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Effects of tlie Invasion.
Will a,y iu(e | g|. n t person who has carefully
noted the progress of Gun. Dee’s army through
the N ir h, deny that its good efl'ecU are already
palpable, and gratifying beyond the most san
guine expccta' ons f We do not reler now to his
unexampled military successes, the reprisal*
made, tin damage done to the enemy’s public
works and li.,esof communication, or to tho im
mense spoils gathered in his victorious march.
We speak only ot tho moral effect upon the North
rn it apnea, ne indicated by the intelligence
bronebt t.y every mad ; upon the war party, the
pence ■ arty, the army, and the Government it
M'd'. Wo ci uhl hardly uhk more than has been
gamed during the brief interval that has elapsed,
if we accept as evidence the testimony of the
Yankee press. Our success has been wonderful,
and a long stride, a very long stride, has been
Thiido towards pc ace. The (makers have been
silenced, and those who had fears that the inva
efan would fail, and that the whole North would
rise np as a unit eg dost us, are thus far happily
disappointed.
TERMS.
'Thai we do not nseutno too mach, we will en
de&vor to thow by the lights before us. Facts
lire the b int arguments, und with these only we
have to deal. We imirk :
1. Complete und universal apathy throughout
the North.
2. A general pauio.
8. Tho rtfuenl to be mustered into the service
lor home deb-nee, even for thirty days, in spite of
the most liberal bounties, the earnest appeals of
tha authorities, and tho greater incentive which a
threatened less of propeity might be supposed to
create.
4. Iteefalanee to the draft everywhere, the kill
ing of enrolling officers, and the organization of
aimed bancs whose numbers in many cases
exceed one thousand.
6. Muuiieat sympathy with the invaders, and
the actual cnJiftinent, in Maryland and Pennsyl
vun'B, of large numbers of men into the Con
federute ran;.*.
ti. T he inoreasiug demands for peace, and u ter
mination ot the war by the anti-Administration
press.
7. The tVHimiv oi iho Abolition press, and their
willingness to i « ept the coming battle as the
final -sene, and, in the language of the Tribune,
“it i,ec can conquer us, so bo it.”
8. Ti e adaiisti n that, if the army of the Poto
mac be defeated, tlnwu is nothing between Gen.
I.ee and WanhingUm, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
it. Threats against the Administration for
bringing these cu’.umiti 6 to their doors.
We might continue the enumeration, but pre
fer to devote our epace to such proofs ea will
substantia' e the position we have taken. Our
published exirajts from Northern papers hereto
fore have b n ample enough to convince our
readers of the truth of the four first poßitionß,
though we cannot forbear to copy the following
paragraph fioui a letter to the New York
Herald :
Disstilisfartion is rxprossed by the 71st and Bth
regi nt nts at Carlisle, at the indifference of the
inhabitants of that Bt-o iim as to their ms'rumen
taluy in tiie present movement, and in fact, fre
quent indignities offered them.
The letters of the numeroiu army correspond
ents of the Uonfederatt press are sufficient guar
ant., es for the correctness of our fifth postulate.
A* tor the res , ue earnestly coll attention to the
extracts tr» he found :u another column, selected
from Northern journals of all political shades of
opinion. These uie the honest und spontaneous
ex rereious of men in the hour of trial and dan
ger. They ai e the natural impulses of the heart,
and should bo heeded, for they are significant.
Do they not oil encourage the hope of a speedy
peace V
Now, If fhese people are really looking towards
the bott. r day, if they are anxious for peace, if
they would ireo themselves of the troubles that,
now surround them, never was anything more
easy. All they h«7c to do is to demand es Lin
coln thut ho withdraw bis Urmiea lrom our soil
remove the blockade, reotore our territory of
which ho Ims •>•«!• s- *' ’ miHolf,aud, as we asked
ut the cutset “h t h i aVre.” Let them do this,
and wo v. ill troubl th »■ no mom If they refuse,
let u» k' on until t! v L e ~il tneir folly in sack
cloth aud ash-s uni tiu iluj’. oi humiliation—un
til such a cry con- ,p ir.-m the smouldering
runts of ev, ry lien --a - Liuooiu will find it diffi
cult to resist.
ilongjm’s Sccosssoii.—tiea. Meade, who has
succeeded to he command of the Army of the
Potomac, is a native of Philadelphia and a gra
duate of West Point. He was formerly chief of
. MrClell n’s staff. Ila has been to Richmond
'once since the war began, having been wounded
und taken prisoner at the battle of Seven Pines.
If he has been wounded at the battle of Gettys
burg, us the tel ’graph intorms us, his career as
commuudor ot the Army of the Potomac will
have be n a short one. Who is the next man?
Where is the next victim lor the slaughter f
redoubtable Yankee, General Dana, who
s now in command of the toicis at Philadelphia,
•s no less a person than the ci-cUvant Editor of
the New York i'nbune—tha Philosopher Gree
ley's right-hand mau. Ha is a’so cne of the com
pilers of the new “American Encyclopedia.”
. While still connected with the Tr buns, he was
■ appointed a Police Commissioner for the city of
New York by the Black Republican Legislature,
at the time they took the control of the city from
the hands of the Mayor, and continued-in that
office until the inauguration of Got. Seymour.
One of Se\ mour's first acts was to oust the Com
jm e non;" and Dana was then given a General
l ship by the Government as compensation for the
floss of h s iaccuse.
Th* Cam. ro« Yold.stmks. —la obedience to
the order of CoL Griffin for volunteers to make
up me quo’a of Richmond county, under the last
call ot President Davis, there was a gathering ot
the civics, civil and military, at the Ciiy Hall
yesttiday afternoon. Although the new organi
zations tor home defence were cot all present, it
is understood that a large portion of them would
respond to the call. It is expected, also, that
there wiil be others who will come forward, and
the quota be mads up without resort to a draft.
T e number cf volunteers raised yesterday was
1> Gov. Browns proclamation requires 8,000
men tor S’ste defence by the Ist day ot August.
If this number is not fi.led by volunteering by
that time, a draft will probably be resorted to.
Richmond county can furnish her quota of four
hundred without such a resort.
The Polity of luvatlon.
Since the entranc of onr r.rni-s into the terri
tory of the enemy, the polity of such a measure
has been the theme of anx one disen.-.b-on in
numerous circles. It has been objected by some
l hat the removal of our a'm e3 so far from tbeir
base of operations, must gre .tiy increase th ir
danger of being cut off, as we.! as their exposure
to the other hazards of war. The absence of the
army too, it has been urged, leaves our own
country comparative y unprotected, and liable to
buco raids as have recently been made in Virginia
and North Carolina. Besides military, there are
moral considerations, which in the judgment of
some, render the invasion policy undesirable. By
such a course, it is said we should unite and ex
asperate our enemies, we infuse new life into a
declining caus-, we supply a pretext wMch will
be immediately geizid upon for replenishing
ranks, which, but foi such s.imuius, could hardly
here been filled, and we arrest utterly all the
efforts of the peace makers. In addition, it is
sad that we profess to be acting solely ia self
defence, and that the invasion ol States in no way
connected with the Confederacy, must be held to
be inconsistent with the political creed which we
bare uttered. These and similar reasons are con
stantly urged by the opponents of the invas ve
policy.
gj a answer to such objections it mtyj be said
that the entrance of out armieß upon the country
of the enemy became a military necessity. For
more than six months Gen. Lee hag been receiv
ing the attack of the enemy at Fredericksburg.—
Though worsted in sundry minor engagements,
end overwhelmingly defeated in two great bat
tles, the Yankees showed no sign of relinquishing
the assault. Their first thought after a defeat
was to prepare for anetber assault. Their works
and general arrangements all indicated a deter
mination to repeat their blowsat Fredericksburg
as often as they were repulsed. With their vast
resources they could better afford to continue
their assaults thau we could afford to wait fir
their reception. It became ebsolute.y necessary
to relieve the country from their presence. To
effect this, Gen. Lee must attack them either in
their entrenched heights opposite to Fredericks
burg, or he must make a movement which will
compel them to give him battle on fair ground.—
Ha has chosen the latter course. By a masterly
disposition of bis forces he compelled Hooker to
evacuate his camp when too latter Ras yet dis
tressed with the consequences of a recent defeat.
Before the enemy recovers from the confusion
which Lee’s change ot movement ba* occasioned,
he finds to his dismay that the a my which had
been so long and so patiently acting on the de
fensive has turned assailant, and unlutlsbis fbg
in the enemy’s ccunriy. Asa military movement
the result, up to the present time, at least v radi
cates the wisdom of Lee’s course.
Nor do we believe the moral obligations
which we have heard urged against his policy
will, when weighed, bo found very solid. We be
lieve the peace party is really Btronger to-day
thaa it ever was. Certainly those portions of tha
North which have been invaded, and which, from
experience of war, know now something of its
evils, (though, through the humanity of our Gen
erals, these have been comparatively light,) will
not object to a settlement which delivers them
from such calamities as they have recently Buffer
ed. Amid the din and tumult o* actual strife, the
voice of peace may not be heatd; but it is still
speaking, and must ere long he heard with em
phatic power.
Nor do we conceive that in transferring the war
into Pennsylvania, or ary other Northern State,
our Government is depaiting from the defensive
policy which it has constantly prescribed for itself.
