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The Ws-tunc-.-in correspondent of the BUi-
Tt.e major ■a"of fieneril McDowells eo!-
omti rewVed , tb, morning to prepare to
m..i,: . IbeX< * Jer: Fourth Uegitnent, CoL
Mili -r, has a designated n# the principal one
Some of the Washington D. C companies were
Fire d oM?oop” h o .re puned i"W Vir-
Tr •* 9*l Maine Regiment on Thursday evenirjr
Wrfe y tit forward from Alexandria, supped wtw
„„ oe other instrument., to clear ,be
tr. e> which the Confederates had placed acro*
‘“l-.T/ertder.t that an adrance d>M be made
tieii--. rJuhr t.,1 1 1 tt,. b,tterr, (all-pieces.) 8-
tteaio , ceieMMCd “If It not
joun *err, arrived 7 Coofede rates at this
prooaole, however, i->“ ■* otfer resistance lo tbe
piu’ •• ar.* Mr.)-.? .-)■ * >}l Jttee will more
imuienae b iv or ‘ * r^’ a r ® ‘ t *!eck ob their perma
pr. baole act *erlj
tiet.t fcdi at - . . n „o: ot tb? Rarftfc-
I rofi nsor 1.1 < * ‘ p|T p, ret | for an aarial
soil,- r. I, Jj( uki . a w OburnJ. Mtt
w / k ‘ . r ,, ~r , t a nq turther attention
kf | ‘ Erected ot the Potomac bj the
rv All navigation, except for tbe
rr uitd export of uiuiiitiox** of war, has
/ >*ch of Lord Runnel! in the British Pav
fiaiTi'-nt* rehitHre to .the blockade of the riocthtm
port-, ;iid alluding to the difference between
n and belligerent*, has caused a private con
j * tt tidu *ivreeri Me-srs Ltricoli, Seward, Bates
and L'tiHse. The meeting, however, was merely
7?- Wash:* iton. .Star, of Friday evening, con
ta dm the following.
A* iffFßttJtAL MAtmSt. ,
Orr Sunday, at meridian, while the Frneborn was
Hh.-J off A'iu.ii Greek, in company wUh the K*w
lo.e, Pocnhontaa a: and Pawnee, two objects of an
eicei dicgtv so on look were discotered float
ing dowr witn the ebb tide*toward* the iqaedron.
The r Kim..vider of trie Pawnee, whao tiey had
j.ji witiitnf a quart'-r of a rude, sent out a saiall
b< ,t‘n <r • • j investigate the queer looking things,
amt to • It* - ’*le w ordered in tne batt’s tup
p r , ‘i h no t nMi red the Objects the ceew
m . Tipgt it
t|,. H ■ *.l wn . a styad/ p.irp', ? lowurea the
y •• !-md in their own looked
• ‘ One of tlitr- coming in onoincl
, ( i L Holivle'a runder, became detach* and from
oi. underneath -it, and t l ie underwater pari
: c to m* bottom, while the top part, in shape
o* h i oil cu*k. boated, and turned over, <is
,ri.*;i -quare hole in the under aide, and a
~, o* - 1 u j which liii. and tbe ewsk. Ihe other
r j car-- • & over one aide, and probably put
.. it c-i tain Lre that was burning m-tde.
T*• K* -oht*! dropped back-to let the enemy
i•. ,t i u obji <th uttraoied no attention on
h part o* the veesela. Alter u proper tifae had
. J.tp and, an Ht*'*mpt was niuMe to the “ma
chines ('henfloating) on board the Pawnee, and
,i* - c.. < oan- ou f of tiie water a fuse of India
m liutely cut with his kffife,
th. r ak,w h if- submarine tixmg, wun hoist*
, and n bour*. Attach’ and to the cask, i which was
with a e >il of lose c iated with tar,) and j
six fi • b low it, waa, an iron cynn
!• r, rhad. b .if* r ir'-r: about five feet loflg by j
■ /i ♦ a inches in diameter,and filled with aouie-*j
thin., whuhi iii.’ide it weigh near four hpitdred
pound.’*. J^ a auiog from iho cylinder to tue eask |
and art i< hed tothe’Slow match coil within j
r, w i the India rubber-coated fnso which the l
, -ff-er hf< i severed with his knife.
’I in • mu! machine was transferred to the
Ft •-.•born and brought up to the Yard for scientific \
investigation. It was hoisted out this morning,
• i 1 uk* a u> the trout ol the shell bouse opposite j
ts ordnance hop, where it wns fastened up in a
.'■•iiV.*oent position ‘*>. be photographed While !
in that po-ttioti. it attracted hundreds of cautious
but cn-ious visitors, who at it IVnm all
p.’ hie yo.nis of view, though at a respectful
oe Baltimore Sun, of Saturday, contains the
following
FRO* old point cox fort.
The body ot Corporal Songster, of Colonel
B iker’s r ginieut. wns brought up by the L. and
h> warded to N*.y York. On Sunday morning
In *, whd * in camp, ha waa shot by a Confederate
pu k*7 the ball taking effect in his right groin,
lie dud on Thursday, liis bc*dy was escorted by
♦hix Zouaves, ar.dgiccumg>anicd by iiis broftier.
Vn idea prevailed at Old Point that General Ma
gruder was killed a low 4“. V sinoe in a v.skiruiiab
n- u .Newport New* Point, u negro who cuu.o in
to the Federal ramp huviug so rep'irted, and stat
ed that Ins body Dad ben taken to Norfolk.
The sconta reported that the Confederates had
retii > and frrnu Great Retbei to Yorktown, but tiie
report was not cnulited.
Jn conse.’Uefyp# of the dissipated condition ql 1
tilt* t loops,’ Um. Haitler had issued an order pro- !
lubitmg th*- .stole of intoxicating drinks wiMuu ‘the
linos ol the camp.
Tae b'dy <| a Confederate sdldier said trt
have been found by a picket guard nbopt n mile
and a half trorn Newport New-* Point, on Thura
day, and buried. He was w<j*iuded in the thigh,
tin ball having severed tho femoral artery.
.v kremt or an e iff Tog.
From a private source it is learned that Mr.
W Bsughruan, editor and propnetor of one ot
the Frederick papers, was yesterday arre. tod at 1
Sandy Hook, near khuper's Ferry, by tho Fcaer
a* troops What the charges against him are is
not learned. ,
Future siippl) of fiaelicin.
How are our schools, in future, U‘bs provided
wrb competent instruction? This is an impor
taift and eminently a practical <paestiot).
The aiteution ol cur people cgunof bo called tg
* ,r loj .t-riou.lv ft,.. e 8,-
fietency m tno number of effleieat T'dicn rs iirour
Hiitrv renders ’h*’ immediftte comi lerarirui of
educated young men who have bean Inching,
nml niauv others Who have been preventing their
studies m difterett Hou l hern” Coßrtetf,’ urwHiTho
exp* oied to teach. hav> vokmtoertol in the defence
ot our l? H-rtv and ol opr rights.
If ihe uu; t*. which we are involved, should be I
continued, in st, it not ail of these ymfng men
will be permanently withdrawn, ns actual or prtgr
pective instructors in our. Schools and Academies.
Ul’v. th* young ladi sol our
tn this aeavice, our educathvual mtlrestff cannot
be expected to prosper. Their parents should en
counige them to do so. and there is no got>d rea
son why we may not have an adequate numb* r of |
competent teachers, annu illy coining forth from \
our ♦ irfiilies and schools.
Asa means of meeting the wants of our country i
on this subject, it is proposed to organize n Teach- ‘
er’s ilepartuieut in the Koine Female rollegp, at
t‘i© opening of the next session, which will bh on !
th* getb ol August
The object dt*ired to bo accomplished is*tho j
proper instruction* and training us youug Indies j
who wish to become teachers ft is the aim of i
to# Truatees and of the Futility to make good j
Hcbolai sos all our pupils, und we never expect so f
fuii with ordiuwry minds, yet r propose to Turn- !
tsh peculiar advantages in the way of spuoialiu
atructiou and training, to those who desire to pre i
pare them*’ Ives for the service of ttfeir country,
in the capacity of teachers.
The college is beautitullv local*'d iu Rome, one
of the tuot healthy towns in this State. It was
opened under the supervision of tho SynotJ of
Georgia in February, 1567, and is now iu success- 1
ful opi ration. The principal teachers bare a larga j
expeiience, and hs,w been laboriously employed
in their professional duties for biauy years in ibis
community. The eutire expense ot a pupil by tlie j
ve.tr, ivr teition, hoard and every ordinary ueces
anv, exclusive of waslpqg and lights, will he ?ISd,
oi t ! .<•>, according to her class. All .biils arc \
due at the close of each session, and a reasonably
reduction will be made on pay meats in advance.
Extra charges wi’J be made for music, drawing, 1
French and (renuau.
The coupon bonds or the- treasury notes of the
Confederate States will be taken in settletnruts. >
3. M. M. Cxtmv kll.
How 4 Republican Got Sr indled.—Ttie New
York Day Book Coutains tlie following convorau*
lion that recently took place iu tbe State oi’ New
York, between a gentleman who signed the pet)-
lion tor peace, and a Repubhcuu ;
Kepnbfccan— ** I re*fr ttoee your name. Mr.
,c a that petition ;Vr peace, it is the duty ot’ \
all *;oodl citizen* to support the government iu >
•och eoiergenciea.'*
Democrat—“ Very well, suppose it is. I sup- *
pose i have .-* right to n.v opinion n* 10 how to
sattie our trouble .4b weU as the right to express
u This is a tree eouutry, or wss up to a lute j
tirtte.”
Republican —“ Yes, but it in opposing the gov
ernment, ami though I have known you for many i
years, Mr , yet 1 am a member oF the grand ‘
jury, and may feel it my duty to place vorir name l
Wtoro that body, lam vary sorry see you in
such coin pa uy *’
Democrat—** Well, now as you have expressed !
your opinion of me prettv freely, will you allow I
nae to exp rood mine of you V’
Kr^ubpeau —” Oil, oar tain ly; l have no objeo f
tion.*
Democrat—** Well, to tel! you the plain truth. 2 ;
think you are a d—<t*oo? **
“ Repebheae —“ Look out. sir! I j
tael bait disposed u s*.p jour tace for tb*t insult” 1
D< ujocrat (squar ug off .aud jerking up his 1
sleeve;—•• Well, oooie on ; come on 1 was born j
id ti e etath wrd. It yoa want to tight, sav the
word.”
The determined attitude and mauner of th#
deui erat The republican subsided
at ence. and-•, nt off loosing as mild as a spring
lamb. It only Deeds a little of this siuril to do f
awsv wn a all the bulivlng ibat bow seeks to drown
public I
Statement or a Deserter tror Fort Picken*.—
The Pet sacoia correspondent of the Mobile
t4r. ui iu. I-ate >1 Monday. !f>ih, says
A dc*serWr who gives his name h*. Mark Bcoth
by, aud a s .ilor tr.>m the steamer Niagara, swam
from the Islaiui lo the mainland. S.-tiucdav nigm,
mod after wandering twelve auies m the interior,
wus picked up by a detachment ot •Olaaton’s
Mounted R Set, who were on a scout in the neigh
borhood. He gives important information, aud ,
no doubt correctly, lie saysth&i the cause of
hu desertion was ow ; ng to bad treatment. When
he reso’ved upon de>ertion, he bundled up his ‘
clothes, and started from the camp to the beach
forme purpose of washing them an i that thus
having declared bis cou.rades, h<gcontinued up
the Gland >.me lour or five mi'es. when he awaui
to the maintind, aud wss found as above stated
lie brought with him his
tie says there are only about 1200 men on the
Island.'aud that Billy Wilson is there with his 1
regiment of roughs Many bf thfcse men are sick,
they are only allowed Whisky once a day. which is
Them and sailors are treated badly, and J
worked .. *1 t I’eath. He states that many of
t’ r. -<Ht;stied. The deserter himself bears
‘■ ‘ •’"TV-, and brngslwith b;* a black ere.
at ,!, ow from the co****io. But the ‘
m '? l _ :1 V : ‘ im be gives is that in re- f
regar-i t> t t v v:eri. - : but rnry few. he npre
ens—accTth” 1 v, jd. a °d tne*e near Fort l*ick- .
t/i^be^u^d 1 been. intended
jr ) r ** P 1 * c coming over on our side
..."th Neafie, Time and
troops are general! \ on m- , 1 ? “ -1 *.
the tort : thA have erec* 7 *V* :id ~~ ver 2’ few lu
hospital,’ whu-b > **** huildingfor kn ,
tJ-Tifie’d.V afWr'h?/* r '‘“' b ' id
that the .'&!• •laaiedittelj s „w o <l . b ’ M * ,rS
Th _ i >n pursuit.— !
