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en a pTslol shop, or a single tool or
apiece of machinery for making them. The
machines now in use have all been contrived
and built since last March, and the force of the
1 establishment diverted from the manufacture
of Cotton Gins to the making of Colt’s revol
With the well known resources and en-
lerprise of this concern, we need not say the
^business under their hands will grow to meet
jiny demand likely to be made upon them.—
'This is a strong illustration of the power of the
South to supply her own wants. We certainly
sad no idea that a manufactory of Colt’s pis-
, would spring up near Macon in 1862.
RETALIATION.
lAfter such reflection as vfe have been able to
upon the matter, wc are inclined to
i the government is right in the adoption
fie retaliatory policy developed by the tel
egrams from Richmond. We say this with the
well grounded fear upon our mind that it must
lead to scenes at which humanity will shudder
and the civilization of the age be scandalized.
■ is not to be supposed that the Federals will
ndon the outrageous system of warfare
are now pursuing under force of our re
taliatory threats. They have been maturing
Hong time, and in defiance of much opposi-
ftven in their own section. The offspring
i pure incendiary fanaticism of that coun-
i has grown gradually by help of the bad
Sion a engendered by war, into such a de-
i of favor, that they have been able to push
Through Congress and force it upon their ad-
aistration.
Strange to say, they hoped great things from
I Lincoln himself declared to a delegation
aded by the infamous Trumbull, that he
1 despair of the Union and would give up
?ar without it. Hale, Wilson, Sumner,
Inu other exponents of incendiarism in Con-
' gress have distinctly intimated in debate, that
all the possible terrors of war must be employ
ed to chastise the people of the rebellious States.
Thus rejecting every lesson of history, these
blind fanatics hope to frighten the South into
unionism by a warfare designedly relentless,
unsparing. They mean to inflict as much mis
ery upon the South as possible; and the little
experience had under it so far in Virginia fore
shadows what is to come. A systematic plan
of plunder, waste, house burning, ravishing and
violence has been instituted. They will not
abandon it under threat of retaliation, and
when retaliation comes, it will only add, if pos
sible, to their fury ; so that, at the last, it may
come to plain, undisguised butchery and vie-
lence on both sides, which must unfortunately,
in our case, involve perhaps our women and
our children, whilo we can only retaliate upon
the Lincoln soldiery, so long as the war is car
ried on within our own borders.
But with this prospect before us, we do not
see how the government can, consistently with
duty and dignity, omit to punish the authors
of these atrocities so coolly devisedjand threat
ened. Crime must be punished, be the result
what it may. The government has been care
ful—exceedingly careful—to point out fully the
necessity under which it labors and to devolve
the responsibility where it belongs. The civi
lized world will be compelled to acquit us of
responsibility, no matter what follows. It is
perhaps well that the Northern government
should be allowed to display its character and
instincts fully beforo the world. It is no doubt
the design of Providence that the system of
social order which they denounce and seek to
overturn in blood, should be thoroughly tested
in the eyes of the whole world. We shall
emerge like gold tried by the fire, and the Lin-
colnites will be consigned to an infamy more
deep and lasting than ever yet befell a people.
■tata Sovereignty or United States Sover
eignty.
We dare say no reader of our’s ever expec
ted to see these political questions reduced to
so sharp an issue as to devolve all his property
and perhaps personal liberty and life, upon
whichever comes uppermost But he sees it
to-day. He reads Lincoln’s proclamation giv
ing him sixty days in which to return “ to his
allegiance” to the United States, or forfeit all he
has, and then, on the other hand, if he returns
“to his allegiance’’ his goods and chattels are
already confiscated to the Confederate govern
ment It is “confiscate” either way you take
it; and the only question is which has the lon
ger pole to knock down the persimmon. Eve
rything that every man of the South now has
is therefore hung upon the chances of war—the
lha vigor of our government— the valor number
and efficiency ofour troops-the wisdom and skill
of our Generals and the favorable ordination
of Divine Providence.
Every man has staked upon these, the last
dime he has got; and we must come out of this
contest victors, or homeless and houseless wan
derers over the face of the earth—prisoners in
some penitentiary or ornamenting some of the
numerous gallows, which would be in active
operation if Lincoln had tho potter. If there
is any other argument needed to stir up every
man who reads these lines to do the very ut
most in his power and in his sphere to push on
the work of self-defence, we shall certainly
look in vain for a stronger one. Let every man
know and be assured that failure in this war is
not only general ruin to the South, but person-
al arid particular ruin to himselfThen come
forward and stand by your country and the
cause in every way. Be ready to help with
money, voice and arms. Stand by the currency
« f the Confederate States. Let no man dare
reathe aught against it. It is our life blood
in this crisis, and we will, by the help of God,
see that its value is preserved—its purity un
impaired, and that every dollar of it is faithful
ly redeemed, when peace again permits us the
gains of agriculture and commerce.
Fhom Stonkw all.—We have had reports of
daily skirmishing between the outposts of Gen.
Jackson and those of Pope. It is believed a
general battle is imminent, or perhaps may
have already occurred. We are expecting the
most important news every day, and God giant
’hit it may be that Pope’s army of mcendutr.es
has been iJtteriy routed, and Pope himself a
prisoner.
accounts
lor of North
ilac^W^Thursday last.
^Brigade, at Petersburg gave 1,682
^Ojfor Johnston. The 54th, 55th,
52d Regiments gave altogether
)rity for Vance. The Standard pre-
dictTthat Vance’s majority will be thirty thous
and. The civil election takes place next
Thursday.
