unpretending account of his experiences in the South in the present year, has reached us too late to receive so full a notice as it deserves, Most of our readers have already perused with extreme interest the narrative of what he saw in the brief campaign of Gettysburg, which appeared in our September Number. We now have, in addition, a description of his adventures from the time when he landed in the Rio Grande, near Matamoras, in April, till he quitted America in July. In that interval he became personally acquainted with the most eminent men in the Confederacy Jefferson Davis, Lee, Longstreet, Beauregard, Bragg, Kirby Smith, Johnston, Bishop Polk, Hardee, and a host of minor celebrities. We extract the following sketch of the President: "Mr. Jefferson Davis struck me as looking older than I expected. He is only fifty-six, but his face is emaciated, and much wrinkled. He is nearly six feet high, but is extremely thin, and stoops a little. His features are good, especially his eye, which is very bright, and full of life and humour. I was afterwards told he had lost the sight of his left eye from a recent illness. He wore a linen coat and grey trousers, and he looked what he evidently is, a wellbred gentleman. Nothing can exceed the charm of his manner, which is simple, easy, and most fascinating. versed with me for a long time, and He conagreed with Benjamin that the Yankees did not really intend to go to war with England if she recognised the South; and he said that, when the inevitable smash came, and that separation was an accomplished fact, the State of Maine would probably try to join Canada, as most of the intelligent people in that State have a horror of being under the thumb of Massachusetts.' He added, that Maine was inhabited by a hardy, thrifty, seafaring population, with different ideas to the people in the other New England States. "When I spoke to him of the wretched scenes I had witnessed in his own State (Mississippi), and of the miserable, almost desperate, situation in which I had found so many unfortunate women, who had been left behind by their male rela tions; and when I alluded in admiration have remarked to me that Jefferson During my travels, many people Davis seems in a peculiar manner adapted for his office. His military education at West Point rendered him intimately ac quainted with the higher officers of the army; and his post of Secretary of War under the old Government brought officers of all ranks under his immediate personal knowledge and supervision. No man could have formed a more accurate estimate of their respective merits. This is one of the reasons which gave the the way of generals; for having formed Confederates such an immense start in his opinion with regard to appointing an officer, Mr. Davis is always most determined to carry out his intention in spite of every obstacle. His services in the Mexican war gave him the prestige of a brave man and a good soldier. His services as a statesman pointed him out as the only man who, by his unflinching determination and administrative talent, was able to control the popular will. People speak of any misfortune happening to him as an irreparable evil too dreadful to contemplate." after one of the bombardments, and He paid a visit to Fort Sumter famous work, and of the land and gives an account of that worldsea defences of Charleston. He closes his honest and entertaining little volume with this view of the aspect of the war : "But the mass of respectable Northerners, though they may be willing to pay, do not very naturally feel themselves called upon to give their blood in a war of aggression, ambition, and conquest; for this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavouring to conquer the South; but the more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States of the devotion of the whole population, the more I feel inclined to say with General Polk-'How can you sub jugate such a people as this?' and even supposing that their extermination were a feasible plan, as some Northerners have suggested, I never can believe that in the nineteenth century the civilised world will be condemned to witness the destruction of such a gallant race." Events follow each other so rapidly, that not only is a book on the war superseded by matters of fresher interest before it can be published, but our own remarks may possibly be out of date before they can be printed. Nevertheless, we will ha zard a few in closing this article. ments that it can turn will probably be abandoned. But if the fleet cannot pass, the Confederates will hold their own, though no doubt the town may be destroyed. If Lee's late advance upon Meade, by enabling him to destroy the Orange Railway, really prevented a new advance of the Federals to the Rappabannock for twenty days, the advantage is well worth the pains. A small force may harass and check him, whilst Lee can detach whatever troops may be required to Bragg's assistance. In the mean time Meade English writers have generally must either advance slowly from taken for granted that, though the Alexandria, restoring the railway as fall of Charleston is postponed, it he goes, or advance without the aid is inevitable. They argue that, the of the railway, in which case his army once landed, the superior re- supplies will be very precarions; or sources of the North can be brought transfer his line of operation either to bear, and must ultimately pre- to the Shenandoah valley or to vail. In this opinion we have the Fredericksburg road. Such s never concurred. The example of transference will take time, and Sebastopol proves the difficulty of events bave proved that on either capturing an uninvested intrenched line he may be checked by an incamp with an unlimited supply of ferior