BY DAVID OYER.
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TO THE WOOD BERRY RIFLE MET.
OUR FRI&IVDS AT HOME.
BY £. F. B.
"Happy Soldier Boys!" I now intend,
To you a cheering rhyme to send.
•When these stormy winds and tempests come,
Tfiink of the friends you left at home.
' Happy .Soldier Boys I truly pray,
You list to what I have to say.
While o'er this terrestrial sphere you roam,
You're sura of sympathies at home.
'-'Happy Soldier Boys!" I am aware,
Your Captain never yields to fear.
Ah ! but when he hears the cannon boom,
He'il think of the dear vnfe at home.
"flappy Soldier Beys!" your Lieutenants-
With them, I am uot acquainted ;
Yet, I suppose they're true to one -.
Sure, when they think of ffiends at home
P r
' "Happy Soldier Boys!" your cause is good ;
You stand where many patriots stood;
And if you tall, it will be shown,
In defence of your friends at home.
yfowmy "Soldier Boys!" I bid adfeu,
To each aud every one of you;
And when once, "Secession" proves too strong
Send for the boys you left at home.
WOODBERRT, Jan. 17; 1562.
From the Atlantic Monthly.
BATTLE HYSJN OF THE REPUBLIC.
Mine eyes have seen tbe glory of the coming of
the Lord:
He is trampling oat the vintage where the grapes
of wrath are stored ;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terri
ble swift sword :
His truth Is tnarcliiDg on.
I hare seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred
circling camps ,
They have bnilded him an altar in the evening
dews and damps ,
I can read llis righteous sentence by the dim and
flaring lamps ;
His lay is marching on.
1 have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows
of steel
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you
my giace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent
with his heel:
Since God is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet thai shall never
call retreat;
- He is sifting cut the hearts of Tien before His
judgment-seat:
Ob, be switt, my sonl, to answer Bim ! bo jubi
lant, my feet! ,
Our God is marching on.
- In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across
the sea;
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you
and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make
men free, ,
While God is marching on.
[Correspondence of the Cin. Com.]
THE LATE BATTLE IN KENTUCKY.
FULL AND INTERESTING DETAILS.
Zollicoffer's (l\te) encampment, \
Jan. 20tb, 1862. J
Hsre I sit in a cedar log cabin, inside tbo
intrenchments of tbo wonderful position of old
"Zoily," to write you a letter, en contraband
paper, witb a contraband pen and contraband
ink. Where shall I begin—what shall I write
first' there ore incidents enough, if all recount
ed, to fill a volume; things that took place in
this, the most, complete victory, and most over
whelming, total overthrow tbe Secession army
baa yet met with in this rebellion. To begin
at tho beginning nod tell the story straight.
Just ai daybreak on Sunday morning, the
19th of JaDuary, sharp firing commenced with
the pickets in the same spot where the firing
wa last Friday night; the long roll beat iu
the Indiana Tenth, and they formed instantly
aad marched to tho support of their pickets.—
The Tenth and Kinney's battery ware close
together, aud * balf a tnile io advance of eve*
rythiog. '1 he battery got ready for action on ,
the iustant, and awaited orders. By tho way, !
Standard s battery and Wetuiore's four gun j
battery were both in park, one on each sido of
Kinney's battery. Tho First Tennessee was >
about a quarter of a mile in the rear of these
batteries, in tbo woods. The Fourth Kentucky,
(Jol. Fry, was the next regiment on tbe road,
half a mile in the rear of the batteries, it was
forming as 1 tan past, getting to my own regi-'
uient. (for 1 slept in Kinney's battery); the
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f Second Tennessee another quarter of a railo io
j the rear of the Fourth Kentucky. By this
i tins the cavalry were running their horses all
| ever the oountry, in every direction—except
towards the firing, which still continued at in
tervals. The Second was just getting breakfast,
and supposing it to be only a picket fight kept
on cooking and eating, though very few had
eaten anything when the column of our force
appeared ooming on in our rear. Lieutenant
•kil. Trcwbit promptly got ns into line end
dpoble qti?cked us into the road ahead of the
ad vaDcitt- Column; the Fourth Kentucky had
! gone when we rested the'" encampment. The
tiring still continued and vVTJ' hritw.yj WO kept
I on at double quick, all hoping anu believing
that wo would have a chance to smell barb!
powder. But when opposite the encampment
of the Tenth Indiana, up rode the Colonel, and
halted us for further orders; wo all thought—
if we didn't say it d— n further pr
dere.
