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BY W. S. JONES. TERMS. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE SENTINEL IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, AT TWO DOLLARS PER ANTJIM, ALWAYS IS ADVANCE. HATES TO CU BS. HIX COPIES FOR TLV DOLLARS. The pa per will be sent to Clubs of SIX PERSONS, one year, for TEN DOLLARS. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. Kaln for Weekly AdvirtlMmrnU. Osoivakt AdrertiaemeoD, published once a i week, in Daily, or Weekly, trrtn and a half cerde i per line, for each insertion. Serr isL Noth as, <• ‘ e.r,'. per line for the first i insertion, and right ctnit per line for each subse- ; quent insertion. Dispuiran ADV*Kr!s*mcKTS, Itn cenls per line | for each insertion. “■ .ti,; ••,**, Drain.! and Fcsehai Notices, JlJty j eiUn each. Obituaries, Un. cent* per line. <.iiaii;;ea lu tlie l . S. Tartu—Direct Taxa tion The new tariff and direct taxation bill has : a ed both Houses of the Yankee Congress. Amo,, tin’ rat i ol duty, as given in the Wash* ington Sunday Chronicle, are the following : On raw ‘ uga'e, 2 cents per pound; on unrefined su ai'a, ii .'cents; r. fined sugars, 4 cents; clayed | and tii.(H ired rugars.it cents, molasses, 5 cents j per gal ion; tea., V, cents; aliuouds, 4 cents; shelled almonds, e cents; crude linricstone, If'; per ton; I rolled limestone, t 4; coffee, 4 cents per pound; I cocoa, •: c-*nts; cocoa berries and shells, 2 cents; ; chocolate, o cents; cassia, 1C cents; cassia buds, | 1., cenis; cinnamon, tfC cents; cyane pepper, and cell! ; cyan.: pepper, ground, X cents; cloves, S cents; currants, - cents; tartaric air-1 and Ko j chellc alts, Id ceutr;; dates, 2 cents; figs, b cents; I giug-r, root,cents; ginger, ground, cents; lico- I rice paste .ml j.m .-, .. nents; mace and nutmegs, i 2 > <; nis; nuiy, 2 cents; pepper, <! cents; pimento, I i. cents; plums, prunes and raismß, 5 cents; Hus* i sian hemp, *4O per ton. Manilla and other hemps, ! J-'d lß * d > lri P'g, il per cwt.; lead, in sheets, 2", per cwt white and red lead, |2 25 per I cwt.; salt, in sacks,lh.cents per cwt; salt, in bulk, j 1 - nen ‘.s; soda ash, % cent per pound; bicarbonate j of soda, 1 cent; sal soda, 1 ; cent per pound; soda, ! 1 cent; chloride of lime, ;!n cents per cwt.; crude saltpetre,! cent; refined saltpetre, 2 cents; turpen tine, In cents per gallon ; oil of clove., 70 cents | per pound; brandy, *1 per gallon; spirit* of j grain, bO cents per gallon: gum copal and similar j gums, in cents per pound. The loliewing articles arc also rated at so much per centum ad valorem: Arrowroot, go per cent; preserved ginger, .10 P®r cent , n met-., bananas and other tropica! fruits, 2U per cent: Peruvian hark, 15 per cent; quinine, 3J i>tr cent; rug*!, 10 per cent; feather*, 30 per cent; j hoi. , lo per ceut; hole leather, ho per cent; India rubber, raw, 10 per cent; ditto, manufactured, 3o per cent; vegetable and uniuuuufactured ivory, j l'i per cent; all wine*, 50 per cent; gum siik und i partly manufactured fellk, 30 per cent ; silk and partly velvet silk:., i per yard, or 35 percent; ! silk ribbons, Ac., 40 per tent. All importation* I beyond the Cape of Good Hope, 10 per cent. All goods in dtore, or in bonded warehouse, will he feubject to these duties if not withdrawn in three years, to be taken by the government and ! Hold. DIRECT tax. The bill also apportions a direct tax of $20,000,- 000 among the States. Mary laud is to furnish $436,423 33; District of Columbia, $40,437 33; Virginia, $038,550 66; Delaware, $74,383 33; Pennsylvania, $1,946,717 ■ ; Tennessee, s66l*,- s 408 ; North Carolina, $376,194 66 ; and South Carolina, $363,570 i6. The President will divide the country into col lection districts und uppoint collectors) und after the second Tuesday tu February, the Secretary of the Treasury shall establish regulations to govern the assessment and collection. Attempts to evade the act or commit fraud will he punished. The salaries of the assessors range, from $2 to $3 per day. In the event of the retinal to pay tlie taxes, the collectors shall collect by distraint and sale of the goods, chatties or effects ot the delinquent, as atortesaid, at public auction. This distraint does not include tools or luipleineuts of a trade or profession, beasts of the plow necessary for tlie cultivation ot improved land, arms, household furniture and necessary apparel. Any collector guilty of oppression, injustice or extortion, .shall he liable to a line of $2,000. Any persiM!** guilty of perjury shall be liable to a fine Os $-'.'OU All incomes over SBOO per annum ureAo be taxed 3 per cent, on the surplus over $800; when such income is derived from interest on treasury note*, the tax shall be 1 1 . z per cent. This tax goes into effect .Inti, 1, 1861. All taxes not paid June 30, 1862, shall draw interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum. Neglect, or refusal to pay this tax renders the offender liable to imprison ment uutii the tax is paid. Should any of the people be in actual rebellion at t o time the act goes into effect, the President shall cause its pro visions to bo executed witluu such limits when ever the government authority is re-established. All taxes thus collected shall bear interest. Th** act authorizes the appointment of a com missioner ot taxes in connection with the treasury department, vv o shall be appointed by the Presi dent on thvi recommendation ot the Secretary, and receive a salary of s3oou per annum, and shall! have a number of clei ks, whoso aggregate salaries do not exceed S6OOO. Special Dispatch to the Neva York Dost. Washington, Aug 5. —A dispatch from Rich mond states that Col. Corcoran told his captors i in that city fliat lie went into this business with i his whole soul, and he would not uccept a parole if it were ottered him. There is a great scarcity of ice here, caused by the danger ot navigation to vessels on the Poto mac. A bill wh.ch has passed both Houses provided ‘ for the punishment, with fine und imprisonment, j any one who enlists a person, white or black, to aid to rebellion, as well as those enlisted. Another bill debars slave owners from claim to the recovery of slaves who are employed to aid the rebellion. There was uUo a bill passed to pay all volun- j teers mustered luto service for one to three years, or fur the war, from that time, without waiting } until they teach the rendezvous. The Rebels got only fifteen canuou belonging | to the l uffed Stale* at the late battle. The Rebels were thrown into alarm a few nights ago, fearing an immediate attack oa Fu rtax | Court House. Strong parties of their cavalry are ! continually scouriug the country on this side ot j Fairfax. Beauregard has made preparations to reinforce j Fairfax. Centreville, and Vienna, when necessary. Baltimore, Aug. \ Maryland Legislature. The committee to which was referred the memori al of the Police Commissioners submitted u long report, saying that the course of the government was arbitrary and unconstitutional. The committee appeal to the whole people to take warning, a.id come to the rescue of free in stitutions. The resolution provides for sending copies thereof to the Senate and House of Representa lives, and to the Governors oi the several States, to be laid before their respective Legislatures. Tiik Fvcation or Hampton. —This movement j on the part of Butler’s forces seems to hare taken | the Northern journalists bv surprise, .fudging j from their own accounts, the place must have | been evacuated through fear of an attack from the Confederates, though (Jen. Magruder is doubtless fully aware of its purpose, and will govern himself accordingly. The Hessians, it appears, had been led to believe that there was about to be an advance movement ; but, after everything was ready for a start, they were in formed that toe troops would be withdrawn from the post. It appears, from a statement in the Philadelphia F.uquirer, that the troops became panic-stricken in consequence of an apprehension of a “ ttank movement of the enemy,” and made good time from llamptou to the Fortress. The writer proceeds : Tlfo panic which had aeuc.i upon the troops was quickly noticed by the blacks, throngs of whom bare been pouring into Hampton, and col lecting from all parts of the surrounding country. They believed that the rebel army was coming upon the village, aud that our soldiers were leav ing in anticipation of the attack. Their demon strations and expressions of alarm were of the most enthusiastic order imaginable. “ 7’ - ■- Fbri Ti’ .is fort ■’ 1 V ‘>•'•■■ r> .•■canin’ “—was the erv ihgt, like a wirlwind, filled the colored popu lation with terror, and passed from one to anoth er. until th*y grabbed their children, their chick ens, and thur bundles, and fled iu caravans to ward the garrison. It was not long before the little village just out side the Fortress seemed like one great auction room and the siretts were with difficulty kept passable. All the old buildings around were appro priated and before night the tide was reflected back toward Hampton, and while I write every little hut is almost completely tenanted with blacks. Friday evening, orders were issued by tsenerai Butler that, should Hampton be attacked during the night, our troops should render as formidable a resistance as possible; but if overpowered bv a superior force, they should lire the village and re treat. To this end, inflammables and kindlings aud explosives were kept ready lor the torch at a momeut's notice and scattered all through the Tillage. The absence during the uight, not ouly of at tack, but even ularm % from the enemy, probably preserved the Tillage from laving in ashes to d*v. Yhis morning, however, a column ot black, lu rid. smoke was seen from the fortress, and the re port soon came by telegraph that the village had been lired. Tb-S Akm\ Bill. —Congress continued, on Tues day, iu st-cret session the consideration of the bl‘ to increase the provisions for the public defenct as ihe -pecial order tor the d aT . It i s known that n the course ot the lengthened debate on this meat on* a considerable and ill timed division of opm ion bas been mauitested in t'ougress. and has en; barrassed its action The bill was reported favor ’ for an increase of our military force to the extern of ■UX-,000 men Beyond a difference of judgment as to the measure of the i nor else of force, we do not appreheud that any other leatures of the bti have been found objectionable. It does not pro vide for any levy of lorces, but merely authorizes the President to employ the militia, ic.inth. terms of the act of loth March, and to accept the service of auv uuuiber of volunteers not exceed ing 400 000. The act referred to limited the uun. ber of Volunteers to loo.ouu, which, besides th. authorization of the Pre,ideal to receive into th. service of the Government the forces in the scr vice of the Stales on the “sth of February, acc the general act of the cth ot May, “to raise at. additional militarv force.” constitutes about si; the support extended bv Congress to the txecu tire branch of the Government, which cow rnake a disin.ct demand to be adequately sustained bi the legislative departments. The issue of the and. bale in Congress will doubtless be favorable to th recommendations which have been made to it b\ the Executive.— RithmonJ El ami*cr, sfA. Scow’s GH>aarßx.—Od the large ap whiol Gen. Scoit is continually studying are many pcinta of merest, but the veteran's t liention is principally directed to Davis’ Straits. —.V. }'. Jlrmld, 17 th nit. Wonder ;f ibe old veteran didn’t find {Davis’ iXAtnd on the slat nit f—.V <uh. banner, • Cfjrflnirlc it Istnlincl. o [from tht LnvimHU Courier..] Southern Prisoner* at \ axliln^ton. To the attention of a friend at Washington we are indebted for the following complete list of Southern volunteers now prisoners at Washing ton. They have been made comfortable, as far as possible, by kind hearted ladies of Washing ton, who have done for them all thev were per mitted to by Gen. Mansfield. Their fare is hard bread and water night and morning, and salt junk or soup for dinner. Their friends are not allowed to see them. None of them are sick and wound- I ed : I Confederate Prisoners atWashinoton, Confined in the Old Capitol Bcilding. | Sixth Alabama Regiment—Sergeant T L Bates, residence Russel county, Ala.; T T Buck, John l! Cassey, Johu W Davis, residence Au(auga countv Ala.; .1 T Chambers, P G Allord, Wm Lofim.Heh : nr county, Ala.; John 11 Howard, W H Prince, K T Pool, ,J 0 Perkins, residence Russell county Ala.; all taken at Fairfax Statieu. ; Fifth Alabama Regiment—ltobt Paulding resi- I dence Uniontown ; taken near Springfield •’ D D Piquet, residence Tuscaloosa: J S Walker resi i dence Pickensvitle; taken near Spriuglield. ’ Fourth Alabama Regiment—Thus. Hudson resi dence Loi on low n ; taken a( Hull Hun. Kadfod’* W M Mallow, residence AllegbaDy | county, Ya.; taken at Flint Hill. J T Mays, resi i ?. e E c ?, liolet ? urt tounl J r , Va - i taker, at Flint Hill, h N Haycock, residence Fairfax couutv Va ta ken near Fall Church. G A TbonLs, residence District of Columbia; taken near Fail Church.