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THE CORN CROP.
Jv'ht pleasant news we hear from all
NEWS ITEMS.
Federal Estimate of the Army of Richmond.
ifcORGI
0 0 they Wi.. - Over one hun
[ahiesbiTmortunate blacks were thus as
Us re-
•mt, as we
■(XT- tm y Footed—We
vr^e been received in
disadyaifto doubt that Gen.
Id tlTe Pbderals twelve miles from
**°. and routed them, and Hindman
them and routed them again at Jack-
1 he date of this engagement is not
it must have transpired quite re-
nckson Mississippian, June 12th.
j'l'ary Government of North Carols-
,-ems that Stanley commenced bis ad-
ifccutration in North Carolina like a white
I wo.v, but immediately raised a howl among the
( •flher of j Washington Abolitionists. A despatch to the
turned to j \ cw York Post 7th says:—
It is definitely announced to-day that the
President has instructed Mr. Stanley to recall
his obnoxious orders, to re-open the schools
tion aj about the growing corn crop. Wheat The New Yoik Times, of the 9th, says :
nas failed in a great measure—oats totally ; We understand that Rev. Dr. Styles, late of
but king Corn rustles his dark green leaves in j this city, and who has for the last year resided
every breeze, and is fast developing to the pe- in Richmond, ***8 « a private letter, recently
. J , ’ _ v “ ... . i received by a friend in New Haven, that the
nod of sure promise. We can do without j Confederate army there numbers 200,000, and
wheat or oats; but corn is the foundation of that it is well distributed and determined to
all physical well being. Poor food of all kinds make a desperate fight in defence of the city.
and starvation prices are all deducibleto a scar
city of corn, and never, never until we see corn
so abundant in Georgia as to be almost a drug,
will we escape the disastrous and ruinous ef
fects of the wretched policy of planting exclu
sively for a market separated from us by a
waste of waters 3,000 miles broad. It may yet
One or two rebel officers who have been taken
prisoners are repcA.ed to have made statements
to the samo effect, and, so far as we are able to
judge, the whole testimony entitled to credence
says the rebel army approximates, if it does
not actually exceed, these figures.
A French Mission to Richmond.—The New
York Herald, of the 9th, has the following
THB &te assault
|in?ud cruelly wounded—five were killed, * Rr f ^ be contrabands, and to stop the remanding
’ <res were dangerously hurt and suffered
plating tortures. The Mayor of the city
£ Wards ascertained that from 120 to 150
thus cut down by these negro-loving
troops. God help the blacks who get
hards, for no enemy of theirs need
of fugitive slaves to their masters.
The frien Is of Governor Stanley are not at
j all pleased with this countermaffd. They de
clare that he will rcsig.i his office rather than
re call his orders.
I/aUeek's Operations with the Spade.—The
New York Herald says: —
1 UU'f MWIf VJl-'ltcgT, £hro' i. Sin S e G ?. n - 1Iallcck took command at Pitts-
° * . * * finnr I aruliiur rutr at mv nac Ktiilf int'rpnihlA
*nave mvaueu me South, they
more suffering upon the blacks
r would have otherwise endured
HER EXTENSION ASKED FOR.
burg Landing, our aimy has built, incredible
as the story may sound, more than fifty miles
of entrench nents, and full two hundred mil
of wagon roads 1 Four parallels, each mo
than twelve miles in length, three or fo ;
—wide, corduroyed and bridged—lei
the landing to each corps iFarmee—al
indebted to the New York Herald of our men, many of whom never Defi
ay last for information that Lord Ly-
lly undertaken, ut the request of
a special mission to England, to
,ghis government, “that the war can
g duration.” It was a very un-
V r y in his Lordship to waive his
’"i^.nd undei take a diplomatic mission
,ar> government, and his selection for
,^:ere of conveying these assurances,
ir * to assume that Mr. Seward was of
r ^liat similar representations by his own
t iad been so often made and falsified by
some better authority was necessary ;
T) .tier that events were in progress across
a spade or an axe in all their lives.
Baltimore d Ohio Railroad Rej
Baltimore Clipper of the 9th says
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroat
Baltimore and Wheeling, have be
and tl
Railn
be eighteen months before Georgia can again Washington despatch :
be a land of plenty—before the grain can be
applied to produce sufficient animal food ; and
perhaps even then the temptation to raise cot
ton to buy food with, will begin to bury in ob
livion tfie painful and disgraceful lessons of the
past three or four years. Yes, ia two years
from this time, some Georgia planters may be
again selling cotton at eight cents to buy bacon
at sixteen. (We trust it may never again get
so bad as cotton at seven and bacon at thirty-
five. ) But whatever some may do, surely the
great bulk of our people will not forget the
chastisement they liave suffered for a long
course of miserable and abject dependence up
on their enemies for food, and will resolve that
once fairly escaped, they will never again be
caught in such a disgraceful and calamitous
condition.
But in a tew more months we may at least
indulge a rational hope of partial deliverance
me mitigation of present oppressions,
onder how the laboring portion of our
n manage to support life at present
kid much of the food that all eat is
Sunlit for human consumption. Beef
JAn are now sold which all the fires of
Washington, June 8.—Private information
received at one of the foreign legations at Wash
ington, states that rumors are current at Rich
mond that letters.had been received from Eng
land announcing the arrival, in a short time, oi
Count de Persigney in the United States. It
was also said that this vovage was undertaken
at the instance of the English Cabinet, and that
nothing would be done in reference to Ameri
can affairs by both England and France before
the return of the French minister.
Condition of Beauregard s Army by Federal
Reports :
Halleck’s Headquarters, Jane 9tli.—The
Federal forces now occupy Baldwin, Guntown,
Jackson and Bolivar.
Railroad repairs are progressing rapidly.
The enemy passed Guntown last night, re
treating southward from Baldwin.
It is estimated that there have been twenty
thousand deserters since they left Corinth—
mostly from Tennessee. Kentucky and Arkan
sas regiments. All the regiments from those
States passed down closely guarded on both
sides by Mississippi and Alabama troops. It
is believed by the country people that Beaut e-
gard cannot enter Columbus with half the
troops brought away from Corinth. The whole
country east and north of Baldwin is full of
armed soldiers returning to Tennessee and Ken
tucky.
