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ATLANTA, GA.,
Proprietor and Dealer in
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Urns, Vases,
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r Mi Children's and Boys’Wear.
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hare k llrocatcllc Curtain Goods
Gilt Window Shades,
CORNICE RANDS, Ac.
I blanketsT” kerseys,
AND
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■obaeco, Fine Liquors, Ac., Ac.
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•om 8 m8n ’ nn ^ purchase mado In
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J.R. MARTIN,
Successor to C. A. Smith,
ROME. GA.
^NOLKSALr. AND BRTAlf. DF.A1.KU IX
CHOICE
MimiOMItY
AND
SMALL GROCERIES.
all kinds op frdit.
>Y3TERS 8l SHAD
IN THEIR SEASON.
CANDY MANUFACTQ Y
AND
BAKERY,
A SS O Jl TED CA ND IR fl
!*ut up In Boxos to sylt Customers.
arties Supplied with Cake
i Order., will bn attended tu with
T"!!! 1 ”"* am * D'.patdi.-dv^
tr©*Tcma C,sh. SjoplStwly.
I DLANSKS—15 bnrrols and half bar-
'■'» Ooi\falerato Molasses and GYescent
¥1/ oyntp, ju,t rccoivod and for Hal, low by
LAMIfIN A CO.
The Georgia Regulars., ttuilr wnnt
and their worth
A very onrnost nppenl 1. made
through tho ‘•Conitltullonall.t” of
AugUBln, In behulf of this band of sol-
dler,. The wrltor say., that tho "nog.
ulora” havo boon forgotten and nog.
lected, in the distribution of favors by
Soldiers Aid Societies Ac.,
Ho ssys they are in great nood of
clothing. Tills it not very strange, hut
it should not bo allovrod to want atten
tion. Being mado up of small squads
of mon from different counties, tho
Itegulars scorn seem to belong no
whore in particular, and every where in
general,
Tho only dtfferonco botwoen these
mon and Volunteers is this—tlio Regu
lars aro enlisted for 3 yoare whother
wo have war or peace—the Volunteers
aro entored (mainly) for the war. Tlioir
claims are equal,
Wo cannot omit to moiition tho ox.
travagant ortiinate, tho above writer
makeeof tho valuo of tho ltogulars.
Ho says den. Toombs mado a speech to
thorn saying that "Ooorgia looks to
the Regulars and to them alone, to sus.
lain her honor." Of courso suoli
a statement deserves no credit what-
'er. H.
Donations to the Holdiers Aid
Society.
The following donntioni have been
recelvedi by tho Exeeutivo committo
of tho rioldisrs Aid Society, of Home,
sinco tho 26th of September.
Frum Running Wator Soldiers Aid
Society, 1ft pair of socks, 1 pair gloves,
18 pair drawers, and 7 undershirts.
Mrs. Berrien and Mrs, Peppor, 2 dos.
Shirts.
Mrs. Wallace Warren, 9 pair socks, 3)
lbs. wool, and for Hospital, 1 blunkot
and 1 package of popper.
Mrs. Green Cunningham, 30 yds. of
jeans for Cspt. Towers company,21 pair
socks, 1 Home made blsnkct, 1 pair of
mittens and for Hospital 1 comfort.
Miss Pamela Bobo, 1 Home made
blunkot.
Mrs. R. J. Johnson, for Hospital 2
blank ala, 1 pair pillows and oilier
things.
Mrs. W. Scott, 2 blankets, 2 psir of
Bocks.
Mrs. Asa Smith, I pair socks.
Rev. Mr. Foster, 11 lbs. of wool.
Mrs. J. J. Cohen, for Hospital, II bot
tles blackbcry cordial, six boxes
mustard, 1 package arrow root, 1 do.
rod popper.
Mrs. Larkin Barnett, 27 ydi. home
mado colorod ilannel.
Mist I.issy Barnett, 2 pair wool
socks.
The Society made tho following do-
nations to tiio Cherokee Artillery:
I pair shoes; 11 pair pants | 11 shirts ;
II pair drawers; 11 under shirts; 11
outiide shirts.
Our Savannah Correspondence.
Cm r Lawton, near Savannah, Ga.,
November 4th, 1881.
Dzar CovetxR; Col. Spaulding as-
mined command of ids regiment on
Saturday, and issued his various orders,
Ha appointed Col. Terliune, Adjutant
of the Regiment, but Col. T. declined
the honor, but consented to act until
Col. Spaulding appointed another. He
is well quaiilled for the position, end
we all think he ought to liavo accept
ed, but ho lias ids pegs set, and is work
ing to thorn.
Wm. C. Winfrey and Wm. A. Morri-,
sou of the Borry Infantry, linve boon
appointed Mnrkors to tho Regiment.
Our daily duties aro as follows, vis;
reveille 0.30, A. M.; siek call 7 ; break-
fast call 8; guard mounting 9; drill
9.30; dinner call 1 P. M.; drill 2;
dress parado 4.30; supper .call 0; tattoo
8; taps 8.30 P.M.
Tho numbor of our Rogiment has
been changod from 28 to 27th Georgia
Volunteers, and our company banner
has been adopted as the Itogimental
banner. Evory time wo see it unfold-
od, we think of those who presented it
to us, and are rominded of the promise
our Captain mado for us. Wo know
not how soon wo will bo called upon to
test tho sincerity of the promise, and
our devotion to tho cause in whiob we
havo oniislcd.
