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Wn of tins account, we have re
sale sources from Richmond of
l ,io saw and conversed with these
i every?* u P on their arrival in that city on
wlijjt. It is also stated that, owing to
, •■‘hjnovements now in progress, the
■ press arc prfltv much suspen-
1"car captured with all his stores
enjoy as t quantity.
^ L now believed to be after Banks’
jir ri<* jd > who are somewhere between
ei iesrry and Winchester,
erva! — —«♦«
l■*-sa|FR()U CORINTH.
l |°'’*Sn that skirmishing in abundance
d< 'ess, and the enemy arc ap
ed wlines very closely with their
liuryith the benevolent design, as
111 ‘ .federal prisoners, to surround
, 5 <r army by starvation, without a
• ■‘irees have ar-
1 to fe n g up from
ladie - army from
lj_.i conclusions,
•r that the enemy
n immense force, and getting
an attack very shortly.
be Richmond.—The Legislature of
O ]journed, after doing, contrary
I the osage in the Old Dominion, a
r ;incss in a brief time. One of
nisio"" ,des f° r raising an army of 20,-
g 0 i r it liable to conscription, for thedc-
v,*K-.Tcstcrn Virginia, and putting it under
Gen. Floyd who has been made a Major Gene
ral. They passed a resolution recommending
Congress to make the Confederate Treasury
Notes a legal tender, and the States to pledge
their faith lor the ultimate redemption, each
of its quota of these notfcs. They also sent a
joint committee to the President, expressing
the desire of the Legislature that Richmond
should t e defended to the last. The President
assured the committee of his deep gratification
and entire coincidence in opinion with them
in reference to the defence of the Capital.—
TmTtars to be a perfect understanding
between the Confederate, State and City gov
ernments that Richmond shall become a heap
of ruins before its surrender. This conclusion
s endorsed by all the papers and enthusia:
cally sustained by the citizens.
Contraband Forces.—The Northern
report that two regiment of negroes are
ized for the war,' in Washington, and
Charlestown, Virginia.
The Fast Tennessee Prisoners.—The Kn.i
ville Register says that the First Tennessee
prisoners, c'lmttWnMf a’nT rin ‘T 1 ti,ne
ir
wealth learns from
e sfirce entitled to the high-
•t'er wh«- -<-Aion. Jerre Clemens has gone
’lming ^Lincoln government, and is now an
■are a- "onarv persuading all his friends to
o dq Lincoln cau.-e. Clemens was a Union
*75p to the session of the Alabama Conven-
. i, and when he went over, did it with the
most melancholy forebodings and anticipations;
but, as he said, prepared to justify his course
by the sacrifice of his life. His letter on that
occasion was published in most of the papers,
and probably is still fresh in. the memory of
the reader. Clemens is a man of genius and
tine natural impulses, but it is said his mind
has become impaired by irregular habits. He
will soon have to make another soinmersault,
when the Federals are driven out of Alabama,
that is to say, some where in the course of two
or three week s.
The Wheat Crop.—The Griffin Union says
that accounts from all quarters promise an av
erage yield -of wheat. (Quartermaster D. N.
Speer reports that after traveling back and
forth on all the Georgia railroads, on official
business, for flic past few days, a great improve
ment is manifest everywhere in wheat, and if
no disaster befalls it, a heavy crop will be
made. The Union begs the government not
to spoil their wheat by accumulating it in bulk,
while yet green, as they did their bacon last
winter.
Cotton Fires.—The Vicksburg Whig says
says that already a quarter of a million bales
of cotton have been fired on the Mississippi
and its tributaries below that place. One plan
ter, .fudge Perkins, of Grand Gulf, destroyed
1300 bales of his own crop. These cotton
burnings will make no little sensation in Eu-
Moruan. .-The Atlanta Confederacy, of yes
terday, says:—Wo are authentically informed
that the packages of money captured by Mor-1 wc extract the following which
gan were not opened by him, till ne reached 1
Chattanooga, whence found it to amount to
$350,000.
BUTLER’S ORDERS.
The following is the entirety of Butler’s Or
der to the ladies of New O.leans:
Notice.—Headquarters Department of the
Gulf, New Orleans, May 15th. 1862.—Gene
ral Orders, No. 28.—As the officers and sol
diers of the United States have been subject to
repeated insults, from the women calling them
selves ladies of New Orleans, in return for the
most scrupulous non interference and courtesy
on our part, it is ordered that, hereafter, when
any female shall, by word, gesture or move
ment, insult or show contempt for any officer
or soldier of the United States, she shall be
regarded and held liable to be treated as a wo
man of the town plying her avocation.
By command of Maj. Gen. Butler.
The True Delta, having in its money.article
spoken of the extensive conflagrations on the
river as the work of patriotism, was served
with the following Order which appears con
spicuously in that paper, of the lith :
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THeGuLF, /
New Orleans, May 10, 1862. j
To the Proprietors of the N. O. True Delta :
Sir—The remarks in your Money Article of
today are inadmissible.
Wanton, useless and criminal acts of destruc
tion of property, generally by the mob who
do not own it, are not acts of patriotism, but
Vandal incendiarism, which will be punished.
You will not receive further caution, but pun
ishment for like olfence.
Publish (his conspicuously.
By order of Gen. Butler.
. Geo. C. Strong, A. A. Gen.
Condiliou of the Federal Arwr ut t'orlmh.
will be found very interesting :
I have had an interesting interview with an
‘‘Chamber of Com-
York has adopted a memorial
vc.-s
i Cro*
ecei v
r e 1 Fn >ine Butler’s order, of the 15th,
r-t exof New Orleans, which made the
ie ,nt ifn address by General Beauregard, on
_ acl( b, has not yet reached us, and we art
pgb4j} conjecture what be its contents.
rnsers state that Mitchell, at Huntsville,
JencdTi vii'diimli W »the “insults” ofTrr-
riny by the ladies of that place, has
tjl^jrder threatening to abandon them
forijense of his soldiery, unless they arc
j|in is-'ful in their demeanor. It may be.
iff* .....
jeIliL r Wind.—The
erna,
gut
„jo posing to raise two hundred
m»ijis of dollars hv taxation, to be
use > s;
* r I one per cent, cotton two cents
a ,acco twenty-five cts., per pound,
Yitte twelve millions will be derived,
fifty millions yielded bv tbp tariff would
make up the above sum.
livii
Road
lows
There are >
neighborhood,
three miles of my f
stock have licked
deep. At all of them the
The reason that 1 write Ihc^e fitets to you
am a poor man, and not able to make the ne-
is in a poor condition to give hope of success
in the threatening battle, or the North the
slightest chance to reasonably hope to subju*-
gate the South. Pi isoners captured from day
to day all concur in saying that sickness pre
vails to a large degree among the Federal Ar
my. The water on the Tennessee river is a
rotten limestone, ind icing bowel affections
with the soldiery of both armies; and the
rains, bad weather, and cold days, have pros
trated almost a third of the Federal army by
EXEMPTS AND SUBSTITUTES.
