New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-22
TEE sACCmANT OF BEAUFORT.

TIE BACCMANT OF BEAUFORT.
The good news from the Naval Expedition
has already as toits more momentOus details, been
discussed and digested; but distinguished per-
sou, deserving Of historical fame, who figured,
or rather who fell at Beaufort, will miss bis
immortality unless we amiably give him hoist
When Capt. Ammon, with three gunboats,
visited Beaufort on the day after the action,
"but a single white man was found in the
" village and be was drunk" Such ia the
aconism of the telegraph, than which nothing
could be more teasing; for we are left utterly
10 the dark as to the name of this cool revel.
er, who refused to intcrmit his lbations to
the God of Whisky even in the sulphurous
presence Of the God of War. In poem like
Campbells "Last Man." this sponsorial reti-
cence might DO adopted artfuIly to highten the
impression; but in matter.of-fact Annals the
hiatus is to be censured and deplorcd. If some
gentleman Of curious tlrn. had been iD-
trusted with the dispatches, be would have told
us the title Of this tipsy chevalicr who, when
all else was lost, resorted to his bottle for con-
ISOLATION; and who was found with that glass
weapon--tcium imbelie-lyiDg empty by his
manly side. These vinous views of military
duty are not novel, as the " cannkin-clink"
in Othello sufficiently attests. And does not
the old recruiting song soy, that ga soldiers
- life, if taken smooth and rough" is
"a very merry. hey down derry sor. Of life euoush"i
When care came with our cruisers, core
whisky remaned-not long, we fancy; but
still long enough for triumphant woOing OF
oblivion. Others might run, but this brave
man could mott was not in his devoted legs
to do it; Others might be craven, but be showed
no lack of spirit; and while the fugitves left
him to his fate he sIuuibered as sweetly as
ever Anacreon did upon the tbymy ground of
Tcos, ond was perfectly comfortable though
twice a captive. This singular circumstance is
TO us suggestive.
Sir Paul Rycaut relates of certain Vizier
-name given by Sir Paul. but by us forgot
ten-that after taking Gambia, he discarded ms
good Mohammcdan temperance principles, aud
getting into habit Of intOxicntion, was soon
so stupid of brain and so benumbed as to his
senses, that his superiors reformed him by u
judicious application Of the bow-String. New,
Nc have never favored letting cotton out Of
the rebel ports; but would it not be polite TO
so far relax the vigilance of the blockade as TO
let the "cratur" in If the rebels will but
promise to drink them-and of that we need
no assurance why not let them have all the
strong waters they may pant forf Why not
send them brandy in bombs, aud Old Whest
under q flag Of truce why not drop bottle
Of tipple into their camps from our balloons
Who does not see that wo might have one of
their Major Generals in a mama pota in
week Then, of course, he would fancy HIM
self to be Alexander the Great, aud in his
ioity, he would kill some Col. Clitus
whose klnsmen would XII tho General, aud bis
cousins, in turn, Clitus's cousins; and so with
a merry go-rounder Of murder, We should have
half the commissioned officers Of the Confed-
eracy dead speedily. But this Is depression.
We must return to the cup-caPtured citizen OF
Beaufort.
We are apprehensivo that Barnum has been
little rash in offering q reward Of : 900 for
the catching, and csging, and delivery at his
broadway establishment, of this 81 last man" at
Beaufort. Ii the Great Snowman was not in
earnest, he should have remembered how easily
this curiosity may be caught, and how sOOn a
bold Gordon Cumming may make prize Of such
u lion in Lis liquor. 1t viii be pretty piece
of business if, some fair morning. a van should
arrive at the Museum door, with the trenchant
tippler of Beaufort inside What would Bar
mum do His genius may extemporize tanks
for whales, or q sufficient tub for the hippo
potamus; but is he prepared to maintain q
creature who will require puncbeons upon
puucheons of the choicest brands Of Old Bour
bon The enterprise would be ruinous. The
clever manager would be obliged to raise his
prices, and that, We know, would break has
public heart In three weeks, he would be
forced to offer reward Of something more
than 81 ,OCO to anybody daring enough to take
the monster Off his hands.
We are upon tho eve Of great events.
Drinks we notice, have advanced to fifteen
cents each in New Orleans. What famine
price. or rather what droutby price, they
must be held at, then, in Richmond! What
would be the moral effect il the Rebel army
were kept absolutely sober for month ?
Would they advance TO eur lines, with re-
pentant tears in their eyes and their demijohns,
muzzles down and corks out, in their hands,
crying for quarter aud modest qdencher
We are afraid not. Madness would probably
rule the hour; and if the desPairiog sinners