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itflf •*- *»fnthttl. fr'*' 'Sn*nt, f jk itefsvhlioin. Army c t the Potomac, 1 tbf* • - , * rii»i; o< nr farces, which I de*i red to ond<*r-iAo:i. n« « 1a- to ascertain what tUcy in -1 ' -f. :»> •i»vi;*,tijj:iti; before writing. I ’ l ’ probed the whole mattery) the b Mi.'*:, »•> • t I m- ail the thread* of the ca . ;3 haiif’ You cannot regret more t-i lw r !,, rv.',* ~ ~ ./. the i&jfit fins, -il*, "i' v ‘ * V ' •m:‘ knowledge has * . s though you 1 ■ *7 i* tiu- o«ir ad- mV aaQ Updo’s k t .. -.if >- MUiry about fail's 1 ii-u » rbort diftUance iD-! cindhe eaadr gg«n : ' * WttlJ vlte jaT*(Frtoav j . ■ }. ;! distanee ol life or hi*, tulles. Ihu j *. • • ' > r >1 (ict-s jroifc and ' ( >er jpte***m ffnotxte&tfH j s nirf* to V,e»ni>rHfV/OTe. * *'** L dyipaic*«;Ct to the Great Falls j lifee 4/o*ll**** redeem*, ix*« bun- 1 *iti ( at.il mi arU'ldry Th o a < .rfrtiot ra v ;» picket forep itmiooeO Ht ,r h.et .j»*r ific PntoQiac, w»u*h IJap. ri * ' ;«* 0*- at su&nsfc iftin a»o;rilxig. O' hrt . ; ■ .*• f Teh which 11b ,f . , w..n of i and ult .." •' ~' ** ~enl U F tue rivtr to S ■>•*»<■(& to.iht Macon XeUgrapk. '*« *‘ ■ * *-' ‘ «»» t-re. n tlr.ar Hiver. did* hf uvy bring for over four uourw, and *'••• ***• ' ve rti to fifcrge our lines oa ina flann*, »*.*fv ’Wfef-i with heavy io»« Our Ocwrgnv:, .*b-ivfcd wi.il, ,U ' U ' F.ij*Bloom/ Aid di r;sih !( u) Bri.r. o*n/51. R. Jackson. A apt* hi on* Kattmuks.—We learn i ,r ,':Z'%T- l \T' )r '' “'ti*' lu, Y‘* c t“ t “‘„ u T ,, ‘! r I »i»- i, 1 lust, wa 4o injured by the Wiots pouted »pU» lies iigT ; #U» s i v,10a5 She j#ufc t|own thl ! river .»•'*> >k*V bar/' wjiere aha sunk bes tween dark o* iWdM- vtght sad <iiy light of ! Wedm.-d-u '• .or.•ml-' 'We nn unoble to say j they 4***b« d.fV»poc’ 10 tlie U hLore ! from wh f. o>'v••i *tdo An Wi* u<t over halt a I mill. Tim d-* .« -d, oilV informant says there j cun U lift < tit*' ft/iftkc stack and one of j \ i,ar i& v - t <.i; li(eeu lflif'-s below Aquia Or. • !i, )u;<t alrt- m.drtck Creek, and nearly | \ DiurrjMi in i '•« if <vaiy e «wn by the foj j Irt’-v.iig dO' U', •. tj K the* despotism is at last j f«rc»Mi,!«» MiMiin HoldfKrfoi sh ■ piiffiose of fiilfbg up the fagged varies of the ]■ * uhr.it arnj.v*. We opiuc that if it ■ 1 ext.>nt^ ( \vn Will vVifnefis | Al/JtTAVT (iFNKRVI/H Ol V'ICK i j . y or Tlltf STATE OF. itfWA, \ I)a vifiM'Our, S. pu mber 19, mi. ) in r- i 1J > i.i • t rviyors of Counties j The .’state of furriishii;g her full quota j of in <.j -< nm r * made for more, jmd they j To meet pnnopt|\ illr ch imiud o{ the (ien'eral I Gov* i nment, and of *0»‘0. Frunmut, tho military I nee. <-11V. *■-xifttsTol making a draft from the able- I bo.li-d im-n ot thiH State, between the agpaof IB and A ’ v 1 l therefore reqo*it fcftai u.eo.bers pf Boards of | Hup* rrifors will report to m • ijprhames aod res- i ni.-iu of kiodj, able-bodied mou within the ages j abov* jinmed, as to bp diafied. And ! I «.i*ttUy v p«rsonrt wi»ll kndtvn in this do- j partim nt, to thO-names q! iudividmtls Ha- ! ble to military qutv. * * N. rt. Biieu, . Adi u t apt Cone rid ot Jowa. j - I'wmt ms* - - • AriATus In JLovu.fc V 1 iuyi.amu.■— A gentleman who, vf)tli h'« jaunjj, oilt'Ct* and - 11 very tempestuous j and perilous cm 1 »pr loony. M irylund, reach»ul Irere I ve>i 'i(}ay,-nnd reports a**biitmuapce of the Yau- j kee people O. this unllfi-t Proportyy.l alldcs cnpnoiiH-H'-ives, horses, cattle and produce— I were binr.R daily updn by the ru bless if)- ] Vipjet up* hiUictiCV *H pnfttUi ilw idlings was no long*'i r* cofjo 9H‘d ; irfl infldeutial iijthvidmils sua pect and ot S>. ipp:,rinsing w.tVTha South, wen* be ing an*m, ; U ilyuughoul. the State, aiui j Tfo 1-ul.H.oups tuofod his “Wi ga*<e ■** of ru Hi o.a, euiirfiy Irom Qhiirb s'county 4 rt.ol q.l -iteVed Ill'mpjii ,iy, Crniye Urorge I coom ' . Hick.ic* biiiis. U, iu coippapicd by if strong ( ileJ.o lifluMlt n-, c*gVi.in. U'tl a dc\ or two agu, on a i >o .motoring »Vm»i dhp n. Rudd’s Poifu/wiiich in ’t\ (»ppo«o> p»- hdsiisport, 'Thu inject of j th. xpe.lucv, i|,soU Uibc iheaurveV of ~uiic,u|. aide t p« i. r the coo#iruviioi» es fmtvvribhments In.m which to oppos- uny attempt n/Tml r Mary ! laud m. fbut p"i it fie is vihi tn har.* dochtrod : •hit' 111- 1 bn. .rill IrpMMlUj.ent vf»B übyiif to 4*eC.t I Ail ■ho ..He .Kim* «xU;uHug From JBudd’p Point i 'll!. . it.yens pt MM»ylnnd uto>«|M)rtod' to have ' time, of aid from Southern (Jrtntcdhruoy. Tlnpu ! deb i *i »* < • oe ¥ and .»*, unrt bid., noble old | State, aid th* IWu' ult j coin, >eiv„id A Go. It s . .m>o tb\l uniesiegon j a'detl. mam Ul„. Id*«. Mucu* wdl J v «*«»!» p* . *1 iovAlus pt.d.mon ofno.tr fail*!.es and | their property, r<‘. take the * Mil otT.'jMegtance, as j Latwkt FHf>M J’knsaCola *-Ad tyo quiet ttt JViisuconi Tin 1 pendant V, the Mobile AV. r il* .1 A or fob tr- wfiu-s an follows on the ist Tli.- onemieo!t.•i*t« jepm to*r<>w in number WiLoii’ - * dN * ! {■ike tiiv uaptute in M»«wm ot iIH irdmm. - S. * eral moxv«!»*P? arm-mi. witjup the last two *uppt*at> W be discUargiug cargo ou thf l slan <i i’htiv is but dhe war view, UkIHN ( 9 I’tKKOH )N Nf vr- Y O», A. —Mi>M;T OR Bloou \ SomiitTfi »*<utlviftnn, wjXQ Tm* rocentlv e*i'A\>ed tom N** VorJc Seward, on aivivi.t v*u to that city, mha the bmkers and y aj'UttiiMj*, uiat’ they must Mibscnbr , either moiitW or thvw bland to the Government lour, -that liuftji'Ar!** no ojj*>'lo umicisg matters i nu nt o\a\\ *, t ukjiu v without d>lqod.‘ The liab- i boon v u oil aim u-lust euhmuntmg to the height i ot tin- 41 't uteoctties 01 the lieocb Revolution. Hu>tdr> urv tMtcid in the North, ''Uttre*\il .ugl<f v i 11 1 1 ’ '* V' y > ' , "l' hf e»pi<\ptu<e. which Fouohe miuh! h**'M ‘'ovnyl, io tij opt*rut*t*n,'ti>ti uabeuK f Muuieu A l RU.i • t ‘' ! - y r Uvullouui-'t wH? raise ami j . W \'V " cl •' anus nu prostrate necks. And : all uus k ’<>. x i» ma • • a>or> jfcotVssmg „ ot only j *^3* Hinmcxti, Oct. 4.—A blotniy battle look place 1 at the toot at Cheat Mountain between the Con Geory it. mimlHrititj 2,.kk> troops, and the l\ S. troops, under Gvn. Utv Holds, ntinUifriflg N,OOO, resulting m the u.iu]ct the luitpr. ' G n. Lee :> at Bin He;iefl JacUou be ' hind him at Cheat tf«fun!*iC The tight lasted four . 5 No. tut t: .v\ lr« on u heard of the reported IV. I thousand l . trom.s have landed at Oc* j voquan on tie IVtvihaCv Tin* indicates a general j movements of the Coat -iterates very invsierUMi? and tears advance nitu Maryland. Iw ■> r*. giments o' l. S troops, by mistake tired into u; sr onSuuduy, tilling ten and wound- Gov Wurg. 4 ...,0f Nevt Vor%. has bem made a Gel T ' n urs iha: ' Sidney Johnston will tniuTue K«utMr h inter 'ir. Cmcinnat. or J b’uMH..' ii <M>m|daim» ;hat recrumog in the ; North s * dvad In^kra IHs r : "j. S'>i ‘..«ws -Army Surg<K}nß de cUrv w ♦« ~ Jeivv tha% th* crisis of the s ek* tt*''*'* “ >t *■•«" ' ‘ i« been paseed. and that uoucea .. cl - ge ..as taken place iu tM-N ,^ 4 a ' -Vi lifarMss J v*ttUa P f #V ’ 1 car * menu:** x'.uo, anti gomi narsing. 4 \{ • and rx ire tev-rs me a.so lapni.y lit.»ii mss of our guihvnt hotifr ■ era Jurda* n.. »*otrr, aovs noi np- , {Hxar :U1 .UiiHV ' * tW Fix >6 Daw v rae art informed by a gt-u. l %v whq ra.i>e par sedge r t'u tbe White- | tr . . ; puh»e t- rx ff>or New Orieuua yes vero.iv ad arjri lust n pe, - .at- m VoiocK a nVtUbfr df^eaty ►id if'hr-l . it’d it ooatd not he Jeeidac. m « «r. • roekW4 wx-re frpm the Fori ' wx v tf . off Mif*i*4ipp AnT v oknown MofaU \*t. k«uG; prTCkitvx-.i 1. ~ iivwmg fi fpoti a ’ • •{.' •’ : ’ ■ • • - c sab “in a ' v^*-:T t -n ab*Mit the maoufee aui i!>ut.:a nfa- -is 'lcviP m, loud-i •'ult* \u **- •’ bwduhur hen- * *b- Jr t Uuie ♦. -. c*- 4r' ra* c-t WiMow wood arc bsuc-’ | •:.]•* frftti till* i;tv, 1* • - ' t' c old V ‘is a V.jx* '—We learn froar a joai now a: «\ i-ix r : iU TV . iusabied two ah. 1.9 that i * hh unable to more, and ttitvi •‘Unt&av" • ha> s-y. - ciewandnl: quite gate. Frtiltrick* j r it is reported that Loi. Douiniim, of Missouri, ! in tue Mexican war Lai? jotted the Confederates. 1 il this »>! true, H-. have made a valuable ucquisi- j ;ion to our cause in iliaaoun. Jinnitmiu K»a«u<k|, formed j the°larg" 1 *** i of LouisriL^Kv ’’ tremore°d their | A lu mta tUo* A\La e D ciziaati. and that for an- It is s' and that the Federal troops were induced |to ° c co?'.|' y'^ 1 weautfv citizen, who re if*nun; !*’ u ree amount of bay and beef cattle | Ceßt !' *r . n co!n*tea of Paducah, and has always v * ” ,e atronk L'mon man. This man represented * n JI S n great danger, and these hirelings rnght -1 . mpid a camp tire in front of Hodge a house, (/ A detail twenty-fire nfen to watch over his 1 household.- Xa+hnlU Manner, %$. y We are indebted taa friend for a copy of the Louisville Journal of the aOth* ult.. from which ice sneiect the following items, as showing the drift Manchester Taken.-—We have reliable news of the taking ot Manchester, CJ ay county, tn* Zolfi* coiler and bis mei, w:tii a great destruction of property. ‘Djt*rac:ono.v or a UhiPok ovfeE Greex Ritke 1 The bridge across Green River, on the Bardstown j and mriirJke,<*gbt miles fiom the rail j road bridge over Green R*v*;r, was destroyed by j the rabeU Jo Thursday last, t £iCiir o Rvnints fkom Nelsojc Cocmtt. Ade- ; : of five hundred men from the Tenth j Indiana Regionnt left this city on .'■'atorday and 1 i proceeded m ortce to Bardstown, occupying the i ‘ place, it is umieraloo * that a party o! six bun- , ured - T «oets were entrenched on the farmol Area. Vy .iaon, about half way between Bardstown j and and it was rumored last evening j [ ttmt an eog.igemeut had taken place between tl*e ] J five hupdrea Tenth jLndiaoiana and the rebels, | with what result we were not informed Ar ! rangeflooms were made at once to reinforce the } Federal troops. i Afkaiiu, i p OkKK.s Biter.—W* learn by letter from FvtDhTiUf, lud , that five hundred troops ! , from Terra iiaule, lud., have gone op Green • riter Kv., and taken possession of locks Nos. 1 ’ and fc The expedition wins tired upon on board the . steamer es tney were ascending the stream, by one , man, «vbo to escape. The nre was re ; torned, however, sod the rebel who made the ns ’ f.iuH was pier4ed by seven Minnie balls and fell dead. riverylumg was quiet at Evansville on Thurs day, and ja.ge nu.nbets ot troops were arriving daily Iron, tne cau.p a: Teric Haute and various porti(JO* ot KentucKy. Col. Hawkins, of Bowling ; Green, arrived at Lvaosviile on Wednesday with if.r. ■ *yf lour hundred men, who are making pre parationa t'*r an ■expedition up Green river. Affair* is Bahkes Coubtt.—We have letters I from Glasgow, By., to the loth inst , from which i we i- am mat ibe iDteniious of the rebels in that • c ir.tv are taking such Shape aa may well excite , viie Lo-iignation of every true KuutucKiau. Joseph il Lewis, the recently defeated candidate lor CuDgrobs in that Uistrict, i» organizing a regiment A infantry to be mustered into *b.e service ot the | Contcueruej on Beuluoay soil. The National ’ ' lues, Capt. Clark, from Louisville, with the Lewis Guards of Glasgow, went into camp on the j ]<;th. Our corr espondent has it from the lips of sev» ral ot the Koidiers that they expect to remain ; in Barren county. They evidently mean mis : chief, and, though their officers cry out against a | cowardly attack upon an unar ~ed, unorganized i cuflip, the writer thinks the Union loving citizens i ot the adjoining counties will be violently opposed ! to the presence of such an enemy at the very ! threshold of their dwellings. More Gins Atjddcteu.—The Lexington Obser-j veT and Reporter says the State arms in posses sion of the Lexington Rifles were surreptitiously ! abstracted from that city ou Friday night last, and taken, it is presumed, to the headquarters of Gen. Buckner, in the lower pti t of the State. Frankfort Gossip.—The Frankfort correspon dent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, under date of the 2<Jth, says; Hon. .lames B. Clay, ex-member of Conferees from the Ashland Jjistriot, Kentucky, was arrest ed last evening in Madison county and brought to Curnp Dick Robinson this morning; and John (J. j Breckinridge, who was in company with him, was i sd hotly pursued That, finding he would be taken, j lie jumped from his horse aud ran in a corn field, I where they had him “ corned ’’ arid cornered, and i doubtless he is a prisoner by this time; if 80, he will regard his arrest ns a “military necea- John IJ. Harney, the talented editor of the Louisville. Democrat, or Hon. Gairett Davis, will be elected by the Legislature, to succeed Breckin ridge, who has forfeited his seat in the United States Seriate. Hi mpiiuny Marshall's Forces Disbandko.— We have the best authority for stating that the rebel force Under Humphrey Marshall has been disbanded, and it is believed that the disconten ted spirits under his command have returued to their homes in Henry county. The force con sisted of two hundred and fifty foot and one hun dred and fifty cavalrymen. They were all bad ly armed, and for the most part miserably clad. Special to the Oharlaton Mercury. Richmond; October 4.