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BY JAMES GARDNER.
YE OVERFLOW.
la t\e absenee of any thing of Interest in the
way as news, ws cupy ths following “ pam« ”
about the late flood, which we find in a letter to
the Oes fed eraoy, from a soldier •• who was along
thar.” Though a little emphatic
expletives, it ie a very clever thing th its w»y;
I’m a jelly son of Georgia,
Ana I doesn't care a 3—n,
For the Colonel he detailed me
To bnild the boya a “ Ram,”
That would float upon the raging ereek
in ephe of wiujl or ram,
And brine to us the pleasant sight
Os bread and meat again.
Wo took no old log house by storm
And soon np’d op the flooring,
And ret to work to build cur boat
While fast the rain was pouring.
We dtd’nt care for “ cut ot fib,'*
For •• shape ” or “ tarry coat ** —
The question uppermost with us
Was, would ths damned thing float 7
.We cut our blankets into strips
To plug each gaping leak,
And then we launched our jolly craft
Oa Chattancoga Creek.
Trera.n lor three leng days and nights,
With patter moat unceasing,
Had poured upon the hills and dales
. And ever satined increasing,
Till each rivulet became a creek,
Each ereek became a river.
And tn this “Chattanooga Run ”
Mo banks could we ‘'disktrer,”
And though you looked for many yards,
’Twas but one scene of woe,
For half the land was swallowed up
la thia vast overflow.
Met tar beyond the woods, they said,
At the waters’ farthest bound,
Oar‘'rations” on a wagon train
Might easily be found.
And inis was why we built our beat
And as she left the shore,
The shouts of hungry Rebels
Browned the waters angry roar,
And many a man who watched us work
Wuh a sad despondent stare.
Or stood tor hours and licked his paws
Like some grim, hungry bear,
Began to brighten up again
At sight ot that bold craw.
And united in a lusty shout
Os “ Bully, boya, tor you I”
% Boon hidden by the forests growth,
Like birdlicgs in their flight.
Passed the boat and Jolly crew
Beyend our wistful sight;
But still we heard the paddles dip,
Though the boat we saw no more,
And wondered li they’d row all day
Sre they reached the other shots:
And when at last this mournful stand
Had passed beyong our hearing,
We scarcely dared to breathe the hope
That they the land were nearing.
Ab hour passed, they came not back,
Ths weak grew sore afraid,
And rumor said the vessel’s sunk
With Benning’s whole Brigade ;
Aad those weo were despondent,
The stragglers aad recruits,
Thee left tue shore—took to the woods,
And went to digging roots.
At last the watchers gave a shout—
Thev heard the well-known dip,
.And knew that they would see again
* Oar gallant little ship.
Thea through the swamp and trees she came
Until she reached the shore,
And we beheld the grateful sight
Oi oread and meat once more,
And 1, the jolly Georgia boy,
Who didn’t care a dam,
W as prouder of my little “scow”
Than Semmes is of his “Ram.”
FROM TH E UNITED STATES.
Frew the Petersburg Express.
We make thia morning soma extracts from
Nerthera papers of the 12ch, last Monday. Many ‘
of them are as usual sadly deficient in truth, but
emanating as they do, from Yankee sources, we* i
must make due allowance for this deficiency. <
’ * A special correspondent es the Philadelphia
Inquirer, writes from Louisville, ueder date of j
October 7th, as follows:
GRNBBAL BOSBCBaKS’ POSIT lO*.
Is considered uncomfortable here. It is known
that a large amount of stores were pushed up to
the front oefure Gan. Wheeler made his descent
on the railroad, but some of tnese stores were
captured by the rebels, and General Rosecrans
has sent couriers down to have fresh supplies
started, under escorts. Everybody seems to oper
ate in me matter as it they thought that Old
Rosey could do everything without anything, and
so matters remain clogged np. Good and patriot
ic men here have every obstacle to contend w th
io lotwarding supp ies, but they hope to overcome
all, and yet enable tbe heroes of the Armv of the
Uumoei land to achieve another and a greater vic
tory taan xt ever vet done tieretoiore.
General Wneelersnd his gallant five thousand
were reported at Shelbyville last night, where
they have been playing a heavy game again, in
ths ca nunag hue,it is said. Our garrison there
coGSia’.ed oi about two thousand men, but I learn
that a portion of this force had been recently
withdrawn for some purpose or other. Humor
says hat the rebels made a clean sweep in the
to* n, tailing our men prisoners, destroying stores,
and insulting the many Union people of tue town.
Colonel Seddy McCucK is making forced marches
for the rebf, out has not engaged them'yet a
second time.
I d that General Rosecrans has orders
ed GenZriu M•••caelHorward with a flying column
to icercept Wheeler on his return to Bragg’s
ones here seem to think
that Wheeler has destroyed Rosecrans’ com
munications, and that he is now going to make
a circuit of our Southwestern corps tn Middle
Tensess -e, in order to gather information and
give us ail the trouble possible in cutting all
the telegraph wires and railroads. This seems
to me to be probable, but 1 know that iSner
man and Hurlburt are awake to all these tricks,
end will not be caught napping. Our Generals
and post commanders have all been warned by
couriers of Wheeler’s operations, and it they
are not prepared to receive him it is the re*
suit of negligence on their parte
A survey ot the damage done .to the railroad
east from Nashville reveals the tefschiet done to
General Rosecrans’ direct communications with
his base ot supplies and operations at Nashville.
The track is uninjured. Bevetal unimportant
bridges have been burned and some trestles dev
suoyed. Large parties of workmen have gone
cut on the road, and this force is being constantly
augmented by batches of contrabands. It is
hoped that trains will be running in the course of
a week cr ten days.
Oar armv remains in its position at Chattanoo
ga. The river has been mug rapidly, and one
of our bridgeeWras consideraby damaged on Tues
day night by a freshet. The damage was quickly
repaired. The rise in the river was looked upon
as favorable to us, as it prevents the enemy from
harrassing our i ear or flanks.
Reinforcements are const ntly arriving and bc
iag assigned to positions. General Hooker com
manas tae right wing ot the Army of the Cum
berland, General Thomas the centre, General
Granger the left wing, and General Palmer the
reserve. The corps of Generals Howard and Slo
cum are up in position, and, with large numbers
ot other troops, constitute this a most formidable
army. Many regiments are yet to Join it, and
this will be true ol next week as well as of this.
General Rosecrans held a consultation with
his corps and division commanders recently,
mainly for the .purpose of re-organisation and
harmonious action in future movements. The
best feeling was manifested, and an officer
thought the two old "waterlogged logs’’ of the
army bad been gotten rid of at last. There are
not enough political Generals left m camp now to
make any very bad blunder, and so we may hope
fer success in the coming advance. At this meet
ing General Rosecrans announced bis determine**
tioD, under advice from Gen. Halleck, to told his
present strong position, and move from it to At
anta as a base.
