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S AYAOTAH -
Saturday Morniujr. May 24, 1862.
Wheat.— Onr exchanges from every part of
the State represent the wheat crop as greatly
improving and promising a good yield, ip spite
of the unfavorable appearances seme lew weeks
back. '
The Richmond Whig of the 10th, comes to
us dressed in mourning, in consequence of the
death of Col. Thomas M. Bondnraut, of Buck
ingham, the principal proprietor of that paper.
Edward Stanly is now on bis way from Cali
fornia, and will be in Washington in a few days.
He comes at the request of Lincoln for the
purpose of taking the office of Military Gov
ernor of North Carolina, his native Slate.
A Brilliant Feat. —Oar Feniusula corres
pondent describes a dashing exploit of Slew
art’s cavalry, at the late battle near Williams
burg, that, in bri.liancy and effectiveness, has
no parallel since the war begun.
Hail Btorm. —Saturday aft-jrooon last a con
siderable fall of bail, about the size of large
buckshot, occurred at Haoner’s Bridge, on the
r White Bluff road. la the south western por- j
tion of the county the indications were that
the storm was heavier.
Given Up.—The Federal prisoner captured
some days ago under a bogus flag of trnee,
have, by order of General Pemberton, been
restored to their command.
Having already expressed an opinion on this
matter, we have nothing more to say.
jggT" We would suggest the propriety of ex
amining sentinels to see if they are sober, b lore
placing them on duty at the Central Railroad
Passenger Station. A gentleman who had oc
casion to take the cars Friday night last In
f rras ns that a whiskey-barrel would smell no
stronger than the sentinel at the door.
Thirty ninth Eeoiment.— At a recent elec
tion for field officers to command the 3fkh Ketr
iraent Georgia Yoluntn re, under the law re
qulring its re-organizatiou. Col. David .1. B tiley
was re elected Colonel, Adjutant Thomas W.
Maogham was elected Lieutenant Colonel, and
James S. Boynton, Major.
Dr. Francis H. Cone, of Greeihoro, young
est son of the late Judge Cone, and a Sergeant
in the Bth Georgia, was killed just before the
retreat of our army from Vorktowu. The
particulars are given by our Peninsula corres
pondent. .
Is it Prudent ?—The Richmond Dtepatch
seems to be laboring to prove to the Yankees
that the obstructions in the river below Rich
mond are really no obstacle to their progress,
and that their gunboats can reach the city if
they will but only try. We know snch is not
the intent of our contemporary, but such is
unquestionably the effect of several editorials
we have recently read in that journal.
The President's Family.—We learn from
the Italcigh Journal that the wife of President
Davis, with her children, is at present residing
in that city. Several ladies and gentlemen ac
company them, ampng whom are Senator Gw'.n,
of California, and his son. The Journal adds
that it is the intention of President Davis to
lead an army against the hosts investing Rich
mond, and has declared its streets shall run
with blood before he yields it.
Despatches from Übn. Beauregard.—Of
ficial despatches were received on Tuesday ac
the War Department from General Beauregard,
staling that two of the enemy’s gunboats on
the Mississippi, heretofore reported to have
been injured by us, hod been towed ashore to
prevent them troui sinking, and the entire raor
tar fleet had withdrawn from the range of the
lire of Fort Pillow.
The Pioneer Paper Mills, near Athens, have
been rebuilt, and are now in operation. There
are many newspaper proprietors who will re
ceive this as welcome news. The article of
printing paper is extremely scarce, and while
many journals have beeu compelled to suspend
from the impossibility of procuring supplies,
others have kept up only by the most extraor
dinary shifts. There is a paper in Mississippi
that came to us in five different colors by the
same mail.
Fate of tub South truss Conquered.—Let
all read the we copy elsewhere
from the New York Time*. and then say if there
is a foot ot southern soil that should be given
up to such a toe. in Yankee threats we may
learn something of both our destiny and our
duty. Woe be to a people who, after these ex
positions of their enemy's intentions, are wil
ling to submit whilst their blood runs warm
and life itself remains.
Camp Smith, May 16th, 1562 (
2 ilh Regiment Georgia Volunteers. )
Fdi'or Savannah Republican:
Allow me space through your valuable col
umns, to ask some ol yonr readers if the Con
script Act prohibits volunteers from hiring
substitutes to take their places, or not ? There
have been several substitutes received in the
50th regiment. Now, will thosu persons that
hired substitutes be subject to the Conscript
Act ? Any Information on the subject will be
thankfully received. A Volunteer.
The Charleston Courier of yestei day gives an
account by Mr. Haesloop of his experience as
a captive, taken on board the Alary Thereat by
the Yankee blockading fleet ofT Charleston.—
He fays the Yankees assured him they were
willing and even anxious to restore every negro
in their hands to the owners, on the proper
demand being made. The negroes, they say,
are very difficult to mauage, and are regarded
with extreme aversion by both officers and men
of the Navy.
NT The tiring between ten and elevcu o’- j
clock Saturday night, proceeded from the
Thunderbolt battery. Our water pickets dis
covered three barges ol Yankees reconnoitering
the river below, aud the signal being given the
battery sent three charges ot grape shot in
search of them, but with what effect has not
been ascertained.
Several rounds were also exchanged between
our pickets and the Federal*, with no damage
on our side.
The same party attempted to ascend Herb
river, leading to Isle of Hope, but were fired
on by Col. Wilson’s pickets and beat hasty
retreat.
Wear* pleased to see that onr system of
river pickets has been so nearly perfected.
They are now dotug good service, and U is dif
ticult to elnde them.
£sr Extract from a letter dated,
“Vienna, Ga., May Htb, 1884.
“Money Is very scarce with us, although cot
ton bales are plenty under gin houses and
shelters, which used to be king and command
il—little or none planted this year.
“Prospects, so far, have been gloomy for a
corn crop—difficult to get a stand—insects cut
ting it down,Ac- l hope It will now change, as
we last night had a fine shower, and is to-day
warm snd growing weather. The wheat crop
will be sorry in onr section. 1 see some flue
oat crop*, as"good as I have ever seen, and some
also sorry.'*
Military Election Friday last, an elec
tion was held at Camp Way, of on* of the re
cently organised regiments. We give the re
sult :
CoIon*I.—CfUKLTCN H. Wat.
Lieut. Colonel- Morgan Rawls.
Major.—MH. Mann.
Thfftyflrrt Begfnicat 6*. Vp|onlcsr,
The following is the rei ult of au election
hrlti at “Camp Philips,” Beaulieu, for field
and company officers of ihe thirty-first regi
ment, Georgia Volunteers, C. S. A.
Colonel—C. a. Evans.
Lieutenant. Colonel—j, TANARUS, Crowder.