We are not seeking any occupancy of the soil of
our enemy, cor are we proposing nay conquest of
the country. Our whole aim in tho step now
taken is the protection of our own hemes. We
are ready at any moment to make peace, and to
withdraw every soldier from the territory of tho
enemy. We ore striking him only ic the pur
pose of compelling him to withhold bin blows from
us. Let him sheathe Us sword, and the war is at
an end.
Tnit Yankee Expedition to Red River. —With
the exception of Com. Porter’s official report of
his attempt to destroy Fort Do Russy, on Red
river, and the "reconnGisancs” made b» his sub
altern, Woodaworth, in Black river, wiih the four
gunboats, Arizona, Pittsbury, Pries and Switzer
land, we have had no account whatever of tbo
affair. A letter to the Natchez Courier sets U3
right in the matter. The wri'er says :
To one acquainted with ihe resul'.'of this “re
connoißance,” his report presents several very
singular features. Y.u will bear in mind that, in
his cffiiial report, he simply sta a?, that he sent
the officer with the gunboats above named, up
Blaok river to make a rcconaoisance; that this
object was successfully accompli hud, and that in
doing so, he destroyed three hundred thousand
dolla-s worth of property, and t int he makes no
other allusion wh never, to anything that occur
red on this expedition.
On en'ering Black river the boats stopped at
Major Bard’s, an old and prominent ciuzen of
this parish. The officers went ashore and assured
the Major that they would not interfere with, or
molest private property, and that the planters and
citizens generally might r. main with perfect se
curity at their home with their effects ; that they
came with a view of reducing Fort Beauregard
alone. Ot course, every bo<ty remained at home,
wiih tbeir ‘‘goods and cha tals,” in fancied secu
curity. We were to l ave a magnanimous foe 1
They passed on up B aek river, entered the Ou
achita, and proceeded up the sireum to within
view of the Fort. You have had a description of
the two days bombardment, and itare.ult; but of
this part of the “reconnoriance,” the Commodore
tells the Secretary of tha N uvy noth rg. He does
not tell him that under a 11 ig of trace, our officers
there wete notified that, unless within one hour's
time, the Fort and its vicinity were turned over
to the Federal forces be ore them, they would e>
sect its reduction without delay. He does not- tell
them how a few brave and resolute men in Fort
Beauregard bid defiance io that farce, and soon
sent both men and b ats hack from whence they
came, disabled and defeated.
On the return of the boai.B they stopped at Trin
ity, a litttle town twelve miiea below the fort;
which was without a gba or a soldier for its de
fense. Here they took lrom the owner of the saw
mill, wiibout making compensation, sufficient
lumber to make thirty or forty c. ffias; assigning
as a reason that they had lost thai many men
with the flux since enter ng Brack river. Here
his brave men made war upon the “Fiats;” re
sulting in tbeir speedy coafligmtien, as they are
so often wont to do wnh vaosn in Iroat of your
city. They violently broke ope : ihe doo r s of ail
the stores, and either removed or caused to be
moved everything of value.
They took ail the sat, rum, molasses, sugar
and bacon, aud either slowed it aw ay on their
boats, or, for want of room, threw it into the r.ver
as they did the salt on the streets. Here, in
Trinity, he appropriated to his own use without
compensation, aud destroyed, together, fifty thou
sand dollars worth of pnvate property, and iu no
instand from the time L : s boHs enteted Black
River until they went out of ft, were they cnabed
to destroy one dollar’s Worm of Government
property. Finally, bis m n entered, at this place,
the Masonic Lodge, end from its sacred end con
secrated confines, took an ’ carried away the
jewels, the pictures suspended from ihe wail, aud
nothing was left nntcu bed o.' any value; even
from the luls cf the Holy Bible, they took and
carried away the Square and Compass.
Not Staevsd Yzt. — ah Abolition paper of
New York has learned that the Confederates are
not likely to be starved at present. It sarg ;
We are not putting unvn thb rebellion very
fast in the vic.niiy o. Washing:: u. We m-y con
sole ourselves that this is deeper re move to
redeem a cause nearly lost; bat a cansi is not so
deeperete that can ma' p such dm castrations of
strength. It is as well to dismiss ail idea of des
peration, starvation, Ac. Soch calculations h..ve
been disappointed so .ar, and we place no reliance
upon them.
The garrison of R.chaiond may. thcre'ore, be
considered » splendid reserve for the army of
Gen. Lee. It may, with safety, move on Wash
ington as soon as Gen. Cus'-.s L e has perfected
his newly organized fores in drill and manual.
The militia ot Yir‘rinia, lately caked oat by her
Governor, wiil sonu sweL the r. nks to eighteen
or twenty thousand men.
Imagine the consternation at Washington when
the news tbst thir'v thoosand Conf.deraes w : re
approaching the city by the War: uten turnpike !
Hooker engaged in hunting np L e, woo l be una
ble to detach a force to meet h s rew army, or
ganized and mobilized by G so. Dix’s opportune
, appearance at the White Home.
AUGUSTA, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1863.
Tli* flattie at NlillSKen’* lieud, La.
The only reports that wa have heretofore had
of the battle at Millikan's bend, on the 7th of
June, have been derived from the Yankee pa
pers. The Mobile Triounegives the annex and ac
counts of the affair •
Cap’-aiu H. 0. Alien, of the I9*fc T xas infan
try, who was in the battle, has furnished us the
following order of Brigadier-General McCullough
who was in cuinmiad, and assures us that it is
literally true. The lies of the Ya nkee reports
may be traced by it. Our troops exhibited, as
they do almost everywhere, indomitable courage
and steadiness, and drove the enemy completely
from ail his positions. To Eavs birnae f lrom ut
*er annihilation he was obliged to take nb £i er
under his gunboats. Our forces destroyed all his
stores, except those needed for tt.iro-n u.-,e—
enough to supply them with subs stance for sev
eral weeks, it was not their intention to hold
the place, it being, by reason of the gunooats,
ncteuaole. They retired as conquerora to their
camp at Richmond, eight miles lrom Milliken’s
bend, bhortly afterward they started on anoth
er expedition, and in their absence the enemy
gathered his forces and made a dash on Rich
mond, and entirely burned it.
The Yankee account says that more than a
hundred dead Confederates were left on the fie and
of MiUiken’B Bend by our forces. This is not
true. The exact number was forty three, and
these might nave been carried cif if me risk of
exposure had warranted it. Not a single wound
ed man was left exposed to the tender mercies of
the foe.
A successful expedition was made on the 31st
of May, by a body of Texans, a portion of Walt
er’s division. They made a brush at Perkin’s
land'ng, below New Carthage, destroyed the
Yankee depot there, and compelled the enemy to
destroy the remainder of bis stores and emjark
with the greatest haste under the cover cf hsg
gunboals.
HEADQUARTERS McCcLLOCH'B PIfIGADE, 1
Richmond, Li., June 8, lbtiS. j
General Order No. —.]
On yesterday we again met the enemy in force
at Milnken’s Bend, on the bank of th? Mississippi
river, under the protection of his gunboats liis
pickets, skirmishers and outpo-ts were steaddiy
driven from uitch to ditch, and hedge to hedge,
until he fell behind bia breastworks, at which he
made a stubborn and desperate stand, but wirch
were carried by our troops with an impetuous
charge not excelled since the war commenced.
In this charge, the regiments of Colouels Wafer
house, Ailun and Fitzaagb, were the panicip nts,
until Colonel Flourney'a regiment arrived, and
assisted in driving the enemy from his barricade,
an angle in his works on our left—Col. Water
house, with liis regiment, gallantly charging over
the levee and entirely throu h the enemy’s camp
to the water’s edge. Too much credit cam- it be
awarded to our oflleers and men lor the courage
and gallantry displayed on this battle-* 1 cli. Our
less of 184 in killed, wounded and missing shows
but too plainly how firm was the resistance o: the
100 ; while the hundreds which they left dead be
hind their breastworks and strewn over the field,
attest with equal clearness how very desperately
end efficiently our troops iouerhi.
We met the enemy a. fearful odds, and with
well direcied fire, bayonets and clubbed guns
drove him from his stronghold, throu h his c mops
and under the banks of tho river end the protec
tion of his gunboats. During this day’s battle ali
did their duty to such an extent and go many
commendable acts o' vallantry were perform'd
that it is impracticable to speedy them here, i ue
commanding General returns hn grateful thanks
to the officers and soldiers of his command, to
Mujor King, Q ftl., Major Earle, U. S., aud act-rg
aid-de-camp, Capt. Benton, a. A. G., Captain
Michel, forage master and acting aid-de-camp
and the medical corps, lor the valuable serviles
rendered the country, and the gallantry wiih
which they sustained our glorious cause upo ■
this desperately fought field, and he fauis that a
grateful country awards to them nil they won'd
ask. He assures them that, while hut heart
bleeds over tho recollection of the dead and
wounded of his command, the noble conduct ol
ull increases his love fur and confidence in those
that are still left with him to defend our country
and her cause. By order,
Brig Gen. AlcColloch.
E. E. Benton, A. A. General.
Tn* Southern Army as seen by a Yankee.—
The New York World’s correspondent, oapfured
at Vicksburg, gives his opinion as fallows;
The rebels believe and affirm that they have the
best army and bravest soldiers in the world.—
There is enough ol truth and enough o ' falsehood
about the remark not to treat it ns a jest. The
militar y spit it and pew. r anci organize ion of die
(South is to my mind something marvelous, Trie
wonder is not that they have Dot done more, but
that they should have been permitted to do so
much with so little. Their success, such as it fa,
lies in onr defect as much as a tneir excellence.
