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WEEKLY
By FW. Sims, ’
City aII and Coa t j P s i s* tj r.
' - Ift.'S K. SM* ?'ir, - -
SAVANNAH. GA.
Saturday ISoruliig, August 9, 1864.
Tfie Riehmoad Dispatch say - the high handed
deeds of Butler in New Orleans will hardly beat
comparison With the atrocities of Pope and hu
men in Northern Virginia
The steamer Theodore, which - in beingstolei
by th* Lincoln pirates was called Nassau.
sold in New York on the ’26.b July > or ■*•' >
—1,300 barrels of rosin, par- of the <aw >,
brought ISO,COO. nod the tnr g3O r-<-r barrel.
Yellw Fkvkk on -hik >U3si.-9ipri.—The M
eUslppian is informed by g‘ ntlcman wo■> c-on
versed with the Yankee prisoners taken from
the transport at Wand 82, nat the yellow feve.
is prevailing on the fleet, or its equivalent. th
black vomit-
Col. Bishop, ot the Seventh Mississippi regi
ment, publishes in the Montgomery Advertise
a list of two killed and thirty nine wounded o
his command, by the late railroad collision ai
Garland, on the Montgomery and Pensacola
railroad. -
Morgan's R^id.—This clear and unpretend
ing narrative of one of the most remarkabi*
and successful adventures on record, will h*
found in our columns. The reader will Andi 1
interesting, as he proceeds, to take a map and
trace out the route of the guerrilla chief.
Coming Home. — L'ne irieuds ot our brave
men who have so long been in captivity, will
be rejoiced to hear ot their release, and tha 1
they are now en-ruutc fur their homes in th.
g>u h. We hope there will *be many joyful
reunions in fb“ Cdir. o' <h<- tiex’ en days.
Plenty of i.aiN. — l'ne M .leogevilie federal
Union of Tuesday, fays : “We have hi dspoi •
did rains' the past week. They have been
general, we learn. Corn was needing rain.
These rains insure the greatest corn crop thi
country ever saw ”,
Important to Paroled Prisoners. Order?
have been issued for nil paroled prisoners taken
at Roanoke Island and elsewhere to report theii
names, that they may be included in the ex
change lately agreed on between the Confed
erate and L nrnln Governments _
Prices of Negroes.—lt is a remarkable fad
that nrgroes have gone up at least 75 per cent
um within the last two months, their vaiu*
seeming to lluciuate with the price of cotton,
though we do not refer to the two as bearing
the relation of cause aud t fleet. A small negr.
girl, about thirteen or iourtcen years of age.
not particularly likely or remarkable lor he
qualifications of any sort, brought $1025 at nut
Court Ilou-'e, Tu mlftv la t.
Mexico. —We publish some sensible remark
on th .• condition of alltirs in this unfortunate
couatry, taken from the Mobile Advertiser. Wi
approve the views of our contemporary, and
Intended preparing seme remarks of our owi
On the future policy of tie- Confederate Govern
ment regardmg MaNiC-, hut the perfect 11 *od oi
telegraphic news that came down upon us it
the afternoon of yesterday, 101 l us neither time
to write nor room to print.
Teleorapuic Industry ! —The Petersburg
Express, containing a lull account of the attack
on VTcClellanV camp and fleet from CogginV
Point, was’received a day in advance ot the
te’cgraphic despatch of its contents from Rich
mond. We have several time r, of late, received
despatches in brief of Virginia news at the
same time with Richmond papers containing it
In .detail. We hope we can say this much with
Impunity.
The Charleston Courier, with good cause,
calls upon the agent at Richmond to “read the
papers.”
Salt Works—A Suggestion —We would re
spectfu'ly suggest to correspondents and othei
writers for the papers, the propriety of abstain
ing from descriptions of salt walks and their
locality on the Cotiftderate coast. We havt
before us an article addressed to one ol the in
terior papers, which contains the very informa
tion the Yankees would desire iu order to
break up the wo. w*orf .I to. toy get our
papers, those from the inti rior as well as from
the cou.-t, mid if suit inauu'aciurera should be
visited some night by -t marauding party o'
Y*ni.O' #, r.ud have their works destroyed, they
will have to thank their leaky friends for their
m -fortunes.
Another Invitation to “Disperse ’’—Farce
will always have its place iu serious history.
When the Yankee armies are whipped in every
direction, a large portion rotting in their graves,
another still larger languishing in hospitals for
the wounded, and the remnant flying to their
gunboats or homes for protection, there is
something supremely ridiculous and laughable j
In the proclamation just issued by Liucoln or- j
during the “Rebels” to lay down their arms j
and return to their allegiance—to him. Such n
document, at a time like the present, will excite j
a broad grin throughout the civilized world, j
Just “sixty days” are graciously allowed ns by !
the man with the Scotch cap and military
clonk! If not pitiful, haw funny it Would be j
Filly-nine, days, the Rebels a*e to be allowed to ]
do as they please, select their own King, but
Abraham must be worshipped on the sixtie'h,
or woe lo the infidels Pray, whit would the
creature give U? for a lease of the same duration
on the White 11 nisei
Putting tub Cart before tub House.—
Greeley and many other crazy fools at the North
a-e urging ii| on their government the abolition *
of slavery tu the Southern States, and declare
the .repel!'.en will not be put down until t hi- j
thing is accomplish' The Mind f.oatie- do j
not atop foV a unnre nt i > them-* ice* how j
slavery can be pu- down mud the South is tir-i
conquered or sul jug *t* h II >w is a law ol the
Federal Congress t > arm a hostile conn
try where Use power cnaciing it lias no civil or
even military authority i Hunter went thr, ugh
the ridioalous lavce iK prm launicg shivery ex
tinet iu South Carolina aid Georgia, but how
many slaves did tv edict set fre* * Just as
many as !u could rial, and oat another con
traband; afi-5 even •' , v a ein .. mere and. plorahl*-
bondage than ever ire are Wh u the Yankees
i rhip us, liny may beg’u t>> lalk of legislating
for us aud destroying the rights of property.
Ti.at day will never come, it is not set down
in the cab nrir
Another Fanatic Turned Er—The K v
Dc. Wm S. Planter, formerly of Virginia, and
once famous as a j ulpit orator ol the tiret class,
now a resident ol Pittsbutg, Pa, is out in a
le'ter sustaining the Lincoln government.—
Thousands will be pained to in ar it, but the
reason he gives lor his allegiance v.MI satisfy
all that ho is a monomania ■ „n the sa! j at oi
relit; on. He says the powers ol ti e eaith “are
ordained of God,” and therefore the revolution
is wrong. On the same principle he must ion- j
demn the revolution of 1770, tor George II!
was as much ordainel of God as Abraham Lin ,
colu. and more, for he was bom a K i:g Snip '
lures shows us numerous Instances iu which !
governments wore overthrown and two o
ereeled in their stead with the approval of th
A'mighty and under his direct iuterj o?Tion.—
Righteous government is ordained of God am.
should be held sacred by the people; tyranny
is odious in the sight of boih God and tnan, and
It is the religious duty of u Ulcn to #id in Us
overthrow
In a spe eh . m eu.u >, CJ a , j
H. An k t>ou ol v j n-sv. ii,.\,rr.i r ol '
TeXi i am h w.swnh (Jen. 11 * ia ,j
l*t -in- -.id he dim h b il.c 'j' i
flag" a ut hTu. 1. bss no bit. o UeuMs and
that he w as dead.
At -T. 5? *p ■ St Li u swtek, the HeraiJ ;
the on y pia|Hr published tu iiai province tba
favored the rTaua! cause, was mobbed cu iht i
23th, aud the type thrown into the river.
THE "WEEKLY , Si TUESDAY, AIJGTJST 9, 1862.
Mexico.
