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WM. G. SCRUGGS Kdltor.
Largest City and Country Circulation
Tuetday Morning, July 186a.
Capt. J. Cook Lewis, Quartermaster of
Col. .Dowdell's regiment, died in Colum
bus, Miss., on the 10th iust., at the res
idence of Col. Thos. Billups, of typhoid
fever.
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Murfreeshoro’, the scene of Col. For
rest’s late operations in Middle Tennes
see, is about the centre of the State, on
lhe line of the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad, and about thirty miles from
Nashville. It is a beautiful little city,
regularly laid out, well improved, and
in the heart of a rieh and productive
country.
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Humor.
The Atlanta Confederacy of yesterday
says:
The evening (rain on the State Road,
brought down the unpleasant report that
the 1 ankees had made a dash upon the
E. T. & G. R. R., and burned the lino
bridge across the river at Loudon, 118
miles this side of Knoxville.
The Waddell Artillery.
Chavvioiu), Ala., July 18, ’62.
Eds. Sun: For the benefit of your read
ers, who bavo friends and relatives in
my battery, please announco that the
proper direction of letters is thus:
Shell Mound, Marion county, Term.,
(via Chattanooga.)
Respectfully, J. F. Waddell.
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Further from Murfreesboro’.
A correspondent of the Savannah Re
publican says that a dispatch had been
received from Col. Forrest, giving an
account of the engagement at Murfrees
boro’, Tennessee. The dash was made
on the town on Saturday morning—over
one week since—and our success was
complete.
Colonel Forest states that he captured
twelve hundred Yankee prisoners, includ
ing two Brigadier Generals, and four
pieces of cannon, and destroyed half a
million of army stores, &c.
The Confederate loss in the engagement
was sixteen killed and thirty wounded.
The enemy’s loss was between 200 and
300.
After the capture of (lie town and se
curing the prisoners, Col. Forest fell
back to McMiuvillo, for fear of a surprise
from a greater force.
Governor Sliorter.
The following correspondence, which
has been sent us for publication, will ex
plain itself:
Opelika, Ala., Julylo, 1802,
Gov. Shorter : It is currently report
ed in Columbus, Ga., that by your in
structions your overseer has planted a
full crop of cotton the present year. In
conversation with our mutual friend,
Mr. Lowthor, we concluded that juatico
to you required us to inform you of these
reports, which were calculated to injure
you, so that you might place yourself
right before tho people. After your ma
ny patriotic proclamations ou the subject
of planting cotton, we did not hesitate
to contradict these reports.
Respectfully, your ob’ut stufft.
W. G. Williams.
Executive Department, )
Montgomery, Ala., July IG. /
Hon. W. G. Wiliiams, Opelika:
My Dear Sir : I am iu receipt of your
kind favor of yesterday, and quite sur
prised to hear that it is ourrcutly report
ed in Columbus, Georgia, that, by my
instructions, my overseer has planted a
full crop of cotton the prescut year.
You add that my friend, Mr. IVm. Low
tfaer and yourself did not hesitate to con
tradict this report. 1 thank you both
for thus vindicating me from a charge
involving not only my official integrity,
but my personal claim to the confidence
and regard of my neighbors. How such
a report could have originated, or why
any person who knows mo and tho opin
ions which I entertain, aDd have urged
in official and private intercourse, should
have repeated it, I am at a loss to divine.
It is a baseless fabrication. Over six hun
dred aores of my plantation were plant
ed in cotton the past year. Early in the
spring of this year, 1 wrote my overseer
to plant every field and tho corners of
the fences in provision crops, and not, a
seed of cotton. Before the letter wa3
mailed, I received one from him advising
that the freshet in the Chattahoochee
river had flooded my water gin and the
cotton seed which was stored in it, and
which I intended to keep over for future
planting. I then added a postcript to
my letter, as a precautionery measure,
directing my overseer to plant not more
than fifty acre3 in cotton, in order to se
cure seed for future use. lie has inform
ed me that my instructions wore obeyed.
Thanking you for your letter, I am
Very truly yours.
Jno. Gill Shorter.
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Morgan at Tompklnsvll't.
The Knoxville correspondent of the
Mobile Register says:
Tho official report of • Geu. Morgan states
that tho enemy's loss was 22 killed, oo wounded,
including oue Lieutenant and SO prisoners, in
cluding Maj. Jordan. But for the Texas Ran
gers failing to reach tlie rear of the town in
time, tho whole force of the enemy would have
been captured. The Yankee Major was brought
to Knoxville, by Capt. Bennett, with a portion
of the spoils. The balance ot the prisoners
were paroled, w ho rejoiced to get the opurtu
nity of laying dowu their arms. Buying they
were sick of the war, which had now become
only ‘‘a squabble for the nigger. ’ McClellan’s
defeat was having a most depressing effect
upon the Union men, who were very lukewarm
in their-lormer sentiments.
Major Jordan, when taken, had two “contra
bands’* with him, whom he claimed as his ser
vants, saying that ho brought them- with him
from Pennsylvania. They had not progressed
more than 20 miles, however, when one ol the
negroes was identified and claimed by tlie
owner. Ho is of the blackest abolition school,
and will now have au opportunity of seeing tho
“institution” without specs.
It was expected that Morgan would have
reached Lexington, Ky..last Monday, the Uth
inst., previous to which he would be joined by
u jajge force of Kentuckians. His intention is
to take and destroy all the stoves and public
property of the enemy that he can find, and
as Lexington contains a large depot of the en
emy it is thought that the damage done will
be very great,. to say nothing of the .“spoils”
which the Yankee banks at Lexington will no
doubt afford him. There can bo no impru
dence in speaking ol this matter at the pres
ent time, as, before this can reach you. must
probably, ihe act will have been accomplished.
The rapidity with which Morgan travels, and
the large reinforcements he will receive, (and
no doubt has received ere this by tlie uprising
of the peoplo, who were ready to flock to his
standard from all quarters.) will prevent any
force which tho enemy can now raise in Ken
tucky, from cither following him or interrupt
ing his course. Plenty of arms and ammuni
’ tion have been provided for the Kentuckians,
and wo therefore may soon expect to hear of
some most glorious news. That he will dash
into Louisville and liberate the Rebel ladies
imprisoned thereby the monster Yankee Gen
eral, Boyle, there is no doubt.
“On to Richmond,”
The Philadelphia “Press,” says :
The advance of General McDowell’s
corps to Warrentou and beyond is but
tho shadow of a vast number of rapid and
brilliant movements contemplated by
Mnjor General Pope towards the rebel
capital. An advance upon Richmond
was at one time wholly impracticable,
but now we find it au open road to the
army of a man like Pope, aud we confi
dently believe that he will march upon
Richmond direct, even if he has to send
his stores up the James river, and start
• his men forward with teu days’ cooked
rations. “On to Richmond” is no longer
the cry of politicians and paper generals,
but it is the war-cry of the people, the
Government, and the military leaders.
