Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-08-22

the match is applied
1t strikes me from what have seen that the
Federal troops will have to be managed with
skill and caution in the face of the Coniederatcs.
The latter will fight with animosty and desper-
alton, tempered by military knowledge of
certain kind that may neutralizo the advantages
possessed in numbers by the North as well as
other points. The politicians are eager to grasp
the prize and to bring their machinery into
play, to round of the rough edges, forgetting
that they must first clear the ground by armed
force for the lever. Every man, of course,
here believes he can write a leading article, row
boat, drive gig, or fight battle, and have
heard men, with high military titles, who for
their lives could not form regiment in square or
occupy farm house, talk about operations in
the field rs if they were elementary portions of
the arithmetic table.
ARLINGTON NIGHTS.
Slowly toiling past camps, eorthworks filed
with cannon and volunteer soldiery, up toward
q hight covered with trees, the party gained the
plateau on the top of which stands Arlington
House and the camp of the New York Regi-
ment, who were just turning out for evening
parade. They were drawn up in line, having
wheeled into it from columns of companies,
and the eve was at once arrested by certain
white cross-bes breaking the uniformity of the
line of black waist-belts as well as by other de-
ficiencies of uniformity. But the men were,
take them all in all, above the average of good
Infantry regiments. A strong body Of drum
mers on the French model beat some noisy
rappc the colors were saluted, then arms were
shouldered, or sloped, Or presented; rear rank
took open order, and then the whole regiment
was exercised in run at the double round the
camp, with the noisy drums at their head and
the parade seemed over.
The approach to Arlington House bore marks
of rough usage and the mansion itself, very
ugly editice, which looks as if the artist at first
intended to build Il methodist meeting g-house,
and had got as far as Doric portico of stupen-
dous dimensions when he was suddenly moved
to continue his designs with view to found a
unatic asylum of the Hanwe type. may not be
the better for the presence Of the military. The
rooms inside are lofty and comfortable enough.
Some of the walls are decorated with remarka-
he works by Mr.. Custs, who evidently did not
possess the advantages OF drawing master,
and had natural limited capacity for art but
the true patriot has a soul above color or form,
and as the works in question are intended to
immortalize the overthrow of the British rule,
and destroy tyranny "aimoSt as bad as
that which the North exercises over the South
according to the Confederate orators and
writers-critcism may hold its tongue. For
me was as proud as an Anglo-SaXon to behold
the stoicism of my countrymen. who were meet
ing death on every side with an unyarying ex
preston of countenance, mouths shut, eyes
wide Open and cooked hats at the same angle
and I.accepted the uniformity of their attitude
demeanor, and general department as tribute
forced from the enemy by the regularity OF then
death and the sterness of their discipline, IN
which even the immortal Washington himself
..,1 IN
Belerophon, TO which the gods had given the
head of goat and the name of a lion, hC
smiled blandly and admiringly on the slaughter
and took occasion to keep 1is eyes on the field
by directing them to opposite points OF th'
| compass.
BY way of antidote one could step out on th'
! portico, and, looking across the.Potoinac, res
his eyes on the soft landscape dotted with tents
and broken by the public buildings of Wash
ingtnn. which sweep along by Bladensburg TO
ward the undulating horizon of sullen Mary
land The scene from the front Of the houso i
charming, but good scenery i, out of place-a
least, descriptions, or attempts TO describe, arr
| 50 in civil war. . As | walked round the hous,
came on a group of officers seated in front o
one of the tents and reading the inevitahl,
newspaper. The friendly introduction tool
place, and one gentleman in uniform was pre-
sented as Colonel Taylor, tall, robust man
with reddish brown 6a6e d 4Grique, mellow
eye, and a warm complexion. As he stood u
Twas sorely perplexed by the buttons on hi
coat There surely was the pelican, which j
said to be the type of Louisiana, and is con
stantly her emblem. But how came it there
Had the colonel killed his enemy, and was h
wearing his coat, or were pelcans more gener
ally difIused on buttons than | had supposed
"Your camp is prettily situated, Colonel Tay
lor." "My camp, sir have nothing to say t
it, sir. am in the army of the Conlederat
States"
DEFENCES-TIE oNWYRD MOVEMENT