Peninsular News And Advertiser (Newspaper) - May 23, 1862, Milford, Delaware ni r VOL. 52. Tor tho Hewt and Letter from VA May 13 MR. EDITOR another Con- federate in and that too without the loss of a single and instead of the foul flag of secession for twelve months has been so boastfully displayed from turret and tower of this city in defiance of the al triumphantly the banner of Freedom I It may seem little Mr. to you and rest of that the our advance in feave beaten so hasty a we taust consider the fact that secessionism feas become with them a sort of tive hence the reason they so frequently or rather stampede if all kinds of business is suspended for the I he well deserves to be r throw himself into the raging MAY 23, but I do not suppose it will con- so as the extreme necessities of the people will not admit of such a Several torpedoes have been found at various places by oar bnt as they are on the qui vive for such things none of them have exploded as from their boasted whenever the Lincoln make their Our under Major-General embarked early the next morning at Ocean Willonghby a distance of seventeen miles from Our landing was effected without any accident or The rebel mounted pickets along the fled precipitately to their camp aboot a distant at our first approach to the but they only fled to give the alarm for a general which was done rather ly it would as they left behind re- riding vehicles and er articles in their flight The camp in question was a cavalry and from appearances was occupied by a force about two hundred Gen. Max Weber's of which onr FIRST DELAWARE a was the first to On our march we met with bnt few ob- till we reached Tanner's or three miles Below A Home magazine for There are so many good things in Arthur's Home we scarce know what to insert that will please our and they will have to send to Arthur for the Magazine if they would enjoy a good treat of literary we the ing brief our space is IT IS BT A. E. N. K. Last aura's of Elizabeth Barrett Tlie still hoars of midnight had passed And left their record with the angel band j The that like sweet spirits kept their Began to and gently in the east Aurora's rosy fingers folded back The ebon veil of The Orient heavens were necked with clouds Of gold and amethyst and Soft fading ont to the faint rosy blush pling fearlessly with mountain though his body is dashed to and fro on their like a straw in the cy of its yet with a tion as unbending as the rocks from which he had We admire the is with cool presence of stands between the raging flames and the surging with superhuman dares both their aspects in his desperate energy to save his perishing companions from the double horrors of their threatened tiny bnt we admire still more the tient continuance in which is not an bnt a combination of uncomplaining endurance and toilsome The instances of these heroic actions startle us with their Of ocean's shells There tbe rebels were burning tbe under cover of the fire of some pieces of Onr on as and picked off one or two of their ar- tillery being in A short distance to the north of this bridge were strewn all sorts of clothing and belonging to the forty-first Virgi lia rebels ot least so their marks and letters Inconsequence of the destruction of we were compelled to take another ronte to which lengthened our march to the city about six When we had within two or three miles of Norfolk we came in sight of very formidable on after some preliminary we ad- in good and regular bnt on close approximation found them and soon the regimental flags of the various regiments were fluttering in And while the heavenly hosts thus marshaled The to fulfil the great there be an wgel convoy Noiseless as bursts the flowers into And bore a lesser light from earth away Noiseless as falls the crystal dews of even Upon the grassy fields and leafy Came down the The trustingly reclined Upon the manly arm and faithful breast Of her poet Thus sue gazing wrapt in wild It it The angels loosed the foils That bound her and from the lovely casket Took the priceless the unbound And bore it in their arms as tenderly As the fond mother folds her first born The poet Browning felt tlie form grew chil Within his gazed on But still the silvery sound of that loved voice Was on his and is Was all that he conld And it perhaps her ear Caught the refrain from a celestial And while her lips back the Her soul forth apon wings ol song coming upon ns like few and far while the hero isms of home are hourly The hero saves from the waves or snatches from the flames some perishing and all be to his widespread Bnt the heroisms of home save many a shrinking sufferer from a living death sadder than that waves and They permeate through society like those hidden springs which fertilize the never rising above its surface to glitter in the bnt diffusing blessings and good by These unseen thus the land with harvest it and load it with flowery perfume while the broad OB in their majestic scarcely do more than decorate the borders of their own phal It is thus that the heroisms of home produce an amount of good that rates the suffering and heightens the en- of and lic life are the two existences every vidual is called upon to lead The last of these is an artificial These con- form to and act the part