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A'Arol.ln]^ CAYFDEN, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORI^INCt, JULY 13, 1864, [TSTo. 15 \
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Yankee and Confederate Generals i
? ?A Play upon Names.
Celerity is considered a big tiling iu j
war. So is premtness. We believej
there is only one General in the South- '
cm army who always gets up Early, j
albeit -there was one, who resigned, why '
was habitually Pryor in rising. Though
the rebel officers are rather noted for
rapid movements, theie are two decided
Polk's*among them, am? one who is J
-continually Cumming, yet does not come !
aloug.
Put we have a Slocuni ourselves, j
and though we may have a General !
Hunt after the rebels, sume of our j
commanders, including that of Iluntcr'
himself, occasionally fail to bag tbe ras- ]
cals, seeing which General Ketcher!
ought to resign unless lie can prove 1
that he knows Howe. P?y hanging to
the enemy's rear, it seems to us that
General llinduiau, at least, ought to be
caught.
This war lias brought forward, more
1 -' ? fovnt-ol n?ilif:irv
or less couspieiuusij,
names. There are l'ickett, of Yirgiuin;
Battle, of Tennessee; ami Slaughter,
of Alabama, on the* the rebel side? :
Phifer would do to put in the band, j
aud Fields isn't inappropriate for the
sceue of operations.?Steele is not so j
Lad either, and Steele we find common i
to both armies. There* is no use for
Shields in our modern warfare, at any
? rate since the Shenandoah Valley j
campaign of 1S62, though the rebels i
continue to employ Archers.
Mountainous as same parts of the
South are, there arc two Hiils down j
there that seem to l>c particularly hard j
to get over, and a Breckinridge. Reuse j
Forrests, heavy Woods, and difficult :
Khodcs are occasionally to be seen.
Boggs and Brooks diversify the pros- j
j>cct though it must be stated that the :
latter are not produced by llains of!
Ifforth Carolina, and of coarse not by
the Rains that fell at Stone River. :
Wo don't know much about the rebel
Line, but are advised that this is differ- ;
entfrom .the somewhat famous Long- '
street. IIow long that is we are not apprised,
though we have secu the uicu- '
tion of Miles. In our army we have no '
General Hills. We have a Mead, a :
Parke, a Woods, a Brook, and a Tower; j
f the latter, however, not remarkably j
tall. |
. . There is no whiskey iu the Southern i
army, owing, we suppose, to the difficulty '
of. procuring that article. There is, i
however, or lately was, Kitnmel, and
whatever ale can be got out of Adauis. j
As to our own army, though we keep a
.Butler, we don't indulge in anything!
stronger than Meade. There is-a Porter |
on the list, though lie is out .at present. ;
This refers to the Audrew brand. Pitz 1
John (not demi john) Porter, the Administration
swore off from in November,
13<i"A "What with the laws of Congress
in regard to the abolition of sailors grog
uud Gou. Grunt's temperance order in
r the army of the Potomac, we may perhaps
look for total abstinence some of tbesc :
clays. George Washington M or re 11 is
one of our brigadier generals we wish all
brigadier generals?and ' major generals
too, for that matter?were as moral as !
George Washington.
As the rebels seem to have thrown the
Lees of their society into the war, the
mechanics and trade people arc rcmaku
bly well represented. There are two
Coopers, a Gardner, a Lcadbeatcr and a
Taylor or two. The rebels have their 1
Parsons and we bare onr Pope. The
ouly working men represented among";
our generals are the Potters aud Taylors, |
always excepting the Smiths, and the
Confederates, by the way, J have them,
too. i
We don't see how the enemy can want
food as long as they have Hogg, Mouton
. and Greens. On the other hand, it we
should ever get out of beef wc cap fall
back on our Vielc. Wc hear that General
Pike, who resigned the Confederate
service some time ago, is making over-1
turcs for pardon-. His ease will probably
be turned over to Provost Marshal Gen- j
' oral Fry.
There has been a great deal of talk '
about National Hanks carried on through
the Treasury Department. It will not, j
however, escape uoticc, that the War De- I
partment also has its National Hanks
located in Louisiana and Texas.
