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eljc Weekly (Constitutionalist
BY JAMES GARDNER
(<?*•) Soulhsrn Banner, April 34). |
KXTF.ACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER OF COL |
T R R. CORR
Dam, No, 2, April l»*b. I
Ed. Lumpkin’s and Frank Pope's guns hare
'been under fire for six data. Last night, I sue
needed m fearing Pope relieved, having been
tbe most exposed) and to night I have the prom
ise that Ed's shall be relieved. The boys and
their guns have had a week of as bard and den*
geroua service as men were ever exposed to, amt
I can but look upon their preservation ana safety
ns another manifestation of the kind Providence
which has protected us all so remarkably. The
Troup Artiilerv won gulden opinions tor their
gallantry and coolness in the tight of Wednesday.
One of the six-pounders was tn the thickest of the
fight. No casualty secured to the eompany until
about nigb, w.'.en a oatiuon bnll shot off one of •
Mealor's legs. He behaved like a soldier, aud is
Yesterday evening the enemy suddenly ceased
firing and during the whole night tbe stillness of
death reigned through the enure lines This,
with other circttiMStancaa, induced »s til to be- ,
lieve thatthev would attempt to s»rpnse us be
sere morning. Consequently every man was .
placed m the trenches. 1 threw one bianae. over ■
me, and took my post, which I kept al. night..
The enemv are throwing shell again this morn- |
irg but with little damage. Th* immediate po- ,j
si tion of mv Legion has not been exposed to any
serious tire since the battle. But the truth is, we
are all becoming so accustomed to the stale ot
things that it does not disturb the rest ot a single
officer or man. All rre suflerrjg from want of
sleep. For four nights we have stood in the
trenches, a»d our only sleep has been by snatches.
Luekilv, the weather has beeu(beautifm. 1 nave
but few- sick men, and ail are cheerful, though 1
have bad to make them work every day, with the,
spade, and one entire night. General Magruder
ciwnmands our division, extending over half tne
lire.”
v_g“ We clip the following paragraphs from
tile Athens (Ga.) Watchman, of April 39th :
The Growing Wheat Crop.—A friend, writing
from Hall, informs ns that the wheat crop is an
■entire failure id that county. He says mildew
first appeared on the blades near the grounu—
then ruct—and now whole fields are dryandaead!
Hund’eds of acres have been ploughed upland
planted with corn, and hundreds more wou.d be,
it there were laborers to do it.
We have heard of rust on the blade for-come
week or two past, in this section, but had hoped
that-no serious damage would ensue, .-t a general
blight shall come upon wheat, the consequences
•will be truly disastrous. Notwithstanding corn
is verv abundant, we had to pay $1 40 per bushel
for meal the other dav ! Should the wheat crop
fail, will the Shylccks be satisfied with lees than
4c per bushel for corn?
Counterfeit Shinflastbrs.—We are informed
that counterfeit shinplasters of the Augusta Sa
>vines Bank are in ciiculation in tats place Well,
the man who would counterfeit shinplasters is
capable of anything low and mean.
A NOTH an Old Cm ZEN Gone!—Dr. Charles M.
Reese died at his residence in this town on Wed«
nesdav evening last. The deceased hau been a
citizen of this place many years—we brieve he
was one of our oldest citizens. He had, we be„
lieve passed the period allotted for human hie
by the Psalmist. Unusually robust and active,
hrs health had been very good until within the
■ast yt.tr or two. Universally respected, he has
gone to his reward, and will be long remembered
!fey cur-people.
Domestic Manbtactumrs.—We are pleased to
reccrd the fact, that Mr R. Sche’venell has suc
ceeded in making machinery for the manufacture
of’ co’ton cards—an article so much needed
throughout the Southern Confederacy at this time.
We are now using printing ink of our own
manufacture, which is much better in quality
than we have bought for several years past
Owing to the high price of materials, however,
it is quite expensive.
Douele-barrb:..led Cannon.—Mr Gilleland has
invented a donble-barre.led cam? m tor throwing
chain shot, which has been tested and found to
woik satisfactorily. Two shots are confined to
tha end of a chain and one placed m each 'barrel
of the gun, the bores of which diverge slightly,
and cause the bacls to separate the full length of
the chain-cutting down everything in their
path. OfcouFse, the barrels are fired-simultan
eously.
