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\.. • . i HEFUbLIUAtN
Sate Fodder and HaT.— Should fife: war
Continue another year there will be an immense
demand from government for forage, which has
been very scarce and high during the past year.
Planters convenient to railroads should save
and bale up all the hoy and fodder they can. It
will be difficult to provide a bale too much.
Horseflesh in the Confederate army has suffered
terribly, so far, from a scarcity of forage. A
friend who saw the cavalry at Qiattanooga,
says that the horses were in an awul plight—
absolutely unfit for service, though generally
very valuable animals. The case has been the
same everywhere. The scarcity of hay and fod
der has been a great hindrance to army opera
tions. Now is the time to guard against the
same trouble next year. •
Battles before Richmond.—We conclude,
on this page, the Yankee account of the recent
engagements in the vicinity of Richmond. Le
any one r< ad the accos t of the enemy’s retreat
a-:rof.s the White Oik Swamp, and say if it was
not criminal remissness somewhere, on onr
pirt, that saved McClellan and his fugitive
army. ludced, from all appearances he, him
self, was surprised at his extraordinary good
fortune in being able to escape cur clutches.
Our forces sent to cut off his retreat by way of
the P.imunkey, seem to have done their whole
duty ; but the right wing of our army dis
puehed to block up his most probable route—
the roads leading to the James —seetn either to
have been asleep or entirely ignorant of the
eaemy’s movements.
It is due to the cause that this whole matter
be thoroughly investigated, and a summary ex
ample made of the delinquents.
A Caution. —Our brethren of the interior
Press wili allow us a word of caution, which it
has not always been prudent to give, though
v ry frequently needed. We wish to advise
them from copying Irons private letters, or other
sources, announcements of the arrival of vessels
throu ;h the blockade, when similar announce
ments are not made by the newspapers on the
coast. We have good and important reasons
tor not giving publicity to such news, which
should be appreciated by others. The block
adirs get our papers, and when possessed of in
formation that a vessel has gone into a certain
port, or that a vessel well known has gone in
at all (they knowing pretty well what coast she
trades to), it is only necessary for them to send
a few vessels off the mouths of our rivers to
effectually close them in and prevent their re
turn. It will thu? be seen that these publica
tions gratify a morbid appetite for news, at the
expense of tiie country, and grea )y to the in
jury of the brave men who are bringing U3 the
means of conducting the war at imminent risks
to tliemselvts.
We trust there will be no further occasion to
allude to thesubj jet, an.i, indeed, feel convinc
ed that it has been entirely from want of a prop
cr understanding of the consequences that ft >w
from snch notices that indiscretion has existed
heretofore,
General A. It. Lawton —Few men won
greater distinction in the late battles before
Richmond than the leader of the last brigade
vycseat from Georgia. The accounts of his
flearing, which we receive from a number o:
sources, all agree in the highest compliments
to his courage and gallantry on the field. On
one day, apparently forgetting hia position as
General, he led on foot two regiments of his
brigade into one of the fiercest Of all the seric 8
of actions, with apparently total indifference to
his personal safety. So gallant was his conduct
on this occasion, that Genera! (Stonewall)
Jackson complimented hitn in the highest terms
on the field and in presence of his men. He
assailed some of the strongest positions of the
enemy, never failing in his purpose, and the
immense fatality to hi3 command shows the
difficulty and peril of bis achievements.
Among his own men, wo learn. General Law
ton has won all hearts, bol h by his generalship
and personal attention to their comfort nnd
wants. They cling to him as brothers, and are
ready to follow him wherever he leads.
General Lawton and his comm ind have, alike,
proved themselves worthy representatives of
their State, even whore so much had already
been done to illustrate her, and Georgians will
not be slow in recognizing the service.
Our old correspondent, “P. W. A.” the
reader will be gratified to learn, is now in Rich
mond, and will furnish us at an early day, full
accounts of tho recent actions,so far as they can
be compiled from the materials tit hand. As but
little is yet known of tho details of those en
gagements and the men who acted conspicuous
parts in conducting them to a successful issue,
we, shall look to his letters with no small de
gree ol interest,
Adams on Laws of VVar —The nbol tioniat*
are fond of quoth g from John Quincy Adams
to prove that the war power embraces the right
to liberate slaves. But' some diligent person
has excavated from the diplomatic literature ol
forty odd years ago, a letter from Mr. Adams to
Mr. Rush, in IS2O, when the former was Secre
tary of State nnd the latter American minister
to England. In this letter Mr. Adams discus
ses the asserted right of the British government
to emancipate American slaves, captured during
the war of 1812-14. The following is an ex
tract :
In the statement of the British ground of
argument upon tho claim in the submission,
they have broadly asserted tho right of emanci
pating slaves—private property—as a legitimate
right of war. 'lhis is utterly incomprehensible
on the part, of a nation whose subjects hold
slaves by millions, and who, in this very treaty,
recognizes them as private property. No such
right is acknowledged as a law of war by writers
who admit any limitation. The right’ of put
ting to death all prisoners ot war in cold blood,
and without special cause, might as well be
represented to be a law of war, or the right to
u e poisoned weapons or to assassinate.
Again, he says :
The principle Is, that the emancipation of
tiie enemy’s slaves is not among the acts of
legitimate war—as relates to the owners, it is a
destruction of private property, nowhere war
ranted by the usages of war.
From Fort I'ttiakki.
Correspondence of the New York Tribune.)
Fort Pulaski, Ga., June 110 —All things are
quiet here witu the exception of a slight stir at
the fort occasioned by the appearance of thr-e
rebel steamers lu the Savannah, above Wright
river, yesterday morning. A lew shots were
firultrom the tort, which ktpt them at a respect
ful distance. As it was supposed that a landing
of troops had been made on Jones’ island, where
we had a battery of six pieces—all of which
were removed after the taking of Pulaski—a
party was sent up in the afternoon on a recon -
noissance. Our men discovered quite a number
on the other side ot the islaud, near Mud river.
They had been to tiie battery, and exploded
their vengeance in destroying a teuantless build
lng, erected for officers’ headquarters, and cm
lit g dowu the look-out. What else they intend
to do remains for corjec.ure.
You have doubtless heard of the death of
Col. Perry, ot the 48. h New York volunteers,
commandant of this post. He had been slight
ly ill lor a few days, and was conversing with
t apt. Strickland in regard to an" flrder whieh he
had given him in regard to a hulk stationed in
the r.ver on which was a picket guard, and sud
deni? his head dropped one side where he was
reclining upon a sofa, and after a few gasps he
was no more. So rapidly did decomposition
take p'aeo, that before a coffin could be obtain
ed from Hilton Head it was impossible to pre
serve his remains to be scut to his family in
New York He was accordingly buried iu tie
cemetery of the fort, and the soldiers hare ic
ei ' od his tomb with a neat white fence, orna
mented with Janies pr, j -cliles. pa-tiled black,
an .i presenting a unique and pleasiug appear
What the generality of people would suppose
to be a safe l-osttion In occupying a ton that is
invu,ueratle to the enemy, has proven no pro
teciiou L. the silent bolls of death. But one
mut w i< m! ed duuv.g the i'Oinbatdmruc.whtch
Usted nrariv two days, -ioee then twelve have
n.ei b> <!** nod acn?UJcuu
Tv bee and Dawiuskte are occu led bv detach
me It* from the 4S.t, and picket are s alloned
•i various point* guarding the approach or the
enemy.
A great amount of labor bas been i erfor-ned
in reps ri g ihe breaches of the fort „nd remov
Ins the rubbfoh, and a large amount refit ands yet
to be done. 1 . - the im-. utlon os put uin com
plete repair, and tunsi- h it with a full armament,
lac men s.-ff r uiu. h t r the warn ofgooddrii k
ing water, .u' s 'Ven ai; at has made provisions
for remedying this by the construction of a
condensing apparatus.
THE S A_ att-NTA i 3/ TIJEDAY, S6. 1863.
General JUn*ruder.
J/r. Editor : A simple act ol justice prompts
main the. following matter: The correspon
dent of ■. ur paper errs very greatly in attribu
ting the fi! •> the late Tuesday battle
before Richmond to the culpable carelessness
of General Magruder. I am somewhat sur
prised that he did not learn the facts in the
case before presenting them to the public. I
am sorry that I have not the article belore me,
iu order to reply statement for statement, but
am obliged to depend upon memory alone.