— David Porter, residence District of Columbia • taken near Full Church. j Got. Guards-S S Green, residence Richmond, * a.; taken at Burk Station, j J'ifth \a. Regiment—Johu A Reynolds, residence Staunton, Va.; taken at Bull Run. First Virginia Regiment—W A Wilson, resi- I deuce Loudon county, Va.; taken at Bull Run.— | Claiborne Lang, residence Loudoun county, Va. - : taken at BulJ Run. Hamilton’s Legion Henry C Ferrell, about 15 j yearn old, residence Charleston, S. C.; taken at | Bull Ruu. Second S. C, Regiment—. James Silks, Abbeville | District, S. C. ; taken near Centreville. j Second Regenient, S. C.—Wm James, residence ! j Columbia; taken at Fairfax Court House. ■ Fourth Regiment, S. C.—R O Lewis, residence | j Anderson ; 1! Borna Maon, residence Greenville ; i taken at Hull Run. • Eighth Rgiment, Georgia.—Jno R Payne, resi dence Rome; Randolph (tray, residence Bibb county ; F Ward, residence Harris county ; taken ! at Bull Run. | Second Regiment, Mississippi.—W M T Tbomp | son, residence Pontotoc ; taken near Centreville ; Robert M Walker, residence Tipah county ; taken ; at Bull Run. ; Delta Rangers, New Orleans.—Thos Hays resi dence New Orleans, La.; taken at Bull Run. Nineteenth Regiment, Virginia.—Jas A Wing j field, residence Am hert county; taken near Cen treville. Second Regiment, Miss.—Lieut Col Ii B Boone, residence Tishomingo county ; taken at Bull Run. Twenty-Seventh Regiment, Virginia—Lieut. II II Durnott, resieence Aleghauy county ; taken at Bull Run. Fourth Regiment, S. C.—James M Me Fall, resi j dence Anderson ; taken at Bull Ruu. Eigth Regiment,Geo.—Geo Barker, W C Hum | phreys, T A Hammond, residence Atlanta; J T 0 I Calvin, residence Green county; taken at Bull Run. | Sixth North Carolina Regiment—Wesley Bur row, residence Randolph county; taken at Bull Run. | Louisiana Battalion—Wm Johnson; residence | Vicksburg, Miss.; taken at Bull Run. t Eighth Georgia Regiment—Jas Kershaw, Lewis Kieck, G II Gramlmg, residence Alanta, Ga; Alex T Holmes, .Sanford W Branch, Lewis L Eastman, r aidence Savannah, Ga.; W A Barron, I residence Rome, Ga.; Samuel Gavitt, residence I Atlanta, Ga.; taken at Bull Run. I Radford Regiment -Joseph E Lead bitter, resi dence, Hanover, Va. ; taken at Halifax Court House. Fourth South Carolina Regiment—Roger Pinck ney, residence, Pendleton, S. C.; taken at Bull’s Run. Eighth Virginia Itegimeut—T F Grayson, resi dence, Leesburg, Va.; taken at Bull’s Run. Sixth Alabama Regiment— A J Smith, residence, Russt.il county, Ala.; taken at Sangster Cross Roads. Eighth Georgia Regiment—Jesse O’Bryne, resi dence, Savannah, Ga.; taken at Bull’s Run. First Special Battalion Mticluiel Reef, resi dence, New Orleans; taken at Bull’s Run. A Ship Load op Arms for the Rebels—Tnp. Ship Safe at Havana.—The Providence (R. I.) Journal of the 20th ult.,has the following news : A great deal has been said of the ship Bamberg, for which our blockading squadron was looking out. She was supposed to have arms on board. It has been said that the Brooklyn ordered her away, when she ought to have captured her. This is a mistake. The Bamberg was fortunate enough to meet a vessel which had been ordered off just in time to escape, as will he seen by the following extract from a letter written by one of the pas sengers, an Irishman, named Janies B. Reilly, to his father, who resides here. Reilly is a machinist, and is now at work in Havana. We copy from his letter, dated July 1 : “We sailed from Liverpool on the 24th of April .in the ship Bamberg, of New Orleans. We had a splendid passage of 35 days till we got within 19 miles of the Balize, where the ship takes the tow boat and pilot to go up the river to New Orleans. We were runing before a 12 kuot breeze, when all of u sudden it became calm. Some English ves sels were coming out, and the Captain spoke one, and her captuin told him that the port was block aded and he could not get in. He did not try very hard, for he turned right round and made tracks for Havana That was on the 4th of June. W e got down to Havana all safe and well on June 13thi Between the Balize and Havana spoke a Southern prize schooner that the Northern men oj war had taken and was sending on to New \ ork. Our captain was in a terrible stew when Ihe found out what she was. He had reasons for | it, as I found out afterwards, for we had fifty thou sand stand of arms, muskets und revolvers, from ! Liverpool for the Southern army, and any amount of lead, and he is half owner in the vessel him sett. “He told us when he got in sight of Moro Castle, j coming into Havuna, that it was as good as $20,000 j in his pocket, for he wus afraid he would be ! caught by the cruisers iu the Gulf. When he got J his ship safe in the harbor, the passengers asked him woat they were going to do. He told them I that he would find the girls situations ashore un j til he could get his ship to New Orleans, and the | men could look for work tor themselves, as he could do nothing for them.” j The Capti ke or Ely.—The Montgomery Con. i federation has the following from a reliable j At half past three o’clock the stampede became i fearful, and the gloom among Wilson & Cos., was I awful. Th*v immediately jumped into their car j riages and nut tor Washington at a rapid rate. | The llou. Mr. Ely, with a friend, catching the | contagion, and believing the enemy to be near ut I hand, jumped into a buggy and pushed forward ’ to V\ ashington at a “double quick.” Three miles ■ from Centreville, the starting poiut, the buggy I broke down, and its contents were left a prey to our forces. Ely heard at this moment the “terri ble” tramping of the cavalry, and jumped behind a tree to secrete lnmself, while his friend put to j the woods and was seeu no more. Presently a horseman dashed ou, and seeing a man behind a j tree, loudly called out “Who vre you, sir *” “Mr. Ely,” answered the man immediately. “Well, who in the h—ll is Mr. Ely.” said the horseman. ••Mr. Ely, member of Congress from the Roches* j ter District, New York,” said the man. “The J h—ll you say ; say that over again old fellow,” ejaculated the horseman. “1 am, sir, the lion. Mr. Ely, the member of the Federal Congress from the Rochester District, New York,” said the man. “Well,” said the horseman. I’ll be d—d if l haven’t caught you at last ; 1 have been looking for you the whole” day. and its d—d strange that 1 havejust found you out.” So, pulling out his pistol I and pointing it right at the Federal Congressman’s head, he said : “Mr. Elv, put your foot in mv stirrup and get up behind me, I am going to take ; you to RichmomL’ Ely did as requested, and away went the Horseman to the quarters of Gen. Beauregard, and with a live Yankee Congressman behind him whom he captured. Focl Mcbdkr. —Mr. John Terry, a quiet and J wortbv citizen of PeKalb county, while in this citv oil Saturday evening last, was attacked, and killed iu a most brutal manner. Mr. Terry was I on Decatur street, and while attempting to mount 1 his mule, was accosted by a Mr. Wilson, and ! asked to cross over to where he ( Wilson) was. ‘ As Wilson had previously uttered some threats toward him, and was now accompanied by three of his sons, Mr. Terry loosened his stirrup-strap, and took that with him for his protection. I'pon approaching the group ho demanded of Wilson to snow, what he wanted. Without reply Wilson struck him a staggering blow with j bis fist, and before Mr. Terry could retaliate, one of the younger Wilsons struck him ou the side of the head, just above the ear, with a black junk bottle, aad felled him to the ground. This blow crushed in ape rtiou of the skull, and cracked the base of it nearly all the way round the head. One portion of the skull overlapped the other, and on raising it a deposit of arterial was found upon the brain. The physicians pronounced his case hope less, and on Sunday morning, at •_ o’clock, he died. The murderers have been arrested and confined.— Atlanta Commonceatth, s th. From Fortress Monroe.— The Cinciunati Ett ftiirtr publishes the following extract from a pri vate letter from Fortress Monroe, dated the -7th ult.: ” All the troops here and around this fort are ordered to Washington, to take the place of those regiments whose time is out. There are six com panies of regulars and one regiment of volunteers to stay here and defend the fort at all hazards. The greatest excitement has existed here for two or three days past.” * * * “I think there will be some trouble kround here at this fort be fore many days, as the rebels are within sight of the fort at one point, and have strong batteries erected there. They may attack us when they see all our regiments going away. Let them come; we will give them a warm reception. Besides, thev can never take this post; it is too strongly oriitied.” The letter does not say whether Gen. Bntler w;ll -:y at the fort or go to Washington. The Charleston Courier's correspondent at Richmond, under date of August id, says ; Orders came from Gen. Beauregard yesterday ■o the effect that no more passports were to be •ranted until further orders, consequently no mveler now can go North or South over the roads communicating with the army. This is ominous, and, connected with the news received Tom Washington of troops crossing the Potomac, cads us all to feel that any hour may bring us startling news. , - Some gentlemen arrived here vesterdav from Baltimore through Washington City. They said go questions were asked them nor scrutmv msti •uted as to who or what thev were until they reached the Confederate lines, when they were Drought up all standing, but they soon prov ed themselves to be V irginians and were suf ter*jlo P***- They say no tongue nor pen can do justice to the state of things in Vi ash iigton ; nothing can better describe it than to pronounce it a reign of terror. The soldiers art .'lren np to debauchery, and the people too much •ernned by them to’ remonstrate ; regiment*- wholly disorganized and officers killed ; the men acknowledge the authority of no one, and comma al manner of outrages and depredations: the Government dare not interfere lest their comrade> rise to protect them • thus leagued together il sin, they,rale the city. A large number of 32 pound cannon have been transported from thv Gosport Navv Yard, within the past few days, for important points, which it it imprudent to mention. r From the Sunday Delta.] Asa la Taken Prisoner, and Sees De*- p&tehe*. M ar is a big thing ; and I have a good right to say it. For haven’t I been in the war? Didn’t I fight, bleed, and have the narrative of my coat violently, ruthlessly, and murderously abbreviated by the sanguinary sword bayonet of a bloody i New A ork File Zouave ? Wasn’t I taken prisoner by the same Zouave, at Bull Run, and unceremo niously ushered into the presence of the McDow j ell ? War is a big thing, and I desire to stand to the assertion. . It matters not how Klubs and I chanced to be at the battle of Bull Run. We were there, on j business of my Uncle Davy—and that's sufficient. V\ bilst Klubs and I were seated in a tree, and ; indulging in loud nuzzabs of general glorification at the defeat of the Federalists and the triumph of our arms, we were suprised by the appearauce of j halt a dozen villainous looking Federal Zouave3, of i the “ pet lamb” style, who presented their pieces, and gave us choice of “ cooning it” down the tree, ] or having our descent to terra fitma accelerated ; j by the additional weight of three ounces of lead. , We conned H down ;ad it was then 1 lost the ! appendage to my coal, which the Zouave kept as a trophy. j Klubs was ferociously and cruelly separated j from me, and taken—l know not where. In utter ; defiance of all military rule, I, Asa Hartz, was ! forced to step 39 inches at each stride, for a dis ; tance of four miles, until, with my captors, I I reached the quarters of the puissant McDowell, i who backed the Federal troops in their attack and I led themfin their retreat. The McDowell asked me who I was. Told him I j j was Asa Hurtz. He dismissed my captors, and told j j me he would be compelled to send me on to Wash- ; f ingtou, as he had been instructed to secure me, j dead or alive, and at the hazard of his entire di- ! j vision. Jn view ot the vast importance of the j ! affair, I kmdlv advised him to rip ahead. | I was immediately sent to Washington, under a j ; gaard of fourteen Zouave9 and two bottles of j | brandy, and was ushered into the presence of Gen. \ I Scott, who happened to be taking the oath of al- j i legiance at the time. The old General was delighted to see me, (he is 1 a Son of Malta,) and immediately informed the ! Lincolns of my capture. They iost no time in j coining to Scott’s headquarters—Old Abe, Mrs. j L., and the veritable Bob, (al) Sons of Malta, i My status in the order gave me a passport direct j to their best feelings, and I was not only allowed ; to go at large, but was invited bv Gen. Scott to make his home mine. He also assured me that J the grand army would immediately march on i Manassas, and that I should be the first rebel, not iu the Confederate army, to hear of the defeat of j my countrymen. i “Bully ! >f said I. And old F. A F. was soft ! enough to think I didn’t know something. With j the pious ejaculation, “Oh ! my country !” he im mediately proceeded to take the oath of allegiance | again. I I left the General and took a stroll with Bob. | Bob talked freely about the national troubles, and i wound up by telliDg me he didn’t care acontinen j tal bow things went, so long as the old wo- I man had the run of the old man's rhino; and if j Jeff’l)axis wanted to take possession of* Washing | ton, all he asked was that the family be permitted to leak out before the Confederates got in. | Thus 1 was allowed to go where I pleased until I Sunday morning, the 2lst July, when I was sum ! moned to the presence of Gen. Scott. “Asa,” said he, wiih his foot in a bucket of ice ! water, “look at that dispatch, which I have just received from our brave Gen. McDowell. Don’t you think your Jeff Davis, (here a horrible pain seemed to strike the old man,) and your Beaure ! gard, and your Johnston had better simmer down? Do vou think they can stand befor6 our brave 60,- 000?” I didn’t have any better sense than to tell old F. AF. I thought they could. I read the dispatch, however, which was as follows: Just This Side of Stone Bridge, 8 a. m. To Gen. Scott—We are moving along, slowly and surely, taking masked batteries wherever wc can pick ’em up. We expect to reach Richmond— -160 miles—this afternoon, in time to adjo rn the Confederate Congress. Fifty members of the U. S. Congress are with me. fhey pleaded so hard for permission to see the rebels run, that I have concluded to let them enjoy that privilege (Signed) Irvin McDowell. Gen. Scott had just finished cursing Gen. Wool, and taking the oath of allegiance, when bis mes senger brought him the second dispatch, which was as follows': Just This Side Stone Bridge, 9 a. m. To G*n. Scott— Just took another masked bat tery and captured two wheel-barrows. On this capture I think a series of events will turn.