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fit JlatJawml) •V'OL. IX. ~ TERMS: Daily >aper §8; Tri-Weekly &5; Weekly $2 60. PT” IN ADVANCE. _^i The Paper is always stopped, unless a remittance bo made to continue it. Timely notice is given, so that payment can be made before the expiration ot a sub scription. Saturday Morning, Sepd, 13, 18C3. Major Jefferson Buford died lately at his residence in Ciayton, Ala. Tie was a native of Chester, So. Ca. Brigadier General Toombs has been released from the arrest under which he was placed by Gen. Longstreet-. Cheap;—A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch says : “Small negroes are offered for sale in Norfolk at per head, and children at fl” John Rsss, the celebrated Chief of the Chero kee Nation, is said to have been arrested by the Yankee troops. The Ckerokoes are in alliance with the Confederacy. Vallandigham Expelled. —The Franklin .Literary Society of the Presbyterian College at •Cahi nsbnrg, Pa., where Valiandigham gradu a.ed, has recently expelled him by a unanimous vote. A decided compliment. Tiir “Blue Lights.”—Wc are authorized by Lieut. Col. Rockwell to say that the report of blue lights having been 6ent up iu the city some nights ago, is wholly untrue. It ia but just to ourselves to say that we made the statement on what we regarded as reliable authority. The Talladega (Ala.) Register poys that Hoc. John Bell, of Tennessee, who has been com pelleato leave h's borne in consequence of the occupancy of the Yankees, is at present so journing at Talladrgy. The Yankees have rob bed him of about. 40 negroes and SBO,OOO of other property. i he Ministry taking tub Field.— Rov. C. W. Howard, of Kingston, publishes a card calling upon citizens between the ages of 25 and 45 years to enroll themselves in a company, to bo commanded by himself, for the war. He says : “ Middle aged men, our time has cc-me; our country calls; shall we refuse to listen ? Our boys have dene their duty nobly. Let us, their fathers, now do ours.” Death of Col. James P. Hunt, of the 41h Florida Regiment.— It is with pain says the Atlanta Intelligencer, we announce the death of Col. James P. Hunt, of the 4th Florida Regi - ment in the Confederate service. This gallant and estimable gentleman and officer, died at Chattanooga, Tennessee, on the 3d instant, of disease contracted in the camps, the result of hardships and exposure attendant upon the soldier’s life. His retnaies passed through this city on tho 4th instant, en route to his own loved Florida home, Friday’s Ftan’r.—An interesting account os rthia battle near Groveton, furnished by a par ticipating officer to tl 3 Richmond Dispatch, will be found in our columns. It was among the finest in tho series, and for a long time the result was doubtful, it being nine o’clock at night before tho enemy could bo driven from his position. Gun. Lawton, we see, was in this fight with his gallant brigade. Ho is repre sented, by passengers from Richmond, to have won new and still brighter laurels for hitnself and command. Evacuation op Fhedeiucksisuko. —Tie Richmond papers announce tho departure of the Yankee army from Fredericksburg, Sunday night last. Before leaving, they destroyed all their Btores of every description and set fire to the bridges river the Rappahannock. Large fires were visible during the entire night on the opposite side of the river, in Stafford county, where their extensive depots of provisions, commissary stores, barracks, Icnia, &e , Were turned. Prospect op tub Speedy Evacuation op Nashville.—Wo have information, says tho Chattanooga Rebel of tiro G.h inst., which we regard as authentic, that the Y mkeua are haul ing their siege guns from Nashville, iu the di rection of Tyree Springs (the old stage road t> Louisville) by ox teams. This movement indi cates tho speedy evacuation of tho capital of Tennessee by the despised tyrants who have, for several months now, lordeu i! over the free men of Middle Tennessee. Thanksgiving. —The whole couutiy will unite iiwrcspondlng to tho recommendation of tho President for ,a day of thanksgiving and prayer for the recent success of our arms and tho promising Indications that cheer us In con • tcmplating the faiurc of our new republic. Grout as are the lavors already vouchsafed to us, we fcopo by the IS b to have additional cause of gratitude in the fail of Washington aud the re demption of Maryland from tho grasp of the oppressor. Covering for tub Sick Soldiers. — We hope our country friends will read tho article under this head on car second page, aud promptly furnisji all the aid in their power. Almost every family can do something, and each will cou:-ider the appeal addressed special ly to itself. Ii only a singlo blanket, comfort or counterpane can bo spared, send it along, and without delay. Addressed to the editor ol tlds paper, aud marked Hospital Supplies, it will reach ns free of charge. Export op Cotton. —We again invito the attention of Congress to the unlawful and in t jurlous trade which continues to be carried on with the Yankees by means ol vessels that run the blockade with cargoes of cotton. It is still going on, and we are convinced that nine-tenths of the exports go directly into the hands of the enemy to build up and sustain his manufactur ing interests, which have plundered ar.d other wise wronged us most. The exportation of 'Totton should be entirely prohibited under a penalty of confiscation to the govenr.nent. Come al Last.—Yesterday’s mail brought ns throw long letters from our correspondents on i tho battle field in Virginia, but they reached us too late to appear in our country edition. They are accompanied by reports ot losses in a.num her of Georgia regiments, one of which will be found on this page. The remainder* with one of the letters, WM be given in our second or city edition. From a glance over the reports referred to we are pleased to sea that while tho wounded are quite numerous, the number of persons killed outright is unusually small. General Lbs —The commander ia-Chief ot tho Confederate army has achieved, says the Richmond Dispatch, uew renown by the splen did combinations which have resulted in an other crushing defeat of the Federalist*. As mode*l and unpretending as the Yankee Uece als are boastful aud lalso, he quietly permits r suits to speak for him, aud those results prove him one of the greatest military leaders of modern times. Wo congratulate the country that it has at the head of its armies this cairn .■. If-poUmd, consummate soldiery-one who both as a G- neral and gentleman is a worthy repre- "tiHiiva ot the glorious South. From Washington.—' The Richmond Exaud. n>r of the 3d *sys: Gentlemen who left Wash ington on Saturday night last reached this city yesterday morning. They bring surtliug in i lUgcncc. Tlu-y say when the defeat of the Northern army was known in Washington, both the eilixens and the authorities were thrown into the wildest and most awful panic, and all jK'twons of secession proclivities btcamb at once blatant. Everybody * hurrying to and fro in hot haste, and everything was in confu sion. They also assert positively that the Long Bridge and the Aqueduct over the Potomac had been blown up to impede the advance ol the eou&cra armies. Xlio Elsb*!