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Saturday Morning, Sept. 20, ISC2.
Position of tihs Federal Army —The Na
tional Intelligencer states the entire army of
McClellan, Pope and urnsida is now quartered
around Washington for its defense, and that
McClellan is in command.
Gen. Beauregard arrived at Charleston on
Saturday and took rooms at the Mills-Housd,
accompanied by the following members of his
staff: Gen. Tho3. Jordan, Col. A. R. Ctiieoijn,
Col. A. Roman, Capt. Terry, Capt. A. <T. Beau
regard. ’ 1 I
- Low|‘, of Mary laud has been ap
pointed Provisidbilb Governor pf Maryland’by
President Davis. Soy. Lowe has issued a proc
lamation to th#pceple. Cbl. Bradley Johnson
has been appointed Provost Marshal of Fred
pridk.
- Yankees in Piles—The list of the killed
and wounded of the. Yankee army, in one day’s
fight, fids three printed pages ol the
siftr York Herald. The Herald Bays, also, that
t}ie iO'S of !jie Yankees will reach forty per cent
A Reminder. —As the Republican fs the pnly
Georgia paper Ihattws a regular corresp^jijient
on the battle field to furnish the lists of killed
and wounded, we would suggest that other
papers which copy from its columns would be
doing us but simple justice in giving the. twir l
credit
Twenty-Sixth Georgia —ln addition to the
losses in this regiment, published some-days
ago, wc. have to add Urn following who were
attached to the Wire Grass Minute Men :
KfUcd.— Joteph Trowel! and Thomas Trowel
Wounded —Ord. Sergeant' II pan, and Joseph
Harper. ,
Baltimore' pipe s, of the 9th, say that our
cavalry was foraging in Pennsylvania. We learn
that cur commissary finds n. d.fflculfy in pro
curing’bacon al 10 rrota per IVun-l in .tfffyland
for Confederate money, and it is stated "that
Gen. Lee has intima.td' that no more stores
need bo sent him.
‘ The Federal I.ors at Manassas.—A dis*
I the, Baltimore Araeri -an, dated Wash-.
ingti-n, September Oh, r-aj : “From careful
<'i*ltuiati<:ns'i,.is t-.. Laved .ui erfiib; loesealn
the late bank.-' -‘>i!i r.ol vrcecd 0 OCO killed and
2.000 prisoners" On iho-c.-nltaiy ii.c New
York 11.-talJ says : "The loss is Vald to reach
forty per cent of th so engaged in Saturday’s
fight.”
Mcnktary Stampede. . A despatch from In
dianapolis, to the Chicago Times, dated. Sept.
3d, says : Specie continues to arrive from Ken
tucky. About two .millions dro now here and
stored. The fpecle Was forwarded by Adams’
Express: but, by private hands, a vast amount
of money in bank hills has reached boro, The
moveable valuables of Kentucky are now pretty
extensively in Indiana? From Cincinnati the
coin is being sent East.
Andy Johnson Wishes to Destroy the
CAPITOL.— The Chattanooga Rebel says: Per
sons from Middle Tennessee report that when
the evacuation of Nashville by the Federal
array was resolved upon, Andrew Johnson
wished to destroy the Capitol, which was op
posed by General Basil. A dispute art Be be
tween them on the subject, which ended in a
personal rencounter, Audy coming out second
best. Wo only hope tins report is tru<\ and
that (R-u Bins!!, v.Hll his,hand was in, gave
Mack hearted villain a good drubbing.
Sooffii Carolina in the Field—From an
approximate estimate of lira strength of the
South Carolina regiments, battalions and com
panics, now in Confederate service, appended
to tbe Report of the Chief of the Military Do
partmeut of that State, we make the following
abstract:
rn fun try 32 2M
Artillery . 4,87/5
Cavalry 4,714
Conscript,/.., 1,100
Tonal 42.97:1
Hesitating a root the Draft. --The tinre
for the Yankee dralt lias been i steaded in view
of tlie scarcity of arms—;ho government being
unable to arm 600,000 men at or.ee. And. if the
present courts ol events continue?, the govern
ment will very soon bn unable to* arm acorpo
ral’s guard. The War Department offers ?13
apiece ibr the Springfield -musket, but monufie
turers demand higher prices. The cost ol each
musket Is said to bn §l3 50.
We tfdvlse Mr. Lincoln to give out the drill
ing business altogether. If volunteering will
not pay, we cannot see how dsafting wn willing
toldiers can bu put to a better rgeouat.
Gov. Vance. —We find in the Raleigh Stale
Journal M e inaugural address pronounced cn
tho Bth inst. by Gov. Z. B. Vance. It complete
ly meets aud denies and refutes all the irjaricus
rumors that have been circulated by some of
his embittered political antagonists, ami have
been supposed jo glvo “aid r.rM comfort to the
enemy." •
Gov. Vance is for the stiict and frit Mol en
forcement of tho Conscription knv % aud the
rigorous and decisive prosecution of the war.
He justly it'd proudly pronounces a lofty eulogy
on the noble Slate whose helm has been plkcid_
in bis hard. __ __ __
Senator Lswrs’a lissoLUtioNa. —The Rich
mond Enquirer of the llth contains a liberal
synopsis of the resolutions of Mr. Lewis, of
this State, declaratory oi <the objects Qf the war,
Ac., which gives them a wholly different char-.
* aeter from what we were led to suppose by the
phraseology of the telegraphic account. Tak
ing tho Enquirer’s account tvs correct, there is
no material difference between the views of
Senator Lewis and our own, and we availwmr
•elves of the earliest opportunity to do him the
justice ol making this statement.
. Ont Army in Pennsylvania.— “ The Rich
mond Enquirer, of the ISA, says i The Con.
federate army is raid to be at Hanover, York
county, Pa, which is thirty five miles soif*h of
Harrisburg. It is a village of 1,200 inhabitants.
Philadelphia ia dlstaut from Uarrlsburg 10d
miles. Tho road from Hanover 'to York and
thence to Lancaster, would soem to be the
route to Philadelphia that our army is pursu
ing— perhaps Gen, Jackson is alter that “o.M
pub. fimef' Buchanan. The distance by this
route cannot be more than 120 miles to Phila
delphia: -
Tub Boldest Lib Yet. —A Cairo correspon
dent Of fire Chicago Times says that Buell's
“great battle of Wednesday and Thursday, ne. *
tihattanooga, was, doubtless, one of the grand
est of the war." He took, the writer says i
about 7,000 prisoners! Thst’S tie-way, says
the Mobile Advertiser, we like to see Vying
done. Do U thoroughly. Boldly invent the
whole story, without depending upon a pitiful’
substratum of facts for a foundation, and don't
be afraid to go Into minute particulars ; they
help to bolster up th® reader’s wavering credit -
Ity.