— Scouts report to me that there is a large force of rebels just ahead. If this be true, you may tell that rebel, Asa Hartz, that he will have the scalp of his General, Beauregard, in Washington, at 9 o’clock to-morrow morning. (Signed) McDowell. Gen. Scott grinned audibly at this dispatch, and took the oath again. He had not finished before the following dispatches were received : Stone Bridge, 9% A. M. To Gen. Scott: —Tlie scout’s report is true ; we have opened fire with our cannon on the rebels. They have not returned it. I calculate they will surrender. If you have no objection I shall stip ulate the terms ot surrender.” (Signed) McDowell. P. S.—ln answer to my demand to surrender, Beauregard says .he will see me d—d (dead ) first. They have opened fire, too, and would you believe it, General, the rebels actually put balls in their guns—a proceeding on their part to which my men seriously object. (Signed) McDowell. Stone Bridge, A. M. To Gen. Scott: —A drummer belonging to the Confederate Zouaves has deserted to our side. He says the rebels have a force now against us of about 675,000 men. lie is quite an acquisition to our ranks. (Signed) McDowell. Gen. Scott pursed his lips and asked me if our Zouave drummers had any very general reputa tion for truth. I told him that not one of them had ever been known to tell a lie. Where did I suppose Davis could have mustered up 675,000 men ? I answered that over two million men in the Confederacy had offered their services to President Davis, &ho wouldn’t receive them, be cause they had offered to pay their own expenses, and only charge the Government 15 cents a scalp for every Federalist they killed. Scott drank some sherry and proceeded to take the oath again, when the messenger arrived with the following dispatch : Stone Bridge, 1 P. M. ‘To Gen. Scott —Senator Wilson is fixing up a big dinner at Centreville, to which I am invited with my staff’officers. lie has some twenty four baskets.of champagne on baud to wash down the savory viands. Shull I send you a “hasty plate of soup ?” Expecting to take breakfast and din ner in Richmond to-morrow, I have bad bills of fare for the meals priuted. The dishes are exclu sively French, and will be the best to be found in this rebel State. (Signed) McDowell. Gen, Scott shed tears when he came to that part of the dispatch which spoke of the dinner. But he stiffed his sobs, took the oath again and receiv ed the following: Stone Bridge 3 r. it. To Gen. Scott :—That Zouave drummer lias played us a mean trick. The scoundrel had orig inally deserted from our side. The Confederates wouldn’t have him, because he was filthy. As he had the seven years itch. they gave him eighty-five cents to come on our side again and give the dis ease to our soldiers. After mixing with my men, 1 and giving the itch to two whole regiments from Connecticut, he managed to pass our lines, and I escaped. Asa consequence of this, the regiments I above named have taken to the woods at full speed, and arc scratching and rubbing themselves I against the bushes as they run. Nor is this all.— I The itch has spread throughout my entire force, 1 and the army is becoming demoralized ; so much I sc that 1 should not be surprised if my entire force should be taking to the woods before night. ! T regret also to inform you that the rebels got j hungry und captured Senator Wilson’s dinner, | iust as he was about to sendjfor me to help him cat it. (Signed,) McDowell. “Orderly ! bring me another tub of ice water immediately !” thundered the old General, as he threw down the dispatch. “Bring me my oath, too !“ he added, and swore again to support the Federal Government. Bob Lincoln laughed all over. Another dispatch came in : Just Outside Alexandria, 7 p. m. To Gen. Scott; The enemy is running; but we are before them. My division is making splendhi time aud long tracks, with the prints of their heels towards the rebels. The Zouave drummer has raised the devil with us. 1 have got that infernal itch myself. McDowell. Words can not give au idea of Gen. Scott’s wrath as he manifested it on this oecasiou. Reor dered me from his quarters, and would doubtless have had me confined if Bob had not taken me away speedily. I am still in Washington, and although no one but Bob will talk to me, I can gather a good deal that's going on. Jeff. Davis is expected here | every moment. Lincoln has got Lowe's balloon all ready, with that Herring Patent Safe fastened to it. The tirst Confederate bayonet that shows itself in Alexandria will be the signal to cut the \ ropes aud Old Abe will swing off into space ; Mrs. i Lincoln has gone to Utah, arid Seward hasn’t been seen to-day. I am informed that some Confederate colporteur | got into the ranks of the Federal army and dis tributed amongst the soldiers tracts containing ; the Parable of the Prodigal Son. It must be so, ■ if I mav be allowed to judge by the number of Yankee soldiers who have suddenly discovered that they have fathers, and are willing to return ! to their homes. Asa llartz. The Excitement of Battle. —An officer of the Croller Guards, of Tennessee, who were with Col. ! Llzev’s Brigade in the gallant charge at the bat- j lie of Manassas, writes an interesting letter from j Fairfax Court House, of which the following is an extract : The distauce from the Junction to the point we j occupied in the battle was at least six m les, and ! old officers who were with us say that the same j time never was made by soldiers before. The ; dust was very deep m the road, and rendered it j a perfect impossibility to see the man before you, so that we had to be guided by the shouts of the front men alone. The enemy had iust raised their j shouts of victory, as our cannon began thunder- . ng on them. Our infantry opening a moment afterward decided the day ; for a few moments the enemy stood their ground, and attempted to rally , for another fight, but it was impossible, their men broke and fled iu the wildest confusioo. The day was won ! Victory perched upon our stan- ; dard. It wis a proud moment for the command- j ers. Beauregard came dashing np our lines to : Col. Elzey, complimenting him, remarked, Col. Elzey, are the Blucher of the day”—a mo- . ment after, President Davis came up, and Col. Elzey was made Brigadier General on the ground. You will hear many accounts of the carnage on that battle field, but the scene beggars all descrip tion. Around us and under out; feet were piles upon piles of the dead and dying, horse and rider, carriage and driver, all in a confused mass— wounded men pulling you by the pants begging for water. The wails of dying men were unneea ed, unnoticed by men who’but a day before could uot have looked upon a dead man without shud dering. I confess to having very weak nerves in this respect, and yet I could stumble over dying or dead men with almost perfect indifference, so much does the excitement of the battle field change for the time man’s nature. Troops Moving. —Capt. Dab gnion's cavalry, of j Baldwin count}, pas>ed through this city,* this morning, on its way from “ Big Shanty.” on a short visit to their homes, prior to their depar- j lure for Virginia, whither the brigade, lately stationed near Marietta, is also bound, by regi ments and battalions. Gen Phillips resigned his command of the brigade, to make it possible for President Davis to accept the troo >s for active service. Col. Semines’ regiment arrived in Rich mond last weelw , A part of of Col. Cantey, of Ala bama, passe J through this city, on Saturday last. GUizthy bth. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14. 186!. Address to the Army from Gens. Beau regard and Johnston. The following eloquent address of our Generals to the army under their command will excite the patriotic emotions of every Southern reader : lleakqu 'arters Army of the Potomac, ) Manassas, July 25,1861. ) ■ Soldiers of the Confederate State - : One week ago a countless host of men organ ized into an army, with all the appointments which mordern art and practiced skill could de vise, invaded the soil of Virginia. Their people sounded their approach with triumphant displays of the anticipated victory. Their Generals came : in almost royal state ; the great Ministers, Sena tors, and women came to witness the immolation | of our army, and the subjugation ot our people, and to celebrate the result with wild revelry. it is with the profounaest emotions of gratitude • to an over ruling God, whose hand is manifest in protecting our homes and our liberties, that we, vour Generals commanding, are enabled, in the name of our whole country, to thank you for that ’ patriotic courage, that heroic gallantry, that de | voted daring exhibited by you in the actions oi the 1 Sth and 21st, by wh cb the hosts of the ene ! ray were scattered, and a signal and glorious vie- j j tory obtained. The two affairs of the 18th and 21st were but j the sustained and continued effort of your patriot isrn against the constantly recurring columns of i an enemy, fully treble your number; and their j efforts were crowned on the evening of the 21st j with a Victory so complete that the invaders are ; driven disgracefully from the field, and made to ! ffy in disorderly rout back to their entrenchments, ! a distance of over thirty miles. ! They left upon the field nearly every piece of | their artillery, baggage, stores, Ac., and almost j every one of the wouuded aDd dead, amounting, i together with the prisoners, to many thousands. | And thus the Northern hosts were driven from ! Virginia. | Soldiers! we congratulate you on an event which I ensures the liberty of our country. We congrat ulate every man of you, whose glorious privilege it was to participate in this triumph of courage I and of truth—to fight in the battle of Manassas.— | Vou have created an epoch in the history oi Lib | erty, and unborn nations will rise up and call you “blessed.” i Continue this noble devotion, looking always to i the protection of a just God, and before time I grows much order, we will be‘bailed as the deliv ! ei trs of a nation of teu millions of people. ! Comrades! our brothers who have fallen have I earned undying renown upon earth, and their | blood shed in our holv cause is a precious and acceptable sacrifice to tlie Father of Truth and of Right. ‘iheir graves are beside the tomb of Washing ton ; their spirits have joined with his in eternal communion. We will hold fast to the soil in which the dust of Washington is thus mingled with the dust of our brothers. We will transmit this land free to our children, or we will fall into tlie fresh graves of our brothers-in-arms. We drop one tear on their laurels, and move torwqrd to avenge them. Soldiers! we congratulate you on a glorious, triumphant, and complete victory, and we tliauk you for doing your whole duty in the service of your country. (Signed) J. E. Johnston, General C. S. A. (Signed) G. T. Bead regard. General C. S. A. From the Richmond Dispatch. An Admirable Reply. We are indebted to a gallant officer of the army for the following correspondence, ensuing ou au underhanded and miserable attempt of Gen. Cam eron, U. S. Secretary of War, to obtain tlie body of his brother, and at the same time ignore the fact that it is a “belligerent nation” by whom the North has been defeated. Gen. Beauregard’s re ply is a model, and confirms our impression, in reading his letter accepting a sword from the New Orle ins ladies, that he can write as well as he can fight. What comprehensiveness, dignity und patriotism in the briet answer of this glorious hero and gentleman ! Evidently, here is the right man in the right place. He wields the sword of Washington and the pen of Hamilton : July 22, 1861. To G bn. Bka i p.e< ; a rd, Or Commanding Officer Confederate States : Sir : I send this by a friend and trusty servant, who is well known to many officers in your army, lie is sent for the purpose of obtaining from you a. permit for Mr. 11. S. McGrow and mvself to pass your lines to obtain the body of Col. Cameron, who fell in the action of yesterday. My solicitude in this matter is an impulse of private character. The rigid rules established iu Washington with reference to flags of truce prevent me from car rying out my wishes without proceeding as I am now doing. 