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“f"* 7 Committee of Military Affaire reported
back Senate bill to amend the act concerning
to attend ti e a.my m the field
The bill was considered and passed. It au
thorises tbe commander of a division to ap
prove the verdicts of the court in certain ca-
Also, a bill (from the majority of said com
mittee) authorizing the iHanufacture of spir
tuous liquors for the use of the army and
111 ' ANo.’a House bill to amend the act to estab
lish the Nitre and Mining Bureau. Tne said
bills were place<l upon the calendar.
The same committee also reported barn tne
Senate bill to provide for the compensation of
non commissioned officers, soldiers, sailors and
marines on detailed service, with the House
amendments thereto. The Senate refused to
concur in said amendments —the argument be
ing that the Senate bill allowed the same pay
to men detailed from the army or navy, whilst
the substitute of the House did not provide lor
the latter. , _
The Senate also refused to concur in the
House amendment to th : bill to promote tire
efficiency of the cavalry, and on motion, a
committee of conference was asked for.
The Senate proceeded to the consideration of
the bill providing for the establishment and
payment of claims for property taken and in
formally or unwarrantably impressed for the
use of the army.
Various amendments were acted upon, among
them a proposiiion to strike out the word “un
warrantably," which was agreed to— yeas 8,
nays 7. "The word “illegally” was then in
serted.
The further consideration of the bill was
postponed until to-morrow. Tbe Senate then
resolved into secret session.
HOUR*.
Senate returned tbe House bill to authorize
Confederate District Judges in certain dis
tricts in Northern Georgia to hold their courts
at other than the regular places, with an
amendment, in the nature of a substitute, for
the same. The Hunate substitute was agreed
to. it provides that hereafter any Confeder
ate Judge may change tbe time and place of
holding his court when he thinks proper to do
so.
A resolution was adopted to authorize the
clerk of the House to employ additional aid
from this time until the end of the session, at
such compensation as the Committee on Ac
counts shall decide upon.
A resolution was adopted that the Commit
tee on the Medical Department inquire into tire
expediency of increasing the rations now al
lowed patients in hospitals.
q’j 1( j Committee on the Medical Department
reported a bill amendatory to the act of May,
l«(i:i, regulating tire granting of furloughs to
wounded soldiers at hospitals. The bill pro
vides that furloughs shall bo granted for not
less than thirty days instead of sixty as the
law now directs.
A joint resolution was offered that in view
of the present crowded state of hospitals and
the heat of the weather, the medical authori
ties be permitted to grant furloughs for less
than sixty days, in such cases as, in their judg
ment, furloughs will contribute to the recovery
of the patient. Pending the Consideration of
this subject, the morning hour having arrived
the special order—the tax bill and amend
ments, was taken tip. The substitute was
adopted in lieu of the amended bill of the
committee, by the following vote—ayes 47,
noes 39.
SENATE —JUNE 3.
House bill to raise money to increase the
pay of soldiers; bill to amend tho tax law, and
bill to amend the law relating to the tax
in kind, were read in the Fenate and re
ferred to the Finance Committee.
The Senate was notified that the House
had passed the bill amending the act imposing
regulations upon the foreign commerce of the
Confederate States, to provide for the public
defence.
The bill to provide for the establishment of
a bureau of polytechnics for tho examination,
experiment aud application of warlike inven
tions, was reported from the Committee on
Military Affairs, without amendment, and
passed.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs, made a
report on the resolution of the Senate inquir
ing into the expediency of requesting tho Pres
irfent to make an exposition, through our com
missioners abroad, of tne violation of tho rules
of civilized warfare by the Government and
armies of the United States, the. which was fav
orable to the object sought to bo itipuired into
by t ie resolution.
Ou motion the Judiciary Committee were
instructed to inquire into the expediency of
increasing the salary of judges of the district
courts.
Tha bill to repeal the act approved March
25, 1862, entitled “an act to provide a staff and
clerical torce for any general -vho may bo a
sigued by the President to duly at the seat of
government," was reported from the Military
Comuiitce without amendment.
The Committee on Military Affairs were dis
charged from tho consideration of the bill to
authorize officers of the army and navy to
purchase rations. The said committee was also
discharged from tho further consideration of
the bill to provide rations for the officers of the
army during the wai.
IIOUBE.
A bill to promote ti;e efficiency of the caval
ry and the punishment cf lawlessness among
the troops, was taken np, aud ; in accordance
with the request of the Senate, a Committee of
Conference was appointed on the part of the
House.
The House took up nnd passed a bill amend
atory of an act in relation to the grantiug of
furloughs to sick and wounded soldiers in hos
pitals. The bill provides that furloughs may
be granted for thirty days, as well as fora long
er time, as heretofore provided.
The Committee on Commerce reported a bill
in response to a memorial relative to the im
portation of cotton and other anicles on gov
ernment account. The bill provides that there
"shall be no interference whatever by the Con
federate Government with vessels sailing on
tState account.
The Committee on Ways and Means report
a. bill to raise funds to meet expenses arising
under the bill to increase the soldiers’ pay.
The bill provides for leviug a tax of one filth
of the present tax, or one per cent, tax on all
taxable property, payable in money of the
new issue of 1864.
The bill was passed—yeas 74, nays 4.
The House took up for consideration the
general appropriation bill for the support of
the Government from July Ist to December,
1864. The bill was considered in committee
nnd passed in the House, with an amendment
authorizing tuO transfer of funds, ia cases of
necessity, from tii.'Quartermaster's to the Com
missary Department, and vice versa.
The House then took i :p the bill to supply
deficiencies in the postal service for the years
1802 and 1803.
A substitute directing that the accounts of
the Host Office Department be audited it. order
to ascertain « bother any other iiregularity had
been committed other tiiau that of using "mon
ey which had not been appropriated by Con
gress.
The substitute was lost—yeas 20, nays 40.
The bill then passed.
SENATE JUNE 4.
Tin? following wore referred: A bill to estab
lish n corps ot scouts and guards to facilitate
communication with the Tratre Mississippi De
partment ; to provide for paying officers and
soldiers twelve months after the ratification ol
peace the kiss sustained by them on account ot
the depreciation of the currency:
The following were passed: To allow all
loval persons aud Confederate prisoners of war
who at the times fixed for the funding of the
old issue notes. weiO within the lines of the
enemy, to fund the saint,' hereafter within lim
ited periods : to authohm tu* appointment of
additional officers in the Niife and mining
Bureau to continue in force duringttiO war: res
olution to inquire mto the practicability of em
ploying stenographic reporters to make verba
tim reports of the debates and proceedings of
the Senate, open and secret &c.
The following resolution was adopted:
Resolved. Tnat the Secretary of War be
authorised, in conjunction with "the Postmas
ter General, tomakeauyand all such regulations
ns shall be deemed appropriate and necessary
to promote and secure the regular exchange of
full tilw of the daily public journals of the Con
federate States with those of England and
France in all instances where the publishers
shall agree to furnish such files regularly for
that purpose free of cost to the Confederate
States.
Horsr.
The House insisted on its amendments to the
Senate bill to provide for the compensation of
non commissioned officers, soldiers, sailors,
and marines on detailed service, am] asked a
committee of conference.
The Commit.ee on Accounts reported a res
olution to credit R id. Wynne. Doorkeeper of
the House, with eighteen hundred dollars, the
amount abstracted fiom him without his fault.
The resolution was adopted.
A resolution was offered tor the appointment
of a committee ot three, to confer with the
proper authorities and ’ake such steps as may
secure * distribution of the accumulated wails
iif the Richmond i’ost-Office, and also thc—for
waiding of the moil matter of several days
past, not yet forwarded, and that they report
their action to tbe House. Agreed to.
The Naval Committee reported back a Sen
ate bill to amend the act to provide an invalid
corps. Passed. . ......
Also, a Senate joint resolution directing the
settlement of the claim of Zedekiah McDaniel
and Francis M. Ewing, for destroying the reu
eral gunboat Cairo, by means of a torpedo. It
makes an allowance of $76. <16,36. Ihe reso
lution passed—ayes 68, noes 8.
Also a bill to amend the act to regulate the
supplies of clothing to enlisted men of the na
vy during the war, which was taken up and
passed, it authorizes the issue of small stores
to the enlisted men upon the same terms as
provided for clothing.
