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The Two Sharp-Shooters.
Two men went out from the fire-lit camp
In the autumn midnight gray ;
Over the quaking, croaking swamp,
To the edge of the woodland still and damp,
With rif!e\nd spade went they.
A hunting owl wailed out to its young,
rind a picket stood as still
In the jm^adow below as the shadows flung
By the beaded tent-light thickly strung
On the silver-threaded rilL
vTwas long ere the picket moved away,
And there was no time to lose ;
The pits must be dag by the dawn of day ;"
Said one ; " We are digging graves, I say;"
The Other one whispered : " Whose ? "
With the morning light a column of steel
- Moved upward ^Jonff jfcc bill
Toward tnc hidden pits,Tint s doable peal
Close in the front made the column reel
A moment, and then stand still.
The check won a battle-field that day ; *
On the morrow the dead were lafd,
Head to foot, in a trench of clay,
But two apart in the front that lay,
Were buried without a spade.
[From Our Special Correspondent].
OUR NEW ENGLAND LETTER.
Recruiting in New England?The Massachusetts
.Legislature?Gov. Sprague's Marriage?Tobacco
fiaifng in New England?Enlistments in Maine? j
Xew England Items.
Boston, Mass., November 10, 1803.
Old New England is rather quiet just now?no I
internal commotions?no outside influences to '
excite her?serene and stately as she usually is. j
But she is alive, and loyal as ever. When the re- j
suit of the recent call for troops is shown, New
England will be found at the top of the heap, as
usual. In New Hampshire it is prepared to raise
the quota without a resort to the draft, and Massachusetts
is trying to accomplish the same thing.
Boston is wide awake. Meetings were held in I
every ward, last evening, to encourage recruiting, f
and there seems no doubt but that this city, at*j
least, will raise her quota without a draft.
% The extra session of the Massachusetts Legislature
adjouined yesterday, having passed four acts
and six resolves. One prominent act of the session
was a bounty bill, providing for the payment
of $325 to all new recruits, with additional bounties
for veterans, and provisions which all the
soldiers will like.
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In a previous letter I spoke of the abuses practiced
by substitute brokers. At this session a bill
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was passed wnicn eneciuuuy b<|uckuco i
tem of fraud, and if any drafting is necessary in |
this state, that great obstruction will be out *?f
the way. The Legislature also voted to make
the pay of the colored troops from this State equal
to that of the white troops.
Hon. "William Sprague, U." S. Senator from
B Rhode Island was married to Miss Kate Chase, i
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daughter of Hon. Salmon P. CV'-se, Secretary of
the Treasury on Thursday ^2th inst., by
the Might Reverend T ftf." CtarCfw ithMe Island:
The occasion was a briliiant one. The bride was
sustained in the marriage ceremony by her sister
Miss Nellie Chase, her cousin, Miss Alice Skinner,
a niece of the groom, Miss Ida Nichols who as
bridesmaids, were attended by Capt. Haven, of
Major-General McDowell's staff, Maj. Baldwin,
of the staff of Gen. Stahl, and Capt. Ives of the
U. S. Navy as the groomsmen. The President,
the Members of the Cabinet, Diplomatic Corps,
eminent officers of the Army and Navy, with
citizens of Washington and frieiids invited from a
distance, lent distinction to the scene, as their
wives and daughters shed graoe and beauty on
the gay assemblage.
It may be interesting to soldiers in South Carolina
to know that tobacco cultrje has flourished
in New England, the past season. There are
quite a number of "plantations in the Southerly
part of New England now. Ajnong the leading
items in the daily papers now is the following:?
" A large tobacco shed, together with the crop of
about two acres of the " weed " owned by Maj. J.
B. Shultas of Hartford, was totally destroyed by
lira ojj the Of lift Incendiary."
Enlistments in Maine are going on rapidly. In
several towns and cities the quotas are nearly
filled. The high bounties offered, with the prospect
of the war being brought speedily to a close,
is inducing a large number to enlist.
Not to extend this letter to too great a length,
I will close with a few New England items, of
interest, at least to some soldiers in the Department
of the South :?