The Council, setting upon the Charlottes
ville despatch, says it is a lie throughout, in
their judgment. Now, if it shall prove a lie,
wo have a single suggestion to the Associated
Press agent Trace up the man who invented
it—he must be either in Staunton or Charlotts-
ville, and let the press ham! his name down to
posterity. There can be no mistake about such
a despatch as that. It is not founded upon the
reports of a passenger who was misinformed.
When a man says be has seen such and such
papers and they sta>e so and jo, it is a simple
matter of veracity. If this be a l’e, it is a lie
circumstantial.
A Fink Sight.—Our informant was in Rich
mond on the 28th ult, and saw a column of
Artillery moving as was supposed to Stone
wall Jackson’s army. The column moved
about three miles an hour, and was an hour
and five minutes passing a point.
MCMINNVILLE’
The blood by turns curdles with hoi
boils with indignation over the des
ference to the sacking of McMinn 1
trust lor the honor of humanity th
from that place is not true ; but
whole Southern heart will yearn fo^Bigeance
deep—unsparing—universal. ^X^^time will
have arrived usages of
demons in-
fenseless as if
who for-
K1NG DOWN.
to-day is, if true, the most irnpor-
e Battles of Richmond. The resig-
ward—the refusal of the Govern-
io, Pennsylvania and Connecticut to
more troops into the field—and the open !
and successful canvass of Vallandigham against
the war and the Lincoln administration, are
omens of a collapse in the war party, of the
most significant and encouraging character.
They indicate an apparently very sudden
turn in the tide of Northern opinion, but the
suddenness may be, after all, much more ap
parent than real. Where the press and the
people have been gagged, and all indications of
anti-war sentiment suppressed by fear of the
Bastile, that moment the opposition begin to
feel the conscious security of numbers on their
side—numbers too great to be bastiled, the
manifestations of antagonism must be expected
to be decided and abrupt. The feeling may
have been the growth of much time and reflec
tion—the expression of it, however, is the ins
stant developement of a knowledge of the fact
that it can be expressed with safety.
Vallandigham, but a lew weeks ago, stood
apparently alone in Ohio in opposition to the
war. Since then, democratic organ after organ
has come forth in unsparing denunciation of it,
although four or five months before, every
Northern journal which dared to raise such a
note was suppressed and the editors imprison
ed. The immunity of one emboldened anoth
er, and then the candidates come forth—public
meetings speak out their voice in resolutions
—the people take up the cry, and a tide of opin
ion is rolled up in a few days, too strong to be
controlled, and which laughs to scorn all the
bastiles and other instruments of tyranny.
That we suppose to be the case in Ohio, and
we may safely predict, if the telegram be true,
tionary tide of giant power. Its strength
violence will be only the greater from hav-
been so long curbed and restrained by the
onstitutional tyranny of the Lincoln gov-
ment. Like a mountain stream in a fresh,
when its accumulated waters have at length
borne away the artificial barrier which restrain
ed its chafing torrent, it will burst onward
with a force and impetuosity which it would
never have displayed but for the obstruction.
There is nothing in this world of ours so
contemptible and hateful as a defeated tyrant.
JSi^ong as he is able to wield his power un-
Cincinnatr ■
onishment up-
anction such a
f a great Com-
Houbted from all the
manifestations from Lincoln downward, that
henceforth the war is to take a shape undes-
cribable out of the vocabulary of Pandemoni
um ? And when it comes to rape, robbery,
house-burning and murder with every mile of
Hessian advance into our territory, men must lfl
gither their loved and defenceless flocks in thqlj,, their shoes, and Seward, the Chief Inquisi-
fastnesses of mountain and forest, and go forth ]”tor, back out in terror, the fury of the reaction
will only be measured by the audacity of the
tyranny which has restrained it.
It is only upon this hypothesis that we can
questioned, it has at least the majesty oi power
and authority. But when once successfully
brow-beaten and defied, popular hatred is en
venomed by contempt, and anger that it has
been endured so long. So when the whole
North sees that the bastiles and lettjMde catch-
et—the midnight arrests the who^Pystem of
government spies, pimps and infant
been played out—has in fact been ^Ko
an array of popular indignation wMh
ers has
pwed by
makes
the Lincoln President, Cabinet and party shake
to hunt down their assailants as worse than
prowling wolves!
Remkdt.—A
Extortion—Suggestion or
friend suggests that a remedy to some of the
Extortions of the times might be found in the
levy of a tax of say fifty per cent or more on
all nett profits over ten per cent, of the capital
invested. We throw out the suggestion for
what it is worth.
THE SLAVE IMPRESSMENT.
Some days ago, the citizens of Lee county
held a public meeting in reference to the negro
impressment, at which they appointed Mr. 0.
M. Irvin to correspond with the War Depart
ment by telegraph, and ascertain if the im
pressment had been authorized and required
by the Secretary of War. If it had, they re
solved, like good citizena, to acquiesce in the
requisition ; if not, they determined not to sur
render their negroes. In pursuance of his mis
sion, Mr. Irvin came to Macon, and the cor
respondence ensued which is published below :
To the Secretary of War, Richmond, T T a ;
Brig. Gen. Mercer has issued an order im
pressing twenty per cent, of the male slaves
throughout the State. Is that order authorized
by the Department ? If so, we acquiesce.—
Otherwise we resist. C. M. Irvin,
For the citizens of Lee county.
Richmond, 5th.—Mr. C. M. Irvine: General
Mercer has not communicated with this De
partment with reference to impressment, nor
has any authority to make impressment been
asked lor or granted. G. W. Randolph,
Secretary of War.
t »rr>|;ii Mem-Twice ofihr Kn K li>h Prru.