JUS’JoCu. P p ! ‘ om?w '>eW on (he
He says (her u looking tor Sickles’ BriMd.
• T -ry 1 &skod hill. •• shy he d,dn', b n,
company, since there were other* who wished to
qua fbe !- a: d.” He replied ** one could keep a
secret better than two or more”—that we
look out f_r others.” s
Bootbbi is quite an intelligent sailor, and savs
be belong*Yo Jleachusett9.
The FtRNANDiNA oft.—We are informed trorc
a relia -le source, that the person who has made
himself so bust m Wuenington, ad vising an at
tack on Fer .audios, is aMr J E. Conant, who
has been or about two years Assistant Tfcasurer
of the Florida Railroad Cos. He had previously
been employed as a clerk to one of the Con
gress on*-i Committees in Washington. His loyal
ty was suspected some two mouths since, and he ,
was requested to leave Fernandina for a climate
oiore suited to his peculiar views. His present
course is probably actuated by revenge.—isdraa* j
#sA Jbpublican, tOt* Q
Hftt.a l M thi CAe+Utto.
Tbi •euiliru Vl.iur, ml Bait’* Ran.
U.y.u.l JtSviiu*. V., July ie —On* o'clock
p. ni.-—Tp to tbi* hour has b**c *e®& of
the enetnr.
Owing to the extent o r tbe line of fighting yes
terdav, it is very difficult to gather. c.t this point,
the correct particular* of the battle. Ocr total
loss iu killed and wounded did not exceed
The carnage in the ranks f the enemy w3 far
greater. It is generally estimated at OOu, but may
have been more. _ .
*Tuvr Walton spWidid battalion of w aabtng
toL Artillery* from New Orleans, heid a very
nromioent jHjwtion in the action, and covered
tbenudos w th glory. % Witb their field
nieces tbev engaged rtherin&a'a famous battery of
{ Flying Artillery. Sbertnan had fifteen guns, I
but, notwithstanding the disparity of fcrcy*, ?uch
was the galling and vigorous fire of th* WushiDg- 1
ton Artillery, that he waa forced to shift hts posi
tion no less than fifteen times. Ilia battery was
finally silenced and forced to retreat with great
Os the Washington Artillery only one man was
killed and lour wounded. Their names are as
follows; killed Private George Mure; wounded,
Capt. Eschirman and Privates Barker, Tarieton
ana Zuble.
Major Harris, of the Eleventji Regiment Vir
ginia VdlunteerH,.was mortally wounded, anUnbed
ibis morning. *
Private Thomas Faogster, carafe Alexaqdna
iVa ; Riflemen, was hot through heart and
iDistantly killed.
Coi. iiave’s Louisiana Regiment was among the
troops # engaged f They mad** a splendid bayonet
charge, scattering the eaemy fn every direction.
!t nas been aecertained that Gen. Mcl>oweTl, in
pepßon, dotxjmauded the aftack.
Agioug Uie fruits of tig* victory I may mention
a very large ouantity of improved arms, thr.xsni
aw&y by t& Yankees ift their hasty Threat, and
by our forces.
THR ‘ LA TBS TANARUS,
Nine O’clock, p. “Every thiug bAs \een
qUKt th* aftew* o*. The enemy, having obtain
d permission, under a flag of truce, to bury thoir
a- aand, have been bus ly engaged in w anding
| >veral hours. Their loai oertainfr exceeded sflO.
j Our loss was less tba/i twenty killed, *und thirty
| or fortv wounded. Gen. Bonham, who command*
i the h that did the fighting, had under him
onh men, made up ot Virginian*', .'iouth Car
i oilman© and Louisianians The bad De
; tween 5000 ami engaged. We have tdk**u
i two cannon and 6<>o atand oi arms from the enemy.
It was ‘1 iiomas Soogcer, an*l.nct WUiiam, who
’ wn*kHled uiil< ;g U*a Aiexai.driu Kitleiueu.
yje have intehgeoce that Patieioon has crossed
i ihe Poinm tc at Harper’s Ferry, doubtless to make
e juncii m wit i Gen MjDowell.
I Fifty Nortuero prlayears, principally Penr*ffyT
1 van*na, arrived nere to-day irom Wincheeier.
We are hourly looking tor a renewal of the at
’ ta :k.
Ihe Federal Congreap—Exciting t
liHte.
Jn tbe Washington House of Represent } ,lives ;
on Friday last, the Pith, the t olio wing proceed- !
ings took place, in which it will he aeen some 1
hlfcio leeJuig was displayed between two of its
nscmpW
Mr. Yallandlgham offered a preamble and reso
lution, substantially as follows;
Whereas, It is rumored that Messrs. Gilman
Marston, of New Hampshire ; James Tv. Kerrigan,
iff New York; Gbus. J. Bid<jfe, 0f Pennsylvania;
Edward 51cPb**rftou, *ff I‘esnsylvauia, and Hamuel
K. Curtis, iKiltiing seats tn this House, have been
sworn into the military service und**r the author
ity of the United States ; and whereas, James E,
Campbell, of Pennsylvania, has also been admit
ted on the boor of tbi House, he hojdinjg a mili
tary commission ; therefore, be it
That the Committee on Elections be
instructed to inquire and report, without unneces
sary delay, wketbef the gentlemen above named,
or any of them, claiming seats here and at the
stone time holding military ollicc under the au
thority of tbe United Mates, are constitutionally ;
[ disqualified from heh.g members ol mts House ]
while bolding such military commissions.
Mr. Lovejoy desired that the resolution should
lie on the table.
Mr. Vuliandigham said that two siftiiUr cases
j have heretofore been decided by the House, and
’ rt was determined that they Were disqualified as
ineinbers, owing to their military commissions.—
He did not wish to trbsfiws on the patience of
; the House by any elaborate remarks at thin tune;
| but this toting a grave taut tor, involving a corvßtt
tutiouid questoon, it should be invoatigated.
j Mr. Wjishburhe moved to bty the resolptiod on
the tabic, ani Mr. Vallundiglmm called the previ
ous question, Allien, however, he tomporanlv
withdrew upon tho appeal of Mr. Me Knight, of
Pennsylvuhia, in order to |*>rmit that gesttuman
to propose Am uwiendment.
Mr. McKnight wanted an :imeu<lmenl made,
nuinelv, to insert Mr. Vallamligham’s name in the
resolution; for, after the gentleman's speech on
Vi ednesday, the Committee on Elections ought to
examine Mr. Yallaudighant’s oredeniials, to ascer
tain whether or not he was accredited to the’
wrong Congress.
Mr Valiandtgham quickly calling the gentleman
to rd-r, added with warmth thfit if the latter
desired U> bold any conversation with him per-
he couid ! - • uuiside of the House, and
that he (the speaker) he J himgelf ready to reply
to him whenever, w•* i ver or in whatsoever man
ner lu* may be dispits and to - ‘iggest.
Excit.viiient upo* ri.e floor, the Speaker \ igor
ously- rapping tor o; do: j
Mr. Yatlaudighiiiu icoutinuiQg his reiuarks,
which lwe had scarcely .iu -peocled,) sukV that he
came here as a rep:. entuto c iff tiie people, fullv
determined to observe iu cvpry particular the
rules and decofum of the House und its omit*tesius.,
He did not mean even to iioruige Uiosi* obriorvan
c> s, nor did he intend to p. rim: any mfningeuient
upon the due him.
Mr. Mcknight endeavored, umid some excite
ment add confusion, to reply to Mr. Vailandi
gtiam. hut was prevented by*the Chair, who per
euptnrily called the gCutleuian to.order, and ap
pealed to the House to sustain him tn his efforts
1 to etifopoc tiff* rule*.
Mr. Cau])bull, ot Ptuusvlvania, one ortliose re
-I*rrwd to in the resolution, said it was true he
held a position \u the army and was elected a
member of this H<u*e, but then* was no conflict
iof duty in tin* matter. He held his ldihtaiy
comm ssion us under the broad seal of the Com
luom-eulth ot Pennsylvania, and his seat here
was Uis under the Constitution H :ui laws of the
L’uited iStatea. Hu thought the case did uot rise
to the dFgnity cfa legal question, but that, should
apy doubt he thrown upon his position,,be would
at once resign to tohow the Hug of los country in
tiie field wherever it should lead. [Applause in
the galleries !
I Tlu* Chair informed (he spectators in the galle
ries that a renewed indulgence in such u violation
; of the rules would compel hint to order the clear
! ing of thfc gaMertes.
Mr. lUngiianq of Ohio, said, in relation to the
! case of Mr. Campbell, tlie facts were certainly
different from those stated in the resolution.
! Mr. Yalhtndigham said the question was one sim
| ply of qualification, and he had no wish Vo press
tt during the present session. He had no persou
j al feelvftg m tbe inaUer ; three out of the five
■ gentlemen named were his political friends.
Mr. Curtis, of lowa, in explanation ot his posi
i lion, said he Was here as n matter of duty to his
constituents. As n military officer (of the State
of lowa, Ire had only been toafied to tbe United
States t>.sustain its flag, yet he knew the two
r positions were incompatible, and when his ser
| vices shall be required in the field be would re
sign Ins seat here. He inquired of Mr. Vtdlati
! dighaut whether Ae did not hold a commission in
the militia of the State of Ohio, aud how ho could
reconcile his position here with tlie ground taken
in bis resolution ?
Mr. Yalltmdighatu ‘replied that he did hold a
commission in tiie volunteer force of Ohio, but
Unit he had no* been sworn into service under
the authority of the United Staten. If that should’
be done he would resign his seat here.
Mr. Kellopg, of Illinois, moved t$ lay the rcso-
the table. Agreed to—Ayes 92, noes 6.
OeN. Pattkhson,— The Wilmington - (N. C.)
Journal ihrmshes the annexed account of this
( hero of the Pederal armies :
This rival of Napoleon is considerable on a
dress parade, but bis health is so seriously af
ter ted at the approach of a battle that he has
always fotfnd himself unable to participate in
such amusements. It must be said of him,
however, that he has a keen eye to the commis
sariat. He is a good business man, and made
much money T n Mexico, as follows : During the
Mexictn war flcn. Patterson was tor a trood while
placed iu command of the department of the Rio
Urande. A great many improper persons from
the States were smuggling things into that de
partment, selliug them to the troops and probably
also to the Mexicans. The General most virtu
ously prohibited all this—he would have nothing
of that kina going on, so he issued an order pro
hb:ting any traders bringing any more goods in.
The poiut of the joke was that the house of which 1
the General was a partner bad already got in all i
the goods they wunted, and by the order pro- •
hibiting any more coming in, of course Patter- i
son's house had a monopoly, charged tbeir own
prices, and made several hundred thousand dol- i
lars; some put the pruli; by this rather queer i
transaction at half a million.
Srxnw a Day of Battles —The great battle
■ of Barret was fought on Faster Sunday, April 14,
1471. The battle of Yald, or Laffeld, near Maes
; tricht. was fought on Sunday, the 2d of July, 1757
; The Peninsula was fruitful in Sunday tight
-1 ing. The second buttle in Portugal, that’in Finn*
era, was fought on Sunday, 31st of August, lsdg.
The battle of Fuentus d’Onor was gamed on Sun
! day, Mh of May, I'll. Dn Sunday evening, loth
of January, lVlg, Lord Wellington issued the brief
■ but determined order that “Cuiclad Koderigo must
l be carried by assault this evening t 7 o’clock.”
The battle of Orfbt* was fought on Sunday, the
i 27th of February, ISI4, and that of Toulouse, the
‘.suit genera! aetton ot the Peninsula war, occur*
’ red on Faster Soodar, the HHb of April following.
