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VOLUME XXXIII.]
M1LLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, T U E S D A Y, J U L Y 8, 1862.
[NUMBER 7.
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From the Examiner of the 28th ult.
Tin- I.im-M nltont Kirlimoml—Heavy ]' n-
giigenieiilM—Enemy falling baeU.
The splendid contest of Thursday af-
(prnorinr which resulted in the wresting,
by Gen. A. P. Hill’s division, of Meehan*
I iesvilie, though without decisive results,
; except the possessing of the place served
i to attract the attention of McClellan from
I a movement in his rear which oveitvhelm
ied him. There Hill’s division of 12.000
men stood successfully, opposed to at least
: four times their number, behind eartli-
: works, which they, one after another,
; evacuated, carry ing oil’their guns, which,
Later—the action becomes "aural—-the sit
uation of' the tuo Armies at night.
We learn from Major John M. Daniel,
! of the General’s staff, serving with Gen.
Hill in these battles, and who, about 4
! o’clock last evening, was obliged to leave
the field in consequence of having had his
right arm shattered by a Minnie ball, that
at the time he left the field. Dill’s divis-
i which had been engaged the whole
day, and victorious throughout, was en
gaged in a terrific battle with the enemy
near New Coal Harbor, and were over
matched by large masses of the enemy.
Just as the Major was wounded several
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mounted on wheel carriages were r.ot cap- laige bodies of troops were appearin
tured, as some of our cotemporaries an-4 the field, which were supposed to he rein-
I nounced yesterday, though their positions forcements under Jackson,
j were gained and held. Many valuable j Lat>-r accounts brought from the field of
i lives wgre lost at Mechanicsville, but they ; battle are deeply interesting. The reiri-
; received immortality there. | forcements that reached thefh-Id, and which
About 3 o’clock yesterday morning the were supposed to he under General Jack-
grand coup dc main of Gen. T. J. Jack-j son, were troops of General Longstreet’s
Ison was accomplished. With his army. , division. General Jackson was engaged
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t into position the pie- on General Hill's left during the day, but | f oresaw j t wouid
fresh from the fields of | was also in time to j«in the general engage- meet tbe , n . ltte
: ment of our fire eaters, and liave them
I brought ont face to face in an open field,
j I’d he willing to abide by the result, go
• which way it would. But we don’t like to
! have to fight you.’
| ‘I do regret one thing,’ he said again,
i addressing himself to the officer command
ing the pickets <>f the Seventeenth Ohio,
Col Connell, whom he had known as an
old line Democrat, ‘and that is, that the
old Democratic party is permitting itself
to be used by the Abolitionists, and is now
absolutely under their control.’ Col. Con
nell disputed the pioposition.’ ‘You’ll
see how it will be when the war is over,’
said Col. Thompson. ‘Even now you can
see how Congress is drifting, and tl> n cur
rent is sure to set, and stronger and strong
er in the same direction.’ ‘But you might
have checked the current if your members
had stayed in Congress,’ suggested a by
stander. ‘Oh, no! we might, perhaps,
have pushed off the evil day a little farth
er, butthat was all. Abolitionism is going
to sweep everything before it, just as we
It was just as well to
now as any time, but we
exploits in the Valley, came down the ment which ensued about o o’clock in the. j dJd not ct yoll Northern Democrats
Cbickahominy on the right Hank of Me- j evening. _ I to help swell the A
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Clellan’s army, to Coal Harbour, in the i At this hour the action became general
enemy’s rear, and put his front upon it at for the first time on the Richmond lines.
COURT ( ALLEM)ER FOR IS62.
SUPERIOR. COURTS.
JANUARY.
2,1 Monday, Chatham.
* Floyd
FEBRUARY.
1st Monday,Clink
t Lumpkin
3d Monday, Campbell
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
Polk
Glascock
Mirri wether
Walton
4tU Monday, Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
Walker
MARCH.
1st Thursday. Pierce
1st Monday I Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Coweta
Columbia
Ciawfovd
Gwinnett
M adieon
Marion
51 organ
2d Monday, Butts
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
Fnyett
Greene
Pickens
Washington
Webster
3d Monday, CVbbt
Calhoun
Ball
Hart
.Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Tattnal
Ware
Thursday after White
Friday alter, Bulloch
4th Monday, Clinch
Putnam
llubvn
Chattahoochee
Dee
Twiggs
Wilkes
Johnson
Milton
Tlmradayaft
or Habersham
4tliTliurfd«v
, Montgomery
Monday af
/ Echols
ter 11Ii Mon
day.
k Effingham
AF
RIL.
1st Ai 2d Mon. Carroll
1st Monday,
Dooly
Franklin
Emanuel
Early
Fulton
Gordon
Pike
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
I JULY.
1st 51ondav, F ovd*
AUGUST.
