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j. w. WARBEIVi - - - Editor.
Saturday Morning, June 11, 1864.
Army Correspondence of the Daily Times.
Aimy or Tiknbssbi, \
June 9th, 1864. J
Sherman’s army lies like a crippled adder,
coiled among the Alatoona hills. To advance
he finds it impossible ; to flank, either on the
right or left, would be tantamount—would
place him on the list with McDowell, Pope,
Halleck et id omne ptnus,
Erer since he crossed the Etowah he has
exerted his every energy to move around the
right of our army, but as often as he essayed
the move, lie has been sent reeling back to his
original entrenchments. Failing in that di
rection, he massed his forces for the purpose
of turning our right; but there again he heard
and obeyed the stern voice of the Irish Mu- j
ra t Gen. Cleburne — ‘thus far shalt thou j
come and no farther." Again massing his ;
forces upon the line of the State road, he j
promised himself a quick trip to Marietta.—
But man proposes and God disposes. Scarce
ly had he prepared himself for this last grand
more, when, to his utter discomfiture, the
Cavalry of Gen. Chalmers cut his “communi
cations” at Calhoun, and in soldierly parlance
“ 'fetched him up a sitting."
So the “on to. Atlanta” is certainly at a
stand-still for some time to come. Defeated
in his front —wounded in his rear —living on
half rations—Sherman must remain among
the gorges of the Allatoonas until he can re
pair and make safe his line to Chattanooga.
Can he do this V Into this very dilemma Gen.
Johnston intended to lead him when he moved
from Dalton. The only strange thing about
it is that Sherman should have been so stupid
as to have followed him.
While thus Sherman has been crippled and
baffled, and his army weakened, until he can
not give or accept battle on an open field, our
army has been uniformly victorious in every
contest—its spirits and morale preserved—
and, in fact, improved, and at the same time
its members have increased until now “the
boot is on the other foot.”
The facts demonstrate the wisdom of Gen.
Johnston and inspire the people with an abid
ing confidence in him as the custodian of our
liberties.
You need look for no active movements in
this direction for several days to conje.
The weal her haa been fickle as a girl of
“sweet sixteen,” for some days. To-day it is
all forbidding, and to-night will smile with
inviting beauty. If the weather changes, the
Relief Committees do not follow its suit.—
Many a sick and wounded soldier will long
remember the aid and comfort afforded him
by those kind-hearted and devoted men who
compose the various Relief Committees which
watch like untiring angels, the rear of our
army. How it nerves the arm of the daring
soldier as he strikes the deadly blow, to know
that kind friends are behind him, ready
to minister to his wants, should he need
their assistance. The mission of these
Committees, is truly a noble one. Let
the people *t home aee to it, that they want
neither supplies, clothing or money. x
Appropos of Relief Committees, your
corrsepondeut is doing but simple jus
tice to an excellent man in reporting
the dcvoLion of your fellow citizen (Japt. Jas.
M. Russell, to tha work of relieving the wants
and ministering to the necessities of our sick
and wounded*soldiers. Untiring in his efforts
to alleviate their sufferings, he has endeared
hirnself to many in the character of the “good
Samaritan.” If the people will take care of
our wounded, the army will preserve the lib
erties of the people.
More anon. ALABAMA.
The Pope and Maximilian. —The Unica
Cattolica gives the text ot the allocution ad
dressed by the Pope to the Emperor and Em
press of Mexico, before administering to them
the Communion in the Vatican. In the course
of it his Holiness says : “In the name of God
I recommend to you the prosperity of the
Catholic people who have been intrusted to
you. Great are the rights of the people, and
they must be satisfied; but greater and more
sacred are the rights of s he Church, the spot
less spouse of Jesus Christ, who has redeemed
us with his blood—that blood which is now
to crimson vour lips. You will, therefore, re
spect the rights of the people and of the
Church, and will thus labor for the temporal
and spiritual welfare of your subjects.”
PiinvED Him Right. —The Lynchburg Re
publican says that*a Yankee prisoner was j
shot and killed by Mr. M. Day, one of the |
guard at Camp Nichols. Friday morning, for
a violation of the orders requiring prisoners !
to keep within the ri prescribed bounds. The
Yankee was repeatedly ordered by the guard
to keep from overstepping the limits, but paid j
no attention to the 9rder, and abused Day in j
the foulest language; when, finding nc other j
remedy would avail, he was fired upon and
killed almost instantly. He was a member of j
a Vermont regiment* but we did not learn bis I
name.
♦
From New Orleans —The Mobile Tribune j
learns from a gentleman just from New Or- :
leans, that sixty-nine youths ran the blockade j
from that city at the time that he did. He
further states that the most of tffiem went to
join Gen. Taylor, itnd that the young men in
New Orleans are now in a frenzy to get out of
that city in order to assist their fathers and
brothers in retaking the city.
