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VOLUME VII.!
THE-DAILY SUN,
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Prom Saturday’s One O’Ciock Edition.
We are happy to learn that the author
ities at Mobile are confident of their abil
ity to resist, successfully, aDy force that
old Abraham may send against them.
Hon. J. L. M. Curry writes to the
Watchtower, that the Ist, 4th, and 10th
Alabama Regiments will hold a bright
page in history, after the close of the
war.
Fork fell this week in Chattanooga
from twelve to eight cents. The specu
lators fairly squealed about it, but it was
of no use. Hog meat is in the rapidly
descending scale.
The elegant sword being prepared in
New Orleans, for Gen. Price, is the gift
of the fair daughters of the Crescent
City. Who would not run the gauntlet
of war, where glory thus crowns the
goal ?
Hon. John T. Heflin has been ap
pointed Judge of the 10th Judicial Cir
cuit, Ala., to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Lieut. Col. Martin, killed
at the battle of Drainesville. We know
Judge Heflin well. The ermine he wears
will never grow dim.
At the City Election in Atlanta on Wed
nesday, Col. James M. Calhoun was
elected Mayor, and Isaac E. Bartlett, S.
C. Oakman, J. R. Chew, J. E. Williams,
James Kelly, John Farrar, Wm. Barnes,
Wm. B. Cox, O. W. llunnicutt and John
H. Flynn were elected members of Coun
cil.
Battle of Prestonsbni'g.
We had the pleasure of reading a let
ter this morning, from a gentleman who
participated in the Battle of Prestons
burg. He represents the charge made by
Col Moore, as being one of the most ter
rible scenes to be recorded in the book of
war. For half an hour, that heroic regi
ment held hand to hand combat with five
times their number, but the bayonet and
bowie knife gleamed terribly victorious
in the hands of the Southrons. The
Yankees threw down their arms and in
gloriously left the field of battle. As to
the killed and wounded on either side,
the writer says he can give no authoritative
statement.
“ Hope ’Waives Her Golden Hair.”
The present aspect of affairs is truly
obeering to the people of the South. It
is evident that pork is abundant—the salt
market is becoming a drug to the specu
lating Shylocks—the necessaries of life
generally, are seen to be more bounti
ful than anticipated—a kind Providence
is blessing our people with health—our
enemies are becoming divided among the
themselves—cowering before foreign
powers, and unable to execute a single
threat against us, while the armies of the
South are victorious everywhere. Let
the timid take courage, and the brave
ones rejoice.
Louis Napoleon is said to have made a
present to his son of an amulet, found
round the neck of Charlemagne when
the tomb of that monarch was opened in
f'DT, under the reign of Otho 111. The
amulet is in shape like a small nut, and
] s in fiUigree work. It was presented to
Napoleon I by the corporation of An
twerp, on his entry to the city; was bv
him given to Queen Hortense, and be
queathed by her to Louis Napoleon. It
>8 believed that Charlemagne himself
had it from an Eastern sage, who accom
panied to the Court of the Emperor of the
West the ambassadors of the Caliph Ha
roen al Raschild.
THE DAILY SUN.
The Gate Judge Mason and the
Emperor of France.
The Paris correspondent of the N. O.
Picayune relates the following, showing
the cordial relations which existed be
tween the parties whose names head this
article :
It sometimes, but rarely happens the
| Emperor invites a member of the diplo
matic corps to explain objects, on which
lie desires information, to him For in
stance, I remember upon one occasion he
asked poor Judge Mason to lay before
him a complete view of the relations be
tween the United States and France, and
especially to exhibit the effect of a war
between the countries on France. He
asked Judge Mason to examine the sub
ject thoroughly, and to come out to Saint
Cloud soou after the Court had taken up
residence there. When the Emperor
spoke the Court was at the Tuileries.—
This was in April. About the middle of
May, Judge Mason received a letter from
the Emperor’s private secretary, (not the
Chamberlain : the former wrote to show
how informal the audience was,) asking
Judge Mason to come to Saint Cloud and
breakfast with the Emperor. Judge
Mason went there, and after breakfasting
alone withthe Emperor at 12 o’clock, he
asked Judge Mason if he was prepared
with the information desired Upon the
Judge’s affirmative answer, he went with
him to another room; “This,” said the
Emperor, is the room in which the
Duke d’Angouleme disarmed Marshal
Marmont, and put him under arrest, Fri
day, the 30th July, 1530,” and he nar
■rated that singular episode of the revolu
tion of 1830, to Judge Mason. He then
asked Judge Mason to exhibit the sub
ject of the relations of the United States
and Frauee. The Judge spoke from one
o’clock until four, with no interruption,
except an occasional pause to see if the
Emperor was fatigued—the Emperor in
variably said: “Go on if you please.”—
The Emperor, after the Judge had ended
his remarks, expressed to him his great
satisfaction at the clearless and fullness
with which he had laid the subject be
fore him. Let me here say. to honor the
memory of that noble-hearted old man,
the Emperor liked him extremely. He
was fond of summoning him to Saint
Cloud to dinner in a less formal way than
the dinners at the Tuileries, and of ques
tioning Judge Mason about America,
about the great men of America—Clay,
Marshall, Taney, Calhoun—about the
navy, (a subject with which Judge Mason
was very familiar,) and he liked to hear
the Virginia county court stories, of
which the Judge was brim full. No U.