MJor— J. H. Lows
Q jattermasier—Captain Joseph M. Russell.
Commissary—Captain John A. Walker.
Surgeon—Major Win. White, M. D.
Sergeant Major—Sergeant F. II Sapp.
Commissary Sergeant—lS. M. Walker.
GEORGIA LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY A.
Captain—A. Forrester.
Ist Lieutenant—C. S. Shorter.
2d “ E. W. Clapp.
Brevet 2d Lieutenant—J. L. B’ggers.
MUSCOGEE C NFEDERATES, COMPANY R
Captain—A. T. Pride.
Ist Lieutenant—J. T. Johnson.
2d “ T. P. Johnson.
Brevet 2d Lieutenant —J. C. Ginn.
MITCHELL GUARDS, COMPANY C.
Captain—J G. Saunders.
Ist Lieutenant—T. P. Pullen.
2d “ T. K. McCarter.
Brevent 2d Lieutenant— E C. Perry.
MONROE CROWDERS, COMPANY D.
Captain— Thomas B. Settle.
Ist Lieutenant—T. H. Vaughn.
2d W. P..WI 4
Brevet 2d Lieutenant.—R. M. Hood.
r.ARTOW GUARDS, COMPANY V.
Captain—L. R. Redding.
Ist Lieutenant—J. W. Orr.
2d “ W. fl. Harrison.
Brevet 2d Lieutenant —C. W. Cox.
PULASKI BLUES, COMPANY F.
Captain—W. D. Wood.
Ist Lieutenant—H. M. Bogeman.
2d “ VY. D. Brunson.
Brevet 21 Lieutenant—J. D. Wilson.
COUNTY LINE GUARDS, COMPANY G
Captain—J. 11. I owe.
Ist Lientenant— A. B. Redding.
2d “ W D. Haynes.
Brevet 21 Lientenant—D. C. Cody, Jr.
MOUNTAIN TIGERS, COMPANY It.
Captain—J. W. Mitrpuy.
Ist Lieutenant—N. W Miller.
2d “ J. 0. Williams.
Brevet 2d Lieutenant—T. J. Davidson
ARNETT IP FLES, COM PAN Y l.
Captain— G. W. Lewis.
Ist Lieutenant—Judson Butts.
2d “ Jas. K. Fioyd.
Brevet 3d Lientenant—H. 8. Stewart.
BARTOW AVENGERS, COMPAN Y a.
Captain—R. n. Ft,etcher.
Ist Lientenant—J. 11. Beider.
2d “ 8. W. Tborn’on.
Bre vet 2d Lientenant—J. T. Price.
Slelc and Wounded at Fort Fill . ski.
We have obtained from private Henry Harvey
Kinder, South Carolit a Volunteers, who was
brought up Irom Pulaski with the flag of truce
some days ago, the following list of the wound
ed and sick Confederate soldiers belonging to
the late garrison, and still remaining at the
fort:
Corporal D. P. Latidershiue, Oglethorpe
Light Infantry, left in charge of the sick.
WOUNDED.
Private Isaac Ames, Oglethorpe Light Infan
try, wounded in the leg by recoil of gun—bad
one foot amputated.
Private Shaw, Oglethorpe Light Infantry, left
arm shot off and wounded in the right arm and
si ie.
Private Win. Stokes, Washingtop Volunteers,
slightly wounded in the side.
SICK.
Seigeant James Creed, Wise Guards.
Private William Bailey, Montgomery Guar Is.
Serginnt M. B. Gilmore, Wise Guards.
Private H. M. Moulton, Wise Guards.
Private Jack Sturtevaut, Wise Guards.
Private Sullivan.
Private C Donelly, Montgomery Guards.
Private A. Ponce, Jr., Oglethorpe Light In
fantry.
Private L. Berry, Oglethorpe Light Infantry.
Private Klcckley, Wise Guards.
Private Ricks, Wise Guards.
Private Michael Curran, Montgomery Guards.
Private J. S. Jordan. Oglethorpe Light In
fantry.
Private Patrick F.sgin, Montgomery Guards.
Private Chas. Berry, Montgomery Guards.
One man, name not recollected, died of his
wounds.
Gen. Butler —The abolition government at
Washington profess to be animated in this war
solely by a desire to restore the Union and fra
ternal feeling between all the people. Yet in
their conquests they seem quite as anxious to
humiliate as to subdue us. The assignment of
that foul-moutlied, hateful, unprincipled aboli
tion vl’lian, Benjamin Fianklin Butler, of Mas
sachusetts, to the military governorship of New
Orleans, is an indignity at which every southern
heart should revolt. In all their realm of
abominations, they c uid not have found a man
more odious, more cordially despised, through
out the South, aud for th s reason no doubt,
the vile miscreant is foisted upon the necks of
a gallant but unfortunate people. Let every
southern man bear the outrage deep and ever
gnawlng in his heart. The time will yet couie
when it shall be grievously avenged.
Do the people ol New Orleans—men able to
take aim and draw a trigger—intend to allow
this wretch the liberty oi their streets in broad
daylight ? Is there no man. or woman, among
them who will offer tip himself, or herself, a
sacrifice rather than have their fair c-itv outraged
by such a dominion ? Are there no street win
dows or house-tops from which the proud auto
crat may be sent to his long account, even
wheu surrounded by his guilded courtiers ?
We hope there are. To a down-trodden and
outraged people any means of punishing the
authors of their humiliation are lawful. Even
the magnificent St. Charles, freighted with in
solence, vanity and despotism, should be blown
into the air rather than have its southern walls
reverberate the revelry of abolition invaders
May the day soou come when a sea of blood
shall be turned loose to wash out these fonl in
dignities.
Capitulation of Tllllroy** Army.
Passengers by the Orange train last evening,
says the Lynchburg Virginian of recent dale
report that Mtllroj's whole army capitulated to
Jacksou. They seemed to have entire confi
dence in the truth of the rumor. Amongst
other articles captured by onr forces was a shin
plaster, which a friend has furnished ns. It
runs in this wise:
■Jo regiment, O. V.
GOOT> FOR
FIVE CENTS,
Redeemable in ) . , .. „
Goons only. i Anderson \ Harper.
Our forces have been engaged for two or
three days in hauling back to Staunton the
stores captured from Miliroy.
Banka Kangri*.
This corps was organiz'd a few days ago by
the election of the following officers :
Captain— Wm. H. Banks.
Ist Lieutenant—H. K. Harrison,
lit Lieutenant—R. F. Junes.
°d Lieutenant— Wiiiium A. Exley.
Ord’v Serg’t—Wm- Wallace Remshart.
Southern Hangers.
