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But none were there to greet mce, Tom, And few wera left to know. , That played with us upon the green,. Some thirty years ago. The grass is just as green, Tom ; Barefooted boys at play, Were sporting, just as we did then, With spirits just as gay. But the "master" sleeps upon the hill, Which coated o'er with snow, A tordod us a sliding place, Just thirty years ago. The old school-house is altered some The benches are replaced By new ones, very like the same Our penktiives had defaced. But the same old bricks arc in the wall, The bell swings to and fro It's music jist the same, dear Tom, 'Twas thirty years ago. The boys were playing some old game, Beneath that same old tree I io forget tlio name just now You've played the same with me On that sante spot: 'twas played with knives By throwing so and so, The loser had a task to do There, thirty years ago. The river's running, just as still. The willows on its side Are larger than they were, Tom, The stream appears less wide But the grape.vine swing is ruined now, Where once we played the beau, And swung our sweethearts-." pretty irls" Full thirty years ego. Near by the spring, upon an elm, m know I cut your name, Your sweetheart's just beneath it, Tom, And you did wine the same; Some heartless wretch had peelel the bark. 'Twas dying sure but slow, Just as the one whose name you cut Died thirty years ago. My lids have long been dry, Tom, But tears came in my eyes, I thought of her I loved so well. Those early broken ties. I visited the old church yard And took some flowers to strew Upon the graveS of those we loved Some thirty years ago. Some are in the church yard laid Some sleep beneath the sea, But few are left of onr Old glass Excepting you and moe. And when our time is come, Tom, And we are called to go, I hope they'll lay us where we laye. Just thirty years ago. Interesting from Virginia. " PntasoNm," the Virginia correspondent of the Charleston Courier, under date of Cen t reville. Nov. 10, writes as iollows: Sitting in a rainy tent last evening I over heard the following fragment of a conversa tiou between a party of Trish soldiers, which for richness and raciness Charles Lever would have immortalized himself by frescoing in one of his iniznitab'e stories. The company were detailing their experiences, "hair breadth ,scape by flood and field," spinning Mtunchau sian yarns and cracking wonderful jokes, when one Pat Mullooney, a genuine .son of' the sod, broke in with an account of his ad ventures during the battle of Bull Run. I give you the ebullition entire--reriai: et literalt ie spelleratiim, though half its l'un and force are lost lay its transfer to paper. "Ye see, gintlenmin," said Pat, (G od forgive me for eallinag such spalpeens out uv yer names,) that time wh'lin the ould Mnjor camae down like a ilyin divil on his chisnut mare wid his illiganat sword, that be jabers is like a scythe blatde, a waviu about his bid, and v-elled to us to come on and chaarge the bloody Yankees, be gorra it was to Washington we thought we were goin all the .way, and the dlivil a time we were to stop at all, at all, on the road, not aven for a dhr ap of wather. Well, sure enough, the ould feller wint in himself, and I afther hinm, not thinking about anything at all, but jist going on. I jutmped over a mite of a finmce as tighat as a toad, and took to the wather (Bull Runa) like a duck, and whin I got to the middle of the stramne I looked around, and the divil recave the one of 3ez near me. I was alone iantirely sure. Thlina I thocught biig fools as ye all are that I was a bigger wan for not sthaying in the woods like the rist of yez, and waiting for the spalpeens to come over. But as I was out there I thought to mueself I'll take a look at how. things is, htow things kis eyant, and p'rtas l'11 have a crack o'tme goon. But divil a thing couid I say. .list as I was maik king utp mue mind to return to ye atll, a big Yankee, who looked as if he was seventeen feet high, livilledl his mnuskit at me and fired. The bullet whlistled by tne c-ar wid a sharake worse than im in l'ane'gan's life. Thd luck to ye, yr thafe o' the wurld says I, whast arc ye thryinag to shout mae fur ; sure I niver adone nothing to, yez., and thaen I aimed shatraight betwanec his eyes, and fired at Limt, hut the murthierint ball did'uat tuch a hatir ov hti5 head that r mist. Whgor'ra, sez. I to aaeself, now I'll take yte a prsnr anyhow, and I put me self across the river as haard :as iver- I couald. Ijoompe~4d lil the bautk, tan looakina maightv fe.