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Joseph Clisby
MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M., SEPTEMBER 5, 1862.
Volume ‘XXXVI.—Xo. 50
Judo* I.ochkane's Orniv.—Wo devote the
most of our space to-day to this Opin>on, in
deference to many who think the subject of
such importance, and the views taken so clear,
well fortified and comprehensive, that it should
be placed before the public at once. We think
the Judge is right and sustains himself ably—
but, then, as it is more than fifty years since
we abandoned tho practice of law, the Teles
graph has a naturnl modesty about expressing
an opinion upon a subject matter in which he
has to say the least, become very rusty.
llow to Dotect Counterfeit Treasury
Note*.
In the $ 100 Hills.—In the yenyine the right
hand corner of the little square enclosing the
words, “receiveable in payinefit ol all public
dues,” is directly under the centre of the letter
n in the word "months,” above. In thecoun
t< r cit, it is under the letter u. In the yenuine
the mule at the cotton screw is very indistinct,
and has his head towards the mule in the wa
gon. In the counterfeit, the mule is very dis
tinct, and has his head turning the other way.
hi tht $20 Hills.—Thu same remark is ap
plicable to the little square or seal above
noted. In the genome tho corner is under the
n - in the lorgvd note it is under the o. In
the vignette ol a ship under sail—in the genu
ine bill there is a little ship at the left hand
corner in the counterfeit there is no other hut
the one large ship. In the genuine bill, in the
extreme light hand lower corner the XX is
upon a ground work of two hearts—in the
counterfeits, but one.
The above, we are assured, are uneniug in
dicia for the detection of such counterfeits as
have been seen about Macon. w*
What Torco will tho Fodorala bring into
tho Field after Frost ?
I I>on tins question a philosophic gentleman
writes as follows:
I hate carefully noted, Mr. Telegraph, what
you and your brother editors have to say about
the Yankee force which is to "chaw us all up"
next winter. I give you credit for a spirit of
patriotic caution, hut still think, while it is
sale not lo undervalue the enemy, it is wise to
take a just anil not an exaggerated view of
what lie will be able to accomplish. Now read
no, and you shall have it; and let the Con
grrftuuen at Richmond, who seem to think
they can make up for past rctriissness by in
dulging in > foolish panic, in which they talk
I as ii they would eonscribe all, even their grand
mothers, digest their scare to suit themselves.
Listen then I I say that with all the new Yan
kee let ies, the North will go into this Fall's cam
paign weaker than she did into last Fall’s, and
comparatively with the Confederate force, very
much weaker. And this is the way 1 count.
Lust Fall the Yanks had 763,000 men upon
their muster rolls, and these men had been
seasoned and prepared for service by long dis
cipline and schooling in camps of instruction.
Of this number they were able to put into ac
tual service 412,000. On our side we had in
actual service, Last ol the Mississippi, say
125,1*00 men, a large portion of whom were
-tuck and unlit for duty, though in camps. They
had us then by 287,000 men.
Now what will they do this Fall7 I am will
ing to admit that out of their old force they
will be able to bring 200,000 men, for active
•service in the field, and still maintain their nu
merous garrisons. This garrison duty is now
performed by the three months volunteers,
whose term ofscrvioe is just expiring ; and that
‘alone has enabled them to keep the field with
■an actice lorce now a little exceeding 200,000.
I will give them 200,000 out of the old levies.
And now for the 600,000 new ones 1 What has
'been the uniform experience with new troops
in the South—Federal and Confederate 5* 1 say
it has been, that not one half of new troops
-called into the field are fit for service during
the first six months. Now here are men taken
from civil life and put raw into the camps on
the Potomac in September ! They will sicken
and die like rotten sheep. Not half of them
will he available for active service; but take
one half and then the Federal army numbers
for active duty in the Fall campaign 200,050
disciplined soldiers and 300,000 new recruits—
a far weaker army than it had last Fall. On
our side, I believe we will be confronted, un
der the present conscription, by a force of400,-
O00 efficient troops, and if so, where Is thejust
ground for apprehending the long train of dis
asters which tho press and the talkers in Con
gress seem to dread 7 I say make any reason
able figures you please and we are still rela-
lively far better situated for successful defence
than we were last Fall. The President is right,
and if Congress extends the Conscription ab
solutely to forty-five, leaving no discretion to
him, but to call them out at once and all of
them, it will bean unwise piece of business,
and needlessly disorder society.
Colntihjkits of the Manufacturers’ Bank
Change Billy are in circulation a fac sim.
ile ol the pitting, except that they are on
white puf-cr, whereas the genuine are on paper
which has been printed on one side in Lottery
tickets. The counterfeits are also signed with
any fictitious name, whereas the genuine hear
the name of the Bank Cashier.
CUT OFF FROM MANASSAS.
The Atlanta Confederacy of yesterday has
news that Stuart's movement cut off the retreat
ol Pope towards Mnnassas and turned his whole
army towards the Rappahannock, or perhaps
the Potomac. That news we fear, is a little too
good to be true.
FROM VIRGINIA.
The news is important. Pope’s position at
YVarrenton has been turned and Manassas is
occupied by a portion of our forces. Cut offin
his retreat to Alexandria, he is compelled to
fight, and our people are confident he will Lie
whipped signally—disastrously—his army cap-
tured or demoralixed. See the article from the
Richmond Dispatch of the 29tli, which is our
latest news at this writing.
northern Ptrnus over JtlrClellnn
Retreat.
