Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, July 25, 1862, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextUy Joseph Clisby. MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M., JULY 25, 1862. \KCTHEi: Military Star Eclipsed.—The Lin- ifinite^ use up their genera 1 .!) with remarkable facility. The astronomer Mitchell, whose hi il- liant achievements over the unarmed popula i on of Huntsville rival the glory ol hisdiscov- in the firmament, has b,en sent home in disgrace. Thu cause assigned is that he has hetn using the Lincoln government funds m Cotton speculations, and is a defaulter to a large amount. Mow if peculation and cheate rs he an offence in Lincolndotn, where is one of ihcir satraps innocent? The immaculate Bull* i himself, whose praises till all Yankee- .loin, is in cohoot with his brother, daily ma ting a lortunc by speculation. A New Orleans ntlr tan assures us that Pic nnd his b-oth. r, r,v an ingenious system of annoyance, at one i iaie compelled several vessels to sell their .irgoes of Flour to him at the Ralize at $12,00 ( ,r barrel, and these same cargoes w ere then i , u lit up to the city and doled out to the p,oph- under the active supervision of this ad venturous, patriotic and loyal pair, at forty dollars per barrel. ^ Moboan was heard of on the 6th at Pomp— Lin .ille, Kentucky, ten miles above the Ten- i.e>M-e bonier. Or. the 11th they hear in Lou mil. , that he is at Glasgow, thirty five miles lorthwest of Toropkinsvillc. Glasgow is the terminus of a branch railroa which unites with the Nashville and Louisville railroad at d immoth Cave, not more than twelve or fil- teen mdes iby the ma, ) from Glasgow. The eriami of Morgan is, therefore, pretty certainly, the d. -truction of the Louisville and Nashville Road at a point or points above the junction at g vwling Greer., Morgan is a forerunner, and bi> i Ur ion is by every means to induce the Federal troops in Tennessee to remain there louc enough for an interview with the ( onfi d erates, who are preparing to entertfe them. Yankee Congression al Doings.—In the Lin- oin Senate on the 10th, Chandler’s resolution demanding the correspondence between Gen. McClellan and the Government, passed by 36 io A motion was made to indefinitely post pone the Army bill, hut voted down by 9 to 27. Yu amendment to compensate “loyal persons” lor slaves seized for miiiti.ry purposes, was .greed to. and the section authorizing the Presi- lent to receive these persons into the military civice of the United States, was passed as amended On taking the question on the sec lion citing freedom to the mother, wife, and •hddren of negrner so employed by the Gov ernment, there was no quorum, and the Senate ^■mel T i rtrarrsaoKo’.—J. C. Parklmrsi, Lt. Colo- I the9th Michigan Infantry, was “Govern Murfreesboro’,” before he “succeeded in ,ng the base ot his operations,’’ under the inn— exhortations of Col. 1-orresL Be hi- important truth, from the fact l’aik- o.bsrribed himself in that way on the d»y of last month, to an order directing . ry hodv doing business in Murfreess ,• jhould take theoalh or qui< business.— ■idventurous and “loyal’’ Gotemor Park- \VAR FEELING IN THE NORTH. 1 ime enough has not yet elapsed to pro nounce fully upon the general effect upon the North of the defeat at Richmond. That catas trophe came upon her like a cold shower hath. It was hew ildering, because wholly unexpected. From all the information, public and private, we can gather, it found the great bulk of the Northern people resting upon the assured con viction that triumph was certain and a victori ous conclusion of the war, at the worst, could not he delayed longer than a few weeks. A defeat at Richmond was what none of them dreamed of as possible. We may readily admit that the grounds for these ‘opinions were very Blender, but should also recollect that systematic deception and concealment, upon the part of their government and newspapers, had invested their arms with a steady uninterrupted current of victory since the fall of Fort Henry, a period of nine months. The battles of Shiloh, of Stonewall Jackson and < AFFAIRS IN TUB NORTH. Thu Contraband Soldiers. —Our last had Northern dates by telegram from Richmond as late as the 17th instant. The only important items noted were that the Lincoln House of Representatives lias passed a hill authorizing the President to call out the militia for a per iod not exceeding nine months, and also auth orizing the employment of negroes in the milita ry service of the United States. Recruiting was reported as progressing Blowly, and Gov. Mor gan, of New Y'ork, had taken the responsibility of offeiing fifty dollars additional bounty to volunteers. ThU action of the House has lully commit ted the congress to theVhemea of W ilson[Trum- bull & Co., in the Senate, and, wesuppose, set tles the coruse the Lincoln Government will take upon the subject of the contraband soldiery Henceforward the army of Lincolndom will laki the calico hue or mosaic pattern beco jiing the legions of that enlightened and liberal pow- those upon the Peninsula, were all regarded j er. lt remains to be seen what the people ot by the great mass of the Northern people as so ! the border States ha.c to say about this propo- ruanv triumphs of the Federal arms, going to demonstrate an immeasurablesuperiorjty which placed the final issue of the struggle beyond a doubt Their army was made up to sufficient. j; ar y |,asis, the New Y'ork Democracy, with sition. Meantime, while the aiiministratiou party in Congress are settling the war upon thisincen- strength—their plans all digested and working \ the aid of a few of the old Bull-F.vcretts, are admirably, and nothing more necessary but a j claiming position as the real war party of the little time and patience. From the security and quiet of this coinfort- North. They out clamor the Republicans in