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SOUTHERN /.CONFEDERACY.
Southern tfonfedtratn
Lj. HBRLf BMITH,
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ATLANTA, GIOROIA)
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1861.
Judge Catron's Position.
" To the Editor* qf the Nashville Union A Amer-
» 1 called U mi Judes Catron soon after his
return from holding ths Federal Court st St.
Louis, and cooverasd with him fully relative
to bis position in the present con mat between
tho North sud the Booth, and urn fully satis
fiod that his mission to Missouri resulted io
earing our Wends there, and that Judge Cat
ron's reelings are with the South. It is true
that he yet clings to the hop# that the Union
may possibly be preserved, or a reconstruction
may take place, as many other good citisens
of his sge still hope for, and that a revolution
will occur in public opinion at the North,
when they will concede to the South all they
ask. There are vqry fcw left in tha South that
sympathize with Judge Catron in this wish,
hut, st the seme time, there is nothing in it
inconsistent with his preference for the South
in a final division. I may add here, that I en
tertain no doubt whatever, from my conference
with Judge Catron, that when the current of
events shall satisfy his miud that this illusioa
is without foundation, as sursly will occur, he
will take his natural position by the side of
his kindred, friends and countryman, and will
prove (as his feelings indicate) one of the
Htsnncheat and truest friends of the Southern
Government.
I write this as a matter of justice to Judge
Cfttron, whose feelings are not generally un
derstood. He wishes to live among his old
friends and acquaintances here, and, after foil
conference with him, I can sea nothing in his
wishes in this respset inconsistent with the
interests of our community. He will not un
dertake to hold a Federal Court here again, no
matter what may occur, an Ke stated to me several
times.
Judge Catron is too old to form new associa
tions. is earnest and honest, and a better and
more reliable friend to our cause than many
among us who are not excepted to by any.
V. K. STEVENSON."
Now, our opinion io relation to this matter
is, that no man who has a hope of reconstruc
tion of the Union is Jit to be a citisen of the
Confederate States, or of any one of the States
composing them. A decent respect for the
Stale in which Judge Catron resides ought to
have caused him to resign his Federal office
long ago, whether be wants a reconstruction or
not. He should either have stood np to his
State in her hour of trial, or he should have
left it forever. No man can be a true friend
Li the South who, living within our borders,
and under our jurisdiction, will hold an office
under an enemy’s Government. For the life
of us, we don't see the difference between this
ii nd treason.
When Judge Catron does find all hope of re
construction gone, and when he then resigns,
ho will be entitled to no credit for it. If suf
fered to live among us in future, he will be a
disgraced man—unhonored and unesteemed,
and this had odor will fall on his children and
his children’s children, for a hundred years
and more. While he can be permitted to do
so peaceably, be had better go to “ Abraham's
bosom "—pull upstakos and settle permanent
ly in Massachusetts, or some other point in
Aholitiondoin. There he sad his posterity can
he respected, but here they cannot—especial-
)y after this eard of Mr. Stevenson's.
A Regiment of Lawyers.
A correspondent of the Savannah Republi
can proposes to raise a regiment composed ex
clusively of the lawyers in the SUte.
It looks well on paper—it sounds prettily;
but we suppose it will preve an abortion equal
to the attempt made some time ago in this end
of tho State to raise a regiment of Doctors.—
We hope, for tho credit of the State, that no
more suoh propositions will be made. They
are impracticable, and not worth the space tbs
proposition occupies in the Savannah Repub
lican, in any light in which the subject can h<
viewed.
The lawyers and doctors are as patriotic ai
any other class of men, and proportionately as
many of them have already gone into service;
but it is out of the question to raise s regiment
of men from a certain class—taking one here
and another there from all parts of ths State
—and that class, though numerous enough,
and perhaps too much eo for the good of the
country, is nevertheless, comparatively, very
small in numbers. It can’t be done, gentle
men ; so save your credit by making no more
such propositions. If you want to go to the
war, go along with the balance of the boys and
do your heat fighting. There is something
practicable in that.
Produce Loan.
We see it stated, in a letter written by the Rich
mond correspondent of the Charleston "Cour
ier," that the cottou subscribed in the States
of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi amounts
to $50,000,000 -the sum asked fer by Congress.
