The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-02-10
PROM MINT JuLEp.
Special Correspondence the R.bell
CAMP EEAR TuLLAHoMA, TENH., !
Feb 9Th 1852


CAMP EEAR TuLLAHoMA, TENE.,
Feb. 9th, 1863.
Dear Re6sl: II is nest enphaticaIly dull
here--dHll as a wet Sunday evening" at eoun.
Try crossroads. There is no news, no gossip
no scandal, nothing The smooth current OF
camp life has not been rippIed for several days
We are compelled to resort to cards and the
pipe to whttle time away. Occasionally a
thrifty specimen Of the dirty-face, snub-uose
breeches and boots genus, too iufantilc for the
polite attentions of ,he conseript officer, cries
out, Here's your pies" upon the "perilous
edge" oi the guard line and collects around
him forthwith All admiring audience, to whom
he discourses with astonishing volubiiiy upon
the innumerable merits Of the article in ques
tion. Many an "aching void is stilled by the
simple process Of investing fifty cents aud the
snub,nose cherub without tear OF farewell.
rings his Here's your pies y in other boats,
The tread mill routine grinds slowly on.
General Joseph Z. Johnston and Preston,
paid us visit yesterday. ISupposo they were
on tour Of inspection. General Joseph E.
lSsks fresh and vigorous. He promises to
sojoum with US until our affairs wear more
dleasing prospect. The war in Middle and
East Tennessee viii assume stirring interest
before spring bursts her buds. Did you ever
see Gen. Preston the distinguished Kentucky
Orator9 ! lSve to look at the mOtherly old
creature. II stirs mp whole nest Of baby.hood
recOllections. He reminds one so pleasantly
Of benevolent old grandmother we used to
see when we wore or rather didn't wear
brseches, with her bead reticulc, pair of
silver Spectacles pcrched majestieally over her
eagle-beak, afectionatoly counting the cooling
breeze with an cid turkey-wing, a relic of
venerable old family gobler.
A friend Just in from Williamson county in
forms ME the Yankees were out there in force
when he loft. We suppose they are extending
their lines for the purpose Of foraging. The
citizens Of that county were plundersd by the
Yankees all last summer, despoiled by the "ir-
regular horse" under Wheeler and Forrest and
are again to be robbed by the Federal hordSs.
We occasionally get peep into affairs at
Richmond through the papers. Tennessee
gets her FoOte into every thing. The sparring
over the new Conscript is an amasing though
rather serious play Of ignorance. They play
like desperate gamestsrs forpopularity.
What ancient author made use Of the express
sion, Montes PGrtmiunt, d ridiculuS mus
Any how it occurs to me just at
this moment (the Army Regulations forbid
sOld,r speaking contsmptuousy of member
Of COngross).
And the Editors and Ministers are to be
dragged into the service to increase our
strength? Perhaps it wsuld give US two, may
be three companies more to enrol tho editorial
,Orps. We would be perfectly irresistible
With the addition ofa small battalion Of the
Knights Of the Quill (This should not be
poken above low-whisper for Rosencranz /
aay Overhear us.)
Does tho strength Of the South consist alone
a bone, Aesh, thews, shows and muscleH If
o, eur cause then is surely hopeless, for be-
end question the North outmeasures us in a
oint of weight and bulk. Our superiority
onsistE ia the morale, the anmus Is this
ot the creation Of Intelligence? The Northern
eOple subait tamely TO usurpation, but at its
rst noiseless, stcalihy approach the Southern
pirit starts like panther. The difference in
Intelligence and training accounts for this. iC
Why cripple then the medium Of supply for
ns pc ouliar strength Of the South Could q
ie rsdoubtod warriors, breathing FIRE along a,
10 corridors Of the capitol, sec the throng Of I,
lggsd soldiers pressing eagerly around the Il
ews ONCE at this place, daily, for paper,
orhaps change would come over tho spirit
( their dreams. These poorly clad soldiers o.
loot sore and weary" are perhaps as sincerely II
ovoted TO the cause az these SwOetsmelling y,
conscript Fathers" are the people to be B
Undecided in the midst Of a revolution when >,
/ Is at slAkug Barren NunehauSen tells us OF al
blind SOW he saw upon enc occasion that II
rasped her pigs tale with her teeth and was q
this manner led from place to place. Do to
ar frIonds at Richnosd require this OF usl til
ave the faree. NJ
Coed day, n
MINI JuLgr. q,