The battle of Waterloo whs decided on Suu
day, the of June, 1 Slf*. The second Burmese
war afforded two exam pies Easier Sunday, the
, 11 th of April, 1555, the attack on the lines of de
1 fence at Rangoon, and the attack and capture of
. Pegu, on Sunday, ihe 21st of Noveaiber, l^f.2.—
1 The victory of Inkemaon was achieved on Sun- ;
day, the sth of Noretuher, W 4 ; and, crown
i the whole, it was ou SuucUy, the loth of May, IS
-57, that the terrible louian mutiay broke out at
Meerut.
Ax Illinois Maebiauk CeRTipiCATE —A cor
respondent ot the NtfW \ .irk Spirit of the Times,
writing from Owpperaa Precinct,, lilmoia, gives
the following as among tne “rich oue” which
his researches from among the legal records hare
brought to Right. M e give his owa lacgaage :
In examining a land t ile, nm other a*y. which
i involved a question of legitimacy, I stumbled
upon the following marriage certificate, which is
decidedly too good to be lusr, aa i :s i terallv bona
tide. The narn..ge, of which this is the only
legal eviaence. took place in Copperas Precinct,
in this county, or rattier in the pr.ioitire times!
and Re magistrate ought to be immortally and!
whether he ever gets his commission or not. The
certificate mi these words
$
To all the world, greeting. Know ye that John
S*r:haad Peggy Mvres *s hereby certified to gc
| together and we as old folks does, anywhere inside
j of copDeru precinct, and when rnv commission
comet lam to marry ’em good, and date ‘em
back to Kiviß Accinaxrs.
| OM. K .
Justice Pea at.
! I put th? mittals only of the magistrate for the
reason that this ievral luminary is itill hviug, and
probably tpo modest to covet the fame to which !
he is justly ent*le4- he deserve a pension,
Knd the oxianuQOps thanks ot those interested in
the rapid peopiiag ot the State, as well as those
who can’t wait k?r commissions ?
Japanese Wbkat.— Dr. U'. B. Arrington pre
seated au ou Wednesday last with a head ot the
Japanese wheat, anew Vucle 0 f the cereal fami
ly, the seed of whioh was brought to this country
bv the Japanese Embassy that came over to this
country ksi year. The Doctor informs us that the
flour from this wheat is equal to Buck-wheat or
pancakes, Ac ; that it weighs fifty-six lbs., to the
bushel, and makes thirty lbs. of fine flour, and is
not much inferior to our bast wheat flour for
bread; and that the stalks nptke a hay for the
feeding of stock that is equal to the best clover
hay ; that it matures in seventy days from the
time it is planted ; that the beads grow from eight
to sixteen loches loug, and will make from one to
two hundred bushels to the acre. A famous ar
1r t 18 BlU< * true * A head
Oi this wheat can be seen in our office.by anv that
wiah to exaimne it— lfewtian BUua.’
Completion or a Tkleoeaph Line.—Tho new
telegraph line which has been for some time past
in course of construction, uuder the efficient su
pervision ot Mr. Brenner, was yesterday morning
completed by tbe successful laying of a submarine
cabie across the Ashley. The connection is,
therefora, complete, and, upon a trial, the work
ing of the line was found to be entirely satisfac- |
terr.—<74. Mtriwry % 2QtA,
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To thi Gttpwi if
CcrJidiraU Statu of Amnca
GtXTLtxtv; My mesa&ge addreited ?j t
the corr.irenccinent of the session cont6i‘i atfeb
fail information of tbe Confederacy, a; to readier
it tba* I should now do no more than call
your attention to such important facta as have oc
curred during the recess and to matters con-
nected with the public defence.
1 ha • aga.fi to congratulate you on the aeces
sion of new members to our Confederation of free,
equal, and -overcign .State-’ Our loved und hon
ored brethren of North Carolina and Tennessee
have consummated the action foreseen and pro
vided for at your last session ; and I have had the .
gratification of announcing by proclamation, in i
conformity with the law, that those States werp j
admitted into the Confederacy.
The people of Virginia, also, by a majority pre
vious!*’ unknown in her history, have ratified.the ;
action* of her Convention uniting ter fortunes
with <ouf.
The States of Arkansas, North Carolina nnd
Virginia have adopted toe permanent
Constitution of tf*e Confederate States,* and np .
ddubt Is entcrUUiied of its adoption by Tennessee, |
at the election toAie Reid curly next month.
I deemed it Idvi-able id direct the removal of the
several Executive Departments, with their ar i
chive*, to th*s city, to which you had removed the
seat of Government, immediately after your ad
journment. The aggressive raoveuient of the
enemy required prompt, energetic action. Tbe
accumulation of his forces on the Fotumac suffi
ciently demonstrated that his efforts were to be .
directed Agft nst Virginia; and frpm no point
could tue necessary measures for iter lefetu:e and
protection be # ertioientl*- direefed its from her <
own capital.
’ The rapid progress of events lor the last few
week- has tally suffked to strip the veil behind
( whioh the true policy and purposes of the Gov
ernment of the United Stales had been prexiously
con'cealcd. Thcii* odious features now stand fully
I revealed, The message of their President and the
action of their Congress during the present month,
confess the intention of subjugating these States
by a Aar whoso folly is equalled only by
,oy its wickednes —a war which it is im
possible to obtain the proposed result •
whilst iis dire calamities, riot to be avoided
by us* will full with double severity on themselves. :
Commencing, in March last, with the affecta
tion of ignoring the secession of the seven States j
which first organized this Government; persist
ing, in April, in the idle and absurd assumption
of the Existence of a riot which was to be dis
persed by a j>oue comitatus ; continuing, in sue i
cessive mouths, the false representation that these !
States intended aneflensive war—in spite of con- i
elusive evidence to the contrary, furnished, as >
well by official action, as by the very basis on \
which this Government is constituted—the’Presi- ;
dqnt *ff the United States and bis advisers sue- !
need- ] in deceiving the people of those States in- 1
to thi belief that the purpose of this'Governmeiq 1
was not peace at V ie, but conquest abroad—not
the defence of its own liberties, but the subver
sion of those of the people of the United States.
The scries of mano'uvres by which this impres
sion \fras created—the art with which they were 1
devised -and the perfidy with w’ ich they were i
executed are already known to you; but you
could scarcely have supposed that they would be
1 openly avow and. and their success made the sub
ject oi noav nud self laudation in an Executive 1
iOf sang©. Fortunately for the truth of history,
howfcvft, the President of the United States de
tails with in imi S'ness* the attempt to reinforce
Fort Pick* ns, in violation of un armistice, of which
. he coufesses to have. brVn informed, but only by
rumorg too vague and uncertain to fix attention.
The hostile expedition dispatched to supply
Fort Sumter, admitted to have been undertaken
) with the Knowledge that its success was impossi
i hie; the sen-ling ot a notice to the Governor of
j South Carolina of his intention to use force to ac
, qompli*4i liis object, and then quoting from his
j inaugral Address the assurance that there could
! be no conflict unless these States were the aggresr
’ sdtS, —he jwoceeds to declare that his conduct,
as jitst retiited by himself, was the performance ot
! this promise, so free from the power of ingenious
sophistry as that the world should not be able to
1 misunderstand it and in defiance of his own state
i men’, that ho gave notice of the approach of the
hdstite fleet, he^ charges these States with beconi
| mg tin* HSAttilauti* of the United States. Without
a gun in sight or in oxpectuu<jy to return their
tire, save only a few iixthe tort, lie is, indeed, ful
ly justified in sayiqg that ‘‘the case is so free
iroin the n>\ver of ingenious sophistry that the
* world will not he able to misunderstand it.”
’ 17: !<:r cove v of this unfounded pietonce, that
1 tbe ConK derate States are the Vs.sailaut.s, that
j high functionary, after expressing his cot cern
j that soiio; foreign nations had so shaped their act
’ tions as if they supposed the early destruction of
out Nat: nal t aiou probable, he abandons all
i further disguise ; and propooes to make this con
, test a short one, by placing at the control of Gov
i eminent, f rthe work, 40 i ',000 men and $400,-
I 000,01.0, The ('.ingress, concurring iu the doubt
j thus i!iti:iited ns to the sufficiency of the force
j demanded, ba increased it to a half million of
j men.
Tiietfe enormous preparations Iu men aud
‘ oioney for the conduct of the war on a scale more
j gigantic ..than tuy which the New W orld ever
witnessed, is u distinctive avowal, in the eyes of
Civilized man, that the United States are engaged
in a conflict with a great and powerful nation.
They are at last compelled to abandon the pre
tence o! boiug engaged in the dispersing of rioters
and the suppieyoing of insurrections, and arc
driven to the acknowledgment that the ancient
Union has been dissolved. They recognize the
separate existence of these Confederate States by
the interdiction by embargo and blockade of all
commerce between them and the United States,
not only by sea but by land—not. only on ships,
but in cars—not only with those who bear arms,
but with the entire population of the Confederate
States; finally, they have repudiated the foolish
conceit that the inhabitants of this Confederacy
are still citizens of the United States, for they are
waging an indiscriminate wav upon them all with
a savage ferocity unknown to modern civilization.
In this war rapine is the rule—private residences
and peaceful rural retreats are bombarded and
burned, grain crops in the field are consumed by
the torch, and when the torch is not convenient
careful labor is bestowed to render tbe complete
destruction of every article of use or ornament
remaining iu private dwellings after their inhab
it mts have fled from the outrages of a brutal sol
diery.
In 1781 Great Britain when invading her re
volted colonies, took possession of every district
of the country near Fortress Monroe now occu
pied by the troops of the United States; the
bouses inhabited by the people after being re
spected and protected by the avowed invaders,
are now pillaged and destroyed by men who pre- |
tend that the victims are their fellow citizens.— I
Mankind will shudder to hear the tales of out
rages committed on defenseless females, by the ;
soldiers of the United States, now invading our
homes. Yet these outrages are prompted by in
flamed passions and the madness of intoxication,
but who shall depict the horror with which they
regard the cool deliberate malignity with which,
under the pretext of suppressing an insurrection;
said by themselves to be upheld by a minority
only of our people, they make special war on the
sick, including women aud children, by carefully
devised measures to prevent their obtaining the
medicine necessary for their cure? The sacred
claims of humanity, respected even during the fury
of actual battle, by a careful diversion of the at
tack from the hospitals containing the wounded
enemies, are outraged in cold blood by a govern
ment and people that pretend to desire the con
tinuance of fraternal connections. All these out
rages roust remaiu unavenged save ey the uni
versal reprobation of mankind. In all cases*
where the actual perpetrators of tltowrong escape
capture, they admit of no retaliation, the humani
ty of our people would shrink instinctively from
the base idea of waging a like war upon the sick,
the women and the children of the enemy. But
there are other savage practices which have been
resorted to by the government of the United
States whioh do admit of repression by retalia
tion. 1 have been driven to the necessity of en
forcing this repression.
Tbe prisoners of war, taken by the enemy on
board the armed schooner Savannah sailing uuder
mir commission, were, as I was credibly advised,
I treated like common felons, put in irons, confined
in a jail usually’ appropriated to criminals of the
worst dye, and threatened with punishment as
such. 1 had made application for the exchange
of tbe prisoners, to the commanding officer of the
enemy’s squadron off Charleston ; but that officer
had already sent the prisoners to New York
when my application was made. I, therefore,
deemed it my duty to renew the proposal for ex
j change to the constitutional commander-in-chief
of tbe Army and Navy of the United States—the
! only officer having control of prisoners.
To this end I dispatched an officer to him, un
der a flag of truce, and in making the proposal I
’ informed President Lincoln of my resolute pur
pose to check all barbarities on prisoners of war
i by such severity of re.aliation on prisoners held
by us as should secure the abandonment of tbe I
practice. This communication was received and I
read by the officer in command jof the army of ■
the United States, and a message was brought i
! from him, by the bearer of my communication, ;
, that a reply would be returned by President Lin
coin as soon as possible. I earnestly hope this
: promised reply, which has not yet been received..
w;.l convey the assurance that prisoners of war
wifi be treated in this unhappy contest with that !
regard for humanity which has made such con. j
spicuous progress in the conduct of modem war- ■
fare. As measures of precaution, however, and
until the promised reply is received, I still retain
in custody some officers captured from the ene
my, whem it had been my pleasure previous!v >o
enlarge on parole and whose fate must necessaiily
depend on that of prisoners held by the enemy.
I append a cops of my communication to the
President and Commander-in-Chief the army and
navy of the United States, and of the report of
tbe officef charged to deliver it, marked “docu- j
ment A.’
