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THTRSDAY MORNING, Al G. ??, lIIGI.
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Lewd Women tn Atlanta.
It is a humiliating fact that our city is at
this time thickly infested with prostitutes.—
Scarcely a week passes in which one or more
cases, or difficulties between them and there
paramours are not brought up to the Squires' i
Office in this'bulling, for adjudication.
The city ordinances are very plain and se- I
vere in regard to public houses of ill-fame, and
the consequence is, these unfortunate creatures
are scattered throughout the whole city.—
Wherever there is a room to rent, it is soon till
ed with them.
Such a state of things is truly deplorable,
for it exhibits a terrible depravity in the mor
als of our people. No one is allowed to es
cape the slanderous tongues of these creatures
no matter how innocent and upright he may
he.
Would it not be much better for the city
authorities to assign a distinct portion of the
city to that class of our population Public
safety and public morality will soon demand
such a course.
Some mathematician, who believes in going
into small particulars, states that the cost ot
the Chicago Platform civil war now going on
is over $60,000 per hour ; sl,o.at per minute ;
sl7 per second. These are nice little sums
for tax payers to dwell upon.
A correspondent for the Cincinnati Gazette
declares he heard Lincoln say that the day af
ter thegreat battle, that he “ had no stomach for
his meat. C>n the other hand, the poor people
since Lincoln s election, have hard work to get
meat for their stomachs.
Is it true that the driver of one of the crow
ded ambulances, flying from the battle-field
last Sunday, actually kicked off a wounded
soldier from the wagon to make room for a
terrified pertly Boston man, a spectator, with
whom he (the driver) happened to be acquain
ted ‘ Talk about rebel barbarism after that.—
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LINCOE-Xs BOUNTIES FOB KE ENLISTING. —The
Lincoln Government finds it hard to rise men
and is driven to the expedient of offering
•• bounties
The three months troops, on re enlisting, re
ceive the following bounties :
Re-enlisting as individuals, thirty dollats.
By companies, fifty dollars.
By Regiments, seventy-five dollars
Peace SEWsfAPaEs at ihe north.—The
New I ork News publishes the names of some
seventy newspapers in the Northern States
which oppose the war policy of the adminis
tration. Os these, twenty-one are published
in the Slate of New York : four in New Jer
sey : eight in Pensylvania : four in Connecti
cut! : four in lowa : three in New Hampshire ;
two in Maine four in Illinois ; two in Indi
ana ; and one each in Ohio, Minnesota, Rhode
Island, I ermont, and California. These in
clude only the papers received at the News of
fice as exchanges in one dav
Our prisoners at Washington.—— The Wash
ington Star says :
An awning has been erected at the entrance
of the building for the protection of the guards.
There are now- sixty-five military prisoners
and five “ contrabands” confined. A few of
the prisoners are slightly sick, and receiving
medical attendance, and one has beenretaoved
to the hospital on Southeast with a dangerous
attack of typhoid fever.
This number agrees with die. list given by
us in another column.
Confederate flags at the north.—At
North Guilford, Connecticut l ., on Sunday last,
the Confederate flag was raised on the staff
there, in exultation over the Bull Bun disaster.
At Wethersfield, in the same State, somebody
undertook, after twelve o’clock on Saturday
night, to raise a secession flag on the liberty
pole, but raised it only to half mast. Before
& o’clock on Sunday morning it was discover
ed and taken down. It was seventeen feet
long and nine feet wide.
The Vigilance Committee of Columbus, Ga.,
have published a notice that, in future, “any
resident of Columbus or it- vicinity who shall
go to any of the Northern Sta-es, unless with
the previous knowledge and assent of the Com
mittee, shall not be permitted«to return to our
community under pain of such disabilities or
punishment as the committee may decree.”
We ait too Generous.
A North Carolina paper makes the follow
ing very just and well-timed remarks ;
‘•We believe in the utmost measures of hu
manity compatible with our safety and our
condition ; but an eye for an eye and a tooth
for a tooth, is the only principle which should
actuate us when contending with an enemy
who have invaded our soil, destroyed our pro
perty, our aged innocence and
citizens. While, then, fifteen of the cljval
rous citizens of South Carolina, the crew of
the Savannah, who were taken prisoners by
the Yankees while pursuing a legitimate busi
ness under a commission from President Davis
are bound down with irons and confined in
loathsome dungeons in New York, it is not
right that the officers and Congressmen taken
at Manassas, should receive any better treA
ment. Let the Jlon. Mr, Ely be ironed and*
sent to Fort Sumter, and there kept in a dun
geon till ihe captain of the Savannah i- re
leased.
We have no di.-poaition to find fault with
our rulers, but we think that too much con
sideration is shown some, probably all, of our
prisoners. While, we learn, some of their of
ficers taken by us are actually on parole and
boarding at hotels, our prisoners are jeered
and kicked unci their lives even menaced in
the streets of the Federal city-. Away, we
ay, then, with such sickly humanitarianism
as has been exhibited at Richmond.”
Condition of lite Federel Forces.
All dispatches sent from Washington report
large numbers of troops constantly pouring
in, and describe the eager manner in which
volunteers are flying to arms. This is all
“Bound and fury—signifying nothing.” With
all these extravagant rumors—this putting on
of Dutch courage, this wholesale deception
of the people, this Falstaffian boasting of fu
ture deeds—they cannot conceal their “weep
ing, wailing and gnashing of teeth.” We
state, upon good authority, that four Regi
ments of Federal troops passed through Balti
more to Washington between Monday and
Thursday ot last week; while, during the
same time, seven Regiments passed though
Baltimore on their return to their respective
homes, their time having expired. Up to our
latest Northern dates, the 3 1 instant, twenty
seven Regiments had gone home. Tho terms
ot eight Regiments expire in a few days, and
orders have been issued to the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad for conveyances for 18,000 men,
their time having expired. A strong appeal
had been made to them to re-enlis^ but they
have refused, saying that they h’tffl not been
paid for services already rendered. I Ley
have got enough of playing the “bold soldier
boy.”
I.lnclon's Figures.
The New York Day Rook remarks :
The Crimean war, everybody knows, was j
conducted by all parties upon an extensive
scale, and it cost only SS-1,000,000. The late i
Italian war cost but $17,000,000, and the late |
war in India cost .$28,000,000. The ten years |
war, known in history a* the French Revolt!- j
tion, cost only But the liepub- '
licans begin their war with an appropriation !
amounting to more than the cost of all these |
long and terrible wars combined The truth '
is, the Republicans mean to make a good thing
out of their war. They have already expend
over a hundred millions of dollar-, while the
South has expended less than ten millions, and
have beat at that in the first great battle. The
people will get it worked into their minds be
fore long that their money and their lives are
squandered by a reckless and incompetent Ad
| ministration.
