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RIPUBLICAH,
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SAVANNAH, PA.
Satariinr iTSorning, June 2s, 1862.
Tbts Federate at Memphis claim that the}
have already received applications to ship four
thousand ot cotton.
Rodatiogears and cotton blossoms crc
hibited at the Columbus Law office u<s }
last. j ————
. Tub Pbesu ENT-President Uavis has re
ttfrned to Richmond after a brief visit to h
maily at Raleigh, N. C
McClellan has written a letter to Fhiladel
phiain which ho confesses that the Federals
suffi red a loss of 10,000 in killed and wounded
in the battles of Seven Pines.,
Removal.— Gen. Prentiss and the other Yan
kee officers who have been in Atlanta for some
time, have been sent to Madison, Ga., lor safe
keepiug.
R. Watson Denton, a prominent citizen and
lawyer of Columbus, and connected with Col.-
Crawford’s cavalry regiment, died at Camp
Randolph on the 22 J, from it:juries received on
like
Corkection. —We should have reported the
death of David P. Landershine, at Fort Pulaski,
and not L. W. Landershine. The latter was a
brother to the deceased and is now a prisoner in/
,Nefls York. } k
Cheap Living—ln Chicago, on the 1-llh,
Western produce wa3 quoted at the following
prices: Corn, 20c.; Flour, $4 50 to $5.00 per
bbl.; Wheat, 7ic. to 80c.; other articles of pro
visions in proportioß.
Wounded Georgians. —William'H. Hagans,
Thomas Houghton, and Isbam West, of the
Twenty-seventh Georgia, and wounded at
Seven Pirns, are in the (Federal) Naval Hos
pital, near Portsmouth, Va.
Passengers by the steom hip Memphis report
that the British Government has made a per
emptorv demand upon the Yankee authorities
for the surrender of the British steamer Ber
muda, captured ap a prize some time ago.
Personal. —lion John E Ward, after an ab
sepce of nearly a year in Europe on account of
the ill health of his family, arrived in Charles.
ton by the British steamer on Monday,
and reached this city last evening. We wel
come him again to Savannah.
The “ Memphis.” —We learn, through pri
vate letters, that the Memphis brought over
ninety thousand pounds of powder, the only
article on board for the government. 'I he re
mainder of her cargo is on private account, and
consists of a general assortment of merchan
dize.
Wesleyan Female College. —We acknowl
edge the leceipt of a Catalogue of the Wesley
an Female College, located at Macon, Georgia,
for 18ttl-’62. It is printed at the Book aud Job
Printing Office of John L. Jenkins & Cos., Ma
con, Georgia, and exhibits the College as in a
flourishing condirion.
Loss of the Cicile —The steamer Oicile,
bound from Nassau for a Confederate port,
struck a rock off Abaco, Sunday last, and sunk
in a short time after the accident. All her
crew were saved. The Cicife had a valuable
cargo, consisting chiefly of arms and ammuni
tion, all of which was lost.
Georgians Killed —J. J. Armstrong, R. C.
Lawson, ami J. Mnllis were killed, and L. C. P.
Jones mortally wounded, by the bursting of a
shell from the enemy’s guns, near Mechanica
ville, Virgiuia, Friday last. They qll belonged
to the Pulaski Volunteers from llawkinsville,
which company is attached to the Eighth
Georgia.
CONVAI.BMfIKNOB op (JBNKKAL OIINSTON.—We
are pleased to learn, says the Richmond Exami
ner, that General Johnston has so far recover
ed from the effects of his wound in the battle
of the Chitk ihominy, that it is expected that in
a week’s time he vrl’l be able to take the field.
He will be welcomed back to his important
command on the Kichmomd lines with renewed
aud lively public confidence.
The Truth >vii.l Out.—The Yankee papers
are discussing (lie causes ot “the failure of Mc-
Clellan’s expedition into Virginia.” Thus it is
we have a confession of the real state of affairs
in the Yankee army. The Tribune, for the first
time in its existence, though with a bad motive
now, is contributing to bring out the truth. Let
Greeley continue his war upon McClellan and
we shall know nil about what is going on in
Yankeedom.
The Savannah Republican reports watermel
ons in that market. We never believe such
things until we see and taste them.—[Charles
ton Courier.
That is a very good and timely suggestion,
friend Courier. Since reading it we are more
than half inclined to doubt our statement our
selves, as we wrote from hearsay. At least,
until some more satisfactory demonstration
shall have been made, we leave the appearance
of watermelons iu the Savannah market an open
question,— [Rep.
Cargo Sale. —Messrs. Oetavus Cohen & Cos.
sold yesterday a cargo recently imported. We
give the following as particulars : ?60 barrels
Turks Island salt at §33 t >.<4o per bbl ; 30sacks
Liverpool salt at (41 per sack ; 13 boxes soap
at 87sj cents to 90 cents per lb.; 65 reams letter
paper at 930 50 to (33 50 per ream ; 10,000 en
velopes 111 per thousand ; 3 bags coffee, (1.30
per lb.; 3 chests tea, (6 to §6.35 per lb; SO
gross matches, §ls to §16.50 per gross.
Jackson and Bkai reg ard. —The Peters
burg Express says; We have intelligence ot
the movements of these two active and wide
awak • Confederate Generals, but for prudential
reasons, forbear to give our information pub
liei.y. Let the public rest assured that they
are m the right place, and iu their own good
tim . wii! make themselves felt aud feared by
the vandals who are now dosecratiug Southern
soil.
Mu. Bcohanan on the Wak.—Tbe editor
of :iie Christian Observer has seen a letter from
ex-President Buchanan, in which be takes the
position that the But juration of the South is
impossible. lie aiyues that the Northern troops
now iu the Si nth v ill fall a prey to the diseases
of the climate,and this tail, connected with
the determined spirit of ou r pi-. * pie, convinced
hint that it were volt, to make the attempt at
Mttj'iiMi- . " e hope SO. n to be able to lay
the letter before our readers.
'•! Rittter ‘ 1 the Augusta Chronicle Sen
'll’. ; ...s I.e.l.drink ol Ida water, and taksso
toiLU' .iMu .oii about U that some might mink
there o.i tin mill- tti r to take the chill off.
1 \Thmington .fou’t.a’.
A more h itutal iutereuo.) would be, i were it
rot (or the nut!,;;.. ,u- übie sobne v of the E ll
to< I 'ha he b..l Iwen mi ’hi si,” and found a
u.nu -ament ii r the hi a:.
lSav.il' aii "■>’epubllran.
I' w, ever g. ; t ,n a-tins*” we shall try the
, • *P L 1 >' mid e.itueiit, 1 it is obe
haik He knows v.|..,; „ , ■„ sntoh
' doi forvwvifn tbetmttle* ilut "Per*
Sonne found Iso plenUml in the "FroiessorV’
san turn.—it bn.n.
Hoes the Ed.lor of the Candida recollect
ha be “happened tu” ou acm v iia occasion
.• >“ time to prove a grocery cv ilM uenhip!
W u Sinks ns £ci'Ulxr>*i> —There wetv
rumors iu the North that Bank* would y
Shortly superceded. The fallow‘n*; despatch
from Washington, however, rather contradict.-
It:
MaJ 'f General Banka has arrived in this city.
