fng of our Army inlo Mr.ryland—occu
pation of Fredricksburg.
The Washington Star published the
following account of the crossing of our
army into Maryland :
On friday a large force of rebel cav
alry made its appearance on the Vir
gin 1 a side of the Potomac river, oppo
site Edwards’ Ferry, having reached
this point bv the road leading from
Leesburg, and endeavered to effect a
crossing. So soon as the design of
the enemy was perceived by our troops
stationed on the Maryland side of the
river, a battery was immediately post
ed upon the river bank, and a heavy
and effective shelling of the rebel force
commenced. The firing was continued
for some time, when the enemy, per
ceiving that all further attemps to
cross the river would prove futile,
hastily withdrew.
At half past two o’clock next morn
ing a second attempt to cross the river
by the fords of Edward’s, Conrade’s,
Poland’s and Smith’s ferries, was made
and under the cover of darkness proved
successful. These ferries are all situa
ted east of Point of Hocks, and the
former ferry (Edwards’,) is five miles
south west of Poolesville, and some
lorty miles distant from Washington.
The rebel force upon this occasion
consisted of between two and three
regiments of cavalryes, and as soon as
Poolsville was invited our pickets
hastily communicated with our troops
in the rear, whose numbers being
numerically small, thought it best to
beat a retreat. Some fifteen to twen
ty soldiers?belonging to the first Mary-*
■land (Home Guard) regiment are a-
niong the missing, and are supposed to
have been captured.
Our force at Poolsville, at the time,
consisted of the infantry regiment
already named, the first Massachusetts
cavalry and a detachment of the twelfth
Pennsylvania cavalry.
From this point the rebel cavalry
proceeded to Uarnestown, a little
town situated on Seneca creek, nine
miles distant from Poolesville, in a
southeastly direction, and communica
ting in a direct route with the ditrict of
Georgetown, Washington, D. C. This
point was reached at about half-past
lour o’clock Saturday morning, and
the cavalry entered the town pellmell
almost before our pickets were aware
of their approach.
From private sources we learn that
when the rebels advanced upon
Poolsville they took prisoners the cav
alry which were there upon picket
and parolledall the privates. Captain
Chamberlain, of the first Massachusetts
cavalry in command, refused to accept
anything but an unconditional release,
and was accordingly sent to Lees
burg-;
It is stated that while a row was
going on between the Secessionists
and some Union men at Fredrick, the
word came in that the rebel cavalry
were advancing. Soon an order was
given to retreat, and we at once evacu
ated the place. The next morning
about eight o’clock the rebel infantry
were seen coming, and soon a loDg
column reaching the town from the
Monocacy, under General A. P. Hill,
as the advance of Jackson.
The troops did not destroy any pri
vate property, and stationed guards
out to prevent any disorder. They
kept remarkably quiet. They are
nearly all bare-footed and ragged.—
They have no extra baggage, and are
sunburnt. They are from the extreme
Southern States, and say they do not
want to injure private property. They
went out to the Monocacy brigade, at
the junction of Baltimore and Ohio
railroad to Frederick.
Thg correspondent of the Philadel
phia Inquirer writes.
Longstreet, with abontforty’ thous
and men, crossed on Friday night and
Saturday morning. Their artillery
crossed upon the pontoon bridge cap
tured on the Peninsula.
Longstreet’s artillery numbered a-
bout fifty pieces.
Jackson crossed on the same bridge
on Thursday night and Friday morn
ing.
The most important statement deri
ved from the enemy’s lines is, that
General Hill, Jr., passed through
Leesburg ou Thursday, in the direction
of Harper’s Ferry, with a column of
thirty thousand men. He estimates
the rebel forces over at or near Pooles
ville, at eighty thousand men over one
hundred and fifty guns, and eight thous
and cavalry.
He confirms the stories already told
of the barefooted butternuts, and but
few of the cavalry had any shoes or
coverings on their feet. Many’ w r ere
without caps, and hut few of the wag
ons carried tents. Our own troops
burnt the bridge over the canal at
Nolan's ferry, and the rebels at once
dug down the canal and let the water
out, and passed through it.
recently organized in that overrun, friend, to fasten on the weather-board-
region, for tbe Confederate service, ring of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
and will shortly 1 make their way to { Note.—Maj. N., by his wit, pleas-
join our victorious armies. Knoxville an ^ r y an( j originality relaxes the rigid
| facial muscles of many of his neigh-
i bora, in these sad and sober times.
Register.