force. Richmond, therefore, material, and free access for rein is safe for the present, though Lee's forcements. In the case of Charles- army should be weakened by de ton these difficulties are increased; tachments to the South-west. In for whereas at Sebastopol rein- that region the advantages of manforcements could only reach the ceuvring are all on the side of the place by long ruinous marches, and Confederates; for whereas the Fe were always more than balanced by deral army in Chattanooga is dethe fresh troops despatched without pendent on a single long line of loss or fatigue from France and communication through Nashville, England, at Charleston reinforce and the line of railway to Memphis ments to any required extent can which the recent occupation of be sent and furnished with supplies Bridgeport is said to have opened, by railway, far more rapidly than the Confederates are free to operate troops to Gillmore by sea. The on a wide arc, and may attack those case is that of two lines of hostile lines without endangering their own. intrenchments, where the advan- We shall be disappointed, therefore, tages of position and access are on if we do not shortly bear that they the side of the defenders. No bave achieved a decisive success in doubt, if the Federal fleet can pass the South-west. up the harbour, all the intrench INDEX TO VOL. XCIV. Abolitionists, the, tone of, toward Eng- Blockade, the question of, in connection land, 636. Addison, the prose of, 268. Africa, probable effects of gold discoveries Amalia, Queen of Greece, her influence, AMEN! IN THE CATHEDRAL, Sr. ANDREWS, America, the discovery of, by the North- AMERICAN WAR, BOOKS ON THE, 750. 542. Archery, ancient practice of, at Harrow Armitage, Mr., Burial of a Martyr, by, Arrowsmith, the maps of, 551. Art, probable effects of the International Arundel Society, the, its publications, Aurora Floyd, remarks on, 169. Austria, policy, &c., of, during the Polish Authors, on some, in whom knowledge Bacon, Lord, his letter to Essex, 162. Bennet, afterwards Bishop of Cloyne, at Berg, General, military governor of Po- BERLIN, PEN-AND-INK PHOTOGRAPHS Bicknell, Mr., the sale of his collection of Bismark, Prussian Minister, sketch of, 88. Brandenburg Gate, the, at Berlin, 83. Brigandage, prevalence of, in Greece, 592. Brooks, Charles, his translation of Titan Browne, Sir T., on the desire of fame, 3. Church question, 116. Bunsen, Baron, his Egyptian speculations, Burr, Messrs., works of, in the present Butler, Dr., as head-master of Harrow, Butler, H. M., head-master of Harrow, Byron, characteristics of the poetry of, Caird, Mr., on the cotton district of India, Calderon, Mr., painting in the Exhibition California, emigration to, on the gold THE Campbell, answer of, to Bowles in the Carlyle, the sketch of Richter, by, 311. No. xxiii. XVIII. No. xxiv. On some Authors Chamber of Deputies, the Greek, its de- mocratic character, 588. Charles II., position of the Church under, Charles, Prince, of Prussia, sketch of, 88. Chastelet, Madame du, and Voltaire, 276. Chesney's Review of the Campaigns in Classics, the enduring influence, &c., of, Clergy of Greece, character, &c., of the, Coles, Captain Cowper, his Cupola ship, Columbus, the discovery of America by, 545. Commerce, effects of the gold discoveries Concussion, the development of heat by, Confederates, the, their invasion of Penn- Conington's Odes of Horace, review of, 184. Conservation of force, the doctrine of, Conservatism, on the spirit of, 419. Convict system and establishments in Cooke, Mr., his painting of Catalan Bay, Cotton question, the, in connection with Cox, James, head-master of Harrow, 463. Crime, relations of, to national prosperity, 47. Crivelli, painting by, in the National Cromwell, position of the Church under, CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE, 217. Diaz, Bartholomew, the voyage of, 545. Dissenters, the modern, difference be-. Dolffs, Bockum, sketch of, 89. Doyle, the political caricatures of, 223. Drury, Joseph, head-master of Harrow, Dryden's translation of Virgil, on, 185- Church question, 116. Edward VI., the Reformation under, 117. Elizabeth, the Story of, review of, 171. Emigration, effects of the gold discoveries on, 507. Encumbered Estates Commission, the, ENGLAND, HAWTHORNE ON, 610-the vania by, 372-sketch of, 385. Fagging at Harrow, 480. Fielding, knowledge of the world shown Finkenstein, Mr., the attack on, 25. Force, the conservation of, what, 688. Fresco, Messrs. Herbert and Maclise, on, Friction, the development of heat by, 679. Friendship, Rochefoucauld's maxims on, Galacia, sketches in, during the Polish Gennarelli, Epistolario Politico Toscano, GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, 217. GETTYSBURG, THE BATTLE OF, AND THE CAMPAIGN IN PENNSYLVANIA, 365 Gil Blas, knowledge of the world dis- Gilray, the caricatures of, 217. HAWTHORNE ON ENGLAND, 610. Heath, Dr., his election as head-master of Henry VIII., true nature of his struggle Herbert, J. R., Judith, by, 67-his paint- Hesse-Darmstadt, sketch of the history Hill, General, at the battle of Gettys- Historicus, the letter of, on the American Hockey, as played at Harrow, 478. Hooper, Bishop, the views of, 119. Hotels, Irish, 41. Hudson, Sir James, the removal of, 456. Hunt, Holman, portrait of Dr. Lushing- Income-tax, modifications of the, in In- INDIAN PROSPERITY, 198. INSURGENT CAMP, VISIT TO AN - Letter Glasse, Dr., one of the teachers at Har- Iron-cased ships, first introduction of, and comparison of those of France and Italians, national characteristics of the, 448. ITALY, WHY HAS SHE NOT DONE MORE? 54. Jack o' Lantern, a Harrow game, 478. JEAN PAUL RICHTER, 310. Johnston, Mr. A., works by, in the pres- Joule, Mr., his experiments on heat, 681. |