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Saturday Morning, May 10, 1862.
The Yankees, it appears, are so contain ot
soon being in possession of Richmond, that
they are already making preparations to stai t
the old line of boats from Washington to
Aquia Creek.
Found Dkowned.— Friday last, a man and
■woman (negroe’s), were found floating in the
Savannah river near Fort Jackson. Coroner
Edenhad the bodies brought to the city yester
day, and an inquest was held, which elicited to
faacts bearing on the cause of tneir death.
A Large Company of Guests.— Bome eight
hundred prisoners, captured at Shiloh, arrived
at Macon Saturday last, to be confined there and
cared for at the expense of the government,
The good people ot that city may look out for
a rise in the provision market.
The Spanish steam trigate Isabel La Catolica,
Admiral Carlos Camino, from*Havana on the
18th instant, arrived at New York on Thursday
morning, the 24th ultimo. She mounts 16
guns, has a crew of 260 men, is ’a sidewlieel ves
sel, and 500 horse power.
Confederate Prisoners.— Western papers
of dates to the 19th instant have been received
at Corinth They state that prisoners eaptnred
at Island 10 have been sent to Wisconsin, ex
cept General Makall and others, who have been
sent to Fort Warren.
Farragut, the Federal Commander, who has
lately made himself notorious at New Orleans,
is, as we learn by reference to the United
States Naval Register, a native of Tennessee,
from which State he was appointed a Midship
man, 17th December, 1810.
North Carolina. —Through a correspondent
ot the Wilmington Journal, we. are informed
that Burnside has called in all his pickets, load
ed his transports, and put his gunboats in order.
What the invader of North Carolina means by
this—whether looking to future operations at
Wilmington, Norfolk, or the Seaboard railroad—
we leave the reader to judge.
The Pulaski Garrison.— We le>rn that let
ters have been received from nearly all the of
ficers of Fort Pulaski, by their respective fami
lies, during the last few days. They are all
written from Fort Columbus, Governor’s Is
land, and give the same account of their treat
ment as that contained in the letters of the
privates. Perhaps, they, too, have been made
to write under Yankee “dictation” !
Crops in Alabama.— A letter retrieved from
Western Alabama gives cheering accounts of
the grain crops in that section ; it says : “Corn,
wheat, and oats look well. Capt, O has
plowed up all his cotton and put it in corn,
(one hundred acres,) and should the season
hold good expects to gather fifty thousand
bushels of com. The wheat is the prettiest in
the neighborhood. But sad it is that all the
hogs In this Bection are dying from cholera.”
ESTWIII the editor of the Morning New* point
out wherein consists the “meanness” of expos
ing and protesting against his unjust reflections
on the letter-writers of the Fort Pulaski garri
son? He has “put up the observation,” but we
doubt if he can prove It. It is the part of wis
dom to abstain from “comment” when we have
no answer to make.
Does he not know that he did them a wrong
in saying that the enemy could make them
write home that which was untrue ?
Fort Macon. —A Correction. —The Wil
mington Journal says :
The Wilmington telegraphic reporter for the
press requests us to state that in his despatches
of the 29th, in giving thedi|LLU*i*>9<romKoii
Macon at
printed, he "'•
Inf for ins of Confederate Officers.
In civil life it matters but Lillie “ where
withal” a man “shall be clothed,” so that de
cency and cleanliness are observed in bis attire.
In the camp it is far otherwise. For important
reasons, and uot from considerations ot mere
display, the soldier is clad in whit is called a
“ uniform ” —that is, garnunts all of a like
character. If one man of a company, or officer
of a regiment, be clothed iu copperas and an
other in grey, it ceases to be a uniform, iu the
military acceptation of the. term. Among vol
unteers it is usual for each company of privates
to be uniformed to suit their own taste, with
out regard to any particular color, and no legis
lation has opposed it, so far as we have seen.
The officers, though—wiio serve under com
missions from the Confederacy—come under a
different rule. In their case, as well as for
regular soldiers, a uniform is prescribed by
law, and no man has a right to depart from it.
In doing so he violates regulations which he is
under oblgations to respect arid support, and is
amenable for it as an offense.
