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COaRtSPONDEVCS OF TH%CH*ONICLB AND SENTINEL
f;en. Doles’ rirlgad# In tbe Chancel
lor** 111* Hattie.
A. N. V, May 13th, 1563.
Fditor-Ab there as bet-D bo detai.ed ao
, rs tbe part tak a bv Brigadier General
Ha h’ lit -,-i l<- id th ■ late glorious victory at: no
", clh ?t rilorsville, Va.', and aa this brigade
er ~ . part it; tbe contest, a
iV - a-cur - e, id truthful report of it if ill not,
wc in’cg ne, f’! to inter-st Georgians.
Oi-r hi-:u ade is composed entirely of Georgians.
The 4 G or. , Col. Phil. Coot ; the 12th Ga.,
iin vV H s ; tbe 21 ft G»., Col. Mercer, and tbe
44 <■»'• . Col. Estes. Oar Division —Maj. Gen.
I>. 11 H il’s old Div s on—is bos' commanded by
Msj G'n. R. K. Rcde3 At the time the fig ,t
came IT he wisß-igfoier General, commanding
our div.s cn. For his great ga lantrv acd skill,
displayed upon the 2n 1 and 3rd of May, he was
.Major General. He is a noble officer, and
one r f whom Alabama may well be proud.
On the morning of April 29th, the boom of can
non aod rattle of musketry was heard n the di
rection of Fredericksburg; cur camp being some
five or six miles to t‘ e 8 nth-eastward About
9 o’c ock, A, M., we received orders to be in
readiness to maich. Soon a ter we were irdered
to “fail in,’’and in a few minutes we were
marching oil' in quick time. Ab ut eleveo .’clock
we reached a po» won under cover of a :■■■., our
iposition in onr line of fortifications being near
We here remained until next morning about
dawn, when we were thrnwn into our entrench
ments. The enemy ciu’d be seen in our front
netr the river, but not daring to approach us
This, how v.-r, was not his plan, lie was only
makings fu-iita 1 . ibis point, end at the same time
was preparing to strike us where he thought we
cou'd f t r Met. Wo, however, remained here
u :1 Friday morninq, May let. We were then
inarched out toward the west from Fredericks
burg.
0 r troops had just come on', of winter quarters,
t?).i , - ia all its glory tad rushed upou us;
an : it is* cried an if summer h and riven one of its
ho teit <1 -vs t > Muy, with wriciwi begin. Our
in 0 f t tiie effects Tery sensibly. But notwith
st . and r g the severe march and hot day, our men
held out remarkably. We neared Salem church,
s me nix or e’ght miles west from Fredericks
burg, about 2 o'clock, P. M. Wear here, the ene
my was prt paring for battle. We were soon in
lice and rac ed forward. We marotavred some
time oscillating from hti! to hill. About sundowa,
however, w<. were m relied out and started in tbe
direction of Ciianrellorsville. We reached the
road and marched some two mile3 and bivouack
ed in a wln-M field until down,Saturday morniDg,
May 2od. W then started on the road to Uhan
celli! rivilie. After marching up to within a mile
cr t o of this place, we suddenly turned off upon
a road almost , c a right angle to thj one we had
b c: travelling, moving off as if going toward
Spotsylvania Court’Houae.
We now begin a circuit. We marched ten or
tw .lve, miles com ng back to within five or six
m-i s <f 1 ancellorsville, swinging around the
right 11 ink of the enemy.
We dre w up in lme f battle about three P. M.
H re wo remained until onr lines and rapports
wet call re icly. General Rodes and bis Brigadiers
could now be seen making the necessary arrange
merits for ti c struggle. The noble and gallant
Jackson bad bee* uu-.ad with Gen. Rodes, and saw
that, ait wus right. Soon yon s a the aids de
camps riding to aad fro. Brig. G:n. Dales, with
his usual ca m expression rides alon ? cur line,
cautioning tlicit qommaqder when aad how to
move.
Wo are now in r. dense oak f ires.; the occasional
boom of the co er on and sharp orack of the rifle
tell u« of our proximity • tbe enemy. The.ew
m urates we art rt.-.t eg lor th pu _ oeo of gutting
our lines “all :i . our wearied and r.inost
sun sir ckc soitimrs ar u -and notwithstand
ing “ »ray shir, occai. mally comes crashing
through tho fort «, so'ic o. iha men are sleep
ing, pi-rfe •>- • ' .fi and that, Jackson, Rodes, and
Do e* will fix eT-ry thing ... , rly.
Her® com 3 Gun. D : ». We get ready to
mriv*. Just see the expression o’ his face—as
co-li -cut < 1 Vi story rs jf wo had the enemy
’• 1 is given every man n hopeful
-. •* v " cue flu mu to think that there is
hi , to do now, but to ex cute the plans so
i y hr., and l.f our commanders. The
fill • . • ..ill fro . . They move.
. * ■»' -.'i.!” “allentio.-l” runs alo. g the
liu ■ ‘ Forward!” “forward mea!” and steadily
w. ' vance. V/o r .. the line. Mow for the
work, t i ctry open fire upon us. Balls come
whizzi.i; tbrou, i the thicket: but rig ,t br.veiy
we ■ - va forward. Snddouly we sear the order
“charge.”
The.next moment a yell barst upon the air.—
"Wilb a b urd we leap to oar foes; they fly, end
w -pursue. Soon we s’.riko an open field. The
Yt:. t : cut: be eon flying in wild c ufuaioa in
every dir Finn. forward we rash, gee now those
no' o aoMi’, a who have marched so herd all day
and hi 1 out i ‘aithiully, charyiy : line alter line.
<n Y. :. • O :.;rtlic);d. Do they filler? No! but
like sob velerut in a holy causa they rush for
an . s rout o ' our battle cry, “indepandjoce,”
uu.i ic' -n ’ back the rorpon-e, “Freedotnl” Oa
w..'<l ad y-.t onward w» charge. Across the field
nn into another deuse thicket. A few hundred
yards, and another open field. As we reach the
0p..: a battery opens upon us, at the dig
tu oor lour hundred yards. A psrlect
sho rn of tirape, canister, shot'and shell, is burled
at us Many a true pan iot is cut down. Fora,
moment we stand and fire at the horde before us.
how his worth. Sse
tii -ii b o Georgians as they gallaptly sac ■ the
death dealing missiles of the enemy! Though
many are falling, still the line is facing thefoeand
hurling and fiance at the tl .unting “slar3 and
strip, s.”
Just at this time, look at the brave and heroic
Lt. (Jo . Lumpkin of the 44th Georgia, who, up in
f fin line with bis men, is cheering them on and
air. c n t the>r l.ro. Ho oven tafeesugan and fires
wlu'r , he wants his men to direct their aim.
Here, ton, c»m >a along the line and up in the
ra the chivalroo3 aid gallant Geu. Doles,
vti'.ii i r.it!. -iking countena ce, that seems al
ways to obs : liin line ct his
brig .de and buia bis men charge the works and
bi.urri. se tin n.imy. He dashes along where
the enemy’s bull nua grape shot liy thick and last.
Bnt he is perfectly cool I What soldier but that
ha., co: lib. ene a hen hencrshiia! “Charge men,
charge I” Toe m.'ii are inspired with freeh cour
age. a yell, and an ay they speed, to silenC? the
battery and slay the fo*.
Hera now, let ns pout yen !o a gallant and most
chivalrous fcno, r ;oi“ ■■■'.'■ bis sltei through and
forward id on me. 1' r ahead be rides so the
br artworks, under a heavy fire from front and
rear, where waves a Yankee flag. He wienches it
fioni us plane, from which loos.: who fought under
it have ingioriousi.y Aid, bears it aloft, and rides
onward with it. True and noble sou of Georgia,
your Staff wiil honor you fory nr heroism. Yes!
the noble Lieut. K. Hawkins of G’en. Holes’stall
has made a nam for himself. Bui we cannot go
through ned tin of u’l the deeds of heroism. It
won l aka volume to contain than. Here the
bravo Col. Cock cf tbs Fourth Georgia fell severe
ly wounded.
On our right, the noble old twe'fth Georgia has
advanced. The brave aid spirited Col. Willis,
though but twenty-two years of age gloriously
leading c u his gi.lla t baud. There too, goes the
twen'y-first Georgia, a r gi r ent that has been
led to so many viotcriis by the gallant Col. Mer
cer, who served through fha ‘ valley campaign”
with the lamented Jack. on. A vain he is covering
himself with glory. But the whole line of brave
patrio s as ibty g'onous’y move forward, hurl
the blue-coat and doodles i.om their batteries and
haul m irts.
W. i >w come to . remdscttL meat. Herein the
yard end brhtmi aidint ie I ouoesof ihe aboli
tionist v, we man negro abolitionists—for it looks
very mm has .f we rav' uir ud abolitionist this
•vcat- afro •• the way we abolish the Yankee lines—
bai t c. l it and to ,• t out o: the way if our shots;
acd as we rose into theyardthey runup to us and
entreat ns to spar,: them. Gcnlesa aud frighten
ed almost to dta'h, tour of the blue-coats came
up to t e wrier, screaming “wo surrender!
Save us!” We push them to the rear and tell a
Sergeant to take oharg: o! them and on we go.
AY k k«e aurgion, thinking that he is getting
where phis runv not perhaps save him, betakes
to crawl under.
Just ab. ut '.he lime be is drawing under the last
loot, a “lebel” co lies up and se'r ng him by the
leg, cries out. “Come out I know you are under
there, 1 sue your legs.”
Hire are horses, guns, trap socks, &9 , bat on
we go. Wo ndw eon •t. last work. Soon
we have it. We have taken ca; ion, prisoners,
wagon loads of knapsacks and just any thing in
th- way oi equipage. Ac.
Here night throws h-r sub!” certain over the
scene. W - bait. L. ok back over the held ?