With nations, as with individuals, the wisest
policy is to attend to our own affairs and leave
others to the exclusive erjaymeut of tbe same
privilege. It promotes prosperity at homo and
peace with all the world. With ti.o Confed
erate States it will be for some years to come a
matter of necessity as well as a virtue. Once
out of this revolution, we shall have enough iO
lo to look after onr internal affairs, build up
ihe breaches made in our industrial interests,
md arrange for commercial relations w.th those
’whom we care to regard as friends and cus
tomers.
The time, though, wii! c .me when either
in self defense cr from motives of humanity,
,ve shall be called upon to observe the political
Qovements of others, and, perhaps, take tome
.teps to forward or check them. Especially
•vil! ibis be the case as regards Mexico, a ccun
ry coterminous with our own, and more nearly
■•issimilat.il g in P* soil and productions to the
Con'ederate States than any other nation.
Wfat is to be the ultimate destiny of Mexico
-a \-xed problem, to be solved in the future.
•I r history has been a most unhappy one for
he lasi forty year?. Indeed, from die moment
he ventured on free government uutil the
•jresent day, she has been the theatre of in
estine war and bloodshed. Revolution has
succeeded revolution, as moon succeeds the
noon; the land has been rent with s.rife, and
ier government seems to have been set up
nly as a mark for -some ambitious chieftain,
who, marshalling his followers, made war and
verthrew it, only to erect a worse and
qnally precarious one in its stead. This
lamentable state of affairs, besides involving
he country in debt, has turned to it the eyes
>t other nations, some viewing her mie
fortunes with pity and a generous desire to
letter her condition, while cupidity has moved
the desires of others. At the present time we
dnd France actively interfering in her political
wars, and throwing a considerable toc’y of
t-oops into her borders, with the v'rw, as..-he
a'leges, of j titling down faction, and securing
a suitable and permanent government to a dis
trajiedand well nigu exhausted people. The
only foreign opposition France is likely to
meet with in the course of her project will
probably come from the United States, who
look with extreme jealousy on eveiyt.king that
bears the color of foreign encroachment on the
American continent. For this, though, she is
now but little prepare 1, having spent her
strength in a vain attempt to subjugate the free
people of tbe South.
At some future day, though, it may, and pro
bably will, become the duty of the Confederate
Stales to contemplate such an issue, and to act
upon it. In a contest between the Yankees
md Frebeh lor supremacy anywhere, we have
no hesitation in leaning toward the latter. We
believe France will give Mexico a far better
government than the Yankees would or could—
i government adapted to the t; mper, capacity,
and necessities of the people. Such a form of
institutions is best for every people, while
nothing is clearer than that Mix'eo is incapable
of KP.lf-gove n nent -and mu*t be ruled by a
strong arm to be ruled peacefully and perma
nently. Republican as we arc, we confess to a
decided liking for the vrews of Napoleon with
egard t- our unfortunate neighbors, and be
lieve he has the sagacity and the will to do far
better for them than they can do for themselves,
and infinitely better than the Yankees would
lo f r them, for their system would either be a
vile despotism or the popular mobocracy from
which it is hoped they are about to emerge.
For the present, at least, even had we the
power to interfere, we would prefer to le Na
poleon alone uutil his plans shall have been
fully matured and his machinery of govern
ment put in operation. We can then deter
mine whether or not it is working favorably
for the Mexicans and without injury to our
elves.
Seward,
Up to this writing we have received no con
firmation of tbe report that this arch-fiend has
resigned his place in the Cabinet of Lincoln.—
We have very little question, however, of its
truth. It has been foreshadowed for some
time in the Yankee Press, -and even reported
prematurely as a fact.
The event is in perfect keeping with the
whole character and history of Seward. He
never yet, knowingly, put himself in a position
to bo sacrificed. The “head-devil” of this
anti-slavery war, ho inaugurated it at the be
ginning, engineered it forward by his mighty
| talents and chicanery, eventually succeeded in
| giving bis (action h fnei!cSt administration
ot affairs, and, being defeated in party caucus
for the Presidency, be accepted the highest,
post of honor under his successful competitor.
Here he has lad lull sway. His ambition was
it lust gratified, and the lime had come for
bringing to a practical test and working out
the principles so dear to his heart. With a
President and Congress to his liking, he soon
I’ut in operation th<j Black Republican michine
ry. Thu result is before the world. He lu.a
brought revolution and bloodshed to a whole
continent, destroyed bis government, and
ruined his people. He sees this, and makes bi3
escape from the breakers ahead. His blood—if
he has blood—runs cold at the terrible drama
tb it is passing before him. His government
has failed in everything except the utter de
struction of those who were betrayed into con
fiding the trust. He sees his mighty legions
flying back from the land they invaded, with
the enemy in hot pursuit, and threatening to
carry fire and sword into his own borders, lie
hears the murmurs of discontent, and the dis
tant but angry war of an outraged people. He
kuows the day ot retribution is at hand, and
that Lincoln and his fellow conspirators will
soon be swept away before a tempest of popu
lar iuuignation.
It is under such circumstances that this am- I
bilious and bad man retires from the post of !
State, which he has stained with crime and dis- i
honored by every species of duplicity and vil- j
lamy that the Prince of Darkness could invent,
lie se> s that the people of the North have been i
betrayed, and that they are about to find it out. !
11“ scents the danger from afar, aud like the
man iu the proverb, • hideth himself.” He
knows that btads must f ill, aud his first care
is to Save his own. lie will not do it, tinles he
should cause the Atlantic to roll between him
tud danger. With a few -uoh patriotic spirits
of Yallandigfcnm to stir up his countrymen to
a sense of their wrongs—and many will tollow
in his footsteps—the arch-fiend of Abolition,
even in bis distant retrea', w ill not escape the
fiery indignation of an outraged people that is
destined to sweep like a tempest over the min
ed Ninth ami bring to a speedy and summary
judgment upon the authors of their troubles
P. S—Our later despatches seem to throw
seme doubt on the resignation of Seward. Per
haps we shall hear the truth about in a day or
two.
But one Ikon Clad.— The Petersburg Ex
press has it from authority entirely reliable that
the Federals now hive but oue effective iron
clad vessel in James river, and that is the Moni
tor. The Galena is kept iu sight for appear
ances only, she bating been rendered totally
unfit for service iu the tight at Drewry’s Bluff.
She. has not fired a gun since. The Naugatuck
md Stevens’ battery are both at the North, un
dergoing epairs. With an effective iron clad j
vessel, we night go down James river and |
cU an out the entire Yankee fleet, shoul l it dare !
to return after the general stampede caused by i
onr batteries yesterday morning.
Loi.an, or Illinois. ibis descendant of a
savage, who now commands au Illinois rtgi-’
ment in Tennessee, has proved himselt worthy
of his ancestry. 11. , brutal murder of Mr.
Whipple, a prominent citizen of Tennessee, for 1
no other cause than aiding his countrymen iu
their struggle for freedom, should place a price
upon his own 1 ead, and we hope our govern
ment will forthwith issne the authority to
bring him to cordlgn punishment. Logan is
>oe of the Northern uu n with Southern prin
ciples whom some people have taught us to
c Irtish as friend*.
Dr. Luk P. B.ack"-u:n, o: l, uisville, Ky.,
has prc.-i-nitd Gen. Price w.ih a magnificent
&Ged. He is called "Rivt nger.” Dr. B. ;
i* * member of Gtn. Price's sulL
'jl lie retaliation O dor.
There is considerable < omplaint from the
Press of the recent order of the President au
thorizing retaliation for the barbarities and
cruelties proclaimed by General Pope and others
of the Yanke army. It is thought, by some, to
lack decision and vigor ; others complain tha t
it gives license to the brutal soldier whilst it
holds officers to a strict account, thereby de
feating the very end for which it was designed ;
while still a third party object that neither the
order nor carl el for the exchange of prisoners
affords the slightest protection to unuffindiDg
Confederate cil’zsns living within the enemy’s
lines, and subject daily to every species of an
noyance and persecution.