For the amusement of the reader we clip the
annexed extracts from the New York Times,
16 th ult. They are part of a long article shout
ing over the success of McClellan's third change
of base. Few will believe that such an amount
of glorification as this should have been provok
ed by ao melancholy and ignominious an occa
sion, unless they read it for themselves, and
are actually assured that it is hardly a drop in
the bucket of what the Times prints upon the
subject Since the famous “Retreat from Mos
cow” there has been no such disastrous cam
paign on record as that of McClellan on the
Peninsula. It was not only a total failure in
respect to the object sought, but, if we may
credit McClellan himself, it destroyed two
thirds of his vast army, while “mount of eac
loss in stores and munitions of war—in arms
and in army paraphernalia, must have been
many millions. He landed his vast army upon
the Peninsula in the conscious strength of over
whelming numbers—they then stood relative
ly 150,000 to 10,000. The mechanical ingenu-
ty and military science of the 19th century
had been exhausted in the outfit of this "grand
army" with every appliance to give it efficien
cy and security ; but alter eight months’ fruit
less operations, baffled and defeated at every
point, with a loss of one hundred thousand
men, the sad debris of this once gallant army,
sick, worn out, dejected and demoralized, suc
ceed in making their escape. It is upon such
an occLsion as this that the Times exclaims:
Is O-ir brave army safely withdrawn from
the banks of the James river 7 If so, a great
ictory has been won. Talk of the evacuation
ot Manassas as a successful piece of strategy 1
Any weak General, with an object to gain by
it, cou:d strike his tents and fiee away by rail
road, as the rebels did from Manassas. They
ad no enemy in tho rear or on either flank ;
and nc enemy could get there without obser
vation. But Gen. McClellan has been literally
surrounded by the rebel armies. They have
invested his camp, outnumbering him immense-
They have been daily, for a month, mena
cing h a communications with his government
and threatening to cut off his supplies. They
have boasted that he was in their power and
that his army should never escape. It was to
be captured or driven into the James river to
perish!
It has not perished. It has not been harmed.
It has marched out with banners flying, with
bayonets set, and cannon shotted. And once
again its power is free to be uplifted in battle.
Such is the reading of to-day's news.
Thankful indeed for small favors I The vic
tory confidently proposed by McClellan and
the North, was the capture of the Confederate
capita., army and government. For at least
six months (last nothing short of this would
meet -.heir expectations. They looked for it
every day. Their only fear was that the ex
tinguishment would not be quite complete, and
some l.ttle work in crushing the rebellion might,
through carelessness, be left to be done after
wards, That was the victory proposed. The
“victory” achieved, was that 35,000 of the gal
lant force ol 158,000 succeeded in crawling off
unobserved. That achievement, if not a victo
ry, was certainly the next thing to a victory —
that it to say it was a defeat—for in a collision
of an is, there is generally but two alternatives,
and victory and defeat are as contiguous as a
hit Li.d a miss. So to be badly whipped and
lo get off safe, is after all a matter for happi
ness, if not,as the Times makes it,for triumph :
and tne more terriole the hazarl escaped, the
great;r reason for thankfulness. It was per
haps in thisview of the case, that the Times
proceeds:
YV-j are satisfied—we are more than satisfied,
we ate heartily rejoiced—to know that the splen
did army of the Potomac, tried in trenches, in
swamps, in chilling rains, and in torrid heats,
and seven times baptized in the blood of well-
fought battles before Richmond, is delivered
from the jail-yard of the James river hank, and
is once more in the field and free to strike the
enemy whsre it will. Ten thousand thanks
givings for this!
Alas, what a finale is this to the Grand and
Terriffic "On to-Richmond movement.” "De
livered,’’ poor souls, “from the jail-yard of the
James River bank”—that chosen base of Mc
Clellan’s operations I What shall we say to
the strategic wisdom which located its "base”
in a jail-yard 7—what of a victorious army so
glad to get away—except to ask the question
why it went there at all.
Bjt, in the final paragraph of the Time’s fe-
liciUtions we have the rum or amount ot this
victorious retreat It is this:—
The amount of the grand march of the army
of the Potomac is this, that inasmuch as Gen-
eral McClellan’s reinforcements could not well
go to him, he has come to his reinforcemcma
Our army is now a unit—its forces are joined,
and are as one body, governed by one head;
and that head is General Halleck. The na
tion's military proyress in the past month has
besn a miracle vj energy anil enecand gives
foundation far the most sui.yuiue hopes of pa
triots.
Now looking at the whole of McClellans
preparations and campaign, we say decidedly
that is a small “amount” of return for so large
an investment The mountain would not go to
Mahomet and so Mahctnet went to the moun
ts! l. Our army is a unit—our forces united,
and that is the grand icsult of the second cam
paign against Richmond—to wit: that some
feiv of the Yanks lived to get home again—a
remit more fortunate than may happen next
time. This performance of the New York
Tines should ensure him the cap and bells.—
Think of the miraculous progress and success
implied in getting away an invading army re
duced to a third of its original strength. Think
of the “progress” of such a retreat, and how
ing at that it will take to complete the “foun-
ation lor the most sanguine hopes” of the
Lincolnites. We think, if the Times would on
ly read his article at the head of McClellan’s
victorious” columns, the fool killer might be
xcused from any interposition in his behalf
Y case would be made out and judgment exe-
uted on the spot, by an enraged soldiery.
FROM THE WEST.
