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V \ KEPUBLIOAN
l a#:are by a Blockader.
Sai.ui Jy uigbt last the steamer Lodona, Cap
tain Luckie, from Nassau, 31st ult., attempted
to enter Tybee, and succeeded in passing the
Martello Tower after being fired into. She
came within a short distance of Fort Pulaski,
but the Captain, having lost confidence in his
ability to pas* the fort, and contrary to the ad
vice of Mr. Geo. Mirshail and two p'lots who
were passengers on board, turned, about and on
passing the Tower a second time, some fifteen
or twenty shots were fired at her, one of which
struck the bulkhead and passed through her
cabin, doing considerable damage.
Without further it jury she succeeded in get
ting into O-sabaw about 9 o’clock Monday
morning. When abreast of Heligate a block
ading t-teamcr was discovered in B ar river
making for her. The Captain was again nrgtd
to continue his course, and if necessary to run
down the enemy, but his heart failed birn again,
and turning his vessel, ehe grounded in eleven
and a half feet water. She then feli an easy
prey to the enemy. Mr. Marshall and two pi
lots took to the small boat and succeeded in
reaching Beulah, where they were detained as
prisoners by our forces in that neighborhood
until released by order of Gen. Mercer.
The Lodona is about 1,000 tons burthen, and
has a very valuable assorted cargo, consisting
principally, of drugs, medicines, chemicals,
arms, and other articles of value to the Confed
eracy.
She was taken in charge by the blockading
steamer and Monday night towed to se.i in the
direction of Port Royal.
We learn from the passengers that thegreatest i
excitement prevailed at Nassau in consequence j
of the large number of Federal vessels of war j
lying < fit that port intercepting its commerce,
.• mong which were the Huntsville, Adirondack,
Quaker City, and Si. Jago de Cuba.
The schooner Agnes was taken on the 16th
nit., 2}4 miles off Abaco light, and carried to
Key West. We learn that her owner has gone
to K'-y West to claim her, and that there i3 a
probability of her being recovered, as she was a
British wrecker.
Enterprise of Southern Laoies.—We have
before us an admirably made sun bonnet or
• Shaker,” made from the palmetto, by Mrs. M.
E Rossetter, of Bellville, Florida It compares
favorably with any thing of the kind we have
ever seen from the land oi wooden nutmegs,
and Is by far superior in po’mt of durability
Yankee Doodle may now ‘‘go to grass”, while
the Sotithern matrons cling to cur own “Pal
metto.”
SavHnnt.lt IftarUci.
Mr. Editor —There are some facts connected
with the Savannah market to which I desire lo
call the attention of the people of Georgia and
South Carolina, who live convenient to this
city :
Sweet potatoes are iel v ’ g here at 25 cents a
quart, or $3 per bushel; green corn at 5 cents
an ear, or six ears for 25 cents; peaches, for
from 15 to 40 cents a qu’.rt,; watermelons of
ordinary size at 50 to 75 cents, and the largest,
weighing from twenty to thirty pounds, at $1
and $1 25 each ; chickens, (half-grown) at §1 a
pair; butter at 70 and 75 cents a pound; lard
at 40 cent3 a pound ; eggs at from 40 to 00 cents
a dozen.
Again : Pine wood sells for $7 a cord, and
oak wood $9 a cord.
I have enumerated some of the leading arti
cles, with their prices, in order to show the
people around Savannah what profits they are
allowing to slip through their fingers for want
of a little energy.
I am informed that peaches sell in Macon and
Augusta at SI per bushel. I also lea-n that
thousands of bushels in and around Aiken, S.
0., are rotting for want of a market. This fruit
coaid bo picked in the afternoon and sold in
this market the foliowinir morning. Why do
not the good people of these and other points
turn their attention in this direction and torn
a penny both to their own and our advantage V
They have the fruit, and we have the money, as
D shown by the ready sales of fruit hero at
such extortionate prices. Why wilt cot the
producer engage some reliable agent here and
supply the market f
Equally astonishing is the fact that the prices
of wood should rule so high where two rail
roads tnd ono river leading into tho city are
lin and with millions ot cords, which coußi be
sold here for more than a hundred per cent
profit. A little energy would put money in
the purses of many whose produce and wood
are now selling for but little and rotting on
their land. Buyeh.
Pop* Carrying Out Itls Brutal Order.
From the following, which we copy from the
Richmond Ei qulrer of Saturday, it will be
seen that the infamous Pope and his band of
robbers are busily engaged in working out their !
programme upon the unoffending citiz ns of
Virginia. Instead of confining such u a retch j
as a hostage, the President should have ordered !
him, when taken, to be hanged lo tho nearest ■
tree:
A gentleman of Culpepper county, who suc
ceeded iu making his escape on Monday last,
reached Lvnchburg ou Thursday and furnishes
the Lynchburg Republican with come interest
ing items:
The Yankees are ruling with a rod of iron,
end are already carrying into pnufiic.il operation
Pope’s infamous Older directing that they sub
sist upon the people of the country they may
occupy. Large numbers of cattle, seep, hogs, I
horses, &e., have been taken and appropriated
to their use, and the stock of corn, wheat and
other provisions, constituting the only means
ot living tho people had, have been conveyed
away to feed tho invaders In many instances
wh'de families have been left without a peck of
meal, or u pound of flour, or bacon, and are
consequently upon the verge of starvation.
The destruction to the land and growing crops
is immense, amounting almost to devastation.
Scenes of the most beastly and infamous
character aro reported to have been enacted
upon the slave women of the county, while the
whites were compelled to look on as these
somudrels accomplished their hellish work.
Instances are reported too of deeds of violence
perpetrated upon respectable ladies theniselves,
which are without a parallel, save in the annals
of the infamous Yankee race. Citizens ot the
county are constantly being arrested and sent
to Washington, there to he immured iu a dun
geon. Among others, the Rev. John Cole, an
a'od and grey-haired minister of the Episcopal
Church, wns arrested o* Sunday from
lr< pulpit and carried to Washington, Ids only
offence being a prater tor the welfare of the
Southern Confederacy and the success of its
arms. The thiev ng enemy stote trom Captain
J ’hn Taylor, air i.ffi..er iu the Confederate ser
vice, twenty-r ight negroes, burnt his house and
all the. outhuildiugs, carried off his stock, and
everything else ot value, and laid waste bis en
tire farm, one of the fi nst n the county.
Every person that cun Is escaping, leaving all
they hare to the merev ot the merciless marau
ders. The force ot tho enemy it is said does
not exceed 'ony theu-uiv'.
SutHMtsu at Oka nos Court House —On
Siiiiuiaj morn I • * la*t a portion of the 7:u Vo
gima Cavalry. Robertsou's B gid*\ under Col.
W K. Jones, engaged the Ist Michigan, 5 h
New York, and l-t Vermont Cavalry, at Orange
Court House. Our uun (ought with tle'tim
li <n, not haviT g more than 100 at any oue time
In the iight v while the enemy’s forces was be
tw eo 1,200 and 1,500. Ten of the enemy, in
clndii'g a M;*j t, aid eieven horses, were killed,
the dead homes of the latter remaining in the
streets of O angu Court li ruse after the fight
was over. Four carriages were pressed by the
Yankees to carry off their wounded. Several
prisoner* were captured, six ol whom (Serg’t
J. S. Trowbridge and two privates of the 5 h
1 New York, and two privates of the Ist V* r-
Ni ut,) w* re bn ught to K chmotrd by the Cen
tal) train last evening and committed to the
M ltan P. i on. S une lew of our men were
Csfytured tn the skirmish, but none killed. M j
llartOti of the 4 h Getwgia Battalion, who was
nearuhe wane of action, informs us that ib
enemy retreated bv wav of Tertill’s Ford
a -raws Vhe Kapidan river. Our troops occupied
tin tow* on Saturday night.
IRchmord Dispatch, Aug. 4.
