The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-30 00:00:00

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N°. 22,233.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1863.

MRS. GREY'S NEW NOVEL.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
G " s ocIET Y.
By MRS. GREY,

ROSE, Mayor.—ln a Meeting or Assembly of
the Mayor, Aldermen, and Liverymen of the several
Companies of the City of London, in Common Hall assembled
at the Guildhall of the said City, on Tuesday, the 29th day
of September, 1863,
Resolved unanimously—
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the noise of the dire cotflict which is still progressing on
our immediate left. Then rain, and a partial suspension of
hostilities, and more humbug. Got any coffee, Seeesch ?'
No, don't care about it; ain't used to it now; but have you
got the whisky ? Nary drop." Will you poor Yankee
devils cease shouting for awhile, and let's meet by the trees
below (a clump about half-way on the hill, and we'll have a
game at cards, 'euchre,' seven up, old sledge. We're at home
as anything, the whisky against the coffee.' Wish I could
old fellow; I'd like a dram well, but it can't be did; it's
against orders.' May be Mike Gooding would come and
take a hand, eh ?" Can't well go back to ask him." Then
take that, curse you,' and again they open on each other.'
As the afternoen wanes into evening their fire slackens,
our fellows making it too dangerous for them to show a bit
of themselves, as showers of bullets are seen to fly where
the least disturbance of branch or underbush would indi-
cate that a foe lay hid there. Three of our men were slightly
wounded that day, but many is the narrow escape several
of us have had. I've now in my cartridge box a bullet that
missed a man in front, grazed my second lieutenant's face
(he felt the windage), and it struck a flat rock on which I
was reclining talking to him, glanced, hit a large loose rock
next my side, and then whirled round like a top, I grabbed
it, and having it shall try and keep it. 'Twas a very narrow
escape, but none more than what we've had, though with-
out the bullet or piece of shell to show for it. The bullet is
conical, and has in the hollow, part of the base a plug of
hard wood, English make, to increase the expansion of the
lead to fill up the rifles of the barrel on the explosion of the
gunpowder. All day there was hard and determined fight-
ing on our left, the thunder of the heavy guns, and crash
and rolling volleys of the rifles, then the wild cheers of our
daring boys, boldly answered .by the rebels, as they—our
men—charged a battery and beigade, captured two cannon,
the battery flag,_ and the battiaag of tits
_V Arkansas, got'
taken in one fell swoop by the 35th Illinois, in barlin's
gade, our division, and the 30th Indiana. Hera Col. Miller,
Acting Brigadier-General was shot over the left eye leading
his brigade in the charge—another gallant and talented Irish-
man gone, beloved by his men, who wreaked a terrible
vengeance on the enemy, driving all before them, and re-
turning with scarcely a prisoner, all slain or wounded. That
night we slept on the battle-field, and the enemy having by
this time discovered the ruse, Gen. Rosecrans played on
their left during the night. Here let me explain. Besides
this Gap there was one other south-west, Hoovey's Gap,
where the enemy were very strongly massed with batteries
masked by brush, &c., thrown up on hills high and steep,
and in full command of the road leading through the said
Hoovey's Gap. When we marched for Liberty Gap and
Sheridan, by the Shelbyville pike, the rebel generals sup-
posed, not only by the heavy cannonading, the stubborn
and determined fighting to force our way through (we hear
it is 7 to 10 miles long), but by the rapid and secret move-
ment of what amount of troops they knew not, that it was
through here we determined to get and avoid the heavy
siege guns erected in forts at Tullahoma, and terrible
defiles, &e., between us and Winchester, and moved large
bodies of their troops across to oppose us from Hoovey's
Gap; taking quick advantage of which Ropey' advanced
with great rapidity, brigades and divisions of cavalry, with
infantry, artillery, &c., clearing the way, and with but
little fighting, pushed his whole army through the Gap.
The mounted infantry having swept far round to the
left of Tullahoma, burnt the railroad bridge over the
river in the rear of the town, thus cutting off all chance of
Bragg (who promised his men a big battle and victory
there) getting away his train of artillery, and so confound-
ing and terrifying him that they left their forts and breast-
works, three heavy 32-pounder guns, and skedaddled.
Thus ended the capture of a place that we dreaded ; from
all reports fearing that when we did move down south many
of us would bite the dust ere the strong defences erected by
the rebels could be taken. 'Twas a splendid piece of strategy
quickly and daringly effected, and as I remarked saved
a number of lives, while the Southern army is thoroughly
disheartened, disorganised to some extent, and Bragg hated
for a tyrant, coward, and liar, so the conscripts who gave
themselves up in hundreds and the prisoners and deserters
inform us. We countermarched, and a weary suffering time
had we; holes in the roads big enough to engulph an army
waggon, so through wheat, corn, oats, and rye fields we,
waggons, artillery, &c., moved (the axes soon made tempo-
rary roads through the woods), and at length we reached the
Manchester pike, and in good spirits marched briskly along
through the celebrated Hoovey's Gap. Camped that night
at Beech-grove, on a steep hill, when our train cane up,
and there I had a sweet time of it. I had to draw rations for
my men and issue them ; get shoes, socks, whatever I pould
get, serve out 50 rounds-40 the usual amount—cartridges
to each man; hunt up in the pile of knapsacks, dog-tents,
&e., nay blankets and a change of clothes, so that it was be•