Adjutant and Inspector General Cooper is-
n- -d an irder from the War Department at _
Ricftr. ... on the 19th, which we copy, omit- aro upon the point of revolt, from the late acts - . - , . ladies
, f . • . t v of the Federal Congress of emancipation, con- - u ‘ . .. .
t of it. which quotes the Ex X* .. _ b _ .i: • i ’ .m. our officers that
■ckad#
ting the first part
emption Act already printed :
'V^^elo , J iv the above act of Congress, the follow-
bemif persons are exempt from enroll-
nd ponfiiy service:
. , Justices of the Peace; Sheriffs and Deputy
'**’ V* j Sheriffs; Clerks and Deputy Clerks, allow#?>y
’ 1 I law ; Masters and Commissioners in Or] ha-
ry ; District and State Attorneys; Attcf ley
^ By Electric Telegraph
From a recent letter of Timon, of the Char- j- —- - '
THE FLEET OFF VICKSBURG. «" I
Mobile, 19thJ—A special despatch to the [
Mobile Advertiser states that five of the Fede I
ral fleet arrived in sight of Vicksburg yestcr- j
day noon. A boat with a flag of truce was
was stopped by our batteries a mile and a half
below, when the ferry boat went down and re- ;
turned with the summons to surrender the
city. The Mayor replied that the city was un
protected but he would never surrender. Col.
Anthony, Military Governor, and Gen. Smith,
Commanding the Forts, answered “Mississip-
pians never surrender.”
Two additional, gunboats arrived later in the
afternpon, when, the fleet moved over to this
side of the river behind a point. All quiet.
Petersburg, Va., 19th.—Eighteen of the
Monitor’s crew cauie ashore at City Point this
afternoon at 3 o’clock, and were surprised by
Confederate pickets, and ordered to surrender
Nine, including lour officers, laid down their
pistols and cutlasses. The others rushed to
the small boat and pulled for the Monitor.—
Eight were killed—the remaining one lost his
arm. The Monitor opened fire with heavy
guns, and prevented the rescue of the boat and
survivor of the men. The captured men reach
ed here at half past six, and marched through
Sycamore street to Huger’s headquarters, sur
rounded by a great ciowd. One officer was a
Paymaster—the others were Midshipmen.—
None of the Confederates hurt
Late Northern papers report the sinking of
the Mound City, a Cincinnati gunboat, by Jeff.
Thompson’s cotlon boat fleet ; the Benton bad
\y damaged.
They acknowledge the loss of one thousand
killed, twenty-five hundred wounded, and six
hundred prisoners at Williamsbur g.
• FROM CORINTH.
Mobile, 20th.—A special despatch to the
Mobile Advertiser, from Corinth, 19th, 4ays a
heavy skirmish took place, Saturday evening,
on the Purdy Road, between a portion of Gen.
Smith's command and the Federal’s under
Sherman. Our loss six killed and eighteeen
wounded. The enemy’s loss not known—sup
posed to be heavy.
The enemy is busy entrenching upon our
right on the Monterey road two and a half
miles from Corinth.
It is said the enemy is erecting mortar bat
teries.
General Mitchel’s column front Huntsville is
reported this side of Florence, inarching to
Pittsburg.
It is reported that the enemy’s cavalry are
within nine miles of Pocahontas, which place
is on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
The Federal prisoners say the enemy dreads
our falling back more than battle, as they can-
officer of our army, who was recently within
the enemy’s lines, and who conversed freely
with their most prominent commanders. He
says General McClellan, and, indeed, most of
the old army officers, are courteous and gentle
manly; but the material of which their follow
ers is composed, is repulsive, dissolute, vulgar,
obscene and blasphemous. Their insolent
bearing towards the Surgeons who went under
flag of truce to attend upon our wounded after
the battle of Williamsburg, would infamously
adorn the conduct of President Geffrard’s black
minions. They alleged that our troops mutil
ated their dead—insulted and buffeted their
wounded ; and, in retaliation, they propose
holding our Surgeons as hostages 1 To the per
petration of so flagrant an outrage, the latter
dauntlessly defied them. “Tell me, Doctor,”
said an upstart political General, “how you ac
count for the brutality with which your people
treat our wounded and dead ?” “Upon the
ground, sir," replied the Surgeon, “that'your
people arc ungrateful—incapable o r telling the
truth—and that your leaders have to stimulate
ferocity as a subtitute for truth.” ‘gWhat! do
you mean to deny the truth of my representa
tions t” said the vandal. “I mean to aasert, sir,
that they are palpable lies,” was the rejoinder.
My informant represents General Wool as be
ing bordering upon dotage. He is absent mind
ed and rambling in his speech, vascillating and
foolish in decision. McClellan, he adds, is
much over sated as a commander; but polite
and magnanimous. He freely confesses that
the abolition opposition to him is very great.
Of our Generate he spoke in the highest terms.
Beauregard and Joo Johnston he calls great
men ; Early and Longstreet, he added, were
[stubborn as twin devils; and General G. W.
Smith he called his warmest personal friend.
“His talents,’’ he added, “are allied to genius.
Under circumstances of adversity, he will rise
above them grandly.” When the interview
The Memphis Avalanche has the following t came ( 0 a close, the last words of McClellan
to say about the condition of Halleck’s army, were, “Farewell! I hope we shall soon meet
We hope it is true: j in peace and harmony.” “Did you say on the
,, , , , Chtckahonuny” ? responded my friend" Soon
lhefe oral army n o„ after the latter was introduced to the wife and
daughters of one of the Federal Generals.
