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m SOUTHER* FIELD AMD FIRESIDE- This excellent literary and agricultural jour, aal continues, under its present able editorial management, its sphere of usefulness as a me diuud of encouraging Southern literature, and furnishing valuable miormatioo to the public. , It should meet with tin most libera! encourage- j roent from the people of the South—as the only , Journal of its kind that has survived the disas- ; trous effects of the existing war, and as a work | of general excellence. Among other articles ot i general mteresi, in the last number, we find t e following article on the subject of salt from the pen of Dr. Lee, the agricultural editor : Caere is Viboinia asd East Tbssessee.— Our trip from Oalton, Ga., via Knoxville to K.cD mond, enables us to say that farmers have aown »o umutual breadth ot ground in wheat; an that east ot Knoxville this important staple promises a moat abundant harvest, From Cass conuty in Georgia to the Capitol of the Old Do* minion, it is a limestone tnd wheat»growmg country nearly all the way. Wbsn we get a little rested, and move out or the crowd, the broad wheat fields, meadows, pas tures and tine stock of this magnificent farming region shall pass in review before of agricultural wealth and prosperity. In Wash* ,-ngton county, Va., we futood the gypsum and Onondaga salt group of rocks fully developed, and the richest salt springs on this continent These springs are in the bands of a close mon* opoiy, wb ) make only 2,500 Jbusbels of. salt per dav, and sell »t at seven dollars a bushel &t the works. The saline fountain is equal, in all fin* man and scientific probability, to the production of 25,000 bushels daily, and at a cost not to ex-, ceed in these war times, 25 cents a bushel. Our business here is to persuade either the State or Confederate Government to take this great natu*- ral depositor salt, into its own hands, and open j up its advantages to all our people. Gov. Letch er is favorable to our views, and if the Confeder ate Government places no obstacles in the wav, we shall soon be making salt at the rate of five million bushels a year. Twenty gp.lions of this br.ee gives a bushel of salt; and weaba'l deliver in freight cars on a good railroad, sixty gallons of this brixe for fifteen cents. A Single train of rarswill takeaway brine enough to make a thou sand bushels of salt. In a word, the State can sell brio* at one tenth the price charged by the bait Manufacturing Company, and make-money, and increase the product of the salines a thou sand per cent above what they now furnish for public consumption. The writer spent three days at the Works, and puts his facts on record for future reference. The State of New \ ork sells brme to make a bushel of salt to everybody that want it, for one cent, to pay for pump work. We clip the foil iwing paragraphs from the Richmond 'Examiner,” June 23. THE RICHMOND LINES ON SATURDiS AND TESTER* fI A y_THE lILLBD AND WOUNDED IN TEE SKIRMISH OT FRIDAY— OPERATIONS TEETERDAT. The operations on Saturday in front of the lines on the Chickahominy were not marked by any demonstrations of moment, sure the occa sional bring of artillery and the picket encoun ters. On Friday morning last an affair of some mo ment took plack between Lane's and Crenshaw's battery (Anderson’s and Oregg’s brigades) und another of the enemy’s on me Mechamcsville turnpike, and nearthe Nine Mile road A shelling operation ofan hour and a halt took place, and resulted in the dri ring of the Yankees from their guns, and our sold ers would have taken posses sion, but lor the fact that the enemy bad heavy reserves posted in riflo pits in the rear of the battery. The l’ulaski Volunteers, from ilawkinsville, Oeor gia, were engaged, and lost three men killed and one wounded. The names of the killed are : J. J. Armstrong, B. C. Lawson and J. Mollis; mortally wounded, L. C. I’. Jones. The casualties were inflicted by the bursting of a ahull. AH ok Iksni belonged to the Eight Georgia Regiment. liolh armies occupy their lioo-of-baltle position taken up several days siuce There was artillery tiring throughout yesterday on the right of our lines, in the direction of New Bridge. It was quite heavy at times, and was participated in by both sides. Our army was in fine-ot-battle lor a portion of the day in anticis nation of a movement of the enemy, but none was random this direction, though it was evident that several of the enemy’s divisions changed their positions. No movement of their forces has occurred in the direction of Drury’s Blufl for several days. They are evidently looking close to their