This, besides the amounts subscribed in the
other otton States, and besides the amount of
other kinds of produce all over the Confedera
cy, and the tobacco of Virginia.
Caa such a people be subjugated ? The men
who have made thee# subscriptions will freely
give it every cent to the Government, if there
should be any need of it, and they will do the
same thing again and again, from year toyear,
as long as the war lasts. All this, and more,
will be done, if there is any necessity for it.—
The sooner Abe sad his minions find this eat,
the better for them, ss well ss us, sod ths rest
of mankind.
Wheat fttrmw.
Farmers do not usually take care of their
wheat straw—having a sort of notion that there
is bat little sustenance ia it.
Thti II 4 mistake. When it Is properly sav
ed and fed it is very nutricious. As soon ss it
is thrsshad, it should be put up in pens and
earafolly secured from the rain. In winter, it
should be fad to horses, mules or eattle, by first
rutting It up, mixing it with bran or mssl and
dampening the whole. Prepared ia this way,
it Is most excellent food, and enough of it will
keep stock fat all the winter.
Straw wifi also bo wanted tor tho soldiers.—
Threshing time is new on head. Let sons of
be wasted.
J9»Tbe Daily and Wsekly '‘Confederacy"
for sale at all (Imss, at Ire cents psr eoj*.
Oeifroooa Oodstt, Gsoseia,) r
i ugnst 1st, 1861. j
Editors qf Southern Ca#od*r*ry *
Dasaljntt The time has arrived When the
raising of veet aim here of sheep la a matter
#f great importsaee to os. Cuuitbodone? It
can, provided oar legislature wilt give th#
necessary protection ; and sursly, under the
pressing exigencies of our situation, it will.—
That promotion should bo tho passing of a
stringent dog law, to tax every person five dol
lars for every dog kept over oae, and t# make
esoh man pay at least three dollars for every
sheep killed by bis dog, or dogs, to be eolleet-
ed in Justices Courts as in common cases for
damages, and suoh dog, or dogs, if not previ
ously killed by the owner or others, to bo con
demned by said court aad kilted forthwith.
This law would relieve oar country of mul
titudes of these worthless animals, and save
all that It take* te raise and keep them. Many
families who are scarcely able to keep a sup
ply of bread for their obildrea, keep from two
to four doge. Io consequence of the high price
of wool, they have to be clad in ootton during
the winter season, thereby subjecting them to
much suffering from oold, and causing many
to be burned to death. Tue mountains of
Northern, the old fields of Middle, and the pine
lands of Southern Georgia, coaid soon be well
stocked with large flocks of sheep, to snpply
our families with warm clothing for winter,
our tables with fine mutton, and soon we could
make wool, one of our exports, were it not for
the great numbers of worthless sheep-killing
doge. I therefore respectfully solicit the oiti
sens throughout Georgia to send up large pe
titions to our next legislature, asking the pas
sage of such a law for our protection.
CHATTOOGA.
P. 8. Editors who are in favor of this please
oopy
We cheerfully give place to the foregoing,
and hope something will be done to rid the
country of dogs. Besides their sheep-killing
habits, they are the most worthless creatures
on earth and do no good commensurate with
their expense. Why people will foolishly throw
away their hard earnings by feeding a snarl
ing cur, a yelping hound, or a pet poodle, ws
cannot understand. We know some families
who are poor and are actually in want of the
prime necessities of life, yet keep doge, acd
feed them enough to eupply many of those
prime necessities, while the dogs do not bene
fit them to the amount of one ceut. We know
rich families who keep large Newfoundlands
and poodles for pets, and feed them with the
dainties of the land—enough to supply food
for some poor chiidran near by who ares uffer
ing for something to eat—the dogs meanwhile
not worth a cent to thoir owners or any onfe
else.
The bread and meat, milk and butter that is
fed to dogs, and the sheep that they kill with
in the Confederate States, would bountifully
feed our whole army and pay for its transpor
tation to them, and supply food to every poor
soldiers’ family that is lift to be cared for by
us, while not a particle of good is rendered by
them to their owners in return for all this
waste. This ought not to he so, and we hope
s stop will be put to it.
