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BY TELEGRAPH. Bombardment of Fort Jackson, Near New Orleans! ’ 1 HEROISM OF THE GARRISON! A GALLANT DEFENCE I t Nmw Orleans, La., April 23d.—The follow 1 in g official dispatch was sent from here by Maj. Gen. Lovell, commanding thia division of the < Confederate Army, to Brig. Gen. Duncan, com manding Fort Jackson: “Say to the officers and men, that their he roit fortitude, in enduring one of the most ter rific bombardments known; and the courage and skill with which they crush the enemy when be dares to come from under cover, attract the admiration of all, and will be recorded in history as splendid examples for patriots and soldiers. Anxious but confident families and friends are watching them with a firm reliance, based on the gallant exhibitionthusjar made of indomitable oourage and great military skill.— The enemy will try your powers of endurance, but we believe with no better success than . that already experienced.’’ [Signed] M. Lovell, Maj. Gen. Commanding. Gen. Duncan’s reply runs thus: “I have to report, this morning, the same as previously. The bombardment is still going on furiously. They kept it up by reliefs of their divisions. One of their three-masted gunboats, painted grey, came above the point this morn ing, but was struck and retired. We are hopeful and in good spirits, and I cannot speak in too high praise of all the officers and men No further casualties to report. Let the peo have faith and fortitude, and we will not dis' grace them. [Signed] J. R. Duncan, Brig. Gen. Commanding. [second dispatch.] New Orleans, April 23d.—The following dispatch was received herefrom Fort Jackson to-day: There was a heavy and continued bombard ment all night, and is still progressing. No further casualties except two men slightly wounded. God is certainly protecting us. We are still cheerful, and have an abiding faith in our ultimate success. We are making repairs the best we can. Our best guns are still m working order. Most of them have been dis abled at times. The health of our troops con tinues good. 25,000 thirteen inch shells have been fired by the enemy, thousand of which have fallen in the fort. They must soon ex haust themselves. If not, we can stand it as long as they can. Brig. Gen. J. K. Duncan, Commanding Fort Jackson. FROM RICHMOND. Richmond, Va., April 23d. —All is quiet on the Peninsula to-day. There is no news here. FROM THE THIRD GEORGIA REGIMENT. [We are permitted to publish the following private dispatch from an officer in the -3d Georgia Regiment to a relative in this city :] South Mills, N. C., April 21st. —via Norfolk, April 22d.—In the battle of the 19th, five men were killed and fifteen wounded in the Third Georgia Regiment. Os this number, two of the Confederate Light Guards were killed and five wounded, viz: killed, Thomas Wildner and Samuel May; wounded, William Champlain, K. Robinson, Mac Daniel, D. Fountain, and William Cauley; all slightly. The number on our side engaged was three hundred and fifty ; on the enemy’s, six regiments, besides artillery. The killed and wounded of the enemy, over one hundred. Col. Wright acted with great gallantry. C. S. from the Savannah Republican. UTEST FROM THE WEST- Memphis, April.2l.—Late accounts from Missou ri say that General Seigle died of pneumonia, at Keitville, some days ago. The Louisville papers admit that General Buell arrived at the Tennessee Sunday evening of the battie, and crossed the river with his forces that night, and that the whole were engaged is tbe tight of Monday. Reliable accounts from Nashville say that four thousand Kentucky troops have quit tbe army and gone borne in disgust, on account of Lincolo’sab olition policy. There are nine thousand sick troops at Nashville. Tbe Federal* are reported to be moving their sick and stores from the city. Tremendous rains hare fallen here for tbe last four days; the country is flooded and land opera tions have become impossible. It is believed that tbe Federal forces at Madrid 'have abandoned tiie place and gone round up tbe "Tennessee to reinforce tbe army in that quarter. P. W. A. Ntom IM Savannah Republican. LATEST FROM THE WEST. Mavphis,i April 22.