Dr.tt* Tanszis —The sirkieg and blowing
up t toe Y-*ok a gunboa sby the Arkansas on
, her passage down Item Yazoo river, tilled be
muddy waters ol the Mi issi- pi wi.h the
l. *nr' of haudio tot drowned Yaoke- s. One
of their gs tiboen with a crew of A0 b ii g
run into by U e A k*i <**, c tumcaeed 'inking
imined! :6ely, when the Yankee* u *.,i , bue
flvg, bu’ 'he iii-Uttil ei*n r-uuk so quick that
no assistance c >td tv render,d. even
by- her own friends. Numbers of the detd
bodies are being warned ashore, and are fouud
every day by our pick.as atoeg the river.
rHE s WEEKLY E-EPUBLIGALT, S AYTTP^ID-AW, -ATT O-TXiST 9, 1862.
ARMY CORRESPONDENCE
Of the Savannah Republican.
Richmond, July 31st, 1563.
Nothing further has transpired in regard to
McClellan’s position and probable Intentions.
The belief exists in certain quarters, that he is
slowly withdrawing l.is army from the James
river and transferring it to the north side of the
Rappahannock ; whilst others arc of the opinion
that, having rendered his present position,
which was strong by nature, next to impreg
nable, ho has sent sufficient reinforcements to
Pope to enable him tc hold us in check, should
we attempt to march on Washington, until he
could throw the whole of bis army into the
Federal capital, by means of the James and Po.
tomac rivers. It is well known that he keeps a
very large number of tiausports near liis army
many more than are necessary to convey the
supplies required by. his troops. The loss of
stores, clothing, &c., during the late batties,
and the precarious condition ol his army since,
rendered it necessary for bis government to
send him fresh supplies and such reinforce
ments as could be had. This may accouut in (
part, though not altogether, for the presence ;
of so many vessels in the liver.
The transports remain quiet during the day, .
and change their positions only at night. I
Scouts on the south side of the river report that j
the number of vessels, as weil as of tents, has 1
grown less for ihe last few days ; and yet they !
never see any teuts struck or vessels pass down j
the river during the day. It is ail done at j
night. McClellan would not observe such se- |
cresy if he were merely engaged in provision- j
ing his army.
Ba ali this as it may, it is evident that Gen. j
Pope, whose headquarters are at Warrcnton or j
Culpepper Court House, some thirty miles this
sideoi M. aassas, has received considerable rc
nforcements within the past two weeks.
Northern letter writers estimate his force at
60,000 which is probably too much by one- j
third. He occupies a strong position along the j
north bank of the Rappahannock—his left j
being protected by the Potomac and his right j
t>y the Blue Ridge. Fortunately for us, there j
are seveiat iruud fords by which the river can ;
be easily ana ifely crossed at this period of the
year, especially since his lines are too long to j
be very strong at any one point F ortunately’, j
also, the B.ue Ridge is penetrated by a number j
of gaps, by which his po.-ition may be turned, j
Nothing is known of General Lee’s plans, I
and if there were, it would be improper to make
it public. Whether ho will attempt to carry
McClellan’s position by assault, or cut off his
supplies by batteries planted on the river below,
or will go in pursuit of Pope beyond the Rap
pahannock, it were impossible yet to say. You
will hear,however, in good time, and probably,
as intimated in my last letter, at an early day.
Your readers must possess their souls in pa
tience. It requires time, to rest and reorganize
even a victorious a; my after such a battle as
that recently fought in front of this city. Even
the soldier who emerges from the conflict un
injured requires time, to breathe and look about
him—to gather up his tattered garments and j
relieve himself of the grirao and dust of battle, j
Much more is this true of companies, regiments !
and brigades, whose ranks have been decimated,
and many of whose officers have been slain or
wounded. I will only add, that Gen. Lee has
not been idle. Judging from what I see, it is
no part oi his plan to remain quiet and allow
the enemy time to prtparo for another ad
vance upon Richmond.
All accounts from the North authorize the
conclusion that Mr. Lincoln will find great dif
ficulty in raising the 300.000 men called for,
without resorting to the draft. The men of
means and position are very anxious to avoid
the necessity of a draft, which would include
themselves as well as the poor creatures whom
they are seeking to bribe into the service by
means of large voluntary bounties ; but it is
doubtful whether they will succeed. The men
whose necessities compel them to enter the
army ’or a support, argue that still larger sums
will be given them to go as substitutes in the
place oi the wealthy than have yet been offered
in the way of bounties. It is believed, however,
that the new levy will be forthcoming—if not
in one way, then in another.
Such being the eas*. it becomes the impera
tive duty of the Confederate government to
make ample and timely preparation to meet
this fresh emergency. Ilow is it to be done?
Clearly by extending the Conscription Act so as
to include all able-bodied men between the
ages of eighteen and forty five. This will be a
painful expedient, since it will interfere mate
rially with the industrial interests of the coun
try ; yet every thing must be ventured where
eveiy thing is at stake. The tide turned on the
oth of Apr 1 at Shiloh, and since then it has
been setting steadily iu our favor. We have
forced the enemy out of Arkansas and the
greater part of Missouri. Wo have closed the
Mississippi at Vicksburg, cut liis lines of com
munication in Tennessee and Kentucky, whip
ped him at James Island, compelled<him to send
the greater part of his forces from tha South
Atlantic to Virginia, won a series ot brilliant
victories iu the valley ot the Shenandoah, and
capped the climax by raising the eeige of Rich
mond and defeating the Digest aud test army
he has been able to bring against us. Not con
tent wi'.h these advantages, wo are now pre
paying to follow them up in Tennessee and Vir
ginia, and to force the hated invader back into
bis own country.
Shall our army be stopped midway iu this
glorious career for the want of men? Now
that the silver lining begins to illumine the
dark cloud that has hung over us so long; now
that day b* gins to break, and we are able, for the
first time, to see our way to peace and indepen
dence, shall the people of the South, who have
never yet failed to do their part, falter in the
very hour and article of success ?
Should the North fail to get the men now
called for, it will not become necessary for the
Confederate Congress to extend the Conscrip
tion Act; but let us, at least, prepare ourselves
for this additional sacrifice, should it be re
quired of us. F. W. A.
Richmond, August 2d, 1862.
You will te glad to hear that the government
has at last made up its mind to “fight the devil
with tire.” It is reported that the papers of
this city will publish, in a day or t wo, a pro
ciamation of a most important character from
President Davis, in regard to the brutal policy
recently announced for the government of his
armies by Mr. Lincoln and bis officers. It will
embrace, it is said, Butler, the “beast,” and his
infamous proceedings in New Orleans, Pope
and his atrocious orders iu Eastern Virginia,
and Hunter and his African brigade.
Butler will be proclaimed to be an outlaw,
an enemy of all mankind, and us such, a mon
ster to be hunted down aud sialu wherever and
by whomsoever found. Pope and the uncitii
iz and warfare he has inaugurated will be de
nounced >n terras of just indignation, and he
aud his troops will be specially excluded from
the cartel recently agreed to by the two govern
ments for an exchange of prisoners. Hunter,
who is reported to have organized one or more
regiments of runaway blacks on the Carolina
and Georgia coast, and his troops are to be
treated as barbarians wholly unfit to receive
quarter in •battle. In other words, the black
Bag wili be raised as against all officers and their
forces composed, iu whole or in part, of negro
regiments.
Butler has already been stigmatized as au
outlaw by the judgment of all civilized nations,
and the proclamation of the President onlv
proposes to affix to his monstrous crimes
against humanity the penalty due to outlawry.
That such a beast shouid be permitted to live,
is conclusive evidence of the infinite mercy of
G’fri.
Yon have doubtless seen and published art
th ! s the orders issued by President Lineola anu
General Pope. The first authorises the em
ployment of blacks in the naval and military
service of the United B.ales, and the seizure
!<>f ali property belonging to “rebels” which
;n:y be found necessary to the comfort and
: -übsistenee of hi- armies. The second requires
I all male citiz ns residing within the Federal
1 Sines i o go forward and take the oath of allegi
ance to his hated government, and failing to do
; so, they are to be escorted beyond the lines,
1 not to return agatu under penalty of death. —
1 Should they decide to remain and take, the
j oath, they are to receive the same punishment,
if in the judgment of a bigoted and fanatical en
emy they should In any manner depart from it.