Gen, Floyd’s Command,
k IVe learn, says the Whig, that the
■ fommand of this gallant old veteran, is
W 1 * ? u ®“ a Btat ® of forwardness as will en
able him to take the field as soon as his
forces can be gathered from the different
camps. The headquartore of the com
mand are now at Bristol, Va.
The Stay haw.
Our esteemed cotemporary, the Atlanta
<- oufederacy, urges upon the next Legis
lature the necessity of repealing the stay
law, and offers as the only reason for
SllC^a necessity, the great abundance
of money in circulation, and the high
prices demanded for produce and cotton.
It is true there is a great deal of “mon
ey in circulation, and should the paper
manufacturer and printer be able to sup
ply the demand, the quantity will doubt
less continue to increase daily. It is,
therefore, a favorable time to pay debts,
provided creditors will agree to receive
our ragged shinplaster and individual
note currency in discharge of such obli
gations.
We presume every business man in
Georgia is aware that we have no real
currency—nothing that amounts to a
legal tender—and in every instance, it
is merely opfionary with tho creditor
whether he will receive any ot the stuff
we call money in discharge of any legal
obligation, lie will certainly not do so,
unless ho euterlains some doubts as to
tho solveucy of Isis debtor, or is greatly
pressed for means to operate upon.—
Suppose, therefore, the stay law should
be repealed, and legal process for the
collection of debts resorted to; there be
ing little of gold and silver in tho coun
try, property would be sacrificed at less
than one fourth if a value, unless the crcdi
tor ckould agree to receive paper money
—a thing which ho is not likely to do
wheu it is from fifty to eeveuty-live per
cent, discount. Congress should have
made the Confederate Treasury Notes a
legal tender, but it did not do it, and until
this is done, and some standard currency
established, we had as well let the stay
low alou“
Again: Granting that our. paper
currency subserves all the purposes of
internal trade and commerce, and that
we have it in great abundance ; tho very
high prices which its abundance ha3
produced, depreciates its relative value,
in a corresponding degree. The every
day experience of every family ia
the Confederate States, illustrates this.
Two dollars now will not go so far in pro
curing the common necessaries of life, as
one did before the war broke out. Mouey
is but the common measure of all com
modities used in civilised life, and ia
valued only for what it will buy. There
can be uo choice between a Bank note of
the denomination of leu dollars and a
half eagle, when one will go as far as
the other in procuring ihe necessaries of
life. A man whose income is now one
thousand dollars per annum, ia in reality
only receiving iivo hundred, at the very
highest estimate. Taking therefore into
consideration the apparent pientitude of
money mid its comparative value, tho
repeal of the stay law would benefit
neither debtor not’ creditor, but would
materially damage both-—it would mei’cly
be forcing tho individual note of one
mau in payment of the note of another;
or what is equally as ‘ bad, practically
offering a premium upon the worthless
iaauea of some doiunet banking concern
at tho expense of individual credit. Let
Congress make tho Confederate Elates
Treasury notes a legal tender, and then,
and not before, will tho repeal of the stay
law become a practical question.
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The Arkansas.
Tue ram Arkansas which is represent
ed by our dispatches as having created
such consternation in.the Yankee fleet
in the Mississippi, is said to be a formi
dable engine of destruction, it is a
complete iron casod boat, of heavy ton
nage and metal. It came out of tho
Yazoo river, where it was supposed that
the ram and several gunboats were re
cently destroyed. The gunboats were
destroyed, but it seems tho rain was left
intact The monster is now at Vicks
burg, having pressed through the upper
Yankee fleet, attracting its heaviest lire,
but the loss sustained is not definitely
stated.
The experience of the country oa tho
subject of marine rams has not been of
a character calculated to inspire confi
dence in tho future operations of the
Arkansas, We can only hope that it
will not share the fate of the Merrimac,
but that everything will bo risked for the
liberation of our little fleet iu the Mis
sissippi. Tho Arkansas is commanded
by Commodore Brown, who was slightly
wounded, as we learn from the Mobile
papers, by a shell which hopped on
board through a port hole which had
been opened for air.
tlvilixetion.
The Yankees, have heretofore had many
claims upon us for their superior inven
tive skill, as well as for chicanery and
small triekery in dealing. The war is
rapidly developing their moral feelings
and giving us a clearer insight into their
system of “civilisation.” It. is no un
common thing weave told, for the Yan
kee soldiery to mutilate the bodies of our
dead who fall into their bands, through
motives of mere personal hate and mal
ice. It is related that among the mus
kets eaptuied from tho Yankees while
executing their late “grand Strategic
movement” near Richmond, was one iu
the stock of which was- found a human
tooth. The butt plate having bcor* re
moved, a hole eunk in Die end of the
stock, where the, tooth was placed, aud
the plate again screwed on, Thus the
cute Yankee uo doubt felt confident of
being able at some time to present his
fair amour with a trophy of the battle
field, much in tfio same spirit of the sav
age who decorated his wigwam with the
scalps.cf his roe.
file: tlici-.K li 1 (iei’ Again.
It is staled that Gen. Stuart, tho cele
brated “circuit rider, made another cir
cuit of McClellan’s position, on Monday
last, reaching Juntos river below him.
He took with bun a few pieces. of artil
lery, but lii 3 main lofce were cavalry
men He opened fire ou a large fleet of
Yankee transports, sinking one aud crip
pling several. without the loss of a sin
gle man. Iu all probability, when the par
ticulars oi tins .“circuit” shall have be
come known, it will prove as brilliant an
atlair as his first. It is hoped the “cir
cuit rider” will continue his labors, and
that the heathens may be'mueh benelitted
by Lis pastorial visits.
I(stil Georgia,
The Forty-sixth Georgia, Colonel P.
H. Colquitt, paraded through some of
our streets ou Tuesday, and elicited
general admiration, for their proficiency
in movements and evolutions on tho
march. They have earned and deserved
eveu greater admiration for their exem
plary conduct in camp, while in and
near this city. No regiment has sur
passed them, and few have equalled or
approached them in scrupulous regard
for private rights and property and pub
lic peace and order— Ch. Courier, 1 6th.
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Grop* in Texas.
The grain crop3 iu Texas this year,
from the Rio Grande to the Red River,
are said to bo the largest ever known in
that States Only occasionally small
crops of cotton are to be seen, planted
for home use.
Salt for Georgia.
The Manassas (Bartow county) stand
ard states that Dr. John IV. Lewiß has
made arrangements with the Company
at Smytbe county, Virginia, for the
manufacture and delivery of five hund- i
red bushels of Balt daily, to the Agents i
of the State of Georgia, at tha rate Oi
§1 50 per bushel of fifty pounds, i’ne j
contract is to remain in force during the
war, yielding 182,560 bushels per an- j
num. Gov. Brown origiuated the plan
by sending Dr. Lewis to the Salt works
to obtain the largest supply practicable.
