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jGHtto tfonfedrratn GEO. W. ADAIR J- HENLY SMITH, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. ATLANTA, GEORGIA: TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1861. Our Special Army Correspondence. PEACE SPECULATIONS THE WEALTH OF THE NORTH A HUMBUG NO MONEY TO BE HAD AT HOME OR ABROAD THEIR ROTTENNESS DESTRUCTION IMPENDING BUT FEW MEN TO BE HAD THE UNI VERSAL YANKEE FRIGHT THE HAND WRITING ON THE WALL RUIN AND DIS TRESS IN NEW YORK THE WAR SOON TO CLOSE IF WE DO OUR PART PROMPTLY GEN. TOOMBS ; DIFFICULTY OF SENDING TROOPS ; SOME OF THE REGIMENTS IN HIS BRIGADE TROOPS ORDERED TO AC QUIA CREEK THE PHILLIPS LEGION AR RIVING GEN. TOOMBS’ STAFF, AC., AC. Richmond, Aug. 15th. Since the battle of Manassas, the public has been favored with a good deal of speculation in regard to the prospect of peace. One can hardly pick up a newspaper, or encounter a friend on the streets, that this does not fur nish the prevailing topic of the day. Shall we have peace soon ? What effect is the great victory of the 21st July likely to have upon the further progress of the war? Will there be more fighting? and if so, will it consist of mere skirmishes, to be followed by an early restoration of peace, or must we prepare for another great battle, and for a protracted war? These are interesting questions, and full of importance to the Southern people. I ven tured the opinion, some weeks previous to the late battle, that with energy and promptness on our side, the war might be virtually ended by Christmas. I have seen no reason, since the battle, to change that opinion, but many to strengthen it. I stated, also, that the Fed eral Congress would vote all the men and mo ney that Mr. Lincoln might call for, but that the people themselves would never furnish the money, nor would the Government ever be able to borrow it. I see no cause to change this opinion. On the contrary, every day’s revelations demonstrate the utter bankruptcy of the Northern Government. The wealth of the North is a sham and a humbug. It con sists chiefly of railways, ships, machine shops, manufacturing establishments and brick and mortar, which of themselves produce nothing, or but little. All this vast machinery, impo sing enough upon paper, create.? nothing, and is useful only in moving and manipulating what others produce. Just now, this kind of property is of but little value in providing the means of carrying on the war. Where, then, is the North to get its money to pay its army? The people have it not; and if they had, re cent developments show that they would be slow to lend it to a rickety concern as the Fed eral Government. Can it be borrowed abroad ? The very last arrival from Liverpool brings the intelligence that it cannot. The London TiUJta* LUamoat ;» w „ P i,i, and which is almost always a true reflex of the British mind, says : “ It would be danger ous for England to have anything to do with the American loan;” and the London Herald, the organ of Lord Derby, discountenances all efforts to negotiate it. If the English will not touch the loan, will the capitalists on the con tinent do it? They will not. The truth is, the whole fabric of Northern finance and commerce rests upon sand; and now that tho winds of revolution have com menced to blow and the rains to fall upon it, the structure is about to topple in the dust. This is equally true of its social fabric, and of its present disgraced aud corrupt government. The earth is trembling beneath them, and the whole rotten concern is threatened, politically, financially and socially, with the fate of Sod om and Gomorrah. ( A great war cannot be prosecuted without credit or money. The North has neither. But will the men who are to fight their battles and ( subjugate us bo forthcoming? I do not be lieve they will. Not 5,000 out of the 75,000 throe months’ volunteers have reeulisted, since tho expiration of their term. The recruiting for the regular army has absolutely ceased, and hut very few fresh volunteers are offer ing. But for the regiments that had tendered their services previous to tho disastrous battle of Manassas, and which are therefore com mitted and cannot retreat, the Government at I this time would bo without force enough, oth- 1 er than tho regulars, to do garrison duty. The * men who fled from Manassas will never fight ' us again, aud the accounts which they will ' disseminate throughout the abolition States will deter others from taking their places.