperate tor a time : that the right wing of our
armv forced a whole brigade into the Tennessee
River, a la Lees/urg, but our left wing was over
powered with overwhelming numbers, and had
to fall back, when our whole army was ordered to
retreat, without being pursued. In this retreat
we lost some four pieces ot artillery, and all the
commissary stores we had captured.
Atlanta Confederacy llfi.
THE GARRISON OF PULASKI.
In connection with the painful news of the
fall, of Fort Pulaski, the following list of the
officers and companies composing the garrison,
will be interesting. We copy from the Repub
lican, of the 1 Ith :
The Fort is commanded by Chas. H. Olmstead,
of this citv, Colonel of the First Volunteer Regi
ment of Savannah, now in the Contederate service.
He is ouite ayoung man. biting about 26 years of
age, vet a proficient in judgment and well skilled
in military science. He graduated with the first
distinction at the Military Academy at Marietta,
and has since devoted much attention to arms, i
His sagacity, courage, and coolness are undoubt
ed. he will never surrender so long as he has a
gun on it*.carriage and the ammunition to tire.
~ The second officer in rank is Mai. John Foley,
lor manv tears Captain ot the Irish Jasper Greens,
one of the favorite companies of our city, and au
officer of much experience and undoubted gallant-
. IV.
' The third in grade is Capt. John H. Stegin, of ■
the Geeman Volunteers, also an old and skilful I
commander. j
AH three of these officers have been in the Fort I
almost from the date of its occupation in January |
1861, and their commands have much experience !
in gunnery.
The companies which compose the garrison are j
as follows: _ , _ _ . 1
German Volunteers, Capt. John H. btegin.
Oglethorpe Light Infantry, Co. 8., Capt. F. W.
Sims.
Washington Volunteers, Captain John McMas
ben. , „ ■ T t
Montgomery Guards. Captain Lawrence J.
Guilmartin.
Wise Guards, 25th Ga. Regt., Captain
McMullin.
BREAD -EXTORTION.
Flour is now selling in this market at eight
dollars per hundred pounds, and meal at one dol
lar and a quarter per bushel. We were informed
last fall that there’ was plenty of grain made in
■Georgia for home consumption. We have been
told that there is an abuodance of wheat in this
county, and that there is no cause for the high
prices 'or bread stuffs, except the spirit of extor
tion, which se-ms to have taken as much hold
upon ‘’the honest farmer” as upon the merchant.* .
and s ecoiar-irs. whom they (the farmers and the
people; have beencursing and denouncing so long.
It it is wrong tor merchants and grocery men
to demand extiorbuant prices to- w bat they have
to sell, is it not equally wrong for farmers to ex
tort upon starving humanity in all they have to
sell? We would like to enquire how many ot
the farmers in Troup are holding back their
breadstuff* in order to secure higher prices ?
How many ot them have discovered, since prices
have run up, that they “ have a few bushels of
wheat or corn to sell?” If merchant’s and deal* |
ers groceries are to be held up to indignation
and contempt for demanding high prices, are not
the far mers equally guilty of the same spirit ?
These are patent questions, and worthy ot constd
eration by everybody.
Tbe truth is, speculation and exto r tion are
abroad m the land fighting the people of this gov
ernment with a two-edged sword. If we tail in
this struggle, our fate will have been brought
about tbe riAyfccis of the country, who go prow
ling about, “ seeking whom thev may devonr.”
[Lagrange Reporter.
Hand Grenades.—The Richmond Dispatch
savs: , _
In tbe great deficiency of arms iu the southern
States, it has been suggested that a company of
each regiment, composed of the most powerful
men, might bearmed not only with pikes, resem
bling ship’s boarding pikes, but hand grenades,
after the fashion of the first grenadiers. Each
man could carrv some half dozen of these formida
ble shells, and hurled by strong arms into an ad
vancing body ot horsemen, they would scatter to
tbe four winds any bodj of cavalry that ever took
tbe field. It will be remembered that the famous
grenadiers ot the great Frederick first used the
band grenade, tbe term grenadiers being derived
from their employment of that misile. The eug*
gestion strikes us as a valuable one, and we hope
it will not be overlooked.
