, 1862-05-15

advance shouting like q niadinan, saying shine
thing that sounded like :" am rs brave as Cesar:
If VIC are whipped, do not want to live Come
on, you d--d Yankees!" Our infantry were
anxious to take this Southern Hotspur prisoner,
and would have done so had not one Of our bat.
teries opened from the left on the retreating foe,
and in its storm Of iron swept down the single
life which, 40 full Of ferceness ebbed itself away
in the sOdden and IMPLYING ground.
Concerning the death Of McCuIloch and McIn.
toSh, there seems TO be but one opinion. Both
Of them were nOrtally wounded during the heavy
fighting by Gen. jeff c. Davis against the center
column Of the enemy. II will be remembered
the rebels gave way, and the two Southern chief
tains made the most determined efforts to rally
them in vain. McCullOch was struck by mimic
rife ball In the breast-as am assured by one
who says he saw him fall, and after he was taken
from the ground-while waving his sword and
encouraging his men to stand firm. He died Of
his wounds about II o'clock the same night,
though he insisted that he would recover, re-
peatedly saying, with great Oaths, that he was
not born to be killed by Yankee. A few min.
utcs before he expired, his physicians assured
him he had but very brief time to live At this
Ben McCulloch looked up incredu!ously, saying
"Oh, He'll" and turned away his head and never
spoke after. presume the Southern papers will
put some very fine sentiment into his mouth In
his closing moments but the last words have
mentioned are declared TO be correct by pris-
oner. They are not very elegant, nor very dra.
matte, but quite expressive, aud, in McCulOch's
case, decidedly appropriate.
RAnoNs Of LIQUoEEThe following is . copy
Of an order seized by our troops at G;l Spring,
kentucky:
HEADoUARTERs 18th Ala. RE0'T,
December "a, 1851.
/. The Apothecary will furnish each Captain
two gallons whisky.
Q. The Captain will issue to their men Fations
Of whisky tO celebrate the recognition by Eng
land and France Of the Southern Confederacy.
W. B. WOOD.
COlohel 10th Alabama Regiment
The Alabama Colonel seems to have thought
that celebration would not be . celebration at
all, without whisky; but with moderate sup.
ply Of estimabls beverave, he could get up Q
respectable celebration over . supposed event
that never took place.
A. SIDNEY JoHXsTON.-Less than year ago,
says the Alta, Gen. A. Sidney Johnston was in
command Of the Pacific Division Of the U. s. Ar.
my, anu had his headquarters in San Francisco.
The AdjutAnt. General, and member Of his mill.
tary family, was Don Carlos Tor Char!es) Buell..
A few months rolled by, and we now have report
that this same Sidney Johnston fell in the great
battle at Pittsburg Landing, fighting against the
Government which had hOnored, trusted and
promoted him, and the victor on that bloody field
was his former subordinate, Gen. Buell..
GEN. MCCLELLAN DREcrSG BATTLEs.-Gen
Mcclellan sat by the Telegraph OperAtOr at his
head. quarters. Gen. Buell. the same ct Louis
Vile; and Gen. HaIleck at St. Louis; and TIE
circuit being made complete between the three
they c.nversrd uninterruPtedly for hours on the
pending battle at Fort DOnnelSOn, and made all
the orders and dispositions Of forces to perfect
the victory aud pursue the brOkOn enemy. The
battle was fought, as we may say, almost under
the eye Of Gen. Mcclellan. So remarkable an
achievement has seldom adorned science.
REMARKABLE CASE OF RESURRECTION very
remarkable circumstance occurred in the town.
ship Of Chesterfield, Michigan, recently. The
wife Of Lewis ThOrp, Esq, having been seriously
III for some time, apparently died, and every
preparation was made for her funeral The in.
formsnt (Dr. Kittridge) says that there were no
evidences Of life remaining, but, on the contrary,
oil the usual appearances that occur after death
seemed to be manifest, when to the astonishment
Of all, after lying in this condition nearly two
days, she began to show evidences Of returning
lif;.. and ultimately grew better and is now doing
we'll. ~.
DIGoM0 OUT FAMLY.-A house occupied BY
two families in the town Of Mexico, Me-, was
completely buried recently BY an AValanch Of
snow. In the morning the neighbOrA on dis
covering the disaster, set to work to release the
buried ones. By tunneling forty feet through
the enormous bank, they succeeded in reaching
the front doot Of the house, which was immedi.
ately opened, and the frightened occupants Of
the dwelling were released from their precariOus
situation.
We haVe Just read Of an old friend Of our
earlier years joining one Of the Indiana regiments
and fighting like q wild man 10 two or three en-.
gagemcntS, as . private soldier. He was Of
ferrd and pressed to accept . commission
any which he might choOse-but he persstently
refused, saying "d--n your commission; all
want Is q gunI"
A little boy, whose parents reside in Bards
town, Kentucky, when our troops first made
their appearance there, discovered beautiful
rainbow suspended in the heavens, and running
to his mother, exclaimed, "Mother, God Is a
Union man." His mother questioning him for
his thinking 81, he replied that he seen his flag,
and h was " Red, White, and Bue."
Ikefo Il a ladv at Ueerfield, n H. ma hmm.
dred and three years old. (Mrs. Jenhinsl She
is smart and active, makes hCf own bed and
kniIs stockinga Last autumn she attefIded q
military muster, was received with oil the hOnors
Of Major. General, reviewed q regiment, aud
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