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JosEPn Clisby
MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M., AUGUST 1, 1862.
YolumS
WEATHER AM) CROPS.
Tin: crops in Middle Georgia are now gene
railv suffering from drought and in some local
ities thej are in a very piecaiious condition.—
Occasional light showers, however, arc visible
all around us, but they cover very little space.
In travelling from Columbus, day before yes
terday, we observed that showers had fallen in
two localities. From Butler, eastward, a few
miles, there had been a shower, and again from
Fort Valley eastward there were evidences of
a till heavier shower. As the train neared
Macon, after sundown, it wa6 evident that rain
was falling heavily northward of Macon, and
we judge that lew days have passed within a
lortnight without manifest indications of show
ers in some point or points of the horizon. But
there has been no general rain, and the ave
rage indication is one of positive distress for
lack of it.
\ ei oal reports state that in the same latitude
ol Alabama and Mississippi the corn is suffer
ing very much from drought We had also
similar accounts from Northern Georgia, but
understand there have been good rains in that
section within the last few days.
The l.ne of the South-Western Railroad in
Houston county, shows some corn crops equal
to those on Mississippi bottom lands. They
are positively magnificent, and further on even
the light saudy lands ol Taylor were promis
ing finely. T he river bottom lands, owing to
the late spring rains, generally show an imper-
lect stand ; hut wherever the corn has grown
at all, it has done its best.
We have heard it stated that opinions about
the ultimate product of corn have modified
within the past few days, and prices have risen.
There is no occasion yet for any change cf
opinion. The promise is still glorious. The
crop indeed is made in ^ tuth-west Georgia,
»nd with timely showers auundauce will cover
the whole land.
nutl € ouiuaoiiieua Warehouse.
James 11. Anderson, Esq., has recently erect
el on the old premises below the Central Rail
Road bridge, formerly occupied as Headquar
ters for steamboats, a cotton shed, one hundred
and ten feet long by lofty feet wide. He has,
a'so, in course of erection a shed one hundred
and ninety five feet long und forty feet wide.—
Ho will thus be enabled to store away a large
amount of cotton. Those desirous of shipping
cotton to Macon will find no difficulty in huv-
in_’ it ,-t .re 1. Wc wish him success in linen*
t rprise. f .
Tin. Richmond Battles.— We have a con
nected and most interesting account ol the late
Richmond lights, from a highly intelligent enr-
re-p indent. It is the clearest narrative of the
balths which has yet been printed, and we re-
c iinmend it to the reader, without endorsing
his personal conclusions.
VIRGINIA TO BE LAID WASTE.
Tli • Northern pa ors publish three atrocious
oulcr- bom Pope, commanding the Federal ar
my the Shenandoah Valley, all dated the
lsth instant. Order No. 5 directs that the
troops -ball be subsisted in the country where
military operations are carried on, and vouch
ers given to "loyal owners,” payable at the
conclu ion of the war, upon satis actory testi
mony that they have continued “loyal" since
the date of the vouchers.
No. 0 directs that cavalry forces shall carry
no wagon or supply trains, but lay villages and
neighborhoods which they pass through under
contribution for subsistence of men and horses,
vou hers to be given as before stated.
Nn, 7 notifies the inhabitants of the Shenan
doah Valley that all injuries done by bands of
guerill s to railroad tracks, telegraph lines,
trains of supplies, bridges. &c., must be repair
ed at the expense of citizens living within five
m. -of the spot, who must turnoutenmas.se
lur that purpose, and besides pay in money and
property, to be levied by military force, the
full amount of pay and subsistence of the force
ih ary to coerce the performance of the
work. If a Federal soldier or camp follower
be tired u, on from any house, the house will
he razed to the ground. If 6 ch a thing occur
at a distance from any house, the people with
in five miles will be compelled to pay a suffi
cient indemnity. All persons detected in such
outrages to be shot.
It is needless co say that under such orders
ever, spot of Virginia passed by a hostile foot
will be laid waste, and not a morsel of food be
left to the inhabitants. Should the villain who
can issue such orders, or the troops who en
force them, be treated as civilised ard honors
ble belligerents ?
SHARP FELLOWS.
The Federal.- in New York, as early as the
13th, discovered that Stonewall Jackson, far
from being as quiet as a dead man should be,
was "menacing Washington" from some point
or other tbev did not know where. They scent
danger afar off. Stonewall is a nightmare on
the very vitals of their republic, as well as o.
their courage ard confidence. “Alarming ru-
’ about his movements “agitated” Wall
street up F the latest dates, and it was even
stated, though not credited, that the army of
the Potomac would be recalled from the Penin
sula to protect the National Capital. The Lin-
colnites go into fits at the bare thought of in
vasion, although they ere witty at our expense
when wc say it is not a desirable institution.
Braoo’s Army.—There is an unusual air of
candor and open dealing about the dispatch
from Mobile in reference to Gen. Bragg's move
ments. If he is not careful the press agent at
Mobile will get himself into trouble with the
War Department It is contrary to orders to
publish anything in reference to the move
mentsof the army. It may be, however, that
Gen. Bragg is so confident of the strength of his
game that he is willing to show his hand.
Jullv too Soon.—The Ne w Yoik Times of the
2?nd, is in high glee over the fact that England
has been heard from since the battle of Rich
mond, and “there is not a whisper of interven
tion." The joy of the Times shows the depth
of its apprehension j but if that paper will wait
two or three weeks it will hear those dreaded
whispers and some audible talk into the bar
gain. That the Times should have looked for
a proposition of European intervention to come
bark from England, by return mail, on the in
stant of hearing the beginning of an uncon
cluded fight, is remarkably strong evidence
that they are expecting trouble across the wa
ter.
