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COLQUITT & WABBLY, Proprietors. Volume XVI, coiryurs.TrEßPAi.jiLV 23. ni. f! Battle of Mmsst*. Another glorious victory crowns the arm* ol tho Confederate With a fore© treble our ‘•wu an-1 provided with all the rppli-trees of war which vast preparation and unlimited resources •oul-i furnish, and within hearing of the cannon from hi* capital, the enemy has been made to bite the dost, Such Intelligence son da n thrill oi inexpressible juy through the length and breadth (•four land, and calk* upon the people to give thank* and praise to Him who Bold* the desti nes ofnatlons in the hollow of Ills hand. Sor row too is our portion, the cypress is thickly en twined with the laurel. Many are made to mourn the loss of loved ones and a the roll rs the immortal dead is called thousands of aching hearts and desolate homes will testify to the mis ery of war. Kven now thu heart of ear old mother, Geor gia, throb# heavily fi;r the 1* of one.after h-rav st and uobleet eons. Bartow has fallon’ The genet. as, the chival rous, the gifted Bartow’ He whom she delight *.dio honor, aal from whose ascending star she already borrowed a reflected radiance. She will weep for him—yes. weep for him, find then with a purpose touched with fire from bis ewn bright spirit, she will arm her sons, his broth ©r, and hid them go forth tu uvenge his fall. (.übcnutMul Otgmlii. The 4th of September seems 19 be very gen erally acquiesced in by our cotemporarie# of the Tress, a* the day for the assembling of tbo Gu bernatorial Convention of Georgia. It will also be the duty of that Con vent it*n to select Presidential Electors. Tho people in the several counties should assemble atones and ap point delegates to the Convention. Let every county be well represented * * that the wishes of the people may bo known. ..£** We publish the following extract from a totter from our Richmond correspondent dated the Uih inl* which soma freak of tho mails de layed in reaching us. It makes honorable and just mention of gentlemen w.th whom most ot otir readers aru acquainted: Gen. 11. R. Jackson is to take command in North Western Virginia. Ho left with his Staff on Wednesday, but had not arrived when the engageme t under Oen Pogram took place.— When Jatksou gets into the North West ho will .nlo e new life into the soldiery. Uo is a galiant man, and one calculated to impress o'bers with the same noble impulses that animate tis own Losoui. With such sons Georgia may well entrust her honor. Wise's Legion is doing effective ser vice lu encouraging the faithful, confirming the doubtful and strong Renin g the timid, llis argu wants are as terrible as bis arms to all opposed to Virginia's welfare. It is said that his discue sions have won thousands to Hie cause and al most overthrown the treasonable se4limon>tß scat tered broad cast by Carlisle A C>. C l. F\ J. Moses, Senator from Punster, South Carolina, left here yesterday to join Wise's Legion, til Aid to Gen. Wise, lie in a rue man. lie was among the most ardent advocates of the separate He oeiJilOß of South Carolina, and did asr much as any man to confirm South Carolina in the assurance that whan she for liberty, Georgia would head the column. Ardent, brave and eloqusnt as an orator, he will do much to .■<ave erring Virginians from the malign iufln.'r.ces by which they have been mis lead; and as a sol dier he will be known and fait l.y the enemies of our common cause. Beverly Thornton ut also here, offering a Reg iment for Wise’s Brigade, and will soon be back with yon to move hie forces to the seems of ac tion. lie too is well calculated for a disaffected region, where it Is aa necessary to rouse the u ---tbofiann and convince the judgment of the er ring, as it Uto drirw back the foreign f>e that invades the soil, iiamsey and Jackson, yon know, are both powerful before the people. Wise i himself a host, and if with this galaxy, woun ded error does not writhe In pain, I am rarely deceived. Edgar Dawson, £sq. is here and has fully succeeded in arranging tor the eariy un ve ineat of the gallant jßtttttey with bie regiment. Os Cantey, I nee< say no more than that he nnetainni himself well in the Palmetto Begi ment. This Is praise enough for any man. UtfMU.3. Special Correspondence of the Times. RICHMOND CORRESPONDENT. Rtchmorp, July 17, *AI. ‘Tt is good fJr us sometimes to have troubles and adversiUea.’’ The above quotation is, I be lieve, from Tbotnae a Kempii, and is replete with philanthropy and wisdom. Were we to march onward to every point, victorious and bloodleW, strewing our path as we advanced, in this second war of independence, with slain Yankee*, we would inevitably relapse into u dangerous con dition of self-reliance, wlfhont corresponding exertions, and self-sufficiency wholly unwarran ted and perilous. It is true, the brilliant affair at Bethel Church may have encouraged the be lief that, in a fair fight, we can whip the Hes sians with aforceof one to five. That wufl a glorious exploit, ami will form the brightest page In the history of this revolution, but it wou'tl be a moat hazardous experiment to try too often Tu a fair light, where there Is no bushes behind which the Yankee* can ikuik, and m) mountain ranges where they can stealthily surround our forces, by night, every candid man who knows anything of the relative pereonel of the contend mg armies, will contVe that we might safely trust the doetiny of the South to 30,000 Confederate troops against 30,000 Hessian invaders. All the moral, and, ae respecie man to man, ail the physical advantages are on onr tide—the God of battles is with ns, and hence we could afford the above odds, and whip them. Hut, for all this, we must look for revereoi as well as victories. — No war was ever continued for any length of time without alternate defeat and victory, and one is as indispensable as the other to interna* tional success. I would no be understood as Intending to intimate that we have met with any serious disasters. Such is not the case, for •• yet we hava bad no battle between the immense ar* inies on both files, alread, prepared for the con flict, but we have had several skirmishes in which we have been generally victorious, and very recently two important engagements, in which we have mot with disaster, after the fight at Rich Mountain, the particulars of which you have already published, Cot. Scott, your readers will remember, retreated towards Monterey with the remnant of Col. Pegram’e command, and made a stand there with some 3,000 men, leaving Gen. Garnett with 3,000 men, in his original po sition, some 14 tode* from Rich Mountain.-- Learning of the disastrous affair at this place and of the retreat of Scott towards Staunton, Genera* Garnett attempted a retreat, but was compelled to give battle to McClellan, thin time in com mand of some 13,000 men. Telegrams received here last night, and not contradicted up to one o'clock to-day, state that while in the act of re treating, after an boar's fighting, Gen. Garnett was mortally wounded, bis forces, however, ef fecting their retreat in good order. McClellan did not follow, oontenting himself with occupy ing the camp from which the gallant Garnett had been dislodged. This is the very latest intelli-. gecce which has reached the city, anl though generally credited, It is not implicitly relied on ill iiltttiitts Uliilli smm> # t© Its principal authority rests upon McClellan’* dispaiebe* to the Government at Washington, m l when it is known,ok the fact is,that it whs ar ranged between Gen. MsClellan, Blair, Chase, Wilson and the other abolition leaders in Wash ington that, while Congress remains in session, all s irts ot lying, seusatiou dispatches should be forwarded to that city with a view to exclude -very peace proposition, hurry through the war appropriations and hasten the adjournment ot ihat body, wo may well pause before crediting -hose disastrous rumors. Whether Gu or not, however, wo must relax ne effort to drive out the invaders, and save our beloved Confederacy from tho curse of Yankee io aiia alien. If any intelligence reaches the city up to six o'clock, p. m., I Will givoit in h postscrip. BRUTUS. Message of President Davis. To the Cong rest of ike Confederate Stott 4 of America * t*KM-LEst*N.