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®hc lUcckin (Constitntionahst
, BY JAMES GARDNER.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS-INCREASING DISTRESS
IN THE ENGLISH MANUFACTURING DIS
TRICTS - TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND
PAUPERS IN PREBTON ALONE.
The London Times has been sending a special
correspondent into the manufacturing districts to
ascertain the truth in regard to the suffering and
privation there, growing out of a stoppage of
trade, consequent upon the American war, the
loss of the cotton supply, &c. His first report
appeared In the times ot the 26th ult. From him
we learn that—*
“In Preston alone there are 23,000 persons re
ceiving parochial and charitable relief. The
population is only 88,000, so that more than one
fourth are steepe'd to the lips in misery. load*
ditton to the 28,000, there are thousands endeavor
ing to subsist on half wages or less than on half.
Half time does not imply ba if*pay, for the use cf
Surat cotton renders it impossible for the hands
to earn their customary wages. The amount lost
to the operatives by the failure of employment is
calculated at £18,9u0 a week. The slight com
pensation to the suffering amounts to little more
than £1,900 a week ; so that, in point of fret, £1
is made to do the duty.of £l2. In one court, «tys
the reporter, I found a poor woman with three
children, whose husband had three days’ parish
work and an extra relief ot 35., in all 6s. a week
for the five.
“Ail their furniture was gone but a table and
two chairs, and all five slept in one bed, which
was placed in a dark hole with not a ray of light
finding its way into it—such as we should hardly
think too good to store coals in. All their clothes
had been pawned, and most bitterly of all did
the poor woman lament a good black suit ot her
husbands which was “in” for 10a. and which
they could never hope to “redeem.” Another
family of six people, in the same court, has to
live on Bs. a week, th it is. Is. 2. per week, or
2%d. a day for each. "In another house," he
says, “I saw a sight which wiU be before my
eyes tor many a day to come ’’
“It was a little low stone-floored room, its only
furniture a table, a stool and a bed. On the bed
was a stretched object, I could not tell whether
it was a man or a woman, worn to thebbonae —a
very skeleton, in fact, her body covered wtth
putrid sores, with not a rag on her—literally
naked but for the coarse sheet which was spread
over her. The bed on which she lay was a rough
brown sacking stuffed with a handful of straw.
She had lain there I don’t know how long, her
busband bad lain there before her and died on
the same bed.
“ She was the mother of two girls, factory op
erators, who earned or were relieved with a tew
shillings—l forget how many, foe I own 1 was
too much shocked at what I saw to listen to fig
ures. Fven among a somewhat better class,” he
continues, " the suffering is hardly less extreme,
and sad were the tales to which I had to listen,
of the gradual descent from comfort to utter des
titution. In one little bouse, huddled all together,
was a family of eleven, all of which had been
twenty-eight weeks out of work, and for fifteen of
these they bad existed on something less than Is.
per head.
The Relief Committee had just raised their
pittance to h6s. for the eleven. Before the bad
times the family earnings had been about £3
15»., and they had had to part with nearly all
their turmtere. A man, his wife, three daugh*
ters and two sons had only one bed among them,
and only adirty blanket and a dirty quilt, one to
be under and the other over them. Os course
the Children slept on the bare boards.” There*
porter illustrates the condition of a rather
superior class as follows:
“But perhaps the strongest illustrations of the
distress actually chargeable on the present crisis
are the cases'of respectable men who have hith
erto kept themselves in comfort and endeavored
to provide for old age and infirmity. There was
do difficulty in finding plenty of these. At one
bouse 1 visited a young couple, not long married,
who between them had earned over £2 a wees.
They had both been out of work for some time,
and when their savings were exhausted they bad
at last applied to the parish. Their present in
come was exactly ss. 6d. a week, out of which
their rent was 2s. 7d., leaving them Bs. a week
for subsistence Another young couple had-2s. a
week from the Relief Committee; but, living with
their parents, they had no rent to pay. In the
next bouse there Were four grownsvp people liv~
ing, whose united incomes amounted to 2s-, out
of which ’Ley bad to pay 2s. rent
Little further on I came on an overseer with a
family of five children. His salary iiad been 395.
a-w'eek, and though be had been out of work
more than a twelvemonth, he had managed to
struggle on until about a fortnight ago, when, all
his resources being exhausted, be had been com
pelled to apply for relief, and was now receiving,
from one source or another, about 9s. a week. Ad
old woman and two daughters, both es them over
twenty-one years of age—one employed halt
time, the other receiving relief—had among
them 4s. 6d. a week.
