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Tub Ladibs Gunboat Fair at Columbia.— A oor-
Te#pondent of the Charleston Mercury thus d«r
cnbes this interestingafiair. Read it:
My friend and I were walking down Main
street, Columbia, on Tuesday week last. “What
babble ia that across the way, in that lighted
ball ? It aounda as if ten thousand jackdaws hud
assembled there with the determination to try
their utmost power of noise making,” replies my
companion. “Let’s go over and see the elephant,
then.” We leave our twentyfive cents shin
plaster at the door, and enter the hall—at least we
attempt to. But what a jam ' meh add women
girls and boys, packed together like sardines on
end ! For my part I feel considerably flustered—
my modesty is shocked. Pushed forward by the
crowd, women in front and women behind. It is
u> much ; I look for a corner- But suddenly 1
am confronted by one of the fair sex; “Take a
chance at a baby, sir.” A baby, madam; me a
chance at a baby ! never, surely! I assure you
Madam, babies is quite out of my line,” “Are
they ?” she smiles, “1 did’nt know it,” and dis*
appears in the crowd. When will 1 get to that
corner, I sigh to myself. I am waylaid again.—
“Buy a baby cap, sir! 1 ” A baby cap! why, my
dear miss, I have no baby; what should Ido
with the cap ? Anything but babies.” Pshaw !
says the fair damsel, and turns qutok on her beet
But I think I saw a twindie in her eye. My nerve
are getting quite shaky; bnt 1 near the corner.—
There is a most portly old lady just in front of
me. Again lam assaulted. “Buy a baby wrapper
sir?” “Ghost of Banquo!” 1 exclaimed; “what
evil things have I done, that I should be thus at*
flicted?” The young lady looked at me in aston
ishment, evidently thinks I am an esoaped inmate
of the Lunatic Asylum. “Buy a baby wrapper str?”
she replied. I look at her, she looks at me. I
lo >k at the wrapper and she looks at the wrapper,
.il v nerves are high ; my knees feel very weak.
1 loos at the corner and the corner looks at me ;
• looks like a friend. Modesty .gives way; despair
lends strength, I utter not u word; 1 rush through
the crowd and disappeared, subside in a chair,
away back in the corner behind a curtain. My
breath comes and goes by jerks—l feel my ribs—
-1 reflect—gently 1 stroke my moustache—and very
gradually my nerves are soothed, and again 1
look out at the babbie. .Lucky corner, kind corner.
I spy a fresh lettuce—how refreshing. And there
is a turkey, and why now I am now I am quite
happy—there is a whole supper table. I recog
nize the fair hostes; and, what is better, she re
cognizes me. "What will you have?” “Ob! any*
thing—everything.” Soon I have a htfe table.
1 stick it in a nice little corner of the ball, fix my
chair so as to keep off the crowd, and with knife
and fork, and jest, all sorts of things good for the
inner man, I entirely recovered my trengin.—
Again I venture into the throng. “Bny a bunch of
flowers?” "By all means.” “Take a pipe?”
“Most certainly” and so I wade forward. “What
tall fine, looking girl’s that selling flowers?”
It is a fine face. There is something like enthu
siasm in it, if I mistake not. It is a.blessing face-
And there is another pretty girl—a regular Vir»
ginian a lace —bright and amiable. And now look
at that little vixen behind that table. An exqui
site figure, is it not? So graceful and distingue
—a soft, pretty, nervous looking hand, too. And
look at these eyes; see how they sparke; how
quick they glance from side to side. Ab! a rich
and sly young lass that. Prines garde, prenez
garde, young man!—Observe what a contrast it is
to that lair, calm regular face besides it.
But I must stop. I wish 1 could go on. I
could write you pages. There were some funny
things came off. But I can only tell you now the
Fair was a great success, and very pleasant, 1
understand from one of the fair managers that
they had realized, in two days, no l»ss ‘han twen,
ty-three hundred dollars. The ladies of Colum»
bia speak also of having another Fair very soon.
May it be as successful as the last.
OUR RETREAT AT CORINTH
Our retreat at Corinth, after two days hard
fighting and when the enemy had received larg
reinforcements, as thus spoken of by the corres
pondent of the New Orleans Picayune.
Our retreat was a splendid affair. It was long
before the enemy were aware that we were quit*
ling the field. 1 staid behind attached to the
Burns battery, which guarded the retreat of the
ai iny. Gen. Beauregard rode up to the Washing
ton Artillery, and lifting his cap, said to us:—
“You have fought as soldiers never fought bes
fore!” Then passing on to the captain, he ex
claimed again, raising his cap, “You have done
nobly.”
nobly.”