--My me*sago addressed to you at the commencement of ttie session contained such full information of tho Confederacy, as to condor it necessary that I should now do no more than call your attention to such important facts as have occurred during tho recess, and to mat ters connected with the publio defence. 1 have again to congratulate you on the acces sion of new members to our Confederation of free, equal, and sovereign States. Our loved and honored brethren of North Carolioa and Ten nessee have consummated the action foreseen aud provided for at your last session ; and I had the gratification of announcing by proclamation, in conformity with the law, that those Status wore admitted into the Confederacy. Toe people of Virginia, also, by a majority previously unknown in hor history, have’ rati fied tho action of the Convention uniting her ft r tunc* with ours. The State* of Arkansas, North Carolina and Virginia have likewise udopted the permanent Constitution of the Confederate State*, and no doubt is entertainod of it* adoption by Tennessee, at the ejection to bo held early next month. I deemed iu advisable to direct the reuiovui of the several Executive Departments, with their archive?, to this city, to which you had remov ed tho siat of Government, immediately after your adjournment. Tho aggressive movement of the enemy required prompt, energetic aetion. Lb© accumulation ol hi* forces on tiie Potomac sufficiently demonstrated tba hi* efforts wero di reeled against Virginia; and from no point could Iho necessary measures for her detence and protection be so efficiently directed a* from her own capital. Tho rapid progrt.-a of events for the last few weeks bus fully sufficed to tr.p the veil behind whieh the true policy and purposes of tho Gov ernment ol the United States had boon previ ously concealed. Their odious features now stand fully revealed. Toe Mease#* of their President end the action of their Congress du ring the present month, confess the inientiou oi subjugating those .States by a war whose folly is equaled only by its wickedness —a war by which u i* impossible to obtain the proposed result: — whilst ltd dire calamities, not to bo avoided by us, will fall with doable severity upon <berase!ves. Commencing, in March lar, with the affect a ti-.n of ignoring tho secession of the seven £>tuie* which Lrat organized this Government; per iat ing, in April, in the idle and absurd assumption of (be existence of a riot which was to be dis persed by a posse comitatus ; continuing, in suc cessive mouths, the false representation that these States iutended an offensive war—in spite of conclusive evidence to the contrary, furnished si weil by official action as by (he very basis on which this Govern merit is constituted—the Presi dent of thu United State* aud hi* advisers suc ceeded in deceiving the people of those States into the belief that the purpose of this Govern inert was not peace at home, but oonquest abroad—not the defence of its own iibertie, but the subversion of those o. the people of the Uni ted States. The series of macoeuvrai by which this im pression was created—the art with which they were devised—and the peifldy with which they wero executed are already kuo nto you ; but you could scarcely have supposed that they would bo openly avowed, and their success made the subject of boast and self-laudation in an Ex ecutive message. Fortunately for the trnth of history, however, the President of the United i States details with minuteness the Attempt to reinforce Fort l'ickens, in violation < fan armis tice, of which he confesses to have been inform ed, but only by rumors too vague nr. f uncertain to fix attention. The hostile expedition dispatch \ to supply Fort Sumter, admitted to Lave been undertaken with .ha knowledge that its success was impos sible ; the sending of a notice to the Governor of South Carolina of his intention to uso force to accomplish his object, and then quoting from his Inaugural Address the assurance that (here could be no conflict ttttlesf these Htatcs were the ,iggree.or?,-—he proceeds to declare that hia -oilduct, as just related by himself, was the per formance of his promise, so free from the power of Ingenious sophistry as that the world should j roc be able to mi understand It; and in defiance of his own statement, tba’ he gave notice of the approach of the Loalile licet, he charges these States with becoming the assailant* of the Uni ted H tales. Without a gun in sight or in expec tancy to return their fire, save only a few in the fort, he is, indeed, fully justified in that “the case is so free from tbo power of ingenious sophistry that the world w ill not Lo able to misunder stand it.” Undercover of this unfounded pretence, that toe C ■•■r,federate Mates are the assailants, that high functionary after expressing bis concern that some foreign nations bad so shaped their actions as if they supposed the destrue ion ol our national Union probable, ho abandons all further disguise, and proposes to make the con test a short ono, by placing at the control of go vernment, for the work, 400,000 men and $400,* 000,000. The Congress, concurring in thedoub thus intimated as to the sufficiency of the force demanded, ha*increased tt to a half million of men. Theso enormous proportions in inon and inouey for tbo conduct of the war on a scale more gi gantic than any which the h'ew Werlft over wit nessed, is a distinctive avuwal. in the eyes of civ ilized in;in, that the United States are engaged in a conflict with a great and powerful notion, i hey are at lust compelled to abandon the pre tence of being engaged in the dispersing of riot ers andtho suppressing cf insurrections, and arc driven to the acknowledgement, that the ancient Union has been dissolved. They recognize the separate existence of these Confederate States by the interdiction by embargo and blockade of nil commerce between them and the United btates not only by sea but by land—not only on ships, but in cars—not only with thoio who bear arms but with the entire population of the Confeder ate State*; finally, the have repudiated the fool ish conceit that the inhabitants of this Confed eracy are still citizen* of the United btates, for they are waging sn indiscriminate war upon them all with a savage ferooity unknown to mod ern civilization. In this war rapine is the rule; privet* residences and peaceful rural retreats are b -mbarded and burned, grain crop* in the field are consumed by the torch, and when the toroh is not convenient careful labor ia bestow ed to render the complete destruction of every artiole of use or ornament remaining In private dwellings after their inhabitant* have fled from the outrage* of brotal soldiery. In 1731 Great Britain when invading her re vo 1 ted colonies, took possession of *vory district of the country neir Fortress Monroe now occn pied by the troops of th* United States; the houses inhabited by the people, after being re spected and protected by the avowed invader* are now pillaged and destroyed by men who pretend that the victims arstheir fellow citizens. Mankind willsbndd r to bear the tales of out rages committed on defence!*** females by the Soldier* ot the United States, now invading onr homes. Y'et these outrages are prompted by in flamed passions and the madness of intoxication, but who shall depict the horror with which they regard the cool deliberate malignity with which —under the pretext of *uppres*ing an insurrec tion, said by themselves to be upheld by a mi nority only of our people—they make special war on the sick, including women and children, by carofully devised measures to prevent their obtaining the medicine necessary for their cure? The sa -red claims of humanity, respected even daring the fury of actual battle, by a careful di version of the attack from the hospitals con taining the wounded enemies, ar# outraged in cold blood by a government and people that pre tend to desire the continuance of fraternal con nections All these out-ages moat remain una venged save by the universal reprobation of man kind. Jo ail cotes where th# actual perpetra tor* of the wrong escape capture, they admit cf no retaliation, th* humanity of our peopl* would .