Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-03-22

Great exertions have been made over
the whole South, in the true as well as
in the truant States, TO obtain recruits.
For the Southern army, four or five
weeks since, ia men were enlisted at
Memphis, Tenn. The most absurd promi
Uses were made to them. They were to
be CHARTERED in the first hotels and to
live like princes. During the journey
the treatment they received induced "a
of them TO desert, and 100 only were
brought to Charleston. These, then with
the rest of the "regular army" are suf.
fering and complaining most bitterly o.
the deception which has been practiced
toward them. They are now on the is,
land, badly clad, with not even straw
beds 10 sleep upon, with scanty food
served out to them in very small rations
and in all respects, are treated more a;
slaves than freemen.
Gen. Scott is the best abused man il
the country at the present time. Iany
of the Southern papers are boiling over
with fury and wrath. Read what the
Florida Sentinel, published at TalIahas.
see, says of him:
"Our Indignation, contempt, and alb
horrence of this plebeian demagogue
(Lincoln) are only equalled by what we
feel for his friend and adviser, the traitor
to the home Of his birth, 'the jackass in
politics, and Jupiter in vanity, Lieuten-
ant General Winfield Scott. If there be
not some chosen curse, some hidden
thunder in the store of heaven, to blast
this wretch who causes his country's ruin,
the curse Of unborn millions will damn
him to the lowest depth of human deg
radiation"
The Richmond Examiner, edited by
John NJ. Daniel, in the course Of a recent
diatrbe on Gen. Scott, says;
"The infamy of this man constitutes
no small portion of the crushing load Of
shame under which Virginia is now
struggling She gave birth to this unnat-
ural monster. She las heaped honors
and rewards upon this war mandarin of
the Abolitionists. That Scott was born
in Virginia is a misfortune which cannot
be remedied but there are means by
which the State may brand him with the
marks of her indignant scorn."
That BATTERY.--The following,
which We copy from the New Bedford
Sa'dard, is the last story about the
floating battery at Charleston. The sea-
ia ug young man who is the author of
the report, has probably hoaxed our
friends of the Standard, as they will
doubtless learn from Charleston exchan-
ges in about a week:
"A young man was in this city last
week, who few days previously came
in a vessel loaded with cotton from
Charleston to New York. While there
he says he visited the famous battery
which was built 10 demolish Fort sum
ter. He says that there were no sand
bags nor cotton to strengthen the Interior
as has been reported, a. the corners
there were left holes in the bottom
through which it was intended to drive
spiles to anchor the battery while attack
ng tie fort. While he was there, the
concern was one day taken down near
Fort Pinckney and tested by being fired
at The first ball shattered the coating
Of railroad iron on which so much reli.
ance had been placed, and the two Of
three which followed, began to produce
an effect on the woodwork. The work
men engaged On the thing would not re
main in her during the trial. The
Charlestonians generally were ashame,
of their failure and kept as silent a
possible about it.