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Longfellow’s New Poem.
The following fine poem by Prof. Long-
fellow appears in the December number Of
the Atlantic. It is the first published by him
since the sad accident which brought such
mourning to his house.
The Cumberland.
At anchor in Hampton Roads‘we lay,
On board of the Cumberland sloop-Of-war;
And at times from the fortress across the bay
The alarm of drums swupt past,
Or a bugle-blast
From the camp on shore.
Then far away to the South uprose
A little feather of snow-while smoke,
And we knew that the iron ship of our foes
lVas steadily steering its course .,
To try the force
Of‘ our ribs of oak.
Down upon as heavily runs,
Silent and sullen, the floating fort;
Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns,
And leaps the terrible death,
lVith fiery breath,
From each open port.
lVe are not idle, but send her straight
Defiance back in a full broadside!
As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,
Rebounds our heavier hail
From each iron scale
-Of the monster’s hide.
“Strike your flag l“ the rebel cries,
In his anogant old plantation strain.
“Never!” our gallant Morris replies;
“It is better to sink than to yield l”
And the whole air pcaled
With the cheers of our men.
Then, like a kraken huge and black,
She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp 1
Down went the Cumberland all a wreck,
With a sudden shudder of death,
And the cannon’s breath
For her dying gasp.
Next morn, as the sun rose over the bay,
Still floated ourvflag at the mainrnast-head.
Lord, how beautiful was Thy day !
Every waft of the air .
Was a whisper of prayer,
Or a (lirgc for the dead.
HO! brave hearts that went down in the seas!
Ye are at peace in the troubled stream.
Ho! brave land! with hearts like these,
Thy flag, that is rent in twain,
Shall be one again,
And without a scam !
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BURNSIDE. .
BY PARK BENJAMIN.
God bless the noble General now
The army who commands,
For he will lead our soldiers on
With willing hearts and hands.
With hearty cheers and brave resolves,
In battlc’s stern array, '
They will march on for, victory,
And win it in a day.
No longer will they stand and wait
In idleness and rust,
But they will onward, though they fall,
And perish if they must.
Better to keep their swords and guns
In action clear and bright;
They were not made for mere parade,
But practice in the fight. ‘
Camp life is not the life for men
Who long to do or die,
And see the banners of the cause
Careering in the sky.
They wish to grapple with the foe
And put his ranks to rout,
Not calmly sit, as in a seige,
And wear his patience out.
Thank God! the longed-for, prayed-for hour
Has come for us at length,
In which the soldiers of the North
May prove their nerve and strength ;
Not waste away, with hope deferred,
In most inglorious ease,
Or meet within their winter tents
Home-sickness and disease.
The General who commands them now
Will spend not in delay
The golden hours, that, once unused,
Forever pass away.
But he will grasp the present time
And wield it while he can:
Nor distant from the Southern rear
Wilhbe the Northern van.
BURNSIDE will rush upon the foe
In battle or retreat,
And you shall bear with joyful car
His drums victorious beat.
Hi8 banner shall not folded be
For long and weary days,
But like a comet’s dazzling beams,
Advancing, soar, and blaze!
~4‘.’>
The Sailor.
Peter said, “Lord, if it be Thou, bid Inc
come unto Thee, on the water.” And he
said, “Come."—ST. MATTHEW. '
Forth from the roof-tree of his birth he goes,
To wrestle with the strong, mysterious
Main;
The seeds of gold ’mid blast and surge he
sows,
Toiling for Commerce on the billowy plain
That links the utmost limits of the world.
Like atom to the slippery mast he clings,
At inky midnight when each star is furl’d,
Or points hoarse thunders if Bellona flings
Ilcr challenge out, and nationsjoin the fray;
No softening influence woos his soul
above,—
He hears no church-bell on his watery way.
Send him the Book that tcacheth of His
love,
Who bade the pale disciple on the sea,
When the wild storm roll’d high, “Come
o‘er the waves to rife.” L. H. S.