-ce at 'ima, I sed " Surrindther, ye divil, oar I'll blow yer baratins (out." 'Te fain ov it peen to load me gun at all at all, and the li bloody thafe must ov knew it, for he made at cr -me wid his hay'net, like a two legged loco- ei motive. iy the powers, but I was frightened. as As he wat' coining down, laping siveral fate ht at a time, says T to neself, " Pat, me boy, -ar mind yer eye. Now's yer time to kape wide a awake, or you'il have a gimlet hole through G yer valuable bow'ils, and Biddy Mullooney lb will be a widder." . But bad luck to the dril- si lin, sure its neself.forgot how to come to the th charge. So I tuk- me goon by the middle tu just as ye wad hould a good ould fashioned hi black thorn shillaly, and balanced meself fur it. As he come down, the divil take me if I wi knew how to git that bay'net pint out o' the cc way. I twirled -me musket around me hed es till me fingers ached ; but suddenly, bliss all ot the IIowly Saints fur it, a root tuk the fut ov to the bloody minded rascal, an he wint a sprawl. hit ing on the turf lookin as pretty a letther X eg as ye iver signed to yer name, at the same in time that his baynet shtruck a fut in the up ground. I gin a yell and was on him before Ia a pig could grunt, and put inc fut on his neck. in "Surrender ye divil," sed T, but the divil a pr word did he spake. I thought I had his throte th too tight, an I let him go to give him a fair th chance to utthcr his sintimeuts. What d'ye re think the spalpane thryed to do ? Sure it co was to git his musket out of the ground and ni shtruck me wid it again. But sthill I didn't hi, want to hurt the baste, so I jist hit hint a lit- es tle crack in the head wid the butt o' me th goon, and broke his jaw. Then lie became of quiet, an 1 made him take his musket and arp cross the crake, when I drew him to the hos- mi p'tal and the divil of a dacenter better be- co hayed feller ye niver saw after that: Ile pr laid in bed six wakes and did'nt spake nary th word. That's what I did at Bull Run. Who'll de give mte a poteen or whisky ? wi The above is but a mere straw of humor sum floating upon the surface of camp life. The pc gleaner, whose task it is to col!ect them all in a sheaf, could find thousands as fresh and no happy as that which I have related. A camp lire, or circle, is sure to bring out all the good pe nature in a man, and woe be to the lugnbri- ru ous individual who w ill not contribute his th mite to the general stock. The little coummu- th nity is as closely interwoven in their senti- ac ment, association:, and dependence, as the ex wythes ofsa basket, and each of its members teo have their fitting place. Good nature i. the an prevailing spirit. Whether on duty or at se leisure, cutting wood, building roads, doing th picket duty, on the march, or sleeping upon th tc wtet grounnd without a cover, a word of e!l complaint or ill humor is the rarest sound wl that falls upon the ear. In fact it would seem be as if the greater the hardships the hig4her the , ut mercury rise in the thermometer of lite and th gaiety. The question was once asked me w:ether W: in the course of my rambles I had discovered 1.a a diiterence Isetween Soutl.rner, as peculiar j gi to their sever"al latitudes. in this coiuer ion of it may be worth answering again. 1let weeu l. Virginians and the remainder of the Confed p: eraev, the distinction is, to my mind, clearly shi imarked. In what it consists is beyond analy- T sis, but both physically and mentally there Si is an cssent:al ditference. Taking the mnas B of Virginia'a, they show the effect of sharp di attrition witg their fellows. Frequenut inter- ht course with the large towns anid cities in which the State abounds, has polishued off the rougher angl es which accumulate upon the 1i surface of' a man's' character, enlarged the fr views of the people, anid vestetd them with a degree of conlidence, which is manifest in both their acts and conversation. In a word, they look more like citizens than countrymen. tC The Louisianians to a great ex tent may be l embraced uder the sinne generanl oubserva- m tions. They, however, possess personal char- r acteristics which distiinguishu theum from the majority of the~ represeintativesof other States There are more dar'k eyes and birown features . among them as well as a peculiar pronuncia- jci tion which indicates the cosmopolitan mix- b Lure of' the people. o Among South Carolinians, Georgians, Ala bamians and Mississippians, the predomnina. tig exptression) is that of innoceiice and in genuousness. You see at a glance