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Among the soldiers now at Fort Sumter, is Jas. Cahel, who, a few weeks ago, had the bravery to say that when the Union fleet hove in sight he intended to spike the guns of the fort. For this expression Captain Rhett (son of the editor of the Mercury) ordered him to be tied across a gun and whipped — to receive one hundred and twenty-five lashes, well laid on. The soldiers in the fort rebelled against the infliction of this punishment, and so alarming was the mutiny that Rhett sent to Fort Moultrie for soldiers to quell it. They came, and the man was whipped.
This incident, which occurred but two or three weeks ago, shows the state of feeling among the soldiers in Fort Sumter.
They are mostly foreigners and Northern men, who having no work, were obliged to go into the army to live.--Milwaukie Wisconsin, Oct. 30.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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