,1st Monday Luinpkint
j2d 51 indav, Campbell
('lai k
Dawson
3d Mondav, Forsyth
‘ Pols
Glascock
Merriwether
Walton
j 1th Slonday, Baluwin
J a( kson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
U ulker
jThusday after. Pierce
I . SEPTE51HER.
list Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Cher, kee
Columbia
Coweta
Crawford
51 adison
Marion
Morgan
2d Monday, Butts
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayette
Greene
Gwinnett
Pickens
Washington
Webster
3d Monday, Cobbt
Calhoun
Bull
Bart
Beard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Ware
Bulloch
Thursday after W bite
14th Monday. Clinch
Putnam
Chattahoochee
Lee
Twiggs.
Wilkes
Johnson
Milton
ltnbun
Thursday after Habersham
Monday tif-)
r the* 4th > Echols
Mondav )
OCTOBER
Emanuel
Franklin
Early
Fulton
Gilmer
Gordon
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Pike
Thnrsd'yafter Banks
2d Monday, Hancock
Richmond
liairis
Li-9 reus
Miller
Sumter
Tuesday after, McIntosh
3d .Monday, Glynn
Haralson
Henry
Jones
Liberty
Jlurrav
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Mouday Worth
after* -Bryan
4th Monday,Wayne
Decatur
D< Kalb
Houston
J asper
Lincoln
Scidey
Whitfield
Wilcox
Friday after, Telfair
Camden
Thursday after, Irwin
Monday “ Berrien
Charlton
5IAY
1st Jlonday. Clayton
Serivec
Gilmer
Randolph
Upson
2d Slonday, Catoosa
Ji fferson
Chatham
Fannin
Mitchell
M uscogee
3d 5Ionday, Bibb
Burke
Quittman
Spalding
Troup
Union
Baker
Thursday after Towns
4th Monday, Dade
Terrell
Last 5Iondnv. Colquitt
JUNE.
1st Monday, Lowndes
Dougherty
2d Monday, Brooks
Clay
3d Monday, Thomas
,\ Pacific Railrpad.
Our Xorthern advices inform us
passage by the lower house of the Yankee
Congress, of its pet scheme of building a
railroad to the Pacific. Something of the
provisions of the bill arc indicated in ilie
following extract from a letter in the A. } . \
rimes;
‘•The main line of the road to com
mence at a point, not designated, on the
102nd meridian of longitude (which is j
the western boundary of Kansas) and run ,
thence to the western boundary of Neva- |
ia Territory, where it will connect with j
lie Central Pacific railroad of California, i
I'he .eastern connections are as iol- \
lows;
••]. From Kansas City to the 102nd,
meridian of longitude, 2. From Leaven- j
.vorth to a point on this line not more than j
fifty miles from the Missouri river; 3. From j
•fit. Joseph to a point intersecting this line I
not more than one hundred miles west of !
lie Missouri river; 4. Front a point on the |
Western boundary of Iowa, on the most
practicable route, to an intersection with I
lie main line not farther than the 102nd
meridians ot longitude; •>. i rom Sioux j casiotiall
City, Iowa, to a point intersecting wit h one j heavy gt
u- other of the above lines not more than
hree hundred miles west of the Missouri
Tver—this branch, however, not to becou-
-tructed till a railroad shall liave been com
pleted through Minnessota or Iowa to 8i-
•ux City. Mr. Arnold moved an amend
ment which was adopted, providing That
n fixing the point of intersection of the
main track w ith the western connection, jt
-ball be fixed at the most practicable piuht
for the construction of the Iowa and Mis
souri branches—thus establishing the pre
sumption, other things being equal, that
he eastern terminus of the main line shall
oe about on the parallel of Burlington
Iowa.
“The bill proposes to give the six per
cent bonds of the United States, to the
amount of sixteen thousand dollars pet-
mile, to the company as fast as sections of
oi ty miles each are completed. 'l itis pro
vision applies to the main line and all its
branches, and the government has a first
mortgage on the road. T hrough the ruck-
v Mountains and the Sierra N'evadas the
amount of debt to be incurred I liave not
the trouble to calculate, but it is safe to
say that it is too large to warrant one in
entertaining the hope that the bill will pass
the Senate at this session. If it were not
for our tremendous war, with its frightful
cost and towering debt, we could build the
road with comparative ease; but there is no
probability tliat the scheme will beattemp-
ted, at least until the war is ended,and the
ability of the nation to pay taxes under
Old Church. The enemy had fallen hack j No such collision of numbers has yet oc-
“ ; still further during the night, and Hill’s j curred in the history of the war. Itises-
! and Longstreet’s divisions pressed him in j timated that seventy-five thousand Confed-
front and left flank early yesterday morn- J ernte troops were.engagerf with an equal,
! ing. Thus, by a strategy unparaleled for j if not superior, force of the enemy. T he
of the- its brilliancy, was McClellan circumvent- scenery of the battle field is described as
ed. Up to this writing we have no ac- ! awfully sublime, and its sights of carnage
counts of’ the battle that has been pro- as exceeding in ghastliness the worst imag-
ustify particulars, j
| grossing that
I but McClellan
; ported retreat it
! nv, bearing off from
would
and his main army was re-
g down the Chiekahomi-
Stonewali’s’ guns in
the direction of West Point, where the
gfinboats were l\ing ready to cover him.
