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It has Ween th it Ibe army of
Yeane**#* h*» been again retired. Our lino of
battle it now Eorae tight or ten rnikr
nmly from the important city of Atlanta. The
eaerey it in understood are immc-dia'ely in 'mr
front *ud wi-re busily euguged with their guv
la developing oir Lao during the ?v t r part
of Monday. They took p •>• -L of Mari ta
early hour ou Sunday morr. ng; r.’.-l they
are doubt!?*# enjoying them id v< h iri the com
fortable iwidences and shady g-ovt- w 1 '-h
hare been vacated by their riirbtfti! owned -.1
l%e approach of a hostile soldiery.
We look, we coslces, with painful concern
at the constant incursion of tho enemy into
the very hca;t of cur treilt -y. Jt. L trtl .hot
gentlemen, both civ 1 and military, irorn the
front rapie«i*nt the situation of our army in
St* most encouraging light. Gen JohriA.o:.
they tb’.-ik has not only eafi -rc.l no dama. •• I y
Ip# change of his position, but Ims taken
Jroand where hi* enemy vi!! flml ;t more difi!*
cil*. to opera I« on his i-ia’-* than in th<-
See* which have iiecn abandoned. it i- also
ea and that the probahilitiej of a favorable re
mitt# ourselves and of a disastrous iisucto
the enemy, whenever kattlo iu iy he j-.'rii-d. r-*
iaoreased by every advance of the; enemy from
his hate and hy every approach of our anny
ho its gia-od depot of supplies. We sincerely
hop* that ad this may to So. Still we cannot
allay our apprehension when we sec .Sherman*
■umeroos horde* drawing nearer and nearer
to the very heart of the countiy.
Wa asked with profound anxiety
oau b* dono to cheek this advance of t
•aatuy f Ii it possible for us to cnalu n di
version in any quarter which may call oil' hi.-.
Attention fro* Atlanta. To our unprofession
al apprehaaaion there in no mettiod which of
•srs sach certain relief as tho intc-rruniicm of
Iharaieu's communications with his source 6i
•apply. It i« certain that nearly all of his
provision must lie brought from Nachville.
Bor la there we presume one particle of ammu
nition of any kind produced at any ‘point near
er than Louisville, Kentucky. This would
givehim a line af transportation of from three
knndred to five hundred miles which he must.
, Asa matter of course this must bo
vary Imperfectly done. It is impossible for
hi* to gnard with an adequate fore.- «::• h an
•langated line, 'i Ik re mu-t be many point*
where Iho garriadn is very feeble, aud Oihers
ealiraly neglected. Ww ever such a field pie
aantai for enterprising and patriotic cavaay ?
The cavalry immediately conneci ed v/ith the
ar*y af Tennessee aro, undoubtedly, constant-,
ly eagvjKl on the right end loft wings of the
ar*y in duties which require their ulbution
there. They cancrtt, we.presume, he spare ! f:r
aarviae In tha rear of,the enemy. but’there
vast be oilier force* availnldo which could do
-sore good In North Georgia or In middle Ten
nasssa than at nny other point.
Ware a (Wc* of a few Phouv.ni men to (■ i’ to
aoHA of tha many heights whicn ccnnamid the
mil rood netiraen Marietta mid Chatt • n,
aid hold them for even * few days, fiiey mod i
•raala serious emburrn -suH'iifc to tho enemy, j
Jfot only insy his supplies be cut rdf. but lie :
worn Id be compelled to dotach such a force i
from kls front »h would materially weaken his 1
strength bofore Gen. Johnston. This would I
give aur general au opportunity of trying the !
tanking operation which Sherman hr.* been i
praalicing so constantly since Miry Lit. We i
•cases? that this simple and obvious process t
strike* us as the most effective available moth- ’.
ed for the relief of Atlanta. There is but cue !
• th«r •onci.-ivable ; and that is to inert use the, j
army at onr front, to such numbers as £o make i
a»y further l inking an impossibility, aud to ;
••rnpel an-engagement iu the prison! position j
•4 tho armie*. But whilst these things seem j
** 6o our view, it is possible that (lie skillful
9*a*ra\ in command lias his o-.vn reasons, good
and sufficient, for allowing tho rear of his en
emy w remniu undisturbed and for falling back
from position to position. We nr# glad to defer
t* his superior capai ity if this be so ; and we
trasl that he will be able to strike the decisive
t»l#w in due time. If he caw bring the enemy
Mrs ecgagrmrnt wo have great coiiililtmcu ip
a fcvornbl# insult.
Skid Rosa Lkav» —burgeon J. J. Chi ebu
Medical Purveyor at Columbia, S. C.,li»s request
ad the paper* to ask contributions of rose
leave# from the ladles of the Confederacy. All
the bl*e pill required for the army has been
iaade from last summer’s contributions, and
th# medical department would be again under
obligations to tiro ladies if they would rvdst in
oollectmg these, to be used iu manufacturing
medicine# for our sick soldiers.
Mb. M *mii i not Rwsionkd — The Bavan’
mk Republican has seen a letter from Mr.
Maransiuger, written iu hia official rapacity, us
iecretary of the Tress*rv. and dated J«uo 27,
'from which it ipfers that the siaii-racnt that he
be* resigned is cither premature or untrue. If
th* Republican’* surmises are correct, •‘Good
Mod deliver us,” say we.
Fbom Shirk an** Rear ut war or Virginia.
The Richmond Rxmhluct of July 5 saislhat
Information. believed to be authentic, Las been
received in that city that General Forrest with
his cavalry had suddenly appeared before Mur
treeahprough end surprised real captured the
tews. Muifreeshoroogh is near the centre if
the iiiate of Tennessee, over t i.e hundred and
*fty miles in Sherman's rear.
Communication with Richmond Opened.—
The Charleston Courier learns that a telegraph
Ic dispatch 1 as been received from the l’e r
master at Wilmington, stating that mail com
munication with Richmond has been resumed—
the railroad between Weldon and Petersburg
having besu repaired.
Fbom Virginia—A gentleman j;,st from
Richmond, speaks in the most encouriging
tsrßU of the prospect there. He says that the
people of that city feel perfectly secure, and
wMtertain no fears for th-> safety of Petetshuig.
His account of the condition of affairs in Yir
giaia is gratifying in the extreme.
Mol* in Nsn Yokk.—A blockade runner
who was in N«w York on the I?:h of Jane
•tatss that gold was tlnee for one ic even
part of tbs eity. It could not be purchased
#»r Isas than that. This shows that the news
paper gustation* are tales—merely made to
deceive the pubiis.
The lapr# drugstore of Messrs. Abrams lias
heetr seised by order of tho authorities It i.
said that large quantities of quinine ai di t r
medicinal n'ures iiavs l>een sent b yv: t (he
lines, and that there is documentuTv e.'ideuct
- tr. ai Q«o. Knty Smith, his Sit goon G-’ c-»i
ard others connected with e dr, which
will probably convict the Messrs. Abrams and
result iu the confiscation of their store and
property.
Northern papers state that Confederate cav
alry are becoming troublesome in Sherman's
rear.
I liiK rRISOAERS It C.IARLESTOA —CCR
R^sposattc*.
A f-.w days s' ce we copied from a Northern
p-; r a letter from G*n. Jones to the Federal
C -ii. Fester in regard to the Yankee prison
er: at Chpri- ViD and Gen. Foster's reply to the
-am*. The Northe'n press, in order to put
tho b«»t face oa matters, omitted te publish
ibe wholj of the correspondence—leaving out
Gen. Jones’ reply. Annexed w* republish
that part of the correspondence already given
to the public, together with th* Letter omitted
by the Tunkee press :
LETren from obk. joxus to anx. 'yosraa.
Hcau'q'os Dar'T South Carolina, Ga«a«VA
Aim Florida, Cluurleatoa, June IS. IS-ii
General and forty-five field o®-
cers of the L'nitcd State* army—all of them
prison- rs of war—have been sent to this city
lor ,i e ieeping. They have been turned over
lu lit',-.-. Gea Itipley. commanding the firat mii
ti btritt of thie department, who will see
ih p"; r y are provided with commodious quar
ters in a part of the city occupied by non-com
baumts, the majority of whom are wemen and
;j.;.iron. It is ).roj>er, however, that I should
Viftrrrn you that it is a part of th# city which
ha* for many month* been exposed, day sad
oi-- f. to the fire of your gun*. Very ro*p**t
-Im.li- your obedient servant,
Sam. Jonpb,
Major Gen. Commanding.
y.a r-Gen. J. G. Foster, commanding Uol
'ed siate.i forces on the coast of Isoath Caro
;it a, Coufsderate States.
