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UJICOLH ! PROCLAMATIONSI9 THE NORTH Lincoln’s emancipation and mar", »! law pros limitations do not seem to meet with universal approval in the Sortb. The statement* ol gen tlemen recently arrived in Richmond, from Alex andria, the letters of army and Washington cor , respondents of Yankee journals, and the order of McClellan to his army, forbidding the discussion of trie (’resident's proclamation, all tend to show . that great dissatisfaction prevails in the » rm 7 and among Ibe people, on this subject. Whether th.s , dissatisfaction wiH show i«elf at the bailoubox, or n the demoraltxation of the armies, is exceed ingly doubtful; but that it is very widespread, there can be no doubt. The Washington correiponcent of the Chicago (III.; Times, writing under date of Sept. 30tb. after reciting tbe powers which Lincoln has as 6umed, say* • The President hae been led into doing that the doitg of which would coat Queen Victoria her head. No English monarch would d&retosus e;ud the writ of haUcu cor put. Such an act in uglaod would cause a revolution there. Eng* land, as well as America, is a land of liberty ; but it is a liberty restrained by law. The laws ol both Eogland and America, tbe Constitutions of both Great Britain and the United S;ates, aol emniy declare tbe loalienable right of every eiti* zen to this precious right, and bare placed the awlul power of expending ttj not in the capricious will of the Chief Magistrate, but in tbe national legislature alone. It realities now with the American people to decide whether they intend to be freemen or slaves; whether they intend to give up, without a struggle, to a radical faction, their inalienable right®; or whether, planting themselves on tbe Constitution, they will demand and maintain the r;gots which it secures to them. No event since tbe beginning of the war has bad such a depress, og influence in regard to en listments as tbe . mt-ncipation proclamation. It has discouraged enlistments ten times more than all the oih r causes combined. This .9 the uni % t rsal testimony of all tbe recruiting officers in bit the iarge cities, and in at! the States. I have made the' matter a subject of special inquiry, and I know it to be so. Therefore, the instiga tors of that proclamation ought to be at once ar* rested. This is the testimony of a writer at the seat o Government, and very strong language he uses. The next extract we give is from an army cor* respondent of the same paper. Writing from Memphis. Tennessee, under date of .Sept. 28tb, he says: There is little else talked of now amongst offi* cerr> and soldiers, and at times their discussions become so hea'ed that it requires the interference of friends to prevent a collision; in fact, hatred and bitterness are the necessary results of this unwarranted assumption of the President, and every dav drveiops such a dissatisfaction with a large portion of our army that fears are entertain ed as to th** results. Already the soldiers are ex cited, and improve every opportunity to vent their jnd gnati'.n upon tbe hordes of negroes who are strutting the streets ol Memphis, many of them wearing ttie uniform of a soldier of the United States. Another correspondent,writing from Columbus, Ky., under date of Sept, 30th, says : For instance, the vast army that is now spread upon the borders of the rebel country, enlisted With the explicit understanding and belief that the war was to be prosecuted for the “Constitution as it is and the Union as it was,” will not quietly consent to its being aught else. They left their homes to prosecute the war vigorously and to a speedy close, upon tb:se principles. Many, I may hay the most or them, are men from the N-«rth who are to depend upon their daily labor for a livelihood when they re>urn. Need I say, then, that the recent emancipation proclamation conies upon them like a thunderclap in a clear day Tney have made sacrifices, are enduring hardships f oing into unpleasant and horrible war, yet the uture prospect has been to them of some day re turning to their homes, to resume their former oc cupations and have tbe proud Ci nsciousnessol Lav ing done th* ir doty in this mighiy struggle f»r a fr>*e government uud the Coustituuon Vet, now, under tins new policy, the future, even if the war should soon be successfully closed, is not at all cheering. Tneir places, hi their abseuce, are to be tilled by tbe negro; their labor, when they do return, is to be brought into c unpetition aud degradanou with black labor. Let one go among the troops and bear the ineuaces ot extermination of the black ice North when they return, and their hitter denunciations ot the emancipation policy, and, if not blinded by abolmou prejudice, wtiu d prophecy that, from the adoption ot this policy, the s**e»ls are sown for another terrible outbreak in the future, in which the poor, helpless and innocent negro will he driven forth from the North with slaughter and confusion. Abolition theorists will not believe