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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 183?-1864 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1863)
BY N. S. MORSE &CO. Chronicle & Sentinel TERMS. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE At SENTINEL Is Published Every TUESDAY AT FOUR DOLLARS FEii ANN DM ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. WEEKLY ADVERTISING RATES. Oiidinaht Aiivkrtisemk.nts published in tbe Weekly will bo charged twenty-five cent* a line each insertion. “ Mpscial Nonces will be charged thirty cents a ne for each insertion. Makhiagks, Dsaths and Funchal Novices one dollar each. Ositoahv Notices forty cents per line for one nsertion in either Daily or Weekly. Where bitaary Notices are published in both Daily and Weekly—sixty cents per line. Death or W at. 1.. Yancey. in the death of William Lowndes Tancey, the Confederacy has truly lest one of her most talenied statesmen, lie was born in our neighboring SStute of South Carolina, and inherited the im petuonsness of the bods of that State ; gifted with geniat of no ordinary character, and wilh a mind cultivated by the study of a long public life, ho Was an orator whose fam. was American. At an early period of life, but not be r ore he had attracted attention in a young man of promise, he left Carolina, and fixed upon Alabama as his future home, lie often represented the city of Mont gomery in the Legislature, and subsequently in the lower branch of Congress. During the session of 1848-9, pending the dis cussion of tbo Wrlinot Proviso, lie made several •powerful speeches against that measure. Hut not until the memorable President al campaign of iB6O did he attract universal attention. Asa del egate from the State of Alabama, he appeared in the Charleston Convention as the acknowledged eader of the anti-Douglas, or Southern R ; ghta wing of that celebrated meeting. When the platform of his party was presented he made a speech in support of it winch electrified the Conventiou, and which a3 an effort of the fo rum, has rarely been equaled, it is thought by many that thut speech aud his other efforts both efore and at the Convention, tended largely to break up that body, rend the Democratic party and make it impotent to elect its candidate for President, it wus claimed by Mr. Douglas and it s friends that had the party remained united the reeult of the election would have been differ ent. Mr. Tancey entered upon the campaign that followed with the greatest zeal and with more than his usual ability. He made speeches in all -parts of the Union, and everywhere won tho ad miration of every lover of eloquence. His bitterest oppoueuls gave him praise us an orator without an equal. No matter where he appeared ’.it the moat violent Abolition communities of the North, or before an audience of his native Mouth, —he commanded that respect and dieted that applause which few men of his time could do. Ue was bold iu the enunciation of his pr nci pies, and prophotically told the peoplo of the .North what the result of the election of a sectional President would be. Hut his voice of warning was not heard ; Lincoln was elected »nd then came the result predicted The Provisional (iovornmeiil of the Confederate states delegated Mr. Yancey Commissioner to JCnglaud, aud ihilo in that capacity he first called the attention of Europe to the new aud ■rising Western Republic Bpringing into exist, ence. In Ins correspondence with the Br.tish Aftoverument, and in his speeches before the British public, ho fully sustained his reputation At home as a statesman, aud at once caused the people of England to sympathise with the South *u her struggle for independence. At the time of bis death ho wus a Senator in Congress fiotn Alabama, and if is now ne.-ufossto my that the loss of sueh a man to the South, at •ny time, and more especially at a time like this, is a national misfortune. Had it occurred in a ■time of peace, tho eve; t would have arrested universal attention and sorrow. Rut now death is everywhere. Our moet gifted men are fall ing ell urouud ns, so thick and last, that scarce does the sound of one funeral knell p&ae away, before auothcr, and yet another, is borne to us. But his epitaph should not be writteu new. Long Alter the new born nation shall have expanded into a great Republic—long after the penis of its dbirth shall have been in a manner forgotten—then, and not till then, will the name of William iLewndes Yancey, as one of its Futhers, he revered as the Patrick Henry of his time. Tt>e Last Vimlue SiMmaUun. Thu New York Herald is out in an elaborate editorial claiming that the war is substantially ended, and that the political question alone de mands adjustment. It calls upon the Lincoln OoTernment to propose such liberal terms o •ettiement as wilt insure faror at the South, and ■then to oontirtn the consolidation ot the country by the instant declaration of war against France and England. We have very little respect for the paper in whieh these propositions appear. It is on some accounts the most contemptible sheet published in the Northern States. The Tribuue, Times, and other Abolition papers have at least the merit of consistency. They have always been intensely anti-Southern in principle and in prac tice. But the Herald has been everything by turns and nothing long. As, however, us pro prietor has kept uppermost the question of popu larity, we may gather something from its pages u to the directions which political currents are taking among the masses of’the Northern metro polis. t>n this acoount the article in question is interesting to as. It may indicate the popular feeling towards Franoe and Ergiund, and exhibit also the Northern notion of the estimate in which these powers are held with the South. The Yan kees have au idea that our indignation agains these two great European Powers is such that for the pleasure of gaining a party capable of cheaimg them w# would godsioi ccco more to keep house with the people who are now seeking to destroy us. There never was a greater mistake. Bather than consent to reunion with