Gen. Pope telegraphs from the advance that
of these
j only strong', .
... , . . 1 The cheapest ... - -
which made it very impoitant that lake the soles of 1 s , -
ish should be again reiiably assured , lnt i| they are
_ jjnexzer, or the pressure of a com-
toanently, draulic press, could not extract a drop prisoners who first desired to be exchanged
*01 oil from. Fowls of a skinny sort are selling now *vant to take the oath.
, . , , j The enemy drove and earned on everything
from sixty to eighty cents per pound—flour is for nijles around . The wealthiest families are
above twenty dollars a barrel, and corn meal destitute and starving. Women and children
was somewhat over two dollars when last heard are crying for food. The males are forced into
Franklin from ; but it is very much like the Yankee bal- the army. 1 he enemy is represented as greatly
CnVaSfi !°° ns ° f obsorvation ; w ; tb thc r °P es C “ L with Memphis.—A letter from
they do I *“ ^ ' P ent >'* we8ha11 h * Te 8 general improve- „ dUed the lllh( Mys .
- - 1 nvunf orwl nnf itrifinti in t no cn anil n! nor n ono c.
v..r«l n«irs ment and mitigation in these and other neces- .7 . ,, , , ,
vcrai pairs | = 1 he Federal forces have been but little in-
saries of life. Prices will relax—beef, pork, | creaset i sincc you l e ft, but they talk about and
J mutton and fowls get fatter, and we never j evidently seem to be looking for large aeces-
sct'pyns t stitebf.
the war cannot be of long duration.”— lit them to the last after the^lbth is filled to the
reward docs not aga u ask for a definite exc i same > s ew the soles to the cloth with strong
1 1 waxed thread, and then turn the shoe, and nail
_ the heel to its place, and the shoe is done. It
jfrty, sixty and ninety day extensions | j s a cheap, serviceable, and very good cloth
a hv wapH
isitionl “o” ’ of the poor mules and horses pass our sions to their present strength, both of gunboats
.l. I ***** L b>j,uv intornallv “thpr^*« a trnnd and cavalrt and iufantry. 1 am told the\ are
oinc a by word.
'Vhgio*
V.
shoe.
The "Seventh Regiment."—We are inform
ed that the New Y'ork Seventh Regiment has
7th is
SURRENDER OF MEMPHIS. b
r le*' ^" e se0 * n tbe t 001 " 6 detailed reports little to [ again declined to he mustered into service in
add to the facts already published in regard to ‘
the destruction of our cotton wadded fleet and
the surrender of Memphis. The battle took
place in front of Memphis on Friday, the 6tb.
Our fleet consisted of seven small gunboats and
rams—that of the enemy fourteen gunboats
and rams, six tugs and a number of transports
The conflict lasted eighty minutes and was fu
rious to desperation. Our whole licet was de
stroyed and only one of the enemy’s sunk-
After the engagement, Commodore Davis, of
tho Yankee squadron, addressed the Mayor of
Memphis with a “respectful request’’ to sur.
der the city, which the Mayor most “respect
lolly” did, as there were no means of dcfenct.
The tov n is now under command of Colonel G
N. Fitch, commanding the ludiana Brigade.
,-*} >jen. Hubert Hansom of North Carolina
wi.l take command of Ashby’s late cavalry com
mand.
Washington. On their arrival there it was pro
posed by their Colonel before them in line.—
All who refused to be mustered in were request
ed to step to the rear, and be considered as ta ; k as ,f a g enera i battle at Richmond is ex
jow,*t»ut we say internally, “there’s a good
time coming,” even for you. Hurn
reign of King Corn. May he rule a
years, and never suffer an empty cri
gry subject in all his dominions. V
tlie “Corn Planters’ Convention" me
C FROM RICHMOND.
cavalry and iufantry. I am told they
, landing large quantities of general army stores.
R They say 60,000 men are to bo brought to this
city and sent to the interior of Mississippi.—
All is quiet, so far as the Feds are concerned;
i does but. thieving, garroting, etc., are of nightly oc- i
currence.
A Resurrected Humbug.—The Memphis Ap
peal of the 14th states that the article in refer
The telegrams from day to day still note skir- ence to a convention between France and Eng-
mishes and speak of a general engagement as land, going the rounds of the papers, as from
pending, but not so the passengers, military the Boston Post of the Cth Juno, is from the
and otherwise, from Richmond. The latter Post of the 6th May, and exploded long ago.
, , . , . _ . ... . Reinforcements to McBowelFs Army.—The
ned bade " eruu P 011 1 e " 10 L ^, ■r^ l,I * , - n, ste P j tremely problematical, at least for the present Richmond Dispatch of the 10th says :
ped back.
This may be doubted. The Dispatch of the McClellan’s plan of assault, the Northern pa-
While it seems to be certain that this officer
14th sa>s the
Point
Yankee Slave Trade.—The New York Her
aid, in a Fortress Monroe letter dated the 29th
May, has positive information that 270 Virginia
negroes were sent off from Cape Henry by the
Yankees in a bark to be sold in Cuba or Brazil
ith-McClellan at West P ers themselves confess, has failed in
material point The scheme oi McClellan was
yt . T y has been sent a prisoner to Fort Lafayette, no
doubt exists that his forces have arrived at
West Point They came down the Rappahan-
that Banks, Shields, McDowell, and probably nock on thirty transports, convoyed by war
! Fremont should concentrate their several de- steamers. Our Generals are, no doubt, well
visions and move upon Richmond from the aware of their arrival, and prepared to meet
! North, while he assailed the city upon the East Diem.
and South. The first part of this programme Veracity of Banks.—Banks’ report of 711
Execution of Seven more Train Stealers.—
The Atlanta Confederacy of the 19th, says:
Yesterday afternoon seven more of tho En
gine thieves were hung near this city. They
were a portion of the party of 24 that arrived
here in strings a few days ago. They were all
Ohioans. We have not learned their names.