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Thk Tobacco Rations.—The soldiers of
the Confederate army are now drawing th£
tobacco ration in accordance with an act of
Congress. As in everything else furnished
bj contract, says the Richmond Examiner, i
swindling contractors have embraced the op
portunitj, in many cases, to impose a worth
less article upon the government, .out of the
vast deal of tobacco in the Coniederacy, j
bought up on speculation, and suffered *to
become worthless and rotten. In this case, j
next to the government, the soldier is the
sufferer, as by a loose system of inspection,
much of this rotten tobacco has been pur
chased, and is now being issued in ration^.
* \ Roldier has left with us a this
•■>u tobacco, and if it be taken as a sample
e'ohacco issued, Cougres# had better re
tho law at once, and give each soldier a
. . 'ul of decayed cabbage leaves or turnip
-o chew. It would certainly be more
acive to health.
From the Richmond Whig.
Tbe Military Situation.
Grant, in his sidelong movement to>
wards Richmond,, has at last reached a
point, when the cheat that he is forcing
his way to the city can no longer he imw
posed on his army or the people of his
country. It is not to be wondered at,
with the fictitious prestige enjoyed by
the commander, and with tneir alacrity to
accept the impression that he was making
headway, that they should have given
credit to his assurances, and the yet more
confident and sanguine asseverations o
Stanton and Lincoln, that be was beating
down barriers and conquering his way to
the Capital. They saw that he was actu
ally getting geographically nearer to the
city, and they readily accepted the assur
ance that he was doing this by pushing
back Lee and overcoming all the resist
ance that General was able to make.
From our point of view we were able to
regard events more correctly. We could
understand how it was that Grant, though
beaten in every collision of the armies,
could yet by flank movements edge his
way nearer to Richmond, till a given point
was reached, We could see how it was
that Lee, though never forced buck one
foot of the way, was compelled, after eacjj
successful encounter, to counteract Grant s
flank movements by drawing hra own ar*
my near to Richmond. This gave us no
concern, because we knew that a position
would fiually be leached by the two ar
mies, when Grant could only enter the
city by passing over the army of Lee; and
every combat was showing that this would
be impossible. What we have thus seen
and understood all along, the Yankee ars
my and nation are now compelled to see.
The imposture from this time ceases, and
facts begin to appear in their true light
and with their real significance.
The first inquiry that will force itself
on the Yankee mind, will be : If Lee’s
whole army, increased in strength, intent
sified in spirit, protected by works which
duplicate their force, still stand between
Grant and Richmond, what has Grant
gained by his operations? He has at a
cost, to this time, of perhaps seventy«five
thousand men, arrived within ten miles of
Richmond —but was not McClellan per
mitted to approach still nearer, without
serious resistance. Could not Grant, too,
by means of the James or the York, have
transported hia army to the neighborhood
of the city, and taken a position as near
to it as. that he now holds, without resist*
ance and without the sacrifice of a hund
red lives ? These questions the people
of the North, and especially the friends,
of McClellan will not fail to ask, and the
answer will force itself, that of all prac*
ticable routes of approach to Richmond,
Grant has taken that which was most diffi*'
cult, most wasteful of means, and most
destructive of life. When to this conclu*
sion is added the knowledge of the fact
that Lee has been able to baffle all Grant’s
efforts to break through his lines, and to
force him into a dozen deflections, at a
cost to himself, all told, to the present
day, not reaching eighteen thousand men;
and that he is now stronger by thousands
than he was yesterday a month ago, when
the first collision occurred, what can they
do but accept the conviction that of the
many Generals who have attempted the
on to Richmond, not excepting the head
long Pope or the stupid Burnside, Grant
has conducted the attempt most unwisely
I and with the least prospect of success.
