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2 WEEKLY REPUBLICAN, JBy IT. W. Sims, City and Count; Printer. jAJWBS ft. SNEED. - - KOIIOB SAYANN AH, GaT Saturday Morning, May 10, 186*. The Mobile Advertiser of the 4th, has a des patch from Corinth, stating that Huntsville was re captured by Kirby Smith. Appointment.—We have very good authority for stating that General Capers, late of t e Georgia Btalo Troops, has been Brigadier Genera' in the Confederate s Confederate Judge.—H° • T , rrr.‘Torr^ commission and took the oath of office some days ago. Good Example.— Major Walker Reynolds has taken the lead in Talladega county, Alabama in sending negroes to work the farms of poor men who are in the army, and have left farms and families behind. This is as it should be. Occupation of New Orleans. — A despatch was received by the Secretary of War, from General Lovell, at Camp Moore, stating that Gen Eutler’s force entered New Orleans on on Saturday. ' Kissing the Hod.— The Legislature of Mary land has been made to appropriate seven thou sand dollars to the families of the Massachu setts Yankees, slain by the outraged citizens ol Baltimore in the invasion of last spring! Norfolk. — The Richmond Examiner of Mon day, has a report that the Confederate troops have commenced to evacuate Norfolk. The other papers and the telegraph arc silent on the s abject. Halleck’s Funeral Order.— General tlal leck has issued an order prohibiting more than twelve persons from attending the iuneral of Kentucky rebels, who belonged to the Confed erate Army and are brought home for inter ment. Our statement concerning the appoint ment of Gen. Capers as a Brigadier in the Con federate service, was premature. The circum stantial evidence was very strong, and seemed to warrant the announcement, though it turns out that the appointment has not yet been made. We understand that over three hundred loyal Southerners have been arrested at Nashville, and confined as prisoners in the State Peniten tiary since the establishment there of Andrew Johnson’s monstrous and unlicensed despot ism. Speculation in Memphis.— Sugar has ad vanced over one hundred per cent, in Memphis within the last few days. The Memphis Ava lanche more than hints that the rise is caused by the probability that the Federalists will oc cupy Memphis. Second Georgia —The 2d Georgia Volun teers, now in the Peninsula, reorgnized, under t!ie conscript bill, on the 28th of April. E. M. Butts, the former Major, was elected Colonel; Capt. Wm. R Holmes, of the “Burke Sharp Shooters,” Lieut. Colonel, and Capt. W. T. Harris, of the “Jackson Blues,” Major. The remarkable admission has been made on the floor of the Washington House of Repre sentatives that the Federal Government has Re- rii/te SAVA KTTSI ATT VJISXES&S-TT REPUBLICAN, SaTUBDA Y, MaA'Y" 10, 1862. Tlie Past aod I* Mure Policy of the Con fedc b’te States. ! For two long yea, "s, (says a Richmond con temporary,) has wu v, In its most vindictive form, raged upon Sou 'hern territory, and yet to this ’hour not a sing.V blow has been struck upon Northern soil, not'A Southern musket has been fired beyond South*™ limits, not even the sound of a hostile gun hats been heard upon the Northern air. been driven from their ham ern homestead given to * ’ Northern acre desoiatcu bore,-we Who only ask for peace, we who :1 ae-ire to be let alone; we, the unoffend = /people of the South, are made to bear all ibi’, and never once to strike back our cruel invaders. We are playing the part of the frogs in the pond, pelted with rocks by cruel boys, and only to find safety in dodging as best we can tbc dangerous missiles. How long is this more than child’s play to be endured ? What good has it accomplished ? Have our suffer ings softeued the hearts of our enemies ? Has our forbearance inspired them with sentiments of toleration ? On the contrary, it has increas ed their hate and ferocity ten-fold. They look upon it not as forbearance, but as pusillanimi- ty. If we had followed them up at Manassas, burned Washington to the ground, and rallying around our banner the glorious men of Mary land, had thrown oor victorious legions into Pennsylvania and Ohio, the war would by this time be ended, or at any rate the enemy’s ca pacity for mischief destroyed. Peace is peace, and war is war, but of all the