The Congress of the Confederate States has
passed a law declaring that the uniform of the
military service shall be grey. The color is
distinctive and durable, bnt, unfortunately for
the spirit of obedience, it happens not to be
dashing and attractive. The result of this de.
tieieney cannot have failed to arrest the obser
vation of all who are accustomed to mingle in
military circles. Very many of oar officers— and
we regret to see, those highest in command—
ha ye completely ignored and nullified the luw.
We have Vue uniforms and grey uniforms, our
Generals seeming to prefer the former, thus
showing, in our humble judgment, not only a
want of respect lor the rules of the service,
but a most censurable desire, simply for the
sake of show, to ape the Yankee*, from whom
and their national customs and fashions, we
pray God to deliver us for all time to come.—
In truth, there is to-day, when our armies meet
in battle, not a particle of difference in appear
ance between the proud southern commander
and the Yankee invader. They both look
precisely alike, and are us apt to be shot at by
friends as by foes. This should not be so,
and we protest against its being tolera
ted by the government a day longer. It may
lead to endless perils to the officers themselves
aud endless confusion among the men on the
field of battle where large' bodies are contend
ing under the lead of officers with whom they
have no personal acquaintance. No man can
know whether hd is obeying his own commander
or that of the enemy, and thus our forces are
liable to be entrapped, tyid the cause itself to
suffer, and for no better reason than the love
oi glitter and show among our officers. It is
all wroug, and a matter of vastly greater im
portance than the reader doubtless supposed
when his eyes first rested on the heading o f
this article. The subject of onr complaint is
an evil in the servieg, and the War Department
should forthwith issue peremptory orders ex
pelling it from the army. We have enough
difficulties to contend with in this war without
adding to them in order to gratify a ridiculous
and censurable fancy.
The News. —As we write, the despatch
of onr Army Correspondent, dated 5 o’clock
p. m. on Sunday, is the latest news we have
from the two great armies in the West. It was
raining, and if to any considerable extent, op
erations will necessarily have to be delayed for
several days, or until the heavy mud in that
section shall have become hard enough to ad
mit of the free passage of artillery. The com
mencement of the battle will depend entirely
on this, and of course there is no telling when
we may look tor a general collision. On the
other hand, if the rain was light, merely moist
ening the surface to be dried again by a day’s
sun aud wind, we may look out for something
"Startling in the coarse of a day or two.
Nobody can tell what McClellan is aiming at
in the Peninsula of Virginia. The general Im
pression is that he does not intend to fight at
that point, aud it Is strengthened by the fact
that Johnston has kept still and allowed him to
construct extensive works immediately in his
but. a few hundred vnr.l* dicOj-.t— -Uo-
s.A.vA-dsnsr-A.H, s.a.ttte-xd.a.'y , mat xo. xaes-
Intercepted t orrtt>nulf tire.
The Northern patters publish a number of
“contraband” letters, the correspondence of
T. Butler King, which were found on board the
Confederate steamer Calhoun, captured by the
blockading squadron as she was in the act ot
running the bloekade off the entrance to the
Mississippi river in January last. .Besides some
two or three letters from private individuals,
unimportant in their character, we find iu the
intercepted correspondence, as published, the
following, addressed by Mr. King to Earl Rus
sell, and one to Mr. King on the effect of his
mission :
MR. KING TO EARL RUSSELL.
Havana Cuba, Dec. 6,1861— My Lord : The
uniform success which has attended the Con
federate States of America must., I should sup
pose, be sufficient evidence to the world of
their ability to maintain the independence they
have declared. Assuming that to be an ac
complished fact it follows as a matter of course
that the usual diplomatic intercourse between
nations will soon be established between them
and the great powers of Europe. It is quite
natural, therefore, that a people coming thus
fresh into the family of nations should feel some
anxiety respecting the agents to be selected tor
the purpose of conducting that intercourse.
There are no two nations whose material in
terests point to a closer alliance than those of
Great Britain and the Confederate States. It is
in this view I presume to address to yonr lord
ship this note, and to solicit your favorable con
sideration of the suggestion I am about to
make.