A Varied Life.
The New York correspondent of the London
Star says that Mr. William Henry Hulbert,
who is now a prisoner among the rebels, “is
well known in England as a friend of the Rev. |
Charles Kingsley, and a contributor to some of
the English magazines and reviews. Born in
South Carolina, educated in New York, Ger
many and France, and an extensive traveler
through, as well as resident in, halt' a dozen
other countries, Mr. Hulbert had become a tho
rough cosmopolitan. He was a polished and
versatile writer, and early turned hisattention
to the press. Six or seven years ago he was
editor of Putnam's Magazine. He has been
the theatrical critic of the Albion, (English
paper of New York,) for a long time, contrib
uting to its columns some of the most delight
ful fuellitions I ever read. He was the author
of the anti-slavery articles that appeared in
the Edinburgh, 1 think, some lime in 1854.
He eventually settled down as assistant editor
: of the New York Times, which he left last sum
mer in consequence of suddenly breaking out
into the worst kind of Secessionism. He has
, boxed the compass of everything : has been
a Unitarian minister, a muscular Christian,
. a Free Thinker, a native of a slave State, a
, violent Abolitionist, a Secessionist, and is at
last a captive in durance vile on a charge of
being a Northern spy.'
Typhoid Fever.
I A correspondent of the • Southern Confed
l erey, gives to the public, information in re
> gard tit Typhoid Fever, which mat be of great
service .-
Messrs Editors Every day we hear sad
i tididgs of death among our gallant boys in
the army, from that scourge, Typhoid Eerer.—
A gentleman of the medical profession, now
in this city, a citizen of Texas, expresses his
surprise that the potent remedy of Spirits of
Turpentine has made so little progress in the
country for the cure of this ailment. My
friend Dr. R., a man of splendid professional
ability, says that if any remedy can ever be
called a specific, Spiirits of Turpentine may
br so considered in cases of Typhoid Fe
ver.
He begins with small doses id' about ten
drops every two hours, and coctiuues the reme
dy in larger doses, giving as high as a tea
spoonful at a dose, till the right action is seen
on the skin. Spirits of Nitre may be needed
I to relieve the strangury apt to follow the ad
ministration of turpentine, but nothing further
is ever needed.
Please publish this and send a number of
j our paper to our friend Dr. Alexander, hop- I
that good may come of it. 11.
feaf* That veracious class of writers who
deal tu what are called “fish stories,” say that
if two ravenous pise of unequal size are
placed in a small pond, they first devour all
the unfortunate perch, mullets, sunfish, min
nows, crawfish, tadpoles and frogs within their
reach; and.then if one of the pikes is suffi
j ciently large for the purpose, the bigger then
f swallows the smaller, and becomes a hungry
monarch of all he surveys. When thus left
i alone, with nothing but a constantly sharpen
i itig appetite, the surviving pike has been
sometimes known to devour his own tail in
default of something better to eat.
In all the wars which have heretofore mark
ed the progress of the late Republic of the
United States, the keen and hungry Yankees
have fed and waxed fat at the expense of the
South. Wc have usually furnished the fight
ing men, whilst Northern contractors, quarter
masters, commissaries, purveyors and pay
masters, have profited by their characteristic
shrewdness and utter want of honesty. They
have usually absorbed and monopolized all the
substantial rewards of war, and also filched
all the glory wTiicl: could be won without great
personal danger. In the present war the
Xankees have no “Southern fellow-soldiers”
to cheat and swindle. What in former times
was an unsuspecting, good-natured victim of
cheating Yankee contractors, quartermasters
and commissaries, is now a formidable and
terrible foe, who can no longer be peaceably
robbed. What of military provisions and sup
plies we now get from the North, we take at
the poiut of tho bayonet from fleet footed
1 ankee teamsters and Commissaries, like those
who made such good time on the Bull Hun
course. They are no longer furniraed to us
by Northern contractors, and our “little trans
actions” with the North, of late, in the muni
tions and provisions of war have not been
prolitablr to that section.
The cheering and refreshing features
of the war is the and eagerness, with
which the t ankee contractors, commissaries
and quartermasters, are devouring, cheating
and swindling Yankee soldiery. They arc
devoting all energies to the noble and
patrii •ft ask oi pillagir^at heir own men, and
the groans, remon trnndff, complaints,
I and yells of the brigades and regiments of Ihe
“Grand Army,’ which are being skinmwl, arc
loud, long, and excruciatingly funny.
Every commissary, and contractor the
Northern army regards his*'fegjmenrt.'as-hi?''
own, peculiar, private and especial basket
|Ol eels, *a .of gift of Providence,
• for his especial skinning and profit. About
I the result of the war, the rascals do not care a
[feusit, as they are c rtain of making fur
tunes, it matters not who win- From the ad
niisiiun of the Nuti hern press, we imagine that
the wholesale jobbing and swindling now going
on in the Yankee army, exceeds anything in
a line of operation which we have heretofore
regarded as peculiar to the Russian and Chi
nese military service. The Northern soldiery
arc cheated in their piy, their food, Ihi-ir
clothing and in their munitions They are
victimized in what they eat, drink and wear,
by their rapacious contractors and coinrriissfl
ries.
All of Hie unscrupulous demagogues who
arc responsible for this civil war, are strug
gling for the spoils like a jack of “cayotes,”
or prairie wolves, over the carcass of a dead
buffalo. The brothers, fathers and cousins of
the principal pillagers are all making hay
while the sun shines. Cameron, the Secreta
ry of War, is the leader, the North' in paper
say, of the “parly thieves.” Cameron's sons,
sons-in-law and kith and kin to the remot
est collateral, are hard at work, swindling ami
filching.
Even “Bob,” the promising hope of the Illi
nois Chimpanzee dynasty, has been taken from
college, in order that he may do his full part
in the general piliage of the Treasury. It is j
said by the Northern press that this youthful I
baboon is picking out sugar plums al. the rate
of $30,000 per annum, and skinning the Yan ■
kee soldiery with a dexterous rascality beyond j
hiit trader years. are justly proud
of his performance-. So was Fagin oftho |
“Artful Dodger.”
It is truly refreshing, now that we have cut. ' c
loose from this race of selfish thieves and cow - j i
ards, to see then* for Illa first'time deyytir '
ing each other—forced to do so, as they can i
no longer prey upon the vitals of the | t
South —Richmond Examiner. i
-■ ■?Jap GFeorgfia . '. —— .., u
The Greorgia Literary and Temperance Crusader.
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Wall street in agony.—The New York
correspondent of the Philadelphia I.edger.
