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Open Treason.
We have read tae published resolutions passed
,Bt meetings held in various countien of North
Carolina, complaining of the course of the On
federate Government and its treatment of North
Carolinians, instructing their Representatives to
use all honorable efiorts to procure an armistice
for the purpose of trying to settle onr difficulties
by negotiation or otherwise, declaring against the
surrender of State sovereignty, protesting against
furnishing more troops until the crops are gath
ered, opposing the election of any man to Con
grosH who is opposed to negotiation and a gene
ral peace convention, and suggesting the assem
bling of the people of North Carolina to mature a
plan for a general concert of action of all the
States of the Confederacy, with a view to end the
war.
The above is the spirit of the resolii'ions taken
collectively, and whioli prevailed generally,
through all tho meetings. The spirit evinced at
vho meetings ia North Carolina is open ireaaou.
It iR an indisposition to continue the struggle,
and a desire to make terms with a government
and people which have repeatedly declared that
they would listen to no overtures .that did not
involvo u complete submission to Federal rule
and the measures and enactments of the Federal
Government and Congress. It is unnecessary to
specify the character and 'purpose of these mea
sures and enactments. They are a part of history
and we trust onr people have not already forgot
ten them. They involve the surrender of all
those rights and privileges which tho people of
the Month have contended for since the estab
lishmentof the Federal Union, and which they
have deemed so precious that they havo made
every sacrifice to proserve.
The subject of reconstruction has been thon ugli
ly vent dated by the Confederate press, ft h»3
been ably demonstrated that by incongruity of
elements, the deep-rooted hostility of sections, and
the alienation of past friendships, reconstruction
is impossible; that the Interests of tho Mouth for
bid it; that pride, manhood, every principle of'
he nor and an outraged humanity revolt at such a
> consummation ; that the hallowed blood which
has been poured out for independence cries out
against it; and that the Mouthoru mind, taught
by the bitter experiences of tho past, shrinks with
terror from a future whose reflex is filled with
ghustly spectres aud gory phantoms. And yet
we hear of oringtng feubmissionists, and some
Bhamefaoed and open m their unpntriotism, who
have hinted at re-union us an escape from pres
ent ilia, and a safe retreat from the outrageous
Binge of fortune. They are tired of war, and pray
x for peace. This precious boon they imagine is
utta ii.'hje through areatored Union. Now, there
is one point we wieh could bo distinctly und in -
dollibly impreaeed upon the minds of those wor
thies and all others, whether North or South, who
fondly dreem of ultimate re union or re oonstruc
tion—and this was distinctly stated by Vice Pre
sident Stephens in a recent spoech (at Columbia,
we believe.) It ie too late ! Not if every person
in either seotion were willing and earnestly de
sired it, not|if the heads of the two Governmenis
were to-day prepared to arrange the terms of ad
justment,—not by any conceivable meauß is
“re-union and peace” now possible. We would
Gy to a union for the sake of peace, forsooth ; but
the inevitable result of re-union is not peace, but
war—war no longer between eurselvcs, it is true,
but a long-protracted end wasting struggle with
the combined Powers of England and France.
We have read the programme of the Northern
recouetruotionists. “After the rebellion is crush
ed, they have old scores to settle with foreign na
tion*,” and the aid of the South is essential to
Infiiot the desired punishment. This is their open
and avowed policy. The Monroe doctrine must
be re-asserted, and “manifest destiny” bo proved.
Theae are the inevitable terms of re union. Isany
citizen of the Confederacy willing to accept them ?
Are they anxious to escape from present ills, ia
order that they may fly to others, perhaps
greater, than they know not ot f Wo trow not.
No; submission is horrid war. Peace and inds
pendenoe go hand in band. Toward this beacon
blase we must row direct onr eyes, and push on
undaunted i ntil tbe goal ie reached. Let us gir
up our loins for another struggle.
Stragglers. —The Richmond Whig makes
■ome astounding developments, yrhich we teel
confident will astonish the country, and should
cause every skulker and straggler to at once seek
his command. It is asseried that at the battles
around Richmond, last June twelve months, the
number of soldiers on General Lee's roll was one
hundred and twenty thousand. The largest
number present at these battleß was forty-eight
thousand 1 At the battle of Sharpsbnrg, the
number on the General’s roll was one hundred
and forty thousand. The number actually pre
sent and in the engagement, was only thirty tire
thousand II We have no estimate of the number
•ugaged on our side at Gettysbuig, nor what the
absenteeism amounted to. But we take it that
the ratio (topped not very far short of that ex
hibted at the battlee of Richmond and Sharps
barg. Can any one oontemplato this state of
things without feelings of horror, not unmixed
with thankfulness that Providence is his mercy
saved our little army from utter annihilation ?
The opinion of one of the most distinguished
men in this Confederacy, both as a military man
aud a statesman, is, that we would hare conquer
ed a peace twelve months ago if our army could
have been maintained at anything like the
strength which its roll exhibited.
FasiaAL Rsli is Tsumkssie. —The Nashville
papers represent that the state of things in that
city and vicinity is but little better than anarchy.
of law or order can be enforced, and
the country is full of vagabond negroes, and
’’white men who are living by stealing and com
mitting every species of petty depredation. The
oonntry is completely demoralised. All pros
perity is St an end. Thus is but a faint picture of
the condition of things that will exist wherever
Lincoln’s troops are victorious. It is but the
beginning of the evils that will have to be borne.
Federal rule and crime, oppression, and tyranny,
go hand in hand. Devoid of all humanity, our
foes will give fall sway to their brutish passions
upon those of oar people over whom they have
control.
lx ooi Midst.—We learn that an at
tempt was made a few night i since to set some of
the bnildings connected with the powder works
in this city on fir*. Our authorities should use
VTW7 exertion tTferel ont the raeoal or rascals.
Going o Europe,
Sires our reverses at Vicksburg and the
promising aspect rs affairs at other points, we
have heard of sundry persons who have convert
ed aii their property into specie funds and left .be
Confederacy with all their household for parts
unknown. One gentleman of our acquaintance
who v.as a cockade secessionist in November,
1860, has recently left a Southern port with his
wife and children, carrying with him, if we are
correctly informed, the proceeds of his entire
estate, amounting to one hundred thousand dol
lars in gold and exchang.-. Iu other cases, par
ties who at the beginning of this war were com
paratively poor, but who having bought substi
tutes—when they were cheap—and then turd
uing their attention to mnking money by spec
ulations in the necessaries of life on borrowed
capital, finding tbemre ves in tho possession of
large fortunes have gone elsejybere for the enjoy
ment or their gaiuß. Moms of the persons who
disappear “ between two days” are said to be
Jews. But we know of some Gentiles who have
done the same thing. ■?
Now we are not of those who believe that a man
should be compelled to rema’n in n country invol
untarily—unless he owes the Mtate some service
in the penitentiary or in the army. If i e is not
subject to conscription, and is anxious to change
Ins putriotic relations let him go. To detain such
men by or.mpnision adds nothing to the strength
Os the Mtate. Bit if there are any others among
us woo ere contemplating a change of base we
would submit two orthree ideas for their consid
eration.
is it patriotic when a country is struggling for
list xisttnce,to gather up all your subsistence and
depart—leaving to the can T-get-away, or the
won’t-get-away, the business of defending the
soil? But for this wsr, yon could not have
amassed the property which you now hold, and
having now grown rich, would it not be mare
lonoraiile to remain and disburse yonr wealth
where its diffusion might strengthen tho cause>
than to contiihuto to the depreciation of the cur
rency and the impoverishment ol the country by
tho abstraction of its solid capital ? If it is right
for you to leave, in this juncture, it is right for
others also, and what eflect would it havo on the
Southern cause should every man in the Confed
eracy, wlio is abie, act just as you are proposing
to do? Do yon think of returning to the land of
your nativity, or of your adoption, when the war
is over ? How can yon look into tho laces of those
whom you descried, wheu the ship cf State was
almost foundering among tho billows, when the
cry was heard, on every r.‘#,‘“to the pumps!” “te
the pumps!”—and when the services of every man
were most urgently demanded ? If we are success
ful in this struggle—of which many of onr wisost
men entertain no doubt—will you be prepared to
enjoy this success with as keen a relish, if yon re
tire whilst the battle rages, as if you had reracin
ed ami done your part to win tte victory ? If we
are subjugated—ol wliic h yon appear to enter ot
very serious apprelielisions—can yon with a
Southern heart throbbing under yonr ribs, expe
rience no compunction when you reflect tliut you
did not raise your hand to avert a catastrophe so
dire ? flow would you fed, did yen see an enemy
aiming a knife nt your brother’s throat, to hear
afterwards that bis murder was accomplished
whilst you ran home to secure your gold ? Hhould
that brother escape the assassin, how much
would he fee! himself indebted to you for his
deliverance ?
cut out this short catechism, and when
ever you fee! yourself taken with a desire to leave,
rend it over, ami supply your own answers to the
questions. We do uot wish to be censorious. We
do not say that every man who leaves the Confed
eracy during the war, is of questionable pat-iot
ibin. Inexorable necessity, business, health, may
make it imperative. But the requisition ought
to be so strong as to make the duty unquestionn
bh\ - ' _
. A Paragraph for Grumbling Tax Payers
Some narrow-minded, shoit-sighted men are
complaining because they are required to pay the
Government one tenth of certain farm products.
