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STRENGTH OF LINCOLN'S ARMY <
Late developments give encouraging asstir- i
ance that, in numbers and efficiency, Lincoln’s
forces are not superior, if equal, to those of the
Confederate States. The excuse for every de
feat sustained by the Federal army has been
that they were outnumbered. That this was
meauly false, intended to cover up disgraceful
reverses, and deprive the Southern troops of
their just meed of praise, has been apparent in
many cases. But the want of enterprise and
dash on the part of the Federal commanders,
the inaction of many of their columns, and the
cautious movements of their main armies, may
be explained by the want of sufficient troops.
Sickness, defection, and desertion may have
decimated their ranks, and compelled their
Generals to move slowly. It is evident that
the enemy has undertaken more than he has
force to carry out. This may account for the
slow progress of their arms in North Carolina,
in South Carolina and Georgia. This may ac
count for the delay in Fremont's reaching the
department of East Tennessee, to which he was
assigned, and near which it was supposed he
was to be at the time of the battle of Shi
loh. This may account for the slow progress
of the often attempted and often delayed march
to Richmond of McClellan. At all events,
there is a huge outcry at the North for more
troops. The Northern papers say that it will
require two hundred thousand more to crush
out the rebellion. Lincoln has again appealed
to Northern patriotism to come forward “to
save the capital.” He calls for three months’
men. Another ninety days bill is drawn on
Northern credulity. Yet when the response
is made, and the ninety days expire, the rebel
lion will be found to be as lively and vigorous
as ever.
It is probable that the short limit of ninety
days is put to the call from a suspicion that a
longer period would not have been responded
to by the native Yankees with quite as much
alacrity as on the former occasion, when Wash
ington seemed in danger. *
That the enemy will succeed in getting re
cruits enough to fill up his skeleton regiment,
whether for three months or three years, it
would be unsafe for us to doubt. It is best to
presume that there will be no difficulty on this
point. It will not do to assume that recruits
cannot be got as long as the Yankees are wil
ling to pay the expense; for they have the
whole world to recruit from. Every emigrant
ship furnishes soldiers, such as they are, for
Lincoln’s armies. It is, therefore, probable
that our Government will want nearly all the
force the Conscription calls for. It would be
unwise to make any other calculation. But it
is plain, from many indications, that the native
Yankees have not as keen an appetite for mili
tary service as when they flocked to Washing
ton last summer to join that celebrated “On to
Richmond!” movement. They have found it a
hard road to travel. They prefer now to stay
at home and hire outcast and penniless for
eigners to do their fighting. But the war may
yet be carried to their own doors, and in this
way Yankee avarice and malignity may be
taught that the game of Southern subjugation
will grow more expensive, bloody, and hqpeless
to them the longer it is prosecuted.
YANKEE SPIES AND INFORMERS.
There is a gross neglect in the South of
proper precautions to prevent Yankee spies and
informants passing in and out of the Confeder
ate States to the enemy. That the enemy have
abundant opportunities of getting all the infor
mation they want from any locality in the
South, no reasonable doubt can be entertained.
There can be as httle doubt that they make
free use of their opportunities. At all the
ports they have blockaded their fleets get regu
larly the morning papers. It is notorious that
Yankee officers were occasionally in Savannah,
and that in one instance one was seen there
and recognized one night at a house of ili-fame.
How often such things have occurred there and
at other Southern cities, cannot be conjectured.
Along interior lines the entry and exit of spies
and informers, no doubt occur often, and with
greater facility.
A correspondent of the Mobile “Evening
News,” writing from Chattanooga, gives testi
mony to the extreme inefficiency of our military
police on this subject. In his letter of June
6th, he says:
I must admit that it struck me that there was
a slight perceptible odor of Yankeedom about the
place, but not sufficiently strong to be obnoxious.
I saw sufficient, however, to impress me with the
idea that there is a system of spies of the enemy
conducted through the principal points of our
country by them. Our passport system is a per
fect humbug. On leaving any of our cities for a
train of cars, you find, generally, an ignorant,
illiterate boy with a musket in hand stationed at
the doors of the cars, who asks you if you have a
passport; on answering “yes,’’ you are at once
admitted, without the document being demanded
for inspection. In my whole journey trom Cor
inth to this place, I have not once shown my pass
ports, and if 1 bad, I doubt if the ignorant boys
and men, detailed tor this service, would have
been able to read them ! Under these circum
stances, spies have but little difficulty in traveling
from point to point through our Confederacy. It
becomes the duty of our Provost Marshals to look
into and regulate this matter at once, for really
our safety depends upon it.