- President Davis yester day reviewed the Confederate forces at Fairfax. Among the troops in line were the brigades of Generals Wulker, Longstreet, Oocke, and Jones, besides the Washington Artillery, of New Orleans. The review lasted three and a half hours and is said tyjiave been quite a brilliant affair. Imme diately afterwards the President left for Richmond The enemy lias blade no further advance, and everything is quiet along the lines of the Potomac. Cul A G. Blanchard, of Louisiana, has been nominated to a Brigadier Generalship in the Pro visional Army. Wfnle Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Mrs. General Johnston were taking an airing, yesterday after noon, the carriage containing teem wus acciden tally overturned, and both ladies w r ere quite se verely injured. !*}*. M. The report of a battle having taken , place some davs ago, between Lee and HoZeu ev&ntz, which 1 warned you yesterday was not j reliable, turns out to have been all moonshine.— A.battle, however, was undoubtedly fought yes ter*kiy, (Thursday, October fid,) on the Green brier River. Gen. Reynolds, who, with a force of \UOO Ohio troops, has recently occupied Cheat Mountain, began his march toward Staunton, with a view of taking that plaea. Me soon en countered Gen Henry R. Jackson, who, with his brigade of ‘2,500 Georgians, was strongly en trenched on the Greenbrier River Reynolds im mediately led his force to the attack. The light that ensued was a hot one, las iog during four hours. After repeated assaults upon our posi tion, the enemy was finally repulsed with great slaughter. The loss on our side was compara tively small. This much is authentic, but no fur ther paiiiculars are giveu. The Confederate War Steamer is not wrecked as reported. When last heard of, she was satcly sailing Southward from Surinam. This was on the Ist ot September. hi n the A t wherry (S. 0.) Consenatist. Nome Hung '’lore About Spirits—A Harmon c. “And tbero were nme of them, all stundin’ round the door, and the last one of them said they would take sugar in khere’n, and u little boy eight years old, says he,’ Pap, I’ll take a little, if tt kills rue!" ! My dear brethren The last surmbnt I preached i you, was ot) the subject of sperits. In that dis- j course, i told you ot the diflereut kind of sperits, j evenly of the sperits, ot just men made perfect, for there was“uiue of them all standin‘ round the | door, and the last one of them said they would i take sugar in there « and a little boy, only eight 3 ear* old, says he, Pap, I’ll take a little, if i kills iiir and in tfi** present discourse, I will tell you j i»t the use that is made of sperits. Iu the hrst ph*ce, my bretlnen, there are those who don’t use those gilts of uutur iu their purity, nor as there own conscience dictates—tor instance Ihe ccudy-iAaVs—but they are iu the habu ot I pouring out tangleleg and buckeye in killin' hosts, and tlidy are gulped down by the people .out m summer aud in winter, iu seed time and in 1 harvest-, au and the “last one of them said they ! would take sugar in tbere’n aud a little boy eight years old, says he, Fap, I’ll take a little if it k.. s me ! Nh'v, my brethren, do you spose these candy m:c-j keer lor the good-of the country, or the internal comfort of the people? Not a bit; , lore! they had a sly chance, aud they thought they omiid make anything by it, they wou and take , a feller off by himself ami treat him to pop skull • red eye, and there might be uiue of them all standin’ round the door, and the l-a-s-t one of them, if they wasuxt, would say they would take j sugar in tbere'n. iiut ii’v brethreng, there is another class of ; spent* rappers, who are very different from this ! class. The objection i have to them 18 that they are too keerful. If you keep> a look out, you can 'a j 'Jtost auy time see one of these fellows step off to ; the spent land, by his self, and under the pre tence ot the muly-grubs, or some other atlment, ; vail tor a tour-lingered load tor his stummic sake, j hare seen them a slippin’ away from their nends, when, “there was nine of them all > anciiu round the door, aud the last one of them sain they would take sugar iu ihere’n aud u little i!a! °!fU ft ™* Ba J» be * ril take a hille dit kids me A many a hard shell Bat)* ni 'V , U ' d , tun an, cavorti n Method is, j and high-talutm Fiscopal b'iong lo this sect, and 1 * are ejc P ec^n tome day 10 plav upon that • harp ot a thousand strings, sperits of just meu i made perfect, ’ but in that day it wiU be no go, for they wilt all “be standin’ round and the la&t j one ot them will say, they will take sugar in ! ; there’n but there will be no sugar. But my breethering, there is still another class ot speruual people, w'lio are always standin’ round the door. Sometimes I want to axe one of nn brethnng 10 take a drink with me. a drink 1 with sugar in it, aud I can't do it, “for there are mne of them all standin’ rouud the door, aud the lust one ot them said they will take sugar in in and the little boy xiuly eight rears old, say s he, Pap, I’ll taae a lntle es it kills me Thesv tel.ows, my brethnng, never buv any spents f their own, but they drink the sperits ot everybody eise. In election times, they stick to candy u* f who treats the most, and they may aiways be seen “skmdin’ round the door.”* TheV never lose sight, much less smell, of the critter, j aod they arr not particular about having sugar in tber’n-but they had something reetber. in conclusion, uiv dear breethr»ng, beware o the candidate:*, look with a wisbta! eye upon the brother who dnuks Ida self, and if you should . happen to be at Fairfax Court house or Manas&as Junction, tarry not in the plains, bat flv to the mountains, for there are mue of them a)! Handin' round the door, ard the ls<* one of them. Said th»y would take sugar in ther'n and the little ' beyr eoiy eight year* id. says he. Pap, I'll take , u 1 tue es it kells me But when von go to ar : a. dr.uk a gxnvd article, and Qt-ver go in witn- Cxi. ax me, or some other one of the brve.thrinfi —for “tuerv are uine of them a standin' round u;cdovr. and the last one of . them said they «x .u takumr is ther’n, aud a bttle boy onlv vear* old. sayt be. Pap. I’ll tat* a little ei >*x.-R«T rxi f.: .Tlx-NS roR THU .S?rrBKRN COAST. There .* ; u dauger to be aptweneaded from ibe m cou at at th s time that at. least one expo dith o has s.i ed fr.'in Northern ports dontg the U>t ftw days, and Is probably now on it* way to ihe Southern coast. It ;s kcown that a namber of «aoaa»»-ra bare lately leii this port, and that one W> earn ttxa* tht :nte object u! Geneva! Butler's v.**:t if New bngiand «ta to su*.*enntend a similar embark..i.ol. poo&ihjy from B«.'stt>n, and whtoh wav a *O. y this time, be on the high seas to ca operate with that from this cits* Tv' what extent the squadron lying off Fortress M.-uroe may take part u*'it. we are not prepared tn sgr at present It is u* statt ~*t public servants were never mere actively angac-ed tr»an they have been of late, aud C at General Butler never acted more adroiaiy than , a tue qcca> 1 0! hi* i\*cent visit K* lobk alter T u c affairs that required his ivamediale j , Tbe oviUions which be received on] over-wivn-.Kg van rv, bat concealed a piece of j Araiae Yankee maiiareruertt May we soon hear j from ijiis gallant -on Os old Massachusetts. —A] T (.kfjt* therein l JtUrrriijur. 4The Webster Mas Times relates tha follow- j ' n fe t-v'ideat of tke return the Sixth Regiment: j , The u; gin* 1 Lalted for water at the North Vil- j 1^ ir 5 ,cJ *^ iAler 5 mills had eongre i " the lawn between the miUa »nd the* rouroad track. . a j t .v. __ 1 '-u. me soldiers noekea from the care am th*. /aw minutes t the ball in the j ' DY ! 1 aud 'od’acnminate kissing, to j Hl ii» a‘ 9i submitted with cocimen- I dable ana becoming grace. pn« ..u , p»ys well foriXrmabon from th. “re- ! e J.. . 1 ”vdoing a thriving business, j A « a»QicgloD o,*p»n b to tLe Xew York Her.ld, I ultimo, satis that a toung rnau who came there ami stated that the rebel army was well supplied with shoes, lies been appointed a I iueuteuam to tue army for such inlonuation. Tbi Clack. oh. ihe old, old Clock, of the houaehold stock, Wa* the brightest thing and neatest; Its hands, though old, had a touch of gold, And its chime rang still the 6weeieat ; ’Twas a monitor, too, though its words were few, Yet they lived, though nations altered; ADd us voice, still strong, warned old and youDg, When the toice of friendship faltered ! ; Tick, tick, it said, quick, quick, to bed, For ten I’ve given warning: - ; Up. up—and go—or else, you kuow, You’ll never rise soon in the morning. * A friendly voice was that old, old Clock, | As it stood in the corner smiling, i And biess’d the time, with a merry chime, ! Tfie wintry hours beguiling: j But a cross old voice was that tiresome old Clock, 1 As it called at daybreak boldly, , When the dawn looked gray,*o/er the misty-jway/' And the early air bleifr cxddiy Tick, tick, it said : quick, out of bed, For five I’ve gtveii warning; j You’ll never Lave health, youTl never get wealth, Unless you're up soon in the morning! | Hull hourly the sound goes round and ronnd, With a tone that ceases never: i While tears are shed for the bright days fled, And the old friends lost forever ! Its heart beats on—though hearts are gone That warmer beat and younger ; l Its baud.-: still move—though hands we love Are clasped on earth no longer! ■ Tick, lick, it said—to the churchyard bed; The Grave hath given warning : i Up—up—and rise to the angel skies— And enter a heavenly morning! Special Ijtxf/atchez to the Philadelphia Inquirer Washington, Sept. 24-.—A grand rtvi w took place, this afternoon, of cavalry and artillery, on a large field, to the east of the Capitol. Presi dent Lincoln with h:s lady, and Secretary Chase, were present in a carriage. Gens. McClellan, McDowell, Heintzleman and Maustield and the.r ataSs were also present. Two Princes, foreign officers recently appointed to our army, rode into the field, at four r. M., and a national salute was fired. The artillery and cavalry formed into the shape of an L. The artillery drew up in double rows a mile long, and the cavalry a quarter of a mile in the front, making the bottom of the L. In the front were five thousand spectators on foot, mounted, aud in vehicles of ali descriptions. AH j Washington seemed to have turned out on the ; occasion. Among the crowd we noticed Mrs. * ! Gen Tai W. H. Smith, mounted ,on an iron grey ! ! horse, and who was shown considerable attention 1 ! by Gen. McClellan, and a report was soon circu- 1 iaied that it was his wile. This report, of course, 1 j led every one to try to catch a glimpse of her. , Sue had on a riding habit of biue flannel, with United States Army buttons liberally distributed j over it. She was pretty, about twenty years of age, and was tastefully attired. : Nearly every one who was there left under the | iuea t-jat they had seen Mrs. McClellan, and two aru&ts irom New York illustrated papers have i sketches of her. Miss Chase, mounted on a large ! bay horse, with a riding habit of military style, attracted nearly as much attention, as sh# gal | loped around among the crowd with military i gents. Heveral foreign consuls with their families— Secretary Wells and family, Secretary Smith, Gen. McClellan, the Princes, and others, rode all through the cavalry tnd artillery, inspecting them, and then came over to the centre ol the field, where the President’s carriage wasstauding. The cavalry then passed in review'. The head oi column wus the Fifth Regulars, who were togeth er to day for the first time in five years, with a I band of thirty-two pieces, mounted. General Banks has been gradually reduciug the i distance between bis headquarters and Wat-hTng ! tou for several weeks past. He does not appear to j be much alarmed at the presence of the rebels on the opposite side ot the Potomac, as he is report ed to have stated a clay or two since, that he was confident of being able to manage any force the rebels choose to send over to him. His force is ar ranged so that at any time, however short, he can control it effectively. Mrs. Banks alternates be tween Washington and her husband’s camp, ren dering efficient aid, in such a way as only a woman can. The Cabinet was in session this morning, dis cussiug the disaster to our forces at Lexington, Missouri. Certain individuals, not very friendly i to General Fremont, charge that he could have ! prevented the necessity of Mulligan’s surrender by earlier action, which would have enabled rein forcements to have reached Lexington in time to have prevented so disastrous a defeat. Recent advices received from St. Louis by Fremont’s friends, however, state that he had no troops to spare, and