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    SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD.
VOL. 1-NO. 56.
The Savannah Daily Herald
(MORNING AND EVENING}
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THE RACE FOR LIFE.
The following true story was printed three
years ago in some Northern papers, but from
the nearness of the scene of the incidents de
scribed, it can scarcely fail to prove of inter
est to oup readers.
J. J. Andrews,Ky.,Secret Service of United
States.
William Campbell, Kentucky, Secret Ser
vice of United States.
William Knight, Cos. E, 21st Ohio Vols.
Wilson H. Brown, “F, “ “
John Scott, “ F, “ “
Mark Wood, “C, “ , “
Alfred Wilson, “ C, “ “
William Beusinger, “G, “ “
John R. Porter, “ G, “ “
Robert Buffum, “11, “ “
Sergt. E. A. Mason, “ K, “ “
Sergt. Major M Ross, “ A, 2d Ohio Vols.
Corpl. W. Pittenger, “ G, “ “
George D. Wilson, “B, “ “
Perry D. Shadrack, “ K, “ “
Martin J. Hawkins, “ A, 33d Ohio Vols
Corpl. W. Reddick, “ B, “ “
John Whollau, “ C, “ •«
Samuel Slaven, “D, “ “
Samuel Roberson, “ C, “ “
Jacob Parrott, “ K, “ “
The heroic men whose names are given
above, constituted the party who executed
the celebrated railroad raid in Georgia,
which, had it been successful, would have so
paralyzed the rebels as to have insured them
a disastrous defeat.
The following account of the expedition
may be relied on as correct in eveiy particu
lar, as the writer obtained it from one of the
par'icipants, Corporal William Pittinger, a
gentleman of the highest literary attainments
an ' veracity.
During the latter end of March, 18G2, J. J.
Andrews, a native of Kentucky, in the se
cret service of the government, proposed to
Major-General O. M. Mitchell,then at Hunts
ville, Alabama, an expedition into Georgia,
for the purpose of destroying the Georgia
and Atlanta State Railroad. Immediately
upon hearing the detail* of the plan, Genera!
Mitchel perceived the stupendous and fatal
injury its success would have upon the
Rebel military operations, and he promptly
gave Andrews authority and aid for the great
enterprise. The plan was thus arranged :
With a small body of picked men, An
drews was to make his way into the State of
Georgia, as far as he might think necessary,
traveling along the road he wished to de
stroy. Then, watching for a favorable op
portunity, the party was to capture a loco
motive, and start back along the road
toward Mitchel. They were to tear up the
track, burn the bridges, and cut the tele
graph wires all along the route beyond
Chattanooga, as far as Bridgeport,Tennessee.
Then continuing on, they were to re-join
General Mitchell at Huntsville, Alabama.
As the last portion of the road was laid in a
country abounding in -ravines, rivers and
streams, the daring adventurers could inflict
in one single day more damage than the reb
els could repair in a year.
It was indeed a magnificent undertak
ing, admirably planned, and, bad it been
fully successful, Beauregard's entire army
w'ould at least have been scattered, if not
captured; thus preventing that chieftain from
taking his seventy thousand fresh men to
Richmond, and thus preventing McClellan’s
army from capturing that city. Had Grant
or Sherman confronted Beauregard at that
time, instead of Halleck, the result would
have been far different than it was.
On the 7th day of April, everything being
in readiness, our heroes left their camp at
Shelbyville, Tennessee, and started for Man
chester in the same State. By orders, they
were obliged to leave their quarters separate
ly and secretly, and several barely escaped
being shot by their own pickets. Upon reach
ing Manchester, they first fell in with the
rebels, to whom they represented themselves
as Kentuckians, and expressed a desire to
join the rebel army at Chattanooga, to which
place they said they were then on their way.