A highly respectable reed-hook maker—whose
wife cned bitterly as-she told me herstoiy—is
earning, with the aid of one of ner boys, 7s. a
week, which has to keep four of them, by dredg
ing stones from the bed of the river. They had
pawned all their clothes and much of their fur nix
ture before applying to the Relief Committee.
The average amount derived from charity, the
parish and half-time, when distributed amongst
-all the claimants, amounts only to Is. 6d. a head
per week. Many, of course, are living for less.
The 1«. 6d. is not given in money, the Relief
Committee distributing their boun y in bread,
aoup and coffee.”
The cotton question is dkcussed by the London
Daily News in a desponding spirit. It says:
The supply of American cotton is rapidly be
coming extinguished, and these exports have
consequently risen during the past week no less
than 4d to 5d per pound. For the future Ameri
can cotton, as being quite.a “fancy” article, will
command a “fancy” price—indeed, just such a
price as the limited number of holders may
choose to demand for it. Accordingly an inter
esting revolution is taking place in the manufac
ture. American cotton passes out of consump
tion, and the small quantity remaining will be
husbanded and used only id those fine articles
which are worn <by the wealthier classes of
society.
“ The cotton of Surat—the description now
chiefly entering into consumption—cannot oe
worked into the finer sorts of yhrns and goods
before it will become available for them its quai
• ity must begreac;y improved. It is very suit-”
able, however, to coarse fabrics, and with course
fabrics we must be contented until such time as
America s-nds her produce here again, or the
cotton of other countries improves in quality as
well as iucreases in quantity.” * * *
We have shown bow small is the present stock
of cotton, and, looking to the immediate future,
the prospect is gloomy tn the extreme.
Chief reliance is placed upon the supply of
£urat sorts, but it is not by any means encourag
ing to fiod that the total quantity from this source
now afloat and on the way to England is only
90,000 bales more than it was at this time last
year, being 390,000 bales against 300. WW in 1861.
.From no other source can the deficiency now in*
cheated be made up, save with t>me. Aaeuming
that the American crop is not released, and allow
ing for the probable supplies from every other
quarter, competent authorities estimate that
during the next six months there will be only suf*
ficient cotton to admit of the operatives having
two days’ work a week, and this is upon the sup*,
position that not a single bale wtH remain in Mock
»t the enJ of tuat period.
“The latter anticipation, of course, will not be
literally fulfilled, but there is too much reason to
apprehend, as we have already hinted, that the
pressure on the cotton manufacturing districts
will become yet more intense, A well known
Manchester firn- have given public expression to
an opinion that its severity will be the greatest
during the autumn and winter months, from
October to February next.”
THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE CON*
FEDERACY.
From the Richmond Examiner, Sept. 12.
We are enabled from papers before Congress,
to prepare a succinct and interesting statement
of the financial condition of the country, and to
enlighten the public as to the amount of our pub
lic debt, its class, and receipts at the public
Treasury up to the Ist August, and the probable
demands that will be made upon ‘he resources of
the South in view of the continuance of the war
and the exigencies of the country arising there
from. We distribute this information under ap
propriate heads.
THS PUBLIC DEBT OF THS CONFEDERACY.
It is ascertained from official data, furnished
by the Treasury Department, that the whole ex
penditures of the Government from its com
mencement to the Ist of August last, amount to
<■347,272,958 S 5. It should be stated, however,
that five millions of the amount charged as ex
penditure, has been paid for the redemption of
deposit certificates, and the aggregate above sta
ted is subject to that abatement when considered
in the light of actual expenses.
The expenditures up to the Ist of August are
as follows:
War Department<l9B,376,s4o 41
Navy Department .14,605,777,86
Civil and Miscellaneousls,766,so3 43
<328,748,830'70
To which must be added outstanding requisi
tions upon the Treasury, upon which warrants
are not yet issued, to the amount of <18,524,-
128 15; making the aggregate, as stated above,
<847,272,958 85.