This fine corps of cavalry has been fitted up
with most effective material, and are now in
camp, ready for duty. Th?y hive elected the
following officers:
Capt.—S. B. Spencer.
t-t Lit ut. — B. Peacock.
2d Lieut. — M. Smith.
Bd Lieut. Jr.—Thomas Heath.
We will publish the company roll in our
next.
SA.'VkAJtTITA.ia:, SATITEDAY, luLA-YT 34.-; 1362-
I F *r the BaramM* BsraMicstjij
(•OImI lil’SaiMlM for Sut't'fss,
Have we any hope in these troublesome
times ? We believe we have good reasons for
hope. The further our enemy advances beyoud
the base Hue of his operations, the weaker he
becomes. This philoiophieal or mathematical
conclusion Is as dear as a sunbeam. Why
some of our people who seem almost in* lined
to despair have not discovered this fundamen
tal principal we cannot tell.
The further our enemy passes from his own
border line, the weaker the Union element.
Indeed, this element has already been found so
weak-as to paralyze the hopes of those who
thought, by guile or strategy, to blast, onr pros
pects. But as they get further from home, and
launch deeper into the sea of Southern indig
nation, the hearts of many are fainting with
fearful forebodings. The lightnings df keen
resistance are ffashi; g iu their faces, where
they txpected fair we and her. The dreadful alter
native of literal exteinovation is the only shad
owy hope of subjugating a people who are all
swearing their young Hanibals upon the altar
of their household gods, to fight the ruthless
invaders of their lib rites forever. Frightened
at. such appalling scenes, many of them are
g ing back to ibe land of wooden nutmegs,
and telling their shameless editors that rebel
lion cannot, be swept from existence in a few
months.
The warmer the climate, the greater their
sickness. Disease is aheady J|<'iuiaUag their
r:ii**#wit fcamil rapidity. fTi.m sixty to one
hundred corpses are canied out of Nashville
every day. Bui what will tiny do in our wann
er cities, when the sickly suns of August or
September are pouring upon them their scorch
ing beams ? How their u nut climated forms,
wasted with burning fevers, will yearn for a
cool retreat beyond the land of rebels ! But
alas for their health ! They are the dupes oi
military despo ism. At the nod of a cruel ty
rant, they volunteered to d’e in a laud they
sought to desolate.
Bat sickness spares some for a worse fate.—
They earnin' subjugate us on their guuboats.
The most of our strength is ut in river towns
nor on the seacoast. The masses of our people
are in the interior, and determined, to a man,
to fight, over their consecrated altars, with a
determination which history has rower known. I
Far beyond the range of gunboats many a field i
must be drenched in smoking blood or whiten
ed with slmtiered brains before the harpies of
infernal hale shall polnte the graves of our be
loved fathers and mothers. Decision now sit
enthroned on every brow. Reverses flash
vengeance from every eye. The ball of d.atb
ha- opened ! Think ye, Lincolnites, to subju
gate such a people willr gunboats? Turn Ca
nutes in vour frenzy, seat yourselves on a
stormy beach, and command the maddened
billow- ol a rising tide to inn back at, the sound
oi your voice!
But the war is now offenMve as well as drjen
si.vf. The day tor aggession as well as retro
gression Inis come. Heavy guerrillas are to
hang on the skirts of our advancing or retreat
ing enemy like leaden weights to drowning sea
men. What will they do when every party that
leaves tlieir camps is bagged or shot down?
What will they do when every wagon that
brings them a morsel of bread i's stained with
the blood of their wretched vandals V What
will they do when they must, retreat or meet
large armies, led on by as tine military talent
as the world has ever seen, arid burning to
avenge the wrongs which have been heaped
upon ns V Shall not the gods help those who
help themselves? Are we not waking up to
the magnitude of the danger which threatens
our very existence? Does not every man
know that it would be. a matter of economy to
tightall our lives? Who would wilfully plunge
his children into an ui ju-t debt, which they
could never pay ? Who bad not rather see the
bones of his wife whitening in the flames of bis
own building than to see her fll into the hands
of a people who glory in their own shame?—
Who shall enumerate their deeds of villainy ?
They have paralyzed the tongue of decency.—
They have beggared all powers of description.
Will God endure such outrages ? Will He not
avenge insulted justice, and turn on them with
fatal recoil the very destruction they have plot
—l tor ns "
We believe these views are correct. If the
reasons are not founded in truth, let some man
point out the tallacy. Show us a redeeming
leature in the black catalogue of crimes which
has marked the Lincoln administration. Have
they not written their own history on the ster
eotyped plates ol eternal disgrace ? Shalt not
their children’s children read with burning
shame the folly of their degenerate fathers ?
Have they not sought immortality like Erastra
lus iu deeds which are revoltiug to every sense
of honor ? Will not the world forever execrate
the name of Yankee ? P.
A Substitute fur Spanish File*.
I Mr. Editor :
Restricted as we are, we should husband all
our resources and avail ourcelves of every
means in our power by which our isolation
could be rendered less burdensome and oppres
sive. An important article of the Materia
Medics, which has heretolore been exclusively
introduced from Europe, and whiclt is becom
ing scarce and costly, is, at this season, in suf
ficient quantity for home consumption within
our reach.
Medical science is in our day itidebted to
Entomology but for a very few remedies, but
they make up in efficacy for their numerical
insignificance. Had I addressed veu a century
* ago, this would have been different. Amongst
, scores of infallible panaceas, I should have re
commended the wood-louse as a solvent aud
aperient; powder ot silkworm for vertigo and
convulsions; millepedes against the jaundice;
earwigs to strengthen the nerves; powdered
scorpion for the sione aud gravel; fly water for
disorders in the eyes; aud the tick for erysip
elas. I should have prescribed five gnats as an
excelleul purge ; wasps as diuretics ; lady birds
for the colie and measles; the eockchaler for
the bile of a mad dog and the plague; aud auts
and their acid I should have loudly praised as
Incomparable against leprosy and deafness, as
strengthening the memory and giving and
animation to the whole, bodily frame. In short,
I could have easily added to the miserably
meagre list of modern pharmacopoeias a cata
logue of approved insect remedies tor every
disease ana evil “ that flesh is heir to.”
Lint these good times are long gone by. You
might doubt my prercriptioos, notwithstand
ing tile great authorities I could cite in their
favor, and even question tbe i ffieacy of a rnoro
modern specific lor tooth ache, promulgated
by a learned Italian professor, who assures us
that a finger once imbued with the juices ot
fihtHobeUux antiodonlaigicux (a name enough to
give one the tooth ache to pronounce it, will
retain its power of curing this disease for a
twe vemonth (a truly homccopaihic dose.)