this, but 1 telt you this is the general feeling of the soldiery, aod candid men appreciate it with alarm. War is a terrible revolution z?r of political sen timents, and unions the soldiers, do matter what may have been their former political creeds, you cun scarcely lind one man who is an avowed ab<>- liiomst, or who does uot look with alarm upon all emancipation schemes. The test is now being applied, and the question comes directly home to every one, and their future association and wel* fart* are both m the issue. And, further than this, there is uo use in dis~ cussing the fact, that the soldiers are getting tired ct this war, and are becoming heartily sick of its management. We give these extracts that the reader may draw his own conclusions from them. If they mean anything, that meaning will be exhibited in the ejections which took place on Tuesday last, and w'll take place next month, in the Northern States; and, until then, it would be unwise to draft ant hasty conclusions, or to indulge in anv speculations as to the results of the evident dissut lsfacliou in that section. Thk English Harvest.- The London Times, speaking id itie harvests of ISfti, says the results are unexpectedly tavoiajle. li ts not quite an average crop, but it is very little short of the mark. What, with foreign and what with home produce, the granaries ot the kingdom will Sion be full. A correspondent of the same paper, who represents himself to have traveled over the greater part ot England, says; “The wheat crop will be from six t-> eight bushels below an aver age per acre, and of a shrivelled and inferior quality; the barley will be ten, and oats(rom four to six busiieU below uu average: that winter beans (which is au important auxiliary crop in England) are in many cases a total failure, and spring sown beans about an average crop; of peas there is a lair ciop ; ot Swedish turnips, which ure largely depended upon for fodder, only about baif a crop; and ot mangold wurtzel twoathirds of a cr‘p ; pota'oes are from ten to twenty per cent, above the average; meadow hay is abuudunt but badly secured ; clover bay above an averige and of good quality, and the pastures full of “keep,” but poor and not of a very fattening quality. As a con.*equence, England will be in tue market as a large purchaser, her consumption be'ug estimated three hundred thousand bushels a day more than she can raise. In France the Crops ure below an average.” A Suggestion.— As oats are very scarce and high, we veuture to suggest the following substi tute: Reserve the land you would sow in oats if you bad the seed, and about May next plant in cow peas, tows £4 to SO mches apart. The oats crop is known 10 be an exhauster of land—the pea crop, if the vines are not pulled up, is rather a benefit. The former crop is also, of late years, liable to be turned by rusi; the latter is generally a safe and a certaiu one. In fact, the cow pea is a great crop iu our latitude, and ought now to re* Ceive that lull attention which it deserves. Like Corn, it is a source of abundance and comfort on the farm, and should never be neglected. Bitfr/irld ( SC-) Advertiser, Oct. 15. SOUTHER* PEACE PKOPOSITIBNS AST, TOT NORTHERN PEACE PART^, The New York Times has the lc^ !ow;E g article as a leader; It :s at least a curing cirCiHEstarce that Mr. Foote, of Tennessee, have brougntfor* ward bis pro ositions ot peace in the reb-rl Con gress at tbe precise moment when it has b* come important for the ‘access of the Seymour Democ racy at the Not*Jq tha*. the Northern people sriou d | . l 0 :q *.’ne ex stence a: the South of a , | C en( j the war by compromise. We do no* f or a moir.ent suppose that any . isiod j between tbe Southern represenative and the t Northern “Conservatives,'’ for we do the latter party tbe justic to believe that they are o. ; ng not for the inaependence ot tbe South, ou T for the j submission of the North. They are not set-king »to exalt tbe Confederacy, but merely to ah«s© tbe J Union. Mr. Foote, on the contrary, :•> earnestly ! bent npon achieving a complete separation of the ! two sections; and we interpret the conjunction of ' bis remarkable speech at Richmond, with tbe scarcely less remarkable resolutions of the Dem* j ocratic Convention at Albany, to mean simply I and solely that tbe rebel leaders are sagacious ! enough to see the great opportunity which the | action of the New York Democracy affords them, 1 and resolute enough to avail themselves at once. | The foolish story set afloat by somebody in tbe j ! office of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who had taken ; the pains to read Mr. Foote’s speech, of the tenor 1 j of the Southern peace propositions, would not de* ! serve a moments attention, were it not to be feared ' ’ that in some parts of the country it may gam a 1 temporary credence, and be used to farther the schemes of the Democratic leaders Many of oar , ! people are so little informed as to the real state of j ■ feeling at the Sou b, and so anxi »i • to be!i«ve tbe 1 ‘ Southern people mote rational than they are, that i ■ some positive mischief to the National cause might ; very easily be done, even by so ridiculous a canard !