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"the War End *—In sixty days
New Orleans will be opened to all
lizens and bona fide neutrals—not to
ho conceal property under a foreign
' prostitute their nationality for the pur-
gain.
ew Orleans be given up upon a
"Jlie Confederate States f No
made. New Orleans
Forse than British tyranny—the
> and the assassin—New Orleans
hrever a part of the United States.
"■ rthwest demands it, the Northeast,
white
lindow,
Sen on all
lieered him
place in
or six miles we
left the finishing
have captured a
of~pnSB!?ers who have been sent
^ be day. The final result of the
7nts are yet unknown.
tell me that Gen. Banks has said
afraid that he would have to sur-
liole command and to be relieved of
lecetsity and to save his own bacon
ay on an extra car.
£ in the town was extinguished by
ys after the commissary stores were des-
, but we succeeded in saving all of the
medical stores and ainunitiori, both of which
were very large. \Ve also secured the depot
and a train of cars, both of which were well fil
led with provisions.
The Yankees left behind all their knapsacks
a large quantity of arms which they threw
away, and lots of trinkets, which the boys have
been examining all day.
Having been on the march for^ twenty two
days, and all of the previous night, our Gen.
Stonewall allowed us to go into camp to rest
but 1 guess we will be off again in the morning
in pursuit of the Yankees.
In neither of the engagements we have not
had one fourth, no, not ono sixth of our forces
3, and I cannot see why the enemy have
fled in such confusion alter so short a stand.
Up to this time we have captured and have
in this place between 3,000 and 4,000 prisoners, ^
and I am told that 1100 more of the 1'
J red, requires it, and the Middle have been captured near Harper’s Fij
. -an outlet for their products. Martinsburg.
■>PP*L ”
t til. Cu
as necessary to the body J 'Ye have now in this place
d States as is the carotid [ arms, taken -ince we entered Front
e human body. For weal or woe, sides a number of pieces of^ artiller
worse, in sickness and in health,
|l poorer,” New Orleans and Louis,
s.ilubly and unequivocally a part
[ind bone of the United States.—
ocepted as a fact, whether we like
Wt may as well make up our
lure, if we do not love, the best
the sun ever shone upon.
y the United States force* leave New
tainst their will, the city will only
ome for the alligator, and the basl-
We of the mosquito. No other created
rill lice in it.
LATEST FROM CORINTH.
on liar fontVdrrnlc I’niup.
from the .Memphis Ap-
!he 31st. It is our latest from Corinth—
Flock in the afternoon of the 89th :
FROM CORINTH.
absence of our regular correspondents
with the largest quantity of the best’
tion of all grades that I have ever behi?
The medical stores captured are estiinal
by the drnggists of this place to be worth a*
Fwilh great gratification that we
» the Confederacy, that General
the Macon Telegraph, has again re-
duty, and on the 29th of May assum
irection of military affairs. His dis
Tertation on fortifications and spading Will be
read with interest and profit, though we ven
ture the opinion, reluctantly, that it does not
show a discriminating acquaintance with the
vast difference between offensive and defensive
war. The inconsiatency of his reasoning, how-
aver, must be passed over in so distinguished
an officer. The President, we see by the Rich*
mond papers, has been compelled to yield his
defensive policy to the urgent demands of his
Generals, and of the people. With Jackson,
Price, Van Dorn and Morgan in the field, John
ston and Beauregard bolding McClellan and
Halleck in check, and Clisby directing the
campaign, we shall, no doubt, soon sweep the
fair fields of Maryland and Pennsylvania with
our victorious troops, and retrieve Kentucky
and Missouri from their political and military
thraldom. Hurrah for our side 11
The Federal Union of luesday says all that,
and having placed us in supreme command,
sets up in the next breath to criticise and dis
pute orders. If his commission is good, the
first thing we should be compelled to do, would
be to have the Federal Union shot for insubor
dination. But the Telegraph has no heart to
cut them off in the very flower of their youth,
beauty and wit, and the luxuriant verdancy of
their intelligence. We will not assume com
mand, but still the country is safe, so long as
the Federal Union is spared. The genius of
those mortals is equal to anything. It was
only three weeks ago that they developed and
published an entire plan for the summer’s cam
paign, and it was rumored that unless the Pre
sident should feel himself "compelled to yield
his defensive policy to the urgent demands” of
edgeville programme, the State would
at once, and the great bell of the
ille Hotel rung as a signal for general
Sustaining and Opposing the Administra
tion.
The Countrvmsn, in an article entitled “Two
Chances,” gently berates the Macon Telegraph
to the length of two and a half columns for
wearing two faces in respec* to the Confede
rate administration. That is to say, we sus
tain the administration, and also at times, indi
rectly assail it by criticising the conduct of the
war and the course of public events. In his
judgment the part of “honesty” would be to
follow <fne-paih or the other straight out—to
sustain the administration and back up reso
lutely everything that is done in Cabinet and
field, or to denounce and assail the adminis
tration and etery thing done under it, unspar
ingly and indiscriminately. It must be all white
or all black—all wrong or all right—all the
best thing which could have happened, or all
the very worst which could be done.
Our friend complains of that unyielding men
tal constitution which forbids him to look at
Grand I.adgr I. O. O. F. (Stale of tSearftia
Preamble and Resolutions of separation from
the Grand Lodge of the United States, as
unanimously adopted at the late session of
the Grand Lodge of Georgia, in Macon, June
4th, 1862.
