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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 >eal it, it. for every 0 resolve* 1 in his derate li U" 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,