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THS CMJKDKRiTK SfATKSNWT.
The R»tt Department of the Confederate
States bee been the subject of n gre *t deal of
those and ridicule from oar own press and peo
ple—whether altogether deserted or not, we shall
not pretend to any. Jtutwe should remember
that “Koine was not built in a day”—and that
many great enterprises hate their origin in very
email beginnings. Thus, our nsry, though
''small nos, Will, IU the «' behete,occupy
a prominent plane in the naties of the world.
Hoi*!( as u is, it baa accomplished much. The
daring of Talnatl, the gallantry ol Kucbanau.
the bravery of Jones, of Brown, of Hollins, end
the hosts or other noble spirits, whose naval ex-.
ploiishave wou for them nnperishabie renown,
have already illustrated many bright pages in
the glorious history of our young Confederacy,
and give pro ntae of still grs iter deeds of em
prise and ronAvn m the future.
With pride and graiianation, we can recall the
movement ) of our little "Mosquito Beet." under
command of Com-Tatnall at the mouth of the
Savannah river; the successful cruise of the
Sumter, under Lieut. Semmes, on the bosom of
the broad Atlantic -. the terriS- onslaught ol
the Merritoac—Virginia, coder Coat. Buchanan
and Lieut. J-ues. >n the waters of Hampton
Roads, the successful attack of the Louisiana
Ram, under Com. Hollins, at the Delta of the
Mississippi; the “cotton clad’ experiment ol
(fen. Jeff Thompson, on the Mississippi river;
and lastly, of the astonishing victory of the Are
kannas, under Capt. Brown, at Vicksburg.
These are some of the feats which our gallant
little Navy has accomplished so many evi
dences of greater deeds, were the facilities at
hand—and so many assurances of additional
glory for the participators.
With tli s record aud thete evideoces, it is
indeed, a source of the deepest regret that the
held of operations is not larger. With a J e
of a down “iron-clad”frigates,the termination
of the war would bs hastened. Northern sea
pons would bn mads to fee! the presence of
ahotti!. navy, and taste the bitter fruits of on
“effective blockade.” .. , _ -,
A Southern army thrown upon Northern sol
would then be supported by a Southern navy; and
thus, blows, thick aud fast, by land and sea, would
bring the cruy fanatics of Yankeedoodledom
to tbeir senses with a most desirable haste.
Now, the question arises, can we not have
such a’navy ? Cannut European workshops, and
European ship ya-ds, and European workmen
beset to w.irk tc accomplish this great nocts
sttyf Could not, for Instance, the ships be
built, the machinery omstructed, and the irou
plating prepared, and shipped to this country by
' The™policy seems to us pisusible enough ; and
vrorthy of a trial
Vie are aware tbit the Cm federate Naval De
partment is not idle. Movements are on foot
now, from which good resu.ts may reasonably be
anticipated; but we cannot accomplish all that
we desire with our limited and over-taxed fa
cilities. We must supply the necessity abroad,
if possible, and without delay.
We have a Navy, it is true, but we want a
Beet of vessels worthy of the gallanrt men who
eompose that Navy. _
THE IMPRESSMENT OP SLAVES.
W« publish ou oar tir»t page a telegraphic
correspondence between Mr. Irvin, a planter of
Lee couuty, in this Stale, and Mr. Randolph, the
Secretary of Wat ,in which the Secretary states
that Gen. Mercer has neither-naked nor received
orders to impress slaves for the public work*.
Whether Geu. Mercer ha* this rightae military
commander of a portion of Georgia, we do not
know; bat it is certain that he baa not the au
thority from the G jvemment Why he should
undertake to exercise the right without authority,
geems siugolar ; aud it is his failure to produce
his au hority or to give such assurances as would
justify tue planters in sending their negroes to
the coast, under his ordefs, that has produced a
show of resistance in some sections of the State.
If Gen Mercer *ili but take the trouble to con
vince the planters of the necessity of obeying his
orders, show the auihoriiy by which those orders
are issued, and state more . explicitly the terms
and conditions upon which the negroes are to be
employed, we feel confident that he will h ave no
in obtaining thousands of laborers for
the works at Savannah,or at uny other point iu
the State of Georgia.
It would be well for commanding officers to be
careful in the discharge of their duties, to make
their exactions fali as lightly as possible upon
the people. We desire, above all things, at the
present time, harmony and unity among our citis
sens. We must ail work together, and make each
other’s burdens as light as possible; for, Heaven
knows, they are heavy enough already; and harsh
orders and harsh measures will only make them
worse.
