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

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1803.

No. 22,233.

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,The'following6 is, a letter dated Cam, near Win-
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giment. Indiaira'Vollinteers, Department of the Cum-
berland, July °18.::
" My., deareat,, 7as:se,--Four days since I received your
long-looked for letter of the 21st ult., and indeed did it take
a heavy load off mymind, for I got not a letter since the 26th
,F4bruary, and none in answer to my sketch of Stone River
( urfreesborough) battle, However, you did write, I see
yotar•notes but unfortunately it went astray. I have had
hard work. 1 had to learn the manifold duties, details, and
business connected with the position ; yet I've overcome
them all, and am now nearly au fact with everything con-
nected with it; application, system, and tact are the three
great requirements, and these I employ diligently, having
a thorough confidence in myself and my abilities, which an
American author whose works I was lately reading'says,
Irishmen are apt, too apt, to underrate themselves,' I
have done so, but, judging by the standard around me, I
shall never again be so confoundedly silly.
You see by my address, as you have before this in the
papers; that our army has made a grand movement, sudden
and unexpected to us as to the enemy, and in the course of
a short time forced strong positions, taking some of them
by surprise and superior tactics, passed rapidly where we
'anticipated a siege, viz,, Tullahoma, and now occupy the
`rebel capital of this State, after traversing a country for miles
14on miles, wild, barren, mountainous, full of defiles, and
such roads as man never saw. Yes, dear —, by the superior
skill and generalship of our commander, Gen.'Resecrans,
teeny a life has been saved, to, I trust, return and giadden
'the anxious hearts Of those loved ones at home. But to recount
:a little of my own regiment's doings. On the 17th tilt, our
'brigade went out on ten days' grand picket, five miles from
camp, arta s-buth en 'the Shelbyville pike; on the 23d 'got
:orders to march next morning, 5 o'clock, with three days'
rations, s&c: Weather really beautiful for weeks previous
but rather too hot at times. Next morning up and ready
but detained waiting on General Sheridan's and Johnstone's
divisions, which marched past; we followed, the former
kept straight on towards Shelbyville, but Johnstone's and
I•Davis's (ours) filed left, and marched over wretched roads,
through plotighed fields; mid tot rents of rain, to Liberty Gap
(one of the passes to be forced to go south), where John-
stone's men surprised the rebels harvesting, pitched into
them, and by evening they were fighting hard, our men still
awaiting them. We stopped and had dinner while the can-
nonading, &c., was going on in front, but we never heeded
it, nor did it disturb our appetites, for our turn had not yet
come—so does war blunt the finer feelings of man I Towards
dark we pushed two miles further, and camped, and all was
again silent. The rain deluged us out that night. The fol-
lowing morning we marched through the neck of the gap,
two miles, and again halted to draw rations, dry cartridges,
&ea and dine. At 2 o'clock moved forward, the roads
crowded with troops, artillery waggons, ammunition, and
commissary. Sharp, heavy, and fierce fighting going on
upon our loft all day, and increasing as evening advanced.
We, to gain our old position on the extreme right, laboured
up steeps hills crowned with trees in full foliage, and, filling
our canteens at a beautiful spring gushing out of the moun-
tain side, we crested the steep incline, and, concealing our-
selves behind logs and trees, the hills soon took up the echoes
of the spang of the rifles as we shot at one another—we and
the Secesh—across a deep valley, from one high summit to
another—we putting double charges of powder in our long-
range Enfolds to throw and hit further and harder. Mind,
'tis regulation contract powder we use I You'd scarcely
credit it, but so it was, while we kept up a running fire of
skirmishing with the rebels, so did we and they a running
fire of fun mad with what is denominated chaff. Go home,
you Yank ; you're no account. You shoot a mile too high.'
Curse you, Secesh, give me a fair show, and I'll bring
you,' Of course, I will, if you do the same ;eh I Yank,
honour mind I" On honour, I will, old fellow.' 'All right,
then, Yank, here you are l' Secesh shows himself a little
from behind a tree, when spang, spang, go half a dozen
rifles; bnt ' reb' is too fast--dodges back. `Missed, you
fools, youl now give me a show;' and so on; but 'twas
next day all the fun was. We having orders to hold the
position did so, but did not push on ; which 'twould be
sheer madness to do so, as we would have no way of pro-
tecting ourselves, there being no trees on the steep incline.
There wo remained cautiously watching one another, and