It is nr*'posed in Houston, Texas, to raise a sub
scription i» secure the family of Gen. A. S. John
«ton nbomein that state, and a committee is
already acting for that purpose. Gen. Johnston
was Cbmmander-in*chief of the army and Set*
vetarv of War of the Republie of Texas, and was
also a citizen for twenty five years. When ibe
Secretary of War of 'he United States, now Presi
dent Davis, reappoi. ted him to the army, ne, a
poo r man, was found '-orking at the plow in the
county of Brazoria. He leaves a wife and a fatnty
of voting children, who m losing him, have lost
their all.
Topography of the Country About Corinth. —
The special correspondent of the New Orleans
Picayune furnishes the foliowining description of
the topography of Corinth and vieinity, the scene
cf the late great battle : . , , .
Corinth is a town ofabout 2,£>00 inhabitants.—
It is situated at the junction of the Memphis and
Charleston and the Mobile and Ohio railroads,
about 82 miles east of Memphis. It is very neat-
Jy laid out and built, and for the gre ter part of
the year must be a healthful and delightful resi«
de nee. It was therefore very properly chosen as
a camp of instruction and convenient rendezvous
for our troops from the beginning of the war.
From -Corinth the Memphis and Charleston rail
road runs-oast past Burnsville, 14 miles distant,
Florence, Tuscumbir, Decatur, when it crosses the
Tennessee, river, and on to Huntsville, Chatta
nooga, Ac. The Mobile and Onio road runs near
ly north past Beths), 1-0 miles distant, and on to
Jackson and £kimbolt
These two roads form at Corinth an obtuse an
gle, which opens towards the Tennessee river,
where it bends most V? the South. The nearest
point on the river is Pittsburg, where tbe enemy
lafided in greatest force. It is a simple landing,
and nothing more than 21 miles from Corinth
Tbe road thither bands first tn tbe left past Mon
tery, or Pea Ridge, as it is otherwise called, and
is about 10 miles from Corinth. 1 mile further
on is Shiloh Chureh, and still throe miles farther
on the Tennessee river. Here, at and around
Shiloh, were tbe enemy’s principal encampments.
Seven miles below Pittsburg, on the Tennessee,
Aad nearly opposite Savannah, is Crump’s Land’
ing. Thence a road leads through Pordy, direct
to Bethel, on tbe Mobile and Ohio Railroad., and
theßce to Bolivar.
Faoa Cumberland Gap.—We extract the fol
lowing from a business letter to this office:
■“Cumberland Gap, April 20, 1862.
41 Ei.it/jrs Confederacy :
“Twelve Federals approached oar pickets on
the 1 7th inst. under a flag of truce. Their busi
ness was to exchange some prisoners for tbe
notorious Dave Fry, the tory bridge burner ; but
it was no go. Capt.’Fry will pull a rop • ere be is
exchanged. “Yours truly, „
From another corespondent’s letter dated at
the Gap, the 21st, we extraefthe following :
“Tbe enemy fired on our pickets (advanced)
this morning, and a fight is expected every day.’’
AtlantaWa.) Confederacy, April 30.-
the GREAT YANKEE GENERAL, DON CAB
LOB BUELL.
A writer in the WUp furnishes an interesting
account of the great Yankee General Don Cai lots
Buell. We give it entire :
1 could not suppress a feeling of scorn on read
ing in the a few days ago, an inc<den ,
copied from the Ijouisvilie Journal, relating to
General Buell und an “aristocratic’ Nashville lady.
It seems that the lady, “a Mrs. W., living in a hue
large house,’’ as Buell was passing, stood at an
open door or window, and waving a Confederate
flag, hurrahed for Jefferson Davis and the South
ern Confederacy, whereupon “the General rein
ed in his horse’’ aud turning towards her, as toe
account goes, “touching his hat with ali the cour
tesy ana saucily lor which be is remarkable ana
surveying the house from top tc bottom witn the
eye of a connoisseur, (a robbers eye we should
say,) quietly remarked, “an excellent house let a
hospital.” Tne account further state- that in
less than two hours every room in the house,
from top to bottom, was lull of sick soldiers, and
Mrs. W. was pointedly requested U’ take care ot
them.
Tbe Louisville J/omal, reflecting upon this tn«
cident, grows very witty, and concludes by say
ing, “We heartily congratulate her upon the
blessed privilege of ministering to the needs ot
suffering patriots.” Now, doubtless, this piece
of revenge, taken ■upon an aristocratic lady by
the very courageous Buell, delighted the whole
Yankee nation; and as nothing that their great
•Generals do, however small,aye.even insigniiicant
ever escapes their opservation, we may expect.