In the first place, there is a general impres
sion in this State that General Magruder was
drunk; I am happy to state, upon good au
thority, that he does not drink spirituous li
quor at all. I know it a3 a fact that he has not
drank at all since the battle of Bethel. The
very same impression got abroad then, and
coining to the General’s ears, he very nobly re
solved not to drink at all, whieh resolution he
has, I have eveiy reason to believe, kept.
About his being drunk at the battle of Bethel,
I was quite near him most of the time, and I
never saw a more sober man. About his being
drunk at the battle of Tuesday, a member of
bis staff, says: “There was not a drop of
liquor in the party ; I myself would have given
fifty dollars for a drink.”
In the second place, his orders were to move
forward in conjunction with General Jackson ;
he, as a soldier, obeyed it literally, and when
his division was exposed to the galling fire of
the enemy’s artillery, he remonstrated, yet the
orders were to move forward. This accounts
for the command, “Forward ! charge the bat
tery !” If there was confusion and disorder
in some brigades, it is tho fault of the brigade
and regimental commanders, not of General
Magruder. About his being behind a tree, he
may or y not have been ;we are ail too well
aware of his dauntless courage in Mexico, and
elsewhere, to believe that he, in the hour of
danger, would have “skedaddled.
In the third place, five days before the but
tles commenced, be had received his orders for
the command of the trans-Mississippi Depart
ment, but’he requested to remain a few days
longer in order to commanl his division in the
late fight.
In conclusion, I would say taut I am sorry
that General Magruder has gone Irani our com
mand, and hope he may be able to take our
brigade wi h him. Veritas.
Eatonton, Ga., July 21st, ISO 2.
McClellan’s Force, and liow Itc “ ,d
--vaitccd on bis Gunboats.”
Wednesday of last week was a lively day in
tho Yankee Congress. Mr. Campbell under
took to show that McClellan was the cause of
the failure before Richmond and the course ol
his remaiks let out many important truths,
lie read from the, testimony ol John Tucker,
Assistant Secretary of War, who testified that
prior to the sth ol April 120,000 men were first
sent down to McClellan; then Franklin’s di
vision of 13 000 were sent, and on lbs Ist of
June, McCall’s divitlon of 10,000 more, and
about that liilio 11,000 from Baltimore and
Fortress Monroe, and on the last of June
Shields’ division of about 5,000; making a
total ol 158,000 men sent, to General •McClellan
prior to the engagements before Richmond.
Mr. Tucker further testified that be did not
know of any other force which could have been
sent to McClellan. Thus it is shown that
158,000 of the best troops that ever stood on
God’s footstool had been sent to McClellan.
Mr. Campbell continued :
And yet the treasonable press oi the country
are howling against the Secretary of War, be
cause he did not send reinforcements to Mc-
Clellan. He read further that the testimony of
Gen Meigs, corroborating the statement of Mr.
Tucker, and saying that he believed that every
thing that McClellan had asked for had been
promptly sent to him by .the government.
Mr. Chandler said that McClellan had lost
more men in the trenches, five to one, than ever
fell from the bullets of the enemy since the
army went to Yorktown.
At last, when a small fraction ot the army
were wipped at Williamsburg, Gen. McClellan,
at a long distance from the field oi battle, wrote
a despatch to tho Secretary of War, stating
that he would try to hold the enemy in cheek.
But they were too fast for him. Then the road
was open to Richmond, and all he had to do
was to maieh out of‘lie swamps into Richmond.
But we found man f the swamp wo could
settle right down in the middle of it, and went
to digging trenches. Ton thousand brave men
were lost there by sickness. Then, after wait
ing some time, the battle of Fair O iks was
fought, and instead of following the enemy into
Richmond, we found another swamp, and again
commenced digging trenches, and waited till
the enemy got all the reinforcements he could
raise by impressment, and for the army from
Corinth to come to his aid.
And then the rebels attacked us, throwing
their whole force on our right whig, lint in
stead ot reinforcing that position, a retreat was
ordered. Aid this is culled “strategy.” VVe
lost ten thousand meu hy digging trenches, and
then left those trenches without firing a gun.
The army was ordered to advance on our gun
boats in-tend of on to Richmond.
Mr. Chandler,.in conclusion, said ho knew
he would be denounced ior making these dis
closures, but he thought the country ought to
know the tacts. Ouly traitors and tools would
deuounce him.
The War iUeotlngtn New York—Atro
cious Sentiment*—A Letter front Sew
ard.
Among the speakers at tiie late war meeting
in New York, was the "venerable” Dr King,
of Columbia College, Ha is reported to have
said : "
“VVe have hitherto lacked in our energies.
VVe have thought too well of those woo have
once been our triends. Our edetuiea make war
in earnest. They lose no opportunity of doing
us injury. Tuey have uo remembrance that we
were once their brethren. It they foiget, then
let us forget too.
“Let us treat them as enemies, as traitors and
as usurpers of u power that does uot belong to
them ; ns men whom we must annihilate it we
are to have peace iu ail tnturo time. VVe have
been lacking In earnestness anfi iu resolution iu
the delence of our liberties. Let ns make this
war fierce and bloody,as far as it can be made by
civilized men. L:t there be no temporiziug or
moderation; let us act by the rub: ‘Might makes
r gat.’ We arc here la only to oue, with all the
aavant iges that science aud" sk: 1 can give us.
Let us now, therefore, strike rapid and cootiou
ous blows, constantly, unceasingly—slows tuat
shall tell.”
Ji the Chairman read the following letter, which
elicited enthusiastic applause :
“Department ot tbs to, Washington, July 14,
1802.—Geullciueu :—Your note, iuviacg me to
inteud a meeting of loyal citizen* of N? .v York,
to be held to-morrow evening, has been receiv
ed.
The objects of the meeting are of vital im
portance —they involve uoihuig less thau a
choice between au early peace, with the deliv
erance ot the nation irom all surrounding
dangers, or a protracted war, with hazards oi
ultimate national dissolution. Public duties
forbid my leaving the capital at this moment,
but I nave given to the only male number of
my family, not already in the public service,
permission to enrol himsv t as a private iu the
ruuks of the volunteer*, which it is your pur
p. se to send into the field.
I have the houor to be, gentlemen, your very
obedient servant, Wm U. Seward.
[Frou the Southern Confederacy ]
Hot!. A. O. P. Nicholson.
Chattanooga, July 19,15<>3.
Elltors Confederacy :
The impression created by the lying sheets of
the Yankee press at Nashville, that the Hon.
A O. P. Nicholson, like Johnson, Brown,
Campbell, aud others, h is turned traitor to our
government, is talse, and, like many other lies
ot equal magnitude, was pat in circulation by
the policy of traitors, to influence others to es
pouse their \tuholy cause.
. Hr Nicholson has, from ill health, been pre
vented from taking a very active part in our
struggles for independence: but until the ene
my look possession ot Middle Tennessee was
a liberal contributor to whatever was beneficial
to the interests of the South Since the tall
of that portion ot the State, Mr. N.cho’son has
rt man and quietly at home, giving uo encour
agement to the enemy, but always showing
litem "cold comfort.” There is no doubt that
every Keliog o* i.is heart is for .Le prosperity
and triumph of Sou.heru arms; and such is
the conviction of that party of traitors who
now rule over that portion o: the Slate with a
cruelty characte folk' of the days of barba iins.
Andy Johnson has thought it to the interest of
f e “Federal cause.” and to the gratification of
i hi* own wicked heart, to have Mr. Nicholson
j arrested. A tew days sgj he was put ia the
j "euard house” at C Jumbta, on the charge of
I , M t al, d a ; tvr bis arrest the pr. vii go of
j Uikiug the oath of athg iir.ee to Abraham’s
I£SSIS. u ““ i“£SS£S“
[From the Florid an and Journal ]
iJi ovrsirlgg on tbe Art of Preparing
bull.
At some convenient place near the sea-shore
is erected the saltern. This is a long, low build
ing, consisting of two parts, one of whieh is
called th efore house and the other the pan-house
or boiling house. The fore-house serves to re
ceive the fu 1 and cover the workmen ; and sn
the boiling hou o are placed the furnace and
pan in which the salt is made. Sometimes they
have two pans, one at each end of the saltern,
and the part appropriated for the fuel aud woik
men is in the middle.
The furnace opens into the foro-house b. two
mouths, beneath each of which is a mouth to
the ash-pits. To the mouths of the furnace
door's are fitted, and over them a wall is carried
up "to the roof, which, divides the fore-house
from the boiling-house, and prevents the. ashes
and smoke of the furnace from falling into the
salt pan. The fore-house communicates with
the boiling-house by a door placed in the wall
which divides them.
