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:v:pfti" BY Ji ust; /!k. i 1 ' itrt Corpus. 1 , , ~ t ., lAr csae* j tl>- 1 hk<? this i ii in' ve.T 34:110 kMFjs, it wan ; kfe"tb>- decision made i * »-<•*> ferity the ! facU of this <" ‘ »»'• t ll ti -t r i ea V, ■_ -.<• . ui<” into cu» I <v without | lawful'warrant or fuihority i.e onswor of Mayo admit* ‘be ■.•*.,tptly. amt chum* tuat he ! It acting um an obi «r 01 the Slate ami tr:al u..- j tier and by virtue of proclamation* of h;s Lx cellency the Governor ordering a.i man liable | to do militia duty t o be sent forward to the front j 6t Atlanta, be held and claimed tb-right to send j forward the petitioner. To this the petitioner j replied that he was not subject.to enrolls nt ; for State service, because he bad been enrol l-m • for Confederate service, and submitted pi m: to show this fact. Before no: i.;Hg tjiese proofs; as they demand I remark that the case as thus presented raises the important question, wheth « r under the present state of tbs military 1 ge lation in this country the Governor of our ."ate may under any circumstance.: compel a < tix-a enrolled lor duly in the' Confederate army to do duty as a militiaman in the State service. 1 do not hesitate to bold that as a general pro position he may not. Yet it is equally clear to | jny mind that there are rases where he may. The law of conscription when enforced and put in practical operation in any given case, takes the citizen for the time bein'.:, out ol the , military control of the State. Whatever way have been heretofore the differing views as to the policy and constitutional _ propriety of this act, suffice it to say that it is now the law of the’land; and that even its staunchest foes do not believe that it deprives (he jState of every ■vestige of military control of its citizens in time of war. While it is quite certain that its . warmest friends and supporter ; claim that, it leaves untouched and unharmed the great doctrine of State sovereignty, lie this as it may there is one great cardinal principle which nil will at once admit and recognize a/ under lying our complex system of government, and -which when onco fully apprehended serves to dbpel the mists engendered by’iklse views ami. shows us how two independent sovereignties may coexist and cooperate in the great func tions ol gyv rumen t, That great principle is • that the Slates are clothe^ with original sorer oignty, and that as a necessary sequence the sovereignty of the Confederate government is a transferred sovereignity To hold any othei doctrine than that the'Srates were and nor are sovereign-would be to deny all sovereignty in the Confederate Government, since, if, -tho States wefe not sovereign they could not in the slightest degree confer tlii.-r attribute upon a mere otffilurc o‘. thqir own '•■in,. ..-1. ■ ,c stream cannot • ■ • But it matte. > not that tu. v r the Confederate government : 1 , . .. sovereignty—it is sovet eighty a’.... u. ■n , i cloth ii all tho plenary pow« 1 .-. an.' c . ogles attaching thereto. Then it follows tlif.t, ‘tire Cbnfsderute and State governments are noth sovereign in their respective r'pher . The .a ws of Congress wheii in accordance wkh the Constitution are lobe enforced-in ail tho St. tes as tho paramount laws. The laws o, the State wfc.u constitutional and notin conflict with Com derate if...' .re to ha enforced by tl. j Courts, ll follows that when atiy citizen (who is no. legally and net, wearily;exempt) is by a law of Congress, made subject, to du*y in the Confederate army—the individual States may not rightfully interfere with fbe legitimate con trol thus acquired. This is a clear proposition . > one which our Legislature at its. regular i,. on in lSli3 fully recognized. Sue pamphlet i.u« 1 Still and the Aid and -4 1 h .sees, of Act to reorganize the militia. »The first cf these ECC tom- declares who siiail be enrolled in tho miii'ui .nnl expressly scys all lielwi.u the age? til' lti and iii) “except those who shall act u.Uly i> .lit- ■ uiy or navy of the Poured - era. . .a Uij State service.” The 24 1 these words: “And be it iii' < 'hat no person th:tll- becn r v whole subject 16 con hi' ..OUcCiipt apt of the Coif* ft *, . officer has doubt wheth er . ■. - limits is subject to > ....• . • ■ o.r, ho Khali report tlie > . . , i'.Acßing officer of the C 0.., dll it ■: if said Confederate ollha . u. v -Di)> ... •• 'li person to lie enroll-- >'<i .. . : eu ; the Slate Knurl in;-; oilirer shall enroll him under this net; or if ho is found tq b exempt after ho i.i cuidled by* ilio Uonteikiv.e old: ,-r, lie shall then bo subject to enrollment \tnrii*i ,r this net.” Now these two sections not only establish the fact that the State may not, no cording to its own judgment, rightfully enroll in the militia a man who* is subject to cifrnll menas a conrcript; but it. establishes some other lac's w i by te be notice:' in m sing it shows hi s. Ill'll, here in iu pur no- whatever tho second p. .... t. a iii. ate. ; the Con federate govern iu-.iJ., Is it; it t-verv man who is not legally and ncc\ ■ -..■riiy exempt shall do bis duly in litin great emergency, if he do not serve in the Confederate auity then ho must in tho ranks of the State militia, it cannot and will not bo questioned (hat every citizen owes this duty to his government. Now in tho light* of these provisions of our own {State law and the truth that every citizen ones military service to his country unless in some way specially exempted, let us 'for a few mo. incuts consider tho facts of this case, and sec if the petitioner bo exempt front sewing either or both the sovereignties in question.' For if not exempt lie clearly owes military duty some where . Is it to tho Confederate States or to. Georgia ? Tito petitioner answers the Confed erate States, i local iso he says ho was enrolled lor duty in that service. But in going on to show this fact ho also show ed that he had afterwards in his judgement re lieved hiwseli from the effect of that enrollment by putting in a substitute under the iaw of Congress allowing that to be done, lie also showed that when the act of 6th January, 1804. known as the “anti-substitute law” was pass ed, he applied for the writ of Habeas Corpus, and at the trial thereon in February last, insis ted that lie did not owe military service to the Confederate States. He also showed that upon being overruled in that view bv this Court he tiled his HTU of Exceptions, which he insists now operate as a Supersedeas, la this claim he is ►correct, for while the Bill of Exceptions is pend iug, it is my duty to see to it that no Confed erate officer place him in the Confederate army. Thus by the operation of law he is exempt twin the Confederate service at least until pext No vember (in which time the crisis of this great Struggle will have passed) for it is true, that al though there were two other sessions of the ■ Supreme Court, one to occur in twenty or thirty days alter the trial, and the other in three or four months thereafter ; still, in the exercise of the option accorded by our law to Plaintiffs in Error, bo chose the session farthwt off and has thus been permitted to remain at home in pur suit of his usual avocations undisturbed by the roar of cannon or tho rattle of musketry. ilis assumption now, that he ewes military dffty to the Confederate Government, in orde: to avoid the call made by the Governor, look ; very much like a public avow. 0 ’ T*’ ■> i I cerity of this RIF. of F.y.eot. n 1 before the 8 ae C >rt. ; - true, as admitted by his coum i ate. ment that the very question n.-.•>•.