Every thing wears an aspect highly encour
aging. It will be seen that Morgan’s army at
Cumberland Gap is probably disposed of by
tins time. The correspondence ol the Register
•uid Intelligencer gives an interesting account
ol the situation of things there, and of the ope-
ration* of Col. Morgan. The main army of
Bragg is also on the move, and Price aud Kir
by Smith have taken up ther respective lines of
march. No doubt stirring events are now in
^progress, if we could only hear of them.
Progress in Tennesseo and Virginia
In the telegrams to-day we have an account
of the second brush with the rear guard ot the
enemy in the line of Gen. Bragg's operations.
The first one took place at Bridgeport, on the
27th, and the second at Steverson, a point
about ten miles below, last Sunday. Both
were “artillery duels,” each resulting in two or
three wounded on our side, and some loss of
life by the enemy, who evacuated the place so
soon as they bad secured their object in delay
ing the advance of our forces. From the re
ports of these engagements, it is impossible to
suppose that anything like a serious stand was
designed to be made by the Federals. We are
glad to see that in both skirmishes handsome
mention is made of the Jackson Artillery,
Capt I)nr« — *- r -v -** •—e——- f
From the Knoxville Register, tstb Inst,
GLORIOUS NEWS:
Large \ anker Force Routed by .Uergaa ;
Capture of General Johnson and a Large Num
ber of Yankees.
:n.
Stri p neom tu* Sorghum.—We are indebt
ed to Dr. J. W. Myrick, of Monroe, for a bottle
of Syrup made from the juice of the Sorghum,
or Africau Sugar Cane. It is very good and
palatable. The Doctor says the product aver
ages one gallon of syrap to ten of cane juice.
—It is reported that tome package* of tea,
lately sold at $14 00 per pound in this city
have been re sold in another city at $8 00—a
good profit if the original price, as it probably
was, was paid in counterfeit bill*.— Chaleston
Courier. ' *
Letters from the camp say that Buell is re
treating witli’his main army,and will undoubt
edly distance ours in the race and get off harm
less. These representations, however, do not
probably contemplate dispositions which Gen.
Bragg tnay have made independent^ of his
force in the real, to obstruct the backward
movements of the enemy. It will be difficult
for the country to believe that an as.ute Gen
eral, like Bragg, with the immense resources
at his disposal, has suffered Buell to get out of
Tennessee unmolested, when he seems to have
remained there a month or two on purpose to
be caught. We must take it for grafted that
Gen. Bragg has some strings set to catch him.
In Virginia there seems to be renewed hope
that Pope’s retreat has been intetcepted at
Manassas. So the Richmond papeis, of the
29th, all concur in stating. Our line, from their
representations, probably extends Irom the
Rappahannock to Manassas Junction on the
Potomac side of the enemy, with Pope in front
and Burnsides and McClellan, at Fredericks
burg, in the rear; who are thus cut off from a
junction with Pope either by land or water up
the Potomac. The Richmond papers assert
upon the testimony of deserters, who are daily
coming in, that the Federal army is very much
demoralized—hardly in fighting condition, and
certainly the recent skirmishes—particularly
the attack of Stuart upon them, at CaUetlsburg,'
here with 3,000 cavalry he ran a force of
,000 infantry, artillery aud cavalry, and cap
tured about 400 prisoners, with a loss ol
two or three on his part—seem to justify this
opinion. On the other hand, our forces are
declared to be in the best condition—with few
sick—all in high spirits—confident of success
and believing themselves to be invincible—the
“best army that ever trod a battle field.” The
opinion evidently prevailed in Richmond that
Pope’s army would be cut to pieces. The army
correspondent of the Charleston Courier, “Per-
sonne,” writing from Camp, probably, gives a
just idea of the feeling in the following:
Da*crt»i> arririt la OUl army every <laj, fre
quently forty and fifty, at different points along
our line, and all tell the same story of disgust
for the war. Many of those who are captured
refuse to he exchanged, and say they prefer to
take an oath of allegiance, or remain in confine
ment than to be returned to the North. These
Gets speak volumes, and it is not difficult to
imagine—although we have all along been too
muon given to delusive anticipations—that the
termination of our troubles is near at hand.—
Before the Federal government can avail itself
of its draft of 300,000 men, I have every rea
son to believe that we shall be threatening
Washington, if not moving upon Baltimore it
self. Dratted men in such a cause will be ut
terly valueless. They will be little better than
a frightened herd of sheep at the very first shot,
and will require twice their number in the rear
with fixed bayonets, to prick them up to du-
tj-
One of the straws which indicate which way
the wind is blowing flew in my pathway, du
ring the last few days. A noted Marylander
offered to make a wager with me of one thou
sand to one hundred dollars, that in less than
sixty days the Confederate flag would he Hying
over the Custom House in Baltimore. Pressing
him for his reasons in miking such an appa
rently preposterous statement, he declined to
give them, but said he bettnig was upon a cer
tainty and would invest twenty thousand dollars
in the same way. It is a significant fact, and
doubtless based upon some knowledge to which
the gentleman is privy, but of which prudence
forbids a revelation. There is a great eruption
of these apocalyptic individuals in Richmond
society just now, and they exercise a most sal
utary influence. People breathe easier, talk
more confidently, and through the rifts in the
breaking clouds seem to see “the beginning of
the end.” You will Hot blame me, then, for
predicting that within the aforesaid sixty days.
Providence permitting, your “Army Corres
pondence” will be dated from the other side of
the Potomac. ,
An officer from the army informs me that it
is in fine fighting condition. There are few or
no sick ; the atmosphere is cool ; there is an
abundance of forage for the animals, aud in the
rich placers of corn and vegetables which
abounu in Orange and I.euisa counties, our
men are revelling as they have not done for
months. The roads are likewise good, the
weather delightful and everything favorable to
the designs in view. He confirms the statements
concerning the late battle, which you have al
ready published, and sees no reason why we
should not anticipate a succession of similar
victories.
