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HE hPIHIT OF THE f'Hir I'iO COW FA HON"
We give below the speeches ol Mr. Belmont
>f New York, who called the Chicago Conven
tioa to order, Mr. Bigler, ft Penni> Ivania, the
temporary chairman, and Governor Seymour,
of New York, the permanent President of the
Chicago Convention. From theoe onr readers
■will be able to understand the sentiments
which controlled its action :
The Convention was called together at
jioon by August Belmont, chairman of the Na
tional Democratic Committee, who tail:
Gentlemen of the Cos. eni,Oa : We are ae.-em
bled here to-day as the National Democratic
Convention for the purpose of nominating can
didates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency
of the United States.
This task, at all times a most difficult and
arduous one, baa by the sad event of our civ
il war» assumed an importance and responsi
bilily of the most fearful nature. Never since
ihe forma.ion of our Government has there
been an assemblage, the proceedings ,of which
were fraught with more momentous %nd vital
results than those which must (iow from your
action hero. ' ....
Towards you, gentlemen, are directed at this
moment the anxious fears and doubts, noton
Jv of millions of American cititzens but also
of every juver of civil liberty throughout the
•world. In your hands rests, under the rulings
of an all wise Providence, the future of the re
public. Four years of rule by a sectional, fa>-
natical and corrupt j>arty, warns ns of the dis
astrous consequences which would befall ug if
Mr. Lincoln's re-election should bo made possi
ble by onr want of patriotism and unity. The
inevitable results of such a calamity must bo
the utter disintegration of our whole political
and social system, amid bloodshed, and anarchy,
with the great problem of liberal progress and
yeif government jeopardized for generations to
The American people have at last awaken
ed to 1 he' conviction that a change of policy
wild Administration can alone stay our down
ward course, and they will rush to the support
; of your candidate and platform, provided you
will offer to their suffrages a tried patriot who
has proved his devotion U> the Union and Con
stitution; that you pledgo him and ourselves
to maintain their hallowed importance by ev
tffy effort and sacrifice in our power. Let us,
at the very outset of our proceedings, bear in
miad that tb*dissentiohs of the last National
Democratic Convention were one of the prin
cipal causes which gave the reins of the Gov
ernment into tbe hands of onr opponents, and
let us beware not to fall again into the same
fatal error.
We must bring to tho altar of our country
the sacrifice of onr prejudices, opinions aud
convictions, however dear and long cherished
they may be, from the moment they threaten
1 the harmony and unity of action so. itnlispea
ttuble to our success.
We are here, not as War Democrats, nor as
Peace Democrats, but as citizens of this great
•Republic, which will strive and ■ labor to the
last to bring hack to its former greatness and
prosperity, without one single star taken from
the brilliant constellation that once encircled
i»s youthful blow.
Let pure aud disinterested patriotism, tern,
pered by model atimi and forbearance, preside
over our deliberations, and. under the blessing
of Almighty God, Ihe sacred causo of the Un
ion, the Constitution and the laws must prevail
over fanaticism and treason.
Mr. Belmont was enthusiastically applauded
during the delivery of his address.
SPEECH OK KX (I,OV. DIi.I.HR.
Gentlemen of //*« CimnnUon :—I am greatly
honored in your selection of me to preside
over the preliminary deliberations of this
body. My acknowledgjtoents for the high
compliment* and for a tho kind greeting just
extended to me by this vast concourse of my
fellow citizens, will bo best manifested by
the proper discharge of the duties of tin po
sition to which you have called me. It is not
ixpected, nor would it be tilting in one assum
ing a mere temporary Presidency of the Con
vention, that he should enter upon any gene
ral discussion of the many topics suggested
by the unhappy condition of our country.
A brief allusion to trio occasion und pur
poses of our assemblage is all that will be
necessary. No similar body ever assembled
* in America with mightier objects before it, or
to which such a vast proportion of the Ameri
can people looked with such profound solic
itude for measures to promote the welfare of
the country and advance their individual hap
piness. The termination of Democratic rule
in this country was the end of peaceful rela -
tions between the States and the people.
The elevation of a sectional party to author
ity at Washington, tho culmination ol a long
indulged, adriiqonions war, crimination and
recrimination between exhume men at the
.North and Synth, wore promptly followed by
dissolution and civil war, and in the progress
of that war even the outworks of civil liberty
have been imperiled and the whole labile
brought to the very voice of destruction, and
now, at the end of more than three years of
n war unparalleled in modern times for its
magnitude and for barbarous desolation, after
more than two millions of men have boon call
ed into the field on our yid - alone, after the
land has been literally drenched in fraternal
blood, and wailings and lamentation are
heard in every corner of cur common country,
the hopes of tho Union and of our cherished
object are in no wise improved.
The men now in authority, through a feud
which they long main brined wish violent and
unwiso men at the South, became of a blind
fanaticism about an institution in some States,
and in relation to which they had no duties to
perform and to bear, arc ut
terly incapable of adopting the proper means
to rescue our country, our whole country, from
ils present lamentable condition.
Then, gentlemen, it is apparent that the first
indispensable step to the hccomplishment of
this great work is the overthrow by the. ballot
of the present Administration, and the inau
guration of another in its stead, which will
wisely and zealously, but temperately and just
ly wield all (be inlluer.ee and power of the
v Government to bring about n speedy settlement
of our internal troubles on the principle,s.cf
The Constitution, and on terms honorable and
lost to all sections. North, South, Hast and
West; one which will staud unfalteringly by
ci\l and religions liberty ; one which, instead
of trying solely on its peculiar dogmas and
doctrines and the ravages of the sword, w ill
referthe national troubles to the people, the
fountify* of political authority, and to the
States under the forms of the Cor, dilution ; one
.which wHi have no conditions precedent to
the restoration of the Union, but will diligent
ly seek that result as a return of permanent
peace among the people.
Gentlemen, you have been com mb stoned by
tho people taseomo here and initiate st. ps to
accomplish these great objects, to select an
agent and agencies in the good work. That that
step will be wot) performed 1 have an nnfal
tering faith, anti that the people may sanction
and Grid bless tbiW means to the desired end
is my sincere prayer.
SPEECH OF ObV SEYMOUR OF NEW YORK.
—On taking the chair Governor Seymour spoke
ns follows: >
Gentlemen of the Cotm idion—l cannot fore
cast the resolutions and action of the Conven
tion; but I enu say that every member of it
loves the Union, desires peace, and will up
bold constitutional freedom.t While the reso
lutions and action of this Con% ..{ion are of
the utmost importance, there are r vats wbv
tho Democratic party should be restored to
power, and they are great reason)'. Tho De
mocratic party will restore the Union, it because
t. * its restoration, it willbriug peace, longs be
cause it loves pence: it will bring back linerty to
our land, because it loves libery; it At put
down despotism, because it hates the lanobio
tyranny which now degrades the An. x ot
people. Four years ago a Convention n* iu
this city when our country was peaceful. ;> <
porous and united. Its delegate did n -me
to destroy our government,' to overwhelm us
with debt, or to dtench our land with blood;*
but they were animated by intolerance and.
fanaticism, and blinded by au ignorance of the
spirit of our institutions, the character of our
people, and the condition of our land. They*
thought they might safely indulge their pas
sions, and they concluded to do so. Thee
would not heed the warnings of our fa the is'
and they did not consider that meddling-be
get* strite. Their passions have wrou -'•>< out
their natural results They were im; dkd to
►purn a?l measure* of Step 1 v
step they have marched on ‘to results which
at the onset they would have shtuuk with
horror from; and even now. when v-ai les d.s
olated our laud, has laid its heavy burdens no
on labor, and wbeu bankruptcy and ruin ov. r
hacg us, they will not have the rniou re
stored except upon conditions uakuowu t->
*>ur constitution. They will not 1. 1 the ,‘h
dieg of blood cease even for a little time t
see if Christian ehariiyor the wisdom of states
manship may not work out a method to
our country.
