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Ull .'ab iviirs 1 |c either hired lab >rors or
what .we .cal) sl:i utid further it 4a a<su-
Hied that whmtv -'lds mice n hired laborer is
fiVpjj - iti that eoj jlnmt for life. Now thee
is DO -Buell relate' ijbetweco Capital anti labor
ss’assuan cl, nor ji there.uny auali.tliing.ua a
free man being fyjed for life in the erudition
of a hired labuidi ,o!J(itli of those assumptions
•re falae, and alfd-infeivncei from .them are
groundless is print to,; limi inde
pendent of Capitol.: Capitol is only the
/ruit&sf labor,uti4:,,tou!d never have existed if
labotlhad not firs) 1 existed. . Libor is the
superior of iind deserves fnucb the
higher coiisTddralilVji i . C.tpi al has its rights,
Wbichare of protection as any oilier
rights ' JN'»r is d|l;,|lei'ied that there is, and
'p'rtibahly -alyroysKrill .be,.a relation between
libor u'iid capitalrprodiioinn mutual benefits.
Theerror i- in .iMjpmiug that the whole laboV
of the pom in unit j? Vst.-is within that .relation.
A few nii-u own yapilnl, and that few avoid
labor tficniselvesj and with their cpit.il hue
4f, buy .another jyw to labor for them. A
Jhrgjj. majority ijdfdig to neither class —
neither, wink for; ollrerv-uor hive mhers
working for (Itciiil»| In nmst ol the souheiii,
§tati.'3,,it tnajorilyijf 'he whole p nple of all
colors arc. neither braves imr ma-n r-, while
in life northern maj oby are oeither
hirers .nor hired., n wi hjln-ir tuindns -
tp.ivth, sons illnl jaiighter.s-fvvoik tor tin no
selves oh iheirfafsis, in their'lnot'es, and in
their shoes, t.ik'. ig ihe w bob* ' pvoduet. to
11 £ i T. , • .
tbemsel ami m» favors of ca.pit.il,
dn the* onobuml tmr <;f biivrl bibm-tr* or
glnres, on.flu* »*H* • It i* not that
tr 'considor.iblc i not or of p i>oos miiiglu
tteir own. labor j rjb capital —th «t is, tlmy
Itibof' witli tbei-r »; j-ii b-mls; ami nl-» * or
hire citln'rsb. labi- tjforthi'in j but tbi.>
a luixi'd iilrl uot a» fetiuct cl.i". N • principle
aiafuj is diaiinoj 'spied by ibe (Xi.>teuce of
tbia mixed cla-s. ;
Again, as,,lms'v.pdy been sanl, there'' is
not n( ■; thfng as iln- five
bird 1 abi*n■ rb> i- fix. >1 in ilml cmidi hdi
for lifo. M.my ff )p_|n mien ne i rvi r) wln-rc
in these States ; !,J| |f Ji’.us h.« k in tli- i r
lives .were bird-'iob ners Tlie prudent,
penniless bcgin’tj V-ln the world labels for
Wages awhile-, s.njjQ-iji surplus with which to
buy tools and hini-i If, then labors
on -im own account; pnolher "while, and at
Icnirfh hiiers'alio|lii|i') new beginner to h Ip
.him. This is jlihj j-n-t and g-remus and
prosperous si stem-; which opens ihe way- to
all, giivt-s hope and con-cqnenl etn-rgy
add [hngt'ess in .the inpinvi no-nt of their
Condition to all ( men living arc more
.woriliy to he Iru-'KjiVlnm those who toil up
from povi-riy ; tQdL h-w inclined to take or
-touch'aught have not- honestly
tamed. L'-tllu’i fbeHarc o( snrrondciing a
polilicaf pnWcr w hji they aln-ady pd-sc-s,
and. winch, it ftei Ai ted, will 1 surely b.-
Used to close the! ot advancement against
-gneb as tbey, and jjn fix new dis d'nlitn-s and
buideu' upon tin tjj- ml all of libelty shall
be lost. 'i f‘
From the Grst t Ijfingi-f i-ur mitiotml census
to tlie'last are , fteiity vais, and we find
our population.ah. lie end id ibe p. ri ■ d eight
times as great a- t «j- at the beginning
The increase id if.aV'o'ber tiling' which im u i
deem desirable. I;.ri4 hieii i ven gieatcr. We
thus have, at m|e;l \ icw, what, the popular
principle, applied fto govi rnment, t hr-nigh
the tnaehiia ly op, the St,it,es and ihe Union,
has produced in a; given lime; and abo what
if finnlv piomiseS lor the
future. Theu* ah'e'ni bendy among us those
who, if tlie Unmp.be pi (-served,, «i II live to
Bee it contain *i5G[!00",000. '1 li C btl 1)1
to-day is not altogether tor to-day. It is» fur
a vast future alstc * £
With, a firm ivlhmcp on Providence, all'
the more earnest for our prvsjeui
troubles, let os M pr-ocrcd itMhe gieat tu&k
which .events harder- dvpd-upon us.