The war tax on quota money of Virginia to the
Confederate States, was paid over to Mr, Mem*
minger on the Ist of April. Allowance was made
for that portion of the State now overrun by the
enemy, and no taxes required, on its account.
This discri minatic n was made in anticipation of
the action of Congress in the passage of a law
exempting invaded districts of the several States
from taxation.
CAPTAIN MORGAN, THE GALLANT SCOUT.
The Atlanta Confederacy gives the following
account of one of the late exploits of this gallant
partizan :
After having taken 98 prisoners near Nashville
with his 25 men, Captain Morgan started them
back in three different detachments. While,
subsequently, returning alone with the intention
ot overtaking them, as lie was crossing the pike,
be observed some distance in advance a Federal
officer. Accosting a countryman who was ap
proachirfg him from that direction, Captain Mor
gan ascertained that the I ankee was a Lieuten
ant Burnes, with a picket of five men, who, at the
time, were in a house at the side of the road.
Instantly forming bis purp- se, Captain Morgan
loosened his revolvers, buttoned his Federal over
■ coat so as to conceal his own uniform, and gal
loped up to the picket.
‘‘How are matters, Lieut, Burns?” said Captain
Morgan, addressing the Yankee officer.
“All right, Colonel,” responded Burns.
“Where are your men?” asked Morgan.
“In the house there,” replied Burns.
“Nice way of attending t« your duty, sir. Con
sider yourself under arrest, and hand me your
sword and pistol,” said Capt. Morgan.
His order was promptly obeyed, and Capt. Mor
gan then directed Burns to call out his men singly.
Alter requiring them to hand to him their sabres
and guns, he ordered them to march.
“We are going the wrong direction, Colonel,”
said Burns, after they bud started.
“No, it’s all right. I am Captain Morgan!”
said the brave partisan to his now thoroughly
frighten d captives.
At this juncture Capt. Morgan was joined by
one of Lis men, Mr. Spaulding, who had with
him four of the prisoners taken earlier in the day.
After marching all night they safely reached their
command with the ten prisoners.
All this but goes to show what can be accom
compitshtd by a daring, courageous, yet prudent
aud discreet man. We should have a Morgan
with his band, to cut off and destroy supplies,
burn bridges, tear up roads, and harrass, annov
and cripple the vile Hessian invaders, on every
toile of road between the Confederate lines and
the Gino river.
LAST MOMENTS OF GEN- JOHNSTON.
The Atlanta Confederacy publishes the follow
ing, which purports to be from one who was well
posted as to the incident alluded to :
The death wound ot Gen. Johnston was in
flicted on the calf of bis rigot leg, aud was con
sidered by him as only a flesh wound. Soon
after receiving it,he gave an order’toGov. Harris,
who was acting as a volunteer aid to him, who,
on his return to Gen. Johnston, in a different part
ot the field, found, him exhausted from loss of
blood, and reeling in his saddle. Riding up to
him, Gov. Harris askei: “Are you hurt?” to
which the now dying hero answered : “Yes, and
I fear mortally,”’and then, stretching out both
arms towards his companion, fell from his horse,
and soon after expired. No other wounds were
discovered upon his person.
The New York Herald says that the late “Union
victories” have produced an almost magical effect
upon every phase of society and life in that city.
The opera has been revived; society has
again to its gay whirl; and Broaaway “blooms'
like UpChterr'e <ST choice fruits and flowers. ;x, ~The
news rrom Corinth, however, will mar this pleas
ant picture, and put rather sudden end to this
carnival, which the Herald so joyously describes.
The commissioners appointed to examine the
western department, under General Fremont’s ad
ministration, have made a report, exposing gross
frauds and wide spread demoralization among
the official circles and their dependents in that
department.