Officers pay more study to thß profession; tne
men are like the French, eiiher more easily in
spired with martial zoal, or like the Comack: , less
capable <f choice or judgment. Toe offiaeis,
however, are more thoroughly wedded lu tiie
business of arms. It baa become the work of
their lives. There is an intense and i.evsr w#a
ryiug talk of war, warriors, plans, battles, move
ments, fott.ficatioce, etc. ’file etiiei office is man
ifest a more intimate acquaintance with the no
menclature and terminology of the art than do the
same runks in our army. The men have a blind
er, t may be, but a more enihusiutstic attachment
to their .coders and the corps, amounting, m the
eyes of an outsider, almost to fanaticism.
Circumstances also do much to keep them to
gether as an organization. The Cos federucy in
one vast camp. That they have been abio to carry
and ferce their man into a any deeper- te battles
without more symptoms of demoral.zation is also
remarkable, as is tne fact, thvy cun use so large a
proportion of conscripts with so much mpnmty
Toat there is a certain aptitude lor arms among
theße people is true. The masa ot these m n love
fighting more than do we. The people, tour pro
visions, them roads, their bouses, n-jw.-pa,.: r , all
aro at the call of the State. Like tho mtiuive
and protective system of France the Governmental
finger is in the smallest pie. Ali thing , the law
itself, bead to the lmperioUH “military eeassity.’
Another remarkable feature of .heir armies is
their mobility. They are unencumbered t. lt’i such
a vast amount of baggage, stores, teats, and camp
chests. They have no sutlers, and consequently
no Government transportation is used ia t is
traffic. Tho rapidity with which they can march
is surprising to us, tut we saould by this time
admit that it is one of the greatest momenta of
success. Some ot their inarches aro, we believe,
unexampled. We go to the field ready fir a
stay, they always ready for a march.
In one other thing they display some sdvait
age. They are more zealously and closely aiten
tiye to their trust. As nearly as I can discover
it is a rare thing for a.i rffictr to engage in cor
rupt or dishonest practices. ’I ha bou hernera
never loved money, perhaps, with tha:. keen ac
quisitive relish of their Northern brotoers. There
are reusons in naiure why this ia so. To their
honor he it said, they seldom sell their < llices to
line their pockets; and all such cases, i; made
public, in high places or lovr, are visited With
rigorous puniatment and a thorough conte pi c-i
th-dr brother officers. We found two quarter
masters imprisoned at Atlanta, on c.urge of
cheating. Coupled with this ia aAcrity an i will
ingness to do their duty. We have observed uo
case in which auy officer refused to attend to bis
affairs at any hour or eeason. It setmea to be
welt understood that war is not a pleasantry, and
a general dread of ‘ changeprevail.
Ghx. Ewell's Uuos.ii. — won. Ewell, on enter
ing Ofiambersburg, the fo'lowing order :
HsAnqoAßT&as 2d Gobi’s, Arms’ op 1
Northern Virginia, dune 22, >■
Caambersburg, June 2d. )
General Orders .’—The sale oi intoxicating li
quors to this command, without written permis
sion from a Major General, is strictly prohibited,
2. Person? having liquors in their po«‘33sion
are required to report the fact to tne Provost
Marshril, or nearest general officer, stating the
amount and kind, that a guard may be piuiea
over it, and the men prevented from getting it.
8. Any violation of part one oi these ord.rs; or
failure to comply with part two, will ba punished
by the immediate confiscation c f all liquors in the
possession of the oflending parties, besides ren
dering their other property iiabie to seizure.
The citizens of tue country through which the
army may pass, who are not in the military ser
vice, are admonished to abstain from ail acts of
hostility, upon the penalty of bang dealt with in
a summary manner. A ready acquiescence to
the demands c! the military cu.horiues wiii serve
greatly to lessen the rigors' of war.
By command of Lieutenant General
R. B. Ewell.
A. L. Pendleton, A. A- General.
The Petersburg Ei^icss says tout SuSVk has
neither been burned nor ev cuatei. The g- at
bulk of the foicss there uas been withdraw , hut
the plsce is strongly fortified, and there are
enoug of the vaoda s left to ton the lor.ifiea
tions. Nearly ail .he houses between tha Ciers’s
office and Nansemoud River bridge, have been
mutiiaied aud cut to pieces for fuel, bu* no tulld
;ngs in toe towu h«ve been burr,;. Dart.es re
cently from Suffolk, stale that the ’enemy s.y
they have no idea oi abandoning toe town. They
profess to have an abundance o! men to noid .he
place, and whip the rebels elsewhere, which they
give as their opinion, is to be done at a very eoriy
day.
A correspondent of a New York paper narrates
a visit to the residence of PioiesSor Icgrai u;
near the Big Black, and is v.ry minute m his de
scription of “ the old gentleman and his wiie.”
Professor Ingraham resided in qnite a different
part of the Stats, and was killed oy the accidental
discharge of a pistol more than two years ago.
HU wife died soon afterwards.
Death of Samuel R. Olmsted. —The Jlontgcm
; ery Advertiser records the death of Mr. Olmsted,
a sociate editor of that paper, on the Ist met.,
; of whom i: says :
To us and to onr readers hig loss is especially a
i sad and irreparable one. The memory of our as
sociation with him for over two years is not
merreo, by a single disagreeable reflection.
He vets born and raised in the Siaie of New
Yotk. and early in life became a writer in the
Now York Times office, from whence be removed
to Washington an assisted W. M. Browne, then
of tne Constitution newspaper, and now ol the
President’s personal staff’ at Richmond. Antece
dent to the secession ot the States, Mr. Olmsted
left W ashington for Murfreesboro’, North Caro
lina, tv’ ere he c aducied “The Citizen,” until he
c.n» to Mon i ornery, soon af.er the inauguration
of Pn siden; Davis, and obtained a situation as
assistant editor in the Advertiser office; since
thea he has contixuid in our employ.
He was tnriy years Old at the time of his
deaih, and leaves a hr .ther and sister, (both re
sidinr in the State of New York,) who were de
votedly attached to him and he to them. It was
ofay y*.su‘.rd:>y, subsequent to his death, letters
wt re recetv and from bis brother and sister, lia
Nassau. We are confient that in his death the
Press uas lost one of its most intelligent and use
fat members, aDd the Confederacy one of its
purest and most zealous supporters.
Mr. Olmsted was intimately known to us, and
we faef hia death to be a personal bereavement
equil y with our contemporary. Just previous
to his removal to Mur'reesboro he bad been em
ployed upon the New York Sun. He published
the Citiz in conjointly with his brother E. K. Olm
sted, who was aleo for a time assistant editor of
the Washington Union, aud subsequently lilted
the positions of editor and Washington corre
spondent of the New York Journal of Commerce.
Mr. E. K. Olmsted is now associated with Elan
Comstock ia the publication o' the New York
C.ty Argus, Mi. Comstock having also been con
nected editorially with the Jonrnal oi Commerce
up to 8 ptember, 1861, at which time a change
of proprieioivhip took place in that paper.
Forty-Sixth Georgia. —Rumors prejudicial to
the conduot of the 4i:h Georgia Volunteers, at
the buttle of Jackson, having gained circulation
in Georgia, Coi. Colquitt addressed Major General
W. H. T. Wa kir a note upt n the subject to
which the following is a reply :
Hein quarters Division, )
Near Vernon, June 23th, 1863. j
Colonel :—I received your communication of
the 27. h.
A soldier who is gallantly performing his duties
in the field rhouid /eel a contempt for the fireside
detainers ot character. No one who knows you
aid the galiant a>.d soldiery me i yon
co nmand (unsurpassed by any in thY'Confedera -
ey), will pay any attention to such silly reports.
From my personal observation, I taka pleasure in
bearing wun.ss to the distinguished cool ness and
gallantry of_your command on that occasion. It
was only intended and so ordered (far from 25,-
GOO to 05,000 Yackatswere report-d advancing
on J. i ison against 4,000 to 5,000 for duty) to
hold tlip enemy in check until Jackson coaid be
vacaatcd, aud for four or five hours again t
overwhelming numbers the work was most gal
rantly accomplished l>y your command, including
Kaskm’s Battery of Artillery on the Clinton road,
and by Capt. Robert Martin’s Buttery, Georgia
Baarpshooterg and Col, Thompson’s cavalry on
the Raymond road. These were the oaly troops ac
t.vely engaged when the order was given to fa 1 !
b- oi through Jackson in the direction of Canton.
TANARUS; is ord r was curried out without ruy excite
ment and in no undignified haste, but wiih the
c olneij and stubbornness of men who were
obeying a distasteful order but one thought ne
cessary by tha Commanding General.
Shame cn the miserable cowards, who far away
from the oocr.e ot operations delight ia truducing
brave and gallant men.
Yours very respectfully,
W. H. T. Walker,
Maj. Gen. Corad’g Division.
