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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 183?-1864 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1862)
BY W. S. JONES. TERMS. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE &. HENTINEI, I l ' PabllslKtl Every TUESDAY, At TWO DOLLAB4 PfcH ANUCM, f AIV >. , - • • LOVAKI HAT/ >i TO CU US. HIX COPIES FOR TEN' DOLLARS. Tbe pa per will be Beat to Club* of HIX PERSONS, one ynar, for TEN DOLLARS. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. Krftra for tt > rkt; .id»ertl*i'in(iiit«. Ui oiNAiiV Adv'-i : lawro.otrf, published on. 0 a we»|r, in Daily, < r Weekly, «"'<n and a ha? wits par line, for each insertion. Hi'tatM. Norn kb, ten »' Is per line for the fir: t nnortiou, and ;<••/ line for eaoh St.b: quent insertion. .JDmplatkdAnTtiuisi-vßuti, p«r line or each insertion. pjjMAERiAOK I ), Dkaths and Fokkbai Not es, fifty anGeach. Obituaries, tm cU tier .ne. The /• I,: iil on .joint * River. We have entirely rt 1 '.bb intelligence from the scene cl yesterday'.; action at our batteries on the river at the point called Deary’s Bluff. Theencmy commenced throning shot and shell at in early l our in the morning—Bending their shells in tit err direction through the woods, some lulling at tbe distance of nv»r two miles from the river banks. On the road there were a number of country people wry much alarmed, hastening in to Richmond, and telling all torts of terrible sto nes to deter those moving iu the opposite direc tion. The firo ci.mmetic-d about 7 o’clock in the morning, tb -eiomy being olf at a distance of about (100 yards from ttie batteiics. Seven ves sels of the enemy "—re counted—all of them sup posed to be iron-clad. Our Pattern- wre splendidly worked, under the skillful and gallant dirrdiuu ot Capt Parian. They returned id enemy’s tire with great delibe ration, until about twelve o’clock m the day, when the licet drew olf and passed down the rit er. The (ialer.a is e rtainly badly injured, and was at oiik time supposed to be on tire She was struck thirty two times, one of our shot being thrown imo one of her port-holes. Itis not known that the enemy suffered any in killed ; ev ery sharp shooter had his story to tell of picking j off his mun. Our losh was five mi u killed and seven wound Oat Nc.trli If.- i-i re i \ .it ol ..ur loss was owing to u terrible eusualtjr It at e-.rs that in tin- early part of the fight, oue of our guns, r -t Imiug prop erly cuacmat. I, got •-*. of p.isitiou, - - in eude i voting torsi * it, our w.r wire entirely exposed to Ihe tire ot th. enemy, lit t go. if 1 • being out to pieces in tbe toi m i( hH were*hideouslymangled One poor icil itv had the top ol hi - head taken off, iho entire bra.u being earned away w ith tho i-kud A ball had struck another about the poiut of the knee, and had crushed up Ibe thigh bone, fie; Ij ami ail, into a hideous mangle, extending to tho hip. Tho whole sido of the body ol a third had been carried awav by a cunumi ball. It was reported that the shell of tho enemy bud killed a soldier iu our infanlry camp at some distance in the woods, but wo could hud uo con firmation of it. It is conoid- red in every quarter that the result «f yesterday’s tight in most glorious and gratify ing. Our batteries nro positively uninjured, and we arc mounting more guns -among thorn ono that will boro the Monitor through if she ever guts on the lino of obstructions. U isquiio prob able that the enemy’s fleet will not essay another attack on the halt-lies from tho water, but we are rati-tied that there is occasion for prepaiation to meet the enemy should he land a force to as sault our batten s through the woods in their rear. A reception is ready for him in any event. No men in the world could have behaved more gloriously than ours did yesterday. An old army officer who stood by and saw the engagement, saye ihup-A- i .s'--fil'd 1.-;, tlm bibav.or and l->oks :>! our soldiers that (hero was not a man in the bat teries who was not vc dy to dn- i dher than Bur render them. Hitt SPIRIT (It BIiIIM.INI. -tint MKEfINO AV UU ( ITT II ILL. Tlio mauifestrtions of spirit given by the people of Richmond yesterday have done lasting honor to tbeir city, and deserves to be enumerated among the uubicht duuiouoii atiuun ot t .a'.i K.tl. in that the war lias ever evoked. We conversed yesterday with buudrrds of citizens, and the almost unfail ing expression was that of ti e purposo to submit to uni ...io. itiee of biautiful city rather than that, in any contingency, it should tall into the bands of tueir baled enemy. Yesterday the streets were crowded with eiti Zeus, asking every person who ‘her supposed could inform them “what can we diiF' "are any man wanton?” Ar. There was an eagerness to enjoy the sutisla lion of c, ntribuling in any aay to Hie defence of lit city. To the frequent tnqui nos referred to lor ’ a'onetliinp; to do,” w e were uuuble to make uny distinct answer yesterday, but tins mo. mug we would suggest as a ro; ly w hat we have written above of the need el hard, manual labor at the linen of obstruction of the river. The finycivr of the ante date baa the follow ing May Keli, 18f.it. Ilia Excellency, Jons Let, mu, Governor of Virginia Bin At 7a. m the Monitor and Galena, iron clue gunboats anchored, visibly, off the I'oiut im mediately below the lower obstructions; the Nau gatuck iron boat anchored about b If guide lower down. (.This best be- a 100 lb. Parrott gun, with a four mile t tnyre ■ In tween the Monitor and the Naugatuck lev two oil - r wooden gunboats, (or supposed to be wooden, yet may have been iron clad Ihe attack was common o«t bv the (tales , l,lent Commanding G. It. Rogers, Monitor, Lieut. Oommmdinj W. N Jeffers, and Nnngatuck—the other two boats joitiiug in the attack, l’be prut cipal attack was made by the Galena. Monitor and one of the ennboata, Btipposeil to be either the Aroostook, Octr.rora, or Port Royal. The tori awaited P-t .... «•:,! m>HI Hied »’.v-.enyv would reudor all 01 out gun , flYoUve, and then respon ded With effect. About 1 ant. the enemy ceased bring, the Fort continuing its riwhile t! oy re treated. It is thought that the lialena retreated on lire, judging front the amount oi smoke issuing from v her bow pert. Sharp shooters were actively en gaged, and are said to have been most effio cut When lea-c. Midshipman Darnel Carroll, it Baltimore, attached to tlie Patrick ileDrv, was in ad) ing State, hay ing lost oar of his thighs, close to his body. Two of onr Soldiers were dead aud ten wouuded. The following was received by Secretary Mal orv last uight, anil kindly lurnished us for publi cation : Drury's Bluff, May 15, 1862. Hon. S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy ; Sir : The enenn tame up the river at half past fi A. 51., the Galena ahead, the Monitor aud a small iion steamer, a sidewhecl and a smallei gunboat following ill succession. When about four hundred yards from our • b structions our batteries opened tire upon the Monitor amt Galen. They did not reply until the Galena had placed hm.selt directly athwart the channel. Ytlcr which she and tire Monitor opened a brisk tire, the otter i erscls keeping un derway, aud about treat a quarter to a mite lower down and so close uudei the opposite shore that only four of our guns could bear upon them. Our tire wua mostly dire, ted upon the Galena, only occasionally paying 8 compliment to the others. Several ot our shots at long range passed through and through them, and they mou drop ped out of range. The small iron clad and the aide wheel guuboats were b > :y crippled. We turned our attention to the Galena, nearly every one of our shots telling npcu her iron surface; at eleven o'clock, A. M., one of the Fair.ok Hen ry’s eight-inch solid shot passed iuto her bow port—immediately the amok e rush and out nt her ’’orts, showing, evidently, that she was on tire. We gave her three hearty cheers as she slipped her cables, and moved down the river. Our pick ets heard her captaiu say, to one of the other guu beata, that she was “in a sinking condition.” Our sharp-shooters did goott service, picking off every man who showed himself. There is no doubt we struck them a bard blow. The last that was seen of them thev were steam ing down the river. Every officer and man discharged their duties with cooluess and determination, and it would be tnjustioe to many it 1 should mention or ?m,^"ii?io rlie *' a l n Orurv and his company fought their guns with great effect. shinmlt 1 ? 18 T, Scven *“ Ued - among them Mid- Verv ih,‘ irrol r 1 ’, aud e Bbl wounded. , iSSpectfußy, your obedien’ servant, Esen Fabkaxd, C. S. N, w'wf.’. SS,*5-» ™ a .,,,„^ a ks a*. Cjjronitlf it- Sentinel. ('OTri^hon'l(7\ v,/ the Chronicle A Sentinel. CnAfTANOOGA, May 18th, 1682. Dear Chronicle —Everything Las been very j quiet here for the last two weeks—nothing doing excej ' in military movements, and those not of a public nature. To-day, however, Col. Morgan .came into town after a little work in his inimita ble styl-up in Kentucky. He went to Cave City on the Emr-' ille and Nashville Railroad, took quiet posses.