OEX. FOSTKSS'S XSPLT.
HKAtV AKTSM Dni ARTMUKT 09 TUB SoriH, |
• lliitoa Head, S. C., Jane IS, 186A j
Major Gen, Sam Jones, commanding Confede
rate Forces, Liepartmeat of South Caro
lina, Georgia and Florida:
- General: I have to acknowledge tha receipt
this day of your communication of the lSik
ini* , informing me that'five genera!* and forty
iiv- field officers of the Cuited States army,
pris iDei ii of war. Lave linen turned over to you
uy Ciig Gen. ii:play, with instructions to «ee
that they are provided with quarter* in a part
o! the city occupied by non-combatant*, the
..oi rity of which latter you state are women
and cfciidren. You add that you deem it pro
pc* to inform me that it is a part of the aity
which has l-oen for many mo*th* exposed to
t- ? iii *~f our g in*. Many months *lnc* Usj.
'.-n. Gilmore, United State* army, notified
General IWnurcgard, then commanding in
Ch,vrli->.! n, tlmt tha city Would bo bombard
ed Tbi* notice was given that non-combat*
an!* might be removed, and thus woman and
(iiildren spared from harm. Gea. Beauregard,
i;i a (lumrounication to Gea. Gilmore, dated
Aug. 22, ISCII, informed him that the non-aom
hniHiit population of Charleston would b* re
e.-'iwd with ail possible celerity. That women
and children have been since retained by you
in a ; a t of tho cily which l a* been for uiaay
in'.;i:sm <-xposed to lire i*» a matter decided by
y-.iir own sense of humanity.
’ i on-el, L'lr.evar, protest against yonr action
in !1m- iM.iciog defenseless prisoners of war in
- p .’ii-xi bombardment. It ia an
i -f<' d»le n<st of cruelty and can b* da
■ii-1: ud on'y to prevent a continuance of our
.. • up--.-a Chari-ston. That city is a depot for
m hie: y supplies. It contain* not merely ante
uxls, h.it ai;.o loundries aud factories for th*
in .. (.. lure of munitions of war. In its ship
vnrds several armed iron clads have already
been completed, while oth*rs ere still upon
the ilui iis in course of construction. It* wharves
a id the bunks of the river en both side* of the
c!t*r arc l ined with batteries. To destroy those
-n-.a: sos continuing tho war is, therefore, our
i ! iec. onda duty. You geek to defeat tbi*
iloit and by means not known to honorable
waifve, but by placing unarmed and helpless
pi i.m'-is under lire, there forwarded your
c<>;-)i-iu!,ic--iii;m to the President, with a request
F the pi ice in my custody an equal nnuiber
cl prison: r* of like grade to )>o kept by me in
positions exposed to the fire of your guns, so
. ii ; a? you continue the course stated in yonr
communication.
i have the honor to be, very respectfully,
your obedient servant, J. F#vr*it,
iivjor-Gcneral Commanding.
• ]>. C. Wag>ii-, A. A. G.
i Uci’i.Y of Major osniskai. sam. jo*»s to ma
jor •ENZRAL VOSTEtt.
lleadqcarter.*. 1
Di:partmbxt S. C., Ga: and Fi.a., y
cii < ln.ltsroN, June 22, 1884. j
Gkn'sai. : Your letter of the 16th, in reply
to mine of the 18:h instaut, has been received:
Vk - 0 have both been recently assigned to
•or •••;' No cnmi.mnds.it may be well, that
wc should iiudcrstand correctly the circum
stances under which the fire on this city was
c-a-ameuceil arid has been continued. You, I
think, neern, to be under some misapprehension
in regard to the matter.
First, you inaccurately assume that before
opening lire on this city Major General Gill
ni ,t\ in accordance wifti the usages of Civil
] w.-ivlare, notified General Beauregard of
l:U intention, in order ‘“that non-combatant*
might he removed, and Unis women and chil
dren be spared li<-m harm.’’
Secondly, you evidently misstate the object
of the bombardment.
1. On the 21st of August last a letter, with
out -circ.'on o, was cent'from Major General
>i more's headquarters tq General Beaure
gard, informiiTg him that unless certain ox
traovdiiiary conditions were complied with, or
if no reply thereto was received within ‘-foer
hours’.’after the delivery of the letter at Bat
(t-iy Wagner, for transmission to Charleston,
tire would be opened on the ciiy from batterie*
already established. Gen. Beauregard received
that letter atter eleven o’clock at night, aud
two hours later, when tho City was in profound
impose, Muj. Geu. Gillmofe opened fire on it,
ami threw a number of the most destructive
projectiles < vor before used, amidst the sleep
ing an l unarmed population. If M»j. Gen.
Giilmiuv only dcsigi-d togo through the barrea
lona of giving nolice cf his intention, with
i in a;i!.wing the non-combatants time to with
draw, lie would have accomplished that useless
end, <t in his haste and eagerness to begin his
wicked wok, he had not forgotten t* sign so
•important a letter.
The time, allowe ! was four hours from th*
delivery of ihc letter at Battery Wagner, for
lransmi-sion to Geu. Beauregard’s headqnar
quru tt-fs. five miles distant. M*j. Gen. Gill
luore knew very well that, in the ordinary
hours of transmission, all the time allowed
would elapsa before he could receive a reply to
his demand, and he knew quite as well that it
v.-i-. - impostihltii i the brict space or time al
lowed. m remove iho non combatant? of a large
c. and populous city. It is clear, therefore, that
tin.- time wa» not allowed and that the object
oi -.he notification was not “that non combatants
might be removed.”
11. You say : "Many months since Maj. Gen.
G'ilmorc, U. S. A , notifiedQensralßeauregard
(then commanding tit Charleston • that the city
■roll'd be bctuliardpd. This notice was given
: hut run combalßuts might be remyved, and
thus women and Children be (pared from harm.”
"Tliit city i» a depot for military supplies.—
I' cent:.ins not merely arsenals, but also foun
dt ie- and factories for the manufacture of mu
nitions of war. In its shipyards several armed
irou-cLuis have been air ady completed, while
o' evs are siill ttpoi' the stocks iu course of
vr.-ruciion. Its wharves and banks of the
r’.vem on Loth sddfs if the city are lined with'
bat. ri.s To destroy these means of continu
ii . war is. therefore, our object and duty.’’
»i ij r i -nerui Gill more says, in his letter of
:i<t of August last to General Beauregard:
' < vc the honor b* demand of you the irame
.’iue cv .citation of Morris Island and Fort
nuv ;er by the Confederate forces. The pre
sort condition of Fort Sumter, and the rapid
.. 1 pr .rreffive destruction which it is nnder
coiug from my batteries, seem to render its
complete demolition within a few hours a
mutter of certainty. Ail my heaviest gam
hit vo not yet opened.
••Should you refuse compliance with this de
mand. or .-liould L receive no reply thereto
.v.;,ra four hour* after'it is delivered into tho
hands if > our subordinate at Fort Wagner for
transmission, 1 sbail open on the City of
Charleston from batteries already established
withiu es.-'V and effective range of the heart of
iho City.”'
N
He proposed to fire on tf*e city of Charleston
to enforce the surrender of Morris Island and
you Sumter. His language admits no doubt.
The price of retusal to comply with his de
mand u: the threatened destruction of the
City ot Charleston, for he resorts to no snch
pretext o* that he would - destroy batteries,
i -ipyv.rds. inm-ciads, arsenals, foundries and
depots of supplies He (ays :‘T steal; open
five on the i itv of Charleston from batterie*
ready established within easy and effective
(.range) of the heart of the city,” where iay
the slecp’.utr women and children, the antici
pated victims of his wicked purpose.
Tito obj nb: of the fire, accohding to Maj
Gen. Gilmore, was to enforce the surrender of
i npoi .i t fort, which he could not reduce,
tor alter withstanding for nearly a year the
mosts. rubuabio bombardment from land and
.-v« lutt.;:: ■ ever before directed on one
i,.; 1 he Confederate Sag still flies over Fort
bum!©;-. Failing in that, his next object was
to destroy the city to its very heart, or to make
it uninhabitable by non-combatants.
independently of the declaration of Major
General Gilmore rhat his purpose was to rea«h
“tiw heart of the city,” the wanner it) which
the fire has been direrteJ from the commence
ment shows be; end doabt that its object was
the d-g-ruction" or the cily H.-eil nn.i every
j*rt of it. and not as you a«iime, to destroy
certain miiitrry and naval works in. and imme
diately around it. For if the works you men
tion have been the marks the fire has been so
singularly wild and inaccurate, that no one
who has ever witnessed it would suspect its
object.'