favor ot a vigorous prosecution of the war, but able delusion the great test shock ot armies at insist as a sine qua non to their support, that Richmond aroused them like a fire bell at night. ( all attempts to connect with it schemes of Ten days of mingled alarm, incredulity and ap-. emancipation shall be dropped at once. It was prehension elapse—every expedient to palter with and explain away the facts is resorted to, and fails. The regular official exponents ot laGehood stumble and balk at the enormity of their own lies. The people receive them in cold incredu lity and derision. They are the butt even of the red-mouthed fanatics in »tae Lincoln Senate, this party, under whose auspices the war meet ingof the 15th in New York city was started and organized. A “violent shower” is said to have dispersed that meeting very summarily, in medias rer, and that shower may have been typical of the still damper response anti-aboli tion ardor received a few daya after from Wash ington. How this vital disagreement tvetween who coolly tell McClellan that tney don’t want; the programmes of the Dean Richmond and any longer to hear defeats called “strategetic I Peter (’agger war party of New Y ork and that movements,” or “changes in the base of opera-; of the Black Republican war patty at Wash- tions." 1 rail for three hundred thousand \ ington, are to he reconciled, wc may leave them more men is issued, and it is publicly confessed ! by the papers, that the whole grand Anaconda j to decide. Volunteering. t he New York despatch plan of crushing out the rebellion is a dead | dale of the 17th, reports volunteering as going failure. The work must be begun .again, and en “very slowly.’’ Indeed, from the tenor of after sixteen months of a war which was to be | New Y'ork newspaper extracts of the 10th and ended in thirty days, another year must still j 11th, we are somewhat surprised that the draft be added to its duration Beyond this, we see a perfect outpouring j had been postponed up to that time. The Post, of World, Express and Heiald of tho* dates were malignant and devilish wrath in the Lincoln i all urging the draft in New York, and two or Senate, but it must be noted that not one who three New England r.nd Western priuts from hits not distinguished himself as a vile fanatic and incendiary, appears in the exhibition.— The opposition are ominously silent. In the Lincoln House of Representatives, where the opposition is numerically stronger, it ia worthy of remark that nothing at all has taken place, I in the first line of the very next paragraph, ex- or nothing has been reported. The Senate, in ' claims in italics, “ire must retort to draft"— which we see extracts quoted by the Richmond papers, take the same position. The Post be gins an article with the following declaration: “The people are responding with alacrity to tUo ool! Of th' Pfe-iiK-t f.,r mr.ri mon thin house, gives vent to its malice and con cocts its hills for insurrection and murder, but not until they arc put in shape do they propose to introduce the-e suhjects to the raoie trying ordeal of the House. Not a new volunteer in w hi- ha ,e of operation in some Congress joins the inevitable war and subjuga > L’.dabooM', which we hope will prevent luriher hi, till he is duly transferred to a place bi-rc all do business under the oath. 11 Andy [lohiK on has a “Governor” for every town in _ dominions, there must he at least a Batlal. on ol ihem in Tennessee. ■ »l« DESTRUCTION OF NASHVILLE, the Federals, it seems, threaten they will i. -trov Nashville, if foree.l to abandon iL Wc !i n- u very possible they will carry out their threat. A gentleman of the highest respecta lity, h fugitive from Tennessee, reports that \ndy Johnson has ruined the splendid capitol . : lennessee, the finest building ol the kind in 11 the State.-, and swore he would blow it up, i there was any serious danger that the (’on- n^lerutes would recapture the town. it- Telegraph report . great consternation i hville and among the Lincolnites in Ken- i No doubt there’s many a Lincolnite /.ator who came down with his Block of s to take advantage of hare markets, now anxiously seeking to “change the base of I i-mions." TRUTH FROM YY1LSON. ■ not often we credit anything said by nator Wilson, of Massachusetts, but ih r day in the Senate, he spoke the truth i,re. “It seems,” says Wilson, “at if ter V ^Ed g -i , -oMt.i fJ system of lying in this conn- I In respect to YVilson’s country, it not J^ly terms so, but it so, most truly and em phatically. We have no hesitation, in saying, ivo sty it boldly, (as the play hath it) that ular system, involving not only the sug- o talsi but the suppressio veri was organi- I . ,ion, and ha- been ystcmatically f Mo icted by him and Ins subordinates, milita rv and civil, for the past year. One grand re lit of the thunderbolts at Richmond, has been • pose it naked to the world, and we tell our lirs n look out for/uii when the European - .-ee it all ^yveilcd and comfessed to in ;• -firing,Wpologies, acknowledgments, u pretences, confessions, lies and equivoca- r.v oi er the Richmond defeat. The Lincoln- will sink so low that truth in their prints i it Mr lake the livery of falsehood — ey w ill lose even the credit of hing crafty and will be pronounced the most stupid ,nd baseline of falsifiers. In .shout three or ; wc shall sec the Lincolnites ‘-chsng- ,n ike base of their operations by a flank movement ’ under such a tempest of ridicule \pd execration as nercr greeted a people be- \FFA1R8 IN*'TENNESSEE. IMntlretsImro’ is in onr hands by positive in y.gencr. and >*-c hrliete that Nashville, by the RW" PtH to the reader, will be in i ...mu- condition. Governor Andy Johnson I i o doubt already “changed the base ol his nations by a flank movement-but his re Y will be embarrassing. Morgan is in lrs :id long ago made the Nashville and Lou- Radroad impassable. Unless Buell has ■eaten a hasty retreat, of which we have ^formation, his condition is now exceed- criticaL llis supplier- are cut effand es- ■ any dirt tinn difficult, il not impossi- e believe he is as safe as a rat in a trap, wh.de army will be captured. But we what we shall see. We trust in two weeks Tennessee will be cleared of tt. tion party, and so much do they distru-t their own original force, that they will not initiate the new measures with the representatives ol Thai is a very decided non sequitur. 