I wish to draw your atttention to one of the
few iuseet remedies to which the sons of Hip
poerates aud Galen now deign to have recourse :
the blistering plaster and Cantharidex of medi
cine are prepared from the Spanish flies, . <n—
Iharix tv.t oil h,t, which are collected in St ain
aud Italy in large quantities for exportation.
have in North America many representatives of
the same genus. Several species have been used
lor the same purpose, and in this immediate
neighborhood the VanUiarix rittata vnr , striped
blistering beetle, commonly ealied the Potato
V ly. The blistering beetles have beeu enumer
ated among the insects directly beneficial to
uiau, on account of the important use made of
them in medical practice; yet, the gardeners tu
our neighborhood will testify that the insect in
question is very injurious to vegetation, ap
pearing in large numbers on the Irish potato
tomato, egg plant and beet, which they wii’i
strip ot every leaf. I have, however, remarked
that they will give the preference to a common
weed, it in close proximity—an Amarantm—
a kind of Prince’s feather. The insect is of a
doll, tawny or light yellowish color, with two
black spots on the head.two black stripes on the
thorax, and three broad ones on each win*’-
cover. The under side of the body, the legs"
(excepting the first joint, which is yellowish )
the (nifewnoc.or teelers, are black, 'its length
is from 5 to 8 lines, its breadth of body 2 lines
The body hyjuite soft. These beetles are very
shy, timid fcect\ and whenever and sturbed fall
immediate* from the leaves, and attempt to
conceal themselves among the grass, or draw
up their longwieuder legs and feign themselves
dead. In the night and in rainy weather they
descend from the plants and burrow in the
ground, or under leaves and tufts of grass. It
is, therefore, during cleat weather, in the morn
ing and evening, that thty feed and are to be
collected. They should be killed by throwing
them into scalding water, lor one or two min
utes, after which they should be spread upon
cloth or paper to dry, and may be made profit
able by selling them to the apothecaries for
medical use.
I send you several specimens colleAbd t as j
summer and a tew this spring, as they are now
commencing to make their appearance, and
would be willing to furnish you with more if
any of vonr readers desire to collect them.
.V O.
AH SIT CORRESPONDJfNCE
Qi-- ytts Sava vr ah Republican,' JB
’file Itnoli- or Farmington. ML
Corinth, May Mr-
There K but little to add to the aecUpsH
sent y<>u by u-legiupti of the bflV.r at I’anhtfjg*
ton yestf-id-jy. 'i he enemy had been parading
up aod down on our right for several days, Mid
seemed to b<* really anxious to cross swords
with us Indeed, he had become-so insolent
thutrEcaui egard concluded he would give him
an opportunity to show whether he menblfall
his acts implied, or was merely playing the
braggart. Accordingly, ho put a part ofijie
army in motion in the forenoon and by 13
o’clock he hud ei me up with the enemy at Far
mington, a “Ceseiud village” five miles not,til
east of Corinth, on the road to llarrisburgvjjt;
Our officers were aware that Gen. Pope was
at Farmir.gtoti with his N.w Madrid artnyiof
about 20,000 men. it was not known, however,
what other forces, it any, were there to;ec-tjji
erate with him. Tlie forces sent ont to engage
him differed very little from his own in num
bers. And yet he arid his eutire army seetafed
to be stricken with a panic from the begiuaiJßg
of the engagement. The truth is, they fled like
so many sheep. Two or three regiments (lid
attempt to make a stand, unit in one in-t|fetj}
a considerable force made a dash at Kobinft.n>
battery ; but they were rtq u'.seti
directed discharges, he scattered them like a
flock of turkeys The moment they gave way,
he dashed forward with his battery, and poured
a murderous fire into their retreating ranks,
which sent lbean across Seven Miles cretk in
true Bull Run fashion.
Robinson’s battery is one of. the best in the
array, aud rendered admirable service at Shiloh
both Sunday aud Monday Ttie company was
made up at, Pensacola ont of the twelve months
regiments, aud is composed of Georgians,
Alabamians and Mississippians. Cspt R. i
from Texts.
There are some details oi the ntf-.ir which
could not tail to interest your readers, if i ;e ! t
at liberty to give them. Suffice it to say, we
came near capturing the greater part of. Pope’s
army. Two hours more and the thing would
have beet; done. Three guns were fired in soc
eesssion by the Confederates about ff o’clock
the night before, which scent to have produced
a moving effect upon the Federate, who con
strued them into a signal of some sort, and ae
co'.dingly they fell back some dista .ee daring
the night. This rendered it necessary for ns to j
march that much farther before we came up to
them. And thus the enemy escaped.
Gen. ltaggbs opened the attack, and Van !
Djfri and Price soon took up the tale Toe I
army of the West,led by the heroes of Klkhorn, •
were principally engaged. The enemy ran so
fast, that Gen Knggle*’ division, after a few
discharges, were unable to gat within range of
his Hying columns. Indeed, it was a running
fight from the moment the Fede r als learned we
lif.d attacked them in force. Possibiy Gen. Pope
had orders to retire in the event he was attack
ed, since one can hardly conceive how 20,000
fresh troops in posh ion con’d fail to offers
stubborn resistance to even twice their own
numbers. And yet the wild conlu ion and dis
order in which his troops fled—each man seem
ing to be concerned iu taking care of himself
alone —would preclude the idea that his with
drawal was in accordance with previous orders.
His conduct is rendered still more mysterious
by the reports of prisoners, a few of whom
were captured in spite of their fleetness. Some
of them say that 40 000 tneu were massed to
gether in an entrenched camp behind Seven
Miles Creek, about a mile, and a halt back of
Farmingtou. These troops bail ample time, to
come to the assistance of Gen Pope. Possibly
Haileek thought wo would follow on across
tIM el'twiv, xvUurAi. Ua* ■ if>v rh>: .4 p.
vantage ; or, it may be, he was not ready foe
the decisive battle, nad therefore remained
quietly in his camp Bj this as ;t may, Gen.
Beauregard offered him battle upon a fair and
open held, and he declined to accept it. II he
was uot ready, then he acted wisely ; if he w .8,
and s'ill declined the offer, then he must dis
trust his ability to cope with us upon equal
terms.
The lose was slight on bath sides, on account
of the character of the engagement. Fifty will
probably cover the number of our killed and
wounded, and two hundred that of the enemy.
We captured a telegraph office, aud a consider
able amount of baggage and camp equipage.
As usual, a ia' ge number of letters were picked
up, one of which, written by a young girl to
her brother, contains the following singular
injunction :
“Bea good boy Charles and if you see a
seschenist in distress help him if it is in your
power if it is Jet Davis his self.”