In a letter written the following day he makes
the following statement:
It is said that spies and Jew ’raffickers daily
passover to the enemy’s lines by Knoxville to
Nashville, carrying on a contraband trade of
great profit. It was told that letters were received
here yesterday from Philadelphia! Too much
rigor and strictness cannot be observed, and no
passports should be granted without vouchers
and security to persons of suspicious character.
While denouncing as we here do, this culpa
ble negelct at other points, the question sug
gests itself, What is Augusta doing to guard
against this very danger? What police regu
lations or passport system have we? Where
is our military organization, and what is it do
ing for our protection against spies and traitors,
foreign and domestic? Who is our Provost
Marshal ? It is not safe or sensible to presume
that every man that lives amongst us is loyal to
our cause, or that every stranger that passes
through our city, or sojourns for a few days, is
engaged in lawful business, or is on a friendly
errand. We have had some admonitory ex
perience to the contrary. While discussing
“the defences of Augusta,’’ let not this source
of danger be neglected.
TRADING WITH THE ENEMY.
Large calculations are made by the enemy of
retaining cities and districts of country over
run by their forces, through the influence of
trade. This plan of subjugation must be
fought aud resisted as steadily—as fiercely—as
stubbornly, as we resist their armed legions-.
The cupidity of some and the urgent necessities
of all, will afford facilities for the enemy to
make artful appeals to our people wherever
their armies obtain foothold, and their peddling
traders are enabled to display their wares. The
baneful effects of this insidious policy, upon the
Southern cause, are already exhibited on the
Southern borders of Tennessee. Indeed, a regu
lar trade is being carried on between Nash
ville and the counties south-east of it. The
passenger and freight trains are running regu
larly between Nashville and Shelbyville. Cot
ton and other produce are being transported
by railroad aud wagon to Nashville, and Yan
kee goods bought in exchange. It is said that
oven as low down as at Chattanooga a lively
trade is going on with the enemy. Even at At
lanta covert blows are stricken at the Confeder
ate cause, through its currency, and dealings
are of daily occurrence in which Confederate
notes arc bought and sold at a discount, as com
pared with Tennessee bank notes. It is evident
tue demand for Tennessee notes, and their ap
preciation over Confederate notes, are the re
sult of the trade going on across the enemy’s
lines.
The Confederate Congress has passed an act
prohibiting, under heavy penalties, all trade
with towns in possession of the enemy. It is
important that this law be strictly en
forced at whatever cost, wherever possible.
Otherwise we are subjected to a greater danger
than that of the cannon and bayonet. True, the
enforcement of the law will afflict many inno
cent sufferers. It will, perhaps, bear much hard
er on friends than foes, in many cases. But such
are among the unhappy incidents of war. A
great public policy is sought to be accomplish
ed by total non-intercourse with the enemy—
whether at sea-ports—along the Mississippi, or
across the border. If the rule is relaxed, and
our people get into the way of trading with the
enemy, they will be more than half prepared
for the yoke which they have sought to avoid
at such immense cost of blood. The battles of
this war will then have been fought in vain.
THE ATTACK ON CHATTANOOGA.
How the enemy got near enough to Chattanoo*
ga to shell it, is not yet explained to us- But it
must have been through gross negligence and
incompetency on our side, if the topography is
rightly understood t>y us. Chattanooga is one
of the most defensible places in the whole Souths
ern country—a few hundred men could have de
fended it from the approach of an army. We
have beard much of late of want of organization
—»f confusion aud panic, or a feeling little short
of it, at that point. If Chattanooga fails, a heavy
responsibility will rest on some delinquent. Let
the truth come out, and condign punishment be
inflicted where deserved. • Our government has
been too lenient to delinquents—to imbeciles and
cowards. It is time examples were made, by
drum-head court martials, of all such cases.
clip the following paragraphs from
the Richmond (Va.) “Dispatch, of June 9th ;
The Death of Col. Ashby.—From dispatches
received in this city yesterday, we learn that
Col. Ashby was killed in a skirmish on Friday
last, somewhere tn the vicinity of, Harrisonburg.