I that this little event will immortalize him, ana
i mat their pictorials will forthwith contain liveiy
i illustrations of Bae occurrence. Gen. Buell, when
i we knew of him from the accounts of our friends,
I whom he visited some years ago in Eastern > ir
t gtnia, was not esteemed in that latitude so eery
elegant and courteons & gentleman, but was rep»
resented w> us as a remarkably plain person.
With his wife we were very well ac
quainted. She was the widow of General
Ki chard Mason. He (Gen. M.) was a grandson
of old George Mason, of Gunsten, and a Virginia
gentleman. We thought when she married him,
shat it was<a descent Mrs. M. bad made, and this
accounts for tbe curiosity with which we quess
tinned our friends concerning this then Major
Buell. Gen. Mason's widow was uncommonly
handsome..-and her husband bad left in fee sim*
pie, the very snug little suaa of $50,000. Buell
confessed e. great friendship for Geo. Mason, and
byway of showing it, took care of his widow and
the money for him after his death. And now,
that he 13 invading a slave State, it is to be
hoped tiis the will remember his-own experience
with that "institution,” and thereby be induced
to deal t-cnderiy with the rights of tbe masters
in general. Mrs. Buell brought on with her from
Texas, (where her husband hud been stationed)
several elaves. These were brought eu to Vir
ginia for safe keeping, as Major B. and wife an
ticipated at that time a sojourn in New
York, where of course a Yankee Major or even
General cannot carry s.aves. On our remarking
upon the elegant training of these servants, she
gave us an account ot her beautiful housekeep
ing in Texas, saying in conclusion, that she had
the least trouble in the world everything was
carried on according to army discipline, and for
any omission or disobediance on their part, the
Major, she informed us, corrected them severely.
This statement, accustomed as we had always
been, to tbe lay government and kind forbearance
of Virginia matters,, we confess made a disagreea
ble impression, and it was with less pleasure,
thereatter, that we noticed the rapid movements
and obsequious manners of those slaves of a
Northern master.
When Gen. Buell first took possession of Nash
ville, we } .heard, with some gratification, that
bis conduct towards our wronged countrymen
and women, (who for the lay in his power)
was marked by greater leniency than that of his
predecessors in other parts of our Confederacy
bad been. Now, we have come to the conclu
sion that this new made General has grown
tired of playing tbe gentleman for so long a time,
and, therefore, shows again his t true character;
or else he finds that Southern soil Is too hot for
his feet, and every day we ;shr.-wdly suspect, in
creases his uneasiness and anxiety, so that he has
not the heart to practice all these civilities, or
keep up the character of gentleman, which be at
fi-st assumed, Be this as it may, the little affair
me..tioned in the Louisville Journal, with so
much apparent admiration, we discover no merit
in at ail. I t unfortunately appears to our
Southern eyes as only a small piece of revenge,
of which we should be ashamed to think one of
our Generals could be guilty ; nor d we believe
they,ever could. A Price, a Beauregard, a John
steu’or a Lee, such an action will never disgrace
any of their histories, and no such incident will
ever be chuckled over at tbe South. We leave
it to the vulgarians to exult in the humiliation of
an aristocratic lady, or any lady at all. General
Buell’s courtesy and sauvity of manner, should
we ever be called to witness its exhibition, will,
tc our eyes cover a designing and revengeful
heart.
Doubtless a Southern lady, when called to be a
martyr, on account of her patriotism and devo
tion to the dear flag of her country, can also
adapt herself to that situation, and bear nobly
the hardship imposed upon her. It has ever
been woman’s pleasure and happiness to minis
ter to the sick and dying—and friend or foe, she
is seldom known to turn a deaf' ear to ’distress,
even when her ministrations are attended, as
they will be in the case of the Nashville lady,
with the thought that the serpent’s tooth or in
gratitude is to be her reward.
”**«•***
Generous Patriotism.—ln this day of trial.it is
refreshing to hear of instances of generous and
disinterested patriotism iike the following: A
gentleman called on the Secretary of the Treasn
ry a few days since and handed him a bag of
gold, as a donation to tbe Government, upon the
express condition that bis name should be
known to no one but the Secretary. Upon count,
ing the gold, i| was found to amount to one thou
sand dolhus. Hichmtixd Enquirer, Apiii ‘Mtk.
