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” JTkNOWLES and S. ROSE,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
THE 6UAT BITTLE AT MANASSAS.
Wc have examined, for several da vs past, the
Virginia and other papers for a detailed account
of this battle, but the only one we have met with,
that seems to contain the facts generally, is the
following from tbe correspondent of the Atlanta
Confederacy
A INI OF TilF PoTiillAC, I
ManaS3&, July 22, )
Yeaterday, tlie 21 -t d;;y of July. * B6, 9 re . at
battle was fought and a great vie torj won
Confederate troops. Heaven Miied on our arm?
and the God of battles crowned our banners with
laurels of glorv. Let every patriotic heart g.ve
thanks to the Lor.! of Host, lor the v.ctorv He
has given His people on His own holj day, the
blessed Sabbath. ,
Gen. Johnston had arrived the preceding day
with about half of the force he had, detailed from
Winchester, and was the senior officer in com
maud. He magnanimously insisted, however, that
Gen. Beauregard's previous plan should be carried
out, and he was guided entiiely by the judgment
and superior local knowledge of the latter.—
While, therefore, Gen. Johnston was nominally in
command, Beauregard was really the officer and
hero of the day. You will be glad to learn that
he wa9 this day advanced from a Brigadier to the
rank of a full General. But to the battle.
At half past six in the morning, the enemy
opened fire from a battery planted on a bill be
yond Bull's Run and nearly opposite tbe center of
our lines. The battery was intended merely to
“beat the bush,” and to occupy our attention,
while he moved a heavy column towards the Stone
Bridge, over the same creek, upon our left. At
10 o’clock, another battery was pushed forward,
and opened fire a short distance to the left of the
other, and near the road leading north to Centre
viile. This was a battery of rifled guns, and the
object of its fire was the same as that of the other.
They- fired promiscuously into the woods and
gorges on this, the southern, side of Bull’s Run,
seeking to create the impression thereby that our
ceuter would be attaeffed, and thus prevent us
from sending reinforcements to our left, where
the real attack was to be made. Beauregard was
not deceived by the manoeuvre.
It might not be amiss to say, that Bull’s Run, or
creek, is north of this place, and runs nearly due
east, slightly curving around the Junction, the
nearest part of which is about 84 miles. The
Stone Bridge is some seven miles distant in a
north-westerly direction, upon which our left wing
rested. MitcheP. ford is directly north, and dis
tant four miles, by the road leading to Ccntreville,
which is seven miles from the Junction. On our
right is Union Mills, on the same stream, where
the Alexandria and Manassas railroad crosses the
Run, and distant lour miles. Proceeding from
Fairfax Court House, by Centreville, to Stone
Bridge, the enemy passed in front of our entire
line, but at a distance ranging from five to two
miles.
At 9 o’clock, I reached an eminence nearly
opposite the two batteries mentioned above, and
which commanded a full view of the country for
miles around, except on the right. From this
point I could trace the movements of the ap
proaching hosts by the clouds of dust that rose
high above the surrounding hills. Our left, under
Biigudier Generals Evans, oackson and Cocke, and
Col. Bartow, with the Georgia Brigade, composed
of the 7th and Bth regiments, had been put in
motion, and was advancing upon the enemy with
a force of about 15,000, while the enemy himself
was advancing upon our left with a compact col
umn of at least 50,000. Ilis entire force on this
side of the Potomac is estimated at 75,000. These
approaching columns encountered each other at
11 o'clock.
Meanwhile, the two batteries in front kept up
their fire upon the wooded bill where they sup
posed our centre lay. They sent occasional balls,
from their rifled cannon, to the eminence where
vour correspondent stood. Gens. Beauregard,
Johnston and Bonham reached this point at 12,
and one of these balls passed directly over and
very near them, and plunged into the ground a
few paces front where I stood. I have the ball
now. and hope to be able to show it to you at
some future day. It is an 18 pound ball, and
about 6 inches long. By the way, this thing of
taking notes amidst a shower of shells and balls
is more exciting than pleasant. At a quarter past
12, Johnston and Beauregard galloped rapidly
forward in the direction of Stone Bridge, where
the battle had now fully opened. Your corre
spondent followed their example, and soon reached
a position in front ot the battle-field.
The artillery were the first to open fire, preciselv
at 11 o’clock. By half-past 11, the infautry had
engaged, and there it was that the battle L ’gau to
rage. The dusky columns, which had thus far
marked the approach of the two armies, now
mingled with great clouds of smoke, as it rose
from the flashing guns below, and the two shot up
together like a huge pyramid of red and blue.—
The shock was as tremendous as were the odds
between the two forces. With what anxious
hearts did we watch that pyramid of smoke and
dust! When it moved to the right, we kr.ew the
enemy were giving way; and when it moved to
the left, we knew that our friends were receding.
Twice the pyramid moved to the right, and as
often returned. At last, about two o’clock, it
began to move slowly to the left, and thus it con
tinued to move lor two mortal hours. The enemy
was seekiug to turn our left flank, and to reach
the railroad leading hence in the direction of
W inchester. To do this, he extended his lines,
which he was enabled to do bv reason of his great
numbers. This was unfortunate tor us, as it re
quired a corresjionding extension of our own lines
to prevent his extreme right from outflanking us
—a movement on our part which weakened the
force of our resistance along the whole line of
battle, which finally extended over a space of two
miles. It also rendered it the more difficult to
bring up reinforcements, as the further the enemy
extended bis right, the greater the distance our
reserve forces Lad to travel ro counteract the
movement.
This efTort to turn our flanks was pressed with
great determination for five long, weary hours,
during which the tide of battle ebbed and flowed
along the entire line with alternate fortunes. The
enemy’s column continued to stretch away to the
left, like a huge anaconda, seeking to envelope us
within its mighty folds and crush us to death ; and
at one time it really looked as if he would succeed.
But here let me pause to explain why it was our
reinforcements were so late in arriving, and whv
a certain other important movement miscarried.
The moment he discovered the enemy’s order
of battle, Gen. Beauregard, it is said, dispatched
orders to Gen. Ewell, on our extreme right, to
move forward and turn his left or rear. At the
same time he ordered Generals Jones, Longstreet
and Bonham, occupying the centre of our lines,
to co-operate in this movement, but not to move
until Gen. Ewell had made the stuck. The order
to Gen. Ewell unfortunately miscarried. Tiie oth
ers were delivered, but as the movements of the
centre were to be regulated entirely by those on
the right, nothing was done at all. Had the or
ders to Gen. Eweli been received and carried out,
and our entire forces brought upon the field, we
should have destroyed the enemy’s army almost
literally. Attached in front, on (he flank and in
the rear, he could rot possibly have escaped, ex
cept at the loss of thousands of prisoners and all
his batteries, while the field would nave been
strewed with his dead.