Excitement in Baltimore—Outbreak Anticipa
ted
A Yankee correspondent states tliat
•‘the excitement in Baltimore has in
creased in integrity and there is every
indication that we are ou the eve of a
popular outbreak. It is a singular
fact that the character of this excite
ment is different from that which has
ever prevailed here before. It is now
the Unionists who manifest alarm and
uneasiness. The Secessionists are
confident and calm. The Unionists
complain bitterly that the Govern
ment has provided ample means for
the destruction of the city, but none
for its defence. The appearance in
the basin (in the heart of the city) of
five of the vessels of Commodore
Poter’s mortar fleet has greatly in
creased this feeling. The Baltimore
American gives expression to this feel
ing by saying that the rebels, in strong
force, are marching on Baltimore, and
asking ‘What are our chances of res
cue ? While Baltimore has abundant
materials provided for its swift de
struction it lias but little for its de
fence.”
“Those who ought to know best,
however, believe that the rebels do
not mean to march on Baltimore at
Eos. Confederate Union.
Baltic of ffluauiia Plain*.
The Great Disaster to the Yankee Arms—
Dope anti McDoicell severely denounced.
The special correspondent of the New
York ‘Tribune,’ writing from camp near
Chain Bridge, thus speaks of the ‘imbe
cility’ of the Yankee Generals, to which
he alone attributes the recent ‘great dis
aster
Slowly and sullenly the two armies pf
the Republic, out-generalled and defeated,
have fallen back from the battle field to
Centreville, from Centreville to Fairfax,
from Fairfax to the Potomac. The latest
experiment in Generalship is the most im
mediate and disastrous failure. Once
more tbe national army gather about tbe
national capital, and the defense of Wash
ington is the stragetic sequel of the Penin
sula advance upon Richmond.
The retreat from Centreville to Fairfax
was complete on Monday night. Sumner,
Sigel and Porter held the bill during the
| day. Heintzelman, McDowell and the
rest were already gone. All Monday
I night the rearward corps struggled along
the crowded road to Fairfax, Porter cov
ering the retreat. On Tuesday morning
the rebels once more held the sweeping
line of forts that pointed to the East all
winter long, and defied our advance.
Last night the whole army retreated,
1 and this morning: the western bank of the
present. They-think that their object I p 0 t 0 mac is the only Virginian camp of
is rather to isolate Baltimore from the
North, and from Washington, by cut
ting the rail roads all around the city.
They regard Baltimore as a Southern
city. They wish to save it and not to
destroy it. Therefore they will do
nothing to imperil the safety of the
city.
Bradley T. Johnson, the rebel
Provost Marshal, has sent word to his j ed if the details of an accomplished retreat
friends in this city to rejoice, for the ! are given to the world. 1 record, tbere-
tfay of their deliverance is at hand.—
He says that a few days more will see
General Lee in Baltimore, Washington
eut off from the Norh, Norfolk in pos
session of the rebels, and a fleet ofj
rams and iron clad steamers sailing up
the Potomac to take part in the attack
on Washington.
“General Wool, with the engineer
corps, made a tour of the hills around
Baltimore yesterday, and spots were
selected for throwing up entrench
ments. In accordance with Governor
ed as enraged—willing to fight, but not
willing to be sacrificed—denouncing, with
a unanimity that had no exception, the
incapacity which bad cause their defeat.
No one believed that the combined force
of the rebels were in front; and as for the
battle of Saturday, the men, the officers,
the Generals who fought it confess with
shame and anger that they were beaten"
by half their number. Tbe anny was not
defeated, its commander was out-general-
ed- He neither knew where his enemy
was, nor would suffer himself to be inform
ed. He was warned that the enemy was
massing on his left—every soldier knew
it, but be disbelieved aud denied it.;
batteries and troops to the right, to the
centre, to the rear—everywhere but where
they were wanted—then, in a moment,
found himself surrounded, enveloped,
crushed, and defeated.
McDowell was censured not less severe
ly than Pope. With the latter his advice
was said to have had undue controlling in
fluence. ‘The only order Pope gave was
the order to retreat.’ McDowell fought
the battle. Pope leaned only ou bis ad
vice; yielded him command throughout.
It was a blunder from the beginning. ‘It
is useless,’ said an officer, ‘to fight under
McDowell. I shall do my. duty as an of
ficer, but we shall lose every battle where
lie commands.’ I do not know whether I
have heard treachery or imbecility most,
frequently imputed to McDowell. Per
haps oftenest lie is given the benefit of
his alternative. I did-not hear one sug
gestion in his favor; ns excuse, no pallia
tion.
No order of battle was communicated to
Generals of any rank. Generals of corps
were not told who supported them, who
was on their right or left, what movements
concerned their own commands or posi
tions, or oo what plan the battle was
fought. I asked a question about the plan.
Sir, there was no plan. We knew noth
ing but what we discovered "for ourselves.
I do not know to this hour who was on iny
right. I asked, ‘Is it not usual to inform
Generals of corps or divisions on such
pointsV ‘Usual! the General who neg
lects to do it is an imbecile.’
