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Journal & iftestugnY
J. KNOWLES B. HOBt'i
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
Ari&jr CwiTi'ipondt'Jtcc of tht- gavnnnuh Rfp'ililicj 11.
Army of thi: Mississippi, |
Corinth, May 22d. )
Ada? of great suspense has passed.—
Beauregard had determined to give the ene
my battle yesterday morning, Lut a heavy
rain having fallen night before last, he decided
to postpone the movement until this morning.
Accordingly, the eutire army moved out last
iimht to a position just in frout of the ene
iuv's lines, where the troops bivouacked in
lif< 3 of battle. The order however, which 1
have been allowed to inspect, involved a
hank movement of several hours’ march, and !
over ground of which we had very little pre- i
vious topographical knowledge. The troops j
assigned to this latter duty, were put in mo-,
Uou as early as 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, j
and at noon to-day it was discovered, after :
they had got within a short distance of the j
Federal Uue3, thatthe character of the ground j
w s ach as to render it impossible to ad
vance further in that direction, and it was j
to.* late to retrace their steps with any hope
of ge'ting into position before night. These
tittups were to have made the attack, and
having become fully engaged , the other corps
•■•e*'. 4 to move forward and engage the enemy
■*, n * *
at other points.
It wa- expected that lie battle would open
i>y y oclock, and the entire army would anx
iously listening for the signal gun to spring
upou their prey. J'he appointed hourarrived,
oar uo signal was given. TenVclock came,
and stili the wind which blew from thequar
? r where the first blow was tc be struck,
brought not uur esrs “ the clash of rcsound
mg Kl* veil eafoie—and thftn twelve
-tun with them came no order to-move. —
At last « courier arrived, with intelligence
the physical difficulties to which allusion
un- been made; whereupon the troops, to
tfidr great disappointment, were withdrawn
from their advanced position, and ordered to
retire to their camps.
The result of the day’s operations demon
strates the importance of having a corps of
intelligent and enterprising engineers, who
survey the ground whenever the army
may be required to move, and procure full
and accurate information of the topography
of the country between Corinth and the Ten
nessee river had been fully examined, and
maps and drawings made designating the
roads, watei courccs, fords, hills and swamps,
and the cleared and uncleared land, we
should have experienced no such disappoint
ment as that of to-day. Indeed, it is impos
sible for an army to operate with any certain
ty, or even safety, in the absence of an effi
cient corps of engineers. Unfortunately,
the wound received at Shiloh by Major Gil
mer, the Chief Engineer of the Army of the
Mississippi, has deprived the army of his
valuable services for the present. He had
been able to remain at his post, it is proba
ble we should have engaged the enemy to
day in a great battle ; and if we had done so,
and the other of battle had been carried out,
1 do not see how w r e could have failed to
gain a decissive victory.
Meauwhile, Halleck is strengthening his
•position and receiving fresh reinforcements.
A prisoner, taken to-day, states Seigle had
come up with 20,000 men from Curtis’ army
in Missouri, aud that batteries have been
planted, and other defences provided, along
the route by which the enemy has advanced.
W e hear, also, that Mitchell is moving up
from Huntsville, and that Denver had arri
ved with such regiments as could be spared
from Cario and other points on the Ohio and
Upper Mississippi. The knowledge of these
facts, doubtless, had much to do with bring
ing Beauregard to the decision to give the
enemy battle to-day.
We need also a corps of pioneers—men
who shall go before the army and open and
repair toads' build bridges, make fords re
remove obstructions placed in the way by
the enemy, and clear the track for the nd
i ance of the army. In the absence of such
a corps, the movements of our forces must,
necessarily be slow and irregular. In this
respect, the enemy has shown more foresight
fhau we have. He is not only provided
with an adequate force of active and well
trained pioneers hut he Las organized also a
»rps of pontonneers, whoso services in a
jnntry intersected as ours is by water eours
"S arc of the highest value.
The transportation of the Army of the
dissisiippi is superior to that of the Army
- r the Potomac. The teams are better, and
r kc wagons are better. Mules aroused here
instead of horses as in Virginia, and the
drivers are more accustomed to the manage
i *nt and care of teams. The roadb, howev
er, are worse, and the supply of forage much
less abundant.
The patriotic work of destroying the cot
ton condones to he prosecuted throughout
the southwest. The people seem to be more
determined than ever fco allow the enemy to
take nothing by his invasion, and to fight it
out to the bitter end. The infamous proc
lamations of Butler, and especially his treat
ment of the ladies of New Orleans, have
fired the hearts of our troops to an extent Ii
have not witnessed before. Dr. Palmer of
New Orleans, now with the army, delivered
an address two days ago to some five or six ,
thousand men on the subject of Butler’s con- ;
duct to southern women, which brought
tears of indignation to eyes u all unused to
weep.” P. W. A.
A I*oiut SdtU'd.
\\ e learn, in a communication which we
have received from the War Department
at Richmond, “that officers between the
ages of 18 and 35years of age.whotsere defeat
ed in the recent reorganization of 12 months’
regimeues, are subject to conscription/'—
Countryman.