We beg such to remember, that if the Yankees
overrun our country they will allow the producer
only one-tentb, as they are doing in the soctionu
in their possession. Wo reckon the lartnera in
Mississippi and Tunncsseo who are living under
u Yankee yoke would gladly give one-tfnth of
their corn, wheat, and meat 10 the Confederate
Government to bq permitted to enjoy the remain
ing nine tenths. Put the Yankees take the nine
tem.hu and al ow the producer one tenth. Away
with all grumbling and growling among those
who have enough to supply their own wants and
the wants of their Government.
A man who embarrasses the Government by
refusing te give it a cheerful and liberal support,
does Ant deserve to be free. He ought to be
forced to live under the Yankees awhile. After
he ha* tried that experiment, we arc of the opin
ion ho would not only pay u one tenth Confede
rate tax cheerfully, but a five tenth one if neces
sary. The only way to prevent getting under
Yankee rule again is to do what the Confederate
Government demands promptly and wibingly. It
would be far better to give one-half of all our
properly to sustain the Government, than be
overrun by blood-thiiaiy and brutal enemies and
1039 f.ll.
Opr Seacoast Cities. — Dur ing the revolutiona
ry war there was not a single seaboard city which
was not in possession of the enemy. Some of
them, New York for example, they took and held
during tbe whole seven years. And they might
hare held them for eevoaty without affecting the
vitality of the causo of independence. The Brit
ish tbemsclTes were awaro of this, and, when the
war of ISI2 began, the Duke of Wellington ad
vised the British Cabinet that it was useless to
attempt the conquest of America, that nothing
could be done except capturing a few seaboard or
river cities, and that beyond the immediate neigh
borhood of the grent livers no permanent faot
hold could be gained in the extensive and sparse
ly settled territory of the interior. The progress
of the war' proved the'accuracy of the Duke’s
counsel.
The- same is true now of the Bouth. If the
l/ncolniles succeed in taking all of our large sea
coast cities, and even our large interior towns,
yet they have not advanced the lirst step towards
conquering the South; towards bringing her once
more to consent to pour into the lap of Northern
speculators the wealth she has in times past;
towards making her cringe and bow submissively
to the tyrannical dictate* of Northern rulers. No
one should feel despondent In the least if even
Charleston, Savannah and Mobile fall. They have
no good grounds for so doing. With the estab
lishment of our independence, all of them will be
regained again.
A Htfocritical Appeal.— Gen. Rosecraa* has
issued an order to his army in Tennessee, which
reads very strangely, coming as it does from one
who has been guilty of even greater enormities
than those which he hypocritically protests
against. It is a desperate attempt to honey
fugle the people of East Tennessee, but he wil
find old birds cannot be caught with chad. We
hope no Tenncsveean will be deceived by Rose
crans's “will you walk into my parlor said the
spider to the tiy” policy. If they are canght by
such a bait, they are themselves alone to blame.
The Genuine Patriot.— We heartily agree
with the Chattanooga Rebel, that if there “is in
all the land of the Confederacy a genuine patriot
of true Southern blood, it is that man who,
throughout the daikest us well .as the brightest
hours of our cause, has never lost heart, has
never speculated upon the result, norlupon the
purse of his neighbor, sublimely indifferent to
gold, to foreign recognition, and to promotion,
civil or military, and whose defiant heart throbs
in unison with the bugle that gammons to the van
lof battle, and wltp never doubted the mettle and
spirit of his own people, nor the meanness and
cowardice of their foes.’'
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1863.
I Oar Prisoner* at Porte Lafayette and
Delaware,
| THE HORRORS OF THE “BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA”
OUTDONE —SCENES FROM PRISON LIFE BY ONE WHO
WAS THIRE.
We have had an interview, says the Richmond
Examiner, with a very intelligent young mail,
whose name we withhold from reasons of pru
dence, who succeed :d in making his escape sema
weeks ago from Fort Delaware. He was held a
piisoner for along time, and was confined, daring
that period, in both Forts Lafayette and Dela
ware. He has given us his experience and
some observations iu both these notable
baaliles, and t 1 e summary we make below
of them will be found unusually interest
ing, possessing, as they do, the authenticity cf
one who has shared their trials and sufferings
His object in making the statements he doer, is
merely through sympathy end frierdship for those
he has left behind him languishing within their
walls, and the hope that n publioation may arrest
attention in the cause of thousands of our brave
men, who lay suffering and dying from the most
cruel atrocities of the enemy. Mhut up in the
walls of Fort Lafayette, with no communication
with the Mouth, they have no way of reaching the
ear of their Government and friends but through
the press. From what we have had told us, we
believe there are this day men confined in tbe
Northern dungeons whose lips are sealed, and
whose existence, much less their condition, is un
known, even to their friends. We would here
express the hope, that something will be dono at
once for these poor men :
’* OMR PRISONEES AT FORT LAFATFTTE.
Our prisoners confined at Fort Lafayette,
July 1, Lumaered about eighty. The period of
their imprisonment varied, the confinement of
soma reaching back almost to the beginning cf
the war. Moat of them tre held as politiealor
Mtate piisoners, no offense being charged against
them, in some instances, but cf
sympathy with the South.
THE TREATMENT OF OUR PRISONERS AT FORT PA
LATETTS.
The treatment of our prisoners at Fort Lafay
ette is represented as very severe. They are con
fined in the batteries of the fort, some thirty or
forty in a battery. In a battery which measured
about 2-5 by 14 feat, there were confined forty
prisoners. No provision whateve.' is made for
sleeping by the prison authorities, and those of
our prisoners who are not fortunate enough to
have money to supply themselves with a rug or'
two have to take the bare floor. The fare is very
coarse, and what is seiycd out to Item ot the
most miserable quality. Tbe State prisoners are
allowed the privilege of messing together, and
providing their laruer from the markets of New
Yoik, but this is denied the prisoners of war, who
have to take the fare of the common soldier,
which, as dealt out to them, is nothing like the
rations one under this rule. The on y diversion
our prisoners havo from the monotony of this
wretched and half starved He is t ie freßh ar they
are allowed to breathe for an hour every evening,
when they are permitted the privilege of the yard.
This brief little respite, and a glance now und
then at tae papers, are the only indulgences which
keep afire tae spirit of our ineE.
HOW OUR MEN BEAU THEIR IMPRISONMENT.
Despite Ibe harshness and severity of the treat
ment of our prisoners at Fort Lafayette, their dev*
votiou to our cause holds out to the bitter end.
Many overtures have been made to them bf the
Yankees, and in some insianaos open promises of
their release have been held out t,o them “if they
would take the oath of allegiance” to the North
ern Government, but like true men they hove
indignantly repelled the insult, and have met it
with the noble declaration that they had rather
rot in prison taan renounce their country’s cause !
There has been but one single solitary exception
to this noble conduct of onr men, and this “black
sheep” was a Northern born man, the pilot ..' the
schooner Clyde, captured last February in Ossa
baw Sound, on the Georgia coast. This fellow,
like others of his class, turned traitor,-.took the
oath of allegiance, and went to Massachusetts,
his native State, to leclnre upon his “experience
in rebeldom,” and revito ‘he people among whom
he had lived and enriched himself —taking with
him maps and drawiuß of the fortifications uround
Savannah. Hie lectures, which appenred in the
Northern papers, are said to have abounded in
the grossest slander and abuse of the Southern
people, and particularly of Savannah, where he
had lived, which place he dc;cnhed as worßO than
Sodom and Gomorrah. Here we have another
insianee of the folly of the Mouth in receiving and
awarding with offices and emoluments those
Northern .adventurers, who will turn about und
betray her at the very Amt moment that it ia
their interest to do so.