Also, a Senate bill to extend to the navy and
marine corps the provisions of the 3d sec'ion
of an act to organize forces to serve during
the war. Passed.
The Committee on Ways and Means re
ported a bill to increase the compensation of
the heads of several Executive Department's.
It increases their pay 100 per cent and in
cludes the Assistant Secretary of War and ot
the Treasury. Passed.
Also, a joint resolution to provide for the
President during the war fuel, lights, and for
age tor four horses. Passed.
The Committee of conference on the disa
greeing votes of the two Houses on the bill
to promote the efficiency of the cavalry service,
aad to punish lawlessness in any portion there
of, made a repoit, which recommends the adop
tion of the House bill with certain verbal
amendments. The report was concurred ill
'fire Committee on Ways and Means repotted
hack Senate hill to amend an act to reduce tire
currency, ami to authorize anew issue of
j Treasury notes and bonds, with an amendment
proposing to strike out the fifth section, which
reads as follows :
“Section 5. The bonds and certificates mcn
tiond in the second section of t ie act to which
this is an amendment, shall be receivable in pay
ment of all Government dues which shall bav
accrued prior to the first day of January, 1865,
except export and import duties; and for pur
poses of payment herein authorized shall be
transferable by delivery.’’
Various amendments were pioposed, and
pending the consideration of the subject, the
House took a recess until I B’oclock P. M.
[On Friday night the House passed the reso
lution making an appropriation for the postal
service. The bill to amend the act to allow
•oomraisssioned officers rations and the privi
lege of purchasing clothing from the Quarter
master’s Dep irtment was taken np. and the
Senate amendments were concurred in.]
SENATE—JUNE 6.
Tire following were passed: House bill ex
cepting from the regulations of the export of
cotton, tobacco, &c., such of said articles as
may be shipped on account of any State; joint
resolution of thanks to Gen. Kirby Smith and
command; to increase the compensation of
non commissioned officers, musicians and pri
vates of the C. S. Army—operation limited co
one year; relating to the exemption of certain
religious denominations; to amend the act to
regulate the supplies of clothiog to enlisted
men in the navy.
Placed on the calendar: Bill to organize the
light artillery of the C. S. Army; House bill
amending the act regulating the granting of
furloughs and discharges from hospitals.
Referred: Resolution that Q. M. General
furnish forage for four horses to the President
of the Confederate States.
The Committee on Finance reported back,
with amendments, the House bill amending the
tax laws. Ordered to be printed and made the
special ordor for to-morrow.
HOUSE.
Senate resolution to adjourn sine die on Sat
urday, June 11, at 12 M. passed.
Referred : Message from the President trans
mitting estimates of appropriations for the ex
penses of the War Department; also, messages
from the President transmitting from the Se
cretary off Var reports of military matters.
The Senate hill to amend “an act to reduce
the currency and authorise anew issue of notes
and bonds,” approved April 17, 1804, was ta
ken up.
A motion to reconsider the vote by which
the House struck out the first section of the
bill was lost.
The remaining portion of the bill provides
for the issuing, by the Secretary of the Treasury,
to any State which may desire the same,one-half
of such aniout as the said State is entitled to
claim in Treasury notes of tho new issue, and
the other half in six per cent, bonds, paya
ble in twenty years, with interest at the rate of
four per cent per Annum, payable half yearly,
said four per cent bonds not to be taxable,
either upon principal or interest.
SENATE —JUNE 7.
A bill to amend the act organizing military
courts was referred to Military Committee.
The following resolution was also referred;
Resolved, That the President be respectful
ly requested to inform the Senate whether any
officers appointed under the Provisional Gov
ernment, and not reappointed by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, are still dis
charging the duties of the offices to which they
were originally appointed; and that he be also
respectfully requested to furnish the names
of any such persons.
The Senate proceeded to the consideration of
the order of the day, viz : the House bill “to
amend the tax laws,’’ with the amendments
proposed by the Committee of Finance. The
subject was considered until the hour of recess.
HOUSE.
The Senate bill to increase the compensation
of the General Commanding at Richmond, sent
to the House several days ago, was modified
by the House so as to graduate and increase
the pay of all tho generals of the army. As
thus modified it was returned to the Senate.
The Senate amended it, and returned it to the
House. Upou the recommendation of the
Military Committee the Senate’s amendments
were conouried in, and the bill passed.
It gives a General ssoo—a Lieut-General
s4so—Major-General S4O0 —Brig-General S3OO
per month. A General in command of an
army to receive, in addition, SIOO per month,
and all others in the field, SSO per month.
The House bill to increase the pay of pri
vates and non commissioned officers was re
ceived from the Senate with amendments.
The amendments were concurred in and the
bill passed. It doubles their pay for one year.
The Committee of Ways ami Means present
ed a correspondence between the Secretary of
War and Treasury as to the necessity of Con
gress increasing the issue of Treasury notes so
as to enable them to meet the current expenses
of the government.
The following were passed : Bill concerning
the salary of the Treasurer; to amend an act to
oigamae the clerical force of the Treasurv, &c.;
to give relief to tax payers in certain cases; to
amend an act t# organize the forces lor the
war,Senate bill for the compensation of com
missioners appointed under tho act suspend
ing the writ ot habeas corpus in certain cases,
and to confer certain powers upon said com
mibSionerii!.
The Committee of Ways and means reported
a bill to amend an act to reduce the currency
of fifty doll.tr,. where the ....... of the
to whom issued do not amount to one * hun
ured dollars.
The Military Committee reported a bill to
repeal so much of the act as authorizes exemp
tions on the certificates of the Governors and
to leave the matter entirely to the Legislatures
of the States.
SENATE—JUNE S.
The bill authorizing tho manufacture of
spirituous liquors for the use of the army and
hospitals was amended and passed.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
bill amending the tax laws. Without taking a
vote adjourned.
[No House proceedings reported.]
SENATE—JUNE 9.
The tax hill was amended, passed and order
ed to be forthwith sent to the House.
The Senate was notified that the President
had signed bills to provide transportation in
kind, in certain eases, to members and dele
gates in Congress; extending to the navy and
marine corps the provisions of the third sec
tion of an act to organize forces to serve dur
ing the war. approved February 17th, 1864;
amending the act providing for an invalid
corps, and promoting the efficiency of the cav
alry of the Provisional army, and to punish
lawlessness aud irregularities of any portions
thereof.
The following House bills were passed viz -
Bill ameuaw „„ organizing ' ~£sto serve
durim • .. . . act for the
relief ' tit s; bill con
cert' - the House
bill am - -• ' '-a. . he clerical
force ■•(... , as reported
on ad• ~c. ■ v- .*« nmittee.
lb» 8 n we lary of the
w ommi - r.t . L authoriz
ing in ' lice is of ar
tillery • takcu up,
cousin and ■
The :.t , .. »' .• -.:ion of the
bill re . I -t from tbe
Cocos. ' • on i ay- ~ ting to the
issuing ,i •> ess by the
trover "v ; . as. Various
amendments were proposed. The whoie sub
ject was finally lain on the table—yeas 44,
nays 24.
The chair laid before the House a communi
cation from the President transmitting, in res
ponse to a resolution, a communication from
the Secretary of War. covering a copy of the
proceedings of a court of enquiry relative to
the capture of New Orleans.
The communication and accompanying doc
uments were referred to the Committee on
Military Affairs.
Chair also laid before the House a mes
-age from the President transmitting from tbe
Secretary of War a communication covering
reports of military operations for the year
1863. Referred Military Committee
The Finance Committee reported back a
House bill to increase tbe compensation of the
heads of the several Executive Departments
and the Assistant Secretary of War and of the
Treasury; and moved an adoption of the fol
lowing Senate amendments:
After the words “six thousand dollars” in
the sixth liue, insert the words, “and the chief
officer of every Government Bureau in the city
of Richmond, including the Commissioner of
Pa ents. Commiss'oner of Indian Affairs, and
First, Second and Third Auditors, to five thou
sand dollars per aDnum, payable as now pro
vided by law: Prodded, however, That no
officer holding a commission in the military or
navai service shall be entitled to the benefits
of tars act; an I that the salary of all clerks
and employees in the various departments lo
cated in the city of Richmond be increased
fifty per cent, and at all other points through
out tile Confederate States, twenty-five per
cent.; Provided, That the clerks de ailed from
tbe army or n ivy shall not be entitled to the
benefits of this act.’’ The amendments were
agreed to.
