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’"Taroliaa liAmtry. No ' fflo‘7 was killed. -Lt
Douglas Df.'sau*ur<»Jliad lii# cellar bone bro
):<n/V eiibl being rijuri and in -really. s
. Ttya lOftificnii-Tjs ai • nriinjurt and. J|>
'*C.- Sqt Jr w.mJn command o, tun artlTrfry. arid
and / tJon ft it: Fort M bltftk.
,'ii.e !:d i.POflire cuiQinatel of the fort devolved
-v.j-r-- ''ir young Wltr-* avn-ruan, 53ai. DeTro
vj’le. •
ty.aC .'our or live bouses were set on fire yes
;<«rT.by tiy enemy's inpeudiaiy shells, and
were con-umectei-*
"Idee enemy were otrorved at work
throwing up a’sand moon ,1a Battery Wagner,
and erecting anothei traverse for protection
against the fire of our James' Island batteries.
It is also reporte 1 that they were removing
their heavy guns from their old works to Cum
mings’ Point.
The Meicury of Sept. 10 says :
At about half past one o’clock yesterday
morning tire prevailing quiet was rudely broken
by a sudden and very rapid cannonade in the
direct on of the harbor entrance. The brief
intervals between the reports of the heavy
guns were filled by the roll of musketry, and
all who he rd the firing in the city thought
that warm work had begun at Fort Snmter.
It Appears, from the acc unts that we have
received, that at half-past one, A. M., yester
day, a number of barges, v riousiy estimated at
from twenty to thirty, and containing about
fifty men each, were descried through the dark
ness pulling rapidly towards the fort. They
were steeled towards various portions of the
ledge of rocks outside the fort (known techni
cally, > e believe, as the berm.) but most of them
directed their cour. e towards the Gorge face,
which beiug now a sloping in tss of bricks and
rubbish, seemed to afford the most inviting
opportunity tor the assault. As soon as the
barges were seen by our vigilent sentries on
the parapet, three rockets were thrown up, to
noitfy their comrades at the other batteries of
the danger at hand. With ni
rity the guun at i\»<t Johnson, Battery Simp
kins. Fort Moultrie, and the steamer Chieora,
opened upon the barges, and simultaneously,
the infantry, judiciously posted within the fort,
poured into the crowded boats of the assailants
a rapid fire of musketry.- The foremost boats of
the enemy, however,, soon gained the ledge,
and the Yankees soon sprang to the assault with
vigor and leterininatiou. They were met, how
eve-, by resolute men.
The Charleston Battalion, Major Blakecom
maading, has been advantageously posted at
the threatened points, ani repelled the foe
with a gallantry woi thy the name which the
Battalion won so dearly at Secessionville, and
afterwards at Battery Wagner. When their
muskets had been discharged, instead of losing
precious time in reloading, they hurled hand
grenades against the foe, and when these were
exhausted, had recourse to the brick hats
which lay everywhere mound them, and rained
them down the slope. This storm of miscel
laneous missiles was too much for the storming
party, and the forlorn hope fled to the base of
the fort. Meantime the barges in the rear,
terror stricken by the severe concefitra ed fire
they had encountered, had abandoned the at
ta- k and gone off, leaving the Yankees who had
landed wholly without support. It is scarcely
necessary to add that these last, foiled in their
own effort to surprise the garrison, and not
daring to take to their boats, surrendered at
discretion, and announced the fact in tones
which could be heard high »' ove >he splashing
of the waves and the din of the engagement.
The receding barges w re soon lust to sight
l the da- kness; the prisoners were marched
into the fort and secured, and silence again
reigned in the harbor.
lit thik brillant repulse of the enemy >ve cap
ttir :<i thir een Yankee nav<l officers ani 102
men, bes des three et n ls < f colors, four fine
ba;ges, etc. Aiming the flaus taken was the
origi al (United States) fl >g of Fort Sumter,
whi h fl >ated over the work at the time when
Major Anderson held command th re. Upon
the surrendot of he fort in April. 18G1, it will
be remembered, Major Anderson was allowed
to salute, haul down and carry off tins idenri
eal ti e-. Admiral Dahlgrcn, .it seems, had un
uert-ken to • ‘repo-sets” the for , and to re
store the “id ! flag'’ to the flag staff from w ich
South Garoliua’tore it at the opening of the
war. But the p. >etic justice <>t toe Admiral’s
scheme has not saved the scheme itself from
coll-ojse, and, whatever m-y be the f-ite of
Foil a,miter in the future, that “ol 1 flag” will
sure-- never surma v.,iva *,« i;« wads '
, ,r eaemy'B 10-s in ku:-u.l and wounded
•we have'no authentic account. Two oi »h in
wetri found dead at the fori and nineteen
w.a n ■d ; hut Bum the fact that several
barges, riddled by shot have been seen floating
ai ou , capsized, many believe that t ie euotny s
loss was much greater It is rumored th it the
naval officer named Meade, who was captured,
is a- :t of Gen. Meade, the successor of Ho k
er. On our side there was no casualty of any
kind during the light.
The Courier of Sept. 10 says :
During the day a large number of empty am
munition boxes, thrown overboard by the ene
tn. during the engagement, were picked up in
the harbor. A poitiun ot a vessel was also
found badly marked by a shell. It had evident
ly been torn elf irom one of the members of the
fleet.
The enemy sent in a flag of truce yesterday
morning and was met by a boat from Fort Sum
ter. The bearer of the Yankee flag of truce
was informed that no flag of t ttce boats could
be received until satisfactory explanation was
given why th v tired upon the flag of true *. —
We learn that the uueiny’ i boat brought a let
ter bag and dispatches for Gen Beauregard.—
A proposition was made by the Almira: to send
a Burgeon to attend to the Federal wounded,
which was declined, a Surgeon having been al
ready detailed for that work.