Another Letter from Billy Gleun.
M a wars as Jumctiox, July 26, 1861
Dear Father : You have doubtless been very
uneasy about ms, fearing that I was killed
wounded. I assure you I came out perfectly
unharmed, and I am in the best of hopes that
this war will come to a speedy close. When
the Yankees that are left get back home and
take the scales off the eyes of their fellows in
regard to Southern men’s feelings in this war,
it will be hard to rally men enough to meet us
again, for it was the most complete victory
ever gained on this continent.
Our Seventh Regiment was in the thickest
of the fight, the left wing especially, of which
our company (the Davis Infantry) formed a
part, was highly spoken of by Beauregard.—
We captured, by a series of charges, Sherman’s
celebrated battery. We turned their own
non against them, killing nearly all their en
gineers and horses. Ws were engaged with
the best men they had, including Ellsworth’s
Zouaves. All those New York Fire Zouaves
were killed but about two hundred. We also
had the regulars to contend with. The prison
era say we fought not like men or soldiers, but
like devils, and that God is sorely on on
Ws all know it to be so, for nothing
world but a Divine power could have saved us
from being out done. We were almost ourroun
dsd by treble our number. We fought like
lions, and no man seemed to care a straw for
his life, preferring death to defeat.
I was standing by Mr. Puckett’s side when
he was shot through ths breast.
I am proud to be able to say that I was in
that great battle—not for the honor of the
thing, but io know that I did my whole duty
for my conn try.
There is no use in trying to describe the con
sternation and psnie of the foe after they were
routed. The papers have told you something
of that. The funniest thing was that most of
their big men—Congressmen—and some two
or three hundred ladies in carriages, had come
out to greet their officers with their smiles and
kisses, and the soldiers by the waving of their
handkerchiefs aad clapping their little hands,
and to have a grand pic nic after they bad con
quered us. Imagine their surprise and morti
fication, when these heroes of theirs whom
they had come out to cheer, encourage, and
bless, cams hack in all haste, filled with con
sternation and running for their lives ! Some
without guns or knspaacki, coals and shirts
off, shoes and hats lost, pitching headlong
through them, running over women, carriages
and everything in their way; and then clcts-
ly followed hy our cavalry, ootting and slash
ing them at every jump, and taking prisoners
by hundreds!
Ths prisoners and wagons are coming in yst
every hoar and sent off hy tho car load te Rich
mond.
Ail tho woundod art well eared for. Tell
Mrs. fa. T. Wilson, that Mr. Wilson la not In
a dangerous oondition. I helped him off his
horse aad gave him water from my canteen,
and took bis boot off. Ho got on his horse and
went te the ears. He rallied and encouraged
the mm long after he was shot, and he is a
whole rsffmsnt himself ia Urns
WelH l wen’l any aty mors show! the flght
this lime. You must not be uusasy about me*
for if I get woundod Twill ho w«ll taken save
of, and if killed, l will die for my oouetry
Your sou. WM. GLENN
Latter from Dr. Thee. A* Means to kli
mth or.
The wounidi -Medical Department poorly
supplied—Doctor* and nvreee scanted—An
ungainly Michigan woman—Federal Doc
tor» with lugubrious countenance*—Artillery
and munitioni captured—Those handeufs—
A letter written by an enemy—The Zouaivs
a *et of bloodthirsty thieves and brute*—Rob
bing houses and insulting the inmates -Mr,
UiSs and Mr. Yarborough— (U. Anderson
—Hi* Regiment and Col OartrelTs adranee
towards Alexandria.
Maks si as Junction, July 26, 1861.
Dear Father: Ths pressure of active pro
fessional duties, since my arrival here on the
day of battle, (21st instant,) has prevented me
from giving earlier attention to your claims,
and even now while 1 write, my services are
demanded.
The greet victory of Sunday last, cost us
many lives, while thousands of the conquered
foe yet lie woaoded, dying, or deed, and un
cared for, upon the battle-field end the sur
rounding grounds, about three and a half miles
distent from this place.
One hundred and ninety victims of the fight
are under our charge, 128 of whom ere Feder
alists, hailing mostly from Maine, Wisconsin
and New York.