With all tbe improvements of the age in com
munication, it has not been decided by our an
thorities to give the people reports of important
movements and results, any sooner than was the
case in the Revolution.
Under the system of Express correspondence
established between Committees of the different
Cdnni.-S, news traveled about as fast in 1776 as it
.m now permitted to do.
Every Yankee brig .de of invasion has a tele
graphic operator on the Staff of the General. If
propositions made long since from this city, (not
to mention others,) bad baen accepted or consid..
ered, the some advantage would have been en
joyed in our army.— Gha/rleeton Courier, May Isf
Our exchanges generally—indeed we may, and
are pleased in saying, unanimously—agree in
censuring the misrepresentations and conneal
rnent wh ch have given great effect to our late
and while not under ating these revers
es, "they agree with tqual emphasis in urging
and applying the lessons ot continued and hope
ful resistance and efforts, which, if true to
selves, we can derive from our disasters. Along
career of mammon worship has made disaster
and defeat a necessary discipline tor training us
to tbe full assertion and appreciation of constitu
tional liberty and self i-overument. We have not
suffered yet a fourth of wba? was endured by. our
revolutionary ancestors, or even by eur 'fathers in
1812-15. Charleston Cou rier.~
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 18G2.
Prom the H. O Bulletin, April iOlh.
IF THE CHY BE CAPTURED, WHAT THEN*
Well, saving the discredit to our cause, and its
effect of the West and beyond the Atlantic, and
will be to the enemy a boolhless victory and will
get no eotton. Every pound of it will have been
burnt. The arrangements in relation to this mat.
ter, we believe, are complete, and not a bale will
be saved for his use from the small stock in our
presses and on shipboard. A par* of it has been
already desrtoyed. The destruction of the re
mainder will not be less certain—what else can
the enemy get? He otm get no’bullion, unless he
steals family plate; and even of that he find will
but litte. He can got little or no tobacco. He will
get few arms o r munitions. He may get some
sugar und mo'ases, but an mconsidorable amount
of either; and mors than this he will only get
possesion of the city.
But cut it'inof All its able bodied men will
have quit it for tbe camp, where they will learn
how- to get revenge for their temporary humilia
tion, and whence they will be ready to drive the
enemy out at the first ©pportune moment. With
out cotton, without tobacco, without munitions,
without prisoners, and with a determined army
threatening him in the interior, the possession of
New Orleans will be an expensive honor, whish
will not be worth its cost.
This is the object which we should effect at
whatever sacrifice it may require. The question
should not be, how little shall the enemy injure
us but how little shall our conquest benefit him.
Better sacrifice everything—presses, warehouses
and foundries—than that he should seize even
<ne bale of cotton or a single hogshead of tobac
co.
We get the following from the Richmond
Inquirer, of Tuesday:
Affairs on the Peninlula.—The news from
the Peninsula is monetouous. Onr forces are
still keeping perfectly quiet at Lee’s Mill’s three
miles below Yorktown, with strict orders not to
respond to the fire of the enemy. In front of
our position at this point, which covers the dams
over a series of mill Creeks, four in number, the
enemy have erected an extensile battery, mount
ing two Dalghrens and six or eight columbaids
of heavy calibre, with which the keep up a slow
fire during the day. Tbeir fortifications extend
entirely across tbe Peninsula ; but this is the chief
point from which they experiment upon our lines.
Their sharp-rhooters occasionally pick off onr
men with their rifles when any are so indiscreet
as to li t their beads above the entrenchments,
the distance between the two parties being only
some four or five hundred yards. Among the
many splendid shots with which our army is sup
plied, it appears remarkably that we, too, do net
try tbe sharp-sbooting process.
Fredkricxsbubg.—The enemy do not as yet oc
cupy the city of Fredericksburg, but are said to
be concentrating heavy forces in the vieinity to
facilitate their anticipated march to Richmond.
Some of their soldiers have stolen off and gone
over to tbe city, frolicked around, snd reterned,
without doing any damage. They rarely escape,
however, being escorted back under "a guard
sent especially after them.
The Valley.—The operations of our forces in
tbe Valley are unknown—tbe situation is appa
rently in statu quo. The enemy is stretched along
the Valley from New Market to within a few miles
of Harrisonburg, but they are still doubtful as to
the meaning of the retreat, and dislike tbe idea
of penetrating so far into the interior".