——«¢~<.>oF—-———~~—
11$... Parson Brownlow is exposing and
denouncing the inhuman rebels Of Ten-
nessee with the ferocity ofa tiger. He
says :—“ I want to chase the [moves to
the gates Of hell, and makefaccs at (Item
after Urey have gum in!” He has {15013
over his balancing of “Secessionists and
Abolitionists on the same rope,” and is
now calling on the latter to help him pull
on the long end to .hoist the former. He
is giving slavery as savage thursts as he
gave Wendell Philips: a year ago. “Ah!
he chuckles, “they were fools they didn’t
hang the when they had me l”——a fact
to which they now doubtless give melan-
choly assent. '
“-uQI—oo—
w " life are not wild benstsl
are not tigerslmRic/tmond lV/Lig. .
You’re a Zy/in’,~—Nas/wz'llc Union.
We
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J‘rom the Cincinnati Gazette.
THE VERDICT 0F EVENTS.
No genius, art or science can set itself
above the test of results. However much
it may intreuch itself behind professional
mysteries, above the comprehension of
the masses, it must eventually submit to
the test of results which the ordinary mind
can judge The eighteen months ofGen.
McClellan’s command of the army of the
Potomac, during the greater part of which
he controlled the entire military power of
the Government, have been time enough
to justify the nation in judging him by
the military result. That it is a failure
is not denied by his own most unscrupu-
lous partisans. They only resort to pre-
texts to shift the responsibility. He has
given to the rebel Confederacy the pres-
tige of military success, and has subjected
the national Government, and the section
which stands by it, to the humiliation Of
an appearance of military impotence.—
And the national destruction, inevitable
from a continuance of such military fail-
ures, has been accelerated by the enor-
mous consumption of the national resour-
ces. It has burned the candle at both
ends—building up the rebellion into re.-
spcctability, and prostrating the Govern-
ment by the fearful waste of our resour-
ces. .
The event justifies a review of the gen-
eral ship whose consequences threaten the
national existence. Gen. McClellan’s
campaign in IVestcrn Virginia was on a
plan made by Gen. Morris before McClel-
lan took the field. He interposed long
delay and a greatness of preparation in
striking contrast with the enemy’s force.
He at length brought his army in com-
bined movements to Laurel Hill and Rich
Mountain, surrounding the enemy, but
leaving [open the most feasible road for
their escape toward the northeast. The
attack on Rich Mountain was made by
General Rosecrans on a plan proposed
by himself in the rear. McClellan was
to attack in front. By a difficult march
through by-paths, Rosecrans reached the
rear in the afternoon, and attacked and
defeated the enemy’s strong rear guard.
The sound of the firing was heard by
McClellan’s troops, but he did not move.
The next day, at nearly noon, he arrived
on the ground. Garnett had precipitate-
ly retreated at daylight by the route left
chram’s troops, who had been
scattered by Rosecrans, came in and sur-
rendered
A subordinate officer in McClellan’s
place would have been cashiered for fail-
ure to co-Operate according to the plan
Of the battle. Gen. McClellan telegraph-
ed that remarkable dispatch, claiming the
victory aud exaggerating it, and assert-
ing that he had liberated Western Vir-
ginia. Ever since that he has been hos-
tile to Morris andRosecrans. The false
glitter of this dispatch, set in the dark
- background of the Bull Run disaster,
which involved most of our leading Olli-
cers, and the favoritism of Gen. Scott,
whose infirmity of disposition made him
hostile to all the prominent officers, made
McClellan Geucral-iu-Chief. The patri-
otism of the volunteers, the unbounded
expenditures of the Government, and the
regular drill of the camp built up a great
army, of which he was called the creator.
He established himself in magnificent
state, with a staff of forty aids, and rode
through the streets surrounded by a cor-
tegc more pretentious than an emperor‘s ;
and correspondents wrote that he was
constantly in his saddle creating his army.
They looked upon the regiments, as they
swarmed into Washington from the great
patriotic Northern hive, and exalted him
as the “creator” of such spirit and power.