The same correspondent, in some general re
marks ot the incidents of the battle, adds :
A battle is an awful scene. Ido not think
words can rightly describe it. One’s senses can
hardly comprehend it. The things that meet your
eye after two days of wholesale slaughter, as you
walk upon the field of battle, will never be erased
from memory.
Artillerists'are exposed to peculiar perils. In
our case, for example, the enemy threw out sharp
shooters to pick off those who manned the cannon.
They lay behind logs, and shoot at us with ape
culiar powder, which makes neither noise nor
smoke, and the Mime balls came at us as thick as
hail, killing and wounding our men and slaugh<
tering o'tr horses. * * *
From one piece of cannon we lost no less than
thirteen horses ! In the two days we must have
lost full thirty or forty horses.
The second day the balls came thicker than
ever, but we tried to throw aside self and think
only of duty, so there we fought, weaned as we
were, and against fresh reinforcements of the en
emy, long and manfully. That day we lost three
of our pieces, and that day we recaptured them,
and brought them back drawn by the enemy’s
own horses. We think that something of an ex
ploit.
We chased the Federate out of their camps,
which extended eight miles. We slew their men,
took their tents, burnt up their effects what we
did not want for ourselves, captured their com. ■
mtesary stores, mules, horses, wagons—every- |
thing; and they got no peace until they found
themselves under the shelter of their gunboats.
Wounded. —We learn that information was re
ceiyed here yesterday, by letter from a naval of
ficer at Richmond, that Capt, Mclntosh, of this
city, the supposed Commander of the Louisiana,
was badly wounded in an engagement recently
had with the enemy, but where, or when, the let
ter does not state.
We also learn from the same source, that Capt..
Thomas Huger, supposed to be in command of
the Mcßae, was mortally wounded in the same
engagement.— Norfolk Day Book, May 1.
North Alabama.—Gentlemen from North
Alabama represent the Yankees at Huntsville
and vicinity, committing all sorts of outrages
on the people. The soldiers have been guilty
of the most brutal treatment to the negro wom
en in the presence of their mistresses, and if
their masters interfered they were shot down.
They are running off all the negroes they can,
and have sceured the whole country, seizing
mules, horses, wagons, provisions and cotton,
deterring the citizens by threats from burning
their crops- The people were, of course, gen.
erally loyal, but a few disaffected persons who
were before under suspicion, from Marion
Fayette, Winston, Walker and Lawrence
counties had gone through the farce of holding
a convention to declare their allegiance to Lin
coln. These persons do not count all told a
thousand persons. The Roman virtue which
animates the true men of North Alabama is
nobly illustrated in the case ot Dr. Fern, of
Huntsville, who was approached to take the
oath of allegiance to the Yankees. The ven
erable old man is reported to have said that he
had not gone into this revolution without due
consideration, and not having long to live,
would rot before ’he would 'take the oath
There would be no virtue in patriotism if there
were not traitors. Those will soon be attended
to. — Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, May 1.
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The Memphis (Tenn.) Argue, of April
28th, says: “The Yankee gunboats above here
Will soon be in our hands.” We hope so.
For Europe.— The steumihip Asia, which left
New York on Wednesday for Liverpool, takes "at
several Roman Catholic B»bops, yiz: Bishop
Lvncb. Toronto: Bishop Timon, Buflalo; Bishop
John Loughlin, Rev. James A. Christes. Brooks
lyn Rt, Rev. M. Comaroe, Bishop of Pitwburg;
Rt Rev. E. J. Boom, Bishop of Kingston, C. W.;
T P. McFarland, Bishop of Hartford. These
nralates are going to Rome, to attend the genetai
assemblage of Bishop# «*Hed together by the
Pope. Among th# passengers by the Asia are
alM> Rev N. H Schenek, and Messrs. Jatne s Mc-
Creary and Jam*# McKvoy, of Baltimore.
The Nashville (bogus) Unton learns that at
Lebanon on last Monday week, Colonel Munday
addressed a large crowd of the citizens of Wilson
eonntv sad that his remarks were received with
a»pru¥ation. Also, that Hon. Robert L Caruthers,
member of the Provisional Congress, and
innre recently a candidate for the Confederate
Senate, had" left Lebanon.
Augusta and Savannah Railroab.—We have
not heretofore noticed the fact that all control
over this road has passed into the hands of the
Central Railroad and Banking Company. The
nature of the transfer is in the form of a perma
nent lease, the stockholders retaining their in
terest, with a guarantee of seven per cent, interest
on their investments. The arrangement was
agreed upon by the contracting parties some
weeks ago, but was not perfected and carried into
operation until yesterday.
Among the first fruits of the change is an ac»
commodution train, to run between Savannah and
Augusta daily. It commenced yesterday.
