The Big blue union. [volume] (Marysville, Kan.) 1862-1866, 1862-05-10

BAD roa MONSIEUR BEAURHGARD-
The chances of this alert little Frenchmap
for ma king brilliant figure in history
"grow small by degrees aud beautifully
less" His military fortune is becoming as
Hat rs champagne in an uncorked bottle,
Il came ont With loud pop vbs. he
opened the war at Fort Sumter. II foam.
ed over the neck Of ,hs hottie IN profu.s
efervescence at Bull Run. Then left
Davis, from some amiable motive, recork.
ed the Beauregard bottle, and kept i, in
reserve for military banquet in the
Southwest. The first day At Shiloh i.
had some life on the second, il had lost all
its sparkle. The capture Of New Orleans
knocks the bottom from the bottle, and
spills its vapid contents. With this great
catastrophe in his rear. Beauregards
troops must fall back from Coriuth, and his
brilliant military prestige sinks away with
them.
But where will Monsieur Beauregard
gos The chief city of the South, tho
commercial metropolis of his own State, no
longer opens its arms to receive him
Memphis will presently be too hot to hold
him. General Mitchell has settled the
question of retreat to the east to Join his
forces with those of the arch.rebel in Vir.
ginia. Better for aspiring little Pierre
Toutant if he had been content with the
modest fortune Of his ancestors, and bad
never cast off the humble paternal name.
The news of the capture of New Orleans
must have fallen on him like a thuncer.
clap. Not strong enough 10 fight the WELL
appointed army under Halleek, with no
longer place to which he can retreat, he
is reduced to the most desperate straits.-
he is as badly off as the ruined angel who
set up rebellion, and found out TO his aor-
row. that a rebellion against an over.
whelmningly superior power did no, turn
out we'll:
Me misersblei which way shall fly?
Which way fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep, a lower deep
Still threatening to devour me opens wide"
If Monsieur Beauregard had wstered
his horse at the place he spoke of in the
address to his soldiers at Shiloh, he would
have got into the lowest deep without 50
many unpleasant gradations. He may not
have made precisely that speech; bu, j,
was not very bold fight of fancy which
attributed to him so just an appreciation.
of his need Of success in that bloody and
terrible hattle.-M Y. World.
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A la FREMorr.-Gen. Hunter, of the
Department of the South, hes begun to is
sue free papers to the contraba ands, under
the terms Of the act Of Congress. The
following isa copy of one of those docu.
ments as given by a Port Royal correspons
dent:
1t having been proven to the entire sal.
isfaction of the General commanding the
Department of the South, that the bearer,
William Jenkins, heretofore held in invol-
untary servitude, has been directly en-.
ployed to aid and assist those in rebe
against the United States Of America,
Now. be it known to all that. agreeably
to. the laws, declare said person free, and
forever absolved from all claims to his ser.
vices. Both he and his wife, and his chill
dren, have full rights to 20 north, south,
east or west, as they may decide.
Given under my hand. at the head
quarters of the Department of the South,
this nineteenth day of April, A. d. 1862,
D. Hustler,
Maj. General Commanding.
The COURT OF IMPEAcaMENr.-The