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FROLRF.Sg OF TUB PEACE ITBEUKVG iS
THE ROBTII.
Grant's complete More in thk campaign,
aad tho frightful slaughter which fi-j thus far
marked all bis efforts, have produced t great
revitUica la the public mi:ul of the North, dr.d
the jteasstti ase at list becoming thoroughly
aroused V> a true : ense of their condition. On
y-.'-y side arises the dera.it.-'! for posce. l ira
I'n.at i" pillar demonstrationH that have al
ready t-ken place in several localities, show'
that the people of the North are growing tired
of the war, and demand that it shall be stopped.
Gcmmals tfiat were at one time ea-ncet advo
cate,! for ft vigorous pros rution of the war,
are now still more earnestly in favor of a vig
orous prosecution of peace. They po longer
speak with luted bieatli fttni will, puling hum
bleness ; they gr.y what they mean. Hue fol
lowing extracts from the peace press, myvdl
»m from papers that give fw//" ?4 Ktppot tto the
war, show what a great change has taken place
and is still going on in the public mind.
[From the New York Trii line ]
AVe feel certain tint two thirdscf the Amer
ican people on either side of the dividing line
anxiously, absorbingly desire peace, and are
ready to make all needful sacrifices to secure
it. 'ibin why shall it be long-withheld ? Let
tu know, as soon as may be, the most that the
rebel chiefs will do to secure peace; let ns
know what is the “ultimatum” on our side
T,'e have no sympathy with the shuddering
ill end that our Government may, by listening
to propositions front the rebel.-, viitaally ac
knowledge their independence. F/i.jaetts is
the and : ea- e of 3it .lt! minds, great souls are never
troubled by it.
[From the New York Evening Post.]
Tho Opposition have set their hearts on to
storing peace to Iho country The object is
laudable; and they judge rightly that the
party which can accomplish it will win tho ap
proval and Buflrago of the nation.
[From the Rochester N. Y. Republican.]
We go, and the great mass of our country
men of alt parties will go, for peace, if peace
c,»n be hail on the basis of n restored Union of
all the States as States and a k dor. and Consti
tution — oven though such of ti,-. .itat-es as have
not been free 1 remain slave still. * *
The growing cryfor peace must he hoard.
The desire 1> r peace Inc. always exist -.1 among
the masses of tho people. They have-advoca
ted and 6upportud*war for tour years iu order
11 put down tile reh'dliou and secure peace.'
* Peace, reunion and bnppiuess h*tvo to ih.un
foimc l the great end in vi >.r. + ' * *
Mr. Lincoln’s stipendiary p:v is eftn no
longer shout “ Copperhead” and * Traitor’’ at
I boss who utter wholesome truths with’regard
to ibis war and the growing«ty for peace.;
[From the Washington r institutional Union ].
The cry for peace is ears from
every section of the <-*mntry- - from ail dive ions
and parties. Even the fanaliif* have ro led
down, in a measure, flora their fury for blood,
mid have lost Their vawpyre in- ti netand her
tilled at the titles, of Hlaughtef the;, msffi. npd
shocked at the sights of h. .did nullVn•><>-, and.
of the maimed and crippled crawling about oitr
streets, they even wi ll the termination of
strife which', unpftcreative of benefit to either
parly, even to tho u- ■!'*• lu'inlmts, the negro,
is crushing the viral nod social exf-ti,etit» ol
both, F'liyrical calamity constantly Uispbiyul
before their vision, mtd lygh p ices crushing
out the means of comfortable subsistence., hut
•>t length softened tie .heart of the hardened
'.bolhiouist it,to a link-tag yearning for the eea
alwu of arms. • , '
[From tin; Drt/toi*; Ohio, D.iily Empire.]
Wo can peace so longthe men are
allowed -tot prescribe Rs tot ms.* .Let peo
ple. iugtijoir sovereign mig >L command that
ilib; ei v- vr lo ended, and. ailtiiff’eran<.' iM . be
iweKi . :,;tc.s be aflbiaUted to the btbitia
tion of a convention.
[From the Troy D
. T«M*y the people of ilyf ‘*!?> y.. 7 ’ and jjeeed
fd States would bo aide to agree, upon condi
tion. ol pone ■ and stop lli« war. And {-. is
the duty of the hour to hasten' a:i opportunity
for this, by shoving aside extreme men and
placing in power those wiurbelievo that, In n
government like oui... ronoCesiou, eoucdiUion
jind compromise ere better remedies for dif
ferences than eternal sttife at i war.
[From the Chicago Times ]
necessity for p, >cq upon heu'UMl-.10
is too imperative to permit its jacriilae
„„ a blind, suifuß or ooriupt partuor.-b'p,. 1 he
idternatlveH now presented to the nation in.-
peaia with honor ami war with dishonor ; y.< any
with preservation of l:t'and ’ou \ii;h ids i-.s
tended and murderous c i li. is ; p, v,. o with
national and individual * . .;r,d v.-.u- ><ith
national and individual lHTduup'cy.
[From the Now York Sand iv Mercury 1
A silent revolution is taking plant ie meri’a
opinions. The war is not prosecuted v.iih it.
iiucaent viitlniti siu either 'ey the Goverr.meni
or the people. Tint ! i inor is and. merited .rad
Ineffi.-iunt, the latter arc weary of th-.ii care •
and burd'-ns. With the Aduiiuh-iration an
oaviy peace tvema lo bo neither dcsii’-.-d nor • x
pechai; but with tiie masses v. ho pay for the
fiddling, and whose ears are biconu.-d with its
discoid, a half formed, earnest and azonirug
prayer is going up for calmer times, less sacri
fice and the end of bloodshed.
o' o o o o :■ o
Peace i.stlio end of ail contests Rational
counsels ultimately prevail, ll is better to I, re
something by timely di-netmi). rather (bun
forfeit honor and propoily in the e: :l. The
people of the United Slates -tbo good, Bn-ul.
faithfuli citizens —are now d'-ini.-ialnur is to
■whether they must dr.ru their in soft roes lo 'the
last dot lor and the last drop of blood,” or
pause to aek thoit antes; >uiG« what is denoind
ed " '■ ' Wo want a r.
stored Union if it erai 1-c had in name; p.-v
Imps we may attain it in substance uml i new
tiam.is. c ' 1 Divided we
fall is ft’goial motto, but aft iso fat t. li w. were
existing in ninety parts, we would ;-iili be.
Ires, vital, and powerful Our proper umttoj
should lie, “immortal in every part— deal on
]\ when annihilated! ' Hut we are pudiing
straight forward to annihilation.
besides, does land make a great peep 1 . •> ? II
is better to give up a million of subj:. L rather
than one | lank in tits Bdl of lights. Am rice
was founded. not to he laig but to be tree.--
When we liad four millions of people . mv\
tirnp'e was omnipotent. \Vc gave Km pc the
torch which lit it. to coniUgiuticn. To-day.
with ten times the force, wc have not one half
the moral influence.
Away, then, with all school boy fears. We
are hot prepared. nr,.l do uot mean to pend
the last dollar or lose the last wan. Otir pro
sent policy is to stop and talk together, No
Christian gentleman, holding to a hope ci hon
orable pence, is half so much a traitor as the
government parasite w’ p would see na dr*-.lnrJ
of men aud hep pared, mere!} to keep li~ pi i
iul sinecure p >sition, or rc civet his master by
denouncing bet'or men as traitor Hu.U to
the good man who shall show us a ligh; out of
•this darkness 1 The momeuts are pit unis.—
For every instant that we sail on, some fellow
countryman's life drops through the leaking
ve.-snl; the specie is faliing into the ocean.-
Sluri! wo keep or turn bud; to port
and rOit r
[From the Frankßu, New Yoik, < 1: unite.]
in view of this disccudf:ir.g vendition - and
gloomy prospect, after more than tffie. years of
bloody strife, wo Ward nothing in trying that
hosts of Republican two weary of this fruitless
contest, and lopgirgiy look ’('or somo.sipns of
its termination, even, if need be, upon terms
of .separation and acknowlcgmcnt of South
ern independence. If this is not so, why do wo
t ee such backwardness in resp mding" to the
• , estih r.t's pall for more nu n ? How els. Ji an wo
account for the fact that “patriotism, which
was so fervent and sell sacrificing thrto wars
ago. has run down su.i degenerated iuio voi:
rises to raise bounties to hire men to “fight '
for tiny flag" ;»u.l preserve the Union' ’ Who
oti.ntecrsnow • X. t a man,l it allure intent 1 !