— Tho prisoners we took say that the Confede- 1 rates fought like devils, and you may be sure ' that those who escaped, and some of whom never slopped until they got to New York, will represent us to be “half horse and half alligator”— monstrous centaurs—huge beasts, with seven heads aud seven horns—who would I think nothing, any morning at breakfast, of 1 drinking a gallon of blood, and devouring the shank of a Yankee, with a few coals of fire thrown in byway of pepper to season it. The < most reliable accounts from Washington in- < form us that the number ot recruits returning Lome far exceed those who are arriving, and that great uneasiness prevails in the city, not only among the people, but in the highest offi cial circles. If they do not see the hand wri ting upon the wall, it is only because their hearts have been hardened and their eyes blinded, that they may be damned. An intelligent friend who has just arrived here from New York, where he has been so journing for some months, says the distress in that city is without a parallel. Goods can be bought at your own price, aud many of the merchants were getting ready to close up their stores. Seoreaof their clerks have already been discharged, and it is no unusual thing to meet with well dressed young men who will thank yon for a loaf of bread. The opera has ceased : all the places of public amusement have been cl»eod except the New Bowery Theatre ; ship ping M »dla at the wharves; no goods a-e being imported, and but few sold; the ho tels that formerly had to turn away customers, SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. are not paying expenses; while every kind of business is languishing, and the entire city wears an aspect that is almost funereal in its gloom and cheerlessness. Many of the owners of real estate, and especially the proprietors of hotels and boarding houses, had found it necessary to release to their tenants three months rent, to prevent them from being clos ed. The press was silent upon these things, every effort was made to hide the skeleton in the closet. But it could not be done, and the people felt as if a great and crushing calamity was impending over them and their Govern ment. This was before the battle of Manassas. What the present condition of the city is, may be imagined—not described And what is true of New York, is equally true of the whole North, except that New York, being the creature of Southern trade and patronage, has been the first to suffer. This friend informs me also, that the North is not so well provided with arms as we had supposed, and that he was personally cognizant of the fact that a reg iment had to remain two or three weeks in New York before it could get arms. They are able to manufacture arms faster than the South, but that is all. The question recurs then, will the war be a long one or a short one? For myself I believe that the contest was decided upon the Plains of Manassas, though the war may be protracted for some months longer, and we may have to fight one or more great battles, before the ene my will consent to make peace The disgrace ful rout of the federal army, the consternation throughout the North, the reluctance with which new volunteers come forward, the im position of enormous taxes, the impending bankruptcy of the manufacturing and com mercial classes, and the destruction of all kinds of business, coupled with the early recognition of our independence by England and France, and the raising of the blockade, all point con clusively to the fact that if we do our own du ty promptly and faithfully, the war will be of short duration. Everything depends, how ever, upon the zeal and energy with which we act; for the gods help those only who help themselves. A great peace movement has al ready been started in the North, and it is growing in volume and strength every day, the ultimate result of which will be, with pru dence and firmness on our part, to transfer the Government from the hands of the wretches who are now using it as an engine of oppres sion, to those of more conservative sentiments and more national views. There may be much blood shed before all this is accomplished, not only between the North and the South, but between the northern people themselves; but that such will be the final denouement, there can be but little room for doubt. Gen. Toombs has not yet gone to Manassas, owing to the difficulty in sending forward the regiments that will compose his brigade. The first regiment Georgia Regulars, Col. Williams, and the fifteenth regiment, Col. Thomas, will form a part of the brigade, and it is believed that the second regiment, Col. Semmes, and the