Matches. —The Augusta Chronicle says
that Mr. *A. J. Pelletier is making very
good matches at Hamburg, S. C. lie is
turning out large quantities daily. As the
stock in Rome is running low, this might be
a good place to renew the supply.— Courier
Jtetr* Sickles iia«s at last won the good
grace of Old Abe, and been restored to the
command of his “drunken brigade/*
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Covre*poudeneP of the Mobile iditfthtt.
Corinth, May 23, atTU.ght. j
Yeslrday wm one of groat excitement and ex
pectation. Our aimv had marched out ’ he
trenches with the tallest confidence that t tey
would meet the hosts ol HtiHeck aud (bat q*®
ol Hallies, ere this, would have crowned with vie
tort the hills of Corinth, But hour alter hour
passed away without any important demonstration
being ruade until about 8 • • M., when our weaned
soldiers, who had been unJy *rma since a o’clock,
in the mot nine returned once more to their
camps.
There was slight skirmishing all along our line?
and the enemy’ 4 pickets were Jtiven back beyond
Farmington, but few casualties occurred. It >-
uow evideut that Halleck does not- intend to risk
a battle until he has completely fortified hie posi
tion, and made Lis chances of retreat sate in case
of a defeat. A Tennessee countryman who bad
been lield a prisouet by H illeck for some week*,
and who anived here to dav, reports that the ene
my is fortifying his position in the vicinity ot Mol
terev, and thai he had tune heavy seiee guns BL
pounder- placed in battery. I.et hint pursue what
course be Will, I Irel confident that every day s
delay is only making hi 4 deteat ruoy centalD. I
aui aware that our people are awaitti 'ibtt is:<ue
with breathless Rut let “be ot good
cheer, and with pitiemirely confidently on the
result. There is luck in leisure, while delays to the
enemy arp dangerous. With fall hope in an over- j
ruling destiny, aud trusting to a merciful divinity
to shape out onr end.*, let us abide our time, but
be vigilant and wary. For as Tirooleon, with his
braver, of Corinth, delivered Syracuse from the
hands of the Cartha <er.iari tyrant and put. the bar
barian- to flight with great slaughter, restoring
that city to its people—uo ''•hall Beauregard, with
his army of t’orinth drive bad: the abolition tyrant*
from Tennessee and Kentucky, and restore these
j States once more to their own people.
There was u little skirmishing early this morn
ing, which wa- attended by the los- of one man
uu onr aide, belonging to the 29th Tennessee, and
several of the enemy. We also took five prisoners,;
i who were eatigkt under the following circumstan
!cc : It seems that the c-aeiuy had been playing ft
Yankee trick on our picket- by sending their men j
i through the undcr-bru&b of the thick woods in 1
order to approach as near a possible to onr wf>fks
To delude o r pickets and effect this ohjeot •
wore flow-b 1U around theirwiecUs. and when they
supposed their woven.cue-; through the brush at- *
ti acted the attention of tvor men, they would tinkle ■
the bclh •) i? to lend one !o suppose it was but. ?
stray cow grazing. »Vtr nickels, suspecting some-'
thing wrong, determined on this occasion to look
after these horned caitie, and, to make matters
certain, by a tiank movement- gained the rear of
the bell-ringers, when they came suddenly upon five
of the cov, bellians, who, not belonging to the Mo
i bile fraternity, were immediately captured.
One of our men who was captured at Island No.
10, made his escape from Camp Chase, near Co
lumbus, Ohio, on the 2f'th ult., and arrived here
yesterday. All the prisoners, who were doing
well, were being removed to Johnson’s Islauu,
near Sandusky, Ohio, when he managed to mix in
with the crowd of spectators and sloped. He re
ports that Lieut. Tidmarsh, well known on the
theatrical boards of New Orleans and Mobile as
“Old Tid,” was jolly and gay as ever, but seriously
objected to the Northern climate. My informant
states that there is a strong anti-Lincoln party
growing up in the North-west, which is making itself
seriously felt through every town in that country.
They look upon the abolition of slavery as putting
the negro on a par with the poor white man, and
forcing a competition of labor between the two
races, which the overrunning of our slaves in the
North, if emancipated, would be sure to effect;
consequently a general indisposition and apathy is
felt against carrying on the war against slavery,
the now avowed object of the Lincoln dynasty.
Western men who believed that the capture of
New Orleans would reopen trade, and afford them
a market lor their produce, uow see the couutrary
effect, and that commerce is totally destroyed.—
Besides this, however string may have been their
lanaticism against slavery, they are forced now to
acknowledge, by the cogent reasoning of the “Al
mighty dollar,” that their bread, as well as ours,
depends upon the institution of slavery. For,
without slaves, we can neither raise sugar nor cot
ton, which is the life-blood of our prosperity, and
without this, we are prevented from buying, and
! they ure excluded from selling to us, their dour,
pork, mules, horses, coal, hemp, besides their
manufactures, or obtaining employment for me
chanical labor. Seeing, therefore, our sugar and
cotton fields disappearing, and all trade and com
merce on the Mississippi to New Orleans, a charred
and smoking desert, they are forced to acknowl
edge, as all Europe will be compelled to do, that
on the pre-ordained institution of slavery depends
the commerce and prosperity of the world. The
North must soon feel, to a far greater extent than
France or England, the loss of our cotton aud
commerce, when her white slaves will rise and
emancipate themselves from the wild despair of
beggarly starvation, which must soon overtake
them like the destroying flames of a prairie fire.