-• ikeeping out of the army, it matters little
. \ rhat means. In the face of these facts who
v ! dcPy that the war lias become hateful to
■the people generally, as well as {i -Copper
heads." And who doubts that the ruochima
mation cf pence, upon the bast teims wo upuld
Obtain, w< uld be hailed with the. ‘s t f jovan.l
eatisfaeuon r thousands iinon tl. n« rnds >f
HepubUceiis through the land ? \- t-y, a U
publican paper in R.-.-t u, *hteh has b:"n
among the fiercest f- r wav has get so tar pared
of ti? idea of subjugation a? to mine that
route understanding should be had with the
Southern people, arid that, “if they will not
submit to the fdo’ 1 n, it is ueeUr- to hi lit
‘nny longer, hut hold < n to what wo have cot,
and wait for time to deter'." lllo * I be future."
Hobs On ; car. Miswix*CK::;.\f-» 1 "m :i.tt ro
Horses —fre c'ltided in ft iccent issc to an
order from the Quartermaster General’s Otfice,
liwlt'-g the forage ration to 6 pounds coin «ad
9 pounds fodder, or Lay per day, for the poor
dumb beasts wAcsc misfortune it was tp be “at
uost,” and we 'evpremd some c-ppreiecsioa
flat officers' lior.csin the city would sober ior
Romeibing tor-ct. Our fears are Bow iocrcae
•d, for «e I.RT6 been shown a"* ;;cu r. -■ ht« a
virtually pute in p r aetice the experiment «!.***•
k cab lire Witli. ul Otto £ gt ill!.- -< '<■
HATIX t—i.’E . *t>*: . p tilt'- *’
A octree;.. ; -'d ■ • - r ’
Viiiiuz few I; l!1
and iulctet .-.T
. occurred ol «■ VfHldt™ “«* l *** l
bv dim'ion ci the Coneo.indwg General,
i b-u tenant General A. P. Hitt started irotn
Camp, near Petersburg on Wednesday evening,
i .-cis - grand ft ink movement, according u> the
opinions of tho unoffi‘l ri wiseacres in and out
of c oup. This, how, «er, was line only par-
Ualiy. (tenoral Hill bad no purpose to attack
the enemy wh» are 1.--1 ir.g the road in our
.front just out of town, iiis object was to en
gage 4he forcejof the t nemy which it was well as
ccrtafa-d were engaged in tearing up the track
of the Weldon railroad between the point of
their occup&t Unjust below the city and Ream’s
station, which is some tenor twelve miles be
low the city.
The forces engaged in this, expedition began
their move about Three o'clock P. M , going
.by the way of the Bovdtou- plankroad some
three and a half milespthen.deflecting to the
1 tat Hmuonoj house, they passed on to Arm
strong's o*idf. ught' miles, b*dow the city,
where they*etc raped for the night. Early
next m :mir;g tj.e tv,op:> were again in posi-,
lion, and advanced as far us Monk's Neck
bridge, three miles trom Ream's station, and
parallel to it. Here the column, halted until
one o'clock, awaitio'g the restilt of the caval
ry retonn- i- vacs which General liaraptonwas
then making in order 40 detenuiuato the
sir, bgtli and position of the enemy.
About ! 1 o'clock, the cavalry tmd *r General
Hampton engaged the enemy's cavalry and iu
! iutry absut four miles below Reims' "station,
-ai;d steadily pressed them back, on a road par
allel with the railroad, to Malone’s station. As
soon :ts Li, vtermtii-GrfDeral A I*. Hill learned
licit out c i'-airy had press 'd the enemy back
to Malone - . :.-.‘.:qn,he ordered General flamp
ton to connect his eavahy with tho left of our
infantry and to prepare for an assault of the
enemy’s works on the western side of tho rail
road,* in front of Reams’ station. About 2
o’chck, ftll arbangemeuls being completed,
Lieutenant General Is ill ordered the line for
ward, and the command was promptly obeyed.
The line thus"formed, and in motion, wasnre
ceded by two ;-qua lions if tho Seventh Vir
ginia cavalry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Mar
shall, of Fauquier, 'ibis little body drove tho
enemy's pu k Mr, back, iu gallant style, into
their rifle pits, in sight of the enemy’s main
lino of battle.
In this affair Colonel Marshall was slightly
wounded. Having arrived, in front of the
enemy's lion of "works, General Hill deter
’rnined to rss.mllf them Art once, and, according
ly, ordered Major- General Wilcox to take two
b.ig .des ned 1 -suit the enemy’s works- Scale’*
YN'oiih Carolina) 'Ui'ed' Aulerrou’s (Geiirgia)
••rig rdv . v,.fo ’selected for lira work in band.
fie •:?.. ftioas h..i. made, the girder to a.l
va-cc wMS-given, and the troops moved for
ward in good rt.vle, dfiving in with ease, and
with great entliuFuum, tho enemy’* skirmish era
and shurpshootdtf, Yt'tho moment they be
g-ct their advance tho enemy opened with
artillery and musketry moat rapidly. The ra
i uH. btiefly told, was that car columns was re
pulsed.
‘General Hill wai determined* however, not
to give up the 1 ti 11 gle without another effort
to diuledge til enemy. Accordingly, General
•li ;th was ordered forward with Cook's and
•UcCr.te’s North Carolina brigade.-:, (the latter
ivttigrew’fl old brhradn,) and Lane’s North
Carolina brigade-, (Wilcox’s .division,) com
manded by Comner of South Carolina, was or
dered to unite in the ohirge. McGowan’s biig
ndn was on th - extreme right engag ng the en
-1 ray’s fi'e beta and sharpshooters. The second
dmrgp was made scraewhat to the right of the
ip flat .where • he first was engaged, but still very
near if., Tho second assaulting column was
found Lane on the leit. Cook in-the centre,
and MeCra.i on Iha right Again, about. 5 l’.
M., every thing being arranged, and our officers
having gone repeatedly up and down the lines
end on cot i ra.gr (1 the men, telling them what
tin y had to do and what obstacles they wonld
iiif t. the order was given, and the men bound
ed forward with a veil that made the welkin
fairly ring again, and plainly told, in advance,
if u and termination to achieve success which
could so arcely fail of grand results.
