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I>r Joseph Clishy.
MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M., MAY 2, 1862.
-NORTHERN FEELING.
Tho Savannah Republican. sees some indica
tions in the North of a disposition to suspend
the war for argument. We, too, should be
triad to see them, but, truth to tell, there are
none v isilil e to us < >ur impression, gathered
from all we can read and hear, is that the North
is just now thoroughly possessed with the idea
that the work of Southern subjugation is'al
ready nearly accomplished, and will he success
fully concluded in a few weeks—say by June
or July. They see their “anaconda” working
with pet feet success so far- scotched a little, it
it ia true, at Shiloh, but still strong and vital
in every part ; and they have not a d jubt of
the full capabilities of the serpent to “crush
out the rebellion." That nnd that alone keeps
up the Lincoln securities to within two cents of
ptr value, under a rale of expansion which
would bankrupt a sorU.
This dream will go on undisturbed until it
expires hy limitation, unless rudely interrup
ted by some decisive Conlederate success. In
the latter case, confidence will “go down with
a run.” Destroy their army in Tennessee anj
their whole elaborate plan falls to the ground.
To succeed, it must be a complete -and entire
success. Cut the snake in any part and his
vitality is gone.
Thatf«C the North sees as well as we do;
but they have yet to see the tirust evidence that
it will tail of perfect operation. On the entire
Atlantic cons - , its encroachments have been
slow, it is true, hut uninterrupted. In Eastern
Virginia it has swept the board. On the Po
tomac, it has contracted its folds to within a
few miles ol Richmond. Western Virginia is
gone, and in the Mississippi Valley two hun
dred miles ol latitude have been swept of the
Conf-'erates. In the Gulf alonethe tail of the
monster has thus far failed of corresponding
success. • •
Rut we may well say that on every aide this
“Anaconda" is daily and weekly constricting
his folds aim narrowing the limits of the rebel
lion. If, then, we concede as the North do, the
entire practicability of crushing the rebellion
in that way, why should any one suppose the
North willing to call a halt at the moment all
their plans are in successful operation ?
Let us not delude ourselves with any such
idea. The Confederacy must have two hun
dred thousand more men in the held, helore we
can well hope thoroughly to break up and de
stroy this Anaconda arrangement, and with it
the confidence which it imbues in the Northern
mind. A hundred thou.-and men inarched up
into Tennessee in the rear of Halleck, just now,
would throw the Anaconda into spasms and’
excite equally painlul writhing* in Wall street.
Highly
CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS.
The capture < f New Orleans is a severe blow
to the Confederate cause which we dislike to
contemplate in all its consequences; but may
as well do so first as last. *
1 he withdrawal of the material power and
wealth of that great city from the support of
the South is a heavy loss, but, after all, is only
a small part of the embarrassment which will
follow its reduction. New Orleans was a main
point for the collection of our army supplies
—the depot of the great system of Southwest
ern inland, navigation. But a singfb point of
defense now remains on all those rivers which
as it were, converge at New Orleans. Fort
Pillow is now the only fortified point in pos
session of the Confederates, and to judge from
the revelations of the western newspaper cor
respondents, no hope is entertained of holding
that for any length of time. Indeed, not im
probably it is already gone. When that falls
the Federal* will be in complete possession of
ah the western rivers, from the North and the
South, and we have but to look at the map to
appreciate the means of annoyance which will
then be placed in their possession. Indeed its
vast extent alone may serve as some measure
ot protection. Every important town in Lou
isiana, Mississippi and Arkansas is laid open
to the Federals. The Mississippi, Red, Wach-
ita, Yazoo, Arkansas, and a host of other trib
utaries, are open to their gunboats, big and
little, ns well as the termini of all the South
western railways. The State of Texas, too, is
cut off as a source of army supply, and with
these rivers and the rivers and railways of Ten
nessee in folk possession of the Federals for the
transportation of armies and supplies, with
their acknowledged resources in the means of
water and railway transportation, it cannot be
denied that we are placed at great disadvant-
Iinl>ori:im io Cotton Plan
ters.
Tho following instructions from the Comp
troller General have been placed in the hands
of ail Tax Receivers and Collectors in the State,
and the result will be a complete official re
cord of the ci ops in Georgia, and the planters
who are growing them. Every planter who
obstinately pursues tho selfish and suicidal pol
icy of raising cotton at the risk of destroying
himself and his country will he distinctly spot
ted, and his name and ocation be placed before
the country on the official records of the State.
Are planters prepared for such an expose ? We
have already received information which sur
prises and mortifies in regard to the unpatriot
ic policy of many planters. We ask them are
they prepared to encounter the unenviable no
toriety which cannot fail to meet them under
this order from the Treasury Department? 11
not, it is not yet too late to amend. Let them
plow up tlieir cotton and plant provision
crops:— CIRCULAR.
Comptroller General’s UrriCE, 1
Milledgkville, April 24, 1862. f
To the Tat Receivers and Collectors in
State :
1 In addition *o your other illities ptescribed
by law, it is further enacted, as lollows :
“0. Sec. V. The Receivers of Tax Reyirns
am) Collectors of Taxes, of the tcspeciive coun
ties shall be responsible to the Executive De
partment, and be amenable to such rules in con
^dueling the duties ol their respective offices,
as the Executive may think necessary and pro-
t Uer.—See T. R. R Cobh's Digest, page 1046;
Therefore, as the Governor intends urging
upon the next Legislature the propriety ol tax
jit.g Cotton planted and raised this year in this
• Slate, and for the further purpose of approxi
mating to the amount of corn and other grain
'that will be raised in Georgia during the pres
et year, I am directed by his Excellency to
j, - instruct you to return on your Digest, and to
enter opposite the name of each tax-payer the
number of acres of Cotton and Corn and other
grain planted in Georgia during the present
year. This you can readily do by using the
three last columns printed in the present Tax
Bool*, and which are not used either in this
office, or the office of the Clerk ol the Inferior
Court, to which you also return a Digest.