“When the wicked beareih rule, the people mourn."
A malicious captain of a company, describing
the feelings of his men the first time they ever
slept iu camp, said they were intense fin tents.]
A bombshell immediately exploded near the spot.
It has rained ail day very hard, ever since early
this morning, and still continues. Or.a.
Correspondence of the Charleston Mercury.
Richmond, May 24.
Yesterday’s affair prored to be only a Tittle ar
tillery duel near New Bridge, on the Ghickahoni
ny, five or -lx miles 'from town. Mr. Davja and
General Lee rode out. to see what was going on,
and were complimented with a shell, which passed
over their heads. This morning, about 4 o’clock,
the early risers were greeted with quite a treat in
the way of a cannonade, which lasted some hours.
At breakfast time strings of ambulances began to
make their way toward the firing, and hence i;
-was supposed that the great battle was about to
come off. But now (half past tent the firing has
ceased, and a friend just from Longstreet's dv'isiou
tells met that Magruder is only interrupting the
erection of a Yankee battery on Mrs. Crenshaw’s
farm, some ten miles oft’. The papers speak as if
the decisive hour had arrived; but, in my judg
ment, they are mistaken. If a’tacked, McClellan
will retire to his gunboats; if let alone, he will
consume time in posting his forces on both sides
of the river.
I said yesterbay that Jackson and FI s-ell had
joined their command at Harrisonburg. The
statement was based on a letter received bv a i
member of Congress from Jackson. Last night, j
and again to-day, it is authoritatively rumored j
that Jackson ia at Gordonsville and that his army
will be in Hanover to-morrow evening. What
truth there is in this, I know not, but it seems to I
me that the “counter irritation” which Mr. Ban
dolph proposed to set up in Maryland would have
been the surest defence ot Richmond. Officers in
Johnston's army says he protested against going
to Yorktown ; the President insisted, on the ground
that wc needed time: and the General yielded. 1
But time could have been gained just as surely by
sending a division to aid Magruder in holding the
the powerful defences he had erected, already held
with 7,G00 men, against an assault upon the whole
line by McClellan’s artillery.
Meantime the bulk of Johnston’s arrav might
; have been sent to the Valiev and precipitated
upon Maryland. Cut this would have been “news
paper generalship/’
f'peakiug of McClellan reminds ©e of a state
ment made by a paroled oftieer, viz: that just in
rear of his line of entrenchments, which extended
across the Peninsula, McClellan caused a broad
ditet* w be dug, deep enough to hide cannon and
i horses, 'this ditch had an extensive plank floor
throughout its whole length, so that his artillery
Could be rapidly transferred to any part of the
lfm§. In addition to this, be hau a flr.e plank
road aii the way to Fortress Monroe. No wonder
Johuston has declared he will never stick another
spade into the earth. It is said that Jackson nev
er had but one spade, and the handle of that was
broken when he tirst got it out of the Yankee
trenches at Romney. lie uses it to cook hoe-cakes
on.
We are much elated at the Xorthern account of
the fight at Drury's Blutf. We flatter ourselves
that by the time the “iroa-clavU” {busier courage
enough to make ng a second vlait we ahall have |
in readiness a “dosa” which even the Monitor will :
he compelled to take. It will not be given in a j
spoonful of preserves, though it will be something
in the nature of jam jam '-at-*, tor example.
The Episcopal Gonveiitiou has just closed d 4 l
sessions in this citv. The Baptist General Asao j
cution of Virginia meets next 1 hursday. People i
complain uiightilv of the high price of provisions, j
Strawberries, aud gooseberries have appeared hi
small quantities. The newspapers advertise the
los* ot many (logs, negroes, pocket-books, carpet
j and mare muies. All the criminals condemn
ed C in the invaded counties to be hung, have been
sent here so be hung by the wholesale shortly.
W.ud from the east—cold rain tailing.
Hkrhks.
p, s —lt is reported the enemv occupied Me
chanicssille this morning, and we renewed the
fight, intending to dislodge them. Mechmiesvillr
i 4 just the other side of the Chiekahominy.
fi p. *—A rumor, which no one credits, to the
efleet that we icpuUcd them, with a loss on then
feidf of nyij, and 200 on ours, is flying about the
streets.
Magruder is to supersede Lovell, but requests
the privilege of remaining here until the fight is
over.
From-New Orleans.