The shall* have been thrown nt random, at
any and all hours, day and night, falling pro
miscususly in the heart of the city at poinU re
mote from each other, and lrom the works you
mention. Many, I heliev# the greater namber
of them, have been thrown in the night, when
it was impsoibl# to see the object tired at.—
They have not fa len in or concentrated for any
time upon anv particular locality, as. would
have been the case, if directed on a particular
fixed obj-ct/nr night firing, but they have
searched the city in every direction, indicating
no purpose or expectation, on the part of those
directing th# fire of accomplishing any miliiary
result, but rather the design of destroying pri
vate property, and killing some person*, no
ma ter whom, tnoetprobably women and chil- 1
dreu quietly sleeping in their accustomed be.'?
A few weeks since, between 1 and 2 o'clock
at night, one of yonr shells psssed within a
foot of the bed occnpied by a man and hi* wile
They wer# of the cite whom, your people
denominate “American citiseus of African des
cent,” and were more than half a mile from
the nearest naval or military work. Again,
your fire has been so slow that almost any dam
age. save th# chance expioiaon of a magasice,
that you could reasonably expect on* shot to
effect, conld ordin»ri!y be repaired before the
next shot could be fired. Th# object of yonr
fir# m»y legitimately be judged of by its effect.
It has never suspended for an instant, the la
bor on or in any military or naval work, footo
ry, foundry, arsenal, or depot of euppliee. It
has never killed or wounded, so far as I can
learn, a soldier or laborer engaged thereon.—
But it has damaged a number ot private honses
iu the heart of the city, and killed aud wound
ed some nos combatants. Indeed, it seems
that, with the exception of an old man, an
octogenarian, killed while quietly sitting by
bis fir# at night, the only persons killed have
been wom«n aud children.
You known perfectly well that a lira such
as I have described, could aet have kad for its
object the destruction of certain specified,
fixed military and naval works. But there are
other peculiarities about the Bring that pre
clude the sappoeitioa that its ebject was what
you allege.
llaving failed to frighten the Confederate
Commander into compiianoe with his unrea
sonably demands, Major Geaeral Gillmore
threw a few more shells (J 7 in all) into th#
city for no conceivable object than to frighten
away and kill a few non oorabatants,. to show
how far he could throw his projbctile*, and
gratify a spirit of malice, and than oessed.
From the 27th of October, aot a shot or shell
was thrown into tha city.
lie, doubtless, supposed that by that time
tho non-combatants whom ho imagined kad
been frightened away, had returned to the city.
For he knew very well that the masa of the
non combatant population of a large city situa
ted as Charleston, would not, and could not
abandos their home* permanently and become
homeless wanderers. Lie knew that th* climate
of tho country immediately around Charles
ton wan considered deadly, at that season of
tho year, to white persons, and that if any peo
ple, unable to proemre residence# in the
sparsely settled interior, had led on the begin
ning of the fire to th# immediately surround
ing country to escape his shells, they would
naturally, after so long an intermission of fire,
return to the city to escape the malaria more
deadly than his projectiles.
On the 27th of October, alder an interval of
more than twe months, witbeut a ward of
warning, he again opened fire, and threw a
few shitti* into the city—just enough to fright
en, irritate and kill a few non-combatant*, but
not enough to predece any military ra*alt—
and then ceased firing for three week*.
On the 17th of November he again opened,
and eontinued a very slow fire. It was appa
rent that the fire wan especially directed at
churches during the hoars for public worship.
Christmas Day, 1861— the anniversary of the
advent of the I’riace of Pesce, when the angels
proclaimed peace on earth and geod will to
men, a day of general thanksgiving and rejoic
ing—was ushered in by 5S»j. General Gilmore
with a fire more than ten-fold heavier and moro
cord in uons than usual.
Ynase facts, aside from the express declara
tion of Major General Gillmore, show conclusive
ly that the object of the fir# was not, and has
not, bean what yoa allege, and they show be
sides that it has been condacted in a spirit of
mere malice and cruelty.
If, therefore, year object in ordering or per
mitting the fire is the destruction of the works
you mention, it is very manife.-t that your sub
ordinates who immediately direct it, are actua
ted by no-such purpose.
By your long resiileaca in and near this city,
you especially have accurate Jcnowled** es the
localities of the works in qaestioo, aail If, after
you receive this letter, your ire is directed as
it has bean heretol'oio, 1 shall be confirmed in
the belief that your object is not what yen as
sert it to be, but simply th* destruction of pri
vate property and the live* of aon-combaUnts.
This city is not aad never ha* been during
the war besieged in any correct acceptation of
that term. It is partially blockaded on the
water fromt. lnftll other reepecU it is as open
as it ever w*s. Persons pass ia and out of it
at pleasure, and the inhabitants, a large major
ity of whom have never left ihc city, pursue
tticir accustomed avocations. And here I may
notice vour extraordinary statement that I
have retained women and childron in positions
•exposed to your fire, only to say that no con
trol whatever has keen exercised orar them,
and 1 cannot sappes* that yon really bellmed
the Brass of the non-coinhatant popalation of
Charleston had abandoned the city.
Yonr only land batterie# are nnder th# guns
of your war vessels. The nearest on* is about
five miles distant, and fires over onr interme
diate batteries into th# city, iron which yonr
fire has never been returned. Those batteries,
you know, must b« taken, ailenoed or turned,
before you can hop# to occupy and pomess th#
site es this city and its harbor. The fir# has
been sucb as, you very well know, oenid not
lessen by eno hour the duration ot this war,
er produce any material military reeult.
Under the foregoing statement es fheta, I
cannot but regard th# desultory firing du this
city, which you dignity, by the name of bom
bardment, fro* lu commencement to this
hour, as anshristian, inhuman and ntterly in
defeasible by any law, hyma;> pr
To this city, thus oircamstAiiced, pr!»o
--neis of war referred to in my letter of tha JCth,
have been sent for safe keeping. You assert
this »to bo an act of inrtblensible cruelty, un
kuowu to hon-'rahle warlar#. If it wero so it
would ill becom* any officer »f yonr Govern
ment to raise the question. For it weuld fall
?o immeasurably short of the innumerable
crimes perpetrated by your armies, with the ap
proval ami sanction of your Government, that
in comparison with them it would seem like
the tenderest care that a mother could bselow
upon a child.
That Government has retained at tha head
of one of it* arraisi a Gensral whose conduct
in this war ha» acquired for him »ech notorious
infamy that his name i* a Isywerd an« a re
proach iu every land where the events #f the
war are known: and at the head es another of
its armies a General who publishes te the world
and instructs hist Ulcers that for the loyal peo
ple of the Southern Confederacy "death is Sh*r
cy. the quicker hfc or she is disposed of the bet
ter,’’ that "Satan and the rebellious saints of
heaven were allowed a eontinuance of exist
ence in hell merely to swell their just punish
ment,” and that "to such as would rebel
against a Government so mild and just as oars
was in pease, a punishment equal would not
be unjnst.” Theoflicera of such a Government
are precluded from raising any question as to
the observance or non-observance of the rule*
of honorable warfare.
But it is not true that the prisoner* of war
now in this city are treated with any cruelty.
They are In a large city, not besieged, but par
tially blockaded by land and naval batteries
from five to ten miles distance. They are pro
vided with commodious and comfortable quar
ters, remote irons allmilitary and naval works,
or any other object on which you may legi
timately fire, and they are treated with all the
cousidoration duo to prisoners of war. They
are surroundsd by citisems of all classes and
conditions, and it caanot be regarded as an act
of craelty to place them in the immediate vi
cinity of the houses occupied by our wires and
children. I desire, and am so directed, that
they be treaed with all the consideration and
kindness due their rank and condition, and I
will greatly deplore any necessity yon may
foree on me, to direct say Chang# in that coarse
of treatment
Ton regard that treatment a* justifying Ton
in asajng your Governmeat to place in your
custodyan equal number of prisoners of like
grades to be kept by yon in positions eipo-«d
to the lire of my guns. We direct onr fire on
]y on your batter! <*«, shipping and troops If
tor wiu direct your guns onij 01 the works
that you distinctly specify m the object* of
yonr fire, or on any object on which -a hon
orable foe may legitimately fire, the prisoners
of war, sad their neighbors the non-combatants,
women and children among whom they live',
will be in no danger whatever from the 'effects
oi vour shot.
If ts»» C. 8. oil ♦ere, prisoners of war, shall
be placed by you a? you indicate, I have to as 1 :
That yon will, as promptly and minutely a* I
have dons, infoun in- w,.en and where they arc
placed, and how treated.
