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fcstod in tho dispatch of tho Prussian
Govorninaot to Baron Gerolt, and that
they will ho tent out :n the next steam
er. The Administration regards that
dispatch as fully committing Prussia to
the same unfriendly course of policy to*
wards us as has been chosen by En
gland, Spain and France, although her
course cannot affect our interests in the
alightest degree.
From the Richmord Examiner, 8th.
Accounts of the Yankee Army In
W ashington—Their Outrages—The
Manassas Panic.
We have had a very full conversa
tion with a reliable citizen of Virginia,
one ot Mayor Berrett’s police-officers
in Washington, who lately escaped
from there into our lines in Virginia,
through imminent perils. We have
reason to be entirely assured of the
reliability ot this information.
Our informant has a family in Fair
fax county, and has a personal knowl
edge of the outrages committed by the
Lincoln troops in the country along the
Potomac within their lines previous to
the fight at Manassas. These outrages
are so dreaeful and fiendish as almost
to exceed belief but for the attestation
of evidence that we have every reason
to know to be reliable. The Lincoln
forces, in their advances towards Ma
nassas, obtained as guides a number
of Quakers living in the neighborhood
of Accotinc Mills, about eight miles
from Alexandria. One ofthese, a man
of the name of Stiles, a New Jersey
Quaker, for the sum of three dollars a
day, was engaged to pilot companies
of pillagers to every house where plun
der might he obtained. The house of
his own wife’s grandfather was pillaged
among the rest. There was no place
within tha reach of the Yankee scouts
hut what was plundered and robbed.
A Mr. Haley was robbed of all his
stock and nine slaves, a few of tho
latter, negro children, who were incon
venient to be run off, having been left
by the marauders. A Yankee settler,
near Alexandria, by the name of Gorton,
piloted six of the New York Fire Zou
aves to the house of one of the most
respectable married ladies in Fairfax
county. She was made to prepare
dinner for the party; and, after that had
been dispatched, the poor woman, who
was within one month of her confine
ment, was violated by two of the ruf
fians, in the dining room, and in the
presence of her own children. The
wretched victim of this hellish deed
was taken care of by the family of our
informant, to whose house she managed
to escape during the night. Houses
were stripped of everything—fine paint
ings, wearing apparel, &c.; and, for
weeks before the Manassas fight, it
was a common occurrence for the plun
der to he transported back to Wash
ington city, and divided among the
houses of ill-fame there. In many of
the brothels of Washington, the finest
silk dresses, pillaged from families in
Virginia, were displayed by their v : le
wearers as gifts front the plunderers.
Our informant was in the city of
\\ ashington at the time the news ar
rived there of the route of the Yankee
army at Manassas. The first public
intimation of the event was early Mon
day morning, as the fugitives cora-
inrnocil to orrivc in the city. During
Sunday evening, it had been supposed
in the streets that the Federal Army
had won a decisive and brilliant vic
tory. The elation was extreme. At
each echo of the peals of the cannon,
men were seen on the street leaping
up and exclaiming—“There goes an
other hundred of the d—d rebels.’’—
On the Saturday preceding, a whole
procession of carriages had passed over
the Long Bridge, freighted with poli
ticians and women, who reported tl at
they were going on a “flag-raising”
expedition to Manassas. Some of
them protested that they must take
leave of “the Grand Ann}” at Manas
sas before it proceeded onward to Rich
mond.
On asking our informant of the scenes
he witnessed on the Monday and suc
ceeding days when the news of the
Yankee rout reached Washington he
could only reply that it was “a page lost
to history,” as no language could de
scribe '.hem. The first intimation he
had of the Yankee disaster was about
three and a half o’clock in the morn
ing, when he was awakened by the
lumbering of Col. Meigs’ carriage in
the neighborhood of his house and the
exclamations of the Irish driver, that
“they were all murthered besides him
self.’’ As the morning advanced the
fugitives commenced pouring in. One
of the boats from Alexandria came near
being sunk by the rush of the panic-
stricken soldiers upon its decks. Their
panic did not stop with their arrival at
Washington. They rushed to the de
pot to continue their flight from Wash
ington. The Government was com
polled to put it under a strong guard
to keep off the fugitives who struggled
to get on the Northern trains. Others
fl'-d wildly into the country.
Not a few escaped in this manner,
compelling the negroes they ir.et to
exchange their clothes with them for
their uniforms. For four or five days,
the wild and terror-stricken excitement
prevailed. The advance of the Con
federate army on Washington was lor
a considerable time, hourly expected.
Our informant is certain in -Lis own
mind that the appearance of a single
Confederate Regiment on the hanks of
the Potomac, during the continuation
of the Yankee panic, would have scat
tered the entire forces in Washington
in flight.
Many of the fugitives, with garments
nearly torn from them and covered
with ’.he blood of their wounds, throng
ed the streets with mutinous demon
strations. Some clamored to kill Gen.
Scott, others wanted to he led against
Greely, and others inquired if they had
come to fight for “the Government pro
perty,’’ as they had been told, to have
it explained what property it had in
“Bull Run.”
Some recounted to horror-stricken
audiences the bloody prowess of the
Confederate troops. One told of a
cannon that shot missiles resembling
in size sticks of wood. Another told
of terrible Mississippi Bowie-knives
thrown with lassoes sixty feet long.—
Later rumors from the field of battle
magnified the horror. Every conceiv
able Sepoyism anti bloody atrocity was
told ot “the rebels,” and found tremb
ling listeners. It was said that our
f troops had burnt the Yankee hospitals
and roasted their wounded alive; that
the mysterious Mississippi Bowie-knives
were being employed in target practice
upon the Yankees who wiu hound for
the sport; and that torn and disjected
limbs of the dead had been nailed upon
the branches of trees.