There are some other passages in the remarka
ble paper to which I have directed your attention, j
having reference to tbe peculiar relations which
exist between this Government and the States
usu&llv termed border slave States, which cannet j
be properly withheld from notice.
Yhe hearts of our people are animated by sen
timenis towards the inhabitants of those St ales
which found expression in your enactment refus
mg to consider them enemies, or authorize hos- |
b®. a *arj Ur|, portieo
of it} ptspin* f .beat Sit.ei ua at brash
jac; *&d :f varcatraiaad, bj tha astaal prtaaaot
of large amsea, tbe •uc-eraion of eWil authority,
aad “.he dealaratioa of Bartial law. soce of theß
at lt.-jt, wouid joyfully unite with us. That they
are, with almost entire unanimity, opposed to the
prosecution of the war wa<jed against us, are facts
of which daily recurring events fully warrant the
assertion.
The President ot the United States refuses \o
recognize in these, our late sister States, the right
of refraining from attack on us ; and justifies his
refu.-ftl by the assertion that the States have no
other power than that reserved to them in the
Union bv the Constitution—no one of them ever
having been a .State out of the Union.
The view of the Constitutional relations be
tween tbe States and the General Government, is
a. fining introduction to another assertion of the
Message, that the Executive possesses the power
of suspending the writ of Jlabtas Corpus , and of
dele ating tba.t power to military Commanders at
his discretion .and both of these propositions claim
a respect equal lo that which is felt lor the addi
tiouai statement of opinion iu the same paper that
it is proper in order to execute the Laws, that
some single law,made in such extreme tenderness
ot the citizen* liberty that practically it releives
more of the guilty than the innocent, should,
to a very limited extent be violated. We may wel
rejoice that we have forever severed our counec
tion with a Government, that on
ail principles of Constitutional Lib. rty, and with
a People in whose presence such avowals could
be hazarded.
The operations in the field will be greatly ex
tended by reason of the policy which heretofore
secretly entertained ,is now avowed and acted on
by the United States. The forces hitherto raised i
proved ample for the defence of the States which. ■
originally organized the Confederacy,as is evinced !
by the fact, that with the exeeption of three (&)
fortified Islands, whose defence is efficientlyaided
by a preponderating Naval force, the Enemy has
beeu driven completely out ol those Slates and
( at the expiration of five months from the forma
tion ol the Government, uot a’ single hostile foot
| presses their soil.
These forces, however, must necessarily prove
! inadequate to repel invasion by the half million
meu now proposed by the enemy, and a corres-
I ponding increase of our forces will become neces
sary. Tbe recommendations for the raising and
’ efficient equipment of this additional force will be
contained in tbe communication of tho Secretary
of War, to which I need scarcely invite your ear
nest attention.
In my message delivered iu April last, I re- !
ferred to the promise of abuudant crops—with
which, we were cheered. The grain crops gen- j
erafly have since been harvested, aud the yield j
proved most abuudant known in our history. |
Many believes the supply adequate to two years |
consumption of our population. Cotton, sugar, j
and tobacco, forming the surplus production of i
our agriculture, and furnishing the basis of our
commercial interchanges, present the most cheer
ing promise, and a kind Providenee has smiled on
the labor which extracts the teeming wealth of
our soil in all portions of our Confederacy. It is
the more gratifying to be able to give you these
facts, because of tbe need of large and increased
expenditures in support of our army.
Elevated and purified by the suered cause they
maintain oc our follow-citizpus of every condition
of life, exhibit the most self-saci ificiug devotion.
They manifest a laudable pride in upholding their
independence, unaided by any resources, other
than our own, und the immense wealth which a
fertile soil, and genial climate, have accumulated
in this Confederacy of agriculturists could not be
move strikingly displayed than in the large reve
nues which, with eager zeal, they have contributed
ai the call of their country.
In the single article of cotton the subscription
to the loan proposed by the Government cannot
fad short of fifty million dollars, and will proba
bly exceed that sum, and scarcely an article re
quired for consumption by the army is provided
otherwise than by subscription to produce loans
as happily devised by your wisdom.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in a report sub
mitted to you, will give ;'ou the amplest details
connected with that branch of the public service;
but it is not alone on their prompt pecuniary con
tributions that the noble race of freemen who in
habit these States evince how worthy they are of
those liberties which they know so well how to
defend. In numbers far exceeding those author
ized by your laws they have pressed the tender of
their services against the enemy. Their attitude
of calm and sublime devotion to their country —
the cool at and confident courage with which they
are already preparing to meet the threatened in
vasion, whatever proportions it may assume—the
assurance that their sacrifices and their services
will be renewed from year to year, with unfalter
ing purpose, until they have made good to the
uttermost their right to self-government—the gen
| erous and almost unquestioning confidence which
they display in their government during the pend
ing struggle, all combine to present a spectacle
such as tbe world has rarely, if ever, seen.
To speak of subjugating such a people so uni
ted and determined, is to apeak a language in
comprehensible to them —to resist an attack on
their rights or their liberties, is with them an
instinct.
Whether this war shall last one or three or five
| years, is a problem they leave to be solved by the
enemy alone. It will last till the enemy shall
have withdrawn from their borders, till their po
litical rights, heir altars, and their homes—are
freed from invasion. Then, and then only, will
they rest from this struggle, to enjoy in peace the
blessings which, with the favor of Providence,
they have secured by the aid of their own strong
hearts and sturdy arms.
JEFFERSON DAMS.
Hancock County.
Afttftrs. Editors .* —It is not improper to excite a
generous emulation among the different counties
in the prosecution of our war *f independence.—
For this purpose we make the following state
ment : Hancock county with about 775 voters,
l has sent to the war about 300 volunteers. The
i Sidney Browns, Capt. Arnold, with his recent re
cruits, numbers about 100 men; the Confederate
! Guards, Capt. Stephens, aud the Hancock Yol-
I unteers, Capt. Smith, number each about ninety,
jAt least twenty have joined companies iu adjoin
ing countie3. This, for a county with so large a
black population, (more than two to oue) speaks
volumes for her patriotism. Has any other county
iu tne State done better? If so where are the
facts and figures ?
The two last companies left ou Monday morn
ing. Vice President Stephens addressed them at
their camp ou the Fair Ground, Saturday after
noon ; Bishop Pierce preached to them at 11 o’-
clock next day. An immense audience on both
occasions attended to listeu to Georgia’s renowned
orators. Duriug the sermon the Bishop animad
verted ou the sin of profauity, as one to which
soldiers were particularly liable. At the close,
Rev. Mr. Christian asked the companies to pledge
themselves by rising that they would abandon the
sin, and eschew it altogether for the future of
their lives. Every one in the two large compa
nies gave the pledge, save some two or three.—
The effect was electric on the audience.
At night. Rev. Mr. Haygood, the prospective
chaplain of the regiment, opened the door of the
church, and four of our most worthy young sol
diers united with the Methodist Church. Can
Lincoln’s loafing, thieving hosts, conquer such
men? Never! never!
A lady remarked of the three companies, that
the pride and glory of Hancock was gone. It is
too true. Most of those who remain are too aged
or too infirm to do efficient military service, but
still they are organizing another company to go
if need be, and still more will follow* whenever
the country calls, and so on till tbe last trail dies
! in the last ditcb, rather than submit to a Northern
despot.
| Tbe scene on Monday beggars description. Quite
number were men oi families. Some
blooming brides, others with little children,
crowding around father and mother, weeping be
cause they wept. Here sits Lieutenant L. beside
his wife in mute agony —the picture of despair—
the children clustering rouud. Tbe eyes are suf
fused, the cheeks blanched, but tears come not to
their relief. On the opposite side is Lieutenant
B. giving the parting embrace to his weeping
wife and little ones, while she in wild agony cries,
“how can l give thee up.” Here stands private
T striving to master courage enough to bid his
wife farewell, whose screams excite tbe sympathy
of all around. He says he would rather face an
enemy in battle thau meet his wife now. Here a
venerable father comes, to bid bis boys a long
adieu. He has five stalwart sons given to his
country, two of them Lieutenants. He exhorts
them to meet him in heaven it he sees them no
more on earth. He has faith in God and gives
them up cheerfully. One is absent, who had en
rolled his name, but he received an honorable dis
charge. His poor wife could not stand the shock,
she lies prostrate with brain fever, her life in im-
minent peril.
Such scenes are being enacted ail over this
1 country, and for what ? That the Lincoln party
i may be sustained, and Wm. H. Seward be the
j next President of the United States. There is a
just God in heaven whose retributions on such
men will be signal and eternal. For there was a
j time when thev might have calmed the rising
storm. Now it is too late. The angry passions
of the North can only be quieted by the bullets of
the South, and these they shall have to their hearts
content. God nerve us to the conflict.
Sparta, July Bth. P.
N. B.—Tell Mr. Lincoln that Hancock county
voted five to one against secession.
dor the ChronieUdt Sentinel.
Mr. Editor : Please inform us if you do not
think there is some danger of an attack by the
enemy on Big Shanty, on the State Road ? If so,
let us know, and wc will try to have it reinforced.
A tew of us Jeff Davis men, by it if
Josey will furnish us the arms.
Enquirer.
Admiral Milne and the Blockade. —A letter
in the New York Express, from Fort Pickens,
says that the British Admiral Milne, who has been
visiting the coast to see that the rights of English
commerce are protected, has furnished o his
subordinate coL-.manders a definition of wbat is
to be considered as an effective blockade in the
following articles:
1. No port is blockaded efficiently if any vessel
can enter or depart from it unknown to, or in
spite of, the guardian men-of-war.
2. An efficient blockade necessitates the com
plete cutting off of all maritime ingress and
egress, except in regard to harbor islands having
no outlet to the sea, save under the guns of the
fleet.
3. The escape of the third vessel from the block
ading squadron signalizes the invalidity of the
blockade.
The phrase of the second article with respect to
“island harbors” is important, and seems to give
no little assistance to the Northern construction
ists of the blockade, who complain that there are
such harbors as those excepted in Admiral Milne’s
definition at several of the Southern pons, which
could keep the Confederates in provisions for
months.— Chas. Mercury.
Prisoners of War.— The crew of the privateer
Savannah were- zroned and carried through the
streets of New York—the prisoners from Florida,
who arrived on Thursday evening, were allowed
to walk among the soldiers, perfectly free to talk
and act as they pleased. We treat our prisoners
as such, while the Yankees treat those whom the
fortunes of war place in their hands, with every
possible indignity.— CharUston Mercury.
iht JMmend DUpaith, SO th
JoNIPXBTELY ROUTED.
MxXAjSAt StatCTioar, July IS—lO F. M.
Victory perches upon oar banners. The army
of the Potomac, under the command of General j
Beauregard, gave battle to the enemy to-day, at j
Bull’s Run, four miles from Manassas Junction, j
fn a Northwest direction, and three miles to the
left ot the Alexandria Railroad. The enemy at
tempted to cross the ford at several points in 1
great numbers, but were repulsed by our brave
aud determined troops three times, with heavy
loss on the enemy’s side. The enemy retreated
about f o’clock in the afternoon in confusion, two
of our regiaaents pursuing them. A large num
ber of them nave been taken prisoners. On our
side, the casualties are few.
\ *sterdav the enemy appeared in force at Fair
fax Court-House, when, after exchanging a few
shots with them, our troops, retreated to Bull’s
Run, Gen. Beauregard preferring to give them
battle there. The General was hurriedly se.nt for
aud quickly came to the scodo of action, when he
ordered the retreat, which has proved so be a ‘
brilliant stragetic movement. At first our troops
were much displeased, believing the retreat had
been frdered by gome junior officer; but when
they learned that the order emanated from their i
General-in-Chief they were perfectly savuitied, |
having in him unbounded confidence. The regi
ments engaged in this brilliant and successful
battle were the first Virginia, seventeenth Alex
andria) A trginia, tbe Mississippi and the Louisi
ana.
All ot our men behaved with the utmost cool
ness and taught like the disciplined soldiers ot a
Napoleon. It would be invidious to single out
the troops Irom any particular State as having
exhibited qualities not found in a'!. The conduct
of our gallant little army ( never before under
fire.y oil this occasion surpassed all praise. For
steadiness under a most galling fin*, indifference :
to their peril, good order and precision of aim,
history may be ransacked in vain for u parallel.!