And now lire enemy, having m rased lb-dr
artillery, pour forth a deadly, raking tire of
shot, slic'd, grape, shrapnel and canister ; but
our brave men lie*l it not and press onward,
determined to win a victory or fail in tbe
i fibre.' The abatiis and undergrowth in front
o! the enemy’s works had to be parted and
ju tinea f.-.r entrance made in the face Of-a
deadly musketry as well as artillery lire, bat
our bravt iieejles.-; of all danger, and re
reive-d on there works, push aside the brush
and (festrt.-v the abaft is at roach the works in
nn ill : '{ 'i.I !:- nod net in Hue. tlote a, vigorous
hand-to hand tight ensued over tit.; w< Aka, with
]>!.-■ toia, bayonets and the but-euds of tiro
mu kots. until a sufficiency of our force had
gotten up. to form tbo line of battle anew;
then, .--juiogjog over the enemy's works, they
swept rapidly down thorn, capturing and dri
■ ing hi so re th* ■in all of tiia enemy's foies on-
Stage*l in the fight to a point some distance
south ;u»l of Reanrs's station ; and, in a dev to
ci - ure nr their linSty retreat and to increase
ibeir speed, whilst so laudably engaged, our
i-d'antryjvoya mamied the artillery which w;
er.ptured and poured into t'ho retreating foo a
raking tiro. ~ *
And ime, at Reams’s station, just as d.-iy
lkrh* was fast passing awuy. the light ended
with thel'oiloyving r<suits: the enemy driven
)': ■ m a luiio and a half, at least, of fiieir lines;'
and their brca.it works (oonstreoted doubtless
sos permanent accupation) wrested from them,
with a lc- . of, at this -writing, nineteen hun
dred prisoners, representing ail four divisions
of llaaceok’s- crack corps, including quite a
aprickiing of liertky artillerists. Among. ■ thole
prisoners, seventy live commissioped ollioers,
i-ot the least ol which L 1.-eutenant Oeneral
Waiter, .. sisiant adjutant General to M«jor
<5- nttdi Hancock, commanding the Second
rp nine pplencikf p-loccs of a.tilioiy—live
< f th, m being efc-gnntbrass Napideon’samt the
other f'ur, line taiee-lneh liflo guns; eight
stand of colors, upwards of a thousand small
anil*, and some twenty horses Many of tho
artillery horses were killed or disabled by our
tkarp i hooters. By the way. so do justice e.veu
loan enemy, let me say that. I have it from all
accounts that their (fniilerists aclofl with great
galjantry, and fought hand to hand using mus
kets.
Our losses will foot tip between six and sev
en hundred killed and wounded. Among the
v., uadc-d 1 boat mentioned tbe names of Col
.. ' h me, of fl. * Twentieth Norili Carolina,
severely,pud Colonel Little, of the E'erenth
Ge.usia, .severely. Captain Clark, assistant
adjutant general to the- late General Saunders,
was also slightly wounded. Some fifty odd of
the enemy's wounded, in charge of an assistant
surgeon, tell into our hands, and have been
hr tight h.ero. Some of the enemy’s prisoneis
reported sr-eing the dead body of a general
officer, but his name I. could not learn.
The Weldon, railroad is now certainly des
troyed for a distance of over ten miles, and the
rails and sill - have both been carried off—per
kips t.r rebuild toe City Point road.
Rixa of TiurTni’E Msivl.—A large number
of meitings have already been held by. Lin
coln’s opponents at the- North. Tho resolu
tious passed have tho“ii;v, of the tiue matel."
\Y<* kr-po they will be carried out. Here are
extracts from them : • -»
A m.,< ting c f the people of Bradford county,
Ohio, declared lately, among its resolutions,
‘•that every life bereaft* r lost in this moit
atrocious war will be a deliberate murder ; and
every and. Bar wrung from the pocket of the tax
payer to Luther its prosecution a downiight
robbery. ’ ’
“Rtso! v. . 1 mvs tiie late meeting of tho De
mocracy at i vlawiue, in Bike county, Pcnn
sylv.iuia, • i inil the Government of the Uui
ted States ha3 no tight to coerce a sovereign
Stale."
The Oetu-vracy r.f Pifco county, Pennsylvu
:.;•*.. reso’vedjbitely in tin ir club ; “That we
i . e our delegates to the Chicago Conven
'd. t-> support ns the Democratic nominee for
r>> # »t, a nr.n vbo. in.the face of tymnny
‘>' and d-.suotGm. .la;o t-p;lbis wicked and
r.nuoly vm.r, ol 1 to advocate peace men laid
r . ce r
I >b:U. :i3 of a public meeting held at
i’.’.eyras in Ohio, contain the following: “That
jiirtiu ,i ’ humanity" demand the immediate
ceiSAfi.® of li-).(ilities, and the. adoption of
I '' 111 -'wbrea :. die only lo pe of the people.”
i no Democrats of IWk* county. Pa , declared
recently, by n- luliou, that it is beyond tie
V *w.*r of the North to restore the Union by
! “ r ‘ v ’ l hcjr county meeting went on to cat!
on to.- Administration at occo to stop a useless
slaughter, io proclaim p.u armistice and a call
tc.r a N vional Convention.
The IXniccratic Club of Delaware, Pouiwyl
' mss. Las inc-.v.d: in addition to its demands
v 1 a " ; ai> .ce, a resolution declaring that it
i: .a ai’.or ct burned .yff peace and against the
t uKr pros cctiou ofßa.s war.'
: • : Porks coan
. -j ust reiterated the good old principles
■ ; ■ ? D.-.v. era . . lathers by adopting the res
' ■ **' ‘That liberty c,n cuiy be secured bv
?• .: 1 •**-devc.-va to th* StVeg - Rights ti• _
“: : ■ ' ; ,'iti ! each h-.m e-utrol it - «jo
atti-is; that Iha Gtiierol Guveiuui'nt
h -r. -p -A. i- save such a- the Constitution '
»-• •• • "• ‘but iter. 3 ouhi-ie suej.owers are !
uti'.y t,iui|ia»U-as.'
An Ihpoktakt Ptvimon bt Jcdgb Hook —An
nexed we publish an important decision by
•-'e.dge Ifot k in a case of exemption by con
tract. with the Confederate Government:
David F>Ct: turning)
v?. Habeas Corpus.
Reuben Mayo. )
r i he facts in"thiß case show that the Deli tinner
has been enrolled as a conscript, and exempted
as an overseer for twelve mouths from the Con
federate service upon the payment ot five hen
died dollars; and that he relies upon this to ex
empt Irtn from service iu the militia of the
S-ate- I have already decided where a citizen
is exempt from Confederate I e ia liable to State
military control But it is insisted that there
is a necessary violation of the contract involved
in *his case, iu that, the petitioner cannot' per
form bis duty as overseer and the party who
paid the five hundred doilaiedoes not get. full
compensation. Strictly speakimr there is no
violation of tho contract c rtalnly none, by
the comtracliug parties theuisclvt-a. If the
sovereign State of Georgia sees fit for the pub
lic good end sa'ety in a great emergency to
place parties in a condition that they may not
comply with their contracts, either wuh indi
viduals or governments, v.hai legal authority
can be produced qu. stioning her right so to act ?
Who will hot say that the State may not com
mand the military str' iee of her citiz me, even
if by so tilling she interferes with contracts they
made ! How many tbousand of noble and gal
lant spirits now in the, nrmy that have had to
forego tho privilege jif complying* with con
tracts 'hey had made with their fellow citizeui
or, (in s -.me cases) with the govern meat.
All feel that tha public->’• a the national
life demands it, and hence tho cornu.on sense
of the people—proclaims it right. The emer
gency must bo first met, and then all subordi
nate questions will meet their proper solution
in accord inco with tho legal principles which
may control them But concede, for lira sake
of argument, that there is- a clear v o’s-tion-of
contract in the ease, yyt the ca-e rests and must
turn upon high principles, looking to the very
CiTst. n e of the Slate. The safety of the
State is ol h gher import and s’gnifi anco than
the private interests of any individual ci.i.vn,
“Sa!u-; poptili suprema L’X ” This great prin
cip'.tfis akin *0 another which iu time*o! im
minent peril sways and controls the auUouswtf
mm. That principle is familiarly expressed
in this wise ‘ Self preservation is the first- law
of nature,’’ any i.i a principle dearly record
ed V.y all laws human and divine. ’J her
ciples were fully recognized by our C
when they adopted the anti sutetitu
and by our (lours when they afilinied.thi
stitutioualitv of that acj,
I have (ns before vemaiked) in decisions re
cently nude, held that whoa a person is ex
empted from Confederate, he is liable to .State
contml; and for the simple reason, that when
exempted, he is out of (tor the time being) the
military juristicnon of the Confederate govern
ment, and that the State's authority attaches
as a n.-ceara'y consequence For it this bo.
not true the monstrous consi quence might re
sult, that a sovereign conscription
might- have every citison in enroll -
ed for duty in the Confederate army, and then
exempted from that service; and the State
thus dig mantled of her soveriguty could not
control one of them to repel invasion or 4-up
press insurrection, though her very existence
bo the forfeit. 11 the .State (the source of alt
sovereign power through* the peepl. ) has nos
the military control o! her citizens who haa
been exempted from Confederate, military c
trol then all our talk about the sovereign
the St at ex’ami state rights i unmeaning
die, and we’ll consult our self-respect b
dc ing it. I have elsewhere shown
action of our Legislature and the opinio*
Piesidi'nt of ihe Confederate States biruK
'on this particular point. The papers ha
just published a correspondence between Gov.