This was an “open sesame,” and within an
hour or two, they were being hospitably en
tertained by a Colonel Harris, who lived' on a
handsome farm a short distance out of town
The following morniug, the obliging rebel
conveyed four of them in his carriage to the
Cumberland Mountains, and upon taking
leave of them, furnished them with passes to
Chattanooga, and letters to friends in the
same place.
At this point the adventurers all separated
Into small squads, the more easily to lull any
any suspicion that might be created, and
they all managed to reach Chattanooga in
safety. Andrews now for t.he first time ad
dressed his comrades upon the attempt they
were about to make, warned them fully of its
perilous nature, enjoined the utmost wariness
and determination, and threatened to shoot
down the first man who flinched, or who
became intoxicated. He then distributed a
quantity of Confederate money amongst the
party, who at once set off on their filial ad
venture.
Upon reaching a station called Big Shanty,
a sort of lefreshment saloon, about ten miles
from Marietta, Andrews resolved to seize the
next train that came up. Before goiDg fur
ther, it may he as well to say that Andrews,
some years previously, had been employed
upon the road, and that nearly one-half of
his party were practical engineers.
The train came rushing along and stopped,
and all hands, even to the engineer, huiried
into the saloon. Immediately our twenty
two adventurers sprang aboard, Audrews
leaping upon the platform between the se
cond aud third car, jerking out the coupling-
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1865.
Ein, he gave the signal. We continue in
ieut. Pittenger's own words:
“Hardly had the man detailed to start the
engine put his hand on the lever before he
heard Andrew’s shrill whistle. Then came a
jerk, then a puff from the locomotive, then a
roll, another jerk, and we were off just as the
astonished rebels came running out of the
saloon tosee what was the matter. We ran
on. ndflpver fast, until we reached the first
curve, Where we stopped. Here John Scott,
ot Company F, climbed a telegraph pole and
cut the wires to prevent any intelligence of
our designs going ahead of us. We started
at once again, and made good time to the
next town, after passing which, we once
more stopped, cut the telegraph, and tore up
some rails, an operation we continued to re
peat after passing each town or village.
“There was, however, one unfortunate cir
cumstance attending the adventure; and that
was that the train we had captured was run
ning oh a very short time-table, and had to
be switched off several times to await the
passage of down trains. At the very first
station at which this occurred, a rebel engi
neer was about to step aboaid of our engine
to take it in charge ; but was informed by
Andrews that this was not his train, but au
extra one being run through to Corinth with
gunpowder for Beauregard. Not. only was
the rebel satisfied, but labored dilligently to
help us to wood and water.
“At the next station, where came another
stoppage for a down train, Andrews walked
boldly into the office and took the switch
keys, repeating successfully the gunpowder
story.
‘Twenty miles south of Dalton the first
bridge was reached, and detaching our se
cond car directly on the structure, we fired
it. Had we succeeded in burning this bridge,
we would not have had the slightest trouble
in accomplishing all we set out to do, and
even more. But, sometime previous to this,
the engineer on the Rome Branch, sus'pectihf
that something was wrong, started up the
track, and, of course, was not long in find
ing himself, correct. Obtaining a most pow
eriul engine, this man had at once started in
pursuit of us ; and notwithstanding that he
had to stop and relay the track wherever we
had torn it up, he came in sight of us just
as we had fired the bridge.
“Our peril was instantly apparent; and
hoping that the burning car would delay our
foes long enough to enable us to cross and
burn the next bridge, we put our engine to
her utmost speed, and went thundering along
at fully seventy miles au hour. But the reb
el engineer, a man full of resources and de
termination, was not detained five minutes by
the flaming car; for running into it, he scat
tered it in fragments on either side of the
track, and continued onward with frightfnl
speed At each curve we could see his loco
motive nearly bound from the track, and we
felt ours doing the same. But we were re
solved to escape, if-possible, and we kept up
our steam to the most dangerous pressure,
expecting every moment that our engine
would be torn into fragments. Yet she nobly
did her task, and would doubtless have borne
us to safety, had it not been for the fact that
our wood and oil were nearly exhausted* All
of the former we now put in the furnace ;
every drop of the latter we fed to the ma
chinery ; and then commending ourselves to
the Almighty, we sped along. But escape
had been denied us; the iron monster behind
came thundering on like a demon sure of its
prey, and we had not emerged from one end
of a cut ere it flashed in at the other. Out
engine began to fail ; the journals, for lack
of oil,began to melt with the tremendous fric
tion, and all hope was gone.