This is our deliberate and impartial
opinion. We concede to him some quali*
ties not possessed by his predecessors in
failure. He has an energy, a will, a bold
ness, and a power to urge masses of men
forward with a momentum superior to
any of them. But he lacks strategy, he
lacks caution, he lacks versatility, and he
lacks the common instinct of humanity
that teaches a care for life. The quali
ties he possesses and Iho3e he lacks make
him exactly the person that a calm, expe
rienced, watchful and masterly General,
like Lee, especially when acting defen
sively, must prefer to meet. The great
aim of a General in action is to destroy
the army of his adversary, while exposing j
his own to the least injury and loss. Lee j
knows how to take care of his men, and j
in the late operations has entitled himself
to immortal honor for the care he has so j
successfully practiced in this regard. ;
While he does this he sees in his adver
j savy a commander who will afford him
I opprtunities of accomplishing the other
1 object of battle—the destruction of the
adverse army. The process has gone on
already, until Grant’s army, fully double
Lee’s in the beginning, has been depleted
down to an equality with, if not an infe*
j riority to, the Confederate army. They
j may reinforce, it is true, to a limited ex
tent—but to do this they must employ
S raw and inefficient men, or they must
i abandon positions already held or threat*
! ened, which will liberate forces on our
! side, and enable us, to concentrate as well
ias they. It is impossible for them to re
j gain the disproportion that existed when
| the campaign beganand, if they could,
[ that would be insufficient, as experience j
has shown, to overcome the invincible ar- j
my of Lee. And if they could double
the disproportion it would still be more
than counterbalanced by the advantage
| Gen. Lee may derive from the fortifica-
I tions of the city whenever he chooses to
I avail himself of them. Altogether, Rich
i mond was never safer, nor the Confeder
; ate cause on higher or firmer ground. The
I Greek kalends have not yet come, perpet
j ual motion has not been invented, the
| circle has not been squared, the Yankee
nation has not shown itself to be the
bravest, wisest, noblest race of mankind —
but we expect to see all these things ac
complished before Grant enters Richmond,
unless it be as a prisoner of war.
A Hard Hit.— The proprietors of j
the New York Journal of Commerce and
the World have published a joint letter
on the subject of the late military seizure j
and suppression of their papers, in which
they show that they were but the victims
of a clever forgery, palmed off on them
in the shape of a telegraphic despatch,
written on manifold paper, <fcc. &c. Their
only crime was that they were taken in
and deceived. And just here they hit
Seward a terrible blow, when they declare
i they have been punished ‘'for the inisfor
i tune of beiug deceived by a forgery, not
less ingenious and plausible than that
forged report of the Confederate Secreta
ry of the Navy, which Secretary Seward
1 made the basis of his diplomatic action.
We do not see how Seward can dodge
this—but the truth is, this “Artful
Dodger” was not deceived by the Mallory
forgery. He knew its false character and
he had to impose upon Russell, and gain
a point in England. But the satire of
the New York editors is none the less
biting. m t r _
An Annul versary Editorial--
Tbe Result* of a Tear.
The following editorial published in the
New York News of the 18th ultimo, is very
readable :
To-day completes the twelve months since
the publication of the New York News was
resumed after its suppression by the Adminis
tration. It was suppressed for those attrib
utes for which Galileo was persecuted; that
is for deprecating error and preaching truth.
Its publication was resumed not because its
persecutors relented or repented, but because
publio opinion had, to a certain degree, re
covered its independence, and cried shame
upon this cowardly and unprecedented as
sault upon the liberty of the press in this Re
public. We are, therefore, not in debt to Gov
ernment officials for the privilege of exercis
ing a vocation valueless unless untrammeled.
What was taken from by arbitrary power
was given back to us when tbe popular senti
ment demanded the restitution ; and our sub
sequent course has attested that this immu
nity from the strong hand has not been pur
chased by any concessions on our part to des
potism, or by any sacrifice of principle, or by
any shameful bargains to subserve the will of
power or the interests of faction at the expense
of the country’s welfare. We endured twenty
months of suppression, under silent protest,
virtually placing our cause in the hands of
the people, and awaiting in full confidence
that judgment which they ultimately awarded
beyond our expectations. We have now enjoyed
for twelve months, the full liberly of expres
sion of opinion, and while we have not abused
it, the history of our career during these
twelve months, show that we have used it
neither feebly nor in vain.
We enter, therefore, to-day the second year
of our resurrection from the hands of tyranny,
and looking back into the year that is past,
we see that time has everywhere traced the
confirmation of those doctrines that we have
advocated; It has been as. we pronounced it
must inevitably be, if the mad appeal to arms
were persisted in. Blood enough has flowed
to blot out of existence every bond of friend
ship between the sections. One barren cam
paign has followed another always with great
loss of life, but never with decisive military
result. In the beginning of these campaigns,
the war journals of the North have been
boastful of anticipated triumph*, and extrav
agant in their prophecies of the immediate
crushing of the rebellion.
At the close of these campaigns, the same
journals have been almost exclusively occu
pied in explaining the causes of discomfiture,
and in heaping ashes upon the head of some
luckless General, whom they have crowned in
advance, with the laurels of victory. And
thus from campaign to campaign, the war has
dragged its slow length along, its course mark
ed with blood and agony, and desolation, but
the goal forever receding, and never within
sight. We have now reached the most des
perate period of the strife. Men enough have
been slain and mounded in Virginia within
the past twelve days, to have decided an Eu
ropean war, and to have determined im
perial question. But with our list of casual
ties counted by the sixty thousand, we have
failed to advance ten miles beyond the point
of starting,* and the terrible slaughter has
been entirely in vain. As it has been with
other Generals in Virginia, so it will be with
Grant. He is now exalted as a demigod.;
he will in time be railed at as a hound that
misses the scent. The war journals are as
bitter in their disappointment as they are ex
travagant in their hopes. They must have
an object for their idolatry or for his curses.
