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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-09-15
--,I lHa Ray HENRY WARD BEEsHERIs
The SIS 600 Union Prisoners in Geor-

. .ss.4. f.,-,er.. Zia. 5+aIa IuD hliW
Among the prisoners who recently arrived
at New York by the Arago,3 FROM Hilton
Head; We're four exchanged prisoners
Messrs. El Bates, AID New York; ?. Tracy
SD, New York; A. G. Higgins 19thSIHi-
Inois, and s, Noisot, 9th New Jersy, COM
,missioners appointed at a monster meeting
of the thirty five thousand Union prisoners
confined in Camp Sumpter, AndersonyiHe,I
Georgia, to wait upon the President in
Washington, with a petition praying that
immediate action be taken to terminate
their suferings, either by a parole,or eN-]
change sufferings described tooabe almost
incredible; @ .a ID a1JgToisI bUG.Jb
Two thirds of them are without shelter Of
any kind to protect them from the fierce
rays of a tropical sun and the cold heavy
,dews and thunder showers peculiar to that
climate. The commissioners described the
food upon which the prisoners entirely and
exclusively subsist, as of a character to pro-
duce nausea even in the hungriest stonIachs
consisting of bread made from unbolted corn 6
meal, half ground, 5badlyibaked and WITHOUT
salt with about two ounces of fat rancid 1
and rusty bacon daily rations)j fit only for
the soap factor. The water used by these
unhappy men is literally poisonous, being
taken from muddy, oozy stream, that
flows for half a mile through impurities of
he 6lthie st and most obnoxious character
before it enters the Stockade, or bull pen
inwhieh our brave fellows are huddled as
thick as behring's packed in barrel. ID The
clothes worn by a majority of the prisoners
are miserable shreds and patches, INSULT
Client even for the purpose of ordinary de-
cency, filled with yvernain, and altogether
presenting scenes saddening and humilia-
ting to our common humanity. The results
are an amount OF disease and i mortality
truly fearful. When the commissioners left
the beastIy pen, on the 9TH instant, the
deaths had reached one hundred and forty
three per day and this without any epidein-
ic among the prisoners; and from the rapid
increase of deaths daily occurring at Camp
Sumpter, the mortality must have react1ad
by this date at last one hundred and eighty
daily, soon, doubtless to ascend to two
hundred day. Al.l5a' t'''' -. i'
The nature of The diseases which sweep
away our brave, fellows as with a scythe of
death, are diarrhea; dysentery and scuryy,
with recently increasing typhoid fever. Y
As indicating the ravages of disease pro-.
duced by the causes already stated, the
deaths since the opening OF the prison on
the 25th of last FEBRUARY up to the Slst of
July were $500. In the month of July
alone the deaths were 2, 100, including $50
from scurvy. ..7r5fq, .re aufIasInuo,
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Nefiie.