Nay mere than this : ti 07 will not listen to
a proposal for peace which’does net . .-. r that
which this Government has no right to ask.
This admiuistratibn cannot now save t. ia Union
if it would, it has by iU proclamations. by
•viudictivu legislation, and by displays of i, ie
*Bkd passion. placed obstacles in it.- own path
way which if cannot overcome. It has iiam
■peered its own freedom of action by unconstitu
jicnalites. It cannot be said that the failure
of its policy is due to the want of courage and
devotion on the part of our armies. Never in
the history of the world have soldiers given up
their lives more freely than have those of the
arm .;- which have battled for the Hag of eur
Union in the Southern States. The world will
hold that they have done all that arms can do:
and had wise statemanship secured the fruits of
their victories, to day there would hare been
peace in our land But while our soldiers have
and -perately struggled to carry our banners
south to the Gall of Mexico, even now thegov
ernment declares, in the edict of a general, that
rebellious discontent has worked northward to
the shores of tb“ lake-. The guaranteed rights
of the people to bear arms has been trampled
under foot up to the very borders of Canada, so
that American servitude is put in bold contrast
with British libeity. This administration thus
declares to the world that it has no faith in the
people of the States whose Votes placed it in
power. It also admits by such an edict that
the people have no faith in this administra--
tion. While thosq,iu power without remorse
-acrifice the blood and treasures of our people
they will not give up their own passions for the
public good.
ThisJUnion is nol held asunder by‘military am
bition. If our politbjaljtroublescould be refer
red to the peaceful arbitrament of the contend
ing armies in the Held, our Union would be
restored, the rights of’the States would be
guaranteed, the sacredness of homes and per
sons be again respected, and an insulted judi
ciary would again administer the laws of the
land. Lei not the ruin of our country be
charged to our oldiers. It is not due to
their teachings or their fanaticism. In the con
stant official intercourse with them 1 have nev
c r heard uttered one sentiment of hatred to
wards the people or Ihe South. Beyond all
other men they value the blessings of peace
and flu; virtues of mercy, of gentleness and of
charity, while those who stay at home demand
that no mercy, charity or forgiveness shall be
shown. The bigotry and fanaticism and the
intrigues of placemen have the bloody pages
of tho history of the past three years. It was
a soldier upon whom our Savior bestowed his
only commendation when he hung upon the
cross, and Pharisees mocked his sufferings."
It was a soldier alone who discerned his divin
ity when he heard him pour forth a prayer for
mercy and forgiveness lor tho authors of his
sufferings. 'J his administration cannot save
tiiis Union We can, Mr. Lincoln views many
things above the Union. We put the Union
first of all. He thinks a proclamation worth
more than peace. We think the blood of our
people more precious than the edict of the Pres
ident. There are no hindrances in our path
way to Union aud topeace. We demand no
conditions for the restoration of the Union.
We am shackled wiLh no hates, no prejudices,
no passions. 'We wish for fraternal relation
ship with the people of the South. We de
mand for them what we demand* for our
selves—the full recognition of the rights of
the We mean that any State on our
nation’s banner shall shine with one and the
same lustre.
In the coming eloetigiy ®en must decide with
which of the two parties, into which our people
ale divided, they will act. If they wish for
unton they will act with that party which will
hold the Union together. They will act. with
that party which does now, and always did,
lov<f and reverence the Union. If they wish
for.peace they will act with those who sought
to avert this wAr, or who now seek to restore
good will and harmony among all sections of
our country. If they care for their rights and
.or the ra. ■ f'dpess f their bocait, they will act
with those who have stood up to resist arbi
trary arrests; despotic legislation and the over
throw of tho judiciary. If, upon the other
hand, tlu v are wilii g to continue the present
policy ol the Government and condition of af
fairs,let them act with that-organization which
made the present, condition of our country.—
‘There are many good men who will bo led to
do this by their prejudices, and onr laud
.swanns ,wUh placemen who will hold upon
power with a deadly grasp But, as for us,
we are resolved that the party which has made
the history of our country, since its advent to
power, H-,"in like some unnatural and terribje
dream, shall be overthrown. Four years ago
it. had its birth upon this spot. Lotus see
that by our notion it shall die here, where it
was born. We desire. Union and peace. The
administration deny us Union and peace, for
they demand conditions and exact a price
which they .know will prolong the wai; and
war unduly prolonged becomes disunion.
Wise statesmanship can now bring this war
io a close upon the terms solemnly sat forth
by the at the outset of the contest
In the political contest In which wo are engag
ed, we do not seek partisan advantages. We
are battling for llie'rights of those who" belong
to all political organ!ztions. We mean that
their rights of speech shall be unimpeachod,
although that right mav be used to denounce
us. We intend that the rights of conscience
sliall be protected, although mistaken views
of duty may turn the temples of religion into
theatres for partisan denunciations. We mean
that, home rights and the sacredness of the
fireside shall be respected by those in authori
ty, no matter what political views may be held
by those who sit beneath their roof trees. When
the democratic party shall-have gained power
wiAßhall not lie less but mere tenacious upon
these subjects. YVo have foreborne much be
cause those who are now charged with the con
duct of public, affairs know but little about the
principles of our government. We were un
willing to present an appearance of factious
opposition ; but when we shall have gained
power that official who shall violate one princi
ple of law, one single right of the humblest
man in our land, shall be punished by the full
rigors of the law—it matters not whether he
sits in the Presidential chair or holds a hum
bler office under our government. We have
hud upon this floor a touching and significant
proof of tli.; tolly of this administration, who
have driven from their support those upon
whom they chkliy leaned at the outset of the
rebellion.
Then their hopes even for their own personal
safety were upon the noble men in ihe border
Stales, who. under circumstances the most try
ing, severed family relationship and ancient
associations to uphold the flag of our country.
Many of-(hose men are now members of this
Convention They bear impressed niton their
countenances end manifest in their presence
the high and genetoils purpose whieh ani
mates them, and yet it is true, and great God
that it should he true, they are stung with the
sonsy of injustice and ingratitude of low and
unworthy men, who have insulted and ruined
them and their families, "and trampled upon
(heir rights by vindictive legislation and
through the agency of m-serable and dishonor
able subordinates. Gentli men, Ido trust that
our proceedings here will be marked by har
mony. Ido earnestly believe that we shall be
animated by the greatness of this occasion. In
all probability the future destiny of our coun
try hangs upon cur action Let this considera
tion inspire us with a spirit of harmony. God
our father bless us now, lift us above all per-
S'.'tt: 1 considerations, fill us with a just idea of
t ie great n-spondbilities that rest upon us, and
give again our land its union, its peace, audits
liberty.