I have faithfully devoted myself night and
day to their relief and comfort, with unremit
ting toil, while my couch is any spot, however
inoonvenient, which I may for a time inci
dentally secure.
I regret exceedingly, <o find the medical de
partment so poorly supplied with fixtures,
blankets, water, wine, brandy, Ac. Indeed, it
may he said te be almoet entirely destitute of
these necceasary appliances. I have been con
strained, therefore, to tax my ingenuity in
overcoming many obstacles which would uth
erwise have greatly embarrassed successful
treatment. Physicians are still needed, not
withstanding that many have offered their
services; while o( uurses there are none, save
one ungainly woman from Michigan, whose
homely features and broad dialect, sometimes
provoke a smile. She is busy, however, io
the culinary department. Even her own pco
pie seem to claim hut little of her sympathies
or attention, ss she considers them to have
acted foolishly, aud to have beeu greatly de
ceived. Four Federal physicians are in camp,
serving their men; hut exhibit so much "don’t-
csrishness" upjn their lugubrious countenan
ces, as to render them anything hut agreeable.
All of us, with one heart aud one accord, pay
their wounded, ss much attention as ou" own,
tor suffering knows no distinction of caste, kin
dred or condition; and Christian charity, un
der such circumstsnoes, should make none.
A gentleman, st my side, just from the fluid,
says that the famous Billy Wilson's Aid and
two privates, have been taken prisoners. They
were found after the battle, wounded and
able to make their way to camp, having been
probably loft hy their panic stricken friends to
meet their fate, while they were tilecting tbeii
"brilliant retreat."
The wild waste and general scattering of
munitions of war, baggage wagons, ambulau-
c*i, cannon, Ac., were almost without a paral
lel in the history of warfare. I counted, and
have, therefore seen with my own eyes, 98
pieces of artillery. In additiou to these, we
have taken guns, knapsacks, cartridges, halls,
Ac., to out fit an army twice as large as our
own.
One of the most interesting articles of the
capture, was the load of hand cuffs (several
thousands, it is said,) which the thoughtful
and benevolent invaders brought with them,
perhaps (?) for the purpose of making the at
tachment of the Southern "rebels” to the Un
ion stronger than their own Punic faithless
ness have ever been able to effect. Might not
a few of these specimens of Northern artizan-
ship, sent to every town and village in the
South, produce striking results upon the minds
of our people ?
I have just read au interesting letter found
upon the field, written in pencil, over the sig
nature of J. H. H., and addressed to his sister
in Milwaukie, Wis., a brief extract from which
I give you. He says, "When they” (the
"Grand Army”) "reached CentreviJle, on Sat
urday night, (20th,) they numbered 80,000,
whilst a re-inforcement of 40,000 came iu from
Alexandria and other places.” He further
saye, it is "an easy matter to conquer the South;
but I suspect the rebels will mske a stand, as
thtir forces are numerous, sod excedingly well
armed and equipped. Three days rations
were put in our haversacks, with the under
standing that the fourth day should he spent
in Richmond.”
He gave some interesting accounts of the
New York Zouaves, whom he denounces, in
his own language as "a set of blood-thirsty
thieves, having leee of sympathy than brutes."
They entered an old Virginia mansion on this
side of Alexandria-the inoffensive inmates of
which were about seating themselves to dine
—took possession ef the (able, devoured ths
outspread meal, and then hade them "good
day," some of them placing their thumbs con
temptuously upon the tip of their noses and
scornfully twitching their little fingers as they
passed off. • • • • • •
I suppose that here aud at Bull’s Ban, not
less than 15,000 were killed and missing of the
enemy, while our loss, so far ss known, may
amount to 2,600.
I kavs two yoang men from Georgia, now by
my side, belonging to the 8th Georgia Regi
ment, Col. Bartow—who were badly wounded.
Mr. T. J. Hills, of Roiye, Gn., and Mr. Yar
borough, of Floyd county, cousin to Rev. John
Yarborengh, our excellent minister. The lat
ter died, ia great pain, last night, hut was re-
•igaed te hie fate, end seat many words of
consolation, by members of his company, to
his friends and relations- Young Hills, not
withstanding my constant attention, is, I re
gret to say, at this date, still in a dangsrous
oondition. His wounds wart inflicted by two
Minnie belle, which strnck him on the left
side below the fifth rib, penetreting his body.