Her Briuiotic Majesty’s Consul-General in
Cuba has been long and most favorably known
to the mercantile community of the Confed
erate States. The courtesy and inteliigjpnce of
Mr. Crawford in the performance of bis official
duties, his uniform kindness and hospitality in
personal intercourse, have endeared him to all
who have had the pleasure of his acquaintance,
f therefore beg leave to assure your lordship
most respectfully that her Majesty’s Govern
ment could not select a more acceptable person
to be her Majesty’s minister to reside near the
government of the Confederate States.
I have the honor to be your lordstiip’s most
obedient servant, T. Butler King,
Commissioner from Georgia,
Confederate States of America.
To the Right Honorable Earl Russell, &e.
LETTER ON THE EFFECT OF -MR. KING’S MISSTON.
Honfleur, Sept. 21,1861. —Dear Sir: I oineh
regret leaving Paris, as you are the only gentle
man from the South who has effected anything
for the interests of the Confederate States ; and
what you have done is much more important
than you may imagine.
You will remember that it was at the entrea
ties of Michael Chevalier that you published
your letter to the Minister of Commerce. Its
distribution to the members of the Senate and
of the Corps of Legislatin', to the Prefects, the
Chambers of Commerce, and the Bankers of
Paris, has had a great influence noon the estab
lishment of a line of steamers from France to
the Confederate States, and has enlightened all
parties upon the affiirs of the Southern Stiffs;
a matter which was previously almost utterly
unknowu.
That is 4a important point gained, for those
parties have a great influence upon the country
at large, and your document has not made
merely a showy effect, but it has done good and
substantial work.
I ueed not recall to yonr memory what the
Minister told you in one of the interviews you
had; it was too gratifying for yon to uave tor
gotten it.
Allow me, sir, in closing this letter, to say
that I trust the Ambassador of the Confederate
States will not forget the promises made by the
Hon. T. Butler King to his most respectful and
obedient servant,
Charles Hassoullier
The Hon. T. Butler King, T. O. T. Y. P.
Reported Advance of the Enemy on
Chattanooga.
We fjtid the following in the Atlanta Intelli
gencer of Sunday, and give it for what it is
worth. Advices received at that quarter from
the ever-llowiug steram of railroad passengers
are not generally of the -most reliable kind,
and we are much inclined to doubt if the enemy
have reached a point nearer to Chattanooga
than Bridgeport—46 miles—and some late ac
counts say they have even retired from that
place:
We are advised that the enemy is
ing Chattanooga on the
river, w:i!i -k i >rce id' three
; "U . ill pr.>ha>j#H|
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. I.ATE WKITKim NEWS.
Wo eiip the following items from the Mem
phis Apiw.ll. of the 37th Ultimo :
From New Orleans. —Additional intelligence
wus received bile list evening. The enemy had
landed and raised the Federal flag over the
mint, s This so evaporated ’be populace that it
was id'ii down us soon as the lorce had return
ed to iheir boots. One boy,' engaged in waving
a Confederate ting ou the levee, was killed by a
musket shot from the fleet. , Great excitement
prevailed in evetv part of the city, and the gen
eral determination was to refuse to capitulate.
Among other evidences of the spirit of the
people, we mav mention the fact that the city
authorities refused so co'T'ty with an order
that, the southern flag be taken from the city
hall.
The Situation on the -Tennessee. —We
learn that, a portion of Gefi. Mitchell’s division
of the Federal army, which has occupied North
Alabama ior the last three weeks, embarked on
two transports, thirteen miles, below Florence,
last Tuesday night, and proceeded down the
Tennessee river towards Pittsburg, for the
evident purpose of joining Buell and Grant. It
is also said that a part of his forces at present
occupy t-u-ka.
It thus seems that Lhe enemy i? preparing to
concentrate his full strength near the scene of
the late desperate battle on the, Tennessee, and
attempt to carry Beauregard’s position at
Corinth. Grant and Buell, with their combined
armies, arc there. Halleek, with a large force
from Missouri, Fremont’s army,’’from Eastern
Kentucky, and Pope’s army, from New Madrid,
are gradually joining them.