CLASSES OF THE PUBLIC DBBT.
An examination of our funded debt account
will show that a lamentably small portion of our
public debt exists in this form. The whole
amount of bonds and stocks issued is as fol-
E-ght per cent, stock and b0nd5<41,577,250
Six “ call certificates 32,784,406
174,361,650
This statement indicates an evident indisposi*
tion of our people to make investments in this
form, and furnishes an explanation of much of
that disturbance of the standard of value and
enhancement of prices in the country, which
have been the consequence of the large and dis.
proportienrte issue of Treasury notes.
The issue already made of Treasury notes
amounts to <183.244,135; leaving authority to
issue <16,755,865.
RECEIPTS AT THE TREASURY.
The receipts at the Treasury up to Ist of Au
gust, from all the various sources of income, are
as follows;
From Customs <1,437 399 96
From Miscellaneous sources 1,974,76-1 33
From Loan, act of Februajy 28th,
1861. 15,000,000 00
From Loan, act of August 19tb,
1861 22,613,346 61
From call deposits under act of
Dec. 24th, 1861 37,585,200 00
From Treasury Notes, act March
9 h, 1861..., 2,021,100 00
From Treasury Notes, act May
16th, 1861..... 17,347,955 00
From Treasury Notes, act August
19’h, 1861,... 167,764,615 00
From Int. Treasury Notes, act
April 17tb, 1861 22,799,900 00
From fll and fl 2 Notes 846,000 00
From Temporary Loan from banks
| I —balance 2,625,000 00
From War Tax.... 10,589 910 7o
<302,555,196 60
This statement of receipts is short of the
whole amount of the expenditures of the Govern
ment by <44,717,762; on account of which the
Government has authority to issue only balance
cf Treasury Notes, <16,755,165, leaving <27,961,-
897 to be provided for by Congress in a further
extension of the general currency, unless this
balance can be paid by the bonds or otherwise.
FUNDS ITO BB RAISED BY THE FIRST OF JANUARY.
It is supposed that the authority to issue gen
eral currency notes must also be extended by
Congress to meet the appropriations already made
by it and not yet paid, and also tbe further aps
propriations to be made.
The appropriations already made
by Congress and not drawn on
Ist of Aug., amount t0<164,687,389 93
The estrmates submitted by the various Depart
ments of tbe additional supplies required to make
good the deficiencies and to support tbe Govern
ment to Ist of January next, are as follows:
For the War Department..'fl 44,878.590 36
“ “ Civil list 386 M 39
“ Miscellaneous... 102,899 88
fl 44,863,097 13
So that the whole amount of sup-
plies required to Ist of January
presents a total of. <209,550,487 06
Congress is left to determine the best mode of
raising this sum; and as there seems but little
prospect of raising tbe money by a sale of bonds
or stock, a resort to Treasury notes seems to be
all that will ba left to its discretion.
INTEREST BEA RINS NOTES.
The experiment of diminishing the quantity of
circulation by interest bearing notes and deposits
on cal! is said to have been very successful, and
Is likely to be encouraged as a relief from excess
in the quantity of the national currency, which,
as it exceeds tbe usual business wants of the
community, must be productive of high prices
without relation to the actual value of the cur
rency.
It is understood that the interest notes, al
though current to a certain degree, have been
generally withdrawn from circulation, on account
of their value as temporary investments. Most
of them have been taken under the belief that the
interest would be paid like other interest, and the
Secretary of the Treasury has encouraged this
belief by a recommendation to Congress that the
interest should be paid annually.
PROSPECTS OF ANOTHER WAR TAX—PAYMENT BY THB
STATES, ETC.
It is supposed that Congress will be under the
necessity of providing another war tax. From
the war tax returns, and from estimates as to
such States as h-”*e not yet made complete re
turns, this fund may be set down at seven bun*
dred millions.
Tbe War Tax has been paid by the several
States as follow:
.North Car01ina......<1,400,000 00
Virginia 2 125,000 00
Louisiana«....' 2,5u0,000 00
Alabama 2,000.000 00
Georgia 434126 12
Florida 225,374 11
Mississippi~ 1,484,467'67
, <10,168 967 90
The State of Georgia bar* übstantially paid in
the balance due by ner, ana the State of South
Carolina has paid the whole amount due by her
into the Treasury, in the form o>f six per cent.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. SFPT. 24, 1862.
call certificates. But as the fbal settlement has
not yet taken place, the certificates have not as
yet been delivered up, and the account is not yet
closed. The returns from the States nf Alabama.