We foretold this waste of life from the
commencement of the unnatural struggle.—
We have hardly let a day pass, without an
invocation to peace, an appeal to the true pa
triotism of the people to end this butchery that
has converted their country into shambles. —
That we have been understood,, and that great
truths we have uttered have been appreciated
by the masses, is evident from the unexam
pled popularity that.tlie Daily News has at
tained within the year since our publication,
that ended yesterday. On the 18th jof May,
1863, we resumed publication, tinder tne par
alyzing influence of twenty months of con
strained silence on our part, long enough, in
such times of excitement and of great events,
for the antecedents of a newspaper to pass al
most away from public memory. We started
wilh a small sheet, without official patronage
and with no means of securing popular pat
ronage except the influence of the principles
we vindicated.
That was enough. In a brief while the
people ascertained the attributes of the Daily
News, and felt that it was the
their own creed. Our circulation, for tbe Dai
ly and Weekly New3, increased with a rapidi
ty that has no parallel in the history of jour
alism, and we were soon enabled, and, in fact,
compelled, to enlarge our paper, and to im
prove all its departments, until it is to-day,
upon an equality in respect to size, with the
largest Dailies of the metropolis, while in res
pect to its value as a chronicle of news it ex
cels them all. Under these encouraging cir
cumstances, we commence the second year of
our republicatiun , let us hope that before its
close, the principles we advocated by the Daily
News, shall have finally triumphed over fanat
icism and the thirst for power, and that its
third year shall witness the pure ministration
of peace, healing the wounds of our war-stric
ken country.
An Odk ax a New York Fair.—We quote
from the ode sung at the opening ceremonies
of the New York Sanitary Fair, two stanzas,
which probably did not strike those who sang
or listened to them as false and blasphemous:
God of all nations, So v ereign Lord,
In Thy dread name we draw the sword,
We lift the starry flag on high
That fills with light our stormy sky.
No more the flaming emblems wave
To bar from hope the trembling slave ;
No more its radiant glories shine
To blast with woe one child of thine.
Asa commentary on these defying lines, is
the following brief extract from the New York
World :
We were told when the war broke out that
the people of the North—Christians—were go
ing South to regenerate the “lost tribes” of
that region. How has it been done ! Let the
still smoking ruins of Hopefield and Green
ville, and Lake Providence, and Young's Lan
ding, tell the story. We were told, too, that
the war would redeem the race of blacks,from
bondage. How has this been done ? Let the
lecherous scoundrels who disgrace the name
of offieer or private answer. The morals of
the North were shocked by the narratives of
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mr. Trowbridge,
but what has eur army done? What became
of the poor contrabands that escaped into our
lines.at White river, Nashville and Bridge
port? The brutality of our officers at these
points, exceeded anything that fiction could
produce. Has it come to this—that the Stars
and Stripes, once so respected and feared, are
I to cover robbery and piracy, and make them
legal through power ?
| No more it radiant glory to shine V
To blast with woe one child of thine.
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Heavy Losses. —Brutus J. Clay says
1 the losses in the recent battles will reach
; Ts ,000 ; that the greatest discouragement
exists in the Cabinet; and that another
i call for three hundred thousand men will
! soon be issued.
Lamb, iu*his “Elia," says : “No man who is
fond of apple dumplings can be wholly rep
robate.”
gBLEORAPHIO.
SPECIAL TO TIE BAiLT .TIMES.
Latest flrem the Georgia Froat.
Iy rwa Fuld, newr Harris' Station, 3 miles
south of Big Shanty, via Marietta, June lA —The
enemy advanced yesterday with infantry, cav
alry, and artillery, to within a mile *and a half
south of Big Shanty, and after skirmishing with
our cavalry and a portion of Walthall's brigade,
fell back te their original position.
The enemy advanced again this morning to
the position of yesterday skirmishing all the
morning.
Prisoners taken yesterday report the enemy
intended a general advance to-day.
Pickets report the enemy evidently preparing
for battle.
A heavy rain is falling. R.
Reports of the Press Association
Entered according to aet of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S, Thrasher, in the Clerks office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Richmond, June 10.—No change in the situa
tion of affairs. All quiet.
Richmond, June 10.—Fremont’sleter accepting
the Cleveland nomination declares Lincoln's ad
ministration a military dictatorship, without uni
ty, action, vigor or execution. He says if an ac
ceptable min he nominated at the Baltimore Con
vention, he will not be a candidate; if Lincoln is
nominated, no other alternative will be left but to
organive every element in opposition to prevent the
misfortune of his re-election.
The Herald says Fremont’s position secures the
defeat of Lincoln.
Richmond, June 10. —The steam rams built by
Laird have been purchased by the English Gov
ernment .
