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<;AP£ JtfAY OCIJW WAVE < ,'Apk isjjIan n n. r. 1 J. 8. LEACH. ■ Editor, I'liWuhrr unit Proprirltr. -t am imi.LAu I'KU As.yuM*, Thursday, Oct. 24, 18151. '* THEHCHHOKS OrtTAS. "Wo WliOtlBVC been so Ion-* a'-cn-Mm- : cd to pence and quitoness ihrcughont ' our borders, tvltcn the realities oL war ! began, a few month* ago, to More us in i the face, stood almost appalled at tVc [ thoaght o( tlic horrors of a bloody strife . • And, Indeed, what lover of peace, and, j especially, what christian tu>n)d trot experience a revolting, a hcarl-sickening, ut the thought of the tragic scenes which mnst necessarily bo enacted, even if conducted on Iho strictest principles of civilized warfare ? . No christian, nor even a right-minded man not a christian, can picture io his ininjJ, the booming of caunon, belching forth slaughter and deulb, the clashing of bayonets and swords, the rushing of thousands of iiumna beings, in hot basic, npon each other ; vicing with each other iu the amount of blood tfacj can spill and the number of haman souls they con send, all heated with passion, into etchftty, without a kind of morn' • shudder ; and we pity the muu who can. There is, it is tree, a right and a wrong aide to most questions ; and we belfevc that this is the case in many wars, ond especially is it the case in this; and it is , ouly stern necessity that' lias compelled ■oar Government to lake up the sword ; ond consequently wc feci o kind of revolting at that necessity. To contemplate the bloody battle field strewed with tfife dead and the dying, carried from the field, or, perchance, left there, to be trembled upon by thousands of their comrades, either on foot or on Jiorcy Btecds, rushing to the dflMJy charge ; or, in tlio Tate of battle, it may be, by a ruthless and infuriuted enemy, reckless of the pangs of wounded foes,- Is. by no means, a pleasing picture ; but it is, nevertheless, a picture of realise-, *nut easily overdrawn, mid Indeed, one which no one, cxcopt by actual experience, can have a just conception of. Nor is this all t the dark and forbidding side of the picture is not turned alone toward the sanguinary battlo-fiohl. Tbcro are sad and aching hearts at lione. Fathers and mothcra, wives, brothera and sistera, and children feci the smart almost as keenly, if not more, thnn those who leave them. The scene ~ or parting, when those strongly allied ore torn asunder, the ono to go to the Bcene of bloody strife. 'and the other to remain, disconsolate and forrow-strieken at the stem fate that lias thus severed i them, it may be for iifo, are fur from ; cheering pictures ; nud no one but j those who have witnessed, can half ap- ' predate them ; and none but these who j have been actors in thenj can fully lay | . them to heart. Men and women may think themselves brave and resolute, %tt there aro few who will not melt under the influence of such scenes, even though their hearts may swcH with patriot! And then the luug months of wearisome waiting, and anxious looking for cows fiotn tho "scat of war." "When will our regiment uiovo towards the enemy 7 or, "Will there bo a battle soon 7" nrc question often nsked.^nnd still ofleiur presented to the minds, or those who have dear ones In the army. And ■when tho news or a battle hurled along the electric wires, spreads over the laud, what anxiety to karn whether "our regimeut" was In the contest; and that learned, what anxious reading, and when the eye -rests on the name of some loved one, what 'bitter anguish smut the heart. And these are all but pictures of realities, thousands of -limes enacted during a war, and have been many limes experienced -in\>ur country, and will be experienced thousands of limes more,- Wore tho war will end. And there isyhe destruction of property ; crops trampled wider foot ; cKdes, towns, villages and country sacked and laid waste; ehl men. women and ehildccu, heretofore liviug in plenty.

