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Another Chapter In Yankee vandalism.
Rrnsn The pnier,luro fYaN Ernresa. Oct. o.

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another chapter In Yankee Vandalism.
From the Petersburg (vs) Express, Oct. o.
The Rev. DR.. Boeock, late of Georgetown, and
now Chaplain in the army Of the Potomac related
in the Tabb Street Presbyterian Church, during the
forenoon services on Sunday, the particulars Oh an
outrage in Fairfax county, lately PerpetraIe3 py
the Northern Vandals which was characterized by
even more than the usual atroelV OF ther tnIehish
and lawiess performances.
The late Commodore Ap Catesby Jones, who died
before Lincoin's election and whose name was
therefore wholly unconnected with the scenes OF
the present war was an officer of high standing in
. the service of the old Government In the war of
1872 be distinguished himself in the naval opera
tons at at and below New Orleans in Jaoksons bril-.
liant campaign. In the Mexican war he was In COM
maDd on the Pacific coast and contributed actively
and eecually to the conquest of California. Grown
grey in the service of his country he returned home
from the Pacific and spent his declining years in
cultiyating and beauti ying his farm in Fairfax,
near Washington. Here he closed his useful and
wellspent lite, while the flag OF an unbr0ken Union
still waved from the National Capital His widow
and daughters continued to reside in this favorite
retreat His son held commission in the Federal
Navy, and at the time hostilities between the
North and South commenced, was with his ship far
away from his native land.
Such was the condition Of Commodore JOness
family when the Vsndals crossed the Potomac at
Washington to invade Virginia.
The widow and daughter were warm sympathiZ-
ers with the South, and took no pains to conceal
their patriotic preference, The farm on which
they resided was in the vicinity Of the Yankee ar
my, and it was not long Sefore they were made to
experience the utter insecurity of their peace and
property when SO near those pests of civilization
and blurs of humanity-the Yankees. Their pre-
mises seized and their domestic sanctuary Vio
lated by an armed force. Their cattle were driven
off, their slaves captured aud sent away, their hen
roosts robbed their pig pens pundered their poul-
try yard devastated and their stables, granaries
barns and cribs all rfed of their contents. Nor
this all. The Vandals entered the yelling house of
these unprotected ladies' knocked the furniture pie
ces, defaced valuable pictures which adorned thu
walls and then destroyed the building thus turning
the window and her daughters 'cut doors in state
OF utter cestitution, and changing their condition
from sfluance TO dependence upon the cold hand of
charity. Such IN substance was the sad story told
by Mr.. BoeOck of the wrongs inflicted upon Com
modore Jones' family by the unfeeling, internal
wretches who have desecrated the sell of ViRginia
with their hoof-prints. The character of the gem
tleman as q christian minister, in which character
he recied It. it is sufficient warranty of its truth
fulness Nor did he expose the enemy's baseness
in this affair merely for the sake of exposure. He
had higher, msnlier and more generous motive.
1t was TO appeal for pecuniary assistance for the
family thus stripped of their property, that he ad
dressed his audience. He represented Mrs. Jones
and her daughters IS suffering seriously for the
comforts of life and Earnestly Invoked attention to
this aspect of their hard csse. He testified to their
fearless loyalty to the South-no truer or nobler
evidence of which conld be given by them than
the absolute ruin to which they submitted rsther
than acknowledge loyalty to the Washington Beast.
An interesting incident which Mr.. BocOck relates
shows what heroic spiritsnimates the daughter of
the deceased Commodore. The Yankees, SAID he,
before driving off the cattle, which included num-
Der of very valuable mich cows, observed to Miss
Jones that if che would promise not to allow the
"rebels" aoy benefit from retention Of them, they
would be left in her possession, which proposition
she promptly and Indignantly rejected, whereupon
they were all sent away and the work of devssts-
ton made complete.
Mrs. Jones, to add to her suferings does not know
what has become of her son, who was in the Fed
eral Navy. He has returned, she doubts not from
his distant station, and has landed somewhere in
the country, but she has not received syllable of
information about him, and is impressed with the
painful belief that, like many of his brother officers,
under the same circumstances he has been arrested
and imprisoned by order of that most nearious and
contemplate of all upstairs, usurpers and despots
whose names disgrace the pages OF history-ABRA'
HAM LINCOLN.
And now, in view Of this peculiarly aggravated
outrage of the Yankees, who can hesitate TO brand
that race of human bpeds as the most abandoned
ignOminiOus and worthless that the sun shines up
on! For our own part, we are free to say that we
hold them in less respect than we do the Ksfries
and Uotentots of Africa, because the latter ig
Horant, untUtored savages, and therefore have no
knowledge of the difference between right and
wrong They are, for this reason eXcusRble for
the non observance of the humanities, properties
and decenCies of civilized life. But the Yankees,
whilst perpetrating acts Of war that would make
the native barbarians of Africa blush If they were
white, boast of their intelligence and learnng-of
their amazing proficiency il the arts and sciences
have their colleges, schools ather eGms, lyceums,
museums and all the pageantry of the lOftiest intel
lectual pretensions. But of what avail are these
Ostentstious embems Of mental culture against the
innate and ineradicsl vciousness and meanness of
spirit and propensity with which they endowed?
What signify educational without moral attain
ments! The greatest of scJundrels have often been
remarkable for their intellectual cleverness and
attachments. So with the Yankees. Education
does not and cannot elevate them IN the scale OF
humanity above the ru1est and most vulgar out
laws. They are naturally and incurably a d.gene
sites Tor their Gothams Bostons and Quaker Cities
are in Soudan, alongside of the TimbucIoOs Sacka-
tooe and Bsmbarras of that highly romantic negro
REGION
IN speaking thus of the Yankees, we do not of
course, embrace in our remarks sll the individuals
and tIH1iIies of that remarkable race. There are
here and there honorable exceptions to their gen
era and genuine character, has been developed
by this war. When we speak of them IS we I'VE
wish to be understood as describing the additions
ized demoraLzed and bestislized Northern instiga
tors and supporters of this war. They constitute
the Yankee race which we have ouch good cause TO
desplse and denOunCe IS we do. They are the vii
famous type Of humanity which we speak Of for
they form nne-tenths, if not a much larger proper
tiOn of the w8r-shouters and War-monsters of the
North.