LATE NEWS.
Toe “Contrabands” at the North.—The
Lincoln (Illinois) Sun, of June 27th, says:
A car load of contrabands passed through
Lincoln on Monday last, who were willing to
work for ten cents per day and board. What
chance have the poor of Illinois to make a liv
ing when placed in competition with thieving,
runaway negroes, at ten cents per day *
The Track ormt Invaders.—The Yankee
invaders of the Valley of Virginia have incur
red the deep seated hatred of the people of that
section by a series of diabolical outrages, ac
counts of which continue to reach us from va
rious sources. They have robbed the farmers
of almost everything they possessed, and car
ried their rascality so far as to burn the wheat
after it had been cut and shocked in the fields.
In the lower part of Shenandoah their robbe
ries have despoiled the inhabitants of their
stock, fowls and all kinds of provisions, and
what they could not devour or carry away
they have destroyed. 11 was noticed that some
of the soldieiswith Fremont and Milroy, in
their passage up the Valley, frequently cursed
the Dutch, and asserted that they were a dis
grace to any army ; but no one could see that
they were any worse than the native born
Yankees—in crime and villainy they were all
alike. This is the sort of men sent into Vir
ginia to win the confidence of the people and to
restore the Union.—Hick. DU.
The Yankee War Tax.—Abe Lincoln has
issued a proclamation that “the States of South
Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, North
Carolina, and the State ol Virginia, are nowin
insurrection and rebellion, and by reason there
of the civil authority of the United States is
obstructed so that the provisions of the “act
to provide revenue from imports to pay the in
terest on the public debt and for other purpo
ses," approved August filth, eighteen hundred
and sixty one, cannot be peaceably executed,
and that the taxes legally chargeable under the
act last aforesaid, lying within the States and
parts of States as aforesaid, together with a
penalty of fifty per centum of said t taxes, shall
be a lien upon the tracts or lot* of the same
severally till paid.” The proclamation exempts
thirty nine counties of North Western Virginia
from the operation of the penalty.
Riots in Cincinnati.—During the past week
Cincinnati has been the scene ot outbreaks be
tween the lush and negro stevedores of that
city. Several steamboats had discharged their
white hands and hired negroes at small wages,
for which they were willing to woik. The
white laborers took umbrage at this develop
ment of philanthropy^and patriotism, and have
since occupied themselves in cracking the
skulls of their sable successors. Whether
these “strikes” will cause Sambo to seek em
ployment in a more congenial latitude of New
England, remains to be seen.
Excuanue or Prisoners.—We learn, offici
ally, that a general exchange of prisoners of
war has been agreed tc. The terms of the
agreement are nearly identical with the cartrel
of 1812 between the United States and Great
Britain. The surplus on either side will he pa
roled. The negotiations respecting State pris
oner.-and civilians are still pending.
Richmond Whig, 22</.
Deration or the War—The Philadelphia
Inquirer, one of the “sixty days” journals, now-
says, editorially:
It is not unreasonable to presume that, with
a suilicient army at the disposal of the Gov
ernment, led by able officers, and aided and en
couraged by w ise, united and vigorous counsels
at Washington, the rebellion may he effectual
ly crushed within the next twelve months, or so
seriously crippled as to render its suppression
after that time comparatively certain and easy.
Confederate Victories. — The Richmond
Enquirer says, since the 1st of May, Providence
has b'essed our arms with a series of most de
cided victories, at Drury’s Bluff, Williamsburg,
Barhamaville, McDowell, Strasburg, Front Roy
al, Winchester, Cross Keys, Port Republic,
Seven Pines, James Island, Mechanicsville,
Gaines’ Mill, Savage Station, Frazier’s Farm,
Malvern Hill, Vicksburg, tho Naval Victory of
the Arkan-as, Murfreesboro'. Nineteen victo
ries in twelve weeks—very good.
Tue Weekly Sale of Augusta Factory
Goods took place at the office of the Company
in this city, ibis morning, July 23d. The fol
lowing prices were obtained:
7-8 Shirting 32Ja34 cents.
4 4 Sheeting 89Ja40$ “
Drilling 43a43J “
No. 1 Osnaburgs 41Ja41J “
Augusta Chronicle.
Texas in the Field.—The Houston Tele
graph says:—
We can now count up fifty-two regiments
and four battalions of Texans in the service be
sides two legions, each of which has about
twenty companies, making equivalent to fifty
eight regiments in all or fully forty five thous
and men.”
The Texas dates are to the 7th instant—and
every thing represented in good condition.—
The town of Bastrop was destroyed by fire on
the 5th.
The War Meeting in New York.—The fact
that Chandler, the red-mouthed abolition Sen
ator from Michigan, drew up the resolutions,
stamps the character of the last war meeting
in New York. It was a Republican party
meeting, and we imagine that throughout the
North this second grand uprising all bears the
same stamp.
