for the benefit of the ladies, and also a casemate gun. After a luncheon the visitors retired in a state of decided gratification.-Charleston Mercury, Nov. 4.

body in the house. The table was set, ready for breakfast, the table-cloth hanging down, touching the floor. I first looked under the bed, but in vain. As I was about to go away I thought I would look under the PRAIRIE GROVE AN INCIDENT.-A most thrilling table, so I lifted the cloth and discovered a pair of incident of the terrible fight at Prairie Grove is thus lay there so quiet that I could hardly hear him breathe. spurs and also a cavalryman attached to them. He related by Lieutenant Will. S. Brooks, of the Nine-As soon as I discovered him, I cocked my piece and

teenth Iowa volunteers.

"The fight was most determined and the slaughter immense. I was struck at four o'clock P.M., while we were being driven back from a too far advanced posidred yards over open ground and exposed to a murderous fire from the right, left, and centre, or rear; here we lost Lieutenant-Colonel McFarland. We lost one half our regiment, and, in company D, more than half

tion. We were outflanked and had to run three hun

our effective men. I was hit at the commencement of

not run.

the retreat, and was near being captured, as I could When more than half-way to our battery the color-sergeant fell, and I received the colors. The pursuing rebel colonel shouted: 'God d-n them, take their colors! This enraged me, and I hallooed back: You can't do it. The cowardly rascals did not dare to close on me, but let go a volley which left nine holes in the flag and eighteen in my clothes! Four bullets passed through the cuff of my shirt-sleeve, but they could not wound the hand that held the old flag."-Peoria (Ill.) Transcript.

THE ADVENTURES OF A SOLDIER.-About a year and a half before the breaking out of the rebellion a young man named Henry C. Reed, then residing on Wood street, in Cleveland, Ohio, but originally from Massachusetts, went South and obtained a situation in Fernandina, Florida, as clerk in a drug-store, where he was at the breaking out of the rebellion.

When the conscription law of the confederate government was put in force, young Reed was taken as one of the conscripts, and was enrolled in the First Florida regiment. He accompanied the regiment to Savannah, Yorktown, and Richmond, and participated in the battles of Williamsburgh, Fair Oaks and Seven Pines, though, he says, he took good care that no Northern man was hurt by his bullets. After the series of battles, a portion of the regiment to which he belonged was sent to Staunton, Virginia, to recruit.

Here he formed an idea of escaping, and managed to obtain the confidence of some Union citizens, who furnished him with the names of reliable Union men on the road between Staunton and Winchester. With the aid of his Union friends he succeeded in escaping, and in getting safely to Winchester, where General Dix, on hearing his story, furnished him with passes by which he was enabled to get home.

He reached Cleveland about September last, and found that his three cousins, who also lived on Wood street, had enlisted in the Seventh regiment. Reed determined to accompany them, and joined the Seventh regiment also. He is a likely young man and is spoken of by his comrades as a brave soldier. He says that he finds quite a difference between the Federal army and the rebel army, and that he greatly prefers the Federal service. In a recent letter to some friends here, describing the reconnoissance made by the Seventh regiment and some other troops under General Geary, he describes a personal adventure he had as follows:

"I was sent to search a house about eight hundred yards from the road. I came up to the house and walked in, but on opening the door could not see any

him to come out.

presented it to his breast, at the same time ordering he complied with my order. As we came out of the After looking at me for a second, house, he told me that he was a member of Ashby's cavalry, and had stopped there to get something to eat. He then said: "Since you have got me you may as well have my horse." So we walked round to the barn and got his horse, also a sabre and a carbine. We then proceeded to Charleston, at which place our boys had quartered themselves. I delivered my prisplaced him in charge of the guards."—Cleveland Heroner to General Geary, who after a short examination ald, December 9.

