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ttljcUlcchiii Constitutionalist
BY JAMES GARDNER.
LATEST FiOM THE HOETH.
From ih% fttwtbarx IxprcM.
By Sag at truss boat t« City Pont, we hare
been placed in poiaession of Norihtra fines sf tk»
Cloning ai.d of ernoou of the M. To* news it
iie.ily iapuri»»t. A bloody toutsst bat bte»
going on bdweeu Sen. Lw’« and Gan Monde - *
torcis for two dav*. in the vioin ty ot '6e:ivsfi«rg
be! a- yet u.vbicg d«ei*iye hat rrsa.ud ’
A special dupstch to Ike Now T«rk Herald
dated Ha risbn.y Sd, tars: The battle at Oatir*.
osig to-day was fierce and bloody, and freai all
* gather t.e label army has received its snar
ta! wound. Col. on, small’araia and the field are
atßopg the trophies.
A coliiatin o; let*/.f>o rebels pseged through Diils
isary.ygs e day in toe direction of Gettyeharg.
. -ja.’. • ’ a oaear stecgsle coirs on.
F-V-AI airin*. July S.—Panins arriving here
frosi Ue.ijsbu g say that rn Wedasstiaf 10
©f car troops were engaged with of tfceen- !
emy. During Wednesday night 75,00 Csf General !
Meade’s tr.mps earns up and tsefi tiverable posi. !
tioos. Wh le SS.SSO other Union troeps were 1
near at hard. The rebels had mainly »cne*nira
ted near GeuvsHurg on Wednesday nigbt, and
there to linle doHbt but the great battle o! Tester
dav would involve evoty available tian in both
armies.
Tale morning, oarlv, the First and ElsT-nt 1
Bo'i s, which had been during the night encamped
nee Bmiuetisburg, advabded, the first Corps
march’Bi; m the ini'ow.ag order: First iivisieu
older General W" .worlh; Third dirisiun, Gene
rai U lUbitdavj itiesa tel.owed by five full batte
ries under Cot. Wainwright; bringing up the
rear «as the really splendid division o! Genera!
RobißSon; this corps having been in Iho advance
dnneg the whole time of our march from Fal.
mould, were the fret force of in'entry to reach
G' ltvshurg, and te come up with, and figbt the
enemy.
During the dr.v tb a csrps bad been under the
dUr.etiou.of lisjar Gensrai Dunbiedav, Otuara!
He - , n Ids being in command of the right wing,
scrap rising the First, Third, Eleventh and
Ti jifih C rps,
VMt.le pe'senal'y, gallantly leadiug the first bay
onet charge made bv Gen. Wadsw'erth’s Urn's-
SI4D, tee üb.e, popular aadgallaut hlaf. Gen. J.au
F Keyno do i-c-ived a w.mr.d which in less than
' nrt hour’s lias, resulted in death.
jAtr jng o'her premioent nfficert killed isfannd
, lb* tn tne «f General f’sul. Go. Wadsworth is
sbtAiaiy wounded. G-a. Robit’Sea, ter the third
■ time, had i> horse abet frent under him, while
anu -g ite names of efh-srs of lass raak who
are more or i«»s woandec, are fonsd the names
ot Col. Bat-S, of the Ith Mascaehouetis j Cwl.
Leonard, of tb* ISth Massachusetts; Cal. Fair
child, ot ibe ltd Wisconsin ; Col. Boat, of the
*1 j .New V.rk; Cnpt. Rant. William* vftu*l2 u
Maesscbusvtls.
Am. itg ih* castsred ar* the name* nf Dr. Nord
quilt, M -dical D.rector of Gen. Robmeen’s di
vision, and 'Japtair. Fred. <serk«r, ot onr city, the
amisbl: aed pleasant Commisarv of same di
vision
la the confusion and rxriisnotnt cct isioned by
the charge of cavalry, and cur approach to the
msny hoapilals being cut <A, it is impossible at
the prate hi writing to obtain any thing like a *or~ J
reel list of csswltiM. Oar iasrss, theagb, are I
encruioualjr heavy, especially amoag b-ld au<i I
ttftd of&yetepbvi'.ts' are - , w-irnr*: f in gnu... [
ing how senoetlj the rrbe a hare stifared. )
or tbs Resell. 4
Nothing definite as to their nntrerlesl strt nsth !
is cure positively kiov/n, v.t Ie»-t ii known i* bc! j
stated, 8»n;« placing their entire ftrergili n
Pennsylvania ai 50,900, etfce'ft at 55,000. We mat I
to«d«j with n rt<id**at of Middletown, ia yonr 1
State, wh®, while bung u good Ua » n otaa, htc j
managed I® become considerail \y well “jus'**,”
is reference to their sited os aud strength.
ile tells ns that rretch«a Alvoft tb* base es the ■
}«outh Mon«*aif« 9 to ;he esst ot i', tLvj huTe
itUen thousaud »«u, while the b® ol«c et the 1
fomr* are le the w?«i t f the same nocantaiß
Ourseoul* repor; that to-nighi fftll is rrnforc
irg; those who vere epp -ssd to v:s, and taut ikey
arr mcTtag dowa tha KaaßtaiD by three d frreot
a roacts.