Their force will probably’ soon reach as high
as 180,009 or 140,000 men. These will be met
by an amply large Confederate sftny tosucJHL
fully resist and defeat them. ’£Many
think that a great battle W’v fought near
TiifiMvt esebt wPR, tur.-ri; w-on-PH
not he surprised if tne enemy refuse altogether
to tight us, upon learning the state of facts from
the mouth of the Mississippi river. They have
been seeking to capture Memphis by" defeating
Beauregard’s arnty, but will now possibly see
an easy method of taking it by attack from the
river. We need not expect them to risk a
doubtful contest, so important in its resuits,
when there is the slightest chance to move us
from our position by their sole system of war
fare thus lar adopted—“a flank movement.”
Confederate Currency. —Confederate inon
eyis now current in Nashville at a discount of
only tifleen per cent , freely passing at eighty
five cents iu the dollar in exchange for notes on
all Tennessee hanks. We are informed that the
sutlers of the Federal army even take it at this
rate in payment for provisions. These facts
ought to establish confidence in it even where
other and nobier impulses fail. There should
be no disposition among our people on the
frostier to refuse it. It is the mainstay ot the
Confederacy, and the free acceptance of it is
the basis of our Government credit. Whatever
we do in this severe hoar of trial and disaster,
let no traitorous hand dare seek to stab our.
sacred cause by refusing the currency of the
Confederate government.
Northern Items.
From a Washington despatch, 25th ult :
Notwithstanding the contradictions publish
ed in the Times aud Tribune, the truth of the
Herald’s statement, in reference to a change in
the Navy Department, will ere long be shown
by the tact of the retirement of Mr. Welles.
Gon. Sickles has been ra-uominated by the
President as Brigadier General. It is under
stood that a change has taken place in the
opinion of Senators, and that his nomination
will be confirmed without hesitation.
The bill which passed yesterday providing
for the establishment of diplomatic relations
with Ilayti and Liberia, authorizes the Presi
dent to appoint to each of these republics a
diplomatic representative ot the United States,
to be an accredited Commissioner and Consul
General, with an annual salary of four thousand
dollars.
The Senate to day, in executive session, con
firmed the nominations of George Cadwnlla
der, of Pennsylvania, and George H. Thomas,
of Virginia, as major generals, and Colonel Al
fred Terry, of Connecticut, Miles S. Haskell, of
Indiana ; Major Henry W. Wessells, of the Sixth
InfaDtry : Col. John IV. Geary, Major Samuel
W. Crawford, of the Thirteenth Infantry, and
Leonard F. Ross of Indiana, as brigadier gen
erals of volunteers. Brigadier
W. K- t‘iy. to I) • Chief of
Ham A. ’ll onn!
■
pinion of A Oalns In America.
I From dm London Morning Herald, March 14.]
Affairs in America have lately taken a turn
which we have Jong .regarded as more than
possible. The tide of victory teas set in favor
of the North. The Federate have affected a
lodgment at Roanoakivin North Carolina; they
are driving before them the Confederate armies
In Missouri, Kentucky,, and Tennessee. The
capture of 15,00<) ffien, together with a strong
position on the Cumberland river, Is the great
est advantage; that they have yet gained in the
war. [ravinti now the victory at Donelson to
point, to as it set off to the great disaster at
Manassas, it is apity, we think, that they do not
make the use. ot the first auspicious occasion for
concluding terms with the sQ-callcd rebels.
They have it now in their power to retird from a
desperate strife with something like honor. II
the Northerners and Southerners can only agree
to an equitable partition df territory, a strife
njay be ended of which no one can foresee the
eqd. Years of" bloody war, with advantage
sometimes to one, sometimes to tlie other
party, the lives of thousands of brave men, the
desolation of ten thontmid homes, may be
saved by such timely arrangement. When they
have doubled the sum of their debt, already
enoYmoUs, entailed bn their posterity forever
the burden of a taxation which even the wealth
ier Englishman cannot bear without' chafing ;
when they have thrown their hardly-won
liberties, one alter another, into the crucible of
a military rule, which will reduce them to
ashes, they will have paid all too dearly ior the
honor which the raw school hoy can teach them
as the moral of their own history—that it is im
possible to reduce to subjection ten millions
of freemen determined on a separate govern
ment. In the revolutionary war the English
armies for a time carried all before them. —
Every city was occupied, every battle was won
kv the Hjoy.ilis&s. But the determination of the
*-I- Tv ... power- mightier than
armies and superior to the fatal accidents of a
hundred campaigns. The power that, though
strong in the field, was weak in the hearts oi
the people, found it necessary to succumb in
the end. Should the Federals occupy
Nashville, and make prisoners of ail that
remains of the Confederate army ot the
West; should Johnston be routed on the Po
tomac, and Virginia overrun by the conquerors;
should the Northern flotilla steam down the
broad Mississippi and burn New Orleans;
should Savannah and Chariest -n, Richmond
and Norfolk, every stronghold oi the South be
lost, the Unionists will be no nearer to the end
than now". The resolve of the South to remain
no longer in the Union is fixed and irrevocable.