* Georgia at Flanagans. The glorious Eighth Georgia, which suffered so severely in the first battle of Manassas, in July, 1801, were again on liaud in the recent battles on the same ground ar.d suffered’ quite severely, their gallant bearing conferring addi tional lustre on a name t; at was alreailymislor ical. A private despatch r ceivcd in this city, cays the Eighih lost tl.'iy-sx ni-n in killed and wounded in the late battles. Lieirenaiit Col onel Towers was wounded. Maxey Boston, of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, of Savannah, was killed; Lieutenant Hardwick, Sergeant Law, Privates Baldy, Zettler and Eorler, of the same c rnpany, were wounded. Captain Bowson, of Greene county, was wounded ; Capt. Phinizy, of Augusta, wa killed; Captain Halsey, mor tally wounded. News from the West — If the Yankee report of the capture of Louisville, by Kirby Smith, be true—and we have very little doubt of if.— the day of Kentucky’s disenthra’ment has arrived. The few Federal forces in Northern Kentucky are wholly inadequate to a successful resistance, and will probably make good their escape across the Ohio as best they can. Buell can never reach the State except through the grossest mismanagement on the part, of our generals commanding in Tennessee, and hence we may reasonably consider the reign of the Lincoln tyranny over gallant Kentucky as at an end. Wo have never questioned the ultimate des tiny o? ihe Stale, or that it would be decided by the opinions and sentiments of the people. A very large majority of them were in favor o' up holding the Union so long as it was practicable, but in the event of a permanent dissolution, a still larger majority have* - & 11 along betii ready to give their heart and hand to the Southern Confederacy the very first moment they should be free to think and act for themselves. Up to this time Federal bayonets have overawdd everything like independent thought and ac tion. But the advent of a victorious southern army, followed by the dispersion of her oppres sors, will strike the fetters from her lirnb3, and allow her to take her own position in the future geographical relations of the country. We should hold Kentucky by military force til! the close of the war,for one or the other of the belli gerents is obliged to be in possession, but after the declaration .of peace the State should be left to her own election as regards the government to which she is to belong. True, we have al ready admitted her into our Confederacy, but it was an informal matter in which the people had no opportunity of expressing their senti ments, and as we profess to a governent of choice and not of force—lndeed, our revolution itself is based upon the principle—we would leave her to a free and untrammelled expression of her wishes, the result to be law both for her and for us. The Richmond Mail. —We have information that convinces us that the failure of the Rich mond mail to pass Charleston in time, is not owing to neglect at the Charleston postoffiee, bnt to the obstinacy on the part of Railroad companies. The mail from the North i3 due at Charleston just fifteen minutes after the depar ture of the Savannah mail, and they only come through when the Northeastern ears arrive in advance of time. It is the came case with the mails going North ; the Savannah cars arrive an hour and a half after the departure of the Northeastern cars. Is this not abominable ? What i3 to be thought of a department that tolerates such irregularities—such utter disregard of the pub lic interest and convenience? We are assured that the Government has been appealed to over 'and over again, and up to this time has taken no effective steps to correct so crying an evil. Whilst Congress is appointing its special com mittees of investigation, we suggest that it ap point one to look into the abuses of the post office. There is hardly a community in the Confederate Stales that is not suffering from the gross inefficiency of tho head of that depart ment. The grossest disregard of public con venience is tolerated without a word of protest, and a thousand annoyances have been suffered until the whole country is almost unanimous for the resignation of Mr. Reagan. 1 fill he re sign ? For one we hope ho will. Whilst on the matter oi 'irregularities, we would again urge upon tho proper authorities tho unreasonable detention of the mails at Au gusta. Ail matter between the Central Rail road and offices on the branches of the Georgia road lies over, both ways, near twenty-four hours. This irregularity could bo remedied with little cr no inconvenience to the roads re ferred to, and 'Wo hope the necessary eteps will be taken without further delay. Superintendent’s Office, ( Engineer’s Deparment. $ Mr. Editor: To check various and unjust and false reports that have had general circulation in the State in relation to the hands engaged on the public defences around Savannah, 1 request you to publish the reports of the Surgeon aud Assistant Burgeou employed. I unhesitatingly 1 endorse their reports. We have not lost a sin gle, negro by death, nor have we had a single one shot or otherwise injured. Onr negroes ai'e in comfortable tents and get full soldiers’ miens. T. A. Parsons, General Superintendent. Oglethorpe Barracks, Savannah, Ga., ) Engineer’s Department, C. S. A , Surgeon’s Office, Sept. 6,1862. ) To Dr. T. A. Parsons, General Superintendent of the forces engaged on fortifications around the city of Savannah. Dear Sir: It is with feelings of pleasure that I at this time, in connection with my Assistants, nnke my report iu reference to the health of the negroes now eng- ged at work upon the defenses around the city of Savannah. We. have about two thousand (2,000) hands at walk, while our sick each day numbers about one hundred and fifty 1.150.) Our duties iu attend ing to the sick are arduous, for they require and receive our constant and undivided care and attention at all times. Onr labors have been Yciy successful, for as yet wa have not lost a single ease. No negro has died under our car 6 since tho commencement of the work, and at this time there is not a dangerous ease amor.g any oi the hands in either hospital or at any of the camps. And sir, we would take this oppor tunity of thankirg you for the prompt manner in which you have had all our calls auswered for medicines aud for hoeplt.il accommodations, which are now ample. To Gen. Mercer and to Capt. McCrady we feci grateful for the kindly interest manifested by them in their official capacity for the welfare oi the negroes under our charge. With respect, we are yours, truly, Horatio N. Uoi.lifield, M. D., Surgeon in charge; T. J. Parsons, M. 1)., i E. S. Aldrich, M. D„ t Ass - s - anl Express Freight.