The conduct of Pope and his ruffians since the.
promulagation of these orders has been most
atrocious. They have violated servant girls in
the prese-ee of their mistresses, stolen all the
horses, beef cattle and sheep, they could find,
| emptied smoke houses and barn-,, enticed away
| negroes by the hundred, burnt bouses, and
! wantonly destroyed what they coul 1 not carry
j a vvay. What they will do when the men have
j been driven from their homes and the women
I and children left to their cruelty, may be itn
; agined but not described. Is the President not
1 right to exclude from the privilege of an ex
change of prisoners, so cruel and merciless a
foe.
Let the people hold up his tends, as Aaron
and Hur held up the hands of Moses, and pray
God to destroy from the face of the earth the
worse than Amclekites who make war upon
women and old age, who force the chos?n min
isters of Heaven from the very horns of the
altar, whose weapons are rape, rapine and ruin,
who to the horrors of a civil war now seek to
add the atrocities of a servile insurrection, and
who charge their ammunition with poison, and
cover their craven breasts with plates of steel
An enemy so vile and despicable deserves
neither mercy on earth nor forgiveness hereafter-
You have already been informed by telegraph
of the bold and successful midnight attack upon
McClellan’s fleet of transports and gunboats.
Gen. Pendleton received orders two days ago
to proceed to Point, a narrow pass in
James river, some distance below Berkeley, and
destroy such transports as might be found going
down the river at night. For some reason not
yet ascertained he changed his course, and pro
ceeded to a point on the south side of the river
just opposite to the Federal anchorage and near
McClellan’s encampment. He took with him
forty two pieces of artillery, including a few
guns of heavy calibre. Having got into posi
tion, and charged and sighted his guns, he re
mained quiet until midnight, at which hour he
turned his batteries loose upon the F dural
shipping, estimated at one hundred and fifty
sail. We have no means of knowing what
damage was done, but from the noise made by
our shot as they crashed through the wooden
fleet, the disappearance of the vessels :;ex t
morning, and the commotion in ‘.he camps on
the opposite side of the river, there is reason to
believe it was considerable. At all events, the
enemy was badly frightened, and probably ex
pected a general attack next morning by land
and water. P. W. A.
ltetallailcn on the Enemy.
Richmond, Aug 3d, 1862.
It appears from the subjoined letter and or
der, that it is not as full as I had been led to
expect from reports in circles supposed to be
well informed. There is reason to believe,
however, that the President will resort to the
most stringent measures in a short time, unless
the Federal authorities retrace their steps. It
is said that there are special reasons for not re
sorting to these measures yet awhile. It is
further stated that he bad already opened a cor
respondence with the Federal government in
regard to Butler, the beast. P. W. A.
FROM THE PRESIDENT TO GEN. LEE.
Richmond, Va , July 31,1862.
Sut: —On the 22d of this month a cartel tor a
general exchange ot prisoners of war was signed
between Major General D. H Hill, in behalf of
the Confederate States, and Mwj >r General John
A Dix, in behalf of the United States.
By the terms of that carte! it is stipulated
that all prisoners of war hereafter taken shall
be discharged on parole till exchanged.
Scarcely had that cartel been signed when
the military authorities of the United S ates
commenced a practice changing the character
of the war from sut li as becomes civilized na
tions into a campaign of indiscriminate robbery
and murder.
The general order issued by the Secretary of
War ot the United States, in the city of Wash
ington, on the very day tuat the cartel was
sigued in Virginia, directs the Military Com
manders of the United States to take the pri
vate property ol our people for the convenience
and use of their ai tri es without compensation.
The general order issued by Major General
Pope on tne 23J of July, the day after the sign
ing of the cartel, directs the murder of our
peaceful inhabitants as spies if found quietly
tilling the farms in his rear, even outside of hiti
lines, and one of his Brigadier Generals, Stein
wehr, has seized upon innocent and peaceful
inhabitants to be held as hostages, to the end
that they may be murdered in cold blood if am
of his soldiers are killed by some unknoivu
persons whom he designates as “bnsh#hack
ors.”
Under this state of facts this government has
issued the enclosed general order recognizing
General Pope atid his commissioned officers to
be in the position which they have chosen for
themselves, that of robbers and of murderers,
and not that of public enemies, entitled, it
captured, to be considered as prisoners of w ;r.
We tied ourselves driven by our enemies by
steady progress towards a practice which iv
abhor and which we are vainly struggling to
avoid. Some of the military authoiities of the
United Stales seem to suppose that better sec
cess will attend a savage war, in which no
quirter is to be given aud no age or s ix spared,
than has hitherto been secured by such hostili
ties as are alone r. cognized to ba lawful by
civilized man in modern times.
For the present, we renounce our right of re
taliation on the innocent, aud shall continue to
treat the private enlisted soldiers of General
Pope’s army as prisoners of war; but it, after
notice to the government at Washington of our
confining repressive measures to the punish-
inent only of commissioned officers who are
willing participants in these crimes, these
savage practices are continued’, we shall re
luetautly be forced to the last resort of accept
ing the war on the terms chosen by our foes,
until the outraged voice of a common humani
ty forces a respect for the recognized rules of
war.
While these facts would justify cur refusal to
execute the gene rous cartel by which we
consented to liberate au excess ot thousands f
prisoners held by us beyond the number held
by the enemy, a sacred regard to plighted faith
shrinkmg from the mere semblance of braking
a promise, prevents our resort to this extremi
ty. Nor do we desire t extend to any other
forces of the enemy the punishment merited
abrne by General Pope and such commisioned
officers "as choose to participate ia the execu
tion ot his infamous orders.
You are therefore instructed to commuuicate
to the Commander in-Chief of the armies of the
United Slates the contents of this letter and a
copy ot the enclosed general order, to tin; end
that be may be notified of ouriuteution not to
consider any officers hereafter captured Irom
General pope’s army as prisoners of war.
Very respectfully, yours, etc ,
(Signed) Jepfbksom Davis.
Gcu. li E. Lee, Commanding, etc.
Adjutant and Issr'it Gknehjl’s Ounce, i
Richmond, August 1, lsdi. C
General Orders, No 54.
I. The iollowing Orders are published for the
information and ooservauee of all concerned.
11. Whereas, by a General Order, dated the
25.1 July, 1562, issued by the Secretary of War
of the United Slat-s, under the order of the
President of the United States, the Military
Commanders of that Government within the
States of Virginia, South Carolina, Georg a,
Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, TrXiS aud Ar
kansas, are directed to seizi and use any prop
erty, real or personal, belonging to the inhabi
tants ot this Confederacy, which may be neces
sary or convenient for their several commands,
and ntj provision is made for any compema ion
to the owners of private property thus seized
aud appropriated by the Military Commandets
of the enemy ;
111. And teUrt'M. by General Order Number
Eleven, issued on the 231 July, 1562, by M: i r
General Pope, commanding "the forces of the
enemy iu Northern Vtrgia'ta, it is ordered that
ail “commanders of any Aroiv corps, divisions
brigades, and detached commands, will proceed
immediately to arre-t all disloyal male cit zeus
within their fines or within their reach in rear
of their respective commands. Such as are
witling to take the oath of allegiance to the
l otted States and will tu nish-suttiek-nt securi
ty tor its ob ervanee, shall be permitted to re
main at their homes aud pursue in good faith
their accustomed avoc.v ious Those who re
fuse shall be conducted South beyoh ! the < ;
ire me pickets of this army, and be notified that
if touud agate anywhere within our fines or at
any point tn rear, they will be considered st ics,
: and subjected to the extreme rigor ot mil', tar j
law. It any person having taken the oath o: sj
- legiance as above speeiaed be found to have
; violated tt, he shall be shot, and h:s property
' seized and applied to the public u>e” ;
IV. And whereas, by an order issued on the
| Wh July. l'Mig, by Brigadier General A S t-in
, wihr, M ior Wm. Steadman, a cavalry officer
j ol k*s brigade, has been ordered to arrest five
j the most pronfineut citizens of Page count v,
j \ trgin a, to be held as hostages and to si,ff r
death in the event ol any of the soldiers ot raid
Stein wchr being shot by “bushwhackers,” by
which term are meant the citizens of this Con
federacy who have taken up arms to defend
their honn sand famil es ;
V. And whereas, it, results from the above or
ders that Borne of the military authorities of
the United States, not content with the unjust
and aggressive warfare hitherto waged with
savage cruelty against an unoffending people,
and. exasperated by the failure of their effort to
sul jugate them, have now determined to violate
all the rules and usages of war ; and to convert
the hostilities hitherto waged against armed
forces into n campaign of robbery and murder
against unarmed citizens and peaceful tillers of
the soil; .
