The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-02-05
From ForneY's Philadelphia Press.
Intercepted Letters of John Mitchell.

From ForneY's Philadelphia Press.
Intercepted Letters OF John Mitchell.
! Among the numerous papers found upon
Major Sanders, the rebel agent who attempt
cd to run the blockade with dispatches to
Mason and Slidell. was private letter to a
friend, and another intended for publication
In the Dublin Nation.
The following article, prepared for the
Nation, is among the dispatches:
"RIoHMoND, VA, October 20, 1852.
"To the Editor of the Nation:
"DEAR SIR: Supposing that your readers
may like to read something from the Con-
fed crate States, which has not passed through
Yankee medium, take an opportunity to
send you some account of my impressions
on revisiting this city after an interval of
more than two years. l came to New York,
of course, under feigned name, and passed
through Yankee land as through an enemy's
country, taking care not to be reoognized;
because in that case they would have ten
dered to me their new oath of allegiance
to Mr.. Lincoln's Government, under pretense
that this Government is the Government OF
the United States which I once knew. Of
course, I should have refused their oath, be-
cause to take it would be treason to the Con-
stitution, which once was the law of that
country; and then I should have been con-
fined in one of the vast jails which yawn for
suspected persons.
"North of the Potomac there is no law;
and in travelling through New j Jersey, Penn
sylvania, and especially Mary yland, I often
land or Venetia? Maryland you are aware,
is properly Southern State, and its formal
adhesion to the Confederacy was only pre-
vented by overwhelming military force, and
by the dispersion of its regular State Legis-
lature as riotous assemblsge. It is only at
| this day by military occupation, and by turn
ing upon Baltimore city the guns of Fort
MICH enry, which was built and armed for
the defense of that city, that the State is
now retained, not in loyalty, but in sullen
acquiescence.
"In Baltimore 1 spent a week before any
opportunity occurred for running the block
ade upon the Low er Potomac. l stayed in
the house of a worthy Irish resident of that
place. To my great comfort, found that
the Irish in Baltimore, both high and low,
Except a few Orange men), are intensely
Southern, and long for nothing so much as
the day when they may drive the Lin coin
/ ties out of the city forever. The regime OF
Mr.. Lincoln. indeed is hum iliating enough.
The citv swarnns with detectives, who watch
and listen about hall doors, by night and day,
to see who goes in and out and in whose
houses the girls sing My Maryland! When
Confederate prisoners are marched into some
prison within the town, the men OF Baltl'
more must not address tn em, nor exhibit the
smallest mark of sympathy, under penalty
of instant incarceration; but the ladies, on
such occasions, don their richest dresses
line the streets where the poor, ragged
glorions fellows pass, hold aggregate meet
ings round the prison, and provoke the an
kee officers past bearing, so that the guard
! hos sometimes been ordered to charge bayo-
nets upon the fair insurgents. Even women,
however, are not allowed to wear the wrong
colors-a matter which is decided by the
taste of the police. Not in Warsaw, nor IN
Venice, are female ornaments more strictly
prescribed than in Baltimore; and, while
there, young ladies were stopped IN the street
bv policemen because they wore ribbon o
red ,Dltite and red, and marched off to the
station house. A child was carried in the
street by a nurse, and the bows of ribbon up
on the little ones shoulders did not please 6
constable who passed that way. Both nurse
and child were carried off to the police office
/ X
Richmond 1 find very little changed
Yankee accounts had prepared me to see tne
Inhabitants. generally, barefooted and under
fed. But never saw better dressed people
f in the streets, nor greater show OF laoies
All tell me there was not the slightest ap-
, narent panic in the town. even during the
desperate seven days fight; and 1t Is re-
freshing to hear men, women and chllorel
: sneak with such sovereign scorn OF the an
keesf The citv is, of course, thronged witt
strangers. and not even in Paris do you SCI
I so many empty sleeves. nor hear the ciaue
= of so many wooden legs. All, however, ar
cheery and resolute. Apparently, they o
not know vet that the backbone of the re-
D heIlion is broken as Mr.. Seward assures Us
and do not seem to have the least apprenein
:, sion that they will be forced back into Tn
sUniop.' They have given up, thlnk' al
hone in foreign 'intervention,' and thous
e thew still demand recognition as an indepen
1T dert mower. (Which they are,) seem iuii
. conscious that not even this rishs wiz =
accorded to them till they shall have tnrasr
u ed the Yankees in lew more cLtn ca apn palsus.
u tThere are, as 1 learn, about 4o,Ooo 1ris
of Doon in the Southern army; but they are dl
g tribnted as they ought to be, through
ie raaiInents and arms Of the service, and hay
10 neyer been formed into an Irish brl gade.-
ell Thev do not pretend to fight this Americ'
as onarrel as Irishnsen; nor do they desecra
m the name nor prostitute the flag OF lreial
r Of all. AS for the Northern Irish, who see
te 9 to have got themselves persuaded tnat
q, enfranchisement of Ireland is somehow
y, result from the subjugatlon OF the Sou
- and that the repeal of the Union In Euro
J. depends on the enforcement OF another y
'l- ion America, our friends hero do not "
:, understand the process of reasoning VIII Vt,
60 60 leads to that conclusion; nor do l. III I
rs, rs, eli those Northern Irish, as we'll as all
las las Northern forces, by the one general nam
IT. Yankees; and indignantly. protest that
green bunting under which Irish orisa
sss have chosen to march to the invasion