S. Minister ever saw as much of Louis
Napoleon as Judge Mason did, and to
this day Louis Napoleon speaks of him
in the kindest way. A gentleman told
me no longer ago than last week that
Count WalewsKi and Count de Morny
spoke to him of Judge Mason, and said
the Emperor was extremely partial to him
and eDjoyed his company exceedingly,
and regretted his death.
A ’‘Contraband” at the Battle of
Belmont.
Among the numerous incidents occur
ing during the battle of Belmont is one
communicated to us by a member of the
Fifteenth Tennessee Regiment, which
we deem altogether too good to be lost.
A Lieutenant of one of the companies of
the Fifteenth has a negro servant named
Jim, who, on the morning of the battle,
was strictly enjoined to remain in camp.
“All rigUt, massa,” replied Jim, and the
regiment started, but upon embarking,
preparatory to crossing the river, the
“contraband” mysteriously “turned up,”
armed with a musket, and well equipped
for either a fight ora foot race. Upon
reaching the opposite bank Jim debouch
ed in a crowd to himself, and was not
heard of again until the regiment was
returning from the pursuit, when he was
discovered seated on the ground coolly
and quietly preparing to scalp a defunct
Lincolnite, whom he bad just shot.
“Hallo —you d—u black rascal, what
are you doing ?” shouted the Lieuten
ant, horror-struck at the barbarous ex
hibition.
“Skulpin’ a Heshum,” quietly answer
ed Jim, as he “gathered” hi3 victim’s
top-knot, pYeparatory to inserting the
“tooth pick.”
Jim was soon “persuaded” that it
would be to his interest to abandon the
“skulpin” process, and contenting him
self with the “Heshum’s” watch and jack
knife, which were his by right of con
quest, he fell into line and returned to
camp with the regiment.
“What put it in your head to skin the
fellow, Jim ?” asked the*Lieutenant, the
next time the darkey approached him.
“The sac is massa, ’fore we left May
-1 field on dis ar bissaess, Massa ■,
said he’d gib one hundred dollars for a
i Linkmn skulp, and dis chile wanted dat
cash berry bad.”
Jim is how known among the boys as
j the “Ileshum skulper.”
A Gallant Act.
During the recent skirmish at New
! Market Bridge, on the Peninsula of Vir
ginia, William Linebaugh, a private in
: the Independent Blues, of Selma, a com
, pany attached to Colonel Winston’B (Ala.)
regiment crossed on the remnants of the
i fridge in tbe hottest of the engagement,
! and brought back amidst the storm of
; the enemy’s bullets, a Federal flag. This
i young hero is a son of J. H. Linebaugh,
I Esq., of Green county, Alabama.
COLUMBUS, GA., JANUARY 80. 1868.
General Jackson's Recent Kxpetll
tlon to tlic Potomac.
A correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch furnishes the following highly
interesting narrative of General Jackson's
expedition to Bath, of which we have
already published the Northern accounts;
This command left Winchester on the
| Ist day of January, aud proceeded on the
| Romney road a short distance, when it
filed to the right and marched towards
Morgan county. The weather the first
day was pleasant, but dusty ; the second
day was very cold, and as the road was
a very bad one, cur wagons were unable
to keep up with the troops, and the men
had to lay out on the ground without
covering and without anything to eat.—
On the morning of the third day, the
wagons caught up and the forces was
allowed a short time to cook and eat, and
then again they proceeded on the march,
the weather being very cold and the
troops suffered very much.