The restiveness of the people, under
delay, was quieted by the constant prom-
ise- of action, and by the literath an-
nouncement that the army was advanc-
ing. At length it was settled for the fall
by the Bull’s Bluff slaughter, in which,
with McCall’s division of twelve thousand
men only ten miles Off, besides Stone’s
adequate force, he succeeded in having
Baker slaughtered by a force of less than
six thousand of the enemy. McCall, who
was on the Virginia side, in a situation
to have cut Ofi.‘ Leesburg, was ordered to
right about, and all the forces withdrawn,
in a panic, to the Maryland side. This
was McClellau’s first demonstration in
generalship on his own plan. ,
The Burnside expedition, to take Man-
assns in the rear, to o-operate with an
attack by McClellan in front, was diverted
penis to the President, and was sent to
North Carolina. Gen. Burnside protest-
ed ; and conscious that no results could
there be accomplished adequate to so
costly an expedition, he was careful in
his report to emphasize the fact that all
he had done was on the plan Of General-
iu-Chief. The Army of the Potomac was
exposed to unnecessary hardships, in the
winter, to delude public expectation by
not going into winter quarters. Three
thousand young men went to inglorious
grhves, on the Potomac, in that winter
encampment.
In February, the peremptory order of
the President relieved the Western'army
from the dead-lock McClellan had kept on
it, and it wont forward and achieved suc-
cesses. In March, the President notified
Gen. McClellan that a plan mfist be evolv-
ed implying movement, or a removal
would be made.
evacuated Manassas.
by McClellan’s urgent and presistent ap. .
Coincideutly, the enemy.
When that was
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known, McClellan put sixty thousand
men in motion, leaving their tents on the
Potomac, marched them on the vacant
Mauassas, and then left them to struggle
back by divisions, suffering great hord-
ship from the want of shelter and of an.
organizatlon for supplying subsistence on
the march. The fact was developed that
the army had no organization for a cum-
paign, and that the head was lacking.—
The President then divided it into corps,
and appointed the commanders.
Gen. McClellan then interposed a na-
val transit Of an army of 120,000 men be-
tween himself and the enemy. After
months expended in this, he sat down for
Yorktown for a small force of the enemy
to grow great, and inconsiderable intrench-
ments to be made formidable. The enemy
evacuated at leisure. l-Ie telegraphed the
War Department that they were routed
and demoralized, and that he should ‘push
the enemy to the wall.” His advance
under Hooker, pursued and overtook the
enemy, and, following the military maxim.
to always atttg’fk a retreating enemy, it
went in, regar ess of numbers, knowing
that a great army was following. Gen.
McClellan refused to allow Hooker to be
reinforced, and held, by his orders, thirty
thousand men within sound of the battle,
by which his advance was repulsed and
the enemy’s retreat secured. '
Gen. McClellan, the commander of an
invading army ofa hundred and twenty
thousand men, marching to the enemy’s
capital, then telegraphed the Goveru~
ment that he would “try to hold the cue-
my in check”—au enemy not half his own
force, and just before routed, panic-strick-
en, aud pushed to the wall. He tele-
graphed an ignorant account of the bat-
tle, doing gross injustice to the troops and
Officers who did the fighting, by giving
the chief credit to the wrong troops.—
This he ,was obliged to modify when he
had informed himself. As the enemy
continued their retreat, he did not per-
sist in holding them in check, but follow-
ed respectfully. With the command of
the river, and a division on shipboard, he
failed to intercept the retreat, or to har-
ass it by pursuit. Retreats, regarded by
military authorities as almost impossible
in the face of the enemy, are safer from
McClellan than his own pursuit. The
retreating army went off victorious and
confident. He followed panic stricken,
and preparing to hold them in check, if
they turned upon him.
Time brought this invading army to
the Chickahominy, where it sat sown help-
less, to be destroyed by divisions. The
enemy had it all their own way. The
troops were wasted in digging intrench-
ments only to be abandoned when attack-
ed. An inferior force of the enemy was
first precipitated on the unsupported right
wing. A few hundred cavalry took his
base of supplies. The heroic fighting of
the troops and of the subordinate com-
manders, was attributed to the command-
er who made it all unavailing. He tele-
graphed an ignorant account of the bat-
tle of Seven Pines, disgracing a division
which had borne the brunt of the fight,
and dating his dispatch “on the battle
field,” when the enemy were in possession
of it, and when he did not reach the ground
to which our troops were driven till the
battle was over.
