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BOWHTOff, AISBET & BARNES) ?ubli£>»iers and Proprietors. x. BetiaiTo.\,) j«M. H. »bbt. tyt Swifent Jftferal ®nion IspuLUshcJ Weekly, tn Milledgerille, Ga., Corner “f Hancock and Wilkinson Sts., (oppose Court House.) it $2 a year in Advance, (Unless is Advance, $3 Per Axsum.) HATES OF ADVERTISING. Per n/ua re of t wc.tr e i t tes. One insertion.* I (10, and fifty cents for each subsequent continuance. Three -cut v itiiout tee specification of the numtjeroi i nsertion* v'ill be published till forbid and charged Business or)professional Cards, per year, where they donot exceed Six Lises - - *10 O’, A liberalconlrart will be made with those who wish to Advertise by the year, occupying a specified space legal advertisements. Sales of Land mid Negroes, by Administrators, Ex- ecutorsor Guardians, arerequired by law to be hole or. the first Tuesday in the month; between ihe hours oi lOin the and three in the afternoon, at the Courthouse in the county in which the property is sit uated. ... 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Publication? will always be continued according t« the.se, the legalrequirements, unless otherwise ordered at the following RATES: Citations, on letters of administration, Are. $2 71 “ “ dismissory from Adinr’n. 4 5* “ “ “ Guardianship. 3 0< Leave to sell Land or Negroes 1 0( Not ice to debtors and creditors. 3 01 Sales of personal property, ten days, 1 ?qr. 1 5‘ Sale of land ornegroes by Executors,&c. pr sqr. 5 01 Estrays, two weeks 1 Kor a man advertising his wife(in advance,) 5 ()< BOOK-BINDING TnJ'. Subscriber is now pro pared to do Hook*Silld- in§f, in *11 its branches Old Books rebound, &c. MUSIC bound in the best style. Blank Books manufactured to order. Prompt attention will bt given to all work entiusted to me. S. J. KIDD. Kinder? in Southern Eedcrn! Union Otr.rr Milledgeville, March I9th, 1861. 43 VOLUME XXXIII.] COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAR, 1862. ? •; - ; H ’f_ ’? f i«-1 4 §’ '? a | \ ' = 5 6 1-2 13 .0 20 26 2. Fi'n’y. Mar. 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SUPEP.IOI1 COURTS. JANUARY, fid Monday, Chatham. •Floyd FEBRUARY. 1st Monday, Clark t Lumpkin 3d Monday, Campbell Dawson 3d Monday, Forsyth Polk Glascock Merriwether Walton 4th Monday, Baldwin Jackson Monroe Paulding Taliaferro Walker MARCH. 1st Vmsilay i* i v ee 1st Monday, Appling Chattooga Cherokee Coweta Columbia Crawford Gwinnett Madison Marion Morgan 2d Monday, Butts Barto.w Coffee Elbert Fayett Greene Pickens Washington Webster 3d Monday, Cobbt Calhoun Hall Hart Heard Macon Newton Talbot Tattnal Ware Thursday after While Friday after, Bulloch 4th Monday, Clinch Putnam Rabun dial taliooehee Lee Twiggs Wilkes Johnson JULY. 1st Monday. Fu.vu” AUGUST. 1st Monday Lumpkint 2d M mdtiy, Campbell dark 1 lawson 3d Monday, Forsyth PolK G lascock Merriwether Walton 11th Monday. Baldwin Jackson Monroe Paulding Taliaferro Walker Thusday after, Pierce SEPTEMBER. 1st Monday, Appling alt. Cherokee Columbia Coweta Crawford Madison Marion Morgan 2d Monday, Butts Bartow Coffee Elbert Fayette Greene Gwinnett Pickens Washington Webster 3d Monday, Cobbt Calhoun Hall Hurt Heard Macon Newton Talbot Ware Bulloch Thursday after White 4th Monday, Clinch Putnam Chattahoochee Lee Twiggs Wilkes Johnson Milton Rabun Thursday after Habersham Milton Monday af- 4 Thursday after Habersham ler the 4th > Echols !:ii Thursday. Montgomery- .Monday ) Monday af 1 . .„Lii ’ f Echols teI ^dav " n " \ KBingham ' ' APRIL. 1st A. 2d Mon. Can-oil Is: Monday, Dooly Franklin Emanuel Early Fulton Gordon Pike Taylor Warren Wilkinson Thursd’yafter Banks 24 Monday, Hancock Richmond Harris Laurens Miller Sumter needav after. Melnto OCTOBER, list & 2d Mon. Cairoll list Monday, Dooly Emanuel Franklin Early Fulton Gilmer Gordon Taylor Warren Wilkinson Ptke Thursday after Banks 2d Mon,lay, Fannin Richmond H uncock Hurris Laurens Miller Sumter 3d Monday, Glynn Haralson 3d Monday, Glynn Henry Haralson Jones Henry Murray Jones Oglethorpi Liberty Pulaski Murray St ewart (Iglethorne Union Pulaski Worth St ewart Thursday after Towns Monday Worth Thursday ( Montgom after * 'Bryan after * 4tli Monday,Wayne 1th Monday, Wayne Decatur Decatur DeKalh D< Kail, Houston Houston Jasper Jasper Lincoln Lincoln Schley Schley Whitfield Tattnall Wilcox Whitfield Friday after, Telfair Wilcox Camden Friday after, Tc-Iftiir Thursday after, Irwin Camden .Monday' “ Berrien Thursday after, Irwin Charlton Monday after Uhnrlton MAY 1st Monday. Clayton Scriven Gilmer Randolph NOVEMBER. 1st Monday, Berrien Scriven Clayton Effingham Randolph J efierson 'J I " 2d Monday, Catoosa Chatham Jefferson Fannin Mitchell Mitchell 51 nseogee Muscogee ?d Monday, Bibb Bibb Burke lturke Quiftman yuittinan Spalding Spalding Troup Troup Baker Union 4th Monday, Dade Baker ' Terrell Thursday after Towns 4th Monday, Dade Terrell Last Monday, Colquitt JUNE. 1st Monday, Lowndes Dougherty 2d Monday, Brooks Clay 3d Monday, Thomas Thursday after, McIntosh Monday Colquitt “ “ Liberty Mon. after Liberty, Bryan DECEMBER. 1st Monday, Dougherty Lowndes 2d Monday JBrooks Clay 3d Monday Thomas "May holds three weeks, if necessary, at each term. tJndge not reqnired to draw Jurors for two weeks; and not obliged to hold two weeks’ Court in counties of Cobb and Lumnkin. [From tlie Richmond Enquirer ] Tiir EJeslrnc-lien of the Virginia. , Charges and specifications of charges against Captain Josialo Tattnall, of the Confederate States Retry. Charge 1st. Culpable destruction of an armed stea- meroftbe Confederate States Navy. Specification \st.