Th Courier o Sept., 11 says : —The enemy
has refrained from firing since his unsuccessful
assault on Fort -hunter. Our batteries on
J tmes' and Sulivan’s lsl nds, together with
Fort Moultrie, keep up a steady lire on the
Island works.
The enemy is reported busy at work on Bat
teries Gregg and Wage r, having erected a
large platform for his guns on the latter, and
thrown up an extensive sand embankment on
the former. The Yankees are also said to be
working ou their batteries on Craig's Hill and
and building embrasures for gu is pointing to
Sullivan’s Island, which it is believed will be
tbe next poipt of attack.
The Ironsides was lying in her old position
yesterday, opposite Battery Wanner,taking nm
uinni;i°tl.B'o!u.a schooner alongside of her. The
Monitors i enl »in at their old anchoioge. One
ot the enemy's steam rs appeared busy yester
day tran-porting guns and ordnance.
According to the prisoners' account the ex
pedition against Fort ssumter consisted of
twenty-five to thirty boats, with an average of
twenty to each boat. The details of men were
mado' from tin blockading vessels Outside,
with officers from tt.e fieet inside to command
them. The men knew nothing of the proposed
expedition until they had finished their dinner
on Tuesday, when they were called up for or
ders. The boats with their crews afterwards
pulled up alongside of the tiagship to receive
instructions. Lieut. Williams, in command,
took the lead.
'lheV expected tkey say to meet not more
than a simpi*? guard ol about one hundred
men. Thev also expected to be able to go
through the breach without difficulty or hav
ing to climb over. The night was tnisty and
favorable for a close approach without notice.
Their calculations they say all proved incor
rect. About fifty marines from the United
States steamer Powhatau lorn ihe greater ma
jority of the prisoners taken. They state also
that the Monitor ashore daring the fight Tues
day whs the Weehawken. the same vessel that
took the lead in the attack on the 7th of April.
They admit that the fire from Sullivan's
JsJa-ui in the last fight was very accurate, one
of the Moiiibys having been struck on the tur
ret twenty-bine times. without, they say, in
flicting a'nj -vrions dining*. The prisons!s
maer -st a areal deal of coitndence in the abili
tv of o, : 1 Gilu-ore to take the city.
"To. nffiieut were they, ot success in the late
expedition that two boxes were received under
fl ic c f trace, one addres>ed tb •'Lieut. E. P
Williams, Commanding Fort Sumter," an an
other to •’Ensign Benjamin H. Porter. Fort
■umti v" T' ; • were packed with lemon,
.leilies, liquors. e;c ail evidently prepared for a
gen-rat gloria. ation
SrssTtTrr-. for off !.—The seed of grapes
er- ve y aen.-raily u<ed in Germany as a >.jb
stitun : or (nffre, n*! thev make - m *sr oxcel
leilt • - !: ut**. Vh -. pressed, they vic'd a
quite, ty of 0.1. and aiterw-.ir.U. woen i .died,
torn - 1 n liqui v ry -imi.arto that of coffee.—
So says .m exchange.
MkWS HtM WARY/ ' ■ f
A currency niettfjng-blikbei n hghl it Stewart
(gCiwjj. Ga. All whoaUmupk-to injureJour cui
reftuy a/e Hereafter currency trai
tors iis that section are to bes. v r-. iv dealt
with.
| It is said that the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts
| Regiment compose 1 entirely of negroes, now
j garrison B.itterv Wiigney. This is only adding
| -i suit to injurj ,” and outfit, if possible, still
! mure nerve ti e ghllnntSouth Carolinians and
j nil Southrons for future cqpfficts with their
groveling enefcies. r
The celebrated “ Greek fire” which the Fed
crals are using in the sie. e of Charleston, is
pronounced by the Savannah Republican “ a
sheer humbug.” It consists of a number of tin
lubes, some half inch or more in diameter and
about three inches in length, charged with a
black compound resembl ng a mixture of pow
der and tar. A number of these are put into
the shhlls and the vacant space filled with pow
der. A number of these shells exploded among
the buildings at Fort Johuson aad again in the
city, but with the exception of getting fire to a
pile of straw in the latter place, which any
common shell would have done, there was, no
ignit l on when they exploded. Besides the gas
emitted in the explosion, which is most villian
ous to the olfactories, and would probably suf
focate one in a confined room, there is nothing
about the “ Greek Fire ” to be dreaded.
Between thjrty ind forty negroes made their
escape fnm Savannah a few nights since, it is
supposed to the enemy. I'oor fellows ! Little
do they know the fate that awaits them. In
place of the freedom which they expect to find
on their arrival at the Yankee camp, the men
will be surprised to find themselves impressed
as breastworks to protect their new found
friends from Confederate bullets ; whilst the
women, separated from their husbands, will find
a still more horrible fate in the brutality of the
Yankee soldiers.
It is stated that tbe point for the future ex
change ol pri oners in Viiginia is shortly to be
transferred from City Point to Port Walthall,
on the Appomattox; or some oth *r place
equally as convenient. From Port Walthall,
it that should bo the future 6cena of operation,
•hero is a continuous line of rail to Richmond,
tho point where the prisoners are all cong ega
'ed, and independent of other reasons, the delay
and expense attendant upon two roads would
be obviated.
Cos,. Robert A. Heart, wounded at Helena,
on July 4th, and carried to Memphis as a pris
oner, has died. He was at one time Inspector
Gem ral on Gen. Hindman’s staff, and subse
quently Colonel of an Arkansas regiment.
The Federals have again evacuated Suffolk
>a. They committed the usual depredations
before leaving.
A man named V. Gerard, was received in
Richmond ou the 7th inst., under arrest, from
Gen. Lee’s Army, charged with being a hucks
ter in \ anltee money, and visiting the army for
the purpose of driving his bargains with the
soldiers at the rate of seven and eight for one.