A commanding hill in our possession
was threatened by a hostile movement in
force. Gen. Pope was informed, was ask
ed to send another batter}' to hold it. ‘If
you do not, in fifteen minutes the enemy
will he in possession of the hill.’ He re
fused to send'it. In ten minutes, rebel ar
tillery was playing from the hill on our
troops.
Generals who fought with the most he
roic courage anrl the most soldierly abil
ity, whose praises are in every ones mouth,
speak of the battles in which they have
had been defeated and driven hack to j just won honest fame with chagrin and re-
Centrevillc, none, or very few, supposed j morse. Their own efforts became futile
that he was to abandon tliat position, fa-j from the incompetence of their Command-
the national troops. Heintzleman’ and
Franklin went back on the Alexandria
road, McDowell by Fall’s Church, Sum
ner, Sigel and Porter by Vienna and Lew-
insville. We may bitterly announce once
more that the army of the Potomac and
tbe army of Virginia, crouching beneath
the thirty forts tliat girdle the Capitol,
are believed to be safe.
I suppose nR future hope can be hazard-
fore, very briefly and incompletely, what
I have seen and heard in tiie three nights
and two days just past—nights and days
of sleepless activity which can scarcely
have brought to any one who shared their
gloomy experience a single cheerful
j thought or a moment of repose.
When I left Washington on Sunday
! night, although it was known that Pope
mous for its strength, without a light. A
battle was expected next day at the fur-
r i thest, aud no one certainly knew whether
Bradford’s proclamation, the citizens j there had not already been another during
of Baltimore will be formed iuto com
panies to-day for the defence of the
city. This, however, is contrary to
Gen. Wool’s wishes. The General
assues the .citizens that he has taken all
needful measures for the defence of the
city; and they need not leave their
ordinary occupations.
“If you have any troops at the
the day. I passed through Alexandria
and out on the Fairfax road at seven in the
evening. Not half a mile beyond the
town 1 met a train of heavily loaded wag
ons, and hailed the driver, ‘Where are you
from V ‘Centreville.’ The whole story
was told in a word. The army was re
treating.
For the next ten miles the road was fill
ed with the trains of every corps in the
North let them be sent on to Washing- ! army, everywhere crowded, and frequent-
ton at once.”
ly halting. Mingled with tbe wagons
were great numbers of ambulances and
carriages, filled with wounded and dying
men. They had been all day on the road
—a day of confinement, privation, discom-
I fort and torture. Many must have re
Good Things.
Maj. N. of Georgia is the richest
humorist I have ever known, and has j rnained all night on the road—many also
said more smart things than any man
who ever lived. If all his wit and
humor could be collected into a volume,
it would present a treat of rich and
rare things compared with which the
volume of “Prenticeiana” would be
dull and common-place.
Since the breaking out of the war,
in the wagons, which, as conveyances for
wounded men, arc only one degree worse
than ambulances.
Near Alexandria, and at intervals for
some miles beyond, the bivouac fires of
many camps blazed along the road and
glimmered in distant fields. . Guards for
the trains, straggliug cowards from the
front, sections of batteries, squadrons of
the Major has made several war spech- ! cavalry, and further on towards Fairfax,
Brilliaat Exploit in Middle Tennessee.
Lieut. Wagoner, of Captain Manly’s
Artillery company, captured at Fort
Donelson, arrived here yesterday from
Middle Tennessee. He reports that
Capt. T. A. Napier, a few days ago,
with 18 men, swam the Tennessee river
at Rockport, and captured two Yan
kee steamboats, with their cargoes;
consisting of an immense amount of
Commissary stores- The prisoners
taken were nearly one hundred.
Ninety-six privates were paroled,
and the commissioned officer retreated.
Capt. Napier carried the boats to
Trotter’s landing, four milles below
Rockport, and near his own residence,
where he burned them. This feat is
among the most brilliant of the war,
and ranks Capt. Napier among the
partisan heroes, who are winning
deathless fame by their daring services
in the cause of .Southern Indepen
dence.
Lieut. Wagoner also reports that
four volunteer companies have been
es of no ordinary merit. In one of these,
speaking of the different characters in
the North who brought on the war, lie
presented the following pictures of
two notorious aboitionists, male and
female: [Countryman.
Henrt Ward Beecher.—“I will
now pay my respects to the great
moral dissembler of the age, the right
reverend, honorable Henry Ward
Beecher, envoy extraordinary, and
minister plenipotentiary from the
infernal regions to Lincoln’s court. See
him attired in his sacerdotal robes; as
he enters the temple of the Living
God. I don’t think it is improper to
designate- him hv the appellation of
huckster, for he is nothing more nor
less than one, vending his quasi relig-
on and abolition doctrines to a hell
hound, fanatical, and deluded auditory.
Witness him as he throws up his
impious hands, and outstretched arms,
and turns his brazen face towards the
sun of heaven, endeavoring to pass his
counterfeit religion upon the Most
High God. I do not profess to be an
engineer of much celebrity on the
route, but my honest convictions are,
that he has not religion enough to last
him to the first water station toward
heaven.