Josh Billings says We k0mmense life
we are somebody's baby-we have tiaxen
hare-We go to a districk- slule--we slide
down hiIl-we play hookey-7we have great
differently with ottr IfozesAwe larn how
tu,o smoke. and . find Il ourselves MEN
grown all tn onst. aIhus far "nattlr has
piped, and we have dansed, and there haint
bin nofiddler to pa butaiow eufnsiii the Spec
ialordainment tinies 1 have bin thru with
awl this miseft and stood ON the threshold.
young man, loolGn around feddy to be or
dained. i felt as tho j VIVID give lST5 at
least if sumbndy.wud cum along and ordain
me, and let me pitch III n waited for six
weeks, if lrukuleelit right and never a 35t
the tust smell. ov emmy orGaining. Thtrs3
konkluded to ordain niself, hit or miss. The
fust thing | tried on was 80 aker ov land III
the western kintry. | ordered The venison
and wild turkey and possunis tew leave for
/ was going tn farm it, ordained a log
house and much raIe Tense iInmegiately, and
put in krop oy wheat, and procured swine
and a yvke of Stages. / worked years,
had the ager and lite crops principally and
managed tn sink the farm and Stages; [
haint seen neither ov them from that da, and
don't think want tn. didn't seem to be
speshially ordained for farming in the wes-
tern kentry. Fsf-.r 81 Dll5. l5fV gun
Since that time hav tried every kind of
bizDess that could hear ov, and haint been
speshally ordained yet in mi knollege. The
fault all lays in the different kinds ov bizness
i haint the least doubt. W The bizRess that
was designed for me probably haint been
ordained yet, but intend tn keep boring,an
when du strike lie thar will he q oood time
generally in mi immegiate naberhood. Ihav
got any quantity ov friends (tha don't seem
to cum by ordinaslun.) got mine, and
nianaged to keep them by not askin them
fur ennything but adviz; you can It ask en-
nything ov a man that he loves tn give
more and that kosts him less than advice.
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THURSDAY. SEPT
THE. MILITARY FIELD
A Cheerful, Hopeful and Truthful Survey
- Of it-PGpqlar Errors Corrected. .. ..:,
~. WARHI4GToN,A August 81
PoPULAR ERRoRs REGARDINe. VIE LENGTH

4li9 u5aS445t s<9J1- I'd ID --ltJI5TJ9t j. ~
-y4nyuy .i OF THE rHlR.i gARs 9l5szyoalsb gas
The course of public opinion regarding
the war has been marked by two errors SO
wide spread and tenaGious,Sthat the philoso-
phie historian. whose task it will be to trace
the connections between the inward thoughts
Of men and the outward events of this great
revolution, will probably be compelled to
class them under the category of popular de-
lqsions, i1rThe one of these prevailed during
the first stages OF the rebellion; the,other OBJ
tains at the present time the first was an
iil-fouaded anticipation Of THE shortness Of
the war; the second is an equally ill-ground-
ed fear of its indefinite prolongation. If
the first was great bar to the efficient exc
cution Of the duty of putting down the re-
bellion-and there is no doubt chat our iltli-
isions as to the speedimess with (which the
work .wouldbe accomplished wasjaj Serious
hlnderance to the very preparations needed
to make 1t short-the other is an error, equal
~ fatal; for the paralysis Of effort produced
by the sentiment of the probable longness
Of the war is sure to make it much, longer
than it would otherwise be. There is no
higher duty, therefore, than for patriotic
men to fortify themselves and others by the
consideration of all the element of hope
which, survey Of the situatiop really iii
spires. Such a survey justilies the conclu-
sion that the end of the war-crushing of
the main armed force of the rebeiIion-is
not only not far of, but that it is near at
hand, and that it is in our power to bring it
about almost at a blow .........s, = mo III
There is Similar fact which may we'll
be.taken into account in the {atteinptto es-
innate the actual prospect of the war;, and
that is that the present dependency arising
from its seemingly interminabic outlook is
no more than repetition Of a phenoille-
nom whichhas often before manifested itself
in the experience of other. nations. 1t has
often happened that men, on the very eve Of
conclusion Of war, have looked upon it as
promising the longest duration; and twill
be in the memoryaof many that jusUpreviOus
to the termination of the CriInean war even
as sagacious an observer Of the signs Of the !
times as Mr.. Golden had in pamphlet made
jt-qut as certain to be prolonged for maily I
yeats i thus often happens that war,which1I
ID lis ira teal execution deals 50 largely in
i pa. is itself the greatest Of receptions.
{l-i@.ir 4iltjr years perhaps Of great strife, |
ri.s.t silaios still confront each other,i it is
iF.rrj tel,,aetr.tte its outlet orits issue;but !
sOi,> Sudden turn Of affairs produces the |
rlinldN and in the flames Of WaterlOo,a Can
nae or a Putowa, fabrics and SYSTEMS
lirrW rooted go out in ashes and
'..guE 81. iaa.! r-i eas Is
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A REBEL INvAsIoN-Is IT PROBABLE AND WOULD
TrPAY?