1 believe General B. will recollect me while a resident in New Orleans ; but if President Davis, Gen. Lee, Gen. Johnston, Gen. Wigfall, Colonels Miles, Keitt, or Withers, are present, they will not hesitate to vouch for mp. General Bonham, and in fact, nearly all your officers, know me. in addition to the gratification of perform ing a sacred duty* I would be highly delighted to meet in your camp many of my most valued friends. It is proper for me to add that I have not been in any manner connected wjth the ac tion of the Government here, and that I am a neutral. Very respectfully, yours, Ac., (Signed) Arnold Harris. Please make the passport for A. Harris, 11. S. McGraw and two servants. I have not named my friend or servauts for prudential reasons, but either of the gentlemen above named can vouch for them. Headquarters Army of tug Potomac, \ Manassas Junction, July 23, 1861. j Sin : I am instructed by General Beauregard, commanding the First Corps, Army of the Poto mac, to say that he has received your note of the 22d, and to reply thereto. The General declii es giving an informal permit to.any one residing beyond his advanced lines for any purpose which may be accomplished by those formal proceedings known to, and practiced by, civilized belligerent nations. By no act of his will he lower the dignity ot the Confederate States as a nation by permitting that to be done indirectly which the usages of civilized warfare accomplish directly. The arbitrary and unusual course adopted in such cases as you refer to by the United States Government, will be the guide of the General’s conduct in return. Any one, therefore, coming within his lines without the proper flag will be sent under an escort to the Confederate Govern ment for examination. The General deems proper for me to add that humanity should teach any enemy to cave for its wounded, and Christianity to bury its dead. I am, sir, vour obedient servant, John L. Manning, Aid-de-Camp. To Arnold Harris. An Incident of tub Panic—How a Congressman was fixed.— There is au amusiug story of Con gressman Gurley, from the second Ohio district, going the rounds of the lough ler-loving circles of the otty. Gurley was one of the “fussy congress men” shat was “anxious to smell gunpowder,’, and who, if the story is true, (and it is abundant ly vouched for,) “had enough of it.” A promi nent citizen of Toledo tells that, being anxious to see a “rebel rout,” he hired a buggy in Washing ton, got a pass,and put for the battle field. When he arrived there he hitched his horse in a ravine near an eminence, where were collected some fifty or sixty congressmen and other civilians, lie had not been in position long before Dr. Mc- Millan, a surgeon of the Ohio troops, came and advised the spectators to leave, though unable to give any satisfactory reason for his advice. Very soon, however, the eyes of the civilians saw a sight that was uot iu the bills, and which inspired them with a sudden desire for leave taking. They saw, in the distance, men tumbling with great energy the contents of wagons into the road, and whipping the horses forward with great fury, while otliers were cutting the traces, mounting the horses aud putting Washington ward with all the speed they could command. But, worse than all, they beheld further back an immense body of cavalry, with drawn sabres, approaching, and which they knew were not Federal troops. Citizen Toledo put for the ravine after his bug gy, but could not tiud it, as it had been removed. When he came across it, he found it occupied by a Mr. Eggleston, or some other Cincinnatian, and he was soon in. He had to go up a small acclivi ty to get into the rood. When he reached it, who should be there but Congressman Gurley, who made a desperate grab at the reins near the bug gy, and succeded i*. clutching them. He then com menced a most piteous appeal to be allqwed to get in, and clung with such tenacity to his bold on the reins as to prevent the buggy’s progress.— Citizen Toledo, satisfied there was no time to take aboard passengers, hit Gurley a lick with his fist, and knocked him back some ten teet. Then com menced au indescribable scene of Indiau dancing and boobooiug on the part of the Congressman, who kept one eye on the approaching cavalry and the other on the retiring buggy. How he got away Toledo could not fell, but he had the pleas ure of meeting him the next morning in Washing ton, and apologizing for his apparent discourtesy. Gurley had resorted to shank’s mare, and made a successful retreat. Braver men than Gurley cut | worse figures that day thau did he, and we relate i the iuciueut uot as being discreditable to bim, | but simply as illustrative^of the profound and j universal panic that prevailed on the gfound.— | Cincinnati Enquirer. Postage on Letters of Soldiers and Members : of Congress —Cougress has passed, in secret ses | sion, the following bill, which will be of inter t ; to our readers: An act relating to the pre-payment of postage in certain case*. i Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate | States or America do enact : That all letters and other matter authorized by taw to be transmitted i through the mail, written” or sent by any officer, ; musician or private of the army engaged in the ; actual service of the Confederate State?, may be ? transmitted through the mails to any other place ! in the Confederate States without pre-payment of 1 postage ; but leaving such postage to be collected ■ upou the delivery of said letter or other matters, i 1 Provided, nevertheless, that in all such cases, the • • letters and other mail matter so sent shall be en : dorsed with the name, and shall be on account of j the individual sending the same, and shall con- , tain a description of the party who sends the same, by endorsement of bis military title, if an j officer, or of the company and regiment to which i he belongs, if a musician or private. Sec. 2. That letters aud other mail matter sent ; to anv officer, musician or private in the Confede rate States army, at any point from which the said officer, musician or private may have been lawfully removed, shall be forwarded to the per- 1 • son to whom directed, at the post-office nearest j which he may have been removed, free of addi- Inonal postage. Sec. 3. That on letters transmitted by a mem ber of Congress, with his official signature en dorsed on the same, pre-payment of postage shall ; not be required,but the same may be paid on the delivery of the letters thus transmitted. Sec. *4. Any person attempting to violate the | provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misde | meaner, and shall forfeit and pay the sum of twentr dollars, to recovered before any Justice of the Peace having cognizance thereof. The Firing of the Confederate Artillery.— j A correspondent ot the New York Tribune, (one of the 79th regiment. < describing the late battle, j remarks : First of all we observed what had been all day conceded—the deadly accuracy of the Confede rate artillerv. Scarce a shot tailed to bring down * its horse, man or gun-carriage. As one regiment —I think the Brooklyn 14th—was advancing to the charge, a shot from a rifled cannon brought down the flag, color guard and all. It was seized instantly by other bands, and borne rapidly on. Whenever ou~ men would lie down under the slope of a hill to screen them from the withering fire of the batteries, the gunners would get their range so accurately that balls and shells would come | skimming over the hill-side, not six inches from the ground, alighting in the holfow, amid a nest of crouching soldiers. Many and many a poor | fellow was killed while lying on his face or m a \ gully to avoid the.shot. Georgia Soldiers 9 Hospital Fond. To the Eihor of the Chronicle *£• Sentinel: The Hospital Fund Committee ask leave to ac knowledge the following contributions in money : By letter—Miss Butler, Richmond county.. $2 00 Master R. Carmichael, do 1 oo Master W. Carmichael, do 1 <X) Mr. J. T. Bothwell, do 10 00 Lewis J. Deupree, LexiDgton,Ga. 50 00 Also one box, containing white refined sugar rice, shirts, drawers, grits, crackers, barley, port wiue, domestic wine, tamarinds, tea, corn-starch gelatine, and pickles, from Mrs. A. Martin, Miss Martin, Mrs. Thomas Coskery, Summerville, Rich -1 mond county. One box from Mrs. John T. Carter, Augusta. One box lime juice and tamarinds. The Committee are pleased to recognize as aux : iliary the following committees: For Columbia county —Geo. Magruder, Robert J. Hardin, Dr. R. Casey, Judge N. Bailev. • For Lincoln countv—Henrv J. Lang, B. B. Moore : Dr. Wilkes. ! For Morgan county—Col. John B. Walker, 1 Stokes, Esq., C. C. Campbell and their asso ciates. j For Burke county—Judge Sbewmake, James Grubs, Esq., Hon. J. J. Jones and their asso ciates. ; For Baldwin county—Professor C. W. Lane, 11. M. Orme, Jr., and their associates. For Oglethorpe county—Lewis J. Deupree, Esq., F. J. Robinson, Esq., and their associates. * By order of the Commmittee: Henry Moore, Sec’v. Augusta, Aug. 7, 1861. To the Editor (Aron. & Sent. /—The Hospital Fund Committee ask leave to make the following acknowledgment: D. R. Adams, Esq.* for L. T. P. Harwell, Eaton tou, Ga., by letter, 6th July, $lO 00. Also to acknowledge the following letter : Lexington, Ga., Aug. 7, 1861. Henry Moore, Sec’y.- -Dear Sir: With but little effort on my part, I have obtained the subscrip tion below, to the Georgia Soldiers’ Hospital Fund. You can notify the Factors in Augusta and receive from them the subscription of each when the cot ton is sold. Yours, very truly, Ac., H. A. Hayes. Dr. W. W. Davenport, 1 bale cottou, Doughty. Beall A Cos. Mial Smith, 1 bale cotton. Doughty, Beall A Cos. C. 11. Smith, 1 bale cotton, Phinizy A Clayton. John A. Beil, 1 bale cotton, Phinizy A Clayton. L. G. Young, 1 bale cotton, Phinizy A Clayton. Dr. W. Willingham, 1 bale cotton, Phinizy A Clayton. Kev. J. U. Echols, 1 bale cotton, M. P. Stovall. E. W. Johnson, 1 bale cotton, M. P. Stovall. By order of the Committee. Henry Moore, Sec’y. Augusta, Aug. 8,1861. Incidents of Battle.— Speaking of a charge made by the Federal troops on a battery, tue correspondent of a Northern paper says : Numbers of our men went down as the hurri cane of iron swept by us, and it was with no little difficulty that we couid close up the line so as to charge effectively. Soon this terrible gulf was passed, and our men charged up the hill with renewed vigor. The Confederates waited until we appeared above tlie brow of the hill, and then poured such a volley upon us as decimited the regiment iu au instant. Scores of men fell for ward on their faces with a peculiar supiue motion, as a wave falls forward on a beach. Captain Brown beiug in advance, and seeing the Confeder ates running from their guns to the cover of the trees, rushed forward, waving hi sword, and shouted “ Now boys, rally.” Scarcely were the words from his lips when a rifle bullet pierced him through the neck ; at the same instant a can non bait entered his side, and he fell to the earth pinued as it were to the g-ouud. Some of his men tried to take his watch, by or der of the Lieutenants, but found it buried in his vitals. He died bravely and as he had wished, having often expressed the hope that he might never survive tlie defeat of his regiment. Capt. Thillinglaw was shot through both knees, and immediately after one of his men lifting him up— for lie was lying on his face—found him dead, with his beard dabbled with blood from a wound in the head. At this time the storm of battle re doubled, the regiment wavered, then fell back and retreated slowly, still firing at every step, having lost several of its best officers. A general retreat then commenced. Col. Cameron, who had succeeded in rallying the men twice, seemed paralyzed at this new re verse—the sword which he j>ad been waving tell’ frow his hand—lie stood a moment looking at the retreating mass, some of the men still obstinately firing, and on oue of his Lieutenants coming down from the battery to ask advice about the wouuded officers, he turned suddenly towards him, faced the battery, and the same instant a Minie ball pierced his breast, lie fell without a groau. Af ter his fall the rout became complete. Tiif, Congressional Run Picnic.