Two thousand and ninety dollars in Confede
rate monev was found on his person. He was
sent to Castle Thunder. Let traders in our ene
my's ourrency look out
Tho garrison of Forts Wagner and Gregg at
the time of the evacuation, was composed as
follows: Twenty-eighth South Carolina, Thirty
se 'ond Georgia. Fifty-fourth Ga., Twentv-flfth
South Carolina, and a battallion of Regular
artillery. Col. Keith, of South Cardina, was
in command.
Gen. D. P. Roddey bus been presented by
his friends and neighbors with a fine charger
as a slight testimonial of their admiration and
gratefulness for his valuable service* in de
fence of North Alabama.
Eutaw, Alabama, has been converted into a
military post, under command of Lieut. Col.
Boone, of Miss, His guard, about a company
ol men. have been and are busy gathering up
conscripts, artful dodgers, stragglers and de
serters.
It is rumored that .'ov Shorter will be ap
pointed Attorney General of tbe confederate
Stales to succeed Hon. Thos. H. Watts.
Eight Yankee deserters arrived at Golds
boro, N. C., 3d inst. They repoit that a great
many more are attemptiu to follow them out
of the Yankee lines.
The people of Danville, Va., have organized
“ it,eoinnanv for tho purpose of ob
taining supplies of provisions, a capital of
about SBO,OOO has been subscribed, nd it will
probably reach SIOO,OuO. Two citizens sub
scribed SIO,OOO each, and others $5,000.
The Coroner of Carlton county writes the
Savannah Republican, of the 30th nit., as fol
lows, from Trade s Hill. Geoigia, August ID :
•■A strange incident took place in this village
a few days ag . A widow lady, who had ap
parently been dead for two days, arose, and in
a lend voice, exclaimed, ‘What news from the
war?’ All present were too much frightened
to answer her, and she fell back without the
least indication of life. She was not interred
until decomposition had actually commenced.
The lady's name was Mrs. Temperance Car
ter.’’
Brig. Gen, Albeit G. Jenkins is at present in
Lynchburg, Va. He has nearly tecovered
from tbe effects of the wound received at Get
tysburg, and will soon be ready for the field.
The Supreme Court of Alabama his decided
that a parson who was liable to military ser
vice in the army of the Confederate States un
der tbe “conscript laws” of Congress, and who
has procured a discharge from tlmt service by
furnishing as ibstitutein his stead, is neverthe
less subject to mi itiaduty under tbe State laws,
and is liable to the draft ordeted by the Gover
nor on the 17th of June, 1863, (General Order
No. 10,) under the requisition of the Presidentof
the Confedeui teStates for seven thousand troops
from tho militia of the State.
A gentleman from New Orleans says the Fed
era, authorities continue to sequestrate the pro
perty of Southern men.
_ Mr C. G. Davis, Superintendent of the Way
side Home for soldiers in Atlanta informs the
editor of the Gazette that fr -m the first oi May
to the Ist of September, 2,977 soldiers have ar
rived and registered at the Wayside, 11,222
meals have beej furnished, and 3,4G5 bunks
occupied.
The completion of the road from the Blue
Mountains to Rome, Ga., some eighty miles,
has been regarded by the government as a mil
itary necessity, and we learn that steps are be
ing taken for a vigorous prosecution of the
work.
A negro woman, the property of Col. E. A.
Wy.itt, of Dinwiddle county, Vn.,died reci ntly
at the advanced age oi one hundred and thirty
years. J
A large portion ol the uncleared soil of South
Carolina and the South yields in abundance the
' Myrtle Berry, which produces a good way that
! can.be readily and easily prepared, by any per
-1 son. Our planter! should look into this mat
| ter.
I The September Term of Washington Supe
j rior Court will begin on Monday next. Judo-e
i Hook presiding. * ®
Mow is the proper time for planting the Pop
py, which may yield fifty pounds of opium to
the acre, a very encouraging return at present
pric.'B. Every person who has a peace of uncul
tivated ground -bould make it of value to to em
selves and their country.
Dr. Saunders and Dr. Stout, Surgeons of
Bragg's army, have called on the peop e of
Marietta for hospital accommodations for some
1,500 or 2,000. For this purpose all the build
ing- on the south and east sides ol the public
square, inc tiding the Court House find the
Marietta Hotel have been impressed
Lieut. Gen. Pemberton is in Atlanta, where
he will remain awhile.
We learn that Edmund McGehee, Esq. about
j eighty years of age, residing near Baton Rouge.
Louisiana, has been stripped of his immense
| property bv the Yankees. He owned 3200
; slaves and 27 cotton and sugar plantations, in
| eluding a Cotton Factory which wag worked by
300 of his own hands. A rail road 31 miles
i long, leading to his factory, had been construct
i ed by himself, with a sufficient rolling stock.
Ail the negroes, except aliout one hundred
have been taken off by the Federals, his Facto
lrv ruined, all his plantations desolated, his
rail road to n up, and about 5.000 bags of cot
ton wvre burnt by the orders of Me McGehee
to D event its falling into the hands of the
enemy. His loss in negroes and cotton alone is
not less than $5,000,000 Mr. McGehee has
shown himself tiuly a patriot.
The tobacco crop in Kentucky has been In*
| jured by the frost.
FROM *llß l-SIPPI
Two Confederate guerrillas, taken by the
Federal* in Northern Mississippi hive been
oruely murdered by them
A division of the Kede.rals is at present en
camped on the Big Black, i short distance from
the Vicksbu g apd I icksoi Railroad.
Many famllie»'of Warren and Hinds counties,
Miss- £i o #Uf< cm pel ed to draw supplies ol
Yankee rationed"Vicksbuig.
Late news from Natch, z is received. The
Yankees badyme fifteen thousand men there.