Loud d-d enthusiastic cheers greeted Gov.
Seymour as he concluded his speech.
moot AOKTJI EAST UEORGIA.
The company of lories formed in Fannin
county, to aid and assist the Lincolnites have
been dispersed and driven to the mountains
lu Gilmer county there are three companies of
the same stamp.
In Dickens county the company of lories
•formed were di«p rsed by Wheeler. Ami ar
bor were, killed. But little quarter was shown
them when captured who escaped are'
banding together again for the purposes of
plunder and robbery.
A correspondent of the* Athens Watchman
says that t-r-t of the tones in North East
Georgia veto born and raised there, and re
grets that -•> many miscreants exist in that
section The same correspondent says that
'.g.i.i's i -ril a rangemcnid in that section are
coining but a nuisance. No reliance a{ all
lean ho placed on them.
!*\ KKOMAOTH CAROLINA.
v On Sunday morning August,:>»h a portion of
tin- Sixty-seventh regiment North Carolina
Btroops. under Major Whitford, struck the
A; ’ SL 1 ami North Carolina railroad near Croa
tan below Newbern. where they tore trp
the threw from the road the train
from Si City, The Yankees say the
train wei touch damaged and several persons
injured. i.;*tr troops made a complete circuit
of "and returned on Thursday morn-,
ir,.r to Kinet\k having killed seven or eight
Yankee ne/h and captured several more j
without su?tai-#t any injury themselves. The '
V ecs at Ne*%>( rn, it is said, were greatly
excited at this dining raid.
- yat ojm -
From Arors-fA to Atlanta, the distance is
171 mil s; from Atlanta to Macon, 103: At
lanta to West Point, 87; West Point to Moat-,
gem. ry, sv, Savannah to Macon, 190: Macon
to Auderjonville, 50. By a reference to these
distances it will be seen that Hood's army is
mile.-, south of Atlanta, on the Macon road,
. 1 from Macon, and 134 fteni Andersonville,
wlu re the Yankee prisoners areconfined, which
v,; i! serve to dispel tLe idea that the prisoner.!
are in darger at present.
Sev<-n>i c:t ,-a of bran J-j kegs of wLisky,
supposed to be smuggle hare byou sviaed iu
Charleston.
LETTER FROM SOtyHXVESTEBA VIRGINIA.
SI’KMAL CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE 4 SENTINEL.
Xarnber of Lincoln troops in Kenbufcy—Tlein
forcements sent to Sherman — Yankee merchants
failing East Tennessee—Miscegenation at
Rnoxvilie—A nigger soldier killed Inj a Knox
ville lady, &c., Ac.
Department Southwestern Virginia. )
Wise Cos. Va , Aug. 25. 1864. j
We left Carter county, Tenn., about five days
ago to spend a short leave of absence in Wise
county, and to gather some intelligence from
Kentucky, as we are situated only twenty miles
from Pound Gap, the place that Prentice want
ed excavated and widened so that Gen. Ham
"phrey Marshall could pass through.
Yesterday an old gentleman cime up from
ML Sterling, Ky. He says that there are very
few Lincoln troops in the State; that they have
been taken away; we suppose to Sherman.
There are about two hundred up on Licking
river near Puncheon: but they are thinking of
leaving the State soon.
Giltner's brigade has been near Cumberland
Gap, and had some fighting.
Yankees in East Tennessee are terror
stricken, and have boxed uo their goods and
are leaving in droves. Such is our information.
- We have heard many ludicrous stories
about the negro soldiers at Knoxville, and
they are doubtless true, tor they were given to
me by a gentleman of undoubted veracity,
Mr. David Haynes, the father of Senator
Haynes from Tennessee. He says that Mrs.
Baker’s waiting girl, a bright mulatto, who
was left in charge of that lady’s home, in Knox
ville, when our people evacuated that city, has
been married to a white Yankee Major, and. the
mulatto and the Major are the leaders of the
ton in that city of tho Hills. The Major’s sister
made a visit lrorn the North, and happened to
arrive at Knoxville while he anil his bride were
at church. Away to the church she flew and
upon meeting her sister-in-law embraced her
and kissed her before “all them poor white
trash.” lam also informed that the negro sol
diers are gallanting the white women to chu’
and elsewhere. A beautiful couple of
kind were passing the door of a M>s.
Snapp, recently, and she laughed at their
a short time the “Moor’’ came back and imoi
ed Mrs. Snapp that she must aud should w
with him to church, also. She refused i
ordered him to leave her house; and on his
fusing, she drew a pistol aud blew his brs
out. She was arrested but has been relos
without trial. The “year jubulee” has .
rived at Knoxville, we should say, at least aa
far as the negroes are concerned.
Sous Lieutenant.
FROM REMTICKY.
Iu the Richmond Enquirer we fiatTthe an
nexed news from Kentucky :
Captain S, P. Cunningham, of Colonel
Adam Johnson's command, arrived iu Rich
mond a few days since from the new Military
Department of Southern Kentucky, bringing
the War Department the most cheering report
of the practical results wo have recently ac
complished in that quarter, and the brig’
prospects that await the progress of our a
In the eTitire State. Colonel Johnson's m
meuts have been denominated by the enei
mere raid, and from the absence of direct
vices we have been under a like imp re;
heretofore. It appears, however, that a
gular Military Department has been ert
in Southern Kentucky, comprising an are
eight populous counties It is self-support;
and daily'extending in boundary.
On entering the State Colonel Johhsor
sued the following address :
Citizens of Kentucky :
The alternative is now presented to you
entering either the Federal or Confederate
army. All persons between the ages ot seven
teen and forty-five, who are not lawfully ex
empted, will be required to go into service at
once.
- You must now see that, after the sacrifice
of all .that freemenjshould hold dear, toavoid this
evil and to save your property, that the one
lias not been rendered secure, and you have
not saved yourself from the other, even by
the sacrifice.of principle and honor. Your
country has been overrun by lawhss
bands, whose depredations are only' equalled
by the outrages of larger bands of the Federal
army. Neither feel nor have any respect for
the sulimissionists, and you are plundered,
robbed and murdered with impunity. How
long do you intend this to continue ? To
what depths of degradation aud shame are
you to be reduced before you will cut loose
the bonds of slavery and assert your rights as
freemen ?
Men of Kenluckey! are you willing to see
your families reduced to the level of your
slaves ? Mothers, can you realize an affiliation
of your daughters with the African ?
Young men! canyon expect to have any
claims to manhood, can you hope to share the
smiles or claim the love of the blight eyed
daughters of this famed “Land of beauty,'’
while those gentle beings are subjected to the
insults of Yankee hirelings and negro troops ?
If not, then speedily seize the only way to
bring yon peace, liberty and honor. Too long
have you listened to the siren song of the trai
tors of the country. Already too much has
been sacrificed to no advantage. Y’our only
hope of peace is in the success of the Southern
armies! Not alone your, liberties, but your
lives are involved in this issue. The moderate
Union man, the Democrat at the North, as well
as the Southern soldier, will all owe th6ir lives
and liberties to this result.