The Salt will be disposed of to the people
at actual cost to the State, including all
expenses, which will not exceed three or
four dollars per bushelj it is believed.
The Governor deserves well for this ju
dicious movement. The private stock
companies and a number of associations
for the manufacture of Salt, will, it is
hoped, provo successful, so as to furnish
enough of au article of prime necessity,
to answer the actual demand. The Salt
wells of Alabama are said to be yielding
abundantly, so that a Salt famine need
not be apprehended.
TSit III* of July Rl .KasUville.
According to the Nashviile papers of
the sth, the Yankee and torics now in pos
session of that place, had a grand cele
bration at the “State Capitol” on tho 4th
The exercises wore opened with prayer j
by tho Kev. J. Huntington, and the Dec
laration of Independence was read by
the traitor, W. B. Campbell, who, on ac
count of “feeble health,” declined to take
a commission ia ilia Confederate army.
His health seems to be improving of late !
Russell lioustin, another renegade read
Washington’s Farewell address, and Jor
dan Stokes, another tory, who never had
any political principles oi his own, de
livered tho oration. The whole conclud
ed with 80 guns.
In the evening,-Neil S. Brown deliver
ed himself of an address. It is stated
that the ladies were particularly invited
to attend, but none except Yankee cham
bermaids, officer’s wives, and “women of
the town,” were in attendance.
‘<Vrcc Government,-’
About three weeks since, tho Yankee
military authorities at Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, issued au order, requiring all
the merchants, traders, druggists, gro
cers, shopkeepers, school teachers, doc
tors, lawyers and preachers to take the
oath of allegiance to the Lincoln govern
ment. In case they refused they were
to be prohibited from practicing their
trade or profession within the limits of
the city. They all refused to take the
oath with but one exception. The mer
chants closed their doors—the doctors
refusod to practice—tho teachers gave
up their schools, and the ministers refus
ed to preach. Such is but a sample of
what we may expect, should we allow
the mean and cowardly foe to enslave us.
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Affairs on iiic Tennessee liiver.
A special dispatch in the Savannah
Republican from Knoxville, Tennessee,
represents that Buell’s forces are scatter
ed ali along (ho railroad from Huntsville
to Stevenson, and are said to number
30,000 including a trong force of caval
ry. Also, one division of tho same army,
probably 10,000 strong, including Buell’s
cavalry, is moving upon Chattanooga.
The reports from that section -are so con
flicting, that one knows not what to be
lieve.. Wo think it probable, however,
that Buell is feeling his way cautiously
up tho river, perhaps with the intention
of strengthening the lTinkee force al
ready in Baquatchie valley. Gen. Mitch
ell, it is stated, has certainly been arres
ted and ordered to Washington, but no
one eeomu to understand the cause of his
arrest. Buell is now iu command of all
the Federal forces in and about East Ten
nessee.
Bntlcrlsni In Memphis
The Memphis papers of the 11th inst.,
which have by some means run the block
ade, contain au order from Gen. Grant,
banishing from the city, after live days’
notice, tho families of all persons con
nected in aDy manner with the Confede
rate army, or holding office under the
Confederate government. This, of course,
will expel more than two thirds of the
families from the place, as nearly every
family is represented iu tho Southern
army. This is making war upon helpless
women and children in earnest, and is
only equaled in baseness by the orders
of Gen. Butler at New Orleans. It is
getting time the people of the Confedo
. rate States should awaken to the magni
tude of the dangers to which they are
exposed. We,had far better burn our
cities with our owu hands, or level them
to the earth in attempts to defend them,
than icgioriously yield them up to tho
rulo of Despotism calling itself the “con
stitute'! authorities” of the ex-United
States.
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‘‘Superior Forces. ’’
“Young Napoleon,”insists that he was
“attacked by superior forces” and the
Yankee estimates put our arrnj’ at figures,
ranging from two to three hundred tliou
| sand. The Richmond Whig commenting
!on this says, “we don’t wonder. They
j judge by effects, and the Southern army
- aid hit them with a force of two or three
hundred thousand men. We have all
I seen the account of the man who, struck
i by another with a great deal of sledge
| hammer power in his arm, and knocked
! some ten paces, through a rail fence,
: when ho ‘came to,’ about a half an
hour after, asked if the lightning hit any
, body else? We ought not to besurpris
i cd that McClellan, whan he sees what
has happened to him, should conclude
that ho was attacked by ‘superior for
ces.’ It is clear enough that our forces
were t iperior, though not in number ”
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From Ifurisslt!e r s Army.
The following letter, dated Newborn,
|N. C., July 2i, is published in the Phila
delphia I’reds:
Burnside’s - enure corps d’ armcc is in
motion, bound inland somewhere. Y’our
readers will bo surprised to hear that
three divisions are now in motion from
this place, and moro to come. You will
hear good news from Burnside, Parke,
Foster and Reno very soon. The troops
are overjoyed to think that they arc
about to follow our gallant Burnside into
a victorious field once more.
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Cotton doing Up.
We learn from a number of the New
York Herald, now before us, says the
Petersburg,'Express of the fftb, that on
Saturday week la3t, the cotton markot
was again firmer and higher, with sales of
of 1,500 Riles, closing at 381 to 39 c. for
Middling Uplands. Fine qualities were
measurably out of market, while supplies
of all kinds were extremely light
Every mau in Texas between the ages
of thirty-fivo and forty-five, has been
summoned by the Governor to organize
in defence of tho State.
Change of Schedule.
On and after to‘■day, ‘two passenger
trains will leave this city daily for West
Point. One at eight o’clock in the
morning, and the other at four o’clock
in the ivenin ss| -Montyomeru Advertiser.
The Battle of the “Seven Fine*”—
An £ngll'lh Opinion.
The London Times, ia its comments, :
remarks that it must be very hard for a
Confederate General to wib a victory ia
the Northern newspaper*. At the clone
of the first day’s fight the Confederates j
had half a mile of the Federal battle- j
field, two camps, nineteen guns, and all
their baggage, and yet they lost the vic
tory. Ia the Federal General’s dispatch,
and iu the Federal newspapers, all agree
that the second day’s fight was a hard
struggle, but the result is much less
circumstantially stated in the Federal j
officer’s report.