If the Administration fails to put down, |
cut to pieces, aud bore out this infernal J
rebellion, it will not be for want of tools. 1
"We hav Sickles and we have Shears, nor I
must we forget the old Barlow. We j
don't just now remember whether much
lias been done by our Augur, bufcwehave I
had several that would not bore. We
might make some sharp remarks about
General Blunt, but puuning disagrees !
with us.
* The rebels have a general named Tremble.?
He must be a relative of our Gen.
Kiekets. They also have a Gen.'Wither?
; we hope he will be wrung. '-jLet
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v - : ' ' . .
tlic galled jade wince." General Wise
is a well known Confederate. We cau
beat that; we have Gen. Solinon.
There is, we believe, only one Gen. j
Chcathaui in the enemy's forces by name, !
though a 'large number in poiut (if fact. !
We are afraid that there is more than :
one Gen. Hooker in the Federal raoks.
The Confederates say they are fighting
for their homes. Until reccutly
lloluies was fighting for ttiem, Due none i
to hurt. Jeff Davis lias just put a Price ;
on Arkansas land, hut we reckon Red
lliver tvill run redder yet if he stays in
vicinity. They say the stream is coining
up, but it is Rank, and the latest quotations
reported Steele going down.
They have a general in the South ,
named Cross. lie had better go to
Toombs.
The secefih 'have buried two Garnetts.
The Federals have a brilliant Stone yet
above grouud.
To us it has always seemed siugular
that Rriggs aud Weasels should not be
iu the navy. Well, let that pass. It is
a mattef for Welles.
The rebel army ns bud off for shoes.
Part of it was at one time Frost-bitten.
Our army might be able to get along
without Schnr'z.
We have a Couch and the enemy a 1
Pillow. If they were together we rekcon
the former would be on top.
Ch, pshaw ! This is all nonsense,
Let's quit.?Missouri Republican.
The Xew Yonk papers furnish the
ftiilmciii.t r.-cont correspondence between
,.v ..... jj ? ,
Generals Foster and Jones:
letter trom gen. jones to gen. ,
foster.
IId'qrs Pep't South Carolina !
Georgia, and Florida, Charleston., j
June Ui, 1SG4.?GeneralFive geueral |
and forty live field officers of the United
States army?all of them prisoners of
war?have been sent to this city for safe i
keeping. They have been turned over
to JJri?r. Gen. liipley commandding the
firstmilitary district of this department,
who will see that they are provided with '
commodious quarters in a part of the
city occupied by non-combatants, the
majority of whom are women and ?hildren.
It is proper,however, that I should
inform you that it is a part of the city
which h is for many months been exposed,
dayand night, to the fire of your guns.
Very resnectly, your obedient servant,
Sam. Jonbr,
Major Gen. Commandim:. j
Major Gcu. J. G'. Foster, commanding
United States forces on the coast of
South Carolina, Confederate States.
general foster's eei'lv:
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llD'QRS DEPARTMENT OF THKOOl in, ^
IIilton Heap, 8. June 10. J
Major General Sam. Jones, Commanding j
Confederate Forces, Department of
Son til Carolhia, Georgia and Florida :
General: 1 liave to acknowledge
the receipt this day of your eommuuieation
of the loth iust, informing nie
that five Generals aud forty-live field officers
of the I nited States army, pris- I
owere of war, have been turned over by
you t-> DrigG-eucral Iiiplcy, with instructions
to see that they arc provided
with quarters in a pait of tlie city
occupied by non-combatants?thetnajori- ,
ty of which latter, you state, are woman
and children. Vou add that you deem
it proper to inform mc that it is a part
of the city which has been for many
months exposed "to the fire of our guns.
Many months since Major General Gillmore,
United States army, notified
General Dcauegard, then commanding
in Charleston, that the city would be
bombirded. This notice was giren
that non-comabtaDts might be moved,
and tlius woiuan and children spared
from harm. General Beauregard, in
communication to Gen. ^Gillmore dated
August *22, I860, iuformcd him that
the uon:c(?mbatant population of Charleston
would be removed with all possible
celerity- That women and chilli
re u have been since retained by you
in apart of the city which has been for
many mouths exposed to fire is a matter
decided by your own sense of butnanity.