By the ^Etna, English newspaper dates up
to the 16th ult., were received. Although, at
that time, the London prints could scarcely have
been in possession of American news later than
the 4th or 5th July, they all concur in pronoun
cing the struggle at Richmond a great Confed
erate victory, and all argue Irom the stand point
ofi he futility and hopelessness of the struggle on
the part of the Northern States.
The London Morning Post, indeed, which is
the organ of the ministry, hopes that it is de
cisive of the war, and the vast destruction of
human life, will prove the harbinger of peace.
Thinking men of the North have long since
seen the folly of the enterprise in which their
government has been engaged, and the defeat
at Richmond must convince the most thought
less. To be able to advance no more than twen
ty miles into the interior Irom the coast, after
more than a year’s warfare, with armies of in
credible magnitude, is to confess that no space
of time and no armies can accomplish the sub-
j jugation of the South.
The Herald, the opposition organ, clamors
for recognition and intervention. “ The presen t
I moment or never, Earl Russell. The tide is
rolling by. You are playing with the straws
on the surface, while the vast raft upon which
the salvation of both hemispheres of the globe
mainly depends, is drifting fast to an all en-
gulphing, irreparable ocean.” It declares Par
liament “cannot permit a self-willed minister
to close the year’s sitting without an attempt
to put an end to that cotton dearth which is
starving our willing work people.”
The Tima gives out no political indications,
but reads the Federals some severe lectures
upon lying, and a “demoniac triumph” in the
distress they have been able to produce in the
British cotton districts. The Times “feels ob
liged to withdraw all confidence in the veracity
of the highest officers in the Federal service,”
and says, “it is coming rapidly to this, that the
greater the victory announced, the more terri
ble will be the defeat believed in.” In its mone
tary article it expresses the opinion that the
great financial "crash" in the Lincoln finances
“which is destined to be witnessed, may possi
bly not arrive at its most complete point until a
! couple ol months hence.” Meantime, it rep
resents the Federalists “singing and shouting
upon the current, with Mr. Chase at the helm,
and no one has any idea of a Niagara at the
end. There is not a single publication, of any
influence in the country,which dares to utter a
preliminary w arning 1”
From the returns received from several
counties, it appears that Col. \V. S. Holt has
about 60 majority over Col. Jossey for Major
General
explain or credit the statement that the Gov
ernors of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Connecticut
have refused to send more men into the field.
It may not be true, though we can hardly com
prehend how a regular press despatch of this
character, should be sent, if untrue. We can
not understand how if the Washington Intelli
gencer and Baltimore Sun, containing these
statements had not been received in Staunton,
such a story should have been fabricated.
But supposing it to be true, then we may
well conjecture that these popular anti-war
demonstrations—the fury which has been arous
ed by the negro legislation of Congress—the
hopeless character of the struggle—the great
danger of attempting to draft men to prosecute
this unhallowed invasion of the South under
the robbery and murder programme of Lincoln
and Pope, and in affiliation and fellow soldier
ship with the African race, has, with apparent
suddenness, developed such a storm that these
Governors have quailed before it, and Seward
been taken with a leaving. That these ele
ments of opposition were gathering fast in the
North is apparent from the following extract
from a private telegram from Richmond in the
Savannah Republican of yesterday:
Recruiting is exceedingly dull at the North,
and the newspapers are in despair at the gloo
my prospect of peace. Men begin to talk and
show themselves.
The Journal of Commerce denies the right
of Congress to emancipate slaves under any
circumstances.
Numerous arrests are making at the North
for expressions of disloyal sentiments, and de
sertions from the Federal army are daily oc-»
curring. Confusion, doubt, and dismay reign
throughout the North.
The Yankee papers say the Federal fleet had
captured the British schooner Agnes and the
the Confederate steamer Reliance, Liaut Glad
ding, they having run the blockade.
P. W. A.
But whether the despatch be true or not, or
whether our suggestions founded upon it, be
overwrought or not, let the reader be assured
that the victory at Richmond broke the back
bone of the war, and set on foot a train of
evenLs destined to bring it to a triumphant close.
If we would hasten that consummation, let us
push on the assault with vigor. Let action be
the word, and we shall soon be out of the
woods.
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JUST IN TIME.
While Gen. Forest was making his forced
cavalry march upon Murfreesboro’, the enemy
at that place, all unconscious of their approach
ing doom, was holding a drum head court for
the trial of numerous citizens of the vicinity
accused of shooting the Yankee pickets. They
had condemned quite a number to be hung—
among them master Charley Ridley, a youth
of sixteen, entirely innocent of the offence
charged, but a most acceptable victim, inas -
much as he was the son of Bromfield L. Rid
ley, one of the J udges of the Chancery Court
of Tennessee, whose brother, Dr. Charles L.
Ridley, a citizen of Jasper county in this State,
is well known to many of our readers. While
these summary trials and convictions were go
ing on, the distant thunder of the tramp of cav
alry attracted the attention of the “honorable
Court,” and in a few minutes the sharp report
of musketry and the terrified cry of “the rebels
—the rebels," adjourned that tribunal with
more despatch than ceremony. The provost
marshal, who, in a few minutes, would have
been treating his prisoners to short shrift and
a cord, took to his heels, and the happy es
caped set up a shout of deliverance that made
the welkin ring. What a lucky arrive 1 for
them!
OCMULGEE RANGERS.
R. R. Bearden having resigned the Captain
cy of this corps, 1st Lieut. T. G. Holt, Jr., be
comes by promotion, Captain. Captai n Holt
has seen service, and is an efficient and talent
ed officer—the right man in the right place.—
W. W. Parker is now 1st Lieut, and J. F.
Bass, 2d Lieut An election was held yester
day for 8d Lieut, resulting in the choice of
George F. Merriwether, of Jasper county. An
excellent selection.
WAR AND NEWS ITEMS.
