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THE BATTLE OF BATON ROUGE
We are indebted to Lieut. Col.
Brewer, of Gen. Brekinridge’s staff, for
a fuller account of the battle of Baton
Rouge than any that has yet been pub
lished.
On the morning of the 4th inst., he
states, we marched withiu one mile
and a half of Baton Rouge, and arrived
there just at the dawn of day, when
the army was separated into two di
visions, commanded by Brig. Gens.
Clark and Ituggles, the latter General
deploying his division to the left and
General Clark to the right. Gen. R.
then moved slowjy up in the advance,
until he arrived at Davis’ house, where
the enemy was drawn up in line of
battle. Gen. Ruggles attacked and
drove them back to their encampment,
about one mile from where they first
engaged them. They made a desper
ate stand, having placed a battery in
the road, which raked the columns oi
Gen. Ruggles, killed, three horses and
wounding several men of Capt. Linn’s
battery. Col. Allen, of the 14th
Louisiana Regiment, at this stage made
a bold charge upon the battery, and
drove the enemy from it with great
slaughter on both sides. This gallant
officer received three shots, which
broke both his legs below the knees.
The enemy succeeded in retaking the
batteries.
Atthis juncture Gen. Clark’s divis
ion arrived at the scene of action, and
moving in on the left flank of the ene
my in union with Ruggles’ command
the enemy was driven though their en
campments to the arsenal, behind
which they took refuge. The gunboats
were firing upon us all the time, and
the rain Arkansas failing to arrive
at the scene of action to draw the fire
of the Yankee flotilla, General Breck
inridge ordered the destruction ol all
the captured arms, camp equipage,
&c., which we had captured, with their
horses, were removed to the rear.—
Our army, under order, then fell back
to the position they had occupied in
the morning.
The loss in officers on both, sides
was very heavy. Coi. Thompson, ol
Kentucky was wounded severely in
the neck ; Brig. Gen. Helin, of Ky.,
had his leg broken ; Col. Todd, broth
er-in-law of Abe Lincoln, was killed ;
Col. Hughes, of Ky., was killed;
Brig. Gen. Clark was mortally wouud-
de. The enemy lost Gen. Williams kil
led; Col. McKey also killed and a num
ber of other officers. This information
was obtained from the flag of truce,
which was sent to provide for the
carrying off the dead and wound
ed.
Maj. Gen. Breckinridge, Brig. Gen.
Clark, and Brig. Gen. Ruggles, com
manded throughout the day, and their
conduct was marked with the highest
degree of calmness and bravery. Their
staff officers and men behaved with
the self-confidence and valor of veter-
is but the forerunner of another more
important and overwhelming, unless
Pope should execute one of McClellan’s
“flank movements” and get out of the
way.—Riclknond Whig.
From the! Yankees near Chattanooga.—
We have k note from a gentleman
near the eierny beyond Chattanooga,
giving the following information : that
the lankips are intrenching at Steven
son and rfcar Bridgeport ; that desert-
ers from (them are very numerous,
who repgt much dissatisfaction and.
quarrelint in the Federal army about
the causuof the war: that the Army
is divide! into a Union and a John
Brown n/gro freeingparty; that a negro
regimenjin is Huntsville, and the Union
party inthe army refuseto fight with
the negpes, or for the purpose of freeing
them, tint Buell has gone to Washing
ton be/anse he don’t like to fight
with ntgroes, and for the promotion
of negjo insurrection and emancipa
tion. /
The/reports of deserters on most of
the pqnts here named, we have no
doubt fire true.
Lincoln's Declaration about Bloch
Regiments.—The Boston Traveler
gives the following version of Presi
dent Lincoln’s remarks, explanatory
of his refusal to receive negro regi
ments into the Yankee service c .
He had made not up his mind to arm
negroes at present, and the intimation
was given that he should probably
nei er do it. He gave his reasons with
out any attempt at concealment. He
felt it to he his duty to keep Kentucky
in the Union. When Kentucky should
withdraw the Union was lost, he said.
When she withdrew, 50,000 bayonets,
nowon the side of the Union, would
go over to the side of the rebellion
for when Kentucky became traitorous
the border slave States would all be
apt to follow her example.
Nashville.—A writer in the Mont
gomery Advertiser, who had just re
turned from Nashville, says the enemy
have no fortifications of any conse
quence, about Nashville. The only
cannons lie lias mounted are in front of
the Female Academy, (Provost Mar
shal’s office.) Andy Johnson boards
near the Capitol, never turinng out
expect which a strong military escort.
They have from six to eight thousand
men in and around the city. The 1
writer adds:
Let no one doubt that Tennessee is
all right. When our victorious legions
shall enter the “Old volunteer State,”
driving the vile invaders before them,
the heartless mercenaries will be greet
ed on every side, from rock, tree,
and hush, by the keen crack cf the
country rifle, as they keep step to the
music of the singing bullets, sent as
avenging messengers for the outrages
committed on defenseless citizens,
women and children.