The columns above alluded to, that you can
use, arc first, the column headed “Amount as
sessed at ol one per cent.” In this col
umn (including both “dollars” and “cents,";
you can put the number of acres of Cotton
planted. In the t.'xt Column of “dollars,” un
der the head of “Total amount of Taxes,” you
can put the number o lucres of Con planted;
and in the last or “cents” column, you ccn put
the number of acres planted in other grain
Apart from the purpose of the Governor, I
cannot but tfrticve that all good citizens of the
State will be happy to make this return, and
show to the world’what Georgians are doing
in this our “day of trial," in the way of sus
taining and feeding well our large army, and
the fauiilies of our brave and patriotic soldiers
who are now in the tented field, enduring all
s-rts of w eather and privations, and gallantly
vnd manfully battling and offering up their
lives in defence of the rights, the liberties, the
sanctity of our homes, the preservation of our
property, and the maintenance of all that we
hold dear. Thus believing, I hope you will
have but little trouble in making this return.
11, how ever, 1 ant mistaken, and any should
fail or refuse to return the- number of acres
planted as above stated, you will then obtain,
the information from the best source you can,
and put the amount opposite the names in the
column alluded to. And, then, on the last page
of your book you can mention the names of
those who refused or failed to make said return,
and you can slate at the same time that you
made the return opposite their names in youv
book from the best in ormation jou could ob
tain. Very respectfully,your ob’t serv’t,
Peterson Tiiweatt,
Comptroller General.
But still, we have plenty of soil inaccessible
by these avenues, where we can meet the ene
my on equal terms, and where be nml mmmst
us, or abandon the work of subjugation. He
cannot whip iis out with gunboats, and if our
farmers and planters are true to thelnselves, we
can still bear alolt the standard of indepen
dence uniil the foe shalTexhaust himself in the
vain struggle to subdue a free people to his
yoke. We must fortify ourselves, if need be,
to the temporary abandonment of all our coast
and river towns. We have not yet made one
successful defence, and the chances are we
never shall. \Ve expect to aee them all go one
after another, and there’s no use bemoaning
what seems to be inevitable. We might as
well prepare ourselves for the worst, and we
may say, in passing, that the policy ol forbid
ding traders on our coast and river cities from
sending their guods into the interior, is to our-
mind scnselcs.- ami suicidal. It will work vast
injury to the Confederate cause.
It scetns tu us that th*. Ui <*“•
rivers w ill suggest a material change in our
system of military strategy. Tl.e enemy to
avail himself fully of these means of annoy
ance, plunder and oppression, will he compell
ed to scatter his force? and abandon the
plan of concentrating vast armies. So must
we. With the fall of New Orleans the great
object of Bm 'il and (.rant’s advance is accom
plished. Memphis remains to he taken, but
that city, like New Orleans, will be more easi
ly captured from the river. Ditto Vicksburg,
Natchez, and all the other river towns, ltuiay
be doubted therefore whether the enemy will
offer another grand battle in the West
SEND FOR YOLK OWN PAPER.
We sometimes receivc-complamts from sub
scribers at distant post offices, that they do not
get their papers regularly, even when the pack
ages lor the office come. A good deal of ex-
this perience at the delivery box in this office ena
bles us to explain the cause ol ninety nine in
a hundred of these alleged failures. Thc sub
scriber, living at some distance from his post
office, finds it convenient to depute, at differ
ent times, it may be a score of his neighbors
or their servants, whenever they are near his
post office to bring home tha pap r. In these
exciting times this errand is never forgotten
There is scarcely a country subscriber at the
office box whose paper is not applied for daily
hy lroin three or four to twenty people, whose
punctuality must be unfailing if lie gets his
paper in any reasonable time or gets it at all.
Subscribers who have so many carriers are
bound to be disappointed often.
Sensible.—The Richmond Enquirer reads
the press of the South an excellent lecture up
on the employment ot the sensation headings,
“Astounding,” “Thrilling,” "Extraordinary,”
remendous,” “Crushing,” "Terrible,” “Aw
ful,” “Appalling,’’ etc. He thinks that South
ern papers should prefer the language of sim
ple truth, stated with animation and dignity,
and leave to Northern journalists the employ
merit of great caption and tuegil deieriptions
to make their paper sill. Tins lecture was
predicated upon the late description of the
chase of the engine thieves on the State Road
by the Atlanta Confederacy. We hope the
sensible advice ol flic Enquirer will be heeded.
CORRUPTION IN WASHINGTON.
The following extract from the Chicago Tri
bune, a very zealous organ of the ultra reds,
gives a lively picture of the state of public
morals in Washington It would appear from
a portion of the samo article which we omit,
the Tribune in New York, in an article upon
the private morals of the same delectable place,
deals very lightly with the good name of the
mistress of the W'hito House herself:
The tone ot morality here is considerably
lower than it has ever been before. This is ad
mitted on all hands, and can be proved, or
rather needs no proof, for the air is heavy with
public and private guilt. A few years ago a
high Austrian official, whose peculations were
discovered, applied the lancet to his own veins,
and another similarly situated hanged himself.