'The Com mercial Advertiser asserts that the “People are as eager as ever to defend their government,’’ and “there arc hosts of able bodied men lor whom the war anJ the motives for entering it, will have a fascination not to he resisted blit be also concludes “there must be a draft.”— The World, with some candor, says “The three hundred thousand men inay be called, but they the people. We are forced, then, to conclude | will oof corns," and therefore more logically that the defeat at Richmond has materially ini- J adds, “There is no other wav but to resort to paired the strength of the war parly in Con- j drafting, and the sooner this is done the bet ter.” The Milwaukie, Wisconsin, News, says g«ss. Among the people we yet see but little. Ihc Northern papers all speak distrustfully of the ability to raise *00,000 more volunteers in the required .-pace of time. Isotue assert confident ly that it eannot be done at all, and that the men must be raised by draft. Many' expedi ents are suggested to arouse the spirit of vol unteering. The New York Times wants a public meeting, ami says that 500 names have already been sigiud to a call for one. 1 hat is slow business for New York, and presents a wide contrast with the “great uprising” ol April, 1861. The World wants a great deal of martial music—drums, trumpets and cymbals, to infuse ft military spirit into the people I The Herald goes for bounties. Ninety men per dav, it boasts, had becu enrolled for several that Governor Saloman, of that State has “re ceived ordert from Washington” to draft ten now regiments—that the whole additional num her proposed to be raised in VY iseonsin, is 15,- OOU, but there is no prospect that any consider able portion will be raised in any other way than by draft. The Springfield (Mass.) Repub lican declares that unless volunteering is more brisk in that State, ‘‘drafting must soon be re sorted to.” The case is therefore clear that the bulk of the new levy of 300,1)00 men must be made up by drafting, and we are only surprised that dates a week later fail to announce that it has been fully inaugurated. Let people credit the contrary’, who will, when 300,006 volunteers cannot be found in the redundant laboring lays, but ninety men per day in the midst of ] population of the North, at a time when so 1 heavy bounties are offered and so many are unemployed, the inference is not only war ranted, but inevitable, that the common people are heartily tired of the war, and that it is un popular. The Currency.—Gold, we have seen, was quoted in New York, on the 16th, at 17J.— Sterling Exchange was 29. The paper dates of the 10th, state that great difficulty was ex perienced in ordinary business transactions for small change. The barbers, restaurant keep ers, omnibus drivers, Ac., were issuing checks, and retail traders were either suspending busi ness or putting up notices that purchasers a population of nearly two millions is slow.— In Buffalo, the city had appropriated $85,000 in bounties to a new regiment That is high bidding, and shows that an emergency is be lieved t<> exist In Philadelphia they had held another war meeting, but the papers are omin ously silent about the number present These are all the popular (if they be popular) indica tions we have yet seen of the state of feeling. But they are not popular indications. They are all nothing more than exhibitions of gov ernment impulses through regular channels.— There Is not a popular opinion of the war, un less it harmonizes u iili il. i.tusui me Black Republican government, which can find posi- I must pay the premium on the small change re tivo expression. It can show itself only in a ' turned to thorn. By this time, we have no negative way, by veiusing to volunteer, and doubt, the shinplasler system has been devel- that it is manifestly doing. ! oped in all its glory and economy upon the If this crisis can educe nothing more signi- ) Gothamites, and the entire banishment of the Scant in ihe great commercial cities under the j precious metals from circulation by ahinplas inspiration of the government and the stimulus of intercit, we may well conclude that the mil itary theiraomctcr is low in the rural districts. And if under the first impulses of defeat the people dc not volunteer, much less will they when tiro s has developed all the fatal disasters of the on to Richmond campaign. The World complains of the smpidity of the government which h« permitted the frightful shipments of w ounded vnd sick from the Peninsula to be pa raded at tic. wharves of the Northern cities, to terrify tin people, instead of sending them off! ers, and it is stated that Majoi General D. H. ters is good in a little time for a twenty per cent additional depreciation of the currency. Exchange or Prisoners.—lt seems that the Federal Government has at last so far conde scended to recognize the Confederacy as to propose negotiations for a general exchange of prisoners. On Monday afternoon despatches reached this city under seal, addressed io the “Commander-in-Chief” of the Confederate forces, which was immediately sent io General Lee. It has since transpired that tluse des patches relate to a general exchange of prison- A VERITABLE SCENE. In a plaoe oil our seaboard, which must be nameless, a young negro girl, whose first hire- ing had been to a dressy lady "of no particular age,” but of particularly large mouth, and oth er features to suit, hurst into her old mistress’ room early the next morning, with her eyes stretched like saucers, nnd begged in very ear nest tones : “Please, missis, let me come back to stay wi’ you.” “Why, Lizzie, what is the matter?” asked her kind hearted mistress. “Does not tho lady treat you well ?” “Yes, ma’am,” was the reply. “She me berry well, but «hescare me so bad, ma’am, I ’fraid to stay.” “You foolish thing,” remonstrated the old lady, “what do you mean V” “Oh, missis,” said Lizzie, who was eloquent ly in earnest, “la.