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i lice^Jji'lls pi
f ankee army,
1 the n<J‘ 4 ate-
•v M>Cun to nis
if the daugh-
(iie followers of
litchell issues
>The beastly host.-, of
r thus far no invader’s
. DL \ LEVY,
t’ k'now accepted by most
eres Vs, that the 800,WO new
j-es are not to t forthcoming by
light ag. It is true, g eat exertions are
Jajfid enormous bountii 5 offered for voh
fus- *-® >rs > * ,ut ^' e increasing probabilities ol a
nt"ofth>eedy resort to draft, it is complained, hold
To pre-
Br - - w ( Orleans had ro7in d a 1/
■a^M ^t'mtoND. "Ato-
j[p gentleman reports that tnove-
Hunond, in general, look as if ano-
anticipated shortly, and such
rumors there, although in re
a* information, everybody was as
ant all. Every avenue to in*
lias trod ' What cares he if the homes cf
se martyrs whose blood watered the plains
anassas, are desecrated and polluted with
ouch rf insatiate lust!’ What cares he
se Bobt* squares which nursed the g. rmi
* Is of secession arc razed to a level with
. d streets, and lire and desolation mock
(iovernmer,^* 1 ^ 0 P as, i so he gets his three
Tt—* a wJtd for his fodder crop and two
lars a bushel for bis corn ?
We intend to put the matter plainer. What
are a thousand negroes to the honor and safety
of Georgia? How many is each planter called
on to furnish ? And are not these very plant
ers paid tor the services of their slaves ?
“Planter” talks as if a thousand negroes con
stituted the entire fodder gathering force of the , ,
State, and as if (he whole fodder crop will be *31 n <> doubt, in point of tact, hasten the rats
out to those who might otherwise volunteer,
the prospect of still larger bounty as substitutes
for drafted men. The Nortl --rn papers there-,
fore, all groan over slow enlistments, and some
of them affirm that there seems to be no general
manifestation of interest in the Northern cities
to secure enlistments. Timi 3 have changed—
the popular feeling has changed—the war spirit
is dying out among the common people—the
“laboring masses.” Hencelorth, all progress
must be by whip and spur, nnd must necessa-
rily end so soon as the popular feeling can get
a full expression in Congress through the bal
lot box.
A war essentially unpopular cannot very long
be maintained even in such a burlesque on a
popular government as Lineolndom. But so
far as the fa t of raising the 300,000 new men
is concerned, the general failure to volunteer
guarded vt itii a flaming sword,
to that, tho traveller’s utter
Insulted by an oath not to tell
cstionably if the Feds can get
Qf ri.ihc lenders mean to suffer
’can help it under the odi
ir newspapers, indeed, are
F* r Vith threats of the capture
LuMttk, bat then again the
Yhilways been at least six
■ad of the Lincoln govern-
®* ir is certain that the Con
i' is wide awake and active,
clwiil bo likely •» find it impre
st* IMP I5ESSMENT.
kppato write sense and Eng,
“P a, rday about the irapress-
M»<j(rtiinlj f e u f ar short of
atfla'W " c r,, publish the
, r on the fir.-t page. In re-
Ivcion of a correspondent U>
risiongs upon this matter, we
rue ev» r that it is a good one
i>y th , ...
f, .oe appearance of a collision
»t t.es, and forbear any and every
i ovfrouse or increase excitement.
l ng, the planters of Middle
'ttisfied, will acquiesce in al-
„ C jpent of the government for
r alia. ke(f'hen satisfied of its neces-
l*hey prpph These points, we have no
FI gathej will be determined by corres-
the commanding general at Sa
Fentn>r d " 'th the government at Richmond,
’rec»f whom we are satisfied will adhere
ay miiikaction, unless for overruling consider-
u ® e ’ 'connected w'th the common safety and
•akin J
i.are.
The Ram Arkansas is a very small craft,
only a hundred feet in length, and vastly infe
rior in size and weight of metal to the Federal
iron-clad gunboats which ran before her like
frightened sheep. Her complete success in
scattering, single handed, the entire fleet before
Vicksburg is, when coupled with the achieve
ments of the Merriinac, of which she was a
copy in mincature, a demonstration that they
were built upon the true model for invulnera
bility. The Jackson Mississippian says her
crew would have nil come out of the late terri-
irretrievably lost by the tr nsfer of this lab<#
to more necesaary points 1 We arc tempted to
smile at the “small fry” sentiment which per
vades tho paragraph ; and wo are surprised that
our intelligent contemporary, who knows equal
ly well with our. elves the prett hi commercial
advantage* of Savannah, should have allowed
so morbid a production a place in his columns.
We beg our friend to bring to the discussion
of this subject more of conciliation and charity.
“Planter” is a hightoned, patriotic and intelli
gent man, whose sacrifices in tho common
cause place him far above such reproaches as
these. We have been deeply anxious about the
effect of this impressment of negroes, and pained
beyond measure at the scenes which its abrupt
and summary execution have occasioned. Noth
ing but the direst necessiy, which no prudence
or forecast could have prevented, should
duce the authorities to
time. To treat it as a
cents, is a terrible mist
cry heart string L-
servants Iron wr 1 ho
torn from him wif
ing of the men. The draft will sooner supply
them, and supply better men than would vol
unteer. It will take many a hardy mechanic
from his business and his fa nily, and strike sc
vorely a class of men respectable in character
and position to whom, nevertheless, a sum suf
ficient to hire a substitute would l*e as inaeces
sible as the fortune of Cro-sus. The draft will
raise awfql notes of woe in every town and vil
North, and this accounts for the
'^re of the Lincoln party to re
am.”—The London Morning
Iftho I7th, says that “affairs
a crisis in which neutrals
(rated r . . „
-.*ger remain passive spcctatars.
affairs in America have not got to a crisis
l, it is certain they never will. The Confcd-
«> I erates believe we have passed the crisis, and
are now at least a hundred iiiles the other side
0 f fii*-
l - ! —* SEWARD’S RETIREMENT.