—Late northern papers have been received at this point, and I annex a synop sis of their news The enemy are concentrating an immense force •on the Tennessee river, with tbe view of another attack upon Beauregard. The roads are tn such a wretched condition that it wili be impossible for any forward movement to be made by either army for tea days or a fortnight tc come. General Grant, in his official report of the late *wo days buttle fal-ely estimates his loss at 1,500 killed and 500 wounded besides Prentiss’s Bri gade, all of which were taken prisoners. Ho claims a victory on Monday. Borne of the north ern papers—the most truthful—admit a terrible defeat on Bunday, and a drawn.battle on Mond The Federal sick list in the West is very heavy five thousand were carried into Cairo alone. The water and climate did the work. The Federate have rebuilt the railroad brjdge at Bowling Green, and are now running tbe ears through to Murfreesboro and Columbia. They captured two Confederate mails on the cars at Huntsville. The Federal Secretary of war, in an official document presented to Congress, says increased means of transportation are absolutely necessary to any further advance into tbe enemy’s terrrito ry. The Federal war expenses have increased to the enormous sum of five millions per day ; and he estimates that tbe public debt of tbe United States wifi be, by January 1863, fifteen hundred millions! The Black Republicans have beeh successful m tbe general elections in Connecticut, but the Democrats claim a triumph in the towns through out the North. Tbe work on all tbe dock yards and wooden ship at the north has been suspended. The ships Adelaid and Mary had arrived at Liverpool with cotton, and the Rosier, from near Charleston. P- W. A- FROM THE RAPPAHANOCK. Richmond,Va . April 22d.—The Yankee gun boats which went up the Rappahannock river last week, passed Urbana yesterday, outward bound, with three captured schooners. BOLD ATTEMPT TO BREAK OUT OF THE PENITENTIARY. Richmond, Va., April 22d.—There was a bold but unsuccessful attempt of 30 convicts> last night, to break out of the State Peniten tiary. THE FRENCH MINISTER LEAVES RICH MOND. Norfolk, Va., April 22d.—The French ship Jassendi left to-day, with M. Mercier the French Minister, on board. He arrived here to-day from Richmond. FROM SAVANNAH. Savannah, April 22d. —Tbe Marshals sale of the cargo of sugar and molasses of the Santa Clara has been postponed to Thursday. The restrictions against shipping produce from this city to the interior of the State have been removed. GEN. FREMONT LEAVES FOR CORINTH Richmond, Va., April 22d.—The Knoxville (Tenn.) Register, of Sunday, has reliable infor mation from Eastern Kentucky, that Gen. Fre ment has left that section, with his whole force, some 20,000 strong, for Corinth. CASUALTIES IN THE THIRD GEORGIA REGIMENT ON THE PASQUOTANK RIVER. Norfolk, Va., April 22a.—There were seven killed in the third Georgia Regiment, viz: Messrs, Widener, Dale, Ward, Mallory, May, and two others whose names were not ascer tained. The wounded are: Lieut. Wilson in the knee, severely; Serg’t John A. Nicholson in the thigh; James A. Robertson, in the head. Wm. C. Wright, in the face: Jos. Necroy con tusion from a shell; Wm J.Chamberlain, in the shoulder ; W. A. Palmer, in the hand ; M. Dan iete, in the arm; Evans in the chest; B. Adams, in the thigh. All of these are in the hospital here. THE FRENCH MINISTER- The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, of April 19th, has the following in reference to the French Minister to Richmond: M. Mercier.— Tbe Examiner of yesterday, says: *• tbe object of the French Minister’s visit has not definitely transpired; but it is said that outside of his official communications, he has expressed great interest to ascertain what commercial trea ties the Confederate Government was disposed to make with France.” Now, we know not what treaties the Govern'" ment may be disposed to make; but we do know ■what the people would applaud to the very echo namely : A treaty securing to France for a giv en number of years an equal right to our enor mous carrying trade with our own vessels, pro vided she will raise this blockade, and give us the same access to her arsenals and founderies that our enemies enjoy. We waat arms and we want amunition. Had we possessed a sufficient supply of those two indispensible requisites to the successful prosecution of modern warfare, in the beginning of the war, we should have put an end to it long ago. Let France raise the block ade, and we will soon do [it now, and in order to effect that desirable object, nothing more is ne cessary than a simple declaration