— By a recent change of time iu the forwarding of freight by the Sou-h --em Express Company, a messenger leaves each day (Saturdays excepted) on the 2:30 p. m. train for Macon, and Columbus, carrying all way and through freight— connecting at iiiilen with a messenger for Augusta. A messenger also ? leaves op. Monday, Wednesdays, aud Fridays on the 0.50 p. m. train, carrying ail freight (except way) received alter the departure of the 2:30 train, aud connecting at Milieu with the Au gusta messenger. This change goes into effect immediately, and w-.il prove a great public con venience. Fobtews Mo.vxos rr.Ri'ASiso ros as Ajtacx A Fortress Monroe Setter to the w York Tr.buno dated Wednesday, August*;, ray*: Forneuae t.me rast it has been in'.in-a ed that u or.ter wud* ea to out reqni.itw ail baiWin** eu:> cf the or.reee to b-pulled dewburn, . r other- I*. deHrojed. Noe®* relieved such a prveedinx able: i rTetlhe'es.-, 1 rial* oo she authority of Gee. Dtx to the Hen. Joseph Segir. lhAl all ih:s i* seneusiy •nlen pitted, harin* been reooißAßeudeJ by hto and , endorsed by Gen. McClellan: SJ".. born other *ouee | i under*lai and shat tile order for the Cestrueuon of up* 1 i roper;j ha* bees actually received here from W ash | UftWh. S^XTTTIR.ID.AIY, SEPTEMBER 13; 1862; [For the Savannah Republican.] Mess Beef and Mess Fork Indcitendeut of gpec-nlators and Starving l*ricea. “ Let there he Plenty throughout the Land." Mr. Editor: Kiel fail this State, as well as the Government, gave out contracts for several thousand barrels of ife-s Beef for the army ; and there was a grand rush to get the contracts by parties who had no knowledge of the pack ing business, and- to my own personal knowl edge, some of them lied never before put up a barrel of beef in their life. Yet they took the ecu tracts, under the belief that all it required was to put the meat iu barrels, salt and pickle it- By eo doing they would make theirpi’e out of the Government. (I regret to record the fact that many of them succeeded in their designs.) The majority of it was put up in whisky barrels, and all of it was put up with Liverpool Salt. The re sult was, that most of It spoilt within three weeks after it was put up. {That which the Government had paid for, if probably lost, and that which it had not, the contractors lost. I was told from good authority, and the in formation came from a Government official in the Commissary Department of this State, that over 300 barrels of this beef was buried near this city last fall, and hundreds of barrels was treated the same way elsewhere. Thousands of as line and fat cattle as ever grazed upon the hills and fields of our country, were last fail taken to the slaughter pens, and there sacrificed to satisfy the speculator’s greed for gain. Thousands of bushels of salt were destroyed for the same cravenous desire. Here was more provisions than would have fed our army for a year to come, yet scarce fifty barrels but of all this immense supply ever reached its intended purpose. Oh, what a sacrifice! A disaster which should long be' refhembered in the history of our young Confederacy, and God grant that we may never record so shameful an event, such an utter disregard of His bountiful blessings as to let it occur again ! God has blessed ns this year with a bountiful supply of all kinds of grain; He will also bless us with a plentiful supply, of prov'slon?, if we will but be wise r,rul cautious. We have the means at our hands to feed our people end an at my five times as large es curs if we will also use economy and discretion. And it is the duty of our p’anteis and fanners that they should not dispose of their cattie to these contractors and speculators, unless such persons can show their contract , with proof that they are respon sible parties, and capable of putting up good meats. If they cannot do that, then I say let your cattle run in the field, or pack them up yourselves. I here give you the receipt and proper process whereby you can put up the best kind of pickled meats. And the govern ment as well as the people will pay yon a good price for it. It is a duty you owe your country, and your brave sons, who arc spilling their blood upon the battle field to shield the very ground which these speculators and ourselves stand upon. Humanity demands that you should, to the best of your ability', do ail iD your power to prevent a repetition of last year’s wastefulness. Yet there are many among us whose, patriotism lies in their pockets, beneath their hoarding and coveted gold, who care not how soon our cation crumbles beneath a starv ing people, so long as it fills their pockets with ill gotten gold. To such we should look upon with contempt, for they are sure to go down to perdition. The following is the Northern method of putting up Mess Beef and Mess Pork, and I sincerely hope that our people will at once set about securing a large quantity of this article, which they have for so many years been depen dent upon the North for: TO I’UT UP MESS BEEF AND SIESS PORK. In killing you should have your arrangements so that alter stunning the heave by knocking him in the head, you can hoist him np by the hind feet, leaving only his head resting upon the groirnd ; by so doing, when the thorax is cut, tho blood will all mu out. It is a very bad policy to kill cattle on the ground, as it leaves so much blood in the meat which dries there, and comes oat into the brine after being packed a short time. In cutting np the fore and hind quarters, strip off all the surplus fat and tallow, then cut in pieces from 10 to 15 pounds each. The curnels must all be taken out; they will be found in the fat parts of the shoulder under the shoulder .blade and ia the nock of the fore quarters. In the hind quarters they are in the udder and centre of the round. Be sure that yeruget all the curnels out, as they arc sure death to beef in this climate. Rub the pieces thoroughly with salt, and place them on some boards to let tho blood run off. Allow them to remain so two days, then pack them in a hogshead with a sprinkling of salt to each layer, till it is three-quarters full, then fill it up with pickle,* putting a pressure on top to keep the meat below the surface of the brine, otherwise it will become very rusty and mouldy; let them remain this. way for three weeks or more, then take the pieces cult and place them so as to drain, allowing them to remain so for five or six hours. They arc then packed in barrels capable of holding two hundred pounds solidly packet, with a free sprinkling of coarse Turk’s Island Salt to each layer, then head the barrels up and fill them with pickle through the bung. The incat is then ready for mark t, provided the'bavre’s arc sound and perfectly water-tight. I have been thus particular in describing this process, because Beef is the most difficult meat to cure and preserve, as it requires more than salt and pickle to save- it. Smoked Beef is treated in the same way, ex cept that it is sent to the smoke house after being taken out of the pickle, and smoked ten days or more. Beef Tongues are treated the same. It was my intentiou to give the process of putting up Dry Salted Meats, but when I came to consider the amount of salt that it would require, and the incapability of our sea-'-oast Salt for that purpose, I find that it would be too expensive to onr planters at this present time. ♦This pickle is made as follows: To 20 gallons of water, add 70 lbs of the tea court Salt, (if Liverpool Salt, half tho quantity); add 7 lbs. of the cheapest kind oi Sustar; add X lb. Saltpetre and X 18. Salera tusor Bt-earbSoda. Put them in a largo kettle and boil by a btisk fire, keeping it well stirred till tho sruui commences to rise, then altim the seem off till it ceases to rise, alter which it should be put m a barrel to ceoi. t' he pickle which remaffis in the barrel wiTbe Vf blood, and ehou and be immediately re'roiled ver, tak ing the scum and blood off as Lsi as it rises to the top. When the scam erases to rise the pickle will become very clear. It is then carefully dipped out, as a great part of the blood adheres to lhe side and bottom of the kettle, and should be kepi from mixing with ihepick.o again. The person botdug this pickle will be aston is ,ed at seeiug the amount o' blood that comes out o it. This pickle is then poured into packed barrels. Respectfully, yours, ■Westphalia. Running the ’Blockade.