a people who, in person and through their emissaries, here done •11 in their power to blot oat our very existence as a free people, we precume that an overwhelm ing majority of the people of the Confederacy would prefer becoming the vassals of Victoria or Napoleon -father than to be brought under the *way of ruler* who in time of war have ignored AUGUSTA, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1863. even th; sc usages which the serni-barbaroug na tions respect when carrying cn war. It is true that England has acted in such a way, during this sruggle, as to forfeit all claim to our grati tude or admiration. Whilst professing neutrality the has recognized a blockade confessedly iniffi cient, haa sold to or.r enemies the munitions of war in large quantities, and in general, haa de ported it. reel! so unfairly that our chief Magis trate h:.s publicly animadv rted on the injustice. But alter a’l, our hostility towards her is not so great that for the sake of humbling her we would be willing to merge cur country with the Federal Government. It may he, after all, thut England has been mere impartial than we are willing to allow. There is sorri3 reasou to think so, when we remember that her course has been in some particulars more odious to our enemies than to carselver. It is hard for neutrals to appear im partial to belligerents. By a law of perspective, it a main stand equidistant between two men, separated from each other by any considerable uterval, he will appear to each observer to be nearer to the ipposite party than himself. This illusion may bold where a party proposes a middle ground between two combatants. Each one will imagine that tho neutral person stands nearer to his antagonist and xa disposed to favor his cans.!. But liowtver this may he, the promise of a brush with England is not strong enough to uilure '.lie Confederacy to reunion. As to France, we have no quarrel with that Power, and even on tho hypothesis of a union, reconstructed in name, through the overwhelm ing power of opposing numbers, that would be a very stern conscription which would induce any .Southern mttu to draw the sword against the only refer who has evinced the slightest sympa thy with us in our struggles agains an unpitying enemy, it would require more smooth words than t'ae Archbishop of New York used recsntly to persuade his Irish brethren to acquiesce in the Federal laws, to induce any true man in this Con federacy to stand again “ shoulder to shoulder ” with the moa whose very name is a synonym for cruelty. Brig. (Xvii, Uotvexi. Brig. tieu. John 8. Bowen, whose death w? hare anrounced, wa i one of the ablest cllioers in tho Confederate army. He was a graduate of West Point, and belonged to the regular United State; army at tho ccmmencomeoi of the present war. Ilpba the beginning of hostilities between the two sections he promptly resigned his com mission and offered his sword to Gov, Jackson, of Missouri. He was second in command when Camp Jackson was attacked aud captured by Gan. Lyoa Paroled by that officer, ho went to New Madrid county in Missouri, and raised one of tut tines 4 , regiments in the Western Depart ment. Reporting to Gen. Polk, then in command at Columbus, his superior qualities was quiokly detected by that officer, aud sent commander of a hi ip; de, to Camp Beauregard—the extreme right wing of the army, and a very responsible position. Always on the alert, kind and humane, yet strict in discipline, he more than fulfilled all that was anticipated of him. VV hen lien. A. S. Johnston was threatened with amiibihaiou at Bowling Green by threefold his o u i v.mber, Gen. Bowen’s brigade was detach ed from th*. army of the Mississippi and sent to him. Upon his atrival, be wa3 at once placed in command of the fortifications and the city. The army failing back upon Nashville, spreading the wildest alarm among the inhubiiuuls of that citj and suction, without councils, somewhat distract ed, Gen. Bowen respectfully appealed to the com manding Genera! to make a stand upon the Cum berland and give the enemy battle, in this he was nlone and was overruled. At the b: tile of Shilo he fought with the gal lantry of a Salan’iii, and never saw the enemy upon his put t of the field bat to charge and sweep Ufom from it. Io one f.t these desperate encoun ters be was pit-reed by u minnie hall and fell dan gerously rounded. Iu liiee months fie wafi again ia the saddle, and at the head of his brigade. At the subsequent b-.ti.U sos Corinth, (Van Darn’s) Baton Rouge Grand Gulf, Baker’s Creek and Vicksburg, he ever exhibited that indrmitabie courage, judg ment, and coolum.h so characteristic of a good aud great General—for such ho was. With tho galiant Green and along line of other ncb'e heroes who have lost their lives in the cause ol freedom, Leaving in buttle not a blot, ou their mnne. Du I luoiciiis pfoud.y to Heaven lroui the death-bed ol fame, be has gnae to meet his reward. John S. B iwen was a native ol Savannah, Ga. and the son of W m ’’. Bowen, who was a citizen ol thrt city for many years anterior to his death, which occurred soma fire years ago. Ho served with credit as a Major of infantry in the Florida w--r. A brother lives in Savannah, and two sis ters reside in the upper part ot Georgia. Tun Mississippi Tkoops.