; pein e and quitencas, driven from their , i happy homes ; compelled, often, to seek j ; shelter and sustenance at tho hand of ■ a ' charity. And tlutfc are some of the \ • i horrors, the realities, and not over pain- j j . ted pictures; for wo who have not .ex- . • pcricnccd them, tmiiudfprcr.palnt xhemp; i but mutt, necessarily fall short of the I reality. V | Nor yet is this, all. In. «W temp la- ! • j ling those matters, wc arc apt IA- dwell, ; i i mostly, upoii the exciting xtcjicw,-- end,-' ' | ipdeeil, it i^ those scenes which nro : ^ -j brought most. Before tlic "Winds of the i , j |>coplc. But there it another feature, 4 " i less observed, but not less worthy of ! \ j notice. To sue this, wc must enter the i ' army hospitals,, and rend tho moitnlily 1 lists of those who seder pain ond death ' ' from discuses, the result of the expoJ sure* of camp life. These' are less ob- ' ii . ; trusivc scenes, but. they aro none the • _ _|oss fatal than the former, and the -ties . ^ Vitas severed arc none Ihfi less ll-nflcr i g and the heart aching none the leas poignant, because less obtrusive. Death, 1 * under any circumstances, is solemn ; the ^ passage of the cold Jordan is always ~ forbidding; but wjien surrounnded with ^ homo comforts ond loving friends to minister to the wants of the sick ai d a dying, there is nn ullefjltioii, which the sick and dying soldier, far away from 'i home and friends, knows nothing of ; and to part with our friends, when wc can, in acts of kindness, prove the love ^ wc bear them, half blunts the pointed j pangs of parting. Oh!, what would ^ not that dying man give to feel tho soft . hand of a loving mother, wife, sister or 'laughter pressing upon his aching brow, ' as ho Ifes In yonder hospital, nnd finally struggles in' the icy arms of death, his ^ last enemy '• And what would not t^at t # loving mother, wife, sister or dpugbtc^* (< give to bo thus by bis bedside. Willi nlr' most angelic hands to minister to the 1 ^ wants of a dying, laved one 7 Somo seem to suppose that tho Itory rors of wnr consist mostly in the scones ' of the bloody battlo, and that it is thus 1 that most of tho deaths occur ; but this ' t is a false supposition. History • proves that far more soldiers die by diseases !n- , e duccd by tho exposure of camp life, . than by tke sword, musket and cannon. | It is said, that in the wnr of the 1st i . Napoleon, which lasted some iyronty < j years, 10,000,000 lost their lives ; and that of that number only about 1,250,000 1 t died iu bottle ; ftavqtg 3Jj>0,000 who ' t j-died of disease and exposure; and : I though that mny Be above thu average, it is nevertheless true, that in most wrrs 5 only a small proportion of tho deaths 1 are from tho ravages r.f the sword. There arc, therefore, two useful les- , sons to be learned from this; and wo f , have not made Uicso remark, only to , j ; pirtdra lite horrors of war : but, iu the , firs: plane, to show tho great . necessity \ t of -care, on the part of those in the ar- t . ! my, in avoiding unnt<t*iury cxposnrc. 1 , j Too great cantfon cannot lie exercised 1 , | in this -respect. And, in tho second 1 . place, t» show t!»o duty of thoso «rt J t home, towards llineo who have taken the r field, Vo figlii oiij battles, in providing j , for them aucii articles as wHI enable i them to avoid the tonsequcuces of ?ie- i 5 cestarg exposures. For, be it remciu- i . bored, there are necessary exposures, in 1 I the tented fieul, and when ou guard 1 duty, to which thp majority of our. sol- ' diers havo never before been subject ;* ' . and we can but conclude -tliuS.it is the , duty of our citizens to provide, in tho , I best manner, for such necessary expo- , I surea, Wbon, Uicn, this cause is pro- t . sen ted to you, donot, liku the Driest I . and Jjevite "|utiM by oo tbc other aide;" ' . but, like the good Samaritan, by put- ' ting your huniLi iu your pockets, prove ' C tiiat you aroCliciglibor to thoso who j . suffer. < Governor Morgan has, designated * Thursday, the 2dth of Novemlmr to lie ' obserrud as n day of praise, tiiunksgiring and praver iu Now York. 1 | Gen. Wool reconunends to the War t Department the quartering of troops o during winter in wooden houses, built for accomodating two or three compa- G niea each, at OW Point and Newpoit v News.