when the puff of smoke showed where a rifle was fired our
bullets flew in and round them thick and heavy. The sun
sets, dusk, and then darkness, and shouldering our rifles
we hunt our regiment up, and not being permitted to light
fires, we rolled in blankets supperless, and there being no
rain slept soundly till reveille. Morning bright and watery,
sun hot, close, and very sultry; marched a mile or so;
there was sharp musketry firing, heavy cannonading, which,
with the crash of bursting shells, resounded and rebounded
in deep hollow echoings from hill to hill, which added to the
grand and solemn sublimity of the beautiful scenery around,
and caused feelings to permeate through your bosom inde-
scribable— so awful, so awe-inspiring, God help us all! but
a battle scene is terrible, horribly beautiful in its excitings,
I of charges made and repulsed, the wavering lines, the re-
charge,cheers—maddening, furious,tho tearing and bursting
of grape:and shells through living masses, and the pursuit
and horrible carnage, where all is forgotten in the ono sole
thought of revenge and slaughter. Our time has come ; we
pass several regiments camped who have had their two days'
bloody work performed. That little yellow flag over the tents
yonder show you where the wounded lie ; that detail of men
with picks and spades bespeak the solemn duty of the burial
of the dead ; the saddened faces of those groups of men tell
of friends and :comrades lost, but all is soen forgotten
in the stern duty that is now before you. Men, fill
your canteens (if wounded) thirst is agonising, and, mind,
any man found straggling from his company without suffi-
cient reason shall be shot down,' Such were our orders, and
proper too. We filed again to the right, again up steep, high
hills, the men smothering under knapsacks, dog-tents,
blankets, and our three days' rations; but soon these were
thrown away (not rations), save what little mementos of
home and dear friends which each one took from his knap-
sack. At length we reached the top, and, marching down
by rail or worm fence (of which more anon). We halted on
the hillside, and two companies at a time were thrown out
as skirmishers (two hours at a time) ; we hid ourselves as
well as we could by an open rail fence from the rebel bullets,
which flew over and into our company and companies, C, J,
F, and A, our flanking ones that is, when the rebels shot
too high at our skirmishers, who were treed below us, while
the rebels were thickly concealed in a wood, which topped
a very high and steep hill right in front, and partly on our
right flank, over us. Thus were wo exposed to what is
termed a plunging fire, while 50 or 80 yards further back
we'd have been comparatively safe. Firing soon began
pretty sharp, when one of our fellows called, Halloo. ?
Lida ?' Yes ;we know ye.'
They were the men we fought
in every battle we've been in, and, strange to say, here
were we now opposed to one another again. Glad to see
you, 22d ; how the did ye hang together so long ?'
Go to —; there's enough of
us left to whip ye again,
you Secesh. Don't hsse your temper, Yank , how's
Mike Gooding (our Colonel, taken prisoner by these same
fellows at Perryville
ght last October); is he with you yet ?'
Yes, he's he '
Tell him to come up and see us ; there
are some •
this t friends of his who'd like to have him again.' At
-aunt crack, crack, go a lot of rifles, which aro quickly
answered. Then silence for some tune, save the echoing
sip report of the rifle and the distant cannonading, heard now
saentson
saurney, and and then far away to our right, which creates many surmises
as to whose corps or division isfighting off there (then 'nosey'
EXI•111 Secretary,
siIiPSS through Roovey's Gap); or the furious burst of
Was Pa
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the noise of the dire coriticr which is still progressing on
our immediate left. Their rain, and a partial suspension of
hostilities, and more humbug. Got any coffee, Secesch ?'
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 ''or 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 eternocn wanes into evening their fire slackens,
our fellows making it too dangerous for them to show a bit
of themselves, as showela of bullets are seen to fly where
the least disturbance of branch or urtderbush would indi-
cate that a foe lay hid there. Three of our men were slightly
wounded that day, but =any is the narrow escape several
of us have had. I've now in my cartridge box a bullet that
missed a man in front, gtazed 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 tri and keep it. 'Twas a very narrow
escape, but none more then what we've had, though with-
out the bullet or piece of asell 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 the* waq hard and determined fight-
ing on our left, the thunctr of. the heavy guns, and crash
and rolling Volleys of theples; then the wild cheers of our
daring boys, boldly...anaislata raNwilkagx=wa