It was six o’clock when the enemy gave
wav, after leaving their last breastworks
battery of thirteen guns, which was their
best, mounting heavy seige guns. Mc
Clellan retired, burning up bis stores at
the depots of his lines. From t lie top of
the capital, in the square, shafts of white
smoke could he seen rising in the direction
of Old Church and the White House. At
first this was thought to originate from the
firing of cannon, that could not he heard
from the distance, ihe wind also being
contrary ; but later in tlie day it was as
certained to have been caused by the de
struction, by the enemy, of J j is immense
stores off to the tight of tlie Mechanics-
yille pike, on the farm of Dr. Gaines.
T he mutterings of the fight could he oc- i ;
heard through the report of
s, but it tlied entirely away as
the scene of the conflict, was removed by
ibe retreat of the enemy and the advance
of the Confederate forces.
The tetieat of McClellan’s army, and
tusuit of the Confederate army, lias
illations of the horrors of war.
Nightfall has caused an intermission of
the terrific conflict. From the best and
most leliable information we can obtain,
the field was undecided, when the ac
tion was intermitted to he resumed this
morning.
The field of the imposing Gattle, on
which the grandest fortunes ever contested
awaits decision, is about twelve*miles from
the city of Richm oil.
The enemy’s retreat was certainly nut a
rout, as it has been described on the street j
corners, lie left his ground at leisure, I
cat tying off all his dead and worn Jed, j
leaving no marks ol disorder on the route :
of his retieat but such as are imndfcntai, |
id course, to the movements oflarge mass
es.
There is occasion to apprehend that
Me(T ellan, in falling back on his present
line of'defence, has improved his position.
Fite advantages of his present position are
mainly artificial, but they sire considered
important and serious, although lie gave up
yesterday several positions of great natural
advantage, especially that at Mechanics
ville, upon which he had expended every
resource to make it impiegtiable.
It is impossible to estimate the loss in*
yesterday's engagement. The only stale*
. . ; meets we can get of the casualties <rf the
veil our base ot information concerning | terrific battle of the evening are vague and
ghastly messages that the “ground is cov
ered with dead.” The spirits of our troops
are undimitiished. There was no strag
gling hut from excessive fatigue. 'Lite is
sue, which is yet undecided, is solemnly
entrusted to the valor of our troops and the
providence of Almighty God.
Jackson’s army was represented as-mov-j ——
j mg down considerably ibis side of the j A F, »*t Truce between Bcaurrgnnl and
Fatnunkey fora trussel bridge spanning it • iiaiieck’a Army,
j at the railroad, with the intention of out-1 An army correspondent of the New Y.
| stripping McClellan, whose forces were Tribune gives a graphic account ol the in-
1 making for the same bridge to secure it as
| a crossing before it w as seized or burned
iy Jackson. Gen. l.ongstreet’s A. P.
j tli
i tin
| the fight, which, we learn, was kept up at )
j intervals with great severity, but, through j
j the kindness of an officer from our lines,
! we hat e been supplied with a very intelli-
i gent pencil diagram, furnishing the po- I
! sitions of the retreating and pursuing I
I forces.
the new
ed.”
revenue bill accurately aseerlain-
Richmond
Hancock
Hart is
Laurens
Miller
Sumter
,3d Monday, Glynn
lluralsoo
Jlrnry
Jones
Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Union
tV.ith
Thursday after Tow ns
Thursday ) Montgomery
after »
lth Monday, Wavne
Decal nr
DeKalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Tattnall
Whitfield
Wilcox
Friday after. Telfair
Unmden
Thursday after. Irwin
Mondav after Charlton
NOVEMBER.
1st Monday, Berrien
Se riven
Clayton
Effingham
Randolph
Upson
2d Monday, Catoosa
Jefferson
Mitchell
Muscogee ,
j;3d Monday, Bibb
Burke
Quittman
Spalding
Troup
Baker
lth Mondav, Dade
' Terrell
Thursday Rfter. McIntosh
Monday “ Colquitt
“ Liberty
Mon. after Liberty. Bryan
DECEMBER.
1st Monday. Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday, Brooks
Clav
3d Monday Thomas
'May holds three weeks, if necessary, at each
term.
tJudge not reqnired to draw Jurors for two
weeks; and not obliged to hold two weeks' Court
in counties of Cobb and Lumpkin.
Yankee Health on the Tennessee.—A lafe
number of the Louffiville Journal contains
the following doleful account:
Dr. Blackman returned last night from
Pittsburg, coming up on the Superior to
New Albany, and from thence by rail. The
Superior has on board 555 sick and woun-
ed and unable to come up the river over
the Falls, she will discharge her load he
low and return to the Tennessee. Dr.