When our informant left Washing
ton a week ago, the excitement had
abated, but not subsided. Two pieces
only of Sherman’s battery had reached
Washington, the others having been
captured ; and two pieces also of the
Rhode Island battery had been recov
ered, with which the Government had
patched up the only battery it has in
Washington. The amount of Federal
forces in Washington and in the neigh
borhood of Alexandria was put down
at 35,000 to 40,000 men. Nine Reg
iments had left Washington at the
time of our informant’s departure from
there. I our Regiments had arrived
from Hampton and four of the Penn
sylvania reserve, which constituted all
the reinforcements that had reached
Washington eight days ago.
Our prisoners are confined in the old
Capitol building—an old hr ck house
o.i I irst street, east. They are guard
ed by a detachment of the New York
12th Regiment. The building had
been airangei’ for the confinement of
prisoners previous to the fight at Ma
nassas, and provisions made tor the
accommodation of at least 1200. We
are assured that there are not more
lhan nineteen Confederate prisoners in
custody at Washington. Most of them
belong to one of the Alabama regi
ments. There would seem to be some
Secessionist ladies left in Washington,
from the circumstance of a large basket
of boquets having been sent our pris
oners.
Gen. Scott was not on the field at
Manassas. lie is represented as being
in the last stage of valetudinarianism,
and to have not made any exhibition
ot his activity on horseback three times
in three months.
Address to the Army from Gens. Beau
regard and Johnston.
The following eloquent address of
our Generals to the army under their
command will excite the patriotic emo
tions of every Southern reader :
Headquarters Army of the Potomac, j
Manassas, July 25, 1 SGI. )
Soldier8 of the Confederate Stales :
One week ago a countless host of
men organized into an army, with all
the appointments which modern art and
practiced skill could devise, invaded
the soil of Virginia. Their people
sounded their approach with triumph
ant displays of the anticipated victory.
Their Generals came in almost royal
state ; the great Ministers, Senators,
and woiffen came to witness the em-
inolation of our army, and the subju
gation of our people, and to celebrate
the result with wild revelry.
It is with the profoundest emotions
of gratitude to an over ruling God,
whose hand is manifest in protecting
our homes and our liberties, that we,
your Generals commanding, are ena
bled, in the name of our whole coun
try, to thank you for that patriotic
courage, th it heroic gallantly, that de-
I'otrd ilaring pvliibiterl hv you in the
actions of the 18th and 2l’st, by which
the hosts of the enemy were scattered,
and a sigr.al and glorious victory ob
tained.
The two affairs cf the 18thand 21st
were but the sustained and continued
effort of your patriotism against the
constantly recurring columns of an
enemy, fully treble your number ; and
their efforts were crowned on the even
ing ofthe 21st with a victory so complete
that the invaders are driven disgrace
fully from the field, and made to fly in
disorderly rout hack to their entrench
ments, a distance of over thirty miles.
They left upon the field nearly eve
ry piece of their artillery, baggage,
stores, SjC., and almost every one of
the wounded and dead, amounting, to
gether with the prisoners to many thou
sands. And thus the Northern hosts
were diivep from Virginia.
Soldiets! we congratulate jou on
an event which ensures the liberty of
our country. Wc congratulate every
mar, of you, whose glorious privilege
it was to participate in this triumph of
cou: age and of truth—to fight in the
battle ot Manassas. You have created
an epoch in the history of Liberty, and
unborn nations will rise up and call
you •‘blessed.’’
Continue this noble devotion, look
ing always to the protection of a just
Goc, and before time grows much old
er, we will he hailed as the deliverers
of a nation of ten millions of people.
Comrades! our brothers who have
fallin have earned undying renown
upo i earth, and their blood shed in our
hoi} cause is a precious and accepta
ble sacrifice to the Father ofTruth and
of Light.
Their graves are beside the tomb of
Washington; their spirits have joined
with his in eternal communion.
Yi'e will hold last to the soil in which
the dust of Washington is thus min-
glei with the dust ot our brothers.—
We will transmit this land free to our
children, or we will fall into the fresh
giavesof our brothers-in-arms. We
drop one tear on their laurels, and move
forward to avenge them.
Saldiers! we .congratulate you on a
glorious, triumphant, and complete vic
tory, and we thank you for doing your
whole duty in the service of your coun-
try.
(Signed) J. E. Johnston,
General C. S. A.
(Signed) G. T. Beauregard,
General C. S. A.
From the Richmond Dispatch.
An Admirable Reply.
Vt’c are indebted to a gallant officer
of the army for the following corres-
ponJcnce, ensuing on an underhanded
and miserable attempt of Gen. Camer
on, U. S. Secretary of War, to obtain
the body ofhis brother, and at the same
time ignore the fact that it is a “belhg.-
eret t nation” by whom the North has
bee i defeated. Gen. Beauregard’s re
ply is a model, and confirms out im
pulsion, in reading his letter accept
ing a sword from the New Orleans la
dies, that lie can write as well as he
can fight. What comprehensiveness,
dignity and patriotism in that brief
ans wer of this glorious hero and gen
tleman ! Evidently, here is the right
mat. in the right place, lie wields the
sword ot Washington and the pen of 1
Hamilton:
July 22, 1861.
To Gen. Beauregard,
Or Commanding Officer Confederate Stoles .