wars we have ever heard of, this, on our side, least deserves the name. If not too late to retrieve this fatal error, we should make a gigantic effort to harl back upon the enemy’s country, in an irresisti ble avalanche, all the calamities and evils of war which for one long year he has visited at his leisure upon ourselves. ■ Thesffare wordk of’truth and soberness, and we cordially adopt them as our own. There is not a doubt but that our rulers have that the whole policy of the present war has been a blunder, and a most grievous one, en tailing increased bloodshed and melancholy devastation upon many of the Stales of the Confederacy, and completely desolating some of them. It was well meant, we know; but still an error, that has brought untold trouble upon both government and people. We have made the same mistake that the North did in the beginning—we have shaped our policy on the conviction that we had friends in the ene my’s country, who would, in some way, come to the rescue; they, in turn, have based the war ou the foolish, deluded hypothesis that there exists at the South a Union sentiment that would bring all things right so soon as i l had the protection of an army. Both made a grand and bloody mistake —we no less than they—and are now reaping the legitimate har vest of the error. We have no desire to bring condemnation on our government, or any particular department of it, for this unfortunate state of affairs. The truth is, the error was a popular one. The government moved, and the people, approved and applauded, trusting—with too much confi dence it has turned out—that their rulers knew best what was right, and all would be well with us iu the end. All lias not been well. Our system of defensive warfare has squandered the means, wasted the energies, poured out the blood, and weil nigh brought to rain as gallant a people as the sin of heaven has ever shone upon. There is l o.htng more pal| able—more terribly true—than the proposition : wc must change our policy, or consent to come under the yoke of the oppressor—at least expose all our cities aud a large portion of the Confederate territory to Abolition vassalage and plunder for many months, if not years, to come. The gov ernment owes it to the people, to the spirit of Liberty, to inaugurate a change, and at once. This war must be brought to a close. There one way of doing it, and common sense, science, suggest and en -landing ■ >; all Uil-lPgenl v mu.: ' ' . . ARMV CORRESPONDENCE Of the Savannah Republican. Memphis, April 22. Persons who have just come down the river, inform me that the greater part of the Federal forces lately at New Madrid and Island 10—esti mated at 20,000 men—have gone up to Cairo and around into the Tennessee river. The transports were Been to take on board large bodies of troops at New Madrid, and it was stated by the Federals themselves that they were going to the support ot Buell. Meanwhile, the enemy’s mortar boats keep up an irregular tire against bert Pillow. There Is an abrupt bend in the river just above the tort, which renders it necessary for ti e gun boats to come within short range of our bat teries before they can fire upon the fort. The river itself is narrow at this point, while the channel runs close to the Tennessee shore ; so that a boat., to run the gauntlet, would have to pass within oue hundred and fifty yards of our works for nearly a mile. Thus far the gunboats have taken but little part in the ineffectual bombardment to which the fort has been sunjected. Our batteries are concealed by a tongue of the thickly wooded land that extends out into the river where its curve is sharpest,and to pass around that, so as to be able to see the fort, would be to expose the boats to a direct fire at very short range. The mortar boats, however, lie behind this tongue of land, and send their shells overthe trees, by which they are protected from a re turn fire. But up to this time they have ac complished nothiug, except to annoy"ourtrans ports a little while unloading. It is thought not to be impossible, that the forces sent up the river are intended to move out by land and invest Fort Pillow in me rear, while the gunboats and mortar-boats make an attack in front. Others ex Teas the belief that they will seek to unite with the army on the Tennessee, somewhere between that