Nitiiii Session. —Tbe Finance Committee
reported the bill laying a tax in kind, with the
folliowing amendment:
That the account of slaughtered hogs re
quired by the first section of said act shall ire
rendered on the first day of March, 1865, —‘66,
for each year preceedmg said date. .Agreed
to.
The Committee on Ways and Means reported
a bill in relation to the pay of the clerks in
the office of the Depositary, with a recommen
dation that the bill pass, with the following
amendment:
“Sec. 2. Where the Assistant Treasurer or
Depositary is also the collector of a port, the
oiiicers oi the customs employed by him as
clerks in the office of (he Depositary or Assist
ant Treasurer, shall receive the compensation
specified in the above section instead of the
pay now given them by law as officers of the
customs; Provided, That the Deputy Collector,
wdien employed as a cierk in the office of the
Depositary or Assistant Treasurer, shall re
ceive not less than twenty-five hundred dollars
per annum.” Agreed to.
The same committee reported and recom
mended tho passage of a joint resolution expla
natory of the act increasing the compensation
of certain civil officers and employees in the
President’s office and in the Executive and Le
gislative Departments in Richmond, for a limit
ed period.
The following amendments were adopted:
“And the clerk of the Court of Commissioners,
under the Sequestration of Act.”
“Provided, The amount paid shall not ex
ceed three thousand dollars per annum.”
SENATE—JUNE 10.
The Senate bill to authorize tho manufacture
of whiskey, brandy, &e., for the use of the
army and hospitals, was reconsidered, and fi
nally passed, after considerable debate.
The Senate bill to establish a Bureau of For
eign Supplies, with the House amendments
thereto, was taken up and the said amendments
concurred in.
A joint resolution was introduced authoriz
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to increasfe
the amount of rent to be paid for flic building
occupied by the Second Auditor’s Bureau
The bill to authorize two reporters of the
Press Association with the armies of Gens. Lee
and Johnston to purchase rations and forage,
was considered and lost.
The House bill to provide for the enrollment
and conscription of certain non commissioned
officers and privates in the Trans-Mississippi
Department, was considered and passed
A bill was introduced to extend the provi
sions of the act to provide for the appointment
of officers below the rank of Colonel to tem
porary rank and command.
HOUSE.
Senate amendments to House bills to amend
tho act for the relief of tax payers in certain
cases, and to amend the act to organize forces
to serve during the war, were read and con
curred in.
Senate Dll to provide for tho appointment
of additional officers of artillery for ordnance
duty was taken up and passed.
The Committee on Commerce reported back
a Senate bill to establish a Bureau of Foreign
Supplies, with a recommendation that it pass.
The bill was amended aud passed—ayes 59,
nays 7.
A bill reported on Thursday night from the
'Committee on Ways and Means, to amend the
act to reduce the currency end to authorize a
now issue of Treasury notes and bonds, was
laid upon the table ; and the same committee
reported back Senate bill upon that subject,
without amendment, and it was taken up and
passed—ayes 41, noes 31. It authorizes the
States to exchange h ‘lt of their Treasury notes
of the old issue for notes of the new issue, at
par.
Gen John B. Clark, member elect from the
third distr.ct of the State of Missouri, appeared
and took the oath to support the Constitution
of tbe Confederate States.
The Committee on Ways and means reported
a resolution increasing the pay of the Door
k- epei 25 per <. ent., aud of his assistants 50 per
cent., the same to be paid out of the contin
gent fuud of the House. Passed—ayes 50, noe
11.
The Commiitee of Ways and Means report
ed back the bill to amend the lax laws, and
recommended that the House disagree with
a portion of the Senate amendments, and con
cur iu others.
On motion, it was ordered that when the
House adjourn it will adjourn to meet at half
8 o’clock on Saturday morning.
The bill to amend the tax laws occupied the
attention of the House until the close ot the
morning’s session.
lIICHMOND tttifeSli*.
A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury,
writes from Richmond thus :
Prisoners taken on Monday say Grant is re
ceiving large numbers of horses"; so we may
expect another great raid, periiaps on the
north side of the city, around Leo'* loft, to th
canal, and perhaps over the river to the Dan
ville road.
Preparations have been made for Grant's re
ception on tbe Soutbside. Beauregard is
watchful as a lynx, and if Ulysses is not care
ful, he will find a lion in his p ith the moment
he sets foot on shore at City Point.
The vulnerable points on the Danville Road
are not numerous. Raiding parties will have
to venture very far from their base in order to
do much damage ; neaier at hand, they will
be apt to catch a Tartar. The Danville Road
is well supplied with rolling stock and doing
good work, but I was surprised to hear this
morning that only two locomotives were in use
on the Greensboro connection. I doubt whe
ther the authorities are aware o! this fact.
Lynchburg is commanded by the bluffs in
Amherst county, on the opposite side of the
nver. and the force for defence being small, it
n.w m llm l ’ ace , Ina >' be captured. It could
'" ■., eicl as abase lor operations on the
loss arnl D '.' ane s fou:,d[ 7 would he a
ti e unmhw' J°w n I , mportaal on account of
tuo number of hospitals there.
dismounted and 3 ' which had been
fighi, threw the’r > arm iUeilo a refu?e<l to
Since the battle, several h,mir*? and stampeded
place to Judge Campbell. . ,\V a,!t l S' T e
is said to be disgruntled because
bring this Congress to terms in matter- fL? ot
cial. as he threaten*} and tried to "jV 8n ?""
stead of bsuing 225 million of new notes he
has issued only 75 million, and there are now
300 million of audited accounts, which he re
fuses to pay on the ground that he has no
money. Peace to his ashes, if he goes.
Horace Greelt among the Democrats—A
corrcsp-indent at Washington, writing to the
N. Y. Herald, June Ist, stys :
Mr. Greeley surrendered to-day. horse, foot
aud artillery to the Democrats. Upon visiting
the floor of the House a few Republican mem
bers surrounded him, when suddenly Mr.
Brooks led # bim over to the Democratic side
and, in a m st fraternal manner commenced a
tetea tet’upon one of thesofts. fihortiy al
ter. toe Hon. Fernando Woo'd intredneed to
him Mr. Long, of Ohio, who took a seat with
Mr. Greeley, on the left, while others sat down
b tore him. The party fraternized most sigmfi
cautly for nearly au hour, evidently in close
consunation upon an iunporinat subject— it is
rumored the Cleveland nominations. Finally
the p:rty thsptised in wonderfully good hu
mot, to the apparent chagrin of Republicans
generally. r
BRITIBU COTTON TK4D3.
The following is the complete letter of Mr
McHenry on the Cotton Trade, Cotton Supply"
StC. of which extracts have occasionally appear-’
ed- It will be found to present a very inter
esting and instructive exhibition of the growth
and present extent of the demand for cotton,
and the present and prospective supply. The
large stocks on hand, botli of the raw and the
manufactured article, when the American war
commenced, have made England comparative
ly independent of further supplies from us until
the present time. A different state of things
Is henceforth to exist, and Cotton, if not King,
is at least about to make itself felt as a power
in the earth. We resitrn a large portion of our
space to-day to this interesting paper.
Dear Sir : The enclosed tables, compiled
chiefly from the Board of Trade returns, show
the course of the British cotton trade for the
last six years. The period begins at the cessa
tion of the commercial panic of 1857, when
over production commenced, and ends with
the cioseof last year, thus furnishing, at a glance,
the history of the cotton imports, exports, man
ufactures and sales for home consumption for
the three seasons anterior, and the three sea
sons subsequent, to the secession of the South
ern States rrom the Federal Union; and like
wise exhibiting the increase in the stocks of
cotton and cotton goods during the first divis
ion, and the decrease during the second divis
ion of the time.
The largest importations of raw cotton took
place in 1860, when 1,390 938 752 pounds were
imported at a cost of £36,750,889, and the
sma lest receipts were in 1862, when 523.97?i,-
296, pounds came to hand valued at £31,093,-
045. The quantity iu 1863 was 669,582,264,
pounds, worth £56,277,953. The exporta
tions of raw cotton in 1860 were 250,448,-
640 pounds; for 1861, 298,287,920 pounds; for
1862, 214,714,528 pounds, and for 1863, 241,-
570,992 pounds—the rate of increase in com
parison with the importations being very great.