' meta4oaredabatte.rfaud brigade, e:situreettwo cannon,
tbelsattbri+ftagkia 'the battle leg of the 3d. Arkansas, both
laken lifsaiM felt*opi by tlinssth Illinois; iti.-Carlirt's, bri'e
gape, 'otir divisio4ana the i(ith Indianies lime W. Miller,,
r-AitirtgJ3rigadier-Gienertil leas shet over the left eye leading
~hli hrigadeinthechttrge—aitethergalltintand Wailed Irish-
Man7gene; beloved by hissrie4,: who •siereakedtn. terrible
, 1
vengeance on the enemy, dri.reing all before therm and re-
turning wi;,lascarcolyn prisannr, all slain.or wounded. That
nigl;tt we slept on the battl4eld; and`theemyhaving by
'this time dikovered 'the ruse,, Gen. B,eseerarm played on
their left during,lhe night. lare let; Me explajp; Besides
this, gap there, was 'one other: south-west, Hoovey's Gap,
where the.enemi were very.'strongly• massesVnithlatteries
maskedby4' brute; &o f, throi4 bp -+ on)hilis.high and steep,
and InAull commute' of thelOeld leading ifroAgh
.the said
lloovey',a.Gap. „ When we ranrettecl for :Liberty Gap and
Sheridan, by the Shelbyville fie, the ietel;'g
aenerals sup-
posed, n.'only by the he4ySannoriacting,:thei stubborn+
and determined fighting to,Aorep.Lonriwaz throngh (we hear.
it is 7,t0 10 miles lopg), b 'pAy.,>'t,he rapid'and secret move-
ment of what amount of tr 5 ,StliqyAtite*.Mlt, that it was`
through.' here we &terrain i, ' ittintfd lavoid,,theheavy
siege, guns, erected „in forisi. ' Vtllahama, and iterFible
defiles,.&c., bolyefep.,'o 14 t :inchester, arid moved large
bodies of their troops acre* e;iiffoaiiiilfrOrn..l licloVey's
Gap; taking-quick= tdrantageiti whibh hßOrey '. 'advanced.
with great rapidity, brigadelaikkilisisions af,cayalry, with
infantry, artillery, &c., el:v 4414040,.;`Tid with but
little fighting; pushed his sth;;..'6mY'tlireukh the 'GaP.'
The mounted iniantaly4taleinii. swept :fir kound ,to! the
left of Tullakonati, • bill thtAriti,lfod4.4::r.igge , over the,
river in the rear of the .tOwn, tblis cuitting oftall chai"ei of
Bragg (who `promised Ills nile)dH a iligtiill6l aiiV Aelory
there) getting army iis•train o.4ctilleisitAtrittinoi4feund-.
ing and terrifying hina,that tlapikl4,tlite,is forfittt api'breast-
works, three heavy ,9.2-poun4r,. &Os, .tinclf. »skedaddled.'
Thus ended the capture of a 'PlaCnAtst Aii,* dtettAeel ;:ft m.
all reports fearing that'when weeelitrammdAwrO4itliMinayi
of us would bite the dust ere the4ltcpßgdefvocss e4ctekby
the rebels could be taken. 'Twae'a splendid piece of strategy
quickly and daringly sifected*tl •Itsq„lrentaikell tittVed'
a number of lives, while the Smith= arnw ie thclughly
disheartened, disorganised to some aaten,t, rtilo,Brahglaated
for a tyrant, coward, and liar, ail .tl4e CO'aiedip4veho have
themselves up in hundreds and-ttle' prieeiters.a*cleaeriers!
inform us. We counterrnarched,lind'a weary 4131•Ineilne
had we; holes in the reads big eztaugh: to enotilph anarray
waggon, see' through wheat, corn, • oats, ancltrye fields wer
waggens, artillery, &c.,-moved (the axes 'slignesdetenfPo-
rary roads through the woods), atrlengtla the
Manchester pike,...and in good spirits marched briskly along
through the celebrated Hoovey's Gap.., CaMifell that night
at Beech•grove, on. a steep hill, when Our.treein came 14;
and there I bad a sweet Ihne of it„ 14 hridt6dimf iittirlutts.for
my men and issue them ;' et shoot''-sacks,SviistiJver I Wald
get, serve out 60 rounds- '_4o the 'lanai amoiint-.-eiftridges
to each man; hunt u/iiii the pile of knapsacks, dog-tents.,
&c., my 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. We 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
it 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 most
wearying, fretful, and annoying thingthat could occur when
all were anxious to push through and get over whatever
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
fiat 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 69th Bli-
nds 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 day, 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 got 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, &c., 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, v 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 the
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
out surveying the 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 largo
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 guard the post. Thank God,
everything is looking favourable for the Union cause—
Vicksburg fallen, Port Hudson also; Johnstone whipped
by Sherman, Meade driving Lee out of Pennsylvania and
Maryland with enormous losses-33,000 killed, wounded,
and prisoners-91,000 prisoners Union troops took this
July, the simultaneous advance of all our armies and at
about the same time, and from every direction, the attack
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 an advance any time that suits us, will give the
Southern fellows more than they have men or time to
attend to ; and I do pray and trustfully hope that by
this day twelve months the South shall be crushed, the
arch-traitors who mind this tearful stavggle be dead or