I have the honor to be.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
Bam Jexas.
Major-Ganeral Commanding.
To Major-General J. G. Foster, Commanding
Department of theSonth, Miiton Head.
T3U» THA PAOXT,
Tn# army of Tennessee consu-ecoed a retro
grade movement from th* line* of Kennesaw
rnoa.tA.inat midnight on Isatarday, and by
a rapid inarch, retired our right to its present
petition on tha Chattohaochee. Oar left tell
back slowly before the hsaviiy tunaaed force
that hherman had plaoed on tho Powder Spring
and stand 'Town roads. Our retracted Line* ai
daylight were in entrenched position aboat
twelve milat North ol Atlanta. 'Th# enemy
evin#*d no disposition to push rapidly &*y ad
vantage* be gained, by giving battle or press
ing us. r.ie usual aaouat of rapid skirauih
ing wa* kept up. and with cbout the oulinary
rejuit*. Both armie* prooeed*! to intrench on
their chosen line# on Snnday evening. The
•uemy occupied Marietta early on Sundnv
morning W* had removed every thing of
value before th# array marched through it.
Dsring onr retreat frarn Kennesaw a smart
cavalry skiimish Occurred near th* military
Instiimte Marietta. The Yaakees wore driven
back.
On Monday morning Ga. Wilde’s Yankee
eavalry brigade wer# ambnsaaded ia a swamp
ia aur front. Thirty ot them wer# killed and
fifty wonnded. VV« oapmred thirty horses,
and fifty spencer rills*.
On Monday afternoon a heavy foroe af the
enemy made an assault on Rom’ brigade of
Jackson's cavalry division, has were repulsed
and charged I u turn by Axis iu gallant style,
and driven bask half a mile upon thair artit
lery which was hurriedly drawn off to prevent
its capture. Later ia the evening, with an in
creased force, they succeeded iu tnrning Boss’
left, thus compelling hi* to fall t*ck. They
then assaulted Gen. G. W. Smith’s uivieioß
bus wdii twice repulsed, when all became eul'
et.
On Tneadsy morning Bess was driven from
the position keld by the State troops last night
and the enemy followed on.
Ou Wednesday, they occupied the hill* on
this side of Yiniog, and «i near the river a* they
seem to desire for the present. From their
batteries, which are situated on very high and
commanding positions,Hhey shoot shell* pro
miscuously over the bluff along the river,
though their effect has been trfling tpua far.
The enemy Thursday morning made a heavy
advance on our extreme left and commenced
severe skirmishing with musketry aud artil
lery, exnibiting an intention to cross the river
at Groon’s feny. The skirmishiug continued
to increase in intensity and rapidity np to
noon, but withoatter.y advantage beingsecured
by either party. It is evident that the enemy
is making this sudden and persistent demon
stration Tor th# psrpose of attracting atten
tion away from their operations in some other
important quarter. There cannot be the
slightest probability that Sherman will force a
battle in the present position of b#th a>mies.
His evident intentieu is t* insist on tremen
dous artillery operations to drive us from our
position and then cross his forces to the £outh
bank when he hopes to divert our centre from
its position and thus succeed by flank move
ments again, in securing our central strong
holds.
On Thnrtdsy the greater part of the ene
my’s demonstration* wer# mnd* against our
position in the neighborhood of Green’s Fer
ry. Heavy musketry firing and cannonading
occurred during]'he day, but no heavy move
ment was mad# by the enemy to march on the
position or take it by assault.
On Thursday tha Yankee* attempted to plant
some batteries below Turner’s Ferry, but were
driven off.
A body of cavalry attempted on Thursday
afternoon to cross th# Chattahoche# in the vi
cinity of Roswell, but were routed with a loss.
On Thursday night the enemy attempted to
drive in our skirmishers in front of Bate’e di
vision, but were driven back.
A cavalry skirmish occurred below Turner's
Ferry Friday morning. The Yankees were de
feated.
Cos). Thompson of th# Third Georgia #aval
ry wa* wounded in th# head aefi hand in a
skirmish July t. Wounds not considered dan
gerous.
Gsa. Yaaghn, in a akirm’sh Menday evening
had the mwfortan# to lose one of his feet. He
was struck in the leg just ahov# the ankle,
whisk made amputation nsce»*ry.
Our line, er rather the nearest point of it, is
within nine miles of Atlanta, and two miles
north es tha Chattahoochee.
The troops are in the most cheerful spirits,
rough and raady, ana willing for the signal of
advance.
Four negroes at work on the tren«h#s, were
killed by Yankee shells Menday.
There was a heavy cavalry skirmish npon
the Marietta read Tneaday.
The Yankee cavalry are in heavy fore# nejr
Turners Ferry in the vicinity of Sweetwater
town.
Gen. Hindman was throws from his horse
Tuesday, and severely inj.uried.
The other day during the burying of the
dead, while the two armies wefe miring freely
with each other, seemiagrto forget far the time
their late hostile attitude, a man in Strahl’s
Brigade suddenly enecuntcred a brother among
the Yankee living and another lying with the
dead. It was a sad commentary npon the un
natural nature of the strife, and doubtless the
brothers felt it so. How little they dreamed
when boys together around a common hearth
stone, that as men they should meet thus and
perform the painful task of burying their dead
brothei. I coaid net learn their ns.ma,
The scarcity of tobacco in the Yankee army
is remarkable. They got all they could from
pur boys tho other day. The article is very or
dinary issned to them by the Confederacy, but
f»r it the Yankees would exchaago anything
they had. Some of our men, who happened
to be supplied, receivpd for it oil ololbs, hats,
knives, raeerchaum pipes, watch©* and coffee.
Some of the bargains would provoke a smile
from the gravest face. It was an odif sight.
From a trustworthy source we lca.ru that a
party of scouts, numbering about forty, under
command of Oapt. A. Harvey, on the 25th ult.,
struck the Western and Atlantic railroad at a
point about two and a half miles above Reanca,
and captured and burned a train of about fif
teen cars loaded with commisaary stores, and
proceeded to Tiiton, captured and burned
trains, fifteen car# each, loaded with ordinance
and forbge. The party captureij some eighty
eight prisoners, who were taken to Cave Spring
and forwarded to Blue Mountain: They turn
ed the railroad bridge at Tilton and cut the
telegraph wires It is reported (hat a Tennes
see scout above Tilton has ran off the track and
destroyed two or three trains, tore up the track,
and cut the telrgr*;*» wires. Lieut. Baker,
commanding 6 scouting party, ran off two
ttains at a point b#low ZGsaea, at night, but
owing to the large nmmber ot Yankees in the
neighborhood, he was unable t» destroy them.
During the truce a few days ago, the Y*n>
kees told our men that two Kentucky brigades
were disbanded and went home some week*
ago, and that th* time of Whitaker’s Ken
tucky brigade wiil expire in a few days when
they are determined tq go home.. The extra
ninety days of an Ohio brigade will also ex
pire scon. They say that they are going home.
They told togas of tho 13th Avkac*as regiment
that if ordered to charge our works they
would throw down their arm* and come over,
asking our boys not to shoot at them in that
event.- *
The supply of vegetables issued to the army,
though not abundant, is highly cendueive to
health, and relished by appreciative appetites.
The people in the rear caa now render inval
uable service to the scarred veteran# who
breast the wsvee of invaiion day and night,
by sailing or contributing to the chief of sub
sisteace all their surplus vegetables..
It is the impression in military circles that
Sherman will not make a front. attack upon
Johnston in position, but will Still bear to the
left, in which direction the principal skirmish
ing is occurring
The Yankee picket* are uausually social and
friendly, and endeavor to obtain information.
The main body of the Yaukces are busy for
tifying in our front.
The heat is almost insufferable, ana #nr men
are again compelled to resort to every specie*
of artificial shades to protect them from the
fiery rav* of the sun. Th# skirmishers are
' having a terrible time of it in the ©pea ftelus
without any protection, and how the Yankees
manage to work in the trenehee and survive,
is mere than can be accounted for.
Gen. Phillip’s Paper Mill, at Roswell, wm
burner! Pn Tuesday morning. The General
senT th-m word tnai a
man who had fought them from the beginning
of the war, and who would continue to fight
them to the bitter end; that he had been taught
frem childhood to hate them aa enemies to
him and bis, and th-t ne would die hating
them; that he did not ask any favor from thrm:
and they mightbmn to their hearts content ”
These bold words of defiance, as a matter of
course, did not have any influence in protest
ing the propertr. It was diamsntled complste
ly before the proprietor retreded. He re
mained in sight of the place until he saw the
flaraea consume it.