—in tliis, that the said Japtain Josiah Tattnall* on the lltli day •Olay, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, culpably, and without sufficient reason for so doing, did destroy, by fire, the Confed erate steamer Virginia, in Hampton Roads, near Norfolk, Virginia. Specification 2d.—In this, that the said Captain Josiah Tattnall, on the said lltli ] day of May, 1802, at Hampton Roads, near Norfolk, Virginia, did culpably de- i slrov the said steamer Virginia, when with the draft to which she had been then and there, or might have been reduced, she could have been carried up James liver to a place of usefulness, free from im- ; mediate danger. (.'large II.—Negligence. Specification 1st.—In this, that the said Captain Josiah Tattnall, on the said lltli lay of May, 1562, at said Hampton Roads did proceed to lighten the said steamer Virginia, for tlie purpose of taking her up die James river, retaining however her ar mament, ordnance stores, necessary coal, water and provisions, without first having obtained from sources of information with in Iris reach, to what extent the draft ol die said steamer would be reduced by such lightening. Spec feat ion 2d.—In this that the said Captain Josiah Tattnall, after having tightened the said steamer Virginia to a certain draft, on the said 11th day of May, 1S62, at said Hampton Roads, then and there and before said time, neglected and failed to ascertain, from sources of inior- mation within his reach, the fact that_ the said steamer, at said draft, could have been carried about forty miles above the mouth of James river, to Hog Island. Charge 111.— Improvident conduct. Specification.—In this that the said Captain Josiah Tattnall, on or about the Hth day of May, 11*62, when offSewell’s point in Hampton Roads, intending to take the said steamer Virginia up James'Riv- er, did then and there proceed to lighten said steamer, instead of taking liertip said James River, and there lighten her, when t lie necessity for so doing arose, and to I the extent of that necessity The statement of the parties being thus j in possession of the Court was cleared for I deliberation, and having maturely consid- ered the evidence adduced, find as fol- j lows: That the first specification of the first charge is not proved. j That the second specification of the first j charge is not proved. j And that the accused is not guilty of the i first charge. That the first specification of the sec- j ond charge is not proved. That the second specification of the sec- j ond charge is not proved. And the accused is not guilty of the sec- j ond charge. That the specification of the third charge j is proved. That/the specification of the third charge j is proved. And that the accusad is not guilty of ! the third charge. The Court do further find that the accu- j sed had while in command of the V irginia, 1 and previous to the evacuation of Norfolk, thrown down the gage of battle to the ene my’s fleet in Hampton Roads, and that the enemy had declined to take R up that the day before Norfolk was evacua ted a consultation, at the instance ot (he Secretary of the Navy, was held In a joint commission of navy and army officers, as to the best disposition to be made ot the j —that the accused was in favor of passing Fortress Monroe, and take^ the ship into York River, or, of runnmg down before Savannah with her—that m this lie was over ruled by the council, who ad vised that she should remain on this sme of Fortress Monroe for the protection of Norfolk and Richmond, and that, in accor dance with this advice, he proceeded to regulate her movements—that after the . evacuation of Norfolk, Westover, on James river, became the most suitable position for her to occupy—that while iu the act! of lightening her for the purpose of taking her up to that point, the pilots for the first time declared the inability to take her up, even though her draft should be reduced to her minimum of eighteen feet—that by the evacuation of Norfolk and the abandon ment of our forts below W estover, both banks of the James River below that point , were virtually given up to the enemy— , that the ship being thus cut off from Nor folk and Richmond, was deprived of all oui ward sources of supply, sa\e those o* the most precarious and uncertain chara-;- ter-that ber stores of provisions would not last more than three weeks—that when lightened she was made vulnerable to the i attacks of the enemy, and that after having 1 been lightened there wore no available means of bringing her down to her proper draft and fighting trim'and that she had but two small boats, each capable of land ing not more than fifteen or eighteen men j at a time, even iu smooth water.—Such I being the facts and circumstances under i the influence of which the “Virginia” found j herself after the evacuation ot Norfolk, it j was, in the opinion of the Court, only ne- | cessary for the enemy to continue to re- 1 fuse battle, ;.s be had done since it was ! offered b Captain Tattnall early in ! April, e.i.u thenceforward to keep a strict j watch about the “Virginia,” in order, when ■ her provisions were exhausted to make her I his prize and the crew his prisoners. Being thus situated, the only alterna tive in the opinion of the court was to ! abandon and burn the ship, thenand there. | which, in the judgment of the (^ourt, was : deliberately and wisely done by order of \ the accused. ! Wherefore the court do award to the I said Captain Josiah Tattnall an honorable ! acquittal. L. Rossean, Captain. Frank Buchanan, Captain. J. N. Hollins, Captain. Robert G. Robb, Commander. M. Mason, Comman’der. Eben Farrand, Commander. A. B. Fairfax, Commander. M. F. Maury, Commander. George Minor, Commander. \Ym L. Maury. Lieutenant. R. B. Pegram, Lieutenant. ROBERT OULlJ, Judge Advocate. The Court then adjourned until morning at 10 o’clock. L, ROSSEAU, Capt. and l'resident. Robert Ould, Judge Advocate. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIa, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1SG2. [NUMBER 11. brigade, because barest to the level plateau. , And now ccmts the memmt of trial. It is hall past YVclock. “Charge)' ings from the lips oi the gallant General, as he leads the centre. Spring ing to their feet with a. stout his men follow Tlie summit of the hill Is .(Hi yards wide, and tiiis space they d*.h amid a perfect hail storm of shells and bails.)— Col. Sturges falls pier- cud ttrough rhe head; btjt t!e,« is no time lor fal tering Ou pushes the bigale, the object of the concentrated tire of the Bed-ral army.The ground is plowed up into long f«|roigi!s: dust envelopes the brigade; and men ar( lilecked over by the Hying dirt, but still they brtss on. Men fall thick- ly, and many are laid twin death, yet amid hoarse shouts and enconpg.ng words and flying beliets they press forwan. - As they cross the ridge a joyous shout of pncotiraging exultation greets their ears. It cones from a part of .uisteau s tioi>ps> of uaioi Virginians. AoLle fellows! In the first chajgetney had penerratu to 'he 3d hill, and. had all(l«s tune been lying un der its brow-, patiently yaiing reinforcements Among them was Col. Pow laltan Whittle, one of our citizens and brother of I. N Whittle, Esq., of Macon. He was afterwaus wounded in the I left arm. Mingling with Wright’s ill'll these brave Yir- \ gini.-rus shared with them all fie glory and dan- I gers of that day. Now speedb yiie blood” hotly ■ through the veins; all fear is £»ne: Ihe immediate 1 presence of the grim monster takes away his ter- i lor. The frequent fall of eomades plants fierce j eagerness for revenge on eaeijeountenance. Heav- j en sent daring sits enthronedupon the comm&n der’s brow; and passing along the lines, he epeers ; liis men.—Permitting a short! rest, he gives the word in tones of thunder, an) with a shout heard far and near, his men reach | third hill, still the only as-aii nts of that mighty host, and the object ol thos< Pouring into the enemy’s ran j erof bullets, they dash forwi d across that open j space; receiving the Federal life o. shrapnel 1, grape he summit of the ■il aimed batterie: shower after show- hrapnell, grape ; but, unappalled, eir chivalrous Gen. h their ranks tea; PICTURES. 1SV S. BOVKIX. Wright's Brigade at t/i Tuesday, July]si. Fight of Gen. Wright somehow, found himself subject tr Gen. Magruder’s orders—how. he knew not. And when iiagrnder gave him the command to charge he remonstrated against such an ill-advised step knowing, as he did the fluid and the slrengtli of t!ia enemy’s position. But Magruuer was positive, there is strong reason to believe that he actually- had not seen the Held of battle. In like manner the gallant Col. R. A. Smith re monstrated in vain with Gen. Ripley when the 44th Georgia was ordered to charge a battery. Obedience, however, is a soldier’s duty. Coi. Smith lost Jus lift; but Gen. Wright was more fortunate though he could not see how a single man of his brigade was to escape alive, and expected nothing but death himself. Before its tirst charge, the brigade had not be held what, for many of (hem, was destined to be a field of death. r l aey imagined that a f vv yards from the sumjpit of the hill was a battery which could be taken by a short and dashing charge. So, when Almstead gave the command to charge, and while Wright, with flashing eye and waving sa bre. was riding up and down the lines shout- ing— “Charge, Georgians! Charge!’’ oil y moveu up me mu ana t-i.„ : ing trees, until, coming to the open space summit, they, amid a salute of a thousand hurtling, screaming missiles of death, beheld, in bold re lief four terrible batteries, nearly one mile distant crowning the summit of a hill. There, like a gleaming picture, these batteries stood in the dis tance. with gunners in battle array, all grouped around their pieces, while Jong lines of suppor- ling infantry lay behind dreadful to encounter. Concentrating their fire upon that handful of troops, those forty dreadful and accurately train- ed guns, fifteen hundred and twenty yards distant belch forth their iron bail. The very earth trem bles! The air is filled with leaden missiles! The ground is torn up, and the green clover scatlered to the four winds Hissing and screeching shells exploded with horrible sound and scatter death around: and scores fall to rise no more To pro ceed is madness. So Gen. Wright orders his men back; btn. not heeding him amid the terrible din, most of his bri fnrvv and ly follow* f.. march the 18th Louisiana, part of the 22d Ga , and the right of the 3d Ga , under Capt. K. B.” Nisbet, who was acting as Lieut. Colonel; and all these, after sweeping across the first hill. canister, shell and musket ba t those gallant troops, led by t | eral, falter not, fear not: lliro I murderous discharges,yet sccning deathjaud cow ardice, and leaving fallen .co* J ... i -i i press forward to victory or till gra J a half had now- passed byyitid alone Wright I brigade had foug..t the entirejFederal army: as yet ! no other troops had entered tie field to divert the i fire of those terrible guns an! share that dreadful | glory. At length a long linehf Confedeiate troops in admirable older, move iu battle array up the j sloping plateau on the enemy’s right. Brave- I Iv and unbroken they advamfi in line and fire vol ley after volley into the Yalkee ranks.