Blackman states that the banks of the
Tennessee river are covered by the’ sick
soldiers to be counted by thousand^ upon
thousands. T hey are necessarily poorly
provided, for, and tiie boats are leav-
bourly crowded with theinvalids. Ihe wea
ther is very hot, and sickness increasing.
Halleck has made his arrangements not to
bring- his wounded at the battle of t’orinth
from the field, but they will lie cared for at
Corinth. The roads were wretched, and
our troops enduring all kinds of privations
and hardships to reach the enemy’s fortifi
cations. Dr. Blackman is si ill Brigade
| Surgeon of the army, the Secretary ot
War refusing to accept ids resigna
tion.
Yankee Brutality — T hero, is a T ankee
officer now in this city, a prisoner in one
of our jails, who makes some startling state
ments in regard to the treatment
ot some of our men who were taken _
prisoner in the late great battle before • fortunate lack of
Richmond. We give the statement for j e d officers killed,
what it is worth. It it is true, it is time
our soldiers were settling in their tninjs
the question whether in future ihey will
take prisoners those ruffians, who seem
to he tiead to every feeling of common hu
manity. This officer says that frequent
ly, after our men had surrendered tliem-
selve, and thrown down their amis, they
were run through with bayonets, or else
knocked in the head by the clubbed mus
kets of their brutal f<>e. He mentions one
special instance which came under his own
observation. A Yankee soldier was de
tailed to take one of our men (a piisonei )
to the rear He demurred, but was obii-
lltil’s and I). II. Hill’s divisions were
ptessing haul upon McClellan’s rear,while
Magtuder and Huger, on the Chickahom-
iny. held our right wing in the direction
of New Bridge w ith a portion of the enemy
in front of them. This was the supposed
situation of the armies up to' yesterday af
ternoon. As regards the battle, or series
of battb-s, that closed the eventful day we
have little that is reliable. So, too, of our
loss and that of the enemy, hut it lias been
heavy—that on the enemy's side very
great; but we will not ventureon figures.
It appears to be conceded that the ene
my successfully withdrew their forces from
the position held by them on Thursday
night, after the capture of Mechan'csville,
leaving behind, as a blind, some skitmish-
ers and a battery, which, when charged
upon by the advance yesterday morning
at daylight, was found to he empty of
men and guns. A pursuit of three hours
brought our forces upon a formidable bat-
terv of thirteen guns at Gaines’ Mill, near
New Kent toad. Here occurred our hea- , ....
viest loss. The breastworks were situa- the very district on whose soil he now stood ;
ted on a bluff, across a mill-dam, canal ! un ^ r a
and swamps, with rifle pits in front.
troops charged through and over all with
a valor and determination that swept ev
erything, clearing rifle pits aud battery at
the point of tlie bayonet. The troops that
did this splendid act of gallantry were
from North Carolina—Hie brigade of Gen.
Tender. This was accomplished through
terrific volleys of musketry, shell, round
.shot, grape and canister, that piled tlie
ground with ihe valorous dead and wound
ed.
In ihe retreat bodies of cavalry were
thrown forward on the Prospect road and
the Tuekertown road to intercept them,
but it failed to succeed. We hear it said
' that McClellan’s letreat was conducted in
i good order, and that the enemy carried
i forwar i all their dead and wounded. It
i was said few prisoners were taken ; how-
tercourse which took place btween the two
atmies recently confronting each other at
Coiin h, under a flag of truce borne by a
detachment tinder Colonel Jacob Tbomp-
s- n, of Mississippi, Secretary of the Inte-
iioi under the Buchannan Administration
The account will he found highly interest
ing. After describing his reconnissance
about tlie ‘rebel’ lines the writer pro
ceeds :
Looking down the next turn of the road,
beyond the two or three blue coats on du
ty, I noticed a group of officers, among
whom were two conspicuous for the gaudy
uniform, of the Confederate army, while
the presence, just beyond, of a tall, grey
coat ed private, bearing a white Hag, ex
plained the phenomenon-
hiding up, I was introduced to Colonel
Thompson, of General Beauregard’s stall’.
The cordial warmth of manner, the fine
head, expressive features and grizzly
heard and moustache were not unfamiliar
in Washington, even so late as the begin
ning of tlie present year. It was Mr. Bu
chanan’s well known Secretary of the In
terior, the Hon. Jacob M. T hompson. Mis- j
sissippi millionaire, ex-Congrcsstnan from
help swell the Abolition power.’