To take up the last objection first, we have
been rather surprised that the government, has
not adopted some steps for the protection ol
its citizens and their property, embraced within
the Federal lines. If it be possible, there is
clearly an obligation on the government to do it,
and do it promptly. It would seem that whilst
we had a large excess of prisoners in our hands,
we might have made them available f< r that
purpose, by demanding certain guaranties of
the enemy before signing the articles of ex
change, and, if refused, by holding a goodly
number of prisoners as hostages for the good
conduct of the FederaU in the course ot the
war. It is a great oversight that something ol
this kind was not insisted on during the pro
gress of negotiations. It mieht have secured
peaceably that which may now cost a series of
crnelties.at the very thought of which humanity
must shudder. But these people must be pro
tected at whatever cost. They owe our gov
ernment allegiance, and have a right to insist
that the correlative duty on shall be
religiously performed. To abandon them to
the mercies of a remorseless foe, when we
could prevent it, would be a forfeiture of all
claim upon them, as well as an act of inhu
manity.
To the objections that the policy of our gov
in meat lacks vigor, and exempts the private
soldier from its penalties, we have this to say :
No doubt the feelings of every Southern m£|
sympathize with that view of the case; yet we
apprehend that the moderation of the Presi
dent, when weighed in the balance of true wis
dom and discretion, will be found to contain
much to merit the public approval. A war ot
retaliation, especially under the circumstances
of bitterness and revenge that characterize the
prestnt contest, is a fearful thing, and the ex
tremes! caution is lo be observed lest a state of
things be inaugurated that will shock tbe world
with horror. Let us pause long and deliberate
well before we consent deliberately to take
partin such a strife. We had rather favor tbe
guilty enemy with our magnanimity thau to
have it said of ns even that we took up the
gauntlet when thrown down in such a strife,
until every oii-ci resort had been tried in vain.
We think, therefore, <bat the President has
acted wisely in not going as far as he would
have been justified in the opinion of mankind.
Nor does the exemption of private soldiers
by the order prevent a proper punishment of
that class of our enemies whenever it may be
called for‘by the circumstances ot the case.
Although a criminal part maybe required of
them by their officers, it will be very easy to
determine whether they exceeded in their se
verity tbe instructions of their superiors.
Each case can be made to stac.d on its own
merits, and punishment meted out according
as it 6ball bo deserved.
There is hardly any degree of rigor which the
world would not justify us in visiting, when we
have the power, upon our unprincipled foe.
But the latitude granted by public opinion is
not the true measure for a nation’s conduct. It
must act in such a way as will be best' lor its
own people, and at the same time elevate us
most in the estimation of others and ourselves.
Tbe North has conducted this war without the
slightert regard to the usages of nations or the
claims of humanity. Setting out wiih the
principle that we are rebel?, and not ene
mies, they outlaw us completely, and claim
the right to deal with U3 as they
please, without the slightest responsibility
to public opinion or the common law of na
tions. They do worse than this : they hold us
as belligerents and enemies for all purposes
where they have an interest so to regard
us—to get back their prisoners when we have
twice as many as they, for instance—and
deny us tbe character when it stands in the
way of their schemes of cruelty and plunder.
Thus they show their hypocricy, inconsistency
and injustice—their total abandonment of ail
principle, and disregard of public opinion.
hold; that as regirds rights in this war,
! we stand on an equai footing in every respect
! wiih the enemy. We can do jast anything and
everything towards the Yankees Jthat they can
lawfully do towards us, aud yet what would be
thought ot tiie leader of our armies if be went
through Pennsylvania cramming the oath o
allegiance to the Confederate government down
the throats of the people of that Coinmon-
I wealth, and driving them and their wives and
children from their homos iu the event they re
fused to take it ? What would be thought of a
Confederate commander if he should arrest aufi
hang a prominent and valuable citizen of the
same State tor no other crime than pointing out
to his Yankee brethren in arras a convenient
way of escape from the enemy ? Aud yet these
are rights claimed over our own people by our
Yankee invaders, shamefully and iu Uefiauee of
all enlightened public opinion.
These things are not to be borne, and if the
remedy now sought to be applied should prove
unavailing, we shall stand justified in resorting
to measures of still greater severity.
The Ferooitt of Unionism —The world
stands aghast at the ferocious, vindictive, cruel
spirit of the Northern people towards the South,
j Boiling over with malignant and furious pas
! sions, they violate all the rules both of morality
| and civilization in their expressions of hatred
| and vengeance, and threats and vows of pun
| ishment again-t the rebels. A late number of
'< Andy Johnson’s organ, the Nashville Union,
j speaks as follows :
! Loyalty will ueve • consent to hold a divided
i empire with tre son and rebellion. It is a fear
ful vow which 'ho American people have taktn:
either to subdue or exteem nate the whole r ce
el rebels. Rebel leader- of Nashviite and Ten
nessee, take warning bt f ire it is too late. Jus
tice bolds her naked sword above your heads in
do idle menace. If it becomes necessary by
your wicked and Insane ob-tinacy, the last
traitor who woks uponlhe soil of the repnb ic
shall be out off from the fice of the earth
Mercy will not much longer plead with you,
and rest a.-sured that patriotism, now as resist
less in its might as a rushing avalanche, will
ace i t nothing 6ave unconditional submission,
and v ■ , cMish to atoms every opposing ofi
st .He.
Will somebody hold Andy and his Editors
until one Kirby t'niilh can get a rope ready '
Kidnapping Negroes —The Yankee authori
ties have engaged laigely in this business re
cently at Memphis. We learn that on several
occasions boat loads of contrabands, men,
women and children, have been dispatched up
the river to Cairo, and that the work is' still
going on. Our informant witnessed the depar
ture of a portion of this new commercial com
modity, and assures ns that the fact can be at
! tested by hundreds of witnesses.
The negroes were gathered from plantations
j in the vicinity of the enemy’s lines at Memphis
: aud on the river—principally the latter. Near
i some g>f the landings most of the plantations
I have been entirely stripped of servants. The
i robbery has been a wholesale one, so far as
ihey could safely accomplish it. A lew negroes
I were enticed away by the promises bt the
I thieves, but most of them were carried off for-
I eibly, against their own will as well as the re
monstrances of their masters. For what pur
pose they are to be used at the North, it was
not stated ; but some of the unguarded of the
' Federal soldiery intimated that they were to be
cattered among the farming community ol
I Southern Illinois, Indiana ana Ohio.
[Grenaca Appeal.
Lieutenant Grinnell —This gallact Con
federate officer, now a prisoner at Washington,
is uot asi u of Moses Grinnell, of New York,
as we inadverieutlv slated the other day; but
of Henry Grinnell, who, we learn, possesses
cone ot the iaratical tra.ts of his brother. Mr.
Henry Grinnell was the projector of the Arctic
ixpedilion. His sun. the Lieuienaut, was <or
some years at tue head ot a house in London
whi-re he married an E- g i?h lady, and subse
q(lenity removed t> New Orleans. He wa
among the earliest to enlist in the cause of th
South, and has proved his devotion on several
hard-fought fields.—[Richmond Dispatch,
Letter from glnaa
The following extract of a letter and a I “near
Hanover C IL, Va , Ju y 23 b,” and >■’ L-as and
to a friend in this city by a Savannah soldier in
the Jeff. Davis L< Ron of Cavalry, will be found
interesting:
“I am in hop ’ou will begin to hear from
Jackson again f n. Ho has rebuilt ibo budge
(railroad) over ihe Rapidac, ai 2 v ’’ no doubt
give Pope a dance to brag soon Fresh troops
have been arriving lu Richmond for a week
past, aud this morning some time before day
light four trains, heavily loaded, (I suppose
with soldiers.) went up the railroad. Without
these, reinforcements, Jackson hs probably
forty thousand men, among them Lawton’s
Brigade. It shows how different service is in
Virginia from playing soldier around Savannah.