VI. And whereas, this government, bound by
the highest, obligations of rtntv to its citizens,
is thus driven to the necessity of adopting such
just measures of retribution and reta latioo as
shall seem adequate to repress and punish t hese
barbarities ; aud whereas, the orders above re
cited have only been published and made
known to this government since the signature
of a cartel for exchange of prisoners of war,
which cartel, in so far as it. provides for an ex
change of prisoners hereafter captured, wonld
never have been signed or agree., to by this
government, if the intention to change the war
into a system of indiscriminate murder and
robbery had been made known to it; and where
as, a j ist regard to humanity forbids that Vue
repression ot crime which this government is
thus compelled to enforce should be unneces
sarily extended to retflii'-tiou on the enlisted
men in the army of the Uaited States, who may
be unwilling iustrumen s of the savage cruelty
of their commanders, so long as there is hope
that the excesses of the enemy may be checked
or prevented by retribution on the commis
sioned officers who have the power to avoid
guil y action by refusiug service under a gov
ernment which seeks their aid in the perpetra
tion ot such infamous barbarities;
VIL Therefore it is ordered, that Major Gen
eral Pope, Br gtdier General tsieinwehr, and all
commissioned officers serving udner their re
spective commands, be, and they are hereby
expressly and specially declared to be, not eu
tiiied to be considered as soldiers, and there
fore not entitled to the benefit of the cartel
for the parole of future prisoners of war.
Old’red further, that in the event of the cap
ture of M: j >r General Pope, < r Brigadier Gen
era! Steinwi hr, or of any commissioned officer
serving under them, the captive so taken sha 1
be hell in close confinement, so long as the
orders aforesaid snail continue in force and uu
repcaled by the comp tent military authorities
of the United States ; and that in the event of
the murder of anv unarmed citizen or inhabi
tant of this Confederacy, by virtue or und r
pretext of any of the orders herein-before re
cited, whether with or without trial—whether
under pretence of such citizen being a spy or
hostage, or any other pretence, it shall be the
duty of the Commanding Genera! of the forces
of this Confederacy, to cause immediately to be
hung, out of the eointnisioned officers prisoners
as aforesaid, a number equal to the number of
cur own citizens thus murdered by the enemy.
By order.
(Signed) 8 Cooper.
Adj’t and leap. Gen. j
List of Casualties ia tlis Thlrty-eigliSli
Georgia Regiment, (US’rlgist’s Legion)
la lire Battles before Sllclimomt.
FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS.
Lieut. Col. L. J Parr, wounded in left arm,
which was afterwards amputated
Acting Maj ir J D Matthews, mortally wound
ed ; Adjutant A Shaw, taken prisoner.
Company A —Killed : A C Austin. Wounded
severely : Privates W J J din-on, J M Thomp
son, T II S'ewart; Lieut J J Mai able, Privates J
T Austin, W F Austin, slightly.
Company B—Kiiied : Coi-p W F Gri(fin, Pri
vates IT D Gibbs. G W Vincent J M Martin,
vo v-.-ied m rtally : Capt G W McClusky, Lieut.
J A Pnlips, severely ; Privates J C Bites, A W
u.a , U oe, J C Pu'veU, J Marlin, slightly ; Pri
\a es <V J Cook, W Herring, A Justice, M Kiig
Abner Land>uni, J IV M rlin, J A M
Sims, TH Westbrook, J A W .liter, A Wil
liams W B igwelf, S Adams, .T J D il, G B Best
wick, P I Edwards, VVilliun Sbatnley.
Compan C—Killu t: Privates J A Hearsay,
J Bo.d, DH Me Lane, C 8 Corbin Wounded
severely: Privates J R Flanders, B E Daniels,
J F D x, J D Woods, G W Smith, W T Allen,
slightly; Corp Truitt. Privates P Carroll, Junes
Boyd, S J Hearsay, J P Chew; A Gregory, mis
sing.
Company D—Wounded severely : Privates
W S Lanier, J A -cUandiess, J M Singleton.
Slightly : Serti’t- R O Harabriek !J A Leloy,
Privates M II N i=h, W Singh ton. '/, Thomas.
Company E K-lled : Privates G W Na-h, J
W Jackson, J M Glenn. S Turner, E Pratt, -I D
Huff, W G Howard, J Freeman, J Calf,ban.
Wounded severely: Serg’i. -J J Callaway, Pri
votes ,J W Arnold, J B Webb, N II rris, W B
Htrris, G W F us', J Freeman, E M Drake, J
VV Coyle, J II Day. Slightly: D Glenn, S
Smith, J S Mulh r.
Company F.—Killed: Private J M Ilti'chin
eou. Wounded severely: Coip’is W II rper
and It P Purtain ; Privates B T Hunt, VV M
Thornton. Slightiv: BP.iria.in, JA J Brown.
Company G. —Killed: Lieut J Gunn, Pri
vales George Rogers, W S Guineve'v, J M
Smith, M W Pool, VV D Coshea, J W Roger?,
J F Perdue, S R Patterson. Wounded slightly :
OnrpT Knfu* Bonner, Privates T J Peoples, G
Farrar, G C Brown, A A Murphy, W J Ander
son.
Company II —Kiiied : Corporal G VV Butler,
Privates G il Booth, J Row oy, J ,\F And frrOQ,
W C Vaughn. Wounded severely : P ivitesA
Booth, SS B oth, 4 Cowth, J WMo re Siigbt
lv; Privates W VV Bardin, J VV Coivard, C VV
Hall, R Sanders
Company I —Killed: Capt II J .Tones, Pri
vates Irwin Register, C Hicks. Wounded re
vereiy :* Privates G W B 'em, U Ohuraney
Slightly : S -rg’t Taylor, IV vales C Pitman, R
Pitman, J Holmes, W Wolf, J Autlurson, J
Nichols.
Company K —Killed : Orderly J S Johnson,
Priv oes J S Henry, R F Jones, J M Dowss, J
tv Phillips, J S Richardson. A J Wilson
Wounded severely : Li nit Stebbs, S Tg't VV ll
Henry, Privates J H Gasaw.iy, VV A Childers,
G' 11 Goodwin, A VVi>et! -r, H il Ilornbockle, B
Lil •, J Switiev. Slight.lv: FS Haggins, VV F
Goodwin, B McGinn , C S .tone % B N F nr, VV
S Owens, A VV Aim nil, B A Seals, B A Smith,
VV B Hilderhrand. E VV Wiggins.
Company N.—Killed : Win Forbes, T Scog
gins, J Ma tiu Wounded severely: Serg’t A
lliil. Privates 1) Wallace, O W Thompson.
Slightly: Privates K li Day, G B.rnes, V B
Martin, P A Scoggins, K Blacks lock.
RECAPITULATION :
Killed 40
Wounded 122
Total 16S
Briliiaat KkismlMliftig In Nortli Ala
bama.