Wall street is painfully exercised to day by
■ that ill-natured money article in the London
| •• Times,'' warning Brother Jonathan not to
; enter Lombard street with his now loans for
! war purposes—inasmuch as Lombard street
: looks upon the Northern Jonathan, as well as
: his Southern (Scco-li) brother, as an incorrig
| ible repudiator.
The talk is, that the writer of the money’
article for the Thunderer is an individual
whose sympathies and interests are all with
Jefferson Davis, and against the North. How
all that maybe, I cannot say; but 1 do say
that the cold water Jupiter of Printing-House
Square has thus thrown upon American cred
it, is having the effect to inspire everybody
witii fresh anxiety to hear from Mr Augusto
Belmonte, who, by this time, must be among
the English money kings, face to face.
Ratal Casualty*
On yesterday morning, a man was found
I crushed and dead in the yard of the Bank of
\ irginia. He had apparently fallen from a
window in the American Hotel. Ou applica
tion at the office of this establishment, where
we expected to learn something of the unfor
tunate man’s history, it was apparent that the
clerk and proprietor, inasmuch as the man’s
name was not on their register, were disposed
to regard his falling out of their window as a
trespass. They seemed to be in a very bad
humor with the deceased. All we could learn
from them was that his name was probably
Muchum, and that he was from Buckingham
or Powhatan county. From a negro who waits
on the seventli story, from which Mr. Muchum
fell, we learn-d that the deceased came in with
a friend last night about one o’clock, aud that.,
it being very hot, he is supposed, instead of
going to bed, to have taken a seat in the win
dow and fallen asleep. About three o’clock,
he is thought to have fallen out. At noon yes
terday, the mangled body still lay in the back
yard of the Bank.
Eilect of the Battle in Maryland.
In the city of Baltimore, the demonstration
in favor of the Southern cause, turned the
cheek of Lincoln’s minions pale. Several Fed
eral officers frankly acknowledged to citizens
that they had been deceived: that hundreds of
men whom they had taken to be good Union
ists, were exultant at the news from Virginia.
Indeed they said it was hard to fi d alive Lin
colnite outside of their invading forces. Nor
were they without good reason to apprehend a
revolt in their army ; for it was stated and be
lieved that a number of troops stationed at
the Relay House, on hearing the intelligence
from Manassas, openly cheered Jeff'. Davis and
the Southern Confederacy. In most of the
rural districts the feeling was cordial and en
thusiastic among the people for the Southern
cause. Hundreds of fugitives from the Feder
al army had called upon them and begged for
food and clothing on their way home without
leave of absence.
All accounts represent the army under Mc-
Dowell as entirely demoralized. The return
ing soldier- do not hesitate to speak, to friend
or foe, of the utter hopelessness of the subju
gation cause. The troops who are passing for
home, on their discharge, are like boys just let
out of school for holiday, whilethose on lb .ir
way to the Federal Capital wear verv gloomy
faces
Northern Arithmetic.
The terrific blow inflicted at Manassas, con
founded the Northern press for a day or two,
but they soon foil into their usual habit of
falsification. The New York //•■ro/i/is still en
gaged in arithmetical labours to reduce the
losses at Manassas. Its Washington corres
pondent writes that the Federal loss in killejfl
at. Manassas did not exceed one
fifty! In juxtaposition with thK, appqy'*' ”
' / -O|l:-nicut tha' one llogiment,
ond New York, alone lost, in killed,
and mi-sing, two hundred, and in
paper it is editorially remarked :
“The late ill-fated “Onward to Richmond”
movement, under Gen. McDowell, will cost us
perhaps, fully one hundred millions of dollars
to recover the piestige and the advantages we
have lost. The work of the last three monUtJ
in organizing the grand army of the
has failed, and we must do it
l i I■> ! r ■■■ ;'i-
Wli nt they think of our T’acThqHMßv
The New York Herald pays us the
very unexpected compliment:
“The Confederate States managershave ex
hibited good judgment in the selection of their
commanders. They have some of Qie best of
ficers that have General Scott,
aud have discarded the idea of political fa
voritism that governs the actions of our Ad
ministration, and man in the
right place. The oixtheir forces
during the late contest, were managed with
great skill, showing that, if we intend to con
quer them, the very best military talent at our
command must be employed. They had no
Patterson to play the part of Grouchy in their
programme; but every man, knowing his
duty, had the skill to execute it. Our authori
ties, ever since the uprising of the people,
have been devoting their time to device plans
to foistjffon our gallant volunteers all the
in their power, as if they intended
to slaughter them.”
How Col. Tyler was Arrested.
The Cincinnati “Commercial” furnishes the
folloWj l^*l ' coiint of the arrest of Col. Tyler
in that, city :
While promenading on Fourth slrei Wf-ter- I
day afternoon, Cui. J. V. Guthrie, of the First.
Kentucky, saw a gentleman whpm he thought,
lie recognized as Col. Tyler, late of the United
States atwiy, an Adjutant General in
,th,e rebel army. So strongly was he impress
ed with this idea that he turned and followed.
Presently he met Captain Dickerson, and, upon
consultation, they were satisfied that Colonel
Guthrie was right in his surmise. Thereupon
Colonel Guthrie approached Colonel Tyler
ami i.laiiiiitd him ns. a prisoner ot war. Tyler
npp ared somewhat amazed, but confessed his
name and rank in Beauregard’s army, and said
that “ traveling as a citizen, and without arms,
lie did not anticipate an arrest.”
Colonel Guthrie delivered his prisoner to
Capt. McLean, Assistant Adjutant General of
this department, who conveyed him to New
port P.arrncks, and telegraphed to Gen Scott
or further instructions.
Colonel Tyler asked to be placed on parole,
but Captain McLean refused to grant there
qui'-t until he hear ! from hcailqmirteis.
Captain Tyler came Io this city yesterday
morning, for the ostensible purpose of visit
ing his wife, who has boarding in the
city all the summer. Mrs. Tyler is said to be
the daughir of Mr. J. J. B. Wright, of this
city. It is also reported that she telegraphed
to her husband, both at Louisville and Nash
ville, not Io come on, as it was dangerous ; but
it. seems that, neither of these dispatches
reached their destination.
Captain Tyler graduated at West Point, in
the class of 1847, and served in the cavalry
service until the breaking out. of the rebellion
when he resigned. He was in Beau regard’s stair
and served at Manassas as Adjutant-Geni-ral. At
the Burnet House ho registered C. Tyler,
Virginia.”
This i f of the most fcrious pci form
anees that has happened since t lie rebellion be
gan. Il is incomprehensible. For what could
induce iiu officer high in rank, and serving in
Ihe last great battle, Io go where he was cer
tain Io be arrested and tried for his life '! It it
certainly a remarkal.le instance of pulling one’s
head in a lion s msiilh.