on the part of France that she Will no longer respect it. It is, after all, the merest of shams in tbe world. It is nothing more or less than a paper blockade, such as England imposed against France by her fa mous Orders in Council. Already 500 vessels have successfully elnded it, and thereby established the fact that it is no blockade under any fnterpreta tion of the Treaty of Paris. France has au op portunity now, which will never be offered her again. She may secure our coasting trade—if our Government should not unwisely prevent it—for we have no ships worth speaking of. In another part of the same paper we find the following communication f Count hfereierHave opened negotiations with the Secretary of State, and Congress have deter mined to remain at their post during the impor tant mission of the Minister of the Emperor. Any kind ot arrangements will be made with the Presi dent of the Confederacv, and this is a perfect acknowledgement by France of our independence from the old United States lam happy that my article in the Enquirer of yesterday has produced the desired effect to prolong the Congress while uegotiat ons with Count Mercier are going on. Dr. Lamoinr. This probably accounts for the refusal of Con gress to adjourn at as early a day as was it first desired. It is to be hoped that Dr. Lemoine is correct; but our readers should not deceive them selves with the belief that the French Minister has come to recognize the Southern Confederacy, or to negotiate about raising the blockade. Extsnbion of Yankee Rule in Virginia.—The restoration of Federal authority, and its attend ant advantages, are steadily progressing in the recovered territory. Postmasters have been ap pointed for Manassass Junction, Prince William county, and Fairfax Court House, Fairfax county, Va. The mails to those offices have been already restored. The News.—We have some reports of the movements of tbe enemy on tbe Rappahannock Hine, for the entire accuracy of which we cannot vouch. It was stated yesterday, by some of the members ot Congress, that the President had received intelligence of tbe landing of a large body of Federal troops at Aqtiia Creek on Sun day last. The supposition is that they came from Washington. Should the report prove correct, it would indicate that they intend to make a flank movement in the direction of Ri:hmond, while McClellan plays tbe part of a decoy upon the Pe* ninsula. Auother report is that General Eweli’s divis ion has fallen back from the Rapphanock to Gor donsville. It is inferred from this that a junction of the forces of Generate Jackson and Ewell is in contemplation. Advices from the Peninsular Jinforms us that the skirmishing continues,, and our troops feel perfectly confident of a victory whenever the enemy shall aocept the offer of battle. [Richmond Dispathc, Apail 22nd. A Brush with shk Federals. —The Second Brigade, Fourth Regiment State Troops, under the command of Col. Neely, had a email brush with a boat’s crew of the Federate, on Saturday morning last, at 2 o’clock. On our side no one was injured, but from all accounts some of the enemy must have suffered. Tbe affair occurred on Whitemarsh Island, and the following is the report that has reached us; While the regiment was encamped, a report reached them that the enemy were landing on W’uiteniarah Island, in force, when they proceeded at once to the scene of tbe late conflict. Our troops advanced cau tiously, sending out pickets ahead, who scatter ed over the island, but found no enemy. Strong pickets were then placed at various points. At two o’clock in the monsing firing was heard in the direction of Oakland, and a messenger ar rived at the camp of the Second Brigade, stating that the Federate, in a boat containing some fifteen or twenty men, ware coming up the riv er, between Oakland and Whitemarah. Our pickets, as soon as the enemy came within range, fired ou them, and from the commotion in the boat, it is thought the shots were effect ive. The Federate returned tbe fire, and imme diately beat a retreat. Our troops remained under arms until day light, expecting an attack from the enemy. The troops engaged in this affair were Company A, Capt. Bass; Co. B, Capt. Ragsdale; Co. C, Capt. Rasberry; Co. E, Capt. R. N. Rowland; Co. F, Capt. Tucker; Co. G, Capt. Lane; Co. H, Capt. Cameron; Co. I, Lieut. Carmichael, aud Co. K, Capt. J. Rowland. Although the affair was a small one, tbe promptness