Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-11-29

on the siding they have dug rife pits, and
keep up regular system of pickets of consid-
cradle strength. They still occupy the fort in
view OF Edwards Ferry, and on Sunday dis
played full regiment on parade, just below
the fort.
Gen. G. W. Smith is now commanding at
Leesburg and over the surrounding country.
Exchange of Prisoners.
1t will be seen by our news columns, that
the Lincoln government is retreating from its
position in regard to prisoners, and is now
seeking an exchange. Not, indeed, in that
frank, honorable manner in which it should
be sought, but covertly and indirectly 1t is
strange that Lincoln and his Cabinet do not
see how they thus expose themselves to ridi-
cule and increase the shame which they seek
to hide. They virtually tell the world that
their poverty and not their will consents -
that it is an exceedingly bitter pill they have
to take but that necessity compels them to it.
Among the prisoners whom they thus propose
to exchange, are five resigned U. S. Naval
officers, whom they arrested in oston, at the
moment of resigning. Prisoners thus cap
tured, they ask us, in the deaf and dumb dia-
lect, to exchange for men taken on such fields
I
4 proposition disgeaces them.--Richmond En-
quirer, NoU. Is.
No Lack of Salt.
! Mr., Hill, residing near Bethany, Iredell
county, in company with seven wagons, re-
turned from the Salt Works, near Abingdon,
4 Virginia. last Saturday. heavily freighted
with salt, of the best quality, which was pur.
chased at fifty cents per bushel. Mr.. Hill says
] n up rly ara t1rn ouf Inn bn1c do
and the article can be had by the 20, 900 bush.
els any day. This indeed is good news. But
let salt likewise be made at Wilmington and
Norfolk. -IredeU Express.
The Presidents Message.
The Richmond Wing of "Wednesday, in
commenting ON the message of President Da-
Wis, says:
eve are two people from this time forth
we are aware the Yankees are determined,
happen what may. If they cannot conquer
us their calculation is they will be conquered
by US, and they have made up their minds to
submit tamely TO their fate. Well, if we must,
we must though we shall have great aversion
to the task. Our choice is that of drubbing
them soundly and making them pay the ex-
penses of war, and turn them loose upon
themselves prey to their own wild passions. ,
Negro Fidelity.
The Savannah Republican, of the 18th in
stant has the following paragraph:
We have heretofore stated that in the retreat
from Hilton Head, Capt Read was compelled
to abandon two brass field pieces, and leave
the horses grazing on the Island Saturday
last, faithful negro man, the property of
Mr.. Pope, who resides on the Island captured
all the horses of the battery, sixteen in num-
Der, placed them in fat, brought them to
Savannah, and delivered them to the Captain.
We also learn that the guns have been recov-
cred and will be up in day or two.
TYRTKus IN AMERICA. The London Rerietc
in an article which commences by giving Lord
Chatham credit for a we'll known saving,
whose authorship in reality belongs to Fetch
er Of Satoun, has undertaken to amuse its
English readers with what il calls specimens
of the war minstrelsy of Yankeedom" The
Review takes up first Of all the song of the
Massachusetts, 18th, which we are told was
sung by that regiment in the streets of Balti-
more, and Rockville "greatly to the disgust
! of the Southerners." That
Ellsworth body lies mouldering in the
grave"
the English critic regards as correct enough
as matter of fact. But that when the minstrel
further asserts
His soul's n marching on,
the declaration must be taken "rather as the
confident expression of an hypothesis" On
/ the whole the Review is Of the opinion that
the stanzas about Ellsworth and Grcble and
| Lyon ''as poetry, would disgrace the belmar
at Christmas" The next song critically con
sidered is about Gone Benney Ravens" which
/ is summarily dismissed as "doggrel" In con
clusion, some ballads from the pen of Mr.
upper, which "have lately appeared in thu
/ American papers, " are taken up and dissecled
/ The sarcasm which perSades the entire article
is certainly not undeseryed but, whilst thu
/ published specimens Of Northern war lyrici
are discussed with contempt, the Southerners
do not escape censure for adopting "a New
York niger melody as their national air. -
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