There Uno trnih whatever in any of the re
ports that he la to be superseded. S.ine Im
portant milrUry chauges w.U be made in the
army of the ebteaudeah, but these will col af
feet Ji i or- Ge u oral Banks.
A -WEEHECIaY - B,BFXTB3IjXCAJ>r, S^AO?TJB ; I3A-‘2", uUHSTE SB, IS6S.
A JSjrltiuli Steamer at Charlestoa--Ar
rival of Hon, Joliu E. Ward*
We clip the following interesting information
from the Charleston Courier of W ednesday.
friends ot Mr. Ward will rejoice to hear oi
safe arrival on his native shores : rti
“The British steamship , Me ”Csau <Tp )
Crnikshank, from
arrived here bMnj .
precisely l enck as we stand most in need ol at
present. The Memphis had the misfortune,
while coming into port on Monday, to get
Tshore on the beach of Sullivan’s Island, Where
■she remained several hours, but was finally
towed off by the steamers Marion and Ktiwan.
When she firsr. got aground she was approach
ed by one of the bluekaders, which fired a num
ber of shells, most of which struck on Sulli
van’s Island, but none of them hit the ship
The Yankee gunboat was finally driven off by a
rifled gun on Fort Beauregard, which discharg
ed but oue shot at her when she retired. The
Memphis is anew iron ship, on her first voyage,
and was built at Dumbarton on the Clyde, is a
most B’ghtly vessel, of good speed, about 800
tons register, but capable of carrying tbo cargo
ot many a vessel of 1200 tons. She made the
passage from Liverpool to Nassau in sixteen
and a half days, and was hoarded off Abaco by
the Yankee steamir Quaker City. The Yankee
r cruisers keep up quite a sharp blockade off Nas
sau, and board nearly all vessels bound in or
going out.
“Mr. Ward, late Miuister to China, and Ma
jor Bateman, came pasrengers in the Memphis.”
From the Third Georgia Regiment.— We
have perused, says the Augusta Constitutional
ist of Monday, a letter dated Richmond, 19th
instant, from an officer of the Third Georgia
Regiment to a friend in this city. He states
that in a skirmish with the enemy, on the day
preViCMia, that regiment sost four killed and
several wounded. Among the former was 2d
Sergeant William 11. Johnson, of the Confed
erate light Guards, of this city, who was shot
through the neck, joining the body, tbe ball
passing out of the back. Sergeant Johnson is
stated to have been a good soldier, a bravo
man, and a favorite of all. His remains were in
terred at Richmond on the date of the letter.
This was the only casualty among the Conied
erate Light Guards.
The fight commenced by our pickets in front
becoming engaged, when there was considera
ble firing The Third Rtgiment went to their
relief The enemy were driven back beyond
their picket lines, and our regiment slept that
niglit where they stood in the day.
Twenty odd Yankees were left dead on the
field. The writer saw seventeen of them —
down-easters—Massachusetts men—who were
n a heap there next morning.
The Savannah Republican some days since,
set down the number of men <• the field at
Seven Pines in the Second Florida Regiment,
at upwards of eight hundred. We have the
best authority for st .ling that there were only
jour hundred and thirty seven men rank and
'file, and came out with one hundred and eyhty
sevm kiPed, wounded and missing Will the
Republican correct its statement.—[Floridians.
Cheerfully. The Republican’s statement, wis
copied from the Richmond papers, which
responsible for the error. As regards the Flori
dian’s complaint of neglect of the Florida
toops by the Press, we plead not gu’lty. We are
not allowed a special correspondent to lock after
the battles in Virginia, or we should have pub
lished everything done by the F oridinn* ; as
matters stand we are compelled 1 > eo,-\ irom
the Richmond papers, most of which' seem to
ignore the fact that tnere are other troops in
the army of the Confederacy besides Virgini
ans.
It our contemporary read P. W. A’s account
of the battles of Shiloh, he Is strongly oblivious
when he says little mention was made of the
Florida troops in connection with the struggle.
Important Arrest.—The Petersburg Ex
press of Friday states that an important arrest
was made on the Seaboard train Wednesday,
while the c r- were crossing the bridge at Wel
don ou their up trip. A suspicious looking
character having attracted the attention of our
guard on the train, he was seized and searched.
A large quantity of letters from Norfolk to sup
posed Union men in Eistern Carolina, were
iouTffroTi TiTr, persou ; also a passport from Gen.
Wool, and a document certifying that the bear
er had takuu the oath of allegiance to the Lin
coln Government, and was a good and loyal
citizen thereof. Unfortunately, the emissary
threw away two letters when first seized, which
floated dowu the Roanoke, and was not recov
ered. We have been unable*to ascertain any
further particulars, but it is believed that this
arrest will place our authorities in possession
of most important information at this peculiar
junction of affairs.
A Great deal of it, but not Enough for
the Purpose.—Governor Brown occupies sev
en mortal columns of the Atlanta Intelligencer
in replying to President Davis’ unanswerable
letter on his(B.’s) course with regard to the
Conscription Act. We are not surprised that
the Governor felt It incumbent for him to say
something afler so complete an overthrow, hut
twenty columns would do him but little good
He is doored and on his back, and had better
acknowledge it gracefully.
There are some people simple enough to
suppose that when a mat wroes -m-it a “mighty
heap,” he must be •‘mighty sman,,” and with
these the Governor has probably carried his
point.
This new attempt at extrication presents
nothing new, and we shall not incumber our
columuns with it
An Accommodating Priest.—A good story
is told of the Rev. Dr. Mullen, the well known
pastor of St. Patrick’s Church in New Orleans,
llff was known to be a bitter secessionist in
feeling, and, on account of his well known
bluntness ot speech, many of his friends feared
that he would he one of the first consigned by
Butler :o a dungeon. Soon after the occupa
tion of the city by the enemy, he was seDt for
by a Yankee officer to perform the burial ser
vice over one of the Northern soldiers who
had d’ed. To inis request Dr. Mullen acceded.
The service b -mg over, the Y inkee officer was
profits" in his expression of th inks. The reve
rend gentleman, however, cut the conversation
short by blandly informing him that there was
no obligation at all in the matter, and that he
“would, *f required, take pleasure in bury
ing the entire Yankee garrison.”
FtN-'NCiii. Condition or the Nonna.—lt
! appears f.otn Northern accounts that their
banks are beginning to remonstrate at the call
of Secretary Chase upon the Feder.vl Congress
to Issue an additional batch of demand treasury
notes. The money-dealers are frightened at
Hhe enormous amount of ihe circulating medi
um furnished by the Federal Treasury for
general use, acd protest, with reason, that no
more “promises to pay” should be put afloat
j until acts providing a fair revenue system shall
! be passed. The fictitious eircn'ation of the
j North, without any coin basis, has become
supert umlaut, and tht re are evident indications
j that it will require great straining on the part
j the friends of the Federal treasury to inflate
; thegjubble again.