I appeal to you -again as I did two years ago
to rally and strike a blow for. the freedom of
your country. * A. R. Johnson,
Commanding Confederate Forces
In Southern Kentucky.
Recruits poured in from all quarters of the
State.
It will be seen, from the subjeined order,
that we do notinteal to tolerate “neutrality”
In the new department:
Hkadq’rh Department or Southern Kr , )
August Bth, 1864. )
General Order
No. 2. )
In pursuance to General Orders from the
War Department, Richmond, Virginia, I here
by cider all citizens in Ibis department, be
tween the ages of seventeen and forty-five
(whoaienot exempt from military (lurty,) to
report to their county towns, or the nearest
camp thereto, for duty as soldiers in the Con
federate States army.
This department embraces all that section of
the Confederacy contained within the follow
ing boundarv,-to wit: Commencing at the
mouth of Salt river, and extending through
Elizabethtown, Glasgow and Tompliinsville,
Kentucky, to Carthage, Tennesse : then fol
lowlog the Cumberland liver to Nashville;
thence with the line of the North Western
Railroad to the Tennessee river; then west to
Hickman, Kentucky ; then up the M’ssissippi
river to the mouth of the Ohio, then to the
place of beginning.
All persons failing to report as above order
el will be conscripted immediately after the
15 th instant.
By command of
Colonel A. R Johnson.
Com’ding Department Southern Ky.
S. P. Cunningham,
Captain and A. A. G.
As the department is extended, the order
will doubtless, be enlarged, and it may rea
sonably be presumed with good remits. The
State is represented as ablaze with revolu
tion. The inauguration of Sherman’s eoloniz
, ing programme is the feather that bus broakon
the back of “neutrality.” A thousand cilzens
have recently been arrested, shipped down the
Mississippi and sent to Yucatan. There was
not an able bodied man among the number,
and the old men. helpless women and children’
who are the victims of this horrible cruelty
must perish of starvation on the inhospitable
shore of Yucatan, from the fevers of that
deadly climate. Instances are numerous
where men have been seized at dead of night,
forced into the Federal ranks, and their fami
lies, banished a moment’s warning.
Frequently the husband is sept to Canada anti
the wife to Yucatan, or vice versea.
No limit is set by the Federal authorities to
the fiendishness of Payne and Burbridgs, who
have already become, under the tutelage of
Burnside acd example of Butler, the most ac
complished scoundrels in anti Christendom.
The military operations of General Johnson
have been • inert to organizing his
rte, . ifcc., still he has found
tim- • number of transports,
up* ed head of cattle, im
mei t uartoFmasters’ stores
and- all with tho loss ot
less «... enty men.
We hope to see this new department, under
the management oi General Johnson, rapidly
stand, until it includes the entire State. If
the change wrought in the sentiment of Ken
tucky exists io th» extent represented by all
accounts that have reached as from the State,
the conjecture that such result awaits us is
not improbable.
A gentleman in Tbomasville, Ga., has au
thorized the proprietor of tbe Hotel in that
place to feed and lodge ail needy soldiers pass
ing through that place, to the amount of sl,-
000, at his expense. This is certainly com
meudable and patriotic, and.desgtyiug emula
tion.
NORTHERN sews.
Iu the case of Mr. Mullaily, editor of the
New Y’ork Metropolitan Record,’ the United
States Commissioner decided as follows : A
careful study of the sections have led me to
the conclusion that before aay'person can re
sist anv draft of men enrolled into the service
of ihe United States, or shall counsel another
to resist such draft, the draft must be actually
in opeiation. drawing the names from the
wheel and going through the modus operand!
of the proceeding. It is tme, the enrollment
is completed, or being completed, and the Pro
vost Marshal is periiaps ready to draft at the
expiration of the time allowed by the Presi
dent under his proclamation for the respective
districts to fiil the.quota assigned. Still, until
the order is actually enforced, I cannot see
how a person can commit the offence of resist
ing the draft, or counsel a resistance to .the
draft. It is an operation not ol itself, and all
the steps taken up to the sth of September are
mere preliminaries to the dratt, and decide that
the defendant is not properly put on the com
plaint, aud hereby order his discharge.
A monument is about to be erected over the
remains of Stephen A. Douglas, at a cost of fif
ty thousand dollars.
An order has been issuffd forbidding the ship
ping of arms in Ohio, Indiana, and lilnois, for
sixty days.
Gen. Butler has gone North on a furlough.
Forty-eight bales of Missouri hemp recently
brought one hundred and sixty-five per
ton at St. Louis.
Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, has con
sented to be a candidate for re-election.
Tho Construction Corps of the United States
military railroads has just accomplished a great
feat. The railroad bridge over the Chattahoo
chee, seven hundred and sixty feet long and
ninety feet high, destroyed by the Confederates
in their retreat, was rebuilt in four and a half
days’ work and " Friday last to
within three mil
An Opera Ho' erected in
Baltimore.
T.“* - ’ Yankees
made
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hfln
tred tous, ana
The Troy, v /esan
* -a sr' rthern
bof con
on in _
is trouble b dthe
citizens liable to nr ms,
Natchez and Vick v
ha3 ordered all'
ages of eighter
of occupation
and the P
sissippi
the se’
not >
w
-e a
w caulkers,
etc., m me towns along the -river,
and many are trying to get outside of Ganby’s
department.
A chimney, built in 1799, in an old house in
Northampton, Massachusetts, and lately taken
down, furnished bricks enough to build three
modern chimneys, an underpinning to a house
eight pieis in a cellar, a cistern, aud a diain
three hundred feet leng, besides a wagon load
sold and a lot left.
-The Northsrn papers say the coolest robbery
committed by the rebel raiders in Maryland
was at an ice cream manufactory, about four
teen miles from Baltimore, where a small body
of cavalry devoured one hundred gallons of
that seasonable article without waiting for
spoons.
The New Y’ork Democratic State Convention
meets at Albany, September 14th.
The New York Herald puolished a card to
its readers some two vveeks ago, announcing
that on account of the high price of printing
materials &c. it would have to increase its rates
of subscription and advertising. Not the Her
ald alone, but numbers of other papers in the
North have b«en compelled to do tbe same
thing. We learn from a late Yaukce paper
that seven papers in the State of New Y’ork
have given up the ghost from the same cause.
The Northern press is just beginniug to fell
the effects of this war and we think that ere long
there will be a largo increase in the number of
peace journals in Y’ankeedom, unless prices de
cline, of whiith there is but little probability.
Gen. Canby in his late order says the prac
tice of permitting persons in the rebel service
to send their families within his lines for grea
ter safety and comfort, has prevailed to a dan
gerous extent at some poiuts within the limits
of the command, that hereafter all such per
sons will be turned back at the picket lines, or
it they have made their way through them
will be sent back. Refugees of good faith are
to be received and kindly treated. If destitute,
their wants will be supplied, as far as the
means under tho control of the commanding
officer will permit. Whenever they embarrass <
military operations they are to be packed off
to Cajfo, Illinois.
An agent sent out by the authorities of Jer
sey City, to recruit in ihe Confederate States,
writes from Beaufort that recruiting agents are
"fur more numerous than able bodied blacks de
sirous of going into service.
