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ILondou ^^io^CBlTUw
of 01 itvery.
In an editorial of the London '-Times,’’
commenting on the share Messrs. Beecher.
Cheever, 'J yng end others, have taken
in this war, the following parragraph oc
curs :
These gentlemen preach not for an in
fallible or an established church, for no
such church has yet ventured to be as
dogmatic and positive on this point as they
arc. They preach with the Bible in their
hands. In that book there is not one
single word that can be perverted to prove
slavery unlawful, though there is. much
which naturally tends to its mitigation, its
elevation, and its final extinction. In the
New Testament we have an epistle written
by the man who represents the last reveal
ed phase and development of the Gospel,
come by the hand of a runaway slave, who
had sought a refuge with the writer, to
his lawful master, to the purport that the
master and his slave were to get on hotter
and do their duty to one annother more
thoroughly for the future. 1 he same
writer tells his recent converts that if they
are slaves they must make the best of that
condition, and not try to escape it, at
least by any means contrary to the laws
of the country. The only possible doubt
about the exact meaning of his advice is
whether the slaves are to refuse their liber
ty, even if it he offered, or whether they
are merely to remain true to their masters,
even if chance presents tho opportunity of
•scape.
The context, which says that a faithful
and dutiful Christian slave becomes the
toon killed and six wounded. The negro
pilot was killed outright. Our loss was
only one man killed, a member of Capt.
Alston’s Battalion, from Horry District,
whose name we have not yot been able
to obtain. Our forces behaved with the
utmost coolness and bravery, encountering
without breastworks or other protection,
the enemy’s fire at the short rauge of be
tween 200 and 300 yards. The Signal
Corps and Walpole’s Stono Scouts were
very active and efficient in promoting the
success of tho expedition.
Du.ing Satnrday night the other Yankee
gunboats steamed up the river, and began
shelling the Isaac P. Smith, hoping to
retake or destroy her. Major Brown’s
guns, however, immediately opened upon
them a hot and well directed fire, and,
warned by the fate of the Smith, they
withdrew. The captured steamer is
now under the guns of Fort Pember
ton.
The prisoners were brought to the city
on Saturday morning, and were escorted
to jail by a detachment ot the Charleston
Battalion, Captain Lord commanding.-*—
They are a villainous looking crew.—
The names of the offiers are as fol
lows :
F. S. Conover, Acting Lieut. Com
manding.
•Tohn W. Dicks, (Executive Officer,)
Acting Master.
Robt. Tarr, Acting Master.
55 hiteman Chase, Ensign.
Francis Bunton. Ensign.
Henry S. Borden, Ensign.
Jacob Tucker, 1st Assistant
freeainan of his Heavenly Master, clearly ! ncer.
proves that a slave who refuses the offer | Fr.i
rastus Burry, 3d Assistant
Engi-
Engi-
of freedom has a high scriptural argument j neer
for his choice. If it be 6aid that slavery
is at variance with the. spirit of the Gospel.
6o also ate a good many things which are
not yet laid under the ban of Abolition or
threatened with the “war power.” Sump
tuous fare, purple and fine linen, wealth,
ecclesiastical titles, unmarried clergy,
good clerical incomes, and many other
things, are contrary to the spirit of the
J. O. Ilill, Assistant Paymaster.
■ Chas. Estaker, Paymaster’s Ciierk.
G. II, Marvin, Surgeon.
Jns. S. Tucker, the 2d Assistant Engi-
j neer, died on his way to the city.
A number of trophies found on hoard,
such as officers’ swords, fine mathematical
I instruments, etc., with a considerable
pack of bran new “green hacks,” were
Gospel, or a least can be proved so as easily j yesterday brought up to Gen. Ripley’s
as slavery, But the Unman Catholics have
just as much to say for any one of their
peculiar doctrines as the Abolitionists
have for their one article of a standing or
falling community. Whether the Con
federates have done right to throw off the
Union is a distinct question, but they can
not have a better defence than a procla
mation of war to the knife, a solemn invo- , „ ort of the Military Academy for the
cation of the “war power” against every j venr endi J nne 30 1864 being under
"kve owner who still claims the duty of
office,
The prize will doubtless, he speedily
put in lighting trim, so as to co-operate in
the next dash of our iron clads upon the
blockading fleet.
“West E'ninllmu” in llic Sienate—Tbr Gener
alship of lhe nnr.
The bill making appropriation for the
his slave.
From the Charleston Metcary, Feb.:
,n £
consideration, Mr. Wade, (Republican,
j of Ohio) said he was opposed to supporting
the West Point Academy. He believed
j it had been a hot bed of treason. Had
The tapturrofihr Cuubonii«nnr p. Smith— there been no West Point Academy there
Foil Particular**.
In Saturday’s issue we briefly announced
gunboat
Is
the capture of the Yankee
P. Smith in the. Stono Rive. We are j that
now enabled to present to our readers the
full particulaxs of the exploit.
Several days ago a secret expedition
was organized, under the command of
Lieutenaut Colonel Yates, of the 1st South
Carolina Regular Artillery, and despatch
ed to Jone’s Island, to attack the gunboats
which occasionally prowl along the Stono.
The force consisted of the following troops:
The Siege Traiu, Cos. A. and B, com
manded respectively by Capt. B C. Webb
and Lieut. L. W, Wilson, Major Charles
Alston, Jr., being in command of lhe bat-
tallion. Co. F. of the Palmetto Battalion
of Light Artillery under < 'apt. F. C-
would have been no xcbellion. He believed
; that the army officers from that school
were obstructions to the army to-day.
Mr. Wilson, of Massechusetts, thought
at disloyalty could not be charged
i against West Point. About six hundred
| mid twenty officers from that academy ware
i in the army and had remained loyal.—
. About one hundred and seventy-eight from
; the Southern States had resigned and
i nineteen from the North. One hundred
and thirty-eight officers from the slave-
holding States had remained loyal, and
fifty-two of these were from the seceded
States.
