Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-02-07

cense. More than that, when he has ha a
column or SO of the most amazing kind of
writing which even the Minerva press ever
poured forth, flooded poor General Lee--his
sayings, his doings, his face, his figure, his
tent, his table, his very saddle, and we
believe his boots-with eulogy, the cores
pondent hints that this is nothing to what
he conld have done were it not that General
Lee breads newspaper pancgyric more
than wound = Certainly if General Lee
has had any means of judging OF his admi-
rer's style, we are not surprised that he
should rather singly face a whole federal
column than even half a column of this mer-
CHESS laudation. Y
THE FAscINATIoSs OF JACKSON,
"Yet we think even General Lee fades
before General jackson. Lee is hero, but
Jackson is saint. Church music is Jack
sons especial delight. In the midst of bat
tic he is softly waIbling hymns. He sheds
tears when you talk to him of church psalm
ody. His dearest memory on earth is n
rapturous reminiscencc OF the organ in
York Minister. He wins battles by some
kind of prophetic force. He wins because
no human foe can withstand him, but his
soul is like n STAR and dwells apart He
pants for the happy day when, having saved
his country, hc may retire into the deepest
obscurity, and play, we presume, church
music ON the organ. As to the manner in
which his men idpize him we really are
quite unable to give any notion OF They
who w0nld appreciate that part Of the story
must read the Times correspondence-any
where and everywhere themselves.
One slight trait, however, we may mention.
The only pastime in which the simple, limo
cent, Confederate soldiers eyer indulge lin
the rare intervals during which they lay
aside the garment of yictorvl is the chase Of
rabbits. Sometimes, while the dcities of
the staff are dining, demigods of the ranks
sport through the woods. II it ever happens
that peculiarly enthusiastic shout is raised
the paragons of the staff smile and say. That
must C either Jackson or rabbit Touch
ing, it is not
THE PERFECTIoNs OF STUART.
"Our readers may be surprised to hear
that after all. General Stuart appears to he
the correspondents iavorite. Gen. Stuart is
perhaps, on the whole, Il shade handsomer
than Lee. and possibly II thought more pious
and gentle than Jackson. But he is, more
over. youthful hero, and the very model of
Il prcMr cdccalier. In the saddle and the
dance, Welding the sabre or twanping the
banjo, lie is alike incompatible. 1t is his
habit to ride fifty miles II day, and th n he
regards it as his highest happiness to ride
dozen miles more at night, TO tread but
one measure in some Virginia country house
lie Is, we learn, the tilyorite guest in all The
country-houses round and the moment he
emer2cs from the battle lad he dashes Off
to the dance. lie always goes, we are told,
accompanied by his banjo player Let US
crown the merits of this peerless person by
mentioning that he has never touched tobac-
co in any form, or any wine, 'or indeed
adds the correspondent, in an amazingly
sweeping sentence or any ether liquor /"
This entire absence of thirst is Il character
istic not alone new to the heroic nature, but
positively, until the present moment, TN
known to physical science.
THE sUBLMITIEs OF THE oLIeARcHY
''But the reader who gets through few
colums OF these descriptions will not wonder
at this or any other superhunan attribute
whcrewith the CORE ,pondent endows his
heroes. Ii he told us that General Lee was
invulnerable like Achilles, or that Stone
wall jackson was in the habit of descending
from the clouds like Mars, we should receive
the animation without special wonder OF
men like these we are prepared to believe
anything. No marvel the correspondent
tells Us that the slave oligarcliy' are the
truest friends Of that African race of which
Exeter Hall knows SD little and over which
it has whimpered so much Why, there
is a narrative here of the struggles of slave
who had been separated from General Stuart
to get back TO that hero, and to escape from
the tangs of the abolitiOnists, which might
make Seward himself shed tears When this
faithful and devoted negro at last reached
once more the Confederate headquarters, u
scene took Place which even this eloquent
correspondent declares battles all dcscrip-
ton All the officers rushed forward 10
grasp him by the hand and the corrcspon-
dent gravcly says, they heard the narrative
OF his adventures over a hundred things.
Certainly nothing could surpass this proof
of interest. II the happy fugitive did not
vary his facts, or at least his style, the story
must have seemed, even 10 the kindly Lee
himself, little monotonous by the time it
had reached the ninety -tifth repetition. Why
an emancipation proclamation or a servile
war should he dreaded by such masters we
are unable TO conjecture We have not in
this rapid notice done anything like justice
to the correspondents style. That, all Curl
Gus persons must appreciate Cor themselves.
But 1t Is only fair to add that, marvellous
rs are the endowments OF the Confederate
officers, this enthusiast assures us the Con
tederate soldiers, taken on the average, are
worthy of higher eulogy still -
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