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By Joseph Olisey.
MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M., SEPTEMBER 26, 1862.
Volume XXXVI.—No. 6'
(irM. Lfk’s Admksv-—The AddveM uf ticn.
I^v to tlie people of Maryland is an admirable
paprt. It says just enough and say's it in the
right manner.
CONFEDERATE NOTES.
The August* Chronicle says: Out cyl *paek-
age of about $300 in Confederate notes wc yes
terday picked out tl-errn of different styles of
engraving and printing and these by no means
comprised all the varieties. How can it be ex
pected counterfeiting, can be guarded against,
when every engraver is allowed to choose his
own design and mode of executing bis work
A life time is hardly time enough, with con
slant study to make a person an adept in tlie
detection of counterfeit notes. We nre some
times inclined to think Mai the (»eveminent
itself does not know its own issues, and that
those notes which arc rejected as spurious arc
in reality genuine, especially as the treasury
department has never yet seen fit to designate
an ! describe those which it considers spuri
out.
(■real and increasing embarrassments are
arising trom the action of the Banks in connec
lion with the inaction of the government. The
Banks now refuse to receive any <>f the Moyer
A Ludwig notes on deposit, hut they are very
careful to pay out no other. The consequence
is these hills constitute the hulk of the active
circulation. Every business man receives
them, but unw illingly, because lie cannot de
posit them. It is of vast importance that some
arrangement should be made at once to retire
these bills, and it should l»c a convenient ar
rangement, operative in every important centre
of trade throughout the t'onlederatc States.
But to keep up the circulation of notes which
the Banks dishonor- shave off upon their cus
tomers until they refus^to receive them, must
be prejudicial to the. of the Confederate
currency. Lot lire fi^^iicnt require th
to be lundcil, if it c^W^Wrt
other bills.
it cat
place them with
Cm. Jack Bkown’s Regiment left Macon for
Richmond at six o'clock last night.
Success and prosperity attend them.
Spkucino lip.—It seems that General Lee is
unwilling that the Southern hoys should go a
visiting in their old and war worn clothes. -
Several barefooted soldiers returned from the
Potomac to Richmond Friday last, who report
ed that they had been turned hack at the lords
of the Potomac by orders from lien. Lee; no
soldier being permitted to cross over into Ma
ryland except those who were in perfect health
and well shod and clad.
We cul the above from the Savannah Repub
lican, hut it does not tally with the represen'a-
tions of the correspondents of Fuderal news
papers, that most of our troops are “barefoot
and ragged." What is still worse, doubtless,
in their estimation, they state further that our
hoys *eie‘‘*unburnt"—a horrible condition,re-
sultiiK from the neglect to supply parasols and
umbrellas. It must he a terrible mortification
to the Federal troops to have to give way be
fore an army “barefoot, ragged, ill dad and
sunburnt. ’ Shocking!
Ti nnksskk.— As we supposed, (if Buell had
returned to Nashville) he has oeen turned hack
lv Bragg, and he is gone He cannot escape,
if Bragg is the man we take him to l.e.
VALUATION OF THE PRESS.
Thit most profound and august body’, the
Senate of the Confederate States, has nt last
furnished the w ot hi with a comparative valua
tion of t.ia newspaper press. Time was when
the printers all thought a newspaper of wide
circulation a power in the State ; and the em
ploy ees connected therewith, very considerable
people. It was supposed that men who daily
address#! anil informed forty thousand read
ers,iurulred a va.>t responsibility and exercised,
for good or evil, a large influence—in fact that
they miffit rank in jsiint of consequence to so
ciety will the man who taught twenty schol
ars—wty occasionally addressed a petit jury,
eachrd twice on Sunday to a congre-
hundred persona. _ But the Con
nate nettled all these points this
week. 4 ne day they refused to exempt one
editor tdoach newspaper, and the next they
did cxeuit tanners, millers and shoe-makers.
Thus it wll he seen that a tannery, a shoe-ma
ker’s stub or a grist mill is more important
than a nqrapapar.
The Seiate, however, did right in the ex
emption, Vrovided it is not allowed to operate
as a covet la persons who are neither Tan-,
tiers, Sbocnakers nor Millers, hut mere botch-,
es who uldertake the business to shield them
selves fron conscription. They should he ex
empted. \ good Shoemaker, for example,
could make shoes enough for a regiment in a
single year, and are we to he told that it is
more iuipoxant he should he put in the ranks
and carry k musket, than that six or eight
hundred ftfdiers should he shod ? Is it not a
positive ilwdvanlage to the country when
any good shoemaker is taken from his bench,
aud put ti carrying a uiusket? And so of
all other tildes indispensable to supply the
arniv, and' ", which there is a known scarcity
of tradesmen. The only thing we except to is
the stupcndius—tin {inconceivable folly ol re
fusing to xempt such persons as are indi
spensable l the existence of the newspaper
press, whio i in the nature of things, is the
only rnediut- of organized opinion—the only
source of cobuh unication between the governs
meat and the people, and which, if silenced,
would leave (ven this wise Senate itself prac
tically as voifeless as the grave.
GOV. JOHNSON.