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gTWe copy the following paragraphs from
the Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal, of April 21th :
Nashville Items.—We are in possession of files
of Nashville papers to the 16th. The Union is
edited by S. C. Mercer, who seems to be a supple
tool of Andy Johnson, and able to do up the di r ty
work of the invaders to order. The Dispatch is
published by a company—names not given.
At a meeting of city cooncil, held on the 14th,
councilman Driver offered a resolution to have
the stars and stripes displayed on the public pro
perty of the city, and requiring the superintend
ent and teachers of the public schools to take Ibe
oath of allegiance. The new council has finally
began its work, and elected new city officers
throughout.
Tennessee and other Southern'money was quo
ted in Cincinnati on the 14th instant at fort y per
cent, discount.
The daily train on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad leaves the depot in Edgefield at 6 o’clock
in the morning of each day, and returning, ar
rives at half-past 6in the evening, thus making
the trip either way between Nashville and Louis
ville in daylight.
Rumored Arrbct of L. Pope Walker.—We
hear the rumor in each form as to give it some
credence, that Gen. L. Pope Walker, of Hunts
ville, Alabama, tins been arrested and is in the
hands of the enemy. It is stated that be was
attempting to carrv his slave property South, and
had reached a point several miles from his home,
when he was overtaken by a cavalry force of the
enemy and captured. As he was once Secretary
of War under the Confederate government, and
is now a commissioned brigadier-general in the
Southern army, if he has been taken prisoner, he
will doubtless be dealt with harshly.
Above Humbolt.—The Federal troops that
were moving above Trezevan.t station on the Ohio
railroad, were reported yesterday by persons
coming into Humbolt, to have gone up to the
Federal eamp near Pans. The impression is that
the whole oftbern have gone up the Tennessee
river.
Louisiana Intelligence.—We take the follow
ing from the Baton Rouge Gazette, of Tuesday:
It is our painful province to name an unusual
number of devastating crevasses, that have re
cently occurred in this parish, the largest of
which is on the plantation of Mrs. B, L. Vaughan,
of Bayou Goula, nearly one hundred feet wide
and eight to nine feet deep. Opinions differ
whether it can be closed or not before the water
of the river recedes into its channel.
For some time the levees on the west side of
the bayou, from the mouth of the Groose Tete to
Grand river, have been overflowed, thus carrying
off an immense body of water, filling the swamps
and backing upon muny valuable plantations ; and
the east side levee has been daily threatened
with submersion, but hitherto has withstood the
encroachments of the watery fiend.
But not so below the park on the Lower Grand
river, as a few days ago about forty feet of the
levee yielded to the pressure and out the waters
rushed with the fury and violence of a tornado.
; Large bodies of negroes from the plantations of
those interested were at once sent to the sceae of
disaster, and a few days of patient and persever
ing labor crowned the effort with success. Other
slight crevasses, however, have since occurred,
but they are,now dubiously safe.
Various portions of the levees are in a very
critical condition, and it is to be regretted that
negligence and supiness should be permitted to
hold sway among those in authority whilst great
interests are at the mercy of procrastination.
The parish levee on Grosse Tere bayou, above
the saw mill of our patriotic friend, Lieut. F.
Arbour, has given way, presents a crevasse of
three miles in length. This misfortune, however,
great as it undoubtedly is to families in that secs
tion of the country, is-a blessing to the planters
of the southwest portion of West Baton Rouge,
as had the levee withstood the present unusually
high water, the waters of Bayou Choctaw, would
have overflowed tend which is now high and dry.
Most of the disasters caused by these oveiflows
might have been prevented, had measures been
promptly taken to clear the channel from Lower
Grand river to the lakes, which is cheked with
drift and deposit.
Things in New York.—From New York papers
of the 24th lost., we extract the following items
Wall street went home this afternoon mecnias
ting upon another great financial fact, namely,
the adoption of a resolution, at a meeting of the
city banks, in favor of increasing Cesposits with
the Government Bank Agency to the amount of
$40,000.0'00, instead of $20,000,000, the present
maximum. This proceeding will give abundant
means to the Treasury Department, by the extend
ing the employment of the demand notes. The
$20,000,000 of certificates, used in making ex<-
changes at the clearing house, are about all
absorbed. Some of lhe financial authorities point
to.this action of the banks as a new and irresist
able proof of the tendency to expansion, of which
we always hear so much; but some how or other
see so little.
Gignoux’s painting of Niagara wa- sold this
morning at Stevens, Williams & Steven’s, 318
Broadway. About one hundred persons wers
present, and the bidding was not very lively
The first bid was SI,OOO, the second $1,050 the
third $1,075, the fourth $l,lOO, and the fifth at
$1,050, at which it was knocked down to Mr.
John Butler, who purchased the picture for A T
Stewart, Esq. The sale did not include the copy
right, that being reserved by Mr. Gignox.