The yam producing pr operties, or nett weight
of the cotton after spinning, that remained in
the United Kingdom for manufacturing pur
poses was, in 1860, 969,433,595 pounds, and in
1863 only 285,221,154 pounds, proving the fact
the extra loss in working inferior sorts, and ac
counting for the additional amount of cotton
required to make a yard of goods in 18G3, over
what was needed iu 1860.
Though the cost of the imports of raw cotton
was so much greater in 1863 than iu 1860, the
value of the exports was likewise augmented,
making the nett cost for that material in 1860
£30,368,699, arid in 1863, £38,132,037. It has
been estimated that the profits on the old stocks
of cotton goods held over in iore ; gn- markets,
belonging to English merchants, and disposed
of in 1863, amounted to £16,000,000 —thereby
reducing the exchange to about £20,000,000,
or £10,000,000 less than in 1860. As the old
stocks are.now exhausted, this moans of pay
ment will cease, and, of course, a greater
amount of money will be required to settle for
the cotton supplies of 1864, even should the
importations be no larger than in 1863; and
this, too, without allowing for the advance in
price.
The freight on the raw cotton did not aver
age in 1860, over sos a penny per pound;
while in 1863 that charge was about, doubled
in consequence of the produce having been
brought a longer distance iu some cases, and m
others of more expensive means (steam) of
transpottation. the rates from the Mediter
ranean were very high, and the expense of run
ning tbe blockade was equal to the former en
tire cost of the cotton.
The largest exportations of cotton piece
goods were in 1860, when 2,276,218,427 yards
were shipped, along with 197,343,666 pounds
of twist and yarn—the value of clearances
reaching, including hosiery and small wares,
£52,012,380. Except tor hosiery, etc., tho
figures for 1862 were smaller than in any other
year—the total exports being £36,770,971. fn
1863 1,706.572,858 yards of piece goods, and
74,642,146 pounds of twist and yarn were sent
abroad, valued, with hosiery and small w'ares,
at £47,448,964.
There has been a very slight reduction in
the home consumption of cotton manufactures.
The prices of cotton goods have not kept pace
with the advance in cotton, cent for cent, in
consequence of the cost of the raw material
not being in ordinary times more than 30 per
cent, of the value of the manufactured arti
cle. But now that cotton forms the chief cost
of the fabric, and the stocks of goods made
from cheaper cottons, are so much diminished,
they are only one fifth in extent when com
pared with those of 1860—a continuous rise
may be expected to take place. The natural
yearly increase in the consumption has merely
been checked.
The rich purchase nearly as freely as over ;
the poor, never, even in the most prosperous
times, purchased more than sufficient for their
wants. This ia clearly demonstrated by the
quantity cf cotton goods imported; tho re
ceipts from abroad ia 1863 were about the
same as in 1 SCO —tlte value, however, was aug
mented from £758,030 in 1800 to £1,039,904 in
1863.
The expense of cotton clothing to the inhab
itants of Great Britain aud Ireland, was as
follows :
Ia 1858 £23 000,000
In 1859 23,500,000
In 1860 25,000,000
In 1861 28,000,000
lu 1862 33.000,000
In 1863 .....48,000,000
At present prices for cotton goods, the ex
pense for 1864 wi'l be about £60,000.000. or an
increase over the figures of 1860 of £35 000 000.
That amounts as equal to 33 per cent, more
than the interest of the British national debt,
arid is "about one-half tho yearly out .ay of tho
Government 'But unlike the annual expenditure
of the nation, the whole of the turn wilibesent
to foreign countries, thereby causing an actual
drain upon tbe resources of the people, to tbe
extent of double the cost of all the food im
ported, aud as a consequence, must, before
long, bring about a financial panic. Au in
crease in tbe cost of breaedstuffs, after a bad
hatvesr, il only a few millions of pounds ster
ling, creates a disturbance in the money mar
ket.
What a revulsion must then take place, when
not only ‘'ft £35 000,090 additional for the
cost of jp.e consumed goods, but the extra
capit ■’ sorbe l in conducting tbe commerce in
cott ■ r tb- nations, will be added there
tr -'ll * ticipated panic lower the
»•. ■ dton. ui tt ■ case of a bad harvest,
i a; - 'or- i . ydo not affect the
b« ' .it is then wanted,
-t • '. r ':u y .tor ''sis the first time
tore has been a
‘ raiment” e nrv v r arsons, therefore,
stum ••) cotn; r 1 . multy. Tbe hia
tus is-: *■>• uree cotton crops in
the S- :■ :it • z, 1863 and 1864, must
be ft t ii altivated since lhe sec
ond y,_ nas not more than half
compen- .at which has been destros
ed in ord event it failing into the hand
of the ent:.-
There wa .wo years supply of cotton and cot
ton goods of every shape in 1858 ; in 1860—61,
years’ requirements in all parts of the globe.
Now including the quantity in the Southern
States, there is not over a year’s wants. High
prices have not had the effect of stimulating
production to any great degree in other coun
tries, because their labor could not be diverted
f-om their accustomed pursuits. Only a lew
months’ extra consumption has been cultivated,
under the influence of extravagant quotations.
A careful calculation, made a short time since,
shows that the increase in the cotton grown in
all countries, other than the Southern States of
America, in 1863 over 1860, was only equiva
lent to 367,900 bales of American cotton,
which, with about 200,000 bales attracted from
the interior of those countries, threw into the
various markets an excess over former years
of 567.906 bales, of the old average weight of
yarn producing properties.
The excess in 1802 was about 200,000 bales ;
and the Southern States have, since the estab
lishment of the blockade, parted with about
700,000 bales, making a grand total of about
l. bales, received at the consuming
points, besides the usual supplies from the small
cotton growing countries. Formerly, the num
ber of bales of American cotton manufactured
m Greit Britain formed 85 per cent, of the en
tire quantity taken by the mills ; but the Amer
man bales were heavier, and the cotton nro
duced more yarn to the pound than tne growth
of other countries British cotton fabrics there
fore, contained 90 per cent, of .1 m,.,..-’„ tr f
ton. In order to woi k tbe inferior sorts and°to
augment the weight of the fabrics, a largeVd
m. of mineral and other substances
ana is being used. °
This is regarded as a fraud, as most of n,
sales of goods have been negotiated wfth
understanding that they were composed of the
usual proportion of American cotton. No
cnptioa ot merchandize u so long reachir,°'ll"
consumer from the producer, as cotton gSod*
and but tew complaints have, therefore vtl
been heard of in reference to the interiorit/of
the texture of the aiticles. So soon. how t ve
as the deception is generally discovered, British !
cot: on fabrics must necessarily lose their renu
tation East India and other inferi®£cottons
unless in very small proportions, are unfit for
machine made goods —they may look nearly as
well when overloaded with "size,” but they 1
certainly will not wear so long.
Cotton is grown in about forty different eoua- ;
tries; but the Confederate Slates present tbe j
on-ly instance where it is cultivate i as a leading :
crop. India has never produced in any one I
year as much as 2.000,0u0 bales, which, con- j
sidering her enormous population, is a very ,
small quantity. The delusion in regard to the [
yield of cottou in India—which is now being I
dispelled—arose from the fact of her “fine''
cotton goods having been mentioned in the
earliest history; also from the fact of her hav
ing at one time supplied the whole world with
cottou goods. But then, it must be borne in
mind that her production of fine cotton was
very limited, and confined to one district,
while her growth of coarser cottons, although
larger, was insignificant in comparison to the
present ideas of cotton crops.
At the period when India supplied the
world with cotton goods, the quantity of those
goods purchased was very trifling —wool and
flax then constituted the chief materials for
human clothing. Mexico holds with respect
to cotton almost an identical position to India;
tor, as far back as her history is known, she
has been acotton producing and cotton manu
facturing country. Her cotton fabrics, as re
corded by her discoverers, rivalled the long
famed goods of India. Indeed, so valuable
were they, that small pieces of exquisitely tine
cotton cloth were used by the Mexicans for cur
rency. Yet no one has ever attempted to claim
for Mexico the position of a large grower of
cotton.
Tbe quantityof cotton and cotton goods iu the
hands of all classes in the United Kingdom, was
greater on the Ist of Jan. 1862, than at any other
time ; and tbe stocks were less on the Ist of
January, 1864, than on any previous occasion.
