The New York herald., 1862-01-25

As to the political feeling or the country through which
We passed may say that we found none but proiessed
Union men, In no neighborhood could hear OF
active rebel but, like the milk sickness in Illinois,
there plenty Of secessioniss ahead" or over
t'other road" We found many families who had SONS
or brothers the rebel army but all told the tales
of of''impressment Alright in extenuation. In Mburn
found many avowed Union men, who had maintained
their principles in the face Of all the rebel influences
Such doed their hats and cheered loudly when bands
marched through the town playing national airs and
good Union lady-a Miss Thomas-farly went into
conyaeons with delight seeing the Stars Stripes
had SO long haunted
dent occurred which ! shall very long remem-
ber, both for its flial affection and the
rebellion. had ridden in advance OF the column
log farmhouse, about midway between the two places,
ard warming myself before usty fire when the adj
vance up. No one at home but an old gentle
OF perhaps sixty winters his wife and two three
juveniles. ! sat talking TO the old couple, when two
young men, privates in the Thrtieh regiment stepped
in the doorway and accosted the old with hearty
'sgood morning." The old returned the greeting
gave his hand for shake offered chair by the fire. and
about 70 turn to another conner when one OF the
boys exclaimedi=
'.Father, don you know usY"
The old man stopped, looked, rubbed his eyes II to
test his vision advanced step said Boys. and there
his stterancs choked in his throat extended both his
hands again and followed up with such shaking The
marcn whom she heard the question Father don't you
know us dropped her cotton cards. sprang TO her feet
and-acted precisely any good old mother would at
seeing her two after eight years absence. Then
swered many fLal kisses exchanged and thousand
endearments Law which the must picture to
Where is Eds' "a younger brother) in answer to
which the old man said, with evident trepidation-
ale went of to Columbus with Charley wickIife."
Then there scowl mantled over those two young
men "a faces, and one replied
ssEd In the rebel army Well ! hope never 10 meet
him in the rebel ranks but II do"-and he did not
nnish his threat for his mothers about his
neck. and he choked of from what he would say by
the pleading OF his mother that he 'would spare her
.o. .c ctyasrk , lx,s,
every day illustration of how in this war, brother is
pitted against brother and kin against kin.
CAIRO, H., Jan. 49, 1862
Arrirdl of Fr Rebel DeserteTs-Nong Nep by Them de-
Some four days ago four deserters proessed desert
ers came into from Columbus with strange sto
res of hardship and wrong inflicted upon them by the
rebel authorities and have been acquisitions the
of information possessed by the Eastern reporters
WHO left behind by the divisions OF Generals Gran,
and McClernand in their grand reconnaissance. Some
the New York reporters have obtained from them such
descriptions Of Columbus and its deences will perhaps
be new the readers Of those papers but the HERALD
readers will find by referring to their files full and
arged diagrams Of not only Columbus and its forthca
tons but the whole river bank below Memphis
and that six weeks ago. have conversed fully
with the men and learn nothing newnothing that
has not been already published In the HERALD The issue
Of the 11th inst contains the Information that
now at hand and from a more reliable The
story of the escape Of Of these improbable
that 10 write ii n detail Its principal points
thsseHe deserted first the day Of the battle OF
Belmont, TO within miles Of Fort Holt
reaen rebel scouts conveyed 10 Columbus tried
by a court martial condemned TO be shot heavily roned
and confined for two months in the guardhouse gnawed
of his irons with old fle dug opening under three
houses through six stone walls and emerged outside the
guard fines-knockng John A. Murr Liant Jerome and
Dick Turpn clear into the shade far their endurance
aud fertility Of concerned Then he ran
the pckets swan the Mississippi river twice sub.
sisted berries and green Tin the month Of Janua
ry) all the way from Columbus TO Cairo
PREPARATION OF THE MORTAR BOATS FOR
SERVICE.
CHICAGO, Jan. "a, 1s62
A special despatch 10 the journal is as follows
CAIRO, Jan. "a, 1892.
The river at this point has risen twenty feet and
is still rising.
Eleven sf the boats forming the ponoon bridges
ducah were stopped here last night not known how
many others have passed down stream.
Orders were received last night to put the mortar boats
Immediately into condition for service
Captain Constable commander Of the mortar boat Ao-
ta went 10 Ptsburg this morning to superintend the
shipment Of the mortars, equipment and ammunition.
General Smith expected 10 arrive at Paducah from
his expedition to-day tomorrow.
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