I have hie effects, and will promptly turn them
over te nay authorised friend, should he not
reoovnr.
1 have jnst this moment, tor the first time,
•iaoe my arrival, seco Col. Anderson, lie is
well, and hearty; but chafing over his disap
pelntment in not having shared in the fight-
arriving, as be did, three days oiler the battle.
Thli Regiment (lfith) is encamped six miles fbd~frtKH)
North East of this place, "cn route" for Alex«j {field; by
aadria. Ool. GartrelTe Regime*t, it is said, *
leaves this afternoon for the same place
THOS. A. MEAN8,
Assistant Bnrgeon 10th Regiment
Georgia Yuluntesrs.
numbered
Where our) Soldiers are who have been
taken Prleoners.
We find the/ollowiogin the Louisville Cour
ier ef the 2d iostaot.
To the attention of a friend at Washington
we ere indebted for toe following complete
list of Southern volunteers now prisoner* at
Washington. They have been mads comfort
able, as far as possible, by the kind hearted
ladies of Washington, who have done for them
all they were permitted to, hy Geo. Mansfield.
Their fare is bard bread and water night and
morning, and a junk or soup for diuoer.—
Their friends sre not allowed to see them.—
None of them are sick and wounded :
CONPKDKBATK PSISORXBH AT W ASH I KOTOS, CON-
FI N Kl) IK THK OLU CaPITOL BuILDINO.
Sixth Alabama Regiment—Seargent T. J.
Bates, residence Russell co., Ala ; T. T. Buck,
John L. Cuffey, John W, Davis, residence Au
tauga couuty, Ala; T J Chambers, P. J. Al
ford, William Lifltn, Henry county, Ala;
John II Howard, W II Prinoe, R T Pool, J O
Perkins, residence Russell co., Ala; all taken
at Fairfax Station.
Fifth Alabama Regiment—Robert Pauldiag,
residence Unioutowu ; takeu uear Springfield.
E D Fiquet, residence Tuscaloosa; J S Wal
ker, residence Pickeosviile ; taken uear
Springfield.
Fourth ^Alabama Regiment—Thomas Hud
son, residence Uniontown ; taken at Bull Run.
Radford’s—W M Mallow, residence Alle
ghany oouuty, Va , taken at Flint Hill. J.
T. Mays, residence Botetourt eoonty, Va ;
taken at Flint Hill. E N. Haycock, residence
Fairfax county, Va : taken at Vienna. A C
Lanstreel, residence Fairfax oouuty, Va ; ta
keu near Fall Church. G A Tho?, residence
District of Columbia ; taken at;Fall Church.
Gov. Guaids—S S Green, resideooe Rich
mond, Va ; taken at Burk Station.
Fifth Virginia Regiment—John A Reynolds,
residenoe Staunton, Va ; taken at Bull Run.
First Virginia Regiment—W A Wilson, rcsi
deuce Loudon county, Va ; takeu at Bull Run
Hamilton’s Legion—Henry C Ferrell, about
20 yoars oil, residence Charleston, South
Carolina ; taken at Bull Ruu.
Second South Carolina Regiment—James
Silks, Abbeville Distriot, South Carolina
ken near Centerville.
Second Regiment. 8oulh Carolina—William
James, residence Columbia ; taken at Fairfax
Court House.
Fourth Regiment, South Carolina—R O
Lewis, residence Anderson ; II Borua
residence Greenville ; taken at Bull Run.
Eighth Regiment, Georgia—John R. Payne,
residence Rome; Randolph Gray, residence
Bibb couifiy ; F Ward, residence Harris ooun-
t j ; SB Bulkley, residenoe Bibb county ; ta
ken at Bull Run ; George Barker, W. C. Hum
phreys, T A Hammond, residence Atlanta ;
J T C Calvin, residence Green oounty ; taken
at Bull Run ; James Kershaw, Lewis Rieck,
G. H. Gramling, residence, Atlanta, Georgia ;
Alexander T Holmes, Sanford NY Branch,
Lewis L East mead, residenoe, Savannah, Ga ;
W A Barron, residenoe, Rome, Georgia ; Sam
uel Gavitt, residenoe, Atlanta, Georgia ; ta
ken at Bull Run ; Jesse O’Bryue, residence,
Savannah, Georgia; taken at Bull Run.