His generalship only held the army to
be sacrificed. It has always, with supe-
rior numbéfs, exposed an inferior force to
attack. The retreat to James River sac-
rificed the splendid equipment of this ur-
my, aud showed the difficulty of retreat-
ing before an enterprising enemy. The
ability of the commanders of corps, and
the heroism of the troops repulsed the
enemy’s pursuit. About one-half of the
army McClellan took to the Peninsula,
reached the James River. The conduct
Of the retreat, and of the fight against
the attempt of the enemy to cut the re-
treating column in two at Turkey Island
Bend,.aud of the terrible battle of Mal-
vern Hill, on which the existence of his
army depended, was left to the subordi-
nate generals. As soon as the advance
reached the vicinity of the river, Gen.
McClellan bad business on the gun-boats,
nine miles below, where he awaited the
issue.
On the James River, Gen. McClellan
was impotent for attack, and liable to be
cut Off from his supplies by a blockade of
the river. He wished to remain, but
Halleck’s peremptory order - withdrew
him. He arrived in Alexandria in time
to have saved Gen. Pope by a prompt
march, but waited for him to be sacrificed.
Gen. Pope’s defeat by McClellan’s conni-
vance, resulted in restoring him to the
command. He took a. circuit around Lee
leaving the way open for his withdrawal,
and delaying Chis march until Harper’s
Ferry, the key of the situation, had fallen
into the enemy’s hands. At Antietam
he kept his reserves out of the battle and
prevented his generals from achieving a.
victory. He reported that he was vigor-
ously pursuing the enemy. and then wait-
ed four days for them to cross the river,
carrying OlI all their material. I
He then waiter] a month before advan-
cing against the enemy, over whom he
had won a complete victory, as he said.
In reply to peremptory orders to move he
alleged the want of supplies. This pre-
text is shown to be false. When he fi-
nally did move, it was at the rate of a
day’s march in a week. In this career
he was cutoff.
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These are the chief features of General
McClellau’s military performance. We
only allude to events, leaving the expres-
sion of feeling to the reader. On these
results the public has a right to judge the
capacity of the commander.
The dispatches and general orders of a.
commander are corroborative evidence of
capacity. General McClellau’s addresses
to his army surpass Chinese military lit-
erature in making himself terrible by
words. A foreign reader of his triumph-
ant and terrible address to his army after
taking the vacant Manossas, must con--
clude that we are a peculiar people. His
dispatches are remarkable for an inability
to tell the truth, and for puerile descrip-
‘tions of what he is about to do and has
done. The remarkable dispatch from
Western Virginia we have alluded to. It
astonished all who knew the circumstan-
ces. And Eastern journals could only
account for its style by the theory that
we really had a young Napoleon among
us whose genius was aqua] to such pre-
tensions.
From Ball’s Bluff he telegraphed that
the dispositions were excellent—tho dis-
positions being his own, and the slaught-
er the result. From Mauassas be dis-
patched a. panic-stricken retreat of the
enemy. From Yorktown be dispatched
, that the enemy was demoralized and pan-
ic-stricken, his victory complete, and he
should push the enemy to the wall. From
Williamsburgh he telegraphed his own
demoralized and panic-stricken condition,
and said he would try to defend himself.
He has never been near enough to a. bat-
tle to know how it was fought, and has,
in two well-known instances, telegraphed
ignorant and erroneous accounts of bat-
tles. At Williamsburgh and Seven Pin es
he did gross injustice to men and officers
by his ignorant dispatches, which he was
afterwards compelled to modify, but this
could not retrieve the effect.
He dispatched to the Government that
the retreat to the James River was made
with the loss of but one gun and one
wagon, which broke down. The tradi-
tional feats of the longbow seem inconsid-
erable compared with such Napoleonic
performances. After the battle of Autie.
turn be telegraphed, Sept. 15th, that ‘the
enemy is making for the river in a perfect
panic,’ and that he was ‘hurryiug every-
thing forward to press the retreat to the
utmost.’ And later on the same day
that ‘ infdrmatiou at this moment receiv-
ed confirms the rout and demoralizatiou
of the rebel army. We are following as
rapidly as the men can move.’ Yet four
days later no advance had been made,
and he then telegraphed : ‘ Last night
the enemy abandoned his position, leaving
his dead and wounded on the field. We
are again in pursuit. I do not know
whether he is falling back to an interior
position or crossing the river. We may
safely claim a. victory.’