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la Franco, love is a comedy ; in England, a
tragedy; in Italy, an opera; in Germany, a
melodrama. I
To llii- Friends and ItelntlvCH of sick mid
Wounded Soldiers.
Richmond, Va., July 30, 1801.
i/r.’.w-s. Editors: As 1 doudt not, a great ma
ny anxious hearts in Georgia would be pleased
to know with what care the wants of the sick
and wounded soldiers are met in this city ; and
as my connection with the committee appoint
ed by Congress to look after the wounded, has
enabled me to obtain full information on this
point. 1 take great pleasure in saying through
your columns, that every attention which hos
pitality and humanity can suggest, is freely
given by the good people (especially the la
dies,) of this city, Io all the wounded, both at
the hospitals and in the private homes. All
friends of the wounded may feel easy as Io the
comforts afforded them.
Tllos. It. It. Coiiß.
A Negro's Letter.
We find the following letter in the Southern
(. 'onfidrracy.
We have been furnished with the following
letter written by a negro belonging to Col. J.
L. Calhoun, and addressed to his young mis
tress—the daughter of the Colonel—at New
nan. The negro went to the war along with
his young master who is a member of the New
nan Guards.
This is specimen of the down-trodden Af
i rican for whom the Yankees sympathize so
much.
The reader will be careful to observe the of
ficial standing anil position of the darkey, and
his censure on the officers in the retreat from
Laurel Hill.
Wc will add that the letter is here inserted
exactly as the negro wrote it, without any al
terations or corrections. It is written at Camp
' McDowell, Va.
I
Camp at McDowells.
Young Miss After my best
you a few lines, and would of done so before
now, but I lost your letter while we were on
he retreat. You must give my respects to all
Misses Kate A Euguene and also Aunt Lucy
N Mary, 1 wish to know of Uncle Willace
Berry how my Little Girl is getting on, I am
not well this morning but think I well be well
1 in a day or two as I feel better this morning
’ than 1 have in a day or too
I wish you would drop a few Lines to mars
’ ter & and Let him know that we have lost all
1 of our clothing N so on
Remember me to Uncle Kato & tel! him to
give my respects to all of my inquii iug Frien
ds in Neunan.
Tell Brother Simmon that I send him a
1 book, which 1 think will be of a great deal of
importance to him, let me know how his fam
ily is all gelling on toll him to please write me
word
If my health still improves 1 shall want to
remain in the Army, but if it does riot I shall
return home soon---Tell Brother to remember
1 me in his Prates 1 hope you will excuse a
short letter tin time lor the coach leavs in a
few moments.
It. is by the Providence of God that we are
saved, not by the good general ship of our
officers, so with iny best respecs I say good
bye hoping you will write again soon.
1 ISAAC CALHOUN,
Capt of Cooking Department.
Suppressing Dispatches.—Lord De.
niands his
b I . -
Ihi'.l. ..f
We have been
ing extracts from a
. a few days since. We
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Amon B
> in this city, is one as
. showing tin- wi-'l c.i o!
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t' ol ' ’
Monde ;>V
When he had received correct, information
. regarding the battle, he took a dispatch to the
telegraph office and supposed it would be sent
immediately. Something occurring to arouse
. his suspicions, he, accompanied by his Secre
tary, drove to the telegraph office and reques
, ted that his dispatches should be repeated
! from Halifax. This forced the operator to ac
knowledge that they had not been forwarded
“ By whose orders are my dispatches suppress
, ed ? queried the indignant Briton. “By
! those of Secretary Seward,” was the reply.—
. The British representative drove immediately
! to the State Department, and inquired of the
Premier if such orders had been given. He
replied in the affirmative. “My passports I”
was the stern demand of England. Seward
hesitated. A Cabinet consultation was held.
The dispatches were sent, and Lord Lyons re
luctantly withdrew his demand, but informed
the astonished Cabinet, that he should refer the
matter Io his Government.
11.
The Knoxville Whig.
The Richmond Enquirer of tho l-'.lli iust.,
says :
“W. G. Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville
“Whig,” announces in his issue of the 10th,
that this paper would probably pof lie issued
again, owing, among other t- • fol
lowing :
- £ In addition to al) of this, the fact has
come to our knowledge, and from different and
reliable sources, that the Confederate authori
ties nt Richmond have ordered that our
Knoxville whig musl no longer be published,
or transmitted through the mails to subscri
bers. The order Ims not. yet been given, but
we are in daily expectation of it, unless it be
reconsidered, and it of course closest us out of
business.
• ! The only Union paper in the entire
Southern Confederacy, having any circulation
among the honest people, must be crushed out
by the liberty-loving and tyrant-hating • au
thorities of Ihe Southern Confederacy nt Rich
mond 1
From whatever source the “Whig” received
the above information, it has been deceived
a%d misled. Our Postmaster-General, has,
indeed, been appealed to, in reference to tho
circulation of that paper. Many have repre
sented that it was a journel which habitually
inculcated bitter animosity and admil war a
gainst the people’s own chosan Government,
and rebellion against the will of tiro people of
Tennessee, us expressed in overwhelming ma
jority of the popular vote; and they have mik
ed that the public mails should not be allowed
to give circulation to teachings essentially and
unqualifiedly treasonable. To these the De
partment Ims replied by referring the com
plainants to their own respective Slate laws
and State authorities, as affording both appro
printc and adequate relief and protection from
the alleged grievances.
tin the other hand, he Ims been requested,
syei'iully to coiniiiand the delivery of the Knox
ville “Whig” to its subscribers. This inter
vention between that paper and Ihe commimi
ties and authorities who have deemed it due to
the public peace and safety to forbid its circu
lation among them, he has also declined. He
| has left the question Io the laws and the peo-
I plo of the Stales interested, as its proper ar
biters, and as fully competent to judge both
what, is due to private lights and the public
good.
Our Virginia Correspondence.
Manassas Junction, Aug. 2d, 1861.
Dear Seals : (Inc of the imposing events the
<l:iy I left Richmond, (Tuesday last.,) was the
safe arrival of Col. Ector’s Kegiment, who are
now encamped about two milts from Ihe city,
in a most pleasant grove, and where they will
remain for a week yet. They were greeted on
their arrival by the enthusiastic cheers of a
very large concourse of visitors.
A hard travel of forty-eight hours from Al- |
lanta, brought me to Richmond with the con
viction, that if people knew what they would
have to go through to get there, fewer would
come than do. The rail road does well enough,
only it wants its ways mended; but Ihe scene
ry, and the magnificent sleeping cars, and Ihe
deUyhtful rest, are only found in the advertise
ments, where they are placed on the same
principle that, molasses is put on the revolving
cylinder of a patent fly-trap—that is, to catch.