Three miu-s we hove c... .and. The field has ma
ty a b ! ue coat wr. ( . a i onkre lump of clay.
'Ah'too. tom • nob t.u scf* .a empire state,
lie up on the plain, but their deeds uve alter
them. , , .e
Si. un the fight is renewed. ’. ;n.’ thr greater
pert on of the right the cannon booms ->ud mnu
ke M v raiHes. Our dm*ton is not again at night.
But so'"’ on S ic'.-...h morning, it again goes upon
the i a':.c a .in is in i c " :ht. The severest
ps, of .' e ourdiv sieo was
. Hi . ->•»;,• did the wiiom and vision
u , > . p,. .\ •. id 1 ui g and ant Mi-j. Gen iral
and .• e iur; > : is onerous task. a. 1 so a'so our brave
y .-s hail -d by all his men
as the --0 o! the s rife. Siturnay night after the
bait as over, sw car Brigedisr came riding
down our luebe »■ - reeved with cheer “ r
cheer Our Bfig.i-.idT captured fifteen p (CCS cf
artillery, the most A whit 'was sai ed aud br tghi
aTom ti e fit Id.
The You-ce p’isoce _ s, cf whom, under our
command, lUi.O marched down to Richmond, s_y j
that the r who e ..-my was m; re or less affected
by the wors of Satutday ivinlcp, that many of
the men of t. o lii i, 12 h an 1 2nd corps ran and
never stepped until they croszei tas Rappahan
nock river.
Let GecrgA honor her sons who sua'a’n L*r
honor aud keep h.r what she is, t’.s "Jgnq .re
Slate ”
■ You will hear from rs, when we sfca lar« , • u j
met 111? Yank.ee cf Hccker s (o son- : o her I
bragtart’s) ar y, and yo. .eir. to fl gh ,i, we get j
through—-s th s iim , iLroogo ins meny aud
pro‘.:cticn of the God t. -os.> '>e.
M«v .-.j 'uiDonant tiauspires vou may hear
soon' J‘V’
44th Ga. Beg t.
A meeting was he’d in the first Presbyterian j
church, it Atlan ta.f..-r the pm pb*e of organ iung a :
Bib e Sj iay. Kev. Hr. Wilson was chosen j
1 resident, snd W EzZ'rd, S. Root, and J. P.
Logan, were elected Vice Presidents. L. B. Ha
ys was made Secretary, and Joseph Winship
Treasurer.
From NHaaisslppl.
Correspondence of Mobile Advertiser & Register.
Jackson. May 29.
The principal fighting at Yickacurg has lulled,
and the enemy has fallen back and commenced
fortilying among the bills in paiaiiel lines with
those of Femberton. H:s assaults on tbe Vicks
burg woiks hare been terribly disastrous. Mors
ot the enemy have been slaughtered before the
Vicksburg trenches than in any other battle of
tbe war, being from twenty to thirty thousand.—
This ia s great numh-.r ot men to be put hors dn
cimoatin a single buttle, for in th s estimate I do
not mxac to include the enemy’s losses at Grand
Guff, Raymond, Jackson, Baker's creek or Big
Black; nor do 1 nuke the statement without the
most careful inquiry. Suffice it that my informs
tiou is correct.
I have furthermore staled, that reasonable fears
were entertained for the E»tety of Vicksburg, and
although the face of atf <Ts has in agreat measure
cnauged, I see no good reason for an abandon
ment of those fears. True, t_e enemy have as
saulted the works, and have enc untcred an ex
traordinary amount of slaughter; to great as to
deter them for a wale, atl cgt, from a similar ex
periment; but they are eti! in front of our in
trenchments, with an army believed to number
70,000 effective men. They have felien back and
commerced a series of fortifications parallel with
those in the r front, and communication with
Vicksburg yet remains cut off, and can only be
had by such means a3 it would be impolitic for
me to mrnt on. A want of water of necessity
compels the enemy to la.ll back on ihe B g Black,
which he has done and he can only supply bimielf
by hauling. Here his line3 assume a convex form,
having wheeled his left round on the Mississippi
river, and unless welt protected by salients, his
flanks are of necessity exposed. Tne same want
of water prevails from here to the Big Black. Ia
dry weather the creeks dry up, there are few
springs, and I have never yet seen a well—all
are cisterns which do not furnish but a bare sup
ply for the families who sunk Now until
the way shall be cle-red by driving off the enemy,
it is impossible either to throw supplies or rein
orcements into Vicksburg.
1 telegraphed you thm Vicksburg was closely
beseiged. At the time i did so, the enemy had
command—and yet have—of the Mississippi river
in hi« front, above and below the city, of ihe Ya
zoo river to Snyder’s Binff, where his right wiDg
rested, of tbe Biji’ack river to the Southern
Railroad bridge, where his le't wing rested ; his
northern base of operations at Sjydur’s Bind, his
Southern base of operations at Grand Gult. The
Big Black and Yazoo rivers flow from Northern
Mississippi in a south-westerly direction ; the Ya
zoo discharges into the Mississippi a lew miles
above Vicksburg, and the Big Black at Grant
Gulf, some eighty miles below. The enemy maass
ed his army—loo OGO men—on a line f;cm the
bridge o the bluff, a distance of some twenty
miles, being from river, while hia gun boats and
pickets held the rivers.
Ihe enemy is evidently sick of tho fight and
prefers to adopt the slow method of besieging and
starving out the garris n. Sickness will exist in
his cemps to an alarming extent, but we must re
member that the garrison of Vicksburg wi.l suffer
also. I hope that, in making these statements, 1
will not be considered an alarmist. I tm, however,
smgnine of ultimate success, and hope for tbe
best, but tbe truta might as well be told first as
last. Unless Vicksburg is relieved it must ulti
mately fall.
The movements of Gaa. Johnston and others
it is im jroptw ; n me to mention, but from them I
draw the most cheering inferences. The garrison
of Vicksburg is better supplied than I at first sup
posed; for vue planters, on the appearance of the
enemy, drove mast all of their hogs, ehesp and
catjle into the city, and alio sent la 400 wagon
loads of corn, which ia an invaluable help at this
time.
Mr. Saunders, whose statements have already
been published, says furthermore:
The Federals. when tiey approached Vicks
burg, were perfectly sanguine of nn immediate
capture of our stronghold, aid invited the ladies
into Vicksburg to see their sweethearts, as the
rebels were all to be sent North.
After the terrible slaughter on Friday, Gen.
Gran* issued an order for new ladders ta be made
and ie assault to be renewed on Saturday, at 2
o’clou bat the men refused to be led again to the
“slaughter pen.” The twentieth Ohio sent a pe
tition w Gen. MoClernand, and positively refused
to participate again in the murderous work.
Mr. Saunders heard frequent conversations be
tween the Federals and Uol. Womack, Chief of
Grant’s staff, expressed the opinion that Vicks
burg would not be taken for six months, if ever.
They imagine now that our force in Vicksburg is
from 75.000 to 100,000 men.
The e tire Federal loss around the entrench
ments a Vicksburg is estimated by them at from
35,000 to 40,000.
General Gra t sent in to know wr y he fired rail
road spikes and poisoned bills at them? The only
answer General Pemberton made to this question
was that the whole story was a lie. Tbe Federals
are seizing upon all sorts of pretexts to account
for their tremendous los es.
One of cur sharpshooters has n'ready immor
talized himself in the Yankee or ny. He tells
them he is a one-eyed man, and us he shoots a
Belgian rifle, whenever the peculiar whistle of
that weapon is heard the Yankees call out, “Look
out boys, there is old one-eyel”
They say he can kill at one thousand yards,
and never misses. Ooe day two Yankee captains
were looking trem behind a cottun bale, and old
One-Eyo killed the n both at one shot. Mr. Saun
ders also saw one other captain with aa amputa
ted leg, which he owed to the same unknown
man. 001. Hundley knows the man, and says
his name is Elliott, and that he belongs to the
thirtieth Alabama. He is known in Alabama as
the best marksman m the State.
A dispatoh from Rodney to tho Natchez Cou
rier states, on the authority of a paroled prisoner
that the enemy’s doad ware five to one of our3
on the battle field of Baker’s Creek. At Big
Black bridge o ir loss was ten, the enemy’s four
hundred. The enemy had taken, in all the ope
rations, 5000 prisoners, o; which 1600 were cap
tured after crossing B g Black.
Gen. Osterhaus was mortaily wounded at the
battle Dear Raymond, whicj was a desperate
fight on both sides, with oiubbed inuskels -a real
hand to hand fight. This aypearj to refer to a
part of the operations known us the battlo of Ba
ker’s Creek.
The Yankees cannot be satisfied wilh a second
class life. Porter’s statement th .t he had takeD
fifteen guns and eight thousand projectiles at
Bnyder s Biutt' (Haineb’ Biutf, as the Yankees
persist in calling it) was susceptible of improve
ment, and they changed" projectiles” into "pris
oners.”
A correspondent of the Mobile Register says
that: If Grant, after compelling Pemberton to
abandon the indecisive field of Baker’s creek and
then forcing him to hurriedly throw the Big Black
in his re. r—l say if he had followed up his advan
tage by advancing h;s fresh troops, he m ght have
gone pell mell into Vicksburg with a iarga portion
of Pemberton’s discomfited soldiers. The point
at which he made his attack on Tuesday was the
most vulnerable, and on Sunday night it is my
.opinion that Grant could have carried it ls e a
‘•flash, ’ but he dallied until Tuesday. Meanwhile
Pemberton eat no “idle 'ore. d.” It was dig, work,
work, and by the time Gen. Grant waa ready to
“go and see Gen. Pemberton,” his house had beeu
set in order, and he wag prepared to "receive
e mpany,” and Grant received one of the most
bloody entertainment* of modem history.
I have not learned whether Grant wanted to
bury his dead or not. If he had Pemberton would
not have permitted it, for it would require stouter
hearts than there are in Grant’s army to march or
charge over the Golgotha in front of the Vicks
burg batteries.