From tub Seat or War.—We have been
favored, says jhc Augusta Chronicle, with the
following private despatch :
“Richmond, Srpt. PA—Jackson has had a
fight fifteen miles from IHUimore and was sue
eesefai. No details.
From a reliable source at Richmond we learn
that ise of the divisions of the Confederate
a:my WA* ia or near iUrrisbnrg, ikon. There
U a general uprising against the Federal Gov
eromeut through out Mary Sired, and fifteen
thoueaad Marylanders had joined the Confede
rate army.
Waslti; gton.
The ultimate destiny of this once sacred city
—made sacred by the name it bears and the
hind of him who planned it, but desecrated by
his dcgoueiato countrymen—has become a prob
lem at the-South. Many arc the speculations
indulged with regird to it, but so far as we
have observed, all have acquiesced in the opin
ion that its importance at a capital town will
end with the present ievolution. It-ts skid that
its peculiar geographical position will unlit it
for a seat of-governme-nt for either the Northern
or Southern Confederacy 7 —that with the former
it will become impossible as it will be outside
of the jurisdictional limits of the country 7 ,
and that its lack .of centrality will render it
totally unlit for the capital of the Confederate
States.
We dissent wholly from this latter view, and
hope our government will hesitate long before
they consent to -see the noble City of Mashing
ton razed to the ground or abandoned as a des
ert waßte. The South is entitled to it by natur
al right. It came from her, a free donation to
the old Unton.'and it is surrounded by southern
soil and southern freemen to inhabit it It is
but just that in the settlement of our dispute
with the Yankeesitshould revert to the South
ern States, and so important do wd hold it that
we would make it a sine qu.a non to a cessation
of hostilities.
It may be asked, what we would do with it.
We answer, make it the seat-of-goVircihent of
the Confederate States of America now and for
all time to come. It is the Viace above all
on (Ms subject, we have seen no really forcible
"objection to its appropriation to. that purpose.
Its lack of centrality is the only plausible ar
gument that has been alleged against it—in
other words, that some of the people of the
Confederacy would have to travel farther to get
to it than others. Well, suppose they shoultf,
what does that amount to, after all ? .It may
be a slight inconvenience to members of Con-,
gress, but otter all, each member is paid in pro
portion to his inconvenience, and up to the
present time we have heard no particular com
plaint of the hardship. As respects mileage, it
'would cost the treasury'no more in one place
than it wqpld in another.
As icgards the tilde required in going to and
from Washington,'and communicating with
the government on public and private interests,
that has*ceased to be an ebj sclion. Railroads
and telegraphs have annihilated time and space.
A member from New Orleans requires now no
more time for his journey than did formerly
a member >roya Virginia, and the govern
ment can isiha orders to its officers in the most
distant State with as much readiness as it could
to those of- Alexjudria or Georgetown.
Some have said that the pogition is too much
exposed, and is liable to attack in case of inva
sion from the North Wee insider this obj.ee
tion'of but little avail.’With the immense array
which we have in the field, and all our facilities
for attack, ice have never considered it very
vulnerable, and all our movements iml Tea to a
desire rathe* to pass round than tlirougtf.it.' If,
on the other hand, it be' really exposed by na
ture, let us go to work and permanently fortify
it by land and water. There is no place on the
continent more susceptible of defense, and with
tho expenditure of an inconsiderable amount,
it might b,e made impregnable, in the military
sense of the term. Besides, we have no fears
of a Yankee invasion nf.er tho close ol the
present war. They will have learned a lesson
of prudence that will last them and their chil
dren for centuries to come.
How trifling these objections when weighed
in the balance-with tho vast considerations, in
favor of Washington as our future capital. The
location is a delightful one ; it is embalmed in
many of the dearest memories of the past, and
it has every building and complete and
ready for carrying on all the operations of the
government, and all on a scale, of magnificence
and comfort that we should not attain to in any
other place in an hundred years, and then
through an expun? * of untold millions. It were
folly, consummate folly to cast away from us so
rich a prize, and above all at a time when we
are poor aud unable to supply its place.
Let us, then, fix our eyes and hearts on Wash
ington as the permanent eeat-of government of
the new Confederacy, and that it may remain
intact we shauld lake the necessary steps to
preserve it from violence at the hands of the
enemy. We should take Philadelphia as a host
age for its safekeeping, and let tho enemy
knoyv that one stone of Washington removed,
the City of Brotherly Love shall be laid in
rains. In due season, without battering down
Us magnificent marble palaces, the noble city,
dedicated to freedom by the Father of his
Country himself, will be delivered over to our
hands, and we can Inaugurate within its walls a,
new era in tho great nation we are now strug
gling, to establish.
Martland —The last shadow of doubt ed*i
cernlng the advance of our army into Maryland,
is dissipated by an official despatch from Gen
ieo hiutself, dated at Ms headquarters in Fred
erick, the cojjuty site of Frederick county, on
tho great thoroughfare west from Baltimore,
and containing some seven thousand inhabi
tants. . From that placejKLcan readily advance
to any portton of th country. It ia specially
convenient to Baltimore and Washington,
against one or tho other of which Gen. LeO
will prohahly move so soon as his forces shall
have come up.
The temper in which Gcxi. Lee found the in.,
habitants is most. gratifying, particularly so
when we reflect that there are but lew slave
holders in that part of the State which ho flow
Occupies: By this time ito the whole
Siato is ifl a blaze and ready to turn upon and
rend its oppressors.
We congratulate our government and 'people
on thiVHispk-ioas charge in the theatre of war..
Oarciiiaens can now return to their homes
wi'hout fear of disturbance from Yankeeheath
cnS unArtfbbqrs. The homes of the’desolaters
will now *bd desolated, ar-d their occupants
ia..de to ft cl edtae ol the hardships of war.
And Maryland—glorious and gallant little
State!—you are at last about to throw off the
shackles of the tyrant that have so long bound
you, and akep-forUi free and untrammelled as
the God of nature intended you should be. The
despot’s heel is no longer upon thy- neck, and
in a tew days ycu will rtfe from your humilia
tion and take your place in the bright political
gallaxy of the South ! God speed our arms in
the accompJishiaent,of the noble work !
Tas Kate Battles.— The Lynchburg Vir
ginian lewas, through a letter from Rsv. W. A
Croeker, Supetiulcndent of the Army Intelii
geuc9 Oifte, hintsoif now at GalusviUe, that
the loss in killed !n our recent battles will not
exceed 500, and the wounded (most of these
slightly) reaches “between 1500 and 1600. Mr.
Croeker has every facility for arriving at a cor
. rect estimate. lie says that the great disparity
between our loss and that of the Yankees is
; truly le-xarkabtyi, aud mot-t astounding to the
I euemy.