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 waste. A very
great deal depends on the cooking. Many of the above
articles would bo 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, stout, heavy 14-stone fellow I was.
Vm 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 lace 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. In 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 is 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 eau to keep themselves and. their clothes clean.

the eves Aae,...marningeeempany or evening bate
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-guarde. then, with insects of various
kinds that-prey on Jou man flesh we're bothered; nits (like
a bug) go he,ed, and. shoulders into yaur flesh, and you can't
get them out without soaking them in tobacco juice; then
there'd a big-siied`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 ;tlie camp 'fired beat off pretty well ;'yet they
come with :their noisy hum, and then what a slap you give
yourself; )11.t,' Miss 'Kitty' slopes, and don't get hurt. Also
the villanelle small black ant and poison-spiders as big as
hezel-nuts—aye, and larger. 'Tie scarcely a week since one
of ouitaen had to come to camp off picket ; he was bit while
asieep,by one of them under the eye, and his whole face
and n9ck swelled up, The doctor gave him a lotion which
reduc'dd the swelling, bettit 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 Murfreehborbugh 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
*and 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
'clay "eie heard cannonading, and when the officer of the
'day came round at dusk with the countersign and rally-
ing call, ho told us,to be on the alert, expecting an attack.
!was not long on post, the night clear without moon,
when the whole wood seemed teeming withlife'; the in-
sects in the leayes kept them in a rustle, the ,squirrels
fcept jumping, running, and cutting up all sorts of devil-
ment, lihich made me feel anything but comfortable; for
'I was trusting to my ears as much as to my eyes. Suddenly
stick 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 'pesikeYor a while, and in concert they'd make
the,teigla horrible; at length one orrthe other skedaddled,
and when my nerves were getting settled, 'and I supposed
all the devilmen't was over, a loud chuckling laugh burst
out in front of me, answered by a softer and less loud one.
Theslevfl,' thought 1, 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 'Alit heard. I 'could not help indulging in a quiet
laugh myselfeas I listened to them, and thought of the cir-
cumstandes 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 vire 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 loEs 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
I out—phew I look out for ghosts 1"

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE,

TAMWORTH.

A meeting of the electors of Tamworth was held
in the Town-hall, yesterday, at noon, for the par-
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 Peal, who had
(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 dote 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 Haywood seconded the motion, which
was carried with much cheering.

MR. H. T. CRAVEN, the very successful author of
the " rest 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.—The new theatre
of the Bouffes Parisiens is rapidly approaching its
completion. Floor and ceiling will be of iron, and the stairs
of clone, the latter being twice as large as in the former
house. The lighting will be most brilliant, and the venti-
lation will be arranged according to the latest improve-
ments. 860 seats will be provided, besides the ample stand-
l.