river aud the Mississippi, with a view to a combined and irresistible movement upon Memphis. Tne latter opinion, however, aside from rnents of the Federals themselves, wonfPWem to be that they have 'gone around to Paducah, and up the Tennessee. , , The passage of the Mississippi is, compara tively, of but little consequence to the enemy, so long as our army maiutains a defiant front at O-rmth ; for, even supposing his gunboats bed descended to New Orleans, it would be an i easy matter for us to cut off bis commnnica- tions, unless his transports were constanth ac i companied by the gunboats. The distance : from Memphis to New Orleans by water is said ito be 8()0 miles. o keep open the river this | distance, for the safe passage of transport, i would require more gunboats than the enemy | has. The column lately at New Madrid would hardly dare, therefore, to go to New Orleans, if it could do so without firing a gun, so long as Beauregard holds Corinth and the interven ing country to the Mississippi, unless the Fed erals were sure of being able to open commu nication with their fleet at the mouth of the river. A great battle must be tought in a few weeks at or below Corinth. I the Confederates are successful, the enemy will cease all serious ef fort to force a passage down the Mississippi If the Federals are successful, Fort Pillow will necessarily fall, and with it Memphis and New Orleans. Until, therefore, Beauregard has been beaten at Corinth, or the defenses below New Orleans have been overcome by an attack from the Gulf, it is questionable whether the enemy would pass down the river below Memphis if he could. If this view of our position be correct, the n everything depends upon our ability to beat back the foe at Corinth and New Orleans, and especially at. the iormer place. Will we be able to do this ? The enernv's original effective force at Shiloh was, say 45,000 men To this add Buell’s col umn of 25,000—making altogether 70,000 fight ing men. Subtract from this his losses in the late battle, admitted bv himself in the first pub lished accounts to be 20 000, and he would still have on ihe Tennessee an army of 50,000 men The 20,000 reported to have been sent, around from New' Madrid and other points on the Mis sissippi would swell the number to 70.000. — Should the battle be delayed two or three weeks, he will be able to draw additional forces from other points in the northwest, and even from thecamps of instruction in the north and east. It is uot impossible that a portion of Cur tis’ army in south-western Missouri may be brought up in time. Put down these addition al forces at 15.000, and we have an army op posed to us of 85,000 men. This is a very large army—larger than either of the combatauts had at Waierloo or Blenheim. It is probable this number willberedueed somewhat by sicknes. A flilt'll withiii the past t— jMm . jm Gen Grant stu.'iou-ly avoided saying unj thing about ihe prisoners he lost, aim rile la> amount of military property we captured II t estimate of the Federal killed and wounded is entirely too small. The killed and wounded on our side were in the proportion of one to six r seven, owing to the protection aff >rded by the timber, Applying the same rule to, the c?su alties in the Federal ranks, and taking 1,500 (Gen. G’s figures) as the number of their killed, and the loss of the enemy in wounded would be about 10,000. it would be fair, however, to estimate their killed at 2,000, aud their 'Wound ed at 13 000. Add to this their loss In prisonei s, and we have a total of about 18.000. And this Corresponds with private information received here through trustworthy channels. Oirowu loss wiib fully one-third as large—say 6 000. The enemy is straining every nerve to bring together an overwhelming force at as early a day as possible. In addition to the reinforce ments referred to in mv last letter, it is m>w reported' that the greater part of Fremont’s command will be sent from Northwestern Vir ginia to the Tennessee. At this rale, it is pos sible Gen. Halieck may collect an army ot 100,- 000 men. I may remark here however, that the columns ot 100,000 aud 200,000 men so often boastiuily spoken of by the Federal press, exist only ou paper. The entire Federal force iu the west does not exceed 150,000 men, one-fourth of whom, as in all volunteer