First Special Battalion—Machael Reef, res
iJence, New Orleans ; taken at Bull Run.
Radford Regiment—Joseph E Leadbitter,
residence, Hanover, Va ; taken at Fairfax
Court House.
Fourth South Carolina Regiment—Roger
Pinckney, residence, Pendleton, South Caro
Carolina ; taken at Bull Run.
Eighth Virginia Regiment—T F Grayson,
residence, Leesburg, Va ; takeu at Bull Run.
Sixth Alabama Regiment—A J Smith, resi
dence, Russell oounty, Ala; token at Sanga
ter Cross Roads.
Second Regiment, Mississippi—W M T
Thompson, residence Pontotoc ; taken near
Centreville ; K M Walker, residence Tippah
oounty; taken at Bull Run,
Thos Hays, residence New Orlesus; taken
at Bull Run.
Westley Burrow, residence Randolph coun
ty, N C ; taken at Bull Run.
Wm Johnson, Vioksburg, Miss ; taken at
Bull Run.
Jas A Wingfield, Amheist county, Va ; ta
ken near Centreville.
Lisut Col B B Boone, Tishomingo oounty,
Miss; taken at Bull Run.
Lieut II H Durnott, Alleghany county, Va;
taken at Bull Run.
Jss M McFall, Anderson, So Ca ; taken at
Bull Run.
Confederate States of America.
Dkpaetmknt or Justice, \
Richmond, July 81, 1861. j
Editors Richmond Enquirer : Will you be
good enough to notify tho public that tbo At
torney Central is not authorised hy law to
give opinions to any other than the Executive
and the Heads of Departments.
Numerous letters are daily received in this
Department, asking the opiuion of the Attor
ney General on an infinite variety of subjects,
which it is physioally impossible for him to
answer, even if he were authorised to do so.
But the least reflection will suffice to ahow
that neither the Attomey General nor any
other public officer should be permitted to
stretch his authority or oarry the influence
of his office beyond the circle which the
law of the laud has drawn around him.—
That law atborises the Attorney General "to
give hie advice and opinion when required by
the President of the Confederate States, or
when requested by any of the Heads of De-
pertmente, touching any mattera that may
concern their Departments or subjects before
them.” This is ths only clsso of cases in
which he is permitted to give sn official opin
ion.
Trusting that this explanation will afford a
sufficient apology to tho very largo number of
correspondents, whose request for advice and
opinions it has bson impossible to gratify,
I am your obedient servant,
J. P. BENJAMIN
tho Hera’.a multiply tho
number 6f Confederates dying after the bat
tle and those remaining wounded each by fif
teen—then add 2000 for prisoners, snd a fair
allowancs for stragglers snd deserters, sud
k^nsy approximate the physical damage sus
tained by “Tbd Grand Army ” on thtever to
be remebered 21st July, 1801. The phytic a l
damage, we say for ths MftrtfTff beyond com
pensation.
gkgT Tbs Riobmond Whig,
the Northern reports of their
Weoan furnish tbs Herald
Captaih Mbaohbr.—A Washington latter
sajs : Mr. Thomas F. Meagher, who was in
the fight on 8undav last, yesterday told one of
the priests hart that he would never again
tako up arms against the Sooth ; that
God wse on their tide, and that if he fought
again it would be for them.
