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OSEl‘11 Clisby.
MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M„ JULY 18, 1862.
A FRENCH LEAVE-TAKING.
The telegrams yesterday announced that
“the Orleans Princes have retired trom McClel
lan’s stafl.” And another says that “they lelton
the 5ih day of the battle” at Richmond. This
is significant in any wav it may be viewed—
whether the Princes got *ired of such fighting
an I quit upon their own motion, or whether, as
is more probable, they had some intimations
from France that by retaining their position
they might complicate themselves with their
own people. The Lincoln powers, who have
displayed such a hankering after foreign ofli
oers—even to negotiations for the help of Gar-
ribalJi, roust be profoundly disgusted to see
them taking leave in the very pinch of the cri
sis.
Fmk the Gresham Kifi.es.—A letter from
Capu Al. K. Rogers, dated the tith, 22 miles be
low Richmond, reports ten days’ almost inces
sant lighting. A list of the killed and wounded
in his company, we have already published.—
He reports 160 in his regiment then doing ser
vice. The wounded were all getting along well
The Yanks had taken to their gunbo its anil the
Captain did not expect any more fighting—an
idea which facts will not bear out. Capt Ro
gers was then in command of the Regiment—-
the field officers all being Wounded, and only
two Captuius and tour Lieutenants remaining
of the Comptny orthets—the most of them be
ing broken down by hard service. The Cap-
lain teports that he had been hit twice by balls
and once with a piece of shell, but fortunately
all spent missiles. The last one knocked him
senseless and he was carried otf the field, but
soon recovered, and returned.
Coalrual between While nml Blnrk Ex lor
lion.
One ol the soldiers, from an adjoining county,
just returned from the bloody field near Rich
mond, who was seriously wounded and left by
his comrades, in following the track of his Reg
intent barefooted, with feet blistered and torn
by the rocks, turned aside to lie down and rest,
when an old negro, who had taken a pair of
shoes from a dead Y ankee, came along. The
soldier *cco.-tcd him and asked wnal he would
take for the shoes ? The negro replied, “Mas-
sa, I want to ’comodate a poor soldier who is
fighting for us, but massa, you know the block
ade is on us heavy, shoes mighty high ; you
can't git ’uni ’less you pay high price.” The
aoldier again a.-krd, "what will you take?”—
“Massa, you must give one dollar and a half,
or you can’t git ’urn.” The poor wounded,
bleeding soldier was only too glad to get them.
He handed the money and took the shoes.
SPEECH OF MR. RICH ARDSON.
We copy today a speech by Ex-Spc.vker
Win. A. Richardson, of Illinois, which will
show the nature of the issues to be taken this
fall with Black Republicans by the opposition
party. It will be seen that the opposition i-
getting bold. The extracts we have copied
lately from Northern democratic papers show
that the press is beginning to speak out in spite
of the bastiles. All things promise a lively can
vass in Lincolndom for the next Congress.—
But more than any thing else, the speech of
Richardson shows the degradation the South
would have had to submit to in the Union un
der the Lincoln party. Hid she submitted to
that administration we think her history might
have been summed up in few words. Intoler
able insults and oppressions would by this time
have driven her into feebly organized insurrec
tions, which w ould have been crushed with an
iron hand. Her statesmen would have been
hung—her people crushed under foot and her
situaticn made that ot a subjugated province.
The 2d Battalion.—A private letter dated
the 7th, states that the 2d Battalion were then
near Petersburg, in expectation of orders to
return to Drury’s Bluff. The weather was in
tensely hot—never hotter in Georgia, says the
writer.
Loss, Ac., at Richmond—From sourceshav
ing access to correct information and entitled
to full confidence, we learn that the Confed
erate losses in killed, wounded and missinc,
during the late battles near Richmond, will nui
exceed twelve thousand, of whom about three
thousand were killed. From ten to eleven
thousand prisoners were captured, and in all
sixty cannon.
FROM KENTUCKY.
We have in hand a letter from a gentleman
in Savannah, who has just returned from Ken
tucky. He says: “Political matters have chang
ed very much in Kentucky. I think there arc
an average of three Southern Rights men to
one Union man in Kentucky at this time; and
the Union men say if they were convinced that
the South could maintain her independence,
they would join in the rebellion at once, as
Kentucky must go with the South. I was in
Lexmgton, Georgetown, Frankfort, Louisville,
Glasguw, Toropkinsville, and several other
towns of smaller size. They all appear to he
of one opinion in regard to political matters—
that is, they will go with the South when an
opportunity offers.
“Pi olglons of all kinds are abundant: Bacon
four cents ; Com, twenty ; Flour, five dollars
per barrel; Butter, eight cents; Chickens, ten;
Eggs ten : Lincoln money at par, but has taken
a decided fall su.ee, no doubt."
Verbally, we learn from other parties that
the hostility to Lincolr.isni in both Kentucky
and Tennessee is assuming an envenomed char
acter. The outrages of the Lincoln troops up
on persons and property have created a thirst
for vengeance whicn is appeased only by blood.
The slaughter of Federal p.ekets and stragglers
is now a daily business with many, and the
peoDle swear, when once the Federal armies
are driven backward none of them shall ever
pass through those States alive.
killed a wounded
Of the Faulk Invincibles, Twiggs county, in
the battle of the 27th of June, Capt. Crocker.
Killed—Corp’l Elisha W. Welch, shot thro’
the heart; Jerry Lipsy, shot through the body.