that it was entirely impossible for him to strengthen Mulligan’s position. Louis Phillippe D’Orleans, Conipte I)e Paris, heir of Louis Phillippe ; Robert D’Orleans, Due De Chartres, brothers, were appointed Aids to General McClellan, with the rank of Captain, but they refuse to accent any pay for services. jjjPrince De Joinville aud his nephew, and Gener als Scott and McClellan, dined with Secretary Seward to-day. A iashioonable wedding took place this morn ing, at the Rev. Dr. Hall’s Church. Major H. F. Clark, Chief Commissary, when on General McClellan’s Staff, was married to the neice of General Zachary Taylor. The President, Gener als Scott and McClellan, Secretary Seward and others, were present. The church was crowded. There is no truth in the report that a commis sion has been giveu prince Salm Salm, of Prussia. Iraportaiift Movement* In Kentucky* A gentleman arrived in the city to-aay from Eastern Kentucky by way of Bowling Green, who reports that Camp Dick Robinson was evacuated, i with the exception of the sick, on Sunday, the 22d nit. A portion of the foree went to Lexington and Frankfort to guard those places; and the re mainder, about four thousand strong, march to a point called Big Hill, about sixty miles nearer the Tennessee line. The object is to fortify this hill with the view' of preventing Gen. Zollicofier’s march into the interior of Kentucky. Our infor mant says the position is a very strong one, and .susceptible of being made a very formidable ob struction to Zollicoffer’s progress. Gen. Zollicoffer has not, as reported by the Louisville Journal, advanced to Manchester, in Clay county. He was fortifying Cumberland Ford with a view of making that a strong point before he advanced. From Bowling Green, we learn that our troops have not advanced beyond Green river. They are 1 busily engaged in throwing up fortifications at ihe latter point on both sides of the river. That beyond the river is nearer the town of Mum'ord villi. The Federal* are fortifying Elizabeth to vvn, where they have about seven thousand troops and eight pieces of cannon. They have a small force at Muldrough’a hill. Up to within a few days, they were receiving considerable accessions to their force, but within a few.days.their increase has been very, small, showing that Kentuckians are not responding to the call of Gen. (Sumter) 1 Ander*on. There are about fifteen hundred refugees en camped in the vicinity of Green river, and 1,000 at Bowling Green, embracing men of every age and condition in life. These men have been com pelled to flee to save their lives or to escape an imprisonment little less intolerable than death it s’dlf. They represent that a perfect reign of ter ror exists wherever the minions of Lincoln are in the majority or have the power thiough the in tervention ot troops sent, to overawe them. So far we have heard of no ladies being arrest ed. but we know of ladies who have been com ; milled to flee the State in order to prevent arrest. | The mother and sister of a Kentucky gentleman I high iu authority* lb the Southern army now in j Kentucky, are now refugees in this city, having | arrived here a day or two since, and they escaped ! a posse sent by Geu. Anderson, it is presumed to j arrest them, by only a few hours. The petty tool ; of a petty tyrant cannot stop with arresting brave '• and patriotic men, but he must needs arrest and imprison defenseless women if he can, because | their sons and brothers and husbands dare to be 1 lreemeu.— Aa&ftviUe Cnion, sth. We conversed last evening with a gentleman, | 1 formerly resident iu Memphis aud late of Louis- I ville, who arrived here on yesterday, direct from the latter city, having succeeded in making his 1 way .South with great difficulty, by way of B irds- I tow i and itlooinfield. j He says that the strictest system of espionage ; and police is established in Louisville, and that ruffians, in the pav of the Uncoluites, are daily engaged in hounding after the tootsteps of every ! man suspected of sympathy with the. South, whom they report to headquarters upon the least provo cation, a fit subject (or Black-Republican attention Between four and five hundred Kentuckians, mostly a disbanded portion of the old “.State’ Guards,” came down with this gentleman to join Gen. Buckner at Munldrdsville—each man bring ing a gun with him, which he had carefully con cealed until the time of departure. The enemy got wind of their begirs South, and sought to cut them oft', but without avail. The celerity of their movements doubtless saved them, as "they ad vanced in twenty-fours fifty-four miles, traveling night and day. The fair and patriotic ladies of Kentucky, our informant says, greeted them with enthusiasm all aloug the line down, aud upon their generous and bo ntiful offerings the gallant little hand of enles were forced to depend for their sustenance. They arrived safely at Gen. Buckner's camp on Tuesday last. vVe learn farther that the number of Federal troops between Elizaoethtown and I.ouisvtlle is generally estimated at from ten to twelve thou sand, certainly nnt more. Some few of them - mostly Germans 1 were well drilled and equipped, but the greater number were ragged recruits, totally without discipline. Gen Buckner’s force at Muufordsville and Bow ling Green is supposed to be between twelve and titieeu thousand, and is rapidly increasing. Our informant says that the whole State of Kentucky is tn a blaze of excitement, and the Stale rights men are rushing to the defense of the Kouth trom every quarter. This statement is cor roborated by our intelligence from other sources, aLd leads us, more than anything else, to hope tor the speedy redemption ot this down-trodden people from the iron rule of tyranny.— Memphu Appeal, it*. f We learned last evening that Gen. Buckner had returned with his brigade, from Hopkinsville to Bowling Green, leaving Gen. Alcorn, with his Mississippi Brigade, in possession of the former ' place. We are reliably informed that Col. James I r. Buckner, who beaded the Lincoln troops that were captured by our Gen. Buckner at Hopkins ville a tew da- s since, and who had made his escape, was arrested on Wednesday by a cotnpa ! ny ot southerners, at a point between Henderson j and Madison, Ky. Buckner was in bed when the I arrest was made.— .Ywir ;/ V Banner. s*/i. i Bersons direct from Cumberland Ford, report that Gen. Zolltcofler has advanced to the Salt Works at Goose Creek, which he has now posses sion of,and has shipped off' a large quantity of sait which was cheerfully given up by tne parties who haa po.-session of the Salt Works.—A % toxr*lie Aeyister*, it a Csprecioent&d Fseshet.—The raitis of Thurs day and Friday last, though not very heavv were uausuaiiy steady and persistent. On Saturday the Hoist, n became much swollen, and on Sun- | day attained us greatest height, being about Vwen- i ly-nve feet above low water. We ir.irc that in the Ereoch Broad with the I Cffocky and all its other tributaries, the nse was ; “St sudden and unexpected Msnv mills and : ■■■igi - must have been washed away Os mater.- I ally imured. and most serious d’saster has been 1 experienced by farmers working bottom lands— -ome estimate ihetr loss as high as one fourth of the corn aud the enure crop of pnmpktDS. The I river was covered with them tor two days. In the upper HoiStoo, and its effusion, Watau- j ga, we hear trtghltul accounta of the damage to ! the crops, bridges and roads. "The oldest iahab:- l ant' has no recoiiecuun of such a treshet to Sep tember. loceej, in many ioci.tties this baa been i rarely exceeded even in tne early spring. It is fortunate for us that the upland crop has ueen so exuberantly prolihc—Corn will be abun dant auu cheap. Tne loss falls phocipaJly upon, the river tarms.—A’-.-.-ri iiU /Gyi-Wie-, 3«i. From Westers Yg.ish—a .entletuau who . i arrivcu .a in s city yesterday from Clarksville, , reports a conversauon with a gentleman wlo ; ■ stated that he had read a oispatch to the Ciacia- i | n«t: Enqu rer auoouuct. g that a tigiu hac taken | i iace in Western Virguna between" the forces of; ! Lee aud Roaencrac;. in winet the latter's were J terribly cut up and Roeencranx himself killed.— We merely mention tilts as one of tht rumors ' i current here last evening. \\ e regard it a* alto- ; gvtiler unreliable Oer dispatch trom Richmond ; ca news to the -'.-th ulv, last Friday and no < such tattle bad then been fooght. The Lomavtlle : Journal of Monday, we learn, makes no mention , -of it. and it is not probable that a Cincinnati pa , per of a later date had been seen by the gentle man upon whose authority the report is giTen < The Cincinnati Enqutrens uot-pnnted on Monday. I Any news so important published m its issue of 1 ’"-uaday, would appear in the Journal of Monday. The Enquirer could uot have been sees by anr one arriving in Tennessee yesterday.—-VaMrifle i Hanmer, S d. The Bloceae-e.—Tnere were four vessels off , this port yesterday blockading.— Charlulom ikrtr- • 1 er, ilk. Glorious \ iciory for the South ! S Naval rngagement off the Coast of North Carolina. CAPTIBE OF THE l. S. STEAMER 1 FANNY AND FORTY-NINE FRI'ON EKS, Uli if A LARGE AMOI NT of stores:—col. wright AND ton. LYNCH CO.n'DG— THIRD GEORGIA IN THE FIGHT ! We are indebted to a friend, of Madison, Geo., for the following letter, giring an account of the brilliant enzaceinent off the North Carolina Coast: . Elizabith City, N. C , ) < Oet. 4th, 1861 j Hr. £.id'< ' :—Being tbns far, returning from | Roanoke Island, and detained for a few hours, I propose a abort account of the Third Regiment , Georgia Volunteers. And first of all: on res- i terdar forty-nine prisoners from Hatterass were placed on a barge in front of the eamp, who, the ! mgbt before, had been taken by an expedition commanded by Cos. Wright-, and composed of the Dawson Grays, Athens Guards and Wilkinson Rifles. The command were on board the steamers Raleigh, Curlew, and Junaluska, a part of Com- I modcre Lynch's squadron. These steamers were armed with cannon. On Tuesday last, at 2)4' P. , M., the whistles sounded, the “tribands” of the ' Confederate States kissed the rising breeie, and off the little army and nary went : Commodore ! Lynch commanding all the steamers. In two hours and a half the deep mouthed dogs of war, let loose, told us in camp the work was i going on. Presently, quicker and quicker came the booming thunder, and soon several together, and then at regular intervals; and thus it was, until the white flag went up on board the steamer Fanny, a part of theU.S. N. off Hatteras, and ~ tens ours. She made all the resistance she could, but was taken. Armed with two pieces (one a rifled can - 1 non,i and those 4v men (one a contraband of ' war in uniform'—she was carrying immense ' army stores to the 14th Indiaua Regiment, then establishing a camp about 20 miles trorn ours. | Yesterday the captured Fanny was unloaded, I and before now has, in all probability, done us good service. For as we came away the cannon, at 5 P. M., when we were 15 miles off, apprised us that the fleet and army were again in motion. The Fanny’s cargo is very valuable, probably worth #70,000 or #BO,OOO, One item is 1,000 army overcoats. The prisoners are detachments from various companies at datteras, aud were commanded by Capt. Hart, of the !4tb Indiana Regiment.