The Tenth Indiana went into the woods as
bout a quarter of a mile iu advance of their
tents, to the support of thoir pickets, and
bravely did they support them, too, for over
half an hour, against the whole force led against
them; and never retreated a step, nor give an
inch of ground, until nearly surrounded by
I overwhelming numbers; then to save themselves
from being entirely surrounded, they uowilliog
jly gave way. Here was a crisis; and yell on
yell went up from the lantern-jawed Seces
sionists; they thought the day was all their own.
But, happily, any disastrous consequence
| w*B prevented by the arrival' of the Fourth
Kentucky aud Ninth Ohio, to the support of
the gallant Tenth. Again our men made a
stiud; now there was fighting in good earnest,
aud the Second Minnesota joined in with the
Tenth and Fourth and the Ninth Ohio. Volley
after volley rattled in quick succession, and
sometimes it secujed as though there was only
ouc couiinuous volley, interrupted now and
then by the growling of the '•yellow pups,"
whicb bad been bronght to bear on the enemy;
and when they once commenced, they distrib
uted their favors freely in all directions, iu the
shape of shot and shell; and, gentlemen, ex
cuse me from being the recipient of any such
favors. There were only two or three shots
from cannon fired by the enemy, and they were
either badly aimed or the pieces were out of
range, for the shot did not disturb anybody.—
Once they tbrejr a shell into the air whicli
burst when some four or five hundred feet high.
No damage was douo by it, and their artillery
seemed to bo of DO use to them whatever, while
on the oootiary, ours seemed to ho cf immense
use to us; and it was most ably and effectively
haudled. After a little more than two hours
of bard fighting, a most fcreinotid us volleyjof
musketry, followed by a ringing shout from
our side, seemed to have decided the battle in
our favor, for from that time, although firing
was kept up at intervals, the Secessionists,
whipped and cowed, began their retreat, which
in about twenty minutes more became a total
route; and from the indications along the road
which wo afterwards passed over, the flight
appeared to have fceon a regular race from .that
point back to their entrenchments, to see who
I could get there first, aud tho devil take tbe
i hindmost.
All the credit and honor of this battle
i due to the Tenth Indiana, the Ninth Ohio, the
Fourth Kentucky and the Second Minnesota.
For they did all the fighting, as ic were, siDgle
! handed, with tbe exception of what support
i tbep received from the artillery. They all
! fought nobly, end judging from tho sound of
I tbe musketiy, they never wavered from a fixed
; determination to gain the victory and they did
gain it. The combatants were so Dear to each
other at one time, that, tbe powder burned their
faces in the discharge of their pieces; but the
! underbrush was so thick that bayonets were cf
' but little use, and a charge could hardly have
1 been made.
The most important event of lb? day wi£
the death of ZAlicoffer. Col. Fry, of the -lib
| Kentucky, charged up a hill by himself upon
' a group of mounted officers, and fired at tho
one he conceived to be tbo chief araoDg them;
he fired two shots; both of them took effect,
and Zalliccffer, ono of the master spirits of re
bellion, fell from bis horse, dead. Col. Fry,
was, luckily, unhort, but his horse was shot
through the body, tbe bullet entering only a
few inches behind the Colonel's leg. This
must have been a deadner to all the hopes the
| Secessionists had for victory, as from tuis m>
raent begun tbe retreat; and so closely did our
; forces puen upon them that they were obliged
to loave their illustrious leader where he fell,
by the side of the road,
j What were tho East Tennesseans doing du
ring all this engagement, with their boasted
bravery? Tjie First regiment 1 konw but lit
tle about, except that it marched towards the
edge of tbe woods in which the firing was go
ing on, and disappeared from eight. As a reg
iment they did not fire a gun, but Lieutenant
Col. Spears, who is a whole team aud a horse
to let, soms way got ia ahead of his men and
where tho fighting was; he shot a tew times
with his revolver, and turned around to see
where his men were, whence perceived an offi
oer iu between turn and where his regiment
ought to be, evidently trying to out hiui off.
But the officer—who turned our to be Liouteo
aut-001. Carter—waked up the wrong passcm.
ger when he got after Spears, and the tables
we returned; ,ior instead ot cutting Col. Spear
off, the Colonel took biui prisoner and brought
him back into the regiment. The Second Ten
nessee wont through various and sundry evo
lutions; they wore marched aud cnnnternmarch.