Some time since, as a foil to the seven by
nine politicians, who are striving to use the
papers to advance llieir "claim*" (Heaven save
the mark,) to the seat in the Senate made rat
ciint by the resignation of Robt. Toombs, we
ventured to repudiate theYhole ^concern, and
to say in our judgment, if the Legislature real
ly wished to serve their State and not them
selves or their friends, in the election of a Sen
ator, we knew no better choice they could
make than Ex-Gov. JJersrhell V. Johnson.
Since that suggestion was made we have
been gratified with the degree of favor it has
met. Endorsements are continually coming in
to us from all quarters, and most of them from
old time political opponents of the Governor,
and most of them too, from men who will
vote in the election.
Under these circumstances, it seems not ira
probable that Gov. Johnson will have a strong
vote in the Legislature, aud a vote dictated, too,
like our recommendation, upon the simple con
sideration of the public good—the degree ol
service he could render the State and the
Confederacy in the Senate. It is needless to
say we should hail such a manifestation by the
Legislature as the return of l*etter days—of a
purer and more patriotic time—when men
were elected' not by dint of better log rolling or
by the strength of mere personal friendship,
but because they were best qualilied to serve
the country. We print a brief communication
to day from a correspondent who lias all his
lile time held a piomincnt position as an oppo
nent of Gov. Johnson. Read it
or who ffcach
gation ojfive 1
federate Kenat
"ELEGANT EXTRACTS.’
We continue to reprint elegant and eloquent
xtracts from the Northern journals. They
re si) profoundly tjolorous deeply, darkly,
beautifully blue. They are angry and dissatis
fied with everything, and have descended at
ast from crises of a campaign—of ninety,
sixty and thirty days, to the crisis of a minute.
All the swelling magniticence, except that of
periods and apostrophes, is taken out of them.
The talk 6f grand armies, invincible legions,
Young Napoleons, Ceasars, J'oiupvys aud llau-
nihals is gone. The threats of annihilation
and crushing ire suspended France, England
and the remainder of Europe, may, for a hriel
season, at least, enjoy a comfortable repose,
unlntcruplcd by the threats of Bennett aud his
colaborera. What is more curious and extra
ordinary, and indicative of the extreme dis
composure prevalent in the region of Gotham,
the pajM-rs begin to tell the truth—a thing they
would never do except in extremis or approx
imating to it
We have published more truth from the New
York papers in the last two numbers of
the Telegraph, than they have printed In-fore
in the whole course of the war. The future
Confederate historian of this war vyill hav
high fun contrasting the Northern press
September, 1*62, with the same prints at any
previous period in the conflict. As much
they were vain, over-confident and boastful
then, just so much are they now cast down and
despondent. But more than this, they are
wofully puzzled, amazed and confounded w
the present status, that their perplexity is
Self very amusing. They can’t comprehend it.
Their process of reasoning heretofore, parta
king largely of their mercantile and trad
pursuits, has been founded altogether on fi
ures which are said to he incapable of lying.
Turning to the census table, they have found
in the Confederate column eight millions, and
in the Federal column eighteen million eight
against eighteen the result was as certain as
that three is more than one, and they cannot
comprehend why there is not a corresponding
return in the ofllcial reports of the light. They
ought to balance with the census ledgtr, and
the fault must lie in the book-keepers if they
don’t balance. Nothing could show a more
s-ilvent condition than the war does hy these
same census tables, but nothing foot up more
horribly than the cash accounts of the Hope’s,
McClellan’s and other army officers. They
don’t understand it—they won’t understand it
Eighteen men ought to whip eight, and why
then arc the eight not whipped? Hack they
go tJ the census again and demonstrate that,
no matter what may he happening just now.
the law of numbers must at Iasi prevail. Wc
think, if the census tables were burned, the
North might he persuaded to cease the war,
hut tigurers are irresistablcc
The Mew York Times at the Confessional
The Richmond papers copy a queer article
from Raymond’s New York Times, two para
graphs of which we give below. The date of
the Times is not given, and here we beg leave
to suggest that our Richmond contemporaries
are remiss. It would add much to the inters
est with which the public would read their ex
cerpts from Northern papers, if they would but
furnish the date.
In the extracts below, the Times very dis
tinctly discloses a feeling in the North, indi
caled by us some days ago, a readiness-to ac
cept any thing else than disunion. lie says
there is a scheme among a few Northern and
Southern leaders to reconstruct upon the basis
of supplanting Lincoln and driving his party
into obscurity aud disgrace. We say .the sug
gestion is of purely Northern orign, and is not
confined to a lew leaders, hut is the present
popular impulse. It is impossible in 'he few
extracts from Northern paper- wc quote in io
day’s issue to give an idea of the confusion, and
lespondency which exist at the North.
If ever a people were perfectly non plussed,
disappointed in all their calculations and utter
ly confounded, the Federals arc now. Their
overweening pride has given place to a feeling
of almost utter helplessness and humiliation.
The Tunes says:
We tremble to think of what may r follow the
successful lodgment of a rebel army on loyal soil.
We do not fear the division of the Union, so
much as the overthrow of the Government. No
man of ordinary political sagacity can conceal
Irom himself the fact that there is a deep, strong
undercurrent of political machination underly
ing all the movements of tin- war, and giving
haracter and color to the developments of pub
lic opinion. There are men North and South
men of ability, of character, of position, both
civil and military—who look to the possibility
of saving the Union in other ways than by sim-
ply conquering the rebels and compelling by
force their return to their allegiance. We need
not tell any one that therc-are men who regard
war as having been brought upon the
Mu. Closet: Amongst the suggestions re
cently made, as to the gentleman most appro
priate to till -he place of Confederate Slates
Senator, 1 notice the name of Herschel V.