Raiders, equipped with wagons, depart and
arrive daily, bringing in otton and neg oes.—
Heal:by men are toned to come, and a eai
once put into the service* Women and chil
dren re allowed .to corned#, the wagon carry
ing them and what thejSßsh to bring away
from ticii master J . Wheijtliev arrive at Nai -
chez they are put in pens or tents, -aid allowed
to sh ft sot themselve-. Lafge uumbers ol them
die daily from exposure to sun, tain and damp
nights. The fate of the poor negro when his
Yankee fr ends reach him, is indeed a hard
one.
A correspondent writing from Okalona, Mis
sissippi, thinks it is a fact worthy of note, that
General Thomas, the Adjutant General of the
United States arrived at Memphis week
before Jast. The Okalona correspondent at
taches more importance to this event than
seems to be given it elsewher-u This same
Thomas came west immediately after Grant’s
several repulses in his approach to Vicksburg,
and it was studiously given out that the Adju
tant General of Lincoln wis present for the pur
pose of organizing the negro forces. Instead
of this, he bruughtbut from Washington with
him the Vicksburg back door programme for
Grant, carefully arranged by Hallcck and oth
ers. This mode of attack never suggested it
lelf to Grant,and would hare been uuattempt
ed except by superior genius. We now have
Thomas in the west once more, and with his
presence from Washington comes in all proba
bility the draft ol anew campaign. Let us be
ou the witch. An Adjutant General »f Abe
Linooln, does not leave his post from idle cur
iosity or for pleasure. It is not improbable that
the Grenada raid, for the dstruction of railroad
stock, came from or through him ; but this is
only a picket skirmish to the battle chart which
he brings for Grant.
A gentlem m from Vicksburg says that one
of the first acts of the Federals after occupying
that place was to rob tho Uatkolie church,
breaking iu and carrying off' the miire and
chi lice. Instead of regarding this as theft and
vandal’sm. they seemed to cxuLt over it as a
great achievement, and paraded the streets in
sacrilegious bravado, carrying the sacred em
blems upo i their heads in mockery.
Reports fn m Bruinsburg indicate some move
ment below, some six transports loaded with
tro ips and horses having passed down on the
23d, and heavily laden iransports descend dai
ly. These coming up are light. It is supposed
that this movement is toward Texa , but u may
come eislward, Encouraged by lecent succes
ses, they may attempt to ride to the Mobile and
Ohio road, from some point oa the river below,
as a preliminary to operations against Mo
bile.
Water Valley, tho northern terminus of the
Mississippi ( enlral railroad, was burned by tl e
raiders las’ week. No other 1 urniugs are re
ported north of the Yallabusha, but they stole
more closely this time than ever before
Major Leutb, General Cha mers’ c ief quar
termaster, was captured, instead of Major Chal
mers, as reported a few days ago.
Railioad men had every induciment offered
them to go North. Evety one of th m were
furnished with passes, and promis-'d t'ansporta
tion to any po nt in the North, on iheir arrival
at Memphis. The temptation was too strong for
many of th m.
The telegraph is again working to Panola ind
Oxfoid.
FORE G\ ITtMS.
The Mexican and Polish que-tions remained
unchanged. The notes of France and England
to Russia are represented as quite pacific.
The destruction of the American ship Nash,
by a privateer, off Gibraltar, is confirme 1.
The Congress of the German Princes was in
session at Frankfort. It was headed by the
Emperor of Austria, and was largely attended.
The French Government has revoked tho
measure of confiscation in Mexico, and with
drawn the proposition in regard to specie ex-
The King of Prussia still persists in refusing
to attend the German Congress.
The United States Consul at Frankfort had
displayed the Mexican flag. The “Europe,” of
that city, explains that it was in pursuance of
an arrangement by which, in case of the over
throw of Republican authority in Mexico,
President Lincoln would allow Mexico to bo
represented in foreign countries by agents of
the Washington Government. The “Europe”
also thinks there will be difficulty between
France and the United States.
A long correspondence has taken place be
tween the Governments of England and Amer
ica, touching restrictions on trade between the
northern ports of the United States and the
Bahamas
The Army and Navy Gazette thinks there is
danger of a rupture between England and the
United States.
The London Globe says the South may be
mangled and exhausted, but must win in the
end, temporary defeats to the contrary not
withstanding.
The Confederate loan on the 21st of August
rallied one per cent, closing .at 26a28.
Accounts from Messina, state that the volca
no of Mount .(Etna is agiin vomiting fire and
lava. Anew erup ion is threatened in the di
rection of Bronte.
An additional source of complexity has
arisen from a point of honor between France
and Russia, growing our of the Polish ques
tion. The Russian havinr charged the French
Government with insincerity and b id faith, in
having fomented revolution in Poland and se
cretly supplied the Poles with material means
to prosecute hostilities, while professing to ne
gotiate as a friendly and neutral power be
tween Russia and Poland; a retraction would
seem to be required to save the point of French
national honor. The Pencil funds had, in
consequence, fallen, and the public mind in
France had become much excited.
The Woolwich select committee in England
altogether discard cast iton for rifled guns as
being unable to be made )f service. Tney re
commend coating shot with lead for rifled
guns.
t he London correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser sys that the confrnu
onsjoerneys of Queen Tictoria are her only
safeguards against t ie henditary insanity with
which her family is tainted. He adds* hat the
Queen is recovering from ths mental and physi
al debility produced by t.iqdeath of the prince
< nsort. v_ ~ - •
There is at Montargis, ii France, about three
hours’ ride by rail from Pfiris, a grand India
rubber factory, operated by steam and employ
ing from 600 to 700 work Jeop'e.' The estab
lishment was built by the father of Louis Phi
lippe, and with the dwellings of those employ
ed in it is said to resemble a sort of basonial
estate The factory is managed by Mr. Hiram
Hutchinson, formerly a citizen of Newa-k, N.