assigned The the the the have all their re- appearances to They abroad for a bnt we retrace on to the little spot chose as our renting The world ose us bnt we return to our castle an shut it all barring the doors betwee as. We may escape from the groa so of unkind bat we can never escape from th home so perfectly typified by every tinted shell on the great ocean's Can we then estimate too highly those heroisms of the heart which germinate and expand in a spot so dear to ns as home Is it not our duty to follow them with an admiring and even revering af Ought we not to testify our so that while in weary ing and painful and much tion and exhaustion of some lovely woman gives up without a murmur the cherished hopes of her life she may know that the though not the identical act of her is sympathized with deeply and and that she herself is in weariness of feeling and dejection of soul and not merely an act of trivial bnt indeed and in truth one of the of The Democratic Fourteen Democratic Members of the present House of of them from none from New York or New issued an dress to the Democracy of the United urging a reorganization and re- WHOLE NO. 260, tions another died a the thirteenth is Does it become a party with such a record to repel charges of disloyalty as and false The authors of this Address distinctly arraign the Republicans as responsible for the Rebellion 1 This charge they support in this Afier seven or States had seceded and begun to seize the mints and ies of the Mr. Crittenden posed a Compromise involving a division of the Federal Territories between very and Free This was a very old was distinctly made in 1847. by Gen. of S. 0. the as a rider to the Oregon and voted down by 114 to Whig the free States and crat but 6ve from from every those voting against the unanimous South not o extend the Missouri line to the there being then about seventy-five from Free States in the In other ths Democrats ram Free when rebellion was ot directly votad by at least sn to one that they would not extend he old line to the Pacific when the Slave States threatened a they not only turned square on this hut now reproach le Republicans for not doing likewise ay because we did not swallow on in order to avert the rebellion though the Rebel States did not ask ns o do nor promise to be i e we are now virtually by of Union A letter from where oar troops are in reveals the probable state ol all the other rebel few leading and wealthy it who are quiet in the presence of bnt do not con- ceal their sentiments Yet privately they menace all who are inclined to join the Union with their own personal and the vengeance of the erate as soon as the troops shall be The ing that they will have nothing to suffer if they continue while they may have a great deal to suffer if they resolve to keep still and await the tarn of There is the whole and it shows bat two or three things are to be done tbs presence of onr armies will not only silence but ensure the of Oar superiority n arms must both be proved and made We must and then by means of a free press the guided people of the South that we have of their Aside from this Democratic Address of plunging oui the over of old party new fledged spirit took its Twas thus the Bearing from earth away a beacon Mich. the breeze within the Upon our entrance into the works we met a warean who had been concealing himself in the so that he might escape the vengeance of the When he found that our troops were advancing on Norfolk and that the rebels were fast fleeing before he came from his place of concealment and met our army at the place but little supposing to meet a regiment of soldiers from his own When he discovered the flag of the First Delaware his joy seemed un- and he cheered most Upon entering the line of entrenchments were found to be about three miles but mounting twenty-nine and forty-two pound The most of the guns were some of them so poorly HEROISMS OF The world in which we live is a vast theatre where the heroism of great acts is folly public life being the stage on which society is always gazing with fixed or future tions receiving all that has been done in the The acts of great those they they they talk in At home they are At home they necessarily having no adequate motive for Their pleasures or their pains are Self interest imposes no necessity for the assumption of any of the varying shades and degrees of Sometimes even they know how to be on themselves in their own public The falsehood of appearance is acted Everything that is real belongs to the importance of all that belongs to that Hence the value of all that helps to render that happy and the reason why we have presumed to call those acts and deeds the heroisms of We need scarcely say that these sms not by any means but most generally to Home s the temple of domestic love and and its hearth the altar on which we bad said the very fires were Those we would words and this Address is y remarkable on these I. Though issued in the midst of the most tremendous civil conflict the world has ever by men who profess to be loyal to the Union and its it contains not one word of rebuke or reprehension fer the conspirators and traitors who are trying to disrupt and destroy the II Though the National arms have been gloriously upborne