thmat as a at general thing they are not acquainted witb the ways of the world, and that they have s brought fromi their homes all the freshness of an untutored experienCe, tempered only by the sturdy, uniyjelding common sense which i their birth-right. You may' deceive them once because you can impose upon their sup. position, that all men are as honiest as thiemn selvs, but you cannot practi'e youmr imposi tion twice. In dress there is no dlinfrenice. The'y will n now all bear the application ofn the -nursery p lines: .eli " Some in rage, some in tags, at And some in vehlet gownse." Many a mani who used to sport his broad cloth and diamonds, white kids and fast horses, vsit the barb.:r's twice a day, and change his shirt three times ini the same period, is now so metaimorphlosed that his swecthueait would - not knmow him. lie lhas wvorn - the sameo old lothes for the last six months. They are pmatched perhasps in the reatr amnd oii the knees." May b~e he haus not. had them-u off tor three weeks ; his shbirt is a cross between coal black IY andu redh inu., anid sees a washerwvoiman oinly ni when t he oneri hii:mse'!f has n, n opportunmity eg of incinug it ouit in an adijiniing miu tmmpol. e; Ifis shmoes (boots ar.- only twenutty-ie dollarut n pair).ae the coarsest brotrans. such as a rc st class nigger used to disdain.. JIls hair is opped close to the caput ; whiskers grow neglige: while face and bands are brown sole leather. . Instead of a walking stick, carries a musket. His fist horses, if any, e a couple of-Virginia skoletons in front of baggage wagon, to whom he is a monsters nnyiede in the way of bringing water, dder, cnrrying, etc., etc., while his barber op is on the rim of the puddle that makes e clearest mirror. Such is the present pie re of your Southern gentleman. God bless in ! Here he has stood for the last five months, th a hundred thousand more or less of his mpartriots, waiting to receive the vaunting emiy who was to sweep whilwind-like across r country. What a spectacle is presented the nations of the world ! An army of-two ndred and fifty thousand men, the best uipped that ever went into the field, held check by less than half thejr number, on the very border of the country they ve sought to repress. Nay, not only held check but driven behind fortifications to event the "rebellion" from rebounding upon emselves ! What a contrast, too, between ese contending farces ! The Southern army presenting in its elements the patriotism, urage, intellect, manhood, and wealth of a tion ; the Northern army composed of mere relings--a single stratum, and that the low of the hybrid humanity which populates e North, whose interest in the perpetuation the Government is no deeper than their peties. On the one hand we see the great iu of the country serving in the ranks as mmont soldiers. defending on the field the inciples they enunciated in the forum. On e other, the politi-.ian seeks his reward un r the glittering epaullettes of a General, or sely remains at home, interested in the cess of his cause only to the extent. of his rsonal aggrandizement. The same correspondent writing from Ma ssas, on the 12th says : The anPiny is quietly sett.ling down into a rmanent institution. Now and then a stray mor reaches camp that the enemy are on e advance, but we have become so used to ese startling reports, that nothing :sort of tual presence can disturb the montony cf istence. Men and oflicers both seem do -ined to make the best of their situations, d are now sparing no means to render them es comfortable. Taking it for granted At. winter quarters will be provided at last. ough no orders have been ikued to this 'ct, many have built substantial huts in mch they live. Furnaces have likewise en built in large numbers of the tents, and r arrangements male to coumrensate for e inelencies of :ut uln weather. I find too that there is a general giving w to anusenment. I)inneir part ices :re now Frequ.ent c urrene;C. Last week there were en no less than thirty in one brig:tde. ()no these co t the oflice:s who aeted as hi,.t not ; than lire iiiimlred dollars-the wine;s and ovisions being ordered from Richmond. A ort time ago a dinner was given by Gen. onbs, at which were present Johnston, nith. GOu. Leteher, and some ten or twelve igadiers and Colonies, and .ince then : 'zen others ot the same general description se followed. Hos.tc is C'oxvtiy 1n vIA - n.