Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1861-08-16
A LOOK INTO A SECESSION mani BAG.

southern letters from all parts Of the luth
but mostly from South Carolina I found the
mail at the house Of distinguished officer of
the United States Army in whose possession
il was placed. All Of the letters had been
examined, aud their contents we're mostly so.
ciol. A single letter from the Manassas post
mentioned the estimated arrival Of troops at
Manassas, just before the late battle, at 1000
a day. This was the only public information
Of warliko importance. Some of the letters
also spoke Of the crops, and the general re-
presentation was that they were excellent,
both Of cotton and corn. Provisions. too.
seemed to be plentiful enough, but in one
letter there was a loud cry for sah, and in 9TH
ers for sugar, coffee and tea, and in another
for clothing. One might gather from the to-
tai contents. also, that there was scarcity Of
arms aud munitions Of war
But the most striking parts Of all those
letters was the intensified hate Of most Of the
writer's for the Northerners, and especially for
/" the Yankees" as most of the Northern reo-
Pile called at the South Beelzebub. in
spired by all the demons Of pandemonium,
could hardly have improvised more bitterness,
contempt OF passion. The temper Of the let
tcrs written by the women was four fold
worse than the compositions Of the men, In
ono place the dear creatures in petticoats
were threatening to get up full suits of female
garments to present To the Young men who
would not volunteer for the war tp put down
the mean invading Yankees One amiable
grl wanted her lover to kill Yankee or two,
and then me home to her arms and heart
Another female. little more boodthirsty,
bid her lover Godspccd in this work Of killing
Yankees Another hoped the horrid creatures
would be cXterminatod on the field of battle
Still another had heard and feared that the
report was true. that the horrid Yankees had
sent some of their number TO Manassas to ia-
oc,iate the Ss1herp army trih the small por
This good woman had probably heard Of two
live Yankees who visited Canada, the one
shaking hands with vcrybody. and commu-
.nica'ins the itch, and the other following close
at his heels with his boxes Of itch ointment,
which were warranted to cure At any rate
our South Carolina lady IAN Edgefeld wo-
man. | believe.) feared that the Yankees
would spread small pox, measles and every
other contagious disease to their excellent and
amiabe countrymen Of the South
In some Of the letters there was a tone Of
piety mingled with bouniiful reflections upon
Yankee hypocrisy and rascality. Now and
then there was a prayer for peace, and an
honest wish that the war was over Kind
ness and good feeling toward friends and
neighbors at home, with expressions of gall
antry for soldiers Fighting the enemies of the
South, were common enough. But toward
us poor Yankees, or Northerners, there was
no bitter thought nor coarse expression which
did not find utterance. Somebody has to an
swer for all this boiled down fanaticism and
malignity-th teachings ofa calumnious press,
of vituperative public men, and of a general
bad education
The letters read were generally not from
the so called better clnsses OF citizens. The
schoolmaster, if ever at home, was abroad
when most Of them were written. The ex-
pressions were common place, and the style
as atrocions as the sentiments uttered were
generelly pernicious and vindictiye.- Wash.
Cor. Neo York Enpress.
PRAcrIcAL JOKE OF CHIcAoo FIRE
ZoUAvE.--A member Of the New York Fire
Zouaves who went from this city to join Col
Ellsworth in April, and who, until then, had
been an industrious typo in the Chicago Tri-
b,oe office, was out on picket duty one day
last month, when the following incident oc-
CURED
An +. f. ", with rather more than the
usual supercilliousness of his race, rode up
in a carriage from the direction of Alexan-
dria, driven Of course by his servant" Zoo
zoo stepped into the road, holding his bay
onet in such way as TO threaten horse, negro
and white man at one charge, aud roared out
/" TICKETS" Mr.. V. turned up his lip, set
down his brows, and by other gestures indi-
Gated his contempt for such mud sills as
the soldier before him, ending by handing his
pass over to the darkey, and motoning him
to get out and show it to Zoo-zoo
II rittht ~ said tho lattar rlauoinfr :
|" move on. accompanying the remark with
a jerk at the coat collar of the colorcd per-
son which sent him spinning several races
down the road. " Now, sir, what do you
want :" addressing the astonishcd white
man.
White man bad by this time recovered his
tongue. " What want to go on, Of course.
That was my pass.
Cant help it, replied 200 " it says pass
the bearer, and the bearer is already passed
You can't get two men through This picket on
one mans pass
/ Mr.. " reflected a moment, glanced at the
bayonct in front Of him, and then called out
to his black man to come back. Sambo APP
preached cautiously, but fell in confusion,
when the " shooting stick" was brandished
toward his own breast.
Where's your pass, sirrh - asked Zoo
ZOO.
/ " Here. massa," said the ehattel, present
ing the same one he had received from the
gent in the carriage.
Won't do, replied the holder Of the bay
onct That passes you 10 Fairfax. Can't
let any one come from Fairfax on that ticket
MovE oS" A stamp Of the foot sent Sambo
down the road at a hand galiop.
Now. sir, if you stay here any longer,
shall take you under arrest to headquarters
he continued.
/ Mr.. V. grabbed up his lines. wheeled a.
round and went off at the est trot his h,rses
could manage over the sacred soil. Wheth-
or Sambo ever hunted up his master, is not
known. - Chicago I,iLape.
| One Of the Fire Zouayes. who bad been in
the battle OF Bulls Run and ramoscd worry
soon thereafter, was recognized near Wash
invton Market. in this city day or two ago,
" What the devil are you doing here = asked
/ the acquaintance when be recognized him.
- Got leave Of absence 20 MOI Numbered
the Zouave. E" got the word to fall back
at Bull Kun, aud nobody has told me to halt,