rear, apprehensive of a flank or rear demonstration Buch as Stuart's cavalry served them with last week. Bcbute report the arrival in the James and York rivers of transports, with reinforcements for Me Clellac, who was sending back the sick and wounded in the returning vessels His sick arc very numerous, many thousand hiving been sent into the hospitals at Fortress Monroe and else where since his army took up tls present position on the Chickuhoininy. The indications are that the present week will inaugurate stirring times along the lines. Convalescence or Gen. Johnston. —We are pleased to learn that General Johnston has so far .recovered from the effects of his wound in the battle of the Chickahominy that it is expected that in a week a time he will be able to take the field. He will be welcomed back to his import ant cpminuud mi the Richmond lines w.th re newed and lively public confidence. Gen. Lukino's Comm and.—lntelligence has been received here that the enemy ore still entrenched j at Meadow Itlutf, their force amounting to about i three thousand ineD. Frequent skirmishes had tali n place The enemy's lorays, in one instance, ha extended within twelve tniics of Union, j Monroe county. Valuablb Arrival.—The British steamship | Memphis, Oapt. Oruikshank, from Liverpool via Nassau, (N. P„) arrived here yesterday. She has on board a most valuable cargo of British goods, being precisely such d 9 we staud moet in need of at present. The Memphis had the misfortune, while coining into port on Monday to get ashore od Ue beach of Sullivan’s Island, where she re mained several hours, but was finally towed off by the steamers Marion and fidwan. When she first got aground she was approached by one of the blookaders, which fired a number of shells, meet of which shuck on Sußivan's lei*nd, but none of the.:; h. smo ship. The Yankee gunboat was fine My driven off by a rifled gun on Port Beauregard, which discharged but one shot at her when she retired. The Memphis is a new iron ahip, on her first voyage, and was built at Dumbarton on the Clyde, is a most sightly res •sol, of good speed, about 800 tens register, but capable of carrying the cargo of many a vessel of 1800 tors. She made the passage from Liver, pool to Nassau in sixteen and a ball' days, and was boarded iff Abaco bv the Yankee steamer Quaker City. The Yankee cruiser* keep up-quite a sharp blockade off Nassau, and loarded nearly all vessels bound in or going out. Mr. Ward, late Minister to Chita, and Major Bateman, chme passengers in the .temphis. Charleston (huM'*r June 24. N*il 8. Brown.—A gentleman icfit from Nash ville has related to us an incident followed Neil 8. Brown’sapostacy, which wie calculated to t>.ing,» blush to the cheeks of the dost hardened renegade Brown has three sons , two of them are in the Confederate army, and «oe, a y nth of about fifteen, was at home. Upcfi heariug of his father’s making a Union speed,this noble lad aought him, and hearing the confirmation from bis own lips, not only expressed iis indignation, but declared he could never againpet foot Beneath the parental roof, but would join hi* brothers in defence of the B«uth. We are informed he has kept his word. Knoxville (7V#m.) Etg.iUr y June 21. The Yankees have suppressed the ' Day Book’’ and started in its plaee a miserable, ying little ♦beet called tine Norfolk ••Union. - HOBTHERH ITEMS. A friend who has received a Chicago “Times” | of the l*th inst., baa banded it to us. It con- | tains the proceedings of a grand banquet given to a party of Baltimore visitors, about 150, who arrived the day before, after a fatiguing jotrney by rail of twenty hours. The Baltimore speaker at the banquet said thev visited Chicago not as Southern men. but as Union men, who “desired to see this hell-born rebellion crushed out.” The people of Illinois seem much absorbed in the question of a new Constitution which is about to be voted for. The new Constitution prjhibits banks, prohibits negroes and mulattoes frtm Tot ing and Holding office, excludes them from com ing into and voting in. the State. There ippears to be a bitter war between the bank and ami bank men—between the paper money and the hard money men. The latter are for extluding all paper currency but U. 8. treasury not*. The “Times” contains late dates from most of the Northern cities, but nothing of special in teresl. There is a plethora of money. It Can be borrowed at 5 per cent on real estate sec.rity at Philadelphia. Gold te at % per cent, premium in New York. The coupons due Ist July of va« rious State bonds will be paid in gold. Great confidence appears to prevail that the*re bellion will soon be crushed. Western