Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1865-03-16

~Our readers will call to mind,
the excitement that existed IN
Char,eston, S. C. about the time the
war broke out, relative to a cores
pond ent of the New York Tribune
The chivairy exhausted every means
of detecting him without success.
He has turned up again at his old
post and we copy the following ex-
tracts from his FIRST letter 10 the
Tribune after the evacuation of the
city OF its present appearance he
gives the following graphic descrip-
tom
The wharses looked as if they had been de-
serted for half eentury-broken down, di-
| lapidated. grass and moss peeIihg up be-
tween the pavements, where once the busy
feet Of commerce trode necessarily. The
I warehouses near the river; the streets as we
enter them; the houses and the stores and the
public huildings,-we look at them and hold
our breaths in utter amazement- Every steI
we take increases our astoI ishn ent No pen
no pencil, or tongue can do justice to the
scene. No imagination can conceive ot tht
i utter wreck, the universal ruin, the stupen
dous desOlation. Ruin-ruin-ruIn-abOv
and below; on the right hand and the left
rum, ruin, ruin, everywhere and always
staring at us frvm every pspeless window
looking out at us from every shell-torn wall
glaring at us from every battered door anC
pillar and verandah; orOuehIng beneath ou
feet on every sidewalk. Not Pompeii no
H-reulaneum, nor Th-bes nor the Nile hHv'
ruins so complete, SO sBddening, SO plaintIVell
eloquent, for they speak to US ol an age, no
ours, and hing ago dead. with whose peopl
and lite and ideas we have no sympathy
whatev.r. But shere, on these shattert'
wrecks Of huuses-buit in our own STYLE ;manl
Of them doing credit to the architecture o
< our epUch.-- E read nsmes familiar TO us all
telling US of trades and Professions and com
mercIal institutions. which Very modern city
rsek0ns up by the hundred; yet. dead, dead
dead; as silent as the grave Of the Phhrauhs
as d. serted as the bnzaars of the merchan
princes of old Tyr. Whoeyer among Us wisheC
to know how his spirit would feel if he wer'
to revisit by the pale giimpses of the moor
the ruins of his native city after the presen
civilization shall have passed away, learned
, It TO his complete sa isfaetion on the morning
Of last Monday here 1t was early-feN
stragglers were abroad; jast enough TO maxi
the desolation the more desolate Dy eoEt.nst
and thestillness. not of the Sabbath, but O
the desert, hung heavily over all. Hardly
bsildipg in ell this Partof the city-and thi,
the business part-hss escaped the terTibl,
crashing and smashing of the shells. Ant
right In the center Of it. are at least, Il shoult
judgel ten acres Of ruins, the monuments o
the great FIRE which occurred three years age
, This is in so open spsce-only blackens'
= walls and solitary chimneys remain in il
And, all around this area Of desolstion, az
the ruined honses that still stand--rGiil
:. nore's Town." ~ the negroes call 1t; tr
;, umrh Of military skiii--of the art distructiy
OF all arts; & proof to the Christian that God
Z judgments are sure. and that the cries Of th
poor are heard at The Grest Throne an
{ avenged by the alI-Righteons Judge. The
acted. the men who lived in. these man. iof
and traficed in these stores and marts, as
God were dead: as If their own will vas q
only standard ofright-they mocked at on
"higher law" they sold the poor men IN the
> svariee and killed the good men in their hat
when. To- the people whom they .despised 70
up against them and subdued them, 81
the race whom they enslaved trode their stree
7, under the banners and as the comrades
It their conquerorsi
or the destruction caused by d