Sir : I scud this by a friend and
trusty servant, who is well known to
many officers in your army. L'e is
sent for the purpose of obtaining from
you a permit for Mr. H. S. McGraw
and myself to pass your lines to obtain
the hod) of Col. Cameron, who fell in
the action ofyosterday. My solicitude
in this matter is an impulse of private
character. The rigid rules established
in Washington with reference to flags
of truce prevent me from carrying out
ray wishes without proceeding as I am
now doing. I believe General B. will
recollect me while a resident in New
Orleans; but if President Davis, Gen.
Lee, Gen. Johnston, Gen. Wigfall,
Colonels Miles, Keitt, or Withers, are
present, Ihey will not hesitate to vouch
for me. General Bonham, and in tact
nearly all your officers, know me. In
addition to the gratification of perform
ing a sacred dut}, I would he highly
delighted to meet in your camp many
of my most valued friends. It is prop
er for me to add that I have not been
in any manner connected with the ac
tion of the Government here, and that
I am a neutral.
Very respectfully, yours, &.C.,
(Signed) Arnold Harris.
Please make the passport for A. Har
ris, H. S. McGraw and two servants.
1 have not named my friend or ser
vants for prudential reasons, hut
either of the gentlemen above named
can vouch lor them.
Headquarters Armv of the Potomac, 1
Manassas Junction, July 23, 1861. j
SiR : I am instructed by General
Beauregard, commanding the Firs'
Corps, Army of the Potomac, to saj
that he has received your note of the
22d, and to reply thereto.
The General declines giving an in
formal permit to any one residing be
yond his advanced lines for any pur
pose which may he accomplished by
those formal proceedings known to,
and practiced by, civilized hilligerent
nations. By no act ofhis will he low
er the dignity ofthe Confederate States
as a nation by permitting that to be
done indirectly which the usages of
civilized warfare accomplishes directly.
The arbitrary and unusual course
adopted in such cases as you refer to
by the United States Government, will
be the guide of the Geneial’s conduct
in return. Any one, therefore, coming
within his lines without the proper flag
will be sent under an escort to the
Confederate Government for examina
tion.
The General deems proper for me
to add that humanity should teach any
enemy to care for its wounded, and
Christian ty to bury its dead.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
John L. Manning, Aid-de-Camp.
To Arnold Harris.
Prirafeersmrn and Prisoners or War
The New York Times comments as
follows upon the letter from President
Davis to Abraham Lincoln, relative to
the fate of our privateersmen now in
the hands of the enemy :
Davis, unfortunately, has it in his
power to make this threat effective.—
He lias in his hands a very large num
ber of our prisoners, and will unques
tionably retaliate upon whatever treat
ment we may extend to these priva
teers. President Lincoln, in his proc
lamation, has announced his purpose
to treat all who may accept letters of
marque and reprisal from the Confed
erate Government as pirates, and the
general sentiment of the public would
unquestionably sustain him in so do
ing. It cannot he concealed, however,
that the cuirent of events tnay render
it necessary to act with caution in this
matter, and not take a position which
may augment greatly the horrors—
great enough at best—of this civil war.
By taking and holding the prisoners
at all, it would seem to be recognizing
the Southern States as belligerents.
YVe do not, therefore, concede to
them any civil rights, nor in the slight
est degree commit ourselves to a rec
ognition of their political existence.—
But we do concede that they are en
titled to the benefit of those usages
which obtain among all civilized na
tions in a state of war. YVe exchange
prisoners with them; we treat their
men taken in arms as prisoners of war,
and not as rebels, and we recognize
the sacredness of flags of truce. We
are by no means sure that we do not
thus put ourselves in a position which
will render it necessary to recognize
their issue of letters of marque, so far,
at least, as to distinguish it from piracy.
YVe shall, undoubtedly, soon have a
proposition, from one side or the other,
for an exchange of prisoners, and then
this matter must be finally settled.
-4 Noteworthy Incident.—We are in
fo. med by a gentleman, who has the
tacts from an authentic source, that a
Prayer Meeting w as held at Atkinson’s
Church, on Sunday morning, July
21st, especially lor the safety and wel-
tare ot the Oglethorpe Rifles, Capt.
Lumpkin, a voluntrer company from
the neighborhood of the Church.
The Prayer Meeting was held at the
very hour that the battle of Manassas
was raging. The Rifles were in that
battle—forming a part of the Eighth
Georgia Regiment, which was in the
thickest of the fight—and yet that com
pany airne, of all engaged in the bat
tle, shows upon the record, none kill
ed!
Here is an incident worthy of note,
and exceedingly suggestive.—Augusta
Constitutionalist.
B ar Hems front Northern Sources.
The Run at Manastas.
The Cincinnatti Enquirer announces
the sudden arrival of one Eggleston,
on change—just in from the great race,
and the cry was “A speech! a speech
from Ben. Eggleston !’’ “Gentlemen,’’
replied he, “1 did not come here to
speak, but I will merely state what,
perhaps, you do not know—that Sen
ator Wilson, of Massachusetts, is a
much faster runnel than the lion. Mr.
Gurley, of Hamilton county; for he
trade hitter time on the track between
Manassas Junction and W.uhington.’’
Mr. Eggleston conceded that our Con
gressman’s pace was terrific, but the
Massachusetts nag outfooted him.
The New York Tribune has a cor
respondent who thus describes the Ken
tucky regiment in the army of Gen.
Johnston, in Virginia, watching Gen.
Patterson's Division.
