HAMMOND GAZETTE.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 10, 1864, |
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Krrata.—]ln our last issuc we published
the pame of our new Qnarteylsaster as Capt.
““ Giregory,” it should have beep Capt.
* Grodfrey.”
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Ux Wednesday last,about ene hundred
and seventy more rebel prisoners arrived
at this place from thé old Capitol prison in
Washington.
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I REENBACKS.—Maj. Green, Paymaster
i7. 8. V., paid this place a visit during last
week, and while here paid Unecle Sam’s
hoys their hire, ;ommencing with the .
H. regiments and ending with the Ham
mond Hospital inmates.
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. Drowsgp.—On Friday morning, a pa
tient in ward A, by the name of M. Noak,
belonging to Co. A, TBth regiment N. Y.
V., was found drowned in front of the
hotel building. For several days previous
the unfortunate man was cousiderably de
ranged in his mind. He wasa Ger
man, with no relatives in this country, but
leaves a wife in Prussia.
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GENErAL McClellan’s report is now out,
and has éreated consid?l_e comment in
Congressional circles, and the democratic
members are generally desirous of having
a large number of copies printed, relying
upon it as an influential docusent in the
coming political campaigp, and scme have
already referred to McClellan as’ their can
didate for President. We shali see what
we shall see.
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Ir affords us much gratification to learn
that our friend Sergt. J. K. Whittier, of
Co. G, 12th N. H regimeut, has heen
promoted to 2d Lieutenaut of that Compa
ny. It will be remembered that he was
for some time in command of the hospital
guard here, and by Li- .oot! ianly bear
ing made many wara frienas who will re
joice with us upon learning of his merited
advancement.
Ox Monday night, Ist inst., a corporal
and three privates who were on guard ot
the wharf deserted by means of a boat an
canoe, one of which they obtained by brif -
ing a boy to bring it from a schoover in the
harbor. When ready to start they forced
the boy to go with them, and then separated
into gwo gni.e&, the corporal and one of the
privates forming one, and the other two
g‘rinhl and the boy forming the other.—
he latter boat drifted down the river
and was picked up by the guard at the
light-ship, one of the men having perished
from the effects of the cold, and the other
ouc and the boy being in a helpless condi
tion from the same ageicy. They were
rought to this place on Friday morning.
The other fit was subsequently found
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capsiged, and the inference is that its two
sceupants were drowned. Truly the way
of the W gressor is hard, and the wages
of sin is s :
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Negro Recruiting Camp.
A squad of about a dozen negroes, uader the
command of Lieut. Smithson, are now stationed
‘n this village, for the purpose of recruiting.
Phey reached here on Saturday evening last, and
‘ave, we learn, obtaimed three recruits since
tbeir arrival. The slaves in this vicinity are
-{uiw free in their intercourse with them, vut a
isposition to enlist does not seem to prevail. It
‘nay be proper to add, however, that Govern
‘ment oé,c'ia]&-or persons claiming to be such—
have already enlisted, or seduced away, a very
‘arge proportion of the young negro men of this
county. We mention this fact, th? public
opinion at the North may not do our *‘colored
riends’’ an injustice. They are unquestionably
imbued with an average degree of ** patriotism,”’
and if enlistments are not more rapid among
those thai remain, it must not be attributed to
a want of reverance for the‘flag.”” Unaccus
tomed, heretofore, to the performance of military
duty, and possibly not fully appreciating th:ocx
igencies of the Government, their tardiness ma
He more properly attributed to a want of knowl
edge of their duty, than an indisposition on
their part to “‘serye their country.”” Let there
be, therefore, no unjust discrimination against
the negro recruits obtained in this county. Let
them stand fuir and square with their white
brethien from Massaclinseits, and fe! no man
dare guestion iheir claims to equality ! In con
clusion, we move the wrest and banishment of
the editor of the New York Times. for insinua
ting, in a late issue of hiz paper, that *‘ there
might be some persons at the North, thatdid not
think a nigger as gzood a: a white man.”’
Three weeks ago we had occasion to
publish an article from the St. Mary’s Gaz
ette, on Negro soldiers, and comiygent there
on, and we had hoped that the disloyal
editor of that sheet would give us no more
occasion to refer to them, by carrying out
the southern doctrine of ‘‘let them alone.”