We were loth to believe this painful report, but
later dispatches seem to confirm it. Ou Wednes
day Col. Ashby had a skirmish near Harrison
burg, in which be captured several prisoners—
among them Sir Percy Worden, an English baro
net, but now a Colonel in the Federal service.
We have received no authentic information
regarding the skirmish in which the gallant Col.
lost his life, and do not care to circulate the ru
mor current upon the streets yesterday evening.
Since the first invasion of Virginia, Col. Ashby
has been actively engaged in the service, and
probably no man has done more or belter work.
Thoroughly acquaintedjwith the country, con
stantly on the alert, active and brave, he has
hung about the lines of the enemy, harassing
them, until his very name has become a terror.
His death will be a serious loss to the Confeder
acy, and bis place difficult to till.
Northern Account of the Late Bartle.—A
gentleman whb saw a New York paper ot Wed
nesday last, informs us that the F derals admit a
loss ot 300 killed, and 4,000 wounded in the late
battle below this city. As might have been ex
pected, they assert that the Confederate loss is
much heavier, though they acknowledge that the
“Rebels” fought desperately. Among the Fefa<
erals killed are three Brigadier-Generals, whose
names we could not learn.
Death of J. J. Hooper.—We are sorry to learn
that J. J. Hooper, Esq., late Secretary of the Pro
visional Congress, died in this city Saturday
night, after a short illness. For many years Mr.
Hooper has been well known throughout thia
country as a racy and a brilliant writer of every*
day sketches, and as a political editor. Among
his early writings were some admirable articles
for the old “Spirit of the Times,” which at the
time, attracted considerable attention. His first
book was “Simon Suggs,” inimitable of its kind,
and which has obtained a world-wido reputation
for keen wit and genuine satire. For several
years past Mr. Hooper has been connected with
the Montgomery (Ala.) “Mail,” which paper he
conducted up to a little more than a year ago.
When the Provisional Congress met at Mont
gomery, Mr. Hooper was elected Secretary, and
held this office during the Provisional year. He
was about forty years of age, a man of great
i talent, of unbounded liberality, and beloved by
all who knew him. Mr. Hooper was from Monts
gomery Alabama, at which place his family now
reside.
> Gen. Pettigrew not De/d.—From a flag of
truce which communicated with the enemy on
Friday, we learn that Gen. Pettigrew was not
killed, as at first reported, but that he was severe
ly wounded and a prisoner of war. His capture
was owing to his own heroism, for, while wound
ed on the field, he eemmanded those who were
bearing him off to return to their posts and leave
him to bia fate. His wound, although serious, is
reported as doing well Col. Lightfoot and Lt.
Col. Ix>ng, of the 22d North Carolina, were also
supposed to be among the killed; but we have
learned by the flag of truce that they were neither
injured in the battle, that they are now prisoners
in the Federal armv.
The Firing Below.—Soon after dark Monday
night, a boat load ol Yankees came within rifle
shot of our pickets at Proctor’s Point. The latter
opened upon them and after a brisk fire of several
minutes, the Federals retired. Several shots
were also fired from one of our river batteries,
but with what effect has not been ascertained.
Savannah Republican, -June Xlth.
From the Charleston Mercury.
BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION.
8Y PAUL H BAYNE.
“ It is ordered, that,‘hTrLfter, whet.anyfemale
shall, by word, gesture, or fthe
show contempt for any officer or soldie . , d
United States, she shall be regarded b ®l
able to be treated as a woman of the to P Y 8
her avocation.”— Butter s order at Reu
I.
Aye! drop the treacherous mask ! throw_by
The cloak which veiled thyne instincts tell,
Stand forth thou base, incarnate Lie,
Stamped with the signet brand of Hell .
At last we view thee as thou art,
A Trickster with a Demon's heart.
n.
Off with disguise! no quarter now
To rebel honor! thou weuld’st strike
Hot blushes up the angsished brow.
And murder Fame and Strength aluce,
Beware! ten million hearts a flame
• Will burn with hate thou can’st not tame .
in.
We know thee now! we know thy Race!
Thy dreadful Purpose stands revealed,
Naked, before the Nation’s face!
. Comrades I let Mercy’s font be sealed.
While the Black Banner courts the Wind,
And curs?d be he who lags behind!
IV.
O! soldiers, husbands, brothers, sites!
Think that each stalwart blow ye give
Shall quench the rage of lusttul fires,
Aad bid your glorious women live
Pure from a Wrong whose tainted breath
Were fouler than the foulest death.
v.