We took several horse3, and killod a great
many. A battalion ot Federal cavalry attempt
ed to arrest the pursuit, and with this view
they made a charge upon oue of our regiments ;
but a single volley Iroin the Confederates un
seated nearly half of them, and sent the rest
flying after their comrades. The pursuit was
stopped at Seven Miles creek, across which the
enemy fled in confusion.
The affair has had a very happy effect upon
our troops. They had been chafing for days
under the insolent behaviour ol the Federals,
aud now and then a weather-beaten follower of
Price would ask, how long Beauregard was
going to let these fellows shake their ti.-ta in
his face. It gave the men a pleasant day’s en
tertainment, and has furuished them an agree
able topic of conversation for some time to
come. The sth Georgia regitneui was present,
but did not. participate in the affiir. it went
upon the field at a double-quick, and it was
with difficulty the hoys coutd be restrained
from charging a battery—so eager were they
for Uic fray.
Tins regiment- was reorganized on the 8 h
inst. under the late act of Congress. Wm T.
Black, late Adjutant of the regiment, was
elected Colonel; C. B. Day, of the Clinch
R .fics, Lieut. Colonel, and C. P. Daniel, of the
Griffin Light Guards, Major. Jas. 11. Rogers,
of the Upson Guards, has been appointed Ad
jutant of the regiment by the newly elected
Colonel.
The Washington Artillery from Georgia also
elected new officers on the 81 h, to-wit: fipeiier,
Captain—Pritchard, Ist Lieutenant —Wallace,
2ii—Dosher, 3d, and Roberts, 4th.
Both thu regiment and the artillery compa
ny are pleased with their new officers.
The Federal press admit a ioss at Shiloh of
over 13 000 men, including o.fiCO prisoners. It
is believed in well inioruied circles that it
would be safe to double their Azures. Inn
may lorm some idea ot the stuaning effects ot
the blow administered to the enemy on that
ever memorable field, lrom the fact that live
weeks have now elayiscd since the battle was
fought; and yet with ail their resources in men
.aid transportation, they Lave been u--at.de thus
far to renew the fight. P- "■
Corinth, Mi?s., May 12.
I lear my letters must prove uninteresting
to your readers. There is teat erial enough,
it I felt at liberty to use it; but the immediate
presence of the enemy, and the existence of
spies throughout the country, who catch up
and report everything that can be of any possi
ble advantage to their employers, admonish me
of the necessity of exercising great reserve and
caution. There are some topics, however,
which will not lose all the interest that attaches
to them, by being withheld for a time ; and I
hope to be able on some future occasion to call
the attention of your readers to them.
We are just in a condition here that a battle
tnay occur any day without surprising any one.
You may form some idea, therefore, cf the
painful suspense in which men and officers pase
the time. The enemy has rc-occupied his former
position at Farmington i.we did not care to hold
it after driving him from it,) and has advanced
his lines on our front and left. Indeed, he has
approached so near, that two hours’ march
would bring him face to face with our forces.
The weather is dry and propitious for his ad
vance, and he has had ample time to bring up
his columns from the river. It was believed
on the afternoon of Saturday, thy. 3d, that the
battle would ccrtululy take place on the follow
ing day; but it did cot, and Sunday night and
Monday there were vety heavy rains, which
prevented such a thing as the movement of an
army for several days. The roads are in good
condition now, bewever, and the decisive move
ment cannot be delayed ranch longer. The
summer is rapidly approaching; the weather
U already quite warm, <tnd there is much sick
ness In the Federal army, and General Haileek
knows that his campaign in the south-west will
come to naught, even without another blow
from Beauregard, unless he moves soon and
successfully.
In addition to all this, the bold and brilliant
operations of Morgan, Scott, Woodward and
others, in Middle Tennessee, threaten to inter
rupt the communications of the Federals with
and to break up their railway con
nections between North Alabama and Nash
ville, Louisville and other points in Tennessee
aud Kentucky. Forces have also been sent cut
ia the direction of Paris and Paducah, and it is
reported that they have been equally successful,
though no official account has been received of
their movcmeut.-.Jfhese demonstrations, while
they threaten the enemy’s lines of communica
tions aud divide his forces, furnish Haileek an
additional motive for an early movement
-The recent affair near Fort Pillow, in which
Jeff Thompson, now iu command of our wood
en-col top gUßjiflats on lUstAUasteaippi, .engaticU.
the Federal fleet, may tend toue’ay the advance
of the enemy down the river; but I See no rea
sou to change the opinion heretofore expressed
in regard to the final accomplishment of their
purposes. Thompson’s for.es is composed
chiefly ot his “horse marines,” as he cal's
them —the. swamp men—half horse, ball man,
and the other part alligator—whom he brought
with him from Missouri. That they will do all
that men can with their limited meaus, there
need be no doubt; but his boats are not of a
character to cope, with-the enemy’s w ith much
hope of success.
We have the most gratifying intelligence from
the Missippl, Red, Arkansas, White and St.
Fmucis rivets. It is reported that the planters
no the Mississippi, for twenty miles back from
the rive", have destroyed all their cotton, and
that the planters on its tributaries just named
are toilowitig their patriotic example. The
occupation of the Father of Waters, therefore,
will bring the enemy but little profit. He has
opened the greatest ertton port in the world,
and yet he gets no cotton. This is not all: the
people in the great valley of the Mississippi
have planted very little cotton—but little more
than enough for tneir own domestic purposes.
I heard unusual cheering some days ago in
one of the camps near my present quarters, and
upon enquiry 1 toned that it proceeded from
some Missouri regiments. Tneir gallant, and
heretofore invincible leader, Gen. Price, had
just arrived with the rear guard of his army,
aud this was the first time the men lad seen
him tor ten or twelve days. It was evident
from the heartiness ol their demonstrations,
that they were as glad to see him as if he were
their father. They have a number of familiar
names by wh'ch he is designated in the camp,
such as “Pap,” “Dad,” “The Oid Tycoon,”
“ The Fcx of the West,” Ac. No officer in the
army possesses the confidence and affection of
his men so the same^ extent as this favorite
leader. He is fifty five or six years old, is six
feet high, weighs two hundred pounds, has
grey hair and a fair, round face, beaming with
kindness and intelligence, and, in some re
spects, reminds me of one of your best citi
zens—the excellent President of the Bank of
the State of Georgia. He does not find it ne
cessary to surround his headquarters with surly
sentinels, nor to swell his staff with a set of
gay butterflies, in the shape of volunteer aids
de-carap, whose business it is to ride fine
horses, return curt answers to respectful en
quiries, make as much fu-s as possible, aud
Tt ..- > fil^*aittfs'a'
kiuyj -nd respectful word for every one. And
y $ he is fierce aud energetic, and has unlimited
influence over his men, who would gladly fol
low him to the death.