Johnson. I have never in the old party align
ments ol our country, agreed, I think, for a
- ingle hour with Gov. Johnson ; this you and
all Georgia wiuld unite in saying if my nanie
M rrc disclosed. Notwithstanding this, I am
well satisfied that he of all the public men
of our Slate, and who are not already in position,
is in these trying times the man for the oc
casion.
* ■overnor Johnson is a States Rights man “of
the strictest s.-ct,” of large capacity, much
experience in public affairs, well versed in the
public law of Luis and other countries, a histo-
L nan of ample Darning, a good rcasoner, otic.
| of the best speakers in the commonwealth >
\ stern in pnuciple aud honest in practice; aucb|
u man, in one word, as our young Republic
prt-ds as a legislator, to lay deep and broad
|br Inundation.-, of our confederate prosperity.
Momboz.
FROM THE WEST.
We have important news from the West, and
news which will rather disappoint the reader
the escape of the Federal Morgan from Cum
berland Gap and of Buell trom Nashville, be
tween the Cuuioerland and Tennessee rivers.
Both, we fear, will succeed in making good
their retreat to a friendly country, though the
hances are better for Buell than for Morgan.
There must have been a lack of vigilance upon
the part of our force north of the Gap to have
perndtted Morgan to slip out This is a mor
tifying and a lame conclusion of all the assur
ances. reiterated every day for six weeks past,
that Morgan was hopelessly surrounded and
cut off. For the rest, in Tennessee, it is clear
that our army movements have been loo stoic.
A week of time gained would have probably
resulted in the capture of Buell.
The news from Kentucky detailed by the
Statesman is highly gratifying and interesting.
We commend it to the attention of the reader.
Gen. Bkagg.—The Chattanooga Rebel, of the
18th, says that Gen. Bragg was in Glasgow,
Kentucky, on the 14lh, a point almost due
East of Bowling Green, from which it is dis
tant say thirty-live or forty miles. It is pos
sihle Gen. Bragg may not, at that time, have
known that Gun. Buell had turned back to
Nashville, or if he knew it, he perhaps designs
moving on to Louisville, leaving Buell in his
rear. A branch of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad connects Glasgow with both places,
and the distance to Louisville from Glasgow is
apparently, by the map, not more than ninety
to ninety-live miles.
Thanksgiving day was observed by our
cotpuiunily- with far more than usual solemni
ty- Tlie stores and all places of business were
closed, public worship was observed in all the
churches, and fhc streets were as silent as they
are on Sundays.
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country by the triumph ol the Republican party,
and who do not believe it possible to end it
and preserve the Union, until the results of
that triumph are for tlte moment set aside, and
the country has a chance to plant the Govern
ment upon another basis. But we can tell
President Lincoln that there are men in the
army who do not believe the war will end, cx -
cept by conceding the independence of the
South, unless the Government is again restor
ed to Southern control or a Coveiition is held
to form a Constitution under which both North
and South can live together in a common Union.
We do not know that any officer in the army
would advocate, or in any event aid the execu
tion of such a scheme. ' But we warn the Pres
ident against doing anything, direitly or indi
rectly, by neglect or by positive acts, to en
tourage the development of such a sentiment,
or to stimulate in any heart the toleration *of
such a thought. We need not warn him ol
the absolute necessity of crushing, the growth,
of such tn-asnn and disloyalty in its beginnings
But we may warn him that this cannot he done
by the exercise of force, hut only by the display
ot strength on the part of the Government.—
What the people want is a Government ade
quate to the emergency —a Government strong
enough to meet any danger, however great
strong in will, strong in judgment, strong ui
resources, and strong in the confidence and
respect of the people. President Lincoln’s
Government is not strong in any ol these res
poets.
Upon one thing the country may,rely: it is
only such a Government that can main lain,it
self against this rebellion. Any other will he
swept away hy a usurpation. We live, it must
i*o remembered, in a day :t revolution, when
violence and force give the law to national ac
tion, and when strong, hold men will throw-
aside forms and usages, however sacred, which
stand in the way of what they may regard as
the welfare of the nation, and place power in
hands that are strong, however they may he
stained w ith the blackest and most damning
guilL
Did any body ever read the like. Nothing,
according to the Times can save the North, but
a Government -strong in will, judgment, re
sources and public confidence, and “Lincoln’s
Government is not strong in any of these res
pects.” What a “warning”—whether more
significant,or more useless, is a pregnant ques
tion. Only a strong Government “can main
tain itself against this rebellion, ’and Lincoln’s
Is not a strong Government If the Times is
Mr. Seward’s organ, we think Mr. Seward
should l>e called on to explain what this article
means.
FROM MARYLAND.
