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from the Louisville Journal, June 20.
Rabat lamliin of Indiana.
ihe roost daring and hazardous raid*
ever attempted ban taken place in Indiana Ur.
fry, ommaod'Dg the postal New 4** ao . T i in "
forma ns that on Tuesday night or Wednesday
morning last, two hundred rebels crossed the
Ohio st Flint Hook, near Leavenworth, and struck
out for tbe intenor of Indiana. The riser at that
point ia fordable, which grealy facilitates their
designs. They went to Leavenworth, robbing
tbe store* and citizen* of money, horses and
weariog apparel, aod whatever else they needed.
They proceeded with alt tbe swiltaesa possible to
Oorydoo, where 'hey repeated the name opera
tions a* at Leavenworth. From Oorydon couriers
were dispatched to the eommaedant at New Al
bany, and to other places where home guards or
•oldiers were stationed, and soon the whole coun
try was in a bUz ■of excitement and alarm. The
home guards at Mitchell were instantly dispatch
ed to meet the marauding invaders, who made
their next appearance at Fanli, in Orarge county,
where the Mitchell home guards, numbering six
tv, met and gave them bailie. This was Thurs
day afternoon some time—onr informant did not
•xactly ■ ate. Tbe indtamans made a stubborn
resistance, but alter the loss of twentv captured
•nd several wounded, they were compelled to
vield to superior cambers. The rebel loss is not
known, bat mast have been considerable, as the
Hoosiers fought like tigers.
The captured wore paroled, end tbe guenli&s
robbed tbe town and took everyth.ng they could
oaa to advantage to ibemselves, or that would as
sist them in their hellish work. As soon as Ur.
Fry received intelligence of the fight and the
sacking of Paoli, wuich was last night, he mus
tered all the soldiers that were able to bear arms
a n d sent them early this morning to Halerfi, in
Washington county, to intercept, if possible, the
farther advanoe of the rebel robbers. Tbe home
guards of New Albany aasembled, and they left
tnia morning on the train with the soldiers, rna
king a foroe of about four hundred and twenty
man. Last night the guerillas eere reported
witbiu aix miles of Hslem, and it was thought
toay would reaob there acme time in tbe night.
A small force bad assembled to meet them, but
not much could be expect:d from them, as they
arc undisciplined and have to conti nd against
veteran troops, aod cavalry at that. It is almost
certain that the foices from New Albany reached
Malein in time to eave the place and totally defeat
the robbers.
Tb« invsding oavalry consists of a part of the
«tb Kentucky, rebel r.gm—*, «ua *a.ir
U to got all the Horses, money, and goods they
can take away with them, destroying tbe railroad
bridges aoroas the roads running to this point to
crereut the further transmission of stores for
the present, destroy all the Government property
they can hod, and then make their escape into
i»ii e. These fjctH were learned from a deserter,
and are undoubtedly true. No raid attempted
during Ihe war has been so (ul. of daring mid
danger us this one, and made very likely iu con
cert with other movements of greater moment.
Ur. Fry, of New Albany, has acted promptly
and wisely in this matte , and deserves the ap
proval ot his superiors uod loyal men every
where. He thinks that the whole gang will he
e.ptured or killed before they can get out ot
.Indiana. We wait with impatience further de
velopments relative to this bold invasion.
LATBU
At last accounts the rebels were retreating o
Malum, in Washington, followed by a force of
home guards They met and fought them near
Orleans, Orange county, in which engagement tbe
Union lorces lost two men k lied und several
wounded, brt made itco hot for the guerillas that
they though best to retreat, and give up all idea
of a further advance. They are reported one huo
dred und fifty strong, and under the leadership of
tba notorious gutrilla Hines, who visited Elizi
bet’.town, in ttHB State, a week since. How they
have ever eluded tbe grusp of the U a ion soldiery
who have been ever eince in pursuit ot them is a
mystery to us.
They bate committed some of the most alro
cions barbarities in Indiana that the mind could
conceive of They captured an i k lied a private
and unotiending ettizea uum. and Grist, near Fuoli,
lor no ouuse ii the world, except that he refused
to gve his purse uud horse. A man named Brax
ton, an old gentleman, was murdered in a suuilai
manner, and for such like alleged offence, and slid
another bad b'u brains mercleßsly knocked out
b-cause he did not Wish to give up his horse to
three fiend-robbers
Mrj'r Woodbury came from Leavenworth with
• small force, In pursuit o! Hines, uud was only
two hours behind him when be left Pu iii.
Valienee, a village in Orange county, is report
ed burned. Thu citizens refus -d to permit <he
thieving scoundrels to take whatever they wanted
Without resistance, and for that were compelled
to see their houses laid in ruins.
The expedition which left New Albany yester
day morning is io command of Gol. Meriwealh. r,
of an Indiana regiment of volunteers, and wus
join*' last night by Gaptuin McGinnis, who had a
■mail so ce under him. It is to be hoped that
these thieves will be caught, and executed us
murderers and common pirates. War has enough
of horror uhd bloodshed without the heartless
brutality which has characterized the march of
th< se men, and we believe that a swill and terri
ble retribution is close at land. It is hardly pos
sible lor them to oeoape out of the State, uud, if
oaeght, the Hooxier blood is too much up to
spurs tbe life of a single one of them.
Tbe Invasion of tue North.
The Examiner of the 24th says. The news from
Utueral Lee’s army which readied here yester
day, possesses interest in no common degree. It
is said that tbe whole of eur army is now beyond
the I’oto use, Longstreet, who wus the last to
cross, having passed the river at Edwards’ Ferry,
near Leesburg, on Hunday evening. A. P. llilt is
bslievi and to bave crossed at a ford higher up the
river two days before.
Whilst the rear ot Longstreet was crossiug tho
river, a severe cavalry fight took place back of
Leesburg, near the gap iu the Kittcctan Moun
tain, through which bn corps hud just passed.
From the best information we have it would
appear that General Lee lias most succ.’salul y
used his cavalry to cover the movements of his
infantry, Ever Binoe Htnar,'s gruod review in
Ualpeper, the enemy has be n possessed with the
belief that he woe seeking un opportunity to
make a great cavalry raid into Pennsylvuuia.—
This idea has been encouraged to that extent that
oar oavalry||movements have engrossed all tbe
attention ol the enemy, und whilst he bus been
davotmg all his energies to nipping the raid in
tbe bud, our infantry and artillery have been
steadily and silently moving northward in reur
and to the left of our cavalry. Before the enemy
bad recovered Irom the shock they received at
the battle at Brandy station, Etvull was at Front
Royal, on his way to Winchester, and Hill uud
Longstreet beyoud Warren ton, en route (or the
Potomac.
One version ol the affair at Leisburg represents
that the whole ol Longstreel’s oorps wusenguged,
nod that he administered a heavy repulse to
Mooker. This Is regarded as doubiful.
Persons direct Irom Winchester say that llar
pai's F’erry has been in poss ssion of onr troops
since Haturday, the enemy having evacuated tbe
plsc* on our approach, without showing fight.
The difficulties iu the wuy ot obtaining authen
tic intelligence Irom our army is already verv
great, ana daily increasing as the seat ot active
operations a moved uortuward. All the roads
north of Winchester ure strongly picketed, und
no one Is permitted to pass them. The same is
tbs c tse as regards the roads lead ng Irom Ocr
dousville northward. In addition io this is tho
fact that none ot our lines of railroad are iu ope
ration to within forty or fifty miles of the pit seni
sssne of military operations. Under these c>r
coinslances it will he easily understood that the
nsws which reaches ns is tardy in its comiug and
than usually meagre and nnsaiisluctory.
Ol Hooker’s movements or whereabouts wo
know, if possible, less than of Lae’s. He is be
hoved to have been so completely outmatiusuvred
and deceived as still to be abiding at (Jentrcville,
looking for Lee iu the direction ol Manassas nud
Thoroughfare Gap. It is likely, however, that he
has, berhrh.now, been brought to comprehend the
aituation, aud that he is harrying through Wash
ington lo meet our army on the soil ot Alary land.
A correspondent says :
dm. Lee baa tound out that he can manage
Hooker very well with two cotps d' armet, and be
will leave him with the remainder of the army to
room at will over the valley m Maryland, or per
hap*, despite Gen. Brooks and Curtin, through
the rich terming district* of Pennsylvania.
Toe Ntw YoBK TbiBOKI ON The IsVaUON.—
We trait thi*invasion is meant to bj determined
sad dec a.ve, and li.at it will not be spoilt and by a
pro mature recoil. If the rebels are indeed our
masters, let them prove it, and let us owu it. If
they ar» not, let us make them acknowledge the
oora. We hope this demonstration, together
wil l that of Gen. Grant on Vicksburg, muy be so
managed aa practically to end the war. If we
can bow take Vicksburg and Port Hudson on the
one hand, and use up Lee’s army on the other, the
Confederacy will be pretty nearly played out. If
OB lbs ether band, the rebels beat Grant and
water their horses m the Delaware, routing nil
the force* we can bring against them, we shall be
under foot, and may ns well own it.
Tma Atlanta.— Litters trom the officer and
crow of ihe Atlanta to their relatives were re
celved here on Thursday morning. They were
brought and delivered under dag of truce from
Commodore Turner, commauding the blockading
squadron oft this harbor. From them we learn
aom* particulars of the surrender of ihe unfor
tunate vessel into the bands of the Yankees. The
Atlanta was engaged by the Kriccsoo n-oni’or
Weehewken. The latter bred hf.eeu inch shell,
and struck the Atlanta three times In succession.