We commend this subject do the careful con
sideration of military commanders in general.
Arrival or Rslxased Prisonxrs—Yesterday
afternoon *>ome two hundred Confederate prison
ers from the Rip Baps arrived in this city, having
been released under the recent arrangement for a
general exchange of prisoner* Many of these are
piisoner* who have been confined in the Balti*
more citv jail, from whence they were transferred
to the Rip Raps .'u the early part of last week.
One ot them, with whom we had an interview,
speaks in the highest terms of the treatment re
ceived from the ladies of Baltimore, aud says
♦.hat while imprisoned there every attention was
shown them, and everything that could be was
dene to lessen the gloom of that confinement.
One dm) they were visited by two ladies, each of
whom had concvakd beneath her boop in a
capacious pocket of her skirt a treezer of ice
cream. This cream was decidedly grateful to our
prisoners, who of late had not been accustomed to
such a luxury.
At the R»p Raps thei r confinement was ted ous
and very uncomfortable,.and they were delighted
wbvn they were ordered to embark on a steamer
far Jamta river*
They left the R p Raps on Monday afternoon,
*nd were landed at a poiut ot> the river about 12
miles below the city, about 7 o’clock yesterday
aioruing from whence they made then way to
the city on toot* The young soldier with whom
we conversed says that he read the Biltimore
Sun, of Saturday, the 2d mst, and that no men
tion was made iu that of the resignation of
Seward. * r ref usal of the Northern Governors
to furnish additional troops.
A released prisoner from the old capitoi prison,
at Washington, says they were treated with much
attention by their f.ieuds in that city. Theswn
patbv there f. r the Somh is very strong. Ha
thinks there were over 200 vessels n James river
as he came up. . 1 . ,
Among others released, aud who arrived at
Aiken’s Land oe yesterday afternoon, are General*
Buckner ano Tilghman, who have been confined
at Fort W arren sioce February last. Tk* former
was tsk»'U a; the *aii ot Fort Pood son, and thn
latter at Fort Henry, in Terco**ee. Itiaeipected
that tb*-he gallant officers w.ll reach ih<s city this
morning.— AtcAmofttf \ tq.August 6.
RETALIATION
It will be seen, by reference to onr telegraphic
columns, that onr Government has adopted a rev
taliatory measure, ia reference to Gen. Pope, in
consequence of the infamous orders issued by
that qfficer and the Federal Secretary of War,—
This act of tSe President will, no doubt, meet
with general approval at iue South; and if any
fault is found with it, it will be because Picayune
Builer, and Gen Grant, of Memphis, are not in*
eluded in the general order.
It wilt, very* likely, have the effect of putting
a stop to the cruelties and excess** ot the eoem?,
and force them to conduct the war on the princi
ples recogniz d in civilized warfare*
The reader will fiud :nour telegraphic columns
the greater pari of the General order of Adjutant
and Inspector General Cooper, and the letter of
President Davis, enclosing the order to Gen. Lee.
They will both oe read withgfeoeral interest.
AN IRISH VIEW OF THE WAS IN AMERI
CA LET tER FROM WM SMITH O'BRIEN
The press of Europe has shown a very correct
knowledge of afftirs in this country, and of the
principles for which the South is contending.
They have, generally, sustained the Sooth in the
cause 10 which she is engaged, and told the
North many wholesome truths of which she is
either ignorant or to which she is totally blind.
It is, perhaps, the comments of the European
press which have openod the eyes of many peo
pie across the r jceun to the exact state of affairs,
and induced the publication of the following
letter from Mr. Win. Smith O'Brien. It »*« per”
haps, of no great important** to us, what Euro
pean pr.pers or European statesmen say or
think of ua; still, we appreciate the world’s
good opinion, and only ask for justice in that
opinion.
Mr. O’Brieo says he does not apDrove of our
peculiar institution, and would gladly have seen
the Union restored; bat it is now too late, as he
believes that secession u “un fo.it ocoomptif'
and the hatred between the twe sections is in*
creating daily, thus reudering a reconstruction
of the Union an impossibility.