The Federal Situation in Virgina,
last, though unwillingly, the
/ 1 •
the right of not avowing that one is
beaten *
TK Patrie thinks the subjugation of
the Aouth impossible, and says that the
only result, so far obtained, is :
TReir cities burned, immense q*'* 11 "
titi<8 of merchandise lost, fiel* a, * d
harvests laid waste, pillage *» ruined ’
blood flowing in torren*\ commerce
annihilated, product*-* 1 an( "l consump
tion stopped, pr ;, ate fortunes com
promised, and £,r th e government of
the North a Jebt almost equal to that
of England Such are the results obtain
ed within a year.
Dead Drunk.
A Yankee correspondent, writing
from McClellan’s army, communicates
the following to the New York Tribune:
Two rather singular cases of remark
able escape from living burial are re
lated as having occurred subsequent to
the battle of Fair Oaks. The body of a
Colonel was found on the field and
brought in. Arrangements were made
for embalming. The process includes
the use of galvanism. The shock was
given. To the astonishment of all, the
Colonel rose and walked forth. The
other case was that of a Colonel found rnenced in position so as to completely
dead on the field. In deference to his surround their capital. These forts
rank he was brought to the hospital are said, on good authority, to amount
o’nd laid among.the dead. His friends to twenty eight in number,and to re
prepared to give him a decent burial, semble the forts around Washington,
and were about to carry the body out, jf this be true, the defences of the rebel
when the colonel rolled over, and in capital are as thote of our own. While
tones more like those of a man drunk Going this, they have been erecting
than dead, • called out, “Ben, John, batteries all along the James river, in
where is my whiskey flask ?” the Potomac river style, and building
■ ■“ iron mailed steamers at Richmond ;
The “Almighty Dollar.”—The while their troop, in great force, now
New York Tribune publishes a letter surround McClellan on all sides.—
from M. French, a Yankee Chaplain, His position is one whose availabilty
at St. Simon’s, on the Georgia coast, in f or the purpose for which our army is
which the following paragraph occurs. on the Peninsula, is more than dubi-
Anybody could tell it was written by a 0USi
“blue belly”: A letter to the Chicago Times from
In the evening, we had the pleasure Washington thinks that the adminis-
of uniting in marriage a very interesting tration has decided not to send Pope
couple of negroes in Mr. T. B. King’s j to reinforce McClellan, but rather to
mansion. I do not think it was ever serit ] },i in towards Richmond overland,
graced with a marriage more pleasing, that is by way of Orange and Gordons-
in the sight of the Lord. The parties vilie. The writer, however, does not
Federal journals begin to admit the
difficulties their arms will have to
encounter in their “on to Richmond
movement, and we must confess some
of their lamentations are lugubrious
enough. A twelve mouth’s teaching,
however, lias made them observant and
calcul atm
Of McClellan’s position a correspon
dent says: “A mouth ago I stated it
did not afford a suitable Ifase of oper
ations against Richmond and that
fact is now tardily admitted by the
administration journals.” |t least such
is the admission of the; New York
Times, which says: “It kill be quite
impossible for McClellan to advance
against Richmond, even with a largely
augmented force and adds:
The reason of this i^ that during
the month that has elapsed since Mc
Clellan arrived there, while our admin
istration has done nothing of any
account to help MeClellan, the rebels
on their part have been working like
beavers. They have finished the
work on the cordon of forts and en
trenchments which had been com-
were very tastefully attired,as also were
their attendants. The company wa3 “se
lect.” The navy was duly represented.
At the close, a marriage fee was passed
into our hands—the most precious one
we ever received, and, considering the
source, we thought the largest. It was
one dollar. The marriage question is to
anticipate much success to result.-
“The route appears plain enough on
: the map,” it will prove the most impracti
cable: of the two. The distance from
Washington is 150 miles. “The army
would have to march with both flanks
exposed and with its rear unprotected,
since it would he impossible to keep
he one of great perplexity hereafter, jthat longdistance guarded.
The slaveholders, generally, regarded
a sale of either party as a dissolution of
the relation. We now find very many
with two and three companions in the
same colony, and tlnose whom they once
loved tenderly, whom God blessed with
children.
The loss on our side is estimated at
nearly 500, and that of the enemy
about the same number.
Mobile Tribune.
Gen. Jackson’s Latest Victory.