Appointment of Postmasters. —The following
Postmasters have been appointed by the Pres
ident, by and with the advise and consent of the
Senate:
So!omou Cohen, Savannah, Ga.
Atkinson T Hardin, Rome, |Gu.
Thos C Howard, Atlanta. Ga.
Wm T Groves, Marrieta, Ga.
Edmund Richardson, Albany, Ga.
Martin A Bowdoin, Griffis, Ga.
Ezekiel S Chandler, Milledgeville, Ga.
Wm Woods, Madison, Ga.
Washington Poe, Macon,
Robt H'Glass, Lynchburg, Va.
Wm M Keblinger, Cbarlotteville, Va.
George Sandoe, Abingdon, Va.
Wm Wertenbaker, of Va.
Levi L Stevenson, Staunton, Va.
John K Coke, Portsmouth, Va.
Augustus M Vaugh, Norfolk, Va.
Wm E Bass, Petersburg, Virginia.
Thomas B Plunkett, Lexington, Virginia.
Joseph McCormick, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
John W Taber, Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Eugene R Biassat, Alexandria, Louisiana-
Allred Huger, Charleston, South Carolina.
James B Glass, Columbia, S C.
Thomas W Pegues, Camden, S C.
Wm McNulty, Georgetown, S C.
Benj F Simmons, Apalachicola, Fla.
Thomas & Jordan, Pensacola, Fla.
Miles Nash, Tallahassee, Fia.
Charles W Charlton, Knoxville, Tenn.
H R Phillips, Chattauooga, Tenn.
Matthew C Galloway, Memphis, Tenn.
Hugh Black, Eufaula, Ala.*
Wm Howell, Marion, Ala.
John A Smith, Florence Ala.
Thomas Welch, Montgomery, Ala«
Wna H Eager, Selma, Ala.
John M McCay, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
John M Powers, Tuaeunabta, Ala.
Wm. J Windham, Huntsville, Ala.
Lloyd Bowers. Mobile, Ala.
Wm B Sloan, Vicksburg, Miss.
Wm P Mellen. Natchez,, Miss.
Wm H Crittenden, Holly Springs, Miss.
Christopher R Dickson, Jackson, Mi s.
Joseph Autley, Clinton, Miss.
Jacob Isaacs, Columbus, Miss.
Jeremiah D Mann, Aberdeen, Miss.
James G. Cook, Fayetteville, N. C.
George T Cook, Baleigb, N. C.
Daniel Dickson, Wilmington, N. C.
John Taylor, Geldsboro, N. C.
James T Porter, Napoleon, Ark.
Wm F Pope, Little Bock. Aik.
Wm Rust, Austin, Texas.
Owen L Cochrane, Houston, Texas.
John R Root, Galveston, Texas.
E C Durey, San Antonio,, Texas.
me
Personal.- —We were pieSsed to take by the
hand yesierday, after his long absence, Hon. T.
Butler King, who reached this city last evening,
by the Charleston train. His numerous friends
will be pleased to hear that he is in exsellent
health, and cherishes an abiding faith in the
eventual triumph of oar cause, for which he has
done more than all our Commissioners combined
to commend to the favorable consideration of the
world abroad.— Savannah Republican, April 30»
Rail Road Accident. — Clear latte, Avril 29.
The following appears.in the first edition of tbe
Bulletin. “A train bound to Raleigh, with a
party of the Thirteenth Regiment South Carolina
troops ran off the track yesterday afternoon, at
China Grove. Thos. Henderson, D. M. Richards,
Wilson Satterfield, Andrew Kirkey, and Jas.
MeAbe, of Company I, Captain Smith, were se
verely injured, out not fatally; others were slight
ly injured. Three companies, with the Col. and
Staff, were aboard."
The Yankees in Moorfield, Hardy county, I
Va., displayed their true character when a few j
weeks since they entered a cemetery there and de
stroyed a beautiful moment which bore the simple
inscription “Our Father and Mother.”
THE PINEBEBBY, S. C-, AFFAIB.