“In this emergency, the lever was revers
ed ; and as we all leaped from the train and
fled for the woods on either hand, our faith
ful engine went dashing back to meet the
advancing foe. But here again the rebel en
gineer was prepared; for, reversing his own
locomotive, he received ours with such a
diminished force that no harm was done by
the collision.
“In less than two hours after this, over a
hundred armed men, well mounted and ac
companied by blood-hounds, were scouring
the country lor us, aud the .majority of our
party were quickly captured, while the rest
met the same fate before the close of the fol
lowing day. The first takeu was Jacob Par
rott, of company K, Thirty-third Ohio Vols.,
and to extort a confession from him his cap
tors stripped him, and while a rebel officer
held a pair of pistols at his head, gave him a j
hundred lashes with a raw hide. But the j
heroic soldier never flinched, and each time
his tormentors paused in tneir cruelty and
ordered him to confess, he firmly answered
‘NoT
“Subsequently we were all sent to Chatta
nooga, where we were thrust into a room, or
rather cellar, in the negro jail, thirteen feet
square and half undei' ground. The only en
trance to this fearful place was by a trap
door, which was raised twice a day for the
purpose of lowering to us our scanty and
miserable rations. Here Andrews, our lead
er, was tried and condemned as a spy, and
afterwards executed at Atlanta, notwithstand
ing the fact that he exhibited bis commission
and written orders from General Mitchel.—
Twelve of our number were doomed, and
seven of the twelve executed in the same
manner at Atlanta, on June 18tli, 1862.
Samuel Robertson, of company G, Thirty
third Ohio Vols., was dying in his cell; but
unheeding this, his foes dragged him out,aud
threw him in the bottom ot the hangman’s
cart at the feet of his doomed comrades
While hanging, the ropes of two of the vic
tims broke, and upon the poor fellows beg
ging not to be again suspended till they
prayed, they were laughed at and immediate
ly run up.
The remaining fourteen of us were then
placed in Atlanta jail and kept under a spe
cial guard until October. Learning at »that
time that all of us were to be executed, as
had been our comrades, we resolved to es
cape. A plan was quickly matured; and
one night, when the jailor came with our ra
tions, he was seized and bound. We then
rushed on the guard, and before an alarm
could be given, eight prisoners had escaped.
Six of these reached the Union lines; two
have never since been heard of, and I, with
five others, was recaptured before we had
got out of the jail precincts. Their names
were Sergeant E. A. Mason, Corporul Win.
Reddick, Robert Buffum, William Bensiuger
and Jacob Parrott. We were thrust back
into one dungeon,and there kept until Dece
mber, when we were removed to Richmond;
and abut up in Castla Thuuder. During the
whole inclement whiter, the only covering
we had, beside our thin,‘ragged clothes,were
two small blankets for die whole six.
The next March, these heroic men, reduc
ed to mere living skeletons, were exchanged
and sent to Washington. Each one ot them
received jrom the Secretary of War one hun
dred dollars in cash, a gold! medal, and, what
was far moie welcome ihan either, a brevet
as First Lieutenant. Their health was so
much shattered that it was doubtful if they
would be of anj*ervice in the field, and
thep were furlougjHß for a long time, in or
der, if possible, to recruit themselves.
A Modern Magician. —The subjoined
is told of the very clever Magician, Heller,
who is now performing in New York. His
latest mystery is an optical delusion and il
lusion by means of which he causes, not only
himself or his assistant to disappear from
view, and become positively invisible, but
is enabled to cause other persons also to dis
appear in like manner.