OUR FBISONERS at FORT DELAWARB—HOW THEY ABE
TREATED —FEARFUL MORTALITY AMONGST THEM,
As we mentioned before, our informant was
transferred from Fcrt Lafayette to Fort Delaware,
fiom which place he succeeded in making his es
cape. His account, of the treatment of our pris
oners there, possesses evon more interest than
what he has already narrated. At the time of his
leaving Fort Delaware, some two weeks ago, it
was estimated that there were confined there about
3000 prisoner*. This large number, with the ex
emption of about 1000 taken in the battle of Uham
pinn Hill, are alt prisoners taken from General
Lee’s army, principally at the battles of Gettys
burg and in bis campaign ia Maryland and Penn
sylvania.
The treatment of our prisoners beggars all de
scription. Fort Delaware ia said to present within
its walis ail the horrors of the Hole of Calouttn.
The suffering of our men was so great, and the
treatment an excessively cruel, that disease had
broken out among them, sad was sweeping them
est by hundreds. The hospitals were crowded,and
tha mortality, cur informant thinks, could not be
less than twenty-five a day. Yet this did not
seem enough to assuage the malignity and vindic
tiveness ot the V ankees, aud so far from exciting
their pity, it seemed but io incite them to fresh
deeds of inhumanity. The wav our dead are
buried at Fort Delaware, tells of itself of the
devilish spirit that reigns there. They are taken
out to the government farm on the Jersey coast,
near by the fort, and shoved, not buried, under
the ground, ia a hole dug six feet by six !
The disease that is committing such fearful I
ravages among our prisoneis at Fort Delawar •, is
a dysentery, ol a malignant type, superinduced
by the dirty, miserable water and the half putre
fied meat that is dealt out to our men. It is no
exaggeration to say that the accounts wo get of
the lure oi our men fii Fo:t Delawate exesod
anything wo havatieard ot during the war. Tho
quantity of bread allowed to each mao is but six
crackers a day I The meat is the toughest, poor
est kind of beef, and is ol.en so offensive, from
the warm weather, that it cannot be brought
with-a six inches of the mouth. Worse than all,
the water used is notbiDg but the pumpiugs from
the bay, and when the wind blows from the sea,
it is made so bad that it is but little better than
the runnings of a sewer.
The fare of our men is so bad that it is a prac
tice of the prison to offer, as an inducement,
three meats of soft broad and a bit of tobacco, to
any ot our meu who will assist in the work and
drudgery ot the prison and yard. So great had j
become the torture oi the life in Fort Delawsie j
that some of our men, rather than endure it
longer, had taken the oa'-b. of allegiance, and been
r set at liberty, though without a friend or dollar i Q
the world. Our informant, who is a South l arp-
Imian himself, tells us than he siw a man front
his own State, who owned slave*, and of whose
fealty and devotion to our cause there could be
no doubt, take ihe oath of allegiance rather ihan
“die by inches,” as he expressed it, “>n Fort
Delaware.”
THE rlt TIT meannesses practised upon orta prison
ers AT PORT DKLAWARK.
We have told ns a number of petit meannesses
practised upon our prispners at Fort Delaware.
The principle one is the system the officers have
of overhauling the effects of each prisoner, and
helping themselves to such of their things as they
like. The cake of our informant will better serve
as an illustration. On passing through Philadel-
Shia, on hia way from Fort Lafayette to Fort
lelaware, onr inform-nt took advantage of the
opportunity to supply himself with a number of
little things, and in anticipation of the horrors of
Fort Delaware, provided hicMelf with a change of
linen, socks find the like. On arriving at Fort
Delaware,he soon found-a Yankee diving his hand
into his haversack, and helping himself,, very
coolly and complacently to his effects, even to a
little hit of cake, which he had purchased on the
way-side I When detected in his roguery, the
fellow iaughed, and rwry qnietly laid —“Ah, you
confounded rebel I” Shame as well as humaaity
seems to have been buried at Fort Delaware.
ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE BT SOME OP OUR PRISONERS —
THE TREACHERY OF ONE OF OUR OWN MIN.
The treatment at Fort Delaware had set the
heads of many of our prisoners to work in invent
ing means of escape lrom its torture and cruelty.
The officers had so increased their vigilance,
however, that the attempt, in most instances,
wfcfrustrated. Before our informant succeeded
in getting out from its walls an avempt at escape
was made by a party of our prisoners, which
came near resulting in the most serious conse
quences. About three weeks ago, about night
fall, while a number of our prisoners were in an
outbuilding, which is constructed just on the edge
of the bay, some of them, while the gnard was
watching outside, succeeded in letting themselves
over the railing into the water, a distance of some
ten feet. The water here it shoal, and can be
waded at low tide, but no seoner wer* they down
J io the water th*B one of our own prisoner* run
; out and treacherously gave word to the guard
teas“some of the prisoners were making their
escape.” The guard immediately gave the alarm,
and rushed to ihs water’s edge, the whole thing
being done so quickly that the men had not time
to get but a few paces from the shore. They
were tired upon by the sentry, and the cry soon
rang out “don’t Bhoot—you have killed me 1”
Notwithstanding, the guard continued te fire,
until one poor fellow named Wilson—belonging,
our informant thinks, to a Georgia regiment—
fell dead, haying been pierced by a ball. The
others made to the suore, Gudin- the vigilance
and arrest by the guaid by running, undercover
o ! the night, into the crowd, where they were
lost In tho pursuit—but two or three succeeded
in making their escape. As soon as tho trea na
ry of this man, who so batieiy L-eirayed our men,
became known, the vengefince of bur prisoners
w. e so aro u sed th at tb ey th re aten ed te h ang hin i,
and trom fear ot some personal violence being vis
ited upon him, Gen. Mcholl, who is in cotnnmn <
was compelled to secrete him, and solid him be
yoad the reach of onr men. The great*si feeling
wa: exoited, and when theooipse of poor Wilson
was brought in, the fury of ou meu was so fired
that they had to place it out o! sight, lest it would
lead to a general revo if of the prisoners.
HOW THE CONFKHEATHS ARE CLASSED AT FORT DELA
WARE.
There is a little sheet published at Delaware
City called ihe Delaware Inquirer, edited by one
Captain Montgomery, on duly at Fort Delaware.
The chief delight of this fellow is to abuse and
viilify the prisoners at Fort Delaware in his dirty
sheet. He distmgn shea tiio prisoners iu Fort
Delaware by thtee distinct classes. The first
class be designates < s the real, genuine rebel,
who ii- described as “a nasty, dirty beast, whose
shirt can only be (Rm: oared to that of a hod earn
pier with a good lay -.r of brick dust on it, an
who lies about al day g-’.mbling for ' onfoderat
money Th ■ picture pVsents the real, uuadud
terat-d. genu ne r‘ •> second class ol rebels
are “the Butt-run s, who ore too proud and con
aider themseivts above drudgery.” The third
class of rebels are a -different Dree* altogether,
and are made up o' lit- Yankees confined in Fort
Delaware for mSU-ary offence*. Th s class are
regarded as even ivorsS ttian the “Southern
rehei,” and pass everywhere abcut the fo:t us
“'Company Q.” They are made up principally of
Northern garrotera rad pickpockets, and are
men who cannot ba brought under subordination.
This completes tho “picture gallery” of Fort Del
aware, as’classilied and reflected through Yankee
cameras.
Northern Speculations in Regard to the
Result at Charleston. —The Federal papers at
the present time are (died with rumors and spec
ulations iu regard to the result of the attack now
being made on Charleston. In the course of a
long article on the situation of affairs, tho Balti
more Gazette cays :
The war on the lower Mississippi is evidently
over for the present, and if Meade does not ad
vun ssaind is not attacked, popular interest will
centre on Charleston, where Gilmore is struggling
to overcome the manifold difficulties that beset
him on every side, and which .-re even now tax
ing hia engineering skill to the utmost. Will he
succeed eventually ? There are those who ar.?
sanguine enough to predict that ho will. !>■
Battery Wagner still hclds out, shot and sb ,|
making do serious impression upon the sail of
which the works aro corapossa. The cison
and its supporting force can be relied on, or
strengthened li om Charleston at will, nr it can
not be flunked from ,he adjoining islar S, as fer -
tifiiationg equally formidable nave oeen con
structed theie, or are in progress o' construction
—three thousand negroes haviup een called for
by Gov. Bonham lor that purpo ,in addition to
those already actively at work
More than thirty days hav elapsed since the
Federal troops landed on M . rris Island; two as
saults upon Battery Wage or have been made, aud
both were repulsed wtt such severe loss that
correspondents inform js there will be no further
attempt to carry tbo work by storm. To take it
by siejsie is a slow a exhausting process at best.