The Mobile Advertiser’s correspondent alluding
to the frequent burning of cotton, at vuricus
times, says : It is my deliberate opinion that eve
ry bale of Government cotton will be burnt by
some means, an . charged to the general account
of incendiarism and accident. The former will
have the longest fi ger in the pie.
The federate destroyed Austin, Miss , includ
ing tho records of the Court cf Tunica County,
and every house in town except one on Sunday
May 24‘.a. The force whioh accomplished thiß
achievement of vandalism was Elliott’s marine
fleet. A little fight teok place on Beaver Bam
Lake, about seven miles from town.
A Ne i Orleans exile, from Summit, reports that
as he was leaving that point a few davs since the
r mor was current that Grierson, the Yankee’cav
a’ry officer who led the reesnt raid through Mis
sissippi, had been repulsed with a loss of two
hundred killed, many wounded and several pris
oners. * The ftglt occnrcd on the B«you Sara and
Woodville road. G.ierson at the time was on his
way from Baton Rouge, for the purpose of destroy
ing’ the VV’oodville Factory, but wts met with the
above mentioned result by two regiments which
were sent after him from Port Hud on.
Organizations are now b trg p.-rtected in every
connty in Mississippi, aud i.rcis are distributed
among the militia men. Old and young are pre
pared to take the field. Tne people have learned
that they can lose nothing by r eteiauce. No
raids wi.l again be made through that State.
The Brandon Republic u mm ions a bold and
successful feat of Capt Wm. M. Jayne who left
Vicksburg a tew days ago wiih about SOO army
mules, passed the Yankee pickets, swam Big
Black river ai.d reached Rank n c unty in safety
Almost every mule had a man on his back, end
the Yankee pickets supposing it to be cavalry
teok in their eerie.
A r°ntlem in from the neighborhood of Ed
ward’s Hepot, • iss , states ' hat the vandals are
making a clean sweep of everything in that vi
cinity. They have burst every gin aud mill, and
in many instances every building on nearly all
the pianist ons —arresied the men and taken
them off, leaving no white person bat the women
ou the premises, and when the negroes remain
tbev are all armed.
A day or wo sgo a party cl Confederateso’diers
captured and brought into Jack eon, M.t'., a b idy
of inf ugent teerofs on a planta ion near B g Black.
The Yankees bi.d ’-een through that country and
instructed the Ci.nirabsnos how to pr-ceed under
the new r iation. Accordingly the tt<.grots mea
sured off the land witl a plow line, making a fair
epportioument between themseiv s, a so di- ded
the cotton ant implements of husbandry. When
tnev ground ratal they kindly denied out rations
to their old helpless master, r.na aiso gave him
bis allowance of bacon. At leas; the negroes
themselves claim to have been ft os kind to the
aeccsed patriarch, ai-hongh it i* s,id that the
old man was upon the verged starvation when
our soldiers came to his r-scue. These negroes
were provided with arms by the rubbers tu le
fused to tell where they were concerned until thev
were forced to.
It is said that Gen. Femberlon was wounded n
the last attack on Vtcksbnrg.
Eight companies, it not ail of Crawford’s regi
ment, have been captured. Also half of Rowan’s.
Pitts’ regiment escaped and is now in Vicksburg.
The regiments that were captured were fighting
gallantly, but were snrronnded before they had
time to retreat. They were captured in the fight
on B g Black river. ▲ paroled Confederate, who
was with the enemy, saw OoL Crawford and Lt.
Col. Gregg after they were captured. They were
well, and not wounded.
Gen. Vaughn aad staff escaped. The General
acted gallantly.
A letter written by a lady in Mississippi to ber
father, giving an account of the outrages commit
ted by ihe Yankees daring their recent visit to
Jackson and vicinity, gays : We found onr wound
ed at old Isaac Robert’> place, the houses, gin and
yard fuIL A great many were without s rag of
clothes on; nothing Jm't a filthy''blanket thrown
over them, and some were jn|t covered with cot
ton ! We have collected all the clothes we conld
bat still they are not all clad I”
The Jackson Missisaippian states that the Fed
erate did all in thei- cower to barn the c ty, bat
were prevented from so doing by the exertions of
the citizens who extinguished the flames in va
rious sections. The Federal* not only fired tbe
city in several places, bat endeavored to destroy
the fire everywhere.
From Virginia.
There is every indieation that Virginia will
soon be again a point of interest. Both armies
seem to be active. It i* probable that both Lee
and Hooker have private schemes of their own,
and that each is carefully watching the move
ments of the other, to guard against surprise, or
prevent any advantage being taken.
A fight took plaoe at Catlett’s station and Bris
toe en Friday last, in which Major Mosby’s force
and a large bodv of Yankees were engaged. We
learn that Mosby attacked the passengers train,
coming from Alexandria, containing a large num
ber of soldiers and civilians. With a light moan
tain piece put a ball through tbe boiler cf the
locomotive, which disabled the train. He then cap
tured between twp and three hundred prisoners,
and burnt tbe train. While iemoring bis prison
era and stores a heavy force oi Yankees, suppos
ed to be a brigade, attacked Mosby, who charged
upon the Yankees twice, hnt finding his enemy too
much for his small force, he was compelled to fall
back. While doing so, his men scattered to save
themselves from being overwhelmed by the Yan
kees, and hia prisoners succeeded in making their
escape. Onr lose is reported as very small.
All reports concur in stating that Hooker is on
the move, but we are still without the means of
forming an intelligent opinion as to his plans.
Tbe best opinion seems to be, that anticipating a
demonstration of General Lee again t Washing
ton, he ia endeavoring to put himself into a posi
tion to meet such a movement, at,d with that view
is moving higher up the Rappahannock, to the
neighborhood of tbe O ange and Alexandria Rai’-
road. Tho next few day will doubtless reveal
his plans, and perhaps some of oars.
Tne Yankees have evacuated West Point, bag
and baggage, oarrying off with them a large gang
of neg-oes.
Refugees from the Peninenla are coming into
Richmond every day, to escape the barbarity of
the Abolition hordes now,devastating that prolific
country. «
A Richmond correspondent of the Savannah
Republican writes as follows under date of June
Ist: Everything remains quiet on the Rappahan
nock, though there is reason to believe this quiet
will be broken ere long. A good deal of publici
ty has been given to a rnmor that Gen. Lee is
preparing for a forward movement—from which
ihe newspapers in the United States infer that it
is cniy a ruse to cover a demonstration in some
other quarter, since they ffect to believe that we
would be more reticent if an advance were really
in contemplation. The month of June, upon
which we have this day entered, will unravel the
mystery.
ft is said that Gen. Lee is more than usually re
served in regard to his future plans and opera
tions. He has been constrained to adopt this
course in consequence of certain disclosures re
centiv made by McOlellan. It appears that Gen
eral D. H. Hill, during last ye'r’s Maryland cam
pain, dropped in hia tent, prebably when he re
tired from Boonsboro’ Gap, Lee’s general order to
hia corps and division commanders, in which h»
set forth the whole object and plan othis advance
across the Potomoe, and that this papar was
found and carried to McClellan.
In this way, it is alleged, the Federal command
er was informed of the strength an i disposition of
foroes, and knew that D. H. Hill, with his single
division, was left to hold the gap at Boonsboro,’
whilst Jackson had tamed off to Harper’s Ferry,
and Langs ireet had taken position near the
Pennsylvania line at Hagerstown. This disclo
sure explains tbe rapid movements of McClellin,
and the confident manner in which he followed
us up and delivered battle of Sharpsburg. With
out this knowledge, it is not probable he wi uld
have sought Gen. Lee so soon and so eagerly;
and thu.- the latter would had more time to con
centrate his forces, rest his troops, and prepare
for the conflict. We can never know what would
hare been the result if that order had net fallen
into the hands of the enemy ; and yet it is not
impossible, had it not reached the Federal gen
eral, that we should this day be in Maryland.
Tne Kiohmond Examiner of June Ist, has a re
port that the Yankees were crossing the Rappa
hannock in force at Ellis’ Ford, twenty miles
abo re Fredericksburg, on the day previous. It
was said that a considerable body of infantry and
artillery had already reached the Bouth bank of
ibeYiver. It was further said that General Lee
had been previously informed of the designs of
the enemy, and had been looking for him to come
over for several daya.
Our troops are represented as much elated by
tbe prospeot of another battle and certain of vic
tory.
From Louisiana. 1
The following is General Smith’s Official report
of Gen. Taylors Louisiana campaign:
Hhadq’rs Dip t Trans Mississippi, )
Alexandria, La., April 23, 1863. j
Gentlemen—l have the honor to enclose a re
port of General Taylor’s recent operations in the
Teche, and in Western Louisians.
The enemy landed at Berwick Bay a column of
at least eighteen thousand men, thoroughly equip
ed and prepaied for offensive operations. Gen
Taylor’s effective foroe was notover fonr thousand.
The completeness with which the enemy was
repulsed in his attacks of th* 12th and I3;h, the
skill and ability with whieh our little *rmy waa
extricated from apparently irretrievable destrcc
tion on the I4th, tbe obstinacy with whioh every
foot of ground has been contested in the retreat,
and the successful saving of our material and
stores, under circumstances of great difficulty,
stamp General Taylor as a leader of no ordinary
merit.
* * * * *
Respectfully your obedient servant,
E. Kirby Smith, Lient. Gen. Commanding.
Gen. 8. Cooper, A. and Ins. General, Richmond.
The Mobile Register, remarking upon the re
gorted crossing of the army of Gen. Banks at
ayou Sara, to take part in the Mississippi ctm
paigp, says : This is good news in two respects.
First, it leaves Kirby Smith to operate in a clean
field in Louisiana; ani next, it shows that Lin*-
coln’s disposable forces are not so great as we
have been taught to believe. Else Louisiana
would not be abandoned in the presence of such
an army as Kirby Bmith has under his command.