Our delightful rest consisted of a supper at
midnight, of salt ham fried in fat, leather fried
’ in brown soap, strips of beef stewed in grease,
tar sauce’pudding, buttons for plumbs, pea
nut coffee, minus "long or short siveetnin', ”
and soup meagre, made of o.x tails and chips ;
I then two hours and a quarter of rest, on the
end of a saw horse, (with one hundred and
sixty men in the same room,) all of which re
quired uo small exercise of the will to induce
0 one to get “astraddle” of. At two and a-half
A. M., breakfast. Here is the bill of fare.
Fast-good preventer if drowsiness, you know.
’ When you get to Richmond, the same rule
II holds good in regard io accommodation as pre
vailed at Montgomery, when our Government
lived there. One gets a room in accordance
with the quantity of baggage he brings. If
P one brings only a valise he is showed into a
closet, or something very similar; here he
finds from two ta four small beds, one half of
a pine table, one three by five looking glass,
1 which makes your face look like some of
Ranch's caricatures. 11 a fellow wants to tight
I and kicks up a row with tho bookkeepers gen
erally, and the Proprietor in particular, some
thing better is done for him in the sleeping
line. But if a man wants to get anything to
, eat. lie had better not come here. You may
succeed in getting a sodden piece of beef, call
“ ed a steak, cooked by steam, some excellent,
bread, a cup of fair coffee and a small pal of
II butter, most wonderfully variegated in color.
My right hand neighbor at the table ordered
the servant to bring a plate of butter, all of
one color, and explained to me that the mosaic
appearance of my plate, arose from tho fact
that, it was butter gathered from the plates of
yesterday's meals ; and this statement seemed
to be confirmed by the presence in it of seve
ral crumbs of bread, and the occasional ap
pearance of a stray streak of steak gravy.
But we ought not to complain, as our bill is
II only three dollars a day, with a couple of ex-
tra quartets to push up the steward, who feeds
you as above.
| »Vl-11, wo stood it as long as possible and
' L then put out for 'dynasty Junction : (familiarly
so-called by our troops there encamped ; but
e in reality, mighty nasty Junction,) where we ar
-1 rived after a tedious ride of all day’s dttra
' lion. Visitors are refused passes there in lolcn
and it is with difficulty that, even those who
have wounded friends or relatives there, can
obtain permits to visit, the place ; but your
conespoudent, having done some slight, favor
for the Government, procured passes for his
B friend Tomlinson and himself from the Secre-
■ (ary of War. The passes are so worded :
Buoni kderate States or America, War De-
B t’AKTMANT, Richmond, July 29th, 1861.
I has permission to visit Manassas up-
his honor as a man, that he will not com-
in writing or verbally, for publica
any fact ascertained by him.
L.P. WALKER,
I Sec’t’y of War.
that the ,i:iy-ofti' WS]>ap.i
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; Metho Ils'. c'.tire!i. It i-' t.■-w a
:'.>r the wotiudcd Nori liith-t-• The
of lite church have all been removed,
the floor is filled with beds for the woun
ded, while the altar has been converted into a
Medical Dispensatory.
The wounded in all stages of convalescence,
were well cared for. Here were several ot the
1 Ellsworth Fire Zouaves, one of whom in an
swer to my inquiry of why he eante out here
to tight us, said he didn't know, only he was
e “spilin’ for a fight.” “Fightin' was bis bizi
ness.” He thought the “Bowery Bhoys could
whip all creation, but. them Georgia Devils had
1 took that ere conceit out. of him, and when he
got back he was going into some other trade,
or come here to help us farm.”" About 320
of the wounded Northerners have been moved
* to Richmond- the remainder are scattered
about in the barns, and farm houses in the
’ neighborhood.
e Near the North-Western end of the battle
field is the residence of a widow lady about 50
years old, named Dogan. This lady, after the
' close of the battle, performed an important
' part among the events of the day.
Five Yank'es, who in their retreat, stopped
at, her house, clamorously demanding refresh
ments, were accommodated therewith. Mrs.
D. took their arms which had been left in the
hall, and sending after some of our troops, up
on their approach, and before the 1 ankeeshad
finished their meal, she went in and arrested
the fellows herself.
. Gen Beauregard, upon hearing of this ex
ploit, wrote our heroine a facetious note,
[ promising her a commission. We saw this good
lady ourselves, and she is the very beau ideal
of a Virginia matron.
, Many incidents worthy of especial note have
i come under my observation, and 1 shall re
serve them for my next. But lest 1 should bo
induced into a more tiresome eulogium to your
detriment, I will close this hasty scrawl, sub
scribing myself l ours Eternally,
G. H. B.
"Al.ut of Z HiavoH, howover, are salina aud obsti
naW, and are very evidently oftho worst type ot ttie llow-
Oiu- Virginia Cot-rtspondcurr.
Manassas JriNCTioN, August 7th, 1861.
Ma. J. 11. Si:ai.s, Dear Sir: I write in my
teal, upon an old box. I promised to write
for your paper. It was not then my inten
tion io go into service so soon ; But 1 am
here near where our troops achieved a glorious
victory.
The Sun is shining brightly upon thousands
of freemen trusting in God and ready for the
conflict, Victory seems written upon every
brow. The love of religious liberty nerves
every arm. Brave men and experienced Gen
erals are here. J believe the mighty arm of
Jehovah is our breast-work. Great God, how
can such a. people be conquered! Victory is
certain.
What, shall I say of the purposes of our offi
cers: Nothing; for positively I do not know
as much of their movements ns I did when I (
left home; Ido not care to know. One thing
is certain, they will do that which will con- | ,
found “Old Abe,” and his followers. With I (
tliia I am salisfied. We have great confidence j •
in our officers. >
1 derive much pleasure in looking at the re- (
suits of the battle fought here a few days since. <
I think if decidedly tho greatest one ever fought (
upon tho American Continent. I expect the (
Yankees ate satisfied that there is yet. chivalry t
in the South. If they are not it is but another
proof of the fact that they are “hard to be
satisfied.”
How consoling it is to think of the destiny i
of the South Already our flag has eleven I n
stars. Every one here flouts towards Cuba.
I But 1 ought not to say anything about the ac
quisition of Territory now. We. have enough
now ; but with such a Constitution as we now
have, and with all that is necessary to make a
people free and happy, we are destined to be
come a great nation.
So far lam satisfied with camp life. We
hava plenty to eat, and good tents to sleep in,
plenty of arms, powder and bullets. But even
j without those, I believe the people of tho South
would go forth unarmed, with an undying
trust in God, and “terrible as an army with
banners.” PETER.
For the Crusader.