O! soldiers ! lovers, Christians, men !
Think that each breeze that floats and dies
O’er the red field, from mount or glen,
Is burdened with a maiden’s sighs—
. And each false soul that turns to flee,
Consigns his Love to infamy!
VI.
Think! and strike home!—the fahled might
Os Titans were a feeble power
To that with which your arms should smite
In the next awful battie-hour!
And deadlier than the bolts of Heaven
Should flash your Fury’s fatal levin!
VII.
No pity ! let your thirsty brands
Drink their warm fill at Caitiff veins;
Dip deep m blood your wrathful hands,
Nor pause to wipe those crimson stains.
Slay! Slay! with ruthless sword and will—
The God ot vengeance bids you “kill I”
VIII.
Yes! but there’s Ont who shall not die
la, battle harness ! One tor whom
Lurks in the Darkness silently
Another, and a steiner Doom I
A warrior’s end should crown the brave—
For him, swift cord! and felon grave!
IX.
As loathsome charnel vapors melt,
Swept by invisible winds to nought,
So, may this Fiend of lust and guilt
Die like a nightmare’s hideous thought!
, Nought left to mark the monster’s name
Save-immortality ot shame!
SECESSION SYMPATHY IN LOUISVILLE-
The Louisville Journal of a recent date, com
plans of “rebel sympathies in the hospitals”—
"the open partiality which those who sympathise
with secession, exhibit in their treament of the
sick and wounded rebel prisoners to the neglect
of like courtesies towards the sick and wounded
Union soldiers.”
“Ou last Thursday afternoon, two ladies went
to ho’spital No. 5, on the east side of Seventh
street between Main and the river, to carry
books, flowers, bandages, 4., for the wounded
soldiers. At previous visits they had noticed
that cases of partiality m favor of wounded re
bels exhisted, amfwere aware that an order had
been issued to exclude all persons whose sympa*
thies with the rebel cause were strong enough to
induce them to refuse to take the oath of allegi
ance to the United States. Previous to the issu«
ing of this order a regulation had been enforced
at the hospital whereby Union people were 1 re
quired to deposit all articles of food, wines, and
other delicacies in the store room, to the end that
they might be distributed impartially among the
sick and wounded patients, without regard to
i their being Union or Secession. Notwithstanding
the pretended enforcement of this order, the two
ladies found a secession prisoner by the name of
Memminger, before whose bed stood a table load
ed with wines, jellies and flowers, which were
being augmented by a lady calling herself Union.
The articles brought by this lady were not sent to
the store house, but were taken by her into the
room where Memminger was laid, for his especial
use; but when the lady saw that her partaiily
or this wounded rebel was observed, she with-,
drew her basket after having given a part of the
contents to another wounded rebel. While these
thing were transpiring, the two ladies heard
grievous complaints from our own wounded sol
diers, seme of whom were much more seriously
sick than the favored rebels. They complained
that while they were deprived of everything but
the mere necessaries of life, they were constantly
exposed to a view es the profuseness with whica
delicacies were showered upon certain rebel fa
vorites, and they would piteously ask whether
the Uaited States Government could be cognizant
of such partiality.
“While our informants were in the hospital at
the time indicated, several ladies entered without
being challenged. One of them was a strong se
cessionist. They asked whether these visitors
had taken the oath of allegiance as required by
the aforementioned order. The reply was in the
negative. They sent for Dr. Prentiss, and in*
formed him that certainly one and probably more
than one secessionist had come into the hospital.
Dr. Prentiss expressed surprise and insisted upon
this lady’s taking the cath of allegiance, which
peremptorily declining to do, she was required to
leave the hospital. But we need not accumulate
details, an abundance of which, all pointing to the
same state affairs, are patent to any observer who
has been in the habit of visiting this hospital.
“The question now is, what -can be done to
remedy these infamous abuses, and how shall
we prevent our hospitals from being converted
into hot beds of treason, where rebels are pam
pered with all the luxuries of the land, and com*
sorted by words of cheer and sympathy by those
who taunt and deride and insult the loyal sick
and wounded on their cts of pain in tne same
ward ? We have had every confidence in Dr.