Finding that his orders had in some way failed
to be executed, Gen. Beauregard at last ordered
up a portion ot the forces which were intended to
co-operate with Gen. Ewell. It was late, however,
before these rtiu.orcemeuis came up. Only one
brigade reached the fi-.-ld before the battle was
won. Th;s was led bv~Oen. E. K. Smith, of Flori
da, formerly of the United States Army, and was
a part of General Johnsron’s column from Win
chester. They should have reached here the day
before, but were prevented by an accident ou the
railroad. They dashed on the charge with loud
shouts and in the most gallant style. About the
same time, Maj. Elzey (formerly of the Augusta
Arsenal,—l may have his title wrong,) coming
down the railroad from \\ inchester with the last
of Johnstoc’s brigade®, and hearing the firing,
immediately quit the train and struck acroasthe
country, and, as a gracious fortune would hafeit,
he encountered the extreme right of the enemy
as be was feeling his way around our flank, and
with his brigade struck him like a thunderbolt,
lull in tbe face. Finding he was about to be out
flanked himself, the enemy gave way after the
second fire. Meanwhile, Beauregard rallied the
centre and dashed into the Tery thickest of the
fight, and after him rushed our own brave boys,
with a shout that seemed to shake the very earth.
The result of this movement from three distinct
points was to force back the enemy, who began
to retreat, first in good order, and finally in much
confusion. At this point the cavalry were ordered
upon the pursuit. The retreat now became a per
fect rout, and it is reported that the flying legions ,
rushed past Centreville in tbe direction of Fairfax, ;
s if the earth had been opening behind them.—
It was when GeD. Beauregard led the final charge,
that his horse was killed by a shell. ,
We captured thirty-four guus, including Sher
man’s famous battery, a large number of small
arms, thirty wagons loaded with provisions, Ac., ;
and about 700 prisoners. Among the latter, were j
Gen. Burnsides, of the Rhode Island brigade, Lot. ■
Corcoran, of the New York Irish Zouaves, 1 on.
Mr. Ely, member of Congress from * ew ’ j
Mr. Carrington of this State, a nep c ,
VVm. C. Preston, who had gone over o the enemy
and thirty-two Gpce>“*. ’ Senator
came near bagging the Hon. Mr. foster, Senator
official reports of the casualties of the day
. e not yet come in, and consequently it is im
poeeibie to say what our loss is. I can only ven
lure an opinion, and that is, that we lost in killed,
founded and niGsirui, ibflut I,^oo—f *Lieh
about 400 were kill.-.]. The enemy’s loss was
terrible, being, at the lowest calculation, li.OOO.
Thus far I have said bul little of the part taken
by particular officers and regiments, for the reason
that I desire first to obtain all the facts. Nor have
I said anything of the gallant seventh and eighth
regiineuts from Georgia. This part of my duty
is most melancholy. It may be enough to say,
that they were the only Georgia regiments here
at the time, that they were among the earliest in
the field, and in the thickest of the fight, and that
their praise is upon the lips of the whole army,
from Gen. Beauregard down. Col. Gartrell led
the seventh regiment, and Leutenant-Colonel
Gardner the eighth, the whole under the command
of Col. Bartow, who led them with a gallantry
that was never excelled. It was when the brigade
was ordered to take one of the enemy's strongest
batteries, that it suffered most. It was a most
desperate undertaking, and followed by the blood
iest results. The battery occupied the top of a
bill, on the opposite side of Bull’s Run. with a
small piece of woods on the left. Descending the
valley along the Run, he proceeded under cover of
the hill to gain the woods alluded to, and from
which he proposed to make a dash at the battery
and capture it. On reaching the woods, he dis
covered that the battery was supported by a heavy
infantry force estimated at 4,iXK> men. This
whole lorce, together with the battery, was turned
upon the eighth regiment, which was in the van,
with territtic eflfect. Indeed, he was exposed on
the fivnk and in front to a fire that the oldest
veterans could not have stood, The balls and
shells from the battery, and the bullets from the
small arms, literally riddled the woods. Trees
six inches in diameter, and great limbs were cut
off, and the ground strewn with the wreck. It
became necessary to retire tbe eighth regiment,
in order to re-lorm. Meanwhile, Col. Bartow’s
horse had been shot from under him. It was
observed that the forces with which his movement
was to be supported had not come up. But it was
enough that he had been ordered to storm the
battery; so, placing himself at the head of the
seventh regiment, he again led the charge, this
time on foot, and gallantly encouraging his men as
they rushed on. The first discharge from the
enemy’s guns killed the regimental color-bearer.
Bartow immediately seized the flag, and again
putting himself in front, dashed on, flag in hand,
his voice ringing clear over the battle-field, and
saying, “On, my boys, we will die rather than
vie!d or retreat!” And on the brave boys did go,
and faster flew the enemy's bullets. The fire was
awful. Not less than 4,000 muskets were pouring
their fatal contents upon them, while the battery
itself was dealing death on every side.
The gallant eight regiment which had already
passed through the distressing ordeal, again rallied,
determined to stand by their chivalric Colonel to
the last. The more furious the fire, the quicker
became the advancing step of tbe two regiments.
At last, and just when they were nearing the goal
of their hopes, and almost in the arms of victory,
the brave and noble Bartow was shot down, the
ball striking him in the left breast, just above the
heart. His men rallied around him, and finding
him mortally wounded and that the forces that
had been ordered to support their charge had not
yet come up, they gradually fell back, bearing him
in their arms and disputing every inch of ground.
I learn that they would never have retired but for
the orders which came to them to do so, and which
were given in censequeuce of the non-arrival of
the supporting force. It appears that the order
to support our charge, like that of Gen. Ewell,
miscarried —a failure which had nearly cost us two
of the best regiments in the army. Col. Bartow
died soon after he wa9 borne from the field. His
last words, as repeated to me, were: “They have
killed me, my brave boys, but never give up the
ship—we'll whip them yet.” And so we did !
The field officers of the Seventh Regiment
escaped, except Col. Gartrell who received a slight
wound. All the superior officers in the Eighth
Regiment, except Maj. Cooper, were killed or
wounded. Lieut. Col. Gardner had his leg broken
by a musket ball, and Adjutant Branch was killed.
Capt. Howard, of the Mountain Rangers, from
Meriwether county, was also killed. But I shall
not go into a statement of the killed and wounded,
preferring so delicate and painful a matter to await
the official report, which I hope to get to-morrow,
when I shall have more to say abont our heroic
regiments. I will add just here, that our loss in
officers was very great. Among others may be
mentioned Gen. Bee, Lieut. Col. Johnson of
Hampton’s Legion, and Col. Thomas of General
Johnston’s Staff, and others. Gen. Jacksou was
wounded in the hand, and Col. Wheat of the New
Orleans Tigers, was <<hot through the body. Col.
Jones, of the 4th Alabama Regiment, it is feared,
was mortally wounded. The regiment* that suf
fered most and were in the thickest of the fight,
were the 7th and Bth Georgia, the 4th Alabama,
Fourth South Carolina Hampton’s Legion, and 4th
Virginia. The New Orlcaus Washington Artillery
did great execution.
If we consider the number engaged and the
character of the contest, we may congratulate
ourselves upon having won, one of the most bril
liant victories that any race of people ever achieved.