Cheap Insurance.—The Atlanta Confederacy
says “One dollar will secure the Confederacy
for forty days.” As the Southern Confederacy
at best is in some peril, we suggest that several
risks be taken at once. The cost of the pres
ent measure of security is considerably up»
wards of that sum.
The Trent Affair Forgotten.—The Herald
of the 8th contains the following fulmination :
And we hereby give notice to the said Empe
ror of the French, to her Britannic Majesty,
and to her most Catholic Majesty, and to all
other European Powers whom it may concern,
to quit the soil and ports of the Republic of
Mexico on or before the Fourth of July next;
otherwise it will then become the bounden du
ty of the people and Government of the United
States to employ their magnificent army and
navy to clear the American continent of every
vestige of foreign sway.
A Great War.—The Toronto (Canada) Lead
er, in an article on the civil war in the United
States, says:
When one brushes away the haze of interac
tion and the daily details of the war, and the
outline of the preparations on both sides are
allowed to stand out boldly in relief, their mag
nitude almost strikes one with amazement.—
Six hundred thousand men pitted against each
other in two localities ; and either army appa
rently indifierent about risking a battle. Mod
ern wars afford no parallel to such extraordi
nary preparations. The mind is naturally
carried back to the days of Xerxes to find any
thing in military annals to compare to the pres
ent war in the States.
The Lightning Express Train.—We are anx
ious to know what became of that train which
was fired by Stuart’s troops. The last heard
of, it was that it was dashing towards the Pa-
munkey river—few miles distant—at the rate
of a mile a minute, without an engineer.
From the Rich moud Despatch.
YANKEE LIES.
The following circular was picked up at Win
chester after tho late battle, together with many
others of a similar character. It shows the in
famous system of lying resorted to by the Yan
kee Generals to keep up the courage ol their
troops. When the prisoners captured at Win
chester were told they were to be sent t* Rich
mond, they were perfectly astonished. “Why,”
said they, “it was announced at tattoo that
McClellan had been in Richmond for three
days.” This despatch, which was sent by Mc
Clellan through Gen. Banks, is a correct copy
of the original, and was intended to encourage
the Yankee troops when an attack from Jack-
son was looked for
Headers 3n Brigade,
tieneral Banks’s Division
May 19th
[Circular.]
The Brigadier General commanding announces
the following intelligence to the troops of his
command:
By telegraph from Frederick, dated May 19,
1862:
"To Gen. Williams:
“Gen. Halleck telegraphs Gen. McClellan
that he has captured Gen. Price, Cols. Dorsey
de, 1
ision, k
d, 1862.)
[From the Rtchmoad Whig ]
The Oane Cock of the Talley.
Plato, in the Timieus, relates the following j —
anecdote as told by Socrates. “Did you ever, I
hearO Aleibiades.” said Socrates, “of the Irish
man’s Game Cock?”
Aleibiades. “Then
tell you. There was an Irishman, named Mul
lins, who lived aear Kernstown, and bad a
great desire to possess a game chicken. He
applied, therefore, to his friend Bumgardner,
who gave him an egg, which he averred had
beon laid by a game ben. In due time, the
egg was batched, and, when the bird was fully
By Electric Telegraph
Richmond, 16th.—Occasiinal cannonading
^ , and picket skirmishing along our lines to-day.
,” said Socrates, “Wdl - Ar en S n g« ment at an ear, 7 da V > s deemed not
- ’ improbable. Weather clear and cool for the
season. No news from the Valley.
TRUTH COMING OUT.
Richmond, June 17.—The Fortress Monroe
Correspondent of the New Y'ork Tribune saw
- . be has been assured, by a gentleman connected
« Mockiiw,
army, that the Federal ioss in tho late battle,
in killed, wounded and missing, was not les-.
than Ten Thousand.
He also writes, “I have the name of a gen
tleman whose veracity cannot be disputed, that
Gen. McClellan himself has said that onr loss
in the action of the two days would not be less
than ten thousand men." [This bears out
Hermes’ statement in another place.]
THE JAMES’ ISLAND FIGHT.
Augusta, 17th.—A special despatch to the
Augusta papers, from Charleston, 16th, says
that a severe battle took place this morning
(16th) on James’ Island, four miles from the
city. Five Regiments of Federals, reinforced
by artillery, attacked our batteries at Secession-
ville. Col. Lainar commanded the Confeder
ates, and with a few hundred troops repulsed
the enemy three times with great slaughter.—
The enemy lought bravely, but were defeated.
Our victory is complete. Federal loss suppos
ed to be about 400, including thirty or more
prisoners. Our loss is estimated at from 50 to
100 killed and wounded. Col. Lamar was
wounded. Capts. Reid and King and Lieut.
Valley; unshaken as their leader—his daunt- Edwards were killed. It is expected tho attack
less spirit holding them like a wall of adamant ■ w jj| soon | )L . renewed. The Confederates were
amid the fluctuating tides of battle, and earn- , . . , .
ing for himself and them the name which has : in,,ch exhausted Ly the shelling of the enemy
made them immortal. Calm as the unclouded i da y a P d night for a week,
sun that looked upon that field of carnage, he
refuses to let even a drop of whisky be poured
upon the stump of his finger which had been
shot off His foot was untouched, what < id he
care about his finger ?
“He is next entrusted with the command of
the Valley ; and, as soon as his force is organ-
ited his Game Cock with infinite pride.—
‘Isn’t he a beauty ?’ exclaimed Mullins. ‘Only |
look at his feet. Bedad ! all b—11 couldn’t trip
him up.’ ” “But, by the dog,” said Socrates,
the Game chicken was a Muscovy drake, of the
largest size.”