Prentiss, he came among us t wtth high testimo
nials of his scientific skill, his urbanity, and
i generous sympathies. * * If under
the very supervision of a gentleman of such
■ commanding integrity, the secessionist women
i are able to worm themselves into hospitals, and
, insult decency by their marked partiality for
prisoners taken in rebellion against their conn
[ try, what, in the name of God, are we to expect
( when the doors ot such institutions are not
t guarded by officials of the recognized high char.*
. acter of Dr. Prentiss? Some way must be de
> vised to prevent a recurecnce -f such scenes as
. we have described, and we call most urgently
. upon the medical directors, sanitary commis
( sioners, and surgeons generally, to devise the
i remedy. If the nuisance, the foul and pestilent
nuisance, is not abated, we shall deem it our
, duty to appeal to our sister States to send their
. special agents here and remove their respective
. sick and wounded from a place where insult and
i degredation await them. If Louisville cannot
be cleansed from the leprosy of secession
in its hospital wards let our city rest under the
stigma torever, and let all shun her as they pass,
and cry “room for the leper I” that «he may be
avoided and despised.
If your mother's mother was my mother's
aunt, what relation would your great grand
father’s nephew be to my eider brother s son
in-law.
ImTI E mp h .
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Highly Interesting!
FROM RICHMOND.
[ FIRST DISPATCH-j
Richmond, June B.—Sharp cannonading tn the
direction of Mechanicsville was heard this morn
ing. No accounts have yet been received.
[second dispatch. ]
Richmond, Va., June B.—The cannonading
near Mechanicsville yeeterday morning was uus
important. Both aides were abetting the woods
occupied by the outposts.
LATER FROM THE NORTH.
Richmond, Va., June 9th.—The Mew York
Herald of June the sth has been received here-
It gives a long account of the late battle near
Richmond, which shows, despite its efforts to
distort the truth that the Confederates, gained a
brilliant victory. The writer admits that our
troops displayed great interpidity. The Herald
editorially admits a loss of 800 killed, and 3,000
killed and wounded; and says that the Rebelloss
in killed and wounded, was 5,500, and 1,500
taken iirisonsra.
A large number of Yankee officers were kill’d
and wounded; among the former, was Col. Ri»
ker, of the Anderson Zouaves, of New York, and
Col. S. B. Dodge, of the 87th New York Regi
ment, Three Brigadier Generals were wounded
—but none are admitted allied.
Gen. Dix supercedes Gen. Wool in the come
mand of Fortress Monroe.
A dispatch from Gen. Halleck to Secretary
Stanton, dated June 4th, says: “Pope is pursuing
Beauregard, and has already captured 10,000
prisoners, 15,000 stand of arms, 9 locomotives,
etc.
European advices to May 22d have been receiv*
ed. Lord Palmerston declared that Lord Lyons
and Count Mercier act in perfect accord officially
in respect to the American question.
Mexican affairs, in connection with the schemes
of Napoleon, are exciting much attention in Eu*
rope.
LATER FROM STONEWALL JACKSON.
[first dispatch.]
Richmond, Va., June 9.—Gen. (late Col.) Ashby
was killed near Harrissonburg, Va., on Thursday
last, in a skirmish with the enemy. •
[second dispatch.]
Eichmond, Va.. June 9.—The following diss
patch was received by Gov. Letchpr last night:
Staunton, Va., June B.—Gen. Shields crossed
the Shenandoah river, at Port Republic, and
attacked Gen. Jackson this morning. After a
short contest he was driven back with a loss of
two pieces of artillery.
Gen. Fremont attacked Gen. Ewell. We have
driven him back, and Gen. Ewell is still pressing
him hard.
Gen. Shields is on the bank of the Shenandoah,
and Jackson holds him in check. I hope to be
able to announce a great victory to you to-night.
LATER.
To Gov. Letcher—
A Glorious Victory! Fremont is completely
routed, and in fuli retreat. We shall get
Shields to-morrow. Will give you a list of cas*
ualties to-morrow.
STILL LATER.
Staunton, June 9.—Gen. Steuart and Elzey are
both wounded. It is a complete victory. Gen.
Jackson is in close pursuit. We have taken ar
tillery and prisoners in abundance. Will get
Shields to-morrow.
[Signed,] A. W. H.
DEATH OF JOHNSON J. HOOPER.
Richmond, Va., June 9th.—Johnson J. Hooper,
Esq., late Secretary of the .Provisional Congress,
died in this city, on Saturday last.
From, the Savannah Republican.