- J .Abraham Lincoln.
3, lb6l.
*r ,r ,m
Listen, !—The Frankfurt
(Kentmky) 'ComfyittVKaUh wi\s:—“The reb
els have two full|i'j'iniHnis of negroes in L-«u*
iainna. They ha** I Three or’ fb\ir regiments nf
Indians in the fi'f l, armed with .tomahawk*
and scalping .ktiij ft, in addition to the ordin
ary- weapons of wtiif.ile. They have'a battal
jiun of Nashville ft} 'enne«*see) Stale Prison con
victs in the field, (l*ie Bull Pup*,) commanded
by a beast (R< ti B j«i) that served ten years iti
our. Whit do the professed
Union men, win* m> shm-ked about the con
tingency hinted John Cochrane, way tu
these fact**? The*;! approve them, of course.
THe confederates can do nothing wrong. II
they violate the Cl i-Btitgiion, the rules of de
cency and the law*''nf civilized sl is
all right, because,’', they have no Constitution,
no decetivy, o-nd in* o vilization. But the Gov
ernment miist nifloTe -strictly to the ConMitu
tinn4 and throw ifs-uroreeling arm around the
traitors who n»e trying to destroy it. Out upmi
such hypocritical ylant sjiy we. A straight
out, open, and avowed lebcl is infinitely
above Union men; T
The death of , ruß 'President’s Friends
Alas for lh» dioul. hours of honest IVifnilr-liip !
the goodfv.fellowsSiipof noble spirits I Whore
tire the goodfellow's who were friends at Spring
field in tile bappier ( days? IlmlenV spirit
went up through til*’ auirK.'y canopy whose
baleful shadow' over the battling b’igions
at iftienii Vistii; p.ssel pushed frnnl lingering
pain tn Paradi-o,lnquired in the highest by
tlie State Unit ha', had biiiored ; Douglas lies
under the prairie hud in the dear State, whose
half-estranged betirt burned with enure than
the old love for .liiip before ho died: Belter
rests glorious in ilpatbi a precious offering to
llie , spirit iif Fn-i dom to which through life
his worship and Lincoln stands,
lonely,in his powl-p, a sadder, silenter, greater
tnatl than of old, cr neihegi'nnmg tn sift its early
snows upon the hliieltpe»sof his hojr, his heart
heavy with the Porjf .iws t>f a nation, his mind
nnd soul pledged to si lemn and self-abnegating
effort to, keep Iroor i oriment in his hands the
costly treasure. of t institutional government.
—Say's Sketch of 0 I. Baker.
‘ Size of Our A| ;v. —The Boston Journal
bays that, if the h of the Potomac was in
line, muring ion a., ’ arrow country road, with
cavalry four abroad iiod men in file 'of four,
ocpompanied byj all. the wagons and nmbulnn
,ces and ammunitior trains, it would reach
from Boston to II 'tford—not far from one
Jiundred and fifty a' l bs. •
Blaved Our. —T-'f't' l| ar.estoM S C. and Au
gusta- It .I,loan, »tilth one year ago used 120
looomotiyeB, 'no'.v os* four.
THE AGITATOR.