Lawton and his men thought themselves vote
ran soldiers The Brigade arrived in Virginia
with six tlion-and men. They went on the cars
to Staunton, thence on cars to Gordonsville.
tbencc on cars to Braver Dun, and then march
ed about twenty miles to tbe btitle field. The
rest of Jackson’s men took it turn about, half
marched and half rode to Gordonsvillc, and so
to Beaver Dim. In the five days fighting Law
ton’s Brigade lost certainly not one hundred in
killed, wounded and missing on the battle field,
and after the battles, Frank Reid, the Brigade
Commissary, told me there were barely twenty
five hundred men left, all the rest broken down
with fatigue, hunger, and want of sleep. How
ever, Jackson will make soldiers of them in a
month or two.
“Our Legion—that is, the well pa>t of it—is
bunting Yankees towards Fredericksburg. Col
Martin will hurt somebody if he gets half a
chance.
“The house in which I am staying was used
by the Yankees as a hospital after their fight
here with Branch. The floors cf this room and
tbe beadstead on which I sleep are stained all
over with Yankee blood. They camped in a
field completely surrounding this house, and
remained.three days. They left but one room
for Mr. Winston and bis wife, the rest the offl
pcers and wounded occupied. In the three days
they torh up ail Mrs. W.’s sheets to make ban
dages for the wounded, they killed fifteen milk
cows and forty odd head of sheep, all that Mr.
W bad ; broke into Lis cellar and drank up or
carried iff five birrels of fine old whiskey and'
apple brandy, and all bis wine; broke into his
meat house and carried off eight hundred
pounds of bacon, including fifty choice bams,
for his own family use ; they took eight hun
dred bushels of his corn, two of iris mules
(luckily he had sent his horses aivay to take his
children to their grandmother's,) and eight of
his most likely negro boys ; they loaded their
wagons from his ice house and hauled 1 o their
camps until they exhausted his supply; they
killed all of his poultry, even to the eettiug
hens and those with chickens just hatched;
they carried off or cut to pieces ail the harness;
all the leather, all the saddles and bridles they
could lay hands on, and in a word they tick
what they wanted and wantonly destroyed
everything else. When they left ihe officers
took the music of Mr. W.’s daughters from off
ihe piano, aud all the books and kuick knacks
and ornaments from the tables aud stands in
the parlors, and said, by way of apology, they
wanted them to send to'their friends in ihe
North as “Secesh trophies.” Of course they
burned all IPs fames and trampled and mined
his crops. During all this time they kept Mr.
W. a prisoner in bis house yard, and told
him Uncle Sam wcnld pay ihe damages at the
endot the war—d Mr. W. proved a loyal citi
zen. Such is Yankee respect for Southern
non combatants and thui- property ’>
News ami Opinion!* from Yaakec s*a
pers.
TOE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE ON THE CONFISCA
TION HILL.
The New York Journal of Commerce ha3 a
long article on the Confiscation bill recently
pas-ed by the U. S. Congress. It utterly de
nies any right, of the United States to emanei
pa e a slave under any circumstances, and
-uds:
The Confiscation Act proceeds upon the as
sumption that for offences against the United
States, Congress can act on the legal condition
of other persons within a State, aad change
that coud tiu against the State law.
* * If those who are in the condition of
slavery under the 'aw ot aStatecau be declared
free by Congress for the crime ot the master or
owner, then it is only necessary for a single
offence to be committed in any State ngiinst
the United States, to enable Congress to exer
cise control over the legal condition of any or
all of the inhabitants of that State.
If this act had undertaken to forfeit the prop
erty right of the master to tlie Doited States,
to be sold like any other right of pr iperty,
then it would at least have been a practical law.
But when it undertakes to say that certain per
sons who are slaves under ihe law of a State
shall have their legal condition changed, al
though they commit no offence, and do not act
against the United Slates, it is clearly a usurpa
tion which furnishes a direct motive to the
slave St ites for continuing theii resistance. •
The attitude now assumed, therefore, by the
Federal government is this: For an offence
against the United States the legal condition of
certain persons iu a Siaie, under the State-law,
who have not committed any offence, is chang
ed, against the will of the State, aud they aie
to he taken out of the Slate, also against its
will, and transported b-yond its limits and-to a
foreign country. If Mr. Jiffirson Davis, or
Mr. Benjamin, or any other leader of the re
bellion, could have devised h gisiation better
adapted to consolidate tiiat rebellion, they are
more canning than we had supposed them.
TUE FIGHT WITH TIIE ARKANSAS.
A despatch from Memphis to the Chicago
Times says that Captain Gwin, of the gunboat
Tyler, reports 8 killed and 10 wounded on his
boat during the late engagement with the Ar
kansas. It adds:
He accuses Li'ut. Hunter, commanding the
Queen of the West, with behaving in a most
cowardly manner, having made no effort what
ever to bring his vessel into act'on. The off!
cers of the Lancaster say the Queen of the
West was the first boat that discovered the
Arkansas, and ran for protection to the fleet
without firing a gun, and in disobedience to
signals to come to the aid of the Carondelet,
while the latter was engaged at close quarters
j with the Arkansas.
THE NEWS FROM ALABAMA.
Tiie Washington correspondent of the New
York Post says the news from Northern Ala
bama “does not put the Department in good
humor.” He adds:
It is calculated that the enemy has destroyed
fifteen millions of dollars’ worth of property
within the last thirty days, or half a million per
day. These successful raids will comps 1 Gen.
H illeck to change his plans id the West. No
Government can long endure such 10-ses as
have been entailed .upon us by scattering our
army over a line ot a thousand miles. The
system was adopted under the supposition that
Beauregard’s fine army was entirely destroyed
It turns out that the bulk of that army is still
in the 8 .u'hwest, and the re t i- at Charleston
and Richmond. The national troops will be
forced to concentrate upon two or three very
important points, and give up the attempt to
run long line* of railway
Movement in Fav,jk i.f the Jews in Rus
sia.—A late movement ot ihe Russian Govern
ment in favor ot the Jews of that country is an
nounced. It is well known that the Emperor
Alexandria, in ISIS gran'ed to the Jews, in the
government if Cm* won, on the Black 8 a, a
tract of tour hundred thousand acres of laud to
induce them io tyrn their attention to agricul
ture, for which it is to be r-ranked, they have
no particular taste. Four thousand ot them re
moved there and tonodi-d a colony, but what
success attended their ifforfs is not known.
The prestnt Emperor is i quailv anxious wi h
ihe formed one to ameliorate their condition
arid we learn that ‘ a committee, comp sed of j
Rabbin’s, has been for some time convoked by
the Government, and the members are now as- j
sembled in order to consider what measures ran
be adopted to ex'end the blessings ol oiviiizi
tiou among the Israeiilish population.'’ ihe
C inmissioners have recommended :
1. The foundation of one I-raetilisfi Consis
tory for the entire Russian empire. - The in— •
struction of the Jewish youth by the impr ve
ment of the seboop; now in existence, a the
establ shment of new ones. 3 Instruction as j
to the historical origin and significance n an
cient Jewish rite . 4 The ad lption of fixed
rules as to the rel'gious practices and praters
required by the Jewish worship, as wel! as a
control over the expenses of the svnago ues,
md of other charitable establishments. 5. In
quiry into practices wh ch are m J to have a
pernicious n fiuence on the position of the Jews
employed iu agriruiiu-at pursuits—-nch as the
numerous holy days aud aolera'ut.es during the
season most favorable for field w orks—preco
cious marriages a-.d divorces, and an inquiry
into the best mode of conciliating economical
r-quirements with religious ex geccies. ( An
inuication ot the principles which ought to
gc'de the choice ot religious books. * Tie
preparation of a particular form of oath to be
akeu by the JeWu wh- n they offer themselves
is candidate- lor public ■•tfiee.