If the Union conquests carried along with them
Union sentiment, we might admit that a re
storation of the Union was not yet impossible.
It would then be a question of arms, dependent
on the accidents ot war; ft is now becoming
more aud more a question of feeling. Every
advantage gained by the North but adds to the
bitter hostility of their kinsmen in the South
ern Slates, who already hate them as intensely
as ever Engiishtnen hated Freuchmen in the
long wars of Europe. Let us quote on this
point the evidence of Dr. Russell, a man cel 1
tainlv not prejudiced against the Northern
cause:
“A gentleman who had a good deal of con
versation with the Confederate prisoners at
Roanoke says they spoke with unanimous bit
terness of the North, and that he could not de
tect a trace ot ‘Union sentiment,’ though they
were in captivity. Burnside’s expedition has
failed to eiicit auy ‘Union sentiment’ in North
Carolina, which was said to be bubbling up with
it, and sent a ‘bogus senator’ to represent it in
Congress. In Clarksvilletwo-thirds of the in
habitants fled on the approach of the Federals,
and with rare exceptions the flight of the peo
ple and the firing of their property by their
own hands, as at Edenton, have been the usual
modes of expressing their joy at the sight of the
Stars and Stripes.”
We doubt if there be really any- such thing as
a Union party at the South. If, must be noted
that it is in the border States that this absence
ot sympathy for the North is signalized by the
special correspond, ut of the Times. If the
secession leeling is so strong in the territory
which is still the bone of contention between
the rival armies, how much stronger must it be
in the States that first seceded, and that still
form the head and front of the Southern move
ment. Dissensions are, indeed, spoken of in
the ranks of the Confederates, but when we
into them we find that the dis-
f-'.r fiotn the tic light o! making
Mte&wi ■ t ,< G.-> cMI turn I lit
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Decatur Re-occupied by
the Confederates!
HUNTSVILLE PROBABLY RE-TAKEN !
[From our Army Correspondent,}
CoEiNTn, May I.—The re-occupation ot Decatur by
the Confederates is confirm and The Federals burnt
the r ilroad 1 r'd r es and sheled the towß.
We have probably re-occupied Hunt vi'K
The weather 1s good, and the enemy is moving
slowly ouyjur right
Northern papers say the French minister visited
Richmond for the purpose of pr. posing mediation.
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Latest from Europe.
ARHIVAL OF THU ERF WEN,
The steamship Bremen, from Southampton, with
dates t.i the IGth ult, arrived at New York on Wedms
dav.
The construction of iron clad ships Is engaging the
minds of the jieople in various parts of Europe,
London dates of the 10th, state that the Japanese
Ambassadors were received on Sunduy by the Em
peror, at lha Tuillerits. Tr.ere was a brilliant disp’ay
on the occasion An address was delivered by the
Chief of the Embassy, to whi h Louis Napoleon re
plied, relative to the treaty and tha hospitality of the
French nation, and promising to send them back in a
war vessel. <„ .
frees in Lancashire. In the town of Blackburn alone
more t an 15,0j0 people were suffering Irora the ecar
e ly of food, doming, bejdii g and !uel, on account of
the mills,
F oin France it is reported tha" the iron-cased
frigatvs Heroine, Sullivan and fc'olferino, will soon be
launched.
Items from Northern Papers.
Norfolk, May I. — Northern pipers of yesterday
have been received here.
Despatches from Fort Wright furnish some particu
lars in relation to Forts Jackson and St. Phillips, and
the capture of New Orleans after an engagement of
two days. One of the Yankee vessels was sunk. The
Federal to.-s is very heavy. New Orleans te 1 without
a struggle.