—A Brit ish subject who came out as a spectator of the late battle, and whose identity having been estab lished, was permitted, a day or tw T o since, to re turn to the North, gives a graphic account of pro ceedings at Centreville pending the contest. An immense picnic party, embraciug most of the Black Republican big-wigs about Washington, had gone out to be at a convenient distance irom the battle field, and get the first intelligence of the victory. Among these doughty sons of Mars, lie mentions tlie redoubtable Senators Wilson, Trumbull, Chandler, Foster and Sum ner, and Congressmen Grow, Colfax, Ely, Blair, and other* ot more or less note. Large quan tities of eatables and drinkables had been wagoned out to refresh the worthies during their exciting vigils. The most of the afternoon had beeu spent in high festival, constant bulletins coming in announcing successive victories and numerous toasts were drank of “ Confusion to the rebels.” A lull of nearly an hour lasping without a dispatch from the battle field, the party became nervous for news, and got it in a few minutes from a boot bulletin, in the shape of a flying soldier, announcing at the top of his voice —They are com ing. The confusion and excitement of the Con gressional pic-nic party at this point can better be imagined than described. The scene is repre sented to have been indescribable. All sorts of, horses w’ere at once brought into requisition, and probably the most precipitate retreat ever chronicled was made by the Lincoln Congressmen ; and soon the meadows and roads were dotted with flying horsemen on the way to Washington. —Richmond Examiner. Delaware Heard From.—The following is from the Lewes (Del.) correspondence of the Philadel phia Inquirer, July 26th. We now have the reason why the Federal Congress made an ap propriation to arm the “loyal” citizens of Dela ware : The Seeessionists are very violent here just now. A number of excursionists from Dover, calling themselves the “Peace Party,” came ashore yesterday, headed by Mr. Kidgely, the Secretary of State. Early in the day Kidgely cheered lustily for Jeff. Davis, Beauregard &Cos., entreating oth ers of our citizens to fall in with his crew. They remained on shore all day, Kidgely, in the meantime, becoming beastly intoxicated. The citizens met and*quelled the traitors for a tinn, but last night, after being reinforced, they again assembled on the bank of the creek, and yelled like savages for the Confederate States. Gen. McClellan’s Work.— Since Gen. McClel lan's arrival m Washington, he has had a long conference and complete understanding with the President and Gen. Scott. He has made a thorough examination of the military positions, aud an in spection of the camps about Washington, lie has ordered the officers to stay in the camps and devote themselves to their duties, thus putting a stop to their loafing at hotels. He has stopped the sale of intoxicating liquors to the troops. He has ordered weekly brigade drills. He has or dered and commenced the construction of fortifi cations protect ng Washington from the region of the upper Potomac. He has urged the necessity ot a great increase in the force of artillery, and is organizing the artillerists and hurrying up the batteries. He has restored tbe confidence of the army in itself, and given the people assurauce that the great and good cause of the Government will be vindicated la the fiel a.—Cincinnati Com mercial. The Way to Raise hie Blockade. —G. B La mar, Esq., concludes a letter from Richmond about our victory, with the following very patri otic and truthful views: “I am sure if Congress will cut off all indirect means of Europe getting cotton ana tobacco from us, except by raising the blockade, and then offer free trade and no duties on goods, that the block ade will be raised by ranee and England by the Ist of October, or very soon thereafter. I hope they will levy a tax to the amount of 125,000,000, pay their troops promptly, and keep up our pro gress till winter, with its sufferings, compels our fanatical enemies to let us go in peace.” Never Give Up.—The Raleigh Standard says : We have heard it remarked, that Gen. Beaure gard, ou the battle field at Manassas, called a council of officers, in which it was resolved, that they would not, under any circumstances, surren der or give up the field. Whether true or not, it is like our stubborn Southerners. The North may as well understand us, that the South’ will never give up. Our very women will go to the battle field if need foe, before the South shall be con quered. The Confederate Prisoners. —The Cincinnati Commercial says : In order to explain a point concerning which the public do not seem to have correct informa tion, we remark that the Government will not recognize the Southern Confederacy by exchang ing prisoners; but will release all —excepting-hose who have been officers in the United States Army and Navy—who will give parole not to bear arms against the United States, and who will not give information to the enemy. Smoking for Effect. —The following is an ex tract from a letter written by a U. S. officer who was in the battle of Bull’s Run : I did one thing for effect during the heavy fire, j ! which had the best influence on the men, when 1 i tried them by giving them orders, and that was : the little trick of quietly smokiDg a cigar. While the men were falling around me I must confess my coolness was rather forced, but it had the de sired effect on the aien, and I was satisfied. Spare the Lambs.— ln making the following ex , cellent suggestion, the Raleigh Register has no j reference to Ellsworth’s “Pets :” gfcAs the South will need every pound of wool it j can get, we respectfully suggest to our country friends not to kill their iambs, nor dispose of them j to butchers. We can all get along very well with other meats. Wool we must have. A Good Haul.— Col. Claiborne’s Regiment of : Arkansas, made a profitable haul from tbe enemy | in Missouri, a few days since. Learning that a j : Lincolnite named Rive’s, who had been intercept- j ’ ing arms and munitions designed for the patriots j was in Missouri, about 35 miles from camp, with i his ill gotten zains, Col. C. selected about 150 men i and left for Rives’ rendezvous, which he reached : in a few hours. He succeeded in taking 6 prison ers, after putting to flight 500 of the enemy ; and , captured 00 mules, a lot of choice beef cattle, a large flock of sheep, a lot of ammunition, a num- Iber of wagons, Ac. A Prize Bark Fired bt the Enemy.—A bark bound from India for Boston, and captured by a . Confederate privateer, was run ashore on the : coast of Florida some days ago by the prize crew. | The crew went ashore in small boats, after which the bark was boarded by a large number of men from a blockading vessel in the distance and set on tire. Her cargo consisted of wool, furs and medicines, valued at $75 t o*jQ. — Sack. Eepub. The rear of McDowell’s army fled without ffc*in 2 a gun, or meeting an enemy. The front fouglft bravely. Reverse flanks, tbe Yankees in front and the Irish in the rear, and divil the bit will one of them escape! The Emerald boya would hold them to their post. Cannot be Relied upon.— The Washington cor respondent of the Philadelphia Ledger saya: There are military men of European experience :n war, who say that those who have been part and parcel of the rout from Bull Run, cannot be j relied upon hereafter for offensive operation. List of Wounded tu General Hospital, Charlottesville, Va. The following is a reliable list of the wounded in the Seventh and Eighth Georgia and the Fourth Alabama Regiments, aow iu the general Hospital in Charlotteville, Va. We copy from the Rich mond Dispatch : SEVENTH GEORGIA. Collins, 11. S, 7th Georgia, 1 thigh broken, verv severe. Adcock, J. N. 7th Georgia, C—in shoulder, uot severe Curbon. L. J. 7th Georgia, I—hand not severe. Duke, Thos. F. Ist Serg’t, 7th Georgia, E—leg, severe. Mayes, S. F. 3d Sergt., 7th Georgia, I)—head, slight. Meek, J*. C. 7tb Georgia, D—thigh, severe. Muline, Thos. J. 7th Georgia, A—groin, severe. Patillo, Thos. C. 7th Georgia, I)—calf, sight. Parks, Bird 7th Georgia, J—face, very severe. Scott, J. N. 7th Georgia, I)—knee, severe. Sharp, W. 8. 7th Georgia, A—leg, not very bad. EIGHTH GEORGIA. Baily, Johu W. Sth Ga., ll—tip, not severe. Bearden, W. M., Sth Ga., C -arm, flesh wound. Berry, J. M, Sth Ga., H—hand, severe. Brooks, J. K., Bth Ga , company K—upper part of calf of right leg, musket ball. Carolan, Jas. E., Sth Ga., B—thigh, severe. Davis, E W., Bth Ga., B—shoulder, slight. Bobbs, G., Bih Ga., I—thigh, flesh wound. Duunev, , Sth Ga. —head, died shortly after admission. Estili, T. H., Sth Ga., B—arm broken. Floyd, Jas. E., Sth Ga., E—shoulder, severe. Funderhook, Juo. L., Bth Ga., E—thigh, severe. Girardeau, Chas. G., Sth Ga., B—face, severe. Guess, E. W., Bth Ga., F —thigh, severe. Goff, T. M., Sth Ga., C—shoulder. Howell, Jno. C., Sth Ga., G—leg. Hurt, F. A., Sth Ga., K—foot. King, W. A., Sth Ga., E.—lost arm, severe. Lester, B. F., Stli Ga., company K—forearm fractured. Lang, Frank, Sth Ga., B—thigh, not severe. Lewis, J. T. Bth Georgia, I—head. Lippman, Lewis Sth Georgia, B—both legs, se vere. Langton, L. C. Sth Georgia, K —left thigh, through hamstring. Luusford, H. E. sth Georgia, K —left leg, frac ture of tibia. Lilley, John Y. 11th Mississippi, A—spine, very severe. Martin, E. T. Sth Georgia, company K—front, of right leg and right foot. .McClelland, A. D. Sth Georgia, G—shoulder, severe. McLeod, Sth Georgia, C—head, severe. Peter U. J. Sth Georgia, C—thigh, severe. Ramsay, J. lv. Sth Georgia, company K—left thigh, uot very severe. Saunders, Marion Sth Georgia,G— hip, slight. Tinsley, Addison Bth Georgia, B—both arms, not. severe. Ware, W. W. Bth Georgia, E—thigh, not very bad. Wood, J. B. W. Sth Georgia, H—knee, not se vere. Woods, W. D. Sth Georgia, C shoulder, not. severe. FOURTH ALABAMA. Bowers, C. C. 4th Alabama, A—arm. Boyd, W. J. 4th Alabama, C—wounded slight. Brooke, W. W. Bth Alabama, F—thigh fract’d. Cosby, J. S.4th Alabama, G—thigh, uot severe. Crowe, J. li. 4th Alabama, G—arm fractured. Culver, T. M. 4th Alabama, K—arm, slight. Daniel, Jno. 4th Alabama, C —head. Daniel, L. A. -ith Alabama, C—mouth. Dubbcrley, Homy, 4th Ala. B—chin, severe. Hanson, tVm. 4th Ala, C—arm. Harreld, D. F. M. D, 4th Ala—slight. Hendricks. J. P. 4th -41a. H—foot, slight. * Johnson, W. 1). 4th Ala, G—side, slight. Lork, 4th Alabama, D—coulusiou. Montgomery, J. 11. 4th Alabama, D- -ankle not severe. Moss, Wm. 4th Alabama, II lost leg, very se vere. Motter, (M. D.) 4th Alabama, C—slight. Newsome Jasper, Ith Alabama, A—back, not severe. Padgett Wesley, Stli Georgia, company II foot, slight. Derry Owen, 4th Alabama, E—leg severe. Richardson, H. G. 4th Alabama, H— shoulder, severe. Robbins, Lieut. 4th Alabama—leg, sight. Scott, W. M. 4th Alabama, ll—arm broke, not severe. Segrist, J. W. 4th Alabama, B—internal hurt, uot severe. Smith, 4th Alabama, D—foot. Stevens, G. S. 4th Alabama, G—hip, not severe. Tarver, B. 4tb Alabama, C—thigh. Thomas, W. F. Corp’l 4th Alabama, E—calf, mortification, died July 30. Taylor, 4th Alabama, C—knee. Towry, Isaac 4th Alabama, ll—hip, uot severe, Vinegard, T. B. 4th Alabama, lv—thigh. Waltz, L. B. 4th Alabama, company ll—hand, not severe. Weaver, G. S. 4th Alabama, H—thigh, severe Weems, Cb. S. 4th Alabama, H—lost left arm also wouuded in right knee, very severe. Winn, W. H. 4th Alabama, B—leg, severe. Whitten, G W. 4th Alabama, ll—thigh not se vere. Williams, Thos. A. 4th Alabama, K leg brokeu, very severe. Williamson, J. H. 4th Alabama, K—hand. [Correspondence of the New York Times. J Washington, July 30.—1 am afraid that the good people of New York are doing quite as much to demoralize our troops as did the battle of Bull Run. Idolizing runaways, makiog heroes of cowards, is not the way to grow true patriots and real heroes. The ovation to some of the re turning troops looks at this distance like a mock ery of valor. For instance; I read in Saturday’s Times the following, relating to the reception of the Eighth Regiment New York State Militia, on their arrival at New York : “Capt. Varian, with his troop of bronzed and hardy looking artillerists, were also on the pier, with their two guide colors, torn almost to shreds by the enemy’s balls during the late engagement.” And, again, I read of “Capt. Varian’s artillery corps, which was in the fight.” Now look at the facts. On the Saturday pre ceding the battle of Bull Run, Capt. Varian and his artillerists demanded their discharge—their time having expired. Gen. McDowell said all that a commander on the eve of a battle could say, to induce them to remain, but without producing any effect. That day Secretary Cameron visited the camp, and the subject being referred to him, partly by coaxing, and pa;fly by truly represent ing the inglorious actiou which they contempla ted, the artillerists were induced to notify Gen. McDowell that “with the exception of seventeen, the company would stay with the division, until the time of the regiment expired, on the 25th.”