The London Times thinks it is clear
that, at the close of the second day’s
fight the Confederates held the same
ground from which they had advanced
ou the first night. Asa general fact, it
may, therefore, be assumed that a Con
federate victory on the first day was
neutralized by a second day’s drawn bat
tle. The fight on the first day was
brought about by generalship. A supe
rior body of troops had been thrown on
a weak part of the Federal line. This
had been done on Saturday, though per
haps net with the decisive effect antici
pated. By Sunday morning the oppor-
I trinity was gone, McClellan had gone up
: to the threatened spot, and the spot was
no longer a weak point. It was a pre- j
pared trial of force, in which the Fed
era’s, by their superior force and equip
ments, had an advantage; yet the event
of the second day was still no disaster to
the Confederates. We hear of no flight ,
or panic ; they were driven back to their
own position—that is, General McClellan j
did not pursue a repulsed enemy to the
walls of Richmond. The Times, in con- j
| elusion, moralizes as follows:
“When we have yielded the customary
tribute to the combative instincts of the
human animal, what is there more to say ?
All this heroism and blood shed is as use
less and as wicked as if it had been ex
hibited between hired gladiators in a Pa
! gan amphitheatre. It proves nothing
i and it decides nothing. In all probabili
; ly it will not hasten or arrest the fall of
Richmond; and even if it did it would
have no effect on the world’s history, or
even upon this miserable war. This bat
tle of two days tells no moro than that
■ both parties are strong enough to shed
j each other’s blood, and weak enough to
continue to do so. We remark, in this
| battle of Richmond, and other recent en
gagements, that a practice is rife with
the Federal General which we never bc-
I fore heard of except among the Asiatic
! soldiers. It is constantly statod that eav
j airy are placed behind tho Federal sol
j diera to drive them on upon tho enemy.
| In the recent case it is related that l'ugi
| tives were shot by troops sent after them
I by their own Generals. May it not be
| that many more than those few who are
thus sabred or pistoled into the battle are
; thus kept in the contest against their own
, will ? Is there no hope that the crisis of
; this meanness has arrived? If not, all
: that we have seen ia but a harmless game
i to what we shall see, now that the heats
| of summer are coming on.”
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Correspondehco of the Mobile Rogi-.t>r.
i Outbreak ot Secession In Keuturky
The Louisville Express, of the 2d inst.,
gives an account of a sharp skirmish
between a company of partisan rangers
! and the forces under the Provost Mar
-1 shal, at Henderson, Ivy., in which'Lieut.
Tyler was killed. Captain Dally, Lieut.
Dally and a numbrr of privates on the
Federal side were wounded. It is said
that one of the church bells was rang at
11 p. m., as a signalto the Confederates
to make the attack, and that at 12 the
bell raug again for°retreat, the Confed
erates retreating in good order. The
| Federals sent to Louisville for reinforce
ments. Henderson and the adjoining
counties are in a blaze. Major Mc-
Glosson’s cavalry (Federal) failed to
arrest the leading secessionists, and was
forced to retire before the forces of Capt.
Jno. T. Williams, of West Liberty, who
is successfully retaliating on the Yan
kees.
Another outbreak had occurred at
Hazel Green, William and Andy Martin,
or the Confederate Army, having killed
James Gilmore and badly wounded his
son William. A number of Humphrey
Marshall’s men are also in Kentucky,
rendering all the assistance they can.
The contemplated raid iu Kentucky of
the rebel forces at Pound Gap was confi
dently believed would be successful. In
Morgan coanty, the Yankee Judge was
compelled to adjourn his court by tho
secessisnists, and in Wolfe county Union
men were hung.
In Pike county the most bitter and re
lentless war had broken out since the
Federal forces had left, so that it would
seem that Kentucky is fully ripo for
revolution, and is only waiting for arms.
Miscellaneous.
The Tennessee traitor, Ex-Governor
IV. B. Campbell, has been mo.de a Brig
adier General by Lincoln.
The Knoxville Register learns from a
reliable Federal source (hat the insolent
and arrogant Gen. 0. M. Mitchell has
been ordered under arrest to Washing
ton.
Ohio papers say tho scarcity of labor
ers, on account, of the large number
serving in the army, will be severely felt
in gathering the harvest.’
All the Cincinnati daily papers have
advanced their prices one cent per copy
per week, in view of the anticipated gov
ernment tax on paper, income, etc.
Operations, on the Virginia Central
Railroad, which had been interrupted by
the enemy near Richmond, Lavo been
‘ resumed, and all its stock, which had
i been removed, has been restored.
The Richmond Dispatch has informa
tion of a reliable natnre that McClellan
and his stair have been ordered to report
to the Secretary of War at Washington,
i The career of the “Young Napoleon”
has come to au inglorious end.
i The retirement of the Orleans Princes
from tho staff of Con. McClellan is as
i cribed, in certain quarters, to the prob
: ability that France may become involved
in a war with the United States.
A Yankee paper, of a date antecedent
to the recent battles befoio Richmond,
’ says:—The “C. S. A.” have chosen the
very name to which they are justly ehti
• tied. They are, in fact, the “Colored
’ States of America.” Their secession and
barbarous warfare have proved them to
be the “Coward States of America and
soon they will be tho “Conquered States
; of America.”
Hon, Joliu Sell.
The Knoxville “Register” learns from
a refugee, who left Hunsville about tho
2S;h of- May, thatNich. Davis went from
Huntsville across the Tennessee river at
Whitesburg, on a mission to John Bell,
who was sojourning at Blount Springs,
Ala., to induce him to return to Nash
ville, that it was said iu Hunisville that
Mrs. Bell Lad written to Gen. Mitchell,
requesting him to give Mr. Bell a pass
port; that Mitchell consented to do so,
and Nich Davis was the bearer of a
message to John Bell from Mitchell, and
promising Mr. Bell protection. Davis
returned, but Mr. Bell did not accompany
him. As Mr. Bell’s return has never
been announced, the inference is fair
that he refused to accept the invitation
to return to his homo under Federal pro
tection, and that he patriotically awaits
a safe conduct under Confederate auspi
ces. At a recent date he wa.s still at
Blount Springs.
f
Murder of Mumford—Retaliation.
The Richmond Dispatch says: “It is
currently reported that the President has
made a demand upon the United States
, authorities for the surrender of Butler
to the Confederate Government, and in
the event of refusal, the law of retalia
tion will be enforced upon a Federal
Major General captured in the recent
■ battle below Richmond.”
,
Movement* of Troops*
j The Bth Florida, Col. Floyd command
; ing, leaves Tallahassee to-dny for Rich-
J mond. We understand that the sth regi
ment, Col. Ilately, has also received
orders to repair to Virginia, and that Col.
Hopkins’ battalion, now stationed at
Ricco’s Bluff, on the Apalachicola river,
has received orders to ropair to Talla
hassee.— Quincey Dispatch.
TE X.j3BGkfc£ JSLF* PIIO
LATENT FROM VICKSBURG
Morgans Dasli into Kentntkj!
The Succoss of the Sam Arkansas!
Batch of Northern News!
