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T H E C O U N T R Y M A N
then fake place in tlie States of New
York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania,
which revolutions would be followed
by like movements on the part of the
Western Stntes. Mr. Makay asse. ted
t hat in'New York there were elements
ing ns and compelling us to abandon
the contest. e
The New York 'rimes’ Washington
correspondent says :
'Over 12,000 of our wounded have
been brought up from 'he battlefield.
f disorder and discontent which ! and distributed nmong ihe. hospitals in
unU k nu .i r.il. • ., . . 1 . . .. .. ■» . , ° , it
would burst forth into a devastating
conflagration ; that the outbreak would
not be a mere riot, but an insurrec
tion; not a mob. oi thieves and row*
dies, but an organized multitude, tin
der definite leadership, and for a de-
finite purpose.” *
The Mens.
Muxuay, dune 0th. — Intelligence
eorr.es of more butcher) in Visginia.
When will Grant tire, of having his
men slaughtered '( Ho is constantly
and uniformly repulsed, with losses
much larger than Lee’s, and still he
persists in’ sending his columns up to
Certain desti uetion.-But 1st tie, com par
ativoly, seems to be doing above At
lanta, though the enemy has abandon
ed Dallas. Affairs look brighter, for
os than they did, a‘short lime back.
One of the most cheering symptoms,
we notice is the gradual but constant n g. io W * Hpottsyl-
n . ,, x -, , „ It vama, accoidmg to loyal accounts.
A special despatch from Cincinnati,
this city and Alexandra. A largo
number still remain at Belle Plain and
Fredericksburg, awaiting removal.
Thousands still lie on the battlefield”
Stanton says Siegel was last heard
from at. Woodstock ; and says the ru
mor that he had broken the railroads
betv'ecn Lynchburg and Charlottes-
ville is untrue.
The following items of news are
taken from the Chicago Times of the
18th :
Dawson, of Pennsylvania, offered a
peace resolution in the yank.ee House
of Repsentatrves. It was tabled by
a vote of seventy-six to fifty-throe.
A large body of rebels, with eigh
teen guns, are blockading Arkansas
liver » short distance above the cutoff,
and fears are eiRerfained for the safe
ty of the boats in that river.
Banks is leporfed to have escaped
with five thousand men. All the bal
ance are‘gone up.’ The editor takes
rise of gold at the North. Whoever
will keep bis eye on this infallible yan-
kee barometer,can very readily, and at
all times, arrive at the state of the we: -
th«r among our enemies. The precious
metal is now quoted in New York at
186, and in New' Orleans at 195. *
Late Items oj- Ya.xkkr News,—
'•The yankee® are beginning to find
out that Leo was not so badly whip
ped after all. Their latest papers
show that they have materially cooled
of the Pith, says private advices from
Washington put Grant’s loss at fifty
thousand. The real movement h- !
gainst Richmond is bring made by i
Butler and Smith, while Grunt keeps i
Lee employed.’'
Fight oi- the 38th.—The Rich
mond Whig says : We learn, through
a gentleman of prominence, who wit
nessed the assault on Ewell, on Wed
nesday the ISth instant, that the
slaughter was terrific. The attacking
oil. A Federal surgeon, who was pa-J force was said t*> he six thousand voL
.oled by General Lea to attend the! nnteeis, all that Grant could get from
body of Gen. Wadsworth across the [the army for the desperate enterprise,
lines, gives the lietnld the following j After their defeat, fifty came into our
in formation : | lines, and threw down their arms, and
The rebel loss is tremendous, but f said they bad enough of it. Upon
Jim,* ie no indication of their giving f asking what would be done with them,
*>p yet. | ao officer replied, yon will bo sent
i ho rebel lines are uwAi supported j to Richmond, This astonished them,
by interior works, and more arc being j as they had heard in Grant’s army,
von sir acted. {that Lee’s communication with Rich-
General Lee has sot been wounded, [ round was broken, and ihat all bis sup-
a.; tin* surgeon saw and talked with i plies were cut off.
him ns) fmlay, when lie gave him per- j lie also gives & more minute version
mission to take up the body of Gen. j of an anecfb4o already related in com-
” ads worth, ■ nnectinn with tlmrsdays fight. A ecr-
ifeisot opinion that the rebels will 1 tain point being very bard pressed,
} ct make n desperate resistance. lie [ Gen. 1 To rode up to Gregg’s Texas
piivations only seen, to ex- ( regiment, and told them they roust re ;
nape rati: them, and that they are kept cover the lost ground, and that he j
1 *') t5u ‘ !ll> P p idea of exhaust-I himself would lead them, With oue
voice, they ciied no; but, while un
willing to follow him, only asked that
he retire to the rear, and that they
would soon do what he wanted. At
this juncture, Ool. Gregg rode the line,
and, with a clarion voice, said, Tex
aus, the aye of your General is upon
you. Witli a yell more terrible than
an Indian whoop, they rushed to the
charge, drove the enemy back, and
regained the lost ground. But the
saddest part to relate, is, that of this
gallant band of heroes, only two hun
dred escaped to receive the congratu
lations of their great and good Gene*
ral. Who of woman born can con
quer such men ?
Fh deR A L REjorciNos.—Lincoin has
proclaimed a Thanksgiving, Governor
Seymour fired one hundred gnus, and
a teduem was sung in Trinity Chmch,
over Grant’s victory of the 12th, its
which the enemy were repulsed with
more terrible, slaughter than was ever
yet inflicted upon an American battle
field. Accounts, however, to the 2lsf,
seem to indicate that they ivoro begin
ning to get some glimmerings of truth
Gold had again risen from 170 to 1811,
and Stanton had found it necessary to
assure the press that he had sent on
25,000 veteran troops to swoll the de
pleted ranks oi Grant. Another
onmumsfaet is a proclamation from the
War Department inflicting instant
death upon deserters from Giant’s
army.
This shows that the slaughter was
beginning to tell upon the tamale of
his array, and certain death in the
rear was to be the spur to prick
up the unlucky yanks to meet proba-
blo death in the front. We are sur
prised, however, to see gold rise, in
the faeo of such glorious reports as the.
Fcdeiaisaie now receiving from Sher
man. Like the Florida, Mississippi,
and Red River expeditions,his is open
ing full of boundless promise-—to close,
as we trust, more disastrously. Gen.
Johnston delays the blow to make it
sure. Some one says when ho has
ninety nine chances of success, John*
ston will manoeuvre to gain the hun
dredth.; but wnen he does strike, it is
with a force corresponding with hie
backwardness to launch the, blow,—•
Macon Telegraph.
The Habeas Corpus.—“In fhe
Confederate House of Representatives,
on the 12th ultimo, the committee to
whom the enhjeet had been referred
unanimously reported against tho pas
sage ot the bill to repeal the act sus
pending the writ of habeas-corpus
A motion, was made that tho bill ho