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, There has been a disruption of
the American Union and the formation of
anew Confederate Government, to whi;h lat
ter all true and loyal citizens of the South ac
knowledge their first allegiance ; and whereas,
there is now raging a relentless war of invasion
and subjugation by the Northern Government
and people against the Southern, involving all
classes of the community in the conflict of
anus—all of which is subversive not only of
the fundamental principles of free, republican
institutions—that of the right of the people to
self-government—hut also utterly destructive
of the cardinal principle of “Friendship, Love
and Truth,” on which the glorious ten pie of
public affairs more rationally ; but he consoles 0dd Fellowship is built; and whereas, it has
himself with the opinion that this infirmity is become a necessity as strong as that of self
at least proof of his own honesty, candor and
straight forwardness. On the other hand, the
mind which can view public men and public
affairs in the same temper with which it weighs
everything else human and therelore fallible,
is in a happy and advantageous condition, hut
is certainly liable to the suspicion of moral ob
liquity and double dealing.
If the Countryman will allow us to say so
much, this is the first time we have suspected
that paper of being at all unfriendly to the
Confederate Administration, and we will not
even take its own assurance that this hostility
is likely, from his mental constitution, to as
sume the very blind and inveterate character
which he thinks due to that position. He can
see a fault in his own horse, without seeing
, . , , that he is all faults—a rot in his potatoes with-
avert this catastrophe and save the .. .,. ,.
, , _ . , ,r • out claiming that all are rotten—a weevil in his
triumvirate of the Federal Union i . B . „ . . .
grain without seeing that all is weevil. If he
hears at a fault in a neighbor, he does not
thereupon set him down at once as an unmiti
gated and graceless scoundrel—or if rnisin-
he field in accordance with their |
plan of campaign. We trust they j
ly “sweep the fair fields of Mary- j
Pennsylvania,” but also the dirty
floors of the Capitol of Georgia from the dust I
and pea nut shells which have been accumula- ,
ting there lor a quarter of a century. What
respect and self-preservation, for this Grand
Lodge to take such action as will show to the
world our love of right and patriotic purposes,
therefore be it
Resolved, That the disruption of Iraternal
ties between Odd Fellows of the South and
those of tho North has not been of our seeking
nor within our control, and that the idea of a
separation, officially, from the organizations of
the Order north of the Potomac, is shown to
have been approached cautiously and entertain
ed reluctantly, in the postponement by this
Grand Lodge of final action on the subject to
the present hour, in hopes of a peaceful adjust
ment of the difficulties existing prior to our
last Annual Communication.
Resolved, That a longer affiliation with the
Fraternity North would justly expose our be*
loved Order, in this section, to a suspicion of
disloyalty to our own government which ought
to be disowned and repudiated.
Resolved, That in view of the necessity of
the issues imposed upon this Grand Lodge and
formed on a single point, does not therefore set the absolute certainty that any further commu-
down everything he hears as lies. In other
words, he is capable of honest, common, dis-
strategetic resources may we not anticipate cr.mmat.ng sense in private life, and we will
from the acumen of editors, who attack us for I not bclieTe ’ thou S h he should 8Wear il » that he
consistent with a defensive [<olicy, and ! could not brtn B the same cool, consideratejudg-
inent to the measurement of public men and
with all
Save Sf.e
ing friends to
will he valuable
M km ru is. —The conflagratwh of the’cot top
and sugar in Memphis is significant enough of
what is speedily anticipated. We may expect
rinth, and the silence of the telegraph, | f iesr 0 f ([, e surrender of that city to the Fed
i without any means of obtaining m~ ,
except such as may be brought cralsat »ny moment. ^
augh by passengers. Of the thousand and
■ i(MR that are afloat in the city the pub
lic can make up their own opinion. These will
continue to spread and assume the most unim
aginable shapes, until the embargo upon the
transmission of proper intelligence is removed,
and we can only caution our readers against
giving credence to the many reports that oh-
tain circulation.
Our latest from Corinth is up to 2 o’clock,
P. M., Wednesday. As had previously been
the case, the enemy were slowly shelling our
NORTHERN VOLUNTEERING.
On the 19th ult, the Lincoln War Depart
ment telegraphed to Gov. Andrews, of Massa
chusetts, for three or four more regiments of
infantry to be sent on and armed in Washing
ton. That infamous functionary replies as fol-
A call so sudden and unexpected finds me
without materials for an intelligent reply. Our
young men are all pre-occupied with other
views, still, if a real call for three regiments is
camps with their siege guns, without doing v . ,
any damage 6 b B made I believe we can raise them m forty days.
WILL HALI.ECK FIGHT.
This is now the burden of popular inquiry,
The arms and equipments would need to he
furnished here. Our people have never march-
follZnJffi theTUke^he ctESmed disap- i f without them They go into camp while
nnintment of fbe last twentv davs. The ‘ ! forming into regiments, and are drilled and
pointment of the last twenty days The pre- jccd with and niarcll as so i die rs.-
vailing opinion is that Halleck js afraid of the ; & t u i._ ^ ^
result,and ic not disposed to risk a battle upon i , , _ . .. , ,
which are staked the hopes of himself and the 1 "* rnthuM,sn ‘> a " d maL ? lhe <euI that
despotism he represents, if it can possibly he th ^ were " ot sold,ers but a “ ob -
avoided. He has shown himself to be a regular Hut he adds if the Government will sustain
dirt digger, fonder hy far of the shovel than the the order of Hunter, “the roads will swarm, if
sabre, and with a considerable weakness for need be, with - multitude whom New England
seige guns and sand baga. I here is but a slight wou j d p 0Ur 0 ut to obey your call,
chance of his attacking Beauregard at Corinth
until he is goaded to it as McDowell was at j
Manassas, hy popular impatience in the North.