— Twelve of them ure from the New York 9th Regi ment, and were acting as artillerymen. They are safe, in good hands, and treated as prisoners of war. Lieut. Harris, of the Home Guards, had them in charge when we left, and all hands ou the barge were desirous to find all the j comforts its open decks afforded, in the bright j sunshine. This was indeed an episode in the life of the regi meut. fSince taking quarters there, they have worked day and night a good part of the time, doing it more rapidly than the Engineer could plan it. Threu batteries of guns, so far as the soldiers could finish them, were completed in less than ten days, and the black-throated ‘peace makers” now lie quietly in their places, ready to shake the very earth, when an enemy shall dare to pu3s. It is not right to say fully what the work is ; it must be sure to realize the labor these forti fications required at tho hands es our soldiers. Very much of it wag done without proper impli meuts, in a burningsun, or rainy night, without a word of complaint or dissatisfaction. Col. Wright told me 1 ought to see the boys cleaning up the ground with pocket knives, and how they enjoyed the fun. The regiment is full of life, and unwilling to lose the results of this work, which, with severe fighting, ought to give it a larger victory and many more prisoners. It has lost only seven or eight men by death since its organization. And after measles and mumps were over, no large number of men at auy time, have been siuce. Away down here, or thhre in North Carolina, it was very pleasant in the deep thick w-oods of Roanoke Island,to be with 900 or 1,000 of Georgia’s best men aud blood, all, all at fever heat for a good fight. It. was my good fortune to arrive at the eauton ineut on Saturday evening, and as our arrival was the first in a week with a mail, of course we had a hearty Georgia’s welcome. But a little while passed and very many were reading long and loving letters from dear ones far “away down in Dixie.” My stay was very well occupied; I enjoyed the hospitalities of Staff Officers, captains and pri vates, and I believe they ali live alike. And now, Mr. Editor, it any other regiment from Georgia wants bard work to do, let it enter list against this 3d—to frolic, work or fight—and its hands are full. Rev. R. B. Lester is Chaplain, and he gave us a good sermon on Sunday morning. Four of the Captains and many of the men are professors of religion. I would like to name certain officers whom I knew before they came here, but, sir, they are all, officers and men, from the State of Georgia, and have come here to do just one thing— their duty to thoir country and themselves. Before your readers get this, someone will give you a full account of all their acts and do ings in the enterprises just now ou their hands. Os their success there is no doubt. “ The next gale that sweeps from the North ” to you, may say, Hatteras is again “ we’ll see what we shall see.” T ours, Ac. AtrociouM Treatment ol our Prisoner*. A number of our soldiers, who were taken pris oners at the battle of RHb Mountain, on the 12th of June last, arrived here yesterday from their place of imprisonment in Ohio, having passed the lines a! Norfolk under a flag of truce. Mr. David Comfort, one of the number, former ly a resident of Charlotte Court-House, in this State, gives us au intelligent and deeply interest ing account of the atrocious treatment i’n Ohio of a number of the prisoners taken at the Rich Moun tain and released on parole, with the distinct un derstanding that they were to be sent home. Mr. Comfort, with lourteen of his fellow pris oners released on parole, alter beiug detained for a long time at Beverley, was at last sent into Ohio, supposing that they were to be returned heme. Ou arriving at Columbus, Ohio, they were all arrested and imprisoned by the order of Governor Dennison. The place of their im prisonment was at “Camp Chase,” about four miles from Columbus, where a large pen, closely ' planked up with sentinel towers, was made to serve as a prison. Within this enclosure of plank which was about sixteen feet high, two long sheds had been erected as places ofcontinement. These were'divided into mere stalls without doors, and without one single article of turniture, not even bedding or blanket. Into these mere partitions resembling, stalls for cattle, our soldiers were thrusi. The suffering inflicted upon them almost exceed belief. They were fed ou scanty rations of crackers and mess pork. Sometimes they were paraded as ofton as a dozen times a day to be shown to visitors. Many of these were Ohio ladies. Besides the prisoners on parole, among whom was Mr. Comfort, who were thrust into this vile and brutal place of confinement, it was already occupied by over one hundred citizens, of WesL ern Virginia, captured by the army, besides some twenty-tive soldiers taken in the various engage ments in the West. In giving us a relation of the sufferings of the prisoners, Mr. Comfort mentioned incidents of the brutal and savage treatment of our wounded cal culated to affect the hardest heart. Owing to the want of transportation, many of our poor wound ed soldiers had to be carried in the arms of their comrades. The surgeon at Camp Chase refused to supply bandages when they were asked for, and those of their comrades who attended the wound ed are said to have been unable to procure soap to wash their wouuds. One of these wounded s-ildiers, taken at Rich Mountain, had been shot by a ball through the mouth, fracturing his jaw,"after he had surren dered. As he was standing among his Yankee captureis, a Federal Colonel rode up to him with a cocked pistol, ..emauding, with a fearful oath, “if he was oue of the d—d rebels who had been shooting at his men." The soldier did uot reply, when the brave Yankee officer, with another bru tal oath, discharged his pistol in his mouth. The release of the paroled prisoners from Camp Chase was finally procured, after weeks of great suffering and worse indignity- through the inter vention, as it is understood" of Gen. McClellan, who bad commanded the Federal forces at Rich Mountain, and had engaged to send our prison ers home. Mr. Comfort had written to Gen. Mc- OK-llau of their imprisonment in Ohio, and an order was procured for their release from Gov. Dennison on Saturday last. The prisoners were transported by railroad to Belair, near Pittsburg,- aud thence by way of Harrisburg and Baltimore to Old Point, Virginia. Mr. Comfort heard nothing on the route of the defeat of the Federal forces in Virginia, beyond a report at Wheeling that some general officer on ■ tb« Federal side had been mortally wounded, i This is the only foundation we can Team for the ; wild report brought to Norfolk, and given with 1 such heedless extravagance by the press of a sweeping and decisive victory on the Big Sewell Mountain. j On passing through York, Pa., one of our i prisoners was approached by a respectable look ■ mg person. The man whispered in his ear that “it would be death to speak his sentiments, but to tel! the people in Virginia that the Yankees were ! going to h—il as fast as they could.” This was the only evidence of “a Northern man with Southern principles” encountered by our soldiers in all of their sojourn and travel in the North. We have obtamad the following list of our prisoners confined in the pent Dear Columbus, Ohio, including the fourteen paroled prisoners who were released. The number is far larger than we had any idea of. Among the names of citizens kidnapped from Western Virginia, ate said to be those of some six or seven old men, over seventy years of age. The list will be scanned’ with general interest. Let ail the suffering and sorrow which it imports be remembered, and be heard in the clamour which every .day grows more mud and argent for retributive justice :— RicA~ mond Examiner, \tk. [The list comprises one hundred and fifty-six prisoners, all Virginians, with the following exr ceptions—many of them loyal citizens of Western Virginia, arrested for their Southern Bentiment* F Alien, G. W., Ist Georgia Regiment. Young, David, Ist Georgia Regiment Ktrg, John D., Rutherford county, Tenn. Barnett, i. D., Ist Lieut., Hawkins’ Tennessee Lee Boys. Wheeling, C. E . Rutherford,'Tenn. Taylor, James H., Natchez. Miss. Long, William V., Kentucky. ‘j Lusby, John 8., Arkansas. Magby, Charles. Hot Springs, Arkansas— 3d Regiment, Col. Rust. From the Potomac.—Pa.-sengers trom Fairfax yesterday report everything quiet in that vicimtT. Westill adhere to our opinion that there will be no battle before the middle of the month, though events might happen to precipitate an 'engagV ment. should the Federals take the initiative. They will doubtless find our army ready to receive them. W e learn from Northern journals that the Federal forces made another “Bethel" mistake on their recent march towards Munson's Hill, and fired into each other wna considerable effect These little episodes of the campaign will per haps teach the ' ankees that war is no childish amusement, and a few more defeats like those of Manassas and Lexington may convince them of the hopelessness of their cause. Thev are now much exercised w reg-ni to the navigation of the P.itoma-., having become impressed with the be lief that any passing vesse, .s in danger of being sent to the bottom by weli-directsd shots from the Confederate batteries. I The War Department received a dispatch yes terday, slating that the enemy had crossed the ! Potomac at Occocuan in strong force, tor the par* ; pose of capturing one of onr batteries— perhans the one located near Evansport. As thev have no acquaintance with the country it is believed that they will be cut off and forced to surrender. ; Richmond biti-nuh, !,;k. We have been careful id our statements of the movements of the army on the Potomac, not to 1 risk the truth of the merely popular and vague reports tn at reach us. Yesterday, however, we obtained information that put beyond all reason- j able doubt of speculation, the imminence ot an early genera! action on the line of the Potomac.’ 1 Our"readers inav rely upon tba absolute truth of the statement that the enemy has crossed thePo- I tomac with the bulk of his forces, and that there are; at present, by an ear mate which puts the i matter out of doubt, one hundred thousand Fed eral troops on the Virginia side of the river.— | JUckmond £xan*iiur, ilk. Cam* Bahvow, Ta- BIS September, ltt«i To the Editor of ihe €h> ji, icU JkSenti.nl : I dislike to complain, or to find fault with any of the arrangements or plans of our new Govern ment. I bad rather snbmit to wrong and injustice, as long as they are tolerable, than, by complaining and fault-finding, furnish a preitXt which our ene mies may ut-e to our detr meet. Bnt wrong may become sooppressive, and injustice so galling and severe, that, to withhold remonstance were to be recreaut to duty. Under these convictions, I write these paragraphs, believing that the justice of my complaint is so manifest, that it .needs but ; to be stated, to ensure prompt measures to cor ! rect the wrong. We have all seen with pride and pleasure the ‘ noble, generous emulation of our triends at home, j iu providing, and sending to j supplies for sick and wounded soldiers. Every pa .er that comeß ftom Georgia, brings intelli- i genes of the formation of Associations to aid this j object, and of large and liberal contributions to it by individuals aud societies. It is charity and be- j nevolence on a grand and magnificent scale— ' worthy of the generous, whole-souled people who are so active in it. We appreciate very highly, this considerate care for the comfort of suffering so!diers, and cannot too highly commend the mo^ ; Dt'os which prompt it. But* do our friends at i home, who are thus laboring, and expending their j money for these hospital stores, know what be comes of them—how they are disposed of, aud who are the beneficiaries of t hem ? A plain state t meut facts as they exist here, v&nd I presume i elsewhere besides here,) mav serve to enlighten them, and guide them, perhaps, in the distribu tion of any future contributions. We have aL | ready said these supplies are collected in Rich , moud, as a Central Depository. As to what other i points portions of them mav be sent, yourcorres- : | poodent is not advised. At camp Bartow there j are several thousand troops, among them, two I regiments from Georgia, and 1 hesitate not to say j that we, in this portion of Virginia, have been ex | posed to more suffering and sickness and di comfort of every kind, than troops iu any other : portion of the service. And yet the only hospitals ! into which we have been able to get our sick, are ! the houses, many of them very small and unconi ! toriable, which the people of the country have va cated. These are crowded with the sick—every | room and corner of u room in whic-i there is space to spread a blanket (tor the luxury of a bed is not to be thought ot,) is occupied by a sick soidier.