Wounded—J. T. Hughes, in the shoulder,
■lightly ; James W. Hodges, in the hand, se
verely : Trussel Wall, in the arm, slightly ;—
Henry J. Clark, in the thigh, severely; Win.
Blalock, in the ankle, alightly • Daniel Mc-
Clane, knocked down with spent ball.
0T Among some items of Northern news
we find the following, referring doubtless to J.
R. Butts, of this city :
Gen. Butts, Surveyor-General of Georgia,
was captured recently by a detachment of Yan
kee soldiers. He is now in New York.
Moilh.in Account of Ihr Battle of Bick-
moari.
We find in the Charleston Mercury, of the
10th, a report of the battle of Richmond up to
Monday evening, the 80th, by a correspondent
of the New York Times. It is, of course, a
very elaborate attempt to varnish over the de
feat, and the truth appears only in faint glimp
ses—incidentally and intcrentially. The cor
respondent sets out as follows:
“Events of the gravest character have trans'
pired within the last five days touching the
condition and prospects of the, army on the
Peninsula. A cling under the necessity which
the Commanding General has long foreseen, the
widely extended lines of the army, with its
miles of well constructed defences, stretching
almost from the James river on the left, to and
beyond the Chickahominy on the right, have
been abandoned, and the army before Rich
mond lias fallen back to a more practicable
line of defence and attack upon the James
river.”
That is very good. The retreat was not a
Decentity created by the Confederate assault,
but a necessity which the Federal “Commanding
Gent ral had long foreseen /” and the attack and
retreat wereeiihcr mere fortuitous coincidences,
or tha Federal commander selected the mo
ment of attack as the propitious time to con
summate a step his judgment had “long fore
seen" as necessary. All the boasts of the
Northern press about the occupation of Rich
mond and the annihilation of the rebel army
were entirely insincere and unmeaning. Mc
Clellan s own gasconade that henceforeward
there would be no more retreats, and he would
soon ‘drive the rebels the wall,” was idle va
poring. He had “long foreseen” the necessity
of “falling back” instead of advancing. Eu
rope will be still more enlightened by this con
fession of Federal hypocrisy.
I he judgment of McClellan having deter
mined upon the necessity of a retrograde move
ment, the correspondent then proceeds to ex
plain at length how “this tnanteuvre—one of
the most difficult and dangerous to execute in
the face of the enemy—has been accomplished
salely, though under circumstances of difficulty’
and trial which would have taxed the genius of
a Napoleon I” The grand army has been engaged
in a series of conflicts for six days with a force
more than double their own, having every ad
vantage of position and knowledge of the coun
try and the roads, till finally attaining a place
of comparative comfort and repose on the
bunks of the James, this truthful chronicler of
Federal victories exclaims, from the very bot
tom of his gizzard :
“Heaven grant that here, under the shadow
of those hills, and with the co operation of the
gunboats, our overtaxed soldiers and officers
may have that brief repose which is so essential
to them, and to the existence of the army it
self! !’’
Let all the world see and realize what it is
to execute “a difficult and dangerous manoeu
vre,” the “necessity of which the Commanding
General had long foreseen.” Not with greater
relief did the wearied stag, escaped from the
hounds, throw his tired, torn and bleeding form
upon the cool and shaded turf of the mountain
stream. He, too, had executed a like “diffi
cult, delicate and dangerous manoeuvre” in the
face ot an enemy—a manoeuvre, too, the neces
sity of which he foresaw as soon as he heard
the baying of the hounds, and felt their teeth
in his flanks.
We will not pursue with the correspondent
the progress of this dangerous manoeuvre, in
which, of course, every contest was a Federal
victory, till the triumphant legions of black re
publicanism attained, after a long and weary
race, a view of the classic old James River.—
Mortal Men never saw so glad a sight Not till
they reach the portals of Paradise will the
Federals ever again hail so beatific a vision.—
The correspondent dwells upon that James
River—its green fields and venerable and c«ol-
shade, with all the ardor of a footsore, sick
and weary traveler of the desert in full view of
the Happy Valley. Hear him again ;
“When an aid of General McClellan rode up
and reported that the way was all open to Jamea
river, a thrill of relief ran through the whole
line and the sight of the green fields skirting
its banks was, indeed, an oasis in the terrible
desert of suspense and apprehension through
which they had passed. The teams were now
put upon a lively trot in order to relieve the
pressure upon that portion still in the rear—
General McClellan and staff rode ahead and
took possession. * * *
Exhausted by long watching and fatigue, and
covered thickly with the dust of the road over
which we had passed, many of the officers
threw themselves upon the shady and grassy
lawn to rest The soldiers also, attracted by
the shady trees, surrounded the house, or bi
vouacked in the fields near by.”
Thus we see that Gen. McClellan, who had
“long foreseen” the necessity of this delicate
and dangerous manoeuvre, was the very first
man in his army to profit by it. lie was bles
sed with four more heels than most ot the pan
ting fugitives who followed him, and no doubt
felt himself four times more blessed in first
reaching, under the shadow of the Virginia oaks
and the Yankee gunboats, the happy place of
reposo and safety.
