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A manly and eloquent protest against aboli tion fanaticism, and its .malignant schemes of Southern subjugation, is embodied 11. the late remarkable speech of Ben'Wood, of New York in the Yankee Congress. To be sure, the lead ing aim and object of the speech is purely yjs ionary, and in the highest degree Quixotic. It m the reconstruction of the Union, and a resto ration of fraternal relations between the dis severed State". His theory is that it is not too late for the victorious North to propitiate the South by a tender of the olive branch, and tnatthe hour has arrived for the Yankee Gov ernment to sheathe the sword and resort to tho peaaeful weapons of friendly words and af fectionate entreaty. We can but smile at the romantic cradulity that can suppose it possible that the fathomless gulf of hatred which now divides the two confederacies ev6r be bridged over by soft words, or that the South will even stop to parley on a proposition which ignores her independent nationality. But the speech is not the-less interesting as exhib iting a single phase of Northern sentiment, though it speaks the voice of but a handful. If is also significant as shewing that there docs still exist at the North some spark 3of manly and defiant scorn of that despotism which has filled Northern besides with political victims. We will in our next issue publish Mr. Wood's speech,'with further conafiien’s. tromthe Richmond i) June 2 \iih. THE LINES atC- The comparative quiet and peace bo tong reign* jug at our lines have not been disturbed for ihe wwt few days by any event worthy of more than passing mention; skirmishing has been constant daily at divers points.but in no instance have these encounters in the timber jeaulted id anything more than the capture of a few prisoners and the extinction of the eu*uiy’9 hopes to advance. Great boldness have charactenred the doings ot our men in these daily adventures—some few have been rash enough to penetrate the outer camps «t the toe, and having driven everything before them, returned with trophies of every im aginable description. Brave and characteristic as these episodes were,they have all been discoun tenauced by officers, and properl t bo ; for picket duty is dangerous enough in itself, and does not call for or need (save by orders,) any ot those dashing feats commendable aud common on the battle held. But not only ?n the infantry arm of the service have our men proved themselves superior to the foe—the artillery have amused themselves greatly, and practiced with much accuracy and elfect upon the numerous breast, held, aud horn works thrown up on the • Federal Iront. Since Captain Dabney’s efforts ora Friday last, with heavy pieces, which caused a lodicr<<us siampede from Federal artillery and infantry camps, it was surmised that their obnox ious presence would no longer disgrace the lovely face of the landscape on the north bank of the Chick a hominy ; yet, numerous and impudent as ever, they agai • appeared in working parties on Baturday aud Monday, presenting fair scope and practice for some artillerists, who, moving de liberately to the front, near Garnet;* farm, shelled the enemy fr<»m their excavations, and expedited their departure from the knolls and woods with much effect. Shell from our pieces could be plainly see 1 bursting among the enemy, and although they bravely withstood our can nonade for some short time, expecting the arrival of U. H. artillery, no relief came, and they lauda bly imitated the race jf their friends &c Friday last The artillery of the’enemy, though admirably worked and served when uoi face to face with <sjrß, is handled with uncommon wildness and icd precision when any of our batteries aopear to dispute the ground. Hence little ia usually done, and the cost or r.•*»!>»* Ih merely a tteeliss expenditure of powder. Brisk artillery tire was mam tamed by the foe upon our out post* 00 the Mechanicsville road yesterday, but, although the raDge of some halt dozen shells was deter mned with great mathematical nicely, a few fell harmlessly, uuexploded, while the frag ments of another slightly wounded a negro.em ployed upon some ot our works. Two shells damaged one of our breastworks slightly, but more than thiß no damage was done m this quarter. Dense columns of smoke were ascending over the enemy’* position yesterday -various reasoos were assigned for this unusual spectacle, but the true cause is beat known to those ot our chiefs in command. It would not be wise in us, per* haps, even to hazard a conjecture. We are informed that some of our officers, de tailed on picket service, have shown themselves negligent and blameworthy, insomuch that either from carelessucss or ignoraoce.of the grounds, picket panic* from the different regiment* have fired at each other, and 10 on» instance with loss. Any fauxpis