It is beueyoil, (sever, that although Battery
Wagner may to ii out lor a long time to ct me and
perhaps indef . tely, that tho heavy guns nowjbe
ing plated iu position will be near enough
halier daw Fort Mumtor, and that Mumter once
abandon- , (Jhnvl nton must fail. We doubt; if
tfiis res A follows necessarily. * * *
Th omplsini now is, that the monitors have
been at ot little service, and that tha capture of
(J i. ,es‘on is necessarily dependent upon tha
si* cess of operations oa land. If this bo true,
.and if it it be also true that Gen. Gillmore has
suffered a loss of one-third of his force, it is at
least a matter of doubt whether Charleston can
bo taken at all. Certain it is, this result can only
be attained by a much larger army thesis now
under the command ol General Gillmore.
Tbe Gazette, it must be remembered, is a paper
with Southern proclivities. Os course tbe editor
of it writes as he feels. It is evident that he
wishes the Federals whippad at Charleston es
badly aa the loyal residents of Dixie do.
Sound Doctrine. —Hon. Joe Taylor, of Ala
bama, was a Bell elector in 1360, and an extrome
Unionist. Mince that time, up to the present,
notliirg has been hoard front him. At a public
meeting in Greene county, Ala., a few days since,
he took occasion to express his views plainly.
Annexed is a sketch of them. He stated that—
He had opposed the war at tho ccmnionccment
and voted the eo operation ticket; but than no
sooner had the North displayed its poltcy, that ho
became immediately satisfied that the Mouth had
stiuck her blow not an hour too eoon, and that,
fro u that tiaie to this, and henceforward, bo fa
vored an earne-jt prooecutiou of the war uutil our
independence was achieved. He urged upon
the people the necessity, of clothing and feeding
ihe army, at every Maori (ice, and denounced
speculators, who were bartering in their fiovntry’s
blood ; croakers had been from the commence -
meat, and would continue to the end ; that anui
hilation was far preferable to subjugation ; that
there were no possible means ol reconstruction,
and he who advocated it vvas a traitor-—he who
aa epted it, lower than the slave. He forcibly
asked the people what epitaph would they write
ovtr the graves of their sons, brothers and
fathers—that of rebel, or traitor, or patriot?
Were the people prepared to dishonor the graves
of their hallowed doad ?
Would that all who occupied the Union posi
tion Mr. Taylor did befure ti e war commenced,
occupied the patriotic position he does now.
Would that many a sound, ambitious, office-seek
ing secessionist also entertained his sentiments.
% Hew Yallandigham is to be Brought Hack, if
Elect re —The friends of Vallandigham are lay ■
iug down'the programme for his return, in case
his election. In a speech at Toledo, last
week, Mr. Cox said ;
In case their State ticket was successful, Pugh
weald appear at the proper time, and be installed
as Lieutenant Governor, when, from the Slate
Houbb steps, he would Oall three times for Val
landigham, the Governor elect, and if he did not
come, he (Pugh) as Act.ug Gov.-rnor, would call
out the State militia, and, at the head of two hun
dred thousand men, march to tic Canada lino and
1 escort Valf to -fie capital
j In the first piece, w- do not believe Mr. Vallan
digbam w U be eV ted. In tbe second place, i f
elected, we do' ifhi bal ev3 Mr. Pugh would
■dare to carry out bis programme. It is very
easy for him t? tell •’ bat he is going io do. The
Northern Democrats csfore the war commenced,
told as v l st taev would do in case the South
seceded The North ever since rur troubles have
commenced have been going to do something,
and as yet have done trothing. Mr. Pugh’s loud
talk will amount io about ns much as Lincoln’s
threats and bombastic pronunelamentos have.
Another Specimen or the Yankees’ Great
Love for the Negro.— The annexed extract fi cm
a Federal account of their late raid on Tarboro’,
N.0., is another illnsi-ition of the great love
they have for what they term the poor negro :
The order to apply the torch to the Tarboro’
raidae so as to prevent the advance of the enemy
lrom the opposite side upon our rear was exe
cuted a little too soon. A large number of con
trabands had just got over; many were still on
the bridge, and many were on the other side, all
eager to join our coiuma and flee .rom their mas
ters in Dixie to their worshipers among the X an
kees. Some of our own men were also on the
other side, but, with a few exceptions, they con
trived io make their escap e. When the burning
bridge fell, it is feared it earned into the stream
below, or consumed in the vam effort to extricate
themselves, between five and six hundred poor
anatic negroes.
Everything thus far proves that the Southern
slave does not get many favors from his professed
friends, and fares poorly when he gets into their
hands. The great love the Federal has for him
appears to be death by starvation or cruel treat
ment. All negroes carried off by tbe Yankees,
and who have managed to get back to Dixie,
complain of the way in which they were abused
when North.
The Lynchburg Republican says that since the
call for conscripts between eighteen and forty
five, a great demand has sprung up in that city
for cork soled shoes. A great many cases of
“on* leg shorter than the other” have appeared.
Position and Prospects of Cotton is England,
—The London Economist talks thus about the
position of the cotton trade in England at the pre
sent time, and the prospects of procuring a future
supply. It will be scan that the Economist is not
very hopeful about getting a sufficient supply in
tiins to come:
The uncertainty which has so Io: g hue ever
the probabilities of our supply of cotton, and which
ho3 rendsred that article one of the most unsafe to
speculate in or to prophesy about, still continues
w.th If tie diminution. Nevertheless, oar readers
may be glad to learn a few facts connected with
Re present position and prospect* as compared
m ith those of last year.
La the first place tae stcck is slightly reduced.
The entire quantity in the kingdom ia about 385,-
000 bales, against 420,00 >'n . the Ist of June, 1862.
T diminution in American kinus alone is 60,000
h ->- Tv ’ entire-stock o> this cotton ha:< sunk
, * ,0 :i 0 hales.
os '■ t’>e aggregate supply is concerned, we
sou little vaas-’D to alter the esumnte wo publish
od on the 15lh of last November. Small quanti
fies continue to arrive from the United States ia
spite of ihe strict blockade. We have in the
course of the last five months received 25,000
baga«gainst 21,000 last year. The receipts from
other quarters hare, as we anticipated, consid
eni Ij increased. Fern and China, Africa and the
West Indies, whoso contributions used to be
immaterial, are now beginning to make f. sub
Btuntial figure iuthe returns, and ihe supply from
Egypt continues to be unusually liberal The
high prices which have so long prevailed have
begun to tell upon the Indian supply : but, un
fortunately, a failure of tho crop in several por
tions of our Eastern Empire has had r, strons
counteracting influence; and the quantity of
Surat now at -ea, on its way hither, is somewhat
smaller than in 1862.
IMPORTS OF COTTON.
1862. 1363.
America 21,500 27,000
East Indies 262,50 ) 400,000
Egypt 100,000 m.ooo
Brazil 63,000 77,000
New and miscellaneftus quarters. .0,000 24,000
456,000 645,000
The consumption of cotton, no tor ar. can be
ascertained from the weekly deliveries of the
trade, hau fallen short of that of the early part of
last year, while the export has been rather larger.
1862. 1863.
Dobveiirs for consumption.... .616,000 484 000
Deliveries for Export ~..187,000 186,000
753,000 670,000
The weekly consumption has of late been rather
on the increase, but it is impossible to say how
long this may continue, the price remaining so
high that no manufacturer will venture to make
large purchases in advance. *
Our Currency. —A letter from Robert Tyler,
Esq., Register ol the Treasury, on the resources
ol the Currency, is published in the Richmond
Mentinel. A'e make the following extracts :
We have already been engaged in war for two
years and a half, and no one pretends to question
the ability and willingness of the Government
fully io meet its obligation of debt in tiro very
terms of its contracts, could vs speedily have
peace. J’eace may be near, or it may be far off'.