HUGH YOUNG, EUll’oB & PROPRIETOR,
WEttSBOfIOtTGII, PA.,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. 11, 1861.
a®“Thc election of George Opdvke—a gen
uine Republican—as Mayor of the city of Now
York, on the 3J inst., gives new hops to the
friends of the Union. IDs oppononts were the
notorious Fernando Wood, an out-and-out seces
i .-i.
sionist who ought to be in Fort LaFuyette, and
:0. Godfrey Gunter, a Tammany Democrat. The
rote stood; 0pdyke,"25.584; Gyrither, 24,813 ;
Wood. 24,174 j; Opdyke’s plurality, 771. Ma
jority fur the Union, 26,226. Well done, New
York!
BsalfMueh of our space is taken up this week
by ihe President’s Message, and we know that
no one who fcj-ds an interest in the welfare of
our country fill fail to read it'. It will be
found exeeedihgly brief, when we consider the
large amount’kif information and the many im
portant suggestions contained in it. Consider
ing t lie peculiar state of the country, resulting
from tlie rebellion, its general condition is re
garded as exceedingly .favorable. It is itself
s» much condensed that it is not possible even
to mention itsjmany points without writing an
article almost Its long us it is, and which would
not be near so satisfactory. We say therefore
to every one of our readers, “read it, for you
will find that i!t will repay a most careful peru
sal." :
WHAT WE THINK.
The Democrat tries to crawl, out of its whole
sale repudiation of tlie bogus Union platform
which it swallowed six weeks ago, by trying
to saddle upop us tljGb 'iews of ii traveling
charlatan whose name was never mentioned in
this piper. In the came issue it invites our
opinion as to: the order of Gon. Ilalleck pro
hibiting the slaves of rebels from entering the
Union lines, and returning to slavery those
who may bo found within said Tines. The
Democrat knows, or ought to know our views
on the question of slavery in all its Aspects.
It has denounced us, and those who have acted
with us, as abolitionists for a number of years,
and we are surprised to be interrogated by
that paper as to our opinion on any aspect of
tl>e question. To set it at rest for all future
time, we will now define our-position in as
plain language as we can command.
We believe that slavery is a crime against
God and humanity—that it is a moral, politi
cal. and social curse,—that it blights and'has
blighted eiety where it has found
a fuwthold.
Ours bring a political newspaper, we have
chosen to di&ouss shivery only from a political
stand point, leaning the discussion of its moral
and social relailiuns to the pulpit and the reli-
gtoas press. \
In our discussion nf the political relatione of
slavery and its) tremendous influences in sha
ping the de.st’mfies of the republic, we have had
for opponents oply pro-slavery apologists, some
times called democrats. Many of these were
sincere in thejr belief that slavery-propagan
dists could do no wrong—that the country
could not be governed rightly, unless governed
hy a pro-slavery Administration—that the
“rights 1 ' of Southern brethren" were
abridged unless all the territories of the nation
were thrown open to be cursed bv slavery—that
a man was a traitor who refused to catch and
send back a hajnted fugitive who had no trial.
We have had much experience with this class
—a class which the Democrat may recognize
under any name it chooses. Wo can see some
thing of the old spirit of exultation in the
DemoaaCs announcement of Ilaileck’s order.
We -believe the [order to be totally and radically
wrong. It is ttfue this war was not commenced
tor the purpose of abolishing slavery, but we
cannot doubt thjat thin will be the ultimate re
sult. The war j was commenced to bring back
the rebels tu a sense of ibcir treasonable con
dition and to re-establish the authority pf the
government everywhere. Slavery was the cause
of the war, and slaves and savages are now
. be : ng used and {armed to fight our troops. If
you doubt this, jreud an article in another col
umn from the tjninkfurt (Ky.) Commonwealth.
Would not the government be faithless if it did
not use all the means in its ‘power to suppress
the rebellion wiithin the scope of the laws of
war? Within this scope is the confiscation of
property, including slaves. This Government
has no constitutional power to hold slaves, and
hence every slave confiscated is one slave made
free, "Wdl the hcmocrai argue that the Gov
ernment has not the right to place arms in the
hands uf free men (no matter bow made free)
for its defence ?