tween 12 and 1 o'clock a.m. before I lay down, and had to
be up at 3 o'clock and march at 4 a.m. Indeed, the prin-
ciples of meum and tuum were little cared for when search-
ing for clothing, blankets, &c. Wo in the rear of the train
did not march till 7. Day cleared up, and sun thundering
hot, blazing down on us with unmitigated fury, and coming
to a beautiful valley through which ran a stream that
brought up visions of trout and old times fresh to the me-
mory we halted, and eating a hasty dinner, sought the
shade and slept. About 3 marched gradually, getting into
a wild country—the road like a bed of a mountain torrent,
up-tending higher and higher, mile after mile. Long halts
occurred, the artillery and waggons getting stalled; then up
and march a short distance, and another halt—the mcst
wearying, fretful, and annoying thing that could occur when
all were anxious to push through and get over u hatever
was before us, have supper, and rest. Thus passed the weary-
ing hours into night. Fortunately, a bright silvery moon
shone torth with true southern lustre, and on we pressed,
regiment got mixed with regiment, for we had to keep in
the woods which skirted the road, till we halted on a high
flat hill, which had been camped on frequently, we could
plainly see. Here we rested for half an hour, our pontoon
train having got so badly used up from the miserably
wretched roads, which train had to be got out of the way to
permit artillery and our ammunition train to pass, and we
hoped we were to camp for the night. But no, eight miles
further, it was now half-past 9 o'clock, and pressing on,
passing waggons, everything, we marched with a rapidity
you would not believe, and with loud cheers, yelps, crowing
of cocks, chuckling of hens, barking of dogs, all mimicked
admirably by the men, we and our old friends the 59th Illi-
nois marched side by side over the bridge at Duck river,
near Manchester, at a quarter past 12 o'clock, muddy, filthy,
and wet, and waiting for no supper, cut brush to lie on, and
with oil-cloths under us and three blankets over us, we soon
were fast asleep. Marched 27 miles that say, and in all my
marchings never travelled on worse roads, nor ever did I
see such an enormous amount of waggons upset, broken,
smashed, mules killed, and barrels of sugar, flour, meal,
&c., and bread lost. ' Passing camps where our troops had
been, we could get almost anything we wanted, but if we
did require them we had no means of bringing them. Next
day, the 30th June, had usual monthly muster, made out
muster roll, &e., and on the Ist of July we marched, suffered
much from the hot sun, and 12 miles from the town camped
at Tullahoma, where a vast amount of stores were captured
by our men. Marched 12 miles next day to the Barrens,'
a wild mountainous district, and crossing the Elk river next
morning we reached here about 2 o'clock, in a wretched
plight. For three days our rations had run out—what little
we had saved the rain destroyed in our canvas havresacks
--crackers went to paste--sugar, coffee, and salt melted
away; but potatoes, hogs, chickens, corn-meal, to which
all helped themselves when the chance offered, kept life in
us. The high water in the river from continuous rain,
bridges destroyed, prevented our train from coming up, so
five men from each company, in command of a commis-
sioned officer, were every day detailed to go foraging.
But that was a trifle. All hours of the day and night
were soldiers passing in and out of camp with havresacks,
buckets, and camp kettles. so that by this time potatoes.
onions, apples, blackberries, chickens, &c., are getting
rare and scarce. Every man round here is rank rebel,
and the men say they don't mean to starve while the
rebels have plenty they can help themselves to. And, indeed,
they are right. Now, however, es e are beginning to get
enough of meat, bacon, beef, sometimes fresh pork, coffee,
sugar, and bread; before long we will get the extras, rice,
beans, dried peas, and compressed vegetables. Everything
we had was lost or destroyed. I have nothing now save tho
clothes on my back and one blanket ; have to go without
while I wash and dry my own shirt. What knapsacks,&c.,
we sent back to Murfreesborough in charge of some cavalry
were all burnt or destroyed, the excuse being that the mules
' gave out and could not haul them. May be so, but indeed
I doubt it very much. I should not be surprised if we re-
mained here for a long time yet. The engineers have been
I out surveying tho country round, to put up works of de-
fence, I learn. Nearly all the churches and academies (four
or five academies there were here) are being converted into
hospitals, frame houses are being pulled down, and large
buildings are being erected out of the old material for com-
missary and quartermaster's stores, and every preparation
is being made to occupy this place as a military post. Ano-
ther satisfactory feature in the matter is that our General
Davis is in command here, so should there be any forward
movements, which are yet uncertain, it is possible our di-
vision will be left here to plate the post. Thank God,
everything is looking favourable foe the Union cause—
Vicksburg fallen, Port Hudson also; Johnstone whipped
by Sherman, Meade driving Lee out of Penneylvania and
Maryland with enormous losses-33,000 killed, wounded,
and prisoners-91,000 prisoners Union troops itlok this
July, the simultaneous advance of all our armies are d at
about the same time, and from every direction, the attacek
on Charleston, South Carolina, the intended assault on
Mobile, the revolutionary movements in our favour in
North Carolina, and ours and other large armies threaten-
ing au advance any time that suits us, will give the
Southern fellows more than they have men or time to
attend to ; art(i I do pray and trustfully hope that by
this day t we/ se months the South shall be crushed, the
arch-traitors i ,oho tallied thii fearful staugglo be dead or