A few'evenings ago, while the Gyges which
he calls his opticaf mystery, was being per
formed, a gentleman rose among the au
dience, andcaUed out “Mr. Heller!"
Os course everybody started, and stared at
this interruption.
The gentleman evidently was a gentle
man—his dress, address, voice and manner
proved that.
Heller, who was on the stage, iu the dis
guise of an old Frenchman, acting in the
little dramatic sketch which introduces the
Gyges, was very much surprised. ,■
He* thought that seme accident must have
happened ; that something had gone wrong ;
that the person was crazy.
However, without losing his sang-froid,
he stepped at once to the footlights, assum
ed his natural voice and said ;
“Well, sir ?”
“Mr. Heller," resumed the gentleman,
still standing, “Can you produce this remark
able phenomenon anywhere ?”
“Certainly, sir,” replied Heller, smiling.
• “Is no machinery—no apparatus—neces
sary?”
“None but that supplied by Nature," said
Heller. “As you have seen, sir, 1 ust*no ap
paratus in my delusions.’’
“Do you mean to say, Mr. Heller,” per
sisted the gentleman, “that you can produce
these effects in my own room ?”
“Without the slighest doubt.”
“Will you kind enough to send your boy
down tome?"
“Certainly. Here, Willie, go dawn to that
gentleman.
While this conversation continued, and
while Willie approached the gentleman, the
amazement of (he audience may be imagined
“Sir,” said the gentleman, still aloud, ‘.I
hand Willie my card. On it you will find
my name and address. ”
Heller bowed and waved his hand grace,
fuiiy.
“At the close of the performance my car
riage will be at the door of yo*r hall. Come
home with me, take supper, and then shew
me the Gyges, and my check for a thousand
dollars is at your disposal."
“I accept your invitation and your chal
lenge,” said HeUer, “and I will shortly pock
et your check."
“No confederates are to be allowed."
“Sir,” rejoined Heller, “I regard ail con
federates as traitors, and, as a loyal man, will
have nothing to do with them.”
There was a laugh and a burst of applause;
the gentleman resumed his seat anil Heller
his broken English; the performance pro
ceeded without further interruption.
The audience, deeply interested, watched
the Gyges more cioseLy tlvm ever.
When the curtain fell, they assembled about
the door of the hall. In ten minutes Heller
emerged, entered a carriage and was driven
rapidly away.
Had a reporter or a critic been present, the
whole affair would have been in the papers
the next morning. But this happened to be
Friday night, when the critics stay away
from places of amusement.
The audience dispersed, wonderiug, and
for a day the matter was talked over in many
homes.
Then, like everything else, it was forgot
ten.
In the meantime Heller rolled up to
Twenty-second street, near the Fifth avenue,
with his uew friend.
They entered a large stylish house, beauti
fully furcished.
In a few moments a bountiful supper was
served in the dining-room.
The gentleman and Heller sat down to it
alone. Outside, Hingston, his agent, who
had followed the carriage, paced up and down
in front of the door.
The game vvas delicious, the wines superb
—the whole supper fit tor a king.
When it was over the gentleman said,
“Now for the Gyge3.”
“First,” said Heller, “let us have cigars.”
The cigars having been smoked, Heller
proceeded to business.
“Draw me your check,” said he, “and
place it before me ? ’
This was done quickly and quietly.
“Sir,” said the gentleman, “let me give
you this ring in addition to the check."
Saying which he laid a magnificent ruby
ring upon the table.
Heller placed the check in his pocket, and
the ring upon his Auger.
“Now,” he exclaimed, “are you quite
readv?"
“Quite,” said the gentleman, puffing his
cigar.
“Come, Gyges! Farewell!" cried Heller—
and was gone.
The gentlemen rushed to the door. It was
locked, as he had ordered.
He rang for the servants. None had heard
a noise. None had seen a person leave the
house.
Hingston, pacing up and down, met Hel
ler at the corner.