It was the greatest battle ever fought on this conti
nent, and will take its place in history, by the side
of the most memorable engagements. It is be
lieved that Gen. Scott, himself, was near by, at
Centreville, and that he directed as he had planned,
the whole movement. Gen. McDowell was the
active commander upon the field.
President Davis arrived upon the field at five
o'clock just as the enemy had got into full retreat.
His appearance was greeted with shout after shout,
and was equivalent to reinforcement of 5,000
men. He left Richmond at 7in the morning.
Sunday’s Work—Demlriiction of Scott’s
■tegular Army.
“ Send me good troops, not volunteers.” These
were the words of General Scott to the Govern
ment, during his unlucky wars in Florida ; and
this was the sentiment on which he acted in pre
paring for the great encounter with the South on
Sunday last. He had collected at Washington all
the troops of the regular army on the east of the
Rocky Mountains. The forces from Jefferson Bar
racks and from St. Louis, with which Gen. Lyon
had been hecktoring for two months over the peo
ple of Missouri had been brought to the Potomac.
The three batteries of the regular army that bad
been sent to aid the column of Patterson in its
projected march into the valley of Virginia—a
march, however, which Patterson did not effect—
had been brought down for the work of Sunday,
by a cunning stroke of strategy. The whole for
ces of regular troops that had been collecting by
degrees in Washington since February last, had
been marshalled for this special service.
All had been crossed over the Potomac and
formed into the advancing column which was to
precipitate itself upon our left fiauk on Bull’s Run,
and enforce success by an irresistable coup de main.
In the colurnu of thirty-thousand men which
charged upon Johnson’s division, not less then ten
thousand were thoroughly trained soldiers of the
regular army, including all the finest batteries
of the Federal service, which had been dili
gently brought together from long distances for
the special work of this important day. It was an
army of those “good soldiers,” with which Gen.
Scott delight* to fight, and whom he is in the
habit of thinking invincible against volunteers,
that the little band of Southern troops who never
was under tire before, literally beat to death on
Sunday. Our brave Southern volunteers not only
whipped their own number of Yankee troops, but
they whipped in addition, ten thousand forces of
the regular United States Army. Tho fifteen
thousand men under Gen. Johnson beat thirty-five
thousand of the enemy, including the best regi
ments and the crack batteries of the regular army
of the United States. It is the fact that this latter
forces was encountered, which explains the terrific
mortality that our column suffered. The day’s
work cost us dear; but it is a performance that
makes an everlasting record for Southern prowess,
as compared with Northern instability and ineffi
ciency in the field.
The fight, too, was in open field and in fair en
counter. The enemy, recollecting his unpleasant
experiences of Thursday, avoided our strong works
opposite Centreville, on Bull's Run, and endeav
ored to outflank Johnsoa’a division, which were
posted higher up the stream, under the protection
of strong works at the Stone Bridge. To meet
and defeat this fl inking movement, Johnou
marched out from his position at tbe Stone Bridge,
advanced a considerable distance to the frout, and
met the enemy before he bad made any progress
in his flanking movement. Meantime leints were
kept up in the most active manner against our
right flank and our centre. But the heavy onset
throughout tbe day was continued against our left
fianl °and on that side the main battle was fought.
For seven hourß did Johnslon make good his resig
tance against more than double his numbers, com
posed in part of the flower of the regular Federal
army. Terriftic hs whs tiis los, he still held his
advanced position, and was still maintaining a suc
cessful encounter with his adversary, when, about
four o’clock, Geu Davis, finding the attack else
where upon ouj 1 lines to be a little more than a
feint, advanced the centre to the support of John
ston, ami decided the fortune of the day.
It would be idle to attempt to apportion the
credit of the day among our able and consummate
Generals. The first praise is due to Gen. Beaure
gard, who planned the defence, and prepared so
admirably and completely the fortune that was
won Each division of our gallant army did il3
duty, 1(9 whole duty. Without faulter or default.
The plan of battle chosen by ilie enemy forced the
heavy upon Gen. Johnston's command,
who met the danger and fought the good fight, as
their country expected them to do To sav, “well
done, brave and faithful soldeirs,” is to give ex
pression to the language of every heart and tongue.
Kvery soldier and every officer did his duty, and
henceforward, through all time, it will he the high
est pride highest of every man in that gallant
arm? to say that he was at Manassas ou the 21st
of July. —Richmond Dixpatch.
From the Rirhmo and Examiner.
Tiie FirM Battle of Bull's Kim.
For more than a week the commanding
general of the Confederate forces at Manas
sas has been anticipating an advance of the
enemy, and has so arranged his troops as to
be prepared at all points. At Fairfax Court
House, Gen. Bonham was stationed, with
six regiments of infantry, composed of four
from South Carolina (Kershaw, Cash, Wil
liams and Bacon) and two from Virginia
(Preston and Withers), with two batteries
of light artillery (Shield’s Howitzers and
Kemper’s Company), and about five hun
dred cavalry, under command of Col. liad
ford, of Virginia.
At Fairfax Station, about four miles dis
tant from tbe Court House, and on a line
with it, Geu. Ewell, of Virginia, was posted
with three regiments of infantry, two Ala
bama (Siebles’ and Rhodes), and one from
Louisiana (Seymour’s). These regiments
were statioued at intervals of a mile from
each other, Rhodes’ sth Alabama Regiment
guarding the Braddock road approaches
from Alexandria, which intersects the coun
try road between the Court House and the
Stanton.
At both places, infantry works had been
thiown up for the protection of the troops,
and at the Court House, particularly, exten
ded lines of defence, including two or three
masked batteries, had been constructed.
At Centreville, a commanding eminence
on the turnpike road, between Fairfax Court
House and Bull Run, Col. Cocke was sta
tioned with his Regiment and Latham’s
Light Battery. The object of these pre
parations was to resist tbe incursion of any
thing short of a large army into the interior,
and in the event of the approach of a force
under twenty thousand men to give battle
and drive them back. At the saute lime,
orders had been issued, iu case of an over
whelming demonstration of the enemy to
fall back on Bull’s Run, the selected battle
ground. To provide for this contingency,
the troops for more than a week past have
been trimmed of all superfluous baggage,
and been under orders to keep fin hand
constantly three days’ provisions in advance.
Quartermaster and Commissary supplies have
been kept in limited amounts, and the
wagons held in constant readines to move off
wit It camp equipage, &c.
W e are particular in stating those minute
details to give the reader an idea of what
was anticipated contingency.
On Thursday, the enemy felt his way cau
tiously up lroni Alexandria aed Washing
ton, in three separate columns, of probably
lifteen thousand each—one down the rail
road, another the Braddock road, and the
third from the direction of Falls Church.—
Our pickets were driven in about two o’clock
and our troops, after firing sevearl hundred
rounds, withdrew in order before the advan
cing foe, and fell back on the banks of “Bull
Run,” a stream about four miles from Man
assas and eight from the Court House.