The expediency of thus using the free ne
groes of the South is entirely a military ques
tion. ■ Gen. Cameron, th« able and efficient
Secretary of War, believes that the slaves made
free by the treason of their masters, ought to
be employed in (Jvery way possible against the
rebels ; that they ought to be paid fur their la
bor; that they lire fee forever. John Coch
rane, D. & Dickinson (the Democrat's candi
date fur the Presidency last year,) Edwin
Crosswell, and ninny other leading democrats
believe in this dlictrine. Almost ail Republi
cans believe this! to be the true policy of the
Government. It is hardly nece*mwfor us to
state that ice be Have in these viewsfand if the
Democrat thinks jwe are any more of an abuli
tionistthan we were a week ago, we trust it
will let us know.! ■ . •
—lining thus answered its queries, will
that paper give us its views on the. present as
pect of - the slavery question? -Now then, let
,vs hear from you’!
THE TIOGA COli'TY
; latest was mews. :
By way of Cairo we have intelligence of a
reported battle at Morristown, Bjist Tennessee,
on Sunday last, between the Union forces un
der Parson Biownlow and the rebels, in which
I , v . . , . __
the latter were totally routed. The story conies
fromithe Memphis papers, and they admit that
it was a Union victory.—Brownlow is said to
have ji force of 3.000 men, but the number of
the rebels is not stated.
~ An ordor has been Just issued by General
McClellan, directing that all officers and enlist
ed men of the volunteer service now prisoners
in the hands, of the enemy, or reportod as miss-
ingj in {action, or that may hereafter be taken
prisoners or reputed missing in action, bo
transferred tp skeleton regiments, to be formed
by the .Governors of the respective States, and
to jonsist entirely of such missing officers and
men.
Major General Ilallock lias issued an impor
tant order to his commanding officers in Mis
souri, directing them to arrest and hold in con
finement every one found in arms against the
government, or those'who in any Way, give
aid’to the rebels ; and ordering that all persons
foujid jwithjn the lines of the army, ih disguise
as Ihyhl citizens, and giving information to the
enemy, and all those taken from the ranks of
the rebels in actual service, shall not be treat
ed as (prisoners of war but as spies,! and shall
be shot. lie further orders that the Provost
Marshals of St. Louis shall take in charge the
numbers of Union families who are crowding
into i that, city—having been plundered and
driven from their homes by the rebels—and
quarter them upon avowed secessionists, char
ging the expense of their hoard to them on the
ground that, although they have hot them-
selves plundered and driven forth these unfor
tunate people. they are giving aid and comfort
to tjiose' who have done so.
Ben McCulloch with his army, hasjgone into
'Wiilter quarters on Pear Ridge, near Benton
ville, Benton county, Ark. The Rebel, Hays,
witll 300 men, made a dash into Independence,
1 S' r
Mo.j on Monday, and seized all the horses be
longing to the Pacific Stage Compapy, beside
'making a general confiscation of all propeffy
beluning to Union citizens. On Friday a party
of exasperated citizens of Sadalia, Mo., attacked
a going of returned rebels from Price’s army,
under C ipita. Yoqpg and Wheatly, at a place
about twenty miles west of the place mentioned.
Teni of the rebels were killed or wounded.
Aming the killed was Captain Young. The
latest from Price is that ,he has moved a short
distance from Osceola with a part of hi* force.
Tjhe expedition which has recently been
fitting out from Port Royal was to shil on Mon
day last. Much impatience is felt by the troops
because they are not allowed to take Savannah
and Charleston. The destruction of cotton by
the rebels, in order to prevent it from falling
into jour hands, is wide spread.
T(ie Richmond papers of Monday contain a
dispatch, dated Savannah, the 4th inst., which
saysl that sixteen Union vessels were inside of
the bar, an 1 that an attack on Fort Pulaski had
commenced.
The Richmond Dispatch of. Monday says
that it is currently reported that Gen. Floyd’s
command has been ordered to another impor
tant post for duty. A telegram, dated Nash
ville, 3d inst., says Gen. Floyd has fallen back
to w ithin 30 miles of the Virginia and East
Tennessee railroad.