For the past fortnight skirmishing has been
an event of almost every day, and from a week
ago last Saturday a general battle has been re
garded imminent.
We need not say if the ardent, and appa
rently reasonable, hopes on our side should he
tealized in Tennessee and Virginia—i( the hos
tile armies in those States should be destroyed
or demoralized, it is hardly possible to overrate
the favorable influence upon our fortunes and
prospects that such events will exercise. The
lots of the enemy’s disciplined forces will leave
him well nigh delenceless for the next six
months. He may indeed pile up immense ar
mies of raw recruits ; but they will have little
value even for purposes of defence. Destroy
his armies in Tennessee and Virginia and the
gateway is opened to such a system of aggres
sive warfare, as will make him sigh for the
comfort and security ol peace. It ia believed
our force in both States is ample for that pur
pose, and that with rapid movements the end
can and may be accomplished.
DEATH or ADJUTANT NILES AND UEDT. SMITH.
I he following letter from a gentleman of un
doubted veracity, was received by us yesterday
and we hasten to lay it before the public. It
will be seen that the indomitable Morgan has
met the euemy in large numbers, and routed
them, horse, foot|and dragoon.
Lenoir's, E. Tenn, Aug. 26, 1862.
Dear Register: Your readers have doubt
less learned ere this of the recent battle between
Gen. Morgan and Gen. Johnson, of the Federal
cavalry. Having just returned from the scene
gan’Tn’SMitSi exploits of the ubiquitous Mor-
you some later inforuT.?^ ‘ C ‘ n P^P 8 6 ive
On last Wednesday
iment was dispatched from Nashville by rail,
as far as the burnt bridge at Sandersville, from
thence to proceed on foot to Gallatin, to re cap-
lure that place, and at the same time (if possi
ble) to capture the redoubtable John Morgan,
The Colonel of this regiment (Hetferenj entered
Gallatin, and ai rested every male citizen, in
cluding many of the oldest in the county ; he
permitted his men to sack the stores and des
troy the property of quiet, peaceable citizens ;
and also to enter the Masonic Lodge at Galla
tin and scatter the furniture and paraphanelia
of the order in every direction. They then pro
ceeded with their captives down the road to
ward Nashville. In the meantime, Gen. Mor
gan, with 1200 men; had returned to Gallatin
from Hartsville, and hearing of the recent visit
of the "Yanks,” started with his command in
pursuit
vile chased the Indianians to within ten miles
of Nashville, killing some fifty or sixty, and
capturin b about fifty prisoners. At the junc
tion of the Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad,
and the Louisville and Nashville Road, the
Y'ankees made a stand behind a triangular
stockade work, and Gen. Morgan drew off his
men, rather than sacrifice them in the attempt
to capture the few Y'ankees that had taken re
fuge there, and returned to Gallatin. In the
fight at the Junction two of his officers were
killed—Lieut J. A. Smith, of Co. A, and Adj.
Niles. Only three of the men were wounded.
At Gallatin, the next morning, intelligence
reached Morgan that Gen. Johnson, with a
large Federal cavalry force was rapidly advan
cing. Morgan rallied his men and moved out to
the Hartsville road to meet him. Both parties
ran together at the First Toll Gate on the
Hartsville road, and the tight commenced, hut
ceased shortly at the appearance of a flag of
truce from the Y ankees. Johnson requested
an armistice. Morgan sent word to him that
he had been following him from point to point
for a fight, and now he could get it. The tight
was resumed, but shortly ended in a complete
victory for Morgan—Gen. Johnson, with 600
of his men, having surrendered. About 500
escaped by fording the Cumberland; swim
ming the river and leaving their horses on tfce
wrong side ; and getting on the safe side of that
stream in the speediest and most practical way
possible. As 1 came up to Lebanon about 4
o'clock on the evening of the fight, I saw John
son’s men “skedaddling” (to quote a Yankee
vulgarism) in tne most uiagiu<-viui uu>uu...
Many of them were hatless and even bootless
alter their bootless effort to capture John Moa-
gan. They tamed not in Lebanon, nor even
til they landed safely in Nashville.
Many of them on foot, were pressing horses
and vehicles of every kind with which to get
away from Morgan, and their guns and accou
trements were strewn from Lebanon to the toll
gate nearest to Nashville. They acknowledged
themselves, to the citizens of Lebanon, that
they were badly whipped, in fact “cut all to
pieces.” Morgan, I believe, is still at Harts
ville, or perhaps at Gallatin, and Forest must
have joined him in this time. New recruits
were flocking to Morgan from every direction
in Kentucky and Tennessee, and the citizens
are once again hopeful of deliverance from the
Philistines. I was unable to ascertain Morgan's
loss in the tight I have heard it estimated at
100 killed and wounded, but I do not believe
it is half that. I have just come through trout
Yankeedom, and will he more explicit in my
next letter. Yours, John Happy.