Tuesday, Nov. 5.—'There was an oleo.
lion hold to-day, for Captain and three
Lioutenants, which rosultcd as follows
J, W. Tumor, Cupt., T. F. iloopor, 1st
Liout., U. W. Doan, 2d Lieut., Thos. J.
rerryi 3d Lieut,
Wo have just received orders to cook
throe days rations, and ho ready to
march to Tibeo Island at 2 o'clock P.
If., as there is ‘23 vessels trying t0
a lauding.
All the siok wnnt to go with us,
though there are same too eick to go.
We will bo off in a few minutes.
Fi.oro.
Pure Train Oil.
IBARR^lq j U8 fc received, and for sale
1 TURNLEY,
^p.? pf>plce llopcp
b F*
Kentucky.—'The Memphis Appeal 1st
Bays, Into personal advices from Louis-
Villfl or® to flip effect that tho abolition*
ista of that city aro really oliKlued.—
Tho imposing force of the Confederates,
coupled with the lukwarmnesa of tho
fighting material of Kentucky ‘in en*
fistipg ip tho Federal army, has hacf
the effect- ffl pfpboldpp thp’ true men of
the State, epd thousands aro Booking
to tho Soutfiprp standard. Kentucky
will yet, in a great mensuro, fight her
own battles, a»d achieve an indepen
dence of abolitiondPDh SB 0 * 1 ar0 tlie
signs of tho times, ns tho knowing ones
road them. If once tho fears at {joqis-
yille.
Camp op the 21st Rru. Ga. Vol.,
near Contrevillo, Out. 28, 1801. f
Editor Courier;—In tho oft nnticl-
pated ongngoment, wo hnvc been dis
appointed. Wo havo heard tho ro«r
of cannon and tho ratling penis of
musketry. Our Lnggngo has been cut
down twice or thrice, for safe, speedy
and efficient marches. We have been
under ordets of three dnys prepared
rations, to march at a moment's war
ning. Our sick luvo been sunt to
Hospitals in the rear—somo curried by
night soveral miles upon litters. Wo
have made forced advance marches
during tho night, with scarcely thirty
minutos from the issuing of orders.
And, notwithstanding, all these move
ments wero - Indicative of a speody en
gagement with the enemy, wo lmvo
never yet had the opportunity of
striking steel with tho Northern foe.
How long this stato of things will
continuo—who can tell? With mix*
ious interest do wo await tho long ex
pected issuo. But so often havo wo
been disappointed, that instand of get
ting weary, wo are growing moro rec
onciled and moro patient, and fool
pride in declaring ourselves ••in far
the war,” not bccauso wo would not
love to bo with our dear friends at
homo, but to show to tho enemy thal
wo aro determined to gain a glorious
Independence, or (ill a soldier’s grave.
Oh 1 by-tho-by, insn't it strnngo that
I should havo forgotten to speok of
the “big battle” that we had the other
day—but don't bo alarmed, nobody
was “seriously hurt*' upon our side.—
Tho enemy, “we routed him—wo scou-
ted him nor lost aslnglo man." Wo hud
nearly made Fairfax buoyed with the
expectation of a speedy battle, when
wo wero ordered to “ right about march"
—“no flght for us.” 1 must not burden
your types with describing the effect ot
a disappointment, for you havo long
since learned, if you beliove what wo
■ay, that we are not only witling to
fight tho invader of Southern soil, but
anxious to bring him to an account
for his unholy purposo of subjuga-
tion. Making a small eminence, wo
wore halted and fronted in lino of
battle, just opposite one •!* those no
table “Old Virginia'' pine thickets
that over enlists tho interest of tho
stranger, when command was given
“6y the right qf companies to the front—by
the right flank—march—guide center"
upon whioh tho right of companies
breasted a stop back, upon which was
a rickety, briary and brush lined fence.
Seeming to forget for a moment, thal
the order indicated a continued march,
though tho path might ha obstructed,
as tho entrance of an ancient dungeon
—“can't you cl mbthundered the Col.,
when, “O, crackoy,” how we did “get
up and dust,” and scut ored Clio rails
liko unto those upon tho Plains ol
Manassas. Wo plunged into tho dark
forest of mattod pines, getting an oc-
casional.glimpse of “Uld Blue!;" dash
ing through the crashing brush, bear
ing the bold, foarless and m ijestio
form of Col. John T. Moraer.
“Thon" cracked the brush “by" sol-
dior’s “riven,"
“Then rushed" we forth to battle
“driven.”
We lost not “a single man." But
tho wounded, Ol the wounded of
that day, for tho briars fought despo*
ratoly.
Well, we went on picket the other
day. We had some fun and somo
did’nt. When we loft camp tho min
was falling hard and fust, and cn»tiiv
ucd during most of tho d»y, so that
many of us were thoroughly wet.
We spent somo four or flvo days in
this interesting business, and think
you, our lines were interruptlcd by tho
Yankees—never a timo; iierhnps they
had learned that wo were somo of tho
samo stock of Georgians which they
encountered at Manassas. We had a
pretty good time, notwithstanding wo
run short of provisions. Then came
rather a trying timo, but wo mado out
to live, and are now “doing well."—
For some timo we only eat parched
corn, hickory nuts, Ac. Now, 1 do
know a great many mon in our Hugh
ment that did not press tho neighbors’
provisions, because they knew that tho
support of a family of ohildron depen
ded upon thorn, besides they wero
willing to realixo somo of tho priva
tions for which they bargained, when
they enlisted in tho service of their
country, and bocauso they thought it
unkind to dostroy the property of
those whom they profess to give pro
tection. Now, if thevo were any who
did proas tho neighbors’ stores or poul
try, I would like to know if thoy wore
actually suffering from hunger, if in
deed they were o\[t qf ipopoy and cred
it, and could not get provisions any
way.