The chief falling off was in yarns and goods
—a diminution in clothing material that is sel
dom alluded to. and the importance of which
has not been fully considered.
The following may be regarded as a fair esti
mate of the wants of the United Kingdom for
1864:
m . rouxDs.
The home oonaumptlon will retire In weight, of
present inferior sorts ot cotton 275,000 000
The expo t tion of cottoa goods, if only tho same
hs last year 600,000,000
The expor ation cf raw cotton, if only the samoaa
last year 240,000,000
• 1,115,0-. 0,000
The quantity of cotton of a'l linda,
iu warehouse on the l=t et Janua
ry was !23.00\000
On spinners’ hands, same time 20,0gU,0j0
In yarns and goods, same time, in
the hands ot ail classes, trom the
spinner to the retailer 100,000,900
Importations at the rate of inc ease
since ti e Ist January to Ist April
over last year 815,000,000
Deficiency 57,'00'3 000
with slocks of everything in the shape of cot
ton and cotton goods exhausted 1
Included iu the receipts of last year, as be
fore remarked, were all the old stocks ol cot
ton attiacted from the interior of India, China,
Egypt, etc., by reaton of the high prices that
prevailed in England in the latter part of 1862.
It cannot be supposed that the increase iu pro
duction this year will more than balance those
old stocks, though in the preceding table an
addition of 23 per cent, has been made in the
importations of raw cotton in 1863 for the esti
mate of 1864. To be sure, the increase so far
this year has been at that rate, but there is no
likelihood of Us being kept up when reference
is made to the sources of supply through the
whole twelve months. Tho importations mto
the United Kingdom for January, February
and March, 1863 and 1864, are thus given :
1863—pounds. 1864—rouNDs
Confederate S r.tea 4,0H),o00 18,500 000
Brazil 9.000,000 9,900,000
West. Indies, etc '.1,500,000 160,000
Hast ladies, etc I*s, £OO,OOO 10T,500.000
Egypt, etc 39,000,000 43,000,000
148 750, 00 382,150,C00
The increase, as already stated, was 22 per
cent, but nearly one half of this increase was
owing to the contributions from the Confeder
ate States, having risen from 4,050,000 pounds
to 18,500,000 pounds. That as well as the Chi
nese source of supply may soon -cease, and
there may be a very sudden termination to the
supplies from lad.a and the Mediterranean as
the year advances. The people of those cotton
growing legions have for some time past been
making every effort to hurry forward their
crops. So instead of “doling” them out as
for merly they may long before the year closes
rid themselves of all their cotton.
The consumption of cotton liy the mills in
January, February and March, 1864, was 50
per cent, greater than in the corresponding
period of 1863. This, of course, iuu given ad
'iirional employment to tho operatives. Had
it not been, however, for the augmented re
ceipts from the Southern States it would have
been impossible to have consumed so much
cotton as even with the “size” fraudulently
u.-ed, tho goods require on the average about
20 per cent, of the good American staple. In
other words, every bale of American facilitates
the use of five or six bales of other sorts. T his
is evidenced by the weekly sales iu the Liver
pool market.
In the work entitled “The Cotton trade,” it
is stated that “before many months, unless the
fortunes of war or the intervention of foreign
Powers should cause a more ample portion of
the staple to come to hand than his hitherto
eluded the illegal blockade, for the first time
in the history ot commerce a cotton famine will
be experienced.” “A more ample portion” has
eluded the blockade, and “the fortunes of war”
have caused a considcrabie.quantity— 80,000
bales—to be received at New Orlerns ; 150,600
bales have reached the Unite! Kingdom and
the Continent of Europe since lhe Ist of Sep
tember last, and about tho same quantity has
arrived at the ports of the Federal States. Much
of the Southern cotton reexported from Mexico,
Cuba, the Bahamas, Bermuda, etc, has been
sent to those States in exchange for provisions,
clothing, boots and shoes, cotton cards, and, in
fact, many necessaries for the Confederate army
shipped from New York to those intermediate
places ; the vast majority of Yankees havieg
had their pockets, not their hearts, in the wick
ed crusade against the South.
Had it not been for this course of trade, the
Federal cotton manufacturers would have been
obliged to continue their importations of the
raw material from Europe, and this have
drawn largely on tbe already scanty stocks of
cotton on this side of the Atlantic—enhancing
the quotat.ons here, and draining the Nor
thern Slates of the precious metals, as the
merchandize shipped to the Islands would not
have found a market anywhere iu Europe. It
is a singular coincidence that no sooner did the
large export trade in breadstuff's between the
Northern States and Europe, which began af
ter the last Presidential election, decline to its
former limited amount, than these new outlets
for Yankee produce were opened up. This,
along with sales of clipper aud other ships iu
Europe, driven from the seas by the activity of
Southern cruisers, and captures of British prop
erty, furnishing supplies which otherwise
would have had to have been bought in Eu
rope, and paid for in England, have materially
assisted Federal finances.
It is quiteclear that if the Southern States
had been in a position to have withheld their
cotton from the “outer world,’’ the Powers of
Europe would by this time have been forced
into lecognizing their independence. People
generally are not aware of th<# quantities of
cotton that have been received from the South.
The Board of Trade tables only credit the Con
federate Slates with the cotton that comes di
rect from their ports while all that is import
ed indirectly is placed to the account of the
country of intermediato export. And it is
upon these Board of Trade returns that the
statesmen and journalists of England have
been basing their arguments—laboring under
the vain delusion that “other countries” have
greatly increased their growth of cotton.—
The Cotton Supply Association has not had the
candor to acknowledge the facts of the case ;
on the contrary, its organs have reproduced,
without explanation, the erroneous figures fur
nished by the Government; and the associa
tion itseif has been publishing weekly the
most visionary statements from its correspond
ents abroad ; so ambiguously worded as to de
ceive the public mind upon the important
question of cotton supplies.
What matters it if, in countries where only
a few hundred weights of cotton have been
grown, the cultivation should have, under the
influence of high prices, been augmented one
hundred or two hundred per cent f The whole
additional quantity i3 but a drop in the bucket,
in comparison to the void left by the loss of
the Southern crop. Surely, if cotton was com
ing forward in sufficient qualities to run “five
days’’ in the week, as has been alleged, the
prices would tumble back to something like
their Dormal condition, instead of being at
four rates, because the currency in which they
are quoted is in no way inflated; and there
never were more than “six days” in the week
-the mills, even in the most active times, rest
ed on the seventh day. Jhe deficiency of oniy
one- sixth of a full supply would not make such
a.i enormous difference in the value.
The truth is, strange as it may seem, the cot
ton manufacturers of the United Kingdom, al
though they have done a smaller business in
quantity since the breaking out of the war,
have done a larger business in value, and their
profit* were never so targe before in any pe
riod of three years. They have had the advan
tages of gradually hardening prices, and the
other classes of the community have assisted
them in the support of their idle operatives.
Their sales. ISA!S to iB6O inclusive, were, £2ll
- 927; 1661 to 1863, inclusive, £240,067,436.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) ’ Geo. McHenry.
Quaaity of raw cotton, cotton yarns, and goods
in the world, civilized and uncivilized, at the
following periods :
January 1, 1858 5.000.000,000
1859 6.000,000,000
“ 1860 ...7,000.000.000
1961 7,500.000.009
1862 7.000,1)00.000
1863 5,600,000,000
1864 2.500.000,000
CUitT’S L^TIOIOYBMEXTS.