•ivGen. Johnston was in his 50th year ; leaves be
hind him two sons, one of whom is a Lieutenan t
Colonel in a Confederate Kentucky Regiment.
He was related by marriage to the Prestons of
Virginia.
The United States Senate has passed the
i House resolution—ayes 32, navs 10 suggested by
: President, declaring’ that the United Slates'Ought
►to co-operate, by giving pecuniary aid, with any
Siate which may adopt the gradual abolition of
slavery.
It is certain, says the Richmond ■Eratjtinez’, that
McClellan is at the head of the Northern troops
in the Peninsula. It is also certain that instead
of attacking Magruder’s lines he is fortifying his
own 1
To be Shot. —It is annotideed, in the Louis
ville Democrat, that Col. Ebenezor Magoffin,
of Kentucky, has been sentenced at Louis, to be
shot for an allege violation o his parole. He is
confined at Alton. He was tried on another count
—the Murder of a U. S. soldier, but was acquit
ted of that charge. Theweakneed Governor *>f
Kentucky will feel a consolation in knowing that
bis Federal allies are exceedingly gracious to
wards some of his family, altho’ugh they have
little respect for him.
The bells of the Methodist, Presbyterian,
Episcopal and Cumberland Presbyterian and
Baptist Churcbesin Huntsville have been taken
down and directed to the Contederate founder-,
ies to Se cast into cannon. They have hereto
fore been used to ring up sinners to the house
of worship, and in future are to be used to ring
the knell of tbe invader of our country.
J. W. Mann, aged 62 years, a resident !
of Muscogee county, but now a private in the !
Columbus Rebels, Capt. G. W. Atkinson, has !
eight sons in the Confederate army.
Morgan Rivaled.—On Sunday last, one man,
armed with Sharp’s rifle, two repeaters, and sa
bre, arrived in Fayetteville, Tennessee took
breakfast, stated that he belonged to the 44th
Ohio, that plenty more were at the toll gate, let
his rifle be examined, he removing the cap. He
then enquired for three bacon wagons belonging
to a Mr. Tally, rode off’, overtook tbem this side
of Wells’ bill, 24 miles from Huntsville, burnt
the wagons and bacon, visited a church asking
for our soldiers, and then took a circuit through
the country and returned into the enemy’s lines!
He appeared to know all the by-roads in that re
gion. A bolder feat has not been performed by
tbe foe.— Huntsville Advocate.
The Richmond Enquirer learns that Prince Po*
lignac, who has been for some time on Gen.
Beauregard’s staff, has, under the act of Congress,
taken the oath of allegiance to the Confederate
States, and become a citizen of Virginia.
*
Vandalism in Florida.—The Floridian says:
“We hear it from what we deem reliable authorie
ty, that an extensive ‘grab game’ has been played
in some parts of the East. Thousands of the
rifles have found their way into the hands of
private individuals, who seemed to have helped
themselves without let or hindrance. Os the
12,000 brought by the Carolina on her last trip,
it is supposed that less than three thousand re
main !” It is to be hoped that the Government
will hold those who had them in charge to a
strict accountability.
AUGUSTA- GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL IG, 18G2.
IJThe Charleston CVuwr, of the 11th, says that
Colonel J. Johnston Pettigrew, who declined the
appointment as a Brigadier General, has been in
duced by the advice of friends and indications of
duty and public service, to accept the appoint*
ment.
NEGRO HUNG.
We are informed by Mr. Medlock, of the
Central Georgian, that the npgro boy Irve—
belonging to the estate of Richard Worthen, of
Washington County—who killed Mr. Railey,
his overseer, was hung by the people of tbe
neighborhood on Monday. A jury of twelve
men was selected, and the negro was executed
in accordance with their verdict.
FEDERAL CAVALRY AT HUNTSVILLE-
The following private dispatch appears in th e
Atlanta Confederacy of this morning;
Stevenson, Ala., April 11.