of this nature, within the immediate neighborhood of the enemy, is worthy of com* meat and punishment. If the topography of the place :a not known to officer* encamped within guu-*ahot, for week* together, and nscles* mortali ty ensue troni want of this requisite information, bow can it be expected that tpesame officers will •ucc< sstulJy handle or xn-.mceuvre force*—-if only oompames~on the ground*, should exigencies rwj ure it at*any inom-nt of night or day? It is tune buch negligence should cease. Our loss wad more than necessary at Yorktown Lines from this cause Lives rre v> precious to be uselessly sacrificed in this mauaer, and anv tration of officers shoe Id De severely punisehd. Indications of activity and liveliness prevail »o ail our camps —bustle, good humor, and bouy aocy is seen iD every section, and marked on every lew ure -order l;es dash to and fro: bo Jem 11 and dusty Colonels, and others, are all found at tbeir posts, and while all is industry beyond the city, wnat a reproach «.* this to the tmsUd butter flies, gaudy in color and braid, lounging about at pillar and post frothy in warlike speech, put loth I to manly action ? What Jackson Has Dunk.—He has “upset and endangered" great Federal movements and car* ned universal ivg»et and universal consternation to the heart ot the universal Yankee nation, a* will be bv the following ingenuous para • graph from the New York “Express”: stonewall Jackson’s escape. We regret to see that the Rebel general Jack son. with the greater part, if not all, of his force,* has escaped from the triangle of Geuerals we had hoped to entangle him in, vjz : Fremont, from over the mountains, {Shields, from the.Shenan-' doub, aqd Banks, from the Potomac —and the . deeper >» th-* reg ft, because the pursuit of him has upset and eudangured other greater moves meats. Jackson, Monday night, was at New Market, Shenandoah county, and was rapidly mak og his way to the Staunton Railroad, whence he can ‘‘skedaddle’' by steam—and so we have lost him, and ptobably our prisoners, whom he had with him.— Petersburg Express, 24 th. Affairs on Jamks'lsland.—All was quiet on the Island Tuesday. The pickets of both sides occupy their old posi tion* and are in sight of each other, but by a mu* tuaJ understand»ng fe f rain from firing. CkarUtUm Courier June 25. Pricks of Cotton.—l be prices now paid are generally from 11 to 14 cent*. Inferior or very fine qualities might go below or above these quotations. All-offered at the market prices will find purchasers. Macon Journal dt Messenger, June 25. Do Hblp Him . —Ou»*-friend Turner mak*»s a very fair and pressing appeal to his brother Printers, j Her" is what he wavs: Will not some good brother printer sell me, as ’ b special lavor, a few pounds of leads, 18 ems, oog primer. Bto pica ? You can’t tell how urate- j fcl such 9. f ever would make me- • Chattanooga, June 21,1882. Col. Davis’ command crossed the river yester* day evening at the Narrows, three miles above Shell Mound, and proceeded to make a reconnois ance towards Jasper, which 13 opposite Shell Mound, three miles from the Tennessee nve.*. Our sharpshooters this morning soon encounter ed the enemy’s p>cket*, when some lively skir-% mishing took place, which was kept up at inver* yals during the day, I learn from information just received that there was heavy firing this. afternooD, and that several of the enemy were killed and wounded, one officer, and four others tr-ken prisoners. The former was shot seven timts and bad his horse killed before be was takeu. Our less is oner.an killed and four wounded. I enclose you a Naahville.“Union” of the 11th and an “Illustrated News” of the 14th. The tone of the forn*er is becoming more insolent than ever, it- editor, S. C. Mercer, being one of the blackest in principles and heart of the Lin coln abolitionists. I should not be surprised if Morgan took a fancy to this fellow yet, one of these fine daySj and cut hi 9 comb for him. Nowithatanfling ihe act of Congress to ihe con trary, prohibiting the trading with any town in the possession of the Y'ankee forces, by our citi zens, lots of contraband goods almost daily come through from Nashville, via McMinnville, bought by the Jews, all of which is subject to seizure and confiscation. A large lot passed through here to-day fer Mobile, and yet no seizure is made.' If this trading is Dot soon stopped there will be no such thing as safety within our lines. These men of course have no interest in our country except to make money, and extort from us the most .enormous prices, and consequently give information on both sides. At such a critical time us this no passes should be given to persons to cross the river, especially to those who are not very deeply interested id our cause. The plot would seem t o. be thickening in East Tennessee, and the signs are that matters will become daily more interesting. The evacuation of Cumberland Gap rather Mirprised the enemy, and has been a stumbling block to them, which they cannot exactly understand. Such have been ihe movements here, that it would have been im prudent to make mention of them, and even now it is not judicious to say what is going on. I perceive tny dispatches are most awfully mur dered by the 'telegraph operators before they reach you. They make !