Haileek sent a message to Gen. Price a short
time since, by a gentleman who was passing
me lines. “Tell Gen. Price,” he said, “that he
had the advantage of me in Missouri, lor he
knew the country better than I did ; but 1 have
got him now where I want him, and expect to
capture him and whip his army soon.” “When
you go back,” was Price’s reply, “say to Gen.
Haileek that he has not men enough in his
army to capture me. And as to whipping my
boys, tell him he may select 100 of the best
men in his whole army, and I will take the
same number of mine as they come and without
distinction, lie shall lend his 100 met), and
i’ll lead mine; and we will go into an open
field to fight it out; and the fate of the South,
ern Confederacy shall depend upon the result.
Tell him that, will you ?” 1 have not heard that
Haileek sent any reply. P. W. A.
Harrison’s Regiment.— an ejection for of
ficers to command a regiment, recently or
ganized, to serve for the war, was held Saturday
last, at Battery Harrison, with the following
resuit :
Colouel. —Geo. P. Harrison, Jr.
Lieut. Colonel. —Wm. H. Prndett.
Major.—E. H. Bacon, .Jr.
The following staff wa* appointed by Cot.
Harrison :
Adjutant.—G. M. Blount.
Quartermaster.—Edgar L. Gucrard.
Commissary.—E. L. Holcombe.
Surgeon.—T. A. Parsons, M. D.
We congratulate our friend Harrison on in
complete success in putting into the field one
of the finest regiments in the Confederate
service, and none the less, for the very efficient
staff that he, has collected around him. The
regiment will be well fought and well fed, and
the appointment of Dr. Parsons as Surgeon, af
fords a guarantee that when sick or wounded,
they will be well doctored. The Dr., by the
way, deserves more than usual credit for his
zeal aud activity in the cause. He lias a large
Interest at home, yet, on the first organizitioc
of the State service, he abandoned all and took
the field in Gen. Harrison’s staff, without fee
or reward. He was formerly Surgion in the U.
S Navy, and having been extensively engaged
with bis profession for a number oi years, he
brings excellent qualifications to the new duties
on which he is abont to enter.
Success to the regiment!
A “Personal” Faraoxai-h. —VVe copy tbe
following from a late Northern paper :
They have had a grand ball lately iu Rich
mond, according to female secession authority
in Baltimore, at which Miss Hetty Carey, one
of the pretty daughters of Mr. Wilson Carey, a
prominent secessionist teacher of that city,’fig
ured most consp cuouslv. The story goes that
she appeared at tbe bail dressed as a captive
slave, with her hands tied at the wrist 6, and
bearing tbe shield of Maryland on her bosom,
indicating thereby the chains by which that
Slate is kept in the Union. Jeff Davis came
forward during the evening and released her
manacled hands by untying the cords that
bound her wrists, and thus, in the person of the
lovely Miss Hetty Carey, treed Maryland from
her bondage to the Union power,' amid the
stormy applause of company. Miss Carey
and one of her sisters are earning a livelihood
as clerks in the Confederate Administration
This event has created tLe most intense de
light and sympathy in the upper crust of eeees
siondom.
Bsowsluw.—lt seems that this traitor par
son does not altogether suit the Abolitionists
at the North. Garrison’s Boston Liberator thus
speaks of him :
A more coarse-minded, vulgar, abusive, pu
gilistic disputant, it would be difficult to find
It is something to his credit, under such trying
circumstances, that he refused to play the trait
or; but this makes him neither a tentletnan
nor a Christian.
The Qnakers of North Carolina have memori
alised the State Convention to release them
from the doty of bearing arms, on the ground
of their religions faith they cannot conscien
tiously do it. They say the whole number of
Friends In the Confederate States does not ex
ceed ten thousand.
THE YORK TOWN RETREAT.
[Prom our Peninsula Correspondent]
NO. 111.
Bivouac near the Chickahomint, j
Right wing Army Peninsula. r
May llth, 1862 )
Mr Editor .—Since my letter of the 3d hast.,
we have seen the entire elephant, proboscis aod
all, in the way of hardships and privations. No
American army, since the days of Washington,
have borne their hardships with fewermurmurs
than have the Army of the Peninsula. We left
our work3 on Worwick creek at 8 p. m. Satur
day, 3d instant, and marched the entire night.
We thought the enemy were ignorant of the
second grand movement of General Johnston,
but it seems the}' had been reconnoitering our
•nqvements in their balloons. However, they
made no attack, which is a little surprising.
We reached Williamsburg at about 8 o’clock on
Sunday morning, after a most fatiguing march.
Hitherto we Have done very little marching,
and were iliv prepared for so hard a trial of our
strength Most ot us had swollen legs and
blistered feet. For some time the army had
been put upon half rations, were without tents,
aud subjected to the hardest duty in the trench
en. Ihr parent7iceii % 1 wouid state what came
to my knowledge too late lor insertion in my
my last:-—that Frank Cone, Orderly Sergeant
in the Eighth Georgia, was killed before we
left the BMaTuvd jnar inii rtf lirf’Trgrtifl
above tlie woiks to get a shot, at a Yankee,
when a rniunie ball, 6ped with unerring accu
racy from an enemy’s long range gun, pierced
his brain, killit g him instantly.
Williamsburg, which we found crowded by
soldi, rs of every arm of the service—inlantry,
cavalry, artillery, engineers, &2 —is quite an an
cient town, and possesses some objects of in
terest. “William and Mary College,” claimed
by the inhabitants to be the oldest institution
of learning in America, excites some curious
inquiries iu the mind of the stranger. Its du
plicate towers, perhaps intended as observa
tories, its retiring porticoes, supported by old
English brick pillars, its spacious grounds, and
paved walks, shaded by majestic oaks, present,
at least, an interesting sight. In the centre,
fronting the building, is a beautiful marble
monument of some worthy, perhaps of King
William, its founder. Many of the houses are
of antique model, aud in a state of decay.
After a rest of five hours, we continued the
marehFtwuil 8 o’clock, where we bivouacked lor
the night, in an old field, and made our repast
npon a cracker ol bard bread and a piece oi salt
meat. All was soon hushed in sleep, for we
were indeed fatigued
Monday morning opened upon us eioudy and
rainieg. Terrible, iudeed, was the march of
of that day. 8a soft were the roads ttyrt the
artillery and baggage wagons sunk to the axles,
and detained us several hours at one point.—
As the darkness approached, tho roads became,
if possible, ten-fold worse. For mile;, the mud
and water were from three to ten inches deep,
through which we were forced to plunge.—
Deep holes were cut by the artillery, into which
the poor worn-down foot soldier, staggering
nnder his knapsack and gnn, frequently stum
bled, and left a “life-size” picture of himself
and musket. It was painful indeed, to see the
poor fellows. r> presenting different regiments
and companies, straggling along, Inquiring for
tfieir regiments, which had left them far behind.