armies, may be set down as unfit for service, by reason of sickne-s, absence or disability. The proportion of non effectives in the Federal army of t ie wesi is fullv up to this figure. We hear that there are 9,000 siek iu Nashville, and a northern paper now before me, says there are 5 000 eases of diarrhoea in Cairo and Mound City alone —all from Grant’s army. The water and climate are quite as fatal as our muskets and artillery. A month hence the mortality will be fourfold greater than it is now Letters picked up on the ba tie field and northern newspapers ■ x press great uueasiness iu regard to the health of the army. It would appear that the enemy has not with drawn down the Ttnriessee; he has only re tired from Shiloh back to Pittsburg landing, where he can have the protection of his river batteries and gunboats. It is now believed that he will maintain his position ou the river until teska! his reinforce . itfat he will theVmarch out and give us battie. The late heavy rains will probably prevent a forward movement for some ten days or two weeks. If the Confederates are successful, the campaign in the south-west will be at an e and, so far, at least, as the advance of the enemy is concerned. If the Federals are victorious, then we shall fail back and take up anew line of defence, but shall still tight on. A batch of nor hern papers received here yesterday, contains some interesting intelli gence. A letter from Washington to the Cin cinnati Enquirer, enclosed herewith, will arrest your attention. Yon will temember the predic tion in one of my letters from Centrevilie last tall, that the Federal government would adopt the programme of emancipation by the first of May. Peihapslwas mistakeu as to ihe time, hut the letter to the Ei quirer furnishes con clusive proof that such a policy has already been determined upou by the Federal govern ment. and will be openly avowed the moment it can be done with safely. The must important statement contained in the letter to the Enquirer is that of the. Federal Secretary at War, who says that “the increased transportation required by t eadvance into the enemy’s territory, has increased the war tx l-ienses to live million dollars per day ! more than the printiug machine has the power to supply.” But you will publish the letter, and I need not make further reference to it. The Federals are establishing mail routes as they advance into the country. The railroad bridge over Barren river at Howling Green has been rebuilt, and the trains are now running from Louisvilie to Nashville. The trains are also running from Nashville to Murfreesboro, on the Nashville & Chattanooga road, and from Nashville to Columbia on the road leading to Decatur. There arc a great tuauy strangers in Nashville from the North, who have come out to see how things lowk in Dixie. Messrs. Jones and Beil, connected with the Nashville press, have been arrested by Andy Johnson. And what is belter tfian all, the people in those portions of Tennessee which are occupied by the enemy, are pluming no cotton at all, or very little, but are devoriug the whole of their lands to corn and small grain. The people of Ohio are petitioning the Leg islature to prohibit the immigration of negroes into that State from the South. P. W. A. Book* and Letters found iu the Fed eral Camps. Memphis. April 25. The books and letters picked up in the Fed eral camps at Shiloh are not without their si g will serve to “ point a moral,” never “ adorn a ial-.” —V. u ut mi lhe V. : . • > Ohio regiment to the Colonel Commanding, 1 give entire : “Col. I. J. Applbr, “Sir—lt again Becomes my Dutv to address you In K Sereneto Rev Mr Mcliitire he Has not Recovered las health, but was worse List Knight than Ever Hie whole Dirieulty is in his Mum, By Spells he is perfectly Deranged which was the case Last Kuight he amedgiued lie had bin m a battle and was wounded But was still Ready to Stand his Ground, I Suppose the Dili culty is Caused bv a Determination of blood To the Brain, and 1 Doe not think He will be able to Regoin his Regt for months, ad to this ihe warm Weather Coming on the armey Going South which I think will All make against him, Therefore I have advised him to Kesyne which I thing he would Doe by ynure Consent, for he E-teames you veury highh-y aud is afraid you or the Regiment will