regiment, Col. Win. Duncan Smith, and possibly the Tom Cobb Legion and Col. Howell Cobb’s regiment, will be a part of the brigade. The orders to Col. Semmes' and Smith’s regments to proceed to wore unexpectedly countermanded last night, and the former left this morning for Acquit Creek, where it was thought the enemy was disposed to make an early demonstration. It is not probable that the regiment will be kept there long. The Tom Cobb Legion, the regiments of Cols. Howell Cobb, Wofford, and Ector are now here, with some trifling exceptions. The Phil lips Legion has arrived, in part, at Lynchburg, and a part is still on the road. Gen Toombs’ staff has been organized, as follows: Aid de-Camp, Capt. W. Dußose; Brigade Commissary, Maj. R. J. Moses; Bri gade Quartermaster, Maj. W. F. Alexander; Adjutant, Hill. He has accepted the services also of one or more volunteer aids. It is thought that the Seventh and Eighth Georgia regiments, and Cols. Goulding's and Anderson’s regiments, will bo placed under Gen. Walker, though this is not certain. A. | ♦ Our Special Correspondence from Col. Brumby’s Regiment. i THE MARCH FROM LYNCHBURG TO HUNTERS I VILLE, ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS—MAGNIF- ( KENT SCENERY—FATIGUES AND HARD- ( SHIPS—CRACKING JOKES—A GOOD ONE ON A LIEUTENANT—FAR, FAR AWAY, &C., etc. ' Huntersville, Va., August 9, 1861. : Editors Confederacy: We arrived at this place on the fifth instant, drenched with rain, ( and worn down with our long fatiguing march t of eighty six miles over one of the roughest < countries in creation. Scarcely had we start- < ed from Lynchburg before we began to climb j a mountain, dragging our weary feet up its ( rugged side, anticipating an enchanting view < of the beautiful valley which we supposed to be on the other side, as soon as we should reach its summit. You may, however, judgeof our dis appointment, as well as our surprise, when we beheld before us another, and yet another, ( mountain rising up toward Heaven in lofty ( grandeur. The first mountain seemed but the stepping stone to that which lay immediately before us. < The further we ascended, the gi eater were < our toils. Imagine a body of soldiers pressing ] on in tho muddy path which wound in every ] imaginable direction around the precipitous < side of the mountain ; now sweltering beneath | the scorching rays of the sun —now chilled by , furious driving rains—here a poor way worn i soldier seated on the cold damp ground, his feet worn out, his limbs almost useless with racking pains, and his spirits depressed; there a group gathered around a little muddy rill that trickles down the mountain side, each j striving to get the first drink. Imagine these, and other circumstances which the mind will i readily suggest, and you can form some con- ' ceptiou of the hardships through which we have passed. All this, however, was borne cheerfully by most of the men. Occasionally some poor fel low would slip and fall in the mud, which ' would raise a whoop of merriment throughout i 1 the whole regiment. Jokes were cracked at every man who seemed to be “under the wealh- ; 1 er.” ' I must tell you a good one which we had on ■ , Lieut. - While at Lynchburg, hav- j ] ing some business in town, he went over, and, as usual, called on the ladies. When he start ed back, with natural gallantry, he invited them to visit the camp with him. In the mean time, the hour f>r battalion drill came on. The gallant Lieutenant was just coming in view with “two on ’em”—one at either side. He quickened his step, in order to arrive in time; but just as he and his “squad” came upon the ground, it began to rain. The ladies proposed to go home. The brave Lieutenant was em phatically in ayf.r. He thought on this wise: “ I ought not to be absent from drill, and it will not do to let the ladies go home alone in this rain. It will be too ungallant—unworthy of a soldier , and a disgrace to a commissioned offi cer, and I'll risk the consequences.” So off he went. The opportunity for a little fun was too good to be lost. As soon as the drill was over, the Captain summoned his staff of fun-makers.