produce was quoted at the fallowing prices; Corn, 20c. f I'lour, |4 55 to $5 00 per bbl.; Wheat, 75t0 60c.; other articles of proveions id proportion. , Id Cedar co., lows, there wae manufactured last year gallons of Sorghum Syrnp, equal in value to tlt>,2d<l. It is represented that there are at prisent over thirty millions worth of goods in 4>i various bonded warehouses of New York city. The London journals say that turpentine can, by a safe process, be obtained from petroleum at one third the price heretofore paid fo i turpentine from the Carolinus. The Northern painters have, since the war begun %eeu in the hibit of using naptha, oue of the products of the distillation of petroleum. Late Wester* Paper. —We are indebted to the polite and attentive mail agent on the Geor gia Railroad, Mr. Frank M i Is, for a copy of the Cincinnati "Commercial” of June 11th. Ilcon tains several extracts from Southern papers, End a large amount cf Yaikse lies for home con sumption. FROM EAST -F.NSKSfcEL The Knoxville (Tenn.) oenespondert of the Atlanta (Ga.) "Southern Confederacy,” in his letter of June 19th, gives the following account of the Clinch River, to which position General Kirby Smith h as fallen back from Cumberland Gap: It has its source in Tazewell county, Va., run ning through Russel and Seott counties of the same Slate, then passing into Hancock, Ander son and Roane cuuntiie of Tennessee on to Kingston, where it emp'.es into the Tennessee river. For the most part it passes equisdistant from Big Crtek and Cumberland Gaps and the cityol Knoxville. It runs through a rough and mountainous country, and is about the sue of the Etowah, (sometimes called the Hightower,; ot your own Slate. Big Creek Gap is about 58 | miles from Knoxville, and Cumberland Gap up ' wards of 60—the termer being West of the lat -1 ter. The nearest point «f this river to this jluce J is about 16 miles, at Clinton, near its confluence : wuhtte Tennessee. The same writer, in hi» letter of June iidtb, says: | lam safe in saying that our authorities have no j idea of giving up K. Tennessee, so thar, oor Tory friends may rest easy for the present. They | will have due warning of such an event, and when it comes, it It ever should, they cat go 1 to Die bosom of their beloved falher Ab-abwm. | • Wu can now appreciate the t vacuation of the j Gap. While it was a formidable position, yel on ! account of a number ol gaps below this one, which were open to the unobstructed passage of mtautry aud cavalry, and even artillery, we were in a condition to be flanked, aud exposed at the same time to an atlpck in front. Not only so, but it was utterly impossible to provoke them to baxtle. As it is now, they can probably be drawn out imo the plains, away from their mountain retreats, where we can make them realize the effective virtue of bullet and bayonet, when wielded by BoulbeFn pi o wets. Pehut. THE STBTOGLE We believe thai the Confederate cause is strong ! er to-day, in .he vinconquerable spirit of the peo ( pie and in its capacities t >r aucce?sful resistance, j than it has been at any note since the war began, i All the battles of later days, beginning with Shi- j lob, have exhibited a courage and fighting power 1 of the most desperate character. Nothing but j this cau account tor the issue of the battle ol Shi- \ I lob on the second day, for when we come calmly I | to survey the chances of that field, it appears little short o! a miracle that Gen. Beauregard's 1 army was not routed and annihilated. The ene | my outnumbered us two to one. His troops were ' ireah— ours worn outan i exhausted by protracted i exposure, loss of sleep and hard tighnug Never did Southern courage and constancy shine out more resplendently than at Shiloh. The magnifi cent fighting be ore Richmond, the bloody resist ance at James Island, and the splendid career of Stonewall Jackson, all teach the same lesson It is that the liberties ->f the country can only be saved by downright hard fighting and the des j traction of the armies ot our cctmy And our soldiers knew it. Nothing caa be better than the morale of'the Confederate troops Are their officers up to the mark of tb.s noble spirit? Jackson has shown what a vigilant, active and fighting Genera) can do with such troops, and we express but the deep and prevailing sentiment in the public mind that, if all the leaders of our armies were Jacksons, we could drive the foe from Southern soil in sixty days While we art- yet strong and unconquerable m our detensive position, tacts are coming out to prove whai we have some inns believed—that the armed hosts ol our enemies have been over esti mated. We