*• Their position to»dar was one #f excel
leue®, aud selected with ra os eyr to natural
defence and strength winch hus erer ehsruetenzed
Ihem—upoi ths side ts sl hr; ad, ranniag strfam,
and with a high n»ounP r. buck of them, their
artillery npoa the hi'! sule, ju a pcsitiwn oaa
above the oih?r, like seats in Ihs parqnette of a
theatre.
A WHSLB REBKL BtlfABC CAPTCTCD.
They also made aa eft'ort to capture the wagon ■
train on the left and rear, and in attempting this •
moveisent caarly a whole brigade of rebels were
cap la red, amoag them Brig Gen. Arsher, cf the
rebel armv, formerly #f the United States army.
When the fight was progressing and the bring
Ib<* hottest & L ktt'enunt of the SBth PeunayiVania
etc me up to Gen. Rcbiason, alter aalutittg, m an
impromptu sp<ecb presented the fUg of the lGth
Alabama. Another flag was captured by the *7:b
Kow York.
So rapidly were the rebels reinforced with fresh
troops in tlie-e aitsmpts to turn the Fiist’s left
that it obliged the order to be given to ;al! back
aois auce perhaps ot a mile, fighting the whole
* lime
Tie Baltimore American of the afternoon of
the Sd, says:
The acc tints of the battles of Wednesday are
• very conll cting, but there is no doubt that the
Federal u»«s.to Loth o.beer* and men werj very
br..?j. 1 w;> thirds ol he enure R“be! army—
the corps < f Bill and Longstreet— were engaged
with but little over ten thousand Federal troops
in the early part of the day, who were of course
driven from their position. When reinforced b?
Sick If s and Slocum they regained ihe ground
iostand again occupied Gettysburg up to tbe
time the b-.tie closed tor the day. The battle
’■*'* yf-«.t*>rday and t > day will doubiitas be decisive.
" The American says ;
Fro i one of the cfluc.ru who oaaie down in
VYca■:;« of the prisoner* nun arrived la9t night,
and who left (ieti> *b rg ou Wemesd.v, welitve
eecounU nut bo Isvrrubis ns those given by tuber
parties. He describes the light on ibat da» »-
ra.ser un f a*orsble to onr arms, and ft'a'e* lmt
tk enemy held the field at the mo.-e o; the day,
oar (ttrcee baring fallen 0 c - K after the left o> ti u.
R.ynoius ; that ■hs attacit nf the enemy “»< st>
Budd n and unexpected that both the corps of
Hill and L. tig or.et were or s Jong time engau d
withG neta. Reynolds’ corps, auu that lh« lltii
corps look hut lit !e part in the bd.le. We tti.l
dsn buses h; re reliable intelligence to-day.
Tae battle w •.» renewed on Tbms-Uy. The
Atn •r.Catt has the following paruen -rs:
We learn from parties W:o Ml t» 'tsburg at
BOOti yesterday, that everything Was pp gresatng j
faTtiriiu j fir the ultimate success • l our -rue— j
Cp to bat uni • they as-ert taa! trwd thou-snd j
p.- .oners bud b * i cap.arid aid s-u to Union j
‘Bridge or transportation to Baltimore. At 9 1
O’ci- Is |*.t Otgbt a*ta o w; Ueight huu !r- d pri.-o- j
nets, the first i»-t»lu.a. of tta’ c. ptured.pr
r v.i at .he Saltimo e Depot, ant shorily alter |
Gen rschetici ai.n. unfed !i m bis h o quarters at j
th iE aw H.oh. tbuttbo-g t . E in H.l tt. re and ;
tt ti Relay H' n.»“, Inch w aid • nbe in bis j
possession, urn 'timed t 1! 300
An on • ' - prisoners who urriTrd in Bi more, .
were c'l oi 70 . !tce s. li.tg Get). Arch, r turnsel’, j
a resident •» Maryland, w s also b'ougbt in
Anctii. r oariT of 1 2t ; o was expreedtut rr div. 1
Dartsg n- e lv p-rt of the day ye.- tertuy. up :
to tt....t0, at which hur nut inhuman’, lett, there :
had 0.-’to i ■ general b.t'le, though heavy skira 1
mishtug h id been going pn all the morning, rs- i
calling in heavy loss to the enemy and the cap*
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1863.
tore es Beany fiv« thousand prisomars. In a-l
ueso skirmishes, which were condusted under
the d.rsctiaa of Gea. Mead?, onr arms were ens
tirely successful, but the eeemr stadionsly avoid*
td a genera! engagement, and it was thought
there wenid be lose Wtfsre to«dav. when it was
said t® h € the iotenties wf General Maude to prtsa
enemy along ihe whole line.
TIB LATEST.
The following is the ia‘est from Gettysburg.
; cemainefi ia tbe American:
j There taT. been no anivals this morning from
ths visiaity of Gettysburg, and tve are wiihsni
j say direst intelligence relative to the dsicgs es
ijesieiday. e leara, hswevtr, that there mas:
. nave b.eu a battle fought yesterday alter*
noon and svaaintr, <i heavy cannonading tvr.s
J beard at Feiku a,Frederick and Harrisburg, fret:
i to 9 e’eivea at niget, when it eessvd.