The Richmond Examiner gives the annex
ed connected account of Grant's movements du
ring the last two weeks—showing the routes
by which he moved and the ground lie occu
pied. It will be found very interesting :
On Thursday night, May 26th, Grant recross
ed tbe South Anna river, and the roads being
picketed by his cavalry, moved by a forced
march down the north bank to Hanovertown
ferry, some twenty-five miles by tho roads he
was obliged to follow, from the position he had
just abandoned oil the North Anna. Hanover
town ferry is northeast of Richmond twenty
miles, by tho most direct load, which crosses
the Chickahominy'at Meadow bridge, near the
Central railroad, and is known beyond she
Uhickahominy as the Hanovertown road. An
other road to this fie ry runs south iour miles
to OldCiiurch aud thence iu a southwesterly
direction by old Cold Harbor to cew Gold Har
bor, Gaines’ mill and New bridge to Rich
mond. entering the city over Union Hill. From
the city tojNew bridge this is known as the New
bridge or Nine mile road; beyond the New
bridge, as the Cold Harbor or Old Church
road. Hanove:tcwn ferry is three or four
miles further from R chmond bv this than the
road previously mentioned. Hawes’ shop is
three miles south of the farry, ou the direct
road to Richmond. Haudver Court House is
situated northwest of the lorry some eight or
ten miles. Another road from Richmond to
Hanovertown ferry is the Mechaniesviile, which
leaves tho city by Howard's grove, crosses the
Chickaheminy a couple of milos east of Mead
ow bridge and passing Dr. Lumpkin’s residence
a point six miles from the city, known as Me
chanics vitle, falls into the Hanovertown road six
miles further on and a mile north of Totopoto
moy creek. Atlee’s station, ou the Central
railroad, is nine miles north of Richmond and
three miles northwest of Mechaniesviile. From
Atlee's to old Cold Harbor on the Old Church
road as the crow flies, the distance is about
nine miles ;by county load it is several miles
further. Totopotomy creek rises near Atlee’s
station, and running southeast to Toll Green
meeting house, turns thence northeast and
empties into the Pamunkey two miles below
Hanovertown. Old Cold Harbor is ten miles
from Richmond, new Cold Harbor, on the
same road, is from a mile and a half to two
miles nearer the city, and Gaines’ mill yet a
quarter of a mile nearer. The country between
Hanovertown and Mechaniesviile by the direct
road consists of large cleared fields and patches
of heavy forest, there being no streams worthy
of note except the Totopotomy ; on the Old
Church road the country is more wooded.
Grant’s cavalry crossed to the south bank of
the Pamunkey at Hanovertown ferry Friday
morning, May 27, under a heavy fire front our
horse artillery; that night his entire army made
tho passage of tho river. The next day he
threw forward his cavalry to Hawes’ shop,
where, on tho same evening, they were attack
ed by our cavalry. This was a reconnoissance
on our part, the object being to ascertain
whether Grant had crossed with his infantry
or was still moving down the north bank of
the Pamunkey to West Point. We drove the
enemy back upon heavy masses of his iufantry,
and, the object, of tho reconnoissance having
been thu3 attained, withdrew in the direction
of Richmond. Sunday and Monday Grant ad
vanced, with a bold show of marching on Rich
mond by the roads leading to Meadow aud
Mechanicsviile bridges. There was a good
deal of infantry skirmishing during these two
days, our troops falling back in alleisurely
manner to a line wit ch had been selected on
the south bank cf the Totopotomy creek
Monday evening, May 30, the eaemy, having
pressed over the Totopotomy, were immedi
ately attacked and driven back with loss into
the earthworks they had erected on the south
bank of tho creek.
The hostile lines were now stretched east and
west over about ten miles of country. Out
line skirted the south bank of the Totopotomy,
with our left on Atloe’sand our centre opposite
and north of Mechanicsviile. The enemy occu
pied a corresponding position on the north
bank of the creek, his ri.bt menacing Atlee’s.
Tuesday, May 31, and Wednesday, June 1.
there was sharp skirmishing along the tines
from Atlee’s to Cold Harbor, and the enemy
mj.de several heavy demonstrations as of a gen
eral advance. This continued throughout
Thursday morning, when he was particularly
threatening on our left. This was believed by
us to be a feint, and correctly, as the event
showed, for when at four o’clock that evening
General Early, who was on our left, pressed
forward, he found the enemy weak in his front,
and not disposed to dispute the ground obstin
ately Grant had already massed his heaviest
columns on our right, and was marching to
seize the Gobi harbor road. Wednesday eve
ning he had driven our cavalry and skirmish
ers front old Cold Harbor back towards new
Cold Harbor. Proceeding from Richmond,
the Cold Harbor road after passing Gaines’
mill on Powhute creek, ascends a long, high
hiil. Near the brow of this hill slautls new
Cold Harbor, and from this point to old Cold
Harbor is a very gently sloping plain. The
ridge of this hill or high land suns from new
Cold Harbor in a south easterly direction, and
ends abruptly three hundred yards from the
Chickab.oininy, at McClellan’s bridge, n struct
ure which crosses the liver ten miles Irom Rich
mond. Wednesday night and Thursday morn
ing we threw up earthworks along tho ridge at
uew Cold Harbor, and made dispositions to
meet the changes made by Grant in his position.
Thursday evening our right was on and to the
east of new Cold Harbor, and heavy skirmish
ing was kept up on this part of the lines.
At daylight on Friday morning, June 3,
Grant made his first real otter of battle since
crossing the Pamunkey by heavy aud repeated
assaults upon our right wing, iu each of which
he was repulsed. 8o intent indeed did he ap
pear to break our line at this point as to in
duce the belief that the seizing of this ridge
and then the roads to Richmond that it com
mands had been the end and object he had in
view from the time he felt his position south
of the North Anna river. Having failed in
all his attempts here, during the morning he
made similar assaults on our centre and left
as far west as the south bank of the Totopoto
my, and that night renewed his assaults on
our right, hoping that darkenss would give him
some advantage. He was again repulsed as
during the day, and on Saturday night made
other assaults with the same result. He did
not get the position, end theie is no improprie
ty in our saying it is well for us he did not.—
Its importance cannot be over estimated.
On Sunday, June.4th, Grant withdrew from
our left and centre, aud thieateued McClellan’s
bridge by turning our right flank. Our left
pushed his light as it withdrew and picked up
some prisoners. Our right stretched down the
crest of the hills leading to the Chickahominy
at McClellan’s bridge, so as to cover the latter
point.
After some stupid prevarication, Grant on
Monday asked and obtained a truce, and bu
ried bis dead and carried off the thousands of
his wounded, many of whom for three days and
nights had been howling and writhing in front
of our earthworks.
Our loss in these battles will not amount to
seven hundied in killed, wounded and missing.
The enemy's loss may probably never be ascer
tained positively. Grant puts it at seven thou
sand five hundred. By officers of our army,
whose positions gave them opportunities of
knowing the truth, it is estimated at fifteen
thousand. General Lee has not, we believe,
expressed any opinion on the subject, though
he has been frequently asked. On Sunday,
Jonc sth, being on a visit at the tent of a ma
jor-general who had been hurt during the pre
vious night, the officer asked him twice what
he thought was tbe los3 Os the enemy. Each
time he replied, “General, we punished them
very severely.’’
Grant's present position it is not easy to de
fine. He occupies all the country east of the
Totopotcmy and between that stream and
the White House, on the Pamunkey, and north
and east of the Chick ihominy, except where
our army confronts him on a line running from
new Cold Harbor to McClellan’s bridge.—
Simultaneous with his movement on Cold Har
bor he abandoned his base at Hanovertown
and established anew one at Newcastle ferry,
on the same stream six or eight milts, lower
down. By this time ho Is no doubt using the
York river railroad and draws his supplies trom
the White House.
On the line which is now “the front, be
tween Cold Harbor and McClellan s bridge,
and along the Chikahcmmy to Bottom s biid 'e,
five miles below McClellan’s bridge, the armies
are constantly in line of oattle between their
respective intrenchments, which, at some
points, are three hundred, at others one hun
dred, and at others not more than fifty yards
a»a» £ Keen where the lines are closest tr-geth
er them are intervals of tacit understanding,
amounting to a truce, during wh oh the men
of either army walk along the top or tbeir res
pective intrenchments, plant chevrnx <kjrw in
front of them, or strengthen them with e .rth
from between the lines. But this is a very
precarious sort of truce, and is never general,
and is liable to be broken at any time by any
accident, such as the explosion of a musket, or
anything of that sort. When such truces are
notm torce, sharpshooting is the order of the
‘ J’. ai [. . ? Vl ‘ a when they prevail most, the
Tt rifles rarely dies away along the lines.
the hostiln* 3 0t aU e,n P*y wa S”H or a caisson in
the hostile camp will always elicit a cannon-
RoSftodlT n» S [ eCu!ate ' Jpon Grant'?
going to do. He has never been wholly iuac
what h^nn n ¥ otten th ° “fifes army into
what he considers a safe aud convenient noci
ot ““ «*»<*««■« >
beeu said about the manner in
/ h POtfion of our breastwork was taken
(temporarily) in tire into battle near Cold Har
oor. From those who ought to know we have
obtained, and will now attempt to give, asta’e
ment of the facts : General Breckinridge's
division was posted in tho following order :
Whartons brigade ou the right, Ecbol's (com
manded by Oolonoi George ri. Patton) ou tho
lelt, with the Maryland battalion in reserve,
supported by Finnegan’s Florida brigade.—
ine left ot Echols’ brigade was held by the
twenty sixth Virginia battalion, commanded
by Lieutenant Colonel George M. Edgar, and
was posted in a salient angle. A considera
ble part of this battalion watt out as skirmish
ers, ami tbe rest wore distributed along both
sides of the angle, extending over a very long
line. The enemy advanced in great force, driv
ing in the line skirmishers at a run and enter
ing the angle with them. Our men in the
works could not fire until the enemy were upon
them : but refusing to abandon the position,
the enemy dashed over them, killing, wound
ing and capturing a number.