General Rosecrans has opened up safe comma
aication with General Burnside’s forces, and is
drawing supplies from the artny of the Ohio, m
addition to what has been sent to him, so that
should the Rebels press ths siege of Chattanooga
the army of the Cumberland will be amply sup*
plied with food and ammunition for come weeks-
The rebel position is a good ons, but may be
avoided altogether in our advance. The Rebels
seem to know this, as several deserters say that,
while Bragg is ket ping up a good front, he is for
tiiytng Atlanta with the intention of retreating to
that place some da-k night. This may be so, out
it Br >gg docs sot fight where be is, and that very
shoitly, it will be ihe worse tor him.
Allbough there is no use denying the fact that
matters in this Department ore almost critically
precarious in appearance to those who are far re
moved from the scene of action, yet if I could
really and truth ally write of the vast preparations
making to bn»g order out of chaos, the confl
deuce of the per pie m our ability to defeat the
Rebels in ilie coming contest would be greatly
enhanced. For instance, boats have been impress
ed by Government on.all our rivers 'or the rapid
transportation es stores, and railroads are being
put into good condition.
Mounted infantry regiments are scouring the
country in quest of guerillas, and often hanging
them without letting folks know it. Troops are
gathering everywhere, and go which way you
will you can aee remtercemente for Rosecrans. I
say that, amidst the gloom, disappointment and
aggravation caused by W heeler’s and Pegram’«
raids in Tennessee and Rents :ky, we have mush
to hope for.
In addition to this, General Rosemans is most
anxious to deserve and retain the confidence re
posed in him by the Northern people. He is not
a great man, bat a good one. Just like General
Thomas, be is good, honest, (patriotic, trust
worthy and braver Persons who have been near
the Grneral’s person of late, say that he has nevei
been so earnest in his patriotism, or devout in
his religious belief than at the present time. Ho
grieves much lor the loss of his magnificent bri
gade of regulars, whom he was wont to look upon
as the mainstay and forlorn hope of his army.
Genetai Sherman will replace them as soon as
bis army corps comes up.
General Sherman has sent out an expedition to
penetrate Alabama, and cut, if possible, the Mem
phis and Charleston Railroad. We shall soon
have news from the Rebel papers of the doings of
this column, I expect.
A collision will soon take place between the
cantending armies at Chattanooga, but how soon
no one can tell. The rebels wJI not be the at
tacking party this time, and General Rosecrans
is not yet rally prepared .to advance, nor will he
be for some time, 1 think, as preparations for the
forwarding of minor colauans are in progress,
and these, of course, must strike first, before the
great battle is fought. Is is evident on all hands
h at General Rosecrans is master of the position,
and that he will not fight to a disadvantage. The
ground occupied is not what would be selected
for a great pitched battle, and this is why Gemroi
Rosecrans is anxious to fight, in order to destroy
the power of the rebellion, H possible, at a stroke,
for he has the best proofs that the flower m
strength of the rebel host is here, ted by Br
directed by General Lee himself. If ihe rebels
should now retreat, it will be a surrender ot their
cause; it they fig-t it will be he death of it.
PARTIIBLAR3 or BOSSOSAXS’ POSITIOX—JSDSRAL
Losses or mkm anb abtillkbt ix thb lats *at-
TLBS.
We find in the Oitfeinnati Gasalte, the following
informatiou from the Army of the Cumberland,
furnished to that paper by Col. Boynton, of the
85th Ohio. If Boynton fights as hard as he/ lies
he is a valuable acquisition to General Roses
crane army:
The railroad south of the river, from Stevenson
to Chattenooga, is not nsed for the reason that the
budge at Bridgeport is still down, and two or
three smaller bridges between that place and Gen.
Rosecrans’ headquarters are also out of repair,
but the rebels do not occupy the road in any
force, and reinforcements for Cuattaneoga cm Id
march over the route without opposition.
Flankicg movements ara not feared. General
R jsecran. Bad all the mea he needed in Chaitax
uooga for present purposes. He eotrd not use
more to ed van tags ir they were on the opposite
side of the river. Chattanooga is, in fact, a
grand fortification, and can < my be reached by
regular siege approaches. From this mode di
operations nothing is teared.
With reference to the battles, the only ground
the rebels have fore aim ng a victory, is tbe pos
session of the ba tie fivld. But they did nut
drive us from it. Oa busday afternoon General
khomas repaired the enemy at every point; he
fired the last shot and re.ired in good order.
Vur loss in killed and wounded and misstag
was near fourteen thousand. Only a small pro
portion were Killed, and a small majority only of
tbe wounded were severely. Many of those
wounded on Saturday rejoined their regiments on
Sunday. Our 10-a in artillery did not exceed
twenty pieces. Bragg took " about twenty-five
buncred presunCra, exclusive of the wounded on
the field, supposed to number one thousand.
General Roaecr-ns took over fitteen hundred
prisoners, and Col. Boynton thinks the number
may reach two tbourand.
Tue latest estimate ut the Rebel forces engaged
against us was one hundred and ten thousand.
It is certain that m every tight they outnumbered
us; and this was especially the case in the final
contest on Samur afternoon, when tbe enemy
was repulsed by General Thomas’ famous corps
Sunaequcntly to toe battles, the Rebels were
arranging for another attacs. Their tro*ps were
drawn up in hue, and oar pickets could distinct
ly hear speeches that were made by officers to the
soldiers. The latter were told that it was abso
lutely necessary to take Chattanooga; that al.
the hopes >f the Confederacy rested m that army,
and that 11 th.y failed ail was lost. For some
reason not known, the contemplated attack was
abandoned, but the < pinion is that Bragg found
his army too mueh shattered tor a renewal oi the
engagement.
Tue heavy loss of the Rebel officersis exp'ained
on tbe ground that the general despondency in
the Keoel army rendered extraordinary exposure
on tbe part ol the officers necessary, in oruer to
keep .the men up -o me work.
FROM NuRTHEIIN VIRGINIA.
We are etui wiinuut any otneial accounts of
military opera.tena in Northern Virginia later
than last Thursday. Up to that time Lea bad
been unable to cateh up with Meads, and conse
quently to bring on anything like a general en«
gagement.
Tbe telegraph informs us that Melntoah’s bat
tery of five guns was taken in a fight late Wed
nesday evening, and that in the sarnv fight two of
cur Generals are wounded. There is room to
hope tbis information is net true, as General Lee,
in his despatches of the folliowiug day, did not
allude to the circumstances, whiob, from their
importance, would seem to nave demanded men
tion. The city was troubled with an unpleasant
rumor yesterday to the effect that we had met
with a serious reverse near Manassas. Though,
as just remarked, we are destitute ot official in
teiugtaee, we have reason to believe tbis report
to be utterly uuionaded.
A number of persons direct from Warrenton
arrived here last evening. They bring us no
news of a reverse to our arms, and their accounts
confirm the opinion that no geueral engagement
bad taken place. They say oer troops, finding it
impossible to overtake the enemy, and suffering
for supplies, had given over the pursuit. As re
gards Meade’s movements, there are two reports;
one. that he occupies a position beyond Bull Run;
and the ether that he is still flying towards Wash
ington city.
Our loss in the numerous skirmishes that have
taken place Within the past ten days are said to
amount te about one thousand, and it is estimated
that in all we have taken herd upon three thouse
and prisoners. Xotniug is said of the enemy’s
loss in killed and wounded.