Immigration has come almost to a stand still
and the figures vary but little from week to week’
The number of arrivals last week (with steamers
principally) was 275, a total of 7,631 since the Ist
of January, a decrease of 5,680 as compared with
the corresponding time last year.
The rebel Colonel Olmstead, who commanded
at Fort Pulaski, it seems, has a number of per
sonal friends tn this city, who no sooner beard of
arrival at Fort Lafayette,(per Oriental) this morn
ing, than they besieged the United States Marshal
for permits to go down and visit him. The Mar
shal, however, informed them that he had no
power to grant their requests, and that they had
better telegraph to Secretary Seward. Some of
them did telegraph to Washington, it ig said, but
when test heard from they had not received any
response.
Three iron cased batteries are now in course of
construction at Green Point for the government.
They will have two turrets each and carry a
more formidable armament than the Monitor. In
every other respect they will be exactly like this
famous vessel. Tne Common Council have given
the contractor permission to fence in the lover
part of Coyler street to facilitate the work. The
vessels will be completed in about three months.
COMMANDKK FaRRAOUT.— DaVl'i W.
Federal Commander of the fleet
of New Orleans, was born in Tenne##er; w»# bp
pointed to the service from, and V*
a citizen of, that State. His first en-ry .
service was in 1810, and consequently he is now
quite an old man. He has been marrie . •
and both of his wives were from Norfolk-the
first, a Miss Marchant; the latter, stil! > lv,n £ *
Miw Loyall. He is small in stature, but very
prepossessing in manners and appearance.
From Macon Telegraph.
THE BTANPEDE AT BRIDGEPORT
Mr. Cowles, who returned to Macon from
Chattanooga yesterday, gives a deplora ea
count of the Confederate stampede at Bridge
port, by which a most important gateway to
Georgia was opened to the enemy, an
possession of all our rich mineral depoai
soal, iron and saltpetre placed in imminent
da l g guard of about 200 men had been placed
by General Leadbetter *n the western end of
the bridges at Bridgeport. These bridges are
two in number, resting for their inner termini
upon an island in the middle of the river, and
distant about thirty miles from Chattanooga.
On Tuesday last word was brought to Gen
eral Leadbetter, at Chattanooga, that the enemy
was advancing and had driven in the pickets
of the guard stationed at the bridges. Accor
pingly, General L. started for the scene of ac
tion with a special train, taking with him rein
forcements to the number ot 300 men.
Soon after his arrival the enemy approached
to the number, as was supposed, of ten to fif
teen hundred, and opened fire upon our men.
An instant stampede followed, in which Gen.
Leadbetter led belter than anybody else, accor
ding to the account we have received. He took
to the cars he had brought up with him, put
out and never stopped till he reached Chatta
nooga. All the officers, with one exception, so
far as we have learned, did the same. The
men followed in double quick, throwing away
their arms and accoutrements as they ran. But
a Captain Cain remained behind, approached
the eastern bridge and crept under it to shelter
himself from the enemy’s fire, and there, whit
tling shavings from the timber, kindled a fire
with some matches he happened to have in his
pocket, and never left his position till the
structure was too far in flames to be saved.
Meantime, when Gen. Leadbetter had arrived m
Chattanooga, a Gen. Reynolds and a Major from
Virginia (name not recollected), took’the tram
and ran back to Brideport, meeting many strag
glers on the way, and gathered the arms and ac»
coutrements which had been thrown aside. They
collected some four or five hundred muskets, and
a corresponding number of knapsacks, cartridge
boxes, blankets, Ac., and finding the bridge burnt,
the Confederate force all dispersed, and no imme
diate likelihood of the enemy’s crossing, returned
to Chattanooga with what they had saved.
The only loss of life in this “brilliant affair”
was said to have been occasioned by a novel ex
periment in gunnery. Some of our men had
rigged two pieces of artillery upon a hand car,
and in the act of letting it down the grade to*
wards the bridge, the concern became unmanage
able, ran off the track, k’Ued two Confederate
soldier, and severely wounding two more.
The stragglers were daily coming in. and say
they ran because the officers all rah, and left no
bodv to take command.
Gen. Reynolds was by last accounls trying to
get up a volunteer force to defend the passes this
side of the bridge, which, it is said, could be
easily defended by a small force. Mayor Smith,
of Chattanooga, had been telegraphing about in
hope of arousing the attention of the Confederate
officers in that region to the importance of de
fending it.
We tell this story as it was told to us, by one
who had the almost opprtunities of getting’ at the
truth. It is a record of shame, unless our infor
mant was altogether misled in the facts. We
learned by paivate telegram yesterday that the
enemy have now possession of both sides of the
river at Bridgeport.
Correspondence Savannah Hews.
A SKIRMISH WITH THE YANKEE GUNBOATS
IN LIBERTY COUNTY.