One shell struck the pilot house, completely de
molishing it, and wonnding the pilots, Hernandez
and Austin —one of them badly. The vessel then
grounded, when another shell struck her near
amidships,perforating the iron and woodwork
like *o much paper, killing one mau and wound
ing seventeen others. Another shell struck oue
of the large shutte/s to a port hole, piercing it
through aud through, and shattering it to piecep.
Two etficera were slightly wounded by this shell.
Ia this potiuou, with the vessel aground and
every shot perforating the iron and wood work
aud passing through her, further resistance was
deemed useless, and Capt. Webb to save life con
sladed to surrender.
The (.(Beers and erew of the Atlanta were
tram starred to the U. 8. frigate Vermont, and at
the date of tha letters, June goth, exptcied to
leave for Philadelphia in the James Adger next
d|T.
The letter* speak of their treatment as being
wry kind, every attention being given to their
omfort and all their wants provided for. The
Mavy offioera ara repres nted as very courteous
gd eoßfiderste.— OAarMan Courier, Friday. J
Xftie Conlsdsrate Navy on the Hl£b
Rut,
4 “ HebM Cruiser" Captures Six United Mates
Her hard Vessels war Use Mouth of the Cheea
rente —Another Appears Within fiftr if ties of
Z aTot be 'aLre - Thirty United Mates
Wa> Vessels Sent »» Search of Her.
[From the New York Tribune of the 15th. j
The rebel privateer Clarence, a tender to the
steamer Florida, has captared six h aited States
merchant vessel-, off our coast, near the month
of tbe Chesapeake. She burned three of ll ?em,
bonded two, and converted the other, the bark
Tacany, of I’h ladelphis, into a rebel cruiser. As
soon as these piracies became known, four ves
sels sailed from New York, three fro ® Hampton
Road?, and othera were to follow, in search of the
marauders. _
This “rebel cruiser/ 1 the Tacony, in a tew
hours makes her appearance under the very nose
of the Yankees and fr ghtens them half to death.
The Herald saye : “When the news first reached
ihe Navy Department, they should have ordered
the chartering of every aralable steam vessel and
sent them to sea—if need be, with volunteer
crews shipped for the cruise of twenty days
•• Leery available atearn vessel alter one little
The Herald says: The bustle andaotivitv which
hare prevailed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during
the past three days still continues without inter
mis ion. The following vessels sailed yesterday :
The steamer United States, six guns and about
sixtv men ; the clipper bark Trinity, of *22 tons,
the United States steamer Iron 4 <e,to be followed
immediately h» ‘h* Cambridge and others.
Th a - ii Tuscaroro, with
six gu -V. -'UI, 16, in search ol
tb Th , « l - ' - * ■ , armed, equip
i® rand will ma
terially " ebel privateers
7 „ „ crew of picked men.
°Ybe st—* irigote Han Jacinto hauled out last
e TZoJZVao. whether the department will
send out any more temporary cruisees at present.
There are nearly thirty vessels in search of the
vessel which on Saturday was within sixty miles
of our coast, and the general belief is that she
will be captured ere this week is out.
The British ship Bucephalus, of Liverpool,
Capt Bike, from Bahia, Brasil, arrived at N. w
York on the 14th, yesterday,bringing home Cap
tain Weaver and family, and Mr. R. Binnirger,
late of the bark Union Jack; Capt. Melcher and
Indy, nf the ship Dorcas Prince, and Capt. Peck,
of the ship Sea Lark—the former of which ves
sels wai captured and destroyed by tbe Confed
erate steamer Florida, and two latter by the Ala
bama ; also Capt. Phillips, ol the ship Dictat. r,
captured by the Confederate steumer Georgia,
(Japan )
Capt. Phillips says : We were allowed to have
nil oloilung we brought from the ship Captain
Maury gave me back mv instruments, for which
1 thanked him. They all treated me kindly while
on board. Tbo Georgia is a common iron vessel,
brig rigged, with a fall poop, a very large smoke
sin. k, about 220 feet long, and about 29 leet beam.
They say she can steam fourteen miles an hour ;
but I doubt it very muof.. She carries two rifl-d
gum* ult, two 24-pnuudera amidships, and one
32 'orward. Her crow consists of about 15 effi -
cers and ub ut 7o men. Most of the crew ure
quite hoys.
Captain Melcher, of the Bhip Dorcas Prince,
muked the following statement:
1 wuß allowed time to pack my trunk, and was
then removed to the Alabama They put out all
tbe ship’s boats, atid after removing a quantity of
provisions, the Bhip was set on fire at 10, P. M.,
and at 12 was burned to the water’s edge. My
ollicers und crew were cuutined in irons, being
released for a short time each day, and no com
munication allowed between myself and them. —
During the first week of my stay on board, they
overhauled and boarded every sail that was seen,
und in one diy chased and boarded five vessels,
all foreign. They always chased under the Amer
ican co'ora, and on boarding, always gave the
nume of some United States gun bo&tin search of
the Alabama, and asking information of her
whereabou's. When a vest'l did not stop, they
would bring her to with a gun, and apologize to
the Cuptuin when tbe boat boarded her. They
obtain papers from all outward bound vessels,
and Bins are well informed of all that takes place
at bom . After capturing tbe bark Union Jack,
und ship Sea Lurk, she continued to course to tbe
south, uud landed her prisoners, over eighty in
number, being the crews and oiheers of lour ves
sels, ut Buhia, on tbe 12!h of May. Oa the 18th
the Confederate steumer Georgia came in, the
Florida being then at Pernambuco. 1 was oa
hoard the Alabama sixteen days, and I was treat
ed with cuusirierution and kindness.
TH» OAPTIIfiKS MADE BV TUI PIBAqS CLABBNCS.
The following dispatch has been received from
Newcastle, Delaware:
A tender to the privateer F'lorida has made six
captures ot merchant vessels of whioh she burn
ed three and bonded two.
Tha captures were made between the 7th and
12 h instant.
One of iheso wus tbe Tacony. Tbe following
is the statement ol her Gaptuin :
Capt. Win. G Alundy, lute, of the bark Taco
ny, eapiured by the brig Clarence, or tha priva
teer Coquette, makes the following report :
On the 12lh of June, at 6 o'clock, A. M., when
about forty miles oil Cape Virginia, iu lat. 87,
lon 75 04, 1 was spoken by the brig Clururce, of
Kultimore, who said she wus short of water and
wished for a day’s allowance. Os course J haul
ed to on tb's appeul to humanitv, and their boat
came alon -side with an otlioer and six men, who
immediately came aboard. They told me th y
were 55 days from Rio de Janeiro, were bound
to Baltimore, aad were entirely out ot water, and
would assist mo in putwing it to the boat. While
taking tho nfter hatch off I was confronted by
the officer of tho boat, who presented a pistol at
my head und stated that my versel was his prize,
a prize to the Confederate States, and ordered me
to leave lor New York. Iminediaiely alter, or
while transferring my crew, the schooner M. A.
Sbiudlur came up and was hauled to and cap
tured. While transferring the crew of the lat
ter, the tchoouer K ute Htewart came atsng, but
she haviut several lady passengers on board, and
being un old vessel, wag ransomed, oil giving
bonds in the sum of $7,000. We were then all
transferred on board the Kate Htewart. The
pirates then transferred their guns, ammunition,
supplies, Ac , from the brig Clarence to the bark
Ti e try, uod set tire to the former vessel as well
a- to the schooner M. A. Hhindier. We were
then released, tbe pirate standing off to the
southeast. The brig Marv Alvina, Capt. Cro
b ill, wub also captured on the 9lh inst, in lat.
34 and -g 24 min., lon 74 deg. 28 min. Hhe was bound
hem Boston lo N. Orleans with co emissary stores.
I use -rtuiued thut the night before we were
bourded, the Clarence threw overboard fonr guns
in consequence of seeing a steamer painted lead
color in sight, which she supposed to be a cruiser.
Hhe had only one gnn, al2 pounder, left. The
Tuconv, which is now being used as a privateer,
is of 875 tons burden. Hhe is painted black, was
tauily ringed, has light spars undone starboard
quarter bout. A schooner and a brig were in
sight when we left the pirate. Tbe schooner
made away. The Tacony was in ballast. Hhe
h It Port Royal ou tbe 7th instant, having carried
eoal to that port for the Government. The com
mander of the pirate is Chus W. heed, of Jack
son, Mississippi, who represented himself as the
Lieutenant commanding the vessel. He is a light
built man, light complexion, and not disposed
to be communicative. We were, however, treated
with nil the consideration possible under the cir
cumstances.
RNBKUBIIC ACTION AT TBS NAVV VABD.
Ordcis were received at the Navy Yard yester
day moruing to lit out all the vessels available
with the utmost dispatch. The carpenters, sail
miikers, riggers, and sparmakers were summoned
unit Bet to work.
lue cause is stated to be the presence of some
nfteeu rebel privateers oft the coast watching for
vessels comiug in and going out of New York
Harbor, lliere wus considerable excitement in
consequence.
The iron clad steam frigate Roanoke is to be
put in commission to day.
'lke Confederate Navy aud ilia Wild
Cliaee of Ike Yankees.