Mr. Fessenden asked if a large portion
of the officers from civil life were not edu
cated at West Point.
Mr. Wilson said they were.
Mr. Nesmite, of Oregon, thought that
Schulz; Co. 1). 1st South Carolina (regular) the Senatorfrom Ohio (Wade) was entirely
Artillery, which a Light Battery, Capt. mistaken in his opinion of West Point.—
People in this age, do not get military
knowledge as they do the measels, or by
any inspiration, as in olden times. Then
we hear of Moses who was a great quarter
master who had fresh manna every morn
ing without transportation, and they then
blew down walls with rams horns. But
such days of inspiration have gone, and
we have to resort to education. An insti
tution which has educated such men as
55 inthrop, Gre’ule Lyon, and others should
noi lie charged with disloyalty.
Mr. Wade replied, contending that the
West Point institution had only fostered
F. II. Harlston ; one Parrot gun. in charge
of Lieut. T. E. Gregg; Co. I. 1st South
Carolina fregular) Artillery, Capt. J. C.
Mitchel; Cos. II. and 1, of 20 S. C. V.,
commanded respectively by Capt. S. M.
Roof and Lieut. 51 Gunter, and acting as
Sharpshooteis. During Thursday these
troops were posted at Legare’s Point
Place, and Grim ball’s, on John’s Island ;
Major Alston comma: ding the batteries
at Grimball's, Capt. Iiarleston, those
at Legare’s Point I’lace, and the Sharp
shooters being under charge of Captain
Mitchell.
In the meantime a detachment of Lucas
jealousies and rivalries in the army, and
(regular) battalion, under Captain John that it was a monopoly entirely at vari
II. Gary, was posted at Mr. r I homas j ance with the Government. It might be
Grimball's place on James Island, and a good institution to make engineers, but
further up the Stono. J hey had three 24 it furnished no qualifications foracomman-
pounder rifled guns, which were put in der o r an army. There were men in the
position 250 yards apart, and about 100 army to day who were eating the bread
yards from the banks of the river. r l lie of the Government, and who were doing
all they could to destroy the Govern
guns were manned by detachment of
Companies A.B. and C, under Lieutenants 1 ment.
W. G. Ogler and E. B. Calhoun and
Captain T. ii. Hayne. Farther down the
Stono, and on the James Island side.
51 r. Fessenden said that many men it ad
gone south from Ohio and from his (Fessen
den’s) own State (Maine), acquired prop
Major J. 5\ elsinan Brown, with two rilled erty there, and were the very worst men in
guns, in charge of a detachment of the
3d Regiment B. C. Artillery (late Lamar’s)
and with a detachment of the Georgia . there were thirty-four thousand officers in
Battalion as Sharpshooters, took lip a
position so as to command the channel.
On Friday afternoon, at half past 4 o’
clock the enemy’s gunb‘>at Isaac P. Smith
steamed up the liver passing the batteries
of Major Brown and Colonel lutes, and
came to anchor a little above, nearly
opposite the residence of Mr. Thomas
Grimbail, and within fair range of the guns
Garbv.
the South.
5Ir. Wilson, of Massachusetts, said that
; the army, and that there could not be over
I eight hundred of them from West Point.
The country may have been disappointed
| in the officers of the army, and perhaps
justly.
51r. Lane, of Kansas, said that these
I men had been educated at West Point
at the expense of millions of dollars.—
Could the Senator from Massachusetts
Mr. Trumbull—»How could he couio up
if be had not the opportunity? To what
do we owe tho thousands and thousands
of l^ves sacrificed in the swamps of rcbel-
dom except to this passion of enginers
for constructing fortifications ? Wc want
generals who will rely uu the stiength of
our armies and lead these men who have
gone into the field to crush out rebellion
against the rebels with fixed eyes and
strong arms. Let them advance with the
power of a hundred thousand bayonets
and they will put the enemy to flight and
rout this rebellion. You never can de
stroy this rebellion by building fortifica
tions and planting cannon to see how far
you can shoot and whether you cannot hit
a man without seeing him. The army is
substantially controlled by officers of the
regular army, and no Volunteer has had a
chance to control a hundred thousand men.
To crush tho rebellion tho men of the
North must be lot loose aud let them come
down upon the rebels with the strong
arm, and they will grind them to pow
der.
Mr. Fessenden hoped that a vote would
be taken. He had sometimes almost
regretted that all the officers of our army
had not been taken from the Senate or
House, as they would* have had all this
military knowledge by a sort of instinctive
perception.
The discussion was continued by Messrs.
McDougall of California, Davis Ken
tucky, Grimes of Iowa, Wade and
Wilson ; and the bill finally passed—yeas
19, nays 10.
SCurapeeu Xrwi.
The London correspondent of the Times
writes :
The American war is a perpetual crisis.
The anxiety has never been greater here
than at this moment. We are, as usual
waiting for news, and this news, as usual
also, is expected to be of the most inipor
taut character.
If speaking of the Emancipation Proc
lamation of Lincoln, tho correspondent of
the Times says :
In the Abolitionists in England are full
of hope, and expect the Proclamation to
do what a million of men in arms have
hitherto failed of doing, the conservative
Southern and Pro-Slavery journals are
more hitter than ever The Times in its
warmth of the advocacy of tho South,
presumes so far upon the Pro-Slavery
reaction in England as to defend Slavery
upon economical humanitarian and Scrip
tural grounds, waking up, as you may
suppose, a hornet’s nest of Abolition pa
pers. The fact, however, that the Times
should dare to take such grounds, is
proof of a great change in British opin
ion.
The London correspondent of the Phila
delphia Inquirer writes the following to
that paper.
There is no doubt that the recent dis
astrous affair at Fredericksburg, and the
5Iinistcrial crisis at Washington, have
produced a profound impression upon all
the classes of the people of England. As
I stated in my last letter, the press gener
ally has seized upon these two occuricnees
with the greatest avidity, and turned them
to as good an account as was in its power.