I must, however, protest against your
action in thus placing defenceless prisoners
of war in a position to constant
bombardment, it is an indefensible j
act of cruelty, and can be designed only j
to prevent a continuance of our tire upon .
Charleston. That city is a depot for j
military supplies. Jt contains not J
merely arsenals, but also foundries and 1
factories for the manufacture of muni- i
tions of war. In its shipyards several )
armed ironclads have already been j
completed, while others are still upon |
the stocks in .course of construction* j
Its wharves and the banks of the river '
on both sides of the city are lined with ,
batteries. To destroy tbose means of
continuing the war is, therefore, our
object and duty.?You seek to defeat
this effort and by means not known to j
honorable warfare, but by placing un* !
armed and helpless prisoners under their
fire.?1 have forwarded your communication
to the Presidcut, with a request
that, lie place in my custody an equal j
number of prisoners of like grade to be j
kept by me in positions exposed to the i
fil-p (if uniir (riilJS. SO lo|J2 as YOU COO- I
v v. JV? p / W
tinue the course stated in jour communication.
T have the honor to be, very respectfully,
Jyour obedient servant., J. Foster,
Major * General Commanding.
D. C. Wager, A. A- G.
J. T. HERSHMAN-Editor. I
I'amdcn, Wjgdjacsdgr, July IB. tl
. The Yankees have destroyed ncariy a
every house at Decatur, Ala. Not moi;c
than half a dozen are left standing. ^
The Louisville Journal learns tb^t
Gen. Butler has been severely wounuea
?in his military reputation. ^
Agents in Alabama are offering fqr e
sale the Gve hundred million loan bonds ti
at 1 35, the price said to be fixed by the c
auction sale at Columbia. c
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The First Lieutenant General from u
South Carolina."
The Mis$issippiun, of the 20th ultimo,
says Gen. Stephen I). Lee has been a{T- 0
pointed Lieutenant General, and will be P
retained in command of that Department. ^
The Front, b
The positions of the two armies are h
such, at present, as to make it impru- a
dent and impolitic to define them.
When the proper occasion arrives, our.,
readers will receive a satisfactory explanation
for the present sileuce in regard 11
to'army movements.
Secret Criminal Combination.
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Dome oi sue norm uaruimu puptio j
coiif mi accounts which expose the distance
f a secret criminal combination of e
tra in that State and extending into a
' Georgia, Alabama, and perhaps Virgin- -j
ia and the army;" r
Acknowledgements
The President of soldiers llcst grate- ^
fully acknowledge the receipt of the fol- ^
lowing articles through Mrs ?J. Jones of
CI
Camden: from Mrs Perry and Miss Lizzie j
Grown of Liberty Hill 2 hams, 1 peck ^
of rice, 21 eggs, 1 gal syrup, 1 peck of'
wheat, for coffee, and counniea.!. y It
We hope our country friends "will corf- j
linue-fo remember us. Any article of \ ^
food will be acceptable, as we have sol-1
dicrsat our It est all the time. . '
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Ifcortlioru News- 1
PicilMoND, Juy 9.?Hansom is repot- ; 1
ted to command the rebel cavalry and ; r
Early the infantry. The rebels are be- 1
I *
lieved to have reached llagcrstown by j 1
1.^ Clfli. t^winnvinCf fnv ?*n nvti>(isivA rtilil 1 /
llir- JM?.| fc ..w v
in Pennsylvania* Gov. Curtin has issued |
a proclauiati"Ti saying, (he enemies of! I
the c?untrv, in desperation, arc threat- |
" i &
niug Pennsylvania, with an aruind force, . t
\vi-h the hope that Get). Grant may be ' j
withdrawn from before Richmond. The : t
number of the rebel forces, not known. '
Seized is safe by timely flight.