On the 80th ult., a detachment of the Ist Ky.
cavalry, commanded by Capt. J. K Huey, as
sisted by Lt. Col. Russell, commanding Partisan
Raugers, amounting in the aggregate to sixty,
engaged two hundred Federal Cavalry nearly
opposite the mouth of Coon Creek, and but a
tew miles from Stevenson, Ala. Notwithstand
ing ibe great disparity in numbers in tavor of
the Federal*, the success was decidedly with
the Conledt r.t cs. E ght Yankees were killed
aud fifteen wounded Our fuss none. Io addi
tion, our friends captured lac horses, guns, pis
tols, and sabres of tile killed and wounded of
the enemy, and forty beef cattle that the Feds,
were driving in. The direction oi the cattle vv. s
changed by Capt. Huey, aai cafeiy driven iuto
h:s camp
Oa the 26 h of the same month, four of Capt.
Iliiey’s men cr. ;-ed the Tennessee riv.-rand
engaged twenty-five Federal cavalry, wi pin
thit-e miles ot Sreveuson, killing three Federal*
aud putting to rout the remainder. VV- learn
from one oi the company, that Capt. Huey’s
command has, within leu days, killed and
wounded fifty-one Yankees, with only one m q
w. ir ded ai.d uc*te killed.—[GtwHa. Rebel, 2 I.
Attack os Guntersville—We learn from
a gentleman ju>i from North Alabunut, that on
Wednesday itie Federal.-, attacked Guntersvilte,
u the sout". side ot Tennesse ■ river, with a
thousand tn:.v:!ry and -five piec- s oi artillery.
They succeeded in crossing a part of their :o.ca
cm to the island for :he purpose of sharpshoot
ing Altera tight ot eight flours ibev were re
pulsed hv the Confederates under Capt Weston
o' 1-t K -mucky cavalry, aud Capt. Coats, of
Forrest’s old regiment. Qte lady wa? killed,
and two male citizens of Guntersvtlle wou and
ei; one dwellingand a warehouse were bur i
ed The Federal loss in kiiied aud w .unded,
twenty five.— [lb.
The HeiLth of Our Army.—lt i* a source
of general rej deieg that the health of onr wes
tern army was never at any period since the
commencement of ibe war, so good as at the
present moment. Now that a crisis ot such
w meet is at haul, we can not but rx rlt at the
robust look ot the men on whose arm rests the
fate of our beloved country. They are the pic
ture of heal ti, and whit is more, of undaunted
spirit, and all else that constitute* the material
ot a dashing soldier. L.t the officer equal the
private, let there be such di-ctpline, mat at!
shall move as one man, and it will be hut a little
while tiii w shall wime-s the fulfilment of
President DaviV piedg -, tha’ our fiig sbaU be
planted beyond the ouairmo.t Verge of our
Confedeiacy — f lb
A Nobt e Example for a Soules.— Chap
’aiu J is. B Averitt, furnishes the Krckicgham
(Va.) Register with some interesting facts in
regard to the lamented Gen. Ashby Among
oth* " things fie .-ays : "As his tent-mate from
the 17;h of June, 1361 to the close ot bis bright
and eventful life, I uever saw him lodu’ge in a
gtme o chance, or use an oath or iucu'ga in
any expression which c aid of! nd tne most
polite ear, aai he w entirely iree from ais-i-
P 1 ’ 1 nof ail kinds.” Wait a noble tribute to
one who his hid no suti-r.nr for gallant daring
Since the war eonynenced ! It the same coal J
he sa.d of all the otfic-’s in our a-mv, some of
saddest scenes of the war would be obliterated
trom the minds of onr afflicted people.
Oar Virginia Correspondence.
Near Richmond. Va.,'l
July 81, 18G2. j
Mr. Editor ; Great moves are being made on
the chess board of war, but the import just
is beyond our comprehension. McClellan up
pears restive, and every now and then assails onr
picket line from his cooped up hole at Harri
son’s Landing. lie nutkee appearance cf a de
sire to repossess Malvern Hill, which he is well
assured is a very strong p’acc, but this is sup
posed to be only sham : for it is well known
that, he is constantly sending away his troops to
Pope, and that the “onward to Richmond,”
from this point, i, now considered an utter im
possibility—the term a reproach which would
gladly be forgotten. It is believed that McClol
lan will resign, i t irg unable to endure the
chagrin of li • •., 11-llcck pine and above him,
in the iacp of the gn a: military U at he just per
formed of “changing his base of operations.”
Qalleck promises the. nation great things, an
actually sets out to convince the Northern
dupes of his wonderlul military acquirements
by a learned di-sertalion on the science of war.
We poor rebels had better look sharp now, Hal
leek the Great has succeeded aud superseded
the “Young Napoleon.” Woe be unto the re
hellions. The Southern monster is now to be
“crushed oat before you can say Hatleek the
Great, if your mouth was already open. “What
shall we do to he saved ” But in reality, the
old military ass—the hoary-headed villain—
Wingfield Scott, being still an incumbrance,
Halieck put iu a, high place, which the veriest
little fool of a n< gro in the South would con
temn if he knew him, and McClellan, a second
ary non-entity, is all a subject for congratula
tion iu the South. There is no doubt McClel
lan is the ablest man they can pul in the field
No one has labored so hard to ortanizDand
thoroughly discipline his army, and wbenevei
we have fought him it, was no child’s play to
defeat his vetefan soldiers. The battle of .. ii
liamsbnrg, Seven Pines aud ail the last battles
before Richmond are still records before us
how .sanguinary every inch of ground was dis
puted) In many instances these fights were
man for rnan, and always before we found our
selves able to cope with the vandals two and
even three, to one of our soldiers. Let us re
joice that the “Young Napoleon” has found his
Waterloo, and hope some let s competent Yan
kee fool will take ifis place. It is believed that-
Pope is a “soft” chap, and before long a crowd
of his hordes will be left to enrich some spot
in the “Old Dominion.” However, it is beet
| always not to underrate an enemy, and then
I every energy will be employed to meet him.
j Rather overrate than underrate him.
! It is impossible to tell yon where Jackson is,
1 but the Yankees are terribly exercised abi ut
! him, and have got wind that Hill and othei>
j have been sent to swell his ranks. There is a
j dream too in the Dictator’s head that ot course
j our fore s have been materially weakened here
before the capital, aud it would uot surprise n
[if a force wes precipitated down this way to
make another easy march into Richmond. I
believe our government has determined not to
he lethai gie tir.y more, and at present it setSlus
to be wide awake. We aro whole tooted and I
can put just as tr.auy men into the field as Hr ,
Yankees. This tremendous call for 800 000 mor*
men *c ires nobody ; for any one can see lt wi I
take at least, three months to get them together,
and eight mbntj:3 to discipline and make any
thing like soldiers of them Let the fools send
that horde of tnllitia d-'.tv . h r t-More they gr
through the regular coarse oi nm:i instruct!*!!.',
and I tel! you, as you welt know, tin re will te
more food for buzzuds tlt.it: those disgastlup
butbirds cm and s::*o In a short time aftei
they arrive.
It will rt quire so much cf this new force to
go t.> Kentucky and Tennessee; to much to
come to Virginia to take this provoking capital,
and when a large amount of sick is deducted,
the g:eat bugbear will have dwindled into noth
ing scarcely beyond a scarecrow.
The work of reeru ling goe3 cu very slowly
there, so their papers say, and the whole “ kit
and hiliu ” of the Yanks are wearing long,
dolorous facts, and stock is falling iu Wall
street, amazingly. Tha timorous wrefehes art
now looking anxiously towards Europe waiting
for an t xpr esion of foreign sentiment on thei r
woeful disaster before Richmond. They know
or expect-that the huge boasting of the whole
North, and the vacant promises of an “onward
to Richmond’’'will begin to recoil with won.
dr*. :t fores against them whan the news reach
es there, and notwithstanding the early advice
of some branch of the Press to resist to the
utmost ary attempt at intervention from Eu
rope. the trembling cowards would quail at the
first onset o! European intervention as they.did
in their pusillanimous snrrecd r qf Mason and
Slidell Vv
Steadily the thorough di-cipiine dfVur army
goes on, and the < sourgaling of incompetency
from the ranks is a mo t valuible and salutary
step towards Its perfection. Brave, competent of
fleers control men and on the battle field render
them solid and staunch before any sort of fire.