Liberty County, April 21st, 1862.
Mr. Editor :—A spirited engagement occurred
yesterday evening between the L. I. Troop, under
Captain Walthour, supported by many citizens of
the county, and the enemy’s gunboats, at a bluff’
called Half Moon, situated on the Colonel’s
Island. The bluff'is formed by the curve of the
North Newport river and is over one mile in
length. Its average height, at high water, is not
over six feet, and is covered with pines, oaks and
underbrush.
A barge was seen by the picket guard on Thurs»
day.Mhe 24th inst., at an angle of the river below
Half Moon, which very soon returned to a gun
boat midway between the point of the island and
St. Catharines. On Friday the gunboat advan
ced up and anchored off' the angle of the river,
entirely out of barms way. In the evening she
hoisted anchor and steamed above to a point
called the Cross-Tides, connecting with South
Newport river. On Saturday she was reinforced
by another gunboat, and, in company, advanced
shelling Carr’s Neck, the first headland, and laid
further near White’s Island. On Sunday morn;ng
they again steamed «p and came to anchor off the
next headland, and seeing they were narrowly
watched by our troops, we were unceremoniously
and unexpectedly treated to a shell, paying the
like compliment in the afternoon in passing up,
to a detachment of the Liberty Guards on the op»
posite side of the river, above us.
They now found out that the of their
seat ch was fruitless—that the .Standard, an Eng
lish brig, which had run their blockade and dis
charged her cargo at Meilon Bluff, a few miles
above, bad been scuttled, sunk and burned.—
They at once put back, and our Troop, who had
unremittingly watched their movements, to at
tack them in the event of a tending, being now
reinforced by many of our worthy citizens, among
hem our esteemed friends and old acquaintan
ces, Col. Wm. Maxwell, Mr. Bush, Judge Flem-<
‘ing, Col. Fleming, and our tete Captain, Abiel
Wain, awaited their coming at Half Moon, re
solved upon an attack in any event, since they
would not afford an opportunity by tending.
The anxious moment arrived. A cannon was
fired on their approach as a feeler. No notice
was taken of it. however, until arriving within
200 yards of our first rifle. A salute was fired by
us, which was quickly responded to by the whiz
zing of shell and the music of grape and canister
shot. The entertainment was keot up on our part
with a deluge of balls from Sharpe’s rifles, along
ihe line of bluff. The enemy fired furiously some
sixty-five cannon and shell, making sad havoc
among the trees and undergrowth of the island,
(mostly the former,) and hurried on, leaving us
masters of the island. Strange to say, nobody on
our side was hurt, not even the horses, a hall
mile distant in the woods, received Any injury,
though shells exploded around them. The enemy,
we have, reason to believe, did root escape alt ?*
gether unharmed, although of that fact we wilb
never be advised. , , , . .
The barbarians, in passing, did not forbear to
deface lhe beautiful dwelling of Mrs. Roswell
King, with their grape and canister, one shot
going through the building. At our first fire they
were heard to cry out foul play. An ° bse [, v v at
party reports them to-day out of sight. Should
they dare again to pollute our waters may they
experience many such acts of foul play
hearts content. Liberty.
The Enemy Repulsed from Cumberland Gap.—
A private dispatch of May Ist, says a courier
just in from the Gap. The enemy ceased firing
yesterday, and have retired. Our loss 18 seve ®
teen killed. Loss of the enemy heavy.—Atlanta
Intelligencer, May 2nd,
The Federal Post roaster at~Nashville gives nos
tice that only the following Postoffices have been
opened in Tennessee under Federal auspices, viz :
Nashville, Gallatin Clarksville, Columbia, rrank
hn, and perhaps one other between Gallatin and
the Keutucky line.
NKWH FROM THE SOUTH.
The comparative regularity with whieh North
ern paper# '* re B6W ’■eceived wuth of the Foto
mac, enable# hb to present freeh extracts from
ever y day. The following selection# will be
found interesting:
ths neobobs at poet rotal-thk difference bm-
BETWEKX SOUTHERN AND YANKEE MANAGERS.
The Port Rojal uorrespondent oi the New York
7/ siall Sft p*x '.prevail* t® a" alarming extent
mooe the negroes in Beaufort and on the island.
There are now twenty-five cmm[in the .mall
pox hospital, under the eare.of Dr. Waldeck,
of Boston, Mas*., who came out with Pieree. He
«, an able physician, and very suoceesfuli in awe*
of that loathaome disease. Having made a spe
cialty in this practice to a certain extent, be brings
a large experienoe and a thorough knowledge of
the character and the proper mode of treatment.
He has lost but few cases. He i* now engaged in
vaccinating the negroe*, and has already treated
between five hundred and fifty and six hundred
men, women and children.