Hia system of “gradual approaches” ia adopted
with the view of avoiding a combat, and pro
voking Beauregard to commence aggressive
movements. We intimated just after the cap-, , . ...
ture of New Orleans, that Halleck would wait i t,on 80 numerous and compact as that of Mass
To attempt the other course would lietodamp-
This correspondence affords the first official
intimation we have seen that the Northern
people arc getting tired of the war and the spi
rit of volunteering is low. To require forty
days to raise three regiments out of a popuia
for the Mississippi river to be opened and Mem
phis to be occupied, before he would make an
advance. Such is still our conviction, and hence
we need not look for an early battle at Corinth,
unless we commence the attack. —Memphis
Appeal, 80th.
FROM CHATTANOOGA.
The Atlanta Confederacy has a Chattanooga
letter, dated the 30th ult, which asserts that • tbe
achuaetls, shows anything but a disposition to
rush to the tie.-I. True, the fanatic Andrews
asserts that volunteers would “pour out” if the
Hunter policy were adopted. That he can as
sert very cheaply with a view to making a po
litical point But all experience has shown,
thus far, that the radical abolitionists will not
volunteer, and are hut thinly represented in
preparations for a forward movement into Mid
dle Tennessee are going on there. Gen. Kirby
Smith, Gov. Harris, Andrew Ewing, and many
distinguished refugees from Tennessee were in
Chattanooga. Two thousand Yankee prison
ers, including those from Macon, were sent
down the river to Bellfonte Landing, and there
turned over to the Federals. A lively trade
was going on with Nashville by way of Mc-
Minnvil 1 " ” itli which the Confederate authori
ties did not interfere.
Long '.'lNnEii.—We have on hand numerous
long winded pninmun^tions, arguing for and
against the expediency and propriety of nulli
fying the Conscription law. The subject has
been already extensively treated upon in this
[taper. The public desire news and it presses
upon us. We have no right to disappoint 20,-
000 readers by occupying our little space at
such a time a time as this, with long legal dis
quisitions. We shall not therefore attempt to
find room for them, until matters of moro press
ing interest are exhausted.
Rumor trok Corinth.—A rumor is in circu
lation from Corinth via Atlanta, that our forces
army. The hulk of it is made up of Union
democrats.
SALT FROM THE PALMETTO ROOT.
A gentleman writing from Ware county, to
a friend in this city, says: “We hive made an
important discovery in this section of Georgia.
The Palmetto loot burned to ashes and the ash
es leached, and the ley boiled, makes an excel
lent salt. Numbcisof our citizens have tried
it with the same results. The salt is not as
white as the Liverpool salt, but equally as
strong. We have, as you know, any quantity
of the Palmetto in Southern Georgia, and it
has been useless heretofore ; hut now its value
is unknown. 1 have known for years that the
ashes of the Palmetto was salt tasted, but the
discovery has lately been made, that good salt
could he made from it. 1 have not yet tried
it, but had seen ashes burned, which I shall
try in a few days, and will let you know the
result.”
—
Rama n Volunteers.—We learn that verbal
intelligence was brought to Gordon yesterday
that fourteen out of the Ramah Volunteers,
Wilkinson county, in the 14th Georgia Regi
ment, were killed in the recent battles at Rieh-
gravely assure the public that the defen
sive policy has been abandoned at the urgent P u ^*' c & ®' u ‘ rs -
and of all the generals and the people!—
ans who can triumphantly cut their own
one short paragraph, should be
fearful execution upon the enemy.
“To horse, my brave boys, and away.il
FOREIGN INTERYENTIOJ
We copy in to-day’s paper a very
ing letter from a London corresponde
New York Times. He regales the Li
v£> a supper full of horrors about the
in Great Britain. It is not improbable from
the daily multiplying evidencas, that another
and severer intervention spasm is about to
break out across the water; but whether it
will add to or alleviate our misfortunes is yet
to be seen. This spasm will probably be de
ferred by the capture of New Orleans and the
“opening of the Southern por’s;” but the
symptoms will return with increased virulence
when it is discovered that the opening of the
ports in that way is the death of trade.
We must also concede that this opening of
the ports very much increases and complicates
the difficulties attending any intervention and
diminishes its probability. So long as our
ports were under blockade the French and En
glish had but to open them and receive the pro
duce which would he sent from the interior-,
but now to enter our ports in possession of tiie
Now, in judging of the President and his pol.
icy, ho will take into consideration his whole
life, public history and present condition, in all
of which he cannot fail, as an intelligent man,
to see the amplest guarantees of general abita
ty, rectitude and patriotism, and of the fact
that fortune, lile and fame are all bound up in
the Confederate success. He therefore who
represents Mr. Davis as either an imbecile or a
traitoi, is merely silly. No man of good sense
can believe it
In judging of the general conduct of the
war since it began, we are first and foremost
bound, as reasonable men, to admit that it has
deceived every body in iLs character and pro
portions, and that nearly all present wisdom
is doe to past experience. Why, some of the
brightest lights in Georgia are even now under
solemn stipulation to eat all the slain and drink
all the blood shed in this struggle. The wise
man of to day, in every thing that appertains
to the war, is he and he only who has rot put
himself on record.
The President has committed many errors,
beyond a doubt, and so would any body else.
No man in his position could have maintained
his popularity—no man could have secured ua
against many disasters. The point with a wise
nication with the Grand Lodge of the United
States is rendered impracticable, in letter or in
spirit, for all time to come, it is therefore de
clared, under all the solemn considerations
which address themselves to usas Odd Fellows,
as men, and as citizens of the Confederate
States, that we are, and of right ought to be a
free and independent body, absolutely absolved
from all allegiance and subjection to the Grand
Lodge of the United States.