Alter passing another night with little
rest, we again proceeded on our journey,
the weather being now intensely cold,
and, to add to our suffeings, it commen
ced snowing rapidly about the middle of
the day. Tbe troops, however, continued
on until within about four miles of Bath
a small village, when our advance, con
sisting of Colonel Gilnam’s Brigade came
upon a scouting party of the enemy,
which fired into them, and which was
promptly returned by Company F., of
Richmond, and Company B, of Balti
more, putting the Yankees to rout.—
Lieut. Payne, of Company F. was seri
ously wounded in the neck, and Private
William Exail, of the same company,
wounded in the leg, which had to be am
putated, and which, I regret to say, has
caused his death. Our army now en
camped for the night, aud such a night I
never desire to witness again. The snow,
rain, and hail fell the whole night, and
we had again to endure it without blank
ets or covering of any kind; but the men
were so fatigued, nature could hold out
no longer, and down they would drop on
the wet ground, and sleep as well as
they could, having made large fires.—
The roads were now almost impassible
in consequence of the sleet and ice, and
the horses with difficulty kept their feet..
It was late Saturday morning before the
wagons could reach us, when another
opportunity was given the men to cook
and eat something.
Another start was made Saturday
morning, and in a short time afterwards
the sound of cannon announced our ap
proach to Bath, where a force of the ene
my had taken up winter quarters. As
we advanced on them, they continued to
firing on us, doing no damage, however.
A portion of our force was deployed to
the left for the purpose of charging their
batteries, which the enemy no sooner saw,
when they spiked their two batteries, and
ran, belter, skelter, through the town, and
down the road to the Maryland shore, a
distance of six miles, a portion of Ashby’s
cavalry in hot pursuit, and the infantry
and artillery following rapidly after; but
so swift footed were their movements,
that our cavalry did not reach them until
they got to the banks of the Potomac,
whero they had got in ambush, and as our
cavalry advanced they fired a volley into
them, wounded three of those gallant men
seriously, a Lieutenant having received
shots in both arms and in the breast.—
The then fell back to the main
body, and a piece of artillery was ordered
forward, and taking its position, shelled
the woods with grape and cannister. It
was now late in the night, and the whole
force was ordered back a short distance,
with the exception of the 23d Virginia,
Lieut. Col. A. G. Taliaferro, and the Ist
Georgia, Col. Thompson, and a battery,
who were ordered to remain as a picket
guard, and there they remained standing
in the road, with no fires, and so intense
ly cold that numbers fell in their places,
and had to be borne to the rear. The
soles of the shoes actually froze to the
ground, and the suffering of the men was
awful to witness : but still there was lit
tle complaint, and all were eager to meet
the enemy who were so close to us.
Sunday morning, about daybreak,
found the Potomac river and the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad directly in front
of us, half a mile distant, with the pretty
little town of Hancock on the opposite
shore, in Maryland, where the enemy in
considerable force were quartered. Gen.
Jackson, early in the morning, sent a flag
of truce by Col. Ashby, to the authorities
of the town, notifying the inhabitants to
vacate the place, as he intended to bom
bard it, and gave them two hours to do
so. Our batteries were then placed in
position, the remainder of the force be
ing still in the rear; excepting the 23d
and Ist Georgia, who still remained with
in range of the enemy’s guns.
At the expiration of the time allowed,
our batteries opened on the enemy’s bat-
I teries, which they faintly replied to,
j their shots falling short. Our guns kept
i up a brisk fire for about an hour, and the
i firing then ceased on both sides for the
! day. Not a man hurt on our side; on
; that of the enemy we were unable to tell.
For reasons known to himself, General
Jackson concluded not to burn the town,
: and did not fire a shell into it for that
i reason.
! Monday morning the enemy commenc
; ed the ball, and having no doubt been
: reinforced during the night, their shot
and shell fell thick and fast all around us,
without, however, doing any damage,
save wounding severely a Tennesseean, in
the head. Our pieces did not reply at all
to their firiDg; but a large number of the
troops were busily engaged in carrying
off from the enemy’s Commissary Depart
ment, which was on this side of the Po
tomac, large quantities of army stores,
clothing, shoes, &c., which was done
with considerable exposure, as the house
was in range of the Yankees’ muskets,
and occasionally they would fire shells at
tbe buildings.