*,lX>o for 8,000, and get names mixed up in a most crazy manner. Ora. MobiU Eve. Stic*. June 28 d. j Memphis Intelligence.—The following items are from Memphis papers of the 17th The city postoffice was opened yesterday, hot little, i! any, business was done in the way of de> livery. Twelve hundred letters were mailed.— There was no lets than thirty applications from citizens of Memphis for clerkships in the p >st ofifice. Some twenty boats were in port with immense cargoes; the Glendale from Cincinnati, and the Commercial from Louisville, brought down near two hundred shippers, an overwhelming number Ilf whom are Israelites. The river has risen fully three feet, and is still swelling slowly. JThe rise is from the Missouri, assisted by the Ohio.— Freights had to be removed rapidly to keep them out of reach of Water- Runaways abound; a goodly number have been arrested, and scarcely a day passes that the police do not thke up a score. Col. BHet left for Cairo yesterday afternoon. He was wounded by a pistol in the recent tight, the ball striking near the knee and rauging up ward. Shortly afterward he was taken wuh the measles, end is quite ill. • tW We clip the following paragraphs frcm the Savannah “Republican/’ of June 23. Death of an Oglethorpe.— We regret to Ibarn, from parties who went down to Cocksuur, under flat* ot truce, some days ago, that L W. Landei* shine, First Sergeant of ihe Oglethorpe L>ght In Company 3, and who was lelt at the Fort in the capacity of Hospital Steward, died some three weeks since end was buried on the island, ills disease was con»*»patJon ot ihe bowels. We ui». c ituii hL? hear!»aurwa«n maii.r a* deep affliction. Rf connoissance on Wilmjnbtom.—We are re quested toetate, that. Capt. J. G. Owen, ol Company H t 29th Georgia, with nine men, and not Lieut. Hooper, of the Berry Infantry, leconitered Wile mington Isiand Thursday last. There were no Yankees on the Island. The cattle, hogs, fowls, Ac., on the Island, together with the furniture, ware, Ac., in the houses, weie untouch ed. A Confederate prisoner, on parole, who reo cently arrived at Richmond from McClellan's hues, says a New York “Herald ' was taken troni him, which contained a paragraph to the effect that the French Emperor hud written an auto graph letter to Queen Victoria, which was trans mitted by Count Persiguy in person, and was supposed to refer to c’ouon and the Confederacy He stated further, tbat just before be lelt Fortress Monroe, a Yankee Paymaster came in and said that he was on the tram fired into by Stuart in his Jate circuit, and on the flat wtere he was six were killed and thirty wouuded He jumped out and ran ;way as bard as he could, leaving on the cars $172,000 in gold, which he thinks was lost in the Pamunkey, towards which the train was hastening wuh the velucity of lightning, without an engineer to atop it. Importajt* Arrest.—The Petersburg “Express/ of Friday, states that an important arrest whs made on the Beaboard t r ain Wednesday, while the cars were crossing the bridge at Weldon on their up trip. A suspicious looking character having attracted the attention of our guard on the train, he was seiz d and searched. A large quantity of letters from Norfolk, to supposed Union men in Eastern Carolina, were found on bis person ; also a passport from Gen Wool, and a document certifying ihat the bearer had taken the oath of allegiance to the Lincoln Government, and was a go< d and loyal citizen thereof. Un*- fortunately, the emissary threw awav two letters when first seized, which float* d down the Bo&n noke, and were not lecovered. We have been unable to ascertain any further particulars, but it is believed tbat his arrest will place our authori ties in possession of most important information at this peculiar juncture of affairs. Movement op the Enkmy TowAtbs Weldon.— The Petersburg “Express” learns, from a source entitled to the fullest credit, that Yankee troops, to the number ot 6,000, have advanced from Nor folk and Suffo’k to a point on the seaboard rail road, krown as the Franklin Depot, 50 miles from Portsmouth and 30 from Weldon, 'Lhe aim of this force is,beyond doubt, to advance to Weldon and cut off railroad connection at that place wiih Petersburg aDd Richmond. At Weldon the r< JPfs from Wilmington, and Raleigh, and Petersburg converge. It is an important position, and, of course, will b#held by our forces at all hazards. We have no informa'ion as ?o the preparations to receive them, but believe that our authorities will see to it that they are ampla. Sad News prom Pittsburg.