The NortHtoThgossip whi:h reaches us to day
unacclimated, to the
Savannah marshes;
more when they know
field negroes, out of work amT“f icrHwrtj't's
fered to wander off into the up country in
of subsistence, before the pressing nature of
this work was discovered! When a planter
has been toiling for his country—paying for
his country—sending sons into the service
per telegram from the West is not so late by
several days as that publis' ed in Monday’s pa
rser, which came by the w i.y of Richmond.—
fI'rtflq, fieri news announced, on i he authority of the
search [New York Herald, that “S ward had threaten
ed to retire from the Cabin;it on account of the
radical policy enforced upon Lincoln by the
Confiscation and Militia hi Is of the late Con
gress.” The New York 1 lines, on the other
planting food crops lor his country—and then hand, affirmed that this rc| art was unfounded,
finds, when the time comes on to gather them,
an arbitrary young officer, coming into his
premises and violently seizing liis servants be
fore his eyes, and he unable to protect them,
we need not wonder that there is feeling, and
deep feeling. Anil this last consideration is tla
most hurtful of all—for the ability of his mas
ter to protect him against all external violence,
is the grent basis of subordination, reverence
and love in the servant It is tho grand sub
stratum of the whole system.
If this business is unavoidable for the pro
per defence of the country, and cannot be post
poned, the planters will submit. They know,
(and we beg here to remind them again) that
this is a death struggle for the right of holding
any of their property, all of which toill he for
feited if we fail to sustain ourselves in this
struggle ! We have confidence in Gen. Mercer,
The Slave Impressment-Health of the
Xrf.berera.
We find in the Savannah Republican of yes
terday, a long editorial article in animadversion
upon what the Telegraph had to say about the
slave impressment The Republican does not
copy our article, which was very brief, but
says :
We not wish to misstate the position of our
contemporary, and in proof of the justice of
these remarks, we refer to an editorial comment
to be found on the second pageol Wednesday’s
Telegraph.
Now, as the circulation of the Telegraph in
Savannah is restricted pretty much to tho two
copies which are sent to our newspaper con
temporaries the*e, the public will comprehend
the extent of “justice” which this appeal from
the Republican’s animadversions awards us.—
Wo have half n mind, in return for his mag
nanimity, to come down upon him in his own
olumns for some high crime or misdemeanor,
and then refer the Savannah public for full
proof to the same authority—“the second page
of Wednesday’s Telegraph.” In that way, we
may further ill jstrate the fable of the Stork end
the Fox. The Fox, (as the reader is well aware
or ought to be, for the story is an old one,) in
vited his friend the Stork, to dinner, but took
care to have it of soup served up in broad shal
low platters against tho bottom of which poor
Stork in vain battered his long bill to imbibe
the smallest portion of the nutritious liquid.—
The Stork, however, got even with Mr. Rey
nard by inviting him next day to a dinner
served up in narrow-necked bottles.
But from this digression wo return to add
below from the Republican’s article a statement
which will help to reconcile the public mind
here to the impressment. As the stork, in the
Republican’s entertainment, we will not of
course contemplate a controversy with him
about Savannah concerns upon tho conditions
indicated; but we are giad to see that the work
and locality assigned to the negroes are stated
to be such an are consistent with health. That
paper says:
It is not an unwholesome work or a mias
matic locality fo which their negroes will be
sent Their- labor is reasonable during the day
—their food is good and wholesome, and they
sleep at night in as healthy localities as are
to be found on the coast We candidly believe
that they have nothing to fear on this score.
European News Through Northern Sour
ces,
The Northern papers have advices from Eu
rope, to the 10th inst The Herald oakes the
(showing c litorial summary of news:
Mlthough the news has been anticipated, the
licjers anil papers reveal the fact that the rebel
toltipathizcrs in England and France, backed by
aFJge portion of the cotton manufacturing inte
rests of both countries, were making tho most
with the emancipation sch nies of Lincoln and
the Black Republicans. ' he chief apostle of
the “irrepressible conflict" was not likely to
take exception to measures so haruioneous with
his theory. But the time ias come when Sew
ard must see that the chan e of winning laurels
in this war is hopelessly g( io, and as a prudent
man, foreseeing the evil, b; willing to hide him
self. 1
The chance of “subjuga ing the South” must
by this time assume a desperate phase in most
Northern eyes. The expressions dropped by
some of the Northern prints incidentally lead
us to the conclusion that that section generally
is beginning to despair. One of the outspoken
Ohio country papers which attacks the Contis-
as a gentleman, and a man notin love with the 1 cation bill, boldly charges that not one in fifty
ble fight unscathed, but for the fact that the I exercise of arbitrary power in a tyrannical way. ! even of those in Congress who supported the
understand, have been for- measure had any faith that the North would
warded fo him, which we have no doubt he will Be able to enforce it. As, therefore, indications
consider with a desire, if possible, to avoid th’s j multiply that this Black Republican war must
distressing iinpressinwt—particularly at th .. I end in dt;k ’ at in respect to its final object and
season of the year. If it must go on, then great ’ Bring only hopeless and irretrievable ruin upon
care should lie taken that the Agents do it in -' l,rl B herself, it w ould he surprising indeed
the least offensive and irritating manner. There I if Seward should remain in the t akinet to meet
are several ways of doing the same thing, and
here is space for the exercise of courtesy and
amenity.