Jo | t
A great naval engagement between (
the Alabama and the Kearsagt is r-epor
ted in Northern papers, which represent \
that the Alabama was sunk?the cu- 1
gagement lasting one hour and forty* ; f
minutes. The fight took place ten miles (
from Cherbourg, on Sunday, 19th June i
The Kcarsage was commanded by Capt. t
James A. Winston, who sent a ehal- 1
lenge to the Alabama, which was accept- *
ed, and the Alabama was crippled by a i t
; shell through he* boiler, while attempt- j j
iug to board the Kcarsage. Captain i s
I Semjiies and a portion of his crew were ' 1
saved by tbaKnglish Yacht Greyhound, j '
Capt. Semines was slightly wounded in | j
the hand. j'
The Yankee Congress adjourned sine j
,i:? ?i>.? r,?i. i (
Ex-Goveroer llecder of Kansas, is dead i j
The llaltiraore Gazette of the 7th says ' t
Martinsburg, Harpers Ferry, Point of t
Rocks, have fallen into the hands of the '
Confederates. They captured a large *
j quantity of booty in tli-e&e places. r
Gov. Curtin has issued a proclatiiation, t
calling for '20,000 men for 100 days. '
Lincoln has made a requisition on J
New York for a similer number.
Ilagerstown was occupied by the Con- (
federates on Wednesday The Federal t
. A S
iro'.ijts ruireaieu iu irrtwu vmuu. i Gold
in New York 259. !e
Lincoln- bus issued a proclamation, j f
declaring Marshall law and the suspcu- v
sion of the Habeas Corpus in Kentucky, s
From the Trans-Mississippi ^
Clinton, July 8 via iMobilc, July "
9.?A gentleman of this town just ar- 1
rived from the otbe,r s.idc of the river i 1
says, that Little Rock has been captur- I
> -ii -x' ii.! t
cd Dj' rnce, wun an ui tucu anuico i
and supples, ammunition and axius. | 1
The Yankees have been .entirely driven ; ''
from Arkansas except 4,000. Our army ' c
is under Kirby Smith. The Yankees ' h
occuppy Helena.?This news was re-' h
ccived official by Gen. Kirby Smith, has 1'
ordered the impressment of half the cot- *
ton iu the Trans-Mississippi dopartment, c
for the purpose of bringiug military sup- a
plie?. e
From Charleston
Charleston, July 9.?We c-tfaeked
be enfc ny on Johns Island at day-light
nd drove them from their line of enrenehments
of yesterday. Loss not
et .made public.
From Petersburg.
Petersburg, July 10.?About 5
'clock on Friday evcuing our artillery
long the whole line opened on the
UCIII^i illiu UI. V.IIV tnnv; uui uiou iuvww
2d the breastworks and defied the
nemy, who nought the cover of their
ntrenehments, and replied with artil2ry.
The firing lasted about 30 niintes.
' The enemy has made no assult on
ur lines for a week past, and the imircssion
is that he has drawn off his
orce from our front. For several nights
he rumbling of artillery and wagons
ias been beard all night. The enemy,
lowever, still keep up ajshow of force
long our lines.
JProm Hichmoiid
Richmond, July 9.?Intense excitesent
prevails at Washington, from an
nounccment that 40,000 rebels were
o t '
pproaching the city.
Lincoln had called out the militia of
he adjoining States.
A telegram from ITarrisburg says the
xoiteincnt there was intense, in view of
. rumor that Rreckenridge was moving
n the direction of Obambersburg. One
cport says be has 20,000 men, and has
chipped Seigel.
Pi-tersburg, July 9.?The Washingon
Chronicle of the 9lh says great exiteuient
exists at the North, in .conse|uenee
of the rebel raid. Mirtiusburg
lad been captured with large quantities
if supplies.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had
>een" "badly injured.
A Hue of couriers has just, been cstabished
beeweeu Danville and Dublin Dc- j
>ot, on the Virginia and Tennessee K, iiD j
oad. This line was established for the j
mrpose of opening, couuuunication be-1
ween Qur forces in South western Vir-j
;inia and the authorities at Richmond. I
Jy havitfg relays of horses the distance J
s made in twenty-four hours.
Cavalrymen in Johnston's Army. !