Resolved, That this Grand Lodge will not
heieafter be represented in the Grand Lodge of
the United States, (unless it be a regular or
called meeting by the present Grand Sire, and
held in the Southern Confederacy,) nor in any
manner be subject to taxation or control by
that body.
Resolved, That so much of the Constitutions
of this Grand Lodge and of the subordinate
Lodges as recognize allegiance to the Grand
Lodge of the United States, bo and hereby is
abrogated and declared inoperative, and that
FURTHER NEWS FROM RICHMOND.
The following dispatch appears in the Char
leston papers of Tuesday :—
[Di-patch from Col. Hichard Yea.lou ]
Ricn.MOND, Sunday Afternoon, June 1.—Our
forces, under Gen. Longstrcet, have gained a
great and Hoody victory, but the accursed Yan
kees have slain my nephew and adopted son,
R. Yeadon, jr. At his earnest request, I came
here to witness and chronicle the greatest bat
tle of the war. Alas! I have to chronicle his
death, and have no spirits to do more. He was
kilted between three and fhe o'clock yesterday
afternoon, about an hour and a half after I had
arrived from here, and bidden him farewell,
whilst gallantly charging a battery of the ene
my concealed in a thicket, having been shot
through the head and dying immediately. The
enemy repulsed the attacking party, the over- i DEATH,
whelming numbers killing him and three oth
ers of his company (the Washington Light In
fantry), and wounding a great many. Easter
ling and young Tucker, some say young Cof
fin, are slightly wounded. Lieut. Klinck was
wounded and captured. Col. Hampton was
slightly wounded in the foot. The enemy have
possession of oar dead.
The great battle began yesterday at 1 o’clock
p. m., near and on this side of the Chickahom-
iny, about eight miles from Richmond—our
troops, under Gen. Longstrcet, making the at
tack. The tight lasted until 3 o’clock p. m.,
and resulted in our taking the enemy’s camp,
his breastworks and 10 pieces of artillery, dri
ving him away, and remaining masteis of the
field. The next morning the enemy renewed
the fight about sunrise, attempting to recap
ture his camp, but was again defeated and
driven back. At 11 o’clock this morning all
our troops were still holding the field of battic.
I was one mile from the fight yesterday after
noon and to-day. After the battle, I was on the
battle ground covered with dead and dying
forms—more of the enemy than ours. Slaugli
ter great on both sides, and the number of
wounded exceedingly large. Five of the ene
my are supposed to be killed to one of ours.
W e took 600 prisonei s.
Generals Lee and Johnston were on the
ground, hut left the conduct of the battle to
General Longstrcet. To the last named, there
fore, belongs the glory of the Great Battle »f
Chickahominy. President Davis was also on
the ground. The enemy was commanded by
General Keyes. It is said that General Hat
ton, of the 7th Tennessee Regiment, General J.
J. Pettigrew, and Colonel Lomax, of Alabama,
are killed. General Anderson and Colonel
Jenkins and their commands, of South Caroli
na, particularly distinguished themselves yes
terday afternoon, by their bravery and efficien
cy. Generals Whiting, Stewart, Mahone, Ghol-
son and Pryor, and Captains French, Sherman
and Amory, and other officers, were in the
fight. The enemy continued to shell, and the
fight may be renewed.
By Electric Telegraph
ALL QUIET AT RIGRMOND.
Richmond, 3d.—All quiet along our lines to
day. Clouds threaten heavy rain to-night
Richmond, 3rd.—The only incident on our
lines :o-day, east of the city, was the advance
of a regiment of Yankees reconr.oitering, while
our troops were engaged in strengthening their
position. The 12th Virginia moved forward,
when the enemy receded in double quick.—
Gen. Lee issued an address to the army to-day
which had a fine effect. There will be no more
retreating. The watchword is VICTORY OR
FROM RICHMOND.
Richmond, 4lh.—All quiet to-day near the
city. No definite list of the aggregate number
of casualties in the late battles have been ob
tained.
Mrs. Rose Greenhow arrived this morning
under flag of truce via City point It is said
that she reports Gen. McClellan very sick.
It is teported and 1 relieved here that Gen.
Casey, Federal commander, was killed in the
tight on Saturday below Richmond.
The New York Herald of the 81st has been
received by the Examiner. Bennett announces
the evacuation of Corinth by the Confederate
army, and its occupation by the Union troops.
Gen. Halleck telegraphs to this effect to Secre
tary Stanton.
The Herald publishes a map of the country,
and says that Beauregard is moving towards
Okalona, on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad.
Army Correspondence of the Savannah Republican.
EVACUATION OF CORINTH.
Mobile, May 29.
You will probably have learnt hy the tele
graph, before this reaches you, that Corinth
has been evacuated by the Confederate Army.
At least, I infer from what I say before leaving
that place, and from news that has reached me
to-day, that our troops will be withdrawn down
the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, probably to night
or to morrow. I am not informed of the pre
cise locality where they will “pitch their tents,”
but have heard it is about forty-five miles be
low Corinth, and a short distance above the
Okalona Station.
I endeavored to prepare your readers for this
movement hy an intimation thrown out in the
concluding paragraph of my last letter. I rc-
only such portions of said Constitutions as are I fer to the subject agaiu merely to say, that the
. man will be—on the whole, all things consid-
enemy answers their purpose no better than to ; eredi ^ ^ s<wth mnmtained as sacceMfal
stay at home. And it is by no means impos
sible that before they shall have made up their
minds to break the blockade, the blockade it
self may have been removed from every South
ern port by Federal capture. The first indis
pensable condition of Southern trade must then
he to drive the Federals out of some one or
more of these ports, or in other words to ini
tiate at once a state of active belligerency.