“Is it all light?” he inquired.
“Look at this ring,” said Heller. “And
here is the check.”
This is the story as I heard it from the re
liable gentlemen concerned. Do I believe it ? i
I believe everything,
Speech of Mr. Colfax. —The following
is the farewell speech of Hon. Schuyler Col
fax, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
before the adjournment of the XXXYTIIth
Congress: ,
GentUme iof the Kk.sc of Representatives:
The parting hour has cmhc, and yonder
clock, which takes no oof time, will soon an
noun e that the Congress of which we arc
members has passed into history. Honored
by your votes with this responsible position,
I have faithfully striven to perform.its always
complex aud often perplexing duties without
pait sag bias an 1 with the sinccrest impartial
ity. Whether I have realized the true i.let 1
ot a just presiding officer, aiding on ti e
one hand tne advance ot' the public business,
with the responsibility of which the majority
is charged, and on the other hand allowing
no trespass on the parliamentary rights of
the minority, must be left for others 'to de
cide. But looking back now over the entire
Congress I cannot remember a single word
addressed to you w hich “dying I would wish
to blot.” On this day, which by spontaneous
consent, is being observed wherever our
flag floats, as a day of national rejoicing, with
a roar of cannon greetiug the rising sun, on
the rock bound coast of Maine, re-echoed
and re-echoed by answering volleys from city
to city, and from mountain peak to moun
tain peak, till from the golden gate they
die away far out on the Pacific, we mingle
our congratulations with those of the
freemen we represented over the vic
tories for the Union that have made
the Winter just closing close with joy and
hope. With them we rejoice that the national
standard which our revolutionary fathers un
furled over the land, but which rebellion
sought to strike down aud destroy, waves as
undisputed at this hour over the cradle of
reunion at Charleston as over the cradle of
liberty at Faneuil Hall, and that the whole
government is aflame with the brilliant glow
of triumph for that cause. We have but re
cently commemorated the birthday of the
father of his country, and renewed our
pledge to each other ti.at the nation he found
ed *hould not be sund red by the hand of
treason, and the good news that assures the
salvation of tho republic is doubly joyous,
because jt lelis us that the prayers of v uo past
four years have not been unanswered, anl
the priceless blood of our brave defenders so
freely shed and so profusely spilt, has not
been shed in vain. We turn, too, to-day,
with a prouder joy than ever before to ihat
banner brilliant with stars from the heavens
and radiant with glories from Bunker Hill to
York?own, from Lundy’s Lane to New Or
leans, and all through tho darker hours of
the rebellion of the past, to Savannah, Fort
Sumter, Charleston, Columbia, Fort Fisher
and Wilmington iu the present, which has
ever symbolized our unity and our national
life, as we see inscribed on it ineffaceably
that now doubly noble inscription, “Liberty
and Union, now and forever, one and insepa
rable.”
But in the hour of gladness I cannot for
get the obligations, paramount and undying,
we owe to our heroic defenders on every bat
tle field upon every wave rocked monitor
and frigate upon tho the sea. Inspired by
the sublimest spirit of self-sacrifice, they
have realized a million fold the historic fable
of Curtius, as they have offered to close up
with their own bodies, if need be, the yawn
ing chasm that imperiled the Republic. For
you and me, and for their country, they have
turned their backs on the delights of home,
and severed the tenderest of ties, to brave
death in a thousand forms, to comfort with
unblanched cheeks the tempest of shot and
shell and' flame, to storm frowning batteries
aud bristling entrenchments, to beed, to suf
fer, and to die. As we look from this Cap
itol Hill over the nation, there are crushed
and broken hearts in every hamlet. There
are wounded soldiers, mangled with rebel
bullets, in every hospital. Iu every church
yard there are patriot graves. There are
bleaching bones on every battle-field. It is
the lofty and unfaltering heroism of the hon
ored living and the even more honored dead
that has taken us from every valley and dis
aster and defeat, and placed our feet on the
sun-crowned heights of victory. The gran
ite shall may commemorate their deeds—our
.American “Valhalla” may be crowned with
the statutes of heroes—but the debt of grati
tude to them can never be paid when time
shall enduro. If my voice from this rep
resentative hall could be heard throaghout
the laud I would adjure all who love the
Republic to preserve this obligation ever
ireßn in thei: hearts. The brave who have
fallen in these struggles to prevent an alien
flag from waving over, the ashes of Wash
ington. or over the graves where
sleeps the great and patriotic rivals
of the last generation. The hero
of New Orleans, and the illustrious
statesman ot Kentucky, cannot return to us.