, The enemy oautiotuly approach and oarefuliy
occupy their positions for batteries and lines
from which to operate, with as much safety as
possible to themselves.
Gen. Johnston's headquarters arc at Smyrna
Church, a little old country meeting house,
with a dilapidated graveyard, six miles this
side of Marietta. Lieut. Gen Stewart on the
right, Hood on the left, and Hardee in the
centre, with a line extending across the rail
road, is the organization of the army.
We learn from a reliable source that all the
factories at Boswell were burned on Thursday.
Th# enemy seemed to pay no attention to the
protection gd.tnanded by the foreign cilzm
owners, aud their own promises to protect the
property. Thus has been lost to our Confede
racy a valuable property, estimated at the
least calculation, at five millions of dollars
va.’uafion. It cannot l.e replaced until the
war is over, and is simply im-paiable.
The situation is becoming quite complicated
and diiii alt to un ierstacd.
Schofield s Corps has moved down the river,
as if he had au idea of crossing and cutting off
our railroad communication; but whether this
is the real object of the move, or whether they
intend to fortify th# cliffs and hold them, there
by giving their cavalry an opportunity of raid
ing into the country, or for the purpose of en
abling their pontooaievs to lay their bridges
remains to lie seen; but it is certain that some
vigorous move will shortly be made upon the
military chess-board, the result of which, will
decik* the fat* of the Gate Gity.
Notwithstanding this move, the enemy are
busily engaged in frout of our centre, -in
throwing up works, and planting batteries, but
beyond this they are remarkably quiet; and
for once, their skirmishers aud sharpshooters
are comparatively quiet, whilst ours are pop
ping away quite lively, with some success, as
I learn from an officer in Lewis’ brigade, that
his sharp?hoßters had killed four and wounded
some fifteen during the morning.
Our batteries iu the vicinity of 'Turner's
ferry, have been shelling the enemy's working
parlies during the day—theirs seldom reply
ing.
Lieutenant-General A. P, Stewart has taken
aanuaaDd of tha corps lately commanded by the
lamented Polk, and General Clayton takes
comraanff of Stewart’s division.
The Yankee trains run to Yiniug's, four
ia:lc* beyond the Chattahoochee.
!he army draws tobacco now and then.. You
will have an idea of the quality from a
remark that fell from a sjrt of wag the other
day. He couldn’t use, he said, tbs smoking
tobacco lie bought these days; and as for the
•chewing tobacco they drew, he intended to get
a detail to chew it for him, he couldn’t do it.
Brig, Gen. Clayton has been promoted to a
Major Generalship, and assigned to Stewart’s
Division.'
It is not believed here that the enemy will
attack us ia our present position, but will move
to our left, and eudeavorjto fl ink ufl across the
river.
boms Yankee prisoners ?av that Sherman
sands Confederate deserters to Northern prisons.
A. heavy cavaliy skirmish occurred at How
ard's Ferry Friday morning.
FSUM A'lißlH CAROLINA.
Th# late Yankee raid into Onslow county, N.
-C., a lew days since was quite a formidable one.
ib# »ihuiugton Journal says that t\?o steam
erg and two transports came up to New River
Inlet and sent, up the river seven barges load
ed with men, one ol which lauded at the point,
the others ascending the liver us high up as
bneed’s Ferry. They took a number of citizens
and horses, and some negroes, which they car
ried off. About the same time a portion of two
regiments of cavalry and infantry, with some
artillery, went to Jacksonville, A portion of
them crossed tho river and came out on the
Wiimingten road as far as Dr. Ward’s resi
dence, about two miles from Jacksonville. At
this point, from some cause they rnadrf a halt.
They remained at Jacksonville until Tuesday
evening, when they returned by the way of
Sneed’s Ferry, going down on the east side,
where they met with the boat party, and re
ceived the horses tho latter had stolen. They
are understood to have said their destination
wss Wilmington, but for some cause they did
not proceed further in this direction than above
stated. The land torces were from binith’s
Mills, on the White Oak river, where it is re
ported they are fortifying. 'They committed
various depredations in Jacksonville and in
that neighborhood.
On tha receipt of the newsat Salisbury of the
Tauksa raiders at Morganton aud Gamp Yance,
forces wera sent forward from Salisbury to
meet tho enemy. Os course the enemy did
not tarry long and our forces were unable to
coin* up with them, as the telegraph announced
their departure through Watauga county.
There were about two hundred Confederates
at Camp Vance, how many of them were cap
tured, if any, is not known.
Th# deposits in the Branch of the Bank of
North Carolina at Morganton had been previ
ously removed, nnd it is not probable the Yan
kee Kaideie made much out of the Bank, even
if they did rob it.
The leader of the late raid into West North
Carolina is named Kirk. He hasten a tor
ror to a few of the border counties of that sec
tion and East Tenneasee for,about two years
It wa* he that penetrated up the French Broad
Valley as far as the Warm Springs, which he
held at th# time Major Woodliu and others
wer# killed in an unsuccessful attempt to dis
lodge him. He b'as threatened Ashe vile for a
long time, but from prudential considerations
ho* nev#r as yet attempted to reach that place.
The Ashviile (N. C.) News of June 30, says a
band of leenesseo Tories, numbering fifty,
made a descent on Oataloochee, in Haywood
county, on Saturday night last. They cap
till ed and carried off Young Bennett, Esq , and
his son, and Air. Levi Caldwell and his soil, all
respectable citizens. They also carried eff
quite a number of horses. Henry’s scouts at
Last accounts, were on their trail, and wo be to
the rascals if they overtake them.
Flint! MISSISSIPPI,
An important order appears from the Adju
t?nt aid laspeotor General’s office o/ Missis
sippi, in reference to the organisation for local
defesce, of all officers and others tow in the
Stale, exempted Irons Military duty iu the
Confederate service. One company of cavalry
and one of infantry may be formed in each
couDty, and mustered into service by the sher
iff. No compiny will be accepted having less
than twenty-five mm. All companies are to
obey the summons of the sheriff and assist in
enforcing ths law3. They will not be called
from their respective connties except in cases
of emergency.
Yankee raiding parties have started from
ljoth Natchez and Yicksharg.
A large number of Yankee troops have been
sent to Memphis to join the expedition against
Forrest,
Parties are now crossing the Mississippi
without much danger.
Cotton in the exposed portion of Mississippi
Is 'Suing rapidly disposed of.
An intelligent young gentleman just arrived
here from Aberdeen, Miss., reports that the
Yankee expedition which was to attack For
rest, came out from Memphis and made a
demonstration in the direction of Aberdeen,
and then turned suddenly and took the direc
tion of Savannah, Tenn. He also reports that
General Forrest had concentrated his forges at
Tupelo, in anticipation of this exped tion, and
as soon as he discovered the real design of the
enemy, started in the direction of the river to
cut him off Out informant is of the impres
sion that it is a close race between Forrest and
the Yankees, making for Sherman's rear.
PSO»f TRASS,M?SB!fc3cF?I.
Major Gen. Canby still continues in com-
Biand of ths forces west of the Mississippi.
The Yankee army are afraid to advance
again into the interior. They appear to re
member the late thrashing they have rtweived.
Banks threatened draft in New Orleans has
earned a large number oi residents to leave the
place,
Marinaduke’s batteries are doing ranch dam
age to Yankee boats on the Mississippi.
The proceedings of the free negro convention
m New Orleans do not amount to much as
yet.
It is stated that all the available Confeder
ate cavalry of the. department, some 20,000 in
asnsber, has started for Missouri, under com
mand of Gen. Tffharton of Texas. Brig. Gen.
JosephJShelby has crossed the Arkansas river
with 2500 men, and was already in Missouri.
Gen. Marmaduke baa also crossed the Arkan
sas, and Brig. .Gen. Jas. P. Major had left Tex
as with fiOOO men, for the same State. M»j. r
Gem Pries was in chief command in Missouri,
and it is said would advance .with the infantry
&*d artillery a* rapidly as possible. Maj. Gen.
Backner has command in Arkansas, and Gen.
Magruder in Texas.
The Yankees have evacuated Little Rock.
Report that Gen. R. Taylor has beep roiiev
ha* D0 foundation ui ß 6tated that the gen .
era!, Instead of resigning, was making his way
towards New Orleans.
A New York correspondent of a Chicago pa
per states that Fremont will be tendered the
nomination for the state of New York, upon
the condition that be withdraws from his can
didacy for Presidency If he refuses be will
be considered a copperhead, and repudiated by
nine-tenths of the Union paity.