Tbe imports at New York so far, this year
are forty million'dollars over last year in the
same time, and the exports, reckoned in cur
rency, have increased sixteen million.
The great twenty inch gun cast at Pittsburg
is on its winding way through New Jersey to
New York, at the rate of thirty miles a day.
Tbe friction of the journal boxes, under the
excessive weight, prevents any greater speed.
The Newark Advertiser says the mechanics’
shops o r that city are being literally deserted,
by men determined lo avoid the draft. Fifty
in one shop quit the same dav.
An anvil weighing seventeen and a half tons
was recently cast at Dundas, Canada, for the
Giand Trunk railway.
A large force of workmen are employed in
laying the double track between Washington
and Baltimore. Work to be completed No
vembers 1, 1804.
There are oveidtbree thousand bushwhackers
on the north side of the Missouri River.
The latest Northern papers received state
positively that the six hundred Confederate of
ficer who recently arrived at Port Royal in tho
steamer Crescent, are to be placed under our
fire, and that they will not-be exchanged.
The high tariff beings to be severely felt by
the merchants of New York, who have import
ed large quantities of fancy goodsin anticipation
of finding a ready market and high profit. The
high duties imposed upon all articles of foreign
importation are to oppressive that several mer
chants will be compelled to return their goods
to Europe. Smuggling is said to be carried on
to such an extent across the frontier of Canada
that merchants in legitimate trade are not able
to compete with this illegal traffic. Sevetal
prominent merchants engaged in the importa
tion of jewelry and fancy articles of great val
ue, give as their opinion that unless immediate
steps are taken to protect them from this im
position they will be compelled to suspend busi
ness entirely.
The Northern papers say that Charles F. Boa
vers, of Loudon county, Virginia; a member
of Mosby’s company, who was hung last week
in Washington, met his fate with unbending
composure.
A letter dated Nassau, 20th, states that the
steamer Fox has arrived from Chareston having
thrown overboard 130 bales of cotton while
being chased. The steamer Lucy and Syren,
with cotton from Wilmington, had also arrived
The barque Lexington was burned on tbe 10th,
off Hog Island, by the ignition of ajar of vit
rol and was a total loss. Bermuda advices of
tbe 20th mention the arrival there of four steam
ers from WilmiDgton with nearly 3000 bales of
cotton.
Aankee accounts represent that over two
hundred of the Fort Gaines prisoners have
either taken, or offered to- take the oath of
allegiance to Lincoln. We can hardly belit?ve
this, but if it be so, it accounts sufficiently, for
the tatne surrender of the Forts at the mouth
of Mobile Bay. •
A severe storm at Council Bluffs, lowa, re
cently. blew down the canvass of a menagerie,
coveting some 2,000 people with confusion and
alarm. A lion got out of his cage and under
tookto run tbe blockade, but was recaptured.
The Annual Convention of the Bible Socie
ties of South Carolina is appointed for Tues
day, Feb. 20th instant, in Spartanburg.
NORTHERN' SEWS. »
Northern papers say no arrangement has as
yet been made for an exciiange of prisoners.
Confederate prisoners in Fort Lafayette are
not allowed-to receive any luxuries whatever.- 5
Yankee transports are being destrpyed by
our guerrillas on the Arkansas river.
All cotton now at Memphis is to bo shipped
’north.
The Pennsylvania Legislature ha sappropria
ted SIOO,OOO for the relief of the Chambersburg
sufferers.
The new Confederate steamer Electric Spark
was at last accounts cruising off Nassau.
■ Guerrillas still keep harrassing tbe Y'ankees
in lventiftky.
At a convention of ministers of the Southern
Methodist Church, at Loutsvi'le, P. M. Pinckard
C. B. Parsons and S. B. Baldwin were appoint
ed a Boaid of Commissioners, with full power
and authority to assert the rights of the Church
to the Methodist Publishing House in Nash
ville. ’I he -‘preamble” set forth that “ in
formation has beengfiled in the United
States Circuit Court for the Middle Dis
trict of Tennessee for tho confiscation of the
’ Southern Methodist Publishing House at Nash
ville. Tennessee, on Sunday speculations un
known to us, but generaly on the ground of
disloyalty: that said publishing house is the
property of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, alegitimelv organized ecclesiastical or
ganization, and organized as much by the
laws and courts of the United States; that it is
the duty of said church to respond to said in
formation but that the regular general confer
ence of said church,—owing to toe existing ag
itations of the country,—cannot be held ac
cording to the laws of the church,” whereupon
tne convention aforesaid undertook tn act for
the church in the matter.
Yankee recruiting iu Alabama and Northern
Georgea is very dull. Two hundred and twen
ty five agents from the Northern States so far
have not enlisted one hundred and fifty accept
ed recruits.
Roseucranz is executing all the Confederate
guerillas he captures in Missouri.
Hon. Milliard Filmore has writen a letter-in
favdr of McClellan.
Gen. Burnside lias made a speech in which
he assei ts that Lincoln will be able to crush out
the South.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax says Lincoln did not
arrest Vallandigham because he did not want
to create a civil war in the Northwest.
Hon. Albert Gallatin Watkins, of East Ten
nessee, has been arrested for aiding and abet
ting Wheeler’s raiders, and is imprisoned at
Knoxville.
The Indians are reported as having fairly
got to work at the Yankees at last, it being
nted that they sacked oil the 22d July, Marys
'e in Kansas, ninety miles west of St. Joseph,
n address to the working men of New York
made its appeal anco in that- city, which is
iting quite a sensaliou. It denounces the
liv capitalists against labor
meed with terrible se
nen are informed that
natural ally aud defend
-s«vu w»iu interests. They arc also
hat “In this wav the rich escape the bur
t imposes, while the poor do the lighting
ive to pay the cost. Free negroeg are
unuing the North as paupers for white
ng men to support, or as low-priced la
s crowding white men o ;of the market,
aborer is thus being reduced to the vas
jo of the Middle Ages in order only that
egvo should be free, etc.”
e Newport, Rhode Island, News complains
o secession sentiment at that place. On
“fashionable drives the rebel cockade is
minentiy displayed every day by women
who are loud-mouthed in their denunciations
of the Northern people and the Union army.
In the parlours these degraded females give ex
pression to sentiments that no respectable wo
men will entertain, while the secession braw
lers keep gentlemen away from the clubs.”
Another attempt to escape has been made by
the Confederate prisoners at Elmira, N. Y.
The New lork Herald says that the nomi
nation of Gen. McClellan produced intense ex
citement among all classes. The Republicans
looked somewhat serious about it, while tho
democrats, with the exception of a few ultra
bilious oopperheads, appeared to be in ecsta
cit-s.
Several Yankee journals are lamenting the
/act that Confederate cotton bonds command
nearly double the price in English commercial
circles of Yankee Securities.
A Philadelphia paper announces the death of
Dr. Robert M. Houston, an old and distinguish
ed phjsician of that C'ty. He was born in
Virginia in 1794, but most of bis long life was
spent in Philadelphia, where lie became an em
inent professor in the Jefferson Medical Col
lege, and was known to thousands of med
ical graduates throughout the country.