-dmnk instinctively from the base idea of wa ging a like war upon the sick, the women nod thccbildren of he enemy. But there areotber savage praciees which have been resorted to by ‘he Government of the United States which do admit of repression by retaliation, I have been driven to the necessity of enforcing this repres sion. The prisoners of war, taken by tho enemy on board the armed schooner Savannah, sailing un der our commission, were, as 1 was credibly ad vised, treated like common felons, put ia irons, confined iu a jail usually appropriated to crirn inalsof the worst dye. and threatened with pun saient as such. I had made ication for tho xchange ot tho prisoners, to the commanding “fleer of the enemy's squadron off Charleston; but that officer hud already sent the prisoners to New York when my application was made. I therefor*} deemed it my duty to renew the propo sal fr exchange to the constitutional comm ai der in chief of the Army and Navy of the Uni ted States—the only officer having control ot prisoners. TothisenJr dispatched an officer to him under a flag of truce, and inmakingthe propu posal 1 informed President Lincoln of my reso lute purpose to check all barbarities on prisoners f war by such severity of retaliation on prison ers hold by us as should secure the abandonment of the practice. This communication wasrcooi ved and road by the officer in command of the army of tho United States, and a message was brought from hire, by the bearer of my commu nication, that 4 reply would bo returned by Pre sident Lincoln as soon us possible. I earnestly hope this promised reply which has not yet been received, will convey tho assurance that prison ers of war will be treated in this uuhappy con test with that regard for humaurty which has made such conspicuous progress in tho conduct of modern wariure. As measured of preoau tion, however, and until tho promised reply is received, I still retain in custody some officers captured from tho enemy, whom it had boon my pleasure previously to enlarge on parol, and whose late must necessarily depend on that of the prisoners held by the enemy. I append a copy of my c ... >r. unicat ion ta the President and Couunander-iu-Cbitf of the army and navy of the United States, and of lire report of the officer charged to deliver it, marked ••Doc ument A.” There are some other passages iu tho remark able paper to which I have directed your atten tion, having reference to the peott’iar relations which exist belwceu this Government and the States unual'y termed border slave Staton, which cannot ho properly withheld from notice. Tho hearts ot our people aro animated by sen timents towards tbo iuhabhants of thuso .Btales which found expression in your enuotmeut refu sing to consider (heui enemies, or authorize hos tilities against them. That a very large propor tion of those State* regard us as brettiren ; and if unrestrained, by the actual presence of large armies, tho subversion of civil authority, and the declaration of martial law, some of thorn, at least, would joyfully unite with u*. That they are, with aliuoat entire unanimity, opposed to rho pro: i cutiou of iho war waged against us, are facts ot which daily recurring events fully war rant ho assertion. Tho President of the United States refuses to reooguite (u.Uiose, our Ute sister Mato*, the right it refraining trout attack on ur; and justifies his refusal by ti.e assertion that tho State* have no other power than that reserved to them in the Union by the Constitution—no ono of them ever having been a tstate out of the Union. Tho view of the Constitutional relations be tween the States and the General Government, is a fining lutroductiou to another assertion of the Message, that the Executive possesses the power of suspending the writoi haiwne corpus, and of delegating that power to military commanders at hi* discretion, and both of those propositions claim a respoet equal to that which is felt for tl • adduioual statement of opinion in tho same pa per that it is proper, in order to execute the Jaw* that sumo single law, made in such extreme ten derness of the citizens liberty that practically it relieves inorw of tho guilty than the innocent, should, to a very limited extent, be violated.— We may well rejoice that we have forever sever ed our connection with a Government that thus tramples on ail principles of Constitutional Lib erty, and with a people in whose presence such avowals could be hazarded. The operations in the field will bo greatly ex tended by reason of the policy, which heretofore secretly entertained, i now avowed and acted on by tho United State.*. The forces hitherto rais ed proved ample for the dufeuco of the Slates which orig nally organized the Confederacy, as is evinced by iho fact, that with the exception ol three fortified islands, whose dofeuce is efficient ly aided by a preponderating naval forco, the en joy has been driven completely out of those States,and, at the expiration of five months from :he formation of the Government, not a tingle hostile foot presses their soil. These forcer, however, mu it necessarily prove inadequate to repel invasion by the half million men now proposed by the enemy, and a correr pouding increase of our forces will become nec essary. The recommendations for the raising and efliciont equipment of this additional forco will be contained in the communication of tbq Secretary of War, to which I need scarcely invite your earnest attention. In my message delivered in April last, I refer red to the promise of abundant crops— with which wo waro cheered. The grain crop* gener ally have since been harvested, and the yield j proved the most abundant known in our his- j lory. Many believe the supply adequate to two years consumption of our population. Cotton, ►ugar and tobacco, forming the surplus produc tion of our agriculture, and furnishing the basis of our commercial interchanges, present the most cheering promise, and a kind Providence has -mild on the labor which extracts the looming wealth of our soil in all portions of our Confede racy. It i* the more gratifying to be able to give you these facta, becuaso of the need of large and increased expenditures in support of our ar my. Elevated and purified by the sacred cause they maintain, our fellow-citizens of every condition of life exhibit the most seif sacrificing devotion. They manifest* laudable pride in upholding tbeir independence, unaided by any resources, other than our own, and the immense wealth which a fertile soil, and genial climate, have accumulated in this Confederacy of agriculturists, could not be more strikingly displayed than in the large revenues which, with eager zeal, they have contributed at the call of their country. In the single article ofcotton the subscription to the loan proposed by ihu Government can not fall short of fifty million dollars, and will propably exceed that euro, and scarcely an articles required for consumption by the army is provided other wise than by subscription to produce loans, us lappily devised by your wisdom. The Secretary of the Treasury, in a report submitted to you, will give you the amplest de tails connected with that branch of tbo public service; but it is not afone on their prompt pecuniary contributions that tbo noble race of freemen who inhabit there Stairs shall evince how worthy they are of those liberties which they know so well how to defend. In number* tar exceeding tbo*o authorized by jour laws ihey have pressed the