Ed; right-obliqued and left-obliqued; right
faced and lofc-laccd, aud brought up all stand- i
tug in a briar patch.
Well finally we ware formodjo a line of bat- j
tie, out of all barm's way, end remained so j
until the firiog was neaily all over, when wo ;
BEDFORD,. PA. FRIDAY. FEB, 7.1862.
were double-quioked to the edge of the wood*,
and halted again, until tbe firing receded and
died away entirely.
It is needless ta comment upon the conduct
of the Tennesseeabs; to esy what they could
have done or would have done under other
circumstances. Here is tho fact what tbey did
do, and it was simply nothing. As to the rest
the future will decide.
Our course was now steadily forward to the
main road that led to Zollioofler's encampment
on the Cumberland. I shall not attempt to
describe the battle field, the dead or tho dying.
Of course, in all battles somebody must be
killed, and somebody must bo wounded; this
wss no exception to the general rule. I shall
mention fnlv one of tho dead—that one Z)!Ii„
coffer. .We lay by ih* side of tbo road along
which we all passeu, and H had a '"air view of
what was onoe Zilliooffer. I flaw the lireliss
body as it lay in a fence comer by ttie id of
a road, but Zollicoft'or himself is now in hell.
Hell is a fitting abode for nil such arch trait
ors.' May all tbe other chief conspirators in
this rebellion soon share Zollicoffer's fate
shot dead through the instrumentality of an
avenging God—their spirits pent straightway
to bell, and their lifelefs bodies hy in a fence
corner, their faces spattered with mud, and
tiicir garments divided up, and even the hair of
tbeir head cat off and pulled out by an uosyra
pathiz'ng soldiery of a conquering afnay, bat
tling for the right! The march was now steadi
ly nod cautiously forward. Two pieces of ar
tillery were taken; on? was crippled iu the
woods near the buttle ground, and the other
was found stuek iy the mud about a mile in the
rear: also two wagon"* with ammunition. No
incident worth mentioning occurred on the
march, which was deliberately but steadily
forward, with tbe artillery well up, until a fi
nal halt was made, about half-past four, with
in a mile of the breastworks of the fatuous for
tificatiom oa the Cumberland, which b*vo been
reported impregnable. Here the artillery was
aguin planted, and sot to work shelling tho
wonderful fortifications; and a continuous fire
was kept up for nearly an hour. Every shell
that was thrown we could hear fiu'st distinctly.
There was only on? cannna that answered us
from the breastworks, and that one souoded
more like a potato pop-gun thau anything elso
1 cm liken it to, and did us no damage, as
the shot never reached" u*. This one pieco
was only fired four times. Night closed io ami
the firing ceased. We all laid down on the
wet ground, in perfect security, to -rest our
weary limbs, the distance we had oome being
over ten miles on tbe direct.road, let a!ou? the
bushes and underbrush we weut through, to
say noting about two or three dress parades of
the Second, for somebody's amusement, but
not our own I can assure you. Ami then tbe
roads and fields were awfully cut up, and mud
was plenty, as it had rained a good part of the
forenoou- Our men laid down to rest without
a mouthful to eat, many of whom bad eateD no
breakfast; but as Captain Cross said, "the man
who conld not fast to days ever Z jliiccff.'r's
scalp, was no man ut all;" BDd there was no
grumbliDg, as there was necessity for it. How
ever, the teams came up in the nigbt with
crackers and bacon.
Now here is the summary, so far as I know,
up to Sunday nightWo are within a mile of
Zoiiicoffc-r's encampment: Z>iik-offer ii killed
and his forces have been whipped, some two
hundred of them being killed and a great many
wounded; one of Crittenden's aids, a Lieut.
Colonel and three Surgeons are taken prisoners
but how many more 1 know not; two pieces of
ertiilery and three wagons were left, and tbe ,
road was strewed with guns, blank*'*; coats, :
haversacks and everything elso that impeded |
flight; on our sido from 20 to DO aro killed,
and from 80 to 100 wounded, having no pris- ;
oners taken that we know .of.