AN INCIDENT OF ANTIETAM.-During the battle, Corporal William Roach, of company K, Eighty-first Pennsylvania, shot a color-sergeant, ran forward of the company, took his cap, and, placing it upon the end of his bayonet, twirled it about, cried out to his com panions, "That is the way to do it," but the member of another company in the mean time had seized the colors and carried them off in triumph. This act was done under a heavy fire of musketry, in as cool a manner and with as much deliberation, as if the regiment had been on parade. Company K had seven wounded but none killed.-N. Y. Times, September 21.

A BRAVE MAN.-Mr. Ryder, of Dunbarton, N. H., has testimony to the truth of the following account of the murder of his brother-in-law at Genevieve, Mo, some months ago: James R. Cochrane, of New-Boston, N. H., had been in Missouri several years engaged in teaching. He had been in Genevieve nearly a year in the same occupation. One day a rebel by the name of Andrew Burnett met him and asked him to swear allegiance to the confederate government, and on his refusal threatened to shoot him. "Shoot," says Cochrane, with patriotic determination, I shall never acknowledge allegiance to that government." Burnett drew his pistol and killed him on the spot.-Concord Patriot, September 27.

vertiser and Register, dated Charleston, September MOBILE, Sept. 13.-A special despatch to the Adeleventh, says:

It is reported that the people of Baltimore have risen en masse and cleared the city of the Yankee troops, hung the Provost-Marshal, Van Nostrand, and ed on Federal Hill by the Yankees for the destruction his deputy, McPhailes, and captured a large fort erectof the city in the event of a successful revolt.

the enemy in Maryland.
Stuart's cavalry are spreading consternation among

The foregoing report is fully credited in Richmond.
-Grenada Appeal, September 13.

Loss OF THE FIFTIETH GEORGIA REGIMENT AT ANTIETAM.-An officer of the Fiftieth Georgia regiment writes to the Savannah Republican a letter, which shows that the slaughter of the rebels in the battle of Antietam has not been exaggerated, at least in regard

to the regiments whose movements he witnessed. He mac, because the New-Englanders and the Quakers says: "The Fiftieth were posted in a narrow path, were opposed to a location so Southern. Subsequentwashed out into a regular gully, and were fired into ly, the Quakers became silent, and New-England, havby the enemy from the front, rear and left flank. The ing stolen the thunder of these quiet people, has been men stood their ground nobly, returning their fire the hot-bed of Abolitionism. until nearly two thirds of their number lay dead or wounded in that lane. Out of two hundred and ten carried into the fight over one hundred and twentyfive were killed and wounded in less than twenty minutes. The slaughter was horrible! When ordered to retreat I could scarcely extricate myself from the dead and wounded around me. A man could have walked from the head of our line to the foot on their bodies. The survivors of the regiment retreated very orderly back to where Gen. Anderson's brigade rested. The brigade suffered terribly. James's South-Carolina battalion was nearly annihilated. The Fiftieth Georgia lost nearly all their commissioned officers." At night only fifty-five men of the Fiftieth remained fit for duty. They were over forty-eight hours without any thing to eat or drink.

In the settlement of this country, two great streams of civilization poured out. One had its head at Jamestown, and one at Plymouth Rock. The canting, witch-hanging, nasal-twanging, money-worshipping, curiosity-loving, meddling, fanatical,"ism"-breeding followers of Cromwell, spread over the greater part of the North and West. Jamestown stock chiefly peopled the South, and small sections of the North-west Territory, which, with Kentucky, belonged to Virginia. It was the descendants of the genuine Yankee which met us at Manassas and before Richmond, and fled from the Valley of the Shenandoah before Jackson. It was in part the descendants of the Jamestown stock, crossed with the Yankee, which met us at Donelson and Shiloh, and who are our stoutest foes. Any one who will look into this bit of history will see that it is true.

Extreme religious bigotry indulged for more than two centuries, and constant intermarriage have impoverished the Yankee blood, until the Yankee mind has become diseased and filled with innumerable "isms." On the contrary, though the South has preserved its great English features, a healthy admixture of the blood of other races has kept it from degeneration. Besides, our people were from the start tolerant and well-bred, haters of Cromwell and his whole cropped, steeple-hatted race, and its accursed cant, and Worshipping another God than mammon. They have held honor as the highest excellence, and cultivated the refinements of civilization.