think Hie Less of him for -ueh a corse, And he Would Rather Suffer Death than his character'should Suffer, I hope you will answer tins and give some. Expression that will set his Mind at Ease, for his Relation to the Reg a greate drale to Doe with the ease, I have Attended him closely & am sutifierl that he will uot be able u> stand a Cain pa in, for he cannot stand the Excitement of the Battle Field, All ot which I Respectfully submit, Please take Dew notice and govern yourself accordingly S. Liitler, M. I). I add the following letter for the editic ation of your lady friends : Jackson, March 4 h, 1802, At School. Dear Johnny : As lamat a loss for some thing to do, I thought I could spend ray time iu as profitable a way as any by writing to you ; but I am thinking if Mr. Sangbon would cast bis eyes over in ibis direction at this time, he would be of ad fferent opinion. It is uot my turn to write, but I atn going to write to you whenever I get time, and I hope you will do ihe same. Don’t always wait for an auswer, but write as often as you can. I have had quite a lime of it among the girls. Most of them arc in favor of my dropping Jim for yon, while some Je<e wish me to take Jim. But y<m need not think they have any influ ence over me, for they cannot influence me in a matter so near at heart. You may have no fear of my changing again, for I never could think as much of J. R as I do of you—although there was a time when I didliot know the true state of my heart, and therefore decided in Jim’s favor—but I regard him now as nothing more than a triend. lam going to try to mke my letters as in terusting to you as possible, but you must overlook all deficiencies iu that way, and only remember that I love you, and do not judge by the one of my letters my feelings towards you. I believe I told you in my other letter about those two young men being here. I did not tell you their names, for I did uot think you knew them, but I rememb r hearing you “peak of one of them. One was Harrison Cadot and the other Jesse LaClairg. Do you recollect the time that you preached that Dog sermon ? Quin got a letter from Ellison yesterday af ternoon and answered it .ast night! Mary Hoop is getting along finely. I suppose she misses you of Sunday fights, i don’t know what Fan will do it she is disappointed much longer in getting a letter from Sperling Harrison (Jadot is Julia Duugau’s beau. I think that is a fine match Annie Laird and I are seat-mates. We are as good friends as ever. Ellen Hoffman wrote a letter tp Jim it. ihe next day aftei hit left I think she was in a hurry. I shall have to close, as school is nearly out." You mu-t not neglect writing as often as yon possibly can. Ever yours, ' E. K. L. “E. K L ” is evidently a little flirt—one of those “summer friends,” who is Jim’s to-day and Johnny’s tomorrow. Ttie sooner “dear Johnny” makes this discovery, the better il will be for him. P. W. A. Memphis, April 27. Events follow each other with such rapidity, and the mails have become so irregular and uncertain, that it is and flicult to prepare a con nected narrative of wtmt is trauspiriug in the West. The city has been in a stale ot greit ex citement for some days past, in consequence of the unfortunate condition of attars at New Or leans. The uneasiness has been greatly in creased by the silence ot the authorities Though aware of the advantages gained by the enemy, and that the people along the river aud far into the country were excited by the wildest and most paintul rumors, they have obstinately refused to allow any despatches to passover the wires, or to utter one word to relieve the public anxiety. A desire to prevent the enemv up the river from getting tne news through our newspapers, is the reason assigned tor the course pursued by the authorities, who seem nt-ver to have supposed that the spies who curry southern papers through the lines, could also carry the news in iheir heads. An übsurd fear of the if tect of the intelligence upon our army is another reason urged tor withholding tile un wonie lidmgs. This is simply ridiculous; who arc not to blame for any of Mkfct btl'.cr prepared, !-} reason ot ", Vii.ue are! coinage, to Bifatj, 'a a lea .-.glil Fin in the Twelfth Georifia Kigiuicm. [Correspondence of the Bavannah Republican..) Camp at Valley Mill Va., | May Ist, 1802 J Mr Editor .