The “Jlim” is about sixty feet wide and
easily fordable for infantry at this season of
tbe year, but its points of defence against an
adversary attempting to cross, aie inviting
to the military eye. Here the retiring for
ces were met by (Jen. Lougstreet’s Brigade,
consisting of the 11th, 17th and Ist Vir
ginia llegimeuts, under the command re
spectively of Colonels Garland, Corse and
Moore, together with artillery from New
Orleans. Our troops bivouacked for the
night in expectation of the tight opening at
daybreak. But the enemy approached cau
tiously, beating the roads and woods in ad
vance of them with skirmishers, until about
four o’clock iu the afternoon, when their
main body arrived within a half mile of the
Run, and made three several attempts to
advance on it, and each time were repulsed
with great slaughter.
The reports of the loss of the enemy are
conflicting, varying it from live to fifteen
hundred. Certain it is, their retreat had
every appearance of a signal rout, leaving,
as they did, their dead behind them, and
losing six pieces of their artillery. Two of
the Virginia Regiments pursued them for
some distance, and captured quite a num
ber of prisoners. The Confederate loss is
estimated at about one hundred killed,
wounded and missing. It is said the enemy,
in their several advances, behaved at first
with much spirit, quickly rallying and clo
sing up their mowed columns, but finally
broke, and gave way under the murderous
execution of our musketry and artillery.
On Wednesday afternoon dispatches were
sent to Gen. Johnson to repair, with a por
tion of his command, to reinforce Gen.
Beauregard at Manassas. Johnston haslhis
entrenchments at Winchester strongly forti
fied and defended with heavy artillery, ns to
be able to spare at least half his command
without any risk. The piopriety of these
instructions is vindicated by a despatch in
another column announcing that Patterson
has left Martinsburg and is on his way
across the Potomac. Johnston by this time
is at Manassas, prepared to take part in tbe
fight to day, should it occur.
The enemy as they advanced displayed
their accustomed Vandalism, burning aud
destroying as they went. The villages at
Fairfax Court House, (Jeriuautowu and Ceu
trcville were reduced to ashes, and men and
women are fleeing in every direction. Bueh
are the well authenticated accounts of pas
sengers by the Central train of yesterday.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Information derived from gentlemen who
left Manassas Junction at 8 o’clock yester
day morning, causes us to lay before our
readers the important particulars of the great
victory achieved by our troops on Thurs
day.
At dawn on that day, the enemy re-com
meuced their advance upou our lities. The
Washington Artillery went out to meet
them, and a skirmishing tight between the
opposing forces of flying artillery immedi
ately began and lasted until 11a. m. At
this hour their whole front, infantry and
artillery continuing still to advance, our
infantry also pushed forward aud the fight
became general.
The battle continued with unabated fury
for three hours, when about two o’clock p.
ia., the enemy’s centre giving way before
the combined fire of our artillery and the
charge of our infantry, their whole force fell
back precipitately and in disorder.
But, after an interval of au hour, during
which there was some unimportant skir
mishing, at three o’clock p. m., the enemy
again returned to the charge with redoubled
impetuosity, and again, after severe fight
ing, were they driven back at the point of
the bayonet.
A third time they were rallied and
brought up, but only to be repulsed quickly
and with great slaughter.
It W&9 llOt five o’clock p. m., and tk g ene
my made no attempt to renew the fight, but
retreated hastily, leaving the field, strewn
with the bodies ot their dead and w’ounded,
in possession of the Confederates.
The battle had extended along the creek,
“Bull’s Run,” a distance of over a mile,
and within this space the enemy had left
f)8(] of their men dead and mortally woun
ded. Our loss, as counted that night, 137
killed, and missing, but by the next
morning this number was reduced to less
than sixty by tbe return of stragglers, who
had been lost in the woodsduring the night.
The enemy threw chain-shot and fired upon
our hospital while the yellow flag, which
secures immunity in civilized nations, was
flying. Gen. Beauregard had a narrow es-
cape, a ball having passed through the kitch
en of a house where he was partaking of
dinner. The General has displayed quali
ties of the highest order as a military com
mander, with, perhaps, the exception of
indifference to his own life, now so valuable
to the Confederacy. He exhibited great
coolness during the engagement, and was
in all parts of the lield.
The Alexandria Riflemen are said to ha~e
particularly distinguished themselves, hav
ing crossed the ford in the face of a terrible
fire from the enemy’s artillery, and fought
hand to hand witli the Yankee hirelings.
The famous Sherman battery, upon which
the enemy evidently based so much hope of
suec-es, was almost utterly annihilated. —
Some say there is scarcely a corporal’s guard
of them left. Our First Regiment of Vir
ginia Volunteers, under Colonel P. T
Moore, is said to have fought desperately.—
Three separate charges were made by it with
the bayonet, and in each istauce the enemy
fled like sheep. Among the enemy’s dead
were many officers, whose uniforms indica
ted high rank, though their names were un
known. Before the departure of the train
for Richmond yesterday morning, the enemy
had sent in a flag of truce to Gen. Beaure
gard, asking permission to bury their dead,
which was, of course, granted.
The number of the enemy actually enga
ged in this battle is variously estimated at
between tive and ten thousand, whilst our
force little exceeded 3,500.
Norsks for Soldiers. —The Secretary of State,
Hod. C. G. Momminger, telegraphed to Bishop
Elliott on the 23d that, “nurses are not wanted.”
Army Accomodations for General Scott.—
It was announced in the N. York Tribune, un
der a Washington date ot the 17th, that, “Gen.
Scott will, we understand, go with the Grand Army
as it moves toward Richmond. A vehicle prnvid
ed with suitable sleeping accomodations, has been
built for his use, ami it is expected that lie will
occupy it first to-night or to-morrow night.” This
is probably the carriage which was captured, con
taining Gen. Scott’s sword, epaulets, Ac. The
Tribune says that the Confederate force at Manas
sas wus 8l),000 men, and received a reinforcement
under Gen. Johnson of 17,000, and tint the Fed
orals gained the victory. That was probably the
reason why they all ran back to Washington in
such a hurry, to tell the news of their success.—
The Tribune is much dissatisfied with Lincoln's
Cabinet, and calls on it to resign on the ground
of iueompetency.
Congressmen Captfrkd.— The Richmond Whig
says, among the prisoners captured at Manassas,
were John Cochrance and Alfred Ely, Members
of Congress from New York.
The New York Time’s correspondence says the
battle was one of the severest ever fought on this
continent.
The New York fire Zouaves were terriblv cut
up, and forced to break. Col. Farnham and Lieut.
Creiger are reported killed. It appears that out
of 1,200 only 2u3 escaped.
Col. Stevens and Capt. Towers, of Rhode Island,
were killed.
Gov. Sprague’s horse was shot under him, and
Maj. Ballou was seriously wounded.
A cannon ball singed 11. J. Raymond, editor of
the New York Times.
Tiik Herald says the memorable route from Ma
nassas has thrown the Government back to the
defences occupied three months ago. and it will be
impossible to return to offensive operations before
the Fall.
The Richmond correspondent of the Savannah
Republican of the lfitli, says:
The following Georgia companies now here have
been organized into a battalion under Maj. J. T.