The New York Herald gives Borne additional
particulars of what ta now bemg done by the
Y ankees to overhaul oar vessels ou the Northern
coast. It says: ,
The recent depredations on our commerce by
the rebel pirates have stirred up the Navy De
partment to such an extent that all the navy
yards are perfectly revolutionized by the amount
of work ordered to be done within a few days.
Dn Saturday orders were received by Admiral
Paulding io complete at once all emits nearly
leady for see, anil to dispatch immediately those
in commission and seaworthy. He was not to
stand upon the order of going, but to go at once.
Similar instructions were sent to Philadelphia
and Bostou. The excitement rocasioned by thij
unexpected energy was remarkable, and has in
creased every hour since, for fresh dispatches,
each containing new commands, hare succeeded
each other rapidly for seventy hours. The re
sources of New Yoik may be judged from the
fact that forty-eight hoars t fter the receipt of the
first orders, leu steamers were outride the Bandy
Hook light.
Over a dozen craft could be added to the above
in about two weeks; some of them, as the Ger
trude, are very last. Some hopes are entertained
of the Ad la t rning out a rapid steamer, as the
has the Morgan paddlewheel, and is said to be
capable of goiug sixteen miles aa hour.
The rumors which have beeu in clicnlation for
some lime, to the effect that a concerted attack
would probably be made by rebel men of war on
our small squadrons in the Mediterranean and
the East Indies, having reached the authorities,
t is said that four steamers are to proceed to the
coast of Brazil, lour to the Mediterranean, and
four to the East Indies, for the purpose of rein
forcing cur Heels unit protecting American com
merce. The St. Louis aud Constellation, in the
Mediterranean, would be well able to protect
themselves Irem any wooden vessel of their size
ami power, but the ,-ame security is not felt in
regard to ether rqaadrons. W mle little import
ance is allacht and io the atstemeuts that rebel iron
clads from England were contemplating the pro
ject of a voyage •* op the Htrait, ,r it is deemed os
w 11 to guard against such a contingency.
The iron-ilad Paasaic, having ‘>een completed
at Hunter’s Point, was towed to tbe Navy-Yard
by the strum tug V nderbut. The Roanoke did
not go in commission.
At ihe recent annual meeting of the Trustees of
the Alabama University, the degree of Doctor of
Divinity was conlerred on Rev. H. N. Pierce, of
St. John’s Chnrch, Mobile, and Rev. C. A. StiU
man, of Gainesville, AU.
From Rllaaisslppl.
The Mauon Telegraph has intelligence from
M'M'Ssippi, through a gentleman who left Jack
son on Ihe 16tb :
He saw and conversed with Gen. Johnston on
that day. His physical condition bad considera
bly improved since his. arnvsl in Mi-si?s>ppi.—
Mentally,- too, he was in tbe best possib e condt
tion. Our iuformant says he could not he mista
ken in the opinion that Gen. Jofaeaton is well
pleased with the aspect of affairs in Mississippi.
After gome conversation, our trend aik-td--
“What Bhila i tell nay friends in Guorga Gene,
ral when f return, and they come to tne with
inq’oiri sT" ‘‘Tell them,” said Gen. Jotnston,
“to be of good cheer.”
Oar fri nd says the feeling in Mississippi <s
confident and buoyant. He estimates our force
at a neure considerably outride of and beyond our
own ideas, and the conjectures we have seen
•orinted. He does not look for a pitched battle,
but believes the movements of Johnston’s forces
on both sides the river will be directed to embar
rassing and cutting off Grant’s communications,
leaving the water and cl mate to do their work.
This ia deadly.
Our (need thinks the water and the climate,
in an entrenched aod beleaguered camp upoa
B e Black, need no aid lrom the Confedera es.
They bava but to wait till the situation becomes
intolerable to the Federals, and gat mat ers
ready for a leave taking. Grant can neither stay
where be is long, nor can he get away.
Meantime our own army occupies healthy
gositions, which ara frequently chan ed, and thus
ir in tbe campaign show short sick lists.
One of the most encouraging features of the
situation is the tremtndsns crops. Wheal and
oats are abundant m Mississippi, and the corn
crops are unrivalled.
A correspondent of the Jackson Mississippian
writes irom Osyks. June 18 h :
lam credibly inform ad that a large nnmber o f
fat cattle roam in the forests o( Louisiana, east
and west of the railroad and along the shores of
those hkes and bayous, which are being gathered
up by Y’aukee sympathisers, or those whj> would
sell their country for gold and greenbacks, and
taken to the Federals for Bale. These cattle should
be sent to oar soldiers who would not fa.l to ap
preciate fat Creole beef.
Contraband traffic is on the increase. Cotton,
pitch, tar and turpentine, are exported almost
daily. Two loads of cotton paasea through here
yesterday enroute for Codington. This cotton
goea immediately to New Orleans and thence to
the factories of New England. Other patties
brirg in from New Orleans a variety of articles
and sell them for one price in greenbacks and
about four times as much m Confederate money,
depreciating our currency and spreading disaffec
tion among onr people.
Thu Fid rule ute cot in Clintou and hive not
been to Woodvilte. Grierson’s command is en
camped near Olive Branch.
Tbe Mobile Register has tbe following oncour
agiug editorial upon the situation of aflairs in
Mississippi:
Weeks have passed since Grant made his 1 -st
assault and turned bis attention to digging up to
the defeuses of toe town and starving out the
garrison. The starving process will be slow, be
cause it is kuown that Vicksburg is supplied »i!h
full and regular rations for sixty days, in which
is not counted the largo stacks of rice, sugar and
inol'Essa at that point. We have reason to
believe that Gen. Walker holds tbe peninsula
opposite the ci'-y, and there is also reason to be
lieve that be has already driven cattle across to
Pemberton. It is a practicable operation, for
Gen. Pembertot commands four miles of the
river iu his front. There is also a large stock ol
salt in the city to save the meat. With these
means the garrison con be sustained all summer
—nay, into the full. Meantine, Grant is not easy
in his commissiarat. Gen. Walker, on the Lou
isiana shore, haa interrupted his communication
with his depots below Vicksburg, by which he
fed the left wing of his army. To supply this
wing he must haul his provision irom Snyder’*
Bfuff, a disaace of thirty miles. For this his
means of transportation are cramped. He is in
danger of another difficulty, and this one, ’nter
posed, as it would seem, by a special Providence
The Mississippi river ia uoprecedentedly low at
this season of the year.
The probability is, that the river will reach its
lowest point of depression, and that we are credi
bly informed will interfere with mvigavion to
such a degree that Grant will find it very diffi
cult to be supplied by transports from tbe Upper
Mißßiss ppi. Again, if Grant holds his present
position until September, all accounts of t at
country c incur in thv statement that his army
will melt away under the ed icts of the malaria
and bad water ot that region. Tbe former is
said to be latat to the inhabitants, all of whom,
that are able, leave the country daring the mouths
of July, August and September. These are the
source* of hops to the Confederate cause from
the ailual “situation.” If Vtcksbure is in danger,
we can take to ourselves the consolation, so are
Grant and his army. He must take Vicksburg,
or be taken. Unleßs he carri s tbe works by as
sanlt, his numbers only tend to increase bis em
barrassments, whether he stays to face the malaria
and tbe and fficulties of supply, or whether he gives
up the siege and attempts to retreat.
The troops which guard the roads and bridges
iu this porttou of Mississippi are very unpopular
with the inhabitants. Whether they are con
scripts or S.ate militia I have been unable to
earn; but they go altogether by the name of
“ Batter milk Rangers”—committing more exe
cution upon dairies and hen roosts than upon the
blue bellied invaders. Iu every little town which
they puss through, the little boys and r.iggers
anise the ciy, “ Here comes the Butter-milk Ran
gers !” and their approach creates alarm in morn
than one respect, for they are said to fall back
invariably and with grea,’. precision wheuever a
rumor gets abroad that the Yaukeo cavalry are
meditating a raid.
Grierson, with bis western troopers, it opera
ting along the rear es Banks’ line, and makes
rtqoeut vi-its t) Clinton and Jackton, La., but a
heavy force of Confederate cavalry has been sent
down to that neighborhood, for the purpose ol
restrio'.-n' his vagrants.
Ute hand ed aud ten Yankee cavalry captured
by Logan’s forces, near Port Hudson, have reach
ed Jackson. A large number of wagons, horses,
arms, and severul negroes, f 11 into ou; bands.
A Jackson letter to the Selma Reporter says
“the author of ‘AH Quiet along tbe Potomac to
night,’ Lamar Fontaine, now a captain in the
army, is htre. Ho is very lame, and watj||t evi ' u
with a crutch, with difficulty, but he still keens in
the field, and does no ole duty. Lately he carried
some caps to Vickiburg, and on returning, being
stopp 'd by the pickets, he killed three or lour.
He bad to pass throu h the enemy’s lines gouig
and returning. He reports that the woo: s ha t
numbers of negroes in them, bung, for what
cause he knows not.'
A coriespondent of tha Memphis Appeal tel’s
how the negro troops fared before Port Hudson .
Men who part’eipated in the light say the ne
groes were put in the foremost ranks; that they
tired away grim but deserted breastworks
with unsurpassed valor, and in a v ord filled the
breaets of the Y ankee officers with ho it and ex
u'tation. But when they were close enou h for
our Confederates to distinguished their com
plexions and the bullets began to whiz about thxir
woolly heads, they hastily fluDg themselves fiat
upon the grsund, from which position neither
force nor entreat es cou and raise them.