Author of " The Gambler's Wife," Are.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

That this Common Hall take this opportunity of recording
their deep impression that the past year has been one of vital
importance to the City of London, as well as to the nation in
general, by the Marria;.-ze of his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales with the Princess Alexandra of Denmark, and by the
imposing and friendly greeting which the Citizens gave to
tlw Royal Pair on the occasion of their Royal Highnesses
passing through this ancient City.
And that this Common Halt have much pleasure in ex-
pressing their estimation of the distinguished mark of ltoyal
favour by the presence of the Right Honourable the Lord
mayor, 'Wiliam Anderson Rose, Esquire, and the sheriffs,
Tames Clarke Lawrence, Esquire and Alderman, and Hugh
Jones, Esquire, as the Representatives of the Citizens of
London at the Marriage of their Royal Highnesses.
Anxiously desirous that no circumstance should occur to
mark the year with other than pleasu:able feelings, this
Common Hall deeply deplore that an attempt has been made
to deprive the Citizens of one of their most valued .:rivileg,es
by amalgam ting th,ir Police with the Metropolitan
Force—an unconstitutional and dangerous proceeding.
This Common Hall, nevertheless. congratulate their fellow-
citizens in having had a gentleman as Lord Mayor who has
manfully defended, not merely the constitutional rights of
the City, but those of the Kingdom, both in and out of Par-
liament, and cannot allow him ty retire from a position he
has so ably filled without tendering., in the name of them-
selves and their fellow-citizens, their best and warmest
thanks, at the same time expressing their regret that his
Lordship has not received that full meed of honour which his
conduct so justly merited.
Resolved unanimously—
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banished, never to find a home in any free country, never
to see the soil of this land agin, and that law and order
may peaceably rule the destinies of this nation. One day's
rations of everything amounts to a very great deal ; indeed,
a soldier could not consume it. Beef fresh, or ham or
shoulder, sugar, coffee, or tea (chiefly the former), potatoes,
rice, bread, hominy, grit, dried split peas, beans, compressed
vegetables, soap, candles, vinegar, salt, &c. One ration of
each of those for, say, 10 days (10 rations) amounts to a
very considerable item—in fact, while living in camp for
any time even on rations there is enormous wsste. A very
great deal depends on the cooking. Many of the above
articles would be uneatable unless properly cooked— such
as hominy, peas, beans, compressed vegetables, but when
you understand how you can make quite an extra dish out
of them—good, wholesome, and very palatable.
"I am not the big, s± out, heavy 121-stone fellow I was.
I'm moderately slender, square enough in the shoulders,
straight, and with flesh and muscle firm as a rock. I wear
no beard, but a moustache, which every one says becomes
the contour of my face wonderfully well. My hair is de-
cidedly more gray than black; sickness, mental trouble,
and hardships and sufferings attendant on the campaigning
life we lead have caused the change in me, as in very
many young:men here. Ia truth the saying has become
proverbial among us soldiers that when this war is over
there will be more gray young men in this country than
ever were knewn. Yet my health generally continues
right good. Lying ha camp too long never does; it is
not beneficial to health. Men get lazy and unsettled ;
they lie about too much after meals, although 1 must
give the majority of them the credit of doing all they
possibly can to keep themselves and their clothes clean.
Go to the river after morning company or evening bat-
talion drill, and it is crowded with men from all the
camps round here, washing off'. as they term it, while the
whole banks are lined with fires covered with camp kettles,