We hope to hear soon that this General and the
veteran Pric#have taken advantage of the move
ment.
Two hundred and. thirty-seven prisoner paroled
and Bent over from New Orleans, arrived in Mo
bile, Jane 2d under flag of trace. They are a
portion of these takim by Banks during his oper
ations ,n the Teche. They all agree in represent
ing his losses in that campaign as far greater than
ours.
It is pretty well underatc od that our troops
have repossessed themselves of the country west
of the Atchafalava. One of our men who had Uk.
en the oath of alligianee, wanted to go to Frank
lin, and was he could not go onts’de the lines
that Franklin was no longer included in them.—
borne of the prisoners understood that Banks’
tiaiu had been out off.
Some reports state that such of the Yankee offi
cers commanding the negroes as were taken at
Fort Hudson were hanged. It is reported that
the loss in officers above the rank of Major was
about thirty. It was said that B • nks sent afl ;g
of truce to bury his dead, which' was refused. Ac
counts differed as to the grounds of the refusal.
One itatement was that the Confederate com'
mander would not entertain a Bag of truce on any
subject connected with r egroes, whether alive or
dead; another was that Banks was required to
withdraw from the immediate vicinity of our
works before sending a fit .
Our force at Port Hudson is represented to
amoint to #,OOO men. Banks’ entire army is un
derstood to be 47,000, but they had not all cr. ss
ed.
*v Th f re r er9 ® ft * ea Yankee gunboats engaged in
the attack upon Port Hudson. 6 6
It was stated some days ago that Kirby Smith
~a < M,B *'«»'ppi and participated in
the fight of Port Hudson. Snch is not the fact.
General Gardner commanded our iroops on that
occasion, and he and his Teteran soldiers are en
titled to all the credit of that brilliant and im
portant victory.
A letter from Alexandria, La., dated May 2»th
gives a gloomy picture of things in that city since
the evacuation of the place by the Pederals. The
writer says nothing of the whereabouts of the
Confederates, under Gens. Smith and Taylor.
The Yankee army has desolated the country
around Alexandria. They have carried off all the
slaves, horses, mules, snd provisions that were
acoessib e, and left everything in a deplorable
condition, it is stated that nothing ahort of ac
tual observation can convince one of the terrible
osses we bare sustained, snd the dreadfnl humil
iation to which ws have been subjected in that
section.
C-.vscairriox— Ovebjsirs.—At the late term of
Baker Superior Court, Judge 8.-H. Clarke dis
charged Wm. A. Patterson from military arrest on
the grounds—
1. That to render s conscript liable to the rules
and articles of war, hs shall first be mastered in
to service.
2 He cannot be treated as a deserter nntil after
enrollment, and refused to obey.
3. The occupation of an overseer makes him a
military exempt. . ... .
In this case, the conesnpt had been arrested on
th* 23th April ISM, while acting as overseer for
Mrs. E. J. Martin, s widow lady in whose aervice
he began on December lltb, 18M. He had no
notice whatever of his enrollment, or of any order
to report for duty, when the arrest was actually
made.— MUUdg**ilU Btcordtr.
The Federals appear to be fearful of an attack
on their troops in North Carolina,
Poland.
we have been repeatedly told, on
Russian- anthirvy, that the insurrection of Po
land is almos*. crushed, yet the Poles are still able
to-give bettle. Tie latest intelligence from Eu -
rope States that the
Polish iosnrrection continu sto increse. In
one district it has assumed aa tntirely religions
aspect. The prople are strictly Catholic, and sev
eral companies are led by county clergy. They
have been victorious in several engagements. The
hero in one fight was Father Mackiewiez, who fell
upon the Russian flank with a company of sejthe
meu aad turu-d the scale of victory, she more
the ineurrec iou increases the greater outraegs
are commitud the Russians. All classes are
infuriated at their s .vage brutali'y.
Tbe rising of Poland this time is characterized
by tome features, and aiiended by some circum
stances, whico mak; it essentially different from
all ihe Lrmer movements. For the first time in
surrection broke out in ail parts of Russian Po
land at puce ; even in ivi-jia, where the people
are not Poles at oil, but Finns. For the first time
the great Jewish population of Poland —where
there are more Jews tbau ii allthe testof Europe
together—are deut.fied in interest with the pat
r ois. And, for the first time, the rights and
wrongß of Poland ars made an European qnestior.
Not only France, but Spain and Italy, ann uuc
their sympathy with Puiaod; nd ere a the British
government is fcreejl to < ffret some gy :np ittv al
so, an.i to take part i the diplomatic proceuaiugs
which have resulted in Ruesia agreeing to a p;o
--j.- or aa European Congrss.
Os this last fact we cannot yet be certain. -‘La
France,” one of the “nemi offioia” pareri of
Paris, asserts that Russia accepts in principle the
prjeetof a Conference for settlement of me a
lairs ot Poland.” This acceptance “m principle”
is a dub OU3 phrase ; and practically it may ba
dcubted whether such a Congress will be held
France has several limes urged such a measure
udod tbe other Powers, for the settlement of va
rious questions—that of Syria, for etample—but
En.-land always evades it.
The obligations of Russia towards Poland are
set forth in the first fourteen articles of tne
Treaty of Vienna; and the Emperor Alexander
himsalf enumerated them as loilows : “A Consti
tution; the preservation in public enactments of
the Polish language; the restriction of public ap
pointments to Foits; freedom of cimmerce, and
a national army.” In pursuance of the treaty, a
constitutional r ha:trr was even promulgated.
Shortly alter, when peace was fully restored, the
charter was revoked; the “national army” was
refused, and Poland waj garrisoned by Russians;
the constitution was replaced by a despotic code.
Poland waa driven to arms in 1830; the Poles
fought with fhc bravery of desperation; and
in tbe ter ifcle battle of Freeflow, theirscytbemen
(/a uchcurs) mowed down a goodly harvest of
Jiuscovnes; but at U.itrolenka ta y were over
powered, and Polanh fell again under the abso
inte dominion of tbe Czar. Sines that day the
nation has besn held down by brutal force. Mul
titudes of the beet und most exal ed of Poland
have been constantly harried oft to Siberia; bui
Polish national aspirations have never died. In
1847, there was another outbreak, stimulated,
however, by Russia Lerielf; and another batch of
the best Poles wended their way to the snows of
Siberia. Ia lSlil tbe streets of Warsaw had to
b ! once more swept by Cossack cavalry. Some
twenty persons, including old men, womeu and
children, were slain ; tbe citizens assembled in the
great chuich, to assist at tluir funeral service—
the church was c : eaied by soldiery. Again, find
ing that the people were still crowding ih?
churchez—the only place where they could legal
ly assemble—and there, after service, seditious
ly s ngiog a national hymn with tbe refrain : “God
save Poluad !” tbe Government ordered tbe Polish
Archbisbop to cios-i bi3 cathedral lo divice ser
vice altogether. On the old prelate’s r-.fusal, he
wu3 at once thrown into prison, where, we be
lieve, he still iangu shts. Then ciiizans bethought
them of wearing mourning for the victims of the
Cossacks; and Warsaw streets were at or.ee
sombre wi.h universal black. Instantly an order
was issued against mourijing; women were strip
ped of their weeds of woe by the police, and every
merchant who displayed a yard oi black cloth in
hig store wus ut once arrested and his stock con
fiscated. X i short, every extremity of insolence
by which a proud people could be humbled and
crushed into the dust has been visited upon that
unfortunate 1 ind within tbe last two years.
In 1801, there was again great sympathy and in
dignation excited in Europe on behalf of the Poles,
Lord Palms rsten—than wßom no ®sn more hand
some y expresses tbe finest liberal sentiment
declared in Parliament “that the course which the
Government of Russia a opted towards Poland
waS a completo and decided Ti ilatian of the Trea
ty of Vienna, ills stipulations then made having
been broken almost as soon as concluded.” It
waa true ; nobody has ever denied it. Lord Pal
merston nas repeated tbe same sentiment in the
last deba e in tbe House -of Commons on Polish
affairs; and be it remembered that England,'as a
party to the Vienna treaty, is bound; along with
the oth r powers of Europe, to sso that it is re
spec ed.
In tne mean time this last insurrection broko
out; tn Russians were defeated in several ac
tions ; Franco became ns usual vehemently ex
cited oy sympathy with the Poles, and applied (or
the co-operation of England in sums energetic
action on their behalf; but the sympathy of Eng
land was all for rhetor.cal effect—it might pro
duce poetry, but no active exertion; and France
was left alone, as she was iu the case of Mexico,
eud may ba in the case of this Confederacy. All
that tbe Emperor haj found himself at llaerty to
do—having already a serious war on his hands—
was to make frindly representations to the Czar,
which were trea ed as Mr. Seward treated his
proposal for a conference in America.
Once more the Poles are promised a “ Consti
tution” as they were in June, 1 .at year: bat they
know the value of Russian promises. Under that
last Consti uuon the Poles were formally invited
by tho Grand Duke Constantine, to express their
wishes freely. They did so ; and thiough the
Count Z imoyski abked simply lor the privileges
s cured lo them by ths treaty of Vienna. Count
Zimoyski was mmantiy condemned to imprison
ment and exile. The report of the town council
of Warsaw, slates early in last year that the
number of persons imprisoned for political of
fences—fir wearing mourning, petitioning the
Government, or singing God save Poland—
amounted to 14,838, including women with in
fants at the breast, aad caiidren oi four years
oid; and Prince Gorichakoli told Count Zamoya
ki that the Emperor was per c u ided the only way
to govern Poland waa “ by terror.” He udded,
os irom himselflf you fore3 us to i<, we will
make Poland a heap of ashes and corpses ”
As for the promises and assurances which it is
said that tbe Czar has given to th j Emperor of his
intention to deal meiciluily with ihe Poles, there
have been probably no such assurances given at
uli; if given they will certainly be violuted. In
Europe, a King is bound by no promises, consti
tutions or oatns given to his subjects. To “give
a Constitution” is simply one of ihe old and we.l
kqown fictions of ritnte. Poland has been ofteu
promised the same sort of tbir-g before ; and how
ever these famous assurances may delude the rest
of mankind, thry will net delude any living Pole
Yankee Foueigx Enlistments. —Our readers
are aware that a correspondence took place sema
time last month between Earl Russell and Mr.