The Ist 3i aud 8 h regiments United S ates
re -u* irs piroied in Texas, but *'eeee o gua- i
•og Confederate prisoners on G ivcrnor’.- Island,
y’ Y. e thrown down their arms rad refu.-
ed to do duty, on the ground that they were
violating their parole. 1
THUS Kill) INTO KhiV iUI kt .
Official iteport cl'Col. Jfoltu 77. Morgan,
'
[From the Atlanta Conf.jde ncy.j
Headquarters Morgan’s Command, )
Knoxville, Tenn , Jaiy 30, 1802. f
To Major General E. Kirby Smith, Command
ing Department of East Tennessee :
General—l have tbe honor to report that
upon the day ot the engagement at Tompkins
viile, a lull report ot whica I have already sent
you, I moved my command, consisting of rny
own regiment, the Georgia regiment ot P ini
zan Rangers, commanded bv Col. A. A. Hunt
aud Ms*j. Gano’s Texas Squadron, to which w s
attached two companies of Tennessee cavalry,
in the direction of Glasgow, which place I
reached at 12 o’clock that night.
There were but feV troops in the town, who
fled at onr approach. The commissary stores,
clothing, &c , together with a large supply of
medical stores, found in Glasgow, were burned,
and the guns were distributed among my com
mand —abont two hundred of which were un
armed when I left Knoxville.
From Glasgow I proceeded along the main
Lexington road to Barren river, halting tor a
time near Cave Cfty—mv object being to induce
the belief that I intended destroying the rail
road bridge between Bowling Green and Wood
soonville. I caused wires connecting with a
portable battery that I carried with me, to be
attached testhe telegraph line near Horse Cave,
and intercepted a number of despatches.
At Barren river I detached three companies
under Jack Alien, to move forward rapidly and
destroy the Salt river bridge, that the troops
along the line of railroad might be prevented
from returning to Lou'sviiie.
Oa the following morning I moved on to
wards Lebanon, distant thirty-five miles from
Barren river. At 11 o’clock at night I reached
the bridge at Rolling Fork, six miles fiom Le
banon. The enemy had received information
of my approach from their spies, and my ad
vance guard was fired upon at the bridge. After
a short fight the force at the bridge was dis
persed, and the planks which had been torn up,
having been replaced, the command moved
forward to Lebanon, About two miles from
the town a skirmish commenced between two
companies that I caused to dismount aud de
ploy, and a force of the enemy posted upon the
road, which was soon ended by As di. persion
and capture. Lieut. Col. A. Y. Jolinsou, com
mand the troops in the town, surrender!, and I
antered the place. The prisoners taken, in
number about sixty five, were paroled.
I took immediate possession of the telegraph
aud lot rcepted a despatch to Coi. J;-h son,
informing him that Col. Owens, with the 60th
Indiana regiment, had been sent to his assist
ance ; so I at once despatched a company of
Texan Rangers, under Major Gaud, to destroy
the railroad bridge on the Lebanon Branch,
which he success!ully accomplished. in time to
prevent the arrival of the troops. 1 burned two
long buildings full of commissary stotts, con
sisting of upwards of five hundred sacks ot
coflic, and a large amount ot all other sup
plies, marked for the array at Cumberland Gap.
I also destroyed a very targe amount of el th
ing, boots, Ac. I burned the hospital build
ings, wh'oh appeared to have been recently
erected and lilted up, together with about
thirty five wagons a’d fifty-three new ambu
lances. I found in the place a large store of
medicines, five thousand stand of arms with
accoutrements, about two thousand sabres, and
an immense quantity of ammunition, shell, &e.
I distributed the best arms among my com
mand, and loaded one wagon with them to be
given to the recruits that. 1 expected to j >in
trie. I also loaded one wagon with ammunition.
The remainder ol the arms, s'mmuutti n, and
ti.e hospital and medical stores, I destroy,ai.
While at Lebanon I ascertained from tele
graph despatches hat. I intercepted, that the
force which had been started from Lebanon
Junction to reinforce Lieut. C l. Johnson, had
tnet and drive n back the forces under Cap aiu
Jack Allen, killing one ot his men, and pre
venting him from accomplishing the purpose
for which he bad been detailed
I proceeded from Lebanon on the following
day through Springfield to Macksvdle, at
which point I was attacked by Home Guards.—
Two oi my men were taken prisoners, and one
severely wounded. I remained at Macksville
that night to recover the orisoners. which f did
the next morning. I then ltd for II irrod-burtr,
capturing a Federal captain and lieutenant on
the road ; reached llarrodsburg at. o’clock,
and found that the Home Guard ot” ail that
portion of country had fled to L ’Xington. A
iorce was also station, and on ihe bridge where
the Lexington rad crossed the Kentucky
tiver. My reception at lb’s place was very ,n
couraging. The whole population appeared to
turn out amT vie with e tea other us to who
shou'd -mow us most, attention.
I leit Harrodsburg at fi o’clock .he same even
ing, and moved to Lrevre:.cebur!g twenty
miles distant, threatening Frankum in order to
draw off tho troops irom Georgetown. R
mained tli*-re until the return of ruy courier
from Frankfort, who brought tbe information
that there: was a iorce iu Frankfort of two or
three thousand men, consisting of Home
Guards collected irom the adjacent counties
anil a few regular troyps.
From Lawrenceburg I proceeded to Shrylies’
Ferry on the Ke ducky river, iais:d the boat,
which had been sunken, and er ss-.-i that even
ing, reaching Versailles at 7 o’clock. I found
this place abandoned by its defender*. .* hud
tied to*-Lexington; remained th re that right,
and on the next morning marched towards
Georgetown. While at Versailles I took about
three hundred government horses and mules.
I passed through Midway on the r ad to
Ge rgetown, and was informed ju t before
reaching the place that a train from Franklon
was nearly due, with two regiments o: Federal.
I tore up the track aud posted ihe howi zsrs to
command it, and formed my command along
the line of the road, hat the train was warned
nt i*nr presence aud returned ( * Frankfort.
H iving taken possession of the telegraph ( ffice,
I intercepted a dsepa ch asifing ii the rad was
clear, and if it would be sar&to start the train
from Lexington. I replied to send the train,
and mate preparations to receive it; but it
was al.-o turned back and escaped.
I reached Georgetown, twelve miles from
Lexington, that evening. Just before entering
the town I was informed that a small force of
Home Guards had mustered to oppose us. I
sent them word to surrender their arms, and
i hey should not be molested, but they lieu.
The people of Georgetown also welcomed us
with gladness, and provided uiy troops with
everything that they needed. I remained at
Georgetown two days, during which time 1
sent out a company under Capt. McMillan to
destroy the track between Midway and Lexing
ton, and Midway and Frankfort, and to blow
up the stone bridge on that road, which he
successfully accomplished. IJearina: that a
i company of* Home Guards were encamped at
I “Stamping Ground,” thirteen miles distant, I
j despatched a company under Captain Hamilton
j to break up the encampment, tiurn the tents
j and stores, and destroy the .guns. This was
I also accomplished, Captain Hamilton taking
j fifteen prisoners and all their guns, and de
[ s roying a large amount of medical and com
, missary supplies. I ari-o, while at Georgetown, j
sent Crpt. Castlemau with his company to des- ,
troy the two railroad bridges between Paris ■
and Lexington, aad report tp use at Winches- j
; ter. This was done.