Mobile, July lfi — A speeiai dispatch
to the Advertiser, dated Knoxville 15th,
says on the 9th inst, at Tompkinsville,
Monroe county, Ky,, Colonel Morgan’s
squadron surprised and rout, and the 7th
Penn, regiment, killing i wounding
40, and capturing HO. Am,... . he pris
oners is Major Thomas Jordan, vho was
brought here last night. Oar loss two
slightly wounded. The whole camp of
the enemy, with all their stores, fell into
the hands of Morgan, including 100 head
of horses and mules, 100 rifles, a large
quantity of ammunition and clothing. It
was not Capt. Lewcllyu, Col. Morgan’s
Quartermaster, who was killed, as re
ported, but O’Brien, of the Texas Bang
ers.
Jackson, Miss., July 15. — The ram
Arkansas sunk two boats coming out of
Yazoo river. The Federal fleet opened
on both sides, pouring in a terriiic fire
as she passed. On opening a port hole
for air, a shell entered, killing 9 and
wounding several others. The ram Ben
toh attempted to buttthe Arkansas, but
missed, and was struck by the Arkansas,
when she put.-for shore in a sinking con
dition. Another Federal gunboat was
fired. All the transports in the fleet be
low have left. One mortar boat which
grounded was burnt. The Arkansas is
scarcely injured, and is expected to go
down the river. Heavy bombardment
now, &p. m., going on. Guns distinctly
heard here. No telegraphic intelligence
has been received from Vicksburg for
the last three hours.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Jackson, July 15—Tbo tiring ceased
at 9 o’clock, to-night. Both tho upper
and lower fleets attempted to pass our
batteries, but were repulsed. The exas
perated and mortified enemy vented his
rage by throwing liquid shells into the
city, burning one row of buildings. Our
batteries uninjured. No casualties re
ported.
Richmond, July 15.—-The New York
Herald in its money article for July 10th,
says: The excitement in the gold and
exchange market continues unabated.
Gold opened this morning at 1171, but
fell to 115, then begau to rally at sec
ond board, sold at 110, and closed at that
bid.* Bills on London 120.}.
The advance in gold and bills, has led
to a remarkable activity in merchandize.
People are shipping to Europe everything
which can be bought. Every one who
owes anything to Europe is sending pro
duce to pay the debt; others are ship
ping on speculation, relying on the pre
mium paid on their exchange for profit.
The Herald says the advance on bills
will nearly annihilate the import trade.
| The premium on gold in fact is just so
much additional custom duty levied on
foreign goods, and as duties were nearly
prohibitory before, this will render them
! absolutely so. Money continues fairly
active at five to six per cent. Money
capitalists are distrustful of the future,
and decline to part with their funds.
Stocks have all fallen heavily within the
| past thirty days. U. S. sixes have de
clined eleven per cent. ; New York Gen*
tral thirteen, and Erie five and a half.
Richmond, IG.—An official dispatch
to Secretary Mallory from Lieut. Brown
says the enemy’s fleet above Vicksburg
consisted of four more iron clad vessels,
two sloops-of-war, four gun boats, and
seven or eight rams.
We drove an iron clad ashore, with
colors down and disabled ; blew up a ram,
burned one vessel and damaged several
others, our smoke stack was so shot to
i pieces that wo lost steam and could not
; uso tho vessel as a ram.
| Wo lost 10 killed and 15 wounded.
I Richmond, July 10.— Negotiations are
! progressing to effect a general exchange of
! prisoners. The cartel of 1812 will prob
; ably be agreed to as the basis of ex
change. Gen. D. 11. Ilill has been ap
pointed to conduct the negotiations on
the part of the Confederate States.
Liverpool advices to the 3d inst., have
i been recoived.
Sales of Cotton in Liverpool for the
| the week, were 15,500 bales, at prices 2
! to 2} pence higher than the last author
ised quotations, market closing with still
upward tendency.
Breadstuff's tending down. Wheat 3
pence lower.
Weather favorable for crops. Provis
ions very dull.
Mobile, July 17.—A special dispatch
to the Tribune dated Grenada, 10th, says
the Memphis papers of the 14th, report
that Curtis’ army arrived at Helena on
Saturday last. This report is confirmed
by persons from Friar’s Point.
A dispatch from Louisville dated the
11th, reports that Morgan suddenly turn
ed up at Glasgow, Ky., where he w&3 cap
turing Home Guards and stirring people
up to insurrection.
Grant has revoked his late order, sub
stituting obnoxous paroles.
A Washington dispatch says the War
Department is determined on a general
exchange of prisoners. It is thought
that the bill fur arming negroes will
pass the Federal Congress.
A Vicksburg dispatch says the ram
xkrkansas sunk three Yankee Gunboats.
xV special dispatch to the Advertiser &
Register, dated Jackson, Pith, says it is
rumored that last evening the Yankee
gunboats succeeded in passing down, fir
ing on the Arkansas and killing two men
as they passed.
The Yankee works across the Bend is
said to be a Railroad instead of a Canal.
Cars are running Sa the Road.
Mobile, July IS.—A special dispatch
to the Advertiser and Register, dated
Knoxville, 17th, says we have positive
informatitn that Col. Forrest took Mur
freesboro’ on the 13th inst., after severe
fighting, withjconsiderable loss on both
sides. Gen. Crittenden (Federal) was
taken prisoner.
Jackson, July 17.—The enemy con
tinued shelling Vicksburg, apparently
feeling for our troops. The lower fleet
haß moved up about a mile. The ram
Arkansas has proved to be a troublesome
customer. The Federate will capture
the x\rkansas if they lose half their fleet
in doing so.
On Tuesday night nine boats are said
to have passed down, they being badly
damaged.
It is supposed the enemy will make
a desperate effort to capture the Arkan
sas.
Richmond, July 19.—Northern dis
patches dated Nashville, 15th, report
that a fight had taken place at Murfrees
| boroj and that the Confederates were
victorious. Two Yankee regiments sur
rendered. Gen. Crittenden, and Col.
Duffield, of Indiana, were captured. The 1
Confederates are reported to be march
ing on Nashville, 6,000 strong
In New York, gold is worth 1 IGA ; j
} sterling exchange, 129
| The News from Tennessee had a Je- j
pressing effect on tho stock murket.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Richmond, July 10. —The Petersburg
i Express has a speeiai despatch from 1
Knoxville announcing the capture of
Murfreesboro, Tenn., by Col Forrests’
Cavalry on Sunday last.
The New York Herald, oi tin- i4ifi is
received. It says Marfreed-orw was
captured by three thousand rebel cavalry, I
under Forrest- on the iSih The Oth
Michigan, Col. Parkhurst, and Brig. Gen.
Crittenden, and Daffield, of Indiana,
were taken prisoners. Many other ofli
cers ware taken. Great consternation
j prevails in Nashville. The Federalssay
! they will shell the city if compelled to
evacuate.
Morgan was only 9 miles from Frank- !
fort on Sunday morning.