The body of the furnace consists of two
chambers, divided from each other by a brick
pirtiliou. called the mid-feaher, which, from a
broad base, terminates in a narrow edge nigh
the top Gf the furnace, and by means of short
pillars of cast iron erected upon it, supports
the bottom of the salt pan. It also fids up a
considerable part of the furnace, whieh other
wise would be too large, and would consume
more wood than, by the help o* this contriv
ance, is required. To each chamber of the ! ur
nace is fitted a grate, through which the ashes
fall into the ash-pits. The grates are made of
long bars of iron, supported underneath by
strong cross bars of the same metal. They are
not continued to the farthest part of the fur
nace, it being unnecessary to throw iu the fuel
so far, for the flame fo driven from the fire on
the grate to the farthest part of the furnace, and
from thence passes, together with the smoke,
through two flues into the chimney, and then
the bottom ot the salt pan is everywhere equal
ly heaied.
* The salt pans are made of an oblong form,
flat at the bottom, with the side erected at
right angles. The length ol some of these pans
is 15 feet, in breadth 1:1 feet, and the depth 10
inches; but at different works they are of dif
ferent dimensions. They arc commonly made
of plates of iron, joined together with nails, and
their joints are filled with a strong cement.
Within the pan five or six strong beams of iron
are fixed to its opposite sides, at equal dis
tances, parallel to each other and to the-bottom
of the pan, from which they are distant about
eight inches. From these beams hang down
five or six strong iron hoops, which are linked
to other hooks or clasps of iron firmly nailed to
the bottom of tiie pan, and thus the bottom of
the pan is supported and prevented from bend
ing down or changing its figure- The palates
most commonly are of malleable iron,
about four feet and a half long, a foot broad,
aud file third of an inch in thickness. The Scots
prefer s smaller plate, 14 or 15 inches t quare.
Several tna'-e the sides of the pan where they
are not expo-ed to the fire of lead. Those
parts, when made of iron, being found to con
sume fast in rust from the steam of the nan,
some have used plates of cast iron, five or six
feet square, and an inch in thickness, but they
arc very subject to break when unequally heat
ed, and shaken (as they frequently are) by the
violent boiling of the liquor. The cement
most commonly used is plaster made of lime.
The pan. thus formed, is placed over the fur
nace, being supported at the four corner? by
brick work; but. along the middle, and at the
sides and ends, by round pillars of east iron,
called tan lines, which are placed at three feet
distance" from each other,’being about eight
inches high, and at the top, where smallest,
four inches in diameter. By means of these
pillars the heat of the fire penetrates equally to
all parts of the bottom of the pan, its tour cor
ncr's only excepted. Care is also taken to pre
veut the smoke of the furnace from passing
into the bailing house, by bricks and strong
cement, which are closely applied to every part
of the salt pan.
Between the sides of the nan and walls of the
boiling house, there runs a walk five or six
feet bioad, where the workmen stand when
they draw the salt, or have any other busines
in the boiling-house. The same waik is con
tinued at the end of the pan, next to the chim
ney ; but the pan is placed close to the wall at
tho end adjoining to the fore-house.
The roof of the boiling-house is covered
with boards fastened on with nails of wood,
iron nails quickly mouldering into rust. In
the roof are several openings, to convey off'
the watery vapors; and on each side of it a
window or two, which the workmen open
when they look into the pan whilst it is boil
ing.
Not far distant from the saltern on the sea
shore, between lull and low water marks, they
also make a little pond with stones or plank
on the sand which they call their sump. From
this pond they lay a pipe, through which, when
the tide is in, the sea water runs into a well ad
j lining to the saltern ; and from this well they
pump it into troughs, by which it is conveyed
into their sluss or cistern, where it is stored up
until they have occasion to use it.
The cistern is built close to the saltern, and
may bo placed most conveniently on the back
side of the fore-house; it is made either ot
wood, or brick and clay ; it sometimes wauls a
cover, but ongnt to be covered with a shed,
j that the salt water contained therein may not
be weakened by rains, nor mixed with soot or
other impurities. It should be placed s > high,
that the water may conveniently run out ot it,
through a trough, into thy salt pans. Besides
the buildings already mentioned, several others
! are riqnirtd, as storehouses for the salt, cis
1 terns lor the bittern, and a dwelling or tents
j for the salt boilers.
All things being thus prepared, and the salt
I water having stood in tijo cistern till the mud
i and sand are settled to the bottom, it is drawn
: off into the salt pans; and at the four corners
j of the salt pan. where the flame does not touch
i its bottom, are placed four small lead p ns call
j ed scratch pans, which fora salt pan of the size
j above mentioned, are usually about a foot and
1 a half long, a loot broad, and three inches deep,
| and have a bow or circular handle of iron, by
I which they may be drawn out with a book,
when the liquor iu the pan is boiling.
| The salt pan being filled With sea water a
strong fire is lighted in the furnace; and then
for a pan which contains about 1,400 gallons,
the salt-boiler lakes the whites of three eggs
and incorporates them well with two or three
gallons of sea water, whieh he pours into the
sail pan while the water contained therein is
only luke warm, and immediately stirs it about
with a rake, that the whites of tho eggs may
everywhere be equally mixed with the 6ait
water.
Instead of whites of eggs at many salterns,
as most ot those nigh Newcastle, they use
blood from the butchers, either ot sheep or neat
cattle, to clarity the sea water, and at many ot
tho Scots’ salterns they do not give themselves
the trouble of clarifying it. As the Wat r grows
hot, tho whites of eggs separate lrorn it a olaek
frothy scum, wuich arises to the surface of the
water and covers it all over. As soon as the
pan begins to bod, this scum is all risen, aud it
is then lime to skim it off. The most couyeu
ieut instruments for this purpose are skimmers
of thiu ash or cypress boards, six or eight inch
es broad, aud so long that they may reach above
half way over the salt pan. These skimmeis
have handies fitted to them, and the salt boiler
and his assistant, each holding one of them on
the opposite sides of the pan, apply them so to
j each other that they overlap in the middle, and
| beginning at one end of the pan, carry them
: gently forward together, along the surface of
i the boiling liquor, to the other end ; aud thus
| without lire.akiug the scum, collect it ail to one
end ot the pan, from whence they easily take it
| out.
• After tho water is skimmed, it appears per
j fcctlv clear and transparent, and the? continue
j boiling it briskly, till so much ol the fresh or
| aqueou - part is evaporated. tjytt what rem fins
; iu the pan is a strong brine almost luily sat a fat
ed with salt, so that small saline chrisuis bi g.a
to form ou its surlact; winch operation, m a
j pan filled ’5 iuches deep with water, is usupl.y
! performed in five hours.
j The pan is then filled up a second time with
j clear sea water drawn from the cistern, and
j about the time when it is halt tilled, the scratch
I pans a:e taken out, aud being emptied of the
■ scratch found in them, are again" placed in the
! corners of the salt pan. The scraich taken out
Jot these pans is a tine white cajearcous earsh
! found in the form of powder, which separate
from the sea water during its coeiion before the
salt begins to form into grains. This sub.le
powder is violently agitated by the boiling li
quor, until it is driven to the corners ot the
plan, where the motion oi tiie itquor being
more gentle, it subsides into the scratch pans
placed there to receive it, and in them it re
mains undisturbed, and thus the tc.-l p.rt
ot it is separated from the brine.
After the pan hath again beta filled up with
sea water, three whites of eggs are mixed with
the liquor, by which it is eta ifui a second
time, in the manner before described, and it is
a'lerwards boiled down to a strong brine as at
first, which second boding, may lake tip about
four hours.
The pan is then fined up a third time with
clear sea water, and alter that, a fourth time,
the Bquor being each time clarified and boiled
down to a strong brine, as before related, and
the scratch pans being taken out and emptied
every time that the pan is filled up.
Then at the fourth boiling, as soon a- the
crystals begin to form on tiie surface ot the
brine, the? slacken the tire, and only suffer the
briue to simmer or boil very gently. la this
heat they constantly endeavor to keep it aii ihe
time that the salt "corns or granulates, which
may be nine or ten hours. Toe salt is said to
granulate, when its ruinate crystals co-here to
gether into little masses or grains, which sink
down in tho brine and lie at the bottom of the
salt pan.
When most of the liquor is evaporated, and
the salt thus lies in the pan almost ary on its
surface, U is then time to draw it out Tafo
part of the process is performed by raking the
i salt to one side of the pan into a long heap,
where it drains awhile from the brine, and is
then filled out Into barrows or other proper
vessels, aud carried into the store-house. And
in tliis manner the whole process is performed
in 24 hours; the salt being usually drawn every
morning.