But as no human blessing comes without al
loy, so the scent of danger still disturbs the
quiet and rest of the recumbent Yanks. The cor
respondent closes up his narrative with these
h&rrasaing doubts and reflections;
“The indications are that the enemy will cod
tinue to harrass our position, ard give the
troops no rest, day or night, until they have
been dislodged or compelled to embark. Should
affairs reach the latter crisis, where are the
transports to receive such an army on board,
with its immense material of war ? There are
scarcely vessels enough now in the James river
to take on board the wounded and sick, to say
nothing of the army.”
We are tempted to ask in conclusion |but the
occasion is more one of mirth than moralizing]
whether it be possible that th’a writer could
imagine that his account would deceive even
Northern vanity into the beliefj that their grand
army had met with any thing else than a crush
ing defeat, underpressure of which the demand
for the surrender of Richmond, was modified to
a prayer for any place of safety, the more re
mote from Richmond tha better ? Is it possible
he could fancy his thin daub of varnish more
respectable than a candid acknowledgement of
overwhelming defeat and fatal frustration. We
think it less so; and if the vast amount of hu
man misery resulting from the battle, does not
stifle mirth, the wits of Europe will find no
more fertile theme for it, than the Federal ac
counts of the Grand Victory of the Grand Uni
on Army, once near Richmond, and sure of cap
turing it by the 2d of July, so as to display
that grand Massachusetts Banner from the
Capitol of Virginia on the 4th—but now a good
ways off “acting under the necessity which the
Federal commanding General had long fore
seen” ot a retrograde movement to the James
River.
The Accident on the Stale Hoad.
The Atlanta Intelligencer of the I lth pub
lished the following Caid and summary of evi
dence, by which it will be seen that the late
collision and wholesale destruction of life and
property on the State Road, was due to the in
terference of the military passengers on the
train with the time of the train, compelling de
lay and a departure from the schedule. It is
extraordinary that an officer of common sense
and prudence enough to keep out of the fire,
should be guilty of such conduct. It is against
the law and the express orders of the War De
partment and should be punished.
A CARD.
As soon as I heard of the collision on the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, near Johnson,
I went by the first tiam to the scene of disas -
ter. Alter getting up all the testimony, I am
well satisfied the down train was on its proper
lime at Johnson. The up train, with soldiers,
had got behind its time before getting to Da-
ton, on account of its being ordered to stop by
the military. When the train left Dalton it
was fifty-five minutes behind the regular leav
ing time. The engineer and conductor were
both anxious to get away, and blew the whis
tle, but were ordered by the military not to
blow again till they ordered it After this the
delay was five to ten minutes before they started
Two of our most valuable engines were des
troyed, and ten or fifteen cars stove into frag
ments and others more or less injured. The
engineer and fireman, both valuable men, were
instantly killed, with seven soldiers, seven ne
groes, and fourteen horses.
J. S. ROWLAND, Sup’t
With this card, Major Rowland has placed
before us a number of certificates from relia-
ole part.es, obtained during the investigation,
from which we arrive at the conclusion that
but for the interference of the military, the
trains which collided—and hy which so fearful
a loss of life and of property have occurred—
would each, in all probability, have passed
safely on to their respective destinations. One
of these certify that, at Adairsville, some' ot
the soldiers on the ears were very unruly, and
that the cars were detained at Cartersville by
them some fifteen minutes, and were at other
points detained also. Another certifies that at
Dalton the Conductor of the train to Chatta
nooga was ordered by the officer in command
o( the troops not to move his tram until his
men got water, and that when he got ready he
would sound iiis bugle for a start Here an
other detention took place.
A third certifies that when the train for
Chattanooga arrived at Dalton, it was thirty
minutes behind time—that he heard officers of
the command on board tell their men to get off
and get water, that they had plenty of tune—
that the Conductor had one car loaded for
Knoxville to switch off at Dalton, nml when h*
moved the engine to switch off this car, the ol
ticers assailed him for moving the engine until
their men were on board—and that, through
such interferences, the train was detained, leav
ing Dalton fifty five minutes behind time. The
certifier asked the Conductor w hy he was kept
behind time ?—the reply was—-he could do no
better; that the officers would not let them
move the engine until they got ready, it is
also certified by the same party, he understood
the officer in command at Kiggold, stated,if Ills
men had stayed in their places, or where he pot
them, they would not have been killed, but
some were on the tender, and some on the
bumpers and platforms, where they went con
trary to orders.
WHAT WAS IT?
What was the foreign news which struck a
panic of five and a half cents into the Lincoln
green backs in a single day ? The reliable gen
tleman from Baltimore said it had been sup
pressed, and accordingly we do not find it in
the reports per Europa. We suppose, of course,
Minister Adams does not intend to push his
demand for the Emily SL Pierre to the extrem
ity of war, and although the other news shows
a growing outside pressure for mediation, which
will evidently bo irresistible when the news of
the Richmond fights get to England, yet still
they don’t show anything sufficient to panic
Lincoln money five and a half cents on the
dollar in a single day. There is evidently “a
nigger somewhere in the woodpile." There
arc some “private advices” in “government or
financial circles” which could alone account for
so sudden and violent a shock to the equanim
ity of Wall street. Something’s going on not
in the prints.
The Terror* of Bombardment.