-----The s1:veral Id and co mi'panly oli':ers selected by hot mn among the Pederal prsnr at present this city, as hostages for the safety oif the mthrii privateersmien on trial in the North are oii Thursday last transferred from the haeco factories ini which they had previous been conifinedl, to the county jail, where, compliance with the orders of the Secreta of War, they are to be closely imprisoned in cells reserved for pisoners accused of faous crimes.' Th purpose of. the G;ov umet is to deal out to these hostages pre sely such treatment, and such a fate as may imposed upon our men now in the power the North. Among those thus transferred e Cols. Lee, Cogswell and Wood; Liut. )l. Bowman ; Majors Potter, Revere and agdes; and Captains Rickctts, McQuaLde id Rokwood.-Richmiond IEmiuirer. Ms. J.regso.--The Rtichiiond .Enju irer The Charleston Merfcucrq/ is mitaken ill the ount whiich has been contributed to the0 tnily of Jae'.-son, the Alexandria hero. Ini md of $:10,000O, thbe amiount has not reached .0. We shiouild be very happy if the ircur'/s5 figures were the true ones. T exxmssma: EI.scros,.-Accounts from Ten ssee report large gains for the State Rights *rty. G ov. i 1arris has prob ably been re eed by a very fargo majority, and the option of the pernmaneint, Constitunion is 't doubted. Tu'm r S:cr.ss-rnArios LAn.-i min. Jiohni I. limer, of Ta., in a letter to thne Receiver rthe city of Richmond, takes the positions .st, That the Conifederate Csongress had no wer to pass such a hill ;2d admnitting tine ,er, that flhe bill on its face~ is clearly 1hc Washiington corre-jpondent of the New ork CoTmm..rcir.- ..'drer/U~ue says that the ider feelinig at theC caiital, pubhlicly express I. is lhat ur for i. r el icatjints are in a eriti I state. Secretanry Seward is not at present ,n the best. terms, personally, w~ithI the .. igm miastrs.Cicinnati G a~tzette. Yankee "Calculations" in Regard to Beaufort District. The N. Y. Herald of the 12th inst., pub lishes the following: The Beaufort District or county of South Carolina, now in the occupation of our land and naval forces is literally swarmed with negroes. According to the census of 1850, which is not materially varied in this case by the returns of 1860, the population of this district was as follows: Total White Population.......... 5,947 Free Colored ................. .579 Total Free Population........... 6,526 Slaves.......................... 32,279 This will give us an average in numbers of five slaves for every white inhabitant of the district, so that no better point than this dis trfct could be selected at this crisis for a trial of the temper of this vital cotton Statainsti tution of slavery. The agricultural returns of the census from this district embraces the following very in teresting statisticts, and the reader will bear it in mind that the whole district or country is flat and swampy, and made up almost en tirely of sea islands, separated from each other by a very remarkable network of in lets, estuaries and bayous. UEAUFRT (S. c.) DISTRIcT. Farms........ ...............842 Acres improved.............. 239,289 Acres unimproved................587,469 Value, improvements, &c........$5,601,350 Hurses, asses, and mules.........5...5,021 Neat cattle...................48.338 Sheep......................16,892 Swine ................... 37,855 Wheat, bushels raised ........ .2 465 Re an1 Oats.................29.913 I.dian corn...............492,071 Irish and sweet potatoes.........485,209 Peas and beans................76,35: luckweat .......... - .. . - 25 Butter and cheese, pouuds ...... ....83,421 Hlay, tons.... . . ... .. .--- -- -- -1 Cane sugar, pounds................20;000 Molasses, gallons................ ,221 Itice. pounds..... ... ... -----47,230,082 Cotton ginned, balas 400 lbs each.....12 672 Wool, pounds................ 24,73() Beeswax and honey.............,9f7 Animals slaughtered, value.......;121,17. Produce of market gardens........ ....20 Orchard produce....................2,185 Wine, gallons.........................300 Xan factories. . Capital employed................."5:.,800 hands employed......................75 Product ... ................... .5,0811 Produced in families.............10,690 leduced to an analysis, these are exceed ingly interesting statistics. First we find this district of Beaufort divided into 842 farms ; or in other words, the whole district is divided among 842 land owners, allowing an average of nearly 3,000 acres of improved land, forty negroes, and only six hor:es, mules and asses to each farm, all told. This will give us an idea of the vait amount of labor performed by the negros with the hoe, the spade and the shovel ; and then it must he remembered