Mercer, of Terrell county, to wit: Sparks Guards,
Capt. Cumniiog, Southern Guard-’, Capt. Jones,
Border Rangers, Capt. Shorter, Jefferson Guatds,
Capt. Guudele, Whitesville Guards, Capt. Norwood,
and Toombs Bangers, Capt. Waddell. They leave
to morrow for Manassas.
Flying Artillery. —A company of mounted
artillery, from Selma, under command of Rev. J.
T. Montgomery, consisting of one hundred and
thirty men, with a battery, aud one hundred
horses, arrived in this city on on Sunday by the
steamer Duke. The company will remain quar
tered at the Fair Ground until they leave tor Vir
ginia.— AJont. Advertiser, 23d.
The First Fight at Bull’s Run.—The Rich
mond Enquirer says that official accounts received
at the War Department of the result of the batllo
at Ball's liuu Creek, near Manassas, ou Thursday,
show that the Confederate loss, in killed, wounded
and missing, was 60, ami loss of the Federalsover
500.
From Washington.
[From the Cincinnati Commercial.]
Washington, duly 18.—The proceedings in the
House were very interesting to-day. The commit
tee on the case of Henry May, of Baltimore, re
ported that there was no evidence against him,
and May rose to a personal explanation. The
House indulged him, but he proceeded to attack
the Government. There was deep excitement,
aud he was compelled to proceed by order, by a
vote of tlio House. Ex-Gov. Thomas, of Mary
land, replied most, eloquent to his attack, defend
ing the Government. There was great excite
ment throughout the debate, which lasted three
hours. May, Burnett ami Vallaudighaiu consult
ed throghout the debate.
The action of the committee of the whole yes
terday, reducing the proposed duty on coffee and
sugar, was to-day reversed, and the original (Ste
ven’s) a mend men t carried by 30 majority. The
bill as passed by the House will pass the Senate.
The Senate will not be ready to adjourn before
next Thursday. The advance of the army has
quickened sluggish senators, and it is now consid
ered certain that Congress will adjourn by Thurs-
day next.
Several members of Congress who were yester
day at Fairfax (Jomrt House, among them Mr. Gur
ley, were to-dav in their seats.
Mr. Pendleton reported a bill from the judiciary
committee for the relief of the Ohio and other
volunteers which will pass both houses.
Ancona, of Pennsylvania, to-day, joioed the
ranks of Northern traitors, and tried very unbe
comingly to prevent Gov. Thomas, of Maryland,
from replying to May. A bitter feeling against
him exists among the Pennsylvania members.
This city was intensely excited yesterday and
to day, over the war news from Virginia. Wild
reports were fly ing alt day.
The Senate indulged in an exciting debate on
the war and slavery. Jim Lane, Powell, Carlisle
and others par licipated in it. Bright, of Indiana,
wallowed in do oghfacism, as usual. Browning, of
Illinois, made IBe best speech of the debate. The
general sentiment of Northern speeches seemed
to he, if slavery stands in the way of Union, it
must fall.
('onK'r>t*Mloual Vacancy tilled.
BiciiMONn, J uly 20th. —Col. Thomas M. Forman,
of Savannah, has been elected by the Georgia
Delegation a member of the Provisional Congress
in place of Cos Francis S. Bartow, deceased.
LATE ITEMS OF THE GEE AT BATTLE.
The Richmond Examiner of the 26th inst., can
tains some items that are probably rel able. The
20,000 stand of arms taken, are new muskets found
iu the army wagons :
AN heu the armies reached Ccntreville, where
McDowell had 15,000 fresh men and heavy guns
in position he made a desperate rally. But anoth
er charge ol the Confederates broke the new lines,
and his disaster became complete.
The body of our armv puisued to Fail fax, and
planted our Hag on the Court House. The cavalry
cut up the enemy six miles farther to falls Church,
only tear miles ot* Arlington.
About half the members of the Federal Congress
where distant spectators of the battle. -At Cen
treville was found u table bonteouslj spread, sur*
rounded by empty 9eat9 and twenty baskets of
champagne, where Senator Wilson was in the act
of entertaining a large dinner party on our arrival.
He himself narrowly escaped. He got out of the
village in the disguise of a driver of a market cart.
Among other curiosities seized there, were a uum
her of bills of fare of dinners McDowell intended
to give at different points, all in French, and elab
orate as to the cuisine. {Some of them are m llich
rnoud.
Now for the serious fruits of victory.
We have taken 61 pieces of cannon, 20,000
stand of arms, more than 500 wagons laden with
stores and munitions, and a quantity of provisions,
stated at so great a figure to be absolutely incred
ible.
The provisions are estimated sufficient to feed
au army of 60,000 men lor a year. The 2u,000
stand of arms were new, and in boxes, and did not
iuclude several thousand taken from the killed and
wounded or throw n away in the retreat. The wag
ons, arms, military stores, &c., were all consigned
by Gen. Scott to Richmond, and so masked.
Many of them have probably arrived there, under
new orders.
We have killed and wounded some 7,000 or 8,-
000 of the enemy and taken nearly 1,000 prisoners,
while others are constantly brought in from the
woods. Among them is Ely, a member of the
Federal Congress lrom New York ; Cols. Corcoran
and Wilcox, with many other prominent persons.
Our ow n loss is 500 killed and 1,500 wounded.
And but few prisoners. Our Regiments most suf
fering are the 4ili Alabama, the 7th and Bth Geor
gia, Fisher’s N. G. Regiment and Hampton’s Legion.
From the Kuawha Valley.
One of Gen. Wise’s Aids, Col. 8. D. McDearmon,
has just returned from Charleston, Kanawha. He
reports that on Tuesday last, Capt. Brook of the
Rockingham Cavalry, together with Col. Clarkson,
charged about three hundred of the enemy, on the
side of a mountain, twelve miles below Charleston
killed between twelve and eighteen of them.
On the next day, Wednesday, between four and
five o’clock, the enemy, amounting to 2,500 at
tacked our forces under Lieut. Col. Geo. S. Patton,
commanding 800 men, at the rnouth of Scarry
Creek, fifteen miles below Charleston, on the Ka
nawha. The enemy were repulsed with a loss of
from 260 to 400 killed and wounded. Col. Norton,
of the Indiana Regiment, was wounded anti taken
pr isoner. Col. Woodruff, Lieut. Col. Neff, and Col.
De Yilliers, of the 11th Ohio Regiment, together
with two captains Sloan and Heard, and a lieuten
ant, were also taken prisoners. Lieut. Col Patton
was wounded.— Richmond Dispatch 24th.
[The officers taken were not in the fight but
understanding that the rebels were defeated, roue
in among a pursuing party of the Confederates
and were captured. Only three of the Confeder
ates w ere killed.]
WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR ?
AN e copy a portion of an editorial at tide, under
the above tiead, from the New fork Day Booh of
the 17th inst. That paper and a few others of
that section, seem determined to remain “sensible
to the last.” AVe extract the following, as their
v : ews on the question of slavery :
“Indeed, it would be better that the earth opened
and swallowed up every man, woman and child in
the South, rather than the social order should be
overthrown, or rather than the avowed mission
of Mr. Lincoln’s party should be successfully ac
eomp.ished! Mr. Liucoln and his party leaders
say they do not wish to injure the South; on the
contrary, desire to do it good. But the South reply
that death and utter extinction were preferable.
