rpTTE PKBSS, . ISHKI) DAILY EXCEPTED,) Jt,B S JOHN w. FORNEY. / * ,j i SOUTH FOURTH STREET. cf ICKi ,„E »AUV FREES, OSSTS PER Wa * X > W ftW ° to th 6 oarrl6r • T maabserlbera out of the City »t B» DoLLiql S *»» Dollars for bioh* Moktbb,- *** COU-AB3 for Six MosTUS-l»yariably in . ad tbs time ordered, ’''“ tHE TUI-WEEKLY PRESS, to Subscriber. oat of the City at Thrrr Dol -55!55; NOTICES. "'TttENTION ! —TO THE EOYA.It rf!TrnBFAmUTIO, AND THE Bit AYE. nW/ens* Committee appointed to procoro Fonda *IW w .”„ ind Bounty to all who may Jilnonr.gal tjryrtfflia® ““ , Kr adELFUIA BBGIMJINTS IN THE FIELD, fullow-citlzona to be alive to the present Call OR SmTswe imperatively needed. The wasted ranks crisis reatmenta—the'heroes of. DranesvlUe, d Otr pß’ij. Oebsi of the Ohlefcaliomlny, Malvern tfliieW B^' / nr fountain 1 1U. « ollC MOST BB BifINFQBOED. CR tls for succor as she never called before. iipou us, »nd we must he equal to tt. Gene. TW c f n.lVades, of Divisions, and the Commander-in ti9 ?' .11 Siciare that onereorutt fora regiment In the Chief, i,|j country, at the present time, several They urge, and the War De fer »* , nrcra the instantaneous reinforcement or the parW ! ° l 3 bow betoro the enemy to their original br*f* [E com element Our fathera, our brothers, and Ml ® ,w V?iheieregiments say— ■oerscß* u ,bl> ‘ CO MK AND JOIN US.” , mi,m from tho armies in the field have been de- Iffvectulthere, and appeal to ns to fill up their t*®* l vL, J*nks Tremium and bounty, suoh as never r m j aro r))B( , y f or distribution, but hefoi® j’ 0 , E OF OOUNTBY . i j.-oiion to the Flag that has waved in glory from rTttotM present hour, are the incentives that aro relied U l p°»-.„ T ,11 AND BOUtm ABE GIVEN FBEELY pßglsib j D the citizen for the immediate To %£ he makes in leaving his business, his ramily, W 1 M. home at bis country’scall, in this her hour of 1 , The consciousness of having done their duty, and ** .i.rnl countri’s praise rewarded the American ps of the Devolution—their descendants of this day {mximbef trlili pride the sacrifices and devotion of their A*’' 6l ' PH ACTING nAS BEEN OBDHBED. moro mcn are to be put into the field, in order ."E wlchod rebellion against the best Government voticiihOfed to man may be speedily crushed and ex f'loiated But onr bravo Generals must have 100,000 ‘‘/fhAM nwn now—at once. The true patriot has yet wteltoteof hastening, voluntarily, to his country’s $d and befog enrolled in the battle-statnod regiments of <, ” r *%IL ADBLP HIA GALLS ON HEB SO NS auataln her fair fame. Fathers. Sons, and Brothers, IV m W come io their aid without delay. Let us do it. itini keep bright °ur oityte glory, and do our best for cur beloved country. ... ti. order of the Committee- B ? order AN DK it HENBY, Chairman, TEOSIAS WEBBTEB, Vice Chairman. LOKIN BLODGBT, Secretary. ■HiMBS OF OFFICERS DETAILED FOB BE OBOmSO SERVICE, LOCATION OF BENDEZ- oKilli'omflS J. Town. Lieutenant Patrick Egan, ■oMb uLiment, 2C2 Dock attest, aboTe Second. O. B. Griffith, Lieutenant A. J. Knorr, Slat ■Rfliflment. No 138 North Ninth street. B tf»S«to Vm.l. Older, Captain Adam Sohuh, 90th John S. Rieht, Lieutenant George W. Tom- Itaaoa, SSth Regiment, corner Sixth and Carpenter, and 114 North Third stroet. Captain P. HcDonongh, Lieutenant John Curley, 2d Matthew Betlly, USth Regiment, 1219 Market *' Captain Wm. Wilaon, -Slat Regiment, 1118 Market atr."