With such a race as peoples the North, it is idle to dream of peace, for bigotry has no ears and cannot hear-no eyes and cannot see. Its sole object is subjugation for the purpose of gain, the God of Jacob being wholly supplanted by the god Mammon. The Slavery question was only agitated for political supremacy; and the Yankee only wanted political su premacy that he might rob the South with a form of law.

Now that there is no chance of English interference, another illusion should be dispelled. We republish the speech of Dr. Olds of Ohio, as a part of the history Peace will be declared when the North is poverishof these remarkable times. Our people are disposed ed and exhausted - not before. The South, then, to rely too much on the prospect of a grand smash of should gird its loins for the contest, and rely no longthe Union of Yankeeland. Such men as Vallandig-er on foreign intervention or Western secession, but ham and Dr. Olds are, perhaps, like Burns, dropped in the wrong country, but they are not exponents of

Yankee sentiment.

There is no safety in any thing short of the bayonet. Hope of something turning up, of the gradual omnipotence of a peace party, of the West separating from the East, of a resistance to the onerous taxation of the Lincoln Government, have too long deluded the public mind of the South. All such hopes are fallacious. The sober mind at last turns back to the bayonet as the only peace-maker.

upon its bayonets. Let it go into the field like Duke Godfrey, crying, "God for the right and just !" and conquer the Saracens with the cold steel of the Southern legion.—Mobile Telegraph, August 20.

THE STORY OF ONE REGIMENT.-When the Maine Eleventh passed through New-York last November, the "Hallelujah Chorus" chanted by eight hundred and fifty sturdy fellows, few persons who saw them could have anticipated that those tall lumbermen The North is a unit, and has been a unit since the would, within a twelvemonth, be almost decimated. commencement of this war. The fact could not be Arriving in Washington they built those famous barotherwise; for the races North and South have always racks which were visited by so many strangers; but in been antagonistic. It was so when the Federal Gov- spite of the fine shelter the typhoid was soon busy in ernment was inaugurated. Many persons are inclined their ranks, and when they went down with Casey's divito think that with the Missouri Compromise began our sion they were only seven hundred and fifty strong; one troubles. Not so. When the question of fixing a per- eighth died of disease. While on the Peninsula they mament capital was agitated in Congress, the South-lived on hard biscuit and water for five weeks, owing Carolinians insisted that it should be removed from to the inefficiency or rascality of some one, so that Philadelphia, because the Quakers were eternally pes- when they took up the double-quick for Williamsburgh tering them about slavery. It was with much difficulty the men fell on the road and died from sheer exhausthat the capital was located on the banks of the Poto- tion. At the battle of Fair Oaks they numbered, fit

"The battle of Gloutta was fought on the twentyseventh of March, by eleven hundred Texans under Colonel Scurry, and over two thousand Federals, under Colonel Slough, of the Pike's Peak volunteers. We whipped and utterly routed them after six hours' hard fighting. They left five hundred and seventeen dead and wounded on the field. Their loss, however, is now learned to be over seven hundred. Victory was gained by the loss of the brave Majors Roguet and Buckholts, of the Fourth, and Major Shropshire of the Fifth; our loss in killed and wounded being sixty-seven.-Texas State Gazette, April 28.

[This is a rebel account of the battle of Apache Pass.-ED. R. R.]