While this was going on in the maiu
road, Rust’s 3d Arkansas, Fulketson’s
37th and Maye’s Hampden Battery were
ordered at Bath to take a road to the left
of the main body, and proceed in that
way to the Potomac, and burn the Capon
bridge and tear up some of the railroad
track. In marching down, they were
ambuscaded by the enemy ; f»ut the two
regiments nobly stood their ground, and
the gallant 37th charged them at the
point of the bayonet; which, of course,
the enemy could not stand, as they are
decidedly opposed to cold steel. Our
regiments then proceeded to perform
their work—the destruction of the bridge
—in the execution of which they were at
first annoyed by the enemy’s long range
guns, until Maye sent them) howling
away by a few well directed charges of
grape and shell. They succeeded in
burning the bridge, tearing up some of
the railroad, and then returned to the
main body on Monday. They lost, in
the engagement, two men in each regi
ment and several wounded. Cols. Rust,
Faulkerson and Carson, and Majors
Manning and Williams, were in the
thickest of the fight; and nobly led their
men on; but their gallant men did not
need much enticing to engage their hated
foe. I regret to say that Capt. Alexan
der, of company I, 3d Arkansas, lost an
arm in this engagement. Both of these
regiments belong to Col. Wm. B. Talifer
ro’s 4th Brigade, and the other two—23d
and Ist Georgia—were on picket duty
from Saturday night till Tuesday morn
ing, when our army proceeded to return,
having accomplished its object.
Tbe result of this expedition, as far as
lam able to sum up, is as follows: The
capture of 80 or 40 prisoners, the driving
of the enemy from this part of Virginia’s
soil, the capture of a number of guns,
overcoats, clothing, shoes, four wagon
loads of fine dressed leather, and a num
ber of other articles; the destruction of
a fine bridge and a portion of the railroad
track.
The sufferings of the troops have been
intense, and several have died from ex
posure to the cold and inclement weather.
There are large numbers now sick, and
one brigade reports 532 on the sick list.
Great Battles.
At Leipsic the allies numbered 330,000
and the French 200,000. The French lost
45,000 killed and wounded, and 30,000
prisoners; the allies 48,000 killed and
wounded.
At Moscow 134,000 French met 130,000
Russians. The former lost 50,000 killed
and wounded, and the latter 58,000.
At Wagram there were 187,000 Austri
ans against 170,000 French. The loss of
the Austrians was 20,000 killed and
wounded, that of the French 22,000
At Esling the Austrians numbered 75,-
000 and the French 35,000. The loss of
ths former was 20,000 killed and wound
ed, that of the latter 13,000 killed and
and 300 prisones.
At Austerlitz 70,000 French desperate
ly contested and finally won the field
against 83,000 allies—Russians and Aus
trians —with a loss of 40,000, whilst the
allies lost 26,800 killed and wounded.
At Jena, Napoleon, with 142,000 men
completely destroyed an army of 150, 000
Prussians. The loss of the French was
32,000 and that of the Prussians 41,000.
At Waterloo the English numbered 70,-
000 men and held the field against 70,000
French all day. Towards evening the
English were reinforced by 32,000 Prus
sians which turned the heretofore waver
ing fortunes of tho day in favor of the
allies. The French lost 25,000 killed and
wounded and the allies lost 31,000.
At Solferino 135,000 allies—French
and Sardinians—met and overcome 170,-
000 Austrians. The loss of the former
was 18,000, that of the latter IG,BOO in
killed and wounded.
Thai ktautanherous Confederate
Shell in Fort Pickens.
In a supplementary report to the Yan
i kee Secretary of War, concerning the re
cent bombardment at Fort Pickens, Col.
! Brown says:
i It is with much psin that, after the
1 wonderful escape of my command from
the missiles of the enemy, I have now
! report to you a most melancholy accident,
; the result of gross carelessness, which
has just occurred.
In order to prevent accidents, I order
ed all the shot and shell of the enemy to
be collected, fearing that some of the
men might tamper with some of the load
ed shells. This was accordingly being
done, when one of the men tried to emp
ty a shell by knocking it against another,
it being surrounded by a crowd. An ex
plosion ensued, followed by that of anoth
er shell, instantly killing five and wound
ing seven others.
Augusta Cotton Market.
We are glad to, notice indications of
renewed vitality in our cotton market.