—Dr. Blackman re turned last night from Pittsburg, coming up op the Superior to New Albany, and from thence by rail. The Superior has on board 555 sick and wounded, and, unable to come up the river over the Falla, she will discharge her load below and return to-the Tennessee. Dr. Blackman stales that the banks of the Tennessee river are covered by the sick soldiers, to be counted by thousands upon thousands. They are necessarily poorly provided for, and the boats are leaving hourly crowded with the invalids. The weather is very hot, and the sickness is rapidly increasing, Gen Haileck has made bis arrangements not to bring his wounded at the battle of Corinth from the field, bnt they will be cared for at Corinth. The roads were wretched, and our troops enduring all k inds of privations and hardships to reach the enemy’s fortifications. Dr. Blackman is still Brigade Surgeon of the army, the Secretary of War refusing to accept his resignation. LoviwiiU Journal. The Richmoaa "Enquirer” gives an sxplana : tien of the reason why our Government refused to receive the Privateersmen brought to City i Point by the enemy to be exchanged. These Privateersmen, it will be recollected, were origi ■ nally held and treated by the enemy as Pirates. . Some of them were tried as such and condemned i to be hanged. When .information of this fact i reached the President, he caused the Lincoln L Government to be notified that if this sentence • was executed, a signal retaliation wo'rid be taken i by visiting a similar fate upon prominent l | els of war m our hands. "The President,” the “Enquirer” says, “in the selection of hostages, ! did not coniine himself to the military equals of j our Privateersmen. He did not match private ■ , against private, and officer against officer of j equal rank. His purpose being to restrain a bui f barity, be very properly and judiciously inform* ed the enemy that they should suffer more than ' they inflicted, if they persevered in their atro f cious purpose. And,"indeed, it would have re quired more than a military equivalent to satisfy ! the justice of the case; tor we should have had both a victim to avenge, and an unprovoked bar barity to punish. In selecting hostages, there fore, we laid hands on 'he enemy's Colonels and Majors and Captains.” The prompt and energetic action of the President had the desired effect. J The Privateersmen were not hung—but, in the course of time, came a proposition to exchange them as prisoners of war. The Yankee scheme was to exchange them for the very hostages that had been selected, because of lheir superior rank to deter the enemy from executing their barbar ous designs against tbe Privateersmen. Os course, this would have been no fair exchange, and was Dot thought of. Tbe enemy pretend, notwithstanding, that this was agreed to by Gen! Huger, with whom the negotiation was icnduet ed. This the "Enquirer” does not credit, uor can we. But such were tbe conditions on which it was proposed to deliver up the Privateersmen and which were declined by our Government, The French Arht Beer.—A correspondent translates the following recipe of the b’eer that has been introduced into the French army upon tbe recommendation of the Medical Board. It is described as a very wholesome beverage of pleasant and refreshing taste, and proinotiig digestion in a remarkable degree It may prove an agreeable beverage both in and outside of the army: i Water 100 litres. about lOOqrtß. j Molasses 500 grammes “ l lb. j Hops 100 •* " 3 ozs. ! Marshmallow root. 50 '* IVj •• Yeast 5q •* •* “ Make an infusion of the hops and Marshmallow root with about twenty times their weight of the boiling water. Another part ol the water is used to dilute the molasses and another to dilute the yeast. All the fluid are then mixed and put into a vessel for fermentation. After live or six days it will be ready for use. The following modification of the recipe may somethneß be preferable, ■ Water....... 100 litres 100 quarts. Huney 800 grammes 1 lb. 10 ox. j Brown Sugar.. 800 " 1•• 10“ Hop.- ~800 “ —9“ Yeast ..50 “ Gen. Randolph “Blockaded"!