Sometime since, he made a discourse
in which he endeavored to instruct his
hearers in the beauties of death. Well,
I have seen a good many people die,
and I have never seen one die pretty
yet. If he had said it is noble, daring,
chivalric, and brave, for a man to die
on the battle field, in defence of his
country, or rights, he wonld have told
the truth. But when he saysitis noble,
daring, chivalric, or brave, to die upon
the battle field, or elsewhere, in endeav
oring to conquer and subjugate a peo
ple that have never done anything
otherwise than sustain, support, and
maintain their enemies, all the days of
their live-long lives, he perpetrates an
audacious falsehood: and if lie does not
regiments and shattered brigades moving
to the rear, and finally the last division of
reinforcements marching for the front,
streamed along the road and wound in and
out of the endless trains. It was impossi
ble to ride faster than a walk. I reached
Fairf'ax at 11. The town was quiet—only
a guard at the further end, none of whose
officers knew where headquarters were,
whether at Centreville or to the rear.—
So I spent what was left of the night at
Fairfax, and rode on next morning to
Centreville.
It is needless now to explain the con
stantly changing disposition of forces dur
ing the days which followed the defeat of
Saturday.
Three corps at least remained at Cen
treville on Monday, and were scattered
over the broad slopes of the bill on either
side of the road in unmilitary disorder.—
They had never been in order—no more
had the rest of the army since the retreat.
There was no head to put them in order.
There was no order in any department of
the service. There was not ammunition
in the batteries or in the cartridge boxes of
the infantry enough for another battle, yet
not one knew where the ammunition
trains were to be found. In the first five
minutes 1 met three ordnance officers ri
ding in seach of these trains. No fault of
theirs that the trains could not be found.
They are able officers, but no control was
in their hands—no means of doing their
duty. Orderlies had just been in all di
rections in search of the wagons—and it
was already 10 o’clock, and a battle hour
ly expected since daylight.
The camps were inextricably entangled;
not to my eye or judgment only, though I
have seen enough to know something
about it, but I heard a General command
ing a corps d’armce say he did not know
and could not ascertain, the relative posi
tion of other corps. Another General, a
regular officer of engineers, and famous
for topographical clearness and skill, said
to me that one glance of the hill-side
was enough to show that there was no
General at the head of the army encamp
ed there.
It was no better with the supplies of
The troops were half fed, or fed ir
regularly. Regimental wagons were un
loaded, and ordered to Alexandria for food
. and forage. Then the orderwascounter-
ultimately land in the place where there imaujed, and they were reloaded and or-
isn’t any ice water, the principal keeper j dered to the rear: Brigades witl
had as well close the institution forth
with.”
Harriets Beecher Stowe.—“And
now I come to another delectable
piece of mortality—the amiable and
accomplished, sweet-scented ex-virgin,
Mrs. Harriette Beecher Stowe, who
makes great professions of Christiani
ty herself. But my opinion is, she has
just religion enough in her composi
tion to induce her, for the sake of the
recompense notoriety brings, to draw
the last nail from the coffin of her best
without sup
plies were sent out on the flanks and in
front, and left there without wagons to
shift for themselves—I suppose to subsist
on the country; and from the country
they might have gathered scanty grass,
and, if in the woods, leaves for their horses;
for the men, nothing. But if a General on
the eve of a battle cannot supply his troops
with powder, it is useless to expect they
shall be fed. I need not multiply instan
ces. There was mismanagement every
where, because at headquarters there was
incompetence, confusion, no settled plans,
no head.
The army was not so ranch dishearten-
General.
.Said one to me, ‘I must ask to be re
lieved, unless General Pope is removed. I
cannot see my men murdered.’
i met a General who had led bis divi
sion in the hottest of the fight with heroic
courage aud veteran skill. He said, ‘I
have lost a thousand men; I dare not go
into the hospital and look in the faces of
those wounded men, who, I know, have
shed their blood bravely and in vain.’ It
was Carl Shurz.
The successful movement of the rebels
upon the flank and rear of General Pope
must be traced, not to bis want of proper
means of information, but to his refusal to re
gard the intelligence that was sent him. He
was officially informed of it, but would not
believe it, would not even take the reason
able precaution against its possibility. He
actually withdrew Sigel’s corps from his
•exposed flank while the enemy were turn
ing that point. Officers stationed in front,
on the Rappahannock line, saw, for three
days, the constant clouds of dust which
announced the moving columns of the en
emy, hut to the eye of the General they
gave no sign. He persisted in regarding
their success at Catlett’s as a mere caval
ry dash, and was hardly convinced by
Manassas that the enemy had gained his
rear iu force. From that hour his move
ments have been followed by nothing but
disaster.