Among the troops was one regiment
of over 1,000 Kentuckians, armed with
rifles and bowie knives. They refus
ed to take but one round of cartridges
to go into the contemplated fight with
Gen. Patterson’s column, intending to
lie hid on the ground in the artific a)
ttickets until our troops should ap
proach, and then make at them with
their bowie knives. This might have
made some desperate fighting, hut our
bayonets would probably have been
an over-match for their knives. The
men ofthe Kentucky regiment are des
cribed as a savage and desperate set,
who exhibited their ferocious disposi
tion on the slightest pretext, and kept
every one in terror of them: they con
sider it a pleasant diversion to chop a
man up with an Arkansas toothpick.
The wife of one of them is the vivan-
diere ofthe regiment; she is a thorough
soldier, and acts as a lieutenant of a
company, which she drills herself.—
She rs said to be vciy handsome, and
a perfect Amazon. Her dress is very
gay and conspicuous. Her ruffian
comrades take great pride in their
fierce and dashing heroine; and she is
as anxious to split a yankee with her
bowie knile as the bloodiest minder^
wretch among them.
Slaughter of the Rhode Island Troops.
Washington, July 24th.—In the
Rhode Island regiments, two hundred
and twenty are killed, wounded and
missing. I visited these regiments this
afternoon, and the gloom that hangs
over them is painlul. Instead of the
admiring thousands who were wont to
witness their evening parades, hut few
stragglers were seen; and on the place
where their splendid batteries were
planted there is now hut a single gun.
The Rhode Island First hope to get off
home to-morrow; they lose seventy-
nine in killed, wounded and missing
—of whom forty-six are killed and
missing.
The Killed Wounded and Missing.
It is impossible, sa}s the Hartford
Times, to get a correct list ofthe kill
ed and wounded—and we refrain from
publishing the imperfect and uncertain
lists which appear in some of the pa
pers. Our loss and casualties among
officers seems to have been dispropor
tionately large. It is known that 55,
000 men marched to the battle, and
that several regiments joined this army
on the way. The number ofthe same
army now, according to the accounts
from Washington, seems to he 40,000.
This would leave 15,000 to 20,000
unaccounted for.
Correspondence of the New York Times
Washington, July 30.—I am afraid
that the good people of New York are
doing quite as much to demoralize our
troops as did the battle of Bull Run.—
Idolizing runaways, making heroes of
cowards, is not the way to grow true
patriots and real heroes. The ovation
to some of the returning troops looks
at this distance like mockery of valor.
For instance, I read in Saturday’s
Times the following, relating to the
reception of the Eighth Regiment New
York State Militia, on their arrival at
New York:
“Capt. Varian,' with his troops of
bronzed and hardy looking artillerists,
were also on the pier, with their two
guide colors, torn almost to shreds by
the enemy’s halls during the late en
gagement.”
And again, I read ot
Capt. \ arian’s corps, which was in
the fight.”
Now look at the facts. On Satur
day proceeding the battle of Bull Run,
Gapt. Varian and his artillerists de
manded their discharge—their time
having expired. Gen. McDowell said
all that a commander on the eve of a
battle could say, to induce them to re
main, but without producing any effect
That day Secretary Cameron visited the
camp, and the subject being referred to
him, partly by coaxing, and partly by-
truly representing the inglorious action
which they contemplated, the artiller
ists were induced to nctily Gen. Mc
Dowell that with the exception ot
seventeen, the company would stay
with the division, until the time ofthe
regiment expired, on the 25th.”—Af
ter Secretary Cameron returned to
Washington, however, the company
took a sober second thought, and late
on Saturday evening again demanded
their discharge from Gen. McDowell.—
Of course, it had to be granted; and in
addition to his other duties, the com
mander had to provide for mustering
them out of the service and sending
'hem to the rear.
They wanted to take their batteries
with them, but, this Gen. Mc-Dovtell
refused—fearing the effect to be pro
duced upon the moving column, at
seeing a park of artillery withdrawing
to the rear as the Infantry marched to
the front. This artillery lay idle all
day at Centreville, and was off by the
rear guard on Monday morning—
brought off by stranger hands from
another State, and without even having
fired one projectile. If the two guide
colors are “torn almost to shreds,’’
the artillerists must have halted on their
march to the war and made their own
colors the target, popping them with
the pistols they never had fired at a
toe. This statement of facts comes
from an authentic source, and is literal
ly true.
Hard Case.—Another victim of
outrage at the hands of the Federal
troops near Hampton has reached this
city. The lady in question managed
to escape without personal violence,
but Butler’s troops, after destroying her
furniture, appropriating silver ware and-
other valuables, marched off all her
slaves with the exception of a negro
woman. With this intimation of dan
ger before her eyes, and perhaps an-
ticipting worse fate than death if she
remained, she had prepared, armed
with the gracious concession of a pass,
to retire despoiled of her property,
when the marauders again oppeared
and even denied her the privilege of
taking wealing apparel with her, save
suih as she had on.
These are facts, derived from the
lips rf the suffeter. How long shall
we be compelled to endure invasion?—
Ports mouth Transcript.
The Confederate Canse in Europe.