J., and President of the Newark India Rubber
Company, while the two (pi.f foreman are al
so .Attn ricans,—Canfield* pf Connecticut, and
Mix, formerly of the Nevfrrk Rubber Compa
tny. The establishment isowned by a corpor j
tion, who have a . factory in Pal is and another
in Germany, and their enterprise has not only
made them enormously zch, but been of very
great adv antage to France
xorther\Vews.
The Marshal of the i istr ct of Columbia has
seized for confiscation certain real estate in
Washington belonging to, or in the name of
Governor Letcher, Oscar R. Hough, and other
rebels.
Gold in New York on the 51 st was quoted at
128 J. Ist Board ; 127 J, 2d Board ; North Caro
lina ti's, 65 ; Tennessee do. 65. In Baltimore
gold closed at 127|.
The Confederate guerillas are becoming very
troublesome to the Federals in Kentucky.
Brig. Gen. J. W. Never • las been dismissed
from the United States arm* for ‘-misbehavior
before the enemy.”
Guerilla fighting continue* on the roads lead
ing to the city ot Mexico. The Mexicans take
no prisoners, but slay all.
The Nashville Union ihfoffns ms that a squad
of -.onfederate guerillas be otiging to Hinson s
command, went to Fort Henry on the Gtb inst..
and captured the telegraph operator Mr. C. E.
Bush, together with the apufcratus, and a lot of
horses. ad mules.
>oKTHER\ INEUB.
Northern papers claim a victory in Arkans
as. The latest advices from that State re
ceived by us prove this assertion a lie.
According to Northern advices a body of
Confederate cavalry have lately been' within
fifteen miles of Washington.
Grant has writtsn to Lincoln in favor of rais
ing negro troops.
Washington letter writers are expressing
iears that Lee will endeavor to pay that city a
visit.
Lincoln and his cabinet express themselves
confident of finally capturing Charleston
Washington letter writers say that it takes a
thousand regular troops to after a ihpu
sand Federal co scripts. And as the number
of conscripts increase, the rigmber of regular
tro *ps has to be increased trfso.
General McClellan’s repo: t was only received
at the Adjutant General's Department three
weeks ago, and that it will take one man many
months to read it and its accompanying docu
ments with the attention it deserves. It will
occupy when printed three large quarto vol
umes, with charts, diagrams, &c. For its pub
lication a large Congressional appropriation
will be requisite. The Secretary of War has
not yet had time to read it, but is about insti
tuting a ommittee of officers, to be presided
over by M jor General David Hunter, who will
be charged with the duty of reading it and re
porting as to whether or notit shall be publish
ed as an official document.
The message of Gov. Bramlette of Kentucky
proves him to be thoroughly abolitonized, and
a supporter of Lincoln.
Gov. Buckingham, of Connecticut, has return
ed home from Washington after a conference
with the War Department respecting the ap
plication of towns which have furnished a sur
plus of volunteers to be exempted from the
draft. The departmeut has decided substan
tially as follows : “That there was no authori
ty under tbe law of Congress to deduct the
surplus of volunteers which may have been
furnished by towns from the quota now order
ed bv tbe draft from those towns. That Con
gress had not authorized an apportionment of
men to be drafted from towns, and such an ap
portionment would be a usurpation of legisla
tive powers, would be acting outside ot the
provisions of the law, and involve the Depart
meut iu inextricable embarrassment and diffi
culty, which cannot be attempted.”
The notorious Jim Lane delivered a blood
thirsty speech in Leavenworth, Kansas, Aug.
27. lie desires to wipe out all the inhabitants
ol tbe border counties in Missouri, without re
gard to sex, age, condition or politics, and to
burn over all the country bordering Kansas on
the east, two or three counties deep, and to lay
waste everything iu that section.
The Lincolnites are taking the slaves of se
cessionists in lower Maryland, and are putting
them into tile Federal army. Slavery now in
Maryland has merely a nominal existence.—
outherners can here see the fate that awaits
them, everywhere if Lincoln succeeds.
Daniel S. Dickinson, the prominent turncoat
demagogue in a recent letter says the war must
be put down “ absolutely and unconditionally
by force.”
Gen. Ord's corps of Gen. Grant’s army, has
arrived at New Orleans. Still another corps, at
New Orleans. Still another corps, at last ac
counts. was on the way thither. Gen. Frank
lin was at Baton Rouge. It is publicly stated
that a grand movement is to be made
against Mobile. This may be the meaning of
the concentration at New Orleans.
Efforts are being made to have Lincoln com
mute the sentence of Dr. Wright, who shot the
commander of a negro Company in Norfolk,
Va., some time since.
The Federal papers are urging Lincoln to
enforce his draft in Norfolk and Portsmouth,
Va.
The Federal papers state that the Confederate
force at Little ltock, Ark., is about 60.000.
Substitutes continue to desert from Meade’s
army.
Lincoln has decided that there shall be no
raft in Ohio. Recruiting offices for the enlist
ment of men will be opened.
Two Confederate spies have been captured
~+ v, i.,iu- v« >■
Some of tlio Northern papers are calßuK
upon Lincoln to make war with France on the
Mexican question.
A claim has been presented by a Yankee firm
at Boston, the Messrs Upton for pecuniary in
demnity against the British Govern* ent for
property ciptured at sea by the A abama. The
ctp ured ship was the Ni*ra, «*n a voyage from
Liverpool to Calcutta. Thisclaim is to be made
through the Yankee Secretary oi State. Ac
companying tbe claim is a “ Pr itest against
the British Government and people as willing
parties negligently culpable in the destruction
of their property on the high seas, and thus in
first violating the proclamation of Ihe Queen
by building and minaning said steamer,(the Al
abama) and then allowing her to continue her
de; reflations.” We believe the records of di
plomacy will furnish nothing more absurd than
such a claim and protest, if Seward were to pre
sent them to the British Government as the
the ground lor reparation. The charge against
the English Government an * people of being
“ willing parties to a violation of the Qu en’s
proclamation,” and in being “negligently culpa
ble” in pe. mitring the Alabama to be built and
manned in a British port, appears supremely
absurd, as emanating from a Yankee firm after
the subject has been discussed by the accredited
Yankee minister of the British Court, and he
has been rebuffed by the British Secretary of
State on this very subject.
