The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-08-29

correspondence OF the New York Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Ang 6, 1861.
The most curious and saddenng sight have
seen is the contents of secession mail bag, ia
ken at Centreville; and filled with letters from
all psrts of the South, and mostly from South
Carolina | found the mail at the house of a
distinguished officer of the United States army,
in whose possession it had been placed. All of
the letters have been examined, but the con-
tents are mostly social. A single letter from
the Manassas post mentioned the estimated ar
rival of troops at Manassas lust before the bat
tie, at 1000 day, This was the only informa-
ten of warlike importance. Some of the letters
also spoke of the crops and the general repre-
sentabon was that they were excellent, both of
cotton and corn. Provisions, too seemed 10
be plentiful enough, but in one letter there was
a loud cry for salt, and in others for sugar, cof
fee ard tea, and in another for clothing One
might gather from the total contents also, thai
there was scarcity of arms and munitions of
war.
But the most striking part of all those letters
is the intensified hate of most of the writer's for
the Northerners and especially for " the Yam
KEGS" as most at the Northern people are called
at the South. Beelzebub, hims elf, inspired by
all the demons of Pandemonium, could hardly
have improvised more bitterness, contempt OF
passion. The temper of the letters written by
the women was fourtold worse than the compo-
slhons OF the men. In one place, the " dear
creatures in petticoats were threatening to get
up iui suits OF female garments to present TO the
young men who would not volunteer for the
war TO put down the mean, invading Yankees
One amiable girl wanted her lover to kill
Yankee or TWO and then come home TO her arms
and heart. Another girl, a little more blood
thirsty, bade her lover God speed in his work
of killing Yankees Another hoped the bor
rid creatures wonld be exterminated on the
field of battle Still another had heard. and
feared the report was true, that the horrid Yam
KEGS had sent some of their number to Mansss
as to inoculate the Southern army with the
small pox! This good woman had probably
heard of the two live Yankees who visited Can
ada, the one shaking hands with everybody and
communicating the itch, and the other follow
ing close at his heels with his itch ointment,
which was warranted TO cure! At any rate, our
South Carolina lady Can Edgefeld woman, ]
belve) feared that the Yankees would spread
the small pox and every other contagious dis
case to the excellent and amable countrymen
of the South
In some of the letters there was a tone of pi-
ETY. mingled with bountiful reflections upon
Yankee hypocrisy and rascality. Now and
then there was prayer for peace, and an hon
est wish that the war was over Kindness and
good feelings toward friends and neigbbors at
home, with expressions of gallantry for 'ssol-
diers Sighting the enemies of the South were
common enough. But toward us poor Yankees
or Northerners, there was no bitter thought nor
coarse expletivowhich did rot find expression
SOMEBODY has to answer for all this boiled down
ianauclsm and malignity-the teachings of a
caiumhlous press OF vituperative public men, and
of a general bad education.