washing and boiling their clothes. Shirts, drawers, blue
(light) pants, blouses, blankets, everything goes to pot to
keep off the ' body-guards.' Then, with insects of various
kinds that prey on human flesh we're bothered; nits (like
a bug) go head and shoulders into your flesh, and you can't
get them out without soaking them in tobacco juice; then
there's a big-sized knob on your flesh that keeps you up to
the scratch all the time. Then there's the chigger, about
the size of a pin's point, yellow, like ground mustard grain;
they eat under your skin too. Mosquitoes, tobacco smoke
and that of the camp fires beat off pretty well ; yet they
come with their noisy hum, and then what a slap you give
yourself ; but Miss Kitty' slopes, and don't get hurt. Also
the vilanous small black ant and poison-spiders as big as
hazel-nuts--aye, and larger. 'Tis scarcely a week since one
of our men had to come to camp off picket ; he was bit while
asleep by one of them under the eye, and his whole face
and neck swelled up, The doctor gave him a lotion which
reduced the swelling, but it was very painful, accompanied
with sickness and nausea. We see no snakes, which is very
strange; nor did we while on the march through a wild
rocky country, which places they do most congregate in.
Around Murfreesborough the woods were alive with squir-
rels, quite tame ; the brown and ground, also the fox and
gray squirrel (the latter being most scarce), also the flying
squirrel are extraordinary creatures. One night some three
months ago, about 10 o'clock, I was in the outer post on
grand picket, in thick wood where some thick timber had
been cut down, underbrush and branches lying thickly
round, while the leaves were ankle deep. To our right that
day we heard cannonading, and when the officer of the
day came round at dusk with the countersign and rally-
ing call, he told us:to be on the alert, expecting an attack.
I was not long on post, the night clear without moon,
when the whole wood seemed teeming with life; the in-
sects in the leaves kept them in a rustle, the squirrels
kept jumping, running, and cutting up all sorts of devil-
ment, which made me feel anything but comfortable, for
I was trusting to my ears as much as to my eyes. Suddenly
such a caterwauling, such a mewing, never two old Toms
cut up ; they were two polecats pitching into one another,
which alarmed me not a little, the cries came so suddenly.
Then they'd cease for a while, and in concert they'd make
the night horrible; at length one or the other skedaddled,
and when my nerves were getting settled, and I supposed
all the devilment was over, a loud chuckling laugh burst
11 out in front of me, answered by a softer and less loud one.
The devil,' thought I, I'll stop your fun,' when suddenly
I thought of the big horned owls, who do indulge in the
most perfect imitation of a laugh—quiet chuckling one—
ever you heard. I could not help indulging in a quiet
laugh myself, as I listened to them, and thought of the cir-
cumstances which had occurred, for it seemed as if the brave
birds were laughing at the fight the shunks or polecats had.
Those matters, light and trifling as they may read, yet try
men's nerves. In the lone, silent old woods, silent save the
buzz and hum of animal life, on the qui vice for a footstep
sound, the breaking of a twig or a branch, the barking of a
dog or sudden flight of birds, anything to mark the coming
of some sneaking hound who'll prowl round to shoot the
pickets down, has a certain effect on a soldier, who has
naught but his quickness of perception and rifle to save
him, which I could not well describe; but imagining your-
self in the peculiar position you may have a tolerable clear
idea of it. It is now night, and in the solemn stillness I
try to finish my letter, writing in a—you would not guess
in a twelvemonth—graveyard, on a tombstone, alongside
of which we are encamped, and far from the noisy talk of
my comrades, who are all exulting in the daily arrival of