A REBEL INVASION-IS II PROBABLE AND WOULD
rrPAY?
But should tue rebel force in the valley
Once more attempt an invasive movement?
Nothing would suit General Sheridan bet
ter than it should do so. think he s00Nl3
agen be agH5sag TO build q bridge across the .Po-
toDsac tor ii Indeed, if do not mistake the
purport of some late maneuvers, he is even
now trying to tempt, Early to this very en-
terprise, and if he should be unable to do SO
and Early should retreat, as it is certain he
must do if he does not go forward, seeing
that tue valley is eaten out and it is out Of
the question for him to keep up so long
line as he would, have over which to bring
up supplies Sheridan will even in this even
tuality follow him up, press on his rearo aud
by threatening Lynchburg, compel Lee TO
Keep the force detached from Petersburg.
1t may be said that the danger might be
more serious should the rebels, by secret-
ly reinforcing their column in the valley
from the army defending Richmond, gain q
preponderance Of force which would ENABLE
them to defeat Sheridan before he could be
reinforced by General Grant Such contta1
gency is very remote for to be IN with the
rebels have barely men enough to hold thelf
own in front of General Grant Lee has now
under his own Immediate command but two
corps, the strength Of which by official esti-
mate, is but from twenty-five to thirty thou
sand men. a movement Of the kind indica
ted could, there fore, only to be made effect,
i've bv a total Withdrawal of Lee, determined
to hazard everything on last desperate
initiative In doing this however, he would
necessarily abandon Richmond, and in his
advance northward would march attendedby
a powerful force under Grant on his rear,
and holding his only line Of communication.
This would certainly be very different kind
of enterprise from either of those he has be-
fore ad1entdred in his two invasions, in both
of which cases he had but to make a flank
ing movement to relieve Richmond Of all
menace, and allow him to pursue his course
with his rear safe and his communication O.
pen, tits thus seen how, by the admirable
combinations in Virginia, Lee is bound over
either to purely defensive policy or to en-
terprises of a rashness that must insure his
ruin. .-. E.rH
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case it is thrown off eccentrically and ava y
from its connections with the rebel forces n
Virginia, or else to move into the lCarolinas,
in which case the area is combined, cribbed
and confined within the restricted limits Of
the paralIelograIn of the Atlantic sea-board
States aa.A.-..- 70 siI31eLih ~
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REAL HoLLow2Ess OF THE. rebellion,

W
The present front,of the rebellion, menace
ing though it be,is really nothing more than
mask, concealng the hoilowness and rotten
ness within. The South is literally exhaus-
ted-exhausted of that without which it is
to carry on War--exhausted of
men. The field in the expressive expires
sion Of Napolean regarding France after the
three eonscriptions, is reaped downto :the
stubble. Out of an available fighting pop
ulation of upward of three quarters af a mill
lion, with which the war was inaugurated
they have saved an effective force of one
hundred and fifty and perhaps two hundred
thousand men. The rest are in their graves,
in the hospital, disabled or prisoners in our
hands. These are the forlorn hope of the
rebellion. BY matchless sagacity in the
Conduct OF affairs, executing its purpose with
.despotic power, this force is still kept on foot
and even made to represent a formidable as
pect.1 And without doubt, the rebel chiefs
will still for some time be able to oppo Sc
vigorous resistance to our efforts to quell
armed opposition, and to the real desires of
the Southern people for peace They will
certainly do SO while they have at the main
points ofcontact force so nearly proportion
ed to our own. Bat it is hard to show how,
by an exertion of power we have in our
hands, the armies that stand between the
Confederat ties and their utter ruin can be de-
stroyed.
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: $500 PETs sAN7NUM IN ADVANCE.
NUMBER Is.