On returning to camp, wo found a
good many of our men that iiad been
discharged from tho sevonil hospitals
qf !‘Sudly {Jhqroh" JJichmond, Cul-
nenner, Ap,, of which wore several mon
of the Sharp Shootors, and quite a
number of thoSardis Volunteers. This
is indicative of nn improving slato of
health of our soldiers. Most of tho
companies now are pretty full.
Ours is a beautiful camp, command
H!8 tho most delightful view of Con
tyoyillo and neighborhood, around
tyljjpJl wo are throwing up a numbor of
foyiiflqfttions.
The pold begins to p'ndj pretty
tight. ^Vo have hoavy frosts.
Capt. Ilart, with Mick Wood, F. Jl,
Hall, Goorge King, and a negro mai),
Waived fl^ht,
'Jtygs, W? Hoopoy ljus tyeon uppqin-
ted Mitfor, and Thou. .1, Vcrvery ap
pointed Adjutant, to fill the vaennoy
occasioned by tin* promotion of A(\ju-
tant Hooper. As tltcro has been some
confusion a bum tho minila'r of our
Regiment, I will state (hat ft fs “Mor*
oei Vilst Ooorgia Volunteers. B.
... . t*’® Flection.
Wo give below tho official veto of
this county.
row rnr.HinKNT ani» the vr mi mm.
Jefferson DivK Bit)
A. II, .Stephens, 010
ron roNuREss.
A. If Wright, 7:i2
1.. W. Crook, 100
Soitiier.v Cultivator, for November.—
This vdluiiblo Agricultural monthly Is
c n our table, filled, ns usual, with inter-
rating anti instructive matter. A far
mer cannot Invest one dollar to better
advantage than by subscribing for
\ u
tfSrWo would respectfully suggest
that as the President has been pleased
to appoint a day of Fasting, Humilia
tion nud Prayer, that onr City Fathers
tako action thereon, to seo thnt it is
properly observed.
Orr ron tiie Wars.—Lt. Col. T. W.
Alexander, and a number of members
of Capts. Jcncs’ and Ballinger’s compa
nies, who bad been up on furlough, left
on Wednesday night, for their respec
tive posts of duty.
flay*We sec that our friend Thos. J.
Pony, is elected .‘Id Lieutenant of the
Berry Infantry. This very good, as
there is no man in tho company, who
will come iienrur doing his duty as nn
officer, and aiding and accommodating
tho men and seeing to their wants.
Fremont’s Proclamation K.srort'En.—
A dispatch from Holla, Mo., dated 24th
ulc„ says; Fremont's proclamation is
rigeuly enforced in Jeiferson, .St. Fran
cis, Washington, and Ironton counties.
Offenders nro summarily shot. Sympa
thisers giving information arc treated
as spies.
From tiik Passes.—The X. O. Delta
of the 2d says tho storm of Thursday
night drove all of Lincoln's lleet, ex
cept two vessels, out into tho GulL it
is probable they will remain there until
tho present blow is over. With tho
two remaining vessels is a dismasted
schooner. It is not known whether
this is a prize they havo captured, ot
e of their own ornft,
glgrA correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier suggest, that there ho ap
pointed a day of Thanksgiving to Al
mighty Clod for the multifold mercies
that we have received ilming tho past
season. Wo think the suggestion an
xcellent one, ns Ills tr.oreies lmvo been
cry great and peculiar this year.
Is it Lkoai. ?— By n special act of the
Legislature, says the Savannah Repub
lican, tho soldiers in tho North Carol!
camps voted for Electors of Presi
dent Thursday last—six day* sootier
than the goucml election, so os to al
low the returns to ho received by the
Slieritls of the sc'eral counties, in time
to be counted simultaneously with tlioso
from tho home precincts of such coun
ties.
The Feeling in Baltimore.
A Baltimore correspondent writes to
the Now York Herald on the 21st ult.,
as'follows, in regard to the public senti
ment 6f that city.
Baltimore is a slumbering volcano.
It niuy bn thought that tho secession
OriUso bore 1ms been routed out by the
strong measures that have been taken
for its suppression ; but such is not tho
case. Its head whs cut otV when Mar
shal Kano was nmsted, hut it suivived
that adverse blow. Its heart and brain
wero extracted when tho raomberit of
tho LogiHluturo were placed in durance
vile, but it still concocts treason, strat
agem and spoils. Its touguo was si
lenced when tho Exchange and the
HioutU wero suppressed, and the iSun com
pelled to shitio by borrowotl light, but
it finds a thousand modes of uttering
its treasonable sentiments. Its arms
! paralyzed when its muskuts, can-
and ammunition wero discovered
and seized; yet tliore is reason to bo-
liove tliero nro moro of tlioso articles
yet undiscovered than have yet boon
found. To drop tho metaphor. Balti
more is secession to the core. The only
change in the sentiment of tho people
hero, that l can discover, is that tlioso
now love secesh who never did before,
while those who always did now love it
moro.