—The Wilmington Journal has the following : Did it ever strike anybody that if a steamer with aa "assorted cargo” of Yankee goods, taken in at Nassau, attempts to run the block ade, she generally does; and it the steamer takes out cotton to Nassau, to be immediately taken thence to New York or Boston she some how slips out without the bloekaders seeing her. But let a vessel have a cargo on board that does not come irorn Yankee land, and the blockaders are wide-awaKe, and she is gone for certain ; or let her try tc run out with cot ton r.ot intended for the Yankee market, and she is bound to be picked up. J ost keep your eyes open and see ii this thing is not about so. It is time that this kuowledge should be realiz ed and acted upon. We do not accuse our citi zens of an aecomplicily with Lincolndom—we know that generally they are incapable of such a thing—but we do thick that the Yankee agents do connive at this sort of thing. By means of their consuls they know precisely what cargo a vessel takes on board, and they act aceoidingly. Major General Buckner has been assigned to the third grand division ot the army The fol iowieg is a list of his staff officers : Mfjor Cos Y-A A.G.; M. jor Hays, chief quartermaster; Aiajor \\micrauiitb, thief commissary; Bar medical director; Mejor V. She- Tcmokj a Sui r :° lanlCCr Majors Casualties In tho ITilt Cooif.Su Regi ment, 'JTooinisK’ Eiilgad.") 1m Ac tion oi tlie SOU* August, 18*6:1, Hrjor J. A*. (!(mimait<!les* [ fl crr! b; ondenca of the Savannah IN-jiuMic-n 1 FIELD AND STAFF. Killed —None. Wounded —Major J. J! Pickett, Severely in left side. COM i ANY A—LIEUT. MONK, COMD’O. Killed?—Private R. M. Cole. Wounded--Lieut. J. R. King, slight!) ; Cor poral J. ft. ILurall; Corporal It. Kf-lpwery; Private G. M. Champion, mortally;"A. Fields, in thigh; W. J. King, in should.!' ksd thigh. Missing—Daniel Morrow, J. BrigkiawD. COMPANY Ji— 11. L. FRENCH, COMfl'li Killed—Private Wm. Purvis. Wounded—Lieut. R. P. Tcwder; Lerg’t F. M. Mott, severely in head; Serg’t J; H. Col quitt, severely in groin ; Private J. H. Brassil, finger; O. C Chamberlain, slightly in : .’rehead; B. Fiucb, in arm ; Alex. W. Smith, car troußly in cheSt; B. Tatham, slightly ip loin liSpjTison, arm broken ; A. J. Varnadore, raortariy .through bowels; J. S. L. Waldrop, in both antts; Wm. Pryor, in face, severely; L. M. Black, id finger. My men acted bravely, especially :f.:o noble youth Purvis, who fell also. I must mention the praiseworthy actions of SergeantS'Mott and Colquitt, together with privates Clf.ti:, Tison, Varnadore, Finch and Smith. 11. L. French, Captain Comd’g. Cos. B. COMPANY C—CAPT. .IAS. IS. MOOP.E, CCjJD’O. Killed—Privates B. P. Shaw and Jasper J. Culpepper. M Wounded—Serg’t. J. ,H. Lawre: and thigh spCqrp’l/Ma'h ! v 'tißTy'; Privates J. F. Lowe, In tfiigh; Titos. J. Majors, in neck; Jefferson Culpepper, in left hand. My entire company fought gallantly; firing every round of ammunition in their boxes. Private B. P. Shaw was severely wounded in the head, and it was with great difficulty that he was persuaded to retire. lie afterwards en deavored to rejoin his company, when he was again shot through the head and instantly kill ed. J.J3. Moore, Capt. Comd’g. Cos. C. co. d—lt. h. wilmot comd’g Kiikd—Corporal Edward Georgs and O. 11. Johnson. Wounded —Ist Serg’t J. H. Martin iu arm; Serg’t A. D. MeKinzie, slightly; Corporal J. T. McNair, severely in arm; Corporal J. M. Lewis, in hand ; Privates W. C. Blanset, in face; B. 11. Gainous (since dead); Abraham Gaineua, in leg; M. W. Johnson, in foot; G. W. Messer; Harry Messer, severely. Missing—H. W. Parrott, J. B. Reynolds, J. L. Wilkerson. Cos. E. was r.ot engaged iu the fight, as the Company had been sent out the evening before as skirmishers, under command of Lt. Byrd. Capt. J. 4- McGregor was acting Lt. Col. of the regiment. CO. F—CAPT. P. W GETTING EK COMD’g. Killed—Setj’t J. B. Aguero. Wdunded—Sergeant M. M. Clarke, slightly; Sergeant J. Hogue, slightly in shoulder; Pri vates 11. Fowler, T McDonald, P, Wry, T. Holloman. My Company went iuto action with 24 men and two commissioned officers. I cannot close this report without mentioning the efa’-lantry of the men, especially Private Georgs Hail. D. W. Gettingek, Capt. Comd’g Cos. E. CO. G—CL-.PT. A C. JONES COMD’G. Killed—Capt. A. C. J.mes. Wounded —Serg’t T. T. Thornton, thigh broken ; Private W. A Thornton and R W. Hays, in leg and kip ; Cleveland, in ankle ; A. T. Smitzer, in side and hand ; J. Colton, in head ;U. Colton, in breast.; A. Shifllifs, through hip ; H. Richards: n, hand and arm; T. Bam-- berg, in foot; J. 11. Holliday, leg broken; J. Tabb, in ankle ; 1). G. Kennedy, in bead; W. G. Montgomery, in hip; Lieut J. O. Talbot, in leg ; Private W. J. Taylor, in leg. Carried into action 75. Total killed, 1; wounded, lii —17. COMPANY II—CAPT. W. A. HARDEN, COM’DO. Killed —Corp’l John F. Davis. Wounded—Corp’i J. M. Thornton, in hand ; Privates C. C. Layfield, !n shoulder; M. C. Liylield, iu leg. In closing his report, Ct-i t. Barden says: “ I must mention the gallantry qt Color-Corporal John F. Davis, who fell w hile in advance of Ua regiment.” COMPANY I—LIEUT. J. B. PICKETT, COM’DG. Killed—Private 11. C. Applewhite. Wounded—Corporal Mayo, mortally ; Corp’l Wheeler, thigh, slightly; Privates S. 11. Dar den, bowels; T. Lipfcy, hand; T. Wallace, slightly in thigh; G. Gordey, in bowels; R. F. Henry, in head; M. Massey, in back; F. Nevels; W. Pearson, in hand; J. G. Crausors, in leg. Carried into action, 23 ; casualties 12. COMPANY K—LIEUT. M. H. MARSHALL, COM’DG. Killed—None. Wounded —Lieut. M. 11. Marshall, in hip; Serg’ts Goan, in head; Holloman, in arm; Crymes, in hand; C .rp’l Passmore, iu ehoul der; Privates Wm. Allen, in arm; Homer Bell, in leg; G. P. Byrd, mortally, Henry Da vis, in hand ; S. J. Goss, in hand ; W. Herring ton, in hip; Wm. Warwick, in arm; Henry Vinson, in face. Private George Byrd has since died. The above are the cam: dues in the Seven teenth Georgia Regiment. (J^ 1 . Benuing was in command of the Brigade, and Major Pickett in command of the Regiment. The regiment went into action with 2SO men. J. R. Mott, Adj’t 17th Ca. Reg’t. IClrby Smith's* Rattles near Richmond, Kentucky. (From tho Kncxvillo Itcgi:tcr, 3JL The following highly fitter--Ming letter is from a very worthy