The Ensiit Advancing.—We learn from
tie 1* t-r-bu-v, Virginia) Express that Yankee
j troops, tu the number or 6,000 have advanced
from N -rlo'k and Suffolk to a polu, on the Sea
board Railros 1, knowa as Franklin Depot, fifty
miles from Foit<mouth and thirty miles from
l Weldon. The aim of this force is, beyond
doubt, to advance to Weldon and cut off rail,
j road connection at that place with Petersburg
and Rich mend. At Weldon the roads from
: Wilmington and Raleigh and Petersburg con
verge. This explains the recent visit of Burn
side to Old Point acd the White House, on the
Pamuckey, where he and McClellan compared
i notes.
Ringo u.d's Battkkt. —The battery captured
iroru Shields, ia his late engagement with Gen.
Jackson, we learn, was the celebrated battery
commanded by the lamented Ringgold, in
Mexico. Thus have we, by the valor of our
troops, been placed iu possession of both the
Bragg and Ringgold batteries.
Mr. Wood’s Speech.
Among the few—very few—just and right
thinking men of the present wicked, perverse,
and hell-deserving Yankee, nation, is the Hon.
Beniamin Wood, one of the Representatives in
the Federal Congress from the city of New
York. He has been ever disposed to act fairly
toward the South. He fought her battles
throughout the .Abolition crusade of the last,
ten years, and after the disruption held up the
jastice of her cause against a storm of persecu
tion, until finally hi only medium of commu
nicating with the public was crushed out by
the iron wheel of despotism. He told his
countrymen the truth as long as he was allow
ed to speak or write at all, and that in the face
of opposition that won la have caused any but
the heart of a hero to quail.
In Congress, until recently, Mr. Wood has
been silent. The tierce and boisterous ele
ments of fanaticism that stormed in and around
the capitol at Washington, left no moment
when the voice of reason and jastice could
be heard. Recently, however, he has prepared
a speech on the state of the country, and been
allftwed to spread It before the public. A
portion of it will be found on this page, and
tbe remainder will be forthcoming to-mor
row. Every southern man should read it, and
all who do will cherish the name of one who
dares thus to rebuke tyranny to its teeth, and
tell the architects of his country’s ruin the sol
emn story of their outrages and wrongs perpe
trated upon an unoffending people straggling
for their rights. It affords a moral spectacle
which history will hold up as one of the bright
spots in this dark reign of Abolitionism and
Iniquity at the North.
It would seem that Mr. Wood is exposing
himself to the charge of folly, when he speaks
of a re-union of the States as the object of his
aim, and the end sought to be accomplished by
a cessation and a negotiation for a
settlement. Mr. Wood has too much
discrimination to contemplate any such result
as the restoration of the old Union with the
North and South as parties to the compact.
That appears to be the point looked to. but it is
so simply from the fact that under the present
tyranny over opinion and speech at the North,
no man would be allowed to suggest a movement
for peace on any terms that did not contemplate
a continuance of Yankee free-trade with the
South. Mr. Wood expects no such result, and
he strikes for negotiations simply because he
wishes the popular mind of the North to have
an opportunity to pause in their whirlwind of
passion and madness, and contemplate the un
told horrors into which they must plunge the
whole country by a further prosecution of t'ue
war He knows that the South caunot be
whipped or subjugated, and would put a stop
to a useless and destructive contest. A tem
porary peace will allow reason to resume her
throne, and the Northern people to act like
rational beings instead of madmen, and hence
he holds up a restoration of the Uuion as the
inducement, when lie really means final peace
with a recognition of the separation as com
plete and permanent.
With this view of the subject the Southern
reader can peruse the speech of the gallant New
Yorker with a real pleasure, and with a feeling
of gratitude to the man who has the virtue and
courage to stand up, almost if not quite alone,
in the vindication of our cause.
Civilized Warfare.
The western papers contain a correspondence
between General Lovell and a Yankee com
mander on the. Mississippi, in which the latter
threatens, whenever his boats are fired upon
from the shore, to take vengeance on the wo
men and children by opening his batteries up
on the nearest unoffending towns. Some weeks
ago, the town of Grand Gulf was shot pretty
well to pieces on account of a fire received
from a battery some distance from the place.
General Lovell very properly protests against
this barbarous and cowardly mode of warfare,
which, he tells the Federal commander, every
body believed had disappeared with the savage
aborigines.
At Fernandina, and again at Ilolly Springs,
trains of cars iu which inoffmding women and
children were fleeing from Federal brutality,
were fired into from Federal gunboats and bat
teries.
And yet in spite of such infamous conduct
and the thrice rectified villany of Butler, the
Confederates are daily lectured by the Yankee
presses and generals on the proprieties of civil
ized warfare ! For one, we have no proprieties
for such a degraded and faithless race. They
deserve nothing at our hand but war to the
knife and the knife to the hilt. We would ex
change prisoners at once, if possible, and then
fight the remainder of the war with the under
standing that no prisoners are to be taken
They deserve no better at our hand. In an or
dinary quarrel between nations over a point Of
interest and honor, the courtesies of war should
be scrupulously observed ; hut these people are
invaders of our homes and firesides, the indis
criminate murderers of our wives and children,
the robbers of our property, who seek to de
base and enslave us, while their people at home
breathe hatred and all manner of uncharitable
ness against us. Talk about Christian warfare
with such a race who have abandoned and set at
naught every obligation recogniand among
Christian people ! It is nonsense.
The Yankees at St. Marts.— Some two
weeks ago, the Yankees entered St. Marys, des
! eerated the churches, damaged the dwellings,
and scattered books and other property through
the streets. We have no information that they
were interfered with in their vandal work.
We received yesterday, from Waynesvllle, a
letter from a responsible gentleman, from which
we make the following extract:
“ The Yankees spent, several days at St. Marys
this week In removing the machinery of Bivins’
steam mill. They posted their pickets and
landed a number of laborers, who, without
hindrance from our t:0" •< quietly removed all
the machinery, after two or three days’ work.
Our troops did not attack them.”
We ask the attention ot General Mercer to
this very singular state of affairs on the coast
| below. We have troops in the neighborhood
of Bt. Marys, but if these depredations on the
property of citizms 3re to be allowed without
even an effort to arrest them, the companies
stationed in that quarter for the protection of
citizens, might as well be disbanded or remov
ed at once, as an unnecessary 'expense. The
idea of the enemy’s landing at one of our towns
with a small force, and quietly working there
for several days together without the slightest
molestation, is anything but creditable. If the
statements given to the public be true, there is
criminal negligence or incompetency some
where, and it should he ferreted out aud cor
rected.
We are wholly uninformed wi.h regard to the
number of onr forces on the coast below. Per
haps they are insufficient for the duties to he
performed, aud we feel constrained to take that
view of the case, tor we have yet to see the
first Georgian who is not ready and willing to
meet the toe wherever he may show his head.
If incapable of opposing a Yankee picket guard ,
we respectfully submit, they should be either
reinforced or withdrawn altogether aud trans- i
ferred to a point where they can be of service
to the country.
Cakgo of the Memphis —We learn.from a rs
liable source, that the steamer Memphis, which
ran the blockade at Charleston some days ago,
brought 1,000 barrels of powder, 4,500 Enfield
rifles, 20,000 pounds o( lead, several millions of
percussion caps, and a large supply of blankets,
for the government, besides a considerable
quantity of assorted merchandise on private
account.