«r 8 that of tbe Inquirer, were it not promptly ex ! posed. That tbe koutbern people desire peace, we < cannot dr übt. So. for the roarer of that, do the people of the North. War is rarely an agreeable pastime to the na tions engaged. But we must never forget toat j what tbe theologiaos might call an opeiative de- I sire for peace is only to be created m the hearts ! of a people f airly at war by the evident triumph jor tbe evident hopelessness of their cause. We of I the North ought not to and cannot desire peace till it is plainly established either that we have 1 • reduce.! the South to subniis.-i n, or that we are ! unable to carrv on ibe *ar any longer. We rnay jbe sure that the South will not desire peace on honorable terms to us, until she has been com pelled so to do; aod it would be childish to pre tend that we have yet brought her to this state. The Southern dreams still reign supreme in the Southern heart. Whatever symptoms we may perceive in part cu'ar sections of me South of ex haustion or weariness, should not delude us a* to .the central fact, while three hundred thousand j men id arms continue to confront our forces from | the Potomac to the Mississippi. When the South j talks of peace now, she talks of a peace to be , purchased bv the surrender of all for which we ; have been fighting, by the abolition of the Union, j and by the supremacy of slavery from tne Coeia* ! peak© to the Rio Grande. If the Northern friends of peace at any price attempt to persuade the pea* j pie into the possibility of any oiher peace than J this, at this time, the? are either ignorantly or ' willfully misleading those who hear them, aod i betraying their country to its fall. BOLD DECLARATIONS From the Richmond Whig. Oct. 9. The New York Herald, of the »‘th instant, con tains two remarkable editorials, which remind us more of the effusions of that journal before the bombardment of Fort Sumter than anything which has appeared in its columns sioc** that event. The caption of the leader is, “Who is Responsible for the failure of the Admmistra | ti'»o v ” The writer commences by saying. “It is now universal'}- conceded that the present ad* ministration is a failure.” lie then proceeds to discuss the questions: "Who is responsible for the failure, and how is tbe failure to be reme died V” The article charges tbe radicals with in triguing for the removal of Beward from the Cab inet; says the “real culprit” is Mr. Chase, Sec re* I 1 tary of the Treasury, and proceeds to criticise the financial and p ditical schemes of the obnoxious Secretary with some severity. Tbe conclusions ol the writer are that tbe “malign influence . which has caused tbe disasters >1 the w ar,” is the I encouragement given to the “radical party ' by , Mr. Chase. Jbe closing paragraph is as follows : The wilt always fail U..UI the President, like General Jackson, rids Jus Cabinet jof all Presidential a>pirants, and finds .Secreta* ! taries whose ambition is to do their duties t acb jin his own department. 'I he country has yet to ’ 1 tgicounter greater perils than any we have es i raped, and only with a conservative Cabinet can j they be encountered successfully. If the Prest- j dent retains h»s present disunited, inefficient and unpopular Cabinet, or replaces it by one still more ■ radical, we tremble for the result. Tbe other article declares that “ we have fallen upon evil days,” auk the “sun ot liberty is in 1 danger o f being arrested in its onward march, ! and the shadow on tbe dial of human pi• grew of being thrown back a century ot autre.” A de scription of Rome when distrac*ed by the civil j i wars is presented as “a true picture of the degen \ ' eracy of the American republic.” The article i closet as follows Public corruption, faction, and despotism, are going bahd in «band. Tbe Constitution, once so i sacred in American eyes, is no longer regarded as 1 better than the prophecies of an old almanac, j Tbe antecedents of Genera! Wadsworth are we’l i known. Let him be elected Governor of ibis 1 State, and no man's life or property will be worth ! three nxibtbs* purchase. His organs are already denouncing ail who j dare to vote against him as traitors. Os course, the proper punishment of a traitor is death, with the confiscation of bis property. Those who vote for Wadsworth will there We vote for the', destruction of the lives and properly, real and j personal, of half their fellow cit'ftrn* of this! j Slut**. Ibis is tbe issue made. Are the voters j reudy t<> adopt it V We fear, indeed, that the ! enemies of tbe white man’s liberty, under the j false guise of freedom and equality to blacks, ! will be only too successful in perverting the ; J truth, and that the people will oe blinded to the ; destiny that awaits them till the power passes ‘ I forever out of their lianas, and they awake to the I I reality of their