The Yanks have been bombarding Vicksburg
ever since the 22d May, and have discharged
over 20,000 shot and shell at that town. Up
to the 4th July they had killed six men and
one woman, and a correspondent ot the Mem
phis Appeal, says :
The city has suffered considerably from the
constant rain of shell and shot that have been
poured upon it, though the actual damage in
dollars and cents is comparatively sm&U. I
hear that a responsible party has offered tore-
pair all damage done for the moderate sum of
$5,000, but I think he would lose money, tak
ing the contract for twice the amount One is
surprised upon first witnessing the character
of the injuries sustained from these missiles by
the houses of the city. They generally pass
through them like a pistol ball through a pane
of glass, leaving a smooth round hole just the
diameter of the ball or shell discharged. Rare
ly is a wall badly breached except by the ex
plosion of a bomb, and in no case has confla
gration yet been produced. So much for this
terrible bug cear of “shelling cities,” ot which
we have heard and read so m uch.
TO MAKE HARD TALLOW CANDLES.
To one pound of tallow take five or six leaves
of the prickly pear, (cactus opuntia,) split them,
and boil in the tallow, without water, tor half
an hour or more ; strain and mould the can
dles. The wicks should have been previously
dipped in spirits turpentine and dried.
If the tallow at first is boiled in water, and
the water changed four or five times, it will be
bleached and rendered free from impurities.—
Then prepare, by frying with prickly pears, to
harden it.
In this way we have made tallow candles
nearly equal to the best adamantine, and, at
the same time, have the consolation of know
ing that we are independent of the extortioners
who are next of kin to the villainous abolition
ist makers of stearine candles in the North.
Pomaris, S. C. Wx. Summer.
Prisoners or War.—The number of prison
ers now officially reported at the Libby prison
is about 6,300, a large number of whom have
been removed to Belle Isle, a very pleasant
apot—much more agreeable than any locality
which has been given to our wounded sol
diers—situated above the Petersburg Railroad
Bridge, in the midst of James river. Their
friends in the North may be perfectly satisfied
that they will pass a pleasant summer at Rich*
mond.—Rich. Eng.
Halleclt Kleving Northward.
WHAT MAV BE ANTICIPATED.
The Atlanta papers of Saturday state, on the
authority of a reputable gentleman just from
Louisville, that Hailcck is moving his army
Northward, and ten thousand men belonging
to it, passed through Nashville on the 4th. A
similar report came to the press by telegram
some days ago, but without subsequent confir
mation, had been dismissed as untrustworthy.
It must be confesses, however, that although
the withdrawal of Halleck’s army would leave
the western frontier very inadequately defend
ed, there are general reasons why we should
believe that the Lincoln government will omit
no sacrifice to mend its fortunes in the on-to-
Richmond campaign.
That movement was, from the first, a pet idea
with the Lincolnites. It was initiated as soon
as their first army of seventy-five thousand had
assumed the shape of an effective military force,
and they have clung to it with unvarying per
tinacity amid all the changes of '• rttipe .. tha
present hour. Their boastful paradj of men
and material for this grand expedition—their
very elaborate preparations—the great length
of time consumed upon them— the daily spec
ulations, threatenings and boasts of the North
ern press for nearly a year of the progress and
final consummation of this grand event—the
Capture of Richmond—had drawn to it the at
tention of the whole civilized world. It had
been set up and accepted as a ted enter
prise which should illustrate clearly, and tri
umphantly, the irresistible power of the Fed
eral arras and their capacity to “crush the re
bellion” in a very summary way and brief space
of time. In fact, the Federals had succeeded
perfectly in attracting the whole attention of
the whole world to this single enterprise—all
others being set aside as mere subsidiary and
unimportant. They themselves talked, or
thought of little else, and never dreamed but
that this elected theatre of their power and
prowess, would, when the trial came, return a
verdict of unquestionable mastery to the Lin
coln government.
Such was the aspect of the impending strug
gle at Richmond, both in the North and
in Europe, when the curtain rose and the
grand drama opened. It has closed to the
Federals in unmitigated defeat and disaster.—
The test campaign has established directly the
reverse of what they intended it should demon-
etrate. It was to illustrate the irresistible
power of Federal arms-—it has shown them
flying before the Confederate legions. It was
to show that the Federal government could ea
sily and speedily crush the rebellion—it has
proved conclusively to all candid minds that
they can do no nothing of the kind immediate
ly or remotely.
Ought we then to be surprised, if smarting
with intense disappointment and chagrin over
such a mi-carriage on so conspicuous a stage,
the Federal government should determine that,
let the consequences elsewhere be what they
may, they will redeem their fortunes at Rich
mond in the shortest possible time v That they
will draw if needful every man from their
Western armies and concentrate an immense,
overpowering force around the “rebel capital.”
We must confess we see no improbability in
such an hypothesis, and shall not tiierefore be
surprised if, in a fortnight, a Federal army
largely superior in numbers is thrown around
Richmond again, at the cost of seriously weak
ening and temporarily suspending all their ac
tive operations in other quarters.
If this be so, now will b s the time to press for
ward in Tennessee and Kentucky ; as well also
to keep a vigilant eye to our army in Richmond.
The capitol will still be the grand battle ground,
and probably before another month another
Federal defeat may close up forever the last
avenue of hope of Southern subjugation.
Federal Strategy.—The General expresses
the opinion that this thing of gold rising six
cents a day in Wall-street is not panic. “By
no means, sir. It is strategy, sir. Like the
recent on to Richmond movements of McClel
lan, of which it is part arid parcel—it is mer#
strategy.”
McClellvn’s Army—Irs Present Location.