Tho London correspondent of the
New York Daily News, in his letter of
July 17, makes the following important
statements:
Rumors of a change of Ministry are
afloat, hut can be traced to no reliable
and certain source. However, the con
dition of affairs both at home and abroad
may render tho introduction of some
fresh aud vigorous material into tbo
Queen’s councils an early necessity.—
Ono of the earliest results of such an
event, should the xame policy not be
adopted speedily by the present Minis
try, will be tha recognition of the inde
pendence of the Confederate States of
America. This may seem startling
news, but it is, nevertheless, true —
You will please note that the fewjptedic-
tions I have ventured from time to
time, in my letters on this subject,"have
in every instance been fulfilled, and
that I have misled you in no single
fact. The ferocious assaults of the
Northern press upon the opinions and
policy of England, have at length
swept away every particle of sympa
thy that may have been felt for what
was termed by them a “war for the
Union,’’and the utter rutblcssncss of
their disregard for oemmon truth and
honesty in their accusations against the
people of these islands, has ‘led to the
conclusion that their vituperations of
theSouthern States were and are just
as reckless and untrue.
On the other hand, the brutal and
ferocious appeals of the Abolition
press to tho worst passions of human
nature, and the declared intention of
devastating and crushing the Southern
States—the land of their relatives and
our own—has produced not only tho
deepe&t disgust horo, bnt the hottest
indignation. If there be one charac
teristic of which a true Britton boasts
more than another, it is his love of fair
play; tuJ now he seas in the South
the injured and»weaker party. Tho
same pens that only a few years ago
summoned the humanity of Europe and
the world to rescue the oppressed vic
tims of tyrauuy and usurpation in other
lands, are busily at work to denounce
the madness of a Government that tram
ples every constitutional gnarantee of
your Republic nndor foot. Should
any serious reverse befall the Federal
arms, look for the immediate lifting .of
the curtain here. Yet a sincere desire
for preservation of the American Re
public, on the basis of good fellowship,
still prevails, and were this the issue,
there is but one voice among oar trans
atlantic kinsmen.
The establishment of a linge military
despotism is deprecated, and will even
be resisted.
The manufacturing districts are res
tive, and the prospects on all sidos for
coming winter are highly .alarming.—
In the East Indian colonies such trouble
is brewing that there can be no hope of
any certain supply of cotton from that
quarter, while all other sources are ad
mitted to be utterly inadequate without
tho aid of your Southern product.
You will perceive by the journals
that the Britisb-forces in tho Canada’s
are to be still further augmented and
fleets in your waters doubled. Reports
aic current that President Lincoln’s
blockade is inefficient, and that much
favoritism is shown. If this bo so,
prompt action on the part of this Gov
ernment, may bo surely anticipated.
The Paris correspondent of the Eame
journal writes as follows :
Throughout France trade is every
where depressed, and our manufactures
are execrating the American civil war
as heartily as do their friends at Man
chester, England, for very similar
causes. In St. Enticnno alone the
population has diminished 7,197 souls
since the riband trade began to fall,
and all tho other towns devoted to tho
silk trade have suffered in nearly equal
proportion. Still our national war pre
parations both by land and sea go on
with unabated vigor, and as I long
since foretold, a powerful fleet, inclu
ding some of the splendid steel cased
vessels lately launched, and now the
pride of the French Navy, is to follow
the squadron alread dispatched to the
American waters.
Opinions in relation to your present
domestic conflict are settling down to a
firm conviction that there is no safety
for the Republic but in conciliation.—
The attempt to subjugate so vast as
country and so determined a population
as those of your Southern States with
such incalculable resources, not only
in their home [reductions, but in their
power over the world’s commerce and
manufactures, is declared to be absurd,
while the gasconading of the Northern
war press is pronounced as most stupid
and atrocions by military men as well
as civilians. The Commissioners of the
C. S. A. are most courteously and re
spectfully listened to everywhere.
They claim to ask only for indepen
dence from a Government which they
ably and often convincingly argue
has overthrown the Constitution, not
only in the South, but in the North.—
This the best publicists and reasoners
of the country declare is no moro than
Franklin once asked in yonr contest
with England and elsewhere than in
Paris. Mr. Oudley Mann has had no
difficulty in procuring material aid in
the shapo of money, arms of tho most
improved order, and cavalry and
artillery experts ofthe highest stamp.—
From what I have personally seen and
beard on this subject, 1 should not be
suprised should Davis’ Government
loom up presently with a naval power
that will astonish those who have been
idle CLotigh to suppose that tho mena
ces of Mr. Sowatd in his dispatches and
his envoys here would pass unnoted.
In connection with tho foregoing, we
quote from the Washington correspon
dence of the Baltimore Sun :
The London Times has arrived at
the conclusion that the war must ter
minate iu Southern independence.—
That independence may not, even if it
exists de facto, terminate the war. It
is clear that tho Times will advocate
recognition by England, at an early
day. Advices received at Havana from
Europe,state that European Govern
ments will probably^soou recognize of the
Confederates. But these advices are
from mercantile scources, which are es
pecially interested in peace.
How the Farmers in ths Nortowest
Enjoy the Blockade.—The St. Louis
Republican, speaking of the depressing
effects of the war, says: “In this mar
ket potatoes cannot he given away at
6c. per bushel: new corn will go down
to 10c., if it can be sold at all; oats
will be worth nothing; hay will be a
drug, and wheat will not, in all proba
bility, command over 35c.”
In Northern Illinois last year’s pota
toes, sound and nice, are given away.
One farmer in Whiteside county has
thrown five hundred bushels ot fine
potatoes out to the weather, as no one
would take them fer cost of transpor
-ation.
An Iowa paper quotes potatoes at
2c.; wheat, 30c.; corn, 8c. per bushel;
butter, 7c. per pound ; eggs, 2c. per
dozen; cheese, 6c. per pound—mar
kets dull at that.
Evacuation of Newport News.