Watts, of Alabama, and the Secretary of War,
ip which it ‘appears that both of these disttiD
gutshed and aide public officials maintain the
position here taken, .hat exempts from Con
federate service are liable to do duty in the
mi lit: r.
Let the writ Iv dismissed acd the petitione-
David E Camming be remanded into tire
hands of Reuben Mayo. It is further ordered
that this decision be spread- upon the minutes
cf the Superior Court of Washington county,
and that (he original papers bo filed iu the
Clerk’s t rlioe and cop es given if demanded,
and further that the petitioner pax costs.
Jas. h. Hook,
Judge S. C. Jl. L'is.
At Chambers, Aug 28;h, 18(11.
Ax about ta Kkktucxv —According to the
norU.ern letter writers thoaifdts iu iicntucky
must tfe iu a terrible condition. Society is bro
k-u up. rnurd* r and robbery me crimes of
daily oecurreoco in nil sections. The country
is overrun with guerilla bands of both the cou
tending parties. Ruin and desolation stalk
btfldly over the once prosperous and happy
common wealth. Ail this has been caused by
abolition fanaticism. Here 13 what a corres
pondent of the Nerv York Woild, writing from
Louisville, Ky., under date of August 0, says
the subject;
The news received fiom the interior jopio
seuts tiio state of affdis in Kentucky as the
saddest ihal ever affticied tbe bight, of an Amer
ican citizen. The struggle between the various
class' sos Kentuckians, who uve.eiiher from tho
North or the South, or whose interest lias been
violently injured by taking away of the negroes,
has reached such a degree of lerocity as to
cause a compietc dissolution of the moral bonds
which lias united men one to tbo other, and
caused society to sink down into tho bottomless
abyss of auaichy, Kentuckians are to day led
by no other considerations than those which
can secure a living to Ihtir family or a revenge
for the wrong they have suffered. The living
they cannot get, fertile recruiting of negroes
has deprived them of their on'y means to get
it. As to thi’ revenge they tied it iu organ
ising Couf.vk i'at HuerriTa bands, and overrun
-ing tho country from cue end to the other, ex
ercising their depredations upon the property
L oF eveiy Union man, including that ot cveiv
individual who hitherto preferred to remain
neutral rat'u i than lo pro.-.ounce for either
Noith or South. •
The State of Kentucky is, then, the prey of
two sets of mvQ, who are feat driving every
thing into a chaotic state—the Federal recruit
ers, who ate carrying avvav every negro, anu
the Confederate sergeant, who i.; enlisting
every white man. But it happens sometimes
that both white and black escape from the hands
of their c !:i vis, and organize themselves into
sin.di billies of guerillas w u king for their own
account, and pluadeiieg everything they can
iaytheir hands s..n.
As an instance of the state of affairs, I will
mention two or thne fanners of my aivjuaiu
tance, whoso so:ik bin! taken service in the Con
federal ranks. These men were old, tiud could
subsist only, them aud their wives, out ot the
lab r of a tew negroes who were engaged hi the
cultivation el the soil. l}ut the military com
mander h tving taken these negroes, for the
■ Federal service, the two farmers were left help
lets, in the waist ot a community agitated by
the passions ff civil war, awl iu no way in
ciine.l to come to their assistance. The con
sequence of so odious an oppression is easy to
conceive. The two farmers, who had hitherto
been loyal, soon opened their ears to the pro
positions of the> rebels with whom they came
into communication Their two sons, whh had
left them against their will, soon carnu back,
and won th; it old parents to the Confederate
cause.* The two old men left their farms, went
around among their neighbors, and succeeded
■so well as to raise seveial hundred men fPr the
Confederate cause* They at the same time,
communicated the intelligence they had to
Morgan and 1 is friends, who availed himself
of the opportunity to come into Kentucky and
make a great raid upon Federal property.
The_ca.se of these two men is common to
nearly all Kentuckian farmers who are at the
present moment, 1 sui assured, more rebel
than the rebels themselves. This State of af
fairs has created a great de tl of uneasiness
amongst all classes of society: also, not a day
elapses in which the Federal authorities do not
put some body in prison for. cause of disloyal
ty.
Thousands of persons are now leaving the
city and State. Some go West, seme South,
some to New York. A poor woman whose ou
!v support were two negroes, being deprived
of her subsistence, goes today to
New York city to join her husband, who’two
yoafs ago. was put in prison, i niued. and turned
out ol the country for no other cause than his
opposition to the Administration. Several ricli
law!lies, frightened by the present state -of
anarchy, arc deserting the country, aud seek
ing a refuge upon a more genial soil. Five hun
dred names were registered for New Yoik dur
ing (te last two weeks. Ifth!ngsgo,oa that way,
Kentucky wili soon be a wilderness, and be
come to the United States what Ireland is to
Ragland—a ruin for the time being and a
threat for the future.
Governor Hawes, o. Kentucky, an exile do
ing the war, was in Abingdon, Virginia, a few
days ago.
The grain field of Atlibama an 1 Mississippi
wese never more sroduetive; the bog crop was
never greater.
The Alabama papers speak of the great
quantities ot rain that hays falleo in that seg
ues,
A LETTER FROM JtUGE CXBIAKBF.
Confederate lax t cl rotor so.- the 8lu«e of U> or^'.a.
Foesrni, Nov. 13,1863.
J. A. Turner, E ; q, E itout-oc:
'Sia—l Bill answer your questions in their
order.
i t ‘ln case a Confeder ite Tax Assessor fads
to require an endorsement upon credits, of a
willingness to take Coafederare money fer
those credits, what is to be done?’
Answer. presumption is, that the
holder of the ere tits is willing to receive Con
federate note, in payment, and hia credits
are taxed at one per cent upon the principal
end interest due.
2nd ‘Suppose the bolder of a credit-refus
es to make such Aidotscuieut, what corn so is
to bv pursued?’
Answer.—The presumption then is, that the
holder icgards his credit as of equal value
with gold, and it will be assessed, and taxed
accordingly. The As i-esinent Act provides,
‘ that all property, credits, income, and pro
fits, and every article, or object, subjected to
taxation, shall be estimated, value 1. and as
sessed at the -value thereof, at the time of as
sessment, in Confederate notes.’
If a credit is to be held of equal value with
gold, the question will be, what was gold
worth on the first day of July, for that was the
time for assessing credits? It SIOO in gold at
that time, were rforih $10)0 in confederate
notes, th-n a credit for SIOO, regarded as
equivalent to gold, will be valued at SIOOO,
and a tax of oae per cent, ussessed on that
sum.
3rd. ‘Some holders of credits have refused
to endorse th -ir.credits as above, while others
have so endorsed theirs. This is manifestly,
unjust, and illegal. Is there any remedy for
ii?’
Answer.—ls I understand tho precise mean
ing of your question, it is, ’.hat it h unjust r.nd
illegal for ono man to endorse upon his credits
his willingness “to take Confederate notes in
payment of them while another refuses so to
emlorse his—and you desire to know if,there
is any remedy.