— she rooms are ottenu eglected and uncleauly, aud I the chances seem tar great .r that the nurse will be prostiated by his suffering patient, than that j the latter cau recover. If it be said that this is the best that cau be done—that the country affords np better accom ; modations tor the sick, the reply is at hand, that j either hospital stores ought to be brought here i where they are needed, or the sick be carried to • where these comforts are all provided. We can ! not usually get furloughs for our sick, at least uu- ! til they are so low that it is impossible to remove. > I have seeu soldiers droop and sicken aud die iu j their tents, With no bed but their blanket, and I no covering but their blanket, when, iif they could coulu have been removed from the discom- | forts of the lamp, or could have had, even 111 I camp, the appliances which our friends have so j | liberally provided, their lives would have been [ preserved, and they restored early to health. I j have seen others linger for long tedious weeks in feeble health, wholly unfit for service, and with no prospect of early fitness for service, as long as they have to submit to the privations and ex posures or the camp. And yet, we have been unable to remove them to more agreeable quar ters out of camp, ana we have had no means to tarnish their tents with those things so necessary to the comfort of the sick. it is certain the sick soldiers ought to have the benefit ot these things that are provided for them. Especially ought those soldiers, whose friends and families have made large contribu tions for this object—whose mothers, and sisters and wives, have toiled with aching hearts, aud tear-dimmed eyes, as they have thought of the sufferings of distant dear ones, which they hoped thus to mitigate—to be the beneficiaries of some of this liberality aud toil. The distance may be so great as to render the removal of the sick from camp to Richmond, or any other regularly established hospital, hazard ous; but how easy a matter would it be to fix up, and furnish comfortably, a hospital at a convenient distance from every camp ? The exptnse of Hit ting up a suittble house, or houses, is something; and the transportation of Hospital supplies is something; but who is there so meari l so low iu the scale of humanity, as to hesitate on account of these considerations, when the health and the Live* of soldiers, who have adventured all in their country’s defence, are the stake? My blood boils with indiguation at the bare thought that any one could be so reckless of right aud justice, as* well as human suffering, and human life. This thefi is our condition. Thoughour frieuds have contributed liberally for hospital purposes, we cau neither get into a hospital (that deserves j the.naino,-) when sick, nor get, in camp, the very supplies which our friends and families have con tributed; tend the condition becomes alarmingly aggravated, afc the rigors of winter are gathering around us. There is egregious fault some where, (I will nok attempt to locate it) and those who are responsible for it, will have a fearful account to settle with their consciences, when they come to sum up the amount of suffering aud death that it has occagipned among the soldiers. state of things continues here. I would say to-those at home who have friends in the army —more contributions to th t Hospital fund I would not have you stifle your sympathy for 'suffering soldiers, for God knows they need it all, nor would I have you relax your liberal efforts in their behalf. Whatever contributions you desire to make, whatever supplies you wish to furnish, send them directly to the Regiment or companies, to which • those'for whom they are designed are attached ; then will they receive the benefit of them, other wise (unless stationed convenient to some estab lished hospital) they will be limited to little more of comfort than is to be found in a soldier’s ordin ary quarters and daily rations Anselm. [Special Correspondence of the Chron. «£ Sent.] From the First Georgia Regiment. Camp Bartow, Sept. 29. We are still laying here in inglorious ease, | waiting for coming events, which at present do not “cast their shadows before” very distinctly. As usual, every day brings something new m the wav of reports as to our location this winter, hut we do not know anything reliable about it. From the preparations which are being made here, I think we will stay in this part of the State some time larger, if not, all winter. We have been kept busy for the last week or two entrenching and fortifying our camp, build ing “masked batteries,” and clearing woods around the camp. The present location of our regiment being con sidered too much exposed, we have been clearing up a camp grouud up on the mountain about a mile 'back of where we are now, and in a much stronger position. We had a very severe rain storm here Friday, which flooded everything iu our camp—there was not a dry tent ou the ground. This morning there was a heavy white frost and considerable ice. You cau imagine from this what kind of weather we are having. Our boys as a general thing stand il very well, and I wonder that, there are not more of them sick—a, we had to sleep for the last three or four days in wet or damp blan kets on the cold ground', and our tents afford but little protection from the cold or the heavy dews at night. Ido not know how we shall stand the winter if we have to stay here. We do not have to work very hard, as a certain number of men are detailed every day for work, so that we generally have every other day at least to rest, and there being so many to do the work, makes it light on all. Gen. Jackson has moved his quarters over to she right of our regiment—we being on the ex treme right ot the camp—and will move back with us when we change our camp. He has se lected our regiment for his “ body guard,” so we are told. He several times expressed a very high opinion of us, as have all the officers here. Col. Johnson, of the 12th Georgia, said a few days ago, that of all tho troops he had seen in tho ser vice, he would take our regiment in preference to any. This was said to one of his own officers, and not where he supposed it would be likely to reach us. Such praise, coming from the officer of another regiment from the same State, is not without some weight. There are still a great many of our men ab- sent, from one cause or another, but I believe, for all that, we have the largest regiment on the ground. Capt. Crump arrived here two or three days ago. Lieut. Allen, and Russell of the Walker Light Infantry, and Col. Ramsey, who has been Siclt at the Springß some time, arrived here last night. A member of Company B, of our regiment, came in a day or two ago—the first time he has • been seen since the fight at Carrick’s Ford. He’ had been stopping with some family up near there and has been quite sick, and every one had sup posed that he was dead or had been taken by the enemy. Joha Stoy is still at “ Bonnerfield’s Mills,” and has been sick ever since he was left there, aud is atili unable to travel, though slowly recovering. -Our boys are all well, as usual. Y'ours truly, George. From Western Virginia. . We have intelligence from the S iwell Mountain as late as Saturday last. Our forces accupied the Northeast, South and .Northwest spur of the mountain ranges. liosen craaz was on the main top of the mountain. His force ,was estimated about 9,000 strong—very lit tle supetior to our own. The camp of the enemy was within a mile and a half of our lines. J .Gen. Loring, with his division of the forces in the West, about 4,000 men, had joined Lee on the ( Ifxg Sewell. Skirmishing continued daily on our lines, hut without serious loss on either s.de. Our own loss, during the entire continuation of tht skir mishing, hud not exceeded two men killed and a few wz)untied. There was a considerable fall of snow in the encampments on Friday night last.— Richmond. Examiner, 4 tk. Imfjrmation was received at the Department yesterday that a battle took place on Thursday, 3d instant, near Cheat Mountain, between 2,500 Georgians under Gen. Jackson, and 5,000 Federals under Gen. Reynolds. The enemy, it is said ad vanced from the mountains and made the attack. . After a hard fight of four hours duration the Fed erals were defeated with heavy loss, while the loss on our side was comparatively small. —Richmond Lhmatck, bth. i-rxcHHCKG, Oct. 3d. 61. Intelligence to Saturday last from Big Sewell Mountain has been received. No attack on cur forces had been made by the enemy sincefTuesday week last, when they were repulsed. Heavy skirmishes occured however, on Vt ednesday and Tbursdav, resulting in some .oss to the enemy. Gen. LoriDg joined Gen. Lee on Friday last, with six thousand nten and the latter s command now numbers about twelve thousand effective It is understood that Gen. Lee intends making i au attack immediately on Rosenerantz, and no 1 doubt is entertained of his being able to defeat him, aDd drive him out of the country. The Richmond papers to day contain a re port of the defeet of Rosenerantz on Friday last, and that the wnole Northern army was retreating from Northwestern Virginia ; but tne! above intelligence, which is later, shows the re- i port to be unfounded. •We have late intelligence from the West by passengers arr.ved last evening. Affairs at Big . Sewell Mountain presented no material change, j and do battle had taseu place between the oppos- . ing forces. Gen. Lee has now under bis com- . mand a sufficient number of troops to hold his position, should the eDernv make an attack thouzh it la the opinion of some that ue will await furtherreinforeements before making an ad* , ranee movex?nt. — i’o- r. iicu, ■oh. Latest feom the Coast. —The blockade is being enforced off this harbor, br two steamers ana a sailing ressel. Off North Edisto a steamer haa been observed for three or four days, standing in j shore in the morning, under canvass, end steam- , mg off in the afternoon. Several vessels have, •' aLo, we understand, been lately seen off Port Royal. Some scamps hare deserted from vessels stationed at North Edisto. A few nights since tt|£) seamen took a vessel’s yaw! boat, aud is sup posed to have gone out to sea, and possibly to some of the blockades. A schooner which left a Southern port some time since, with a cargo of rice, it is reported, has been lost on the .Bahamas, was but little damaged, and hfcg, we are informed, bees saved. Arrivals f-om ft reign portadaave latelv taken place, having on bonid ar ticles much in demand.— Clo&rUston Mercury. 7 tK (fbronidt ft L §mfmcl,; o AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 9, IWI. OUR TERMS. —Single eopie3, &2 per annum; three copies $5 ; six copies #10; ten copies sls. Invariably in advance. No name will be enter ed on our subscription books unless the money accompanies the order. The notes of all specie paying banks taken at par. We employ no travelling agents. WE AIWATS stop the ChronicM & Sbmti sel at the end of the year, or the time for which it is paid, of which each subscriber will receive notice in the paper, so that if ycu wish to con tinue it, it would be well to renew your subscrip -1 tion at least two weeks before the time expires. WE C ANNOT change the address of a sub scriber unless he gives us his former as well as his present address. People# Candidate In the Southern Watchman we notice the name of Col. Reese of Morgan mentioned for the Con federate Congress, and the following extract from a letter from CoL. Reese' “Yours askiug me to signify my willingness to serve, if elected to Congress, from the 6th District, is before me. “Nothing short of an imperious sense of duty could mduce me, under the most favorable cir cumstances, to become a candidate for Congress. To desire or accept othce, for the sake of office, is 'iu my judgment, a jreat weafoiees s and one of which, I trust, 1 shall never be guilty. “The desire of every patriot (especially in these times oi peril) should be usefulness. Aside from every other consideration, the uncertainty as to when I shall recover from an injury received some mouths since, admonishes me that I might do iujustict to the country, as well as to myself, were I to couseut to the use of my name in the premises. . » 1 will cheerfully support any safe-minded geu tlemau who may be willing to stake fortuue, and life for his country and ns freedom.” Where office, office, is uow in such demaud, nothing gratifies us so much as reading this ex tract from a modest gentleman, a pure patriot. We are pleased to learn that the name of Col. Gus Reese is becomiug more and more popular in the 6th District. Aud why should it not ? He has been long, and favorably known to us. Wherever he has served, ability, energy, talent, modesty and patriotism have been apparent. We cordially give Col. Reese our support, and trust that his name will be united upon by the ! people of the District. Oglethorpe County. Si xth I Jistkict.— We at e authorized to aunouuce Gen. M. C. M. Hammond, of this town, as a candi date to represent the people of the Sixth District —Composed of the counties of Ranks, Franklin, Hart, Jackson, Madison, Oglethorpe, Elbert, Wal ton, Clarke, Newton, Morgan, Greene aud Talia ferro—in the Congress of the Confederate States. Athens Watchman. \t eekly Mail*-—How to «ct ISarly New# A number of our subscribers, at various points off the Railroads, where they have but weekly or semi-weekly mails, huve adopted the plan of hav ing the Daily Chronicle if- Sentinel sent to the nearest Rost Office at which a daily mail is re ceived, and from thence carried by the subscri bers in turn to the most convenient point for dis- tribution. This plan is found to work well ; ana during these exciting times, when almost every ne has a friend or relative among our brave volunteers, from whom something may b # e heard, (independent of the interest which all must feel in the progress of events,) the early reception of news is an object worth the little trouble of this plan. We recommend our friends to try it. An Appeal lor Arm#. The undersigned would respectfully inform the itizens of Georgia ; and especially of North Eas tern Georgia ; of the fact that our regiment of Infantry is now ordered to rendezvous at Savan nah, Ga., on the 24th of October ; to remain on the coast during the Winter, and then to go wher ever ordered. We are still wanting two of three companies to complete the organization ; b*t Governor Brown assues us, that, should wo ffeil to get'the companies he will call out, (of those tendered him) enough to complete the Regiment, so that the organization shall not fail on that account. Bat this promise upon the part of his Excellency, is based upon the supposition that we will have procured enough country rifles and double barrel shot guns to arm the regiment, as he cannot accept companies un armed. We have procured enough to arm say seven or eight companies—we wish you to give us the bal ance. Those wishing to aid in this good cause will seud them to my address, Lexington, Ga., or to, the several Clerks ol the Superior Court iu this part of the State forward according toor der. Those who have subscribed guns will please send them in immediately. All who, in any way, mays see proper to aid us, will receive our war mest thanks. ______ Hardee. The Best Map op the Skat op War.