source, m.d is eatitled to the utmost credit: Gen. Smith and Caff mounted their horses at seven o’clock Saturday morning, ar.d moved to the front some eight miles, to where our forces arrived last night. Just before reaching the place the enemy attacked us, opening with ar tillery,and iu about an hour the infantry opened; iu less than an bonr we drove them from their position, with great slaughter on their tide, we taking many prisoners. Oar loss quite heavy, especially iu officers. We moved on about two miles beyond Roecrsville, at which place the firs: fight oceu red, aud- ionnd them again in position, when we made the attack, and the second time drove the in from their position with stiil greater loss both in killed, wounded and missing, with smaller loss on our side. This second fight occurred about two or three o'clock, and our troops having marched some eight miles, and having no water except a little taken from the stagnant pools along the road, and seeing the enemy again preparing to re ceive ns, we halted our men and gave them several hours’ rest. Everything being ready, a 6hort march brought us within sight of Rich mond, where the enemy made a third stand, when we moved on and attacked them the third time. Alter herd fighting we routed them, and drove them through the place a little before sundown, in utter confusion. In this last fight we did not lose many men, but we captured from 1,200 to 1,500 prisoners, besides their killed and wounded. After we bad whipped them in front and started them running. Col, , wit h his command, who had been sent around on the Lexington road to catch them, keeping Lis command in ambnsh until the retreating army came up, attacked them and succeeded in capturirg and killing nearly the whole army, taking ail their guns and some ten pieces of artillery’, with all their wagons, stores, etc. It is estimated that their killed, wounded and missing will reach seme 10,000, while curs will not reach more than from 3to 500 killed and wounded. Their loss in killed and wounded officers is very heavy. The troops were from Ohio. Indiana and Kentucky, and commanded by General Ball Nelson—CoL Cassius M. Clay commanded a brigade. Gen. Smith commanded onr trooj>s, and by hard fighting and the blessing of God, we destroyed their hue array, lt was a grand sight to see bur ill-clad, and sometimes barefooted troops, with rojoed and but Rule water, marehing with a steady irons ca their splendidly tquiped foe. It was one of the grandest tattles' I ever saw. It filled oar hearts with pride to see our men move onward and never give away. Giory be to God on high for the splendid result. General Smith and staff escaped unhurt. She patties In Tlj-gl/ula. '•’he nows and details bo eagerly and anxious • ly i..;p<;c'ui, ; till linger on tuo way. Instead of repeating nil the vague and con tradictory rumors of the Virginia journals, wc have (alien soma pains 1 o r,-fleet and present the most interesting re-pom from each. The Lynchburg K-publican, a paper which has often given news tho'.'would he good if true, says in its issue of Wodm-sda : That obr victory was a meat signal one, and the rout of the enemy to'al and complete, ad mits of no deiid-t But that.!his glorious-result was atbdm-d -■ •> '■ arful of life, aodtbc loss of many of tho n<. st am! brav< st spirits of the Southern army is, alas ! but too true. Oar losses in the fight of' Saturday, it is sup posed, with reach ten thousand, and of these three thousand were killed. Our informant, an officer who participated in the fight, says the ground was covered with the dead. In many places they lay in heaps, and in one particular snot in an open field,* through which our men charged upon a battery of the enemy, he could walk over the dead for tho - pace of fifty yards. On- the enemy’s side, the losses are supposed to be aticast twice as great as ours, exclusive o prisoners, whom the officer above mentioned 1 thinks .did not exceed four thousand, taken during the light; though they were being cap tured each moment in their flight. He was in the battle of the 21st of July, and describes the ront of the enemy on Saturday as far more dis astrous than that. Our cavalry charged them at every step in their retreat, and slaughtered them until it became a butchery. Night put an end to the bloody scene, and cur men biv ouacked in the open fluid, to renew the pursuit on Sunday morniug. The retreat of the enemy was being urged to wards Lura*r, <?) every other avenue cf escape being cutoff. But little chance, it was thought, was open to them on that route, and our in formant thinks that before this, in all probabili ty, the army of Pope has ceased to exist, and ’kre-j-wr capture;.' lt Ts stated that Pope had about one hundred and' fifty guns, and it is not thought ha saved twen ty of them. They, however, were, many of them, rendered unfit for use before being aban doned by the enemy. The whole battle field was strewed with small arms of every descrip tion, and overcoats and blankets almost innu merable. The fight, as we stated yesterday, was near the Sudley Church, and nearly upon the same ground of the memorable conflict of last year. The Republican also mentions a report, pro nounced reliable, that on Sunday our forces were sixteen miles from the battle field, on the Leesburg road, in rapid pursuit after the foe. The Richmond Dispatch says : We have been permitted to make some ex tracts from a ’private letter written at Gaines ville Saturday n ; ght, at ten o’clock. Tim writer says: _ “We arc agai i victorious on the classic plains of Manassas. This morning we were serious, hut not uneasy. Wc fought and won yesterday, but heard of immense reinforcements to the enemy during the night, while ours could not come up in time to participate in to day’s fight. But it began, and to-night while I write, the enemy are fleeing end our troops after them. Eo the combined armies of Pope, McClellan and Burnside are driven inglorionsly from the lieid. Several of their regiments were cut o pieces, and in ten minutes all but three of the Ist Pennsylvania were killed or wounded. Kemper’s division of our army captured three batteries; Hood’s division passed over th -r pieces of artillery; General Jenkins, of So h. Carolina, was wounded; Col. Skinner mor I'.v wounded, and many others whose names I \v not learned. They on (numbered us, by t heir own accounts, tv m’.v three to one. Anders n’e division slightly i-ng-rc.l this aiternoo.-. “The light did rot conir-i-nce not'd 4o’e! >’• and even nowoeca-ion.div 1 c..- h:or tbebt'-m ing of big guns coni’> g k on ho air as they harass the r. f rent ins cm The pa -■ b< • '-.