This is a step which it may well he doubted
that those governments will take—and certain
ly not until every other expedient has failed.
It entirely changes the aspects of the case.
To say to Lincoln your blockade is unlawful
and injurious, and we will therefore break if,
is one thing ; but to say we will capture the
ports held by your forces because we cannot
get trade in any other way, is quite another.
It seems pretty clear, therefore, that inter
vention, if attempted at all, must take some
other turn. It must take some general ground
and assail the character and duration of the
war—assert its hopelessness—hurtfulness—its
scandal to Christendom and free government;
and it is perhaps possible, if we maintain this
tight witli vigor and success, that intervention
may come in hy and hy to facilitate a peace. It
may add one more considerable embarrassment
to the North in prosecuting this war, and pre
sent one more motive for bringing it to a close.
So mote it he.
consistent with our new relations as an inde*
pendent State organization be continued in ef
fect and operation.
Resolved, That the various State Grand
Lodges and Grand Encampments of the Con
federate States Vie invited to co-operate with
this Grand body in its foregoing Act of Sepa-
evacuation of Corinth, under the circumstances
which environed the army, was both wise and
necessary, as a brief statement will suffice to
demonstrate.
The soil around Corinth is of that peculiar
character which is very wet in winter, and very
dry in summer. As was stated in a former
letter, I saw a mule drowned in a small branch
I near the town, where, two weeks afterwards,
ration from the Grand Lodge of the United there was not a drop of water to be seen. The
States, and in any further action which may consequence was, at the time of my departure
bo deemed necessary for their mutual support b °th fk e troops and horses were suffering for
and protection.
Resolved, That the Grand Secretary be re-
water, to ail extent you can hardly imagine.
The chief supply was obtained from the stand
I ing pools in the beds of exhausted streams.
quested to communicate a copy of these Reso- i Steps had been taken to bore a number of
have fallen back thirty miles. Another one ^ mond- Capt Kelley, we understand, was an-
states that Beauregard’s centre has fallen back ' nounccd as am ong the number killed. This is
seven miles while his right and left wings still a t err [(,] c mortality. We trust there is some
hold their ground,
to either report.
\\ e attach no consequence mistake about the statement.
Mechamcsville, where the Federal force is
THE 8th REGIMENT.
The following Despatch was received yester-
concentrating near Richmond, is not on the day from a gentleman in Richmond.
maps, but is stated to us to be a hamlet on the
New Kent Court House road about six and a
half miles from the city, If so, it lies nearly
due East from Richmond.
GRAND ENCAMPMENT I. O. O. F.
Richmond, 3.—The Eighth Regiment has not
yet been in the fight Col. Lamar well.
THE RICHMOND BATTLES
We trust the mails of to-day will bring us
some intelligible account of the battles of last
The annual communication of this grand Saturday and Sunday, but we are still all in
body took place yesterday, in this city. We. the daik. Verbal reports by travelers from
are informed the session was harmonious, espe- Richmond claim very important advantages on
cially in reference to the act of secession of this our side both days. They represesent that the
body from the authority and jurisdiction of the enemy were driven back a mile and a half on
late Grand Lodge of the U. S.. which was Saturday, and that our forces occupied the
unanimous. camp of the enemy during the night That,
^ The following officers were elected for the j * n the effort of the enemy to re-capture their
Ensuing year : ! quarters on Sunday, a fearful conflict of mus-
G. P. James H. Dye, Augusta, R. W. ti. P. ketr Y * nd lbe bayonet ensued, lasting about
four hours; during which the enemy were
driven back three to four miles further, and the
ground literally piled with the wounded and
slain, by far the greater part of which belong
ed to the enemy. The conflict of Sunday took
G. P. Aaron Wilbur, Savannah, M. E. H.
G. P. E. A. Burch, Rome, R. AY. S. W.
Q. P. E. Saunders, Macon, R. W. J. W.
G. P. Geo. R. Barker, Macon, R. W.
Scribe.
G. P. E. C. Grannis, Macon, R. W. Grand . place in low, marshy ground, too boggy for
Treasurer artillery or horse, and hence was fought almost
G P L F. W. Andrews, Macon, R. W. Grand altogether by infantry. Ten guns, however,
Representative. are clainaed have ***“ ca P ture ‘ l b ? our
G. P. J. J. Forsyth, appointed Grand Sen- ^oops. Such is the substance of verbal reports
] | ( from Richmond, but we hope to get reliable
Tlie Grand Lodge of the Stale meets this accounts to-day. The fact that taey were very
morning at 9 o’clock for the transaction of bu- obstinate and sanguinary struggles caunot be
sines s. 1 doubted.
an opposition as could reasonably have been
expected? The answer to this is—the degree
of resistance we have put forth has astonished
the world, and more particularly the Lincoln
part of it.
What then remains? What is the part of
good sense and prudent patriotism ? Why sim
ply to do the best we cin—to judge the admin
istration and its conduct of the war with fair -
ness, candor and charity—to uphold it as far
as we are able-to concetrate and unite as much
as possible to do the best and hope for the best?
To revive now the ridiculous dogmas and prac
tices of old parties-to censure and denounce in.
discriminately because you have less faith in the
President—or withhold every suggestion of er
ror, because you have more, is alike unreason
able and unpatriotic. Let the press speak its
own convictions independently, sincerely and
kindly. The Telegraph has no motive either to
sustain or oppose the administration other than
simply its own fallible judgment of the de
mands of the public welfare. Whatever inti
mations the Country man throws out of any
other intrest in the matter, are without the
slightest foundation in fact.