—One afternoon last week, our estimable Secretary of War, Gen. George W. Kuudolph, visited the liDea below Ricliumud, and alter spending an ugreeable | hour or two at Gen. Lees headquarters, started! for the city. He proceeded without interruption 1 until he n ashed the picket’s peat on tbe "Nine 1 Mile Hoad,” where he loond several citizens who : were returning from a visit to the camp. They had been stopped by tbe sentinel who informed J them that his orders were to allow no one to pass j in or out of the lines, who did not give Ihe coun ! tereign. Gen. R. informed Ihe jacket that he ! was tbe Secretary of War, and that the orders be ! had received could not apply to him. Tbe solo ! dier replied that he did not know whether he was Secretary of War hr not—a Yankee spy might j say the same thing; but be that as it may, his orders worn to allow no one to pass who could Dot give the cuuomrsign, and having a ball and two ooex mo; if-. ’nk musket, be wool a ehluree the observauce of the orders by all comers and goers. Here was ahx for a party of gentlemen with nigbt coming on, and a heavy drizzle of rain de» sct-nd.og. The officer of the day was called, but he could do nothmg, as the Adjutant of the post i had neglected to obtain the countersign from j headquarters. At length somebody rode to bead ] quarters, about a mile distant, and returned with the countersign. The Hecretary and the other J camp visitors were then released, and went on them way rejoicing, though, previously, it is said, some of them were, naturally enough, in & very bad humor, believing that the seminel had exceeded his duty. A somewhat Similar incident is related of Na poleon He tried to pass one of the Bentincls, but the Old Guard told b in he could not pass without Ihe countersign, it he weie the “Little Corporal himself - meaning Napoleon- The sen tinel was rewarded by Napoleon for his fidelity to his trust bv the decoration of the Legion of Hon or.— Richmond, Whig, June 28. Corn in Houth-western Gkohoia—lt will be gratifying lo a large portion (d our people (specu lators excepted) to know that an immense crop ol corn is now nearly matured in all our south weetern counties. All the fields planted early j are passed the contingency of a drought, and tbe graiu is gelling hard, ihe latter planting baa j every prospect of an equal y.eld. We have the assurance of planters wno are cultivating im meuse fields of it, that in three or four weeks the prices will not be over fllty cents id Albany land that it has been off-red to be engaged at that price). Hhould as favorable seasons cons tmue to mature the eDtire crop, the price will be much less. L may not seem an ex travagant conclusion to -say, that tbe crops ot a lew "counties will be equal to that ol the entire spate last year when it is taken m'o Con sideration that the immense cotton fields ol that region ure nearly all in corn of tbe Ilneßt quality -aod that at a reasonable calculation, lorty bushels of com will be produced in ptaco ol each bale ol colton. Therelore, every planter will have corn lor sale in thut ratio, after deducting his suppoit. Crops will be on the market very aoou ol from a hundred to a hundred thousand bush- I els. Those who Lave been hoarding up their old com to get trom two to three dollars per bush el, might as well “shell out” at whatever they can get, as the blessing of Providence is now '.he curse awarded to their greed lor a "little more * lucre. Let no one purchase corn who can av id it for the next four weeks. For corn and corn meal one dollar and ninety cents lo two dollars and ien per bushel is asked. ; and, from necessity, paid by us Let no one now bring it here expecting suen prices, as ihe game of extortion by tbe producer and merchant spec- ! : ulator on the consumer is about played out. Mac'jn J’jur. <£ Meittfeger, 25 tk. j ATTEMPT TO BORN ANOTHER FACTORY. I The Atlanta “Southern Confederacy," of June I i 25th, has the following: Fire at Newton Factory —N. N. Edge, Esq., j Agent of the Newton Facto, y, writes us that at 7 o’clock on the evening of the 22d instant the alarm of fire was given, when it was discovered that the cotton mill was burning: the North end of tbe card room being in a maze inside, and tbe whole building full of beat and smoke. All was thought lo be lost, but through the prompt ness ams self-possession of the few men now i there, and tbe heroism of tbe women and girls, tbe fire was put out—doing but little damage, except a day or two's lost time in re-aranging. j How tbe fire originated is not known. Plant.—Never give over planting while the season lasts. Continue to press the good motoec earth to the extent of your abilities. Plant mere corn and more peas Prepare for large turnip crops. Set nut more polato-alipe. Neglect no thing that you can do to enlarge the crops of subsistence. Ktigefieid (3, C.) Adterluor, June 26. FROM M’CLELLAH'S ARMY. h*ve conversed with a gentleman who has recently left the immediate rear of McClellan’s r rm -DA“ w in ,he flkfi ds of McClellan’s sut lers Philadelphia papers of last Thursday. They contain full accounts of tbe "guerrilla raid” of Gen. Stuart, and, confess to much loss of property, and the taking of several prisoners by our troops. These papers slate that the train which was fired upon at Tunstall’s contained three Brigadier Generals, many Colonels, and several Captains and Lieutenants. They ac , knowledge that several were k'iied, but that the loss ot life was not so great as it would have been Had tbe men on this oceaaion rode on top of the