Our army operations open promisingly in
Maryland. By an adroit movement, Stonewall
Jackson, after diverting the attention of the
enemy by threatening Pennsylvania, suddenly
diverged upon Martinsburg and Harper's Fer
ry, and surrounded, cut off and captured eleven
thousand men with all their arms, stores, and
appurtenances, and some two thousand contra
hands, whom they had inveigled or stolen from
Virginia masters. All this was done with a
loss of three killed and forty wounded
achievement which caps the climax ofJackson’s
fame as a military strategist
Meanwhile, so far as we can frame a rational
hypothesis on the very meagre data furnished
by the telegrams in hand, at present writing, it
would seem that McClellan, the Young Napo
leon, taking advantage of the detached posi
tion of our forces has conceived and is trying
to execute, the very Napoleonic idea of falling
upon them in detail, with his whole force of
eighty thousand men and cutting them off be
fore thej’ can he massed. It will he seen he
has tried his ’prentice hand first upon D. H.
Hill’s division at Sharpsburg on Sunday, the
14th, but without effect. Hill stood his ground,
and is said to have captured 3,000 prisoners.—
Next day it is stated he was re-inforced by
Longstreet’s division, and the fight being re
newed, the enemy was repulsed and driven
hack three miles.
The last despatch, however, (we mean the
last we have at this moment and not what wc
may receive before going to press,) makes no
mention of Longstreet’s juction with Hill, and
we are therefore uncertain whether it was made
or not. That dispatch leaves McClellan con
fronting the Confederates at .Sharpsburg,
and a grand battle believed to be impending,
which lias probably been fought before this
time.
Some feel a good deal of uneasiness about
this position of mutters—the enemy massed in
full force and our army apparently scattered ;
hut wc feel none. Wc confidently believe that
Gen. Lee has placed things in that position to
invite an attack from McClellan, and that hav
ing seduced him so (ar Northward as Sharps-
burg, which is ten miles above Harper’s Ferry
on the other side of the Potomac, and leaves
Gen. Jackson that much in McClellan’s rear,
with a strong probability tliat A. P. Hill’s and
other divisions are between him aiul Washing
ton, which is sixty or seventy miles distant, we
think it will he little short of a miracle, if Mc
Clellan does not lind himselfcompletely entrap
ped and compelled to surrender.
With a thorough practical knowledge ol the
fighting capacity of his own troops and ol the
enemy, ami the peculiar disastrous results
which must flow from defeat at this juncture,
we do not for a moment allow ourselves to
Is-lieve that Lee has suffered himself to be be-
tr.-i}ed into any serious hazards, and we think
all his movements, even that of Jackson on
Harpers Kerry, look to entrapping McClellan,
who would not he likely to risk an engagement
with an army in force. We hope and believe
he has got him hy this time ; hut we shall see
when the news comes.
By Electric Telegraph
CONGRESSIONAL.
Richmond, 17th.—In the Senate the exemp
tion bill was further considered. The clause
exempting tanners, shoe makers, millers, etc.
was agreed to. Also, the clause exempting
Quakers and Dunkers ; and another exempting
Physicians. The clause exempting Theological
students was stricken out.
An amendment to exempt overseers of plan
tations pending.
In the. House a resolution was adopted in
structiog the Juuiciary Committee to report a
bill establishing a Supreme Court of the Con
federate States.
Substitutes were offered lor the Conscript
bill, by Davis, of Mississippi, and Bonham, of
South Carolina; both were rejected. The ori
ginal House bill passed, yeas, 49—nays jfd.
Both Houses adjourned until Friday., -t
In the House yesterday, Foote introdVJLjt
resolution, proposing to send a Commissioned
or Commissioners to Washington, empowered
to propose terms of a just and honorable peace.
Holt, of Georgia, submitted a substitute,
declaring that the people of Confederate States
have ardently desired peace from the beginn
ing ; and whenever the United States Govern
ment shall have .manifested a like anxiety, it
shall be the duty of the President to appoint
Commissioners to treat aud negotiate with said
Government. The resolutiou and substitute
were laid upon the table ; yeas, 59—nays, 26.
CHARLESTON, V.V, TAKEN.
Richmond, Sept 17.—An official despatch
frl“l Gen. Loring, dated Charleston, Kanawha
county, says, that after incessant skirmishing,
we took this place at 8 P. M., in the evening.—
With six regiments strong, the enemy made a
strong resistance, burning their stores andjnost
BATTLE OF COTTON HILL.
Mobile, Sept 19th.—A special dispatch to
the Mobile Advertisir k Register says:
Knoxville, Sept 16th.—An express mes
senger from Lynchburg has just arrived, with
the news that a battle has been fought, at Cot
ton Hill, Fayette County, Ya., between our
forces under Gen. Loring and the Yankees.
Thg,enemy's loss is six hundred and ours 25.
Among our killed is Lt Cox of the 51st Va.
Regiment
The enemy was totally routed.
FROM CUMBERLAND GAP.
Knoxville, Sept 17th.—The enemy pre
pared to evacuate, at Cumberland Gap, on the
14th, instant. They sent all their sick to the
rear and prepared to blast rockr, with which
to block the road against pursuit
Their advance had reached Loudon, when
they received news of a favorable character,
(which unfortunately for them was false,) and
the orders for evacuation were countermanded.
SURRENDER OF HARPER’S FERRY.
Richmond, 19th.—Gov. Letcher received let
ters to-day from Winchester dated 16th, con
firming the report of an unconditional surren
der of ten thousand Yankees, at Harper’s Ferry
on Monday, without loss of a man on our side.