McClellan’s Force Dliuke the Late Bat
tles.—Chandler of M ichigan delivered himself
in the Lincoln Senate, on the 16th, of a Phil
lippic against McCleliau. A paragraph from
the report of his speech in the Northern pa
pers of the 17th, furnishes an inventory of
McClellan's force in his on to Richmond cam
paign, as follows:
He then read from the testimony of John
Tucker, Assistant Secretary of War, who testi
fied that, prior to the 5th of April 120,000 men
were first sent down to McClellan; then Frank
lin's division of 12,000 was sent, and on the 1st
of June McCall’s division of 10,000 more, and
about that time 11,000 from Baltimore and
Fortress Monroe, and on the last of June
Shield’s division of about 5,000; making a total
of 158,000 men sent to General McClellan prior
to the engagements before Richmond. Mr.
Tucker further testified that he did not know
of any other force which could have been sent
to McClellan. Thus it is shown that 158,000
of the best troops that ever stood on God’s
footstool, had been sent to McClellan.
The U. S. Army.—The statistics of the Unit
ed States army show that it is now composed
of 75 cavalry regiments, of 71,636 men ; 17 ar
tillery regiments, of 19,477 men; 604 infantry
regiments, of 408,745 men ; also some batteries
and detached companies, numbering 17,896
men ; making a total of 617,474 men. With
the new levy of 300,000, the army will number
917,000 men.
Seizures.—Government officers, last week,
seized a large amount of sugar and some 500
barrels of flour, which were stored in Charlotte,
N. C. Thirty cents per pound was allowed for
the sugar. The sugar and flour both were ta
ken for the soldiers.
The Army Jackson is After.—The Yankee
army under Pope, which we suppose Jackson
is after, with a sharp stick, about this time, is
reported by the Lynchburg Republican to be
thirty to forty thousand strong. At that time,
they were bobbing around in the vicinity ol
Gordonsville. The World’s Washington cor
respondence, of the 13th, thinks by great ex
ertions 50,000 troops, the debris of McDowell’s,
Banks' and Seigel’s columns, could be massed
in tho Valley, but at that date Pope’s forces
were scattered about in small squails “waiting
to know precisely what point is to be the line
of tho enemy’s approach, before concentrating
to meet him."
Lincoln Stock in England.—United States
six per cents were quoted io London, on the
4th, at 77 to 79.
The first regiment under the new levy pass
ed thiough New York, on the 14th. It was
from Vermont.
Chops in Europe.—The accounts from the
grain crops in Europe are favorable. A large
crop is reported in the Baltic region. This is
bad news to the Lincoln grain growers in the
West.
Raids in North Western Virginia.—The
Wheeling Intelligencer reports in a single scout
of Federal cavalry three houses burned to the
ground, belonging to persons charged with aid
ing and abetting the guerrilla rangers.
Northern Enterprise.—Numerous copies of
the following printed circular, signed by How
ard M. Graves, of New York, were picked up
in the Federal camps at Richmond. It illus
trates one of the many channels in which the
activity and inventive ingenuity of the Lincoln-
ites finds development:
New York City,—Dear Sir :—I take this
method of informing you that I manufacture
fifty different styles of advantage or marked
hack playing cards by which you can tell the
color, suit and size, by the hacks as well as by
the lace. These cards are made to exactly im
itate the fair playing cards in common use at
the present tune, and cannot be told from them,
except by experts; are adapted lor Bluff or
Poker, All Fours, Seven Up. Euchre, Oribbige,
Forty-Fives, Whist, Loo, and all other games
of cards, where knowing j ist what your oppo
nent has in hand would eau.-,e you to win. I
also manufacture Brief cards. Longs and Shorts
and Strippers, trimmed lor stocking hands for
every rime. Advantage Dice, Prop's Logs,
Dice Tops, Faro Tools, Ac., Ac. In tact, every
article used to win with in any games played
for money.
Progress of Volunteering.—The “better
class” at the North, if there are any better, are
using every exertion to avoid being caught in
a draft law and having to come South them
selves. In Springfield, Mass., the town boun-
iy, in addition to the government bounty, is
$75; in Westfield, $10(>; in West Cambridge,
$125 ; in Roxbury, $70 ; and in New Bedford,
$100.
A Northern paper states that numbers of the
people of Maine and other States are moving
into Canada to avoid the impending draft for
soldiers in Yankeeland. We learn from other
sources of information that a similar exodus
from Philadelphia and New York is going on.
Natives as well as aliens are converting their
possessions into gold, and embarking for trails"
allantic countries in steamers and sailing pad.-
et», not only to avoid conscription, but io avoid
the privations and suffering threatened l>y the
superabundance of shinplastei currency, and
the general suspension ol business in Lincoln-
doni.
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THE BORDER STATES AND LINCOLN.
1 he interview narrated in another column
between the representatives of the Border
States and the Gorilla President, upon the sub
ject ol his emancipation projects, well deserves
more particular notice than we have space to
bestow upon it. It will be seen that Lincoln
gets no satisfaction out of the majority. They
willsnot promise even to recommend his prop
osition to the consideration of the people, un
til it is placed “beyond the contingencies of fu
ture legislation," in every way, even to suffi
cient funds (twelce hundred millions of dollars)
being placed in the hands of Lincoln by Con
gress to be applied to the indemnification of
owners and the deportation of the slaves; a pro
position which at once illustrates the barefaced
absurdity and imposture of the scheme. In their
enumeration of wliat respect for the President
forbids them to think, they set forth clearly
what they do think of the scheme and its au
thor, and what he himself forced them to con
elude as to his ulterior purposes, when he told
them, “the institution in your States will be
extinguished by mere friction and abrasion—
by the mere incidents of the war.” In that
phrase alone he tells the whole story. He gives
them the alternative of forcible emancipation
or his plan of compensation, and he tells them
the whole system in the South is to be assailed
by the government; and as they hold the out
posts, they must either voluntarily remove
them or prepare to see them tumbled about
their ears. That is the plain English of the
“friction and abrasion.”