But it is needless, and I have no time to
accumulate evidence on such points. Half
the strength of an army is confidence in its
commander. That confidence is not given
to General Pope. The opinion of his
troops is unanimously against him. I saw
numerous officers of all ranks in almost ev
ery corps of the army. There is no dis
sent or disagreement. They will not,
cannot fight again under Pope with confi
dence. The army of Virginia demands a
General.
I state these facts as I find them, ex
pressing no other opinion than what molds
itself out of the facts. Heretofore I have
praised General Pope—some friends of
mine thought it too liberally. 1 do not
think so. It is still my opinion that down
to the time when he arrived on the Rappa
hannock his campaign was pursued with
ability, and was deservedly successful.
But from the moment he set his foot this
side the river there have been only delay,
disasters and retreat. That his army has
lost confidence in him is a fact 1 am bound
to record- If I state it strongly it is be
cause tbe impressioa suddenly received
was equally strong.
Chnrlr*l«ii . Vsi., Tabcu.
Richmond, Sept 17.—An official des
patch from Gen. Boring, dated Charleston,
Kanawha county, says, that after inces
sant skirmishing, we took this place at S
P.M. in tlie evening. With six regiments
strong, the enemy made a strong resistaneg
burning their stores, and most of the town
in their retreat. Our loss slight. The
enemy’s loss is very heavy, and he is in
full retreat. Jenkins is in his rear.
CUriens News from KcaMcky*
Kirby Smith still moving forward—‘the
Kentuckians rising cn masse—Smith calls
for 20,000 arms— Ten regiments raising
—Capture of Lexington and Glorifica
tion among the people—Arrival of Mor
gan—Scott's Cavalry capture Frankfort
Confederate flag floating over the Ken
tucky Capitol—the enemy evacuate and
are overtaken—Affairs at Cumberland
Gap.
[Special despatch to the Savannah Republican.]
Knoxville, Sept. 14.—A courier from
sent i ® en - Kirby Smith arrived this morning
from LexiDgton, Ky. He left on the 6th
inst., and brings the following interesting
intelligence:
The Confederate army had not reached
Covington, as was announced some days
ago ou the authority of a Cario extra. It
is now moving forward in that direction,
and the people of that State are rising cn
masss and joining the Confederate cause.
Three thousand men wqre recruited in the
short space of twenty-four hours, and Gen.
eral Smith has made a requisition for
twenty thousand additional stand of arms.
Ten regiments of Kentuckians are be
ing raised under Gen. A. Bufoid.
General Smith entered Lexington in tri
umph on tbe 1st instant. The surround
ing country rushed spontaneously to re
ceive him. They poured into town
throughout tbe day, and manifested the
tbe greatest demonstrations of delight at
their deliverance from the yoke of an Ab
olition oppressor. The ladies wept for
joy and in gratitude to their deliverers.
Col John Morgau arrived at Lexing
ton on the 4th instant and was received
with bounding enthusiasm..
Col. Scott’s Louisiana cavalry captured
Frankfort the Seat of government of Ken
tucky, on the 3d inst., and planted his
battle flag on the dome of the State House.
The streets were thronged with men and
women from the country, and a grand ova
tion was kept up throughout the day.
The enemy took him by the forelock
and evacuated the place on the night of
the 2d. Our troops went in pursuit of
(hem next morning, and sent back a num
ber of prisoners and three hundred mules.
It was reported that Scott had overtaken
their rear, and would capture the entire
train together with a vast amount of prop-
erty.
The Lexington, Ky., Statesman of the
6th instant contains a sterling address
from Gen. Smith.
Gen. Buford and Humphrey Marshall
were to have reached Baris on the night
of the 6th, aud camp on Marshall’s own
farm.
De Coussi’s brigade, of Federals left
the north side of Cumberland Gap on tbe
11th, with a large number of wagons on a
foraging expedition.
A skirmish occurred with the enemy on
the 12th, at Baptist Gap; three miles
from Cumberland Gap. No particulars
are given except that the enemy were driv
en back. •
copy of the Huntsville Democrat, giving
all tbe particulars of the evacuation, an$
the devastation committed, as well as the
gladsome, yet sad scenes, of families re
turning to their pillaged homes, and find
ing ruin and wreck, instead of the com
forts which they left behind them.
It is understood that the Huntsville Ad
vocate will also shortly reappear. We
wish the North Alabamians, all, a degree
of prosperity hereafter commensurate
with their recent severe losses.
:
Counterfeit Confederate Note*.
The discovery that some of the denom
inations of our Confederate currency had
been counterfeited and that a considera
ble amount of the spurious notes was in
circulation, naturally caused a good deal of
excitement throughout tbe Confederacy.