From the Richmond correspondence of the
Charleston Mercury, we get the following :
Aid to Stonewall.—Under date ot the 29th,
Hermes says: —A train of artillery, two miles
Ion.', belonging to A. P. Hill’s division, went
up Main street this morning. Hill is one of
our best fighters, and if he and Jackson and
Ewell ever get together, damage will be done.
Gregg is with Hill. An officer, who acted on
Hill’s staff during the late battles, said to me
yeiterday: “Hill is brave to a fault; but as for
Gregg, he roally loves danger.”
J^ftaJiorthern Cry for Blood.—When a man
is lighting, the worse he is hurt the madder he
gets. At first, he wants merely to whip his
enemy, or to keep his enemy fiom whipping
him, but after liis nose and eyes have been
bulged, the breath knocked out of his body
and his arm lamed, then he wants to kill out
right, to destroy utterly. So with the North
now. As the Yankee fortunes wane, the war
assumes a darker and more desperate hue.—
Hence the appointment of Halleck, and Lin
coln's determination to use the “most stringent
measures.” Hence the loud approbation of
Pope’s infamous orders. Let us keep cool, and
while our blinded and infuriated foe is beating
about wildly, let us ram blows fast and still
faster upon his vulnerable points.
Condition of Buell—Recognition.—It is be
lieved here in “high official circles” that Buell’s
army is between the upper and nether mill
stone, and Mr. Beojamin says the next steam
er will bring news of our recognition by
England and France. But whole armies are
seldom crushed, and Mr. Benjamin forgets that
he played prophet once before.
Carrying Away the Stolen Negroes.—The
Federal troops on Edisto Island, S. C., having
been sent to reinforce McClellan, the negro “re
fugees” there were sent to St Helena Island.—
A correspondent of the New York World says
They were lemoved en masse. Nearly one
thousand came here at one time on one of our
siualler.steamboats. The scene was heart-ren
di^. They were literally stowed on the decks
and between decks. It was a shadow of the
middle passage. Several births occured dur
ing the trip.
Smith O'Brien on "Mediation"—William
Smith O’Brien publishes in the Cork (Ireland)
Examiner a letter, addressed to Richard O’Gor-
man, of New York, suggesting to him that, in
asmuch as Secession is now accomplished fact,
whether it is not advisable, with a view to the
restoration of peace, to organize in New York
a “Mediatorial Commitee,” and to call a mass
meeting there in favor of advocating an amica
ble adjustment of terms, the independence of the
C. S. A. to be a sine qua non.
The Operations on McClellan's Base.—The
Enquirer says McClellan will maintain his base
—a ruse to enable General Pendleton to shell
the transports, for it is pretty well known that
McClellan is going to try the Fredericksburg
route, in “On to Richmond” No. 3. General P.
left yesterday, 2, p. m., for an important bluff
in Prince George county, taking with him for
ty-two pieces of artillery. As it will be four or
five days before this letter gets in print, and
by that time General P. will have done all he
can do, I feel no hesitation in making this reve
lation.
Impressment of Slaves.—We are pleased to
1«a» «R.t amounts irom officers in the interior
guarantee a full complement of negro labor for
all the purposes of the government at Savan
nah. The planters, with a very few exceptions,
(and it is reported that large cotton crops have
much to do with their objections,) haverespon
dod promptly and cheerfully to the call.
By the way, we wish those who have fur
nished hands for our fortifications could come
to Savannah and take a view of the “contra
bands" while they are engaged in their labors.
We never saw a happier or better cared for bo
dy of laborers, and we doubt not two thirds of
them would prefer their present location and
employment to the cotton fields of the up coun
try.—Sav. Republican.
j Tennessee.—Private advices from this State
j are deeply interesting, and ominous of most
important events in that quarter. We have
' troops already in the State ample for any pro
bable contingency, and they are so disposed as
to warrant the conviction that the career of
Lincoln’s best General, the indefatigable Buell,
is about to be brought to a close. He has a
force of some thirty thousand in his command ;
they are unable to cope with our superior num
bers, and their sources of supply and retreat
are cut off. The struggle is near at hand, and
we shall be greatly disappointed if his entire
command is not either cut to pieces or made to
surrender at discretion, provided another hang
ing crime is not committed there as it was at
Richmond. We anticipate nothing of the sort
The leaders in charge of the campaign are all
men of the first class, whose impress has al
ready been made on the brightest pages of the
revolution.—Sar. Rep.
Death of Rev. Dr. Thornwell.—A despatch
in the Charleston papers of Saturday announces
the death of the Rev. Dr. James H. Thornwell,
the great Presbyterian divine, at Charlotte,
North Carolina, Friday last Such an event is
a public calamity. One of the greatest intel
lectual lights of the South has been extinguish
ed. It is the genius and moral power of such
men as Thornwell that constitute the strength
and glory of a nation ; hence his death involves
a loss to the entire Confederacy. Peculiarly is
this a case in the event under consideration.—
The deceased was an active and faithful minis
ter of the gospel of Christ, yet the temporal
welfare of his countrymen was ever present to
his mind. He frequently wrote on great ques
tions of national concern, not in the spirit of
the partisan, but as a Christian patriot, and
his great intellect never failed to throw a flood
of light on everything it touched.—Sav. Rep.
The Ram Arkansas.—In correction of an er
roneous statement now going the rounds of the
newspapers, we give the following dimensions
of the above famous craft. They were furnish
ed to us by Mr. Wagner, her architect, who is
now in Savannah : Length between her per
pendiculars, 165 feet; breadth of moulded
beam, 35 feet; depth of hold, 12 feet. Her
motive power consists of two high-pressure en-
gines,400 horse power each; diameter of screws,
8 feet She draws nine feet of water.