On the morning of the 20ih, soon aft<*r day- :
light, severs! of the regiments were moved for- j
ward the breastworks, and a caonon hall or
two fired over into them, but no answer was
made; all was quiet. Th regiments moved |
steadily on and into their fortifications, it br
iog ascertained that there was no one to oppose .
them. The enomy having crossed the river
during the r;igh f , or early in the morning, the i
rout was complete. It seuns as though there
was a pcrfeot panic among them, their tents
having boon left standing, and their blankets, ;
clothes, cooking utensils, letters, papers, &c.,
all loft behind. The posi iou is a pretty strong j
one, but not near so much as we bad been led
to suppose. Huts were built, tiioely chincked
wilh mud, many of them having windows in
them for comfortable winter quarter 0 . How
much work the devils have done here, and
how fittla it has p'-ofitcd tbeni! 1 have wan- i
dered around all day, seeing and hearing whit ,
I could. The Cumberland makes one sido of j
the encampment safe, by an abrupt bauk 250 ,
feet high. I went down to the river bottom,
to which there 19 a road on our side. Here i
were all or nearly all of their wagons, seme :
twelve or fifteen borees and mules, harness, i
saddles, sabres and guns, in fact, everything. :
It was a complete stampede, nttd by far the
most disastrous defeat the Southern Ooufeder-,
acy has ye't met with. Ten pieces of cannon,
with caissons, are also hero. To all appear
ances, they scout to have completely lost their
senses, having only one object in view, and
that was to run somewhere and bide them
selves.
Now, to account for tho battle taking place ;
as it did. There were eleven rebel regiments !
here, two being unarmed; and Zollicoffer, who 1
was the proidiug ticvil, although Crittenden i
had taken the command, thought the Tenth ,
Indiana n l Kinney's Uattery were jilflft two ,
regiments by themselves, and did DO know ;
that they were supported by the balance of
the division, which was out i>f sight behind
on aoeouut of the timber, and he cocoeivod
the idea of rushing upon and capturing these
two regttnsms tq got thoir arms to supply hi*
own unarmed men. So he took all tbe avail
able force he had—some 8,000 or 9,000 men
—and made tbe attack—with what result has
already been shown. Now Ibis only goes to
prove that, in order to put this rebellion down,
we must do something. In this fight fonr of
our regiments whipped Mid completely routed
the great army tuat was under Zullicoffcr,
killed the old devil himself, and may be Cril-
I tnden too, for ho has not been heard of siuce
the battle. 'The prisoners we have taken, es
timate our force t 2Q,0u0; bah ! we can tsko
them any time, and any place, and give them
'.tie cthts 3 to 1, whip them every time. 'Their
cau>-c is a bad ooe, they know it; aud the only
way their men can be induced to fight at all,
is by their leaders getting in tho very front
! r ink with them.
The Second Minnesota captured a banner
from 'he Mississippi regiment which* had on it
i !be "MississipT' Butchers." Tbey may h*
good buteheri t homo, t.?fthey make a nnghty
awkward fist at butouiriog Yanircs, Tbey
had better go home and tend to ik?ir busings.
Noarly every man has a trophy of this vicicry;
there are plenty to get, certain; and I sit writs
iog this now wiih a Louisiana Zmave head
dress and tassal on my head.
I give you a c py ot two or three of the <loC
uiueuts in tbe camp. The fallowing was
found on a table in one of the cabins :
"Col. Fpearh : We fought you bravely and
desperately, but misguidodiy. Wa ie%v* here
under pressing oirenaistauoes, but do'not feel
th-it we are whipped. Wo will yet succeed,
aud —;—"
Here the circumstances became so press tt?g
that tiia wtiter did not wait to tiuish tbe epi*
tie. Colonel spears suppose* the writer to be
Msjir John W. Bridgman, of the Tennessee
Cavalry.
The following was written on a piece of
brown paper, with a pencil :
"J in. 19th, 18G2. FISHINO CRKEK.
"Tho great battlo of Fishing Creek took
place. Our loss was great. Supposed to be
eight hundred killed nd wounded, and a great
nj3ny taken prisoners. We will try tbem
again at our breast-works if they come to us."
At the bottom of the paper, upside down,
is a name I cannot make ou:, and then "P >.
laeky."
Her is another piper which i? -evidently
the result of a council of war, held before this
force came across on the north side of the Cum
berland:
"Tbe result of your crossim* the r ver now
will br- 'hat you wiil be repulsed and lose all
the artillery taken over.
"Dee. 4, '6l. ESTILL."
"Another \\ ild Cat disaster ts oil we can
look forward to. Fulkkbson."