Some bad given up in despair, and were seated
By ihe roadside, some crying, some moaning,
and others uttering horrid oaths against their
officers, generals, and their government. Some
poor fellows were lying full length in the mud,
where they had fallen from fatigue, and moan
ing ns if in the last throes oi death, until they
were sufficiently rested to regain their feet. I
want you to understand these as the extreme
caes of suffering. Though little used to march
ing, I kept up until the last half hour of the
march, when the slippery hill-sides and dark
;,.hV -V vi...q -...e.-—...
glera jly 0 o’clock, we were seued by com-'
fortable fires among the pine hills, eating our
scanty a’lowaace of hard bread and meat.—
Sleep was our greatest want, for in the previ
ous twenty- four hours we had rested but five.
Tuesday moruing news reached us of a fight
at Williamsburg, and we were- ordered back
with all possible speed. At sunset we were
halted to await further orders, and stacked
arms for the night. Here I learned the follow
ing particulars of the fight:
The enemy pursued us with a force twenty
five or thirty thousand strong, and made an at
tack upon our rear guard, perha js numbering
five thousand The enemy’3 maia force took
position in the woods beyond the town. From
thejfortificatiotis to the woods is an open space
of a mile, aud across this field our forces were
compelled to march in the face of a well direct
ed and deadly tire. Gen. Johnston ordered
back several regiments, until ourlorce amount
ed to about fifteen thousand. The new regi
ments, as they came, charged across this field,
penetrated the woods, and put the enemy to
flight at the point of the bayonet.
Gen. Johnston was highly eiaterl at, onr suc
cess, and delighted at the conduct of our troops.
Every man did his whole duty. Gen. Stewart
is said to have accomplished toe most brilliant
and daring feut. He charged a cavalry regi
ment, in the edge of the woods, broke their
lines, wheeled, cut his way back, and came full
speed towards our batteries until he drew the
Yankee cavalry sufficiently near, then parted
his regiment right and left, when our batteries
poured into the enemy’s compact column a
most destructive tire of grape, canister and
shell. You can imagine tlje effect. The Yan
kees cut for the wood3 much faster and in less
order than they came out alter Stewart’s caval
ty.- Many instances of individual heroism are
mentioned, but I have neither time nor space
to relate them.
Our loss was heavy, from a thousand to twelve
hundred in killed, wounded, aud missing. Col.
Ward, of Florida, was killed. Gen. Early is
said to have been badly wounded. The enemy
did not choose to r. rtw tlia attack, and the
main army marched to Barronsviiie, seven miles
from West Point, on Wednesday, where there
was heavy skirmishing and forty-eight prison
ers taken. All w-ere foreigners, mostly of the
31st New York. A poor wounded * fellow,
whose right arm was shattered by a ball, said
the poor of tue North euterid the army not
from choice, but trom necessity. It was cither
that or starvation. This statement was cor
roborated by the rest.
Wednesday night we performed another hard
march, a great part of the lime in sight ot the
enemy’s camp-fires, expecting to be attacked
hourly; but they chose not to do it. They
are in str r,g force below West Point The
prisoners say McClellan is Dot on the Penin
sula. Wnere is he then ? Perhaps wltn Mc-
Dowell, or where he is most needed, with poor
disconsolate Nathaniel, whom Stonewall Jack
son has so recently given a sound drubbing.
We are n->w drawing up in line of battle a
mile or so south oi the Ciiickahomiuy, pa
tiently awaiting an attack. 1 don’t think we
will have a fight. If we do you shall have the
particulars. Several days during this retreat,
we subsisted upon one meal a day. At one
time there was not a commissary to be found
in the brigade ! A nice commentary.
V. A. S. P.
A Vindication.— The citizens of Albany,
Ga., in public meeting, have considered the
charges and insinuations that have been made
against the contractors charged with the 3teaui
ram Mirs'rnppi, at New Orleans, and have
adopted the following resolution :
Jiaolved, That in our opinion Col. Nelson
Tift, oi Georgia, aud Mr. A. F. Tilt, of Florida,
as the agents ol the Navy Department of the
Confederate Status, for the construction of the
vessel Mississippi, have performed their duty
faithiuliy, that they made extraordinary efforts
in which they were fully sustained by the Sec
retary of the Navy, to complete the Mississippi
at the earliest possible time— tbatshe was with
in two weeks of completion, when she was de
stroyed by order of Commander Whittle to
prevent her falling into the hands ot the ene
my. The construction of tbe vessel commenced
about the middle of October last, was one of
great magnitude, and was considered by naval
officers to be the most formidable vessel afloat.
That notwithstanding it was impossible uuder
the circumjtaaces to complete it, yet the-e
gentlemen are entitled to the thanks of their
fellow-citizens for their-patrioilc efforts to serve
their country.
All the cotton, tobacco, provisions and tores
that fall into the haDds of the Doodles are sold
on account of the Yankee etovernment. They
call that respecting private property.
isro.
Latest ~~
NO FIGHTING YET.
Morgaii Safe.
[From ourßpecial Army Correspondent]
Cohinth, May ]6.—All is qoiet in this sec ion. The
weather and roads are favorable to military operations
but the enemy hesitates.
We sent off sixiy paroled p ieoners to-dsv. The es
cort found the Fedtral pictete within four miles of our
c.mp.
Cos!. Morgan has not been captured, as was reported.
Western News.
Mobile,-Ala , May 16 —The following is a special
despatch to the Alobi e A ve-ther & Register:
Copjntii, Mrss., Ma' 15.—Toe Bt. Lewis (Mo.) Re
publican contains p .rti.uJars of the capture of New
O-leans, and ediioiiahy considers the cause of the
South gone.
A despatch from Nashville, Tenn., to (lie Republican
says that Col. Morgan had a narrow escape at Carthage,
north-east of N.-ghGile, .-n the Cumberland River. He
escaped across the ri er wuh twenty men ; the remain
ing one hundred snne ght being made prisone-g by
the Federa s.
OntheStb inst , 150 sick and wounded Federals,
from Hnlleok’s Army, were hom JPUtabmg
UJ 19k JLVtt'iH.
The Mitsouri River had fallen two fact in the last
twenty-four hours.
The London Times of the.VSduit, gays that the
battle of Shiloh had given ground for far more appre
hension than hope in the North.
From Richmond.
Richmond, \a., May 16. — The city is very quiet to
day, business being suspended in accordance wlih the
President’s proclamation.
The Fcdsral gunooali have gone down -Tames river,
below City Point.