Finally we beg our contemporaries don’t stir
up strife by manifestations tike that we have
%uoted. They are untimely—they are danger-
There is na^toubt in our find, however, that strenuous efforts to impress the cabinets and
Mr Seward had given some occasion for the , people with the beliel that the Union cause was
. .. , .. almost lost by the three days fighting before
report-not ol course from any dissatisfaction Richmon( , 0 j which they j la<1 ,? tar d by tl.c
The PrMfrrU af the Canfrderarr
The Editor of the Christian Index, w ho lias
lately returned from Richmond, and has latter
ly furnished the Telegraph with some very
stirring and eloquent scenes in the late battles
near that city, says:
A singular result of our late visit to Rich
mond is the entire removal from our inind of
every doubt as to our perfect ability to defeat
our would-be subjugators and gain our inde
pendence. We no more doubt our early and
complete success than we doubt the existence
of our army in Virginia ; and we no more ap
prehend subjugation by the Yankees than we
do by the Mexicans. We have lost nearly all
interest in secular papers, have determined to
cease all speculations in regard to the war,
have cast all our anxieties concerning its pro
per conduct to the winds, and, with a calm and
confident faith in God and in the ability of our
Generals, have resolved to turn our thoughts
entirely to the great business of our life.
We heartily regret the unnecessary distract
ing influence we have permitted the war to ex
ert upon our life, our feelings and devotions;
an! we have determined, hereafter, with God’s
By Electric Telegraph
Interesting
Lincoln-
Louisville. Citizens are on patrol. Both sides
ol the river occupied by Guerrillas. Gunboats
are engaging them. (Jatuble, bogus Governor
of Missouri, has called out the militia of the
News from
dom.
Richmond C8.—Late Northern papers have te t0 s,1 PP rfss the Guerrilla warfare in
been received. The New Yotk Herald says ayne county, Mo. The Guerrillas attacked
that Seward has threatened to retire from the ! a *' der *'_ <o rce, killing and wounding 75.
Cabinet. He objects to the radical policy par- ie raid upon Iowa was successful. The
tially forced upon Lincoln by the Confiscation i lntst °J^‘ S tl | ld arms were captured at New
and Militia bills passed by the late Congress. >ur; ">’ ie c 'tiz®ns of Indiana did not resist *
The Times kavs that the renort is unfounded. If™ 1 ' Lhieago one company has been
raised for the nine new Regiments. The de-
The Times says that the report is unfounded.
Gen. Halleck has gone to Fortress Monroe to
have a personal consultation with McClellan.
Ex-President Van Buren died at I.indenwald
on the 24th.
In New York golJ has declined two per
cent closing at 117. Foreign exchange was
much unsettled in the afternoon. Bills on
London 128$@129. Flour declined 10@20 cts.,
per barrel. The arrival of $878,030 in gold
from California, and $2,000,000 by express
help, partly to ignore the war and address our- | f rom Kentucky and Ohio had an influence upon
self more sedulously to the great object oflife— . . ‘
preparation for eternity. We shall, hereafter, 1 e mar e
regardless of what is a mere circumstance in
our national existence, lay our plans for life,
intending to enter with zeal into that field
wherein we think we can accomplish the most
good. And we do heartily and seriously urge
our readers to dismiss, at once and forever, all
distrust Vn the goodness of God from their
hearts, and regardless of tho war, enter into a
vigorous performance of every Christian duty.
We implore that no more time be lost in wait
ing to discover what the source of God’s pro
vidences will be. We dare affirm most unhes
itatingly that our independence is already
gained—that Secessia is a power on earth, and
that, besides the harrassing pangs we feel for
lost and suffering friends, we suffer temporary
inconvenience only. Of course exception is
made when we think of the regions now con
fronting the seat of war. As a nation most of
our sufferings are imaginary or merely pros
pective.
There is a plenty of money in the country,
and were it not for the unpatriotic policy of
hoarding adopted by many, and of investing
adopted by others, the circulating medium
would be abundant. The bugbear starvation
has taken his flight, and plenty has unfolded
her benign wings over our land.
Let Christians be grateful and cast all unea
siness from their minds.
Now that the crops are made, let them turn
their attention to sacred things; let them build
up the waste places of Zion, and each one labor
opposite his own door. Let revival meetings
be appointed and held and the presence of God
be sought Doubtless sweet gales from the ce
lestial plains will soon he felt
For all public and private Christian duties we
invoke zealous care and attention; and for our
mission we urgently beseech a general and
hearty support. We repeat that money is
abundant and that all we need is faith in God,
love for his cause and a will to give. There is
not the slightest necessity for longer neglect
ing our denominational papers; and they, too
should receive evidences of good will. To all
we say, “Thank God and take courage, for a
good time is coming.”
destiuction of tho smoke stack compelled them Suggestions, as w
to open one of the port holes to escape suffo
cation. All the damage and loss of life were
indicted through this open port hole, anil the
•nly improvement suggestible is some new ar
rangiment of the smoke stack, which shall
shield it from the tire of the enemy. The
achievement of the Arkansas will again invite
the attention of the naval world to the Confed
erate pattern of an invulnerablo iron gunboat
and ram.
Majou Piiii.. Tkacy.—This gallant officer
made his first appearance yesterday out of j
doors since his arrival in a wounded and disa- |
bled condition from tin battle fields of Rich
mond. His wounds are yet, of course, un
healed, but we were pleased to learn that the
one in his leg will not impair his locomotion,
nor that in the face disfigure his countenance
to any great extent. Indeedit is just such a
wound as a soldier would desire if he must
have any at all. The ball, a tninnie, struck j
the right check just below the bone and emerg
ed near the tip of tho car.
Tnh-icc Federal Lieutenants belonging to the
2d Kentucky Regiment, and five privates be
longing to a Michigan Regiment, captured
within six miles of Nashville, a few days since,
arrived here yesterdaj, and took up quarters
at Camp Oglethorpe.