—A few days since some inconsiderate person sent over the tele graph wives the announcement that the Mississip pi troops were deserting Johnston’s army in large numbers and going home. Thereupon, some very inconsiderate editors commenced giving thiir views upon the subject ; and endeavored, if possible, to make matters real'y worse than they would have been even if the announcement had been true ill every particular. Knowing full well thv character oi tb Mississippi troops, and the well merited reputatiin they have always had for bravery, ve at the time doubted the correct peas of the report put in circulation, and thought thi.t those c ' tors who commenced abusing them upon a mere telegraphic rumor, exhibited but litile discretion —to say the ‘east. A gentleman just from Mississippi has given a true statement of ihe ease. From his account it appears that the soldiers who went home were the paroled Vicksburg prisoners, who cannot light until exchanged, and who had a right to pursue the course they did. ‘.Those edi tors who have “made a mountain out of a mole hill” will do wail if they will correct the salsa ru mors they have published, and remove the erroneous impressions they have made on the minds of their readers. All accounts from Mississippi coucur in prov ing that the spirit of the soldiers from that State is not in the least dampened in consequence of the recent disaster to our arms in that section. On the contrary, the outrages that haTe been com mitted on their families, homes and property, will only incite them to brave other dangers and en dure greater suffer ngs, in order to be able to punish the vandals who have despoiled their in heritance They will need no urging, after a few lays rest, and the fact of their having been exchanged is pioperly mude known, to rally at the c -il of G-n. Johnston. Ths Rstalicviov C*s*—Rimarking upon the Federal thre.-.t tn hang two Coniederate officers ln 0 f ;he : locution cf Captains Sawyer and Flvnn by this government, the Richmond Ex aminer remind? the Lincoln government that we hold about six hundred Yankee officers in our i hands’; inelu3mg several Brigadier Generals. The assertion o’ the Federals that Sawyer and - y vnn were drawn to sober for two spies who were hung, is a gross perversion of facts. They were drawn in retaliation for the shooting of two Confederate recruiting officers. manifesto to SSie IVlejacasi Satsou. Gea. Forey, ihe French commander in Mexico issued the annexed manifesto to that notion on the 12tu of June, from the City of Mexico : Mexicans : is it necessary that I should again state to you the purpose for which the Emperor has sent to Mexico a part of his army ? The pro clamation which I hwc addressed to you must certainly be known to you. notwithstanding the suspicicu; policy of your Government, aud you are aware that our magnanimous sovereign, touched by your sad condition, has had but one object in crossing the seas with his troops: to show you the noble standard of France, which is the symbol of civilization. He has been right in thinking that at the sight ot that flag, those who were oppressing you in the name of liberty, would either be discomfited, or would iguominiously take to flight. The mission confided in ms by the Emperor hod a doable purpose. First : I wa3 to bear, with the weight of our arms, upon ‘he pretended victors of the sth of May, 1562, and reduce to its proper value that event, to which the boastings ot cer tain chieftains had attributed the proportions of a great victory. Next, 1 was'to offer tho aid of France to Mexico in order to assist in tanning for itself a Govern ment which should be the expression of its !ree choice : a Government observant above all of justice, probity, good rath in its foreign reiaiions, liberty at home; but Fberly us it ougat to be uu deretoad, accompanied by order, respect for re ligion, for property, aud ’or family. The rout of ' tho hostile forces wherever. they have dared to meet our eabres or our bayonets, as well rs the siege of Puebla, has given ample satisfaction to our military honor. Arriving with Rente means of attack before Puebla wniob the late Government had converted into a first class fortress, and which it regarded as a bulwark against wtuch all our efforts would be vain, and in which, accorurag to its usual vaunts, it declared we would find uiir graves, we have forced it to surrender ot discretion ; anil (what is extraordinary in the annals of military iriumpiisj a garrison ot 20,000 men have been made prisoners, with all their Generals, all their officers ; and have been forced, while still in pus session ot powerlul resources, (an we have been able to satisfy ourselves,) to abandon to us im mense munitions of war. After the fail cl Puebla we were about to march on the Capitol, whore wo were told aerious re sistance was prepared. We had powerlul means ot overcoming this resistance, auu victory, faith ful to the banner of France, wus not doubtful. But God would not permit iunhsr effusion of blood; and the Government, which well knew that it would not be supported by the people of this Capital, has not baud to await our ai rival behind its ramparts. It has shamefully lied, leaving this great and hrautuul city to Itself. If it still questioned the general reprobation of which it was tbo object, the events 01 the 10th of June, 1803, which new belong to historr, must have destroyed alt delusion, and have satisfied it ot its inability to pieserve ine fragments of a power which it has so deplorably abused. The military question is then .at au end. The political question remains. The solution, Mexicans, depends cn you. Unite iu sentiments of fraternity, concord, true patriotism Let all honest men, all moderate citizens, ol all opinions, fuse themselves into a single party, that of order, liijeci, as petty and unworthy o you, of a partisan victory over each other. Look at things from a loftier stand point, abandon your names of liberals, of reactionaries, which only engender bate, perpetu- a:e a spirit of vengeance, in a word, excite all the bau passions of the human heart. Determine, aboyo ail things, to b i Mexicans, ana to make ot yourselves a nation united, and, therefore, strong, great, because you have all the elements necessa ry for this end. It is lor this that we come to aid ton ; and we will succeed io creating, in;;-, liter, a durable orde of things, if, comprehending the true interests oi your country, you enter resolutely into the de signs of tho Emperor, which ! am instructed :t explain to you. Thus, henceforth there will bo exacted no fine:', contributions, no requisitions of any kind, or on any pretext. There trtli he no exaction commit ted without the punishment of the guilty. The property and persons oftbe citizens will fie under the safeguard of the laws and of the officers of the Government. The owners of national estates, who bought them regularly and ia conformity wish Saw, shall