— The Lieutenant had just returned, coming up in “quick time.” He was met with very grave faces by the Captain and “staff,” and he “smelt a mice.” After salutations had passed, and all were seated, the Captain, with the greatest gravity imaginable, said : “Lieut. , I am very sorry to inform you that a court martial has been ordered to try you for being absent from drill without leave, and that you are under arrest.” With a very long breath, he replied; “ I—l —I knew I was doing wrong; but I could not help it. I could not invite the ladies into our dirty tents, and I would not allow them to go home without an escort, after I had invited them out.” This reply was received with a perfect yell from the crowd ; and the Lieutenant, though badly teased, was greatly relieved. I must go out on guard duty in a few mo ments, and have not time to write longer. We get no letters or newspapers in this mud hole of a place. I feel like I am almost out of the reach of civilization. Yours, Jtc. L V. # , Our Montgomery Correspondence. THE RAIN AND THE COTTON CROP —THE CORN MADE—AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE—THE RIVER —THE BLOCKADE—BATTERIES ON SHIP ISLAND, AND TRADE BETWEEN MO BILE AND NEW ORLEANS—THE GOVERN OR’S ELECTION —MR. SHORTER AND MR. WATTS, &C., &C. Montgomery, August 16, 1861. “Everything hath an end,” said Oliver Cromwell, “ and that which we call a pudding hath two,” and so it would seem from the bright and clear appearance of the heavens this morning. The spell of wet weather which we have endured for the last two weeks, or thereabouts, has lasted long enough to “ pluck from the parent stem ” many of the blooms, squares, and even half-grown bolls from the cotton, and threaten seriously to diminish the crop hereabouts. If it be true, however, that the rain is “done "for the present, and no other misfortune overtakes it, the cotton erop will bo largely over the average—for certainly never was the prospect for an over crop better than on the first of this month. The corn crop is made, and, in that respect, we are perfectly safe against the horrors of thut starvation which our ’• deir brethren ” of the North so confidently predicted as one of the consequences of our separation from that mixture of corru; tion and mock sanctity, pec ulation, Puritanism, and Abolitionism, known as the “ old wreck.” On the 29th ultimo, our City Council'in structed their Clerk to procure anfl keep in hia office a register, in which all our citizens were requested to inscribe their names, under the following pledge; “We, citizens cf the city of Montgomery, Alabama, whose names appear signed below, do solemnly affirm, in the presence of God, that we will uphold, maintain and support the Constitution ot the Confederate States of Amer ica and hereby pledge our lives and fortunes, and most sacred honor in the defence of the rights of the citizens thereof.” To this request, a large number of our citi zens have already responded, and signatures are still being made daily. I have no doubt but, ultimately, the register will contain the signature of every citizen. The river is in fine boating order. Since the engagement between the Confederate forces, under Capt. Thun, and the Blockading steam er, and the suhstquent erection of batteries on Ship Island, the steamers have resumed their regular trips between New Orleans and Mobile ; and shipments of sugar, molasses etc., are being made as usual. His “ mighty apeship” will hardly be able again to interrupt the communication between these two cities; and it is probable that the “ considerable injury” which his steamer sus tained, aud the increased facilities of “ the re bels’’ for inflicting still greater injuries on her successor, will deter him from making anoth er attempt. The election returns come in slowly, and we are not able ret to determine with, certainty what was the result of the election ; though it is generally conceded that Hon. John Gill Shor ter is the Governor elect. Had Mr. Watts de clared himself a candidate, it is probable the result would have been different, but this he declined to do, acting on the principle that the office should seek the man and not the man the office. Probably no man in thia section regrets less the result of the election than Mr. Watts himself; and while his friends very much de sired his election and regret his defeat, yet they are contented with the Governor elect, in whose ability and honesty they have full con fidence, and whom they opposed, not That they loved Shorter less. But Watts more. J. H. «> . Stiff* A member of the Ist Maine Regiment writes to the Portland “Argus ” that the reg iment will return home when its time expiree, on the 2d of August. The writer adds: “It is well for the men that the time is no longer, for if it was, most of them would come home in their shirt sleeves, and with a day of truce flying in the rear, at that." —« ♦ • teff-A Washington letter to a Northern ex change, says that Montgomery Blair, Post master-General, called to see Gen. McClellan on Saturday, and began to give him his views. “ Gen. Scott and myself will be responsible for the campaign,” he replied, “and we aball conduct it as we think best.” Mr. Blair took his hat and departed. , I [Communicated.] Our Worthy Dead. IN MEMORY OF CAPT. C. W. HOWARD. 