Mr. O'Brien’n sentiments are doubtless the
sentiments ot a majority of the reflecting min Is
of his country; and, as such, are of interest to
our readers. Here is his Setter. It is addressed
to Mr Richard O’Gorman, and is pub’ished in
the Dablin Nation, of June 21st
LCTTEft or WM SMITH o’iißiSK.
Kilunrv, Coumty Dublin, Jhae 19, iifrl.
Mr Dkau O’Gorman - In cotnoioo with ail
‘me friends of the Atm? icau people, I continue
to regard with horror the internee me war which is
desolating ibe States of America.' The brutal and
disgusting proclamation which has recently been
promulgated by General Butler, at New Ot leans,
realizes to our imaginations the worst features of
this struggle. Have you and your friends st New
York calmly asked yourselves when and how ibis
contention is to eud f I implore you, iu the name
of humamty. to cast ustds the illusions with
which an occasional triumph fills the minds of
the Northerns, and to cousider whether it is pus |
tub!** that you can subjugate the South, and !
whether, it it were possible, such subjugation
ought to be desired by the lovers of free institu
tions. You snow that lam not an advocate ot
slavery—you know that I deeply depiored the se«
eestiou and condemn those who provoked it. 1
may add aIBO. that I would have rejoiced if the
secession could have been put down at the com*
luenceincnt bv the authorities of th* Republic—
in case dray Lad been supported aud assisted by
a majority of the inhabitants of the Southern
States ; but even since tee battle of Bull Run, 1
have felt that, for good or tor evil, the secession
has been- an accomplished tact fun fait accompli ),
and that an attempt to briug together again by
fores the discovered members of the Republic,
would only produce disasters greater than those
which’would resu't from brtakiug up the Uniou
into several sections. The progress of the war
has confirmed these convictions. ,
Triumphs have indeed been won by the Federais
us well as by tue Confederates; Out what evi
dence can be brought forward to prove that any
impression has baeu made in support of the
Union upon the minds of the Southerns by these
triumph*.? I will not call them conquests, be
cause the Federal armies have conquered no j
ground except that upon which they stand. The
has brought to ail parties the most cosily
sacrifices, but it appears to have left the mind's
ot the contending sections of the population 10
& state of more miens* exasperation against
each other than existed at the commencement
of the last struggle. Nor ought you to forget
that many of our countrymen in America are,
at this moment, violating those rights of self
goveremeot which they wish to apply in
Europe, not ouiy to Ireland, but also to Poland,
to Hungary, to Venetia, and even to the
lonian Isles. The statesmen of England say
that the government of those islands by England
is infinitely better than any government could be
which would depend upon Greece. Yet the
lonian Islanders continue to declare, year after
year, that they desire to be incorporated with
the kingdom of Greece rather thau to be “pro
tected” by England, and*all the frieuds of free
dom think that they ought to be allowed to
choose for themselves m regard to such a quess
lion. In like manner, the inhabitants ot the j
Southern States of America may or may not act
very unwisely in desiring to reestablish for
themselves an independent Confederacy; but no
one can now doubt that such is their deliberate
choice, and, this being the case, to attempt to
coerce them against their will into conneciion
with the Northern States is a violation of the
right of self-government—is. in fact, tyranny. Has
not the time arrived when ca mly judging men,
such as you, can exercises mediatorial influence?
The authorities at Washington are compelled to
follow rather than to lead public opinion upon
this, as upon all other occasions. Yon, individual
ly, could render no greater service to humanity
than that which you would confer bv first
convening a madiatorial committee at New
York, and by subsequently inviting a mass !
meeting to proclaim its opinton in favor of an
amicable adjustment of differences on terms
which shall be consistent with the honor and
security of all sections of the Americau people.
Ab”ve and beyond all other considerations, be*
ware of 4, foreign intervention.” Ol course, you
will understand that I mean by this term armed
intervention, not frieudlv mediation. From ihe
day on which foreign arms sha i be brought to j
compel a pacification, the prestige and dignity
of both the Confederate and Federal States will |
be lost forever.
Believe me. my dear friend, yours most sin
cerely, Wm.S. O'B&zik.
Richard O’Gormak, Esq., New York.
Major W. J. Hakdbe This distin* |
guished soldier; is in our cky for a brief stay. 1
He Ifcft Mobile not many moons ago with the •
three stars of a Colonel on his collar. He comes
back to-day with a Major General’s grade, which I
h.e has won through the toil and dust of hard j
campaigns and the smoke and din of battle. No ;
man in the Confederate service has risen more *
strikingly in military fame. He has surprised j
both the people and*lhe army, and has won for j
himself the reputation of being the bravest •
among the brave.
