Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-12-22

Yankees ard their DoinEs as Viewed bv nm r,Dr,,.n

Yankees ard 'hsir Doings as Viewed by an English
Mr.. Sala the shrewd and graphic annotator m
Yankee men and things, who writes for the London
Telegraph from New York, says in his letter of Sen.
+ember 18th ::
General Julius Cesar is ordinarily supposed to have
set the pattern of aconic bulletins 10 the immortal
| Pena, Uidi vici In the heroic MINGLED with tbo f.
m'ar it is difficult to go beyond Henry " of France.
Fends tn1, brace CriHon nous Guons conbattu n Ar
9ues et I" ny etois pas" Then in the announcement
OF oeteat what could be finer than Francis TO biz
sister after Pava, Madame save honor an is Loot :"
Sir Charles Napier's Peccgyi p,-" have Scinda -
is inmitabe, but, it is to be feared apocrypha The
Ameri leans claim to have improved on all t1ese mono
raoe e"sampHs' 1ranls answer to Pemberton
propose to move Immediately on your works is o1od
the finest specimens extant Of the svle of an as
sailaut indomtsbly bent on the accomplishment of
certain purpose and confident of success The Lien
tenant General has, however, fallen of in public esti
nation o writer OF laconics during the present cam
pagn. propose to fight it out this line if it takes
all summer" proposition most striking, but il
was not borne out by subsequent events Gen. Grant
has been compelled to try as many lines as IN
successful fisherman. Nor was the enemy seems
to have found bis last ditch"an expression by the
way, transported from remark made by William Of
Orange to the States General-much luckier Loe's
last DITCH, to all appearances will be at once hs bat
| tie ground and his grave Then came Gen Ingalls, ia.
bilant telegram to friend in Washington during the
first days of the Wilderness /" We have finished up
Johnston, and are now going to pitch into Ea4Iy"-
Early being al this present writing, four months after
the telegram actively employed in pitching into
Aver, and Johnston being ready to be flashed up"
again, go the COnfederateS shall give him au
other command. 1t is not only, however in the sharp
the terse, and the pithy that cousins defined
to shine In their kilograms and bulletins there fire.
quently peeps out, combined with q slangy vulCGry
| which savours Of the bar rOOm than CT
the camp that quaintness of dictiOn and dry humour
IF Inference, of the possession Of which they seem
10 be themselves unconsc Gus. They have net the
how HrDH fhaoTn aliC md
it may be- the secret of the trouble between them and
US. They want to think them beaueous, sublime
and transcendental beings perss in regarding them
apart from their outward miPn, which is dolOrous and
mOrCse, as nation OF choice wags self contained, bat
full Of an Infinite inner comcaty--sjmewhat cynical!
but very genial and warm, hearted on fona The
bulletins Of Mr. Stanton for ins tapc3, tie funniest
utterance8 that were ever flashed over dIcie meta.
You 6Ie aware that this exalted fIuCtOnaTy WAS Ia
the earlier days of the campaign chrstened Aurora"
from his practice OF suusng the horizon of the
ing papers with rose-colorei tintg. His bright blush
ing mornings were, however, so frequently followed b.
terribly stormy afternoons that he gave up at last VIII
trg kilograms altogether and for macy weeks has been
as mute a stOcktsh But that the good ship
Union is making such tremendous Roadway add srea-
mers bearing the names Atlanta and Mobile decl; her
rigging, the Secretary Of War has put hun
aelf into Communication with the Geographic operator
and the sentient cord is daily raught with his cheerful
tdings. Those who enjoy the personal friendship OF
MIR. Stanton state that he is not per funny man
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for comic writing. Take bis yesterdays bulletin to
| General Dix: " Sherman's army is concentrated at
Atlanta. He says Wilson and Steadman are stirring
Wheeler up pretty we'll and hopes they will make
end of him, as Gillian did Of Morgan. Toe weather s
beautiful and all things bright" There has lately been
going the rounds of the papers what purpors to be the
plus ultra OF jocosity in telegraphy, being message
from husband to his wife, couched thus " Send
| hymn book aiso the Bourbon Kiss Fanny. Spank
Arthur. Don'1 fret BE sure to send the Bourbon"
| This is whimsical but maintain that the Stantonan
style surpasses it in playful badnage, and that with
little practice, the War Secretary might break lance
with the profession OF humorsts might cause Pren-
tce to dry up" and Artemus Ward to simmer
down." discounted.
| Major General Butler has been on to New York on
a brief leave OF absence from his important command.
The alarmsts, the faint of heart, and the guilty Of
science, who regard B. B. verbally in the light Of
DOGGY" construed :heEappearanca OF the redoubted
Major General into an ntiTation that the draft
really to be executed, and that Butler to be kept
terrorem the New Workers to that they be-
haved themselves while they were heing conscrpted
The Fifth of September, however, passed over both
without CONSUMPTION and without riots; and although
both the President and General Grant have avowed
their opinion that the draft must be quietly enforced"
especially 10 localities where recruiting has been angnd
N. FORK quota, under it's naval credits, is more than
full is 1t probable that the draft will be heard OIL at
least for some time to come, in any district Sc
populCus IS to render intestine cOmmOIOns pro
bable Those connections, if they occur at all, will be
excited, not by tie draft bat by the result Of the
Presidential election. SO, being satisfied that Butler
had not come to supercede General Dix, proclaming
martial law, gobbe up the contents OF the bank vaults
plant howitzers the steps Of the Astor House, mine
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, aud erect permanent gal
lows in Madison Square, New York breathed again.
The general it turned out, had merely to town
legal business connected with the probate Of his
brothers. will The fraternal Butler died recently, It
will be remembered, worth two or three millions dol
lars the fruit OF udcious speculations in beet cOttOG
blankets, and other Government notions" during bis
brothers proconsulship at New leans. General
Butler iuherits largely under the will, which is dis
puted and what cousins term " spicy develop
ments Of the very highest order of seasoning may he
expected when the case comes into the Sur5gate'I
Court
Pending the hearing, General Batter has gone back
to Point of Rocks, accompanied SO the newspapers tell
us, By Mr. James Parton, the biog7apher, aud Mrs.
Parton. The former is the gentleman who, in thick
octave volume, has endeavord to whitewash the ma
gned B. B. from all the charges brought against him.
The latter sister to that pleasing writer, Mr. n +.
Willis, and is herself known lively tyist over
the signature of Fanny Fern" SO you see the grim
General is becoming quite ladies' man. Indeed be
may always have had penchan tor better conducted
portion OF the sex for, in his early New England law
yer days. be became 80 popular among the spinsters Of
| Lowell as to be called the g girls advocate" DCH
teurs yia fagots ct fagots. 1t is not loyal in the
North to call Southern woman lady ard OBJ
serve that the Northern journals in audingand very
bitterly they do alude-to the marriage or Miss Belle
Boyd to Lieut., Hardnge, always speak OF the 6rds as
" the female"
| A viIlainOus Scheme.
In his message, Lincoln recommends that the bonds
of the y. b. Government shall be exempt from taxa
ton That is all well enough but he also recommends
he all liability private