The same writer adde :
There is evidently a very great ebaage in
the Caiholio Irish who have enlisted. Many of
them declare that they were induced to enlist
by the representation that thair churches bad
been burned down in the Sooth, and that all
the Sisters of Charity had baen turned out of
the Convents, which bad been converted into
barracks. They are amaxad to find the state
ment so utterly false, snd to learn how many
of tbsir countrymen sre enlisted on the side
of the Sooth.
jfikff* A bearer of dispatches for the War
Department from General Wise’s command, in
the Kanawha valley, reports that General
Wise had evaooated Charleston six hours in
advance of its occupation by General Cox,
with between fifteen snd twenty thousand Fed
eral troops. Our fores numbered about 8,500
men, and retreated in good order, saving all
its stores, squippsge and ordnance. General
Wise fell bsok in the direotion of Lewisburg,
burning the bridge over the Gsuley river.—
He has undoubtedly made good his retreat,
and eluded the pursuit of the enemy. He will
occupy one of the strong mountain passes a
few miles beyond the river, where he will
await the arrival of reiaforoements.—Rich
mond Exuminery July 31.
A Kkukl Punctilio.—The letter oarried hy
by Major Wadsworth with a flag of trncs, was
returned unopened, the rebels saying that in
stead of being addressed to “ the Commander
of the forces st Manassas Junction,” ss it was,
it should be addressed to the "Commander of
the forces of the Confederate 8tates at Man
assas Junction.”—New York Tribune, June
fifojT Mr. P. H. Oliver ef Georgia, the own
er of Blind Tom, the wonderful pianist, con
tributed yesterday, one hundred dollars to the
fund of our sick and wounded soldiers. NVe
learn that Mr. Oliver also proposes to give a
series of concerts in our city, the proceeds of
whioh to be devoted to the same benevolent
purpose. This shows s good man in a good
cause.—Richmond Examiner, July 31.
Cansot be Rklikd UroN.—The Washing
ton correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger
■ays:
There are military man, of European ex
perience in war, who say that those who have
been part and paroel of the rout from Bull
Hun, cannot be relied upon hereafter for of
fensive operations.
y&T Oen* Robert E. Lea, commanding ths
Confederate foroes in Virginia, is now on a
tour to the West, looking after the commands
of Generals Lering and Wise.
The New Orleans Crescent says there
is no truth in the etory set afloat that fifty
thousand stand of arms had been reclived in
that city from Europe.
Salt.
To the Editor of tke Charleston Mercury.
I am sn old man of the time of Embargo
and the War of 1812, snd 1 remember, very
well that, at our island horns, ws mads all the
salt that was used, and that l saw all our
neighbors making their own salt. I know tket
**at done then oao be done sgaio, bad
now is ths time for us to show to ths Yankees
tkal ws can do without thtir salt, as long as
ths Atlantic flows along onr coast. It is bow
Urns to prepare, for ws paid to-day $4 for a
kkllklMd WM loW *1? oar fester that
ha offered $2 60 for a thousand tasks, aad It
was refused. Ptmu
Clothing for the Soldiers.
Gen. Ira R. Foster, Quartermaster-Gene ml of
tho State of Georgia, has issued a public address
to our people, urging them to prepare winter
clothing for the soldiers now in this field from
this State, and proposes to transport the cloth
ing to them free of charge.
We copy the main point in the address, which
covers the whole proposition, and ask our read
ers everywhere to avail themselves of the ad
vantages ot his proposition:
“ Let each neighborhood, or town, or village,
that luis sent a company or companies Into the
field, meet and agreo on a superintendent to ar
range tbe articles for the company. Let each
article be marked by <%rd, who It Is from, who
for. Let the representation of each company
meet together, box up all the articles for each
conqienv separately. On the box let the name
of the Captain, name of the company, and num
ber of the regiment be plainly marked and ship
ped to me at this place. Let the Superintend
ent forwurd to me, at the same time, a full state
ment of names and number of men in compa
ny, and the articles each U to reoeivo. and they
shall go immediately, free of charge.
The Souther* Confederacy Office,
Has a reliable special letter and telegraphic
correspondent at Manassas Junction—the great
attractive field of battle at present We have
also engaged reliable correspondents from vari
ous points in Virginia. Everybody wauls to
hear the news, and all important dispatches or
news items received by us, will be promptly
placed on the Confederacy bulletin.
In these exciting time* It Is probable that ex
travagant rumors will get afloat We caution
tbe people against them, snd beg everybody to
be careful what they believe.
We have every posalble facility for obtaining
correct news. This, however, costs us heavily,
and wc hope every one who Is so anxious to get
war news will admit the equity of subscr blng
and paying for onr paper.
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