Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-18
ARMY MATTERS.
THE ROADS IN VIRGINIA,

The soil beyond the Potomac is light,
loose and porous, aud the roads since the
recent rains have been 80 thoroughly cut up
by the heavy army wagons, that they have
already become nearly impossible. As the
season advances this impedimeut to trans
portation will increase. Already the cavalry
wade through mud knee-deep to the horses,
in some places, and wagons sink to the hubs.
How either can make time or even pass
through the country at all, at a later period,
is question of difficult solution.
REBEL WAR POETRY.
The following is copied from the head of a
sheet of letter paper, found in a deserted
rebel camp in Western Virginia. These
lines, together with likeness of JEFF Davis,
are printed in red ink;
"stand firmly by your cannon,
Trust in GOD and DAVIS,
But-keep your powder dryl"
Coupling the name of the Deity with that
of Davis, is profanity Of the most atrocious
character.
Army chaplains will be glad to know,
that by the terms of an order from the Ad-
iutant Generals Office in Washington, all the
black sheep among them are to be expelled
from the camps. The order reads as follows;
"Any person who has been mustered into
service as a chaplain, who is not regularly
ordained clergyman of Christian denomina.
ton, will be at once discharged, without pay
or allowance. Every one now mustered
must be certified to as being regularly or.
dained clergyman, as above stated"
The approaching winter must tell crush.
ipgly upon the spirits of the rebels. Cut of
from all communication with the world the
necessaries of life trebled in value; denied
the luxures to which they have all theil
od
without credit, without the skill to turn theil
feeble resources to account; what o dreary
look. out into the future And then theil
army without tents; without blankets
without leather to make harness and shoes
without coffee or grog; without even salt tC
season their rations Their sea board
menaced; large fleets keeping watch ant
ward at their harbor entrances and the
mouths OF their rivers; formidable expe
ditions swoopiDg down upon their coasts, in
vestiDg their fortresses and capturing theil
commercial towns
THE sEcEssIoNIsTs OF FAIRFAX COUNTY.
Fairfax County, below Alexandria, il
sparsely settled, and has poor soil. SooI
after the occupation of Virginia by our troops
over dozen families left for the South, tax
ing their chattels with them in some in
stances 6nd they have not yet returned
Mr.. Mason, a leading Secessionist, who has
| fine estate below Hunting Creek, has not lef
his house for months. Near his lawn Gen
eral Jameson has fixed his head quarters
and on his farm are several camps. He is
cousin of James NJ. Mason, and has been seek
| ing permission to 60 beyond our lines to an
| other place which he owns, few miles below
The Second Regiment of New Hampshir
volunteers has sent home more than $l2, 90
of the last payment. Difficult to put gen
uine Yankee where he can't "save up littl
something"
The following United States troops wer
in California at the most recent dates Th
Sixth Infantry, ten companies; part of th
Fourth Infantry; part of the First Cavalry
and part of the Third Artillery. Lieutenant
| Colonel Andrews, of the Sixth Infantry,
In command at Fort Yama, with four CON
panic of his regiment, and is prepared fo
any emergency. .f
The Fifteenth Pennsylvania Regimen
has been ordered to Kentucky, over th
Bellefontaine and Indianapolis and Jefferson
vile Railroads.
The Sheriff of Wayne County, Indian
Joseph S. Stidham, resigns his Office, wort
$4,000 a year, in order patriotically to rail-
company for the war.
No visitors are allowed within the Nav,
yard at Washington, that the preparatiol
there being made may be kept from IL
public.
Ten thousand army blankets, for whic
orders were sent to England by GovernC
Andrew, of Massachusetts, are probably O
their way from England at this time. tt
State has now on hand sufficient blankets [
supply the wants of the regiments expecte
to leave for active service.
Two more Massachusetts regiments, IL
Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh, are {
leave for the South this week. They a.
now encamped at Worcester and Sprinl
field.
The two new side.wheel steamers no
building at the Portsmouth Navy-yard hay
been named the SebGgo and MahaSkd, fro
two lakes in Maine.
The Berdan Sharpshooters at Washing
ton are receiving lessons in regiment
skImishing, as well as company skirmisl
ing, and taught to serve as an Infantry ba
talon. They are drilled altogether by IL
bugle, two bugles being the allotment fl
each company. The heavy rifles, varyiL
from fourteen to thirty pounds in weigh
are to be discarded, and Sharp's breecf
loading rifles substituted.
|
THE LANE misunderstanding of Il
character of the Lane bandtti may be il
ferred from an incident which recently o
curred at Kansas Uity, Mr. MaQraW