through a series country into the horrors of Civil War 1 Bnt imperiled by her own treason in the Slave summons her trusty servitors in the Free States to the Let those who be- long in that category take due heed and govern themselves Y f of conflicts extending through the last four and the recovery of such cities as Nashville and New with such forts as Macon the re- pulse of Johnston and Beanregard at and the flight of the other rebel Grand Army McClellan in give promise of an early collapse of the not one word of con- gratulation on this unbroken series of triumphs is uttered in the and its whole tone gives evidence that these victories are regarded as ments than facilities to thai which these gentlemen The Administration is arraigned throughout for its more energetic efforts to counteract the desperate tics of the traitors in the spirit of a sharp pettifogger defending a though that the spikes were easily re- moved by onr It was about 4 o'clock p. m. when we entered the where a ghort halt was bat before night a column of troops moved on to the headed by Gen. Wool and staff accompanied by Secretary Chase of the and took quiet possession of the placo in the name of the United Early the next morning tbe old flag was thrown to tho breeze from the Custom House and other public the teeming jay of many Tbe First Delaware remained at the earth works above spoken of till Sanday when it took up line of march for tbe where it is quartered for the and its worthy Colonel W. Andrews) acts as Provost Marshal of tbe two cities of Norfolk All it here at present and the work of disloyalty lo loyally bravely The Norfolk Day Book was published yesterday at usual I believe by its eld bot not in secession garb at heretofore Almost acts which have made them are chronicled in the archives of their up for the admiration of future The the patriot the the are all conspicuous in their and the homage the world pays to them is full and because it is being neither diminished nor deteriorated by its envy Men envy only those who rise a few grades above themselves the really stand above the reach of that malignant Bnt there is another class of heroisms hidden from the concealed in the privacy of seldom and when seen not always self-denial sometimes even self- are ail comprised in these heroisms and though springing from this lofty y endeavor to place in their just light of worth and as springing from the very religion of if we may be allowed the are strictly those which seem great to the heart in contrast with those performed in the face of the and are great in the appreciation of the There is another point of view No allowance is made for the ary perils and utterly reckless tions which the Administration were suddenly compelled to very ground under their feet thoroughly combed with the most malignant treason they are and berated as though the Davis rebellion had been a casual riot at a or a con- which a few of well would have sufficed to Where are the Southern Many people are surprised that our armies do as they advance into the southern cities and find a greater number of persons ready to resume their allegiance and support the efforts of the It was supposed that in and especially New there would be an instant out- break of loyalty on the appearance of the old What may have been the case in the latter city we do not know as all onr reports are from secession but it is quite certain that in others no decided demonstrations of Unionism have been Foreign journals in the interest of rebellion take advantage of this fact to repeat what they have so often said tiat the southern pie are united in Even Mr. Gladstone could assert that the heart of the South was committed to results seem the more strange when we remember that at the time the votes were taken on the various ordinances of there was a heavy preponder Brownlow's son and that in Eastern was made to believe that Lincoln was a that his were at and that soldiers could only be raised in New England and New York by con- A lady who arrived here from Charleston the other day was ly astonished to find the least sign of commercial activity in the where she supposed the grass was ing in the aud the poor were fed by public All our victories are turned into defeats by their and all their repulses into masterly strategic Bat no less imperative is the necessity for some legislation by Congress which shall si rip the active and leading rebels of the property which gives them ence which shall compel the halting to a decision between the true and the ous which shall sate loyal men for what they lose in the right aud which shall impress upon the minds of all disposed to render he insurgents a whether open or that they do so at the peril of heir persons and Until gent measures for the punishment of treason are resorted the rebels will persist in their arrogance and violence loyalists will be made to the timid will hesitate and and the war protract itself into an indefinite tem of guerilla skirmishes and Y. LINCOLN'S OB AND LIGHT following extract from a communication in the Philadelphia farmer and explains the different treatment necessary for heavy and light soils in a practical minner i Sandy soils are too full of and quire much heavy rolling to make them compact and retentive of In- if rolling