Without officers who can control and direct
litem, no soldiers’are fit to carry on a danger
ous field. Almost everything depends upon
the efficiency of the officers, aud the first con
sith'ration in organizing an army is, he assured
of the entire eapabit ty of this post. Every
promotion is m :d“ now after a thorough exami
nation by a competent board. ’Tis the wisest
step yet made la insure the invincibility of our
tr’oops. But I close with the fond hope that
our Confederacy may not sleep in the darkest
nor the brightest periods until onr freedom is
proclaimed. Tout le Monde.
Tiio Alliance of (lie Cbcrokee Indians
ill 1 the Confederate States.
The following letter from John Ross, Princi
pal Chief of the Cherokee nations, is published
in the Northern papers. This settles the ques
tion as to the alliance of that nation with the
Confederate*:
Executive Department, )
Park Hill, C. N , July 8, IStki j
To Col. W’m. llffr, U. S A , Commnndivg:
Sir:—Your communication of yesterday,
dated from headquarters, Indian Expedition,
e imp or. Wolfe Creek, under a flat; of truce per
1) c. (tilpatnck, has been duly received and in
reply, ! have to etatathat a treaty of
under the sanction and authority x>f the whole
Cherokee people, was entered into on the 7.h
day of October, 1861. between the Confederate
States and the Cheri kee nation, and pnbii hed
before the world. And you caonot but be too
well informed on the su! j cr. to make it ntces
ar\ far me to recipitu!a.e the reasons am! cir
cumstances under which it was done. Thus
the destiny of the people became identified
with that of the •'nnihcrti Confederacy. The e
is no nation of Indiana, I venture to say, that
has ever been more scrupulous in the faithful
i 1 ■ • v.itice ol their treaty obligations than the
Cheek -os
A'i-jiv mo to furl’ or appeal io the history of
my- lore j chile ud t rivu "• life to sue ain the
..-seiion thit ray poli y las ever been 'o pre
serve peace and good feelings among my people,
ai;r! the observance ol law and > rcL-r.
The horro s of civil war, with which this
beanti ui country is thrcaiencd. are greailj to
be deprecated, and I trust that it may be avert
ed by the observance of the strict principles of
civiliz and and honorable warfare by the army
now invading our c mn'rv wider vour com
mand I cannot, un ler existing circumstances,
entertain the proposition for an official inter
view between us at vonr camp. I have, there
fore, respectfully to decline to comply with
your request. I have the honor to be, sir,
your most obedient seivant.
John Ross,
P-inciral Chief Cherokee Nation.
Affairs os the Coast apt. Joo. Mickfer
returned to camp on Sunday last, from a gen
eral 1 our of inspection sin mg 'be Sea I-iands
and Yat kee camps near Hilton Head and Broad
river After posting himself ab.-ut‘‘the situa
tion,” he retired unobserved, bringing with
hint seven negroes—one of whom is a member
of one of tieii Hunter'- new regiments. The
fellow will, of c urse, be hong. Cant Mickter
was absent about a week.—f Chas. Mercury.
The correspond, ct of the N w York Express
announces that by the evacuitioo of Junes’
Island all e ance- of approaching Cha lest on by
any feasible land route h s been a andoed
■he Federal iroops have re ; red fr< m
Edisto I-lsnd, a* and now only hold Hilton Head,
Beaufort, Pulaski and their immediate depeu
deucies,
The Season —tVe have had flue showers for
the 'ast lour or five days, and the earth is w-il
satuie 1 wiih water. AH the late crops have
been much bectfhted. and are generally very
promising.—[Macon Messenger, sth.
11,1 “T billed and Won ,d,d
In the 44 h Kegim cm Georgia .Volunteers, Col.
Rubert A. Smith commanding, j Q th e battles
beloto Richmond.
FIELD OFF!curs. \
Killed—none.
Wounded—Col Robert A. Smith, mortally
“ —Lt Col. John B. Estes, slightly!
“ Adjt. C. M. Wiley, severely.
COMPANY A—CAPT. W. H. PEEBLET.
Killed —Piivates E B Akins, T D F Johnson,
T S Moor, J P Lowell, J P Crudllle, I J Smith,
J N S.uneeli, J Weems, R H Htrper.
Woun led mortal y—Lieut S J Watkins. Pri
vates J E Harris, J II Jenkins, N C Turuipseed,
I J Turner, D Puiiiips.
Woumti-d severely—Corpl WD D srrick. Pri
vates H A Daniel, E E Jaekaou, J M Pendley,
J F Wyatt. G W T Dorsey, G W Bunn, W H
Trophy.
Wounded slightly—Capt W II Pebbles, Lt A
D McKenzie, li M Grediile, Serg’t O VV Moore,
f J Adams, Privates J L Callaway, R B Rich
ardson, J Rolls. N M Stanfield, J T Tarpley, J
Upchurch, W J Wilkins, J M Williams, VV J
Morris, J VV Weems, J W Adams, S R Moore,
H A Turner.
COMPANY B —CAPT. ,T. C K2Y.
Killed—Serg’t A R Smith. Privates J N Sel
ler-, L Cheek, K Tillman.
Wounded mortally—Corp’l J B K*;l!y, Pri
vates J Splarman, J J t dwards
Wounded severely—Corp’is II N Aden, J II
Meek*, Privates W TFears, ll '/. Smith, Z Bailv.
F M Kiuuard.
Wounded slightly—Serg’t BG King, TL
D gby. Privates a S Akin, J V. Barr, J G Bear
den, J VV Cook, 8 H Edwards, RS Edwards, H
.VI B Freeman JA D Grubbs, J Dostm - , A L
Johnson, E D L -me,. GAD Lesion, A A Mc
viicheal, 'A H Nolle-a, C A Spears, N M Shaw, G
W F Watts, Geo Freeman, R Wooten A F
Spears, W II Gilimore, GS Garrett, N II Lever
ett, ll M L me.
COMPANY C —CAPT. SAM. P. LUMPKIN.
Kiiied—Lt J W Reaves, Corpl M Mooney,
Privates J 11 Davies, H J Doolittle, W T Adams
W A Robinson, H M lAdd, J M Bulle-r, J E
Roy ester, J Murrougb.
Mortally wounded—P M Stewart
Severely v. ounded—Sergt D H Malcolm Pri
vates I M Ileall, S C Gardner, E 15 Spinks A B
Offiorn, L C Cooper, J Glover, G A Nolen W
B Jones, W M Elder, J E Thom >,L Beavers.
W T Osborn.
Slightly wounded—A W Griffith, L L-s U-r, 8
M Smith, John Dugger, WE Elder, -t H C Mai
coim, W W Hunt, G R Connally, J R Avcock,
GWNunnaly. " ’
COMPANY D—LIEUT. THOS. S. TATAM.
Killed—Piivates B F Robarts, G B Adamson,
J N Adamson, W E Deas, VV M Long, J a Lyle,
J B Murphy, Jas Turner.
Mortally wounded—Lt Tiios S Tatam, Pri
vates -I S Jones, jr., D T McVicker.
Severely wounded—S VV Camp, G W Coker,
W M Christian. M Y B Dodson, J L Spradlin, J
F MeKibbin, VV M Farmer, J S Mathews, TR
Daniel, G VV Hutchinson, It J Kunkle, J W
Lewis, J T Mann.
Slightly wounded—J Y Nolen.
COMPANY E—CAPT. J. W. ADAMS.
Killed—A Bay well, E D wis, Il M Daweon, J
II Digby, J Lee, Ssrgt N G Andrews.
Mortally wounded —Corpls ACC duwcll, T L
Hitcher, Privates L 1) Beil, J A Collins, E G
Curlon, T F J Weldon, VV G Gipson
Severely wounded—Privates P T Bishop, Wm
Bay well. J M Davis. N T Gibson, C C Ham
mond, VV J caves, VV P Swinnett.