favourable news. Morgan's raid into Indiana gave most
of the Indiana boys intense satisfaction. Strange yet true,
for the Copperheads, or Northern traitors, suffered most
in lots of personal property, and the very fact of their
losing fine horses, their mills, steam and water power,
burnt down, corn, meat, and money being taken from
them, fully compensated the hoosiers here for any loss
they or their friends may have sustained at home, and by
all accounts Morgan and his men were more brutal and
harder on the Northern ' Southern sympathiser' than on the
Union men. They (Southern soldiers) despise them for
mean, low-flung, cowardly dogs, that would not come out
like men to fight. By telegram to-night we learn that

Morgan's, Bazil's, Duke's, and other of the guerilla leaders'

race is run; they're taken prisoners; I hope sincerely 'tis
true. Also that only 300 of from 5,000 to 6,000 which the
rebels took into Indiana with them escaped to Virginia, but
have not yet cleared our lines there. 'Little Rock,' the

capital city of Arkansas, has been captured by a Gen. Blunt,
and Price has been whipped at Helena while trying to get
troops to Vicksburg. The good cause is progressing; we
have had a favourable summer so far; not extremely hot,
with plenty of rain to give men and animals water and keep
up what the Americans call a big river '—i.e., plenty of
water for the boats to run. We learn through a New York
paper that Louis Napoleon has acknowledged the Southern
Confederacy, and the same paper in a leading article
breathes war to the knife against France, with a big army
for Mexico to clear the Johnny Crapeauds out• It would
be very popular here—such a war would, surely, for the
Americans have been looking with a suspicious and angry
eye on France's interference with Mexico, and their talk
was, Wait awhile, we'll fix him one of these days.' They'll
do it if they go about it, for they're able. Candle's going
out—phew I look out for ghosts 1"

A meeting of the electors of Tamworth was held
in the Town-hall, yesterday, at noon, for the pur-
pose of hearing Mr. John Peel, of Middleton Hall,
one of the candidates for the representation of the
borough, give an expression of his political views.
The meeting was a large and respectable one. Mr.
Peel, in the course of a lengthened address, avowed
himself to be an " independent" candidate, and
stated that during the last two years he should have
been a steady supporter of Lord Palmerston's Go-
vernment. He was a member and sincere lover of
the Church of England, but favourable to a settle-
ment of the church-rate question. In foreign politics
he supported the principle of non-intervention. In
allusion to a personal remark made by Sir Robert
Peel, he said that he pleaded guilty to having all
his life traded upon the name of Peel—(hear, hear)
which was his birthright. The grandfathers of
himself and Sir Robert Peel were brothers. His
grandfather was the elder of the two brothers, and
inherited the family estates, which had descended
from father to son during upwards of two centuries,
and were now held by his elder brother. (Cheers.)
If he had not a right to the name of Peel, who had P
(Hear.) It had always passed current as a guaran-
tee of his honour and integrity in every relation of
life, and he trusted that he had never done anything
to sully its brightness or depreciate its value.
Mr. Willington then moved that Mr. Peel was a
fit and proper person to represent the borough of
Tamworth in Parliament. (Cheers.)
Mr. James ITAywood seconded the motion, which
was carried with much cheering.'