Daniel S. Dickenson, the miserable dough
faced politician, thinks the “rebellion has re
ceived its death blow.” The career of this
demagogue has been a most disgraceful one.
About sixty heads of families have been or
dered by Gen Ewing to leave Kansas City, Mo.,
on account of secession sympathies. Their
houses wil beta en for the families of Union
refugees. A number of ordeis for Ihe removal
of leading sympathizers at Westport, Indepen
dence, are als > being made out.
Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, has deliver
ed a half-way Abolition speeefi at Stratoga,
New York.
The Republicans have gained largely fat the
principal counties in California.
The Washington papers are afraid of Gen.
Stuart's raiders.
Confederate guerillas are threatening to cut
off the supply es coal Irom Washington by
burning the boats on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Csnal. The navigation is now almost suspend
ed, the boats being afraid te leave Georgetown
or i umberland.
A Confederate cruiser boarded a British brig
within twenty milea of New York on the 30th
ult.
The election in Vermont on the Ist for State
officers and three members of Congress resulted
i, the choice of Smith, Abolitionist, Governor,
bv a large majority. Tbe Legislature is almost
entirely A. olitiou. Three Abolitionists were
elected to Congress.
It row appeals that the steamer Ruth, late'y
burned on ihe Mississippi river, was robb* and of
nearly S3 000,000 of money belonging to the
Federal Government, before she * as fifed.
Ice ha* sold as high as forty cents a pound in
Philadelphia.
The enrollment in Illinois is completed, and
so lar as repoit* and, 123,133 names have been
enrol ed. Jn the Ninth District eve y possi le
obstruction was thrown in toe way, and in Ful
ton to nty a military force was employed to
protect the provost marshal and his deputies.
A negro barbecue took place re* ently at In
dianapolis. In . Just as they bad got matter*
started right, and ‘a( les spread, some Fedeial
soldiers entered the grounds, and commenced
appropriable the eatables. ‘l'Le negroes stood
it lor a time, and then commenced a fight. One
daikey was shot in the bieast, and will die;
another sas shot in the shin, md another in
ihe shoulder. After thtetiring the soldiers drew
sabres, and the darkeys armeil themselves with
kuives and bludgeons, and a hand to hand fight
ensued. Several ou both sides were severely
wou ded.
The Wisconsin Republican State Convention
has nominated J P- Lewis, of Dane countv, for
Governor, unu Judge Spooner, of Waukesha,
for L eatenant Governor.
three battles have been fought between the
Federal tioops and the Indians The latter
were defeated in every engagement
K RIHEKN NEtt*.
It is stated that General H intzle van has 10,-
000 men, mostly newly dratted, in Washing
ton.
Gen Meade has scarcely more than 70.000
men, h ving been ordered to send three cori s
to Gen. Gillmore at Charleston His ordeis are
to act stric ly on the defoueiv*, and. when at
tacked, to tall back into his entrenchments
near Alexandria.
The Union feeling (a said to be increasing,
the sp it in th Democracy acting fatal y.
Seymour is not able to stand up to his pro
gramme ; the Peace Democrats - Ben Wood &
Co. —are logins; ground ; the War Democrats -
Yan Buren,’ Belmont, Dean Richmond, and
others—gajfling influence Ohio however, will
'“elect Yallaildigham with 15.000 majority, un
less Burnside should send troops to overawe the
electors.
The fears of an imbroglio with Europe have
increased largely of late, ond the complica
tion with Mexica is is considered Very threat
ing. Large but discreet preparation are made
to prepare the Canada front er for all emergen
cies.
The Yankee Provost Marshal General has de
cided that one rao herles- child under tw< lve
yeais of age dependent upon its father’# labor
for support, exempts the father from service
under the enrollment act. It has also been de
cided that when the father marries again, t e
children are still motherless, as a stepmother
is not believed to be a mother iu the sense of
the enrollment act.
British subjects who have been drafted Into
the service of ttie United States are advised, by
Mr. Archibald, Consul ai cew York that they
shoo! lat once subm t. proof of their alienage
to the *■ nearest Board of Enrollmeut,” when, if
tlieir names ate not taken off the last, the*
should send to the British Legation at Wu<h
ingtot. or to the nearest consul, a sworn state
ment of their case, certifljd also under oat by
two disinterested persons, and prompt meas
ures will be taken to secure the r release.
A two million exempt! n loan is being raised
in New Y. rk by suliscription.
Twenty-eight Federal vessels were lost dur
ing the month of August. The doings of Con
federate cruisers helped make the number as
large as it was
All the crops in the Western States have been
injured by heavy frosts.
Washington Hunt, of New York, has made a
speech against Liucoin'a vma .cip itiou policy.
The terrible retribution visit and upon the
jayhawkimr abolition town of Lawrence. K m
sns, resulted in completely destroying it, kill
ing one hnn Bed and eighty ab. litiouists and
tweDty-five enlisted negroes.
A recent at i-mpt hy Lincoln to seize, w th
out law or precedent the licit quicksilver
mines in California, known as ths “Altnaden
mines.” created much excitement among the
raining population of that auriterous reuion,
and came near resulting in a de arms be
tween his minions and the sturdy delveis alter
he precious metals. Tho Aim den miners
have been in und.sputed possession of their
mines or seventeen years, and are still able to
maintain their right to the propeity under the
recognized mining laws ol the distr et When
Mr Lincoln saw that force was likely to be op
posed to force ho telegraphed his agent to
back down for the pies nt.