SEIZURE OF GEN. TWIGG’S SWORDS.
The swords of the late Gen. David E. Twiggs,
presented to him respectfully by the United
States Congress, the State of Georgia, and the
citizens of Augusta, Ga., have been seized by
Picayune Butler at New Orleans. A letter
from there to the Herald says:
The night of the 23d of April, just before
tiie fleet passed the forts, General Twiggs car
ried his swords and his silver plate to the house
of one of the wealthiest and most aristocratic
families in this city, and, as the members of
the family say, presented them to one of their
numlier. Mrs. Col. Myers also sent her plate
and jewelry to the same house. The next day
sha and Gen. Twigg fled from New Orleans.—
General Butler, learning the whereabouts of
the above property, instructed Col. French,
Provost Mai sha), to have the house searched.
The Colonel detailed Lieut. Col. Thos. Burt,
one of his most polite and efficient assistants.
fur this delicate duty. Lieut. Burt performed
this service very carefully, last Wednesday
evening, and the next morning the swords and
all their silver w ere brought into Gen. Butler’s
headquarters. The swords are beautiful, and
of superb workmanship. They will be sent to
Washington by the United States army dis
patch ((earner McClellan. It aeems to me that
Congress could not show its appreciation of
Gan. Butler's distinguished services sinco tho
very commencement of the war better than by
these swords.—N. O. Jjelta.
Nor could Butler wear more appropriate
honors than those he had stolen. It is certain
he will never wear any other.
Aii ^a Intelligencer.—Col. Gaulding an
nounces his retirement from the Atlanta Intel
ligencer, havif g sold his interest to his partner,
Mr. Jared I. Whittaker. Major Steele still
continues in charge of the editorial depart
ment
— ' ■' — »>•—
A Yankee prisoner who had escaped from
Cauip Oglethorpe, some days iince, was cap
tured and brought in by two <-f his “colored
brethren,” on Saturday.
Where is Old Stonewall?—We have been
“laying off” now two or three days to hear
from Stonewall Jackson, and expecting every
hour to lie stirred up by a streak of galvanism
from the invincible hero. His movements will
not bear suggestion much longer. They will
“out” before many hours.
Comforting.—The Chicago Tribune says :
the storm of reactionary indignation which is
surely destined to overwhelm the Black Re
publican party. He will do nothing of the
kind. He will beat a timely retreat. He will
retire to Europe, if he has left the way open, or
bury himself in bis sylvun retreat at Auburn.
It will be an easy matter to find a pretext,
and the story of his dissatisfaction with the
It i. intimated on the. authority °f distiii- j j nccn diarism of the Black Republican party is
guished Senators that the IVesident will spee 1
lily issue a proclamation offering amnesty to
rebels in arms in the Border States, and an
nouncing that the offer will fie extended from
time to time to rebels in other States, as pro
gress in subduing tho rebellion may warrant.
We trust by the time Lincoln gets that pro
clamation written, he will not find a single bor
der State in condition to warrant its publica
tion.
A SUGGESTION.
As all will admit, it is the duty of all slave
holders to see to the proper treatment of their
slaves. As one interested in the call for slaves
to wo»-k upon the entrenchments at Savannah,
I propose a meeting of those citizens interested
at the Court House, at such time us may here
after be suggested, for the purpose of sending
some suitable person with our slaves to over
see and to sec to their proper treatment gener
ally. I presume the commanding officer would
have no objection to this, we sending a man
qualified in every respect. Planter.
UNNECESSARY.
We have received two communications im
peaching tho past personal character of one of
the officers employed by Gen. Mercer in the
impressment of negroes. This we judge to be
needless and improper. The officer implicated
is it not responsible in any way for the impress
as good as any other for that purpose. Seward
is not the only member of the cabinet who will
be anxious to get out of the political ship Afri
ca, before she strikes. The collision will be
awful—the wreck complete. All things are
now getting into shape for the catastrophe.—
Pending it, there is, at best, only one more trial
ol strength to crush the rebellion, and that one
must demonstrate tfie utter hopelessness of the
undertaking. Meanwhile, difficulties will mul
tiply and increase at every stop, till the end is
reached in Black Republican disaster and dis
grace No *. under Mr. Seward “threatens to
retire from the cabinet.”
EXTORTION.
An old friend blames us for not thundering
away more continuously at the extortioners.
There are two reasons for it. The first is, It
has done no good—never reformed anybody,
and, on the contrary, made them all worse.—
The second is, that or something else, has made
a thousand new ones, and now we rather like
the fun of seeing them eat up each other. Ex
tortioner comes into town with a load of water
melons and diminutive fowls, weighing perhaps
half a pound apiece. For the first he requires
one dollar each, and for the second fifty cents.
Ho sells out his wagon load at one or two hun
dred dollars, and then, when he goes to the
Etna. There is little doubt but they had suc
ceeded to some extent, in consequence of the
jealousy of the war power of the United States
which now exists in most of the countries of
the Old World. Gen. McClellan is assailed in
London with respect to his strategy, his des
patches, and the taking up of his fitst position
near Richmond.
The new tf.riffof the United States is attack
ed at every point—both in intent and enact
ment—by ths London Times and some of the
Paris newspapers. The Dublin Freeman’s
Journal, of the 10th instant—the last paper—
sums up the expression of feeling toward the
measure thus: “The new United States tariff
is universally condemned throughout England
and France. Journalists whose speciality has
been masters of economic and commercial class
pronounce it to lie simply a perfect prohibition
on the importation into at least the North Am
erican Slates of all European goods; but as
against England it applies with special severi
ty and harshness. The undoubted effect of this
new arrangement will be that, almost immedi
ately on its coming into operation on the first
of next month, the prices of nearly nil Eng
lish and French manufactured goods will be
doubled—in some instances trebled.”