Suraeor Johnson-,
The Federal cavalry reached Hnntsvi.le this
morning—will telegraph you again.
6 C. Dupree.
We have reason to bell ve that the above dis*
patch is reliable, and we fear that tbe next intel*
ligence we receive from that quarter will be that
Railroad communication is cut oft.
FROM CORINTH.
We are without any papers from Memphis
since Sunday, and can therefore give no par
ticulars of the battle near Corinth beyond
those sent us by telegraph. The Atlanta Intel
ligencer has seen a gentleman who ’.eft Corinth
on Wednesday night last. The information he
imparts differs but little from our telegraphic
reports. He says that the prisoners taken at
the battle of Sunday and Monday, with the ex.
ception of some 800, who were at Corinth when
he left, have been sent to Memphis—that in tho
latter place, when he left it, the wharves were
crowded with people, waiting the arrival of
Van Dorn’s and Price’s retaiorcementsfor Beau
regard—that large reinforcements had already
passed on the line of the Tennessee Railroads
to Beauregard, estimated at 12,000.
Tuesday and Wednesday were devoted by
both armies to .the burial of the dead. Some
little skirmishing only had taken place. Buell
fought his fresh troops on Monday, some -10,000
strong. Tbe report at Corinth was that ho was
killed. Our informant says that much which
he has heard reported is unreliable. His opin
ion is there will be no fight for some days.
YANKEE ACCOUNTS FROM CHARLESTON.
The special, corresw t -.if the New York
Tribune, writing from Tort March 26th,
gives a long account of the cond.tion of affairs in
aud around Charleston. He professes to have ob
tained these details, which the Mercury says em
body truth and glaring falsehood strangely ins
terwoven, from a party of five escaped contra
bands. We give his statement in full:
The English iron steamer Commerce, nineteen
days from Liverpool, arrived at Charleston, March
10th, having run in by Rattlesnake Shoal, and so
through Maffit’s channel to the harbor. It is to
be remembered that this is the point at or near
which the second stone fleet was sunk, in order to
prevent vessels from availing themselves of tbe
passage, between tbe shoal aud Long Island,
where it was hazardous for blockading vesseles to
lie, both on account of the shoal and the batteries
on shore. The Commerce brought a cargo of
woolens, shoes, arms, and ammunition, and is
now loading in Charleston with cotton, and eXs
pecting to run the blockade and return to Eng
land.
The Catawba arrived three weeks since, and is
now loading with cotton, hoping to do the same
thing. The ship Mackinaw is in port, loading
with cotton, and’bound for an English port. One
brigand two or three schooners, destination uno
known, are taking in the same cargo. On the 23d
: mst. tbe steamer Carolina ran in about 11 ©’clock
jat night from Nassau, with an assorted cargo.—
; The pilot boat Chase arrived on the same day
from the same place, loaded with salt. The Cecil
and the Ella Warley are daily expected, also from
Nassau —the Ella being the old Isabel, and having
run in and out within two months, escaping the
squadron when she last entered hy the help of a
fog, but getting a shot in her stern from the Mo
hican.
It need not be supposed, however, that the
blockade of Charleston is entirely ineffective.—
Th# number of vessels that have succeeded in
gettiug in is an evidence of the great difficulties
m the” way of making it peifect. Tbe Florida,
James Adger, Sumpter, Flambeau ana Onward are
tbe present blockading squadron—the Flambeau
being here only lor needed repairs, and to return
iu a day or two. No vessel or any draught enter
tbe main ship channel, where the first stone fleet
was successfully sunk, and is still an effectual
barricade. But tbe skill and ingenuity of the
Charleston pilots are very great. Whenever a
vessel is running out, small boats precede her
with lights along Maffit’s channel; while for her
vessels from the outside signals are arranged, or
they have pilots on board woose knowledge aid
ed by darkness and fog, enables them to baffle the
vigilence of the blockading squadron. Nor i s
any blockade often, perhaps never, so effect©
that no vessel eludes it.