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas have
not yet been rendered in complete. The two
former States have, nevertheless, paid their
taxes in advance.
PLEASING INCIDENTS.
From the Atlanta [Ga.] Intelligencer, Sept. 17.
As our readers have been imide aware by ex o
tracts published in this has been,
for some time past, a ’safe place of refuge for
large numbers of Southerners "who have been
compelled, by Lincoln tyranny, to fly from their
homes in the border slave Siates, and for South
ern prisoners who have escaped from their North
ern captors. They are also aware that the Cana
dians have sought every opportunity to show by
aets of kindness and attention their sympathy
with the cause of the Confederates.
Chafing under a knowledge of the same facts,
the Yankees at Niagara Falls, with a meanness
characteristic of the race, determined to annoy
and insult the Canadians and their guests as far
as it was in their power to do- To this end they
procured the hulk of an old vessel, painted tbe
name of "Jeff Davis” on her Bide, hoisted a Con
federate flag on her mast, and then with jeers
and huzzas committed the boat to the mercies of
the angry current, anticipating no doubt the
largest degree of enjoyment at seeing tbe repre
sentative of rebellion tush over the Fallsand be
dashed to pieces. But the fates were against the
Yankees. The vessel lodged on the rocks above
the precipice, and with her noble flag flying
proudly to the breeze, she became such an object
of-annoyance to those who projected the experi
ment, that they expressed the intention to send
to Buffalo for a battery of artillery with which to
dislodge her.
Not to be behind their neighbors in Yankeedom,
tbe Rebels and Canadians determined to show
what they could do. They also procured a boat,
dubbed her the "Abe Lincoln,” and raised at her
mast head the "Stars and Stripes,” now the em-.
_plem of cruelty, oppression, duplicity, and every*
thing mean. She was taken to a proper p< sition,
turned loose to the current, and without delay or
obstruction reached the precipice, made tbe mad
leap and was dashed into a thousand fragments.
These facts we have from Confederate officers
recently released from Yankee prisons, and who
are again breathing the air of freedom.
We hope and believe tbe incidents we have
narrated are typical of the fate of tbe two Govern
ments represented by tbe respective vessels.
er* We take the subjoined extracts from the
Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, Sept. 16 :
Good News from the West—More Victories !
A telegraph received by the War Department on
yesterday gave an account of very handsome sue*
cesses by Gen. Loring over the enemy on the
Kanawha. They were not only routed, but /
depot containing five thousand stand of arms,
and commissary stores, was captured by/mur
forces!
Gen. Jenkins crossed the Ohio river below
Parkersburg; .and, penetrating twenty miles
into the State of Ohio, captured a regiment of
the enemy’s soldiers I
Dispatches from Gen. Kirby Smith, ask that
20,000 stand of arms be sent him, to arm the
Kentuckians that are rushing in crowds to his
standard. This is really most gratifying news,
as it gives our brilliant operations in K-mtucKy a
tenfold brighter promise!
Roll on the ball! 1
From Maryland.—We learn by a gentleman o
high character, who arrived last evening from
Staunton, that a courier had arrived in that place,
from the lower end of the Valley, with informa
tion that Gen. Jackson was at, or near Martinis
burg, Virginia, in pursuit of the Yankees who
were left in the Valley to protect the Railroad
and Harper’s Ferry.
Toe force of the enemy is variously estimated
at from 4,000 to 18,000. When this force is diss
posed ot, there will then be no enemy in our
rear, and tbe line of communication by the Valley
route will be open for our advancing army as they
push Northward.
It is supposed Jackson went from* Frederick to
Hagerstown, and then turned back on Martins*
burg and Harper’s Ferry.