NORTHERN WOMEN AND THE WAR.-The sufferings of our sick and wounded soldiers have drawn forth freely all the noble and benevolent characteristics of the women of the North, hundreds of whom have flocked to the hospitals east and west, and are cheerfully acting as angels of mercy to the poor fellows who are suffering there with wounds and disease. Conspicuous among these philanthropic women is Mrs. Henry Baylis, the wife of a merchant of New-York, who, as chief directress of the Women's Relief Hospital, has left a home of affluence and ease, and is now devoting her whole time and energies to the relief of our sick and wounded soldiers at Yorktown. She has not only volunteered to endure the privations and discharge the disagreeable duties of hospital life, but she has studied the profession of surgeon and nurse, so that she can care for a wounded limb equal to any of the surgeons of the army. The memory of such a woman should be cherished by the whole nation, and she is richly entitled to a fame equal to that which Florence Nightingale has so justly earned.-New-York Atlas.

from one of them. My sabre was then gone and my revolver was my only weapon. I turned, and levelling it at his breast, fired, and enjoyed the pleasure of see ing him fall from his horse. I then ran a distance of face until they passed me, and then took my way about four rods into the woods, and lay flat upon my through the woods to a farm-house, about one mile distant. Fortune favored me, and I found the farmer a whole-souled Union man.

loss, as he was a noble, whole-souled man, and a good "Major Schaeffer was killed. We deeply mourn his

officer.

REBEL OFFICERS IN BATTLE.-The following is a rebel official circular, and accounts for the fact that the National loss in officers in battle is oftentimes so much greater than that of the enemy:

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE, RICHMOND, June 3, 1562. Officers of the field are permitted to wear a fatigue dress, consisting of the regulation frock-coat, without embroidery on the collar, or a gray jacket, with the designation of rank upon the collar. Only caps such as are worn by the privates of their respective commands may be worn by officers of the line.

Mounted officers are ordered to dismount in time of action, whenever they can do so without interference with the proper discharge of their duties.

Officers of all grades are reminded that unnecessary exposure in time of battle, on the part of commissioned officers, is not only unsoldierlike, but productive of great injury to the army and infinite peril to the country. They are recommended to follow, in this particular, to a reasonable extent, the excellent example set them by the enemy.

By command of the Secretary of War.

S. COOPER Adjutant and Inspector-General Official-GEO. P. FOOTE, A. A. General.

THE KEEPER OF THE RICHMOND BASTILE.-Capt. T. CURTIS HORSE SURPRISE.-W. D. Gleason of Wy- of the confederate States military prison, known as the D. Jeffress, C.S.A., has been assigned to the command oming, Jones County, a member of the Curtis Horse," Libby," corner of Twentieth and Cary streets. Capt. and who was in Major Schaeffer's command when surprised by the rebels, relates the following incidents in a letter published in the Anamosa Eureka:

"Just before sundown the alarm was given, and we were ordered to saddle as quickly as possible. We did so, but were hardly in time. I saddled my horse as quickly as possible, but when trying to bridle him, he stubbornly refused to open his mouth. I finally forced the bits into his mouth, untied him, and mounted. The enemy were then close upon us, and when I reached the road, they were within two and a half rods of me, and yelling like fiends. They called upon me to surrender, and as I gave no heed to their cries, fired; but luckily for me, their aim was poor, and I escaped without a wound, although one shot went through my blouse. After reaching the road I put spurs to my horse and flew like lightning along the

road.

Jeffress was attached to the Fifty-sixth Virginia regi ment, and was with Gen. John B. Floyd in Western the battles of Gaines's Mills and Frazier's Dam, around Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and also served in Richmond, where for gallant and meritorious service he received honorable mention in the brigade report. Richmond Examiner, October 3.

JOE PARSONS, A MARYLAND BRAVE.-A correspondent of the Boston Transcript, writing from the hospi tals of Alexandria, Va., relates the following anecdote: Joe enlisted in the First Maryland regiment, and was plainly a "rough" originally. As we passed along the hall we first saw him crouched near an open window, lustily singing, "I'm a bold soldier boy," and observ ing the broad bandage over his eyes, I said: "What's your name, my good fellow?" Joe, sir," he an swered, "Joe Parsons." "And what is the matter with you?" "Blind, sir, blind as a bat." "In battle?" 'Yes, at Antietam; both eyes shot out at one clip." Poor Joe was in the front, at Antietam Creek, and a Minié ball had passed directly through his eyes,

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They had rather sleep neath some wide spreading tree tained by both parties-Christian Roselius for the de