New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-05-21

rr.ss,on that the dirtiuess and raggedness Of the
Rebels characterize them to our troors: These may
be accidental to the best oil artnes ana may De Tue
result Of poverty Bat in this case they were mar
monies in whole The Yorktown ruiiians were
unshorn and greasy, and ragged, and nasty became
they were the poor whites OF the Slave States,
and thew were repusiyey brutal in feature, and sly
and cullen, and vindictive ard mean, because they
were socially oppressed and injured by the huge
system of Negro Slavery in which they bad no share
regiment of Massachusetts troops uniformed out OF
RAG. bags and bedded in Broadway mud for week
would inevitably be bonored everywhere from IHE
TRrBUSr rooms TO Faneul Hall. A Rebel reg
imelt marched out OF bath, and uni
formed by Cullen in his best and newest,
would be fallen on by the whole police force Of New
York City, and hustled of in squads to Bactwelrs
leland. And this difference between the two breeds
Of men hes the germ Of political trouble which had
better receive present consideration in Washington
The conseaoion of the soil 81 the Rebel States will
be found 10 be necessity, a. well as AN act oil jus
tice And provision for the utter extioction OF
Slavery must precede any scheme OF civilization or
political concordance, which viii enable us TO 1--we
in peace aud quiet with The sOlder material Vi the
| Southern States.
This il Friday noon. News comes that two Of
our gunboats are at Rockets
GLOW near to Richmond is that T.
"A mile and half from the suburbs
CGpfdin-" And a short shot from the southern
end Of the railroad bridge
march early tomorrow 1t Is not in military nature
to run the risk Of the capture Of Richmond by a
couple Of gunboais."
LicutenGnt-"O sneererl will bet you that
the gunboats do not fire n shot at the town-at the
bridge-at anything. GoldsborouRh and gunboats J
Morphine and sleep! What do you bet Z"
There wa no man under Skaters oak rash enough
to bet on Goldsborough's doing anything 10 capture
Richmond SO l passed out Of tho irritating cleo
tricty Of the circle to the brow Of the bill to learn
why regiment cheered. i was told II was the
greeting of the New-York 7ith to its colonel George
b. Hall, restored TO his command by Gen. Hooker
out of which he had been kept three months by the
ingenious contrivance of a court martial
wandered over to the I'D to hear ii there were
news of Lew. Benedict. His nickname IN hs reg-
ment, among bis men, was derived from bis fatherly
Kindness TO them. II was cod Pop" Since his
capture at Williamsburg this has been changed to
/" Poor old Pop"
"Mr. =" said a stout fellow, saluiing me this
afternoon, eve have found out that you were not
Just right about poor old Pop III your letter. You
zee we have got his pistol. lie was ahead Of the
men, and declare was in danger Of being killed by
u.s. he took good aim with his pistol and fired every
barrel except one, and that would not go of. Then
he banded the weapon to the man nearest to him,
making the man come up to him. You recollect
how lame the Colonel was, with the sprain VI his
ankle; indeed, he could not walk without leaning
on somebody's shoulder, and he was not fit to be IN
THO uBut, anu uuu OukutOI nave Occu tucI0i uut,
Lord a-massy you could no more have kept him out
Of the fight than you could have forced some other
officers in Well as was saying, he called one Of
bis men, and gave him the pistol, aud said, take
that back with you if you live through this, and be
drew bis sword, and hobbling on ono foot right up
among the Rebels, went at them like DO was
possessed. The men suppose he was afraid
the regiment would break before re-enforce-
ments could come up, and he was going to
show them what sort Of fighting he wanted done.
Well, it was light enough to see that he was Lieu
tenant Colonel and they just gathered around him
suddenly and took him. lie was not marched next
day all the way by land 10 Richmond. The hump
backed little merchant up there says all the prisoners
were turned of just out of Williamsburg, and
put on steamboat. So poor old Pop did not have
10 march these roads."
All through this country the retreating Rebels
burned away the fences, and took everything they
coveted. But they were angels, II you believe the
sullen and lying proprietos who arc on hand with
O bsart.breakipg wall II one Of tho teats VI their