Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-09-29
From the Richmond Enquirer. Sep. II.
Late and Interesting Southern News
THE LAST OF MORGAN.

Late and interesting SOUTHERN NEWS
THE LAST OF MORGAN.
A very large concourse Of citizens atten-
ded the funeral of the. late chieftain Nor
gan Yesterday. The body was laid in state
in the capitol from 9 o'clock until IL, du-
ring which period it was visited by throngs
Of ladies', soldiers and citizens. At 1 o'clock
the funeral column, under the command Of
Brigadier Gen. Kemper, formed in front of
the capitol, and consisted of the Public
Guard, Captain Gay, the Fire Brigade, Cap
tain Charters, detachment of Pemberton 8
Heavy Artillery Battalion, and Lieut.. Col.
Atkinson. The President, Secretary of
War, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of the
Com mon wealth, Mayor of Richmond, and
members of the Council and Hastings Court,
united u the procession. The pail bear ers
were Lieutenant General Richard Ewell,
Brigadier Gen. Gardiner, Brig Gen Kemper,
Brig Gen Preston, Brig Gen Lawton, Brig
Gen Smith, Col Cox, Col August, Col Smith
and Maj Bassett. The Rev George Patter-
SOD, OF. the Episcopal Church, and Chaplain
of the Confederate States Army attended as
officiating minister. The procession moved
from Capitol Square at 2 o'clock, and pro-
ceeded out Of the western gate through the
principal streets, Hollywood Gem etery.
where the hero was laid in the tomb, the
shots were fred over him, and" he was left
alone in his glory.
COLONEL MosPE WOUNDED.
While the gallant Col. Mosby was retur
ming frour scout with only two of his men,
near W ashiugton City, he was suddenly at
tao ked by seven Yankee cavalry. In the
rencoutre We regret to have to state Col.
Mosby received a flesh wound in the thigh
from a pistol shot. He expects to be in the
| field in q week or two.
GENERAL GRANTS LETTER.
From the Richmond Wing, Sep. IA
! The Yankee Lieutenant General, having
no more fanking to do, and unable to ad-
vance, fluids some leisure on his hands, aud
| has taken 10 writing letters. We do not
discover that he is any more fortunate in
the use of the pen than of the sword. He
writes DO better than he fights but exhibits
the disregard of truth in composition that
| he does of life IN battle. The rebels
quoth be, have now in their ranks their last
man. The little boys and old men arc
guarding prisoners. guarding railroad bridS-
es, and forming good part of their garrisons
| for intrenched Positions Indeed! Then
/ the little boys aud old men whipped of your
picked troops from the railroad bridges at
/ Matoasa and across the .Staunton River.-
Can a country be conquered In which the
! little boys and old men are better soldiers
| than the best troops you can send against
| them? Do little boys and old men form
good part of the garrisons for the intren-
| ched position in front of Petersburg and
| Richm ond ?and you with your hordes OF vet.
| Grams unable to carry positions so defended!
! We "have robbed the cradle and the grave"
have wei Do you object TO the latter be-
cause you think it is the great business OF a
soldier to feed and not rob the grave! II
such be your theory it must be confessed
! your conduct has been in admirable harmo-
| Ly with your opinion.
! No man since Napoleon has offered such
banquet to the grave. Your line Of march
tron. the Rapidan to the Weldon Railroad
! is a wide aad continuous Golgotha. Your
! cam paigns have been carnivals OF death
From your attacks on Fort DonelsoD, wher
YOUR hectacom bs of dead .outnumbered III b
garrison within the fort, to the last OF your
/ inumerable defeats in front of Petersburg
you have done nothing but feast the worms
and the vultures aud the wild dogs that fol-
| low in your rear as young chickens follow
| the 10 other that feeds them. The grave!
! How your guilty soul must have quaked
when you wrote the word.
| But suppose our little boys and old men
were Gas thsy may yet be) 10 tns service
YOU d escribe, what would it prove but that
YOU are warriug not with military forces
merely, but with the people? When Ma
poleon undertook to conquest of Spain, one
of his Marshals said to him wisely; Sir
you will not succeed; you are making war
not against armies, but a nation. Every
one able to lift muSket will bscom3 SOL
dier. You can never cjnquer them! The
words were prophetic. The result only
l 4 iliuSfr.finn nF tho ruth
which all history teaches. that a brave, uni
ted, patient, persistent and determined PEG
ple. especially if they have such num55rs +,
such resources and UGH extent OF territory
as we possess, can be subjugated by no force
that it is practicable to move against them.
This fact was signally atte5ted In the hrst
contest Of our fathers for freedom.
Just as Grant nov writes the British com
manders wrote, and with m UGH better rea-
sou, to their Government. Prussia, under
Frederick, with its five millions of popula-
ton, fighting against the mightest nations
of. Europe com biued, was another illustra-
ton. Holland, in her death struggle with
Phillip, afforded another. History, ancient
and modern, apounds with similar lessons.
People worthy Of freedom may lose their
liberties from the per61y of rulers or the
knaYery of politicians, bot never from the
sword of an invader. When nation takes
for its watch word determination sooner
than subjugatiCD;' when for every soldier
who falls there is a father or brother or son
ready TO take his place, and burning
to aveuge his death; when "the lit
tic boys are made men by the bgness OF
their souls, and the old men, are rejuven-
ated by the fire that glows in their bosoms;
when even women are ready to forget the
weakness Of their sex, and assume the tasks
aud share the hardships and perils of the
men:-against such people numbers are as
nothing; resources are OF avail; suffering
o,J ,,aril human nd COLI ara XUithOOt effsct.