In iue store-house the salt is put into hot
drah., which are partitions like stalls for horses,
lined on three sides, and at the bottom with
boards, and haviug a sliding-board on the fore
side to put in or draw out as occasion ri quires.
The bottoms are made shelving, being highest
at tho back side, and gradually inclining for
ward, by whieh means the saline liquor which
remains in x -d with the salt, easily mains from
it, and the salt, in three or four days, becomes
sufficiently dry, and is iliea taken out of the
drabs and laid up in large heaps, where it is
ready for sale.
Tne saline liquor which drains from the salt
is not a pure brine of common salt, but hath a
sharp and bitter taste, and is therefore called
bittern. A considerable quantity of this bittern
s left at the potlom of the pan after the pro
cess is finished, which, as it contains much salt,
they suffer to remain in the pan, when-it it fill
ed up with sea water ; but at each process this
1 quor becomes more sharp and bitter and also
increases in quantity, so that after the third or
fourth process is finished, they are obliged to
take it out of the pan, otherwise it mixes in
such quantities with the salt, as to give it a bit
ter taste, and disposes it to grow soft and run
in tho < pen air, and rondersii unfit for domes
tic uses.
After each process there also adheres to the
bottom and side of the pan a white stony crust
of tho same calcareous subst nee with that be
fore collected irom tho,boiling liquor.- This the
operators call stone-scratch, distinguishing the
other found in the lead pans by the name of
powder-scratch. Once in"eight or ten days they
separate the stone scratch irom their pans with
iron picks, and in several places find a quarter
of -an inch in thickness. If this stony crust is
stiff..-red to adhero to the pan much longer, it
grows so thick that the pan is burnt by the fire
and quickly wears away.
In M de Pag da Travels Round the World,
we find the following important fact: I had.
been anxious.(says the author) to ascertain by
comparison, waeih :r sea water contains salt in
greater quantity under the torn! than under the
other zones, and my experiments on the subject
served to show contrary to what I expected,
that sea water is impregnated with salt in Kss
quantity within til n without the tropics.
These experiments were made cu a hundred
pounds oi sea water taken at the depth of ten
tathotns, and weighed in water scales. M. de
Page has given a table of these experiments
from which it appears that 100 lbs. of sea water
in 45 deg. 12 min. S. lit. gave 4% lias, of salt,
and in 1 deg IC mn. onl, 3y' ib-., and that in
74 deg. N. hit. it gave 4> 5 X lbs. and iu 4 deg.' 22
min. only 3)4 lbs., theie being the highest and
lowest latitudes in which the experiments were
made, and also the greatest and least quantities
of salt. - - G. J.
P- S. —The earthy substance called Magnesia
Alba, is never found by itself, and consequently
is combination cannot originally take place by
art. The vitriolic acid, however, is found com
bined with Magnesia in great plenty in the bit
ter liquor which remains alter the chrystaliza
tion of common salt, from whence the Magne
sia is procured by precipitating with a fixed
alkali. If this iiquo 1 *, which, avhen the com
mon salt is extracted, appears like clean oil of
vitriol, is set by lor some time in a leaden ves
sel, a largo quantify for salt shoots, called Gian
beds Salt, if after the first ebrystalization :of
the bittern, the remainder is gently evaporated
farther, a fresh quantity of Glauber’s Salt will
shoot; and if the l quor is then hastily’ evapor
ated,’a salt will then be chyrystalized, but in
stead of large regular ehryslals, it will concrete
into very small ones, having something the ap
pearance of snow when taken out ot the liquid.
These sails are essentially the same, aud me all
used in medicine ns purgatives. The salt shot
Into small clirysials is termed Epsom Salt, from
its being first pcpduced from the purging wa
ters at Epsom, in England. G. J.
Casualties in ilia Second Georgia ISegt.
Richmond, July 15.1803.
Editor Enquirer : Tue following is correct
list of the killed and wounded of the 2d Geor
gia Regiment.
Field and Staff.— Col. E. M. Butt, severely
wounded.
Company A, (Rinks county Guards) Lieut
Owens, commanding. Killed—Henry C rr, Ist
Sergt A G McK'e. Wounded—Seigt j W Chap
man, Sergt W P House, Corp’l vV K Brock,
Corp’l II r! Char-tine, G G E.iiott, (since died),
J A Ritchie, J 14 Sialic, Benj Smith, Jasper
Smith, Ja-> R Willbanks. VI M Lolling, T V
Forbes, C N Ellicit, J 11 Ashe.
Company F, (Cherok e Brown Rifles) Capt
Shuford, commanding. Killed—M Starrit, Ist
Sorgt A II Watson, W E Garrison, Thos C
Owens, Jaa Strickland. Wounded-—Corp’l H
F Freeman, Corp’FM F Ferguson, R Ellison, J
J J oms, II A McCrary, Wm K Millwood, J J
Pinson, C A Pu ree, J tvjcc J W Wheeler.
Company C, Serames Guards, < ’aptaiu Shep
herd Killed l-t Sergt. A J Parker, W A
Barker, J J Dewberry, C Evans, J T Crt iv h, S
D Fitzgerald. Wounded—VVm Lamb, 8 G
P tts, 'Vin H Not ms, (since die I). J H Floyd,
( ince died). J Ail bright, 8 J Smith (since died),
J N Ancbbacker, W A Barker, J 1, Burkes, J
W B ggers, Wni N Cheney. J unes Davidson
(sine; tied). J II Hopkins, J R Keuneday, VY D
Lewis, V\ j B Lynch, J A Newtasn. Henry
O lver, J hn I‘alierson, VY Robey, E P VV.llis.
Shglitly wounded—Capt Shepherd, Lc. How
ard, J M Brown, J M Dismukes.
Comoany I, Buena \jsta Guards, Cspt Mad
dux. Kilted—L B Kemp, W J Saunders, n M
Toney. R M Upton. Wounded—Capt Maddux,
Lieut Hardison. Sergt. J M Lowe, Sergt. JVY
Slaughter Sergt I! ik, C >rp’i Windsor, Corp’l
Wyatt, Z B -lk, B FBi dsong, C VV Birdsong,
F. A f ’rew, James Guy, VV J Guy, NT D Halley,
J J Harroll, J E K. n trick, L B Mason J B Me-
Pberson, John Mooie, E P Pierson, J M Pow
ell, L il Scroggins. J C Ivey, Jdm Shepherd,
J T Smith, M M Tidd, II O Watts, J B Wat
kins, KS Windsor, W W Wyatt.
Company 1). Bmke Sharpshooters, Captain
Thompson. Killed—Capt Thompson, W D
Whitehead, C'dor bearer. Wounded—Sergt J
VV Reynolds, VV A Tompkins, J P Sawteil.’ S J
Green, Solomon Pinker, Robt Chandler, LLmry
W.. Race, Stephen Biouut, E Tarver.
Company H, Wright Inmntry, Captain IZ&zi
c ;ck. Killed—Sergt J C Chandler, W A Smith.
Wound; d—2d Lieut J B Collurj, Jas Masters,
Thos Nix, S C Davis, O A Abie-, B C Edwards,
B B Brock, G VV Robinson, T U D .-dm .n.
Company E, Joe Browns, Capt Morris.
ed—J A Moody, II McMinn. Wounded—Jas
V Shields, ’as Davis, Samuel Stafdley, Jao M
Kindail, E Cbusliu, J Yestall, Wm Lewis, W
V Cube.
Company K, Stewart Greys, Li. Rockwell,
commanding ' Wounded —W illiam Seay, H C
Moore, J L Stephenson, VV J D >.seii, J W Da
vis, B F Garrett (since died), P Coliin, Thomas
VlcMillcn, Thomas Perry, Henry VV .itou, W A
Webb, J B . rmon, J H Heulty, J T LSwe, J
W Faruham, G VV Perkins, Lieut W W Boyn
ton L Seymour
Company B, Jackson Blues, Captain Lewis.
Wounded—Capt L wis, Lieut Lewis, Sergt W
S Sirus, Cor. T J C A Jones. J D Albright, M C
Baker, W A Brakt li IJ, J 11 Cole, Jao Funder
burko, J J Funderburk'*, R H Griffin, H W
Jourdan, T J Middlebrook, II W Wi.iis, (since
died), D J Ptavey, J C Fuller, J RSewell.
Company G. Columbus Guards, oapl Chaffin.
Kill d-I. fi Potter. Wot; ded—W R Hough
ton, VV H Peirino.