published some figures yesteiday, based upon the estimates of the Massachusetis Senator, Wilson, showing the strength and jv»si tion ol the Federal foroes. Including some 40,(K)0 soldiers doing guard and garrison duty where there is no fighting going on, the total summing up is 500,000 men. If the common allowance is made tor rneti In hospital, on furlough and dis- j charg* d, and lor all ihe fruitful causes to thin 1 regiments in active service, we shall have to rei* | dace the force of the entmy ready for duty to’ something.near or under 4iK).i 00. This is n« t far from an equality wiih the Confederate force, end as the enemy’s fleets have "retiy much done their , worst, we are no longer called upon to ‘fight with i two men against three men and a gunboat.” | We have had many warnings irom the North 1 that the spirit i-f volunteering is ebbed out. The i flurry at Washington and the spasmodic cry for • volunteers to “save the Capital,” when Jackson | was hovering on the Potomac, show both the 1 fright and weakness of the enemy. We conclude I that our prospects were never brighter for i eventually securing the great prize ot indepeu<* 1 dence. The constancy of our troops must worry out the enemy aud break him down in the end.— i The struggle could be made “short, sharp, and j decisive” by a vigorous pursuit ot the system of ! aggressive warfare, initiated and lllnstrated by Stonewall Jackson.—J (ubU* Evening JV<w. Passengers by the steamship Memphis report that the British Government has made a peremp tory demand upon the Yankee authorities or the surrender ot the British steamer Bermuda, cvptured as a prize some time ago. CharUHsn Mttcvry, June 84. THE ENGLISH PRES 3 ON AJUUiII'AJi IT FAIRS. The London “Times’ again indulges in a warning j editorial onj the “financial crista” in America a crisis which oventakes every nation and every individual who believes in the creation of wealth from any other source than honest perseverance and labor. The New York correspondent of the London “Times,” under date of 16th May, considers Gen Hunter’s proclamation as valuable to the Confed erates as an army of half a million of men, and says it will make every man and boy in the South a soldier and have a corresponding effect in Kentucky and the other bordtr States. There are probably thirty thousand men in Gen. Hal - leck’s army who will either lay down their arms or go over to she Confederates, if President Lin** coin should endorse the proclamation. the cotton famine in buhopb— destitution and starvation among the operatives. From the London Times, May 54. * * * A memorial addressed to the Lord Mayor by the Local Relief Committee of Milk* brook, near Staley bridge, and received yes'er** day morning, was read to the meeting by Mr. Gibbs, the Secretary. They stated that the dis trict within which relief had been afforded by them comprised a population of between three , and four thousand inhabitants, ail of whom were entirely dependent upon cotton manufactures for j their subsistence. There, the time employed at ; present was from two and a half to three days j per week, and the employers were stating that they could not long continue at that rate, be- | cause of the heavy weekly losses they were sub- j taming. The present poor rate was double the | usual amount, while the funds of the Relief ! Committee had been exhausted for the last six ; weeks. The resident employers bad, directly i and indirectly, contributed liberally to the relief ol the distressed, whose numbers were weekly j augmenting. At Whitsuntide the employers of ; the districi had long been in the habit of closing j | their establishments for three days, thus afford- j ! ing a season of innocent festivity and recreation ! '.3 the people. This year, however, : t was confidently stated ; that the mills would be closed during the entire j week, which would put it out of the power oi | the operatives to procure the common necessar ies ol life, much less their usual enjoyments. It is a peculiarity of the district that it does not possess that compact and central organization which enables corporate bodies to deal with dis tress. It embraces a large and industrious body of operatives, whose local detachment, though they are suffering in common with their neigh bors, renders them singularly h'eipless in a time of depression. The memorialists bore testimony to the manly and womanly spirit of endurance manifested by the operatives of the district under the most trying circumstances. Never, they added, had the distinguished traits of .the na- I : tion&l character shone out more|bnghtly. Never ! had employers and employed bo practically rec» ! ognized the truth that their interests are identi cal ; and out of its recognition had sprung a I spirit or mutual sacrifice, which had hitherto j enabled them to bear up under a great calamity, j The memorial was accompan ed by a letter from the Rev. W Worth Ho&re, the incumbent I of Htayley, imploring the committee in London to assist them with funds, lie spoke of the great \ patience manifested by the operatives, adding I that no one could know more fully than he, as i the clergyman did, the greatDessof the suffering j ! endured.’ A letter from Mr. Kjnett, Honorary t j Secretary of the Dukinfield Relief Fund, to the . I’ Lord Mayor, received yesterday morning, was ) als read. There, he said, they had i population i of fifteen thousand, and the number employed iu cotton mills iu Dukenfield proper was about 6,000 ! | hands,parning £1 000 a week. In lull time the earn- ' j mgs were about £3,000, showing a neeily decrease | o! £*,ooo. Thin had been the ca*c f r the last I eighteen week-*, during which £36,000 had be*-n . | kept ( fit of circulation. The majority of the mills were only working twenty hours a week in- 1 1 stead of sixty, and one firm, employing one thou- j ' naud Land-, had worked short time since last M»y | Seven Hulls, employing one thousand tire hundred ! j lined*, had entirely stopped. I The weekly returns ol the g lardian* show that j the alP'Wauce lls 4 j*.*.'- w ct»k . ; This the relief committee had ruppl invoted id j I sums averaging Is 6*l per family to '.40 families ' wt*r kly. Their balance was only £SO odd, which, at the present rate *»f distribution, would la3t i four weeks longer. The relief tvaa totally inade quate to the necessities of the cases, aari, unless .“ufticient help came from some quarter, *toe could j not answer for the consequences. A k»w fever was now setting iu, especially among coildren, j } for want of proper food, and the squalid, miner- j j able aspect o! the operatives contrasted very i | tn jcb *■ ith their appearance twelve months *g >. | The workhouse, he added, was now lull, and what j must-btcome of the poor creatures God in His ; mercy only knew. Last Monday, he said, an in- • [ quest was held on a poor woman confined four ] ' weeks ago, who had died from exhaustion purely ' ; for waot of necessary food. There was not a mor- I se! of bread in the house, and the father and feur I I miserable children had famished since j No class of raeu deserved better of the commi nity than the shop keepers, whohaM stood iu ike j breach and averted, in a gnj.it measure, the pre> 1 vailing calamity, relying upon being paid in a ole j prosperous times. W* obtain the following news items fro® * the Petersburg (Va ) “Express,” of June 23d j tVouK did Confederates.— By an arrival fro® j Portsmouth we Lave been placed in ptsseJAioi of the names of the following Confederate pm j oners wh - were wounded at the battle of S*-vm j Pines, and conveyed to the Naval Hospital c«tr I Portsmouth . Fonty Ninth Va.—John Farrar, Perry Owem, Lafayette George U»x, David Butler, VC j *|. Johnson, A. J. McCormick. E:gk'h Alabama.—J N. Dougherty, Thom* ] j Smith and Andmw Quinn. ’ T;vEM tt Seventh Georgia —Wm. H Hagant, Thus. Houghtou aud l sham West, D. J. Craven of Allies., John A. Joms, of 2d Florida, Haiding Spencer, of the 24th Virginia, nnd Callei are al*o at this hospital. Wm. Gilbert, of tht 40th Virginia, who resided near Lynchburg, jj | ihe only death which has occurred. J. N DtUgherty, of the Eighth Alabama, is suffering j greatly from his wounds, but it is thought he wil, j recover. The other patients are all doing well. Some of the Sisters ot Chanty are at this ho* ; pital as nurses, aud the ministers and ladies o' j both Norfolk aud Portsmouth have, permission ! to ®:sit the Confederate wounded. These state’ that the wounded are all doing well and com loriably fixed. The Federal in the some build ing are. in the most instances, very badly wounded, and die at the rate ot about five per day. A Prisoner.—J. Horace Lacy, K.-q., of Stafford county, Va., an to Geu. Gusiavus W. Smith, fell into the bauds of the Yankees last week, while on a visit to his family, who were sojourn i ing at their old residence near Fredericks urg. ■ Every precaution seems to have been taken to I make his visit entirely secret, but treachery some* wn«e betrayed him into the hands of the ever | vigilant loe. Haw Cotton for Paper.