—Among them are Semmes’ brigade, Cibb’s brigade. Toombs brigade, Anderson’s brigade ind Colquitt’s brigade —Georgians all—and all aetlig with the greatest | gallantry and valor—Arousal, now, to the highest J pitch, Wright's msD sprang forward for a final charge—they reach within tjrty paces of the first | battery, too near forthe gcn| to b; so deflected as to bear ou them. They siout and send forward a storm of builets that drives off the battery. Just then a brigi.de of Fedetals appear above the brow of the hill and lets looje a murderous volley and retires. Its place is immediately filled by an other, which repeats the experiment; and this re- tiring, still another appears,and thus they hold at bay the daring Wright. Relieved from the artil lery tire, the brigade finds, hat a short respite only for the enemy, deploying to the rjght, attain the head of the hollow in which the brigade was pos ted, and fire down upon their thinned ranks l'hoy met a gallant response and until darkness veiled the scene, and put an end to the contest, this single brigade, assisted by a few Yirginians, held its position and manfully fought the enemy And to it atone btlongs this honor, for the troops ot ! every other general were dririn from the field Late in the day, however, a Mississippi Regiment filed up between the third and fourth hills, having skir- J ted the wheat field, and took position with the j brigade, and fought during the last hour ot the j content. *r 1 I nruugn an uiar-mwraj ..ixernonn Crenel hi c.i ie i Wright, untouched to the last, might have been seen in ail ; arts of the field, in his bine woollen suit of pants and jacket, with his felt hat turned up at file sidy, and his long cany hair and still longer beard waving in the breeze, enconragin° his men and setting them an ^sample of audacious valor. Among the troops, it was abeantifu! sivht to see federacy, are to be regarded as a part of the Army of the Confederacy, and protect ed by the Government as such ; and whether, if any of said corps are captured in battle or otherwise, while in due of their duty by the enemy, this Government will claim for them the same treatment as prisoners of War which is now exacted for prisoners belonging to our Provisional Army? Are not all Corps of Bartizan Rangers, organized by yotr authority, emphatically’ a part of the Confederate Army, and will they not he regarded aud treated as such 1 I consider that it is not onhj the right but the ditty of every loyal citizen in the Confederate States, to resist, by all means in his power, even to THE DEATtlif neces sary, the attempt of the enemy in a body’, or singly, to invade his domicile, or to cap- Bntllr of Ihe Scroll JoimMon's Oflicisii 3* i n«»—C3 eieer a I Report. Richmond, June 24, 1S62. Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General : Sir : Before the 30th of May, I had as certained from trusty scouts, that Keyes’ corps was encamped on-this side of the Chickabominy, near the Williamsburg road. On that day Maj. Gen. 1). H. Hill reported a strong body immediately in bis front. On receiving this report, I deter mined to attack him next morning; hoping to be able to defeat Keyes’s corps complete ly’ in its more advanced position before it could be reinforced. Written orders were despatched to Maj. Generals Hill, Huger, and G. W. Smith. General Longstreet, ture his person, or f hat of his wife, child, 1 being near my headquarters, received ward or servant, or to take from lrirn, a- j verbal instructions. The receipt of the or- gainst his will, any of his property ; and ; J e rs was acknowledged. General Hill, if in making such resistance, whether arm- j supported by the division of Gen. Long ed or not, our citizens ere captured by such street (who had the direction of operations an invading army, have they not the right on the rtgfi'O^ai.s to advance by the Wil- tu demand to be treated by the enemy as , Immsburg road to attack the enemy in other prisoners of war, and will not this! front: General Huger, with his division. Government exert all its power, it' neces- was to move down the Charles City road, sary, to the end that its citizens are thus ; n order to attack in flank the troops who protected and treated ? might he engaged with Hill and Long- « 'This is a war waged against the sover- street, unless ho tound in his front force eignty of the several Static of the Con- i enough to occupy his division. General federacy, and against the lives, liberty, Smith was to march to the junction of the and property of every citizen yielding al- New Bridge road and the Nine Mile, to legiance to the States and Government 6f ! be in readiness either to fall ou Keyes's their choice in which they reside; such a ] right flank or to cover Longstreet’s left, war has no parallel iu the history’ of j They were to move at daybreak. Heavy j Christian nations. and protracted rains during the afternoon | rades behind, tliev 1 I respectfully request you to give me and night, by swelling the stream of the An hour and j your opinions on the several points in this ! Chickabominy, increased the probability letter in a form to be submitted to my con- j of our having