Pope’s Official Report.—We have received
through our Northern files the official report of
this unprincipled falsifier, describing bis operas
tions in Virginia from the commencement of the
retrogade movement from the banks of the Rapi*
dan till its culmination on the banks of the Poto*
mac. It has been all along given out by Pope’s
trjends that but for tbe failure, or the alleged
failure of tbe army of the Potomac to come up to
his support, victory would have perched upon his
standard instead of defeat. These charges do not
take the form of mere insinuations in the official
report; they are presented in the shape of sub
stantial accusations, especially against Fitz John
Porter, Franklin and Sumner. McClellan is not
censured directly, but by implication. We will
endeavor to lay the report before our readers to*
morrow.
Yankee Depredations.—The Yankees still
continue their depredations in the lower counties
of this State. A letter addressed to the editor of
this paper, dated at Smithfield, Isle of Wight
county, Sept. 11th, says that on Tuesday, the 9th
inst., a Yankee gunboat, commanded by John C.
Lee, visited that place for tbe second time. In
the evening tbe captain of the boat and nineteen
of bis men visited the private houses of the citi
sens and seized all tbe arms that could be found.
While at tbe above place they stole five dollars
in money from a slave, hired by Gen. R. A. Pryor
as a cook. Tbe reason assigned for the seizure of
tbe arms was to prevent their pickets from being
shot by guerillas.
YARNS TO BB DISTRIBUTED TO THE NEEDY.
Office Boswell Manufacturing Co., (
. Roswell, Ga., Sept. 18, 1862. j
Editors Southern Confederacy:
In view of the pressing want of Cotton Yarn in
most sections of the country, the Roswell Mann
factoring Company propose a gratuitous distribu
tion, in October next, of one thousand bunches of
Yarn to the needy poor of the counties of Cobb,
Milton, Cherokee, Paulding, Pickens. Bartow, Ful
ton, Forsyth, DeKalb, and Floyd. This will give
to each county one hundred bunches.
It is desired the Judges of the Inferior Court of
each county should interest themselves in tbe ap
pointment of a Committee, whose pleasure, doubt
less, it will be, judiciusly to dispose of the Yarn,
and as the amount is limited, not more than one
bunch could be spared to each family. The Yarn
will be delivered to the order of the Judges of the
Inferior Court, any week day during the month
of Octooer; and this early notice is given that
those living remote from the Court House may
have an opportunity to make timely application.
If it were possible, the list of counties would be
cheerfully increased, but other sections have
mills near them, upon whose liberality they can
doubtless depend tor supply. Geo. H. Camp,
Agent Roswell Manufacturing Company.
Reported Evacuation of Suffolk.—lntelli*
gence is said to have reached Petersburg last
evening, which is generally believed to be relia*
hie, that ihe Yankees have evacuated Suffolk.
It this information be correct, the people resid
ing in Suffolk and vicinity, as loyal as any in the
Confederate States, have been relieved from, a ty
ranny more galling and oppressive than any that
ever existed in Russia or Austria. We Sincerely
trust that it may be fully confirmed at an early
hour./— .Petersburg Excrete, Sept. 17.
OUR ARMY CORRESPONDENCE-—LETTER
FROM THE 481 H GEORGIA REGIMENT.
Fredrick CiTy, Maryland, I
’ September, Bth, 1862. )
Mr. Editor : We are now in Maryland, on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, having crossed tbe
Potomac near Leesburg two days ago. If I had
time I would like to give you an account of our
trip to this point. We have now marched
over one hundred and fifty miles, waded tbe
Rapidan, Rappahannock, and Potomac, besides
numerous streams of smaller size. We have
been in two engagements with the enemr, one of
which, I presume, was tbe severest battle of this
revolution, and our victory was more conclusive
and decisive for our arms. I mean the battle of
Manassas No. 2. Our brigade had been ordered to
tbe rear to prepare rations to move to and by Sud
ley. When in the act of preparing, it appears tbe
enemy were largely reinforced, and the tide of bat
tle about to change. Our brigade, this critical
moment, was ordered into the fight very unex
pectedly to all of us ; yet, tbe men moved forward
in line of battle like veteran troops for over a
mile under a severe shower of grape, shell, and
solid shot, with cheerfulness and determined
courage. When in about 150 yards of the Yans
kee batteries, a destructive fire of musketry was
Opened upon us. The commands from the Yankee
officers were distinctly heard: “F.re ! Fire low,
boys I” Yet. nothing daunted, tnough many of
their comrades fell wounded and dead, onward
went the brigade with a steady fire, with om mus*
kets and rifles, through the woods. When near
enough to the Yankee infantry to see them plain
ly, we found them behind a rail fence, which we
charged,and soon drove them back tn double-quick,
when their batteries limbered up and left the field
too.
