Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-05-23
From Vanity Fair.
OUR WAR CORRESPONDENCE.
LETTER FROM NC ARoNE.


stood before Yorktown, taking horn
and an observation, I was joined in both
by General Mcclellan. He held the last
number of Va'aity Fair in his hand, and
pointed jocosely to my letter therein.
"Why ought you to be swamped and
bust up at once?" asked he.
"Why, indeed ?" asked I.
because" asked he, "aren't you a
Merry MAo9"
l Immediately presented him with
fine old gin-cocktail, vintage of '77e, and
made him Chcvalier of the Legion of
Honor.
There was an assault, last night and
battery. 1t was committed by detach-
ment of the Louisiana Riff Rafs, upon a
regiment of Vermonters. The rowdies
were arrested, and as there are numerous
witnesses of the assault, they will un-
doubtedly be made to suffer to the full
extent of the law. These disorderly and
rufianly attacks are becoming disgrace
fully common in this region and when
the grand action takes place, fear that
a mans life will hardly be safe. The
Rebels in Yorktown are nearly as bad as
the Abolitionists in Congress.
Our few Abolition officers in the Army
here, however are of the greatest service.
They entertain most hospitality anything
in the shape and color of Contrabands,
and their camps are always open to the
inspection of any big niger that thirsts
for rum, liberty, Or information. A slight
difficulty is presented in the fact that
most of these Contrabands are servants of
officers in the Rebel service, sent over by
their masters to learn what they can of
our forces, position etc., and as soon as
our kind Abolition friends send them off
"toward " the North Star" they quietly
return to the enemy's lines and tell all
they have learned.
Still, how much better it is to have an
intelligent foe in front of you; who knows
all about your movements and strength.
The old plan, of keeping your enemy in
ignorance, is fast dying out, under the
discipline of these warm hearted colonels
who love the Niger and the Union, six
one and half dozen of the other.
Better yet; when not engaged in fur
nishing information to the niggers, the
Abolition officers are kind enough to en-
liveh the Army with the most humorous
and side-splitting anecdotes. They circu-
lated funny story, you will remember a
few weeks ago, to the effect that one Of
our best and most temperate generals was
so drunk as to fall from his horse. Those
who know General Smith could but see
the magnitude of the joke; but / regret to
say that many persons who did not know
him actually gave credence to the story,
and the result was serious temporary
injury to the reputation of a most worthy
officer. @
-. 1t seems that some people still
believe what Abolitionists say !....
The fools are not all dead yet
Bearing these little inconvenience l
prize my niger worshipers highly. They
are playful and blood thirsty at once, and
-. so far as the enemy is concerned. -.
perfectly harmless
Send me on some more. Get me the
cut-throat editor of the Tribune, and, if
you can, the man who does the sneaking
paragraphs about Mcclellan, in the Even-
ing Post They won't fight, I know, but
they will make splendid examples for my
soldiers to avoid.
As l write, heavy cannonading is Going
On.
Heavy cannon are evidently Going
of :. :.
must 60 of, too, and see what it
means.
Later.--I have taken Yorktown. {.
Yorktown is Oursl
The rebel papers said that Yorktown
would be Bitter Pill for me. -.
Nevertheless, it is pill l have taken.
AT present am quite sober -.
Now the town is taken, however, I in
tend to go on the biggest kind of Ran
farneooot as