not be disturbed, but shall remain in possession of the property : fraudulent miles alone will be subject to revision. The press will fie live, but regulated according to the system of warnings eslafiltshed in France. Two warnings will result in the suppression of the paper. The recruiting of the army will be conducted on a moderate system, putting an end to the odious custom of seizing by loica and dragging from their families the Indians and Harm labor ers, that interesting class of the population who are now forced in the ranks, with the rope around their necks, aud who, therefore, only afford the sad spectacle of soldiers without patriotism, without devotion to ttu irllag, alwa>B ready to desert, or to quit one cbiet for another. And this is easy to conceive, for the reason that there is iu Mexico uo nationai aimy, but bands, trader the orders of ambitious chicitaius, who wrangle for power which they use only lor the total de struction of the resources of the country, by ap propriating to themselves tho wealth of others. Taxes wiil be regulated t*sin countries, so that their burthen shall xuh on all the citizens in proportion to their fortunes; aud examina tion will be made, in order, ii practicable, to suppress certain taxos on coixtuaiption, more vexatious than productive, aud waieh affect principally the pooxesi producers iu the country districts. AH agents who Sieve the disposal-of public funds wili be suitably compensated ; but those who fail to dii.cha.rge their functions with the probity ar-d integrity which the State has tue right to require of them, wiil be displaced, be sides being punished lor any misconduct of they which may be guilty. The Catholic religion shall be respected, and the B‘shops restored to . heir bishoprics. I will add that the Emperor would be plea, ed if it were possible for the Government 10 proclaim freedom of worship, that great principle of modern so ciety. Energetic measure will bo adopted for repres sing brigandage, that Hague oi Mexico, which makes ot it a country exceptional in the world, aed paralyses all commerce, all enterprises of public or private- utility, which cannot prosper without security’. Courts wili be so organized as to render justice with integrity, so that it shall no longer he bought by the last and highest bidder. Such are the essential principles on wfciob will rest the Government to be established. They arc those of the most distinguished peoples of Eu rope. They are those which the new Govern ment of Mexico mast endeavor io follow with perseverance and energy, if it desires to assume a place among civilized nations. This second part of my task can only be ac complished by rue, if 1 am aided by good Mexi cans. Therefore, I Will not conclude this manifesto without making an appeal to conciliation. I in voke the concurrence of all in teliigences; I ask parties to disarm, and henceforth to use their strength, not in pulling down, cut in building up. I proclaim forgetfulness of the , a complete amnesty for ail who will rally in good faith around the Government, which the nation, freely con sulted, will establish for itself. But 1 pronounce enemie; to ihe country those who shall show themselves deaf to my conciliato ry voice, and I wili pursue thorn wherever they may take reluge. Mors Fspxsajl Rains.— Shorter has is sued a proclamation announcing that be tvs re ceived authentic intelligence that formidable ex peditions ore preparing in North Alabama to de vastate the interior of that State. Aa there is no time to await the action of the Legislature, at its special session on the 17‘.h cf August, he calls upon the people to organize in md tary com panies at once, for the defence of the State. Pethaps the raiders may intend to also pay Georgia avisil- Oar people every where should he on the alert--end not be caught napping. Now is the time to organize and make preparations to receive the Federals as they ought tn be. It will be of no use to “lock tbe door after the horse is stolen. ’’ Citizens of Georgia 1 Are you ready io meet the invading foe whenever ana wherever they make their appearance Ii not, begin at once to prepare yourselves. A month, yes, per haps u ween hone may he too late. !11 not put the mailer od untilt* -morrow—for to-morrow yon will never live to see. Commence to-dav. Tlac Yankee Conscription. The annexed extracts from Northern papers show how the draft is progressing in Lincolndom: THE CONSCRII’TIOK. Iu Westchester, N. Y,, a public meeting haa resolved “that no man shall be permitted to leave -istchestcr county for the seat of war, nuless he sh.Ji go voluntarily, cheerfully, and with a heart tor the work.” The man who oflered the resolu tion was a prominent Republican. 'the Brooklyn (N. Y.) (.tty Council has appro priated #500,000 to exempt 1,666 men. The Governor of New Jersey has so “modified the order for dratting, with the consent of the U. 8. Government,” that rolunte-.ring will be con tinued iu that State, end no draft will be had. In Aartford, Os., 1,127 men have been drafted. A meeting of ihe cit'zens is called to consider the propriety ol voting ~e appropriation suiiicieut to pay for the exemption o! all. The city of Rochester is proposing to buy off the drafted men. The draft is suspended in New Hampshire. Discontents are announced in various places. The dratting proceeded quietly iu Philadelphia, and 2,090 men were drafted. It was decided that a negto substitute may go in for a drafted negro, but not for a white man. Thirteen Roman Catholic priests have been drawn so far in Pennsylvania. Their congrega tions paid for their exemptions. The Abolitionists are turning the dral! to po litical account. Ia Auburn, N. Y,, the drafted men paraded on the 23d with flags end music. They were addressed by “distinguished politi cians,” and cheered for “The Union—Old Abe— The Draft—Our Recent Victories, Ac.” O. course tho #3OO exempt on of these cheerful decoy ducks are paid by the Republican Uuiou Leagues. In Boston two boob of Edward Everett have been drawn and intend to serve in person. The N- w Bedford Mercury says that their father will pursue the