belIion at blow Lieut.. General Grant ha s
declared, that s'ifhe had but hundred thou
sands fresh men he could in fifty days. DO
up all the fighting that needs to be done du-
ring the war" This is no shallow hearsay !;
it is the authentic declaration of the high
name given and the sentiment is affirmed
by every military man | have lately met.
Half that force added to General Grants own
immediate army would enableZohim to
stretch his line across to the DanviEle Road
and positively compel the Abandonment of
Virginia; the .iother half would put Hoods
army into the hands Of General Sherman.
Is there living patriotnisinenough left in the
country to evoke the means for soaglorlOnsi a.
Icepsummation? If there We're not, it might
well raise the question whether such q people
described to be saved? -
The time is fast drawing nigh when ttts
patriotism will be put to the test. The draft
is designed to give General Grantathe hHq5
drod thousand and three times the hundred
thousands men he needs to conclude the war
withaI That measure rings the death 1Sneil
Of the rebellion. The leaders of the rebellion
in the South know il; the abettors at the
North know it, and hence their efforts 70
thwart it. The draft will be made in spite OF
of both But it can be made TRANQUILITY and
efficaeiously, or with lame and impoteht re-
suits, as the people shall elect. 1t is rlomen
tous issue which hangs on that election! -ra 4.
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WILLIAM SWINTON.

Gs1- 1t is officially announced by the gov
ernor that Rhode Island has, by voluntary
enIistments, filled her quota. - 80
r9y- A late French writer says that the
Bostonians are much like his own county
men. polite, courteous and lovers of frogs,
and that they have pond in the middle Of a
public garden, which is kept for the purpose
Of supplying the city with these animals.
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I-I.1 Petroleum Nasty. j y
EEis tSE.%tters and aerMOms."

Those who have been so fortunate as to
have read there epistolary illusions as they
have originally appeared. have been highly
entertained and perhaps enlightened. The
numerous photography and phraseology,
and caustic satire on the sham inconsisten-
cies and veritable treason OF the copperhead
faction, render them beyond comparison
with anything yet published. ~ Prev 's'''...'.
C.sOsP errine & Co, the enterprising Book
Publishers Of indianapolis, Indiana, have
just published these Letters and Sermons
in book form. Some one in our county
ought to get and sell them. We predict an
immense run on them.rf7 OFT sli-gs $50 /
HIS LETTER ON FREMoNT's NOMINATION. Is
Church nv the Moo Dispensashen9
r., ....saaTa t-ala atH Joon the 2, "a.
g Halleloogy!'1a L'5l .H"s} .'a $3.50 PIX
Now is the winter NV our diskontent,
maid gellorous summer. The clowds that
orekast the perlittikIe horyzon is broak, and
rays fruni the sun NV success have peerced
enl, gildin the nosis Nv the fatheful with a
rayience that wisky cannot give.
Honey hez kun out nv a karkis-good
hez perceeded frum Nnzzyreth. The Rad
dvkeIs hev nominated Fremont! HallelQo-
gy! Theydid it at Cleveland
/ never votid fer Fremont. I'm so [ did
MT like-in fact aboozcd him. | laft at
him fer partin his hare in the middle |
akoosed him Nv bein a Cathlic and nv steal
in cattle frunl the Guvment. Wen Linkin
l u H.
and more than ever wen heishood his timan-
| sipashen ProcliIuashen ,....a-..-. III s.
But now diskiver that hev did him q
grevous wrong. The most hekomin way q
man kin part his hare is in the middle, the
steelin Nv cattle frum guvmentis act that
no man who supported Bookanon kin con
dem, and his abiiishnisIn- heze to be
pitied fer that
j Wv course no dimocrat kin vote for him,
for ther is tridin difference in our prlnslples
yet about half Nv the ablishen party ought
to do it by all menes. John c. Is the man
fer them undoubtedly.
/ But wether his gifts rnenny votes er
few, his ben nominated is salyashen to us;
Every vote he gifts, Linkin won't git and
| then what g.
The bair tllot almost overpowrs me
We kin elect a dimocrat! --7'i
This movement puts anew face upon at
fairs We needn't be peytlkelerly anxsnus
/ annv ,rnoar fer Lees success-in fact | be-
lleeye it wood be better fer US hev Grant
, whip Lee /. and talk Richmond. Fer why
Becoz, Spoon about the time the Confede,
rasy is playd out, We elect dimocrat, and
spozn that dimocrat lets up on EN-, restoars
ther nigg gers, pard0nes eHn, pays ther debts
compensate them ez has sustained losses IN
the war, and penshuns ther widders, wood
ent they let Us hey the.heft Nv the offsis
while. vcoarse they wood.
l segest that the Commits who air takin
up colIeckshuns fer Nallandygum, send the
mummy forthwith to Fremonts Execootly
Committy. l shell talk up a coleckshun II
my congregashen Immediately fer that pur-
pus. 30 Zi.'4lt 81 'fa. '' i7''-'
T Re-inwiggeratid, nH
| + PETROLEUM Y. Massey, i, ~
y Faster NV sed church in charge,
sue-5t#s f-eaEEnf~ I" - re -IiaFaa~t-
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COpperhead COnSDjraeieS.

