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2 WEEKLY RIPUBLICAH, By t*‘. V\ - feMII- , City a b and € o uu t y ■? > t u i tr. i: •’?K*'jß.' SNEt-HR, - - 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.