But if the struggle were to last ns long again as
it has lasted, (an impossibility) and the present
debt were more than doubled, there is no possi -
ble disposition of it, considering the extent, pro
ductions, and iu some respects, wonderful re
sources of the country which would reduce Con
federate securities and Treasury notes to only
one tenth of their value in gold. The idea is
dimply preposterous. »
The whole amount of Treasury notes issued
since the Government went into operation, is ex
actly $024,000,000. Os these, there have been
landed u bonds and stock*, $126,000,000, aud
about a million of notes huve been cancelled iu
connection with the postoffice and office ot the
war tax. If we subtract tho amount thus funded
and canceled lrom the amount issued, the e will
remain outstanding $407,000,000 for purposes of
circulation and domest.c exchange; $200,000,000
have been invested in bonds and stocks, and io
this sum must be added $125,000,000 in interest
bearing Treasury notes, making a sum of
$325,000,000 oi funded debt.
Tne whole public debt, therefore, including the
European loan, does not quite reach the sum of
$840,000,000, and against this amount must bo
charged all tlie cotton and other assets of what
eyer description, now held by the Government.
The entire interest of the public debt does not
exceed s23,ooo,ooo—paid at the high rate of 8,
7 30, and 7 per cent. Does anyth ng in this state
ment present tho Government in,fuels a condition
of financial weakness that gold'shonld command
a premium of one thousand per cent., or more,
over its obligations ?'
Mr. Tyler proposes the following remedy for
the evils resulting from a redundant circulation :
First—Congress should prccied to fund, in the
terms of a law drafted for that object, all the
twenty, fifty, and hundred dollar notes of tbe is
sues up to the first old illy, at eight, seven and six'
per cent, interest respectively as interest bearing
Treasury notes, or bonds; thus at once, without
injury to any on«, relieving tbe plethora now ex
isting in the currency.
Second -Any dealing iu Yankee currency with
in the Confederate Slates should be prohibited
and punished by the severest penalties-
Third—Any exportatiou of cotton, except on
Government account, should be strictly prohibi
ted, and no importations on private account
should be allowed, except by special license under
the hand of the .President of the Confederate
States, countersigned by Ihe Secretary of the
Treasury.
Fourth—AU dealings in State bank notes, gold,
or Slate bon Is, with ihe intent of establishing
any exchange at any point within the United
Stales, should be prohibited, and the prohibition
should be enfoiced by the severest penalties.
Federal Rule in North Mississippi, —Two
Presbyterian Ministers, who formerly lived in
North Mississippi, have lately made their way
into our lines'. The description which they give
of the outrages inflicted on a helpless people, are
all of a piece with what we have so often hinrd
and read from others. No atrocity is too vile and
savage fora Yankee to perpetrate. Those gen
tlemen state the subjoined facts :
Tho slaves carried off by the enemy are con
atautly escaping and returning to their old mas
ters. A littla experience satisfies them that these
masters ere far better friend* to them than the
Yankees, and that their condition at home is lar
move comfortable than to be under toe tender
mercies of their new triends. The outrages and
crneltiesinflicted on them, especially on the wo
men, are beyond belief.
Poor white people fare no better in tbe hands
of the Yankees than the rich. They plunder and
outrage all alike. Even the oath of allegiance
and protestation of union sentiments avail noth -
ing. Any man, no matter who or what he is, who
has anything a Yankee can carry away oi de
stroy, is sure to lose it. Express agents accom
pany the Yankee armies, to receive and convey
to his Northern home the plunder of the Yankee
soldier, and this business is carried on to a great
extent.
The people of the territory which has been
cursed by these outrages, are more resolute and
determined secessiMi Having had
experience of Yankee 8 * 8 ‘ nan ever, are fired with
a heroic purpose to r power, they last—and the
cry which they send eßlß ‘ to the ths of their
sorrows to their m ou ‘ 01 the depethren is, to
fight it to the end. ore i° r tunate hr. Anything
is better than to ha Never surrender Yanke-J up
on our neo ks. va the heel of the
Anothbe Fight at Sparta, Tenn.— A corres
pondent of the Atlanta Confederacy gives the
subjoined account of another fight at Sparta,
Tenn.:
In my last I bad the pleasure of announcing the
defeat at Sparta, of three regiments of Federal
Cavalry, under Col. Minty, by the Sth Tennesseee
Cavalry, Col. G. G. Dibrell, commanding. After
the defeat and return to McMinnville, Colonel
Minty sent word to Col. Dibrell, by a lady that he
must leave that county or be demolished. The
gallant Col. disregarded the threat, and the Fed
erals moved on him with seven regiments of
cavalry aud mounted infantry, but the sequel
shows who did the leaving.
On the morning of the 17th Cos!. Dibroil’s pick
ets were driven in, and he fell back and took po
sition on the former battle ground. Major McLe
more, in command of two hundred picked men
from the 4th Tennessee (Starne’s old Regiment,)
was stationed at tbe bridge at Wild Cat Creek,
and tbe Bth Tennessee at Meredith’s Hill, half a
mile above. The enemy advanced on foot and
engaged Major McLemore at half-past 2 o’slosk
and after severe fighting, were repulsed. They
alsc attacked the BVh Tennessee at the Mill, and
were driven back. The firing continued at long
range, and by sharpshooters until dark, when the
Yankees retired, burying six of their dead on
the battlefield. , , , • _
When they passed through Sparta ‘hey had si*
ambulances filled with wounded, one ambnlaßoe
with the bodies of three officers, a carriag
taming the corpse of a Colonel, besides a
of slightly wennded on horseback. Thy *
doubtedly lost in killed and wounded between
forty and fif’y men and officers. Colonel D breUs
ii*>aa tvo killed Beveii wounded, and twelve
missing. He still holds Sparta, and the Federais
wexe followed by his scouts twelve miles south of
Sparta. They report the enemy moving in the
direction of Fikevilie. im »e<|aatehie Valley.
VOL. LXXVII. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. NO. 35.
Tns Programme of the Lincoln Government.—
Much has been said and written by bath Southern
and Northern editors about the recent Cabinet
meeting in Washington, upon the question of the
differences between the section*? and the basis of
a reconstruction. In this meeting, Seward was
reported to faror what he styles a liberal and
conciliatory policy—the rec- Uoftho Emoacipa.
tioa proclamation, and the guaranty of the rights
of property to Southern rebels: while Lincoln
and his admirers clung to tbe proclamation and
confiscation laws. The Selma Mississippiitn has
information from a reliable source that, throws
much light on the matter :
It appears, that a delegation of prominent Ken
tucky Unionists, wont to Washington and sought
an interview with Lincoln’s Cabinet to Iny before
i* a plan for peace upon the basis of reconstruc
ts-u. In the discussion on tho subject, Lincoln
Gr.d Wac-ard, and, id deed, the whole Cabinet, took
■-he ground that a war with Europe ws inevita
ble, after the suppression of the rebohion, rega/ fl
ing the accomplishment of the latter little job os
a foregone conclusion.
Seward was rather disposed to favor the plan
proposed by the Kentucky Rcconstructionists,
and argued that in view ot the after claps—the
war with Euglaue aud France—the policy of tho
United States was to conciliate the Mouth, and
receive assistance in that war from (ho border
States at least, and perhaps from a large portion
of the whole Southern piople, in whose bosoms a
latent love for tho Union still exists, and would
burn brightly, it a magnanimous and liberal poli
cy prevailed with the Government. II > gave it
as his opinion that this wts the true way to save
the North from the power of Euro; earn armies.
Lincoln disagreed with him. Ho feared that no
leniency would make the rebels loyal to liis gov
ernment, and whatever treaties they might he
willing 'o make, now that their annus were in a
fair way ot being crushed out, they would not do
to trust in a loreigu war. They would not be
bound by tr aties, and when a European invasion
of the North occurred, they would ba found re idy
-o take up arms against tae North again. The
only plan to ward off danger from tho South, in
that event, was to break tho spirit of the people
utterly, ;o disarm them, free the uogroos un.i con
fiscate nil their property, leaving them entirely
subjugated and powerless, after which they would
be ready for the war with Europe.
The above information comes from a prominent
gentleman who had an interview with n member
of-the Kentucky delegation, and who has juat* ar
rived within our lines.
Lincoln’s programme prevailed as a aialter o
course. It is now the programme of tho war—
a war of complete subjugation, confiscation and
emaacipa icn.
It will be seen that the ideas of both Lincoln
and Scw&;* are set upon saving themselves, and
it appears that the South must be destroyed in
order to save the North against' tho threatening
power of Europe. The South is a mere cats-paw
to be conciliated or crushed as their relations with
other nations may require. Mr. Seward offera hia
coioiliation not through any love of the Mouth,
butthrough his fears of Europe. His magnanimi
ty is stimulated by his alarm for h ; s own govern
ment. Southern people know how to appreciate
such magnanimity. They have paid well for the
lessen and ought to profit by it. Nc proposition
whatever should induce any patriot to even enter
tain the idea of reconstruction. In fact no pat
riot will ever ante-tain such an idea. It is only
the cowardly traitor that harbors such principles
within his breast.