An Indianapolis letter in the Cincinnati
u1zstte says: II ..iasiq all s53l5d saiuon 2
Some time since, copies of the ritual of
the .. A. X. were found in the office of D..
w. voorhees,, Of Terre Haute, which natu-
rally led to Inference that they were the pro-
perty of d. Voorhees, He has made a de-.
NAL to COL w Thompson and to gen.
Darlington, which occasioned the following
renlY - ut L-L- n .L 80
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OER PIE SsDENT..
1861

1904
al ABKAM LINcoLN knows the fcpes
Is all our hopes III a.a -srB.1 1.! III a'FE ~
Centre now about the brave end true;Ja nj
Let us help him tis we can ~ ~ 9
He's the man, OH r.od ed5 la lJiHg III
Honest for the country, through and through.
Others good perhaps as he -..,,,,,;,.. b
There may be. % u t'--.
cat Have we tried them in the wsr-times' flamel
" Do we now If they will stand, &C.. s..-.e,
" Heart in hand ~-S ."
sal Seeking fer the Right III Heavens name? z
: Let the n.tion ash him, then 1u1"29a-' %
Opce again .,,-... ,.. +r.. sI1 30 Jn1Gil1
V1 TO hold The rudder in this stormy sea: n.
Tell hun that, each se9pless night, nam -'l'''
Dark to light, .....-.....,i a4rT2 IND
1at u .hers ii morning for the Free ~ ,'..
II Let us not forget our rude -. -....f.
II GratitaCe,I or 90 iil" q" <.AiIJ 4 p '-.'1
But lend our servant the poor crown we may
10 Give him four more years of toll,
= ] ask and Moil; JE08 alu- AliH GotlAa i|sssi
Trusting God shall crown him in his day.
Z W 1qaJ eft Nellie. :! % % 'y,a'2 '15
-izyq e,hEEPfNG sw4etiy heath the willow, '''~
.,- - t.- Closed her eyeSoiiat sGt II ,doij
49, With the cold damp earth her pillow, T. .i
ia .~#F 81 Nellie ies.1 % ODE il!H d&tij o'i|'
But the ho@rets bloom rs brightly TT s+ni
neal - e 155 Round her bed li-i ~, 's-'' ~
IA And the song-bfds sing as lightly, 1893 r.lH
,'st5 1851 80 ~ 0'er her head.
Oh! the sunlight still is fitting ..-.,.
II 4fls g3 RouDu onr door, f!5-0-S!- & 10y @--
In its beams bright forms are basking ,, .,,, q o.
-g 'tTI5s5 As of yore; - '''N ~" t
But the sunlight OF our cottage I r,riai ri
Eig.- lJo ~ Now has fed, '!13 W ~-'e- CO.
Gone to light better mansion, TT .Ysag.ot
1905 s---- Goue-Iot dead.
Close beside her lowly pillow, tJf
-,.rf4ae. ID While she sleeps, -4 t-.<-.1 - ~
Loves bright star its lonely vigil r .itnu uai5
--E 1jl51" Ever keeps,
And my heart is weeping overct tnsH3aa sl
uL5 4 ia > Beauty's doom,
Chanting its low aBIhea r,-lr9Yg9iEyul-
IL 5@o''- -" Blight and bloom.
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Lottery Tickets Cashed I'm all Legslized
lotteries. Inform alton given.
JOSEPH BATES. Broker, ii Wall st., room No ]. n. Y