FROM CUMBERLAND GAP.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Intellegencer
writing at Knoxville, the 26th says :
Tho enemy at Cumberland Gap are now com
pletely surrounded and must be captured in a
few days. If the reports be true which we
hear from there, they not only are scarce of
provisions, but there is great division and dis
satisfaction among themselves. I have just
learned that one of the East Tennessee rene
gades, by the name of Mitchell Rose, arrived
in town last night from the Gap. He was a
Major in one of the East Tennessee Regiments,
has resigned his office, and voluntarily comes
with eight or ten of his men to make peace with
the Confederate Authorities. His reasons for
resigning is, because he has at last found out
that this is a war of Abolitionists against the
domestic institutions of the South, and not a
war for the Union. He says his Colonel insis
ted on his remaining a while longer, and that
Kile became satis^ Uftwln Jfil^L^ a i?i n K J&iS
march his whole regiment out from the ranks
of the enemy and disband them.
He, furthermore, says that Crittenden L
making speeches in Kentucky against Lincol
and his Administration, and that Kentucky is
in a blaze of excitement Whether all this be
really true, or whether Rose is making the
most plausible story he can to ensure his peace,
I cannot say. But I feel confident that the
East Tennesseeans now at the Gap, and who
compose the larger part of the army of the en
emy, are very much dissatisfied and are anx
ious to return home.
SKEDADDLING.
It is pretty well ascertained that the enemy,
who have been so long in our neighborhood have
pulled up stakes and vamosed. They have evac
uated the positions held by them opposite Shell
Mound, Battle Creek, Bridgeport, and Steven
son. From a party of scouts who were in the
neighborhood of Stevenson last Saturday we
learn that the enemy nad but a small force left
there, ani^hat they had destroyed and were
destroy in'/jirge amounts of stores, baggage, Ac.
From ajftntleman just from Altamont, fifty
miles nurttf-west of Chattanooga, we learn that
a Brigade T>( Buell’s forces took possession of
that place la-t Friday. They came upou Alta
mont SO unexpectedly, that he and the other
loyal inhabitants, had but fifteen minutes in
ich to make their escape from capture, as
they avowed the intention of taking every se
cessionist prisoner. One or two ofTennessee’s
most eminent men thus barely escaped through
the woods. Another brigade was advancing on
the same place from Nelson’s command at Mc
Minnville. Why these two brigades should thus
meet at such a place as Altamont, we are at a
loss to comprehend, for Buell was evidently re
treating and Nelson advancing. Our informant
thinks they will try to make a stand at Mc-
Minneville ; about here, though, it is thought
that Buell has become alarmed at something or
ot'ier and will not stop short of Green River
Kentucky. It was understood at Altamont they
would not remain there long. They were very
insulting to the ladies of Altamont, who had
husbands, brothets, or other relations in the
Confederate army, or who had left on their ap
proach. It appears that they' found none but
the female inhabitants at home, the male popu
lation all having “gone down the valley for
wheat and corn.”—Chattanooga Rebel, 27th.
By Electric Telegraph
limtortuut from Tennessee.
Brilliant .Vtavrmrnt* of Tlorxnn.
Nelson Retreating from Nashvills.
Intellect Missing.—A correspondent of the
Philadelphia "Presby terian,” reporting the late
sittings of the General Assembly North, of the
Presbyterian Church, says:
“No member from the South proper is pre
sent We miss them. They were, of late years,
among the most distinguished in the Assembly,
intellectually considered.
A Democratic contention is called at Spring-
field, Illinois, on the 10th of September, to
nominate a candidate for Congress from the
State at large, and other offices.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN ROME, GA.
We delay further our present issue to give a
hasty account ol a destructive fire, which oc
curred this (Thursday) afternoon. YVhile we
write the immense Gun Factory, in the lower
part of this city, is being reduced to ashes.
The fire originated in the “drying room,” and
before the workmen were aware of it the roof
of the building was a sheet of fiamc, fortunate
ly, all escaped without injury. Some of the
workmen, we learn, leaped from the windows
of the second story.
The loss will not be far short ol seventy-five
thousand dollars, in machinery, unfinished
guns, Ac., besides the total destruction of the
splendid new three and a half story brick build
ing. The entire community sympathizes with
the energetic and gentlemanly, but unfortunate
proprietors.
The building belonged to our esteemed
townsman, Mr. John C. Eve. We are not inj
formed as to whether there was any insurance
on the building. Dickson, Sadler and Nelson
were not insured.
This aflair was purely accideutal.—Rome
Southerner.
Moke Yankees.—The prisoners captured by
Gen. Stuart in his late expedition in the rear of
the enemy’s fines, arrived yesterday on the
Central train, and were quartered in Libby’s
prison. There were three hundred and fifty-
seven of them.—Richmond Whig.
FROM CUMBERLAND GAP.
The latest, we think, is the following, from
a correspondent of the Sun, dated at the Gap,
23d instant:
All doubts about Gen. Smith’s position are
dissipated. On yesterday the enemy attempt
ed to evacuate. Unfortunately for them, he
met them on the road and drove them back
with great slaughter to the Gap. During the
engagement, or soon after tb* cannonading had
ceased, they made a movement upon our right
wing, commanded by Gen. Burton, but were
driven back to their holes after a sharp engage
ment. Our whole line stood in battle array lor
two hours, expecting them to advance al all
hazards, but they did not come to time. Poor
unfortunates! This work of besieging the Yanks
reminds one very forcibly of youthful sports,
when “rabbits" was (he game and smoke the
ammunition. YYe have got them—emphati
cally got them. More anon. Orderly.
FROM TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY.
The Knoxville Register of the 27th says :
Reliable information has been received hero
last night, that General Smith’s troops had cap
tured three hundred and ninety-six army wa
gons, about twelve hundred horses and mules,
and part of a regiment of Federals.
