Winchester daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1863-1863, 1863-06-12

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time there vii bc more thgitivcs from
hat State than there are from Missouri.
.Q& qonre the argument of the editor
that their war Is to s~cstain the UnIon
appears c9nsistent-ycry.
gGy-W have been fortunate enough, through
the kindness Of a friend, to get n late copy Of
the London Times, which we have read with
much interest. Much of the paper, including
u large portion of the debates in Parliament,
and much of the correspondence il taken up
discussing the American question. We are
glad to see that q New York correspondent,
in o very able communication, brings before
the English people the character Of the wsr,
and after giving the particulars of the burning
of Jacksonville, in Florida, by two Federal
regiments, and showing that the negroes--@
whole brigade Of whom were present-merely
looked on las silent spectators Of the splendid
but sld spectacle and after quoting the Yam
kee narration of the facts, in the Tribune, in
which it is condemned, and the question asked
'Is notthis war vindictiye-unrelenting war;
and the further question, Whether they
have not gotten up to TIE European standard .
the correspondent answers, The reply Of
every honest man will be that It is vindietiye
and uurclentug, but that 1t Is not wal at all,
but savage murder, robbery and arson" and in
further replying TO this narrator, he says: "He
has vet to learn that no European nation what
ever would tolerate such an outrage on the
part Of its troops; that Europe never had such
q standard since the darkness of the middle
ages was diSpelled by the light Of Christian
and civilized opinion"
Truly, when the history Of this war comes
TO be written, and the world comes to read
that history, and it is actually shown that the
United States, fighting, as was alleged, to re-
store the Union, not only burned towns and
wantonly destroyed private property every
whore, but that the officers robbed private
houses, and thereby enriched themselves, and,
in many instances, supplied their female rola-
tives with iewelry and fine clothing taken from
Southern ladies'; and, in fact, that they made
it o war upon women and children, and Old
men, and drove them from their homes, under
the p%retence of disloyalty, merely to get what
they had $50 the whole civilized world, like
the correspondent of the London Times, will
oxclaim There is nothing like it since the
darkness of the middle ages was d~ispelled by
the light Of Christian and civilized opinion.
GEN. Lett is too generally known, y
the Richmond Wing of the 9Th inst, to raise
any question Of prudence in speaking Of it
that Gen. Ice has put his army in motion
His designs are known only to himself ant
those with whom II was his duty to confer. A
tow days will disclose them to the public, who
will wait patiently, in full confidence that the
result will vindicate the wisdom Of what he
undertakes. A forward movements on his
part has been Tor some time anticipated by
the enemy, and is regarded with very percep,
tjble uneasiness. Whether he is about to Jus,
tify their apprehension, by crossing the Rap
pahannock, we have no better means of deter
mining than our readers. Should he do 50
events Of great consequence must 81 eedilJ
follow.
reA. The wires being down between
Decherd and Chattanooga was tht
cause OF no dispatches to the Bttlletir
Of yesterday from the East. BY oul
exchanges we received Gen. Leo's dia
patch to Gen. Cooper, dated Culpeppe,
June 7tb, stating that on that mornin.
at 5 o'clock the Yankees crossed tn
Rappahapnock at the various fords, il
heavy cavalry force, accompanied b
artillery After a severe contest of
honrs, Gen. Stewart drove them acros
che river. -,
sgg~ A friend Of ours in ,Polk's Sigma
Corps. beyond Shelbyyil!e, wrote -. onde