Os course no such issue or such party could be al
lowed in the South, and thus we witness the stu
pendous anomaly of a Presidential election in
which the people of fifteen States were as abso
lutely disfranchised as if a million of armed men
had stood at the polls to prohibit their voting.
The people of the South are in arms to resist
this w rong, this utter violation of the vital princi
ple of self government; and though it was perhaps
better to trust to the Constitution and the reaction
of the northern mind, they have gone headlong
into secession, and now the two great sections of
the Republic stand face to face in mortal conflict.
The “North,” under the head of an “anti-slavery”
party, if successful, if it subjugate the South, must
ruin southern society, as well as strike a fatal blow
at the principle of self-government, and if the
“South” conquers, the nation itself will be dis
membered. In either event there is ruin and
desolation, in fact national suicide, and all this
war and destruction because Massachusetts desires
A 7 irginia to adopt her theories about negroes and
“ negro slavery!”
But we may even yet avoid these terrible ca
lamities, now casting their protentious shadows
over this fair land of Republican liberty. If
Breckinridge, or Douglas, or Bell had born elected,
not one voice would be raised against the Union,
and if to morrow Air. Lincoln were to publicly
disavow the Chicago Platform and pledge himseif
to stand by the decision of the Supreme Court on
the very question in issue, every hostile arm would
be paralyzed and every sword point lowered in the
beligerant States, while a National Convention,
which incorporated this decision iu distinct terms
in the Federal Constitution, would in all coming
time prevent i.ny stmili.tr catastrophe as that now
impending over us all.
We are twenty five millions of white men in
juxtaposition with some four millions of negroes,
(rod has made first superior, the latter inferior—
they are in juxtaposition—the human law con
forms to the higher law—these negroes are in
social subordination and natural relation to the
white citizenship, and nothing short of anew crea
tion of these beings can change the existing order.
It is true, in the progress of the future, and after
the ignorance, folly and madness of the hour have
passed away, it is quite likely that many things in
the social order of the South will be modified.
But the foundations of southern society rest on the
eternal order of God Himself, and as the Almighty
cannot do two precisely different things at, the
same time, cannot make negroes inferior and yet
equal* or permit human creatures to secure the
same liberty for negroes that lie has given to
themselves, we reverently repeat our assertion,
that even heaven itself cannot “ abolish slavery.”
But while the Almighty has forever forbidden anv
change in His work, He has given us “ free will,”
as the iheologians call it, and thus permits us to
commit suicide or destroy ourselves. Neverthe
less, such a thing as national suicide, or the volun
tary degradation of themselves to a factitious
equality, or to the same liberty with the negro, is
haidly to be presumed even among the most de
graded people. “Slavery” was abolished in Ja
maica against the earnest protest of the handful
of whites in that Island, and though the people of
England are degraded into the most abject slavery,
and accustomed for centuries to all these unnatural
anil sinful distinctions among their own race, that,
to a certain extent, render them incapable of un
derstanding the natural distinctions that sepera e
races, if they had had a vote or voice in the mat
ter, it is hardly to be presumed that they would
have consented to tax themselves to give an equal
liberty to negroes in Jamaica.
As regards our own so called free States, it was
mainly a selfish ahd mercenary feeling to get rid
of the negro by selling off the best ones further
South, and turning loose the miserable and help
less ones to die out. But no peoole having a con
siderable negro population among them, however
corrupt or degraded they might be, would ever
consent to “abolish slavery” or to force their lib
erty on negroes.
The condition of things in the South —the sub
ordination of the negro, the production of cotton,
sugar, rice, Ac., and the exchange of these pro
ducts of “slave labor” for the snoes, hats and other
manufactured goods of Massachusetts, is all mate
rially beneficial. But Massachusetts has certain
theories and mental habits that conflict with this
actual and mateiial good. She thinks the social
order of the South all wrong, that negroes are
naturally entitled to the tights of white men, as
she herelf has given them, and that the South
would be vastly benefited if it were to “abolish
slavery,” or in other words, if it were to revolu
tionize the existing relations of the races, and se
cure “ universal liberty.” For thirty years she
has been impressing the South with her own
greatly superior wisdom, humanity, and, strange
indeed, her greater knowledge of what the South
needs! AVe ourselves remember once hearing
Senator Sumner explaining hi* views of the wants
and interests of South Carolina to Senator Butler,
and the poor, benighted and deluded creature
seemed withoist a single misgiving on the subject,
though he acknowledged that he had never been
in that State 1 The Republican party is an organi
zation formed fer the purpose of applying the
theories and mental habits of Massachusetts, &c.,
to the States of the South.
Ail Appeal to liie Citizens oi .Hacon and
Bibb County.
Duly acknowledging, and profoundly grateful for
the liberality shown by our citizens in promptly
responding to a call to furnish money to clothe
our soldiers in the field, we still are compelled
again to make an appeal to your generosity for
the same object. In a conference with the Com
mittee, with whom we co-operate, appointed at
the recent meeting to raise a fund for the supply
of winter clothing to our troops, it was discovered
that only $15,00 had been subscribed to that fund
—!i sura insufficient for the purpose. We propose
to furnish our men with under garments of flannel,
granted to be a.n absolute necessity for tlie eoiri
-I'ort and health ot* men encamping and battling in
the cold climate of Virginia. A deficiency of
Ai ft A A ~ o *
vt i 'Hi Wtl3 discovered in the city loan for the
purchase of flannel. What was to be done? The
committee of gentlemen shrank with becoming
delicacy, from again “carrying around the paper.”
Men had given liberally, and we must not ask their
all. So they proposed summarily to lav the bur
den of begging upon the Allantcan shoulders of
the ladies, and urge their society to make an ap
peal through the papers. Since the feminine De
lilah teazed from Sampson the secret of his
strength, and the mild entreaty of Volumnia
turned the unshaken purpose of the proud Corio
lanus, and the superb Cleopatra toyed with the
ambition of a Mark Anthony, to 9ay naught of the
acknowledged overpowering address and irresistu
ole blandishments of the sex generally, we wore
emboldened to assume the task. AVe have, in our
work for the soldiers, girded on our armor; a
helmet of persevering devotion, a breastplate of
love, a shield of patriotism, and we com? now to
you, as allies, to furnish us with money, to put our
idle and willing fingers to exercise. It is a lighter
job than attacking Sherman's battery, and we have
the bravery to charge at the command. Shall we
kneel in vain? Wi 11 you turn from our supplica
tions? Shall our entreaties be unheard and our
tears disregarded? We appeal from the lifeless
lip3 of our lamented Hero, whose sun lias set in
majestic glory, and the wounded friends whom
gentle forms are now watching in the capitol of
A’irginia. Will you withhold your means, even to
the last dollar, to clothe and comfort the living
who are waiting to revenge the loss of the noble
and dear blood spilled?