‘ Captain stlioli, Blstltegiment. Ltenteuant Thomas K. Boggs, 23d Regiment,northeast otMt Sixth and Oheatnut, third story, lieutenant Georg© W. Regiment, Ho. 3 loath Fifth street. fflUlsm M, Duuoan, 61st Regiment. Lieutenant Samuel Larkin, Lieutenant John Stanton, ]d RcflorTßfli Lieutenant Charles Been, Lieutenant Edward Hough, 38th Regiment. 532 North Third street. Lieutenant dame* R. Hadley, 25th Bogiment, 419 Cal !'>C«tain,ioiiriatinn H. Winter, 76th Regiment, 458 North Third street. Captain William Jatho, Lieutenant Walter S. Briggs, Whilom Letford, 29 th Regiment, 716 Market John Boohe, 13th Cavalry, 104 South Sixth Daniel B, Meany, 18th Cavalry, 44 South J. A, Gregory, 91st Regiment, 020 Chestnut strr Captain 11. A Sheet?,, of Pennsylyanid Reserves, 020 Chestnut Bfreet ELlentenout Col. E. H. Flood, Major James Brady, St Pennsylvania Artillery. Lieutenant Daniel F. Lion, 68th Regiment. Lieutenant Joseph M Abbey, 112tb. Captain John S. Davis, SOth Begiment, N. W. corner Hstl and Chestnut streets. Captain Jebn T. Dnrang, 90th Begiment, Armory of Bational Oneida, Bnce street bel .w Sixth. Besides a private from eaoh company of each regi ment. an2o-10t MS. HEADQUARTERS PENNSYLVANIA kS MILITI4. BURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE, Hak.isborci. August 16,1862. BIATB MEDICAL BOARD OF PENNSYLVANIA. Ihe Slate Medical Board will meet lu the Hall of tho Home of Representatives, Harrisburg, on THURSDAY, September 11,1802 and sit one dap, for the examination of candidates for the post of Assistant Sargeon In Penn sylvania Ilegtnienta. Candidates will register their names at the Hall at 8 A, M,, sad none hut those present punctually at 9 A. ML. vill be cxaminf d Citizens of Pennsylvania, of good health, and capable Of adits service In the field, can alone be reoeived. By order of A. G. OUBTIN, Governor of Pennsylvania. BENBY H, SMITH, auHO'tsell Surgeon General of Pennsylvania. fyss. CITY BOUNTY.FUND COMMISSION. (k 3 —Tbs following-named Regiments have boon ac n-pted by I lie Governor of Pennsylvania as part of the (Adstan Philadelphia! Regiment 146, tlol, Davis. Regiment 144, Col. Adams. Regiment 143, 001. Wistar, Regiment 120, 001. Sohreiber. Aidorson Troop, suie Ot : JOHN 0. KNOX, Chairman. lysa NOTICE.—THE SUBSCRIBERS TO ilj THE CITIZENS' BOUNTY FUND, to aid Be wailing, are hereby notified tbat the Treasurer of ths Fund, SINGLETON A. HEROES, Bay, will receive tbs amounts of tbelr subscriptions, daily, at the Farm ers' snd Mechanics’ Bank, and furnish them with printed receipts tor ths earns; or their subscriptions maybe paid to tho member of the Committee to whom they; subscribed, pnd the Treasurer's receipt wiU-be sent to the dontir. By order of the Committee. DM-tf THOMAS WEBSTER, Chairman. ffSp* OUR COUNTRY! TO ARMS! '.—THE IkS OOMHIT't UK appointed to receive Subscriptions In aid of tho UITiZKNS’ BOUNTY FUND, Tor pro tiding the proportion of Philadelphia’s quota of men to Increase the Armv of the Bepubtlo, sit daily at INDEPENDENCE HALL, _ . From 10 A. M, to 2P. if. By order of the Committee. lySgtai TEOMAB WEBSTER, Chairman. E RECRUITS FOR PHILADELPHIA REGIMENTS IN THE FIELD.