He says that between fifty and a hundred am
i bulances have been engaged day aud night in
j removing the Yankee wounded from Manassas,
and up to Saturday last 8,000 wounded still re
: m.\ined an the field. Where Jackson fought on
Friday, the ground fat covered four deep with
Yankee slain, the slaughter there being the
; most terrible of the war. The very name -of
: Jackson, he says, is a terror to the foe.
He reports that our comtnisaries are buy
| iag abundance of stores in Maryland, and get
; ting bacon for 10 cents a pound. He estimates
the Yankee loss in killed aud wounded at 12,000,
Sand says that their whole army is utterly de
morstUxsd. They Hay that Pope is a coward,
; McDowell a traitor, and as tor McClellan, they
j scarcely vecierc an opinion now. They have
i lost coufideECe in their officers, and conceive a
| high op n cu of oars.
Mr. W. H. Crisp opens the theatre in Mobile
i t n the 15lh icst.
&_& L ry_AJS TItT-A-81, S’-A_T CTT^ID^-31, SIEDIPITEiIMIIBSIR/ 30; IQG&
France and tUe Confederacy.
We copied yesterday a long letter from 11 Mala
bo ff,” the Pans correspondent o.f the New York
Times, touching cur re cognition by France,
and intended to accompany it with a comment,
but other niallots drove the subject out of
mind.
The object of the writer is to produce the im
pression that France will not recognize the Con
federate States, except with a pledge on our
part for the gradual extension of.slavery. To
this end he quotes the opinions of various pub
lie men of France and copies extensively from
a newspaper which purports to have'been start
ed in the interest of the Confederacy, lie also
says the Prince de Poligcac is now on a misslqu
to our government for the purpose of making’
such a proposal in due form.
Wc do not believe a word of the story, so far
as it professes to complicate the Emperor with
any such policy as that laid down by this cor
respondent. He has too much good sense, and
tire French people have, to be drawn in as the
tail of Exeter Hall and the Downeasters in a
fanatical crusade against slavery. They have no
such feeling, and in fact we have no idea that
either England or France would think for a
moment of Insulting our government with any
such proposition. Theyknow belter, for they
understand the reiati ns sustained by the in
stitution of slavery to our domestic prosperity,
and that so foolish and suicidal a stipulation on
our part would be simply impossible.
And again : why should France, or any other
Power, think of demanding of us a considera
tion for the simple act of recojjrqtiofv which is
than to ourselves? It is folly to talk about
such a thing. Did we ask their active inter
ference and aid in the war—neither of -which
have wc asked or do we desire*-thcro might be
some ground for a suggestion of terms. But
asmntters stand., we are proving our ability
to work out cur own political independence
without’ aid ffern any quarter, and wc in
tend to do it, and that. soon. The Yan
kees whipped and Petarded in their very
homes, what care wc wbethertothers are pleased
to regard us as <quaff. or not ? We will make
our.enemy sue for peace ( and once obtained,
foreign governments will be quite as .anxious
for us to recognize them as we were, ki our ad
versity, to be recognized by others. They all
want our trade and cannot do without it, and it
is nonsense forunch people,to talk about,die*
taling terms f4^heir recognition of us as a fare
and independent, nation of the earth. Whip
the Yankees, and all the krorid will be our
friends, and anxious for tho most liberal rxd
ultimate national, and csmfnercial association
with us. ’ Until that is dona, recognition is bat
a ** sounding brass aud tinkling cymbal.” It
will nnuttefeat a .foC 9t open a port. .
Lawton’s Brigade in tfcc late Battle*.
We have before ns a letter.written by a prom
inent citizen of Savannah, from Staunton, Va.,
on the 9ph, which contains some interesting,
facts, not hitherto made public, concerning the
hate battles. • *
The battle of the 28th was the severest for
Lawton’s brigade that it has yet been in. It,
was under a most tremendous fire, and suffered
accordingly, Gol. Berry, of the Sixth Georgia,
had his horse shot in eight places, whilst he
himself was struck-in lour places with spent
balls and finally sboj. through both legs. Capt.
Forrester, who was in command of the Thirty
first Georgia, was killed.
Gen. Lawton, the writer sajs, behaved most
gallantly, being all the time in the thickest of
the fight, but escaped untouched, though it was
difficult to Ete how, the bullets flew so thick.
He is perfectly cool and seems to have no care
for himself cu the battlefield. Ilis brigade is
very much reduced, not more than a thousand
men being now fit for duty.
Capt. Robert Elliott, of Lawton’s staff, hav
ing lost his horse, was pressing forward at the
head of a regiment when he w3 struck sense
less by a Minnie ball, which entered j:tst above
the rim of Lis cap and opened a furrow in the
scalp l'rora the Sorehead to the back ol the head,
when it passed cut. He lay insensible for some
time, and the men passed over him on a charge,
taking fiim lor dead, as lie was covered with
blood. Recovering sufficiently,'he found his
way to a neighboring house, where he was
kindly eared for, nnl subsequently went to
Gordonsvil’e and Lynchburg, where at last
accounts, he was rapidly recovering from the
wound. •
“First Principles”—U nder this caption the
Mobile Advertiser & Register strikes at a very
prevalent, and sometimes fatal, cri.or. We
copy its remarks, as follows : *
“There is no error raora common than that
of mistaking the means for the end—exalting 1
the mere instrument above the excellent pur
poses it was designed to serve.; This is strik
ingly illustrated in the cry for “Union” in the
Northern States. Mr. L’ncoln, in his late
letter .to Grcelpy, seems to think that the
States and the pe pie were made for the Union ,
and not tfie Union for the States and Tce/ple. —
Ou,r Americanßevolution struck the first
blow at this favorite doetrin, of tyrants,
that the people were made for tho gov
ernment’ and not the government for the peo
ple. The ends to be promoted by the Union
are clearly set forth in the Constitution. Tho
first of these are "to establish justico ” and to
“ insure domestic tranquility.” How these,
ends have been promoted, let the legislation of
Congress, the press and’ the pulpit of the North
ern States answer. PresidenfeLkicoln, accord
ing to his letter to Greeley, would destroy eight
milliens of whites and four mil Tors of slaves
in order to save the Unjpo.”
From Middle Tennessee. —Ttse Kaoxville
Regi§ter, of the 9:h, hqs late inteifigonee from
Middle Tennessee.. Col. Woodard, of the Ken
tucky cavahry, whose headquarters is at Clarks'
ville, recently attacked Fdrt Douelson* with a
force of 800. The Federal force, consisting of
200 infantry and 500 cavalry, at .first repulsed
Woodard, who ( fell back to the Cumberland
Iron Works. The enemy pursued and were
hqrc drawn into au ambuscade, and, after a
brief engagement, were completely routed, and
Woodard drove them back and captured Fort
Donclson. The fruit of this victory was a large
quantity of arms captared, and several pieces
gf artillery, which Col. W. brought .off safe to*’
Ciarksvillo.
