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14 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