There is no such sense of shame here. Any
coroner’s jury in Washington would find a
verdict of insanity for such conduct, and the
verdict would be accepted in good faith.
The Southerners, as a class, had a very nice
sense of honor so f - ir as the public treasury
was concerned. When they held the power
here there was comparatively little thieving,
and when any was discovered it was promptly
expostd and denounced. There has been a
change—a dreadful change for the worse. The
frauds and attempted frauds oh the treasury,
in one channel and another, come so fast ami
Iroui such unexpected quarters, that one is be
wildered in contemplaUng them. Yet nobody
has been brought to justice, and nobody seems
to think it possible that anybody should he
brought to justice.
“O, those rascally contractors,” says some
honest man in the rural districts. For every
dollar wrongfully taken by a contractor, five
have been taken by public servants. And in
this matter Republicans arejust as bad as De
mocrats, and Democrats just as bad as Repub
licans. Congress has its due proportion of
vagabond politicians, who think they will never
have another chance, and who are bound to
have “their share” of the golden, or rather pa
per stream. The honest men are in a 1. an mi
nority, powerless to stay the tide of corrup
tion, but not trust, wholly powerless to expose
Corre«poDd«nce Charleston Courier.
Mimphis, Sunday, April 18, 1802.
The event foreshadowed in a previous letter
has come to pass. Both Huntsville and Deca
tur aro occupied by Federal troops, and the
Memphis and Charleston Rail Road has lost a
very considerable quantity of its rolling stock.
At the former place some eighteen or twenty
cars are said to have been captured, and at the
latter depot fifteen or eighteen locomotives.
Such, at least, is the report that I have from
the “reliable gentleman.” The advance upon
Decatur was a thoroughly Yankee trick. The
passenger train which arrived at Huntsvifle
from the East, was, of course, immediately
seized, its freight discharged, additional cars
attached and loaded with the enemy, and the
engineer forced to run the train to Decatur.
Here the unsuspecting citizens crowded around
the platform, as usual, to hear the latest news,
when,* to their consternation, out jumped a
small artnv of Federals, and the town was ta
ken.
ExeiilDIinnu under ih* llauwriB-
tlon Law of CoDgreka.
It is said by some that we can drive them
away at will, but this is extremely doubtful.
They are - in possession of the valuable bridge
over the river at Decatur, and the destruction
of this is in itself a bar to any immediate Con
federate success. There is little no probability
at present, however, of any further advance
from that direction, as the enemy has accom
plished his object. Still it is uot beyond the
range of possibility that Buell will so array his
forces that, in the event of another attack up
on Corinth, his two armies at Huntsville and
on the Tennessee may co-operate in making an
overwhelming front and flank movement. Such
a juncture might prove fatal to us, and compel
a still further falling back, but you may rely
upon it that for the present we shall hold Co
rinth in spite of any odds. My impression is
that no further fighting will take place until
the Federals have reduced Fort Pillow and oc
cupied Memphis. And 1 am fearful that these
are foregone conclusions.
To day I had a long and interesting conver
sation with a surgeon in Col. Pope Walker’s
Fortieth Tennessee Regiment, who was at Is-
The follow ing exemption bill was passed by
Congress, and signed by the President just be
fore the adjournment:
A bill to be entitled “An act to exempt certain
persons from enrolment for service in the
armies of the Confederate States.”
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That all persons
who shall be held to be unfit for military Ser
vice under rules to be prescribed by the Secre
tary of War; all in the service or employ of
the Confederate States ; all judicial and execu
tive officers of Confederate or State Govern
mi nts; the members of both houses of Con
gress, and of the legislatures of the several
Slates and their respective officers; all clerks
of the officers of the state and Confederate
Governments allowed by law ; all engaged in
carrying the mails; all ferrymen on post routes;
all pilots and persons engaged in the marine
service, and in actual service on river and rail
road routes of transportation,; toli-grapbq: jip-
lar discharge ol ministerial duties; all engaged
in working iron mines furnaces and foundries;
all journeymen printers actually employed in
printing newspapers; all presidents and pro
fessors of colleges and acadthnies, and all teach
ers having as many as twenty scholars; super
intendents of the public hospitals, lunatic asy
lums, and the regular nurses and attendants
therein, and the teachers employed in the in
stitutions for the deaf and dumb and blind ; in
each apothecary store now established one
apothecary in good standing, who is a practical
druggist; superintendents and operatives in
wool and other factories, w ho may be exempted
by the Secretary of War. shall be, anu aro
hereby, exempted from military service in the
armies ol the Confederate States.
Richmond Examiner.
A Vulgar Braggart.—The following inci
dent occurred when the train, containing the
Federal prisoners, was about leaving Memphis
on Wednesday last. On this occasion, at least,
General Prentiss proved himself no better than
a vulgar braggart. We copy from the Memphis
Avalanche:
Some of the Federal prisoners then set up
their vulgar slang-songs about the South, and
Jeff. Davis, and niggers, which feat was thought
particularly and refreshingly 'cute, but an of
ficer w ho had some self-respect, cautioned tliain
to silence, when Gen. Prentiss, who, despite
the “blockade” had a “load” on, said, “D — n
it, sing ahead, even if they do shoot you.”
One of the Horne Guard, standing near, curt
ly remarked : “that’s not the way we do with
prisoners; amuse yourself in your own way—
we can afford to be merciful even to those who
would have murdered us.”
A head popped out of the cars, and said,
“Never mind, we shall have plenty of friends
here in less than twenty days.”
A voice from the street replied quickly:
“that’s so, and we’ll have ’em in the cars on
the way to ’tother side of Jordan.”