It Is reported that the Federals are busily
engaged in fortifying Nashville, putting siege
guns in position on the neighboring hills, fell
ing the trees, and barricading the street*. This
conflicts with the rumor we had a few days ago
that they were evacuating Nashville.
Caftfre of ora Pickets.— We learn that a
pafty of plckejs, belonging to Capt. Reddick’s
company of cavalry, were circumvented on
Crooked River, in Glynn coanty, Friday last,
under the following circumstances : The pick
ets were fwelve in cumber, and haviog station
ed a sentinel an the river, the remainder eff the
party retired to a house some two hundred
yards distant, for what purpose is not stated or
known by our informant., A party of Federals.
numbering seventy-five, landed about a mile
below the house, and being piloted round by a
tory named Spaulding, cams upon the house in
the rear, and completely surrounded it before
tho party inside were aware of their presence.
The pickets were unarmed, but made a break
through the Yankees, all escaping but two, a
man named Thomas, and another whose name
is not recollected. A citizen named Crawford
was also captured. One of the pickets had
forty shots fired at him, but luckily none of
them took effect. Such carelessness oa the
part of our pickets should not be allowed to
I pass unnoticed.
_To Scbscribkrs.— We cannot afford the cx
j pease of returning receipts for subscriptions
received at this office, and the department will
not Allow them to be enclosed wilh the paper,
j The continued receipt of the paper is evidence
1 that it has been paid for.
A Clever Exploit In Bryan— Fifteen
Yankees Killed and TVcnrailed.
We referred, a day or two since, to the re
ported landing of a party if Yank; <■- & *'■
plantation of Mr. K . > , in is.)-os only,
some twelve miles below Gcne-ia i’o.nt, nnd
we stated that a comp lent force had b-' ce sent
to meet them. The rceu! 7 - we have detailed in
a letter tow before-ns, v, r.rtten by a rrfhmbcr of
the “Bioe?,” new in garrison at Urn Totct. It
turns’ out to have been one of the most bril
liant little affairs that has ocr.flrrecl on oui
coast, teaching the robbers a lesson that .they
will not soon forg- t. The facts qy<‘, substan
tially as follow*:
Wednesday last, abc-ut raid day, cue of Capt.
McAllister's pickets arrived at the fort and re
ported that a Yankee gunboat was going up to
Kilkenny, the plantation of Mr, prob
ably for the purpose of landing a party o-f de
predators. The Captain immediately ordered
twenty cf his cavalry corps to get ready and
follow him to the spot. In a few rtfltfnutes the
detachment were in the saddle and in motion.
They had not proceeded far before they met
another picket, who reported- that (hejentmy
were landing in barge?. The Captain with his
men moved forward rapidly and arrived at the
place, when they found that the barges had re
turned to the g inboat, which was shelling the
neighborhood. Capt. McAllister erd red his
men to lie down in ambush and be sendy for
them in the event of their return. .p.
The shelling eonlin-f.ed for naaglv. tvfs hours,
the giape rattling tbionoh the trees ia&kdiate
ly over cur men, when it cessed anff; ihcr.two
targe? agvii Mi .-a Afee
directum of the houses with the view, of land
icg. Our men were ordered to be quiet and
not to fire a gun until their Captain had dis
charged his.' It was not long be’ore the boats
got very near to where our men were conceal
ed, when the commanding officer arore in one
of the boats and was Surveying tbo country
around. Capt. McAllister levelled hia gun and
shot him dead. He exclaimed: “GrSatGcd
I’m killed ” and fell backwards overWlard.—
This was tht signal, for our men to open firr,
which they did, and at the first fire every Yan
kee fell flat in the beat aud there con!Jutted,-
not one showing bis head. Our urea then fired
at the float? r.rd riddled tbtf-r fiih s, keeping
np a continued lire uniT Ibe boats Lad
drifted out r.f The gunboat I hen sent
out a third h.trg to Bring i-n the others, and
when they were .Sowed np to the sides of the
gunboat, 'he crew went to work to remove the
men. From one boat they lifted nine men over,
the sides of the gunboat, and from the other
fiye, making in all, including the offie r who
fell overboard, fifteen killed or wounded. As*
soon as the men’,were put aboard the gunboat
turned tail .and put Outward at dCAUffoquick
speed, ' . -
CvpU-McAllister returned to the fort at Gen.'
esis Point about 11 o’cpft-k Wednesday t.ighl,
without the slightest injury to man c-r horse.
These partfculsis are-furnished by a party in
whose word, we are assured, every reliance can
be plac-Jd ; and granting than to be true, all
will agree that Capt. McAllister is entitled to
the highest-praiee for his prompl-nes?, sagfelfy
and coolness in the affair.
P. S. Stupe the foregoing w.re written vre
are informed that an official report has bbeu
received from Capt. McAllister, corroborating
the foregoing in every essential particular.
Policy of the War.
The crossing of the Potomac—nr .rather the
progress of our army into-Pennsylvania,/for
-Maryland may bo regarded as one cf the* con
quered Southern State-t—lp:parts q’Tscw aspect
to the war. Hithyrtc ur oj erath- ns have been
defensive; tot the future, urlees ve shall be
driven back, they will be aggressive. To what
extent this new policy is to be carried, and the
particular theatre on which it is to be enacted,
are matters known only to the government and
the leaders of our armies. If will require
much wisdom and foreea|it u? decide them
aright, aud wo foci entire confidence in the
President' and his- military ' advisers. If, with
such men as Led, and Jackson, and Longatrect
at the head cf our armies, a blunder can be
made, then there is no such thiug o trusting in
human sagacity. If,' in the present c:lppled
and disorganized condition of#the Federal
army, Vre should fall into a snare, then aU
strategy -and-prowess.are but fables to amuse
the fancy.
Wfi have but one main object in this war, and
that-H peaceful independence-. To this’point
all our movements should tend. We should
attain to it in the speediest and most effective
manner f and use all the means that are necessa
ry to the end. We arc convinced, and doubt
less- the government has arrived at the same
conclusion, that the war cannot be ended and
independence secured without a te.rrifcle blow
that shall .cripple the enemy and render him
incapable of a'further prosecution of the strife.