Mr. Thomas Tew of Newport has in his posession
a live American eagle, ' hot a few days since
in the western part 01 tne state, ana auerwurua
captured by means of a rope. It measures seven
feet from tip to tip of its wings A party of four
men from Pnwtucket returned from a six days*
hunting excursion up the Penobscot from Bangor,
Me. They obtained 13 deer, 38 partridges, one
otter, one fox, and quite an amount of smaller
game Two mills of the Oriental Powder Co.,
at Gorham, Me., blew up on the 14th. One.man
was killed A few days since Mrs. Francis Jessup
of Westport was told that a building she saw
burning at some distance was her husband's house,
a*d she instantly dropped dead A bill has
been reported and referred to the military committee
of the Legislature, for the organization of
" one or more b'atteries and regiments" colored
troops A seal, measuring four feet in length,
was shot oue clay last week, while crossing from
"Little Neck " into Mattaket Harbor, Mass. A
patriotic sailor who last night arrived here on a
prize steamer, was to-day fined $15 and cost for
assaulting a secessionist in the Boston Police
Court, a few citizens made up the sum, and he is
at perfect liberty to thrash the nest copperhead
he sees Several more of the Boston conscription
rioters have been held for trial.
OBSERVER.
?'Sir' said one of the Barbary-Shore tars to a
crusty old captain, 4 did you ever know coffee to
hurt any one ? "
4 Yes, you fool you,' was the response. 41 knew
a bag full to fail on a man's head once and kill him.'
I Successive and Rapid Blows.?The skill of the
general in war is not unlike the skill of the fenI
cer. whoso success lies not so much in parrying
his enemy's blows'," and then-simply sheltering
himself, but in attacking him stroke after stroke,
wrenching the rapier from his hand, and exposing
liim helpless to the mercy of the sharpened
steel. Nothing short -'of this can be called
success.
The want of these rapid and successive blows
has been one great feature in the present war,
and characterizes not only our own Army, but
that of the rebels. The noblest exception to this
charge is to be found in Grant's series of victories
at the Southwest, where our advantage have more
than once been rapidly and cleverly followed up.
But let us note the instances or tne opposite
evil. After the taking oi Roanoke Island, the
whole coast of North Carolina was at Burnside's
mercy, and if Newbern and Beaufort had been
taken at once,?such is the opinion of a rebel
.general,?he could have taken Goidsboro' and.
Weldon, almost without firing a gun, have commanded
the railways, and cut the Army of the
Atlantic in two. And this is no afterthought; it
seemed obvious to many at the time.
After the capture of Hilton Head and Beaufort,
what but the unaccountable delay of our troops
prevented Charleston and Savannah from falling
into our hands ? They were then defenceless.
Dupbnt had given them a glorious prestige : those
cities had neither forts nor garrisons; we invited
4-thom to build the one and procure the -other, * ?
We are credibly informed that if, after our great
success at Malvern Hills, our Army, reinforced by
troops then lying at Newport News, had immediately
marched forward, wo might have entered
Richmond in triumph, so great was the demoralization
of the rebel forces. Are not these plain
and Stern lessons of future duty ?
The cry has always been that there must be
time taken to rq^jganize and repose ; but Napoleon,
the great master of the art of war, always
acted differently. He pushed his men to the very
extreme of human endurance while the enemy was
before them, and let them enjoy a very revel of
rest after the great work was triumphantly completed
; and his first organizations were always
made to foresee just such results, Next to boldness
(!' audace), which he first firized, and akin to
it, indeed, was celerity of movement, showing
itself in a succession of blows, as long as a blow
remained to be struck. His instructions to Aug
gereau in 1814 ar#by no means aouDuui on mis
point: "You have no .teams! seize them anywhere.
You have no magazine! This is becoming
too ridiculous. The country is menaced and
in danger. It can be saved only by alacrity, and
not by vain delays. You must have a nucleus of
six thousand picked troops. I have not so many,
and yet I have destroyed three armies, cajrtured
40,000 prisoners, taken 200 pieces of artillery,
and thrice saved the capital." Oh, for such a
spirit and such energy now, when our " country is
menaced and in danger! "
We are not among those impatient critics who
would counsel a general to rus# headlong upon
probable defeat; but, in good faith, we do desire
to see one single victory followed up to the capture
or dispersion of the enemy's army, or the entire
reduction of his stronghold. An army organized
for a double blow, thesecon^of which shall
finish the work which the first has fairly begun,
is the problem for our general, and great glory
to him who solves it.
In war it is something more than the 'premier
I pas qui coute.?Army and Aiavy journal.
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Badges or Honorable Distinction.?The Secretary
of War diiects that for each battle in which
every officer, non-cpmmissioned officer and private
of the Invalid Corps may have been engaged
and borne an honoral^ part, a scarlet braid, onesixth
of an inch wide may be worn on the right
arm, with a space of one-sixth of an inch between
each braid. This will become ail honorable
badge, showing the services the officer or soldier
has performed, and will bo as highly prized by
the brave wearers as the ribbons and crosses so .
prondly worn by the veterans of European armies, ~?-f