If it be true, as reported, that Lee has given
over the pursuit, the causes will, we venture to
assert, be found to be two, vis ; the ealerity with
which Meade managed to got out of the way, he
having the advantage of moving on a direct Une,
and aided by the railread, while our forces, b: n fc
intent np«n cutting him off, moved by eircmt-.us
routes, and the enure absence e tmbsiHieuue u
the country north of 'he Eappaha im*ek. Fauquier
and Frinea William are is, c ntaimng :o»d
for neither man nor beast. Our supplies, there
fore, had all to be waguned from the Rappuhan
noek, the destruction of the bridge over that
stream preventing oar ears from running be»
yond it.
It is said that General Lee has torn up tho rail
road track from Munass-is to Rappahannock.
kvJiTMni Jxamintr, 19(A.
Horace (Maynard Biuwnlow, Triggs, ends
score of otber East Tennesseeans, held a private
conference at the Barnet House, in Cincinnati, a
short tune fiiscs. thw proceedings were see
ret.
AUGUSTA’ GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 28, 1863.
A GLANCE AT THE CONFEDERATE STATES
from ths Hamilton (Uannuca) Royal Gasette.
11 the world be pleased to accept the croai lugs
of wea -kneed Confederates and the assertions oi
the evil-disposed, as indicative ot the present eon*
dttion end prospects of the Bomb, then it must
lam believe that the Confederacy is indeed sick
and near the eve es dissolution ; out in such case
the world exhibits a sad lack or discernment and
good sense, for it deltoerately belies all history,
it ignores the laot of actual achievements, and
with a baste that is neither kind nor just, makes
Hie -.untederate States an exception s the rule of
probabilities m all revolutionary struggles of like
etna and magnitude.
Ail history prove- that a brave and uncorrupted
people, united m their determination to be free,
can never be subdued. Slaves cannot be made of
those who have pledged their lives as the price of
liberty. And when after thirty months’ accumu
lated proof of the ability of the South to win and
maintain its independence,with all the machinery
of a well established government in lull opera
tion, the integriiy of the States still preserved,
and the people terribly m earnest for the work be
tore them, to prate now of failure is simply ridicu
ous.
Indeed the tried patriotism and selfedsnial ,of
the people, the energy of the Government, sound
statesmanship, and judicial financial measures,
have combined to give the Confederacy astrengtu
and pokilidh to-day that it has not enjoyed before.
Having ora- ’.ed and strengthened the sinews of
war, U now stands upon a basis that will enable
it to carry on war indefinitely and without impos
ing Ourdoua too onerous for the shoulders ot the
people. There is nothing in the present condi
in nos things to justify even a shade of despon
dency. What mure than before the fall of Vicks
burg and Fort Hudson ? The long period of mar
vellous successes which lAe Confederacy previous
ly enjoyed was everywhere the subject of popular
comment. A speedy triumph of the Confederate
ecuse, and a termination ot the war, were confi
dently expected. The Confederate loan was ea
gerly taken at a premium abroad. The question
of recognition was earnestly pressed in the conn
ells ot Rugland and France. The world was ela
ted over the prospect oi a speedy consummation
of the vexed problem. But immediately upon
the unfortunate reverses in the Southwest—presto!
everything went by the board, wiseacres laughed
at the dupes of the cotton loan, my lord congratu-
lated nay lord at their sagacity in having witnheld
recognition, Her Majesty aAually proclaimed to
Uiat effect, und the sky of Confederate hopes and
prospects at once became fearfully overcast.
The troops oi Grant's Federal army actually
[leaped into tbe defenses of the surrendered city
with tne shout: “ The war is over I now we can
go home J” So all believed, that with the Fed*
I .-ifti possession of the Mississippi, the back-bone
' the rebellion was broken, and another ** thirty
i days ” would restore the Union! Nevertheless,
I aauer toe news of the fall ot Vicksburg, the price
I u. coi on in ibu Northern marsetroue to 63 cents,
Aihongn a fall to 49 cents was freerfy predicted
previous to the surrender. There is still an eL
lectaal embargo upon tbe navigation of the great
nver, and if any military or commercial advan
tage that was not before enjoyed, has resulted
trom the Federal success, it is not palpably ap
parent. The victory cost the Yankees more in
men and money than the whole Mexican war.
The craven quails before the dark toreshadow*
ingot disaster; the brave man girds up his loins
to meet and aver it. None can hope to escape
occasional reverses amid the inexorable vicissi
tudes of war; but these should only stimulate to
ncreased vigilance and oxer non. With lukewarm
speculators, who hare grown rich upon tbe bio -d
of the country, fearful pecuniary loss may that io
reconstruction as an escape from the present ills,
and a sate retreat from the outrageous flings of
fortune ; rnde mountaineers who are igaerant ot
the principles of tbe strugg e, and unable to com
prehend the present unwonted state of affairs,
may exhibit signs of disaffection ; deserters irom
the army may occur from various causes; but the
people of tbe South were never more unanimous
la their great purpose than they are to-day, never
more willing to endure privations, and never
more eager to welcome the invaders of their
hemes to nospitable graves.
The productive resources of the South have
been wonderfully developed. Not only is it now
able to manufacture all munitions and material of
war, but all branches of industry have been
greatly stimulated. Clothing, steam fire engines,
machinery tor the manufacture ot paper, carriages,
dental instruments, teeth aad gold toil, engine
hone, matches, shoe blacxing, Ac., of domestic
production, are now substituted for articles fore
ineriy imported. There is no lack of the neces
saries ot life, and though the Confederate drinks
ais water without ice, and often foregoes the use
of sugar, he has an abundance of grain, meat and
vegetables. There is no danger oi his being sub**
dued oy starvation. A redundant currency has
greatly inflated prices, but the increased cost ot
living has produced no crop of beggars. Tue
peopie-still have isith in the currency. Were the.
war to end now, ti_e indebtedness ot the Govern
ment could all be paid, dollar for dollar, and that
more easily than the mere interest of the Federal
debt, in any event, the success of the South does
oot depend upon the fate of the currency.
The government is providently preparing for
tbe winter campaign. Upon the advent of tbe
seasons of frosts the great majority ot the troops
will be supplied with warm and suitable clothing.
Already have tbe motly hues of the rank and flie
given place in a great measure to a veal uniform
of grey cans and jackets and trowsera of light
blue. The troops are rapidly being perfected iu
discipline, and toe drill is now far more severe than
ever Detore. Accessions to the army are rapidly
made. Lee’s army is far stronger than when it
entered Pennsylvania. The last call ut the Presi
dent, extending the conscription age to forty-five,
and the action of individual States in raising large
.evies for local defease and special service, bus
aaded vastly to the numerical strength of tbe
Comederaie forces. Tbe energies of tbe South
are juat beginning to be thoroughly aroused. —
Aiaouma has recently extended tbe limits of (he
military age below eighteen yeais to sixteen, and
above forty-five to sixty, and it is belieted that at
the next meeting of the Confederate Congress, - n
act will be paised requiring all persons of what
ever age capable of bearing arms, to enter the
service.