*• <• jf Exceptions was decided at Macon . .u 1 .a another case, just as 1 decided hi». As io"g ..s he insisted that he was not Sul jeci to 'uu'oii meutasa conscript, there was at least the appear ance of plausibility in keeping his I»K • i Ex ce, ■ lions before the Supreme Court ntul awaiting . its judgement. But now the whine device is made bare and discloses a pu.pc eb n»:.aonvre or otherwise to avoid service of any kind. I might with propriety perhaps, in view of this j state of facts, declare tnct **u signature to Vue Bill of Exceptions shall ue long.:• lea protec eiou to him, end thus turn hitu over to die Confederate military authorities: V;’it as he insists upon the Supersedeas I take him at his word, and declare that he is by operation of our State law exempt from service in the Con federate army until the Supreme Court passes upon his Bili of Exceptions. In the meantime he is a citizen of Georgia, not in the actual service of the Confederacy of this Mate, and therefore *lsv the terms of the act ut our Legislature already quoted bound K s ne in the State militia, and must I thoeioii* b V the Executive mandate and go I to ib* ' .air,- i:is place in the ranks o'. | cu> i-- • who have already covered I -the: o.'.i -ciy. and aid them in driving ; back ; •• ■ * that threatens'to deso }at. ■ r ' * - , desecrate our altars. I IV. on ’ 1 an emergency that il-> j nta -.- civiy n.eu who can shall shoulder hie iuu. 't- an webe to that man who ohi rl f • : offense of his country in U.ia he u- '■ - greatest need. "It were Ivtn-r A that a mill etone were hanged about hfe neck and ire cast into the-sca.” But much alann is expressed, b there be conflict between the Mare anil Confede rate authorities. This alarm is needless. The President said in his memorable controversy with Governor Brown on tho conscript law that all that part of the militia not in the actual service of the Confederacy, were subject to cUlo control. Thus it wilt be seen that there i no posable cbance to: a conflict since the it. iderf: views and the action of our State so 1 ■1 r hnimoidze. There can never beany ,U„ „‘,r ot eonUfct while both Confederate and S t . lt ,. rnment* recognize the fact that each ... ic a with in its own sphere, and both con tin i« to drape their action in accordance with this-cardinal truth. This rnrtv, then, though enrolled for serr c i -jata army i-t liaftk- to serve in ~ c i, t |, .- t-ie simple reason that he ' by ti!- JKration of.k-w (for the time ■ ■; ft-»m the Confederate army and our law >1 mwe have Heed, euzs that being thus fc. • »!1 serve the State upon the sira do that he is a citizen and owes duty ~-•• lo ti),. Confederate or 10 the State gov erniccht. The applicant through his counsel ,-«!icd on the act of our Legislature, and there fore cannot question its ffindiutt fierce. In obe dience to that law, I order the writ dismissed and that the Petitioner be lemauded into the custody of Reuben Mayo and pay all costs. Jas. S. Hock. Judge S. C. M. Dist. At Chambers. Aug. 11th. 1864. LETTER FLOW TUB SECRETARY OF THE TKEAMUY. Treascrt Department, C. S. A., { . lliCHMoio. Aug. 5, 1864. j To Ii jE '-> 'kney Governor - Bonham: - De.au Sip. : Your very kind and encouraging letter ' f ■ • LO. ii ultimo was received yester dav. If it shall prove to be my happy fortune, through the Divine blessing, to contribute in degree to. the welfare ot my country, I hull be more than compensated for all the la bors end ii-ijtieties to which 1 have been ap pointed. Expressions of confidence and good will on Ino put of mj fellow-citizens, such as you have b.-« ugood enough to convey tome, are mo,;t grateful atjd encouraging. I regard tt.u Treasury of the Confederate States as most pt«nliarly the Treasury of the people, and there is nothing in the power of of man tl..*.t would so soot' restore it to a con uition of ease and prosperity as the universal and geneyous support of our people. There is nothing in its .present circnmstauoes to inspire alarm, bitt. on' the contrary every motive for confidence. An all pervading cause of embar rassment and distress, has been the character of pur legislation. Howover patriotically in tended. it is not to be denied that the mea- sures adopted by Congress lor the reforming 1 lie ctmr.n.-y, had the unhappy effect of in spiring the public mind with feelings of fear and distrust as to tho course that would ultimately be pursued in relation to that part of the public debt that is presented by the Treasury Notes. Apprehensions of ultimate repudiation crept like jai ail preceding poison int > the minds of the people, and greatly cir-. cun.-sr'f -1 and ilimmiriieu the purchasing , power -1 s Note:,. ’ r. • . P,:;, i r-lied and patriotic . Coe- who .earnestly believed that •' 1, it not the- .sole, evil of the currency ... slob-)-.. ■ ldahcy aiorfe And ~ rou. ...... ' in f rred I'hat a < t-iTco.-wuumg 1 eduction of this large volume of the purchasing medium, would produce an imnn diate reduc i, :i in tit' price, of all saleable commodities. Others enteiia;:,! ... different opinion, and, believing that the purchasing power and value of l:ie.-o notes had a critical ami sensitive dependence upon the confidence and :. od will of those who were called upon .0 exchange their suln-tance for them, mi-iso-d that .1 teduclion of tuo q i.-otity, by any meas ure that disturbed the cg, (lienee of the.people in the good lath of the Gove ament, would lead to universal distrust-laud still greater deprecia tion. ' l i e majority was, unhappily,' found to be of the first epic on, and it must -now berunivar sally admitted, T'think, that tlie policy that prevailed was erroneous, and the consequences precisely such as had been predicted by those who . ;loosed it. Toe immense reduction ef fected by the tax of 3lit per cent levied -upon the currency, and by tne process of corupul fiory- funding, produced very little effect upon the pricer, i-f commodities. Everybody regard ed with distrust a tm-v issue- es notes of the same character as the last, aud resting for their 'Support as a circulating medium upon the same pled gos y/liieh had ended in disappointment befo:e. That lb is is the true difficulty we” have to en e-Ttn ter, I think every candid person must now allow, and I cannot refrain from, indulging the hope that anew and sounder policy will gov <* n<',r liitiH'o legislation. The patriotism of Con;: not, to be called in question, nor arc wo at liberty'to douiff their willingness to re- V: : 11 :.< "a; v policy til r may be proven by ex 's ,iv 'o ip b.: ■ ■■> .•!■,■ and mischievous. Our people, at the same time, should not be silent ; Wul in this respec; the ; o'iotic citizen’s of tho great and suffering Commonwealth of Virginia •have set a noble'exampie. On my arrival in Richmond I found that tho CoMim-MOiiers' of prices had fixed the I s«!ie<]>ilo rates ' r wheat and corn at S:>o and '.I ; .■• 1 ~ ■! edite’:-, for tim months of • ptihioer L'hi f elii gos disap , ' iis 1 idartu with which J was inspir ircua you can easily ,imag i Liis iH'hiful feeling was, however, soon ui inpv; it cue of renewed confidence and ic.pc by the i umersol Virginia. Public meet ings were held in. the iigticiiUu. il counties and resolutions adopted Baldly avowing the impos sibility <*l maintaining the public faith if the Governmont were forced by the people to pay such prices for supplies and patriotically in-, sisting upon a reduction of the standard rates, and their establishment upon a basissufficient ly low to inspire coiifideafce in tho currency. The result was that Ih# comm’ssionerh reas- KOinbit and and redhead the schedule prices to S7J for wheat for the month of August and So for September. A wiser and more patriotic course was never pursued by any' people, and ,1 would respectfully appeal to you, as the Chief Magistrate of our gallant and patriotic State, to suggest.and-encourage similar meet ings and resolutions on the part of .our own people. I have an abiding confidence that a general and well established ■ belief in the in tention of Congress under no circumstances of temptation or trial; to shrink from the obser vance of the most rigid good faith in the money dealings of the Government will enable