They closed their doors and embraced him;
avowed themselves secessionists; and cut the
Confederate buttons, as keepsakes, off the
sleeves of his coat. They asked him to implore
the Confederates to tight to the death, for that,
if subjugated, the condition of Brazilian slaves
would be preferable to iheir fate. “You can
whip these Yankees,” they added enthusiasti
cally. “You whipped them the other day at
Williamsburg ; you can whip theni everywhere
but on water; retire from their gunboats and
diarrhiea and dysentery. The prisoners rep-
resent that the w|n drive lhcIn back in rout and de(eat _
General Hancock told one of
fiscation and other'radical tendencies by the I ” u ‘. h e nqver saw such brilliant
Government. The troops of Illinois, Indiana ^ hU "S “ tbat of the Confederates at Wtl-
and Iowa are disaffected also, but not so much | '^aburg “Immortality, he sard “should
as those of Kentucky and Missouri, which are : £ "' 8 " lbe . d u P on . the banners ol the fifth
i i ai : * , North Carolina and 24th \ n ginia Regiments,
comidered on tbe point of throw.ng away their n Tbe y fought like heros,” interposed an En-
weapons cf warfare dtsbandtng and vending glLst / officc b . « and thj b£ ri ng </ the Confede ,
disposed to fight another battle, and especially | J? 1 ® caval ft was sp'end.d-equal to anything not stand the climate further South. They ex
issued a similar order.
‘ 10th, the following correspondence
IKe ^jfjy.tdtehed in the Camp at Corinth :
t
JP as tli' IlKADql ARTERS
pieir fo Army ok tiie Mississippi,
to be Corinth, Miss., May 10, 1862,
tinir* The following communication front the com
mander of our forces is published for the infor
mation and guidance of this army. Let it re
i< spend to this emphatic command of “Forward,”
and the northern horde, now approaching us,
will lly as “chaff before the wind
Headquarters Western Department,/
Corinth, Miss., May 10, 1862. \
General.—Immediately after any engage^
uient with the enemy, you w'ill require each
regimental commander to forward to these
headquarters, for publication in orders, the
names of those officers and privates of his reg-
ruent who shall have most distinguished them'
-.elves, as well as of those who shall have mis-
Wwcfc 1 6vr fot '{Sj?
tie field on which they were engaged ; hut
regiments misbehaving in action will bedepri
ved of their colors until they may have shown
themselves worthy of defending them.
From the difficulty of communicating orders
in the country in which we are operating, it is
necessary that each division, brigade anti regi
mental commander should clearly understand
that, when without orders or at a loss to know
what to do in action, they must rapidly advance
in the direction of the heaviest firing—for the
art of war consists in the concentration of
masses against fractions of masses; moreover,
our motto should be ‘■'Forward, and always
Forward /” until victory may perch decisively
upon our banners. The mote rapid the attack,
the weaker, habitually, the resistance.
Respectfully, General, yoifr ob’t serv’t,
G. T. Bkaukeuard, Gen. Com.
To Gen. Braxton Bragg, Commanding Army
of the Mississippi.
THE GLORIOUS 18TIL
“Col. Conner and Maj. Hawkins immortal
ized themselves. Col. C. is certainly one of
the bravest of men.’’
The foregoing is extracted from a lett. r from
a gallant soldier of this regiment now h ing up
from wounds received in thefight at McDowell.
What is here affirmed of the field officers of the
regiment is also told, in this and other sources,
of every officer in that gallant corps. Captain
Davis, of Company G, from Putnam county,
severely wounded and now at Staunton, the
Lynchburg Republican of the 14th says will re
cover. He distinguished himself by coolness
and gallantry. C*pt* ; n» Fuflow, Dawson, Me
Millan, Rogers, Patteioon, Brown, and in fact
every officer acted like a hero. It was literal
ly a fight in which none faltered, either ol rank
or file. The record of their danger and achieve
ments is in a list of fallen which, we believe, is
>et without parallel in the war. at least on the
Confederate side. »
cessary test for salt; ard being old and n °t General; Postmasters and Deputy Po6tma^ fs.
„ army, J and d trks allowed by law; Cotnmissioncj Lf
5 uierel>), |; evenuei an 'd foreigners, who have not acqi aa _
r country, j ed ,t{Picil in the Confederate States.
IlF'The following are not exempt:
Militia Officers not in actual service ; persons
able to take the place of a soldier in the army,
I make this communication, thinking thereby,
that I may be of some service to tny
A correspondent of the Atlanta Intelligencer j
says there are salt springs at Catoosa.
A i
yesterday says
On yesterday the enemy on Cockspur Island,
sent up a balloon early in the day. There was nan)e ,] or properly implied in the above act can
but one tent visible at the battery on Oakland ; be exempted, except by furnishing a substi—
Island, and no vessel was to be seen in the riv- tute, exempt from'military service, in conform-
tr -. ! ity with the regulations already published,
Their preparations are no doubt being quiet-1 (General Orders No 29 ;) and such exemption
ly perfected, ami we should not be lolled into ; ; g valid only so long as the said substitute is
remote from the gunboats on the river.
These general statements are made, we learn
that even 1 have ever seen.'
“Ah, yes,” said Hancock, “with such infant-
seems to us very probable, it requires no pro
phet to foretell the result of the battle of Co
rinth. Napoleon entered Russia with an army
fairs at Savannah.—The Republican of J exempt by State laws, but not by the above ! of 400,000 men, all choice vetoran troops. He
[act; foreigners who have acquired domicil in was driven from Russia, and reached Fr
the Confederate States.
IV. No person other than those expressly
u ° _.u„ j ! ry and cavalry, when we are one people again
by prisoners, who are captured from day to * whip world.” “But one peoplt we
day by our acout.ng part.es; if true, and it „ a( , aln *L n - sai( , OortfetWo “I
false security.
