Still coming home — affairs at Washington.
The sons of the
South continue to leave the
North and the sinking Government ruled by the barbarian from the
Northwest, and seek safety and honor at home.
First freeing themselves from the dishonor of connection with the
Northern Administration and the dangers of the malignity and brutality of the
Northern mob, they next offer themselves to their native country, to die, if need be, in its defence.
We have heralded, from time to time, these honorable proofs of patriotic devotion in the ranks of the Army and the Navy.
Numerous, also, are the instances of similar proofs of generous feeling and fealty in the other departments of the
Government.
They have been nearly cleared of Southern men.--A considerable number of citizens of
Virginia and unseceded Southern States, left
Washington the present week.
We yesterday met
Messrs. A.
Moise, Jr. of
Tennessee, and
Henry Wood, of
Albemarle — very worthy gentlemen, who held offices under the
Washington Government, and who have "come home."
Mr.Moise, who is a native of
Charleston, and a member of a very highly respectable family of that name, tendered his services to
Virginia to raise a company of Mounted Riflemen in
Tennessee, and will leave to-day for the purpose of organizing this force.
The accomplished commander of our land forces expressed the highest confidence in the loyalty of
Tennessee to the
Southern cause, and in the chivalry of her people.
These gentlemen represent that a great panic prevails in
Washington among the barbarians — rulers and subjects.
Lincolnis, they say, in effect, a prisoner in the
Federal City.
He distrusts the men enlisted to guard the capital — certainly all the levies of the
District.
He fears they will desert as soon as the
Virginia flag is borne towards the
District by a body of troops strong enough to menace it. Our reliable informant assures us that there has been a feeling of restlessness apparent in the faces of all the
District levies since the battle of the rocks in
Baltimore.
They speak of the
Northern troops introduced into
Washington, as, with some exceptions, the most indifferent and disgusting looking men they ever saw. The
Massachusetts regiment, especially, were bad looking; as they passed through the streets, appearing more like men going to be hung than men going to fight.
A correspondent says that our penitentiary convicts would appear like gentlemen when compared with them.
A distinguished
Massachusetts man said, at a public table, that they were roughs and German emigrants, and that there was not a gentleman amongst them.
Such is the riff-raff our noble Southern men must fight.
We learn that the public buildings are all strongly guarded, some of the most important barricaded — the
Capitol occupied by a number of the most uncouth of the savages, who, among other desecrations, have a
cooking stove in cooperation in the
Senate Chamber ! The
White House is in the guardianship of such angels of the
Black Republican heaven as
Cassius M. Clay and Jim Lane,the
Kansas cut-throat, with a body of his
Kansas ruffians.
With these protectors,
Mrs.Lincolnand little
Bob O'Lincoln sleep tolerably soundly, as women and children do in the cavern of bandits to whom they are allied.
But the Old Ape, it is said, dare not trust himself even with such guardians.
He sleeps at houses of friends — moving from one to the other every night.
Thus is the traitor and pirate haunted by the phantasmagoria of his own cowardly imagination.
It is said that the Goths and vandals of the
Federal City are determined that it shall never fall into the hands of the
South, but that pursuing their ruthless barbarism which fired the Navy.
Yard, they will blow up the grand temples of the late Union.
Well, we don't know that this would be so very deplorable.
The
Capitol can be of little use, for the Southern Confederacy will hardly occupy it, and it would not be inappropriate that it should fall into ruins along with the
Government that built it. Better so than it should stand as a memento of a thing so corrupt and detestable.