Sav. Rep.
BuelCs Army.—“Ora,” the correspondent of
the Mobile Advertiser and Register, writing
from^ Chattanooga, under date of July 24th,
says :
By a gentleman who arrived here last even
ing from Bridgeport, Ala., I have received some
further particulars in reference to Buell’s army,
which is now nearly all concentrated near that
point McCook’s Division is said to be in the
advance, with the Brigades of Gens. Tom.
Crittenden and Johnston, the latter said to be
a brother of the 'ate General Albert Sidney
Johnston. My inlurmant states the whole force
to be about 35,000. He says that the road
from Stevenson to Nashville had not yet been
repaired, (it having been torn up from the tun
nel, twenty miles from Stevenson, and several
bridges burned,) and consequently that Buell's
supplies were still cut off. Their army was
living on half rations, and the greatest insub
ordination existed among the Yankee troops.
It was thought it would take some ten days to
reorganize the army, in order to put it in fight
ing condition to advance on Chattanooga, which
it would now seem has become a dernier re
sort, in order for Buell to save himself, if it be
true that his supplies and retreat to Nashville
be cut ofl. It was believed that if it were
practicable for Buell to reach Nashville with
his troops, he would gladly have given up An
dy Johnson’s mad project of taking East Ten
nessee, and even abandoned Middle Tennessee,
so as to reach his old stand point at Bowling
Green, for the defence of Kentucky. His army
is principally composed of Indiana and Illinois
troops, with the 77th Pennsylvania, three from
Missouri, and some Kentucky and Ohio regi
ments.
Prices in Louisville, Ay.—The Louisville
Express quotas bacon, clear sides, at 3} cents
per pound ; coffee, best Rio. 22Jc ; beef cattle,
$3.00 to $3.76 per hundred pounds ; hogs, fat,
$2.50 per hundred ; and old Bourbon Whiskey
at 25 cents Der gallon.
[Special to the Savannah Republican,]
Tupelo, Aug. 2.—The enemy in front is pre
paring the roads and bridges, and extending
their pickets. It is believed a demonstration is
intended.
Official information states that Curtis has
been reinforced, and is advancing on Hindman,
who hu a large force.
A Use for Dogs.—The city authorities of
Petersburg, Va., have dog catchers employed
in killing all the stray dogs about that city.—
Their corpses aTe converted into saltpetre iD
the nitre beds in the neighborhood, and then
into gunpowder. Soldiers using this powder
are said to make a peculiarly dogged resis
tance.
The Confederate Arsenal and Armory at
Fayetteville, N. C., may novr be said to be in
full blast; at least there is nothing pertaining
to the Minie rifle and sabre bayonet that can
not be manufactured there. A good deal of the
machinery, and many of tine tools are new,
manufactured on the spot, arid equal to any in
the world. A few days since a large lot or ri
fles, manufactured at the Armory, was sent to
the Chief of Ordnance, Richmond, Va.
Besides making new and altering old arms,
the force at the Armory has neen engaged late
ly in restoring and putting in order several
thousand Enfield and Belgian rifles, sworda, sa
bres and bayonets, and also several boxes of
pistols received from the Modern Greece, con
siderably damaged. They will soon be restor
ed to their original appearance and condition
by the industry and skill of the mechanics en
gaged.
Confederate Reputation Abroad.—The Lon
don Times, of tho 11th ult, says:
We must repeat and repeat again our earn
est recommendation to the Federals to put an
end to this horrible war. What have they gain
ed by it ? What can they ever gain by it?—
Do they think that these men of their own
race, whose exploits they are daily witnessing,
can ever be so subjugated as to submit to the
yoke which a Hunter and a Butler are prepar
ing for them ? Can they, in fact, wish for such
a consummation ? Do they not feel the com
mon pride of humanity in the exploits of a gal
lant people, who are defending their homes by
a display of the most transcendent valor and
devotion ? There would be no disgrace in de
flating from the hopeless and consequently
wicked attempt to conquer and govern the
South. Every one knows that the Northern
man is as good as the Southern, and that if any
section of the late Union were invaded by the
rest it would assuredly give the same proofs of
unflinching resolution. The whole difference
between these two belligerents is that the South
is thoroughly in earnest, and fights for life and
death. This makes up for want of food, of
arms, of medicines, of all that make war easy.
As long as this resolution lasts, and several
millions of people are in arms to resist subju
gation, so long must the efforts of the North
meet with the failure which has thus far at
tended the Virginia campaign of 1862.
The Irrepressible Conflict.—The Ohio and
Indiana papers state that there is a feeling of
deadly hostility growing up among the free
white laborers against the “contrabands,” who
are swarming to the river towns by thousands.
Collisions and riots have already occurred at
Cincinnati and other points, and much trouble
is feared.
The Patriotic Old Matron.—A lady corres
pondent, writing to the Augusta Constitution
alist from Edgefield District, S. C., says : “On
Saturday last, as I was going to the Relief So
cieties, I saw an old lady, who has three sons
and several grand-sons in the army—two of
the latter were wounded in the recent fights.—
The old lady said : “I am very poor, Miss B.,
and cannot give you anything for your good
undertaking; but I will make six shirts and
six pair of drawers without charge.”
I told her that I could not expect her to give
anything, and that she was too aged to work
—she was seventy years old. Rut she insisted
upon contributing her work, as she was not
able to contribute money.
This patriotic matt on is only one of thou
sands like her in the Southern Confederacy.—
Heaven bless them all!