Death of a Prominent Lady.
Richmond, May 17th.—Mrs. E. McCord Vernon, the
popular female editor and correspondent, died in this
cuy to-day, after a brief illness. She fcad taken an ac
tive part in the movement in favor of gunboats, and
was Corresponding Secretary of the Ladies’ Defense
Association of thi. city.
A Flag-of-Truce at Charleston-
Skirmish on Cole’s Island.
[Special to the Savannah Pppvblican.i
Charleston, !£ay IS.—A flag-of truce from the eue
my’s fleet to-day brought up a pagseiige-- taken on
board the tchooner Alary Thertsa, from Nassau, cap.
tured off Cnufeston harbor r-n the 9th L slant He
reports several otheis as having been captured, in
cluding the schooners C. C. Pinkney,and W. Y. Lellch,
loaded with cotton.
There was a skirmish on Cole’s I- laud yetterday;
one ot the enemy was killed and one wounded. ‘‘No
body hutt” on our side.
Latest from Corinth.
fAPT. AVERV PENETRATES TEE
ENfcßlT’4 LISES,
THE FED URALS MOVING VP FROM THE
RIVER AM) FORTIFYING
AS THEY GO.
MORGAN AT LEBANON.
LFrom onr Army Correspondent.]
Cobinth, Miij- IS—Matters are Inking on rather
more actively with the enemy. Capt. Avery, of th©
Georgia Dragoons, penetrated the Federal lines two
nights'ago snd obtained some mos; importint infor
mation. He learned that the whole Federal army are
moving up from the river, bi inging their heavy siege
guns wilh them, and fortify ng as they come. They
require twenty mules to draw their cannon. There
was a considerable movement last night on our right.
One of Moigan’s men, who has Just arrived, reports
feat Morgan lotfajti&.Briaimeuuuid twenty killed anA
Jbwrttm- ,■ w "uw'jii l a, lTti
federate and captured one hundred and fifty pri-oner..
Ha had to retire, however, owing to the heavy Federal
force at hand, Ilis missin, men are coming in.
P. W. A.
SECdND DISPATCH.
The enemy attacked our pickets last night at moon
rise, bat witnout serious results. Thly are<ontrtnch
ing at Farmington, five miles off.
The 291 h MLstf-sippi Regiment, Col. Walthall, had a
hot skirmish on Saturday evening with the following
loss: Killed, < apt Cowan, of.the Dixie Rifle*-, Lt.
Coen’y, ol the Walthall Rebels; and privates R. ,T.
Ftoyj, Thos Mytiek, J. W. Richards, qt the Oakland
Rifles, and John Beard, of the LaFaylte Rebels.—
Wounded, seventy privates: J K. Bridges, ot the
Panola Patriots; eoiomou Best, oi LaFayi-tte Rebels;
W. Gentry, Oakland Rebels; IT. Mitchell, Chas. Wil
son Milton, Dixie Rifles Wounded slightly: Evans
Powetl and George Bennett, of Walthall Rebels; W
W. M Farian and J. W. Webster, LaFayette Rebels;
Berg’t Bridges of Oak and Rebels; Serg’t Whiteaqd
Privati s J. M. Gray, T. C. Morgan, John Huuks aud
Matthew Ga- o 01 the Dixie RebtD. Missing: Jas.
Hunt, Oaklauil Rifles. Major J. B. Morgan had a ;eg
broken by a fall ot his hoise.
The regiment, though new. behaved gallantly. Capt,
McGowan, ol the 9th Mississippi, Is not killed as re
ported. , P. W. A.
The Enemy's Gunboats at Vicksburg!
BIi?IAND FOR A SIiRBB.'.DRK !
Mississippian3 Never Surrender!
Mobile. May 19. —A special dispatch to the Adver
tiser says, five of tho enemy’s fleet ariived in sight of
Vicksburg yesterday at noon. A boat with a flago;
truce was stopped by our batteries a mile and a halt
below the city, when a ferry boat went down aud
returned with a summons to surrender the city
The Mayor replied : that he was unprotected, but
would never surrender. Col. Anthony, military Gov
ernor, and Co], fcir.ilh, c mmanuiug me forts, answer
ed : Ji ississirriAKS Keveb r übbzkdb*!
Two additional gunboats arrived later in the after
noon, when the fleet moved over to t is side of the
river, behind the point. All quiet this morning.
Sinking of Federal Gnnboats at Fort
Pillow—Enemy’s loss in the Battle at
Williamsburg.
Late northern pape>e r< port the linking of the Fed
eral gnnboats wound City aud Cincinnati, -by Jeif.
Thompson’s cot cn boat fleet. The g-mboat Benton
was bauly damaged.
The enemy ackncw'edge a loss of one thousand
killed, twenty five hundrtd wounded, and six hundred
prisoners at Williamsburg.
Capture of some of the Monitor’s Crew.
Petersburg, May !!>.—Llghteeu of the Monitor’s
craw came a-horeat 3 o’clock this afternoon at City
Point, and wire surprised upon l-nding by the Con
federate tickers, ba orderedth m tosurrendtr. Niue’
includirg four < (fleers, laid down their pistols and cut
lasses. The others rudicd to their snail boat and
pulled for the Monitor, tight of these w vre killed,
and the remaining one lest an arm.
The Monitor opened Ore with heavy guns and pre
vented tbe capture of the boat and survivor.
The nine prisoners reached here at (1% p. m.,aud
marched through bjeamore ttreet to Sen. Hyer’s
Headquarters, suiroumieil by a great crowd.
One ot the officers is a paymaster. The others are
midthiptj^n.
None of the Confederates were hurt.
New* Heins.
From the Charleston Courier of yesterday,
we obtain the following :
Affairs on the Coast. —We learn that sev
eral 0 f the enemy's gunboats made a recounois
eauce Saturday up Btouu R;yr to Cole’s Is
land. A small party lacavd, when adetach
men't j r ocu the Brooks -Guard and a company
from Col. Stevens’ lyegiOicuL drove them off,
killing one and wounding one. Not one of our
taen was hurt. Dorns Kucmr, as usual, on Bun
day, magnified this tiifl-iug afliur into a fierce
engagement,
Captu^d.—lnformation has reached here
that ifiw pitot boh! John C. Calhoun, lately
known as the schooner Mary Theresa, has been
captured oil this oar by the Yankee biockaders.
Stoko.—lt fc generally stated that some boat*
from the Lincoln fleet were sounding out Btono
bar on Friday last.
The Blockade —There were ten vessels
keeping up me blockade of this port yesterday.
A little dead contraband was found in a bale
of cotton on Tuesday, at the Harmony Hills, at
Cohoes, N. Y.