Striking Coincidences.—On the 7th of No
vember, 1837, Elijah T. Lovejoy was murdered
at Alton, Illinois, by a pro-slavery mob, for pub
lishing, in a free State, the moderate doctrines
ofanti-slaveryism. Last year, the twenty-fourth
anniversary of Lovejoy’s death was celebrated
by the cheers of a nation rejoicing over the elec
tion of a-President from the same state of Illi
nois, chosen for his adherence to principles iden
tical with those in defense of which the martyr
fdl. This year, the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the same event has been commemorated by the
glorious capture of the forts at Port Royal and
the planting of the Union power in the heart of
the stronghold of treason and slavery.
The Union Flag Up in all but two States.
—The National Hag now floats over every se
ceded State, except Alabama and Arkansas.
In Virginia over one third Of the State; In
North Carolina, at Hatteras Inlet; in South
Candina, at Port Royal and neighboring
islands; In Georgia, on Tybee Island; in Flori
da, at Key West, Santa Rosa Island, and other
Points; in Mississippi, at Ship Island; in Lou
isiana, at. Candaleur Island: in Texas, at El
Paso; and in Tennessee, at Bristol, Elizabeth
town, and other points in the eastern part of
the state.
Member* op Congress in the Arut. —Among
the members of the present Congress now in
the Retire service of the United States ngainst
tire rebels, are Hon. John H. MoClearnand and
lion. Owen Lnvejoy, of lllinuls; Kellogg, of
Michigan ; Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts/
Senator Sherman, of Ohio ; Hon. John S.
Phelps, ef Missouri; lion; James S. Jackson,
of Kentucky ; Hon. McKee Dun, of Indiana;
Senator Lane, of Kansas, and Edward Mc-
Pherson, of Pennsylvania—Col. Curtis of
lowa, ru-igned his seat to accept the appoint
ment of Brigadier General.
Capt. John Brown Again.— The Grand
Rapids (Michigan) Ragle contains an advertise
ment from Capt. John Brown, Jr., the son of the
well known Ossawattomie Brown, of Virginia
antecedents. Capt. Brown is raising a company
of sharpshooters, to be attached to Col. Mont
gomery’s Regiment, and Gen. Lane!s Brigade,
Kansas. A company of sharpshooters, under
such men Brown, Montgomery and Lane, will
do good service against the rebels, and the hunt
ers and lumbermen of Northern Michigan are
precisely the kind of men to do it.
Gen. Patterson’s Defense.— The most strik
ing feature in the defense of himself offered
by Gen. Patterson, is that it har been delayed
four months, and until Gen Scott, upon whom
it casts all blame, has left the country, in snch
a state of health as to justify the expectation
on Patterson’s part that he would never return
to jut in his reply.
GXTATOE.
PEOJt THE BUCK-TAILS.
Biddle'» Letter—Whit Crocket thinks of it and,
its writer —■ The j sklrmish at Drainsville—The
dead and wounded —The prisoners don't ad
mire Buck-tailsi — The, names of the Buck-tails
discharged on Recount of ill health—How the
boys Thanksgiving day—The'prize
turkey , and toAo von it — George Kriner of
Company E. Head—Under marching orders
—Tice Camp Chimney a failure m bad weath
er, &C„ &C. ; I
Correspondence of tpe Agitator.
Camp PiERPONr, Va., Dec. 1, 1861.