Colonel Edgar was bayoneted in the works
aud wounded by a ball. Others were also
bayouetted and knocked down with clubbed
guns. Major Woodran, next iu command, was
wounded, and the Adjutant, Lieutenant 11. B.
Craig, killed. Colonel Patton, -seeing the po
sition of allairs, called on the i'otce supporting
him to advance. Gallantly did the Maryland
ers and the Florida brigade respond. Advan
cing with a rush, they drove the enemy at
once out of the angle aud over the works, re
taking the captured guns. The Twenty-second
Virginia regiment, on Colonei Edgar’s light,
although their left was uncovered, stood their
ground aud poured into the enemy a murder
ous volley. He, retreating before the deter
mined attack of Finnegan and the Maryland
liue and tired upon from both Hanks, retired in
gieat disorder, much faster indeed than he had
advanced, leaving a large number of killed,
wounded and some prisoners in our hands.—
The enemy's attack was mainly in this salient
angle, the rest of the division not being very
warmly engaged. Had the work) which form
ed the angle been fully manned the enemy
would not have gained even a temporary ad
vantage.
FBO.M VIRGINIA.
WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Richmond Whig, of June 13, in speak
ing of the recent victories of tho Yaukees in
Western Virginia, and the removal of General
Breckinridge from that section, remarks thus:
The question extensively discussed on the
street was, “Who ordered Gen. Breckinridge
to leave the Vqlley after his defeat of Sigel ?”
As usual, the majority of critics were disposed
to hold Gen. Bragg responsible for the move
ment, but no one would undertake to say that
he bad issued the order. All concurred, how
ever, iu the opinion that a more egregious
blunder had not been committed during this
campaign. Somebody is responsible for tho
fatal error, and that person will hereafter be
required to use very cogout, arguments to con
vince the people -including the army—that the
withdrawal ot Gon. Breckinridge and his troops
from the Valley was justified either by expe
diency or “military necessity.” We forbear to
say more on the subject at this time.
the fight near staunton.
The fight near Staunton, on the sth in: t., was a
very severe one. and from the account published
in the Lynchburg Republican, it appears that
for some time it had progressed very success
fully for us, the enemy having been several
times repulsed, when on a sudden, from some
unexplained cause, the GOth Ya. regiment,
witch held an important point on our line,
broke in confusion, and thus cause 1 other por
tions ot our Hue to give way. At this moment
Gen. Wm.fi Jones was killed, while bravely
endeavoring to rally the broken regiment.
His fall created additional confusion, of which
the enemy wero prompt to avail themselves.
The entire line then fell back about two miles
and held their position until night, the euemv
not pursuing. Finding the enemy were no;
disposed to renew tho battle, the command
was given to fall back upon Waynesboro’,
which was done in good order, our artillery
and trains being all brought off safely.
All accounts concur in tho opinion that but
for the unfortunate panic of the GOth regiment,
we should have achieved a brilliant victory.—
The enemy had beeu three times repulsed, their
line was wavering, and it is believed had our
meu stood firm lor fifteen minutes longer tiiey
would have broken and retreated, when this
disastrous panic inspired them with renewed
courage and enabled the.ir officers to rally their
dispirited columns aud snatch the victory from
our grasp.
Our losses in the fight wero heavier thin re
ported yesterd ly, it now being stated that we
had from 300 to 600 killed and wounded.
About seven hundred of our troops were cap
tured.
SUPPLIES OF FOOD.
Gov. Smith of Virginia has completed ar
rangements for running a special train on
State account, between Richmond aud North
Carolina, for the purpose of bringing to Rich
mond, for the u-o of needy persons here and in
other portions of Virginia, such supplies of
grain and other provisions as the agents ap
pointed for the purpose may be able "to obtain
grant’s brutality.
A letter written in our intrenchments, dated
Gaines' Mill, June 6th, speaks thus of Grant’s
inhumanity :
“But the most awful thing that I ever knew
of, and that I do kuow of, is that Grant never
buries hi3 dead or attends to his wounded.
There arc some of his men, killed and wounded
in front of our works since the Ist, and they
are still there as they fell, the poor wounded
beseeching us to give them water, which we
are not allowed to do in consequence of the en
emy's sharpshooters. One fellow last night
hell rwing out “Reb,” “if you will only give me
a canteen of water I will give you my watch.”
There we see them, day alter day in the hot
broiling sun, without tho slightest shelter up
on them; and the dead are decomposing rap
idly; all the bodies are black and smell awful.
Did you ever hear anything in your life so hor
rible? One might ask, why don’t Geu. Lee
send iu a flag ot truce ?_But 1 wit! tell you why.
At Spottsylvania, Gen. Lee did send in a
tig of truce to that effect, and Grant re
plied that, as he had not time for that, as he
proposed attacking him (Gen. Lee) immediate
ly; that lie iutenrled to fight it out upon that
line if it took all summer,” and that laconic
reply is what the Yankee journals have beeu
bragging so much of. Ah, if they were to see
what I have seen, they would not rejoice over
that answer.
WOUNDED BY SHARPSHOOTERS.
There is a daily arrival at the Richmond hos
pitals of soldiers froth General Lee’s front, who
have received their wounds at the hands of
Grant’s sharpshooters, who are said to be very
numerous. Tho least exposure of the head
above tho breastworks draws a dozen “sights”
upon the spot. Nearly all the wounded are
shot in tho head; some receiving their wounds
while lying down inside the works, the sharp
shoo’ers of the enemy mounting into the trees
and tiling from au elevation. Cur sharpshoot
ers are not idle either.
FEDERAL INHLIU.VJXr.
The Yankee General Warren, commander of
the Fiflh Army Corps, whose Dutchmen broke
aud ran so at the battle of Chancellorsville,
1603, has been quoted ns a man of some hu
manity and feeling. The following will serve
to dispel that delusion. When Warren’s corps
laid his linos through Hanover, near Bethesda
church, his troops turned out of doors Mrs.
William Curny, robbing her and her children
of clothing and food, even to the last stitcli
and the last mouthful. Enclosed by the ene
my's lines, the children went begging among
the brutes for the scraps of meat and “hard
tack” they would throw away. Mrs. Currey,
grief-stricken for her starving babes, and think
ing not of herself, sought Warren’s headquar
ters and begged to be allowed the privilege of
drawing food for herself and them, especially
a;; his soldier* had robbed her of all she pos
sessed. ‘ Madam, ’’ said Warren, “wo read in
history that the women of Jerusalem ate their
own babes during the siege of that city. You
may have to come to that yet, but I hope not 1”
staTuHent of a prisoner.
A prisoner b pught in from the battlefield
of Friday,June 3d, told an eminent minister of
Petersburg, then in Richmond, that he enlist
el in the heavy artillery branch of the service,
and was assigned to duty in the fortifications
around New York. Immediately after the
bloody fights around Spottsylvania Court
House, this soldier waspreremptoriiy ordered
on board a steamer and sent off to West Point,
on the York river; from whence be was hor
rid to Grant’# army. He told the minister,
further, that he had no heart for the war and
wos sick and tired of it, and that he lost no
time on the dayoi the battle to throw himself
into the hands of the Confederates as a pri-
P ° 'I* 1 ' Go wasglad of the opportunity,
and hailed it, under the circumstances, as one
of the happiest days of his life. Our infor
mant states that this prisoner was a men of
more than ordinary intelligence, of genteel ap
pearance. and related his story with a frankness,
ireedom, and sincerity that bespoke its truth
fulness. He added, too, that his case was uot
an isolated one, but that there were hundieds
similarly circumstanced, who had welcomed
captivity as a precious privilege, compared
with fighting in Grant’s army. This prisoner
stated further to our informant, that whiskey
rations were liberally issued to Grant's troops
during the night of the 2d inst., and that hun
dreds who were led up to Gen. Lee’s breast
woil.s at early da.vu on the morning of the 3d,
placed tae cartridges in their guns with the
bans foremost, while others tired wildly in the
an and others at til were so beastly intoxicat
ed that they did not fire at all, being unable
to buug tueir pieces to a level. These state
ments aie corroborated by the unprecedented
paucity cf casualties in our ranks, and espe
cially in .font of Hoke s division. This numer
ous command, we have been positively assur
ed, did not lose six men from all causes, not
withstanding it was repeatedly assaulted by
overwaelming numbers.