-.’ night, w’en de lady call me for help um git ready for lied, 1 went to he room, she pull otT all he close, und put on he night gown. And den, missis,” she continued, sinking her voice to a solemn whisper, as it frightened at the recollection, “ef you beleek me, ma’am, the pmllall he hair of he head, and lay um down on de table. I so scared, missis, when I ree dis, my heart go bump ! bump ! and I ask myRclf w’ich way l can run. But, missis, after dat, ef you beleeb me again, missis, the tel' ebery leet out o' he head, and put um down on de tnblo by de hair. Oh, missis, I look dis way and dat way, and ef de door hadn’t been lo:k, 1 sho’ I been git out o’ dat house befo’ I lay down, and coine right to you las’ night. And now, missis, ef you don’t want me for dead right off, don’t send me to dat lady no ino*. 1 most dead now.” It is needless to say that the artless elo quence of the pleader prevailed. Some satis factory message was sent to the terrifying deal er in the mysteries of tho toilet, but there has been many a laugh since. idf?~ We learn that a steamer ha* arrived at a Confederate port within the past two days with 2,500 Enfidd rifles, 8,600 sacks ol coffee, and 9,000 ounces of Quinine, all for the Con federate government, save 1,000 sacks of coffee. Ueu. iUrClellan Publicly Accused oT Treason. From tbe Chicago i ’oet, Jaly, 3 ) Yesterday, during the excitement following the first reports of the fight before Richmond, the particular enemies of Gen. McClellan be trayed their bitterness very decidedly. Exci ted groups collected at every cornir. In front of this office a very large crowd collected, anx ious to ascertain the news. An excited con troversy soon gpi ung up. In an animated con troversy between Messrs. Miltou S. Patrick and B. F. lladduek, the former expressed him self very f *—“ly and uuresQryedlv airainst Mc Clellan. Mr. iladduek rejoined warmly xi. - Patrick, as a clincher, then declared that with in a very short period, “Secretary Stanton had told Mr. John H. Dunham that McClellan was the greatest traitor in the North, and that all the material information obtained by the reb els of Federal movements was furnished them by McClellan’s family.” Mr. Patrick is a well known citizen of Chica go, a man of strong political prejudices, it may be, but still so far above suspicion that we dare not question iiis word without further evidence. He asserted the tact without any equivocation or reservation that Secretary Stanton had told Mr. Dunham that McClellan was a traitor. Mr. Patrick is, of course, only responsible for the story as it coines from or through Mr. Dunham. Mr. Dunham is a responsible and highly res pectable merchant of this city, lately president of a bank, and we do not believe that he would state that Stanton had accused McClellan of treason unless he a as sure of the fact. Now, if Mr. Dunham did not hear Mr. Stanton say that McClellan was a traitor, let him say so.— The charge lias been made publicly on the streets, and Mr. Dn rham has been named as the party to whom the Secretary unbosomed himself. If the story is false, justice to the Secretary of War, as well as to McClellan, re quires that it should bo promptly branded as a falsehood. 11 true, and the Secretary of War did say that McClellan was a traitor, then the Secrets'y of War is himself a criminal for al lowing a traitor to have command of the army. Let the facts come out. The Question of Recognition in the British Houso of Commons. In the House of Commons, on the 20tli of June, the question having been put that the Speaker should leave the Chair in order that the House might go into committee of supply, Mr. S. W. Lindsay said that it had been his in* tention to have submitted to the Houso that evening a resolution, the object of which would have been the recognition of the Southern States of America, but many honorable mem bers whom he had co -.suited, and whose opin ions he was bound to respect, had recommend ed that he should postpone tho motion. In deference to their opinions he proposed to post pone it until the 11th ot July. Before that time he trusted her Majesty’s government would see the necessity of taking in hand a question so grave and important and one which properly belongs to the Executive, and would thus render it unnecessary for any private member to submit to the consideration of the House the desirability of recognizing the Southern States, because it nmat be apparent to all men that beforo long those States must become an independent nation. NEW YORK DRY GOODS MARKET. The New York Express, of Thursday after- A Chapter an f.'ruutklrr- nl the Army and ■ hr Preaideal. The Richmond eorrespondeus of tbe Savanuali Republican opens the following broadside upon grumblers and fault-finders. We dont tielievc he has fired a shot ainiss: After the brilliant successes ol our armies beforp Richmond, what have those moody, grumbling croakers to say ? Mr. Editor, 1 may see things differently from a different stand point; but I think you people down South who sympathize with these who arc fighting the war, ought to establish courts for the trial of croakers ; and every time a man (?) is convicted of abusing our noble chief, or charging him with incompetency or imbecility, you ought to treat lam on our early Engllsli raiders treated witches—tio him to a sweep ard duck him three times in a mill pond or some other body of water deep enough to ensure a thorough drenching 1 We of the army, who are the real sufferers, who have the hardships of rain, cold, and hunger, and fight the battles about which croakers and fault finders blow and puff so much (saying when the battle is won, ‘Ve <l.id itare perfectly satisfied with President Jef ferson Davis, and his noble circle of Generals PER CONTRA. YYhile with considerable pride weyesterdi announced the briiliat feat of Col. Morgan a lompkinsville, Ky., it is with great mortifies tion we have to announce a reverse near homo arrived at Louisv* as have been ' Houses have been bu? >aste around Salem . 