Au aid of Gen. Jackson, who was
present at the battle of Ceder Creek,
furnishes us some interesting particur
lars of the engagement. The victory
was so complete that a bevy of A an-
kee officers, under a flag of truce,
three days afterwards admitted that it
would be absurd to deny it, and laid diatribes against the rebels, there may
a wager with one of our Generals, that be detected an undercurrent of sarcasm,
not even Pope would pretend that it a devlish jeering at the North, and a
was anything hut a defeat to them.— ! dropping of inuendoes and suggestions
Our informant estimates the force 'well calculated to unsettle public opin-
engaged on our side at 8,000—that of, ion. His panegyrics upon Lincoln are
the enemy at 20,000. Our killed and rich in irony, llis assaults upon the
wounded numbered, according to Gen. abolitionists are evidently sincere. He
Jackson’s Medical Director, 000, of j knows they brought on the war, and
whom not more than 150 were killed, j he has seen from the beginning how
Yankee Editors.—Far be it from
us to complain of the editors of the
New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
the other thorough going Yankee cities.
Swine will follow in filth, obscene
birds will live on carrion. Perhaps some
notice should be taken of Wallace, ol
the New York Herald. Wallace is a
Virginian. Poor devil, he sold himself,
body and soul, to Bennety years ago,
and must do his master’s bidding. But,
unprincipled Swiss as he is, Wallace’s
heart has all along been with the South.
His editorials show this. In his worst
The loss of the enemy in killed, woun
ded and missing, is estimated at from
2,000 to 3,000. We took two splen
did Napoleon guns, fifteen hundred
stand of small arms, twelve wagon
loads ofamunitioo, four stand of colors,
and nearly or quite 500 prisoners.—
The fight began with skirmishing
about two o’clock, some six miles this
side of Culpeper Court house. At
four o’clock it had become active and
hot, and was continued until near nine
o’clock at night, at which time the
enemy had been driven to within two
miles of the Court House. At this
point a heavy battery had been plan
ted, and the General thinking it injudi
cious to attack it till morning, ordered
a halt. In the morning the enemy
had abandoned the position and made
no response to shells thrown in the
direction they were supposed to occu
py*
The enemy were commanded by
McDowell, Banks and Siegel, Pope
reached the scene of action the next
day. We occupied the battle ground
till Monday evening. Tuesday morn
ing the enemy sent ambulanches oiuhe
field under white flags, and under
cover of them attempted to advance a
heavy force. Gen. Stuart who hap
pened at the time to be oil the field,
with not more tham two or three
attendants, sent word to Pope that if
he advanced any further he would
massacre every ambulanche driver and
surgeon on the field. Pope replied,
professing his chagrin and declared
that he did not know that the ambu
lances were carrying white flags, and
concluded by asking till two o’clock
to bury his dead. Stuart replied that
it would be impossible for him to finish
the job in that time and that lie would
give him till sun down. And this was
done. During the hotest part, of the
fight, Geu. Jackson put himself at the
head of his old Stonewall brigade,
infusing into that band of heroes an
ardor and impetuosity perfectly irre-
sistable. The ground over which
they passed was almost literally cover
ed with slaughtered Yankees. Our in
formant does not doubt that this victory
that war will end. He is steadily work
ing up the fiendish spirit of the mob
against the authors of the war. Alas !
what a dav that will be when this in
furiate mob is turned loose upon the
Greeleys, the Bryants, the Sumners,
Wades and Wilsons. Bennett approves
these machination of Wallace, for Ben
nett always keeps an eye to the wind
ward. He knows :hat the day of retri
bution will surely come, and is prepar
ing for it. At least one newspaper office
in New York will not he levelled. It
is Wallace, we think, who writes those
Baltimore letters, in which such ap-
paling statistics of the rebel armies are
given. Would to God we had the force
in the field that Wallace gave us;—not
many months would elapse before we
would give him a chance to hang out
his Confederate flag. Wallace has done
the best lie could for us, and we pass
him by. But, there are two Yankee
editors, for whom the people of the
South entertain none of the kindly
feeling they bear towards Wallace.
These editors are Charles C. Fulton, of
the Baltimore American, and James C
Welling, of the National Intelligencer
More than once, this couple have been
held up to the public recollection, and
it is not probable they will everbe for
gotten. We shall do our part to keep
their memories green.—Richmond
Whig.
McClellan’s addrefe to his army, after
its defeat and retreat to the James riv
er, is published and ridiculed by all the
papers of Europe—especially that sen
tence of it in which he says that it will
always be a source of pride to his sol
diers to know they belonged to the ar
my of the Potomac. The London Times
charges McClellan with outright lying
in his address. The Paris Patrie calls it
a parody on Napoleon, and says:
We can understand the illusion* and
the exaggerations whose aim is to sus
tain the morale of the soldier, but to
travestiethe truth in this way, and
present six successive and bloody de
feats as a series of victories contribut
ing to operate
From the Richmond Whig.