Groat alarm exists among the Yankees
| in Kentucky.
Mobile, July 19.—A special dispatch
; to the Advertiser, from Jackson, dated
| July 18, states that the enemy continue
slowly to shell Vicksburg. We will soon |
have another heavy tight or ‘ skedaddle.” i
The Tribune bus received a private
dispatch, dated at Vicksburg, uu the 18tb,
which says that tin* ram Irkao ■.- V be
ing repaired, Mini v. it! j.os.ii i • ii v for
action.
We trust brick and mortar will !
not control the citizens of Mobile; but
1 hope that they will let the city be burned
to ashes rather than be oecupc t to, Y.iu
keo.troops. We have passed ihr> ugh a
fiery ordeal here, but • urn. r ..re firm
i and in good i pii its
J May Gol protect and defend our gal- i
I lent Goods everywhere,
i Mobile, July 20.—A special dispatch
j to tho Tribune, dated Vicksburg, 19th,
j says the enemy have been leisurely shell- j
ing the city to day. Nothing has be<--n
damaged, and nobody hurt. One of the
enemy’s gunboats passed Natchez yester
day tow'ed by another boat, which was
patched hugely. Six vessels have gone
below Natchez 5u a damaged condi
tion.
Richmond, July 19. —Northern dates
jto the 16th have been received. The
j war meeting in New Y ork on the 15th is
| said to have been largely attended.
There were five stands for speakers, all
of whom were vehemently in favor of
upholding the Government in all its war
measures until the last armed rebel shall
surrender. At 6 o’clock, when the gath
ering had became the most dense, a vio- j
lent shower came up when the meeting !
was summarily dismissed.
A letter from Butler is published ex
planatory to his order regarding the !
ladies of New Orleans. lie says that
gentlemen will take no notice of a woman
of the town. She cannot insult. It is
only when she becomes a continuous and
positive nuisance that you call a watch
man and give her in charge to him.
Richmond, July 20.—Northern papers i
to the 17th have been received. The ;
Confiscation Bill has been amended so j
that tho Bill should not work forfeiture 1
of real estate beyond the natural life.
Recruiting goes on very slow in New
York. Governor Morgan has ordered a j
bounty of to each recruit, trusting :
the next Legislature will endorse his ;
action.
Col. Forrest’s command has fallen back j
in the direction of McMinnville, 75 miles
from Nashville.
The House has passed a Bill authoris
j ing the President to call out tho Militia
for a period not exceeding 9 months, and
the employment of negroes in the mili
tary service.
Exchange closed at 29. Gold 17];
Stocks lower.
—•
Old Tom’s prayer, at the African
church, in the city of Memphis, Sunday
evening, June 15, 18C2, at the conclusion
of religious services on that occasion :
Avalanche.
0, Lord, hah mercy on us all S Bless
our land and country. Grant us rain,
that we hab good crops and blessed with
plenty in this time of trouble. 0, Lord,
j bless our masters and mistresses and
their children. They have been kind
and good to us; bless them in these
troublesome times. O, Lord, bless massa
Jeff Davis,! O, Lord, bless our army
and our brave soldiers that are fighting
the battles of our country against our
enemies that are invading our country.
0, Lord, give them success. 0, Lord,
bless our sick and wounded soldiers, and
grant that they may be restored to health
and enabled to go and join tlieir brothers
in fighting the battle of our country
against our enemies. Bless us all as
thou scest we need, and take caro of us
and save us, is my prayer. Amen!
Cob! Harbor.
There iB some misapprehension in re- !
gard to the name of the locality of one of
the most important of the series of battles
lately fought, and won in the neighbor
hood of this city. A misapprehension
not only in regard to the origin of the
name, but the name itself. Some of our
contemporaries speak of the battle of
“Cold Harbor.” This name will be news
to the readers of the Enquirer ; but Coal
Harbor has been familiar toj-hem, as a vot
ing place ever since the establishment of
precinct elections, and long before the
birthday of the greater number of soldiers
who distinguished themselves in the bat
tle of Friday evening. Coal Harbor is
the name, but vva do not know its origin.
— Rich. F.nq.
■
‘•Ho Mercy.”
A Yankee letter, picked up on the
battle field, says that the determination
of “the boy3” in the engagement before
Richmond was “to show the rebels no
mercy'’ and give no quarter. The writer
is particularly severe on the “niggers,”
who, ho says, maltreated their wounded
at Williamsburg. He says that not a
negro will bo spared if captured —the
boys have sworn to “annihilate” them.
McClellan to be Guillotined.
A gentleman of undoubted veracity,
who was several days a prisouer with the
laukees, made his escape, and arrived
in Richmond on the bth. The Dispatch
understands that he asserts it as an un
diaputable fact, that McClellap and his
staff have been ordered to report to the
Secretary of War at Washington. The
guillotino is thirsty, and Gen. Lee sends
it a whole batch of victims. We have no
doubt he will continue to supply it as long
as the k ankee Generals give him an oppor
tunity.
The Second Georgia.
lhis regiment is encamped abou. two
miles from Richmond, on the Charles |
City road.
The lid Georgia lost in killed and woun
ded during the battles, about 250 men,
being about half the number that was
led into the battles. Private Nelms of
Russell county, Ala., died a few days
since from the effects of a wound received
during the engagements. He belonged
to Capt. Shepherd’s company.
A Notorious Yankee Colonel Killed,
Among the killed in the recent battles
before Richmond, was Col. Wyman of the
lGth Massachusetts regiment. Col. Wy
man had rendered himself quite notori
ous by hie connection with a piece of
scandal which a few years ago excited all
Gotham to an intense pitch. He was the
man who eloped with Mrs. Capt. James
Brennan, the two embarking at New York
one summer evening about G o’clock, on
the ferry boat for Staten Island.— Rich.
Enq.
Results of tlae Battle
“Persotme,” the inti-ivMii* ,
po talent of tbo Chariest,m i • <-,- •- it -
ing from Richmond and • • , i„ v
| sth, says :
It is dithco. : < as y, t estimate the
fruits of in- victory. Go have about
1 five lbous'D“i well prisoners, including
j five geuei a-. probaidy the s&mc nuiab.-r
J of iheir woiii.it. ‘, two thousand horses,
large number- , f wagons, teu or tweive i
i tnousaod etualt aims, (though strange to :
say ii*e Yankees ttied to render them j
useless by striking them against trees
and stones,) an immense amount of cloth
i ing and commissary stores, and hbout 90
| cannon These articles have not all been
| brought from the field, however, -.. cl we
have no tangible evidence of their , xi-i
----i ence. In addition to all this we have
I compelled the enemy'himself to apply
the torch and destroy millions of prop
erty necessary to the well being of their
army.