tender of the r services against they enemy. Their attitude of calm und tublime devotion to their country—the cool and confident eour ge with which they are already prepariog to meet the threatened Inrasion, what ever proportion* it may assume—the assurance that tbeir sacrifices and tbeir services will be renewed from year to year, with unfaltering pur pose, until they have made good to thu uttermost ib*lf right to self government—the generous and almost unquestioning confidence which they displ.y in tbeir government dur.ng tbo pending struggle, all combine to present a spectacle such, as the world has rarely, if ever, seen. To speak of fubjugatlt gsueh a people, so united and determined, is to speak a language incom prehensible to them—to rest tan attack on tbeir right* or their liberties. Is with them an initinot. Whether this war shall last one, or three or five years, i* a problem they leave to be aolved by the enemy alone. It will last till the enemy shall havo withdrawn from tbeir borders, till their political rights, their altars, and tbeir homes —are freed from invasion. Then, and then only will they rest from ibis struggle, to enjoy in peace the blessings which, with the favor of Prov. idenc*, they havs secured by the aid of their own strong hearts and sturdy arms. JEITER3ON DAVIS. Arrival or Anusntox Emolasd.—Nw Or leans papers inform us that the Confederate States war steamer Sumter had arrived at that p -rt with 33,000 Enfield rifles, together with other accoutrements and a number of rifled can non. Out at sea the Sumter met ves sel with thee* arms bound for New Orleans. They were transferred to the Sumter and tardy landed In New Orleans. What of the blockaddj We saw this intellgeDC# rumored in a Memphis paper aevercl days eiDce ; bat now it 1* con firmed.*— Mont. Mail, 18#A. THK SUVKII KIUN'I'Y US TUB STATUS. COLUMBOS, GHOBGIA, MOiVDAV, JULY 29, 1861. COLCVtfIIN. WEDNESDAY,JI'LY 24, 1501. Gubernatorial Convedion. The Mac m (Ga.) Telegraph says : “Unless j t there are strong reasons to thee mtrary, will not j t ie acquiesce in the day already named by the 0 lambus pro? I *, to wit: Septem ber 4tlr?” Wo will choer'ully acquiesce in the*nggeaticu ; of our cotemporarles. La the Gubernuto al Convention I o on tie 4th of September.—Aug, Const, Col. James fatley’s Alakms I’rfgimeßt. Wo loam that Col. James Cautey was on Mor- , day last elected Colonel of tho Alabama Regi- j merit, seven companies of which arc now encamp- j ed St Fort Mitchell, near this oily. Wooongrat- j ulate tho Regiment upon the selection it has j made. A more chivalrous and high-toned gen- j tleruirn, or a truer and braver man does net live ‘ than James Can toy. The election for tho remaining Field Officer a take* place tn day, A portion of tho comp*nie<i Composing this Regiment recently united with two other compa nies from this oiiy, and tendered their services to j President Davis, as an Independent Regiment, j and were accepted—Col. Cautey having hern j uuauimously recommended * Colonel and Ed gar 0. Dawson, Ibq, (formerly of this city,) ns Major. A requisition having been urude about that time upon Got, Moore, of Ala., for 5,000 mure troops, he insisted upon the Regiment being ten dered through him, or ho would be compelled to issue au order for tho return of tho anna ob tained by it frour the htirte; but that, going as an Alabama Regiment, he would supply the complement of nrura necessary for u complete j outfit, in tl.e plm of the 400 double-barred shot ! guns with which a portion of tho men worearm ed The gentlemen elected immediately resign ed, so that the Regiment might secure tho arms, and he ready for the field without delay. A large number of the arms of the Independ- j *nt Regiment were purchased by Mr. Dav. -on, 1 who has been thu- and otherwise very active iu I it* behalf. We regret ifiat anew organita!ion becameneo- j easary, for wc learn that, hearing he would have ! opposition, be positively declines the use of his name for tho position unanimously and iu so flat tering a manner tendered him under the Inde- j pendent Organization. Wo are inf riuod that a majority of the compa nies present at Fort Mitchell insist upon hi* elec tion, yet wo admire tho manly position ho has taken and feel satiiliod that his friends will ap prove of it. Tire Regiment will leave for Virginia tho last of the present, or the first of next week YIMINIA COMUSPOSDESCt. I’KTKUSBUHCI, Va., Ju'y 17, 180 I. Have you staid long enough in Petersburg to kuow nod appreciate it a hospitality < If you have, you have not been unmindful of the beau ty of i'a women. They are very getns of their kind; nature seen to have been lavish of her beauty Lore—-a fine country, warm hearts- and beautiful women are current coins in this thri ving city If all Virginia w - composed of the same malarial, the foot-print of. t enemy would uot this day pollute tkssoil of the old Common wealth. They have already sent MOO stalwait mou in arms to the field, nod I saw this even ing a splendid company toady to take up the line of march. Ills commanded by the Rev. Mr. Platt, on Episcopal preacher. 1 learn that he was formerly a Mato Solicitor, (perhap* for Alaluma) and that iu the prosecution of a case he wm personally attacked, upon which he drew a pistol and made hi* assailant bite the dust; that noon after ho wi’bdrtw from the Ear, en tored the ministry, where he remained until the accession of Virginia, when ho Mid by his canoni cals for awhile, and rained the fine company that I saw to-dy to butt.olor Southern rights. He has ail the bearing of a soldier, and 1 mistake the man if he does not servo God and h ? coun try with equal zeal. Petersburg i# also forming a Cavalry Company. When this is reauy fi-r the field, she will have about 1,600 men in ser vice, out of a city of 13,000, nod that a commer cial one. That tUare is a great i iaaffoation in portions of Virginia, and men of Union proollvitins throughout the State, thero is no doubt; and tills causes an apparent lukewarmness in tbo Blade which at first impresses the stronger unfavora bly—but when society is analyzed and we peer beneath the surface, it will b found that the Viryiniant in Virginia aro true as steel, and that the Union nd Tor/ sentiment is very much confined to that talterable, blue-bellied, nasal tongued, money-loving, God-forsaken rote, who fattened upon her soil, nud now, wi ll base in gratitude seek to hurry on the work of devastH tion. I bnve said this much because my own first impressions were unfavorable, and I feci that it is but just to Virginia that wo should discriminate between her sons, native to the soil, and the foreign thumb screw* that are striking at her vitals and dishonoring the fair naiuu of Virginia. A portion of tho L'lih Regiment N. C. pa*sod through tj day—the remainder comes on to night. At all hours you can hear in this city, the tread of martial men, and every train carries it* living feight to thessat of war. The rein forcements ure principally moving to Winches ter, Staunton, and tbo scene of the late skirmish at liich Mountain. The results of that conflict, as I hoped, have been very much exaggerated —- Tho nows is still unreliable, but enough is known to satisfy u? that th Federalists did not half auccedln tho victory they antic ipated, and that BOG Virginians for two hours held in check 3000 actual fighting Hessians with are serve of 5,000 more. I loarn to-night, from a source on which I ■ think lean rely, that tbo Georgia Regiment un dor Itamsey is all afe. This will bo good new* to many anxious hearts at home, as It give joy to mine. I send it greeting to your hearthstones. Have tbo old gun In good fix; got your illumin ating eandk* ready, for before long you will have news from the North-West, that may make some mourn, hut it will cause old Muscogee lo shout again for the valor of her sons. Ia the North-West our army bus suffered a check. II R. Jan and Rsmsey are there, and they will never rest until the wrong Is redressed. Lock out for news from Monterey. There are reports that the mercy Is advan cing on Fairfax—if so, the red hard of buttle will soon spread itself from Alexandria to Man assa*Junction. Wearoon stirring timer—ru mor ia rife. I sift th* thousand and one that are current, and give you the cno that reams most like truth; but you must take all I write wiih dus allowance, for the uncertainty that hangs over everything. Shall I tell you about the Irishman that wan- j ted to pass the sentinel? I believe I will.