THE PETERSBURG FIGHT.
The enemy came up, about 6,000 strong, on
four roads—the Broadway, City Point, Prince
George and Jerusalem plank roads, with
mounted infantry and six pieces of artillery,
they attacked our left ou the south side of the
Appomattox, aud then on toad after road, pro
ceeding trout the left to the right, until they
reached the terminus and militia of our lines,
holding our left witii hands full, whilst their
mounted infantry, with four pieces of artillery,
rapidly developed ou our right. Our whole
line is eleven miles long—the distance occupied
was about five—with large gaps, aud they at
tacked infantry and artillery on about four
miles. They attacked our lines with infantry—
since ascertained to be four regiments—and a
portion of their cavalry, aud our right with
their remaining cavalry, five regiments, and
four pieces ot artillery ; the lelt, with two
smail batteries, Butte sand Hood’s battalions,
and the 46th Virginia regiment. Wise’s brigade,
repulsed them easily. Our right, held by tho
militia, met them bravely, but in vain. The
enemy broke their lino by (l inking right and
lelt, and thenadvanced to the corporate limits
of the city, where the reinforcements, part of
which were led by Gen. Wise iu person, met
and repulsed them.
Our loss was JO killed, 32 wounded and 28
missing—total 70. ’fhe enemy’s loss was 85
killed, from 70 to 80 wounded and 4 prisoners.
Wo lost one 12 pound biass howitzer, taken
from the militia, and dismounted one of the
i-rieur/s guns, besides capturing a fine.3 inch
rifle piece, with four horses and harness.—
Upon the whole, we beat them off and worsted
them, but it was by God’s nnrey alone. The
militia fought bravely, but were overpowered
and flanked on both sides; and our entire force
was a mere handful, only about 1,000 all told,
and only two companies and twenty men wero
mounted; consequently, the enemy could at
tack airy poir t with their whole lorce beiore
reinforcements couW possibly bo sent to our
aid. Os course, the cavalry spoken of above
do not include Gen. Dealing’s, which arrived
near the close of the engagement. We only
had one battery of moveable artillery, and four
effective guns in position, and they on the ex
treine left of o.ur lines. Weave ail grateful it
was no worse. General Colston volunteered
bis services, aud was placed iti command of the
right by General Wise, early in the day, whilst
he (Gen. Wise) conducted affairs ou our left,
repulsing the enemy there, and then, in per
son, hurried to llte right; but his men being
much fatigued, anti on loot, had to march five
miles, and got up just, in time to give the ene
my greater inducements to speed his hasty re
treat.
A MOST IIORKIBI.E OUTRAGE.
We have had related to us the particulars
of an act of brutal lawlessness committed by
ihe enemy in New Kent county, which is al
most too shocking to humanity and morals for
recital. Two young ladies, daughters of one of
the most wealthy aud respected citizeps of New
Kent, Va , were seized try a squad of the ene
my who invaded the residence, forced into a
chamber and their persons violated by tho
fiends incarnate in die presence of their parents,
who could do nothing but implore the wretches
to kill them and commute a title worse than
death. We would cover up thi3 deed, crying
as it is, and appealing to ad the dictates of so
cial life, bus for tho conscientiousness that
facts of tills kind should go upon the record
to be handed down as evidence against those
exemplars of philanthopy who are warring
against liberty, virtue, aud the social system
of civilization.
various items.
Whether urged by hunger or hy love of
crime, tho conduct of Grant’s troops towards
the citizens who fell withiu his lints is more
atrocious than has marked the footsteps of the
sauie army under any of its former gen
erals. A letter describes the scenes witnessed
by some of our scouts, iu the enemy’s track
and close under his lines. Little children
would run out to them, and beg for something
to eat ; the Yankees having stripped the fam
ilies lifeiatty of everything.
The soldiers of the Eighteenth Virginia Leg
men i, upon hearing that the poor of the city
of Richmond were suffering for food, resolved
to fast one day and give them their rations.
The rations were duly received and acknowl
edged.
A touching episode occurred a few days since
which deserves more than passing notice.—
While a portion of our pickets were charging
those of the enemy to drive them from a posi
tion from which ttiey were annoying us consi
derably, private Washington Davis, second
Georgia li. giment, was mortally wounded.—
When brought to the breast works, ho was met
by his friend and commander, Lieut. “Col. W.
8. Sheppard, and his hand pressed by young
Davis he bent over him, who said : Colonel,
tell father that I tell while charging them !
The picket is off duty !” These beautiful words
were his last, for he died immediately after.
The Yankee practice of shooting at our
wounded was carried to a villainous extent dur
ing the late battle at Cold Harbor. We heard
of an artillery officer who was shot seven times
after he ha 1 fallen. On tbe field In front of
Kershaw where the blue coats lay so thick, the
Yankee sharpshooters killed many of their
own wounded and left tho rest to dieatlei
suie.
Gen. Dotes was shot by a minnie ball. It
entered the right side, passed through the heart,
came out under the left arm pit and shattered
the hone of the left arm. Those who were
near him say he did not breathe after he fell.
He was the only man kiilrd in tho brigade.
The Richmond Examiner says over twenty
thousand letters, written by the Yankee pri
soners held iu Southern prisons and others in
the South, have accumulated at the examining
office of the flag of .truce bureau, av,’ailing tho
arrival of a flag of truce steamer as an oppor
tunity to be forwarded northward.
The corps commanded by Gen. Baldy Smith,
which recently went to Grant’s support. Is
known in Yankee enumeration as tho Eigh
teenth. Grant has now five corps instead of
three, which he had when be crossed the Rapid
an, viz : The Second, Gen. Hancock ; thelifth,
Gen. Warren ; the Sixth, Gen. Wright ; the
Ninth, Gen. Burnside ; and tho Eighteenth,
Gen. Smith. The five have less men than the
three, had in the beginning.
About eleven hundred Yakees are in our
hospitals at Richmond.
Some wounded prisoners who have been re
comiybrought into Richmond by our ambu
lance corps, stated that they belonged to a body
nineteen hundred stroDg that had volunteered
for the defence of Washington city; that in
two days after arriving there, they had beeu,
in contempt of their engagement, sent to the
front; that in one ot the recent attempts to
storm our woiks, they had been forced to make
the charge, that their column had been almost
swept away by our fire of artillery and musket
ry; that efthur whole number, but three hun
dred now remained, and these had stampeded
for Washington, indignant at the treachery
which had sacrificed them.
A strong force of the enemy from Butler’s
department, variously estimated at from five
to ten thousand strong, commenced a vigor
ous as-ault upon Petersbuig Thursday morn*
ing. They advanced from City Point, it is
reported, in four columns one by the rail road
one by tqe Broadway road, one by the Baxter
road, i.nd the fourth by the Plank road, a fleet
of gunboats operating on the Appomattox
making a direct attack upon Fort Clifton. Skir
mishing with the troops on the roads leading to
the city from City Point commenced about five
o’clock in the morning. About eleven o’clock
the enemy made a dash upon our outer line
of breast.ioiks, in oveiwhclming foice, at the
junction of the Baxterand Plank roads, about
one mile from the Sou then'-teiii submbs of the
city, on the farm of Timothy Rives, E-q. This
p unt was held exclusively by the militia forc
es, w. o, atter holding out biavely, were order*
ed to lull hack into the intrenchments. The
Yankees charged upon them while tney were
execu'i ig this order, ca; tured seyeral, and took
the breasworks, with most of the dead and
wounded. The Yankees haring secured this
1 ne, made some further pi ogress, advancing to
tae 6uhuths of the city, hut wer« driven back