—A gentleman who came up yesterday, states
that so far as can be discovered by observation
on the south bank of Janes River, no impor
tant movements have taken place in McClellan’s
army during the past throe or four days. Many
of the wagons have disap peared from view, and
the tents have been extended up the bank of
the river almost to the very doors of the tami
ly mansion at Berkeley. By the smoke of the
camp fires Tuesday evening, it was generally
supposed that the enemy had advanced some
what from the immediate banks of the different
water courses by which he was at first almost
completely surrounded. It is positively known
that heavy reinforcements have reached the
Yankee McClellan, and it is believed that h : s
army now numbers nearly or quite 100,000
men.
We have reason to be'ieve that an important
movement has been made by a portion of our
forces, but the particulars will be known in a
few days, and we refrain tor manifest good rea
son, from giving them here.
Up to 8 o'clock last evening, our pickets had
brought up no prisonei's, the first day they
have failed to do so, since McClellan’s forces
reached Barkeley. Wo presume the vigilance
of McClellan’s river guard has been redoubled,
and the poor creatures who are so anxious to
leave the Yankee servile, finds it a somewhat
hazardous undertaking. As soon as the bright
moonlight nights we are now having, shall
have passed away, desertions will doubtless be
numerous.—Petersburg Express, 10th.
McCLELLAN STRATEGY.
The Herald of the 1st explains the stratege-
tic movement of McClellan to get back to James
River, and was confidently waiting to hear that
after the Federal General had crossed the
Chickahominy, he had pushed his forces on to
Richmond and carried it by a brilliant assault
The Herald is no doubt still waiting for “the
latter part of the programme.”
OBJECT OF THE BATTLE.
How this battle occurred, and the particular
object of it, should be distinctly stated in the
outset. It was a part of the grand march on
Richmond. For some time past, as is well
known, General Fitz John Porter’s corps, com
; prising Generals McCall’s, Morell’s and Sykes’
divisions and the reserve batteries, have been
stationed this side of the Chickahominy—that
is, on the opposite side from Richmond, while
the other divisions of the army have been across
the river, close upon the rebel capital. This
disposition of our forces has compelled us to
keep up a lengthy line of defence from Meehan-
iesviile for several miles this side of the river to
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By Electric Telegram Volu^
FROM CHARLESTON. !£-
Charleston, S. C., July 10.—A fore i
enemy landed yesterday on the main near** yesterdap
Royal Ferry, as if for another attack agarK or g*[*
the Charleston A Savannah Railroad, but re
treated on the approach of our troops.
Private Despatch.
Richmond, July 10th.—Col. Jack Brown.—
Publish in the Daily Telegraph and send word,
if possible, to John L. Smith, that his son Jack
is dangerously, and I think, mortally wound
ed. 0 T. Oliver.
•ived at Louisv.
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FROM THE WEST.
Mobile, 11th.—A special despatch to the
Mobile Daily Register & Advertiser, dated
Jackson, Mississippi, the 10th, says that Gen.
Van Dorn issued general orders on the 9th,
placing fifteen counties contiguous to Vicks-
Cold Arbor, Old Church and beyond Af.hough i*, r? an( j # u
EasterrL.Jyiuii.icna under martial
held in reserve,this corps,expei ience has shov- ... , ., , . ,
- ’ . * .u . —Disloyalty will not be countenanced—
in case of an engagement across the river, irom it: a a. / J
not be brought into action without jef notice^ "'ll mei. 0 ^ 116 government must be sustain
ing more than the advantage to be ga'.nd- ; ^cf-1 , a (,:ds of discontent must not be sown
their sudden withdrawal in an eme«-i ri ,f f; «n<;r a ] 8 ^ e ^4 ro ops—speculators will not be tol-
For instance, in the great battle at arrested and fined. Newspapers
our men were submitted to the fearf •>
of listening to the cannonading amaiid.**-«^publish ^ movements of troops un
musketry without the ability to go 1 ^. 1 ? raisesp pM}glty of suspension fino and imprison
relief of the closely pressed troops so Uent.\
us. Our tents, ammunition and stores could
not be left behind without a sacrifice too great
to be thought of. It was seen that all our troops
must be pushed across the river, and the line
of defence this side abandoned. In the mean
time it was deemed desirable to open an en
gagement with the forces facing ourv-riehJ,
draw them in pursuit, and if impossib'e u, oag
them through their coming upon us in too
strong forces—press with our left wing with was daily --■'(W
corresponding and perhaps overwhelming vigro r J, . ] \ T-, ' tjWi s or „ an <aTS
upon Richmond itself, the great citadel nttn muff 1 unteere-i were ppear tfcw* ' b ’ 3
enemy’s strength. It is certain that tlfy cqatedj j be coft in^et-- -fick.^F slaves and put
my have followed in larger force than wal> YfflFTtnero toJTork on the cawfl opposite Vicksburg,
ticipa 1 but it is equally certain that they The New Y
Passer
captured 1
Memphis.
1,1
r CoNcr to od
- but e
from Grena kill met,
phis papers s
gf»wjAt<Muiihis say Hindman has
e Government the necessitjved in
mieht tend to put
# ot^^^derate troopsf
keep navigaf
to -vrtksbL
~ esiilen^#f JJTn
^efli^rhe Union
have r, u { been allowed to follow farther than it
was (^jjjgned to allow them. The latter part
of t^jjirogramme—the pressure upon Rich-
m0 ta‘9 our centre anc * ' s sa *“
be c.^Cred upon to-morrow. There is another
part of the programme which I am at liberty
to unfold—a change in the base ol our aritty s
operations. If the fight thus far has not devel
oped, the utility of the new plan, a few days
more at farthest, and possibly a single day, will \ tlieir original position before the fight com
reveal it. Our troops once across the Chicka- lne nced
h> miny, and the rebel army cannot lollow after 1
York Post fears that conscription
or drafting will have to be resorted to, if Lin
coln’s 300,000 men are raised.