“And that reminds me,” said Alcibiadts, “of
Stonewall Jackson.” “Who is he?” inquired
Socrates. “I will tell you all I know about
him,” answered the nephew ot Pericles
“When Major Selden, who was the first man
to storm the walls of Chepultepec, was woun
ded, he was caught in the arms of a young
Lieutenant, who handed him down and planted
bis foot upon the ramparts. This foot was
eighteen inches ‘in the clear’ in length, and
when once planted, all Mexico could not budge
it an inch. The subsequent history of this foot
and this Lieutenant sustains the reputation of
both. Passing over his gallantry in Mexico,
we find him teaching in the Military School at
Lexington, and noted for his piety, his quiet
ways and his politeness. Upon the breaking
out of the war of 1861, ho turns up as a Colo
nel of Volunteers, and as such distinguished
himself by holding in check, at Falling Waters,
the armed rabble under Patterson, 12,000
strong, which was magnified into a well disci
plined army of 30,000. Next, he appears on
the glorious field of Manassas ; his foot immo
vable as ever, his men the stalwart sons of the
A despatch to the Savannah Republican say s
that the troops engaged were the Eutaw Kegi
ment. Charleston Battalion, 47th Ga. Regimi-nt,
Hagood’s Regiment, Lamar’s Battery an 1 a
detachment of the Chatham Artillery, of Sa
vannah. Gen. Evans in command. Generals
ised, he appears suddenly before Bath, scatters | Pemberton and Evans complimented Lamar on
things right and left, tears up tracks, tears t j ie fj e ] d
down dams, stampedes ten thousand Hessians I
at Romney, plays the wild generally, and re- i n i n j j t
tires at his leisure to Winchester. It is the: VJIGUSml DGcLUI’C^EITu 3,1111 3 13!
dead of winter, the terrible march has fearfully
thinned his ranks, and he calls for reinforce
ments. Again and again he calls, but in vain.
Spring approaches, and his little band sullenly
and doggedly retires before the converging
columns of the foe, whose advance the indom
itable Ashby contests inch by inch. He has j
retreated nearly to Staunton, where the Yan
kees attempt to trip him by a p re .ended rout
and a report that Maryland has risen. They
fly back to Winchester, and he flies after them.
Fifty miles are traversed in less than two days
by his “foot cavalry,” and with 2,300 ol them
he jobs old Shields so furiously in the rear that
he recalls the column that had crossed Snicker’s
Gap—the very thing that Stonewall wanted
him to do. His design accomplished, he re
tires as before, Ashby still disputing every
inch. Arrived near Staunton, be slips aside
into Swift Run Gap. Banks is afraid to ad-
and Gross, and Capt. Budd, of General Price’s ; vance, for if he does Jackson will be in his rear,
staff, and his whole army. j He will wait for Millroy to come up and cap-
[SignedJ N. P. Banks, 1 ture Staunton from the West. Silly Massachu-
Major-General.” setts cobbler, he thinks to trip the game cock,
This glorious news will be read to all the does he? lie fancies he is holding JacKson in ; Valley.
portion of his Army en route
for Richmond.
Mobile, 17th0-The papers of this city con
tain the following despatch, dated Montgoim*
ry, 17th :
“General Beauregard and Staff are here on
their way to Richmond. We hear that a large
portion of the army of the Mississippi will
soon follow the General. A sufficient force
will be left with the invincible Bragg to cluck
any step towards the interior, of the Vandals
under Halleck.
Richmond, 17th.—Some heavy skirmishing
on the right of our lines to-day. The city con
tinues perfectly quiet. No news to day.
Jackson, having been reinforced, will again
march towards the Potomac in a few days.
Fremont has undoubtedly left the Shenandoah
troops of the command to-night at tattoo.
By command.
Brigadier General Williams.
TUB CASUALTIES IN THE LATE BATTLES.
The returns of thc casualties in the battles
age — From and after the lst , h* 8 *>een spoiled by Stonewall Jackson. That of Ids army missing arrived in Staunton in j 0 f May 81st and June 1st, which we have been
rates of Postage will be as “ruthless soldier” has demolished three of Me- time to find 2500 of his army prisoners at the enabled to place before our readers, sum up,
Rates of Bos to
of July next, the _
follows : Fur every Letter not exceeding half | Clellan’s co-operators, and we have faith to be- Fai: - Ground in that place,
an ounce in weight, conveved in the maiL for ] u— _..n .... .»,« r.„..iL -
^;V‘“o jo cents. And for every fc " ^ BlU whether he does or
Ha vans*
not, his thc 16th says: *
additional half ounce in weight, or additional 1 column, so long as it keeps the field and threat'
weight of less than ball an ounce, there shall ens McDowell.
in wounded, about seventeen hundred, and kill
ed about one hundred and fifty. 'I here are
several private nospii*i.->, „t.:wi. contain tromo
to 50 patients, not reported. There may pro-
McClellan reported that they charged our perly be set down as containing in the aggre
HEARTRENDING GROANS.
The reader will find in another place a most
be charged additional single postage.
General Price has fought thirteen battles,
and suffered no defeat, and yet regards the re
treat from Corinth, the rear of which he
, presents a fatal bar to the ac- lines at \\ illiaiusburg, and that our men could : gate, three hundred. The number of killed and
of McC.ellan’s purposes. not stand against them. This statement was , missing, not reported, presumed to be one
e circumstances the gossip:*-and P ronol * nced false by tieneral Early over his hundred and fifty, would make our entire loss,
, ’ ’ . own signature. Ihe only charges made at in killed, wounded and missine. about twentv-
distressing letter from the London Correspon- j brought up and protected, as the proudest oc
casion of his life. lie was in the saddle fo
complishment
Lnder these -..,uui.,ui.,.v.-, .... t,..,, .,.. , .
’ . r . own signature. ihe only charge..
the Richmond papers also, concur in stating Williamsburg were by our men, and the Y
that McClellan’s movements do not look as ~ ” “
in killed, wounded and missing, about twenty
three hundred. Our returns show that the
dent of Seward's peculiar organ, the New Y'ork
Times. This writer, on the 20th May last, pre- I “Jj
dieted that the British government could not
if koes tied before them. McClellan again reports North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama troops
n charges by his men al Chickahominy, and flee- suffered thc most exiensivelv—a fact which we
he intended a speedy and general assault upon
lays, and on the retreat had to turn and fight ■ our lines, but rather convoy the impression of Llf " e v ®, r y
ulse the enemy six times, all of which
he did successfully, inflicting severe loss up n
i, , u.,, . , , , highest authority—authority which even Mc-
| clawing off, or at least of postponing the C leUan would not dare to call in question-that
Withstand the cotton pressure thirty days Ion- ; them, and bringing off everything in perfect
ger, but would be compelled to succumb to j aa R‘iy.