'ya* Augusta Chronicle and Seutinvd, of the 29tb
ult., says:
We had the pleasure of conversing this morning
with a gentleman who left New Orleans on the loth
iusL., lroui whom we obtained some interesting
items in regard to Picayune Butler and his move
ments. The infamous proclamation of Butler in
regard to the ladies of New Orleans was issued on
the i*th, and caused a feeling of the utmost indig
nation throughout the city. No open and public
manifestations of hostility were made, but upon
the-countenance of every man could be read the
determination of vengeance, and if Butler ven
tures out without his body guard it will be bis last
venture, for fie will never return. Mayor Monroe
protested against the Brutal and insulting procla
mation, and notified Butler that he would no long
er hold the office of Mayor unless the order was
revoked. Butler then had him arrested and sent
to Fort Jackson.
The Kecorder of the city, together with one of
(he citizens, were engaged in tarring and feather
ing a supposed iibolitiot-.ist some twelve month®
ago, for this they were arrested and sent to Fort
Jackson to be confined until the close of the war
3".d thou to be sent North for trial. All persons
who have in any way interferred with “ Union
men” are summarily and severely punished. The
papers have been suspended with the exception of
the Picayune y True Delta and Bulletin and tliev
are not allowed to publish anything but what has
passed the censorship of Butler. When Picayune
issued hi.s proclamation he sent a copy to John
Maginnis of the True Delta and ordered it to be
published. This Maginnis refused to do, and
promptly notified Butler that he would not publish
it. Butler sent word to him that he must prnr.isu
it, hut Maginnis replied that he did not yield to
any man’s order and “would see Butler damned’’
before he would publish it. Butler then sent down
his own printers and set up and issued the procla
mation. Maginnis is the only man that Butler
seems to knock under to.
There are about 10,000 Yankee troops in the
city under the command of Gen. Gus. L. Shipley ;
: he is a refined and intelligent gentleman, and in
; every respect the superior of his commanding
officer. This hot weather is making great havoc
I among the soldiers, and every day after a march
i through the streets many of them are carried ex
hausted to their quarters; a great amount of sick
ness prevails among them, aud many deaths occur
; daily. Due steamer has arrived from the North
with a cargo of mearehaudize (uuder a special per
! mit) to a brother of Picayune. He has opened a
! store in the custom house, and is doing quite a
driving business with the negroes and some of the
! lower orders.
Butler goes down every day, accompanied by a
i strong guard, to see how the business flourishes.
His headquarters are still at the St. Charles Hotel
which is occupied exclusively by him-Jf and offi
cers. Pierre Soule still remains iu New Orleans,
and his influence oTer the inhabitants is unbounded.
Butler would gladly get him out of his way, but
fears to trouble him. The man who tore down the
Federal flag from the custom house has been tried
by court martial and sentenced to be shot. The
people of New Orleans bear up bravely and loyally
under their misfortunes, and look forward with
longing eyes and anxious hearts to the day when
they shall welcome the victorious army of the
Southern Confederacy, and Butler and his mvri
doms reap their just rewards.
From the Knoxville (Tenn.) Register, Way 24.
Federal* at Sparta.
Sparta, Tfnw, May 20th, ISG2.
Editor of the Register ;
Sir—A Pennsylvania battalion of Cavalry, com
manded by a fellow titled Col. Duffy, visited this
place Friday last. They were ordered by General
Dumont to intercept and capture the celebrated
| Col. John Morgan. They first proceeded to Coeka
i ville, 10 miles uorth of Sparta. While there, Col.
; Morgan passed within two miles of them. Instead
of pursuing him, they took his back track, and
employed themselves in stealing the horses of the
citizens, of which they took quite a number.—
They spent two days in this interesting business,
and they came to Sparta. A citizen there says lie
saw the order uuder which they were acting. It
was to “pursue Morgan till h—ll froze over, and
then go under tho iee after him, if they had good
reasou to suppose he had gone under. *’
j But Morgan was the very last mac they wished
,to j.nd. i hey had too much ot the rascally virtue
•‘discretion to obey the pious order.
They, arrived about one hour before sundown.
The Federal commander went round to alt our
. houses, and ordered our ladies to cook supper for
six hundred men, and said if they did not do it in
one hour, he would turn his soldiers loose upon
: ‘hern and would not vouch for their conduct.
Though not positively stated the Yankee villian
intended them to understand this as a threat of
rape and robbery in the event of refusal. These
are the amiable gentlemen who are sent amongst
1 us to subjugate us, and be our future masters. 3
How long must we submit to such outrages ? fiuch
brutes ought not to be permitted to live in a chrig-
Uun land. They proclaimed martial law, and left
after supper, rapidly augmenting the distance be
tween them and Morgan. I predict they will have
a pleasant time executing martial law in’these ends
of the earth.
I am, 3ir, yours truly,
E. I. Gardenhirf..
Stonewall Jackson in Maryland. —lt was cur
rently reported in town yesterday that Jackson
had crossed the Potomac and was now in Williams
port, Maryland. Although we could not learn that
official dispatches had been received to that effect,
still the information was very generally believed
and we deem it more probable than otherwise.—
Williamsport is on the river above Harper’s Ferry,
six miles from Hagerstown on the Frederiektown
turnpike. fhis rapid advance of Jackson has
caused great consternation in Washington, and it
is said to have made the diversion in McClellan’s
plans spokeu of elsewhere. We hope to be able
to chronicle Jackson’s entrauce into Frederick
town, in which place he will meet with powerful
additions to his army.