The Charleston Courier adds the following to
the Savannah Republican's notice of a slight skir
mish on the coast of South Carolina, which we
published in our yesterday’s evening edition :
A private letter from Camp Lee, April 30th,
written by a member of the Washington Artillery,
Capt. Walter, says:
“A detachment of our company left efimp a* 10
o’clock Tuesday for the scene of action, General
Evans having received intelligence of an attack
or our battery at Pineberry. Some of our party
marched with two of our field pieces to that |
place, the remainder, under Captain Waller, to
another important point. After reaching this
last position and waiting about two hours, a
courier came along who informed us that the
enoroy had taken the battery, burned the car
riages and destjoyed the ammunition, and re
treated to their boats. We selected a position
on the bank of Doohoo river, where they would
he obliged to pass, and prepared for action.
“About seven o’clock in the eveninjng the guns
boat Was observed making its way down the
stream. Our Captain gave instructions to ob
serve the utmost silence and take the vandals by
surprise. They came witbin three hundred yards,
singing meriily, and not dreaming we were
watching them. When within fifty yards and
between our four pieces the order wns given to fire
and we let loose upon them with solid shot and
grape. This threw them into temporary confu
sion, but recovering from their surprise their
riflemen ouened upon us with their small arms,
and we also heard them say, ‘give them Long
Tern, with shell and canister.” They commenced
shelling and throwing canistsr at us, scattering
the missels in every direction. We fought them
for aboutja quarter of an hour.
“They kept on their course, however, at full
speed. Our shots were hearddistinctly whenever
they struck. What damage we did could not, of
course, be ascertained. Thus ended our first en
gagement. All of our men were cool as could
be, and worked well. We returned to camp
without sustaining the slightest injury. We had
a march of sixteen miles that day, und nothing
to eat but blackberries. It was a bold action, for
our force contended with a gunboat of eight |
guns ”
— M . - >
From the Mobile Tribune
FROM NEW OBLEANS-
Mr. Editor: I promised to give you some de
tails of events previous to my leavuag the city of
New Orleans. On Wednesday a dispatch was
published from General Duncan to General Lovell
stating that the forts had thus far held out won*
derfully, and exhorted the people to continue con
fident. That evening Gen. Lovell left tbe city for
the forts on the steamer Doubloon. Several mem
bers of the Safety Committee also left on the
steamer Elanor, for the same destination, for the
purpose of making an attack upon the enemy with
tire, that they had labored day and night to pre
pare—the writer was advised as to the nature of
the fire attack—and felt great confidence as to the
result. On Thursday morning business opening
as usual at? o’clock, Gev. Moore received a disa
patch stating that several gunboats had passed
the forts, he immediately issued orders to stop the
Jackson train of cars, but Mr. Williams, the Su
perintendant, thought bsst to send it oil’. At
about 9 e’clock it became generally known, or
rather the report that hadjbeen spread around,
for such was the confidence of the people that
they did not like to believe it until further infor
mation was received.
The steres were all closed and everything was
in great confusion until 12 o’clock at which hour
Gen. Lovell arrived, having had his horse sent
down to him at the English Turn. Upon his
arrival it would seem as if the whole city felt his
presence, and everything became calm. Gen.
Lovell was unable to reach the fort as the Fed
eral gunboats bad passed the forts, and came very
near capturing his boat as well as the other upoi
which members of the .Safety Committee wero on
board. Our attack with fire was of course thwar
ted. Gen. Love'l at once addressed himself to
the task before him—immense as it was unex
pected. He issued orders for the transportation
of all public stores to point not prudent to mention,
and twenty minutes after his arrival every
vehicle wagon, cart or dray was pressed into
servicehauling, oil the cotton in the city was
’placed where it could be burned without endanger
ing the city.
The people were no longer confused, but sol
diers were assembling at their headquarters fully
equipped. Exempt citizens were calm but deter
mined. The writer did not see a solitary indi
vidual who was willing to surrender the city
without resisting with all their might. That eve
ning the levees witnessad the grandest spectacle
the world ever beheld—l2,ooo bales of cotton roll
ed along the levee iu one sheet of flame. Grand
because its huge flame climbing high in tbe air
lold the enemy that which they most wanted they
would get the least of. Grand because it was but
the beginning of sacrifices that our patriotic peo
ple would offer upon the altar of their country.
Grand because it will show England and Fiance
that in leaning upon the enemy, they have lean
ed upon a bruised reed that will break aid pierce
them. It will convince them that we are terribly
in earnest. In the afternoon I saw one of the
Safety Committee who had tried to get to the
forts but had returned on the steamer Eleanor.