Over twenty thousand Federal troops are in
New York Cty “to keep the ne»ce.” What
a free country Li conldom is gfftt ng to be!
Judge Bacon, of Utica, his published his
opinion in substance, that deserters (con
scripts) in custody, under a law of Cong res ,
cannot be rJeas and by State Gourt-. Jud e
Mullen, of the same Judicial District, has writ
ten a deci-ion taking country gn utuls
Henry Winter Davi i. a ti ne ade of Maryland
is stomping the N.*rih in f vor of Lin olu's em
ploying negro soldiers.
AY; nkee letter w r ri ersays that “ speaking
within bounds,” four-fifth* ol the contraband
within thoir lines are anxious to return to their
masters. They do hot like -Lincoln’s free
dom”—which to them is bard work and star
vation or death by exposure.
Federal Sec etary Stanton ; s reported as la
boring enough to crush any but an iron con
stitution. The B iston Rost says he is putting
his own ;icr fills! !. r riolo K;im’s onrwtil>llb>
Mr. O. G. Sawyer, the correspondent of tte
New York Herald, w iting from Morris’ I-iand,
August 24th, reports doubt end di spondenc> in
Gillmore’s a tny. Tbe land forces have fiocoin
plished all they can, and have left ih balance
of the worn to the Monitors. Dahl • sit, on the
other h utd, pauses irresolute. T e Herald says
he is losing t ie opportunity.
General Meade h a tele implied to Was ing
t in that negot :*lions are pen ling f r an ex
change oi pris ners ; and hat. ill co irae of a
few davs, arrangements will be cnmplot and to
insure the spee 'y ands barge it all Federal pris
oners in tho hands of th * Cos I -derates.
Rosencranz's last order dec] a os that gueril
las, “when '■aught, shall be treated as spies,
robbers and enemies f the human race in
other words, be hanged or shot without delay
It is said that. Grierson is preparing for
another great raid The dash through Mis
sissippi, Which made him brigadier general, has
probably unduly stimulated his zeal.
The Northern pas rs say that Confederate
(deserters continue to arrive from Leesburg, and
are ready to take the o th of allegiance ; but
of those who have dona so, and have been sent
as substitutes to the U. S. army, nine, after
stealing horses and committing other depreda
tions, managed to rejoin their old comrades the
■other (iay.
The receipts of U. S. internal r venue during
month of August, were $5,604 201,35, being
qhe largest of any month since tho law went i
;nto operation.
Edward Everett, in a letter to tho Springfield
(111.) Convention, predicts tlvit the South will
be subjugated by next New Year's day. There
has been false prophets in all ages.
Ihe Massachusetts State Democratic Con
vention met at Worcester, on the 3d instant.
Henry W. Paine was unanimously nominated
lor Governor and Thus. F. Piuukett. of Pitts
fi -Id, for Lieutenant Governor. The resolu
tions that were passed declare strongly for
State rights, oppose the prosecution of the war
for purposes of subjugation or emancipation,
and the extension of martial law over States
not in rebellion. They declare that the waj
was the result of secession at the South and
abolition at the, Nortu ; and the democratic
party wi.uld put .'own the one by the sword
and the other by the hailot box They pro
nounced the Cou«cription act unwise and need
less harsh, oppressive and unequal in its opera
tion. and warmly applaud Horatio Seymour for
the stand he has taken.
Notes of the three Tennessee banks are
quoted in Louisville at 25 @ 27 per cent, din
count.
Count Nicbols Georgie is the rew resident
minister from Austria to tbe Unit and Slates.
Late advi'-ea from Louisville state that binds
of Confederate guerillas, from 100 to.uO strong
have recently appeared in Ciinton and Monroe
Counties, Ky. small parties of Confederate
guerillas are reported ia Trimble county, Ky.
Among the list of dismissals from the United
States Army, we find the following : Major
Martin J. Byrne, iwelvth Pennsylvania cavalry,
for allowing his command to be surpri-ed aud
c-iptured ; for disguising his rank and allowing
himself to be p -ruled as the Colonel’s orderiy,
and for desertion, to date August 27, 1863
The Associated Banks of Boston have voted
in favor ol loa.ning the U. S. Government ten
millions of doll irs. the proportion allotted to
the city of the silty million recently applied for
by Secretary Chase.
The Northern papers state that Lincoln has
received a letter tr .m General Grant in which
he not only pledges bim-eif to aid Adjutant-
General I homas in his labors, but also hearti
ly indorses the emancipation proclamation and
the raising of colored troops; and earnestly
expres-es the opinion that with the latter
great results can be attained. For a distance
of ten or fifteen miles on both sides of the
Mississippi, be says, near.y all the slaves have
been run off to the interior by the planters; but
he has sent out two expeditions for the purpose
of liberating such slaves as can be tound, and
to announce to them the : r freedom.
The Kansas niggers are to hold a Convention
to secure their civil and political rights.
The r idical emancipationists b V * bad a
Conv* ntion in Missouri and passed r-bid anti
slavery resolutions.
saick & SSCIU Mi.
AUGUSTA, GA.
\VROMES'} »Y M *R\l\ i SEPT 4.HBER IfiTßi
A Cos iRESP X .kXCB BKTWKKN GEN. STUART AND
a Brutal Federal Otflcer. —Some of our
troops Dear Games’ Cross Roads, in Virginia,
having l itely Qred ou some Federals, killing
one and capturing lour, tjie Yarikee .general
Gregg who oomiuands In that secfl n wrote to
Gen Stuart that *
If the same should again occur again, ha
would hold the inbabitauw of the 'country iu
the immediat vicinity responsible, and causa 3
all houses, barns, or other property to be de
stroyed.
This letter of tie Yankee officer is an addi
tional illustration of Ike Infamous character and
conduct of those who are vainly attempting our
subju ation. Not being able to defeat and
Cc mquer us ie an honorable way they are de
termined to devastate aed ruin all the Confede
rate territory within their lines.