— The scarcity of paper • i for brinting purposes has been a source ot great ; vexation throughout the South. This scarcity j , proceeds principally from a want of the chemicals j jbv which the material is purified A correspond | ! dent suggests that raw cotton, ot which there is ; an abundance now piled up everywhere waiting | to be burned or for the opening of the blockade, ! requires no such purification, and may therefore! I be used to advantage in the m«nufactu r tng of the ] much needed commodity. The market value of ] cotton in the “cotton States” at present is five j cents a pound, or about two cents more than that 1 of old rags. The difference of cost would doubt' j less be quite made up m the saving of cberaicali, 1 if the proposition of our correspondent is a true * one. j A young woman, on alighting from a stage, { dropped a ribbon from her bonnet in the bot- j tom of the coach. “ Y r ou have left your 1 bow behind,” said a lady passenger. “No I haven’t—he’s gone a fishing, innocently replied I the damsel i mim .u.w im.iwflv -tii fgT Lines suggested bv Gen. Besuregard'e Address directing the mention of his army to Gen. Butlei'3 infamous proclamation in New Or leans : ( INSCRIBED TO GEN BEA'-SXGaED. Hark to the bugie sounding O’er bill and vale afar 1 Hark! ’tis the call to battle ’Tis the blast of Beauregard That stirring, startling summons Each maDly bosom fires; He summons husbands, brother?, He calls to sons and sire?. No st&lw art arm may falter. No manly foot may stay, But speed them to the tented r>e d Leach panting for the fray. Woe to the hapless maiden, Woe to the gentle wife. * Woe to the spotless name and fan e liearer than lands or life. If the strong aims that defend them, Jf the life-blood of the brave Should prove too weak to shield then?., Or flowing, feil to save. Now, by the God of justice. By our dear native land, And by the sacred honor Our demon foes would brand, By the holy ties which bind To mothers, sistere, wives, By our firesides i*nd altars, Our liberties %ud lives, By our country’s Flag we *wea- Our bruUti foes shall feel The fires of southern vengeance, And the power of .Southern e:ee. Such is the vow recorded By soldiers brave and true As e’er against a tyrant’s pew r The sword of freemen drew Upon the Western waters, Oo far Atlantic’s shore, Along wur Southern gulfs and Days The swarming hir. lings pour. Virginia, where the ashes Os Washington repose f Is desecrated by. the heel Os worte than Vandal foes. Their serried racks are marching To her very temple gate, Beneath a gory ensign Os tyranny and hate. Let age forego its well-earned ease To till the fruitful soil. Let boys forget their games and sports In stern, unwonted toil— Let maidens twirl the bony wheel— Let matrons ply the loom, W hile manhood gathers up its strength To avert their threatened doom, And the aged of aoother age i The thrilling tale shall tell. Os bow their fathers fought and died For the lano they loved so well. Hark to the bugle sounding O’er hill and vale afar l Hark l ’tis the Cali to battle Os thepeerleßß Beauregard, From city, town and hamlet, From forest, field and plain, From mountain ana from valley The tide heaves up amain— A living tide of patriots, W'hose blood is all on tire To meet tb* invading Hessians W’ho rob aud kill for hire; W r ho close our sacred temple doors With sacnhgmas hand, And threaten dark and nameless deed*- To the fairest »n our land. Ye anguished and downtrodden, There is balm tor all vour woes, • I'eliverance.is near a*, hand I „ til4 From your dreaded, mortal foes Look up, ye broken-hearted, And Dauish all your , Recording angels witness, And the God in heaven be%r«; Fell vengeance is preparing For deeds our foes have wrought, And the ears that bear shall tin W ben the fight atlast is fought, I Jl vOv fe>.■«.!..»« a-mnrd .■» glftu;TV.nfit And the ucabOurdnhrowu away, Ard hands and hearts are eager For the long expected fray, With pul.-ea beating steadily, W’lth is tern resolve and high, To drive the invader from our soii, To conquer or to die. Alabama. L. D. M. LIST OF SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS admitted to 3d G\ hospital, jure 7. Capt J D Hunter, Co D, 29th Ga, private house. C W Dean, Co E, 14th Ga. Serg’t Maj A B Brumley, 14th Ga private bouse. C J Daman, co D, 17th Ga. K P Lamer, co D, 4tb Ga. W ax T Phillips, co D, *ih Ga H J, Middlebrookn, co K, 15tb Ga A M Burnett, cab, 27t0 Ga. J J Burnett, co U, 27 ih Ga. H Jenkins, co K, 48th Ga D Moore, co J 3, 48 h Ga. . Wm Moore, co H, 48tL Ga James Jobnsou, co B, 48th Ga. Thomas Kongers, co G, 48ih Ga. JohD M Delay, co G, 1610 Ga. D W Bradford, co C, 16tb Ga AK sick. JUNE Bth. Lieut H T Wofford, co K, IBit Ga, private quarters. Thus A Harris, co L :»t Ga Regulars Ail sick. JVNK BtH Capt R W Flournoy, co B, 28th Ga, private ; hoo-e. Capt J Stapleton, Co L, 28th Ga, private house. Capt Tomlinson Fort, co L, Ist Ga Regulars, private house. Capt T G Hall, co L, 4th Ga, private house. Serg't C 0 iSknne, co L, iyth Oa ; wound thro’ hip. K A Nisbitt, co H, 4tb Ga. 18 M Jonnbon, co L, 27 id Ga. E N Thredaild, co G, 27id Ga J W Brooks, co D, lt>th Ga. F M Bradley, co B, 16:0 Ga. Samuel Moore, co B, l6ih Ga F FMoore, co D, Sd Ga. J J Wishard, co B, Sumter Flying Artillery S FStratton, co L, 10th Ge. A h Buruett, co B, 27th Ga, died on Bth of Cram) Colic. JUNE lITH. Lier.t W B Thom as, Code's co, 4th Ga, private house Luttt J W:nter, co E, 43th Ga, private houße Ltfut John Wimberly, co L, 43th Ga, private house. L<ut J A Griffith, co G, 14th N C, private bouse. J U Naah, co 11. 