Black Republican despatches claim a victory
on Tuesday of the battle before Richmond, and
say that McClellan lias since removed his head
quarters five miles nearer Richmond. Our
forces arc reported by thorn as retreating to
LIST OF CASUALTIES
In the Slappey Guards, during the recent bat
tles on the Chickahominy, Va.
THURSDAY EVENING.
Sergt R. F. Averett, s'ightly wounded.
Private Jus. N. Rogers, slightly wounded.
\Ym. Hinson, wounded in leg.
John Fountain, wounded in hand.
P. H. Ward, wounded slightly.
FRIDAY EVENING.
W. N. Kendrick, slightly wounded.
R. r X. Paul, wounded in hand.
J. W. Hearn, wounded slightly.
TUESDAY EVENING. (LAST FIGHT.)
Gat. Manning, seriously wounded.
Henry Martin, slightly “
Josiah Stevens, “ “
Tilrnan R. Moore, wounded in head.
Daniel Jarvis, slightly wounded.
Seaborn Taylor, fingir shot off
U. A. Rice,
Oapt Comd’g Slappey Guards, 48th Ga.
us. Like the bridge of Lodi, a small force can
resist the passage of the bridges against vastly
superior numbers. This accomplished, and
the enemy shut off from molesting us in the
rear, all that remains for our army to do is to
press with united and invincible strength upon
Richmond and make her ours, as she sooner or
later must be—a result I cannot lorbear stat
ing in this connection, that must have been ac
complished long before this had not General
McClellan’s army been crippled of its strength
through Congressional intermeddling.
THE BATTLE OF WHITE RIVER.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquir
er gives a terrible picture of the encounter of
the Federal fleet with the White River batte
ries, on the 22d ult. The accident to the Flag
ship, the Mound City, is thus described:
A large cylindrical shot, with iron flanges on
each side, known among the rebels as the pig
eon shot, struck the casement on the port side,
in the upper port, near the first gun, at an an
gle of about ninety degrees ; passing through
the casement and connecting pipe of the boil
ers, killing a gunner on the starboard side, and
alighting in the steward's pantry-
The effect of severing the connecting pipe
may be imagined. All the steam of the boi!«r-
at once rushed with a shrill, hissing sound into
every part of the gunboat, which presented no
means for its escape except through the port
holes and skylights. It was like injecting steam
into an air tight box, and when we remember
there were nearly one hundred and eighty hu
man beings below the deck, the ineffable hor
ror of their situation may readily be seen.
The burning steam fairly mowed them down.
They shrieked, and leaped, and writhed in pain.
But the steam did not pity their tortures; it
seemed rather to delight in their sufferings, and
extended its vaporous torrents to new victims.
Honors upon horrors accumulated to that low
square, seething, boiling, fiery enclosure, where
man endured all the fabled agonies of the damn
ed, and yet could not die.
To some, Fate was merciful; for it slew them
at once. As many as forty-five or fifty, who
had stood on the gun-deck a few moments be
fore with buoyant hopes and elated spirits, lay
there in crimson death, unconscious of the pain
of those around them, unhearing. O how for
tunately !—the terrible moaning and groaning
of the wounded sufferers.
As soon as the first shock had passed, those
who had not been slain from full inhalation of
steam were prompted, mad with pain, to leap
into the river to cool their burning bodies. The
impulso appeared to seize upon all simultan
eously, and out of the open ports plunged one
wretch after another, until seventy or eighty
were struggling in the water. Some were so
badly scalded that they could not swim. <1
they, most fortunately, were drowns , w ane
others, refreshed and cooled by the river, struck
out mournfully to the shore, as it they had been
uninjured.
At thi3 crisis, when every principle of hu
manity called for aid and succor tiie rebels
proved themselves worthy of the antecedents
that have dishonored and disgraced them from
the beginning of the war.
Instead of imitating the example of generos
ity and magnanimity set them by a brave and
loyal people, struggling for the preservation of
a great and glorious country ; forgetting the
heroic conduct shown by our seaman, who en
deavored in the gunboat tight off Memphis, to
save the lives of the unfortunate crew ot the
General Lovell when she went down, the reb
els, meanly, mercilessly and dastardly, made
every effort to destroy the poor scalded fellows
wTo were seeking to reach the shore or our
vessels with their burned and suffering limbs
The gunners in the upper battery turned
their guns upon the suffering officers and sea
men of the Mound City, and Captain Fry, the
ct mmander of the works, ordered his sharp
shooters to kill every Y'ankee before he could
reach the shore or succor could be brought.
The devilish enemy needed no second bid
ding. He ran with alacrity down to the boat,
and there, under cover of the trees, fired mus
kets and rifles at the wounded swimmers, with
a cool diabolism that a savage South Sea Island
er would have blushed to witness. Many a
brave fellow was killed and sunk in the river'
and others were wounded several times before
they obtained the needful aid from their loyal
friends. The Mound City was powerless and
drifting with the current; she could not aid
them ; and the St. Louis was then opposite th*
lower fortification.
rashing
„„ . « ,_ r ._- , |, order
j his acetC , l a.
