The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-06
LETTER FROM GOATS. !"
r.r.o.AI oo..xsrorDKxc. OF TIE prsrArcH ]
CAMP PACE, near Williamsburg,

July 3, 1861.
Alss no news. Everything seems in stofu
secretary Of War makes the duty of cor
respondents too apparent for your especial"
to attempt TO violate a request so courteously
and go properly preferred to the press. few
days will doubtless develop much that now
seems wrapped in mystery, and the very ST.
lence at this time so tormentiDg TO the quid
nuncs viii! be shown to have been a very iow-
er of strength TO our csuse.
Before this letter will see the light, the so
called Congress of the United States" will
have met probably, and the Abolitionists per
Sc, ard the renegade wretches who once pro-
fessed to be our allies, and the traitorous viii
iains OF the Wheeling dynasty, will have ex-
changed greetings and uttered their mutual
Ldus Deos TO the "Star Spangled Hammer
the GLORIOUS Union" and Abraham Lincoln |
Yankee Doodle" will have been whist tied,
sung. played. danced, and apotheosized to the
delight of all Y ankeedom, and the pilgrim Fa-
Tiers" served mp in the most recherche Ina sh
that gullibie people ever swallowed. The glo-
rious Union! Where is III ON echo ans wers
where ~ "Gone glmmering Ike school
boys tale" ~ with big dog at his heels
For some time the solution Of the question,
"wAere is Beauregard ~ like that involved in
the identity Of the dividual who offered the
personal iDdignity to William Patterson, en-
gagged the Mort hern mind most extensively
He was killed at the storrning OF Sumter -
Some fay ored parsonage, like the fly who was
in at the death Of Cock Robin, had seen him
die. Another had caught the glitter OF his
eye q la "Ancient Mariner at Plckehs. -
Another much wiser than both these togeth
err" knew him to be in Memphis he was
and was not. He was here, he was In the
other world; he was in Washington, taking
observations he vas in Richmond, at y rk,
and where not Well, guess he'll turn up
some where else before long, and satisfy an
kee du tell and Yankee doodledoln that ne is
alive, and kicking their carcasses tnroua6
Washington the same bodies being kicked
through Baltimore into sundry shocking bad
cooked hats, perhaps the cooked hat OF tleia
Marshall Tureen.
1t is rumored that the hoary headed traitor,
Winfield Scott, is unable to feed himself on
account Of his govt. He will certainly have
to sup sorrow from the cup which his own
hands has prepared With stronger govt IMAM
that with which he has drunk down the IN
toxicating draughts OF 1lattery, by which ne
has been kept alive beyond the allotted period
of an honest aud honorable lie. Poor OLD
man! What spec tacle ! 1t is said that tie
last infirmity Of the fallen mind has long SINCE
come over his spirit-the lust and love OF gold;
aud for the large salary which MS avarlce
will not give up. though 1T CANNOT buy an ex-
emp tion from chronic torture, he IL selling MS
soul his mepliness, his State, his inheritance
of a grave in Virginia soil Well may his old
admirers say, as they contrast his present
degradation, with the glory Of his early ca
reer and bstter days:
at is enough to gyleye the heart,
Toeee nine own undonsl
To think that Gods To ir Garth has been
The birth place of d thing SO mean.
The cross eyed son of Mars, the redoubta-
BILE Brigadier General Butler, still lies safely
enscouced in Old Point; or, sending out some
thousand or SO of the representatives. OF
LYNN, Roxbury and Lowell, on tour OF OBJ
servation in advance. who report the coast
clear, he ventures as far As hampton ana, IL
is apochraphaiiy stated even as far us NeW-
port News. He would sooner this day meet a
lion in his pathway than that same Brigadier
General Magruder. And, mark my words, if
an engagement between the two forces III th'it
region occur, Butler will not be seen III Inc
fray. A constitutional coward cannot hsht.
His legs always prove rascally on the battle
field, and be sure, as Butler is cross-eyed, he
will look both ways for number one.
l am told that the old church, III Hampton,
has been most fouily desecrated by the ] an
kee soldiers. These wretches, descendants OF
the PufiCaaG, As solae OF them claim 10 De;
have torn up the pews, hrohen the organ, ana
de filed some OF the tombs by cooking upon
them On the day of their flight from Bethel
they took of the top tier of the church yard
wall at Hampton, ecting TO raily oenlno
and resist the Rebels. Doubtless, II the Con
federate soldiers had followed on, the an
KEGS pgo.ld not have stopped at the old
church even 10 slai.n the benz fir of sanctuary
The Israelites of old ser az. on cetf In Bethel,
and Randolph's battery kaockfd d0l0n
gcOdly number OF the same AT Il piitce siihlhr-
" so called.
I visited Yorktown on yesterday. There are
still several cases of sickness in the hospital
there and ! kn0t0 fbe fact that 1t would not
prove unacceptable if your good people you'd
send down all the delicacies they can, sucn al
the sick feel SO grateful for. and such as wo-
mans own intuitive knowledge would sug-
gest as suitable. Some moe mattresses would
not be out OF place, II they could be sent
an happy to state that there is no disease OF
q con tageous or infectious kind among oar in
valids al York and as the number is not
large, Il little more good nursing, ana some
nice little delicacses, with the knowledge that
the latter came from the hands 0. the good la
dies would doubtless work q charm IL the
restoration of the ''bOys."
The ladies of Williamsburg are working
with a good will for the soldiers, some Of
whom are on the sick list.
Dr Ca..rn, the Surgeon Of this post, is in
defatigabie In ts.s discharge of his duties, and
and his high medical rerl, ia ton is a sufficient
guaran tee that the sick under has charge are
in the very best hands.
[ cannot but believe that God will still sig
na!Iy favor nc il the Continn ation, as He has
so far, in the initial OF our truggle. Our en-
emies are jndiciaily blind, or they would ere
this see His hand, and be bro4ghtto acknow-
ledge that He goeth forth with onr armies
CATS.