to deal with no other troops stituerits, to enlighten them in regard to than those of Keyes's. The same cause the extent of their rights and powers as j prevented the prompt and punctual move- viewed by this Government, and how far j ment of the troops. Those of Smith, Hill their Government will protect them in the ; and Longstreet were in position early exercise of those rights, which, to an in- : enough, however, to commence operations telligent freeman i are dearer than life it- | by 8 o’clock, a. m. se D- i Major General Longstreet, ttuwilliug to Your early answer is respectfully re- | make a partial attack, instead of the com- qnested. Our troops Employed the lesidue of Ae day in secnriDg and bearing off the cap tured artillery, small arms, and otner pro perty ; and in the evening quietly return ed to their own camps. _ We took ten pieces of artillery, six thou sand (6,000) muskets, one garrison n*g, and four regimental colors, besides, a large quantity of tents and camp cquip- P a g®» Major General Longstreet reports the loss in his command as being about 3,000 Mai. Gen. G. W. Smith reports bis loss at - l,28o . Total A,283 That of the enemy is stated m their own newspapers to have, exceeded ten t iou- sand | an estimate which is, no doubt, short of the truth. .. Had Major General Huger s division been in position and ready for action, m en those of Smith, Longstreet and Hill mo yr ed, I am satisfied that Keyes’ corps ou have been destroyed, instead ot being merely defeated * Had it gone into action even at 4 o’clock, the victory would have been much move complete. Maj. Gens. Smith and Longstreet speak in high terms of the conduct ot their supe rior and staff' officers. I beg leave to ask the attention of the Government especially to the manner in_ which Brigadier Generals Whiting and R. H. Anderson, and Cols. Jenkins and Kemper and Hampton, exercising com- tnauds above their grades, and Brigadier Gen. Rhodes, are mentioned. This, and the captured colors, will be delivered by Major A. H. Cole, of my staff’. 1 have been prevented, by feebleness, from , making this report sooner, and am still too weak to make any but a very im perfect one. Several hundred prisoners were ta ken; but I have received no report ot ihe number. Your obedient servant, J. E. JOHNSTON, General. • v befiuti.r.l to be 10 i! but , ,j le ;,>f' antrv ami officers of the different Regiments mingling together, old acquaintances and school mates recognizing each olbe”, and like friends clinging to each, seemingly aixious to die together if die they must. I was told by an officer that from different parts of the field he could catch the glancing eye-beams of old friends, while old school acquaintances, fiom vhom be had been separated for years, would priss to his side. It seemed as though i hose fearful circumstances de veloped the buried friendship iff the past, and made men cling together for mutud sympathy and sup , . , . ' port. Aud this same officer ntrrates with pleasure , j’L f- 9S T'IT s JI.* 138 1 A* P ride lie experienced in ^holding the gallant ard still Phe gallant 4th Ga., led by thebrave | con j,, ct of an 0 ' M , riend atd dassmate,"whose chivalt • Doles, leadsi the wa£ Behind I nob i e fijs „e wm visible, all ttrough the day, in the thickest of the fight—Capt David Winn of the Sumter Light Guards Upon no field since the war began, has greater valor been exhibited It reached to the sublime (Signed) JOHN B. CLARKE. i Confederate Stvtes of America, War Department, Richmond, July 16th, 1862. ) lion. John B. Clarice, C. S. Senate • Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th inst., hined movement which had been planned, waited from our to hour for Gen. Huger's division. At length, at 2 o’clock, p. m., he determined to attack without those troops. He accordingly commenced his advance at that hour, opening the engage ment with artillery and skirmishers. By 3 o’clock it became close and heavy. In the meantime, I had placed myself on the left of the force employed in this attack, with the division of Gen. Smith, and to reply, that Bartizan Rangers arc a j t ] iat j m j K ht be on a part of the field where part of the provisional army of the Con- j [ cou ]j observe, and be ready to meet, lay panting Defend he sail s o _ Jf 0 f a holocaust in honor of couitry and freedom,and the 4th Ga Lp an across an I .. secured for Gen. Wright the Confidence and com- ond hill sped that uij aun e regi ie ^ , meii at j on 0 f his superiors. In proof the for mer the post of honor in thef’otomac army has been assigned to his Brigade—the defeuce of „top until it reached the shelter of the third hil wliere it lay until the brigade was formed for a second charge, two hours, when it. was brought back around the toot of the second hilL The day was gliding away. Those powerful guns continued to sweep the field as with a be som of destruction Back of the before mention ed ravine one hundred pieces of Confederate ar tillery lie; and in sections oi tiro pieces, a few guns are brought forward during the day »nd placed in position to combat those four heavy batteries But no sooner does a section open fire than the Federal guns are concentrated upon it, and in less time that it takes to write it, the horses are slain ttie men killed and the guns silenced. With each section, save one, it is a crash, and al! is over. was tlio hatterv of Cant Grimes, oi Drury’s Bluff; and as evideno of the latter the following official letter from Gen. Magruder to Gen. Wright, bears sufficient ividence: Litlcrfrom Gen Magruderlo Gen. Wright. Richmonl, July 6th, 1862. Brig. Gen. Wright, Comd’g Brigade. Dear Sir— Having been calltd to ihe command of a distant department, wliere my immediate presence is reqnired, I may nothave time to receive your report, and to do justice to your gallantry, and that of the brave Brigade which you com mand. I beg that you will iirvard your report to me at Richmond, care of Mjor Allen B. Magruder federate States, subject to all the reguls tious adopted for its government, and en titled to the same protection as prisoners of war. Bartizan Rangers are iu no re spect different from troops of line, ex cept that they are not btigaded, and are employed oftener on detached service. They require stricter discipline than other troops to make them efficient, and without u otcuor to thu*h irituds and contemptible in the e} es of the enemy. With reference to your enquiry as to the protection which the Government will ex tend to private citizens taken in hostile acts against the enemy, it is not easy to lay down a general rule. War, as con ducted by civilized nations, is usually a contest between the respective govern ments of the belligerents, and private in dividuals remaining quietly at home are respected in their rights of person and pro perty, in return for this privilege they are expected to take no part in hostilities unless called on by their Government. If, however, in violation of this usage, private citizens of Missouri should be op pressed and maltreated by the public ene my, they have unquestionably a right to take arms in their own defence, and if captured and confined by the enemy under such circumstances, tliev are entitled, as citizens of the Confederate States, to all the protection which that Government can afford, and among the measures to which it may be needful to resort, is that of th& lex talionis. We shall deplore the necessity of retali ation, as adding greatly to the miseries of the war, without advancing its interests, and, therefore, we will act with great cir cumspection, and only upon facts clearly ascertained; hut if it is our only means of compelling the observance of the usages of civilized warfare, we cannot hesitate to re sort to it when the proper time arrives. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, G EG. W. RAXDOLBH, Secretary of War. himself Perceiving his lieipless condition, Gen. of Gen. Mahon’s Brigade.occupied and slept on Wrio-ht rode up amid crashing shells, and exclaim- the field of batt le, which was won from the enemy, ed '’“This is hot work, Captain! And as all your I beg leave, through you! to acknowledge their and approach the sloping plateau on McClellan’s j ] las taken place between Senator Clarke, j , . since V/riglit j Ji; SSO uri. and the Secretary of War.— ller S1 men are killed, had you not beettcr lie down and save your lift?” Well , General, 1 H down, not to save my life; but because I am utterly exhausted ’ — And this was all the use made of our artillery ex cept late in the evening, when Gen. Jackson from our extreme left opened a vigorous fire upon the right wing of.the* Federals. It was now five o’clock; and yet no other divis ion appears upon the field. Hour after hour has Huger’s forces been await ing assistance. Holmes is lying in thiqdense woods on the enemy’s left, between the Federal army and the river, which is 2.j miles distant; they are shelled both fiom land and water. Among his forces is the 2d Ga Battauon under Alajoi Ross, which for two hours submitted, without flinching, to a tremendous shelling while, from its immediate neighborhood, an artillery company, a cavalry company and a N. C. regiment stampe ded in perfect terror. At length Magruder’s, D. H. Hill s and Long- streets’s forces pass to ihe lcit oi Ilu ping P right. An hour or two has elapsed made his first charge, and now at Magruder'p com mand, he prepares tor a second. J’hat portion of his brigade which had stopped under the brow of the second hill, having returned, around the foot of the first, to the ravine, is together with that por tion which did not go over the first lull, led, un observed, by way’ ot the wheat field, to tne De pression between the first and second hills. Dolus 4th Ga. is recalled by the same way from his ad- vanted position and the brigade is^ formed between the first and second hills. As the. brig ade lay upon the green sod waiting the final order, and protected by the rising ground in trout, Co!. Sturgis remarked to a friend: “Captain. I have a presentiment that I shall not survive this charge, hut I am willing to die tor my country,” Indeed, as tiie 3d Ga. regiment was forming in order of battle, the patriotic expression was fre quently heard—“Slip in,men step in._ It is but dying for one’s country; and lam willing to do that.” All were, therefore, fully alive to the desperate nature of the enterprise. Not a man expected to see mother or home again; and yet, notwithstand ing its previous heavy loss. 700 of the brigade, out of the 1200 that made the first charge, thus marched fearlessly into the jaws of death. 2,70 of these belonged to the 3d Ga regiment, which was stat.oned on the left aud least protected services, and to return them thanks. . I am, General, very truly Your obedieif servant, J. Bankhead Magruder. Ac., Ac-, I But, after all. the proof ola Brigade’s gallantry I is found in its list of easualifies; and for the Regi- | merits of this Brigade, the following, obtained; tram official sources, speaks lor itself concerning j the fight of July 1st, irti”. Killed. Wounded. Missing. Total. 