The places of persons detailed for official busi
ness will be supplied, as tar as possible, with
disabled soldiers. It is moreover suggested that
slaves be required to fill the places ot white team
sters, and perform whatever duties connected with
army operations may be required. There has
been some newspaper discussions as to the policy:
of enlisting slaves as solaiere, but it has not
reached official circles, and the idea is simply
preposterous, and will not be adopted, all Yan
eee statements to the contrary notwithstanding.
By all possible means the entire force of the
(South will be placed in the field, and it is teas
aonable to presume that under any contingency,
the army of the Ocafederecy will henceforth be
luliy equal, it not superior to the enemy’s forces
Now by tbis brief review, can any one discover
any indication of the Confederacy being at the
point of exhaustion, or of speedy collapse f Comi
pare the present numbers, discipline and appoint
merits ot the army with those of one or two years
ago, and answer.
As to the geographical aspect of the war, we
find the trans Mississippi army, although severed
trom the East, a large and powerful independent
force, ably officered, anafimanseuvered, drawing
ample supplies from available sources, and already
distinguished by signal successes tnroughout the
department.
Attention is for the present diverted from Vir
ginia to Tennessee and Charleston. The latter it
is confidently felt, will not fall; and as for “the
former, it ie improper to say more than that Im
portant military movements have been on foot
the last fortnight, which, when accomplished will
materially change the aspects of affairs m more
than one section of the Confeaeracy. Not over**
sanguine mtiasns look lor tuch a series of suc
c .uea irom this time henceforward as will eclipse
those ot former periods, and finally culminate in
complete triumph and the glorious reward which
is justly due those woo atrive to break the yoke
oi tyranny and oppression.
Meauwfiile we louK tor signal advantages bv
sea and lor developments that will astonish as
muon as they will uaimtge the enemy. Besides
itie Confederate Navy proper the nucleus for a
volunteer navy (provided tor by special set ot
Oungrerari has been formed. It W iH join hands
with the londa and her consorts in raising the
rates <>f insurance on Yankee vessels.
I have already become prolix; and will not
further occupy your space. Suffice it to say that
no true Confederate, or friend ot the Confederacy
dreams ot yielding, or relaxing one effort, until
independence has been secured, and recognition
fully earned and obtained from the Powers of
, the world; and furthermore, that so far from be
ing discouraged by the temporary reverrev of
July, they ere rather nerved to greater ffirts,
and with n~w grounds of assurance, will go on to
re»demenstrate that revolutions never go back
wards, and that no occasional disaster can check
tbeir onward progress tewari that grand con
summation upon which Heaven will one day ap
provingly smile, 1 um yours truly,
Cbarlcs Hallock,
Hamilton, Bermuda, Sept. 21, 1868.
[Corrtspondenee of ths Chicago TltaM.J
* FROM NEW ORLEANS,
Naw Oblbans, Sept. 15, 1868.
At tbs hour of sending my package oi the 12th,
I could give but few reliable particulars of the
disaster qj the great Texas expedition, under
Mujur General Franklin.
1 now embrace the opportunity of the steamer
Gaampiou's departure to send you tba t and eve ya
thing pertainiug to the occurrence in this departs
meat since my last lo'.ter.
I have previously told you that troops would
be sent to various koaiiiies—Brashear City, Red
River and Brownsville.-ali demined to operate
against Texas. It now’ »paaars that Mablne Bass
was substituted lor Br< 'rnsviile, and so of Sabine
Pass, and ol the repulse there, let me first speak.
When the fleet came iu sight of Sanine Pass,
the gunboats, five in number, shelled the shore
tor about lour hours without eliciting a reply.
After a mile or two, and when drawing near to
shore,a ribs! battery < f six guns opened on
them, which was then entirely visible. To the
right and left of thia main battery, were a coup e
ot masked batteries, wnich opened with a very
destruc ive cross-fire on the gunboats. Two on
ly of the gunboats, the Clifton and Bacbem, em
tdred close to shore withm the Pass; the other
three remained outside with the transports. The
Sachem was a regularly constructed gunboat,
while the Ulifton Had qhen created from a New
York ferry bout, with a doable hull, and with
powerful guns, seven in cumber, on board of her.
Both of these boats kept up an incessant fire on
the shore batteries, until a solid shot from one of
the rebel batteries penevated the steam drum o f
the Sachem, and the boat was soon enveloped
with steam, by which three hundred and fifty
lersons are said to have been scalded to death.
Others jumped overboarn and were drowned or
possibly got to shore.
In this deplorable condition both the Clifton
and Sachem endeavored to get away, but ran
agreund, toe rebel battenes all tho time pouring
a terrific fire into them.
Within an hour the commacders of both the
ditto'i and Sachem ran up the white flag, when
the shore bstieries ceased their fire upon those
boats.
The rebels then sent tv. o cotton clad boats to
the assistance ot tne disabled gunboats, took off
all the wounded, and thee, or alterwards, towea
both gußfioats up under the guns of something
like a fort at Brent Point. The other boats of the
fleet, as I said before, were outside. The Arizona,
no doubt intending to go to the assistance, of tbe
others, ran hard and fast on iba bar, and from
there bad to behold the fate of the others.
The transport Gen. Banks, on which General
Weitsel had bis headquarters, endeavored to ex
tricate the Arizona, but failed, and she was home
ward bound.
I should have mentioned that,2 before the
Sachem ran np he white flag, her Captain turned
tbe aft gun on the machinery of the bovt, corn**
pletely destroying it. Tbe Chiton my informant
bays, could be made serviceable to the rebels in
tony-eight hoars.
I am reliably informed that the number of per
sons lost there, from tbe gunboats and fleet gen.
erally, will not tall short of thirteen hundred.
All the life boats which plied to and Tom the
beadauarters ot Major General Franklin,on the
Sufforo, were driven asnore in a sudden iquail,
and the crews and boats captured and taken up
to the rebel fort.
During the «ngag«mei>t of the gunboats and
rebel batteries, several trains of cars, crowded
with troops, was plainly seen coming into Sabina
City. There were ns many as five trains, sup
posed to have cone from Galveston.
Aad I must describe the ret rp home.
A violent gale arose some distance out cf sight
of laud, oft Stuihwest Pass. To weather the
storm, great loss of valuable property, ammuuis
non, guns, stores, horses, mules, etc., bad to
be submit'ed to. Some oi tue boats, too, were
in a very shaky condition, partticular y the Suf
folk and Laurel Hili, and 1 may say the Cen<
tmental, on the former of which was General
Franklin.
From the Snff >lk they threw overboard, among
many other thu gs, the horses of Gen. Frauklin’s
stuff, his own inc-uded.
From the Laurel Hill they oast into the angry
■ea three hundred head of mules, many army
wagons, and two-thirds of the ammunition. This
boat was crowded with black troops.
Tbe steamers Continental, Landis and others,
had to dispense wi»h a share of their valuable
freight, to ride tbe waves. The Continental, too,
had to rnn into Buff >lk, damaging herself and
nearly sinking ths otber. In tact, but for the
double hull or double side*. I don’t know cor
rectly which, that the Suffolk had, she would
have gone to the bottom.
The Indiana and New York batteries were
thrown overboard. The Indiana battery included
four 82 pounders. Perhaps sixteen to twenty
seuoded the depths ot tbe si a. t
I am iaionned, a so, that the Captain of cither
the Chiton or the Sachem shot the pHot dead who
had asserted that there would be found tea feet
of wa'.er in the Pass.