Besides the small pox, the negroes are afflicted
with fevers to a greater extent than usual. Qmte
a number have died, and the sick lists ore increas
ing The physicians attributed this great mere**
of sickness and mortality among Ue blacks to the
change in kind quality, and quantity of the r food.
A glucne at their regimen while.nnder their mas*
ter* and at work, and the present under quarter
masters’ car* will satisfy every one that the
present system is radically wrong, and will result
in killing all ‘be contrabands, it continued. The
allowance to field hands; when working on the
plantations South,-is one peck of corn (unground)
and three pounds of meat-either pork, beet or
bacon—per week. The meat was not given to
those not wo: king. The negroes were then fat
and healthy, ana suffered comparaHvely little
h °When Captain Lilley took charge of the com
trabands at Beaufort he allowed them the follow"
ing articles, and in the quantities specified Fifty
pounds of beef or pork, five pounds ofcohee,
twenty pounds of rice, eight quarts of beans three
quarts of molasses, and Indian mea mito
the one hundred rations. Six children were en
titled to one ration. Rice and beans were issued
alternately. Coder that system the negroes lived
better than ever before—tad enough w.#at, and
were healthy and willing to work. Captain Li hey
bad 556 negroes under bis charge, ana during
the two months he controlled them but five died,
four of whom were children, and the fifth an old
man who had passed his 31st year. That was the
result of his system. v n »
Ou the 20th of January, Capt. ruder took
charge of the contrabands, and began to issue full
soldiers' rations to each and every ope, counting
children, and the consequence is the bills ot mor
tality have increas ed“to an alarming extent, and
the negroes are rapidly becoming worthless and
unable or indisposed to work, A soldier’s ration
one pound and a quarter of beet or pork, 18
ounces of bread, rice, beans, sugar, molasses,
soap, candies, pepper, vinegar, salt, &., in propo
•tiou, valued in the aggregiate at forty cents per
day, or for five hundred and fifty-six men, the
women and children, $222 40 per day, tor ration
alone. Capt, Lilley’s rutions may be valued ai
$45 per day, or perhaps less. Now, in the first
place, there is not a soldier in the army that can
or does eat his ration aaily. No man can eat
twelve hard biscuits a day, besides his pound and
. half of pork or beef, his potatoes, &c., furnished
' him. Nor can the negro do it with safety. Nev
ertheless, he’s glutton enough to eat all his pork
and beef daily, and is killing himself as rapidly
as possible, It is a continued thanksgiving feast
with him, and he will fail to endure it just as a
white manw hejwould eat his Christmast or thanks
giving feast every day. There is a limit to hu
man endurance, and tne contrabands are finding
out very rapidly. Laying aside the more impor
tant humanitarian aspect of the question, the
frightful expenditure occurred in feeding the
negroes in this sumptuous and unsual manner,
should be taken into consideration. The United
States government is feeding at least twenty-five
thousand negroes daily at a cost of about ten
thousand dollars per day, and at the expense of
the negro’s health and comfort as well. Now,
with the regimen furnished by Captain Lilley,
which is much better than the negro has ever be
fore enjoyed, and which costs about 8 or 9 cents
per day to each, the same number of men might
be fed for $2,250 per day, saving the Government
each and every day the ; comfortable sum of
$7,750— an item ot considerable magnitude. I
dont propose to enter into a iengthh discussion.of
the subject, but merely refer to it injorder that.the
suggestation it might occupy the time of some of
the intelligent gentlemen among the missionaries
very profitably to themselves and to the public.
And if they will only investigate the subject in a
through manner, and make a report, they will
be of some real service to the contrabands if they
can suggest a bill of fare for the negroes which
will be cheap and nutritious. I call upon them,
or the Commander-in-Chief of the department, to
investigate this
Fxom the, liichmond Enquirer.
THE NORTHERN GOVERNMENT AS POR
TRAYED BY M'S TORY FRIENDS
The people of the Confederate States have but
to take the testimony of the Southern men who
have unnaturally remained in association with
the Washington government, to form an idea of
that oppression which the yoke of Northern do
minion would impose. It will be remembered
that Linooln lately recommended, and Congress
adopted, a resolution looking to emancipation in
the border States. The Louisville Journal edited
by Ihe notorious Prentice, thus exclaimed against
the measure, but exclaimed in vain:
“When we consider that it utterly repudiates the
solemn and oft repeated pledges of every branch
of the Government as well as the organic princi
ple of the Government itse.f; when we consider
that it does this for the sake of abolishing the
slave institutions, and destroying the municipal
freedom of thebtates which have rebelled under
the apprehension of this yery result, and which
the nation is seeking to win back to their allegi
ance ; when we consider, that if carried out, its
inevitable effect would be the permanent destruc
tion of the Government, when, in short, we con*
sider that it combines in itselt conspicuously, all
the arbitrariness, and all the wickedness, and all
the woes of secession and abolitionism, we con
fess that we feel that it is too monstrous and too
flagrant in its monstrousness, to require serious
discussion. The project in our judgment, is the
most atrocious one ever proposed in the legislaj
ture of a freenation; but its very atrocity makes
argument unnecessary. It cannot be necessary
to argue against a proposition which, under the
circumstances, every elighteneda triot most re
gard as branding its authors as public enemies
andlas entitling them to the dungeon or gallows.”