The Philadelphia Tnqiurer of Nov. 28th i«
before me, and I have read with wonderland a
feeling of regret, Ithe letter of our once, beloved
and honored Colotiel, Charles J. .Biddle, as he
declare? his determination to resign bis'com
mission in the unity , and leave a regiroetrt that
would have died flor him, to mingle his voice
among the councils of the notion, j I do not
wonder that Col. Biddle is about td leave the
cold and muddy tattle fields of old Virginia, to
spend a gay winter nindng the festivities
of a great eity, tnd mingle with the master
minds of Araerici in the halls of Congress;
hut I do wonder that he did not eome out like
a true statesman, and let party spirit be buried
among the reverses of the past, which he so
unjustly heaps npon the weakness and short
sightedness of the black Republican Adminis
tration which now rules in Washington. I do
wonder that be lores hie party, or the ruins of
what was once a party, more than he does his
country. Col. Bi Idle well knows that when the
fall of Sumter awikened the sleeping millions
of the North to a true sense of their condition,
and the dangers which threatened them, they
arose with a voice that astonished the world,
irrespective of party ties, or the names they
bad learned to love, and said: “Let usgoTurth
to battle, and crush out forever this unholy re
bellion, forced upon us, not by the Re
publican party, bjit by a band of dipappoited
politicians.” This is no'lime to harp politics,
or the cause of th|e war; it is upon us and it
is our business tolput a slop to it in t,he quick
est possible manner. lie has wounded hearts
that he can never! heal, for nine-tenths of the
regiment that lie has commanded so pbly and
so lung, once belinged to the Republican party,
but to-day they bdung to no party bat the par
ty that would fight and die for the l|jnion. I
read it with feelings of regret, because ha took
us when an “akwkward squad” of. mountain
eers, and all that We are, we owe' to him ; he
has toiled with us faithfully during (he 'long,
hot, summer months, until wo, to-day, as u-reg
iment, stand second to none in all the vast ar
my of the Potomaje, and as a colone), 1 have
never yet seen hisi superior. He is just the man \
we want. He is no coward, but is a| true sol- |
dier, and 1 honor and respect him as il military
commander, but this does not deprive mo of
the privelege of differing with him in politics,
or iu opinion as tb the causes of all dur troub
les. Colonel Biddle is very much nlissed by
this regiment, and without him, wo feel like a
ship’s crew tossing upon a stormy sea, without
a captain. ' 1 -
A skirmish took placs last Wednesday near
Dranesville, between a party of rebels and the
Ist Pennsylvania, Cavalry, which resulted in
the death of three rebels, three wourided, and
eleven taken prisoners. Five of our men were
wounded —two, mortally. One of the wounded
rebels was brought to our hospital,| together
with one of oors. , Our man was cujnfcciuus of
liig situation, and IsAid that he only vyished to
live to see the traitor die : he said ha cbuld not,
would not die firjt—and when tolif that the
traitor was dead, (ie sunk back and said lib was
ready to die. I sjw the prisoners before they
were taken to Washington ; thly word a ihard
looking set of meli. They were not upif rand
and some of their clothes were very ppnr ; one
of them was a Lieutenant, ana a deserter from
the regular army I —another was a Lieutenant
Colonel—another sin old gray-headed
Willi permission, I pissed the guards where I
could get a at them ; as I approached
within a few feet of the pen, one of -them, an
old hard one, caught sight of my buck-tail ami
spoke to one of his .comrades near'him' and
said: “There is one of them d d buck
tails.” One of thjem was a man that sold us
groceries when we were out on our last (skir
mish ; then lie wak a good Union man, ni)W he
is a traitor. The) fact is simply this—“it is
good Lord or good devil” just as the case hap
pens to be. !
The Tioga boys discharged are (Co. A) Uriah
Brimmer, George iKimball, James V.npbinder,
(Co. E) James McCabe, J. R. Ogden, (Co. G)
Simeon Benson. There are more that ought to
be discharged, for! the army is no place for sick
men.
Thanksgiving was kept in this section of the
army the soldiers enjoyed themselves "eating
oysters and shootibg at a target. Odr regiment
shot for prizes, a turkey, two bbls. ofj apples,
and twelve pair of sucks, which had pre
sented to Colonel Kano hy an old lady ninety
year? old. Private Herrick, of Company A. won
the first prize, the turkey. Privates Cyrjus Wet
more of CompanyjE, and Cyrus Margorsun of
Company G, tied, and took each a bbl. of the
apples, one half fdr their own use, and one half
for the Company. , The socks were divided be
tween three privates in other companies. A.
1). Baker of Westfield, came within J qf an
inch of tnk'ng the turkey. Mmy of the shots
would have plunked a rebel’s eye at one hundred
yards. 1
Private George W. Kriner, of Company E,
died in the hospital last Wednesday, of camp
fever. I don’t wiib to find fault with men in
power, but it is a truth beyond contradiction,
that our quarters ;.re not what they should he
for the cold winter which is now upon us, and
we could easily rai.ke them much better, if we
were sure of rem lining here any lehgth of
time: but we are under marching orders now,
and know nut what hour we .will start.