-iou of the depot and captured sever al tia-us of cars together with their passengers, freight, Ac. He destroyed two engines aDd up ward i of fifty cars. He also obtained some $35,000 Federal money, and had a good time generally among the Feds. Ido not know the exact num ber of prise:! ra U, 1, but it was quit? large. Hui. (caged several officers on parole, among them Tank.e Colons', on condition that Lieut. Col. Wood (of Morgan’s hgod.i should he released; if - w as not, ihe A aukt-c Colunei is to report bim lull here within ten days. Morgan left one engine and some passenger 'tic, no doubt with the intention of procuring more thereby at an early date. The ladies on the trains he sent back to Nashville. Ail honor to the bold partisan, with his little band of brave and adventurous spirits. He is doing more than all our dirt-digging Generals, with an immense nrrny at their command. The bridge burned by Gen. I.eadbotter, in that “masterly and well or dered retreat tronn Bridgeport,” will be all right in a day or two, and then the ooa! trade will start again with increased vigor. Any events of an important character, will be promptly Chronicled for the benefit of your numerous readers. [Special Correspondaice of the Memphis Appeal.] Corinth, May 14, 18*i2. Two more Federal prisoners were captured last nif'lit on Uo road 1 fading to Farmington. They belonged to the cavalry, w re well mounted, and on outpost duty at tin* time. They repeat the usual story ot disgust with the service; “glad they were taken ; always 1 .1 1 a mutual sympathy with out* cast;; if they had lived in the South, would haw been or dinal secessionists.” Oi' at fair.-v on the ither side, they also have tho same old story to repeat: “ iiulleek has an immense army; numbers anywhere between a hundred and two hundred and li Itv thousand men; all well and admit ably drilled ; and will be in Corinth "ithin two or three days.” That same old “ two ■ r three days” still. For five weeks, now, that has been the story, and yet, for won;** unaccounta bl»'» reason or other, iialleck still .clings to the river and his gunboats. hi the meantime the river is rapidly going out. p tiinising soon to leave the boats high and dry. At iate&t accounts it had fallen twenty-five feet, and stili tl heat am! drought continue. Guerilla bands, also, continue to annoy the enemy and disturb his quiet passage up and down the river, much to his displeasure. What a pity it is our people will not allow the ? unkeea to eojoy their nips when on such a h spitable visit! As it is, •hey have to keep pickets out all along the shore, anti then they hardly ted themselves secure. Our new prisoner., also have large stories to t.b about tho ar'illery which Halleck is bringing up against us. " lio intends,” they Say, “to pre cede the attack by heavy mortars, which are to shell our works all around, and thus open the way (or his infantry , in ibis way he also expects to demoralize our men to such a degree, tuat when the two armies come together, tbev will have au easy tme of it.” lie f- rgets that our men already have some experience in this kiud of work, and know how liufe damage “sheiliag” usually does. Iu tbe midst ol all the shelling from the gunboats in the Tennessee, the day of the first, day’s battle at Shiloh, it is doubtful tfasingle inau was killed or inn t Shells n ukr a huge noise, well calculated to scare horses or old women, but. not men. In all the long and furious “shelling” of Island No. 10, Fort Pillow, and the lorts below New Orleaus, it is doubtful if a dozen men have been killed. There is no doubt, however, that this is Hal leek’s intention. lie knows very well that we have au army hero m arly equal (o his own iu numbers, ami every way superior to itiupersonal bravery and the cause for which it lights. He known, also, that we bold oue of ihe strongest positions in ths Confederacy, surrounded on every •side by admirable natural lines of defence, which have been strengthened by every art known to military science. He is therefore, well aware that : lie will he unable to bring up bis army fairly and squarely against us. He makes a great mistake, > however, and one arguing a singular ignorance ot ; the ground, if he thinks to “shell'’ us out of this : place, or suiely bring up mourns to aitempl it. : In ten- than two hours after the work is done, he i will tied every piece taken. Our boys swear they ; will do it, and they will i Hiuce writing the above, I leant the two uritso -1 ners In ought in this morning belonged to the Ist ' I luted States dragoons, formerly commanded by i Gen. Hardee. They b;ui become members of it, j however, after the General loft it, and be had no • acquaintance with them. They will bo sent to ! Memphis, and their horses given to troopers of a I different stripe. 11. P. From the LitHe Hock Democrat, %th. H’rogrcMM of tlie Kuctny tn Ai kHiiaas Our city, during the past week, has been tilled with rumors and reports of the advance of the Federals m Arsanaas. Some put the whole force nt twenty thousand, others as low us six thous and. A number are coming or have come down White river and a largo force down Black river. Tt e p- - -pin to the section of country around Rates ville, ti the number of three or tour hundred, gatlien 1 aud ga. a the Federals fight near llates mllc. The nit my w ere soou reinforcod till they numbered >4vsr.,i tiiousand. and the patriots were o iup- Red to rime. The people anr de ficient to auuunfiffiou, Il they uad tins null a few supplies they wotild meet (be enemy and drive him buck. Duri'ng the first few day* of the week, there were tiftei'n haodred Federal* with six mounted howitzers, at Jack sou port. They said that they expected ipplies up White tivi-r, evidently looking at the 1 i ,-> of Memphis and the Mississippi river as a foregone conoln ion. The majority of the pivple here seem to think that-we are to be visi ted by those gentry. Others believe that such a visit is contingent upon the result of the birtile at Corinth, and if deft a ted there, the Federal;! m Arkansas will take 1 the hack track 1. veept the boast oi occupying the capital of the State, there is nothing to induce them to come hece. All the stores and army sup plies have long since beeu removed. There is not meat or bread stuff’here to ftjed the people, much less an army. We have not heard the particulars til'the fight at BatesviUe, but presume it was a sharp skir mish, more to harass the ti>e and teach him that he was on freedom's soil, than with a hope to conquer such au overwhelming force. It is possi ble that the Foderals will go down the White liver to Duval, s Bluff, so ns to take the end of the rail road leading to this city. It is possible that tht'v may attempt to come here. It was reported, oi i the authority of a telegram from Des Arc., ths.t they were crossing White river at Jackson port . and even as low down as Grand Gla'ze. It they stay away till midsummer we may hie .1 eto meet them. Our Btate authorities 1.1 iive called tor 4,oik' men, to be formed into co'mpii uirs. hold elections, send up descriptive lists to the military board, and then be furnished,! with transportation, etc, —AU tuis routine wytl take w.-iksupon we.scs, but it will be dona -aecord i.p to ms ty ,n i»nd rule. Then, it the Feds are T's tei- f.-reed, and will lav .till, we wul get them • K riitico the übove was written, we learn thev hav e advanced to Searcy, in White cofluty, where they will probably wait" until supplies come up Waite riveror uit till they .are reintor-vad, Searcy la distant fifty miles from Little Roclt. If the Hessians depend for subsistence on pro visions to be sent down the Mississippi end up Wbite river, they are leaning on a broken reed. The Memphis Appeal of the loth has the fol- | lowing It was rumored at Des Are yesterday, that the j Feders.s tu considerable force—a portion of Cur- ! tis’ eolumu—had occupied West Pccnt, on Little j Red river, snout seventy-five mil»-s from Little | Rock, and that they continued to "press slowly ou | towards the latter place. At West Point they torcibly took possession of i two saw mills, tor the purpose of using their ma chinery on the transports which they are said to be constructing at that place for moving troops across tlie river. Two hundred Federal cavalry are report ed to be within leu miles of Cotton Plant, in the White River valley, Poinsett county. l>oour military authorities intend to let the en emy go to work and build these boats without in terruption, when the whole project could be foiled aud the further progress of Curtis’ column impe ded in this direction by sending a single gunboat up this stream ? We shall see. Goon News.