1 The remains of the late Capt. Columbus W. Howard, of Meriwether county, Georgia, who 1 fell upon the battlefield Sunday, July 21st, now rest at Manassas Junction. It was a sol emn, quiet and melancholy burial. There was no pomp, brilliant display nor glitter of vain glory; not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, as the last sad tribute of respect was paid ' to the lamented dead. He died one of Geor gia’s heroes, and his corpse was followed to the grave by a large concourse of weeping friends and kind associates, away from his own dear 1 native State, with a simple stone, and the words “Columbus W. Howard, Captain Echols Guards, Bth Georgia Regiment,” rudely carved thereon, to mark his lonely resting place. The death of one so young, whose future bid ' so fair to be one of much usefulness to his 1 country, brings with it a train of melancholy, • aud a host of very sad reflections. Stretched out in the distance before him lay fields of ■ promise; the glittering star of glory and re nown was lighting his pathway to honor, dis tinction and illustrious fame—so early in the : onset of the troubles of our country, and just achieving perhaps the greatest victory the world ever knew, with laurels waiting to deck hta noble brow, he was felled to the earth by a 1 leaden messenger of death. We are more than ever convinced that “all is vanity and vexa ’ tion of spirit,” and the “ paths of glory lead but to the grave.” Capt. Howard was of one of the first families of Georgia. Endowed with a superior intellect, splendid military talents, familiar with all the arts of war, possessing a resistless and firey spirit, added to which was a temperament so becoming to a soldier and a fondness for the profession, he thought it his duty to offer his 1 services to his country. During his connection with the Mexican war, he was in several desperate engagements with the enemy, and acted upon every occasion with all that coolness and bravery so charac teristic of the true Southerner. Linking his fortunes with that of our infant Republic, and by his self sacrificing devotion to a cause in which was enlisted his all, by his eagerness and determination upon the battlefield, and by his dauntless daring and gallantry, he lost his life. Willingly did he lay it upon the altar of his country in defence of Southern Rightsand Southern liberty. It was in the most desperate and dangerous hours of the day, and when the battle was raging, he won his death. And to die thus at his post, is to die like a hero, and die the death of the brave. He made his coun try’s cause his cause, and poured out his life’s blood in defence of her liberty. The subject of this feeble tribute was great ly possessed with those social qualities of head and heart that always attrack a large circle of admiring friends. He at once became popular as an officer of the first rank, and respected by his brother soldiers. Columbus, as such he was more familiarly known, was cut down in the flower of his manhood. He was married to one of Georgia’s most es timable and accomplished young ladies, and by his untimely death he leaves a fond and an affectionate wife to mourn her melancholy loss; society is deprived of a brilliant orna ment, and our army sustains the loss of an ef ficient and gallant soldier. He was a pure Christian, an humble advo cate of the cause of God, and a shining light to his fellow-man. This consolation survives. He fought bravely, and died becoming a sol dier. He is one of our heroes, and his memory will be enshrined and live forever in the hearts of all true Georgians. D. C. J. From the New York Post. The Baltimore Police Commissioners. ANOTHER HABEAS CORPUS CASE. Lieutenant-Colonel Burke Beelines to Obey Another tl'rit. For tho fourth time a habeas corpus has been issued for some of the political prisoners con fined at Fort Lafayette. The last was return ed this morning, before Judge Garrison, Coun ty Judge in Brooklyn, acting as a Supreme Judge in Chambers. The following is a copy of the writ of habeas corpus : The People of the State of New York to Colonel Martin Burke, Commandant at Fort La Fay ete, and to all subordinate officers under his command, Greeting : We command that you have the body of Charles Howard, William H. Gatchell, John G. Davis and C. D. Hinds, by you imprisoned and detained, as it is