ACautfom -Te the Drug Trade and Fam
dealers Might Blooming Cereus piraed PROSECUTION
COMMEMORATE yfndcaton Of their rights and TOR
the protection of the public the have resolved 10
invoke the aid OF the law in all cases in which their
celebrated perfume. The Night Blooming Cereusn
NAV be countereited simulated An injunction has al
ready been obtained from the Supreme Court against Ger
jobbng of this city hbltng them sell
ing preparation purporng 20 be the Might Blooming Ce
reus made by ID. ID. A. Wright Of Philadelphia. prose-
cuon has been commenced 10 Phi adehia and others win
be stuted here forthwith The law OF this State the
subject sim and point II constitutes the
ing counerie ting of trade marks criminal offence.
sale OF the articles which bear the fraudulent
bols This law will be enforced othe utmost BY the sub.
against all who their rights sole
and propretors Of the Night Blooming Co
for the Handkerchief
Initiated The secret its preparation Is confined to tho
firm who and IT, Labels. however, are
easily copied than subtle chemical combinations and
therefore Intended that the enterprise OF the indyidu
the public by exernals sha be
promptly suppressed BY the strong hand ~ jastice.
PHALoN SON, 5i7 Broadway.
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FATAL RESULT OF SHOOTING ArFsAY.-John Bell, the
young who was shot the left side by pistol In
tho hands Of George Evans the night of the 2sh ut
previously reported in tho HERALD died yesterday IN
the New York Hospital II appears that Evans had an
alteration with stranger in the dance house Of Alexan
der Muholand, s15 Water street, whsu Evans DIRE va
pistol 10 shoot him Az that moment Bel interered and,
stepping between the eilgerents, shot by kyans,
the bullet penetrating the eft side INJECTING fatal
wound Evans was arrested by officer Charles Murphy,
and committed 70 the Tombs 10 await the result OF the
injuries. Coroner Naumanu was notified, and will hold
an inquest on the body to-day Bell and Evans ere
shbmates and old friends. Tho shooting Of Bell II is
claimed, was perfectly accidental
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Personal InteIIfgence.

ARRIVAL or coLoEGL A. D. srREIaHr AT TIN
METROPOLITAN H0rEL
Colonel A. D. streight OF tho Ffy-hrst regiment 10
diana Volunteer cavalry arrived at the Metropolitan Ho
te early yesterday morning The Cooneps escape
from the Libby prison be fresh in the minds Of
readers and happy TO state that his health which
was considerably injured by his long confinement In the
n'se OF rebeldom Is fast improving His feet much
Acerated aud nhamed during his long tramp through the
woods Of the peninsula but again good walking order
Snory after his arrival Al the Metropolitan Mr. Simeon
Isnd (the senior proprietary accompanied him 10 the
headquarters Of Major General Dix and Brgadier snsra
stannard by 10th Of whom ne was cordially received
and warmly his arrival among the loyal
people the Morrill, without undergoing the tedious pro-
cess Of formal exchanges. During tho day large numbers
Of gentlemen, both military and civil called him 81
tho Metropolitan Hotel TO or their congratulations on
his escape He Will loave for his bono In Indiana some
time TO- day.
General starkweather and Captain ). Alden, OF tho
United States Army; Hon. A. b. On and wife, Of Troy
Or W. W. welch Of Connecticut j. L. Whiting, OF De-
troit L. Bgelow, OF Clinton, and 8. B. St, Of Phla
delpha, are stopping at the Astor House.