A correspondent of the Su'-'uonah '
Sews witcs as follows:
The cavalry of his army, as it is with
ill our cavalry, is composed of t.be better j
dassis of our people. As men, they are J
iravcand patriotic, hut their horses, in I
he servic , afford wondrous facility for i
jtiick movement to the rear, ami their !
cailer car ; for safety of their horses of i
entiuie induces brave men too speedily i
o clad their vulnerability with that
iafest of all armors, distance, which, in
var, most emphatically "lends enchant
licut to the view." This accounts for
lie cavalryman's silence "when t4e
rfardy footman jeers him for this iunotent
trick of skedaddling. l?ut the cavil
iy is uot in every ease obnoxious to
bis charge. Unhorse him and give him
10 care but. for his own personal safety,
lud as bard avd stubborn fighting as has
iver been done in this army, be lias1
lone and will do again. Que i113tan.ee in
larticular came uuder the immediate obicrvatiou
of your correspondent. On
he 2Stb of May, Col. luge, of a Mississippi
mounted regiment, was ordered to
lie support of the line o' infantry skirmshers
on the right ef J>a*es' division*
L'he Yankee sharp-shooters were bccotnitg
unsually bold, and were pressing
mr lines, wiiu impuaeui persistence. |
Mo sooner had Col- Inge taken his postion
in line tliun lie called to his A ljuant
for four of his best niarkstneu to
eport for duty at once to him. l'rompty
responding and with a manly expression
of fixed determination in the
iountenance of each one, they were
cady for the dangerous task before
hem. Said the Colonel with a smile
'Boys, these Yankees are getting to be
ust a little too saucy. This piace ie
jetting too hot for comfortable sleeping
o night. Go out and make their ac[uaiutance.
Let em know, in short order
hat we are from Mississippi, where
Stephen C. Lee taugt us to figbt. Show
!tn that this is none of Johnston's sked,ddlin?r
cavalry. Go! and bring in a
ew of the rascals." The undergrowth
vas very dense, and the whole woods
cciritd alive with Yankees. But nothing
lumped, these brave Mississippians
aoved forward with defiant, but cauious
tread, and were soon hidden from
he view of their anxious comrades beiind.
The firing increases in rapidity,
he whizzing bullets fill the air with
heir deadly sound?loud groans are
card as of a dying man. The firing be*
otnes more and more distant, and in
jss than ten minutes," silence regains
cr ancient sway where the leaden raiq
itely dealt death in accents so loud and
urious. And this was the work of four
zpcrt and determined men?cavah-ymcn
t that. They brought in three prisonfa,
and killed twice aB many mojro.
Conscription Before the (Flood witm j
Incidental Reference to Bating !
and drinking.
Methuselah livefi'to wha't would now |
be considered a good old age. 'Few people
in these latter days can reasonably !
hope to attain their nine hundred and
sixty-ninth year, though at the rate some
have grown old under the operation of
the conscription, law, it has been slily
biutcd that they will soon approximate
tbe intediluvian standard.
But that is not the thing which we
had in miT mind when we wrote the cap- !
tion of this brief article. The fact is,
that something suggested to us yesterday
the idea cf a militia muster in thosc'cafly 1
days when counted the stages of their
lives by centuries. We seemed to see
some of the cotemporaries of Tobad Cain,
or some colonel or euroltiug officer tff rhe I
Land of Nod, calling upon the able-bodied
men, between one hundred and'eighty
and four hundred and fifty, to be and
appear, armed and equipped, as the law
directs, at .the usual muster ground near
Tubal Cain's blacksmith shop. And we
could fancy the subsequent call for the
reserve, including all theyouth^, between
one hundred and fifty, one huudrcd and
eighty, and all the men, between four
huudrcd and fifty and five hundred. If
they had substitutes over the conscription
age, they probably came' from the class
between five and six huudrcd?hale,
hearty men, a little over their prime, but
still equal to good military service.
And the antediluvians were a pretty
hard set?that much is evident?aud it j
r~11 mow nfit KnvA i
IMIIwwjs mat iJiiHwu^u tuvgr u<>v mu.v .
had "Colt's revolvers or nrirrnie muskets
or rifled cannon, they were not without j
means for doing each other harm, nor
wanting in the disposition to use them.
They also got drunk at militia gatherings,
no doubt, for about the first thing
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Noah did after the flood subsided was to
plajit a vineyard, mate wine and get
overcome. He had learned that before,
he had seen so much water, and his long j
swim around in the ark does not seem to j
have made him a convert to the Maine |
liquor law.