fight.
the Yankees made no charge at the Chicka-
But why do not our generals bring him to hominy either on Saturday or Sunday.
intervention, if in that time the Y’anks had not
demonstrated their ability to subjugate the
South. This is decidedly the most agonizing
shriek that has yet reached us from old Brit-
Whereabouts of Fremont.—Staunton, June
13.—Fremont has certainly retreated below
Sew Market. His army is almost entirely
Dutch. It consists of Milcher’s, Bleucher’s,
and ether Divisions. Officers of the enemy
tannia. If cotton be not king, we see that at [ admit a loss ot 400 killed and 608 wounded in
least he can create a fuss.
the issue—compell him to tight? To this
there is a double answer. It is said that Mc-
do not mention by way of discrimination, for
the troops of every State behaved as bravely
as men could, and deserve, unitedly the encom
iums ot the nation. The battle was one which
is unparalleled in the brief history of the war,
Federal Tricks in North Carolina.—The ! fur betcnnuitd ardor and death defying cour-
llessians have established a Lincoln organ in
Clt-llan holds a locality not lit for fighting Washington, North Carolina, to bring the old
ground, but admirably adapted to fill a ceme- North State back to her allegiance. The
tery with his own soldiers ; and suppose, says means employed are characteristic. The fol-
the repliant,that Stonewall Jackson should take lowing items of news are chronicled by late
age on the part of our troops. The victory
was well won, ana all who shared in its perils
are worthy of it honors.—Rich. Eng.
check, and that Milrov will have a gay and easy
time of it. But Ewell comts up quietly and
occupies Jackson’s camp at Snift Run Gap;
Jackson glides around by Meacham’s River,
rushes past Staunton, and with the aid of Ed
ward Johnston, clears out Mtlroy in the twink
ling of an eye. By this time Mr. Banks’ head
begins to swim; he falls back to Strasburg and
begins to dig dirt with all the energy and ve
locity that fear can inspire. Jackson’s brilliant
acnieveuients since me Dante at McDowell re
semble the ticking of the clock, so rapid and j
regular are they.
IMPORTANT NEWS.
Richmond, 18th.—A letter has been received
in this city froui a respectable source in Balti
more, stating that a gentleman who bad ju.-t
returned from Boston says that in all the
Northern cities it is believed that France has
recognized the Southern Confederacy, and the
press is not allowed to publish the fact.
The W'ashington correspondent of the New
I confess,” concluded Alci-j York Times sa}s there is no foundation what
biades,^ “that^ when 1 call over the names of | ever for the statement that Lord Lvons cues
Front Roval, Middleton, Winchester, Martins-1 .
-- - — - - ’ Ro ck 1 to England upon thc invitation of >eward. lb
burg, Harper’s Ferry, Port Republic, and
land Mills—when I think of the immense dis
tances Jackson and his men have marched,
; first intimation Seward had was the announce
ment by Lyons himself of his departure. “His
and of the number and bnliance of the victo- Lordship’s visit to England, says this Wash-
BATTLE OF.IAMES ISLAND.
Despatches to day give some of the incidents
of this light, which it will be seen was a bril
liant affair. The enemy arc reported to have
had five regiments in the action, while on our
side there were- three regiments, a battalion,
one battery and a detachment of tlie Chitham
Artillery. Gen. Evans, the hero of Leesburg,
had the command. The defence of Charleston
opens with fortui ate auguries.
Jack Brown’s Rlgisient.
completed its organization on Monday, by the
election of thc follne. officers ;
Jack Brown, Colonel; (5. R. Hunter, Lieut
Colonel; Charles J. Harris, Major.
They ure now encamped on the Reserve just
below the Central Railroad bridge. We paid
them a visit yesterday, and were much pleased
with the appearance of their camp. Thc men
are generally robust and vigorous. It is a
splendid regiment, and will doubtless do the
Confederacy good service.
TIIE FRENCH IN MEXICO.
Late advices from Mexico in the Northern
papers report the overthrow and flight of the
Juarez administration, and the elevation of Al-
sent to Fort Lafuyette.
Fremont's officers claim to have 41,000 men
and 105 cannon. Their true force at Harrison
burg was supposed to be about 20,000.
Stanley and Senator Bmlger.—Stanley, Lins
coin’s new Military Governor of North Caroli
na, has written a letter to Hon. Geo. E. Bad
ger, soliciting his aid in bringing the State
i back into the Union, and Mr. Badger lias re-
! plied to the request in a very able letter, in
which he positively refuses to co-opeiate in any
-This Regiment j such movement.
Congressman Ely. captured at Bull Run,
and tor a long time a prisoner in our hands, is
out in the North as an author His work is a
journal of his imprisonment in Richmond, giv
ing the story in extenso. His book docs not
seem to take very well.
An appointment not kept.—Hermes, of the
Mercury, says that a Y ankee escort to Mrs. R.
E. Lee, who was sent to our lines at Richmond
the other day, stated tiiat McClellan would be
in Richmond last Sunday. Hermes also says
this about the Y’nnkee loss at Richmond : “The
officer who was fired at by this Yankee tells
me that many of the Hessians were drowned
in thc swamp, and 1 learn that Gen. Johnston
estimates the total number of McClellan’s force
monte as President of the Republic, under the P ut 7t ° rt du combat h 7 Die battles of Saturday S, P
protection of the French army. Almonte is and Sunday at 20,000. A deserter, who pass
said to have been elected by the votest of five e<1 through King and Queen county, some
Sunday’s tight. They also say that Geneial
McDowell has been arrested for disloyalty and *t into his head to turn McClellan s scheme up- arrivals in that paper of the 4th
on himself?—suppose he should meet and de-
“By the same source, (a dispatch steamer
ntolish McDowell and then charge headlong which came through the canal from Norfolk,)
down upon McClellan? The thing, vou see, we learn that General McDowell has got Stone-
FICllTINCi ON JAMES ISLAND I
THREE HOURS’ HARD FIGHTING.