Then followed enquiries, almost innu
merable, about old friends on the’other
side. Among others, Colonel T. asked
after Matt Martin, of Columbus. I told
hint of his being the editor of the States
man ; and when I added, with a trifle ot
malice aforetought, for which I trust Matt
will forgive me, that up North we accused
him of being a pretty fair secessionist foi
Ohio latitude, J am very g-lad to hear it!’
ex#ftimed the Col. ‘Very glad, indeed,
T ’assure you.’
| ‘loti havn’t heard of your taking Rich-
I mond yet, have you ?’ We told him we
I had no dispatches to that effect, but that
i we confidently expected them within a
J few days. ‘You won’t get them,’ said he;
| ‘you’re not going to take Richmond with-
| out a much harder fight than you’re coiint-
■ ing on.’ The loss of New Orleans, Pen-
j sacola and Norfolk was freely admitted,
and the nmense advantage thus gained
acknowledged. ‘But all won’t do, gentle
men. I otv may t^ke some of our cities,
hut you can’t subjugate the South. Your
confiscation, which, stave it off as you will,
in Congress, you are bound to come to,
and )*tur subjugation mea<i4> simply exter
mination. 1’ts :oo great an undeitaking
for any powe4-. And, gentlemen,’solemn
!y repeated the martial looking cavalrj
captain, ‘you may win seme victories over
us, hut you can Dever subdue us.’
The Secession prisoners at Columbus
were inquired after, and the story of their
kind treatment was received with great
gratification. Colonel Thompson had
relatives among them ; and‘could vve ar
range it so that he could send them a mes
sage, or, if possible, a few lines in writing?’
True to newspaper habits, I had writing
materials with me, and tlie Colonel at
once availed himself of the offer, and sat
down ott a log to write a letter. He in
sisted on reading it over to Colonel Con
nell to assure him there was nothing im
proper in what he had written, and ex
pressed great delight at the opportunity
for such certain anti speedy communica
tion.
Meantime, our officers had been ming
ling freely with the rebels, and all manner
of good-natured remarks or tart rejoinders
exchanged.
From tlie Richmond Enquiry.
Xarthrrn anil Kn$li»h Journalism—A ( on-
Iras I.
The separal ion from the north which we
are now vindicating by arms, will yield us
as a portion of its fruits many social ad
vantages. Wc think the Southern tem
perament is much more magnanimous and
courteous than that of the North. There
is far less disposition to make life a scuffie
for advantages in which every man is a ri
val if not an enemy. There is more gen
erosity of character, more hospitality, more
refinement of feeling, less credulity, more
steadiness of opinion and less susceptibil
ity to what is known as “sensation.” The
influence and example of Northern litera
ture have however, had considerable in
fluence in perverting our natural taste.*
and habits of mind, and adaj ting them to
its own vicious standaid. But we trust
t hat separation will work out our full e
mancipation in this respect; and that the
felicitous diction and quiet dignity of such
a style as Madison’s will over please our
taste infinitely better than the vain bom
bast of such as Sumner or the coarse speech
and brutal vituperation of such as Ben
nett and Greeley. We trust that the ap
petite for seeing men abused in print, will
not like that of the tiger which has once
tasted human blood, prove undying and
insatiable; but that whey we shall no longer
he accustomed to Northern periodicals we
shall speedily be recovered from the con
tagion of their example, and form ourselves
after our own native instincts.
Perhaps the departure which Northern
iiovi-u papers have made from the standard
*'f dignity and good taste, could not be bet
ter illustrated than by comparing them
with similar English publications. We
have before us copies of the New York
“Herald”.and the London “'Times.” The
latter paper seems to assume that its read
ers will give it credit for filling its col
umns with the most instructive or enter-
tertaining matter it could provide. Hence
it rnakes.no attempt to excite a factitious
interest- Its valuable and instructive cor
respondence is introduced with a caption
that simply tells from what country it
comes. 'Tlie brief headings of its news
matter simply name the subjects treated
of. Its editorial are without even this;
• he reader being left to learn the subject
from a perusal of the article. This, we
think, carries the idea too far; for it is a
convenience to the reader to know at once
the topic of discussion.
In everything, indeed, the “Times”
avoids the least approach to “sensation.”
It does not sound its own praises. It has
no boasts of its circulation; no boasts of
presenting later news than others. It qui
etly publishes what it gathers and produ
ces, and leaves the reading public to de
cide what is “Startling!!” and what is
“Astounding!!” and what is “In advance
of our neighbors!!”
When on the other hand, wc open the
New Y<>rk “Herald,” we feel at once as
we had entered a noisy auction store, ora
show where the man praises his goods as if
he must sell them quickly or die At the
head of the first column of the leading
matter we are told that the “Herald” has
“tlie largest circulation of any daily journ
al in the world” “equal to the aggregate
circulation of all the other daily• journals
in N<-w York.” 'The headings to the edi-
A Proper KetaliatiM.