— The editor of the Mississ’ppian has seen a private letter, of perfect reliability giv ing the gratifying intelligence that a Confederate steamer nas arr.ved safSy at a southern port, with a large supply of blankets, power and E - field rifles. The quantity of guns will not fall short ot 10,000, witn 6000 carbines for horseman. and a proportionate quantity of powder andotL'er war appliances. The steamer alluded to is said icr n&v* had a gay time in eluding the blockaders. AUGUSTA, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 27. 1862. For the Chronicle A Sentin el Tl»e Revolution, No event since tbe overthrow ot the first Na poleon, has brought such joy to tbe hearts of tnonarchs and monarchists, as the great civil war now ragiog in America. It is, I fear justly, re garded as tbe grand explosion of the beautiful theory of man’s capacity for wise self-government. In its American home, this glorious creed had grown aDd flourished until its bare mention brought dismay and terror to the sternest doubt ers of its truth. Never before in the history man, had the masses eDjayed so benign and cheap a government, with ample personal protection, as under the admirable system of the great Repub lic. Never were the avenues to the highest hon ors of the State, s > widely opened to the bumble poor man. It seemed indeed, as if the goddess of Liberty bad at last found her eternal abiding place, amongst a people worthy of her priceless ble.'-sings. And that “ glftttle peace" had united her treasures with her sister Liberty—until our cup of happiness was full to the brim. What heir of Freedom, could imagine that this elysium upon earth, was so suddenly to be imperilled, perchance, to be lost forever? “We are in the midst of a revolutijn,” Mighty m its proportions, terrible in its energies, and in calculable in its results. The American pauses not to calculate the issue—but rushes madly to the swelling strife. Sectional bate animates each combatant, and sectional pride fires the soldier’s heart, and nerves his arm to “deeds of noble daring.” Disease and battle vie with each other in their insatiate struggle for human sacrifice. The youth of the North and of the South, go forth exultinglv, and the hoary reaper moweth them down as lit grass Tor his remorseless scythe. And these are Ihey, for whom Washington and Greene and Wayne, and Morgan and Sumter and their compatriots struggled and suffered that they might be free. Has liberty, shocked at the in gratitude of her children, and uuwilling to wit ness the unnatural coutest, abandoned them to their own passions? Meanwhile monarchical Europe contemplates the dreadful strife, with feelings akin to exultation. As we have yearned for the overthrow of thrones and aristocratic institutions, and sighed for the establishment o! free governments, so may the friends of absolutism and legitimacy, rejoice at ihe destruction of the great American Union. They know full well that the most precious ele ment o! republican government, is freedom from taxation, and that, end as this revolution may, no mutter how free in heory, that henceforth tliis ex emption from, taxes is gone forever. This single fact begets the necessity for a stronger govern ment than we have yet known. The effects of ibis mighty convulsion are al ready sensibly felt even oeyond the limits of civ ilization, and the wandering Arab and the wild Tartar, philosophise upon the great event of the nineteenth century. The drowsy Orientals dis cuss the disintegration of the wonderlul govern ment they had iust learned to admire and fear. The European masses already suffer fiom the destruction of Southern commerce, and the gen eral decline of Aroericau trade. But their rulers bid them suffer patiently for a greater good than cotton—the stability of their respective govern ments. This Americau struggle may give perma nent peace to Europe, and perfect security to the existing governments, with the solitary exception of the “sick man of Turkey,” who may yet be de livered over to the tender mercies of the Russian Bear merely to preserve the balance of power, when the great allies, England and Fiance, shall determine to intervene iu American affairs. Amer ica will be permitted to exhaust herself by inter nal strife—hay, all Europe will help the furious combattxuls to supplies ot arms and munitions of war, and wish them both God speed in their, work of mutual destruction. Anon, as a lesnlt of ull this, it is altogether probable that a great Eu ropean Congress will assemble, to adjust all un settled questions amongst the nations, and to agree to act lu vouoert, when tho opi-ortuuu time for intervention in American affairs shall have ar rived. Th s period will be when, from utter ex haustion, the parties are unable to harm each oth er, or to resist a partition of territory, and the establishment of arbitrary governments, maintain ed with European bayonets. The conquest of either section by the other, and the restoration of ihe Uniou by turce, would be destructive of the vital principal of free govern ment, and only a restoration in name—the form without the substance. Neither party can atiord to accept peace, unless the other will conseut to abandon its own public debt and to contribute to the debt of tho adversary. These speculations, it correct, leave no other solution of the Ameri can question thau a protracted war, to eud in for eign intervention, and a change in .the character ot our institutions ; or else, a consolidated gov inent under the familiar, but illusory name of a free republic. Time and events may instruct us as to which is to be preferred. When either is established, tho people will be apt to wish that they were under the other. As yet, their love of liberty is too ardent to fit them for subjects of the one or citizans of the other. Ctvis. That Mysterious Visit of thk French Min ister.— We have some carious and interesting in telligence with respect to the late mysterious visit to Richmond of Count Mercier, the French Min ister at Washington. It appears that, ou leaving Richmond, Count Mercier had no sooner reached Norfolk than he committed dispatches addressed to his govern ment to au express steamer lying oft' Norlolk, by which they were hastily conveyed to a war steam er at New York,’which was already under steam, and, having boon hoarded by the express boat, immediately started lor France. The singular expedition of this transaction, and the air of importance given it by a number of cir cumstances, had created immense sensation in the foreign diplomatic circle iti that city. We are positivelv assured that, ou the return of Count Mercier to Washington, the British Minis ter had deputed his Secretary to proceed instant- , ly to Annapolis and take a steamer there for Nor folk, en route to Rfchmond , and that the Danish Consul had also suddenly left on an expedition to this city. The impression was that Count Mercier-.had taken an advantage in his mysterious trip to Rich mond, of which event the YYasington Government was wholly unadvised, and hail laid the founda tion ot a treaty between France and the Southern Confederacy. On the return of Count Mercier to Washington be was calied upon for au explanation by the Fed eral Government, through the polite medium of sin invitation from Mr. Seward him an in terview The interview lasted some eight hours ’file Count had landed at the navy yard from a 2 ranch steamer which had her port holes open. These facts and circumstances are obtain ed from what is supposed to beau undoubtedly reliable source of in ormation ; and we leave our rea era to make their own conjectures, without risking buy of our own, further than the negative opinion that the visit of Count Mercier to Rich mond was something more thaD a diplomatic re conuoisance—Richmond Examiner, VJth. Federal Cavalry Captured. —For two or three months . ast thq people of Henry and Weakley counties : i- e occasionally been greatly annoyed with a m;-. i ; uding party of Federnl cavalry who make their headquarters near the Tennessee river, from w hen e they would emerge and rove over the country, committing all kinds of depreda tions— c; try ng off fine horses and taking what ever their e apidity fancied. They had become a great terror to the people of those counties; and were greatly aided in their operations of plunder by a worthless traitor from Paris by the Tame of Johu Farris. On C'unday the -Ith lost., Col. Jackson and Col. Claiborne united their commands of Cavatiy and started to hunt up the thieving Federal xcoun ; dre'.s. On the next evening they came upon them about I-1 strong —the Federais fled and a most exciting chase ensued. Our forces run them about 14 miles, killing &, wounding 11, and taking 84 prisoners; among the prisoners taken were three captains, (one belonged to the army at Pittsburg but was on furlough and doubtless wanted to steal a little) a quarter-master, and the notorious John Farris; besides we got about a j hundred horses and three or four wagons. It ; was a complete breaking up of that nest of land pirates. Henry and