The Press.—A correspondent of the
Mobile Tribune, writing from Grenada
Miss., expresses surprise that one of Gen
Van Dorn’s late orders, attempting to
muzzle the press and crush out its inde
pendence. lias escaped universal denun
ciation. The order provides that if the
editor or proprietor of any newspaper,
puplisbed in his Department; “shall
publish any editorial article, or copy
into his paper any article or paragraph,
calculated to impair confidence in any
of the commanding officers whom the
President may see fit to place over the
troops, such editor or proprietor shall
be subject to fine and, imprisonment,
and the publication of the paper
hereafter be suspended.”
Van Dorn is one of the Generals of
our army for whom the people have en
tertained high respect; but this order
comes with a force we ll calculated to
shake confidence and impair respect.
It will be remembered there was talk
in our last Congress of placing a cen
sorship over the preso, but that body,
governed by wise counsels, refused.
Should Van Dorn’s: order be carried
out the press of the Mississippi Valley
will be shorn of all that makes a press
desirable among a people composed of
freemen—-freedom of speech! we have
denounced the Yankee Gevernment for
its crusade against the freedom of the
press; and we should as bitterly de
nounce any attempt to muzzle our own
press.
There is weak and silly affectation,
among military men of a certain class,
of contempt for the press—but men of
sounder and more candid judgment
know that, in spite of instances of indis
cretion and mischief, the journals of
the country are the most powerful stim
ulants to active patriotism on the part
of the people, and to vigilance, fidelity
and energy on the p art of those conduct
ing the military and civil affairs of the
country. Wiser men than those of this
day, in founding the institution under
which we live—provided for the un
restricted freedom of the press, as one
of the muniments of civil liberty—and
n<J one who understands the true state
of republicanism will ever strike down
that guard. The press is the eyes and
ears and voice of the people. Whoso
ever would muzzle it should himself
he muzzled.
Gen. Pillow's Losses.—A dispatch from
Gen. Pillow to a friend in Brandon states
that Curtis’ army have driven off, by force,
nearly four hundred negroes, killed one of
his oversaers and got three others in jail,
and literally laid waste his magnificent
plantations. He is thus nearly reduced to
poverty at one fell swoop of the enemy,
for his devotion to Southern rights.
The Grenada correspondent^! the Mo
bile Tribune says: General Parsons, of
Missouri, has successfully eluded the vigi
lance of the Federals, and crossed the Mis
sissippi with his Missouri brigade. He is
now safe in Arkansas en route for a field
of operations whose results may yet strike
the chains from his oppressed State be
fore the adveut of the autumnal equinox.
Brags;'s Movements.—The Mobile Tri
bune, of the 12th, says that orders had
been issued by Gen. Bragg limiting the
Federal prospects, according to their
own showing, are not very flattering.
“On to Richmond” is a hard road to
travel, and rendered none the easier
by the presence of the bayonets ol the
Confederate army.
Democratic Meeting in Bern Towniihip.
From the Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle, July 31.
Over one hundred of the ‘unterrified’
Democracy of Bern township met at
the Election House of that township
on last Saturday, and were addressed by
Messrs. Tall Slough aud Edson B.
Olds. The earnest and patriotic re
marks of both the speakers received
the most profound attention of the
audience.
Dr. Olds’ speech is being grossly
and meanly misrepresented by a coup
le of Black Republican blackguards.—
He has properly and truthfully noticed
the matter in the following card:
Lancaster, July 2S, 1SG2.
C. Roland, Esq—Dear Sir: Allow
me, through the columns of your
Eagle, to-correct one. or two of the
many misrepresentations being made
in this community by Mr. Clark, of
the Gazette, relative to a speech I
made on Saturday to a meeting of the
Democracy of Bern township.
Mr. Clark is representing me as
having counseled the Democrats of
Bern township not to enlist in the
army, and, if drafted, to resist, even at
the point of the bayonet. Out of the
more than one hundred Democrats
present on that occasion, I am sure
that there is not one who so understood
my meaning. What I said was sub
stantially tliis; That whilst this war
was prosecuted for the putting dow v n
of rebellion, and the “maintenance
of the Constitution as it is, and the
Union as it was,” the Democracy
would freely shed their blood, and
liberally give their money, but so soon
as it ceased to be a war for the suppres
sion of rebellion, and became an aboli
tion war, no Democrat would be found
willing to volunteer. I further remar-
ke I that the Government in all probability
would make, a draft, for soldiers, and that,
drafting would be in the hands oj Repub
licans ; that the party would want toikeep
Republicans at home to vote, and want to
send Democrats\away so that they could not
vote, and that no fair draft, would be made;
and that, if any Democrat believed that he
hid been fraudulently drafted, he would
refuse to go, and that then a file oj soldiers
would be sent after him, and that under such
circumstances he would resist, even at the
point of the bayonet, aiul that in this way
civil war would be brought upon, us in
Ohio. Not one word was said as advi
sing resistance, but all was told as
a vision of what would be future
events.