.dr. Editor : Allow me through your excel
lent paper to speak of one who now lies sleep
ing in a. Patriot's (leave. ! J knew him long and
well, and a nobler, braver spirit never burned
in the breast of man, than that of John P. At
kinson. lie was a member of the “Echols
Guard,” Capt. Howard, from Meriwether co.,
Georgia, and tell fighting on the blood-stained
field of Manassas. In College he was the
friend of till, studious, dignified and kind ; he
was universally loved, while I and others more
intimately associated with, and knowing him
best, loved him most. Modest and retiring in
his disposition, he instinctively shrank from
displaying those finer characteristics and
marks of genius which were so signally his,
and so well known and appreciated by his
warmest friends. Ardent and impetuous, he
was one of the first to offer himself a sacrifice
upon the altar of his country. Buoyant with
hope, antd burning with a desire to avenge his
country’s wrongs, he left his home and a large
circle.of loving friends to strike for freedom
on freedom’s soil! Long and gallantly he
fought where hissing ball and bursting shell
did their work of death. His clear eye flash
ing with heroic fire and his warm heart bound
ing with patriotic emotion, he stood, a mark,
worthy of poet’s song or painter’s pencil. 1
visited him before his death in Richmond,
where he died on last Friday night, after be
ing well cared for by a noble family in whose
home he found an asylum. We have every
reason to believe that he died at peace with
God. The choicest flowers of memory and the
purest of loving friends, with the tears of a
Southern people shall halo the grave, and en
circle the memory of the young hero, who has
gone to rendezvous in that place where rest the
pure, the brave,, the good.
L. A. LANE.
An Impoverished Population.
The New York Daily News sets forth, that,
among the pooer classes in that city the bur
dens of the war are already beginning to press
with a fearful weight. There is no business,
no employment, no income, no money. The
writer proceeds :
“The man who witnesses the winter of 1861
-i)2 in this and other Northern cities, will have
need for a heart of marble and a face of brass
to resist the emotions of pity and horror which
must crowd upon him in beholding the fearful
scenes that will present, themselves. A ruined
and beggard people, struggling with destitu
tion and exorbitant taxational home, aud con
tending with expensive and bootless war a
broad has been described by history unhappi
ly again and again ; but the terrible spectacle
, is now apparently about to be reproduced here,
with illustrations of unusual poignancy and
effectiveness.
The inability to pay rents in summer fore
shadows a terrible condition of affairs when
cold weather shall be upon us. What must be
the state of things in November or February
if this is what we are to contemplate in Au
gust ? It would be easy, doubtless, for land
lords to evict tenants and re-let ther premises,
but would the comers be likely to do better ?
The fact is, the war is running New York. It
is the North, and not the South, that is suffer
ing the effects of the present hostilities, as
every clear-sighted financier and statesman
predicted, from the beginning, would be the
ease. It is we who arc blockaded —not the
cotton Slates. There if but little suffering,
comparatively speaking, in Charleston, Savan
nah, or New Orleans ; but there is a fearful
amount of it in New York. Boston and Phila
delphia.
The industry of the South is not paralyzed.
The negro still hoes his cotton, rice, or su
gar field, as he did before the war, and returns
to dance before sun-down ; but our Northern
mechanic, business man, or laborer —how does
the war affect him? How does the capitalists
of whom the New York correspondent of a
Philadelphia journal tells, whose August ren
tal roll in this city has shrunk from three
thousand dollars and upwards to a pitiful
ninety-six dollars, like the effects of war?—
We predict he will soon be a peace man, if he
be not already converted; and that he will
agree, as the whole community—contractors
and epaulette wearers excepted—will, ere
long, with the peace organ, the New York
Daily News, that this war ought to come to an
end.
‘Tile Ball Opened In East-Tennessee."
For some time it has been known that Capt.
Thornburg, of Union county, a strong Lincoln
ite, has been organizing a military company
for the avowed purpose of aiding in ihe sub
jugation of the South. The arrangement be
ing complete, on Friday last, they took up the
line of inarch for Kentucky, to unite with the
Lincoln forces, there being organized and to
return to their own ‘native section,’ to re enact
upon the soil of East Tannessee the damnable
deeds that has marked their course in Missou
ri, Yirginia and Maryland.
Fortunately, however, a report of their
movement reached the ears of Lieut. Col. F.
M. Walker, in command at Cumberland Gap.
Forthwith he dispatched the gallant II.
M. Ashby, with a portion of the cavalry un
der his command, to intercept t|j»passage and
if possible to arrest tWryfgleader. They.,
came in contact with Capt. Thornbug and* l|ts
traitor band of eighty men, near
n Scott county. They were armed with John
Brown pikes, and pistols, bowie knives and
some few rilles. A surrender was demanded.
It was refused, and a charge was made upon
them, which put the whole party to flight.—
Several shots were fired, one of which took
effect in the neck ofCapt. Thornburg, checked
his locomotion and forced him to surrender.
Some seven or eight others were captured,
besides 14 horses, 27 pikes, several large
knives, pistols, rilles, satchels, saddles. In
fact, it was miniature Manassas affair.
Lieut. Gibbs wan the hero of the battle.—
Capt. Thornbug had a valuable horse, which
Lieut. Gibbs wits anxious to purchase when he
entered the Confederate service. Thornburg
asked .SIOO for him, but refused io let Gibbs
have him at any price. The Lieutenant told
him he would yet have (he pleasure of riding
him. That whenever Thornbug attempted
to cross the Cumberland Mountain on bis
hellish mission, lie would capture him, and ,
take his horse. >
What he told him in theje-t has been real
ized. Lieut. Gibbs made a gallant charge upon |
tho Captain, took him prisoner, and now par ;
ados on his fine horse.
This is but the beginning in East Tennes- s
see, ami unless better counsels prevail, no man 1
can (ell ti e end. This man Thornbug, is rep- :
resented as one of tho leading rebellious spirits
of this section, lie was found in arms against
the Government to which he owes allegiance. ,
Has committed treason against the State and (
Confederate Government, and the full penalty (
of his crime should bo visited upon him.— r
There is no excuse or justification for his acts. ,
Towards his deluded followers we have differ- r
ent feelings. They “know not what they do." v
They have been misled and deceived, and are
(hi) victims of misplaced confidence. The
truth has been a sealed book Io them, aud their
minds poisoned with false representations.—
Knoxville Register.
“ Massa,’’ said Sambo, “ one of your oxens
is dead, tedder, too— 'fraid to tell you of boll' s
at once fnre’d you couldn’t bare it. f
Salt in Texan.
The Houston Telegraph calls attention to
the supply of salt in the rear of Corpus
Christi, which, it would seem, is sufficient for
the supply of the whole Confederacy. The
salt is found in the Laguna Madre, once a
long narrow bay, but which has been cut off
from the sea by the formation of a bar. Dur
ing nine months of the year there is no rain,
I and the water which flows in from the sea is
rapidly evaporated, leaving a deposit of salt
from one to two feet deep, of a quality equal
to Turk’s Island. The Telegraph estimates
that there are not less than a thousand mil
lions of bushels of salt in the lagoon, within
the reach of the rudest appliances for gather
ing.
