The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-28

There is nothing like having "a friend at
~c,url." The next best thing is to have
money or influence enough, to get the ser
vices of a man who plays pimp for the back
stairs of court. For instance, any p~risone
able to buy, or bride, Capt. ALL or Lieut..
Wolfe, to attend to his wishes, need not
worry about applying to Gen. Schoepf. The
latter is a foreigner, formerly a mere
clerk in the coast Survey, and owes his pro
motion to a combination Of lucky circum
stances joined to assiduous counting of poll
clans at Washington. This method of mil
itary advancement he still cultivates and it
is well known among the prisoners that any
man who can bring som influential pnblic
parsonage to take interest in his behalf, may
secure any ~favors, or com forts he will push
for"
Jan. 26, 1S65.-How strangely apathetic
we becomel A comrades body has been car
RED away TO the Potter's field, but there is
no cessation of the chatting-and [ myself
will not remember his name a month or two
hence! To-day | tried to make a list OF
those who died of small pox since we came
but | could only recall half a dozen, though.
first and last, more that number nave gone
from this single divissiOn, and only one or
two recovered.
Jan. 25th. There are so many sick men,
SO many alf-clad-and the weather is SO
bitterly cold We sent IN petitions to be al
lowed to send after our ~rations, that is, in
stead of forming a long line, and standing
Tor Is or 20 minutes out in the open air, ex-
posed to biting blasts, and beating rain, as
We now must do or go without the pittance
of food which keeps us alive, to allow the
chief of each Division to go with a basket,
aud draw the number of ratiOnS allotted to
his room. The plan might well be adopted
for the whole year round, as 1t would prevent
crowding and irregularities. But no! it
cannot be granted And why? The reason
is obvious 1T would do away with the sys
tenn of stealing the rations of men who are
too sick to come after food, or have other
means of living. The ~rations thus stolen are
sold to the richer prisoners.
Feb. 5h.-The mucn- talked of "Peace
Commission" has proven a failure and a
piece Of h~umbuggery as every sensi-
lie man foresaw it. The situation was
uttered in Pat Henrys ringing words nearly
L century ago-"men may cry Peace l.,
Peace J., but there is no peace !'-short of
submission
The miserable feature about this Peace
s~ggitates is that it has very likely aroused
hopes among the unthinking masses, 1.-THE
plain country folk who hear nothing but
exaggerated runaOrs that a big peace pow-wow
Is being held, and that the war is about to
eiose)-that will produce a deep dependency
when the reaction sets In. And here is the
humbug of the A.leck Stephens, 10 Brown,
Foote, agitation. 1t is impossible for
these men not to know the futility of endeav-
oring to compromise with the Lincoln ties, OF
10 agree upon terms of peace on any other
besis than a complete surrender of all We are
lighting for. They pretend to be still loyal
10 the Confederacy, but by aggitating these
schemes to district our people, and encOur
age the Northern people, they are playing
a far more treacherous part than if they
should come out and avow %sympathies for
the Lincolnites, and endorse their butchery
Of our bravest and best. Every one knows
there can be no Peace for the South, save
in one of two ways, viz: SuJju9ation or IN
dependence. If the stephens, Brown, Hol
den, Foote Party are willing to accept
they ought to come out, and confess that
they are afraid to fight longer. Any one
can see that they are merely seeking to court
Yankee favor il advance of the collapse if
We should fail. Mark it! if our fortunes
should take a favorable turn, we shall hear
no more of these Peace Partyites.
The foregoing was omitted from last
week.