Th* Yankee bark Harriet Stevens has been
captured ky ths Florida, off St. George’s, B«.
rnudq,
By TELEGRAPH.
LATE ME,VS FROM THE NORTH.
Ewell's corps was in the vicinity of E rpei's
Ferry.
Hunter and Siegel had evacuated Martins
burg.
The Herald's Bermuda Hundreds correspon
dent says that the armies are taking their last
repose before girding up f.j>r battle.
I essenden has not yet accepted the Secreta
ryship, made vacant by Chase's resignation.
Seven steamers, • under convey, were fired
into near Clarendon, Miss., but without dam
age.
Sherman's advance was bulletined as a great
success, and his army in fins spirits.
she N. Y. Herald's Washington special says
Lincoln will call for halt a million men imme
diately on the adjournment of Congress.
Washburn has issued Special Order No. CO,
taking forty citizens as hostages for guards on
railroad trains.
Guerrilla operations continue in Western
Kentucky. A figh't with Union troops had
occurred near Unioutown. Another party had
demanded the surrender of Owensburg. Tkev
retired, however, after occupying Cloversport
and Hawesville.
The six months men at Owensboro’ were
disbanded by the State authorities for reasons
unknown.
Correspondence from Chattanooga of ihe
120th says that a rebel force bad cut the railroad
above iilton, Ga., and captured and burned
two trains heavily freighted with supplies'.
Travel on trains is very demoralizing in
consequence of- tho frequent ambushes. The
coirespondent says that he has huown -10 men
to capture 100. *
A large quantity of Government freight has
been collected at Harpeth Ehoals, on -the
Cumberland Kiver.
No more boats are allowed to ascend the
Cumberland River, the Government being
unable to ft rnish couvovs against guerillas.
The Sandusky (Ohio,) Register, of the 201,
states that the rebel General Archer has been
transferred from Johnson’s Island to Washing
ton City, and will be sent to Gen. Foster to be
placed under the rebel .lire, in retaliation for
the treatment of Union Generals at Charleston.
In she debate in the Yankee Bouse of Repre
sentatives on the 25. h, on the repeal of the
commutation clause of the diaft law, Scheuck of
Ohio, supported the clause. He said that the
rebellion must be put down, if not now, here
after; if not in ten years, in twenty years. If
peacu could be made now, every sensible man
knows that it could uot last sixty days. If we
recognize the Southern Confederacy, as a dis
tinct nation, with its border from the Potomac
to the Gulf of Hex'co, we may expect war,
murder and everyrhing else.
Dali, of New York opposed the repeal of tho
commutation clause.
Garfield, of Ohio, said that if the commuta
tion clause be retained the armies will not be
adequately filial. The rebellion will not be
put down during his term in congress, nor un
der this admidistration.
Mallory, of Kentucky, said that the policy of
resorting to conscription was the worst that
the Government could adopt.
The iron clads are expected to mako their
mark in the advance on Richmond.
Lincoln visited Grant and Butler on the 22d
of June at Point of Rocks.
The Yankee steamer Honor, had been fired
into by the Confederates on the York River
June 21, and considerable damage done.
The Yankee Fifth army corps has lost fif
teen hundred since it crossed James river.
Tho Constitutional Convention of Maryland
passed the following article and bill of rights,
by ihe anaexed vote—yeas 58, nays 27 :
Hereafter In this State there shall be neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime, whereof the parties Lave
been fully connected. All persons held to ser'
vice and labor as slaves, are hereby declared
free.
The Yankee Congress have adopted a resolu
tion inquiring if authority had been given any
person to induce men to euigrate tram Ireland
and Canada, for the United States for the pur
pose of entering the Federal army or navy.
Lincoln in his totter or trxtep taaot- of th
nomination for the Presidency, says that the
position of the Government in relation to the
action of France in Mexico will be maintained
so long as the state of facts should leave that
position pertinent and applicable.
A bill ig helote the federal Congress pro
viding for the calling out of more Yankee
troops, with the stipulation that the draft
shall be for not less than one nor more than
three years, und repealing the commutation
clause in the enrollment, and taxing income*
to provide ior bounties.
Burnside hits had a grand review of negro
troops near Petersburg.
The State archives of Loulgiana are reported
to have been found buried near Baton Konge
and part of them taken to New Orleans.
The Federal casualties during the last week
around Petersburg, were from 0,000 to 1,000
men.
An Indianapolis correspondeat says th« nav
igation of the Ohio is extremely hazardous.
Drafting in Indiana is played out.
During the debate in the House on the 24th,
Fernando Wood spoke for peaee. Ue said the
war was unpopular, as shown by the neer*sily
of drafting ; that an'oat peace President would
be elected next fall.
The speech and the Abolition rejoinders cre
ated great excitement.
The Memphis Argui of the 80th contains an
account of the captnre of gunboat 27 ley Shelby,
and the blockade of White river at (Jiareudom
Iwo transports oaught above, cannot pass
Transports with supplies for Steele had re
turned to lleinphii, not being able t» pass the
batteries.
Humors are current, and believed by many,
that Steele had surrendered to Price.
The editor of the Chicage Times asks •- if it
requisos a million and a half of men three
years to reach the defences of Richmond, how
long will it take to reach the Gulf?’’
In Georgia, tha Confederate cavalry are
serioaiy interrupting Sherman's communica-
I’tions.
On the 14th, Whai-ton, with 2500 men, cap
tured and destroyed between Kingston and
Dalton, live trains loaded with supplies for
Sherman’s army.
On the 20th, two other supply trains were
captured near Resaca.
Tho operations in gold on the 80th were ex
tremely wild. Prices ranged between 240 and
24*.
The Federal Congreea pauedtha Bnrollsnent
Act oa the 2d July.
It provides for the reception of substitute*,
repeds the commutation law, and requires
fifty days notioe of a draft.
The Yankee Senate has added an amendinoa
to the bill for the republication of the form
of Government for Slates now in rebellion,
whiGh provides that no S»ate declared by th*
President in rebellion shall vote for President
or Yice President.
Stanton telegraphed Dix that Kirby
Smith was crossing the Mississippi.
Several confused telegrams from Harper's
Ferry indicated that a heavy rebel force was
moving in that direction, in three columns.
The Baltimore Gazette of the 4th says, that
all communication between Little Rock and
Memphis was cut off.
There had been a great fire at Springfield
Armory, destroying much machinery, &c.
Congress was to adjourn oa the 4 th.
Provision*'of ail kinds have advanced large
ly. ■
, Baltimore was much excited on Sunday by
rumors that the rebel 'cavalry and infantry
had appeared near Martinsbnrg.
News from Canada states that a Federation
of all the Provinces is proposed, and that the
country be divided into three States.
Last accounts state that Gen. Kelly had
evacuated the town.
FROM MISSISSIPPI. ,
The operator at Jackson* reports that the
force which moved from Rodney, simultane
ously with one from Vicksburg, was comman
ded by Col. Elliott, of the Marine Brigade,
numbering 500 white cavalry and 1500 negro
infantry.
They were met at Coleman’s Cross Roads,
ten miles south of Port Gibson, by Col. Wood
with b£ legimeut. Mormon's battalion and a
few State troops, all being-a portion of Adams’
brigade, numbering about 1000 men, and were
Iriven back to Rodney after a sharp and deci
sive fight.
The enemy's loss was 47 killed, a large
number wounded, and we captured many hor
ses, small arms and equipments.
Our loss was six killed , the number wound
ed unknown.
A special dispatch to the Advertiser 4 Reg
ister, dated Macon, Miss., states that Governor
Ciavk has issued a proclamation calling out ev
ery able bodietLman in the State to repel the
threatened I ederal invasion. They are order
ed to rendezvous at Brandon and WesJj Point .
OFFICIAL DISPATCHES FROM GEN. LEE.
Headquarters, Army No. Va., )
Jan* 28th, 1864. J
To the Secretary of War:
The enemy are engaged to-day apparently
in str»ngthening their Hues in front of Petei'%-
burg, advancing them at some points.
His cavalry, after being repulsed at Stanton
bridge, on the afternoon of the 20th, retired in
the direction of CorUtiansville, whore they en
camped that night.
Th* nekt morniag they continued their
march towards Lawreuceville, by the way ol
Burntville, and apart of their forces encamp
ed last night eight miles northwest of the foi
mer place.
'I hey appear to be making their way back
to the main body of th* army.
(Signed) R. E. Li;«, General.