D .termining to move on Paris, with a view
lot returning, and hearing that, the [dace was
■ being rapidly reinforced from Cynthiana, 1
i deemed it of great importance to tut. off the
communication from that plat \ whit •. I drew
off the troops that were already there, by a
; feint on l.t xinglon. I therefore despatched a
portion of two companies towards Lexington,
with instructions lo drive the pickets to the
very entrance of the city, while l moved the
command toward *'ynlliiana. IVlin I arrived
within tiirec miles of the place I learned that it
was defended bv a considerable force o> infant
ry, cavalry arid artillery I despatched the
Texas squadron, under M j ir tiano, to enter
the town on the right, and the Georgia regi
nurr to cross the ruer and get into the rear,
while I moved ...y own regiment, with the ar
tillery under the command of L<e a tenant J E.
Harris, down the Georgetown P ke. A severe
e gagement to. k place, which lasted nbont an
Dour and a half, before tbs euemv were driven
Into the town and compelled to surrender.
I took tour hundred and twenty prisoner?,
inc.tiding about seventy ilome Guards. I re
gret to ;ave io mention the loss of. ight of my
mm in killed and 29 wounded. The enemy’s
l i's was ninety lour killed and wounded, ac
cording to their own account. Their excess in
killed and wounded is remarkable, as they
fought u from behind stone f m-es and tired at
us from buddings as we c*ha*gd through the
t wn. We captured a very line Id pounder
hr s piece ot artillery, together with a large
number of sma I arms, and about .f.ree hundre I
government horses, ihe arms and governor nt
stores were burned, and as many of the horses
a* we could bring with us were kept. I found
a very large supply ot c> imniesary and medical
stores, lent?, guns, and ammunition, at this
place, which I destroyed. The paroled prison
ers were sent under an escort to Falmouth,
where they took the train for Cincinnati.
I roceeded next morning towards Paris, and
was m t on tee roid by a bearer of a flag of
truce, < ffeii-g the unconditional surrender of
the place. I reached Paris at 4 o’clock, remain
ed there that night, and started towards Win- {
Chester next morning. As my command was
filing out * f Paris, on the Winchester Pike, I
oi-corertd a large force of Federal* coming to
wards the town, from the direction of Lex in g
t.n Tney in mediately countermarched, sup
posing, no doubt, that my. intention was to get
into their rear. This enabled me to bring off
my et "ire command without mplestati u, with
she exe-pi on of two o* my pckets who were
probably eurprls and. Ir, acb id Winohet>ter tiiat
and V . t.-. Iv- lock, mid re mained uadi 4
• •’clock, wii-n I proceeded towards R chmot.d.
A Winchester! munJ a cumber of areas, waith
were de~ir y- and.
la. tivud" at Ri- hmend at 12 o’clock that
night, and remained until the next afternoon,
■viien 1 proceeded to Crab Orchard. I had de
erminecl to make a stand at Richmond, and
await leinforcements, a* ihe whole people ap
iwared ready to rise aim j tin tne, but I received
'Uiorination that large bodies of cavalry under
G n. Clay Smith, and Cols. Weolford, Metcalf,
iV3.ui.dy and Wynkoop, were endeavoring to
surround me at this price. Sol moved on to
Crab Orchard, There I attached my portable
battery to the telegraph leading from Stanford
to L luisville, and learned the exact position of
the enemy’s forces, and directed my move
in nls accordingly.
Leaving Crab Orchard at 11 o’clock, I ar
rived at Somerset, distant twenty-eight miles,
it sun down. I took possession ot the tele
graph, and countermanded all the previous or
ders that had been given by Gen. B iyle to in
tercept me and remained in perfect security all
me - ,:UIJd , a Vcry 1 urge supply of com
? „7ii t ? reß, i cllllh '"'- , ( blankets, shoes, hats,
i 9 u p ac,% vvhich were destroyed. I
i 7 MM Ht a l !,ad t,een lf >ken from
ft r, together with large quantities
< l fiht.l ud ammunition, all of whfih were
destroyed. I also burned at this place, and
Crab Orchard, about one hui.cired and thin v
government wagons. 3
From I Somerset proceeded to Monticello, and
from thence to between Livingston and Sparta,
where my command is now encamped.
I left Knoxville on the 4th day of this month
with about nine hundred men, and returned to
Livingston on the 23th inst. with nearly twelve
hundred, having been absent just twenty-four
days, during which time I travelled over a
thousand miles, captured seventeen towns, de
stroyed all the government supplies and arms
in them, dispersed about fifteen hundred Home
Guards, and paroled nearly twelve hundred
regular troop3. I lost in killed, wounded and
missing, of the number that I carried into Ken
tucky, about ninety.
I take great pleasure in testifying to Ihe gal
lant bravery and efficiency of my whole com
mand. There were individual instances of dar
ing so conspicuous that I must beg the privilege
of referring to them. Private Moore, of L uie
iana, a member of Company A, of my regiment,
particularly distinguished himself in leading a
a charge at Cynthiana, which had an important
effect in winning the battle. The reports of tbe
regimental commanders, which are in inclosed,
are respertfuiiy referred to for further instances
of individual bravery aud efficiency. I feel in
dsbted to all my aids for the promptness with
which my orders were executed, and particu
larly to Col St. Lcgcr Grenfsl, for tbe insistence
which his experience afforded tne.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Joun 11. Morgan,
Acting Brig. Gen. C. 8. A.
R. A. Alston, A. A. G.
Northern Designs iu Mexico.
A sharp trade has the cunning Tom Corwin
been trying to drive with the necessities of dis
tressed Mexico. Among the first cssayfl of
Yankee diplomacy, it is noticeable as evidenc
ing that the keen’ac-quisitiveness of that people
is no Iss selfishly alive in large matters*of in
ternational negotiation, than in the small mat
ters of “ swap ” and “ barter ” in private life.
Never did one nation propose to another a
harder and more mercenary bargain thau that
contemplated iu Mr. Thomas Corwm’s draft of
a loan proposal, which has made some steps
towards consummation. It is proposed that
the mufal States, compassionating the strug
gles and trials of a sister republic, and desiring
to exclude European power and influence from
the American Continent, shall generously I an
to Mexico the sum of eleven millions of dollars
j —two millions down and the balance in annual
installments of halt a niilii n. To secure re
payment of the magnanimous accommodation
it is modestly required that Mexico shall pledge
to the United States her whole public domain
and all 'he Church property, a low estimate ol
which latter places in value at SIOO 000 000.
Good anil sufficient security, all will allow.
Never was there a grander illustration of the
wickedness of thp “rich grinding the face of
the poor. Never were herder conditions im
posed at ndvun age of urgent need. Threatened
with ru' jugation by an European enemy, Mexi
co, it is thought, will feel obliged to accede to
any terms that will give her theca ß h in hand to
discharge the indebtedness which is the pretext
of Ear >peaa aggression. •
But does not Yankee shiewdncss over’eap it
sell in this negotiation ? Are not its ulterior de
signs -,00 transparent? Will th jealous powers
of Europe consent to the consummation of a
bargain which, though it secures them their
does, will assure the further aggrandizement of
the Unit* and States, a power whose temp rand
whose policy have already more than sufiici)nt
ly convinced them that her progress in a wrong
lo the great commonwealth of modern nations?
We think not. They cannot hut understand
that the North could have no better foothold in
the tropics than that contemplated in this bar
gain wi h Wes ca. Am regage in the whole
public domain will make her the owner of Mcx
ico for the tim<—and as she intends, for all
time, for she will contrive that the debt, shall
not fce paid. The mortgage on the chuich
-properties is an especially shrewd condition,
lor through this he will be enabled to foreclose
at some convenient time. The church property
is in dispute between rise hierarchy and the
popular power of the Slate. In this are the
mainsprings of domestic politics and the found
ation can es < f the bloody intestinal commo
tion - which have of' ' a occurred, and will occur
again. When (he North sees lit, for if it does,
not happen otherwise she will contrive that it
shall, by tampering with-the revolutionary
spirit, a quarrel involving the interests of
church properties will occur. Tbe North can
then tep in as a claimant, and by her aid en
able the faction she espouses to triumph and
become the and unimint party, with power to
convey to her the unconditional protectorate,
or the possession by annexation of Mexico.—
Thus for eleven millions ot dollars, and with
out, rendering herself liable to the obnoxious
charge of direct aggression aud conquest, the
North will acquire the broad domain oi Mexico,
and become an overshadowing rival otbe trop
ical empire of Spain, France and England in
America.