The crew of the schoonor J. L. Girelyhave been
discharged.
Liverpool cotton market steady.
Mobile, June 10.—A special dispatch to the
Register from Senatobia, says:
Can by has been appointed a division comman
der. Banks, Steele and Roseeranz retain their re
spective commandr.
Mower is reported to have defeated Polignac on
the 18th ult., on Yellow Bayou. Confederate loss,
800 ; Federal loss, 150.
Shelby is moving on South-western Missouri
with 2400 men.
Six thousand infantry ordered south from Mis
souri to reinforce a cavalry raid said to have left
Memphis for Corinth.
Gold in Memphis, 225.
Fremont and Cochrane have been nominated by
the Cleveland Radical Convention.
A Washington dispatch of the 2d says that 32,-
000 wounded have been brought to the hospitals
there.
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Richmond. June 10.—The Senate concurred in
the House amendments to the bill establishing a
hureau of Foreign Supplies.
It again rejected the bill to authorize two .army
reporters of the Press Association to purchase ra
tions and forage.
Most of the day was spent in secret session.
The House passed the Senate Ijill for the relief
of States holding old curreucy, and disagreed to
the Senate amendment to the bill amending the
tax laws. A committee of conference will be the
result.
Congress will probably adjourn to-morrow.
[From the Atlanta Intelligencer, 9th.]
Northern News via Chattanooga*
By the kindness of a friend from the Army
of Tennessee, we have been placed in posses
sion of a Chattanooga Gazetfb, of June 21st.
The first item that attracts our attention is
nine closely printed columns of the killed and
wounded Yankees in the battle of the 25th of
May at Dallas. The editor heads it, in large
cap letters, the “Roll of Honor.”
The victims are from Illinois, Ohio, Wiscon
sin, Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York.
The greater number are from Pennsylvania.
The least from Indiana. This tells a fearful
loss on that bloody day when the drunken
and infatuated hordes of Sherman’s crew, but
ted their lives away against the living walls
of more than adamant that slaughtered them
so terribly.
Stanton, the Yankee Secretary of War, was
telegraphed from Kingston, Ga., June 1, that
Sherman’s line reached to and occupied the
railroad at Marietta; that this had been the
object, of Sherman’s movements for several
days past. Additional forces are reaching
him and ample supplies.
Another dispatch reports “all quiet at Little
Rock, Ark.”
The Liverpool cotton market quiet. Un
changed stock in port 250,000 bales. Con
sols 71f ; York Cotton 108. Gold 89L
The New York Herald, on the authority of
the Georgia papers, reports “that the people of
Georgia are fleeing before Sherman’s advance
and-have great difficulty in procuring food
and clothing.”
Os the Nashville Convention it says: “It
was held on the 30th ult., to appoint dele
gates to the Baltimore Convention.” (Lin
coln’s Convention, which met on yesterday,
June 7th.) “The proceedings were marked
by harmony and patriotism. The following
delegates were selected:
For the State at Large—M M Brier., of L' \-
vidson;'David D Patterson, of Greene. Alte. •
nates : John Trimble, Esq., of Davidson, R C
Crawford.
For Middle Tennessee —Gen’l A C Gillem,
of Jackson ; It J Farguharsou, of Davidson ;
W Bosom, of White.
Alternates : John C Walker, of Giles ; W B
Stokes, of DeKalb ; Thomas C -Trimble, of
Sumner.
Col. George W. Bridges, of the 7th Tennes
see Cavalry, made a speech, in which he de
nounced the “infernal Rebels.” He said “trait
ors should not live in our part of the State.
The Union men are determined to stay, and
the rebels must leave.”
There are a few people from that great
State of wh'om he has taken no account in
this matter. We will see at some future time
who will live there. Aye, will we.
Ia there resolutions, the nigger is emphati
cally theperfumedquestion that pre-eminently
stares i the reader in the face. After many
tearful regrets and silly assertions, they came
to the point for which the meeting was held,
the renegades in council said : “We therefore
endorse the administration and war policy of
President Lincoln, and pledge our lives, our
fortunes and our sacred honors to defend and
sustain them as the only means of our fu
ture security, happiness and feedom, and
therefore recommend his re-nomination by
the Baltimore convention for the Prisidency
of the United States.”
“Rjesolved, That Governor Andrew John
son by his unflinching courage and patriotism
has endeared himself to all American patri
ots, #c.
Another news item tells us, that
“Tjhe Hon. Thos. Corwin, of Lebanon, Ohio,
who for some time past has 90 ably filled the
position of Minister to Mexico, has resigned
bis office. He will be succeeded by the Hon.
Thomas Nelson.”
The list of wounded referred to above only
includes those of one division in one army
corps.