—A few copies of the best map of the Seat es War yet is sued, for sale at this office. Price 60 cts. sent to order, postage paid. G ilham’s Tactics. —Messrs. Bryan A Thompson have now ready the second edition of their popu lar compilation of Gilham’s Infantry L Rifle Tactics. Our military men need hardly be told, that at the present time, a careful study of these works is indispensable to the thorough soldier. This edition has been carefully revised, a.d is gotten up in a cheap and convenient form. See advertisement. Mr. V. M. Barnes, of this city, is announced as a candidate for Secretary of the Georgia Senate Election Return*. We subjoin the official vote of Richmond coun ty on Wednesday last: o a « h *-b- “h" I |f| I p For Governor, 15. A. Nisbet,. 612 25 15 38 61 743 Jos. E. Brown 589 17 29 60 27 740 For Stat 6 Senate, Wm. Gibson 660 19 6 27 40 752 A. C. Walker 446 13 45 61 44 609 Representatives, Geo. T. Barnes 991 33 10 65 68 1167 Wm. Schley 660 29 4 27 53 778 J. F. Eawsou 445 1 45 52 45 572 Photographs. —A few of Tcckkk & Perkins’ finely executed photographs of Davis, Stephens, Beai recard, Bartow, Johnson, aud others, for sale at this office. Price 25 els each, sent to or der, postage paid. Death of Councilman Wm. A. Evans.— We are pained to announce that Mr. Wm. A. Evans, the eldest son of Gen. Evans, and Councilman from the Second Ward, died at the residence of his father near this city, on Sunday last. lie.was greatly esteemed for his many manly qualities, aud his loss will be severely felt. His funeral took place frem the first Baptist Church at 12 M. yesterday—Rev. W. J. Hard preaching the funer al discourse. The “Southern Monthly.” —The October num ber of “Hutton A Freligh’s Southern Monthly,” published at Memphis, Teun., has been received. It has an engraved likeness of President Davis, a varied table of contents containing articles of merit and'interest, and is very neatly printed. Such a magazine, unequivocally Southern in its proclivities, ought to succeed. Terms three dollars a year, in advance. Address Hutton A Frrligh, Memphis Tennessee. Tracing up a Rumor.— An exciting rumor of an engagement in which our Georgia troops participa ted, (in what place does not matter) prevailed on the streets yesterday, which we employed an hour in seduloubly endeavoring to trace to the original source—but it was of no avail. The story started formidable proportions —the next man who had heard of it, curtailed it a trifle—the third stripped it still more—and by the time we had reached the fourth chap, there warn’t near enough left to issue an extra for. This reminds us of the traveler who was direct ed on his way in a spacious well-beaten road ; by and by it grew less in size; from a road it became a lane ; from a lane it dwindled to a footpath ; and narrowed down to a squirrel track and ran up a tree. Full returns from sixty connties show Brown 26,319, Nisbet, 19,351—majority for Rrown, 6,96«. Reported majorities in a few other counties make Brown’s majority about *,OOO. Hon. Warren Akin has been elected to the House of Representatives from Cass countv, though not a candidate. Mr. Milner was also elected, we presume, though we have not learned, nor has any one in that county felt interest enough in the election to send us the returns. So with Morgan, Colombia, and several other coun ties, from which we ought long ago to have had returns. The Fight on the Green brler—News from oor Boys. We have been permitted to copy the following private dispatch from Lieutenant Allen, now in command of the Oglethorpe Infantry, Ist Georgia : Regiment, which confirms the report of the fight ; between Gen. Jackson and Gen. Reynolds, and brings the gratifying news that the gallant Ogle thorpes are all safe. We hope soon to hear the j same from the Walker Light Infantry, another ! crack Augusta company • 44 Camp Bartow, Oct. 4th, / Via Staunton, f The enemy attacked os yesterday, and after six | hours hard fighting, were repulsed and fled. None af the Oglethorpes were hurt.” J. V. H. Allen. Private John H. Butler of the Blodget Artillery | just arr:v6 from Richmond on a short furlough, ! informs us that Capt. Blodget has finally received the harness and all equipments complete for his fine Artillery Company, a\ now under march ing orders, will probably leave Richmond to-day Friday) or at &dy rate by monday next. The company is in fine spirits and health, except a few cases of of mumps and measles, numbers 126 privates, all devoted to their Captain and proud of him and their company and consider themselves equal to any company es the Confedate States Their destination is not known, but we presume ■Washington. Prof. Speller, a most accomplished swordsman and exeeilant officer, is third Lieuten ant. _ Memphis, Sept. 26, 1661.—A dispatch from Fort Smith says a regiment of Missourians, under Col. Hunter, was defeated by the Kansas Ruffians, un der Lane aad Montgomery, who are naming towns, trd marching upon the Arkansas frontier. McCulloch has ouly 3,500 men. He proclaims that he needs three regiments of infantry immedi ately for tweive months service, and calls urgent- 1 ly for a general rally for the defence of the tetaie. A iMUtak*. 11 The pi .ill., t*hu iuakoa a tbuutauj tiUd. sugar or a thousand hales of cotton, and so of any other quantity, amt,subscribes the proceeds of one half ol it to the Government, will receive, in in terest upon the bonds he obtains, two or three , times the amount of the war tax assessed upon him, and this calculation any one can make for himself.” The above paragraph occurs in a letter addressed by Mr. Deßow, Superintendent of the Produce Loan at Richmond, to a gentleman of Louisiana, and was written August 29th. We have only re cently seen the letter in print, and have seen it highly commended. Mr. Deßow is an able man, bnt he has made a most egregions mistake in writing the paragraph above, as we shall easily show. We will take the case of a cotton planter in Middle Georgia, or an average planter in any part of this State, who produces one hundred bales of cotton. How stands the case 7 He subscribes tho proceeds of fifty bales, when sold—and the design is that it shall be sold during the comiDg winter and spring—for Confederate bonds, bearing inter est at S por cent, per annum, payable semi-annu ally. If the cotton brings him fifty dollars per bale, clear of all expenses—estimating the bale at 500 pounds, and the price paid at ten cents per pound —he will receive $2,500 in Bonds, the annual in terest on which is S2OO. If the eettou be sold by next January, he will receive his first semi-an nual payment of interest, of SIOO, in July, the re mainder in January, 1662. But, under t'ae cir- cumstances, he cannot get eight cents for his cotton, nor, if the whole subscribed cotton were put on the market between this time and next July, the blockade continuing, the war progress ing, aud the Government Dever coming to his re lief, could he get three cents. But putting the price at seven ceuts—and ten thousand bales can net find purchasers even at that price-in the whole Confederacy while things remain as at present— he would get say $1,750 in bonds, the interest oi which is $l4O. But the war tax has to be paid next May, come what will, unless the law is repealed in November, as it ought to be, unless a market can bo furnish ed the planter, and what amount of that tax will the producer of one hundred hales have to pay? Will his interest on 8 per cent. Bonds—his S2OO or his sl4o—be “twb or three times the amount of the war tax assessed upon him,” as Mr. De- Bow so confidently but so ignorantly declares? Let us see. To produce one hundred bales of cotton in Georgia, not only this year, which has not proved very favorable to cotton, but for an average of ten years, aud on an average of the - whole State, requires the labor of thirty workers, and the cultivation of two hundred to four bun dred acres in that crop. On a plantation of thirty workers there will be at least fifty negroes, worth and to he assessed at twenty-five thousand dol lars. The lands of such a planter, his carriages, gold watches, plate, Ac., will amount to teu thous and dollars more. His War Tax will be then $175 —very little less than his interest on the bonds under the best circumstances, and in all probabil ity a great deal more—aud this to be paid in mo ney, before he has touched his first cent of inter est. Aud if the tax is uot paid, his property is to be summarily levied on and sold, and at a time, too, when it can uot bring one fifth, perhaps not one tenth of its estimated or assessed value. We should be glad to know how—not regarding the question of amount of tax as compared to pros pective interest on Confederate bonds —he is to pay the tax, or buy his bacon and clothing aud shoes for his negroes unless he has money laid up from former earnings. And plauters don’t usual ly have money hoarded, nor even invested in uny thing besides lands, negroes and mules. Still less do they have it at this time, with a poor crop last year, high prices for bacon all through the season, and their pockets constantly drawn upon to re lieve the soldier and his family. Not only will planters find it a hardship to pay their taxes, but many others, aud among them money-lenders, many of whom have their whole property iu promissory notes, and are unable to collect a dollar. The Government and the Congress ought to know, and to consider well and appreciate fully the wishes and the condition and the capabilities and the needs of the people, and set accordingly, as circumstances require. The Cotton Loan was undertaken with the idea, the hope and the ex pectation that the blockado would be raided this fall or winter. In that etent a market would have offered, Cotton could have been sold, taxes paid and the profits of the year invested in Con federate Bonds instead of land aud negroes. But the blockade still continues, and there is no cer tainty, perhaqrs very little probability, that it will be raised in twelve months, or twice twelve. Os course then it becomes not only s matter of policy but of necessity to alter our financial scheme to suit the altered circumstances of the case, and the Congress should devote its attention to this mat ter immediately upon re assembling. If eotton can’t he exported it can’t be sold to any conside rable amount, and only at ruinously low prices— consequently the scheme of the Cotton Loan, which was a good one on the supposition that eotton could go forward, must be abandoned; and it will not do to delay too long, unless the Gov. erument has more information about the matter than the people, and more than we tlTnk it has. Gov’t should buy all the cotton not now loaned, and unless it can give speculators a very reatona ble assurance that cotton shall go forward soon, so that they may feel safe in buying that which is subscribed, it should abandon the loan and bay the whole crop outright. We publish this morning an important letter from Western Virginia, written by a Captain of a company belonging to ono of our Georgia Regi ments. It will attract attention, and deserves to, as the matters to which it relates are of deep, painful and continual interest to all the people, almost every one of whom has some relative en gaged in the war. The writer is not pisrtonally known to us, but known by common report as one of the most talented, worthy and rising young men in Middle Georgia. Wo are very sure lie would not make a statement that was not true, or, at leagt, not believed by him to be true. That our army has suffered awfully from the want of proper Hospital arrangements, Hos tal stores, and Medical attendance, caunot be denied. To look after these things, and attend to them strictly, promptly, liberally, was the duty of the Government. But it has been found absolutely necessary that pri vate means and individual effort should come to the aid of Government, to prevent, or to mitigate as far as possible, the enormous suffering of our sick soldiers. The call upon the people for aid to the sick has been met in Georgia with alacrity, zeal and great liberality. But still, according to our correspondent, with all that has been done, there in great and deserved complaint. Where the fault is, or for what reason the difficulty ex ists, and the suffering continues, we cannot say. “Rome was not built in a day/’ neither cun am ple and thorough hospital arrangements be made for all Georgia’s sick in Virginia in a few weeks. The Central Board in this city has worked ardu ously in the good cause, aud we doubt not the managers in Richmond have done what they could. The Central Board has received large contributions and forwarded them as rapidly as possible. Still, perhaps they have not received nearly enough to answer all the demands of the Georgia soldiers in Virginia, perhaps supplies could not be trar sported as rapidly as desirable, and perhaps more attention has been given at Richmond to the soldiers of the East, to the neglect of those in the West. We do not say that this latter is true, for we hope it is not. But the fact exists that two or more Regiments of Georgians are in Western Virginia, that they have suffered greatly from sickness, continue to suffer and to die, and that their claims are great and pressing, for relief. If no general plan can be made available, then their own immediate friends, relatives, neighbors and counties must aid them. We commend their condition to the sympathies and active exertion of the Govern ment, the Hospital Association, and tLe people. Home on Furlough.