Even Prentiss seemed to lose «I1 sense of dig
nity, and did not rise above tho common level.
land No 10, and remained among the Federal
forces until Wednesday last, when he succeed
ed in making good his escape. He says that
up to the night of the 4th instant, everything
had been going on well for us. Out of the
ten thousand shot and shell throw n by the ene
U1V uuiiii^ iiiv_uuuiu»iuuiem, ie» turn duffi;
any damage, and but one or two lives were
lost Then, the night being dark, and a terri
lie storm prevailing, one of the Federal gun
boats safely ran the gaunlet of our batteries,
and the next morniug foui d her below the Is
land. She immediately set to work to silence
two of our baltcric* on the mainland, which,,
owing to her superior metal, she accomplished
without great difficulty. During that day
there also arrived several lighters or transports
tilled with troops, having come through a ca
nal tllat had been cut round the Island on the
Missouri side. These troops were landed in
the vicinity of Tiptonville. Such being the
condition of affairs, the Island was evacuated
by the force upon it, consisting of some four
thousand men, (though it has been estimated
a-s high as seven thousand,) and they landed
upon the Peninsula or Tennessee shoi’ee, oppo
site. On Monday the order came to sink all
the boats, including the floating battery, and
with the exception of three, on which there
were sick men, unable to be removed, this Was
tfyitfg. ,lui little fleet going down with colors
Our army under tjrcn. .MacKulI now encam
ped on the main land, and several hundred, dur
ing the night ol Monday, set to work to devise
means for escape. Cannons, small fiats, rafts,
and other conveyances were collected, and
upon these frail vessels the men crowded to
comiaenco their perilous passage throngh the
swamps, canebrakes, and across the adjoining
lake which separated them from present dan
ger. Many, however, trusted to their legs
alone and waded for miles up to their armpits
and necks in water before reaching terrafirma
Scores of these adventures will be lost on the
journey, and every day witnesses the arrival
here of survivors in squads of five, ten or twen
ty, broken down with their long and toilsome
match. They saved nothing but the clothing
upon them, anil this, with the mud and water
dried upon it, is the sorriest looking specimen
of covering that ever emanated from a tailor,s
shop since Adam sewed fig leaves for a living.
frequently removed Memphis papers only a
dav old.
The news of (he battle of Shiloh had reached
New Madrid, but its effect was anything but
inspiring. They acknowledge a loss of ten
thousand killed, wounded and prisoners, but
did not consider it a defeat Like ourselves
they are willing to leave it a drawn battle.
My informant made his escape on Wednes
day evening by passing through tho enemy’s
lines, investigations as to the loyalty of this
one and that having been set ot foot, which
made it unsafe for him to reunin longer.
On Thursday or Friday the gunboats of the
enemy came down to Fort Pillow, and threw
a few shells at that stronghold, and to-day in
formation has bcey received that they have
commenced in genuine earnest the reduction of
the place. As to our forces there, it is not pru
dent to speak, but in all probability by the
time this letter has readied you, the result vt’ijfc
hare been published by telegraph. Should.;? ‘
tort fall, Memphis will certainly go wiliie
and within the next two weeks we may* witness ?
scenes similar to those which attend the occu- i
pation of the city of Nashville. Immemi,e in
terests are at stake, and every thing & ’ *ds
upon the success of our defence above-L*.’
PERbC“ ca P“ —
•ns have
By Electric Tele
vJO'.ll
Richmond, 24th.—Colonel Crocks." , , —-77
r\ . -v\ I kerrnes,
i assidy, of the 93d New York regimrl »tat«, no
a Private in the 0th Wisconsin were cap. sjj
near Yorktown and arrived here to-day.
No signs of a battle on the Peninsula. No
thing further from Fredericksburg or tho Blue
Ridge Valley.
enemy
Nothing is said about the **
LATE NORTHERN NEWS.
Norfolk, 27th.—Northern papers
ville. A letter from Fortress Monroe says that ^6th * lave ,:ctn received here,
the whole number eP Federals killed in the I v ‘ ces from ' fcra Cruz, state t
LATE NEWS.
Richmond, 25th.—New York dates of tho
21st have been received. The Hefald says
that news friSin Banks’ Department report that
the rebels had left Harrisonburg for Gordons-
Tho
Red in the vices Irom ' era Gruz, state that th^«
light at Lees Mill was thirty-two, and wound- ! had rfes0 ’‘ V(d that their division of, V/f *
^ninety. A despatch from Gen. Hunter, dated tionar y would alone advajҤ*j^V
jV^V-Royal, lOtlf, says that after thirty hours i Ca P ital without delay, assumin g
>- ^continuous tiring, a breach was made in Fort : < P lenre ' K - The Spanish and Engh
M Pulaski, and when preparations for storming j tiaries therefon ' resolved to witb(hJ
V-wff* j^> out to commence, the rebel flag was for,;:es and “ la-rch hack to Vera Cruz
indicfcnri " e ca P tured 47 guns, 7060 shot and i French division had commenced to mar
1 360 prisoners. One of our inen was the city of Mexico.
iuJckV 0 wounded - The capture ol Fort Washington, 24th.—The ratification!