could destroy all weeds upon sandy it would be far than Mining them to uproot The Jersey farmers use the row and cultivator too and the roller too If we conld serve moisture in our soils in onr crops would be valuable and the only way we can do that in sandy is to roll and not stir We iee in the sandy districts of New the grass green upon trodden roadsides la while that noon stirred lands is burned and bashes alongside of fences where the soil Is while tbe crops on cultivated fields are Grain and grass should get much rolling in and it small rollers conld follow the a day after crops would do As much air will rush into sandy soils in tcu while stirred as will go into clayey lands in ten weeks if not well the more heavy lands are the ter they hold as they crack when and moisture from below capes too but when often stirred and the surface kept too a volume of air goes into the loose prevents and retards the evaporation of moisture from below but the weight of heavy lands and rains upon soon press out tbe air on the surface the necessity of frequent THE PLAN FOE THE Merrimac Laving been de- by the act of the Confederates the New York World thinks there is no longer any necessity for concealing the fact that it was if she had at- tempted another raid in to have run her This was to have been done by the steamer and the amount of force with which this moving at her average would have brought to bear upon her intended is still a matter of It is thug calculated The dead weight of the Vanderbilt ia m round and her average speed is at least fifteen miles an That is equal to tons moving at the rate of one mile an in is equivalent to 300 tond at the rate of 200 miles an ance of opinion on the side of the Union The following published last year though doubtless may yet regarded as an approximate statement o the political North Secession ID point or in which these heroisms ought to be re- From to end the onr seeming rather to enhance than ose of t tf I SPSS jf ot I have been no rebellion To establish of home are done appreciation of their and often a total unconsciousness that the most generous instances of self-denial South ern leaders coln and this a for da pretext F generous instances of self-denial as Rhett an and exertion deserve either attention or their long meditated treason In They are only the Address They are nothing more than the state a it suppresses neons nnd t venres to nor and are neither recognized Their distinguishing tures arc thickly veiled from the general they have no and make no The admiration of the world often and largely penses the great acts of great are performed in the glare of and acknowledged and estimated by an ad- miring audience on the contrary heroisms of home have no reward in the conscious satisfaction of bard duty well and sometimes in the warmer affection of the little social circle that gathers round the domestic even is denied those acts which are impulses and instincts of the Those who performed them coold do no Just as ambition often leads on those heroisms of the world which place is material that truth that what effect of V. Though very much is concealed that of remains has all the 27 12.400 It will be seen that in the cotton states hold back from those whose heroisms are purely and simply of i These generous and gentle content with It calls of as they frequently with Slavery in State in the solitude of in the and or fn the District of close privacies of domestic or in the it announces as a loneliness that ever follows POM of its party kill Abolition in blessing this end cordially the indeed and in trash the most nobly are not recognized eves by those in whose behalf they are performed all those Christian in their unpretending as of the highest price blessing that return unto at least as far as this world is con- Being done in they have DO reference to the re- ward of admiration being done in they have none of the comfort of sympathy being done from the they are passed over as the mere frails of its impulses and were they not of their very root mast sublime code of ethics promulgated in the eleventh the op of all ibe these heroisms of home work an amount of rood on of human in an those lofty deeds of courage the world agrees to follow with admiring We regard with thrill of emotion the noWe impolies of prompt the eo Divine perish It is a trite troth to soy that the glare of celebrity confuses the justness of our views what is to such a decree sometimes to lead OB to pot pood for and evil for so that it may be for as occasionally to the contemplate home duties and home 11K i oration of all men of every party who are opposed to the fell of In other Address makes the preservation and perpetuation of the infernal system which is now ing its dagger at the heart of the tion a chief end of tbe Democratic and in perfect consistency proposes to regard all as Democrats who will aid it 10 that VI Address brands as and false the charge that cratic party is opposed to granting aid and support Jo the Federal Government in its and constitutional Bot look at A Democratic Legislature has been in session m and bas tbe position of importance We go one eleven arc DOW alone and where the ists managed tbe polls in their own was there anything like a majority for Since then the events of