With the sapient editors of most of the
London journals there is no longer any
Federal Government nor a nation known
as the United States. The Southern Con
federacy is gradually, but speedily, to
swallow up everything on the Western
Continent. 5Ir. Lincoln is now a Presi
dent only in name, the Democratic party
in New York being virtually the supreme
rulers of the fragmentary conglomeration
of Northern States, No language is too
gross or indecent with which to express
their contempt of 51r. Lincoln and his
Cabinet, while the humane gentleman,
Jeff. Davis, is elevated into a demigod.—
The utter disruption of the whole country
is confidently predicted as likely to occur
within a few weeks, and Washington itself
is to become a common rendezvous for the
owls and bats.
tma flrets aw Mdub
Burnsides resigns and recants—Franklin's
Farewell Address—The Army of the
Mississippi—Muss in the Yankee Sen-
arc—Maffit opens the Ball—Another
Yankee Editor Muzzled—Financial and
Commercial.
Richmond, Feb. 1.—The Tribune of
the 29th says:
“On Tuesday Burnsides tendered his
resignation to Lincoln as a member of the
United States army. Lincoln declined
receiving it informing Burnsides that he
had other fish for him to fry. Burnsides
acquiesced, expressing his readiness to ac
cept the smallest command in the army.”
Franklin closes his farewell address to
his corps as follows: “In severing my
connection which you have made so dear
let no one believe that I willingly part
w th you in the face of the enemy.”
The Tribune’s Sleinphis advices state
that Joe Johnston commands the rebel ar
my in the Western department, and is
able to concentrate 150,600 men.
The latest advices say that McCler-
nand’s forces aud the Porter fleet had
reached Young’s Point 20 miles beyond
Vicksburg.
Mr. Saulshury, of Del., denounced Lin
coln as an imbecile in the U. S. Senate.
He was several times called to order, and
finally arrested, but subsequently released.
The next day 5Ir. Clark offered a resolu
tion expelling Saulsbury. The Tribune
says the conduct of the Seccsh Senators
was disgraceful. He did not apologize,
but retired flourishing a challenge to Clark.
Ho threatened to kill Forney for remarks
published in the Chronicle. It was the
opinion of t"he greatest and most cautious
Senator that Saulsbury should be expell
ed.
Tho Baltimore American of the 20th
says: *
“The Pirate Florida, Capt. Maffit has
captured and destroyed seven Yankee
vessels off the West Indies.”
The London Times comments favora
bly on the speech of the French Emperor,
and considers him thoroughly in earnest.
The Editor of the Philadelphia Even
ing Journal has been arrested as a seces
sion sj'mpathiser.
Mr. Wall of New Jersey introduced in
to the Yankee Senate a resolution inquir
ing into the case of Zarvona, who is re
ported to have gone away. It was adopt
ed
Gold closed in New York on the 2Sth at
163, Sterling Exchange 189i, Middling
Cotton 80 cents.
of Capt. Garbv. The Yankees made j (Wilson) point to one single ray of genius
no attempt to land, and after waiting about j exhibited by any single one of those
twenty minutes, Captain Garby ordered ! oHieers !
the battery to open, which it did in band-
some stjle, sending its shots crashing aud
51 r. Wilson, in reply, said that we had
lost twenty-six general officers since the
ibly through the timbers of the gunboat, j war commenced. Seventeen of them
At the first discharge there was evidently were killed in battle, aud nine of them
great consternation on tlie lankee decks, educated at West Point. Among inese
and one officer cried out “Great God!—i we
ana one omcer cneu «>ui un-ai :— were such names as Lyon, Mansfield, who
What is this I” The vessel immediately fell at Antietam ; Mitchell, the astronomer,
slipplcd her cable and began a nasty re- j taken Yrom his command at the West—
treat, fighting the battery as she retired. God only knows why ! Bayard, recegniz-
She threw grapeslmt and shell with con- ■ ed throughout the country as a brilliant
siderable accuiacy, hut without injuring officer; lleno, Stevens, Richardson, Sill,
any ot our men. One grape shot struck | Hooker, and Rosencranz. Had these
the gun of Company C, leaving its trace men shown no capacity, no ray of genius ?
longitudinally. The firing of our battery He believed that there never were better
at this point was rapid and well executed. ' artillery officers in tho world than those in
The gunboat in her flight soon come within our army.
range of the batteries of Col. Yates, 5Ir. Lane of Kansas said as the senator
against which she then directed her broad- , (Wilson) was supposed to have something
sides. But the heavy concentrated fire to do with shaping the policy of the govern
from John’s Island soon terminated the
struggle. Three shots 6truck the machinery
of the steamer, deranging it so that she
could no longer proceed. She then drop
ped anchor, and her commander uncon
ditionally surrendered the boat and crew,
consisting of 11 officers, 105 men and three
negroes. Colonel Yates thereupon ordered
the Yankee Lieutenant Commanding to
send his men ashore in the steamer’s boats, | fer to ?
for our men had none where with to board
her. The surrender was soon consummat-
inent, he (Lane) would ask how it is that
while by this Senate chamber and by a
majority of the Senate the opinion is
entertained and expressed that a graduate
°f West Point now holding an important
position is not fit to hold it, he should still
retain that position. It is because this
government is controlled by West Poiut ?
Mr. IV iIson—Who does the Senator re-
5Ir. Lane—5Ieigs.” He has been
denounced here in this Senate. If it be
Richmond, Jan. 29,—The New York
Herald, of the 26th, says a Yankee gun
boat is reported to have been sunk by
the Confederate battery off Port Hud
son.
Gen. Curtis telegraphs Gen. Halleck
that three Federal gunboats ascended the
White river to Duvalls’ Bluff and Desare,
capturing one hundred and fifty prisoners,
two columbiads and two hundred small
arms.
Gen. Wool having ordered all the New
York militia to report to him, Gen. Hall,
commander of the State forces, has enter
ed a vigorous protest. Great excitement
exists in consequence of the design of tho
Administration to take the military under
its control.
A correspondent of the Tribune says
France had remonstrated with England.