So soon as the alarm was sounded, the
Banks commenced refusing to receive any
issues of the date and plate counterfeited,
and signs of a first class financial panic
| rh « t'*nftdcr*l* War Nirn Mrr
The following is from the correspondent
of the Yankee Associated Press ■
Havanna, Aug. 2!).—On the m
of the 20th instant I received a
from Cardenas, saying that ti e ni*hf J®
fore a Confederate vessel of war had
chored in the entrance to the hath 11
English built, of iron, and mountingej/
guns. She came from Nassau, and report!
that she has a crew of 150 men, and that
her name is the Florida, and that she »
commanded by Capt. Maffit. This vessel
is none other than the Ovieto,' lately re
leased by the Admiralty Court a t Nassau
as an illegal prize. I had news of Lei
before and was expecting her arrival
A letter from Nassau told me that she
had seventy men, and that she hop^ to
complete her crew in Cuba. Also, that
Captain Semmes, who was to have com.
mand of her, sailed for Europe, and that
Captain Maffit, who formerly commanded
abundant. The Confederate cur- the Crusader, was to command her instead
Operation** of our Army in Virginia aad
Kentucky.
Requisition for arms for the Kentuckians.
A battle expected in Maryland.
Richmond, Sept. 15.—Official dispatch
es received here state that Gen. Loring
has defeated the enemy in the Kanawha
Valley of Virginia, and that General Jen
kins had made a successful raid into Ohio.
Gen. McCown has made application for a
large number of arms for the Kentuckians
who are joining the Confederate army.
Nothing later has been received from
Maryland. The Northern papers of the
11th represent that McClellan’s army had
marched beyond Rockville in quest of the
rebels, and a battle was expected in a few
days between that place and Frederick.
Riirll Fortifying Nauhvillr.
Chattanooga; Sept. 15.—Intelligence
received by the Daily Rebel, says Buell
lias returned in force to Nashville, and
that lie has stolen between ten and twelve
thousand negroes and is working them on
the fortifications around Nashville- The
negroes are starving, and many of them
have escaped to their owners.
Large meetings are being held by the
Tennesseeans in Middle Tennessee. The
country is aroused and resolved never to
allow the enemy again to control their
State.
From Richmond.
Richmond, 17th.—The Secretary of
war received a dispatch to-day frc^i Major
Brown, commanding the post at Dublin,
stating that Gen. Loring’s command enter
ed Kanawha Salines, on last Saturday
morning, aud took possession of the Salt
Works, closely pursuing the t enemy en
route for Charleston.
The Salt works are not much injured.
A very large quantity of salt on hand,
selling at 3£« cents per bushel.
An order has been issued urging the
farmers to send forward their wagons load
ed with forage, See., and return with
salt.
Richmond 17th.—An official dispatch
from Chattanooga, confirms the occupation
of Inka, by Gen. Price’s army, and the
capture of several hundred thousand dol
lars worth of artillery and stores.
A private dispatch from Staunton to
day, says that the force at H arper’s Ferry
taken by Jackson on the 15th, was 8,000
Yankees; and 1,000 negroes were cap
tured.
Cheap.—A correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch says: “Small negroes are
offering for sale in Norfolk at $5 per head
and children at $1.
CONG KF MSI ON A I,.
Richmond, 17th,—In the Senate the
exemption bill was further considered
The clause exempting tanners, shoe ma
kers, millers, etc., was agreed to. Also
the clause exempting Quakers and Dun-
kers; and another exempting Physicians
The cause exempting Theological students
was stricken out.
An amendment to exempt overseers of
plantations pending.
In the House a resolution was adopted
instructing the Judiciary committee tore-
port a bill establishing a Supreme Court
of the Confederate States.
Substitutes were offered for the Con
script bill, by Davis of Mississippi, and
Bonham, of South Carolina; both were re
jected. The original House bill passed,
yeas, 49—nays, 39.
Both Houses adjourned until Friday.
In the House yesterday, Foote intro
duced a resolution, proposing to send
Commissioner or Commissioners to Wash
ington, empowered to propose terms of a
just and honorable peace.
Holt of Georgia, submitted a substi
tute, declaring that tlie people of the Con
federate States have ardently desired
peace from the beginning; and whenever
the United States shall have manifested
a like anxiety, it shall be the duty of the
President to appoint Commissioners to
treat and negotiate with said Government.
The resolution and substitute were, laid
upon the table. Yeas, 59—nays, 26.
“Ora,” the Knoxville correspondent of
the Mobile Advertiser and Register, says:
It is said fourteen companies of Tenn
esseans voluntarily joined Gen. Bragg
between Sparta tfnd Pikeville, without
waiting to be conscripted. This is the
true spirit! Let our citizens in every
State follow this noble example. Let.
history record that our people needed no
conscript law to avenge their wrongs and
rescue tbeir country. Let us rally, then,
and hasten to put in the field our army of
five hundred thousand. Kentucky to-day
is in arms, and her people are rallying
around the flag of the Confederacy.