Gi'N. 8AX®rsi0.1:. " . Tho Bichir.oiuITVa.} J ^-irer poblithes | ; h-lter putpertisurie tie from tion l!or.«- j - i ton, tbo .lcpitvetl' ( ioverntfr of Texav; .aso j ; v. .liiw't ktinw that wo havo any reavou to • , ' floabt jt« onlhpo'icitv, thoagh tlio conicntkL ^ sad-spirit aro harbly what wc hato, from ; | ! tinrgsiirfeety J*aJ.toJieU-iyn of bim. j . i * Ha ackaowUd^vw that, previous to the; | pissnge of the act of-s«co«»itju, he a.i< j tipv'nlv opposed tu iba aulicme, until t b ; I pcopjy acoaictced in it. bin vir.ee that tii.ne I a> a h>Hul cilisen ft" a iltstaya! Jjtremnuui . ■ (<>r no goverurnVn^ KTii " difflrod 'hts~op- '■ i position,; and been loyal w-thc Southern i rConhnlereey. • Itc denocna:-* the policy of • [ ("vrcion by tho Federal Oorazginenlt an-i J toils u- lli.it lie was offered TO.U'KI^BW. and i. means to sustain' liimself in Texas, but re- j tuned tho offer, lia says that, IV told I' resident Lincoln, Unit "if he was who, and i wished to confer a bentil qpon tlio couu- • he would evacuate Fort l'ickens and .Sumptvr, recall all the Federal troopa from Texas, ami not tuko tlic counsel of such i a man as Cieocral Scott, or his Administva- i ' TimTwCnrtrtiit UUgreePd." 1 11c boo is, that bis only son, above llm . age of childhood, attached liiinsdlf to thu I first company that was raised in tho neighborhood, for during the war, to fight against i the Federal Government, and tliut lie h.i ' three nephews iu tho army iu rebel Virgin ! in, aud lunr more on their way there. And ! these things ho dues not recount, for the I purpoSeofrladlcating himself, but t-iiiipiy to . boast a little, and to lut thoso who were j the most forward in secession at-o whether' they have done mora thuu he has, or is willing to do, for tho Bouthi-rn Confederacy. ; (Jen. Houston says that there was a time : when there was a powerful Union sen'.iqient iu Texas, but that it has all passed away, and if- there is any such sentiment now, he ; is not apprised of it. There is one sontenco-wliieh parlicularly attrucled our attention, in which he says j that nil private citizens should support the ! Government that secures to tliem tin r < liberties' re U- ring of course, to the rebel | (jovHrnmcnl. Now this sentiment, proper- 1 apjibud.'U a correct one; and Gov- i Houston, with the whole host or soathern ' conspirators, is living and acting indirect \ violation of it. If there is any pooplo in j the United States bound to'curry out that! principle, in r-.oronco to tlie Federal Gov. j ernmeut, it is tho people of Texas, Tor the j Federal Government lias paid the debt in- ■ corrnd by tho measures throng liwhich thhy first achieved their liberty, and independence from Mexico, was involved in an r.\. ■ pensive war in coosvijuunce of tho annex-' alien o| the "loan star" to the U. H. Gov- j ernjpiHii; or in other words, first bought | Texas, tfieu fought for hrr, and have ever | sustained her, until she has turned around and attempted to thru.-t ttoi dagger of treason iuto tho bosom or the parcut who has j ever nurtured her. Ah ! General Sam. j Houston, wuba-iwire, decapitated Governor : Houston, such logic wont do .' TU2 LADIES ABD OffH V0LTIHT£2E3. " XS'ehhpe tho ladies oT Capo May will; cheerfully, liberally and promptly rcspvud ; the call to aid in supplying onr volun- ! ycrs with woolen stockings and underclothes, the plar. or which was so foibr laid ; them in tho Wavo of last wee!;; ond wo bcliuva there is enough or "the.; milk of human Mod nets," liborclity, fudu<- j try, and patriotism to do it. Lot ther,, snob a response come up, as will gladden J tho hearts of our volimtaors, and show them that tbo ladies of Capw -May appro- ! c ute the