same course it he is drawn. There had been a threatened riot at Newport, Rhode Island, to prevent which the Mayor order ed out the infantry and artillery. At Harrisburg, Pa., a gang ot women destroyed the drafting wheel and bandied the Provost Mar shal very roughly. The women were afterwards joined by lurge numbers of men, and a general riot seemed imminent. Several fights occurred; in one ol which Officer Baker was severely beat en. The Mayor read the riot act, and the Sheriff enrolled a posse of two hundred men. Order was sufficiently restored to permit the resumption oi the draft at that hour. The city of Rochester haa voted f207,300 to pay for drafted men. In New York city the drafting officers have made their headquarters aboard the ship-of-war North Carolina. The rascals are disposed to place their own precious persons beyond the reach of danger. Quite a stimulus has bsen given to enlistments recently, and if these are counted in, together with tho number which have already been enlisted over the last call of the President for troops from this State, the Herald says, New York city will have very little, indeed, to furnish under the draft. The Hartford, (Ot.) Times says that the exemp tions of drafted men, by surgeons’ certificates, in various parts of New England, since the com mencement of the Federal conscription, amount to the enormous proportion of 73 per cent. It is, indeed, estimated by many that the exemption will reach 80 per cent. But we will call it 73. Os | the balance, it would seem that, as a general thing, about 25 out of the 27 have lied to parts unknown, and tlxa strong probability is that, in most of these cases, the fugitives from their own homes will make good their escape, in spite ol the activity of the provost marshals, leaving a net re sult of, at the most, ten men out of every hun dred drafted who will be mnsteied into the ser vice. Joel T. Green has been arrested at Hartford, ou the charge of having boldly urged all men to resist the draft with violence. “The New Y'ork “World” learns from its West era exchanges, that for the present there will ba no enforcement of the draft in any of the Stales Norih and West of the Ohio river, ft will be noticed that Colonel Fry, in announcing the re sumption oi the draft, mentioned the Middle and Eastern States an these iu which the conscription was to be immediately enforced. There is, doubtless, some reason for this discrimination though we do not see its justice.” The World speaking of the Government's brtaca of faith in enforcing the draft after pro unsiag us suspension, says : Some of the organs ot the War Department are trying to get up a question of veracity between Sicreiary Staunton and Gov. Seymour touching the correspondence between them on the subj. et of the dralt. But it is the height of absurdity for them to r.nsouny bucU issue. The New York Journal of Commerce says it was a noticeable feature that no politician of either party wus a participant in the late riots. It grew out of the discontent of the peoplo, aud was a sudden and unpremeditated outburst. f iirtdoute «r i»«rs*ii’« Trip through ’udiaua. Til* Indianapolis, (Ind.) Sentinel of July 15, gives the annexed account of Morgan’s doings : Now that the invading force that threw our State into commotion hai passod out, and the Harry and excitement has gone with it, wo can bear some particulars about the raid. The dam - og? done Is comparatively insignificant. A force of 4000 mounto-i men cannot pass through a belt of country, and subsist upon it without inflicting a great loss upon it, and those living along the line of Morgan’s match have of course Buffered heavy losses ; but we cannot hear of any serious damage to tlm railroad or public property. Morgan strips the couatiy of horses as he ad vancc’! In some places he represents himself as commanding 0 nicn troops, and often induces the most intensely loyal citizens to pomt out to his scouts where the best horses in the neighborhood are to be found, lie Uses every expedient to de cays,. In mary settlements the Federal forces who pursued him looked upon with dread, the in habitants thin King they iiad just fed tbo Onion troops, and that the Federal was the terrible Mor gan was to sweep all they possessed ol this world’s goods out of existence. Morgan’s forces is said, by persons who were in His hands, and who have had some military experience, to bo about four thousand, and to consist of veteran troops, and held in band by rigid discipline. When Morgan reached the neighborhood of Versailles there were four hundred men assem bled there, organizing a mounted force to j ;in in his pursuit. His advanced guard dashed in upon tb-ra and captured the great r pari ot the stock before the men could even mount to escape. There is rather an amusing story told about I.awrtmceDnrg. On Saturday they wore rejo cmg over the fall of Vicksburg, and the city was deco rated with Hags, scarcely a house but had one displayed. Suddenly the .news came that Morgan was rapidly approaching. To e flags rnys eriona iy disappeared, and the good people ot the burg prepared to make the best terms possible with the five long-range guns that Morgan la supposed to carry with him. There is a perfect panic in portions of the country through which the Confederate and Fede ral forces have passed. Many persons have taken to their beds from fright, and the sight of a dozen horsemen along the road even yet will cause a PC Ag C eutmman d who was captured by Morgan at one of the railroad stations, end forced to drive him in a bu rgy to visit a portion of his force some three or four miles distant says that Morgan told him he had halted one whole day for the federate to come up. and on other occasions had waited for hours for him but be could not wait always— his business was pressing Noble asp Heroic Conduct.— Daring the late Federal raid on Wythvili?, Va., the ladies are said to have acted heroically. While the fight was raging, and the bullets were flying thick and fast around them, they were cilm and unmoved, and cheered on their friends aid relatives to fight.