We are told that seventy thousand Marylanders
stand ready at a moment’s warning l to join the
standard of the old hero. Many of these men have
urpis hidden, and those who have none are ready
to light with spy the s, sticks or brickbats. It must
be a happy thought that deliverenee is so nigh.—
The fact that Jackson is the first man to lead an
army iuto Maryland will stamp him as the hero of
the war, and will win for him the lasting gratitude
of a people who have long suffered from tyrannous
rule. —AN ch mond 111 spat ch.
The Train Stealers.—The Georgia
train stealers arrived Here yesterday, in
charge of a detachment ot Col. John Mor
gun's men. As we auderstand it, they are
to be tried by court martial In this city
This advent ipto town created considerable
commotion. — Knoxville Register 'loti.
tie uttiii of New*.
The *canty items of telegraphic news which we
g et from Richmond and Corinth have the same
, 3 jfe» tou the appetite of the public as Ceding a
starving man with crumbs; it only makes I,mi
more ravenous. From the Richmond papers we
can sometimes glean a little to satisfy out c.ruv
iugs, but the mails from that direction, alter i>e
having w ith uneommotl steadiness lorsome months,
are getting affected with irregularity again, and
yesterday we got nothing from that direction.
Bcaikkgaku and Johnston both seem to think
that this war is wholly their war and that the peo
ple have little or no interest in it. Never in the
whole course of modern history was it before
known, that the people were kept blindfold walking
m the midst of dangers, only 10 know their fate
when they had emerged into the lull effulgence of
victory, or were crushed under tfte weight oi dis
aster. We are accustomed to regard the two
Napoleons as patterns of tyranny, yet the hist sent
daily couriers to Paris announcing his progress in
d |l Ida wais, and the last established lines of trie
graph hi his Italian war which followed his camp
and kept the French people advised of his move
ments. That people, enslaved as it is said they
were, would not have submitted to the secresy to
which we are doomed. But we have no Bona*
partes among us. Even in Lincoln s dominions
the people can get some knowledge ot what is
going od, although much they get is false, but lies
are better than nothing, we at least know that men
are alive when they lie.vigorously.
We are aware that there are many things which
occur, which it is unwise 10 make public, but there
are also thousands of things occurring in an army
which can do no possible harm to publish. Even
if unimportant, they constitute “news” which is
eagerly snapped up, and gratifies a taste which can
be\v no means called morbid, for every man feels
that upon the safety of the armies depends his
temporal salvation, and many of us have relatives
and dear friends in the armies, and even the an
nouncement “all is quiet to day” gives solace and
quiet. What harm there can be in sending such
an announcement, passes our comprehension to
understand. The censorship the Generals have
established to prevent improper dispatches oaght
to be sufficient.
From the commencement of this war this nar
row distrust of the people has been increasing,
and the consequence has been that the news by
Northern papers, which has occasionally been
smuggled in, lias been eagerly sought for. Full as
their accounts were of falsehoods, they at least
told some sort of a story, which was better than
none at all. The idea that the sending of indiscrimi
nate intelligence would have a depressing effect on
the minds of the people has long ago been proved
to be a mistaken one. Our people have never yet
been more than momentarily depressed with news
of disaster, and their spirits have risen mote deter
mined and elastic from the reverse. It is the want
of news that distresses, for it is natural to imagine
all evil, when we know that had any great good
fortune befallen us we should have been sure to
have been informed of it. It is darkness and
ignorance which make men cowards, not light and
knowledge.— Aug. Chron. <€■ Sent.
John <«. Winter.
Vigilance Committee Boom, )
Columbus, Ga., May 24, 1862. )
The Committee havjng been informed that John
G. Winter, lately of this place, but for several
months pa9t absent in the United States and in
Europe, is now' again iu the United States and
probably at Nashville or some other place within
the Confederate States, and may attempt to come
back to this city, in the neighborhood of which
he is believed to bold or own considerable proper
ty, and has been doing business here, the Com
mittee having considered and investigated the
facts in regard to his alleged disloyalty to the Con
federate States, and his open and undisguised ex
pression of hostility to our Government whilst in
Europe aud before he left this country, are satis
fied that the said John G. Winter is and has been
from the formation of the Southern Confederacy
to this day, its bitter, and unrelenting enemy, and
that he has said and done all in his power to dis
parage and injure the cause in which we are en
gaged :
Be it, therefore,
Resolved, That the said John G. Winter shall
not be allowed to return to this community, on
pain of sucli punishment as the Committee shall
inflict.
Resolved, That this Committee consider Mr.
Winter a mischievous and dangerous man to the
Southern Confederacy, and that he ought not to
be permitted to visit or remain in any part of the
same.