When Lincoln thus found the border States
deaf to his proposition for voluntary emancipa
tion, he threw himself at once over to the radi
cals, and late on the last day of the session, he
signs the confiscation bill which not only sub
stantially abolishes slavery to the extent of
Federal power to do it, but authorizes tho en
listment of contrabands in the Federal military
service ; and from that moment dates the final
effort of the government for the avowed and le
galized purpose of crushing the rebellion and
slavery at the same blow. Hereafter the mask
is thrown off, and friend or foe in the border
States and the seceded States are involved in
one common destiny and fate. They must
maintain their social organization by force of
arms or see it torn up by the roots, and their
country and themselves irretrievably ruined.—
It will he impossible for Kentuckians, Missou
rians and Marylanders not to see that the war
of subjugation is now aimed with as deadly a
shaft at them as at the Cotton States, and all
must sink or swim together. This last devel
opment must, therefore, rouse every sentiment
of manly pride and self-interest into active re
sistance, and if we see not very marked devel
opments, we may well conclude that the bor
der States have lost the spirit of freemen,
The Federal Faith Broken—Says the Rich
mond Enquirer, since the agreement of the
Commissioners upon the terms of the exchange
of prisoners, nearly twelve hundred wounded
Federal soldiers, taken in the late battles, have
been sent to the Federal transports, in James
river. During this charitable and in all re
spects honorable movement on the part of the
Confederate Commissioners, we learn that the
Federal army now on the James, made an ad
vance up the river of about two miles. This
intelligence reaching headquarters, has caused
a cessation of movements in regard to the ex
change, and appropriate arrangements must he
made before they are proceeded with.
NEWS GATHERINGS.
Confederate Bonds.—The Richmond Dis
patch, of the 24th, says :—A few days ago a
gentleman arrived in this city from Baltimore
with $75,000 in Maryland funds, which he
brought over to invest in Confederate bonds.
We have heard of other instances where small
er amounts have been similarly invested. This
is one of the truest indications of the senti
ments of the people, as well as the confidence
they teel of final recognition and independence
of the Confederacy.
Scarcity of Libor.— Accounts from Jeffer
son county, Va., represent the wheat crop there
as the most luxuriant for many years, but that
a small portion only will be saved in conse
quence of the scarcity of labor. In many in
stances the ladies have gone into the harvest
field to secu*e as much of the crop as possible.
Not Allowed to Pass.—Lord St. Maur, son
of the Duke of Somerset, who left R : chmond,
on the 15th, under a flag of truce, for McCiel
Ian’s headquarters, was not allowed to proceed
on his homeward journey, but was sent back
to Richmond, and his baggage detained by the
Yankees.
The Contrabands on Roanoke Island.—The
North Carolina papers say a report is in circu
lation that the contrabands in the hands of the
Hessians on Roaaoke Island, exasperated by
abuse, hard labor and ill treatment, stole upon
the Yankees while at dinner and put several of
them to death ; and that as soon as the sol
diers were able to recover from the suddenness
of the attack, they vallied and commenced an
indiscriminate slaughter of the negroes, which
resulted in their almost total extermination.
The Lincoln Congress closed its session on
the 17th. The Confiscation Act and an Act
for the suppression of shinplasters, were pass*
ed during its last stages.
Hessian Finances.—Gold fluctuated in Wall
Street on the 18th, from 119J to 118J the clos
ing bid. Government sixes fell half a cent,
and closed weak at 98 to 98J, (currency quota
tions of course.) The Government is using an
immense number of postage stamps for small
ehange. Their denominations are live, ten,
twelve, twenty-four, thirty and ninety cents.
A Contrast.—A few nights ago, at the great
“Union” meeting in New York, Dr. Francis
Lieber, a renegade from his adopted State,
South Carolina, n. tde a flaming speech, calling
for the subjugation of the South. Two weeks
before, his son, Charles Lieber, a brave Con
federate soldier, fell by a Yankee bullet, while
charging a Yankee battery. His remains were
sent to South Carolina.
Desertions from the Hessian Army.—A cor
respondent of the Richmond Dispatch from the
Shenandoah Valley, says:
U “The Yankees are leaving the Valley rapid
ly. They have a considerable amount of sup
plies at Winchester yet, and we will either cap
ture or destroy some of them. Our presence,
too, induces many to desert, and they flock to
us rapidly. Pilteeu in one gang came up te
Powell's Fort day before yesterday, and five in
another. Four hundred deserted from one regi
ment at Front Royal the past week, leaving
nothing hut officers. There is : ’ ;ai dissatis
faction and demoralization in the Yankee army
here, and if their men at home have no greater
inclination to light this war through than their
hirelings here, old Abe will have a sorry time
of it in getting his 300,000 additional troops.
Gen. Robertson paroles all who voluntarily
couie into our lines
Mitchell.—The late Yankee commandant
and Astronomer is, as we have heretofore sta
ted, in hot water. The Washington Star says:
We learn that Col. Norton, recently in the
service under Gen. Mitchell, having reached
here some days ago bearing the formal charges
against Gen. Mitchell, was yesterday examined
at length before the Committee on the Conduct
of the War with reference to them.