THE ENEMY DRIVEN BACK—THE YANKEE LOSS
HEAVY—OCR’S SLIGHT.
is possible—if done will make more effectual J^kson completely hemmed in with his
. ji ., . large I irce, thus cutting on all possible chance
work—and whatever is yoaibU we are taught of Escape. 1
to believe th*t Jackson w ill accomplish.
Meanwhile, it is stated from Richmond that wiangement between Gen. Banks and Gen.
[Special to the Savannah Repab'ican.J
Charleston, June 16.—The enemy attacked
the Eutaw Regiment and Charleston Battalion
It appears that there existed a preconcerted at Secessionville, James’ Island, this morning
news has been received of a wonderlul hurry
ing up to repair the damages inflicted upon
McClellan’s plans by Stonewall Jacks in. A
large artnv is on the march to reinforce Mc
Dowell—an army with a wagon train three
days’ march, or say forty miles long !! If such
McDowell for the capture of Stonewall and his
entire force, which has been carried out to the
letter, leaving the great Stonewall Jackson in
McDowell’s hands, with all of his effects, a
victim of tnisplaeed confidence.
The Steamer Pilot Boy has just arrived since
the above was written, bringing the important
intelligence of a battle between Jackson and
a train as that does not bring disasters in its McDowell, resulting in the loss of Gen. Jack
train what will? To Jackson with hisunkuap-1 son’s entire command. Nine thousand prison-
sacked, untented aimy, able to measure off ,rs fell into Gen. McDowell’s hands, aside from
thirty-six mifo. a day, it will be.pt to briim a11 of the equipments of every kind, artillery,
.. . 1 “ camp equipage, commissary stores, army wa-
e his force is at tins tune forty g 0 ns; in Let, everything in Jackson’s posses-
poils. We hope
thousand strong, well equipped, full of light sion, men anil all included.
posses
The slight loss
and perfectly confident in a leader who has which Banks sustained in endeavoring to draw
Known himself invincible. Thus the loin-and d8c kson alter his small force is more than made
, up by this brilliant stroke of General Mc-
ng to verbal n,.«...ii
r-hortof the matter is that, according
representations from that city, Jackson and
Dowell.
From Tennessee. — The Atlanta Intelligencer
McDowe 1 hold, for the present, the keys to the ...,ki: .k c n i . ■ , ,. ,
’ * ' „ . publishes the following despatch, and retaliates
battle of Richmond, i we hear that McDow- ,< i i . , , ,
upon tho federal reports of desertions from
ell is whipped, we may also hear at the same Beauregard’s army :
timn t I. A I \f A rv In /. fl Ua ... . t nit f -« j
Chattaxoooa, June 18.—The enemy are
irepoitedas marching back from Pikeville to-
j wards McMinnvi !e. They are attempting to
, build a bridge our the mouth of Battle Creek,
tune that McClellan is oil. So much for gos-
FROM WEST POINT.
, ....... v , , ,, From a private lAter of very recent date, ro fo enable them to cross from Stevenson to Jas-
otticcrs, one sergeant and twenty -even men.— ; (ia y s «g°. bta,c& Dial the Y ankee loss on Sun ceived by a young gentl e„,an in the army from P«r 1*7 a direct route.
The French were moving onward and expected da 7 a i° ne was C OW*. But these are over esti
to be in the Capita) by the tenth of May.-
Yera Cruz, Orizaba, Cordova and Puebla had Andy Johnson dead again.—The Lynchburg
pronounced for Almonte, and it was supposed Daily Republican, of thc 12th, says :
Mexico would do so before the French conld We learn bv a gentleman from Bristol, that
arrive there. They had met with little rtsis- a rttir.cn of Nashville who escaped a few days
tance. Corwin, the U. S. Minister, had con- Mnce lrom * h * 1 ™P'. ,rtR . l,,,t And ? J ” hn
eluded a treaty with thc Juarez government,
son is certainly dead, having been shot by Geo.
Brown, a son of the Hon. Neil S. Brown, whom
but that government would be entirely defunct Johnson bad imprisoned becauae he refused io
before the treaty could reach Washington
BIDDING FOR FAVOR.
The Federals at Memphis are playing the
same game that they have done elsewhere, and
are endeavoring to buy public favor by furnisli-
ing such supplies as have been scarce and dear
in the Confeiteracv. Coffee they are retailing at
twenty cents per pound, in small lots, winch,
of course, is not done for profit, as the last
Louisville quotations were folly as high. The
take the thc oath of allegiance to the Lincoln
dynasty. The gentleman referred to, further
says that young Brown was killed upon the
spot before he con'd lower his arm, after firing,
by 60me of Johnson's body guard, who were
always with him. Our informant consider,
this report as coining from a respectable source
and entitled to credit.
YANKEE LOSS AT RICHMOND !
t Seventeen days only have elapsed since the
*EJ£5.; *“■“»•* •*> *• - sd-si u
people may avail themselves ol the articles
to traffic, but they will remain true to their
We heard of an instance m w hich a newsboy
exhibited the general feeling by bis actions.—
lie mado application on one ol the boats for a
dollar 1 * worth ol cB«e, which he paid for with
get at the truth from the other side about Mc
Clellan's “great victory of the Seven Pines.”—
From 700 their list of killed and wounded has
swollen to ten thousand in that length of time
—a remarkable exhibition of truth by them,
which is only due, however, to personal and
his mother, at West Point, we are put in pos Information has been received that Buell’s
session of many interesting items. Since the army is marching East. Scott’s Louisiana
battle of thc 31st, the Y’ankecs have frequently Cavalry report his advance at Tuscurabia.
visited this good lady’s bouse, and with much Great dissatisfaction is reported among the
shrewdness she fits elicited their true opinions enemy’s troops. They seek every opportunity
regarding the state of affairs within the Feder- to be qiade prisoners.