On Shiloh’s plains and Carolina’s sandy shore
before Richmond, and above the clouds at
Lookout Mountain, the patriot martyrs of
constitutional liberty sleep in their bloody
shrouds till the morning of the resurrection.
But the living are left behind, and, if the sa
cred record appropriately commends the
poor “who are ever with us," to our benefac
tions aud regard, may I not remind yon that
the widow and the latherless, the maimed
and the wounded, the diseased and the suf
fering, whose anguish springs from the great
contest, have claims on us, heightened im
measurably by the sacred cause for which
they have given so much. Thus, and thus
•alone, by pouring the oii of consolation into
the wounds that wicked treason has made,
can we prove our devotion to our fatherland
and our affectionate gratitude to its defend
ers. And rejoicing over the bow of promise
wc already seel arching the storm-cloud of
war, giving the assurance that no deluge of
secession shall again overwhelm or endanger
our nation, we can join with heart aud soul
and sincerely and trustingly in the poet’s
prayer,
Now Father, lay TUjr healing hand
In mercy on onr stricken land.
Oh l lead it» wanderer* to the fold,
And be their shepherd as of old
Jo shall our nation’s song ascend
So thee, oar Knler, Father, Friend.
While heaven’- wide arch resounds again
With Peace on Barth—good will to men.
N >w, let us go bonce from our labors h ue
and into be Senate Ohafober, and Irom the
portico oftne Ca ito there, with ;he statue
of the Goddess of Liberty looking down so»
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the first time upon such a scene, to witness
and participate in the inauguration of the
elect of the American people. And now,
thanking you most truly for your approba’
tiou of my official conduct, which you have
recorded on your journal, I declare the
House of Representatives of the XXXVIIIth
Congress of the United States adjourned sine
diet
Petroleum—the Future Chances for
“Striking Ilk.” —One of the greatest won
ders in these wonderful days is the flow of
petroleum from the interior of our earth.
But more wonderful still is the theory of
Mr. William H- Hubbell, an engineer lisid
ing in this city, who has published a pam
phlet in which he advances two explanations
of the source and origin of petroleum.—
One, that it is a local deposit confined to a
limited extent ot territory; and the other,
that the oil pervades the sandstone strata ex
tending from the open or unfrozen Polar Sea
at the north of this Continent to the points
already discovered in Pennsylvania and Vir
ginia, and finally to the Pacific Ocean. To
the latter of these theories he give the pref
erence, and if it be true, the supply of oil
of course i3 unlimited. We, however, pub
lish it more for its novelty than for any
other reason. The facts relative to petrole
um, which he deems positive, are, that it is
an oleaginous luid, lighter than water, very
penetrative, found in an open, porous saud
stone strata within the earth, which it per
vades, and in winch it flows, induced in its
course by capillary attraction, coal being
generally found in its vicinity. We give his
second theory in his own words:
Theory No. 2, which I have never heard
advanced until by myself, is, that petroieum
is a vegetable oil, which is produced in the
Pacific ocean by the decomposition of sea
plants ; and mixed with salt water, it per
vades the open Polar Sea, discovered by Dr.