Tho proof of this fact is to be found
every morning, in a walk through Bal
timore street. Let the papers contain
accounts ot a Union victor)’ in onopart
of tho country, and nine men out of
evory ten you moot look mud and cross,
but let l|»o news be that Hilly Wilson’s
Zouaves havo been licked or that a do*-
«m Zouaves ut Newport News lost their
axes, mid a wretched pair of hoises, or
that tho iron-clad steamer, Turtle, had
sunk a U. S. Steamer at New Orleans,
and tho nine men will wear luces ra-
dhifif >vith joy, and little parties will
meet aqd hobnob over brandy smashes
in honqr qf tho news, and even tho la-
dios lyill cleqolj their little hunds and
say they are sq glad ! No wonder tho
Union men here p»ko yen out to Fodo-
ral ||i|l, qnc| alipiv you tho great fort
tueuo abrering four squares of ground,
with its walls on two sides rising forty,
fifty, perhaps sixty foot abovo the
street, with its black * bull-dogs pqlfiqg
their noses out of tho embrasures, aiq]
opening tlioir yawning jaws clerpp
inches wide, «n4 tllPH ' Rdjft.t you (q
Fort McHenry to tho southeast, with
its cannon pointed a little to our right;
to tho throe other forts recently thrown
up to tho North and cast of tho city,
and to the fort at tho Relay House
southeast of us—tho lnrgost and stron
gest of thojq all— and toll you tha't tho
peace and quiet und peaceful industry
that you see through tho cjty dojionds
on theno.
Tho General Assembly of tho State
pf South Carolina, met ou the 4th. in
Columbia, in qbedjeqee tq # paU pf
Gov. Piokens.
ttnttle or Leesburg,
Tho Army correspondent of tho
Charleston Courier, gives tho following
Interesting account of the Buttlo of
Leesburg: '
It was known to Gen. Evans that the
enemy designed making nn attack
somewhere cn thnt day, (Monday,)
but at what point, whether, above, bo-
tow, or on ids centre, he was at a toss
to determine. .Several thousand of the
Fuderals Imd mado a demonstration at
Edward’s Ferry, about throe miles be
low, in tlie morning ; and under cover
of a heavy fire of nrtillory they hud
thrown across tho Potomac not less
than forty-five hundred troops, while
another column had . commenced to
luud by l>oafc loads from Harrison’s
Island, ns early ns midnight on Hun-
day, or one o’clock, A. M., on Mon
day.
To counteract the effect of these si
multaneous movements, Gen. Evans in
tho morning, posted throe of Ills regi
ments between Edward’s Ferry and the
present buttle ground, where thoy could
bo eilectivoly used whether tho advance
of tho enemy came from cither quar
ter. The wisdom of this precaution
will bo evident on contemplating the
character of tho Imttle, tho forces with
which our Genera! had to contend and
tho meagt-o handful with which we
hail to defend a long lino of assailable
territory;
Having landed in considerable num
bers, tho Federalists, between six and
seven o’clock in the morning, sent out
a strong party of skirmishers, consist
ing of five companies, to scour tho
woods and clear tho way Tor udvanco or
their column, not entertaining any
idea that Gen. Evans, who a few days
before, had made a busty retreat as a
decoy, was within eight miles. (At
least so I was informed by one of tho
prisoner*.) Tlioso passed into the
country until they readied the innor
field to which I alluded as being nbsut
u mile from tlie river, where they were
mot by a company of fifty tnon from
tho Seventeenth Mississippi, under
command ol Captain Dutr, who wero
engaged on picket duty. A brisk fight
immediately ensued from behind trees
and fences, the brave little bund nev
er yielding mi inch ol ground. After
maintaining on unequal contest for an
hour or moro, a reinforcement of two
companies from Clio Eighteenth Missis
sippi, one from the Seventeenth Missis
sippi, and ouo from tlie Thirteenth
Mississippi, were ordered to the sup
port of Capt. Dull’.
The whole of the little furco—whioh
may bo considered a skirmishing party
only—was now under the command of
Col. Jennifer, lie being tho senior offi
cer present, and the fight was carried
on with renewed activity und fierceness.
Reinforcements wero likowiso received
by the Yankees, und for a long time
tho two untogouUts, strung like snakes
along the lines of fences, faced oaeh
oilier in a deadly tiro. .Still our hoys
gained upon tlicmi. Creeping from
covert to covert, and tree to tree, fre
quently gelling wBhiti fifty or seventy-
five ymds of tho fee, and never moro
than one hundred and fifty away, they
paired such a galling tiro into tho
ronks of tho enemy that they finally
fell hack through tlm woods.
Forming in tine, tho littlo party now
entered in pursuit, uiid followed until
they came to tlie edge of tho second
ami larger field wheie tlie enemy was
discovered in force so strong, that it
was whs not deemed piudont to uttuuk
them. Until eleven o’clock the con
test had been continued amost unecas-
ingly.
At this hour the Eighth Virginia
was ordered upon the field, and gallant
ly the) went into the conflict. For
four long hours, sometimes falling back,
and sometimes pressing forward, fight
ing all (he timo, they maintained their
place in the bloodf picture with a dog
ged obstinacy, which It scorned as If
nothing could move. Tho regiment
had been marched and countermarch
ed probably thirty-live miles in two
days, had slept on tho ground, boon
deprived of their ordinary rations, and
uiok-stoppod tho journey to tho latter
icld, yet went into the fight as fresh
and forgetful of futigue, as if their
nerves were made of iron. About
twelve tiie Federalists brought up at
the bank, and planted uiion a knoll
near the edge of the field, two moun
ted boat howitzers and a rifled twelve-
launder, and with these conimenoed n
vigorous fire of shot and shell*
Roinforcemonts continued to arrive
from across tlie river, and ns fastna they
landed, came to the assistance of their
comrades, so that the Eighth Virginia
must have encountered, for moro than
four hours, neaily the full strength of
the Federal force.