A Negro Thikf.—A man named James Austin,
a native of England, who has been for the past
twelve months a resident of the Confederate States,
was arrested on Monday night and committed to
the jail in this city, on the most undoubted evi
dence that he had been endeavoring to induce
negroes to runaway. Some days since Marshal
Maxwell learned that a white man had endeavored
to induce a negro belonging tc* Mr. Englehardt to
leave the city with him, and at once went to work
to set a trap to eatch the rogue. The negro was
told to inJorm Mr. Austin that two other negroes
also wished to pet a wav, and desired to see him.
A meeting was arranged for, and on Monday uight
the Marshal and another gentleman habited and
colored as becomes descendants of Liam, went
with the negro to the place of rendezvous. They
were soon joined by Mr. A., who was rejoiced at
the apparent success, ot his enterprise, and at once
unfolded his plans. It was arranged that they
should all leave the city next Friday morning be
fore day-light, travel nights so as to avoid detec
tion, arid after making their way through the Con
federate pickets go straight to Pensacola, when
they would be among their Yankee friends. As
soon as they had learned all they desired, one of
supposed negroes greatly astonished “Marse Jim
mv,” by drawing a revolver and informing him he
was the Marshal of the city. Austin wilted. He
had not a word to say, and the oflieers tied him
took him to jail, where he now lies. This class
ot individuals are entitled to strict attention at the
hands of a Southern community, and Mr. Austin
will have reason to complain if his term of exist
ence should be considerably shortened, by the
failure of hia experiment in negro stealing. We
do not know that such a wretch is entitled to the
benefit of clergy.—.l/ ovlgomcrg Advertiser.
Thk Gcnboatb ar Citv Point.— Yesterday
i morning at early dawn, there were ten gunboats
I lying in the stream fronting City Point. Soon af
| ier sunrise three of them advanced, and commen
ced throwing huge shells in every direction for
miles around. After discharging some two or three
hundred, and neither eliciting any response nor
i seeing anv sign of a rebel soldier, they advanced,
and landed some three hundred Ilessians, who
speedily took possession of the unoccupied build
ings at the Point.
Late in the day, the gunboats advanced some
two or three miles up the Appomattox, shelling
I the banks of the river on both sides. Twe shells
passed through the residence of Mr. John Bland.
We heard of no other building being struck. No
| Persons were injured. It is supposed that the ene
my are endeavuriug to reach Port Walthall, only
five miles from City Point, and within three miles
of the Richmond aud Petersburg railroad.
We learned last evening that the Yankees who
landed at City Point in the morning again embark
ed in the afternoon, afcd went down the river
They seem to be afraid to remain ashore at nieht
—Petersburg Express, 28 th. b
The X. ’I. Herald admits a loss of 2254 killed
wounded and missing in tl.e battle of Williamsburg
and there are two brigades—Peck’s and Hancock’s
—which have not reported. The Yankees had
six brigades engaged, about 30,000 men'. Thev
claims great victory. 1
Thf Emancipation Board in Wash
ington.—-There continues to be a goodly
number of petitions presented to the Eman
cipation Commissioners for compensation
tor slaves freed iu the District of Columbia
The Northern papers say it is likely to turn
oat that there are more slaves in Washing
ton than was supposed. °
M ACON, GEORGIA:
Wwlaesday, Junt 1 4,
ABSENT.
It being as important for pecuniary purposes foi
the senior editor to attend the Superior Court, til
Dougherty county, as it could be lor any one to
plant a patch of swamp ground in corn, he is,
therefore, compelled to abandon hie post for two
days at a very critical time of stirring events.—
He hopes “ the boys" will place in the columns such
items of news as may transpire before the paper
?oes to press. If they should be as interesting as
is expected, editorials can be dispensed with.
ADMITTED TO BAIL..
Britton R. Ware, of Twiggs County, who has
been confined in onr jail for several weeks past, on
the charge of kilhug W in. S. Lingo, yalso of T* »ggsj
wa° admitted to Bail ou the 2Sth nit , by Judge
Lochrane, ou a bond ot §20,1100.
MOBE PRISONERS
On Saturday morning last 686 prisoners arrived
here from Montgomery, and were duly in-tailed
into the Oglethorpe Camp Ground. They consist
of eighty commissioned officers, among which are
one 1.t.-Colonel, three or four Majors, eight or teu
Captains, aud 820 non commissioned officers.—
They were captured some at Manassas, Belmont,
Shiloh and other places. Among them are a few
marines, aud a small suspicious looking crowd in
citizens dress, who appear to be somewhat exclus
ive in their associations, and may be bridge-burn
ers, or guilty of other misdemeanors, which enti
tled them to public protection. The personal up
pearance of these soldiers, generally, is superior
to that ol those recently discharged on parole
from Camp Oglethorpe.
Those discharged were taken in the battle at
Shiloh, and there still remained in the camp 105,
of whom several were sick. About twenty have
died in camp since their first arrival. Those who
left speak very favorably of»their treatment, ac
comodations, Ac., and were gratified at heiug pa
roled, but had no desire to be exchanged. They
had seen more of the elephant than they wished
already. Only one hesitated at taking the usual
oath tor a parole, for which he gave good reasons.