the war have driven many of tbe Unionists to the Some have gone over from a feeling of opposition to the plan of adopted by the others have been won over by the suasions of their but the greater part have been forced into quiescence by the of tbe Con- federate It is well known that as soon as that body was it began a systematic attempt to dragoon the whole Sooth into its The poorer if suspected of were drafted into the rauks of the army or sent into the richer classes were threatened with the sequestration of their estates while all who refused obedience to its commands were rendered liable to tbe heaviest It is DO that so many of the who were before earnen friends of the have given m their adhesion to tbe power de facto The question with them was one of lire and of safety for and their or of expulsion and and they preferred to till belter tiroes should come Bat the same condition of things in the seceding and persons of loyal tendencies will continue their thow of fidelity to the Confederates on- til it is rendered perfectly safe to do rebellion for rabid secessionists to speak of the American patriota who have rushed at their call to the field of as coln's or thus displaying their petty malice and intense treason to the cause of the this glorious fact they not that of the soldiers who are now hi every man of whom is burning with patriotic zeal to be led to the battle and begging for the ad- vance position in the grand army of the there is not one of them bnt has voluntarily come forward and en- rolled his name among his country's de- But how is it with the boasted who were reputed to be so anxious to in the last in tbe defence of their sacred soil Let the conscription act jast passed by their bogus Congress the inds of deserters from their ranks testify jow cruelly they were torn from their starving and forced by press at the point of the into a service they despised and and rom which they determined to escape at he first opportunity that presented itself the loyal men which now fill their who preferred sacrificing rather than to the tyranny which required of them to jure their souls by taking np arms against their beloved A large portion rated at two hundred miles an Armstrong one of heaviest ia carries a Three hundred tons is equal to six thousand In other Vanderbilt would strike the Merrimac with a force of six thousand 100-pound balls from an Armstrong at the same instant and in the same A further shows that the momentum ef the Vanderbilt would Be equal to balls from the Union gnn on tbe Rip each one of which weighs about 500 So it will be seen that the suicide of the Merrimac was well-timed after PRICE'S RETURNING gentleman who has spent several mouths in Howard and adjacent informs as that hundreds of Price's men who went from that portion of the State are returning glad to take the oath of allegiance and give as the condition of He states that the of such is estimated at wards of three They declare themselves sick of the sorry of those now in the rebel army are as truly slaves to the of which Jeff Davis is the bead and as bore the badge of servitude in the slave markets of New Orleans and These no receive their ular poor it may and that is about all that the most of Jeffs serfs receive in the rebel Those voluntarily entered for a fied have been forced to remain ter their term had and so are they to escape from their that the papers of the South are filled with offering sums for substitutes 1 And slanderous panegyrists of Jeff Jo the face of such have tbe audacity to speak of the volunteer soldiers of the American in and oar armies proved their superiority beyond all tare shad it as to be a rebel it is to be t there will be DO general they went into and anxious to see peace He says the disposition of this class is far better that of the malignant promoters of who themselves staying at prompted ardent and inconsiderate young men to join the rebel These are bitter and some of them guerrillas in their predatory desiring to perpetuate the animosities and hatred they have been active in The men who have seen the elephant and had enough of re- turn borne better and the influence of such in their neighborhood is most At all times we have looked upon the great mass of the rebel soldiery as being fnr less guilty than their officers and in- The true policy is one of clemency to the former and stringent severity to the Col A. commander of the In- diana German 32d, which bad the liant 6ghl some from Ky has sent in his re- port of tbe of his regiment at They had 10 killed end 95 Every officer and all as chief executive officer IMs but few Rename distinct from any de- witn lne bravery and and exclusively devoted to the hottest a proof interests of Tbe j J says Col. is required to report to the when their firing became dent and 'a tbe lau I I stopped the firing aod drilled them in the I manual of which they all went through as if on tbe parade A or A has passed both ing n Department of with Commissioner at a salary of per SHORE The Somerset Herald says it reported in ADDO Jut the Government about to com- plete the Eastern Shore Railroad to by the last of the present and that the Coir bridge they then opened a and effective WRY was Adam's wife called Ere y Because she appeared day of was drawing lo a close