Realizing the Fact—The New York Tribune
says: “It is impossible to read the accounts of
the recent daring and successful Confederate
raids in the very heart of both Tennessee and
Kentucky, directly in the rear of the main body
of Gen. Halleck’s army, and under full opera
tion of Order No. 3, without realizing that the
mass of the whites in the regionu thus overrun
are either adverse to the Union cause, or par
alyzed by indifference or cowardice.”
Cotton from Illinois.—It is estimated that
from fifteen to twenty thousand bales of cotton,
of good staple, will be sent to market from Illi
nois the present year. So says a Northern pa
per.
To be tried as a Spy and Traitor.—We
heard last night by passengers from the West,
that the authorites had decided to treat Dr.
Rucker as a spy and traitor, and as such will
try him by court-martial. We are glad that
this determination has been come to, and hope
the “Doctor” will have meted out to him the
punishment he deserves—a traitor’s ignomini
ous death.—Linohbury Rep. 2nd.
Humphrey Marshal.—The Louisville Jour
nal has news, via Maysville, that Gen. Humph
rey Marshal, with a large force is marching
upon Northeastern Kentucky, from Western
Virginia.
The Lincolnites Saluting the Confederate
Flag.—On the night of the 3d of July, the se
cessionists of Middletown, Delaware, hoisted a
Confederate flag on a pole which had been
erected by the Unionists, and that early on the
morning of the 4th the “Stars and Bars” were
saluted with forty rounds by the supporters of
the Abolition government. When they discov
ered their mistake they were so enraged that
they immediately hauled down the flag and
tore it into shreds, and vigorously applied them
selves to washing the pole with soap and water
to cleanse it from the polluting effects of the
Confederate banner.
Won't Trade.—The Memphis Avalanche of a
late date says:
The spirit of the people on the Mississippi
should satisfy the Yankees that the men of the
South desire to hold no communication with
them, mercantile or otherwise. The steamer
Saline went down the river a day or two pre
vious to obtain a quantity of cottow from Clark’s
plantation, at the foot of Island 66, but while
lying there was waited upon by a crowd of men
from the Arkansas side of the river, who posi
tively forbade the shipment of cotton, and she
was consequently compelled to return without
it
Lead from a Church.—The Vestry of Trini
ty Church, Columbia, S. C., have presented
seventeen tons of lead taken from thoir beauti
ful temple, to the Executive Council for State
uses.
Yellow Fever at Norfolk.—A letter received
in Washington from Norfolk, states that seve
ral cases of yellow fever had appeared there.
The Federal Army at Cumberland Gap.—
The Knoxville Register of the 3d insb says
The miserable renegade East Tennessee to-
riee, congregated at Cumberland Gap under
the name and stylo of Federal troops, are about
to starve out. From information reliable, and
from a sight at the grim, woe-begone,hang-dog
faces of some prisoners lately brought in, they
are verging on starvation. Hunger, that lorces
the wolf to prey upon the flocks of the val
ley, urged these self exiled Brownlowites to
ravage the unprotected country in the vicinity
of their uncomfortable camp. May they starve
till there is no flesh left on their treacherous
bones for worms to eat.
For this their enviable condition let Morgan
be praised. That gallant Captain cut short
their ill-gotten supplies.
A Step Well Taken.—Governor Letcher has
made application to the Secretary of War to
deliver over to the authorities all the Virginia
traitors who have been taken in arms against
the State, and all of tho Yankee prisoners now
in or near Richmond, who there may be ground
for suspecting have been engaged in violating
those statutes of Virginia that make criminal
and punishable such acts as inciting slaves to
rebellion, enticing them to leave their masters*
using incendiary language, passing counterfeit
money, Ac. _
Rock Salt.—We were shown yesterday a
specimen of reck salt found in the Mountains
near Chattanooga. It is sold there at $2 per
bushel.
Seward.—Whether or not sly Reynard has
slipped his tail out of the trap in this timely
manner, we insist upon our prediction that he
will do it. He will never stand to see the crash
of Black Republicanism or go down with the
wreck.
By Electric Telegraph
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NEWS FROM NASSAU.
Charleston, S. C., 3d.—News has been re
ceived from Nassau up to July 3uth. The
steamships Kate and Herald had arrived at
Nassau from the Confederate coast. The Her-
raid was attacked off Nassau by a Yankee war
steamer which fired a whole broadside into
her, but the aim of the Yanks being too high,
the Herald escaped into port with only one
shot through her hull
Highly Important Hews.
Richmond, Aug. 4.—From Lynchburg, Aug.
4.—The following special despatch was received
by the Lynchburg Republican this morning :
Charlottesville, Aug. 4.—The National In
telligencer and Baltimore Sun of late dates
hare been received in Staunton. They an
nounce the resignation of Seward ! The Gov-
erners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Connecticut
refuse to send more men into the field ! The
National Intelligencer accuses Seward of hav
ing beon engaged for the last sixty days in
bringing about an armistice, through the inter
ference of England.
Vallandigham is stumping Ohio against the
War and the Lincoln Administration, address
ing immense audiences with great favor and
applause.
Richmond, Aug. 4.—A Yankee gunboat got
aground in the mouth of the Appomattox near
City Point, on Sunday last. The Confederate
batteries were firing at her yesterday afternoon.
Result not yet ascertained.
Northern dates to the '31st received. The
important news is from Europe, brought by the
Australasian, which left Liverpool on the 19th
ult. Au important discussion had taken place
in Parliament upon Mr. Lindsay’s motion to
offer mediation in the American quarrel, and
recognize the Southern Confederacy. After a
long debate Lindsay’s motion was withdrawn.
Lord Palmerston made a remarkable speech
upon the occasion, appealing to the House to
leave the matter in the hands of the Govern
ment.
The Paris correspondent of tho London Her
ald again asserts that Napoleon is about to of
fer the mediation of France to America, and
says the drift of public opinion is in favor of
such a course.