At Shiloh be commanded the hrst Confederate *|
line of attack acd from ih* beginning to the end i
of the fight, no man m ‘.hat line was nearer to 1
the enemy than its commander. Where the fire j
was hottest Gen. Hardee’s a white »
moon in the center of a blue Said, was always to
be found.
Maj. Gen. Hardee h now the commander of the j
A*«fy of the Mississippi,Gen. Bragg beiag the !
coomanderof the Deoartment.
Old Georgia has manv sens m the Oeufedera'e 1
army to be proud of. Gen. Hardee lakes t . rank :
with ‘ha *ust illustrious of them.
MMU Sti. A*justl.
From the Nrieork (N. J.) Journal, (Democrat .)
SHALL THIS WAB EVER CEAS£?
Napoleon once said—“ America is a fortunaie
country, for she thrires by tb* follies of oar Eu
ropean countries.” But, alas! uovr she ba* re
versed h*r policy, and instead of by
avoiding these follies, she h a not only adopted
them, war, taxes, oppressions, but she has gone
a step f *rther, and ia endeavoring to destroy her
own liberiies, the liberties ot white men, in order
to strengthen or secure those of the black race.
The hiatory of mankind us with many
insane follies of nations; but none equal id lusan
ity to thia stupendous tolly of Republican Ameri
ca, iu this noon of the nineteenth century. A
year and a halt ago, the Americas Republic,
with the motto “E Plurtbu* Cnum” flaming in
her beak, was developing hi r resour ea of mind
and body, with an external force, and an inter*
nal freedom, that had never a parallel in the
] world’s history. *‘A continent and two oceans.*'
said !ne London Times, “are m the hands of this
1 people." With a most heroic pas', we had the*
| promise of a moat glorious future. At peace
; with a'l the world, and with ourselves—the
! terror'of the nations—a career of national pros*
| pecity was opening before us unlimited in
extent, rivalling in jappmess the fabled Utopias
of the poets. Out of the once unknown wilder
ness, in less tbslt three centunee, a mighty em>
pire had arisen. Upon the scarcely rotted tools
of the primitive forest proud cities stood teem*
ing with busy hie and growing like the prairie
gran* in the spring. The boldest and must en 7
tbusiastic speculator could scarcely have ven*
tured to predict the destiny of this country, it
integrity had continued to govern her delibera
tions, and wisdom had prevailed iu her councils.
Her worst enemy, as h* lookei out upon me vast
inheritance of ch.s people, stretching from the
Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific, Irom its inland
seas at the North to the Floridian reefs, with all
its teeming millions, and all its evidences of
prosperity everywhere, must be compelled to
| exclaim with Ball, the son of Pear, as be looked
I oat upon the teats of Israel, whitening all the
| plains of Moab, “who can count the dust of Jacob
jor the number of the fourth part of Israel. As
the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by
! the nver’aide, a* trees of iign aloes which the
| Lord hath planted, as cedar trees beside the
j waters ”
All this prosperitypind promise for the future
| was the result of the constitutional
policy of the democratic party which had ruled
i m the land so long. That party held as the
I policy nf its creed a strict construction of the
! Oosstitulion: equal and exact justice to all
who are entitled to its privilege**; antagonism
I to all forms of sectionalism based upon hostility
| to institutions whose privileges were guaraue
I teed by the Gonstiiction. Had s f, ch policy been
| adhered to, this nation to-day would have re
i trained a united «nd a haopy people. But a
sectional organization, prolessi ug for the basis
of its creed eternal hostility to slavery, revoluN
nonary ij its origin and deatracti ve iu its
policy, proponed to govern this c untry by
usurpation; to overthrow and set at uunght
every guarantee cl the Constitution iu
tore to fifleeeu Stales of the Union; to shut
tbern out of the magnificent territories acquired
by the common blood and treasure of the Lnion;
t » maintain this Union just as the Union between
England uud Ireland is maintained; just as
Great Britain attempted to maintain the Union
between the mother country aud the
colooies. When the danger of a disrupted Union
was upon us, and ail the horrors of civil war
menaced, they persistently refused all attempts
at conciliation and compromise, and preferred
the arbitrament of war to that of peace and con* I
ciliation. They refused conciliation an 1 oompro*
rnise, and when they did so they knew that war
would result from the refusal.