-a train,yt- o-- day, wore familiar -i s. facts beyond w has already been laid before the public. A usual, they came freighted with reports col lected at Gcrdonsville during the short stay of the. train at that point. Tb£ real position of the two armies was not known, though it was stated that the enemy, when !r--t heard from, were rapidly retreating in the direction of Oc coqaan, and our forces hotly pursuing. A large body of our army was at Fall’s Church, whilst Stuart’s cavalry was represented to have reach ed Alexandria Up to a late hour -'n Wednesday night the War Department had received no additional information. One account states, that the loss in General Jackson’s corpa is estimated at from 000 to 800 killed and wounded. Tho 6th Virginia regi ment is reported to have lost one-half the men they had engaged. On Thursday afternoon tho positions of Gcn ers’a Jackson and Ewell were near Sudley Church, their right resting on Groveton, and their left to the old battle field of Manassas. About 5 o’clock the enemy, under McClellan, advanced by the Warren ton road, when our artillery opened upon them. An engagement of two hours ensued, when the enemv were driven from the field and beyond the Warren ton turnpike. The Examiner, in its editorial reference, says: If our Generals were Yankees, we might sup pose the battle to have been doubtful; but it is not the custom of Southern gentlemen to pub lish untruths for effect, and as the official des patch declares the victory to have been “sig nal,” we. may accept it as each without the shadow of a doubt. Rumor goes far beyond the despatch. From one side wc hear that the Confederates hold Alexandria; from another, that. General Jackson lo in Washington, and has established his headquarters in that city. But we have yet to see the leant tangible evidence in confirmation of either report. Indeed, they bear improbability on their f . 8o far as we now know, the troops engn <*d -* Manassas last ! week were those of Jackson, E h Longstreet j and A. P Hill. If there were otli-iT. we have j not heard of them. It is probable large bodies ! of troops intended ler action on there fields, , could not have reached their positions before Monday. No doubt, had they been there, thorn battles would have decided the fate of Pope’s army and of Washington eitj T . But whise the despatch declares the victories to have been signal, it do- : not state that thcyjrere thus de ei-ive, a: it no ffi-übt would have, done had they been so. Under these circumstances, wc are j compelled to the conclusion that the dcci- j sive battle is yet to bo fought. That no new3 i of a snb-maiicnt fight has transpired, is good , news. Time is thu3 gained lor the arrival of i the whole array; and we confidently expect j that the next issue of arms will be the most impoitaut ever tried on this continent. In its news columns the Examiner gives the foliov.ing: The battle was begir • n‘ t ; o’clock in the afternoon, Jack command of the left wing, rested his extreme left on Hull Han, at Union Mills; Longstreetin the centre, faced M tnasef*b Junction; while our left, under A. P. Hhl, stretched away towards Thoroughfare Gap. The battle was began on the left, but in p. few moments became general, and rr.. ed with unexampled fury until near night fall, when the enemy giving way, were pursued on all sides with great slaughter. Having retrc.af-.-d a distance of two miles, the enemy suddenly and vtfry unexpectedly halted and j cured • mur derous volleys of artillery mlmu ’: - into our lines that our advance :-s checked. At ibis juncture, darkness comitg on, there was an end ot ti • conflict. Oar noops occupied t i-it i• h e eround tb- y hv.i taken from*the enemy. T x. mm . u-th • combat was re t e*'d. -i : • uU r two hours, but with what result ■•••■ '• r ■•ahif- to learn. Our 103s in the h .- f Satnrdiv ' loosely estimated at ten thr u- liu-n toy’sthought to be floubie that nu;: 1 . < tar‘informant says, that file two miles over which we porsu and the enemy were red wit.- ... .. and : Zou aves. We took several , all of whom were said dei the next morning, and allowed to proeetyl through cur lines to Washington. Auioi..: h pris oners were some raw recruits who had been in the service tcu days. Oar informant thinks the fores of the enemy out-numbered us two. to one. The enemy retreated towards the Poto mac in the direction of Occoqoan. By the latest reports from the army we learn that General Ewell, having suffered amputation of his leg, is doing well. Pope was wounded in the thigh, and Sickles certainly killed. We are believed to have cap tured over eighty pieces of cannon, many of them rifle pieces. Another battle is thought to have been fought Wednesday in the neighborhood of Manassas. The Examiner, of course, sees Gen. A. P. mil always iu the lead of every action. The Enquirer tells ns that the right was command ed by Gen. D. H. Hill, as will be seen in the following summary : Our army having previously “headed off” the Federal army under Pope, had possession oi Manassas Plains, Centreville and a post 6ome eight or ten miles east of the Manassas Junc tion, f.-rmieg the segment of acitcie, the design of which was to force Pope back—deprive him completely of direct communication with Washington or Alexandria, and eventually indnoe bis surrender or annihilation. But it ap pears that McClellan, by a circuitous route, striking south, and then west from Alexandria, succeeded in iorming a Inaction with Pope.— The Confederate army now fronted to the south, j and the Federal arm v'towards Washington. The advance corps from "Burnside was marching off rapidly from Fredericksburg to . ~ amSr.Binent tut tho Federal title. Geu. Jackson commanded the lei! (-••; ■) w j !;f . ot the Confederate army, Gen. D. 11. Jhli the right resting on the Wurrenton/J urnpiire, and Generals Longstreet, Anderson and others form ing the centre. The battle, as stated by us on yesterday, com menced oa onr light, the enemy making the attack. Burnside’s advance forces, reaching Use ground in good time, rendered the resis tance of tho Federal rainy against onr advanc ing army an impediment to : wily success of no insignificant nature. The tide of battle, however, as noon devel oped in favor of our arms, and the enemy, de feated on ail sides, as our forces closed upon them, retreated across tho railroad into the road taken by McClellan, and bene?, it is pre sumed,_ to Alexandria, leaving behind Vast quantities ot arms and munitions of every des cription, Jarge numbers of dead and wounded and upwards ot 10,000 prisoners. The army of Gen. Pope, it is oitimated, did not escape wiln.pno li.ali or its men. The move ment on C o jih-t : r the enemy was a daring one, and was and signe ;, no doubt, with the view of retreating in tbs directioa taken, as the only means or extricatuig Pope from his almost hopeless dilemma. E’scwhere the Enquirer reports: The extent of the advantages gained at Ma nassas, and the opportunity for new achieve ments which they Iwve opened, are as yet not understood >. iu. V- do not know with accu racy the rcLt:7o positions cf the two armies, and the line rjf the enemy’s retreat. Sufficient b known, however, to justify- the devoutesl gratitude of. the whole Confederacy, and a bounding pride in the skill of our Genera’s and the unparalleled heroism of our incom parable soldiers. Tin y have added anew and glowing chapter to their fan)®, r.nd have gained what seemed impossible—a still , stronger hold on the affections and tlis applause of their countrymen. May the time soon conic when these dear citizens will all be permitted to re-- und.vff’g honors, to enjoy fn peace that liberty wh*ch they have so gloriously defended ! From the account* which have reached us, we think it likely that a sudden.rise ia the Rappahannock, which delayed our movements a day or two, is ali that saved Pope from fesil - ing the full i i?ce qf Leo’s army, before the re inforrvaiunts of McClellan reached him. After crossing the Rappahannock, our Generals seem to have circumvented Pope at their mere will. They gnt nr.