Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-06-30
Desolation in Mississippi.

a correspondent of the Cincinnati I'm
Quiyer writes from Young's Point as fol-
lows:
The whole country from Mllliken's Bend
to Hard Pines, opposite Grand Gulf a dis
lance Of sixty miles, is one determination
Of desolation." Il has been an earthly
paradise, lordiy palaces filed with pictures,
statues, and articles of vertu. Beautiful
gardens, teeming with floral beauties, are
now all laid wa te.
Tn those magnificent halls where south
en beauty and chiyalry were wont to revel
and drink deep Of the red wine Of pleasure,
soldiers cook their despised 'sow belly"
with fires built out of rosewood chairs and
eurousv carved furniture, sleep on cotton
beds worth fifty dollars each, 4. e. at any
"LoweIl MILL" and in the morning abandon
all to the hordes of filthy. hungry negroes
who follow the amy and gather the refuse,
like troops Of unclean birds which smell
the carcass from afar. Among these rich
nabobs none exceIled the Hon. John Per-
kins. His dwelling is magnificent even in
its ruins, and its gardens are still fragrant
with acres Of roses. When Gen. Butler
entered New Orleans, lie chartered
the Magnolia one Of the largest boats on
the river, put his most valuable slaves, pic
lures, plate, cattle, &c, OH board and set
fire to the rest. For seyen miles his lands
blazed with 5000 bales of cctton and gran
aries Of corn. His house, with its furni-
ture, which cost 100000 in Paris, and
the houses of oyerseers, all were fired,
while he stood on the tank and watched
the mighty coniagration. In the morning
he embarked ruined man.
l had never dreamed of such Arabian
maonificense as / find in tie ruins of the
houses Of these rich planters. In one gar.
den | found no less than seven hundred
different varieties of roses. This is, | be-
lieve, the largest collection in America
The are not more than three in Europe
that equal it. The fragrance Of these
beautiful flowers overpowers the noisome
vapors of swamps and bayous.
HoRaIBLE.-A St. Joseph correspond
ent of the New York Epening Post,
writes as follows to that paper, in justifica-
ton Of the regulatory course Of the Union
men in Missouri:
"Tell the Copperhead journals this little
story, had from an eye witness OF the scene
now in St Joseph. At Little Rock, in
Arkansas, lived numerous body of warm
Union men, praying for the old flag and a
day of deliveranDe, as none other ever
prayed save the men of Leyden. They
met nightly in cellars-had their secret
grips and passwords-and with all the her
oism of martyrs bore suspicion, taunts,
and VIC ence unfinching in their resolution
never to en-. er the rebel ranks alive. When
Hindman occupied Little Rock in force, q
Of these men were arrested and imprisoned
on suspicion-their worst enemies accusing
them Of no overt act against the rebel
government. One day their wives, chill
dren, parents, brothers and sisters were in
vited by Hindman's orders to come and
visit them. Their dungeon doors We're
opened, and arm in arm with their rejuc
ING fan lilies they were suffered to wander
under gnard about the town and in the
fields The bright sunlight and sweet air
of unwonted freedom intoxicated them into
credulity. They and the dear ones from
whom they had been so lopg sundered
were felicitatiug themselves with the hope
of permanent liberty, and fancied that the
tiger Hindman had forgotten his taste for
blood. Just at the limits of the town the
officer in command babe the families of the
suspected halt-and marching these q
brave men out of the very arms Of love,
ranged them in an open lot before file of
rifcman, and there shot all of them to
death in plain SIGHT Of their sErieking
households.
Do you know that since got to Missou
ri have not been able to caution eye wit
nesses Of such things against violent meas
ures' with the friends Of Price! +. II. L.
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVES IN
| 1912. -During the siege of Fort Erie, in The
war Of 1912, by the British forces under Gen.
Drummond an effort was made by Gen Por-
ter, in Buffalo, 10 raise reinlorcenents for our
imperilled army. An incident occurred at the
time the militia were ordered 10 the besieged
army which is readable IN these times when
men c'amor about constitutional privileges and
immunites. 1t is thus related:
Oen. FofteF, DY diit Ol SupeIHuihdh citoIts,
gathered considerable body of militia at Buff
falo, to reinforce the fort. Early in Septem-
Der he ordered them to cross the river. The
line was formed on Pearl street, in rear of the
| First church. As soon as the head OF the co..
umn began to move, ard its direction became
apparent an ofIicer-one Of those men who,
II such times, are scrupuIous as TO the law in
proportion to the value they set upon their
| ives-stepped out of the ranks and shouted:
/ /. Of II ha
ordered out of the State. 1t is demonstrations
| APP Ii was wonderful how suddenly love
| for the Constitution developed itself in the
breasts OF the miltia-men. Large numbers
! left the ranks and began to clamor against the
order But Porter and few determined Off
GERS spnrred among the nalcontents, arrested
| The ringleader, awed his followers and, aided
by small detachment of regulars, restored
order. This constitutioaalist--who | need
hardly say, was lawyeT--was hurried into
quartermaster's cart, and sent under strong
r,ard t. William suillf- with the inflammation