3 rashinl order st« non we nave to announce a reverse near nome •: ’ ; . <• /Snd nave movei At YYallace’s Cross Roads, near the Jackson-® 1 e P... ormv s tm j n e0 od 1 borough, about twenty,fi^e miles Irom these f> en Mesllla ’ lhe iTmJ 18 f ™ headquarters, four companies of Col. McLin’s I AT l ast . A few days since i cavalry regiment were attacked by a large force Col. Forrest 0 ne of the United States vrtjl of Federal infantry, and routed, 'leaving their l3t v, j n8ti after by a neighboring planta^wp. camp equippage and provisions in the hands .. . ftn * th > G en. T. L. of ;he enemy. YVe evidently lost some in kill ed and wounded but how many we cannot as cet tain from the incoherent accounts of the couries who have arrived here. This cavalry of Col. McLin’s is an unfortunate organization. It was originally (o^ part of it) Lt. Col. White's baLtalicu, who were surprised at Jacksiioro, some months ago, and the commander taken prisoner, but subsequently paroled. We have a very brief comment to make upon this misadventure. There are in East Tennes see enough Confederate forces, if they were kept in an ordinary state of activity, to wipe out the rabble that, under the command of the Federal General Morgan, are now playing the devilIm Powell's Valley. Only a few days ago, we Ail assured by an officer from Blain's the most brilliant as well as solid assemblage 11 fi-htuli. that these Hessians had evacuated of military genious the world over saw. I '\tA ,'^ee t ' d that our force8 had possession our noble chief ride through our cam • —TV, sodn as lie is recognized, a shout throughout the vast encampment which ma! . the welkin ring, ami shows the high cste^'’*’ and affection entertained for him by the arnF“ ^v! on " 'ver paw. L ^ ♦ uiai our Iorces naa possession camps, and il ».e> screw loose somewhere. Up hout is raisi n . tf-* 14 " up|>ur glorious victory et ltich- i vrbich m»o> >t has pcrt° rn ‘.» require but an inferior force to Croakers, (poor, pitiful, sneaking, cowardly, scarecrow wretches 1) say he has accomplished nothing, frothing \ lie begun the war with out a gun, without a cannon, without a ship, without an officer, without a soldier, in short, without a thing 1 Has he done nothing ? Let history answer. In twelve months he orgaui- zod and equipped tho best army of any age. He has fought scon - of the greatest battles, heli* in cheek, and repeatedly repulsed and routed’ the “grand armies" of the North. He took the reins ol government without means or form, and in a very short time offered to his chival- ious, Southern constituency as a heritage for their latest posterity the best, emphatically the best government of the world. Of course he has had assitrt^nee. Then has he been an “im becile.” in The aruiythvith a rare exception, here and there, of sov ''dissatisfied spirit, is indignant at the uncalhuuikor abuse of their greatest leader, in whom they have unbounded confidence, and by whom they almost swear. Those crack- brained grumblers are fertile in expedients, remedies and amendments, and tell what they could do if they only had the power. Poor, deluded fools! lt is their shallowness which forbids them seeing the terrible weight of re sponsibility resting upon those who are now safely and proudly steering the ship of State through the breakers and storm of aD unexam pled revolution—a teinpestous commotion of all the raging passions of a blinded people, attemp ting to subjugate those who have a right, and are determined to be free. The South ought to be a unit—a solid phalanx, like the noble army in the field ; and the good people of the South should stop tho mouths of those fellows who imagine e'il without cause, and find fault with _ equire with Mongrel band of Hessians and East 8un *‘tu r ics, and drive them like sheep lt'od d orders; but with greatly superior nifir,. <hs of 4 ®*' ‘ * - - ederate troops in this depart- not only merit, the in permitted to occr of country, but e cavalry, kill raec‘“^K& 0 to -VTtksbu and capture stt^ ** From th r -' 8 ‘>'Ter J ^jS& e!iu!en read efTTis, 'it“% wh^V^ pners rabte lo.vs on both sitfeU A Gen. F. L. C rir den (Federal) is a prisoner. Jackson, 17th—The Federals continue shell ing Vicksburg, apparently feeling for our troops. The lower fleet have moved up about a mile. The ram Arkansas has proved to be a troublesome customer. The Federals will 1 capture the Arkansas, if they lose half their fleet in doing so. On Tuesday night nine boats are said to have passed down, they being bs^k* J damaged. It is supposed that the Jede>-' will make a desperate effort to capture ^ kansas. The Federal loss is supposed to^V- e t been five hundred. Capt John Kerr has k assigned to the cotnm ind of Jackson, Miss.4 , -^' t '* WESTERN NEWS—ESCAPE OF CURTl r ’ 8 J: 1 !‘ , x of 1 Mouilb 19th—A special to the Tribune fri-^- Grenada, 18th, says that information has ,J€la ^ta” received by Gen. Jeff". Thompson this m^ ’J 1 ^ my that Gen. Curtis crossed the Misdssippi iiiv^ “ yesterday with 4,000 men, to a point Helena. It is supposed that the re-t tory 1 command has followed by this time Y* t. w. r NORTHERN NEWS. HO appear tees.