. „ , ^ of his S*4>7nd nave
of A tx. to ly The army is still in good he
Richmond,^.*.., —Amusi.
just gone to Europe, and taken witfi\ days since i
trn papers containing full reports ofcdStates
battle.
Gen. Scott.—Gen. Scott is now at the resi-! coin.
Gen. Chalmers’ Cavalry attacked the Yankee
cavalry at Ripley, Tippah county. Miss., last
Monday dispersing them in contusion.
Mobile, July 12.—The Tribune has the New
Orleans Delta of the 10th inst., which contains
the following:
Glorious News The Great Battle Fought !—
Richmond Fallen! 50,000 Rebel Prisoners
Taken! The Last Diicli Captured!
The Tennessee from below Vicksburg brings
the following inportant intelligence : On the
6th inst, Gen. Halleck sent a despatch to Com-
more Davis, commanding the American fleet
above, announcing that he had jnst received a
telegraph from Gen. Grant, stating that the
Great; Battle had been fought at Richmond,
with immense loss on both sides. Richmond
had been captured, and 50,000 Confederates
had been taken prisoners, with a vast quantity
of stores, ammunition and guns. IVe have no
reason to doubt the authenticity of this great
news, as it comes through a seuii official chan
nel of most reliable character. Three cheers
for McClellan and the army of the Union!
A special to the Advertiser from Jackson the
11 th, says the enemy are more vigorously em
ployed in shelling Vicksburg, though effecting
but little. The Yankeos are pillaging planta
tions on the river of horses, mules and every-
valuable, and the negroes are seized to work on
the canal across the river bend.
Gen. Xaee’s Congratulatory Address-
Ricumond, July 12th.—Gen. Lee has issued
a congratulatory address to the army, dated at
IlEADqUARTERS, (
In the Field, July 7, 1862. j
The General commanding, profoundly grate
ful to the only Giver of all victory for the sig
nal success with which he has blessed our
arms, tenders his warmest thanks and congrat
ulations to the army by whose valor such
splendid results have been achieved.
On Thursday, the 26th June, tho thorough
ly equipped army of the enemy was entrenched
in his works, vast in extent and most foimidu-
ble in character, in sight of our Capitol. To
day the remains of the confident and threats
ening host are upon the banks ol the James
River, thirty miles from Richmond, seeking to
recover, under the protection of his boats,
from the effects of some of the disasters of de
feat.
After briefly referring to the defeat and pur
suit of the enemy, Gen. Lee says:
The immediate fruits of success are the re
lief of Richmond from a state of seige; the
rout of the great army that so long menaced its
safety; i. my thousand prisoners, including
officers of high rank; the capture or destruc
tion of stores to the value of millions; the ac
quisition of thousands of arms, and fifty one
pieces <1 superior artillery.
The seivice rendered the country In this
short hut eventful period, can scarcely be ex
tenuated ; and the General commanding can
not adequately express his admiration of the
courage and enduranoe, and soldierly conduct
of the officers and men engaged.
These briliiant results have coat us many
brave men; but while we mourn the loss of our
gallant dead, let us not forget that they died
nobly in defence of their country’s freedom,
and have linked their memory with an event
that will live forever in the hearts of a grate
ful people.
NOTIIERN NEWS.
Richmond, 13th.—Gold advanced in New’
York on Wednesday, from ten to sixteen cents
premium. Exchange on London 28. A gen
tleman who arrived here from Baltimore, this
afterooon, saj s that the advance was caused by
unfavorable news from Europe, the publication
of which had been suppressed by the Lincoln
government
From the Petersburg, Va., Express.
FROM RICHMOND.
Richmond, July 9.—A gentleman who ran
the blockade yesterday states that Gen. Scott
has been appointed Secretary of War by Lin-
E(’ROPEAN %EWS.
Richmond, July 14.—The Europa has
ved at Cape Race and brings Liverpool c t >3e shell
to 2d July instant. Tor our
The correspondence in relation to the Einip about
St. Pierre has been published, to be
appears that Mr. Adams, fhp-Le ar iy or j5s will
had not receded from the position .. ..alf their
by him. [That the vessel must be tj night nine 1
In the lluuk-< ot l-oiJo, LoiJ l>j.ihey beingt
plored the continuance of the civil g e< j e
America, and its consequences to Euro|tu re J ‘'2
thought it possible for England to insed to" 5 *
but expressed the opinion that the A^'r has U
themselves would see the suicidal Miss.!
the present struggle, and come to e j j, |
arrangement, before they entirely afl
pect and affection of Europe, as a ’ rl * Jlme fr. -,
In the House of Commons Lor' n * las C.
• i i ■ . r ii >n,i this ntv 11
said that interference now could or^ . . ,-^ig
matters. Both England and Fram'“ 5 ’ 1S . Slp P l _
delighted to take position as med,^ 0 ^^ 0 ^*^
when a fitting opportunity arrives ^ y*
look upon it both as a duty and pleat
The English journals are strenuous,
upon government the necessity of taki
steps that might tend to put a apeed (jerk
thewar ’ ______ *ches
THE ACCIDENT ON THE STATE taken pH
We publish below a letter from \t%rate8'
pers relative to the serious accident on tl» sur
road; and add the hope that a thorough i.
gation of the circumstance will be hiL,
would be well for the Legislature to “ e 1
law hy which engineers and conducto' n Nail
be held responsible for accidents re* 0 ' 1
loss ol life and limb, and held for tris° n _ij n g £ x <
delay, it might have the effect of lesseif , t
the number and severity of such accidents : t 0 oi
Ringgold, Ga., July 7th, 1862.