P. H. Colquifa, Col. 4th ft a Vols.
Lincolnism in Williamsport. —The Petersburg
Express publishes the following extract lrom a
letter, written by mi officer attached to Rodes,
division, which describes how th3 Con derates
wore tecsived in Williamsport, Md,:
On .-iossing the Pulomac, and entering the
place, l ivas at fbe head of the column. Not a
soul, save a few boys end scattering Oonftderain
cavalry graced the seme. All the stores, and
every house was closed; and every window, and
every curtain was dawo, as if tha sight of a rebel
could not bo tolerated. On advancing further
into the town, a lew faces, (wcmin’s curiosity )
ccc tsionnllv pr<.tiudedlrom a window, and groups
ot irma could be seen gathering on the street
corners. At one corner, about a naif doz .-n young
girls were collected, who waved their handker
chiefs quite bravo y, and cheered us. This we
h;.v i fisimed secession corner. I cut all the but
tons from my coat to giTe these girls, for which
I hoprd to get in return breakfasts, dinners and
suppers. But generally, the wernsn look very
gium, lb if hesitating between a laugh and a ory,
and tire men locked serious, and were as mute us
blocks O' granite. All betrayed an evident fear.
After dark, I went to town ire in our enot mpmaot,
und m»w a good many ladies on the streets. All
declared their sj mpaihy with the South, but said
they w.;re afraid to male manifest their prefer
eaor. a - , their names would be repeated whenever
toe Yankees returned. But the men remained
Bilan t.
Little, however, did we care for those things,
ar.ff yesl rrday Gen. Rodea opened all of the atone,
ana made tne proprietors soil to souliers for
Confab money.—Of course articles of ev -ry
description were immediately advnr.c d—c. ffic-,
for instai’C", a 50 cents per pound and every
t.ther article in like proportion ; but no great ex
to 1 tion was allowed.'
In the evening, ail the men and officers, save
the stuff officurs, were ordered out of town, and
the government impressed everything it wanted,
paying ic Genfed-rate money, and it that was re
iused, paying cose at ali.
The mer ihants bad concealed the r goods in
every coaceivab’e place, but. a rigid search soon
brought them to Itghi. The people say nothing
to all tbs, bat yon can see that they ee.l with a
vary bad gruoa.
Gold.— Among other interesting items of news
is the fact that go,d und silver are tumbliny.
The former is quoted at Riohmohd at $6, and the
latter at f4 50. This is a decline of two dollars,
within a very few days, and is attributable, no
doubi, chi. fly to the fact that gold is no longer
required by biock da runners lor purchases
across the lines. These gentrv now follow in the
wake of Let’s army through Maryland and Penn
syivaaia, where they can pick up abundant stocks
of goods, which they era carry back to the South
without incurring the risk which they previously
did in erossing the lines of the two armies. Again,
they often find Confederate notes available for
their purchases. Another cause is the withdraw
al of a considerable amount of Confederal:
cotes, which have been put in circulation in
Maryland and Pennsylvania by Leo’s array ; and
another sUll, is the increased confidence in their
value-aid an the success of the Confederate cause
which recent military mo rements and advantages
have insaired.
We hope to see specie drop still lower within a
brief period.
Vallandigham Again —We observe from late
Northern papers that Yailacdigbam was expec
ei to reach New York by the next packet doe at
that port irem Nassau; also, that a Committee
had boon appointed, and preparations made to
receive him iu a public manner. Vallandigham
will ba safe enough in New Tork, at any rate, and
beyond the reach of old Abe’s clutches. His
friends will teke core of him.
,5” The Yankees have attempted eight times
to cn‘er Richmond—once under McDowell, once
under Pope, twice under McClellan, once under
Bailer, once under Burnside, and twice under
Hooker. Now, with Gen. Keyes for the ninth,
they propose to try it again. Doubtless they
imagine that the way will be clear and easy this
time, since they Lave at last the K yes to the
“rebel stronghold.” Oar opinion is, the keys
won’t fit.
KF” The Confederate steamer Lady Davis ar
rived at St. George on the 22i, from Wilmington,
N. C. She is reported to belong to the Confeder
ate Government, and brings important dispatches
from Mere to the British Consul. Mr. Vsllandig
h»m was a passenger. The Royal Gazette says
he is on the way to Canada, there to await coming
events.
The State oi lnaiaua has made default ia
the payment of interest on its debt, dne on the
Ist of July, IS6S. This is the first instance of de
fault since its compromise with its creditors, gix
teeayears ago.
hen'ini m «f me N uniter u Pru*,
lrom the A’eio Folk 2'imes, ,/nne 26<A.
Most of fbe levies who have taken the field in
Pennsylvania hnv; taken every possible precau
tion to insure their discharge in thirty days, or
when “the cmergencs” is over; so that sx
moDths now seem to be rather more thaa the
maximum period for which men wiil enlist in ary
great far e, and th s i My under pressure of inva
sion. w hen we called an army into the field lor
three years, and made no arrangements icr re
newing it as it diminished, it was tantameu it to
telling the rebels that if they could protract the
contest to the c.ose of that m riod, we sbou and
leave them masters of the field. Bince then,
nothing we have done toward reinforcing it
h?s ha t any tendency whatever to prc'oog its
exis'esce. In a year from this time, unless som i
steps aie token in the interval to avert it. the
Uiited States will not hav* a soldier in the field,
and yet he must be a very sanguiue man who
feels confident ‘-hat there s not more ttau even
this year’s wotk left at the Bouih for soldiers to
do.
The time has come when this matter must be
looked in the face and settled. There is not a
psitic ! e of use 'u bang de'.ermined to fight on “to
the bitter end,” unless isotue means is devised of
raisirg men, for war cuunot be carried on wiih
speeches and p mphhts. And we put it to any
sane maa in the country to say whether he seri
ously pel eves that thirty day volunteers are
c ipab'e of carrying it either to ibe “outer end” or
any c ’ er end that Is not hum'iiat ng and dis
grucifaL There in no question whatever, that if
we cor.not get heavier material than this tor con
tinuing onr military operations, we shall be dis
comfited and compelled to give up ,t!ys oontesl —
and thatundsir the most tiisadvaniageous aud >n
famous c rcumsfancss. We are at present soffi
cientlv strong to get terms ot some sort iron the
enemy. A campaign carried on with drafts o'
militia, however, could only end in placing ns at
J.ff Davis’ feet, un.l force us to submit to ruch
conditions as he might please to dictate. V»e
might u,w give up the contes : wi h nothing
worse than the contecjpt ot mankind st.d the loss
of our nationality; but after fighting Lee two or
three times with bands of new levies, we should
owe even our property to Confederate pity.
There is one oilier contingency wbicfi it be
hooves us just now to think of also. Hook r
wil, vi hop *, bn victorious in the battle or bat
tles which ore now impending. But he msy cot
be. The fortune cf war may turn sgainst him,
as it has a hundred t-mes turned against abler
and more successful lenders, He may be, in
short, defeated, us armies iu moat wars are de
ft afad, utterly and completely, leaving us without
a regular tratued corps in tha field. ;he enemy
would then have nothing between him and VVaeh
ington, and Baltimore, and Fhiladelphia.
Frsm the Tribune.
Now, we trust all is as n seems—that Lee has
qu’elly gathered and holds in hand & veteran ar
my one ban red thonsanl strong, and is pushing
it across toe Potomac with intent to bring the
contest to an immediate issue. It is bust for all
sides that it should be so. This war has dragged
on about ’.ong euoitgh.
We trust tbi3 invasion is meant to be determin
ed and decisive, and that it will not be spoiled by
a premature recoil. If tbo rebels are indeed ori
masters, iet them prove it aud let us own it. If
they era not, let ns make them acknowledge the
corn. W> hope this demonstration, together with
that ol Gen. Grant at Vicksburg, may be so roaua
•ged as practically to end the war lf.vre c m now
take Y» k*hurg and Port Hudson o;» the one
hand, and use up Lee’s army on the other, the
Confederacy will be pretty nearly played out. If,
omthe ether band, the rebels beat Grant end wa
ter tbdr horses in tho Delaware, routing the
forces wo cun bring BgaiU3t them, wo shall be
under foot, and may as well own it.
From the New York News.
It is GUfaral that brave men should step into
the ranks to-repel favaMon; they cannot stand
with folded arm-; to gaze upon the glare ot their
own burning habitations, nnr will they look upon
the hostile columns that tread their soil ns if they
were the p-vts of holiday pagaent. Bit tb* fact
thi tthc ttc'ual calamities of war have come to
their own thresholds will cause them to tbink
more earnestly, and earnest thought is the nntu
ral and best ally cf peace. The honest yeomanry
thai are gathered together this day for the de
fence of Pennsylvania, will, in the sob mu r.ight,
when grouping about their camp firss, commune
with tfrair own heaits upon tha question thai ia
thus being brought hum i to their comprehension.
They will take counsel not from their own com
mon ffanue and instinct*, and less from the sophis
t ies of di-Diagi>gu‘B. The whole North mty be
abhzo with excitement, bat tho peace sentiment,
bring of Fuat inie-iSf and s-lf-oreativo nature
which and p;, -ia not upon paosiug emiiioii and
transient enihu?ia;m, i« co> only invulnerable to
the Vicissitudes ot war, but lUs cughout its future
phases will g it,her proselytes alike in the tem
porary lull ana in the raging tempest.
From the Timet.
Whiri thn loyal mrao: Pennsylvania ore filled
with mingled shame and dismay in the presence
oi the vile horde of rebel invaders, these Copper
heads welcome them with undisgtu'sad pica ure,
fraternize wth th>T, supply them wiih a'l de
sired intorcra'ion, conduct them to tha h'ddcn
property of loyal neighbors, and in every possible
way. short of enhetiug in the rebel ranks, help
th in on their be stile work. If to “give aid end
comfort to the emmies ot the United States” con
stitutes treason, as ihe Conatitnt'on declares, these
Pennsylvania Copperheads make themselves ai
complete truitoru as J ti. Davis himseii.