The cotton manufacturers of Rouen sent a
deputation to the Emperor Napoleon to repre
sent to him that, from the excessively high
prices of the raw material, and the falling off
in the demand for cotton goods, they must be
fore long close their mills, and that some
amongst them will have to suspend payment—
Similar representations have been made from
Lille, where many of tho manufacturers are re
presented to be in a critic*' state, and tho Em
peror helped them with a i„an.
The Liverpool Courier, of the 9th July,
speaking on the cotton crisis, says: “There is
in stock 200,000 bales. From all sources ex
cept America, which is now a consumer, not a
producer, we may expect 600,000 bales. At
tlie rate of 80,000 bales per week this quantity
would last us about twenty- six weeks, or un
til the end ol December.”
Mr. Lindsay, member of Parliament, had
adjourned his Parliamentary motion for the re
cognition of the South by England a second
time. It was to come up again on the 18th of
July.
INTERESTING FOREIGN NEWS.
Richmond, 28th.—The steamer /Etna, has ar
rived with European dates to tho 17th. The
fighting before Richmond was largely canvas
sed. The Times is particularly bitter and sar
castic, and treats tho matter as a decided Con
federate victory. It thinks there are good evi.
dences in the North that the beginping of the
end is not far off. In another article it bitterly
denounces Butler for his insolence in his inter
course with the foreign Consuls.
The Morning Post says that affairs approach
a crisis in which neutrals can not much longer
remain passive speculators. It points to the
past policy of England in recognizing success
ful opposition and says that if the North would
take tho initiative and sail with the current
which it cannot stem, neutral States might he
saved the disagreeable necessity of discharging
a niost disagreeable duty.
Lord Palmerston in a speech before Volun
teers, spoke impressively, and some say signifi
cantly of the importance of maintaining effi
ciency in their movements.
The cotton market was buoyant. Prices i to
i pence higher. Advices from Manchester are
favorable. Cotton goods and yarns being firm
er with an advancing tondency in prices. Con
sols closed at 92j for money.
NEWS FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond 29th—The opinion gains ground
that McCledlan is gradually evacuating Berke
ley, and reinforcing Pope. No news here to
day.
PRO BAULK CAPTliRK OP A BRITISH STEAMHK.
Charleston, 29th.—Four of the- crew of the
British steamer Tubal Cain arrived here today.
The steamer left Nassau on Sunday evening,
and was chased on Thursday by a fast Yankee
cruiser, which was rapidly gaining on her when
these four men, with the pilot, left her in an
open boat, to escape capture. While they were
still in sight, the Yankee cruiser got within
gun shot of the Cain. They have no doubt
ment, and should be held accountable only for 1 store and finds sugar forty cents a pound
the manner in which ho discharges his duty. dour seventeen dollars a hundred—molasses
The plea set up that he will have charge of the j l "° d °!'* rS * B* 1 '®" there, you see, is “retrib-
1 utive ^justice at once. * Like Suggs he is
negroes is valul only to the extent of collecting j “kinder tuk up short,” and looks both ways
and turning them over to the military aulhori- j for Sunday. He skins us—we skin him—it’s
ty iu Savannah. And indeed if it is at all im- i f a > r a *l round, and when he gets home of a
portant, in any way, to call in question the in- n 'BBt he goes to bed with the consoling reflec-
1 tion that “he s been done as he’s done to oth
ers.” As for wo outsiders who are skinned by
both, we pay the prices in the way of a ticket
to see the show.
tegrity of the impressing officers, the way to
do is by direct address to the commanding offi
cer at Savannah, or the government at Rich
mond. When newspapers suffer themselves to
be usod in assailing private reputation, they
become dangerous nuisances.
EXECUTIVE ORDER.
War Department, July 22.—First, ordered,
I That the military commanders within the States
Is Another Change in McClellam’s Base °/, Virgima South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
^ , Alabama, MissLsstppi, Louisiana, Texas and
Contemplated . \\ e doubt the soundness of ■ Arkansas, in an orderly manner, seize and use
the opinion that McClellan is abandoning the ! any property, real or personal, which may be
Peninsula approach to Richmond. True it necessary or convenient for their several com-
would never have been chosen by good milita
ry strategists, and thero appears to have been
no reason lor selecting it except perhaps the
chronic t read of Confederate “masked batte
ries,” but still, the abandonment of the James
River approach at this time would be so plain a
confession of defeat and frustra'ion, that we
doubt if McClellan and the Federal Govern
ment will consent to make it. The rumor, how
ever, that such is tho intention finds expression
mands, as supplies or for other military pur
poses, and that while property may be destroy
ed for proper military objects, none shall be
destroyed in wantonness and malice.
Second, That military and naval command
ers shall employ as laborers, within and from
the said States, so many persons of African
descent as can be advantageously used for mil
itary or naval purposes, giving them reasons
ble wages for their labor.
Third, That as to both property and persons
of African descent, accounts shall be kept,
sufficiently accurate and in detail, to show the
in several of the New York and Philadelphia Tom KTbSh
• j property and such persons shall have come, as
Tnr. Lincoln Confiscation Bii.l. We pub- - a basis upon which compensation can be made
lish this act to day fer the information of the ! in P r0 P er c * ses> The Reveral departments of
people. They will see in the light of it, what ' lhe Government Bh ‘ U Rtlend to «n d perform
kind of a war the Ltncolnites now intend to
wage and what purposes they entertain in re
gard to he property and possessions of the
.Southern people.
1 their appropriate parts towards the execution
| of these orders.
By order of the President.
(Signed) Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War.