It may well be Imagined, if the loss was so
fearful in only one small division, it must have
i been perfectly awful in the entire army that
I made that fruitless dssault against our line3
on the 25th.
We notice that Tobacco sold in Louisville
a few days ago at $4 50 per pound. T’ s t
hibits a great increase in the price c:‘
staple luxury.
GITY MA rTKRS.
T. J. JACKSON,-. LOCAL EDITOR
L. G. Bowikb, Ssq.— We are pleased to wel
eeme heme once again this gentleman who has
been absent for some months en his seeond Euro
pean tour. He reached this city yesterday morn
ing, and we are placed under obligations to him
for files of London papers to the 14th May, from
which we hope when we have leisure to make
some gleanings. Time and absence, we are pleased
to see, have dealt kindly with oar friend.
The eard of Maj. Humphreys, turning over the
office of Commandant of Post to Maj. Dawson,
should have appeared simultaneously with the
card of the latter in Thursday’s paper, but owing
to some cause was mislaid before reaching this of
fice.
Show*rt. —The weather,still continues showery,
and may serve to retard military operations to
some extent, but the effect on the growing crops is
delightful. Loek out for musquitoes about this
time.
Encouraging. —On the authority of a letter re
cently published by one of our religious papers,
written by a distinguished Southern divine, now
in New York, doubtless, on parole, it was slated in
one of the prayer meetings in that city, that there
has not been a single conversion in the Yankee
aimy since the war began. In our own, it has
been estimated that thousands on thousands, have
been savingly converted.
This is no matter for boasting, but it is a just
cause of humble gratitude and encouragement. It
is not because we are worthy, but becuse “it seem
eth good in tby sight, oh Lord.” It shows that
the hand of the most High is with our armies—
that the war is being turned into a great blessing
to our army. If he be for us who can be agains 4
us ?
Wesleyan Female College. —The catalogue
of this institution for 1863-4 shows a grand total
of 244 students in all the classes and a board of
twelve professors and instructors. We are glad
to see this time honored college maintaining its
vigor and efficiency in these times of war and civil
commotion.
A Just Yankee Criticism of Grant. —The
Chicago Times in editorial comment on the sit
uation, say* : “It is only now we are able to form
an accui’atejudgment upon the events of last week,
and oxplain why Lee, after being routed, omitted
to'retreat, and Grant, beingjoverwhelmingly victo
rious, failed to follow the dßnoralized foe. The
Government has never given a single explanation
of the situation of the army, but after announcing
a glorious victory, suddenly ceased to forward
anything.
The battle on Thursday was, undoubtedly, the
most fiercely contested, costly and gigantic ever
fought on this continent. Early in the morning
Hancock gained a brilliant success, of which Stan
ton notified the country. Later in the day the
rebels made a desperate charge, regaining all that
was lost, which fact Stanton concealed. The bat
tlo raged savagely all day, resulting in the com
plete failure of Grant to make the slightest im
pression on the rebel lines. He had a terrible ag
gregate of killed, wounded*and missing as our
(faint during that bloody day. Grant’s change of
position, on Friday night, was promptly met by
the rebels. Grant thus far has occupied his time
in getting reinforcements.
The Chancss of Blockade Running. —A list
of the vessels which have been running tbo block
ade from the port of Nassau and other ports, in
the period intervening between November, 1861,
and March 1864, shows that 84 steamers wore en
gaged ; of Jiese 37 were captured by the enemy,
12 were totally lost, 11 were lost and th* cargoes
partially saved, and one foundered at sea. They
made 363 trips to Nassau and 05 to other p*rts.
Amtng the highest number of runs made were
those of the Fannie, who has run 18 times, and
the Margaret and Jessie, which performed the
same feat, and was captured. Out of 425 runs
from Nassau alone (including 100 schooners) only
63—about one in seven—have been unsuccessful.
A letter from Nassau on this subjeet, says :
You will please observe that most of the boats
here enumerated were wholly unfit for the pur
pose to which they had been hastily applied under
the inducements of the large profit, and ara very
different from those which have been more recent
ly built, and expressly for bl ockade running. Still,
even now it is by no means an uncommon thing
for a five or six knot boat to make several suc
cessful trips, while the better class pass the block
ading squadron almost as carelessly a,; if none
such existed, frequently in open daylight. The
average life of a boat, which from the subjoined
table would appear to be about five runs, is there
fore in reality much higher, and may be safely es
timated, with proper management, to be at least
four round trips, or eight successful runs. Taking
all'tbe craft, good, bad, aud indifferent, together,
you will find that out of eighty-four steamers,
eleven only failed on the first run, thirty-3evon
have been captured, and twenty-five lost from va
rious marine accidents, while twenty-two arc still
safe, after having paid for themselves many times
over.
4fTalrs at Fredericksburg.