Tbe enemy outnumbered them in the proportion j
ot three to one. The Washington Artillery, of
New Orleans, were at an-early stage of the battle
given an opportunity of ♦displaying thci r Ugh
state of efficiency ami marksmanship, and they
abundantly justified the reputation of the fcrnttnl
ion. An eye-witness says at every fire they taade
a wide gap in the enemy’s ranks.
The First Virginia regiment. Col. Moore ’3 bore
the brunt of the action, tho killed aud ©rounded
on our side being chiefly iu that regimen*, as 1
have already informed you per telegraph. , Uol.
Moore himself was wounded soon after ti e battle
commeliced. When being unable to continue &t
the head ot his men, the command devolved upon
Lieut. Cal. Fry, aidi and by Major Skinner and Ad
jutant Mitchell, who inform me that the bullets of
the enemy came like hail. Au saw eleven of his
men wounded at one vnliey. Cc.pt. Jarues K
Lee, company 8., of same regiment.* was uioriallv
wounded. \V rule I w rite, be is still iu life, but not
; expected to survive the morning.
The enemy is variously reported to tiat e
from five to fifteen hundred—the former probably
j being nearest the truth. Not having been on the
j fifW. I am unable to describe the ground, but run
| informed the enemy w ere strongly posted with
| numerous heavy guns on the embankment which
I slopes down to the lord, while our troops vveje in
the hollow disputing their advance to the other
j side.
i The Alexandria Riflemen are said to have par
! ticularlv distinguished themselves, having crossed
I the ford iti the face of a lerritic fire from the one-
I nay’s artillery, and fought hand to hand with the
! Yankee •ue.lings.
| Capt. Dulany, of the Fairfax Rifieinau, was se
; riously wounded. Licitf. Javins, of the Mount
1 Vernon Guard, oi Alexandria, was also seriously
wounded. Win. Sangster, of the Alexandria
■ Riflemen, was killed.
! One of the enemy’s Colonels was killed by a
j squad of Cos!. Kershaw’s second South Carolina
regiment, his horse shot, und S7OO in gold found
’ upon his person.
The enemy, will doubtless return to-morrow
with reinforcements, being exasperated by their
humiliating defeat.
I shall probably be able to ascertain additional
particulars when the official reports come in.
Corri spondent of the Cincinnati Commb cial.
Northern Account* of* the Rattle at Lau
rel Ulill.
(’.Dip LAnubiL Hill, July IStK, 1861.
This morning about eight o’clock intelligence
was conveyed to Headquarters that the enemy
had retreated—“vamoosed the ranche,” and were
off for Beverly. No report had reached us at that
time of the rout th<- force thrown out by Gen. Gar
nett to obstruct Gen. McClellan’s passage at Rich j
Mouutain ( a spur of the Laurel Range) had suf- j
sered. Knowing how much superior, numerical
ly, the force at Laurel Hill was to our own, and
the formidable works behind which they were en
trenched, the intelligence of their flight was not
credited. It was believed to be one of the many
feints they had adopted to draw us into an en
gagement. Reconnoitering parties were, howev
er, sent out’ and they returned with the. news
that the camp was really deserted, and on the top
of that came a dispatch by courier from Gen. Mc-
Clellan announcing the victory gained at Rich
Mountain.
The Indiana °th was immediately in motion,
and was presently followed by tuc 7th. Tho Ohio
14th was exceedingly anxious to move ou, baithe
order to march miscarried, and they did not dome
up for au hour or two.
Passing the hill on the right where the skirmish
ing tiad taken place, I saw the lkh Indiana march
ing up behind the main entrenchments and plant
ing the old flag on the fortifications. Detailing a
guard over the camp, three regimeuls, with one
piece of artillery, pushed on up Laurel Hill, and
halted on the height, prepared to repulse the reb
els should they attempt to return.
The pike describes nearly a semicircle from tbe
point where it emerges from the Beelington side
to that at which it, disappears up the mountains.
A spur of the hills on tho right juts down into
this semicircle. The trenches for the infantry
start from the woods ou the right. This line of
earth-works is about half a mile long, and tiie for
est in the ravine in front of it haying been nut
away, they command the approach front Reeling
tou for neatly three quarters of a mile. In the
rear ol the entrenchments, ou the left, was a strong
fortification, with embrasures in the front and sa
lients for artillery. A similar breastwork was
thrown up on the summit of the hill on the right.
They were not. only stroug’.y, but handsomely con
structed, of logs fastened by piles, strengthened
by stone and earth thrown up iwiiont, neufly
turfed, und partially concealed bv brush.
These formed the first line of defense. Tho sec
oud line was on the left of the road, on the slope
of Laurel Iliil. A large area had been cleared
away, and trenches dug not only along tlie side of
the pike, but close to the woods, tho latter forming
an arch, the ends of which came down to the pike
and were strengthened by well-constructed piers.
If driven from their first lino, they could retire to
the second, und by hoi ling it tender It unsafe for an
assaulting part y to retain the first position without
driving them from the second; audio that event
they hud the woods iu the rear to fall buck upon,
and make good their retreat over the mountains,
and out on the Bevc.tly pike. The idea that they
might be taken in the rear by way of Beverly,
which was the purpose of Gen. McClellan, does
not seem to have occurred to Gen. Garnett, under
whose supervision the works were constructed;
and it was their inability to defend themselves
from such a movement that lad to their precipi
tate retreat, after the hope of holding the pass at
Rich Mountain hud been extinguished by the de
feat of Col. Pegrain’s detachment.
The camp itself was iu a ravine- on the right, in
the rear of the first and in front of the second lino
of defense. It was admirably selected, both for
concealment; and for convenience. There is an
abundant supply of good water at hand,-Aud shade
trees under which the otliours and nesses could
dine in the; open air. Long booths Jiad, been
erected, and u great number of brushes and
thatched tents, iu addition to those of canvass.—
It was a scene of indiscribable confusion wlu-n I
visited it—li.miscellany of tents throwu down and
torn in pieces, tent poles, some half burned ; camp
kettles, mess pans, plates, spoons, knives and
forks, and all the utensils common to camps;
camp stools, cots, blankets; champagne baskets
and bottles, flasks, decanters, wagons; hospital
stores, bandages, lint, litters, stretchers; seedy
boots and shoes, “old clo's,” stockings, and an
endless litter of pa-.ers, letters, boxes, barrels,
Ac. They had packed off in a desperate hurry.—
Many valuable camp equipages had been tied’up,
but they could not load them or had no
Fifty barrels of flour, as many of hard biscuit
nnd’a quantity of corn in the ear, were found in
one place; in another, whole bundles of stock
ings, pants, coats, and blankets, which they had
not the leisure to destroy; and in a pasture close
by were seventy-five or a hundred sheep which
they had “impressed.”
Everything, from the immense fortifications to
tbe cauip and supplies, indicated
not only the intention of permanent occupation,
but the presence of not less than 8,000 men, ami
perhaps more before Pegram’s detachment was
sent off. That tney should have given up all
these things without a struggle, did not indicate
that desperate spirit of resistance w’hich the
Southern pres3 assured us they would make
whenever, wherever, and however assaulted.
three or four hours leisure to stroll
about the camp and its vicinity. 1 was anxious
to ascertain something about the number killed in
the various skirmishes. It was not difficult to
find new made graves—two in oue place, ,-ix in
1 another, four in another, and so on. One’ gentle
i man counted thirty-nine. Some wore distinguished
by head boards, with the initials written in oeneil
and others appeared to have been buried in
trenches. In one place is a grave, carefully
turfed, and enclosed by a rail fenoe; on tbe head
board is the simple word, “Colonel.” It is sup
posed to be the grave of Col. Ramsey, of the
Georgia regiment, though nothing could be
defit itely ascertained as to his identity. I made
memorandums of the initials of several who had
been killed, but have unfortunately lost it. They
were principally from Richmond,” aud probably
belonged to the compauy of sharp shooters sent j
oat from there. James Musto, a farmer living on
the spot, says they had from five to six funerals a
day, sometimes burying them “in gross.” In a ‘
house near by we found two wouuded Georgians
and half a doxeu sick Virginians. They seemed
quite surprised that we did not bayonet them, and
amazed that one surgeons promptly prescribed
for them. One told me they had said “their pray erß
that morning, expecting ‘to be massacred.” He
said that many had died of the measles and that
their loss was not so great by fighting as we
thought, though he did not deny that e large num
ber nad been killed. The fact is, the officers did
not allow the regiments to communicate with each
other, and carefully concealed their losses.
I also ascertained that the shot and shell thrown
by Barnett's artillery, at a distance of nearly two
miles, had come “ nearer home” than we sup
posed. Two balls struck near Gen. Garnett’s
marque, and several ot tbe shells exploded among
tbe tents. A Georgian told me that the men felt
so insecure that the officers found it impossible to
persuade or to enforce them to sleep in their tents
They laid in the trenches and bushes alt eight
rather than run the risk of a shot or shell dis- I
Jurbing tbeir slumbers.
Many memorandums were picked up that offi
cers had made of our skirmishings, in which they
intended to report our loss at Several hundred” |
Here is a sample from a Georgian's diarv, which >
was handed to me on tbe ground ’ f
“ Fight with them occasionally up to this date
Thursday, ilth. FightiDg mostiv Indian fashion’
Our loss only only one or two ; theirs, according
to the best estimate, several hundred ‘ They in
variably ahoot too high.”
I transmitted to you a complete list of onr killed I
aud wounded, in a recent letter, and to that should
be added John Houghton—makmg our loss fire
filled and seven wounded.
Camp Dumoxt, Corriek’s Ford ,
Eight miles south of St. Georgs ’ ►
Tucker CouQ*T, Ta Jul’v IS i
I have a dismal recollectioo'of a drearv weary
forced march of nineteen mile,; over almost im
passible roads, mud knee deep, with a steady
heavy ruin tailing all the way, ana terminating in
a fierce engagement of halt an hour, tbe total
rout of the rebels, and the death of Gen Robert
8. Garnett, Adjutant General ot the State of Vir
ginia, and commander of the Confederate army in
Western Virginia, of wnom all that is mortal lie*
but a few feet from our tent.
The right of our division proceeded to within
nine miles of Beverly, where Capt. Benham, who
commanded the advance, ascertained at the v>{-
lage of Leedsville that the reb‘-ls, after proceed
ing nearly to Beverly and finding (be road block
aded by McClellan's advance, united with those
that had been routed at Rich Mountain, and
turned back and struck off on the Leading Creek
pike, half a mile this side of Leadsville, and were
moving in tbe direction of St. George, Tucker
county.
We had tracked the rebels thus far easily. For
three mile, from their camp tbe road was literal
ly shingled with cards. The trumps were against
them, and they had thrown down their hands.
Every few rods we found stacks of tent poles,
tents, blankets, end other camp equipages,
which they had thrown out of their wagons and
off their sbouldiers, to lighten their burdens and
facilitate their retreat. Several wagons had got
off the track, and were fonnd upside down in the
gorges of the mountains.
At &&: #o im&rged from the Laurel Maintain £
ana cArst o cu te Cheat rim at Kaular'a Ford! I
fcr*‘T? and 4a. £Xlm 5* I
Gtorgi. It was than noon. Our advance oon i
S-Stoi of tne Ohio Uth, Col. Steedman, T3O; Col. !
MUli-ors 2ta Indiana, JOO; Dumont's 7th Indiana, |
550. and two piece? ot artillerv, with 40 men—-he
totat being 1840. The reserve wa? an hour or more I
behind their march, being douolv wearisome be
cause of the necessary halts, and roads made
worse who had preceded them.
The chase now became highly exciting. The
rebels pitched the test of their camp equipage in
to the uushes; the olficers threw their personal
etfec'.s into the gullies and ravines, and the pri
vates gave, up their blankets, knapsacks, aud can- j
teen? to the inexorable necessity oT fighting or ‘
retreating, and they preferred the latier. Our
advance rushed on them so hard that they formed
in line andtommenced a scattering fire, when our
artillery opened on them, and th -v instantly re
newed their stampede. This stand, however, had
given their baggage train time to get under way.
The pursuit was hotly kept up for threemiles, aud
they showed as wonderful agility in flight as Por
terfield’s army at lTiillippa.
