Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-17
From the First Delaware Regiment.

lay last week.
Our regiment was ordered to locality
about twenty-five miles distant. Having
packed away a collar, tooth brush, pipe
and some " pride of Virginia. we start
cd OH the march on as hot II day MS they
manufacture in this ardent
section; and proceeded about four miles,
when an order overlook us TO halt and
encamp, which we accordingly did, some
OF our tents having, after short time,
made their appearance. We Immediately
began to rnsticate, and all seemed to
think that they were on IL grand PIC me-
so many leaiy bowers for shelter were
soon erected
We had been on the ground but few
hours when an order came for lis TO re-
turn to Norfolk, which we did the follow
ing morning, but not until we had re-
ceiyed the benefit of an all night rain -
The canvass hotel which accommodated
lis with number of others, was not wa
ter proof, Judging from the amount of the
watery element that descended upon our
heads before morning. But we blowed
the Lieutenant of landlord who pro
lcssed TO give his guests comfort, for the
meagreness of his room which necessita-
ted our pOkimg each other i'll the ribs
whilst lying upon the ground, and provld-
ing no precautions against tumbling out
Of bed and rolling all oyerthe field and
when we asked him why he gave water
ont of the ditch with which to lave onr
parched lips, lie replied that all his ice
had melted And when he stuck bayo-
net in the ground, and placed Il "penny
dip" in the socket, he apologctically re-
marked that his gas pipes were all cut,
but in parenthesis said there was plenty
of gas still left in the tent. But the i'm
position eliminated the next morning
when breakfast made its appearance, for
the plausible host had promised Us straw
berries and cream, and terrapins, with all
the adjuncts of first class meal, bnt
imagine our Indignation, when instead
thereof, came some tin cups containing u
decoctun called coffee, swectcned with
brown sugar, but with none of the lacteal
fluid in its composition, and hard, very
hard crackers. We told that landlord in
soldiers clothes that he was humbng
and that We were not going to patronisC
him any more Such was the eXperienc,
Of some Of us that night There was ne
little jollily ON that encampment.
Whether the authorities thought tina
we needed Il little country air, after hay
ing breuthed the noXiuns secession atmos
pherc Of Norfolk for nearly a month, o
the citizens desired our return because vi
were good christians doing good for evil
We cannot say suffice it that we are al
back in our old quarters in the city, try
Ing to convince the people that Uncl
Sam has quite an abiding affection for tn
place. But we fear that they don't full
reciprocate the sentiment.
There are some classes here, who, begin
niug to have confidence in the power an
= disposition of government to hold tn
captured cities, show themselves as Umio
men, and the number is every day in
creasing at Il gratifying rate. = But thel
are other classes whom we regard us til
minister does the hardened sinner-lo'
to all hope. They are hard eases, an
like Ephranl, are joined to their idols {
5 an African origin. We know Of no cul
II
8 agreeable boluS which is every day bein
. swallowed by some in the shape of a
= oath or sending them to some governmel
y hotel on the sea coast where one ration
It day is the allowance for unwilling guest
$ Womanknd is yet the most incorrig
. Bile. The females are proof against Il
charms of brass buttons. They ca
t nothing for sash or sword. You may g
st yourself up eXquisitely and they wo
l. deign you u look except through Il
l. blinds. You may cultivate your mou
Nh tache assiduously, give it an extra twi
and even apply pomade to it, and til
II still will assume Il total and entire ind
II ference If you are passing hou
4. where squad of them is congregatt
ne they will either bring into active play
u the muscles Of the face, or he apparen
=" obliyious Of your presence, which to "A
IL one, YOU know, is less gratifying Til
n, positive signs Of hate. The young men
nv military life, We think, have not the M
a. distant idea Of converting these ha
y. hearted leminines, who hate the Yank
" worse than they do handsome woman
male llirt OF the last years bonnet
If the social relations are not impr
les ing, the business relations Are. w
Of we have desired, vas an influx of north
merchants and business men, to inf
ny some of their characteristic energy &
IT. enterprise into the place, and that is j
he what we are receiving. This elcmen
in now mingling with the southern slip sh
run.down-at-thc-h heel manner of busin,
>" The whares which were as bare of II
IL ehamablc property as their stores Wer,
Ike goods, are being piled up with bo
ca from the cities Sloops and schoou
ihn have insinuated themselves into the do
u,. for the last year innocent Of shipping
''e Stores which from Southern inertia, "
eS' closed have their shutters thrown OF
ae- and wares exposed, and northern /
.he stand behind tine counters, selling
40 crowds at five hundred per cent less t
~ the prices that have ruled here for moi
"' past.
was rb;s 4 t,o linJ ~ omonov tbo4 ;s 80,
OF TO reyolutionise the sentiment Of
at place and other places in the South, "
Vim out any Legislation at ALL These mere
tile men have domesticated themSe
here they already feel ut home, for
ana have IL body Of soldiery about then
lh. uphold them, Il sprinlling Of men i
ally the North and large mass of III
oyn residents, who have now ionnd t
wv e'I speech, and who have discovered al
lial once that they have sentiments, and
they have no special interest in slay
r. for in it they observe the cause Of t
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