At last finding it impossible to drive
them back in front, tho Federal com
mander, General Baker ordered u flank
movement. This was made with so
much success, though a majority of the
men did not know it, that word was
sent to Gen. Evans for assistance and
morcuminiir.ition.
Then it was (about half-past two)
(list the seventeenth ami Eighteenth
Mississippi Regiinouts wero ordered up,
und the light assumed the proportion*
of many of the timo honored battles of
tho past.
Not having been nn eye witness, it is
impossible to describe tho scene ns it
was, but from the soul stirring narra
tives, of some of tho officers, it is not
difficult to imagine tho terriblo nature
of tljo contest—the theatro of battle
narrowed down to less than a dozen
acres, tlie mop propping upon each oili
er likp tigers, thp W0Q<te fViHgod with
■heats of (jnmc, the t[\r stifling with
smoko, bullets flying thick as hail,
bombs bursting! H»«U shouting, horses
snorting and spreading with agony,
the woundod fli'oqujug, while dead
and maimed woro felling oil every
hand.
Tho hardest fighting of flip day was
now taking place —soy beetween four
and six o'clock. Tlie enemy wero driv
en back nearly to the brink of tho cliff
and from tho woody sides of tho £orgo
upppived and returned the fire—which a
Wge portion of our troops delivered
ppm bohiqd a natural breastwork, form
§ d by thp bf.off of a gontlo elevation,
oon the order rqn along tho lines of
tho Virginia Eigfitp and Mift., Eight
eenth, “prepare to cjjgrg^-V The but
teries woro playing upon u» ot a distance
of only ono hundred and fifty yards, and
those witii tho troops supporting them
wero to be tho prize of snccoss, A mo
ment moro ana the command vftia giv
en. Will) a yell that might havo boon
heard iii Leesburg, two mllos away, the
Mississippians ana Virginians started
apd with a rush that was irreslstable, bay
petting, shooting, stabbing, clubbing
and clearing everything before tljppi.—
^4oy soized the battery. I)ut qpo ipai*
rnmnmoti m his post, • and no a gallant
fellow waived tlio “Slnrs und Stripes"
till ponotrutod by a dozen balls. Tho
rest fled like frightened sheep.
Behind tiie battery another stand
is made by tlie Yankees. This pur
lin ps was moio desperato thon any oth
er during the day, A river and preci
pice behind them to rush or fail down,
whose rooky'sides was In somo places
Instant death, and twenty-fivo hundred
rifles in front of them pouring forth
their deadly volleys, presented an al
ternatively which cidlod forth all tho
hull dog nature they possessed, and
they fought better than ever Yankees
fought before.
Still they could not stand lm|iotuosi-
ty of the Mississippiim*, who had now
assumed the brunt of the fight. Col.
Burt having fallen in the previous
charge with a shot in his groins wldlo
gallantly leading his mon, the command
developed on Lieut. Col. Griffin, and to
his steady “Forward hoys, forward, keep
a Arm front," tlie Mississippinnsrespon
ded by advancing again upon tho ene
my.
Finding thnt darkness was about to
settle upon tho aeeno—for it was now
after six o'clock—und tlie ranks of tlie
enemy wero already broken, the com
mand was given “Chargcl" This was
the final and most glorious feat of the
day. The Yankees wero suattcrod along
tlie brink of the river bank and in tho
edges of the woods, in this position
tlio Misvissippiuns, with ope of their ter-
riffia yells, charged u,kmi them. A few
of the Yankcos, moro dosperatn than
others, met them ut the point of tho re
volver, ono or two at tiie point of a bay
onet, but tho giand mass went tumb
ling down tho precipice, heels over head
Hereauing murder, shouting quarter,
and throwing down their arms.
In tho confusion a Mitsissippinn Hom
ed r urr, uu old manor near seventy tlu-co
youm, who hud been token prisoner by
the enemy, was sent towards our lines
with a flag of truco, but when hot moro
than a dozen paces distant one of tlio
cowardly Yankees shot him in the
buck. Tlie deed was witnessed by a
largo number, and wlun tlio white
haired patriot fell it seemed as if no
human agency could restrain the im
petuosity of the onset which Ids com
rades made. One powerful fellow
caught a Yankee on tlie end of Ids
bayonet, and it is said carried idtn
twirling and screaming in the air for
several feet, swearing ut hint in tho
fiercest und most sutisfuctoiy manner
possible.
From this time forward until tho sur
render took place, tlio sceno must liavo
been terrible. Largo uumbers were
mangled by falling down the rocks, tlio
shoro of tlio river below was lined with
men, stripping and endeavoring to es
cape by swimming. Bouts woro cross
ing, while clothes, muskets, accoutre
ments and everything else that would
encumber a man were thrown aside or
into tho river. One man, stark naked;
run through the country, and was
found concealed in a barn, five miles
from tlio sceno of conflict. Othov* lay
upon tlio ground und prctoiided to bo
dead, but by fnr the greater mimbef
cried “quarter, quarter," until the fir
ing hud wholly ceased and they|,had
been taken into custody.
The report lias boon circulated
throughout tlio country, 'that a largo
bout, containing ono or two hundred
wounded wont down wldlo crossing tlio
river. 1 iiave endeavored to find tho
man who saw this, but thus fur nm Una-
bio to do so. Thnt n largo number
were drowned is confessed' by Captain
Vuuglin, who entno over to assist in
burying tiro, dead, and , Cols. Leo and
Cogswell both stated the same fact.