It is certainly not, illegal for any oeo so to
endorse his credits, for the tax act .expressly
l>errniisit to bo doue—nor is it illegal for one
to refuse to make such an No
one cm be tr" ” - '"’d to receive Con
federate note ■ credits. It is
the, privitey
se« proper
If the. lawts
iative au.“
■52/’
man; n.
tbab co.
power to
notes, and .
they should isv\
not, we will go a
is indissolubly li.
the moans \Vber
ported-, -und—w
government V
government
GonfoJe'
inet)*
p 'VSOItg
•- their residence,
who have obtained exemptions 01 details as ag
rieuUitrists, owners overseers, managers, farm
er?, planteia or othot wise, as producers of grain
or provisions, under the fourih paragraph o; the
10th section of the Military Act of the 17th
l Vbvuaiy, 18G4-, published in General Ord.r No.
20. (current series) together with a statement of
the terras of the contract, the sureties to l>he
same, and with all other pertinent facts relating
to the said exemption or detail. The officer.?
of tbe Subsistence Department, under the di
rections of the Commfssasy General and Chief
Commissary of each State, are charged with the
collection of the meat which any exempt or de
tailed men may have contracted to pay. and to
give an acquittance therefor ; also to m ;ke
whatever commutations or reductions that may
be authorized Ov the act whenever tire con-,
ditionsare «stablisned that justify the same;
and to make alt the purchases of the market
able surplus at the prices specified in the act,
which the same authorizes to be made on be
halfof the Government. The said Subsistence
Department being hereby clothed with author
ity to reprewefit the Government in the enforce
ment oi its claims undet the oontiacjs and ob
ligations that tho act imposes upon the exempts
and detailed men described therein.
iu order that the regulations on the subject
of the sale of the marketable surplus of piovi
sious and grain to the Government, and the tam
ilies of s ibjiers in the said act, may have execu
tion, the Commissaries in (he different States
mry be. instructed *0 limit their puichase of
grain aod provisions of the marketable surplus
in any district to some definite proportion, ■not
to exceed or.e-lialf, and to leave the remainder
for Hie persons who purchase on behalt of the
lamiließ of soldiers
Ail agents appointed by tire public authori
ties of any State, county, or town, to supply
food for the families of soldiers are authorized
to purchase (lie portion unappropriated by tile
Government, for t lief object of their trust. The
commanders of conscrips or the chief commissa
ry of each State or d : sLrict may authenticate tho
authority of such agents, and persons selling to
agents thus authenticated shall be fully war
-I.acted to do so.
The fimilies of soldiers, as described in the
said act, are the families composed of the wife,
or the wife and children, of any person who be
longs to the army ; the widow, or widow and
1 liiUlren, of any poison who died, while in the
service ; the mother.audsisters of any soldier or
soldiers in the army, and who resided with them
as members in (tie same family,"or were depen
dent upon their labor -for support: the parents
or sisters of any person belonging to the army,
ivho resided in the same family will, theca, and
who derivtd from them support.
Officers, ars authorised to purchase necessaiy
subsistence for their families under tills act.
Kvory exemnt and detailed man under this
act shall render to the enrolling officer in Ids
district a detailed statement of the marketable
surplus produced and sold by him, with testi
mony that the sales were to the Government or
to soldiers' families, which statement shall be
sent to the commander of conscripts for the
State, and thereupon satisfaction upon his bond
shall be entered.
The act of Congress aforesaid provides : That
exemptions os in favor of the classes aforosaid
shall cease whenever the farmers, planters or
overseer shall faii diligently to employ in good
faith his own skill, capital and labor exclusive
ly in the product ion ot grain and provisions, to
be sold to the Government and the families of
soldiers at prices not exceeding those fixed at
the time for like articles by the Commission
ers of tne Stare, under the impressment act.—
It has been represented to the Department
that there are instances of persons exempt or
dctailsed under this act, who pay but little res
pect to the obligations they have contracted
That they have become speculators in food
and provisions, that ‘they are negligent and
careless as to the extent of their productions ,
aud openly affirm that they do not mean to
have any surplus. The Department is requir
ed, ir. all such or similar cases, to revoke the
detifil, and the performance of this duty is de
volved upon the bureau of Conscription, upon
proper testimony being afforded to them or to
their officers, to be designated by them, to per
form this duty,
New Military District.—A new military
District has betn established, its headquarters
at this town, and Gen. Reynolds Resigned to
the Distiict and Post Col. Magill, we learn,
has been assigned to - duty at Columbia, 8 C.
Ws have not learned the boundaries of the
New Distiict, but presume it includes ail that
region of Georgia lying east of the the Chatta
hoochee and North of Athens; orindeed, it may
include a greater breadth of country.
Gen, Reynolds is a gentleman "not unknown
to fame,’-’ and will doubtless bring to the dis
charge of his duties in his new fiei i of service
ail the energy and ability for which he ia dis
tinguished.
Certificates ot IVDEBTitrwEas.— I The purchas
ing Commibsary at this place is issuing aciip
bearing six per cent, interest, the principal
and interest free from taxation, in payment of
aitides of bubstsleccp. This is done under au
thority of an Aet.of tbo last Congress. Those
who l ave anything to spare in the way of sub
sistence cannot object to these certiheatea. as
they will not ha repudiated an the correucy
has been, ap.d are mad# payable two years at
tcr.tb<v?avScatioQ of treaty of _ peace.—
it u‘,Y,
FOKEIUA ITEMB.
It appears by reports of the wheat crop in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, that a severe
drought bos prevailed on the other side of the
water during the summer, and that the crops
will be short.
Oa the morning of the 12th uit'mo a fefir
ful riot occurred at Belfast, Ireland,, when
brickbats, bludgeons, stones, and guns were
used bv the rioters, and several houses wire
saiped*. A nunnery was destroyed, and great
numbers were seriously injured.
The Mormons in London have been bolding
a series of meetings under the auspices of Brig
ham Youug, Jr..uni Orson Pratt. They have
chosen Brigtiam Young as European president
of the Mormons, and his father as president
of the Mormons all over the. world.
As Louis Napoleon’s health is said to be
faijing, European journals are speculating up
on .the probable consequences cf his death.
His only son is nine years old. T.iero are two
rival influences to endanger a regency. Count
do Cbamb'ord, gran ton of Charles X , de
throned in 1830, amj Count de Paris, grandson
of Louis Phillipe, overthrown ;u 1819.
There is a whole ileet of steamers just now
in the Clyde ail ready to run tho blockade, and
just putting in cargoes that will average in
value half a mil!i>m gold dollars each. And
about nine out of tea of those effdVis to rnn t‘ie
blockade are successful. Scores of English aud
Scotch merchants and ship owners are rolling
in wealth now, with hundreds of thousands —
several over a million—of pounds made in
blockade running.
Tne Cork (Ireland) Reporter says the vast
tide of emigration which has for so long a pe
riod ftywed ceasely from Ireland has at length
almost subside 1. The tine steam vessels. Iu
which the last place was usually tiliod, now
depart all but empty. The large crowds who
daily clamoured for passages have disappeared.
So great has been Ihe decrease of numbers that
the emigration agents luvo reduced their
charges considerably in tin hope of resneitat
ing tln-ir trade, a plentiful harvest at home
aud the- ab.-enco of inducement to tho other
side of the Atlantic appear to have acted pow
erfully and quickly iu changing tho destiny of
many or our Impulsive countrymen.
Preparations are already being made for re
newing the London Working Classes Industrial
Exhibition in 1865 oa an enlarged scale.
Lord Overtoil's fortune, says the Spectator,
Is estimated at £5,000,000.
Many literraiy men derive tnagnUß-
Cint income*frem their labors : Ulbach, the
nov* l'st and play-vaite", lias an annual income
of SIi.OOO. —This, however, is nothing com
pared to the revenue of successful dramatists,
who make their $30,000 and SIO,OOO a year.