The Richmond correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury, of the 7th, says:
News came last night ofthe evacua
tion of Newport News by the Northern
troops. The possible programme of
operations by Gen. Magruder, as far
as Newport News is concerned, is thus
prevented by the retreat of the enemy
into Fortress Monroe. YVe have saved
our powder, an ! possibly some lives;
but we have lost the opportunity of
punishing the wretches who have
been committing so many barbarous
depredations or« the peninsula. Vie
have gained an important point, which
commanded to a great extent the
mouth of the James River, and ob
structed the navigation between Rich
mond and Norfolk ; hut we are depriv
ed, perhaps, of the chance of assailing
Fortress Monroe with any chance of
success. With the comparatively small
force left in the Fortress by Ihe with
drawal of so many troops to Washing
ton, and by the departure of the three
months’ men whose term of service
had expired, a successful attack was
not impossible; especially if Magruder
could have thrown consternation into
the garrison by a brilliant defeat and
pursuit of the forces at Newport News,
or could have drawn out the garrison
to succor their friends. The fortress
is not so strong on the land side, and
could be taken, doubtless, by a regu
lar siege; but it would require an im
mense force, and might not be nracti-
cable while the enemy can reinforce
it to any extent by water. We can
compel the enemy to shut up a large
army there to protect it; and we can
transport cannon and munitions ofjwar
from Portsmouth and Norfolkjto the
peninsula without serious molestation.
So much is gained, though we may-
have lost a chance of taking the for
tress.
Mary landers.
The persecuted citizens of Maryland
continue to escape to Virginia, many
of them are marked men, whose time
for arrest is only postponed for fear of
making the excitement too great bv a
wholesale capture and imprisonment of
all that are put under the ban. We
yesterday conversed with Mr. F. S.
O’Curry, of Frederick, Md., who has
just reached this city, after making a
narrow escape. He made an unsuc
cessful attempt first via Hagerstown,
but was cut off from tetreat by the vi-
gilence of the spies. He then suc
ceeded, it matters not how, as others
may come off in the same way. He
brought his family with him. He rep
resents the system of espionage estab
lished by the tyrant over the citizens of
Maryland as vigilant, and the persons
employed in it to be utterly heartless.
The people are pljnged into the deep
est affliction and humiliation, und sigh
and yearn for the coming ot the day of
deliverance, which they believe, and
we hope truly, is to come before long.
Ex-Governor Lowie’s real estate had
been sold by his instructions at very-
great sacrifice. There was no longer
any resting place for him in Maryland
and he took refuge in Virginia. By
his uwavering, unfaltering devotion to
constitutional liberty and State rights,
he is forced to abandon his native land,
the comforts and delights of his home
in Frederick, and to submit to a sacri
fice of a large portion of his property.
His experience is the experience of
thousands. A just providence will yet
restore them to their rights and liber
ties in their noble State, liberated and
disinthralled t f the destested tyrants
now domineering over her.—Rich
mond Dispatch.
If ho is He.—The Mobile Advertiser
& Register has the following:
It may be comfortable lor Lincoln to
know that a letter lias been addressed
to a high officer in the Confederate
service, by a high officer in the U. S.
Army, who holds a very important
post, offering to join the cause of the
South himseli, and surrender his com
mand into the hands of our troops.
The letter itself will vouch tor this state
ment.
SOUTHERN BANNER.
James A. Sledge,
Audcraou W. Reese,
| Editors.
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•ATHENS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1861.
Uo! for Virginia.
Persons desirous of going into immedi
ate service, in an excellent company, are
directed to the adveriisement with the
above heading.
Col.Thos. R. R. Cobb.
This'genllentan left yesterday morning
for Virginia, for the purpose of taking the
field at the head of his Legion. God pro
tect him and those under him, say w* ; and
every heart in this community says Amen !
ty Heavy rains fell in this ssetion sn
Monday.
Banks County Guards.
A letter from Capt. Candler says that the
fine water and air of Virginia have hid a
wonderful effect upon his company, and
they are now prepared :o show th* Yan
kees what stuff they are made of.
A newspaper paragraph says one of the
Guards, who was acting as sentinel, killed
a man who attempted to pass the lines, last
week. The sentinel ordered him to halt,
and said he would shoot, if he did not.—
The man said, “shoot and be damned.”
Whereupon the sentinel fired. The act is
approved by tho authorities in Richmond.
The man shot is said to be one who desert
ed from the Federal army lately, and joined
ours. Ho may have been a spy.
Capt. Candler publishes an order in an
other column, to which ne call attention.
Georgia Blade Sword.
W’e have been shown an officer’s swor
made by S. C. Talmadgb & Bros., of Mon
ticello. The blade is well tempered, an
the scabbard and other fixtures well finish
ed.
Direct Importation of Anns and
Drugs.—Mrs Henning sen, the wife ot
Gen. Ilenningsen, now in Gen. AVtse’s
staff, has arrived in Richmond. She
came from New York via Louisville
and Nashville. She was pretty closely
searched, but succeeded in getting
through with five revolvers five hun
dred ounces of quinine, anda galvanic
battery.
Colonels to bt Court-Martialed.—A
YVashington letter writer slates that
four of the Colonels in the Bull Run
fight are to be court-martialed. One
is charged with taking refuge behind
a stump during the fight; a second
with seeking safety in the rear of a
hay-stack, and the last two with mak
ing a precipitate flight from the battle
field on the same horse, while their
regiments were engaged fighting.