The New York Stock Market was strong on
the 29th, Government secutieties one to on}
and a half per cent higher. Gold lower, sel
ling at 114|. Sterling Exchange 126. Mone;
very abundant at 4 per cent
Mobile, Aug. 4.—A special despatch to the
Advertiser A Register dated Jackson the 3d,
says that passengers from Memphis report that
an emeutehad broken out between the Yan
kees and the negroes employed on the fortifica
tions of Memphis. The Yanks shot a number
of the negroes.
Richmond, 5th.—New York dates of Aug.
2d have been received. A despatch from the
Headquarters of the Army ot the Potomac,
dated Aug. 1st, says that at twelve o’clock last
night the rebels opened fire from the opposite
side of the river, with two batteries of light at-
tillery. The fire was principally directed at
the Mail Boat Landing, at the Headquarters of
Col. Ingalls and the shipping and encampment
at Westover. The rebel pieces were bandied
well, and fired with great rapidity. Four men
were killed and five or six wounded. Several
horses were killed.
The rebels had it all their own way for some
time, as our troops did not anticipate the at
tack ; but the 32 pounders stationed at Col.
In gall’s headquarters soon silenced their guns.
After they opened a few of our vessels were
struck, but no serious damage sustained by
any. With this exception nothing occurred
worth mention.
Seven of Porter’s mortar fleet reached Fort
ress Monroe on the morning of the 1st, and five
more are hourly expected. Officers and crew
of all vessels think they are to reduce Fort Dar
ling, (Drury’s Bluff) and intimate a great will
ingness to undertake the job. Fierce times,
says the Yankeo correspondent, tnay be looked
for in that direction soon.
A large number of Confederate prisoners
from Fort Delaware, are at Old Point
A despatch from Washington, the 1st, says
they are in expectation of hearing important
news from several quarters. Vicksburg is to
be taken—a fight soon to take place in North
ern Georgia or East Tennessee, and that Pope’s
army will soon engage the enemy. Now that
the Mortar boats have arrived, stirring work
is looked for on James river.
Cincinnati, Aug. 1st.—A war meeting was
held here last night Immense affair—speak
ing from three stands—music—fireworks—bell
ringing enlivened the occasion. Resolutions to
sustain the Government in the prosecution of
the war and confiscation of traitors’ property
everywhere, unanimously adopted.
The New York Herald says it is now certain
than an order will be issued for a draft in such
States, or sections of States as will not supply
their quoto of men before the middle of Au
gust.
Gold in New York on the 1st, 1154. Ster
ling Exchange dull at 1244 and 126.
Not a syllable about Seward’s resignation,
not one word of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Con
necticut refusing to send soldiers. On the con
trary, the meeting at Cincinnati for the war ;
Curtin is stumping Pennsylvania for private
subscriptions of bounty money; in Philadel
phia, already, $171,000 are raised, and Con
necticut is as certain for her quota as she is
for her usual onion crop.
[A murrain on such despatches as that from
Charlottesville.—Ed. Tel.]
IMPORTANT NEWS.
Baton Kouge Captured by Breck
inridge CJov. Magoffin Calls a
Special Session of the Kentucky
Legislature.
Mobile, Aug. 6th.—Grenada, Miss., Aug. 4.
The enemy are reported to be advancing on
Senatobia, in three columns from Memphis.—
They are estimated to be from fifteen hundred
to two thousand strong. Reinforcements are
being sent from this place to Col. Jackson.
Curtis’ (Federal) cavalry attacked a provis
ion train en route to Gen. Parsons, near Aus
tin, Mississippi, a few days ago, and were re
pulsed with considerable loss.
A Cairo despatch, of the 29th ult, says the
rebels made a dash at Humboldt yesterday.—
Our (Federal) cavalry fled without firing a gun.
The rebel cavalry attacked our infantry, killed
fifteen, taking some prisoners and possession
and possession of the town.
Gov. Magoffin has called a meeting of the
Kentucky Legislature, on the 4th August in
stant to provide for the peace of tho Common
wealth and the safety of the State Institutions
against the action of the Federal Congress.
Ool. Logan (Federal) hung Mr. Whipple—a
wealthy and influentialcitizen of Jackson,
Tennessee, on the 29th ult, for piloting Confed
erate partizans to a bridge, which they burnt
Logan also burnt the houses of several Confed-
ate sympathizers.
Dr. Leftwicb, a Yankee Cotton Buyer, was
captured by Guerillas near Brownsville, last
week, with twenty-five thousand dollars in spe
cie. Leftwicb has arrived at Granada.
Prisoners taken yesterday report from below,
that the Yankees hate evaluated Baton Hnuge,
and that Gen. Breckinridge is in possessio'iorat
the city.
Jackson, 5.—A special despatch of ''.bis date
to tin- Mobile Advertiser and Register,
that Gen. Breckinridge this morning att
Baton Rouge, driving ttie Federals from
position. For one hour the musketry ti
was very heavy. Also heavy firing from
direction of the river, which may have
the Arkansas, as she was to have co operated
in the attack. The Federals were driven through
the city to the river banks.
SKIRMISH NEAR MALVERN HILL.
Richmond, Aug. 5.—A sharp skirmish took
place this morning below Malvern Hill. The
report, is that a body of Yankees attempted to
occupy a position near Curls Neck, on the
James River, but were attacked by a portion
of Cobb’s Legion, and driven back to their en
trenchments.
Sepclal De»patch to the Telegraph.
Atlanta, 7th.—A reliable gentleman from
Knoxville says the Salt Mine is a humbug, and
that the man passing as agent is supposed to
be a spy. Hand him around. Respectfully, Ac.,
Geo. L. F. Berdsqno.