IMPORTANT FROM CHATTANOOGA—THE
„ ENEMY" ATTACK THE CITY WITHOUT
NOTICE.
Chattanooga, June 7.—Smail seconnoitering
parties of the enemy were observed this morning
on the opposite side of the river. They captured
two of our scouts. The enemy were expected to
cross in force at Keller’s Ferry, ten miles below
the city. No demonstration towards an attack
has yet been made. Our guns are in battery and
the men all under arms.
[second dispatch.]
It is reported that the enemy fired a number of
rifle shots yesterday across the river at Shell
Mound Depot at Nickajack, twenty-seven miles
west of Chattanooga. No one was hart. Their
forces was estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000.
Andrews, the Lincoln train thief, has been re
captured near this city and sent to Atlanta to be
executed.
It is reported that the enemy’s force is
creasing on the other side of the river.
» [LATER.]
5%, p. m.—The enemy hss just opened their
batteries fiom the opposite side of the river upon
the city with shot and shell, and that without
giving the slightest notice. Great panic among
the women and children, who are flying in every
direction. Our batteries are replying and the
sharp-shooters keeping up a constant fire. No
serious damage has yet been done to the builds
ings.
6 O’Clock, P. M.—Several of our men are
wounded, but thus far nobody killed.
—
From tr e Memphis [Tenn.] Appeal, JtineS:
GREAT EXCITEMENT NORTH!
WASHINGTON IN DANGER !
FOREIGN INTERFERENCE AGAIN !!
Grand Junction, June I.—The St Louis “Dem
ocrat” of the 27th ult,, has been received. It
says that Washington is in danger. Stonewall
Jackson is within twenty-five miles of the capital,
and in possession of the Baltimore and Ohio rail*
road.
The Governors of Rhode Island and Massachu*
setts have called out the militia. Great excites
ment prevails. The militia respond very relucts
antly.
England and France have agreed to interfere.
England proposed to France if she would with
draw her garrison from Rome, she would join
her and interefere in this war. France has with
drawn her garrison as proposed. The foreign
papers say that we may look for them in a few
weeks on eur shores.
Great fears are expressed for Baltimore and
the State of Maryland. The excitement m the
city .s intense. Riots and mobs have full con
trol.
None of the enemy arc- known to be between
Grand Junction and Corinth
s'The above is, no doubt, only a sensation re
port, and is only given as a specimen of its kind.
—Ed. Con.] *
LATEST FROM CHATTANOOGA.
We are indebted to the Atlanta (Ga.) “Common*
health” for the following intelligence:
Atlanta, Ga., June ‘.rb—The enemy has re
fired from within shelling distance of Chatta
nooga. Their loss was eight killed; the number
of their wounded is dk>t known. Four Confeder
ates were wounded.
A Federal gunboat ' appeared before Shell
Mound, but was fired into by the scouts, and
three of’he Federals on board killed. Little or
no damage was done to property there.
Several cit izens were taken off by the Yankees
from across the river.
From the Charleston Courier.
FROM CHATTANOOGA, TENN.-LATER
’ FROM THE FIGHT.
' Chattanooga, June 7, BP. M.—The bombard
, ment has ceased. It continued brisk at intervals
until eight o’clock. The enemy had three batte
r ries in position on a nigh ridge. They were re
l plied to by a battery of two six.-pounders, under
) the command of Lieut. A rmstrong, situated on the
j bank of the river, and Captain Barry’s batterv of
) four guns, situated on the heights overlooking
the ferry.
1 Spirited firing between the Sharp shooters was
, kept up on both sides of the river. Barry’s bat
-1 tery lost one killed and one wounded. Captain
. Haines, of the Forty-third Georgia regimen’,
1 private Stublitt, of Colonel Morgan’s Command.
were badly wounded. Several others were slight*
• ly wounded. A number of the enemy are known
to be killed. Our force engaged was not over
’ five hundred, while that of the was from
' fifteen hundred to two thousand. Two of their
guns were silenced.
The enemy are reported also at the mouth of
Battle Creek below Shell Mound, twenty-two
miles below Chattanooga, eight thousand strong.
They are building flats and preparing to cross
the river. Several of the latter have been de
stroyed by our shells. The above account is re*
liable.
Late Northern papers report that a council of
war was held at Nashville last Thursday, when it
was resolved that a force of fifteen thousand men
should be put in the field to restate East Tennes
see.