I tissi'smau who unedtva this morning from
j Par kies, says that the cannonading mas renamed
| “gale ai daylight this morning with inch force
i and vtldne as le almost make the esrth tremble.
; TBS Sltei OR TIBKVBCBB—«Arrcta Os EBSCL
wonRS.
St. Lens, Jn!y 2.—Ths Yiakshnrg correspen**
deal of the Dsasscrat s»ys the erndaot ot oar
iroeps dansg iho ©perAf.ens in fs®n. L®gaa’s
from on tht 26tb ult. was vary brilliant. As
soon as the- xiLt exploded me 45th Illinois, ]®d !
bv Col. Malibre, rushed into the breach and i
planted their fl*g, am;d a tornfic fire from ihe
enemy.
Lieut. Col. fnaithwas &b®t through the head,
and cannot pass b!y recover. Major Fish foil
with a rbo*. tkroagh his head. C*eu. iaoggtt, ns
inam®diale oommacd of the assailing forees, was
sightly wootUed.
The khd and 50. h Illinois, and the 17th 6hio
participated in ;h« astanlt.
After an en*ranee into tbe fort had been ®fict- ;
ed tbe lighting was principally dene with hacd !
grenadifis, winch had a irrrible effect ob tho
craved, d and d«moral zed rebels.
The T.uacs has the following diepaiOu frem live
rear of YicKsbui g :
Rear of Yi«k*bbrc. )
Wednesday, June 24, iio3 (
Up to jeatrrdav skirmishing has been g»iag «a
iviang the wbolu line ct our rear acd front, or !
rather portion of it trum Snyder's B.g.T to •
the Big El-.cx Railroad crossing. Tbert he- j
isg every ird.canon o! a
Ir nt whs put in eider to re»tst ait assault.
Dnnng the night before w«r lent x picket es Srt# .
nctr Scar Creek, seTc*si miles frona ffniydcr'a Btali'. I
Oft :hh* t*y.e day the Fuurth lowa cavalry whs at
tacked by a svperlcr force es iek®l cavalry on 1
Bnegepeil Furry road. They weic rcpulssd alter j
a hard fight.
Yesterday @st*rhan3 was attacked at B gB cek. ,
A severe' battit acrced. The rebels foeykt wiih '
great obstinacy and spirit, acd w«re, as ®r a losg |
repulsed with great alangh er.
The guru of ihe Cmcmnati have b’jen rena-fved '
by V<n. Sie®l<f, si»d jut in wentien m a iano aat
, They cptnrd m.s morning
A fleet ot transncris, coming down with ord
| o?n«e uod cpir.iwissary stores, w.is bred into si
J Cvpresa tfesd day before j#6iurday.
I The Prim* Donua received twenty-two shots, I
I wwd w»» diavhlcd Tha Kentucky towed her I
I ’ ‘ jj’i i _^i" v ''"* ~f Qor.nermaajlkr
f Ken »c<y. _
' The rebels had 6-ptuader gtins. The gunboats
i drove tkrns off. The fh*et through sate j
; RiOVT Wi.vc or tbs A*ht. Yi«ksbur«, June 25
j —Cel. Wita'd pickets captured a »■;»:»«nger j
! Ui> morning bearing letters from Yick.*burgi
altu the fcllewing m-saage to Gen. Johnson : !
■ “ Cas hoi/ r n leu days ;il not sooner relieved 1
wili be ehligvd t* sumnaer.’’ •
! A letter from Uta* Withers his Wile «pvaka
of the prob-hi’itv of going North avtde’ a ap««dy
exo'fiftfige. Another a list of 61 killed *b« (
tv-maflltd in hi. Alabama .'egunes;.
TflS WAR f* TENNKBSKS—CAPTORE OV SBELIf VILLE !
AKD TCLLAHOMA.
Cisei-xNATi, Jaly S.-General Stanley’s eavalry I
dash mio Bhel»>viiio was out ot the most brti- |
l.am passage* ®f the war. Oar forces advanced
«tn tbe ftbelby viile pike, driving the rebels troni
U+y * 6ap riding down fifty es ibem.
Col. Minty’s brigade then folt®wad tnena np and
drove them ist© Ue fortifications at ffbeWyvnle. i
Mktcheli’s whole division ihcu charged through
j non puahfed rapidly late the town The re®«ts J
\ to. k a position in the public square with artil.ery, i
1 anu a charge was made by the hih and 7th Pcau*
, H>lv..Bia cavalry iaio the veoih es the gaas, which
1 wert* captured.
At the saa.c tioi® the 4th regulara and 2d ladi>
a .a galloped i»io their flank Bear tbe upper br.dge
of Deck river. Tee enemy were totally routed
and drives into the river, where one han't red es
then were drowsed. The rebel Gen. Wbeelo:
escaped oa fool, Bixty ei seventy ofheers und
hevfiai busdred pnsenert were taken. Our loss 1
Was sin killed HSU thirty er forty wounded.— ,
Lieut. Roden, ot the 7th Penusylvauia, was killed.