—Rich. Dis. .timpanieH were ments of infantry, Neither can the > inte!l^ence^ NAguvIIXK ._. V gen^'“® d ^; a^E>7 unless it iTthc policy ol the military au thorities to keep them here, until the Yankee forces are driven out of Middle Tennessee and Kentucky, with the expectation of then bag ging them without bloodshed. Knoxville Register, Kith. The Coming Crisis in tho North. the New Y'ork Herald's Money Article, July 10. The excitement in the gold and exchange markets continues unabated. Gold opened this morning at 117i, fell to 116, 115^, 115, and then began to rally. Between the Boards it rose to 115H ; at the second Board it sold at 116, and closed at that bid. Bills on London opened at 1294, Were then sold at 129, 1284, 128, and in the afternoon 128J. The advance ia gold and bills has led to remarkable activity in merchandise. People are shipping to F.u - rope everything which can be bought. Articles which have been stagnant for months—such as copper and other articles which are seldom ex ported—are being shipped in large quantities. Every one who owes anything to Europe is send ing produce to pay the debt; others are shipping Richmond, 17th.—Northern paperb o\ r p 4r i^ abaml. tLj, |, ave t>eeit received. Despatches thur relair r one nejr^S^ ablest administration—military at least—of on speculation, relying on the premium on tuckv. - **—‘y * fni *■- - • - ------ — | — 1 «I"., y *.*-~. X..» ! Moult*, ouly i9.—A special to the Adveni- .Nashville announce that a tight had taken pl.our j at Murfreesboro’,in which tbe Confederates wje victorious. Two Yankee Regiments surr^^T’j dered. Gen. Crittenden, of Kentucky, and W»U Dullic-M, of ludianna, were captured. The O/anj federates are reported to be marching on Na- ville, 6,000 strong. ' V In New York, Gold was 1104. Sterling Rx’ change 129. The news from Tennessee had depressing effect on the Stock Market. 1 ftowerof 1 0 opmtou 01 'The Petersburg Express has a special *iore xaiionn patch from Knoxville, announcing the capt‘ure“‘ 1 l; n an” of Murfreesboro’ by Col. Forrest’s Cavalry on ' uir,iC Sunday last. The New York Herald of the 14th gays that Murfreesboro’ was captured by 8,000 rebel cavalry under Forrest on the 1 Stk. The 9th Michigan, Col. Parkhurst, Brig. Gen Crittenden, Col. Duffield, of Indianna, taken prisoners. Many other officers were also cap tured. Great consternation prevailed in Nash ville, and tho Federals say that they will shell the city if compelled to evacuate it. Col. John Morgan was only 9 miles from Frankfort, Ky., on Sunday morning last, 13th. Great alarm prevails among the Yankees in Ken or quietly to some island remote from town ! On the Hill has been appointed to conduct the nego- hole, although but little bas ye t Rations upon our part, and that arrangements , , ’ xr . .. . . . . . .. will at once be entered into to effect tht desired been heard from the North, it is most mdubi- object _ This w m be gratifying to those who tably true that the defeat at Richmond has ex- ) ia vc friends incarcerated in Northern oastiles. er. ised a 1 isoonraging effect upon the Northern | —Richmond Dispatch. w ar feeling. , Mi hire iSBORO.’—Last evening in this city, and in Chattanooga, it waa believed in well in formed circles that Col. Forest’s cavalry had destroyed a bridge just beyond Murfreesboro’; had captured 1,200 Federals, among whom were two Generals ; that he had burned up the rail road depot at that place containing Y'ankee commissar” stores to the amount of millions, and sent word hack that he was going to Nesh- ville. These rumors come without positive authen tication, but the main features of them are be lieved by men whosejudgment should be good. It is certain that atimng times are on handjup there about uow.—AUmnf Confsdsracy. An Ai fair at Ti rzi.o.—YVc learn lrom a private letter that a brilliant little alia r came off near Tupelo, between about seven thousand Yankees and a force of Confederates, on the 4th inniant YVhen the Y'ankecs were first at tacked by our troops, they imagined thbt there was only a small handful, when they could eas ily dispose of. They fought, therefore, with great fury lor a little while, but finding we had a sufficient force to cope with thorn, they took to their heels as usual. The entire force was utterly routed with a loss, as we are informed, of some two hundred killed and five hundred wounded and priaoners. Our loss was twenty killed and fifty wounded. Jackson Mutissippia* 12th. noon, says: This is the first day in this generation that dry goods are not for sale. All the importers have declined to make saies or name any price for their goods, and all credits are at an end for the present Some of our jobbing houses have put up a notice in their stores that they decline all sales, except in small lots, a few pieces or so; and most of these silk goods.— They box up aud await the day when a change will allow them to knovr what they are worth. The same remarks appl3’ to all kinds of import ed goods. Many orders for fancy goods in Eu rope have been countermanded, and nothing but a few staples are wanted. The high rate of duty, and tbe premium on gold to pay for the same, will drive many jobbers from import ing goods again. Thc:>e are strange times, when dry goods are not for sale, and when merchants, who usually “drum” so bard for trade, prefer not to see tbe face of the buyer. Yankku Overcoats.—By gentlemen who have been on every battle field, from Mechan- icsville to the last bloody fight at Carter’s farm on Tuesday last, it is computed that in these successive fights the Yankees threw away not less than 60,000 overcoats, nearly all of which have fallen into the hands of our soldiers.— These coats are heavy anti valuable, tho only objection to them being taeir color. This ob jection can easily be overcame by dyoing them black. YY'ewere more more convinced of the importance of changing the color of these coats on learning last night, that several of our men, who had worn them on picket duty, had Iieen shot by our own men.