3rd G a. 2.3 110 22 1.77 4th Ga. 15 52 8 75 22ud Ga 6 52 18 .56 ; 1st Ga. 8 36 33 77 54 230 81 365 ; Partisan ESnsigers aud private Citizen* Captured bj tin* ICiirmr. Tiir Monitor nitri Gali'nn. The Scientific American, in speaking of my warmest ! the damage done to the above named ves sels in the recent engagement at Drury’s Bluff, says. The severest blow we have yet received on the turret was at Fort Darling. It was irom a solid ten-inch shot fired from a verry heavy charge of powder, from a distance of about eight hundred yards.— any counter movements which the ene my’s General might make against our cen tre or left. Owing to some peculiar condi tion of the atmosphere, the sound of the musketry did not reach us. I, eonsequent- 1 \, deferred giving the signal for General Smith’s advance till about 4 o’clock, at which time Major Jasper Whiting, of Gen. Smith’s staff, w hom I had sent to learn tbe state of affairs with Gen. Longstreet’s col umn, returned, reporting that it was pressing on with x-igot. Smith’s troops were at once moved forward. The principal attack was made by Maj General Longstreet, with his own and Major General D. H. Hill’s division—the latter mostly in advance. Hill’s brave troops, admirably commanded and most gallantly led, forced their, way through the abattis which formed the enemy’s external defences, aud stormed their entrench ments by a* determined and irresistible rush. Such was the manner iD which the enemy’s first line was carried. The oper ation was repeated with the same gallant ry and success as our troops pursued their victorious career through the enem’ys suc cessive camps and entrenchments. At each r.ew position they encountered fresh troops belonging to it, and reinforcements brought ou from the rear. Thus they had to repel repeated efforts to retake works which they had carried, but their advance was never successfully resisted. Theif onward movement was only stay ed by the coming of night. Hy nightfall they had forced their way to the “Seven Bines,” having driven the enemy back more than two miles, through their own camps, and from a series of entrenchments; and repelled every attempt to re-capture them with great slaughter. The skill, vigor, and decision with which these oper ations were conducted by Gen. Longstreet are worthy of the highest praise. He was worthily seconded by -Major Gen. Hill, of whose conduct and courage he speaks in tbe highest terms. Mijor General Smith’s division moved forward at four o’clock; Whiting’s three brigades leading. Their progress was im peded by the enemy’s skirmishers, which, with their supports, were driven hack to the railroad. At this point, Whiting's own, and Bettigrew’s brigade, engaged a superior force of the enemy. Hood’s, oy mv order, moved on to co-operate tvith Longstreet. General Smith was desired to hasten up with all the troops within reach. He brought up Hampton’s and Hatton’s brigades in a few minutes. The strength of the enemy’s position, ‘See Lougstreet's report. The Yankee Colony in South Carolina.— Brigadier General R. S. Saxton writes to Secretary Stanton, under date of July 10, as follow: I have the honor to report that every thing pertaining to the special service for which I am sent to this department is in a favorable condition. The negroes are working industronsly, and we have 15,000 acres of corn and cotton under cultivation. It looks well. The system of voluntary labor works admirably, and the people are contented aud liappj’. W lien the nejv crop is har vested they Avill cease to he a burden upon the government. By adopting a judicious system of reward ior labor, almost any amount can be obtained, and its proceeds will pay the expense- Is there no possible means of disturbing the peaceful quiet of this Yankee colony l Or must a handfnl of abolitionists and runaway negroes be allowed to cultivate the soil of Carolina in perfect securi ty. Neats. Danhiug Cavalry Explain* in .tliuinip- The following important correspondence It struck the turret A’eiy nearly perpemli- , ] 10 wever, enabled him to hold it until cular with its side, making an indentation of three and a quarter inches, but without any visible fracture of the plates. On tbe inside, opposite the indentation, the plates were somewhat fractured. The iron-clad Galena was severly han dled in tliis fight, the fire from the batter ies being mostly concentrated upon her on finding that their shells were penerating sides. I am not positive that any shot dark. About sunset, being struck from my horse, severely wounded by a fragment of a shell, I was carried from the field, and Major Gen. G. W. Smith succeeded to the command. He was prevented from resuming his at tack on the enemy’s position next morning by tho discovery of strong entrenchments, not seen on the previous evening. Ilisjdi- The threats of the enemy and the procla mation of some of their Generals as to the treatment to be measured out to Bartizan Rangers, and the cruelty of their conduct in many cases towards private citizens, render it important that the country should P assin » passed entirely through both sides, but ( vision bivouacked, on the night of the saw where a ten-inch shot had gone, j thirty first within musket shot of through her port-quarter, where her pla- t i, e entrenchments which they were at- We make the following extract of a let ter from an officer in Bragg’s division, to a friend in Richmond county, dated Tupe lo, Mississippi, July 14th: We have recently had a