From the World.
It is boyond question that tne defiant trumpets
of Eroeii and Lee have failed s o rouse along the
actually invaded line cf the Northern frontiers
anything approaching to that enthusiasm o? w&v
which drove the ldyai m-saeg of the North in’o
the field two years ego tc> Assert a principle and
to in an tain the law ‘This, we ray, ia beyond
qtest on. The populations which poured out
ibe r b-st and bravest to balllo for an idea on
fields remote from tiieir homes, cannot now be
roused to draw tbo a* ord in defense cf tbeir
deatonf interests at tho very doors iff 'heir homes.
•* * * * * *
Tbs cause of the lamentable state cf things
which #s now witness muot be sought, for eN«-
wkero than in the poverty of the Northern tem
per, or in the dec rasa oi theScuthern troop*.
The « arch, however, need not be long. A e>ngie
frank and B‘ru'ght forward word will bring ns
f.’cn to face with the truth.
The Northern people do not rise as one man to
drive back the legions o! Leo beyond toe Potomac
because they bare n-.tcr'y lost their faith in the
governmeat against which th .ee legions ore mov
ing. The , Northern people do n t rise as one
man, be cease in the B.ipreh rsion of the Northern
people the war for the Union has ceased to bo
prosecuted or the Union or by the Union. The
government has worn tbr adhere the confidence,
it has alienated the sympathies;of- the Northern
people, and now, in this momentous crisis of
events, we ought not to be surprised howtver we
may he grieved to see the government !e:t to fee
on l deal with the solemn emergency cf the ho *r.
The people are weary of its words ; they leave
it now io the test o' its works. By ti at te-t it
will csEuredly stand or fall, for the enemies it has
to do with now are men who “do not tluir work
negligently.” And should it fall beneath tbu
bread ordeal the apathy which consigns it to-day
to the trial will h-* loilowed by an energy of which
the memory, we may b3 cure, will travel onward
and downward to the remotest generatioca of
men
From the freeman’s Journal.
The imbecile and wicked Federal Administra
tion is dr; ting wish< u'. ruder end w tboui com
pass. It knows neither where it is, nor whither
driven.
Ad those cowardly and incapable things— L:u
cjln, rh ward, S anton—buve irn igined that taia
fi-irce fighting American race, trained to liberty
ever, ip its excesses, w>ll b; w their heads b*- ■nath
the trem ling pnws ot th se erea-ures, und q -icily
lay cn the ground t ie “symbols cf the tree” —tan
6ims that the Constitution of the land guarantee
tc them to keep sad bf*r, “tor the protection of
themselves and of ibe State !”
Every revolver you take from these people is
replaced by a nfle &Ld baycaet! Every old shot
gun you steal from theca is gjod fer a dozen r?pn-
T-.tiou Diutk**?, with ammunition to match i
Yen think you bare a trophy when you have
ga z iu a rifle ;-you will lied, as if it had dropped
down from the cicada, or as il tbs earth had
yawned to let it fctlb, a well furnished mountain
howilzsr, tn king good the lose of the rifle 1
Hunt the brush, cad you will not find them !
Burn barns and you will not destroy than !
Exhnust your suspicions and narrow brains, ami
you wilt be nearer the mark. But we tell you—
not by political forecast, bat as the chronic! it of
what is, and is ready to become an accomplished
sact —teal, if the freedom of the ballot box be in
toriered with in the Northwestern S ales, or if the
free cinvas necessary to a free election be further
interrupted there, the irreparable blow wilt lad.
As it the heavens dropped it down from above,
and the earth budded it forth, from the four
winds 6f heaven, the entire Northwest will be in
one blaze of armed array. By your attempts a;
suppressing speech and tae Democratic press you
have forced men to action instead of words. You
have to d»al, in the Northwest, with the kind of
men who took Port Donelson for you. Against
them what can avid' c-nr v?eeping‘’Wide Awakes”
transformed into ‘’Union Leagues?”
******
We want peace cud order here at the North
In o der to baTc i f , we must hare peace wi h the
Soutn. I: we Lave it not, we tll moneyed men,
even those who are making profit by the war.
that their gain will tr.ru to lose. Taeir sweet
Mings trill become bitter. Their laoc ed security
will vanish. The course is at band. Wnen it
comes —if it be not stave 1 by wisdom and consid
eration—we wi 1 pee who will howl loudest, the
men who will not believe us now, or we.
Iron the World.
The organs of the Administration are beginning
VOL. LXXYII.-—NEW SEME* VOL. XXVII. NO. 28.
to disVTver that tho miserable scr undreD who do
vote themselves to burring defenseless towns and
robbing non-combatants at the South are cursing
the cause which they are pa’d to serve. Tne man
must be blind indeed who does not rea that the
contrast which these vdlains establish b tween
our own invasion of the South aud the rebel in
ration < f the North, is toe of the most effective
blows that have yet been s*i uci by the Adminis
tration at the hopes of tho U. ion.
From the Tribune.
It dees begin to sßf m as is uotiiing ccu'd rouse
the p.-opla of Pennsylvania into a courageous ac
tivity Fo a week the rebel army have bsen
advancing into the h“art of the State.
E-t towns are plundered, her t. lJs ravaged, her
Cr.jitai threatened, yet no passion stirs the slug
g:. l blood of this unwnr hy r»c>* to any noble
,nr o- *. Rous dth y cer- inly are, but the ex
citement is wholly of fear, and the only taought
is of retreat.
from the Herald.
Why is it that, alt :r two vears of war, the
powerful and wealthy Ncnb !::.s no; been able to
conquer the weak South, of whose starved and
ragged scidierawo have h.v dso o u-h? Why is
it 'h- we ure now compelled to lortity our own
cities against the rebel he des that are advancing
to sack ,nd pluu er them V Is the e?at of war to
be I?deed t.u usf*ired front the South to ibe
North? Are Maryland aud Pennsylvania to wit
ness aud to aufi sr the honors aid the devasta
tion that have desolated Virg.nia? Is Baltimore
io be bomb Tiled tike Fred ■ cksburg ? 13 Har
risburgio go piilagia lik?J..c ;ronviile,iaFlorida?
From dhi Cdtkoi.ii Leeord.
This war must cease if we do not desire a still
greater humiliation ; this war must c. asa if we
would preserve our free institutions ; this war
must c as i’ wo would nut be ground down to
the earth by the burdensof an excessive taxation;
and, fit-ally, this war rcuM csu»e if wo would
ovoid civil strife and aasreby in our Northern
States, Anu it will cease lrom sheer aecosnty.
The people have at lam, It come si oust and to a
true eei us*.*t their danger. They now fully un
derat md the character of the men who have
driven the thip of State amour fan breakers
Their patience ia fxhausted, their forbearance
pone, then confidence und-rmraed, and their sus
picious ot la.t sully and sc.ively aroused.
Let tho peace rum, ihau, have uo tears for the
future. This war is near its tßrrt ination. It is a
fixed fact tnat the farce in tho field is entirely in
adequate to its lurtuti' prosecution.
M. F. Conway, member of Congress from Kan
sas, aud tin Abolitionist of the strongest persua
sion, has become so enamored of peace that he is
iu favor of it uncoi dit’anuily. He says in a letter
written at Lawrence, Kansas :
“I can s*-e no posaiole object to be gained by
the war, which will begin to compensate for tne
sacrifices i; involves. Ia n, therefore, for peace—
unconditional and immediate peace—peact on the
basis of existing fasts, whatsv.r they may be •
and I will willingly trust the rest to the steaay
a;d irresistible tgenems of reason, justice and
humanity.
From the Vhurleetoti Courier.
SEiockude Cotton.
Any readers who havn be:troubled concern
ing tbs destma ion of Cotton which has left block
ad *<l ports, will be i greeably relieved on reading
the v.ry interesting i iter ol onr Nassau corres
pondent, “Sumter,” in this issuo.
it wiil probably strike ail intelligent readers,
after a carefo examination of “Suni'er’s” lett-r,
ihat the whole amount exp irted is mach less than
was believed, and of this it wiff He soon au over
whelming proportion has re-entd European
marts.
Nassau, Jane 24.
From my Courier files I obscive that some of
your correspondents are grumbling . bout the ex
portation cf Cotton from the Confe- erccy, and
one of them seems to think i ; at tho Yacke s get
the Jioa’s shave. Instead ol writing you this
morning the letter I proponed. I pass- 1 the tune
iu the office o? the Receiver of udetomr.through
whose kmv.ness lam enabled to give, you the ol
iowing sfaofcitcs ol the mo vtmsnts of-OoUoa hi
Nassau tor the last rax months. The ipforui«tio*>
is copied from the books in tho Custom Hons®,
and may he relied upon, nws 1 bo Been th .s a
vety email portion of tho ChuiL-s-on and Wil -
mingtou Cei.ou is exoorte.d to the North. Thin
is due 1 1 the effjrtd of toe gentlemen comrcUiog
tbe several lines of steamer* tr ■ uug fr m Nas
sau, w.;o share with the Sou heru people <n the
desire to see none of our B.upie go uno the hands
of our muraies.