Now, Mr. Editor, let me refeat, as
a warning to the Republicans, that no
unfair or fraudulent drafting will be
submitted to. A word to the wise
should be sufficient.
Yours, respectfully,
EDSON B. OLDS.
Attention, Soldiers /—Fill your pockets
with dried slippery elm bark when about
to take up the line of march for the battle
field, or for a new encampment, lou will
find that chewing it freely will greatly al
lay both thirst and hunger. The slippery
elm grows in abundance in Virginia, North
and South Carolina, and in Georgia. Our
Surgeons call for it as a substitute for
baggage of our ; irmy to what the men ean Gum Arabic. It is to be hoped onr pa
h i 1.1 - !«! nn >] nLllonthvr.rxlo frionfU IT1 t.hf
carry in their k napsacks, and there wai
•ombnied advance ever ' y other indi cation that it would make
movement, is to push a little too far i a forward move ment immediately.
tri.jtic and philanthropic friends in the
country will procure an abundant supply
for our army.
From the Knoxville Register of the 16th.
Killing *f Gen. Knbert McCook by Confed
erate Partisans.
We have, heretofore, given accounts of
this affair from a private Southern source
and frum a Northern dispatch. To-day
we give a more detailed account from the
editorial columns of the Louisville Jnipmal
of Aug. 9th. The Journal denounces the
killing as an assassination, is very indig
nant, and strives to excite Northern blood
to volunteer heat with thefierceness of its
wrathful utterances. A Nashville tele
gram says thqt OP rebel houses were burnt
ami seventeen guerrillas were hung to atone,
for McCook's death.J
The Confederate (Jovrriment will take
note of this fact.—If the- North deals thus
with the defenders of their homes, their
wives and children, from the foul footstep
of the invader, carrying death, devastation
and ruin in his train, will our Government
fail to retaliate, and thus exhibit to the en
emy a sense of our weakness and incapac
ity to avenge our wrongs ? We trust and
believe not. If the enemy will force upon
us the fierce arbitrament of barbarous war
fare. let us accept it with reluctant, but
read) hands and brave hearts, and look to
God to defend the right.
The Northern version of McCook’s ca
tastrophe is false, as we are assured by a
North Alabama partisan, who says lie par
ticipated in the attack on McCook and his
body guard. He says McCook and his
guard were some distance ahead of bis
brigade, about 4,000 strong, moving from
Huntsville via New Market, Ala., and
Salem, Tenn., to Winchester, Tennessee.
When McCook was about six miles north
of New Market, detachments from three
partisan companies, 80 men in all, raised
in Madison and Jackson counties, Ala.,
moving down a road at right angles to the
one travelled by McCook, attacked the
centre of the column of his guard, and
they fled in both directions. A running
fight took place as the partisans passed, in
which our informant thinks, about 40 of
the enemy fell, but none of our men.
Two partisans pursued McCook, who
was riding in a carriage stolen from some
citizens of Huntsville, and not an ambu
lance, and was separated from his com
mand. Overtaking him, they twice or
dered a halt, and, not being heard, they
fired on and mortally wounded him. They
recognized the uniform of a general, but
did not know his name, until it was dis
closed by the Northern papers. McCook’s
aid, Capt. Brooks, and 5 or 6 other pris
oners were taken.
Our partisans, on the approach of aid to
the enemy from the rest of their brigade,
scattered in the woods, and made off.
The enemy afterwards burnt the dwell
ings of a Baptist minister, Parson Crutch
er, Dr. Perry, Elias Spragius, and another
whose name is not recollected, all citizens
of Madison county. The senior Captain
of our partisans sent Captain Brooks to
tell the.enemy to desist, or he would hang
every prisoner in his hands, and take no
more prisoners, and paroled Brooks, and
told him if he did not return he would
hang the prisoners. The burning ceased,
and Cantain Brooks returned, well illus
trating the efficacy of retaliatory policy.
Our Army nnd* the God of Battles.
The following letter from ‘Personne,’
the admirable army correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, is worth far more
than the space it occupies in our col
umns :
Richmond, August 10, 1862.
Sunday in camp ! One of those quiet*
holy, golden clasps which binds the vol
ume of the week together. For the mo
ment the business of war is hushed. Re
lieved from all uncessary labors, the men
are distributed in various ways and places
Some have gone to the city, some are
lounging in their tents or under the trees,
and some are attending divine worship a
few rods distant. Your correspondent
should be among the latter class, but he
is just now in that condition when by him
self, he
“Reads sermons in |tones, tales in the trees,
Songs in the running brooks, and
God in everything.’’
A silence almost sanctified reigns over
the scene, and it requires but little effort of
mine to change these leafy temples of na
ture into the grotesque labyrinths of some
vast cathdral, and listen to the pealing of
a grand old anthem.
Probably at no period of the war has
the religious element in the army been
more predominant than it is at present.