— We notice > yesterday the following officers of various >.ugusta vol unteer companies, in tow* on furlough : Capt. H. B. Adam, Oglethorpe Infantry ; C ipt. J. F- Cleveland, Montgomery Guards; Capt. I. P* Girardey, Washington Artillery; oerg/t. Geo. Adam, Clinch Rifles; Lieut. E. B. Thompson, In dependent Blues; Corporal Haigh, Oglethorpe In fantry. Departure of the Baker Volunteers.— The Baker Volunteers, Capt. Rndler, left this city for Richmond last night. The company is composed of good fighting material, and with a gallant Captain to lead them on, the boys wili make their mark. Success to them. The Washington Artillery Home Guard fired a parting salute for tbe^olunteers. Parade of the Militia.— We acknowlekgc the compliment of a salute from Capt. Picquet’s com pany of the Seeond Ward, who had their semi monthly drill-yesterday afternoon. They made a very creditable appearance. The Third Ward Militia, Capt. Parker, we un derstand, were out in considerable force on Tues day. We did not have the pleasure of seeing them. The P. G. Zouaves, Capt. Bottom, turn out at 8 o'clock this afternoon. Fine Drawings. —Mr. E. W. Brown, the well known architect of this city, is now executing come admirable drawings of military equipments and implements for the Confederate States Gov ernment. Stepping into Mr. B.'s office over Henet’s store, yesterday, we were permitted to inspect some of these engravings. They seem to us to be the perfection of delicate drawing—each line and figure, minute as they are, bearing the closest inspection of a magnifying glass. In one Plate, the Fuze Auger, Extractor, and Gunner’s Callipers, would at once strike the eye ot a con noisseur as exceedingly well drawn. We are glad that the Government has entrusted this work to such a competent draughtsman as Mr. Brown. The appointment of Generals in the Confede rate army are full, having reached the limitation of five general officers, provided by existing B.ws of the Confederate States. The distinction be tween the Provisional and Confederate, or regu lar organization* is, that the former expires with the termination of the war. Fine Corn. —We have some fine specimens of com. large, full white grain on a red cob, grown on the plantation of Mrs. Mart Daksey, in Co lumbia county, such as has been grown on the same plantation, without change of seed, for more thaff twenty years past. One of the years is mil 13 inches long—the longest ear of corn we ever saw—and two of them weigh each 24 ounces. ftvllel fin 1 if»« Vrssls.’ Wmter U cabling on, the time* aro getting tight, ail sorts of supplies are being rapidly exfiiausted, aud things generally are looking decidedly blue. Our markets are nearly hare of caudles, coffee, starch, soap, oil, bacon, refined sugars, salt, hay, iron, shoes, clothing and other necessary supjdies, aud what remains of these is generally lteld at very high pries. It does not appear that these are factitious prices either, or caused by specula tion, but prices arc high because, in fact the de mand is largely in excess of the. supply. We have plenty of eorn and.flour, rice and tobacco and cotton, hut very little of any thing else. Ba con, a prime necessity, is exhausted in New Or leans, except hams, and exceedingly small stocks are held in Nashville, Memphis, Ohattauooga, Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah and Charleston. Can’t wo really feed ourselves, after all our j boasting? Can’t wh produce the other necessa ries abovo enumerated? We believe that we can, and that we ought to have done so long ago ; tut the foolishness aud tho. notions of out peopl , and our system of policy, buying where wc could buy cheapest—in money at the time— and selling where we could sell dearest, have made us a dependent people. It will readily occur lhat we cauuot live within ourselves—with the conduct which has characterized our life in the past—all at once. It will require time to enable us to live at home.— Time is necessary to grow onr grain, aud then more time to convert graiu into meat. But we have this year produced an abundance of graiu— surely it must he enough to furnish both bread and meat, and to feed our domestic animals not destined for slaughter—and we ought speedily to get about the work of conversion. We have been producers of raw material long en ough—“hewers of wood and drawers of water," long enough. Wo have an alarmingly short sup ply of liacou and lard, notwithstanding onr abun dance of grain and of animals to eat it, because we have bought heretofore from the Northwest, and as Lincoln has blockaded us pretty effectual ly iu that direction, we must do the best we can till uew pork couies in. Mess Pork is selling in New Orlearns at forty to forty-five dollars a bar rel—but let us hope that from our own resources, ' and having Tennessee aud hall of Kentucky to j draw from, we may by January get pork in the cotton belt at ten or twelve cents a pound. There ; are portions of our cotton country where hogs esnnot readily be raised, and others where bacon caunot be easily cured. Os course cotton plan ters in such districts must buy their meal. But . how can they buy unless they can sell? It is plain now that unless matters change soon there must be increased suffering among our people. This must be mitigated as best it may. We must help ourseives, help one another, aud our Government must come to the relief of the people. One great necessity now is that the holders of stocks of goods absolutely needed by the people should act m concert, and furnish them at fair prices. One mail can do nothing—one city can do nothing.. There must he agreement and concert at such a time. Merchants have been loudly abused for asking extortionate prices for goods, and they ar e not blameless. Still their real position, we believe, has not been clearly under stood and comprehended by the people. Many of them have contributed largely in various ways to the soldiers, may have undertaken great risks and been at far more than usual expense to keep up their stocks of goods, and with heavy taxes to pay, and the prospect of idleness and no business in the near future, by reason of exhaustion of stocks, they are certainly entitled to a very fair amount of set of against the high prices they charge. We ought to be just to them, and they ought to be considerate of the necessities of the people in these extraordinary times. But the Government must conic to the aid o the people. It has undertaken to aid them in beating aud driving hack the enemy, by organiz ing the people into soldiery, and arming, clothing and feeding them with their own money. It has not succeeded yet, but is proceeding to do so proceeding as rapidly aud as vigorously, we doubt not, as its means will admit, but not as rapidly and as vigorously as the popular impatience de mands. The people may be very wrong and very foolish—of that we do not now speak, wc only state the fact that the people and the people’s ne cessities cry aloud for celerity, vigor and effective ness. The war drags its slow length along, the enemy is within our border, is landing on our coast and threatening us everywhere with the ravages (if war, onr supplies are running low, win ter coming on,onr ports are blockaded, certainly in a manner effectual enough to make u. feel the want of many things, and still the graei wheel that turns every other iu this Coufedercy is idle, mo tionless, struck lifeless. Whether it be true or not, as we have fondly considered, that cotton is the great Archimedean lever lhat moves the world, certainly there can be no doubt that it is the lever which puts evory thing in motion here, and gives life and energy and activity to every department of our business. .We shall soon have three million hales of this precious staple on which our life depends, safely gathered and stored, and yet perfectly useless to its producers aud to the whole business of the country, because it can not find a market. It seeks a foreign market and is shut off by the blockade. Its export is not prohibited by law, but by the public sentiment. No considerable sales of cotton can be made at home, and those at low prices, nor would tho market be any better, we believe, by surreptitious export, and by run ning tho blockade with a cargo or two. Neither would the country be materially benefitled by such a trade, even if we got woollens and shoes and guns and ammunition in exchange. If we can get these at all from übroud, we can get them in exchange for rice, lumber and naval stores, which form no part of our power as cotton aud tobacco do. But the export of them and the im portation of goods in exchunge for them would just as clearly show the blockade technically uud legally ineffective, as the export of cotton for gold or goods. In fact more so —for Lincoln and Europe might act in concert lor ihe exportation of cottoD, and Lincoln might readily wink at, if he did not actually connive at, the cotton export, iu order to prevent European powers from de claring his blockade ineffectual, as they would have no reason to make such declaration au thoritatively, so long as they could get what they wanted without. It is the duty then of our Government to re leive the people, by furnishing a liomf market for the cotton—by buying it, and paying for it iu Treasury notes, and holding it as a basis of credit and of power, to be used as it sees fit. By this means alone, so far as we can now see, will the people be enabled to pay their debts and their taxes, and buy what they are compelled to have. By this means alone can business go on, can em ployment he furnished the workers, can want be .averted from the poor, and many hardships be avoided by all classes. Corn-Field Peas. During the bright, clear, dry October weather, before the cattle and hogs go into the fields, if the cotton picking be not too pressing, is the time to gather field-peas. A few farmers will not plant the pea, under the impression that peas kill hogs and cattle. So they will, and so will clover, green corn or dry corn, or oats, or almost anything else, if half-starved stock be turned upon them to eat at their will ; but more stock dies for want of peas than by eating them. But we are not now to discuss the value of peas as food for stock, but for human beings. The farmers and planters usually gather only a very small portion of the pea crop, because peas are rather difficult to gather, and the slock can gather for themselves without cost or waste. Enough only for seed, aryl a few for the negroes, constitute the bulk of the gathering. But we would urge upon our farmers now to gather all the peas they possibly can, for peas, rice, potatoes and dry fruit will be largely needed by the army. After the peas are threshed aod well sacked they can be kept, In a dry place, equally as well as rice, and we doubt if any thing can be given the soldiers this winter, except meat and corn bread, whfch will be at the same time more palatable, more healthfal, or impart more strength and vigor, than corn-field peas. The hardy lumbermen of the North go into ihe for ests for the winter with a supply mainly of that favorite Northern dish, pork and beans. Our peas are of the same character as their beans, and while they do not yield so much heat as other food, they furnish abundantly that material which builds up muscle, aud sustains the waste of brain and nerve. Teas are, in fact, the food,— after corn bread and meat—for our soldiers this winter. Not only do they keep well, but they are easily cooked by the most ignorant and inexpert. By all means, then, let our farmers .and planters gather and thrash a large supply, not only for their negroes, but for our army in the field. Southern School Books. —Our people are evi dently waking up to the importance, the neces sity, of having text-books which are emanations ofSouthern minds. We have no doubt in time we shall have School Books fully suited to our wants, and witness the gradual but complete eradication of Northern-made books from our in stitutions of learning, leaving us a sound, healthy School Literature as the result of self-reliance. We are indebted to the Publishers at Nashville for copies of the following u-w Southern School Books : 1. The Confederate Primer. 