To Peace and Submission Men. —Those who
ta'k or think about peace upon any other terms
except such as are found at the point of tho bayo
net, have often been warned by the Confederate
press 0 the bed of degradation and rain which
they are preparing for themselves. Hear what a
Northern paper, opposed to the war and friendiy
to the South, says. We quote from the New York
Caucasian:
At tho present writing it would seem that, fail
ing to bleak Gen. Meade’s lines, General Lee fell
back o secure the vast amc-Unt of storer. which he
gathered iu Pennsylvania, the losses on both sides
being about equal. Thus''stand matters in the
East. In tho West it is announced, at feaet, that
Vicksbarg has fallen, the heroic garrison, after a
siege of nearly two months, having capitulated
on tbe 4th inst., to General Grant. These two
events have filled the War party with feelings of
utmost exultation aud joy. They now fancy that
the Soith lies blooding and heipleas at thsir feet;
that they have now only to givo a few more tell
ing blows, and the last “ rebel army” wili be ex -
terminated, and nothing left to stand between
them and the helpless men, women, and children,
of the Southern States.
. We kno.v very well what tho policy of the Ad
ministration will be towards every State'uo noon
as it falls into their power. Missouri, Maryland
andjjLouisiana are vivid exa spies of their hate,
cupidity, injustice and tyranny First, the people
wili be disarmed; and then, when helpless, their
property will be-eeized and confiscated, and their
homes, lands and ancestral acres turned over to
the rapreious Yankee .‘-peculator. Their organs
of public opinions will be suppressed ; their tribu
nals of justice overthrown : taeir State laws set
aside, and their State Constitution ignored. In
place of all theso, sits one supremo, semi-military
Judge, like Peabody in New Orleans, appointed at
Washington, who, under the mockery of the forms
of justice, simply registers the edicts of the vilo
Abolition cabal at the capital. The whole theory
of self-government is ovorffirown at a single blow.
The right of the free expression of opinion, which
every American claimed as inalienable, is tyran
nically subverted, and the privileges we claim for
ourselves inhumanly and wickedly denied to
others.
How do you like peace, Mesrss. Mubmissionist
Croskers, on theso terms? Perhaps yen may be
willing to accent peace on any conditions, but you
will find that tbe patriots of the South are not.
Liberty and Treason of the Press. A con
temporary draws the following rational distinc
tion :
The liberty of the press does not mean an im
munity to teaching ideas and sentiments calci»
latedto destroy the government. A man who
happens to own a printing pr-as should not be
permitted to print and publish oenlimenis that
are designed and intended to aid the enemy, and
to injare and destroy the army of the country.
This view is a correct one. No pr-r-or should
be allowed to be issued that publishes treasonable
sentiments, or that endeavors in an underhand
manner tocinoite others to commit treason. It is
of no use of endeavoring to whip our onrray in
the field, if we allow secret enemies to remain un
molested where they pleeso, to injure us whenever
an opportunity offers. While cur gallant armiefl
in the field are fighting our Northern foes, those
of our people at home should be doing their duty
to their country by ferreting cut tho secret ene
mies in our midst and sending them where they
belong.
The Savannah Republican has the annexed ex
cellent remarks or. the “liberty of the press, and
freedom of speech
When the constitution guarantees ‘ liberty” to
the press, it does not promise to sustain it in
licentiousness, an abuse o; that liberty. When it
guarantees “freedom of speech" to the citizen, it
does not premise to uphold him in tho declara
tion of sentiments calculated to demoralise toe
army ia t.rae of war, and to spread diseffeetion
among the people. Such a man is as much a
traitor in spirit as he who presses our lines and
joins the enemy to fight »ga; .at ns. In liieraid3t
of a struggle for liberty, ■ ml at the very crisis of
our fate, such conduct on the part ol e. -her • tue
press or tho citizen, cannot be tolerated wi.c B *-- -
ty to the country.
Ths North Carolina T raitors.— Among the
resolutions adopted at th?. iale peace me.i.ng
Surrey cour-ty, N.C., was toe annexe--
Resolved, That in our opinmn, t
c.imatanoes, the b l s , n M n?to th; “Cor.-
A little hemp properly administere y •
„ “ “ of that section wonld very effectually
cur“ th» author of that document of his bad few
iZl If ever a man deserved hanging, he does.
The Wilmington Journal, in remarking upon the
matter, says : ~
if !. little hemp had beer, used some time ago,
would not now be troubled with such treason,
able sentiments as is used in the above resolu
tion. m Ml
Tffs Alabama Legislature. — A gentleman wri
ting ns from Montgomery says :
Our Legislature is now in session. Cannot
tell what they intend to do- Presume they will
make quick work of matters, as they receive but
four dollars a day from the State, and have to
pay eight dollars a A»y to hotel > e:-pers. Their
patriotism, or their pockets, vri 1 make short
work with intricate questions. We shall net be
bored to death with long speeches for buncombe
this fall—that’s sertain.
Tlic Uombardinsui of diaries to:;.
Tho Charleston Mercury of Monday b:.j n :
On Friday, from fire ia the morning .ia r.sv
P. M. a heavy file was eoaorniralea in Mo-trvr.
Nino hundred and twenty-three ehoiii .. \ r ,
at the fort, of which 704 struck it inside and c-n:
site. On Saturday 604 shots. Sunday tho (ire
was just an heavy. Up to Saturday n-. iit, 4872
rhois had bean fired nt the fort, of which o:i ;
1035 had parsed over or fallen short. li. ennnot
bo denied that the enemy fire with Rv-stt accu
racy. The eastern face of the fort in s>u»r vyy
seriously damaged, and almost every gnu. b •.»
been disabled.
The tort is now subjected to a cross fire froth
to north from tho Parrot guns, and east to '■ t
from the Monitors 15-inch solid shot and shells.
The fcouth face is now but a heap of ru; w, n? 4
the wost is cracked from top fa bottom with sup
porting pillar* shot away. Arches of the noui;-
wost ac-.i and the teneplein have fal-eu in. rbo
vest face is cracked through and broached, too
chi.-f injury being at the icvsl of the arches id
-tetrepieia. Our magazine ban been .partially
penetrated by a shell, aud a shell room iso h-G
been perforated. Col. Alfred Khett has orders to
hold this outpost with hto brave garrison m a
lorlorn ho. e until relieved or cut off.
In this bombardment ihe land batteries hove
been materially assisted by the Ironsides and six
Monitors, which assail Fort Mumter and Batteries
Wegner and Gregg by turns, or at times attack
them all together. Fort Mumter feei-iy
from its oast face alone.
At eleven o’clock ou Friday night the following
communication from the enemy was received at
Battery Wagner, addressed to Gen. Beauregard :
Headquarters Department of the South, I
Morris IslandfiS. 0., August 21, 1863. )
General: I have the honor to demand of you
the immediate evacuation of Morris Island and
Fort Mumter, by the Confederate forces. The
present condition of Foit Mumter, and the rapid
and progressive destruction which it ia undergo
ing from my Batteries, seem to render its com
plete demolition, within a few hours, a matter o
certainty. AU my heaviest guns here no-- yet
opened.
Should you refuse compliance with ’ os de
mand, or should I receive uo reply thor a, within
four hours after it is delivered into e hands of
your subordinate at Fort Wagner mr transmis
sion, 1 shall open fire on the c ; of Charleston
from batteries already entabb .led, within easy,
and effective [range] of the i j;:rt of tho city.
I am, General, very re- ptctfully,
Your obedient servant,
[Signed| * Q. A. Gillmorb,
I’cig. Gen. Commanding.
To Gen. G. T. Bba-uirgard, Commanding Con
federate Forces, Charleston, S. C.
Tho above coA-uunicatiou was received, with
out signature, r i quarter before eleven o'clock,
on Friday nigt.. It was returned with tha fol
lowing endo’ lemont:
H abq’rs Dep’t M. 0., Ga, and Fla.. I
Charleston, Aug. 21,1863. j
This aper is returned for the signature cf tiio
write!. (Signed) Thomas Jordan,
Chief of Mtaff.
f n Saturday morning the communication was
r nt back to our linos, this time signed by Q. A.