Two lines of entrenchments entirely surro
the city of Charleston. The nearest at a dis xance
of two miles and a half, tbe outer five mile s from
the citv. Extensive fortifications hav t been
erectedon Ashley river, three miles dis‘ and
strong works also on Ceoper river, miles
from Mount Pleasant. James Island, considered
to command an important approach t A the city, is
Strongly fortified and numerously gs j-risoned. It
has long been known that the river ir-in Stono to
Charleston is obstructed by pilf Every effort
has been, and continues to be m 4 de to strengthen
the defences on ail sides and iu we harbor. The
famous floating battery, built aud used for the at*
tack on Fort Sumter, now !\es moored near Fort
Johnston, which is only an open earthwork for its
support and protection.
There are but two armed steamers m Charles
ton harbor—tbe Lady D avis and a tug. Th© for®
mer came down to Port, Royal at the time of the
bombardment, and, bying obliged to return by
tbe inside passage, was lightened by tbe removal
of all her passengers, stores, coal, and, finally,
even the machinery, in order to get her over a
shoal in one of the inlets. Strenuous efforts are
making to build an iron.elad gunboat, and every
means is resorted to in order to raise money.—
Concerts and theatricals are trade to contribute,
and exhibitions of negro minstrelsy, in which
the'.performers have no need of charcoal to appear
in character, has been given for the same object.
Even slaves are solicited, for offerings. The ves
sel was commenced, one of the negroes thinks,
three or four days since, and is expected to be
ready within a month. When the iron steamer
Commerce arrived, as above stated, on the 10th,
it was proposed to purchase and' plate ber, but
she was found to be too light. An offer was then
made tor her boilers and machinery, which her
agents refused. In some Charleston papers,
found at Jacksonville, Florida, I suw numerous
appeals to patriotic citizens to contribute to
wards the building of gunboats, though nothing
was there said about iron plating —a change of
plan, no doubt, due to tbe Monitor-Mernmac
tight. Concerning this latter, the Charleston pa*
per* admitted that twelve men were killed on
board the Merrimac, that her smoke stack was
shot away, and that she went into Norktolk in a
sinking condition. The first report stated that
Commander Buchanan was wounded ; the second
announced his death.
Provisions of nearly every kind are extremels
scarce and high. Common coarse salt, worth 2y
or 30 cents in New York, was sold at sls a sack!
tea $4 50 a pound, bacon almost impossible to be
had at ariy price. The mistress of one of these
slaves bad paid $lO the day before for a small
ham. The commonest brogans. ordinarily worth
75 cents a pair, sold for $4 and ss, while for boots
the price was S2O. Two regiments from North
Caroliua were sent home a tew days since. They
were so pressed by hunger that they broke into
the bakeries and seized their contents, offering
North Carolina money iu payment, and when that
was refused as worthless they carried off the
bread defiantly.
Many of the country troops had died from the
use ot army biscuit, and the Commissary Depart*
ment was obliged to issue corn for tbe soldiers’
rations. Cotton thread is 25 cents a spool; needles
a hundred times the usual price; matches one
cent each. Very little business is done in the
city. Stores are mostly closed, the stocks of
goods being exhausted without means of rene-val.
Families are constantly leaving the city for the
interior, and others preparing to move at. the
moment’of assault. It is universally asserted and
believed that the place is to be attacked by a
Concerted movement on all sides on* the 15th of
April, with overwhelming land and naval forces.
The necessity of surrender, and the policy of
giving up the place without fighting, s nee it must
eventually fall, are openly discussed in trie city;
and it is not long since a party of officers came to
blows on the question in a public conversation.
Troops have lately been sent from Charleston to
Georgetown, South Carolina, in expectation of
an attack. On the line or road from Charleston
to Savannah are about 3),000 troops. In thereat
of the city are very few cannon, and only two
have been mounted.