Ex-Governor Seymour, of Conn., opposed
to a War of Subjuoati in.— Ex-Governor
Seymour, o Connecticut., has written a re
markable letter to the Hartford Times con
demning the use of his name as a Vice Pre-i
--deut of the late War Meeting iu that coy. He
goes on to say that
“If il is nt ••. - try to be n re expl I,l’ g
leave to state that, knowing what the tuceiir.g
would bo bef ehand, l could not have been
induced to attend it, or take apart in iu doings
—aud that, having glanced a. tho speeches aud
the proceedings generally of that meeting, I
particularly d> ire. to clear uiyself from any par
ticipation, directiy or indiuctly, in what took
place there.
The meeting, if I have not misunderstood its
genetal bearing is oue which ignores peaceful
remedies el any rt as means ef restoring the
Union, and calls loudly for mao and means to
aid in the subjugation and consequent degrada
tion and ovei throw of the Souih. I loilow,
gcilktnen, in no crusade, ueither will 1
contribute, in any way, to the accomplishment
ot such bloody purp ises. The mouiirous fal
lacy of the present day, that the Union can be
re-established by destroying any part of the
South, is one which will burst v. itu the shells
that are thrown into its defenceless cities, aud
leave the condition of this country, after iis
trea-ures are txhau-ted, and us brave meu on
both sides consign and to hospitals aud graves, a
sp .-carte tor reproach or cowmisscraUen ol the
c vii z-d world.
A Goose Stout.— i he Abmgion Yirgiuian is
responsible lor the following:
A Confederate soldier ou ins wav from Cdni
beriand Gap though Lee county, a few weeks
ego, being hungry aud feeling au appetite for
gii.ise, fastened a fish hook to the end ol a cord,
and on passing a bouse where he siw some geese, j
baked the hook with a gram of corn aad east it!
among them. No sooner had it dropped than
oue of tfie geese guzzeled it down, 'ihe soldier
at the other tud of me cord took to heels, the
goase ( f course wub outatretch-d wing* fol- 1
lowing him The owner of the goose ?up. osing
him to be afraid ot it, exclaimed, “D n’t ran,
it won’t bUe you, indeed it V.—but I never
knew it to be so cr *s b- ti ro ”
The Con Fi: cation Bill nut yet Signed
Wa-htngtoo, July 15—Tue Cocfi-caUou BPJ
has nut yet been returned to Congress with the
President's approval. It is thought that his
request tor a protraction ot the se sum has ref
erence to that measure, ana that there is some
hesitancy in signing it
Bastrop, Texas, is m u tu tuac been destroyed
on the sth instant by fire.
Tfie “Herald” oo i6o Yankee Crisli!'.
Yesterday we gave a couple of extracts irom
an editorial in the New York Herald of the
15:.h. The style is frantic, and shows what ?Ae-
Clellan’s “victory” is thought of at the North.
The extracts were brief, and this morning we
give tiie article entire:
ricTTmr, in earnest—bown with all trai
tors.
This is the crisis of the rebellion. It is more
than this : it is the crisis of the country. There
is no longer time for argument, indecision, or
delay. Every reasonable man lia3 now arrived
at the conclusion that the rebellion must b*
put down, and that it must be put down by
force. The repulse from before Richmond is
to this final act of the drama of rebellion what
the surrender of Fart Sumter was to its pro
logue. It closes the argument at once an'd for
ever. There is uo time left for talking, and
there is nothing left to say. Henceforth we
must have only action, action, and again action.
VVe are done playing with war, and must now
fight in earnest. The order ol the day is, down
with all traitors. >
This civil war lias dragged its slow length
along for fifteen months. It could have bean,
aud ought to have been, settled in half the time
It has already cost'-tue country six hundred
millions of dollars The greater part of this
immense sum hi3 been wasted and stolen. Up
to this date thousands of lives have been lost
upon our battle-fields. Thousands of thee
lives have been thrown away, unnecessarily
sacrificed, wantonly squandered, heedlessly
murdered. The bones of our dead soldiers
would make a Golgotha monument higher than
that of Bunker Hid. Tiie money already spent
upon this war would have given competencies
to a million of people.
In return for this immense outlay of blood
and treasure, what have we gained? Are the
rebels subdued ? Ou the contrary, they seem
stronger than ever Is the reb iliun at its list
gasp? It has to-day more soldiers in the tb-ld
than the Uuion. Have wo succeeded In reviv
ing tiie Union feeling at the South ? Why, eve
fl-y day the two sections'drl'l farther and former
at art; every day we become, more sud more
igndrunfof the seulimaai-? of the Southern peo
pie; every day that this accursed rebellion is
r rmitted to continue, t o number of Southern
Union men become le:S as the old Union seems
more powerless and remote, and the new Con
fedc/acy more powerful and successful. What,
men, h ive we gained ? It spile of our brilliant
victories, our naval superiority, our numerous
but isolated triumphs, we have practically and
ia le uiis gained very little and lost v ry much
What, then, shall wo do nexi ? Si: all "wo five
up the war, disband onr army and navy, and let
the rebels go in peace ? Never ! It is tto late
to think of such a course. The recognition of
the Southern Confederacy by our own G vera
m mt is no longer among the < oulingencies of
this war. The rebels may defeat our armies and
capture our capita!—these are p. ssibiiiiies—but
the rebels can never conqn-r their indepen
dence. The conflict has assumed anew and a
sublimer aspect. We have to decide now, not
whether the rebels can be subdued, but whether
the country is to be saved. The question is no
longer the "putting down of tho rebellion, but
the salvation of the ratios. Wc are in cut cli
sac, from which our only escape is the suppres
sion of the rebellion by force.
Fifteen mouths ago we might, perhaps, have
peac ably divided the Union; but sueh a divi
sion is tr>w utterly impossible. Later still, if
there had been one grt a*, statesman ia the coun
try, we might have reunited the nation bycom
pr iraise, or by u diplomatic appeal to the old j
national feeli g cgiinct a foreign foe ; but now j
no eomprom'se is possible, and the onlv-diplo- I
mac? i ii us is that of the sword. Like Alex- 1
under, wc cannot untie, aatl must eat, the i
Gordian knot of our agjlrs. Lko Cros.tr, we
have pass <1 the Rubicon, and must advance. |
Like Cortez, wo h ive destroyed aii means of '
retreat, aud must fight tho matter out. The j
crisis is no longer the comparatively insignifi I
cant affair ol the secession of a few S ates, but il
is the eris’s of qur national existence. What !
Rome suffered during her intestine cocfliate ; I
what Franca t uff red du mg her’revolutions ;
what Eagland suffered dur.n : Uer civil wars, '
this republic is a gfferlug now. From these
cruel pangs a. ; o,.i*wge a great ."i and uniter' :
nation, or the hissing, the rr aoich, the scoG !
and the bye-word of the world’. D we succeed j
we shall rank the li st emos-g nations. If wt i
fad, Liberty is dead, and we and e '-'th her. But
we shall uo"t fail if from past experience w.
learn the secret of success aud prosecute the
war with a unit' and N nth.
Beg the question as you may, there can be no
sane doubt but th it the cause of "ur ill success
thus tar has been the want f unanimity in sen
timent and action at the North. Those Aboli
tion fanatics who adore the negro and despise
'he Union have distracted our counsels, imped
ed oar armies, and neutralized our advantages
To a strong but divid and North we have hud op
posed a weaker but more united South. Th
ree ult was certain ; for unanimity is power. Ii
is now quite lime that we had this power on
our owi sk! . The Abolitionists are the only
faction which prevent this, aud therefore pre
vent victory. The Abolitionists in the Cabi
net, in Congress, in the pres. in the pulpit, and
upon the rostrum —the Stantons, the Su oners
ihe Gretl.ys, the Cheevcrs, and the Wendell
Phillipses of the diy—have hampered our Gen
erals, divided cur forces, discouraged recruit
ing, hindered tnlistm nts, and endeavored to
weaken public confidence in the President, in
whom alone the people can now trust. We
urge, as a life ar.d death necessity, that this dis
turhing and disorgm z ug faction should be put
dowu. It is the stumbling block ia the path of
the loyal people. If misrepresents this war for
the Union oy call rig il a war for me negro, and
no war for the tugro can be popular. It cries
“emancipation” to drown the battle cry oi
“Union.”