brilliant affair of cavalry at Boonesville, north of this place. Gen. Chambers commanding a brigade of four regiments of cavalry, was ordered to attack the YTmkee force and drive him from Bocneville. Two of these regiments were commanded, respective ly, by Col. Clanton, of Montgomery, Ala bama, and Col. Lay, a Virginian comman ding Kentucky cavalry. At the outset our skirmishers were hard pressed by the enemy, and our lines was ambuscaded. At this juncture Col. Clanton volunteered to attack the ambuscade, and, promptly, tbe charge was sounded, and the woods were cleared. The charge was made by the Alabamians in a column of fours down a narrow lane. It was led by Col. Clan ton, sans jteur, aud at his side rode tbe Chaplain of his regiment, the Rev. Tel fair Hodgson, ofVirginia. The head of our column was instantly shot down; but, on and away dashed the gallant cavaliers over dying and dead, men and horses. The ambuscade was cleared and d ,wn under the flash of sabre and biaze of revolver sank one hundred bodies of the ruthless vandals. Col. Clanton and his chaplain, who led this brilliant charge, both miraculously esca ped. The former had five balls through his clothes and scabbard; and his Chap lain, one through his haversack. The regiment pursued the’ fugitive van dals for several miles. Meanwhile five hundred of the picked cavalry of the ene my had been sent, to get to the rear of Colonel Clanton’s regiment Fortunately, Col. Lays regiment was posted on the road by which they moved. On this read was situated our hospital, and the Chaplain had returned to that place, in the minis trations of his office; at this moment a strag gler informed Mr. Hodgson that the ene my’s cavalry was at hand. He was quick ly in saddle, and, with the enemy thun dering at three hundred yards behind him, he reached Col. Lay’s position. Line was instantly formed, and as the enemy mounted a hill a lethal volley broke their ranks and scattered them. This “fighting Larson” is scarcely twenty-one years of age, and already he has made one campaign in Western Vir ginia, that of Rich Mountain, as a Zouave. In the spring of last year he was a student in the Episcopal Theological Semi nary iu New York. He wouldn’t “stand it,” and come home to militate and offi ciate both in one. He has a brother, cap tain of cavalry, in Col. Clanton’s regiment. Bishop General Bolk can hardly be at fault for an “assistant” militant. Sympathy for tlic Distnsstd.—Scarcely a day tine is two and a half inches thick with tacking, when da'kuess stayed the conflict. | passes that the saddest indications of grief are not six inches of wood backing. over her gun deck, and. had after gone The skill, energy, and resolution tvith Avhich .Maj. Gen. Smith directed the at- how these things areVe-| ! hr0 , n g h the ' v ” od bacIdn S °, n tlie st ? r - would have secured success if it could know officially garded by the Administration. The ex planation of the Secretary of War answers this end. The enemy may as well take boad quarter and crowded on the iron pla ting. Shells penetrated her side where it Avas have been made an hour earlier. r l’he troops of Longstreet and Hill pass- id th night of the 31st on the The rround enemy were note of what he says of the Lex Talionis— j of tlie thickness I have stated above, and which they had avoii. the Law of Retaliation : ; exploded on her gun-deck, making terri- strongly reinforced from the north side of ; ble havoc among her crew. In tAA o .or the Chickabominy on the evening and three places where her spardeck Avas struck night of the 31st- The troops engaged by hy ricochet shot, the entire substance of Gen. Smith Avere undoubtedly from the the deck, both wood and iron, for the dis- other side of the river, tance of three feet and the width of the On the morning of the 1st of June, the shell, was scooped out, leaving a clear enemy attacked the brigade of General opening through to the space beloAv.— Ticket, Avltieh Avas supported by that of This deck, however, is ridiculously light, General Bryor. The attack Avas vigor- SiR : I respecTullv desire to kaoAv from being made of two-inch plank, covered ously repelled by these two brigades, the you, Avhether the several Bartizan Corps over with two 1-4-inch iron plates. As far brunt of the action falling on Gen. Bickett. of Rangers now organized, or that maj’be as resistance to shot is concerned, she is This was the last demonstration made by organized in the several States of the Con- a miserable failure- the enemy. Correspondence. Spotsavood Hofse Richmond, ( July 15th, 1562. ) Hon. George W. Randolph, Secretary ufi War: witnessed upon our streets. Yesterday a lady, upon wfiose countenance Avas depicted marks of the siucerest sorrow, was met by Mrs. President Dsvis whose attention she attracted aud who in quired the cause of her grief. The story of the unfortunate was a brief one but fall of sadness. Her husband, a sergeant in a North Carolina com pany, was wounded in the battle at Malvern Hill and she h-«d come to the city in search of him; but had failed to find him in any of tbe hospitals. Mrs. Davis kindly invited her to the Presidential mansion where she is now a geest, and an adver tisement appears in our columns for the wounded and missing husband.—Richmond Dispatch 18/A. Gen. Howell Cobb reached his home in Athens, Ga., one day last Aveek. The Watchman learns that he returned sick. Tax Laws of Georgia. COMBILED BY L. H. BRISCOE, A FEW copiesoftheTAX LAWS arc on hand and forsale at this office.—Price $I per copy