The Emily St. Pierre, a ship of a thousand
tons, from Calcutta, with 2000 bales of gunny
bugging on board, was captured by tbe James
Atlger, trying to get into Charleston, about ten
days since. Her register was British, and her
crew the same. She cleared from Calcutta for a
port in New Brunswick—the Captain alleging
tnat he had orders to stop at Charleston ana go
nif the port was not blockaded. When
taken, she*was standing straight in for ihe bar,
with mainsail set and spanker furled, hidden from
the blockading vessels by a thick fog until she
was within three miles and a half—a tolerably
clear case of attempting to run the blockade. A
prize crew was put on board, and she was sent to
Philadelphia, with her own officers aud crew as
prisoners. She had no colors aboard when taken,
but the officers boarding learned from tbe crew
that she had the rebel flag flying (fifteen
days before leaving Calcutta, and that
when chased threw them overboard, tied to
the lead. Information .was also obtained that,
when the Emily left, three other vessels were at
Calcutta loading for Charleston—one of them a
ship of 2000 tons.
For an account of the passage of the Flora
through the blockading squadron, and her extia
traordinarv escape, 1 am also indebted to Captain
Upshire. This Vessel was despatched from New
York, in the revenue service for the use of Colo«
nel Reynolds in collecting cotton at Port Royal.
Bv an error of her compass she got far in shore
ofl Charleston within the lines of the blocka
ding squadron. Th? Augusta brst perceived
her, firea three musket shots, and hoisted tne
lights for her to come within ho.il. A 8 the signal
was disregarded, and the Flora was stan'. <ID S'
straight in for tho habor, it was of cour.-e sup
posed she was a rebel steamer endeavoring to run
the blockade. ThejAugusta firedthree 32 pounders
at her without effect. Short.y after siie altered
her course, and steered directly for the Flam
bau, w’hose attention had of course been raised
by the shots and signals of the Augusta.
As the Flora earned the white, green an \ re( ]
lights forward, and on her starboard.„ ort
beam, it was at once seen on board the flambeau
that she was making directly for ‘ >Qat ghlp and
she was, therefore, supposed to au arined ves _
se>, and intending to run dow Flambeau. All
hands were at quarters, guns run out, and as
the Flora approached captain of the port
quarter gtin, a heavy rifle'J cannon, and the only
one bearing on ;ne Flora, was ordered to fire. By
a singular accident the ’ /rimers usually carried in
the belt had been misla and the gun could not
be fired without them, jjo primer could be found,
and the Flora was within thirty yards. If tbe
gun had been disclu ,rged the shot would Aave
gone through and through her weak huiq ma
chinery and all. a r /d the vessel very likely might
have gone to the bottom with all on board. She
is a very light u jd small North river steamboat.
When hailed b y Captain Upson, tlie mistake was
at once discov gfed, but her commander, Lieuten
ant Coffin. 1 , a d no better excuse to offer lor his
blunder, wb had come so near a frightful dis
aster, than tsjs own confusion and want«of pres
ence of m : 2ll d.
' Jorresporitience of the Charleston Mercury.
Richmond, Friday, April 4.
A traveler (ex-Senator Gwinn) just from Wash
,nf/-foa, via the Underground Railroad, gives
s ‘ /me interesting news. He says McClellan has
' army of 130,000 men, fine looking, well drilled
and equipped, and 400 pieces of artillery. But
1 both the young Napolean and his men have been
disconcerted and almost demoralized by John
ston's evacuation, of Manassas. McClellan knew
of the evacuation, but after it had taken place the
force of public opinion compelled him to .dvame.
The consequence was, that his men got to Manas
sas ahead of the provision trains, and, owing to
the State of the roads, it was impossible to feed
them. They became mutinous, and finally Mc-
Clellan was forced to tell each man to take care
of himself and make his way back to the Pctomac
as best he could. A stampede equal almost to
that of Bull Run ensued. The people in Wash
ington thought the army had been whipped again.