— After the vandals had setfire to the town, and retreated, with their own tones these brave ladies assisted in subdoing the tbmes, and but for their herculean efforts, the whole town would have been laid in ashes. This was done under circum stances ihe most trying to the female heart, their husbands and brothers, ant friends, having been carried off by the enemy, md they being ignor ant of their fate. The Wytieville ladies certainly are deserving of great praiie—both for their he roic conduct and the nobl* example they have set for others of their own sex to follow. It is said that an honest man ie one of the noblest works of God , we think a *rave woman is also. VOL. LXXYII—NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. NO. 31 Army Correspondence. Letter (rotii Lee’s Army, The feeling over the Ibtomao—Route of Army to I'enmylvania—Their conduct 'while in that State—Appearance of the Inhabitants and the country — Vieio of the Battle Field of Gettys burg— The Ba’.tle—Strong Tuition of ihe Fe and eralt —Bravery of our Troops — Gallant deeds of the Georgia Brigades Coolness and courage of their orficers—An .Artillery Dud—'lhe victory ours-r Reasons of Tee’s Retreat— Our Loss—Loss of the Federals—Advantages gained, by us by Lee’s movements—lhresmt condition of our Army—tttzciwjs ot tree i roops— lAa vzyfii fptrzt existing—Our wounded well provided so tentions given them by Dr. ClaggeU and Rev. Dr. Grumlty — &c., Ac., Ac. j,WiNCHSsriiit, Jnly 15, 1868. J. M. Nkwby, E#<» — Dear Sib : Duties which i need not mention kept me front entering Mary land and Fennsylvania with our army. Ou the Ist im?t.. however, 1 left this place aud behind two good horses moved rapidly forward. Early in the evening lorded the I’otomuc, a broad, beautiful stream, and entered Williamsport. There most of the stores were closed and the majority of the citizena.ciosely shut up in their residences, givir. a quiet, Suuday-like air to the place. The fe w I talked with insisted that the Confederacy hud many friends in the town and State,who,lo espouse our cause only needed the assurance that our army would permanently remain ou that side of the river. ’Tis true that quite a number of ladies welcomed Geo. Leo on the xtoue bridge over the canal, and many along tho road waved Southern flags xxnd cheered ou our troops . but the great majority of ihe men in that portion of the State are loyal to the old Union or want spirit to join ns in resisting the tyrant at Washington. It is perhaps just to say that we ware in the same sec tion we visited last year—ono avowedly Union in its interest and feeling. Had wo reached Balti more and the region round about, we might have met with a different reception. Leaving Hagerstown to tka right we took the direct road to Greeneastie, i’a. The distance across the State by this route isuotteu miles, und was the road over which a large part of our army passed. It led through a rich and highly cultiv,. ted region, thickly dotted with neat farm houses. Across the entire State I noticed that no property was injured. One could BOareely think a largo army had but recently marched over the ground. On the 2d we entered Pennsylvania. Booa af ter crossing the line I began to notice traces of the passage ot our troops. Here aud there fen ces were broken down, and a few fields of grain partially trampled under toot. Some ol tbo less conscientious oftbe troops no doubt appropriated pigs, chickens and the like. Our Government took horses, cattle and forage of course, hut paid fort o i*. No private honses were bunted, no agricultural implements destroyed, no wanton destruction of any kind indulged in, such as murks the march of the enemy through our land. Never did an army leave a State with lest real damage. Most of the misery and suffering brought upon our country were through the note of soldiers from Pennsylvania, und it was hard for our troops to keep their hands off of property they felt they had so much right to destroy. Many a homo have censured Gen. Lee, wo hear, for thus respecting private property. He oxpiessly de clared that lie did not came lo make w; r upon defenceless women and children, and requested his troops to refrain from the policy adopted by the foe in our own land. History, tie raid, would applaud the course, and the Gon of buttles bless and sanction it. The citizons of that portion of the Slate our array occupied are all Dutch—the men a milk and water looking set, who could not give us an hon est gaze. Candor compels me to say that 1 did not see a paßsuble looking female. AU had a rk venly look, and shuttling gait, end I could im agine no position in which they would uppear at all in their element, exaept over the kitchen fire : and wash tub. Some were quief, und some sul len; but some, boasting with rage, abused us in profane and vulgar language. No restraint was placed upon their tongues, und we only laughed at their raging. The country was the most beuuti ful I ever beheld. Everywhexo fields of waving grain met the eye, while the vast numbers ol dwellings and outhouses gave i. tho appearance of one vast village. Befora reaching Chamberslnirg, we turned to the right, iu the direction of Gettysburg. At Ureonwood, wo Urst hoard that a butt In was go ing on. Urging on our horses, tge ro:e to the top of the mountain, only eight uitlns from Ihe battle field. It perhaps falls to the lot of few to have a grander view than the one we had from this elevuted position. The linen of the two con tending armies could be distinctly traued L>,- the smoke of battle, while the roar of the cannon, ns it rolled up the mountains, aud reverberated from the peaks and cliff's, sounded like heavy thunder. Long lines of our cavalry stretched along tlfo road beneath, while men on foot and single horseman were moving to and from the shone of strife. Immense numbers of wxtgons dotted the Xxeldsou either side ot tho road, und horses were grazing quietly, aB if nothing wore going on. As we neared our rear, the guns roared louder and xouder, und the spiteful rattle of mnsketry mingled with the hiss of shot and shell. Lcav mg the conveyance, I made my way down to the