The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-11-20

Letter OF q LOydt LGdg IN Savannah
Hoo the Rebels get their Mdil-
Pretended Deserters- Chart of Nc
Czellan's Head-Rebel Estimates o,
Him.
The New York Times publishes the
following interesting letter from a loyaI
lady residing in Savannah, the wife oi
high rebel officer, to her mother in
the North. The Times says:
For the authenticity of the following
letter we can vouch. The lady writes
regularly, and her correspondence is
sealed. She invariably speaks without
restraint her views of affairs i'm the
South, and her letters, on being re-
ceived by her friends, all bear the Bal.
timore post-mark:
SAVANNAH, Ga, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
October IL, 1862.
DAEREsr MOTHER Your kind let.
ter reached me, and it would have Civ
EN- me unmingled pleasure but for the
announcement Of poor Capt. IS
death. How terrible for his sisters,
and for poor Miss -, who, when
saw her last, showed me his carde de
oisite, and half confessed they were en-
gagged, although neither the Commo-
dore nor her aunt knew or suspected
anything of the matter. Every person
here is in mourning except myself, and
| only not SO because | cannot find ma
terial, and hope soon to be allowed to
go North, as General - has half
promised me passage under the next
flag of truce to some vessel of Admiral
Dupont's squadron. Our little darling
is sadly in want of shoes, her pres
ent foot covering being little carpet
slippers, with carpet soles, made by
myself. They do very well while it is
quite dry but the least shower keeps
her within doors, and she wears out
nearly two pair each week, so that /
am constantly busy. Of tea and all
other comforts we preserve only vague
remembrances but food, thank God,
is becoming plentiful again, such as it
is-wheat, chickens, corn and pigs !;
and although it is admitted here by all
that the rebellion has yet sharp strug-
gle before there is no longer any hope (as
| sincerely hope there was) of its being
starved into submission. Here follow
some purely family details.
You cannot think how bitterly the
North is ridiculed here; and all my
efforts to defend it only end i'm mortifi-
cation and consciousness that those
who think otherwise have the best of
the argument. 1t is now the regular
habit to send SO. called "deserters" into
the Union lines along the Potomac,
whenever We want to get mail car
ried North. These "deserters," who
are generally the bravest, sharpest, and
most INSCRIPTIONS e,afd,ats perdus in
the rebel army enter McClellan's lines,
tell him just such stories as they have
been told to, take the oath and are i'm
mediately dismissed. They then 60
to Baltimore, post their letters there
get return mail, and are back in
Richmond within three or four days
from the time of leaving the managers
of this mail at Baltimore. 1t is thus
that the and - two pa
pers are mentioned here, one published
in New York and one in Baltimore,
get their "late Southern news" and l
can assure you that this mail runs reg
ularly-the carriers many times getting
across the Potomac and into Maryland
without once being challenged and if
they are challenged, they announce
themselves as "deserters," take the
oath-though this is not always asked
of them-and then hurry on to Balti
more, which is our chief post Office.
They have here in private circula-
tion-though it may be forgery
chronological chart of General McClel
lan's character, made by Fowler and
Wells, of New York, and which was
given, they say, by Mcclellan to his
friend Maj. Gen. G. w. Smith, whose
health is quite recovered, though at the
expense of his mind, which will never
be again what it was. This written
chart-sucb, dearest mother, as you
had made of me when i came back,
last summer FIVE years ago, from Miss
Is school-makes McClellan's s
bump of "caution" outbalance all the
other qualities of his head, and they
are making fun of it all the time, and
of course, most actively-those who
wish to annoy me-when am present.
| They have had this "chart" printed for
private circulation, and while the pa
pers here all seem in conspiracy to
praise General Mcclellan, he is the
most bitterly ridiculed man ever knew
in private. The editor of the Savan'
l y M .