The official statement of the public debt on
the 3.oth of August shows tbeamount outstand
ing to be $1 878,565,234, and the interest, in
both coin and lawful money, $77,447,122, or
an increase of the public debt since tho 2d of
August of $53,073,000] and of interest $1,029,-
000. The debt bearing interest in coin is
now $889,899,492; the debt bearing interest
in lawful money, $469,197,000; the debt on
which interest has ceased. $357,470; the debt
bearing no interest, 519,111,267. The unpaid
requisitions aro $78,795,000, and the amount
in tho Treasury $17,1§9,518. It further ap
pears that since the 2tl of August the six per
cent, bonds under the acts of July 17 and Aug.
5, 1861, exchanged for seven thirties, have in
creased to the extent of $15,000,000; that the
seven-thirty three years notes under the act of
July 17, 1861, have been reduced about the
same amount, and the six per cent, certificates
of indebtedness under the act of March 1, 1862,
increased nearly $28,000,000.
The Nashville Times, which flics at its mast
head the Lincoln and Johnson flag, publishes
an interesting correspondence, between Messrs
Bunt.' and Lindsey, abolition attorneys, and
Colonel Massey, of tbe 100th U. t S. C. I. C. O.
IJ. S. C. T. Phoebus what a title it moans‘-Col
onel ot the 100'lt United States Colored Infan
try, and Commissioner of Organization of the
U. S. Colored Troops. The attorneys volunteer
to defend a negro who has only boon guilty of
insignificant crime of killing a Yankee soldier.
The Colonel, with the alphabetical suffix,
thanks them for their kindness, but informs
them that he has released the African citizen
without ever the superfluous formality of a
court martial.
The quarterly report of the national banks
of tbe United Statea (308 in number) has ap
peared. The amount of United States bonds
held'by them March 30th was $41,175,213,
Unon the deposit of $25,484.70!) of bonds to
secure circulation there had, at that date, been
reissued $12,144,650, of which there were : In
civculatio*. $9,797/975; in the banks, $2,346,
075. Total $12,144,650. At the close of March
their loans and discounts were only $29,583,
659, while their deposits were $51,274, 912,
• In an article on the’ Presidential election the
N. Y. Herald presumes to give some words of
“wholesome advice to both parties ”. It seems
to think that the bitter partizan feeling which
has already been aroused may lead to a bloody
issue. Under this feeling the Herald urges a
a pacific and temperate spirit between the con
testants.
The Mexican population in the Southern
counties of California are beginning to take
sides for and against the usurpation of Maxi
milian.
— «g> Hi
FROM MEXICO.
Through Northern p apers of tho 2d we are
in receipt of important news from Mexico.
The French are gradually, it is asserted,
gaining ground. They have taken possession
of Saltillo, and were, at last accounts, advan
cing with a large force upon Monterey, the
.provisional seat of Government of President
Juarez. Tho policy of Ifc r seems to be
to avoid any general engagement with the in
vaders at present, and to attack their exten
ded lires at their weakest points.
The family of President Juarez has left
Mexico and arrived in New Orleans, a fact
which the agents of the New Mexican empire
will not faiTto impute to a fear of defeat on
the pari of the republicans.
A recent arrival at New OJeans repotts that
on Augt. 22d. The town of Bagdad at the
mouth of the Rio Grande, was occupied by a
French force of four cr five/hundred men who
landed from the squadron. »It was reported
that a forcejof 1200 to 150 t) had landed further
down the coast and would operate against
Matamoras, where Cortinaswas fully prepared
lo fight fhem.
The bark Abertiae, at New York, from Ye
raiem, on the 10th inst., reports that tbe
French blockade of Mexican ports gwas raised
on the 7th
I*E WSSUSIMABY.
A petition of citizens of Alexandria, \a.,
urging the military authorities to displace or
override the so-called State Government of
Pierpoint. has been refused by Lincoln.
The majority for Vance over Holden, for
Governor of North Carolina, is not yet ascer
tained, but is estimated at fifty thousand ill a
total vote of seventy-five thousand.
. The Shreveport News, of Aug. 23, says that
on the Saturday before, about eight hundred
Federal prisoners left that place to he exchange
ed. The point ot exchange Is the mouth of
Red Riyer.
THE B ATTLE OF JONESBORO.
The Macon Intelligencer gives the annexed
account of the late battle of Jonesboro :
On Wednesday morning, August 31st, the
enemy advanced in heavy force against the
position which General Hardee held at Jones
boro in accordance with oiders A severe and
most terrible battle ensued during the day.
General llardes being iu command of the two
corps in position, placed bis own corps iu
charge of CleDurne on the left aud Lee’s corps
under the charge of that commander. Six
corps of the Y’ankee army advanced against
the line crossing the M. & W. R R.. and pene
trating on our right almost to the McDonough
road The advance cf Sheiman’s forces was
checked and their assaults repelled with the
gallantry and usual bravery that has ever
marked our veterans.
At nightfall, the line was nearly in the same
position that it occupied in the moiniug. Du
ring the night Lee’s corps, by order of Gen.
Hood, moved to the right to form connection
with Stewart's corps and tho militia forces in
Atlanta. Thus a large amount of the effective
strength of Hardee’s command was withdrawn
and bis line fearfully weakened.
Early on Thursday the Yankee army, con
sisting of six corps, led in person by Sheiman,
advanced on the enfeebled line heid by Har
dee’s command. Then ensued the hardest
fought battle of the war. The veterans of
that brave old soldier. Hardee’s corps, men that
had never been defeated on any field, stood
grimly and fought with unsurpassed bravery
aud gallantry. They bore the fury of tbe storm
of battle during several hours and though they
knew the tremendious power of tbe foe that as
ssailed them, and were well aware of their own
weakness, yet they stood unconquerable and
undismayed. That isolated but undaunted corps,
small ns it was, continued tiie light till night
closed the scene.
Cleburne’s division occupied the right and
against his position, mainly directed against
Gqvan s brigade, the enemy massed iu tre
mendous force. These veterans- who have nev
re turned their back on tbe foe in a fight,
fought with a desperation never surpassed
in battle, but finally were forced by detail
from their,'position, but not until the enemy
lay thick and deep on the sanguinary field.
The enemy continued to push their forces in
heavy massed divisions, in lines, ten to one
against our almost worn out battallions.
Night at' last closed over the bloody scene,
when want of ammunition and want of men.
and the imminent danger of capture by a
threatening heavy flank movement on the part
of the enemy, together with tbe destruction
their enfilading fire was producing, caused
General Hardee to withdraw to Lovejoy’s Sta
tion.
This movement was ' consummated with
much success. All our wounded being with
drawn and every thing being saved but six
or eight guns, which were abandoned for
want of horses competent to draw them.
On Friday the Y'ankees were engaged in
clearing the battle field of the debris, and lit
tle disposition was exhibited on their part to
renew hostilities. The gallant men who
fought them so bravely and desperately the
day before, still confronted them as undaunted
as ever, and eager for the fray, though their
ranks exhibited a battered and worn appear
ance that was v.cry saddening to their war
worn General.