Jackson captured titty pieces of artillery, am
munition, stores, kc.
The letters L-eet y mention an engagement in
Maryland between Boonsboro’ and Middletown,
in which the enemy were repulsed with report
ed loss of live thousand, killed and wounded.
Confederate loss heavy. No further particulars
received.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Richmond, Sept. 19.—In the Senate the
House bill to provide for the payment of troops
raised in Missouri hy Gen. Price, passed
The Exemption Bill was f urther considered.
The House passed a bill fixing the rank and
of the town in their retreat. Our loss sflgW- W of Adjutants of Independent Battalion*-
GREAT BATTLE IN MARYLAND.
We do not doubt the news of the Great Bat
ties in Maryland on Sunday and Motday last
hut the telegram is terribly meagre. It does
not even name the place ot the light. Hie NorJi
ern news of the 9tli, however, whicl we pub
lish to-day, indicates a probability tlat it was
at some point between Rockville and Freder
ick, and raises a suspicion that some of Stone-
wall’s pranks may he re-enacted. If the ene
my had moved up well north of Rockville, to
wards Frederick, what was to hinder Jackson
from moving Southward from Harper's Ferry—
re-crossing the Potomac and taking him in the
rear, and so cutting off his retreat to Washing
ton ?
It will he seen that Jackson’s mevements to-
ards Pennsylvania, which culminated in
descent upon Martinsburg and Harper’s Ferry,
had completely misled tile enemy. The des
patch from Chicago explains that sol only were
they confident a movement into Pennsylvania
as designed, but exceedingly perplexed to
discover at what point the blow was aimed.
We have no idea that a movement into Penn
sylvania was ever intended, or that more was
designed hy the feints in that direction than
has been accomplished, to-wit: deceiving the
enemy.
Lastly that Gen. Lee left Gen. D. 11. Hill's
single division to meet an army of 80,000 men
dvancing from Rockville, when it has been
known since the 7th that the enemy were mas
sing there in force, is an. improbable supposi
tion. They were left there for a purpose con
nected with some plan of a general battle, and
we think this will he seen when we get all the
news; when, if llill did not miscarry in his exe
cution ol orders, we hope McClellan has found
his retreat intercepted. It seems to us, how-
er, that Hill was' put there for mere skir
mishing purposes, and to entice the enemy into
the interior. However, we shall see what wc
shall see.
I Fttoa Huntsville.—Our old friend, the
Huntsville Advocate, appears once more, after
Isus[tension enforced by the Federals since
tlie 7th of April last. The Advocate says the
people of Huntsville have learned a great deal
iHthat time. We cannot 4o$*f it
IMPORTANT NEWS.
In our telegraphic column our readers will
find a vartety of dispatches, hut the most im
portant is that which we have just received (9
lock). It will l*e seen that a terrible battle
has been fought at Sharpsbuag, in which we
hate lost three Generals and four have been
wounded. The fatter part ot the dispatch says
that it was reported that our army had routed
and driven tlie enemy nine miles. Wi • hope
that before going to press we will receiv e addi
tional news confirming the report
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LINCOLN ISM IN OHIO.
The Richmond Enquirer announces upon the
authority of an escaped citizen of Oil io, that
Sam’. Medary’s paper, the Crisis, has b»cen sup
pressed. The Enquirer says : '
The experiment is now being tested at the
Nortff Between Lincoln and the people whether
be will ho able to crush dotr.i and crush out
their spirit of freedom, or whether they will he
at last provoked to rise and. crush him. So far,
Lincoln leadfl. .
Addross of Gun. Robt. E.X-eo to the People
of Maryland-
Hkadouakteks Akuy N. Virginia,/
Near Frederick town, Sepj. hth, 38fi2. f
TO TUK 1-LOI‘Li: or MARYLAND.
It is right that you should know the purpose
that has brought the army under iny command
within the limits of your State, so far as that
purpose concerns yourselves.
Tlie people of the Confederate - States have
long watched, with the deepest sympathy, the
wrongs and outrages that have been indicted
upon the citizens of a Commonwjjafih, allied
to the States of the Sout(i, by the condition of
a conquered province.
Under the pretence of supporting the Con
stitution, hut in violation of its most valuable
provisions, your citizens have been arrested
and imprisoned upon no charge, and contrary
to all forms of law; the faithful and manly
protest against this outrage made by the vene
rable and illustrious Marylander, to w horn, in
better days, no citizen appealed for right in
vain, was treated with scorn and contempt;
the government of your chief city has been
usurped by armed strangers; your .’legislature
has been dissolved by the unlawfrd arrest of
its members; freedom of the pi ess and of
speech has been suppressed; worths have been
declared offences by anaibitrary decree of the
Federal Executive, and citizens -ordered to be
tried by a military commission ;for what they
may dare to speak.
Relieving that the people of Maryland pos
sessed a spirit too lofty to subcait to such a
government, the people of the Sc uth have long
wished to aid you in throwing off this foreign
yoke, to enabje you again to enjoy tho inaliena
ble rights of freemen, and restore independence
and sovereignty te your State.
In obedience to this wish, our army h as come
among you, and is prepared to assist you with
tlie power ot its arms in regaining the rights of
which you have been despoiled.