Within a mile of the next lord, the mountains
recede on both sides.from the river. The most
of this comparatively level bottom land is com
prised in the farm ot Mr. James Oorrick, and the
fords are kncnvn by Ids name. In crossing the
first of these lords to the t ight side of the river
as we were advancing . one of their wagonsmired,
and those in the rear had to haft until it could be
relieved. Tne rebels in the meantime drew up in
line ou the opposite side in an oat field, and webe
concealed by a rail fence and the trees and bushes
fringing that bank of the river. The bluti is front
SO to 8o leet higher than the land on the opposite
side, down which the Ohio 14th was advancing,
wit Cnpt. Mow’s company thrown out as skir
mishers As the skirmishers pressed on toward
the lord, the te; ulsters cried out, “Don't shoot!
don't shoot! \\e are going to surrender.” The
Captain then sailed to the Colonel, “ Come on.
Ooi. Stee dm an, they are going to surrender,” and
the regiment was Ordered to advance at a double
quick. As he came opposite the bank w here the
rebels were drawn up, Gen. Garnett cried, “Three
cheers for Jeff. Davis,T and that instant the whole
line whs a blare o! light, as they poured a desti lic
it v- volley upon the 14th.
The nu n came to an distant halt, and returned
the compliment without changing position, and
then advanced nearer the river, taking position
behind a worn out fence. The rebel battery then
opened fire, and PaMiett's artillery wasotdered
i up. The action became general. Millroy's regi
ment cami up to -'.teedmnn’s support, but were
compelled to deiivtr an oblique tire. Capt. lieu-,
ham then order. 1 Dumont’s six companies to
■ cross tlic river about “c yards above the ford,
pass obliquely up the lull Irom our right, and take
the enemy in the rear. The bank was exceeding
ly sleep, almost perpe dicolay, but two companies
had sues* edi'd in cl mitering up, when the order
was counterman.fed, nml Col. Dumont ordered
’ down the liver to the fond, under cover of the
heipbt, on i lieii side, n:.d protested by the tire
. from . Jciau’s. and .iliiiroy's regiments, to take
! them in IV. it at the road. The i clonel executed
this order ill gallant stile, lbs line instantly
formed and matched don n the bed of the river,
where the,water iva ; frequently waist deep, aud
| the moment the head ot tits cotntnn appealed the
j iebeia cea-ed firing along the entile line, and
: stampeded through u wheat field down to the
| second ford, the officers vainly trying to’ rally
; them.
Gen. Garnett was the last to cross the ford,’
which be did on foot, and stood by tile river shore
waving In., handkerchief, and calling them to
pome hark and dispute the passage of the ford.
Major Gordon, of the l . S. army, at this moment
appeared ou the opposite side, which the rebels
had just left, and seeing them huddled in the
road called to ibe advance of Dumont’s eouimaud,
which was lushing along like a whirlwind, to
pontoon.- Gen. Garnett directed the attention ot
hi.- panic-stricken rear to the Major, and a volley
of bullets tali thick as hail around him, many
lodging in the sycamore stump on which he was
standing. The Major at the same tune saw Gar
nett, ami pointing him out to a squad of Captain
Ferry’s company Sergeant liuntngume drew a
deliberate sight on the General aud fired. He
was seen to throw up his hands and fail back on
the sand. At the same instant almost the only
man who had the pluck to stand by the General
(a Geor inn, be it said to the shame of the chiv
alry of Virginia) fell dead by his side. Dumont’s
regiment find come up in winch less time than it
lias taken to record this eynnt, and poured a
raking fire into tine enemy, who.made a stand of
some ten minutes, during which the fire was
sharp on both sides, arid than they ran, crowding
upon each other in the wildest eonfusiou. Du
mont’s regiment crossed the ford, and chased
them two. miles up the St. George road, where
they gave out from absolute exhaustion, and
bivouacked lor the night.
Major Gordon had crossed the ford in the mean
time, and came up to General Garnett, who was
in the last agony ot death. He discovered his
rank-by the star on his shoulderstrap, closed bis
eyes, and seizing a linen handkerchief from an
Indiana boy, tied tip his jaws aud composed his
limbs..
The action was over. The reserve of the arirty
came up soou after, and each legimebt was as
signed quarters on the buttle field, built rousing
fires, and proceeded to dry their clothes. The
wounded of our own and the rebel forces were
carried off on lit ters to hospital quarters, where
they received immediate surgical aid, while the
dead Were collected, and a guard placed over them
forthe night.
The loss m killed and wounded fell entirely up
on the Ohio 14th ; they occupied the po3t of dan
ger, and behaved like veterans under the fire of
-infantry and artillery. There was no Hutching
ing, but on tlm contrary, a coolness and determin
ation, not only characteristic of the men, but their
gallant Colonel, who rode up and down the ranks
cheering them on, as regardless of danger as
though by his own fireside. Capt. Ueniiam, in
fits plain brown suit, walked bis.horse tip and
down ‘the .ranks, giving his orders clearly and
calmly as in the terrible day of Kuuna Vista! while
the chivalrio Col. Millo.y chafed like a lion be
cause his notv famous regiment could not be
brought into direct collision with the enemy.
Oh the otherside eight were killed on the‘field ;
three died in hospital, and some ten were more or
less severely wounded. They carried off many of
the wounded in wagons; hoiv many was not
known. Prisoners were taken in any quantity ;
the scouts kept bringing them in all night and the
next day till 1 left. The hills were fall of them,
and doubtless our forces had more an hand than
they could provide for. Among ihe captured
wore many officers, including six Georgia captains
and lieutenants, a surgeon of the army (from
Richmond,) and a number of non-commissioned
officers.
We captured two stand of colors, one of tfie
Georgia regiment; one rifled cannon; 40 loaded
wr.;;oas ; hundreds of muskets and side arms; the
army chest, but how valuable Id and not, learn ;
with any amount of personal effects and military
equipments.
This action nifist speak for itself. To purpose
and overtake an enemy having twelve hours the
advance ; making a fore and march of nearly thirty
miles in less than twenty-four hours, over the
worst of roads, and with scarcely a mouthful of
food for the men—some, indeed, being thirty-six
hours without nourishment; fight a battle,cut off
the baggage train, capture the cannon, and rout
the enemy, is not a feat of every day record, even
in tunes of war. Ail honor to the gallant soldiers
of Indiana and Ohio, and thetrue men of Virginia.
They prove themselves worthy of the inheritance
of their lathers bequeathed to them, and as ready
to sacrifice tln-ir lives to preserve, as their sires
were to establish the independence of the people
nnu the Union of the States ! I'.
[Special to the Xe# York'lYihurit.]
VV'ashinctom, July 14, 1881.—The following is
reoeived by the War Department.
Ucttonsvili.b, July 14.—"C01. lb D. Townsend
—Sir : Gen. Garnett and ail his forces are routed.
His baggage and one gun taken. His army are
entirely demoralized. General Garnett is killed.
We have annihilated the enemy in Western Vir
ginia. We have but thirteen killed and not more
than forty wounded. We have in all killed at
least 200 of the enemy, and the prisoners will
number at least 1,000. We have taken seven guns
in all. I still look for the capture of the remnant
of Garnett’s army by Gen. Hill. The troops
defeated are the crack regiments of Eastern Vir
ginia, aided by Georgians Tennesseeans, and
Carolinians. Our success is complete, and Seces- |
sion is killed in this part of the country.
G. li. McClellan, Major-General.” .
Tuk Sumter’s Prizes.— New York papers of
the 16th have the following :
Boston, July Jo, 1861.—Cupt. White of the bark
Louisa Kilharn, captured by the privateer, writes
to his owners here that he was captured July 6,
the day he sailed from Cienfuegos, with 550 tuns
i of sugar on Spanish accouut, and bound for Fal
mouth, England, for orders. He also states that
“it is the opinion of the Governor here that the
Spanish laws will not let him hold us. We expect
to hear from Havana to day.”
A letter from Cahusac Brothers, dated Havana,
July 10, stating the capture, says they (the
prizes) are now in the port of Cienfuegos, but not
be allowed to remain there. No more Americans
can at present find charters f’-mn this island. Os
course this has caused great excitement.
Another letter, dated Havana, July 10, states
positively that the Spanish authorities had order
ed the prizes.of the Sumter to leave immediately.
The sloop-of-war Vincennes and the revenue
cutters Morris and Caleb Cushing also left Boston
on Saturday in search of the privateer Jeff. Davis,
which was last heard from off Xatucket shoals. j
Philadelphia, July 15, 1861.—A letter dated ‘■
Havana, the loth inst., says that the Captain-Gen- I
eral had ordered the privateer Sumter off, and re- j
tained the prizes, the cargoes being Spanish prop- •
erty. The vessels had been held for action of the j
Home Government.
Failure of Kill’s Expedition*. —From the cor- j
respondence of the Cincinnati Gazette we.’take the ;
j following :
\V heelino, \ a., July 17.—Through cowardice !
j or imbecility, Gen. Hill permitted tne escape of
Garnett s fugitives near Oakland. They numbered ‘
about fifteen hundred and were exhausted, and 1
; probably would have surrendered without resist- 1
i mg*.
Hill’s advance was’vvithin a mile and a half of |
them, eager for the fray, when he suddenly or- *
dered a countermarch, against the expostulations
ot officers and men. He afterwards received 1
strong reinforcements, and returned, but Gen. !
McClellan, being disgusted with his operations,
. and leering disaster, had ordered him to stop.
The enemy being reinforced, and Hill having
i allowed the right opportunity to pass, should he |
meet disaster toe fault will be his. .Major Marcy *
i goes to Washington as bearer of dispatches. j
Skirmish at Barbocrvillk, Va.—The Cincin
nati Commercial of the 17th has the following,
which will be taken with due allowance :
The city was full of rumors yesterday, relative
! so a battle between Col. Woodruff's I'd Ky. Reg
iment and a party of rebels near Gallipoli*. We
traced the *eport to the Big Sandy packet Key
West No. 2, and the Marietta packet Cricket, and
! have arrived at the following particulars
. On Friday night a detachment of Col. Wood- :
• ruff"s 2d Keniuckv Rigiment, comprising three or
four companies, including the commands of Capts. 1
Brown and Hurd, made a forward movement to j
Barbourville., seven miles back of Guyandotte, in j
( pursuit of a torce of five or six hundred rebel I
> militia, reported to have encamped or congregat- j
. ed Dear that point, on an eminence on tire banks of
Mad river,—the rebel force being principally from j
Wayne and Cable counties. Va.
About 6A. M., Saturday, Woodruff"s force ar- ;
rived at the contemplated scene of action, and
after relaying plank removed from the gangway
of the bridge, crossed over, encountering the
enemv on an eminence between Mad river and
Barbourville. The rebels immediately Med in
everv direction, with the Kentuckians in close
pursuit. Ten or twelve of the rebels were killed,
and a number wounded. One of the Kentuc y
bov3, whose name we have not learned, was
killed. The rebel force was all infantry or mill*
tia, without a commander. It was reported
Jenkins’ cavalry force was with the rebels, but
the rumor is unfounded. nthrie are
The Ist Keniuckv Regiment, Col. Guthrie,
at Buffalo, up the Kanawha, 20 “ I,e ( s
mouth on Sunday last, having left (vallipoha on
the previous Friday, on the steamers a •
Mary Cook. Silver -No. 2. Victor and Elnomy,
destined for Charleston, by order . t ? X V
A number of Secessionists, including T. J. Jor
don and > r. Coburn of Wavne Cos., weae captured,
and are in charge of the 2d Kentuckians at Galli
polis.
Proghess of the “Irbipkessible.”— Fiveslaves
escaped from the Eastern Shore one day last week
in a canoe, and went over to Gen. Butler at Old
Point. Three of ihetn were from the estate of the
late Gov. Tazewell, one belonged to Wm. Notting
ham, and one to a Mr. Geffigan. It i9 presumed
Gen.’Horace Greeley, of the New York Tnbaoe will
shortly visit Old Point, to initiate Gen. Butler into
the art of “spiking the negroes,” as the latter
individual has recently expressed his determina
tion to adopt that plan with all the runaway ne
groes that came to his camp.—Norfolk Day Book .
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Chronicle Sentinel, gratis, to our friends in the
various companies of Georgia Volunteers now in
Virginia, and shall send to each company as soon
as their location and address are known. Our
soldiers look eagerly and unxiously for every
J medium of news from home, and nothing more
acceptable than a daily paper can be sent them.