The mode of gathering this salt, says the
Telegraph, is, by having Mexican cartmen, to
deliver it in Corpus Christi bay. There are
times, we are informed, when the salt, may be
scraped into flatboats and taken to deep water.
But the cartmen can, it is believed, be obtain
ed to deliver a hundred thousand bushels in
Corpus bay at cost of not over ten cents per
bushel. From Corpus there is inland naviga
tions for flat bottomed scows to within twenty
miles of the Brazos river.
As we have before stated, this salt is far su
perior to Liverpool salt; and if Old Abe’s
blockade forces us to open a business of sup
plying ourselves with our own salt, it will not
be the least, of the benefits it will confer upon
us. We believe it will be possible to deliver
salt in Houston at from a cent to a cent and
half per pound. It is now worth two and a
half-
The Catholics and the War-
The whole Catholic population of the South
are with us, heart and hand, in this war. The
Charleston Catholic Miscellany exults over
our victory at Manassas, and adds :
“Providence has twice, within the last ten
days, blessed our arms with victory in Virgin
ia. The battle of the 18th was a brilliant suc
cess, that of the 21st a most decided victory.
The hirelings came on rejoicing, taking our
speedy flight for granted. They came with
sound of trumpet and joyful music ; with extra
festival dishes to banquet after their anticipa
ted conquest ; with handcuffs for our vanquish
ed prisoners, or it may be for our “contraband
articles of war” that their philanthropy came
to rescue from Southern bondage into West
I India freedom.
But a just God has confounded their coun
sels, and turned their glee and rejoicing into
dismay and defeat. Such a complete rout was
never seen on this continent since it was peo
pled by civilized inhabitants. Our volunteers
defeated t heir regulars, captured vaunted bat
teries at the point of the bayonet, and pursued
and slaughtered them like sheep in their cow
ardly Hight. And they were two to our one !
All honor to our Beauregards, Johnsons and
other brave leaders ! All sympathy and re
spect to the memory of the Bees, Bartows,
Johnstons, and others of the fallen brave 1 —
But, above all, thunks to Divine Mercy that
guided the counsels and nerved the arms of
our brave warriors ! Let our wicked foe trust
in his horses and chariots, in his strong weap
ons and great numbers ; but feeling that our
cause is righteous, let our trust be in the name
of the Lord.
There is said to be even a very great change
in the Catholics of the North who have enlist
ed. Many of them declare that they were in
duced to enlist by the representation that their
churches had been burned down in the South,
and that all the Sisters of Charity had been
turned out of tho Convents, which had been
converted into barracks. They are amazed to
find the statement so utterly false, and to learn
how many of their countrymen are enlisted on
the side of the South,
Mr. Thomas F. Meagher, who was in the
fight on Sunday last, yesterday told one of the
Priests here, says a Washington correspondent,
that he would never again take up arms a
gainst the South ; that God was on their side,
and that if he fought again it would be for
them.
The Soldier’s Burial.
It was an affecting scene, the burial of two
young gentlemen, Francis P. Haralson and
Henry Vogelin, on the evening of the 4th in
stant, at Hollywood cemetery. They were
young men of great promise, of highly re
spectable parentage, residing in the same town
(Selma, Alabama.) They enlisted in company
A, 4th Alabama Regiment, and went forth to
peril their lives in the defence of the country.
In the Battle at Manassas, this Regimenl was,
during the whole of the fight, exposed to the
enemies guns, and for one half hour, unaided
and alone, kept the enemy in check that re
inforcements might come to them, being all
the while in the closest contest, and in the
most galling fire. In this hard contest, these
young men, with their brave comrades, insen
sible to fear, while taking down the enemy by
their well-aimed, deadly shots, lost their lives.
History does not record a case of more deter
mined, persistent bravery than was exhibited
by this Regiment. They stood like a ■ wall* of
rock amid the shower of bullets aimed at
them, and three times resisted the chargT of
an almost innumerable host. Thirty-six of
them were killed in this great struggle, and
one hundred i.nd fifty were wounded.
Their coffins were borne by two hearses to
their final resting place, followed by a num
ber of the friends of their families, and others
who honored them because they had nobly
died for their country. As we approached
their graves, where side by side they were
laid to rest, on the top of an elevation covered
with beautiful blue grass sward and cool shade
trees, the golden hues of the setting sun, re
flected from the waters of ihe James river,
shed a mellow light over the scene, it reminded
■fine of that calm and holy bliss which their
( jwell ordered livesjptve assurance was their in
heritarfee in a world. •
Tlte Rev. Dr." Burrowk feeling
and eloquent remarks at the grave, in which
he took occasion to say that these and like in
stances were some of the sacrifices we were
called to make to maintain our independence
and to enjoy the privilege of governing our
selves; that our consciences were acquitted of
having meditated any wrong upon the people
of the North. We had not invaded them, nor
sought to injure them ; but they had come up
on our soil to lay waste our fields aud to de
stroy our people. He denounced the death of
these noble youths as murder—yes, downright
murder—aud assured his hearers that, as the
blood of the martyrs was the seed of the
church, so the tree of liberty, enriched by
such precious blood, would take deep roots
and flourish utffil beneath its shade millions
of freemen should calmly repose in the enjoy
ment of peace, prosperity and happiness
After a fervent and affecting prayer, by the
Rev. Dr. Talheid, “we buried our dead out of
our sight.” As we threw the earth upon
them, tears coursed the cheek of sturdy man
hood from those unused to weep, and the com
pressed lips and fixed eyes told “this blood
shall be revenged.” No father, no mother
was there to take a last adieu of their dead
soldier boy—they wept in their far distant
homes for the loss of their loved ones they
should see no more.
But woman, to her holy mission, was early
at the graves, and strewed the fresh mound
with sweet aud beautiful flowers. The strick
en parents of these departed youths should be
consoled by the reflection that their sons died
nobly defending their liberty, and that while
they sleep in a distant land, and may no more
return to gladden their homes, yet a little
while and they shall meet them—
‘■Upon that bright anj blissful shore
Where comes no shadow, falls no stain;
Where those who meet shall part no more
And throe lontr parted meet again.”
[AVcAmoW Examiner.
A gentleman, who spoke of having been i
struck by a lady’s beauty, was advised to kiss j
the rod. •
A Soldier's Emotion In Battle.
Our citizens inexperienced in the battle field
will find the most terrible moments just before
the battle begins. A soldier in his narration
published in Howe’s Achievements of Ameri
cans,” gives some interesting items on this
head in his description of the battle of I‘alo
Alto, the opening battle of the war.