flfks ,: the Confederates is coot adicted. ! treaty between Seward ami Lyons, on 1
ices say that Col. Canby has obtained pression of the slave trade, will sop’* r,d
FROM FREDERICKSBURGnltiplie
We conversed yesterday with a .ifiprov
who left Fredericksburg on Monda' ,es °f
M. We are much gratified at the sta,* d ** r '
nidf'a ye rr n0t r : h itlZ , Cn , ‘f S .lren!r^ljf lU r/ UCCeSSOVerthe8 " em 3 r > and be i°g reinf orced, [Changed. The main features of
oath, and no Union flag has been hoi3. en<r 'VAvc ft’ _ , , ° ' . . , . , in th
the town.. A formal interview took place be- ^ !i^ m ... , ! «™ nts the m,,t,,al n S ht to
An arriva \ f ^tf^^ b J^r^O(r e rAt 0 the jinlhct summary pun,-hment on those
Virginia. .W C , irra p /roiI gh- j the slave trade,
sled amf lettered, nu Ciinnl .T i Shppnvin’c amandn... .lj p Coil
'"jferals", . f
expectaticfof
tack Newi»
tween Gen. Yeager and a committee of the
Council on Saturday, in the town ot Falmouth.
Gen. Y. said he had no authority to make any
terms, or to occupy the town; that his whole
duty was completed when he got possession of
the hills commanding the place ; but that Gen.
McDowell was then landing a heavy fr. | vv
Acquia creek, and when he arrived the terms of
surrender could be arranged. Our informant
further states that Gen Y. told Mayor Slaugh
ter that he had made a forced march of thirtv n “: - /7
miles, and only reached the vicinity of ' raoth lbJ>«j# n r '
ricksburg late Thursday night, with hlj’u’
completely worn down, and was greatly sur
prised f^t (the feeble resistance made.
Whe^tlie committee went in, the Geryjrak
couhTolffifie"Yfi’convefiience"lt'occasior ' il— '
people, - tie deeply regretted the bur,
bridg/ ‘fjfcc.
ly cut off, ittfed and - lettered, pu«^ar suppl.
of provisii/beaten with more stripes,^
attack ^ he is
built for nrc
/Y a ll
^•\\c
Tii#NtJinks nnd places of business^
ally closed. Two gunboats were at - ie svui
on Sunday. On Sunday evening the Yankees
came out opposite to the town, on the Cheat-
haul farm, in front of the Mansion House, and
hoisted the Stars and Stripes, the band mean
while playing “Hail Columbia,” “Dixie,” ‘‘Star
Spangled Banner,” Jkc.
The terms of capitulation offered by the
Council were, that they gave up the place be
cause they could not hold it; that they were
and ever would be true and loyal citizens of
Virginia and the Southern Confederacy, and
only asked to be treated according to the rules
of civilized warfare.
Since writing the above, we have seen a let
ter from a leading citizen of Fredericksburg to
a gentleman of this city, in whi'-h the foregoing
facts are corroborated, with this additional and
important fac' added, viz : the Yankee General
stated that whilst he would make no effort to
harbor slaves, vet if thev came within his lines
give it as well to them us to ickites who might
ask for it This letter also states that the
Yankee General said he wanted provisions and
must have them, to be paid for when the rebel
lion was crushed.—Richmond Dispatch.
The remainder of our forces being sui roun-
Omragra Of Ike ICnrmy in Fnnqnier.
Intelligence has just been received here of a
most diabolical outrage committed a few days
ince by the Federals, the victim being Doctor
Shumate, a well known citizen of Fauquier,
residing about nine miles from Warrenton. It
appears.that the Yankees upon Occupying Fau
quier, selected the residence of Dr. Shumate
as quarters for. some of their officers, and di
rected tho Doctor to vacate. This he positive
ly refused to do, when they told him he might
remain if he would take the oath of allegiance.
He spumed the proposition, and testified to
them his utter detestation of their country and
their cause. Finding the Doctor obdurate, they
The Yankee Tax.—The New York Herald
gives a statement of the direct tax on real es
tate, ordered by a late act of the Y’ankee Con
gress. This is relatively small, compared with
amounts the Southern States, if consenting to
be subjugated, will be called on to pay for the
cost of the war and the profits of Northern
contractors and task-masters. The Yankee di
rect tax proposes $20,000,000 annually on Teal
estate, according to the valuation, on the first
April, and the amounts assigned to the South
ern and Confederate States are :
INCREASED RATES OF POSTAGE.
The bill recently passed by the Confederate
Congress, fixes the rale of postage of single
ITEMS«OF WAR NEWS.
-Lamentations.—The St. Louis Republican
bewails the awful carnage a*. Shiloh, inflicted
in the mad effort to destroy a government
which never did the South a wilful wrong. It
is a pity when we consider that a recognition
of the very simplest idea and principle of the
government would have kept a Federal inva
ding army out of Tennessee.
Ci jtino the Levees.—The Memphis Argus
says the Federals are busy in cutting the levees
of -the Mississippi, and as the water is high, im
mense destruction n.ay be anticipated.
Cavalry.—Gen." Beaurcgaid is dismounting
several -thousand of the cavalry at Corinth and
putting them into infantry Service.
Corinth.—The prospect of an engagement
at Corinth it is stated is daily becoming less.
Drunk.—Prentice of the Louisville Journal,
like one who has felt the sting, naturally re
solves all mishaps and misfortunes into drink.
lie says that on Sunday, the first day of the
fight, the rebel army was all drunk, and that
they fought like demons, reckless and regard
less of life, causing great slaughter among the
Federal troops, whose loss the Journal esti
mates at 17,000.
Sunday night, however, the rebels got sober,
, ... „ ,. . i, . i and on Monday were badly whipped and pur-
leitejs, uniformly, on all distances to all parts SUI( j w itpj n s j x miles of Corinth. OnTues-
of the Confederacy, at ten cents. It is to take j day, the day following, the Federals entered
effect on and after the first of July next ' Corinth and took quiet possession of the place.