The iollowit g is a statement of the receipt of
Colton in N som by steamers from January Ist to
June 24’,h, 1803 :
Total by steamers from Charleston, Wil
lniugiau and Savannah -...£3,704
Uecrived by sa ling vetssls from Atlantic
parts 667
Received from Matamoroa 2 704
Grand total 32,075
The foil! wiug is a statement rs tl « exports of
cotton r om January 1 to June 24, 1563 :
Exported to Europtaa ports 23,817 bales.
Exported to ports in the U. Smtes.. 2 595 bales.
Total exports 25.412 bales.
On hand 6 653 bales
It will be seen from the statement of receipts
of cotton in Narsan, that 2,7u4 biles came from
blatantrros in Mexico.. This cotton is all tran
sh.pp.d to New Yor : by the fir-io who ora ea
gaged in the Matamovos trane. Since January
Is , 2,SSI boles cf this Motamoros cotton has
been oa pped to the North and 313 bales, a late
arrival, remain on band. By subtracting the ex
p. ..8 of Matamoros cotton from the general cot
toi exports, we shall arrive a> the following:
81-ittm-nt of the destination of Ch.ulcuton and
W lmingtcn cotton, exported fro a. Nassau from
January let to Juce 24th, 1863 :
Exported to European ports 23,817 caies.
Exp- -ted to purls -r the U Slate*.. 204 bales.
I. presume that mje t.l' « - ot; :n sent Ij Ber
muda finds it way to the United 8t .tea, nnl'-os it
ie transh'pped from E iglu -d, . ah -s not hxe y
now, at i>. c Kr.n-aoda a better price in Liverpool
than in New York.
The only steamers laden with! c-tton captured
hy the Yankees this year were th’ Daoru at
Cherokee. The sailing vcsteia c. ptnred have
been much more numerous.
In a subsi q »ent U : - I will touch more fully
upon the tr.,da through tee blockade, aa seen
from my point of view. Simaofyuur local cor
respondents avein serious want oi light.
ifmm lionklanit.
HUGE OF POUT HUDSON BATJSBD—BANKS AT BATON
ItOUGE.
The Misvws'ppian of July 2d says positively
tv-! (Jen. Taylor was at Algiers, opposite New
Orir-j s. He also ttet. s, as *« arc i"forned,that
the Yankees have withdraw: a'! their pickets at
fdi-.nchae ami Fonlchatouiu, uIU that the way is
open to New Orleans.
'l'bo Ja;ks-..n cor• sponAe-u of the Register
says i l e cRj-fare a- [j. rwick’o Bay end Pleq-te
minn flanked New Orleans, and it seems that our
p'-nple have crossed over to tins & Ur of the river
and taken Kenner station, ten miles this side of
No— Orleans. The tors do not lun further down
be Rcmrnit, in cone, q.-ence of the destruction of
the railroad bridges oy Grierson, and the tele
graph works only to Tanphipahoa, 69 .r-iles from
IveuLsr, which ir.aVes comniucio.tion g'ow and
preem - . I ushers mad that the Federal foices
in the city are very small, and that the taking of
it is an easy thing for a few determined men.
I hey could at lei si hold ii. long enough to destroy
ad (if ih s Federal stoic*, which would greatly
cripple Banka, if rot ruin him.
lu the lower Lui ana oot peopl • appear to bo
meeting with one general senes (>■ su.-cesses,
which is quite stimuli ting. Col. Ellis, cf Mou
tocV, command, captured two Yankee b .tteries
on Biyoa de-t Alleat .au--, 18 miles from New Or
leans, when the bth Cob sentient regie* nt was
sent out to pick up 111 8, ar-d was likewise cap
tured. AU of the govern ;nt storms at Algiers are
r-potted destroyed; also, th® capture and de
struction A a train on the Op<dcas*e road, when
our-orces fell back—prouubiy h oping that the
Yankees would pursue.
Ti-eJu ksen Mistissippian of the 01, ssyathat
‘he announcement cf the capture of Algiers,
Keur -r, , time by special <- . pitch lo Gen.
Johnston. The firing bea’d tear New Onean*
was probably in the vicinity o: C-rroitoa.
The fifty lit re guns Cxp'urei at Kenner can le
planted behind the levee, an- s low stage cf
w :er will inT; us plunging ebtts upon the ene
my, and the ri-er can bothoroughly commanded :
•nd it? the Chinese flat.’,, of which so much has
b .«a -aid, opportunely cornea up fit m below New
( i -eans, al. the Yaaiies irrctii in that c>*y must
1-1 into c-ur hands without a blow. Vve have
strop i hopes tha - Now Oritaus wifi soon be ours,
and Ranks’ army a eo
Gen. L r e, in one of n:? • iconic a- = pa.dies, an-
Dou-c-d that our army b i tjfceu V/mthes’er, its
ariiLery, &o. The community was puzzled t->
know waat was the‘ As.” It now appears that
it was only the taking of liva th a*_c i Yankee
prisoners, tvh ch may become so c - -mason an oe
currercs that it is oaiy ceumed worthy - Q *
ca'/ra.”
Should yonr thermometer iods rate an
degr eof cold or hea*, imm.-sc it b”- , it
water, uot.l it arrives et a pre-pa- i=eDS
<3U,?', „ f , R anc ,b an dd c’Hzcn of B ad'ey ernn
fc,c.iafi caugn, au e ~,4 w t_'n i f ew miles
ty, waa wayiajd, shot and oa .
ot Clerewna lad time represented
£ V3 J-LVnn”v in*h“ Legislature of Teoaeisee.
Hr-bwav robbery and murder are getting to be
common occurrences in East Tennessee.
From I'ort Hudson.
The following letter in the .'loti'gomcry Adver
tiser from Captain Whitfield, of tm* Ist Alabama
regiment, to his wife, will b» read with nine a in
terest. From i ws have a better conception (ban
we have bad before of the hardships wh.ch the
hereic garrison havo had to endurs.
The Captain mentions six weeks as ibe time
that tbeir provisions would fast. Hal. -.hai period
has passed, and yet the garrison has not fa,ea re
lieved. Let us hope for the b :
Ft it Hudson. June 10.
It has now been ; o moat' . > * * far -ba !
anything reliable, • : a any s ,p , n-, •• btti
anee of tne world.” fires the Yarl--> ~:d o the
Southern railroad, p .at and gu ri <i
son has been comp ,-telv isMaled, u*. t r ifa .»
twenty days thoroog L avert'd ‘ov Banks’aruiv,
outnumbering as on y eight so cue’! Verity, Part
Hmison is a “pk,i u r . p in-uitutioo,” an ■
thanks to Almighty (’ ~;,d me brave;y r~i en
duratice of onr here.c ou'beru soldiery, is des
tined to still Btaud yet "Mine longer, and weloime
the detested Yarke * • hospitable graves” by
legions, Wehavtbe , h :g regular ly for ten
a *vs, <nd so iar >ve t i our ox'll in a remarka
b. degree. The * oeraj vo ni:.*’s two desperate
assaults on our v* - aid have bee-, as oiten
hurled back witn u-ve e ! .
Oci Wednesday the fa. ; we bad a severe
tight, a$ ou that day tho '■ vakeeg attempt and to
unarge our works ac s-'evei ..1 d.lf irsct points
They ourne np in fine style with the “ oid flag”
flying, and yelling for the “ nesi rovernm- ai u* *
wMu s t saw.” V. e let them ,on eup within
easy range a. and thru tnr -d loose mi infant*-,
and artillery, vs - c’a emit then, back i terrible
disorder and shattered ranks. Tee los,- < the
enemy was heavy, and it ri estimated that since
to 3 siege began that .is fassiu rasd . ouv,
ed and missing, nai t een from tureo to Lvo thou
Bard, md sad to rela,<*, our loss Is not mo' aid
erab.i.. We'-ave to mour t tho ios3 of mp-ny
gallant - oldie; sand offi era. * *
Wfttt the army c; Port Hudson has done und
endured, no pen can p opor.y depict.
With a large a my u or rear and within two
hundred yards ,rom our i, -tka a
fleet iu sight above arid he low ou e u.e p
see we ore completely and thoroughly cir oil bora
all eommun cation, but notwithstanding all this
disagreeable state ot tluLgo, 'be ■ *<i fait!
good spirits, and hoping u-r >n n\ „;s-
Owing io ou. smallntur.bt::' of , ~a w , .„e ourn
po'.lea to keep _v. y man tha . .culver a
musket at the breastwork*, day aud Lugiit, with
out any relief, in a crouch id poritiou .nil i a hot
broihug Louisian, ruu. T o fihaipiuooters pick
off any man that dseoa lilt fii h ad above the
works. The Yankees are pi'ev.d..,.. witu the be?'
of arms, both largs and small, ast istrf. by tlici.
filets a_d mortars.
Our tonifications are ?. the shape of a descent,
and extend in a of about two mites in
diameter around Port Hu. mod, The Yankees
ave plontc a largo quantity of t.rUlkry nt al'
points around, and have a cross—yes, double
cross-fire on all pacts of our army. From the
river to t, nr own line there is scare jlv a spot
that has not been struck with artillery and minnie
balls, and a? I write the shellj are fading in every
dire lion. The c.;mp of rur regiment bus been
in a very warm price, hut, as the men are nearly
alt at tbc breast-works no casualties have occur
red from the as sir y shots.