with which our troops met and re pulsed what was evidently tbe advance of a force designed to take possession ot the island, is highly creditable to both officers and men. Savh. News, 22d Inst. from the A tlanla [tfa.] Southern Confederacy, April 34. GEORGIANS IN THE BATTLE OF SHILOH- Corinth, April 10,1562. Editors Confederacy : It may be of some interest to the people’of Georgia to know that a company from Gwinnett county, commanded by Capt. J. C. Thrasher, and attached to the 35th Tennessee Regiment, discharged their whole duly in the great battle of Shiloh, or the Bend of the Tenx nessee River. The Captain and his whole com mand were at all times at their post in the thickest of tbe fight. Georgia may well be proud of her brave and noble sons. The following is a list of the killed and wounded: Adam D. Brown, killed. Joseph Bailey, wounded in the thigh. W. G. Pepper, do. do. do. J. L. Pierce, wounded in the leg. S. R. Street, missing; also, one negro boy missing. Shiloh. We received the foregoing without a responsible name accompanying, and therefore we do not vouch for its correctness. There are circum stances, however, which cause us to believe it is correct, and on account of the interesting in for malton it contains, we waive our usual rale of requiring all communications to be accompanied by the name of the writer, but deem this expla nation necessary fur our own vindication should the foregoing information turn out not to be true. —Ed. Con. CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGH THE GEO. RE LIEF AND HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION TO THE HOSPITAL AT AUGUSTA- From Mrs J R W Johnston, 1 quilt, 1 vest, 1 hdkf, 3 shirts. From Mrs Stephen Jones, 1 comfort, 1 pillow, 1 sheet, 3 vests. 2 shirts, 1 handkerchief, 1 bdl rags. From Mrs Ruffin, 2 pillows, 2 pillow cases, 2 sheets. From Mrs Sumner Brown, 1 counterpane, 1 quilt, 1 blanket, 1 towel, 1 undershirt, 2 hdkfs, 6 pr socks, 4 pr drawers. From Mrs E J Carter, Burke county, 2 shirts, 2 pr drawers, 1 bdl rags. From Mrs Robert F Poe, cash |lO. From Mrs Kinchley, spr drawers,.2 pillow cas es. 2 shirts. From Mr E L Watley—Beech Island, Cash, J 31.50. From Mrs Ann Anthony, 5 shirts, 4 p cases, 2 towels, rags. From Rev S S Davis, 1 bdl tracts. From Mrs Augur Martin, Miss M Martin, and Mrs T W Coskery, 12 shirts, 6 pillows, 7 p cases, 6 towels, 4 sheets, 1 spread, Ipr socks, 3 cups quince jelly, 2 jars pickles, 3 bots catsup, 2 boxes mustard, books. W. J. Ansley Auditor. —— Brilliant Achievement in East Tennessee.— Another Ashby in the Field.— April 18 Cap- tain Ashby, comotanding three hundred Confed erate cavalry, encountered saven hundred and fifty Lincolnites, who were stampeding for Ken tucky, on yesterday, near Jacksonborough Ten nessee. A hand to hand fight ensued, which lasted for two hours. Our men succeeded in killing about 75 and taking 500 prisoners. Our loss, none killed, and about twenty-five wounded; none mortally. No less than 5000 Lincolnites have left East Tennessee for Kentucky since Governor Harris’s proclamation calling on the militia, etc. Petersburg Express. News fßom the Fbderal Fleet.—Capt. Kroeg Mr. Dequar, end two other prisoners captured by the Federate a short time since, have been releas ed by order of Commodore Dupont. They reached Caper’s Island Saturday, and this city Sunday morning. The Fedeaal report of the bombardment of Fort Pulaski states that seventeen of their own number were killed, and but one ot the garrison of the Fort. The Fort was shelled from the weak est side. The walls were not breached, as re ported by the Savannah papers, but the garrison were completely shelled out by the tremendous fire brought to bear upon them. The Federate ridiculed the fact of the Confederate garrison at Fort Pulaski allowing them to erect their batte ries so near the Fort and at such commanding po n SltlODB. Capt. Magrath and son they intend to hold prisoners. The officers say that four iron-clad vessels were nearly ready ; with which and a land force of fif ty thousand, assisted by their other gunboats, they designed to attack Charleston. They assert that they receive the Savannah papers nearly every day.