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The Rank f'on v*ntlon.
Atla&ta, Mow da t, Joae :;d, 3661.
’ I The Hank (’or.vvntion of the Southern State.-,
met at the City Hail, tud waa called to order by
Mr. Cubeti of anc&h, who uaroed Mr. Hoitnee
of Charleston tor unoporarc Chairman, which
/ wa* adopted by thi Bod?; and Mr. G. B. Lamar
of M&raaoah wa* chosen temporary Secretary.
Oo taking the Chair, Mr. ilo!rut* said he was,
i perhaps, not thoroughly posted a* to the object of
the Convention, and hoped some delegate from
1 Tennessee would inform tfiem on that point,
i >r. Wicks of Tennessee replied (bat he was the
I otjlj delegate from that State. C nfortunately the <
, Governor of the State was not authorized by the
Act of the leciduterr, to fill vacancies in the
delegation. Moat of those who vere appointed ;
j iiad goon into the armv and could not leave their j
. conuiiandb so attend the Convention,
j Mr. Coiieo of Savannah suggested that all the I
; deforce* present corae forward and enrol their ]
• The ©Staten www cailed uad the following ‘
T ■.: ’ -Moaes .1. Wicks, Bank of Mem
t phi a nod Bank of Chattanooga,
r Gn*>kO!A.—ft. U. Curler, Blunter*’ Hank of .Sa ‘
j vannab.
| Solomon Cohen, Bank State of Georgia.
H. Robert*. Merchant’s and Planter- Bank.
Isaac Scott, Rank M iddle Garcia
W- * s - < till ran. Bank at Kmpire .State
A. Austell, B*uk Faltou.
W. H. Inman, North-Western Bank.
G B. Lamar, Hank of Cotamerce.
W. h JuAkob, L nion Hank.
Alfred Baker, Xlecbiimc* Bank.
Sopth Carolina <!. M. Furman and C. V.
Chain Lx* t lain. Bank of the State of South Carolina.
Henry Coins and (J. W. Wnliarns, Book of Sooth
W in. B. Muith, Union Bunk oi South Carolina.
H. Ravcnet and Jas. J. McCarter Plantera’
Meeliants’ Bank
J. K. Sass and il. A. Trenholm, Bank of Cbarleo
ton.
S. Bose and dus. G. Holmes, South Western
Railroad Hti.k
John S. I>avia, Farmers’ A Exchange Bank.
li. L. McKay and ©lames L. Gibbea, Feoolea’
Bank.
Win. Godfrey and Allan McFarland, Merchants’
Bank of Cher a tv.
•I. G. Henning, Bank of Georgetown.
Geo. S. Cauicron, Bank of Chester.
B F). Boyd, Bank of Newberry.
Alabama. -J. <l. Honcgan, Bank of Northern j
Alabama.
Fliii.tiiAA. H. Bank of P’ernandina.
Virginia responded bv letter, which appears in j
the proceedings.
| A committee on permanent orgaidzation tvas
, appointed - each Stab delecting its own Commit
-1 tee man.
j The OaoHpitteo retired lor a few moments and
! rettiroed with tb“ following recommendation,
i which Was unaoimorudy adopted:
j For Bresident, G. li. liUmar, of Georgia ; for
J Secretary, James S. Gibber, of South Carolina.
I The following letter from Virginia was then
read and ordered to be entered on the miauteh :
FAitMgk'a Bank of Virginia, (
Richmond, May 80, 1 j
l Sir :Ft was the wish of tlie Banks ,of this city ;
to he represented in your Convention, and dele I
J gaten to it were appointed. Just now, however, I
j tne enemy ih supposed to design inroads into our !
i State, and there is a natural unwillingness on ;
! the part of n* all to leave our homes. For this
| reason atone, our banker* will not be present (
participating in your deliberations.
1 have tin* pleasure to say that our hankers are !
impressed with the importance of arrangements
! to put the currency of the Confederate ©States
I upon a footing, as near as practicable, of equality.
They are prepared to acquiesce m any judicious
I measures to that result, and may be expected to
J assent to tuiy arrangements sanctioned by the I
Convention and concurred in by the Banks of the i
Southern Stales.
j Should the Conveution, for any reason, decide!
! to hold an adjourned meeting, it wiil give plcu- i
| sure to our bankers to unite in this conference. !
I am, with great respect.
Your obedient servant,
Wm. H. McFarland, President.
| To the Pi liautont of the Bank Convention, Atlanta,
| Ga.
! Mr. Trenholm then presented the following
j comil) nine at uu from Secretary Meinminger, i
j which was ordered to be entered on the minutes : j
Charuwton, May 31, 1801.
; To the Conv ntion of the Hanks, of the Confeder- |
ate States, Atlanta:
Gcn j i.kmrn -I regret that the exigencies of hu- I
Mncxs prevent iny intending ywur meeting. lam j
I not informed as to the objects which are contetu- j
| plated, fui-ther than by the statement in the pub- j
1 1 idied call of the Convention. Desiring greatly
tu toi ward the object stated in flu* call, F have con- j
eluded t 1 at the best mode of farthering it is to in- j
form 30 ire members of your body of the views j
and fiscal plans ot the Goverument, and endeavor |
to harmonize your action with those plans. To this ;
end I have conferred fully with Mr. Geo. A. Tren
holm, of Charleston, and I have requested him to
ptexent those views; and i feel confident that
you will find your wishes, if not anticipated, at
least, csseut’ally promoted by the arrangements
already made by the Government. It will be in
your power to forward those plans and to add to
the financial credit of the (Jovernmeut, aud F feel
assured that von will use every effort to advance
this great object. Permit me to add my Assur
ance that you may rely with equal confidence up
on the Government for a hearty co-operatiou iu
c very plan which you may .advise for securing the
public and private interest* of our people.
’V ri v respect Inll v.
Your obedient servant,
C. G. Mkmminuer,
Secretary of the Treasury.
The following (Vmnnittee was then appointed
to prepare business for the Convention, to whom
the foregoing two communications were referred :
Mr. Wicks of Tonuexfiee.
Mi. ftatcnel aud Mr. freaholm of South Caro- j
lina.
Mr. Cm let aud Mr. .lackson of Georgia.
Mr. Donegal of Alubama.
Mr. Cole of Florida.
Mr Ravem l announced that each of the banks
of Charles*o.i had passed the Ibllowiug resolu
-1 Unsolved, That, thi* bank will credit the Secre
farv of the Treasury with the sum of one hundred
iticmsHiid dollars, ai the rate of six per cent, per ]
i u,nuni, se*ared bv lm*ge treasury notes, and to ,
be cuuvertihh* is to eight j>ei emit. Imnds of the j
Confederate States, at the option of the holders. |
Mr. Holmes stated that there were a great many
hcnd< of States, Banks, Fiailroad Companies,
i eities aud corporatious, whose interest was paya
ble in New York. He suggested that this Con-
I venfion recommend to all such the propriety ot
paying the same at sonic point or point.-* within
i the C utederaev. Referred to the Couveution.
Ml- Tienhotm suggested that a circular be is
! suo a to all tlie Railroad Companies, recouimend
i im tbuiii to receive and nay out ai par the bonds
*nT notes of the Confederacy* Keforred to the
i ComraiWee.
\ The President suggested tha }>rapnety of re
cottiiueadmg to the Congress soon to aumiuble at
! Kichmotid, t limit the ufiimmt of notea to b
! issued, and uuke them a legal tender duriug the
fantim.auce of th war; :uid for two years atei- i
I wards. Referred to the Committee. j
Mr. Cuvier presented resolutions from the |
! Bunks v Suvanoah similar so the Charleston i
Fbiuk>. Iteiercd to Committee. j
Mr. Cole requested that tlii Committee inquire j
i lufo the expedience of Congress passing an aul J
making the Bonds an* notes of the Confederacy j
h basis ior Hanking capital—the same as gold aud j
1 silver. Referred t the Coinnuiutf.
Adjourned oi 4 o’clock.
4 o’clock, p. . ;
Tht Convention mei pursuant to adjournment. ]
Mr. Trenlijohn presented tbp following : j
IL-poi t of the Committeif of Convention of
Banks, at Atlanta, June S, 1661.
The Corn milee beg leave rcspectfuUv to re
|Hirt that thin h*> carefully considered the sere
■al matters reienvd to them by the Convention,
and roconimenu the adoption of the following
resolutions, which embody all the measures they
would advise the Convention to adopt at present : i
Resolved, Tliat this Couventiou di> recommend
to all the hanks in the Southern Confederacy to j
receive in paiitieot of all dues to them, the Irry j
suri notes of the aaui 1 on deposit, and pay there ■
out to customers.
That until the said Treasury notes of can be ;
prepared and issued, it he reeuinmeuded that all j
the Banks do agree lo advance to tiw Government.
i u current notes, such sums severally as tjtay be
agreed niton between them and the Secretary .0!
the Treasury,—the Mid advance to be made on the j
deposit With the banka at Treasury notes of large |
denomination, or -'per cent. Stock or Bonds. ,
That all the 1 tanks iu the Southern Confederacy
are earnestly urged to take immediate action on
site foregoing resolution, as a measure ot the
greatest importance to the Government and the
people, and communicate the same, without delay,
to the Secretary of the Treasury, at Richmond.
That it be recommended to all the Railroad
companies m the Southern Confederacy, to re
ceive the Treasury notes „ia payment ot fares aud
rfmt'thc Legislatures of the several States do
make it lawful for their tax collectors, aud other
officers, to receive the Treasury notes to payment
tor ail taxe* mill alt other public dues.
That aU the State**, cities and corporations nav
hi**’ coupOWs payable in Uie city of New \ ork. or
ei>v vherv m die o*tuy's country, be requested,
liai -L the ton unease* of the war, to
place ot payment*& the Confederate Mates,
mi pve their creditors nciice ol Die sumo.
That the Oomui , te* recommend that wheu
tliis Convention adjourns, it adjuuru to meet
iNj.tiu ob the zlth day of July next, at Ricfcccnd,
The resolution* were read seriatim, aud each
one was adopted unanimously.
Mr. Roberts offered the following:
Rested, That a copy of the proceedings ot
. this Oou\e*itton be sent to each Bank within the
Confederate States, with a request that they co*
1 operate with Utt* Contention. Adopted unani-
I moas'v.
Mr/Aiarenel stated that the Ranks of Ch&rlea
tc. Savannah and August*, had already adopted
the recommendation ot the second resolution.
The Convention iheu adjourned, to meet in
Riehraoud J-uh July.
Cajd, Blooue- Lands as the following letter
| Irons a noble and true hearted woman to her has
hatuL tk>w m the Fourth Georgia Regiment, near
Norfolk, it breathes iba true spirit, and shows
j of what material our women ar nade. Who
would not be proud to be the husband of aucii
and feel it gfeip enough to undergo any privu!
non. aud shod the last drop of his blood, for her
sake ?