DrlVm ol' Ike Knli.lmrnl Ordinnmr in Hie
Halljimor* S’ily Council—(irml Eirilr-
mcnl—.Mob l.ow-
The committee of conference in the Balti
more City Council on the ordinance appropri
ating $390,000 in aid of volunteers, .tc., on
Wednesday evening made a majority report in
favor of the passage of said ordinance, wh ch
wa, adopted unanimously in the first branch,
and rejected in the second branch by a vote of
yeas 2, nays 6—Messrs. George and Robb on
ly voting for it The Sun says:
A crowd of some two or three hundred per
sons assembled in and about the City Hall yes
terday afternoon, and there was for a time con
siderable excitement, but the police prevented
any demonstration of violence. It was expect
ed that the committee of conference on the or
dinance to appropriate three hundred thousand
dollar, fine military purposes would make their
report, arid those who assembled were anxious
to know what would be its fate in the second
branch, which b< dy had before rejected it.—
Messrs. Alricks and Swinuell were absent, so
that but eight members were present Shortly
after si z o’clock it was announced to those out
side that the ordinance had been again rejected
by a vote of two for to six against it Shortly
after Charles J. Baker, Esq., Piesidentof the
branch, p«ssed out ol the front door of the City
Hall and was groaned.
After that the excitement b came intense,
and an additional police force was ordered up
from the central station. A hall hour elapsed
beforo any of tho other members who voted to
the negative made their appearance, by which
time tho crowd had partially dispersed, a rumor
having gained currency that they had passed
out through the rear of the building. Soon,
however, Messrs. Marden, Deane, Wilson, Hig
gins, and Miller, left the hall under the pro
tection of a squad of policemen for each. The
crowd made a rush for Mr. Miller, but the po
lice force was sufficient to protect him, and in
a few minutes the excitement had subsided and
the street was clear. While leaving the hall
the members were groaned at by those of the
crowd who remained. Messrs. George and
Robb, who voted for the bill, were cheered as
they loft the hall.
Inside the hall the announcement of the vote
is thus described:
Upon the announcement of the vote there
was considerable noise and confusion in the
lobby and passages of the building, which were
crowded with spectators. Cries of “Down
with the traitors”—“Jerk them out,” Ac.—
The President rapped for order, and shortly
alter tho Marshal of Police, Mr. Vannostrand,
appeared inside of the railing and demanded
quiet A large police force was in attendance
in the building, but noisy demonstrations con
tinued in the passages and in front of the build
ing for some time afterwards.
Correspondence Charleston Mercury
Richmond, Wednesday, July 28.
After a month’s holiday^ I find myself again
in the Confederate capital. One feels the dread
of infection as he gets nearer and nearer this
warscared city. Soldiers crowd the cars—
dirty convalescents from the country hospitals
—sick trains pass him on the way; he catches I b ut she was captured. The Cuin was an
the odor of suppurating wounds in Manchester | iron screw steamer of 500 tons. Her cargo
and this odor increases to a stench as he cros- consisted of general merchandize, including a
ses the James river, where tho tainted breezes ; f .
from the vast wards on Chimborazo Heights ew cast ‘ s °* ann
have free play. Night has just fallen, but there
is a strange stillness about the streets. Few
people pass him. The doors of the great dry
goods and clothing houses are open and guar
ded by sentinels. Looking in, he beholds mul
titudes of beds and ministering ange’s passing
to and fro. Well he knows what forms lie
stretched on those narrow beds. They are the
heros who have suffered in the great cause.—
How horrible is war!
Our late victories have given us a respite,
which the Administration has rather the wish
than the neive to improve. It complains of a
want of men, and it must be confessed that
there is a great deal of straggling. But this strag
gling the Government seeks to cure by moral
suasion and the force of public opinion, as if the
deserters, lost to all sense of shame, cared for
•pinions. It is said there are 100,000 men
absent without leave from our various armies
—gono nobody knows where. If this be true,
the time has passed for milk and water mea
sures.
There is literally “trouble in the camp.” Ob
jection is made to Gen. Johnson’s resuming his
command. He is entitled to it or else a wound
becomes a badge of disgrace; but Lee is thought
the safer man, and all things must yield to the
country’s safoty. A. P. Hill is under arrest
by order of Longstreet, and there is a quarrel
between D. II. Hill and Tooinbs. “Reliable”
says Hill called Toombs a coward on the-field,
and alter the battle Toombs challenged him.—
Tho challenge was declined on religous grounds;
but the epithet was re-applied Magruder has
been recalled from the command of the Trans'
Mississippi Department, on account of the
charge of incompetency preferred by Colonel
Chilton, formerly of the Adjutant General’s of
fice, now on Lee’s staff’.
These troubles should alarm nobody. War
is a quarrelsome business, especially in a free
country, where every tnan is as good as any
other man, and better too. We hate the Yan -
kee none the less on account of these quarrels.
After we have whipped them, we can fight each
other in comfort.
News from tho lines is just no nows at all.—
Indeed there seems to be a general stagnation
except in Jack Morgan’s vicinage. It is report
ed that Jackson has broke loose again, with as
many as 60,000 rampant rebels at his heels.
Thero is no telling where he will strike. He
appears to be as eccentric as a comet—one of
which, by the way, I think I saw in the north
west last night
Copies ol the New York Herald were for sale
this morning by the newsboys, for the mode
rate price of two dollars. The Herald, of the
15th, contains the proceedings of the Union
meeting held the day before, in which Dr. Lie-
ber figured, while his notile son, Oscar, was
dying, a martyr to his father’s folly.
Hermes.
McClellam’s Losses.—The Petersburg Ex
press, of yesterday, states that a gentleman
who was recently at Fortress Monroe, mingled
freely with the authorities there, and heard
much of their unreserved conversation, says it
is known that McClellan had 90,000 effective
men, when the recent fights before Richmond
commenced. Of this number, it is possitively
asserted that he lost exactly one-third, 30,000.