We cun hold Port Unison ns long as o» uip
pHeu hold out. Wo have enough to last ns five
or six weeks yet, and by that time we will certain
ly bv reinforced by Gen. Johnston. I do not know
any tfang of Uiß Biluatioit o? a !’.iirs‘in any por
tion of the Confederacy, but t I ly holieye Hint
onr situation is surely knot*/;*, e . t«we wlill be
readied. Be it no it mx), we wi! . . on and
hopn on, and if at iasUwe should be ovorooty*
we wiil cheerfully submit to-cuv-gre? naiii-i it
Satisfied that Gen. Gardner nd ms lißie Spartan
ban.) have done all that detenuu -d ht-iiia cautd
dc, and that the defenders ot Port Hudson will
reedive the “well done ” plaudits of its conntry
m»n. No place durictr tb.s struggle has been be*
st-gad as Po‘t Hud sc has '.cd now ia, still the
army is in gjed s,-.r .a, and hope tor the beat,
and will fig-t to the last. Wo ha?u o good deal
of eukaetL ia the region it, .1 chills and
fevi r, but U general tteali is .reproving.
Our entire Joss thus tar L-.; : i be -i s’.; . 400 in
ill. The following is a list of tL > cus-alticH in
th Ist Alabama i
killed 32; wounded 44; total, 76, up to June
lOlu, 1868.
i»i
titii. ItcysiKidv.
Major Geu. John Fulton It-ynold". cftlie Fed
eral army, who fell on Wednesday ;.,onii'-g rist
near Getiyebar?, Penn., was 1, rn , L-* ; Wcr’
Penn. At tbe age of Eo7eut-. *. n, b enter, and the
West Point Military Academy, an-.’ graduated in
IS4I, at the age of twenty-one. E serve in ilia
Mexican war, und for gal >t c: met at fcnt»-
rey and Buena Vista, won tho brevets of Captain
and Ali j ir.
On the 20‘.h August, 1861, he was promoted to
the rank ol Brigadier General of v l-.ici,-.- a-nfl
prnced iu the aim/ of tbsPoiOsot. . ids: ]vr
ian. He participated in ail tho sever .... ’s
battles around Richmond, exoep- ’alvi rr . mid
with Gen. Mellall he was taken pr „ mil re
moved to Richmond. Hav.ng been promoted io
t .o rank of Major General, he woe assigned to ti
commund of the Ist Army Corps, and wan eovif
ed in the battles at Fredericksburg and Ch,...icel
loravilli:.
\ special dispaich from Waßhinp'on, says :
Profound sensation is ex<- ed h,r *by R» e dcsth
of Gen. Reynolds, whose brilliant quail “cationß
as a soldi or, and unvaried success ns a brigede,
division and corps commander, marker, him Jo"
present and future distinction, 'ihe Pmsideo*, ir
is well known, hesitated !6ng aetws-n >bc chc-ic*.
of him or Gem Men- • i.acc r .*> .’. brok
er. Priority of re n y teuin .-n amu mat
ter.
The Threatened .t*ck on Ricmmcj i).—"
Rich mo id Er quire o os i to demoAetrati i
against the city a for o ». eircomstaace ; lor t
i as ha i the effect to . “ -,t .* to t„ n Hu ti
s.-nd oi;u to tt e an iy e s»i rnv ga’-risr s
Ricbuio. and, as 1- .-il KB C-.Utralr. at til p ,-ir,t
troops that have beeu * g <x.*uad loose." Tile
Ecquir r says:
Tl adlvifiioi at co: fa t'-.e army corps cf
veterii soldiers for '. . rib' r * K'chraond,
ure enured to fatigue - sing. Yicl r ms in
many engagements t?er ir t ony, ti,c/ will *
meet him again in tha far. j flwds of tiic Ghiok
hominy and the Seven Pm.;, bijou General Dix
ad aace upna the c.iy. Br.t tl . .s we ountess
w nave but litUa fears. But we a ap.-rebend
an attempt 10 maica acroei the Csuuiiy iro -a th
Whitt H.; *se to Aequia creak, o- ven «y Gor
donsville and Culpeper to Hook • fa army. Th
destruci oa ox the' Railroads and devastation cf
the country woala t inducemen . enough t take
this route in reinforcing Hooker. The better to
cover this movement, Gen.fax's.rec-.'.nsr.; may
be throw'j out t war. a Ric faaond ur. • . as tr
east Non of the Gtickahon. »y, while the mai
body esc nd J the Pamaukej and ti k i tr, bn*«k
tbe Riehmonc. and Fredericksb irg Railroad be
tween tl.e city and lie Junct.on. If success’nl
in breaking ih:s raiiro. and, Ten. D.x may think
himself safe from pursuit by -he garrison ot Ricfi
tnond, which being still In itr-nad by ;ri re..
g« aid, would n i leave ti. city,-a. i.-'n
overpow-.r the troops staticned tor the aeir o ji
tho railroada, ana march at hie leisure, deva-.ta
ting the country and destroy fa" railroads This
we be tho rea* ncii.,: - ot ti e 'ending
at the White House, and tbe C- "ILU O v H ir£tti-*
my’s fcrc-8 to hat point, I ,ho ri.. .in our
co eject ore, how tar Gen. Dix Lu»y be * jooeestul
remsius to be seeu.
The ormy that now garrisons Riehn.o;-d is c-m
--petent to meet ihe enemy—nay mo-e, 1 1 advi-oe
towards Washington, r. and play an • -.-nlau' i.art
in the capture of that pise*, t-en !J x will h so
e'oeely and vig : !ant!y watchod as -o , 3 uaabli- «.
dodge off in the direction Y * .- upper Paionnk oy.
His present position oca ct safety ; protected
by gunboats, and contiguous 1 bis transports,he
will jot, we pi. mme, he attacked by t garri-on
of P'obmoud, though the military lately organized
by Br-g. Gen. Cos is Lee is lul'v competent to
defeud the ci-y if the garrison shonld be sent to
drive Hix to b:s transports.
i incols Cowzd.—R-.i - .g to the menufr in
w' ch tbe tareato of aOh i.’ ipb forced Lin
coln to rep ai the order of h.s cairap, berseide,
for tho arpnression of the Clrcsga Times, the
New York Worid joMb the following laop Age.
U will b i seen that it op?nly charges Lincoln with
combining tae fears of the coward with the >pint
of the tyrant; and uses tovrard3 him a language
of defiance amounting almof’ builyism :
“President Linedhas r*v : od before the
country in a worse ?ht tb ./y ;*>» “omemt.
Hs ba? °.o and liberate! commitied m
free dl-cusaion by the transporifttion
iandiguam, that the re*rma, of 1 at
order against tae Chicago --- . ~ or re *,._
tr.bu dto a qwil 'befow the ris
rence or law. p ncjple to
IQ hi S h'heba?p>en his deUberii'* caic' : on. He
wbicnhe F ( to redeem tuo charac
terof bR adniinisn’ otf'*** - ’ be m-’prav. ’ the
‘ rooedmgs i. ;ainst Mr. Valland gham. f he
SSL now In the -a- er on u m U- om c .
ft 'X not a retreat promp;. .n? ui-i r-.u of jar
1 ce but a aoneessten ext'*iiei from and , toao.
He’lares am i - nobo -a this cty r ■ tx'rclf in '
tfiernbt of free speech, .>r he t. i tt-o mi cii rea
g->u t .know tb -t tens >•£ tbonsacds of br..»u men
wcu'd reeistat she per ■ ot t’.. r He 4-red
oe permit matters to t.- ca-’ied m- extr*m let.
: CMoago for a simila - re.•-••a. T * ir.c if*—
t'-fccy, want of tystem, ar; ; lack of : pa ,/
mark be proceedings of tty Adm •• ration • pon
this subject in various p&r.s of *ue < ,i try ore so
giar ng and indeiensib. * that some of ihe mostia
flnentia! cf its own par’y o*gar.s and dice it, com
plain of it, and demand a consistent and 'settled
poitcy.”
Important from Louisiana.
The Jackson Mississippiaa of July 2d learns
from a gentleman, who has just arrived irotn New
Or.eans, that Gen. Taylor is at Algiers, opposite
New Orleans. He also states, as we are informed,
that the Yankees have withdrawn alt tbeir p.c-k
--ets at Manchae and Pontchatoula, ana that the
way is open to New Orleans
au official dispatch from General Taylor from
Alexandn i, La., dated 26tb, says he stormed aud
earned at toe point of the bayonet with unloaded
, nuns, the enemy’s position at Berwick’s Bay,
I j,. -* ’ring over a thuusand pr sonerf, and can
gaa.i, and a large amouut of B.eres. Killed
and wounded ou their side not known—our loas
uoae. Our troops also carried the ejemj’s posi
tion ut Tlubadeuuxvilie on the Mississirpi rive",
above Berwick’s Bay, which gives ns command
oiNtw ‘'rleansand cutbleE us to ou. otl B.jad’
.applies. v
Tne fallowing were the Yau*ee forces at Alex
andr. in, on the 12th ot Jane: twelve New
.'oik h* Massachusetts regiments,
uue Luuiaiaaa regiment ui Irish and Dutch rene
gades, and one regi ueut eaoh from Connecticut,
Vermont, Wisconsin, New Hampshire md Rhode
Island—all infantry ; lour cavalry it jntv from
Rnode Island, New York, Been ..am, and
idacsaehuseUs; and me Ist U. r .cillery, at
least two companies, the B.n Mas - ise .and, ISttt
New Ygik, Ulack’s bacterv, i norufaVs
battery.