sacrifice they nrn making, in leav- j their hoinos and hazarding their lives j for their protection, and the protection and ( the libeily.of.llH'ir posterity. It should j remembered that the cold season is hard | upon uAj^ln-n these things will bo uccded, ! and therefore what yon do, flu quickly; ftk! feci confident that you will breathe freer, sleep nq»re sweetly, and ftel an case Of conscience wh'ch will tenfold repay you for nil your efforts and expense. "As yc would that others should do euto you, do ye even to theiu;" is a precept of Aich authority, and should, bo of universal application l'law, then, your fathers, husbands, brothand soos in liy stead oT these for whom w« plead, and would it be any gratification yon, to kuow that their services and sacrifices were ap|fa>ciati-<! by the community? If so "go thoa and do likewise."' And iu conclusion, .lot us soy. let tho articles provided bo of a goc-J ahd substantia! mater, i iJIn Pennsylvania the Senate is reported [ to stand 22 People's men. 9 damociats, 1 j Union, and 1 not lya' J from, 't he Assets- j bly 22 'People's, S9 democrats, .1 A Union, and 14 not hcyflffh-jn. Ic Spain, preparations fi • the Mexicar expedition are actively progressing, and it ! will soon leave, without .wailing for the ; Anglo-French aiic».

gtTTTdtf. fitLxust.'sau's* t= ' » I Monday last, a part.of. Gen. Stone's F - virloit crossed tho Fpppr Po'-omac, near j ; Fdw&r'd's Ferry, ' and ' UavinjJ procesdtfd a I i-hort ^ijtah^e. the part under ft'ol. Bakv." • with lib California Kegimewt, in all nam. tiering ISOO men, wrro ailacked by from ! i 4.000 to 7 .C00 rebels. ' Onr men were re- . ' ' pul ed after tho loss of Col. Kdward I*. ] 1 linker, ( U.' H. Senator from Oregon.) . • Soathern pajH-rs give an account *1 a • . /fight, at Santa Ilosa Island, on which Ft" t ] ^ Piekern -ia sitoalod. in which tbo rebels j " - clilifl qnlto a mgnal vseteryi haviag-drLv- ti our forces, nnd spiked lUeir guhs ; but wo j ' hive, as yet. no sHeunVuf Uw> affair Item ; oar side ; nnd tho gWrat probability is. tlui •it is either tmtruo. or greatly cxagorntc l. : " Hilly Wilson's Zouaves were *ai<llo 1« in ^ , tbo eagivguunint, and badly cut up. j From the same source, wo hare an .-.c- 1 ! count of a naval engagement off Now Or- , j ! leans, in which the rebels claim another j , ; victory. It took plnco on the night, of the | . I 1 Ith of Oct., nnd lasted otlo hour. Our | ( iTorce i' represented at 1000 men and -It) ! ~ pgtlfTSTtttTd the eofifetlerwur furcu ut 300 mendj and lfiguns; nnd.thcy claim to havo run all j--' our vessel* ashore, except the sloop of war. | ] Preble, which they sunk, by running j ' 1 into her . with one of their ironctail p ! steamer*, making a holo in tho I'reldc ' j with ihctr steamer's iron-plow. When we ! ' ' hear the other sido of tlic story, wo.xhall - ! probably find that it is either u great ex. ' 1 ! oguration, or altogether a fabrication. [ We have accounts from Gen. Bank's I ' column of a light, at Rolivar Heights, urnr ' i Harper's Ferry, on Wednesday of lust week, j | j between about 2000 rebels, nnd somo 500 I ! Federal, troops. Three companies of bur ! ; troops had crossed over the river, lor lite I . J purpose of capturing several hundred bushI els of wheat, lielonging to the rebel*, . | brought to uphill to be gronnd. Tbo reb- j . j els camp upon theni, in largo force, and j j after somo. hard fighting, oar men wore ! . i compelled to retreat to tho river, which ; I I they di<l iu good order, and were there re- j ! inforced by tho other companies under . ' Col. Geary, when they advanced on the | i-nemy, ond finally sucreded iu driving them | back nnd capturiug ono of their largo