"\Ye will cross over and dad that the enemy
has retired to a plaeo that we will not deem
advisable to attack, aud then we will return to
this encampment. Coring. "
Estil! is a Colonel from Middle Tennessee,
Fuikerton is a .Major, and one of the big heads
of the Secession party in Tonnessee. It seeuis
that there was ODposition in tho camp to move
on to this niJe of the river, but oid Zollicoffer,
the head devil of the army, ruled tbe worst
and did come over. Same of these predictions
proved strictly trne: it turned out to be a
"Wild Cat" disaster, only worse, and iljoy did
lose all their artillery: and more than all, the
old he devil Zoliicoffer, lost his life. The
rout has been complete and total. His whole
force is entirely soattered, and if the victory is
followed up across tfco river, they will uever
raily together again.
It is now nearly three o'clock ia the morn* \
iog whiie I write, and with a few reflections !
'bis already long letter—perhaps too long— j
shall be closed.
\\ hat Inckv thing that Zoliicoffer was
bold enough to attack our force; had he not
done so, no battle would have been fought
hero for a long time. And this vio'ory can
not be credited to the skill of a Brigadier Gen.
Ihe battle was entirely accidental; the posi
tion, and tho men themselves, led by their Col
onels, (ought the battle and wou it. The
Tenth Indiana got into the fight supporting
their pickets, the Fourth Kentucky and Ninth
Ohio rushed in, without orders, to 6upp >rt the
Tenth. \T aether the Second Minnesota hid
orders to go in or not, Ido not know. And
those fonr regiments did all the fighting that
was done; and that was enough to whip the
eight regiments Zoliicoffer had in the engage
ment. If these Brigadier Generals must be
paid big wages by the Government, why just
pay it to them and let tbem stay at houae, for
tbey are no earthly use us. Let the
men go ahead and wind op this war, it can be
done it two months. (Secret— do something.
Would that some abler pen could give you
a full and complete account of this rout, t
considered it my duty to do my best in an at
tempt to describe it, hut i; has been hurriedly
written, with a willing but weary hand, so ex
cuse the confused parts of the letter.
FELIX.
The Ninth Ohio, whicb some way I came
very near omitting, deserves espeoial praise.—
Colonel McCook rushed his men up just about
tbe time the Tenth Indiana was giving ground.
And tho Indiana boys say the Ninth fought
like tigers, and are just such backers as they
would always like to have.
A pair of stookiDgs sent by tbe ladies' com
mittee for the use of some gallant volunteer,
was accompanied by the following verse :
Brave sentry, pa jour lonely boat,
May those bluo stookiogs warm your feet;
And when from war and camps you part,
May soma fair kH<er warm your heart.
A SID STORY.
Tbe following touching relation is an extract
from a private letter of Lieut. Col. Hawley,
dated Tybee Island, December 29th. and pub
lished iu tue Hartford Press;
Poor Dolpb! Do you know the Dolphs that
live near you? Well, tboir son who belongs
to Company D, got news that his wife, two
children, and sister hid all died of diptheria.
How be cried. Poor fellow. Wo eouifurtad
biiu all we could. 1 spoke pleasantly to him
j when we met, an! hoped he was g tti 'g along
Wall. 1 bolievs ha heard the other d;y that
bis mother was sick too. Sjunboiy cams tj
the supper table last night aud called tor the
doctor to see a crazy man, and soon after a
man said that Dolph wanted to see tue. I went!
to his tent. There were half a dizn of his j
comrades there. Que dim candle stuck iu a '
bottle showed me the tides stacked around the
ceutre pole—the cartridge boxes, bayonets and j
knapsacks. The ground was covered wi;h the
splendid joDg moss they had pulled from tbe
I live Dolph eat squat od the ground,
his fce banda wore dirty, hi? fiugeis con
stantly picking wmetbto'g, bis body moving, j
bis head turning wildly from one side to the
| other, bis eyes df adfuiiy swelled with Weep-1
' iog. |
, "Hallo, Dolph, Low aro yon? ' And be
\ peered up toward my face,
j '-Cel. Miwlhy," said somebody.