Kade, aud prevents it from freezing ; that,
being lighter than water, the centrifugal
torce of the earth, in its rotation, cause? the
water or the denser fluid to accumulate about
:ho equator, and codsequently the petroleum
or lighter fluid to separate trorn it, and flow
and accumulate about the North Pole; that
being light and oily, it is highly su c mtiole
ot capillary attraction; that tun aaudstuue
qfrata crops out in the Arctic Ocean, aad ab
sorbs this oil, inducing it by capillary attrac
tion t;o flow in its canul or strata under this
continent in a southerly and south-westerly
direction; that it crops out again in the Pa
cific Ocoan, and the oil there recedes and
mingles with the waters of the Pacific, giv
ing the ocean its mild and placid character,
and forms tho well-known oleaginous food
lor whales, which is visible and exists in the
water of the ocean, and extends thousands
of miles northward, and on which the whale*
live and derive their oil, and called their
feeding ground.
In the Pacific Ocean it flows again north
ward, through Behring s Straits, by the same
law, which made it accumulate in the open
Polar Sea; that is, being lighted than water,
and not capable of uniting with it, the water,
which is heaviest, will accumulate about the
equator, while this oily lighter matter will
flow to the North Pole, and there form the
open unfrozen sea. Thus it performs ita
great office in the laboratory of nature, flow
ing in a circle tbrough that particular strata
ot sandstone, under this continent from the
Arctic to the Pacific Oceans bjf capillary at
traction; and there plainly visible in the wa
ter in a coagulated form as the food of whales,
prepared in and by the very salt and dense
water of that temperature, and flowing in
the process of separation for thousands of
miles northward, forming necessarily the
open or unfrozen sea, and being the great
basis of carbon or oil of the earth for the use
of man.
Qvarrels of Copperhead Joournals. —
New York News, Ben. Wood’s Copperhead
organ, thus denounces the World, the lead
ing Opposition journal ot the North, for il
luminating on the occasion of the recent cel
ebration of Union victories:—
‘jThe World is the only journal of any par
ty in this city that saw fit to wind up tho
advertising parade of the Black Republicans
yesterday by illuminations. The carnival of
blood which was celebrated here by a med
ley of eloquence and elephants, “patriotism’'
and profit, Black Republicans aud woolly
horses, received its finishing touches from a
journal that has still the effrontery to pre
tend to be Democratic.
The Times did not court the demon of fra
ternal bloodshed as the world did with win
dows full of grease candles. The Tribune
did not dedicate to the honor of suicidal
Abolition as the World did a hundred panes
ablaze with burning fat. The mongrel of
Black Republicanism outrivals the baa blood
from which it has been spawned. Tho Her
ald in playing pander to the lust of war and
“freedom,” has reserved its grease to be out
pandered by, forsooth, the “Democratic”
World!” t
From Mobile. —The following, under the
head of “Telegraphic News,” appears in the
Lake City Columbian, of March Ist:
Mobile, Feb. 19.—A mass meeting of Gen.
French’s division was held yesterday, and
resolved by pledging themselves to the last
breath and last man to continue armed war
fare against our invaders until the indepen
dence of the Confederacy is achieved ; de
nounced Lincoln’s peace propositional is in
famous, and repelled them with indignation
and scorn, and prefer extermination to sub
jugation ; denounced croakers and skulkers,
and propose putting all conscript officers and
post commanders in the field ; express un
divided confidence in the President, and if
the President desire it, that negro troops be
placed in the field.— Florida Union.
The Second lowa Infantry, upon re-en
listment $s “veteran volunteers,” returned
home on furlough. As company F waa
marching through Pulaski on its way North,
one of the boys spied their Surgeon standing
by the roadside, watching the regiment file
past, and hailed him with, “Come on, Doc,
you’re a good old horse, and we need a vet
erin-ary surgeon!”
A lowq-bafflv and credit-Tpw 'Lbe bo u,-
joineci advertisement: ‘Wa’cd » - ,
who h sed to the b isiucso .i .cl e in*-,
crawl throu gh tue ke., h ues and fin-
WuOi are never at homo.”