Ac'ams, United States Minister, on the subject of
alleged recruiting for the.Yunkeo Government in
Ireland. Mr. A. denied positively any knowl
edge if any such enlistments, and discredited
the idea that atiy person having any authority
from the United States Government was engaged
in any such enterprise.
Earl Russell expressed himself satisfied, but
subsequent y vtnHred to draw Mr. A.’s attention
again to the subject, upon a statement made to
Government that within a fortnight 1,278 emi
grants had sailed from Qieenslown for New
York, many of them youag men—that eight
hundred were booked lor (he next departure lor
the same place—that additional et amers had to
ba put on this line engaged in the business cf
conveying emigrant —and that the prospect oi
large bounties had been held out to young men
throughout tha country, the emigrants them
selves admitting that thty got $250 and S3OO
bounty; their lrieaus in New York also receiv
ing large commissions for inducing them to emi
grate.
The artful United Sia l es Minister, wilh an ap
pearance ot great la-nestness proceeds to disa
vow. He and his Government have been ap
prove ed lime and again by persons who were
anxious to go from Ireland to America tojoin tho
army-soliciting free passage for the purpose
But their overtures had been rtjected, no author
ity from his Government being given "to listen
to any proposals of the kind.” instructions to tbe
e ® . ct > h * Ba y s - were given to all the Consuls
olthe United States.
Adams admits that the libera! bounty paid
by his Government for soldiers had occasioned* a
desire with many to emigrate. He then lets out
the manner in which the thing i B done. He has
been informed by a gentleman of influence that
tbe greaFcorporations for the extension of rail
ways in the western part of the United States hav
ing lost many of tne laborers on their lines, by
drafting for the ar»:y, were eadeavoring to fill
thur places with aliens exempt from military ser-'
so^~m h .i£!w! r L Uneß w fOF wh;ch his are
soremsrkßbie fcemakes use cf his very corres-
Earl d ßn s e <. ?l thlf «?i? for . erni gl’ants by stating to
fl ; 1 .? 1 h 1 there is no doubt of the fact
United^?*! 3 /” ECii C i ty of laborers in the
United States, and ae adds: “ I learn from DTi
vate sources that tbe i ate of wages this seas n is
very much advanced!” These things he coolly
Bimn'nf R “ ssel i “ explain she
enon of emigration to which your lordshin has
been pleased to draw my attention ” VerJ P aatte
factory, no doubt, to his lordship ’ V 7
Mr. Adame knows, Earl
these people are all intended to the’ force
against the Southern Confederacy Whether'
he? l sufj- r cfs a^htdS t a ‘r or 0l ” e aD Lv°e f
ought. He will drawlffT e r£iad H ed Tubmen
under one specious promise or another in the face
of his, protest U ion. of ali pSpat the
proceeding, atd in spite of aU her vigilance
\m<'-hiyioTid Dit ,aUh.
° r,t j
’I ”• TANARUS,..„ 7 VC P "
tbe medanon portrait of the president ofth.rnr!
tolerate Stales in the esnt? th, fi™
“fifty at each end. Tbe money will he‘issued
J* “I* r *“'< ‘"“V iho.Md Or monjlr
Capt. Uyntlers,
Ve had heard nothing fora lo.*g time of “Capt.
Rynders,” ihs noted New York uaii!
we met with ths N Y. Tribune c:nt,.iaing the
folhwiug speech delivered by him at the late
Vallandigham Free Spe.c'a Meeting. It will be
seen that Isaiah preserve his reputation for sn
outspoken independence and for handling his
foes w;th gloves on :
Mr. chairman, and fellow subjects of Abraham
tbe First. [Laughter.] I estetm it a high privi
lege to be showed to appear before yon to-night
without shackles on my hands. I hardly expect
ed to see so many people here in defiance of th 3
law of the police of this city, who have promul
gated throughout the city, the entire diy—l do
not mean thwindividaa! police in th's, for they
are the mere instruments in tbe hands who com
mand them—but certain B ack R publicans, as
well as White R-pacdicans, have been industri
ous to-day in circluticg the report that the meet
ing was to be broken up [“L t them try it !”J and
that any individual like myself, or some of greet
er note, perhaps, would be arreiled if they took
the name of Abraham L ncoln in va.u th;3 night.
| Laughter j. Well, I stand It 're for the express
purpose to see if they would arrest me in Abra
ham’s name. I thou ht I would take a h ud in
it, b it 1 do not know I will be able to do mush.—
But I tell you in these times of arbitrary arrtsts,
when public journals are suppressed and individ
uat liberty crushed out by every means in the
power of military despotism, it requires a man oi
at ’ea t some c -ur- go to g--i up here and tact the
b-yonetsoi those t rat ra• away at Frectticks
burg Is thete au American cilizin, whether na
tive tr, like niys;tf, “to the manor bo- n, 1 ’ among
yau, woo eon3iders himself a freeman, that does
not f-el ths bum dating b UaL tieg.e in h:s cheeks
woen ha heats of that air. e cus a t of Ambrose
E Burnside ? | Groans for Burnside.] lam here
to put myself oa publ.c record against this act.
[ b’ ear j
I am here lo make ro speech, and then in a let
ter make au apology i r it afterwards What I
say to night, I win ray to morrrow. | ‘You al
ways have done so, Cap.’] Most of you have
kiown me long, and uever anew m i to lake buck
what I coolly and deliberately a.s.ried as ar ght
an- princip.e. |‘Never] Isay here to-night it
is an eternal degradation and shame to America
that an individual in a Btate nut in rebellion
should be taken out of hi3 house by a cohort ot
military minious— brave me-i, no douDt, in the
performance of a duty where there was no dan
ger. Thev were not afraid of Vallandingham.
nor his wife, nor his little children. [Laughter ]
N.r I do not want you to understand that I mean
to insinuate ought against the bravery of our sol
diers that have fought in the Fredericksburg ac
tion, for I have two nephews there, and one of
them, I balieve. has fallen iu theontest. Well,
if he died he his died with his lace id the enemies,
I waß going to say cf his country, but I wi 1 not
say it. If Abraham Lincoln and damned Black
Republicans; if the cohorts of negroes, Lincoln,
Greeley, Phillips, Anna Dickinson and the ree:
of the devil? that congregate around them
[Laughter, in which the rest oi the sentence was
lost] There ar gentlemen who think you ought
never to speak disrespecifu'ly of a lady. I grant
yon, yon ought hot, and 1 challenge the world it
anybo y ever heard me utter a word disrespect
ful of a lady. But do you c*!l those ladles?
|“No; hoise marines.”] The speak’r then ro
marked the amorous auk devotional feelings to
ward the negro of such females as gathered in
Dr. Cheever’s church lately, aad related how he
kicked Wendell Phillips out of the Broadway
Tabernacle some years ago. When the time
comes, said he, to resist the encroachment cf your
liberties, do not say you are going to* do it, aud
never do it. One blow struck in defense of your
liberty and for the protection of your icmiiy by
the stalwart and courageous arm, ia worth a
dozen windy speeches.
Tiie FJgut at l’or Hudson.
[ From the Mobile 1 ribu ne Extra of Sunday. \
The steamer Natchi x arrived here this morning
wiih two hundred aad thirty-iwo paroled prison
ers.
Thev bring accounts of a errat victory won by
Gen. Gardner over Gen. Banks at Port Hudson.—
It oeeured, it is stated, on the 27th and 28,h inst.
How much of it is true or otherwise we cannot
i-ay. It was believed in New Orleans and general
ly rumored there.
They state that the Yankee troops had
made two desperate assaults, which w ro re
puised with immense slaughter. When ordered
to make the third ssiauit they refustd, and swore
they would “not be led into a slaughter pen.”
Four ot tbe Abolition Generals were seriously
wounded, wlicsi names we were unable to ascer
tain, with the exception cf Gen. Btulidrd who was
shot through both legs.,
Gen. Graver, it is alsi stated, was killed Some
parts of these rumors are hardly credible ; such
as that, of ali the men taken by Banks info the
fight, only 3000 escaped.
Gun. Banks’ e ifire s-ass was captured.
Os one n gro regiment which made the assault,
600 were killed. We further learned that our
gallant Gen. Gardner had given orders to take no
negro soldiers prisoners If thu is correct, we
are glad to learn that he hn3 taken the initiative
in that respect, and have no doubt he will rtciive,
which he well and serves, the thanks of every true
Southerner
A rumor was prevalent on our streets that the
firemen of N. Orleans hud raised a riot there, and
had not only whip oh the Yankee troops, but that
Gen. Bowen the Yankee oo nmander, had been
killed ; also, that the firemen bad fired neaily the
whole of the Third District. This, however, as
much as we wish it to be so, reqires confirmation.
LATER AND CONFIRMATORY.
The following is a copy of a hasty note written
at New Orleans just beiore tbe bust containing
the prisoners left the wharl. It is from a gentle
man of high char icter :
New Orleans, May 29.—Trsmendous fight at
Port Hudson on the e7th. Yankees driven back
with a loss of 3,000 killed and wounded. Gens.
Sherman, (since reported dead,) Neal How,
Chapin and Nickerson wounded. Gen. Payne
killed. Negroes, to use the language' of Gen.
Sherman to K.„Eyuns “massacred.”
They held our cuter works for two hours, but
the 15th Connecticut and 26th New Hampshire
caught the infection u> and the whole concern broke
and fled. They report the U. S sloop of war Rich
mond sunk ; others say the Genesee. This is their
own veision. Banks nnt in the fight. All under
direction of Sherman. He was brought here last
night. Registered enemies will apparently ba let
alone for awhile.
