The Athens Post

The Baltimore Exchange publishes the following extracts from a private letter from New Hampshire:

"Men are not so anxious to enlist now as they were previous to the fight. A friend of ours assured us last Friday, that the recruiting sergeant had been ten days in enlisting ten men in Concord, and a young man in Concord told me he had been offered $50 bounty."

The writer adds: "There is a great change here in public sentiment within a month. There are 20,000 men in New Hampshire opposed to the war, as at present carried on to subjugate the South."

"Our first regiment will come home next week. Most of them, I learn, have got enough of the war. They complain greatly of the treatment they have received, and say that they have been used very meanly."

The Concord (New Hampshire) Standard says:

"It is very doubtful whether another volunteer regiment can be raised in this State. The people begin to feel that the war is unjust and cruel, and that all who engage in it will be looked upon as fighting for pay and not for justice; and that, however much they may need employment to get a living, they are not going to robbing and murdering their Southern brothers. They feel that if poverty should drive them to commit such crimes, it would be far better to commit them among the Abolitionists of the North, who have caused their poverty; and that is, doubtless, their firm resolve."

And again, the same paper remarks:

"Poor men—you who depend on your daily labor for your support—God help you! We feel for you, because we are one of you. Where do we find one dollar a day now, unless we enlist as officers for this plundering war? Where shall we find our shilling a day if it continues six months longer, when the frosts and snows of another winter fall around us and our families?"