It maybe ntcessarvior Us to capture and hold
Harrisburg and Philadelphia, and perhaps even
New Yoik and Boston. Peaceful symptoms,
unmisi-hsaly d<monstrated, on his part, should
Ibe the anly regulator of ’■ ur march. The tyn
copc of the patient will indicate the trueemount
of blood-letting required,
A secondary objeat of aggro.-aive warfare is
the IndcmnfHeatitni of our citiz me for the heavy
losses subtalced at the bends cf the enemy when
he was the Invader. At lcaut, such should be
an object of our movement into the enemy’s
country. The people have snffared these losses
for their country's sake, and the government is
under the highest obligations to repair them .if
possible. It cannot be done oht of the public
I treasury without entailing a debt upon the
country which' it would require generations to
pay. Uis but jtist, both in a molal and poltti
point ol view, Vital tire depredatory shouli#’
pay the damages, aid when we are in posses
sion cfparts oT their *c>" nntry, the necessary
levy shohid ba made. All property should be
held subject, whether privateer public. It in
dividual oiliz 'us should saffef*, let them look to
1 their own government for icstitution, for it was
through its agents.that damage to be paid
or was committed. Wo therefore hope to hear
no more of pledges on the part of our Generals
to “respect private property”. The enemy not
only refused to hold ours sacicd, but appro
priated it by pabiie proclamation to their o .vu
usee.
Well done, Floridians! —Our Florida
friends, animated by the spirit of freemen,
have resolved no longer to be driven from their
Hornes by the dread cf Yankee gunboats, aud
to beard the terrible monsters, be the-result
what It may. The experiment was tried last
week near Jacksonville, and with the happiest
results. They threw up no formidable breast
works, but in a single night prepaid for the
enemy and with inferior means whipped him
in the morning. An account of the affair is
furnished by our and we hope
onr soldier? along the coast will ail read it and
resolve no l 7 ircr to viMi Southern ground to
ssK-h bngt.! -' 1 '- • T.:...V . fe unboats.
* AU honor to General Finnegan aud his brays
Floridians!
Death of General Stevens.— The army
correspondent of the Washington Star writes:
General Isaac J. Stevens, late delegate from
Washington Territory, was killed on Monday
evening, at .about 5 o’clock, under the following
L circumstances:
Gen. Stevens’ brigade bad been sent from
! Centreville to drive back a force cf the enemy
1 who had made their appearance about two and
a half miles this side, towards Fairfax Station,
: and were interfering with onr transportation
Sand ambulance trains. While at the head of
I his brigade, on horseback, driving the enemy
i through the woods, he was struck in the head
by a Minie bail and instantly killed. His son,
a Captain in the Sevenly-ninth New York, but
’ acting as Assistant Adjutant of the brigade, was
wounded, but how bau-y we are not informed.
The rebels were finally driven from their p- si-
I Hon with considerable loss. The bodies of a
• rebel Colonel and two Lieutenants, killed in
! this fight, were found in the woods on Tuesday
j morning.
Tire Sea-Coast Salt (lucstlon.
Mr. Eil tor: The.importance of tho subject,
and not at ail the love for controversy, prompts
me to reply to "W?lphatiu.” 1 never believed
that it y. tt hi?- intention, to discourage Die sea
salt bo;lras on our toasb fiat, notwithstanding
that, he does to by the bjSinious he advances.
As an expert in curing meat, he knows that
the Turk’s Island salt is suitable for that pur
pose; Impound, also, thr-t cur sea-coast salt is
unlit for it ar.d'tyiU spoil iL. meat. Now, from
these two tacts he draws the following conclu
sions : bo'-h li-i-tr kinds of salt are made from
sea-wrier, -n i ; ’race the product is so different,
mam .Wo Loin which they arc produced—
that is, the ? ta-wr.ler—mus; be different also.
But may not the. different modes of manufac
turing be the cam e of the difference in the
salts ? Innumerable- analyses of sea-water in
different parts of the world have shown that its
chemical constitution varies very little. It
contains from SJ-2 to 4 per cent, ol saline mat
ter, the more, the nearer to the equator and the
farther from the mouths of rivers. In this re
spect •'Westphalia's” views coincide with sci
entific research, but Us bearing upon the salt
boiling is cot at all of th -.t importance “West
phalia” seems to thick, for ths only effect an
amount cf water (or a lessened
amount of saline matters,) wiil produce, is:
that the salt-makers have to evaporate a little
longer to g. t rid cf the superabundance of
water.
The safne compounds, too, contained in sea
water, vary little, and therefore nearly the same
product, i. e., nearly the same mixture of dif
f||rcftt salts would, bo obtained from a gallon of
salt ViiiicrT for instance, than
from a gallon of salt water around Turk’s
Island, although a gallon of sea water from
Thunderbolt, being hear the Savannah river,
would produce a trifle less of saline matter.
The following is the composition of sea
water, and since I furnish you £He two analyses
that effhr the greatest variations as to the quan
titles of the different saline substance?,' ydu
may judge lor yourself how little they are:
CHEMICAL CONSTITUTION OF SEA WATER.
, Water ~ Mi;i< ’ D'-’.’ti:
Tat- >’->• tlnwwTOi*i OM'wMe'of Sodium or Oommoa Salt..., ■ iT.roj i6.?
rat. tw.. n.tat4>tes.iven-| Ghloride of PotMfeluß , (TfSr ,. ljke t tformer) e.iohrsccs
The two moat rpoilers.'. \ °f or BUt *'n -*• •'! 5.2t>
fietahfed more or fi-s in ( .’uiohate of SEagnesia or Rppqm Sa’te,.. ;.. J 21.3L irwre
sr-ltiMkinß. fcut n t re- -j *>■ Ifilrat-o of Soda or Glauber's Slit It-aw | 4-. TO
janous in 'curing meat.. { St-iphato-ef Llmebr Qypsam \ I.4ojtra ea
Of fmpypsjitible infltt-(Carbonate of Dime or Limeetene ’.! 0. f SI 0.20
once becaifsj <heir quan-! Oaibiratp of Magnesia.. Itrares •|tra?w-i
titles are t:p exceedingly J Kremlls of Migneeium : 0.071 '.races
kbi'l .. (lodide of Sodium • | traces • |traces
t o • in analysing ! oj2§|
'boo.cojtcoo.oo
If you compare with the list of constituents
of r.ea water the composition of sea-ccast Balt
manufactured in- different plages (I am sorry
not to be able to give an analyses of Turk’s
Island and our own sea-cnast salt,) though
some of them using the salt water from the
same neighborhoods, you will grant that the
procedures in manufacturing are the eauses of
difference. Therefore, we may expect to be
able to produce ou our coast salt a3 good its
Tuik’s Island salt:
XA. X* "ST £3 J3 S3
•A 0i- 6AKPUE3 or
SEA SALT, MANUFACTURED IN HjfcvEHENT PLACES.
r IChloiida oil I 0 |
sample of salt feom : of b,’, ; MnstncsiuE) Gypsum. 1 o ~ Sand, Moisture.