•—My last letter, I believe, was written from Camp Shenandoah. Since that date we have removed to .this point, some five or six miles west of Slauuton. We arc in the midst of what is termed the Valley of Virginia, one of the finest and most productive agricul tural regions I have ever seen. Its value will be understood, when I tell you that farms in the neighborhood of this camp are bought and at one hundred dollars per acre, and even more. Ybeat and corn are protluc. din almost fabulous quantities. Ihe country is dotted with beautifuj/esidences— the homes of refine ment and 'ftTWwtion. The population is made up of material very different Irom that found in the mountains, by whom we have boeu sur rounded during our entire sojourn in North west Virginia. Our march from Camp Shenandoah to this place was, perhaps, the most unpleasant march we have ever made. The road, softened by continued rains, had been greatly cut up by constant hauling, and was an almost uninter rupted bed of mud. The worst portion of it we passed over in the night, when it was so dark we could not see to select our footing, and had to trust to good luck to keep erect, a very u isafe dependence, as we were admonished by repeated fails and ilounderings in the mud. We have not fallen back upon this line be cause of auy pressure in front of us, but entire ty on account of Gen. Jackson’s position in the direction of Winchester. Tile relation of that command to ours has been such that we were mutually dependent upon each other for pro tection in rear; hence we have been obliged to move in concert. The enemy have sent scout ing and foragiug parties down the pike in front of us, but they have been very cautious, and kept at safe distances. Our pickets and scouts extend six or eight miles back, and, though they have been vigilant, uo traces or movements of the enemy have been discovered by them. It was my good (or ill) fortune, to be on picket duty last night. It rained all night, and we bad very imperfect shelter, planks loosely laid against a pole; and, between the rain and con stantly shifting smoke, our position was ren dered anything but comiortable. eveu when uo t on post. Fortunately, I was stationed near a creek, and, “being armed and equipped as the law” (of Izaak Walton) “requires,” I devoted an hour to fishing : result, one beautiful trout. Having no other appliances for cooking I wrap ped him in a piece of clean paper, well greased, and roasted him in the ashes, as, in earlier davsi I used to roast potatoes. It any of your read ers have never eaten fish in this man ner, let them no longer neglect it, if they affect a genuine luxury. This is May day, but how unlike the May days o: other years in Georgia! What a throng ot pleasing associations belongs to this time honored gala day—flowers and sunshine, glad ness and gaiety, happy words and greetings of friends. But none of these pleasures are here —no flowers or sunshine, no parties of the young and gay and happy, no May day pleasure, save what consists in the recollections of the past. R. T. D. Tlte Crops, ice. We make t'he following extracts from letters received at this office within the last few days : From a letter dated -Washington, Wilkes county, April oO h : “I must now say something in regard tq the wheat crop in this section. Our planters seed ed a larger number of acres last fall than ever before, and up to the Ist of April it had never presented a more encouraging prospect for an abundant harvest, but owing to the continued excessive rains, or some other cause, it sudden ly exhibited signs of the rust, which spread with unparalleled rapidity, until almost the en tire crop is ruined. I have seen formers from all sections of the county, and all bring the same melancholy account. I rode over several hun dred acres yesterday, which, three weeks agOi was as line as I ever saw in this county, now almost a golden yellow, trom the rust; it will Dot be worth harvesting. And to add to the calamity, the oat crop, which is unusually large, exhibits unmistakable signs of the same disease, and we fear will share the same late of the wheat. If other sections of the State are visit xid-With the same misfortune it is rc*troug ap LATE NEWS FROM THE WET. THE GREAT BATTLE POSTPONED BY HEAVY RAINS— THE ENEMY MOVING TOWARDS THE