HAwnfsnut, Os., Muy IS. ISI.
il l Ihitr h-nb-JLK.I ;
Ail rc wen at home, and i am glad t tell yon j
- Sometimes l want you at home, bnt when I ‘
think of Ihe cause i>f your absence, lam pertart- j
ly fesigoed.
I abt oft he opinion that Uie war wilt not last
longer than six months from the lights before me.
bnt should the twelve months for which yon are
enlisted expire, and the war still continue. I shall
not expect to tee yon at home. 1 hare resigned
my claim on yoo to vour God and your country.
Think not of ease and pleasure, until the enemy
of year home in the‘sonny South is made to sub
mit. .ad Abe Lincoln is forced to give us laj we
ask. oar rights.
When this day dawns, then return, and reeene
from your wife the abides and fender cares to
which you and all oilier brave soldiers are entitled.
Re ah rave soldier. Nobly face the enemy. For
\ every ounce of blood in yonr body give the enemy
j odtjee balls. l.ook to God in the hour <>f
I danger. ,1 believe Ire is on our aide ; and with
, him as year leader, who dare oppose t
Many prayers are sent to Heaven in vour behalf.
I ant proud to say, me husbau is a soldier; then
think not 1 am sad. I ask yon not to return home
until the war is ended.
My love to you and your company, and hope
vou inav safely return home to vour kindred and
j vour affectionate wife. B. H- L.
no?eiuent of Federal Troopein West
ern Virginia.
; Ontt'qjfeaton citizen*—l iryfnian* pmoirU into
theuood* and fired at—One. man killed ruid
i another toonnded.
! YYe find in the W heeling Intelligence! lull ac
counts of the moremeot* of the Federal troops,
under Col. Kelly, from that city to Grafton, Va.
The lutclhgencer j* n strong Republican paper,
i and it* statements are by do uieaws free from
party foaa. It baa a letter from a correspondent
who describes m glowing ntyle ibe reception of
the troops at every stoppage. We make the fol
lowing extracts from the letter
SCENES ON THE ROUTE.
All the way out through Marshall the utmost |
entbusiaois was awakened by the appearance of
the soldiers. Owing to the alarming reports of j
the night before, re.mors tiiat Scutfiern troope |
were approaching, we found crowds at every stop
ping piace, who cheered the trams as they passed.
At Glen Kaxtou we found a company of 2s or 3o j
rifie<ien. and further on pusoed another company
ot them, numbering perhnps4o, ail inarching to
wards Cameron, which they heard was to be at- ;
tacked aod burnt by .State troops. At Cameron i
we found a crowd assembled of some 300, per- 1
haps, who insisted on standing out in a pelting j
rain and cheering the soldiers nearly all the time j
they were there. The report of the advance of
Southern troops had been received the night be
fore, and a hundred riflemen had been underarms, I
guarding the town all night; and at this time men j
with rtifo* on their shoulders were coming in I
fi ow all directions, word having been sent out the j
night before.
ARRIVAL AT M INNIXGTOX.
Our trains reached Manuington a little after
1 noon, and the appearance of the troops there as
’ everywhere else, took the people completely by
I surprise. They had heard, however, that a train
i waa coming from the West, and as this was un
usual since the burning of the bridges, a coo
-1 siderabte crowd was at the depot waiting. As
the trams rolled iu they displayed the American
; flag amidst the greatest enthusiasm.
AKKEBT oy SECESSIONISTS —ONE KILLED AND ANOTHER
WOUNDED.
Hardly hud the soldiers been there five minutes
till they had arrested and under guard mauv se
cessionists, namely: a tavern-keeper named Wells;
Mr. Kuox, a merchant; Chas. Matthews, Super
intendent of that section of B. A O. K. li. ; Dr.
Grant, defeated secession candidate for the Legis
lature, and one Snodgrass, a constable. These
men all seemed to expect nothing short of execu
tion on the spot. They were arraigned before
Colonel Kelly, who released Wells, Kuox and
Grant on their taking the oath of fidelity, but re
tained Matthews and .Snodgrass.
The trains soon after moved on down to the
first burned bridge, where the men disembarked
and paraded in a meadow*. Col. Kelley then de
tailed six companies and started for Fanriiugton,
some three miles below, from which it was said,
the men who bnrnt the bridges had come, and
where it was reported some fifty armed Bec*3Ssion
troops were stationed. Meanwhile the remainder
of the .troops stacked arms, after throwing out
pickets and scouts on the neighboring hills, with
orders to bring in any persons they might find.—
In less than ten minutes after their arrival they
brought in six, some of whom, it was positively
asserted by some Union men from the country
around, were accessory to the destruction of the
bridges. Squads of men continued to go out in
different directions, and to bring in prisoners un
til they must have had, at least, a dozen under
guard at once. Several of them were released af
ter au examination by the officers, but at least six j
or eight were retained until the return of Col. !
Kelley. Ft was rather exciting to see the scouts,
or “ Snake Hunters,” as they style themselves, on
j a trail. As certainly as they would see a man
anywhere in sight a squad of them would seize
; their guns and start after him on u run, and be*
! fore very long would firing him iu; for they were
; sure of their game if they got eyes on it. The
prisoners were all treated with the utmost courte
i sy, but nevertheless, some of them looked ten i-
I bly frightened.
Iu the evening the companies returned from
Farmington, bringing with them several prison
ers, and reporting that their scouts had killed one
secessionist aud wounded another. When they
got to Farmiugton they found it almost entirely
deserted, the secessionists having got wind of
their approach. Findiug the town deserted, Col.
Kelley his men to scour the woods sur
rounding it, and it was not long until they had
unearthed several of the fugitives, most of whom
they captured. The men who w ere shot ivere
running from their pursuers, who called out. to
them to surrender. Not heeding this, they were
told they would he shot unless they did. No at
tention was paid to the command, and several
shots -vere fired, killing one instantly and wound
ing another.
J have urt learned at this writing what was
done with the prisoners. The impression in camp
was that they would be tried by a court martial.
Aguiust some of them there is very strong posi
tive evidence that they set tire to the bridges.
RETURN TO MANKINGTON.
Tho Ohio regiment reached Manuington on
Monday evening, just at dark, having felt their
way over the road, examing all the bridges to see
that they had not been injured. The whole town
assembled to receive them. They paraded in the
street in front of Hough’s Hotel, while their band
played the Star Spangled Banner, and other airs.
At the conclusion the crowd gave three cheers
for Ohio, which compliment was returned by the
Ohio men, who gave three cheers for the citizens
of xManningtou. The citizens then proffered their
houses for quarters for the soldiers. Some w ere
put in the church, some in the Odd Fellows’ Hall,
others at the hotel, others in private houses, until
they were all provided for.
FURTHER INCIDENTS.
During the night, owing to the breaking down
of the wires at Glover’s Gap, one hundred men
were sent up to take possession of the place aud
guard the road and telegraph. This morning the
Ohio men will go down to the camp at the burnt
bridge. Ft is expected that all bauds will go to
work rebuilding the bridges, so that the traius
will be enabled to go in a day or tw r o. There are
now more than *2,000 men at Manningtou and the
camp below. There is no doubt that they will
push through to Grafton as soon as practicable.
Col. Kelley was heard to say yestei day that he
was desirous of paying his respects to that place
aud at Fetternum at as early a day as possible.
An experienced telegrapher accompanies the
troops to repair the lines and keep up communi*
tion with Wheeling.
At Cameron yesterday they hauled up some .se
cessionists and*made them swear to support the
Constitution of the United States. To-day that
place was full of men, armed. Squads of them
were going out to bring in uome more of the same
stripe, intending to maae them take the same oath
also.
HO\v“TUB~SKrKSSIOXISTS TOOK lilt afton.
Mr. Fred. Duval and Mr. .loseph Fulton, engi
neers on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, arrived
in Wheeling on Tuesday. Thev left that place
shortly after the secessionists took possession of
the town, and about the time the bridges were
burned between Maunington and Farmington.
When the secessionists marched in and com
menced taking control of things, they ordered
Mr. Duval to remove an engine which was iu the
way, and in order to do so it was necessary to get
up steam. This Duval proceeded to do, and after
removing it to the place requested got it upon the
main track with its head towards Xewburg, eigh
teen miles distant, and before the secessionists
knew what they were doing Mr. Duval, Mr. Fnl
ton aud others mounted the iron-horse and started
with the speed of a fast passenger lccomotivu
towards Newburg. Leaving that place, they went
to Morgantown, from Morgantowu to liniohtown,
Jig and thence to Pittsburg, and down the
Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad to Wheeling.
Here, the Itjtelligencer say s. the secessionists
drove the people ou pf their houses 00 Sunday
morning, and occupied tills.; with their own
troops. They bad, it is alleged, only 1,200 men,
with only one company of cavalry. On Monday,
however, the secession troops evacuated the
place, and the federal forces took quiet posses
sion of it.]
EXCITEMENT AT f ANKRQN.
A report came to Cameron, iu Marshall county,
on lloudur morning, that the secessionists were
coming down from Farmington to burn the
bridges. Messengers were sent in all directions
to alarm the Union men, who continued to pour
into the village all day, armed with all sorts of
weapons, until they numbered six or seven hun
dred. The sudden appearance, however, of the
troops from Wheeling reassured the citizens, and
all sorts ot demonstrations of joy were manifested.
In the evening a jj.jrty well armed went to the
house of John Martin, s bf,;tber of the U. S.
Marshal, and brought him into vow 4, “id made
him take an oath to support the Constituuou of
Ce United States.
DISTANCES—BRIDGES, ACi
The distance from Wheeling to Grafton is 100
miles. From Wheeling to ifanniugton the dis
tance is 60 miles. F&rmingtcu is . utjfes beyond
and fifteen miles from Oration. Parkersburg is
one hundred miles from Oration, aud Marietta is
only 12 miles above Parkersburg. A gentleman
from Parkersburg reports that a thousand Union
troops left that'place on Monday morning tor
Grafton, over tne Northwestern Virginia road. It
is said the bridges art also destroyed on this
road, so that these troops, iik* these at Manning
ton, trill be detained.
MORE TROOPS FOR GRAFTON.
A dispatch from Reliair, May 2s, says four hun
dred wore Ohio y oops hare just left here for
Maoningieii tojoiuihe Loops of Col. Kelley’s
command. The 15th Ohio regiment, Col Andrews,
has just arrived on the other side, aud will cross
over and leave here at 3 o’clock to-morrow morn
ing.
GEN. uYIKLLAN'S PROCLAMATION.
