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I 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.