political condition when all is j j lost. Favorahlk a'hum Kentucky —The Mobile Tri bune has late information from Kentucky, through j Surgeon Violett, of General Morgan's command, who left Faimouth on the 25 h ult. He states \ that at laast 40.01 id Kentuckians have reported for ' duly within the last month, aod there was little i doubt that General Kirby Smith has issued an j order ou the Government for 40,000 stands of! small arms to arm the Kentuckians. Heals re- | ports that the fortifications at Cumberland Gap are in most excellent condition for defense, that J tive hundred can hold it agaiust almost any num ber. They have plenty ot provis ons of all kinds, and are well supplied with ammunition, etc. A full company of Indiantans, from Switzerland county, had come over and reported for duty to the Confederate army, at Lexington, Ky. The route to Lexington, by the Uap,*is entirely safe. A regiment of Indians from North Carolina is stationed ut the Gap, and has secured the whole country, and routed the bushwhackers and Home Guards. Passengers are constantly passing into | Kentucky without fear of molestation. OrriCEßs of thi Compxdssatb States Steamer Atlasta.—The following comprise the list of offi cers of tbe new Confederate States steamer, At lanta, formerly Fingal, at Savannah Wm. Mcßlair, Mu., Commander. Wm. A. Webb, Va., Lieutenant. Samuel W. Averett, Va . Lieutenant. To os. Arnold, K Lieutenant. Wm. R. Dalton, Miss, Passed Midshipman D. M Scales, Mias., “ “ i N. S. Lee. jr., Va., Acting Master. J A. G. Williamson, Va., Midshipman. Frank Bevif, fcGa., Master's Male E. Johnson, Acting Chief Engineer. W in. T. Morrell, Va, 2d Assistant Engineer. G. W. Tenuetit, Ga., 2d AssistHnt Engineer. J. J. West, Va., 3d Assistant Engineer. Savannah R-pullican , Oct. 15 ! Sfxcia. '.'orrupondc*ct of iht Cmttinuicnaliet. LETTER FROM RICHMOND Richmond, Va., Oct. 6, 1862. Me. Editor— Dtar Sir ; Od my return to tbe Georgia ly»g ; on, from my B:Ck leave, 1 hav* stopped a few days in Richmond, to await the , com ng of the Yankee fcag of truce beats, expect ing to meet on them a Lumber of oar Legion. These boats, six it number, with about 2,700 Coc ' federate prisoners, arrived at Aiken’s Landing, on river, twelve miles sh m Richmond, Suns ' dav afternoon. On Monday, I wen: down. By sundown, si: of cur men were ashore, and on tbe road to Richmond. Their testimony, without a siDgie exception, was, that their treatment bad | been of the harshest kind. A number of our Le i gicn came. I give yes the list below—it may not ibe perfect. I beg you w»!l publish it, as in this wav I can best answtr tbe many requests and '< letters I have from friends. These are all from j :he infantry battalion cf oar Legion, and taken in . tbe battle cf Crumpton P*ss. None of our wounded came—on'y the well; COMPANY A. I A D Summers, W B Phillips, J V Wood son, J I A Manson, C J Conway, E Calahan, J W Carr I COMPANY E. D S Jones, H B Aahmond. company J D Lewis, J G Hix, J A Coewning. company d j S Stooneil, W E Gr.ffic, W Delay, James Evans, Won Crow. company <5. J E McDoogaid, W H Win’oc, M Bunnovao, ' A Bruase;. COMPANY f L D Glsz-, G W Adde^boic. Tbe company letter of the following. I cannot hX : J 51 Hill, J A C r e, D C Landrum. S b Ellington, J 51 Chandler, H J .>nedard, J D Eckels. It is next to impossible to get ail tbe nam<-s, as the officers and men were kept separate, and, on getting to Richmond, were scattered over the city. Tbe fallowing officers are now here • Capt G W Moore, Lieuts J 0 Floyd, R .3 Fletcher, A G Gner, C H Sanders. Before leaving Burkersvilie, in Maryland, (’apt. Moore was permitted to vis.t some of the ho**pi* tais. Be made the following list. I suppose it does not inclide a* our wounded there. Lieut. ! Col. Lamar (lied the afternoon of Monday. COMPANY A. Wounded G W Co-k. leg, S Powell, M J | Phillips, heel A Chesnutt, hip; J H Powell, J O Andrew, tbi|b; N Mixon, neck, J Raktuore, ; arms; Cap! A Conyers, side, not serious. COMPANY k. Killed Robt Bowman, F M Johnson, Thotoas ! Johnson. * Wounded J J Barne3, Charles Mabry, doubt* j fu'; Thomas Avery, doubtful; Dye, hand; Parker, | hip; Robt Ad*n«oc, arm; Powbridge, arm: Hergt jJ H Ward, both legs; Barren, leg off. Meadow, I leg off above knee; W N Felton, mortally; li ' Brown, .eg; J Know*], leg off; E .3 Dyer, arm. COMPANY C. | Wounded.. M Williams, JR Gan*, hip; G N Williams, leg J E Argo, l**g off; E M Ragsdale, i thigh and leg; A’ N Mayfield, both legs; Captain 1 Liddell mouth,very severe, but hope not mortal; Lieut Coi Amos company d. Killed C Fowler, R E Yerby, G A Kadle. Wounded Fifcpatnck, hand and ieg; Corporal U Wise, both thighs; A L Neighbors, side: Higb j land, groin. H (Jhiiders.. knee, Sergt 51 D Ca d« well, leg off, Sergt iiinney, iiw, Sergt Mell, . Capt Camas, am. COMPANY t. Wounded.. Cap Cox, head, not mortal; Lieut Whitt-head, bead,not mortal; Privates B Mobley, » D Bird, Sergt 51aj.r W Wimoerly, ne k, and per haps mortal. Company r. W- unded G W Vaughan, ieg and side; S W Swat! red, thigh; Vs