hots, stopping here aud there at the different hos pitals, which were filled with wounded, who bore their pains like stoics. The battle began on the Ist, about live miles from Gettysburg. Hill’s corps was principally engaged on the first day, and drove the enemy beyond tfce town, killing, wounding and captur ing great numbexs. That night the euximy took position upon a high rocky bill—a perfect Gibral tar —and there awaited our advance. The next day our lines were drawn—Long street on the right, Ewell on the left, and Hill in the centre. On the two wings Longstreet and Ewell drove buck the foe with great slaughter, but the centre resisted every effort made to carry it. 11 appeared almost foolishness and a wautoo waste of life to attempt it. Over an open field for over half a mile the hill sloped gradually from Hill's position to that of the enemy, ft then rose abruptly to a narrow piece of level ground. On this the cannon wore thickly planted. Immediately behind, the hill again ro-;e, over looking the cannon, and on Us sides were three lines of battle, each arranged so the upper oo.ua yhoot over the beads ol the lower, mid all pio tected by strong stone walte. 1 cannot give you an aocouui of the diiiurent attempts made to carry the position. The most desperate, however, and the only one which took the guns, wits made by Gen. Anderson’s division, or rather three brigades of it, Wilcox’s, Ferry's and Wright’s. But very lew of Wilcox’s or Fer ry’s men reached the batteries. All those ia Wrighl’s who survived the fiery ordeal planted their colors there, but had to relinquish the hard earned prize for want of support, after fighting hand to hand with overwhelming numbers. This charge is the theme of praise in ths mouth of every one, and is considered the most recxless and daring of the war. In the advance over the open field Wright had no support on his left. As they pressed forward volley alter volley greeted them, but led by the intrepid Wright, and as sured by the presence of Adjutant General Gi rardey, whom no danger can excite, they moved on, each step leaving the field strewn with dead and wounded. One after another fell, while the slaughter among the officers was terrible. Col. Gibson, Lt. Col. Caswell, and Adi. Cum mings of the .Forty-Eighth Georgia, Col. Wars den, and Adj. Daniels of the TwentySaeond, with many other officers fell while leading on their commands. The Third Georgia also lost heavily m offieers and only three out of the Second Bat talion gained the hill. Undismayed by the heavy lo ses, the men pressed on, drove the enemy from the guns. Capt. Girardy planted the flag over them, and rallied the surviving portion of the brigade around him. Some began bitching up the horses to the eannon to lead them from the fiell. Maj. Ross of the Seoond Battalion was wounded while thus engaged. The enemy see ing their weakness and that they had no support moved down upon them like an avalanche. In vain the little Spartan band looked baok and call ed for aid to help secure the brilliant victory they had ruined their brigade to gain. None was at hand. The enemy swarmed around them and the order was given to fall back Sullenly and dis appointed they fought their way, and back down the hill through the same awfiri fire in which they advanced they Vook their eeurae. No rout or wild fleeing from danger characterized their move, but with blighted hopes they reformed and took their old position. Many shouldered their wounded friends and brongnt them oft the field. The majority of the badly wounded who fell near the guns were left, in the hands ot tue sun”: * Without donbt, if support had been sent General Wright, the battle would have soe- -ded in tha complete rout of the Federal B'my. Yv'right’s Brigade lock in abc- me J lost iu the neigiiborhoou :-i7iw --r . pacy had a umit;: i oli i. t » Second Battal; _ three of -ki vt us eotepas* iss were brought out “rgexnss. ilalo- ' j was seriously vrqnadev x the till,-; ,u:‘ tbs' field Gen, Wi» gu. •_s nu q Adjutant, Capt. Girardt scape i offibors do well to go to-. c. Girurdey is the coolest ; <>i toe t. j ri.dul of the greatest and .t mo- as a • conscious of the balls Ji v -ouud n. As* a gentleman, ha is kind *e. a wnreg and ennle for evory one A sve hW and are nover better . than wl a lead-s t-fi m in battle. Uj the third uay in > J( . • or j, t record took place. On c r ana qr u , , di ed aud fifty guns w , in ac • , u of them: playing on the centre. is ay mast haver U >■ over two hundred, by ti ,r own accounts they used all their resurv, For hours it was almost impossible to si.uvr your head, so thickly and inossifSntly flew %u* uissiles of destruction. In a smai. grove near the position Wright’s brigade eccup.ed, the trees; were iiterally out to pieces. The loti cn our side? during this artillery battle was oomparotivelv* small. Gur men had a slight hoilow to protect* them, aud many dug holes with their bayonets largo enough to bids thsir bodies. The enemy* being massed upon a hillside had no protection*' and from the testimony of prisoners, suffered, greatly. The aoeuraoy of our artillerists gi~ fonc.-d many o i tha enemy’s batteries, and then* guns were frequently knocked out of position. 111, tlin evening General Hiekett’a division made a. charge on the heights, but failed, witbileavjr lo.is. Longstreet and Ewell oentinutd to slaugh ter the enemy, and took many prisoners, masting: itj) Gen. Meade’s army until its lines were not over one-third the length it began tho battle with. G sn. Lee, unwilling to sacrifice more ;n ia trying to carry tbe position, and« not resiSfo tha battle on the 4th, aud the enemy seemed to have no disposition to doit. In fact, during tho entire battle we made all the charges, and nothing couid draw them out of their strongholds. That morning Gen. Meade began to withdraw iiia army. Gen. Lee, for reasons best known to himself, did not follow, but went south to gerstown and Boonsboro’ Gap. It ie ga i fiy thor.e who ought to know that our auunumli; was nearly exhaucted, and that to hive pnrar . would have exposed our trains and. left inaecux.. the rout 6 to oar base of supplies. Os course the enemy immediately claimed a. victory and filled all Yankeedom with boasting.. When the truth is known—and it will leak our before long—it will be found that Meade left the battle field in cur possession, and we voiuaiai iiy gave it up. Our army was not followed or m footed. All tbe advantages are on our side, loss will not amount to 15,000; their.; fi -i-.