A letter from Osyka to the J arssistlp
pian, da.cd June 24t!>, gays : Port Hudson stilt
brave y defies tho minions of old Abe, and iac-tls
at the failure oi Bank] aud the disaffection aa. w _g
i.it lorccs. rue time cf the nine muntnu and two
y vsr’s uieu is last expiring, and men these regi
me «s r* use to ma’”e farmer light, being content
to rvap i in camp until they uau be sent »o New
u.'La .siu b muste; a out An say lrom twelve
... mi.on rug.menu have tut l.c lost purpose,
which would have materially r uaced tuo mic, of
Banks, had he not been timely reiaiorwd. Eleven
transports recently arrived bearirg i.cOpal..m
Hilton Head. These make up lor the Dumber
mustered oui, leaving bis army tr im twelve to
fiistru Uicusand strong. Col. Lyons, whose
0..;1q la.ters a.e at Kellertown, about twelve
mdes east of Clinton, is by no means idli. On
SAu.diy last, a detachment ot hia men, throe
hundred strong, expiated a forage train ol s.xty
two wage a, iiitn urivers and mill *s, in spite of
are fcuudr.d infantry, wan were Ruerding them,
ibis tiaia was returning to eair.,;, filled
their wagc23 with corn and iorage.
•Tne Mobile Advertiser calls lor recrous t fill
up ihr Oreaoeat regiment now ui uaycu Ha
lourciie, and cays, “inis ri a fine opening for the
Orleans men who v? :.h to jo home.”
Northern accounts cmlirra me Federal cl sastera
at Port Hudson, ahe Heiuia’s correspondent
gays, ihat u scoond assault upon Port Hudson was
inaoe by the Union troops ou tha 14th, iu which
they were disastrously repuisec Tne loss in field
office a is very large in killed cad woufir’id,
amouu.m- io do less than five 0 - ae.s. Our
tri ops, though r-puisad, foughi ora.oiy.
It seems evidtn mac Gen. Banks lias not f"tee
enough to accomplisa «u.. he so daringly at
tempts, and it is to be hoped Laat Uj will be
speedily reinforced from some quarter.
A New Orleans letter stateß tuat our iose ! t *he
repu’s oi the 14‘.h, at Port Hudson, was 700 killed
and wounded. Among the killed are Col. Hol -
comb, of the Ist La. white regiment, and 001.
Bryaai, of the 175th New York regiment; Capt.
HnrlOnt, of the 01st New York. Lieut. Hutchin
son, oi the 76th New York, is among the wound
ed. Gen. Paine was wounded in the leg, severely;
001. Smith, of the 114sii New Y ork reg mem, waa
mortally wounded, and Col. Curry, «f th ; 123d
New York, was wounded in the leg, slightly.—
Cel. Curry Bays that Port Hudson is one of the
strongest places iu the world. He describes the
rerks B3 follows : First an abattis oi felled trees
uir at least one hundred yards. Then a ditch
forty feet n ide, wiih tour to six feat of water in it.
Then a glacis of about twenty leet higu, sloping
gradually to the parapet, on which is u protection
lor sharpshooters. Bell nd this, say one hundred
yards, is another line works, ou which heavy guns
and held artillery are mounted.
Ti e correspondent ot the Herald says he does
not think the place will ba laken,.except by slaiv
i-ig out tne garrison. Oae hundred und silty of
the Metropolitan cavalry had been oa K fared by
the enemy, two milis from General Banks’ head
quarters, without tiring a gun or a Bubre bemg
arawn. The Bteamers Auglo American and
s„ kes were captured by £,46111188 at I’faqueuilue,
and the crews taken prisoners, and tbc joats de
stroyed. There is no doubt that Gen. M&gruder
iB m the AUakapas country, with 15.000 &r 20,000
men, destroying all tho property we did not. Uo
is also lortilyiug at Franklin, to defend that
country, eht,u.-i Fort Hudson tall.
Frank,.u Has beeu ordered to a command in
Louisiana under Gen. Banks.
From Virginia.
The Richmond Enquirer o Saturday says tha.
Jenkins bngadi, on lliuraday evening, udranted
u ’on the entmy, who waß posteu strongly ou
i. i-:m, about four miles Souih-weßt of
j. DStaii’s, iu New Keut.
Too Yankees drew up in hue of battle to meet
him, but Aid at wie litas fire of our men. Jen
kins pursued them four miles, taking eleven
prisoners
Tne bedies of ten Yankees were found ou the
field of the fight, ft is not known bow nrauy
were wounded, us they were carried off ihe field
by their comrades.
Onr loss was onekil'ed and one wounded.
The prisoners iia".j arrived, and from their
accounts Dix has uot more than four er five
Iboae nd men o»,the,White House. They seem
Ufa. .died, and some of them sir that tne most
rn . vpa under Dix ore ured of the war, uca
weary us tue faily oi “taking Richmond."
On ihe same day a large force of tbe enemy,
estimated at between fifteen hundred anu two
fhonnand, consisting of mounted infant y, «su;>-
pi. led by several pieces ot .iriilleiy, left. ’ ‘
Whi •• use, went tn ‘o King Wi.iiam, aoi at
Mi igohicir Uhuroh found tho lung A’lliiaui Home.
Gi.xrr, i a'j h pc gallantly repuheo tnem at
Nt w(i u to. x-’v.munkey, ou Sa uiday iaot.
A. i uniii. *; .;h’ c ured, anil it is reported’hr.t
aii, or n a y a . oi iu Homo Guard, overpowered
hy numbers, were i ken.
The Sentinel suyo : It is ioliahlv »*’ted by a
person who saw Keyes' und U. x ram 'll
the march, that the two o rp : c« ,u jointly
about ton thousand men, Wo lu. tr. a tne
same source that D,x is pushinp reinfcroe*
i-rant iby waver, and that h i in *• 1* m gaud of
tne entire exp9ditienary corps.
An Infamous Outrags.—The Burlingtco tlhwc)
Argus, ia giving an account of the recent a,„.-
tru. - arrest oi floury G ay Bean, in ikeukuK, lowa,
says:
‘ the oominander of tha military hers, oi-s
C's-rlea Bi and, wv* at the head of the mob who
. meet Di> a Uader the yi rtsnae of 'aroii
iag U • ta, b-—ripped oun a.ark .aked, >ad lie
compelled him to remain m that ulesiat. for
,ome twenty minutee, the ,-nbj.wi oi Abolltmti
jeers, ridicule and abuse, iltt' a mi,- . b"eo
thus exposed in hia person and irialiieat.J, Low
■he Abolition whelp*, ol lowawul have yelled
oi.t over i ! 'is 'such a disgrace to humanity,’ sue a
.u'.al tr.'u.inent to a fellow being,’&c., but aa
Ucan is only a white man and a democrat, net
one Abolition voica or pea ;a ooud o denoonce.
Uh I Lord, how lou-t e«*al! Abolition, (t «. Repub
lican, i e. no party, i. e. Union li'aguc,) brutality
,-opotisru bs avowed lotyranmij ov t r Am*Ti
can citizens V”
Dean is one of the ablest and mo.. «Jo , set
to iin the .State, a flue scholar and a urn iac
c opliatu b gvstlemsn. What an esirat,® a; a
h,« 1 o, ! Uv [ restituting and degrading m
its character 1
««r —i
Yankee Bkuta^itt. — in- .Richmond Dispatoh
sav» the seizure ot Gen. W. H. F. Luoy the
Y. tee civalry, severely wounded us h "*• * l, “
vv-xcim* him upon a long landyoortey, m bs «“U
--v-.ve ,w some of their prisons, is qaits orw ' and
brutal k agh to be perpetrate , 'V^?“
delicacy and -om f „ thejr luftli({nU y towurda
an epportun y s a ttie jaofa tor h s no
since t“ey can neither imitate nor emu
,Jl them. Gen. Lee. too, A the son of that great
an r of the Boumern army wao has (rostrated
their «rand schemes and poweiiul efforis to take
this city- To have in .b*ur possessioa, immured
in tbiir dangeons, thes..a of t_o ’Varh.agton of
the South, is a sweet, a delicious rsfleot.or i'hci
to do this be had to be racked over miits, m
groatest torture, oaly heightens, and their satisfao
t.on. Oh, miserable, ignoble, and c ntemptible
Yankee soldiers ! who urns aeiz , heipless in bed,
and bear iff from h ; a home, a severely wounded
gentleman end soldier, whom you could neither
defeat nor capture on the field of bait:- 1 G»n.
Lee’s cass is but another addition to tbs sum -of
wrath which our enemies are steadily heaping
over their heads.
The artillery captured a; Winchester are said
to be Hi igiifieent brass field pieces, many of them
nfled, aud are a decided acquisition to our ord
nance department. ~ , , . „„
Many Yankee officers recently oiptured, haTe
sub itituted their own uniform, design* mg
raps, for uniforms of privatts aud ihe dress of
civilians, in order to escape ‘hs delay ip v-cncnge,
: *i-e Yankee prec-dent ia their t-.tb .n
be ’uitei of exchange imposes. At R.chmond
several such have bsen fooad.
Inn and steel ship building is very b-isk in the
Mer.ev shioyards, and Yaukie spi*s were crawl
ing and wriggling and squirming about every
where.