L Edge, side; John S Cald well, doubtful; W F Byrom, ieg, arm and hide; John Ilesterly, breast or side , A O Buis**, breast .or side; Asa Ward, leg, hand and s.de . Won Gable, sh-.u’der and arm , (J B Orr. hu» • ■vr D Sjowe, leg ; Lieu* j ynoc, l> ’L thighs COMPANY G. Killed—Lt Dye. Wounded—Capt Burnett, inarm , Atkinson, in back ; Springer, in leg , Nolin, in l**g . Lannius, in side ; Serg’t Pierce, in buna. This is Capt. Moore s list, as fares he personalty I could make it out. Os course there may be others wounded whom he did not see. He thinks Serg’t O’is Tarver was wounded, not being permitted to ' go on the battle field after the tight he could give , but little account of the dead. Lt. Simms was certainly killed. These wounded prisoners u e now ;n the enemy’s country, and of course it will jbe impossible to get to them. Those who sur* j vive will ultimately he exchanged. The paroled j prisoners now here will doubtless be kept in Rich | taoud until regularly exchanged. It was a brave I and blowy tight. Our infantry battalion beat 1 back the several regiments before it, and held | them there un’ii fl inked. Poor Lamar Ino braver , man or truer gentleman ever lived. He was my : intimate friend. We lived and eat together : - : months- I mourn him as a brother, i Igoon to tbe Legion on Friday. There is not a word of new* to wr.ie your paper. Your know j quite as much as the Richmond people. 1 will write you anything of import once about our I Legion. Yours truly, K K. Poktbr. Chaplain C* bb’s Legion. . Novel Case Undkr the Conscription —A case |of first impression, urd»r the C»»n>cription law, was tried before Judge S. J. Boiling, Probate ! Ju Ige. i n Saturday last. in this place. Apollcs Smith, who had been employed a» Fore- I mun on tbe H. spital building here, w«»s enrolled j by the Conscript officer for this county, and on j failure to go to the camp o i instruction, was ar ! rested. A wr:t of hu' a> c/tpus was sued out at j the instance of the Govern men t officer in charge .of the works ; and the question was. whether or ! no the sub-enrolling officer had a right to send ! one thus situated to the caoif* It was contended on the part of prisoner, that j tbe enrolling officer was bound to act upon the j cases of all, within tbe p'an words of the ex i emptinn act; and could not enroll such persons ! at all, while the exemption *n good faith existed. | That, independent of this resulting from tbe plain letter of the law, tbe ina’ructioos of the Commandant of the 14 o of August, 1862, under which tbe enrolling officers [held tbeirjr.uthority, directed thtm to ‘‘enroll all men between 18 and j 35, except such a? were exempted by law. This view was sust ined by tbe Court, aud ; Smith was discharged <ie hone esse. Gre*r-tille (Ala. - Observer. i From Nashville.—The Federalists at Nashville are plundering the country within ten or fifteen j miles of the city. Tbeir foraging patties go out in torce to the bouses of citizens and take every* j thing they have in the way of provision. 1 hey ] lire literally devastating the country m every di j rectioo. The people of that portion of the State* J are intensely Southern in their feelings and are | willing to do anything to aid in relieving the j Siate of the buDd of plunderers at Nashville, if j tbe Government will give them the means and the opportunity of so doing. A force ought to be j sent into Middle Tennessee immediately to re* i gain possession of that portion of the State. . The enemy, not long since, went out to ! David H McGavock’s near Nashville, took eighty* [ two negp.es. all of his corn, wheat bacon and ' household furniture, and it was thought would | burn his house. They weDt to Gen. Harding's ' shot his deer, took the hind quarters to town and i left tbe balance. They ulso shot his buffalo and took a quantity of his fine stock. They are taking j the fine blooded sheep of .Mai k R. Cockrell, which i are worth from twenty to fifty dollars a pair, and | using them ‘or food. They are doing around Nashville wha* Pope ordered bis men to do in Virginia, for which order he aod all his officers under him were declared bv our Government to j ( te outlaws.— Chattanooga {Ttnn ) Rtbe\ Oct. 14. LETTER FROM VIRGINIA. Gaines’ Mills, 13 miles from Winchester, £ Vo t Hepiember 23,1362, j brat Mother : Since I wrote ym last, things have been turning about a great deal in our favor. The haughty enemy has been driven from our borders, and we have crossed the Potomac. Dur* mg the last two weeks, many brave and true men have fallen in their country’s cause, and many anxious and loving hearts at home will be wrung With pain. You have doubtless, ere this, beard of tbe glorious results of Jackson’s determined army. 3o much has occurred since I wrote you last, that I cannot remember the half of it. Stu art’s cavalry first crossed the Potomac, at Noland’s Ford, Poo'esvi’le being five miles from the river, on the Maryland side. Our brigade (Hampton’s) was the first to cross ; then Ashby's cavalry, aod the remainder