M. Trangog, the bead of the Polish Nation il
Government, together with four chiefs cf the
department, were hung on the sth instant on
the glacis of the citadel. Tho sentences of
death of eleven other officials of the National
Government had been comaliied. v
Alexander Cul.itno, of Geneva, of Switzer
land, one el Ihe greatest landscape uiti-.ts of
Europe, is dead He was chiefly Known in [Jos
Van try by the lithographic copies of ids re
n-kahie “Studies in the Alps.’’ There arc
y a few of his paintings iu the United States.’
;e of these, “The Ruins of the Arcstum,’’ only
ton'ty by sixteen inches, cost SISOO. Citlame
aassed a fortune by his art, and built him a
a oily residerce in Geneva, and a pretty
htry h ou?e near tho spot on the shores of
zc..„ O ....a -••'-.filly spent
this cen-
M 5, and
death
,'of Eu-
se them, it he
his credits
’Site not<n,
8 legis
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it.
for every
0 resolve*
1 in his
derate
li
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Holland
go, to one ih
. fingers an each
, anger adjoining the
.oinbti’og tho thumb of an
-uis peculiarity is hereditary,
.cestors, whose portrait was palnt
,a<, exhibiting the rains digital for-
Sli- plays the pi.-vuio with great bill -
j, making much use of the supplementary
The annual report addressed to the Emperor
of Russia furnishes significant details respect
jog the actual state of the Russian aimy. It
appears that in 18.18 the Russian army, in ac
tive service, comprised 3G4,f 12 of infantry, and
93,4515 men for tho special r-rns In 1831 the
infantry had been increased to 094,510 men,
and the special arms to 114 1.50. To these
numbers must be added 127,000 men charged
with preserving order in the provinces, and
200,000 more appertaining so tho reserves.—
Ths Russian army, therefore, forms a grand to
tal ot 1,131090 tin n.
Lady Franklin in London recently entertained
a. party qf Southern sympathisers at her resi
dence. She is said to favor the Confederate
cause.
A gentleman residing on the coast of England
writes to tho Loudon limes that he s distinctly
heard the tiring ot the guns ot the Alabama and
(tearsurge Hi-; house issttuated 01 an eleva
tion of one hundred and ten feet above the sur
rounding district, and is distant one hundred
and fifteen miles Lora the scene of conflict
DANISH QUESTION.
A Beilin telegram says it is stated on good
authority that the negotiations between Austria
and Prussia respecting tho proposals to be tub
mit ed to the Diet loi the establishment of a
provisional government in the Duchies are
drawing to a close.
. It.is said that a belief is entertained in tbe
official circies'of Bei lin that i.ho right) of the
Duke of Airgustenbuig to Sehlesw ig Holstein
will shortly be recognised.
RELATION'S HUrWBKX ENGLAND' AMD MEXICO.-
[Loudou correspondence of New York Herald.]
The mo3t importaut raws this week is the
change of embassadors between the new em
pire of Mexico and tho great European powers.
'I he accredited Envoy Extraordinary anil Min
ister Plenipotentiary to the court of Kt.. .Tames,
fiT>m Mexico is Senor Arrunoiz. He- will be
preseuteddo Queen Victoria in a few days.
1 he minister for Mexico v/il) probably be Sir
Chari h W'yke, formerly minister to that coun
try fISCO), a diplomatist ot considerable ex
perience.
I am not Bure but the envoy from the young
Mexican empire- will 'be a greater man at a
halt a doz 11 European courts'than the minister
from the United States.
Tbe British minister to Mexico will sail for
Vera Cruz in the .steamer of September.
FINANCIAL INTEI.LIQRSCe.
The report from New York of the disaster
sustained by tho Confederates at Petersburg
caused the Confederate loan to recede to 741 a
7<>, or more titan one per cent, below the day’s
before (August 11.) price.
The cotton market is firm and active, aud a
good advance; in some as high ao Yl.
is quoted upon official quotations of the day
before.
Consols closed at SOJ’a'J, dull.
Virginia Ts were quoted ia London at io a
46; Virginia o’s SO a 32.
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
It is reported, says tho Clarion, that a largo
laud force is concentrating at Mississippi City
to march on Mobile. The Yankees declare
they will invest Mobile before the close of the
present week.
The citizsns of Mississippi arc responding
enthusiastically to the call of Gov. Clark.
From Northwest Mississippi the intelligence
of the Yankee army under Gr-n. A. .1. Smith is
•■it still runs.’ - It bad abandoned Oxford in a
hurry, hurriedly passed through Atbeviiio
and its advance at last accounts was past Holly
Sprints. Gen. Chalmers was hanging in their
rear like a burr and etr'nging them at every
retreating step Thus for the third time huve
General Forrest and his brave caioliers put a
stop to a hostile invasion oi Mississippi.
In the case of Eibe Codts vs, the State of Mis
sissippi, under writ of habeas corpus before
Judge Handy, the Court decided that all bond
ed men under the late act of Congress are lia
ble to militia service, and are included in the
late call of Gov. Clark, and should p-omptly
report.
Vicksburg is garrisoned at present by two
white regiments -Forty-sixth and Feventy
seccn l Illinois infantry*—and four thousand ne
groes, under the command of Brig. Gen. Haw
kins.
FIIOM TitASS-JHirSiffSIPI’I
Advices from C imben, Ark. state ihat Gen.
Price was on the march towards Missouri.
Gen, Magruder has come from Tex!U to com
mand tho department left, by Gen, Price.
Gen. Gano has demolished a regiment of
Yankees (black) near Fort Smith.
Gen. Shelby is already in Missouri- with a
strong force of cavalry.
We look soon for glorious tidings from Mis
souri. . ,
Gen. Eosecrans is calling out for six monthns
men to meet the invasion but it is believed
that seven men will flock to Piic s stanard
where Roseans can get one.
FROM CHAULKSTOS.
The enemy on Tuesday sent in a flag of Ir. ro
boat from the fleet with letters for our prison
ers. Col. F,Lett's boat that went out to meat
it was4l red at some three or four times from
Morris’ Island. An explanation has been
asked.
The ea* my Tuesday, were, egain
their new b tfery ai the mouth of .'.'tliooßer
Creek, anu bav*. consldeiab y extended it< di
mensions. w.tf also engaged
at thfpstogkaWa#o«r and Gregs*
K9RTHBRX NEWS.
The New Yolk papers sav Commodore Bu
chanan floated his steamer ‘down tho Mobile
Bay and Farragut can float us up if he will.
Three substitute brokers recently kidnapped
tbre ‘>oys from Brandon, Vermont, the oldest
ot whom wus-ouiy sixteen, and took them to
Poughkeepsie, Now York, i«iere two oi them
wore* sold ns substitutes, being induced to
swear that. Urey were from Qanad.i, and wer •
eighteen years of age The third boy. whoso
mm) is Ollery 0. Wliealer; and whose father
is a Wealthy and well known ’citizen of .Bran
don, refuse’ I to perjure liira-elf. aud stoutly re
fused to enlist. lie was then brought to T'rov.
kept three days a prisoner umlej the influence
of liquor, and sold as a substitute. 'The boys’
parents have taken means to recover them.
Astronomers predict that in Novembor of
this year a meteoric display ot falling stars,
similar to that of November, 1833, will take
place.
An army correspondent of Northern papers,
denounce. Hunter’s brutality and barbarism
while ho was in Virginia.
Several Confederate guerillas have been huDg
recently in Kentucky.
Johnson’s Confederate guerrillas have been
harassing tbe people in Kentucky and on the
banks cf the Ohio 1 iver, and were at Ohseyville
when h;st beard from, five hundred strong, car
rying away the - cattle and other plunder which
they had taken trom tho captured steamers on
the river. The people of Cairo are organizing
for tho defence of that place. ■ "
Grant say ho has lost only one thousand
men since he moved North of James itiver,-in
killed and wounded.
Northern papers state, that Wheeler is trying
to get the railroad leading to Knoxville.
About a dozen thrifty fanners of Santa Clara
county, California, have been arrested on the
charge bf being Confederates of rebel highway
men who have been robbing stages and expres
ses in Sierra Nevada.
