The national Republican., 1861-08-07
WAR ITEMS.

WAR ITEMS.
The vote on ratifying the new constitution OF
Georgia shows majority Of little over 100
in its favor.
Our Fire Zouaves are Gagged at Richmond,
in factory, with bars through which the peo.
pc stare at them as curiosity.
Colonel Lander says that he had rather fight
another battle with the troops who fell back at
Bull Run than with the new l-vies. He values
the experience of one such battle highly.
The Pbiladelphia Citizens Refreshment
Committee have breakfasted between seventy
and eighty regiments since the establishment
of the coffee house. The expenses are entirely
betrayed by the voluntary subscriptions Of the
citizens.
The FATE OF RENEoApE.-Walter Norris,
son of the late ex Senator Norris, Of New
Hampshire, was killed at Bull Run. He was
q member of the Beauregard r hes, and for
many years clerk in the Post Office Depart.
ment, and resigned bis place to enter the South.
ern army.
TIE wAn FEELING IN TowA.-A private let
ter, dated at Fort Madison, Iowa, 26th July,
says,
our population from Missouri and other South.
ern States. Our whole State is in blaze on
account of the defeat at Manassas. 1t 10 an.
other Sumter for the traitors. Iowa has sent
seven regiments, and tour more are gathering.
she can send 100000 men, and will do it, II
necessary"
The statements, in the public press, that Gen.
PattersoD's column was not provided with a
sufficient number of wagons to make an advance
hao thn nano
desired the state of Pennsylvania to furnish
the necessary number, is without foundation.
General Patterson's column was we'll equipped
for transportation, BY the Q ,artermaster Gene.
raj of the army. The War Department has
not made q single contract, ell contracts bein
made by heads Of bureaus, or by their author.
lied officers.
The Oregon Democrat, rebel sheet, an.
nounces that threats are made that the mate.
rals of that paper, as well as it's editor, will be
thrown into the river before many days. Re.
! t. .rring to the circumstance, the Oregonian hu.
namely remarks.
"As great deal of the Wilismette water is
used down this way, we hope that its purity
will not he de6ed by any such abominsbly
filthy stuff being placed iu it. All the waters
of dozen Willamettes would be metsmor.
phosed into besstIy and disgusting solution
by this act, and the waters Of the world could
not wash out the stain Of treason from it's type"
The rebel Congress at Richmond has pass.
ed the following resolution:
"Resolord by Congress, That the Commit.
tee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire
into and report on the expediency Of piescri.
biug by law, while the facts are fresh and sus.
ceptible of proof some uniform mode Of taking,
authentcatng. and preserving the evidence Of
the abduction or reception, by the enemy, OF
slaves owned by any OF the Confederate states,
as also of the age, sex, and value Of said
slaves, to the end that indemnity may be here.
after exscted from the enemy"
The Mobile Evening NeWs gravely puts
forth the following proposition,
LET Gen. Bagg detail few thousand Of
his ten thousand to the work of catching
snakes, and as soon as they have collected
several cart loads of these interesting reptiles,
let tin or sheet iron shell, or canisters, be
charged With them-the enclosure being CYL.
indricsl and of size to 6t the largest mortar,
and 80 made that it will break to pieces and
liberats its contents upon falling within the
fort. We would warn those who charge the
shells to put only the same species into each,
ss, if the different snakes we're mixed, they
would sting each other to death before having
chance to operate on Billy Wilson's Z,uaves.
The corners and interstices In each shell might
be filled with few quarts Of tarantulas, scor
pions, centipedes, and lizards, however, to
make close work, as the snakes would pack
loosely"
In the battle of Bull Run, Henry Benson, of
Kenosha county, Wisconsin, fought gallantly
with his regiment, the SECOND Wisconsin. He
wa. first shot through the hand, and exclaimed,
"There goes one hand for The Union. r ally,
ball struck him near the heart. He died, ex.
claiming, "Tell my father die like man,
fighting for the Union"