Hundreds of refugees are flocking to
their homes since it is known that Hunts
ville has been evacuated by the Abolition
vandals. Mr. J. Withers Clay, formerly
editor of the Huntsville Democrat, which
the Abolitionists turned into the Reveille,
has gone post haste, carpet sack in # hand,
to “view once more those scenes so charm
ing,” and take a peep at his old sanctum.
Mr. Clay being a gentleman of fine tal
ents and great energy of character, will,
no doubt, soon furnish ns with a fresh
rency has gradually absorbed the entire
circalation of tbe country, hence a blow
aimed at its, credit is in effect a blow di
rected at every man, woman and child in
the Confederacy. It is more important
to our successes an independent people,
that the Confederate Treasury notes main
tain unimpaired credit, than that our armies
win victories in the field. The head of
the Treasury Department, recognizing
this truth, promptly issued a circular an
nouncing the determination of that De
partment to issue no more notes of the
plates counterfeited and proposing to ab
sorb all the genuine notes (of these plates)
now in circulation. This action is well so
far as it goes, but it does not come up the
full measure of the exigency. The Gov
ernment does not propose to give curreut
Treasury notes for the condemned issues,
but interest-bearing notes or call certifi
cates; these to be replaced by other notes,
at some indefinite period when they can
be furnished without inconveience to the
Treasury Department. If the holders of
these notes were not required, as many of
them are, by the pressure of the times,
to make use of their value, the plan would
work well enough, but it is to be feared
that the withdrawal from circulation of
tbe large amount of currency contempla
ted by this proposition will cause serious
inconvenience to the public.
Mr. Memminger, in addition to the
measure referred to, has made an earnest
appeal to the banks to continue to receive
those issues, a6 heretofore, and we are
glad to know that the appeal is having its
effect. We notice that the banks of Sa
vannah, Montgomery and Mobile—the
Southern Bank of this city excepted—
after refusing these notes for a time are
again receiving them on deposit. We
must say, however, that tbe banks are
more obliging to the Secretary than lie is
to them. Without furnishing them with
any test for which he is willing to become
responsible, he asks them to take these
issues, of course at their own risk. It is
said and believed that the amount of
counterfeit notes in circulation is compar
atively small; would it not then have
been policy in the Government to absorb
them quietly through the banks, and thus
maintain fully the credit of its issues]
Besides this, as the notes were created
and made the currency by the government,
does it not owe it to the public to protect
them from positive loss? It seems to us
that a plan might be devised by which
the people could have the benefit of the
circulation of the genuine notes, the
banks be relieved from embarrassment,
and the Treasury saved from appreciable
loss. The banks have experts who can
now readily detect the genuine from the
counterfeit, but they cannot be expected
to receive as money notes that cannot be
paid out by them. The general public
arc unskilled in detecting counterfeits,
and hence must look with anxiety and
suspicion upon all notes of the denomina
tions which they know are counterfeited.
Now suppose the Treasury Department
were to furnish the banks with the beat
tests they can, that the banks receive all
notes approved genuine by these tests,
stamp them and pay them out. This
would at once give confidence to every
body, the genuine bills would circulate
freely, and tlie country would be relieved
from the worst evils to be apprehended
from the counterfeits. Of course the
banks should be protected from loss should
the tests furnished at any time prove in
adequate.—Mobile Evening News.
meeting of German Jew*.
Savannah, Sept. 13th, 1S62.
At a meeting of the German J&ws of
this city held this evening. Mr. M. Loe-
wenthal w* called to the Chair, and Mr.
A. L. Grabfelder requested to act as Sec
retary.
The Chairman stated the object of the
meeting, when on motion of Mr. Joseph
Rosenthal, i Committee of five \jere ap
pointed to draft suitable resolutions for
the consideration of the meeting. The
Committee consisted of Messrs. J. Ros
enthal, S. Gardner, M. Selig, II. Mein-
hard and M. Brown.
The Committee retired, and returning,
reported the following preamble and reso
lutions, which were unanimously adop
ted :
Whereas, we have read with amaze
ment aud contempt the proceedings of a
meeting at Thomasville, held on the 30th
August last, in which German Jews are
denounced in unmeasured terms—are pro
hibited from visiting that village, and
banishing all those now resident in that
place.
This wholesale slander, persecution and
denunciation of a people, many of whom
are pouring out their blood on the battle
fields of their country, in defence of civil
and religious liberty, is afc war with the
spirit of the age—the letter of the con
stitution—and the principles of religion—
and can find no parallel except in the bar
barities of tbe inquisition and the persecu
tion of the dark ages. We feel that we
have no remedy but in an appeal to an
enlightened public opinion, and to that
we do appeal.
Be if therefore resolved, That whilst we
do not indiscriminately eulogise our people,
yet we boldly aver that as a class, they
are as honest, as true and as faithful as
their persecutors and slanderers, and to
this end refer to the criminal courts of the
country.