The present position of McClellan,
witli tho remnant of his forces, is at Berk-
I ley, a plantation on the James River, 14
mi lea from City Point. A tide water
stream runs on either side of him deep
enough for gunboats to afford him com
plete protection, and he is, I judge from
passing events, safe from a serious at
tack
The probability is that, he will remain
at this point, gather reinforcements, re
I organize bis army, and, “try again ;
| but his next experiment will not be on
this side of the Chickahominy. If he
operates any more it will be South of the
James River, and ia co-operation with
>his gunbeats. He ia now thoroughly sat
wed that without gunboats, the \ aukeea
feVe rot so invincible as lie had labored
H?j ( r ihe laat nine mouths to make them
Relieve.
Our losses are heavy, probably eight
or tea thousand killed and wounded,
against fifteen or twenty 7 of (lie enemy.
, The casualties among the officers were
’ especially heavy.
i'Vum Son til western. Virginia.
A correspoudeiil of the Atlanta Con
federaey writing from Abingdon, Ya ,
under date of July 7, says:
| By passengers just through by the uu
| der ground road, f learn that large imm
j bers of troops were being shipped north
over the Louisville and Nashville Hail
road, during Sunday and Monday last,
the 29th and 30th. If so, these troops
undoubtedly were for McClellan, and
could have readied him by Thursday eve
! uing via Louisville, Cincinnati, Pitts
j burg, Harrisburg, Baltimore and Wsh
! ington. By the samc / sonrce 1 learn that
! arms are being distributed throughout
j Kentucky to she Unionist#, aud all the
S “secesh” are required to give bond and
take the oath, and all who refuse are
hurried oli to Northern dungeons. 20,-.
000 Kentuckians have left their homes
and sacrificed everything upon earth ex
cept their liberty, for to shield the “Val
ley of the Mississippi” and Virginia from
the invading hosts of the usurper.
The East Tennessee Railroad is now in
I imminent danger from the enemy, and
| tho government, I think, js making every
j exertion to drive the enemy beyond the ‘
j borders cf East Tennessee into Kentucky.
Large numbers of Kentucky Yankee cav- j
airy are hovering upon the banks of !
Clinch river, from its mouth to far above |
the lines into Virginia, committing un- 1
heard of thieving and depredations upon
the people.
♦
Cluirgen Against General Hwlleelt.
The Northern papers have been iudis
| crimiuately pitching into General Hal
! leek for permitting Beauregard to out
’ general him at Corinth. The corrospon
| dent of the Chicago “Tribune” opens on
| him in the following ungloved style :
Granted that it was desirable to let the
| public down gradually to the truth that
a thin line of pickets and a few trumpe
ry field pieces had held our grand army
back for weeks after the grand skedaddle
had begun ; and to trade off by degrees
the abrupt step between tbe sublime
looking for battle and the ridiculoushunt
after an enemy whose very tracks were
cold—granted all this, why tell the peo
ple in an official dispatch that General
Pope had the enemy all in his eye, and
had bagged 10,000 of them to begin with,
when the facts were that nothing ever
occurred to warrant any such assertion,
aad not elsewhere was this better known
than at headquarters. It is all coming
to light now, and in no way more surely
j than by letters from officers and soldiers
j which numerously reach us, deuyiug
; aud ridiculing the larger share cf what
J has formed the burden of official dis
| patches from up the Tennessee since the
! evacuation.
I-•
I Dread fill Accident at Xi’ort Hi outirle
i I Our community will be deeply pained
, j to learn that yesterday afternoon, during
■ j tho progress of some experiments in ar
: J tillery practice at Fort Moultrie, a 32-
■ ! pounder, which had been rifled and
“banded,” and with which tho troops
were firing at an iron-plated target,
burst with terrible results to the officers
and soldiers standing near the piece
Lieut. Col. Thomas M. Wagner was
very severyiy wounded in the thigh and
ankle.
Lieut. T. Lamar Wardlaw was also
! severely wounded.
i Capt. Valentine and booc- other off
! eers were slightly wounded.
| Private Hugh Benton was killed.
[ Privates J. Hudson, M. McDaniel, G.
j W. Adams and C. C. Fleming were
! wounded.
We understand that Erig. Geu. W D.
: Smith was present at the time tbeexplo
| sion took plaee. Hr. Ogier wa3 soon in
| attendance upou the wounded.—Charles
| lon Mercury, IG th.
McClellan and Ills Tiuop*.
McClellan tells his troops, in his 4ih
of July address to them, that their being
driven away from Richmond entitles
: them to be ranked with “the celebrated
i armies of history.” If being driven
? thirty-five miles, kicked and cudgelled
I every inch of the way, gives them claim
to such distinction, it would only have
been necessary to have boaleu them clear
down the Peninsula and into Hampton
Roads to have made them the most
famous army that history tells of. It
McClellan (whom they are talking of
hanging at Washington for making his
army so celebrated) will give us another
chaucg, we will aid him in reaching that
superlative degree of celebrity. We
. much fear though that an ungrateful ami
j unappreciatiag people will put an ex
j tinguisher on him.— Richmond Whig.
Sklrmith In Tennessee,
! Special dispatch to the Favannah Republican.
Knoxville, July 15. — A heavy skirm
| ish occurred thie morning at Wallace’s
Cross Roads, the other side of Clinch
j river, on the road to Big Creek Gap.
Two full regiments of the enemy’s in-
I fantry and cavalry were engaged with
four of our companies and cavalry, un
der command of Col. McLin. Ten were
killed and missing on our side : the ene
i rny’s loss about the same.
Bodies of Colonel Lomax and Others j
Identified.
A dispatch from Dr. John J. Johnston
to Gov. Shorter, says that the bodies of
Col. Lomax, Adjutant Johnson and Capt.
Mayes have been found and fully identi
i fied.”
The Enquirer learns that J. Berrien
Oliver, tsq., of the City Light Guards,
2d Georgia Battalion, was prostrated by
sun stroke on a very hot and exhausting
march near Petersburg, onthe Sth.
General Lovell.
The Richmond Examiner understands
that Gen. Lovell is iu that city, where it
is supposed a Court of Enquiry asked for
by him will investigate the circumstan
stances attending the capture of Now
Orleans.
.
General Shepley, military commander
of Louisiana, has been nominated for
Governor of Maine. Ho refuses it.
Quite an interesting little quarrels I
to be goiug on between the i
papers, relative to McClellan’s i a * i
.aster. Tbe ‘‘Herald.” always ah „. I
its cotemporaries in (he catalogue I
dacity, claims for McClellan a *•„, m
‘Strategic movement.” a grand §
j manoeuvre, the bh. cf which tl , 1
Uew before witnessed. ■
: ever, that, the entire year s wotk ;i r f
J ed > and lfa at great delay has been 1
:by it; that millions have been i ~P'’ I
; that an entire B ew programme L, v j
| ‘be inevitable results of MeOlelUr j
! P ulße it insists mat Air. Lineal--
i change iii C Cabinet, and iLat Ctsr.r l
| particular must- he turned out I
j “Tribune” holds McClellan respond: ‘ j
! the “World” taxes Lincoln W j,'>
blame, while the “Times,” havir.
more decent regard for truth tF
j rest, laughs at the whole of this t.