This will serve us a good turn in the present
emergency, while we might add with truth that
sullictent arms have arrived at Confederate
pons within the past week, to swell the num
ber to near, if not quite, 10,000, together with
ammunition of all sorts in abundance.
Gen. JaCKsON.—The Lynchburg Virginian
had intelligence Thursday night of General
Jackson's movements, but they are of such a
character as to forbid publication. Jackson
has the best army in the world for its size, and
we predict he will be on the north side of the
Potomac before the middle of July.
The News from Florida.
The despatch concerning British proceedings
off St. Augustine, which we publish this morn,
ing, is significant. Having no sympathy tor us,
England at least feels for herself, and is unwil
ling longer to bo hood-winked and duped by
the Yankees. As to Yankee free trade with
blockaded Confederate ports, she will not hear
to it, ami she objects very properly. Mr. I.'ri
coln, though, will, probably, ejaim enlarged
privileges on those portions of the country
which he holds by conquest, and we may look
out for wratby demonstrations when he hears
of his transport being a prize in the bands ol
the British, and his starving soldiers wandering
about the country in search of bread. These
doings will evidently rain bad blood between
the two nations, but Bull is wide awalce and
knows exactly wbat he is about. The Bermu
da and the Emily St. Pierre have already
brought them to the verge of war, and, being
unable to avoid it, Lincoln may pluck up cour
age enough to resent what he considers an out
rage upon his flag.
For ourselves, while wo care very little about
tbe matter, and, except that we would like to
see matters livelier on the water than the Con
federates are able to make them, we fcok with
a considerable amount of indifference upon the
prospective quarrel. It is no interference in
our behalf, and we leave Mr. Bull to fight out
his own quarrel, with a lurking hope, however,
that he will use diligence to blow a few hun
dred of Lincoln’s ‘ships out of the water, or
rather to the bottom of it, before he gets
through the prosecution of his rights under the
blockade.
We have telegraphed to Florida for full par
ticulars of affairs in that quarter, but up to this
writing—6 p. m.—no further intelligence has
been received.
pimply add that the despatch
which we publish seems to come irom a reli
able source, though we do not vouch for its
correctness.
Affairs on the Altaiuana.
South Newport, June 25tb, 1802.
Mr. Editor: As rumors are rife from any
movement made by c unpaoies,which continue
to grow in importance, it in ty not be amiss for
me to give you some few particulars which
caused a company, the L’berty Guards, to take
up ihe line of march on Sunday last.
Some anxiety was felt by our citizens on be
ing informed that Captain Hughes had been
credibly informed that two Yankee gunboats
had passed Darien some four or five miles up
the river, seemingly to destroy the railroad
bridges across the Altamaha. The Captain,
ever ready to hasten to any point where there
is a prospect of thwarting the expectations of
the vandals, reached D vrien at an early hour
with a strong detachment. A gunboat had
been up the river as far as Champion’s Island—
Nightingale’s plantation. Ou the arrival of the
company at Darien, she was seen lying at Bar
rett’s Island, about three miles Irom the town,
having in charge a two mast schooner that had
been hid up tbe river.
We are informed by some of the soldiers that
she steamed off that, evening before they left
in the direction of St. Simons, carrying along
the schooner, which I fear may have been
loaded with rice, as we learn there was a good
quantity left on the Island. Tbe.-e steamers
continue to infest our coast, beating about
principally from St. Simons to Doboy, Sapelo
and St. Catherines—occasionally coming in
nearer the main. Oh, that these miscreants
might be smashed unexpectedly by a few pieces
of masked artillery. *
They have already stolen a goodly number of
our slaves, thus curtailing our provision crops,
and beneliiting themselves by applying these
hands to labor; or, being consistent philanthrop
ists, se.il them for pecuuiary gain. We have
some crops on fields bordered by good size
streams, which they, no doubt would wish to
destroy at a lime when it will be too late to
plant again, but should they have the hardi
hood to attempt this, unless their gunboats be
very hot, I predict many a one cf them will
catch hot lead from carbines aud shot, guns So
mote it he. Essolus.
Is I'll in True ?
The Journal & Messenger of the 25th inst.,
published atAlacon, Ga., says :
■"lt seunwpfr> b" a well' attested fact, that the
purchase ot a large portion of the Flour in the
Slate was ostensibly made for Government use
and purporting to be by its agents—aid then
sold at a large profit, as a private speculation.
The fact of this deception should be fixed on
those concerned, as we are assured it can be
done. The result of the duping of the seller,
is starvation prices to the poor purchaser. The
benefits of Geu. Mercer’s operations should be
applied to other markets than Savannah.”
If the statement be a fact that the purchase
of “a large portion of the fl <ur in the State was
ostensibly made for Government use, and pur
porting to be by- its agents, and then sold at a
large profit as a private,speculation,” the
Editorshould have gone further. Such conduct
was, by the last Legislature, made punishable
by imprisonment iu the penitentiary and declar
ed to he “A Felony.” Now the Editor should
have given the names of the parties, that they
may be brought to trial and sent to the peniten
tiary, or concealing the names, he should have
applied for a warrant and caused them to be
bouud over for trial at the next Superior Court
of the county whcre'the felony was committed.
Publish the names ; and doubt not these vio
lators of the law of the State will be prosecued
before the proper Court, and if convicted will
be imprisoned in the penitentiary for the full
term prescribed by Law. Publish the information,
let the public know the names of the speculators,
who p>retend to purchase lor the Government.
Give the names. Jckor.
The Whereabouts of Halleuk’s Army.—
The York Herald sals :
The inglorious retreat of Beauregard (ram
Corinth has been the means of scattering Gen
Ilalieck’s arnay over a wide range of country.
Gens. Btifell and P ipe are in pursuit of the fly
ing rebels. Gen. W T. Sherman, wi’h his divi
sion, is repairing the bridge on tne Memphis &
Charleston Rthread, between Corinth ami
Grand Junction, and he will soon have the road
clear to Memphis Gen. Wood’s division is re
pairing the bridges on the. same road east of
Corinth. Geu. Thomas, with his force, is oc
cupying Cnriuth. Gens. McCiermnd and Lew.
Wallace are at Purdy.
If this location of the Federal army be cor
rect, why is it that Beauregard does not silly
forth and cut them to pieces iu detail ?
Gamblers Doing Good.—We find the fol
lowing paragraph in the local column of the
Richmond Examiner:
The “Sporting Fraternity" of this city on
yesterday made a deposit, it. proper hands, ot
§6,330, for the benefit of .. t wounded
soldiers. We learn that this is but the balance
of a fund gotten up tor that purpose, the
amount already distribuicd having been about
§15,500. The example is worthy of being fol
lowed by another, aud, il anything, far less
worthy, though nominally more respectable,
class of the community known as merchant ex
tortioners. No such good thing, however, is
likely to happen.
| Yankee Health os the Tennessee.—A late
| number of the Louisiana Journal contains the
! following doleful account:
Dr. Biaekuuu returned last night from Pitts
| burg, coming up on the Superior to New Ai
| bany. and from thence by rail. The Superior
has on board 555 sick and wounded and, uua
ble to come up the river over the Falls, she will
discharge her load bel w and return to the
Tennessee. Dr. Biacktnan slates that the banks
ot the Tennessee river are covered by the sick
soldiers, to be counted by thousands upon
thousands. They are ntcissar.ly poorly pro
vided tor, and the boats ate leaving hourly
crowded with the invalids. The weather is
very hot, and the sickness is rapiuiy increasing.