us to overcome all our financial difficulties. That such is their real intention I cannot doubt ; but this determination should be en ccuraged and supported by the public declaa tior.s of our people, expressive of their otv n re solute will to foster the credit of the Govern ment by the establishment of low prices by the patriotic support of its Treasury,- Watever differences of opinion may have ex isled in the past, or whatever errors maybe supposed to have been committed, may now be buried in a common grave. We are making a new start in our finances, and under circum stances by no means unfavorable or discourag ing The expenditures of the Government are of two classes—those incurred abroad and those incurred at home. In respect of the first, there has hitherto bvea but Utile embarrass m at nor is there any reason to expect greater difficulty in the future. Our for ign supplies will probably be procured without making any audition to the debt. The malice of our foes having raised the price of cotton to SOd per pound in European markets. While the depre ciation of our currency enables ns et the same • i-.ie to buy ii at home at less actually than 4d, in is pa. \y S '. .. that it can be no Offkult • ■-'• I-- .-- ii'oa c si.eu»-cs. and lrom the ~-.tors of tins atrocious war, ■ . ie; applying .dl our foreign wants. • ms V- •'•’»; ' ” only our domestic , . %. -i. m.u VW.CU it .s considered that all is as!ud of our people, and all that the Government is'called upon to pay for. is dm ply 'I-- ii’ e.u plus prou udions and their so: - ic-o m transportation and mcoiia!'!:. I and other labors, who can doubt lae ability of the people to bear this burthen ? If they gave all that is asly?d without cou pensation, they v • 1 i -.sk at last no more than Pneir surplus runijw ettid jbe no poo: ct lor the gift. How j then, our their condition he made worse by receiving tho money end me 1 -i. of the Gov ernrnen jn wince of receiving nothing? I hope! my dear sir. that you will agree with me in the opinions and sentiments I have ex pressed, and may join with me in the effort to give anew and generous impulse to the pub lic *stutiment upon this great topic of cur national affairs. 1 do not thick that planters and farmers should aionc be called upon to decline in favor of lower prices. Manufacturers, railroad com panies and every great interest of the country should contribute to this reform. Let us con tent ourselves with moderate prices and keep down Pie public deb; ; and not. by extorting the highest prices, swell the public burthen ar.-i disturb our owu confidence in the virtue and the resources of the Government. 1 remaiu, dear sir. Yours, with great respect, G. A. Trknholm. FROM THE COAST. A V mv of Yankee cavalry surprised and cap tv.!. ti , .hole of Gay t. Stuarts company of S. G. ) e'o.iri! Newport, Mclntosh county, on V'-Vb . day night, but four men escaped.— We learn that Cap!. Smart, the commander of the comp my, and one ot ins Lieutenants, were absent on account of sickness. Commodore Ferre- 1 hits I. .en appointed Pre sident of a very-liiijjortr.nt board oi naval otli cere connected wi-fi ihe Navy department, lUUKMJA ITEMS. The Vienna correspondent of the -tLyndon T im' S gives the alleged programme o( rtte pro posed term of peace between Denmark and Germany, w hich embrace the complete separ ation of Schleswig-Holstein and Lunenburg from Denmark, and their ultimate uniou under a Prince whose «'aims may be recognized by the Germanic Union It is said the French Government wylics to purchase tiie Great Eastern. At a weddiugt'in Paris last week, Mddle. Fe reire, the bride, wore a iace veil worth £I,OOO. It is asserted in the London Army and Navy Gazette th.it the sailing vessels in the British navy will never be sent to sea again, there being two hundred and forty steamers in c.mmissiou, manned by forty-five thousand AmoJb the recent aspirants for honors ia chemistry has been a weil known Paris butch er, who last week won the prize, and was to b* crowned with a laurel wreath in presence of the admiring multitude. Wbeu his tmn came liieLe was a noise beard in the room, and it was declared tjnt an unsuccessful candidate had blown ha-trains out. Enquiry was going to be made, when the butcher rose and said : “Calm yourselves, ladies and gentlemen it was I;-I sighed with delight. 1 am strong; I am a butcher.” Ihe consumption of ardent spirits i t Franca is cn the increase—a sign that the manufactur ing classes are suff ring. A pair of shears, weighting twen'v four tons, has been buiit at Birmingham, England, for the Russian. Government, to be used in a large iron works in the neighborhood of St. Petersburg. It has a power 01 pressure equal to 1,000 tons, and caa cut to pieces a bar of cold iron half a foot square. The bia les are of cast steel, and they are operated on by hy drostatic pressure. These shears are said to possess double the power of any set heretofore constructed. The Cork Herald says; “Wc understand that the gallant commander of the,Alabama arrived at Queenstown, in the bloceade runner Hope, bound to Nassau, whence it is probable he will take ship to the Southern Confederacy.” The V.gie de Cherburg says ; Three vessels belonging to the Federal Suites of America— '.ho Niagara, the Sacramento and the Kearsage— and four belonging to the Confederate—the Georgia, the Florida, the Notice! Alabama, and the General Lee—have recently been mot in Channel py several merchantmen. ' French -journals continue to assert that a fight will soon take place in Lie wafers of the British Channel between Feder * and Confed erate cruisers. On the afternoon of the 29lit of July, Far- Iv.uurfit was formally prorogued. The Queen's speech was .delivered by tho Lord Chance!-- lor. ‘ In regard to America the speech. : Her Majesty deeply laments that the civil war in North America has not been brought to a cl ;-e. Her Majesty will continue to'observe a s'rict neutrality between the-belligerents,and would rejoice at a Deadly reconciliation be tween the contending parties. Her Msj .-sty ha-- observed with satisfaction that tho disutss winch the' civil war in North America has cre ated in i.oftne of the manufacturing districts has to a great extent abated, and her Majesty trusts that increased supplies of the raw miy teviais of industry may |»a extracted from e" Irks by which it has hitherto been furnished. The <>tbcr features o f are an expression of regret at tb Di.no Gcrman Contorence, and new, negotiations may "lead to enc-3 to the cession of the lot the satfefK-j'ory progress of cc India and in-China; and to ti E'aiai’.d, &c., winding np with tion of tire most important acts 1 and an expression of satisfaction mcrcinl position of lire country. On tlm ilWh Os July in the House moiis, L-p’d Palmerston made some exp tions as to tiro llasisli question, and st that the .negotiations at Vienna would be ried on solely between tho belligerents. Etigli.