A tii"patch dated Manchester, June SO, says;
Col Wilder’s a-valry exped.tion to tne rear ©f
Lracg’s army at Tuliabouia, has just retarned.
Wua mounted infantry he went to ilillsburo’,
iheoce to Decbard, and swam the Eik river, and
cro-ysd bis how: zua on a raft, making fifty
miles in the same uaj. He tore up tbe trnck and
burned * depot lull ot stores, un i destroyed the
irtni'3 woik. At daylight in ihe Cuo.meg h*i
i aitwd up to theavutbera University, wneit be
divided n:s forces. One ortiou was sent to
strike ihe railroad at Tawtalon, while Wilder
went io strike ai Andersen.
lie found Bucknei’s whole division on the train
ot Cara going up from Knoxville to Tallahoma,
and fell b®ct, tearing up the railroad from (jowan
toliacyCuy.
The rebels, meanwhile, having sent a powerful j
force to entrap him, he struck through the inuuo» ;
'ainsana rfcti.r.,ed to Manchester.
He took ami paroled a number of prisoners,
and c p nrtd a ,ot g! mules. The damage done
to the la.iru. d ts very serious. Tue expedition
matte 120 miles in two days and a halt.
A special dispatch Worn Washington, dated
Thursday July as, S P M., says’:
Pro ■ u.'.U s neat on is excited here bj ibe death |
of Gen ReyUwJda, whose or.ihaat qualifications
a? a .-oidit-r. and nOTined aue«s«3 a- a u igade,
diTisiu'i and carp* v umtaa cr, milked him tor
present ai d «'ui* c! stiocrion. The President, it
m wei> I'fi.vr i-.esitated long between the choice
ni bim or G-noa Meade as isuncesaoP to General
Hooker. iVi.nij of rank finally deteimiutd the
matter.
pai IL2ST DAVI3 IN PBSNSYLVA.MA.
PniLAUELPrfiA, July 2»i.—A di?pach to the In* J
qutrer :-uya J fi' Dav.s 13 ut Gretncatsild.
• call fob new York troop*.
Albany, Tnursday, July 2.—A telegram is just j
rec- v -u ,r» in Gov. Curtin, addressed to Giv, j
8 ymour, t a og that the battle a*. Gstttyrba/g j
w ts Bot I.* ci ire. ana asking bun to send on all ;
tbetro j; ti-. Can without delay; that tae I
need of item is greasing.
ANOTHER CALL ON NEW JERSEY.
Trbnton Tn irsday, July 2.—Governor Puiker
1 has ieceiied -t dispatch from Gov. Curtin asking
! for Ui »re tr .»|>9, and aays he cannot magnify the
I imporunc-' of iheaemand.
A Sta e erv of four guns arrived from Rah
| way tbta evcniog.
j The Richmond Dispatch of the Bth gives the
i following summary of the latest dispatches in the
Yankee papers:
The dispatches io be Ya&kee papers are curi
osities in their war- The New York Herald, of
Saturday, professes to give the very latest sew?,
and to be ahead of its Co temporaries. Oho of its
’ dispatches, dated Baltimore Si, 10 P. 51., stirs
that Meacie had driven i.**e four miles non hea-t
of Gettysburg, ibis is followed by a d.sp.tcu,
dated Hanover, Pa., 4 b, lA.M., three hpur’
later, which says Lee had beer, driven or.I; three
quarters of a mile. A telegram ia ihe PmladeU
pota inquirer, which the telegrapher says is a
“brief and c.ndid statement,” says the Ya kce
i WCr »m, * fe P u ' se d. overpowered and cu flan- d,’
on Wednesday, but on Thursday repuiseu the j
rebels with “substantial success.’’ Ou that eve- {
nmg be says Geu. Meade called l council of his
corps commanders, and it was resolved to can- }
1 lC « e long as there was acv one left 1
tu tight, a dispatch iib-.'Ut Friday's figh«.3g, *
dated at midnight states that the tig hung was)
tearful, and mildly adds: “We cap:ured more j
prisoners than the rebels.” This is the ,*nij ud» |
▼an age which the correspondent menuon*. I'Ds j
Ist corps lost siiiy-six per cent, of ns me in j
Ihursoav’s fight. Gen. Robinson's division > eot
into the tight with 2,500 men, and the rebel? I t j
it out with only 306 left One telegran says J
important dispatches have been captured by C- . j
Dahlgiyn from Jeff Davis and Cooper to Gei
Lee. They indicate anxiety for the positio *»t I
Richmond. Both decline to send Lee the re u- L
j forcements from Beauregard he asked for.
1 Washington July I.—The following w*» ro»
ceired here last night:
Bsad’hs Dep t< f the Cumberland, [
Tuiiahoma, Tenn , July 1,1868. )
To Major General Halleck, General-i:.i»Ch'> :
x. telegraphed you on Sunday the occupation of
Sheibyvihe and Manchester. On Monday it i ued
| hard all d.iy, rendering the roads imp«ssibe. It
was h uiid impossible to move our artillery «*r get
j our troops in position uuiil this morning, when a
general advance was ordered at dayhgm.