The following letter from Gen. Hindman
to the Federal commander in Arkansas, is
written in the proper spirit:
Headquarters Trans-Mississippi Dist., )
Little Rock, Ark, June 8, 1862. J
General : I have received information
that you have in prison at Batesville cer
tain citizens of Izard county, Arkansas,
captured a few days since by a detachment
of your cavalry, who are charged with
firing upon your men, while attempting to
arrest them, and whom it is your intention
to hang as outlaws Without stopping to
inquire whether they did actually tire
upon your soldiers or not, I asseit it to be
the duty as well as the right, of every cit
izen of this district, to fire upon the Sol
diers of the United States government so
■ otig as the government persists in the nva-
sioii of their homes, and they have the
arms to defend these homes with ; and in
the performance of that duty, I should
sustain them at every hazard.
1 liave in custody several officers and sol
diers of the army of your government, and
I-write this to warn you that if your threat
is carried into execution against one single
i-itizen of this district, who now is, or
may hereafter fall into, your hands, 1 sh ill
avenge his death by hanging eveiy Federal
officer and soldier whom 1 now hold as
prisoners of. war ; and from that time for
ward this becomes a war of extermination
between us. Neither asking or granting
quarter, I shall put to death without
mercy every soldier and citizen of the
United States who falls into my hands.
1 am futher informed that in a published
order you have already declared this to be
a war of extermination, and that you ex
pect to wage it as such. I request, sir,
that you specifically advise me as to the
truth of such information, and if compati
ble with your duty, furnish me a copy of
the order in question. If such proves to
have been your declaration, however, you
can consider this as an acceptance of ihe
issue tendered, and we will ignore all re
cognized rules of civilized warfaie aud
make our campaign one of savage cruelty
and unsparing butchery.
Hoping, General, that there is some mis
take in this matter, aud that the rules of
civlized warfare will continue to influence
us both, in conducting the campaign in
which we find ourselves engaged,
I have the honor to be,
Your obedient servant,
T. C. HINDMAN,
Major-General C. S. A.
Brigadier-General Cl'RTls,
Commanding U. S. forces in Aakansas.
eing exchanged. One of our captains | torials are short enough, and are descrip-
and a tall, lank, long haired, sallow-faced, tive hut coarse. 'The captions to its spe-
black-eyed Louisianian struck boldly out c ; a | core jespondence are very long and in
tensely sensational. Its news from Eu
rope, in the paper before us, is headed by
into first principles—and the wrongs of tlie 1
South aud the theory of secession were
most volubly defended anil ridiculed.—
Horse trading was proposed by others,
and but for the ‘L*. S.’ brand, some of our
animals might have transferred their alle
giance, and have been enjoying another
government before sundown*
At last the officers returned from Hal-
leck’s headquarters. The general co" 1 ’
not consent that Col. Thompson should
come within our lines as requested, and
he would be willin
nearly la If a column of displayed cap
tions, printed in large black type. Ever-
thing which it gives from the seat of war
appealing as it does to the sensibilities of
the people, furnishes admirable opportuni
ty which is duly improved, for sensation
headings.
In short, for almost everything it pub
lishes it begs, for readers, that is to say for
purchaser of tlie paper by such superlative
to reciprocate the re- • praises as a small shopper employs for ma
il ease of prisoners by returning an equal king sale of bis goods.
0 tII - The Colonel bad been sent in by Gener-
nutnber in exchange. Col. Thompson
was evidently chagrined at being allowed
to go no further, but lie was too politic as
well as too gentlemanly to manifest any
open dissatisfaction. He must complain
of the United States, however, for its
course with reference to the exchange of
prisoners. It had added needless barbar
ism to tlie war, and its practice was in di
rect violation of the usages of civilized na
tions. Certainly the South had done e-
nougli fighting to entitle herself to treat
ment as at least a fighting power. '1 here
was too much good sense in this to give
any ground for dispute, and so the inter
view ended, as it had begun, in the most
a Beauregard to turn over to General fect harmon „
Halleck some sixty-two pnsoners recently ; The . )rison ^ s _ a so looking set-
captured near tort Hetman, lennessee, were marclied forward, the rebel cavalry
(and released under parole not to bear j turned them 0V er to our officers, a descrip-
arms against the Confederacy until regu- , tive rf)11 was pi . odllC ed, and sixty-two rc-
!.y y exchanged.) and to see what Genet- leased prisoners a „ swe red very joyfully
al Halleck would agree to in the way ol a as tl)( A names were called . C-.donel Con-
general system of exchanges, lie was es
corted by Beauregard’s body guard, a fine
body-of cavalry fiotn New Orleans, under
tiie command of Captain Dreux. It might
be ungenerous, after the very pleasant in
terview we had, lo.t our officers could not
repreoo tlieii suspicion that there was an
other object besides the release of sixti-
nell enquired if they wished them sworn
not to bear arms against the Confedeiacy
till regularly exchanged. ‘Oh, we’ve at
tended to that already,’ said Col. Thomp
son, ‘and I guess it’s pretty well impressed
Some ale was produced,
Of the policy of the “Herald” it is not
now our province, to speak. It might he
defined as simply a sailing before the wind
in search of a market. It speaks the
words that will bring it the most dollars.