<,n his flanks, and they got all around him. Tnsy seize:! bis communica tions with his rear, captured his guards, de stroyed his magazines of supplies, and prevent ed him for some time from even forwarding to Lincoln his usual victory bulletins. So l*r as he baa escaped distraction at all it is probably wholly due to the opportune arrival of a por tion of McClellan’s ’troops. Even this was not able to c-ave the combined forces from a terrible chastisement. The armies of the Po tomac .tail of the Rappahannock have been routed and still further demoralized, and the one aim of the braggart fees.who so lately threatened the Confederate Capital, is to save their own. * * * * Of Gen. Lee, who directed onr movements, and of the Genera’s who executed them, it is not necessary that we should speak in terms ci prai-o, for everybody is praising them. The mimi; of every croaker is stopped, either from s’ in or waiting for a better opportunity. It is evuent that for boldness of conception, and for celerity, vigor and success in the execution, the campaign north of the Rappahannock has fm few parallels. As might bo expected from ; . past fame, the common-’- Jen. Jackson a■! Can. Stuart come in fora : . ,hare of the ;i ’ o due to these rapid movements, and of > ivy and unexpected blows which they w- .-1 the means of inflicting on the enemy. Gen. Ewell, too, than whom we had no better i’..liter in the army, fills a component-part in •onfnsions of the enemy. V7o deeply re the disabling wound which has overtaken - t in the morning of hie fame, and when y: for his country almost in sight of the ' ere he was born, for he is a native of William county. V • a, not give a better r.n ml and applica tion to the accounts, than tho following from the Enquirer: The late victories will prove a very heavy and discouraging blow to the enemy. Manassas is to them a fated spot. . iM. D 11 .doubtless thinks it so to him—ior he led the flist fight there, and rumor rays is badly w uoded now. McClellan, beaten and buffeted on tho Chieha hominy, arrived just in time, it would seem, to receive another defeat on the Ball Run. On Pope the enemy has built great hopes. He was to restore the waning fortunes of the war, and swiftly to guide Yankee Jeet into that Rich mond for which they long as Mussulman longs for Me; ca Those hopes are all Wasted ;of tho fate of Pone himseif rumor speaks froeiy, and says that lie will fight no more. It 11 not do to suppose that those reverses va: 1 : rmine Lincoln to peo.ro. What they t!:a it wm— n, i t .\o peopiig another question. But if a citizen dare to Fay peace, he is at once thrust into prison. Wc must expect, therefore, ar.d we roust prepare for new’ exhibitions of violence and rage. We must prepare for the six hundred thousand new levies whom Lincolnd%sending into the valley of death. We can meet this wave as we have met those which have come before. We have a thousand facts’ to encourage ns to renewed and unflagging efforts. The baud of Providence, which was visible iu our separation, is equally visible in our maintenance of it. Then let our rulers continue v.jfy and vigi lant and cur people brave and united, and we shall soon enter upon the walks cf peaceful national life, with such an endowment of fame as no new people ever presented before, as a claim to respect and consideration among the nations of the earth. rroelamutton toy tlte President, To the People of the Confederate Slake : 1 Once more upon the plains of Manassas have on r armies been blessed by the i.ord of Hosts iviilia triumph over our enemies. It is my p ivilege to invite you once mofe to His foot tool, not now in the garb of fasting and sorrow, but with joy and gladness, to render thanks for the great mercies received at His hands. A few months since, and our enemies poured forth their invading legions upon our soil. They laid waste our fields, polluted our altars, and violat ed the sanctity ot our homes. Around our capi tal tl v hered their forces, and with boast ful !h. limed it as already theirprize. The i : .• t. v' which rallied toils defence have extinguished these vain hopes, and, under the guidance ot the same Almuhly hand, have scat tered our enemies and driven them back in dismay. Uniting these defeated forces and the various armies which had beea ravaging our coasts with the army of invasion in Northern Virginia, ou” enemies have renewed their at tempt to snbjnvv.o us r.t the very place where their first <it t - defeated, and the vengeance of retriht'c ! j . -has overtaken the entire host, in a -v nd and complete overthrow. Toth' igaal sucte'-s accorded to our arms in the lei, Las teen g and )u;ly added another equally brilliant iu the West. On the very day on which our force v, are I dto victory oa the plains of Manassas in Virginia, the same Al mighty arm assisted u to overcome our ene mies at Kichmond, io Ku: achy. Thus, at one and the same time, have - two great armies been stricken down, an • ; .inked designs of our enemies set at t r.ug; .... Ia such circuntstaot i is meet and right that, e.3 ai“ I', 1 a.-.eld bow down in aderi-g thauiti.; f-j that gracious God who ha.-: beu e-nr bill .1, and lu-.euce, and to offer unto it!-;’ the tribute of thanksgiving and praise, la His band are fee issues of all events, a;,- to ,-i.ould we, iu art especial manner, ascrlb the h nor of this great deliverance. X '■ i ■ I, Jefffbson Davis, Prest iUO this, m fen, felting apart TurnsDAY, the lh.h ; . tuber, in mnt, as a day of Pe.i: ivirg to Almighty God for . mercies vouchsafed to our people, and more especially for the triumph of cur arms at Kichmond and at Manassas; and I do hereby iuvire the peopfe of the Confederate States to meet on that my at their respective places of public worship, and’ to unite in ren dering thunks and praise to God for these great mercies, and to implore Him to conduct our country safely through thep-ri's which sur round us to the fic:.f attainment of the bless ings of peace and si-curity. , Given under my hand and the seal 1 I of the Confederate States, at P.ich - suau. - mon( j i this fourth day ot September, ‘ —.— 'A. D. 1862. Jefferson Davis. By the President, J. P. BmvjAatnr, Sec’y of State. Safe Arrival of a Man-of-Wak. —A des patch to the Augusta Constitutionalist, dated Mobile, s’.b, announces ht arrival cf an iron clad man-of-war at a Southern port, after hav ing fought her way sucecrsfui-y through the blockading fleet. We find the following concerning the same arrival, iu the Atlanta papers: Fort Morgan, Sept. s.—The Confederate war steamer Florida, e apt. Maffi:, (eight guns,) ran the blockade last night, after an exciting chase by Yankee cruisers, with a ioss of one man killed and two wounded. The Florida was built in England. Four hundred Lmcoimtes have stampeded from Carter and Johnson counties, in thisdtute, bound for Abraham’s bosom; our cavalry, hear ing of it, are in pursuit.