At this moment, a Louisiana and an Arkansas
regiment, exci'ed to an ungovernable p tch by
the spectacle ol their slaves in arms for thei - sub
jugation, burst from their entrenchments; and
with savage cries of “no quarter for the niggers !
tbe black ling is ruiseo I” ran forward to the attack.
In vain the black rascals f 11 upon their knees
and be- ged for mercy; they were slain where th-y
knelt, and out of a lull regiment ot Dine Hundred
most valuable fie'd bands, but two hundred sur
vived to tell the tale.
The deserters say that n-xtday, Banks’ “native
Louisiana” regiments did not come for vara at
revillie, but the hills and plains from Port Hudson
down for miles and miles below Baton Rouge were
thronged with flyiDg darkies, speechless with
flight, and evincing an uncucquernble unwilling
ness to return to the scene of their first trial at
arms.
The same deserters declare, as an absolute fuel,
that tbs Hartford was stripped and destroyed
Eome weeks ago by tbe enemy ; that the fusaons'
iron clad non descript Ergs*, the pet of Admiral
Porter, huving ventured too far wrbiu range of
our butteries, was so badly-iujared by our shot
and shell that she surrendered and was captured •
and that three gunboats were disabled, and had tj
return to Baton Rouge.
Tbe Mississippian, of the 21st inst., learns that
the enemy have abandoned Grand (Jaif. A gun
boat, however, remains oppi site the place, bat
all the laud is tree, and everything belonging ta
the army has been carried over the r ver. Not
less than six Ihcueand slavis, two thou .and mules
end horse*, and many hundreds of wagons, have
been stolen from Ctaiborne county nu 1 carried
oil. Very many of the finest places arc destitute
of any means of securing the grotying cr. pv, and
they will be lost. AU haye Buffered—some are
turned.
A letter fnm Milliken’s B-nd to tbe Nalchcz
Courier, dated Jane Bth, says :
We have here, under command of Gen. Taylor,
about thousand troops, mostly Ttxaaa. Oeu.
Walker’s brigade fought ail day yesterday at
Millikeu’s U nd, completely tooting the enemy
and driving them to tneir boa s with great loss.
Our loss was, I suppose, about one hundred
killed and wounded.
And now l mast tell yon the most horrible cir
cumstance to my knowitdge that has occurred
during this whole war :
in ihe fight J esterday, after we had completed
routed the Yankees, aud they were in full retreat
to their boats, our men in pursuit of them en
conntered a negro regiment, whe. seemg the de
feat of the Yankees, and afraid to fight themselves,
immediately threw down their arms and ran to
ward onr men for protection ; a poor wretch was
shot • others flew towards the river, pursued by
our men, who got behind the levee and ont of
reach of the gunboats, ad continued the slaughter
with an unsparing hand. The negroes seeing
themselves entirely deserted by the Yankees, who
had taken to the boats, telling the blacks to "fikht
it ou*,” fought desperately As our troops had
the advantage, and the negroes were entirelv cut
oft from retreat by the river, thesiaughter among
the negroes was terrible. 1 have been told by
many who were engaged in it, that the ground was
literally oovered wuh them. We have captured
a grea. many. Unfortunately, their officers
i Yankees) all managed to escape.
Tbd Mississippian of the 23.1, says : Gen. Grant
yesterday, sent a flag of trace to Gen. Jackson at
Edward’s depot, requesting permission to remove
his sick and wounded who had been left there
after the battle of Baker’s Creek. After the usual
preliminaries the men were paroled and seatov.r
the lines.
The report of the capture of Union B uff, we
place no reliance in.
We have not received full particulars of the
I ankee raid to Panola. The repo-t ia that the
depot and town of B.itesvUle is entirely destroy
ed. Panola, one mile west was committed to the
flames. The Presbyterian Chnrch was burnt.
The Court House, which has been used as a hos
pital, was set on fi re but put cut. The force sent by
Gen. George to guard the Y’ocona thir
teen m-eg ihiSHde, amounted to on!? tvfeoty-tife
men. With titty m n, the officer como-andirg,
gays he coaid have dtfended it. The Y'ankees
opposedi bun with vx times b s force, and alter a
gallant defense he was Compelled to retreat. The
bridge will ba fixed in a few days. Tbe Yankee
forca that entered Pano'a amounted to sight hun
dred m nas per the most reliable r- port Every
body cogmz int of the fac-.B think Panola, an im
portant army provis ou p .int, could have beeu
succsssfully defended.
Gen. Chalmers had left the Sunday pievious to
me D t . th ui ecemy ’ re P orted at another point.
Reliable news hag ■ eea received taat Gen. Bug
gies defeated sev.-n hundred Y'ankee cavalry near
Rocky Ford on F’riday, taking train and prisoner?.
A gentleman who left Vicksburg on the 17th
with important dispatches for Gen. Joausuin.
spates to the Atlanta Appeal that periect conti
deuce prevails among our men. They are ful y
ab e to hold Vicksburg at long as they have any
thing to eat. The utmost enthusiasm i.rev ils
among them for Genera! Pemberton. Strange
bow changes can be wrought in the viiws of
men! Wh-;n Pemberton with big army re-ireH
before Grant, a'ter the battle of Baker's C’retk
and came into Vicksburg, the soldiers almost <o
a man despise i him, and some lew ex euied him
to surrender the city at once, 'inee be has
shown bis fighting qualities and his determina
tion to bold the place, their admiration lor him
knows no bounds
Our total loss at Viekabarg in all the assaults
which the l’ankees hud made upon it up to tbe
time Mr. Cox left, was 825, ol whom only 122
were killed.
Grant’s ditches ore within one hi'ilred yards
of our fortifications in one pi cs, but nobody is
uneasy about this. He was mining uud Pember
ton wai countermining when he left.
Col. Glenn, of the 38:h Georgia, was improving
of h s wounds; also, Cfipt. Glenn, of the same
regiment. Col. Uende r son, Cos!. McOona-U and
Col. Watkins are doiiig well.
Pemberton has provisions enough to last bim
months. Nobody is in a burry. Ail seem
code it to wait the “good time coming.” No
sign of starva ion ; no (altering in enthusiasm or
Cudifence on the part of th ■ soldiers or the peo
ple.
A business litter, dated Jackson, Jane 23, says:
i have nothing of importance to tell you,-with the
exception thut Pemberton made the feathers fly
Irom tho Yauk-.es tg dn Jast S iturday. From all
reports, to use a common phras >, •• he chase#
’em up” to the tune of seven to ten thousand. —
Chalmers and Buggies have-whipped out the Mem
phis ruiders, and driven those of them that were
left hoveling back Irom North Mississi; pi. Chul
mzrs captured a whole regiment, except cue com
pany.
Oar information as to General Jchnsten’s op -
erations leads us to the opiuiou that up to he 22d
he hud not materially changed bi3 lines from . hose
we state I he ceccupied some days ago, v.z : his
right at Y. zro C ty an ■ his left at B jlton’s, on the
Southern railroad, west ol Jackson Thera were
signs cf tin early movement manifest, but General
J. provokingly coutinu il letieent as to the dirre
tion. II he only succeeds in getting fiooj the au
thorities the helf bo asjis, the c-mpaiga will be a
short but brilliant one'
We copy some extracts from the Appeal’s
Jackson correspondence of J jus 2lsi and 22 i: ra
Something cheering in its tendency is in the
process of incubation ia Gen. Johnston’s a-my,
m conjunction with the Trans-Missisaippi De
partment, from which military sphinx much is
expected.
1 am in receipt of a private letter from DcSoto
county, which gives a gloomy account of things
up there. DeSoio county, as inde and the whole
of North Mississippi is fast being converted into
a wilderness, and it will not be long until the
very garden spot of Mississippi is a waste. The
enemy are now in Panola, reported ouly eight
hundred strong (cavaliy). This is the fourth or
filth time they nave visited Panola in strength, at
each visit growirg in outrage und maliguity. This
lime they are eaid to have made, or to be making
a clean sweep of every liiitig, stealing the remain
ing negroes and stock, and destroying every kind
of property.
Once more wo have cheering news from Vicks
burg. At 2 o’clock a. in. ou Saturday last, 20th
u Bt., says the latest adv.css, the enemy assaulted
iu their entire length, our works at Vicksburg,
and were everywhere repulsed with terrible loss.
Os course no proximate statement of tho enemy’s
loss can at present be ascertained, but as the us
sanlt was kept up for eight hours, the very nature
of the works attempted la bo siormed, necessi
tates heavy loss among the assaulting coluoies.
Common lame sets it down as ever tea thousand
in killed and wounded, uud wo may reasonably
conclude that this number is rather below than
above the loss ol the besiegers.
The enemy are reported throwing pontoensh’eress
B g Black, between the railroad bridge and Bjld
wia’s ferry, near Wurrentou. This move may be
iitcnded as a leint to induce the beli.f of an in
tended retreat, and abandonment of tho siege, in
order to seduce General Johnston into a general
engagement before that wary old soldier’s pi vn3
are matured Or it may look to a retreat in lact,
in the event (hat Johnston’s army should pounce
upon tho felled und discomfited besiegers and
make aa end of the work so gloriously commenc
ed by Gen. Pemberton.
Oh, for tan cr fifteen thousand men to add to
Gen. Johnston’s army, jast at this juncture, when
dismay begins to spread itsel! through the ene
my’s lines, und deepuir begii sto hover over all
their ranxs ! Ten or fifteen thousand men to add
to his little army, aod then hurl them, with the
impetuosity of men figh'ing not only for liberty,
but life, against the mangled horde of thieves and
assassins besieg ng Vicksburg. Will the Admin
istrate n at R c .maud send them?