said, together with the time and cause of such imprisonment and de tention, by whatsoever name they shall be called cr charged, before James Garrison, County Judge of King’s county, at his Cham bers at the City Hall, in the city of Brooklyn, on the 9th day of August, 1861, at 11 o’clock, to do aud receive what shall then be consider ed concerning them, and have you then and there this writ. ' Witness Wm. H. Scrugham, Justice of Su preme Court, the 6th day of August, 1861. C. W. THOMAS, Clerk. A. W. Wood, Attorney. The writ came into court with the following return : “Headquarters, Ft. Hamilton, N. Y., 1 August 9, 1861. J “ I deeply regret that, pending the exist ing political troubles, I cannot comply with the requisition of the honorable Judge. By order of Lieutenant General Winfield Scott. “MARTIN BURKE, “ Lt. Col. U. S. Army, Commanding ” Mr A. R. Wood appeared for the persons named in the writ, and cited the statute to show that the return by Lieutenant Colonel Burke was an improper one. Judge Garrison said that Lieutenant-Colo nel Burke ought to comply with the statute, and state in bis return, 1. Whether the pris oners were in his custody. 2. The authority by which he bolds them set out at large. 3. A copy of such authority if written, must be annexed to the return. Mr. Slewart L. Woodford, Assistant United States District Attorney, appeared for Lieut enant-Colonel Burke. The Court then adjourned the bearing til! i next Monday, for the purpose of allowing 1 Lieutenant-Colonel Burke to amend bis re- j turn. geff“ Col. Brown, in command of Fort Pick ens, has offered a reward of $3,000 for every one of Capt. Clanton’s Montgomery Mounted Riflemen, dead or alive. The Rifles must have j hit the Colonel in a tender spot. Arrest of Hon. Charles J. Faulkner of Virginia, at Washington. Washington, Aug. 12.—Charles J. Faulk ner, Ex-Minister to France, was arrested to day, by order of the Government. His ar rest was effected by a detachment of the Pro vost Guard, who for that purpose, repaired to his hotel. He was conveyed to jail under or ders from the military authorities through the War Department. He is not permitted to hold correspondence or conversation with any of his friends at present. As to the specific charges under which he is held they are, so far as the public is concerned, mere matters of speculation, but something has been said about his having a commission as a Brigadier- General in the Confederate Army. A formal examination into the case will, however soon take place. Shortly after bis arrest he remarked that he was not aware of having done anything to justify these proceed ings, and but for them he would have had his accounts settled to-day at the State Depart ment, which he had visited the day after his arrival in Washington on that business, as well as to call on Sectetary Seward, in accordance with the courtesy governing ministers return ing from abroad. The Washington ‘Star’ says : Shortly before noon to-day, we hear, the Hon. Charles James Faulkner, of Virginia, ex-United States Minister to Paris, was taken into custody by Colonel Porter, U. S. A., Pro vost Marshal, in person, at his (Mr. F.’s) quarters, Brown’s Hotel, and conveyed to the city prison, where he is now held. We apprehend that the charges against him are for having aided and abetted the agents of the Revolutionists to obtain arms and muni tions of war in Europe, while himself holding the commission of an U. S, Minister and En voy Extraordinary. And, further, on the charge of being about to take the command of a disunion regiment alleged to be now awaiting his arrival, at Winchester Va. Such rumors have for some time past been afloat here, we know not on what authority, however. The Washington correspondent of the Bal timore Sun writes : The startling event of to-day has been the arrest of the Hon. Charles James Faulkner, ex-Minister to France. He was at once carried from his lodging’s at Brown’s Hotel, to the jail, and up to the time of this writing he has had no examination or trial. His baggage, &c., is under close military surveillance. It is supposed that he was arrested upon a charge of treason, but in what precise way he has giv en aid to the enemies of the Republic has not transpired. On Saturdayhe stated publicly that he had called upon the Government for a pass into Virginia, but as that State is held to be out of the United States, and as he might be loy al to the Federal Government when he should reach his home, it is supposed that somtbing besides the mere asking for a pass is at the bottom of accusation against him. The