7'he New Ortons Delta.- Mr. Henry J. Le
al lines. It is conceded that they have now not
less than from three to four thousand sick and . ....
wounded at West Point, besides an additional busln « s * "'anager, and principal proprietor
two thousand at Annapolis. It is admitted by » Orleans Delta, publishes a card,
officers and privates that the conquest of Rich* ; stating that none of the proprietors, editors or
mond may be considered hopeless. Large re- employees attached to the Delta before the fall
inforcements are jointng McClellan from the ! of the city are now connected with it. The of-
Nortb—the well known “7th regiment, of New „ , ,
York, having recently joined McClellan at West Hce ba * been confiscated, and the paper is now
Point, besides much of the militia from the edited by some subservient Abolitionist, who,
same Slate. The “7th” only volunteered to de- however, claims to be a native of Louisiana,
fend Washington, (as on a former occasion,) Jere Clemens, Again.—A correspondent of
but on their arrival at the Capital they were lhe Atlanla Commonwealth says that, to his
shipped immediately to the Peninsula, and in- ,, , , „ „ . ..
corporated into the army nolens tulent. The l ,ertoni ' knowledge, . lemens, Bell and Morgan
Federals at West Point are said to have abduc- were, as late as the 25th ult., making speeches
teu many slaves, the letter before us stating 1 at Blount Springs, Ala., and calling for volun-
that some three or four owners have lost not unteers to drive the Y'ankees from North Ala
less than thirty or more. The letter gives baffia aQ|] be , ace8 no reljance the Bt0
names, Ac., but for wise reasons we orbear ’ r r
ries they have achieved in so short a time—I
confess,” said he, “when l think of all this, my
own head swims as badly as Milroy’s or
Banks’s, or Fremont’s, or Shields’s or any oth
er man.”
We are much in the fix of Aleibiades. It
gives us a vertigo of delight to think of what
Jackson has done. We nope he will keep on
and give us an apoplexy before he stops. But,
we don’t want him to stop ; and he never will
atop if onr government will give him the men
he wants. If he had had the force that some of
our Generals have commanded, he would by
this time have captured the North Pole and
blocked up Simms’ Hole with icebergs, so that
wo would have had no more “Northern lights.”
But Aleibiades makes no mention of Eweil—
“Old Ewell” as tho boys call him, though he is
only about 40 years of age. Of him we have
not heard a great deal, but all that we have
heard redounds to his credit. A Virginian by
birth, a graduate of West Point, he is a brave,
modest, fighting man—a worthy ally of old
Stonewall. As a proof of his modesty—rather
a rare quality ameng military men, we believe
—it is enough to relate that when he was ap
pointed Major-General he'hesitated some time
about accepting thc commission, saying that
Jubal Early deserved it more than any other
gians, North Carolinians, Louisianians and Vir
ginians under their command, with energy,
rapid movements and fierce fighting, it is no
wonder such marvels have been accomplished. •
Our neighbor of the Examiner likens Jackson '
to the game cock called “the wheeler.” IIo is |
a game cock and he does wheel with a ven
geance. He “cuts and comes again,” aud re- 1
the Great Gyrater or thc Confederate Boome
rang.
mentioning them.—Richmond ( Fo.) Dispatch,
June 14.
—A Washington paper says. “Mr. Bouligny, Huntsville is Ulse.
. . . late member of Congress lrom New Oi leans,
juleTfdofUtt.Tertmss.e hill r«ooiv,i.jJMuafoiage | political animosity borne by the Tribune’s fac- ! has arrived here. He states that there will be
■ rink dollars tnt.tk.T-_ Gu-resofoag Wie Wmg-i] kio« uf'tlie Linoolitiu-s to Gen. McClellan. But
the YanKeeliat of killed, wounded and
mg would still have remained at less num-
than the-prisoners our forces aetually cap-
ifed-an tbe-fieWL^ uu t . It Jaa-. ,
ry that Clemens has turned Hessian. He also
declares that tho story of Mitchell’s sending
four hundred wagon loads of cotton from
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Deplorable Effect of Conscription.—The Co-
probably a strong Union party in that city ; 1 lurnbus Times says that the enforcement of the
that the accourts of universal destruction of' Conscription Act in tiiat city has developed an
property are exaggerated, and that for a con- a ] arLn i n g degree of physical unsoundness, and
siderable time the Confederate leaders have 00 r
and were driven back by our troops after three
hours’ hard lighting. Our troops are pursuing
them in the woods. Our loss is slight thus
far. The enemy’s loss is supposed to be five
hundred killed and wounded. The Yankee
prisoners arc coming in/
The Charleston Battalion comprise the Sum
ter Guard, Charleston Riflemen, Carolina Light
Infantry, Calhoun Guard, Irish Volunteers,
and the Union Light Infantry.
The Eutaw Regiment are the Washington
Light Infantry, Cos. A and B, the Beauregard
Light Inlantry, Weenee Volunteers, and seve
ral county companies.
GEN. EVANS IN COMMAND.
Charleston, June 16—1 P. M.—The Eutaw
Regiment, Charleston Battalion, 47th Georgia
Regiment, Hagood’s Regiment, Lamar’s Batte
ry, and the detachment of Chatham Artillery
front Savannah, engaged the enemy, who as
saulted the entrenchments—we reserving our
tire until the enemy came within thirty yards
of us. We then opened a murderous fire up
on them, strewing the ground with Y'ankees.
Gen. Evans is in command of our troops.
Capt. Reed and Lamar are reported badly
wounded.
No particulars received yet.
Charleston, 0 P. M.—Our troops have
achieved a glorious victory.
Our pickets were driven in at daylight close
ly pursued by the enemy.
From the excessive vigilance and fatigue,
caused by the constant shelling of the enemy,
our troops were with difficulty aroused from
their sleep. At Lamar’s Battery, particularly,
the men had to be jerked up from the first
sleep they had in five nights, yet they fought
and repulsed three times their numbers.
Gens. Evans and Pemberton congratulated
Lamar on the field.
LATE FROM CHATTANOOGA
Chattanooua, June 16.—The enemy, under
Gen. Morgan, reported 18,000 strong, have fall
en back from Powell’s Valley towards Big .
Creek Gap, from the advance of our columns.
Gen. Nagle’s force of 6,000 are reported ad
vancing by way of Pikeville, towards Kings
ton and Knoxville.
It is supposed that Gen. Morgan is awaiting
the arrival of Nagle’s force before risking a
battle.