— Chas. Courier April 21 st. South Mills, N. C., Charters Dawson Grays, i 3d Regiment, Ga., Vol., April 15th, 1862. j We are again called upon to mourn the loss ot a companion and fellow-soldier, Georgs Rai den. an esteemed and venerated member of our coni', pany, expired on the 18th of this month in the 59th yea: of his age. In view of this dispensa tion of Providence, it affords us a pleasure at once tnealanoholy and consoling, to testify our regard for our comrade in the following resolutions: Ist, That we contemplate with admiration and pride the example and conduct of our deceased comrade, who, in his advanced age, when others are about to retire from the toils of life,was among the foremost in devoting himself to Lin country’s service. 2d, That the unwavering kindness of our lost companion to tbe sick of the company, and the marked faithfulness with which he always dis charged his duties, command our highest admira tion and heartfelt thanks. 3d, That tbe relatives of the deceased have our sypatbies in their loss ; and that we join them in deploring the death and cherishing the memory of him, who gained tbe affection and esteem of all, showing himself well worthy of the sacred cause which be upheld. 4th, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the familv of the deceased, and also to the Augusta Constitutionalist and Georgia Temperance Crusader for publication. F. L, Hillyer, 1 A. T. Johnson, >Committee. C, B. Mitchelb, ) NORTHERN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH- We take the following extracts from Northern accounts of the battle of Shileh, published in the Richmond (Va.) Diepatch, ot April 22nd : THE CLOSE or SUNDAY S FIGHT. We have reached the test act in the tragedy of Sunday. It is half-past four o’clock. Our front line of divisions b»s been lost since half-past ten. Our reserve live is now gone, too. Tbe rebels oc cupy ihe camps of every division save that of W.H. L. Wallace. Our whole army is crowded in the region of Wallace’s camps and to a circuit of half to two-thirds of a mile around the land ing. We have been falling back all day. We can do it no more. Tbe next repulse puts us in to the river, aud there are not transports enough to cross a single division till the enemy would be upon us. Lew. Wallace’s division might turn the tide for us—it is made of fighting men—but where is it? Why has it not been thundering on the right for three hours past? We do not know yet that it was not ordered up till nron. Buell is coming, but he has been doing it all day and all last week. His advance guard is across the river now, waiting ferriage, but what is an advance guard with sixty thousand victorious foes in front of us? We have lost nearly all of our camps and camp equipage. We have lost nearly halt of our field artillery. We have lost a division General, and two or three regiments of soldiers as prisoners. We have lost—how dreadfully, we are afraid to think—in killed aud wounded. The hospitals are full to overflowing. A long ridge bluff is set apart for surgical uses. It is covered with the maimed, ihe dead and dying. And our men are discouraged by prolonging a defeat. Nothing but the most energetic exeition on the part of tbe officers prevents them from becoming demoral ized. Regiments have lost their favorite field officers, companies the Captains whom they al ways looked to, with that implicit faith the sol dier learns, to lead them to battle. Meantime there is a lull in the tiring. For the first time since sunrise you tail to catch the angry rattle of musketry or the heavy booming of the field guns. Either tbe enemy must be preparing for the grand final rush that is to crown the day’s success, and save the Southern Confederacy, or they are puzzled by our last retreat, and are mor iug cautiously, lest we spring some trap upon them. Let us embrace the oporturnty, and look about the tending. We pass the old log house, lately Post-Office, now full of wounded and sur geon-I which constitutes tbe |“Pitisburg” part ut tbe landing. Gen. Grant and siad are in a group beside it. Tbe General is confident. “We can bold them off till to-morrow; then they’ll be exhausted, and we’ll go at them with fresh troops.” A great crowd is collected around the building, all in uniform, most ot them with guns, Ana yet we are needing troops in the front so sorely 1 cowards. On the bluff abeve the river is a sight that may well make our cheeks tingle with shame for some ot our soldiers. There are not less than three thousand skulkers lining the banks. Ask them why don’t they go to their places in the line! “Oh, our regiment is all cut to pieces.” “Why don’t you go to where it is forming again ?” “I can’t find it,” and the hulk looks as if that would be the very last thing be would want to do. Officers arearound among them, trying to hunt up their men, storming, coaxing, commanding— cursing lam afraid. One strange fellow—a Major, if I remember aright—is making a sort of elevated superfine Fourth of July speech to.everybody that will listen to him. He means well, certainly: “Men of Kentucky, of Illinois, of Ohio, of lowa, of Indiana, 1 implore you, I beg of you, come up now. Help us through two hours more. By all that you hold dear, by the homes that you hepe to defend, by the flag you love, by the State you honor, by all your love of country, by all your hatred of treason, I conjure you, cornu up and do your duty now.” And so on for quantity. “That feller’s a good speaker,” was the only response I heard, and the fellow who gave it nestled most snugly behind his tree as he spoke. 1 know well enough the nature of the skulking animal in an army during a battle. I had seen their performances before, but never on so large a scale—never with such an utter sickness of heart as 1 looked—as now. Still, Ido not believe there was very much more than the average per centage. It was a big army, and the runaways all sought the landing. ARRIVAL OE GENERAL BUELL. Looking across the Tennessee we see a body of cavalry, awaiting transportation over. They are said to be Buell’s advance, yet they have been an hour or two alone. But suddenly there is a rustle among the runaways. It is, it is! You see the gleaming of the gun-barrels, you catch amid the leaves and undergrowth down the oppo site side of the river glimpses of the steady, swinging tramp of trained soldiers. A division oi Buell’s army is here! And the mea who have left their regiments on the field send up three cheers for Buell. They cheering! May it parch their throats, as if they had been breathing the simoon.? Here comes a boat across with a Lieutenant and two or three privates of the Signal Corps. Some orders aie instantly given the officer, and as instantly telegraphed to the other side by the mysterious wavings, raisings, and droppings of the flags. A steamer comes up with the pontoons on board, with which a bridge could be speedily thrown across. Unaccountauly enough, to on lookers, she slowly reconnoiters and steams back again. Perhaps after all, it is better to have no bridge there. It simplifies the question, takes escape out of tbe count, and leaves it victory or death to the cowards that slink behind the bluffs as well as to the brave men who peril their lives to do the State some service on the fields beyond Preparations go rapidly forward for crossing the division (Gen. Nelson’s, which has the advance of Buell’s army,) on the dozen or so transports that have been tied up along the bank. We have spent but a few minutes on the bluff, but they are the golden minutes that count for years. Well was it for that driven, defeated but not disgraced, army of General Grant’s, that these minutes were improved. Col. Webster, Chief of Staff, and an artillery officer i f no mean ability had arranged the guns that he eould collect, es those that remained to us, in a sort of semi-circle protecting the tending, and bearing chiefly on our centre and left, by which the rebels were pretty sure to advance. Corps of artillerists to man them were improvised from all the batteries that could be collected. Twenty-two guns in all were placed in position, Two of them were very loDg Where they d ° “ ot k , now; whttt batte, 7 they be onged to, I bare no idea; I only know that they est snd h? o, Bweß ‘ ,lD K ‘he approaches by tbe wl« nWt he n L g u Corin,b road; that there was nobody to work them ; that Dr. Cornyn. Sur- Droffen i v &nk Blftir ’ 3 First Missouri Artillery, clnfa d h J 3 . l ßer r ces ’ that U,ev Kludly ac as P to!nv I® dld , w “ rk >0 *uch effect -Kinel br«>n t r lUUp e 7 0rk , for bCores °f his profes s nal brethren on tbe other side ot tbe fight. Remember the situation. It was balf,past divtetan °f k ~ Pe ' haps t l Uttr,er is l " still. Every ! W l l '“ r&rmyo “ the field had bee. re- PUteed. The enemy were iu the camps of fonr little avL e k° f ir hem -i We were dr:vea 10 within wl- naL h “ f ‘i “ 1,,e of the ’ending. Behind us tar,™ ? P rapld PT' • Beforfc us fi£ri»tin.» en8l u?o. 4 nd B, ‘” ‘here was an hour for m . n ’Bht or Blucher would rninn’ k D!ght or Lew. Wallace would On 8 dl . vwioa of Buell’s army