-h geverrmteat had 110 intention ot in firing further. . .. It is considered probable the truth will U| prolonged-lot a short time. No understand iug relative to a basts of peace has yot beer aVnvtil at. . The friends of Foderaldom in France think matters ate looking very unfivorablc for the North., . ' -rH it i reported that a severe fight has takfen place off the Lie of Wright, between a Con federate and Fefleial cruiser. The “Kpoea,” of Madrid, announces that the tenor of the despatches last received from the Spanish Admiral iu the Faotlie gives ground to hope for a satisfactory settlement of the differ ence with Peru. According to accounts from France, the Em peror Mrxaiuiliau, on his arrival ct the city of Mexico, was assured by the United States Gov ernment of its readiness to recive a "minister from the new Empire of Mexico and to accred it one to the Emperor Maxaniiiian. The Vienna journals mention that the Consu lar agents of Mexico in Vienna were enrolling famines 10 beetle in' that country. One person alone had engaged two thousand families he lci.ging mosily to the working classes. A gnd in Paris lately happened to have her .aUeution called to Some object behind her back, and naturally turned her head round to observe i!. The vivacity of the action was so great that slio dislocated tire two first vertebue of her spine ; in plain English, she broke her nock by looking round too hard. A doctor was instant ly summoned ; he examined the body, and struck with a sudden inspiration,determined to experiment on it. With tho aid of an assistant, he gently twisted back the heart te its original position ; the vcrteluae returned to their office, the girl was alive again. Eight days after wards she was able to resume her occupations. The name of the Surgeon who performed this wonderful operation was M. Muisonncuve, of the Hotel Dion. A few more of such experi ences will oblige us to look out for anew sys tem of capital punishment. A correspondent writing from Rome to the Ag enee He. vac says: “Mgr.'Lyltch, Bishop of Char leston, who has been sent out by the Confederate ta a special diplomatic capacity<o the Com tof the liol v dee, hasha'd au audience of the Pope. He had already, on the 29th ult., had an in terview with Cardinal Autouelii, and it is said that Bishop Lynch, coming only in the charac ter of a dignitary of the church, avoided all allusion to politics iu this conversation, it is, however, tveil known that the Holy See enter tains a p.ofound sympathy for the Confederate States. On a late occasion, the Holy Father, when urged to consent to his photograph being taken ou some cards which it was intended to distribute at a charitable meeting at New. York, 'is said to have written ou the caids the follow ing sentence with Ids own hand . “Jlilteyladi um taum in vajiuam ct Veus pacis era tecum” “Put up thy sword into its sheath and the God of peace shall be with thee.” The Paris Press says : “Our readers have not forgotten that an artillery commissiou was ap pointed after the engagement between the Neat surge and the Alabama, to examine the results of the engagement in connection with, the armament of our vessels, “his commis siou. tho presidency of Vice-Aurmral Uidelot has just finished its report, which is said to be a very rerdatkable one. It is asserted that cer tain parts of this document will not be pub litdied on account of their confidential charac ter. It appears that the conclusions of the commission will modify somewhat the system before followed, by leading especially to airesli armament of our armor plated frigates,' which are to receive'it is said, guns of a much larger calibre tbau those they are at present provided with.” DEBATE IX THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. In the house of Commons, on the 25th of July, Mr. Lindsay, before pntting the question to which he had given notice, said he desired to have made a statement, containing impor tant facts bearing upon the American war, and tending to show how futile was the attempt to restore the Uniou and coerce the South ; but as he hatj no opportunity now of doiug so. he begged simply to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if. considering the great life and property occasioned by the war still raging between the United States and the Con fed erate States are conidering the loss ofpeople of this country have suffered by the war, it was the teution of Her Majesty’s Government, in concert with the other Powers of Europe, to use their endeavors to bring about a suspension of hos tilities. Lord Palmerston—l can assure my honorable friend that Her Majesty’s Government deeply laments the great sacrifice of life and property in America, and the distress which that war has produced in this country. But we have nst thought that iu the present state of things there was any advantage to be gained by em tering into concert with any other Powers for the purpose of proposing or officering media tion, or of negotiating with the Government of the United States or of the Confederate States to bring about a termination of this unhappy war. LONDON MONET MARKET. 'London. July 3u—Evening.—Consols this af ternoon closed at 90 901. Illinois Central shares 4CJ a 451. dis. Erie shares, 41 &4;i. Confcdeiate loan advanced to 78J a 791. irVEEPOOL MARKETS. Liverpool, July 30—Evening.—Cotton.—The sales to-day have been about 6,000 bales, in cluding 2.0 n to speculators and exporters.— Prices unchanged. . geneiaUy are quiet but steady.— The weather continues hot to-day. COUUittPJACEXttE liKTMEtO MIJOU WK.\- UUL t-Atl. Jd'.Eh AM) JVBAUUAL, PAHI.. UHEiV. [copy] C. S. Ft.AU Steamer “Piuladsli-iiia,” ) Pout Hotai. Haubok, S. C., - August 12th. ISG4. J General S,tmttel Jooes, Contmauding ChaHes ton, S. 0.: Sir:—l am informal that there are i.ixtt-on (16) naval officers confiued in prison in the cUy of Charleston, who are dp.duutc o' rlo'.Uin and many of the necersa-ic! of life, ttUcb ns fionr, butter, coffee, sugar, soap, La . -v- I have to request tb*t you willcith 1 luiuiah them with these arltcb r or that you t Ii (*t|»i v me to do so. . I have to inform you that I it-it* ie-M |-'i« oners, twenty five (2.‘»)<ln ns of it.-. 1,01 * 1 tured August 31, tit M- I ■' ■ 1 House, Georg!* Their ucmi-s «*- «» !••*» t« <1 I them, will 1m- lotted in ft. ■ i 1M If.you feel disj.i.c -it t»> any id these persons for ttijy "I ibo naval nUliete, capturetl in FeptenJ l ' ol . 1 •t, at (-'»•» |. taitulni or eltwwhrm, at t»»y Hm-' ilitiu (tjc liiutta ut Hilg cotntinU.nl, tit-il will i-tlt.-tui ttm ttinti-ul, 1 will submit tb l ;- q t -ttloti t l * 11* - ei-iiia.l-Oittlott of Jim Navy Drp ittn - ut Very iicpeetiully, ytiui "1“ to nt aervuiiC (tffgUeiJ t 1 A. I) 1 ill ti 1 1 |r. X, Rear Admit a!. CnttipiAtiflbi; I . fiouth Atliititin bltit-kading . ■■|oitdruit. Offloift! : !'. u. War k. A A. V. tb 11T. KAMKB OK PRRRONS CAfTUSFTI A t M't,vn>.m COUN tv t'oritr houss. m .»p*'i 3t>, IHti-l, Win Donnelly, Wni D Roe, Qlinries r-’nnett, Wm S-iltete, jam' s Flat t, f|p .r.qti Yonng, John Cbiipmnn, John iiemlrii Is, O Vs Johnson, Daniel Lane, Win Hntn’ii'M I o W.Towti -ond.|Wm Thorpe, (Saiuttel it ,1 Thorp It L-aom r, ,J -seph S Durant, James D McD mild, Conv -tve !’ar.'.- hurt, Wm .1 Cannon, Mcllrcgor Bioiiut, Nelson. John Blount, Cloi Jopher 1 tezvat, T R Webber, Ish-im L John ..one. Official: P. C. Warwick, A. A. A. General. Headu’rtks Dep’t. S. C., Ga. aud Fla., 1 Charleston, August 10, 1804. \ Sir—l received last night your letter of -4! 10, 12th instant. The offi M. S Navy, prisoners of Avar, no’ N whom you refer, will be pern 'hy clothing you may send the. eseut wants. Iu vierv ith wdiich the troops of your Go, a sought for and sto len or wanta ATfl manner of cloth ing, even tht (women and children, that they com it# country, and this in many cases .. S the com manding, it. ma> that I should permit this itidulg %-des.re it. therefore, to be distinctly uc /,d jhat I do it only because 1 believv is allowed our otlteun 1 cannot pt j - 1 from you the other ar> ey receive nov the f quantity that our tes you mentio.® v, it is only Se ’miin taiu^ -*7 iva «/)iiCCLB ..rins iu titjjiv hands, j, Avilhout goTtig as far as „ia, have captutodmen whim - propriety -fia.vfe plfered in v£- -yuurjtSffcors; but you Avould have x. «imed, and would ltav4 been ob• anti overcome before capturing thc-tu.’ You need not trouble the Navy Dapart tnent Avith the question, as 1 do not "feel dis posed” to niff you to profit by your own wrong, by exchanging otiicem captured iu battle Ai private “citizens” captured so wantonly and at so little risk to the captors. But, J Avill ex change the officers' you ryfferjo for an equal number of Confederate State officers, pritjonjrs ol Avar, of like grades, rank tor rank, or their equivalents, my Government .designating its officers to be exchanged, If you think proper to accede to this proposition, you have only to notify me when you are prepared to make the exchange. * The clothing you may send in boxes easily handled, in a small boat, to the ifsual point oi meeting, off Battery Marshall. But as Major General Foster has requested that communica tion between us be only by tlm way of Fort Royal Ferry, I have to request that in future any communication you may desire to send to me, which does not require immediate action, ho seut.to Ibis point- Very respectctfully your obedient servant, (.Signed) Sam. Jones, Major General. Official: P. C. Warwick, A. A. A. G. Tub DanisiT Question —Tiik Peace CoNpjsa ence of VrcxxA.—The London Conference #;r settling the Danish question hiis been followed by tlic Peace Conference Os Vienna, which Inqd its first sitting on the 26th July. A New Voiv. paper, the Tribune, after digesting the report of its proceedings, thus speculates on iis pro bable results.: i The Peace Conference oi Vienna will show an even greater hostility to liberal principles, it will be a blot between three European mon archies to curb the spirit of the Democracy of Germany and Denmark. BUmark, the Pre mier of Prussia and the leading spirit in this whole war, has never cpuceakd his intention to break the streugilr ottha Democratic party of both Denmark and Prussia, and he has so far shows by his conduct that lie has never for a moment lost sightof his plan. As success, exceeding probably his own expectations, has thus far attended hi.-:, daring schemes, it is reasonable to expect that ut a final treaty he will not abandon them It is not likely that tlie peace negotiations will consume much time. The King of Den mark lias alreacy fulfilled that condition to which Prussia and Austria attach the great est importance. Delias removed 'the Liberal Ministry and replaced R by one consisting of rc actionists. This* has reconcilttd to film* Prussia and Austria, and lie will find them ready to yield on many other points.. Jt is, however, safe to predict that the entry of all Denmark into tiie German Confederation will not bo decided upon, and it is almost certain, that Denmark will agree to the independence ] ot the German duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. It is a weli kown fact'th’at Bismark has made the • ‘mo efforts to obtain, as one of the re sultaof this war, the t-aritorial aggrandisement of Prussia. These efforts have hither.o been thwarted by the counter moves of other Euro pean Powers, and it is very doubtful v. bother in this particular point, he will he successful. Perhaps, to revenge himself for this defeat, he treats the authority of the Geiman Diet with studied contempt. The Duchy oi Holstein is mostly occupied by Federal troops, and under the administra-' tionof Federal Commissioners, Bismark has just ordered the entry of Prussian troops into the city of Randaburg, which was held by six thousand Federal troops. The Federal Diet has again contented itself with a cowardly pro test against this new act of despotic violence, but the Legislatures of some of the minor States will undoubtedly take up the gauntlet, which is so defiantly thrown down by Bismark. Already the two Chambers of the Kingdom of Wurtembcrg have unanimously requested their Government, in conjunction with other Ger man states, to oppose this violence with the necessary means. The feeling In all the minor States of Ger manv against Prussia is intense. The moment the Schleswig-Holstein question is definitely settled, and no danger of a foreign 'war shall longer repress the reformatory movements among the German people, the agitation for the establishment of a National Unity of Ger many will recommence with greater vigor than ever. FROM TEXAS A Confederate vessel which has just arrived at Corpus Christi reports the Texas coaet as clear from Mategorda to this place. Mustang Island has been evacuated. Some of our boys visited their camp and found many "stuffed | men.” > It is reported that our forces have whipped the \ ankets at Morganza. Texas, and had taken two thousand negro prisoners. Gen. Limey, commandant of ther iornffi di?- irict, has been 'relieved of that command and directed to report at Wa-kiugtoil, He wiil be ' succeeded by General Hatch) j F.tOAI AIUUI.M A v T!I3 .-iI'UAXJ,qS OF ArKAtas. The Kic htec n Enquirer dir courses thus cut the position of ah ain Virginia: A tu-suliar iiis- re-, t if b. b.g bieutilied with the atiumi . a ot affair.- on the James and Appomat lux, an inUT'-it rib as may nutdially imattate fr-ttn any ar-ut p. obtetm, j bough apparot.tly tips ititu,:; is ... 'I iktii ■d, all iiiti renct's iu 0 d t'i it Ui't hypofiu tuiii HLit iudistiuct Wn know tb ,t Giaut hi) ruovpika.v.«y I-.rge tolutans it troops frotu Lis front bef-jro Peters- Mud ills, Ids mfiittri eoufiuiPidiug the i'y t,« t .it lot i«u ilays; that a de- IHUi,-tlatioli ill foicj lias bsea hi progress for lltHqltesl-iun has 1 ■ tm-ed i frequently, ‘-Is the 1. ... til m 1 t • . ~1,1 jto tie frltaitlori .-I hy 11,-. i a.- i.... la-on- lor ponded to |. t it,.; tcj -J.iii-m t i in. i> poitiol continued •jt*|* I -1 .-t t:- ■ it. ' Lft.-y ol tqi.'i«, (O ItiUcli, l|,ut 111- .11 Mi: til iilj -- 1. * beti-sVe. it.a:' t-.ut posi litiii ia -oii.ituly 1., fit , 1 1 ba<k to it:. Great Impe.'. a tv. ,'oitlti.d upon I.:tly and Ids ntove tu> tils tn ,'ilst 1 land, ti.'alit ins rent ttsi tforce li.o.itin |-, U ~-i,ii,,. 1..1. beyond doubt. Bui ill,, a lie, in it lie. .ny to iilituulHu lVt-'TS •l.iirg 1 1 pn V, • d-iiiylnti" To abandon Pel, i.shurg , :•> .1 .inn ideltmulid, for, if the in 1 1 1 v ef.,,1, m alt tin removal mustlelieve ho 111 eit'iert. 't he , ~,«•!-. of vv< 11 i ~’lined cities is too clear ly cr 1 aldis-hen ii.’- u..,- (It the-.- IWO joints, to lead to the h. lie.l that the stuety of Wash ington city*!-: (l-. s'ei.i!*ut. upon the whole or I'VPn hall of Gut tit's iinmeiise army. Aud sure ly Grant ha. tn •. or yet expressed a fear or in tt,itemed a doubt a u> his ability to keep Wasliitigton e. Je and hold hi prescut position ut (hr- same time. It would seem also that the Washington authorities are not at all frighten ed ; on the the contrary, they arc abused for not la jug scared. A correspondent of ti North cm journal, writing from Washington on the. ■4th,says: "The President and Secretary of Wat continue to mauife-t their usual apathy in regard to tue nlato of. affairs ia Pennsylvania and Maryland "To judge by the way they talk and act,, one would suppose Hint they had not heard of the high handed manner in which General Early is carrying on, cud the -Mails of which you have no doubt received by telegraph. The most urgent representations have been sent here by Governor CirUa in regard to the alarming condition of things ia the southern part ot Pennsylvania, and urging instant action on the part ot the National Government in order to save that State from the horrors with which it is threatened. But so far these representa tions have been without avail.” One would suppose that this magnificent indifference, or apathy as it is called, hardly grew out of any very spurring apprehensions about the 'inva sions. It is move than likeL that l-o'h Oraiit an-! Lincoln think that so rich a t : la« . ..;; . . r;, w a nig mid so wicked and semi-iebqllioUs.a KtatSi as Maryland wit i-ilorii to suiiev sa.: e of the korrois of war, csj-acially v.hunUie incalcula ble sufferings of the South .may be joyously held up hi comj.'ai son. Besides there is the prestige of being a sufferer and the benefit, of ' plea of justi'icanon, however slight, ill what 1 :>w, anU by the twist of the ingcuious '*)'■ pen, .'-1 all that has game before.