After his four days vigorous pursuit
of the routed, demoralized, panic-stricken
enemy, he telegraphed that they had
withdrawn from the battle-field in the
night, and he knew not where they had
gone, but as they were gone he might
safely claim avictory, which it seems was
doubtful until the enemy’s intention was
known. 0n the some day he sent the
remarkable dispatch : ‘ Pleasantou is dri-
ving the enemy across the river. Our
victory was complete. The enemy is
driven back into Virginia. Maryland
and Pennsylvania are now safe.’ With
unintentional candor he makes his victory
to hang in the balance until he ascertain-
ed the intentions of the enemy. If they
intended to leave, he intended to advance,
and if four days after the battle they re-
tired, his victory was complete. Are
these the dispatches of a. military genius
which becomes a. young Napoleon with-
out smelling gunpowder? Are they evi-
dences of military or any other ability,
unless it be with the aboriginal weapon
——the long bow?
In this war, commanders have bad
credit for latent military capacity on the
score Of their want of heart in the cause.
But the logic of this will hardly bear
statement. That a. general is treacher-
ous to the cause he pretends to fight for,
is no evidence that he has either military
capacity or courage. These must be es-
tablished by some other proof.
It seems incredible that the destinies
of this great country, where, alone, the
popular capacity has been developed to
the pitch of self-government, can have been
commited to such 9. man for a. year, while
in the sight of the whole peOple, it was
gliding down the rapids to the abyss.
What horible nightmare has held the
senses of the people and of the authori-
ties ? The responsibility reaches beyond
this imbecile instrument of national ruin
to those whose influence and power have
retained him. As failure became appar-
ent, the swift eulogies which hailed his
elevation from the supporters of the Gov-
ernment, the expression of their hopes
from him, were replaced by the praise
and clamorous defense of those who de-
sire the foilure of the Government . Ev-
cry one who charged that the North was
guilty Of the war, that the purpose of
the war was to destroy the Constitution,
that the South were in the right, and
who desired military failure that it. might
result in restoring the traitors to power
by our submission, was, and is, a defen-
der of McClellan. '
1 It might have excited suspicion when
. “Wang,
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enemies of the cause were the ardent sup-
porters of a. general whose course has
been a continual failure. .But such was
the infatuation that this was accepted as
honest and loyal public opinion, and it
operated to fasten this terrible imbecility
on the country. Even the testimony Of
the enemy’s Officers that they regard Mc-
Clellan as our greatest general, and no-
ted with great interest the attacks of
the radicals on him, was piled up to sus-
tain him. This was aided by correspon-
dents of a. treacherous press, sent him
into the field with orders to write him. up.
By this means we have had the stereoty-
ped announcement in every battle: “Mc-
Clellan was in the thickest of the fight,
rallying the soldiers and animating them
by his presence.” ’
Out of this lying correspondence has
chiefly grown the falsehood of his popu-
larity with the soldiers. It is impossible
that a general can be popular with an
army which he destroys without achiev-
ing a. victory. '
But the most melancholy feature of
the newspaper support of this terrible
failure—because the weakest—is that
which arose purely from newspaper rival'
ry ; which wrote up a commander who
was sinkiuglthe nation to ruin, because
a. coutempory took a just view of him. It
is calculated to give humanity sufficient
humility to see such motiva, in such
a. momentous matter, govern at 131er
which assumes to transcend the ordinary
weakness of mankind.
The removal of General McClellan is
the turning of a course which tended in-
evitably to national destruction. It re-
moves an horrible incubus from the na-~
tioual energies. It shuts up a growing
chasm which was swallowing the re-
sources and patriotic sacrifices of the peo-
ple. No not that the President could do
would so revive the hopes of the people.
Let us hope that the Executive effort
which has displaced this fatal commander
will rise to a determination that the‘-
sources which the people are so gener-
ously giving to the national cause shall
no longer be wasted by unfaithfulness or
incapacity, and that earnestness in sub-
duing the rebellion shall be an indispen-
sable prerequisite for military command.
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Brilliant Operations of One
sailing Vessel—Seventeen Pri-
zes taken. .