The Flour at McDowell’s.—A correspon
dent of the Lynchburg Republican, who par
ticipated in this battle, writes that paper:
legally exempt
V. Persons who have furnished substitutes
will receive their certificates of exemption
from the Captain of Companies or the Com-
. . , , i mandant of Camps by whom the substitutes
During the battle Gun Johnsons horse was have ^ accept U Other certificates of ex.
lied under him, anti the General received a l . Illl *t: ftn w i\l he granted bv the enroHincr otfi-
w«
never again can be,” said the Confederate. “I
suppose, Doctor,” asked Ileintlzeman, “you
call the result at Williamsburg a Confederate
victory ?” “Certainly—how many men did
ranee H our division lose there ?” "About two thou-
-.u .mu,* „ _ , sand.” “At the smallest calculation, then.
with 40,000 men. We shall witness a terrible . . » < i *
, c . I /• •, i your total loss in killed and wounded must
defeat of the enemy, drive him from our soil, \ . 0 „ r
a a „ . v-, : have been over .*,000; you have all of our
and soon turn the tide of events by a splendid , , , 0 J } f , . . ,
} J 1 wounded, 20 or 30 excepted, m your hands •—
Our army is in fine spirits, and our Generate I th . e y do " ot num , ber 4 ,°. 0 ; H a " d t the ra . Uo ,nkl11
are full of confidence iq the triumph of our cd cannot exceed one th.rd that number; you.
arms at Corinth. Let us have hope and take P a P ers adm,t tl , ia y? u bad J,?’°, ftp me " ,n ac '
our Strength and God t,on » who assailed about 5,000 of our retreating
courage, and put forth our strength, and God
will crown us with success. Being right, we
I shall be triumphant.
’I UK PRISONERS TO BE PAROLED.
Orders were received from Gen. Beauregard
) esterday to put (be Northern prisoners at
JL’ainp Oglethorpe upon parole. As coon, there
fore, as descriptive rolls can be made out and
they are sworn not to hear arms in this war
until regularly exchanged, they will be sent up
to the Federal lines beyond Chattanooga, and
there turned loose to seek their homes, which
we hope tlrey will enjoy so much as to he dis-
jsjseJ in future to avoid assailing those of other
people The prisoners were highly edified
with the tidings yesterday.
■■ A*.
I ik a i ii or Doctor Alonzo Cm mu. —Aloi zo
Church, D. D., for many years President of the
Georgia State University, died at his residence
near Athens, Ga., on Sunday-night, altera
painful and lingering illness.
A NUT FOR LORD RUSSELL.
The British ship Emily St. Pierre, taken off
Charleston, soiue time ago, by the Yankee
blockading squadron, was retaken by her crew
on the vuy.ige to New York, and conveyed
U] to Liverpool. Upon bar anival in Eng-
Adams, tiie Lincoln Minister, demanded
fartawllnB. to be sent before a Northern
c court. What is left for Lord Russell,
who has acknowledged the validity of (lie
blockade which tiie St. Pierre was attempting
to run, but to surrender the vessel' And how
will a surrender suit the proud stomach of Mr.
Bull »
* despatch from Corinth to the Mem
phis Appeal, states that Rev. Dr. Palmer, the
eminent And patriotic New Orleans divine, is
now a private ip the Washington Artillery.
emption will be granted by the enrolling offi
ion. .implications W eieiiijjfioffcannty^’tll^f i ~
foie be considered by the War Department.
. By command of the Secretary of War,
S. Cooper, Adjt. and Fnsp. Gen.
kill
J *1., fr.imji clwll noeaint? fKrDiial)
fighting, and suffered very severely. They lost
182 killed, wounded and missing, among them
were many brave and gallant officers! One
company of the 12th Georgia lost all of its of
ficers Save the 4th Corporal.
There were only two brigades of three regi
ments each, both of Johnson’s army, engaged
in the fight. The first was commanded by Col.
/.. T. Conner, ol Georgia, and the second by Col.
Wui. C. Scott, of Virginia, of both of whom
General Johnson speaks in the highest terms
for their gallantry acd bravery on this occa
sion.
We expected to renew the tight the next
morning, but the bird had down, leaving be
hind, at McDowell, where 3,(tOO encamped, «]|
his camp equipagq, a large quantity of ammu
nition, a number of eases ot Enfield rifles, to- ■ - . ... .
gethcr with about 100 head of cattle, which to transportation at the expense of the Govern-'
retreating
army ; with this number you were beaten back
with great loss ; we have 400 of your prison-
! ers ; and yet you shout victory. Such victories
will never conquer the South. I wonder why
your people cannot afford to look facts iu the
, _ , face, and sometimes speak the truth ?” “Oh,”
A letter from General Mttchell s(F eder»l) | exclaimed the frank Englishman, “we cannot
Division, at Huntsville, Ala., to the CincinnatU afford to confess defeat, even in a skirmish.—
Yankee* Final Out tha- kpiria of Ike
Nualhno l*repl<*.
try are the most rampant ami vicious Seces*
sionists I ever met w ith. They will hardly
speak to an officer when they n cet him, but
i Such a conlession would cost the best of us his
sionists I ever met with. They will'hardly I th™Corffederat * P eo P'e,”_ responded
•, “who require Such false and
stimulants as would do dishonor to
The foUowingarc the regulationseoncerliing i“> k sidt " a ^ ^7 might his“YZ
substitutes above leferred to : ^breatlu No uiaUerwhatth. nation, creed,
Genkrai Order'*, J
No. 29. j
The following regulations concerning substi
tutes in the army, are published by the direc
tion of the Secretary of War:
1- Any non-commissioned officer or soldier
or color of a man, if he is for the Union he is a r. 1 h ° Pres ' d «" t ° f the Confederate States, the
Yankee. The ladies-save the mark-are G r 0 !,™ of State of V-“ ’ ” "
save the mark—are
more vicious, fierce, and rampant than the men.