Yv * learn seme interesting particulars of the sit
uation of affairs at Fredericksburg from citizens
ot that place who have just arrived in Richmond.
Daring taelr occupation of tne town the Yankees
..rre tfcd citizens of Fredericksburg
aa u vicinity, aud j eat them to Washington, whence
most of them wore ‘.ransferred to Fort Delaware,
and are now held as hostages for a number of
Yankee stragglers who were picked up in the place
and sent to Richmond. Ten of the number, whose
names we give, were released at Washington, and
have returned, viz : Jame H. Bradley, Thomas
F. Knox, James McGuire, Councellor Cole, Mi
chael Ames, John G. Hurkomp, John J. Chew,
George H. Peyton, W. 11. Thomas, and John D.
Elder.
The houses in Fredericksburg were generally
occupied as hospitals, and tha number of wounded
is represented to have been very great: indeed,
gome of the citizens say there were more than they
supposed could have been disabled had all the ar
mies of the world been engaged. A Yankee
“Christian Sanitary Commission” came from tha
North to assist in the care of the wounded, and
among the number were Bishop iicllvaiue, and
other leading ministers of various deuouiiuations.
Notwithstanding their Corisuau professions, these
men were the most unscrupulous, God-forsaken
set that has cursed a Southern community since
the war commenced ; much worstj, it is said tu&n
the soldiers. The citizens called them the •‘anti-
Christian,” “insanitary,” and “Satanic”commis
sion. Their time was chiefly occupied in per.-ua
ding the negroes to desert their masters, (in which
they succeeded very well, about four filths of the
those in the place having gone,) in depredating
upon private property, and other acts of vandal
ism. They streuously urged the burning of all
the buildings, but in this they were unsuccessful.
Tbe enemy’s gunboats and the railroad were con
stantly employed in carrying off their dead and
wounded. The steamer Jacob Bell, which was
the last to leave, took her departure on Saturday
evening week, on which day the town was evacu
ated.
The Yankees brought with them but few sup
plies, and subsisted chiefly by plundering tbe citi
zens, all of whose private stores were lakcn, leav
ing them in a state of great destitution. Even th*
relief fund flour, corn meal, and other provisions,
were taken, notwitastanding an urgent appeal that
they might be spared for the destitute. A few of
the inhabitants, seeing nothing but starvation,
went over to the enemy’s country for relief; but
whether they succeeded assistance is not
known.
The shelving and counters of unoccupied stores
were UV -lake coffins for the dead and fix
tures foe - -• ended. Mr. John Howison’s
house n.is the furniture destroyed, and
*( ,’ ' he interior of Fickliu’s mill was
». T; ;• , *eck, and Howison’smill much
. ,j. . he work of wanton destruction
1 much of it was performed
ua .ils of the “Christian Sani-
It was stated by Yankee officers in converiau# a
which was overheard by citizens, that Grant’*
losses in Spottaylvania, since the opening of tbe
present campaign, would probably reach 75,000 or
80,000.
Stafford, Culpeper and Fauquier eounties, it i (
reported, are full of Yankee deserter* and strag.
glers. The crops in Stafford have not been much
injured, the enemy having confined thoir epera
iions to the immediate vicinity of the railroad
Richmond Dispatch, 6th.
The Front.
Yesterday was an uncommonly quiet day
undisturbed, as far as we could learn, by more
thau a, siugle rumor, which, however, if there
is Huy truth in it, is of more importance than
the generality of rumors. Tt bore that one of
Grant’s couriers had been intercepted with a
note from Grant himself to hi* Chief of Com
mis tariat, instructing him to use his stories
with the utmost economy, and saying that he
could get no more until he reached J*mea
river.. The impression has very generally
prevailed that Grant is trying to force his way
to that river, and that impression may have
given rise to the rumor. If there be any truth
in it, he must feel some doubt about the policy
or possibility of establishing his base at the
White House. Os this we know nothing ; but,
from appearances, he is evidently trying to
reach the James, either to establish his base
there or to cross over to the opposite side
This, we suppose, is the secret of his furious
attacks upon the positions at Cold Harbor and
Gaine’s Mill, and their neighborhood, and of
bis having assembled alargeforce at Bottom's
bridge. It he can get over this side, he hope*
to get possession of White Oak Swamp and
Malvern Hill, as McClellan did, and thus to
open the way to the river. These positions
aie both in our hands, and we hardly think
they will be abandoned without a struggle.—
How capable they are of defence McClellan
made it appear upon his retreat. Being now
'in our possession, we shall be in the position
that McClellan was then, and Grant will be
in the position that Gen. Lee then occupied.