Siigb’ly wounded—Capt J W Adr ms. Lt J H
Co’ ].. Lt S A Bc*.t l , Lt E L Monily, Corpl
II T Mu Privates W 8 Brown, E Curlon,
•V ; .1, VV R Jester, J Moat, W J McGee,
U Hi Norris, J G Norris, J VV Parkins, VV J
Cr.eit.ird, J E Beal!, A Strickland.
COMPANY F—ElffiUT. C. TY PEARSON.
Killed—J F Martin, O A Garner, II M Lane,
. U Pinkerton, R Millirons.
Mortally wounded —Sergts VV H Monteith, J
H Pearson, Privates V Holliman, C Marchm tn,
G F Aehurt, J F Coker, II VV Lee.
Severely wounded —Lieut G G Green, Pri
vate* F M B iilcy, W H Ciopten, J VV Dennis,
** Vt'drons, J Marcliman, E N Macon, D ti
ti etc. ok, jr, P VV Ward, P F Baugh, II C
bi'gev. W vV Parohal'.
S'L i v wounded—Sergt Robert II Griffin,
Bitrhelor, S Cox, VV C Pinkerton,
, C R Sanford, J M Cox. J R Reuse.
. ■ —*3 R Fo ll *.
C IMPART G -CAPT. JOHN Ttt’lE.
Killed—Privates J Jones, R A Watson, J
V.wls, VV B -bop, J VV Post, R T C Ellington,
J R Mitchell, G R Shell.
Mortally wounded—Serg’t J N Hightower,
Privates R Mitchell, J L Whitlock, I S Pnil
lips, Jas Jones.
VVonncioft severely—Lieut Tlohort Matthews,
Corp’l J J Hundlev, Priva'es Jas J mes J Bti
lev, 8 Suddeth, M Jackson, B F News, R N
Watsoa, J Quick, J A Reaves, L Bird, W VVil
Ittnson. W Mimms, J Lewis, W II Vaugltn, P
Bishop, W Miners, T Davis, C C Goefman, II
Bowen.
Wounded slightly—Cant. J Htlie, Privates G
S Btriks, G W Handley, J Goddi y, J N Banks,
V H Vess is, T N Farr, J Campbell, M Black, S
Harden, J A Henie.
COMPANY H—LIEUT. ,T. tV. BUTLER.
Killed—W II Htrn. J C Bussy, W F Moct
gomerv. J A Jones, L Z Stroud, W N Kieg, N
T W.llobv. M I. Batiard, J VV Smith, J tl What
ley. R Payne, <J J Bneknlcau, ki H..l.jiea.
Mortally wounded—G VV Sullivan, WII Mob
ley
Severely wounded —Tfient. M R Beckman.
Lieut T C Kendrick, M P Butler, C L Pi ts, J
M Turner, J M Seoti, H C Kendrick, P T Btl
lard, W M Lvneh, J C Rogers, J n Carden, W
I Green. P A Puckett, J VV Sloan, J C Brand,
Robt Peters, A B Yluxey, W M Singleton, J C
Strickland, L E Taylor, II II Whaley, J J Ure
mer, G M dlican.
Wounded fdi irtlv—D L McClure, J H Story,
-H Parker, U Y B -ckni tn.
COMPANY I—CAPT. CUAS. W. ALLI3TON, (killed.)
Killed—M L Tomlin, D T White, G W Fuller,
D H Btiley.
Mortally wounded—P M Rvpe, S W McMul
lin, J T Morris, T E Wi-frey, A Reaves, F C
South. J B ii'ogaii.
Severely wounded—G 8 Bryan, J’V Brooks,
J C Dublin, Geo A Benvt r, W II Lewis. J L
Walker, J J Clack, W II Butler, R C Campbell,
Columbus M. Conk.
Slightly wounded—W M Cook, JI, Tlarkness.
W M Hubbtrd, T II K dly, G B Keen. VV G
Mann, J M McClelland, N.VI South, KNMor
ris, J G Hooteu, J W Ford.
company k—captain j. w. BECK, (slightly
wounded.)
Kiiied Privates S J Moore, R W Stephens, 8
L Meritt.
Wounded mortally—N A Turner, W J Jack
son
Wounded slightly—A W Wright, A R Boon,
W C Luddey, Ii Daniel, C T Leslie, J T Cross
ley.
EEC triTULATION.
Total killed inaction 71
Mortally wounded 44
Severely wounded 113
SlightD wounded 110
Missing 1
Total killed, wounded and missing 339
The regiment went into action at EdisonV
Mis with 514 men—one company having been
detailed as skirmishers. Oar i <*s wa- 62 killed
and 227 wounded It was in the engagement at
Gaines’Mill, but being favorably situated sns
tained .to lo=s. At Malvern H.ll our ioss was 9
killed and 30 wounded.
Addison W. Burnsides,
Acting Adj’t 44 it Ga. Reg’t.
Ac Artillery Plunge upon the Federal
Fleet.
| A little past twelve o’eD”k on Thursday
night, many of our citiz- n w -e awakened by
suiifin, rapid aud long-i Eti aai reportd < f
artiilery proceeding fr< m bui.. point east of the
city, on ihe James It was generally supposed
that the eric- v were making a night attack
upon Drewry’s Bluff, ar.d scarcely for a rn"inent
| hid one suppose that the battle was pr< j cted
jby our own men. The firing became !e>s rapid
| in the course of an hour, and by bait pa-t two
o’clock it had crated entirely. When morning
came the citizens were much excited to ascer
tain ihe meaning, circumstances and rts*ult of
the demonstration, and at length the truih leak
ed out and was followed up y ihe report iu de
la:! given >n oar telegraphic column, from Pe
tersburg. It seems that General Peaddon,
with several batteries of heavy acd light art 1-
lery, acting under orders, had secretly availed
hiuiv’il of a position at and below (JogginS
Point- five miles below City Point, command
ing the Federal fleet and their camp on the. op
posite (north) -ide of the river, and about the
hour above mentioned he let loose upon them,
with what result, in losses, it was impossible
to ascertain. A large number of transports
and several gnr.b its were in the stream at the
lime, an l the Federal camp was apparently of
considerable dimensions The gunboats re
plied feebly and without tff ct. Trie on'y and m
age to the Confederate side was occa-i med by
an accident to one of the guns. At diybreak
all of the vessels had di-app< ar . and, aud Uie Fed
eral ramp was in confusion. Tne i.ju-its to
the fl.-et, it is presumed, were com ira- veiy
slight, jet there is reastm tob-i veto-*- the
loss was not inconsiderable. The demonstra
tion filled the enemy with con-ternation, clear
ed the rivers’ t:.-u point of ucir pr. sence, and
; relieved Ihe inhabitants oi’ the continual dread
| and alum to which they .were subjected. We
i will, or course, have to awai Federal a -cunt
f ir a development A the casualties.—[Richmond
j Enquirer, 2*l inst.
Shoe Pegs.—Shoe pegs are manufactured af
! Ringgold, Georgia, by Mr. G. VV Kelly, iu
large quantities, to suppiy the trade aud ihoe
and boot-mak'-rs.
To a geu*le.aan, every woman u a lady, in
right ot her sex.
The Enemy Take lTiil.
RETURN OF CONFEDERATE PRISONERS.
Ihe North Hopeless, but Full of Kc
venge.
n-^ va^h Eei ' ui,,ican '
HIU I'r .ni us on y : 9 owCLT Bted
our uck t Th . 8 l< * tha smalmoss of
riven lhcm lcu '*e tan
Tha C nfederate prisoners coaflnt-d in tho Ka’ i,
eluding Buckner and 1 i gliman, have re.urned
and ars now in Richmond. Iho political prisoners ai
Fort Warren still r*main as prisoners.
'J ho prisoners stile that tho Worth has given up at 1
hope ot success, and prosecute the war out y iroin pride
and revenge.
Reeru ting, they say, is a dead failure at the Nor h.