Northern dispatches says that it is not the
intention ot Farragut to attack Mobile, lin ob
ject being to secure the passes to the gulf, so as
to enable him to dispense*with a portion ot the
largo blockading (leal. h
Gen. Slocum, lato commander at Vicksburg,
lias been ordered to Sherman for duty. He is
succeeded by Gen. Dana, late commander at
Brownvdle, Texas.
'i he wife of Mr. Abraham Loudorlnck, of
Hickory;Mil., give birth a few days since to
twin daughters. Mrs. L. is seventy-eight years
old.
Tho receipts from the Yankee internal reve
nue now average about $1,000,000 per day.
The receipts from all sources amount to about
$2,000,000 per day, while the expenses of the
Government are $1,000,000 per day.
General Carrington has received orders from
the War Department to send through the Yan
kee lines the officers of Morgan’s staff now at
Camp Morton, Kentucky, who were captured
while on a mission with General Hobson, to
arrange an exchange for him. Hobson's.ogree-’
merit is regarded as valid, and the order car
ries it out.
Suits for libel, to the amount of one hundred
thousand dollars, are pending against the Chi
cago Times.
A telegram from Washington, dated August
22d, says the subscription to the 2:30 Yankee
bonds, on Saturday, amounted to $035,.Gu0, and
to the 10 40, over $500,000.
Ex Governor J Brown Francis, ot Rhode
Island, died ou August 10th.
Grant is repotted to have withdrawn bis
forces from the_North side of the dames river.
"Another secret "organizifion, “The Syns of
Liberty,” is said to have been discovered in In
diana. Tiic West is fruitful'in marc’s rests.
Several high officials are reported to be amongst
this new “Order,’’ and. it is said, are now iu
custody. Indianapolis is the centre o f the con
spiracy. Quantifies of arms and ammunition
have been seized by the military, which had
been forwarded from the East to a firm there,
the members of which-were arrested and placed
under mil tary guard.
Refugees are arriving from Kentucky in Can
ada in large numbers every day. under the ef
fect cf the stringent ruigs enforced there.
'! ho house in which William Penn and his
family resided while they lived in Philadel
phia was recently purchased by a citizen of that
place, and will soon be demolished. The house
was occupied’ by Penn in 1700, and in this
house his son John Penn was horn. It is now
about one hundred and seventy-live years old,
and is the last relic of the Penn family.
* According to Yankee statements no further*
raids into Piunsyl vania or Maryland ait feared
for (he present.
The New York Tiibnne expresses the opinion
that not one, third of tie journals of that city
are paying current expenses, and adds: “ It is
notoriously true that the capital Invested here
iu newspapers is paying no prciit. whatever ”
Ilor. Pierre tactile is iu Ilavuua, on some
secret mission. .
A correspondent of the New York Times
writing from Louisiana, thinks the Confeder
ates intend to cross troops from that State to
this side of the Mississippi, and is a'so of tbe
opinion that some have already crossed over.
Five hundred Confederates have appeared
opposite Claysviile, Ala., probably to co-ope
rate with Geu. Wheeler.
Northern papers state, that Favragut has
made a reconnoisance of the obstructions m ar
Mobile, and found thp steamer Nashville had
been sunk across tho channel, making access
to the city impossible until th; is first removed.
Motby’s men have become quite a source of
annoy vuce to the Yaakecs—it is said they
take no prisoners.
Brig. Gen. J. G. -Martin has been appointed
to Ihe command of the Department of Wes
tern North Carolina, with bis headquarters at
Morgan ton, and has issued a General Order
offering a J'ull pardon to all deserters and ab
sentees from the army, who will surrender
themselves before the Kith day of .September
The New York Herald, in a late issue, pays
it will soon lie a necessity for Lincoln tp,recall
Giant t,o defend the National Capital, which
if admits is iu more danger of capture than
Richmond.
The Boston Advertiser has a singular sta.
tistical article, showing that Massachusetts has
ordinarily more than her share of women, and
that now, through the withdrawal of me i in
to the army, there must be in that State one
hundred thousand more women than men.
Tliis remarkable surplu3 is regarded as unfa
vorable to the morals of the community.
There is an excess of females over the males
in five States in the North. Connecticut has
8 000; Massachusetts 37,000: New Hampshire
7,000; New Yoik 11,000; Rhode Island C.OOO.
In Pennsyl(§nia the numbers are nearly equal.
General Bin-bridge has sent a detail of Yan -
kee soldiers from Louisville, Kentucky, to
Scott county with a captured guerrilla, with
orders to lake 1010 40 the spot where Ilobiuson
was murdered, and thee execute him. On
the same day a captured guerrilla was sent t<4|
Bieasurevillc, Ky., to bo executed on the spot
where Jenkins shot Mr. Bpaiks. Two guer
rillas have also been sent to Lexington for tri
al.
The coal-oil well recently sunk near Roek
haven, M*-ade county, Kentucky, we are in
iormed is but thirty five feet deep, and j ields
from eighty to eighty-five barrels of crude oil
per day. A number of other wells are being
sunk in that vicinity, and tho prospect is, that,
in Meade county. Kentucky, and Crawford
county, Indiana, we shall soon have a coal-oil
excUeme.it equal to that in Pennsylvania a
few years ago.
The number of graves in the Y ankee Na
tional Cemetery, at Chattanooga, already num
ber six thousand.
Captain Turnbull and eight men, Company
H, 83d Illinois, were killed by Confederates
while repairing the telegraph line below Fort
Dcfnelson.
Grant’s losres in the battles before Peters
burg on Friday and Sunday, are computed at
four Ihoifsaud.
FROM MEXICO.
The latest news we have from Mexico is a
letter from Matamora3 of the 26th July, which
presents the state of affairs in that country as
being by no means as unfavorable for Jaurez ns
Maximillian's organs have lately tried'to make
the world believe. The statement that Urago de
serted Jaure* and submitted to the Emperor is
refuted in the letter which contains a paragraph
from a letter from Urago himself. M iximilliun,
even by the showing of the Eslafette, and’otber
official organs And many unexpected difficulties.
It comnloios of the want of assistance and eo
opjeration from the influential citiz.-ns who
heretofore were opposed to Janrcz, but they
do not seem to like Maxmilian any better.
We a.e told that.thc* clergy are very much op
posed to this civilization; they expected to got
back their property, but Maximilian, Almonte
&Cos. want itthe usalves.
A gentleman writing to the Confederate l n
ion from Albany, Ga , says; "We have the
most producing crop? of sugar cane aa that
we have ever bad in this section of the State.
lam certain the corn crop v.iii yield a third
more than ev-r known before.
The crops in all sections <A South Carolina
ate v ex/ promisieg.
FROM VIftOISIA- H
Persons just arrive.! from the Valley
that Aug. 23 Gen Early teat the enemy
Charlestown and drove them into
Ferry, b« lc : r,g a thousand men in the ir.g
mn* We prt-sprne "that the skim
which cco'irr- and while Geu Ea>ly was pr<
the enemy back down the YaPey. gave
to this report.
• Bines the memorable ba’ltio a! Reams’
iron; on Thursday l.w»t. there has been no
ing on the lines in front of Petersburg
enemy, however, commenced shelling the citS
heavily Monday morning, an 1 several houseS
jvere struck. U
In (he enemy's several attempts to cut amH
hold the Weldon vailroa#he has loss riot hvH
than fifteen thousand men. Niue thonsaiiil
prisoners have been taken, and his killed*an*
wounded, at a low estimate, will reach sixl
thousand. I
The enemy's works at Reams', captured by*
our troops on Thursday, were very strong, anill
Constructed with much ingenuity and ski!'..!
They were'built, of logs,.fence rails and earth, 1
extended on'both sides of t'ne railroad, and I
were protected on nil sides, au 1 as they I
thought, both in front and rear. They are I
now in our possesriou, and tDo Yankees have I
nri'ta no attempt to recapture them. I
Among tile prisoners captured «n Thursday I
are about eighty commissioned officers.