Sad Disappointment.—The Legislature
of the vagabond Carlile Government was
in session in Wheeling at the -ime of the
battle of Manassas. It was about to ad
journ on the eve of that battle; but a mes
sage was received by it from Abraham Lin-
coln, urging it to remain in session a few
days longer, in order that the whole Gov
ernment might adjourn to Richmond and
organize in the Capitol there ! The Leg
islature postponed its day of adjournment
and awaited with delightful anticipations
the news of that certain victory which was
to give them the possession of a real Gov
ernment House and GapAol, and plenty of
money to pay their grog and board bills,
and futnisli them with new clothes in lieu
of their dilapidated toggery. But in place
ot victory, catno defeat, and the poverty-
stricken and disappointed counterfeit states
men adjourned in disgust, and “dispersed
to their respective homes,’’ to tpfleci upon
their treachery. We have this curious cir
cumstance from gtod t ulhorily Richmond
(Fa.) Dispatch, 1th August.
Tennessee Election.—Returns have been re
ceived from twenty counties m East Tennessee
twenty-eight in Middle Tcnueneo, and lifteen in
West fenuessce, nearly all complete, and n num
her of military catnps, which toot up as follow s:
Cons’t. Against. Harris. I*o|k
East Tenn., 12,950 20,688 12,925 21 !C1
Middle Tenn., 39,008 i.9ti8 35,325 *7 tats
H’estTenn., 14,999 1,074 15,705 5 59!
Military Comps 3,155 3 ’i7(j ’’ qq
70,111 23,733
23,733
63,491 34,610
34,610
Majorities, 46,378
Geu, 51. C. 51 Uanimond.
After waiting five or more weeks for
reply to repeated tenders to the Govermei
of a Regiment of Infantry for the war, th
above named gentleman, in a card, release
the companies from their offer to serv
under him. He could not consent to- kee
them in suspense any longer. That bo wa
justified in this course, will appear from th
following extract from the long expecte
letter, received by him yesterday:
Adju't. Gen.’s Office, 1
Richmond Aug, 8, 1861. j
“Sir:—In respect to the Regiment tei
dered by you, 1 am instructed to state th
the government is under the necessity
declining the acceptance of Regiments th
are unarmed.
Very respectlully, your ob’t. serv't.
S. COOPER, Adj’t. Gen.
Effect of the War in Ireland.
We have been furnished with the sul
joined extract Irotn a letter written by a sc
to his mother in this place, dated—
Belfast, June 20, 1861,
1 am still with father in the Sewed (Swisi
Muslin trade, which is quite knocked ui
principally in consequence of the iroubl.
in America, as that was the place we sei
most of our goods ; but now there is not
piece sent there, and we are doing nothini
and cannot sell the goods on hand.ofwhic
we have a large stock. I assure you m
are likely to have trouble enough, unlei
trade revives. Every branch of business
as much depressed as oars. There are
great many people unemployed; brsidi
large numbers are returning from Americ;
Northern Papers.
We are indebted to Capt. Williams, ,
the Southern Express company, for Ne
Y ork and Philadelphia papera, to the 6tl
Some extracts from them will be found i
our columns this morning. We regret th;
we have not space for more, as the editt
nals of these papers are very interesting ;
this time.
The New York News still denounces tl
Lincoln administration in the severest term
and in reply to a threat of euppreasing th
paper, the editor defies the Black Republ
cans, and says when freedom of speech an
the press is attempted to be interfered will
ciril war will commence in New' York city
I he News contains proceedings of numet
ous peace meetings held throughout th
North ; bnt we attach very little importanc
to them. Tnc same journal says that ;
will require every fourth or fifth man in th
North to mako up Lincoln’s army of 100
000 men, and says he can neither gel tbei
or the §400,000,000.
The Herald is as bitter against the Soul
as Greely. The editor, Bennett, who ha
submitted to innumerable cow-hidings an
kickings, says the Southern men fight lilt
Sepoys and Indians, while ihe Norther
soldiers fight like white men. This it rici
Military Drill.
A number of gentlemen of this place at
forming themselves into a company for th
purpose of acquainting themselves wit
military tactics, and who will arm them
selves with shot-guns and rifles, and wi
bo prepared to go to any place on the set
board, or elsewhere, to repel invasion-
They driH regularly ever} Monday,Wednei
day and Friday afternoons in the rear of th
Old College. All the “can’t-get-awaja
are invited to join them.
NOTICE
To parties shipping by Southern Erprts
All goods should be sent to the Expret
office by half past nine, A. M. Heav
freight will be called for, when notice i
left at the office hy half past eight, A. M
W e are obliged to adopt this rule to er
sure the prompt forwa-ding of freight, da
ly- WM. WILLIAMS.
Agent Adams Southern Express, Athent
Aug. 12, 1861.
A Northern Officer Arrested ft
Drunkenness.—The Chicago Tribur.
has the fallowing special dispatch froi
Washington:
Col. Dixon S. Mieis, of the regula
army, to whom whs assigned the Fift
Division (reserves) in the corps d’urmi
of General McDowell, is under arres
and will be court martialed. He ws
too drunk on the day of battle, an
failed to bring up the reserve at tl
lime ordered.
muster roll of the Georgia troopers
W G Delony Captain, Clark’ Co
J R Lyle 1st Lieut, do
TC Williams 2 do Jackson r>
JERitch 3d do Cl ar W'„ 0
John A Wimpy 1st Serg’t Lumpkin r a
JC Rutherford 2d do Clark cV
D E Smith 3d do Hall C„°
M Simmons 4th do do
\vn«“ Wan corporal Jackson Co
W D Simmon? 2d do do °
S T Whelchel 3d do Hall Co
do Clark Co
Hall County
do do
do do
do do
do do
do do
do do
do do
do do
do do
do do
do do
do do
do Jo
do do
do do
do d 0
do do
do do
- 3d
W L Church 4th
Anderson N M
Anderson M t!