MR. 11. T. CRAVEN, the very successful author of
the " Post Boy" and the " Chimney Corner," has in pre-
paration at the Strand a new three-act serio-comic drama,
Miss Kate Saville being engaged to play the heroine.
A MODEL THEATRE IN PARIS.—Tho new theatre
of t,!le Bouffes Parisiens is rapidly approaching its
compietl;:m. Floor and ceiling will be of iron, and tho stairs
of etone, latter being twice as largo as in the former
11thig
house. Th© 1115 will be most killiant, and the venti-
lation: will be arranjed according to the latest improve-
ments. 860 seats will vt.'e provided, besides the ample stand-
ing rnm. s,

PRICE..... _..4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(Front the Registrar-Gcneral's Weekly Return.)
There were 1,233 deaths in London in the week that ended
last Saturday. The average number in 10 corresponding
weeks (i. e., the 39th in each of the years 1853-62), with the
omission of deaths from cholera in 1854, and a correction
for increase of population, becomes 1,210. The actual num-
ber of deaths in last week therefore very closely agrees with
that which is obtained by calculation, and the present state
of the public health is neither better nor worse than what is
usually enjoyed at this generally healthy season of the year.

But scarlatina is exceedingly prevalent, and appears de-
cidedly to be on the increase. The deaths from it, which
were in the previous week 130, rose to 148 last week. They
have been constantly above 100 weekly since the middle of
July. Diphtheria does not exhibit the same tendency to
increase; it was fatal in 12 cases in the week.
The deaths from scarlatina were most numerous lastweek
in the following sub-districts :--St. John, Westminster, 5 ;
Kentish-town, 8 ; Islington West, 6 ; Islington East, 7.
There were 10 in the district of Bethnal-green, and the
same number in Deptford.
Small pox numbered 29 cases, diarrhcoa 46, both diseases
showing a decline.

On the 23d inst., a man died under chloroform in the
London Hospital, and on the following day another under
the same influence in St. George's.
A labourer died on the Bth inst., in St. Martin's work-
house, from " consumption, accelerated by want of the com-
mon necessaries of life ;" and a cooper on the 16th, at 7,
St. John-street, Bethnal-green, from "aneurism, death ac-
celerated by,want of proper and sufficient nourishment."

Last week the births of 948 boys and 853 girls, in all
1,801 children, were registered in London, In the 10 cor-
responding weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number
(corrected) was 1,880.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.274 in. On Monday
and Tuesday the mean daily reading was below 29 in. The
barometrical pressure was as low as 28.78 in. on Tuesday;
and it was 30 05 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 50.4 deg., which is 4.9 deg. below
the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by
Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below the
average throughout the week. The lowest night tempera-
ture was 40. S deg., on Wednesday. The highest day tem-
perature was 63.2 deg. on Saturday. The range of tempe-
rature in the week was therefore 22.4 deg. The mean daily
range was 17,2 deg. The cifference between the mean dew-
point temperature and air temperature was 6 deg. The mean
degree of humidity of the air was 80, complete saturation
being represented by 100. The south-west has been the
prevailing wind during many weeks. Nearly an inch of
rain was measured in the week, the greater part of which
fell on Sunday. There was thunder and lightning on Tues-
day, with heavy showers of rain, and there was also light-
ning on the two following days. The mean of the highest
temperature of the water of the Thames was 61.4 deg., that
of the lowest was 59.2 deg.