There had been skirmishing in front
of Corinth, and an attack was looked
for.
Richmond. Jan. 29th.—Northern dates
to the 26th have been received. A special
correspondent of the New York Post
states that for four days of last week,
beginning on Tuesday and ending on
Friday, the grand army had attempted to
cross at Bank’s ford, just above Freder
icksburg, but that such was the condition
of the roads that it was compelled to fall
hack. The difficulties of the Yankees
are thus described : “ In every gully,
batteries, caisons, supply wagons, ambu
lances and pontoons were mired. Horses
and mules up to their bcii;-oo
soldiers on me maren sinking to their
knees almost every step. It was impossi
ble to draw an empty wagon throngli the
dreadful mud. The whole army stuck
fast. Guns and pontoons were three days
in reaching the ford, and had to he dragged
by the united labor of men and horses,
when it was discovered that the approaches
to the river were impracticable. On
Friday the greater portion of the army
was back in the camp before Fredericks-
hurg ”
A sub marine cable is to be laid be
tween New Orleans and Fortress Mon
roe.
THE WORST BATTLE.
The Tribune says “we are beginning to
see that about the worst battle lost to the
Union cause thus far is that of the New
York State election.” This stntemont
ought to open the eyes of our Southern
contemporaries who wondered at the New
York election. It has done and is doing
marvels.
I’KOVI C'SI.i RI.ICKTON.
I HE BLOCKADERS RETURNED
AND AN IRON-CLAD TO HELP
THEM.
Charleston, Feb. 2.—A despatch from
Col. Rhett, commanding Fort Sumter, an
nounces that a stfangc steamer, evidently
an iron-clad, hove in sight about noon,
and is now stationary off'tho harbor. Her
outline can be dimly seen from ti e city
wharves. There are, besides, twelve
blockaders all keeping steam up and on
the alert- The captured gunboat Isaac
P. Smith is now coming up from »Stono
river into the harbor.
FURTHER FROM CHARLESTON.
The iron clad steamer which appeared
off our harbor this morning is ascertained
to be the New Ironsides. She is towed by
a large steamer. Another formidable pro-
peler, without masts, and supposed to be
an iron-clad, has also made her appear
ance.
The British war ship Cadmus also ar
rived offhere this afternoon, and her olli-
cers and boats crew have come up to the
city to communicate with the corvette
Petrel, which is nou& at anchor in the
bay.
The •inKtng or Clio Utulorn*
The following is the account of this
affair, published in the New Orleans Pic
ayune of the 17th iust, but credited, as
may be seen, to the Delta:
Off Galveston, Texas, 1
Jan. 3, 1862. i
Correspondence of the New Orleans
Delta.
Of the first Galveston disaster you all
know, i iie rebels occupy the city with
a strong force of five or seven thousand
men The city is well fortified all round.
On Sunday evening a strange sail ap
peared ofi the harbor. The guuboat Hat-
teras went in chase about 7 o’clock. A
heavy fire was soon after heard and the
slaop-of-war Brooklyn and the gunboat
Sciota started in pursuit. The firing ceas
ed before these vessels reached the spot,
some, twenty miles from Galveston. At
day light next day Capt Lowry, of the
Sciota, picked up a boat containing an
officer and five men, belonging to the Hat-
teras. .They reported that at 7 o’clock on
Sunday evening the Hatteras ranged up
alongside of a steamer, which looked like
the Alabama; she was hailed by Capt.
Blake, and replied : “I am Her Britannic
Majesty’s steamer Spitfire.” Capt Blake
said: “Heave to—1 will send a boat
aboard of you.” A boat was lowered—
the one spoken of as having been picked
u r- '
Just as this boat shoved off, the strange
•steamer opened a furious fire on the Ilat-
teras. Both vessels then engaged in a
fierce combat—running ahead of the boat:
but soon after—say about twenty minutes
—the officer in the boat saw the Hatteras
stop, evidently crippled; then there was
loud cheering on board the rebel steamer,
l he Brooklyn and Sciota cruised all
night, and next morning found the wreck
of tho Hatteras, sunk in nine fathoms
water. Some of her boats were picked
up, which contained arms and bloody
clothes. But the victor had disappeared.
The Hatteras was a purchased iron ves
sel, sister to the steamer st. Mary Sho
was unfit for a man-of-war—having no
power .of endurance. Her battery con
sisted of three small rilled guns and four
short 32 pounders. The tebel had heavy
guns—GS pounders, by the sound. Opin
ions differ as to who »hc was. Some
think she was from 5Iobile and not tho
Alabama.
The fortifications at Galveston are form
idable.
BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY.
Accounts Iron: Ejc Witnesses.
BRILLIANT SUCCESSES'
allies ae*w»r<l Cram lhe hsr.bul the glasses reveal
ed nothing within the raDge of vision.
Tbe success of that attack is most gratifying,
and comiug so soon after the brilliant exploit per
formed by Magruder, at Galveston, it carries un
speakable joy to the heRrt of the country.
We cannot speak in too high terms of praise of
the judgment, skill and intrepidity that marked
the undertaking, and its successlul accomplish
ment. Had it been possible, the entire fleet would
have been sunk or disabled.
Commodore Ingraham, Captains Rutledge and
Tucker, and the officers under them as will as
their brave crew, deservo profound and hearty
gratitude.
We are indebted to several friends on board the
Palmetto State for the following account of her
operations We also give the account of our Spe
cial Reporter, who was on board one of the ten
ders. These accounts contain all tho particulars ot
THE TIMES.
As we anticipated, skirmishing has com.
mcnced upon s portion of our linos. ~
learn that heavy cannonading was heard
at Manchester Friday, which w e confi
dently believe is the opening of tho Ball
in the way of skirmishing, which mav
extend in a measure along onr linos, unless
the enemy should “shell out,” which is
not very improbable as their ammunition
and other trains stand a fair chance of
being cut off and destroyed, for Rosen-
crans is so completely hemmed in by our
“irregular” cavalry (as an English officer
terms them) that he cannot send out a
df-rs. These accounts contain all the particulars o f ora gi n g party over three miles—and tho*
the expedition and engagement, and show that it , ° ® U .7 na they
has been a brilliant and glorious success on our j be 8H PP°ried by an entire Brigade
Infantry.