For several days past, considerable ac
tivity has prevailed among dealers in the
staple. There is now a good demand,
and free sales at the following rates :
Middlings 8}; Strict do., Good do.,
8# to 8$ cents. Low grades range from
Ci to lh cents. — Chronicle , Ith.
{NUMBER 15 8.
TELEQR A.3P HIC
IHtpaLchtt (o the Daily Sun.
EX-PRESIDENT iTLER DEAD, k
Richmond, Jan. 18.—Ex President Ty
ler died during last night. Flags on the
Capital are at half mast,
The Examiner’s special Charleston dis
patch, of yesterday, reports that all the
Yankee vessels have left Port Royal, pro
bably to co-operate with Burnsides’ ex
pedition.
Wilmington, N C., Jan 18.—A letter
from Newbern, dated the 17th, from are
liable source, says a steamer arrived from
Pamlico Sound, and reports 43 vessels at
Hatteras, their supposed destination be
ing Roanoke Island or Newbern.
The statements in Southern papers
that the Gladiator had arrived in a South
ern port ; also that Geu. Van Dorn was
seriously injured by a fall from his horse,
are both unfounded.
Tlte CiirlHtlnii Soldiers.
Christian men in our armies should la
bor themselves with redoqblod diiigeuce
to counteract tho spirit of license which
camp life is so sure to engender. There
is abundant room for prayer and the of
fices of sincere devotion in all the depart
ments of military duty. A man will be
a better soldier if he is also a good Chris
tian. The prayer meetings which the
noble Havelock used to hold among his
men nerved their arms with wondrous
vigor. It was the praying Puritans who
made tho armies of Cromwell invincible.
It was this same trust in God that gave
our Revolutionary sires such strength in
the day of battle, which went before them
like a visible presence in all their suffer
ing and toils. There is no reason why
our armies should not be pervadod with
this same Christian spirit and Christian
trust.
Immense Purchase of Hogs by tbe
Confederate Government.
We'have some information as to the
number of hogs tho Government has pur
chased and is having slaughtered and
packed in Tennessee, and give the follow
ing approximate estimate:
At Bristol, about 12,000
Morristown and vicinity 20,000
Knoxville 10,000
Loudon and Sweetwater 12,000
Chattanooga 20,000
Shelby vi lie 50,000
Nashville 50,000
Clarksville 10,000
Other places, about 16,000
Making in,all 200,000
From these hogs thd Government will
net about twenty-four millions of pounds
of bacon.
. All the accounts received from the
French diplomatic agents in the United
States are favorable to the South. The
sum of all their dispatches is that the
question now at issuo in America is
whether the United States shall be gov
erned by unprincipled and uneducated
political adventurers, or by statesmen. I
understand they contrast in the strong
est colors the corruption, disorganization,
and military inefficiency of the North
with the state of things at the South, and
make no concealment of their opinion
that the South never can be conquered.
This opinion is now so wide-spread here
that one of the leading French papers de
voted two colmns the other day to engage
the Emperor to interfere to prevent the
subjugation of the North and to prevent
New England, New York and Pennsyl
vania from being made slave States! —
Paris Cor. N. O. Picayune.
What Hoes It Mean i
The English papers no longer use the
term “ United States” in speaking of the
Rump Government, but in its stead write
“the Northern Government.” It is written
in contradistinction to the “ Southern
Confederacy.”
Significant.
Secretary Cameron has resigned his
position in the Lincoln War Department,
and Mr. Staunton has taken his place.
It will be remembered, that Cameron is
the mouth piece of the ultra abolitionists,
while Staunton belongs to the middle
wing of that party. This confirms the
report oftrouble in the Cabinet.
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That Expedition.
Burnsides’ .expedition is now coming
South. We venture the prediction that
it will return North with many a burnt
side.
Notice.—l will receive and forward all arti
cles for the Fifteenth Alabama Regiment, Col.
J. Cantey commanding.
janl-t-St F. IV. DILLARD.
Linseed Oil!
FOR sale by the barrel, by
J. H. DANIEL A CO.
Spirits Turpentine!
FOR sale bv the barrel, by
.1. H. DANIEL A CO.
Zinc Paint and White Lead
FOR sole by the keg, by
J. H. DANIEL A CO.
Litharge!
FOR sale by the keg, by
janls-tf J. H. DANIEL A 00.