Gener.il Thomas yesterday made a recon-iois
sance on two roads, aud General Cook ou one
rimd. reporting the enemy m force at this place,
with the addition of Buckner’s divisiou, v-hich
arrived on Monday evening.
Ou advancing ibis morning it was found thii
me enemy had fled in baste, last night, much oe
j nu rai.red. Their strong forulicatious, a small
I quantity of stores, and three sit-ge guns are in our
j possession.
Toi*y took the direction of Winchester,
j i-i'ii. Thomas shouid be on their fl«uk to-night.
I Generals Sheridan and Brucan n.arched into t*»wn
to day, at half post 11 o’eldck, tailing a few
! I'** oners. W. S. Roskcrans, Maj ijh*l
| Thf Town of Portland, Maine, and surrounding
| Villages in a Panic at the Appearance of two
j Supposed Privateers- The Militia Called Out—
■ • T7u Tacony Frightening New England and
j tin Yankee Eavy with a Gun made out of an
i old Spar.
Portland, Mb., Monday, June 29.
The alarm this morning was occasioned by sol**
• diets seeing two schooners below Port Preb;e,
; acting as it they intended to mr.se ati attack,
j The garruon was then beat to quarters, the
I alarm was sounded, amt the people in the sur*
! rounding villages were called out, and notice was
! s in.t ovf*i io the city jmhei privateers
1 pwwhiii.
j fishermen, who were totally injapable ot doing
anv harm.
It is evident that the report of ibe doing of reb» i
verse's iu the Bay of Foody sprang frun u.c c >p«
' tore of the Archer by the Tacony, burn
i ing of the latter.
I i’ho rebels, probably io their character of Cape
; U<*ci fishermen, made rep uts to.the fishing fleet
j tuere of the ternble doings of the privateers, in
j orde •to draw off attention from the intended raid
i (>u Portland.
j it is also evident that there are no rebel priva
-1 terra now oa ihe coast, unless, perhaps, the Flori
' da or Alabama, which is rather doubtful.
; We nave every man in custody who mined the
Tacony, inc admg the throe from the Byzantium,
so there is notiuih in ihe reputed escape on
I (Saturday morning of a boat load of men from the
l Archer.
i The rebel officers state that they captured the
| \V. A. Shindier with a (pinker gun, made out of
i a 8 *ar, and they run this Quaker gun oat, as if
j intending to lire on the Sbtndler, when her cap
i tain cneil out—“For God’s sake don’t fire; 1 sur
! render.”
i The rebel officers also say several vessels might
have Mcnped if they had not been frightened at
their little hOvVitz.r.
Portland, Mb., Monday, June2o-3:20 A. M.—
A general alarm just aroused the whole city with
wild rumor, that a gunboat is landing men below
the Fort. It mu3t of course be humbug, but two
men came over from Cape Ehzabeih witn the
i a.arm.
I Pi rtlakd, Monday, June 29th—4 A. M.—The
1 aiarm was entirely false. There is no vessel in
i sight.
All the bonds given by the Captains of the cap
i lured Teasels to the commander of the pirate Ta*
j cony have beeu found ou board ol the schooner
j Arcuer, aud are now in thepobsess.ua of our au
thorities.
WIIO SURRENDERED TO QUAKER (IONS.
Philadelphia, Monday, June 29—Captain
, Munday, of the Tacony, who was i n ocard of her
i when she was captured by the brig Clarence, says
j that it was tt»<* Captain of tae K >te Stewart and
i not ot the M. A. fvnndler, that surrendered to
| the Qu ik. r guns of the pira e, aud who cried out,
j “For God’s sahe don’t fire—i surrender.”
« ANOTHER PI RATE REPORTED ON TUB COAST.
Portland, Me., Monday, June 29 —A dispatch
j from Rockland says the schooner Julia Francis,
Captain Walton, of Friendship, reports that on
Saturday morning she was boarded by a boat
from a b.uk answering the following description :
a lurge bark painted b'ack, with a poop deck,
heads of masts and eods of yards painted black,
nt-rn molding light color. Tney inquired fur
B lnton papers, and said they had been cu a snort
cruise. Unbeing questioned as to where they
were from, they answered “that Cape Sable bore
j North 10 miles distant on Frut|jr m >'nmg.” T >
lunbcr questioning as to wr.ere they were bound
they replied : “Boston, but they would like to
be on George’s anka the From the
above ti e Captain ot the Julius Francis thought
her a ;>irate.
The Port.and Board of Trade are aklng active
men ures relative to the to .’, d fences. Adj-i
--j taut General Uodgsdoo ia 1. organizing militia
to garrison Forts Gorges and Scam null.
| The crew ot ihe cutter Caleb Cushing have been
j released, being exaonerated from blame,
[Fr m the New York Times ]
HOW TO CLEAR THE SEAS OP PiUVATEEP.S.