— Untie;- iff so'considerations, to with ''r a!'j>at the situation, based np incuts of the en.caay. ' that they d«) not care id to Pennsylvania so s also lair to suppose, the position at Peters ortance, sull -red nay, .nr;! it, and still hold it mg to abandon it' nutil nl cut of it. ,rg® or little, it appears t' case it3-rlf for all that lias ae to show tho contrary. , will develop ) their stability ooa v» Ml give us the solution of TUB YANKEE 1-OiviIK)ATIONS. The Petersburg Register says that the Yan kees have exercised their best engineering skill in the construction of their defensive works in Prince George county. They have erected line after line, of the most formidable .breastworks lor protection Against the ‘-charg ing” rebels, and built torts iff immense I). spanned with ditches wide and deep, and protected by almost impenetrable abatlls. Jio thorough, indeed, have they made this work, that from their front line of breastworks below Petersburg their rtclffitci s extend TUmori back to City Point. Every eligible point liaa been turnul into a hri-: tiir;g ii.it,‘and every conceivable avenue of approach is commanded by earthworks. Independent of the O.tyM’oii.t railroad which the Yankees.soon put in running ofdor, and the old county roads leading from Petersburg to the river, numerous other 'roads have been cut and are used for the transportation of supplies for the army. .These ate abundantly protected by elaborate defences. 'The Anny of the botomac has so 'often been lifted from its fortifications in times past, that the precautions here shown, against the repeti tion of such a caliDitropbe, indicate a wise fore thought in Mto Yankee commander outrage: rx I'ittxcr.a e'os.gk.’ * The unfortunate cHk. ms of Prince George county, Va, now within the Yankee lines, have been visited ■ with, a treatment woise ii possible than tint!, which has befallen others who have been thrown under similar circum stances They have not only been subjected to personal in snB:: and abui.qs, lut have had •their property and provisions tJolcii, and have consequently been left in almost starving con dition. The Yankees first strip a farm of all its poultry, hogs, cattle and every thing edible; then steal the-provender, horses and negroes, and finally strip the rc- iiience. of its furniture appropriating certain articles to tent uses and shipping the most costly to the North. They make cooks aucUwasher women of the negro women, and place, the men to the ranks to light for their freedom. Vvo learn that numbers have thus been to reed into tho Yan kee army and now confront our troops w.tli muskets in their hands. ItSI'OKTED UARtUAQB OF EX-FF. ESI HUNT TTt.Elt’s »AUUUTF,R lENIED, 1 Dating from Castle ton Hill, Staten Island, August 10, Itt'i i, Mrs.. Fix-President Tyler presents her compliments to the Editor of-the New Y ark Herald,.and requests that he will contradict the statement, made in his paper of the 10th, that a daughter of Ex President Tyler had been recently married to a Federal soldier. He "I'as no unmarried marriageable daughter, and the story recovdert-by the cor respondent from James River is pure inven iou. . THE CORN ritOgFFOr. &‘J. Wc learn from a very hjgliiy intelligent Roan oke planter, says'the Petersburg Register, that theje never was a better prospect for an abun dant crop of coin than now exists in all tho Roanoke region. The country has been blessed with most propitious weather,and nothing'but high water, produced by the rain's cf the latter part of August aid the beginning of. Septem ber, can prevent tho securing of a most abun dant harvest of this invaluable grain. From other quarters wo hear accounts equally favor able. COURTESIES TG >TIU ENEMY. . Our pickets having become lather t.V.muive with those of the enemy, Boiutreguid’s Adju tant General republishes the annexed order ; It having been reported to these headqu.-r ters that our pickets and skirmishers have al lowed those of the enem to advance within a short distance cf our lines, and that the pick ets of the two lines are becoming too fami.iar; it is hereby ordered that no communication whatever should be held between our pickets and those of tho enemy. The latter must be fired upon whenever seen within range of our guns, due precaution, however, being ta ken to prevent a waste of ammunition. 3*o 03. This older is dictated by a stern military necessity, as the forbidden practice affords advsn tages to the enemy in procuring information and directieg his force. But, even if this ne cessity did not exist, the Commanding General would still deeply deplore the moral disgrace incurred by his troop.- m anything like volun aor unnecessary association with the savage who are not only waning against-iis, but persecuting our women and children and des troying private prop :r<y. ihe hands of such a foe’ are unworthy the friendly ,or courteous touch of a Confederate soldier. BATTLE OF THE WHITE TAVEKX. On the Charles City road,. :-ix mi’es from Richmond and just beyond on- other works, is a point known as the White Tavern. This point, on Sunday and Monday, was the ex treme left of our line The enemy V dismount ed cavalry on Monday moved up this road in heavy force. O.ir cavalry met the n below the Wfait'e Tavern, arid, about ten o’clock, A. M., a fight begun, which lasted until lata in the evening, lathe cou.se of the day we drove tot-enemy back a m. two miles in the direc tion of-D -p. L-.■.ffj;n i.ii'l C: rlcs" Neck. Late in the. evening, p>- we ' • i .'“-dug the enemy's eavairy, we came nppn his if.ffintry, who in. turn forced us back about half a mile, when night put an ra.d to iue fight. Early iV.et-ffiy morning the enemy again advanced up the N:w Market road, tins time with eavairy, artillery and, infantry? His cavalry foice w•: heavier than on-the pre vious dav, and his infantry, so far as ascer tained, consisted of tb • Second, Ninth and • er.th tor | s, numbering logeiuer not le s than tor y thousand men. About seven o’clock, A. M., this immense force Struck our cavalry and drove them buck into our earth.woiks Hero our c .valry and a small force of our in a-itiy held them iu chock for a considerable i-.-ngth cf time, during which the enemy made - OA' I>l tieree assaults in heavy' columns, the devoted negro troops of Buroshte leading in every charge. The (slaughter of tho negroes in these assaults exceeded anything tliat oc curved at Petersburg on the memorable 30th ot July. This waffan unequal contest. The enemy's line uve'lapped us on.the left while they still en ::-»gcd all of our attention by hurling heavy •masses on our front. We were at length flanked on out left, and the enemy drove us from our position, taking, it is said, about a mile of oui wotks. The light was, however, kept up by our retiring Jor-c.s until tho arrival ol leia ii rccments, when after a desperate and bloody light wj drove tho enemy (rota our entire line. The enemy's less in this b.ut'.o ivas veiy great, as we learn from a number of sotnees. We have heard no estimate of our loss. Briga dier-General Chambliss is- reported to have bc-eu wounded and taken prisoner in the first, onslaught of the enemy. There avuis also are port that General Wade Hampton had been killed, but this tt more than doubtful. This was a serious and determined effort of Grant to turn our left and force at once the abandonment of New Market Hill, and perhaps Onutfiu’s Bluff, its result ia highly salisfaeto ry to us. Goa. Early’s operations in the Valley are getting to be very encouraging to the mechan ical inten-'ts of the North. We learn from a private letter, dated August 1, that Gen. Ear ly's command made a sudden descent upon tho magnificent railroad bridge at Martiusburg, and, for the second time this season, complete ly destroyed it. The enemy employed nearly three thousand workmen to rebuild it, since General Early’s first visit into Maryland, and bad just completed ii three days, when Juba! came along inquiring, “ Who’s ben here is ace I ben gone.and .went to work to encourage trade in that locality. The army are enjoying themselves hugely on the abundant rations fur nished from tho fat fields of Pennsylvania. it is reported, 011 good authority, that