Among the captured on the Clifton were foqr
of Gen FraaMin’s staft, and either on tbe Sa
chem or OiiLdn—l thins the latter—were seven
companies of New York sharpshooters, captured
of course.
My informant, himself in the expedition, be
lieves, if the rebels had permitted them all to
land, every one would have been captured. He
thinks tbat the rebels supposed that the United
dta as forcea were fully a we of their position,
guns, numoers, &e., and had come it* adequate
force t» encounter them; henee their desire to
prevent the debarkation.
At the battle of Morgans), on the Mississt; pi,
this -side ot tbe mouth ot Red river, I believe
Gen. Herndan eommuaded tbe na ipaal troops;
in met lam sure ol it. The Confederates retreat
ed upon Simmesport an tbe Aichstalaya, where
the main body of tbeir foices were stationed. At
this point, I am told, ttiere was a heavy fight, the
rssalt being that onr forces had to retreat to tbe
Mississippi, where they were protected by the
gunboats. ■ , ....
This affair .is also reported as a considerable
disaster, but I have no Other reliable particulars.
As to the raid at Baton Rouge, I think my pre*,
vious report of the damages is over estimated.
Yet the loss was very heavy principally through
the loss of the immense quantitiesot cotton burned.
Several prominent persons of this city were re
ported captured, one of whom 1 know to have
been hare all tho time.
Aad, while speaking of raids, I oan mention
more reliably the greatly exaggerated raid on
Port Hudson. • '
Gen. Loring, the rebal forward
about 1,500 mea some qjfiffrifeWLtoe-rear of the
fort. The white officers foe negroes
at Port Hudson jyire decelfbd and only
sent os a force adequate t«W Wilh that num
ber. Thea H was that ths rebhl force proved to
be 5 OCO to 6,000. and the result was, ot course, a
general stampede of tfce negroes, after many
Killed aad captured.
NSW OBL9ANB, Sept. 15; noon.—Gen. Grant had
veateiday recovered trom, his recent injuries suf
ficiently to leave on the Bin. Franklin tor Vicks»
burr. It is sull asserted that he will eventually
take command here,.but I much doubt it.
The Texan expt dmon is revived on a grand
scale Twenty thousand additional troops have
oeen sent to Brashear City, and ten thousand or
more will speedily follow.
Artillery, inlantry, cavalry, stores, Ac., have
been ter the last three days conveyed to tbe de.
not of the Opelousas railroad for transportation
to Brashear. There have been busy and exciting
times here since the disaster at Sabine Paas und
the reported defeat at Simmesport, I assure you.
A great battle may be looked for shortly in tbe
Tech? country, near Franklin, Centreville, or
thereabout. In fact, a regular series ot battles
will come off shortly, or 1 am very much mis.
taken Mbtbopolitax.
At a Debating Socieiy in England lately, the
•nestion anCer dtecussion was whether it was
morally wrong to cheat a lawyer. The judgment
ot the Society was—“ Not wrong, but impossible.’
The Mew Tork Sandey Times thinks the “pop
ular divines” are to be envied. It says ten thou
sand a vear and tbe tour of Europe are not bad
to take. The Apo»tl«e hU no such pickings.
COMPTROLLER GENERALS REPORT
The little space which we are compelled to de
vote to asy one topic forbids us more than a cur
sory mention of the contents «f ihisjvulutols docu
ment. It is a complete view of the financial con
diiiou of tbeMtate—all ths sources st public reve
nue—the channels of expenditure— the operations
of the >ax laws and nuny practical aad judicious*
suggestieas fortheir improvement- Then.ceipts
inis >he State Treasury from all sources, for the
fiscal year ending October 28, 1868, were *8 758,-
442 45, and with the each balance of the previous
y-ur amount to fl 9 451,445 87. Os these recei ts
$1,660 000 were net earnings of the State Road—
embracing, however, heavy payments from tbe
Government for previous services. The Comp
t eller estimates the receipts for next year at
s6< 9,000. The expenses to October 20th, were
$7 881 841 43—leaving a balance in the Treasury
oi $2,099 603 44. The income tax receipt was
$125 241 64—a1l other taxes $1,136,795 04. Os
ibe expenditures the following are among these
eonungent upon the war;
$5,000,000 military funds 2 462.101 75
Military Fend 1863 818,971 40
$350,000 appropriated ter munu.ee-
ture es arms 84 497 42
Soldiers’cletbing 1urid....,1,688 out 00
Indigent soldiers’family fund 1,690.400 25
Fund to eupp'y people of Georgia
With salt 202,387 65
Find to pay freight on Salt sent to
counties 1862iZ..... 243*21
Georgia Belief and Hospital Asse-
Hon 450,006 66
Reloaded >n part to the Western A
Atlantic Kailrcd,amount advanced
to pu chase Salt in 1862... 86,006 60
For cbatrucuons an Apalachicola,
ChattabOi chee, and Flint Rivers, 45,090 00
For amount rctuuded te City es Au-
gusta fer obstructing Savannah
River 53 566 68
Oa account ol Cotton Card Factory, 80,717 98
Fur Bank Note Paper, Engraving
and Printing, and Clerk hire, A:,
in iesurng Georgia Treasury Notes
and State Change Bills 25,513 68
The Comptroller esdinaates the next year’s res;-
nlar receipts at about ibtee millions short ot dis
bursements, allowing $8 900,000 tor support es
indigent soldiers’ lamihes, hospital and relief as
sociations, and military fund. As ibe t xes oi
18l>4 will sot come in until November or Dec tn-
Dur. tbe Comptroller recommends that the deficit
be met by Treasury Botes, payable in Confederate
currenny. [Any thing but increasing the amount
oi currency afloat.] '
Tbe Comptroller reports the publis debt of
Georgia, at this time, is r.a follows:
Binds bearing interestss 911,750
Bunds not bearing interest 176.uu0
Treasury notes not hearing interest.. 7,588,v00
Biate Change Bills, not bearing inir’st.. 473 6su
T0ta1514,149,410
To pay this interest and meat this deb', as it
becomes due, Georgia has cot only her taxable
wealth, returned this year at $981,596,583, but
she has also ths following public property, wnioh
if sold aay time alter *h? resumption of specie
payments, would pay mure thus twe-tbirds of bis
debt, leaving but a very small < cbt to be paih
by taxation. Her publio property is as fellows :
7,906 shares of stock iu Atlantic and
Gulf Railroads7oo,6oo 00
2 909 shares ot stocxs in several Banks 290,999 00
Also her Western and Atlantic Rail-
road, which h s been paying -into
tbs Btate Treasury since 1859 be*»
tween 6 and 7 per cent, upon $7,000-
000, and paid uro the Trtajury
duriug tbe past year $1,650,000, and
whieti, before tne rise of all kinas
of property, was valued by a com
mittee ot the Legislature at... 7.849,224 68
$8,840,124 68
As over $6,000,000 of this debt has been crea
ted by the State aunng th. war. for her military
defence, and lor assisting in clothing the soldiers
of the Confeiieraey trom Georgia, the amount iqub
necessarily spent will no dount at some future day
be assumed, and be refunded by the CGniederate
States Government. But whether this be done or
not, if the btsie is not loreeU to increase bar
debt further fer war purposes, even with our
present tax of not qu te one fifth oi one per
cent., (which is not high compared with the taxes
of otber States -in peace times), and with the an
nual net income from our railroads, we can go on
and defray the ordinary expenses of onr State
Government, and be liberal towards Education,
our Lunatic, Blind, and ether institutions, ana
pav our debts promptly, and could thus pay ihe
whole of it in about ha f ths time some of it is
due, if persons holding oar bonds would receive
pur lor them before coming due, without seliicg
any of our public property.