that cut up as the district is with islands, boats discharge to a great extent the duties performed elsewhere by horses, asses and mules. In the matter of pork and bacon, an allow anee of one hog to each inhabitant will, perhaps do. The great cash productions of the country are rice, cotton (sea island) and Indi an corn. A t the present price of sen island cotton in England the crop of Bleaufort dis trict may be put down at two million five hundredl thousand dollars, and at six cents a pomnd we may set down its rice crops at the same figure, and, at a dollar a bushel, its In dint colrn crop at half a million, making ain aggregate product fronm these three staples of $5,500,000. Now, with our lanal and naval forces in oc enationl of this distriet, a splendid market will at once be ope::ed for all this vast sur ulus in corn, rice and cotton of this Bieaufort district upon the simple test of allegiance of these B3eaufort lahnters. If they manifest their loyalty to the Union they will be p~aid for their produce, and such prices as they have never been paid heretofore, and they will be supplied in exchange with many necessary articles of which they are surely in need. Above all they *ill be protected in the enjoyment of their slave property and :2,00( slaves are equal to the respectable item of sixteen millions of dollars. On the other hand, if these Bleaufort planters adhere to the rebel cause, they must be treated as rebels, anid they must run the riskc of the cofiscatin of their beautiful rice, their lovely cotton and their desirable Indian corn, to say nothing of their 3-2,000 fat and lusty negroes. Thus, the reader will appreciate the impor tance of our armed occupation of this Beau fort district, from the powerful Union argu ments which it will bring to bear upon the planters thereof. They have from twenty to thirty millions of mnoveable property at stake, and the integrity of their institution of slave ry. Will they sacrifice their cotton, corn, rice and negros in behalf of the popular cause of this suicidal rebuilion, or will they return .to the l'nion, and he protected, enriched and seuredl against the grinding despotism of .Jet. DJavis ? An interesting question, which ve hope will be solved in a general Southern Ireaction for the Union, beginning at Bleaufort. TnmE. BA1-rLE OF BEL~oT.--The .Memphis )pali says the following is a recapitulation of the killed, wounded and missing of the Cofedrates at the batthle of Belmont :ith Tennessee, 1419 ; 2d Tennessee, 11.1; 21st Ten ....SC 80; .9d Tcnanae Hi6; 15t.h Tonenn see, 13; 11th Louisiana, 56; 13th Arkansas 79; Watson's Battery, 7; Mississippi Battal ion, 1. Total, 585. What our people are doing on the Coast. We commend to the New York ilerald the following extract of a letter from a friend ir Charleston, which gives so'emn facts for its consideration. So says the South Carolinian CHARLESTON, Nov. 19, 1861. Edisto Island is nearly laid in ruins. Mr; J. J. Mikell, Mrs. Hopkinson, and Mr. L Le gare, have all burned their entire crops-ne gro houses, barns,. &c., and at a meeting of the planters this has been universally-deter mined on. The same spirit actuates the own era of all the Sea Island plantations. I fully expect to hear that the entire Sea Island crop of this State will meet a similar fate. None will be saved, for all is in the fields or gin houses; thus twenty thousand bales, the product of this State, amounting to two mil lions five hundred thousand dollars, will be destroyed by the hands of the proprietors themselves, rather than it shall fall into the possession of our vandal enemies, and I have no reason to believe that Georgia will pursue any other course. Her people are as noble and as self-sacrificing as ours. The Sea Is land crop of last year was estimated at forty thousand bales, and this year the favorable seasons made the planters calculate on forty five thousand bales. Sould the vandals over run Florida, and make any demonstration on the Sea Island producing portions of that State, you may expect the planters there to follow our example, and thus will the entire fine staple crop of this Confederacy be totally destroyed, estimated in value at $100 to $150 a bale, from four to five millions; but this is not all. The cultivation of this article will not be resuised while the war lasts. It is known to you that the sea-board of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida are tbe.only regions of the earth where fine and extrafim cotton, termed Long Staple, can be success fully produced. Now, the production of this article