of Stuart’s command. It was a beautiful night, the moon shone down br.gbter than I thought I bad ever seen it before. Every obj-.ct around could be seeY as distinctly as in tbe day. You caD imagine what a beautiful scene was presen’ed—the broad surface of the Poto mac shining nke glass, and two lines of horses swimming across i f . After reaching the Nlaryiand side, each brig ade set up a shout, and continued it until we reached PoolesviHe. There a few Yankees there, but they scampered off as soon as we came near enough to be heard. We Lave been to Ur bana, Frederick C ty, Middletown, Burketsv;!le* and a great many ether places in Maryland. Our whereabouts are up and down the Potomac, first in Maryland and then in Virginia, crossing and recross ng ail the t.me, wherever we are most needed. While marching from Groans to Frederick Citv we were pursued by the Yankees, and just as we were leaving one edge • f Frederick City, they were coming in at tbe other. We had nothing but cavalry, and two pieces of artillery. The Van See cavalry advanced d-'wn the main street, fol lowed by a batterv of artillery, while their :q» fantry marched into tbe cross streets from each side. By this movement they thought to fi.nk us. Main street was a long, straight street. We could, see from one end of it to the o:her. We were at one end—tbe Yankees at the other. Gen Hampton looked around and saw them coming He ordered us to ‘'left about, wheel.” When they got within two hundred yards of us, he or dered us to charge. The Yankees, seeiug us coming, wheeled around and took lor the other end of the street, where they bad a battery of artillery. We followed them cc until within ah' ut fifty yards of the cannon, when the Yan kees opened their battery upon us. Tbe slc*. came straight through their own racks, killing and wounding several of their men. It is a toys tery to rae that none of us were hurt, as the smoke of the cannon came up into cur faces, but the shell must have passed over our heads. ! By this time the Yankee infantry was pressing |on us, so Genera* Hampton ordered us to retire. I f must not forget to add, that Gen. Hampton was : fired upon three times from a front window on the i street. We know not who did this , but, per* I Laos, :t was some Union citizen. , Wm'e passing around *he vicinity of Middle | town, Md , Cobb’s Legion was ordered to charge some Yankee cavalry m one of the roads leading | irorn the town. The road wan just wide enough * for us to ride four abreast. Co!. Young drew his j men up by fours, and told them to follow him We ali gave a shout, put spurs to our burses and : darted toward then*. We did not go more than four Luudred yards before «e were in among 1 them. You can im»gine the scene The du.-t was |so thick that we c uld'not j*ee each other, the clash j ing of swords, and tr.-o aud horses taking u every direction, as the Yankees and 3ontnern I boys were mixed up together, cutting r.gbt and left, whne some were fchoottng with ; stols and carhines. charge on horseback. You can see how much danger there is m it. hut 1 wa» not touched either uy halt or sw-ru. The Yankees, finding us too strong for them, retreated Col. Young was wounded in the log. Several other officers and privates were wounded. We had one man kiled. When the dust cleared away, men, horses, and arms were lying over the road. Five or six ’an -1 keea were killed, as many wounded, aud five taken pnsioners. Again, at Wilirsmsport, Md.. the HichiiDnd i Hussars were called upon to charge a squadrot of i : \ uukee cavalry, w bicL we did, but could not oter * L.ke them. 1 do no: know w hen we wii. leave here, or whre • , will be our destination when we do leave, fore ! do not stay long in >ne place. At Harper's Ferry, wc all go: a nice supply f j * large, warm blankets. I have a ! so a warm pr I of pants and a splendid piir of boot-—alt Yanks | ! property. ■ Sonny Antony ;s well. II lien and Siias Care ; are id Winchester, with lame horses. Sept. Jj.-We are now encamped in a beautifi j vahev, about eight miles from where ! last wroti you. Nothing oi importance nas transpired durm I j our atay here yet. We are stopping here a tev i days to real bo h horses and men. lam uegmniUfc to iik-* Virginia very well. Tin people in this section of the Slate are very kind ! None of us like Maryland much. Some of tbr ! people there treated ns very kind, while otberr , treated us tq tu: y mean A great roun\ cil*z-n! -I Maryland have : ined our army. There are no roads in Maryland at all. Tint whole State is like one vast held, dtv.ded b*l j fences, or, at least, that part of it is .u which w*»i ( were The mountain scenery around here li 1 beautifu . I have been up aouve the clouds sev eral time. lhe weather is beginning to be quite cold. W * , are a i well provoied wnh bed domes; l have foil l ; arge blankets. We have been without teuts eve a i since we left Hanover Court House ; we wi‘l sooic know whether we are to have tents or wm‘e« quarters, as the snowing season will soon be beret and, jou know, it is against all reos n for ua i sleep in it. 1 i Seven M;les from Martinsbcrg, Va . I Bept. 80, 1862. ) My Dear Mother ; Failing to send my letter a | so«>n a* I anticipated, l break it open to say a fe 1 j more words. We are now encamped in u beautl j lul place, seven milts from Martiosburg. A gr*f I many of our Legion, who w t re left behind, Lav j again joined us, Lucius has not arrived yet. J i saw Giro Heard & short time ago, he was well.