As we have discharged about 800 prisoners on pa
! role, the public will naturally ask, why was not
this course taken before this last erowd was sent
| here; and why this expense and trouble with a
; battalion of men to guard them, who had better
be facing the enemy? We cannot answer..
p. R.—We have since learned that the exclusive ft
consisted of one Solicitor General, a President of
a college, a member and ex-member of the Ten
nessee Legislature, a Justice of the Peace, Metho
dist preacher, Ac.
WAR NEWS.
The public has been waiting with intense anxiety
during the past week for the collision of our main
armies in the West and in Virginia. We have
nothing material up to this time from the army of
Gen. Beauregard at Corinth, or of any fighting on
the western rivers. Our armies oanuot long re
main in their present positions without a fight or
an inglorious retreat on the part of one or the
other.
The energetic movements and successful battles
oi Gen. Jackson have contributed much to restore
public confidence to our army operations, resulting
from late reverses. The effects of his series of
brilliant operations will not be lost in other quar
ters, even if defects in military science cau be de
tected in them by others. We trust that he is
now left to do his fighting iu his own wav, as he
and others should have been doing long since, and
we would now be able to muster a host of Morgans
and Jacksons. Oi Jackson’s whereabouts at this
time, we are not fully informed, but it is most
probable in Maryland, in very uncomfortable prox
imity to the rear of the enemy’s armies, and some
of his cities. We may expect other and favorable j
reports of his operations very soon. We give all
the important items oHiis movements which have
come to baud.
The important army operations and results about I
Richmond will be foUnd uuder that head.
SALT.
The Marietta Advocate says :—“We understand
that the salt springs in the lower edge of this
county, have been leased by a company in this
place. There can be no doubt of their affording
au in,mense quantity of salt if opened to a proper
depth.” * 1 1
The Lagrange Reporter, of the 30th, in speak
ing ot a salt manufacturing company of that, place,
says that 106 sacks had arrived there, af the cost
of *5.61 per sack. It was purchased by an agent
at the springs, but the location of the sprint is
not mentioned. It was probably from Virginia.
Exchange of Prisoners. —We learn, says the
Richmond Examiner, that propositions have been
received by the government, through Gen. Wool,
at Fortress Monroe, for a general exchange of
prisoners of war. The propositions offer, as a
basis of exchange, the cartel adopted between the
United States and Great Britain in the war of
1812; and also offer to exchange our privateers
men on the footing of prisoners of war, the sur
plus on either side to be paroled without further
conditions. It is proposed to exchange the prison
ers ut City Point,;or any other piace that the Con
federate Government may designate. It is sup
posed that there is a slight surplus of prisoners
still remaining on the side of the North. There is
no doubt that the proposition meets the views and
wishes of our government, and it ia to be hoped
that there is no perfidy developed in arrange
ment, as was the case in the negotiation with Gen.
Howell Cobb some months ago.
I artizan Rangers.— The wisdom displayed by
the Confederate Congress in the passage of a bill
authorizing the enlistment of partizan rangers
must have been apparent to every one who has
for a moment bestowed a thought upon the sub
ject. An invaded country, having the s:ope and
extent, the mountain fastnesses, the secluded val
leys, and almost impenetrable morasses of the
South, affords au admirable opportunity for fear
less bands of troopers to inflict serious injury upon
an enemy with comparatively little danger to
themselves.
The first mail steamer from New York to Xew
Orleans carried upwards of ten thousand letters
most of which were on business.
Hon. Charles J. Ingersoll died in Philadelphia
on the 14th inst., in the 80th year of his age. He
had occupied many important political positions
iu the country.
In the late tire in Troy, New York, it is stated
that the number of building* destroyed will reach
eight hundred.
ENGLISH VIEWS OF Tttr******-
The “ London M o , llin " pjj** *4**
and !,y ll,e G,.„ j ’.\ " 111 J,
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1 here is b„. liMl. lo rhro| .^
mail just arrived,.of the ’"j
can arimen. The Federal front. 9 , J -
vance wherever no oppo.i lmtl
It IS of so slight a nature . IK: .
name. Except for the sake „i •'*" • 5
resistance hitherto shown b>- ih* e *
eraev on the Cumberland, i\ ULl ', 1
sippi rivers, was, strategical!, •
With no ennboit* at its commas,l‘'
could have hoped to cope -,i
North, under conditions *hi t,
naval resources ot the latte! u’,/.
Fort Donelson fell, after a | >r ■
No. 10 was al-o captured, atn - ■
sistauee, and according to ih
Fort Pulaski had also fallen in ‘ ■ '
It is a principle of war that the ’
places is a mere question of tu (
have been the proofs afforded ot ’,u '
from the seige of Troy to ih u U 1
The loss of the places takrti b ¥ f ' ,
mies should excite neither. -
the Southern Confederacy. The > u ]e
they have to consider is whether t!
ioued to the advancing armies Be t‘
those places Ims been dearly < >r (h. ..
by the loss of men and arms ineu
fences. The conquest of the . . ...
that is to say, the successful j,., j
try, throwing out of con-dderation t
meut of dominion subsequently— u,
be achieved in a reasonable lime". A~,
possibly be able to afiuid <0 beseipe u fj!-‘
two or three years, but it is evid<
ot “ci whiog the 1 eb< llion’ mua
in less th:iD that time if it j d to be aiVl >iv
at all. It would not be difficult to prove ?