The adventures of the reb.-l privateer Tacony
along the Atlantic seaboard, almost iu sight o
out - harbors—the impunity with wmch she cap
{ t tired tnd burnt the numerous craU she encoen
1 tered, uatil Her victims numbered almost, if not
quite half a hundred—aod, fiaatiy, the taciluy
with which she was obliterated from the lace oi
the sea, and the danger to our commerce not les
SH«eci, but on.y transformed to au uiier shape, io
play the inad prank in Portland haroar, which
was so near a complete auccens—must open the
minds of our people to new views of the difficul
ties ot our situation, and lead to d ff real conc'u
Bions from those hitherto prevailing as to the
best mode of protecting ourselves at sea.
1 The privateer Tacony is a recent and wholly
unannounced rebel craft. The first we hear of
her she springs, folly armed, into the midst of the
lesser ersft ot our coast, and plunders and burns
with an audacity and prodigal destructiveness
:hat appals our shippers and confounds the na»
tioual authorities. The Navy Department makes
h.\ste to charter and dispatch a halt dozen ot the
ocs: vessels it can c mmand in pifrauit. Boston
capital, efflicted by the privateer’s ravage*, offers
a bounty of SIO,OOO for his capture. The entire
seaboard, from Port Royal to Portland, is aroused, 1
and by minute descriptions from the officers and j
cr ws of capt ured ships, the bold rover is so ad* i
verused that it can hardly fail that the many sail !
| that swarm in pursuit wiii purge the sea of the
j oil nder. W ith this thought the country con
js ed itself for the stinging insult ot the Taconr’a
I trages.
j aln • The rebel comman rler of the Taco-
I* v had wit tqual to his audacity He saw in the
■‘•ltical circumstances of his defiant cruise along
our snor-.s dot embarrassment and speedy cap
’ure, but the way open to a brilliant coup which
I should exalt him still higber as a sea-capiain, and
oiake him, perhaps, a naval hero. His trick was
to burn the TacoDj, transfer his men and arma*
ment to a schooner, and in this disguise elude his
pursuers till lie could strike at still higher game.
•he thing wa3 done. The pirate snip that so
| many pursuers are still straining to see, and hop*
j 10 capture, went down beneath the waves.—
. The schooner A»cher, innocently-looking and
! unsuspected, shortly dropped her anchor in Port
land.
What then happened, the dispatches from Maine
have fully told. A revenue cutter was boarded at
night, her crew speedily disarmed and ironed, and
;he vessel towed in tbe darkness twelve miles out
tuwurd the seu. A few hours more would have
completed the capture, ond the country would
have been astounded by two naval marvels and
mysteries—the supposed escape of the Tacony
from ail pursuers, and the loss of a Government
vessel lrom a loyal hurbor, that no Confederate
keel had ever plowed.
What are ibj conclusions that should be drawn
from this brief aud startling history* Is it not
that from ihe very nature o f the case—from the
vadtuess of ihe ocean’s domain, the impossibility
ot all the navies of the world combined complete- .
!>' patrolling any large expanse of it—the readi- ,
uess with which privateers may change their form
and fashion of operations—no perfect defence is
possible against rebel rovers? One after another
of their craft may bo captured, after the most
g gantic expedition» and months of persevering
pursuit; but ot whit avail is a eiunle success or
tu»y number of successes, so long as a rebel Gov
eminent exists to uuuc new patents to rover on
the sea, whose mission and whose lives we arc
tnencetorward bound to respect? With a daily
increasing navy, :,cd one which in war-making
power already exceeds vastly any navy ia the
world, it is obvious that the country is absolutely
impotent against such operations as those of the
Tacony, which ship alone, between the 11th oi
May and the 25th oi Juue, cos*, our Government
and people t.s much as a great campaign by land,
and whose audacious cruoecunie L**ar culm*cat
mg in au achievemoot us rver gave zest to the ro*
niance ol the sea. Mu.st we not refy on the over.,
throw ot tbe rebellion and the subjugation of its
Government ui Kichnfond, fur the extirpation (.f
piracy on the cccaa *t Is there any other way to
suppress it ut erly!
j OSjaCHtIE REOARDSVOTnE l.rrK*yf-+
Wad Drp’t., Adj t. Gen’s. Office, )
Wu-biogton, July 3, 1863. f
General Orders No. 209.
1 Tbe lat uuon ot all persons in the military
service of tbe United Hiates is called to article *7
of the cartel agreed upon Juiy 22, 1862, and pub
lished in General Orde. s No. 142, Sept ruber 25,
1862. According to tbe terms of this cartel ai;
captures must be reduced to actual possession,
and all prisoners of war ni»at ba deliv-!
ered at tbe places designated, there to be
exchanged or paroled until exchange can be et
fected. The only exception allowed is in the cise
of commanders of iw > cppos i ng armies, who
were authoriz ed to exchange prisoners, or to re
lease ibem on pan-le at other points mutually
agreed upon by said commanders.
2. It is uuderstood that captured officers and
men have been paroled and released in the field
by others than commanders of opposing armies,
and that the sick and wounded iu hospitals have
been so paroled aud released io order to avo’d
guarding and removing them, which in many
cases would have been impossible. Such paroles
are in violation of general orders and the stipula
tious of the cartel, and are nail and void. Tney
are not regarded by the enemy, and will not be
respected by the armies of the ‘United States.—
Any oflieer or soldier who gives such parole will
b« returned to duty without exchange, and, more
over, will be punished for disobedience of orders.