— i “Stop and give the countersign!” “Coun?berslgn is It ye want?” (Down drops tbo bayonet to about the level of Pal's laet glass of whbkey.)— ‘•Counters go!” “Dtvila oounthorilgn, I've got ye spalpeen—if Its ditebin ye want its rneself ran dolt; but nicer i conn the r eign will ye get from Patrick O'Brien.” “Stand back!” said the tentjnel, with the point of hi* bayonet so near the outside of Pat’s dinner as considerably to I with his peace of mind. Pat stepped I back very much disconcerted, t ok off bis cap ; and wid do back or his thumb soaped from hi I forehead the rolling dew drop* cozing from hit | brow. .Shortly offer a dregoon horse in tho en* I camprnent catr.c tearlrg along without his rider, land as he d.ishcd by tli, sentinel into the eper ’ r md, the sentiud jarcplng out of the way in dun. J ole quick time, Fat yell ‘d out at the top of hi* lungs-“ Make him glv ye tho couulher sign ! m iko h : nr give ye ihe oounthcr sign!” at which a genera! shout went up, and Pat looked put - tied to know whether thepeople wore laughing at him—the hors,?, cr the sentinel. REMUS. .'pciial to the Columbus Timur. EICIISOXi) COKEESPOJiBENCB. j Glvr lout Daft B r oc. The Kay he of Victory | perch upon our Danner— Beauregard again j t’i'ctenW*— }’ “'kce Traitor. RtcnuoNn, July 19,1861. ’ 1 have just Meni< l -Yferfrom an cflrocr enga sod iu the great battle of yesterday, near Ma i n;uss, to hia family in this city, in which I find Ia more detail-’d a -cr ur tof that well fought and j Buaoe*i ini engagement, than ha’ reached the city by any other chaniul. At 4 o'clock a. m , on Thursday, July 18, tho enoaty appeared at a j place called Bull llun, (hereafter t will bo known m Yankco-ri!) in overpowering numbers. Bull Hunt i three miles Wvt of Manassas Junction, and the object of tho enemy in going so far above Manassas was, if possible, to get in the na- oi Uirauregurd’y position at that 1 place. Ho was di*; l f'pointed, far at this now celebrated stream, he found h;vus* if face to faco with tho btl • F 1 lie i,” , “.Mir 4 a rune-. placed tbciiiSrlvoa iu order for battle. General j Beuurc;: ,rd a-lvnnc and n Virginia and South Carolina Regiment towards tho centre of the I enemy, and the gallant charge of these two Ilogi uitu -i “i m tho Yankees like tho hock of an h-arthquak, They held their ground, however* ail f light with oiit-ldcMihlw firinnos*. In tho I niMimmi", the fi;, 1 ,: h.-came get oral along the l:!)o, t xiood or several tniloa. The Whmli ic.,’ Aitidery of New Orleans did noble sor* j vice, mowing down theeuetny as the letter allu j tied to says, “ ike wheat before the sytbe.” j At 4 o’clock, ihe Uetilc was at its fiercest point —their entice lima being engaged in the conflict* and at f* o’clock, the 110 tdflnu, after having been I repuUed three - , r realed iu great confn* | t-ion tv,wards Alex, .dria. Several Yankceotfl | cer of high grado aro among tho killed. In this h-ittlu from SCO to 1 500 of tho enemy were killed. Our loss ia much lighter, but R ccnaid ci Up. Gen. Bouhaur, offaouth Carolina, was, to bo sure, at. all times, during tho battle, In tho ihickoit of the; fight, aud dhtingui.'lud himself fur bis cool bravery and intrepid courage. Tho first Virginia R i,in;oat, under command of Col. Muunvrf this city, suffered tuost seveiely ; the llth Virginia also sustained heavy losses. To div, ills bought the battle will be renew 'd The result of this battle th w* that nil we wai. tis r.n .'-ptn fight on a fair fit-id. Thiro seems to bon • ur ber Jonh as to tho death of Gen. Garni :t. nifl Sl'OO ‘( hia men letroaitd In i safety iu Moi iuy. Col. I’cgrnin is, I yond qunstii n, a prisoner Tho battle of Fairftijc Ims iT closed ono fact, namely, that the Yiuilt.o citizens who hove fat - to .yd upon Southern bo*; dulity, bind made tbou • in 1 ’ i •:;* pa F out hern dollars, arc not, as a general rule, t * he rusted iu our present strug gle v, uh Northern funiitieisa. Ajl the iulormu ti<*n McDowell possessed in riferenco to looali- ! tics Ac, about Fairfax Court House, Center* i villean t Hull fun, lie derived from Yankees who, as small market farmers, have been living 1 some ton or Alteon years in that vicinity. To a ; man, they have provml traitors, aud to a roan they must leave the gfute jf wc succeed In ex- [ piling tho Yankee invaders. Within the past hour, I have myself worn .--cd an instance of their perfidy. On Main street, j at the railroad depot, there lice three cannon’ : one of which was transported hither from S-.tr tV-lk. While lying at the wharf, a few u.'&bf:! ugo, it was so completely spiked by some Yankee fiend, that it i* now utterly worthies.?. The; cpike used is of lte hardest f.! sm l [n my 1.-'.’er of tho ‘Jib, appears au nllu don to tho cout cellonby whom President D?*i* is aid 'd in condu-.uiug the .Government. A line must have been omitted in the com posit r’ the allusion had di?lucf rei’tm.ce to i.-iffO of the Virginia old fogU* who retarded the act of sc cotsiun, ut.d who have managed to got Into tbo Confederate Con pres* from Virginia. Ah print- ; e l tho meaning is .otnldguouo iriUJTT'U Ur. Wei. J. J.,bust'll for OungrcM. Meant 9 Kliton • —1 have been nothing fir’ sometime thi recommendLtiiiua of candidntt j among whom the 11 u. M. J. Crawford stands i very prominently, fi*r Governor, and is no doubt j the choice of nearly every one in thi? section of tho Stale. While concurring in thi* selection i; behoove* us to agitate the matter au a* to a icu - j tain a* nearly us posf’-.ble tbo preference of tho j people fur a successor tu Mr. C. in Congress.— ‘ For this purpose allow mo to euggeet through ! > our columns the name of Dr. Win. J. Johnson of Clay. Our present necessities require that * shewing politician? should bo discarded and men 6fsound judgment, wisdom, business sagac* i y# purity of chnranter, and inudlcotual calibre be placed in tlu-ir mead* Much i the gentleman iiixiied a’ ove. Ha tinman of acknowledged ability, ha* never sought ofilieof any kind (but baa several times refued) has devoted himself to UU profession and to literature la both of which be hs become quite eminent. Tho exig encies of the times demand that rack talents os he possesses should no longer remain idle, but be called into the public service, liil nobility of (.-bsraster, Intellectual culture, and extensive iu i formation qualify him fur almost*ny station, and ! 1 am satisfied there i.