But while its editorials are generally
specious and often able, they are not any
more than the captions of its correspon
dence and its news, free from the slang and
the low lingo which pass current in a North
ern crowd. Into its vocabulary and for
frequent use it admits a thousand words
that degrade the language, though they
may enable the new sboys to sell an extra
“Herald” to some one who loves to be told
itow somebody was brought up with a round
turn.”
The tone of the “Herald.” too, is ever
denunciatory and dogmatical. All who
differ from it, no matter how much esteem
ed, by the wise and good, are treated with
unmeasured rudeness. In this tespect
however, it is but fair to Bennett to say
that lio has not gone tu tlio lengths of Lis
principal rival for fame and favor in the
North. Some one, when asked lor a defi
nition of dogmatism, replied that it is sim
ply full grown puppyism. The discripjion
j is severe but just, and Horace Groely sits
on tbeii minds.
and Rebel and Unionists alike drank out
ot the same cup. ‘If we could only take j ; pply sucb terms lirtr> tool , numbskull,
over that may be. but few have arrived in
Richmond.. As far as our limited kt.owl- Y" na 0, ‘ r P'f «'“• f D . . .
edue extends this moment, there is a very T leasa,,t talk filled up tl.e intervals
r’hiie
two paroled prisoners, and that they were 4 ,i ••
i • 1 of • I you up to our camp, wc. would give you iA. lll »ciite roe-ue Src tn ^11 who Ktnnrl in
desirous ol learning precisely where our J i .. , r - i « <x,c. f to ail w no btanu in
i* ii i i i i 1 bomet Inner uettoi* said one or our otoccis* ♦ i.n w n v nt his u i ptnpnt his iinimnns
hues were, and what more they could by . OI nev | r mindt repiied a rebc l with a the - - s,rtte,nen,s ’ h,s *’P ,n,0,ls -
penetrating them as far as possible. quizzical look, ‘we expect to entertain all
i hey had, ot course, been stopped e- y OU g en tl e meu at our quarters pretty soon,
voiid our pickets, and an hour or more of and depend on it tips party shall have the
best brandy Corinth affdids.’
The leave-taking grew protracted —
Eaeb one bad something to say or ask.—
Hands were shaken with marked cordial
ity, all around.’ ‘May we meet again un
der pleasanter auspices,’ said Col. Thomp
son, and there wasn’t one of the party that
did not fervently echo the wish, and iu-
l „ l I Beauregard s letter to Halleck and 1 houip- ,
son s request, fora privateiuterview wete
taken back to headquarters, and answers
We hear tlie light batteries suffered se- j awaited. Both, the Colonel and Captain I
verelv. Purcell's battery, of Richmond, jj rPU x made themselves as agteeable as
Colonel Lindsay Walker, went into the ! p ossible, aud there was a sort of tacil un
action of Thuisday evening with above derstauding by which both bides avoided
ninety men, and brought out only thirty , unpleasant subjects. The grounds of; , - . • ... , ,
or forty. ' Seventeen of their horses were c „mplaint the South had against the North i " ar< ' 10 P e .. t ^ ,at ‘, e , soine c a ' T , ! iav , e
killed. The Maryland battery, Captain i were alluded to for a moment, but with
Snowden Andrews, in the same battle, lost ; (Lionel Thompson’s ‘Well, well, we can-’t
five men killed and wounded, and several 1 see j n tbe same light,’ the matter was
horses. Doctor Hunter, of Maryland, the ! dropped. .
suigeon, was killed. The Chesapeake) i hey were profuse iu their expressions
ged to obey tlie order. Alter ba5 ing
some distance from his regiment he was
seen to halt the una.med man in .lie road that fight.ng between some
and deliberately b ow his brains out. Ihe gunboats aud out fotces
murderer^on d return, was only remon- '!>• 1
strated with. Shad we take such men pmg at City 1 ouit. be\
prisoners, and feed them?—likh. Dispatch, iost.
Artillery was orde-ed to join Gen Long- of regret that the war should have broken
street’s division on tbe right, and was not j out a t a ll, a nd particularly hitter against
engaged. { the abolitionists. ‘We don’t like to fight
We hear from
near Petersburg ...... „ , . , .
liting between some of the enemy’s men we like as well as we do jou in bat
bad commenced tie ; we want to light your abolitionists.
_ ed all the ship- 1 know,’ he continued, ‘you have very
at City Point. Several lives were few of them here ; but if you could collect
a regiment of them, I’d pick out a regi-
a» opportunity to do a kindness to this of
ficer of Beauregard’s staff. But at Iasi
there was no excuse for wailing longer.