L ist Thursday i lorning. our caiifp presented
a eomical sight, ard still it was no desirable
job. Many of the boys have dug the bottom
of their tents down two or three feet, and made
a little fire-place—ihia goes good in dry wiiivth- [
er, but the mornin ; referred to, was a very stor 1
my one, and daylight found them with a oiim'p
kettle, throwing mud and water out of their
tents. One great, comical yankee, in Compa
ny G, said they had bailed.ever since midnight,
and the water was a foot and a half deep then.
Coi.. Crocket.
Appearance of the country—lts desolation—A
trial of skill — Holland’s Company, first-hut
" — Co. E, not in the ring — Col. Biddle, resigns
What his regie lent think of him. : 1
from another Corresp mdent.
Camp Pieupont, Va., Nov. 28, 1861.
Knowing bow anger the friends at homdl are
to receive thesmal est item of news from, the
Tioga boys, I will venture to trespass upon their
patience and good nature, that is, with your
permission. We t.re at present encamped in
a beautiful meatJo'T neqr a small town called
Langley*, and are surrounded by the encamp-1 in (he wind, and the
mentsof Regiments. composing the Penn- ( man, in my epinion, should b. i, lttri!
sylvania R. C. V. The present appearance of into the gate, if he look*
the country. I imagine, would somewhat aston- neither commissioned. ' or «*"
ish the 1 secesh”inhabitant* -who formerly oc- officer*, without a pas* f t0 * ?!
copied this section of Uncle Sam’s farm. One officer. -
might ride lor miles and never see a fence rail. hov. 25f/i.~To-day. anotw
they (the rails) having been split into fire wood of firearms by the eleventh recin?
to cook the invaders’ meals. Whole acres of celled the one above mentioned t,
timber land, and groves of shade trees have it is said, have drawn their th't,.
been sacrificed, and have fallen before the keen and will march for the South
axe and sturdy arm of the North-man. Fine, One o’clock, battallion drill
young orchards have been ruthlessly leveled Capt. Tarbutton. who ha* been.,
with the ground, to make room for the reviews Washington tw a drill tn»,t er . £"!
of the troops of the Union, _ teresting iHovement,
The boys of this company (Niles’) are in fine At 4o’clock, dre*a parade-^ii
spirits, and are waiting’to try their metal with mes on the ground, being p„ ‘
the boasted chivalry of the South. Our regi- j* interesting. 9 o’clock roll ii
i,lent bad a trial of skill with the rifle to-day. bed. Roll call at 6A. M ‘
and as far ns I have seen, Company A, under half past 7% breakfast #f
Capt. Holland .of Tioga, made the first best vrormy crackers. If the eoldie **
shot. Our Company (£) being on guard, have ton and in that vicinity, Hav.* 1
bad no chance, as yet; but hope to have an op- than we do here, 1 pity them fa
portunity to measure swords in a friendly con- of my*heart. (
test with our friend* and brother soldiers to- After breakfast, one hour’* drill
morrow, in which we hope to come pretty close then to the wood pile and get i
to the center,!,if not to hear off the palm as the load of wood, and then to our °
best shots in the Buck-tail Regiment. o’clock, battallion drill, at four
lam writing in the midst of a general gloom Nothing of importance has « f
which has .fallen upon the Kane Rifle Regi- day. Mw,<
ment, in consequence of the rumored resigna
tion of our fcolonel, Chas. J. Biddle, who has
been elecleti-tn ; Congress. He stated in a let
ter in to-day’s Philadelphia Enquirer , addressed
to his constuents, that it was his intention to
resign his commission in the army, and repre
sent them in the Congress, about to assemble
at Washington. To say that we would miss
him, would but do him justice.' He is a thor
ough soldier, ,an accomplished gentleman, a
man whose good qualities have endeared him
to all who have come in contact with him ; and
I may say that there is not one man who has
been under his command since we started from
Harrisbyrg, blit what is willing to fight under
him at any odds whatever. I believe Col. Bid
dle to bo the only man who could have taken
this regiment, so successfully drilled and gained
the confidencejand esteem of the men under his
command, ana in saying this, I but express the
sentiments of every man in the regiment. As
one of oiir hoys expressed it to-day : “A boy
at the age of ten years, might better lose his
father and mother, and be thrown penniless
upon the world than we to lose our little Col
onel.” Give us Biddle, and we will meet the en
emy anywhere and at any time, with full cutj
fidence of success. Soger-Boy>!