It is tbe duty of the captor to guard his prisons
ers, and if, through necessity or choice, he fails
to do this, it is the duty of the prisoner to return
to the service of his government. He cannot
avoid this duly by giving an unauthorized mili
tary parole.
2. A military parole not to serve till exchanged
must not be confounded with a parole of honor
to do <»r not to do a particular thing not incon
sistent wnb the duty of a soldier; thus a prisoner
of war actually held by the enemy may, in order
to obtain exemption from a close guard or con
finement, pledge bis purole of honor that he will
make no attempt to escape. Such pledges are
binding upon the individuals giving them ; but
they should seldom be given or received, lor it is
the duty of u prisoner t-» escape, if ab e to do so.
Any pledge or parole of honor extorted from a
prisoner by ill usage or cruelty is not binding.
4. The obligations imposed by the generul laws
and usages of war upon the combatant inhabK
tants of a seciton of country !>a?s« d over invad
ng army closes when the military occupation
ceases, and any pledge or parole given by such
person, m regal d uffuture service, is null and of
no effect.
By order of The Secretary of War.
E. D. Townsend, Assistant A. A. G.
University of Georgia.
The Trustees ot ibis institution met. in this
place last Saturday. The members of the Board
from a distance, were Gen. K, 100m 08, Judge C.
J. J okms, Judge l7ers(»n, U Harris, Hon. D. VV.
L».wis and Dr. David A. Reese. Tre session of
'.he B »ard was harmonious aud pleasan'. They
determine to continue the exercises of the CoN
l»*ge. Vacancies in the Board, occasioned by the
deaths of T. R. R Cobb, Col. Francis S.
Bartow, Col. Marceliua I) 'ugia* and John B Bar
nard, Esq . were filled by the election of G n.
Henry 1L Jackson, of Chatham, Samuel Barnett,
K-q , of \V I ices. Col R M Johnston, of Hancock,
at d lion. David A Vason. of Dougherty.
The rule dropping the Sophomore and Fresh’-9
man classes vvjs suopeeded. Students in those
classes will therefore be received at the next
term. Actum wts taken in r gard to the deaths
ol the gerulem n mentioned abuve, which will be
publisued next week.
The Commencement Sermon was preached by
Dr. Lipscomb last Sunday morning, to a large and
attentive audience. The subject was‘‘Heroism,”
as shown m the characters ot David and Paul
ihat of the lu'ter was particularly dwelt upon It
, is scarcely necessary tor us to say that the dis
course was full of thought, instraciion andelo
, queoce; as me gifted speaker rarefy ever touches
a subject which his cul lvated io?»J.tect y% n d pro
found study does not adorn. —A V*a banner.
Philadelphia papers are drwa os the PenasyU
vania militia They lay tbe New York militia
' iavsd Harriabaxg.
VOL. 16 No 25
From Virginia.
THI MOVEMENTS ABOUND RICHMOND.
The only information we have of the enemy’s
movements north of the city is that brought by
the trams over the Fredericksburg road which
arrived iast night, for the first time for nearlv a
wees past. They report that they could hear
nothing of the Yankees, either at Han .eer June,
j tion or rinuih Anna bridge, and that the roads—
j the Central and Fredericksburg—are now tinob-
I atrncted.
| hrom the Junction the Central train bronght
down a nan who'represented hiinse f as a desert
er from Dix s army. He says that the enemy are
stilt in considerable force io King William co.,
wl.cte fc-i left them, and that they are committing
many depredations. He says that D.x’s whole
force has not at any time exceeded fifteen thous
and, about ten thousand of which were infantry, />
and the remainder artillery and cavalry.
Tbe Fredericksburg train brought down 37
Yankee prisoners, captured in the neighborhood
of South Anna bridge on Sunday morning.
A citizen of Kmg William, went on a ecout to
that county on Monday last, and obtained seme
interesting particulars of the wheieabcuta and
movements of the Yankee army of plunderers.
His statement is that their headquarters are at
Mangohick, Church, and that their equad3 of
thieves are scattered throughout the county, tak«
ing whatever they can find, and destroying what
is not convenient for them to remove.
Dispatch % B(A*
f ROM BUFTOLK.
There is ger any doubt about theevsenar
lion of Sufl.-rtc by the Yankees. The last of them
troops left on Friday night. Before leaving a!
ts e tonifications were destroyed. All the negroes
who could be persuaded or forced away, vms car-1
ried oil. There are but nine negrots left. This
information has been received from a gent’eman
who has been ;n the town since the Vandals left.
Enquirer,
GREAT FRKSEET AND DESTRUCTION OF CROPS.
The Danville Appeal gives some details of the
destruction to growing crops incident to the r.?*
cent heavy fail of rain in that section of c >untry j.
and the const quent rise of the river and other
slreumH. The greatest amount destroyed (says pr
the Appeal) is probably upon Dan river, b low
Danville, where the river banks have been over
flowed and the entire lower grounds submerged.