Fortunately Loui? Napoleon has a Mexican
“idea,” which, like all mho s Napoleonic, must
be carried out, and as the Yankee idea would
clash with it the North m-gutt.s we!) keep Tom
Corwin at home or prepare to fight the tough
est customer in Christendom. Will she do the
latter, or quietly preier to let the Monroe doe
trine “slide” now and henceforth ? Xuns
verrem s.
Prentice’s Proclamation against IDloi
gan.
Asa specimen of the wrathful visitation to
be inflicted on the true men of Kentucky, the
following h'ghiy blood -colored proclamation
of the poet Prentice appeared in his iLihy sheet
of the 17th of July :
To John Mtngan, Gent., and to all whom it may
concern;
We have ju t a few candid most signifi
cant and salutary words, “Acting B ig Uier
General C. 8 A.” as you style yourself, “John
Morgan,” fo address to you and the misguided i
band of outlaws, marauders, bushwhackers and
tniscreanis whom you control. And tbesff'
words although stern and plain, will, in the j
end, prove paternally kind and Iriendlv, If you I
heed i hem. The first are— Leave this State—im-\
i/ied lately , unconditionally —Go !
Ami the re-a-on why we thu* command yin is
th i' your living body cannot stay wdhin the Hunts
of this i lominomcealtli Thu second re : Hiving
let. lira 8* at-t stay on' of it permanent
ly uncond Uonn'ly —out <f it
There >s but oue o her alternative, that Is ;
The t'ornmonwalih mud and will have your body,
dead or ut - ve.
tt* member it, and let your feaelierou* sym
pathizers and secret accomplices throughout
i lie Stale re member it ario Y<>u were born in
Kentucky, but are unworthy of >our illu-irious
nativity. Y u have utterly and forever f .rfeil
ed your eitizen.-h'p and ail right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happin- s* under this juris
diction. You have expatriated yourself to b -
•ray yonr native State and the high and lo;al
regard of your ancestors. You have j fined the
service of a “ g ivernment ” (so called by its
j supporter*) claiming to be entirely independent
and f r< ign ; and under the shade of its brick,
accursed, cross-barred flag, y„ n are desecrating
and devastating the laud and soil which hold
th- consecrated relics ol your fathers.
Y>u a iu t, capture, plunder, maltreat, and
; either with your own baud or through you- in
i human coneju'.ors and agents, sometiui-s as—
| sassiu3te yonr f Uow-cit’z ;nB--i*urn their homes
I —destroy their property —an frighten, irnpov-
I errih, and distress their wives and children
i This i- what you are doing, whether you know
! it or not, “A ring Brigadier Genera! O. S A.,”
John Morgan ! Ag in, we say to you, misguided
y neg m tn, as much for >oor g >od as lor* urs,
and more: in oietcy than in anger—prodigal,
profligate, apostate, traitor, ingrate, and brig
and—G i ;
Just in Timk VVLiie G.-n. Forrest was mak
ing his forced cavalry march upon Murfrees
boro’, the enemy at that place, all unconscious
of their approaching ooorn, w s holding a drum
head court for the trial of numerous citizens of
the vicinity accu-ed ot shooting the Yankee
pickets. Th y had condemned qu ; te a number
to t,e bung—among them ma-ter Charley Kid
lev, a youth of s ;c e-n, entirely indent ot the
..If .-nee charged, but a most acceptable victim,
inasmuch as he was the son of Broomfield L.
Ridley, one of the Judges of the Chancery Court
ot Tennessee, whose brother, D. Churls L
Kidiey, a citiz not J .-per county in this B>a’e,
i well known to many of our feeders. While
these summary trials and convictions were go
ing on. the distant thunder of the l amp of cav
alry t'racti and the attention of the *‘u notable
Court, and in a lew miou es the sharp report
of mo-ketry and t e terrified cry of ‘ the re els
—the rebel-,” a- j mm-d th.l tribunal w th
more and * patch than cerimony*. The p.-cv iat
m iratial. w :o, n a U*w m ir. u f=, v.-outiJ have
been tre -.tins bis prisoners To eh rt ehri 4 t arid a
cord, took t > hi- uo.J ?r ,e happy escaped
:c-t up abh u *f deliveraDce th i naide the wel
kin nag. Whit a lucky a rvu lor them !
[Macon Telegraph.
TBLEQRAPHIQ
Great Coamwllon in Yunkeedom.
RESIGNATION OF 8E VARDu-NORTHERN
GOVERNORS REFUSE TO SEND MORE
men—VALLA iDIGHAVI STUMPING
OHIO AG.-lINST THE WAR—THE YAN
KEES AND NEGROES FIGHTING AT<
VIEviPEUS-A MUSS IN THE “HAPPY
F,\vlILY ’ GENERALLY.
j Lynoiibueo, Aug 4—The following spec! Id -spitch
was recetv <1 by tbe Republican trig mnrnhig:
CHABLiiTrsviLLE, Aug. 4. The Na rinal Intelligen
cer and Baltinr re Sun of a late date were received in.
taunt n t i-day, and contain the lollowlng important
iulonnaiion:
Secretar Sewaid hag resigned the Premiership In
Lincoln's adminritr-tion.
The Governors of Pennsylvania, Ohio an 1 Connect!-
' cat have refus and io send mote men into the He'd
j The National Ints'ligen er accuses Seward o‘ having
beenengiged, for the last iix y da s, in an attempt,
Ihrouah England, to bring about an armis tee.
Vullardigham is slumping Onto against the sdm'n
strs.tion und he war, addressing immense audi i css
with grea? iavorand app a see.
M"Bi .e Aug, 4.—A speci-l despatch to the Adver
tiser and ter, and .tea Jackson 3d, 6-- ys :
Passa gars irntn Memphis r> port that an emeute had
broken out hetw en the Yankees and negroes work
ing on'ho fortilicatious. Tile Yankees shot a number
of the negioes.
NEWS I''ROM THE WEST.
ENEMY MARCHING ON SENATOBTA
CURTIS’ CAVALRY ATTACK A WAGON
TRAIN AND GET WHIPPED-SUU( EsS
FUL FORAYS IN KENTUCKY KEN
TUCKIANS Tu MEET IN COUNCIL
LOG YN MURDERS A TENNESSEEAN
AND BURNS THE MOUSES OF OTHERS—
BRECKINRIDGE TAKES BA ON ROUGE.
Gbenada, Miss, Aug 4.-The enemy are reported
to be rdvar.e'mg on Sanatoria, In three columns, from
| Memphis. They are estimated at from 1510 to 5000
j 9‘rong Reinforcements are being sent from this
1 place to Co’. -Taeksoa.
Out!?' cavalry attacked a provision train en route to
General Parsous, near Ausfin, Miss., fifteen days ago
and were repulsed with considereb’e l i-s.
A Cairo despatch ot ihe 28th ult savs: The Ref-els
mado a dash at Uumbol tt yesterday. Oilr cavalry fled
with iut Bring a gun. The Rebel cavalry attacked our
infantry, killed fifteen, took tbo town and a number of
prisoners.
Governor Magoffin has called a meeting of the Ken
tucky Legislature on the 14th August topiovide for the
ptace of the commonwealth aud the safety of the State
institutions against the action of the Federal Congress,
Col. Loga-!,of ihe— Illinois Regiment hung Mr.