A Blind Guide.—Certain subscribers at a
Post office not a hundred miles from Macon
unite in a communication to us in which they
state that their Postmaster can neither write
nor read. That Postmaster is hardly a com
petent officer.
Unfortunate,—We sec by telegrams copied
from the Montgomery Advertiser, that '.he two
sons of an elder brother of the Editor were
both wounded in the fight at Richmond. We
think they were both in the Alabama 01 .
Important Movement.—Five days having
now elapsed since the fifst Richmond fight and
no intelligible idea yet received of it, the mo
tion now before the House is to abolish all tel
egraph lines, mails, railroads and post offices,
as utterly useless and impracticable.
FROM STi iNEWALL JACKSON.
The Knoxville Register, of the 4th, claims
to have news that 10,000 Marylanders have
joined the army of Stonewall Jackson. All this
may well b« true; but we doubt exceedingly
whether any telegraphic information from
Jackson lias been received since he entered
Maryland. The story of the second fight with
Banks we do not credit.
P. S.-Since the foregoing, we ascertain, upon
inquiry, that the Knoxville Register’s report
of the second fight with Batiks is certainly
true, and all the main facts are correctly report
ed.
Charleston.—The movements of the Fed
erals round Charleston indicate that an attack
upon that city may be reasonably expected in
a very short time.
GEN. JOHNSTON WOUNDED.
The telegrams failing to mention it, no con
fidence was reposed in the rumor that Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston was wounded in the late
battles near Richmond. We have been inform
ed, however, that the President despatched to
Mrs. Davis at Raleigh, early in the week, that
Gen. Johnston was wounded “slightly,” and
that in two other despatches to the same place,
the wound was characterized as “severe,” and
“serious.” We hope it is not sufficiently seri-
. ous to detain the General long from the field.
CORINTH.
No doubt seems to be left that our army at Co
rinth has fallen hack, but there is a wide dif
ference as to the point they have occupied. One
authority asserts it to he Kicnzi, which is not
more than twelve or thirteen miles South of
Corinth, while another says that the army has
probably gone to some point forty five miles
below Corinth. Wherever it may be, we hope
the army will select a battle and make it one.
At Corinth a fight was at least rendered im
possible except at the expense of defeat. The
enemy had approached our lines so closely that
only a boggy swamp intervened. To attack
them in llieii entrenchments was to be defeat
eJ and on the other hand they would not at
tack us. They would oniy use their long range
siege guns. We look now for an end to en
trenching or suffering the enemy to entrench.
BREVETS NOT EXEMPT.
A general order is published in the Milledge-
ville Federal Union of Tuesday, which declares
that the appointees by brevet in the militia are
not exempt from conscription, longer than
elections can be held to fill their places, except
in case of a failure to elect after the election
has been ordered, which fact shall be certified
to the Executive department We copy the
following paragraphs of the order, looking to
an issue with the conscription law and Confed
erate authorities:
III. .In the event of any enrolling officer of
the Confederacy attempting to enroll and com
pel any Militia officer of this State, whether of
the Line or of the Staff legally appointed, to
go to any Camp of Instruction or into any
Confederate Regiment, such officer of the Mili
tia will immediately report the fact to these
Headquarters, with the name of the enrolling
officer or agent of the Confederacy.
IY. .No commissioned officer of the Militia
of this State who has voluntarily enrolled his
name in any Confederate company or regiment,
or done any other act which places him in the
Confederate service by his voluntary election,
will be protected by the State against the con
sequences of his own act.
CaPTbe Chicago Tribune says there are .
eight major-generals and fifty-five brigadier in i decisive conflict near the Capital cannot belcoj J will be seen why I have been unsuccessful, and
lution to the Grand bodies herein indicated,
and to solicit from them their co-operation in
the formation of a Grand Lodge of Odd Fel
lows, for the Southern Confederacy.
Resolved, This this Grand Lodge invite our
sister Grand Lodges and Grand Encampments
of the Confederate States to unite with this
body in a General Convention of Representa
tives, in the city of Montgomery, Ala., on the
■econd Wednesday of November, 1862, to con
sider the state of the Order and devise such
measures as will save the beautiful fabric ofour
Brotherhood from spolia’ion and overthrow,
and restore to us the practical working of its
eternal principles.
Resolved, That a copy of this Preamble and
wells, but it was ascertained that there was no
rope or tools to he had in the town, and that it
would bo necessary to send to Columbus,
Miss., for the particular kind of rope desired.
The rope had not been received up to the 26th,
and but for timely showers which renewed the
supply in the water courses, and the wells dug
by the men in low, damp places, the army
could not have remained there as long as it has.
The citizens use rain water, caught in cisterns
from the first of October to the first of May;
but the supply in the cisterns was not sufficient
to last the army one week.
In the neighborhood of Pea Ridge, the lo
cality of the enemy’s chief encampment, the
water is better and the supply more abundant
But it was not the want of an adequate sup
ply of water alone that rendered it necessary
ior our army to retire from Corinth. Our en
THE LATE FIGHT AT HANOVER
A correspondent of the Examiner, writing
from Richmond, May 30, gives the following
account of the late tight near Hanover C. H.:
I give you an exact account of the fight at
Lebanon Church, in Hanover county, on the
27lh, and hope you will let the people know
something of that severe and unequal eoute.-t.
About 11J a. in., a Captain of the Virginia
cavalry informed Col. Charles C. Lee, of the
27th North Carolina troops, that the enemy
was advancing, but that he believed it to be a
mere marauding party, which might be cap-
tured by prompt action. Gen. Branch was at
his headquarters, more than a mile distant,
and, as no time could he lost, Col. Lee at once
sent three of his companies, under Lieut Col.