As I predie .ed, Gun. Jackson’s cavalry are reu
deriug excellent service, short a time as they have
been here. Scarcely a day passes that this com
mand does not capture more or less of tbe en> my’s
numbers,among the rest negroes in full military
trim.
We ore permitted to make the following extrao
from a letter ol an army i ffiuer in Wul er’s Divi
sion dated JuDe 0:h, near Yazoo City :
We are having a very severe and trying time cf
it in this campaign, duily marching over hills and
wo ids, hot wuutner and short rations. We are
all astonished to liad so many higlr hills ia this
State, yet the m n are cheerful and bear all pri
vations like ve'.eruus Gen. Johnston is with us.
We have about thousand men ariund this
c ty, and expect thousand more in the oourse
of ten days. Gen. J. will avoid a general engage
ment until he ha his entire army collected. As
soon as he has. he will attack the enemy and ad
vance oa Vicksburg. Toe greatest confidence is
felt hereabjtits in his übili’y to whip the enemy
as soon a* he ia ready, la the meantime he will
allow the Yackees lo come a3 far into the interior
as they like.
Now, sumeth’iig about our fight at Jackson.
The battle lasted about ous hour and a half. The
enemy advanced thirty thousand strong. One
line c insisted of our rudiment iu the centre, tbe
48. h Georgia ou our rigat, aad a battery a little
to our left and rear.
It would have pleased even a Napoleon to see
how our Regiment fought. Not a man moved an
inch. Three times the enemy's columns advanc
ed on our line, but rfcoiled at the murderous and
wo!!- iirtcttd tire of our hoys. Had the force we
hid then at Jackson (übout eight thousand) been
ou the spot to assist us, we cou’d have whipped
the Yuuxees very easily ; but us it was decided
bilore baud, merely to dciar the advance of the
enemy, we had to do all the work ouraelv<s. ,The
enemy were only thirty yards off when we were
ordered t.> re rent. This was about 11 o’clock A.
M. cu the 11th. J lit about that time Col. Capers
wa. wounded and I t-ookjh m from the tie!’. Cur
loss iu kilLd was 13, wounded 45, and prisoners
47—most of v> hie i occurred on the retreat, as the
ene ny was so tear. Cur Regiment retreated in
good order, but as it ra ned ia torreits, nad the
mad b ing knee deep, a great many men broke
down and were wounded and taken
Capt. Steinmyer and Lieut, llawkina behaved no
bly, and were taken prsoners in attempting to
rally th“ir company again oa the retraat, they
thinking .hat th-v were only to istreai a tew
hundred yards. Th ir company and company F,
C-ipt. Uni, from Auuersoo District, guff's red most.
The latter hud ouly four m u in the entire Com
pany of eighty-seven men wi o were iu the
hat were not hit by -bullets. Tbis will give you
an idea bow but a place we were in, yet not a
man wavered. When we. returned to Jackjon
we found the cty evacuated by ailthe troops.
I and A .jn'ant Palmer remunmi to u«ist all the
straggling aui bro*eu dowu s„.d.ura lo get oat of
town, aud were about tbe last men io leave the
city, la emin/s sh-llswerc then fl/mgmali
directions. The entire torcu ret rei to Laihonn
Station, aj.int fifteen miles, aud such a light I
hope never to see again. About eight to ten
thousand men, .We hundred wagens and teumr ot
every sort, and ail in confusion, with the rain
pelting, the mud up to the knee, trying to reach
Ca houn eea'ion 'hut night. The next day Gen
Johnston joined us and we began to hate some
order and system, which has improved daily
From rl or Ida.
Tb j Tallahassee Floridian of the 20ib learns
that on Saturuay last a blockading vessel’ shelled
James Is and, and afterwards landed a partv of
men. There were only a M?. Turner, h.s wife
two children, and two negroes, on the island at
the time. Mr. T. with his wife and children, made
their escape to the mam.and. The next afternoon,
after the Federal had retired, Mr. Turner visited
the Island, and found the enemy had deslroved
all the houses, salt, salt kettles, fodder and pro
visions, except the property of a Mr. Picket The
two negroes are supposed to havo been carried
off by the Federate
At the time the attack was made most of the
negroes had b;en sen; off, and the proprietors
were absent, seeking other locations to remove
their kettles, A: , to, in accordance with orders
issued by C mfederate authority.
Evaluation of Suffolk.— The Richmond Sen
tinel learns Irom a gentleman who left Suffolk on
Thursday last, that the Yankees are rapidly leav
ing that place, and that they epeak of evacu Hug
it entirely, and burnisg it. Two steamers crowd
ei with troops leit Norfolk on i burs day, and more
transports arrived there to carry away other
regiments. This comes to us from such a source
identities it to implicit credit.
From Virg'iila.
Anothse CourzoKOAT* VicroKT '-There has
been anotLer grad ca airy fiaht between Siesrt
and Stoovtnun, ai-d a troliurt victrry for the
(’rrfedfra’iv ! Ittoekplac! cn Wednesday, tbe
17" It inst, near the F’aquier line.
Tee enemy were whipped handsomely. We
e&ptured nearly the whole of the First Rhode
Island cavaliy. We killed a lerger number of offi
cers and mm than in any previous cavalry battle.
We captured ttn or twelve flrgs, aud over lour
hundred prisoners. M;jor Mosby ciptnred a por
t on of Hooker's staff, aad took them to General
Smart’s headquarters. Highly valuable papers
were found upon them.
“Fitz L e’p, Robertson’s and W. H. F. Lee’s
btigades (the latter commanded by Col Cham
bliss,) were engaged on our side. Robertson’s
brigade drove the enemy out of Middleburg hand
somely, captaring and chasing the enemy until
11 o’cloca at n’ght ”
A gentleman who left Winchester on Saturday
morning says about 230 prisoners reached that
towu on F’riday night, who were eapiured in the
engagement.
The accounts which we evtinue 1° receive in
regard to the operations of our army under Gen.
Lee are cheering. We learu that on Tuesday
last we had one division ot infantry at Hagers
town and others in the neighborhood, and that
the cavalry commands of Imboden and Jenkins
reebed Cham > 'erßturg ou Tuesday night. Oa
Wednesday inornvg they commenced the de
struction of the i uh'ic property at that place,
and removing the stores southward.
We see the number of prisoners token at Win
chester is undergoing the sealing process. I’
was first reported at 9 000, now we see from one
o! our ex hiuigus it bin been reJu ied to 5,000,
and still la'er, th it the number actually captured
will n it exceed 3 600.
A letter dated Levrisburg, Va., Juae 16th, con
tairs th. following:
Evirj thing is quiet here at present. Our scouts
have j int retuned from au expedition as low
down as Oann=Uou,in Kimtwha county. They
report three regiments recently mounted- We
are looking for another raid.
A severe hail storm passed over Bark da e,
about thirteen miles from Dinville, Va., on Satur
day afternoos, Hail e-mmenced falling about
4)4 o’cl. ck, and for halt au hour stones as large
as a hen’s egg were showered ou the earth. One
was picked up weighing within a lew grains of a
pound. It is feared mnch damage, was sustained
by ths crops in that section.
On Mond »y night, a detachment fro n the Fif
teenth Virginia cavalry, uider cover of thedaik
ueis, proceeded to Acquia creek, and fired the
di pat and the villcgi of warehouses, thereabouts,
wh cn the Y’aukees had left undestroyed, and pro
teeied by two gunboats. Oa the appearance of
the flames, the gunboats opened a terrifiic fire
upon the vicinity of thu burning build ngs, but
we are g'a-i to say, without any other effect than
contributing to the destruction of the houses.
Every house aid shanty was consumed, and
a greater part of the magnificent wharf, recently
constructed by the Yankees. Our man report
that the only proparty of value in the buddings
was a vast quantity of Yankee soap.
Tbs railroad bridges built by the Yankee,s, will,
at leu-t, for thu present, be permitted to remain.
The ooe over Potomac creek is said to be one of
the most superb structures iu this country. It is
six hundred feet long, and between seventy and
eighty feet high. Thj abutments are of substan
tial aud elegant masonry. The bridge over the
Brook is also a fine structure, but of much smaller
dimensions.
When the York river train left the White
House yesterday evening, there were neither Yan
kees nor rumors of \'a_kees iu that neighbor
hood.
We Lave nothing from Williamsburg or York
town.
Hixleeu hundred of the Yankee prisoners crp
tured at Winchester, have arrived at R chmond.
Among them are oue hundred and eighty odd
commissioned officers. For ty-six hundred mare
are at Hfaunton awaiting transportation.
The Erquircr of the 25th has thu following im
portant iuformat'on :
The prudential mystery which hag involved the
operations of thearny in Northern Virginia
seems to bo slowly unfolding itself, and roveals
lo day the main body of onr amiy, under Ewell
and Longstreet, in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
The crossing of the latter ir Deliovud to have ta
ken plucu oa Haturday and Hunday. at Leesburg,
at which point and on which occasion occurred
the cavalry fight mentioned in yesterday’s En
quirer. Our lines between Culpeper and Frede
rcksburg are still strong enough to oppose any
torcu the enemy may be able at this time to bring
agaiust it, whilu a strong force, which will be
strengthened to day by State troops, will Btand
prepared for any attempt enumy may make
frurn the direction of the Peninsula to march on
Richmond.
