, 1862-05-31
NO. "a.
teleanings from Late Atlantic Papers.

natl Commercial OF the realities OF campaigning,
says IN. P. w. sanctumized, his delicate person
elegantly draperied his neatly sippered toes nest
ling il Brussels boquets with pearl inlaid escri-
toire and rose-water ink, might pen an exquisite
fancy sketch of soldiers life Sweety favored
damsels might praise its prettiness and its puni-
ness. All how fascinating such pictures But
1 dare say the shocking realities of campaign
life never occurred to the Imagination of our dainty
brother. Who could extract poetry from daily
and nightly mud-swallows, such as we have real
ized who banquet on neogre rations of flint bis
cult and pork three inches fat to one of leani
sleeping with rain streaming in his face, rivulets
percolating through his blankets, chilling his spi
nal marrow heels dabbling in muck, while cheers
dismal strain? All man feels like the dell
when he shakes with soldiers ague in the morn-
ing, his clothing saturated and mud plastered. his
hide shriveled like a washerwoman's fingers of
Monday But I suspect this is a crippled effort.
It should be, to equal the occasion. suppose
men could not realize horrors after a fortnight's
spree on Pixies Magnolia aud a weeks lodging
in city prison, more exqusitely than we do"
The great pier at Hilton Head, S. c., now COM
pleted is upwards of 1,4OO feet in length, the
width being 40 feet, and the head sometimes
called the T, being 19O feet long. The workman
ship throughout is of the most solid kind To
sustain it, more than 1000 pine trees have been
cut down, their trunks drawn from three to four
miles, and driven far down into the sand, so that
no violence either of man seas or mad men, will
be likely to dspIace them. TIE largest ships that
have yet been there run up alongside of this
pier, and discharge their cargoes with almost as
much ease as at any of the piers in New York.
The structure is worth at least 100000 10 the
Government, and will soon yield saving of sew
eral times that sum in the time of loading and un-
loading chartered vessels. The work has all been
done by Serrell's corps of volunteer engineers,
who, during the earlier stages of the enterprise,
abored night and day. Sundays and all.
The mother of the rebel General Tilghman re-
Gently came to Boston, accompanied by her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Lowry, and having received permission
from Secretary Stanton, visited her son at Fort
Warren. She is a staunch Unionst, and her first
exclamation on meeting him was, "Oh, my rebel
son !" and during the conversation she said,
"When heard you were taken, 1 thanked God
that you had been arrested from secession inau-
ences, and were to hear there was any chance
of your being exchanged would go on my knees
to the President to prevent you again joining the
rebels, for would rather have you remain here
during your life than to know you were among the
traitors of the country" She returned to Phila-.
delphia on the 10Th.
John B. Cough is very much disguised with
Canada He recently said in Troy There are
are great many good people and great many
snobbish people in Canada. The British resi-
dents there endeavor to be much more English in
their habits, customs and prejudices, than those
who dwell in England. They play second fiddle
to English snobbery The present season l had
an engagement for three weeks there, but after
ecturing nine evenings in different places, the
language and conduct of the people in reference
to this country, became so unbearable, that one
day sat down, wrote a letter, and declined to
fulfill the remaining engagements
The subscriptions in England to the Albert Me-
mortal amount to over $2OO,OOO, and viii be ex-
pended-at the Queens suggestion-in erecting
an obelsk on the site of the Crystal Palace of
1851, 100 feet high and 70 feet in diameter;
single block of red or gray granite. The idea,
with all respect for Her Majesty is not popular
in England, and even the Times compares the
"wasteful expenditure" to what would be the cost
of an iron plated frigate."
CAIRO May 1.-THE desperation of the rebel
cause eliminated yesterday, in an attack on our
hotilla by the rebel feet from Fort Wright. At
O'Clock on Saturday morning the rebel ram Lou
isiana (Holins0 rounded the Point, accompanied
by four gunboats, and Immediately opened fire on
the gunboat Cincinnati, stationed in the advance
The rebel boats we're held in check by the vigor-
GUS firing of the Cincinnati alone, until the fed
eral fleet came to her assistance. In the mean
time the rebel ram, finding her guns Intellectual
against the armor of the Cincinnati, approached
her, with the evident intention to run her down.
Capt. Stenlpel, commanding the latter, prepared
to meet her assault by putting his steam batteries
in readiness for USE As the ram approached
within close range of the Cincinnati, she turned
head about, causing the ram to run alongside,
when Capt. Stempel drew his pistol and shot the
pilot of the ram through the head At this time
the contest was intensely exciting, the crews Of
each boat being armed with cutlasses, and car
bnes, and boarding pixies, dscharging volley after
voley in quick succession
Just then the steam battery of the Cincinnati
opened with terrible effect, throwing volume of
steam and scalding water into the midst of the
rebel crew, placing all who appeared on deck
horS de combat, and instantly causing the craft to
withdraw in haste. In the meantime, the rebel
feet had been reinforced by three other vessels,
among them the new iron-clad steamer Mallory,
lately built at Memphis. Thisvessel. immediate
ly engaged the Cincinnati and she withstood it
nobly, the shot of the enemy glaneing from her
plating without causing the slightest damage,
while her own guns were pouring shot and shell
into the enemy with powerful effect