Its utterances serve to exasperate and on
courage the re' el-', for Sumner, Greeley & Cos
have brought Jeff. Davis more and belter re
traits than the'conscription act. It is a faction
of traitors. If .it had been crashed moßltu
ago wq should have had on end to the war, ai
half the price of blood and treasure. As it is
the end “eenis no nearer than before Three
hundred thousand man a'e now rushing to
arras. Three hundri and thousand more patriots
offer their lives tor the salvation of ihe c uiu
iry. Millions upon in l i >ns of dollars a e
ready to be p urod into ihe national Treasury
by willing hands. We are proud of ihis popu
lar, uncompromising devotion to the Union,
but, taught by the lessons of past experience,
we forewarn the Administration that this third
uprising of the N >rih will be in vain unit's?
the people are united and the cause justified
by the suppression of all factions, abolition or
secession, which prefer the negro to the Union,
and which by traitorous intrigues delay our
arms, wliile pratiDg about qu stions of slavery,
which the war, .if properly prosecuted, would
settle for itself. Will the Administration be
wise iu time, or must we endure another yc.-.r
of war aud debt before we learn (as we must
ultimately learoj to fight in earnest? Let but
the Government strike one blow at tho aboil
lion traitors aud the rebellion will stagger with
a mortal wound, while thousands of loyal but
scrupulous liieiJ, who-h ave te en misled by
Abolition:-is, a:ul now held back, declining to
fight, for emancipation and amalgamation, will
crowd our armies and carry the old flag tri
nmpbantiv ovqr the last stronghold •* rebel
lion, ’
Yankee Comfort,
The following paragraphs are taken from the
New York Herald 12th inst.:
Washington, Friday, July It.—The IV ' '-at.
as wc art. unsure J by loose who kv w, re: v rorti
irom the Pen in ula m much bcuer sUn • '-.a:
Ue was whtn he went : hero. Ii . feud G ' .
:::cnl of our disasters had b. as is > * .
usually done in such c. *•:, r.ra .i ex>trger and
and ihat the present condi:: r f tkmgs v, a
icuchb 'ter than was rep:.* and. He fop:,e
that our less in killed, td, ulssiug-ei-d
prisoner; did not eztc .and a -orditig to the offi
cial figur. =., 10.400 men. He Kuud that tie
army on the J-uies w as much stronger in point
of numbers than official accounts sent to Wash
icgt n represented it, and he Kund the men in
excellent heart, and eager for ihe words, “lor
wurd march.”
THU MATERIAL OF CUR ARMY.
Col. Clorcret, the French nfileer who ct m
Branded with distinction a bl ind; in Fremo;. ’
corps, at the batiie ol Port R.public, and •- b
met there ihe be-t regiments oi Jackson, as
serts that our soldiers are in every respect su
perior to the rebels—so superior that be would
not be afraid to fight them three toCD' 1 . anC
should feel sure of victory If he had one Union
soldier to two rebels.
PATRIOTIC RESPONSE.*
Information received here from ail the New
E gland and Northern 'S.ates, through officio,
sources, exhibits evidence ot the pivinpi auo
patriotic demonstrations on trie j.ar.ot the pet*
pie in rtsuondicg to the call ot the P/eeiiien
toraddili aal tr -ops. M *e. New Hampshirt
M- seaehusetts, Couaicticu , Rhode Island, a„c
New York, through she Ex cutive and miiiLan
authorities of tho-e Soatt.-. are recpOadmg wilt
a Z::;l wonh.v of liter a eieut lame. IKnn
States are doing equally welL
A Yankee jmp —i ue &u U A>.t.v Register o
Thursday says ibat the iDfamous Jorjkra, win
gained a little notoriety a ia Butter at Sparta a
few weeks since, is now at ihe Beil H rase, n
that cUv, et joying bis captivity finiy. This
fellow J irdou is ibe rains viiiian who was in
command <■f a regiment ol Hessians at Sparta,
Teun , some lime since, ana who ordered iht
ladies ot that place to prepare something foi
his men to eat wubic oDe hour, or iu ease o’
failure, he would turn his soldiery loose upon
tbern and net be respoa-iblc Jot any of ibeii
acts This is ihe substance o! the report as wt
heard U several wt t-ks since, from a gtmitiiiae
from Tennessee, and wc see ihe Beg-'er refers
to the sam; thing and ccrrobo atce lae state
meat in almost the tame w i res. We propose
bat the fu tire fa e of tue viliaiu Jordou be de
ified by a two-third vote of the ladies ot Kaux
villa,
the battles before Richmond!
Cahisnlffew in tho NlSsotocsuli eoraa
licft'iment.
IIEAD’ORS 19tii Eeg’tGa. Vols., i
July 12,1802. f
Editors Southern Confederacy:
Gents : I send you a list of tho casualties in
the Niuetccuth Regiment Georgia Volunteers
in tho recent battles belore Richmond, which
please publish lor tho information of our
friends:
JUNE 20, 1803.
Field ar.d Staff—Killed : Lieut Gol Thomas
C Johnson.
CO A, GEORGIA VOLUNTEERS, CAPT V M JOHN
STUN.
Killed : Private James Ray.
'Wounded : 2d Lt Frank M Stovall, in hand;
Privates M’lltstili, in hand ; Thomas Kellner,
iu thigh; Lewis Lewis, in lace; VVm Turner,
in thigh ; V/m Gavit, iu both thighs.
CO B, GUARDS, CAPT J H NEAL.
Killed : Private Daniel Sullivan.
Wounded : Privates Wm Si:ar naban, in face;
Dent,is (Jolnua, arm broke, (since died); Jas
McOaffry, iu both arms; Jackson Autry, in
ltg; Gorp’l Pat Fiizgibbous, in bead.
CO C, PALMETTO GUARDS, CAPT R r. HOGAN.
Killed: Scr ( ,’t G T Richardson, Privates A
W Ren fro iv and VV T Simlb.
Wounded : BreVei 2J Lieut?! E Cranford, in
band and side ; P Wales S II McGee, in breas ;
J C Morris, in side; S A Willingham, in leg,
T VV Hopkins, ia thigh ; E R Patman, in leg :
Thos ii-irdeu in leg ; 1’ J Mayfield, in thigh ; J
P M il.r, ia kg; U <JGreer, sight iu leg.
COMPANY H, COTTON GUARD!, CAPT J 1) BEALL.
Killed: Private VV S Hadatvay.
Wounded: Captain J B Beall, in thigh ;■ Cor
poral J M Haynes, in head; Corporal VV P
Parks, in bead; Privates A J Yearwood, siigbt
in leg; VV J Alien, in arm and leg; J B Can
Ifcll. *
CuMP’y 1> S2NOIA INFA .TrtY, CAPT J D HUNTER
Killed: Corporal VV J Carmichael; Privates
Jonn T Garrison; VV S Falls.
* Wounded: Brevet 21 Lieut VI J Bridges, in
b ud ; Sorgeant J Coggins, in leg ; Privates W
E Poteet, in leg; R M Carmichael, in thigh ; M
J Morgan, inarm; Green Morman, in shoulder;
£ L vy, in shoulder; J M Swan, in both leg ; G
VV Evans, iu side; J D Garrison, iu side; J VV
Coat, in foot; J H Sharp, in chin.
COMPANY F, CARROLL GUARD3, CAPT WILLIAM
Hamilton. _
Killed : Privates G M A iams, VV A Pitts, W
G Driver, B P Williamson.
Wounded : Ist Lieut H M Williams, in arm ;
Sergeant VV P Campbell, in head .and atm; Pri
vates S Hembry, in hand; WHB -ddingikld, in
arm ; W VV While, in band; J H II aider,-;on, in
side ; Thomas VV Baskins, in neck ; D iV l)u
Gray, all over by bursting of a shell; TO Barnes,
in hand; S Elliott, in hand; J Patterson, in
hand; Martin Chandler, ia leg: DNTdmau, in
breast; M D Pitts, in bead ; F A Morgan, in
head.
COMP’r Ol HENRY GUARDS, CAPTAIN T W FLY NT.
Killed: Sergeantß L Amos; Private John
Alums.
Wounded: Private A V Upchurch, (mortal
ly), in thigh aud arm ; Sergeant J R Pniilips, in
thigh ; Privates J G Phili ps, (mortally , iu
bony ; J 'hn Bonner, in leg; Jabez F Cook, iu
foot; J-',;i B jyingtoo, in knee ; W J Ailuuis,
in , £ i Elliott, in thigh; Abraham Roan,
in side.
jMi'ANY I, VILLA RIC A MINERS, CAPTAIN JOHN
CHAMBERS.
K'lkc!: Privates W R Heart., M Haze!.