- owa accounts, to 35,000, They did not r ; single gun. We took several. They ordi 6,000 prisoners. We cortainiy took lxi.Ouu. ar urmy is not seriously injured, aud is to-day able to defeat tbe oomoined forces of the ex- my in' fair fight. Since oar array left Fredericksburg, fi.ken 25,000 prisoner, immense numbers of xxoi mules, and wagons; exchanging everything ol and worthless tor new and stxoag ; drivea many thousands of cattle out of the rica pastures mlfonn sylvunia; been tor over a month ox m, expense i our Government; and given the Commissary D !>•.-! tmeni iu Richmond an opportunity vc collect up stores for the future use ox" the - ol tho Northern papers ato already sea fog at the victory wus not much of which to b C Our troops are in good condition and in spirits. They have heard of the fall of and Fort Hudson ; took one cay to a m-,e ivi” it; aud now look at it as one of the reverse--, io be expected in a great war. They x;: the people of the West, aud ali over tits oo” io rise superior to calamities, and go to v ramody them. Dark and gloomy days mu will come to all nations struggling lor ire* a, against a large and poworfui people, but t.b } or ly test the materials of which the struggn gso or is made. If we deserve to be free, «-«*' gtx nit in spite of difficulties. A thousand Y curgs are not the Southern Confederacy : > not until the last loot of ground is lost a. cease to claim a conn try. separate aud cfo. ocl, Lorn the hated power of the oppressor. Oar wounded are haying everything done It (hem that can be done here. Large numbers are ia the city, and at Jordan Springs. Dr. Gluggett is in ohargs ot the latter place, and manages things well. He is the highest sty : t> of the gentleman, and an excellent surgeon. Ad his patients love him, and Georgia, with tua whole Confederacy, owes him a debt of gratitude*.. Rev. Mr. Crumley, of the Georgia Relief and Hospital Association, was the first beic Guta abroad, and, through Innumerable difficulties, brought up supplies of clothing, mediexaes, hand aged, Ac., for the wounded, ile is in his efforts to relieve suffering, and has ffmx* great good. AU who needed omitting bve ceived it. The army is much in aeeo of a and the Association hopes soon to be able ... supply the Georgians. My lengthy letter has been written while press-. f:d with other engagements, and wants the oare> 1 should have preterred to have given ‘ ll niy interesting items are necessarily c ; ... ‘ it for what ’tis wort!:, <. and with it, t: ,oci ». ah es of You:*, truly, D. SotUlclH Jv-teHrit Frazer, heard an ; ecli ’ riiteV ia r . the tenor of the flog in ('. ere I’rao ' ct'£>m Philadelphia last eek M-Cv, sue pt, . W According to state a, mix published in Northern papers, Confederate guerrilla* am already %r> ning to be very trot.,.: -:o !-tb • >’ed*i era going up end down tne <si aa b . JV people only do tneir duty no no an either attempt to go up or do fie wet -win out. either being sunk or fc-uaiy ■irmapoa. The New York Times has a -espendect who, in its issue of July noth, detat. »» or ; jm . columns, the noirts oi a . 5 . on id with the Yankee Genera) Thou , who uaa bo, • vejv acPve in robbing, plunde i«r a”-) orr viz g:o regiments, but who ii ,ow ia »- w, , orever, with a wound. olio e)ai/ns to ized twenty thousand black > in s mg 1 1 under cultivation, in ootto-, s> iy rt 1 planta tions, from which he ban s, -*«, t .eir lawiul onusrs. One of the Pennsylvania newspapers, in speak ing of the march of Lee’s army through that Utuie says: “ The discipline of the Confederate army was admirable. No private subaltern dar ed to disregard an erder in presence of his sup nor, or where his superior officer was likely t ■ be udviged of it. When the Confederate columns filed through Chambarsburg, they marched with the utmost order and decormn.” The British Consul has notified the New York Folice Commissioners that he has ordered the British ship-of-war Challenger to take position iu the river for the purpose of protecting such color ed seamen as are the subjects of Great Britain. The Federal builders of iron vessels, after the plan of Capt. Ericsson, have had prepared for presentation to him a model of a Monitor made out of pure gold, twenty inches long, five and u half inches wide, and one and three quartern inches deep, and is modeled on a scale of one eighth ot an inch to a foot. In evsry particular the model resembles the Monitor vessel excepting in size. It has a revolving turret With guas in It, a smoko pipes binnacle, steam whistle, Ac. fho machinery which turis the tun-A also cats an or- P-an in motion, which plays four tunes-Yankee U-iodle, Star Spanglid Banner, Lue on .« O.eaa Wave and a national air of Sweden, the country of Capt. Ericsson. The cost of the model Mot tor was 000. It is to tie exh.b.ted in sever: of the principal Yankee cities before it .s pre sented. A paper published in Franklin, Fa.,in speaking of the discipline of our troops while marching through that State, says : The discipline of the. Confederate army was admiraola. No subaltern dared to disregard aa order la nreser.ie of Jo superior, or where his sup nor officer n a like.- to be advised of it. When the Conednrs-e column* filed through Cbambersfcurg, tt- : v marched with the utmost order and he. " and laughing, talking loudly, or ringing w indulged in. A general oamp of instruction for nr site will be started at Washington immediately. Those from Massachusetts are about being forwarded there. Leavenworth papei s say the steam iooomo! for navigating plains is propelled by four eng. • of ten horB& power each, tad guided by a steer ing wheel six feet m diameter. It will draw °ight tons offreight up a grads of six hundred fern, to the mile.