correspondent of the Exchange writes: The climax of the atrocities of the Admin istration committed on private individuals oc curred to-day, in the arrest of Hon. Charles James Faulkner, ex-Minister to the Court of France, on the charge of treason. The arrest was made by the Provost Marshal in person, at Brown’s Hotel, and under the following or der from the Secretary of State : Department of State, 1 Washington, Aug. 12, 1861. J To Col. Porter, U. S. A.. Provost Marshal, Ci iy of W-aohinfftnn • You will proceed to arrest and detain Char’s James Faulkner, ex-Minister of the United States to Paris, and hold him under arrest to await further orders from this Department. WM. H. SEWARD. If the Senate had not adjourned it might have been supposed that that body had im peached him on a charge made at or before the time he was recalled ; but as it is, the ar rest was one of the most despotic actions that could have been perpetrated by the most ar bitrary Government on the face of the earth. A Washington Lady Presents a Sword to Gen. Beauregard.—The Washington corre spondent of the New York Herald, of the 30th ult., has the following: A few days since a lady in this city, the wife of a prominent official under the last adminis tration, forwarded to Gen. Beauregard, through her son, a magnificent sword, as a present from a number of ladies residing in the sec ond Ward, who desired thus to express their esteem and sympathy for him in his present fiosition. A day or two afterward, this same ady herself went as far as Maryland Point, with one hundred letters in her possession for the rebels, which she had conveyed to them in the following manner: On reaching Mary land Point, she shot off a rocket as a signal for the boat on the opposite shore, which im mediately came over with muffled oars, took the package, and then left, after which the lady returned to this city. On Thursday last, she repeated the experiment, this time at tempting herself to pass over in the boat, but was compelled to return when within about three hundred yards of the Virginia shore by a shot from the steamer Resolute. The lady is now in Washington, probably awaiting an other opportunity to advance the cause of the rebels in this clandestine mode. We refrain from mentioning names, as by so doing we might prevent the successful prosecution of a plan which has been adopted for the capture of the whole party. Free and constant com munication with the rebels is said to be kept up by means of boats from Alexandria to Oc coquan, the enemy’s pickets extending that far. Brigadier General E. Kirby Smith, of Florida.—This officer, whose distinguished bearing and generalship on the field of Man assas, has brought him prominently before the country, is a graduate of the W.PointAcad emy in the class of 1845, in which he was com missioned as Second Lieutenant Fifth Infan try. In tho battles of Palo Alto and La Pal ma he bore a distinguished part; was brevet ted First Lieutenant Seventh Infantry in Au gust, 1846, for gallant and meritorious con' duct at battle the of CerroGordo.was soon after brevetted Captain for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Contreras. After the close of the war Captain Smith was detailed for duty at West Point as Professor of Math ematics. After some service at West Point, Captain Smith was on the frontier in com mand of a company of cavalry, and distin guished himself in Van Dorn’s action with the Comanches on the 13th May, ’59. We trust he will soon be in the saddle at the head of his brigade.— Charleston Mercury, Aug 27. John Mitchell and his Sons.—John Mitchell, the Irish Patriot, has two sons in the Confederate army, and they are bis only sons who are able to bear arms. John Mitchell Jr., is Captain of a South Carolina company. James Mitchell is a private in the company of Captain Dooley, of the city of Richmond.— The father of these gallant young gentlemen is in Paris, and is himself as true as ever to Southern cause.— Richmond Enquirer,Aug. f A. s '* dp \ h BY ADAIR & SMITH. TERMS: Daily, one year, $5; six months, $3; one month, 50 cents. W eekly, one year, $2; six months, sl.2s—invariably in advance. 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HF Persons getting up Clubs of five, ten or more subscribers, will be supplied with the copies ordered at 12% per cent, less than our regular rates. nanie will be entered on our books until the money Is paid; and all subscriptions are dLcontinued when the time expires for which payment is made, unless the same be renewed. Address, ADAIR A SMITH, June, 1861. Atlanta, Georgia