— Alter Secretary Cameron returned to Washing iugtou, however, the company took a sober second thought, and late on Saturday evening again de manded their discharge from Gen. McDowed. Os course, it had to be grunted ; and in addition to his other duties, the commander had to provide for mustering them out of the service and send ing them to the rear They wanted to take their batteries with tbeqi,. but this Gen. McDowell refused—fearing the effect to be produced upon the moving column, at see ing a park of artillery withdrawing to the rear as the infantry marched to the front. This artillery lay idle all day at Centreville, and was brought off by the rear guard on -Monday morning—brought off by stranger hands from another State, and without even having tired 000" projectile. If the two guide colors are “torn almost to shreds,” their artillerists must have halted ou their march to the war and made their own colors a target, popping them with the pistols they had never yet fired at a foe. This statement of facts comes from an au thentic source, and is literally true. Those Handcuffs. —The Fredericksburg Re corder has received the following. It is dated “State of Maine, Headquarters Adj’t General’s Office, June 20, 1661 : Col. Duenell —My Dear Sir: Herewith you have an announcement to Ijrady, that he will not be commissioned. My course would be to take measures to have his full company present, para ded, without arms, and have the letter read to him and the c jmpanv by the Adjutant. Have previously sufficient and reiiab’e guard, with loaded inus&ts, and if any demonstrations of de sertion are made, shoot then! as you would pid geons. Don’t wink at any escapes of the objec tionable men—they must be got rid of in differ ent manner. Inasmuch as you will not receive your ball car tridges until to-morrow, perhaps you had better uot acquaint any one with this result respecting Brady, until Saturday, and then it is not to be done in a corner. Don’t adopt any course that implies fear or requires temporizing. A portion of Brady’s company had better be put into other companies, and the balance, with Atwood’s con tingent other requisite acquisitions, will make a good company. You wifi require several dozen bardenffs, for prisoners taken in battle, if not your own folks, and you had better procure them now. Yours, in haste, John L. Uodsden, Adjutant General. Attack; at Acquia Cheek.—The Baltimore Sun of Saturday publishes the following account of an 1 eye witness of the attack on the Confederate bat j | tery on Potomac creek, on Wednesday last. Po- j | tomac creek is a small inlet about two miles be low Acquia creek : The steamer Live Yankee, commanded by Cap tain Craven, and a steam-tug, were seen to enter the creek and fire a gun, when the Confederates on shore immediately opened a battery and caused the steamers to put out in great haste, at the same time blowing their steam whistles, for some sig nal, it is likely. The guns from shore were fired with great ability and precision ; and it was not until the steamers were well over on the Maryland side that they got beyond their range. Doubtless some of the balls took effect, as many were seen j to Ay very near and beyond the boats. There is believed to be a large number of troops in the vicinity of Potomac and Acquia creeks, judging trom the number of tents to be seen, and the con stant firing of musketry on Monday, while the troops probably engaged in a sham battle. A Kentcceun’s Opinion.— The following is 1 an extract from a letter, dated Louisville, July ; 27 th : Ex Gov. Morehead, speaking of the late triumph j in irginia, in conversation with my son this ! morning, said: “This battle is decisive of the J question between the North and the South—that j the seceded States cannot be subjugated, and that j the present dynasty in Washington is hopelessly j and forever ruined.” You doubtless know that : Ex-Gov. Morehead is one of the most intelligent and respected men in this State, and. I may add, i ; most popular. Black Republican Intrigues Against the Cabi- j 1 net. —We find in the Northern papers all sorts o! j rumors and plans to change the Cabinet. The f New \ ork Times carefully garners up everything to damage. One correspondent opens upon Chase, j the Secretary of the Treasury, in the matter of procuring the engraving and printing for the new issues of Treasury notes. Another writer pitches : into Cameron’s contracts for cannon, ambulances, j -nd other heavy articles. There are signs of growing discontent among the leading Black Re j publicans. The stock market is heavy aDd prices are gen erally lower, with an increased disposition on the part of holders to realize. j The closing prices at the First Board to-day compared with the latest previous sales, show the i following changes : Advanced. Declined, i Virginia 6’s % U. S. 6’s of ’Bl, reg.... 1% ; Georgia 6’s 1 U. S. s’s, of ’74, coup.. X i SECOND BOARD. 2000 United States 6’s'6l coupon 86^ 7000 United States 6’s’66 coupon 88% 00*30 United States s’s ‘74 coupon 70 0000 Tres. 6 per cent, two years 96^ \N. Y. Jour. Commerce, <&gt. Georgia Regulars.— Company D, of the Geor- Igia Regulars, Capt. Read, left yesterday afternoon for an important point upon the coast.— Savh. Neict, St A. From the Richmond Examiner , Sth. Account* of the Yankee Army In Waali iuglon—Their Outrage*—-Tlie I*lu nu*sa* Panic. VVe have had a very full conversation with a reliable citizen of Virginia, one of Mayor Berrett’s police-officers in Washington, who lately escaped from there into our lines iu Virginia, through imminent peiA. We have reason to be entirely assured of th™eliability of this information. Our informant has a “family in Fairfax county, and has a personal knowledge of the outrages committed by the Lincoln troops in the country along the Potomac within their lines previous to the fight at Manassas. These outrages are so dreadful and fiendish as almost to exceed belief but tor the attestation of evidence that we have every reason to know to be reliable. The Lin colu forces, in their advances towards Manassas, obtained as guides a number of Quakers living in the neighborhood of Accotinc Mills, about eight miles from Alexandria. One of these, a man of the name of Stiles, a New Jersey Quaker, for the sum of three dollars a day, was engaged to pilot companies of pillagers to every house where plun der might be obtained. The house of his own wife’s grandfather was pillaged among the rest. There was no place within the reach of the Yan kee scouts but what wus plundered and robbed. A Mr. Haley was robbed of all his stock and nine slaves, a few of the latter, negro children, who were inconvenient to be run off’, having been left by the marauders. A Yankee settler, near Alexandria, by the name of Gorton, piloted six of 1 the New York Fire Zouaves to the house of one | ot the most respectable married ladies in Fairfax ! county. She was made to prepare dinner for the party ; and, after that had been dispatched, the poor woman, who was within one month of her confinement, was violated by two of the ruffians, in the dining room, and in the presence of her own children. The wretched victim of this hell ish deed was taken care of by the family of our informant, to whose house she managed to es cape during the night. Houses were stripped of everything—fine paintings, wearing apparel, Ac. ; and, for weeks before the Manassas fight, it was a common occurrence for the plunder to be trans ported back to Washington city, and divided among the houses of ill-fame there. In many of the brothels of Washington, the finest silk dress es, pillaged from families in Virginia, were dis played by their vile wearers as gifts from the plunderers. Our informant was in the city of Washington at the time the news arrived there of the rout of the Yankee army at Manassas. The first public inti* mation of the event was early Monday morning, as the fugitives commenced to arrive in the city. During Sunday evening, it had been supposed in the streets that the Federal Army had won a de cisive and brilliant victory. Tbe elation was ex treme. At each echo of the peals of the cannon, rneu were seen on the street leaping up and ex claiming—“ There goes another hundred of the d—d rebels.” On the Saturday preceding, u whole procession of carriages had passed over the Long Bridge, freighted with politicians and wo men, who reported that they were going on a “flag-raising’’ expedition to Manassas. Some of them protested that they must take leave of “the Grand Army” at Manassas before it proceeded onward to Richmond. On asking our informant of the scenes he wit nessed on the Mouday and succeeding days when the news of the Yankee rout reached Washington he could only reply that it was “a page lost to history,” as no language could describe them. The first intimation he had of the Yankee disaster was about three and a half o’clock in tbe morn ing, when be was awakeued by tbe lumbering of Cl. Meigs’ carriage in the neighborhood of his house aud tbe exclamations of the Irish driver, that “they were all murthered besides himself.” As the morning advanced the fugitives commenced pouring in. One of the boats from Alexandria came near being sunk by Hie rush of the panic stricken soldiers upon its decks. Their panic did not stop with their arrival at Washington. They rushed to the depot to continue their flight from Washington. The Government was compelled to put it under a strong guard to keep off the fugi tives who struggled to get on the Northern trams. Others lied wildly into the country. Not a few escaped in this manner, compelling the negroes they met to exchange their clothes with them for their uniforms. For four or five days, the wild and terror stricken excitement prevailed. The advance of the Confederate army on Washington was for a considerable time, hour ly expected. Our informant is certain in his own mind that the appearance of a single Confederate Regiment on Hie hanks of the Potomac, during the continuation of the Yankee panic, would have scattered the entire forces in Washington in flight. Many of the fugitives, with garments nearly torn from them and covered with the blood of their wounds, thronged the streets with mutinous de monstrations. Some clamored to kill Gen. Scott, others wanted to be led against Greeley, and oth ers inquired if they had come to fight for “ the Government property,” as they hud been told, to have it explained what property it had in “ Bull Run.” Some recounted to horror-stricken audiences the bloody process ot the Confederate troops. Oue told of a cannon that shot missiles resem bling in size sticks of wood. Another told of ter rible Mississippi Bowie-knives thrown with las soes sixty feet long. Later the field of battle maguitied the horror. Every con ceivable Sepoyism and bloody atrocity was told of “the rebels,” and found trembling listeners. It was said that our troops had burnt the Y ankee hospitals and roasted their wounded alive ; that the mysterious Mississippi Bowie-knives were be ing employed iu target practice upon the Yankees who were hound for the spot ; and that torn and disjected limbs of the dead had been nailed upon the brunches of trees. When our informant left Washington a week ago, the excitement bad abated, but not subsided. Two pieces only of Sherman’s battery had reached Washington, tbe others having been captured ; and two pieces also of the Rhode Islund battery had been recovered, with which the Government had patched up the only batterv it has in Wash ington. The amount of Federal forces in Wash ington and in the neighbourhood of Alexandria was put down at 35,000 to 40,000 men. Nine Regi merits had left Washington at the time of our informant’s departure from there. Four Regi ments had arrived from. Hampton and four of the Pennsylvania reserve, which constituted all the reinforcements that had reached Washington eight days ago. Our prisoners are confined in the old Capitol building—an old brick house on First street, east. They are guarded by a detachment of the New York 12tli Regiment. The building had been ar ranged for the confinement of prisoners previous to the fight at Mauassau, and provisons made forthe accommodation of at leaet 1200. We are assured that there are not more than nineteen Confede rate prisoners iu custody at Washington. Most of them belong to one of the Alabama regiments. There w’ould seem to he some Secessionist ladies left in Washington, circumstance of a large basket of boquets having been sent our pris oners. Gen. Scott was not on the field at Manassas. He is represented as being in the last stage of valetu dinarianism, and to have not made any exhibition of his activity on horseback three times in three months. The Last Freak of the Rump Congress.