Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-10-21
Glimpses into Rebellion.

negro teamsters, and general conscrip
ton of negroes in Georgia and Tennessee
is ordered. During the alarm caused by
the advance of our troops on the north
side of the James, every able-bodied ne
gro in Richmond was seized and sent for.
ward to the defenses. The Sentinel says
"The streets were relieved OF large
number of useless overgrown negroes
and the city greatly benefited by the
operation. Why not keep the free ne
groes in the employ OF the government p
The Charleston Courier of October 8
comes out squarely against the arming oil
the negroes. 1t says "Waiving all 9th
er objections for the present, we object
to any unusual or apparently desperate
Iexpedient which would or could justify
or excuse the belief that we are in ex-
tremities. We have men enough; we
need only to put them in the right place.
Japheth and Shem can and win main
tain their birth-rights."
The Richmond Dispatch does not agree
with the Georgia papers in their great
hopes of success from Hoods flank move
ment upon Atlanta. 1t says that Hood
is in no condition to renew hostilities, and
that an army unable to hold Atlanta
when behind its intrenchments, cannot be
expected to retake them by assault after
the enemy has gained possession. The
Sentinel scolds the Georgians for their
grumbling, and reminds them that they
have only begun 10 suffer what Virginia
has endured for nearly four years. The
sufferings Of Virginia are thus wildly set
forth: "The tracks of great armies are
across her bosom. Her beautiful valleys
are plundered and desolate. Her sea-
cost is all gone her mountains and her
rivers are taken away. OF her broad
territory, she cannot exercise her juris--
diction in half. Her capital city is be-
sieged by the greatest army Of the enc
my, under their highest general, and it's
capture is made the grand endeavor Of
the war. Our people are everywhere
straitened by the presence, the passage,
or the contiguity of great armies"
The Richmond Enquirer divides the
honors of Early's defeat between Sheri.
dan and "John Barleycorn." 1t says
that confederate officers in the valley, of
very high positions, have been too drunk
to command themselves, much less an
army or division. Besides Early's cav
airy were entirely demoralized, and in
the habit Of robbing friend and foe alike,
They have been known to strip Virgin
ian women of all they had-widows,
whose sons were in our army-and then
to burn their houses. At Hancock, in
western Maryland, they stopped min
lister of the gospel in the street, on the
Sabbath day, and made him stand and
deliver his watch and money. These
monstrous truths are stated in the official
report of the officer commanding part
of these cavalry forces" The Savannah
Republican finds the same fault with
Hoods soldiers, and says that while fall
ling back from Dalton they we're more
dreaded by the people than was Sher-
mans army, "The soldiers and even the
officers took everything that came in their
way, giving as reason that if they did
not b enemy would. Subsequently,
stragglers from our own army almost
sacked the stores of Atlanta. Now COM
plants loud and deep come up from that
portion Of Georgia in the neighborhood
Of our army, telling Of outrsges commit
ted by struggling squads of cavalry, and
of insults offered to the families of the
best and most patriotic citizens. This
confined to cavalry, this
pillage, from which, if report speaks true,
even officers are not free, besides its in
trinsic wrong, is wholly subversive of
discipline and destructive of all hopes Of
efficacy. If not checked by some master
spirit it presents gloomy prospect OF
disasters to come"
The southern state legislatures are soon
to meet, and the Richmond Examiner
tells them they must take measures to
drive back deserters to the armies, must
take care of soldiers wives, reduce the
number Of State officers, so as to send
men holding mere sinecures to the field,
and organize means of transportation,
that people in destitute portions of the
South may not starye.
The Richmond Wing learns from re-
turned rebel prisoners that Lincoln is
certain TO be elected, and it accepts the
fact as meaning that there is no alterna-
live for the South but success or subjuga-
lion. And now, that it has lost hope Of