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mit M-eekln YOL. IX TER M S : Daily Paper, $8; Tri-Weekly, *5; Weekly, $2 t3&~ IN ADVANCE. _**3 The Paper is always stopped, unless a remittance be made to continue it! Timely notice is given, so that payment can be made before the expiration oi a sub scription. s^viKisrir^A-ii. 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| rffSSl rtMH - . 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 llte W-.g.TfA- 1 ■ libi*. lUlj .’i - Hilfeb jM 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. ~ r. w. a. 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 Y"-\ - issiSlil buovj^ TsTO. 22. 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.