Thus was fougl.it one of Ihe most desperate
battles, and against the most terrible odds,
that the" Army of Tennessee has yet engaged
in. Hardee’s corps fought alone against al
most the entire Yankee army, immediately un
der the eye and command of Sherman. That
the meed of unmeasured praise is justly then
due, aud that they saved the Army ol Tennes
see from utter rout and annihilation, is incon
testibly true. That the brunt of the battle fell
on them is unfortunately too true. ’ They are
entitled to the credit they have made by their
valor and invincible bravery, and their deeds
should not only be written by the historians’
pea in enduring sentences, but ennobled with
words of living light in the memory and hearts
of a grateful and admiring people forever.
How gloriously the bright lustre of honor
and the laurels of military fame gather about
the brows of that war-worn and gallant soldier,
tbe uneonquerablfe Hardee. He and his brave
veterans will live in history and song and le
gends, the heroes whose unconquerable spirits
and bravery shall be the -admiration of the
world for ages to come.
FROM ATLANTA.
A correspondent 6f the Atlanta Intelligon
cer writing from Jonesboro under date of Sept.
8, speaks thus of affairs ill Atlanta : •
On Monday night the Yankees had a grand
ball at the Trout House, under the direction of
Mrs, Clements, its present proprietress. Gen
eral Sherman and staff and his corps and divi
sion commanders patronized the affair. About
a dozen women of t-lie town, not a decent lady
amongst them, attended the thing. But what
was wanting in white was made up niggers.
They mingled, oh 1 li.ow they mingled. Black
and brown, white and gray.
They began the dance wit It the Lancer’s
Quadrille, in which Gen. Sherman led off with
Mrs. Clements for partner. Ilis ois a vis, Gen.
Howard, had one of Mayor Jim Calhoun’s
wenches as partner. One of Sherman’s staff
danced with one of J. E. Buchanan’s nigger
women that he took there himself. Billy Sylo
man’s nigger woman lent the charms of her
presence and her figure in the dance, and had
a great deal of attention paid her. Billy
Markham brought two nigger women to the
ball, and looked on the scene with grinning
admiration. lie nobbed with the blue bellies
until he had to he retired in a carriage.
Several respectable negro women, who were
invited and sent after, in carriages with Yan
kee officers for escorts, refused to go, and free
ly expressed their dislike to the insult that was
offered them. They looked on it as an indigni
ty to be asked by the enemies of their country
to associate with the white womenwlio attend
ed the ball.
The negro avomen were feted and toasted and
monopolized tbe attentionof the entirecrew of
Yankees; and in fact some of the sympathizers
who-have affiliated. They waltzed* scbotlisclied,
and polkaed and danced until everybody was
tired and drunk and tha stink became unendur
able, having scented the house until it became
almost untenable They kept up the saturna
lia until morniug, and were then seen lovingly
tottering home, in many linked pairs of ivory
and ebony.
Mayor Jim Calhoun was present, toasting
and congratulating the Yankees on their
handsome trickery and the success of their
arms. It is said that he proposed to open the
ball with prayer and thanks for the great and
decisive victory that had captured Atlanta,
broken the spirit of tho Confederacy and
brought Georgia into a condhion where it
could be governed by the free and enlighten
ed rule cf the royal ape. He was proud to
see so many of their black sisters in arms wel
coming the conquerors, and hoped for many
returns of the like occasion. It is supposed
he Was uproariously drunk before be began.
I. T. Banks lent the baleful light of bis
traitor visage to the Scene. He bopped
around the room with one of the blackest
niggers in the ball room ami promenaded arm
in atm exhibiting much elation at being per
mitted to promenade arm in arm with a huge
-nigger Sergeant, who remarked, he didn’t
know but what he was disgracing himself by
walking with such a trashy white man.
I. T. Banks was the first citizen of the city
who visited Sherman. He had laid wrri.t, watch
ing for him and before he had washed himself,
Banks placed before him an accurate list of the
secessionists and minute men of Atlanta and
the description and location of their property.
He was very extravagant in his demonstrations
of joy and extremely elated over the Yankee’s
success and occupation of the city. He con
gratulated them on the streets and mingles
with them whenever opportunity offers, ■•. and
doubtless by this time occupies some office com
mensurate with his worth to the enemy.
A Yankee journal will be in operation this
week, they supposed it would make its first
appearance on Sunday. They have taken
possession of the old Intelligencer buildings
and propose to issue tho paper from your old
office. The first copy I secure I will send you.
It is reported Ah at Billy Markham saved ma
terial enough for them to start a paper
with.
FROM CHARLESTON.
About four o’clock Wednesday afternoon a
latgo body of men, estimated at from six hun
dred to a thousand, were landed on Folly Isl
and from Lighthouse Inlet, and marched to
Morris’ Island, into the stockade or “pen.”
They are believed to bo the Confederate pris
oners recently arrived from Fort Delaware.
They were strongly guarded by a large num
ber of seDtinels. The baggage of the prisoners
was brought to the enclosure in four warrens
from the lower end of the Island. No official
information of the above that we could learn
has l>een received by our authorities.
Two new guns on sling carts, drawn respec
tively by twelve and fourteen horses, wert
brought from the lower end of the Island to
Battery Gi egg.
Within the past few days the price of corn
in Columbia, S. C-, has declined from twenty
five to twelve dollars per bushel. Beef, bacon
and other articles have also declined in price.
A sesK.ion of the : Alabama Legislature has
been called at Montgomery, bept, 26.
FROM \ IR«1M v.
The artillery duel at Petersburg on Thurs
day occurred betwe n the batteries on tho
centre of the line just in the rear of the Old
Bl.tnford Church. It lasted about
aud-is represented ns having ihe
most interesting exhibitions of
tieo which has occurred during the campaign.
The enemy give in fiaallv, our fire being too
hot for them. The casualties on our side were
lew, if any ; none were reporte 1.
On Sunday morning, about 11 o'clock, a
brigade cf the enemy’s cavalry, by a forced
march around the left of their line, entered the
Boyd ton Plank Road, some distance from our
pickets, and came down suddenly upon an en
campment of one of Gen. Dealing’s cavalry
regiments. They were met by our men and
gallantly resisted until supnort arrived, when
the enemy wheeled and fled procipitaiely. Jly
this demonstration they accomplished nothing,
beyond the information that our right was too
well guarded to admit of any serious Hank
movement against it.
Many servants captured after the mine ex
plosion near Petersburg, are now in “Castle
Thunder,’ Richmond, awaiting calls from the
owners.
The exercises of the Virginia Military Insti
tute will be resumed on the first of October.
A Yankee cavairy force advanced twice on
certain portions of our lines near Petersburg
on Friday, and were driven back.
There has been but little shelling done at
Futeisburg during the past few days.
It is stated that Brigadier-General John
Echols has been appointed to tho command of
the Department of Southwestern Virginia, to
sucececd General John 11. Morgan. Lieuten
ant-Colonel John F. Terry, of the Thirty sev
enth Virginia regiment, is now iu command of
the post at Bristol.