evidently 1 ? r L' 88 ln tlme t 0 do much good. We ,y e \ kßOW why Lew. Wallace wasn’t on the » • ,be j ust ' c e of a righteous cause, and B# ®i"® ,rc ’ e of twenty- two guns in posi - ‘ lo n, lay all the hope we could see. buddenly a broad, sulphurous flash of light eaped out from the darkening woods, and through hou aßd BHlo ’ ce came whistling the leaden nu- The rebels were making their crowning ef ort for the day, and as was expected when our guns were hastily placed, they came from our left and centre. They had wasted their fire at 1,000 yards. Instantaneously our deep mouthed bull dogs flung out their sonorous response The rebel artillery opened, and shell and round shot came tearing.across the open space back of the bluff. , a y * . ® forgiven for the malicious thought, but 1 certainly did wish that one or two might drop behind the bluff among the crowd of skulkers hovering under the hill at the river’s edge. fantrv y bau* < ??,? me w ° L 11 ® res P ODBe our broken in h’<* at le Jt stiU iu e th e fr h fr! UT * W * D ‘ ed fir “’ valor that had made u™ 6 *}? 8 llTe<i th ® ancient cesses already coaTao dear Bhort “ hTed r,,bel BUC ' TH K i TH ,“ 0U " BOA « OFBM FIRE. The rebel infantry tx-in«ri furious cannonading g un j d . g [ OUnd > but 1116 Suddenly new on , continued - Cincinnati wooden gunbJata th? A B ‘^ ge ~ °‘ lr and the Lexington, had A - Ta y’ or our old 'br.o,o M.d-..u' r :.™4 h oV7<:?V.? Eager to avenge the death of their commanding General (now known to have been killed ar. of hour, before,) and to com^be! IcVoryZy believed to be within their grasp, the rebels had incautiously ventured within reach of their most dreadful untagonists, as broadside after broad” de or seven-ineh shells and sixty-four-pound shot soon taught them. This was a foo they had hardly eounted ou, and the unexpected-fire In flank and rear disconcerted their well laid plans? The buata fired admirably, and with a rapidity that was astonishing. Our twentymo land guns kent up their storm of thunder; and thus amid a Sh and rour and scream of shells and demon-like “sb Wp b n H id e th a J thUt Sa^ bath eVcnin « away? We held the enemy at bay; it was enough. The prospect for the morrow was forebodmg- but sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof’ We " ?h?» P v7‘ ly ° f eV ‘ th u l da y~ of course, therefore WaS a PP' ,cab *e- Before darkthe 36th In -d od f Nelson s advance brigade, had ctossn ed, advanced into line with Grant’s forces at thp double-quick, and had put in fourteen rounds al mo^ow? 8t ° f ’ ‘ ShoU ‘ d be fortbcom ‘ng on the The enemy suddenly slackened his fire. His grand object had been defeated; he hap not fin ished his task m a day; but there is evidence that officers and men alike shared the confidence that their morning assault would be final. ounds ot battle died away and division Generals drew off their men, Buall bad arrived and Lew Wallace had been heard from. Both would be ready by morning, and couucil of war was held, and it was decided that a. soon as Bible after daybreak we should attack the enemy now Buugly quartered in our camps. Lew Wal lace, who was coming in on the new road from Crump s Landing, and crossing Snake Creek just above the Illinois Wallace’s (W. H. L.) camps was to take the right and sweep back towards the position from which Sherman had been driven on Sunday morning. Nelson was to take the extreme left. Buell promised to put in Tom Crittenden next to Nelson, and McCook next to him by a seasonable hour in the morning. The gap be tween McCook and Lew Wallace was to be filled with the reorganized divisions of Grant’s old army; Hurlbut coming next to McCook, then Mc- Clernadd and Sherman closing the gap between McClernand and Lew Wallace. THE NIGHT BETWEEN TWO BATTLES. . Stealthily the troops crept to their new positions and lay down in line of battle on their arms. All through the night Buell’s men were marching up from Savannah to the point opposite Pittsburg Landing and being ferried across, or were coming up on transports. By an hour after dark Wallace had his division in. Through tbe misdirection he had received, he had started on the Snake Creek road proper, which would have brought him in on the enemy's rear, milas from seaport, and where he would have been gobbled at a mouthful. Getting back to the right road had delayed him. He at once ascertained the position of certain rebel batteries which lay in front of him on the