Thoinimlwjr ofkillod and wounded on
our side is ubout tlie same os I havo es<
tlmntod in a previous lptter. The Fed*
ends left dead upon tho ground num
ber ono bhiidroa unit ten* or twelve,
while Col. Cogswell says thoir wounded
Is far beyond tlio proportion usually oh-
servublo. Together With their drown
ed, l should, therefore, estimate , their
loss • at between' four mid five hun
dred; !
Tlie man nor of the surrender was os
follows: When tho.Fodoruls called out
quarter and displayed utluuof truce,
the firing was'ortleicd to ho discontin
ued. A Captain cud Lieutenant then
came forward in front of ’Col. Cogswell,
add advancing to Col. Griffin, inquired
to whom they had. tho honpr to surren
der. On being Informed, thoy asked
on what’ terms he demanded their
surrender. The reply wns that we had
five thousund men on bund, who were
sufficient to cut them entirely off, and
that the surrender roust bo uncondi
tional. 4
Col. Cogswell thon came forwanl, and
inode the request that tho body of Gen.
B iker should bo found and receive thu
attention due his rank. Cot, Griffin
assured him that ororv caro eliott/d bo
bestowed upon il j but on sending a
detail of men to the spot where he fell,
the body wns missing. lie had been
wounded in two places, and while stan
ding against a tree was shot tlirou jii
three tim-f moro. Aftot wards lie was
removed by his friends.
Col. Cogswell was furnished with a
hoyse, and rode from tiro battle field
to Lcosburg, whore a wound in tlio
hand was dressed, afterwards he was
tokeu to headquarters, and (Hence with
tlio other prisoners takon to Mamis***.
Tiro total number captured up to tills
date, seven hundred and fourteen.
Late News.
„ R'cimoNn, Nov. 5.—Tlio Noi'folk
Buy Book” of llila morning copies
trom tlio Iklttmoro pnpors Scott’s lot-
teK of rclgiutton to Linooln. Ho says
III* resignation t. tendered in ootiso-
quonce of bodily inllrmlties tvlilcU
oompol li ra to take tlio stop. He adds:
"It 1 ,’ "! th regret lltavo withdrawn my-
oolf in these momentou. tlmos front tho
orders of tlie President, who has treat
ed mo with nnioh (listinguisliod kind
ness and courtesy; and whom 1 know,
from much personal intercourse to be
patriotic, without Sectional partialities
or prejudices.”
The Cabinet was convened on Ft iday
and accepted the resignation, allow
ing Ids pay to continuo ns n retired
olliecr.
Lincoln complimented him on his
tong eel vioos, his devotion to tho flog,
Jto.
McClellan was notified by tho Cab
inet to tssumo command of tlie Ar
my.
Tho Departments here (Richmond)
hare received Intelligence that. 42
vessels wero In line of battle off Port
Royal.
stvoso nuiuTctr.
A passenger from Jackson’s River,
in tbs mountains of Virginia, brings
information thnt ■lliiirold, a sol
dier tvho had just desorted from the
Federal camp, stalca that Rosonerants’a
army did not oxeeod 8,000 offeotive
mon. and that much sicknoss prevails
in Ids army.
Floyd waa at Cotton UUI, and an
engagement was expootod dally with
Rosoncrnnti, who was only a fow miles
off.
It is reported that there It n great
flood in tlio Kanawha River.. The Kelt
orks wore overflowed, and Charleston
ubindrged,
Nxsnvlu.1, Tenn., Nov.' 6'.—Th. re-
S irt of 10,000 Federal., marching on
opkinsrillo from tlio direction of
Henderson, turns out to bo a Federal
trick.
A gentleman tvho left LouisvIIIo last
Friday, and passed through Hcmlorson,
arrived here to-day and reports only
a fow troops there; and none hetweeu
tliero and Hopkinsvilllo.
A dispatch to tlfo New York “Timos”
front Washington 31st ultimo, says
there is slackness in enlistments again
—especially in tho largo States.
Thoy aro so few, that tho War Do
partment hits again returned to tho
system of accepting mon directly with
out tlio inlorposithu of .Stale authori
ty.
Lincoln, In reply to tlio Senators who
demanded to know wltou tho Federal
Army would make a- forward - move
ment, says tho responsibility tslertwlth
McClellan, and it Is the purpose of tho
Exooutlvo to sustain him in any under-
Inking.
Adviees from Now York to the 31ss
say that tho jury in tlie uiio of tlie
Privatoers taken on board tiie .Savannah,
stood 8 far conviatiou and 4.for ooquit-
Tlio Grand Jury ‘ in Cineinhalti on
tho 30th ultimo, found truo bills
against J. M. Chenowith, J. A. Skiff
and T, 1), Lincoln, charged with troas-
i,.
PiiTsasbt-sa, Nov, 0.^-Tho—Express’’
this morning publishes an important
tolographio dispatch taken Wont N. Y-
“Times," of Monday last, received at
Norfolk, as follows: “Lincqln has soht
nn Order to the Wostern Military De-
rapw.igrm'g;=figagjHMa
>eii° —. m i.„.:„K.Liii™i ,.«.i ..—.....i-wi „,. iront rroniont to non. uunior, ins
order .is absolute aud unconditional,
and Inis reached Fremont ere this.
lt Is kitsod on Lincoln's thorough
conviotion of his incapability as a
General, and tho gross and profligate
expenditures ot money under uis tut-
rami, trillion,
StCONII oisK.iTcn.