He said the gunboats and forts were fighting
nobly the boats that had passed, that the enemy
immediately cut the wires between the forts and
the city.
; JAt eight o’clock, Thursday night, I met a me«
chanic engaged on the ram. He said everything
necessary to her completion was on board, and
that she would be towed to a place of safety in
the course of an hour. The writer left the city
Friday morning at a quarter past nine o’clock, on
the Jackson train, at which hour nothing further
was known, except that Gen, Lovell had deter
mined to fight them in any way that prompted
success. At half-past twelve, Major Pickett came
up with an ammunition train, and informed us
that eleven Federal gunboats were witbin ten
miles of the eity. G»v. Pettus told the writer at
four o’clock, iu Jackson, that New Orleans had
not been surrendered.
In traveling along the road the writer was
pained and grieved to hear persons censuring Gen.
Lovell, and some who did not know him had lost
confidence in him. I did all in my power to
convince them of tbeir error, for recently I had
been thrown in contact with him, and am- pre
pared to write whereof I know—that Gen. Lovell
has left no stone unturned, has left nothing un
done that could bare been done—and has with
sleepless energy, that has spurned fatigue, made
every possible effort to defeat the enemy. And if
bis life is spared, his record will be full of acts of
bravery and heroism—a record of which his
country will in all ages be proud. Let the base
insinuations skulk back to the foul mouths that
uttered them.
Respectfully, James E. Slater.
A Thrilling Record. —The only information as
te the last moments of two hundred and five per
sons who perished by the late colliery accident at
Hartly, England, was found on a scrap of paper
in tbe pocket of one of them, written while they
were awaiting death. It says that three of the
men looked extremely ill, and that a prayer meet-
I ing was held befora death terminated their suffer
! ings, at which several of the men delivered ex
' hortations. 1
i Hon. C. S» Marehead, of Kentucky, who has
been confined for several months in Forts Warren
and Lafayette, arrived at Louisville, on tbe 10th
instant.
VOL. 14,—N0 19
Raising ths Frkmch and English Flags.—lt is
reported that the French and English consuls at
New Orleans, upon the arrival of the Federal
gunboats at the wharf, immediately unfurled
their flags, and notified Mr. Farragut to desist,
and he “desisted.” This reaches us through
parties whe left New Orleans on Friday and reach
ed here on yesterday. A great stampede took
place when it was known that the enemy’s boats
had passed the forts. Gen. Lovell’s army did not
attempt to make a stand, and from all accounts
he will soon join the army of the Mississ’ppi.—
We are at a loss to know what became of the
“home guards” of New Orleans, who have been
drilling for some month, past.
Memphis ( Tenn.} Argus, April 2Sth.
We clip the following paiagraphs from
the Memphis (Tenn.) hvenwg Appeal, of April
28 th:
As usual, the city is full of rumors, from above
and below.
The intelligence is brought from New Orleans,
by messengers on the up train, that one of the
enemy’s gunboats had been captured, being
boarded and taken by assault. The statement,
however, thaj General Van Dorn bad received an
official oispatch to that effect is without founda
tion.
We hear from above that during the progress
the bombardment at Fort Pillow yesterday, three
of the enemy’s mortar guns exploded.
Tbe rumor also comes from Corinth that two
of our regiments, the 9th Mississippi and the 11th
Alabama, were captured on Friday by the enemy.
We discredit the statement, but only give it as a
flying rumor.
We can learn nothing definite from below re
garding the movement of the enemy’s gunboats.
At last accounts they had not made their appear
ance at Carondolet, sixty miles above New Or
leans,
We clip the following paragraphs from the
Knoxville (Tenn.) Register, of May 1:
Stampeders Returning.—We learn that 189 of
the people who lately stampeded from Hawkins
and Hancock counties, satisfied with their expe
rience of wandering in the mountains, have re-
■ turned to their homes and expressed their deter
minaticn for tbe future to remain, and deport
themselves as loyal citizens. We commend their
example to others who may be moved by the
same infatuation.
Cumberland Gap.—lntelligence was received
in this city yesterday that the Federals had, the
evening before, again made an attack upon Cum
berland Gap, but had been repulsed by our force
there. We have not learned the particulars of
the engagement. The enemy are said to be
twelve regiments in force on the Kentucky side,
and the indications are that they will shorty make
another desperate attempt to take the Gap. Our
boys are prepared for them.
