Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-03-22
Affairs AID Opinions. at c,,sraes.on.
MARTIAL Law,

MARTIAL LAW.
\ correspondent Of the Philadelphia
Bn}Fetta writes on the 10th:>
Martial law being now established on
all the islands iii the channel, It is ox-
trelnely difficult for any stranger TO Oh
taiaa permit to visit them. 4 sail boat
and glass, however, answers every pur-
pose, and your readers may derena, if
hostIlities commence, that they will he
furnished with the most minlte dctail;
| Of the exciting events which must then
transplre. | have no opportunity, at
present, OF knowing whether tAe martial
law established so recently as Friday,
on Morris Island, viii interfere with
Major anderson market arrangement;
rhe has for some weeks obtaiue;t all his
provisions from that point Inferha
ton was given NE this morning that
/ General Beaure3arl has authority from
Jefferson Davis to stop his supplies at
any moment There arc other very im
portant and inoonycuicnt results from
| this csta biishment Of martial law. The
residents Gn the islan2ls ere quite
numerous, and their communication
with the city is entirely suspended, ez-
cept under a special permit from head
quarters. This is felt very severely by
the la5oring classes, and is, | am happy
to inform you, breeding great dissatis-
faction amongst them.
DISSATISFACTION AMONG THE TROOPS.
The leading spirits Of the South
Carolina army-General. Dunnovant,
Colonel Gregg, and others, are much
chaarined at the many faults foand by
General Reaure@ard, They certainly
imagined that they were perfect, pro
fdigies in military science. The General,
however, decides that their batteries are
much 100 close together This is
evidently true, for en the Fort johnson
side all those possessing even moderate
powers, either fer resistance OF attack ,
are within a stones throw Of each other,
The same guns, therefore, on Fo.t Sum
ter, which could silence one, could de-
stroy the other; and, again, in case Of a
war steamer entering the harbor, with
reinforcements, if one shot failed, she
might be out Of range before another
could reach her-she passing, as it were,
all the batteries at onca. These serious
oversish hts have certainly the tendency
to cause the chivalry TO look with less
elfeomplacency on their military skill
than they have been want to do during
the past six weeks.
You are, OF course, aware that great
exertions haSe been made over the whole
South, in The true as well as in the tru-
ant States, to obtain recruits For the
Southern army, four or five weeks since,
one hundred and seventy -fonr men were
enlisted at Memphis, Tennessee. The
most absurd promises were made to
them They we're to be quartered in the
first hotels, and to live like princes
During the journey, the treatment they
received induced seventy -four Of them
to desert, and one hundred only were
brought TO Charleston These, then,
with the rest Of the regular army, % are
suffering, and complaining most bitterly
of the deception which has been
pract;ced toward them. They are now
on the island, badly clad. with not even
straw beds to sleep upon, with scanty
food, sersed out to them in very small
rations, and, in all respects, are treated
more as slaves than 1reemen. Do not
be surprised, if in my next letter, |
haye to chronicle a mutiny amongst the
men. They are ripe for it, and only re-
quire a leader. .-... ......,......-ss..
THE CoNFEDERACT UNPOPULAR.
There is certainly one cause Of rejoie-
ing amidst all this misery, and that is
the growing dissatisfaction of the people
with their new rulers. Mr.. S-tt, u
pominent secession leader here, received,
during the past week, a letter from a
friend of his in Montgomery, in which he
stated that he considered the new Gov
ernment almost as bad as the one against
which they had rebelled, and there are
hundreds and thousands in the. neigh
boring State of Georgia who believe it
is great deal worse, and who will be
heard to say so ere March is gone.
Mr. Pcttigfew, Union man and pa
triot, left here for Washington on Fri
day. l wish | could attach some polit-
zeal significance to his visit. | have no
doubt that he will, while there, avow his
allegiance to the Government of TIE
United States, and enter his protest
against TIE wicked and felorious course
pursued BY his State.
Can County seccde.