-* | Col. Youag has not improved enough to j'rt I us yel* Col. Cobb has arrived, and will taK j command of his Cavalry for awhile. The infait ! try oi his Legion suffered severely m the tigt ■ He made us an eloquent address last night, at ! spoke of the ga!lan:rv and heroism of those bran | fellows m his infantry who bad fallen. He broug? tears to the eyes of ’several who were listeningd him. You must remember that be has bf absent from us several months with his infant o He said he hid learned with great pride of * gallantry aod bravery of his cavalry, and i proud to be with us to-night, as he looked oi us, and saw in every countenance the stern de i ruination to do or d’le. He said we had gain* name—a name that would be often seen upon pages of our country’s history, and that in deeds of bravery which would be recorded ;a bo< k of fame, in years to come, would be | those done by the cavairv of Cobb's La He then said; "Comrades, I will now eptil I the prospects of peace 2 have just leti . j . mood, and have conversed with Senators, N ' 1 bers of the House of Representatives, the t lary of War, aDd the president, and 1 have* ; ; out that I knew ab< ut as much about wk" war wi uld eDd as they did. They had op . and hopes about it, but those opinions anr s I ma y not be realiz'd. The war is waged j us by the meanest set of people whom Qi r • Permitted to live upon the face of the earth ** long as they continue to fiaht us »«. t.mte to tight ."hem.” .Cheers; ° e ’ ** ■"* i w c ;;'b bit^r ar : * camp several tunes that there was a lai> pr?/ 0 "' ’ of our returning to Georgia It <s pr ‘ 5Wt : the cavalry now ,o V r f ' J , ?"'' 1 the coast of Georg,a, a^d * ' fight m tLeir owo Slate wiih k»* t»r h n . ieD ®* 5 out of it, ,t points to rs as the e”' th « ' be sent there. We are Georgian?*? d7» 'S 00 ' A claim it A. all events, ! sUU do at|l " ! h ° sic l er to obtain f«ir us tbe rr’ r 1 ■**’-' B have tbe promise of the a«c- s .o-„ p ) f r^,a » ac G .1 our Generals." a *“ s & “'* e of *er era i J lad“ls! he He P^d 0f Z K f J he GerrrJ cavalry of Cobb’s L-uim heard banipion, Gen ;,i r T CC a be <£ , m-Chiel, Gen. Lee. ’ ° bj Commander Our paymaster has arrived and v, “ o°7, H J.- Wil ‘ P “ T rff :D a lew day! COr j I lipect yen think I do 100 much br»v,i ‘ cu l ra ' ma . v be wrong in a ‘ : | things I say about tbe armv. g many| Tbe people in Augusta snow Ssr^s«»«3:*sl J. W. D. ‘I A EEFUGEE FROM SAVANNAH . Mr - Spenc « r i» New Yorker, but for sever I years past a merchant in Savannah. Ga has Ij rived in New To, k and told bis story,' which J published in the Tunes. The follow ing are h views of the “feeling at tbe South l | The feeliDL’ of the ctiiens of Savannah wi! or I fereoce to the rebellion, Mr. Spencer represent”. I being nearly unanimous in Savor ot coni? * I the course they have begun, aud of never *I lug until they have gained their independence I Manv o. it m opeoiy declare that they would-T I ter becotu ug tbe suujects ot a tore eu nowe-- I ; reaUDion witu the National Gcve-ntnent \'?'l i lew openly avowed that they had mediated I movement tor twenty years past, and that ,7* I election f Lincoln they saw iheir opportunity 1 ' I | lbe N -rij-cru men, ot whoo. iheie aie a JC, I many in Savanuah, as well as ail the otbei sil : ero cities, a'e m stly Duion men at heat s'l | ‘bey obliged to d savuw.or at tbe bestcuniTi' I iheir sentim-nts. There is, however, nothing 1 I I the teign of terror vistung them at pies-nt " I 1 there wassttke beginning of the rebellion tSI ; “Rattlesnake C üb” and "Vigilance I at whose instigations so many outrages wer- c l. I ml ted < id Uliuu men and strangers at tn c cl'l mencemed of the movement, have pretiy I died out. Toe bet'er class ot citizens-were con 1 i pei ed to discountenance them in selfspreserv' I hod. ana to save their whole social labric iroit 1 tuinpi.p.; into anarchy, and their Opposition tT J gether wi h the laci that tbe leading desperad’w. 1 with most ot their rang and ti e, have found thee ] j w hV into the army, has at lengit relieved tbe city I ! from much of tbeterrorism ibat formeily existed I Coa idetahle treedom of t ipression is now a.. 1 lowed, proytded it is judiciously indulged :n an' I w ith retereuce to the dements of the neighbor-1 i ing state of Sooth Carolina, tbe utmost latitods I is permuted and evcD approved. Air. Spenct; 3 . says be has ofteti openly expressed tbe hopgttuu i •be war would not end umil Charleston ... 