Whip) le, a we Ith and ii fluential citizeu of Jackson,
Tennessee, on the 29th ult , for piloting Confederate
panisans t> abridge, which Ibev burned. Logan also
burnt tho houses of several fyuipathissrs.
Dr. Seftwich, a Yankee cottou buyer, who was cap-
Ufred by onr gnerrii ai near Brown.vi le, last week,
with $25,000 in spool . has ar ived hero.
Prisoners taken jet rdav report from below that
the Yanke* 8 had evacuated Baton Rouge, and that
Gen Breckiuri Igo is in possession of ihe city.
A despatch Ir >m Jae .ton, 5 h, lo the Mobile Adver
tiser (t Regis er, says: Gen. Br ckin-idje attacked
Baton Rouge ill's morning and drove the Fede als
from their position. For one pour the musk* t*y fi ring
was very beavv; heavy firing was also h a*d frorn the
direcii n of 'he river, which m \> have bem the g ns
of tne ram Arkau as. as it was understood s ie was to
have co oy. rat din tin attack. The Fedcra'.s were
•driven through the cily lo the r ver hank.
McMinnville OccbjHed by ihe Enemy.
MBE FEDERAL BIRIIAR
Ciiatt.vnoog.v, Aug. 4. ihe town of McMinnville
was occupied by about five thousand Federal troops
Sat irday last, probably Nelson’s division of Buell’s
ar.ny. Ad taeament ol Gen. Forrest’s cavalry was in
the p ace ir if a , but weie prudent enough io evade a
c p ure.
A man who ran the enemy’s lino? from McMinnville
s ates that he heard the shrieks of women Irom almost,
every house in the pi ce. lie thinks he Yankee oi l
diery must have been turned loose at will to pillage
aud outrage the citizens. The shrieks were agoniz.ng.
Skirmish in Virginia Yankee
News.
[Sp eial desoatch to thu Sa annah Republican.] '
Riuu.uond, Au.s—Uaavy skirmishing isrepoitsd
to liava oacuned this morn nr, iu which Cos b’s Geor
gia Legian drove the enemy back to tee r euaenen
meuts. -Tbe en my was movi g up tbe river nank to
*aid Drury’s Bluff w en ih tir t occurred.
There iiaj uteri a grea! public meeting in Cincinnati.
R-.solution wuro adopted to support the government,
•org anti; g tiou.li s, aad against foreign intervention.
Uvv. Curtain is stum ing feun ylvauia to raise re
cr i.s. A dra t is to be resorted to alter the 15th, if
Linao i.’s r. qii i'lo is n tfl lad.
Gold and hxc'aange in New Yak are declining.
Nothing is said in the Noreh.ru ,apers a: ut
Seward's re.igniag. p. W. A.
JiicuMOjrn, August 5.—A sharp skirmish took place
this morning b-low Malvern trill. The report is that
a body of Yankees attempted to occupy a position
near Curl’s Neek on the James rivtr, but were at
tacked by a portion qf Cojb’s Legion and driven back
to their entrenchments.
Litsr tVom the jCtfortk.
Richmond, Aug. s.—New Ymk dales of the 2d have
been r. cuived.
A despatch from headquarters, Army of the Poto
mac, dat and Augustflst, says : “At 12 o’clock last night
tbe rebel i opened fi.e from the opposite sideol the
river wth two bJ eries of light artillery. The fire
was pr ucipally direiue at the mail boats lauding at
| 111 ; headquarter* ot Col Ingaii, and the shipping aud
encampment at West j ver. Tne rebel pieceß w-re
bandied well and fired with great rapidity. Four men
were> killed, fi.e or six weie wound-d, tnd several
horECs ki.ied. The red Is bad it a I their own way lor
some time, "s our troops did not antic pate an attack :
but the thirty two pounders s aiiontd > t Col Ingal ’
headquart rs, soon cileuced tlrtir guns a ter ti ey open
ed. A few of our ve so s we e struck, but no teriuus
dlimag.i sustained by any.
“ With ibis exception nothing received worthy of
mention.”
i Seven of Porter s mortar friit reiclied Fortress
j Mon o on the m irning of Ihe Ist, aid five more were
: hourly ex ii cted. The • ffle rs and crews ol at! the
I vessel - think tjjey are to reduce F rt Dar ing, and ia
j timate a gr< at willingness lo undertake the jo Fiery
I lim s, says the Yank*e corre pendent, may b: looked
j lor in that direction S ion.
A I rg: number of fonfe lerate prisoners from Fort
Deiawa-e are at Old Point
A dtspitch from Washington, Ist says: We are in
expect, t o i here of important news from sever-1 quar-
tern Vicksbu g is to be taken. * fight is soon to
t ke place in Nortt ern Georgia or East enoes- e.—
Pope’s army will soon usage the enemv, t ow that the
mortar boats have arrived. Stirr ng work Is 10.- ktd
loi Ir >m fames ri rer
Cincinnati dales Aug. lrt says: A war meeting wag
held h re las: night. It was an immense nflTair.
Speeking from three etunds, cru-ic, drew irks, be t
ringing, Ac, enlivened the oc:asi n. Resolutions to
s stain t e gov rnment in t e pros cu’iou i)f Die war
and c nfisca ion of thep-operty ol tra tors every where,
were uuanimo'isly adopted.
The New York World says, editoria'iy, “It is now
certiiniha an ord r will be is u and for a draft in such
States, or Mictions of r ta'es, as w II not supply their
quotas o men before I he u iddle of August ”
G *d in Ni w Y , the Ist was quoted .115% ;
St* rln g Kxehang eD at t24]4 a 125.
There is not a s in tho papi rs about Bewsrn’s
resigns in. nor . of Ohio, Penn-y'vaniu and
C ihntcticut re-fish ffd soldiers On the con
trary, tho m etii matt th >wa they are for
war. Gov. Curt'*, ~ is Mumping the State tnd
private tuT-cripllo..- . bounty in Philaje'phia
am*.utit ;) sl7 .000 Connrclicut is ss certain for her
quotaas she is for h**- n!i"l oni *" ***r>n.
Return of Confederate Prisoners.
Richmond. duly 6—Generals Tilgl.min
and Mackali, C. mmodore Barron, Lieat. Bev. Ken
nnn and other officers, and a large nnmbe' of privates,
exchanged prison, re, have arrived in this cl y
Gen Fe ttgrew has also arrived within our lines,
and will reach this ci y to-day
Phenomena—bwottu is tub Heavens!—are
informed by a g-ntemari *h se veracity canno be
q e-tioried, that n the 23 I ins aul, nearGro .vernv Ile,
| Geo , a phenomena or rmrrka.e sig.flttcance. was
I witness, and1 1 the Heavens, at abou 4 o’e ock in th
\ evening It s. a per ect opr -enia .on ot a sword
, —handle. Hade a. and p fnt a! viai Se. The b’a le was
|re t k' d the ban i'e silver color. The Made pointed to
j the north- asi ad the hu and et * the south west. It
1 a ■ big .un in the heavens, ab nt twenty feet long
i and wo feet broad roon af.er it was witnessed, a
! w i id vpinaing uphea.y loads appeared end screened
i it rorn view
We are not oneofthoe who entertain a pe-til’ar
; rig ifl aoee lor r. marka’de dreams, believe in witcb
cralt, ur vi ■ -• ’<tr > e neriai peeanmena as an omen of
C'.o or .v I B.tnori ni a. (fbesi meiia to the one n
i q ie-ttnn, has tee . wit i-s-e.i f>- many gene-a ions,
a.id we are l ere, hereto" 1 * owing o the p-c.rlia e.r
ciirii tanc. s snrrouo.il g u , nch ed ' * view it with
signillca .ee.—[Mont celco ft’ *.) F .ntily F 'end.
Mrs W. H. Crisp is playing to good houses
l in Columbia, 8. C.