Wounded : Sergeants B DChamb* r\ in 'high;
C ? D ibhs, in hand ; Privates VV II Blackburn,
in side ; *V P Chambers, in thigh ; H H Doobs,
in i* ig : D Er. 'kncr, in arm and leg ; il Colo,
iu shoulder; VV B Ball ri, in arm.
COMPANY E, HEARD COUNTY GUARDS, CAPT C W
MABRY.
Il lied : Privates James Thomas, Absalom
D.-rster.
Woui'd .and : Color Corporal B F Johnson, in
lend ;1' •• ilea CAS Ridlev, in ankle; Win
V ■* high and arm; P.ckens Putler, in
i reorge W Thompson, ia iiip : James
itnfiii . in band ; WJ Willoughby, in shoul
der.
COMPANY K. KINGSTON VOLUNTEERS, CAPT. .TNO.
W. UOOrEK, JR.
Killed : Ist Lieut Jos Dunlap. 2d Lieut D L
Brownfield Ist Serg’t .T K P Dunlap. Corp’l A
J Payne. Privates J T Hendetaou, C P Dye, J
vi Rainey.
Wounded : Serg’t James Reed, in head. Cor
norals G V Vise, in leg; F M Martin, in body.
Privates Evan Abies, ia arm and face; Leroy
Burongh, in arm aud f ce; Andrew Gibbs, in
nead; ll AII illand, in face; A M H >lland. in
knee; G C Nix, in arm; J P Neal, iu face; Jli
iherrnan, iu arm; Lulim atepp, in shoulder ;
Jno Satterfoo, body ; A K, arm.
BATTLE 27i.ii, NEAR GAINES’ MILLS.
Feld aid Stall—Wounded: First Lieut and
A'j itant J P Perkins, body.
Company A—K lied: Corporal R P Farrer.
Private GM D Pxvell. Wounded: Corp’l Jno
Morrison, side. Privates B mbs Crawford, face ;
Mark Riggenbotharn, back.
Coaipany B—Killed: none, bounded: Ser
geant M Ilavcny. leg. Corp’l Din Day, neck
md shoulder, (since died) Privates Stephen
Haverty, shoulder; P-ter Gavin, face; James
Dooman, groin ; Jno Hart shoulder.
Company C —idled: Corporal T J King.
'Vounded : Capt R B Hogan, thigh; Corporal
W E Putnam, breast. Privates W P Menefee,
side; BF Hughes, shoulder; TA McCurley,
hand ; B F Wilkerson, arm.
Com pa yII Killed: Corporal S J Denton.
Wounded: Sargis B J Yarbrough, shoulder;
S M Roberts, both thighs. Cor; 1 Watson, arm.
Privates J R Puckett, arm; W N Yea wood,
tiand; F M Eubanks, arm; W M McGr.eggor,
ankle; B Adair, face.
Company D—Killed: Privates F M Ship, J
G Hirris. Wounded: Privates R L Hunter,
hand ; R R Havnes, chin.
Company P—Killed: None. Wounded :
Cap Wm Hamilton, shoulder. Privates GII
Carson, thigh; II T Reed, side; S A Avery,
hand; W Bice, knee.
Company G—Kdled : Jno I English. Wound
ed : 2d Lieut J R 8 lfridge, sjioulder and arm.
Corporal H S Alexander, leg. Private Geo H
Elliott, side.
Company l—Killed : None. Wounded : Pri
vates das Bates, side; M Morris, ear and neck ;
Tbo3 Winn, shoulder; W W Tice, head
Company E—Killed : None. Wounded: Cor
porai 811 Stewart, kuee. Privates B F Ashley,
loot; Wia MeConl, heel; J Hudleston, hand.
Company H -Killed : Pr vate Juo II Crouch.
Wounded : Privates Jno II Nix, thgti; Jacot
Sherman, thigh; Tuos C .Thornhill, shoulder;
A J Wi ! v, arm; Robert Wyley, thigh and
neck.
JUNE liOrn, 1863.
Com pan ;• A—Killed: None. Wounded: Pri
vate: K F m ry, side; Betj F Mont
gomery, hard ; .1 •• • t, hand.
Company I— K x B Connell. W mnded :
Jno O.vi ra, : ced ed; James Dorson,
breast; Jas Ricl rodroe, hand.
V nnded :
Privates J>l L : h and :o ' t :!1 J Lit
tle. hand.
Company II -Ki i: P I ;.:.- li WM -adows.
Wood led : Private BEI ,
Camp my F—K lied : N ■ Wounded :
3 r -.•ant E J King--bury, h • ; p • J J
Johu-.on, hand
Company F.— Ki” 1: '.. v. W ur id: J
Hudleston, h .r,d.
C .uipauy K: K X W a X: N
T Sims, h- a 1 aud 1:
B " I < fli" : ; ■r, lite
ba'ii .. ! for • Kvb/ii , .. :th great
conr.ige a i cool.) c lb . G r ais at
tached t. '•!: aii brigad. (B : '.-Gen. J. J.
An her,) <d ii,' 1. Hit I) v. , :• rumauded by
Major-We* r 1 A P Hill.
J.*.s N. Wii.ltama,
■ Aeju'. ijh 10m (ix.
Cp*anltlr in the 49tb Bi gfment Gear*
Vix V. I-.inteem fu the 1 . PighiH ht
l iie Ehhmoad.
Cot aJI. ' ,n- .-Ij ' .1 io the arm.
M.j.TPb : i•• -i.
C A—J - > : :-i wounded;
W I 1 1.0 .... JL v- r, . . K P..-0, £
I D:v . A l '.' B Kir. . .
Coroj a B—Thomas I; John
Dowdy, ■! Rv.iK II '• > k-..•••> .5 Stud-
I ; I ' it, gC
yei :y H . .>.l Ak- . i ligitlly.
C m. ■ . 1 Moor, J A
Ev_: G W r . HC l’ ri. ", G 8 Gilbert,
severely ; W J l '■ , v; W T Wood
ufi, W H H i: .. . y 1 Nunn, W A Avery,
L J Biker, slightly ; l T Hughs, missing.
Company E—G W Owens, L B Conner, 8 F
Fairelotb, k;i and ; H Hunter, M V Covirgton,
B V\ Roberts, A H' binson. G .J Wright, s-v< re
ly ; G W Tayior, J Roads, L Naehwortb, slight
ly-
Company F—L Slaughter, B G Rigdon, sev
erely ; L Taj lor, mortally ; M Fu-er, tbgbtly.
Comp ry G— J BntJlgrovcs, killed ; J Fordam,
B F D xoc. II Holrnggyv >rib, L M Bets, J C
Bracewell, tV Register) severely; Scrg’t raison,
£ J Batts, sligatiy.
Company H—A T Cook, killed ; S Kiitrel], J
S Robson, J Ckeeves, M Grayblli, =ev; rely ; 8
Jones, C A Bell, slightly ; P DatJgan m ?=mg.
Company G—J Little, mortally ; J MaCrae,
severely ;E VVh< e tr, slightly.
Company K—James Ho!', killed ; 1 ieut E A
~mith, G £ J m ,"C W Ilirrell, L Harrell, E
W Dixod, severely ; R Anderson, Wta Mobiy,
lightly.
Total, 77.
Heavy Loss.—The commercial editor of the
New York independent estimates that th - total
losses ot the caiiou and of icdivituals, tracea
ble directly and indirectly to the war, cannot
be lea than *10,000,000,000.
List f Hilled and Wounded In high*
teeuth Georgia itegimeat.
A list of casualties In the Eighteenth Georgia
Keel mem, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel
1862: Uff ’ al ’ on the 271 h of Jane *
Field and Staff—None.
*’.T T 315 °’ )5,5,U ‘ COM’DG.
L&aEtistts w
STftiSSiWfifiSiSwifS
cj i, Capt j a rtewart, com’dg.
Killed—J B Watkins.
seriously Wound' d-J D Hill, W B Starnes,
J I veal, J W Aldman, A J Heft drey W I
Lester, S A Hill. Sllghtly-S P Doss ’ E W
Chandler, H Miller, J A Wilson, W S Morcan
E Aldman, O P Richardson. ’
Missing-S J Richardson.
CO. C, Ist LIEUT L A M’CCLLOCH COM’DG.
Killed—Lieut L A McCuliocb, A Harveli,
J J Moore, H W MiE.hanan, W Anglin, J H
Thurman.
Seriously wounded—Lieut J B Silraan, J T
Appleby, T C Bowie®. R T Rogers, VV Potter.