To your common humanity would we appeal.—
Will the stoniest heart hide itself in the folds of
its own miserable selfishness aud see a valuable
life, which we would, with a tear, give up on the
battle fie’d, lost, for the want of su.table clothing
to keep oft’ cold and disease? AVe trow not. —
We sincerely hope not. We boast an intelligent
and wealthy community, and above all, a liberal
one. Our county shows the largest subscription
of cotton to the Government. Our professional
men and merchants have opened wide their purses,
aud given not grudgingly. All have giveu of their
means. But the cry from us, is lor more. The
necessity is urgent and imperative. Let your
souls be fired with patriotic zeal, and with the
cheering glow, making you god like men, come to
us and pour out the twice blessed treasure; —
blessing him who gives and him who receives,
until tie cry “Hold! Enough!” Already, by
privaie solicitation, (aud most graciously,) a few
have generously responded to our call, two gen
tlemen presented SIOO each, four others *25 each,
otliera $lO, and one lady $5. A noble little bright
eyed buy, too small to lift a Minie Rifle, but with
the toy Confederate flag in his cap, speaking forth
the honored patriotism of his infant soul, came,
unurged, and offered us sl, the proceeds of his
juvenile traffic. Os course, we were grateful.—
Let all the dear “little folks” emulate his example,
and perhaps they may put to shame the sordid and
selfish.
The appeal is to all the citizens of Maoon and
Bibb county.
Let all give according to their ability. The
widow’s mite will not be rejected. As atoms make
the mountain, so small donations may overflow our
Treasuav and bless our beloved soldiery.
LAURA NISLET BOYKIN,
Sec’y of Soldiers’ Relief Society.
Macon, July 25th, 1861.
Important Opinion.
Office of Attorney-General, )
Charleston, S. C., July 16, 1801. )
To S. Wyatt , Esq.:
Sir :—You ask my opinion in reply to the three
following queries, viz:
“]. Is it legal, according to the laws of our
Confederacy, for houses in the Confederacy to be
connected with individuals or houses iu the ene
my’s territory, those houses in the enemy’s terri
tory being composed of Southern men even?
“ 2. Is it lawful for houses in the Coufederacv
to sell any article to houses or individuals in the
enemy’s country?
“ 3. Is it lawful for houses in the Southern Con
federacy to buy any articles of, or in any wise
trade or traffice, with houses or individuals in the
enemy’s country ?”
The subject matter of enquiry has relation to a
supposed violation of the laws of the Confederate
States, and is not within the jurisdiction of the
State Courts. I shall not, therefore, undeatake to
reply officially as Attorney-General, but as a law
yer I do not hesitate to answer all three questions
in the negative. Any trading, any dealing, any
intercourse, any correspondence whatever, kept
up with any citizen of the enemy’s country with
out the permission of our own Government, is il
legal, and in violation of our duty as citizens of a
belligerent power.
I refer you, however, for a full exposition of the
law on this interesting subject to an opinion given
by my partner, C. Richardson Miles, Esq., who
has been consulted as the acting District Attorney
representing the Confederate States. I concur
fully in thu views presented by him in his letter of
this date, addressed to Messrs. Aveilhe, Hopkins
and Edgerton.
\*ery respectfully, your obedient servant,
i. W. HAYXE, Attorney-General.
The Hump Congress.
In the Lincoln Senate on the 16th, Mr. Sum
mer presented a petition for the abolition of slav
ery, remunerating the owners of slaves for their
loss. Sundry other petitions and bills were pre
sented and referred. A proposition to convert the
Pacific Rail Road into a military road was referred
to a select committee. A bill was passed for the
relief of the widows and orphans of those who
perished in the Levant. The Naval Appropriation
bill was under consideration until the hour for the
special order arrived, when the resolution approv
ing of the acts of the President was taken up.—
Mr. Summer offered confiscation bills, upon which
Mr. Breckinridge spoke at length in opposition.—
Their further consideration was postponed until
Thursday. The discussion of the Naval Appro
priation hill was resumed. An amendment mak
ing appropriation for the Stevens battery was
disagreed to, and bill passed. Adjourned.
In the Lincoln House, on the 16th, the Com
merce Committee reported a bill to render the
blockade more effective, which was referred to the
Committee on Naval Affairs, on motion of Air.
Burnett. Air. Bingham called up his force bill of
the last session from the Committee on the Judic
iary, and under the operation of the previous
question it was passed. The bill authorizing the
President to accept the services of 500,000 volun
teers was passed. The Senate’s amendments to
the Loan bill were concurred in. The bills in re
lation to Navv rations, the appointment of an As
sistant Paymaster in the Navy, and fixing the date
upon which the Levant foundered, were pissed.
A vote of thanks to General McClellan, for his
services, was adopted. Mr. Burnett made an able
speech in favor of the seceded States, and was
replied to by Air. Holman. The bill to increase
the efficiency of the volunteer force was passed,
and the House adjourned.
Mist be Subdued. — ln describing a late festival
in AA’ashington city, the New York Times says:
In reply to a toast —To the health of the Presi
dent and the Secretary of AVar—Mr. Cameron re
sponded. He said he could scarcely realize that
by the Secretary of War he was meant himself,
for it seemed but a brief period since he was a
journeyman in the office of his friend on the right
—Col. Sefiton. Speaking of the war, he said that
though three mouths had not elapsed since its in
ception., a quarter of million of A olunteers were
in the field, and in six months the number will be
increased to half a million. The deluded beings
in the South, whose insolence we have borne fora
quarter of a century must be subdued, and the
President will not let the war end until all the
cav.ses which produced it were removed, and when
the war terminates we shall hear no more of Vir
ginians as such, or North Carolinians, or South
Carolinians, but we shall be Americans, one and
indivisable.
Soldier*’ Relief Society.
The following contributions were made during
the past week:
Col. J. B. Lamar, $100.00; Geo. S. Obear. $10.00;
J. B. Ross, (in tiannol) $100.00; N. Weed, $25.00;
Mr. Huff, $10.00; Miss M. Nisbet, $5.00; Miss
Leila JS'isbot, $2.00; J. DcLoaclie. $25.00; A. es
sau, $25.00; E. L. D. Riggins, $10.00; G. luce,
$5.00; J. L. Jones, $20.00; Mrs. J. beymore,
$5.00; E. J. Johnson. $25.00 ; Ma ster Willie John
son, SI.OO.
Mrs. S. S. POE, Prea'f of S. R. S.
L. N. Botkin, Sec’y.
MACON, GEORGIA ;
Wednesday, July 31, irqj I
The Georgia Journal & ■
In order to meet the wants of these wh 0 I
favored with a daily mail, and who wish u ., I
weekly epitome of the News, we propose ? j
the Journal and Messenger to . ix muni}
ers, or until January next, for One i o iu t ]|
vance. Let our friends make up lists and V
at once-
IF We were glad to welcomelo oumJ
our oli friend Ben*. Gardner, no ■
a company from Pike County Ala., beiorr'-^H
the Regiment of Col. Carty. T!>e Coir : I
pass through our city in a day or two fur \
LOSS OF THE MACON GUARDS.
This, we are glad to say, turns out to be r I
less than we had reason to suppose from t!■, 1
rumors. The killed are, Leonidas Lamar, so-1
Judge 11. G. Lamar, of this city ; Walter C \ ]
of Houston ; and Wm. W. Jones.