Night coming on just at this time, and a
slight wavering in one of our regiments, pre
vented the capture of the Yankee batteries at
this point. They, however, in their haste, left
two of their pieces, and alongside of tbe fence,
behind which they took protection, numerous
dead and wounded were to be seen next morning.
It would have been pleasing to the friends of this
brigade to have seen them move forward under
this fire, led on by their gallant commander,
Gen. A. R. Wright; and I confess 1 never felt so
proud of the 48th regiment, as occasionally you
would hear him exclaim—“ Col. Gibson, the 48:h
is too fast,” “not so fast there, 48th,” “a little
slower 48’.h,” 4c., Ac.
I would that I could speak of the personal brav
ery and coolness of the command individually:
but it is sufficient to say it met the highest expec
tations of the General in command. I will say
of Captain Kelly, however, that he seized the
gun of the first man cf his company that tell, and
used it until he fell himself wounded, from
which he died early next morning, universally
regretted by the* whole command. Tbe list of
our casualties being published, I cannot speak of
all, ana must close hy saying it was a fierce and
hot battle and a glorious victory for the South.
We have met with many friends here, and I
learn a regiment or two of troops will be easily
raised, besides, several cavalry companies, 1
hear, are in process of formation. Frederick has
a population of twelve thousand inhabitants, and
is a beautiful city. Supplies seem plentiful,
and at living prices, and Confederate money will
purchase anything, so far, in Maryland.
Where or when we are to have the next fight,
conjecture does not evefi suggest; but come when
and where it may, our boys are determined to
whip it. General Stuart is. in tbe direction of tbe
Relay House, and in a few days our army will be
in a position to open up to him the whole of Penn
sylvania, as a field for his labors. God speed the
day, as I do think it is time our enemies were
being foraged on, and made to feel the fruits of
war around tbeir own firesides. Lincoln’s enrolls
ing officers were busy here getting names, and
summoning the men»to appear on the 15th inst
yet they have departed for parts unknown, e J
the people feel relieved of a great j nh
deed. i
Green corn and apples suffered on o’ 4l . marc h,
as rations, at times, were not to be obtained. No’
.one knows what our men have em’ jGre 4 t anc j wlt jj
"what cheerfulness. To have be< xn a Confederate
soldier, will be sufficient com>j en (j a ti on j n a y fu
ture time, yet many will b<> claiming the honors
won by their companions ln arms, whilst they
were absent, and not a. few travel along at a con*
venient distance in <ine rear, and are known in the
army as “ stragglers.” Respectfully. Ac.,
' - W. G.
From the Army of Northern Virginia.—By
arrivals yesterday from tstaunton, we learn it was
reported there that General Jackson bad, on
Sunday last, captured eight thousand Yankees at
Harper’s Ferry, without firing a gun. We have
been unable to derive from official sources any
direct confirmation of this report, though we
learn, upon good authority, that a combined
movement upon Harper’s Ferry by the forces of
Jackson, Walker, and McCall, had been ordered.
It is said that by order of Gen. Lee, Gen. Jackson
was to recross the Potomac at Williamsport, and
Gen. Walker at Cheat Ford, and march upon
Harper’s Ferry, while Gen. McCall approached
that place from the north and took possession of
the Maryland heights overlooking the town.
If the report of the surrender of the Yankees
be correct, the communications of our army are
open to Winchester, and our generals are put in
possession of eight thousand muskets wherewith
to arm the Marylanders who are said to be flock
ing to our standard.
Richmond (Fa ) Examiner, Sept. 17.
Thb People must not have Arms.—The New
York World has an article denouncing the pres
ent clamor among the people at the North for
arms, from which it is quite evident that the
Government stands in almost as much fear of the
people as it does of the Confederates. It says:
We regret to see the clamor which comes from
every quarter for a general arming of our popula
tion. It is occasioned by an unmanly fright’ and
is calculated to do infinite damage in withdraw
ing men from useful and productive occupations,
to spend their time in trying to be poor soldiers.