An extract from a private letter, ua;eu at Mo
bile tbe Ist inst., written by a gentleman recently
Irom New Orfeaiis, fays :
"I joined the army at Port Euison, near
which place I was captured on the 2nd ol May.—
I have been paroled and am now here. They
have been fighting at Port Hudson, ct intervals,
for a week or more. . Banks marched a regiment
and a half of negroes ia front and attached the
fortifications. Ou’y 75 of the negroes escaped.—
The rest were slaughtered in the attack. Gens
Dudley and Sherman (Yankee) were killed. They
lost very heavily in tfficers. Sherman vt«t rid
dled with bails- The Yankees in New Orleans
are low spirited since the late battles in Virginia,
at V.cksburg jtnd Port Hudson.”
The West. —According to some theological
writers, who have undertaken to uuravel the
mysteries of prophecy, the combined hosts of
Gog and Magog are to meet in the Great Valley
of the Mississippi tome tima bitween the years
1860 and 1878, when tbe great baltle of Armaged
don shall be iought. At this battle, the blood is
to flow until it reaches the bridle bit of the horse
mer, and a “stink,” is to arise from the caicisses
of the slain that will tcatter pestilence and mourn
ing through tbe whole land. Ii is to be the great
est aud last battle on earffi—the final contest be
tween liberty and despotism; it is to decide not
only the fate, ana shape the future political char
acter of tho Western Continent, but is likewise to
produce a revolution in all the great monarchies
of Europe. The cause of liberty is to make
final triumphs; 'he ancient monarchs of the Old
World are to give in before the conquering hosts,
Israel is to be restored, a democratic theoeraey is
tofcecimethe recogn ztd Government rot only
in North America, but throughi ut all Europe ;
Poland is to be restor and to her ancient liher'its,
demsgogtsm is to have its luneral obsequies, the
Millennial R;ign of a thousand years is to set in
aDd (it is hoped! the Puritan Rouad Heads and
Yankee po.ilicnins are, like their great Chief in
the lower world, to be put into clo-e custody
where they may no longsr disturb the public
peace by a system oi intermeddling with aflairs
that do not concern them.
The ganpuinury conflict which beg been pre
dressing at Vicktburg during the past ten days,
the disposition of the Yankee Government to ha
zard everything in the contest, the continued
fl iw of reinforcements to both erodes for several
weeks past, the dreadful carnage of the Yankee
troops and offensive stench arising from their rot
ting ecrcassei; the locality of the hostile armies,
their great and increasing cumbers, and the pe
riod of time in which these eTfn'.s are
ing, serve to remind us o! Dr. B J twin s Uatieu
States in Prophecy,” and ms lheor.es o the
oreat Armageddon It cannot bs c-a.m das a
verification of his "Prophecies,’ however, since
the character and material ot both armies lack
many of the essentials specified in his “prophecy.
J [Columbus buji.
Thb Lat* Raid into Alabama.— We learn from
the Huntsville Confederate that the Yankee force
which burned the factories and other buildings at
Florence Ala., numbered 2000 mounted infantry
and lour pieces ol artillery. They crossed the
river at Florence, from which place Hannon
drove them, with loss. The next day. May 29th,
Roddy crossed below them, cut Idem off from
their boats, and drove them back to Florence
Mai. Jenkins and Capt. Locke of Hannon » 031
Alabama Regiment, were killed in the Florence
tig A battery, without an eseert, going to Haocon’a
assistence, encoantered the enemy, and was re
ported captured, but it opened on the enemy, and
escaped successfully to Athens.
On th = 80th, the enemy was at Gravelly Springs,
seventeen miles below Florence, retreating, and
Roddy in poranit.
News from Mexico to the 2d of May, published
in the Northern papers, states that lrom the 16 -. h
of March, when the assault began on Puebla,
every effort of the French had been me. by dis
aster and on the 2d they had not accomplished
anything worth nai ing. No less than nine as
saults bad been made on the Mexican worxs, bnt
in almost every case tbe assailants were repa«*d.
The French losses are put downi at 3,000 men,
8,000 deserters and 242 prisoners. The Mexicans j
were preparing to pursue the French army.
matters In England.
A correspondent of the New York Evening Post
writes as follows from Liverpool, under date of
May 13. The Post is intensely Abolition in its
proclivities, and of course all its employees look
at matters through Abolition eyes, and would not
announce that things are more favorable for the
Smih than they really exist. The Post’s corres
pondent says:
POSITION OP AFFAIRS IN LIVKRPOOL.
The sec.'stion proclivities of this town are so
notorious that it is well to look a; one of the caus
es. Besides the commercial interests involve*!
wilh the Southern States, Liverpool has inherited
a loathsome disease, which fifty years of cauter
izing has not wholly eradicateo,and which account i
in some degree for uer sympathy wi:h thaßla T e
iholders’ rebe ii n ; and this disease is the taint of
♦he slave trade which yet infests the place.
Three generations ago Liverpool was the great
port for the S ting out of slavers, and mer
chants grew wealthy in tbe nefarious traffic. The
merchants of Liverpool, with bui f w exceptions,
are hea ty sympathisers with Jeff. Davis and his
navy of pirates. In no other place in England is
the feeling so openly expressed.
THS SOUTHSHN CLUB.
Ou the corner of the elegant open square form
e i by the Town HaUand the Exchange buildings
U a long and elegant edifice of Caen stone, erect
ed a few year? ago, Bna iu tee upper story are the
rooms oi ihe Southern Ulub. A door covered
with green bin, aad bearing on ground gla ;8
the came of the r-soociati. and. gives ingrese, but
oniy to the favored members or those recommend
ed by them. Toallotcers au ii fi xiolft Cerberus,
win sits at the and tsk jastins'J® tfl-> door, refuses
admission on nay terms. This door opens into
the reading room, aoufortaole npavtmtut furn
ished with bather covered sofas, with ecsy chairs,
with tables aud newspaper tiles, and ornamented
with si portrait of J ft. Davis aud two UttleJUou
ledefatt flags. Other rooms are used for cooking
and diuiug, and present little worthy of notice.
riRATKS IN THSIB CRADLES.
Th-odeten ion by the British Government of the
all-ged Confederate privateer Alexandria has
drawn considerable attention to that vessel as she
lies at Toxetb dock. As yet tbe Alexandria does
not look very form’dab'e. She is not large, but
is iniended for spaed ; and though to all appear
nnci wooden, is eased within with iron. The
masts are raised, end the deck is laid. Bat here
work has been stopped, and instead of noisy ship
wrights, omy a sedate Custom Hou3a officer sits
on board and prevents the curious from intrud
ing ; yet many come to the dock to see the Alex
andria lying gracefully in the water.
The worsuien lately employed on the vessel are
natuially indignant at the Government injunction,
which, by interfering with the progress of the
ship, has thrown two Hundred men out of work.
At Laird’s celebrated dock at Birkenhead, two
Confederate iron ciaas a.e approaching codiple
tian, aid can be readily saeu from t e ferry boats
which oioss the Mersey to Traumero. They are
baiidmg under the superintendence of Captain
Bullock.
The (amour pirate Sumter —now the Gibraltar
—has been lying for some time past ut Birkenhead
undergoing repairs.
THK NKIV COMMISSION TO BNGLAN/).
Tbo arr.voi of Mr. Evarts is noticed favorably
in all the papers, and under the well known prin
ciple that two heads are better than one, it is ex
pected that he and Mr. Adams will ba quite able
ta avoid further complications with (he British
Government. The war feeling, quite rampant here
a week ago, has blown over, aud a good Federal
victory would still further turn the tide in our
favor chew here in England, it not in Liverpool.
j The Enemy’s Raid on the Combaheb. —We
have gathered some additional parnculars of the
reezni ctislrnclive Yankee raid along the banks
of the Crmbnkee. "The latest official despatch
from Gen. Walker, cat*d Ureen Pond, eleven
o’c ock Tuesday nig t, and which was received
here on Wednesday m irmng,“convoyed intelli
gence that tiie enemy had entirely disappeared.
It seems that the first landing of the vandals,
whose force consisted tna’nly of three “contra
band” corn ostitis, officered by whites, took place
at. Field’s Pomt, on the plar.ta ion of Dr. K L.
Baker, at the mouth of the Cimbihee River.
Alter destroying the residence and outbuildings,
tho iccenoiarieß proceeded along the river banks,
visiting successively the p'an.ations of Mr. Oli
ver Middleton, Mr. Andrew VV. Burnet, Mr. Wm.
Kirkland, Mr. Joshua Nicholls, Mr. James Paul,
Mr. Mamgault, Mr. Cha3. T. Lowndes and Mr.
Wm. C. H-yward.
After pillaging the premises of these gentlemen,
the enemy sat fire to tho residences, outbuildings
and what-ver grain, etc., they could find. The
last place at wnica they stopped was the planta
tion of Wpo. C. Heyward, and after their work of
devas'aiion thrre had been consummated, they
destroyed ths pontioa bridge at Combihee Ferry.
They then Grew off, taking with them between
60J and 700 negroes, belonging chieliy, as we.are
informed to Mr. Wm. C. Heyward, and Mr. C. T.
Lowndes.
The residences on these plantations are located
at distances from the river, varying iu different
cases from one to two miles. Oi the plantation
of Mr. Nicholls between 8000 and 10,0ti0 bushels
of rice were destroyed. Besides his residence aud
outbuildings, which were burned, be lost a choice
library of rare books, valued at SIO,OOO. Several
overseei'B are missing, and it is supposed that
they are in the hands of the enemy.
OkarUstcn Mercury, Ith.