Weakley counties will par ticularly thank Coloncls Jackson aud Claiborne for i the relief they have given them. The few I.in- I coluites who got away will doudtless spread dis may among their comrades on Tennessee river, and we opine it will be a long time before another marauding party can be induced to can vas that section. The prisoners taken were brought to this | place on Saturday last, and on the next day sent further South to epjoy the benefits of our cR ! mate- — Jack-son (Term.) Whit/. The West Tennessee IFiiy says;— We learn that several stores in Memphis have been closed for uo other reason than that the pro prietors wished to avoid receiving Confederate money, and when opened, recently, through fear of military authority, have been asking most enormous prices for what they had to sell. These men are being watched closely and will be dealt with before they are aware of it, for their selfish and unpatriotic conduct. Public opinion too, will assign to these Shylocks everlasting disgrace in all ume to oome for the part they have lieen act ing. Many of them were “Original Bacessicn ists,” exceedingly clamorous at the start, and all the time have been playing the dispicabla part of fleecers of the government and the people. But thanks to the military authorities and the upris : ing of public opinion they have about run tbeir I course, The following Is the Proclamation of Picayune Butler, referred to in a dispatch some days since: Headquarters Department of ihe Golf, 1 New Orleans, May 9, 1862. I GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 25. 'The deplorable state of destitution and hunger ot the mechanics aud working classes in this city has been brought to the knowledge of the Com manding General. He has yielded to every suggestion made by the city government, aud ordered every method of furnishing food to the people of New’ Oi leans that that government desired. No relief by those offi cials has yet been afforded. This hunger does not pinch the wealthy and influential, the leaders of the rebellion, who have gotten up this war, and are now endeavoring to prosecute it, without re gard to the starving poor, the working man, bis wife and child. Unmindful of their suffering fel low-citizens at home, they have caused or suffer ed provisions to be carried out of the city for Con federate service since the occupation by the Uni ted States forces. Lafayette Square, their home of affluence, was made the depot of stores and munitions of war ior the Rebel armies, and riot of provisions for their poor neighbors. Striking hands with the vile, the gambler, tbe idle and the ruffian, they have destroyed the sugar and cotton which might have been exchanged lor food for the industrious and good, and regulated the price of that which is left, by discrediting the very currency they had fur nished while they eloped with the specie ; as well that stolen from the United States, as the Banks, the property of the good people of New Orleans, thus leaving them to ruin and starvation. fugitives from justice many of them, and others, their associates, staying because too puerile and insignificant to be objects of punishment by tbe clement Government of the United States : Tney have betrayed their Country. They have been false to every trust. They have shown themselves incapable of de fending the State they had seized upon, although they have forced every poor man’s chila into their service as soldiers for that purpose, while they made their sons and nephews officers. They cannot protect those whom they have ruined, but have left them to the mercies and as sassinations of a chronic mob. They will not feed those whom they are starv ing. Mostly without property themselves, they have plundered, stolen and destroyed the means of those who had property, leaving children penni less aud old age hopeless. Men of Louisiana, workiugmen, property hold ers, merchants and citizens of the United States, of whatever nation you may have had birth, how long will you uphold these flagrant wrongs, and by inaction suiter yourselves to be made the serfs of these leaders? The United States have sent laud aud naval forces here to light aud subdue rebellious armies in array against her authority We And, sub stantially, only fugitive masses, runaway property owners, a whiskey drinking mob, and starving citizens with their wives and children. Itis our duty to call back the first, to puuish the second, root out the third, feed and protect the last. Ready only for war, we had not prepared our selves to feed the hungry and relieve the distress ed with provisions. But to the extent possible within the power of the Commanding General it shall be dons. He ba3 captured a quantity of beef and sugar intended for the rebels in the field. A thousand barrels of those stores will be distributed among the deservt-ing'poor of this city, from whom the rebels had plundered it; even although some of the food will go to supply the craving wants of the wives and children of those now herding at “Camp Moore” and elsewhere, ii arms against the United States'. Capt Johu Clark, Acting Cheif Commissary of Subsistence, will be charged with the execution of this order, and will give public notice of the place and manner of distribution, which will be arranged as far as possible s- that the unworthy and dissolute will not share its benefits. By command of Major Gen. Butler, Geo. C. ao no, A. A. G. Chief of Staff. Tlilriy-tirst Kcgtuient tin. Volunteers. The following is the result of an election held at “Camp Philips,” Beaulieu, for field and compa ny officers of the thirty-first regiment, Georgia Volunteers, C. S. A. Colonel—C. A. Evans. Lieutenant Colonel—J. T. Crowder. Major—J. H. Lowe. Quartermaster— Captaiu Joseph M. Russell. Commissary—Captaiu Johu A. Walker. Surgeon—Major Wm. White, M. D. Sergeant Major—Sergeant F. H. Sapp. Commissary Sergeau;—E. M. Walker. GEORGIA LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY A. Captain—A. Forrester. Ist. Lieutenant—C. S. Shorter. 2d “ E. W. Clapp. Brevet 2d Lieutenant—J L. Biggers. MUSCOGEE CONFEDERATES, COMPANY E. Captain—A. T. Pride. Ist Lieutouant—J. T. Johnson. 2d “ T. P. Johuson. Brevet 2d Lieutenant—J. C. Ginn. MITCHELL GUARDS, COMPANY C. Captain—J. G. Saunders. Ist Lieutenant—T. P. Pullen. 2d “ T. R McCarter. Brevet 2d Lieutenant—E. C. Perry. MONROE CROWDERS, COMPANY D. Captain—Thomas B. Settle. Ist Lieutenant—T. H. Vaughn. 2d “ W. P. White. Brevet 2d Lieutenaut—lt. M. Hood. BARTOW GUARDS, COMPANY E. Captain—L. R. Redding. Ist Lieutenant—J. W. Orr. 2d ” W. H. Harrison. Brevet 2d Lieutenant—C. W. Cox. PULASKI BLUES, COMPANY F. Captain—W. D. Wood. Ist Lieutenant—H. M. Bogeman, 2d “ W. D. Brunson. Brevet 2d Lieutenant—J.„D. Wilson. COUNTY LINK GUARDS, COMPANY G, Captain—J. 11. Lowe. Ist Lieutenant—A. B. ReddiDg. 2d “ W. D. Hayne3. Brevet 2d Lieutenant—D. C. Cody, Jr, MOUNTAIN TIGERS, COMPANY H Captain—J. W. Murphy, Ist Lieutenant— N. W. Milier, 2d “ J. C. Willia.ms, Brevet 2d Lieutenant —T. J. Davidson ARNETT RIFLES, COMPANY l Captain—G. W. Lewis, Ist Lieutenant —Judson Butts, 2d “ Jas. E. Floyd, Brevet 2d Lieutenant—H. S. Stewart. BARTOW AVENGERS, COMPANV K. Capta n—R. H. Fletcher, Ist Lieutenant—J. H. Snider, 2d “ S. W. Thornton, Breietfld Lieutenant—J. T. Price. Federal Movements in Alabama.—A corres pondent of the Mobile Register, writing from Gadsden, Ala., May 10th, says : Well, it seems that Huntsville has not been re taken, the statement of the “reliable gentleman” to the contrary notwithstanding. Gentlemen around here this morning from Guntersville, on the Tennessee, report them still in possession ot Huntsville The Yanfcee scouts have been all over the mountains, and have committed many depredations. They have also insulted the ladies by nsiDg obscene language in their presence. At Guntersville they stole several horses, took pos session of the Post Office, and burnt a supply of army clothing They have also been in Jackson, Blount, Morgan, and perhaps other counties Heavy tiring was heard at Huntsville on Tues day last, and it was supposed by the people in the country that a battle was being fought there, but it was atterwards ascertained that the Yan kees were firing salutes in honor of the capture of New Orleans. The last report from Huntsville is that the Yankees are crossing the Tennessee river at Whitesburg, ten miles south of Huntsville, but whether or not in force, i could not learn. What their object is in crossing there it is hard to con jecture. It may be that they intend to attack Scott's Louisiana Cavalry at Decatur, but I think it more probable that they have sent aD expedi tion to Tuscaloosa, to release the Federal prison ers there. This is only my conjecture, but it would be well for the people in the direction ot Tuscaloosa to keep scouts out to give warning m case the Federals did contemplate an expedition for that purpose. Companies from the country have been near Huntsville watching the move ments of the enemv, hut little or nothing can be ascertained. The Yankees evidently feel insecure at Huntsville, as tney keep their pickets out in every direction. Scott’s and Morgan's move ments must make them tremble, as they constant ly fear a dash from either or both. Col. Morgan. —This distinguished partizan passed through here this morning en route for Corinth, Miss. His command are at Chattanoo ga, recruiting, preparatory to making a vigorous onslaught upon the Federals at a point where they are least prepared to resist him. As he arrived at 3 o 'clock, and left Immediately on the West Point train, very few of our citizens had the pleasure of seeing the hero.