Resolved, That we hold all concerned
in that meeting, as enemies of human lib
erty and freedom of conscience.
Resolved,- That all newspapers giving
currency to this slander and intolerance,
are participators in the foal wrong, and we
recommend every Jew to withhold from
tbe same his patronage and support.
Resolved, That tbe Savannah Republi
can, and all other papers which support
civil and religions liberty and are opposed
to persecution, be requested to publish
the above-
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
M. LOEWENTHAL, Cbm’n.
A. L. Giabfkli>br, Sec’ty.
The first officer of the Florida formerly
held the. same position on board the Sum
ter. The Florida is lined with iron, and
is calculated to resist any ordinary shot
The news of her arrival was immediately
sent from Cardenas, Matanzas and Hava
na to our squadron at Key West, and
there are now three Federal vessels of war
waiting for her to make her exit from
Cardenas.
The Captain General was much annov-
ed at her appearance at Cardenas, and or
dered her to leave at once for sea, but
Capt. Maffit urged that he was in distress,
and continued to remain there. Two of
the Florida’:; officers came to Havana the
day before yesterday. There were onlv
six hundred tons of coal in Cardenas, yet
the Florida has been able.to get some,
though I am told the Captain had to pay
S22 50 a ton for it to the Gas Company,
and the latter will replace it from this citv
' at $9.
The Florida claims to. have destroyed
several American merchantmen on her
way to pardenas.
Important Derision.
An interesting case caifie up for
decision before Judge Gould this
morning upon a writ of habeas corpus,
sued out by F. H. Miller, Esq., in
behalf of Isadore Rosenfeldt, a citizen
of Augusta.
The facts of the case were substanti
ally these : Mr. Rosenfeldt was arres
ted in Warren county, when on a visit,
by Mr. Walter P. Greer, sub-enroll-
iug officer, who claimed him as a con
script.' He was tied by the officer,
(hut the rope was cut from his hands
by the citizens of Warrenton,) was
committed to confinement, in which he
has remained since Monday, in jail or
uuder surveillance.
Upon being brought to Augusta aad
placed in jail, a writ of habeas corpus
was obtained from his honor, Judge
Gould, who upon a hearing, discharg
ed the prisoner, upon the ground.that
the enrolling officer of Warren county
had no right to arrest a citizen of Rich
mond county.
Snch are the naked facts of the case.
We are informed, further, that the
enrolling officer assured, in his evi
dence, that he had the power to de
clare martial law and suspended the
writ of habeas corpus, and he was
so instructed by Major Dunwdody.
It is high time that the powers of
the military authorities and the
rights of the people were distinctly
defined.
It is indeed high time that military
assumptions of power should be put
down, and popular rights distinctly
defined, when subordinate officers can
declare martial law and suspend the
writ of habeas corpus, at will, while
the President himself cannot do these
things without permission of Congress.
We sincerely hope for the peace and
quiet of our State, and the good, of
the cause, that the Government will
take steps forthwith to restrain such
assumptions of military power tvs have
been exercised in this State.
[Augusta Constitutionalist.
Maj. Dunwoody denies that any of
his officers have been given power to
declare Martial Law or suspend the
writ of Habeas Corpus.
Letter from Mnrfreesboro'—The Federal:,
Leave Nashville and Return.
* Murfreesboro’, Tenn., )
Sept. 11,’ G2. )'
Editor Chattanooga Rebel:
I have just time to write you a
line.
Buell, after evacuating Nashville
attempted to retreat across the river
and into Kentucky, but finding lie
was cut off by the army under Gen.
Bragg, which had crossed the river
above previously, his retreating
foroe turned and came back to Nash
ville.
There is some doubt here as to
their future movements, but one
thing certain, they have 10,000 or 12,
000 stolen negroes at work on the
fortifications at Nashville. These
negroes are literally starving to death,
and many of them are running away
and endeavering to get back to their
masters.
I have attended two public meetings
—one at Winchester and one atShel-
bvville. The latter was a rousing
meeting, and everywhere the cry is,
“let the last man die, rather than
see the Vandals enter our country a-
gain.
Tennessee is fully aroused, wherev
er I have been, and, I have no doubt,
will, almost to a man, sustain General
Bragg in the business of crushing
this vast army of thieves and rob
bers.
•Let everybody come on and we will-
first invest and then wipe out this
army of outlaws.
Georgia, Mitchell county.
TITHEREAS, Henry Smith applies to me for
» » letters of' administration on therestate w
Henry Jones, deceased. ^ . „
These are therefore to cite and admonish *>
and singular the kindred a*d creditors of said de
ceased, to file their objections, if any they have,
in lny office at Camilla, said county, in terms o
the law. Given nnder my hand and official signa
ture. Sept. 1st,ISO. __
16 St. JOS. J .{BRADFORD, Ord y.