The Government has called for and will receive
all the troops it needs or will know what to do
with. What we really need is not more men,
but competent Generals. This frantic calling for
more soldiers, is a sign of real weakness of heart.
What we want is not the legions of Xerxes, but
the spirit of the Greeks who beat them. If we
cinnot conquer the South with one million men,
it is quite clear that with two millions we shall
only conquer ourselves by exhausting the coun
try’s resources.
We take the following paragraphs from
the Chattanooiza. (Tenn.) Rebel, of Sept. 18th:
From Gbn Forrest’s Command.—Gen. Forrest,
with a detachment of the 2d Georgia cavalry and
Texas Rangers, attacked a strongly fortifiad force
of Federals at Morrison’s depot, eight mues be
low McMinnville, on the 9th, killing seventeen
of the enemy who were outside their works, but
doing no further damage. Finding it impossible
to dislodge the Yankees, our forces withdrew
after suffering a loss of twenty killed and
wounded. The Yankees decamped next day.
On Saturday last Gen. Forrest, with his whole
cpmmand, was on the Cumberland river, twelve
miles below Lebanon. Recently several odd
Kentucky and Indiana soldiers deserted from the
Federate and gave themselves up to Forrest.
Gen Bragg's Army.—lnformation received by
us indicates with certainty that General Bragg’s
army arrived at Glasgow, Kentucky, on the 14lh
instant.
VOL. 14.—N0. 39
From the Knoxville (Tenn.) Register, Sept 1«.
FROM OUR VICTORIOUS ARMY IN KEN
TUCKY !-ITS ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPHON
AT LEXINGTON-GEN- SMITH’S PROCLA
MATiON-KkNTUCKIANS FLOCKING TO
HIS STANDARD-
We have received information (authentic) from
our army m Kentucky. After leaving Richmond
it encountered two Federal regiments at the Ken
tucky river, and soon routed them, capturing many
prisoners, and driving the balance to Lexington.
The next morning, Sept. 2d, our victorious and
advancing troops marched into Lexington, and
were received with the most intense enthusiasm
and expressions of joy, which did the hearts of our
brave soldiers good. Substantial evidences of •
gratitude on the part of the citizens were most
abundant. Tbe whole people of Kentucky are .
thoroughly stirred up and volunteering rapidly.
Already 5,000 have organized, and we will very
soon have 20,000 men.
Our march has been marked by a perfect line
of successes. The Federal stores, guns, ammu
nition, horses, mules, Ac., Ac., captured are im*
mense.
Our glorious flag floats proudly over the Capi
tol at Frankfort. Paris and many other towns
arc in our possession. Cincinnati, Louisville, Ac.,
are greatly stirred up. Tbe reception given John
H. Morgan, on his arrival at Lexington, was glo
rious to witness.
The following is the proclamation issued by
Gen. Smith to the Kentuckians:
Kentuckians! Tbe army of the Confederate
States has again entered your territory, under
my command. » .
Let no one make you believe we come as in
vaders, to coerce your will, or to exercise control
over your soil—far from it. Tbe principles we
maintain is, that Government derives its just
powers from the consent cf the governed.
I shall enforce the strictest discipline in order
that the property of citizens and nonscombatants
may be protected.
I shall be compelled to procure subsistence for
my troops among you, and this shall be paid for.
Kentuckians! we come not as invaders, but as
liberators! We come invoking the spirit of your
resolutions of 1798.
We come to arouse you from the lethargy which
enshrouds your forethought and which forebodes
the political death of your State.
We come to test tbe truth of what we believe to
be a foul aspersion—that Kentuckians willingly
join in the attempt to subjugate us, and to deprive
us of our property, our liberty, and our dearest
rights.
We come to strike off the chains which are
being riveted upon you.
We call upon you to unite your arms and join
with us in burling back from cur fair and sunny
plains, the Northern hordes who would deprive
us of our liberty that they may enjoy our suba
stances.
Are we deceived ? Can you treat us as enemies?
Our hearts answer—No. Kirby Smith,
Major General C. 8. Army.
From the letters of a volunteer in Gen. Smi’h’s
army we have the following interesting details;
THE BATTLE AT RICHMOND.