—Rich. Ex. up and send them to the army, and they wiii get a duckiiyg; and a bumping too ! SINGULAR COINCIDENCE. The first of tbe regular lessons in the Epis copal Church service for the day on which the batlleof Cbiekahominy occurred, was the 2d chapter of the prophet Joel, from which we extract the lollowing verses: “Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my ho ly mountain ; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for tbe day of the Lord corneth, for it is nigh at band A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick dark ness, as the morning spread upon the moun tains ; a great people and a strong.” “A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a tlauie burnelh ; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.” “Before their fear the people shall; be much pained ; all laces shall gather black ness." “Therefore, also, now saith the Lord, turn ye ever to mo with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping, and with mourn ing. And rend your heart and not your gar ments, and turn unto the Lord your God ; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repontetu him of the evil.” ‘Tea the Lord will answer and say un to his people, I will no more make you a re proach among the heathen. But I will removo far off from you the Northern army, and will drive him into a land lone nnd desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sen, and his ill savor shall coino up.” The lesson for the day on which the grand •orics of battles began that raised the siege of Richmond, was the 19th chapter of 2d Kings, when the King of Assyria, with boastings equal to those of McClellan, had beleaguered Jerusa lem with a vast army, and the King of Judah is in great alarm lest the city should be taken. The whole chapter is well worth reading. YY'c extract the following verses for their singular appropriateness. “Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning tlic King of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow therein, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a hank against it. By the way ho cime, by the same shall he turn, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord. For I will defend the city to save it,” Ac. “And it catno to| *«« that night, that the angel of the Lo-d . out, anil smote in the camp of the r. : rians an hundred tour score and five thousand.”— “So Sennacherib, King of Assyria, departed and went and returned.”—Rich. Dis. — Thk Oaitured Aims.—It is found, upon ex amination, that comparatively few of the mus kets captured from the Yankees in the battles below Richmond, have sustained serious dam age. The fact is, they did not have time, on their famous retreat from the Chick thominy, to make the destruction of property complete, and hence find, in a lot of twenty thuu.-and, not more than a thousand that cannot be speed ily rendered as good as new. These arms are generally of superior quality, including many ot recent invention and European manufacture. Richmond Disjmtch. Quakekdcm Rampant 1—At a town meeting held in Philadelphia, the “city of brotherly love,” last week, the following resolutions were passed : Resolced, That we mean to stand by the Ad ministration of President Lincoln and our pa triotic armies and their commanders in the field, (applause,) and sustain by all means in our power every measure that may be necessary lor the maintenance of the Government—the great object of our solicitude and the cynosure of overy loyal citizen. Resulted, That we cordially adopt the patri otic sentiment of Major General McClellan (ter rific applause and cheers) expressed in his re cent address to his invincible army, that those who are now waging war against the United States, are “rebels against the best interests of mankind, and that our National Constitution, shall prevail, and that the Union, which can alone insure internal peace and external securi ty to each State, must and shall be preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure and blood.” (Cheers and applause.) The Fhsncii Forces Starved into Capitula tion.—The Havana correspondent of the New Y ork Tribune says that the French forces in Mexico had capitulated for want of food, taring eaten all their artillery horses. are receiving no cotton ‘rotn the South, ourev port movement will probably be unprecedented iri magnitude so long hs exchange continues at its present figure. On the other hand, the advance in bills will nearly annihilate our import trade. Goods or dered sixty days ago, and not pa ; d for at the time, must sell for 17 per cent, more than they were worth when they were ordered, in order to reimburse the importer. Goods sent here on commission by F.uropean manufactures will net a very heavy loss. The premium on gold is, in fact, just so much additional customs duty levied on foreign goods; and, as the duties were nearly prohibitory’ before, this will render them absolutely so. Fortunately, with the ex ception of lea, coffee, hidis, drugs, and one or two other articles, everything consumed here can also be produced in this country ; and, on the other hand, the supply ol lood and other produce which can he sent abroad in case of necessity, and sold on American account, is al most unlimited. Breadstuff's, though tney have advanced considerably within a few days, are still 10 to 20 per cent, lower than they wore a year ago. People who are afraid of the depre ciation of the currency cannot do better than send grain or flour to England, returns to be 1 Hade in gold. Money continues fairly active at 0 a 6 per cent. Many capitalists are distrustful of the future, and decline to part with their funds.