cars, as had been I heir custom, instead of inside they deny that tbe engineer was killed. Tbev congratulate themselves that the “guerrilla band headed by the rebel Stuart, did not go to the White House, on the Patnunkev, instead of Gar lick’s Landing. At the White House were several millions worth : of Commissary stores, while lour miles aoovl ! where the "rebels” did go, the stores were com* ; paratively valueless. They say they took a rebel ; prisoner, who had not seen a drop of whiskey ft r many months. This they infer from the"fact | that as soon as he did come across tbe ardent at ! a sutler’s tent, be became beastly drunk, and re j vc-aled many important laets, which tbe Yan -1 kess claim will prove of great importance to , them. Many other ridiculous lies are related J and strong ttireatß are thrown out as to what the i Yankees will do, it the visit should be repeated. As an evidence of their chagrin at the surprise, they have arrested several prominent citizens of ; N’ew Kent county, and sent them to Fortress Monroe. j Among the number we hear the name of Hr. 1 Harrison and Mr. Pearce. The lafb-r is Common wealth's Attorney for the counties of New Kent and Charles City. The Yankees ibemseives admit a 109. Sat the two day's tight at Seven Pines, in killed and wounded, missing and demoralized, of 40,000. Casey’s division had been completely lost to the Federal service. Such as survived "tbo terrible conflict* were so demoralized, that McClellan bas caused them to be paid off and dismissed from [ the service This information is obtained from a ! sutler in the Federal service, and is given to us I as entirely reliable. | Our informant visited the battle field the day after tne fight, and says he hopes to be spared | the pair, of ever again witnessing such scenes. Tbe dead, the dying, audjthe wounded, were to be seen in all directions for miles, and many days I elapsed before they were perceptibly diminished. The officers nor privates of the Federal army do not attempt to disguise the tact that it was a ter rible blow to them, and such an one as they do not wish to see again repeated during the war. Tb# Y’ankees claim to have a force of 300,000 on the Chickahnminy, but our informant knows this to be a gross exaggeration. At all events, be it what it may, it is now positively Ibowd that they do not contemplate a march to Richmond I by this route unless aid can be secured from the j river. They have sent for Porter’s mnrtar fleet, ) and with this and the co-opera Von or Burnside’ j they hope to reduce ibe batteries at Drewry’s Bluff. Tbe great body of McClellan’s foroes are massed on both sides of the Chickahnminy and in daily fear of an attack. jTrom the Petersburg \,Va.) Express, 0/ June 34. FROM THE NORTH. | We are indebted to a friend for a copy of the Baltimore “Hun" of Wednesday last, 18th. We I copy its article beaded THE WAR NEWS. Wince the recent movements of the Confeder- J ales in the rear of Gen. McClellan's army, it has j been ascertained that there are other bodies of i their troops on the North side of the Panutokev, ! believed to be awaiting opportunities to destroy I such Fedbrt! shipping" as e 'me up laden with I ; supplies for the army. On .Sunday a party was at Charles City Court | j House, Dear tbe James River. The next" day it i wus reported that the -ame body appeared in the j I neighborhood of Wilhajitburg Sums of the ! most prominent citizens of the Peninsula have I I ueen arreaveo —n the - :f*piei».« «.# carryrup infer- ' l mation to the Couledei ate-. An attempt has been made by the Confederal- s to drive in the | pickets ofGeu. Heintzelman’s div sum. so that ! the position of that portion of the Federal army . could beascertatned, but without success. A few were wounded but none killed on either side. A dispatcn from McClellan’s headquarters yeßterday : afternoon slates no special army moyements hud | taken place. A party ot Confederates were sur prised on Monday at Ashland, on tbe Fredericks burg railroad, 14 miles trom Richmond. ! From a dißpatch dated W-uchester, Hundav, the 15th inst , it appears that Gen. Fremont’s army was then at Mount Jackson, with the Con federate pickets a few miles in advance. Heavy firing was heard in tbe Luray Valley, opposite ■ Mount Jackson, on Haturday night, and it is be. ! lievi-dthat a reconnoisance ot Oen. Jackson’s' ! army had overtaken Gen. Shields' command, j and a battle been fought, with what result is not I known. Becessiom-ts in the ne'gbborhood of Mount Jackson state that Geo. Jxcksoh bas been largely reinforced, and that be is advancing ' down the Luray Valiev, keeping only a small j force in front of Gen. Krenrmnl. The £nug if Saturday night goes to c. ; r.6rm this statement. Wa will give to-morrow a detailed account of the “Raid” rear tbe White House, as it is termed bv a correspondent of the Philadelphia ' Press. It acknowledges