rignt, that threatened absolutely to bar his advance in the morning, and selected po sitions for a couple of his batteries from which they could silence the one he dreaded. Placing these in position and arranging his brigades for support took him till one o’clock in the morning. Then his wearied men lay down to snatch a few hours of sleep before entering into the Valley of the Shadow of Death on the merrovf. By nine o’clock all was hushed near tbe landing. The host of combatants that three hous before had been deep in the work of human destruction had all sunk silently tc the earth, “the wearied to sleep, the wounded to die.” The stars looked out upon the scene, and ail breathed the natural, quiet and of a Sabbath evening. But presently there came a flash that spread like sheet lightning over the ripples of tbe river current, and the roar of a heavy naval gun went echoing up and down the bluffs, through the unnatural stillness of the night. Others speedily followed. By the flash you could just discern the black outline of the piratical looking hull, and see how the gunboat gracefully settled into the water at the recoil; the stnoke soon cast up a thin veil that seemed only to soften and sweeten the scene ; from the woods away in land you caught faintly the muffled explosion of the shell, like the knell ot the spirit that was tak ing it. flight. We knew nothing then of the effect of this gun boat canuofiading, which was vigorously kept up till early morning, and it only served to remind us the more vividly of the day’s disasters, of the fact that half a mile off lay a victorious enemy, •ommanded by tbe most dashing of their Gen erate, and of the question one scarcely dared to ask himself, “what of tosmorrow ?” Ws| were de feated ; our dead and dying w«re around us; days could hardly sum up our losses. [Th. writer closes his description with a quotas tion from what he calls a “grand refrain of Whit tier’s,” written after the battle of Manassas. We have already devoted enough space for one day to the Yankee corrwpondent, who, whatever else mav be said of him, is candid enough to admit au overwhelming defeat, with a considerable dis play of cowardice among the “National” troops. We have the account of Monday’s battle, some extracts from which we may give hereafter.] Sveeial Dispatch to the New Orleans Picayune. LATER FROM CORINTH AND NASHVILLE- Cokinth, April 12.—Mutual agreements hare been signed, permitting surgeons and their atten dants, on both sides, to attend to the wounded who are not removable from the battle held, and to be exempt from capture as prisoners. A gentleman from Nashville says that Yankee telegrams from Pittsburg bad been received there, stating their killed, wounded and missing to be ten thousand—six thousand prisoners. Our loss in killed and wounded they state at two thou sand; fifty prisoners. The enemy being at Huntsville is confirmed. Two trains they met at the time are captured. They have possession of the telegraph. Their force is supposed to be three thousand. Direct information from Nashville, on the morning of the (itb, state that Gen. Dumont is the Military Governor of the post, with a brigade of twenty five bnndred men. Andy Johnson wanted ten thousand to protect Nashville. Four teen thousand are sick (?) All the hospiials and many private houses are filled with them. Last Mondy four thousand sick were sent to Cincinna ti and Louisville. There wus great demoraliza tion in the Federal army, and thousands had de serted. Col. Buford’s Kentucky regiment refused to go into Nashville. Hundreds were deserting daily, in squads of fifteen or twenty. The people in the vicinity of Nashville show the greatest loys alty to the Confederacy. Ordxancb Mktal. —We invite early attention from the Ordnance department to the following letter: I can get up a large quantity of metal for cast ing cannon or balls. If you can give me the necessary information where it is wanted, and how to be sent., I will attend to it. lam severe ly taxed with the business of my factory ana mills. I am selling yarns at one dollar per bunch, dividing it with the people, who are in attendance day and night, from one to four bunches each.- Orders through the mail cannot be furnished. By yesterday’s mail 1 received twentycfour letters for yarn. I caunot have time to answer them. Please let me hear about the metal. Dawn. McCvm-ocoh. Gladden's Grose P. Q., Fairfield District, A. G.