It is also stated that the telegraph was ope
rated by our men to the Federals at Cumber
land Gap, and it was ascertained that there
were at the Gap between nine and ten thousand
men, with three days’ rations, and that our
forces are in a position to bag the whole garri
son in a short time.
One man, a soldier of our side, was killed day
before yesterday by a bushwhacker close to
Jacks boro.
- ^
The roderals at Cumberland Qap Starv
ing out.
Special despatch to the Savannah Republican.
Knoxville, Aug. 27.— One of Col. John
Morgan's officers arrived here to-day direct
from Hartsville, bringing important informa
tion touching the progress of our arcus in that
quarter. The following is his account:
On the 19th instant, Col. Morgan with his
forces proceeded to a point near Gallatin, where
he encountered a body of three hundred Fede
rals, who had just arrived from Nashville. He
burnt tb e tressel work of the railroad at San-
dersvilh-, thus entirely cutting off their retreat
He thee. made an attack upon the party, and
after a spirited engagement utterly defeated
them, capturing two hundred prisoners, and
killing and wounding sixty.
Morg an also rescued forty citizens who had
been ar rested by the vandals and were being
marche i to Nashville. Two hundred muskets
were aL so captured.
Our loss was sl'ght Adjutant Niles and
Lieut. J. A. Smith were killed a nd three wound
ed.
That night Morgan proceeded to within eight
miles of Nashville, and destroyed the bridges
between Gallatin and the Springfield Junction.
On the 2Cth he returned to the neighborhood
of Gallatin, where he engaged 1200 of the en»
my under Gen. Richard R. Johnson, (formerly
a lawyer at Paducah, Ky.,) with a force on his
side of only 800. These he also defeated after a
fierce engagement, taking 200 prisoners, among
whom are Gen. Johnson and two of his staff
officers; besides killing and wounding ISO of
their men. Our loss was 5 killed and 18 wound
ed.
Col. Grenfeldt and Lieut. Duke greatly dis
tinguished themselves in the action
Bull Nelson is retreating from Nashville to
Bowling Green, it is supposed, with the inten
tion of making that his line of defence.
Cumberland Gap is still closely invested b ’
the Confederates, and it is believed that ,i,
emy cannot much longer stand the seige, as
their provisions are cut off in all directions.
Gen. Kirby Smith has issued an order grant
ing amnesty to all Union men who will return
to their allegiance.
MEETING OF THE BANKS.
At a meeting ol the Presidents of the Banks
in the city of Savannah, held at the Bank ol
Commerce, it was
Resolved, That the Banks of this city decline
to receive in payment or on deposit any Con
federate Treasury Notos of the denominations
of $luo’s $50’s and $20’s of the plate of Hoyer
A Ludwig, of which denominations the coun
terfeits are numerous and alarming.
This action of the Banks has been determined
on to carry out the views of the Secretary of
the Treasury, who has advertised that all genu
ine notes of the kind referred to will be redeem
ed at the office of the Assistant Treasurers, and
it is the design of the Government to issue no
more notes from the plates above mentioned,
and to call in for cancellation all those now cir
culating.
Resolved, That the exact tests by which the
counterfeits can be distinguished from the gen
uine notes, be published for the benefit of the
public.—iSas. News, Lit;
Relatives or Mrs. Lincoln.—-Having seen
numerous paragraphs, in variou.t papers, and
having even copied them ourselves through
mistake, to the effect that Samuel B. Todd, who
was killed at Shiloh; Alexander 1 i. Todd, kil
led recently at Baton Rouge, and Capt V. H.
Todd, now commanding the lower water batte
ry at Vickaburg, are brothers, and. only broth
ers of Mrs. Lincoln, we beg to stat e, from auth
ority, that Mrs. L has only two bi 'Others—one
at present in the Medical corps, C ! . S. A., the
other beyond military age and in feeble health,
but represented in our service by his son.—
Those above spoken of are merely half broth
ers.
The parties at whose instance we write do not
plume theiraalves upon their fortuitous relation
with a pers-on of such unenviable notoriety,but
simply dislike to have their existence ignored
and denied,—-Richmond Dispatch.
i mwu vji uuuiiUtiuillHIlia I
Richmond, 28th.—The New York Times of
the 23d has been received. Ten columns are
occupied with an account of the ovation to
Corcoran’s speeches in New York.
It contains no later news from the seat of
war in Virginia, all correspondents having been
excluded from tlje lines.
A telegram dated Philadelphia, 22nd, says
Private intelligence received in this city con
firms the news of the junction of our artr c
It also announces the death of Col. Coulter,
of the 11th Pennsylvania Regiment,gon the
battle field. |The last three words are
italics.]
Letters to Gov. Ramsey say that hundreds,
if not thousands, of whites have been murder-
eu oy tne inaians in
the Senate to-day House resolution of
to Com. Montgomery and command,
curred in. Also, alter considerable de
use resolution for a joint committee to
ate complaints against the Secretary of
the Na%, was passed ; yeas 15, nays 7.
The consideration of the bill amending the
conscription law, was resumed. Several amend
ments were adopted and the bill finally passed.
In the House several resolutions ol enquiry
were adopted and bills introduced.
A bill was passed increasing corps of artil
lery officers to be assi^J^'to ordnance duties.
FROM THE WE'T.