Gin Hal leek has made his arrangements not
to bring his wounded at the battle of Corini h
from the field, but they will be cared for at
Corinth. The roads were wretched, and our
troops enduring all kinds of privations and
hardships to reach the enemy’s fortifications.
Dr. Blackman is still Brigade Surgeon ot the
army,-the Secretary of War refusing to accept
his resignation
Capt. EliiHa Cain, tor mmy years past a
prominent lawyer or Sparta, Georgia, died ia
Milledgtviiie on tbe 14. h inst. At the time o,‘
his death be was O plain of avoluuleer com
pany tfom Hancock county, and oh hi., way t>
Macon to jour his command In tbe death of
Captain Cam, Sparta has lost a good litz.-u,
and the legal proiession a worthy member.—
His bereaved family have our heartlell sym
pathy. i
Our Virginia Correspondence.
General Review—Correspondehce between. Governor
Brown, aid President Doris— The Conscription
Law—lts Constitutionality - Promotion by Ben
lardy—Elections for Officers void—lf rdships re
sulting from the Law- 1 Militia ” not Confederate
Troops-Friendly pickets—Revere Skirmishing .
<(V., ,(■<!.
Camp near the Chickahom-ny, i
June 21st, 1802. i
Mr. Editor : To-day is “General Review and
Inspection.” We are blit poorly prepared lor
such an imposing event. On v guns aud side
arms are in good order, and will pass a credita
ble inspection; but onr uniforms ! There are
not a hundred men in the brigade who have
hats or caps alike ; the greatest variety imagin
able, of every style, shape, quality and descrip
tion, that can be found in or out of the most
exteEsive combination of batteries in the
world, maybe seen in our brigade upon'this
auspicious “Review Day.” There is scarcely
less variety in the matter of coats, p ints, &c
This is owing, in a great measure, to the con
stant and laborious duties to which General
Toornbs’ brigade has been subjected for tlia
past three or four months. But what matters
all this? II we do not make a great show upon
the review, and carry off the palm as the best
looking brigade in the service, we can shoot as
fast, yell as loud, and charge the Yankees with
as much impetuosity as the finest dressed
troops in the Confederate army. I iia not cer
tain but that our in -different unitorms will
m ike us fight harder, for it won’t make much
difference if we do get them soiled, bloody or
torn.
Tne inspiring strains of a first-rate bind,
wafted by tbe “balmy breize of early morn,”
tell us that the “Review” has begun, and we
must don the “ paraphernalia of war,” and be
ready lb undergo the scrutiny eff a strict in
specting officer. Review over —a very creditable
affair, all tilings considered.
The published correspondence, between Guv.
Brown and President Davis was read with a
great deal of interest, and has created quite a
sensatipn—a good deal of feeling in the army.
Gov. Brown discusses at length the constitu
tioualiiy of the “Conscription Law,” aid
dwells mainly noon that portion of the act
which gives the President the power to appoint
all the officers—company, battalion and regi
mental. So fo- s the Governor’s argument
goes, it is good ; but he bases the whole of his
arguments upon tbe hypothesis that the iroops
composing the Confederate armies, yt those
raised by the act, are mil-ilia , which is o'-arly
erroneous. If tbe troops composing .c l ar
mies were militia, then the President' w mid
not have the right, under the .Constitution, to
appoint ihe officers. The milita -are wi.hht the
States —subject to ihe States individual! /, ae
enrolled and disciplined by the States, and are
notsu'j ctto the orders of the President ex
cept when it becomes necessary to suppress in
surrections or n pei invasions. As soon as the
cruse is removed, the militia (and their officers,
company, field, aud generals are appointed by
the Governors of the States) go back to their
States and arc immediately disbanded. Con
gress could have availed itself of that, e’ause of
the Constitution aud called out the entire mili
tia of the States, in which event all of liu-ir
officers would have been appointed by the Gov
ernors ot the respective Slates. Bat, on the
contrary, Congress chose to avail itself of that
other broader and better clause which gives it
power ‘do raise and support armies .”
Then, as it is eie riy evident that the soldiers
in question aie not “militia,” Gov. Brown’s
i bjec ions to the President appointing officers
to command troops raised by the Act fails to
the ground. President Davis has nothing to
do with the appointment ol Militia Officers,
neither has the Act.
Congress is the only judge as to the proper
means to be employed in carrying out the grant
of power “to raise armies.” At. first it eliose to
call for volunteers, giving them the right, to
elect all their officers, even to the fi ling up of
vacancies. It next thought it proper-—best for
the public safety to “raise armies” by conscript
ing all white males bet ween the ages of 18 and
85. This is as dearly constitutional as anything
can be. The only point ol difference, us I can
see, between Gov. Brown and the President,
arises from the mistaken idea of the Governor
(as appears from his letter) that all the forces
iu the service of the Confederate States Armies
are militia. I will repeat the Attorney Gen
eral’s definition of the term militia, and then
leave this part of the discussion for Wiser heads.
He says “militia are a body of soldiers in a State
enrolled for discipline ” Congress has the pow
er to raise armies and to prescribe the mode of
appointing the officers.
Upon this last point, I would speak more
particularly. The 10 h Section of the Act says
‘ that all vacancies shall he filled by the Presi
dent from the company, .battalion, squadron, or
regiment In which such vacancies ehaHLcccttr,
by premomn YiCcordlngilo seniority," <f. This
is right enough with those companies, battal
ions, squadrons or regiments, wit ch are raised
or organ zed by the Act, hut it “works a hard
ship” upon war regiments which w ere organ
ized months before the passage of this,law, and
entered the service under laws giving them the
elective franchise. In this one respect I think
the Conscription Law unconstitutional, not
however, upon any of the grounds before men
tioned. Tnere is a clause in the Constitution
which says; “No ex post facto law or law im
pairing contracts” shall be passed. Is not this
a retroactive law so far as it gives the President
the power to fill all vacancies which shall oc
cur in war regiments ? Is it not a "law impair
ing contracts" when it takes away from these
regiments the elective franchise given them by
the laws under which they entered the service
months before this law was ever thought of ?
Promotion by seniority applies very properly
to twelve months troops re-organiz •<! by the
act, for they are regiments raised under that
graut of- power. They suffered some incon
venience by being forced to rem tin in the army
without the privilege of going home ; ti'l, the
Act, so far as it relates to them was abstractly
constitutional.
This sweeping clause has worked peculiarly
hard upon various officers of this regiment.
| Under an idea that ttie elective right of war regi
meats was not effected by this law, there have
j beeti quite a number ot elections held to fill
I vac-neies, since the passage of the Conscrip
] tion Law. By a late ru’ing of the Secretary of
War, the Act takes eft i- w i", and these
elections arc void. It is Ou- i.ninitiating to
those who have been promoted by a vote of
their companies, to be forced to come down.
Under this law our election for Major i
void. The Major elect, J. II Pickett, will again
have to assume the command o! his company,
j and Capt. David B. Harrell, of Webster county,
j being senior Caplaiu, will become ouf Major.