Mounting their horses, the colonel and
captain waved a final adieu, and, with un
covered heads rode on, the body-guard
wheeling in behind them, every man lift
ing his cap tjike passed our officers, and
the
. I a, i , ;,t n. t ns r. so, under the white flag, the courteous
n the Appomatox river, I you Northern men, said Col. I hompson, rebels ]eft ug _ May our balls and shells
g, below Port Walthall, ■ ‘It grieves us to think of ha\mg to meet de-i j ]jj, bt ]
ghtly with that party in the com
ing day !
The world is beautiful to those
keep their hearts pure.
who
his ambitions, his hates and partialities.
With vagaries and crotchets enough in his
head to consign him to a moral Bedlam,
be yet surpasses even Bennett in apply
ing abusive, contemptuous and degrading
epithets to men of iepute for talents ana
integrity, and of course infinitely his own
superiors.
Erom the influence of such examples,
so omnipotent at the North, we are pro
foundly grateful that henceforth we are
separated —For sooner would we have
our people and our journals build on the
English model. But in preference even
to that, we would delight to see them take
counsel of their own inborn courtesy and
sense of propriety, and their native taste.
’The stiff almost grown dignity, of En
glish periodical literature, would then find
that all its solid merits were exhibited
hero while added to them would be that
vivacity that marks the American temper
ament and that out flowing good will acd
chivalrous courtesy which form the basis of
•Southern hospitality and the charm of
southean society, wherein we have devia
ted from this ideal, let us make haste to re
form.
How Wounded Yankees are Treated by
their Surgeons—In the Yankee House of
Kepreseutives on the lltli instant,
Mr. Foster, of Connecticut, said there
had been great mismanagement in tbe
appointment of surgeons. Many of the
surgeons were utterly unfit for their duties.
At the battle of Winchester, many wound
ed men lay for eight or nine days without
having their wounds dressed, and were
buried in tlie clothes they were weunded
in. If the Committee on the Conduct of
the War examine this case, they will find
that not all the cruelties are practiced ny
the rebels. There were men who had
their legs amputated, and while they laid
on the floor in agony, were told to get up
and go out by tlie surgeons ; and when the
poor men said they could not go because
they had no legs, they had been kicked by
the Surgeons : or meu connected with what
is called tlie Medical Department of the
Army. Such facts occurred after the bat
tle of Winchester. There are at least
fifteen thousand men in the hospitals now
ivho ought to be discharged ; there were
men sent to the hospitals so carelessly that
not even their names were sent with them,
and such men have died and been buried
as unknown, leaving years of suspense to
their families.
The Death of C'ol. Robert A. Smith
Fills all hearts hereabout with depres
sion and grief. He was in many respects
the highest type of a man. In the camp.a
fine disciplinarian—a valiant soldier—
untiring in his devotion to the interests
and welfare of his command, and brave
perhaps to a fault. In civil life he was
one ot the most, valuable men who can
adorn and bless any society. To all the
qualifications of a good citizen he added
an ardent, Christ-like and consistent piety,
which made a daily avocation of “going
about doing good.”
We must deeply sympathize with his
widowed mother and other relatives, in
the loss of such a son. It is a great bereave
ment to them and to Macon. 'The corpse
of the Colonel, we learn, will be brought
to Macon for interment. His mother’s only
charge to the servant, when Col. Smith
left home for the last time, was to hurry
back his master’s body. She never ex
pected to see him agaiu alive. She knew
his impulsive bravery would betray him to
too great hazards. When the fight came
on, he had just left the hospital from twen
ty day’s confinement with fever, and was
so weak as to require assistance in moun
ting his horse. None of tlie three wounds
he received were fatal, lie died of exhaus
tion from the loss of blood and over exer
tion in bis weak state of health.
Telegraph.
— <►— ii
From South America.—We have news
from Buenos Ayres to the 14th of April.
It is said that the South American re
publics were greatly alarmed at the reports
of the allied operations against Mexico,
fearing that Spain would endeavor to ap
ply the new principle of European inva
sion to themselves. Uruguary especially
felt uneasy concerning the rumor of an I-
talian fleet being despatched to her wa-
ters.-France was steadily urging her many
claims againt Buenos Ayres. Manuel
Rosas ex-Dictator of the Argentine Con
federation, had been condemned to death,
after a ten year’s trial. His property is
declared confiscated; but, as Rosas resides
in Southampton, England, the death pen
alty cannot be .enforced, and no person
seemed inclined to pmchase his estates.
The produce market of Buenos Ayres was
quiet. Foreign lumber went off freely,
and flour, on board, was at S8 a $9.
A remedy foi Congestive Chills.—The
“Mother of a soldier” lias sent to the Pe
tersburg Express, a remedy for congestive
chiiis, which she never knew to tail. She
has (she says) for a number of years been
managing a large boarding school and has
had some experience in nursing. The rem
edy is spirits turpentine—give from ten to
fifteen drops in syrup or toddy—rub the
spince, chest, and extremities well, adding
a small quantity of oil of turpentine to
prevent blisteriug. The extremities should
be rubbed until reaction takes place. A
cloth should be applied to the chest,