Sodium ba 'T J or. Bit ter a. j I ‘ 7B “'
1. St. Felice, Moditerauean P 5.91 0.-P5 <1.4 > 0.16 | j.fit
2 Trapaui, •• .... 80.81 • 0.53 1 0.45 0.51 0.0? < 0.12
8. St Übes, Athntie 95. '9 1.69 0.50 .... I 5;45
4. StUbes, “ t 9. 19 6 20 .... 0.81 .... 0.20 I 8.60
5. St. Übes, “>BO / 9 7.2 T .... '3.57 ! .... i 0.20 I 8.30
0 Figueras, 11 ! 91.14 3.54 ■ 0.70 0.83 ! .... ... 1 i.'.tf
T. Lymtnetoii, “ i 93.70 j 8.50 i 1.10 1.50 1 O/20 ;
a . Lymtnvton. “ 1 98.60 0.50 . 0.60 0.10 .... I 0.10 I e ....
9. C .ast of Scotland, Atlantic.. I 93.55 1 1.15 ! 2.50 1.50 ! j 0.40 j
The salt manufacturf l at,St, Übes, in Portu
gal, (Setubal salt,) e) j <ys great repatatio'u’i. 7 )
Eurqpe on account p f Its fitness for curing
meat. It yen lotib cireful 1/ ofer the pre-"
ceding table, ahd observe the .absence’ of
Bittern or .Chloride of Magnesium in *emp!*s
No. 8, 4 and ff, you Willat onCe be able to ac
count for it. You drill also observe that the
Epsom Salt, however it may influence the taste
of the ealt, does mot alter ranch, if ary, the
meat-preserving qualities.
Thus I have again to reiterate what'Y have
said in my former communication, that the-
Bittern or Ghloride of Magnesium is the meat
spoiler, find that the salt-makers have to get
rid of that enemy or give up making salt for
caring altogether.
The Chloride of Magnesium attracts the
water In the atmosphere (and there is always
more or less,).with*grc;!t energy and constant
ly—•( ft it was a living bring you might call i l
the mosUthirsty, for It is drinking air the time,
without a minute’s iateimiatlon)—imparts it to
the surrounding meat fibre and promotes thus
putrefaction; that is, spoils the meat- 7
How to keep out this injurious substance
while making the salt, and how to purify the
salt from it after it is made,'are, therefore, two
im: riant ctj - ,A 01 it s j fatter 1 have
i-itu aOEic zuv:t,c in —. i-s?t a--.amu: ieation; |
but in order to meet same objections of “West
phAlia,” 1 will touch that point again in my
next, and also throw out some useful hints in
regard to the boiling. Yours,
Natrium.
jsgPThe following paragraph, from an ex
change, will serve to show how a certain class
cf business men allow themselves to be im
posed on:
Newspaper men are having a fine time of it
publishing a newspaper at the old price, while
paper, clothing and produce, is selling at three
times its former value. A subscriber can now
pay a year's subscription with 20 lbs. of flour,
or 6}/’IPs. of bseoD, 10 lbs. of pork, 15 pounds
of beef; GO lbs. corn meal, 1 lb. coffee, 4 lbs.
sugar, or 4 small chickens, hardly feathered.
Everybody will agree that printing a paper in
these times is a money makingbasinesa.
fClevelatid pTenc;) Banger.
Many Yankees that fled from the North to
avoid the draft have run into the yellow fever
at Havana.
A Timely Warnlsp;,
■}‘hc cocsUlerate observer cannot Jiavo
to notice that we of the Confcdcr., u Btalcs arc
in r.ornc vital rcppccis, drifting fi- m Hie good
old rcpublicr.il moorings. In iu-mv places the
statute book is thrown aside and law is just
.what some man in authority, civil or military,
chooses to make it. Military commanders,
without a particle of legal right or authority,
have at sundry times taken the whole social or
ganization into their hands, arid sought to gov
ern it by their own win, whilst some, the Gov
ernor cf Georgia amo..;; them, has boldly de
clared that he would do unlawful things, “with
or without law,” and rely oi. i!:-.: people to sus
tain th usurpation. There is no telling whith
er this spirit will carry us'it not rebuked by
the people in their majesty. Once throw off'
the restraints oi law and the binding efficacy of
caths, eoctety becomes a gar g of slaves, whose
sole duty is to perform the will ol their master.
AU free government U gone, and we embark
upon the froubiens sea of despotism, or, what
is worse, plus g-.- *n'o the abyss of anarchy.
In the inaugural address of Governor Vance,
of North Carolina, we find some most judicious •
and timely remarks cn this and kindred points.
Wc extract a paregra; h or two, which the peo
ple should c aider and heed before it is too
late. He says:
* -Fellow—e> tizo np, there are other dangers
which besr-t u-'j besides those which come from
the foe. Bloody revolutions have necessarily ft
chaotic tendency. Yielding ourselves np gradu
ally to martial las:—accustoming- ourselves by
slow degree? to rulunH to tno exercise of arbi
trary power ia our uiuHmy leaders—and look
ing with less and less concern upon the disor
dered morals which a state oi war always mast
produce, wc may endanger both civil liberty
and tho framework of society. The time-hon
ored principle In the charter of ctrr
‘that the military should be subordinate to the
civil ,r.u horiiiar,’ should still be honored and
maint&int and.. U should never be departed from,
exe'qri-ie cases • f most obvious and undeniable
public to c-'-offay, when the safety'of the State
would orin-.i-wUe. be impe-Uled# It- was won
through cvntuti*-s of strife by our English, and
ye-bapiizt-d in the bi?. 7 ud cf our American an—
•cestors. Exorbitant,grants of pbwer to any
man or set of -in;-n, are dang-.rous in the ex
treme. The p-nersi ions of the earth hdve seen
but one Wa.-kingtoii, and'ti:osun may pursue’
his great jjaprney aiming the .stars.for many
centuries, before his counterpart ia ?:ecn among
the sons of merr. Ths judge, the magistrate
and the sheriff shbuid travel regularly the path j
of their accustomed duties, and all respect and
obedience yielded them—a custom for which
'the good name of North Carolina has become
proverbial. Let all the complicated machinery
of the law, with the numberless auxiliary or
ganisations of sdciety, fee kept in unremitting
action. Beware of infringements thereon under
the plea of necessity ; none has ever bun found so
plausible and specious by which to rob the people of
their liberties. It is the complacent excuse of the
despot the wOrld over. The people must keep watch
at this post. Their officers are responsible to them.
and must bsjuld to a strict account. So far as I
am coucerncd, next to the preservation of the
State it JT, I shall regard it my secret), para
mo cm duty to proteetthe citizen in tire joy
meet of ail hh rights and liberties.