—The Dl3- iNG AGENCY OF THE CIT CZENS' BOU NTY FUND announce to all Recruiting Officers for Phila delphia Regiments In the field, that -they sit, D AILY, between BA. M. and 12 M., at their Office, in front of the FARMERS AND MECHANICS BANK, and ara prepared to pay |6 Premium to each Recruit, and . 850 County to each Recruit, upon compliance with ita forma they have adopted. Information in detail Sivea on application to the undersigned. Recruiting ffioers will pleaae present their credentials for enlisting* MICHAEL V. BAKER, GIOKM WHIUNEV, , wMwl SINGLETON A, MERGER. CITY BOUNTY FUND., U-3„ , TO THH VOLTHTOMBS* Hotloe li hereby gtTen, lh»t the Oonmlßßion appoint* n“ 8 “ ayor ' Under an Ordinance entitled : •< An wnuance to make an appropriation to aid the enlist* trwt Of volmiteers,” approved July 26th, 1862, will be j» session at its Office, Ho. 412 FBONE Bireet, DAII.Y, between the hours of 12 o’clock M. and 3 o’clock P. Iff., —lff , a esc6 P tl, d,') for tbe purpose of receiving appli-, filSf 18 ,. ro ’ and granting certificates to, the Volunteers epttHed to receive Bounty Money from the City of Pht- SMelphla, under said ordinance and the supplements Soweto. Tor the pretent, applications will be received ml who have been enlisted in the City of s'wlMelphla, on account of its Quota, under the call of "Oreraor, and have been mustered for serrtoe in the, raw Begiments, ai the bounty to the recruits for the Old • regiments is paid from the fund raised by private sub ®nptlon, and which payment, by a Supplementary Or abicee, approved Angust 4th, 1862, excludes such re turns from participating In the Oity Bounty Fund. Ihe sums payablo to oil who have thus volunteered in, ?• oity of Philadelphia, and have been so mustered into “anew Companies and Begiments raised (whether rosl of the city or elsewhere) since the call of the Pre- Went f»r 300,000 additional volunteers, or who shall bertsftor volunteer, Ymd be so mustered under said call,. m follows: •■months recruits..,,.. $2O 00 do 80,00 "fears or the war 80 00 The Bounty is payable one-half when the Company to vnioh the claimant belongs is full, and thecaptain thereof "mustered into eervloo, and tbe remainder when the Be jmwt Is completed, and the commanding officer' thereof bcsii have boon mustered into the service. , foe evidence required for the certificate for the Bret mitalment will he: , —if,, 4 M P y of the minster roll of the company, duly Stew Sj city of Philadelphia for the purposes afore- Jortlie remaining instalment, It must beahown that “e clahnsnt is Btill a member of the company, and that {?• to which the company haa been attache d BlaaSt forme of application will be furnished w «* omoe of the commission, 413 Prune etreet, ....■, , JOHN 0. KNOX, Chairman. J'hllmriphla, August 11,1883. , anl2-12t TB** ®WB. COUNTRY! TO ARMS !-FA- JbiOTlO Oitirans who desire to subscribe to the ft.iSH 8 ’ BOUNTY TTJND, to aid the recruiting of fc.