The folk wing are tbe classes and cumber o
persons who have been benetieiaries us tbe
fund for the support of the indigent soldiers’
tamilics:
Widows of soldiers who have died in ser
vice 4,022
Number ol disabled soldiers by sickness or
wounds 643
Number ot wives, mothers. &<3., dependent
upon soldiers in service, not able to sup- ■
port themselves 22 855
Humber ot orphans of deceased suiOiers
under 12 years ut age....' 6 656
Numoer ut children of women, not widows,
dependent upon soldiers in service46,2l9
Number of children over 12 years of age not
able to support themselves and depend
ent upon indigent soldiers in service.... 652
Number ct children and otber indigent per-
sons unable to support tbemselyes, but
dependent upon soldiers 841
Total *88,628
Tub Incomb Tax sb fob 1868.—The table of the
returns frum the counties aisplays the most ex
traordinary discrepancies. It shows a gross tax
of $683,235 29, trom which the comptroller thinks
about $500,000 wih be raised. In this table Bibb
returns $40,174; Chatham $48,412; Rich mono
$123,876, Muscogee .$59,213; Fulton $31,280;
Di-caiur $51,224; Ulincn $5u,597.
Tbe to'al valuation oi tuxables this year is
$991,596 588,showing the increase on the valua
tion last year amounting to $418,244,821. —
Tebtyreph. _
GEN*. BURNSIDE AND ROSECRANS.
Jfrcm the ht.shviUe Hail J Journal.
As some reikeiions are cant upon Gen. Burn
side tor not having reinforced Gen. Rosecrans,
I beg leave, m vindication of the gallant Burn
side, to stale a few facts not known to man who
are igaerant of he geography of tbat country. I
claim to know tbe country occupied by beth ar
mies. I travelled through North Georgia as ear
ly as 1829, and lodged with the Cherokees before
the wnites occupied the country, and before tbere
were good roads of any kind, I have been trav
eling over that section and East Tenn issee ever
since, in every coaseivable way, and therefore it
is that I know the couatry.
First, It is one hundred and ten miles from
Knoxville to Chattanooga, and it is about forty*
rive miles Irom Chattanooge to Lafayette, (in the
neighborhood where the fightlag began,) still
further South. Buckner, iu retreating from
Knoxville, burned tbe bridges behind him, rea«
derir g it impossible fer General Burusiae to rein
force General Rosecrans with any speed ; be
sides, General Burnsiae had to keep an eye to the
East, where, in tweuty*four hours, an'nrmycf
twenty thousand men could be poured down uqion
him trom Lynchburg, on the groat Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad, in full possession or the
reb la-
Tne country In North Georgia is rather level,
with bflla and ridges springing up at intervals,
and separating one valley from another. Tbe
streams are sluggish and the banks usually high.
The country is thickly timbered, with a heavy
undergrowth, making it rather impassable for the
operations of a large army.
For my part, I have every confidence in our
ultimate success. Let Rosecrans be reinforced,
aud he will whip the whole Confederacy. The
mediation I advocate is that ot the caution and
the sword; and let there be no armistice, on sea
or land, until all tbe rebels, front abb rear, Nurib
and South, are subjugated or exterminated. And
then let cond go punishment be speeai y me ed
out to tbe su viving leaders in this uuiioiy ciu
sude against civil zation. My motto is Greek fire
lor the masses and bell fire ior ihe ieadeis. And
none but the loyal should be consulted in the
ureai casting up ot these accounts.
B W. G. Brownlow.
Dr. Wright was certainly to be executed at
Norfelk, on Fridey lest.
WHEI LERB GREATRAHJ AROUND THE AR
MY OF ROSE* BAN*.
FULL PARTICULAR < FROM A PARTICI
PA ST.
i [OerreqwndenM of the Savanaeh Republican J
Cavalst Camp, I
Decatur, Ala., uciobei 11,1868. f
Mb Bnbbd ; iVe crossed the Tennessee nve r
yesterday on our return from a raid into Tennes*-
tee ; Geu. Wheeler commanded three di
visions, under Gens, Wharton, Martin and Da
vidson—seven brigades in all—about 6,000 men.
Tbis is tbe largest cavalry raid that has oe«n
made during the was.
We crossed the river near. Cotton Ford the last
day of September. Cotton Ford is near Charles
ton, Tenn. The enemy were on the opposite side
of the river, three brigades strong. Wheeler had
a new road cut about a mile below tbe ford,
crossed the river at night by this new ford with
Wharton’s division, attacked the enemy’s pickets
at the main lord, secured that point, and crossed
Harun’s and Davidrun’s divisions with the ar
mlery and ordesnea wagoi s.
We marched ail night and the nrxt day until
dark, in th» heaviest rain 1 ever baa seen, and
c-mped on the opposite side of Walden’s Ridge,
in Sequatchie Valley, near Foster’s Cross Roads.
Here the command was divided Gen. Wheel
er, with two brigades, one from Martin’s dirt
sion, under General Martin, and one from Wbar
ion’s division, under Colonel Ave y, of the 4tb
Georgia cavalry, went down the valley atter a
Urge wagon train, while General Wharton with
tbe remainder of the force proceeded directly
across the Cumberland Mcumaiu to attack Mc-
Minnville. Gen. Wheeler started at 3A. M , and
met the train near Dunlap st the toot of the
mot*n sin, and after some sharp fighting captured
about 500 prisoners and over swo wagons heavny
loaded wnh quartermaster, commissary, orcnance
jnd sutler’s stores. The tram was captured
about 11 A. M. The wagons were all burned,
rbout 1500 mules killed, and the rest of the mules
taken pack over the mountain.
The stores destroyed were most valuable. The
amount of clothing and blankets was enormous,
‘.vhiie sixty wagons of ordnance stores were de
air yed. About 4P. M. the enemy were reported
advancing up the valley. This found out com
mand in bad conditicn for fighting. Over half
or both brigades bad been sent back by General
vV heeler with led mules, and nearly a third of
the rest were <>n picket in toe rear and on the
flanks. Col. Russell, of Martin’s command wa>
captured at the wagons. Col. Avery, with 100
ot Ins brigade—part from the 4tn Georgia and
Ist K mtucky—remained m the rear, while Gen.
Wbeeler retired with the rest ot the force to cross 1
the mountain. The enemy pressed vigorously
They charged fl teen times in the eourae of a
mile, Killing, wounding and capturing about one
half oi tho rear guard. Tbeir torce was so over
whelming each reoulse was but temporary. Gen.