The bark Restless, a. sailing craft 0
our navy, has made no less than seven-
teen captures of prizes (English and reb-
el) since the 14th Of February last. She
is commanded by LieuteuautEdward Cou-
roy. Among her recent captures are thg
British steamers Scotia and Anglia,which
were caught while attempting to break
the blockade of Charleston.
The following is a list of some of the
vessels captured by the Restless
“February 14—Rebel sloop Edisto,
with a. cargo of 1,600 bushels of rice, ‘and
the rebel schooners Theodore Stony with
2,400 bushels, Wando with 1,800 bush-
els, Elizabeth with 1,800 bushels—all
scuttled or burned in Harbor Creek South
Carolina.
“March 28—Rebel schooner George
Washington, with acargo of 5,000 bush-
els rice 50 bushels of corn and 25 bushels
of rice flour. Burned in Bull’s Bay.
“March 29—Rebel schooner J ulia.
Worden, 200 bushels Of rice, 50 pushels
Of corn and 50 bushels Of rice flour. Sent
to Port Royal.
“Rebel schooner Lydia and Mary with
a cargo of 1,600 bushels of rice and 25
bushels of corn, Sent to Port Royal.
And rebel schooner Unknown, 1,200
bushels of corn meal, and the rebel sloop
Mary Louise, with 2,000 bushels of rice
and 100 bushels of corn. Both burned
in South Santa River.
“May 2—The British schooner Flash,
with a. full cargo of salt and merchandise-
Seut to New York.
May 24—British steamer Stettin, and
May 27, British steamer Patras, with
assorted cargoes, were driven out ofBu ll’s
Bay and captured by the United States
steamer Bienville. and sent to New York.
"July 7——The British steamer Emilie,
with an assorted cargo, was captured in-
side of Bull’s Boy by armed boots from
the United States steamer Flag and
bark Restlesss, and sent to Philadelphia.
“September 2— The rebel sloop John
Thomson with six hundred barrels of
turpentine. Cargo sent to New York.
"October ll—The United States sch.
Elmira Cornelius, with an assorted cargo,
sent to Philadelphia.
“October 25—British steamer Scotia,
with an assorted cargo, sent to Phila-
delphia.
“October 27—British steamer An-
glia, with an assorted cargo, captured in
company with United States steamer
Flag, and sent to Philadelphia.”
«Q».
W In a conversation on Friday
Lieut. Gen. Scott told Gen. Books that
he had watched his military career with
great interest, and complimented him in
earnest terms on what he had accomplish-
ed. “You will not,” Gen. Scott said,
“expect me to ask your destination, nor
is it necessary, for I see that you have al-
ready informed your friends that you are
going South. Gen. Scott further said,
“My infirmities cause me to long for a
southern clime, but I cannot find it near-
er than Cuba, and I will not live under a
foreign flag.” Gen. Banks replied, “We
hope in a short time, General, that you
may have a tranquil residence in any part
of the. South that you may desire to vis-
All.”
,Wsa-er‘")
For the Gazette.
Families of Volunteers.
Mn. Entroaz—What does it mean that
the Treasurer of the Town of Westport
cannot pay to wives of volunteers the
State bounty due on the first of Novem-
ber last? The Statute of 1861 is im-
perative. It declares that on the first of
August, 1861, and at the expiration of
every successive three months thereafter,
the Comptroller of the State shall draw
his order on the State Treasurer‘iu favor
of the treasurer of each town for an
amount sufficient to pay the State boun-
ties to the families of all the volunteers
from such town, and that the Town Trea-
surer shall pay the some to Such families.
It cannot be that the rich State of Con-
necticut has made default! And yet,
the worthy Treasurer (Mr. Sanford) of
Westport has no money for these fami—
lies, and he says he shall not have any
money for them for two months. What
does this mean? Is the law defective?—
,If it is, it ought to be amended. Is the
selectmau (Mr. Finch) heedlels and
careless in making proper returns to the
Comptroller of the State? then he ought
to be compelled to perform his duty.—
Please investigate this matter, and see if
like obstructions are put in the way of
the families ofNorwalk volunteers in get-
ting their money.