—The embarrassment of the Lincoln congress is amply evidenced by its fretful and agonizing legislative contortions. Every enactment it passes, and every move it makes, advances the cause of the South, and strikes a deadly blow at its own declin ing fortunes. The recent confiscation bill passed by the senate, with the amendment of the house, on the sth lost., is a case in question. Chase first made the sug gestion iu his report on financial matters, where he maintained with specious reasoning—to use his own words—that “the property of those engaged in insurrection, or in giving aid and comfort to tbejinsurgents, may properly be made to contribute to ihe expenditures marie necofsary by their crimi nal misconduct, as a part of the punishment due to the guilt of involving the nation in the calami ties of civil war, and thereby bringing distress upon so many iunocent persons.” “Congress,” he added, “may justly provide for the forfeiture of the whole or p rt of the estate of the offenders and for the paymeut of its proceeds into the pub lic treasury.’’ * And such is the nature of the programme which the Yankee Congress has followed, in its registry of Mr. Chase’s decree. In consideration of this enactment upon the part 1 of the enemy, self preservation requires that we should retaliate with one of a similar character, i for there is no safer rule of political conduct in I warfare than the Itx tahoois. A move, we believe, j has already beeu made in the Confederate -Con- j gress, now in session at Richmond, to meet the exigencies of the case, but as yet we have seen no definite action reported. Should a law be speedi ly passed confiscating the vast amount of proper ty in the Confederate States owned by Northern men, it would he but a fair set-off to the above act of the Rump Consress. While under other cir cumstances the adoption of this rigid policy might he questionable, no alternative is now left us but to “ fight the devil with fire.” [Memphis Appeal . 7th . A Flag of Truce from General Johnston- General Beauregard Nearly Caught. —A dis patch dated Washington, August, 2d, says : This evening, at eight o’clock, a flag of truce from Gen. Johnston came within our lines at Bailey’s Cross bearing dispatches from Johnston (borne by Lieut. Hanger, of the Sixth 1 Georgia Regiment,) addressed to Gen. McDowell, j The flag bearer waa at once conducted to the tent ! of Acting Brigadier General McGann, who caused the packages borne to be sent to Gen. McDowell, keeping the bearer and his attendants in his camp. Last might (Jen. McDowell sent duplicates of the dispatches in question to Gen. McClellan, and this morning they were duly laid before the Presi dent. Their contents, of which we know nothing, are, however, said and believed to be of impor tance. On yesterday General Beauregard was recon noitering, in person, within three or four miles of the Chain Bridge, and had left a party of ten or fifteen of his troops scouting there, but ten min utes before the latter were all made prisoners by Capt. Motto, of New York, and a Union company that went out for the purpose of capturing them. : The distance was about six miles from V\ ashing- ton. , , . Tbe statement that Gen. Banks has been rein forced by double the number of three months men who have left him is without foundation. According to an officer, who left him yesterday, the whole force is only from 10,000 to 12,000. # Gen. Robert Anderson visited the Secretary of War to-day. Privateersmen and Prisoners of War.—The New York Tima comments as follows upon the letter from President Davis to Abraham Lincoln, relative to the fate of our privateersmen now in the hands of the enemy : Davis, unfortunately, has it in his power to make this threat effective. He has in his hands a very large number of our prisoners, and will un questionably retaliate upon them whatever treat ment we may extend to these privateers. Presi dent Lincoln, in his proclamation, has announced his purpose to treat all who may accept letters of marque and reprisal from the Confederate Gov ernment as pirates, and the general sentiment of the public would unquestionably sustain him in ! so doing. It cannot be concealed, however, that i the current of events may render it necessary to act with caution in this matter, and Dot take a position which may augment greatly the horrors— great enough at best—of this civil war. By taking and holding prisoners at all, it would seem to be recognizing the Southern States as bel ligerents. We do not, therefore, concede to them any civil rights, nor in the slightest degree commit our , selves to a recognition of their political existence. But we do concede that they are entitled to the benefit of those usages which obtain among ! all civilized nations in a state of war. We ex -1 change prisoners with them ; we treat their men taken in armß as prisoners of war, and not as rebels, and we recognize tbe sacredness of flags of truce.* We are by no means sure that we do not thus put ourselves in a position which will render it necessary to recognize their issue of letters of marque, so far, at leapt, as to distinguish it from piracy. We shall, undoubtedly, soon have a proposition, from one side or the other, for an exchange of prisoners, and then this matter must j be finally settled. VOL. LXXV. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXV. NO.:i3. Grkenrboro’, August 8,1861. j To the Editor of the Chronicle if* Sentinel: Hopewell Presbytery, at a pro re nata meeting in Athens, on the 6th inst., adopted, unanimously, the following paper. Please give it a place in your columns* and greatly oblige the Presbytery. R. A. Hocston, Temporary Clerk. Whereas the General Assembly of the Presby terian Church in the United Staies of America, which met in Philadelphia, in the State of Penn sylvania, in may last, adopted the following reso lution : “Resolved, That this General Assembly, in the spirit of that chriptian patriotism which the Scrip tures enjoin, and which has always characterized this Church, do hereby acknowledge and declare our obligations to promote and perpetuate, so far as in us lies, the integrity of these United States, aud to strengthen, upnold aud encourage the Fed eral Government in the exercise of all its func tions under our noble Constitution, and to this Constitution, iu all its provisions, requirements and principles we profess our unabated loyalty. And,"to avoid all misconception, the Assembly declare that the term Federal Government as here used is not meant for any particular Administra tion, or the peculiar opinions of any political par” ty, but that central Administration which, being at any time appointed aDd inaugurated accoVding 1 to the terms prescribed in the Constitution of the United States, is the visible representative of our national existence.” And whereas we regard the adoption of this resolution as unscriptural, unconstitutional aud tyrannical, demanding of us treason against our own Government, and the endorsement and sup port of a wicked war of aggression against our persons and our homes— Resolved, That this Presbytery do now, in the fear of God, and with full knowledge of the re sponsibility of the act, withdraw from all connex ion with the said General Assembly, and that we do hereby absolve the Churches and people under our care from all obligation to submit to its au thority, without, however, impairing the couuex ion of our Churches with the Synod of Georgia. Resolved, That this Presbytery will cordially unite with other Presbyteries of the Confederate States in forming “the General Assembly of the Confederate States of America” upon the basis of our existing Constitution aud form of Govern ment. And to this end, Resolved, That we now elect one minister and one elder with alternates, beiug the number allowed us in the ratio of representa tion in the General Assembly of our Church a.-. heretofore constituted, to represent this Presbytt ly, in any Convention or Conventions, composed of delegates similarly elected aud which may be held between this lime and the sass meeting ot this Presbytery. Resolved, That we concur in Atlanta as the place, uud August 15th as the time, for the proposed Convention of Presbyterian delegates. Resolved, That this Presbytery cordially sup ports the Government of the Confederate States, invokes upon i tthe blessings of God lorever more, and earnestly commends it to the prayers of our people. Resolved, That this Presbytery expiess its cor dial approbation of the action of the brethren at Columbia in selecting Rev. Dr. J. J . ghton Wil son to take charge temporarily of foreign missions iu connection with our Churches und the contributions therefor. In accordance witu tlie 3d resolution, Rev. G. 11. Cartledge, und elder W. L. Mitchell, principal, and Rev. Dr. S. K. Talmage, and elder J. J. Gres ham, alternate delegates to the Convention, were elected. From the New York ‘Times , 3 Oth ult. Tlie Heal Strength ol the Hebei*. There is no doubt that, from the most obvious necessity, the active force which the rebels can bring into the field is now concentrated in Vir ginia. It is the battle ground of their own selec tion, and upon which they have staked their all. We have it from the best authority that within that State they have now at least 175,000 men, most of them well armed, aud led by skillful and desperate officers, who see in defeat their own destruction and disgrace. Their Army is com posed of the very elite of the South. Once de stroyed it can never be replaced, either in men or material. Only a small portion of it has been drafted from the class cf poor whites y who are too listless aud degraded to be of any reliance if brought into the fi Id. To fit out this immense host, the finances of the rebels have beeu com pletely exhausted. Seizures of arms from our Government, forced loans, and a feeling of hatred to the North, have supplied the means for sending into the field an army which can neither be paid, nor fed, nor clothed, so as to muintain its efficien cy, for any length of time, unless a decided suc cess be achieved. This Army never was, nor will it ever be, so tit for action as at the present mo ment. Its leaders thoroughly understand their position—that inaction is ruin, and that imme diate success is an imperative necessity. That they are acting upon this conviction and necessi ty there cannot be a doubt. Indeed, our dispatches from all quarters confirm this. Gen. Banks’ com mand have retreated into Maryland before Gen. Johnston, who has again appeared in great force upon his old ground. Newport’s News is threat ened with an immediate attack. We have not had time to learn the movemeut of the rebels westward, to attack Gens. liosencranz and Cox, but we are confident such movements have been made. In other words, the 175,000 rebels, re leased from all fear of an immediate attack on their main position, are hurling this vast force against our isolated and unsupported columns, aud it will be good iortune or good generalship if we do not sustain another disuster. Our recent reverse, and the information which it has supplied show the magnitude of the task before us, which is first successfully to receive its attack, and then drive this vast body of 175,000 desperate and well equipped men out of Virginia. Are our immediate preparations at all adequate to such a task? Does uot the enemy at present overmuster us in numbers, and perhaps in ap pointment, in addition to occupying positions which are themselves fortresses ? Congress, we know,has voted 500,000 men forthe war with ample provision for their equipment aud commissariat, but the greater portion of these are yet to be called out, and when they are, must go through months of training aud experience of camp life to tit them for their duties. Not a moment should be lost by Government in uvailing itself of the means placed in its hands. We ought to be strongest when the enemy is strongest, which is at the present instant. If we are not now his match on his bat tle ground, not a moment is to be lost in making up our deficiency. But, if we can, for the present, hold our own in Virginia, we can elsewhere present ourselves in overwhelming force where the enemy is the weakest. To sustain the fight in that State, the Southern States have completely denuded them selves of available men as well as of arms.— Travelers recently from the South report the collections of soldiers ou their routes us mere scarecrows of the moat miserable material ; some of them unarmed and the remainder having no thing better than old flintlock muskets. A person of some military experience, who has just come from Georgia, by way of Atlanta, Chattanooga aud Nashville, reports that on the entire route he saw but two companies with percussion muskets. It is also well known that there is not a Southern city, not even Charleston, that might not be cap tured by a small naval and military force. In fact, New Orleans, Mobile and Savannah lie al most entirely at our mercy. We might readily lit out expeditions directed against these cities that would instantly call southward no inconsiderable portion of the hostile forces now in Virginia, even if we went no further than to threaten attacks. Up to this time our most important arm, the Navy, has been lying almost entirely idle. The policy we have steadily pursued has relieved the rebels from all fear of molestation or attack ex cept upon the very spot where they are relatively the stronger and we the weaker. Let our Gov ernment lose no time in coming to the support of our erms in Virginia by attacks upon the South ern Atlantic and Gulf ports. Such an attack would carry an influence equal to 150.000 men ra the field. While this course is taken, let no 4 ime be lost in bringing a force into the field in Virginia which shall not onlv relieve us from apprehension of attack, but enable us to drive the rebels from the Stute, and by so doing to end the war. Flags of Truce.