This, citizens of Maryland, is our mission, so
far as you are concerned.
No constraint upon your free will is in tended,
no intimidation will be allowed.
Within the limit of this army at least Mary
landers sliall once more enjoy their ancii ;nt free
dom of thought and speech.
We know no enemies among you, s.nd will
protect all of every opinion.
It is for you to decide your destiny?, freely
and without constraint
This army will respect your choice, what
ever it may be, and while the Southom people
will rejoice to welcome you to your natural p p-
sition among them, they will only welcoeue
you when you come of your own free will.
R. E. Lee, Gen’I Corn’dg.
The enemy’s loss is very heavy, and he is in
full retreat Jenkins is in his rear.
FROM RICHMOND.
Richmond, 17th.—The Secretary of War
received a dispatch to-day from Major Brown,
commanding the post at Dublin, stating that
Gen’I Loring’s command entered Kanawha
Salines, on last Saturday morning and took
possession of the Salt Works, closely pursu
ing the enemy en route for"Charleston.
The Salt Works are not much injured. A
very large quantity of salt on hand, selling at
35 cents per bushel.
An order has been issued urging the farmers
to send forward their wagons loaded with for
age, &c., and return with salt
Richmond, 17th.—An official dispatch from
Chattanooga, confirm the occupation of luka,
by Gen. Price’s army, and the capture of seve
ral hundred thousand dollars worth of artillery
and stores.
A private dispatch from Staunton to-day,
says that the force at Harper’s Ferry taken by
Jackson on the 15th, was 8,0l»0 Yankees; and
1,000 negroes were captured.
Wakrenton, Ya., Sept. 18.—Joe. Clisby :—
My son is doing well; also Lieut. Coley. Both
will be able to leave in a few days. Mail imme
diately to Mrs. S. N. Lassiter, Vienna. She will
send immediately to Wellwood. Publish.
S. N. Lassiter.
Great Battle in Maryland.
Richmond, 11th.—The report of a tight at
Harper’s Ferry, and the capture of 8,000 pris
oners, is confirmed.
(ien. D. II. Hill, .on Sunday last, was at
tacked in Maryland with eighty thousand men.
The fight continued all day, with heavy loss on
both sides. On Monday Hill was reinforced
hy I.ongstreet, the battle was renewed and the
enemy driven hack three miles.
Gen. Garland, of Virginia, was killed In
Sunday’s light llis body arrived in Richmond
this afternoon.
Special Despatch to the Savannah Republican.
Vicksburg, Sept 17th. About 8,000 ex
changed prisoners arrived here last night . \11
those from Fort Pulaski are here, and will be
FROM LOUISIANA.
Gami- Moore, 17th, via Montgomery 18tli.—
The Yanks, 200 strong, cauie up the Railroai
to Poucbatula, on Monday, and burnt seven or
eight cars. They lost live or six killed and
about the same number wounded, and a few
prisoners. Our loss was one killed and a ft?
wounded.
IUKA TAKEN.
Mobile, 18th.—A special dispatch to the Ad
vert iser k Register dated luka, tlie lGth, says
this place was captured on Sunday morning
Iasi. The enemy evacuated it during the ni -ht.
and but for a premature attack, wc s’
have captured the whole garrison. V* i took
over a million dollars value in stores. The
enemy was strongly fortified. Our loss was
five, and the enemy’s thirty, of \Ciom ten were
left dead on the field. Our forces arrived in
time to save the town from destruction. The
citiz.ens were lound with their household goods
out doors, waiting the application of the torch
of the vandal enetnr. They carried off 200
negroes, thirty of whom were recaptured by
our scouts.
Twelve houses and threemills were destroyed
on the line of march from Marietta to luka.
They retreated in the direction of Corinth.—
They made a demonstration on our lines last
night, as is believed, a feint to cover their re
treat. Also, they are crossing the Tenessee
river at Hamburg.
FROM THE NORTH.
The Chicago Times of the 13th instant, says
that Stonewall Jackson has left Washington
and Baltimore to the right, and is marchingon
Hr.rrisburg. Jackson’s Cavalry advance is on
every road, creating consternation, it not being
ki town at what point he will make a demon-
st ration,
Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, has called up
on the Mayor of Philadelphia to furnish 20,000
men in twelve hours for the defence of Harris
burg. The hour of retaliation has come.
| Also adopted a resolution of thankl
Major General Magruder and Commandant
Foote, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
reported hack resolutions in relation to the
conduct of the war, and navigation of the Wes
tern rivers, with modifications.
Barksdale, of Miss., presented minority re
port ; both reports were ordered to be print
ed.
glorious particulars.
Gordonsville, 19th.—At Harper’s Ferry we
paroled eleven thousand and ninety Privates,
four hundred and twenty-five officers; took
two thousand negtoes, fifteen thousand stand
of small arms, and forty-six pieces oi cannon
Col. Walker’s Battery took five hundred
horses themselves. Our loss was three killed
and forty wounded. Their dead were covered
in ditches, and wo could not tell how many
there were.
In the light, at Sharpsburg, we took three
thousand prisoners. Gen. Garland and Co).
Strange were killed. Gen. D. II. Hill was
roughly handled, hut managed to hold the
enemy in cheek.
CUMBERLAND GAP EVACUATED.