An instance: A few days ago, Major Moore, .. . , , . ,, , »
of the Tenth Ohio, seeing two women, whom the , " vad . er l and shoul. he advance, the en
.dies enter a carriage and ^'? ‘" ade . as tnem° r a
irginia, the Mayor
of the city of Richmond, the people, the army,
the women—all are detei mir.ri upon resistance
snt.li^r he s upposed to he ladies ■ a iran«nui|i . ,, ,-
not indebted to the Government who wishes lindin ° il d 'fficult to close, stepped gallantly w“[''l f S blood - v as that of Uotpstc. 14ie in
to procure a substitute, may obtain from his fo ™’ ard for ‘he purpose of closing the doo?,
Captain a permit for the proposed subsUtuie ^ or ! e of the put forth her a t o n " d ivin^ 1 Confclerac); ,s
for Examinational VndtSp£lt.^S T “? TJZenZ I ^Xm^w^d'-^^T d’f^'
they had stolen, being mostly milch cows. ,
At McDowell, Millroy’s headquarters, great I U tlie substitute be exeuijff Irom military
(lestruction was done to private property. P dut y. and
you were ladies.” This brought the crimson
to the cheers of the she devil, but she said
nothing.
d on examination by a Surgeon or As- , • -^|J, otbur correspondent, writing from Colum-
surireon ol the Armv he nrannunee/t . 1 . con., says.
ed to let any Fedenlist officer or private pol
lute their threshholds. As an illustration :—
Two days before the battle, the wife of a certain
— — ,—.— •... | . , , . , . uia i enn *;nv& ■ hotel keeper gav0 birth to a beautiful bov. f he
The Yankees had been enjoying themselves ! “J*", 1 a “. r ? eon I1 of ‘>»e Army be pronounced, Tins place is rotten rancid with treason I fa,her and hu8band was in the Conlederate
Th “ — ^ Und ’ and ‘o tcapects fit for m.l.Ury ser^ J service. When the place fell into the hands
s came to
so inanlonl nr I u,,u ucmanueu io see ner. She arose,
„„ dressed herself and met him at the door.—
finely. They had erected large bak
and the officer
with large cooking
pattern.
s’-knehmm wJ£ V ah^uQ ^ aba " - -ro.led and u,«» info “ ^
mg stoves of the most improved ^TtbTXn commissfoled S u ' e , ter than Nashville; not ./insolent' or so ' X. h °i*i e . and ; dcm - andtd sce her " . S ^
— ’ candid.
On the retreat
tured a number ol prisouuis. Among them
ur cavalry overtook and can or “^dier procuring him shall thereupon be dte- i “"r."’ , IJut " T s atlU . waters arc running i » Wh t d wish of
We have found a number of dead and many
graves along the road, besides abandoned wa
gons and broken down horsey. I learn this
morning that 103 dead Yankees Jrave been
found in the mountain hollow near McDowell,
covered with brush.
People along the road tell us that they press
ed all their horses to carry off their artillery, Ac.
soldier
discharged by reason of a substitute, be indebt
ed to the Government, the officer granting the
i discharge shall be liable for the debt.
4. All pat and allowance due to the non
commissioned officer or soldier discharged shall
go to ths substitute at'tbe next nay day.
5. Substitutes shall not exceed one per month ;
in each Company. and shall he noted in the
me?” said she. “I
bring you before the General,” was the
response. “What for!” “Your husband is a
pect to starve out the Confederates by a long
siege and thus compel us to surrender.
A skirmish took place at one o'clock, this
morning in which & number of Federate were
killed and wounded. There was a skirmish
this afternoon, on jiridge Creek, a mile and a
half from our lines. Several Federate were
killed. No lo^s on our side. Forrest’s caval
ry, Kennedy’s Louisiana and Benton’s Missis
sippi regiments displayed great gallantry.
Butler’s villainous Order, of the loth, ad
dressed to the ladies of New Orleans, was
published to the army to-day by Gen. Beaure
gard, with an address to the men of the South,
to avenge the insults offered to their mothers,
wives and daughters, who are treated by the
ruffianly barbarians as common harlots.
The New Orleans Crescent is suppressed be
cause J. O. Nixon, one of its proprietors, is in
the Confederate army as Lt. Colonel of Scott’s
cavalry.
ittcuMoND, 2Iffh.—The Enquirer, of this
morning, has news compiled from Northern
papers, of the 16th, bringing English dates of
the 3d. Ihe prominent subject is a rumored
English and French intervention in American
affairs.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Herald, under date of the 29th April, says that
notes have been passing between the two gov
ernments within the past week, in relation to
this matter. There is no doubt but the Empe
ror still says “No!”
The Enquirer says, Editorially, “Our ex
tracts from the last European intelligence, re
ceived from the North, indicate, on the part of
England and France, a disposition to interfere
for the restoration of peace on this continent.
The feeling exhibited is altogether in favor of
acknowledging the pretensions of the Confed
erate States.”
Lincoln has issued a proclamation declaring
that the blockade of the ports of Beaufort,
Por„ Royal, and New Orleans, shall so far
cease and determine on the 1st of June, that
SKIRMISHING A! CORINTH.
H' ' ' . J.LRT.
Mobile, 2.' , cial dispatch to the Mo
bile Advertiser from Corinth, 21st, at night,
says that general pickpt skirmishing had com
menced on our right and left iines. (In our left
the enemy threw a number of shells without
damage. On our right several casualties oc
curred. Among the killed-is Captain Richards
of the 31st Mississippi. The enemy suffered
much. A general engagement is expected to
morrow. Our whole army marched ont this
evening. Our tioops are in high spirits and
confident of a victory. The weather is fine
and pleasant. Ilalleck* sent 200 Confederate-
prisoners having the small pox to Fort Pillow
in exchange for Federal prisoners sent here.
Gen. Yillepigue refused to receive them.
Beauregard sent a letter to Halleck to-day
charging him with had faith and inhumanity.
Halleck replied, denying any knowledge of the
prisoners having the small pox.
From the Memphis Avalanche, May 12ru.
LATEST FROM FORT PILLOW.
Grand ftavnl Haiti? at Plumb P#tm—Out-
Cotton Kemtte Victorian*. m
The steamer Golden Age arrived at our whan'
yesterday afternoon from Fort Pillow, and from
an officer in the engagement, w) gather some
interesting particulars of the grand naval bat
tie which took place there on Saturday.
Gen. Jeff. Thompson, who is in command of
the gunboat fleet at Fort Pillow, on hearing
that it was the intention of the enemy to come
down to attack that place on Saturday, con
cluded that he would go up and anticipate their
movements, \ccordingly about 6 o’clock on
Saturday morning, the fleet was put in readi
ness, and about 7 o’clock the fight commenced.