McClellan at once fell in the public estimation
and lost ground with bis men. Thus the high
blown reputation of Napoleon No. II collapsed,
and the morale of a splendid army, eager for
fight and confident of victory, was seriously ini.,
paired.
•'Our traveller thinks the grand “on to Rich
mond” byway of Manassas, has been abandoned,
and that the attack in tremendous force will take
place on the Peninsula, combined with a naval
attack on the James and York rivers. The Yan
kees aer determined to have Richmond at any
cost. Nobody at Washington seems to enter
tain the doubt of speedy subjugation of the South.
The expenses of tbe Lincoln concern amount now to
four million a day,but the Treasury notes sell at par.
At signal victory will bring them down “by the
run,” as sailors say. Old Scottis in New York city,
neglected by the Yankees themselves. This is a
resume of the traveler’s news; no doubt he im
parted still more valuable information te the au
thorities. Hence, probably, tbe protracted con
sultation between the President and Gens. Lee,
Loring and Johnston.
The uncertain man is a wave of tbe sea, ror
ever tossed to and fro.
VOL. 4,—No 16
A LETTER FROM THE NORTH.
The Petersburg Express publishes the following
interesting extract from a letter written by a
Southern sympathiser at the North :
The terrible storm wjjich has prevailed at the
North in the last twelve months seems to have
swept away every vestige of reason and religion
from the great mas* of the people. Past favors
and obligations of the most sacred kind due to
Southerners residing in the North were in a mo
ment forgotten by these crazy hyenas. Men who
had grown rich through Southern patronage, aid
ed in the acquisition of this patronage by Souths
era young men residing at the North, at once be*
came our fierce and relentless foes. Some of the
most disgraceful exhibitions of such ingratitude
came immediately under my own observation.
Many of those who had been the loudest declaim
ers of Southern rights, in an instant
and became our most implacable foes. We have
still, however, in tbe North, quite a number of
warm friends, though I regret to say there are
few, very few, among the business men; indeed
the bar of Philadelphia is much more largely rep
resented by Southern sympathisers than the mer
cantile community. I only know six wholesale
merchants in Philadelphia, of Northern birth, .
who feel an interest in the Southern cause; and I
am acquainted with double that number of laws
yers who boldly avow their sympathy tor the
South. lam well acquainted with a retired mer
chant in Philadelphia who numbers his wealth
by millions, the most of which was realized by
business transactions with the South; and he is
now one of the most liberal contributors to the
Northern Government in a pecuniary way, to cur
ry on this unholy war.
’Of the six merchants above alluded to, who
sympathise with us, only two ever did a Southern
business. The reason why those who have grown
rich by Southern trade against us is, that thev
are accustomed to test all matters by “gain.
They knew well that tbe separation of the North
and South was the death knell of Northern prosa
perity, and when hostilities were first inaugura
ted they foolishly imagined that a ninety days
campaign would settle it all. Why, 1 saw a band
of men (?) in Philadelphia, many of whom were
fresh from prison, under the lead ot an. Alderman
from the low part of the city, lhey talked as
confidently of tbeir march through Virginia to
New Orleans, as if they were going on a pic me
up tbe Delaware, and many sensible people in
Philadelphia had every confidence in their abil
ity to perform their threat.
'But the war has gone on from month to month
every day Seward promising that in thirty days
all would be over and the South would be
crushed. Now they have debt, the terrific pro
portions of which is kept concealed from the
people ; it is, however, every dime of fifteen hun
dred millions of dollars. To pay the debt, per
mit me to give rou their programme : Subdue
and disarm the South, not permitting, you to
keep a fowling piece, no not even a pocket pistol;
garrison at your expense each large town, with
brutal soldiery, take your cotton, tobacco and
grain to pay their debts; in many instances con
fiscate real estate property, upon which they will
settles Yankees to aid in your oppression. That
they believe themselves competent, to the perfor
mance of this task, lam not able to say. Cer
tainly many do. Whether tbe inventor of the
new saddle'entertains such views, 1 know not.