.“To prokeepte this war with succe-c, tht.ro is
quite as muefi for enr people as for cur soldiers
ffo. One 6f the most vital.’••• ants of our
11 wes-s is harmony. On thi. ;?sue of ex
’s erce itself, let there, I pray yen, bo no dis*
•tini'ug voice in our borders. * Let the names
and watchwords which once divided us, divide
us no more forever. LfM anew order of things
’i-ke place, and whilst the contest lasts, at
l let U3 see nothing, hear nothing, know
1. leg but our country and its sufferings.”
PopeFiadinz Isis Level,
TANARUS: Yankees are beginning to find out, what
of he South knew ail along, that Pope is
no. oily nu ignoramus and bag of wind, but
the mutt unconscionable l u vatic;-.: or in their
whole-army. His despatches' from Manassas
shew that he’ was cither grossly ignorant cf
what was going on, or systematically and base,
ly deceived his government and people. How
ever, they are fast finding him out. He cannot
easily explain why it is that while the Rebels
Were “flying to the mountains” he was making
tracks at a dpuUc-quiek for Washington. He
has not even the credit of being a plausible
liar, and as his lies do not pay, he will doubt
less tink into contempt among a mendacious
people.
The Richmond Examiner has some remarks
on liis career and fate, which we copy :
The defeat and flight of the cnemj jp Cpe
severely upotrthe
sequence of the astonishing falsehoods villi
which Pope, as if bent cn- his own min,,had
prepared them for a different result. Not con
tent with claiming victories on Thursday and
Friday, when his attacks had been disastrously
repulsed, he made promises on the basis of
those pretended successes which caused the*
whole tribe of newspaper writers to go in qc
stacies. Glowing pictures of Jacksqn “en
trapped,” and of a certain success that should
eusure the capture or destruction of the whole
rebel army were presented cn all sides for the
public edification and delight. On the very,
morning of Saturday itself, Pope telegraphs ’
that he learns the rebels are flying to the moun
tains, and that he is just starring in pursuit!
Such communications, made under such cir
cumstances, would seem to bear marks at least
of sincerity. If Pope believed them true, then
the stupidity which they disclose leaves it no
longer a matter of wood; r that Lee twisted him
around his finger ho easily. If Pope knew
them false, then lie is the most stupid of ro
mancers ; for detection and shame were inevit
able and at hand. In either case Ms reputation
for making wildly untrue statements is fully
uatained. The North could endure that, per
haps admire it. But his military failure has
probably sealed his fate. Wo presume that
Pope has had his day, and must now retire to
the background and make upom for some new
•braggart.
A CONi LICT OF VIEWS ON CPU CROSSIKU THE
. POTOMAC.
It is supposed that the enemy is intending
to cross the river into Maryland. Upqp this
disposition of fhe ConfcSerAiUs oaf j. e’ghbor
of the Star remarks as ioliows :
“ We tiust, if such is their dk position, that
Gen. McClel! li will Indulge them in it to their
hearts’ come: b Let them cross unmolested,
leaving the Pci mac in their rear.
“We kf * v > eli the heartiness rtf the Union
ism of the a: -. ?> of thft people inhabiting the
region they rwj l first eater, if crossing into
Maryland where they must cross if essaying
suofa an undertaking.
“ Our forces will 'make short work of them,
if they have occasion to Pave the Potomac in
■their .fear, fire'distant public may rest as
sured.’
Wp do not incline to these opinions of,the
Star. It strikes ns thru if our subtle foe gets
over to Maryland, he will give U3 infinite trou
ble. If we cannot conquer him cn Virginia
soil, we do not sen th e jar; >■ >’*- 3 by which he is
to he conquered a Maryland. We do not
think R.hest that cur enemy should cross into
Maryland, and we iru ’, there-'ore, that General
McClellan will not Indulge him in any each
pastime. We do not belitfre it to be the best
way to meet a danger by shutting our eyes to
it, or by declaring that no danger exists. We
have had quite enough o-; that sort of lullaby
during the war. It is high time that it should’
cense, and that the public mind should settle
down into *he sober, pertain conviction that
this burineps cf patting down the rebellion is
no child’s play. Too much such aid and com
fort ha? already been given t the enemy by
pivotal men and presses:
Brutal Murder of a Confederate Offi
cer .-—The Nashvilie’Fc-deral Übion, of the23th
ult., gives the following account of the snoot
feg of cne of General Price’s officers—another
striking case for retaliation : *
“On the 15;h last.,-Gen. Loan ordered a Lieu
tenant in Price’s army to be shot at Laclede*
M-II wasxhargpd with’ several crimes, and
-.g them the killing of the j.illot ol the
Wuite Cloud. He Was once before Ordered to
be shot by a military commission ia Missouri,
but escaped. He confessed everything charged.
After a full examination, he was sentenced by
General Loan to be shot to death. After inform
ing him of the verdict and sentence, and asking
him if he had any word to leave to bis friends,
or anything to say, he said he bad not, and told
them to shoet and be d—d. He ’ was led ont
beside his coffin and ordered to kneel, but he
swore he never did kneel before the face of
clay, and never would ; and, standing up, be re
ceived the volley, and fi ll dead on bin coffin.
Singular Coincidence.— Ou the Ist of Au
gust, ISCI, while vi.-iling the hospital at Char
lotsvilie, we met Major Funstan, of Ashby’s
Cavalry, who bad just arrived from Staunton.—
He 6-aid that, in a conversation the day before
with Gen. Lee, who was then en route for West
ern Virginia, the General said he thought the
battle of Manassas would La fought over cn lbs
same ground. While he evidently expected it
by the two armies then in that proximity, it is
curious that, alter a year, a great battle shqpld
occur on the same ground and under his com
mand.—[South Carolinian.
TSTO. 40.
TELBQ-BAPHIO
Important from Maryland.
A\ VABloff OF THE STATE (JONFIUMEJJ
BY OEM. LEE.
Lee’s Headquarters at Frederick.
THE MARYLANDERS ORGANIZING FOIt
FREEDOM.
lEPOHTANT CAPTURES i?N VISE
CHESAPEAKE ANP OHIO
CANASi.
[Special despatch to the Savannah Republican.!
Richmond, Sept, 12.—An official despatch baa been
received at the War Department from General Lee,
confirming the successful entry of onr army into Mary
land. General Lee’s despatch ia dated at his head
quarters, Frederick. He says the Yan!-cos destroyed
a vast amount of army stores, and tcok to flight as our
army approached.
Tho citizens of Maryland were organizing fer war
throughout the State, aaid eapecialfy at Baltimore.—
Largo accessions to tho Confederate army were coming
in daily and others en route for his camp.