In many instances chaplains, army mis
sionaries, colporteurs and tracts have ac
complished great benefits, hut by far the
most cogent influences that have operated
upon and subdued the reckless spirit of
the soldiery, are those which are born in
the heart itself, upon the field of battle.
There is something irresistible in the ap
peal which the Almighty makes when he
strikes from your side, in the twinkling of
an eye, your friend and comrade, and few
natures are so utterly depraved as to en
tirely disregard the whisperings of the
“still small voice” which make themselves
so vividly heard at such a moment. Ev
ery man unconsciously asks himself,
“whose turn will come next ?” and when,
at the termination of the conflict,* he finds
himself exempted from the awful fiat that
lias brought death to his very side and all
around him, his gratitude to his Creator is
alloyed, though it may be but. dimly,
with a holier emotion, which, for the time,
renders him a wiser and a better man. In
this aspect the recent battles have done
more to make religious converts than all the
homilies and exhortations ever uttered
from the pulpit. A man who has stood
upon the threshold of eternity while in the
din and carnage of a fight, has listened to
eloquence more fiery and impressive than
ever came from mortal lips.
It is not strange, therefore, as you go
through various camps, even on a week
day, that your ears are here and there
saluted with the melody of a choir of voices,
rich, round and full, sung with all the se
riousness and earnestness of true devotion;
or that before the lights are out in the
evening, manly tones are heard in thanks
giving for the blessings of the day ; or
that the Bible aud Prayer Books are com
mon books upcyi the iness table ; or that
when Sunday arrives the little stand from
which the Chaplain is wont to discourse,
is the centre of a cluster of interested aud
pious listeners.
In many of the regiments much of this
kindly influence is due to the pure and ele
vated character of the officers. Wherever
these are found, you invaribly also find a
neat, well disciplined, orderly, quiet com
mand, as prompt in the camp as they are
brave upon the field. Now and then you
may hear a taunt about “our praying Cap
tain” or‘Colonel,’ but even these thought
less expressions come from men who ven
erate their officers and would follow them
to the death. As you know, some of our
ablest Generals are men who have drop
ped the gown of the Christian for the ap
parel of the soldier. Polk was a bishop,
Pendleton a clergymen, D. H. Hill a re
ligious author, Jackson a dignitary of the
church, while scores of others occupying
subordinate positions, are equally well
known for their devotion at the shrine of
chritianity. All of these gentlemen have
been eminently successful in whatever
they have undertaken, have passed un
harmed through the dangers by which
they have been frequently environed, and
are living illustrations of the truth that a
fighting cliritian is as terrible to his ene
mies, as he is gentle to his friends.
Gen. Jackson never enter a fight with
out first invoking God’s blessing and pro
tection. The dependence of this strange
man upon the Deity seems never to be ab
sent from his mind, and whatever he does,
or says, it is always prefaced “by God’s
blessing.”
In one of his official despatches, he com
mences—‘By God’s blessing, we have to
day defeated the enemy.’ Said one of
his officers to him the other daj—‘Well
General, another candidate (referring to
Pope) is waiting you attentions.’ ‘So I
observe,’ was the quiet reply, ‘and ‘by
God’s blessing’ he shall receive them to
his full satisfaction.’
After a battle has been fought the same
rigid remembrance of Divine Power is
observed. The army is drawn up in line,
the General dismounts from his horse, and
there in the presence of bis rough, bronzed
face troops, with heads uncovered and
bent awe-stricken to the ground, the voice
of the good man which but a few hours
before was ringing out quick and fiery in
tonations. is nowjieard subdued and calm,
as if overcome by the presence of the Su
preme Being, in holy appeal to ‘the sap
phire throne.’ Few such spectacles have
been witnessed in modern times, and it is
needless "to add that few such examples
have ever told with more wondrous power
upon the hearts of men. Are you sur
prised, after its recital, that Stonewall
Jackson is invincible, and that he can lead
bis army to certain victory, whenever
‘Crod’s blessing precedes the act ?
PERSONNE.
Heroic Incident in New Orleaus.
We are indebted to high authority for
the facts of the following occurrence in
New Orleans, intelligence of which reach
ed the city yesterday. Mrs. H. M. Hy
mns, wife of the Lieutenant Governor of
the State, passed on the street a number
of Yankee officers sittingjn a doorway as
she went by. One of them arose and fol
lowed her a few steps, and arresting her
progress by placing himself in front of her,
told her that she had omitted to bow in pass
ing. ' She attempted to avoid the ruffian,
when lie repeated his remark, and asked
her if she had not read Gen. Butler’s “Or
der No. 28,” witli reference to the treat
ment of Union officers and soldiers with
respect. Endeavoring to pass the fellow,
lie threw his arm around the lady’s waist,
and pressed his foul lips upon her face.