Intormation has been received via Fortress Monroe,
stating that the gunboat Louisiana wa i destroyed by
the Federal steamer Pensacola, whilst attempting tp
escape. No official report of the surrender of the city
has been received at Washington.
General Lovell retired seventy milos back, on the
Jackson railroad.
The works at Yorktown are progressing undisturbed
by the fire of the Con
Active preparations for a heavy siege and a grand
encounter are progressing.
Large staff, of surgeons and nurses are detailed from
different fetates to take charge of the wounded. Ar
angtm ,nts have been made to identify the dead. A
flotilla is ready to cany the ir jared to Fortress Mon
roe, Alexandria, Washington, Georgetown, Now York
and Philadelphia.
The New York Herald says that a brilliant skirmish
took place with the enemy at Hancock, on Monday
last. It also says that in a few days a terrific battle
will open, fearful to both aid s.
Foote is still bomuarding Fort Wright.
A sharp cavalry skirmish took place at Pittsbnrg
Landing on Monday. Loss small on both sides.
The Confederates were mounting heavy guns, and
preparing ior a desperate fight. Col. Hough and Gen.
Cauly have effected a.junction with their forces.
At Galveston on the 11th Inst., there was a skirmish
between the opposing torces.
In the Senate, on Tuesday, bills creating a bureau
for clothing and authorizing a Medical Inspector, were
reported to the Committee on Military Affairs. ~
Speeches made in the House of Kcpre
show a most shamelesi ana wholesale
puoli • treasury : and Unit mem’‘r-_^jggSß
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HEAVY mm II OHRII
A GREAT BATTLE IMMINENT!
Capture of Yankee Officers.
[From onr Army Correspondent ]
Cobinth, May 3.—Th je has bee> some heavy skir
mishing here; eevora killed and wounded.
We captured two Federal officers— a Colonel ard a
Major.
The enemy is advaneb gin heavy foreo, ands now
within six miles of Cos inth. A batte wi I probably
take place to-morrow (Uindty) it the weather permit*
ft is nqjr clondy.
Beauregard has issued a stirriDg add-ess to the ar
mies of Shiloh and ilkhorn, which are now ut iled.
The Confederates put their trust In Provide*.ee, and
are confident of success.
The Federal General, Smith, Is dead. P, W. A.
Latest from Corinth!
The Two Armies Face to Face!
3STO BA-TTIjIC YET t
(From our Army Correspondent.!
Corinth, May 4, 10 o’clock A M.—The two grand
armies now stand front to front, separated on'y by a
space of four or five miles. The Confederates are
ready, but will probably await an attack. The battle
may not occur today, but it can hardly be postponed
beyond '
The weather is cloudy, but without rain.
The skirmishing was very heavy yesterday; the Con*
federate loss was about twenty iu killed and wounded.
laate and Important from Corinth.
[7b the Charleston Mercury.]
Corinth, Miss., May 3 (via Mobile).- The
enemy advanced towards our lines this after
noon, with a force of several thousand, support
ed by two batteries of artillery. They engaged
the brigade under General Marmaduke, which
was performing picket duty. The skirmishing
began at 2 o’clock p. m., and at half-past five
the artillery was brought into action. The fight
lasted about an hour, when our forces retired.
The scene of the engagement was Farmington,
four and a half miles from Corinth. It is now
occupied by the enemy. Our loss was about
twenty killed and wounded. The enemy’s loss
is unknown. A grand battle is expected with
in three days. Our army is confidently await
ing the attack.
[Fr m our Army Correspondent.!
Our Amies in the West.
Corinth, May 4—6 p. m.—All qulot here. Both ar
mies maintain their threatening positions. It is now
raining.
From East Tennessee.
Avgusta, May 4.—The Chronicle & Sentinel of this
morning has a letter from Chattanooga which says the
enemy had retired from Bridgeport and auvanced no
lurther.. .
The Confederates Retire from Yorktown.
Richmond, May s.—Our forces have retired from
Yorktown, and the movement is generally approved
here.
Yesterday, three of the enemy’s gunboats ascended
York river to West Point, about thirty miles from
Richmond. One gunboat tired at the last train that
left West Point.