Gen. Stuart.s cavalry bad captured a large number
cf boats, laden with cargoes of provisions and other
valuable products, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
The Marylanders in Virginia are all in a b’cze and
intoxicated with the prospect of an early redemption
of their beloved State. Those in Richmond aro rapid,
ly leaving in companies under Brig. Gen. G. B. Stew
art, ®f Maryland.
Large Arrival of Confederate
Prise iers.
Confederate Victory ia Arkansas.
Jackson, Sept. 11.—Four thousand Confederate
prisoners arrived at Vicksburg yesterday. They aro
principaliy those who were eaptuied at FcrtDonqison.
They complain of barbarous treatment by the Yan
kees.
Official icfo matiop has beep received- that Gcrdral
Pratt, with a foci cf Texans end Louisianians, attack
ed the enemy at Bayou Liesatma, hiding forty and cap
turing one hundred and torty-fout prisoners, together
with a battery of fleid pieces.
Later from Tesnssseli -
FIFTY YANKEES KILLED-CAPTURE OF
COL. CLIFF. AND THIRTY TENNESSEE
TORIES.
ISpccial despatch to tho Savannah Republican.]
Knoxville, Bept. I?.—Lieutenant-TilolGnel Hart’s
Cavalry, bdongieg to Colonel J. Smith's Georgia Le
gion, has just returned fr.'m Ihe Cumberland Moun
tains. They encountered Colonel Cliff's brigade of
renegado Tennesseeans near Jins.own, and had a des
perate fight, in which we killed fifty and took thirty
prisoners and thirty horses, without lies on our side.
Col CiifT is among the prisoners.
Firm >!i3 Naith and Europe.
THE -CONFEDERATES MARCHING INTO
PENNSYLVANIA—ALL QUIET AT CIN
CINNATI-GARIBALDI'S P.ACE ENDED
—THE BRITISH GRANNIES STILL
CROAKING,
Eichm jNB, Eept. 12.—Northern papers of the 9lh
havo been received.
A despatch from Harrisburg, dated Bth, announces
tho cfriitil of Gen, Porter to confer with tbo-Governor
of Pennsylvania as to tho best means of checking the
advance of the energy.
Tho rebels are said to be entering Pennsylvania in
force, near Hanover, in York county.
Tho excitement at Cincinnati had subsided.
Gold was quoted in New York at 119.
Late advices from Europe state that Garibaldi has
been defeated, wounded, and captured in Italy.
Lord Palmors’on has made a speech highly compli
mentary of the United States government for its con
dnet in the settlement of the Treat affair.
Lord Brougham has made a speech advocating a
complete and entire neutrality in American affairs.
Congressional JNwsu, -
Eioumonp, Bept. 12.—in the Senate, bwday, a bill
Van rep<wte.i*> lacrosse the number of general Staff of
ficers. 'Nearly tho entire session was btcnpicdratEr
discussion of a resolution for the appointment ofa select
committee to enquire whether or not certain soldiers
in the Confederate army have been executed without a
trial. Hefoae it was disposed of tho Senate went into
executive BBf6ioD.
In the House, two resolutions were reported from
the Committee on Military Affairs ; they wers discuss
ed all day and finally adopted.
The fli st tendered the thanks of Congress to General
Lee, the officers and men under his command Ibr their
late brilliant victory ; it was unanimously adopted.
The second expresses the profound satisfaction of
Cofigrees at the triumphant crossing of the Potomac
by our victorious army, and favoring tho advance of
our standard into the territory of the enemy; which
was also adopted—yeas, C3 ; nay, a , 15.
A motion to strike out tho clause relative to the ad
vance into the enemy’s country, elicited a long debate
and was negatived—yeas, 29 ; nays, £2.
PionMOND, Sopt. 18. —In the Senate, to-day, tho
resolutions concerning the execution of Confederate
soldiers, without trial, were farther discussed ; and a
substitute was finally adopted requesting the Presi
dent to inform the Senate whether or not any soldiers
in the army of the Confederate States have bedh shot
by Order of any general officer without trial, according
to the rules anil rcgulatiens for the government of the
land forces; and if so,, that he lay before the Senate
ail information he has upon the subject, and inform it
whether any steps have been tsjcsn by the Executive
in the matter. _
In the House, the foliowing bills were .passed: ,
A bill to create tho rank of Lioutemmt-General in
the Confederate army.
A bill to increase the Signal Corps,.
A bill to provide for the payment of certain claims
against the Confederate Stales in Miesouri.
A bill to increase the pay of non-commissioned offi
cer sand private in the army ; yeas, f6; nays, 6.
The Conscript bill was f uriher discussed.
FROM BEYOND THE POTOMAC.
The Confederate Forces at Hagerstown.
POPE SENT TO THE INDIANS,
COTTON TURNING TO GOLD.
Ehlhmqnd, Sept. IS. —Northern papers 'of tbe 10th
inst. have teen received here.
Despatches giving the whereabouts of tbe Confed
ate army are contradictory, but it appears certain that
a large foree was at Hagerstown, Md., on the Bth inst.
Ail tho rolling stock at Hagerstown tad been remov
ed from Hagerstown, and the telegraph evacuated.
The Baltimore correspondent of the New Y>r
Herald says that tho excitement In Baltimore v Rain
creased in intensity, and that there was every in Oft.
lion of a popular outbreak.
Pope has been assigned to the Department of tho
Northwest,with bis headquarters at St. Paul, Minneso
ta. Bo'ore leaving Washington he preferred charges
of cowardice against Siegel, and disobedience of or
ders against Fitz John Porter.
In Now Yok city, gold was quoted at 116%; and cot
ton at 5Se. for Middling Uplands. ,
The Yankees Throwing Troops into
Maryland.— The government at Washington
is reported as exerting itself in throwing troops
into Maryland. The Washington Star says-:
An immense movement of troops into Mary
land has been actively going forward since
Friday night. They have been pouring over all
the bridges, and through Georgetown and this
city, in an immense and continuous throng,
followed by long trains of artillery and baggage
wagons. The troops consist of the veterans of
the army of the Potomac and of Virginia, with
a considerable admixture of the new levies.
Fatal Duel.—A Correspondent of the Col
umbus Times writing from Charleston says :
A duel was fought near hefe on the sth, be
tween Col. W. Ransom CalhonD, commander
at Fort hum ter and a nephew of the great John
C., and Major Rhett, son of Barnwell Rhett,
which resulted in the death of the former.—’
This is the second duel M; jor Rhett has fought
lately ; the origin of both difficulties, It is said,
growing out ot remarks made himself concern
ing Col. Calhoun. The community mourn the
loss of Col. Calhoun. He graduated at West
Point in 1850, and racked high as a military
leader. Major Rhett- is much esteemed and
should he continue in the srmy, rises to the
place made vacant by the death of CoL Calhoun,
both being in the same regiment.