Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-02-12

| HE REBELLION ON THE EBB.-The tes-
timony of deserters and refugees from the
| South is so uniform to the effect that the peo-
pie there are discouraged and ready for peace
upon any terms that we must believe it to be
substantially true. The Boston Traveller
gives an account of the reports brought from
the South by two young northerners who were
impressed into the rebel armies when the war
broke out, and have just made their escape
One Of the men is from Maine and his story is
very interesting:
During the first eight months of the war,
the rebel SOLDIERS Jared well. As regiment af-
ter regiment reached, Richmond, thev were ad-
dressed by JEFF. Da Wis, who promised them an
easy victory over the northern vandal hordes'
Gradually the condition of the rebel soldiers
grew worse and v orse. They did not receive
their pay, and their food was short, until
when cur iufot ins deserted last month from
the 59th North Carolina cavalry regiueu*. RI
which he had be en- transferred, they had but
one meal day.. On another point he was
confident, and that was, tae rebel soldiers, the
prlVates, so far as his means of knowledge ex-
tended, We're discouraged and sick of the war.
They Were poor, and their relatives and
trends at home were also poor, many Of them
having, been reduced from state of compare
VI
No one who has good home at the Moth can
appreciate the suferlngs Of the common people
OF the South in this respect and there is but
little doubt that if the leading politicians
and generals were forced to give up the con
test, that the mass of the people would cheer
fully agree to a re establishment of the gov
ernment of the Union The loss of able-bod-
led by the South, both from the cas-
ualties of the battle field and disease has been
enormous, much larger than it is generally
supposed at the North. For instance, the
Georgia regiment III which our informant first
enlisted was originally composed of eleven hun
dred men. At the end of a year and half
of service, only thirty remained, and these
were attached to other regiments. The con
federate soldiers do not believe that if the
North is firm in the determination not to al
low separation that they can hold out for
more than year longer. la some parts of
North Carolina, confederate money is worth
but little. The opinion was general that if
the federal forces captured Wilmington, that
the greater portion of the State would fall in
to the hands of our Government. In western
North Carolina, which never voted to dissolve
the Union, the people are reduced to poverty
HARD ON BRIGADIERs.-Orp G.. Kerr,
w
we're ON brigadiers. He says:
g Captain, there's something missing from |
the rear guard"
William assumed a thoughtful demeauor, and |
says he:
g Is it a missfire 2'
No." said the Lieutenant. agitatingly, |
but We miss two
''Not baggage wagons p says William, Civ
ing such start that his war horse fell upon h
his knees. Don't tell me that two wagons /
are missing'
"Why, no." said the Lieutenant with emo
ton, !" it's not two wagons that we miss, b, !,
two brigadIers y
g Ah,o says William, tanning himself with
his cap, g how you alarmed met | :, ,onobt
at first it was two wagons. Let tho ,,roess-
sion go on, and Pll send for two ar ,re Rrios
the next time have a friend going to Wash
ngton."