As the villain released her from his em
brace, the Southern lady coolly drew a
pistol and shot him through the body, so
that he fell dead at her teet in the inso
lent flush of his cowardly triumph over
the insulted virture of a feeble and unpro
tected woman.
Another of the officers immediately
arose, and approaching the noble and cour
ageous lady, took her by the arm and
told her, so that the other Federals could
hear, that Bhe must accompany him be
fore Gen. Butler. He immediately placed
her in a cat and drove away—but not to
tbs Beast’s quarters. He directed the
cab out of the city and through the lines
of sentries-and further on still, until be
yond the reach of the tyrant’s outposts.
The act of the heroine made a hero of the
witness. He told her that he considered
her act justifiable and noble, and that in a
moment lie had determined that she
should not be sacrificed to Butler’s ven-
geince, and adopted the expedient by
which he had rescued her. He continued
to escort her on her journey through the
country until they arrived in the Southern
lines at Camp Moore, when he delivered
himself up to the Confederate authorities,
to be dealt with as a prisoner or other
wise.
So ends this heroic and dramatic inci
dent of the war. Mrs. Hyams has set a
lofty example for Southern women, and
the gallant gentleman who delivered her
has shamed its army and the whole North.
We trust he las renounced forever the
service of the oppressors, and that a rank
equivalent to his deserts may reward him
in ours.—Mobi/t Advertiser.
JVrwi from Richmond*
Richmond, August 19.—There is no
longer room for donbt that McClellan has
1 changed his bise from James River to the
1 Rappahannock.
A despatch to Gov. Letcher, from New
Dublin, trays, we have reliable intelligence
that the enemy has left Pack Ferry, Mead
ow' Bluff, and Flat Top, and the impres
sion is that they are evacuating Western
Virginia.
In the Senate to-day, various portions
of the President’s message were referred to
appropriate committees.
In the House, a resolution was adopted
changing the rules so as to p/ovide that it
shall not be in orter for the House to re
solve itself into seiret session, except by a
vote of a majority of the members pres
ent. Yeas 56, nays 14.
Ad order from tho Adjutant General
will be published to-morrow, directing
general officers commanding Confederate
troops to ascertain and report if peaceable
citizens have been put to death in Arkan
sas by Gen. Fitch, upon the ground that
one of the invading army had been shot by
some unknown person, and upon being
certified thereof, they shall forthwith set
set apart by lot from any prisoners from
the army under the command of Fitch,
numbers of officers equal in number to the
persons put to death as aforesaid, and
place them in close confinement for execu
tion at such time as may be ordered by the
President, and shall regard Fitch, if cap-
turned, as a felon, and shall place him in
confinement until further orders.
Chinese Dispensation of Justice.
A letter, dated Shanghai, May 21, states
that the keeper of au eating house in
that city, a few days before, charged a
visitor with eating a quantity ol rice
not paid for, when an angry dispute
arose. A mandarin was seut for, who
ordered the victim to be ripped open
to ascertain whether he had swallowed
the food. It was done and no rice found.
A false charge had been made and to
put things to rights (according to the
Chinese ideas) the head of the accuser
was quickly taken off, when the mag
istrate was ready for another job.
Gen. Smith Improving.
(Special despatch to the Savannah Republican.]
Charleston, Aug 29.—General Wm. Duncan
Smith is better this morning, aud hope* are now
entertained of his recovery.
! Vnn Ea»iTennes»ee.—General Hardee and
hi* Brigade.
Chattanooga Tenn. i
August 15, 1862. \
Editor Intelligencer:—
Having been a constant reader of tfi e
newspapers, as well as a soldier for the
year past; I have^come to the conclusion
that many of our Confederate commanders,
like the Federals, get all their greatness
by means of printer’s ink. I -will not
specify names, as there is no desire in mo
to disparage the claims of any man; but
believing the Intelligencer a just paper,
and one, at least, willing to ascribe the
proper meed of praise to a native Georgj.
an, I send you this letter naming a min
who got and holds his position honestly
aud honorably, and to the well being of hi s
country. Maj-or General W. J. Hardee,
the present Commander of the “Army of
the Mississippi,” (the army that fought
and won the field of Shiloh) is the one to
whom I refer.
At the commencement of the war, the
Government in looking about for its offi
cers appointed Gen. Hardee Colonel of
the first infantry, and, if I mistake not,
his name is the first on the army roll of the
new Government. With this rank he
took command of Fort Morgan, remaining
until the fall of Fort Sumter became the
alarm bell for active and vigorous war.