Mobile, Aug. 6th.—The Advertiser lifts the
following despatch, dated Jackson, Cth Augu-t.
I am permitted by Gen. Van Dorn to send on
the following :
One Mile from Baton Rot ue, (
August 5, 1862. i
To Gen. Van Dorn :—Receiving a despatch
that the Arkansas would co operate, 1 attacke>F" .
Baton Rouge ibis morning at daylight/ with M
less than 3,600 men, and after a severe Strug- \
gle of five hours, we drove the enemy freni all k
points to the Arsenal and lower town, and to
the cover of their gunboats, taking a number |
of prisoners, several flags and a considerable •
quantity of property. My diminished and ex
hausted force could not take the Arsenal and
tho troops, almost perishing for water, we have
withdraw n a mile and a half from the city, but
hope to resume the attack in half an hour. 1
think our loss has been as heavy as that of the
enemy. Gen. ClaTk is mortally wounded.
Col. Hunt, of the 5th Kentucky, Col. Allen, of
the 4th Louisiana, and others are severely
wounded. The effective force of the enemy,
exclusive of the gunboats and mortar boats, is
reported to us at 5,000 strong.
(Signed) John C. Breckinridge,
Major General.
It seems the Arkansas did not arrive in time
to take paiJK'ith our land forces, as was in
tended, altVugh she passed Bayou Sara, which
is about thirty miles above Baton Rouge at 12
o’clock Monday night (the 4th.) Four Yankee
gun boats are at Baton Rouge, and the Ram
Essex.
Orders have been received here (Jackson) to
prepare for 300 w ounded. GeH. Van Dorn bar.
removed his headquarters to this place.
Chattanooga, Aug. 6.—Nothing of interest
here. Three deserters from Buell’s army ar
rived to-day. They say that Buell has McCook's,
Crittenden’s, Ward’s and Rousseau’s divisions,
say about 35,000 men at Stevenson arid Bridge
port Plenty of provisions at Stevenson, hut
on half rations at Bridgeport They say Bueil
individually is at Washington or Huntsville.
The Yanks are fortifying Stevenson and tearing
all the houses down. W
Richmond, Aug. 6th. —Gens. Buckner, Tilgh-
man and McCall, Commodore Barrow, Lieut. 1
Bev. Kennon and other officers and a large '
number of privates, exchanged prisoners, have I
arrived at this city. Gen. Pettigrew ha.- al->o '
arrived within our lines ind will reach the city
to-day.
[The foregoing despatch was received at the Macon
Telegraph office yesterday noon, the 7th. It must have
been received at the office of the Savannah News by
seven o’clock in the evening of the 6th, for it appeals in 1
the early edition of that paper which arrived at Macon
yesterday morning. What is the matter?—Eds. Tel
KENTUCKY
Emits a spark of life! Gov. Magoffin calls
upon the Legislature to meet on the 14th in
extra session, to determine upon what the State
shall do to defend her institutions from the
hostile, incendiary legislation of Congress !—
Why Congress '< Has not Lincoln formally
notified Kentucky’s delegation to Congress that
slavery in that State will assuredly be ground
into extinction by the mere abrasion of the war ?
Is there a Lincolnitc in Kentucky brazen
enough to affirm that the Confederate State-
will arrest or interfere with the security of her
social organization ? Is there a man stupid
enough to dream of such a thing ? From whence,
then, comes danger, but alone from that atro
cious tyranny which in the declared purpose to
assail and destroy the social order of Confeder
ate States has created the necessity of first des
troying that of the frontier States to get at the
former ?
Is there any other possible explanation of
the “friction and abrasion of tho war,” which
in the judgment of Lincoln, must socially rev
olutionize Kentucky ? We say it boldly that
no man of common sense can adopt any other
construction of Lincoln’s threats. And what
an astounding thought it must be to any Ken
tuckian not lost to all sense of right and the
dignity of a freeman, that an Illinois hocsier
elevated by a trick of fantastic fortune into the
Presdential Chair, should assume personally
to draggoon four States into social revolution
in order that a similar measure may be forced
by arms upon kindred States !
The appeal of Magoffin, however, is, we
judge, little better than an appeal to the Liiw
coin Congress against itself. The Kentucky
Legislature, if it is the same as met last winter,
are either free soilers or without the moral
courage to take issue with Lincoln. If the
people do not save themselves, nothing remains
for them but to be abolitionlzed.
IS THERE NOT A CHANCE?
Gov. Magoffin’s extra session d^^fie Kentuc
ky Legislature meets on the 14th ! If perad-
venture it should take any ground against tin
incendiary schemes of Lincoln, every man of it,
as things stand, will be bastiled at once. But
is there not a chince for the Confederate army
to lift tho despotism and allow that Legislature
to speak freely and speak right if it will ? Is
there not a chance ? Is not the object worth
striking for and striking hard for, and pushing
on with more despatch and vigor than seem to
have characterized Confederate movements
heretofore in that direction ?
THE NORTH AND THE NEGROES.
We question, and we think most reasonably,
whether the course of the Lincoln party in re
gard to “contraband soldiers” is not destined to
have a most disastrous eflect upon their war
preparations. Already the Northern papers
tell us of three mobs in Northern cities, accom
panied with loss of life, and even the rural dis
tricts are inflamed with a most bitter spirit
against the negro. The laboriug population of
the North, always animated by a hatred and
loathing of the negro which we cannot appro
ciate, is incensed in thj highest degree with the
propositions of the “equality” men, and it is a
chance if the effort to introduce hin> into the
army as a fellow soldier, does not breed muti
ny and discontent which will be destruction of
efficiency in the Federal army.
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