— Atlanta Commonwealth. Struck bt Lightning.—Mr. Ransom Holloway, of Ithis District was struck by lightning, while in the field a few days ago, and instantly killed. Mr. H. was an old and respected citizen.’ [Ed-ge/Uld Advertiser 21sf. The Occcpation of Norfolk, OFFICIAL REPORT OF GENERAL WOOL Washington, May 12,-The following was re ceived'at the War Department to-day : Fortress Monroe, May 12, 1862. To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War : On the 9th of May,(Friday afternoon,) I organ- a f f< \ r , ce to “ arch “gainst Norfolk. On the 10th of May, (Saturday morning,) the troops were landed under the direction of Col. Crane, at M W ’,i a w , 00mm(inded to march towards Mansfield and W eber, who proceeded on the di rect route, by way of Tanner’s Creek Bridge; but finding it on fare, they returned to the Cross Hoads where I joined them, aud took [the direction of the column. I arrived by the old road, and en terecl the entrenchments in iront of the city at twenty minutes before 5, P. M. I immediately proceeded towards Norfolk, ac companied by the Hon. Secretary Chase, and met the Mayor aud a select committee of the Common Council of Noifolk, at the limits of the city, when they surrendered the city, agreeably to the terms Hvt iorth iu the resolutions of toe Common Uouu cil, presented by the Mayor, W. W Lamb, which were accepted by me so far as related to the civil rights of the citizens. A copy of the resolution has been already furnished you. I immediately took possession of the city, and appointed Briga dier General Egbert Ytele Military Governor of Norfolk, with directions to see that the citizenz were protected in their civil rights. Soon after, I took possession ot Gosport and Portsmouth. The taking af Norfolk caused tbe destruction of the iron clad steamer Merimac, which was blown up by the relels about 5 o’clock on the morning of the 11th of May, which fact was soon after eommunicatei to you and the President of* the United States On the Utl I visited the navy yard, and found all the workshops, storehouses and other build ings in rails having been set on fire by the Re bels, who it the same time partially blew up the dry dock. 1 also visited Craney Island, and found thirty nine gunsof large calibre, most of which were spiked ; abo a large uumber of shot and shells, with abou 5,000 pounds of powder, which, with the buildiags, were in good order. As far ss I have been able to ascertain, we have taken abcut 200 cannon, including three at the Sewell’s Joint batteries with a large number of shot and shells, as well as many other articles of of value Rationed at the navy yard, Orauey Is laud, Sewell’s Point, and other places. John E. Wool, Major General Commanding. The New York Express, alluding to the report us a contemplated movement among the Border States Uotgressmen published in the New York Times, says: There is some, much truth in this, we are in clined to believe, judging by what we hear from Washington. The Border States men in Congress and the Conservatives of the North are in utter grief, and ilmost in despair—because not only of the shameless prostration of the accidental pow ers of this Uovernment now in the hands of the Radicals auf Jobbers in Congress, but because measures are in contemplation by the Radicals, which, in their judgmeuis, are as utterly subver sive to the Constitution as Secession itself. The Wilsons, the Sumners, the Wades seem to have absolute control in Congress, despite the Repub lican Brownings, the Cowans, and the Doolittles, while the President himself, as if under some fa tal palsy, smee he has taken the Democratic Mr. Stautou into his Cabinet, fails to exert the con servative influence we had from him for some weeks before Slautun became if not controller. The step contemplated, or talked of, is in no revolutionary, violent spirit—but iu the spirit ot profound grief, and deep sorrow—the spirit of mourning over events which cannot now- be checked or controlled, as the people cannot be reached iu time, through the slowly-moving forms of our constitutional Government. Millions of taxation, millions of appropriations, are asked for, and demanded, for seemingly, utterly unconstitu tional purposes. The idea is, that they who ask for them ought to vote all aloue for tho means to carry them out. We think, as is hinted iu the letter to tne Times, that the border statesnaeu are willing to confide in the President; but of the Wilsons, Humners, Wades, ail conservatives have a horror. The President means right, or sen ms to mean right, which cannot be said ot the many ambitions men about him desirous of stepping into his shoes; while, it must be confessed, the President lacks ability or courage to execute his own good iutents or will, it be only had the spirit and self-reliance of the Democratic Andrew Jack sou, or the Whig Henry Clay, he would govern, and nut be governed, as he now is too olteh. Do You YV'ant any Eggs?— The following good tory is told by the correspondent of the Chicago Post, writing from one of Commodore Foot’s gun boats : The towboat Alps yesterday dropped down to a position alongside of the Carondelet for the pur pose ol taking iu tow a barge of coal and remov ing it farther up the stream. It presented a fair mark to the rebels, and they, unable to resist the temptation, blazed away. Home half dozen shells flew around her in a manner not calculated to give those on board assurance of personal safety. A day or two previous the boat had been at Cairo, aud a cabin hoy ou board had purchased several dozen eggs. He then regarded the opportunity as an excellent one to offer tbe “hen fruit” for sale to the men on the gunboat. Seizing his basket he boarded the miniature man-of-war. As he reached the spar deck, a shot struck close beside the boat. The boy heeded it uot, but hailing the first sailor who chanced to be on deck, drawlingly enquired, ‘Do you want any eggs ?’ ‘Get out of this,’ was the reply, ‘dontyou see they are shooting at us?’ ‘Do you want any eggs?’ was the only notice the boy gave the timely wai n iug. ‘ D—n your eggs, I tell you no ; don’t you see they are shooting at us?” ‘Let ’em shoot,’ said the imperturable youth, ‘do you want any eggs ?’ At this critical moment, a mortar beside the gunboat was discharged. The concus sion broke every egg in the basket. For the first time,Jjhe was moved. ‘Confound their pictures!’ he ejaculated, ‘ there’s a dollar aud a half gone to smash anyhow I” _____ Late from New Orleans.- -We make our thanks i says the Mobile Advertiser) to Captain James L. White commanding a company at Bayou la Ba tre for a copy of the New Orleans True Delta, of Friday morning last. It was taken from a party of men in a sad boat, arrested at the Bayou on Sunday. The Delta has learned irom a copy of the JacK 30u Mississippian of the battle of Elk river and the evacuation of Norfolk, We clip the following local items: Tarnal Hot. -This forenoon the Thirteenth Connecticut regiment was marched from the levee out Poydras street to St. Charles, down St Charles to Canal and thence to the Custom house. As they marched along under their heavy knap sacks sweltering in tueir heavy woollen clothing, the very looks of the men said as p ain as !an ouaee could have done, "‘lt’s 'tarnal hot.” The sun aid come down pretty warm, but it was noth ing to what it will be in the course of a month or two. PacvisiONS. —Two steamboats came into port yesterday, with provisions from Red River, and others are expected soon to follow. These arri vals, with the beeves which are arriving fiom Texas, must briDg a speedy change in the condi tion of our domestic market p'acas. The Yankees at Pascagoula. —We ex tract from a private letter, dated at Pascagoula, May 17 • tVe had a visit from the enemy yesterday even ing- Three sailing vessels anchored opposite the village, and sent three boats ashore. The bjats landed at the hotel wharf, and an officer and one seaman carne on shore. The officer stated :hut they had understood that some schoonars were here ready to run the blockade with cotton, and they ( the Federals) had <been sent to capture them. On being assured that there was no ves sel ot the ki id here, he saM he was misinformed, &c., and appeared satisfies that he would find none. # ■ in the course of the conversation, he said he thought Mobile would be attacked goon, perhaps after they got through on the Mississippi river.