exten sive deposits of lead have been dflfeovered near Willis’ Mountain and GurJsvilie, in Bucking ham county, Virginia, and a detachment of Lt. Cassell’s party ot engineers have been sent to further the discovery. It ivill be worked by Government if found in quantity sufficient to warrant the undertaking. John M. Daniel, Esq'., editor of the Richmond Examiner, tv id J. Marshal Hanna, Esq., report er for the same paper, were last Friday indict ed hy the Grand Jury for libel. SHE DISASTER ATMOOREFfI'I.T). IVomUaj-ttmi F.mac’-:, of the First Maryland cavalry, avo learn the particulars of the un lcirtuaate affair lit Moorctield'on the 7th in stant. General Bradley T. Johnson, with ins bi •• was vu tho west bank of the south brafeh _l ib.e I’otoumc, opposite Mooi eficd. C diet SI McC-ausland, with his forces, was on tho east or MooreficM sulo of the river. General John ston had several regiments of cavalry and pieces of artillery ; General McCiiusiand also had I aa-o pieces of cannon. At three o’clock, A. M., Sunday, the 7fh, General Johnston receiving icfoiination that Averill was advancing upon him from the direction of Romney, immediately sent out a strong scouting party in that .direction. The scouts passed beyond our pickets, aud having gone some distance without meeting or hear ing of tite*enemy, tied (their horses, laid down in the woods and Avont to sleep. This was tho cause of tho whole (ts our subsequent misfor tunes. Averill came upon qnd captured these scouts, and having dressed some of his men in the uniforms of the scouts sent them, forward towards our pickets. The pickets being de ceived by the uniforms were surprised and cap : ured withftul resistance. The main column of the enemy keeping in their ffipnfc, those mdtt dressed ill Confederate uniform then advanced, without opposition, upon Genetal JohustoiFs camp. Our men were still iu bivouac, and were completely surprised and scattered. McCaus laud'a iorce, who wore on the other side of the five), seems to have fared but little better.—- Both forces retreated towards the valley, which they reached without further misadventure. .Our loss was four pieces of cannon. (Johnson two and McCausland two,) three hundred pris-' oiu-rs, four hundred horses and about the same number <*l cattle. Thirty-eight'*of the enemy, including three majors, were known to have been killed. The whole blame of this disaster must rest upon the head oi the officer who. was in command e! tlie scouts. VARIOUS ITEMS. A Yankee deserter who has come into our lines states that the loud exp lbs. on heard in Grant’s rear a few days since, \vas the blowing up of a Yankee ammunition boat tit City Point. Fifty men and seventy five horses were killed. Lee county in Western Virginia, is said to be fearfully infested with bushwhackers: nut Yan kc-es, but deserters from our army and skulkers who have been biding out The Court of Inquiry to investigate the causes of the disaster to the Yankee arms in front cf Petersburg, has been convened and is in tJession at’Oity Point, Major Gen. Hancock— the man whom Malione has so unmeioifully drubbed on several occasions—presides. An official despatch from General Early, dated August Sib, has been received, which stabs that our .cavalry, who bad been raiding in Pennsylvania, had reached Hardy county ; that the report of their defeat, as stated in the Northern papers, was false. The Yankees have burned Prince George Court House. The Petersburg papers say that it is evident from movements that what is left of the Yan koo army in is preparing to throw itself on tlie defensive. On Sunday Aug. 7, one of the cavalry brig ades of Gen. Bradley Johnson’s command was surrounded by the Yankees in Mooriieid, Vs. We lost about three hundred prisoners and four pieces of cannon. The firing below Richmond on the Chester field side, on Saturday morning, proceeded from an engagement between our batteries at Howlett’s ami the enemy’s gunboats, the re sults were unimportant so far as transpired. Tlie shelling ot Petersburg was almost en tiroly suspenned last, week, and tee people enjoyed an interval oi quiet to which they had for a long time been strangc-rs. Yankee papers state that Sheridan was moving up the Shenandoah Valley, with quite a force. The Richmond papers think an en gagement has taken place between Ids forces ami those of G:;n. Early. The latest report we have front the Valley is that the enemy is again withdrawing towards the Potomac. Ou Tuesday (lie Yankees made a fierce as sault on our line between Darby town acd the Charles city toad. They broke through, but were repulsed. Mira -sne FROM KK VTt t liY. Tho Macon Intelligencer has received a letter from a gentlematj in Richmond Ky. dated July 26th. In speaking of the feeling existing there he says: Having an opportunity of writing you a line, * f ’; -si. -rt ytjount in this portion of tlie State, i have.c-nchi.iad t«Mio so, even at tho risk of subjecting myself ot the surveilance of the,Federal rnyrmkloas that lord it over this oppressed and down-trodden people bf r peo ple al’e thoroughly revolutionized in sentjm. , p.nd would now with almost unanimity !u i! 'with joy the advent of a Confederate Army. They are completely dissatisfied and disgusted with the Abolition Government, and would now generally rally under our banner had they an opportunity to do so. But the yoke is upon them, and they need the assistance of our ar mies to aid them in their deliverance from its bondages. FROM MOBILE A.M) \ ICI.VITY. * The Mobile Tribune of the lGthhas reliable information that a Yankee force has landed at Navy Cove, about three miles and a half from Fort Morgan. Their number is not known, but it is supposed also that they were getting mortars in position. Saturday afternoon two vessels were seen nearing the Eastern shore, iD the neighborhood of the place where they landed the day before. Tlie mail agent lrom Baldwin county re purls that it was believed that a raid was preparing at Pensacola to start fur Tensas. Their pur pose, it is thought, is to destroy the machine shop at thairplace. It is stated that not an officer of Fort Gaines nor a man was injured in the capture of that place. Only a few casaalties in the trivial picket shelling on Wednesday night betore the capitulation. Five or six were killed and wounded. Among them no officers. The men and officers were surrendered as prisoners of war, and they are now all in New Orleans. FROM NORTH CAROLINA. It is stated that a raiding party has entered Wilkes countv. N. C., and that a cavalry force sent forward to check them had been met and defeated by the enemy. Col. C. L. EdwarJs, of Granville, has been appointed a member of the Literary Board of North Carolina, in plage of. Rev. William E, Pell, resigned, FaO.AI THE FKO.YX. A correspondent of the Rebel thinks that the Yankee force at Atlanta has either been overestimated or reduced by sickness and des ertion. lie says our army is strong and hopeful —our officers vigilant and (jetermineJ. About midnight on the night o! August 13, afire broke out, in the frame building on Marietta street Atlanta, adjoining the brick bud lormerly occupied by Gen. Wright as headquarters. The brick building and three frames adjoining wele burned before tho flames were stayed. One or two ot the city engines were cn the ground, and brought into play. During the progress of the fire the enemy di rected the fi- c -from ail his batteries iu the direction of tho light, but none of the assem bled crowd were injured. The threo frame buildings belonged tqj. U. RiffgE-q., #nd the one,: mnlding to Major Gunby. The tiro * t liquated from a slu-ti failing among some coU.m stored iu the rear of the house occupied by Df- Biagets. 