Barber, to meet them, and notified Gen. Branch
of the same. Col. Lee soon ascertained that
the enemy was advancing in considerable force ;
he, therefore, sent lorward the remaindei •
his regiment, and placed it in line of battle
across the road, and sect hack for Captain La
tham’s artillery, to reply to a battery which
had opened upo^his regiment Hu al-o asked
Col. Wade, of the Twelfth North Carolina
troops, to place his regiment in the woods on
the right to protect a dank movement; he then
deployed company A, of the Thirty-seventh, as
skirmishers, to protect the left Hank.
Captain Latham, with two guns of his bade-
ry, came forward and replied vigorously for a
short time, until a shell was thrown into his
caisson, which caused it to explode, killing two
men and two horses and wounding seven men.
Our guns now ceased to fire while moving bach
lhe disabled section. Company F, of the Thir
ty-seventh, now opened fire with Enfield rifles
upon the advance of the enemy, and put him
to flight, killing a lieutenant and two of his
men. The enemy now retired from view, hav
ing engaged us for two hours. General Branch
about this time came upon the field, and or
dered the Eighteenth and Thirty-seventh for
ward to support Col. Lane’s Twenty-eighth
North Carolina troops, which had been sunt
early in the morning to support two companies
of the Thirty-seventh, on picket some four
miles distant. These two regiments commenc
ed to advance in charge of Col. Lee, the respec
tive regiineuts being commanded by Col. Cow
an, of the Eighteenth, and Lieutenant Colonel
Barber, of the Thirty-seventh. Col. Lee soon
ascertained that the enemy had planted a hat
tery of artillery on a hid in front of him, with
a strong infantry support. This was reported
to General Branch. General Branch ordered
Col. Lee to charge the battery with the Eigh
teenth and Thirty-seventh. Col. Lee sent to
the Geneial, asking him to cause Latham to
engage the battery and to send up other infant
ry support for the Eighteenth and Thirty-sev
onth.
The Eighteenth and Thirty-seven commenc
ed the charge—the Eighteenth sweeping gal
lantly through an open field in the face of a
terrible fire with good effect At the same time
the Thirty-seventh advanced with rapidity and
steadiness through a dense forest in which the
undergrowth was so thick that a man could not
be seen more than thirty steps. The Thirty-
seventh rushed forward with enthusiasm until
it encountered the Yankees, who were conceal
ed behind logs, trees, and in the cut of a road
way, which was bordered by a fence of cedar
brush. Here the enemy had every advantage
„ campment Was hounded on three sides by j of position, wh.le his force was vastly supen-
Resolutions he furnished to the city press for Brid g e (; ree k and a dense swamp—in front, on t or; but Col. Lee’s men stoed like veterans.--
>i . j a. ai— v “ 1 •- the right, and in the rear—and our breastworks . Officers and men stood as firm as rocks within
were just behind the swamp and ran parallel fifteen or twenty paces of the Yankee line,
to it for a considerable distance. The swamp ] Volley after volley of grape from their cannon
publication, and that the same be issued in
Circular form and sent to each member of this
Grand Lodge and to each subordinate Lodge
in this jurisdiction.
A true extract from the minutes.
Geo. R. Barker, Gr. Scc’y.
FEELING IN TENNESSEE.
A writer in the last Atlanta Intelligencer,
after a good deal of rhodomontade over a strange
misconception and torture of a paragraph in
this paper about Andy Johnson’s late Union
Convention, makes the following gratifying as
sertion in regard to Tennessee :
Now, leaving out the territory in Tennessee
cast of the Cumberland mountains, there nev
er has been a timo since the celebrated war
proclamation of Lincoln, on the 15th .April,
1861, that as many as one half' of five thou
sand “Union men” could have been lound in
the entire State. We make this issue distinct
ly, and are fully prepared to sustain it by facts
and figures.
We hope his statement is true ; but wheth
er true or not, will say for ourself that we had
as little idea of “slandering” or “sneering at
Tennessee,” as he has.
A War Croi-—AY. Toney, Esq., of F.ufaula,
Ala., writes to the Field and Fireside that he
has planted a “war crop,” consisting of 100
acres in two varieties of the Palma Christi
seed to make Castor Oil; 75 acres in broom
corn ; 100 acres swamp land in rice ; 4 acres
in hops ; 400 acres in corn ; 100 acres in ground
peas ; 300 acres of com land in cow peas for
hogs ; 20 acres in potatoes, and half an acre in
the Texas Mesquit or Muskeete Grass. Mr.
Toney is a sensible roan. May he reap abun
dant harvests.
fjjT* Andrews, the captain of the engine
stealers on the State Road, succeeded in effect
ing his escape from Chattanooga the other day,
but was recaptured by citizens across the river.
IW The Knoxville Register of the 4th says
that 10,000 Marylanders have joined Stonewall
Jackson already. How do you know, Bro.
Register ?
The Tennessee Cotton Supply.—The follow
ing is said to be an extract of a letter from
Nashville to a commercial house in New Y’ork:
The amount ot cotton hoped for by the agents
sent out by merchants in the Eastern States on
a speculating tour, was very large ; but the
quantity actually ascertained to exist within
reach of buyers is very small. Great efforts
have been made to magnify the amount through
the press, for purposes easily understood by
the trade, but the statements will not deceive
business men. The prices paid for the few
available bales average 22 cents for cotton in
poor condition—some not baled. Add to this
packing, transportation, &c., and the price for
swamp |
was crossed by four or five roads, near which and Minie balls from their infantry mowed
we had planted formidable batteries to cut off 1 down our men, still the Thirty-seventh moved
all approach by the roads. I*, would now ap-
j pear that the same thing has been done by the
1 enemy, who has advanced up near the swamp
on the other side, thrown up breastworks and
posted heavy siege guns, which not only com
mands the roads leading out from our side, but
are of sufficient calibre to shell nearly every
part of our encampment He has also thrown
up strong works near Farmington and Pea
Ridge, and erected heavy batteries at command
ing points along the several routes to the rear.