It is said to-e.ay that these charges alledgc
that he relused to take any notice whatever of
rapes committed on negro women by his men
(of Turchin’s brigade) in the presence of res
pectable white females, or of indiscriminate,
atrocious, and persistent plundering of and out
rages upon Union citizens by the same brigade.
The charges arc said further to alledge that he
has used government transportation for cotton
bought by parties in whose speculations he
was personally pecuniarily in-crested. It is
further understood that the Hon. Geo. S. Hous
ton, of Ala., (formerly Chairman of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means, United States House
of Representativts) is expected to be the main
prosecutor of Gen. M., Mr. II. having main
tained his status its a Unionist.
The Spoils at Richmond.—The correspon
dent who communicates to us from Richmond
the General Order of Gen. D. II. Hill, adds in
a private letter: I should have mentioned in
my communication some of the spoils of the
late victories. You may give them as reliable.
I received them from the very highest authori
ty. Number of prisoners ten thousand one
hundred and twenty. Small arms 30,000; 17
miles telegraph wire and appurtenances ; 10,
000 axes, spades and shovels enough to last
our army a twelve month ; 250 to 300 horses
and mules; tents, blankets, knapsacks and
medical stores innumerable.
In Credit.—We are amused at the following
about Stonewall Jackson, by a Harper’s Ferry
correspondent of the New York Tribune wri
ting 17th instant:
Whether Jackson, or Ewell, or whoever the
Confederate commander may be, it is certain
that the long roll belts again in our camps for
his approach, and that Winchester is once more
imminently threaten ;d. The lact is, this Jack-
son has, by his vigor and audacity, so impres
sed himself upon the people of the Valley—
upon loyal no less th in secesh—that those who
heard, or have heard of his blunt address at
Winohester, (on the occasion of his raid against
Banks,) when he promised "to return again
shortly, and as certainly as now,” count as con
fidently on his keepirg his word as if our own
brave troops were pledged to make it good, in
stead ot turning it inti a stumbling block and
foolishness.
The Kangaroo, which left New York on Sat
urday, the 19th instant, took out a million in
specie.
General Beauregard.—As many idle stories
have been going the rnur.d of papers relative to
General Beauregard’s whereabouts and the
cause ol his absence lrom the army, we think
it well to state that ha is at present with his
family at Bladon Springs, South Alabama. It
will be recollected, says the Richmond Exami
ner, that General Beauregard took the field in
the Southwest when our fortunes in that quar
ter were at their darkest period. In the active
campaign which ensued, and in the perfect or
ganization of the immense army at Corinth, he
performed labors which seriously affected his
health, and rendered a period of rest and recu
peration absolutely necessary. That he might
enjoy the much needed rest, he procured a re
lief from his command for a few months.
We are pleased to add that the General’s
health is rapidly improving, and that he will
very soon be able to return to his post With
his return to active service, the country will
feel renewed confidence in its fortunes.
The X-atoet Phase of tho War Question.
It is evident from the quotations from North
ern prints to which the Richmond papers have
access, that all the talking organs of Northern
opinion are acquiescing in the new emancipa
tion project of the Lincoln government. Even
the Herald, who could so glibly berate the abo
litionists when he thought that talk agreeable
to the Gorilla Court, has now turned tail and
announces with equal satisfaction the “most
significant, momentous and comprehensive
change.” He introduces an article upon the
interview between the Royal Ape and the bor
der State representatives, as follows:
The most significant, comprehensive and
momentous movements are on foot in Wash
ington touching the slavery question, in con
nection with tbe renewed prosecution of this
war for the Union. The late seven days’ san
guinary battles near Richmond will mark the
inauguration of a new campaign and a new
military programme, involving, in all probabil
ity, the complete extinction of slavery.at leasi
the border slave States, and with or witl
tlieir consent, or compensation, as ir Ti
events may determine.
And he winds up by
States to come back at once
ark" as the only possible means. (
remnant of their peculiar institute
the live freight of Noah’s Ark or the -neppy
family of Barnum would be no had representa
tives of the Union he would compel under fear
of being stripped of all possessions at the point
of the bayonet.
Henceforward let us hear no more about
fighting to restore the Union under the origin
al status. Tiie pretence was alwayi ..3Te, and
we are glad to see it now dropped forever.—
The original status of the Union was gone with
the election of Lincoln and the attempt to put
the South under the yoke of a sectional tlonai
nation avowedly hostile to her internal order
anjj,'|ranquility; nor if we are to be lobbed,
dot, jt matter much, after all, whether the pro-
ce^; ,.s summary in its true shape—an aet of
Ik Jity, or effected by gradual pilfering and
spoliation, under pretence friendship anil re
form. Indeed we would rather the »*-i;cal.s
should clutch at our throats while they seek to
empty our pockets and plunder our premises.
At last, then, all disguise is thrown off. The
"irrepressible conjlict" is upon us in its ulti
mate and final shape. Put if off' as we might
--beg, pray and entreat as we might, to this
complexion it would have come at last. The
Southern Revolution but precipitated it; hut,
thank God, brought us the means of resistance
which wc might not otherwise have had when
driven io hay. The struggle now assumes its
true form and shape in the eyes of the world as
well as our own. It is about no beggarly, ten
cent tariff question, as some of our wise diplo
mats have informed mankind.