"Yes," snd he," that is Col. Hawiey,"and
!he took ray band with a tight grip. "Col. j
Uawley, look at my baby, my poor sink bta - {
b J-"
He had a little pile of moss, and on i f lay ;
his cartridge box, carefully covered, all but!
one edge of if, with bis blanket. That was ;
j bis baby! And he turned his blanket down as i
J tenderly as the cartridge box were a delicate
j little baby. He spoke brokenly and at inter- !
vals, but witb a quick and mournful voice—
"Poor baby—both babies sick—sister sick— ;
and he pointed to where be supposed they
lay—poor baby— very sick. Give baby some
water." And be leaned ou one elbow and af
fectionately held a leaf up to the cartridge
! box, as if baby would drink. He seemed to
consider himself in bis own home, and tho
lamtly sick but living, but then be would say •
i "Won't let uie go home—no—no—no—(wan*
iog a few*Hiood) no—no —won't let me go
home;" Lis hands constTtrrty fidgeting over
' sumtt'aiDg. Then he considered them ii dead,
| au;t he by tbeir graves. "Stater," and ho laid
his band down cn one, side; "oaby," hands
down ag-in to maik each grave; "baby—wife j
; —mother. Oh, yes, mother is dead—won't'
| let mo go home."
i kept his bnJ ten niiuutes and sat down
by him, Dd put my hand on jits shoulder, and I
tried to compel bun to ibttn. 1 toid him that t
bis babies were happy and his mother was not j
dead.(is she?) and it bo would bo a good toy !
aud sleep and get nell he should go home.
"Mother's here and said she didn't get that
money. You didn't send it to her.
"U, yes, I did, Idolph, here is the receipt of J
the express company. She's got it now. You
told me to send it to my wife right there at
Col. F — ? s, you know. ' She has got it |
before this time.
"Well—poor baby"—and he put "trees"
over their graves, &o. 1 had to work some
tiure;to get h;in to take some inedicioe-an opiate
—but it bad little effect. "Is'e built six
forts,' aid he, "mounted six cannon. I'm
going to tako down that fort to morrow—that
one over there—Pulaski, 1 uiean."
hour men were going to watch with hjm
(the tears came into all our eyes, sometimes,
I think,) and 1 told iheiu to move the rifles
and bayonets. He caught them at it aud
slioutod, "Let my rifle alone. Give me my
rifle." And i let him take it, seeing it was
not loaded, and he went furiously to work
oleaniog it. Finally be passed it to mo to
"inspect, ' aud I slipped it away.
1 think it is tbe must afleetisg case of ia
sanity 1 ever saw. 1 couldn't make bim be
lieve that we should send htm home, but we
sha>l. The men take as good care of him as
tbey cao. 110 has slept but an hour out of
the las; twenty four, and is ceaselessly active
as a canary bird, bopping about in his cage,
lie sen; tor tue a a aiu to-day, but he could not
eoiiunaJais attention to auyibiug. "Poor ba
by' is his principle remark, aud he still tends
bis cartridge box. "A soldiei's life is always
gy,' tho song says. A sad story, isn't it?—
VV e hope his luaanity is caused partly by fever,
aud it we can get him bim quietly sick witb
that, perhaps hb will come out alt right. If
not I'll see that he goes straight to the Insane
Retreat at liartfurd, and with Jbim money
enough to keep him awhile
ASOTER FLOOD HI SACRAMENTO
VALLEY.
BAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.
During tho past fifty hours it has rained hard
almost inoestaotly, aud tbe storm still contin
ues. Yesterday at noon tbe water iu the Sao
ramento commenced rising again, and the third
complete inundation was unavoidable. Tbe
area of laod now overflowed is about twenty
miles broad and two hundred and fifty miles
loug, making upwards ot three millions acres,
mostly arable land. This unprecedented suc
cession of tremendous storms has washed tho
mining regions whore the ground was previous
ly upturued aud dug over, producing great
changes and rendering probablo a large in
crease of gold produce from Laoer diggings the
ensuing season.
Slander not others beuause they slandered
you.
Dress plainly—the .tbiunest soap-babbles
wear tbe gaudiest colors.
VOL. 35, NO. 6.
! ENGLAND AND THE THE NT SETTLE
MENT-
The first words of response from England
to the action of one Government in tb'e Treat
sffiir, hare reached this country. We have
only a brief statement, ia a telegraphic dis
pttob to Qieen*t>wu, too genrß tone of the
press ia London; but that seems to be quite
satisfactory. Jo such a many headed institu
tion as the press o>" the British metropolis,
there are always conflicting views, it is the
business and the ioterest of tbo journals to
differ from one another, and it is especially so
when American subject# ara ua ier co tsi lera
tioo. bo it is not surprising tuat there is a
want of unanimity concerning the mtuaer tu
which the Trent affiir was settled.