! Our regiment was on picket again yesu rday.
| The Yankees are remarkably civil—so much s>,
i indeed, that there has not been a gun fin and ou
| that part of the line lor more than ten days,
i They walk about --carelessly, iu groups and
I wave their caps, handkerchiefs or papers at us;
| and very frequently (notwithstanding very p is-t
--tive orders against having any intercourse wi.h
! them whatever) exchange New York capers for
| southern. One of our boys went out on the
brow ot a little hill to see wr.at they were
J doing beyond, and stood gnziog at them for
I some time. Q tite a party of them hid
’ turned their attention to agricultural pursuits,
and were cutting and tying the ripe wheat. One
of them, very much to the amusement of the
Yankees and Southrons, picked up a chunk
and threw it at “ Jesse.” Being too far off
(one hundred and fifty yards), he did not betray
any signs of uneasiness; bur, after he ii t-i satis
fied his curiosity, he very deliberately walked
back to his post. At this point the opposing
pickets occupy the woods skirting parallel
ravines, distant from each other from two to
four hundred yards. Between these ravines is
a wheat field. * Here it is that the picket-: ate - >
friendly. Farther to the left, however, nearer
the Cbickabomiay, they keep up a constant
war upon each other. A man shows his head
at the peril oi his lite. Capt. Pickett's company
occupied this post, and had hot work ot it ;•.!!
the time. He had one man wounded slightly I
in the arm. A ! so, in this direction there was
very heavy and rapid ea-conadir.g lor two!
hours, beginning at about 10 o’clock a. m. Tie j
best information that I can get concerning it is i
that a large party of the enemy, supported by !
a regiment of infantry and a battery, was cut- !
ting the wheat in the opposite river bottom, i
and that the shelling was done to drive them ;
off. which was doue very soon.
You have seen lull panicalarsofGener.il
j Stum’s unrivalled feat in the rear of MeClel
: jaw’s army. The city papers are full of detailed
accounts and heroic incidents. The whole
tiling seems fabulous; but the renli'y -t G u.
S narl’s having been among their wagon trains,
commissary and quartermaster's srnr.s. and
sutilers’ shops, is 100 plainly* felt by the enemy
to admit of doubt.
“ McClellan ihe Grea’,” with the best ap
pointed army in the world, tbe b st am ill .y,
and scores oi gunboats, with ail the Greeley
element at the north to urge him on, will no.
attack us. Dispositions have been mad..- during
the past week to give him battle, but he won’t
accept the gauge lurther than to engage in
heavy skirmishing. lie cannot be induced to
leave his swamps and intrenchai-nts; and Ido
not believe he will attack our forces as long as
there is a chance to avoid it. His army will be
beaten, driven back, routed, and tot iiy de- j
mural>z- J. This he knows, and he will he con
lent with maintaining a menacing position,
without actually altar king. If there is a bat le
fought here, the atLaek will be made tv. the
confederates. V. A. S. P.
Dr. Stone nas pa and his fine of SSOO and got
out ot Fort Jackson. ILs offense was in refus
ing to attend Federal officers and admit soldiers
into his hospital. {
McnipSii* Intelligence.
We clip the following item-, from the Mem
phis papers of the 17th :
Tiib VVhaiif.—Yesterday was bv far the most
business day upon the lev- e that we have seen
tor six months. Some twenty beats were in
port with immense rurgon* spreading them out
upon the landing. The draymen were out in
full force eager for a loud. The heat was intense
throughout the day. We did not hear of any
cases of coup de soled, but if it continues as
warm lor several days there will be jobs for the
undertakers sure.
Influx of Mur chants/ —lt is estimated that
lln Glendale. Irom Guiciimtuq and the ComuuT-
I ev.il if m L< Uisvilfe, btought, down near tWo
hundred shippers, and cm goes of salt, pork,
bran, hav, bacon, p-Ha*es, leim.hsaod oranges,
snfficit ut to supply “all the world and the rest
of mankind” for many mouths. It may be men
tioned, also, as a significant fact, that an c v.-r
--whnliuiiig number of the shippers are Israel
ites.
Clerkship.—WaJearn that there were no
less than thirty applications from citizens of
Memphis for clerkships in the postoffice
Postal. —Twelve hundred letters were mailed
yesterday, from the Memphis postoffice. There
were oue hundred arid thirty lock boxes en
gaged. •
Runaways still abound. Already a goodly
number have been arrested, and scarcely a day
i.asses that the police do not take up a score.
Yesterday eight were recovered and put where
they will be returned to their masters.
Indiscriminate Slaughter at Holly
Spring-.— The Memphis Appeal of 18. h says :
I The noth irifies in this city have received in
formation that Holly Springs were occupied by
! a considerable force of the enemy night before
I last. They made their appearance suddenly,
| without any previous warning to the citizens,
| aud. of coarse, much confusion ensued. The
| provost marshal was among the prisoners
| taken. A train was about ready to leave for the
South at the time, upon which many citizens
attempted to take refuge lor the purpose ot es
caping. The-crowd was fired upon, aud Lieut
Ball, of the C. 8. A., and others were killed.
A painlul rumor bus prevailed all day that
among the xttuber was our esteemed friend
Ge t. A B. Bradford. We have, however, been
unable to ascertain the truth as to the kite ol
the. latter gentleman.
No piibl c stores remained at Holly Springs,
and the traits of t fie inroad will be worthless,
except so far as Yankee desire tor blood is satis
fied with that ot the defenceless inhabitants
who were so indiscriminately slaughtered. We
shall get full particulars as ear y as possible.
Ha tier’s Infamous Order*-Opiiiaa of a
Neutral.
The Montreal, (Canada) Commercial Advcr
tiser copies, for the second time, the infamous
order ol Butler turning over the women of New
Orleans to the last of his brutal soldiery, and
thus delivers its views of the document:
Wo pub!>hcd the above infamous Older of
Gen. Btstlet’s a fevy days ago, aud repeat it now
because it. is proved obe authentic. When it
first appeared, it was denounced by t’ue Fed
| eta! press as au invention of B : luregard’s to
“rirc the Southern heart,” anti long columns
of abase were vented on the Confederate Gen
eralbirlbe wickedness oi attributing such an
atrocious document to a Union commander.
It was truly said that such ua order would vir
tually give official sanction and instigation to
the violation of lh.; women of New Orleans,
;> o'lier interpretation could be placed on
the command to treat them as “women of the
town plying liie.ir avocation.”
We never had any doubt of the authenticity
of the qjr.h-r ; it w is characteristically northern
in the Vileness ot its cowardice, its licentious
ness, brutally and utter iniamy. We have
seen in Waadnglon ladies committed to the
common goal for tne crime of lifting a band
kerchief to their lips; in St. Louis a whole
family was imprisoned because a young lady
being in the some house waved . her batidker-.
Chief to a passing prisoner; we have seen North
ern journals boosting that a Federal general
tinea uued with an oath to quarter a soldier
covered with smallpox upon a lady at Nashville
who sneered at his troops ; we know that the
march of Bmks army no the Snenandoah, ol
VleOlellon’o .up the Peninsula, and ol Mc-
Dowell’s to F edericksburg were accompanied
by all the In riois ot war in the middle ages,
plunder, universal destruction of property, the
viola ion of women and the murder of their
husbands, brothers and fathers who sought to
protect them from a fate worse than death.