It is a hardcoso that the poor women,
whose husbands are fighting the battles
of the country, should, in this inclement
season of the year, be kept out of the
money so justly due them. But if Mr.
Sandford has not the money he cannot
pay. If Mr. Finch, the selectmau, will
not make the proper returns to the State
authorities, then the money will never
come. But it is the clear duty of the
Selectman, Mr. Finch, and of Mr. Sand"
ford, the Treasurer, to see to it that the
wives and families Of Westport volunteers
shall not suffer much longer by reason of
their neglects and defaults. Please re-
ply to the above queries and oblige a
FRIEND OFTHE VOLUNTEERS.
Westport, Nov. 25, 1862.
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7th Regiment Correspondence.
CAMP PALMER,
BEAUFORT, S. 0., Nov. 10.
Messus. EDITORS :-—Since I last wrote,
the 7th Conn. has removed to Beaufort,
some twenty miles distant from Hilton
Head, and situated on Port Royal Is-
land, npon the bank of Beaufort river.
It is the most pleasant and healthy
place that this regiment has ever occu-
pied, since we came to this Department.
At the time we were removed here,—
some two weeks sincc,—our company’s
sick list was the largest we have had
since entering the service, there being a
list of twenty-nine, most of whom were
excused from duty. At the present time
our list is nine, none of whom are danger-
ously ill. I think that with one or two
exceptions there is not a company in the
regiment whose list will not exceed ours.
The average sick to a company is eleven.
So our friends can judge for themselves
whether; lhere is much sickness prevailing
among us. Not among the 7th alone but
all regiments stationed in this Depart-
ment. I speak of this simply to relieve
the anxiety of our friends at home, many
of whom have heard a report that the
yellow fever was prevailing to a. consider-
able extent iu the 10th army corps. To
my knowledge there has not been more
than five or six cases of it at Hilton Head
or Beaufort. The history of it is as fol-
lows : about the first of September last,
the Steamer Delaware came to Hilton
Head from Key West, Florida, on board
of which there was about 30 cases, 10 of
which died, and the remainder were sent
north with all possible haste. Soon after
this there was a case of it at head-quart-
ers, Hilton Head, among the Officers, and
immediately preparations were made to
stay its further progress, and there has
not been more than four or five cases
since. The last was Gen. Mitchell. At
the present time there is not a case of it
known, as the cold weather has stayed
its further progress. Our friends need
feel no anxiety regarding it.
The village of Beaufort far exceeds in
beauty and taste any other village which
we have seen in the south, and is fashion-
ed much like our villages in New Eng.
land. Those of New England, however,
far exceed it in beauty, and all other re-.
Spects. The buildings are constructed
mostly Of wood, and show signs of poor
workmanship, being rough, low, and much
out of proportion, and lack in neatness
that which denotes good workmanship.
In times Of peace, I learn that Beau-
fort was a favorite resort of many Of the
high families of the south. Such a vil-
lage is rarely found in the sunny south,
and it seems a pity that it should be de-
stroyed, as it certainly will be if the reb
els attempt to retake it. To the right of
the village, upon a small plain, situated
some 30 feet above the river, and sur-
rounded ou every side by pine groves and
marshes, lies the camp of the 7th C.V.
Directly in front of our camp is the
ruins of an old fort, which at the time
our forefathers were struggling for their
liberty, commanded and defended the
harbor and vicinity from the approach
of an in ing force by water. It is the
delight of the soldiers to visit the ruins of
this old fort, which was built by the loyal
hands of our loved forefathers, to explore
and examine its different cavities. Eve-
rything denotes it as being in its day a. AWm P16352138“ 9f ngtice 0f it.
strong and formidable work, and well
constructed.
.1 have now given our friends a. brief
but correct account of our situation here,
and hope it may prove interesting.
A. B. N.
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A Dangerous Ball of Yarn.