Now, in 1862, our men carried the positions of
Cold Harbor and Gaine’s Mill, which McClell
an held then as we do now, while we occupied
the position now held by Grant. Thus far
Grant has been unable to make the lightest
impression upon these positions. On the con
trary, he has been repulsed in every attack
he has made, most signally and most murder
ously. The affair of Friday was a mere mas
sacre, and the attack of Friday night was re
pulsed with heavy loss on the part of the ene
my, and scarcely any loss on our part. If we
could take the same positions when they held
them, which they cannot take while we hold
them, the inference is, that ours are the best
troops. We have, therefore, no great fears
for White Oak Swamp or Malvern Hill, even
if Grantshould cross theChickahominy, which
he has not done yet.— Richmond Dispatch, 6th.
Texas Item*.
The past winter has been the severest upon cat
tle ever known in Texas. Some estimate the loss
at one half, and others at nine-tenths.
Lincoln ha* appointed James Speyer, of New
Orleans, collector of the port of Galveston.
The relations es the people of Texas with Jau
re* and his Cabinet are of the most friendly char
acter. Citizens of the Confederacy are exempt
from paying double duties on cotton imported last
month. A weekly mail is now in operation be
tween Laredo and San Atonio.
Cotton comes in slowly at Laredo, and meets
with ready sale at twenty-five to twenty-six cents.
Corn ia worth $5 to $6 per bushel; bacon, twenty
five to thirty cents per pound; freight on cotton
to Matamoros, five cents per pound; bagging and
rope, thirty to thirty—two cents; coffee, thirty-five
to thirty-seven cents.
A Yankee force, 300 strong, entered Port La
racca on the 23d. They tore down Dunn’s build
ing, corner of Austin and Commerce streets, and
carried ©ff the lumber. A schooner, the Angela,
loaded with cotton, was destroyed to prevent its
falling into their hands. Before leaving they
fired a large house in the middle of a block, and
destroyed nearly two blocks.
The Yankee force at Brownsville on the 6th ult.
consisted of two brigades of infantry, thirty-three
hundred; 16 pieces of artillery, five hundred ne
groes at Brazos Santiago, and Hayne’s Mexican
regiment of cavalry, 250 strong. They have en
deavored to induce Juarez to stop the cotton4rado
but he declines.
At the annual meeting of the H. T. <fc B. R. R.
company, the old board of directors with one or
two changes were re-elected, and the old officers
likewise. The company has cleared up its entire
floating debt.
Col. John Saylei is announced for justice of the
Supreme court.
Col. Ford has gone to the Rio Grande with a
largo force. It is stated that 60(3 Yankees have
gone up the river towards Davis’ ranche.
A band of jayhawkers have been prowling
through Karnes county, committing many depre
dations.
Gen. Roberts, an Englishman, is in command at
Saluria. Ho was made a major-general expressly
to command the Corps d’Afrique. The %hue
troops, except about eight hundred, left for Louis
iana. There are two thousand negro troops there,
of which six hundred are contrabands. They are
suffering for wood and water.
A correspondent of the Telegraph says that Gen.
Magruder’s staff part their hair in the middle,
while Gen. Smith’s staff have no hair at all, it be
ing cut off, and their heads sand-papered.
Disturbance at Vicksburg. —Our regular
correspondent, “Logan,” who is now in Yazoo
county, Miss., has been permitted to make the
following extract from a letter dated Canton.
2d inst: “A gentjeman came out from Vicks
burg a few days ago, who says there was a
great fuss there last week. Some negroes in
sulted some ladies, and the citizens under
took to punish them, and two or three of the
citizens were killed. The Yankee soldiers
then turned in on the negroes, and “slew them
fore and aft.” The troops reported as land
ing at Vicksburg were some 6f Banks’ men
whose time had expired and were going home.
They got on a general “bust” and thus addei
to the disturbance.”
Good nature is more agreeable in conversi
tion than wit, and gives a certain air to the
countenance which is more amiable than beau
ty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes
off in some measure from the deformity of vice
and makes even folly and impertinence sup
portable.
To the Public!
The undersigned proposes to establish a Soldiers
Reading Room k Library, in this city, so soona*
a central location can be procured. Its object is
to furnish a pleasant resort for the convalescent*
of our Hospitals, and other members of the Arm?
and Navy; and where the Papers of the day. - eC
ular and .Religious, may be found, as well as facih
ties for information and letter writing. ,
As the proper channel of communication ar. -
distribution, I respectfully solicit contribution* -
funds for purchase of publications, and also -*
Books, Papers and Pamphlets, and which mav
sent to the office of the Post Commandant, for
GEO. W. STICKNEY,
Chaplain of the Post.
Headquarter’s Post, j
Columbus, Ga., June Bth, ’64. S
The Rev. Mr. Stickney, Chaplain of the Post, K
authorized to carry out the above.
Tne Post Quartermaster will respond to such as
sistance as may be requisite in the case.
F. C. HUMPHREYS,
Major Comd'g P<> 3£ -
June 0,1361. lw
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