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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. «*- *» 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. mm * 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. 6 4 i r - 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. 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