1 The proclamation of Gen. M’Clellan, issued on
1 crossing the Ohio into Virginia, sets forth that the
! croons came as friends , that the homes, families
and property of Virginians were safe under their
‘ protection ,'lhat no interference would be made
with their slaies, but 06 the contrary, any at
tempt at insurrection wouiii ba punished with an
( iron hand. The General’s proclaroanoa to his eoi-
diers savs. yon are ordered to cross the frontier
and enter upon the soil of Virginia. \ oar mis
nou 1* to restore peace and confidence, to protect
the majestv of the laws, and rescue our brethren
from the grasp of traitors. I place under the sale
guard of your honor, the persons and propertv of
the Virginians- I know you will respect their feel
ings and all their rights, and preserve the strictest
discipline; remember that ego. one of you holds
in his keeping the honoi of Ghio and ot’ the Un
ioa If VOU are called upon to oyercome armed
opposition. I know yonr couraa-e is equal to the
task • remember that your only foes are armed
traitors, and show mercy even to them when in
1 vour power, for mam of them are misguided.—
‘When under vour prelection, the loyal men of
1 Western Virginia bve Ueeu euubled to organize
1 and arm, ther can protect themselves, rod you
’ can then return to your homes with theproed sat-
I isfacvion of having preserved a gallant laic-pfe
; from Sem uetioii.
Gi ns Spike* —Fear McEenkt.—From a visitor
at ihe fort yesterdav, we learn that the two large
Cvilnmbi&Js sent down fronatue Pittshurg foun-
, T : and to tended for Fort MeHenrr, were spiked
while k-ft standing on the gondolas at North
street .Baltimore over night. “Kattair files
were used for the parpose bv the parties engaged
’x ‘ V ,Te “ and * ,s “ complete that it is
thought the guns will have m be sem back for the
purpose of rcbonng the touch-holes. Workmen
were employed yesterday in endeavoring to ex
tract the obstructions by boring, hot met with
poor success-
The work of improving the defences within the
tort IS still going on. The magazine is being tor
tified by sand bags. An artesian well i s being
sank in the fort ground, which is iuiended to sup
ply the garrison with pure water in case ot a
sie^e.
Jobe Merrymsn, Esq., is still at the fort. His
counsel and friends are freely admitted with a
p&sa. — fiaUiuior* &iun, \d ih*L
A FAltar Division. —A son of George D. Preo
i lice is commander of fc secession military compa-
I uy m Louisville.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 13. 1861.
Outrage* by tin Federal Troop* in KHz
abetti< ity County. % a.
j We find the following particulars of recent out
rages perpetrated at Hampton and other portions
j of Elizabeth City county, in the Norfolk Herald ot
Wednesday :
Mr. Frederick .Tett, formerly of Elizabeth City,
fed Williamsburg a few days ago, where be had
| jnat moved with bis family to avoid the vandals
at Port Monroe, and came round by the wa> of
Kichmood to Norfolk, where he is engaged in some
work on the fortifications.
He found at Williamsburg a number of fugitives
! from Hampton, from whom be learned some par- ,
, ticulars of the villainous doings of the Federal
i troops after their descent upon Newport News. i
1 They comraencedon the farm of Mr. Wm. Smith,
1 which they left a complete wreck. He had u fine j
. field of wheat, besides a number of truck crops.— ,
; These the scoundrels completely devastated, be- 1
| sides stealing or shooting down Mr. Smith’s slock !
and poultry, which they found ranging about the j
farm. Mr. Smith thought he would be a little be
fore band with them in saviug his bacon, ami had J
the contents ot his smoke house carted out into I
the woods, and buried it when he saw’ them ap
proaching. But in this he was foiled ; u treacher
ous darkey wbt assisted at the burial, told upoD
him, and the robbers had the meat disinterred,
and carted back. This fellow, with several others
of Mr. Smith’s negroes, they took to Fort Monroe,
and set them to work on the fortifications. Mr.
Smith estimates his loss, including the negroes,
at full #15,000.
! They next visited the adjoining farm of Mr.
; West, which they treated us they had done Mr.
Smith’s, cutting up aud completely destroying
I the crops of every kind. At Mr. West's they nn
| luckily found a uniform coat; upon which, they
j held him a closo prisoner and sent ofl his two
daughters, grown women, to the fort as “hostages”
for his “good behavior.” Nothing was alleged
against them; but it was the simple arbitrary act
of Lincoln’s heil-hounds. who in this, though in
violation of law and civilized usage, as iu all their
firoceedings, but followed the example of the law
ess old tyrant, their Master.
From Mr. West’s they passed over to the farm
of Wm. Lee, which had on it one of the tluest
crops of wheat iu the county, besides other valua
ble products. This they completely devastated,
as they had done the farms we have,already men
tioned.
In short, they continued the work of ruthless
and reckless destruction on every J’ann fronting
Hampton Roads, from Newport News to Hamp
ton, committing evey species of atrocity and out
raging the persons of negro women, girls, and
even female children, iu a manner 100 inhuman
and revolting to dwell upon.
The families residing ou this range of farms had
generally moved off to the interior, and thus
avoided the insults and infamous treatment ol
the barbaric enemy.
The woods back of Hampton were for several
days filled with the fugitive families from that
once smiling and happy village, and with such of
their household stuff as they could carry with
them in the hurry of the alarm. They have prob
ably, ere this, obtained more desirable lodgings.
Brorideutially they have had fine weather.
It is ascertained that there are full three hun
dred slaves belonging to citizens of Elizabeth City,
either fugitives or forced into the service, em
ployed as laborers in Fort Monroe at the present
time. It has always been stated that Col. Mallory,
of Elizabeth City, went with a flag of Trace to the
fort to demand the return of the fugitive negroes,
but the demand was refused. A similar applica
tion was made on the following day by another
flag, and also refused. The bridge over Hampton
Creek was then burnt by our people, and the ene
my made his raid upon Newport News by water.
There are only four of it inhabitants remaining
in Hampton, who are prevented by chronic dis
eases and other u navoidable causes of dcteulion
from leaving it in the entire possession of the
enemy, who now occupies it.
The loss, (including negroes,) sustained by the
county of Elizabeth City, at the hands of these
remorseless marauders, is estimated at half a mil
lion of dollars.
When the vandals from the North occupied
Hampton, an officer with a squad of men went to
the store of Mr. P. Lattimer, and demanded pos
session. Mr. Lattimer replied that he had pur
chased and paid for his stock of goods, and the
officer might have them at their valuation. The
officer said he would have the goods and store
and not pay a cent for them, and drawing his
sword slapped Latimer with it on the face. Latti
mer then drewxi revolver and tired it, when the
officer fell. He then leaned over the counter and
tired three more shots in the body, causing death.
Lattimer was, of course, captured, and taken to
Old Point and hung on Friday last.
The officer killed is said to he a Ideutenant iu
one of the companies, and distinguished for mili
tary abilities. He lias met a dog's death iu a dog’s
cause.
Mr. W. C. Marrow, of Hampton, was also treat
ed in u most shameful and indecent manner. He
was captured in the town, having h.s uuiform ou,
stripped stark naked, marched throuuh the streets
in this condition, and then carried to Fort Monroe
as a prisoner. Cun such things he done in this
enlightened age and not rouse to boiling heat the
blood of every Southerner ?
[From the Baltimore Snn y of Friday.}
FaMttcngcrTrain Firnl Into.
The Western express train, which left Piedmont
East, at 7.20 P. M., on Wednesday evening, in
charge of Conductor Bryson, was fired into be
tween 1 and 2 o’clock yesterday morning, at a
point about one mile west, of the Relay House, by
si detachment of the troops stationed there, who,
it is alleged, acted on the presumption that the
train was carrying an attacking party of Con
federate troops, such a rumor having been circu
lated. On the contrary, however, the train con
tained a number of New York aud Philadelphia
through passengers, including several ladies.
It. is usual when a train is called to a halt, to
wave a light in front, of the train as a signal. The
conductor and passengers assert that no such
light was displayed, and the place not being the
regphu* stopping point, the train came ou, of
course. Immediately, about ten or eleven mus
kets were tired—some suy at the engineer,* Mr.
Lewis, but nearly all the balls fired took effect in
the two first passenger cars, five leaving their
mark. One ball struck near the head of a lady,
Mrs. Murdock, of New York, taking out a large
piece of the woodwork of the car; a second passed
m close proximity to the head of a gentleman, a
hotel keeper at llarper’s Ferry, carrying away
several slats of tuej window; while a third ball
entered the water-closet, perforating four parti
tions.
The train, previous to the firing, had been de
layed several hours beyond its regular time, caus
ed by the interruptions at Harper’s Ferry, l J oint
of Rocks, and elsewhere, where the railroad track
is destroyed, aud its approach at. an unusual hour
no doubt gave color to the report that a special
train with a Confederate force was approaching.
The train was promptly stopped on being fired
into, but was suffered to come on to Baltimore,
arriving about daylight. The passengers exhibit
ed several splinters from the cars struck, and de
tailed their escape with much feeling.
Col Jones, the commander of the post at the
Relay House, iu view of the circumstances of the
case, ordered an investigation.
The master of transportation of the road, Mr.
Smith, iu conformity with the desire of Col. Jones,
proceeded to the Relay Camp at 2 o’cloclock yes
terday afternoon, taking with him as witnesses in
the case all the employees on the train. A partial
examination took place. It was proven that the
picket acted indiscreetly and without orders and
the testimony exonerated the officers of the train
from any charge of rashness. After the shots
were fired and the train stopped, the soldiers en
tered the cars and acted rather unbecomingly.—
There were over twenty ladies on the train who
were greatly frightened. One of the soldiers re
marked, when expostulated with, that <4 Baltimore
deserved a shot anyhow ,” or words to that effect.
The examination will be continued.
Kinnor* of the Fairfax Fight.
A passenger on the Central train, who left Man
assas Junction yesterday morning, reports the
Southern forces at that place to be in high spirits,
and patiently awaiting the attack soon to be made
on them by the 40,00 c Hessians of Lincoln’s army.
He says that an old gentleman counted the IJ. S.
Cavalry as they marched on Fairfax Court House,
Saturday morning, and that they numbered 85.
On their return there were but fifty-eight in the
party, and five stragglers passed afterwards, show
ing that twenty-two had been either killed or
taken prisoners. .Seven dead bodies had been
seen, and one of the wretched hirelings had
crawled into the Confederate camp, badly
wonudad.
The same geutiemaii reports that on Saturday
last the railroad bridge at Martinsbbfg was tired
and burned by the Southern troops as a matter of
precaution against a rear attack.
Yesterday afternoon it was reported on the
streets that another skirmish had taken place at
Fairlax £ourt House ; but as we could trace the
rumor to no reliable source, aud the passengers
on the cars had heard nothing of it, we are quite
sure the rnmor is unfounded. — Ri:h\nond Pis
patch, 4 th inst.
Camp Pickens, Va., June ‘2, 1861.
Three of Lincoln's men, belonging to Company j
B, caral.y, tfco were engaged in the affair of yes* j
terday at’Fairtai: G. H. : were brought into camp |
a few'hours after the tight, as prisoners of
They are ill-favored specimens of humanity, surly 1
in their manner, and evidently nothing above the
hireling who kills and offers himself to be killed |
for pay. They were splendidly mounted and j
well equipped.
A Novel Method of Taking Pickens—Red Pep- j
peh. —A correspondent of the Mobile Register has
a nortd plan for capturing Fort Pickens. He •
savs : i
It is well known that there are some chem* cais •
so poisonous that an atmospbeae impregnated with
them, makes it impossible to remain where they |
are, as they would destroy life, or interfere so j
much with “respiration, as to make fresh air indis-
F?nsable. That the whole atmosphere of Fort
ickecs can be so impregnated, in a short time,
can be shown to be by no means chimercal; and j
only not chimerical, but easily effected.