— Com. Farragut had gone ppLtowards Vicksburg. He also said that the French Consul at New Or leans was out on their fleet during the bombard ment at Fort Jackson, and had expressed him self dissatisfied with the manner in which h i had been treated by the Confederates at Fort Jack son. it appears from his statement that they took Captain Pegram, who was on the Nashville. Captain Pegram is reported as having been in command of one of onr gunboats about Fort Jackson. —Mobile Register. Prayer Contraband. —lt appears that Picka yune Butler intends to regulate the religion of ihe people of New Orleans. Apprehending that they might do some obnoxious praying on last Fri day he issued the following order. Butler, by his brutal orders, is doing good service in the Southern cause. NOTICE. Headquarters Dep't ot the Gulp, i New Orleans, May 13, 1862. ) General Orders No. 27. It having come to the knowledge of the Com manding General that Friday next is proposed to be observed as a day of Fasting and Prayer, in obedience to some supposed Proclamation of one Jefferson Davis, in the several Churches of the city it is ordered that no such had. “Churches and Religions Houses are to be kept open, as in times of profound peace,” but no re ligious exercises are to be bad upon tbe supposed authority above mentioned. By commond of Majob Gen. Butler. Geo. C. Strong, A. A. General. Another ‘“Rebellion 5 ’ in Yankee Land. The Yankees, says the Charleston Mercury, are troubled With another “rebel! on,” and their mili tary forces have beeu summoned to put it down. It is anew and other “rebellion" than that in South, and is, by way of distinction, called “The Coal Miners’ Rebellion.” It was precipitated by an outbreak among the coal miners of the Schuyl kill region in Pennsylvania, and is only the be ginning of the many “rebellions” that must soon take place among the poor aud laboring classes of the North from the effects of the war. Poverty and destitution are sorely pinching the artisans aud laborers of the North, and what we read here from the New York Herald is but a picture o the hundred “strikes” and “riots” that this war must bring about between the poor aud rich of the North. The correspondent writes of the out break on the Schuylkill -. I have just returned from thesceueol hosiilitios in Schuylkill couuty, having accompanied the military force thither. • Since my return upwards of two hundred additional troops have been or deted to Minersville, aud also a battery of how itzers, making in all about four hundred soldiers, fully supplied with sixty charges each, and food for an indefinite period. Four other companies in the United States service, connected with Colonel Wm. H. Teuton's regiment of militia, are under arms and awaiting orders to move. It is possible that the fears of the counly au thorities and of the mine owners have magnified this difficulty ; but it is evident that the mutineers are numerous, determined, and well armed, and only need the will to make a long and vigorous defence-; It arises from the tyranny of mining capitalists, as regards both the amount of wages paid to the opera i"es and the manner in which such wages are doled out. Probably uu equal amount of wretchedness is remarked of no other class bat, the coal miners of this State. The average amount of wages paid to miners is about five dollars per week, and this, most generally, is not paid in cash, but in “ or ders” upon storekeepers in the eiqjilyment of the mining companies. The operatives iu this way uot only receive paltry pay, but they are swind led by the capitalists, and compelled to take mer chandise at the capitalists own rate; so that they barely obtain the necessaries of life. This year was made an eia tor a “strike” upon a grand scale, and, taking advantage of the absence of all military organizations from the county, the operatives proceeded to ensure their demands by force. They seized the collieries of the Forest Improvement Compaby (now con trolled by New York capitalists), interdicted ail employes from working under threat of death, and, by putting out the fires at the collieries, stopped the pumps that cleared the mines of water, whereby they were soon flooded. The sheriff' of Schulykill county Jound that he cound make uo arrests and that he could not summon a posse of citizens to assist him, the sympathies of the mass being with the “strikers.” The latter grew defiant, heia meetings at Forest ville, Heeklevilie, l bomastou, and other points, aud made preparations to organize a general sttike throughout the whole coai region. The few that insisted upon working at the old rates were roughly handled, the contractors and agents of the mine owners were threatened with loss of life and properly if they maintained opposition, and itie sheritf was too weak eiiher in spirit or in force to assert the law and arrest the ringleaders. The latter had organized the strike cunningly, aud executed it unflinchingly. Colliers of one mine enforced the strike upon another, to that no employee appeared where he could he recognized. In this way the officers are yet baffled, as to the whereabouts of tbe r.uglcadcrs. About tilteeu hundred men were numbered in thu primary of fensive measures, and their numbers are increas ing. The locality where hostilities commenced is noted for the turbulauce of its denizens, murders and riots being frequent occurrences there, aud ignorance and drunkenness being characteristic of the populaoo. Their bigb-hauded proceedings left the law uo option but force, aud the Governor called opou General Patersou (of Harper’s Ferry laaiej to deputize certain men to quell tbe rtot. They stealthily moved out towards Forrestville. the iu fected district, with loaded muskets aud set bayo nets, and this morning had mounted guard over all the colliers, to the great astonishment ot the mutineers. The latter are fierce, aud threaten to retake the mines. I rode among them at dawn to-day, and they seemed unanimous as to their grievances, asserting that they meant to abolish the “order” sy tem aDd to secure equal aud definite rates for their services, s« that they would be out of the reach of waut. The sheriff, meantime, has order ed the troops to stand fast, and the reinforcements that went on to-day indicate fears of rupture. If difficulties occur they will be of a ser.ous charac ter, as the miners are embittered by the presence of soldiers, and they are all armed with their fa vorite mountain rifles. Many of them were in the three mouths service, and have the elements of miliiary discipline among them. They are nearly all Irish. QjTbo Forest Improvement Company is working mainly upon government orders, aud il the sums demanded are paid the capitalists say that they cannot fulfil the contracts, which name a certain amount of money per ton. The damage to the mines has been considerable. A Dispatch from Gen. Beauhf.gard—Veget ables for the Sick.—Corinth, May 15. To tele graph Operators Please furnish copies of this dispatch to the newspapers iu your respective cities. “Our sick soldiers must have vegetables. All subsistence officers will purchase and transmit by railroad such vegetables as cau be produced.— The people along the lines of the different roads are urgently requested to bring to their respective depots from day to day such as cau be spared. The transpotation will be furnished by the mail trains. G. T. Beauregard.” Enemy Below.— On yesterday the enemy on Cockspur Island, sent up a balioon early iu the day. There was hut one tent visible at the battery on Oakland Island," and to vessel was to he seen in the river. Their preparations are no doubt being quietly perfected, and we should not be lulled into false security.— Sav. Hep., 22 d. The Conscript Law —A good many persona are under the belief that the conscription taw re lieves from the service all the persons over Ihirtv five years, who have re-enlisted for the war. in this they are mistaken. All who have enlisted for the war, whether old or new volunteers, will have to serve, it matters not what their ages may be. But the conscription law' does not touch those over thirty-five cr under eighteen, who are not now in the service. This, as we learn from the Lynchburg Republican, is the decision of the Sec retary of War, and the manifest intention of the law itself. Lincoln at Norfolk. —The Richmond Exami ner has the following item relative to Lincoln’s visit to Noifolk: King Abraham visited Norfolk Monday, the 12th inst. He was rec. ived and eicoited to ttie Atlan tic Hotel by a miserable Quack Doctor, named Todd, and a drunken oysterman named Gambel. Upon arriving at Hie Hotel the announcement was made that “ President Lincoln would receive all visitors who desired to see him.” The first man introduced was a dilapidated, cadaverous looking individual, named llill, a shoemaker. Several other friends of Hill, who had been “ smiling,” were also introduced, when Abraham’s first recep tion in Norfolk ended. Robbery —The stoje of Mr. B. C. Bryan at this place was entered by three negroes belonging to Mr. John Fair on Thursday night last, and they were in the act of plundering when Mr. .Tames Bryan fat home on furlough from his company in the Hampton Legion,) who was that night sleep ing in the store room, made his appearance and the negroes turned to fly. Calling upon them to halt, without effect, he fired a load at the depre dators, wounding one of them very severely in the back. At la3t accounts it was scarcely thought he could survive. This should be a warning to all thieves in this neighborhood. It has been determined to use like means in all such cases, and owners cannot too strenuously caution their slaves against en gaging in such scrapes. [EdgefiAxl Advertiser, lid. Hon. Jerk Clemens.