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j lunteer companies, whom they would like to keep
posted on the of the day at home,
can have the Chronicle sent them at the rate of
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Chronicle Ar Sentinel-Evening Util I lon.
As there is now no evening paper published in
Augusta, we have, at the urgent solicitation of
many persons, consented to publish our evening
edition for city circulation, and will furnish the
Evening Edition of the Chronicle and Sentinel
within the city limits for TWENTY CENTS PER
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! will please give immediate notice at the Counting
i Room. The Evening Edition will contain the la
■ test news by Telegraph, Express and Mail up to
| one and a half o’clock, P. M., each day.
Weekly Malls—How to tiet Early News.
j A number of our subscribers, at various points
off* the Railroads, where they have but weekly or
i semi-weekly mails, have adopted the plan ot liav-
I ing the Daily Chronicle cf* Sentinel sent to tho
nearest Post. Office at which a daily mail is re
| oeived, and from thence carried by the subscri-
I bers iu turn to the most convenient point for dis
i tributiou. This plan is found to work well ; ana
I during these exciting times, when almost every
| one has a friend or relative among our brave
i volunteers, from whom something may be beard,
| (independent of the interest which all must feel
[in the progress of events,) the early reception of
news is an object worth the little trouble of this
plan. We recommend our friends to try it.
Tlie News, The News, Thrice Glorious
News !
We have met the enemy iu force, and they are
ours ! We have staked all upon Manassas, and
won 1 Remember lion-hearted Bartow’s words—
“ Igo to illustrate Georgia.” And nobly has he
illustrated the Empire State—her valor, her chiv
alry, her desperate daring. Though dead he yet
liveth. He fills a soldier’s grave—but his memory
is the inheritance of a whole people. On to avenge
him!
i Bartow’s, Gartrell’s, Goulding’s and Ander
son’s Regiments were, we suppose, the represent
atives of Georgia in the great % fight !
Heaven smiles on us, on our arms, aud on our
cause! Then onward ! Follow the President,
gallant Jeff. Davis, who leads the centre. Now
for Washington !
The Hartwell Infantry left here last week for
l Richmond. Several detachments for other com
| panies went forward this morning.
Hon. Howell Cobb, President of the Congress,
and Colonel of the Fifth Independent Georgia
Regiment, passed through our city last Thursday,
ou his way to Richmond. His Regiment will ren
dezvousand be mustered into service, we suppose,
in Virginia. We hear a report that the 12th Geor
gia Regiment will probably go to Missouri.
A detachment, nineteen strong, of the Troup
Artillery, Athens, passed through here Thursday,
evening—fine, handsome, intelligent-looking
young fellows. Also, a detachment of the We
tumpka Light Guards, from Coosa county, Ala.
Soldiers going, soldiers coming, soldiers here,
soldiers there, soldiers everywhere—that's the or
der of the day.
■ Hutchins Guards.— This fine corps, from Gwin
. nett county, arrived here Friday morning, and
| remained in town till night. They number 104,
rank and tile. H. P. Thoma 9, Captain; N. L.
•Hutchins, Jr., Ist Lieat.; W. K. Simmons, 2d
Lieut.; Mitchell, Sd Lieut. The company
; belongs to Cobb’s Fifth Georgia Independent
i Regiment.
Recruits for Capt. Fouler’s company of DeKalb
’ county, also arrived on the same train.
Second Georgia Regiment.— We Irarn that the
Second Regiment Georgia Volunteers, Colonel
Se mines, now at Brunswick, Ga., will start for
Virginia on Friday next.
P A99AQK of Troops.— The “ Ben Hill Infantry,’>
Capt. John T. Botkin, from nassed
through this city en route for Richmond, last
Sunday. Also a detachment of the Pulaski Vol
unteers, under Sergeant J. J. Lowry.
Capt. Wm. Tabb, of Wise’s Legion, Acting Ad
jutant General, was also among the passengers.
The Cotton Loan. —We learn from good au
thority that the amount of cotton subscribed to
the Confederate Loan in the Eighth Distnct is
about 20,000 bales.
Moore Troops. —The Centre Hill Guards, Capt.
A. M. Reynolds, from Jackson county, Georgia,
arrived here last Friday and remained in town till
next evening. They belong to Howell Cobb’s
Regiment, and number seventy-four able bodied
men. They are quartered at the Georgia Rail
road.
A detachment of the Alabama Riffes, Captain
Powell, also arrived and went forward for Rich
mond last night.
Tit© ItlUftllDU,
It n •aniy time that w# all compreketided, aa!
ol.&clyj ti possible, the troth .four petition, ind 1
that we looked the faof*, the tdeantage, and di. ‘
advantages of the situation, full tn tho fare It
were worse than folly to try to deceive ourselves.
We have advantages, we know, but so has the
enemy, One great advantage cn our side is the
confidence of ultimate success, and the conviction
that we are ri>fht; and while confidence does ndt
always ensure success, but on the contrary may
lead to disaster, and while right is not invariably
accompanied by the paper of sure assertion, yet
this confidence and convictiofi of justice are great
helps in any cause. That nine millions ot freo
people, jealous of personal liberty, accustomed to
self-assertion, controlling se*curWy four millions
of laborers of a different caste* pj*o(lnning in rich
abundiiuce the great staples ot universal com
merce, accustomed to the open air'mui a country
life, sturdy, brave and uneuervuto l, should be |
overrun and conquered bv race of canliqg round
heads, by a commercial and m aig, and
corrupt and unmilitaiy people, !•; not run so nubia
to suppose. It can never U ,t me, but still when
attempted it may force the assailed party to many
incotiveuiences, disasters and trouble-.
We have a great advantage toe in the character
andour volunteer soldierv. We are
a more martial people than the enemy, a.s all our
common battle fields prove, and if we have not
more courage, we have certainly more dash and
daring, and equal persistence. This advantage
however, becomes less as we wait ./or battle, for
while drill improves the enemy it is of no great
help to ns l (beyond a few weeks of camp life.)—
But the enemy has the advantage in the Qumber
of men he can bring into the field, ami in the rap
idity with which they can be moved, owing to his
greater means of transportation, and more ready
money. We begin to tlunk, 100, that we have de
ceived ourselves as to arms and munitions, and
that the enemy has more and better than we, as
he undoubtedly has more supplies and chopper
food. We have # food enough, but not so cheap,
nor so readily transported, a s the enemy’s. But
looking at matters thn& is there any thing to dis
courage or dishearten us Surely not* V’e have
set out to win our independence, and it baa to bo
accomplished—that is ihe universal voice of rulers
and people.
There is another bu t we may hi well contem
plate in this connection. It is the practice of
enlightened nations to recognize and acknowl
edge all a nd; facto governments when, and when
only, they prove th< /> ability to assert a separate
and independent organization among tV family
of nations. What immediate good is to accrue to
us by a simple recognitlor: ns a t/e facto govern
ment by any other nation than that with which
we are at war, may not be very clear, unless that
recognition irf t-o be folio .od by material aid.
That aid we have no reason to expe ct, except only
it may be bcn/icial to the nations recognizing us.
The North may fume, and threaten France and
England should they aok a owl edge us as a nation,
but they certainly have a right to recognize us, it
they see fit, without question. But the probabil
ities are that they will do it only when we show
our ability to mam-tain ourselves, or when the
progress of eveuts convinces them that their in-’
tercets are in the line of recognition, and even of
aid, aud at the risk', too, of u war ou their hands.
So, then, we must fight,our way—and we need
men and money.
Confessedly we have not now"'enlisted* or
in the field, enough men —but we can get i
them. But we want money more than men.
We can do little without money. And. how
is that to be got Many plans have been
proposed—many more will be, perhaps ; and still
this is a difficult problem, requiring for its solu
tion the best talent, the comprued talent, of the
country. We- are a peculiar people* different
from any other known. \\ r e are utmost solely
agricultural, and produce* l4 staples, and
yet these require to bo sold abroad and in their
raw state, uud still we?are as much without ships
und sailors as manufactures. We are wealthy,
and still not a monied people. Our wealth is in
vested in land and labor, and the rich crops we
produce return money only if carried out of the
country. We cannot oat cotton, nor do wo fit it
for our own uses, except to a limited extent.
Cotton is almost the sole resource by which we
can get money, and not from that unless it can be
sold abroad.
It were noarl v useless to propose direct taxes,
for how can taxes be paid unless cotton can be
sold? Our government knows this, and it asks
not of the people a portion of their wealth in
taxes, nor a loan of their money, because our
wealth of land and labor cannot be nsed by gov
ernment, nor have the people motley to loan.—
They have mainly their crops. And still there is
a misapprehension about the cotton loan. The
government does not want a loan of the cotton
itself, but only of the money for Which the cotton
may be sold. It asked a produce loan to test the
confidence of the people, and to use thi;i produce,
particularly cotton, us the basis of it? financial
fabric. Now, it is a pertinent question, who is to
buy the planter’s cotton next fall? and at what
sort of price? Will the foreign speculator or the
spinner buy it ? How can he make it available,
when he can’t get it out of the country, by rea
son of the blockade? But it may be supposed
that foreign governments, whose cotton needs are
so great, will have the cotton in any event. They
mud have it, we are accustomed to think; but
perhaps they may get it without recognizing our
independence, or aiding.us in the wap. II might
be the intend of the North to raise the blockade,
so far as cotton and tobacco were concerned, in
order to secure the friendship uud the )707i-inter
ference of England and l lauee.
And so at lust cotton if? to be our glory or our
shanie, our strength or our weakness. Give the
cotton manufacturing nations the cotton supply
regularly, and the XoHb npght w ell afford to let
us have the money arising from it, aud thus take
away the political and military availability of the
snowy fleece. It will become the duly of Con
gress to see to it that We are not bambooried thus,
it must prohibit the exportation of bAth cotton
and tobacco; JniV a?part of the crop, borrow a
part, and in addition, lafcue Treasury notes, based
on the crop, to the extent of its needs, and thus
directly and indirectly furnish a iparket aud buy
ers for the whole crop, and be still in position to
use the whole power of both cotton and tobacco
as a political engine. The subject opens up—and
we shall return to it again.
In answer to our esteemed correspondent a
Tunnel Hill we would r-ay that printed handbills
on which there is 720 writing, and weighing less
than three ouuces, when sent by mail, must b<z pre
paid at the rate of two cents for each one. T# set
the matter at rest, wo quote from the postal bill,
which has been in force in tho Confederate States
since June Ist. After declaring the postage on
newspapers, periodicals and other publications,
sent from the office of publication to actual bona
fide subscribers, tho act goes on to recite—“And
there shall be charged upon every other newspaper,
and each circular not sealed, handbill, engraving, i
pamphlet, periodical and magazine, which shall
be in connection with any manuscript or written
matter, and not exceeding tliyee ounces in weight,
and published within the Confederate States, two (
cents; and for euch additional ounce, or fraction ,
of an ounce, two cents additional; and in all cases J
the postage shall be pre-paid by stamps or other
wise, as the Postmaster General shall direct.”
Tho law is very plain and easily understood,
and it is the law, though not a good one, we think-
Each handbill of whatever weight, not exceeding
three ounces, must be prepaid at the rate of two
cents, if weighing less than four ounces, four cents,
if weighing four and a half, or less than five
ounces, six cents, and so on.
Scarbityof Cottonin’ thkManufactiring Dis
tricts. —A letter from one of the largest munuTac*
turers in the East, received at St. Louis, gives the
stock of cotton in New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore, all told, at about 9,000 bales, with no j
stock of manufactured goods on hand, while the i
stock in Louisville, Cincinnati and Pittsburg is
nearly exhausted. The same letter jslales that the
best informed eastern merchants are of opinion
that in sixty days cotton will be worth twenty
cants a pound.
A correspondent of the Waynesboro r i&??<M, a
private in the Burke Sharp Shooter*, Writes from
Camp Semmes, Brunswick, July H : “A htrge .ship
is reported as lying about seven miles off* fbf* Lnr.
We aro in a helpless condition should aJie deter
mine upon our evacuation of this point. II they ,
attempt to land a for Cc, however, J/ey,,! J tUr pFu
tecting fire of a ship’s guns, t. l o- bIoCU of tii 2d
regiment will flow like water, and bear biting les.
timony to the patriotism and gallantry of old j
Georgia’s sons.”