— Certificates of indebtedness are worth 994 a } ; green backs, 74 a & It is a common remark that stocks are ad vancing, and have been advancing of late. This is an error. Stocks have all fallen heavily with in the past thirty days, as the following table shows : June 16—Gold 1064- Val. in city. Real Val. U. S. 6’s reg 1034 97 N. Y. Cen 954 89 Erie 88 354 July 10—Gold 116. Val. in city. Real val. Decline. U. S. 6’s reg... .102 36 il p. c. N. Y. Cen 924 76 13 p. c. Erie 36 89 04 p. c. The Sub-Treasury of this city received to day a special deposit of $238,000, which is not likely to be claimed in a hurry. It seems that when New Orleans fell it was discovered that the rebel Government had a sum of nearly a quarter of a million to its credit in tho banks of that city. This sum Gen. Butler claimed on behal' >f the United States, and by a little gen tle ptea -! succeeded in persuading the banks to draw lor it on their correspondent banks in thi> eiiy. The drafts were paid this morning. The deposit was made, we believe, in the name of th<- *’ -called Confederate Government." COL >'' )RGAN AT*TOMPKINSVILLF., The Knoxville Register of the 15th contains the follow ing brief note from Col. Morgan’s command : Tompkins ville, Ky., July 9, 1S62. Dear Sperry : Wo had an elegant little tight this morning before breakfast, and cleaned out a Y'ankee encampment as completely as it ever was done bv any one They hail breakfast cooked, but had not time to cat i!. With their usual generosity, when acting without previous calculation, they left us many valuable trophies, such as watches, horses, ve ry little cash, abundance of provisions, some- thing to drink, blankets and huge piles of ready made clothing and Union stationery, and last, but not least, quite a number of their carcasaes some “gone under” some a-going, and others well and hearty. The Register says it was the 7th Pennsyl vania Regiment, 270 men, commanded by Maj- Thos. Jordan. The result of the victory was, that the whole camp am) stores fell into our hands, consisting of tents, 100 head of stock, horses and mules; eight wagons and harness; 100 carbines and rifles; a fine lot of side arms and a large quantity of ammunition ; a fine lot of provisions, clothing, Ac. Owing to the locality, Col. Morgan was com- pclled to burn a largo portion of his spoils, con sisting of all tbe wagons but one, all the tents and 270 new Yankee uniforms—the force hav ing just been newly equipped, but not yet hav ing had time to don their new apparel. This Yankee force has latoly been marauding in Fentress and Overton counties, commiting depredations, and outrages. We-regret to learn that Col. Hunt, of tho Georgia cavalry, was accidentally wounded very seriously in the leg by one of his own men. j ser from 1 icksoa the 18tli, says the enemy eon linuc slowly shelling Vicksburg. YVe will soon have another fight or a skedaddle. The Tribune has a private despatch from V icksburg th • 18th, which says, the- Arkansas is being re pa red, and will soon be ready for ac tion. YY'i- m • -t that brick and moriar will not control 1 1 / 9 of Mobile; but that they wiii lot the city I. burned a9 it is, if necessary, rather than be occupied by the Federal troop-. We of Vicksburg have passed through a fiery ordeal, Lut >ur troops arc firm and in good spirits. May God protect and defend our va iiant troops everywhere. IHoro Strategy—War Meeting in Now York Richmond, July 19.—Northern dates to the ICth have been received. A war meeting took place in New York on the 15th, and is said to have been largely attended. There wen- five stands for speakers. Tho speakers were in favor of upholding the Government in all its. war measures until the last armed rebel shall surrender. At six o’clock when the gathering seemed most dense, a violent shower came up when the meeting was summarily dismissed. A letter irom Butler, the Beast, is published explaining his order regarding the ladies of New Orleans. lie says that a gentleman will take no notice of a woman of the town, for she cannot insult him. It is only when she becomes & continuous and positive nuisance, that you cull a watchman and give her in eha. ge to him [Can’t get out ol it in that way, Bombastes Furioso.] MORE STRATEGY—NORTHERN NEW ^ Richmond, July 20.—Northern papers of tbe 17th hate been received. The Confiscation bill has been amended so that the bill should not work a forfeiture of real estate beyond the natural life of the rebel. Recruiting is very’ slow in New York. Gov. Morgan has offered a bounty of $50 for eaeli recruit, trusting that the next Legislature will endorse hi- action. Col. Forrest’s command lias fallen back in the direction of McMinnville, 75 miles from Nashville. The House has passed the bill authorizing the President to call out the militia for a period not exceeding nine months, and the employ ment of negroes in military service. Foreign Exchange closed at 29. Gold 174.— Stocks lower. ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA. Richmond, July 20.—The steamer Persia ha.s an ired at New York with Liverpool dates to tho 6th Inst It is reported that France and England aro negotia'.ing to draw some of the other great powers into the scheme of interven tion. The London Times protests against the pro secution of this horrible war. The South should be allowed to depart peacefully. Unless the North can see this, it must bring untold eviis on itself, on us, and every European peo ple. The fourth of July was not celebrated in Paris. The Liverpool cotton market was firm and excited. Official quotations put Middling Or leans at seventeen pence. In New York on the 16th, cotton was 49 to 50 cents. Since our victory over the puritanic ^vkbiie before Richmond, Southern funJtsH* banknotes, have‘riz’ at N§'ofp Ur rhaiing RAILINGS, wit 50 per cent They a -qve u» a call, aa we ore aeturm pud to o. S- •• ’".r.'-r;-' atu um Mfi out er tnat sec- Orleans I

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Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, July 25, 1862, Image 1