The war they invited—nay, longed for— is now
upon ns, and bus brought id its train all the ruin
that has waited upon us blood-stained footsteps.
Every fuudamenial principle of* constitutional
liberty has scatbtfed to the winds—enor
inmiu «.s|>«nditurei<, r®* rustifi of »!'•*'•»lation and
fraud, demand oppressive and exorbitant taxes—
whole heUcombs of victims Lave been offered up,
and there is hardly a house, as in ancient Egypt,
“in which there ia’not rn* dead” —a large pro
portion of the productive industry is being turned
from the peaceful pursuits ofagrtculrure, to where
the reapers desceud to the harvest of death—
eveyrwhere individual and national bankruptcy
are a taring ua in the face.
In tbe legislative council ot t’ue nat.ou every
hour makes manifest that the object el the war
is not to uphold the government, the constitu
tion, or the Udiod, “but to lift the artificial
weights fn m all men’s shoulders,” in the lan
guage of President Lincoln—to wage “an lrre
pressible conflict” against the inaiitutiou of
aluvefy—to rob ths white man of hia liberty,
that the slave may enj »v it. Nine»tcalbs of the
legis ! ation of Congress has been this session
directed towards the condition of the slave, and
how to alleviate that condition, while tueawtul
situation of this government, iu'enJed for white
men, is entirely lost sight of. lo the meantime
the natiou “reels and staggers to aud tro like a
drunktu man.”
Democrats of New Jersey the hour when you
are to meet in council is not far disiant. Upon
you, together with yourcontreresm othqr 'States,
resi tbe hope of the country. With a bold, vig
orous, and determined effort you can help to save
it; but it will not be by Lalf-way temporizing
measures. You cannot save it by endorsing and
approving the acts of thepreseot Administration;
by endorsing attacks upon the constitutional lib
erty of the subject; b • approving of a war of sub
jugation aud extermination. The cunning, un
principled promoters, of this war, who are specu
lating upon the blood and treasure of this nation,
have no desire that it shall cease. Under the
specious and delusive cry that Government is in
danger, and the Constitution must be upheld,
they are uprootiDg tht foundations of the one
and rendering nugatory every provision of the
other. Read the history of the past year, read
the daily legislation oftbe men in Congress who
are houndiugon this strife, aud then tell us
honestly—do you beliefe this to be a war for the
Uuion or the preservation of the Constitution ?
If you do not, it is high time you should cry
aloud and spare not.
It is time that you Should arouse from the
lethargy that and he false security
that deludes you. If i>u beiteve that tbe fur*
ther continuance of tkii war will only entail un
told miseries upon yotwelves and your posterity,
you have a right i' decand that it shall cease.
Yon have the right byj&ll constitutional means
within your power to’endeavor to make it a
finality. If not, you aiknowiedg® a rignt and a
power iu this Administration which only belongs
10 despotic governments, that are founded in
force, nod doi iu the consent eflbe governed.
Let this war go on iu the spirit it is now
being waged, acd you . will dig an impassable
uulf between North and S*»ufh. Remember what i
Senator Douglas said :c the Senate before dis ise
bad dimmed big eye and paralyzed bis miua;
i ••Whethertbe war that these Republicans now
clamor for, luais oue year, seven yea*s, or thir*y
vears, the result must be the same—a cessation ot
| Losti lines when the parties become exausted. and
a trratv of peace recogmziug the separate inde»
pendence of each secion. Extermination.. Sub
jugation or separation, one ot the three, must be
ihd result of tbe w*r vetween Northern and
Southern Stages ”
Now, the question:**. will you wait uptil a war
of years has prostrated every interest, destroyed 1
a sixth part of your population, and made a waste
and desolation of the Korih, or will yon demaad
peace now? Is the freedom of the negro of
more importance than that ot the while ma*c ? If
so. clamor for war. Ate the groans of the
wftueded more metical to your ears than tbe
whir of the shuttle and the ring of the hammer?*
Then clamor for war. Do yott desire an incubus j
ot taxation, that shall make you and your remoU |
est posterity “hewer* ci wood aDd drawers 6f!
water* lo the Federal Gaverntneot ? Then clamor |
tor war. Do you desire to Bee this Confederated J
Government transformed into a vast centralized !
milliary despotism’ Then clamor for war. Do J
you want to witness* the final wreck of ait tbe j
glories, of our past, and our hej esfo t the future ? I
Then clamor for the war.
