The Soldiers' journal. (Rendezvous of Distribution, Va.) 1864-1865, 1864-07-27
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expected" says the telegraph. Yes and will be
for some time. Perhaps there is no help for it,;
but such suggestions, founded upon no new
knowledge of the situation at Petersburg, do
mischief. Thus day after day, the public is
called with these inane prophecies, to be day af-
ter day disappointed. A gentleman writing
from the army recently, 1aments the mischief
done by these false rumors, which lead the pub
lie to expect greater things than it is possible to
| accomplish or sooner than they can be done
and thus diminish public confidence in the
| army. Give Gen. Grant time. He will not
| waste moment.
! OF ALL the ingenious ways of raising money
| for the Sanitary Commission, that devised by
the people of the town of Catawissa, Pennsylva-
| mia, is probably the oldest The male citizens
agreed to decide by vote who was the prettiest
girl in town, and it was declared in favor of Miss
Hattie s. Reifsnyder, by majority of two hum
| dred and eighty votes Each vote was accom-.
panied by the sum of twenty-five cents, and the
proceeds were given to the Sanitary Fair as the
contribution of the favorite beauty What made
the matter more interesting is the fact that Miss
Reifsnyder is nursing wounded soldiers in the
! Army of the Potomac.
! NEWS FOR PIRATEs.-The heaviest battery
| ever mounted a man of-war is now in tho
Mediterranean on board the United States steam
frigate Niagara. Of twenty guns her main
| deck there is not one less than Ii nch or
| 100 pound rife--a fact the real Importance of
which can only be understood by professional
men. She is thus provided with the best short
range and the most perfect long range pieces of
| ordinance extant. The result of an encounter
with her would hardly be paralleled in the his
| tory of naval fighting, for no such armament
has been known before Her officers and men
are well injured to sea service, having been on
board for many months.
THR rebels, under Gilmore, visited Ishmael
Days residence in Baltimore County, Nd dur
ing their raid. He had erected Union flag over
his gate. They ordered him to take it down.
He said: Gentlemen. you may take my horses
and my cattle, or burn my house to the ground
! but will shoot any man that touches that fagH
! When the rebels approached, Mr.. Day fired and
wounded one, morta1ly, and then made his es-
| cape, three shots being fired after him.
THE payment of three hundred dollars conn
mutation, if made before last February ex-
empts from all drafts for three full wears IF
! made after that time, the exemption is good only
against the impending draft, as the law was
changed in February to that end. Since the
passage Of the act of February, there is no COM
mutation and all who are drafted and found lia-
BILE must serve in person or by proxy.
SINCE the seventeenth of October last. six
hundred thousand white men, and one hundred
thousand negroes, have enlisted or re-enlisted
into the Union armies, and one hundred and
twenty five million have been dollars spent i'm
bountis esinoe that time.
| GENERAL HANCOCK has written a letter accept-
ing the sword voted him at the ST. Louis SAM
tary Fair He directs the sword to be sent 30
his wife, who is resident of ST. Louis.