Show plundering OLD FLAX FLAN TATION A so lilier of the 8 ah h vermont in a letter published in the montpelier journal Jouin Jo aly alp gives an account of the plundering by his bis regiment of th plantation of the late aaen teen gen zachary taylor or near baton rouge owned by his son gen richard kichard taylor of the confederate army the soldier cays says it is one of 0 the roost most splendid plantations ons that I 1 ever eier saw there are on it sei sel beven beren en hundred acres of sugar cane which must trust rot upon the ground if the government doas dos not har bar aanet et e t it I 1 wish you could have seen been the soldiers plunder this plantation after the stock wab waa driven off V t e boya began by dering ordering oi the ala sla alaba ea to bring out every everything thing there was to eat and drink they brought out hundreds of bot les lea of dinep wine egge preserved figs and peache reaches turkeys chickens and honey in any quan n ity I 1 brouil brought it away awaya a large camp ketie kette ard frying pans that be longed to old general taylor and aud also many of his hia papers I 1 have one letter of his hia own handwriting and many from secretary marcy bomp tomp from gen scott and anti beme seme from the traitor floyd I 1 bro brought tight to camp four bottles of claret wine lieutenant brought a ay half a barrel of ct cf the best beat syrna aiom the sugar suar house and a large can of honey rhe the caknip ca nip kettle and pans I 1 intend to send home they are made of he iv tin covered wilh with copper I 1 think I 1 will send home the private pat pai eib eis by mail maii it if I 1 to do not let any one have them tle the camp is loaded down with rall kinds of cl thin ing ringa rin gs watches guns puns pistols swords arid arld some of gen Tayl Tay oils loia old hats hate and coat coats belts sword swords fl and in fact every old relic he had is worn about the cau p you and every one may be thankful that you jou are out of the reach of p un dering arrn arru armies les ies here are yhale families of women and children running ia in the woods large plantations entirely desei deser deserted ted nothing left except slaves tote tore old od jo to run away anay all kinds of the best maho mahogany any furniture broken to pieces nothing is respected pec ted t new drw Trox we have hav received the first num number berof berot of the reform a new dew periodical published at geneva switzerland in the german language ian lan biage by john L smith it obtains sixteen pa pager e arid and appears to be well got up and imprinted is printed in large type its Us pages are devoted to the a 0 tb the light of 0 zion in that far jani jaaj bac t to ike the lle abd |