27ih Ga. S p Jones, co K, 16th Ga. J Ur ahum, co A, 16th Ga. GP Cheek, co a, 16th Ga. JJ Stance!!, co B, 18tb Ga A J Wilson, coB, 27th Ga. Calvin Adkins, coC, 4th Ga. James S Cates, co L, 16th Ga. A M Goner, co L, 1 6th Ga. G M Freeman, co D, 16th Ga. A M Moss, co B, 2d Ga. Lieut Col J S Gilhum, 9th Va, private house. H B Bird, co C, 12th Va, private house. All sick. FOURTH GEORGIA HOSPITAL, JUNE 7. Corporal L Drew, company K. 28th Regiment, wounded in the right leg. June 11. *erg’t Richard Newton, co D, 6tb Ga, sick. Job Russell, co H. 3d Ga, wounded Frank Keeler, co B, Si Pauls’ Battalion, La. wonnded. Returned tc duty, 1 7e.x«in. Died from wputfd, Ben George, co D, Ist Tenn. I Bt TUB (. KA f | I LATER FROM HIGH MON D—THE FIG? Wd WEDNESDAY. B Richmond, June 26th.—The difficulty of ob Vi ing information from the lines is illustrate! B the indefinite accounts in the morniDg jour. ■ of the fight on the Williamsburg road rester< ‘ 1 It appears to be Certain that the First ixruisi. V 1 Regiment was engaged for some time with J brigades of Yankees, who had driven in o*\ pickets about 8 o’clock in tne morning. J Regardless of the heavy odds the Con advanced upon the foe, shouting the battle cry ot "Butler ! Butlei!” The Yankees in front fell * back in confusion, before the impetuous advance of the brave Leuisinians, and would have bees driven from the held but for the murderous, cross-fire from an ambuscade of the enemy in the woods. The First Louisiana was afterwards supported oy other regiments of Gen. A.R.Wright’s brigade, i and the fighting was continued during the day, ! until the Yankees were dislodged from the woods ! and driven to their camp. ; In the afternoon, Generals Ransrm’s atid Ma» I hone's brigades were engaged, and aided in driva ■ ing back the Yankees. Colonel Shivers and, | Major Mulligan, of the Ist Louisiana, were both I ! wounded in the arm.' Lieutenants Gilmore anil ; Murphy, of the Montgomery Guards, of Mew Or-" leans, w-re both killed. The total Oontederz'.s I casualties are estimated at about 290 killed and j wounded. The loss of the enemy is large. i From the Knorrillt 1 3nm.) fi-j.-ier, June •*. THE SITUATION OF EAST TENNESSEE. ■ During the past week the enemy, who enterea j . East Tennessee at Wilson's Gap, in large force, j j haa been steadily making his way up Powell’s 1 | Valley, and at our latest advices was 1 n posses- i sion of Tazewell, the county seat ofOlaiborne.i l The only opposition he has encountered so far. | that we can hear of, has been fFom the cavalrv of * onr gallant Col. Ashby, who has been continually » skirmishing with his pickets, and barrassiog him I no little in his progress. Henry Ashby has H.e ■ | right mettle in him, and bids fair to win as high da a name in the valiies of E. Tennessee, as his bravelS j cousin, the lamented (Jen. Turner Ashby, did - the Valley of Virginia. We hope for him a S much renown, bat a longer career. The enemy's position at Tszeweilis a tbreatenH mg "ne, and if ne is not attacked “at once an 9 furiously,” may result in giving him advantage!* that will be irretrievable ruin to us. Tazlewell S immediately id front of Cumberland Gap, on th B nearest route from Knoxviiletothatpomt. Povß ell’s Valley extends into Virginia ; and fro J Cumberland Gap, lUrough this Valley to Moccal sin Gap, is one of the best roads in the country* Thence to the salt-works, and to the Virginia ai! H Tennessee Railroad ai Abingdon, there !S n otb« . mg to'stay his victorious career, unless he is at, j once attacked and routed by the army of Gei i Smith. The.possession, or even the partial d< 1 struction of the Saltworks, by the enemy woo, be a calamity so the Confederate States more s>. j riou» 'han tbc fall'of Richmond; for these work '■ are now almost the sole reliance of the South so one of the most indispensable necess&r es life. The character of the enemy in Powel.’s Vallet is one, also, which, in addition to otfce incentives, should rouse up our government t V every possible exertion to at once destroy or di iv, him back. His force is in part composed of th five or six regiments of East Tennessee renegaue 1 who come with oaths of vengeance on th, m tongues and hellish rage in their hearts, not „. • tight for a political semiment, nor to restore «. peri.