Eleventh Regiment, G. V.-p The election of of
ficers for this regiment took place at Atlanta
Tuesday last, with the following result:
A. V, Brumby, Georgia Military Institute, Colo
nel.
W. S. Ramsay, of the Blackshear Guards, Lau
rens county, Lieut. Colonel,
Felix Price, of the Jeff. Davis jpfantry, Butts
county, Major* a
Election—Twelfth Regimenx.—We learn tha
Hon. Thus. W. Thomas was elected Colonel of
the Twelfth Regiment Georgia volunteers, which j
rendezvoused at Atlanta on Tuesday. Linton j
Stephens, Esq., wa3 elected Lieut. Colonel, and j
Wm. Mclntosh, Esq., Major.
A Timely and Important Discovery.— The Sa
vannah Republican of Monday says: “Friday
last, as a merchant of this city was examining the
contents of a bonded warehouse, he came across
several boxes marked B, that had
been lying there uncalled for since early in the
Spring. Upon further examination, they were
found to contain a half million of the first quality
percussion cap*, such as are used in the army.— j
Two other boxes, upon being opened, revealed a
large quantity of patent friction primers. These
articles have come to light in the very nick of
time, and we learn they will be taken possession
of and judiciously distributed by the military com
mandant of this post^_
Old Guns. —Gov. Brown has issued his proc
lamation offering #2 each for the “old military
gUDS, of one kind and another, scattered over the
State, which, by being collected up and altered
from flmt to percussion, or otherwise repaired if
necessary, could be made serviceable in the pres
ent crisis.” Parties having such will deliver
them to the clerks of the Superior Court of their
respective counties.
Colonel Lewis T. Wigfall, who has been acting
somewhat in the capacity of an aid to President
Davis, has accepted the command of a battalion
of Texans. They are not reftdy to take the field.
Maka Meat*
It ii getting timo to bpgia pvshtny ihe youtg
bogs. It is well known that, from virloui ceuiep s
there is but a small stock in Georgia t'f hcgi ©t
such age as are usually fattened for pork anft ba
con. ig there a full supply of young hogs.—
It becomes very important then to make the most
of What we have got. They should be fed to their
ull capacity, so far as the food at hand will admit,
,ls econ omically as possible. The run of tho
j a . ® e^9 with the grain vyaste* and the ex
i el,lcni b grass,have caused the hogs to shed their
j 0 ‘ i oA., and they are, as usual at this time of the
year, in a condition.
| It I? important then to keep them in this con
am to use judioiously all the means at
: command to force them a, rapidly as possible till
th* pea-fields arc open. The fruit, where there is
irun, as tanners w ell know, i? a valuable aid. But
I we would direct attention to another article of
! f ®'’ d * “'htch may soon (perhaps even now in some
piaevs,) he used to great advantage, but which if
uuu-ed al the, proper time wffl provo almost a
h*tal loss. We refer to green com stalls. We be
! liete that the fullest value of corn, as food for
hogs, may be gut by feeding ear, stalk and all,
when the grain is in milk ; but of course this can
not be done wholly, because the entire amount of
conn designed for hogs cannot bo used while in
this stage of its growth, and, if so, the period for
slaughtering would not , have arrived when the
green corn gives oat. But in tho old, long culti
vated portion of Georgia and Carolina there are
always in every corn field thousands of stalks on
which no grain, is produced, and which if allowed
to harden and dry up, viold absolutely nothing,
i except a little blade fodder, and that fodder can
just as well be saved when It becomes plain that
! no shoot will ever form, as to let it stand later.
Now all these u a fruitful corn-stalks may ju*t aa
well be saved iosf. Cut them up aud throw
them to tho nogs in their pens, vrheta.no cattle go,
as bogs only chew the stalk, and do not swallow
it. and cattle will eat the residuum, which is inju
rious to thorn. Sorghum (or sugar-millet) may
also be led thus to h )gs, when the seed ripen,
after saving the blades, and in fact this is perhaps
the best use, if not, the only profitable use, to
which sorghum can be applied. Tho seeds fed
raw and unground are not much service to
hogs, fqr beipg.se small they are swallowed rap
idly and without m sticatiou, end a?e not di
gested. If stripped off and thinly sprinkled on
the ground, hogs will masticate them, but a hun
gry hog will get little nourishment from the seed
when forced to strip them himself. The green corn
and sorghum thus used, together with crabgrass,
wili keep the hogs thriving till the early peas
come, aud these should be (und iu many cases
this year will be) the main reliance for fattening
pork.
It is about time too that every good farmer was
preparing to sow a large crop of turnips, which
are so t?asily grown., though they are not of very
great feeding value. They should be given to
sheep and cattle, and oq a piuoh, if boiled and
mixed with u good deal *of peas or meal are fine
for store hogs. An acre of fair sandy or light
hafd, deeply and thoroughly plowed several times,
aud finely pulverized, ip ay bo made to produce
fifteen, twenty or thirty tons of turnips, which
ought to be used on.the farm in such manner as
to be worth three >r four dollars a ton. After
thorough preparation of the land, open deep
trenches twenty-four, twenty -seven, or thirty
iuches apart, put in plenty of manure, not for
getting super-phosphate (a specific for turnips,)
sow the seed thinly, between the 2">t h of July mid
the 15th of August, the sooner the better, roll the
ridges, and then stir the ground freely, after thin
ing tlm plants, and keep down grass and weeds
for six or eight weeks. Bugas are the best tur
. nips for stock—after them tlm Norfolk and Globes
White Dutch, properly grown, me crisp, sweet
an:l nice for a few weeks, J.bftt soon rot at the
crown, and produce very little top.
And now*, after fattening your hogs, w fifth is done
! most economically before cold’ weather, tlm best
time to kill them in this latitude, in order to save
good bacon, is the first cold snap after the 20th of
November, und not later than the middle of De
cember. The first good rain after tlm middle of
November is usually followed by a cool (if not
cold) term of two or three days at leust, with a
j brisk West wind und a clear blue sky—and that
! is the time to kill your hogs, W'ell fattened on peas
| and a little corn fed towards the hat. It is best to
j kill twclvo hours before the wind shifts to the
| Northwest, und most good hid farmers, who hare
looked übout them and noticed the signs of the
j seasons, can predict this time with tolerable ac
j curacy. As for the moon, we don’t know what in
| fluence that has on pork or bacon, but we rather
I think that, well fatted pork will make good haco?t,
moon or no moon.
For the ChronicUi d’ Sentinel.
BrcicnEAD, Ga., July 16.
j Mn. Km tor ‘■ The complaints are loud aud fre
! que.nt here on account of the failure of your Daily
j to come to this office.
I Twice this week, Monday and Wednesday, the
j Chronicle d‘ Sentinel has failed to come to this
i office. You should let your subscribers know, if
possible,, when; the fault lies, for it is strange if
it is sent out every day from\vour office that it
fails to reach us ninety-live miles from Augusta,
on a direct line up the Georgia Railroad. I havo
known, for a long titnc, that great carelessness
existed by route agents, especially on this line ol
Railroad with small bundles destined for the lit
tle offices along the Kailrofid, which fs one reason
your daily subscribers are* so t<*w nt such place •.
If such a state of things continue to exist, von
will soon lose your fist -of subscribers at this
place. J have known pub seribers to come six or
eight miles to this place alter their paper, making
twelve or fifteen miles ride, and only to be disap
pointed, which has accured two out of three days
of tire present week.
Postmaster.
We publish the above to call attention of those
i with whom the fault iics. ‘Thor package for Buck
j head, (the Evening Edition,) our mailing clerk
informs us, is invariably put hp, along with other
packages, in a bag, which is delivered into the
i mail wagon in front of the Post-office nt about
j 2 o’clock each day. it is the duty of the Route
| Agent on the Georgia Railroad to open this bug
I on the train, uud to diittribute the packages, for
| tho different PoSt-officcs on his route, into their
j respective,.appropriate pouches, and then to hand
these out ut the several offices. Sometimes mis
haps and negl/cta will oedur, but they have no hap
pened often lately, wo nro glad to say, as respects
our paper. It h very annoying to subscribers to
getting their mail regularly, especially at
such a time as this, and it too bad to have to
I ride eix or eight* miles aud then fail to get the
news, from neglect or carelessness on the part of
any body. It is annoying too, to us, to know that
our ore not regularly served with
their papers, and no pains ahull he spared on our
part to prevent these failures. Hon. J. D. Ash
more, of S. C., lias recently been appointed Spe
cial Mail Ageat, and wc hope he will look sharp
everywhere.
High Shoals, Ga., July 15, 1861.
Editor Chronicle <j Sentinel: —l will tuke it as
quite a favor if you will inform me to whom or
ders should be addressed, in your city, for the
various articles of camp equipage. By publishing
a full list of such articles as are necessary for com
pany equipment, you will oblige the volunteers,
and especially your friend and subscriber,
Joseph J. Mußkp..
We have already published a list of such arti
cle as will be found necessary and convenient for
soldiers’ use, and will republish it us sotm as we
can lay our hands upon it. Cloth for tents, we
presume, may be obtained either of the Augusta
Factory or of Guo. Schley. Tents aro manufac
tured to order by Roar. A. Jones. Knapsacks,
Haversacks, Ac., by Jessup A Hutch, aud Geo. N.
Wyman. Cooking untensils tin ware, knives,
forks, spoons, canteens, Ac., by 8. 8. Jones A Cos.
and Buck master A Derry. Camp stools, chosts,
rots, camp furnitnre of all kinds, bunting fl gs
Ac., by C. A. Platt A Cos. Cartridge boxes, cap
boxes, scabbards, belts, Ac., Jessup A Hatch.—
Company ensigns and silk Hags, Fisk A McLacgh
m.v.
I Important Suggestion,-*- Blanket* for the Sol
diers.—There is a certainty that the supply of
! blankets in the Northern cities and town isex
i haunted, and that the woolen mills in the South
ern Confederacy will be unable to supply the
great demand of the ensuing twelve months. In
view of these facts, now is the time to be casting
about to furnish our brave volunteers with this
indispensable article when cold weather shall set
in. ltdw shall it be done? The Iredell fN. C.)
Express answers in this way :
Every family in the South, the wealthy espe
cially, have more or less blankets; let the*o be
appropriated by sale or donation for the soldier*,
aud sum ly themselves with comfort***, which car*
be made of cotton and any kind of thin material,
for which there is abundance of time till cold
weather. The “comforter” is an admirable cov
ering, nothing can be better, and the South sup
plies the very article of which to manufacture
them to any extent, and any little girl can put
them together, the cost being one-fourth that of
blankets. But the blanket is better suited for the
use of the soldier, because when wet is not so
heavy and can be dried much easier!
Let families in the South attend to this impor
tant matter in due time, for we know no other
motkod by which blanket* can be procured.
Tiik Eleventh’Acqcsta Volunteer Company.—
Augusta has done nobly thus far in furnishing
men and means for the war* and she is ready to
do still more in the same line. As an evidence,
we will mention, that anew companv has recent
ly been organized, entitled the “May Volunteers,”
so called in compliment to his Honor, Mayor R.
H. May. The Captain is Wm. L. Prior, well and
favorably known as Captain of our City Police—
an excellent officer and worthy man, who will
draw around him a band of soldiers devoted to
their leader and to the cause they espouse. Tha
following are the commissioned officers
Captain—Wm. L. Prior;
Ist Lieut.— James Moseley ;
2d 14 —James Thompson; *
The “May Volunteers” are promised a position
| in the regiment now forming by Col.
! of Habersham county, and will be furnished with
arms and equipments complete. About half of
the company is already made up, and more will
join to-night at the meeting in the drill-room,
over Fleming’s warehouse. The Mayor gener
ously extends his influence and liberal pecuniary
aid. In short, the prospects are in all respects
flattering for a fine compauy under Capt. Prior.
We wish the enterpise abundant success.
Hon. Thos. W. Thomas, in a letter to the South
ern Recorder, declines all part in the race for Gov
ernor. Having.helped to get up the strife forced
on us by the North, he feels it to b his duty to
do bis share in fighting it out. He has raised a
regiment and will for Virginia.
The Troy Advertiser learns that Harvey Clark,
of Pine Level, Montgomery county, Ala., was
killed on Friday, the sth instant, by Alexander
Urquhart. Clark was shot with a pistol in hit
own bouse.