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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the physical difficulties to which allusion un- been made; whereupon the troops, to tfidr great disappointment, were withdrawn from their advanced position, and ordered to retire to their camps.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/* I■II ■ ■ V 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, r;' - ■■■■■ K«gl,..|; J0u,„„1,.U, |,„, **' '» «*>•■ ‘l'« one Iroiniw .... 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. '