Th? Great Eastern lalt new York ca the 25tb j
July tor Liverpool, taking S6OO t GOO in ]
The City of New York took out nearly $760,000, j
•and tbs Boiussi* |2Ss,<K'9 t &U on the 26ui uit,
111 tbleciupb.
FROM RICHMOND —PRESIDENT DAVIS’
LETTER TO GENERAL LEE.
Richmond, V*., August 4th Tbe following
letter is published thia morning. It ts from the
President to Genera! Lee:
Richmond, Va., July diat —Sis: On tht 22d
of tljia month, tbe carte! for a general exchange
of prisonera <A war wj.b signed between Major
General D. H. Hill, in behalf ot the Confederate
States, and Major General John H. Dix, in behalf
of the United States. By the terms of that
cartel, it la stipulated that all prisoners of war
hereaftef taken ahalt he discharged on parole
uutit exchanged.
Scarcely had that cartel been sigued, when
tLe military authont*ea of the United Smtea
commenced a practice, cnanging tbe character of
the war from such aa becomes civilised nations
into a campaign of indiscriminate robbery and
murder.
The General Order -.aaued by the Secretary of
War of the United States, in the city of Washs
ington, on the very day that cartel was signed in
Virginia, directs the military commanders of the
United Slates to take the private property of our
people, tor the coonventence and use of theirar
mies, without compensation.
Tk. a...™! Order issued by Gen. Pope, on
the day after the signing of me let, <ii,o.ui
the murder of onr peaceful inhabitants as sp.ies,
if found quietly tilling the farms in his rear,
even cutside of h!s lines, and one u s his
Brigadier Generals, Steinwehr, has hexed
upon innooent and peaceful inhabitant's
to be retained ua hostages to the end, that
they may be murdered in cold blood, if any of
bis soldiers Sre killed bv some unkno an persons
whom he dssignates as “Bushwhackers,"
Under this atate of facta, tats Government has
issued tbe enclosed general order, recognu'ng
Gen. f'ope and hia commisaioned officers to be in
the position which they have chosen 4 for them,
aeivea—that ol robbers and of murderers, and
• not'hat of public enemies entitled, if captured,
to be considered prisonera of war,
j We Bud urselvea driven by our enetuiofl, by a
1 steady progress, tos'ards a practice which we ah*
I hor, and which we are vainly atriv.ag to avoid.
jSomeoi the military authorities of the Unih-d
; Slates seem to suppose that better success wilt
i attend a savage war, in which no quarter is given,
j aDd no age Dor ae* is to be spared, than has huh.
j erto been secured by such hostilities as area!o»e
recognized to be law,ui by civilized man in riiod- j
era times.
For the present, we renounce our right of res i
taliation upon the innocent, ana shall continue !
to treat the private snluted soldiars of Oen. !
I'ope’3 army aa prisoners of war ; but if, after t
notice to the Government at Washington, cl j
our confining repressive measures to the pun
ishment oaiy of commissioned officers who ere
willing participants in these crimes, these savs
age practices are continued, we shall reluctant
ly be forced to the last resort of accepting tbe
war on the terms chosen by our foes until tae
outraged voice of a common humanity forces a
respect for the recognized rules of war.
While these facta would justify our refusal to
i execute the generous cartel by which we have
consented to liberate an excess of thousands of
prisoners held by us beyond the number held by
the enemy, a sacred regard to plighted faith,
springing from the mere semblance of breakings
promise, prevents onr resort to .bis extremity ;
nor do we desire to extend to any other forces of
tbe enemy the punishment merited alone by Gen.
Pope, sod such commissioned officers aa choose
to participate m the execution of his infamous
orders.
Yon are, iterefcre, insthicted to communicate
to the Commander insCbiefol the armie, of the
United States the contents of this letter, and a
copy, enc.osed, of the Genera! Order, to the end
that he may be notified of our intention not to
consider any officers hereafter captured from
Gen. Pope’s armr as prisoners of war.
Very respectfully, yours, Ac.,
[ Signed j JavrsasoH Davis.
To Sen. R. E. Lee, Ccm dg, Ac.
STILL LATER AND IMRORTAN'T FROM THE
NORTH.