The Abolition bill for the District of Columbia,
the Confiscation bill, and others, have, in like
manner, moved such men as Powell, ot Kentucky,
and Carlile, of Virginia, to brave the terrors oi
Fort Warren, in denouncing. Their protests,
however, hare availed nothing, except to have
their own servility to what is called the union
signifioently questioned, and to render necessary
new pledges of abject devotion.
We take the testimony of these men; but we
do not believe in the sincerity of their indigna*
tion against the things which they so justly do* i
nounce. We believe they have fully made up
their minds to submit to whatever humiliation
aud degradation the Northern usurpation way <
impose. They crawl in the very dust before ’
Lincoln, and would kiss his great toe, after the I
manner of Oriental servility, were it but required. i
In spirit they do it now. Their professions of 1
indignation against the usurpations at Washing* '
ton are tributes indeed to the truth, but they are
intended as snares to their own people. They ’
hope thereby to continue their own leadership,
that they may continue to betray their constitu-
is no new device ofj theirs. Crittenden 1
practiced upon it during all the period of Peace
Compromises, and the like. The promises of ul- I
timate co-operation with the South sufficed to
delay or paralyze our action, and he betrayed us :
in the end, as be doubtless intended in the be- 1
ginning. He is one of a multitude whose course :
was similar. Kentucky was thus most shockingly
deceived, and Prentice continues the foul impos
ture. Os the profession of indignation above
quoted, the New Orleans Orescent well says :
So far as the Journal itself is concerned, it is 1
double distilled hypocrisy—but th* paper knows
that something is necesaary to keep up the sharo
of Couservatuui, or Kentucky is lost to Lincoln.
It means to say, in effect, to Mr. Lincoln, “We do
not care a straw, personally, what you do or what
you recommend, but, if you would not lose Ken
tucky, you must abstain from such recommends-,
tion* as this, about emancipating our slaves.”
The members ot the Federal Congress from
the slave Btatea are agitated by similar fears.
Hickman, of Pennsylvania, boldly charged them,
a short time ago. with being mere devoted to
slavery than the Unions He asked them if they
would be willing to sacrifice everything, slavery
included, for the Union; and enly one—an indi
vidual by the name of Mallory, irom Louisville,
answered in the affirmative. Poor old Critten*
den begged hard for forbearanse.
Os the politicians who in taking position with
Lincoln, proved false to association, false to in
terest, false to blood, false to manliness, false to
Faith, and treacherous and false to representative
trust, we entertain no expectations, whatever in*
suit or indignity Lincoln of bis Congress may im
pose. Nor need Linooln fear to loose them. Be
is under no necsesity to gratify them with favors;
nor need he hesitate to fling the lash. They are
his, let him do what he will with his own..
The whip will but make them “ beg” and “ im-.
plora” and crouch still nearer to to his feet,
But upon their deceived constituents, the light
will gradually break. There are men among
them, and honest men, who will yet break away
from the leaders who have betrayed them, and
take their natural nnd proper position.
It is to the people of the Confederate States,,
however, that we command these exclamations
that come from the pris m-house of Northern
political association, —they are uttered by man
who went thitker from the South as guests,
and made choice of such fellowship They
fiud themselves slaves and contemned inferiors,
their rights, interests and feelingsu tterly disre
garded and despised. If such be the treatment
shown to those precious allies, in this exigency
of the North, what must the South not expect, if
conquered by our brutal and odious enemy? If
we were base enough to think of it, it is simply
impossible for us, whatever the pressure, to sub
mit! Butter to die a dozm deaths, snd fight so
long as we have a Captain’s company.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
The Mobile Advei User <k Register, of April 29,.
contains the following additional items in refer
ence to New Orleans:
The steamer C. W. Dorrance, Capt. Hopkins,
arrived this morning from the Rigolets. which
she reached at 8 o’clock, Saturday morning, and.
left in the evening, putting into Pass Christian to
avoid some of the enemy who were in sight. She
left Pass Christian at lo o'clock last night.
The latest news she brings is that telegraphed
to us from the Bay of St. Louis. It was under
stood that the city would be occupied at 2 o’clock
tosmorrow.