A number of years since the country
was covered with counterfeit'bills on va-
rious banks, and all attempts to detect
the parties who manufactured or uttered
them were rendered abortive by the cun-
ning of the operators. Detectives had
puzzled their brains to no purpose. They
could obtain no clue to the mystery, and
acknowledged to their chiefs that they
were “dead beat.” About this time the
deputy chief of the Boston police re-
ceived information which caused him to
arrest a fashionably dressed lady at the
Boston and Maine depot. He performed
the disagreeable act in a quiet, gentle-
manly manner, but still he did not escape
words of scorn and abuse, and numerous
threats of prosecution for damages. This
the officer submitted to in silence, for be
However, the object which he had in
.view justified him in incurring some risks,
and entering a. carriage the deputy and
lady were driven, to the City Hall, and
the lady was escorted into the private
room.
“Now,” said the lady, taking out her
crocheting, and a. large ball Of yarn,
"please tell me why I am brought here?"
She was quite cool and resolute, and
made her fingers fly without dropping a
stitch. The deputy watched her motions
with some misgivings, but he did not
manifest them.
“Madam,” he said, “I have arrested
you because I suspect th‘at’hyou are eti-
gaged in uttering counterfeit money.”
The lady looked at the speaker with
an expression of scorn and indignation.
“You shall smart for this,” she said.
“Reveal to me the whole plot, and I’ll
stand yorir friend,” the deputy said.
The lady smiled scorufully, but just at
that moment the huge bmof yarn drop-
ped from her lap and fell at the feet of
the deputy. He picked it up and was
about to return it to the owner, but not-
ing the eager manner in which she reached
out her hand to receive it, he paused and
retained possession of ,the yarn.
“Give me the yarn!” she cried.
“One moment,” and the deputy com-
menced tO'SlOle unwind it.
The lady turned deadly pale, but did
not speak one word, but sat there and
watched the ball grow smaller, until at
last the yarn was all unwound and the
deputy held in his hand a mass of stiff,
crispy paper, which he proceeded to
smooth out, and as his eyes sought the
woman’s face he smiled, but she did not
return it.
“Do you always carry your money cov-
ered with yarn ?” asked the deputy.
The lady did not answer him. She ut-
tered a sigh and the next moment foil in-
to the officer’s arms. The scene was too
much for her nerves. She had fainted.—
She was soon restored, and then the dep-
uty continued his examination and found
that he was the possessor of one thousand
dollars in counterfeit bank bills. Then
the woman at once confessed all. 'A’gung
of men were at work in Canada, and had
their emissaries in all the New England
States. Through the latter the bills were
circulated, and most of them were supplied
by the prisoner. She purchased her par-
don by her coufession, and through that
confession the gang were arrested and
sentenced. So much for a ball of yarn.
- American Union.
———-——oo-‘.»
ABECONNOISSANCE BY GEN. FERRY.—
A correspondent of the Baltimore Amer-
ieau writes from Suffolk, Va, Nov. 20th :
Brig. Gen. Ferry returned yesterday
from a strong forcible reconnoissonco,
along the blackwater in the vicinity of
the doomed town of Franklin. Some
lively artillery practice oecured on both
sides, but so for as I can learn with little
damage to our side-nothing hurt but
three or four horses. The enemy had
some heavy guns and a fine rocket buttery
at that point. The recouuoissance has
been a success in discovering, as we have
supposed, that the enemy intend to con-
test the crossing of Blackwaterwith us
whenever and wherever we may try to
make it ; for it is their most defensive po-
sition this side of Petersburg ; next, that
they are. evidently massing troops at
points where they suppose we will attempt
crossing, and fortifyiug many points,
K.»
ARE NEWSBOYS Turin—The follow-
ing letter was received at the office of
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
last week:—
To the Clerk of the Internal Revenue,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
SIR: I would like your decision upon
the following question:
Are newsboys peddlers, and if so, are
they liable to be stamped onto?
Respectfully, J. BROWN.
Showhegan, Nov. 4, 1862.
The Commissioner has not yet made
his decision on the important question
raised above.— Washington qublim'n.
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ne‘- A well known planter living not
far from New Orleans, wrote last spring
that four of his slaves, who had run away
to the Yankees, had returned. They
have had enough of liberty and were glad
to come back. But in his next. letter to,
the North he told a different tale. Th6
four had run away again, and had taken
with them 200 more slaves.
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‘-——— Som’astrologer predicts that Dec.
25th is the only lucky day for marrying
this year. Marriageble young persons
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was not sure but he had made a. mistake. '*
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