is indipensable to the manufacturers of Bolton, Lancashire, and many other of the districts in England, France, Germany and Switzerland. There is no substitute for it, and the lace and silk spinners will feel this blow even more severely than we, iho only sacrifice our luxuries; they have, besides their mills to keep in working order and oc cupied, a large number of operatives to feed, and these people are not easily managed when thrown out of employment. Thero is muci trouble for England, growing out of Earl Russell's idea that slavery is a wrong and against the sentiments of England, and there fore, acting on this principle, it were better to exterminate the institution of slavery and the South, rather than acknowledge our justin dependence, which would insure the prosperity of her people, even though the Yankee Gov ernment go to war for so doing. I hope our people will remember the course England has assumed against us, and when we can, let us express our sentiments freely. I see now no hope for the raising of the blockade while Earl Russell occupies the Government, but.] do look in time for a change iii public senti m int so strong that Derby will take the lines, and the justice we seek be no longer de nied us. The weather is cold and winterish, yet the body of the people are calm and determined. The sacrifices our forefathers made during the first Revolution, will cheerfully be endured again. We will fight and conquer the Yan kee vandals on our soil, even though we fight them without shoes or clothing. Oun IlnAve CoMoDoRE.-Conmmodore Tattnall has, without intending it as such, set the men of the South an examplle which all should seek to imitate, viz: whether weak ot strong, meet the enemy at the very threshold and show him that you are resolved to dis pute every inch of Southern ground, an drive him back or perish in the attempt. Th< commodore, with his little river fleet, didi nol wait for an attack, but went out to meet th< enemy in all their pomp-and power. He threv his scornfidl and, defiant shot into the teetl of their vast expedition ; and when they mue him, not on equal terms, but with repeate broadsides from their largest ships, he showei his appreciation of their gallantry and man hood by' dipping his Ilag in'irony, as muel as to say, your achievement is worthy of hon or, and here you have it ! It was a terribb sarcasm, ingeniously yet forcibly expressed. Let every Soutbern man, throughout thi war, imitate the conduct of our gallant comn modore, and prove his devotion to the cans by meeting the enemy at every step of hi progress, and if no better can be had, on hi own iermns.-Savannah Republican. IRELIEF FoR 'L.ANTERS.-A bill has beel introduced in the Georgia Legislature, wit] the following caption: An act to incorporate the Cotton Planter Bank of Georgia, to give steadiness to th value of cotton, to make it available as thi basis of a sound circulating medium for th relief of the industrial interests of the coun try, and at the same time to enable the plan ters to control their own cotton until th~ blockade now attempted to be'enforced is re moved. To' guard the planters against an ut avoidable necessitous sale of their cotton al less than remunerating prices, and agains sacrifices alike detrimental to their interests ...nsnt upon their being forced to drai upon and accept inadequate advancements upon their crops, paying heavy eo.amissions, interest, insurance and storage, ruinous to the producers of this great Southern staple, and for othor purposes. The Capture of our Commissioners. Of the effect of this measure of the Lin coln Government, the Charleston Mercury says: With the seizure of Mason and Slidell, in its relation to the neutral rights of the Brit ish Government. we have no direct concern. There are, however, certain well established principles of public law,-to which the present case will necessarily be referred, and from these, we may anticipate the views of the English jurists in regard to its merits. The highest legal authorities unite in pro nouncing despatches " the worst kind of con traband." They consider the transmission of a dispatch abroad as capable of conferring greater advantages upon a belli. rent than the introduction of any cargo forbidden by the laws of war. A distinction, however, is drawn between despatches coming to, and those going from the belligerent. The former aredeeied to partake of the peaceful character of the neutral nation from which they come; the latter are presumed to be of a warlike import, and subject the neutral vessel carry ing them