Co- j - 1 lumblads. They also captured a largo j | amount of wheat. It is reported, from ap- . j parentis- good authority, llntl the rebel loss ! ' • was 150. while wc lost oulyfqur killed and I. j ten wounded. Tho rebels rvuewed the at-'! | • tack on Friday, but with no better «uecms. !. They have, however, bnrtied thu mill • from } which the wheat was taken, and taken the ! i miller prisoner, being saspeclud of giving ! information that tho wheat was there. | A detachment of cavalry, nnd infantry, ; j with one piece of artillery, has had u so- ' I ' vera skirmish near Pilot Knob, Mo., and j i drove the rebels back with heavy loss, j j Our cavalry udvanend and attacked the ■ enemy, 4l|«n retreated upon thu iqfantry, j I who (mrihg got their gun in positioi., tho j j cavalry uncovered it, and the oucmy, taken j I oomplelely by surprise, fled. j Or: Monday wo«k a sharp, skirmish oc- i i ciirred between two comptni*:> of U. ii. i cavalry and 130 rebal cavalry.20 miles from ! j Ucbauon, Mo., in which riiu.rcbe!.' c cie eur- ! J prised, attached in tho rear, completely j routed, and lost 30 killed and 30 captured. Wo havo news of a battlo in Mu.-iu i, I at Bhanghai. Bartoa county, on the 27th ! ult-., in which tho Kansas troops under Montgomery and Jenuison^ dofcxti d aud j pursued McGullough's forces, i Itubcl Gen. Prico is reported to l>o at i Osceola, . fortifying himsolf for a battle \ wjth Fremont, who :* repcrtod at Warsaw, j some forty or fifty miles from Osceola, and j bad nearly completed a pontoon bridge "! acrost the Osage river, for tho purpose of j advancing . on Prico. McOallneh n oaid to have formed a junction with Price,- and I it is also reported that Hardee, with raver- ' ol regiments, was on bis way to jasri Price. Matters look as' if there might be sojno herd fighting there before long, tyid io' shall await the result with interest. Xorthp "Orvan Wsve." SH001IR0 05 THE OLA5D5li. Kditob:— If I am net mistaken, there is n law imposing, fivo dollars Gny upon a person guilty of firing off a gan, within the limitnJ ' 'ihi^citV. This low is daily infrfngi-d, ami. I conuot name an instance where the infringer has been puui-.h-od. Is not this truu T If persons wiifcnnUnuo to shcot, allow ! me to warn Ihetn in referenco to tho care- . letDtsss 'which they manifest i\r shooting. ; Guns should never bo pointed Towards a i linu«a, ot oven level with huu4j«f. They should bo direciud high iu thofixs. ur tow- < | atd* thd ground. A!jno#Uove*yThIy brings J to the notice of readers, the death of some ■ one, by the corelw nse of fire-aniui ; and ! unless lb ose who practice gunoiug on Ibii ' i Island, act with more discretion, we shall 1 j some of lhcte time* hear ti ll of a nrighlior , ! being killed or wounded. Think of tii.t. ; Jcxtc* 1 * Otjmhlmd, Oct*2Ist,IM! 1

OUR 'CAMP LETTERS. Gsjtr Cask*. Oct. Ifilh. IMl. l ! TIsAn-QoAarKiw. 7th Reg. N. J. V. J J. G. I.Rxcn Sir:— Yoa cannot imagino with what cagernevs the members (o»pecially tho Capo May Boy*) of Company A. look for tho -Wave." Evety copy ha* ' a rot-« of some hind nbaut u». and I tell vi a. wu -ill feel grntefiil to thu "Ware" for I being brought before the public. As F^j day is tho day we generally got the paporr j about 1 o'clock, ' it would do yoa good to see the men crowdarowid the Captains' tenl j a nil li.Mctrto dv.