The Yankees at Huntsvillb. —The following
is the oath of allegiance which the invaders are
administering to the citizens at Huntsville. -The
penalty for violating it, as will be seen is death.
Our people can see from this what sort of despot
ism; they will have to submit to from the Union
saving despot who now menace us. The oath is
a literal copy from a pass which a gentlemen had
to procure to leave Huntsville:
FEDERAL OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
I solemnly swear that I will true allegiance
bear t» the United States of America; aud that I
will not, in any way, give or transmit to the so-
■ called Confederate Government’, or its officers,
any information I may get of the movements of
• the United States troops.
For the violation or abuse of this oath, the t>en
alty will be death.
Gen. Lovell’s ..Antecedents,—The Richmond
Enquirer, says that Gen. Mansfield Lovell is the
son of a former Surgeon Gen. of the U. S. Army.
His mother belonged to the Berrien family of
Georgia. The subject of this brief memoir * was
born probably at Washington, but if at the North,
it was during the temporary residence of his pa
rents at some military post. By a sad fatality,
both Doctor and Mrs. Lovell died in Washington
within a few days of each other, about a quarter
of a century ago. The orphan sons (four in num
ber) were thus thrown, so to speak, upon the
world; but, by the aid of relatives, their education
was cared for, and they all have attained honor
able positions in life. Gen. Lovell graduated well
at West Point, and distinguished himself greatly
in the Mexican war. Resigning from the army
some years ago, he engaged in commercial pur
suits in New York, and was Subsequently appoin
ted Deputy Street Commissioner by G. W. Smith,
(now a Major General in the Contederte army,)
which position he held until shortly before cas
ting his fortunes with the Confederate States.
Two of Gen. Lovell’s brothers are married to
daughters ot the late Gen. Quitman, of Mississip
pi, and were both performing military duty at
New Orleans. Tbe remaining brother is a laws
yer at Savannah, Ga.
Poisoned Quinine—The Little Kock Irue Dem
ocrat, of the 24th inst., says. _
The Memphis Appeal, some months since, cau r
tioned the people against the use of quinine
smuggled from the North, as some of it had been
found to contain strychnine or other poisons. It
was difficult to conceive of a depth »f depravity
that lead an enemy t» poison medicines to be ad.,
ministered to innocent women and children as
well as to Confederate soldiers. But that the fact
is undeniable we have a melancholy proof. Some
of this smuggled quinine was sentto our army i n
Western Arkansas and being administered by the
surgeon, produced almost instant death in three
cases, and would have killed others bat for timely
action on the part of the physician. Yet the
wretches who thus seek to murder us, talk o f
union and a restoration of fraternal relations.
FROM TAMPA.
„ Tampa, April 25th, 1862.
Faditor Ftepubliccm :
You have doubtless heard of the demand made
upon us a short time since for an unconditional
surrender of this place. It was really, yes. cool
ly and deliberately, but sternly denied by our
brave commander, Major R. 8., Thomas. They
gave us twenty-four hours to get the women and
children out of the way. But thev have 1 taken
good care not to come to see us any more though
thirteen times twentysfour hours have passed
away. The Major thinks they will yet come, and is
holding himself in readiness. We intend to give
them a fight if they give us anv sort of a show-
ID A, Our b °y s &re aDxiOUS t 0 wipe the stigma off
of Florida. B
Quite a number of prisoners have run away
from Key West and have reached bere They *
report a great deal of sickness there, there being
about 3,000 troops on the island, and 500 of them
in the hospital,.with small pox and other diseases
It may be th it disease will force them to leave
Key West and try and occupy Tampa. They are
also much in need of water. All we want is a
fair showing, and. by the help of God, we will
drive them back when they come. w
From the Far West.—The Little Rock 7’ rMt
Democrat of the 24th instant says that a “report
was cunent there that Stand Watie bad a fight
in tbe neutral lands of the Cherokees, thrashed
tbe enemy soundly, took two or three hundred
prisoners and eighty wagons. There are good
reasons for believmg this to be true.” The same
paper adds: “There is also a rumor that Me.
Bride, in Missouri, bad been successfully skir
mishtng, and, in one encounter, had cut the ene
my to pieces and had taken four hundred prison
ers. How true this is we cannot say, but it is
certain that the patriot leaders in tbe West are
carrying on a hot partisan warfare.