The steamer Bragg, Capt. Wm. Leonard, led
in the attack. She steamed up amid a shower
of balls to the St. Louis gunboat, which was
coming down, and struck her on the starboard
side; the Sumter, Capt. Wallace Lamb, follow
ed next, and butted the St. Louis near the
stern ; the Gen. Price, Captain T. Ilenthorne,
followed next, and also butted the St. Louis in
the stern, knocking away her rudder and stern-
post. The Van Dorn, Capt. Fulkerson, came
up last.
The Bragg had her chain shot away, and
dropped back ; the Sumter was surrounded by
three gunboats, which, for the space of fifteen
minutes, poured a most deadly fire upon her
Some of the enemy’s boats were almost along
side the Sumter in the engagement, yet she
was not seriously disabled, though her cabin
was almost riddled. The 1 an Dorn had a spe
cial engagement with the rr.ortar boat, and it
is believed seriously" damaged her. Indeed, it
is reported that the mortar beat has since sunk.
Some of tfte enemy’s balls penetrated as much
as six feet into our boats, yet so far as their
serviceable capacity’ is concerned, they were
uninjured. The Van Dorn’s upper works wet e
almost riddled. A spy glass was shot ont of
the the hands of hei^captain.
There was no damage done to the hulls or
machinery of our boats. Gen. Thompson was
on board the Bragg, which made the ftest at
tacK. All did their duty nobly, though special
mention is made of Capt. Fulkerson, of the Van
Dorn.
The Sf. Louis was seriously damaged, and
was run on a bar opposite Plumb Point. Yes
terday, at noon, she was still on the bar, with
a transport alongside, supposed to be iu a sink
ing condition.
The fight was brought to a close by the
Federal gunboats withdrawing into shoal wa
ter, where ours could net go. They then open
ed broadside after broadside at us, throwing
some threo hundred shot, but with no damage.
The Benton gunboat, Commodore Foote's
flag ship, did not leave the shore, but all the
time poured a most destructive Ore upon our
boats.
The Federate made an attempt to board the
Sumter, hut the hoarding party were all dis
persed by a showc-r of balls and hot water.-
Several of the Federate were killed at their
guns, and others a' their forecastle. YVc fired
from our big gun not exceeding twenty shots,
mostly from the Jeff. Thompson.
Our loss in the engagement is two—tiie cook
-- I!—™™ «.wl »R„ „„ *i.»
Dorn. The former had his leg shot off at the
thigh, ami the latter had his head shot off. We
also had four slightly injured. The Federal
loss is known to be at least twenty-five.
The engagement took place at Plumb Point,
and lasted an hour and a half, when our boats
returned to the Fort.
The impregnability of our cotton clad licet
is considered now to be fully demonstrated—
the enemy’s shot penetrating into the cotton
only a few inches and none passing through.
Therefore there is now no danger of the enemy
reaching Memphis rin Fort Pillow.
Correepondeuce of the Memphis Appeal.
Corinth, Wednesday, May 14, 1862.
Two more Federal prisoners were captured
last night on the road leading to Farmington.
They belonged to the cavalry, were well moun
ted, and on outpost duty at the time. They
repeat the usual story of disgust with the ser
vice; “glad they Were taken; always had a
natural sympathy with our cause; if they had
lived in the South, would have been original
| secessionists.” Of affairs on the other side,
, they also have the same old story to repeat:
, “Halleck has an immense armv ; numbers any
where between a hundred and two hundred
jeans are evidently playing into the hands of «h,> ,! b f n t ’t 1 k ? P i i iX®
“certain cavtflry” in the distance. The long fended my home lodged here ; 1 wish I
J the euards w ith tlie i c ?, u ? lnforni ,lleul °f tb e means of destroying
“Leaded cap on v " all of vour accursed horde, and I would cheer-
Wc arrived at this place yesterday (Sunday) | r °" " nd j stand?
about 3 o'clock, P. il. On our approach the
enemy took to the mountains, wiieie they had !
planted artillery, and set fire to alt the work
II. U hen any person liable to military duty
under the Act of Congress, but not mustered
roll heat at 8. T passed
provest, who inquired, “Leaded
“Yes, sir.”
"Keep your eyes open. No man
out the countersign—no man ; do
“Aye, aye, sir.”
fully do so. • Y'ou have come to arrest me, but
nnsfiea with l , hat oan old y be done when y°u or I, one*or
vmi undo/ 116 °* her ’ is dead i elect your choice.” And
y u u aer- he left without her ! Speaking of this incident
| to Gen. McClellan, Dr. Cullen recently said:—
That would have been a night of blood to “ b ° W Ca " you ever ex P ect t0 con 9 uer a P e0 P>e
: somo noble souls, but for the alert provost.-
So dense was the smoke that we could not find ulo rvn- n any Company, desires to furnish ■ They who have ’smiled on us were to have
the position until night'all, when it was too i a substitute, shall report himself with the sub- 1 been spirited away, and so on and so on Two
dark to sheil them. In fact it is very hard to \\\[ 4 \ , ,' am P ,“ f I ]>- . half grown boys were captured in concealment
.r- v L * * ri1 , " n i. . at the Court-House, who, in great trepidation,
told who brought them there, bqt denied hav-
drive an enemy from the mouutuin heights, as j Auction, for recruit- raised under the said act;
you «an seldom get a position for artillery.— 1 a,,d 'f lb ” substitute be lawfully exempt from
. This morning our scouts are out in search
■ position, and to watch the movements of
-h of a mlitMrf duty and on examination by a Surgeon ' fog any notion as to why they were brought
of t p e or Assistant.Surgeon hepronounced sound and there. Their sender was also captured, and
them. ' ,lal1 respects fit lor military service, he may j pro ved to he a wrathful organizer of some dev-
Vankces, hut I have not yet heard from . . . . „
Northwestern Virginia is now nearly free j b ® “eeepted and enrolled, and the person fur
from the scoundrels.
I do not know our destination, as General. .
Jackson never tells any one his plans, not even | s,lt '>te shall he entitled to transportation or
organizer
• . . - . ■ . ... , . .. !' br y ur other—we cannot determine precisely
nishtng such substitute may he discharged by wh at He utters the most revolting impreca
the Commandant of the t amp. But no sub- | » ionK upon the American flag, and vows that he
women even are so unconquerable?”