Maryland 06,818 Kentucky 118,6115
Virginia 937,550 Tennessee 669,493
North Carolina 676,194 Missoni 761,177
South Carolina ... 363,57(11 Arkanua S61,836
Georgia 534,867 Florida 77,5«
A la llama 579,313 Texas 335,106
Mlwl-alppl 413,084jNew Mexico 68,648
- - ' . 385,886 *
Louisiana.
Charleston Courier.
The Name or Shiloh.—As we are not par
ticularly versed in biblical names, we have felt
inclined to adhere to the spelling of Webster in
this matter. ‘ We have noticed some of our ex
changes spell the name of the late great battle
Shilo, while othars have it printed Shiloah.—
The dictionary before us spells and defines the
name as follows:
“Shiloh—the name given to the Messiah (or
Christ) by Joseph.” [Webster.]
Gen. Beauregard, in selecting the name of
tli6 battle, has shown a keen perception of the
spirit of our people. If there ev :r was a time,
that time is the present, when the South should,
with one voice and with their sti ong arm, de,
fend the banner of the Cross against the inva
der, that they may eventually realise another
interpretation of Shiloh, as rendered by biblical
writers: “This is a place at rest;" “this is a
place of peace.”
“And the whole congregation of Israel assem
bled together at Shiloh, and set up the taber
nacle of the congregation. And the land was
subdued before them." [Joshua xviii, l.j
Natchez Courier.
The Confederates have cut the levees on the
Arkansas side of the river, above Fort Pillow,
thus flooding the country. This is done to
prevent the enemy advancing on that side.—
On the Tennessee side the Fort ia so well pro
tected as to be considered invulnerable,
ded, were obliged to surrender, some two thou
sand or mole men laying down their arms in
submission to the vandal tribe. Among the
officers thus captured are Gen. Maekall,' Col.
Henderson, of Tenneesee, Col. Baker, Lieut.
Col. T. Avery, formerly member of Congress,
Col. Smith, and Baugh, formerly Mayor of
Mem; his. The gallant Captain Rucker is safe
in this city.
The number of guns taken on Island No. 10
is about eighty, some of which were not moun
ted, and the balance were spike 1. The enemy
were engaged in the task of unspiking when
my irdormant came away, bat he says that the
Federal officers told him that they did not care
for them any way, as they had guns enough.
The land force oi' the enemy is about sixteen
thousand. Of gunboats he saw five below the
Island. Some of the shells thrown by them
weighed two hundred and thirty-four pounds.
The personal adventures ot my narrator is
not the least interesting portion of his account,
lie says that, being u surgeon, he felt it to be
his du(y to stay by the sick under his charge
until aflast in the hands of the enemy, and he
accordingly accompanied them to the mainland
in the steamers. Here he landed and went to
a neighboring house, where he found a number
of Confederate officers, all excited at the repor
ted approach of the enemy, and endeavored to
plan some means for escape. It at once occur
red to him that he would try to pass for aresi
(Jent of the town, and searching through the
premises, he found an old farmer’s suit, looking
as rough and ragged as bis heart could wish.
Stripping himself of his Confederate uniform,
be threw it under the bed, and donned the no
vel costume ofa bushwacker. Most of his
friends had meanwhile left the house, but he
waited for the Federals. In due time they
came, and he welcomed them with all the hos
pitality ia his power. He politely provided
them with seats, tound one of the servants and
got them something to drink, and finally bad
refreshments spread and sat down to the feast
in their company. Doubtless they thought be
was a jolly good fellow, and were in a high
state of glee over their bloodless Tictory. Of
Course they left him unharmed, believing him
to be a loyal Southron.
Subsequently he met Generals Pope and
Paine, and with them rode for nearly an entire
day from point to point, and camp to camp.—
The first he describes as possessing some of the
characteristics of a gentleman; the last as
brute in instinct and conduct—a vindictive,
overhearing, cruel man, whose principal desire
is to crush, humiliate, rob and subjugate every
man suspected of aiding and abetting the South
ern cause. He said that had he known the
roads of the country as well as he afterwards
learned them, he should have killed them both
as be had an ample opportunity, and made his
escape, but under the circumstances he deem
ed “discretion the better part of valor,” and
swallowed his benevolent intent. General
Pope told him that he could have taken thels'
land two or three days before, but that his do-
nigh in continuing the bombardment was to
prevent reinforcement from being sent to Cor
inth. Inside of ten days he should be in Mem-
phis, Both the Generals and many of the offi
cere appear to be thoroughly acquainted with
our affairs, the strength of out. forces, condi
tion of our roads, and locality, of valuable pro
perty, and boasted of the facility with which
daily they obtained fresh information. They
a ns.
S»-T-l5TMnl* ssod [.' or ( J ac l c .
son at atertmy morning. When
reaMWv/New Orleans the excitement
Bill, naming certain cla e-
penalties Jhas been adopt *.
The French Minister afu. -med
Richmo id had a long interview ’eward
Liverpool, 12th.—Sales of cotton u>-day
000 bags. 3000 to speculators. Market
ant.
London, 12th.—Consols 93J a 901.
Havre, 10th.—Sales of cotton for the
6000. New Orleans Tres Ordinaire, 108 fra* 8
me boundless. Martial law was put in full Bourse 151 fames. Stock 91,000 bags.
tacitly acquiesced in his remaining in his own
house with his family. The Doctor has
daughter, a beautiful young lady, who very
soon became the object ot Y’ankee persecution.