Truly our “Guerilla’s” do keep very
side, limited only by the cowardly action of tlie j of Infantry.
glorious
coward I;
blockaders. They fled, small and large, without
even making a show of fight, notwithstanding the I irrequ J ar hours, and compel the eilfimv*^
presence of two forty gun frigates, the Susqce- j . ^ - enemy 8
lianna and Canandaigua Their loss, however, : infantry to do the same they have no
is known to b« severe. Two of their vessels arc j cavalry——wearing them out by long
known to be snuk, while several were fired and marches until they will become so coin-
went off in a damaged condition. ! pletely nonplused that we should not be
The movements of the Palmetto State. '■ SIIr prised to learn that old “Rosy” will
, . . enter another race for a “Flying Dutch
At eleven o clock 1- relay night, the gunboat I „,„„«> ^ ■ l,ulcn *
Palmetto State. Capt Rutledge, bearing the Flag
of Commodore N. Duncan Ingraham, left her
moorings and proceeded out the harbor towards
Fort Sumter. Abreast of Fort Sumter passet the
three steamers acting as tenders, the Gen Cliuch,
Etiwan and Chesterfield. At 4 30 A. M , the
Palmetto State crossed the bar, and stood out at
sea in the direction of the blockading fleet At
ZLfcSJS.S.t&iSfSJ 55S .fayf.iyrr fan™. oil
on deck, when the following colloquy took place:
Watch—What steamer is that? Drop your an
chor—back—back—and be careful, or you will
run into us.
Captain Rutledge—This is the Confederate
States steamer Palmetto State.
As the answer was given the Palmetto State,
with full steam up, ran into the Mercedita, the
bow striking her about midships and making an
entrance of about three feet. At the same time
our bow gun was fired with a seven inch incendi
ary shell. We immediately backed ouf, when tho
Mercedita hauled down her flag. They were or
dered to send a boat to us, and Lt. T. Abbot, com
manding, came off with a boat's crew and surren
dered his vessel in the name of Com. Siellwagon,
of the M-rcedita, carrying 7 guns and 158 men.
He stated that bis vessel was iu a sinking condi
tion, and begged our officers to relieve them. A
shot had pierced her boiler, which had burst and
scalded a large number of men. Lieutenant Ab
bot. begged Commodore Ingraham to take the men
with him on board the Palmetto Slate, as iu their
haste to come to us they had neglected to putin
the plug, and their small boat was only kept
afloat by the surrenuous efforts of the men bailing
the boat- Ho also stated that the water iu the
man”—change his bace of operations, and
take short route to Bowling Green by wav
of Springfield.
Since writing the above our report of
the skirmishing has been confirmed
The enemy came out 12 miles on the
Shelbyville pike from Murfreesboro’, with
brigade of infantry and six pieces of artil
lery, aud made a vigorous attack upon
our cavalry, driving them back a short
distance, with their shells, when our cav
alry masked themselves in the timber,
near old Fosterville on the turnpike, and
with the assistance of Gen. Anderson’s
Brigade, which happily arrived in time,
repulsed them with a loss on their part of
300 in killed and wounded, and a small
loss on our side.
We may look for “heavy skirmisLing”
daily from this date, and with Gen. Joe
Johnston to direct, we may also look fora
general engagement within a week or
ten days—and feel confident of success.
[ Winchester (Tenn.) Bulletin, 1st inst,
Oinrinl Declaraiioa •( the Raising af ih«
Klackade mi lhe Part af Char lea tea.
OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION.
Mercedita had, at th-: time of his leaving, already Hbad’qrs Naval AND Land Forces,
Charleston, S. C., Jan. 31, 1S63.
At about the hour of five o’clock
risen as high as the engine floors
Commodore Ingraham regretted that ho could
not comply with the request, as he had no room
this
ed, and a detachment of our force, under true “that this government is tottering
Capt. Harlestou, took possession of the ; to its grave,” when that grave closes and
prize Isaac P. Smith. r "
a very valuable cn pture.
1861, and carried a fine armament, con- | M
She proved to be the epitaph is to be written, that epitaph
She was built iu j will he, “Died of West Point.”
armament, con- 1 Mr. Grimes said be had received many
sisting of one 60 pounder Parrott gun, and j letters from his constituents to vote against
eiglit 8 inch heavy Columbiads. Her \ this bill, but he could not, as he con-
hull and machinery were not materially j sidered a military education necessary.
injured, and will soon be in serviceable
yondition.
The enemy’B ios* in the action was fif-
Mr. Foster asked who Lad come up
outside of West Point who bad shown
bijnself to be a great commander?
Farther Parliealara ot lhe Fight Wear Suf
folk,
500 YANKEES KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Richmond, Feh. 2.—Reliable intelligence from
Suffolk slates that Corcoran commanded the Yan
kees in the recent fight. They admit a loss cf
50(1 killed and wounded. Gen Gibbs was seri
ously wounded All the hospitals in Suffolk are
filled with wounded.
The Philadelphia Evening Journal was sup
pressed by ®en Schenck. for publishing along
editorial praising President Davis' Message as
trotbfql and noble in contrast with Lincoln’s,
Arrival of Troops.
Last Friday Captain Galt arrived with
his fine company of infantry, being the
advance of Col. G. W. Lee’s command.
The Col. and Staff arrived on Sunday,
and are stopping with our townsman, A.
G. Wimpey.
On Monday he issued his first order ac
companied by a proclamation, which was
read to a large number of deserters aud
others, who listened with profound atten
tion. The firmness and conciliatory char
acter of the proclamation, and the peculiar
impressive manner of the Col. went di
rectly to the hearts of all present, and act
ed like a charm in hi ingitig them back to a
sense of their dutj'.