When all was ready, both armies stood still
for about twenty minutes, each waiting for the
other to begin the work of death, and during
this time, I did not see a single man of the en
emy move ; they stood like statues.
We remained quiet with two exceptions.
Gen. Taylor followed by his stafl, rode from
left to right in a slow pace, with his leg thrown
over like a woman, as he passed each regiment,
he spoke words of encouragement. I know
not what he said to the others, but when he
came up to where we stood, be looked steadily
at us ; I suppose, to see what effect the novel
circumstances in which we were placed had
upon us, and as he razed, he said : “The bay
onet, my hardy cocks! the bayonet is the
thing !” The other occasion was that of Lieul
Blake, of the engineers, who volunteered to
gallop along the eaerny’s line, in front of both
armies, and count their guns ; and so close did
he go that he might have been shot a hundred
times. One of the officers of the enemy,
doubtless thinking l.e had some communication
to make, rode to meet him ; Blake, however,
paid no attention to him, but rode on, and then
returned and reported to Taylor.
Thus stood those two beligerentarmies, face
to face. What were the feelings of those
thousands ? How many thoughts and fears
were crowded into those few moments! Look
at our men! A clammy sweat is settled all
over their faces slightly pale, not from coward
ly fear, but from an awful sense of peril, com
bined with a determination not to flinch from
duty. These are the moments when true sol
diers resign themselves to their fate, and con
sole themselves with the reflection that what
ever may befall them they will act with honor •
these are the moments when the absolute cow
ard suffers more than death—when if not eer
tain that he would be shot in his tracks, he
would turn and flee. Fighting is very hard
work ; the man who has lived through a two
hour’s fight, has lived through a great omounl
of physical and mental labor. At the end of
a battle I always found that I had perspired so
profusely as to wet through all my thick wool
en clothing, and when I had got cool, I was as
sore as if I had been beaten all over with a
club. When the battle commences, the feelings
undergo a change. Reader, did you ever ste
your house on fire? if so, it was then yon
rushed into great danger: it was then you
went over places, climbing over walls, lifted
heavy loads, which you never dould have done
in your cooler moments; you then have sx
perienced some of the excitement of a soldier
in battle. I always knew my danger—that
any moment I was liable to be killed,yet such
was my excitement that I never realized it. Ail
men are not alike. Some are cool ; some are
perfectly wild or crazy; others are so prostra
ted by fear that they are completely unnerved
—an awful sinking and relaxation of all their
energies take place, awful to behold : they
tremble like an aspen, slink into ditches and
covert places, cry like children, and are totally
insensible to shame—dead to every emotion
but the overwhelming fear of instant death.
We had a few, and but a few, of such in our
army.
As the two armies were facing each other, it
was remarkable to see the coolness of our men.
There they stood, chewing bits of buscuit, and
talking about the Mexicans—some wondering
if they would fight; others allowing that they
would, and like demons, etc. I kept my eye
on the artillery of the enemy, and happened
to be looking towards their right wing, when
suddenly a white curl of smoke sprang up
there from one of their guns, and then I saw
the dust fly some distance in front where the
ball struck. Instantly another, and then an
other rich curl of smoke arose, succeeded by
booming sound, and the shot came crashing
toward us. The enemy fired very rapidly,
and the balls knocked the dust about us in all
directions—some went over our heads, others
struck the ground in front and bounded away.
Our batteries now went to work, and poureJ -1-11
in upon them a perfect storm of iron ; Lieu'
tenant Churchill and his men began with their
eighteen pounders, and when the first was fired
it made such a loud report that our men gave
a spontaneous shout, which seemed to inspire
us with renewed confidence. I could hear ev
ery word the Lieutenant said to his men.
When the first shot was fired, he watched the
ball, saying, “Too high men; try another!
“too low, men: try again—the third time is
the charm !” The third shot was tired, and I
saw with my own eyes the dreadful effect of
that and the following shot. “Thet’s ii, my
boys !’ shouted Churchill, jumping up about
two feet; you have them now? keep her at
that;” and so they did, and every shot tore
complete lanes through the enemy’s lines ; but
they stood it manfully. The full chorus of
battle now raged; twenty three pieces of ar
tillery belched son? their iron hail.
We were ordered to lie down in the grass to
avoid the shot: this puzzled the enemy, and
they could not bring guns to bear upon uo,
making our loss very small. Many were the
narrow escapes; one ball came within six
inches of my left side. The force of the shot
was tremendous ; a horse’s body was no obsta.
cle at all; a man’s leg was a mere pipe stem.
I watched the shot as it struck the roots of the
grass, and it was astonishing how the dust
flew. In about an hour the grass caught on
fire, and the clouds of smoke shut out the op
posing armies from view. We had not as yet
lost a man from our regiment. In the ob.
scurity the enemy changed their line, and
the eighteen-pounders, supported by our
regiment, took a new position on a little rise
of ground. As we moved < n to the spot, a
six-pound shot carried away the lower jaw of
Capt. Page, and then took off a man’s head on
the right, as clean as with a knife. The blood
of poor Page was the first blood I saw ; he
was knocked down in the grass, and as he eu7
deavored to raise himself, he presented such a
ghastly spectacle that a sickly, fainting sensa
tion came over me, and the memory of that
night I shall carry with me to my dying day.
A little later, Major Ringgold was mortally
wounded at his battery ; I saw him just after
it. The shot had torn away a portion of the
flesh of his thighs ; its force was tremendous,
cutting off both his pistols at the locks, and
also the withers of his horse—a splendid
steed which was killed to relieve him of his
misery. The enemy tried hard, but without
avail, to hit our eighteen-pounders. The bat
tle continued until night put an end to the
scene. We bivouacked where we were.
laid on our arms ; we slept, however, but lit-'*”’"*'
tie, thinking we might be attacked in our
sleep.
The enemy had been very severely handled,
owing to the superiority of our artillery. The
gunners went into it more like butchers than
military men: each dropped off his coat, r.ll
ed up his sleeves, and tied his suspenders
around his waist; they all wore red flannel
shirts, and therefore, were in uniform. To
seem them limbering and unlimbering, firing
a tew shots, then dashing through the smoke,
and then to fire agaiu with lightning-like ra.-
pidity, partly hid from view by deuse clouds of
smoke and dust, with their dark red shirts and
naked arms, yelling at every shot they made, j
reminded me of a band of demons rather than
as men.
Our Recognition by England.—The special
correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger
tays:
A letter from London, the writer of which
tas been very careful aud reliable in his state
nent, asserts that should the first pitched bat
le result in the success of the Codfederatea,
he recognition of the Confederacy would be »
Ixed fact, and that as goes England, sc goes
: rance and the Continent.