New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-25
CONrEnERATE ALLIES.

half, and thus secure unlimited supplies of slave
holding gratitude and cotton, their real allies
are close at hand and very formidabIe-nay, they
bave effected lodgment in the very camps o
the Union armies. Their games are Drunken
ness and Rapine; and they have done aud arr
doing more harm 10 the Union cause than al
its declared enemies from Fort Lafayette TO Mat
amoras. Those enemies are malignant and
cralty-they avoid fair and equal meeting
with the Unionists, but deal deadly blows wher
by surprise and superior local knowledge they
catch us at a disadvantage but their ally Ruu
Arrays has us of a disadvantage, for be knows
our weak points by instinct, and glides By our
pickets and sontnels ike a magician who has
the power of rendering himself invisible OF
will.
In vain are General Orders issued forbidduG
his approach; how can tbOy be enforced WHOM
Rum is haiI.loIlow with officers as well as phi
Yates, and welcomed in tue coOnefs marquee
rs well as by the soldiers biyouac Some
DAYS are incleucnt: then the soldier likes to
fortify himself against cold and wet by insdous,
treacherous Liquor; other. are fire, calllDg
for long marches or fatiguing work in telling
trees or digging trenches and the soldier wants
to bo braced up with grog. II duty is severe
bo must drink if he eau get it; and If lie has
n playspelI, how can he enjoy 1t without his
teddy SO the soldier drinks, aud at best
squandcrs tho pay that should be sent TO his
needy family, while he sometimes becomes
Inaddened by liquor and acts like n very de-
mon. Let us give an example:
A regiment on the Potomac was recently or
dered ON a march of fifteen or twenty miles
II made fre or six miles the fret afternoon
and encamped. Next morning ut rol-cal,
nearly hundred we're missing No one knew
what had become Of them. ApSious inquiry
and search at length discovered them at low
drinking. house mile ur more from their cnup,
whore they bad Fret got drunk, then quaTreled,
and proceeded TO OutTGges, whereof the net
result was one man killed, severn! horses ard
hogs either killed or so mutilaied as to be
worthless &c. That regiment had TO be ordered
back, aud another ,c1t IA ia stead, While Tn
tor ruined property. aud has lost one Il not
two soldiers And this - n fair specimen OF
RUNS doipgs in the army.
OF course, ell DO not 80 drink, nor half, nor
perhaps quarter but enough do to effect n
friRhtful amount Of evil, AID render the life
of good commander one Of painful anxiety
and sorrow. Liquor has, up 10 this hour,
done the Union cause more harm than any
ffiy regiments in the rebel armies.
Tho twin ally OF treason is l;apiue, Whether
il take the form Of plnbder or that of wsntcu
destruction. The track OF Oh army Is too hpl
to be marked by desolation, but il need not be
By wicked waste a0d crime. We hoar much
Of the devastation committed by rebel forces on
their march through Missouri ard Kentucky,
and il il doubtless oil true. On the deVa-ta
lions committed by our own soldiers, our re-
ports are generally silent; but this does not
alter the facts. a regiment or brigade halts
for the night, and at once tears up & mile OF
valuable fences 10 make its fires, though fuel
"a at hand that is Of little value. Often pig
pens and out-houses are sacrificed 20 the
lanes; even doors are Wrcnched from their
hinges and piled on TO insure the coveted
warmth with the least trouble. IL hOHse is
1eserted-as it well may be, even by the
,tauchest UniOuists-it is entered and stripped
Of all that may contribute to the comfort Of
the bvouac or the march; and often wsnton
damage AID ruin are added TO spoliation.
Finally, the premises look too bad TO leave US
a witness against the msrauders; 30 some
bold, reckless villain applies the torch; and
next morning sees nothing but wreck of
chimney and heap Of blackened ruins to tell
that a dwelling stood there but yesterday.
Next night may witness kindred spectacle
farther on, aggravated, perhaps, by shameful
Insults TO women and ruiiian abuse OF their
protectors And thus Thousands who were
friendly TO the Union cause, or Of the worst
indiiierc {, arc rapidly transformed into Phren-
zied, impacablc enemies.
Personal Outragcs on tie defeIseless, we re-
ioice TO believe, have been very rare on either
side, but they are not absolutely unknown;
while RSpine, prompted BY INVESTIGATION, IS lar
too common. Commanders will not believe IL;
everything is made tidy and iair.seeining when
the word is passed that they are cOmingi but
that matters little. Ride across the Potomac
from Washington, and you VIII sec tho ruins Of
goodly dwcllings--many of them those OF stanch
were in good preservation when
the rebels last left them few weeks age;
you will see farms stripped Of fences and sub
jccted to general devastation; you will see many
things, but no pigs or chickens; aud We are pn-
vatey assured that Wholesale plundering has
marked the track of two divisions OF Gen.
Er.rnout,a nrln. In the henrt Of Missonri. Oh