Chattanooga, June B.—The enemy resumed
shelling the town at 10 o’clock, A. M., to-day, aud
continued it till noon, without any casualties te
our troops. Two buildings were slightly in
jured Our batteries did not respond. Our
scouts from across the river report that the enemy
left for another position below. They are ex
pected to attempt to cross the river at Brown’s
Ferry, three miles below Lookout Mountain, or
above it some four miles. They have a smalt
boat fitted up as a gunboat.
Our troops are 'n fine spirits. The Confedeo
rates are still holding Chattanooga. The enemy's
force is believed to be the whole of Mitchell’s
command from Nashville and Huntsville, and is
estimated as eight thousand strong. Sharp work
is expected to-morrow.
LATEST FROM CHATTANOOGA-
From the Savannah Republicin.
Chattanooga, June 10. —It is now ascertained
that the enemy’s forces which attacked Chatta*
nooga consisted of three brigades with artillery,
commanded by Geu. Nagle, which came byway
of McMinn, aud two thousand byway of Steven*
son. The former have gone back to Columbia,
and the latter have crossed Battle Creek, on their
way to Huntsville. They were all greatly disap
pointed at not taking Chattanooga by a coup de
main. They expected,' by their movement, to
draw our forces from Wheeler’s Gap.
The vandals have pillaged the farms along their
route.
From the Richmond ( Va.) Dispatch, June lOIA.
GEN. HALLECK S REPORTS.
We copy from one of the latest Northern pa*
pers a specimen of Gen. Halleck’s reports :
Washington June 4, 1862.
The following dispatch was received this as»
ternoon at the War Department:
“Halleck’s Headquarters, |
“June 4,1862. i
“Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War :
“Gen, Pope, with 40,000 men, is thirty miles
south of Corinth, pushing the enemy hard. He
already reports 19,000 prisoners and deserters
■ from the enemy,*and 15,000 stand of armp cap
tured.”
Thousands of the enemy are throwing away their
arms. A farmer save that when Beauregard
learned that Colonel Elliott had cut the railroad
on his line of retreat he became frantic, and told
his men to save themselves the best way thev
could.
We have captured nine locomotives and a num
bers of cars. One of the former is already re
paired, and is running tosday. Several more
will be in running order in two or three days.
The result is all I could possibly desire.
H. W. Halleck.
MajoreGenerai commanding.
Whilst we are fully aware of the falsity of Hal
leck’s report to the Washington War Department,
; since we know that Beauregard's withdrawal
from Corinth was in every respect successful, not
only from personal statements, but from reliable
correspondence, it may not be a miss to se.y, that
■ ou the 30th of May this General reported to his
1 superiors at the Federal Capital that the Con
federate position at Corinth was exceedingly
strong; that before evacuating that place they
burned an immense amount of public and private
5 stores,provisions,tents, Ac., and that two thousand
prisoners and deserters were captured. On the
31st, a special dispatch to the New York
“Tribune," also from Corinth, and published "by
authority of the military supervisor.” makes the
remarkable counter statement that the works a-
Corinih “were much weaker than was supposed,
and could have been carried by a storm at any
time;” that the Confederates “carried away ab
solutely everything except a few provisions,
. which, with the railroad depot and warehouse.
, were burned before we arrived. They did not
1 leave a single gun,” says the correspondent, and
1 had been moving away troops for six days, and
stores formore than two weeks. The few pr.son
’ ers we have, he adds, “are from Confederate rear
guard.”
The Baltimore “News Sheet” remarks, m view
’ o f all this: ,
If such glaring contradictions as these are per
muted to be put forth, it is no wonder that Gen.
Halleck expelled newspaper correspondents from
his army. Although Gen. Halleck appears to be
at a loss to know to wh»t point the Confederates
from Connth have retreated, the correspondent
of the New York “Herald” has some speculations
on the subject which may possibly tend to a so
lution of the mysterv. After describing the topo
graphical features of the country arouca Corinth,
he alludes to a succession of ridges about twenty
miles south of Corinth, and at right angles with
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. “These ridges,”
he adds, “it is said have been heavily for
tified by the Confederates, and it is probable that
Beauregard mar make a stand there, in order to
draw Halleck after him ; when, bv a flank move
ment ia our rear, be will foree us to right-about
face, and fight our way back to the river/’
“My son, what would you do if your father
was taken away from you?” “Sware and
chaw tobacker.”’