The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-21

Zen, aid destroy Sherman at all hazards
IT would be better to strip all the forts
towns, etc OF Carr sons. yea even the sail
ors OF he ships in Charleston, and othel
,ort-. and surround Sherman with a circl,
1t ire, burning bridges behind and befor,
him cutting his trains, and destroying ever,
i~oraging party Better lose a dozen mino,
places than let Sherman cross the State o.
South Carolina! Nothing under heaven cal
restore the prestige lost BY the marcel
through G~eorgia-except Shermans ute
/ destruction.
Feb. 22d 1t is Washington. Birth day
| suppose. from the salute now being fred.
hough salutes are daily occurrences now
Yesterday there was a salvo over the cnptur.
~ Wilmington aud Chnrk stan Il! CAPTURE.
ay, though they were totally evacuated anc
abandoned to whomsOever chose to walk IN.
aud take possession. However, the evacua
ton was necessitated by Sherman's marcel
trough the interior, So it was not voluntar,
liter all. sherman is moving on FAYETTEVILLE.
There e reports that Joe Johnston con
fronts him. God grant he ma he altoyethel
urrounded, as we'll as confronted, ere he .,
much farther.
RET. 2Ih. 100 officers, 1900 men. ''sick
md wounded" have left us to go 70 Varin,
pr james River for exchanged All how
'ong to make one Of the party, This tim.
AT wear | was lettering along the banks OF
he river above Narina wondering what the
he future would bring. but not once did j,
'ccur to me that within a year | should b.
Wishing to be back there as one of the dear
st imaginable boons! The departure a
hese lucky sick and crippled folk has mad,
quite an excitement in camp" as we an
Iclpate an extension Of the exchange.
hyrcH 81 Wa,thar Jro,Jc,li All =,
Is have colds in the head; but that is onl
+, portion we are shivering from head T.,
:eet, day and night. Dysentery is alarming
) prevalent. Little or no salt is boiled with
'ur fresh beef. and the watery soup is
"Iually calculated to throw the system on,
It order. The consequence ia that hundred.
u weak and emaciated human beings ma,
be seen every hour of the night staggering
through the cold. and now or rain, to the
inks, where the keen blast from the sur
ace Of the river cut through their thin al
tire Ike whip lashes. Many slip on the
ICY walks and painfully injure themselves
Nearly all take cold. and in scores of cases
: ends fatally. Those who escape with
heir lives must contract rheumatic or pull
nonary diseases that will carry them down
sooner or later. For after the poor crea
nres, who have hardly vitality enough to
keep warm while under their blankets
'ome back through The rain and sleet, lit II
'nily zoe yards from our door to the sink.
by the route we have to take) they art.
thoroughly chilled. and cannot get warm
again during the night.
Lacking at some of the sufferers is enough
20 distil the gangrene of hellish bitterness
10 the mlldest heart amongst us!
March l2h.-Gen. K. l. Page captured
At Fort Morgan, near Mobile, is brought to
his prison. SO fresh fish" (oficers) were
,iso sent into the pen to day. | kept away
from them they are sure to be worse
whipped than are we ourselves and [ do not
are to add more of mental, to my hourly
physical, misery. For some days | have
be n sick like so many Others, and it will
not seem cowardly hope, to say that if l
were chronicly affected as are scores of my
comrades, | should either die. or devote
life to bush whacking /; that is, take the
'ath get out, and then 'run-a muck
against mankind, north of the Potomac.
SORRY sPECTACLEl
March 18th. The survivors of the 600
ficers who left US In August ostensibly fo,
Hilton Head. to be exchanged. to-day file.
lacked into the Prison Pen. 1t was a sal
lening sight to see these wretched victim.
# Lincolnite Barbarity tottering back t.
he places whence they had goLe forth SIX
before full of bright hopes and
spirits. 1t will be remembered that Gen
Schoept. Ali. Wolfe. and the other under
strapf,ers gave out false impressions and
hen cleaned out the pocket of every prison
ct who could afford to buy himself free, a
We all supposed The officials. of course
Knew the poor fellows were buying a share
IN the most shameful piece of bar
rIf, than nrnr MAS Q,%
helpless prisoners since Nations adopt
ID civilized methods of warfare. Eve,
he English army were censured for blow
ng the Savage sepoys from the mouths o
lannon's; though the latter had f~orfeite,
every claim of ordinary humanity bv thei,
,trociouS treatment of women and children
many of whom thew buried alive after name
ess outrages. But if Nena Sahib's untu
tored. naturally ferociOus, and long tramp.eG
upon. followers must be deemed worthy O:
being shot out of cannons for their war upo,
women and children. and helpless prisoners
what must be said of the civilized Menus
who like Sherman burn, shell, and pillagt
he Southern cities, Atlanta, Columbia, etc:
IT like Gilmore throw shells, filled with tn,
Greek fire" into the city filled
With women, children. and non combatants
,r that other sepoy Lincoln (who is respon
>tDIc iOT Ctdn(On , dlTOCllleS) Senu OUo Uei!f
:ess prisoners to be exposed to deadly fire,
and still more deadly fevers?
The facts about this ''Retaliation' pro-
are as 70 lows Gen Q A. Gilmore
after repeated failures in attempts to cap
ture Fort Sumpter, the key to Charleston
harbor, which even as a mere ruin, a pile Il
shattered brick. was sufficient to beat OF
The Yankee storming parties, determined to
take revenge on the peuDle of the CITY.
The idea was very gratifying to the whole
and the same exultation which fol
the announcement that Charleston
was forever ruined by the sinking Of
enormous masses of rock in its mouth.
the intelligence that Gen. Gilmore
had invented a very destructive species Of
Greek fire." to rain upon the women and
children of Charleston.
TO BE CONTINUED.