It will not cost so much as to be impracticable, |
and may cost infinitely less than a regular siege,
not only in money, but life. Everybody almost
knows that burning red pepper, even in small
quanihi^— z ieaspoonfui—will clear the largest
room of a crowand id a *ew
snuff of veratria will make oee cough hio.seif al
most to death, and run great risk of coughing
himself into consumption ; that some gases are so
poisonous to life that the smallest quantity will
kill—hydro cyanic acid and arseniuretted hydro
gen, for instance. By mixing red pepper and ve
tria with the powder with which the shells are
tilled, or by fiflinwr large shells of extraordinary
capacity with poisonous gases and throwing them
very rapidly into the fort every living soul would
have to leave in double quiet ißae—it g?
impossible to breathe there. If the bombardment is
effected in a dead calm, the result would be certain
and often at Fort Pickens there is not a breath of
air stirring from daylight until ten o’clock in the
morning. _
bALViWOEK and Onto Kajlju>aj>. —Uy weft-con
firmed reports from Pennsylvania, we learn that
in addition to Frederick, WilLiac:?port nnd Ha
gerstown. Hancock and Cumberland, Ml, were
Coih about to be occupied by Federal troops. Jt
w%uld appear evident that the Federal GoTern
me is determined, as part of its military plans,
to tak*. entire possession of tht* Baltimore and
•Jhio Rafoad, js Wheeling, Parkersburg, Graf-
I ton, and t*eir points are already
possessed b; troops.
This movement, with the occupation of the
points just citei, will leave only the small territo
ry between Meiinsburg and the Point of Rocks
between 30 miles,) in possession of the
Confederate troops. J; is supposed that the Fed
eral armies are accompanied by corps of sappers
and miners, with bodies laborers to repair “des
troyed bridges, raiiioadNr*^ s lines,
to be used by the Governn^t.— Jkhljr.ort
W t nd.
\ Money M atters in Chicago.-— Bank Com
j missioners have made a call for addi<jnal aecun*
( ties of fifty-two Banks, having a ciru>{ation of
! $5,000,000 secured by $1,300,000 of Northern,
I $5,000,(too ©f Border State, and SBOO,OOO <K ,Sece
! ded .State stock. The call gives the Banks tii the
j Ist of June to make up the deficit.
UK. 11l SSKLI/s FIFTH LKTTI K.
[From the London Times. J
_ Charleston. C. April 21, lsdl.
I find some consolation lor the disappointment
of not arriving i n time to witness the attack up <n
hort >umter in describing the condition, of the
work affor Major Anderson surrendered it.
! f? 011 m f. lable * pamphlet entitled
i The Battle of tort Sumter, and First Victory of
the southern Troops,” Ac., several “poems, ’ and
a varieiv of versicules, songs, and rhetorical ex
ercitanoris upon this event, which, however im
| portaut as a political demonstration, is of small
t J”* ,B * nntiUf J sense, except in so far as the
| bloodless occupation of a position commanding
C harleston Harbor is concerned. It may tend to
j prevent any f*l ßt , impressions founded on iniper
i feet information, to state a few facts connected
with the fire in the work, and its effects, which
will interest, at least, some military readers.
1 in the first place, u may be well to admit that
! themilitary preparations and positions of the South
Carolinians were more formidable one was
prepared to expect on the part of a small State
without any considerable internal organization or
resources. This comparative efficiency was due
mainly to Gen. Beauregard aud his assistant en
gineer, Major Whiting, who are both professianal
engineer officers of the United States Army, and
who had capacity and influence euougfi to direct
the energies of the undisciplined masses in the
proper direction, instead of allowing them to
rush ou their fate in the perilous ejsay of an
escalade, as they intended. Tee State of South
Carolina had for a long time past bec| accumu
lating arms and munitions of war, and it may be
said that ever since the nullification contest she
bad permitted herself to dwell ou the ilea of ulti
mate secession, to be effected by force,if necessa
ry. When General Beauregard and Mqor Whit
ing came here the works intended to resist the
fleet and to crush the fort were in a vtv imper
fect state. Major Auderson and his oficers hud
a true professional contempt for the bitteries of
the civilians and militia men, which w:s in some
measure justifiable.
One morning, however, as they took their sur
vey of their enemy’s labors for thepretjous night,
they perceived a change had come o/er the de
sign of their works. That “someone who knows
his business is over there” was evident. Their
strange relationship with those who were pre
paring to destroy them if possible, however, pre
vented their recourse to the obvious means which
were then in abundance in their hands to avert
the coming danger. Had Major Anderson main
tained a well-regulated lire on the enemy the mo
ment they began to Ihrowflup their batteries and
prepare Fort Moultrie against him, he could have
made their progress very slow aud exceedingly
laborious, and have marked it ut every step with
blood. His command over the ground was very
decided, but he had. it is to be supposed, no au
thority to defend himself in the ouly way in which
it could be done. “Too late”—that fatal phrase—
was the echo to every order which came from the
seat of Government at Washington. Meantime
the South Carolinians worked at their batteries,
ami were soon able to obtain cover on the soft
sandy plains on which they were planting tlicir
guns and mortars. They practiced their men at
the guns, stacked shot and shell, aud furnished
their magazines, and drilled their raw levies with
impunity within 1400 yards of the l’ort. We all
know what impunity is worth in offensive de
monstrations. It is a powerful agent, sometimes,
in creating enthusiasm. Every day more volun
teers flocked to the various companies, or created
new associations of armed men, and the hetero
geneous and motley mass began to assume some
resemblance to an army, however irregular. At
the present moment, Charleston is like a place in
the neighborhood of a camp where military and
volunteer tailors are at work trying experiments
in uniforms, and sending in their animated models
for inspection. There is an endless variety—
often of ugliness—in dress and equipment and
nomenclature, among these companies. The head
dress is generally, however, a smart cap like the
French kepi; the tunic is of different cuts, colors,
facings and materials—green with gray and yellow
gray with orange and black and white, blue, with
white and yellow facings, roan, brown, burnt
sienna and olive—jackets, frocks, tunics, blouses,
cloth, linen, tweed, flannel. The officers are
generally in blue frocks and brass buttons, with
red sashes, the rank being indicated by gold lace
parallelograms on the shoulder straps! which are
like those in use in the Russian army. The arms
of the nipn seem tolerably well kept and in good
order. Many, however, still shoulder “White
Bess”—the old smooth bore musket with un
browned barrel. The following is an official re
turn, which I am enabled to prrsent to you through
the courtesy ofthe authorities, showing the actual
number of men under arras yesterday in and
around Charleston.
Morris Island—l7th Regiment, 700 men ; Ist
Regiment, 9f>o men ; 2d Regiment, 975 men. To
tal men.
Sullivan’s Island—sth Regiment, 1,075 men ;
detachment ofßtli Regiment, 250 men; detach
ment of oth Regiment, 200 men , cavalry and
others*, 225 men. Total, 1,750.
xStoiia and other points, 750 men ; Charleston,
1,900 men , Columbia, 1,050 men.
M en.
Morris Islaud 2,025
Sullivan’s Island 1,750
Stono and other points 750
Total 5,125
Columbia 1,050
Charleston 1,900
Total 8,975
In field at time of report 8,027
Total 12,002
The regiments mentioned hero are composed of
the various companies raised in different parts lo
calities with different names, but the Slate regu
lars are in expectation that they will soon be
made portions ot the regular army of the Confede
rate States, which is in course of formation.—
There are,-I believe, only 55,000 registered voters
in South Carolina. The number of men furnish
ed by them is a fair indication ofthe zeal for the
cause which animates the population. The
physique of the troops is undeniably good. Now
and then undersized, weakly men may be met
with, but the great majority of the companies
consist of rank and tile, exceeding the average
statue ot Europeans, and very well built and mus
cular. The men run very large down here. No
thing, indeed, can be more obvious, when one
looks at the full grown, healthy, handsome race
which develops itself iu the streets, in the bur
rooms and in tho hotel halls, than the error of
the argument which is mainly used by the Caro
Lilians themselves, that white men cannot thrive
in their State. In limb, figure, height, weight,
they are equal to any people T have ever seen,
ami their features are very regular and pro
nounced. They are, indeed, as unlike the ideal
American of our caricaturists and our stage as is
the “ milor ” of the Porte St. Martin to the English
gentleman.
Some of this superiority is due to the fact that
the hulk of the white population here are in ail
but name aristocrats or rather oligarchs. The
State is but a gigantic Sparta, in which the helot
ry are marked by an indelible difference of color
and race from the masters. The white population
which is not land and sluveholding and agricultu
ral is very small and very insignificant. The
masters enjoy every advantage which can conduce
to the physical excellence of a people, and to the
cultivation of the graces and accomplishments of
life, even though they are rather disposed to
neglect purely intellectual enjoyments and tastes
Many of those who serve in the ianks are men
worth from £5,000 to >710,000 a year —at least, so
[ I was told—and men were pointed out to me who
were said to be worth far more. One private
feeds his company on French pates and Madeira,
another provides his comrades with unlimited
cnampagne, most grateful on the arid sand hill; a
third, with a more soldierly view to their perma
nent, rather than occasional efficiency, purchases
for the men of his “ Guard” a complete equipment
of Enfield rifles, lfow long the zeal and resour
ces of these gentlemen will last it may not be easy
to say. At present they would prove formidable
to any enemy, except a regular army on the
plain and iu the open tield, but they are not pro
vided with tield artillery, or with adequate caval
ry, and they are not accustomed to act in concert,
and m large bodies.
Yesterday morning I waited on Gen. Beaure
gard, who is commanding the forces of South
Carolina, llis Aides-de-Camp—Mr. Manning, Mr.
Chesnut, Mr. Porcher Miles and Col. Lucas—ac
companied me. Os these, the former has been
Governor of this State, the next has been a Sena
tor, the third a member of Congress. They are
all volunteers, and gentlemen of position in the
State, and the fact that they are not only con
tent, but gratified, to act. as aides to the profes
sional soldier, is the best proof of the reality of
the spirit which animates the class they represent.
Mr. Lucas is a gentleman of the State, who is act
ing as Aide-de-Camp to Gov. Pickens. Passing
through the dense crowd which, talking, smoking
and reading newspapers, fills the large hall of the
Mills House, we emerge on the dirty street, sutli
cientlv broad, and lined with trees protected by
wooden sheathings at the base. The houses, not
very lofty, are clean and spacious, and provided
with verandahs facing the south as far as possible.