A piece of retaliation was visited upon tho
Yankees in Virginia a few days since It
seems that on a considerable portion of onr
lines in front ol Petersburg there had existed
a tacit truce for several days, during which the
Yankees, w ithout fear of disturbance, strolled
and loafed in large numbers in front cf their
works. Our men received orders not to inter
fere with them unless Petersburg was again
shelled, but in that case to open upon thi-ni
without notice the most destructive possible
fire. Thursday morning the Y’ankees were out
in great numbers, enjoying the fine weather
and tbe early morning air. For half an hour
tbe Yankee batteries had been playing upon
the town, knocking private bouses to pieces
and endangering the lives' of non-combatants,
bat the Yankee sir oilers, gave the matter no
attention, not then believing that it could con
cern them in any way. Suddenly a tremend
ous volley of musketry was poured into them
front our works, throwing them into a panic
and causing them to scamper back into their
trenches like so many startled rats. The best
of it was that limy left, about two hundred of
their number lying dead or wounded on the re
cent promenade. When the-shelling of tho
city had ceased, and quiet had been restored
along the lines, it was explained to the Yan
kees that they had been fired into because of
the barbarous conduct of their Generals iu
bombarding the private resiliences cf Peters
burg.
According to information received from with
in the enemy’s lines, the Yankees coutiifue to
fortify on their left in front of Petersburg but
their works are not so extensive as has been
previously represented. They embrace the
Yellow Tavern on the north, mu down nearly
to Wyatt’s crossing, two miles this side of
Reams’ iu a southerly direction, and on tho
east include the residence of Dr, Gurley. On
.the west, they approach a3 near Vaughan’s
road as it ia deemed prudent to carry them.
The enmity -has largely increased tho number
ot his pickets at the point last) named.
The Petersburg Express stab s that General
Baldy Smith has been relieved from tlio com
mand of tho Eighteenth army corps, and that
Lincoln has approved trie order. Grant baa
assigned M 'jor-'.leneral G. O. G. Ord to tho
command of Smith’s corps, and Major-General
D. B. Bivney to the command of the Tenth
corps. According to reports of deserters. Smith
had indulged in a free criticism of Grant’s
campaign, saying among other disparaging re
marks, that it was a lamentable failure. This
got to Grant’s ears, and the consequence was
that Smith was relieved.
The Lynchburg Republican has a statement
of a disaster to tit ; Fifty first Virginia regi
ment, Wharton's brigade, on tbe 25th ultimo,
derived from a member of the T hirtieth Virgin
ia battalion, from which it would appear that
the regiment was ambuscaded, flanked and bad
ly cut tip. Among those reported killed aro
Lieutenant-' olonel Wolf and Lieutenant Akers
Captain Bowen bad a thigh broken, and Cap
tain Allison was mortally woundod—since dead,
Judge Meredith, in Richmond, in the case of
Dr. A. E Peticolas, testing" the right of the
county Justices to make him testify with re
gard to a duel recently by Messrs. John M.
Daniel and E C, Elmore, has decided that the
Doctor could not be compelled to answer any
questions wltialt he thought might criminato
himself. The matter is to be taken before tho
Court of Appeals.
The Petersburg Register, \ve regret to learn,
has been obliged to suspend ils publication
temporarily for want of paper.
Mr. A. TANARUS). Kelle/, a merchant of New Or
leans, will succeed Mr. Elmore as Treasurer of
the Confederate States.
At a meeting of the United Synod of tho
Presbyterian Church, in Lynchburg last week,
a union was cosummated between the two
branches of the Presbyterian chinch in the
Confederate States, known t s the Old School
and New School. The first actual coming to
gether of the ministers in Virginia, v.ill be at
the meeting of the Synod of Virginia, in Lex
ington, in Oelobqr next. This is the kind of
■union wo are a’! pleased to hear of—union
among ourselves, ecclesiastic il and political.
In this kind of union there is strength.
The Yankees at Petersburg have heavily
strengthened their pickets on our right; anil,
from appe.-.rances, manifest a disposition to
still further entend their lines westwardly.—
They seem determined lo make an appeaiance
of doing something extensive.
Early, who has established himself “ for
good,” it seems, in the lower Valley, moves so
mysteriously, that no o. e knows what he is
about. We know very little about his move
ments, and ihe enemy appears to know even
less than we do.
Anew feature was .inaugurated on Saturday
towards Yankee deserters who have entered
our lines under the guarantees of tho recent
order issued from the Adjutant General’s office
of the War Department. That order declares
that deserters from the armies of the enemy
would be protected and put safely on their
way across the borders of the Confederacy
into the United States at such points
us would bcU facilitate their return
to the States of their nativity or adoption,
or their escape into other couniries. Tho
Government hits kept its faith, and a
few days since the first installment of sever
al hundred wore started—we will not say in
what direction; but ere this they tread another
soil, and are freemen again.
It ia stated that Brigadier General M. C But
ler has been promoted t > the rank of Major
General, to command Hampton’s old division.
Colonel John Duvant, Colonel of tho Fifth South
Carolina cavalry, has beSn promoted to Briga
dier General, lo command Butler’s old brigade.
By the latter promotion, Lieutenant Colonel K.
.7. Jeffords, iisles, by grade, lo the rank of Col
onel, commanding Fifth South Carolina cav
alry.
'J fie Petersburg Express narrates the annexed
incident cf the battle near that place on Thurs
day, August 24. When the enemy’s main line
of works near Reams’ Station was captured find
the frightened Yankees were flying for safety,
some of our infantry attempted to turn one of
the captured guns upon them. They loaded,
'sighted and fired it, cutting off the top of a
tail tree in the distance. They ventured to
try the experiment again/ and this time made
a hotter f hot, etri ring the body of a tree soma
t wenty or thirty feet above the heads of the
Yankees A prisoner standing by and watch
ing their practice, said: “Ob ! boys, you dont
understand the use of that gun—let me load
and sight it.” He did so, and the shell ex
ploded in the midst of the Yankees. We have
no doubt that many a prisoner would be glad
to turn a gun upon his Yankee friends if the
truth were known. »
Schedule or Prices in North Carolina.— -
The Commissioners of Appraisement for the
State of North Caroliua have presented their
schedule of prices to govern the purchasing
officers of the Government for the next sixty
days. Extra family Hour per barrel $00; com
meal per bushel $0; corn per bushel $0; ba
con from $1 50 to S3 ; beef, fresh and salted,
$1 to SI 50 ; beans per bushel $lO ; tallow
and adamantine candles per pound $3 to 3
50 tallow $3; coffee 1 1 50; apple brandy per
gallon $00; fodder, baled and unbaled, $5 50
to $0; hides SI 75 to $4; horses SBOO to $1000;
Oats 87,50 to $8; esaaburgs SI 50 to $1 75;
jeans SlO per yard; lard, $3; leather, $C to
37; molasses, cane and sorghum $lO per gal
lon; mulerSoOO to $1000; common brown su
gar S3 per pound; black and green tea $5
8 : soap, toft and hard 7octs to $1 per potmd;
tobacco SI 25 to $3; sheep per head S4O; tune
gar $i 25 to $2 50; whit key $25 per gallon:
wheat S3 to $lO per bushel; wool $0 to $8 ;
potatoes $8 to 10 per busjiel ; pork* $2 to $2
50; rice So to 50 cts. per pound; rye $lO per
bushel ; salt S2O to $25 per bushel ; shirting
sllO to $130; Colton stripes $1 TfficoUon
$1 00 per pound, . .*■