to capture and condemnation. Such being the law, the analogy between the con traband letter, or dispatch, and the person bearing it, seems plain. The Embassador, whether lie carries his communication in writing or in his memory, is the substitute for the dispatch, and would seem to become, like it, liable to capture. But we are not left to form this conclusion from analogy alone. Strangely enough, al though the present case is one quite novel in its circumstances, a distinguished English Judge has given an opinion directly bearing upon it. In the case of the Caroline (Eng lish Admiralty Reports), Sir William Scott, in defining the rights of belligerents in re spect to neutral vessels, says with singular terseness, "You may stop the Embassador of your enemy on his passage." Certainly, nothing could be more distinct, or more di rectly applicable to the case of Messrs. Ma son and Slidell. Disagreeable as it is, we cannot resist the inference, that the Einglish Government will decline any interference in behalf of our cap tured commissioners. If so, it is better that our people should know the sober truth, at once, than that, impressed with a vague be lief in the protection afforded by a foreign flag, they should cling, week after week, to expectations, which must end in disappoint inent and bitter chagrin. - - 0_ ~. -- What the Yankees think of Hatteras. Au Enchanting Spot. The following letter from Hatteras Inlet is published in the Indianapolis Journal. It gives a droll, but we doubt not truthful, ac count of how theit Yankees are enjoying them selves on the North Carolina coast. FORT Cr.AR, HATTERAS INLET, 1 October, 1, ]861. 5 After two days of gloomy storms, the sun is shining down on us with tropical beat. There are many -peculharities in this isolated spot. Cut off' from the main land for sup plies, and suspicious of the few fishermen that visit us, we look to the ocean for every new sail that brings us food and news from home. Our band is playing '.' Our flag is there," and it is still there on the coast of North Caro lina. The sea bounds the view on one side and Pamlico sound on the other, and, in connec tion with the beauties of the spot on which we are encamped, it brings to mind the hymn, SLo ! ou a narrow neck of landl, Betwixt two boundless seas I standh !" The verse need not be finished, for most of us are rapidly becoming Universalists-be lieving that we receive our punishment as we go along. The dry Tortugas may be held up as a terror to offenders. It has no terror to us-for we are on the sandy Tortugas, where sand crabs reign supreme. When it storms the flue sand mixes in equal particles with the rain, and a fleet of horizontal rain and sand fills eyes, ears, month and. food, with judicious impartiality. The sugar sands it self. Fort Clark is built of sand, piled up, coy ered with turf to keep it from blowing away, It mounts ten guns and is bomb proof. Going along the beach half a mile to the inlet,, yor come to Fort Hatteras-a little more sand, a little more turf, a few more guns. Wher the tide rises everything is covered with water; when it falls everything blows away So dreary is the spot Siat neither will birdi smng nor grass grow near it. The first nighi we got here we slept in the sand with uc blankets. For a change we now sleep on soft plank in a shanty. Men and ofiCers lii 'poon fashion till one sido gets sore ; at: signal they turn over, and remain in thai posture till the other side is worn out. It ih a good country for health-chills, fevers cramp cholic and other luxuries are plenti' ful. To-day I saw a tree three feet high-ni evidence of the luxuries of vegetation. Som< of our men had jet black beards in Indiana but all are now of a sanidy hue. "~Saiw'y" i a pot name in the regiiment. SW. L. Yancey and C. C. Clay, Jr., havY been electcd Confcderate Senators from Ala bama. Yaucey" oin the first ballot receive< all the votes save two. The Herald's Newport News Correspon. deuce. In the New York herald we find the fol. lowing correspondence from "Camp Butler, Newport News, Va., Oct. 27." Last night, at seven o'clock, two deserters from the rebel camp at Big Bethel cane to our outside pickets for protection. Their namesare Win. Dennis and Andrew J. Smaras, and they are both natives of Augusta, Ga., and. privates in the tenth regiment Georgia volunteers. The word "volunteers" must pot, however, be taken in its literal sense, for those men, with others, were impressed into service. Of course all of their protestations were unheeded. They left Big Bethel at six o'clock in the