It is an effort to subvert our social and in
dusirial system in blood and chaos. To do it,
our quandam “beloved breethering” of the
North—the men who really owe their political
liberty, no less than their commercial prosper
ity to the South, now solemnly avow their de
termination to let loose upon usall the elemer ts
of indiscriminate destruction. We are not to
measure their atrocity by our opinion of what
they will be able to accomplish. The tierds
who thought with a little banditti to set onfiiot
a crimson tide of murder, which, from the h 11s
of Harper’s Ferry, should roll over and sub
merge the whole Southern land, illustrate the
true views and purposes of the men who h:.ve
deliberately inaugurated this system of war
fare. We smile at their hell horn malice »e-
cause we know it will prove impotent. Erit
they do not know and do not believe it; a id
the world at large will now see tested and es
tablished by ultimate and fiery trial tho firm
poise of our social fabric. 11 would seem as if
Providence had determined that no test should
be omitted necessary to its thorough vindica
tion ; or that there should not be a depth of
baseness into which the North should omit to
plunge, and expose to the world the full mea
sure of Northern brutality and barbarism.
A FUSS IN THE FAMILY.
The news from Jackson indicates that the
bombarders, tired of vainly thundering it
devoted Vicksburg for more than two months,
are moving for a land attack. They doubtless
have in this, the co operation of Curtis’ army.
The movement of the lower fleet down the river,
indicates that a report in circulation, that i
Confederate force is not far distant from Nevr
Orleans may be true.
CONVERSATION WITH PRISONERS.
A letter from “Before Richmond,” in the
Columbia (S. C.,) Guardian, gives an interest
ing account of the writer’s conversation with
some Yankee prisoners. He says:
We conversed with a wounded New York
Zouave, who was shot through the leg—tibia
shattered—and was a prisoner in our hands.—
BATTLE PICTURES.
BY S. MOV KIN.
The 21 st Georgia at Gaines' Milly
For its musketry discharges, the h*-U
Gaines’ Mill, fought and won on tnd t
June, stands pre-eminent in the long TliSV’of
Confederate victories. The reason is that the
ground was open, and most of the troops on
the Federal side were old U. S. Regulars. Still
the Yankees had many batteries, all strongly
posted and well defended, and these were the
special envy of our gallant boys, judging by the
number they took.
Let us place our gaze on one of them. It is
a battery, of nine guns, admirably located for
defence, and protected by a strong abattis of
felled trees, all the limbs of which were sharp
ened, and pointed towards the direction from
which the assault must come. For many yards
in front of the battery—fort it should he called
—trees cut down so as not to obstruct the fear
ful fire, lie with all their branches and limbs
interlaced so as to Vie almost impassible. Away
from the battery, on each side stretches long
lines of entrenchments, behind which thou
sands of Fedcrals lie and pour their leaden balls
into our ranks.
x.w -t ^For three hours the 21st Georgia, of Ewell’s
, I have a-, Me, forming a part of Stonewall Jackson’s
warning j finhtir.g coring army, has been waging a fierce and
ice into l-^ ret ^',\.y fight with that battery. From the shel-
of a pine grove it had been raining minie
ion those entrenchments, but without
In return the Federal tire is so hot that,
s happens when it is possible, our men
rotecting trees. At 6
eral charge up-
“ol. Mercer was
it Colonel was
iment
one
him
some
g under such
earied the men,
the numerous
front. Nor was it
TasK.i73BOkfge nine well mounted
guns.rin the face of strong entrenchments and
across several hundred yards of abattis. Still
the order was charge ; and charge they must
Thi men are in the line of battle-the youthful
Colonel takes his position in the centre—
f i ived at Lauisv'
[las have been
i have been buf
-aftle around Salem i
•fae* ll
from
order
^fforde
The loyal^pt^/e of^ffeinpT
occasion to rejoice. One or two divis I
pass through here in a day or two,
East
Mobile, July 25.—The steamer Cuba i
at the wharf this morning, from
20th, after an exciting chase by the blown?
She brings a cargo of arms and muni* <
war, medicines and blankets. ;, i
A special despatch to the Advert - ^he
Register, dated Jackson, 25th, says rt,n i
ed that the lower Federal flee iri
ports, went below last night A gi*r ,
tion was observed in the fleet ato^
ing. *n If*
It is also reported that a large &*e,
is embarking at Memphis, suppos- .. ?
signed for a land attack on VicksFAdtri*
° vote .
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PROMOTIONS IN THE
Richmond 26th—Brig. Gen. J. fc.
has been promoted to be Major Genera)
airy. Col. Fitzhugh Lee, 1st Virginia f
ry, to be Brigadier General of Cavalry
Hays, of the 11th Louisiana, <£,
General. Brig. Gen. Wade Ha a i J ^’ D
assigned to the command of a >- c onfmr„
ade. The cartel for the general"^ e( ^ - *
prisoners was signed on the 22d
J. A. Dix and D. H. Hill.
A FEDERAL ONWARD MO'^Wi
Mobile 26th—A special to the ^ M J
Grenada 25th, states that the Fedt 8Ut * 1 J
day, advanced to Cold Water, whicl
20 miles West of Senatobia, with'
cavalry and infantry, estimated at fri^j J
1000 strong. A skirmish ensued wi -
loss on both sides. Our pickets i
ita:
"charge" he shouts. But though the wings back, burning bridges to stop the .
mrive hia r<»rn*iinw ktatinnnrv. Airainthp . v* \ „r _ r
move, his centre remains stationary. Again the
order is given—the result is still the same.—
The regiment will not charge. With the tact
of an older General, that hoy of twenty, or
ders up from the extreme left of the regiment
to the centre, his own company. He knew
his men.