Gen Butler has only publicly avowed his in
ton t ion to encourage that which other Northern
gi neruls have allowed. The Federal coraman
deis have improved on Russian and Austrian
tyranny and brutality ; they wielded ouly the
knout and the stick, scoring the backs of wo
men. Butler is greater iu his way tliau liiinault;
he has found a deeper degradation to which
women cm be suij-eted than blows; beuce
foith among their o fi r boasts the Federal., can
claim that they 7 have committed the most in fa
mous outrage of ninjim times, and can point
to u;e commander of the Union troops at New
Orleans as the most cowardly, licentious and
despicable viliafn that tiie world has ever seen.
Can any one weed r ihat the Southern troops
fight with desperation, aed a.e-betrayed into
acts of vindictive retaliuiou ?—and that the
whole population rises upon them wficn defeat
ed, and slays them us they would a pack of
Wolves ?
Northern Virginia had felt the tender mercies
of th-j 'U .lot) generals anti troops, as Spain felt
those cl it:- Frc>.ch invaders, and its revenge
was the fctyme. ...New Ot leans will yet take a
'rightful vengeance for its wrongs ; anti the
North will have bitter cause to repent the licen
tiousness of its hireling soldiers, and the pusi
l.tiiimous wicketim-ss ot its leaders ?
There was no Union sentiment in the Cres
cent City before its oceu; avion ; is it likely 7 there
is any now ? Will the people love the Federal
Government better, or h A its troops less be
ciu-e their a tt are threatened to be
given up to I.: o iiveutiousnens of the scum of
Northern cities V
1; ii. by such means that the Union and Con
stitution are to tie restored ; peace is to give
place to war, love to hatred, respect to con
tempt ?
General Bullet’s order will unite the whole
Southern pet pie still more closely In tin ir de
tenu nation to resist, their invaders to the flit ter
end ; it will confirm itie doubting, strengthen
the determined, fill the ranks ot the Confed
erate armies with new soldiers, aud arm them
with double a sir tig 1 .!!.
It ha- destroyed at one bbw the wi Fed
eral -nec-ss -of the camp, igu, by teaching the
people of the douthtti e autos th** *: ae character
of their itiVA Trs, and wh it lb y ..Vo to expect
: irom their dominion. Il in .;,e coming battles
! t’’ i i( d-rate troops do not treat tlo-ir oppo
iu -one reptiles, which are conquered
.- -troyed, they must be some hing
mue r Jess than men. in the armies at Rich
mond and Corinth there re thousands of sol
diers who have left . danght rs wives, sisters
and lovers in New Orleans, liable at any mo
ment to b : livuied a- “ women of the town,
plying their Avocation.” T.iis knowledge will
nerve their arms ana double-edge their steel,
and should make ihcm invincible against the
northern fiord..-, however much they may
outi.u ber them iu men and surpass them in
material.
I N. Y. Times on Butlek’s Proclamation. —
The New Y ak Times bn* a wonder does not
| approve oi the orate Butler’s proclamation :
| I.‘ Gai. Bath r has is.-turd any such order, he
I should be foribwiih dismissed trom tbe army.
! It would tu a idi.-grace to the service—an iu-
I famous outrege upon tb morality and decency
|ot the country and the age. It purports to be
j a warning to the ladies, but ia really a license,
; exp i sslv given to e soldiers, to treat as
; “women of the town,” every female who may,
• ‘‘by w ord, treMu-o or movement, insult or show
| contempt for any officer or soldier of the United
I S'.-ues.” Such intuits may be very annoying,
laud may k-hvo punishment, Or, at least,
! mrasur. sot repression though we believe that,
a-, yet, they fire not offences against any code
ot laws, either civil or military. But to commit
! their punishment to the unrestrained sanclioa-
I id license oi a rough soldiery wou and be a stride
! towards the bra ~ 1,,y of the most barbarous
I ages, from which we trust the Union cause will
j be pro ected. Such an older would inflict
j 1 istihg ii-gracc on the officer who should issue
{ it, a\J bring the cause ue protested to serve
I into just and general contempt.
A Letter from Gen. McClellan—Moke
i Hospitals Wanted.—A letter from Geucral
j McUieii.iti was received in this city on Saturday,
!oy a g.alien; in high in authority In it the
■ rebel i at Fair Oaks was stated to be ten
I thousand. Through reliable sources of inior
: umioa Gen. McClellan had learned that the
j wounded in Richmond now number seven
• tiioh.-aud. Almost every m*tt:c its quota.
Il Richmond is captured, our wounded will
have to be <v.„veyed at once to the North,
every available hospital aid shelter in tne
neighborhood of the spot upon which the ter
' nble conflict will t ike place being already lull.
Acting upon suca a ; urges'ion. the -Deputy
’ Quartermaster General > I the United States
; uitnv, in this city, will at once seek for large
; buildings convenient to railroad or water trans
portation routes, in the vicinity ot I’hiladel
i jib a, either ia N v Jersey, Pennsylvania or
D la ware. We have already suggested Cape
May, as affording a wholesome air and proper
structures. Other points on the New Jersey
coast are uUo -unable. B tween the time in
widen syuipt ms of recovery are apparent and
the pauen> cm re-enter the service, there is an
interval w lien might be spent with advantage
at some “eonviie ccrj! ho-p.:at” oo the coast.
A’Yu-'a au esiab i.-maeut, health and strength
e ,”uid be m ire e-v by leg .iuad than by proximi
ty to tu re who at is more seriously ill. This
would, in ■ ff eg be a ••soldiers’ watering place,”
and might be a valuable auxiliary to the hospi
tals already established.
[Philadelphia Inquirer, 17th inst.
T JtUX-iJBJGr JrC' -L -k XCx
Aflairs in East Tennessee.
[Special despatch to the Savann h Kepublican.j
' n attanooga, Tune 2S—Th i enemy stampeded on
Saturday from Jarper, leiving ihetr cam equ’pfige,
Ac., and destroying, as they went, the bridge over the
Sequatchie river Their loss in killed was one cap
tain; one l.ectenant was wounded, and four privates
captureA
At I >nr o’clock this morning the enemy returned
j within a mile of Jasper fifteen hundred strong.
Two deserte-s fom the Fifteenth Kentuck. (Fed
e.id) ri-g'cnei lcame in to-day from Hunt vide. Th- y
rep i t that most of that rigiment ii disaffected.—
V tichcll is at liubville, wi h ttr e thousand troop’.
Dumont had hit McMinnville for Moifreosbon.’ with
four thous nd,’on the IS h insL
t-kirw.is’i ng took place to-dav t Cinch r ver. <>n tba
road to .uorri-town and Cumberland G.p. The ene
my are advancing ia force from that direction, and an
tally tattle is expected
Erom Charleston.
TSp: cial despatch to the Savannah Republican]
Cuaisle ton, .June 23.—Aliis quiet on James’ Iri
and o day
The Yankee gunboats shelled a detachment r f Mar
i n Artilcry yesterdav, who were posted on James’
I land, ad lorced tbim to retire.
liHcre&tfßg from ihe West.