He then received a commission as Briga
dier General, and was ordered to the wilds
of Northern Arkansas to manufacture an
army out of the scattered and half organ-
zed State regiments, without a dollar of
money, without equipments without trans
portation, away from all public highways
and hundreds of miles from any Govern
ment depot. How well and how success
fully he performed this task, ask any of
the five thousand brave Arkansas men,
who still proudly follow his battle flag and
obey his orders. After organizing the
first forces of Arkansas, and Gen. Pillow
failing or refusing to co-operate with him
in a contemplated move against, the Iron
Mountain and St. Louis, he was ordered,
with his whole command, to Bowling
Green, Kentucky, and then, by order of
the lamented Gen. Johnston? (being now
commissioned as Major General) took com
mand of the “Central Army of Kentucky.”
His conduct there and during the famous
retreat of ten thousand to Corinth, is prais
ed by all the army with him at the time.
At Corinth Gen. Johnston divided the ar
my into three grand corps, commanded res
pectively by Gen. Bragg, Gen, Polk, and
Gen. Hardee; and the gallant Third, Gen.
Hardee’s army corps, had the honor of be
ginning the fight, successfully driving the
enemy through his first encampment at
Shiloh. His conduct and the conduct of
his troops in this bloody battle, need no
mention now—it is history.
After the army became stationed at
Tupelo; and Gen. Bragg took command of
this Department, Gen. Hardee was placed
in command j[of the whole army and so
commands to-day—the number of which is
variously estimated by the Federals to be
from forty to seventy-five thousand strong;
whatever it be, however, rest assured, as
it fought the battle of Shiloh, it can more
successfully fight the impending battle of
the Tennessee.
As I have noticed so little mention of a
man, who in my humble judgment has no
superior in the West, either for military
skill, sound judgment, administrative abil
ity, undoubted bravery, and beyond all
this, the bsst General of Volunteers in the
Confederate States, I send you, a Georgia
paper, tliis simple, unbought homage to a
Georgia Soldier.
Not seeing in any paper the announce
ment of his staff, I have appended their
names. They are a set of gallant, Sin/th-
cm, gentleman—approachable, like their
General, by the humblest private in the
ranks—a thing, by-the-by, very uncom
mon in this same Confederate army, as I
know by experience. Gold lace, brass
buttons, and a superabundance of imper
tinence have no private entrance* to the
offices at the Headquarters of Gen. Har
dee, bat all soldiers, whether officers or
privates, await their turn and are, in most
cases, waited on alike. It is an old adage
that, “like master like man”—and Gen.
Hardee’s staff officers, to their honor be it
said, generally imitate their General in the
treeatmentof those who visit them on busi
ness.
The gallantry of Gan Hardee to the la
dies is proverbial, and if military favors
or permissions are to be granted at all,
when a woman asks, abe most generally
succeeds. All men have-4'neir faults. Gen.
Hardee’s grow out of his kindness of heart.
He yields too readily to complaints, and
does not, in minor matters, decide with
sufficient promptness. The querrulous
might also say, Re gives away at times to
violent bursts of passion. This, however,
! is seldom the case. He recollects that the
man who knows how to control himself
is worthy to be trusted with the control of
others.
We liav. no stirring news here at this
time.
Major General Buckner, lately of Fort
Warren, is expected here upon every train.
Much to the gratification of everybody,
and especially the soldiers, he is expected
to take command of the Third Division of
the “Army of the Mississippi”—the Di
vision now under command of Brig. Gen.
S. A. M. Wood, and Gen. Hardee’s origin
al command.
In ten days you may look for something
to “turn up” in these mountain quarters.—
The enemy are strongly entrenching them
selves at Stevenson, and are in force at
every railroad bridge. Gens. Buell and
Nelson, if the signs of the times are not
very deceiving, will soon hear the whistle
of Southern bullets.
Gen. Kirby Smith is advancing on Ken
tucky from Knoxville—the larger portion
of his command, so reported this morning,
having left their old quarters.
If agreeable I will drop you an occasion
al letter, as we advance.
MAJOR GENERAL W. J. HAEDEE’s STAFF.
Capt. T.B. Roy, A. General.
Capt.D. H. Poole, Asst. A General.
Lt. Col. D. E. Blake, Insp. General.
Maj* W. D. Pickett, Asst. Insp. Gen
eral.
Lt. Col. S. Black, “ “
Lt. T. W. Hunt, “ “
Maj D- G. White, Aid de Camp.
Capt. T. S. Hardee, “ “
Maj. L. O. Bridewell, Chief Quartermas
ter.
Maj. W. Wicks, Chief Commissary.
Col. J. E. Moore, Judge Advocate.
Lt. W. W- Wilkins, Asst. Judge Advo
cate.
Lt. L. Hoxton, Chief of Artillery.
Lt. J. Kennard, Chief of Ordnance.
Capt. Harry Flash, Volunteer Aid.
Col. Perkins; “ “
Dr. D. W. Yandell, Medical Director.
Respectfully, BETA.
It is stated tint about fifty or sixty
per cents, of the gold on the Golden
Gate steamer was insured.