Dan river has been higher than it has been before
in a very long while, if we except, perhaps, tbe
freshet of June, 1862, and it was ne rly as high
as then.— lbid.
President Davis, who has for some days pan
been much indisposed, is rapidly improving in
heulih, and was yesterday very much better than
lor a week previous.— loid,
VUE ACCIDENT ON THE PETERSBURG RAILROAD.
Five prrsons were killed eight wounded by
t! e explosion of the locomoMve “Jeff Davis,” on
the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, on Mon
day evening. The engineer, Mr. Hugh Burns,
dud in eb >ut half an hour after the acc dent, and
ihe ti r enmn, a free negro, *,am-d James Trent,
was k lied almost instantly. The names of th/j
other three we have not I card. The ft ’owing
wounded men were brought to this citv a fe w
hours utter the explosion, and n w at ii uieyhi
«AJ*4s Jl *V '-'2> • * COP s ns,
Sfrgennt, co A, 4*h
Sergeant. co A, 4th Mississippi; W. F. Caul well,
pnva»e, v«> C, 45th Georgia ; J. J. Plul.ips, co B,
J6:b Georgia: James Stewart, pi iva'e, co t; , 27th
Alabama ; J. A. Weaver, private, co D, 4’h Alaba
ma Battalion; B. C. Sullias, private, co A, 4th
Mississippi, (leg amputated ;) and one otb er, who
is insensible and unable to tell his nur e. The
loci ri.oiive was - own twenty feet ini . the air,
and thrown forward npon the abrut a hun
dreJ feet and turned completely rouu d. it is a
complete wreck.— Whig.
A report was ia circulation fast, nip ht late, tha
tbe Federal forces had evacuated No’rfjlk, Ports
month and Stiff ilk. Where ihe report originated,
or what foundation there was for it, we were uaa
ble to learn.— Dispatch.
Tbe Richmond Enquirer says f.hat every train
from the North bnogs down a broop of officers,
wives and mistresses, found at Winchester.
From the Appeal,
Letter from Chattanooga-
Chattanooga, July 8,1865.
“Ail quiet along the Tenreseee.” This will pro
bablv be the stereotyped dispatch for tbe next
mouth or more. The confusion attended upon %
rapid and long march, and the bustle which sue*
ceeds the immediate arrival or a large army is
gradually subsiding. The streets and hotel*,
and other places of public resort, however, are
still verv crowded. The commanders tre estab
lished at their respective headquarters., and the
troops are being assigned to their various posi
tions.
Ouiy one span of the bridge at Bridgeport was
destroyed.
Information from our BC' ut3 and caralrv out*
posts report no Yaukees tuts side the mountain.
Various.conjectures among outsiders are suggest
ed as to the designs of Hosecrans. One surmise
ie, that he is moving his columns towards Finr*
euce, with the invuti jn of reaching Vicksburg.—
Another, that he is rapidly retiring his troops to
Nuhhville, witn a view to sending reinforcements
io Pennsylvania.
Os course no one ia acquainted with the de.
signs of Gen. Brugg. llis heal’h is improving.
Forrest is here, but not looking so well as usual
He speaks cheerfully ol our prospects gecerallr
though evidently not altogether reconciled to the
yielding up of Middle Tennessee.. Everyone ra«
in: lar with his untiring efforts to rescue our peo
pie in that portion of the State, and the twelve
m .ntlis’ hard service himself and his men have
undergone, in their endeavors to relitve the mid
d e counties, will not wnDder at hist disappoint
men when he reviews the labors of the past year,
and discovers Tennessee still under Abolition!
thraldom. Gen. F. will-proceed from her*
LaGrange, Ga , with his family, after whiea
will immediately return to his command.
1 do not bei. ve thearmv will remain motion
less here long % A few days’ recreation to the *
iroops after tbe rapid m-ncli across the rnoutu
tame, a little rest to the ju.ed horses of our cav*
a r v and artillery, and traiu teams, and the camp
will a o ain resume its former bustle and activity
and motion.
Gene-al Buckne* is again back at his old nosi
tion. John Morgan was in Keutucky, at . ac
counts. He crossed’he Cumberland foik*where
above Ganesboro'. Toe rumors ot his passage
ov r ihe Ohio have njt been confirmed.
Qiite a r umber of the guerilla bravesof noie
were here yesterday—Forrest, Armstrong, Whar
ton, Wheeler, Woodward, McCann, and others.
Istkrestino —Parties arriving from Baltimore
bring interesiiog accounts of the blockading of
ihe streets ot that city, tbe di-^(Faction ot the
pe pie, and iba iron ule which i over them. A
call upon ihe people for velun tor the ae*
fem-e of the city resulted in the Amassment of
about ath maand, who prav-d to b- of tueh re*
iucraat and do bitul material, in a *'lovaP' sense,
tbat they were dismisstd. ted foreign troops
depended upon te shield the American IHgle u»
the Mouamental C.ty.
A soldier informs the Riehmoed Sentinel that
he assisted in bringing over the lines five hun
dred head of eatile. which have been pnt in sife
1 pastures of tbe Confederacy. The milch c<»ws
* were distributed among each es the people ae hftd
been robbed by northern marauders.