Lsnchbueq, Va., August 4,-The following
special dispatch was received by tbe Lynchburg
Republican this morning
Chaecottsvills. Va , Auguet4th.—TheNations
al Intelligencer and Baltimore Sun, of a late date,
have been received in Stauuton, Va-, annoupcing
the resignation of Secretary Seward.
The Governors es Pensyivsnia, Ohio, and Cons
neeticut refuse to send more men in the field.
The National intelligencer accuses Seward of
having been engaged for the last 60 davs, through
England, to bring about an armistice.
Mr. Vaiiandigham is stumping Ohio against
'he war end the Administration, addressing
immense audiences with great saver and ap
plause.
LATER FROM RICHMOND
RiCBMONb, Va., August 4th— A Yankee gua. ,
boat got aground in tbe mouth of the Appomatox i
River, pear City Point, cm Sunday iast. The
Confederate batteries were firing at her yestere
day afternoon. The result is not vet ascertained.
9
THE LATEST FROM THE NORTH.
Richmond, Va., August 4th.—Northern detes
tc the 31st of July haye been reeeivod. here.
The most important news is from Europe, -
brought by the Australian, which left Liver. |
pool on the 19th inst
An important' discuss,on took place in the i
Gritis h Parliament on Mr Lindsay’s - motion to j
c fer mediation and recognize the Southern Con« i
federscy. After a lengthy debate, Mr. Lindsay's -
motion was withdrawn.
Lord Palmerston made a remarkable speech on i
the occasion, appealing to the Hoose to leave j
the matter the hands of the Government.
The Paris correspondent of the London Herald |
again asserts that LouisdSapoleon isabout to offer j
the mediation of France tc America, and says 1
that the drift of public opinion there is in favor of |
such a courso.
The N*i;w York Slock Market was strong on
the Srth of July Government stock* were quo- !
led at per cent higher. Gold was low« j
er, and selling at ll'4k£. Exchaagt was quoted
at 126. Money was very abundant, and selling !
at 4 per cent. _ -
t «• ,
FROM EASTTKtJNESSKE. ||
CH*WA*oo*a, Ts.vk , August 4th.—McMtnn- j i
vtlte, Teun., has . been occupied by about 7,000 ■
I‘edfra) troops on Saturday last—probably Qec
Ball NelaaD’s Division. A deUubasent ol Gee.
F-irrest's Cavalry was in that place on Friday
last, bat were smart ea' agb to evade being cap
tured.
A mao who rao the Federal lines at Mc-Miaa
ville, states that he beard the shrieks of women
from almost every house in town;' end thinks
that the Yankee command most bare been turn
ed loose at wild to pillage and outrage. T%«
I shrieks of the woeien, be says, were agonizing.
FROM MEHpSIH, TE.VN:
I Mgbils, Ala., August 4th. — The following is a
' special dispatch to vhe Mobile Advertiser 4 Reg'S
; ter;
Jacksoh, Miss., August 3d.—Passengers front
Memphis report that au emeute had broken one
' between the Yankees and the negroes working
! on the fortilicatiohs. The Yankees shot a sum>
I ber of ibe negroes.
i'ro'n (At Ctat'tznoaA Republican.
SKIRMISHIAQ WITH POPE'S FORCES-A
great battle imminent the presi
dent DETERMINED TO RETALIATE.
Richmond, August S.—The bail is about tc be
opened belweeu Stonewall Jackson and Pope
! Heavy skirmishing is now going on between the
two forces at Orange Court House. The Confed*
crates are getting the advantage, and a general
engagement is thought to be imminent.
Tbe President bas directed General Lee to
transmit his older regarding Pone and Sieiowee
to the Federal authorities, and says after the re
ceipt of the order, if they do not reverse their
policy, he will be forced to retaliate. P. W A
' IMPORTANT FROM VIRGINIA AND THE
! NORTH.
| Richmond, Aug. 4.—The Confederate prisoners
i at Baltimore and Washington nave been released,
| »Dd are now en rO*U for home. They left those
■ places in the midst of great rejoicing. Federal
j prisoners are sent from Richmond daily.
The Confederate Government opened a oorre**
poodence with the authorities at Washington,
j enquit ing whether Butler’s conduct is sanctioned
i No answer having been reoeived, another letter
' was sent, ju which the President said that farther
j silence would be construed as no endorsement of
I Bntier’s conduct. ,
Gen. Pope continues to burn, and
destroy, and to drive off male citizens from their
homes. .