Jillniore. We givo below tiie reply of Geiici&l
Beauregard:
HBADqUAUTeRS )
Department of 80. Ca , Ua. and Fla., V
Charleston, S. U., August S3, 1863. )
Si up Lust night, at 15 minutes before 11 o’clock
during my absence on a recennoissance of my for
tifications, a communication was received at thcss
Headquarters, dated Headquartera Departiwont of
the South, Morris Island, S. C., August 21st, 1363,'
demanding the “ immediate evacuation of Morris
Island and Fort Sumter by the Confederate lor -
eee,” on the alleged grounds that the present
condition of Fort Sumter, aud the rapid and pro
gressive destruction it is undergoing from my
batteries, seem to render its c mplete demolition
within a few hours a matter ot certainty and
that if this demand “ was not complied with, or
no reply thereto was receivod within four hours
after it is deiiverad into the hands of your (my)
subordinate commander at Fort Wagner for trans
mission,” “ a lire wou'd be oponed on the oity of
Charleston from batteries already established
within easy and effective (range) of the feoart of
the city.” This communication, to my odd reap,
was without signature, and was of course re
turned.
About half-past one this morning one . your
bi.ttorioa did actually open lire, and threw a num
ber of heavy nlle shells into the city, the inhabi
tants of which, of ecurse, were asleep aect un
warned. About nine o’clock this msrning the
communication alluded to above was returned to
these Headquarters, bearing your recogniz ’d offi
cial signature; and it can now be noticed as your
deliberate cllicial aet.
Among nations not barbarous tho usages of war
prescribe that, when a city is about to bs attack
ed, timely notico shall be given by the attacking
commander, in order that non-combatants may
have nn opportunity for withdrawing beyone its
limits. Generally the time aliowcn is from one
to throe days—that is, time for the withdrawal, iu
good faith, of at least the women and children.
You, sir, give only four hours, knowing that
your notice, under existing circumstances, could
nos reach me in leas than two hours, and tost not
less than the same time would be required for a:;,
answer to be conveyed from this city to Battery
Wagner. With this knowledge, you threaten to
open fire on the city, not to oblige its surrender,
bat. to force me to evacuate these works, whieo
you, assisted by a great naval tSrc:', have been
attacking in vain for mors than forty days.
Batteries Wagner and Gregg ana For-. Bum ter
are nearly due north from your batteries on Mor
ns Island, and in distance therefrom varying
Horn half mile to two and a quarter miles; this
city, on the other hand, is to the northwest, and
quite fiTe miles distant from the battery opened
against it this morning.
It would apt ear, sir, that despairing ei ro>*uc
ing these works, you now resort to the novel
measure of turning yonr guns against the oid
men, tho woman and children, and the hospitals
of a sleep'ug city ;an act of inexcusable barbari
ty from your own confessed point of sight, inas
much as yon allege that the “complete demontmn
of Fort Sumter” within n few hours by y our
cums seems to you ”a matter ot certainty.
Your omission to attach your s-gnainre losnco
a grave paper, must show the recklessness cl ihn
course upon which you have auventured. While
the factsthat you knowingly fixed a limit for re
ceiving an answer to your demand, which made it
almost beyond the possibility of receiving nny
reply within that time, and that you aetuaiiy did
open fire and throw a number of tbe meet de
atructiye missiles ever used in war, into tha midst
of a city taken unawares, and filled with sleeping
women and children, will give you a rad emi
nence in history—even in the history of tbia war.
J am only surprised, sir, at tbe limits you have
set to your demand. Xf, in order to f'- tair. t h ‘
abandonment of Morris Island and Fort Bn inter,
you feel aiithorized to fire on this city, why did
you not also include the works on Snilivao’s and
James’ Is'ards—nay, even the city of Charleston
—in the same demand?
.Since you have felt warranted in inaugurating
this method of reducing batteries in your imme
diate front, which were found otherwise impreg
nable, and n mode of warfare which 1 confidently
declare to be atrocious and unworthy of any
soldier, l now solemnly warn yon, tfip.t if yon Sro
again on this city from your Morris Island bat
teries, without granting a somewhat more reason
able time to remove non-combatants, J snail l*ei
impelled to employ such stringer. 1 , mean* r ” rB "
taliation an may be available dnrmg thu continu
ance of this attack. ... .
Finally, I reyly, that neither the wor-., on
Morris Inland or Fort Sumter will be ryacu tec
on the demand you have been pleased to mi.
Already, however, I am taking measures to re
move, with the utmost possible celenty, nil »-
combatants —who are now fndy
Olivo io, Wiie.t they may expect at your
Iteep cfuliy, sir, t
1 Your obedient servant,
, a . 10Klu G. T. Beauregard,
(Signed) « e - uerfi , 00 vm*n&*K.
To Brig. Gen. Q. A. GW Lore, commanding U. S.
Forces, Morris Island. 4 ye;; . er j, 7
To this, °^y^Q oa . GiUmore extends ;. m-iiff
that he would susprnd his fi:e •‘until 11
cation tnaj n „ , guEday \ m order to give
!■' M for the removal of non combatants. A a -his
“ ™mun‘c lion /as not delivered a! IL-.tery
Wagner until noon on Sunday, it was not noticed
jV a t\ho date was 01. M. Saturday, a.m .• ence,
‘•to-morrow” was erroneously supposed -.o refer
to this (Monday) night. This impression ’.7os
very general in our community last, t-vemr
But at a few minuteß before 12 o’clock 1" night
the whiz of the firat sheii warned ua that the bail
had ope ed.
B.tween cne and two o’clock cv. Fri :y fire
was opened on the city from the battery in the
marsh, between Morris’and James’ lain: i'-3, d ; s
tant about five miles from the city. Twelve eij-.bt
inch shells fell into the city. They were probably
thrown from a two .hundred pound Farrot gns,
sach as those used against Sumter. No do r o-ge
was done.
The contest between Battery Wognor aad t;c
land batteries of the enemy has for the io-ot
days been of a more active character. O i U. . ’ -
day the enemy’s working party was- aistas l ■■‘ r f
Wagner only four hundred and City y»J' •
tery Wagner fired vigorously, an ' l '\ "
have dismounted several of the enemy e g--
It is believed that on Friday one *
perhaps enable us to embarrass 1- The Jlag
Fort Sumter hestha3 far been saotawftj
times—four of which were on -ost Frio-y.
Tho casualties BtSrmtor on Friday w. re five
■wovmded, Gn Hatasday there was but one wonnn-
= Ihiv c f Henry Davis was killed by a niu*
- iAsawuna. Boylston was seriooslt
' • bv a fragment of brick, and Col. KheG.
AU . .mng, LijuteuantFici#|g,Ueutenarf
. ’ liiivil
. f R-ttory Wagner ou Friday the casualties
were five, inclu ng Captain Robert Pringle,
1 ■ (?; tlulurdiy four were killed and twenty
onr 7,-onndod.
E'-riy P-. .Sunday morning tho ironside* and rfx
"v- .vr -v me up and engaged Mumter, obvious
ly v h .heir, p-ution of testing that fort. Sumter,
M : e sad Battery Bee opened upon them
-—i ; i c-iTVcI, raid they withdrew. It is affirmed
that th Ir- '-si.t '.i wsa fairly hit, and it is thought
injured by a bid! from Battery Bee.
i'he Courier reyr ; Twelve eight inch shells
into the city, thirteen in all having boen fired.
Form -ately no person, was injured. Several
»>.elis ft -w tn the dt-vciion of Mt. Michael’* steeple,
and foil eitbi r in the vacant lots in the burst dlß
iricton King street, or more generally struck in
the centre of toe streets, as exhibited at tha cor
ner o- <»n »n au») Futt.e :ge, where sn eight-inch
tniK *.r,d Oog a large hofo
in tkeg-:cu-d. Another shot satorad the ware
house of G. W. Wili ams k Cos., at the corner *f
Hayne aud Church etrea:*, entered the roof and
exploded, in the upper story, making a Urge open
i-’-g in tUo brie!; wull cf the Medical
storehouse Host door, and scattering thing: tn
groat, confusion.
On Friday night, a party of the enemy estima
(f-; about tv.e 6iindred and fifty strong ad*
v. - : .a ,vi u ti- n supposed object of flanking and
forming Cm posiiion ot our pickets. The latter,,
only eighteen in number, allowed the enemy to
n t ;; icq until within short range, when a volley
was poured in among them, every shot telling
and causing t:-- whole party to retreat to their
works Mevsral aro known to have been killed
and wounded.