Bat thig Mr. Downs seems determined not
to do, but to slander and villify them, and
all who have ililytl!il'lg to do with thom, by
vulgar slurs and sucers. The above article
is from the last issne of the (vagette. We
do not wish to quarrel with its cditor, but
it is no wore than just that the people
shoald know how to credit his statemeunts.
We do not advocate uegro equality neithér
in soeial por political affairs, yot we do suy,
and cha‘hge' a reasonable contradiction,
that some negrocs ace more than equil. .
some white men, except in color only. And
as regards that, at present, inestimable
quality ‘patriotism,” they are, in this
county, by far the superiors of the whites.
They ure imbued with vastly more than an
average degree o patrietism, taking that
of the whites of this county as the standard.
b‘utrthxs is not to be wondered at, for there
has been but one paper published in the
county,aud that has been continualy blatting
treasonable sentiments in the cars of the
people, aud Leiug brought up to worship
the golden calf of slavery, they are very
naturaily loth to turn from their idol. But
all that i 8 necessary is for the people to
comprehend the true naturc of the present
struggle, and we think they will not be
long m arraying themselves upon the side
of right and freedom, against slavery and
oppression. The colored portion have al
ready scen that it is going to effect their
freedom, and it is useless for the editor of
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the Gazette to assert that they have no dis
position to enlist. The squad arrived in
L.eonardtown on Saturday, and the ab...
wticle was probably written on Tuesday o
Wednesday, and he records but three en.
listments. Very good, we think, for the
first three days of location in a neighborhoog
~where no pains have _probablg been spared
‘to make the negroes believe the governmen
would do something awful with them shoujd
they ever leave their masters. How is it
by this time, Mr. Downs? Have a large
portion of the young negro men of that vi
cinity been ‘‘ seduced away ¥’ Please give
us the precisc number, and we venture to
say it will do honmor to their reverence for
the *“ flag,” as you snecringly quote it.—
They, black, swarthy and ignorant, as
they are, have more reverence for that
glorious emblem of our nationality, than
you, white, free, educated, and possessing
all the glorious privileges of an American
vitizen dare boast.
They, at the call of the government, rusl;
to uphold its authority against the assault
of traitors, but you seek to disgrace it hy
cndeavoring to keep back its defenders,
and thus allow the traitors to trail it in the
dust. They seek liberty, natural to all
men, and you blat and jeer at them for <o
doing. It has well been said that. “‘in
ignorance is bliss,” and ‘‘where ignorance
‘rutes; “tis folly to be wise,” for the editor
of the Gazette evidently acts upon those
principles. The onc he seeks to impose
upon the blacks, the other upon the whites
of this county. |
As we have said before, we do not advo
cate negro equality, ard have not, there
fore, the least sympathy with those who
do, come they from Massachusetts or from
NSouth Carolina; but what is the use in
continually ‘‘blowing” abhout the govern
ment for calling, and the negroes for giv
ing, their assistance in putting down thi
foul rebellion. We say to the editor of
the Gazette as Gamaliel said to the men
of Israel, ‘‘Refrain from these men, and
let them alone: for if this counsel or this
work be of men, it will come to naught:
but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow
it,” and you may be found fighting against
God as well as against your country. In
conclusion we would say to the editor, be
not over much zealous, cither in contempt
uous or carnest language, for the banish
ment of editors, whether loyal or disloyal,
for *‘the dogs may be turned to their vom
it, and the swine to their wallowing in the
mire.”
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Wk are furnished the following list of
Medical Officers and attendants connected
with the Medical department of the Pris
oners’ Camp by Dr. E.- W. Walton :
Surgeon in charge, James H. Thompson,
Sarg. U.B. V.
Ex. Officer and in charge of Hospital
Department, L. F. Russell, Aect. Asst.
Surg, U. 8. A.
Surgeon in charge of Divisions, E. W.
Walton, Act. Asst. Surg U. S. A.
Examining Surg. for rebel reeruits, W.
Childs, Asst. Surg. sth N. H. V.
Hospital Stewards, J. J. Gasser, C.
Martin, (acting).
Confederate Hospital Assistants, Drs.
Wm. Powell, Texas; R. A. Atkins, Va.;
J. B. Munnerlyn, La.;'J. F. Jones, Va.
Coufeder%l)jyjsion Assistants,—lst,
Wm. Godwin, N. C.;fi, T. E. Stratten,