Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-01-30

cares to have In vain we would tell them that our
manufacturers would change their machinery and
adapt it to the necessities of tae tmes that govern
ment was making great exe0ns to procure cotton from
India and Africa; that it interest to foster our
colonies and to produce it there possible and
that the longer we were deprived of America as mar
ket, the strenuous would efforts be to render
ourselves independent of it. But it use; they
were inefadicaby impressed with the conviction that
they command the market any time and that the
distance from England at which its rivals placed
must always give the Confederacy great advantage.
The possibility of the North succeeding obtaining
any important by ''opening port" univer
sally ritliculed. If they to succeed in making
descent on Florida or South Carolina an event which
appeared to be earnestly hoped for told that
material sesut would ensue; the produce Of the
try would be removed to the interior, where it would
lie safely 10 the bosom OF trackesS forests and sooner
than allow it to fall into the enemys hands, the people
would burn or destroy every pound. No such extreme
measure this however appeared to BE- anticipated,
for the crop of this year being still the plantations,
no great quantity is accumulated Ia any one locality.
Being DESTROYS of pushing on to the army,
spent short time in Georgia and North Carolina,
and were happy to fDd on our arrival at Richmond
that President Davis the for the numer
deaths, violent, sudden, aud natural which had
lately oSeraken him. according to the various 1Tabune
Times aud Heralds of the North. His popularity
through out the country Is undOubted and although
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cticise The caution hitherto displayed in the strategy
OF the South and are for marching Washing
ton and finishing the right away" the heart Of
the people is nevertheless entirely his, and all acknoW
ledge the mastermnd that directs the great plan OF the
CamDa!gn, and every important affair OF the state,
foreign aud domestic.
Having been kindly provided with a pass to the
headquarters of Of the generals near Manassas,
about hundred and twenty miles from Richmond, we
allowed to 60 up IN soldier traln All along the
assembled the stations 10 bid Godspeed to those who
leaving home, family and profession for the rough
realities OF active warfare
Gen Johnston, the chief OF the army in Virginia,
is who appears to be about the age of forty live
or fifty In statue he is middle s'ze and possess
powerful upright form, quick, intelligent eye, while his
is Indicative Of that resoute determination for
which be has always been distinguished. General
Beauregard the second in command looks two three
years younger and bears in his face strong marks of
Fr uh origin. while his features those which gene
rally characterize the gentlemen of Louisiana his native
State. Small, active and wiery, he struck a man
capable of doing much hard work and enduring great
| fatigue. Gen. Gustavus Smith, late Street Commits
sioncr at New York, the schoolfelow and Intimate
friend OF General Mcclellan is third IN rank. lie IS
taller than the other two broad-shoudared slightly
eIiDed to fesb with honest and straightforward
countonance is possible 10 see: All three were dis
tiDguished Nest Point Academy, and served after
wards with credit in the Mexican war; Undoubted
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kind disposition and lofty patriotism, qualities
which the army believe their three great commanders
to be endowed with. This conviction, added to the
surprising that has hitherto crowned the South
cause, inspires in the ranks confidence seldom tc
! be found ia newly raised batalilons
i We must, OF course, speak with reserve just Of
our visit to the great force which is defending the orth
east OF the Conlederacy and take that do not
abuse the confidence it'll which, guests OF diStin
| guShed officer, we were favored.
he country for many miles around Manassas is hill
and dale covered naturally with derse hard wood of
ri0us kinds which is cleared away from time to time
leaving patches OF open ground, varying in size from ter
hundred acres bur few of these spaces greater
in extent than the Green Park in London, whilst some
of them are much less Altogether the character OF the
district would not be unlike that of the neghborhood
Brownley in Kent, if the latter extensively
wooded ard less genel ally cultivated. Through the val
legs run streams, the largest being Bulls Run
winding but somewhat sluggish river, about forty fee
wde varying in DEPTH from two to eight eet with rocky
banks On each sde which in places quite per
pendicular. he different camps scattered abou
through this great wooded tract in strOJg positions bu
so little they that frequently, when gaiopDG
down narrow pathway, would find ourselves Ia th
midst of tents and soldiers almost before We could pull
up our horses.
The first thing which struck in riding through thu
country the respect which is everywhere shown TO
the rights of property Gentemens villas lie along tn
roads which many thousand soldiers daily pass ant
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ed upon and n the villages the poultry and pigs ar
running about as in times of profound peace.
f The appearance which regiment presents on parade
Y is remarkable to the eye OF a European. Many ar
composed of companies who have uniforms OF diteren
c0lOrs but in these there is always some GstlnC
tive badge by which their particular caps be easi
told. This defect consequent upon the companies bein
raised in different neghborhoods, is being quickly rem
edied, and numerous regiments which had later
arrived whose dress was all that the Horse Guard
/ could DESIRE
The personnel Of the army is very varied. For il
stance in the Louisiana regiments the bronze
and ery-eyed French Creoes, ming led with many Iris
J. add native Americans from New Orleans. The Alabi
mans proud of their gallant 4b, their flying artier,
and other regiments, may be known by their stron
frames, gay manners, and devlmay-care air The Sout
Carol!nans, saOW in complexion tall IN stature sc
dom need the Palmetto to tell the stranger the Stat
from which they come; but In all regiments 1t is easy
perceive differences in manner and bearing, lndlcatV
of the various classes of which the army is compose
Numbers OF wealthy planters serve prlvates, sid
by sde with the professional man, the shopkeeper tn
clerk the laborer and all go through the ordinary
= tigue duties incident to camp life. We saw poor M
gro actually shedding tears because his maste
on being told off to dig trench round battery, woul
not allow him "tO lend hand.'
twill neber do, massa," he said; II go tarna MAJ
~ wild dem darn d Y aDkees"
One we heard lad Boosting to of dItferel
regiment of the number Of gentlemen 10 his compan
81 who had thousands Of dollars at their command. Th
latter replied "Ob. of they fight but we hay
some in ours who have not got cent? The Wasl
ington Artillery, comprising many batteries IS compo
ed of the best bloc 10 New Orleans. Ibe gunner
dressed in light blue uniforms, all OF ndepenC
E ent means. Gen. Beauregards son, for instance, lei
his fathers staff, aud entered private The drive
regularly enlisted into the army, and paid by tt
regiment here is force which does not cost the cous
try single larthng. Their efficiency is undoubted, an
T. the execution which they did at Bulls Run has led
their material augmentation, and the formation of ott