“lleadq’rs Army op Virginia, )
June 29th, 1864—8.30, P. M. j
“Houorabl* Secretary of War :
•‘Sir—Gen, Hampton reports that he attack
ed the enemy’s cavalry yesterday afternoon on
their return from Staunton river bridge, tbi3
side of Sappony church, and drove them be
yond that point.
“The fight coutinued daring the 'night, and
at daylight this morning he turned, their left
and routed them.
“When they reached Reams’ station they
were confronted dy a portion of Mahone’s di
vision, who attacked them in front, while their
left Hank was turned by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s
cavalry.
“The enemy was completely routed, and sev
eral pieces of artillery, with a number of pris
oners, wagons, ambulances, etc., captured.—
The cavalry are in pursuit.
R. E. Lai, Gen."
Headquarters, Army No. Va., I
July Ist, 1864. j
To the Secretary of War:
Gen. Beauregard reports a feeble demonstra
tion made by the enemy on portion of Gen.
Johnston’s line about five P. M. yesterday.—
llis skirmishers, supported by two lines of
troops, drove in our line of skirmishers, which
was re-established at dark.
In the various conflicts with the enemy’s
cavalry in their late expedition against the
railroads, besides their killed and wounded
left on the field, 1000 prisoners, 13 pieces of
artillery, thirty wagons and horses, ordnance
stores, and several hundred negroes taken from
the plantations on their route, were oaptured.
[iiguedj R. E. Lee, General.
FROM VIRGINIA.
It is reported that nine hundred Yankeo g
wero surprised and captured at Martinsbui g
last Sunday, with four pieces of cannon and
stores, ipcluding extensive preparations for
the fourth of July. The dinner was also
taken.
Yankee papers of the 4th announce Wilson’s
raiding party as having returned to Grant’s
line, but admit he sustained immense loss,
though they claim that the results achieved
compensate for his losses.
The country in tho rear of Grant's lines is
represented as filled with stragglers and the
crops entirely destroyed by the enemy’s forag
ing parties.
The Petersburg papers of July 1 report that
there has been as yet no fight of any account.
It is reported that Burnside’s Corps has goDO
to Washifigton.
A Yankee Lieutenant, captured on Tuesday,
sayb that Grant is going to tear Petersburg to
pieces with shot and shtfl in a day or two.
LATEST FROM NEW ORLEANS.
The steamer loaded with cotton, was
captured and burned by our troops in Arkan
sas River.
All registered enemies remaining in New
Orleans, are ordered to report to the Provost
Marshal to be sent beyond the lines.
Delegates have left New Orleans for the
Chicago Convention.
Over a hundred Dew deserter* from the Yan
kee army, have been arrested on their way to
go to Mexico to join the Mexican army.
Can by is organising a force of 30,000 men,
either to reinforce Sherman, or to advance and
threaten Mobile and Demopoli*.
The Steamer .Louisiana Belle, wa» burned at
the levee in N6w Orleans.
Gold 235;. cotton ICO.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The steamer Alexander at CherbHrg
June 11, and landed the crews of captured ves
sels. It was said sh«f would be permitted to
make extensive repairs at that port.
The London Daily News believes that the
plot to overthrow the Palmerston Ministry iB
a broken down scheme, and will be abandoned.
The prospect of peace ia the Danish difficul
ty is as remote as ever.
At Madrid some excitement exists in regard
to the latest news from Peru. The English and
French Ministers are endeavoring to conciliate
matters. »
Commodore Semmes publishes in the London
Times a justification of his destruction of prises
—the British Government having refused to
admit their ports for adjudication.
FROM TRANS-MISSISSIPPI.
Clinton, La., July 6, via Mobile, 9th-
A gentleman ol this town just from the othey
side of the river, reports the capture of Little
Rock with all of Steele’s supplies, ammunition
ami transportation, and all his army except
4.000.
Our army was-marching on Fort Smith.
The enemy has been driven entirely out of
Arkansas except around Helena.
He says the news wag officially received at
Alexandria.
C-en. Kirby Smith has ordered the impress
ment of half of the cotton in the Trans Missis
sippi Department, for the puryose of buy m"
military supplies.
North Carolina baa gent into tho field 88,147
and 14.400 conscript—in all 102,047
mer,. Tbs cumber of regiments, including
tom-teen battapons and some unattached com
panies. is about eighty.
The Yankees have destroyed nearly every
house at Decatur, Alabama. Not more than
half a dozen are left standing.
Waterrrn lon-; have appeared in the Cblunt*
butt sparke;—at liucc dollars apiece,
FROM CHVtthßSlO.y
vjnesday morning the enemy were dlscov-
A . some force on John's Island, between
r' m . 'a and Dr. Townsend's plantation
rh gar i e . vll " <u their skn mishei* about ten
V -e met by the Matiot) Artillery
ami a , ? Ud , WL ‘‘ nt the 32d Georgia, Colonel
a ueUchtuent a considerable fight.
ensnT,° n „ 8 Re * imeL ‘ng refuge in Dr: Curtis’
, the enemy take 'rtillery opened upon
them e wifh k h „ e Mariou A 'd drove them from
tii i.h* 1 B hot ad shell, ul i e The enemy
that point towards Legarevii. •--» J.
lett twe negroes killed and three W. oUß "eu ...
ter ihem.
We did uot learn the casualties oi 4 our
tint suppose they must, have been slig.V, **» she
enemy run as soon us our battery gjt in T-'osiUsn
a ui opened upon them.
About sevea o'clock. Thursday moi Ding,
Batteries Gregg and Wagner opened a fin foils
lire upon Fort Sumter, and continued itall day
up to the hour ot closing our report. The bom
bardment was kept up alternately by Gregg
and Waguei, eaah battery firing to. the space
>f one hour . One hundred and twelve shots
nad been thrown at the fort up to six o’clock
Thursday evening. The enemy > fire wasbrisk
ly answered tty B itterfes Simktn-, Haskell and •
Ryan, ou James’lslaud, ami by our batteries
on .‘Sul 1 i Vim ’s island. We have ‘not le-arned
whether there were auy casualties.
Wednesday night it was believed that the
enemy were about to make another attempt on
Fort Johnston Just betore sunset, a number
ot the enemy’s barges were observed moving'
about Schooner Ore. k, nearly opposite tho
Swamp Angel” battery, between Black and
-Morris Islands Preparations were according
ly made to receive them, but they faded to
oorne up.
About nine o’dock Thursday morning a heavy,
and at times rapid bring was beard in tne <li
rettion of Stono. The Yankee gunboats and
mortar boats at king rage opened about two
o'clock on Battery Pringle and Balteiy No.
One. No casualties are reported'on our side.
Skirmishing was kept up between the pickles,
more ot Jess, all day.
The enemy’s force on James’ Island occupy
that pemu.-ula to tho rear ol Grimbalj’s and
Rivers causeways. The largest portion are to
the South of GrimbalTs causeway.
We learn that the lossol the enemy in the
tight at Rivei’s causeway on Saturday morn
ing, was Ttry heavy, in view of tho numbers
engaged. Lieutenant Delouue handled his
guns splendidly and continued to lire them un
til but three cartridges were left. Tho Yankee
ambulances were seen moving until dark upon
that portion of the field. A number of their
dead, loosely estimated at thirty, are still lying
uuburied where thev loll.* Thus it will be Bee it
that the foe paid dearly for the two guns they
captured from our piokets.
The Y'ankees on John’s Island occupy ft po
sition covered •by tlieir gunboats. It is be
lieved nust of the enemy’s troops- in front of
Major Jenkins, on John’s Island, are negr< es.
Considerable skirmishing was going on lhurs
day, the particulars of which we have not
learned.
A liver steamer with troops on bouid left
Folly Island Thursday evening and went roupd
U> Stouct, for the purpose, it is supposed, of
landing her troops on James’ Island.
Tho following casualties have occurred thus
far among the Georgia troops:
Private E Horne, Company B, Bonaud's
Battalion, Georgia Volunteers, linger, ampu
tated; July 3—Private W F Nelson, Company
G, 32d Georgia Volunteers.
Private J. M. Ferguson, Company I, 82<1
Georgia Volunteers, head, slightly; Private j.
G. Slaughter, Company 1, 32d Georgia Volun
teers, arm, slightly ; Private J. Barnon, Com
pany 1, 32d Georgia Volunteers, mouth, severe
ly; Corporal J it Franklin, Company 1, 32d
Georgia Volunteers, mouth, severely.
The New Y'ork Times says tho Ftderals have
lost a very large number of most valuable
ollicers of all grades in the present campaign.
They refer not only to geneial ofilcers, but to
colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors and cap
taius. The proportion of officers who have
(alien to the entire loss has-been greater than
in any previous campaign.