This loss was from all causes, viz: killed,
wounded, missing, sick, and those so worn out
from exhaustion, as to be totally unfit for ser
vice.
This statement is confirmed by an acknowl
edgement of Lincoln, when pressed by a dis
tinguished citizen of Ohio, then in Washington,
for the whole truth. Old Abe confessed that
McClellan had sustained a disastrous defeat,
that he bad asked for reinforcements to the ex
tent of 50,000.
The Express also says that a gentleman from
this city has ascertained from sources entitled to
tho fullest credit, that as some of the fruits of
the recent victories around Richmond, we have
secured 33,000 stand of small arms, over 60
cannon, the greater portion of them superior
field pieces ; between 700 and 800 horses and
mules ; thousands and thousands of bullets; a
large quantity of powder, butslightly damaged ;
pickaxes, shovels and spades, almost beyond
computation; overcoats, India rubber and oil
cloth blankets, knapsacks, canteens etc. So it
will be seen that after all the falsehoods of the
Northern journals, the defeat of McClellan was
most signal, and his losses immense. Rather
an expensive “change of base,” we should
think.—Richmond Whig, July 26.
INTERESTING NEWS—VERY.
Charleston, 29th.—The French steamer Ri-
naldino left tho harbor to day, carrying off the
French Consul, M. D. SL Andre, and lady, who
go on a visit of a few months to the North.
FIGI1T NEAR SAVANNAH.
Algusta, 80.—The Savannah papers of this
morning slate that four or five Federal gun
boats attacked our battery at Genesis point on
the great Ogeechee river yesterday morning.—
The gun boats were repulsed. No loss on our
side. The quarters in the battery were dam
aged by the enemy’s shot and shell.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM THE WEST.
Mobile, July 29.—A’special despatch In the
Mobile Register and Advertiser from Tupelo,
Miss., 28th, states that the St. Louis Republi
can of the 22d, contains a Washington despatch
of the 21st, announcing that Ilalleck was in
command in Virginia over McClellan and Pope,
with the title of military adviser to the Presi
dent. McClellan and Pope are unable to co
operate satisfactorily with him. Rumors of
McClellan’s resignation are in circulation.—
Public dissatisfaction with McClellan is in
creasing. Ilalleck was en route for Washing
ton.
On tho 16th in the House of Representatives,
Chandler furiously denounced McClellan. Fears
arc entertained at the War Department that the
silence of the rebels at Richmond portends an
onslaught upon Pope’s advance. It is believed
that the rebels have another Merrimacand fleet
at Richmond ready to act in concert with their
land forces against McClellan.
Tho Missouri rebels invaded Iowa, on the
19th, capturing arms and horses. Thero is a
great sfir in Northern Missouri. The invasions
of Kentucky, Indiana and Iowa are creating
great consternation. The belief is beginning
to prevail that the war has been at length
brought to the doors of tho Yanks.
Steamboating on the Ohio river is consider
ed unsafe.
Fortifications are being constructed at Mem
phis by a force of negroes who drill every eve
ning. Col. Fitch hung two hostages, citizens
of St Charles, Arkansas, as an set of retalia
tion upon the Guerrillas.
It is rumored at Memphis that Nashville has
been captured. Great activity at Memphis.—
Movements indicate an early and decisive cam
paign.
Jackson, 28th.—No attack apprehended at
Vicksburg. The Federals have thrown a col
umn 4,000 strong up the Amite rivei. Gen.
Williams, Federal, is reported to he at Baton
Rouge. Gen. Breckinridge arrived hero this
morning.
Federal Demonstration near Tu
pelo.
Mobile, 29.—A special to the Advertiser A
Register, dated Tupelo, 29th, states that the
Yanks made a demonstration in our front to
day, with a cavalry force. It is supposed that
tho movement was made with the intention of
destroying tha Railroad track at some point
above. If so the movement has been antici
pated and the designs of the Yanks frustrated.
Our forces extend North to Guntown.
mand for the exchange of Gen. Buckner is un
der consideration.
Jackson, 29th.—Persons from the opposite
side of the river report 600 new Yankee graves,
The Yanks carried off 2000 slaves. The Fed'-
eral.s have taken Madisonville, La.
A special to the Tribune, from Grenada, 29th,
state that our guerrillas have re occupi-Td
Brownsville, Tenn.,and burned 3,000 bales of
cotton purchased by the Yanks.
NFAYS FROM THE WEST.
Mobile, 31st—A special to the Advertiser
<fc Register, from Tupelo, 80th, states that i
formation has been received at Headquarters
that Col. Armstrong, commanding the Cavalry
of the Army of the West, has captured Court-
land, Ala., with 159 prisoners and six cars.—
Our lo=s two killed and eight wounded. The
citizens of Courtland were frantic with joy.
We have reliable information that 15,000
Federals, during last week, passed Tuscumbia,
eastward, destined for Chattanooga.
A special to the Tribune, dated Grenada,
30th, states that passengers from Memphis re
port that our guerrillas had burned several
Yankee transports on tho Tennessee river near
Eastport. Northern dates to the 20th has been
received. Jim cut-throat Lane has gone to
Kansas to raise a brigade of Negroes. (Doubt
less to raise the wind hy selling them and put
ting the money in his pocket]
Stonewall Jackson is reported at Louisa with
24,000 men, and Ewell at Gordousvillc with
6,000, preparing, it is feared, an advance on
Washington. Ilalleck had left for the Penin
sula. Fremont is assigned to a new command.
A BRILLIANT DASH.