—[Knoxville Register. TNTO. 39. TELESRAPHiq WITHER FROM VIRGINIA. evacuation oiTwinchsstbb. Reported Death of McClellan'. FOUR GENERALS KILLED AND FOUR SE VERELY WOUNDED. POPE ACKNOWLEDGES A LOSS OF R.OOO ON FRIDA Y. 1 7,000 Killed and Wounded on lhnn> day and Friday. The Yankees Confess a Route iff Ken tucky. EicxntONn, Sept. s,—Advice3 from Hamssonburg, Va., to the 4th, briog the following news: The Provost Marshal at New Warket writes to-day that the Yankees evacuated Winchester night before la?t, burning all their stores and blowing up the mag zlno. They also burned a whole square in the town. We hear from the same source that late Baltimore papers report the death of ten. McClellan. We have Baltimore papers of the l6t and 2d ins!.; they report the Federal loss in the battle of Friday at not less than B,COO, in killed and wounded. They claim a victory in Saturday’s fight. The American says the advantage remained with tho rebels; the Sun styles it an utter Federal, rout Their losses up to Friday night are estimated at 1 ,000! Generals Bu’ord, Hatch, Taylor, and Patrick were killed. •Gcnorats Schenk, Tower, Beamy and Siegel were severely wounded. Col. Fletcher was killed. CoL Farnsworth was wounded. The American has a list cf more than one hundred and fifty officers killed. General Pope’s report acknowledges a Joss of eight thousand in the battle of Friday. The American contains an account of the recent fight at Richmond, Ky., in which it admits that the Federals were defeated with immense loss and driven back to Lexington. Bull Nelson was severely wounded. General McClellan, it is said, retains the command only of the Army of the Potomac; he was not sent to act a subordinate part to Pope. The SecoEd Battle of Manassas. RESULT OF THE THREE DAYS’ FIGHTING. Colonel Y/ilson, of the Seventh Georgia, Killed. BRILLIANT CHARGE OF TOOMBS’ BRIGADE. Tlie Enemy Driven Fell-Jlell Acros* Bull EisiUj POPE PEGS LEE TO TAKE CARE OF ITIS WOUNDED. Another Fight on Tuesday, 4th. GEN. KEARNEY KILLED. (Special despatch to the Savanvah Republican.] Goedonsvii.lk, Va., Bept. s.—The mail and tele graphio communication between Manassas and Eicfi mond has not yet been restored, hence my delay in sending you particulars of the late great battles. The battle of Manassas has been fought over agai„, and for the second time a great victory has been achieved over the enemy on those consecrated plains. The fight proper opened on Thursday. The enemy sought to prevent the junction of LongsSreet’s force with those of Jackson, and for this purpose despatch ed a heavy column to Thoroughfare Qap. A sharp en gagement ensued, in which the Federals were driven back with heavy loss. Toombs’ and Anderson’s brigades were chiefly engaged on our side. Oa Friday the enemy attacked Jackaon at Gaines ville, hoping to crush him before Longstreet could come to his assistance, but they were again defeated. On Saturday Longstreet arrived, and the attack was renewed at 3 o’clock, p. ni., when a terrific buttle en sued on tho old battle ground of Manassas. The flghl continred until night, when tho enomy were driven pell-mell across Bull Run. In this great battle Gen. commanded Ilia right wing, Gen. Stonewall Jackson the left, HiU and Anderson the centre, the whole undor command of Gen Lee. rue yeaerai ft>rw> m t;.i. engagement was seventy five thousand, and their loss was ten thousand. The Confederate loss wai about six thousand, including Generals Ewell, Jenkins, Mahone, and Trimble, who were wounded. We captured saveral thousand small armf, twonty cannon, seven thousand prisoners and tovcral stand of colors. Gen. Pope telegraphed to his government, at five o’clock on Saturday, that victory was cortaic. Th 9 Federals retreated to Centreville and thence to Fairfax, They are badly demoralized and supposed to be retiring to Washington. Stonewall Jackson engaged tho rear guard of the enomy last evening and a sharp skirmish followed, re sulting in a Confederate losj of two hundred. The enemy’s loss is much heavier, including Gen. Kearney, who was killed by the Forty-ninth Georgia and his body Bought into our lines. The enemy were driven back. General Halletk was at Centerville dndng the great balt'e. McClellan wa r placed in Chi of command of the field, Pope acting as subordinate. The Confederate army behaved with great gallantry throughout the series of batt es. | Fifty citizens of Washington, who, like tbeir prede cessors of 1861, came out as spectators to sec tho Rebels whipped, wore captured by our a r my. Cos!. WiisoD, of the Seventh Georgia, together with Colonels Means, Glover, and Gadberry, of South Caro lina, were killed, and several field officers were wound ed, General Toombs’s br'gade mado the most gallant charge of the fight. P. W. A. Congressional. Bichmokd, Sept. s. —ln Senate, the House bill to authorise the appointment of additional officers of ar tillery for ordnance duties. The bill was passed with amendments. The Senate bill to organize the divisions of the army into army corps, to be commanded by Lieutenant Generals, to be appointed by the President, and to re cei-e the pay of Brigadier General, The report of the Committee on the national Flag and Sea!, appointed at the last sstsion, was recommit ted. The Exemption bill was taken up and discussed un til the hour of adjournment. The House was entirely occupied with a discussion of tho bill Attending the provisions ot the Conscript law to persons between the ages of 35 and 45. (.From the Charleston Courier.] [PRIVATE DESPATCH ] Eiciimond, Sept, 5,—1 am just from Greenville. Amid canQ'ctiug rumors, I am unwilling lo cause neediess distress by unreliable inf i-rmalion. Ex-Gov. .Means was certainly killed. He died on Monday, from the effects of a shell striking him in the chest. Cois. Gadberry and Glover were killed. Col. Moore was wounded through the lungs. The following list of casualties in Gen. Gregg’s brig ade is from an eye-witness: FIIiBT REGIMENT 8. C. VOLUNTEZEB. Wounded—Col. Ed. McCrady, slightly. ieisu volunteers. Wounded—Lieut. Thos. McCrady, slightly. MARION VOLUNTEERS. Wounded—Private Smith. BUTLER 6ESTINZLS. Killed—Corporal C. N. Gardner; Privates Thomas Wii.iams, Jasper Holly. Wounded —Privates W. H. Holloway, M. Whatler T. ST. Branson, T. C. Tompkins, W. Thompson, John H. King. PALMETTO SHARPSHOOTERS. Killed—H. A. MeSwain, T. 1.. Capers, James Pal mer, Whiteford Andrew Smith. Woncded— Seriously, Hiram Mitchell, S. Walden, Wm. Walden; slightly wounded, John Bolt, Altman Kirkland, John E. Walker. RICIILAXD EItt.ES Killed—Sergeant A. Smith. Wounded —Private E. Edwards. CAROLINA LIGHT INFANTRY VOLUNJEESJ^' Killed—Lieutenant John Monro, e. H. Darby, Private Fleetwood. ' -' Wounded—Captain C. D. Barksdale, i’riva'.ts Chas. Atwell, T. Shepherd. . E. W. Barnwell, Jr. National Thanksgiving grayer. Eiciimond, Sept. s.—The PresMsftThaa isued his proclamation setting apart Thursday, tlHTlrth Septem ber instant, as a day of prayer en 4 okff VlD 6 to Almighty God for His great marotea- Tsuahsaf'd to our people, and more especially for tan truimph of oar arm* at Eictunond and Manassas,