the capture of b nutnberof wag ons and mules, and the horsing of two vessels— tbe Island Oity and Whitmen Phillipps. These two vessels, atibnugh buifiDg Pom York, sailed from Baltimore, and had on board corn and oats for the army besides a u-unbar of catlle on deck Tbe Bchooner David A. Berry, also from Haiti more, was cm loose and drifted down the stream, ihus escaping theflimes, The cattle on the two burned vessels had be-n 'aeded before tbe Con federates appeared. About 1,500 bales ol hay lying on the shore, it is retorted were also burned. Tbe writer for the “Frees” says the i\t tackmg party was a porlir-n, if Dot the whole of the Ist Virginia cavalry, under General Siuart, and that they crossed tje Pamunkey from Prince William county to Oarlick’s Landing, four miles aoove Ihe Whits House, where they huroed the vessels, and captured and destroyed ether pro perty Tbe killed and wounded, the writer says, ! will not exceed 25, and among tbe seriousl. ! woundad is Oapl. Royal, of Company C. A lew are missing, but it is thought that these will come in. Minute Machinery.—A correspondent of the “Times,” writing from L ondon, says : The most exiraordina-y marhine in the exhibis | tion is beyond question the one lor microscopic . writing. This enables a person to write in tbe i usual way, and duplicate his writing a milium ■ times smaller; so small indeed that it is invisible to tbe naked eye; yet with a powerful microscope j becomes so plain that every line and dot can be ! seen. The inventor claims that with this instrol ; meDt be can copy the entire Bible twenty-two times in the space -f an inch. The A-stor Lihra j TV, I presume, eou’d be transferred to a sheet of ; note paper Practically it will be of great service jin preventing forgeries. Witbooeof those ran climes a private mark can be put on bills so m - nute and perfect that tlie forger can neither per. ceive nor imitate it, but th» bank clerk or broksr knowing where to look can at cnee detec* that ihe qill is genuine. The machine is the invention t f a Mr. Peters. Ri'OOOLc’s Battirt—Tbe battery captured from Shields, in his late ergigemeot with Gee. Jackson, we learn, was the celebrated batteiy commanded by the lftmented|RiDggold, in Mexio. j Thus have we, by the valor of our troops, been ! placed in possession of both the Bragg and Rinr j gold batteries. Halt.—Tbe prospect of obtaining asuppiy of - sail is daily becoming brighter Salt works in Virginia are turning not 8,000 bushels of salt pe day—works ia Clark county. Alabama, sre produ cing one hundred bushels per dnv, and will soo« give a much larger yield. Works are being e* tablished in Georgia and other scab wd Sutee, which will soon greatly increase the stock of salt Chari,tton Courier, Jvne 26. PIT ALB AT RICHMOND. VA UiT ENTERED AT TBI lgT GEORGIA HOSPITxi. Jf«tß 12th, 1862. F W XSr wood, co E, 18th G», sick. H M Chandler, co C, 15lh ©*., eick. M C Wooten, co G, 2d Ga., prir quarters, sick W M Conyer, co A, 3d Ga., do do do Asa Murray, co E, 45th Ga., do do do John Anderson, co C, 4 th Gao sick. David Quarles, co K, 23d Ga., sick. Joe Newsom, co D, 18th Ga., sick. J W Fowler, co G, 18th Ga., sick. W H Waldrop, co B, do do do A J Sawier, co F, do do do J A Jackson, co F, do do do ENTERED 13TB JUNE. J C Yarbroogh, co I, 4th Oa. T J Beach, co A, 4th Ga. T Motes, co E, Bth Ga. G L Vaughn, co G, 4Stb Ga. Capt G W Wimberly, co K, 11th Ga D A Presley, co D, sth 8 C. Dt J R McCrary, co E. 9th Ga. El A J McMurrv, co K, 18th Gi. DIED 13TB JUNE. A Reed, co K, 19tb-Gu, eick. J A S Oxner, co D, sth 8 C, wr uudec , „ „ admitted June 14. J G Hester, co E, 4th Ga. J E Richardson, co E, 4'h Ga. A .1 I.orand, co E, ISth Ga. i John Tompkins, co E, 48th Ga ' W Cocktao, co K, 27th Ga. i Louis Ashbrook, co K. 27th G ' T M Duke, co F, 27th Ga. ! K H Kellum, co K. 27ih Ga, | Jas Knight, co D, 48tfc Ga. E M Perry, co G, 6th Ga. j 8 Lewis, co A. 6th Ga. Jesse Bennett, co A, 6th Ga. j J M McCook, co A, 6th Ga. W S Huggings, co B. 6th Ga. I J H Climer, eoB, 6th Ga. Wiley Parrett, co J, 3d Ga. Adam Russell, co G, 3d Ga. G H Bmith, co J, 3d Ga. H A White, co K, 3d Ga. J 8 Bowline, co C, 3d Ga. J W Lankford, Co C, 3dGa AH sick. DBATHS, Lieut A Feiton, co C, Ist 8 C, wounded W W Coudv, co K. 49th Ga, “ Morris Derby, co K, Bth Ga, sick. JUNE 15th. R A Solomon, col, 6th Oa, sick J Chapman, col, 6th Ga, sick. Wm Brown, co F, 24th Ga, wounded. C M Foucbe, co A, Bth Ga. 8 T Jackson, co E, 6th Ga. J G Heard, co C, 48th Ga. F F Pearson, co C, 48th Ga. All sick. No deaths on the 15th. jcne 16th. Lieut J D Ford, co G, 22d Ga. Wm Armstrong, co D, 4th Ga. J D Lovett, co C, 26th Ga. M F Barksdal, co E, 4th Ga. R Mitchell, co B, 15th Ga. W D Street, co I, l»tb Miss. G M Gutlbert, Reed’s artillery, Fla. J P Sullivan, co C, Ist S C. J W McLaudir, co B. 13th Ala. All sick. W W Harrison, co K, 40th Va. died. Lite is the English Work Houses.