Mobile, Sept. 20.—A special despatch to the
Advertiser and Register, dated Knoxville, 19th,
says that the enemy evacuated Cumberland
Gap on Wednesday night, blowing up their
magazine, destroying all their property, and
blasting rock to blocK the roads. They are re
treatirg by the Harland road to Kentucky.—
Our forces are pursuing them at Cumberland
Ford and Baptiste Gap.
Andy Johnson’s family who were at Green-
ville, East Tennessee, within our lines, have
been permitted by order of the Secretary of S0 ^bT; were taken aboard
War to return to the enemy s lines. ------- -
LATE NEWS FROM NASHVILLE.
Cuattanoooa, Sept. 19.—The enemy have
again evacuated Nashville, this time going
down the Cumberland river. Their occupation of
Clarksville and Fort Donelson, was for the pur
pose of securing this rout ol retreat. The tone
and appearances of the Nashville papers indicate
apprehensions of a speedy occupation of the
place by the Confederates. A train on the
Nashville road started for Tullahoma. eighty
aiwy nan l een ar- \ k
1 rested by Lincoln’s minions. J
Chattanooga, Sept. 20.—On the 7th the
Yankees evacuated Cumberland Gap, destroy
ing all their stores and blasting rocks so as to
block up the roads.
Richmond, Sept 20.—Col. Lindsay Walker
arrived here to day from Harper’s Ferry which
he left on Wednesday evening. The cannon
and stores captured had bee* removed. There
had been no fighting since the capture of Har
per’s Ferry on Monday. Our army was in
fine spirits. McClellan, with his army, was in
our front near Sharpsburg, and a general battle
was expected. General Reno (Yankee) was
killed in the fight near Boonsboro’. General
Jackson’s official report of the capture of Ilar~
per’s Ferry dated the 16th, says, “Yesterday
God crowned our arms with another brilliant
success in the surrender at Harper’s Ferry, ol
Brig. Gen. White and eleven thousand troops,
an equal number of small arms, seventy-three
pieces of artillery and about two hundred .wag
ons, in addition to other stores, and a large
amount of camp and Garrison equipage. Our
loss very small.”
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate the Military Exemption Bill
was further considered and finally passed—
yeas 16, nays 3.
In the i louse the Senate bill, fixing the sec
ond Monday in January as the time of the meet
ing of the next regular session of Congress was
passed.
Also House bill to provide for the prompt
settlement of claims, arrearages and bounty,
du: to deceased soldiers. Arkansas contested
election case was discussed until adjournment.
GREAT BATTLE FOUGHT.
Richmond, Sept. 21.—The Enquirer has a
despatch from Warrenton, dated 20th, announ
cing that a terrific tight occurred at Sharps*
burg on Wednesday, with the advantage on
our side. Great loss on both sides. Generals
Stark, Manning, and Branch killed. Generals
D. R. Jones, R. R. Jones, Ripley and Lawton
wounded. The whole strength of both armies
were engaged in the tight. Reports say that
the tight was resumed on Thursday, and the
enemy routed and driven nine miles.
FROM THE WEST.
Chattanooga, September 21.—The Nash
ville Union of the 16th insL, says, that if the
rebels in Kentucky have any disposition to
fight, and won’t shun an engagement, that
there will be a great battle within three days,
and does not fear for the results as the best di
visions and Generals in the Federal service are
there.
The Louisville Journal of the 17th, says that
the rebels have no present intention to attack
Cincinnati, hut that four heavy columns, in
cluding Bragg’s, were then advancing towards
FROM THE N. Y. HERALD-
Richmond, Sept. 21sL—The N- Y. Hejj^l
the 18th, claim a victory at Sharpsburg
despatches are contradictory, but conju-
stating that the Confederates were defeau^y
Letters from Louisville claim a victory <
Duncan and Scott’s forces at Mumfordsv |
Kentucky.
The Bermuda correspondent of the HereN
says that five steamers, lying in port at St."
George are awaiting an opportunity to run th‘
blockade.
The United States Arsenal, at Pittsburg, L
blown up and 75 or 80 boys and girls wc
killed.
In New York on Wednesday, Gold ope'
at 116i and advanced to 117}. 1
FORT PULASkTpRISONERS COMINc
Mobile, Ala., Sept. 21st— Col. Charle'J
Olmstead, Capt F. W. Sims, Lt Henry Free
man and 22 others of the Fort Pulaski prisoJ
ers arrived here to-day via Vicksburg, and !■
for home this evening.
THE BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG.
Richmond, 22d.—The accounts of the batt
of Sharpsburg are meagre and somewhat cor
tradictory, but agree in representing it to ha
been the most bloody and desperately conte*
ted engagement of the war. The Confederal
army, though opposed by largely superiot
numbers, again illustrated its valor and invin
cibility, by successfully repelling the repeate
onsloughts of the enemy.
Officers have arrived here who state thi
they went over the battle field on Thursday,anc.
they assert that the advantage remained on our j
side—the enemy having fallen back.
The city papers report this morning, on t’
authority of passengers, who arrived last nig 1
that Gen. Lee recrossed the Potomac on Frid.
at Sheppardstown.
I From the Cincinnati Times. September s.J
THE ENEMY IN FRONT.