—A Washington dispatch, of tbe 4th inst., says : Messrs. Gorman, Applegate, and Sterling, ieft Washington on Thursday, with a flag of truce, bearing a communication from the Secretary of VVar, having for its object the recovery of tbe body of his brother, Col. Cameron. They yester day returned without success, owing, it appears, to the communication having been addressed, “To whom it may concern,” and not to some par ticular officer in the Confederate army. This ob jection removed, there is no doubt that the body can be recovered, as the place of interment is marked and every facility promised to accom plish that purpose. The gentlemen carrying the flag speak in high terms of the courteous and kind manner in which they were treated tf y Col. Stewart, commanding the First Virginia Regiment, and other officers within the field of his operations. They, however, were uot permitted to approach directly to Fair fax Court House. Whatever they may have seen of interst in the neighborhood, they have the pru dence to conceal, having gone thither on an er rand of mercy, and not for reconnoitering pur poses. One of the communications recently sent hither under a flag of truce from General Johnston, was, it is understood, in relation to a report which had reached the Confederates, that some of their pris oners had been hung by order of our military authorities. As no such executions have taken place, it may certainly be inferred that General McDowell replied in accordance with this tact. Another Cry fboj the North. —Poor Ben nett !heis in a peck trouble. We pity him. He sees everything going to ruin before him, even to his immaculate Herald. His last cry is of the desertion of tbe watering places, where South ern wealth and Northern profits have .been so leng the rage. He says : Jeff". Davis has played havoc with the fashiona ble watering places. Poverty and destitution are described aa reigning there supreme. At Sharon, which was last year so crowded that numbers could not get accommodation, there are not as many visitors as would pay the servants’ wages. Even the old gouty and rheumatic habitues , who have never before been known to miss a season, are absent. Newport, Saratoga, Cape May and Nahant present the same vacuous and dreary as pect. Tbe huge barracks of hotels which fash ionable caprice has helped to build up are full onl? of the echoes made bv a few unemployed waiters. It has been stated that the cottages at Newport are almost all occupied ; but the fact °\ their being so does not help the hotels. They are occupied by families that either own them or that find an economy in hiring them for tne sea son, thus reducing the expenses of their cost y town Credit or tu Federal Govibnmint.— The N. Y. Heraid of the 31st ultimo Bays: We learn that there is an extraordinary move ment now going forward in Wall street, m refer ence to the Bull Run fight and tbe general mis management of the war. There have been several secret meetings, at which the doings of the Gov ernment and its agents have been freely discussed, aud if members of the Cabinet only heard half of it, they would be far from pleased with them selves. The loan asked for by Mr. Chase was, of course, the principal point in the discussion, and it was agreed that, unless there is some guarantee for the better management of the war in tbe fu ture than in the oast, tne specie in the vaults of Wall street should not be invested in the Federal war ; and a committee, with instructions to that effect was sent on to Washington to have a plain talk with Old Abe and his Cabinet There is one thing that will be insisted on, and that is the re moval of Gideon Welles as Secretary of tbe Navy, whose incompetence has baen demonstrated in bo many ways. Commodore Stockton is spoken of as his successor, a man who would bring great energy to bear upon this important department. Tbe Government will do well, therefore, to keep a bright lookout, else it may find itself very soon crippled for lack of the sinews of war. BY TELEGRAPH. ANOTHER NAVAL ENGAGEMENT. Mobile, Aug. 5.—A naval engagement occurred on Friday last between a Federal steamer and the privateer Nixon, on the Mississippi sound. The steamer opened fire first. After exchang ing shots for about twenty minutes the steamer withdrew. She was hulled three times, while the privateer was uninjured. NEWPORT NEWS EVACUATED. Richmond, Aug. 6.—Passengers from \ orktown report that Newport News was evacuated last uight by the Lincolnites. The impression is that the troops have beet} sent to Washington or for tress Monroe. A dispatch from Norfolk says it is thought there that the Federals commenced evacuating Newport News yesterday afternoon. A large lire was ob served there, supposed to huve been the hospital buildings. The Federalists removed their horses on Sunday night last in vessels. SOUTHERN CONGRESS. Richmond, Aug. 7.—ln Congress to day resolu tions of thanks were adopted to Gens. Joseph E. Johnston and Gen. Gustave T. Beauregard, aud the officers and troops under their command for their gallant conduct and bravery at the battle of Manassas, hhe resolution was approved by the President. SUICIDE OF LIEUT. EARLE, OF SO. CA. Richmond, Aug. 7. —Lieut. Earle of the South Carolina troops threw himself, head foremost, from the fifth story of the Ballard House this af ternoon, aud was instantly killed. UNITED STATES CONGRESS. Washington, Aug. fi.—ln the Senate, Mr. Sauls bury moved certain amendments the Constitution, and lookiug to an adjournment, which was voted down—yeas 11, nays 24. The Confiscation bill, as amended by the House, was passed. Washington, Aug. 7.—ln the Senate, to day all the principal army nominations were confirmed. Secretary Dickens receives pay as Secretary of the Senate for one year from date. The bill to punish certain crimes agriust the Government was passed. The Senate refused to vote ou the hill legalizing Lincolns acts, and then adjourned, siue die. Iu the House, the Senates bill increasing the pay of the army was passed. The House then adjourned sine die. President Lincoln approves of all the acts of Congress. The increased pay bill, us fiualiy passed, allows au increased pay of £2 to eacu soldier. BUTLER S PLANS FRUSTRATED. Washington Aug. fi.— Gen. Butler in his letter to the Secretary of War, says that the withdrawal of his lorces from Fortress Monroe interferes with schemes for capturing a large number of slaves! AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI. Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. The tory Gov. Gamble has issued a proclamation in all respects sustaining Senator Polk’s programme. Iu addi t;on to t which he has also issued a proclamation ordering the Confederate forces to leave the State of Missouri! LIEUT.-COL. MONTGOMERY GARDNER. Richmond, Aug. 7.—Montgomery Gardner is rapidly improving—no dauger now apprehended now either of life or limb. He is comfortably sit uated in camp near Manassas. AFFAIRS ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Cairo, 111., Aug. s.—Two llliuois Reg’ts have been thrown out six miles south aud west of Bird’s Point as a scouting party. Gen. Thompson is within sixteen miles of this place and advancing towards it. Gen. Fremont is enforcing the strictest disci pline. PLENTY OF ARTILLERY. New Yory, Aug. 7.—A Washington dispatch to thi Tribune says that there is much more Fed eral artillery there now than before the advance. 1 Retreat ?] “CARRYING THE WAR INTO AFRICA.” Washington, Aug. 7.—Representative Hamlin has received a dispatch from lor a statiug that * the Southerners had captured Irontou, a small town ou the Des Moines river, near Keokuk. AFFAIRS ABOUT WASHINGTON. Washington, Aug. 7.—Prince Napoleon Buona parte, Secretary Sewurd and the French Minister will visit Mount Vernou together. Gen. Butler has returned to Fort Monroe. It is said no immediate change will be made in that quarter. Since the suppression of publication of army in telligence the city swarms with spies. MR. KENNEDY, OF THE SELMA (ALA.) IS SUE. Richmond, Aug. 7.—The Richmond Enquirier, of this inoruing says that Mr. Kennedy, of the Selma (Ala.) Issue, was not killed at the battle of Muuassus. He was not in that engagement. He was injured by a fall from his horse, and is now at Culpepper, C. 11., convalescent. BATTLE NEAR SPRINGFIELD. St. Louis, Aug. 7.—A fight has occurred at Dug Spring near Springfield, The Southerners evacuated the field during the night aud Gen Ly on taking possession in the morning. Another battle is momentarily expected. IflThe Hessians lost eight killed and thirty wound ed, and the Southerners forty killed and forty wounded. Five Regular Dragoons and the Colonel com manding were killed. Dug Spring is eighteen miles south-west of Springfield. It is stated that 5,001) Confederate troops arc advancing on Springfield from the West. ABOUT PRIZES. New York, Aug. 7. —Three of tbe Confederate steamers, Sumter’s prizes have beeu released by the Spauish Government, and have arrived here. HOT WEATHER IN ST. LOUIS. St. Louis, Aug. 6.— The thermometer was at 105 degrees to day. Fifteen deaths occurred from the great heat. AMMUNITION AND RIFLES. Sr. Louis, Aug. o.—Twenty car loads of shot and shell have reached here since Sunday, as also a large number of Enfield Rifles. Washington, Aug. 6.—ln the House the Senate’s hill legalizing Lincoln’s war debt was passed. THE PRESS IN CONSULTATION. Washington, Aug. 6.—The members of the press have held a consultation with Gen. McClel lan, at the latter’s suggestion. A committee was appointed to transact to the editorial fraternity iu the loyal States the following : “To tha editors of the loyal States : First, re frain from publishing news of any move, or any matter, that may give aid and comfort to the enemy. Second, signify to correspondents, even where ob served, these restrictions. KENTUCKY’ STATE ELECTION. Louisville, Ky., Aug. Gth.—The returns of tbe State election, so far, show large Union losses since the late Congressional election j but the Unionists will, undoubtedly, have a majority in the Legislature. MOKE FUSS IN LOUISVILLE. Louisville, Ky.j Aug. 6. —Four of Rousseau’s men attacked a citizen of Jeffersonville yesterday, firing four shots, and wounding in the leg a Dutchman who was standing by. The citizen’s brother came to the rescue, when, with bricks, they beat two of the soldiers dreadfully. The others fled to their camp. One of them shot his hand off. FIRE IN BALTIMORE. Baltimore, Aug. 7.—Poole & Hunt’s Foundry was destroyed by fire to-day. New York, Aug. 7.—Sales of cotton to-day 1317 hales. AFFAIRS IN THE GULF. W ashinoton, Aug. 7.—Official advices state that the Federal steamer South Carolina oS Galveston captured the following vessels: The Shark, Vinis, Anne, Ryan, McCaulfield, Louisa, Dart, Cavalier Falcon, Geo. Baker, and Sam Houston. Among the stuff captured were thirteeen mail bags, con taining a lot of express matter. Off St. Marks, Fla., the Mohawk, had captu- and the Geo. B. Stout, which was attempting to run the blockade. Among her passengers were the wife and three children of Adjutant Gen. Holland, of Florida. Mrs. Holland claims the Confederate flag as pri vate property. ELECTION FRACAS IN LOUISVILLE. Louisville, August 6.—A couple of Gen. Ros seau’e men were straggling among their former companions on the levee. One of them got into a fight, when his captain drew a pistol on him. : This dispatch is rather mixed up, and we can ynly infer that there was a “muss” generally.] And a small bystander knocked a couple of some body’s teeth down somebody’s throat, aud that the only injury which caused any regret was a severe one which Mr. Ed. Critchfield received. Mr. C. is a welt known and ‘estimable man, and much respected in his county, where the election contest was very animated. He hurrahed “sotto voce” for Jeff Davis, but not sufficiently “sotto voce” to prevent the Black Republican bystand ers from hearing him. He was therefore insulted and threatened, whereupon he hurrahed for Jeff Davis again, when pistols were dfawu, but his friends interfered and prevented any personal in jury. Mr. Critchfield subsequently came to towD, and was alone in tbe reception room of the Gait House, when a party of five men, led by Tom Salvage, well known in political circles here en tered and assailed him. Mr. Critchfield fired once, wounding Salvage in the heart and proba bly fired twice. Six shots were fired altogether, four or five by Salvage’s friends. One of these shots took effect in Salvage’s arm and one in hi. groin. The latter will probably prove fatal. Mr. Critchfield received a blow from a pistol butt, which put out his left eye. Ue was not otherwise seriously injured. Ihe election i.- altogether one-sided the South erners not generally ro tiD^f An effort is said to be on foot to raise a legion in Cherokee Georgia, for immediate service.