—Some douubts having been expressed by the British Board of Guardians and others concerning the truth of statements before the committee of the British House of Commons relative to the usage experienced by the work house boys in the Brita tsh and tttapletou Union, William Isgrores, in a . letter to one oi the British papers, states the res ! suit of his own experience as a work house bov, whose unfortuoale lot was cast there during a | period of six years—lrom the ytat 1831 to 1837. He says i “My first offence was spending three halfpence out of sixpence that my uncle gave tue,for which the nurse, (whose came I giro you) gave me a severe bealtug, anJ took the re maining f iurpence halfpenny Irom me and kept w-dt, ovceutß l did not lav out my ntonev with her. And for looking at her husband eating his dinner, she pushed a spoonful of mustard in mv mouth. For the least offence she would make u'g march round the table with poker, tongs and fire shovel, or anything that was beavv, holding them up over our heads , and if Irom fatigue we should let them rest upon our shoulders, she would beat us. 1 have seen more than a doien at a time doing it, and if her husbatd should come in dur ing the‘table march’he would make fun of us by saying, “Well my little ’Linox,’ what have you been doing to-day?’ And at other times she would beat us wrneu naked with a bed rope and frequently has the boy she was beaung been held stretched out by four boys, holding the sufferer by each arm and leg. We were allowed suettypudamg and treacle every other Sunday. She would keep back part of our treacle, with the crumbs to ’ maXe bread pudding, and make those boys who had any money buy it of her. We were allowed two pence each at fair times, which she would make us lay out with her for gingerbread, Ac. At the time of the cholera we were put out in the country with different people, which I am Ituppy to say closed my acquaintance iv:th the nurse anil her husband. Alter the epidemic was over we were called io and sent to Stapleton Asylum under another nurse (whose name I lurriislijand school master Davis; but prstoring tbekmd treatment l had received from Mrs. Harris, ol Longwell’s green, to the unkind treatment I had before ex perienced, 1 runaway back to Mrs. Harris, who kmdlv kept me a few days, although a poor wo man. W hen 1 was taken to the asylum ] was beat wiih a birch, being held upon another boy’s back and my meat was stopped for a wtok. Many other boys ranaway at different turns, aod when they returned they were severely hogged, aud dressed in clothes made with stripes, yellow and gray, and various colors, and put in ‘letters’ (apair of stocks), and had their heads shaved on one side from the pole to the centre of the fore* head, and their meat stopped, and were told it was nos for going away, but tin returning they were pun ished. i have frequently seen the secs end nurse dip boys’heads in the utensils that Wf re kept in the ward, and the ulth would be banging about their hair when they were taken out. I could enumerate many other circumstances ces ol ill - treatment, but will not further trespass upon your columns at present. 1 ’ A good story is told or the Rev. Dr. Mullins the well known pastor of St. Patrick's churcL in New Orleans. He was known to be a hitler see cessiontst in leeling, and, on account of his well known blunmess of speech, many of his triends hared that he would heoueof the first consigned by Butler to a dungeon. Soon aft-r the occu pation ot the city by the enemy he was sent for by a Yaukee officer to perforin the burial service over one of the Northern soldiers who had died. To this request Dr. Mullins acceeded. The sers vice being over, the Yankee officer was profuse in bis expression of thanks. The reverend gen tleman, however, cut the conversation short by blandly informing him that there was no obli's gallon at all in the matter, and that he would, if required, take pleasure in burying the entire Y’ankee garrison. 6’4*m. Mercury. £'■#"" The Norfolk “Daily Union’’ calls at tention to the approaching charter election tn that city, and says that the people will be called upon to choose a city government composed of loyal men-Bot traitors. The English of which is, to elect Yankee Hoodies. CoMtikHriAi..—The following is the “Herald’s ’ - commercial article of the 17th : | The stock market was greatly excited on Sat urday. The ma, ket closed buoyant. Money 1 was very easy; call lost 3 a 4 per cent. Exchange closed at 116,V for th» steamer, hut afterwards bankers refused to sell under 117 - Gold rose to 106%. The cotton market opene 1 without animation ou Ea*urday, with limited sates, which embraced about 2uo bales in small lots, at 81 a 31%c. for middling uplands. . After the receipt of the for eign news, announcing an advance in Liverpool, j holders manifested increased confidence and firmness.