Returns decidedly indicated tlie
olection of Ex-Presldont Tvlor to
Congress, in tho Richmond District,
by a large plurality.
Tho Norfolk "Day Book,” of yester
day, reports the beaching in tlio late
stonn of two federal steamers, on
Currituok brack. One is supposed to
bo the Ureat Ropublio.
. Gon. Scoott is reported as going to
Europo.
Mii.i.bdusvim.0, Nov. 8.—Tho Legis
lature met at 12 M. Hon. J. M, Bil
lups was oleoted President of tho
Senate—-Bobley Secretary. Warren
Akin was elected ipeaker of tho
House, and—Arrington olork,
CoMiama, s. C-. Nov. 0—The Leg
islature on Monday. The Governor's
message was read yesterday, and sa)s
the Stato has 10,000 troops in sor-
vico, besides 3,000 in Charlston, aud
21 mounted companies on tho coast.
Ho advises tho State to pay tho war
tax,
Tho Charlston papers say Capt. Morrill,
of tho Yankee Steam Transport Os-
eee/a, wrecked near Georgetown, ar
rived yesterday at Charleston. He
reports thnt ho wns ordered at N.
York to take 15 dnys provisions and
follow tlio largo vessel. Tho Osceola
went ashore on Saturday.
Oapt. Morrell says the fleet consists
ol 5U or 60 vessels of all classes;
that the storm on Friday and Satur
day was very severe, and thinks
many of tlie fleet must have been
lost or disabled.
The Spanish steamer Nucstra -Se
ra do Regia put into Georgetown
in distress, from Now. York for Ha
vana.
sscoso DisriTCti.
l’assongora from Port Royal arrivod
in tho St. Mnrya this morning. . They
report that tho Yankoo Hoot attempted
to pass our battorics thcro at 01 o'clock
this morning. Seven of the largost
steamers succeeded in passing in a few
minutes, nnd wero lying up in tho Bay
out of tho rango or our guns.
During tills lime, the firing was contin
uous nnd hCnvv from tho batteries.
It Is impossible, from tho position of
tho steamers, to sae if any of tlio flee t
havo returned tho fire of the batteries'.
As thoy passod by the batteries, they
did not Uro a gun.
A largo steamer, supposed to bo the
lint that run the gauntlet of ouh batte
ries, chased and shot at tho Confederate
States steamer Savannah, of 'Com
modore TatnalVs fleet. It escaped into'
a creek.
Tho St. Marys left there for this place
this morning at lOo'elook. It was im
possible to learn the casualties. '
Col. W. H. Stiles’ Rogimont arrivod
nt Hilton Hoad Wharf, flvo miles dis
tant from the battorics, just ns tho tir
ing ootnmenced, and loft far tho scene
of notion ut "double-qulak.”
A Yanked steamer ot extraordinary
spodd, tried to Interoopt tho Confede
rate stoamor "Savannahbut must
have run aground wliilo making a short
out over tlie shcaly places, as sko did
not appear around the point for which
•ho was making.
Forty-one vessols are In sight of hero
tills morning—17 of tvhioh aro trans
ports and 24 steamers.
Col. DeSuassuro’s rogimont, 8 or 000
strong, arrived at Tort Royal yesterday
afternoon, from Summerville, S. C.
The “St. Mary’s" passod tho "Gen,
Clinoh” nt 10 o'olock, this morning,
having on board Gen. Ripley aud sialf,
bound for Port Royal,
TUI HD DISrATCU.
8.40, r. M.—Seven vessels passed tlio ,
Port Royal battery this morning ut Bay
Feint. After galtlng Insldo tho Bay;
they opened a Are on UUton Head but
tery.
Tho battarioB oveotod on Hil
ton Hoad returned tho fire. Sovcra
of our guns at tho battorics wero dis
mounted. Tho result to the vessols
is unknown. The firing aeased at
dark, but it )■ oxpoetod tho onomy
will attempt to land to-night, when
warm worn may bo looked for.
Ricuhoxd, Nov. 8.—Tho “'Dispatch"
h"s inteUigouco from Cotton Hill that
Floyd commenced cannonading tho
uiiomy on Friday Inst. Ho has stopped .
tlioir transportation, killed a number
of horses, disnblod tho wagons, and
killed 29 of tlio onomy. ne controls
tho road ovor whioh tho onomy trans
ports supplies.
There is a rumor (whioh, however, is
not generally credited) that the Feder
ate croisod the Knnaivliu river at Loup
Crook to cut off Col. Jenkins’ Cavalry ;
that Jenkins informed Floyd that if
lie would send infantry reinforeoinents,
ho would out tlie enomy’s foroos off,
whioh was done; and that Jenkins
had killed and enptured tho wliolo
force—-saltl to bo 600.
The morning pnpors say that
non. Lea left yostertlay, charged with
tlio command of tho const defenses
south of Virginia.
John C. llraokinridge has boon ap
pointed a Brigadier-General.