Mobile, Aug. 30th.—A special despatch to
the Advertiser A Register, dated Tupelo, 29th,
says that fourteen prisoners, captured at Rien
zi, have arrived there. Three hundred of our
guerrillas moved in two parties against the
Yankee camp with the intention of attacking it
on both sides—one party captured the pickets
and took the Y’ankees completely by surprise,
rushing headlong into their camp, *»iiiUi um-
fisted of five regiment* of cavalry and eight of
infantry. The other party failed in attacking,
consequently their small force was repulsed and
pursued by the Yankees. They succeded in
bringing off a number of prisoners. Our loss
will not exceed fifteen. The attack was reck
less and the escape of our forces a miracle. A
deserter from Rienzi, to-night, having left the
camp on Monday, estimates the Yankee force
there at 7,000. Discord prevails in the Yankee
camp, which is overrun with stolen runaway
negroes.
Mobile, Aug. 30.—A special to the Adverti
ser A Register, dated Tupelo, 29th, states that
the Chicago Times, of the 25th, contains the
message of President Davis on the reassem
bling of the Confederate Congress.
A despatch from Cincinnati,Jdated 24th inst,
says that Gen. Buckner, with 25,000 men, is
encamped near Somerset, Ky., and that Gen.
Bragg is at Chattanooga, with 30,000 more.—
aim-. — u.n r„ n0 rted at tb<» , v '‘ , *daf Big
Sandy river with 15,000 men, and the Railroad
in fuli possession of the rebels. No trains can
pass to Nashville.
The ((raft will be enforced on ihe first of Sep
tember. Foreigners who have voted on their
first papers and claiming exemption from draft,
are arrested and pressed into service.
Camp Rappahannock Station, 21st. — A
Cavalry Skirmish took place yesterday; the
Federals lost three wounded, and five prison
ers. Earth works have been thrown up and
bridges constructed to enable the batteries to
cross the river. The first New Jersey Regi
ment was surrounded by the rebels and half
of them captured.
Memphis, 22d.—A guerrilla band came with
in ten miles of the city yesterday and destroy
ed a large quantity of cotton and the bridges
over the Wolf and Hatchie rivers. Five new
companies were recently raised in West Ten
nessee.
It is much feared that a band of guerrillas
are hovering in the vicinity of Mound City, in
Adair county, Missouri.
Col. McCullough, of Porter’s guerrillas, was
sentenced to death as a traitor and shot. Also,
fifteen guerrillas accused were released on their
parole.
Gov. Gamble in a speech at St. Louis, de
cided that Guerrillas are robbers and murder
ers, and he woulc treat them as such.
Yankee accounts of Morgan’s fight, says that
800 attacked 1,700 under Morgan, and were
defeated with a loss of 300, including Johnson,
the remaining 500 escaped.
No telegraphic communication is had South
of Russellville, Ky.
One thousand two hundred and forty Missis-
sippians left Camp Morter, Indiana, for Vicks-
burk on the 23rd. Eight hundred Kentuckiaos
and Tennesseeans have also been released.
A GUERRILLA SKIRMISH.
Mobile, 29th.—A special despatch to the Mo
bile Advertiser and Register, dated Tupelo the
28th says that Col. Faulkner with 300 Confed
erate Guerrillas attacked a Federal scouting
party on Tuesday last, near Rienzi, driving
them back into their camp. Here Col. Faulk
ner’s command was met by a large force of Fed
eral Infantry who drove them back into town.
No estimate of loss on either side.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Lynchburg, Aug. 30.—The Republican says
that Carlisle, who represented Pierpoint's usur
pation in the Lincoln Senate, is stumping the
Western part of Virginia against the war, and
is in favor of the South. At Clarensburg, he
said he was no longer in favor of the war, but
was with the South against the anti-slavery
P——J (!.-( Is — - "a. - • •• » * > a
ting the South.
It ,is reported that the enemy have evacuated
the Kauawah Valley, and that in their retreat
they attempted to bum the Kanawah Salt
Works, but failed.
The citizens of Northwestern Virginia are
Hocking eastward to join the Confederate army.
The news from the seat of war in Virginia
as tar as received, continues to be most cheer*
ing.
THE COMING AUTUMN AND WINTER.
An offictr who came down in the same train
with the prisoners last. Saturday, and who con
versed freely with them and with those taken
at Cedar Run, says they very generally expres
sed this one opinion with regard to the war:—
They did not expect to subjugate the South,
but they were determined to ruin the country
and to compel the inhabitants, by the strong
argument of absolute starvation, to return to
the Union. This they meant to do by contin
ual incursion—by the destruction of bouses—
by the ruin otjerops—by the deportation of ne
groes—by the plunder of cattle, horses, hogs,
Tha
he
and every livi>'o-— •’‘''■/''•ntatipn -
this is tne systemjdetermined upon by higher
powers than these so.diers, we do not doubt.—
The whole country on both sides of the James,
the Rappahannock, and the Potomac, as far up
as Richmond on the first-named river, and as
the mountains on the others, has been reduced
to a desert. A man may travel for miles in any
direction without meeting or overtaking a hu
man being. The houses along tWe road are as
silent as death. The inhabitants have fled; the
inclosures are all broken down ; the windows
and doors are staved in; the very “ab>minat ; on
of desolation” sits brooding in silence over the
land. Such are the ::ruits of the “defenSye po
licy”—so called, we persume, because t de
fends nothing, as a grove was called (in Lvtjn)
"lucus," because the light could not penetrvte
it. Such, we say, are the fruits of this policy
which it would be an abuse of eulogy to call
“infernal,” We have a long line of frontier on
the land, which it is impossible to defend. We
have a still longer scabord, with scarcely a ves
sel. Our enemy has men enough on land and
several hundred vessels afloat. Under these
circumstances, we have been called upon to
stand by the defens .ve policy.