The crops on the Chattahoochee liver in
Jackson and Caihouu counties, Fla., have
bean destroyed by the late freshet.
Commercial
AUBISTA IrtAIIKSTS.
Weekly Report.,, Jelytl.P. M,
I lINANCLAk—GoId $19a20 new currency; silver,
I 17al8, hew currency; Starling exchange sl7a
18 ; Bank notes 2a3,00 nominal ; Confederate
Bonds,B percent., longdate, 10 to 20;do. short
date, par; 7 per cent, bonds, 8()a85; 0 per cent,
bonds, 80; Cotton loan bonds 1,75; 7 per cent
Georgia bonds old 600. Bath Mills 80 J. 7 30s
8U.i83.
Cotton.- Moderate demand; Middling to
good Middling 1.00a1.20.
Domestics.— V\ u quote domestics as follows ,*
i shirting 200 ; j sheeting 2,30 ; 4-4 sheet-'
mg, $2 75; osnaburgs, $3; yarns, S4U«SO per
bunch. Very little demand owing to Jack of
transportation.
Flour.— Sl7sa2oo porbbl.
Grain. — Wheal. Jtbairn per bushel ; Corn,
m the ear, from wagons, slsasl6 : pens, $15,-
00 ; rye, 512,U0; barley, SlO.nO; oats $7uS.
Ujioceries, Provisions, Ac.—Bacon, $350a4
coffee, sl2 00 per pound; rice 40a50c; sugar
6iß ; salt, coast, 60ets ; Liverpool 85a
90c ; tobacoo, dull ; lard *3a350 ; Molasses,
N. Orleans, none; Florida $2Ti24.00; Sorghum
16al8 whieky 540a65 pr gal; brandy $65u70 pr
gal; banging S9a!o; bar soap 31.75u2 ; cotton
rope $4.50; nails $2,50; corn meal sl6alß per
hush; fodder $20,00 per cwt.; shucks 12,00 per
cwt; hay 815.00 per cwt ; tallow 4 50,5 per
lb; Candies 4,50u5 per lb. by box; Terrebine oil
Slope gal retail; black pepper 10,00 per Jb-
Tea 20a25 per lb.; Iron, Swedes, $5,00 ; bL
enrb. soda, 4u5, starch 800 ; drv hides s6a7 nr
lb. '
Country Produob.—Beef, 2,50a350 per lb nett
poik, s3ooa3,6oper lb, nut t; mutttgi, 300u350-
kid 2,a3 per lb; chickens, s4ulo eaoh; turkeys
none ; eggs, $3,00u3,50 psr doz; butter, ss u y •
sweet potatoes sls per bushel; Irish
S6O per barrel. 1
Wilmington
f'f 0 111 bouds. The follow
goat 17; silver Mi. < *■'bmUersaie joying lor specie, sc :
Georgia SOI; & ,mwK?T I, h Gamdi**,, 2-sua' * S.OUj
lino Tree HI- . . V* rc ' l ‘ra end Vnvlnfi, * HI; .Nurlb t «o
,U '’ ; sterilQ K bi!U 1C to 17
v*■* » J ' .6o per lb; c,iton «! per lb-corn
{ ;Lfc' . bu ,“, • °'“ n *' is p«r bush; Cjppi ra SI per IS; flour
b <4*9 r,en , h " ‘ ' per ll ’- ‘‘Wes 560 per lb;
, t ,-u" h w " r •>»'"•* 120 >«-r Ilf; r-all- 4 SO per
- I be per lb: aa t $lO per bo;
rayeuev e -lueilnrf S. per y,l; ryruo *3O per gal by thu bbl
spints turp-.BUne *1 per gal: yarn *56 par lunch. ’
Financial and Coumiareiai.
At & late auction sale In Raleigh N. crushed auvnr
brought *lO per lb; brown SB 76 ; cotta* «'J2S; English £if
ekms *:tw to * *6 an.ece ; and (J.iifedcrata eight per cent Oclci
82 cents on ihe dollar
I'eac.ieshave been ofTerad In tha.Mobile market at tire del
;ars apiece.
The or p jirosnect In Jactson and Hall count las it T »rv flue
Corn look- remarkably well: wheat has been harreated 'auii
tile same land neve produced better oats.
The Jackson ifalsrippian rays accoi-t* a ij „,a, 0 .
jhit t-U'e a'e flat *-n e-ior a arge •■•op ,f wi . ar ~1 ,
SllKUr &ili $.
CiOOK & BHOT HSfiU have on hand, at the Ccafede-
J i.i'.*. --lat"C Arnii.iy t Ui,c. Oa.. a number of the most
a, proved styla of WulUeaN sVrUR MIU,s. which they
propouj exchanging fay COitJi or WI-.KAT. Adlr.-aa
.iv 2 12aA4wfl- . <- *“ AO,w!. H Oeuw,».
FOR SAFE ’
fa* /fl ACRES of pino luml : n Jefferson comity, tw j
n.iiC4 Isom Patter; ons’ Bridge, und twenty sir
mu all cm Augusta, well improved. For infonnatioa call on
tha uu-Vralgned, near iferielia, Geo gin Hull Road.
]>" 1 6dA4w27* ALEX. M. ALLEN.
EX 6I. VEER WAITED.
A AY person having an engineer for sal*—one w<, o
2m hUnda runninga ateani engine—ca-i find a pirenaeerby
addroasing
CHRONICLE & SENTIT'jfL OFFICE
1° G Augusta,’ Ga.
Cctli c ny Cul'fgiiite iaslitute.
X H h«*lih?to£S? T 'P : i Jioy,xrjd G,r! » '» situate !n *4
lifijniiiSntfr • X? in : ,cfrerß 11 cailnly f <; *. one mile from
I®6 - to
w* A mU t 0 tiie Will Open its tenth Session
vJtv v; 1 }' 1 , under the 81 pervl.-ion or Fro/.
«I*<U\'lLU U. KIVa fc, a na’ive of s. and graduate of
UW*«wton College, -w'th an esjitjr.eiice cT rixieeu years in
.Lavln* c.mc louss ahe Art of tbs ye*, highly rsoiu-
and thus far La.« gtv?n general -ali-fAct; n. Mueloal
>t>artmsnt under the ( are of Alra. MAKY J i*A MEL. She
nav.agan experience « f aeveral jears u teaching, and very
popular with her pupils. Terms of Tuition in the Literary
Department, Twenty, Thirty and Foity BoJ ar» per Term ac
cord mg to prade. St Uoic Forty Dollars per Term—Are for u. 0
of Fiaoo; always in advance.
Board can bu hid in the mghborhood on pa good te-roas as
tiiS condition of the country will allow. Addr* w
E. Me ROAN,
• julyl lw?| Bartaw. Jefleruoii
CITAT BjOF GEORGIA. RICHMON 1 > COUNTV. “
kjWherea*, Lil MuetiA, Oiiardian of William V«. nßi
:i >r , (now »t age; applies to me f<r Le*te-s of Digmhson 1
riiesp. are the.sfore to cite and a «jj an,; : -.!ngular
the kindred and fiicr.de of said t,e aid appi-arat
ray office on or before the flrnt Mor<<^ ft y in hsptembsr tort, to
show cause* if &ay they have, BM £ ]*tt«rs aheruid not bo
granted.
Given under my hand official signature, at c-flce in Au-
Whe«»s. » U A. U Giua r hag th!s 'liy exhibited before us,
, r , „t-av how', aml *on«l, bb.ieu uea, all four feet wlittc
left eye out, left aostrll .put .peu. auil tupp-.enl tu he 12 ur
;< A ppra : w'<ibv u« at four hunared doUare.
July SUi, Tt**- A M CRA wrOKD, F H.
P. K MARTJ.X, F H.
A Tee extruat flrom the E-iray B -k, Ju'y fl'b, IS«4.
GJCO. W. GRAY. Deputy Clark.
nXATK OK GEORGE, GR : COUNTY.
S tne estate t iJUleton <*ranr. » f«-> rsjr sono f
! or . .* es f said ff unty, b--.«i. is norepre-en *d :
" are ti erefijn?, t eke and Pursers conr f
♦ , .^wc fl ni* vfivtheatm matratro-, u. sai • *-, H •/ •
e vete li» the CLrk of the tjou-r, "o r J- I*
jv- e , fl and : roper perso-. 11 “.Court ofOrrirsn* f *. t’.v
iu ard for said county * n the first Monday In Hr-; t , j H . ;
Gvounat my W 4 W VJtce ir Gr« ;; neyb->v«, .j, ~t c
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