As the telegraph ceased operating at Cjuthiana
night before last, the intrepid Woodall undertook
another locomotive reconnoisanee yesterday.—
Forming a small and reliable party, he proceeded
slowly toward Cvnthiana, examining all the bridges
beiore crossing them.
Reaching a station a mile this aide of Cyntbiana,
appearances induced him to stop. Leaving the
locomotive in charge of others, he proceeded to
the top of a hill near by for observation. With
carbine in hand, he made his way through the
bushes, and on reaching the top of the hill, was
not a little surprised to find himself confronted
with the enemy. Right before him sat a party of
some fifteen or twenty, eating corn bread.
They were, however, unarmed. Some distance
off their arms were stacked, and the encampment
extended for a considerable distance. Woodall
supposed his day of grace had come, but he deter
mined to put on a bold front, lie surveyed for a
moment the party before him. Tho men were all
dressed in homespun, and wore slouched hats.—
His presence did not disturb them in the least.
“Who are you?”asked Woodall.
“Confederate soldiers,” was the answer.
“What regiment?”
“The — Georgia. ’
“How long have you been here ?”
“About an hour.”
“Where are you going ?”
“To Cincinnati.”
“You don’t expect to reach there ?”
“Yes, by Sunday night.”
About this time Woodall discovered a commo
tion in the front, with a rush toward the cars.—
He had been talking merely because he did not
knew what to do, but supposing, from the distant
excitement, to if the presence of the locomotive
had been repoi < »d, he deemed it advisable to back
out.
He descended >i.o hill carelessly, so as not to
arouse the suspicion of those near him, expecting
at every step to hear the bullets whistle about his
ears. As snou as be reached the bottom of the
hill lie did Ud running until be reached the loco
motive. They did not wait for a salute, but start
ed immediately homeward.
The Rebels occupied the ground which had been
evacuated the night before by an Ohio regiment,
which fell back to a point this side of Falmouth.
Three miles this side of Boyd’s Station the loco
motive was hailed by three national soldiers.—
Woodall stopped. They proved to be members
of the sixty-ninth Indiana, and were paroled pri
They stated that they
had marched with the Rebels irom Paris to Cyn-
thiana. They stated that the force was corapo.-ed
of two brigades, numbering about 3,000 men, and
having six pieces of artillery. They said that per
feet discipline prevailed, and that recruits joined
the army on the march faster than they could be
supplied with arms.
Another force, consisting of six brigades, with
considerable amount of artillery and Scott’s caval
ry, had moved by way of Williamsburgli, and the
two columns were to unite before reaching tlie
river. Officers and men all spoke of their destina
tion as being Cincinnati, and were confident that
they would be in the city by to-morrow- evening.
Shey did not anticipate serious reaisuuce on tho
opposite side of the rivtr. The Indianiuns express
ed themselved as deeply impressed with the earn
estness and good discipline of tlie Rebel solders.
As soon as Conductor Woodall arrived in •
ington, he reported to Gen. Judah, who is com
manding a brigade on the opposite aide of the
river.
That officer waa disposed to scorn the informa
tion, treating the gentleman who brought it in an
offensive manner. The facts, as well as Gen. Ju
dah’s conduct, were this morning reported to both
Gen. Wright aud Gen. Wallace.
This intelligence leaves no doubt that the Rebels
are marching on the city, and in a day or two we
may expect to smell gunpowder.
Repudiation Foreshadowed.—At a recent
“war meeting” held in Brooklyn, the Hon. H.
B. Stanton, in order to stimulate the bellicose
feelings of his auditors, said, amongst other
things, that “if our Goverment went to pieces
there would be no United States to pay the
debt, and he would advise those who had any
thing invested in United States Stocks to save
all and spend halt”
This looks a good deal like preparing the
public mind in LincolnJom for a repudiation
of the enormous war debt which is running up
there at the rate of some six millions a day. -
There is no other way of ever paying it
JACKSON CROSSING THE POTOMAC.
The Rockingham Register says that a gen
tleman from Winchester, who saw Genera!
Jackson when he crossed the Potomac, de
scribes the passage of our victorious hosts in
to Maryland, as the grandest sight he ever
witnessed. When our army reached the mid
dle of the river, which they were wading, the
troops were halted, Gen. Jackson pulled off ,
his hat, and the splendid bands of music struck
up the inspiring air of “Maryland, my Mary
land !” which was responded to and sung with
“the spirit and with the understanding" by all
who could siDg, and the name of all who could
then and there sing was legion. It sounded in
the ears of the tyrants on the other side like
mighty thunder. The fact that our army was
to pass over the Potomac into Maryland, was,
of course, known to many of the gallant sons
of that long-oppressed and down trodden State,
and they were there to welcome the Confede
rate soldiers to the land of Howard and Pinck
ney and Carroll. It is said that our army re
ceived at once an accession of five hundred
gallant spirits, whose arms will assist in tear
ing the chains from the limbs of their fellow
citizens.
It was, indeed, a grand sight to see our vic
torious army moving in triumph, and without
interruption, from “old Virginia’s shore” to the
northern bank of the Potomac; but it will be
sublimer sight to witness the sudden upv
rising of a noble people, w-ho have so long
Louisville. Notwithstanding this, thousands
left Chowan river.—Jiulevjh Standard. I julyao—wij* LibertyHil), Pike county, til.