-ry word cantniied therein; [nnd also a half hour after 'they havo come ! r.o pt-Mdii knows any thing nbotn them, as# uuv fattas who con get bold of ono, lays it avva/to send Off. 1 beliovo ir »c received' three hundred copies, in two days thenf | would not be one fuund in Camp. I tell you. sir, there is do other paper printed in the F. S. that Company A. loves to sec, a* well aj tho "Cape May Ocoan Wave," and "* ! suaio^no w ill endeavor to let yoa hoar from j us overy week. ' , • 'J'o-duv, is Wednesday; and we are very well, not ono oii tbe sTctTnt; and whthrl — ! w''tc, a|l aro polishing their guns and bullous of the iy coats, aud blacking their shoes* r preparatory to inspection, which wo havo ; every morning, and it is acknowledged by "u!l, that our Company is cleaoer, and keep things in bettor order, than any of tbo ; other companies in the regiment, j How you would laugh to take a peep into j our tents a hen wo nro preparing to go to I rest ; sixteen or eighteen in ono tont, lay1 ing with our beads on our knapsacks, and | feet towards our guns, which are standing I around the support of the tent, in the center, j As a general thing, each one has something : to say about home, and iTlinl_ Jill* ft fluids ! wou'.J think if they cou|tHbo us as wo now ; lay. But we like iysfre iu the trast of spiri us, ond havo no d^ire to go home until all 1 difficulty is syttfud with the eoemy, which, " we hope, for the good, of our country, will | i-.oou be *>-<-. Wo had a general inspec- ! tion, a few day* ago, by Brigadier-General i Casey, utqlcr whoso command we aro. Tho -V.ii, t>th, 7th and 6th, compose bis Brigade, j Ho infoir.iud us that wo hud not yet recoived our regular uniform, bnt would soou, and it would bo of a dark blue color! At Ibis i inform atiiia yon may suppeso wo were sati i Mi ud. Company A. has been ordered by i the Colonel to laurc tho skirmish drill, nt w-hii-li we Imvo boon reooiving lossons for j uue Woyk. A few days since, tba i trii!. !..id us up before tho regiment drilling; 1 at which drill ho said wu did admirably. I .Wo ail liku it very much, and think wo will I gut rifles, as wo have changed our drill from j heavy infantry, to that of light, for it is almost in possible to llrill skirmish drill I with 5nu*kel!>. Wo think wo » ill move luifbro.long. ! as all Other regiments that aero encamped j aroutid, when weeiSts, havo loft, except the : 0th, 7rh, and 8th N. J. If we were ordered | to tttovo any moment, wo woehl be ready, Tbo other night at midnight wo were all j ordered to pack our knapsacks, nnd bo rcoi dy to march ut a roomenl's notice. Wo J wore ready in ajfew minutes, but the alarm was false, nnu wo were ordered to retire, W'm are getting fat. and are of the opinio ii Hint Camp-life agrees with u*, as wo lulil iu tho best condition, ready for a fight tiny time. Tho only thing wo con express any fooling or regret about tump-lifo, is, tho deceuso of Sergeant XL P. Tiodall. Without hi* pitseneu wo fool -very mach lojt. Wo miss his smiling faco at all times in tho day. and con only sny, "Tho lmrd givclh and the Lord taketh away ; klossed bo the uotno of tho Lord." ' I am, yours. respectfully, Flktch. Cx»r CxKtv, Oct. 16th, 1861. Mi;. Kit. na : — Dear Sir : — Wo had quite n mebncholly accident here to day.- While a Sergeant "was drilling somo men, tho gun " in his hand accidentally went off; the load passed through tho body of Alexander Stewart, from Newton, Sussex County, N . J.. killing him instantly. Ho belonged to Company I, Otpt L. I». Sims. Ho was a very fine young man, and highly respected in his company. Thu Sergeant is almost frantic about it. Wc all pity him in his distress, for ha is a man highly cstoomed by all who know bim. Ono. W. Brnnr. The estimated Yankee property in tiits State of Virginia, under the ban of the ecquoetralioR amounts to $30,000,ooo. 43 Gen. McOleUan has detailed some 000 lieutenants from tho army for a signal coqis, to servo in casq of night 9 marches. In this manner collisions among oar cwujrugimouts will be pre. vented.