James Gardner, Editor Constitutionalist— '*
My Dear Sir; Yesterday at 3i o’clock, P. 1
M., the train of cars bearing my command from
Atlanta to Chattanooga, caine in collision with
a heavy train of empty freight cars near this
station. This sad accident occasioned the
death of five men, four from Capt Hanvey’s
company, “Newnan Artillery,” and one from
Capt. Johnson’s company, “Stephens Battery.”
Nineteen are wounded and twenty-four bruised
The fortunate circumstance of having my hor
ses in advance of the cars bearing the men, has
saved me the pain of reporting a more terrible
tragedj’. Of my horses, but seventeen remain
living, and of these but three are unhurt
The civ'se of the collision is yet to be defi
nitely ascertained, but that gross negligence on
the part of some official on the road will be de
veloped, I feel perfectly assured.
We left At nta following the passenger train
on Sunday m •-ning at 4 o’clock. Upon arriv
al a station this side of McDonough, the
engine oi the passenger iialu was detached for
somereas , 1 our train backed down and
coupled ■ , the t mger cars. This threw us
behind r'jie an . ur and ten minutes, and, I
believe, was the principal cause of our misfor
tune
1 enclose a list of the killed and wounded,
which you will please insert in your paper.
The command is comfortably bivouacked at
this place, and will remain until the road is
made p:. sable. Very respecfully,
Your ob’t serv’t,
H. D. Caper*,
Major Commanding 12th Georgia Battalion.
LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Capt. Allen’s company—Oglethorpe Artille
ry. Co. A.—Privates C. W. Battey, L. F.
Flemming, YV. D. Patton, J. C. Pierson, R. F.
Thompkina, slightly wounded. Two negroes
killed, and wounded badly.
Company B.—Capt. Hanvey’s command—
Newnan Artillery.—Killed—Privates L. A.
Bullard, W. R. Lane, YV. \\ Martin, and Z.
Phillips.
Dangerously Wounded—Lieutenant Beedles,
Corporal J. N. Goodwin, and Dr. M. H. Davis.
Slightly YVounded—Privates J. C. Attaway,
Beardin, W. G. Orr, Rannev, and P. L. YVard.
Two negroes mortally wounded.
Company C.—Capt. Rudisill commanding
Rudiaill Artillery.—Private Durden, slightly
wounded.
Company D.—Capt G. YV. Johnson comman
ding Stephens’ Battery.—Killed-Privato Giles.
Dangerously Wounded—Thomas John- i
and Bcnj. Smith.
Slightly YVounded—Privates Braswell, Ar
nold. Ranney and Scudder.
Whitney, Calhoun County, Ga., (
July 11th, 1862. j
Mr. Editor: Dear Sir—The following is a
list of the Calhoun Rifles of the 12th Georgia
Regiment, who was taken prisoners near Front
Royal, Y T a., May 30th, 1862. The Company
was commanded at the time of its capture, by
Lieut YVaterman, of Company H, 12th Georx
gia, who was al60 captured. I am indebted to
my friend, G. II. Lowe, one of the captured, for
the following list, which you will please publish
by his request, for the satisfaction of all the
friends of this gallant corps, of whom, it will be
remembered, lost its gallant Capt W. L. Fur-
low, and 33 other* killed and wounded at the
battle of McDowcl.
Respectfnlly yours, C. M. Davis.
Dear Sir .—YVe feel under obligations to the
Officers here for kind treatment in every res
pect. All privileges is allowed us that we could
wish for. I hope eru long to be at home, and
peace be made satisfactory to both contending
parties. Truly, G. H. Lowe.
To Capt. C. M. Davis.
1st Serg’t—H A Davis,
2d “ J M Zackerv,
3d “ J T Colly, *
4th “ A M Brown,
1st Corp’l.—J McFaddin,
A L Robertson,
N S Lanev,
G H Lowe,
W J McNair,
denoe of his son-in-law, Mr. Hoyt, Sixteenth
street, and at present declines to receive visitors.
He appears to be prostrated with grief at the
recent death of his lady, and there are no indi
cations at present that he will proceed to Wash
ington.—N. Y. Express.
There is great rejoicing over McClellan’s vic
tory I in Yankeedom, but the people up there
were in a perfect stew about foreign mediation.
FlELDQtS.
Richmond, July 9th. —As usual Madame Ru-
3d
3d “
4th “
— Bell,
T E Carson, D B McNair,
J J Carson, Zed McMath,
— Champion, — Moody. *>v
— Cowart, YV J Mills,
B G Dukes, — Murray,
L Dukas, YV B Norwood,
J S Daniel, G W Olliver,
J T II Daniel, Benj Platt,
W Darsey, — Rivers,
— Dominy, J W Robinson,
— Fot rister, R C Pierce,
— Godwin, Robt Martin,
N D Harris, J YV Martin,
D YV’ Harris, A Beckom,
— Hay, — Sessions,
— Knight, — Singleton.
J W Lewis,
YV J Miils died in Washington City, June
14th, 1862, with Typhoid Fever.
ILansell Keel was killed in action, May 80th
1S62, near Front Royal.