Bloffton in Rdins. —Tho destruc ion of prop
erty on Bull’s l i laud some aays ago, ana the
recent raid on the Uombahee, involving an im
mense lost of property, i3 followed by the bnrn
lug of the beantiinl town of Biufiton, on May
River. This last outrage took place ou Thursday
morning las*, and resulted in the loss of about
forty private residences and nearly one hundreo
outhouses, stores, &c.
The enemy approached in transports, and land
ed about one thousand stroa?, at what is known
S3 “Hunting Island.” Five gunboatii covered
tbeir landing, whioh was successfully accomplish
ed about o’clock on ths 4*.h instant. Three
companies of the force that had landed fork up
the line of march, following the course of the
river until they receded Biufiton, their gunboats
steaming along up the river abreast of the troops.
The pickets noticed ths movement at sunrise, and
reported thq fact to Lieut. Uoi. Johnson, com
manding the outposts, at about 7 o’clock, and the
cavalry force from the 3d and 4 h reg'ments S. C.
cavalry moved at once towards the threatened
point. Birant’e to say, the couriers lulled to re
port the advance of ttig enemy either to the picket
headquarters in Bluffton or to the garrison camp
ed near the town, coni-isting of a line infantry
force from t,e 11th 8. G. regiment. Tho conse
quence waa, the gunboats arrived in the river
the camps before they could ba
seen by the camp guard, who gave the alarm, 'f he
men were soon under arras, aid deployed us skir
misher going soma distance to the front in the
movement.
The enemy soon cp.mein sight, having obtained
pot-session ol the town unmolested, and exchanged
shots with the line oi skirmishers; soon afier, the
town was fired in the lower part, near Colonel
Stohey’e, aud Ihe wind blowing fresh, soon sent
the flames broadcast through the town. The
heavy growth of trees between Mr. Pope’s house
and he Episcopal Church saved the latter struc
ture. They fired the Methodist Church under the
very altar, but it burned so slowiy that it was
discovered and put out. The cavalry had now
arrived. Earle’s light battery, after a drive of
thirteen miles, had siso reported for duly. The
Abolitionists having effected their purpose, now
withdrew, embarked on their transports, and were
conveyed out of sight.
But one caeuaity occurred on our side—Serg’t
Mew, of Company E, lllh S. C. Inlantry, was
struck by a fragment of a sheM (which, by the
way, the Yankee gunboats used very frecily) in tbe
right side; the wound is not daneerous, however. I
The lnvadtrj, who were principally a New Damp- j
shire regiment, are not known to have been pun,- [
ished in anyway. As we said in reference to the
affair on the Combaliee, the success of a maraud
ing expedition of this character is certainly a
very mortifying circumstance.
| Charleston Mercury , June Itlk.
How Prisoners mouto ns Treated —The
Montgomery Advertiser hn aoms very timely
aud uppr.priate remarks up in tho way \a which
Fed ral prisoners should be treated by us. We
i nnex some extracts from the a-ticle referred
to:
There is a right way and a wrong way of treat
ing the Y’ankeee who may fall into the hands of
our authorizes. As prisoners of warihey should
not be subjected to insult and outrage, but they
should be held under close surveillance and not
allowed to have unrestrained communication with
the people of the country, 't hey should be made
to feel tnat they are prisoners, and not the hon
ored guests of the Government, making a plea
sure excursion, for the purpose of receiving the
g c and v ill offerings of the people. * * * To
those who are inclined to argue with the prison
ei3 the right or wrorg of tbe war we would also
jji's -.At toat they can furnish a much more cou
ol sive argument by shouldering a market and
taking their plscra ia the ranks' of their coun
try’s where, if thev do not convert a
Yankee they m«y succeed ia killing one or more,
and thus do more good than they ate otherwise
likely to do.
A proper respect for ouraelvea and the cause in
which the Confederate soldiers are perilling their
ii res, requires that prisoners should be treated
strictly u3 such. When it is necessary to convey
them across the country they should be taken
under a strong guard, and that guard should be
instructed to hold the men under their charge
entirely aloof from tbe people, and not give the
Yankees an opportunity of misconstruing the
mistaken attentions of Southern men aau wo
men, by at ribuiingthem to a sentiment of union
ism and attachment to the invaders of the South.
Kentucky.
A letter from Kentucky nays: We may expect
here a series of fearfui coafl cta iD the next three
weeks, unlets we are overwhelmingly successful
a; Vicks arg. If Vicksburg ia not held and oar
army successful in Mississippi, and the Southern
army marched into Kentucky sometime during
this summer to r lieve the State and expel the
invaders, then indeed wiil onr State be lost for
ever, unless God, in his wisdom, should confuse
and co found these Northern vandals, and make
them the instruments of their own ruin and de
suuntian By the ltt of June they will commence
carrying out with a determined and diabolical
purpose their conscript law in Kentucky. A large
mfjonty of those liable to the act, will fork over
the S3OO apiece, and sell their birth right and
their liberties, their fame, their country to the
Yankees.
<%o!ttclt & Hffltkl.
AUGUSTA. GA..
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, ISB3.
WE ALWAYS stopthe Chroniolb k Hint, ■
nil at ths end of the year, or the time for which
it is paid, of which each subscriber will receive
notice in the papfer, so that if you wish to con
tinue it, it would be wellto renew your subscrip
tion at least two weeks before the time expires.
WE CANNOT change the address of a sab*
scriber unless he gives us his former as well as
his present address.
Uags ! Rags t! Uogi!!!
The papar makers want rags—rags of cotton,
linen, flax, old rope, etc. In every village there
onght to be a rag merchant, who should bay eve
ry pound of rags he can get from all the sarround
ng country. We would like to hear from any
who will undertake to bny rags to make paper for
the Chronicle k Sentinel. On receipt of letter,
we will state ptjee, eto., etc.
Npurlona Prosperity.
Tbe Northern journals have indulged in no lit
tle exultation over the prosperity of their princi
pal cities in the midst of the gigantic war which
they are prosec itiug. They point us to the abun
dant supply cf money—easily procurable oi good
security below the legal rate of interest; they
instance the high figures which their State Bonds,
Loans, Stocks and other public securities readily
command in the market; and they print us to
the abundant employment and ample remunera
tion everywhere furnished to labor. From suoh
data they pronounce everything well financially,
and proclaim themselves able to protract the war
for thirty years if necessary. None but very su
perficial thinkers can, we think, be imposed upon
by vaunting based npon such sophistries. It is
not. .ifficult to show that ail this boasted pros
perity is fictitious—a fiction with some resem
blance to truth, but still a mere sham. It is the
hectic glow which crimsons the check and give*
lustre to the eye of the consumptive whilst an in
curable disease is consuming his vitals.
It cannot be questioned that the Northern
Dtates are now making less solid wealth by sever
al millions a day, than before the beginning of
the war. Not less than twelve hundred thousand
men have been abstracted from tbe farms,
workshops, and other productive industry of the
coumry, and are not only contributing nothing
to the i übiic wealth, but are mere consumers of
that wealth. The entire patronage of the South
ern States which In various forms was worlh
several hundred millions annually to the North,
is all lost. The fractious of this business wbioh
they retain by stealing cotton or running their
goods through the blockade, are too inconsidera
ble to make any serious abatement of their loss.
In addition to this, multitudes of their vessels are
unemployed, owing partly to the decline in their
commerc sand partly te the successful competi
tion which neutral vessels have been able to make
in oonsequenceof the operations of our private* rs.
In addition to this their cotton factories consume
iug, in ordinary times nearly a million of bales per
annum, are more or less suspended for want of
the ruw mai erial. So that in many sections of
the country even the reduced number of the oper
atives are without employment in one of tbe most
lucrative branches of manufactures.
Notwithstanding these inconlrovei'table facts,
the Northern cities, and especially New York,
which is the great money power for carrying on
the war, never seemed to be more thriving. The
citizens are “making fortunes;” their merchants
are busy; and their securitias command high
prices. The fact is easily explained. War stimu
lates many branches of industry, and is itself oc
cupation for a very numerous class. It would be
safe to put down the number of Govsrnment em
ployees in and out of the army, male and female,
at three millions. And if we suppose that the
number of persons directly and indirectly support
ed by the parties in the pay of the Government to
be three times tvs great as the number in actual
employment, this would give us twelve millions—
nearly two thirds', of the entire population—actu
ally supported by the Government, and aotually
interested in the continuance of tbe war. The
amount of money put into circulation in paying
these mighty hosts of workmen and soldiers is
enormous. Asaconsequeno*, money most abound.
Hundreds of thousands never found it so easy to
make money before, and were never able to make
so much. Small traders have grown wealthy.—
The men of fortunate contracts Upve become mil
lionaire. In some cases, gigantic fortunes have
been made in a few weeks. Everybody, especially
in New England and the manufacturing districts,
is growing rich.
But whence comes all this money, whidb pours
its overflowing tide into millions of pockets,
whilst yet the stream rolls on ? Is it borrowed ?
Borrowed ?
“Ave, there’s the rub—
There’s ihe respect that mi ke» calamity
Ot such prosperity.”
The day of reckoning; must oome. Inteeat must
ba paid. Priuciptl must be paid. Paper will not
always meet the case. Gold must be forthcom
ing. By an inevitable law, reaction must follow
the excitement. And then what a collapee 1 What
an explosion of bubbles inflated now to a large
dimension and adorned with all the colors of the
rainbow. What a levelling of mighty fortunes
and mightier hopes I How much which now
seems most solid will then disappear, and un— •
“ like the barele’ss fabric of a vision
Leave but a wreck behind.”
A mhn who can borrow as much money as he
chooses, though he ia really insolvent, yet may live
in a fine house, keep a fine eqnippage, give fine en
tertainments, and ii various ways epand two or
three hundred thousand dollars annually. But when
he can borrow no more he most come down, and
involve his too confiding creditors in ruin. Wnat
a man can do, a Government can do. The pros
perity ot the Northern cities' has ho better foun
dation than the credit of a Government already
bankrupt. It is spurious. It mist be abort
lived.
