The Placer herald., 1861-10-26
A Princes Opinion.

Prince apOleOn says OF Neueral ocott, luit
'.he has the air of a man whose career is ended
Mcclellan he says, sis a man Of 50 years of age,
very small in stature, with black hair and mus
taches, an intellgen open and most agreeable
eountenance, and a simple and modest bearing"
and as one who, if seen in the streets of Paris,
would be taken ito be u French officer of engi-
neers or artillery Mcdowell he likens to a
French officer of infantry, and having the type
of chief of battalion of foot chasseurs.
In noticing Beauregarl he concludes with, ''to
sum up all, the South has ound in him man of
an uncommon ardor. a ceaseless activity and in
domitable power of wll-characters by which
We recognize the men destined to win battles
and to lead parties"
OF General Johnston as one who placed in
the field Of battle ''the true warrior re-appcars in
him az if by enchantment" The Prince makes
u dash at
THE SOUTHERN STAFF OFFICERS.
1.-The stats Of the GenerAs-in Chief (Beaure-
gard and Johnston) are remarkable. II the
United States were not Republic l would say
that those stats are composed OF the Hover OF
the Southern nobility. Most of them possess
enormous fortunes.
"Disinterestcd in this civil war n stranger to
the hatreds, the passions and the interests which
have infamed it, could not feel otherwise than
touched at the sight of some of those white NOUS
tached men of military, aristocratc bearing and
distinguished manners, who have left their tIIni-
lies their fresides and high social positions to
serve as aids in the rudest of wars to young
Generals hitherto unknown.
The Prince visited the camp at Manassas,
shortly after the battle Of the 2l<t July. Here
is what he says of the sodiery, generally:
''At first sight an idea may be formed Of the
Secession soldiers exterior. The question of
uniform, not fully solved in the North, is not
thought of at all ut the South. 1t would seem
that the attempts at uniform have not got beyond
the distribution among some corps Of kind OF
mcket of heavy grey cloth, manufactured in
Virginia. The clothes, whether Of regular uni
form or fancy. are all in a very bad conditions;
the soldier. nevertheless, preserves beneath his
rags an aspect sufficiently martial. and perfect
order reigns in the camp and at the posts"
But the most graphic picture is that of the
horsemen. He says:
What strikes one most is the cavalry, which
is very numerous, admirably mounted. and COM
posed of superb men, 1t is plain, at the first
glance that those men are the sons of farmers
and landowners, that their horses are their own
and that they are accustomed if not to arms n
least to a rough country life. Besides nothing
is more picturesque than those Southern cavaliers
They wear the most impossible costumes, wofull,
dilapidated by 4 three months bivOuac; hat
without crowns, boots without sOles, with an al
and heroic bearing that Don Caesar de Bazal
would have cnved. And since those ragged
cavaliers have as fine, energetic. Virginia faces N
their horses are magnificent. which they manage
with great daring, one is filed with admiration
Just as we admire the fantastic figures of the war
rors created by Salvador Rosa,