“The fight commenced at 4 A. M.y August 30,
near Bethel Church, on the Richmond pike—we
started the enemy after several hours’ hard fighfa
mg. They were reinforced from Richmond, and
disputed every inch of ground till they reached
the town, and about sundown they were c m*
pletely routed, but we had a Starnes and a Scott
in the rear of the town, who bagged them as .fast
as they came.
I can give you a few details of the fight, as I
am at rest now, holding my horse, not knowing
what movement we may make. 1 have just seen
R , have seen, him since night before last.
He is until, f t. One of our, batteries was nearly
out of when he was ordered to have
a to a d taken up to supply it. The enemy
had th e range of it. A shell struck imme*.
Under his horse, it did not explode, but
r jaused his horse to jump over a fence, inflicting
a slight scratch only. He is riding a mule to day,
having all ot' the captured and scattered arms to
gather up, which will keep him very busy to-day.
As to the killed and wc” a{ l e< i 00 our P ar t it
was slight. The Federal loss was mu? 11 heavier.
More prisoners than you can count convenit?’
As to the sentiment of Kentucky I cannot yet ex
press a correct opinion. I think it is highly ens
conraging to tbe South..
STILL LATER—PROGRESS OF GENERAL SMITH’S ARMY.
Lexington, Ky., Sept. 8,1862.—1 wrote to you
on Sunday from Richmond. Mondav morning we
started for this place. The enemy made a stand
at the river'but we soon drove them away—fol*
lowed after them, and encamped within seven
mites of this place. After our encampment was
made, Captains Owens .and Nelson called for fif
teen men each, to accompany them to make a
secret scout, we knew not where. L., 8., R., C.,
and myself volunteered on this service. We
started with orders for each' to keep in our places
and not to speak above a whisper.
We went through fields and by*paths, and just
as day dawned, after riding hard all night, we
struck’ the pike leading from Lexington to Frank
fort, ten miles from Lexington. Here the fun
commenced. We charged on thirty or forty cav
alry, who were in a house waiting for breakfast.
We captured them all without firing a gun—took
them ofl the road into a hollow—left them there
under guard, aud started tor something else. We
had not been long on tbe road until we saw some
infamry, whom we captured, and kept on cap*
tunng till we had taken 135 prisoners, when
we thought we had better leave. We met some
of our own men, who told us that Lexington had
surrendered without a gun being fired, so we took
the main road to that city—our army had not yet
come in. Tbe ladies met us everywhere—old and
young—with every description of eatables, all
going round and shaking bands with us, and
saying how glad they were to see us, and that we
had driven the tyrants away, and that they were
once more free.
Since writing the above I have been up town,
which is much crowded with citizens coming m
to volunteer. Tbe general public sentiment is
strongly for the South. R.
JSF" We take the subjoined extracts from the
Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, of Sept. 17 ;
Pennsylvanians Joining thb Confbdbrate
Forcss—We are assured, upon the statement of
an officer of the Confederate army, who arrived
in this city yesterday, and who lett Frederick a
few days ago, that a company of Pennsylvanians,
from Adams county, numbering 115, arrived at
Frederick last week, and tendered tbeir services
to the Confederate Government. This company
was regularly organized, with its own officers,
before they left their own State, and declared
that they were uawilling to stay at home to be
drafted into tbe abolition service.
Kentuckians Rallying.—The n. ws from Ken*
tucky, though without those particulars necessary
Id a full understanding of the real condition of
affairs in that State, is nevertheless encouraging.
The spirit of the people is aroused, and through*
out the State they are throwing off the shackles
that bound them, and asserting their determina
tion to be free. A dispatch from General K rby
Smith, dated Lexington Ky., Sept. stb> ap p eals
for arms for the Kentuckians who ars flocking to
his standard. He savs in his dispatch that the
people are rising en uiaue, and that he could, at
that time, add 20,uOO,men to his column if he had
arms for them.
A Court ot Inquiry has been asked for by
Major Rhett, to inquire into his conduct and the
w C n m ?,' a . n u Oeß atte “ d ’ D ß th e death of the late Col.
ph n t ,h ? un ’ „ The Court win consist of CoL
PrH.Cofouitt, Col. C. H. Stevens, and Col.
H Campben aDaRr ’ Judge Ad?ocite i Major W.