But the despatch say# the news of the set
tlemeot "was received with the greatest satis
laouori," and of this there can be no doubt
however much the ill-natured portico of the
.London press may gruuibie. A fact is men
tioned in the telegraphic news, that is moto
significant tbiu columns of editorial comuimt
and criticism would be. That is, that as soon
9 the news were received, consols went up=
from Ito 1 J peroeut. (Jottou, too, advuuaeu
and the market grew excited, with large trans*
scions going on. When consols and cotton
- UIK, (ht-y tell more trutas than editors. In
| this case, consols say "there will oe co w.r
with the United Sutes." Uottou repeats the
remark, with fha addition tint "there will bo
j no brcakiog oi the Southern blockade." This
is the precise meaniog of the rise in consols
and eottuo. it is uiaeh more important than
the most blatant leader of ihe Times.
We arc curious to know whether tue udjust
- tceot of the Trent atFur has opened the wyes
of the English public to Dr. Russell's want
;of sagaoUy and varaeity. For t:,c vary same
budget of news which the fact of thesurreu
■ der of Slideil and Mason is announced, con
tains an extract from one of bis letters to thy
limes, in wbich he says they will not be Uf„
rendered. Ilia falsehood aud the aotuai fact
i are thus brought side by side, and the British
; public can form some idea of the value of the
information he furnishes to them. Those that
have believed bis reports mast have been look
, ig for uews, by the uext steamer of the risiug
j of the American mob, or demos, as Kasseli
c.lls it, wbich was to overthrow the adaiiais
trstiou of President Lincoln iu case the rebel
emissaries were surrendered, it was ur,gra
cious in us uot to rise, according te Russell's
programme. Has the fact of our acquiescing
iu the course of the President opened bis eyes
: to tbe real character of the American people,
j as loyal, patriotic and submissive to the pow
: ers that be?— P/tila. Bulletin.
LETTER FROM ON THE
APPOINTMENT OF SEOItETAIt! UP
u A K •
In a letter from Hon. JoSF.pn HOLT to
Lieutenant Governor STANTON, be use 9 the
following enthusiastic language respecting the
appointment of Hon. Er>WIN M. STANTON, as
Secretary of War, viz:
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 16, 1862.
* * "The selection of the Hon. Edwin
M. Stanton as Secretary of War has occasion-*
ed me unalloyed gratification. It is an im
mense stride in tbo direction of the suppres
sion of the rebellion. far as 1 cm gath*
er the popular sentiment, there is everywhere
rejoicing over the appointment; but that re
joicing would be far greater did the people
Know, as 1 do, the courage, the loyalty and
the genius of the new Secretary, as displayed
iu the intensely tragic struggles that marked
the ciosing days of the last Administration.-
He is a great man, intellectually and morally
—a patriot of the true Roman stamp, who
will grapple with treason as the lion grappled
with bis prey. We may rest well assured that
all that man can do, will !D his present posi
tion be done to deliver our poor bleeding coun
try from the bayonets of traitors now lifted
against its bosom.
Sincerely yours,
J. HOLT.
Hon. B. STANTON, Columbus.
PORT ROYAL ITEMS.
Port Royal correspondent of the Boston
Journal, under date of Jan. 16'b says:
During a reoonnoisance up Warsaw river,
and near Savannah, a few days since, some of
our troops found two rebellious sportsmen who
were ont on a gunning excursion, who, seeing
our men and supposing them friends, had quite
a ohat together. After gaining considerable
information from them they wore informed that
oar men were for tbe Union, and tbey were
Rebels, and we must therefore take them pris*
oners of war opon which they vrete exceed
ingly surprised, and one of them expressed
himself in very bitter terms toward tbe Uuion
and said he would give five thousand dollars
if tbe Savannan people only know they, the
Lincoln troops, were so near, in which ease
the Rebels would come down on them aud cat
them up. They ara now boarding at the ex*
pense of Uncle Sam, and are safely iodgod,
The rainy season vriii scon set in, aud wa
shall have less of fine weather than formerly.
It is plowing sea on here now, but I have not
seen any one indulge iu that agricultural pur
suit. The only plowing was that
of the shot and shell. Sambo asked me a dav
since: "Mason, who's gwioe to do the planting
and hoit?" "Yankee?." says wo! "Will you
help, Sambo?" "Yaw, 'ise just do ohilo for dat,
sure."
WKhope after this war is over "0. S. A."
will bo tbe motto of iho South—''Can't Se
cede Again."