The Courier, of Tuesday, says: As was men
tioned in yesterday’s paper, the enemy renowed
his fire Horn tha city about twelve o’clock Sunday
night The fire was at intervals of about fifteen
mtt;ut«s, and was continued until after one o’clock,
when it censsd. Memo ourteea, mostly incendia
ry, s mils were thrown into the city. Mix build
ings were r.truok, but fortunately no person waa
injured. Mevsaul very narrow escapes were made.
During the firing on tho city, onr batteries on
Jamas’ Island, in connection with Batteries Gregg
and Wagner, kept up a very rapid and heavy fire
on the enemy’s works on Morris’lsland, causing
considerable annoy anoe aud damage to tha
enemy. ,
The attack on Fort Mumter still continues from
?he enemy’s land batteries A continuous lire i*
aloo kepi n ; > between tho enemy’s battery and
Batteries Gregg and Wagner.
Owing to tha stiff brecco prevailing Monday
ihe fieat rem inad quiet.
Tire flagfiiftffoi Fort Mumter was shot away
twice yesterday. Tho casualties were only four
slightly wound and.
The Mercury says:
There ceem's to be some mystery la regard to
the location of this battery, which is bombarding
a tswn at a diatance of ilve miles. It has be*m
asserted, upon apparently good authority, that
the 3heiis proceed from a mud fort lately built in
file marsh adjoining Morris Island. Others aver
that taey are thrown from a battery on Godberry
Ilill, on Morris Island. And there are vet other*
who dec aro that tho obnoxious battery is a float
iuK mm, which the Yankees tun up nightly under
mrer of tho darkness into oao of the numerous
creeks which mieisect the neighboring island*.
It is to tie hoped that the mystery will soon bfc
solved and the battery silenced.
The following repip cf Gau. Gillmore to tha
communication addressed by the Spanish Consul,
cksnor Mnncado, protesting against the a ort time
allowed for vhc removal of Spanish subjects, non
combatants, and asking iu the name of his Gov
ernment for a longer period and postponement of
tiro against tbe ettp, was received by flag of traca
at Battery Wagner ou Sunday :
Department of the Mouth, ft’
Headquarters in the Field, to
Morris’ Island, 0., ‘J P. M.., Aug. 22, 1868, J
The Spanish itonsuS, .Charleston, S. G.:
Min :—I have the honor to noknowledge the re
nev ; of your letter of this dote desiring of m* at
; sispenrion of tiio bnnbardinent of Gharlestoil ror
; 24 hours, to allow the subjects of the Mpanistt
; Government to depart from the city.
i had ::\ippe3ed tha’ ample time had been given
for the ■ jitioso. The commencement of the at
on the defences of Charleston, soma forty
•f : s ago is regarded as having given plain and
fcßsphalic warning that the city might be fired oa
at Aoy iiois-
Noth n;*, however, is further from my wish than
to endanger the lives or property of tne subject*
! of the Government which yon represent, and I
cordially accede to yonr request. No further
bombardment of Charleston need be apprehended
until eltiyon o'clock, P. M., to-morrow.
I have the honor to be, sir,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Q. A. Gillkou.
IE ir<adiq)(,General Commanding.
The following is tfia indorsement on the reply :
Headquarters Dop't So. Ca., Ga. and Fla., 1
OhorioaSon, August 24, 1965. j
Thin c jinmnn astion was not delivered at B*i
tery Wagner, Morriß’ Island, by tho U. B,’authori
ties, until 12 murid:an, the 23d inst, and juonld not
be si-.ut to this ci:y uutii attar dark.
TnoJiis Jordan.
Brigadier General and Ojiief of Mtaff.
The Ooarier of Wednesday, 26th, saya :
The city revalued quiet Monday nipftit, the*
enemy, couttaryto expectations, not firing »
single ehell ia thin direction. The heavy rain
whiah Bet in juat about eleven o’clock, and con
tinued acme tne , no doubt interfered with hi*
operations, although it waa again reported that
our bitlefiea had e.iencsd the guns or that work.
Vue bombaadment between tbe land butt riea
and tiio Heck on Mumter continued until Toe*-
dey evening at regular Intorvala, the fleet not
participating in consequence of the prevailing
hig inds. A’l the rmailer vessels and Moni
tor mhcU jfvdtor in Folly Inlet. The Ironaidea,
atom; for out t ) p-ri.
Jjuier in the evening the sound of rapid mus
ketry was distinctly heard in the city, and shortly
alter official (iuyuteches were received announcing
so assault on sites-cry Wagner by tho euegur, evt
ftentiv 3 heavy ioica. A dispatoh from Fan bum
t-- a* 8 M., ears. “The musketry has cessed f
the enemy ;« firing a few mortar shells at Battery
Wagne. The first assault has been lepulaed."
Merc’ry of Wednesday, says: Ths triad*
on Monday nig ‘t blew in gusts, and the rain MI
i a”torrents. There wss, in conseqnenoe but littls
act i ity omong tbe opposing batteries. The ea
pecu'.-l'bombardment of the city was not renewed.
On Tuesday the bombardment of Forts Sumter
prr Wagner besan at ike usual early hour, and
continued slowly r.nl steadily throng mat the
(jNo further material damage was done-
Hamter ia n o lon yor a do able-tiered battery, log
t';-.* . efenee of the water ujiproacb to Charles tony
j\ r, preat artillery fortress its proud propor_
iioos are reduced to ruins. But the ground i
:. 0: and to Hoathern independence. Tho site #•
creatively valuable, and, with even the rifle and
bayonet oniy, it may be held still lrom |th*
i, so* our foes- At Wagner tbe.enemy’s ss**
r It is gradually moving on, and the foremo»
y - -c battery was at tenet within long musketr
range" of tho fort. Wind and wave, however,
t-VH conspire to ke -p ho fleet inactive.
l fi Nt; were iosi > tt>« bar, on Tuesday, thirty
fi-* "vessels comprising the Ironsides, five Mont
, ’ ,{ x niortar boat*, «nd twenty three gun
hoa*V tramipoit/, tteamers, supply vessels and
’ (j a teide there wore nine and in the Inlet
' hirtefn includinir wooden vessels of ail kinds.
(>.j r James Ir-land batteries were not less actirs
• >. ,a tiicv bavsi biibrrto been.
it Jt..d'beou eipteted yotterday afternoon,from
certain indications, that an assault on Battery
Wagesr would be made in tbe course of the
night. This expectation was confirmed by a sud
denly increase ' rapidity in the filing from thw
James and teorrii island batteries just about
night ft-ii.
The Courier, of Thursday, says:
Ths reported on Battery Wagner, Tues
day nia’it, end?.), it Appears in a heavy fight be
tween the pickets. The enemy advanced in strong
force, evidently intending to surprise our pickets
and saidure the ri!l» pita. His fores is supposed
to Sisve been between oca theusaad and fifteen
hundred strorg, with a battery ot light aitillsry.
Cur ljtce was only bitween two and three hun
() -.* ' c s gtlnp ri detachments oftho Fifty-fourlnr
temd Sixty-first North Carolina. Tho
ii h 1 'sated about nn hour, when the Yankees ro
•ird -arrving off their dead and woundod. Their
iVte fievod to have been considerable, aa our
bis. -r:eR cn J«m.'V ™ »<* k*P» »P. “ ***
n 1 - :h-> ■ - on. Gar loea was uve killed aid
nineteea Wourded. The Fifty-fourth Ge.irfjia
‘"'f'narr; tee wounded brought to Charleston oa
wZiiK-Jav corning was the following Georgians
l .tena./to too Fifiy-fonrth Regiments Wiley
(•ortpre r. J. Kasna and John 8. Moore, 00. B ;
Y/ Oglesby and frooo B. Lamb, Cos. C.j Capt. A*
u iicber- pri.v. to tv. Grenier, Cos. D.
C In the a'ternona one of tho Monitors moved up
and opened fire on Battery Gregg, with an occa
sional shot at kiumtsr. Battery Gregg replied*
Bf .v 6 ra! shots taking ( fleet. The engagement was
continued about an .hour and a half, when tha
Monitor retired
>• About br.if past r,ix last evening wery heavy
firing agela commenced, and was kept up forsev—
era.l hours. The cannonading exceaed in severi
ty any heretofore ticaid. Official dispatches were
received stating that the enemy had appeared
with an overwhelming infantry force, and another
assault wan anticipated. _ .
S\% a later hoar the d ; .?patcheß announced that
ihs enemy nad Hn?e?eded ia carrying our outer
line ot pits, i t was reported, however, that
onr troops had been leinforcod, and the pits ro
tsten. Tery h?aTj 6Ed ooßtiaaoafi W