2. The First Confederate Speller. 3. The Second Confederate Speller. These books are gotten up “by an Association of Southern Teachers,” and from the hasty peru sal we have given them, we think they will answer public requirement and expectation. The arrangement and style seem to be judicious, and we have no doubt they wili meet the approval of the friends of education. Success to all such honorable enterprises. Manufacture of Oil-Cloth.— Mr. W. H. Wil son, of Washington, Ga., showed us this morning specimens of oil-cloth w hich be and Mr. Golucke are manufacturing at Washington, W’ilkes coun ty. The articles are very substantial, and just what are now needed by our soldiers in Virginia, being thoroughly water-proof. Messrs. Golucke and Wilson not only manufacture this cloth for sale by the piece, Cut they a r e also manufactur ing complete soldiers’ outfits —over coats, cape, leggings and blanket liniDg, by the aid of which soldiers can keep perfectly diy. The material is far superior to enameled cloth and much cheap er—it does not harden nor crack. John L. Buford, formerly mailing clerk in this office, hae been elected Lieutenant in the Inde pendent Blues, to fill the vacancy caused by the resign v. ion of Jeff# W. lay lor. 'l'lia A*pe«;t ar tt»« tX’MVf Tua impression vain* ground that, \i'u are ou the eve of grave events, and that verv noon great, important, perhaps decisive military movemeuts will occur, Our cause ha« met heretofore almost uniform success, and recently our arms are de cidedly victorious. The capture of Lexington is perhaps as important an event as has occurred since the war began. Whether Price designs simply to hold it now against the heavy forces with which Fremont threatens him, or to move his columns Eastward on Booneville and Jeffer son City is matter of speculation. Perhaps it is prudent simply to hold Lexington at present, as it is doubtful whether McCulloch cau come to Prior’s aid iu time, aud with sufficient force. Fremont must have n large force at St. Louis but still he may not have been able to take up ; the Hue of march with more than 30,000 or 40 000 | men, as a large number must be left at St. Louis, j The Pathfinder finds himself at last in a ciiti cal position, and his fate hangs on a deader thread, lie is a candidate for the success .on, and his military success—not forgetting contracts, jobs, Ac.—is intimately mixed up with his aspira tions for the future, whether he seeks the purple by the sword or by the ballot. Re has all the Blairs, old Frauk, the cadaverous, griping Quilp of our earliest political recollection, young Frank, who feels that Fremont has usurped his peculiar bailiwick, Bt. Louis, aud Montgomery, the mean est of the lot, at his heels. The reckless way in which Fremont has spent the treasure, is the pretext on which their opposition rests. The President, perhaps with a feeling of rivalry, and with a sort of dread to take the abolition leap just now, is a little cool towards the General of the West. Aud uow, since Mulligan has made a nine days’ fight, and been defeated, and his whole army, horses, guns, arms, Ac., captured, the war riors ot the Eastern Printing houses are raising a storm of popular indignation against Fremont for not seuding reinforcements to Lexington, al though reinforcements were sent, but Price drove them back. At the same time the great North west is clamorous that the East demauds Western troops for the Capitol, while Missouri needs all that can he seut. So Fremont must fight, and with desperation. If Price can hold his own till McCulloch joins him, they may finish the short aud brilliant career of Fremont before the winter fairly sets in, and rout the Lincoln forces from all Missouri. And meantime, great hopes are centered on Kentucky, aud ou Sidney Johnston, Buckner and Hardee, who are slowly moving along the western border, and throttling toryism aud federalism in the in terior. There, must be bloody w«rk in Kentucky ere long. And at last we are achieving success in Western Virginia, driviug back the invaders, aud carrying light and liberty to the fastnesses of the benighted mountaineers. Lee and Floyd, Lo ring and Jackson, we hope aud believe, with the Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee and Virginia sol diers, are pressing on the finally retreating hosts of Rosencrantz, Cox and Reynolds, driving them westward to the Ohio. Jußi now there is an anxious suspeuce, a queru lous impatience, probably a little foreboding, as the eyes of the nation turn towards the Potomac and Washington. Perhaps all will be made plaiu and bright before us within a week. Two mouths ago we advanced the opinion, and it is not changed, that, while we should neglect no precaution at home, fail in uo preparation, relax no energies, yet the best defence of Georgia and of our whole coast was to carry tire and sword upon Washing ton and beyond the border, to institute actual war around the peaceful homos of the enemy, to give him and his a taste of what War in reality was, and to do this as speedily and vigorously as could be done. Others, wiser doubtless thau we, thought ihe policy was wrong, admitting eveu our ability , ( which was doubted,) because it would stir up the war passion among the Northern people. We en- tertained no such opinion, because we believed the North was wholly sensational, that it had neither military aptitude nor wai passion, except as a seusation, and that two similar sensations could uot be gotten up within twelve months. From the doubts of the Government, as to the forward policy, or from the inability to furnish every thing necessary for an invading army soon er, or from some cause, our Potomac forces have not advanced since the battle of Manassas till re cently. But it seems that the w r ork is to begin in earnest. Gen. Johnston’s army has beeu moved within sight of Washington, and after occupying this advanced position for many days without be ing able to draw McClellan out, has fallen back again in the centre, though the wings still closely press the Potomac, and the Confederate batteries have closed the navigation of that River below Washington. The President has finally gone iu person to the near neighborhood of the army, and, with every preparation made, the army awaits the onset. The falling back is designed, we presume to draw the Lincoluites from their en trenchments, with the expectation that if they can be fought and beaten ten miles from Wash ington, their momentum, when once in the full tide of retreat, will carry them across the River. Perhaps our Generals may fail it* drawing the enemy on, but it would seem that he can not long maintain his position of defence, without losing caste with his people and with the nations. Claim ing to be a great nation, with limitless military resources of all kindß, having three times the fighting population that the Confederates have, and enguged m putting down a wicked and cause less rebellion , with one half or more of the rebel** (as they assert to themselves aud to the world,) in opposition to the rebel cause, the United States Government* nuitJU/ht or sink in the world’s esti mation. If McClellan’s army do advance and give us battle, we rest iu tho confident assurance, which has no shadow of misgiving, that we shall beat them, drive them out of the capital aud be yond the Susquehannab and the Ohio, and thus we hoj>e, actually end the war by the middle of November. Paddling his own Gance. —One of our citizens while down the river yesterday, observed a man descending the stream in a bateau. The naviga tor appeared so unskillful—so little used to hand ling a paddle, Ac., that our friend hailed him and asked him where he was bound. He stated that he was going to Savannah, and by that convey ance! Knowing the danger to be incurred by such a course, he was kindly advised to come ashore, and ourfriend promised to see himsafely to his destination by land, even at his own expense. He was finally induced to land, and his effects —a heavy trunk and a valise—were taken out of the boat. To questions put to him, be said bo was direct from New York, came through by way of Kentucky without a passport—was 4 out of mon ey—had relations in Savannah (naming several well known citizens there» and was bound for that city, having purchased the boat at this point. At this juncture, officer King rads up, and Bay ing he wished the stranger to accompany him, took him into his custody and brought him to town. An examination before Mayor May was had, when the traveler gave his name as Mr.— Norris. An inspection of his baggage reveaied nothing treasonable ; and his pecuniary necessi ties beingmade known,thePolicegenerously made up a purae for him, and the Mayor gave him a through ticket to Savannah. He was to leave for that place last night. Mr. N ouKis is a young man of intelligence, but he will probably be more careful in future about navigating unknown rivers, “paddling his own canoe,” or traveling in war times without a pass port. We wish him good luck the balance of his adventurous journey. A Good Joss on Fremont. —A gentleman who had returned to Arkansas from a visit to St. Louis communicates to an Arkansas paper a good joke on General Fremont, who, it seems, got up, mounted and equipped a body of troops as a special body guard ; their horses were superior, and their arms and appointments of the finest dc scription. He was proud of it. It was to be bia pet. Hut one day this fine body went out to per form sundry evolutions at about two miles from the city, and they never came back. They were last heard of in General Hardee's camp, where they accidentally found their way. If an- one wants to see Fremont mad, it is only necessary to mention body guard in his presence. Distinguished Akbital.— I The Richmond Kh tjuirtr says Among the arrivals at the Exchange last night, was Sir James Ferguson, a member of the British Parliament, who brought with him important ofiicial communications—so at least it was announced—from our Commissioners in Eu rope, to President Davis, F.x-PrtsideDt John Ty ler, Gen. Wise, aud others. The arrival ot this distinguished nobleman is regarded as full oi significance, and creates quite a stir in ofiicial and outside circles. His lordship and suite reached here vta Memphis. A Sweet Set.— The New York Tribune, of th« 16th, gives a list of speakers announced to hold forth at a meeting at Cooper Institute, »n the evening of the 20th. We give the names, as fol lows i Daniel S. DickinsoD, Horace Greeley, Lu cius Robinson, Washington Hunt, Senator (?) Andrew Johnson, Gov. Curtin, Gov. Olden, Job. Holt, Leslie Combs, Thomas Francis Meagher, Senator Harris, Lyman Tremaine, Frederick A. Conkling, Robert J. Walker and Geo. D. Pren tice, all arrayed to denounce and put down the “rebels.” We are indebted to Mr. Sins, of this city, lor Northern papers. Mr. S. left Augusta sonm two or three weeks since to go North and bring back some little boys to their parents. He tells us that he found no difficulty in going or returning. No body interfered with him North, nor asked him questions. He went through Indiana, Ohio, New York and New England to Canada, and returned through-New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiaua and Kentucky. He discovered little display of military resources, except in Indiana. Travelled with twe unarmed Regimenu from the Elmira camp to New York city, but there was no enthu siasm—on the contrary, sullen silence, no laugh ing, talking, shoutiDg or singmg, which was very noticeable in comparison with the feelings of our troops. Recruiting is at an absolute stand-still, and very few are volunteering. Drafting was commenced in Connecticut, but abandoned on the proclamation of the Governor, who called upon the people to show their patriotism by volunteer ing. But Mr. Sims thinks not another Regiment will ever leave Connecticut, unless drafted. There were large numbers of so-called soldiers in Now York city. The Southern feeling in Kentucky was aroused and defiant, and growing more de termined aud out-spoken every hour. Seizure of Pork. —The governor of enft has issued an order to seize all the pork held n New Orleans by speculators. They asked the enor mous price of fifty dollars per barrel.