The trees give the streets the air of a boulevard,
aud the town has, somehow or other, the reminis
cence of the Hague about it which I cannot ex
plain or account for satisfactorily. The head
ouarters are in a large, airy public building, once
devoted to an insurance company's operations,
or to the accommodation of the public fire com
panies. There was no guard at the door; officers
and privates were passing to and fro in the hall,
part of which was cut off by canvass screens, so
as to form rooms or departments of the Horse
Guards of South Carolina. Into one of these we
turned, and found the desks occupied by officers
in uniform, waiting dispatches and copying docu
ments, with all the Abandon, which, distinguishes
the true sold:?; when he can get aj printed ferms
and (tbvernment stationery. In another moment
we were ushered into a smaller room, and were
presented to the General; ‘vho wag also seated at
bis 4&sk
Any one accustomed to soldier# can readily de
tect the ‘‘real article” from the counterfeit,’ and
when General Beauregard stood up to welcome us
it was patent that he was a man capable of greater
things than taking Sumter. He is a squarely
built, lean man, of about 40 years ot age, with
1 broad shoulders and legs “made to fit” a horse of
1 middle height; acd his head is covered with thick
hair, cropped close, and showing the bumps whioh
are reflective and combative, with a tree Gallic
i air. at the oa v k of the skpll , the forehead, broad
ana well developed, projects somewhat over ilje
keen, eager dark eyes; the face is very thin, with
! very bign cheek bones, a well shaped nose, sligbt
: It acquiline, and a large, rigid, sharply cut mouth,
j set above a full, fightiug chin. In the event of
| any important operations taking place, the name
, of this officer will, l fed assur ed, be heard often
i enough to be my excuse for this little sketch of
i his outward man. He was enough to detail
j Li„ me over the
I works, and I found Major w hiting a most able
; guide and agreeable companion. Jt j s *earcely
1 worth while to wa&te time in describing the post
j lion of Charleston. It R eß as low as Venice, the
look of which it rather affects from a distance,
1 with long, sandy islands stretching out as arms to
close up the approaches, and lagoons catting into
; the marshy shores. On a sandy island and spit
r on the left hand shore stands tort Moultrie. On
j the southern sfldpj °” pother jandy isjasd,
; the line* of the biitierie; which. probably, were
most dangerous, fr OUJ their proximity and posi
; tioti, to the unprotected face of Sumter. The fort
itself is built iu the tideway, on a rocky point,
which has been increased by artificial deposits of
granite chips. Embarked, with a few additions to
! our original party, on board a small steamer cail-
I ea the Ludy Daris, we first proceeded to Morris
Islaud. about Z% miles from Charleston. Our
1 steamer was filled with commissariat stores for
the troops, of whom 4,000 were said to be encamp
| ed amon<z the sand hills.
‘ Any one who has ever been at Southport, or has
seen the done? about Dunkirk or Calms, will have
a good idea of the place. Our landing was op
posed bv a guard of stout volunteers, with cross
■ iirelocks; but they were satisfied by the Gene
-1 i-al’t authority, and we proceeded, ankle-deep in
: the soft, white sand, to visit the batteries which
played on the landward face of Sumter. They
| are"made of sand for the most part, well
• placed in the sandhills, with good traverses and
(well -protected magazines, the embrasure being
faced with palmetto logs, which do not splinter
when struck
I 1 much investigation to show that these works
would be greaitv injured by a fire of vertical and
horizontal shell from the fort, and that the dis
tance of their armament would render it ditiicult
• to breach the solid walls w hich were opposed to
them at upward of 12po yards away. However*
there were two powerful batteries, which could
have done great damage if they were well served,
and have made the tei and parade of the
tort a complete “Ebeß-trap” unless the mortars
were injured. The civilians and militiamen set
greater store on the Iron Battery at Cummings
Point, which is the part of the islaud nearest to j
the fort, but the tire of heavy guns would have ,
soon destroyed tlieir confidence. It consists ot j
yellow pine logs placed as vertical uprights. The j
roof, of the same material, slopes from the top of j
the uprights to the saud facing the enemy ; over
it are dovetailed bars of railroad iron, of the T
pattern, from top to bottom, all riveted down in
the most secure manner. On the front the rail
road irou roof and incline preseut an angle of
about 50 degrees. There are three porthole,
with iron shutters. When opened by the action
of a lever the muzzles of the columbiads fill up
the same space completely. The coluuibiad guns
with which this battery is equipped bear ou the j
south wall of Sumter at au angle. The inclined
side of the battery has been struck by six shot,
the effect of two of which is enough to demon
strate that the fire of the guns t/i barbette would
have been destructive. The coluuibiad is a kind
of D&hlgreu—that is, a piece of ordnance .very
thick in the breech, aud lightened off’ gradually
from the trunuiona to the muzzle.
The platforms were rather light, but the car
riages were solid aud well made, aud the elevating
screws or hitches of the guns were in good order.
The mortars are of various calibres and descrip
tions, mostly S inch aud 10-inch ; and it is said
there were 17 of them iu position and working
against the fort, aud 35 gnus were from time to
time directed against it. Shot and shell appeared
to be abundant enough. The works are all small
detached batteries, with sand bag merlons, aud
open at the gorge, and they extend for tour miles
along the shore of the island. The camps aie
pitched most irregularly between the sandhills
tents of all shapes and sizes*, iu thrash ion called
higgledy-piggledy, here and there, in knots and
groups, in a wav that would drive au Indian quar
ter master general mad. Bouesof beef and mutton,
champagne ana wine bottles, obstructed the ap
proaches, which were of a nature to afflict Dr.
Sutherland and Sir John M’Neil most bitterly,
and to suggest the reflection that the army which
so utterly neglected sanitary regulations could
not lon<r exist as soon as the sun gained full pow
er. They say, however, the men are not sickly,
and that these sandhills are the most healthy
spots about Charleston. The men were occupied
as soldier* generally are when they have notbiug
to do—lounging or lying on the straw and plank
carpets, smoking, reading, sleeping. The owners
of the tents give them various names, of winch
“ The Lions’ Den,” “ The Tigers’ Lair,” “The Ea
gles’ Nest,” “ Mars’ Delight,” are fair specimens,
and these are done in black ou the white calico.
Fn one of which we visited, the hospitable inmates
were busily engaged in brewing elaret cup, and
Bordeaux, lemons, sugar, ice, and champagne,
and salads were in abundauee, and at the end ol
the tent was a liar, where anything else iu reason
could be had for the asking, though water was
not so plentiful. At one of the batteries the great
object of attraction was a gun made on Captain
Blakely’s principle, by Messrs. Fawcett, Preston
& Cos., of Liverpool, which was only put in batte
ry the day before the fire opened, and the effect
of which on the masonry is said to have been ve
ry powerful. It is a 12-pounder—the same which
was tried last year, I think—and bears a brass
plate with the inscription, “ Presented to South
Carolina by one of her citizens.” It is remarkable
enough that the vessel which carried it lay in the
midst of the United States war vessels at the
mouth of the harbor.
Having satis tied our curiosity as veil as time,
and a sand-storm permitted, we got in a row-boat
and proceeded to Sumpter. At a distance tTe
fort bears some resemblance to Forts Paul and
Sevastopol. It is a truncated pentagon, with
thtee faces armed—that which is toward Morris
Island being considered safe from attack, as the
work was only intended to resist au approach
from the sea. It is said to have cost altogether
more than £200,000 sterling. The walls are of
solid brick and concrete masonry, built close to
the edge of the water, 60 feet high, and from 8 to
12 feet in thickness, and carry three tiers of guns
on the north, east, and west exterior sides. Its
weakest point is on the south side, where the ma
sonry is not protected by any flunk fire to sweep
the wharf. The whole is designed for an arma
ment of 140 pieces of ordinance of all calibres.
Two tiers are under bomb-proof casemates, and
the third or upper tier is tio barbette; the lower tier
is intended for 42 pounder paixhan guns ; the
second tier for tfight and ten-iuch columbiads, tor
throwing solid or hollow shot, and the upper tier
for mortars and guns. But only seventy-live are
now mounted, i'.leven paixhan guns are among
that number, nine of them commanding Fort
Moultrie. Some of the columbiads are not moun
ted. Four of the 32 pounder en barbette guus are
on pivot carriages, and others have a sweep of one
hundred and eighty degrees. The walls are
pierced everywhere for muskets. The magazine
contains several hundred barrels of gunpowder,
and a supply of shot, powder and shells. The gar
rison was amply supplied with water from artifi
cial wells The war garrison of the fort ought to
be at least fiOO men, but only 72 were within its
walls, with the laborers—lo 2 all told—at the time
of the attack.
The walls of the fort are dented on all sides by
shot marks, but in no instance was any approach
made to a breach, and the greatest damage, atone
of the angles on the South face, did not extend
more than two feet into the masonry, which is of
very fine brick. The parapet is, of course, dam
aged, but the casemate embrasures are uninjured.
Ou landing at the wharf we perceived that the
granite cuppings had suffered more than the
brick work, and that the stone had split up and
splintered where it was struck. The ingenuity of
the defenders was evident even here. They had
no mortal with which to fasten up the stone slabs
they had adapted as blinds to the unprotected
south side, but Major Anderson, or his subordi
nate, Capt- Foster, had closed the slabs in with
lead, which he had procured from some water
piping, and had rendered them proof against es
calade, which he was prepared also to resent by
extensive mines laid under the wharf and lauding
place, to be fired by the friction tnbes and lines
laid inside the work. He had also prepared a
number of shells for the same purpose, to act as
hand grenades, with friction tubes and lanyards ;
then hurled down from the parapet on his assail
ants. The entrance to the tort was blocked up
by masses of masonry, which had been thrown
down from the walls of the burnt barracks and
officers’ quarters along the south aide. A num
ber of men were engaged in digging up the mines
at the wharf, and others were busy in completing
the ruin of the tottering walls, which were still so
hot that it was necessary to keep a hose of water
playing on part of the brickwork. To an unini
tiated eve it would seem as if the fort was untena
ble, but, in reality, in spite of the destruction
doue to it, a stout garrison, properly supplied,
would have been in no danger from anything ex
cept the explosion of the magazine, of which the
copper door was jammed by the heat at the time
of the surrender.
Exclusive of the burning of the quarters and
the iuteuse heat, there was no reason for a prop
erly handled and sufficient, force to surrender the
place. It is needless to say Major Anderson had
neither one nor the other. He was in all respects
most miserably equipped. His guus were without
screws, scales or tangents, so that his elevations
were managed by rude wedges of deal, and his
scales marked in chalk on the breech of his guns,
and his distances and bearings soratchod in the
same way on the side of the embrasures. He had
not a single fuse for his shells, and he tried in
vain to improvise them by tilling pieces of bored
out pine with caked gunpowder. His cartridges
were out, and he was compelled to detail some of
his few men to make them out of shirts, stockings
and jackets. He had not a single mortar, and he
was compelled to the desperate expedient of plant
ing long guns in the ground at an angle of forty
five degrees, for which he could find no shell, us
he had no fuses which coul4 be fired with safety.
He had no shears to mount his guns, and chance
alone enabled him to do so by drifting some large
logs down with the tide agaiust Sumter. Finally,
he had not even one engine to put out a fire in
quarters.