Nasiivili.k, Nov. 0.—A dispatch
from Washington 31st (Jotobcr, to
tho,Now York Times, says tho Ar
my of the Potomno will- not- go into
winter quarters within their prosont
linos of intrenahments. -
Tlio N. Y. "World’s” dispatch same
date—says Lincoln lias assured par
ties that a forward movement of the
army lias been determined on,
Puokotcd.—We nro plenscd to learn
ys tlio .Savannah Republican Hint
Col. H. W. Mercer, now in command
of the regiment on Tybeo and Cocks-
pur Island, has been promoled to the
post of Jlaigadior General and as
signed to tho command' of tlio coast
south of tho Altamniia, with his Dead-
quarters at Brunswick. Tlio honor is
wall merited, for CA>f. Mercer has prov
ed himfelf one of tlio most cfHcietit
amt popular oflieefs in tlio service at
the South.
This appointment is a happy one in
all respects, it will givi-tltliversalsiitis-
faction aiming tiie |H-ople along thu
coast, gnd il was iiiutii- ill parsiiuncu of
the a-iiiia-l i—,p|e-t nt Hciiural Lawton;
who is iii-i jH-pujWii rriejm.
A Mciiiteii AnsimacvT.—Coin, G.
N. UolfflJ*, U. »S, N\, Ims received
from tlio Di-pni-tmcqt qf tfi" C,’oqfct|-
oruto States f\avy ||m appointment
of Flag Oupiniii on tlio New Orleans
naval stntion, dntj: c on tlie i|ny ol
his suoocssflil ntiuck qn nqd dispersal
of tho United States vessels, ut tlie
Passes of tho Mississippi,
garTlio Clarksville (Tepn.) Joffcf-
sonian states that tile ugont qf tlie Con
federate Government has rented tlio
oxtonsive slaughter houso, built by
C. If. Smith A Co., in that oity, and
lias commenced the purobaso qf pork
ni)d beef, for tho purpose of paok-
!H6 fi“F Hi? 9?yo[“i)moi)L
Tho IlhrplGS.
FROM SAVANNAH.
Savannah, Nov. 7.—The steamer
Jlesolute of tho ConfoJernto fleet came
up here at 11 o’clock lust night, to coal,
find Brought correct particulars of tho
operation at Fort Royal to dato.
It appeal* that tiro report of one
steamer being disabled, and another
aground, is incorrect. On Monday af
ternoon. Tattnall with his ll^lo float
wont within a ^ilo of thq federal
squdron and ongagod thorn nearly nn
hour* until lip brought them wtyhln
ango of the guns'ut tiro Port, wheq ho
■otired, and allowed tho latter to epqn
on them. Tho engagement lasted till
late in tiro evening—with wlmt lesult
it is impossible) to ascentq\n.
Com. Tattnall a^air. suillied out to
the Fort nboro—three quarters of a
niilp frpm tlio enemy, when a fierce
engagement of forty minutes ensued.
Tho ouemy fired rifted shot and shell,
whioh fell about ua \\\ grpflfr PVpfiWQU-
Two shoto m^sqd through tlfo Savan
nah, without seaious damage to the ves-
s'ols. Nobody on board was injured.—
Parties ot tho Fort say that seven shflts whisk;
from our fleet took effect in l'oderal tho
vessels. Tiro latter coming in closer,
pur floot. rpfcir.et|. •
— . . — —„— ity o__ _. _
vy pore, and who are growing rich and
I'm upon their blood. Such prices us
tlioso greedy and rapacious ‘monsters
demand for articles of priino necessity
are almost fabulous. Such profits as
are required to satiate their ravenous
maws would be deomod incredible by
tho hungriest landshnrks in any otlior
ago or country of Christendom. Talk
of Yankees or ot Chinese 1 Why, the
most remorsolcss Yankee specula
tor, between Richmond and the North
Pole, would die of shame aud vexation
if they oould see how operators in Dix
ie Land surpuss their boldest feats of
plunder, lt is in vain that Governors
of States Issue proclamations ; that tho
wople yell out at every fresh turn of
he sorews; thnt the whole community
stand aghast at the shameless greed of.
tho cormorant arew. Where the car
cass is, there the eaglos will bo gather
ed togothcr.
You might as well appeal to tho
moral sense of buzzards and vultures
to abandon their prey on the battle-.
Held, as oxpect the harpies of, high
prices ’o relax the grasp of tlielr" sharp
claws, nnd lot the poor victims 'escape.
It is n beautiful sight to soo some 'sick
soldier, who has boon blistered by the
sun, and wet by-the dews of six
months' campaigning, and has faced
dunfcer and death iu the bottles of his
country, asking timidly, at squid coun*
ter, tho price of an artiole necessary
to his comfort, and turning away , with -
a heavy sigh, as the man of pence
names a price whioh a General of Divis
ion could nbt afford. A great world
this, a world, os Carlyle would say,
much forsahau uf Qud, and in pressing
necessity to be damned.
iy*Tho Fort 6mith Times of Oct.
2d, says:
We have information from reliable,
sources that after a 'sixty days' cam-
“uigfl iu Kansas and Missouri, tho
[c0\i(loch division will fall back into
rkuusas. Tho quartermaster has
advertised for the building of stables
to Accommodate 5,000 army horses and
a largo number of mules; also, for
^00,0,00 bqshels of oox’n and 3,750 tons
of bay to forage these tujiroals.
c' , “ •'
Tub Steamer Mirrimac.—We learn
that tiro work ou the Merimac is still
tiro founders hero, A correspond’
cqnrofeiup tbftt Gov. Letcher, wh? has
visited tho Fopir.sula to look after, the
“situation," fyid .dono nothing oh ay-
riving there but cat hog fish and drink
.-utJfi.. certainly h»g6 jJrfTO tlikt
fftotqt: )Yas completed, if there '
bad- been a propew. regard for our rivei
defences.—Richmond Examiner.