Slightly—H W Bell, E M Eustis J W Oir, JVV
White, J H Oliver, B B Moigan. Missing—J G
Ware, J Palmer, T Bennet.
CJ. D, LIEUT E R LAWN, COM’DG.
Killed—W A Murray.
Seriously wounded—J Dancer, G Perraso,
ES Sanders, C Fairelotb, W Faircloih Mis
sing— W Dancer, G W Rhodes, J L ratimer.
Cos. e, serg’t and u ra,m ice, cojPd’g.
Seriously wounded—VV Hemic, VV O Harris,
J Nave, Jas Smith, F M Samson. Slightly—O
W Putnam.
CO. F, LIEUT J G HARDEN, COM’DG.
Kille'd—L P E ives.
Seriously wounded - W Bires, F M Durham,
C J Hibberts, W Jackronj A J Leed, L C
Smitn. Slieh'iy—A J Earp. J C Reynolds.
Q D Foster, Y Freeman, T D Hacket.j J M
Lumpkin, LS Nichols, V. F Parish, A J Sorter,
J P Slone.
CO. G, CAPT J C MADDOX, COM DG.
Seriously wounded—Lit at W Jones, P Lyon,
J M Morris, B Cantrell, S Dixon, W Hill, V
Harveli. Slightly—Capt J C Maddox, M Mor
ris, J VV Price, N Thompson, J Carney.
CO*H, LIEUT J GRANT, COM’DG.
Killed—J Strain.
S-riously wounded D Young, L S ewart, J
B Vaughan. J V Foster, J R ce, W Rich, J Wil
liams, G R Smith. Slightly—Lieut J Grant, W
H Edleman, D B Gardner, N Atkinson. G VV
Hemmet, FA King, A Fjx, D M Say.
CO I, CAPT J ARMSTRONG, COm’DG.
Killed—J Pollock.
Seriously wounded—Lieut T J Cone, E W
Wynne. Slightly—Capt J Armstrong, T J
Clements, J Gilbert, W J Crcz 10, Geo Henry.
COMPANY K, LIEUT S V SMITH, COM’DG.
Killed—Lt Tom Dowtin, F M Tate, WII
Gaddis.
Seriously wounded—ll C Landermilk, W C
Bradley, E Harltug, H Johnson, W Sanders, F
M Sanders, C Sumneret, F M Beardin, R T
Richie. Slightly wounded—J II Carrol, S Un
derwood, J II Collins, A B Cleveland, D D
F >rd, Jo Langley, O Price. J Smith, M B
Slaughter, S Wiley, W P Barnet, W H Smith.
A. H Patton, Arj’c.
E. J Roach, Sarg. lkh Ga. aud Sen. Surg.
Texas B.ig.
A list of casualties in the 18th Georgia Regi
ment, commanded hy M>jor J C. Urifu, at
Poindexiei’s F.iraT, July Ist, 1803:
Field and staff, none.
Company A, Capt J R Oneill, commanding.
Killed—J T Bennet. Wounded—J M Tanner,
seriously ; A 8 Tanner, seriously ; VV VV White,
R E Turner, slightly.
Company B, UaptJ V Stewart, commandin'?.
Wounded—R F McDonald, seriously; W H
Shaw, slightly.
Company F, L'ent J Harden, commanding.
Missing—Private J C R ynolds.
Company G, Lieut J M Powers, commanding.
Missing—F A Minyard. J Burnes.
Company 11, Lieut D Smith, commanding.
Wounded—F VV Underwood, si riouslv; A Bar
ron, sl'ghtly \ J J Abernatty, slightly’.
Company K, Lieut S V Smith, commanding.
Wounded—J Sorrels, seriously; A J Under
wood, J Notes, slightly; J Ragra, slightly; J
Brock, slightly 7 .
R 11. Patton, Adjutant.
E. J. Roach, Surgeon IS:fi Georgia Regi
ment, and Sen. Surgeon T<-Xas Brigade. ,
[HTam tho Atlanta Intelligencer.]
TSic Caplnro of ntirfrcssboro’-Bril*
lia.it Achievement.
Catoosa, Spuings, July 19,1802.
Messrs. Editors .-—One of the most brilliant
feats executed during the present war lias just
been performed in Middle Tennessee by Gen.
Forrest. On last Sunday morning with an ex
clusive cavalry force, Gen. Forrest, after pene
trating the enemy’s lines more than one hun
dred miles, attacked a force of about two thou
sand men, (a well appointed command of
artillery, infantry, and cavalry,) at Murfrees
boro’, under'Gen. Tom Crittenden, and after a
fight which lasted from daylight until 11 o’clock
the. entire command of the eoetny, including
two Generals, two hundred other officers, and
about eleven hundred privates (most of the
cavalry having made their escape) was surren
dered unconditionally. The privates were
brought to McMinnville and paroled. The of
ficers are tafe in D.xie. The enemy’s loss in
killed and wounded was about two hundred. —
Our loss <* as fifty one—twenty k lied and thirty
one wounded. The lighfirg is said to have
been most desperate and determined. The ene
my having four fi ie pieces of brass cannon
which they handled with skill, and also having
the benefit ot the court house aud other build
iugs in which tbey took protection uutil driven
from them by a moat desperate and determined
charge, and the numbers being very nearly
equal. Oar men having uothing but the ordi
nary cavalry weapon (the shotgun principally.)
There is nothing in the history of this war that
exceeds this battle iorbriUiaucy and determined
courage.
Geu. Forrest’s brigade was composed of Ten
nesseeans, Kentuckians, Georgians, and the
Tex is Rangers. The charge upon the enemy
after they had taken shelter in the court house
and other buildings, was made by Col. Lawton’s
gallant Georgia regimeut, (commanded by
Lieut. Col. H >od.) dismounted and fighting as
infan.ry, and the manner in which it was made
is described as beiug b yond a 1 praise. This
was anew regimen', having never been under
fire before. I hear that Col Morrison’s Geor
gia regiment was also in the finkt, but if so, it
must have joined Gen. Forrest after he reached
Middle tennessee.
But from all accounts it is invidious to mike
distinctions Being a Tennesseean, I can but
express what I know is the feeling of every true
Tennesseean : That in this, the first bold move
ment to relieve Tennessee from a despotism
known only to those who have borne it, the
brave sons of Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by
their heroism and valor have lound a lodge
ment in the hearts of Tennesseeans that will
only be removed w'hen our children’s children
ahull cease to admire that heroism which off.-rs
up present life for future liberty and iretdotn.
Gen. Forrest, on this occasion, as well as on
the bloody fields of Fort Donelson and Sbilob,
allowed himself the General. This attack,
being a complete surprise, oue hundred milts
within the enemy’s lines, is uneqnaied. And
never, for a moment, during the fight of sev
eral hours against all the force of the enemy,
was the result doubtful.
At one time, after the enemy bad taken shel
ter in the Conrt House aDd other buildings, a
fl tg of truce was sent out, proposing to Geo.
Forest to surrender upon conditions, offering
as a reason, that they had two thousand men
well protected, with a thousand reinforcements
coming, and that they could not be dislodged
without great loss on our side, and that there
fore they were entitled to 6ome conditions.
Gen Forrest immediate'y replied, that there
could be no conditions—any Surrender must be
unconditional; that be had come to take them,
and if they bad any reinforcements, so much
the better, as it woul i but add to the glory of
the achievement.
Another gallant charge was soon made, and
th*' enemy unconditionally surrendered.
So complete was the surprise that the Yan
kee: excuse it by saying that Forrest arid bis
men rose up out of the ground before they got
on their britches.
Gen. Forrest brought away the four pieces
of cannon, about fifteen hundred stand of small
arms, about fire hundred mule- and horses,
much commissary and quartermaster' stores,
and nearly one hundred wagons, after destroy
ing, perhaps, one million dollaia worth of
6iores.
All Middle Tennessee is in a bkize, and with
one voice the ’old and the young are ready to
rise up.
A Paris letter says tii- Ma xcm expedition
has alrj-a-iv cost some 74,000 000 francs, or near
ly £%OOO 000 s'crlipg, and 1 GOO moo are in the
hospital or dead.
I. B Phillips, toi uicr .larger of tfco
Theatre in Richmond, died ia Baltim.' re a few
days since.
USTotice
1 IMIS ill Mills.
WILL be lot V> the fewest bidder, on the firs*
Ta-adi, in tepemaer n it. b.,.,e t 4 . can
tioa e oorm aome.vne. finch ci.o u iy
contract tor bwl i. g a J-il iis.de u. tj. ra cuiao
tloai made on Uie day ot lent' g y
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