The prompt execution of the law on
those who refused to surrender, and Iris
leniency to those who voluntarily came in,
by granting them furloughs for a few days
to revisit their homos once more, had the
happy effect of bringing in many others.
This judicious course has broken up the
organization, and we have no doubt, in a
month from this time, hut few will have
the temerity to resist the laws.
Two cavalry companies arrived from
Dalton on Wednesday evening, in a 6tio\v
storm, and found quarters in the. churches.
Two other companies of infantry also ar
rived in the early parkof the week:making
in all near 500 men. Bo many troops
and horses find it difficult to get accommo
dations; but the citizens have thrown open
their doors and civen every ayailalijo. tiLu-n
of shelter to make lliem comfortable.
Tho weather on Wednesday and Thurs
day was extremely cold, with a high
North wind, from mountains of snow,
which tries the soldier to the bottom—yet
we have not heard a murmur.
It is thought the cavalry will proceed
immediately to the adjoining counties and
suppress any armed resistance.
Borne twenty deserters and leading to-
ries were sent off on Tuesday last under
a strong escort to Atlanta to be tried. How
strange it seems, that men of good sense
should place themselves in the humilia
ting position of felons—that any one
should be so lost to every principle of hon
or as to violate the laws of his country to
sustain the government of a tyrant. Of
these twenty deluded wretches, two of
of them were over sixty years old, and
worth oue hundred thousand dollars! To
see them trudging through the mud and
snow chained together liko convicts, was
a sail sight, a terrible caution to all who
witnessed it.
We would remark in this connection,
that more orderly or better behaved sol
diers, than those composing the command
of Col. Lee at this place would be hard to
find. They are worthy soldiers of a great
and righteous cause, and do honor to their
country; and we trust the day is not far
distant when their soldiers* life, with its
trial and hardships will be over, and that
they all may return safely to their quiet
and happy homes, to enjoy the blessings
of that independence for which t^iey are
so nobly laboring.*— Signal.
From the Charleston Courier, February 2tl
The countenances of the dwellers in our an
cient city have not beamed with so bright a light
as they did o:i Saturday morning, since the joy
ous news was passed from mouth to month that
Moj Anderson had struck his flag and Fort Sum
ter had yielded to General Beauregard. Even the
croakers changed their tone and made their voice
Inirmcnious with the universal exhilaration.
Friend grasped the liand of friend, aud with hearty
shakes exchanged congratulations on the happy
event, and enemies forgot for the time their ani
mosity, aud smiled blandly upon oue another.
The rejoicing was deep loud and hearty.
All were in some measure prepared for the glo
rious tidings, for it bad been bruited on Friday
evening that tbn blockading fleet was to receive a
visit oar Ip the next morning trom the iron plated
monsters that had been lying so long moored to
our wharves.- And though that minor lias often
before been put in circulation, and we awoke at
the dawn ot the following day and listened in
vain for the welcome sound ot booming guns,
there was obviously ground for tho pleasant re
port. and it was generally received as true. The
source whence the report came, and the air and
manner of those who made known the informa
tion concerning the attack, together with the sin
gularly favorable state of the weather, and the
propitious time of the tide, caused a large number
to look forward with eager and confident expecta
tion for the realization of desires they had cher
ished f«»r many weeks.
Tho recent achievement of our gallant boys in
the waters of lhe }Stono, had put our minds in
iranie for the full enjoyment of a similar success.
No one doubted for a moment but that the invul
nerable little boats would do damage to the hos
tile fleet. • It was known that the vessels guard
ing the approaches to the city were of wood, and
could not cope with the mailed rams whose gro-
ue ugliness and saucy look we bad so often
admired, •
But leports aie sometimes true,and the one that
so stirred our hearts with tumultuous joy on Fri
day evening belonged to that class.
We imagine that the sleep of our citizens wtfs
light during the beautiful night that waste yield
to a day bright with the glories of another na
val victory. Who could compose bis mind for
• he incoming cf deep refreshing slumber, while
listening with open years for the roar of cannon
trom the east? The slightest noise sufficed to
startle the dreamer from his dose, and the rolling
oi carriage wheels over the macadamized street
sounded in his nicely attuned ear like the crash
ing of guns pouring their heavy broadsides into
some unlucky vessel. But the exploits perform
ed by the water monsters were an ample reward
for the scanty measure of repose wherewith our
bodies were refreshed.
At about 11 o’clock on Friday night, the Pal
metto State in command of Capt. Rutledge, aud
wiih the flag officer, Comjuodoro D N. Ingraham
on boaid, together with tbe Chicora, commanded
by Capt. John It. Tucker, cast off from the wharf,
'and with their prows turned seaward, steamed
across the Cooper. The moon wasshiniog bright
ly, there was not a cloud on the face of the blue
sky, aud the surface of the water was smooth and
glassy as a mill pond. Nature seemed to smile
upon the enterprise, and water, sky and wiud
presented a most delightful manifestation of the
divine favor toward our just anti noble cause.
The deep silence that broodid over the water
wus only broken by the gurg.ing of tho screws,
as the iron covered vessels moved slowly over the
bav. Having reached I ort Sumter, they came to
anchor, and there awaited the going down of the i
moon.
At three o'clock, the report of two guns echoed
through tbe air. ihatwas the signal for their
departure, and once more the gunboats are in mo
tion. Silently they move through the darkness,
upon tho unsuspecting war vessels before the
dawn of day.
The undeitaking promised rich rewards, and
ihe dearer the monsters drew to the hostile• ships,
the more impertinent and resolved became the
gallant men who were beneath their iron roofs.
Ncvi-r did tile little vessels seem to move so slug-
gislily, mi;] mosLxlosely did the officers and crew
scan tbe horizon,tearing that the light would steal
over the sea btloie they would reagh the blocka-
■diug fleet.
But. deep darkness is still on the deep, and they
are neor the enemy. Commodore Ingraham des
cries a black form just ahead, and the sharp bow
of the Palmetto State is turned upon the object.