All the cotton was rolled into the public squares
and burned, and the sugar and molasses on the
levee rolled into the river. The dry docks, ship
ping of rvery description, and steamboats were
burned, except some of these last, which took
troop’s up the river to destroy the cotton on the
baak.
The gunboats, after making a single trip over
the lake with soldiers, were burned. Col. H. is
sure they could have been brought to Mobile. • At.
the latest intelligence, fighting was still going on
at the forts.
The enemy fired a few guns at the batteries at
the old battle ground, which were not answered
for want ot ammunition to fit the guns. The sol
diers’ cartidges, also, were unservicable, being
all wet.
By the Robert Watson, which got in at about
12 o’clock, a number of gentlemen from New Ors
leans, arrived. Their reports are that there was
a sharp fight at the old battle ground, lasting
an hour an a half; a good many being killed and
wounded. They do not confirm the report of wet
cartridges, but.say that there was not a round
apiece, and that the Texas soldiers cried like
children at being caught in such a predicament.
At 4 o’clock on Friday, when our informants
left, there were ten frigates and three gfinboats
opposite the city, and more coming.
The Watson took a load of passengers across
the Lake before she finally left.
Fort Pike was evacuated and the gun carriages
burning as she passed.
About 10,000 bales of cotton were burned in the
city, and perhaps 1,000 escaped the flames.
A large fire was seen in the city Friday night,
but what it was could not be made out. .
We append Mayor Monroe’s proclamation to
tlie citizens*
TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS.
Mayorality of New Orleans, }
City Hall, April 25,1862. )
After an obstinate and heroic defence by our
troops on the river, there appears to be immi*
nent danger that the insolent enemy will sue
. oeed in capturing your city. The forts have not
1 fallen, They have not succumbed even beneath
the terrors of a bombardment unparalleled in the
history of warfare. Their defenders have done
all that becomes men flghttng for their homes,
' their country and their liberty; but in spite of
their efforts’ the ships of the enemy have been
: able to avoid them and now threaten the eity.
> In view of this contingency, I call on you to
be calm, not with submissiveness nor with ind-e-
F cent alacrity, but if the military authorities are
unable longer to defend you, to await with hope
and confidence the inevitable moment when the
valor of your sons and of your fellow-country
i men will achieve your deliverance. I shall re-'
! main among you to protect you and your proper
ty so far as my power or authority as Ghief Mag.
istrate can avail.
John T. Moneoe, Mayor.
We have conversed with a very intelligent
friend who came passenger by ihe last train from
New Orleans that has reached this city. That
train left at 6 o’clock on Friday morning. We
gather the following: Up to about 2 o’clock
thursdav morning, universal confidence was felt
in the power of the Forts commanded by General
Duncan to resist the passage of the enemy’s fleet.
At that hour the startling news was received that
Some of the gunboats had passed the forts and
would reach the city in 24 hours. Soon after
General Lovell, who had been below and narrow
ly escaped capture by the Federal gunboats, ar
rived. Immediately all the stores were dosed,
the warehouses were emptied of their contents,
the c< tton burnt on the levee, and the sugar
rolled into river. The specie in the banks,
said to be $18,00,000, and the Government ammu
nition, was sent off by r»il—the former guarded
by the “Confederate Guards” of New Orleans.
Our informant states that in many places along
the road the ascending smoke from the planta
tions showed the work *f cotton burning going
on. When our informant reached Jackson,Miss,
the same reports of the capitulation of the city
were current as we have bad here.
Latest. —We learn on undoubted authority that
Major Gen. Jones received a dispatch yesterday,
dated at Camp Moore, from Major Gen. Lovell,
stating that he (Gen. L.) had evaluated the city.
Camp Moore is about fifty miles from New Or
leans.
The following despatches were received at
Richmond yesterday:
Commodore Farragut demands that the Louisi
ana flag be removed from City Hall. We decline
to remove it, but say we have no power to pre
vent them from doing so- He says if we do not
comply he will shoot it down. We have decided
not to comply. To-day, from their ships, they
fired upon a crowd of men, women and children,
on the levee because some one waved a Confeds
erate flag. A U. S. flag placed on the mint
early this morning by a party from the ships
was torn down by our people. The excite
ment here is intense. We can scarcely restrain
the people from violence on the Federal officers
who come ashore. Os course we must surrender,
but it is with honor. We will not pull down our
flags to raise theirs.
<The Jackson Mississippian extra, of April 26th,
has the following,
A letter from Gen. Duncan, dated 10 o’clock
yesterday (Saturdav) says the forts are as strong
as ever. A demand for surrender by the mortar
fleet was not entertained. The mortar fleet has
left. The Louisiana is safe and at the forts, also
two gunboa's. The other gunboats were des
troyed. We think the attitude of New Orleans
must command the respect of ti c Confederacy.
Send us a word of encouragement.