Lincoln has issued another pruPiamation warn
ing the rebels to return to tfleir ;-alkgiance in
sixty days, or ajl their property will he confiss
rated under tbe 6th Section of the Confiscation
j Act.
Recruiting is exceedingly dull at tb«J North,
j and the newspapers are in despair at the gloomy
! prospect of peace. Men begin to talk and'ahov
j themselves.
The Journal of Commerce daniea the* righf
of Congress to emancipate slaves tinder atiy cira
cu® stances.
Numerous arrests are making at the North for
expressions of disloyal and deser*
tiooa trom the Federal army are daily .occurring
Confusion, dmot, and dismay roign throughout
the North.
Tne Yankee papers say the Federal ft?et h A
captured the British schooner Agnes and the.
Confederate steamer Reliance, Lieut. Giaddioifc,
itiey ua*iug ibe olockade. P. W.*A.
LATE FROM THE NORTH.
Richmond, Va., August sth. — New York dates
to August 2d have beeu received here. *
A dißpatch from the Headquarters of the Army
I of the Potomac, dated August Ist, says ;
“At 12 o’clock last night, the Reoels opened
tire, from the side of the river, with ttao
butteries of light artillery The fire was price.*
pally diTected at the mail boats’landing at the
headquarters of Col. IngalLs*, and the shipping
and encampment at Westover. Tbe Rebel pieces
were handled well, aDd tired with great rauid’tr.
4 men were killed and *5 wounded. Hevera*
horses were killed. Tbe Rebels bad it all their
own way for some time, as our troops did not an
ticipate an attacn ; but the L*2-poundera stationed
at Col. logali’s Headquarters soon silenced their
guus, after they opened. A few of our vessels
were struck, but no serious damage wassustained
by any. with this exception. Nothing occurred
worthy of mention.”
Seven o Porter’s mortar fleet reached Fortress
Monroe the morning of the Ist of August; five
more were hourly expected. The officers and
crews cf all the vessels think that they are to
redue* Fort Darling, (Drewry’s Bluff.) and inti
matea great willingness to undertake tbe job.—
“Fiery times,” says this correspondent, '‘may
be looked for in that direction soon.”
Large numbers of pr soners froci
Fort Delaware are at Old Point.
A dispatch from Washington, dated Augus r
We are in expectation hereof impc-N
tarn ne.*s from several quarters; that Vicksburg
is to be taken: that a fight will soon take place
in Northern Georgia or East Tennessee; and that
Pope’s army will soon engage the enemy. Now
that tbe mortar boats haveanived, stirring work
i** looked for from the James River.
Cincinnati, August I.—The war meeting here
last night was an immense affair. Speaking from
three stands, music, fire works and bell-ringing,
enlivened the occasion. Resolutions to sustain
Le Government, m the prosecution and confisca
tion of trai'ors’properly everywhere, were unan
imously adopted.
The New York World sajs, editorially, it ;a
novrcertaia that aa order will he is3ued for a
draf; ia such States, or sections cf States as win
cot supply tbeir quotas of men before the a; d
die of August.
Gold, in New York on the Is* ms;., was quo
ted «t 115%;. Foreign Exchange was dull, at
124% a 13t>.
In this news there is not ft syllable about Sew
ard’s resignation, nor one word of Ohio, Per.n«
sylvania, and Connecticut’s refusing to send
soldiers in' the field; on toe contrary, there was
a large war meeting at Cincinnati; Gov. Curtin
; of Pennsylvania, is stcir.pi.'g the State; the -pri
! vate snbscnptions of bounty money in Phtia
| delphia already amounts to $171,000; and Con
' necticnt H as .- rtain for her quoin of troops is
I she is for hrr usual onion crop.
: TitcNircs Dais’ BatYlksis Fao.vr cr Rtca"
mosd.—Ai Outline Narrative of the-Series ol Ed
gageceu's which opened at Mechantewille, near
j Riciunond, on Thuisday, June 26, and res
su.’ed in the Defeat and Retreat of tte 'furthers
Army, under Major-General McClellan. Com
piled from the Detailed Accounts of the Newspa
per Press.
We acknowledge the receipt of a neatly printed
copy of a pamphlet bearing this title. It is
published by Measr-t. Etans A Coggiwell, ol
Charleston, 3. C., and in tLe same form as -the
account o'ifce fca;tie o'Manassas, dby ’s*
same h«uss lam yeai .