Nearer aud nearer, with all steam on moves the
iron vessel. A crash is heard, Rnd the ram of the
gunboat penetrates the wooden side of oue of Lin
coln's blockaders. And while the water was
washing into the hole, tiie puns of the Palmetto
8late opened upon the hostile vessel.
The officer in command of the Mercidita see
ing it .was lolly to contend with such an antago
nist immediately struckhis flug and surrendered,
hi a short time the Vessel went'down.. All this
no small boats or any other means of aftordin;
them relief. Lieut. Abbot then pledged his word
of honor for the officers and crew of the Mercedi
ta not to sefve in any manner against the Confed-
which condition he was sent on board his own
vessel. They were roused from their slumbers by
the shock, the men not having scarcely time to
dress themselves. Lieut. Abbot and the men
with him were nearly destitute ofclothi
to accommodate them aboard of his vessels and DloruiDg 1 the Confederate naval forces on
this station attacked the United States
blockading fleet off the harbor of the city
of Charleston, and sunk dispersed or drove
ernto States until regularly exchanged, upon off and out of sight for the time the entire
hostile fleet: Therefore, we, the under
signed, commanders, respectively, of tho
(lonfederate States na^al and land forces
in this quarter, do hereby formally de-
The Palmetto State, leaving the Mercedita to c l r , r e the blockade by tho United States
h;i fate .stonJ out to sea, and enraged several utii- 0 - i is o ^
er vessels of the abolition blockading fleet, occas- .. 1 , .1 , ^ arleston, >~cutii Caro-
ionaily exchanging shots. The latter, however, B na > *° be raised by a superior force of the
fled at our approach, firing at long distances and Confederate States, from and after the 31st
leaving us far astern. One or two shots were ex
changed with the L’uited Stales frigate Powhatan
The latter, however followed the example of her
companions.'and fled. We then stood Northward
towards the Chicora, which at time was almost
surrounded by tbe enemy’s vessels. At 8 A M.,
there being no more of the abolition fleet iu sight,
we stood back to the entrance of Beach Channel,
having signalled the Chicora to return. On pass
ing we were sainted by Forts Mnultie Sumter and
Ripley, and arrived at the w harf in the city a lit
tie before 0 P. M.
day of January, A. D., 1863.
[Signed] G. T. Beauregard,
General Commanding.
D. N. Ingraham,
Eng. Officer Comd’g Naval Forces.
in South Carolina.
(Official)—Thos. Jordan, Chief of Staff.
The movements of the Chicora.
The Chicora. Capt. John R Tucker, started
FROM ME5IPHIS.
Mobile, Feb. 4.—A special dispatch to
tbe Advertiser Sc Register, of the 3d.
says that late and reliable information
from her wharf st half past eleven Friday night,
and crossed the bar at 4 30 A. M. We commenc- , .
ed action at5.05. The Palmetto State engaged ,' rom 5femphis represents one division of
an Abolition vessel on the right, while we engaged Grant’s Army as liavino-p-one down thn
the one on the left. As we passed the blockader
on the right, the Palmetto State was laying along
side of her. Keeping on our course wc proceed
ed to within fifty yards ot the vessel on the left,
and gave her a shot from our bow gun, the block
ader at the time being under full headway. We
rounded to and gave her the lull benefit of our
broadside gun and after gun. She immediately
rang her bell for fire and made signals of distress
to the rest, of the fleet The last seen of her by
signal officer Saunders, she was stern - down very
low in the water, and disappeared very suddenly
This vessel is supposed to have gone down. Not
withstanding, the Chicora immediately steamed
towards her, nothing could be discovered of the
vessel.
The Chicora, proceeding further out to sea,
stood Northward and Eastward, and met two ves
sels apparently coming to the relief of the missing
steamer. We engaged them. One of them, after
firing a few guns, withdrew. Standing to the
Northward, about daybreak we steamed up to a Army of tbe Potomac, which are very significanT,
smad stde-wlieel two m isted steamer an l endeav- • ^ !1
Army as having gone down the
: ri ver.
The gunboats bad passed down the
; river.
j The river is rising and is now within
four feet of high water mark.
There is a growing dissatisfaction
among the Yankees. One brigade has
! been sent with in the fortifications at
5Iemphi3 and placed under guard.
Artillery has been placed at all sta
tions on the Memphis & Charleston rail
road.
What ibe 1’aakcc Soldiers Say aad Think
of the War.
The Providence (R. I ) Post print* extracts
from several letters written by soldiers now in tbe
wheel steamer came gallantly bearing down upon L^ aVe S ** en . \ Uo,lsa " d J of f m T n angled on
- * - - ° v i fifteen or sixteen different battle fields—all for
the Chicora and commenced tiring at long range
Neither would permit our boat to get within a re
spectable distance. Two of our shots struck the
Quaker City, and she left apparently perfectly
satisfied in a crippled condition. Another side-
wheel two masted steamer with walking beams
now steamed toward the Chicora, coming down
on our stern. Captain Tucker perceiving it we
rounded to and proceeded to within about five
hundred yards, when the beligercnt steamer also
rounded to and gave us both broadsides and a shot
from her pivot gun.
We fired our forward pivot gun with an incendi- i "“7 u “- "‘f “*t
ary shell, and struck herjust forward of her wheel ! ^ t0n - ls the “ l ^ er - the "«««•
house, setting Iter on tire, disabling and s'opping
her port wheel. This vessel was fired both fore
and aft, aud volumes of smoke observed to issue
from every aperature. As we neared hershehaul-
ed down her flag and made a signal of surrender,
but still kept under way with her starboard
broad wheel, and changing her direction. This
nothing. Wives, sisters, mothers, an! children,
losing their husbands, brothers, sons, and fatle.s
— all for nothing ! For here we have been fight
ing for over a year and a half aud we have not
gained oue point. Wc have lived, and are now
living, on nine or ten crackers, a piece of raw
pork, and some miserable copperas water, called
coffee, per day. all to fill the pockets of a lot of
thieves, who are trying to make all they can out of
the people and the Government. The soldiers are
all discouraged, and will not fight as they would
once on the Peninsula. All we hear from Wash-
black,
filthy nigger. One nigger is thought more of than
twenty white men who have left home and all
that is worth living for, to come and lay down
their lives, if need be, to save their country,
while the leaders are doing their utmost to ruin it.