1 walked carefully over the parade, and could
detect the marks of only seven shells in the ground;
but Major Whiting told me the orders were to
burst the shells over the parapette. so I*B to frus
trate any attempt to work the barbette guns.—
Two of these were injured by shot, and one was
overturned,, apparently by its own recoil; but
there was no injury done inside any of the case
mates to the guns or works. The shell splinters
had all disappeared —carried off, I am told, as
“trophies.” Had Major Anderson been properly
provided, so that he could have at once sent his
men to the guns, opened fire from in bar
bette, throwuishell and hot shot, kept relays to all
his casemates and put opt fires as they arose rrom
red hot shot or shell, he must, I have no earthly
doubt, have driven the troops off Morris’ Island,
burnt out Fort Moultrie and silenced the enemy’s
lire. His loss might have been considerable ; that
of the Confederates must have been very great.—
As it was, not a life was lost by actual fire on
either side. A week hence and it will be impossi
ble for a fleet ip anything, except oover the
descent olau army her*>, and they mast lie off, at
the least, four miles from the nearest available
beach.
— The* lnvasion of Arkansas. —The Memphis pa
pers the other day published an improbable
of an invasion of Arkansas, at Nqpotepq. Thy
Bulletin of Saturday gire§ tbe following version
of the atfair
The invasion of Arkansas, near Pocahontas,
appears to have been very greatly exaggerated.
\Ve learn from Col. Faqlknw, who i-eaohcd tbe city
from f.ittle Stock on the Chester Ashly last eve
ning, that Col. James Robinson, of Jacksonport,
had just reached that place on a) mission for arms,
and reported that the rumor was to a great extent
unfounded. The report originated in this way :
some of Harney’s troops stationed at Jackson
Mo., had followed certain wagons iead
and bound for Jacksonport, capturing -on.e of
them and hotly pursyjiqg Others —and from this
circumstance the report originated. Neverthe
less, the whole country was agitated, and men
were volunteering! hv hundreds and thousands for
tbe fight. Col. Robinson states that there is an
abundance of men near Jacksonport for thorough
defense ; they only Isck arms, to obtain which is
tbe object of Col. Robinson’s mission to Little
Rock.
A member of the Oglethorgy He,tv.
writing from p p-uy Kidhi&ond, June Ist, to
thpvjuTaiuiuh Mi>, itinj S4M, says;
Qqr regiment is very nearly completed. We
have here now : Oglethorpe Light Infantry, Rome
Light Guards, Macon Gourds, Echols Gnards, (of
Meriwether county.) Letcher Guards, of Augus
ta.) Beauregnard Volunteers, Pulaski Volunteers,
Atlanta Greys.
From Norfolk. —The Savannah jupacCtwru. has
the following, dated No, folk, Va., 4th instant:
a dispatch says that Latimer, who was arrested
at Hampton by the Abolitionists, has been bung.
Rumor says'tbat the firing heard this morning
from Newport News, was an attack on the Lincoln
forces by Colonel Magruder, of the Confederate
troops.
The Abolitionists are engaged iq throwing np
defences at Newport New;.
The i.-ported defeat of the Federal forces at
Fairfax is believed to be correct.
A member of the Atlanta Grays, writing from
Richmond, Va., May 29th, to the Commonwealth,
says :
No dissatisfaction, except on one point—that is
abort our guns. Every member of this company
mourns the loss of his rifle. This act of Joseph
E. Brown, of taking onr guns from ns, was de
scending below the dignity of tbe Chief Magis
trate of the Empire grate of the South. Heseems
to have been willing (in order to gratify his ha
tred to President Davis and onr members in Con
gressi to sacrifice tbe lives of oyer one bundled
as true and brave men as ever marched to the
battle-field * * * *
For th < Chrou heU tf* Sentinel.
Southern Independence.
The time has now arrived when the South must
be determined that she will have nothing short of
absolute and unconditional release from Northern
thraldom. The vain hope that even social inter
: course'aridxec’prQcal trade can be continued, af-
Iter the infamous war now waging against her is
ended, must be laid aside. She cannot regard the
North as she does the rest of mankiud, “enemies
| in war, in peace friends.”
j Uur country must be entirely Southern. The
| northerner and the foreigner now in the Southern
Confederacy must be utterly and completely iden
tified with the South. We want no mere Yankee
notions. We should patronise no merchant who
hereaiter introduces anything northern among us.
As men. true to the SoiPh and her institutions,
we demand an absolute, unconditional, and eternal
independence of those who having been cherished
and enriched by us, believing them to be friends,
have shown to us a spirit only suited to the char
acter of demons.
Every Southerner must be encouraged. Our
support must be withheld from the entire North,
and when their Southern plantations afford their
yearly tribute no longer, their ships will roi at
their wharves—the grass will grow in the streets
of their wealthy cities, made so by Southern con
tribution—and the bat and the owl will tenant
their palatial mansions. Let every true South
erner refuse to purchase any and every thing
which comes from the North. * Let those who per
sist in introducing such things among us, be
starved out, if the almighty dollar sinks the patri
otic promptings of liis soul.
Our enemies should know and be made to feel
that the South has at length awakeued from her
heavy sleep, and that henceforth aud forever she
intends to rely upon herself. The honest acquisi
tions ot the South must no longer contribute to
the avarice of men who are enjoying the wealth
so gamed to purchase Enfield rifles and Colt’s revol
vers to take the lives ol their dear Southern breth
ren, whom they have so long and so disinterestedly
The countless wealth which has been yearly
spent at the Northern watering places should
now be used iu our favored land. The Falls of
Toccoa aud Tallulah, Lookout Mountain, the
picturesque scenery ol dear old Virginia and her
tine watering places, and good old Buncombe—
these will be hereafter the resort, of Southern peo
ple. Amid these and other delightful places
within our limits the hot sultry summer can be
happily aud agreeably spent in society altogether
Southern. The only alloy I can imagine to un
mixed happiness would be the presence of an
enemy over the line. Should one find his wav,
attracted by the beauties of our land, 1 would
have no injury inflicted, but I must insist that he
be made to take the oath of allegiauce to the Con
federacy, or be permitted to depart iu peace upon
a pt*omise never more to return.
To secure our complete independence, we must
determine to be so. The Southern manufacturer
in every department must be encouraged—home
iudustry patronized iu every branch. Southern
clothes, Southern shoes, Southern hats must be
worn, and those who can’t dispense with silks
aud broadcloths must get them no longer from
Yankeedom, but from England and France. All
our food must be produced at home, both so( man
and beast. The Southern dairy must be erected,
and the Southern man find out that he can do
without the Goshen. New England must no
longer find her market among us for her hay, her
cheese, her butter, her fish, or her potatoes. Iu
a word, let us no longer cousider anything useful
or iudispeusable unless it be a Southern product,
or from any place out the North.
From this time and forever let the North and
South be distinct.
Rkklaw.
Correspondence of the Bichmond Vispatch.
Third Rombardmeut at Aqma Creek.
Aquia Crkbk, June 2d, 1861.—The firing com
menced at lll<j o’clock in the morning with great
spirit. The line of baitle, composed of three stea
mers and two tugs, seemed destined to devour in
a few minutes our little battery at the point,
whose outer works were protected by railroad
iron,which proved very beneficiu.l. The Blues
and Company “F” were stationed in ad vantageous
places, ready to resist any attempt to land forces.
The largest steamer movud up and anchored di
rectly in front of our buttery on the point, and
opened her broadsides in rapid succession, firiug
seven guns at ouce, and changing alternately her
sides as her guns became heated. She was
thought to be the Pawnee, carrying sixteen large
64-pounders. She fired with great precision,
striking the battery very often, but not penetra
ting it. She was answervd and saluted by our
big sixty four bull dog, who struck her several
times with ricochet shots, and it is reported that
some of them pierced her from side to side. She
was about, a mile and a quarter from the wharf.
The other vessels tired very little, with the ex
ception of a steam-tug, which, divested of all in
cumbrances, carried two thirty-two pounders
rifle guns—and by far outshot the guns on the
Pawnee, throwing her shot over the .surrounding
hills. The enemy, after discharging 572 shots
ftiuljjßbells, withdrew his vessels at about
o’clock in the evening. The only damage done
was from the rifle gun, which struck a poor chicken
and severed its head from the body. Not a man
received a scratch on our side. We know not
what damage the enemy underwent. The bom
bardment cost the Federal Government about
$6,000, besides damage doue the vessel. We fired
only seventy-five shots. Men from the Maryland
side report the carrying ashore of dead bodies
from the vessels of the enemy. 1 cannot vouch
for the truth of the statement, but the Pawnee
was really damaged, for, with glasses this morn
ing, we observed that she is careened on the side,
and is now undergoing repairs.
Thk Fight at AcqcjiaCrkrk.—ln au extva of the
Fredericksburg Herald of Tuesday, w find the
following in relation to the fight at Acquia Creek,
which has not been published :
A letter to us from Ffoint, dated yesterday,
June 3, says : “The Pawnee was injured very
much. There is no doubt of this, as she was all
day yesterday opposite to our station at ’s
Point. Lt. and myself examined her with a
large spy-glass, and found she had a large hole in
her quarter, i. e., near the water line, under the
side of her stern. We also saw men in a boat
mending her port side, amidship. Yon mav rely
on this. Our batteries shot 74 shot and shell, aud
struck six or seven times.”
We are also informed, third handed, that a min
ister on the Maryland side told a person who
brought the news to this side, that he, the clergy
man was present, though not officiating, at the
burial of 28 persons taken from oft’ board the ves
sel after the battle of Saturday, and who had been
killed during the action.
Engagement atPlg’s Point.
The Charleston Mercury has the following.—
dispatches, received by Gov. Pickens :
Norfolk, June s. —There was no fight yester
day at Newport News. Tbe enemy are said to be
building many flat boats, presumed to be wttti a
view of attacking us soon, in force.
The Harriet Lam, was yesterday sounding be
tween Pig’s Point and Craney Islaud. Everything
here remains as usual.
Norfolk, June 5, 12 m.—A detuchincmt of our
men, about 9 a. m., had just begun to throw up a
battery, two miles east of Pig’s Poiut Battery,
when the steamer Harriet Lave opened lire on
them. Unprotected as they were by any earth
works, our brave troops, with hut one six-pound
er rifled cannon, suoceeded in driving off the stea
mer. Pig's Poiut Butterry also opened on the
steamer, but the distauee was too great, and the
shots from that point did not reach her. This is
perfectly reliable.
Six o'clock, p. vi. —My dispatch sent at noon to
day was based on the report of a volunteer, who
was an eye witness of the whole affair at the dis
tance of two miles. Since then an official re
port has arrived from Pig’s Point Battery, which
battery sustained tbe brunt of the enemy’s fire,
and bad one of its guns disabled. The shots of
this buttery, it appears, did reach the Harriet
Lana, nod there can be very little doubt that she
was badly hulled, for after the close of the action
she drew off to the neighborhood of FortresaMou
roe, and sent another steamer to take her usual
blockading position at Newport News. The ene
my, up to this time, has not recommenced the at
tack upon the battery.