One of the vile wretches, who degraded the
honorable rank of Major, made several vain at
tempts to enter the sleeping apartment of the
young lady, when, the outrage reaching the
ears of her father, he told the scoundrel that
another such attempt would cost him his life,
for he would shcot him like a dog. Iu spite of
this fair eaulion, the God forsaken wretch
;ain attempted to accomplish his diabolical de
sign, when, true to his word, Dr. Shumate
sped a ball through his craven heart. Hardly
had this deserved retribution been effected, be
fore the Major’s compani es—all officers—fell
upon the Doctor, and slaughtered him instant
ly, fairly riddling his body with bullets.
Only two men in Fauquier, as far as heard
from, have taken the oath of allegiance to Lin
coln. One of these ia named Helm, and the
name of the other has escaped our informant.
The Yankees arrested a large nnmber of pro
minent citizens,'who were subsequently re
leased. 'The enemy were particularly assidu
ous in their search after “secession Hags,” as
they term the Confederate standard, but their
endeavors proved fruitless.
In a slight skirmish that took place on the
Rappahannock, on Friday last, one of the ene
my’s shells struck a caisson on our side, explo
ding it, and seriously wounding several mem
bers of the Baltimore Light Artilery.—Rich
mond Dispatch.
.’ll tEo *W?iG? ss completely suspended,
necessary to transport coin, munitions of
war, etc., etc., were destroyed at one o’clock
to day. The operators bade us good-by, say
ing that the enemy had appeared before the ci-
cent City. This is all we know regarding the
fall. Will send you particulars as soon as they
can be had.
Richmond, 25.—The city is excited to-day by
adverse rumors from New Orleans. Nothing
official has transpired, except severe lighting
at the Forts yesterday. The silence of (he tel
egraph causes painful expense.
Nothing new from the Peninsula. Expec
tations of a battle there diminished. It is re
ported that the enemy are sending troops up
the Rappahannock. _
.“”i’of Uorlnth ran off the track a few miles
above Enterprize, killing six—among them
five soldiers of the 19th South Carolina, and
about twenty wounded.
IMPORTANT NEWS.
Knoxville, 26th.—A prisoner who escaped
from Lexington, Kentucky, says that 10,000
Federals have concentrated at that place to
make a descent on Cumberland Gap.’ The
Nashville Banner has been suppressed by order
of Andy Johnson. The Federals are fortifying
Huntsville, Ala. Tift cause of the South is
gaining daily in Kentucky on account of tl.e
War Tax and Emancipation scheme of tho
Lincoln government.
BURNSIDE REPULSED.
Norfolk, 23.—Our forces were, attacked to
day by the enemy at a place called Camden,
thirty miles south of this place. The enemy
was repulsed, but afterwards came up with re
inforcements. We learn that reinforcements
are being sent forward to our men.
important Sews.
Mobile, 28th.—The Forts on Lake Ponchar-
traiu were all evacuated on the ‘25th, in haste
and with considerable loss of supplies—dis
mounting but not destroying the guns at Fort
Pike. All the buildings are burned, including
the Telegraph office. An operator lias gone
to the limits of the city to open an office if
possible. All the gunboats on the Lake have
been burnt by our own people. The Mobile
boats. Whiteman, B rown, and another, name
unknown, with several others, are removing
troops, stores and ordnance to Manachoe, after
After deducting the division at Crump s
which it is feared they also will have to be |‘ n S> and al a lo ™>e 6 ’ 000 thc 8icS > we > ava5 J
* v ' c force of 48,500 men. These men we. fought
THE ENGINE THIEVES.
We learn that the Court Martial at Chaita-
noo -a have completed the trial of the ring lead
er of the bridge burning party. Their decision
in the case, however, will not be made public
until their finding is approved by the Secretary
of War. We learn that no more of them will
be put upon trial until this decision is passed
upon.
This leader of the party is named Andrews,
and is said to be a partner in a well known
mercantile firm in Nashville, and has npt here
tofore been suspected of hostility to the South.
He was hired by the Lincoln authorities to
burn the State Road bridges, and if possible
to bring through to them an engine. Those
accompanying him belonged to the army, and
had been detailed to do the work.
We are informed that the one who turned
“State’s evidence” against them, is a Kentuck]
ian. He said he was one ot the Kentucky
“State Guard" in the days when neutrality
was in vogue; that he was entrapped into the
Lincoln service by belonging to this “State
Guard,” and accepting arms lrom the Yankee
Government before the Yankee army came into
the State; and was unable afterwards to get
out ol service; that he was friendly to the
South; and it was always his determination to
fight lor the South, if forced to take any side;
but that neutrality and the “State Guard” had
deceived him as it had thousands of others;
before he was fully aware of the fact, he was
in thc Lincoln army and could not escape from
it
We learn that two more of the bridge-burn
ing were captured not far from Chattanooga
and brought in there two days ago, and that
one of the party is still at large or has escaped
to the Federal lines, having never been caught
Atlanta Confederacy.
steamer Bombay bas(450,000,pounds sti-rliif 1 *”
New Yojji^"24ff).—Lott
Sales 700 bales at 29 J cts. Pork firm si f i.
per barrel. Rosin $8 per barrel.
Cairo, 24th.—The country.between here and
ty, and this is the last we heard from the Cres- ! Mound City is inundated. A large portion of
the Cairo and Fulton Railroad washed away.
Pittsburg, Va., 24th.—Gen. Granger, with
500 cavalry, had a fight with the rebels, lasting
for one hour. Loss small on both sides. Gen
eral affairs unchanged.