Official news from the Peniasulu on yesterday
states that the enemy were landing iu force on
James river, at Brandon, and at Borne point on
York rivjr. In view of this tho Governor issued
a call upon the citizens to organize to meet inva
sion, which was promptly and enthusiastically
responded to last-eveniug m the Capitol Square.
It iu evident that the ene iy desires to make a
diversion by this movement to the detriment of
Gen. Lee, but be will fail; and if his aivance is
made very far up the Peninsula, it will p-ove a
failure both ignominious and disastrous. We
have no doubt that the vandals will make a blaz
ing raid in the lower counties ; but that they
will accomplish i nght els3 of any importance i3,
in our opinion, simply absurd.
Although this news of the enemy’s movements
below comes through official sources, as indicated
above, it reached those sources in such a way
that many grains of allowance are to be made in
receiving it.
From Trial.
The Galveston Nows of May 29»h says :
Gen. Magruler arrived in our city on Tueeday
last. A gentleman who came in company with
him Ire in Corpus Christi, informs us that the
story published by the Telegraph about sinking
two of the emmy’s blockading vessels off Corpus
Coristi and capturing 15 Yaukeo prisoners was
nil a hoax. The information was evidently given
by a reliable gentleman of Colonel Bates’ regi
ment.
The Corpus Christi Ranchero learns from the
Federal prisoners now there that three of their
m(n wi re killed and seven wounded in the bom •
bardment of Corpus Christi—that the steamer
Sachem was piercid through eight times by balls
fr m the Corpus Christi battery, one ball cutting
off a seaman’s head and going through the maga
zine. In the boat fight i 1 Corpua Christi channel,
besides the three kill id and buried by ou troops,
Lieut. Reynolds was morta’ly wounded aud has
sinco died, and several others were wounded. In
the attack upon the Yankee boats at Long Point
two of the Yankcei were wounded. Ia tho affair
at St Joseph’s, early iu this month, the loss of
the enemy is known to be cous derable, though
the extent of it is not known. One boat WO3 cip
tured, and another wis surrendered, but after
wards escaped by great exertions, as some of our
soldiers, not understanding their signal for sur
render, continued to fire upon her.
In addition 10 ihe above the enemy have lost
sire 3 the blockade on that casst, fifteen men in
prisoners, many ship s cutters, arms aud other
trophies. Our loss alt told is only one man
killed.
A Monlerey letter to the News, dated May 3d,
says: . . , .
Major Ilurness, from Ca.i ornia, is here on his
way to Texas, whither ha gies to join the Con
federate army. Roth toe Major and Col. Jack
lliys, well known in Texas as ona of the leaders
of our Rangers during the Mexican war, were ar
rested on the 24th of March last at the port es
San Francisco, where they had embarked for
Mtzitlao, in the State of Sinaloa. They were
brought before Qea. Wright, in command of the
California department, and released after having
been interrogated about the object of the trip,
tneir intentions, etc. Can. Wright threatened to
onfiscite Jack Rays’ property, which I believe
to have sines been sold by Hays, as he is now in
M The rebars nearly five hundred Southern fa-ri
lie3 in MtzUlon, who bare tied from California to
ere ipe their being insulted aud perscuted by the
cjwardly Yankee caravan who have overrun that
of these families intended to settle on
c 'rain lands in lower California, but as no water
can be obtained in that dry region, where it some
times does not raid for three and even four years,
nod there are no bouses built to protect them
lA,m the burning sun, they have decided to make
their picsent abode m Sinaloa. The M'X eras in
that State aro kind-hearted and hos utable The
climate is healthy. Tne wealth cf the country
consists in agriculture, grsz ng and minerals.
jr, is stated that tea thousand hands could nnd
employment in harvesting the wheat crop of
Texas, and (hat they would be paid two bushels
of <Tn he ihe P of the 23d, Col. Tom Green,
who was camped at Mermmtesn wi h his com
mend was ordered by Gen Morton to pursue
U.e enemy’* traim by forced marches. The trains
ware then between Grand Cauteiu and Opelcu
oas-trains six miles long, accompanied by two
• Snnamid civalrv and tit’n'n hundred negroes. A
Si Niblett’s bluff rop-r.s Col Tom Creen
succeeded in oaptur.ng sixty wagons on the 24ih,
five hundred negroes.
The Rrowusvdle Flag, of the 15th ult., publish
» reuort that a French man of-war had made
her appearance off the oar at the mouth of the
i’in Grande and that she was examining ves els
arriving to ascertain if they carried articles con-
f r "band of war. If this be so, tie Rio Grande is
•nobiv blockaded, but while Lircoln excludes
everything (except perhaps munitions and tuo
nlios for ihs Meiican'i under Adams pass), tie
nnlv shut out articles coctrabaad.
* Th're was a surplus of marchaad zi ai Browns
fon the Texas side of the Rio Grande,) and
woods could be had at very iow rates, especially
K the cargo, and even by the package. Cotton
d-c'ining on account of the acarcity of specie
- the export duty and other charges. But
it was arriving freely, and ciold be bartered to
u S ad=°rstand d that the Galveston refcgies
have permission to return to Galve ton, and that
an order to that effect will be issued from head
ona-ters very soon. A number of them have
arailtd themselves of the privilege already.
Mausers —Cotton has been selling at 25c per
noond The scarcity of monev, and the feeling
tha- the supply of cotton, which the Government
is bringing to market will cheapen the article, has
had the tffect to reduce the price. Most of the
s lies are dow made at one-third fcash and two
thirds goods. _ _
A Fortress Monroe correspondent intimates
that important movements are inprogress in
that vicinity.
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Governor llroivn’t Proclamation.
We published in yesterduy’s paper, the Pro
clamation of Gov. Brown in tefeiencs to raisieg
State troops lor local d-ferce, in acerrdance with
the lost requisition of President Davis. The
appeal of the Governor should command immedi
ate attention and the most energetic action. The
quota of Georgia is understood to be 8,000. In
fixing this quota, undoubtedly credit will be given
her for the two regiments of State troops already
n service. However this may be, the fact is
patent, that the men must be raißed, with as little
deloy as possible. This force is to be organized
for Bix months servico from the first of August
next, to be mustered into the service of the Con
fed.rute States for that period, for home defence.
The President predicates this call, as gov. Brown
says, upon the different acts of Congiessfor local
defence, and not for generul defence.
M e eiijoin upon oar readers, a careful reading
of the appeal. Tbe plan propose lis an excellen’
. ne. We have labored zealously aud long to
perfect home organiz itions lor the very purpose
of the President’s cill; and now the countenance
and co-operution of the Confederate Govern
ment comes in opportunely to second these la
bors.
Gov. Brown truthfully remarks : “It has not
yet been necessary, in filling a requisition on this
Sta'e, to draft Georgians to go to the lemotest
parts of the Coaftdmcy, for the war. They have
always volunteered iu larger numbers than have
been required. And 1 know it will not now be
necessary to draft them to hold themselves in
readiness at hems to drive the enemy away from
their own plantations, workshops, firesides and
churches.”
The promptness with which our people have
responded to the calls of patriotism in times past
has made us an enviable name everywhere ; and
as to tho gallantry and bravery of Georgians on
tho battle field, they are proverbial and matter of
history. There will be no shrinking from this
last appeal. It is made direct to each individu
al’s interest. Onr homes and firesides, onr wives
and children, our all, may be placed at the mercy
of the invader, unless we respond with thu alac
rity aud promptness which is characteris io ol a
people determined to be free. But we have no
fears of the result. The people ora heart and
soul with the Confederate and State Governments
in this matter, and Georgia will come up lo the
work with a will.
The command of these troops, it will be seen,
belongs to the President. One advantage gained
by goiDg into the Confederate service ought not
to be overlooked. In case of the capture of the
home defenders by tbe enemy, they will be enti
tled to a 3peedy exchange under the cartel adopt
ed, and may thus avoid a long imprisonment.—
froops in the service of the State, or formefi into
independent organizations, will not be held enti
tled to sich exchange, and may be long held in
some sort of durance by the enemy, if captured.
Citizens of some of the counties il this State,
without waiting for the requisition, hare perfect
ed organizations under the act of Congress of
October 13th, 1802, and will go into the Confede
rate service under the provisions of that act. In
FToyd county the organization comprises a legion
of ten or eleven companies, one of which is an
artillery company with six pieces, three of caval
ry, and the balance infantry.
The President’s riquisition is for 50,000 troops,
ta be divided among the Htates as follows : North
Carolina, 7,000, Honth Carolina, 5,000, Virginia,
8,000, Georgia B.ooJ,Florida 1,500, Alabama 7,000,
Mississippi s,ooo—leaving 8,500 to be raised in
other States of the Confederacy.
By the Governor’s Proclamation, the .citizens
are called upon to assemble at the Court House
in each county ou the first Tuesday in July next
and organize the number of volunteers required
of the county, and report to headquarters at
Milledgeville as soon as possible. Tbe number
of volunteers from each county will be speedily
made known. Let there be a great gathering of
the people and a noble and sufficient volunteer
force offered on the day appointed.
The It aid into Fast Tennessee.