HINDMAN WHIPS CURTIS IN ARKANSAS.
The Fcdtrals Take our Batteries at
Bt. diaries,
EXPLOSION OF A GUNBOAT WITH TER
RIBLE LOSS.
Cotton Burning in Miasissippi,
[‘ipecial despatch to the Savannah Republican ]
Mobile, June 2L—A special de°pafr h from Grena
da, M ss,, dated 28d, > ay-: Persons who have ar-iv l
from Memphis report l,.at an engagement had iaken
lac iin Ark ids s, between Gen Hindman, in com
mand of th > State troop-, and Gen Curtis, in which
ihe lat er were defeated. The report was generally
erediled in Memphis aud 111 • neighborhood.
Col. Fitrh with two In ia. a - Regiments, was sent
up White Liver to reinforce General Curtis. Heat
tacked our batteries at St. Charles, seve-ty miles
above, with two gunboats aided by land forces, and
succeeded iti capturing them romther. ar A hot sh it
from one of ou -butteii; s entered the magezine of the
*urooat Mound City, creatingau explosion which blew
her into atoms. Out o' one hundred and seventy-five
nmn aboard, all were killed except twelve.
The *e ieral cavalry, in considerable force, appeared
on Saturday at Boldwater depot on the Mississippi Ac
Tennessee Railroad, thirty mdes above Memphis.
The cotton is bring burnt by the planters throughout
th ■ upper counties of Mississippi.
Important from the Yankee £rmy.
HEAVY TOSSES IN VIRGINIA.
PORTER’S MORTAR FLEET SENT FOR.
[Special despatch to the Savannah Repub’ican.)
Richmond, June 24—The Petersburg Express of
this m nii g says the Editor has c nversed with a
genlh man who recently le t the rear ol McClellan’s
arrr yon the Chickahominy, and who had seen the
Philadelphia papers of the 19th instant. They contain
full accruals of tne guerrilla raid of G-n. Stuart, and
confess to much loss of pr perty. They deny, th ugh,
that the engineer of the train was killed.
The Yankees, says the Express, on the authority
ah ve stated, lost in the iwo days’ fighting at Seven
Pines, in killed, wounded, mfisinf, aud demoralized,
40,000 men.
The Express also says that the Federal® do not cen
templ to a march against Richmond until they shall
b ve succeeded in r duci-g the Conlederate batteries
atldiury’s 61 ff, toeffect which they have sent to New
(Means lor Porter’s morlar fl eL
FIGHT IV E All RICHMOND.
The Sickles Brigade Whipped by
a Louisiana Regiment,.
(Special despatch to the Savannah Republican.)
Richmond, dune 25. —The fourth Louisiana Regi.
meat engaged this f irenoon, on the V
roa.t, Sickles’ Yanseo bridgade. A desperate fight en
sued, in which the brighdo was driven back with great
slaughter, and a 10-s of seventy-five prisoner?.
The Gotifi derate loss is comp ira ively heavy.
Latent from Tennessee.
THE ENEMY 0,1 THE It IXO FOE A FIGHT.
[Spatial despatch to the Savannah Republican.]
Knoxville, June 25.— The enemy advanced to
TiiZvvo l from Cumberland Gap in order to feel the
strength < f our forces. After a skirmish they re-cross
ed Powell’s hivor and relumed to Cumberland Gap.
They arc not willing to risk an engagement until
Buell's advance slab have arrived
The enemy at Jasper were reinforced yesterday by
tour reg m-nts, and heavy artillery had arrived at
Buttle Creek.
a hattanooga is considered impregnable since the
addition of the 82 pounder baiterie-, which has just
been male.
IMPORTANT FitOM FLORIDA.
JOHN BULL BLOCKADING ST. AUGUS
TINE AND THE ST. JOHN’S—’TOE YAN
KEES STARVING—CAPTURE OF A LIN
COLN TRANSPORT—IHE YANKEES RE
TREATING.
• (EStVATE DESPATCH ]
Baldwin, (Flu.) June 2G —lnformation, considered
reliab e, has been received here that British ships are
now bloi kading the port n: St. Augustine, culling off
ail supplies hound for the Yankees A Line* In trans
port, in attempting to enter, was captuied and is now
held as a prize.
At last accounts the Federal troops at St Auguet no
were in a starving condition and preparing to march
aero-s the country to the St. Johns.
It is also reported here that the British war vessels
are blockading the mouth of the St. Johns’ river.
The Fight of Wednesday near
Richmond.
THE EX EM Y DRIVEN BACK TO THEIR
CAMP.
Expectation of a General Engagement.
[Special despatch to the Savannah Republican.]
Richmond, June 23 —The difficulty of obtaining iiis
formation Ircm the lines is ilimlrated by tbs tndefini e
accounts in the morciag t apers of the cattle ot yes
terday on the Wifiiaanburg road. ,
So far as Hie facts could be obtained, it appears cor
tain that the First Louisiana Reg'ment were engaged
for some timo with two brigades of the enemy, who
dr vein our pickets about 8 o’clock, a. m. Regar;-
less of the heavy odds, the Confederates advanced up
on the foe shouting the battle cry of “Butler! Butler!”
The front of the en-my’s !i e fell back in confusion
under the fl rce on --1, and the whole brigade would
Lave be n dr vc from the. fl -.ld but lor a murderous
cross-fire from the enemy’s ambusesde hath- woods.
The Fi-st Louisiana was a terw&rds supported by
oth r n-gimeoU of General Wright’s Brigade, arid the
fighting was cm tinned through tbe day until the ene
my were disludged from the woods and driven to their
camp which to k place In tbe afternoon.
Hats lie’s and Muhonc’s Brigades ware both engig A
ar.d aided in driving back- the Yankees. Col. dniveis
and dajor Noliigan, of tne Ist Louisiana, were, each,
woun 'e lin the Tin. Lieuts. Gilmore and Murpbev,
of the Montgomery Guards, New Orleans, were belli
killed.
The total less on the Confedera'e side, in killed end
wounded is estimated at about two hundred. The
loss of the enemy is very heavy.
LATEE.
Up to one o’clock to-day there h.s been only occa
sional catiaonudi g along the fines, ihe general ex
pects ti ni of a great battle to-day has not been re;, i/e .
Domestic Tea —Oar esteemed friend, J. ii ,
to wiinui the readers of the Courier have been
Oiten indebted for acceptable and useful com
munications and contributions, and especially
iu tbe department ot Botany, sends us speci
mens of a tea ot home growth, which is thus
described: „ T
“Ceonothus Ainericanus, .sew Jersey tea
called by the country people Yellow Root—
grows aWundatitly in every district of the Siate.
Dry the leaves in the shade and use a little
more than half ot the green tea. I have ued
tips tea lor riie last two months. It is Hie best
substitute for bi-ck tea that I have ever met
" Tne specimens thus presented and avouched
were gathered by David Riker It .will be
favor to in iav readers if any Botanic il friend
e&a fural&h a tell >o material* for
identitying this plant. We snail be pleased,
also, to receive reports ot otner ca-es of its
trial and use, and of any applications of our
own Flora to any houseuold purposes, or to
new uses.— [Charleston Courier.