To which “the young Napoleon” responded by
a despondent shake of the head.
I have waited for additional news from the
gunboats and our batteries, until the mail is
closed, but there iu news. This letter must,
therefore, go as ’tin writ My, health, howev
er, is fully restored, and I will write to you in
future regularly.
commercial intercourse with these points, ex- anil fifty thousand men ; all Weil and admira-
cept as to persons, things and information con- j
traband of war, may from that time be carried
on, subject to the laws of the United States.
blv drilled; and will be iu Ourinth within two
or three days.” The same old “two or three-
days’’ still. For five weeks, now, that has
been the story, and yet, for some unaccounta-
Rimunxn onth a c™,.;«i t . u r ble reason or othur ' Hall eck still clings to the
, “ lcu “ 0!iD . “ 0th "— A speoal despatch from ; river and to his gunboats.
Corinth gives a General Order from Beaure-- In the meantime the river is rapidly going
gard, which was read on dress parade, on die out ’ promising soon to leave the boats high and
19th, embracing an Order from Gen. Butler ' dr ^’ r ‘ 4t * ast accounts it had fallen twenty-
dated New Orleans. 15 th, in which Butler says ! a 1 8t j 1 th ,® h ° at a " d drou S bl continue,
.h.i it:r „„„ r , l ' outier say s Guerrilla bands, also, continue to annoy the
that it any female shall, by any word, gesture enemy and disturb his quiet passage up and
or movement, insult or show contempt for any j down the river, much to his displeasure.—
officer or soldier of the United States, she shall bat a P il y il . is our people will not allow the
he regarded and held liable to he treated as a ' } unkees to en joy tbeir tri P s when on such a
woman of the. town hospttablc vrs.t 1 As ls > ‘ be F ba ve to keep
his Brigadiers and Aids.
The Yankees had put up a telegraph wire al j
most to Monterey, hut on our approach they
abandoned the work, leaving several tons ofi
wire, ladders, &r., behind.
The fight, l suppose, will be renewed as soon
other allowance at the expense of the Govern
ment until *o accepted and en Ailed.
— -•*
very Just.
Gen Lovell publishes a catd in the N.
RELATIONSHIP DISOWNED.
The New Orleans Delta of the 29th ult re-
ujioii mi: mucntmi nag, ana vojrs mat tie lates thn fnllnwinc •
will teach his children to imitate their father! X
banner.
f?T
TnE CONTRAL \NDS DISGUSTED. The NeW
York Herald, ol the 10th, in its Fredericks-
woman of the town
Beauregard’s Order closes as follows .
“Men ofthe South ! shall our mothers, wives, 1
. — keep
pickets out all along the shore, and then they
hardly feel themselves secure.
The fight, l -oppose, will be renewed as soon | Gen Lovell publishes a catd in the N. 0. ! lur * me lulQ > ln 1
as Gen. Jackson ascertains the enemy's posi-1 Delta of the 29th April, which acquits him of bur S Correspondence, says:
lion. Should it come ofi I will give you par- i blame for the inadequate defences of the Ores- i Contrabands continue to floe
in his hatred and blasphemy of the “Yankee “ ‘-''t Ianded , above b " ar '
k. nn .. n f z Tollton from the enemy s ships, and proceeding
to the abandoned fortifications, inspected them
and tore up a small Confederate flag, which
they found tlying over thp works.
Returning down the levee the officers met a
. . , O ur ne ^ prisoners also have large stories to
daughters and sisters be thus outraged by the tell about the artillery which Halleck is brin<"
ruffianly soldiers of the North, to whom is ']*S U P against us. “He intends,” they say,
thus given the right to treat at their pleasure V’- P reccde tbe attack' by heavy mortars]
the ladies of the South as common harlots,'l = ^ £ SheU T T rks - U 11 around - and
A A- . , “auuis. thus open the way for hts infantrv In this
Arouse, fnends, drive hack from our soil the 1 way, also, he expects to demoralize our men to
^“fo U ur l f.mfiy r8 tie°8t" Ur * d ' StUrb ' I ? Ucha ^eethat when the two armies come
tiock in, but they
He concludes his letter'with the ! bctra y « reat ignorance of the rebel operations.
Some of the slaves, who leitwhen our forces
first advanced to Falmouth, have returned
home, declaring the* road of freedom not so
stnoothe as they anticipated, and preferring
their accustomed easy labor to uncertain gains
and the absence or the care of those to whom
Norfolk and Portsmouth, and the speedy fail of a B ainst lbe uftasive power of Great”“Britain j they have been wont to look for subsistence.
d . wben Boston, Nexv Y ork, Philadelphia,Charles- - — ■ «»., ■ ■■
ticulars.
INTERVENTION AGAIN,
ft seems Europe is rousing up again on the
subject of intervention in American tflairs.
dequate
cent City,
following:
In conclusion, I will add that terrible as the
blow has been, 1 am neither disheartened nor
U e, however, may assume that the tidings ofi in despair. This war of independence is not
the capture of New Orleans, the evacuation of j Y et f° u ght out ' Our ancestors-struggled on
GEN. COX ROUTED.
Ricdmonp, 20th.—The Lynchburg Virginian, ] tie damage “shelling” usually*does,
of to-day, says that 5,000 of the enemy were midst of all the shelling from the gunboats :n
together he will have an easy time of it." He
forgets that our men have already some expe
rience in this kind of work, and know how lit-
In the
family of ladies and children, 1 accompanie^by I between the forces of Gen, Heth and d° ft ff" ^ ba « ia
their enlnreJ tvi-uunt Marshall, near the narrow* of 11 ,s doubtful it a single man was
their colored servant. The Federate! address,
ing themselves first to the ladies, expressed a
hope that the presence of the fleet was not a
cause of fear to them. YY'e will relate verbat
im the conversation that ensued
Marshall, near the narrows of New River,
Giles county.
broke and fled, without making fight.
Eighteen hundred prisoners were captured
Mrs. B.—That sensation, sir, is unknown to They surrendered with their arms and were
paroled.