-hed Union, but lo glut their revenge in to ; blood and ruin of their former friends au.l neigh bors, and to indemnify themselves by tiiilagu for ! their tino* lost and substance wasted during the ' self banishment into which they were de.dried by the cunning and unprincipled leaders whom ; the misguided leuiencv of tins government ha-. ' Spared to nouud tnew on In lOaOtaboOeal work i Their course already lias been n arked by out j rages which shock humanity, as we learn from those Southern citizens who have escaped Iron: tbeir hands. Another feature of their programme, we bav? it plausibly hinted, is the destruction of the bridges on the upper end of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. If thev are permitted to reach Moccasin Gap in Virginia, an easy and unprotected road through H iwfcms, Sullivan, anc Washington counties, brings them to the bridge* at Union and Carter’s Depot. Carter and Greene B counties are now swarming with armed traitors and bridge burners, who openly avow their readiness to co-operate with any force the Fede. rals may send on this mission. All these facts sufficiently indicate, we tbini the imperative necessity of at once checking the progress of the invaders up Powell's Valley. Gen. Hmi'h has a crisis to encounter which will admit of no dallying or half way measures. We trust and beiieve that he will prove himself equal to the emergency. By a rapid and deter n iaed coup he may rid East Tenncss-e r,f a scourge, avert a most serious danger frurf Conlederaoy, and at once place himself t/‘ ,' b froDl rank of the heroes of this Revoluti J, 0 The troops who have so long been pirf n L this region for want of ective service, tup lVr .jj . those who have come fiom "j other fields, are all burning with f#bleardor u the prospect of meeting the enetr.ys,- Let them nice be led against him, and view vis Mire r< j , the golden ipi ortunityis lost, the foe time to s.rengthen his column* and chouse I positions, the conse<iueiioes niffy be disastrous V. us to a degree we shudder tirfcontemplate Ths YaNKEEs EsUSTINIi’TROOPS IS iIISLAM, * To the Editors of the Richmond “Enquirer: A fact has recently come l«i my knowlege which /* think should be published, in order that it may reach the eye of British officials, and through them, the Br.tish Government, that the Yankees are recruiting their army by enlistment in Ire - land* Two gentleman, oue ot them a Captain m a North Carolina regimeot, at my own table, in formed me of a conversation with a prisoner, an unmistakable Irishman, taken in the affair of the 27 1 h May, with Gen. Branch’s division The conversation ran as follows : Captain Y —I coo fee some motive wi y the. Yankees should comhine to force us under the yoke, but what pnss ble motive could you Ha as an Irishman to fight against in’ Prisoner —by Jubus, it wasn't figbt any ore dale that I did. Captain Y—But what made you come at all * Prisoner—Sure, it was in ould Ireland tb they offered to pay my wav, and not two wee did they keep me in New York till they sent l here. Thiß needs no corroboration; and if it did gentleman, a private in our cwo Virginia 4th c alrv, whom it is my privilege to kn i», gave ! the same information, derived from snotlA prisoner. This is done be the Government whi sent off the British Minister for attempting t same thing iu New York. The British Government, urged on bt the syt l pathv of the peop.e want an excuse wnich wi I stand the scrutiDV of Christendom. Here it is. J. 8. The Yankee* at St. Mast's, Oa.—A letter date St. Mart s, Ga., 24th inst:, says: The Yankee-’ since I wrote von last, have been up to St. Mary again, with turee gunboats, having in tow u, empty schooner. One ol the gunboats fired 1 shell at tbe large saw mill, which done no darr* age. The vandals then landed some troops, at* proceeded to Burrs' and Fox’s saw mills,’ &, took out a!! the machinery, which they placed board the schooner. During these operatim V. they placed pickets at various'points, and shell -j| the surrounding woods, but done no harm to < 1 men, who were in that vicinity. Onr men 6 ew j on their pickets, but with what success cou'd j Pe ascertained. The Yankees fired several sb- 3 "* l at Mr. Sterling’s house, one ot which bars' Itbe house, and done considerable damage uug ter having stolen all the machinery oi the m they departed.— Sav. Mom. iVjtct, Just 26fA.