the present rate ot advancing, the Fed. • ,
would be obliged to exhaust many years U<
they had planted their standard in .
oi the Southern Sutva. In
tected places they succeeded in in akin k ti
er felt, but against the real strong hi-id*
opponents they have made no impression «S, ;
Severity ok the Winter in Oregon I
Lies. — The latest paper? from Oregon are ,
22d of February, and contain melaueholv
of suffering by the severe weather. \v,>
synopsis;
Great distress prevailed at Walla-W iila 0
count of the severity of the weather. \
of stores and saloons were closed, the prop
being unable to procure wood to w triu
Wood was selling at S3O per cord, flour at * 4
barrel, and board was sls per week. For j, •
j weeks the mercury ranged from free.ioj j •• ,
:29 degrees below zero. One halt of ihestorx it
j was driven from the Wallamet \ alley J as t gei
| had perished. A number of persons luj |,
j frozen to death. At the Warm Spring
, tion, out of 800 head of cattle belonging to t i(
Government one half had died. Tho Indians h J
lost all their horses. All along the road beiue.'i
the Dalles and Walla-Walla provisions h. i |„
exhausted, except beef. Seven men had lost;.
lives between those places by the severity of tie
weather. In the vicinity of Puget Sound -n
had suffered severely. In Southern Oregon hr.
numbers of horses and cattle had died.
Another Fight with Gcnroats.— lt is n pot:. ]
that Capt. Stevens with his company of sixty nu .
engaged one of tin. enemy’s gunboats ou t- -
John’s river, and did considerable damage,*,
boat was aground at a short distance, and
deck was full of Yankees, when our side f.r, . ,
volley of sixty shots the first fire. The eiienr. /.
is supposed, buried their dead at the place oi"Mr
Cole.
Why cannot we make the St. John’s too warn
for these rascals. ?
Since the above was in type we Rain from 0 •
of the men engaged that the fight lasted one
and ten minutes. Two of our men were wounded,
and our side claim to have killed sixty of the ei
my. Gainesville (Fla.) Cotton Stutt.s.
The Steamer Nellie.—This steamer was n.r.
ashore near Charleston on the 25th ult, in
tempting to run the blockade. The Federal* and
not get possession of her. The cargo has near:,
all been taken out of her, and what remain- on
board will perhaps be landed this day. \J
the merchandize is in good order, but a part has
been damaged. The Nel.ie has been so min hii •
jured that her present owners will probably -.
her where she is.
The enemy having discovered that their cannon
ading did not produce anv serious effect, have
ceased firing.— Charleston Courier, 80//,.
Euliivioii of (lio l.ondon Timet
Kepoilei'.
• It seems that the Federal Secretary us
\\ ar refused to permit the eoriespondeut of
the Loudon Times, to remain in SleOlelan -
army, although invited by that General to
do so, and report, results. Aceordiugh.the
Times correspondent, with bag aud baggie,
sailed for Europe. That paper comes <Lwii
upon President Lincoln for this exhibition f
fear of independent criticism, aud of fear of
independent criticism, and of weakue-- f
the Federal Government. It says that Mr.
Lincoln aud Mr. Stanton manifest in thi-s
small matter “a distrust in the future \vk. h
their soldiers do not show,” and adds, “fruta
our correspondent the world would have the
truth, vigorously told, but uncolored by
partizan feeling.” That is preisely what
Lincoln does not want told —hence hi re
fusal to permit the correspondent of the Lea
don Times to remain in McClellan’s quar
ters. Ihe Times will now surely get from
the Federals what it anticipates—“account 6 ,
which may he true or may be false” w
warrant the latter) “but which no one can
believe to be true, because the power ha.
been specially reserved of dE-seminating
falsehood-”
\\ ar Movements in our Vicinity.—
The cars on the Charleston railroad, due
here at five o’clock in the afternoon, had not
arrived at the time of our going to pit -s
with our evening edition, nine o’clock. It
was rumored in the city at noon that the
enemy had landed a considerable force iu
Carolina, and were advancing on Pocotolig ••
Other indications authorize us to believe u
current rumor in the street that fighting
going on in that vicinity, which account i
the non-arrival of the Charleston cars.
Some of our citizens inform us that tic /
heard heavy firing in the direction of Pf -
taligo last evening. •
The Yankee gunboats .mentioned by us
as being in the river below Fort Jackson,
on \\ eduesday, were still in view yesterday,
but had taken positions further down, near
leunessee creek. It is thought by some
that the boats were engaged in removii. ;
their batteries on Oakly Island, and lar
volumes of white smoke rising in that u
rection yesterday afternoon, induced the t
lief that they were burning their cabins a
their abandoned batteries. Others are ot
opinion that the steamers brought men and
guns for the erection of batteries on Lit *
Island, with a view to shell our batteries —-
Y\ e have been unable to obtain any reliable
information from below.— JSai\ S r tics. Moil
JO. '