It 1s believed this news was confirmed by
Richmond which have been fold and nrcdictiff . , „ , „ -
. v ,, . , P*®uicu<i ,on and Savannah were *11 in possess on of the
in the Northern papers oflatcr dates, will check I enemy, and gained their Iiheriy.
all these projects for sometime. Not until F.u-'
rope sees the tide of itWa.-ton and plunder roll-
ed Northward, as we trust it will be in a few
weeks, or not until it is seen that the capture
It is a moral and a physical impossibility that
we can ho conquered. Let us but be true to
ourselves and our cause—never tiring, never
despairing—hut rising Action like with renew-
of towns on the coast will not conquer the rew/d^dwi'ih'succeS 1 ' AbovTalt we ^Suld
South or diminish the spirit of resistance and not crush down the spirit and the energies of
liberty, and **■"* *' ’ '• * ,K u
is heralded
those
<»en. Cram’* View* of the Battle of hhilolt.
Gen. Grant, who was in command at Shiloh
appears to he an honejt sprt of an old soldier,’
and writes a fratiK letter for publication in the
Cincinnati Commercial, from which we extract:
“There is one thing I feel well assured of]
and that is that I have the confidence of every
brave man in my command. Those who show
ed the white feather will do all in their power
, and that the slow progress of invasion J* who .ra using the faculties, mental and fo ^t aUent^foXXW SC
Jded at every step by the destruction of { "fX? , h 1 * i., s glVen b Y making j haps a dozen officers arrested for cowardice in
inese rich products of our soil, which would and under adv-r-e T/i'm/ 11 ' ! bln, ‘* d n Y* ns the first day’s tight These men are necessarily
otherwise make the life blood of foreign trade, riot been s n ee fol ^ c f t f- nCea ’ „ tbe ^. bave m y er >emie. As to the talk about a *urp> i.
will »hp ra«r« for intervention r?allv in an.) . . resisting all points a , here. nothina could ht more fil*a Jt' ih*
us here.
Officer.—Madam, may I ask you if there is
any Union sentiment here ? ■ »
Mr, B.—None, sir, that I aru aware of j °* bc ' a * despatches.received this afternoon.
certainly none among the ladies.
Officer.—Then we may take it for granted
there is none among either sex, as the ladic-s ! patch was received here yesterday:
generally go with the gentlemen on political - - _
, • gle UM.n was
.in . . . - . ’’“led or hurt Shells make a huge n<Mb, well
t he Yanks seeing their plight | talculatod to scare horses and old women, hut
not men. In all the long and furious “shell
ing” of Island 10, Fort Pillow, and the forts be
low New Orleans, it is doubtful if a dozen men
have been killed.
There is no doubt, however, that this is Hal-
lock's intention. He knows very well that we
have aq army here neariy equal’ to his own in
numbers, and every way superior to it in per-
f.nowing o*i to.! rt 1 n^rir?-’.?:'“rdz rs
will the rage for intervention really set in, and ,, rea . —m,, ....i g 811 points n here, nothing could be more false. If the ene-
becotne perhaps a source of annoyance and dan-1 the c „ e u ene ™yi with all ; ,ny had sent us word when and where they would
..... • • ,e “ppffwoex ol modern warfare, both mihta- attack we not e he,,'.- ....
ger to the South.
- ~ warfare, both milita
ry and naval, in great abundance at his con
'grille remains of Lieut. \V. D. Sanford, tro !’, We never U* seen such dark days
of the 4th Louisiana Battalion, passed through “f G<sorge Washington
, . , ii a a , J u f i ft t alley forge; and should such be our lot
here yesterday. He died at Savannah on the I trust that the same spirit will animate us to
- attack us, we could not have Iteen better pre— said
- I pared.” f
Thus we have it the very highest official
questions.
Mr, li.—I am confident, sir, your inference,
as to the entire absence of any Union senti
ment is correct As to the ladies following the
gentlemen on political questions, ( beg you to
understand that, however it-may be in your
Bection, the ladies here advocate that only
which is just and honorable.
Officer, (turning his attention to one cf the
ise \ servants)—Well, sis, can you tell me if all the
If the ene- I troops have left yet ?
Nancy being lor a moment quiet, the lady
New River, 19th, Dublin, 20th,
He knows, also, that we hold one of the strong
est positions in the Confederacy, surrounded on
: every side by admirable natural lines of de-
By the co operation of Gen. Marshall, Cox j ,cnse > wbicb bay e been strengthend by every
has been driven from this section ofthe coun- art known to military science. He is therefore
• ... .. well aware that he will be unable tc bring np
try, losing many prisoners and hts entire camp b j s <•- j ■ b ..F
and garrison equipage, &c. [Signed]
II. Heth, Brig. Gen. Com.
19tU
I work out the same successful results.
„ . Nancy (with greaUindignatita.)—Don’t; you
authority that the enemy were fully prepared I call me sis again. I don’t want no Xankne fflr
r ’* -"■■■" ■ *—* - - •-■ - brudder.
The whole Federal prrty pa * d on without
for our assault at Shiloh, but notwithstanding
were driven like chaff by the wind before the
1 fierce assault of our comparatively small fpreo. * another won!
army fairly and squarely against u, He
makes a great mistake however, and one argu
ing a singular ignorance of the ground, if he
- — thiriKS to “shell” us out of this place, or safely
FROM NEW MEXICO. bring up mortars to attempt it. In less than
Richmond, 21st.—The following official des- two after the work is done, he will find
patch was received here to-day from New Max- ev ® r y P! ece taken. Our hoys swear they
to : Th, “Ato, of New' Mexico" .od I Urn ,he
to
. . „ , , com
manded by Gen. Hardee. They had become
members of it, however, after the General left
it and ho had no acquaintance with them. They
will be sent to Memphis, and their horses given
to troopers of » different stripe. H. P.
I -a livr i j—■"*» '“ v ‘““J i .. BuiKo writing tne aoove, i learn the ’
ih nCJ '’ Why d ° n ‘ yCU answer J° ur i » bl PP ed entirely the recent reinforcements sent prisoners; brought in this morning belonged
/„:,e i . ,. .. | from Colorado to Gen. Canby, killing and cap-J l he 1st United States dragoons, formerly ct
. Nancy (with greatindignaticn.1—Don’t; vou . : I n-,..'
turing over five hundred of the enemy. The
fight occurred on the 27th March, twenty three
miles east of Santa Fe, which place is now the
head-quarters’of the Confederate army.