1 tic caiij to! the cnemv for some days jiast has oviduiHy been directed to the extension ■ct ms lines to his right, iu the direction of the Macon and West Point roads. Late Friday even tig a considerable force bad approached AAt.bn a mdo <>t tho Most Point road, a sboit distance b.now i.asf I’oiut.but early Saturday mo tiling tlvy fell back over a mile, to their ro:mer position. Ti-e obstacles to a flank move ment in that direction were Undoubtedly found' mote formidable than expected, but !of their nature we are net advised. Tho Macon Telegraph learns indirectly from official sources, that Wheeler struck the State Road at Acworih ou Saturday night tore uji the road, captured ami destroyed three trains and the bridge over the Etowah. A courier brought in this news to headquarters Monday. Both G nerals arc bending their energies— tba one to gain tho advantage of position and the oile rto prevent it. When the engage ment that is to decide the late of Atlanta is’to come off cannot be surmised. It. in;iv bo to day, or fo-moi I'oav, or it may be poMjfjit-1 a week or a month. On Wednesday tight the enemy made a heavy assault upon our works on the left, no doubt intended for a surprise. The assault was received with a sbeel of (lame, and a hail stonu of bullets and canister, which laid a thou sand Yankees low in death in front of our Avoiks, mid Un-joe as many more were sent Jimp • ing to the rear and out, of the service with Avonuds To say that she as.nulling column was defeated, hardly conveys the idea—it was demolished. Since the death of McPherson Shorn an seems to be sluggish in bis movements. When tho Yark'-es entered Decatur, Geor gia, an old gentleman, the Rev. Mr. Holmes, met them with a gun in his hand. Tho fiends, in order to wreak revenge on the old man for his act, bound him in hi. house tin J then fired the building, burning him ivith it. Maj. Gen. Bates was sever’,y wounded a few days since b.y a random shot. Kiilpatrick- hat assumed tho command of •the Vaukc: r,: -airy. He made .: Joint both on <ur >■' 1 ami left a few days since—but tho • in-- mem. Avars undoubtedly intended to J. .r k'-Ul. Otis of our scouts,*.Capt. Frank Southern, v. .ill a company of duty eight men, catne upon a pit! ty of tho enemy, a few day a since, seven ty-live strong. Without giving them time to ascertain- his force, he oin. rged aud routed them, killing live and capturing four, among them a captain-'f Brownlow’s regiment, with the colors of the same. All were brought salely in. Alt rvpoits from Atlanta state that our troops are in fine spirits, and eager for the enemy to make an attack on our wot ks. lull «sL— 'FIUIM FLOUIDA. . On Tuesday, August, 9 Gen. Jackson and stallmade a reeynnoissance in the direction of Baldwin, and found tho Yankees engaged in destroying the rail Toad near that place, cut ting the rails so that they could not bo used again. The next day Gen. J. sent a loft e for the purpose .of capturing tho Yankees. They went within two miles of Baldwin without finding thtMsnemy, but shortly thereafter they found'the enemy,-and a skirmish ensued.—. Lieut. E; A. llari. and several others were wounded. The skirmish was. going cn when the dispatch containing this nervs was received at Lake City. The railroad was torn Op be tween Baldwin and Jacksonville by our pickets aud a Yankee train o 'cars thrown off the truck. Daiuage not sscer(aine.l. The .Savannah Republican says General J. K. Jackson met the enemy at Baldwin, and whip p :<! them out of that place on Monday or Tues d;y last. Tin; Yankees InVy torn up the tracks for a considerable distance on the roads leading to Lake City and the Florida Rail road. A raiding party av.is in the vicinity of Netv nansville. and pursued by Capt. Rottx. Tho raid is supposed to have been instigated by Lemuel Wilson, who had previously to the enemy from Newnansvill.o His son who had been to Nc vansville, and hearing of Ilia desertion of his father, expressed considerable indignation at his conduct. When about eight miles from NcAvansville, he led t.i.c stage and stole two horses from a Mrs. l’iles, and lilts a dutiful son, followed the example of his fa ther. Bc-sjdes these Wilsons, 8. B. McKlue and Wm. D. Clark, all men of means, who had previously stood above suspicion, having pro jierty in Alachua county, have deserted to tho enemy, the two letter when hearing ot Iho enemy’s lauding at Middleburg a short time since. Another raiding party is being pursued by Capt. Dickerson, from Waldo. FROM WBhT TKISBiKhSEE. A correspondent of the Meridian Clarion gives extracts from a letter dated Jackson, Tenji., July 15th, which shows that murders and. robberies are frightfully audacious and frequent 'throughout West Tennessee. Two men in Yankee uniform, recognized as murderers, were taken from jii 1 at, Jackson and simii iriy treated, ill. L. Fisher and D. B. Fundei'burg of Decatur county, A. L. While of Paris, John Croora. a printer on (lie West Tennessee Whig, and five others, are particu larized as having been murdered bv lories; and numerous other murders are declared to have been committed all over the country. Recently, on the line of tlie Memphis and Charleston railroad, near Grand J unction, Miss., five of General Forrest’s scouts tell into the hands of the Yankees and were brutally murder ed. Tho atrocious deed was witnessed by a number of citizens living neir the bloody scene, who attest the. fact in a published letter to the military an the Dries h- Mississippi. We know of a commissioner from the States of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, arriving within our lines not many days since, and immedi ately started to consult President Davis at Richmond. Gen. Morgan, with a slrcng force, is now in o,ir front. When last heard from he was near Bull's Gap. liow far he is going is yet to bo ascertained. Bill McClelland, another distinguished bush whacker of Greene county, was killed last week accidentally by one of liis own men. The ears upon the East Tennessee and Vir ginia Railroad arc making regular trips every other day from Bristol to Jonesboro’. Our lines extend to Bull’s Gap. A despatch from Rogersville, Tenn , on the 9th, says: '‘Our scouts have just returned from a trip to Mavnardtsvillc. They brought out 21 prisoners They did not make any at tack on. the town. The Cincinnati “Times” says that ad Lire Tennesseeans in Sltermau’a army ;i.-.,ve been killed. FROM Writer U.\ NORTH CAROLINA. Major Charles 21. Roberts, the dauntless and untiring, has just returned to Asheville from another scout into the caves and mountains of East Tennessee. In obedience to instructions irorn Cub Palmer, with an ample force he pen etrated far into the region of tories, encoun tering several parties, killing eight or ten, capturing about the same number, recovering a considerable amount of stolen property, and bringing off about twenty horses and as many beef cattle, captured from tlie enemy. The prisoners have reached Asheville, and among them are Some notorious bushwhackers well known to many officers and soldiers there. Among tlie parties encountered was one under a Lieut. Dove, recruiting officer lor Col. Kirk’s commaud. la the light Dove was killed, and on his person paper.; of importance were found> From Mississippi. A gentleman who has recently travelled in various parts of the* State of Mississippi, re ports that the people arc in high spirits as re gards tlie present aspect and future prospects of our military a (fail s.' Where the blighting tread of the raider has not cursed the soil, ho says the crops are luxuriant. From preparations being made in Mississip pi, it looks as if tlie Federals wero about to start on another grand raid through that State. The pa|>ers say that our guerrillas are fully prepared to meet them, and will give them a warm reception when they make their appear ance. I.iccoin has revoked Gen. Hunter's ordt»- banishing Confederate sympathizers from Cen tral Maryland. Grant says there is no earthly reason whv his late mine operations at Petersburg should not have been an entire succesi U his order? had been obeyed, , j