Martin and Calonei Avery were nearly taken,
Col Avery’s bo: se being shot. Lt Col Griffi h, (
of tbe Is; Ky, wounded, Capt Jones, Ist Ky, kill
ed, Cap <s Stewart and May, 4th Ga, captured,
and Capt Johnson and Lt May. 4 h Ga, wound
ed. Maj Reed, of Gen Wseeivr’a staff was cap- '
lured here. About 9 P M. toe entire force was ,
up the mountain, marched until 8 in the morning,
resumed the mareh at daylight, and camped at (
the opposite foot of the mountain about mid
day.
General Wharton, with his force, crossed the
mountain, and his advance gaurd, und r Lieut.
Colonel Clay, attacked the enemy’s pickes
at MeMinnvilte about 11, A. M , of tbs B*,
drove them in und secured th» outer works. His
urttllerv was put position comn anding the town,
and a flag of truce sent in to demand the surrena
der, wnioh ’■’«» immediately made. Tbe garrison
was about 600 Large commissary and sutler’s
stores were consumed and destroyed.
After t brisk little fight ul the foot of the moun
tain ibe drt ch sient under Gen. Wheeler, which
hail left by him under command or General
Martin, marched all nigbf and j... n. a th- force eV
McMinnville the morning of the 4'-h.
That mgat we reached Woodbury. The enemy
pressed vigorously In the afternoon they charged
three o impauifts of the Texas Rangers, actieg as
rear guard, and dispersed them, but Col. Barrie
soa, of Wharton’s din-ion, formed his brigade
and checked them. H re it was determined to
give the enemy battle with the entire command,
but that intention was abandonded.
The next morning, the sth, tho main body of .
the force proceeded to Stone River, above Mura ■
freesboro’, and burned the bridges, and joined j
'he wagons at Fostjerviiie. A small force at (
Cnristi-v.ia were also captured in a stockade.
At daylight, the morning ot the 6th, the Ran
eer». r.noer L-eur Oil Co >k, charged into Bbel ,
bwiile, but the cavuirv guarding the place had ,
leii curing the night Large sutler’s stores were t
cap'll ed. Gem Martin with bis division pro- ,
ceeded tn War Truce and burned all the bridges ,
on ihe railroad end r<-j nned tbe command by a j
night murch. G n. Davidson’s division camped ,
below Shelbyville on the Southern side of the ’
river, .-.nd Gen, Wharton seven miles from Shel t
byville on tbe North side of the river.
Wnh the command in this scattered situation, f
Gen. Davidson’s division was vigorously attacked '
bV the pnemy early in the morning ana pu-hed
hack on the Shelbyville and Lewisburg pike
Tb re was now a race bv Wheeler, with Martin
and Wharton’s divisions, for this pike, to strike
tat Farmington before Davidson wa pressed to
that point. Col. Mon'gomery, commanding
Scott’s brigade in Davidson’s division, was
wounded, white Major McDonald was killed.
Geu. Martin’s divieten arrived just in time and
was thrown into position on the Pike, where the
roSd strides the Pike, and the rest of tne com
manit had-tq.march into'tbe Pike under the fire of
tbe enemy. This was General Wheeler’s order.
Here a fierce fight ensued. The R ingers charged
down tbe Pike, and Lieut. Col. Cook command*
mg. and Major Christian and two lieutenants com
manding companies were wounded. Gen Whar
tun’e horse was killed, and three pieces were cap
tured. The 4th Tennessee, 11th Texas, and Ist
Kentucky were cut off. aud had to cut across the
country to regain tbe command. Our loss at tbis
paint must have been 150 men. The enemy were
flasl y checked. We marched during the night
to Cornersville, and through Pulaski to Sugar
Creek the next day, where we camped
At this point tbe 2d Gemgia, under Lieut. Col.
Ison, and a battalion of Morgan’s men, under
Captain Kilpatrick, remained as a rear guard,
while the command proceeded through Rogers
ville and crossed the Tennea-ee at Muscle Shoals.
The crossing was safely accomplished, but the
rear guard was charged by a heavy force, b oken
and sciUtered, and Lieut. 001. Ison captured,
Lienta.’ Dffneleford and Duviuga, and thirty men
from the fid Georgia, and several officers aud
about forty men from tbe battalion of Morgan’s
men, captured.
Wo are now on the south side of the Tennessee
river resting —will leav-o here in a day or two.
I have thus given you a brief unembellished, dry
account of the raid ‘ I have not time to give von
fuller particulars. In the number of men engaged
this is the greatest raid of the war. It is not the
creates 1 , in its fruits. Many mistakeshave been
made in its management. It is not prudent at
this time to say more. - “Osficial.”
HOLL OITHOt Ott.
Hsadquartshs Stov.ll s Bbi«ads. 1
Bheckinhidgb s Division, >
Missionary Ridge, October 18io, 1868. )
To the Editor of the Augusta Constitutionalist;
Ms Editor : The list of names I sand you for
publication are those to whom medals are to be
awarded from this brigade for ditfflhguisbed gal
lantry, in the recent battles of Cbioumaugs, Sep
tember 19 th and 20th, 1868 :
Respectfully,
Jobs P. 0. Whitshrad, Jb.,
Oapt. and A. A. G.
Names. Rank. Co. Reg.
J >hn Allison - . . Sergt. * H 60th N. 0.
F M Buley “ E “ ..
J Coli n- K 4th Florida.
Wm B Davis Private K 47th Ga.
p D cktTson “ Q , “ ~
Sb D Branch’l Sergt. G 4th Fforida
J H Hammeriey Private Q *
w m H«rt v 1
Robt McKay >“ K Florida.
8 Neeley „
Whip Rice O'jrpl. A « 60 b N. O-
i Thompson Private K 47‘b G*.
C C Ulmer “ O 8d Florida.
J L Wingate Sergt. B 4th Florida.
Geo N William* .Private O Ist Florida.
N Williams - ® •o**lo.
VOL. 36—NO. 82.
THE NEXT WHEAT CROP-A ARE THE PRO.
DUCIIVE LAB.R. /
eol y*P ondan t of the Cnarloston Courier
ot tbe 17ih, manes grievous compiain's that ths. J
wheat prospects for next spriag are excwAingL
gloomy on accouat of the absence of pl
oor, tbe State draft having -luce ’ u*o iur«
portion of tbe productive popma lea .£ the iteJH
In tbe bounds ot the district from which
regiment has been raisen, be rays the yii id
bo snort 48,500 bushels, bv the wuhdixw-l of
men, who are nonoslavehoiding piunters,
over forty-five years old, to torm that '
Tne Selma Missi.-sippian of the 17ih, also i.uqdS
an alarm, as follows:
Shall wk bats a Wkia* Caor kkxt
A lew weeks must deeide this queat oa. Can
wheat be sown without aasn ? Are not seen of
oertain ages more useful on the farm than in tbe
barracks 9
The North Carolina papers also express grave
apprehension on tbe same subject.