We can fancy the light-headed boys j
from one hundred, upwards, and syinpa- j
thise with the fears -of their discreet par-^
cuts when th?*y found these wnocent and |
unsuspecting juveniles exposed to the ;
temptations of the camp, and acquiring a j
taste for cijcr-royal and other potent bev- j
earges dealt out by the sutlers, for of.
course they had sutlers; and of course
the sutlers had something to sell that
would make drunk come, although distilled
spirits for that pu. pose is a modern
invention. That opens up a new field of
reflection. Just to think of our supe-.
riority over the Greeks, lloinans and
Phrvntinns. antediluvians and nstiicr j
ancient peoples. Solomon in all bisgio- j
ry never bad a mint julep. The graude.-t j
feats of the U-ouan Emperors could not J
boast a turkey?the most meditative
philosopher never soothed himself with !
tobacco. Fancy Plato va&eng through \
(be groves of the Academy *ritb a piipe :
in bis mouth. Imagine Achilles, who1
was no philosopher, getting "high" on
Puryear's Lot, while Thcrsites stole
his cock tail, and railed at it for no
being stronger. How that jolly
"wanderiug minstrel," Homer, would ;
i have relished a good Irish whiskey punch
after a day's Tvaudering during a spell of
that, inclement weather froqj which "the
Isles of Greece" are not exempt.
liy ilie way, during the prevalence of
this warm weather, such things must give j
place to thinner potations. We would,
therefore, 6Uggest the following as o-ot
hard to swallow :
Take a sufficient quantity of ice?(if
you can get it;) put it in the bottom of
a glass?the largest size of glass is preferable;
fill the glass abouU three-fourth 6
full of cbampaigne, (if you can get it,)
tbea let tbe balance &e -cJaret, (if; you
can get it.)?tben?wby then, try it,
that's all. There are worse things, and
the only serious objection consists in the
difficulty of obtaining the materials.
Rut we have nearly consumed what j
the parliamentarians call the "morning
hour," and have no time for waudering.
1V ilm Ijtylon Journ u I.
"Roantv nf Wnm&n.
Beauty has been "called "the power
and aim of woman. Diogenes called it
"woman's most forcible letter of recommendation."
Carneades represented it as
a "rjueea without soldiers," and Theocritus
says it is "a serpent covered with
flowers;" while a modern author defines
it as "a bait that as often catches the fisher
as fish." Nearly all the old philosophers
(ien<rtiuced aiad ridiculed beauty as evanesceut,
worthless and mischievous; but
alas! while they preached against it,
they were noue the less its slaves.?
None of them were able to withstand j
- -1? ft f\ f O foir !
*ljye Sly, SlllUUbU ?T uuuv/ium VI
young face." A really beautiful woman
is a natural queen in the universe of
love, where all hearts pay a glad tribute
to her reign.
Gen. Stephen D- Lee has been appointed
Lieutenant General aad will be re.- |
tained in command of this department.
Gen- Lee's promotion has been deserved
and his assignment to duty here, where j
lie is so well and favorably known, will j
be gratifying to the people and a guar- j
antee that the military affairs of the
department will be conducted with
ability and vigor.?Clarion. !
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JttlUJJ. IFCVOlUpUlCUKI
The roport of the Yankee Military.
Commission, presided over by Majof
General Irwin McDowell, and charged 'M
with the examination iuto the alleged
frauds in the Western Department,
makes some rich developments. A
Washington letter in the New York
Herald sajs: - \
Gen. S. K. Curtis, in the case of the
cotton of the rebel General Pillow, w*a
found to have used the proceeds in supplies
to contrabands,'thotrgh it was wet
shown specifically how all the money ' 4|
was applied. In the case of Sanders'
aud Woodson's cotton, all was accoun- -"^j >4 '
ted for except two hundred and sevefity- V ?
five dollars. The whole cotton was fur- .*' 1
ly accounted for, excepting that gold
was received for it, while at seventeen
per ceotum, and cmrrency .paid over in
its stead. One" hundred and eight bales,
seized from Matt. Ward, in Arkansas,
and sent to Helena, was afterwards purchased
at twelve aud a half cents, and
the proceeds paid Mrs. Ward. Major II
S. Curtis, Major McKigney, nod Lieutenant
Gujlee, of Gen. Curtis's staff, it
whs ascertained, were interested in the
purchase of one hundred and eightj-one * . .
bales of cotton.