Seriously wounded —Chas. Gamble, (both J
Andrew McKenna, (.ihoulder) Win. Ains* J
(bowels) and H. J. l’eter. V]
Slightly— E. Wilcox, Joseph Goff, Geo. nj
Leod, 11. Malsbv, AY. D. AA’ood, of For. V, I
H. F. Blue, T. R. Christian, W. C. M. Dunsonj
Washington, 0. P. Poe, Collins.
Missing.— AA'rn. Garey, R. L. Gray-sup; J
to be killed.
Prisoner. —S. B. Bulkier.
AVe learn that the remains of Leonidas I J
will be interred in Richmond, where they 1
main until next winter, before they are bt ]
to this city.
HANDCUFFS.
Among the spoils of the Manassas victorv ■
1,200 hand-cuffs, found in the baggage trains. ‘fl
are not among the usual equipments of >. I
armies, but Gen. Scott probably had studied ■
history of other Quixotic expeditions—for I
“ when the invincible Armada set sail lor Knc ; l
a train of heavy transports followed the ships-, fl
with loads of manacles, foot and hand-fetter E
genious thumb-screws, racks, monks, priests fl
crucifixes, for the application of the heretic K .B
so soon as the conquest of their isle was conij E
But the Armada either sunk to the bottom ; I
ocean or was captured.” j
Perhaps after the customs of the G enerak o! I fl
lon and Persia, was the banquet prepared at i -l
ville. They, “on going out to battle, had it n. fl
for their return after the victory—with their -fl
and viands—and chopping blocks and instrut:,.-1
of torture for distinguished prisoners.” If that _• 1
victory about to be obtained had not been a
pointment Lincoln and his Cong ess. no doubt I
have been there. ‘ What a frolic would it Lave k-,-1
for this enlightened age by the murderers, over ■ 1
death of thousands of Christian brothers—but v. ,; 1
of Lincoln and his Northern fanatics who imag.: J
that they ruled the destinies of the hour. The k 1
of Dahomey should have been an invited gut ; 1
tlieir patron saint. Bat the fatal‘‘hand-writing 1
on the wall.”
CAPT. JAMES J. SLADE- fl
We regret to see the following notice ol fl
the Columbus San of the 24th. Capt. S. had I
cently removed from Columbus to Delhi, Lou -fl
had raised a company for the Confederate servkfl
He is a young man of mild und amiable demearoE
but firm and resolute in his actions. He, no c fl
had every reason that could justify a man to;.: E
to such a dire necessity for self-protection
“ I led a company of men from Delhi toCaafl
Aloore, as Captain. Left the company to go : fl
Orleans to see the Governor ou company bio M
on my return found an insubordination, ami a oB
a day or two discovered the leader, but too -fl
to prevent the breaking up of the company. isl
ordeied the fellow (Looney) from the rank.- I
left camp and waited with threats against my I
to kill me at the depoi on the conipauy’s it I
I left him under guard at Tangipahou until 1 :■
get my company off’, in the hope that I
might cool off and forget his threats, before ‘I
should meet again, but no. After I reiu I
home lie cante to Vicksburg, Miss., and
passed threats against my life, that be would -I
me on sight and other such. These threas I
instantly told me and I was advised to be on 1
as my life was in danger, ‘•’he best and ok. I
citizens told me to prepare for him and shoot I
on sight. lie came cut to Delhi on the day cl
peeted, and on landing front the cars mailed T
to me. I was standing a hundred, yards from -I
toad in a side door of a store. I let him coiml
within twenty-three steps of me, and 1 then :
up my gun and discharged one load into !is •
breasr, snapped the other barrel at the sank 1 ■■■
stant, the cap was not good. He lived one: ‘
I was tried on a committing trial and disc bn. ;
ou the plea of self defence.
PILLEGING BY THE GRAND ARMY
Thus far its course would have been better:
to what we call the “dark ages,” than the ore -
which we were supposed to live. It is withic ■
remembrance, or knowledge of every one, b
invading army in our country was encouraged
the promise of “Beauty and Booty.”—that if ! •
enacted over again. The fate of the first a’
has been that of the second, that fought or ■
inducements. The facts are so glaring tha.
give iheir own testimony of it. The Cho-
Times says—
“lt is a matter of deep mollification and rty
that our troops could not be restrained front t -
excesses both at Fairfax Court House and U:
ville. Houses were entered and pillaged by t->
less soldiers, and women and children waou
insulted. The houses even of Union men*'’
not exempted from these outrages, many of*- 1 ’
were burned to the ground.
Gen. McDowell is constrained to give his iw
diate attention to these outrag* s, and assure
sufferers that all offenders shall be shot wit:
mercy.
“Men and women were robbed of gold wstc “
money, aua other valuables in the streets.
Another paper says—
“ The outrages being perpetrated by the a: -’
cing hordes of Lincoln’s hirelings upon the it
fending people of Virginia, the pillage and des ■
lion of property which everywhere signalize ‘■
march, would di-grace a band of Turks or W*
hooters of the dark ages. . .
“Although not one half i9 told, imagination 1
dily fills up the picture of burning villages, pt a ’
ful homes sacked and pillaged, and their i' ll,
subjected to barbarous insults and outrage, c.
men and'children maltreated and flying for:
fives, until the heart sickens at die conteinp
“And all this hi America and in the i i*'t“
century, and designed, we are told, to bring a, ’j\
a more affectionate Union with the people *
outraged One tithe of what has am a
occuned, is sufficient to bring eternal shame!
the Federal arms. A correspondent of the
iegton Star writes: ,
“ ‘That he heard complaint at Vienna tha ■
troop 9 had, in the early morning, helped and
- to whatever they fancied, in every hoU" •
that village.’
“Another correspondent of the Star says
“‘Much feeling was manifested on accoun*
outrages in the way of depredations, which nu 1
bers of the Brooklyn [l4th] perpetrated last n _•
Their finding of watches, &c.’
GEORGIA SOLDIERS .
In every battle that our brave soldiei.
participated in they have covered tliemsi!’
glorv. The intelligent Virginia corresponded
the Savannah Republican , thus alludes to the
lant beating of the Georgians in the skirmisher
Laurel Hill, as stated by a Virginian:
During one of the skirmishes at Laurel dht,
savs Garnett ordered 500 Georgians out to V
the enemy, which they obeyed by firing the * fjr
and then rushing upon their adversaries dofo
bavonets, and diiving them nelter ske ' te dsa; d
the mountain. Garnett threw up Ins cap,
the charge was worthy of the best veterans-
Col. Starke, an aid of Gen. Garnett, J
Georgians fought as if they bore c
and believed it impossible to be hit. ■ - yer y
rush with the greatest impetuosity m 0 „ r .
face of the enemy, and chase until they
dered to stop. -
‘ rpljg Rit’* 5 ’
Death of Thos. Francis Meagher- ioS
moud Dispatch says that it has relia ®gaßas
that this notorious individual was ki iei.
gu on the 21st inst.