< none other in all tbo bril liant array of talent in our district who would represent u? with wore credit to himself and Justice to nis con*iituenta. I am but txproseing the reiitimtnts of uinny of hi* felluir-eititejM in miying I should rejoice to scehiia m the South era Cocgrts. Ibulugirigg Day. The following Resolution* offered by Mr. Memmiogcr, and unanimously adopted by th* Confederate Congress after the reception of President Devi*’ dlepat< h tmuonnclng the un precedented victory at Manilas, will be aauuaoi manaiSy curried out by th* whol* people. Prnise the Lord: ftteo'vrd, W* recognize the hand of th* most high God. the king of kings and lord of lord*, in ike glorious victory wlih which bo hath rrown# j our <rrm at Mitnanae. That the pro pie of these Confed-rate fctutes nre invited, by appropriate services on th# ensuing Sabbath, to , ff*r up their united thanksgiving and praise for this mighty deliverance. Hemlvd, That deeply deploring the fiMerdty ! which has washed the soil of our oountry with I Ih# blood of so many of her nobles* sons, we of* : ter to their respective families and friends ©or warmest and most ••ordtal sympathy, assuring them tb it the sacrifice made will bo consecrate I In the hearts of our people, and will there *n hrine the name* of the gallaul dead s the champions of free and constitutional liberty. Hertford. That w approve the prompt and patriotic effort* of tho Mayor of the city of Richmond to make provision for flic wouuded; that it committee of om member from each totate bo appointed toco-operat* iu the plan. Jteeolved, ‘ll) at Cougress do now adjourn- i'r ota jhe Sovattnoh liepnttUcan. Firt Georgia IL-jimetl Hf.. .PrwtatHioii A highly inr ro-tirg csremony came off at our Parade Ground hr-t evening. A b autifltl flag, the handiw >, !; of nn n< c •mpH hcl and patriotic young lady us Columbus, Mis* Eliza Howard, was prerentclto tbs First Regiment of Georgia Regular* as a parting gift on their departure for tho scat of war ip Virginia,. Tho flag was hand somely wrought, of silk, and bars on ime tidtt tho Confederate stars, with the ooat-of-arins of Georgia on the rovorso Tho presentation jra* nude through Cob ‘ViUiam,', tho commauder of tho Regiment, and Lieutenant John Mrllsdga, w u appointed to receive it In their behalf. We Him, * the patriotic letter of the fair donor, •viid iho i|Aciiud response of Lieu! c unut Mil lodge : OoLt MBra, Ga , July 10 h, 1861- Tu the lf iUgijnent Georgia Jlegu/arn Representative* of Georgia, w tb no section to claim tho ospecial honor of your organization, but belonging to the State—-the trhule Atato— may I, one of her daughter*, have the honor of presenting yon with a stand of color* 7 Receive it with the asiuraucu Fiat the daughter* of Geor gia fully pyinpathifto with aud appreciate the bravo and sell-sacrificing gallantry which ha* called you to arms itt tho defence of her honor and safely. Whether your patriotic hearts beat impatiently,, while awaiting the tneuiy <>u the sultry Southern coasts, or throb triumphantly on another “Bethel” battle field, rest assured we aro alike proud of you. By the action of tho northern fanatics, you have been called to defend your soil from tho most unprovoked uud unholy content over forced upon * ire people. Usurpation mark* tholr every p i-Goal act. Denying State Sovereignty, which Was nacurod iu ihe old constitution and ha* been re-asserted in the new, uud delegating tp themselves powers never granted, they demand of you obedience to their tyrannical rules and with ‘eutifuyali •> or annihilation’ inscribed upon their banuem, they invade our eacrod soil. They bavo been mot on by the boride Jackson, Martyr in tho cause of Southern rights aud Southern honor, whoso life, so nobly yielded in the defence ot liberty, has thrown a halo ot immortality around Alexandria. We have many Jacksons, aud only ask tho op portunity for Georgia's sons to win for Georgia n bright page in the book of history. For resisting aggrersions npon your tights, for fly ing to arms to protect your homo* and tho graveofvnur lather* from pollution, your altars irotn dosocru'i’ i), and y ur lives and property from destru nioii, you are brundtd a* ‘ Rebels’’ aud “Traitors,” uml threatened with tho traitor's doom. These aro no new name* for patriots.— Your Fathers were nulled “Traitors and “Rebels*’ before you. Emulate their, example, welcome the name, and by yvur detd< make it again glorious. We have nothin/’ either to usk or fear from a foe whose eulhusiam is fanaticism —whoso patri otism is inter tut. The daughters of G orgia cla.m to share the socrificeu made for their beloved land. We made theffeatest of which our hearts wore capable, when tearfully, yit prayerfully, we bade you farewell. Now, every denial by which we may advance ihe sacred cause, iacaucuKii ; glorious We may not bo present on ib© “bayonet charge;” or servo with you at tho do-th dialing cannon, butour flng*.rs never move so willingly as over ; tiio seam* of sandbag* rm l bßvcrsaci..*, and if an unhid J- it tear ucoaidutisily dims the tuedle, it is sacred, it uiffisteua Gift garments >• our lovvd ones ) j ordered uwsy. I Thon'again l cog your accept"live 1 iL-bbau- i ! ucr; th ugh in appearance but one, tetnember it I • C|.r. -rr.i twu If uai.u.i! i t ; f 11,.. ).o S'dw the | . Hud, While and Blue, a lopud by the Confederate >itans ono national emblem; on too ‘her in a li Id oi olnc, the symbol of our own ■ >vereign ; S't ‘ Bound together by a cord of their own ■ weftvm.;, >o and mutually atrengthening, and sup ! porting each other, wfiib if tcH -bo? tieorglaos to love tho ( : a r Uukn, let theru never forgot to Molt fu . upon theirowo ban mu whose j sovereign dignity is to be maintained in every ! contest. Hav.ng been for urmthi scrying on the | burning ocads ut ymr own Biate const, yoa are j nbout to march to u ect tho ocmmun enemy on j the soil of Virgiuui. The eye of Georgia is ujiou you, expectiag ‘S very man to do bin duty,'* : with the peiitn’ confidence Ibat while in your keeping her banner will never be l-avered to the i f e. With t -..raimei.i.i of the highest confidence, I cm very respectfully, Euzi. Q. Howard. Lieut, John MiHedgo, dr., receivi and ihefieg in behalf of tho Kcgi.nem, and responded grace!ully ** follows: Cut W’uuax- . AU f ti-o ir. ‘ -.lf of Ibis . Regiment, through job, lb return to Mis 9 How ; urd (patriotic daughter if Georgia tt. ;i she isj , our l.oariy lhafik? for thy bandaoiu*; batiDor sku |ja, this day consigned to ouf keeping (i wvi idle toi in*-, sir, to attempt fu ,'y to ex pi to h*r ur dnp apprecia'i l r\ of tho high b .. r ac t p- od nsiMliry -that ac ,i . flint he tHi-k. Its ir. •. 1.. Uiiiful - r-1, v.hi*e and blue iri g.*.nou. > ‘o -; but tbate ia a halo whl'di girl: i ■ I nd •• tUott* bright aud glorious than the 0.- on.* y i b- are th> arm* of our na ti v. S-flto; f.,1 ‘'♦•other, ii< • ‘'(dors <f our young /'e; n 1 li •, the e ‘••m f ‘oiir'l.bertie?. The bright , ;i ii,. i,utifu! , •q.df* >: “IrVi.'i m, Juatme iii.il \; . i ■■■t tin in wi.i-h o.n !b. rri.-s me ba e.i,e ; .. ; .t banner a • id lustre that ligfc"* u, w. o rful cdnfi !■ w* cueh pa triot hear.. Under “ , riticiplii onr ‘orelath ers (uh ! and the lore f.<ib .-of our pvc--euttnt wk-) :ought no bravely i. /Mie-i I’.nt - u invasion, dt..rmii ‘ I tu repel the itivnd.-r or <lio iti thi-at tempt. They Conquered, a.id left ti us the liber ty ; :* •heetifw ere f.ghtln.*- ‘Cc,:: ■ • •j r i iplc? wo iiri tiu ; beneath :h r .-tored iiglit wo forth Uot'srmiQcd like them t i hurl the invader back. Wo have inva ded no coil of theirs, we have. • p/oln'c i no beau tiful home*, and our hands are unstained with brutui cruelty to-lefeociles? women iitid innocen* childien. All this, and Mioretdiau this, have ruthless in vuders doi.o. It Mrding upon tbo justice of our ruu e, w have warned tbo:o lariaii. ;il tuftoiavs to stay them in their mad ctire*f >f unprovoked war; but all in vain, and to-morrow's sun will see us on otlr way t meet our tititimr*. God, who reward? thr.Jmf, —God who ich i? the hearts of men, the God of our faih* rs, who brought them through the and irk rct nes of th > Revolution into the bright inftshinn f peace aud prosperity. Me will go ’with us; Hia rigid arm will guide aud proteev; Jiii id l ? ? i-g wilt r-’ tip >n thtf banner which leads nil! Toll MH? Howard, T.r, that this banner, devo ted to sc sacred a cause, presented by so pstriot -10 bands, lias Ucn ..•unsigned t:> tho keeping of patriots, who will wrap if? honor close i round them and connecrnte thoir lives to i',B defunce. Empty words-‘an never ie!l how deeply we appreciate our obligation. But tell her, sir, thero 11 a language morn eloquent than tho l riguugo .f words—a biop*uHge of onion. It? tones may he heard upon tbo gritn field of bade, when thundering cannons roar, when death shots fall thick and fmt, anti blood nod carriage cover oar native soil. It speaks in the last fond, proud look of the dying eoUFer, im bo turns bis droop ing bead lowardebi* country’s tMg sweeping ovr him on to victory. Toll her, sir, that wjui the help of God, this n tue language with which them brave men would record thrlr fidelity to the charge she has uirifd to tbeir keifpir-g- Toll bwr tUt we g, seeking it place “ueartbe flashing of the gU’ S,” and when our turn shall < ome to strike a blow tor Georgia and the South, then, with a strong faith in th* justice of out cause, with a prayer to Ood for victory, and one for tbo loved one* at home, together we charge firound her banner, and strike for ——“Our ftltftrs and our fires, God and our native land.’’ Till llailroal* Casa Dccinxo—This (Thurs day) mornlug Judge Muir, et the Circuit Court, deitverod Im opinion in th# c*#o of Brady and Davis, mere haute of this ei*v, against the l.iouuvillo A. N-vshville Railroad, for relating to forward goods over the road. Argument* in the base were made wvsral days since, arid after (nature deliberation, Judge Muir bas, in his de flation, sustained tho road. That lays an m bargo on all shipments, and utterly pro* rates the huisnesß of i>ur people, aud places the roadjun dor the control of Lincoln <t Cos. The Govern ment mt Washington, knowing the illegality of 1 s acts, *ete the Constitution aside and Muir ms. fain* tho Oovernmen’ tminvitle Courier 12<A, p4r Mm Lucy Cupps, of liolieviile, 111., late ly gave birih to three flue boy*. It is sugges ted that she must have been relieved of the ho- Cupp*. tOUMBIN. riIIIKHDiI,JULY 25, 1801. Tub lXTOßonoia Rcwiment.—The First G 4 Regiment of Rogulitrs, pays iho Cbarlcator Courier of the 22d, under the command of Go) diaries J. William* that city about sit Vlock on 8 turd ay etr'hing, /rom Savannah, vith thtir camp tquJpngo aud equiptnonfr, er oute for the scat of war. There was no military reception on their ar deal, but a very largo coueourve of eititeti* ai -eiubled at tho wharf, to extend t > them a curs dial welcome aud God pecu. Tim fine, stalwart and healthy appearance of the men created gen* eral Admiration. After landing 1 , tho Regiment took up the line of march fr tho Noptboaftern railroad depot, where, nccording to tho arrange ment of a number of ginthmou, tv bounteous collation had been spread, which was partaken of very heartily. They wero afterward* rudted by a large number of friends and acquaintances, end the evening passed off delightfully. The Regiment left by a special train ot about two o’clock on Sunday morning. A.V ACCOUNT OFmIwTKAT BllfS RUN. BY AN EVR WITS EUR. RlcnMoKP, July 20. Tho hour has emuo and Southerner* indeed’ have rallied to the rescue. The repulse of the Kederli*tß was, from all account*, r glorious af fair. Loaurogurd h e already made for himself an honorable name; but he lias a* yet written but two chapters of bis history. When the third is complete, be will bo tho lira? General in Amer ica, and that third is now in preparation, for it is confidently expected that tho traitor Soott, to morrow (Sunday) or the day after, will make a herculean effort to retrieve his last rebuff; the efforts however, will result In now disaster* and the hero of Lundy’* Lano will he crushed or. the soil of Virginia. Rut to tho battle, nr. roluted by informant, ono of tho Arknusaa Regiment, which occupied one of the extreme wings, to rep 1 ffauking par tie*. Ho fieetnf to give hi* statement* with great caution. They were obtained by him from n member of tho Washington Artillery, who throughout tho afternoon vras in the thickest of the fray. Tho lines of Boaurejjard extend 27 miles; tho attack was made near the centre by the columns of Federalists converging to a commrn centre, As ihey advanced upon the lire, Beauregard'* centre, where the attack w.i* made, wan drawn out for the space of about one milo and a half, in the shape of a V—tho Louisiana Washing ton Artillery in the centre. Beauregard's orders wero to the Artillery to ffro slowly, aid allow the columns to enter the V so that the infantry could pick them off leisurely. This tnuncouvr© was entirely successful. TLo flro of the Federal ists wus chiefly directed at ‘he Battery, end the wing* of the V took th'-m off by score* as dolib eratoly ns though they wcr-i ‘hdotiog Soatbern squirrels instead of Northern abolitionists. Ia this charge ihe northerners behaved gallon ly, and kept and up the fight for about an hour, but /as the Artillery rent f rtb their tbun !ering wel [ come, with lili tho rapidity and precision of j which ti-ey wero capable, and than proficiency j iasai'i to ba of tho highest, order- -tho Yankees ; fell, to use fbeltinguagu of nuy Arkansas friend, like oorn stalks in a pile, exoas-ways fj length ways, end every other way in which you would imagine icon to fall, when mowed -down by artil lery in front, and liarp>bo(i(ors on either side.— I The Northern force withdrew in good order, as It , was supposed, to he strengthened by a reserve. Bwfttirogard bnd nil the baggage war;ona ready md as the enemy returned to the chafpo from 12,000 to 15,000 strong, th whip wns put to the horse* in the baggage wagems, aud they left tlie field with all tbo speed and contusion of a precipitate retreat, Thi* brought tho Yankees on with a rush; tho wwig.i of the V kept clos ing in upon them; ibe r.rtiilory hoicking forth hoir m<iMonger? -'f (Math, and after a. straggle of 1% hour”, the ruthless invader* weio again ropuifled with terr;hie slaughter. On this occasion, although the fight lasted linger the pluck nf tho enemy reerued considcr bly abated, and the spirit of war ha I con?idera* bly ft.ftontd uov.-u anv-ng thun. They again ritreated and prepared f>r a third attempt. In this last effort they endeavored to mako a charge of the b y mpt, !\ut tbeir line* rolled and wftTfttcd uiv.ier tl.o deadly fire of the gallant men who were ffgbtiog fi r all tfcvt make? Jrfo dear ar 1;. •.? tL^n an ‘-.tour from the coiu iiv u-’em vtd in old i.ird Ml*-k, they coiumeucud uretrenl whi. h noon became a rout, and flying i.i ut> r coofu; <ur men pursued them for two 0 T , r-im-j. i into their very entrenchments; shouting tbimd fwn r-u they lied,liko mercenary Loumi* os they ere. Jbe swns of hv * n‘ and path of fivht was •wr, • h iLo dead and • lying —thm u gltd cips- * Jitertllj piled up in hoitpt they fell, puying thus tho just pen alty of tbeir ruthlets invasion of our homes. My infbnunut vye thm * urlosis 50 killed and but 10 wounded; aud that the enemy bad ut leant 1,600 killed (not 600 a. at first reported) and many wounded. lie *ays the quest! u is nut who aha l but who raoy fight, ft u'h Uaioli; ia, Georgia, Arkansw, Virginia, Loiibi-00.. Ac , ra<*h and oil eager for the fray and m xicus for tho post of danger. Our forco iu this fogigcraout was about 7000 theirs 12,000 to 16,000. Tbo whole force of the enemy is estimated at 60 to 70,000; Bcau regarJ'* ut 40,000 tu 50,000. Both parties ure being constantly and rapidly reinforced. Beau regard’* position, with tlie inatorbil he has to defend it, Is said to be impregnable. Ilia lines aro from the Potomac to the abrupt and impas sable highlands, and over a length of 20 miles; and my Arkansas friend say* Beauregard's head is as 1 ng as bis linen. Some 60 prisoners have been taken, and they any that Scott commanded in person. Os oourse tills is unreliable, but fr fn the caution with which my relator made his a'atenient, I think you have as near the truth as you will get until the official returns are made out. Our Georgia fri-nd* 1n tbs Beverly affair are oil safe. I saw a Virginian who was at tbo fight, and he sys 600 of Ramsey’s men made a charge on 1500 of the enemy that so challenged Gar nett’s admiration that he waved his hat and gave them a loud hurza. Poer Garnett! when he fell wo lost a brave olßc* r, REMUS. Mtsati. Editors.