Capt. Isaiah Rtapebs.—There is more sig-
I nifiesnee and real smack of actual perform
ance iu the late demonstration of Captain
Rynders and his “crowd,” at New York,
than in ali the windy speeches and resolu
tions cf Yankeedom put together, that have been
made hitherto. The character of Rynders is no
torioui enough, that the public need not be in
formed that he is a man of deeds and not words,
that he threatens but to perform, and draws no
weapon that he doos not mean to nse.
Rynders and his gun have figared prominently
on many an exciting occasion in the streelsof the
metropolis, and, despite his bad name, always as
the conservator of tbe public weal. He is a host
of himself, more fffioient than a polioe squad,
and formerly, held the “ balance of power” In
Gotham. He has lain quiet for- many months,
and now appears in the ring for the first time
since tbe war broke out.
His attitude as the champion of the Yallan
digham party, is of itself a defiance of the powers
that be, and we venture to say that the attempt
by tbe Abolition miDions to seise Rynders in New
York would result very differently from: tbe ar
rest of Valiardigbam in Ohio. He dares the
Government to repeat what it has already done,
and the Government must aeeeptthe challenge
and exercise itsauthority according to it:i declar
ed policy, or bear the charge of pusillanimity,
and own itself brow-beaten. We may rest as
sured that Rynders has not taken this stand with
out a powerful party to beck him, and that his
ranks have undoubtedly been swelled by the re
turned soldiers of New York regiments, former
comrades of his, many of whom have their own
private scores to settle with 44 honest old Abe.
One thing is certaib, that if there should be a
confl et of authority between the old Tammany
champion and tbe Rail-splitters, the purlieus of
New York will be the scene of unusual excite
ment.
This speech of Rynders ootnes jnst npon the
eve of the great meeting of the &and of June, and
on that occasion we may hear from him again.
£g(” a dispatch to Samuel G. Jones, Superin
tendent of the Alabama and Florida Railroad,
states that no lives were lost by the precipitation
of the cars into the Perdido river on Sunday.
The telegraph operator at Tensas bad a leg broken,
and several negroes were quite severely brmsed,
but beyond this there were no further cs^aslUes.
Newspapzrs fortbii Soldiers.—a
and Christian patriot, Rev. John L. J'>hnH§jp
Lynchbu r g, Va., ha ß tuccessfully
plan fir the mental improvement and
tte ao'diers. which recommends itself for geill
adoption. He bas established in that eity a Reaq
ing Room for siok aid wounded soldiers, whoaM
not so much disabled as to incapacitate ther
from walking about; and those who are unab
to come out are furnished at tne bedside. I
supplies them with newspaper* from variai
psrta of the Confederacy, and with such
for reading as ean be procured. By thie’vSft
scheme, our brave eoldiera who may ba there eai
read papers from their own State orperhapethl
own town—and we all know what delight it gii'
to the absent to eee a newspaper printed ia t
loved prtcinct of home. It is as good as a let'
each time it is read; and the soldiers eat*
these favors above all price.
Iu order to increase the amount of
to the soldiers.by means of newspaper
Rev. Mr. Johnson bss addressed an argent e
peal to onr worthy townsman, Mr. D. B. Plan
to eid him in the good work by procuring alii
newspapers possible from this looality. ]
Plumb is willing and anxious to respond to t
patriotic appeal, and he accordingly proposal
receive contributions from our generous eitia
to puy for subscriptions to tbe Augusta dail
to be (oi warded to Mr. Johnson—tbe latter g
tlemnn promising to distribute them among
soldiers in the hospitals. He withes to send
least one hundred copies of our city journals 1
tbeir use. Bach a number would go.far loss
supplying many readers, as by an interchar
one paper would lurnish numerous read»|d
Shall not Mr. Plumb’s project be
liberally met? Let our well-to do people c
tribute of their abundance to this noblt o bje<
one that we feel sure will mejt -with their tea
eat approbation. Mr. Plumb, as the almoae
this fund, will see to <t that it ie judieiously
plied and the papers forwarded af ones.
We are also asked to request that the ®
plan be pursued in Savannah, Macon, Atli
and Columbui. And we hope that the friend
the soldier* m those placss will send for*
without delay a large number of their daily j<-
nals for the benefit of the soldiers.
Th* Brav* Mbn or Uacauix.—A coirespon
of the Mobile Register recently published »
following statement, whioh those may be
who wish 10. We should not bsv* deigns
notioe it, except to prove the baseness ol
slander by the heroio deeds of our brave mei
“ I regret to say that .every report from Vi
burg tells an ugly story about some Georgia
ments in the battle ot Baker’s Creek. That
said to have shown the white feather, and ri
tbe first fire. This won’t do for Georgia,
report comes from so many reliable sources
I believe it to be true. It was tbeir first bat »
they were fighting Grant’s beat troops, aad
were in a hot place.”
The troops of this Slate have acquitted t
■elves nob’y and with honor jipon too ms
battle field, to pefmit a shade of doubt to <
the mind as lo their bravery in aotion. We
not refer to the record of Übanoellorsville,*
the previous history ot the war, to prove th*
justtoe of the accusation. We will point ou
tbe simple announcement by telegraph, by w
we learn that Georgians gave up tbeir life ii.t
than surrender to boats of the enemy that
overwhelming. Never was there a more b>
instance of self-devotion than that at Viekeb
• and the man who charges Georgians with sho <
the white feather there, should be made to pi
it before the survivors of that gallant bam
whom “five-sixthß” fell with their faees to thi ’
ArFAiri in New Urlians.—A gentleman, •
fugue from New Orleans, wbo left that eit
May 14th, gives us come interesting faota reli
to affairs there; but his statements ar* mi
but a repetition of sn oft-told tale of distress i
wrong. Notwithstanding the large numb*’
disloyal persons who have been sent away by v
Federal cimmandant, the city is by no in
purged of the Southern element. Th* mart
rale is very stringent, and no assemblages of pt
sons are allowed npon tbe streets. A part
three or more persons is immediately diape
by the soldiery. There are but two tbousan
twenty-five hundred troops at New Orlean
present, including all colors, although a fort
ten thousand could be gathered on eall with
week’s time. There is also a negro camp atC
mette, eight miles above the city. Negro r
ments are being constantly raised, the office)
which are all black, and our informant has set
regiment of white men offioered by negroes,
gross in uniform oan be Been in tbe itreeti at
time. Blaok takes his turn with white, *■ off
of the day. The ranks of the Corps d'Afrique
rapidly filling up. The houses of those peri
driven out of the city are taken possession of
soon as vacated. The distress of those one* si
ent is very great.
Federal Dibirtebs. —There are a large nu
ber of this class of individuals at present in I
Confederate States. They afford ua nsithar >
nor comfort by their disloyalty to Lincoln. Mi -
of them have coma South not from sympathy, t
for any love they bear ns or our cause, bnt sit
ply to get rid of fighting. Generally speakii
they are a set of cowardly aneekg, of no oharaeb
loose in their habits, indolent in their dispoi
tioni—or, in plain English, loafers in every sen,
of the word. Those who do not-come under tb
head belong to a dab* who have eome “ South «
spy cut the land,” and who return with fteir n
port to Lincolndom as soon as they have folly a
oomplished their vile purposes. We have no n»
for either Lincold spin or drones. We think ot
authorities ought to arrest all Federal deserters a
they arrive within our lines, and put them
work in some penitentiary until the war is ovs
In this way those who intend to work as igj*.
will be prevented from so doing, and tboss wU
intend »o live in idleness will be eompsilsd to pi
their way, and do our cause aome good by fteii
forced to be producers.
Culpabli Imprudbmce.—Some of our eotai
porariee appear to be very desirous (to infor
our foea, through the columns of their papers,
the condition of the Government Work* here a
elsewhere, of the large amonnt of cannon, fl
munitions, Ac., they are turning out, of the gre
benefit they are to tho Confederacy—in she
telling Lincoln and his hordes jnst the ve
things they wilh to know. This is eolpat
imprudence; and if sooh things cannot bn pr
rented any other way, tbe eommindiog milita
officers in the districts where inch tattlers a
located, should exercise their authority tn t
fullest extent, the public will uphold them in sn<
movements. If those who are our strongest at
best friends by their great desire to do somethin
are continually injuring ua, they rught not
oomplain if a remedy ia applied that will on
them of their talking propensities,—at least
the columns of their papers.
Another Traitor. —Tbe Chattanooga Rebel
informed that John J. MoCsnley, the telegr%Ri>
operator who so mysteriously disappeared fro '
that place about two weeks ago, has tamed •
inside the Federal linee. The laet heard of hi
ke was at Murfreesboro. If this acconnt be tru
he will be able to give much information to Roi
encranz that that crafty individual ought not to i
in possession of.
A gentleman writing from Cooss, Flo} 1
county, Ga., says that the wheat crop in that se<
tion bids fair for an abundant yield ; harvestin
will commence soon. The corn crop looks wei
though backward. There are no cotton fields i
that section of tbe oonntry. Here and there
little has been plented for home oonsnmption. 1
[ar* A gentleman writing from Sheltonvilli
Ga., says that the wheat crop is fine ia that %s (
tion. Everything premises a very large crop. >
great breadth of land hea been sown. Harvest
jug will commence in a few weeks.
pr A gent’eman writing from Tennessee
states that Gen. Morgan’s command has advanc
ed, and that wo may expect to hear a good report
from him soon.
pr A gentlemen wr.ting from Cedar Blnff,
Aia., saya that the wheat in that vicinity looks
excellent. Corn is yet small on acconnt of tbt
dry weather.
Hilbna not Taxsn.—The Miesissippian of Msyi
50th learns from a gentleman who left a point
above Helens, Arkansas, on the 2<th, that there
is no truth in the reported capture of Helpas by
the Confederate Gen. Marmadoke.
Dickens is engaged on anew novel—name not
yet given to tho public.