A dralt is the only remedy, an 1 Uio g ,ver meat is
afraid of ih.L ’ There ar* many Binypaiii e/s with ite
South who begin to oppose any inrther pro.eculiou of
the war.
Thuriow Weed considers the prospect hopeless.
P. w. A;
[second and spatco I
KrcmiCND, August t> —a mong ihe prisoners return
ed a*e those taken at Fort Pidasai, and captain Bar
low's Company, captured in taevailty: atsj, Lieut,
Col. Towers, of the Eigata Georgia
_______ P. W. A.
FROM VIRGINIA.
ARRIVAL OF EXCHANGED PRISONERS
AT RICHMOND—SKIRMISHING IN VIR
GINIA—PERFIDY OF THE YANKEES
&c.
[Special despatch to Savannah Republican,]
Richmond, Aug. 7—Ab:ai three thou,and Cocfed
era’e prisoners have arrived here. The cffioi r.t ray
they were treated kindly at Ft rt Warren, but the mea
were forced to work on the f rufica.iuns at Fo.t Beta
wart).
The crews of the privatee s Petrel, Savar nah, Dixie
! tea regard, Jtff Davis and Sumter, 82 in all, have
j been returned.
; Pour hund e ! prisoners, mostly Northern born, were
released upon takii g an oath in violation o the cut !•
The enemy is active on both sides ■ f the James river,
and seemed disposed to advance from Fredericksburg!
There was consid rabie skirmishing ye-terd:y,. in
which the Confede atts are reported tuece-sful
The re.urned prisoners will join their commands,
P. W. A.
NEWS FROM TENNESSEE,
near t'mmbeilaad Gap
[Special despatch to the Savannah Republican ]
Knoxville, Aug. 6 —Heavy rkirmishing commenc
ed on iuesday with a large forco of the enemy, at
Tazewell, twelve mi es from Cumberland Gap. Qe -
eral btovens n's brigade was eng* ged, and bit move
ments designed to gain the enoiny’fi rear, and thus *ut
thorn oft irom the Gap. The artillery il i, g was very
heavy.
A Biittls at Tazewell, Taon.
iHE CONFEDERATES VICTORIOUS!
Assassination of Bi g. Gca. faswoll l
[Special despatch to the Savannah Republican.]
Knoxville, Tens., August 6-Several prisoners
have been brought in from Tazewell.
No particulars received yet of the fight.
Goa Ea'ns was maki. g a foroed march to gain the
ereony’s roar.
Brig flfn W. R Caswell was assassinated bv some
uckco an person, this afternoon, near his residence
sis miles from Knoxfi'-ks.
LATISS,
Knoxvillf, August 7 —l do-patch was received this
morning from Brig. G;n. Stevenson, which stales that
after a gallant engagement of four hours, yesterday,
near the town of Tazewell, the enemy were repulsed
with g-iat slaughter, end we;e in lull reheat
’I he carrier reports that .he Third Tennessee Ro?i
rrent took a battery of tour : une,. after being twice
repul3cd, with a loss of one hundred and nine (I(fl)
men.
Gen. Burton had succeeded in gaining tho enemy’s
rear a' Stevensoc, aud was being rti*.forced
A man was arrested last night U3 the murderer of
Gen Caswell.
A letter from Staunton says Washington porers had
been r ceived there, staling ihat Seer, taw 8 w rd had
resigned in order tiescupa the effect*’ 6l foreign in'er
vention, but ad I eeo ind.resMd r. consider Ihe step.
The letter also st tea tbt the loellng of Ihe North
was greatly depre.soU and anti-war nuui m.etings
w .re b tng hold
The Fight at Baton Rouge.
CiEN. UHECKINKIDBE’S REPORT,
Mobile, Aug, G—The Advertiser baa the following
despatch:
Jackson Miss , Aug G.—l am pe-mltted by General
Van Dorn to send you ihe following:
1)4 Mile from Raton Rouge, [
Augu tCth, lrio2 f
To General Van Dam :
Receiving a despatch that tho ram A knnsas would
co-operate, latlac ed Baton Rouge at daylight this
morning, with leas than three t lousand. After a strug
gle of five boors we droie tho enemy from all point! to
tho Arsenal and lower part of tho ci y r od t > the cover
of tho gunboats, faking a number of p is >n rs, several
fl gs and a considerable q lanl ty of property. My
diminished aodixhaueted fO’te eon and not taka the
Arsenal ad the troops almost perishing fir water, we
have withdrawn one mi e and a half Irom the city, ljut
h ipe to resume the attack in a half hour.
I think our loss has been as heavy as that of the
nemy. General Clarlto is morta !y wounded; Col.
Hunt oflhe&th Kentucky, Col. Thompson, of iht; 81
Kentucky, Col. Allen, ol the 4th Louisiana, and others
were seven ly wounded.
The effective face of the enemy exclusive of gun
and mortar boat', is reporel to us to b> S.OPO strong.
(Signed) John C. Beki kinrii qic,
Mi jor General.
It seems the Arkansas did not arr ve in time to take
part with our land forces, as was intended, although
she pest and Bayou Bara, which is aoout 80 mil“B above
Baton Bouge, at twelve o’clock on M'U ay night.
There are four gunboats and the r.m E sex at Baton
Bouge.
Orders have been received here to prepare for three
hundred wounded.
Gen. Van Dorn has removed his headquarterr to this
place.
Capture of th Federal Army of
East Tennessee.
[Special Despatch to the Savannah Bepnbl ean.
Knoxville, August 7—A despatch from General
Stevenson, at Taz well, says General Burton succeed
ed in gaining the rear of the enemy, aft r which Gen
ral Stsvensou, being reinforced, flanked General
Bowen’s command, and captured the eu!ire Federal
army of Ea-t Tennessee.
From Tenneesee.
Chattanooga, Aug 6—No hing of interest here.
Two deserters from Buell’s array, a-rived here to-day,
s y that Buell has McCook’s, Cri leaden’s, Wood’s
ad Eosseau’s di-isions, about 35,000 in all, at fcte
venson and Brid ep >r't. There is p enty of provisions
at Stevenson, and the tr > pa are on haf lati .ns at
Bridgeport They say that Buell is, in ividually, at
Wash rg on or Uuntsvilie. *
The Yanked! a e lorlifying Stevenson, and tearing
down ail the houses.
The vessel referred to In the following
statement was, in all probability the Reliance,
Capt. tfladdin, which sailed from the Georgia
coast not many weeks since:
A Chase —Ca-tain Eldridge, of the schooner Spirit
of thf Wind, which arrived rom i ondon yesterday,
reports having seen early on vjondav morumg the
smoke of a steamer under me and of Araco, and at 7
A M. made her out t" be a small tug;oat with two
tiers of cotton on deck Be aso saw a age screw
steamer givio chase, and continually firing at the
lormer. At 750 the small steamer crossed the bows of
the •'pirit of the Wind eleeri eg about 8. 8. W. The
larger ooat was then aimo-t b if a mile astern. Alter
Srmg another <hot, shr kept up the chase, and passed
s, n. ar the sch oi er. that Cip aiaE: ri ge distinctly
h ari the co'nmand eivcn: •‘When you are reedy then.
I torward, fir. •!” The fl ing and pursuit c nttnued till 9
A M.. when the srn .l b at, being apparen y struck,
was br night to. Boa s were then obse ved py ng be
twe n The two vessel! for about an hour, wneu they
bo.h bore away about We-t by B 'U’h. e- rew
steamer had the Amer can ensigu flying, the capt red
boat showed no flag The toys oi her paddle Boxes
were painted yellow, her hub was lead color, and she
lud no bulwarks —[Nassau Guardian, July 93.
The funeral ol tx President Van Boren was
largely attended. Gov. Morgan, ofNt-w York;
Hon. Goveneur Kemble, and others were
mourners at K nderbook on the occasion.
Negko But >aoe —it is earn that there is a
brigade of negroes in New York city, already
enrolled, wflicii can take the field within a
week.
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