Indeed, the Federal works are superior to ours,
and their position equally strong, if not strong
er, while their force is one fourth, if not one-
third, greater.
It was hoped and expected that Halleck
would attack us in our position ; but this he
was too sensible to do ; for defeat would have
been the certain result Could we expect a
different result, if we should attack him behind
his formidable works and with his superior
force ? It was never intended to allow him to
approach so near, and to get into position,
without first offering him battle. This we did
at Farmington, when he declined to pick up
the gauntlet thrown down to him, and this we
sought to do on the 22d, when it was found im
possible, because the ground had not been pro
perly reconnoitered and mapped, to get our
right wing, which was to lead the attack, into
position.
Had we encountered the enemy on that day,
in accordance with the order of battle agreed
upon by our officers, I do not see how we could
have failed to win the greatest and most deci
sive victory thus far achieved in the war. That
night, however, and the next day, the enemy
moved up and got into position, where it would
be as great madness for us to make the attack
as it would be for him to attack us.
AYhy, then, it may he asked, should we, and
not Halieck, retire ? Because Halleck is pro
vided with guns of long range and heavy cali
bre, with which he can throw shot and shell
into almost every part of our encampment,
every two or three minutes, day and night, as
long as he pleases ; and because he has better
water and more abundant supply than n e have.
The chief advantage the Federals will gain
by the change, will be the use of the entire
line of the Memphis £ Charleston Railroad from
Stevenson to Memphis. They are good work-
. ’ 1 3trictly middling quality will exceed 30 cents
Tho opinion seems to be that the grand and , but th J ere is nQ f t ? ict m J lddling . From this it
the Federal army before Corinth,
1 delayed.
why those to come after ua will be also.
forward, driving the enemy before it. Unable
to stand the well-directed fire of the Eighteenth
and Thirty-seventh, the enemy fled from his
battery, leaving his flag on the field. While
these two regiments were fighting as only
brave men can tight, and were driving from his
position an enemy of six regiments of infantry
and one battery of artillery, strange to say no
assistance was sent to them, though Gen.
Branch had at his side a battery of artillery
and four regiments of infantry. .At last, when
no longer ablo to stand alone against such
heavy odds, the two regiments fell back, s'uh-
bornly contesting the ground as they retired.
They had fought long, especially the Thirty
seventh, which had been under tire for nearly
six hours. Their loss was very heavy. The
Thirty seventh had only seven companies on
the field (companies D and E being on picket,
and company B being detailed to guard the
wagon train), yet it lost a hundred and sixty
in killed, wounded and missing, more than one
out of every three men. The loss of tne
Eighteenth was quite severe, they leaving some
hundred and sixty of their men on the field.
Col. Campbell’s Seventh and Colonel Wade’s
Twelfth North Carolina troops now covered the
retreat, holding the enemy in check in fine
style. None of our other troops were in the
action, except Capt. Saunders’ company of the
Thirty-third North Carolina troops, which
while deployed as skirmishers, ca^gared a YanJ
kee hospital, and with it a surgeon; four nieu
and ten horses. The hospital contained forty-
nine wounded Yankees. Their loss was quite
8evere —greater perhaps than our own, inclu
ding a field officer.
Our officers all behaved well. Col. Lee and
Major Hickerson were both knocked from their
horses by* shells. Lieut Col. Barber’s horse
was killed under him, and he was slightly
wounded in the neck. Adjutant AYm. F. Nich
olson’s horse was killed and came very near
falling upon him.
Col. Lane’s regiment was entirely cut off,
and had to take care of itself. Col. Lane has
cause to he proud of his men. They encoun
tered the advance regiment of the enemy and
killed some eighty or more, and captured some
sixty eight prisoners, who were sent to Rich
mond, besides others, who afterwards escaped.
Col. Lane was then opposed by a superior
force, which almost entirely surrounded him.
| Vet he conducted his commind offend re.ched
lennessee river .treeme west of Corinth, Richinond yest—^Huiloes, howe.er, is
the Hatchie and ...... , .
which the Confederates will doubtless destroy.
As soon as these lost bridges can he rebuilt,
Memphis and Fort Pillow will be occupied, as
well as those sections of the Mobile &. Ohio and
Tennessee cC Ohio Railroads, which lie north of
the Memphis & Charleston road.
The withdrawal down the Mobile £ Ohio road
will diminish our transportation, and bring the
armv into a more healthy section ot country,
where all kinds of supplies are more abundant
and the waters much better. The enemy, on
great, as many of his men broke down, and, it
is believed, were captured by the Yankee caval
ry. Captains Aihcraft and Farthing, of the
37th, with some one hundred and forty men,
were on picket, and started to CoL Lane when
they heard his tiring. Capt Ashcraft witM*
forty-four cf his men, and fifteen of Capta/i
Farthing’s, escaped ; the rest, it is feared, werb
captured.
The above is a true statements of the fact-,
which will make the battle of Lebanon Church
E."tSS i £ No,.h C—olinUno. Of U» ■».«,. public
Cent to pieces and destroyed. P. W. A 1 must judge.