Lynchburg, 30th.—A special to the Repub
lican, dated, Narrows of New River, 28th, via
Dublin, 29th, gives the following information :
The gallant Major Bailey, commanding four
companies of cavalry, in all about 150 men,
was sent to the rear of the enemy by Col. Me
Causland, and stormed Su*nerville, the coun
ty site of Nicholas, on Friday morning, day
light. He killed and captured the entire gar
rison, including the Lieutenant commanding,
named Starr, three othor commissioned officers
and 62 non-commissioned officers and privates.
A large number were killed. A few prisoners
were paroled. Not being able to bring away
the large quantities of Commissary, Quarter
master and Ordnance stores found in the place
Major Bailey committed them to the flames.—
Major Bailey brought to this places large num
ber of Enfield rifles, horses and mules. The
prisoners arrived this morning at Salt Sulphur
Springs. The notorious renegade and spy, Dr.
Wm. Rucker, is among them. The telegraph
office was destroyed and the government ope
rator captured.
This affair is regarded as the most brilliant
of the war in this section. Its successfnl exe ■
cution spread terror in the Yankee army in
his neighborhood.
}-jf”The telegram says fears are entertained
at the Lincoln War Department that the long
silence at Richmond portends an attack upon
Pope—is it possible ? Can any body be so
cruel as to attack that amiable, benevolent and , ,...
heroic general—who always sees the backs of I tl0n of both considered precarious. At Cairo
his enemy ? Ah, this is a wicked world ! 1 on the 23d the excitement surpassed that of
WESTERN NEWS.
Mobile, 30th.—A special to the Advertiser
A Register, from Tupolo, 29th, states that the
Chicago Tribune, of the 25th, contains Lin
coln’s Order appointing Ilalleck Commander in
Chief. The Act making postage stamps a le
gal tender, is causing trouble between the Trea
sury and the Post Office Departments.
The Louisville A Nashville trains have stop
ped running.
Morgan’s whereabouts is unknown. He is
said to be near Frankfort, and is also reported
ro hare retreated across the Cumberland river.
Boats are stopped by the rebels at Hender
son, Ky., and the river is blockaded. Cincin
nati and Louisville still trembling. The situa-
THE WAR MEETING IN NEW YORK.
The New York papers of the 15th make the
following report of the address adopted at this
meeting :
The address adopted at the mass meeting is
couched in patriotic terms, stating that the war
is purely defensivo of which we received from
our fathers of the Union and the Constitution.
That the rebellion is causeless. That the Re
publican form of Government is our preference.
That we are contending for the integrity of our
country as a nation—for its national existence—
for Christian civilization—for our commerce,
our arts, our schools. That we feel that all we
have and can do should be given our country
in its hour of trial, and if there be a man among
us not thus feeling he should leave us. That
we are willing to make any sacrifice to sustain
the Government, only asking the Government
to use our resources quickly, vigorously and
wisely. That the nation is in no mood for tri
fling—it complains only of delays, vacillation
and weakness, and wishes its strength to be so
used that not a vestige of the revolt shall re
main.
The address declares that if any foreign Gov
•mment attempts to interfere in our affairs it
must be repelled with that firmness and spirit
becoming the American people. If there is
anything about which wc arc agreed it is our
traditional policy—that we- do not interfere in
the affairs of other nations, and will not allow
other nations to interfere in ours. In the main
tenance of this policy the nation is unanimous.
The address concludes as follows :
As the rebellion and possibly foregn inter
vention will make it necessary that the whole
loyal people ho banded together for the defence
of all wc hold most dear, we pledgo ourselves
to each other—to Congress and to the Presi
dent—that with all our resources wo will sup
port tho Government in the prosecution of this
war, with the utmost possible vigor, till the
rebellion is overcome and its leaders brought
to merited punishment.
THE NEW LEVY.
[From tha Boaton Courier, July IS.]
The conviction is not to be avoided that the
quota of our men, required to make up the
complement of 300,000, must be raised by a
draft. So far as we have learned, the same
condition of things exists in all the New Eng
land States, whatever the case may be else
where. The very fact that a large bounty is
proposed, and in several towns a very large one,
shows clearly the general popular sentiment,
that extraordinary inducements are necessary
in order to accomplish the object in question.
With all this, the success thus far does not ap
pear flattering. Tho Newbury port Herald, of
tho 16th inst, says : “We do not hear of many
enlistments;” the Now Bedford Mercury, of
the 17th, speaks with equal discouragem. (,
and remarks : “Something certainly prevents
not only the enlistment of men, but the expres
sion by our citizens of any interest in the suc
cess of the efforts to enlist them.” This is a
deplorable state of things, indeed! We are in
the mid.-t of a war of the most formidable cha
racter ; it can only be carried on successfully
by the unshrinking spirit anu energy of men
ready to serve their country in arms ; and yet
in Massachusetts itself, strong in men and
means, claiming honor for its patriotism, as it
may well feel pride in the glory already acquir
ed by its sons in tho field—there is ttiis lamen
table shrinking from stern but necessary duty.
GOODS FROM EUROPE.
Tuesday evening we had an interview with
a gentleman lately from Europe, having run
tho blockade at a Southern port quite recently.
He had with him a new gun, manufactured in
Birmingham, which appears to us to be far su
perior for war purposes to any in use. It has
not a particle of wood in its construction. The
barrel is of steel and the stock of iron. It is
smaller, lighter, and more convenient than the
Enfield, and is said to have a greater range with
equally destructive power. It is rilled and has
a bayonet fixed on it—tho bayonet attachment
being superior to any now in use. It ccn’t be
knocked off by an opposing enemy as the bay
onet on the common musket and Enfield rifle
can. The gentleman who has this gun says it
can be furnished cheaper than the Enfield rifle.
He also showed us samples of army shoes,
overcoats and blankets, which can be furnished
at very low prices in England. He further ex
plained to us that the difficulties of getting
goods through tho blockade are not half so
great as is commonly supposed.
Atlanta Confederacy.