Brigadier General TIoTey was exonerated
from the charge of forcibly returning
fifteen negroes to slavery, 'but /was
found to be connected with the traffic in
cotton.
Col. Slack, of rhc 47th Indiana, was
found to have traded ru >cotton and to
have captured silver ware from Mrs.
Cogswell, on the Missisippi, who complained
that it was not all returned.
Lieut en writ Kimball, of the 2d Wisconsin
cavalry,stole a diamond pin, which
was subsequently returned.
Major Western, 24th Missouri, received
five hundred and sixty dollars for
furni.-hirig a guard for protecting cotton.
Captain Fred. S. Winston, acting
quartermaster, was found interested in
uotton in a manner not contemplated by
the army regulations, ami of depositing
the proceeds in a private banking institution,
instead of iho treasury of flio
United States.
Captain Ilowlnnd, of one hundred and
thirty-live bales shipped to Chicago by
one Ilagan, was authorized* to receive
half the mitt proceeds and $2000.
Among others interested in cotton
speculations, are named Col. C. C. Marsh
and Captain Uradley, "2?th Illinois , Lieutenant
Col. S N. Wood, 4th JJissouti .
cavalry (who admitted having made ?20
.000); Pr* Rexsurg 33d 111.; Cipt. Jerome ^
Hradu^-s.-istant quartermaster general; ; , \
Capt. ftobert Gorman (half profiEPoa ~ **"
one hundred and two bales $2f)00) ; Captain
Ilayden and Lieut. Wright, 3d
Iowa battery ; Lieut, linker/ 33d Illinois;
Lieut, i'iiu., 10th Missouri cavalry,
and Lieutenant Mm dock, 15th Ohio
battery.
Permits were shown to have been granted
for cotton trading by Generals Grant,
Curtis, Steele, Gorman, and Washburne;
and in the third place that transportation
had been furnished to some extent
f??r private purposes, fur which remuneration
was not always received.
Plain Talk- .
The New York Daily News speaks .
out in vcrv plain terni3 in regard to the
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existing stale 01 a nans m * au?cfc?j".u %
Here is an extract taken from a late
number of that paper.
The mask of Mcphistophiles is off.?
Kvery pretense Jhat brought our sons
and brothers by fJie hundred Jbousand
to be slaughtered in the shambles of the
South is now acknowledged by the Abolition
ruiuist, to have been false. Wo
have been mocked, delude], hoodwiuked.
This is not a war for the Union
aud the Constitution. They are "abrogated."
It ia not a lawful wnr for the
establishment of Constitutional authority.
It is professedly an unconstitutional,
and unjust war |for the conquest of *
free and independent nation of our own
speech and our own blood.
Once, then, again, I speak: "What is
all this conquest for? What* base ??
made, what can we make at best, but
more bloodshed and more debt ?.?Sif
ur.i?i_ 0?.? ,i,?f * i
lvuuert 11 uipuic uatw i>\j o%*j tuuv u? 4 j
never rend history, for that he knew it #
was false; and when we ask the question
what all this is for, we seek no answer * *. *
from the Abolition Mephistophilcs.? *
That would certainly be false.. But A .
from the honest, conscientious masses
who have been deluded by the pretence*
and bliuded by the madness of tbe half
?the men who are always more ready
to oorrcct than commit a wrung?the
men who do not yet believe in the "An.
ti-Slaverv Bible and Anti Slavery God." ^
The men who do believe in a God who - Q9H
is "the Author of Peace and lover of
Concord," a God that "verily judgeth ta
the earth"?the men who feel that we *
shall have yet to answer for this great *' '
"blood guiltiness"?from these men wa
do ask that, before tbey shall again be
Winded with the red glow of. the lurid
war light, they demand of their own
eonscieooea, as in the sight of God.?
What this for? And, if there be no jj|
better reason than the pleasure of blood*
thirsty parasites and tbe amusement of
a jocular Chief Magistrate, then let them
join with all good men in hurliog from
their seat the foul conspirators at
Washington, who plotted for a nation's
folly and havc played. upon our noblest
imnulsfta and nrinoinlos to make US tools
and playthings of a bloody Abolition
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