Richmond Dispatch, Aug. 26ih.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Richmond, Aug. 30.—The Senate was not in
session to-day.
In the House two resolutions of inquiry re
lative to it r lalionis, were discussed and finally
adopted. Nothing else of interest was done.
BATTLE AT ^TEVENSON.
Bridgeport, Tenn. Aug. 31st.—Gen. Max-
ey’s brigade, under the command of Col. Mc-
Kinstry of the 32d Alabama, attacked the
enemy at Stevenson at eleven o’clock to day.—
The enemy’s force was twelve hundred strong
comp osed of infantry, cavalry and artillery.
Afl.er four hours’ shelling the enemy evacu
ated their fortifications, leaving on the Nash
ville trains, the common roads and through the
wood s.
A large amount of ammunition and stores
were captured.
Oui • command met with a most cordial re-
ceptio n from the citizens of Stevenson, the La
dies u rging them not to stop till they had kil
led or captured the entire Y’ankee force. The
joy of the citizens at once more beholding the
Confec lerate Flag was unbounded.
We had engaged the 32d and 41st Alabama,
25th Tennessee, Major Gunter’s dismounted
partizai is, CapL Rice’s Cavalry and Freeman
and Dui -e’s llattery—the whole numbering 900
men. Our less was two wounded—noue kil
led. Th e Yankee loss is unknown.
The Ft ideral fortifications at Stevenson were
very strt >ng. Our troops displayed great gal
lantry. Capts. Freeman’s and Dure’s battery
was wort ed witlh great skill and signal effect
H&rvy Maury commanded the 32d Alabama
with cool*ness and marked ability, exposing
himself greatly to the Yankee fire. His cons
duct is much eulogited.
Hill OiUilU UXiaaa»“
YVe were u able yesterday morning to be
present at t* 1 - ■ periments made with the new
shell invet d '’oh George A. Smith, the
firing con..ng oti an earlier hour than had
been appointed, a- x distinguished officer, who
it was wished should be present was under
marching orders. The shells were fired over
water, with ialf the ordinary charge of the
gun, through a plarik target at cne hundred and
fifty yards distance, its only object being to
cause an explosion Eight shots in all were
fired, the first two being solid balls, fired to as
certain the range. The results furnished to us
by a gentleman who was present, were as fol
lows:
1. Solid shot—one foot above target.
2. Solid shot—through centre.
3. Smith Shell, without time fuze—struck
six inches above centre, and burst about two
feet in rear of targeL
4. Same with fuze, partially deranged for ex
perimental purposes—struck about six inches
from centre, and burst four feet in rear of tar
get
5. Same with 3-second fuze—through tar
get, burst about 200 yards in the rear.
6. Shell defective.
7. Smith Shell with fuze, fired at water
struck tho wa’er about three-quarte. s of a mile
distant, and burst five to ten feet under water,
throwing pieces into the air.
8. Same, fired at water—struck halt a mile
distant, ricochetted, struck again about a quar
ter of a mile further up the river; went under
water and exploded in the same manner.
These were all the shells which had been)
pared. The success of the new idea was re
garded as perfect by all who were present, and
we understand that more shells will be prepar
ed without delay for a thorough test—Mobile
Advertiser.
Destruction of the Steamer Emma and her
Cargo.
The steamer Emma, Capt. D. A. Martin, of
406 tons burthen, and about twelve months
old, built in Charleston, S. C., and intended fer
the Charleston and Georgetown passenger and
freight trade, was destroyed by fire, in the Sa*
v&nnah river, early yesterday uiornmg. She
had on board seven hundred and ten bales com
pressed Upland cotton, valued at about $65,-
000, and eight bales Sea Island at $750. She
had two high pressure engines of three hun
dred horse power, aud with her cabin fixtures,
Ac., cost some $70,000.
At 10 o’clock, on Saturday night, she started
from her anchorage near Fort Jackson, and
proceeded on her way, with favorable prospects
of passing the Yankee blockaders. At 11 o’
clock, being under the command of Captain
John Makin, one of our pilots she grounded on
Pumpkin Flat near Venus Point Her coal,
anchors chains, and everything that could be
thrown overboard were immediately disposed
of in order to lighten her, but without avail.—
At daylight she was high and dry on the flat,
with an ebb tide running out
It being discovered that preparations were
making by the enemy at Fort Pulaski to send
a force in barges to capture her, and Captain
Martin seeing the impossibility of rescuing her, •
had her tired in different parts of the ship, alter
securing the passengers, crew, and their effects
in boats. He stayed by her until the flames
seemed to have enveloped her, and then left for
the city. On the enemy seeing the smoke from
the burning vessel, they opened tire upon her
from Fort Pulaski,all of their.shots falling short.
The river was soon swarming with their launch
es, and a chase was given by them to the boat’s
crew, which was kept up, with a running tire
from their boat howitzers, as far as Augustine
creek. The Emma’s passengers and crew suc
ceeded, however, in reaching the city in safety.
Sav. Rep. 1*L
'tl
—A young member of the bar thought he
would adopt a motto for himself, and, after
much reflection, wrote in large letters and post
ed up against the wall the following, “Suani
Cuique,” which may be translated, “Let every
one have his own. A country client coming in,
expressed himself much gratified with the
maxim, but added, "you don’t spell it right
“Indeed I then how ought it to be spelt 7” 1 he A
visitor replied, “Sue ’em quick.”
I
' left Chowan river.—Nat^gKStandard. * T
.*. MS. tUXtatAWAM,
Liberty Hll), Pike county, Qs.