THE TIOGA MOUNTAINEERS.
The Mountaineers and their Officers —The Camp
Tite Eleventh—Good weather and bad—A
funeral —The Mountaineers on guard—A good
deal if bad whickey “ confiscated” —Eight
prisoners—Friceleged characters—The duties
of a day — Soldiers’ fare, cL’c., tfc.
From another Correspondent. '
Camp Cirtis, Nov. 23, 1861
Allow me to trespass upon your columns
with a few lines from Camp Curtin. I enlisted
and came t» camp the Ist day of .November,
under Cant. J. S. Hoard.
■ Our company is called the Tioga Mountain
eers, and a finer company you will seldom see.
We are a jolly set I assure yon, and when we
get down nmengst the rebels, we intend to take
each of us our man, as fast as we come to
them.
By the way, .1 think that C.ipt. Hoard will
make a very ; he has not a very
extensive knowledge in military affairs, hut is
trying to learn something, and doubtless bo will
get to be a Major General, in time.
Our Lieutenants are both of them, good jolly
old boys, full of fun and frolic—l think it a
pity tliat all of our best military men, are kept
insubordinate offices; why not make them
C donels or Generals, at once, where they can
make tliemsehes conspicuous?
We have a splendid camp giound hero; our
tents are eight feet square -at the bottom, and
.eight by nothing at the top. Th -so with a few
loose boards, cnstitute our dwellings. Trim
four to five of us occupy one tent, so that we
have from four to five blankets with the same
number of quilts, which we brought from
home. . With these and our overcoats, we man
age to keep quite comfortable, as far as sleep
ing is concerned.
To-day we had a grand display of firearms
by the eleventh regiment, all drawn up in bat
tle array 1 , for the purpose of instructing the
meq in loading and-firing by companies, and
by tight and left wing, which was done exceed
ingly,well by the right wing, all firing, at the
command ; it sounded like the report of but
one gun. The left wing not so well, in
conseqotnce of firing at the word, “take aim,”
and not waiting for the word, ‘'fire!” t 0 b e gj y .
en, but take it altogether, it was a grand dis
play of firearms.
The weither to-day, is warm and pleasant;
there is not a cloud to be'seen. *
Kuv. 24 th. —The weather to-day is told, with
occasional snow squalls.
This morning is a solemn time in camp, oc
casioned by the death of two soldiers who were
buried with military honors. The whole regi
ment following to the grave. First, the hearse
containing the corpse, next the bearers ; in rear
of these the Brass Band ; still in rear of these
the privates, and still farther in the rear,
the Commissioned Officers. We ail. of
course, paid due respect to these pour soldiers,
not knowing who will bo the next to be called
hence. I could but drop a tear, as the proces
sion passed a line of soldiers, drawn up on each
side of the road, some forty rods long. Possi
bly my turn may come next to pass through
the same ordeal, and yet, to think that wo of
the Fforth should lose one man from our ranks,
men who have gone forth to fight for our free
dom, against tyranny and oppression, but-we
must leave it te Him who rules the destinies of
individuals, as well as nations.
Last night was an Interesting time with'ns,
our company having been detailed to guardnhe
gate entrance, there not being another compa
ny itj camp who could do it satisfactorily, every
Company on the ground,' having .been tried,
except our«. My first tour was from four
o’clock, rfhtil eight Pi M.. malting four hours,
which was worth a whole week to me.
It would have done you good to have seen the
liquor we took from the soldiers who had it
concealed nest to their persons ; some having
to take their clothes nearly all off to get to
where it wn*. But we of course had to do it;
this was oor duty. When we got to where the
whiskey was, we emptied it out, and put the
soldier iu the guard house, until.we had eight
in prison, each one having from one to two
quarts of whiskey, and all pretty drunk. These
were all privates, we having no right to meddle j
.with a commanding officer, they being privi-1
leged characters, which I think is wrong, for!
they are “fond of the critter,” and ,a great
many came in, as we supposed, pretty well”
“forked,” or iu other words "about three sheets
Gek. Houston not
death of Gen. Sam Houston, of T
true. By the last account* 'i, t 6“
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