The rumor that the enemy h-ul landed iu
force atthe White-llouso, ou the Pamunkey
liver, is Without foundation.
Acotirding to nil accounts from Western
Virginia, Early lies tire' advantage over his
opponents in that section.
A report states that a large body of Yankee
cavalry was seen on Mou<Uy •tnorniug uraii*;
around towards onrvxtreme r'g'at. in ihe di -
n-ction of tho Weldon-vailread. It has been
conjee!urea that another raid is in contempla
tion.
The Yankees Mill bold the line of tho Wel
don railroad in heavy force, and both armies
are quietly watching each other, whilst the
respective loaders are busy arranging their
plans for the fu'uro
ft is estimated that our total levs in the on -
pagement nt Ream's staticn will not exceed
siren or eight hundred.
It is stated that Bberidan’s troops wepe great
ly demoralized on their retreat to Harper’s Fer-,
ry. They broke up a great many of tlmir guns,
threw others into wells, a*,,v exhibited every
sign of apprehension lest they should be over
taken by old .Tubal’s Confederates. All the hay
and grain on their route was burnt,and ill .some
inst slices barns were fired in order to destroy
the contents. They burnt no dwellings at this
time, and ns.dgncd ns a to-won for burning the
k vy ami grain that tho Confederates had burn
ed Ohambersb'Ug. The troops were perfectly
lawless, and (lie woist hcluwed set of men (lie
people of that section ever ,«a». They killed
or drove ( fl-all the cattlir, hogs, sheep, hmsea
and poultry, took wagons, earn tg«’a and bug
gies, destroy. <1 gardens an 1 stole nil the provi
sions they could find. Some idea may be form
ed of their numbers, when we state that they
were eleven bouts pass ng a given point at a
doubly- quick in going back. A desolate track
mui-i'.rd lli!-ir progress wherever they went—
It is said that Sheridan is fully impressed with
the'importane of ids position, aud-depo: ts bim.
self very a monarch. He .travels in stale,
riding in a Mae carriage drawn by four splendid
gray horses.
Between four hundred an 1 five hundred
pris 'ners, captured by General Early, in tho
Lower- Valley, paired through Uarrisjbnburg
on Tuesday week. We are informed that they
will not be ituaa-'-diati-ly carried out of the Vul
ley, but icept c-oavonieuUy near at hand, so
that in coxa any of them happen to bo *.* in ted
by General Eolyhe ran jest call for them.
This would indicate that the law of retaliation
is about be enforced.
A report, which lacks confirmation, was cur
rent in Richmond. Monday that General Early
fought the Yankees on Batuidsy last, aiul de
feated,them with great slaughter. It is, doubt
less. ft repetition of the rumor on Sunday last.
T iie United Synod of the Presbyterian church
has been in scission 1 r several days in Lynch
burg, Virginia. -But few ministersaro present,
owing to the ptesonc® of the enemy in many
portions of the South. Tho moat important
business execute J by the body has been the
consummation of the pir n for uniting the two
brandies of the church. Tho Old and New
Schoo’s ere now oire.
I EAST TE-tXKWsSE.
From a lute'camber cr Brownlow's paper,
we learn that ihe Federal Grand Jufv sittiug
at Knoxvi.i * found six hundred and sixty bills'*
of indictment for treason against rebels.
Brov. nlcw fills the columns of his paper with
articles ualccl th; l to stir up bad blood against
Confederates in Fast Tent mss, e.
A Soutli era fady was'-shot dead in Church
River District Era! Tennessee, a lev duy»
since, by a negro. B c-uiSo ;-he refused to give
up to him a -limll pistol she-carried übcui her
person. Flu was unesied for tiff murder by .
citizens irrespective of political tom.-ls, and
harried before hi* Colonel, who denounced the
citizens for th* ir assumption in arresting the
negro, released him, and told the citizens that
the negro bad done his duty.
A lady 1-:; lin'd Scbar.pp, is under sentence of
dentil at Knoxville for shooting a negro who
was trying to f.mxi hi r daughter to go to
church with him f-iie is now waiting the exe
cution of the sentence.
The Federal force at Knoxville is said to l»e
only two white regiments and one negro regt -
mc-nt. *
Several ladies have lately been sent from
Knoxville to our lines.
Tho Yackites and lories still continue to com
mit acts of lawkssnCiS iu ail sections of East
Tennessee.
Our forces in tho vicinity of Bulls Gap, have
be< n driven back Ij Jonesboro.
The Yankee forces have advanced to within
a few miles cf Kingsport.
A body of Yankee cavalry., dashed into Ro
geißviiie nud oaptareflSM’verai Confederate pfii
Csre and loading cUizats.
Tho condition of the Southern sympathisers
in East Tennessee is said to be vt ry diaticasing
VUU.II TilE FRO AT.
' A correspondent of the Savannah Repiibii
can rays tiie iiiithorlly recently given to tho
President of dropping supeiflunus officers ia
the army, is beginning to be IVU. Quartet*
masters, (kpnnmsaiies sad other staff officers,
so long securely in (lie enjoyment of all tiui
comforts their petitions en-ured. now open
documents marked "official" with fear and
trembling.
Tbe Relief Sooilies at the front have become
an -Indispensable inslitution; their efforts for
flie ftllev ialien of suffering have been untiring.
When tbe -cm- rgenry requires it, they workday
and night. By their good offices many a boI
dier is retumed to his command in a few days,
with health restored, that might otherwise
have gone to the rear for a month physicking
at Genet*l Hospital.
The Yankees centinuo to occasionally visit
•Stone -Mountain. A pro ail force came in oa
Monday, destroyed a few arms,and left threat
ening to return next day.
Th.; Yankee pii iica straggling through the
country arc seizin; pro vicious, killing hogs,
&C., giving out as an e^;use therefor that their
army is on very short rations, and they are
obliged to help fhemselvcs in this war.
Several unexplodcd Yankee slieils have ex
ploded in Atlanta Bom careless handling re
cently-killing and wounding many citizens.
All the houses vacated between tbe Yankee
fortification,) and the Chattfihoochie have been
demolished.
F.KTTICiII FROM I3ISHOP FIERCE.
Eiutor Chronicle: la my letter to Governor
Brown, which you have published, there is one
statement which 1 must correct, in justice to ai!
parties. 1 war, misinformed and wrote under
a false impression. ! refer to the interference
with (be worship of the negroes in my neigh
borhood. It i.; due to the wort 1 , y citizens who
were patrol ing on that occasion t > say—that it
was not their purpose to disturb the congrega
tion. Their arrival just as the service was ov- r
and tbepepple retiring, was an accidental co
incidence—nor did they punish any who were
going quietly to their homes. Those who were
whipped—instead of going to preaching—w*ere
visiting about ia the neighboring houses with
out pasts;s, and wer# liable under the law.—
This explanation is due to myself and to the
respectable citizens involved in my former
statement The mistake cf those who report
ed to me was very natural, under all the cir
cumstances—but the above correction is due
to truth and justice. G. F. Pikrcic.
from the coast.
A few days since a party of Yankees went to
Bethel, n small town in Glynn- county, about
eight mibs from Waynesville. They burnt
the store house, warehouse and barn belonging
to Mr. J M. Tison, and carried off five of his
his negroes, together with a quantity of tobac
co. As soon as they bad accomplished their
object, they teat a hasty retreat. The number
of the enemy who mado this raid we could
not leans, but it is suppose l to have been a
small parly from their fleet.
We also learn that during the past week an
other party of the enemy raptured Judge Bur
nett and eight of his negroes, all of whom
they carried off. Judge Burnett resided soma
right or t n mile:) horn Brunswick.
Several negroes captured by the Vank.;.*.; at
Fort Morgan have succeeded in gsc&ping to oaf
Unco,