New Y’okk, 24th.—Advices from Nassau re
port that the Nashville had returned to that
place, after an unsuccessful attempt to run the
blockade at Charleston. One of her paddle
boxes was badly injured. She has a full cargo
of guns, ammunition, etc., brought by the
Gladiator lrom England.
preparations are making for another great bqft,
tie at Corinth. Large reinforcements arrived
there on ’be 2^d.
Baltimore, 25th.—Despatches from Y'ork-
town state that preparations are being rapidly
made for a g md attack. It is rumored that
the steam gu i rat Galena arrived in Hampton
Roads on W uesday.
The 11.3- u Diaro states that persons from
New Or ,.i.- rt Forts Jackson and St.
Phillip nbandum , and that the Federal Heet
can easily go up id New Orleans.
Chicago, 2*th.—A special to the Times says
that Mitche.i's division had arrived at Tuscurti-
bia, nnd had possession of 200 miles of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
FROM THE WEST.
Mobile, 26th.—A special despatch to the
Advertiser, from Jackson, Mississippi, says
that thirteen of the Federal gunboats are an •
cliored opposite New Orleans. A proposition to
ivacuate, by the Confederates, is now pending.
Various exciting rumors are afloat. The fore
going is however reliable.
THE YANKED FORCE AT SHILOH.
The correspondent of the Mobile “Advertis
er k Register” writes that a complete muster
roll of the Federal expedition up the Tennes
see was found on the battle field. It shows
that the enemy had a force at and around the
battle ground of 61,000 men. This includes
the division of Gen. Lewis Wallace at Crump’s
landing, four miles below Pi^sburg, and which
was not engaged until early Mond.i morning.
There were twenty-one batteries, averaging six
pieces to the battery—thus making the num
ber of their guns one hundred and twenty-
burnt. The Yankee fleet at Ship Island are
again returning to that station.
Richmond, 28th.—The following official des
patch was received this morning by Adjutant
General Cooper, from Gen. Lovell
Camp Moore, 27th.
Forts Jackson and St. Phillips are still in
good condition and in our hands. The enemy’s
fleet is at the city, but have no forces to occu
py it The inhabitants are staunchly loyal.
on Sunday. The foiccs opposed to us on Mo:.
tr
MORE ABOUT NEW ORLEANS.
Mobile, 27th.—The latest intelligence from
New Orleans is to the effect that the Federal
Commodore promised .Major Monroe and his
Secretary, who visited the fleet under a flag of
truce, to renew the demand for the surrender
of the city, but he has not done so up to the
day, 25,060 of whom were fresh troops, were
still larger. Allow 10 ‘>00 for ‘he captured,
killed, wounded and d - ..- 'ed on Sunday, there
would still remain of th .uiginal force 38,000
men. W allace’s divisioi >1 7,500, and Buell’s
reinforcements, who came up Monday, roughly’
estimated 17,500— making to^ i r 25,000 men
—would swell the Federal aru.v op,, sed to us
on Monday to 63,1)00.
It would be improper, perhaps, tj offer any
estimate of the forces engaged on our side.—
When all the facts shall have come out, how
ever, there will be found additional reasons for
the pride weso justly feel in Southern arms and
Southern prowess. The Confederate forces
were chiefly from Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
iana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kens
tucky.—Atlanta Commonwealth.
CUMBERLAND GAP.
present hour, 6 o’clock P.M. Our ship the I A ccrrespondentoftheCclumb-ls “Sun”
[, „ • ’ , „• , ‘ [writing from this interesting locality, under
date of April 11th, says: »
truce with forty wounded, and communicated I Disagreeable as it is here, qai' 1 **?atpeHTS \o
with the Federal flagship. Result unknown, have been lavish of her beauties. A
It is rumored that the Federals rcluse to let her !' s beautiful be; end ues^i iptiofi,* iffNt
ted and blown up. This.is unreliable fioVever.
It is rumored that in a conference held with
one of the Federal officers, after the correspon
dence, between Mayor Monroe and Commodore
Farrigant, be left declaring that # he would shoot
down the rebel flag on the Oity-Hall, if it was
not hauled down. A ship was actually brought
in range, but has not fired a shot thus far. It
is reported that French and English men of | cold rain wbieD
war are below, and have entered their protest 1 ly. Well may w
against shelling the City. It is believed that through
the Yankee vessels are short both of provisions
and ammunition. We are in danger of starva-
Situated as we are, above the. iff*,
be seen tent after tent. * * • u 10 the contrary
Taking the mountain scene-Vi,^, That Boarccb e
il is w:< to^3rt» ,lenl
line of fortification H
Imagine a line of entreneb’si
miles in length, maane^Aw
command every deti’ '' 5
trees felled in ever,
have some little
The last week \
when it
ana ammunition, weare in Ganger ot start*- a foment to peer
tion ourselves. The City is remarkably orderly;, SfjtauqhVl i,»{aMtmiks i...»ki#ig f$r danger, and
1 A A.L *» _A • • A ..Jtf. f..l: ia »/«’ A
South iff
• rfou
ir works -
fcipieable by a
ijj^ incessant-
ij^dldiers who,
4e
but the excitement is intense, and the feeling of|^liQu*X he __
humiliation deep. Further than this, every*
Further than this, ever) - *
thing is the same as when the vessels first ap\ -'
peared. All are awaiting tho shelling of the i they iwe
City, if the Yankees dare do so. I Ford, fearifigan
are, that
t Cumberland
forces.
Ml■FOBS
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