— The numerous admirers of this gifted Alabamian will learn with feelings of deepest regret that he has forsaken the Con federate cause, and given in his allegiance to the Lincoln Government. He was in Huntsville at the time of its capture by the Yankees, and made no effort to escape. Only aGw weeks after * ei arrival he became very intimatewit: * ll ;rf tr< , e tg manding general, and now goes , ,■ representing the Southern ® auf ?f A- ri „ n d 3 "to join and endeavoring to persuade all hl - 0 f i nd with the Federal cause so four of the citizens of Huntsvffie, destitute o homes and our This comes from a source entitled to the credit— Atlanta* OmanonweaUh.. On Saturday evening a party of Yankee senti nels fired into a hand-car, which was about enter ing New Orleans on the Jackson road track, killing two brakemen instantly, and severely wounding Mr. John Crickard, of the Bank of New Orleans, and Mr. Jones, late steward of the St. Louis Hotel "Some speculators in New York have chartered aship to load with ice for New Orleans VOL. LXXV.—-NEW SERIES VOL. XXV. NO. 21. • Ladles’ Association for Sick and Wounded Soldiers, At a meeting of the Lady Managers aud Com mittees on Music and Tableaux, at the Masonic Hall oil Monday afternoon, May 19th, the follow tng report was read, and the accompanying reso lutions passed : The proceeds of the Fair from the Ist Ward £BBS 25 2d “ 501 40 3d “ 210 25 4th “ 739 80 Harriscnvile and Woodlawn 321 05 Piney Woods 662 72 Post Office 10 65 Admittance fee 150 00 Collected on Sand Hills 53 00 Committe on Music 120 60 Committee on Tableaux 297 00 Mr. C terrv, donation 25 00 N. E. H., “ 3 00 Whole amount £3 ,479 72 The following resolutions were passed :—A vote of thanks to Benj. B. Russell for free use of Masonic Hall; Mrs. Girardey lor half price for Concert Hall ; F. Lamback for use of Clara’s Hall; Mrs. Harriet Bean for tbe song of Georgia; E. Clarke Isley for arranging the song to music of his own composing; Messrs. Brenner and Chase for the Telegraph and services rendered; The Children of Houghton Institue £22 00: Messrs. Holman and Mustin for hire of Crockery; Messrs Catlin aud Levy for services; Mr. Hett and Pupils for Musical services. By ord r the President. Miss Sallik V. Hall, Secretary. Charles Henry Foster Nonplussed. —From the following, which appears in late Northern papers, it appears that the ambitious traitor, Foster, does not have things all his own way in Noath Carolina: Hkadq’s Department, N. C., ) Newborn, April 21. j Chas. Henry Coster, Esq. : Sir: I see by the Newbern Progress, of Satur day morning, that you propose to sneak to a po litical assemblage in this place on Wednesday next, which I think would be very uuwise in you to do, aud decidedly- unwise in me to allow. You occupy uo official political position in the State, as was’evinced by the refusal of the House of Representatives to grant you a seat in that body. The President of the United States has very wisely appointed in Provisional Governor for this State who is a native thereof and was at one time one of its most prominent and influential citizens, and represents at this moment the views and feel ings oi a majority of the people of the State of North Carolina. The Government will doubtless indicate its civil policy to Governor Stanley, arad I canmM consent in the meantime to embarrass either him or the Government by initiating myself, or allowing any one else to initiate, any civil, policy. From my own experience in matters of this kind, I am suf «Lv embarrassed already in taking note of nvi. i: tes that absolutely require immediate at- LmWo . The occupation of North Carolina thus fa." is entirely military. Another very serious objection to the assem biin • o such a meeting as you propose is, that 1 have : ver beeu informed by any oue that it was u contemplation. None of the citizens have re presented to me that they desire a meeting of this kiud, aud officers and soldiers of tbe urmy have no right to originate or organize political assem blages. I beg to say tb#|. I do not question the honesty or disinterestedness ot your intention, but the wisdom of your cause is clearly open to criticism, and the meeting cannot be allowed to assemble. Ambrose E. Burnside. Maj Gen. Com’g Department of North Carolina. Anew phase in Yankee Tactics—A Woman Ap pointed Major. —The Yankee Government of Illi nois has paid a rather unusual oompliment to Mrs. Reynolds wife of Lieutenant Reynolds, of the Hevouteeth Illinois regiment, conferring ou her the appointment of major. The Peoria (Illi nois) Transcript says : Mrs. Reynolds has accompanied her husband through the greater part of the campaign, sharing the dangers and privations of a soldier’s life. She was present at the battle of Pittsburg Land ing. Governor Yates, hearing of her heroic con duct, presented her with a commission as major in the army, the document conferring the well merited honour being made out with due formali ty, and having attached tbe great seal ol tho State. Mrs. Reynolds is now in this city, and leaves to join her regiment in a day or two. Turning the Tables —The last number of tb Abingdon Virginian mentions the following inci dent : A lew days ago, as'some thirty well mounted Southern Kentuckians were making their way through the mountains of Kentucky to Virginia, to unite their fate with the interests of the South, a squad of a “Home Guard” attempted to stop them, but they calculated without their host, and were taken prisoners themselves, and marched on foot to this place Tuesday evening, and lodged in jail. There are thirteen of them, two of whom are represented as desperate characters. They will be sent to Richmond. Missouri Matters.— Persons direct from Mis souri tell us that tbe war is raging fiercely in the south-western portion of that State, and in Kan sas. Mcßride fought the enemy for three days at Cassville, and finally whipped them. This is something more than a skirmish, as there were four or five thousand of tho enemy and some twenty-five hundred patriots engaged. The for mer were re-inforced and this protracted the con test, but at last they fled. Mcßride took three or iour hundred prisoners and a number of wagons, army stores, etc. The battle, our informant says, bagan last Sunday week. The stirring events east of us have fixed attention in that quarter so that the important scenes in Missouri are overlooked. Kansas city was visited by patriots lately, and as the narrator graphically expressed it, was “cleaned out.” A party of Stand Watie’s men, eighteen in number, made an attack upon four hundred fede rals encamped at the lead mines. This was a night attaak, and the federals fled as usual. The assailants gathered the wagons, some machinery and other property, set them on fire and left be fore their small numbers could be ascertained. Hardly a day passes in Missouri without a skirmish or battle, and the federals are leaving. This may be one reason «hy they have come down into Arkansas. — Little Koch, Ark., Democrat, B th. Cairo, May 14— In the naval' engagement on Saturday with Jeff. Thompson’s fleet the gunboat Cincinnati was more seriously damaged by the fre quent butting she received from tbe rebel rams man wa3 at first reported. She was compelled to run Into shoal water on the Teuuessee shore, where shj grounded, and had, according to the accounts received by the last arrival fro r. the fleet, four feet of water on her gun-deck. The government wrecking derrick has gone down to raise her, and it is supposed she would be afloat again by to-day. Tbe United States gunboat Mound City did ex cellent service during the engagement She was struck in a similar manner to the Cincinnati, but was not so badly damaged. She was run into shoal jwater, when she settled to the bottom. She was afterwards pumped out, and arrived here to-day in tow for repairs. During the heat of the engagement one of the rebel gnnboats got hold of one of the United States bomb-ketchers and was towing it away, when the Benton bore down upon her, and