Skirmish at Arlington Mills. —A dispatch da
ted Alexaudvia, June 1, says :
Shortly before midnight a skirmish took place
at Arlington Mills between a company of Zonaves
and Capt. Roth’s Company E, of the Michigan
Regimeut, and a scouting party of nine Virgin
ians. Tbe Zouaves just arrived to relieve the
Michiganians bud posted their sentinels, when the
Virginians attacked them.
The Federal iroops drove them away, but in tbe
conflict one Zouave was killed and one wounded.
It was supposed that one of the Confederates was
killed or wounded, but he was carried off by his
comrades in their retreat. .The Confederates re
tired to the woods during the night, and in the
morniug took themselves off’ in a nand car. The
kederalists endeavored to pursue them, but with
out success,
Aq employee of the Milk, named Mortimer, was
stiot early in the evening by the same scouting
party.
FresU'eni Davis was serenaded a few nights
Joe u Richmond and made a short speech, in
the course of which he said :
“We will m,.ke a history for ourselves. We
do not ask that the past shall shed its lustre upon
us, bright as our past has been, for we can achieve
our own destiny. We may point to many a field,
over which has floated the flag of our “country
when we were of the United States—upon which
Scut hern soldiers and Southern olficers reflected
theii; brave spirits in tneir deeds of daring ; and,
, without intending to cast a shadow upon the
; courage of any portion of the United States, let
me aii it to your remembrance, that no man who
| went from these Confederate States has ever yet,
| as a general officer, surrendered to an enemy. 1 ’
According to the Republican authorities, the
number of troops they have is as follows :
Estimate number
l aeatfon. Commander. of men.
! Soutkaide Potomac . Brig. Gee. McDowell.. 21,000
Washington, Sc Brig. Gen. Mansfield. .22,000
Fortress Monroe, inclu
ding Hampton and
Newport News Major B. F. Hutler 9,000
Pennsylvania, West.Maior Gen. W il Keim.lß,ooo
Cincin’ti A W Virginia. Mai Gen McClelland.l2,ooo
‘ Cairo Biig'Gen Prentiss .. .8,000
Baltimore Brig Gen Cadwallader 5,001
Philadelphia Brig Gen Patterson 3,000
Total 95,000
Substract one-third and you are nearer the truth.
A Traitor in thr Camp.— Extract of a letter
from Camden S. C., dated. Mav SI, 1661 :
“Onr town is now in a great state of excite
ment. A traitor has been in our midst we know
not how long. To-day a Mr. DeVigue was lodged
in jail for writing and receiving Abolition letters,
for months past hisexpressions have been mark
ed bv many of our gentlemen, and even by ladies,
and he has been closely watched, and within a
few days past his letters have been intercepted
and found expressing the most outrageous princi
ples and plans for sacking this town and other
heinous offences. The last letter to him from the
North desired fuller details regarding tbe plan he
suggested. He wrote that our town was in a de
plorable state of starvation and discord, and that
we have been driven to war for bread, and that
it would require very little force to take this town,
as all tbe men had left for Virginia. Judge With
ers has pronounced it a clear case of treason. He
is to have a trial.— Chnrl, fton Courier.
A contagious disease, supposed to be small pox,
has made its appearance in Newberry, S. C. The
exercises of Newberry College have, in conse
quence, been suspended for the remainder of the
season.
VOL. LXXV.— -NEW SERIES VOL. XXV. NO. 25.
r.Y telegraph.
LATER FRo m EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OP STEaMER
AFSTRAL ASIAN.
Nk "’ OttL * AN!, > June 5 -- The steamer Austral#.
s ian, from Queenstown, has arrived, i t |, j iy r
pool dates to May 26. The Arabia arrived out on
•the 25th.
The sales of cotton for the week were so,opo
bales, of which speculators took 19,000 and
porters 16,000. Middlings had advanced and ;
lower qualities unchanged.
There was targe speculative inquiry on Friday,
and 10,000 bales were sold to speculates aud
3,000 to exporters. The market closed steady at
the following quotations: Fair Orleans and..
Middlings 7% and. Stock on hand is 1,111,000
bales; American, 903,000 bales.
Breadstutfs dull aud slightly lower, l’rovisions
steady.
Consols unchanged. Money slightly lower.
The bullion in tho Bank of Eugiano had decreased
2387,000.
KENTUCKY—MOVEMENTS, Ac.
Nsw Obuuis, June s.—l’arties representing
the bogus Kentucky volunteers at Camp Clay (
bave been to Washington for the purpose of ob.
tabling arms and accoutrements.
Scott said Gen. M’Clellan would be instrui . and
m supply the brigade, and orders were issued ii
Guthrie to report to Col. Anderson at Louisville
immediately, ou the suggestion that this would test
the potency of Gov. Magoffin's proclamation. Scott
also replied, you will fie sustained, for we can
send you 20,000 men in three days.
Grow, of Pennsylvania, or Blair, of Missouri,
will be Speaker of the House ot Representatives.
Trustworthy information indicates that the
Southerners will attack the lines on the Washing
ton side ofthe Potomac, crossing above Arlington
Heights and Alexandria.
POSTAL AFFAIRS.
Louisvilli:, Ky., June 5. —No orders have yet
been received at the Post-Otfice in Louisville. —
Southern letters are forwarded as heretofore.—
Some letters received from the South bearing the
Confederate stamp are delivered, the Post Master
collecting three cents addditional for U. S. pos
tage. No change will be made until orders are
received.
MOVEMENT ON FAIRFAX—NO RENEWAL OF
ATTACK AT ACQUIA CREEK.
Washington, June 5.—A movement was made
ou Fairfax C. H. last night by the Federal forces,
but there are no particulars made public, for ob
vious reasons. There has been no renewal of the
attack on the J.cquia Creek batteries. When Gen.
Scott gets everything ready, the place is to be
carried—(in a barn—Ed.) Meantime the Pawnee
is cruising in the Ticinity, assuming a threatening
attitude in order v .o prevent, if possible, the erec
tion of uny more Fortifications.
NO FORWARD MOVEMENT OF LINCOLN
FORCES.
High military authority states there will be uo
forward movement of Federal troops for & few
days. Careful inspi setion shows that the projec
tiles used by the Southerners at Acqnia are of a
tiovel sort. The uauiion ure evidently Europeau
but how or when tliiey came in possession of the
Southerners is the ques'ion. Clerks wlio bave
refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Unit
ed States are still ei uployed in the Treasnry De
partment.
New York, June s.—Cotton is quite dull and
prices unchanged. Lieut. Col. Farnbam succeeds
Ellsworth as Colonid of the New York Fire
Zouaves.
TROOPS JN VIRGINIA.
Washington, June 5. —A hundred thousand
Confederate “troops ore in Virgiuia.
A theological student just arrived from Richmond
reports that tiif.ro are all of one hundred thousand
Confederate soldiers iin Virginia, of which 20,000
are at Ha rper’s Ferry, but it is suspicioaed that
he has Keen sent here to deceive the Government
in refer* nee to the strcugtii of the Southern army.
THE ‘SUCCESSOR OF SENATOR DOUGLAS.
Cbitago, Junes.—The CKicago Tribune urges
the appointment, by Gov. Yates, ,of a Douglas
Democrat to succeed Judge Douglas in the Senate.
J. B. Pully, a representative in the Legislature,
has been arrested by Col. Prentiss, r-harged with
treason.
TROOPS AT UNION CITY.
Cairo, June 3.—There are five thouscod Con
federate troops at Union City, (a point’ on the
border of Tennessee and Kentucky, some ten or
fifteen miles from the Mississippi River) i mother
Regiment haring arrived Friday. Ten th- lusand
Confederate troops are on the River between
Memphis and Cairo. Gen. Beauregard is exj reeled
to arrive at Union City on Saturday.
SWEARING IN THE HOME GUARD IN MIS
SOURI—HAULING DOWN SECESSIOA T
FLAG.
St. Louis, June 6.— Mayor Taylor has resigned.
Eighty men, from Hannibal, forming part of the
Battalion of Home Guards, were sworu into .‘be
service of the United States, were armed and re
turned with arms also for their comrades, who
are to be sworn in by Major Leavenworth.
Twelve volunteers from Camp Lincoln, armed
with Minnie ritles and revolvers, crossed the river
fourteen miles above here., and demanded the se
cession Hag in the name -of the United States.
The flag was hauled down, but as the Lincolnites
were returning the seceseicnists fired on them,
wounding three of the volunteers, one of them
severely.
CANNON FISHED IJP AT NAVY YARD—7W
DER FROM THU MERRIMAC.
Washington, June 6. —Sir Dahlgrctn hcroiue
twelve pounders have been fished up at the Navy
Yard. Eight tons of gun powder were taken from
the hold ofthe Merrimac, all uninjured. The Ger
mantown has also been l aised, and will be ready
for sea in two weeks.
CAPTURE OF A CHARLESTON BAJtQt'JE.
Baltimorl, June 6. —Vhe Barque Gen. Gi ‘eeti,
owned in Charleston, has been captured. The
Lincolnites, by order of Gen. Cadwalader, ha -ve
seized the gun factory of Merrill and Thomas.
MARSHAL KANE—THREATENED RISING I N
BALTIMORE.
Bai.timouk, June C.—The Tribune says Marshal
Kane is as bad at heart as Merriman. Kane
boasts that the Government is afraid to arrest
him. His friends threaten a general rise in the
city if he is touched.
SUSPENSION OF MAIL STEAMERS TO NEW
ORLEANS.
Mobilk, June 6.—The mail steamers running
between this port and New Orleans are temporari
ly suspended, fearing an interruption by the Fe ie
ral gun boats.
LIVERPOOL AND HAVRE MARKETS.
Liverpool, Saturday.—Sales of cotton for the
day are eight thousand bales, of which spec raise
tors and exporters took two thousand. The mar
ket is quiet, but steady. Breadstufis are Gull,
aud provisions quiet. Consols are 91%d{fai%
for£money—93%@9l% for account. The Aus
tralasian brings £221,000 in specie.
Havbe.— Tres ordinaire 109 ; Bas 103. The
market is steady, sales of the week 7,-Vjo. Stock
on hand 300,000.
ROLLING STOCK ARRIVED.
Washixoton, June C. —A large amount of Roll
ing stock arrived here to-day to be used in trans
portation of array requißits towards Manassas
Junction.
Gen. N. P. Banks of Massachusetts wilt lead
the coast column, acting in concert with Oeu. But
ler.
This arrangement is very strongly opp jsed by
ail but Lincoln. Tbe opposition to it ia hi sided by
Gen. Scott.
RAILROAD BRIDGE BURNED-.
Washington, June 6.—The bridge aero ss Sleepy
Creek on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road has
been burned.
APPOINTMENTS.
Washington, June 6.— John P. Sand ers will be
appointed Lieut. Colonel, and assume position as
second in command, under Col. Anderson.
MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS.
Evansville, Isd., June 6. —Tbe 11th Indiana
Regiment hag been ordered to Cumberland, Mary
land.