morning, and by keeping in the woods and wading through swamps they suc ceeded in making good their escape, although at one time they were very closely pursued. They state that the camp at Bethel is about five thousand strong, an equal quantity of them from Louisiana, Georgia, and Virginia; besides these there are three hundred caval ry, under the name of " Cobb's Legion." The camp is under command of Brigadier General McClaws. There exists a good deal of dissatisfaction among the men on account of the insufficient clothing, the cruel treatment, and the want of promptness in-the pay department; since May last they have only received two months' pay, and that, of course, in shinplasters, which' they are unable to get rid of except by buy ing sutler's goods at exorbitant prices. To bacco costs 50 cents a plug; butter 60 cents a pound ; salt 25 cents a tund ; and so on in proportion. The men are 'only furnished with flour and meat ; tea an1 coffee are luxa. ries unheard of, and to procure an antidote against the fever, which makes such havoc among them, they dig up sassafras roots and make a kind of tea of them, which they drink on getting up in the morning. During these five months they have had to work constantly on the batteries, and all the spare time has been filled up with fatiguing drills. While the men are forbidden the use of liquor, the oilicers.are drunk most of the time, arnd it is surprising, with all the discontent prevailing in the ranks, that no mutiny has yet taken place. Gen. Magruder, who is commander of the entire force in that neighborhood, oc casionally visits their camp, and to use the very words of the deserters, " Whenever he is in whiskey he always talks of coming down to Newport News to whip Gen. Phelps." But not having come here yet, and not being wil ling to receive any of our invitations, it is supposed that when he has got over hie "drunk" better reason prevails The battery at Big Bethel consists of twelve pieces of small rifled cannon, and is said Lo be well manned. These deserters were this morning turned over to General Wool by Lieutenant Chris. tenseii, aid-de-camp to General Phelps. Gen. Wool, after hiving examined them very closely, had them sent over to the Rip Raps, where they will find work, and receive foodl and clothing, cad where they will also be eut of harm's way. Yesterday afternoon General Phelps sent out a detachment of Company D, First New York volunteers, under command of Lieut. Ingersoll, to a house belonging to Baker P. Lee, about three miles from camp. Fur the last month the only occupants of thme house have been a poor white woman and three ne gresses. Some days ago Lee sent a messen ger to this white woman, warning her to leave the house, as he purposed to burn it down over her head. . The woman was, of course, frightened, and fled in the direction of Back River, and when one of our scouting parties, on Friday last, came to the house, they found one of the negroes in a dying condition, and the other two, being old and diseased, unable to take care of themselves. Out of foeelings of humanity, Gen. Phelps yesterday ordered the above mentioned detnehmeint to proceed to the house, and after they had buried thie dead woman, they brought the other two, with all their baggage, into camp, and had them sent by steamer to Fortress Monroe, where the old ladies have friends and relatives. One of them is "going on a hundred years," and seems, considering her age, to be quite smart. Hecr eyesight and hearing were as good as ini a young person, and she seemed much affected at leaving the old homestead, where she has workced so faithfully, anid seen genera tion after generation pass on before her. It was a touching sight to see her carry from the house, as the last relic, her washing board. PowDxa.-We are gratified to know that the Confederate States will not be wholly without sources of supply of this indispensa ble article, as the war progresses. The Gov ernment Powder Mills, at Augusta, have not yet been coinpleted, but temporary works have been erected, which are now tnrning out three hundred pounds daily. There are several other mills in the Con *federacy, which are working to the full ex tent of their capacity.--Savannah Republican. The Richmond correspondent of the Char Ileston Mercury says: Mr. Blakey, of the Virginia Convention, proposes some very radical changes in the Constitution, as, for example, that no one who shall become a citizen of the Confeder ate States :.fter the war, Yankee or otherwise, Sshall ever be entitled to a vote, or be eligible