after a brief skirmish compelled the rebel to leave the prize. The following are the casualties on the Cincin nati: Caatain Stemble was shot throub the Deck, but the wound is not expected to prove serious. Fourth Master Reynolds was shot through the abdomen, and has since died. Two seamen, whose names are not Knew , were slightly wouudeb in the hands. A Fight and Confederate Victory iv WMTERN VlßlOlNlA—official to General Lee reached here . y aQ . veyin2 intelligence of a. cousi e a CoUJ bined kees m t mg. lt app , ar , forces ol Uenera! and routed in Giles mat l^ e h eu fj”^ e " 1 Heth, and that on their retreat c u unt fllfm < ivith the forces of Gen. Marshall, near- Pmefr entire command (they are represented to hare been twenty-five hundred strong; being cap a and taken prisoners. There are various ac ture ts of the affair. We hope they will not dwin- C ? U flo vrQ t 0 nothing like the preceding reports a 'he same quarter a short time since. ' roCa [Richmond Examiner, ‘list. The Yankees on Jackson River. —We are in formed that the body of Yankee cavalry, about three hundred strong, that were reported some days ago to have made their appearance at Jack son River Depot, had burned two bridges on tbe Central road near that place. One of the compa nies is said to have beeo commanded hv a Vir ginia traitor, a Ruckers, a native o ■ Bedlord county, but who for several years has resided in Covington, Alleghany county. Great alarm nar been excited in Buchanan and Fincastle, an other portions of Botetourt county, aaaaamoen of the inhabitants had fled their homes. mond Examiner, 21st. Fort PiLLOw—Not a gun was fired bv tbe ene my at Fort Pillow yesterday, bmee Jeff. Tbomp bod’s “scrimmage” with them, they seem to b, provokingly still.— Memphis Appeal, 14m. BY TELEGRAPH. FROM PETERSBURG—CAPTURE OF A POR TION OF THE MONITOR’S CREW—FED ERAL ACCOUNT OF JEF. THOMP , SON’S GUNBOAT FIGHT, PsrERsBPRa, May 19.—Eighteen of the Moni tor's crew came ashore at S o’clock this afternoon, at City Point, where they were surprised upon landing, by the Confederate pickets, and ordered to surrender. Nine of Ihem, including four of ficers, laid down their pistols and cutlasses, the others rushed to their boat, and pulled for the Monitor; 8 of them were killed, aud the remain ing one lost au arm. The Monitor opened with her heavy guns, which prevented the rescue of the boat and its survivor by our pickets. The 9 men captured reached here at o’clock this eveuing, and were marched through Sycamore street to Gen. Hager’s head quarters, where they were surrounded by a crowd. One of the officers waa a Paymaster, The others were Midshipmen, None of the Confederates were hurt. Late Northern papers report the sinking of the Federal gunboats Mound City and Cincinnati by Jeff. Thomson’s cotton boat fleet. The Benton was badly damaged. The Foderals acknowledge a loss of IjOOOmen. killed, 2,600 wounded, and C O prisoners at Wil liamsburg, Ya. THE FEDERAL FLEET ON THE MISSI3BPPI RIVER—DEMAND FOR THE SURRENDER OF VICKSBURG REFUSED. Mobile, May IShh.—A special dispatch to the Mobile Advertiser and Register says that five of the enemy’s fleet arrived iu sight of Vicksburg yesterday at noon. A boat with a flag of truce wrs stopped by our batteries a mile and a ball be - when the ferry boat went down and returned with a summons to surrender to the city. The Mayor replied that the city was unprotected, but he would never surrender it. Col. Anthony, the Military Governor, aud Gen. Smith, commanding the forts, answered that Mtssissippians never sur render. Two additional gunboats arrived late in the afternoon, when the fleet moved over to this side of the river behind the point. AU is quiet this morning. LATER FROM CORINTH—HEAVY SKIRM ISHING. Moisilk, May 20th.—The following is a special dispatch to the Mobile Advertiser and Register. Corinth, May 19th.—There was some heavy skirmisbiug on Saturday last ou the Put-day road between a portion of Gen. Suiiih’s command and the Federais under Gen. Sherman, Our loss was 6 killed and 18 wounded ; the enemy’s loss is not known hut supposed to he heavy. The enemy is busy entrenching ou our right on the Monterey road, 2% miles from Cciinth. It is said that the enemy is erecting mortar bat teries. Gen. Mitchell’s column from Huntsville, Ala., is reported to be this side of Florence, Alabama, marching to Pittsburg. It is reported that the enemy’s cavalry is within nine miles of Pocahontas, which place is on tho Memphis and Charleston Railroad. The Federal prisoners say that the enemy dreads our falliug back more than they do a bat tle, as they caunot stand the climate further South. They expect to starve us out by a long siege, aud thus compel ua to surrender. There was a skirmish at ten o’clock this morn ing, in which a number of Federais were killed and wounded. There was also a skirmish on Bridge Creek, a mile and a half from our lines. Several Fede rais were killed. There was no loss on our side. Forest’s Cavalry, Kennedy’s Louisiana and Bou ton’s Mississippi regiments, displayed great gal lantry. Picayune Butler’s villainous order of tho 16th inst., addressed to the ladies of Now Orleans, was published to the army to-day by Gen. Beuuregard, with an address to the men of the South to avengo tho insult offered to their mothers, wives and daughters, who are treated by the ruffiuuly bar barians as common harlots. The New Orleans Crescent has been suppressed because of Mr. J. 0. Nixon, one of its proprie tors, being in the Confederate army as Lieut. Col ouel of Ecotts Cavalry. LATE FROM EUROPE. Richmond, May 20th.—The Richmond Examiner of this morning has extracts from Northern pa pers of May 16th, bringing English dates of the.3d inst. The prominent subject in this news is the re newal of English and French intervention in American affairs. The Paris correspondent of the New York Herald, under date of April 2!ltb, says that notes have been pass ng between the two Governments within the past week in relation to this matter; and there is no doubt but that the Emperor says no. The Enquirer says, editorially: Our extracts from the last European intelligence received at the North indicate!, on the part of England and France, a disposition to intervene for the restoration of peace on this continent.— The fee’ing exhibited is altogether iu favor of ac knowledging the pretensions of the Confederate States. Lincoln has issued a proclamation declaring that the blockade of the ports of Beaufort, Port Royal, aDd New Orleans, shall so far cease and determine on the Ist of June, ss that commercial in tercourse with these ports except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may, from that time be carried on, subject to the laws of tbe United States. ANOTHER FEDERAL “SKEDADDLE." Richmond, May 20— The Lynchburg Virginian of to-day says that about five thousand of the enemy were caught between the forces of Gener als Heth and Marshall near the Narrows of New River, Giles county, Virginia. The enemy seeing their predicament, broke and fled without mak ing fight, eighteen hundred prisoners were cap tured, they surrendered their arms and were paroled. It is believed that this news is confirm ed by official dispatches received this afternoon. OFFICIAL CONFIRM ATIONOFTHE FEDERAL STAMPEDE IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. Richmond, May 21st— The following official de spatch was received here yesterday, dated New River, 19—via Dublin, 20th May : By the co-operation of Gen. Marshall, the Fede rai General Cox has been driven from this section of the country, losing many prisoners and his en tire camps and garrison equipage, &c. [Signed) H. Heth, Brig. Oen. Comdg. [Special to the Savannah Republican j FROM CORINTH. Corinth, May 19.—Gen. Beauregard has ibßued the following General Order ; Headquarters Western Department,* Corinth, Miss., May 19, 2862. f OENERAL ORDERS, No. 44. For the information of this army, the following General Order, No. 28, of the Federal Officer, Ma jor General Butler, commanding at New Orleans, will be received on dress parade : Notice— Headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, May 15th, 1862— General Orders No 29 —As the officers and soldiers of the Lmted States have been subject to repeated insults, from the women, calling themselves ladies of N. 0., in return for tbe mo3t scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered, that, here after, when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be re garded and held liable to be treated as a woman of tbe town plying her avocation." By command ot Map Gen. Butler. Men of tbe South ! shall our mothers, our wives, our daughters and sisters, be thus outraged by the ruffianly soldiers of the North, to whom is given the right to treat at their pleasure the ladies of tbe South as common harlots. Arouse, friends ! and drive back from our homes tbe disturbers of our family ties. (Signed,) G. T. Beacb*qard, General Commanding,