WHERE BEAUREGARD IS.
Washington, June 6. —The Star of to-day says
it lias certain information that Gen. Beauregard
is at Manassas Junction with 20,000 Confederate
troops.
DEATH OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.
Chicago, June 4.—Hon. Stepen A. Douglas died
t o-day.
COL. ROBERT ANDERSON SICK.
Louisville, June 3. —Col. Robert Anderson, of
Sumter notoriety, is here sick, and will probably
be unable to report for duty for some time to
come.
MR. MALLORY MOHINATED.
Louisville, Ky.,.June3.—Hon. Robert Mallory
has been nominated for re-eleetion to Congress
from the Seventh District of this State.
FEDERAL BRIGADE DISBANDED.
Alexandria, Va., June 3. — Gen. Bartlett s naval
brigade, at Fortress Monroe, has been disbanded,
and sent borne.
Gen. Bartlett fell from the parapet of the for
tress and sprained his ankle, besides receiving
j internal injuries.
An emeute is expected in tbe brigade when the
fact of its being disbanded is announced.
MORE RESIGNATIONS.
Washinoton, June 3.—l.ieuts. W. P. Chambliss,
of Virginia, and W. A. Tnornton, of New York,
! both of tbe U. 8. army, h-ave resigned.
SKIRMISH AT PIG’S POINT,
Fortress Monroe, June s.—The Harriet Lane
j attached Pig’s Point Battery opposite Newport
News, on James River. After receiving tw toots
and having five men se rerely wounded, she tr r
ed. Pig’s Point opened live embrazures disclosing
very heavy ordnance.
HABEAS CORPUS WRIT ISSUED.
St. Long, June 1., Tho District Court at
Springfield 111., have is sued a. writ of habeas corpus j
for McDonald.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Washington, Juno 6— lt is said that Gen.
Scott disapproves the landing ot Federal forces ut
Acquia Creek. All dispatches announcing tliai
hostilities are soon to begin at Acquia Creek or
Maunassas Junction are incorrect.
Several members ol the Maryland Legislature
have recently visited Richmond, it is supposed to
confer with the Confederate authorities.
Washington, June 6. — A person who arrived
herefrom Richmond, says that the Confederate
troops perform their marches at night without
music. The brothers of Jachson are supposed to
be the persons who are picking off the Federal
pickets. They are said to hare from fifteen to
twenty men with them, finely mounted and capa
ble of doing much harm to the scouts and pickets
of the Federal army.
Washington, June f.—lt is believed Hint Lord
Lyons despatches are unfavorable to the feder
alists. • ,
The Cabinet has been iu session every day this
week, occupied with foreign afi'airs, which tire be
lieved to be ominous of trouble.
It ii reported here that Camming, of the New ■
York World has beku appointed Brigadier Gener
al preparatory to being made yaurter Master
General.
Bartlett's Naval Brigrdehave forced themselves
into the service
. A large quantity of letters destined South have
been stopped here.
Seward rur.aratd this moiuiDg that he expect
ed to soou bear of sharp work at Harper's Ferry.
Reiuforcel! mts have been ordered to Cham
bftsburg.
Measures bare been taken to fiud out how many
three months voln: tears wil’ enlist for the wav.—
The result lias ooou to determine to mane a uew
levy of troops.
There is no doubt that Geu. Beauregard is pre*
paring to attack Alexandria.
MOV KM 1C NT OF FEDERAL STEAMERS.
New Yore, June 7.—The steamer Vatidalia has
sailed te join the blockading uquadroti.
NAVAL RESIGNATION.
Boston, June B.'-The U. S. steamship Stisqiie
haun lias arrived. Commodore Hollins, Jst Lieut
Barney, the purser and three midshipmen liar
resigned.
GOV. PICKENS.
Charleston, June 7.—Gov. Pickens leaves for
his residence in Edgefield to-morrow morning.
FROM HAVANA.
Naw York, June 7. —The steamship lleSoto has
arrived from Havana. Sugar has advanced a
half real.
NO fUSE TO SEND DISPATCHES.
St. Johns, N. 8., June B.—The telegraphic lines
to th;s place having been cut, the stuamsbip
Vigo took dispatches. It is useless to send auy
telegraphic uispatches to Europe via Cape Race,
until provincial troubles are settled,
MEXICAN CONSUL FOR TEXAS.
Washington, June 8. —The Federal Govtrnment
has recognized Don Miguel Saragossa, as Consul
of Mexico, for the port ot Shu Antonio, Texas.
MA. KETS.
New York, June 7,- Stocks are dull and heavy
Louisian<i Sixes are quoted at 55. The cotton
market is ‘r.active and prices unchanged.
Mobile, June ‘7.—The’ sales of cotton for the
past week were nnimpoi taut. The receipts w ere.
220 against 1,980 during the correspouding week
last year. The stock is 3,800 bales.
New Orleans, June 7.—Sales of cotton to-day
100 bales, at very irregular prices, and the sales
of the week 2,280 bales. The receipts were 1,217
against 4,500 hales. The exports were 10,000.
The total exports 1,911,000 hales. The decrease
in receipts at this ports 304,000, and at all ports
881,000. The stock is 5,800 hales. Fair to fully
fair sugar 4%®sJ£ cents. Flour (superfine) SU.
Rio coffee 17 to 19 cents.
STOPPAGE OF THE MAILS.
Louisville, Kv., June 7.—The mails iu this
section have been stopped. Postmaster Speed
has telegraphed instructions from Washington to
seud all mail matter intended for the Seceded
States, and Memphis, on to Washington.
Colter has not yet beet) sworn iu.
MCDONALD BEFORE THE U. S. COURT.
Dpringkielb, 111., June 8. —Capt. McDonald
has been brought before the U. S. District Court,
wus in session at this plane.
LOUISVILLE MERCHANTS REQUEST THAT
POSTAGE STAMPS WE NOT CANCELLED.
Louisville, June B. The merchants of this
city request Confederate States Postmasters not
to cancel Federal postage stamps, as they are not
acknowledged on reaching Federal territory when
cancelled in the South.
POST OFFICE MATTERS.
Washingtoh, June B.—The Memphis Post Office
has been discontinued.
All loyal postmasters have been directed to
to forward to the Dead Letter office, all mail mat
ter directed to the Memphis Post Office.
SUSPENSION OF THE MEMPHIS POST OF
FICE.
Washington, Jnue B.—lt is alleged that the
cause of the suspension of the Memphis, Tennes
see, Post Office, is the refusal of the uostiuaster,
at that place, to distribute the mails.
MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS.
Washington, June B.—Several companies of
Re gulars have loft this ’point for Cliamhershnrg,
Pemisylvama, to assist iu a movement ou Har
per's Verry.
It is understood that the lines “f circumvalla
tion around the latter place are rapidly closing.
The 71i’t New York Regiment are uow employed
in scouting-through Southern Maryland in older
to prevent supplies from going forward to the
Southern troops.
LINCOLN WANTS MONEY.
Washington. Juue B.—The Cabinet has been
engaged in G’.scussiug the amount to be uun ludad
of Congress at the July session.
One hundred af and fifty million of dollurs will
probably be the demand.
ACQUIA CREEK REINFORCED.
Washington, June It is ,-nmored that th
Southern troops ot Acquia Creek have been re
inforced, to the number of 3,000 men.
MI LIT ARY MOVEMENTS.
Baltimore, Md., June Stli.—lmportant military
movements are on foot at Fortress Mouroe.
i WITHDRAWAL OF SOUTHERN BATTERIES.
I Washington, June B.—The Southern batteries
I are being withdrawn from the Maryland side, and
the troops are retreating towards Winchester,
Va., the route to which place is being strongly
fortified.
PUBLICATION OF MILITARY MOVEMENTS
SUPPRESSED.
Chambeksburg, Penn., June 8.- The publica
tion of proposed irrn. ; tory movements has been
suppressed by order of i’^ e Federal Government.
SECESSION OROWINc” ,fi MARYLAND.
Frederick, Md., June a.— 9 ,,j e aeeesaion fee, j D 2
here is growing atronger duily, ‘ nd the Unionists
there are quaking in their boots ‘ aPl’rehen
sions of an attack from tbe South Ca ,o *' ni troo l ,H
srationed at the Point of Bocks, three ® , e * d '®’
tent.
The present feelings of tbe Marylanders to
tbe fact .hat they will, at all hazards, contract tP
furnish food to the Southern troops at Hurpe.’h
Ferry and the Point ,f Rocks.
AFFAIRS AT HARPER’S FERRY.
i i:ei k kick, Md., June B.—The concentration of
artillery at Harper’s Ferry indicates either the
retreat or advance of Southern troops via the
Point of Rocks.
PICKETS FIRED UPON.
Washington, June s.—The Federal pickets at
Georgetown were fired upon last night, with what
result is not known.
NO FURTHER REQUISITIONS.
Washinoton, Jnne B.—lt is understood that tbe
Federal Government will make uo further requi
sitions for troops at present.
PREPARING FOR CONGRESS.
Washington, Jane 8. —Senators and Repre
sentatives of the July Congress are daily arriving
in this city.
SEIZURE OF LOCOMOTIVES.
Washington, June B.—Scouting parties from
Harper’s Ferry, hsve seized thirteen locomotives
at Williamsburg, which they switched on to the
track of the Winchester (Va.) Railroad.
WAR WITH ENGLAND INEVITABLE.
Washington, June B.—Tbe best informed men
here consider a collision with England us inevita
ble, as soon as that power begins to feel the want
of Southern cotton.
Tbe dispatches that have been sent North to the
effect that France would comb.ne with the North,
on account of fearing thstEnglands only maritime
rival, the United States, would be crippled, is un
true. There is nothing in the Government dis
patches, or letters from Europe, to warrant even
he supposition of any such movement.
SECESSION STRONG IN MISSOURI.
New York, June?.— A letter from Western
Missouri to the New York Times, says that for
one Union flag flying in that section of the State,
there are flaunting in the face of law and loyalty
a dozen of the hateful emblems of treasen— flags
of the Southern Confederacy.
TREASON IN THE LINCOLN CAMP.
Washington, .June B.—Among the telegraph
dispatches seized by tbe Lincoln Government,
was one from Mr. Harvey, Lincoln’s Minister to
Portugal, advising South Carolina of the intention
to re-ui foree Fort Sumpter. Harvey is a native of
South Carolina, but has loDg resided at the North.
He will be re-called.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN KENTUCKY
Cairo lll..’ June 8.-Gen. Prentiss, Federal
commander at this place, learning that the Se
cessionists had a military camp at Elliott’s Mills,
Kr, sent two companies there to disperse them.
Col. Wyckliffe, of tbe Kentucky troops, remon
strated against this invasion.
Gen. Prentit. replies: “My determination is to
send troops in any direction, ard upon any soil
that the Government may require.”
Lieut. Nelms, of the McDuffie Rifles, has been
appointed special aid to Col. John K. Jackson,
commanding Fifth Georgia Regiment, at Pensa
cola.