Bowman G G
Bishop J J
Bedell E P
Cooper J M
Conner D O
Grind!? B T
Glenn J T
Gowdelock R W’
Garner J 11
Gower T
House E S
House M V B
Head J J
Read W H
Thompson A R
Whelchel A S
FFhelchel F M
Anderson J M
Andersen W K
Blackburn J
Blackwell J S
Barrett R
Bartett W T
Brace A Q
Bell M M.
Densmore ABC
Early A W
Early W T
Early W H
Fields J T
Helton W J
McCurry T J
McCurry S M
Parks D R
Turner J J
Chandler Franklin
Cowan J 11
Cash N B
David J W
Nash R L
Nash C T
Nash J R
Sharpe J G
Whitehead J T
Bradley H S
Johnson S J
Pittman Af D L
Bailey S
Bone W C
Cherry J P
Harper A L
Harris C R A
Moore Richard
Riden M W
Wray Philip
Wray [Falter
Howard W C
Lord W R
Tuck T It
Bell Madison
Riley J B
Jones H F
Moseley B R
Prince O H
Thomas L P
Lumpkin county
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Jackson
county
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Madison
county
do
do
do
do
Clark county
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Oglethorpe county
do do
do do
Banks county
do do
Thomas county
Madison co KU
Cass county
Green county
MUSTER ROLL OF THE COBB INFANTRY IIAB
ERSHAM COUNTY, GA.
Captain
R S Styles
E J V\ illliains
G A Witt
H A Fuller
W H Griggs
J B Ivester
W Haines
E H McAfee
J H Grant
J C Smith Sr
W N Laptade
T J Edwards
Anderson G W
Broc- R J
Blackburn P S
Blalock J K
Cross N H
Culbertson H J
Clarke T C
Deal Noah
Davidson J A
Davidson E
Davidson H A
Dawkins A M
Engle J W
Fry J
Fousette H
Foster Alfred
Goslin J P
Harris J W
Harrison Joel
Harrison James
Hughes T M
Ivetter W
IvieTR
I vie J P
Ivie J W
Ivie W P
Jones J
Jones H C
Jones W N
1st Lieutenant
2d do
3d do
1st Sergeant
2d do
3d do
4th do
1st Corporal
2d do
3d do
4th do
privates.
I.aprade J E
Lyon W H
Miles A W
Maeneaa E
Munroe \V D
McAfee J O
Me tree T R
McOrotky Robert
McKenney F S
Nix J M
Nix J W
Nichols A
Perry H H
Smith J C Jr
S^ancell W S
Sisk WS
Sherby A Sr
Sherby A Jr
Sharhy B
Tankersley C
Tankersley J G
’fay lor J M
Ihnphrey John
Yandiviere T M
Wilbanks G
Wheeler R S
Wyley J A
Kennedy L
King W F
MUSTER ROLL OF THE DAMELSVILl.t GUARD
J M Montgomery Captain
J W Daniel
James Daniel
J A McCurdy
G L Rice
W R Collins
M D Looney
S C Cariledge
W A Thompson
A J McWhorter
T J Scott
R J Porl-rfield
1st Lieutenant
2d do
3d do
1st Sergeant
2J do
3d do
4th do
1st Corporal
2d do
3d do
■lih do
B Sanders Secretary and Treasurer
PRIVATES.
Aaron R F
Bradberry S C
Brag W D
Bramon W G
Bone J
Bond E
Bond J T
Bond J H
Bone M
Butler R
Baxter K B
Bradley T W
Bird H J
Bird J P
Bird B M
Bird J G
Barnet—
Biiant James
Brown S W
Caruth R M
Chandler D L
Crittenden S G
Campbell J C
Carithers If’
Collins J C
Collins J L
Colbert J W
Chandler J L
Chandler S N
Cariledge J W
Cleghant J W
Clemmons N J
Dean H J
David S
Evar a H
Fulghum J O
Kulghum J A
Fowler G W r
Graham W D
Gunnels W I)
Gunnels W J
Gordon 1
Grim J H
Grim l
Hering J R
Hutcheson T J
II
Hip J B
Hill J W
Key J J
Lar k ford W H
Montgomery W \Y
Morris O
Masten S A
Masten B F
Masten J 1
Owen B
Patton F J
Payne J If
Porterfield H N
Porterfield A
Patton H P
Page J K
Stephens W C
Stephens J A
Sims W W
Stephens J K
Smith J T
Streetman J U
Smith S C
Swindle S M
Shields S J
Sartin 1
Segraves H
Saylots J M Jr
Thompson T B
Thompson W S
Thurlkill T II
Vaughn J F
Watson J fl
Witcher J F
Williford W W
Wynn J
Wynn J N
Williford J A
Woods S N
W illiams P O
Woods W H
Watson J P W
Williams I H
Woods J W
Williams N H
Zaclirey I J
Correspondence.
Messrs. Editors.— May I trouble you W
publish the n follewing note, acknowledging
the receipiffrom Mrs. Veitch, of two reg'*
mental standards, presented by hsr to ***•
Georgia Legion, and her reply thereto-"'
Such liberality should not be unknown, •*
hence my wish for this publication.
Very respectfully,
THOS. R. R.COBB-
Mss. Veitt
Atuens, Aug. 12th, 1®**' .
•h : I send fur your «pp ,t