The enemy in Sequatchie are reported we V U! whip de tarn rebelmens of
having attempted to cross the Tennessee river ; g *• never more drink lager, py dam.—
this morning, three miles below Shell Mound, 1 _ ** ’ «>■
ington correspondent, “is no doubt made at the
suggestion of his Government, and is therefore
properly regarded as significant.”
NORTHERN NEWS.
Defeat of the Trench in IQexico-Creneral
Pettigrew.
Richmond, 19th.—Northern papers of the
13th and 14th have been received I ere'. The
British Queen at New Y'ork brings later intel
ligence from Havana. The Yellow Fever was
increasing there. The defeat of the French
troops in Mexico is confirmed. 500 wi re kill
ed and 700 taken prisoners, but the latter were
released as the victors could not furnish sub
sistence. The Mexicans ^re fortifying their
capital and the French will inarch against it,
when reinforced.
Several steamers with cargoes for Rebeldom
have arrived at Nassau. The steamers Cecile
and Kate, from Charleston, have also arrived
at that Port.
Gen. Pettigrew arrived in Baltimore on the
13th and is stopping at the Monument House
man in the Army of the Potoma;. With such 1 on parole ot honor. His wounds incapacitate
leaders as Jackson and Ewell, and the Gcor- 1 him from moving.
Lord Lyons had an auditucc with Lincoln
cn the 13th, on the eve of his departure for
Europe. He will be absent two months.
AFFAIRS AT RICHMOND.
iFrom the Examiner of the 14th.)
It is uncertain whether McClellan’s army
minds us of that queer and terribic Australian has fallen back to a fortified camp in the rear
implement which deals death and destruction of his first position or further; and as the art
by the unexpected and unward-off-able process and practice of making reconnofosance in force
of the circumbendibus. Let Jackson be called ; seems to be unknown to military men in Amer
ica, and the Confederates have not gotten so
far in French as to understand the use of bal
Sometime ago. we accused Jackson of being | loons, there is probably little information wor
unsound in mind. Since that time he has ex- thy of reliance in the possession of any person
hibited not the least symptom of improvement j or persons in Richmond. One thing is manifest.
In fact he gets worse and worse every day. that McClellan is not attacking the Confeder-
Within the last two weeks he seems to have ate lines or operating against the city. As he
gone clean daft—crazy quite, crazy as a bed- came here for those purposes, ar^Las lie pub
bug—crazy as two bed bugs. With his foot; lished to all mankind the intentiJPand pledge
cavalry at his heels, with their tails curled, he to “push us to the wall,” the fact that he is do
has been raving, ramping, roaring, rearing, ing nothing of the sort, that he has drawn his
snorting and cavorting up and down the Val- pickets back, and acts as if only occupied about
ley, chawing up Yankees by the thousand as if the safety of his own army, proves th&t there is
they were so many grains of parched pop-corn, j a terrible hitch or slip somewhere, and that
The Lord send he may never recover his senses 1 the plan of his campaign has been interpolated
till his foot cavalry are stabled in the big barns 1 with an important digression,
of the Susquehanna Valley. Crazy or not, we The fact is that the Federal Government at
but echo the voice of the whole Confederacy this moment is in a more difficult position than
when we say “God bless Old Stonewall and ■ it has ever been before, running greater dan-
Old Ewell, and Old Ned Johnson. God bless ger than it has incurred since Manassas, and
’em a thousand times over and all the gallant, passing a worso strait than that to which the
fellows they so skilfully command,
them all I”
God bless | Confederacy was lately brought. It is now
manifest that the Government at Washington
is aware of its condition, and that the road to
j Richmond in which McClellan started last win
ter, via Y'orktown, has been, for the present.
SERENADED.
Gen. Siegel, of Missouri, was serenaded ^
few nights since at Washington. Animmense abandoned,
crowd wrs present, who clamored loudly for a McDowell’s co-operation was necessary to
speech; whereupon the tieneral opened ■**■ that plan, and the celerity and success of Jack-
mouth and said : ,, . , son’s movements in the Valley have compelled
“Shentleracns : Ise no mans for talk. Ise de , hjg rewlU , the detence pf the ,, u , J h >
mans for fight Mine sword hash bin drawn . - . .. . . ..J. «
for de stars und sthnpes, and py de help of all
ng, tnree miles below smelt Mound, - mine countrymens ?”
but were dnven back by Col. Davis, of the | ’ J —
Florida forces.
Green Roberts, one of Morgan’s men, made
his escape from the Nashville Penitentiary,
and arrived here to day.
Surgeon J. P. Logan, Chief Surgeon of the
Military District of Georgia, has resigned that
ular Federal troops have been withdrawn from
both Fredericksburg and Norfolk ; their places
are supplied by the militia lately summoned
from the North. The eight thousand taken
from Norfolk have probably joined McCleilan ;
but the whole force lately marching on Rich
mond from Fredericksburg has, gone to the
aiuiutry . u ™’F a -"" scene of operations in the Valley.
!•“' to ,acc«J«l bj, Surgton H. 7 5 Millet, j T f“ "''‘-“j 1 wbofcM routed
i uw a, V u The Vicksburg Citizen answers the ques- find a grave in his way before lie turns again
of this city, who was wrested*ot/'his Return j tion asked by the Raymond (Misa.,) Ga*e»e, in | design
Released.—We understand that Mr. An
drew Low, of the firm of Andrew Low & Co.,
fiom FnronV last fall hv tlie Lincoln govern- regard to the cotton on the plantat on of Pies- dependent on his co-operation must be aban
t ' I h , ' - T ■!] nr ju 0ner ; n Fort ident Davis, and of his brother Joseph Davis, doned, and perhaps McClellan is not less per
siderable time tbe Contederate leaders nave .*-."•* ... ment, and has been since held prisoner in rort mem. «« « '* “> "* . r r. ec id P shall h„
been turning Confederate notes into money, i s er '<m«b' impaired the reputation of that city Lafayette, returned to hri home on Saturday j by sUting that t has all been burned, so the i oufoelfe* to decile wmch shall be
jewelry, tc* I for health. I last.-^. News. 1 Yankees will get none of it I the new plan.