We tbiDk that our enemy has now given us
sufficient novice of bis future mode of warfare as
to leave us without excuse if we are not prepared
to meet him, to a decree limited only by our
m eans. 11 we ore not “forearmed,” it will not be
because we have not been “forewarned.” The
shameful depredations on tbe coast of our sister
State, wh,re the embers of burnt houses are
Ecaroely yet extinguished, together with the bold
assault on the largest town in Tennessee now in
our possession, und the subsequent destruction of
a largu bridge on one of our most important lines
of communication, are unmistakable intimations
that the enemy will repeat tucb blows at every
vulnerable point which he can find. The cavalry
and mounted infajjjry who have recently been
dispe: sed in Tennessee must have travelled a dis
tance considerably exceeding one hundred miles
from the base of their suppPes. As the country
through which they passed must be exceedingly
bare of provisions ol every kind, they must have
fortified themselves to a great extent with the
necessary support before departing upon the ex
pedition. It is well for us to be apprized that
several thousand men can sally forth upon a mis
sion of destruction, and bring with them supplies
nearly sufficient to sustain them for a ten days
raid. The remark has often been quoted, nnd
credited to an exnerienced General, that no coun
try can be successfully invaded where the assail
ants are without railroad or water transportation,
unless tbe country can be mad3 to sustain the
invading army. Tnis mny be true at large ar
gnies ; but the remark cannot apply to small at
tacking parlies, unembarrassed by baggage, and
moving with ail the rapidity whioh horse power
can supply.
We are much nearer ( : n a direct tine) to the
seat of th3 enemy’s operations on our coast than
were our sister cities Rome and Knoxville, which
have been recently ass died. It is much more in
convenient for him, we know, to ship horses to
the coast, than to ride them down from points in
Kentucky and Tennessee where he can purchase
them; bat an accumulation of horses at Port
R-'yal or Brunswick to sn exlent sufficient lor a
formidable raid is not impossible. It is safe for
us io assume here, it is safe for any locality in
onr State to assume that the enemy may make
an irruption at any time. The moat effectual
way to prevent such incursions, is to be prepared
to meet them, and to let the enemy know that
he will be met. The beat way to erjoy quiet in
our hemes is the consc oneness that we have
prepared the materials, and can at very briet
notice, oppoae a wail of fire to meethyn* Much
has already been done in this county and in var
ious sections of the Btate. But much remains
to be done before we can be in a condition to
defy assault.
The result of tbe enemy’s last foray shows us
that, with a favoring Providenoe, we have nothing
to apprehend. The three thousand who came
threatening slaughter and desolation are now
flying broken and discomfited, back to their al
lies. They have been taught a lesson hardly less
impressive than that which they learned from
Forrest a few weeks ago. We may be confident of
repelling them even with the untutored militia
which the country can extemporise for the occa
sion, whenever we meet them with nnmbers at all
approximating equality. 8o soon as he learns
(and we think that a few more lessons like those
just given, will be sufficient to impart the infor
mation,; that every man at home ia a member of
the grand reserve of our army who are in the field,
he will be just as cautious of confronting the
home forces as he has so often shown himself of
engaging those which he left his home to “crush
out.”
Tbe Conlederat* Navy.
About two years ago a small steamer suddenly
appeared upon the main, flying n strange flag
which the nations had never seen before. She
was “ long, low, black and rakish,” and had, we
believe, sll those peculiarities rs qnisite for the
hero ship of a nautical romance. Presently, mvs
tarious fires begin to gleam out through the dark
ness of night upon the waste of waters, and anon
the winds bore to Yankeedom strange tales of
freebooters afloat upon the high seas; of a pirate
craft that appeared and vanished as mysteriously
as a Will-o’-the-Wisp; of burnt and plundered
ships, and of a handsome buccaneer who was
more than gentlemanly in his rapine, and who
cut throats with the artist.c grace of a Captain
Kidd. At once the Land of Nutmegs was in a
ferment,and a navy was improvised to go in pur
suit of the audacious oraft. Bat they sought for
her in vain ; neither were they n ol - to check her
depredations. She always managed to be just
in the right place when there was a goodly mer
chantman to be plundered, and when they
thougot they had her in their dutch, lice the
Frenchman's flea “the was’nt tiere.” A year
elapsed, aud during that period ibis single ship
had exclusive privilege among the fat picriDgs of
the F’ederal commercial marine. At the begin
ning of each mouth’the Yankee papers made up
their statements of marine disasters, and through
all the lrsts the inevitable “b ” (“burned by the
pirate Sumter,”) bore a conspicuous place. At
length the vessel passed from the arena, and
made a birth in the Strait or Gibraltar. Tbe
Sumter had (infilled her mission, and Y’ankeedom
for a while breathed freer.
Not long. That vessel wag the nuoleug of tbe Con
federate Navy,—and soon another cratt, swilter
and more formidable, made her appearance,
whose exploits far outrivaled those of her prede
cessor. She counted her list of prizes by the
score, and tallied her achievements by the
chronometers taken from captured vessels, juts
as the wild Indian counts his Tictims by tbe
number of scalps at his belt. Her baldness
nad no limit. She ran in under the lanp, and
snatored her prizes from bemueath the very
noses of the Yankee convoyß. She showed her
self freely ut alt times Jo the Federul cruisers,
provoking them to a chase, and then easily skip
ped away from them, at the moment when they
thought they hrd her caught. She coaled, ad li
bitum, at neuttal porta, and landed her captured
crews without hesitation where opportunity of
fered. Officers of Yankee war steamers retired
at night m solitary possession of some secluded
harbor, and awoke iu the morning to find a long
black hull moored quietly alongside, with the
hated Confederate flag flying defiantly from her
main. She seemed to turn up at a dozen differ
ect points at the tame time—off'the coast of Bra
zil, iu the Mediterranean, in the Caribbean sea,
in the Gulf of Mexico, on the track of the Califor
nia treasure ships, und off the coast of New Eng
land. And wherever she went, the glare ot burning
thips light, and her path, and charred wrecks of ves
sels strewed the sea. The marine police ot tbe Yan
kees was doubled in vain. In vain they tent their
swiftest aud most formidable vessels after the Al
abama; iu vain they breathed out threats and
proclamations. The rates of insurance went up to
five per cent., and the “stars an I stripes” rop
idly disappeared from sea-going craft.
The Confederacy was elated, Europe looked on
in amazement, and Jonathan swore in impotent
rage. He was “a heap mad.”
Meanwhile, nondescript monsters, whose exis
tence had not been dreamed of, stole out betimes
from blockaded ports and shallow rivers, and
wreaked swift vengeance upon the vessels of the
Federal navy. We have evidence of their prow
ess in tbe Chesapeake Bay, and in the harbors of
Charleston, New Orleans and Galveston, and npon
the Mississippi river. Bat of these we did not
propose to speak. They belong to the coast
guard, rather than to tbe Confederate navy proper.
Neither can we claim much credit for their actual
achievements, nor for the manner in which this
department has been generally maaaged. We re
turn with pride and satisfaction to our ooe&n
steamers.
Wh ; le public attention haß been so completely
engrossed with the important movements of our
armies, hardly a thought has been bestowed upon
our naval operations, lteoently, however, a ftesh
cry of alarm from the North has awakened ns to
a sense of thei:'magnitude and importance, and
we doubt not that the people of thin Confederacy
have been as much surprised as the Yankees
themselves, to see what proportions our navy has
snddenly assumed, to witness the boldness of
our cruisers, and to learn tbe extent of their de.
predations. Through this branch of the service
we have been enabled to assail the enemy at his
only really vulnerable point, and our success thus
far hag beeu truly marvellous, considering the
paucity of our vessels. But for the difficulties
that have ever jtwhere attended our efforts to cre
ate a navy, much greater progress would have
been made iu sweeping Yankee commeroe from
the ocean.
We have been compelled to baildall our vessels
abroad and to manage in each a way as to evade the
provisions of the neutrality laws, and not compro
mise our friends wi o are assisting us in the good
work. They have been built at one place, armed
and manned at another, and coaled at another.
The lacx of available funds has been a drawback,
too, upon our enterprise, and tbe Tigilance and
espionage of the Lincoln representatives, consu
lar and diplomatic, have plep.d every possible
oFstacle in our way. Nevertheless, we are satis
fied, perfectly satisfied—for the present. Our two
gallant little craft, the Humter and the Alabama,
have multiplied into a numerous fleet. Already
the Northern press parade the namee of tho Ala
bama, Florida, Virginia, Georgia, Southerner,
Clarence, Falconer, Tacony, Ac. Occasionally,
fiom the dockyards of Hartlepool, Liverpool, the
Clyde and tbe Thames, a swift clipper slips out to
sea—a beautiful but harmless merchant craft de
signed for the Emperor of China, (bleBS his Celes
tial Highness !) She undergoes a speedy meta
morphosis, and the Whang Chang, Kwang Tung,
Tiec-Ttsin, or whatever her name may be, at
once assumes a more enpbouiou) name and an
armament of bristling guns. A few weeks elapse,
and some ill-starred vessel btars to Yankeedom
the story of another strange pirate ifloat, and
the erswg of sundry captured vessels who have
been mereifolly put üboard, en route for home.
The ship Mary Garland, recently arrived at New
York, brought representatives of the crews «1
seventeen vessels that had fallen before onr
cruisers. Moreover, these new steamers are no
longer insignificant prototypes of tbe Sumter, bnt
strong formidable craft of two thousand tens and
many guns.
Another mode recently adopted fox recruiting
onr naval lists is the conversion of przes into
cruisers, This is well. It involves less delay
and expense than building abroad. To obtain
crews for them is the chief d.fficulty. We ob
serve that one of t jese converted vessels no
less than six pr zes in a single day, off tbe Chesa
peake Biy, and she it was that called ont tbe
whole available Yankee navy in pursuit.