This a most interesting topic, and demands the
attention ot statesmen The production ot food
is as vital to the cause as success in arms The
food resources of the country must net ne dimim*
ished; und yet it is clear from the clamor raised •
oy many of the newspape a about puttir g "every
body able to carry a gaa into toe army,’ and ■,
trom the talk of the new Congressman in their
uddresses, to the same purpose, that there will bs
great danger ot overdoing ibis business ot forcing
producers into the army, and so, from lack of
i’ood, the country shall be more effectually sub
jugated than Lincoln’s armies count do it. In«
-tire ua plenty of good food to sustain our armies
in the field and their famines at home, and there
is no fear of subjugation. But with inadequate'
supplies of food, our cause is certainly ruined,
although yon should double her armies. The
favorite talk is *' strengthen the armies, and oonv
quer a peace before spring.” Tms is a schooiu ly’o
areum—or it is the desperation ot tbe gamester
who haairCs his all on a single oast of the dice.
We certainly hope that the day ot peace may not
be very remote, bat it is the dictate ot the most
ordinary prudence to prepare and keep prepared
tor a protracted war.
The time is coming when the solid men of the
country must set their laces against a ruinous
drain upon our population for war purposes. Tne
proposition to consoribe men over forty-five is
suicidal. To get cue good aervic b e soldier of
chat age, it will probably kill four or five ot the
most valuable of oar productive population—
beads ol large families, small thrtitv planters and
farmers, whose place could not be supplied. Few
men of tbe eotded physical habits which com"
menly attach to the age ot forty-five and upwarde
can be taken from home and suddenly to the vi
cissitudes of camp life, without raining their cons
cti übOas or killing them. We hope tbe pre-s
will be careful in their counsels upon this aubjeet.
TtUgrofb.
CLOTHING AND BLANK. T»«
*P. W. A,” allnaing to the prospect of making
the soldiers com tor table this wittier, sjjs :
Inquiry at the Quartermaster's Department in
Richmond, and personal observation in the armies
of General Lae and General Bragg, leave no
d abt that the greatest want of the troops this
winter will be for blankets. It is not probable
that there will be an adequate supply of either
clothing, shoes or bats, or even oi provision*, un
less we recover East Tennessee; but the chief
want, as already stated, will be blankets- Ara
rangtments were made sometime since to procure
supplies ot clothing an« shoes, and it our adven
tures are attended by auspicious gales, the a my
wilt be able to get through the winter, with such
help as the pet pie at home can, and doubtless
will, render. Their response to the *1 made
upon them last winter was the sublimesTincident
ot the war, and will be recorded in history, as it
has already been in “the books” which are kept
beyond the sun, and in which a 1 ! cur accounts,
whether for good or evil, are entered wnii an
erring hand. • .. -
A, m the peat, ao at this time, I would adarese
my appeal chiefly to the women ot the Oonledv
eracy. 3he men have always done their duty in
thia respect, but the women hate done more than
their duty—they have helped their huxbanus, '
fathers, and brothers to de theirs. I'rne, ihry do
not enter the field, Wor brave the blast of baitle,
noruse cannon, min nie riflesand swords; and
yet the vast army of 'aeroie women who have
given their hands and hearts to the cause, nave
done their parts as well as their breve brothers
in the field. The weapons they employ are the
Needle, the Spinning Wheel and the Loom, words
of encouragement to the wearv and taint-neurted,
and kind and generous deeds in the hospital and
by the wayside.
With these arms they have done as much te
defeat our w eked enemies as an army ot resolute
men. If they have not met these* enemies in
baitle, they nave met them at the loom ana around
the couch ot the wounded and sic •.. If ibt-y bare
not gone to the field in person hey o ve ever
been there in spirit. In every blan el uey have
given to the soldier, in every pair oi socks they
have put upon his bleeding feet, in every gar*
ment they have woven for bis manly limbs, they
have been present in the hour ot battle, and hare
given blows tor the-freedom of their race. It is
to these heroines of the needie, the loom and the .
spinning wheel that brave veterans Who have lor
three years stood between them and danger, now
turn tor relief. Shall their appeal be made in
vain I r-ot st long as there is a blanket, a yard,
of carpeting or ot cloth, or a sheep skin that can
be apatrud.
FROYI BHA*.GM ARMY.
Alluding to the situation of R Jaeeraas, “Per*
sonne” sara:
The general impression throughout the army
is that Rosecrans will assume the offena.’’* he*
fore the lapse of many days. Being on abort rat
lions, with his rear harassed by our cavalry, his
trains eat off from time to time, end public opin
ion pressing him to make a movement, he must
act soon, fl is reinforcements are already on tho
way, and from tbe demonstrations along bis lino
by day, m the shape of reviews, and serenades by
night, all which are manifest to us by eye and
ear, it is a proper inference that some have al
ready arrived. We can distinely hear the Yan*'
kees cheering in their eamps, see their groups - .
and lines of regiments, and os every breris cottree \V.
borne to ns the music of their bands ahcf'qkuas ?
corps. There has not been a morning siifoe jqijr ’?* i'
arrival in camp, when I have not been awskensM' ,
by the long stirring roll of tbeir reveille. Yun
can therefore imagine how dose ie our proximity, i
At what point Rosecrans is likely to developo
his intentions, is of course a subject for speouiax
tion; but the presumption is tbat bis main attack
will be on onr left. Lookout Mountain, which wo
hold entire, is as important to the Federal come
mender, if he has Determined to hold Onattanooe
ga indefinitely, as any other position tbat can ba
named, since it commands the railroad to Bridge
port whence he might receive snpolies, containa
several important passes, and is a standing p o
teetton while it remains in Yankee hand*; as it la
it standing threat while m our own. Ocoe pos
sessed by the Federate, tbeir Wagon trains are re
sieved,and tbe principal difficulties in Che way of
luture undertaking, removed.
Since commencing this letter I learn that a
successtul demonstration has been made on tho
enemy’s wagon trains within e ght miles of Chata
tanooga. A party of our men, concealed in tho
rocks of a mountain which skirts tbe Tennessee
River, fired upon a long wagon train leaving tbe
town, killing mules, driving quarter as asters’
sergeants almost ersar, upsetting wagons, and!
running the teamsters out ot sight. Tho road *
courses along the nver a dMtsnea o' two miles or M
more, and is assailable frdm the opposite side tor 1
< bat distance. Our rifleman in the position oc
cupied cannot be disturbed, and until tfie Fed
erate build another road may obstruct, in the
manner described, any wagon train which ata.
tempts to pash. A few days’ago, one of onr
eharpshooters put a whole tram to flight, men and
mules making, the fastest kind, f turkey move- „
ments outof 'harme way. Tan observe, there
fore that we are not idle. Nothing new from o»
cavalry expeditions in the rear of tbe enemy.
The Petersburg Expies,-* says there arrived at
City Point, Monday, fr >m the North, perflgof
truce, thirteen large b Xis, each cmtaming lour*
teen hundred bible?, amounting in to« aggregate
n 25 GOO, sent by the religious societiee of onr
quaudatn friends tor the use and teao|mg ot the
.enigbted rebels.
Speculation prooaoj ueg »n iu ttie cities, but
extortio begin in the country. For the d»hni
tion of the word extortion dee We£aier'e Diction*
ary. flow many producers and depders of breads
stuffs in Florida, Ueorgia and Alabama oaa claim
exemption from the charge of extortion t