{disposition to demand a sesi
\on which to vent an iuevitalf .
grin aud mortification, tG
nizc the true cause of th e :
tar-—tfee inherent difficulty n f a tt^
ing to enslave, a free j eoitle
‘ ‘hem appear to see t but the t ss k of < ,
jugalimi is hopeless, and th ~ ,
j kec leader is bound toil,, ~
‘•'•Jine a scape
i goat until the whole Ytnlro,.
concern
i shall have gone under.
It is onr candid opinion ty. y
| them would tell tho truth and,,.',
I edge their want of confidence in tu, > \
ity of the Abolition government t,,
: tain itself, were they not kept ia a v.t-,-
some dread of some Yankee B.istile
Frank Leslie’s illustraiiai aeviop;,
! supplement for May 31, which ha
on view at the Courier office for
! days, is unusually full of malignity
! in its letter preys and its oaiie'itu
called ‘‘illustrations.” Many of the
ter are executed by “our special art,;,
M. W. Waud, who is a good artist
sketching what he sees, but it is fin, .
! sible he could have seen all the origins.-
, of the sketches here credited to Mi >
{ ciL
Mr. Waud is well known in v.'h irlc-5:,,.
j having visited us to attend the fsui- a
| Convention of April, 1860, and utter
pwards at the opening of the seces-ity,
movement.
He did duty for some time in ot,, ct
j our volunteer companies, expressed
1 all occasions and unsoliciit-u the warmest
; preference for the South and ahhorreui
I of the Yankees (he being an Englishman
and left here finally about or mst befors
j the fall of Sumter to procure loaL-risii
; and outfit for an illustrated nevoyagr
which was in contemplation
Frank Leslie is welcome to his sendee,
: and to all the out hern subscribers he
can find hereafter. —Charleston Cow r.
—♦
A WomSerl'ul Mitcliliie.
A‘correspondent of the “Times, ’ v:r.-
j ling from London, says :
Tho most extraordinary machine in th
! exhibition is bpyond question the one fit
! microscopic writing. This enables *
; person to write in the usual way, ami to
■ duplicate his writing a million tinu
| smaller; so small indeed that it is iu
visible to the naked eye, yet with a
powerful microscope, becomes so plain
that every line and dot can be -eea
I The inventor claims that with this instru
ment he can copy the entire Bible twenti
two times in iho space of an inch. Tb
j Astor Library, I presume, could be Iran?
1 ferred to a sheet of note paper. Prai ti
cally it will boos great service in pi,
venting forgeries. With one of thee
I machines a private mark cau be put h
bills so minuie and perfect that the for
ger can neither perceive nor imitate it,
but the bank clerk or broker knowing
where to look can at once detect that th
bill is genuine. The machine ie tbe in
vention of Mr. Peters.
i The Rifle Gannon Explosion at H.
Ittoultrie.
Lieut. Colonel Thomas M. Wagner,
who was wounded by the recent expio
| sion of a rifled cannon iu Fort Moultrie,
i died in Charleston on Thursday morn
! ing last, from the effects of hi? wo uni
He was in the 38th year of his age, and
bad been a member of both House- T
| the South Carolina Legislature.
Tho body of Lieut. T. Lamar Wtnl
1 law, who was wounded by the same a
‘■ plosion, arrived here yesterday moraiij,
■ from Charleston, en route to his relative 1 -
for interment.— Aug. Conxtil., 15/4.
|
Joaottmu Abroad.
It is said that a late number ei ttr
’ Londou Punch haß among other illustrx
l tions, one representing Louis Napoleon
’ seated in a chair, smoking a cigar■
“Brother Jonothan,” a rather ungsinl}
: looking military individual, ia -tandiug
: before liirn, pointing to a picture of tbe
■ Duke i!e Chartres, and sayiug: “Tci!
ycr what it is Louis if you cum meJ
-1 lin’with . any of yer mediation ATte.
j soon as ever Fvo whipped tLo rebel?—
j and walked into Canada and chaVi?i
; John Bull —darn and if I don’t put tu
: young man in your location.”
—
Au Unhealthy Location,
We learn from Yankee journals ilui
late withdrawal of their troops If
James’ Island, near Charleston,
“solelyljby sanitary reasons.’ 1 So t
suppose. The neighborhood of Sr.-’
siouville is particularly unkeakir ‘ ‘
Yankee troops. A few weeks a go,
or four hundred of them died there ‘ u *•
couple of hours, and twice -
more became suddenly indisjusea -•
was a good-deal like the bad lurn t“G
had last Fall, at Leesburg, and w’nat ui
little singular “Shanks”
by on both occasions. If is apt Gte -
healthy for Yankees, wherever xae
is. Indeed, it may be said this
race is suffering in health very •
Out door life, this side of the i’c
don’t seem to agree with them
Pity. —Richmond Whig.
Gen. Magrmhr In Colusa* I'*’ 1 '*’
The Columbia Guardian, of Tui -x
----says: Major Gen. Magruder an G-'”
rived iu this city yesterday,
lodgings at the Congaree House. ia
spense to the call of a large c
our citizens, and to the eompnQt r
music by the Fort Sumter b*oJ, ° e i
Magruder expressed his gratlficim sß ’;/ ■
thanks in a few soldierly wunH I
said that Gen. McClellan had beer ‘
pletcly defeated, and that the (!
his base of operations from the ‘ I
hominy to the James river was ih*“ j. F
of necessity, and not strategy
Magruder looks the dashing I
we know him to he. We are I
that he is on hie way to East Teno* ■■ ■
his presence being needed there \
present juncture of aftairs. I
The Yankee correspondents state * I
Old Abe paid a visit to the grand ® •
of the Young Napoleon on the I
returned to Fortress Monroe on ’ •
and visited the British steamer ■ I
■ receiving the customary salutes, xc (
| correspondent says on Abe’s ret, I
i Washington, the fruits of his I
i 90on be apparent ; he has no i J? . ‘
! lowiDg the Confederates to
daring the summer, and . ■ Bfl
guns soon shall be thundering 8 K •
der the walls of Richmond.
Hanging of Confederate
It is reported that two ofbeo
san Rangers, who were on duty f|#
in Orange county, were capture J utl
! enemy in their advance on of
j hung. We could not learn the n
! the men, but the report comes
j such a way as to induce
j —Lynchburg Rrp.
Exchange * l”
It is said that negotiations ar ‘
gress for a general exchange o- P . t 0
Gen. D. 11. Hill has beeu 0 {&
conduot the regulations on th 1
Confederates