"Now," he shouts "Til show you how lo
charge!" And seizing the banner in his own
hand, and waving his sword over his head, he
shouts in a ringing voice—"Forward, charge."
The Yancey Invincibles dart forward at the
command. The whole regiment, chagrined at
the sight, springs forward as one man, and
with a yell dash out into the open space. Fol
lowing that young Colonel, who, with colors in
hand, so glorlousiy leads them on, they clam
ber through the abattis regardless ot death-
shots falling thick and fast. They reach the
entrenchmc’. ts—they mount them. That young
color hearer is the second one over the ram
parts. Like an avalanche his men follow*; and
terror-stricken the Federals liy, leaving behind
their standard and nine guns as the trophies of
this victorious charge of the 21st Regiment of
Georgia Volunteers.
The young Captain who lead them so gal
lantly as Colonel, was James Cooper Nisbct,
son of Jas. A. Nisbet, Esq., of Macon.
THE MURFREESBORO’ FIGHT.
(Wc are indebted to J. M. Draper, Esq. for
the use of the follow ing letter.
Glen Cove, Tens.,
West of the Cumberland Mountains, 80 miles, J-
July 19th 1862. )
Dear Sir :—We left Chattanooga two weeks
ago last Monday, and crossed the Mountains.
We arrived at McMinville after a long tedious
march. The next morning we were all ordered
under arms to inarch at a moments warning.—■
We took up the line of march at 7 o’clock, A.
M. —marched all day and night, stopping one
hour in a march of 86, to meet the enemy at
Murfreesboro. When within 7 miles of Mur
frecsboro, we started our horses in a run, and
did not stop until we saw the Federal camps.—
We surprised them in their night clothse. We
knew nothing of their force and position. We
pounced upon them like the lion making sure
of his prey. The fighting commenced immedi
ately upon our entering the town. There was
a large force in the Court House. They shot
our men down like sheep, but as soen as
thought the fire was returned. We forced them
to surrender, and took all in the Court House
prisoners.
The Texan Rangers then charged the camp
of the enemy’s cavalry, which surrendered
without firing a gun. The number taken here
was 140 men and 140 horses. Gen. Forrest
our brave commander ordered Col. Lawton, of
the 2nd. Georgia Cavalry to charge the battery
of the enemy, which they did under a galling
fire of grape and cannister, the battery being
protected by a Minnesota Regiment.
It was of no avail. The Yanks were forced
to surrender to the gallant band of determined
patriots. Our victory was most complete.—
Never have officers or soldiers fought more gal
lantly, and against superior forces, as did our
little band of 1200 against 1700. Ours was
cavalry alone—poorly armed, raw soldiers, but
He expressed himself perfectly satisfied with t 0 jhe backbone. The enemy had artil—
the results of the day to him, for his wound
would release him from the remaining portion
lery, cavalry and infantry—location and every
thing else in their favor. On entering the
(ten months) of his term of service. H i- .d tow . n< we W ere fired upon from every house,
us that he had received more persona! .midness ar , d from every street _ Capt Flint and myself
at the hands of the rebels, in the twelve hours ar0 s .||* fl> 35 killed and wounded in the 2nd
of his captivity, than he had in the twelve GuorglJ Cavalry. Wo have as brave and gal
mouths preceding, and that, too, after his otii | ant % sel 0 f fi c i d and s t a ff officers as soldiers
cers had marched him into battle with the as-1 C()uld wish t0 be i ed by> At the head of the
surance that the rebels fought under a black regimcnt was Brig. Gen. Crittenden, of Ken-
flag, and that captivity was death. He assured
us that his men generally fought that battle
under that impression. A Pennsylvania sol
dier stated to us that only for the last three
weeks had their soldiers any idea that emanci
pation was the policy of the Federal Govern
ment. Within that time the idea had gained
some currency; and that, were his class (small
farmers) satisfied that such was Lincoln’s poli
cy, not a man of them would pull a trigger
again.
We saw three Federal prisoners drunk on
the field. One of them stated that their daily
oration was a gill of whiskey, but that on that
day (a battle day) every one had as much as
he wanted. The prevailing tone of these con
versations indicated weariness with war, and
improved ideal of Southern barbarism, a blam
ing of the emancipation party North. We
moralized upon the softening influence of ad
versity upon their minds, and the decided alter -
ation of cases by such circumstancas. A large
majority of those we conversed with were for -
eigners—Irish, Germans, Scotch, and French.
They grow facetious at rebel outfits, equip
ments. uniforms, and rebel devotion to their re
bellion. One remarked that usually the first
they see of the rebels in an attack is when
they emerge from the edge of a wood a thou
sand yards off; a little Colonel, in his shirt
sleeves and copperas pantaloons, pops out in
front and commands : “Fix bayonets !’’—
“charge bayonets 1”—and on they come at a
long run, just as if they didn’t know any bet
ter ! Another, illustrating our passion for
storming batteries and scarcity of outfit, says :
“Put a brass cannon and an oil cloth in sight
of the rebels, and they’ll charge through
to get them!” Our enemies have better oil
cloths than we. Another says: “Give a rebel
a canteen of water and a pocket full of crack
ers, and he’s ready for a week’s campaign!”
tucky, who was taken prisoner, with two oth
er office is, names unknown. 1500 prisoners,
250 mules, 400 horses, one battery of 4 field
pieces, including one rifled cannon, were ta
ken. We destroyed $240,000 worth ol Com
missary stores. Our loss in killed and wound
ed about 100. Federal loss 350 to 600 killed
and wounded. We have no tents, no baggage,
and sleep in the open air. Yours, &c.,
B. H. Lawton.
THE COTTON FAMINE—A CRISIS.