—While convinced that the parties mentioned below do not desire notoriety, the publication of the following will give pleasure to the members of the company ns exproszivc of tbeir feeling* for tho liberality bestowed upon them. We, the committee appointed by theColtunbus Volunteers, at a meeting on tho 23d inst., when it was resolved that the company ahould tender Its aorvice* to Gov. Brown for the war, to draft a ‘resolution of thanks t private Meigs for his lib era! and gener >UB contribution of cloth iuffioieut jo quantity to uniform the company, and to private* Moiee and Clark Tor their respectivecon tribotion* of fifty and twenty-five dollar* to the funds of the company, do hereby, In behalf of the Columbus Volunteers, return the sincere thank* of the company to tbo and -nor* for their timely and aeceptible contributions, and beg to assure them that while wo regret that oircuni stanoes, at preseii', prvveut tbeir being among us In th# field, we will ever gratefully remember their liberality towards us, and will endeavor to PEYTON H. OOLfUUTI, ‘ pditnr. JAMES W. WARREN, Editor* Number ,30 provo by our action our worthiness na the fe* oi onti of their favors; To Mrs. Dessau, who has so kindly offered to manufacture for the Company, the necessity articles of cloiM’ g,.without charge, we also iu behalf of tb Company, return our heartfelt acknowledgements, assuring her that while Mar: ladies of our city manifest so much interest in the welfare of onrcoinpany, the fact Will stimu late us, if possible, to Uaio more in the hour of battle in driving back the invaders of pur soil ami defending our homes'aud firesides from the northern vandals who now threaten tbeib. Privates Meigs, Moise and Ciark were also unanimously elected honorary iuembors of the Company. J. J. UR ANT, Ist Lieut. ) .V. M. MOORE, > Com. EZRA MOSBH, Private,) Columbus, July 24, 1861. FOR THB TIMES. Tetamph Dispatch. “Our troops alter guioiug a great victory, eventually were repulsed, and commenced a re treat on Washington.”— Diapaich, Washington, July 22. DIALOGUE BETWEEN FATHER A 80N. Father. —Son, whore have you been? I have been expecting you for some time, and as t could not hear directly from you, I was becoming un oasy about your welfare. Son. —l know, father, you must have felt some anxiety, but I always told you I would do well; I have had moat glorious success. Father. -How, my sou—what have you been doing? Son. —Why, farther, I met some boys who bantered mo to play marble.* with them, and as I ha l a protty good stock I thought I would try them. Father. —Well, what whs the result?—You have been gone so long you must have been very successful. —Why, }e?, sir; at first I encountered a litt‘e fellow who badbut twelve and I was fust hulling him out, when a larger boy stepped up and banleru 1 me. Father.— Will, what then? Son. — He rather worsted mo, sir, and present ly some ot hers oumc and among thorn one named Davis, who is a very g od shot, aud a bey I hate. Ho would insist upon playing, and so I got vexed and confused—and—-and Fa her. —And, what, tny son? Son —Why, father, you knowthat I had tome eighty marble*—a bag full, —when I went froia house, and among them some beautiful which veu bought for mo. Well, sir, that Da vis, with other boys encouraging him, began to win from nio, snd bo kept on winning and win ning until I was iu diapalr. Father. —You bad enough to break hi as, I r.bould tbink; bow many had ho. Arm.—He had on only forty, sir, when we be gan, but when he bad won back what I had gained from the other boys, pa-tioularly tho lit tio boy who had twelve, and I bngan to lose, I thought I bad better stop. Fotfar,— That might be pto-lent, y boy, but Ido not think it wos bold and nuaalv. Have you all that you carried out? Son.— J?o-o Sir; for when I rsfujed to play a tty longer, tbo boy* auid tab-übl as I bad so many marble;, and so I atatUd ‘o run home, but thoy run after me, and I r*us the marbles fell from my bay; but I ’.t vs afraid to stop and so I have Mat a great many, as 1 among thorn some of my sgntes. Father.— Ah, my son, you remind mo of the saying of Pyrrhus, a gr •&c General, when bo had once been in battle and suffered a groat lots; although his ozse was moro bopelful than year? When complimented on hi* victory over hie en emies, b remarked *‘a few more such victories and hia army would be destroyed.” A few more •johtrinm ‘h? on your part, an 1 I rather tbink you will hav no marble?. Add nos oven *tho bag to hold.” tVixciDENCxa.—A wo have noticed many striking coincidences during the progress of the present war, It may cot bo amis* to cote tbo Ma • u set forth by tho Episcopal Church, and whioh occurred in regular course on Friday last. While tho battle was raging between tho Federal az:d Confederate troops, the morning lesson referred to tho care of God in protecting his undent pes- PIo, farad, from tbo malice of Pharaoh as they cuino tu tho Red Sea. In the evening leason was read the overthrow of tbo Egyptian King and the triumphnatsoug of Mtnam and tho host* of Is rael fyr their great deliverance. Wo luight also, without impropriety, notice the striking similarity between Pharaoh an 1 Lincoln in Cio icailne?? and pervernsness of heart mani . .iied T hand of God will not be seen by them iu ;le means and deliverances displayed by the Almighty in bi half of bis people. A loorliia? Letter. I be New Orleans Crescent, of Monday, pub lishes the last, letter written by the lamented Dreux to his lovely young wife. We copy the concluding paragraph winch, in view of the cir cumetar c*i> of tbo writer’s early death, can hard ly lo rend with unmoistened eyes : May the God et battles stnileu pon us. Cbeftr up, ray dear wife; I have bravo hearts nd strong arms to sustain and cheer mo on, aud 1 feel confi dent of tho result. Many u uuble son of Loui siana may full ty my side, and 1 may be the first to bite the Uut, hut rost assured that they or I will ulways to worthy of the esteem and respect of our countrymen, and endeavor to deserve well of our country. When I reach Noifolk I shall write ogam, snd give you full particulars. Host assured, until you hear from me, or until the tel egraph gives you bad ne?s ut our expedition.-* Come what may. tuy dear, I belong to my coun try, aud you km w you belong to me. One and all, ad in one, we owe our duty and our live* to both. Were you as good aud brave a man as you urea true and noblo w< man I know I would hare you by my side, fighting with all your might tbo bate and miserable invaders. Kxouso mo, dearedt, for the digression. To morrow wa leave for the seat of war. What to morrow will bring forth I know not; but through prosperity or advmliy, opulence or poverty easi ness or danger, I am your own dear C. Tell father I um ashamed to prutnise to write, for ho may know I shall break uiy promise. Kir* ooe und nil for tne at home, pre#n your sweet little darling to your heart, and toil her to love and cherish you for the sake und love of her pap*. Your own (J. King Lincoln has told what we may seP, to whom wo way sell, of whom, what we may buy, end ia apparently, disposed to regulate our domestic i. flairs to suit himself. He will proba bly *o*>n Dme an order for u to retire to bed at nine o'clock and to put out light* in our bouses Mau ea !ir hour, prescribing tbo times at wbloh v.e I:*4*2 take our weal* and what we my eat, arid graciously permit us to kiss our wive* once a week. Os course wo will be grateful for what ever privilege* ar* not taken Irum us. State Nominating Convection. The desire for a Mate Culfcentum ofdelgstes from tho people, without repect to old party linej, for the purpose of nominating a candidate lor Governor, appearing to be general, we cheer fully acquiesce in tbo movement, and hope all the counties in the State will be careful to be represented. Wednesday, the 4lb day of September, seems to bo generally preferred as the day.— Suv. lltp. F*b a Oonventiom. —The Savannah Republi c'll! acquiesces in the policy of a Convention of tho people oo the 4ih of September, and hopes every county in the State will be represeuted. For a Stat* ConvßWTiow.—Tho / dependent tit'ite published at Fort Gaines, Clay county, ac quiesces in the suggestion to hold a Gubernato rial Convention at MiHedgeville, on the 4th of September, and suggest* to the people of Clay cuunty the propriety of a meeting on the first Monday in August to select delegates.