MOBILE ROAD- DE STEUCTION OF THE LIMESTONE" BRIDGE BY THE CONFEDERATES — CAPTURE OF FEDERAL PROVISION TRAINS-SUCCESSFUL SKIRMISHES WITH CAVAi/RY—POSTPONEMENT OF A GENERAL B ATTLE IMPOSSIBLE-AN OTHER FEDERAL COLONEL CAPTURED —THE OPPOSED 10 GOING FURTHER SOUTH—ANOTHER OF MOR GAN’S EXPLOITS. [From our Army Correspond! nt ] CoitiNrn, May sth—a. m —All remains quint at this point to day. Wo had heavy rains last night, and again this morning, though it is now clearing up. Tne condition of the ground u suah that there wil! preb bly be no battle to-day. The enemy is moving large forces on our right. They tore up the track of the Memphis & Ch-rleston Railroad yesterday, at a p>int ton miles east of Cor inth. The object of the movement is, probably, to try aud r iach he Mobile road south of us, and cut off men and su piles in that quarter. Beauregard is on the al rt, and has seut an adequate force to defeat ilieir plans. Col. Bcott, of the Louisiana Cavalry, burn 4 the rail road bri ge over Limestone, between Decatur and Huntsville, Thursday last. He also captured two Yan kee provision trains, burnt twt nty cars, and killed and wounded thirty-four Federate. He also engaged the enemy's cavalry on Friday, at Elk river, and repulsed them, though half hi - men had crossed the rve and were not in the fight. He killed thirty-five ot the Fed erate; the Contederate loss on the expedition was four killed, five wounded, and twelve horses. P. W. A. CoaiNin, May sth—p. m—l have no change in the status of affairs here to report as the day advances.— The weather is clear, but tbs roads are in a snockmg condition. A battle cannot ue deterred, however. Col Adams, of the Federal Army, wbo was captured by our scouts on Saturday, says the Northern Army must fight soon, or become wholly demoralized. The men are uneasy about the climate and sickness, and don’t waat to go any further south. Col Morgan (the famous Captain Morgan) has jut bren heard from. He fought, defeated, aud captured, a Federal force of 265, and then captured the whole party, at Pulaski, Tennessee. He subsequent'}’ oia ebarged the prisoners on their parole, and then des troyed several railroad trains loaded with Federal property. p. w. A LATEST FROM CORINTH. THE ENEMY HESITATE—FURTHER OF MORGAN’S EXPLOIT—A SON OF GEN. MITCHELL OAPTURED-FREMONT JOINS THE MAIN COLUMN-FEDERAL FORCE IN THE WEST. LFrom our Army Correspondent] Cobintii May 6. Anoth r day has passed with the two armies almost fuce to face, and still all is quiet. The weather is good, but the enemy hes tates. Col. Morgan reports through a courier that he en gaged the enemy near Pulaski, on the Decatur and Nashville road Friday last, that be killed several and captured 26s prisoners, including a son of General MUcheP, the Federal commander of the forces who re eel tly took, possession of Huntsville, He also captured a tram o’wagons loaded with arms and other pioper ty. Several of them were loaded with cotton, bound lor Aashville. The wagons, together with a number of ears in the service of the Federais, wore burnt. This is off! dal Morgan’s prisoners, who were taken to Purdy, say that Fremont has come up and united his forces with the main b >d'y of the army, and that the real strength of the Fee eraU out here is 90,000. P. W. A. l atest from New Orleans. Augusta, May 6th.—The Jackson Mississtppian has seen the New i rleans papers of Tuesdav, from which jt takes the following items of information: The authorities of the city held out to the last in stubborn, heroic refusal to lowor the flag of their adop tion. All the guns of Fort Jackson were spiked before the sn reader. Fort Pike ha l been evacuated, and every thing <t contained abandoned. Commander Farragut sent a communication to the Mayor and Council of the city on the 2Sth, complain ing of the refusal 10 haul down the Confederate flag, and warning 'hem to remove the women and children from the city within forty-eight hours. The Mayor convened the Council, and they decided not to recede f'om their posit on. The i onlstaoa flag still floais iu the bri eze. Mayor Monroe nobly replied to Farragut, saying, “ We w it stand your bombardment, unarmed •>nd undefonde l as wo are.” Farragut again, on the itHfoad 1 res sand the Mayor, saying that Forts Jackson and that he would now pro! ■fy til" Custom Hoii'C. 1 " u,.