I mean McClellan. Like all new brooms, he made
a clean swtep at Washington. When he first
took command everything must be changed. The
noble bearing and brilliant charges of Southern
.cavalry at Bull Run induced him to increase that
arm of the service until he bad horses enough to
carry nearly all hia infantry, but then came the
rub. His men could not ride, so he caused to
made several thousand saddles, alter a new '.jtan
of bis own. The idea was to fix the ride”- secure
ly upon the horse, by elevating thq po mme i anc j
and the hinder part of the s^ d( }le—forget its
name—s line 12 or 14 inche gt Y’ou know few
northern men understand .horseback riding. This
plan was to keep the rider secure.
The first rew iew o f 6,500 men caused some
cases of severe hernia.
THE YANKEES AND THE NASHVILLE PEO
PLE.
A correspondent of the N. Y. after rela
ting minutely tne recent exploit of -"P r #aP
at Gallatin adds:
Iu this new exploit’there is left no room to
doubt that the rebel Captain has been materially
aided by rebel sympathizers in this city as well
as in Gallatin. There is no doubt of the prevs
aience of a Southern seiftinient here, which.
so streng as to lead the persons holding to
those ideas to indulge freely, in the treasonable,
and dangerous projects of aiding these men.—
The rebeyion has been too profitable to Nash
ville and Nashville people. I will endeavor to
show how in a future letter.
Tbeir interest bound them to the Confederacy,
and that is the strongest inducement ■ with
which it is possible to tempt human .nature to be
base. General Buell has been too kind. Good
men have not been rewarded, nor have bad men
been punished. The people laugh at General
Buell’s efforts to conciliate. They treat him and
bis men with open disdain and scorn. The lines
are too loose. A wholesome fear would benefit
them. We want here a little more of the strin
gency of General Halleck. I see no remedy for
the.harshness here but a little less coaxing and
more punishment. Within the last few days,
since the movement South became general, the
people have been particularly impudent and of
fensive.
Meu do not make anv demonstration publicly,
but it is plain by whom women, girls and boys
are pushed in to offer the grossest insults to
officers and men. Any one of tbe. demonstrations
made by the ladies would appear ridiculous if
mentioned, but it is certain that, though harms
less, their actions are very aggravating to the
meu, particularly to the whole army which has
beencareful to appear, if not in reality, polite as
myLord Chesterfield. Let me mention an instance
of the means employed by the fair dames of Nash
ville to insult our officers. Some of our generals
were standing yesterday on the sidewalk in front
of tbe St. Cloud Hotel.
While the were conversing a couple of ladies, in
full dress of gaudy colors, approached, they fol*
lowed by a great fat, dirty and slovenly negro
wench. As the ladies neared the generals, they
changed from lines of battle march to a single
file, although there was plenty of room. At
the same time they carefully drew their dresses
aside, to prevent their coming in contact w’ith
the generals—ten feet distant—and placed their
h rndkerchiefs upon their diminutive nasal or
gans. The negro wench had been well drilled,
and it was with the most serious face and ad*
mirable delicacy that she drew her boopless
skirt to one side, aud put a great red bandanan
to her nose. One general scratched his pate
with a puzzled air, another swore iu “approved
German style," while a third appeared to enjoy
the joke of the ladies and anger arid chagrin of
his friends.
The Richmond Dispatch says that some whisky
seized by the military police, when poured into
the street, split the cobble stones for a quarter of
a mile, and produced a sound like repeated claps
of thunder. People thought a general engages
ment was going on at Yorktown.
Henry Ledbetter, of Anson county, N. C., living
near Wadesboro’, is worthy of honorable’ mens
tion for steadily selling corn at 75 cents after tbe
speculators had placed it at $1.15.