[From tbe London Economist, ol the 5th July.)
That position of the Cotton famine which we
long since foreshadowed as, sooner or later, in
evitable, has at last arrived. The stock on hand
has been reduced so low, while the consump
tion and the export have both continued to be
relatively so large, that speculation has become
active and feverish, and prices have been driv
en up to a height unprecedented in recent times.
The stock, which last year was about 1,200,-
000 bales, has now fallen to little more than
200,000; and of this quantity only about 70,-
000 hales are American, against 830,000 last
year. The East India on hand too is only one
third of the usual supply at this date, or 60,000
bales, and a smallet quantity is on its way
hither than at the same period in 1861. Under
these circumstances, there is no cause for sur
prise in what has taken place. Last week up
wards of half the whole stock in Liverpool
changed hands, and prices are double what
they were last year, and threefold what they
are in ordinary times. Fair American, which
has often been at five pence per pound, and
even lower, was sold at fifteen pence.
In the face of these facts, many persons be
gin to fear the time when the mills must stop
and Lancashire must starve from actual ex
haustion of the whole supply of raw materials,
which may be very near at hand.
the enemy. Numbers of refugees, j .
here from Memphis.
.pus
STIRRING NEWS FROM TUE WEnVia.
Mobile, 26th.—A special to the Adverti.,,,’ 1 ^
and Register from Chattanooga, 25th, state e .»
that the enemy are evincing great activity, ana< >
are evidently preparing for some movement.—
Trains of cars arrived at Bridgeport with shell
and ammunition. Some rumors which have
been circulating respecting the retreat of the
Yanks have been ascertained to be false.
A special to the Tribune from Grenada, 25th,
state that refugees from Memphis report that a
portion of Sherman’s army left on Tuesday last
for the lower Mississippi, and supposed to be
for Vicksburg.
Two disabled Yankee gunboats, towed by
steamers, passed Helena on Monday, upward
hound.
Six Yankee Colonels, it is said, have resign
ed in Cui us’ army, owing to Lincoln's late pol
icy on the negro question. Many officers have
resigned at Memphis and gone North.
Information deemed reliable has been receiv
ed here that Gen. Curtis hung three of our
guerrillas at Helena.
He hr .ago. rived al! his forces to the other
side of the river.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM THE WEST.
Mobile, July 27.—A special despatch to the
Advertiser and Register from Chattanooga,
2Gth, states that Lawton, of the Georgia Caval
ry, amved tosday with three Yankee Lieuten
ants, psisoners captured near Nashville. Gen.
Forrest burned three bridges over Mill Creek,
on the Nashville Road, and had an engagement
with a party of Federals, killing ten, wounding
fifteen, and capturing eight Forrest was with
in three miles of Nashville. Great excitement
prevailed wherever he appeared. The patriotic
ladies made his progress a grand ovation aloDg
the entire route.
Jackson, 26th.—Both fleets have abandon
ed Vicksburg. The lower fleet passed Natchez
yesterday evening. This ends the two months’
seige, during which all the casualties among
the Confederate forces, both naval and militas
ry, sum up 33. The damage done to the city
amounts from $30,000 to $40,000. To accom
plish this, the Federals have thrown 50,000
shells. The contents of the captured letter
bag, admit the thrashing of the Yankee fl^t
by the Arkansas, and their inability to capture
Vicksburg. The Yanks are threatening Camp
Moore, eighty miles this side of New Orleans.
A special to the Tribune from Grenada,
26th, states that the Louisville Journal says
that if the Federal government don’t take
speedy action, 30,000 men can’t hold old Ken-
tuck.
Brownlow writes to Washington that he
fears that Kentucky will be occupied by the
rebels.
Washington despatches of the 20th to the
Chicago Tribune says McClellan is greatly dis
satisfied with Ilalleck’s being put over him.
No good feeling exists between Halleck and
Pope. .
Richmond, July 27th.—Northern papers of
the 24th have been received. Gen. Halleck has
been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the
whole land forces of the United States. Gen.
Pope has issued an order requiring the arrest
of all male citizens within reach of the Army
of Virginia, and requiring them to take the
oath of allegiance, or be removed beyond the
Federal lines. This order has produced much
excitement in Fredericksburg, and numbers of
citizens are leaving.
THE YANKEE DEBT.
A writer estimates the Yankee debt at $1,-
300,000,000. We have no doubt that is below
the mark. One of their papers said, in Au-’N
gust, 1861, that they were spending $4,000,000
a day, and the expenses have increased rather
than fallen off since that time.
Lincoln, it will be recollected, had a palaver
with certain Commissioners from certain bor
der States, in which he proposed to buy all the
negroes. The proposition was a gross fraud.
Where is he to get the money from to pay for
them ? The whole revenue of the Yankee des
potism is not $20,000,000, and the slaves of
Virginia alone are worth $400,000,000. Some
of these Commissioners accepted his terms.—
Do not the fools know the condition of the
Yankee treasury better than that ? They are
living now upon credit, and if they run up a
hill of $1,500,000,000 inayear, on other scores,
where is the money to come from to pay off
this ? Is it from taxation ) Why, the whole
value of all the property in the Yankee States
is but $6,000,000,000, and the debt will reach
that figure in four years.—Rich. DUpatch.^J^