Oar navy is already formidable, sufficiently to
at least, to ergige tbe attention of the entire na
val force ol our enemy. Boon it will be far more
so, and tbea we can’t imagine what Yankee Doo
dle will do. He will bare to treble bis navy, or
bis entire commerce will be swept from tbe ocean,
It is a remarkable fact that, with all his boasted
resources, his long list of war vessels which he
has paraded before the world, and the employ
ment of so many of them against us, not a sin
gle one of our war steamers has yet been captur
ed. Meanwhile hundreds of his merchant ves
sels, and hundreds of millions of his dollars hud
aH ignoble end in smoke.
Oca Fiest Friend.— lt may not be generally
known that at least one government has recog
nized the Confederate States. In a recent let
ter of Mr. Benjamen, our Secretary of State, we
perceive that Ernst Raven, Eeq., who was appoint
ed Conaul for the State ol Texts, by his High
ness, tbe Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and
who applied to this governmsnt for an exequa
tur, on the 80th of July, 1661, b»d ° Be 188 “ ed
him on the 21st of August, 1881.
from down the river report that the
captured steamer Atlanta was quietly moored at
Cockspur wharf, under the guns of Fort Pnlaaki,
on Sunday last.
What Gen. Scott would lmve Done.
Shortly -..tier the first battle of Manassas, (in
which the Yankees provo J themselves to be such
masters in the art of rapid ret'eat that they tri
umphantly won for themselves the title of swift
footed, a none which Ilomcr, in another sense,
had given to his greatest fiero,) Gen. Hcott, under
whose auspices the army had gene forth from
Washington, was greatly mortified at the result.
At a private dinner party not lorg subsequently
to tbe retreat, be excused himself tor the disaster
and intimated the plan of operations which, had
he been commander in-chief, would have beeu
pursued. Ono es those inevitable gentlemen, a
reporter for a New Y'ork daily, happened to be
present, and the world soon afterwards had the
benefit of a nrogramne which was intended ooly
for tho ear if a few private fiirnds. Oar readers
may remember that on tho occasion in question
the hero of Lundy’s Lane delivered himself sub
stantially as follows: “My plan for carrying on this
war was not to have invaded Virginia. I should
first have col'ectid here (in Washington) a force
adequate to tbe defence of tbe city. Thens
should have urarsud an army at Cairo, descended
the Mississippi river to its mouth, and fortified
the important points. To do this it would have
beeu necessary to fight nbout eight battles, and to
bave had an arin/ of 80,019 men. At the same
time I should have muuluiued a most rigid block
ade of every Huuihern port. This doDe, I should
remain quiet and cmpel tbo insurgent Slates to
feel the power of the government.” At another
time the Lieutenant General, whilst iu office;"YW
clared in opposition to those who insisted upon a
“short, sharp aud decisive war,” that it would
require au army of three hundred thousand men,
two hundred and fifty millions of dollars, aud
three years fighting to “put down the rebellion.’’
These propositions and prophesies of the man
who, three years ngo, enjoyed oa this continent
the reputation of being its first military com-
mander, (and after the death of Wellington with
out a rival probably on any continent) have al
ready b;en recorded on the historic page. But
we have lived long enough io discover that a
great General is not a reliable prophet, eDd that
military reputation reqaired in past campaigns is
no unfnilirg guaranty of military success for the
future. The saruo Government which honored
Gen. Hcott found it m c 'saury to dishonor and to
supeiced t him ; aud the man whoee calculations
were so sagacious iu Moxioo, when he wis aided
by Southern co'leogues, fai'ed utterly when the
men who carried him to Mexico wereopposirg
his progress lo Richmond. The enemy heve not
yet traversed the Mhsitsippi river, and instead of
the work being done by eighty thousand men
procceding down from Cairo with a force as re
sistless as the mighty curront on which they were
borne, we presume thut we speuk largely within
bounds when we say that the enterprize of own
ing the river has already cost the enemy one hun
dred thousand of bin best troops in disease and
in the casualties of fig'itiug. And still the way is
not yet opened. Thu hosts rush ou and they ire
as promptly repelled. Mtn “walk for ten acr?s
with the blood of the slum over their shoe tops,’’
but the terrible holocaust does not break through
the serried lines of the “rebels.” Thres hundred
thousand of the enemy—the number which was
to have been sufficient for oar subjugation—lis
low in the dust. More than four times the num
ber have been summoned to the field, and yet the
work remains undone. The two hundred and
fifty millions of dollars have been multiplied
five fold aud the cry is still more money 1
Could reason resuius her sway with our ene
mies it would seem as if we must call upon them
to desist from an effort in which an amount of
blood and treasure so iearluily exceeding the
most sanguine calculation has been unavailingly
sacrificed. But alas 1 it is not tbe hour of rea
son. F’anaticism, biliudjjiKious, inexorable now
rules the day. She mind to think, nor
heart to feel,nor eye to pity. We see in the peuce
proposals a faint gtimmer of light. We can only
hope that it may soon become bright enough to
dissipate the darkness which now broods over the
people who are so madly crying for blood.
Ths Atlanta —lt is a relief to the community
to know that our men aboard the Atlanta were
true aud faithful to their trust, aud that the gun
boat was surrendered through sheer necessity,
and not by foul play. Those IS inoh shells were
too much for the Atlanta at close quarters, aud
crushed iu her sides like pasteboard. One of these
missiles has been ou exhibition in this city for
several weeks. It was thrown at Fort McAllister
and like its fellows, proved lunnlrsa against its
parapets of mud and sund. But the same shells,
when thrown against the “Palisades” in New
Yoik, in their experimental test, knocked down
tons of solid rock, leaving u debris like tho wreck
of an avalanche. This is the first occasion -on
which these monster projectiles have been em
ployed against a vessel, and judging from the re
sult, we feel convinced that no fratrte on earth
could stand against them at short range. For
tunately, the ordnance that throws them cannot
be readi'y served, neither cau they fire with ac
curacy at loug distauces, we believe. It is to be
regretted tbat our noble vessel was destined to
afford the first means of touting the power of
their shells, but our regret at her loss is mitiga
ted by the knowledge that our officers and sea
men fengbt her bravely until all further effort
was fruitless.
Tbb Htuenotu or Hooxsa’s Akmv. —The New
York News says “ the army of the Potomac has
dwindled down to about 50.000 effective men.—
Where the balance of the 135,000 Hooker is said
to have had previous to Ihe buttles of Chaucel
lornrille are, I don't pretend to say. Os course
a good muuy have gone home in the mustering
out of service of the two years’ tnd the nine
months’ men. But if the loss in the Chancellors
rille “ skirmishes” was only i 5,01>0 killed, wound
ed and missing, why, there is cheating going on
somewhere.”
If this be the truth, Lee’s army will find but
trill ng opposition to his advance, fur the militia
of the several Hiatus that have been summoned
to oppose him will not prove very efficient, we
imagine. It is probable, however, that many of
the returned regiments, together with the uni
formed and disciplined militia of the towns and
cities, will offer their services in the present exi
gency. No doubt a formidable array of troops,
as reepeetg numbers, will soon be gathered to
Hooker’s aid.
More Stbamzrs Captured. —The Mobile Tri
bune of the 20th says : "It was rumored yester
day that tbe steamer Planter had been captured
going from, ujd the steamer Neptune coming in
to this port. Tbe blockuders are getting wider
awake ; but we believe thrre is not much going
out at present, and they will not make much by
their vigilance. Perhaps, cue of these days, the
port will be unsealed”
Tub Alamaha Aoain. —A Pernambnoo letter
states that the Alabama bad burned eight more
Yankee vessels off that coast.
The Captain ol the Yankee brig Whistling
Wind reports hiß vessel burned by tbe Coqnette,
one of tbe Alabama’s prizes, which had been
manned and armed as a tender.
Gbn. Pat Cleburne.— “Bayonet,* writing to
the Mobile Register from Wartrace, Tennessee,
speaks thug of Gen. Cleburne :
The noble man of onr army is General Cleburne,
who has risen with tbe rapidity of a Claude Mel
mtte or a meteor. Ha begin the warns a private,
and in about eighteen months was a Major Gen
eral. And this without going through West Point,
and without political influence. Ue fought his
way up by knocks. Huch success argues both ex
traordinary merit and extraordinary luek. No
mao, however inherently great, can get along
without luck, and as the adage goes, “a fool for
lack,” they generally baring a monopoly of the
article. But occasionally luck and merit meet in
the some man, and then comes a Claude Melnotle
or a Cleburne.
We will add that Geueral Patrick Cleburne is
an Irishman, and holda a Higher rank in our army
than Oorchorao or Meagher (who commenced Col
oaels,) or any other Irishman in tbe Yankee
army.
Grand Gulf Evacuatid. —A dispatch from
John Forsyth, of Mobile, to the Columbus Times,
dated 22d, says the enemy have evacuated Grand
Gulf and crossed over to the west side of the
Mississippi*
A gentleman writing from Caihoun, Ala.,
says “whe»tis very good; corn is promising-ja
too much rain in this section for harvesting.” '
A yonng man advettises in a London piper his
desire for a wife—“ Pretty, and entirely ignorant
of the fact!” Does he want a blind woman ?
JlMthange paper.
We reckon not, for he goes it blind himself.