It is not because we can't beat the rebels, that the
var is not over by this time; for wo can beat them.
was just after daybreak. We succeeded in catch- is f be “ U8e - the «°™-nment i* too busy
Captain supposing her boilers struck and the es
caping steam pi evented the engineers from going J
into the engine room to stop her, ordered us not to
fire. Shtvthus made her escape. After this ves
sel had got out of our reach. to the perfect safe'
distauce of about three miles, site fired her last ri- |
fled gun, again hoisted her flag and setting all sail,
firing her rifled gun repeatedly at us ns she
l f I ne CnrrorautJW'-engaj.eu six more ot irb cue- *
ray's vessels nt one time—three side wheel steam
ers and three propellers—all at lung range. Dis
covering that the Flag boat, Palmetto State, had
ceased tiring and was standing in shore, orders
they ought to be wheu they are wanted.
You must not set me down as a growler. 1 havg
good reason for my growling. -Almost every man
ift this army thinks as I do. If Job had served in
the Army of the Potomac, he would have sinned,
and most fearfully too.
The following extract is from a letter written
near Falmouth, by a member of one of the regi
ments raised in 1662. Tbe writer has been known
Ma a sac flis'e t ts ,"as kn
“Had I known as much of the management of
things six months ago as I know now. fifty yoke
of oxen con Id not have drawn me ont here. It is
time Captain Tucker, of the Chicora, was laying
about him vigorously to tbe right and left The
shells from his guns set tire to a large ship-of-war
cud she lowered her flag. He sunk, it is believed
another, and the two monsters threw shot and
shell at the other vessels, that seeing the fate
that had befallen their comrades, turned their
bu.vs to # the sea making their best speed to
get beyond the reach of danger. Not one of them
showed any disposition to continue the tight but
careless ot the ho.,or of that flag they profess to
adore, their cowardly hearts, thoroughly possess
ed byjear, they fled with all the speed their sails
and engrttes enabled them to command But
though they fled so precipitately, we have no
doubt that many of the seventeen carried away
with them some painful remembrsuce of that ter
rible surpiise, while it is positively known that
several who succeeded iu making good their es
cape, were severely injured.
When the morning light broke, not one of the
fleet was in eight. The f unboata cruiled manj-
were given to follow her. On our return, we , a A * 4 d political humbug, and got np to make
again came across a three-masted bark rigged ves- offices for lazy office-seekers. I wish the leaders
sel, which we engaged, firing our guns as we were ns far the other side of purgatory as they are
passed, striking her once or twice. We then this side. It has tnrned out to he an abolition
kept on our course to the Bar, having sustained , war, and ninety-nine soldiers out of a hundred
no damage in the action, nor a single casualty on say that if the abolitionists are going to carry on
board. The last ship above mentioned kept firing tbe war, they will have to get a new army. They
ship above mentioned kept firing
at us until we got out of range, and we giving
them our return compliments One of the block
aders was certainly sunk We engaged her at
the distance of only oue hundred yards, and
they will have to get a new army. They
say they came ont here to tight for the Union, and
not for a pack of d— ■ d niggers. These niggers
are lazy and dirty ; they will lie aud steal; and
they are saucy where they dare to be. If a said-
water.
The Chicora anchored in Beach Channel at B 30
she settled down with h$r stern clear under the ■ >er touches an officer'* nigger, he will get court-
martialed and lose a mouth’s pay. A nigger is
thought more of by the government than the sol-
A. M.. and arrived at her wharf in the city about fliers aro. They get as much, or more to eat, get
6 o’clock, receiving a salute from Ull the forts and
batteries as she passed on her return. The num
ber of shots fired by the Chicora during tho whole
as much pay, and don’t have to fight any. A
curse on such things.' I hope something will torn
up before to morrow night that will settle this war.
engagement was twenty-seven, mostly incendia- ■ 5Ve got whipped at Fredericksburg, and wc shall
ry shells. Lieut. Glassell commanded tho for- get whipped every time we fight in Virginia! I
ward pivot gun, assisted by Midshipman R. H don’t think the North is right, any more than the
Pinckney; L'eut. W. H. Wall, the after pivot; 'South.”
Master Mason, the starboard broaJside; Master
Payne the larboard broadside.
The different divisions were commanged by
First Lieutenant G. H. Bier and Lieut. J. C Clay-
brook, assisted by Midshipman R. H. Bacot and
Signal Officer Sauuders.
The Pitots of the Chicora were Messrs. Thos.
Payne and Aldrich.
a gen-
next
ANOTHER PORT OPENED.
Jackson, Feb. 3.—Late New Orleans
papers have been received at Poncbatoula,
which announce the raising of the blockade _
at Sabine Pass, and the capture of three i Tennetsee, in which he says he will
_ , ’, , n f i „ i further movements. He was serenaded last ngtit at
Federal vessels by tbe Confederates. No Tullahoma, and on being called oat complimented
particulars J,«v f b««Q owf*. | ** * ” •»"**
FROM OUB ARMY IN TENNESSEE.
Charleston, Feb. 4.—The following dispatch has jnrt
been received:
Decherd, Jan. 31.—By mail to Chattanooga. Tha
enemy advanced twelve miles from Murfreesboro'
yesterday with one brigade and six pieces of artillery.
They mode a vigorous attack on our cavalry. shelliDg
ns back a short distance. We masked ourselves in a
pieee ot timber near Forrestville when Anderson's
brigade happily arived and repulsed the enemy with a
loss of three nuudred killed ana woundej. Loss on onr
aide small.
Heavy skirmishing is progressing daily and a
eral engagement may be) looked for within the
ten days.
Gen. Johnson has issued a congratulatory order to