1 1 ut’erly extinguished aud blotted off the map, ana | • his sediments always met with an approvinj " echo. They accuse Charleston of having Jifil them mto the scrape, and charge cowardice utica 1 | the South Carolina troops in battle. At the lime ot the capture ot Port Royal, M- ' Spencer says Savannah could have been t’ajy; wi-h the utmost ease. It was the universal ei peciatton that it would be taken, and the tai un of the Government to follow up the victory at P, r; . Royal greauy disheartened the Union men in Ha. 3 vaunab. If the city ever should be captured, h‘ 1 says the Government will find the same s'a'e c 1 things existing as at New Orleans ; there will n* ] no manifestations of Luion leeling until it is set I tied beyond a doubt that the Government ts she I to maintain its position. With refeienc- to tn-1 emancipat oo proclamation of the President, Mr 1 'pencer is of the opinion thal it will prove to t» I lut; olitic. The news of ihe proclamation had doi I reached siivaanah when he left, but it hud tieet I lung anticipated ; and the repeated averments i:| Southern uewspepets that the Federal ti. vert" I meat intended to adopt such *• n*«»»«ure, tia* ». tea thousand soldi-n t - me Confederate arntv. Tne Union men us tb, ■ South, who have heretofore argued ih“"b. £ on the part of the United States was tor the ma it teDaoce of the Government at.d the supremacy o' 'he Constitution and laws, will now be met *.*• the rematk ; •• Ihere, I told you this was a w* tor the niggers. and the resuit would be the everv man »„uld he forced to take stde* w„h ,b f South. This advantage to the Union cause h. th.tiks, witl not he counterbalanced, as niattv Wh avor the measure anticipate, by anv eßort on tb. ; part ot the negroes themselves calculated tt strengthen the a> mos the .Vat tonal Government a * e “V* T' rs He deems the ,dn absurd, ’hat th-maas of jlintatioa negroes r the interior will, in consequence of this measure or ‘l a! *?" r,k » a b '"» uwu need* or, to tact, that they wtll ever hear ol the pro | CittCDiltlOD. * FROM SEstTOCKY j . from the Stvannah Rcfutiican, Oct. Ift. t f'' e hl r d a <ta!lyesterday from Mr. J ,hn D. J-si> » i C .’'F. *bocame d'rect from Kentucky, vn t umberland (lap. Ue (est Frankfort on the 4th instant, the dav on which the C uledera'e Gtf ernor was inaugurated. There were some .him thousand troops present on the occasion, and tb* display, he says, was probable the grandest of the kind ever witnessed on the continent. Shot i» these troops came from Ltxmgtn tD d I other points, wbtcugave rise to the Yankee ret"' tot an evacuat.on, «,| 0 | which Mr. J. assures us u tnetr- gammon He re; resents the Conf.deran * ? a * ,D ~, 1 possible condition, uod id migh spirits 1 hey are wed supp'ied with net F.pto'tstonsof sll sons bemg furnish, wtt n ala. t tty bv the people ot Ken u kt. A» regards theptihlic sentiment of 'Kentucky, Mr Jesse thinks tbete can be no doubt of its bring 1 ‘'ngi.v on the sdeof th Confederacy. Owinj to the uocrr.uu.ly of atlaiis, none knowing »h ch atmv wit! be in possession to-morrow, men at. tcautious m exptessing tbetr opinions in public and making oetnonstraltons, on cither side but 3 Confederate victory and the expulsion ol the Fed. , eta.s, he thinks, would result in almost a uoam- i mmis dec’aratt B f„ r the .South, the very f|-,t I Uiiia.en! we cun pm arms into their hinds. Home *1 h<rty thousand were said already to have •••) gone over and juiced the Confederate ranks. Tbe 2 emancipation proclamation was selling toe deep- W aest interest and alien King thousands wbc 9 ih<d previously clung to the 'Union. Tnere are >; (Pome, .Hough in every community, who were *5 Ih r tr L ' CC ' ,a ’ and every -• OK, r t - trjriDV >c fhetr barred to "the d- i J n InH 0.1 B “* K rO - v Samb. Marshall, Stereo $ "'bar officers at the inauguration, ar.d 4 f " J sed w "b some of them, whoexpiesaed gresr * (confidence in expelling the Vankees and saving * Ithe state 'o tbe South. fe [ ‘ I Faog.N.oarn.L, -We hare Seen and convert § w-La e 1,1 lle “ ,tn "ht left Nashrille last !f 'x , ' J “ e - V tbe state of affairs liiere a? distressing indeed. Confederate guerillas hare sucrteeded in cutting 1 off a| l communicant,u by tirer and ratltoad w;tb .sl’lf 8 o, J be - N <*rib. and there are no sujplif! 4 .Os .cud ,n -he City. Very few of 7is or ' * X * et I,D , "*■£'' Bu nabeis, dare lo venture . - I more than fire miles Mom ihe city, for ibe pur tbus*th f Cf ualr - v produce or anything else, and rrZ Ilf. f!'; Cl ’- V !8 completely isolated | i,. te world, baring no direct con, murks. 4 • ? witb either the .North or South. The du- i to h! ““ ,t l uec ‘ l '’P"o this state of affaire is said * iretwii s ? s ' e ? l,Jn(i fears are enieitained of a general Marram n, if relief is not speedily afford' ! riJrara d re , ! ‘ Sd " S,IIU ’ eof applies SS tbe : str«‘sirdf gn tool ’' iD fbiough tbe I can find. d L **’ tt:E,r * eretything eatable they are"air , !n» i ‘ ,aB t 1 '? 'heir sufferings the citisecs mfnfh-, g . hr , b,, ' e 'bat Xaebrille Kill recnte Dnmbeied with the cities of the Confederacy. A.tarda ( ba.) kcuthetn Confidttacy, Oct. 16.