Gen. fttiMrt replied to the insulting and bar
barous -etereag* in the annexed language :
Your eenemtuxieatton of the Ist instant, nd
dressed to “the effioer commanding Confede
rate troops Mar Gains’ M Roads, Va," has
been i eierred to me. It caused no sui prise. JL
expect such from those who, baffled in legiti
mate warfare, seek to turn their weapons against
helpless women and children and unarmed men.
Your threat Ls .harmless. For any acts such
as you propose, I will nowk iow whom to hold
respousib le.
My Government knows how to protect tier
citizens ; and justice, though sometimes slow,
will be sure, to reach the perpetrator* of *ueh
barbarities as you desire to inaugurate. Our
citizens are accustomed to your bras ado. Our
oldiers know their duty.
The answer of Gen. Stuart has the ring of
the true me al. and, wc trust, as he knows
whom to hold responsible, that lie will mete
out to this valiant warrior upon women and
childreu a just punishment, both sure and
speedy.
Th* Federal Proo*amme.- When this war
first broke out, the New York Courier & En
quirer was the chief organ of Lincoln, (Sew
ard and the prominent Aboliti ni-ts in New
York State who had the shaping ana control of
matters in Washington. Tnat paper published
the programme intended to be carried out at
that time. The programme announced by the
Republi *an leadois at present is more inhuman
than the one they started with at first . HeiU >
is the way they intended to treat the South
when the war commenced :
“The ringleaders of the rebellion must be
tried for high treason, ecu victed and punished
with death, if not commuted to other penal•
ties.
“Ail those who volmtarily have borne armi
against the United States should be sent to
penal colonies in the far off West and North
west, or be held to labor in building the Pacific
Railroad, and should be i eprived, for a certain
time, ot the right to vote and to curry arms.
The grants of land which our Volunteers a ter
the war can justly claim, should be taken tip
within the limits of the Southern Confederacy.
The large cities of the South should be gai ri
soned by negroe regiments, to be furnished
and paid by the South herself."
This is the original punishment intended for
the South and her brave sons. Time, howevei,
has made the feelings of tho war men of the
North more bitter ; and their intentions, as
now announced by their presses and acts, prove
that nothing but the complete devastation a#
well as subjugation of the South will satisfy
the fiendish passions that burn within their
breasts.
A DiHPrrvii Gcvsno.v Settled.— The question
his bee trequently asxeu, *• Gau a person ex
empt from conscription volunteer iu local or
ganizations, without forfeiting tlieir exemp
tions?” A telegraphic dispatch from the Sec
retary of War to Gov. Shorter, of Alabama,
reads thus :
‘•Volunteering in companies for local defense
does not render thoee exempt by law liable to
conscription.”
This much disputed matter can now, there
fore, be considered as definitely settled. Those
who have heretofore u-god this point as an ex
cuse for not volunteering for State defence
have official assurance that they can do so with
out prejti lice to tht-ir exemptions.
gentlemen exempts, fill up the ranks at once
without further delay or more excuse making.
Where is the Profit?— ‘ What will It profit
a man if he gains ” an amount of money be
yond his most sanguine expectations and greedy
desires and in gaining it aid and abets the ene
nies ol his country and imperils tho life aud
liberties of himself and children f
What will it profit a man if ho accumulates a
lar ce amount of wealth, and has it taken from
him by L:n oln's hordes ?
It would be well, 1 1 people who oro sacrific
ing tbe best iakarasU of thoir country for tbe
s ike ofgetctag possession ofilthy lucre would
stop and consider —and after considering well,
would turn from the error of their ways.
There is one thing certain. Unhss the South
achieves her independence all will be stripped
ol what they now possess. Every one there
; fore, should do all in his power to assist our
cause forward, Instead of retarding it by un
patriotic actions.
Exemptions Dm its Conscript Act.—
The following letter from Hon. J. A. Campbell,
Assistant Secretary of War, to tbe Hon G. ML
Jones, of Tennessee, will prove of interest to
persons whom it effeets. The letter is dated
Richmond, Aug 27.
Your letter relative to persons who were
upon examination, found to be unfit for field
service, but were under a miscoristructh nos
the law ordered to report for Hospital duty,
and referring to the case of R. C. Foster, lias
been received and referred to Gen. Bragg with
the following endor.iemeut :
“1 he detailing of men examined at con
scripts and found to be unfit for field duty, for
hospital service is in opposition to the Act of
Octobir'll 1862 (exemption) aid inslructions
in Gt-noral order No 82.”
“Under such circumstances a discharg wil 1
be made.”
Thz Big Gun.—The editor of the Macop
Journal & Messenger has bemon a visit to
Charleston, He thus describes the monatei
ordnance there, about which so much has been
s iid and written :
The big gun that b i been spoken much
of. is now mounted in a commanding position in
front of the citv. and can sweep any part of
tne bay. if opportunity offers. It is a monster
-o look at, and a mystery how it could "Eh
its fixtures, have been tran-ported by railroad
from Wilmington. But it is tbeie, re dy to
speak for it elf It carries «■ r fled ball or bhell
I ii inches >“ diameter and 27 long—wt-i hing
about 7 00 pounds, and requites 27 nounds of
powder for a charge. It Is estimated to be a
match for the Ironsides. A duplicate of this
gun was left at Wilmington.
A rumor from tho front, tobrably weT au
thenticated reports a gallant tut ter rib 1* ass ir
at Richrn *nd, La. It appears that city waa
gairsom-d by three t ousand negro hi. idler ,
commanded by white officers, t fie Conleder
a os, under whoso comm nd it is m t ma eriai,
attai ked the place, deieated the enemy and gave
tie* quaner to the garrison. A wb.te captain
was the only p.uson who escaped— all ike rest
being killed.