* quota of the President’s oalt for three bun. leousasd men, are respectfully informed that i J "OOmlttee will sit daily to receive subscriptions from iyto p . M„ at INDEPENDENCE HALT,. tonJgued 911 * may liSewl * e Be sent to either of the un- HENRY, Mayor's Office. iltreet Bl<EB QI ® BON3 > Booretary, 262 South Third iiiS AKLBS Dl 'FBOTMAN, Secretary, 601Sansom e UHEB HcCLINTOOK, City Treasurer, Girard B '«Srtr«t “ 008H ’ Btat * Treasurer, 664 North & SbETON a. MERGER, Treasurer of Fund, ts?.* »nd Mechanics’ Bank? ’ 3 Wl LSH, 218 South Delaware avenue, J'WMS SNOWDEN’ Independence iS. 6009 JBghPH K. BORIS, 168 Dock street. S'lJuJP 8 00UB8EY, 631 Oheetnnt street «WROB H STUART, 18 Bank street. ?/.®A2L V. BAKER, Independence Halt. «EORpR WHITNEY, office of A. Whitney A Bone. 0. DALE, 621 Market street, SV,5«i BUODGKT, Board of Trade Booms. JnnS S' ADDIOKB, Independence HaU. , JiMoo D « WATBON > °®°® of Sorth American. “H«MK®N, 110 Walnut street &)!(»«?„ “mmltteea will be appointed to prooure anb *a Bwy war d in the city, dne notice of which ‘wortty appear. \ Stew." 0 , t ** ttons w® Be, acknowledged daily in the otherwise requested. i,L 8 «w of the Committee, Jl a THOMAS WEBSTER, Chairman. STATIONERY & FANCY GOODS, Martin & qtjayles OT4.TIONHBY, TOY, AND YANOY GOODS I K P o e ITh, Ho, 1035 WALNUT BTBBIT, mow xummTO, phuiAdhlphia. illbmihatuno oils ‘fe I ™’’ OHa WORKS. b, w » niaato , ou I>an4 - OU In ths B Stti h L 0 .!! 10 be non.ex»losive, to bom all lie S "l 01 , teUUant flams, without Barrels lined with W ‘ WEIQHT BMITH, & PBABSA.UB, Office 616 MABK.KT Street. VOL. 6-NO. 18. SEA BATHING. fif MI»BllUL]m »oa anoßKi - bpmmkb a*. BANQXHXNT.—OAMDBN AND ATLANTIC BAIL BO AD. Three trains dallr to AtlanUo Oity end return, {Bnn dayi excepted), Trains leave VINK-Stroot Ferry w follows: • Hell Train ’■*» “ » Bipnsi Train...... mim*..........,.••••,•4.00 r. m» Freight end Accommodation....... ,0.00 P. M * BBTDBNING:. Leaves, Atlantic Mall. Train ,4.40 P. & it (i Xxprem Train...........*.6 IB AM. i( .*( Freight and Accommodation.3.lB A. M. FABX 81.80.' Bound! trip Tickets, good only for IK dap and train on which they are iuued, 83.60. Kxcnr eton Tickets, good (or three days, SB. Hotels are now open. JOHN O. BBYANT, joia-tt Agent SUMMER RESORTS. TTNITED STATES HOTEL., -U ATLANTIC CITY; August 18,1882. Desirable Booms can now be had at this popular flrst class Hotel* as there are a number of departures dailr. JAMB 3 K. BOBIaONj . H.A. B. BKO WN, Superintendents- aulB-12W pONGREfeS HALL, ATLANTIC CITY.—-As there are departures dally* cosaforta* hie rooms can now bo had at this eligibly located House* The accommodations are unsurpassed by any House on the island. GKO. W. HINKLE, au!6-12t Proprietor. SEA BATHING.—A FAVORITE HOME. THE “WHITEHOUSE,” MASSACHUSETTS Avenue, ATLANTIC OITY.N.J. This popular bouse is open. Its situation is quite near the beach: has good rooms, all opening upon the ooean, and famished with spring -mattresses. Its reputation is well established as a first-oiosa homo. Plentiful table. Every attention given to guests, and terms'moderate. WM WHITKHOUBB, Proprietor. War No Bar at the “ Whitehouse." au6-lm pENTBAL HOUSE, ATLANTIC \J OITYi New Jersey. M. LAWIiOB, Proprietor. The above new house is now open for Boarders. Booms equal (o any on the beach, well-ventilated, high ceilings, &o. Servants attentive and polite. Approximate to the Bathing grounds. au6-lm# STAR HOTEL, (Nearly opposite the United States Hotel.) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. SAMUEL ADAMS, Proprietor. Hnner N cents. ' Also, Carriages to Hire. Iff" Boarders accommodated on the most rsasonabie terms. , jeg3-8m POLUMBIA HOUSE. U ATLANTIC CITY, SITUATED ON KENTUCKY AVENUE, Opposite the Surf House. W Terms to suit the timos. jeSS-Sm EDWABD DOYLE. Proprietor. SEA-SIDE HOUSE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. BY DAVID BCATTBBGOOD. A NEW PBIVATB BOABDING HOUSE, beautiful ly situated at the toot of Pennsylvania Avenue. Now open for visitors for the season. je23-2m Mansion house, JLtX 1 ATLANTIC OITY, E. LEE, Proprietor. This House having been thoroughly renovated and en larged, is new open for permanent and transient boarders. The MANSION HOUSE Ib convenient to depot, churches, sod pest office. The bathing grounds are unsurpassed 3D the Island. The Bar is conducted by Mr. EBIEL, of Philadelphia, who will hoop superior wines, Manors, and Choice brands of cigars. je23-2m , Eagle hotel, atlantio OITY, is now opon, with a ’ LARGE ADDITION OF BOOMS. Board 97 per week, bathing dresses included. je2!i-2m COTTAGE RETREAT, ATLANTIO OITY, is now open and ready for Boarders. A few choice Bioma can be obtained by applying Boon. The Proprietor furnishes his table with fresh milk from his sows, and fresh vegetables from his farm. ' Also, about four hundred desirable Cottage and Hotel Lots for sale by M. MoOLEES, je23-2m Proprietor. « mHE ALHAMBRA,” ATLANTIO JL CITY," N. J., a splendid new house, southwest Sorner of ATLANTIO and MASSACHUSETTS Avenues, will be open for visitors on and after Jnne 29th. The rooms and table ef “ The Alhambra ” are unsurpassed by any on the Island. There is a spacious Ice Oream and Re freshment Saloon attached to the house. Terms moderate. O. DUBOIS * B. J. YOUNG, je23-2m Proprietors. BEDLOE’S HOTEL, ATLANTIO CITY, N. J—At the terminus of ths railroad, on the Left, bey tnd the depot. This House is now open for Boarders and Transient Visitors, and offers accommoda tions equal to any Hotel in Atlantio City. Charges mo derate. Children and servants half price. gy Parties should keep'their seats until the oars ar rive in front of the hotel. je23-2m pHESTER COUNTY HOUSE.—This Vm/ frlvato Boarding House, corner of YORK and PACIFIC Avenue, Atlantio City, convenient to the teach, with a beautiful view of tho Ocean, is now opon tor the season. The accommodations are equal to any ethers on the Island. Prices moderate. je23<2m J.KKIM,-Proprietor. SEA BATHING.—“The Clarendon,” (formerly Virginia House,) VIRGINIA AVENUE, ATLANTIO OITY, Is now open for the accommodation 3f Boarders. This House is situated immediately on the Beach, and from overy room affords a fine view of the as. [ie23-2m] JAMES JENKINS. «. D. HOTELS. PVING HOUSE, NEW YORK, * ' BBOADWAY AND TWELFTH STREET, ESTKJLHOB OS TWELFTH BTBKKT, Conducted on tho EUROPEAN PLAN. This house Is now open for the accommodation of Families and transient Guests. GEO. W. HUNT, ) Late of the Brevoort House, > Proprietors. OHAS. W. NASH, } jyl7.thstuom pOWERS’ HOTEL, Nos. IT and 19 PARK BOW, (OPPOSITE THE ABTOB HOUSE,) HEW YOBS. TERMS 91.60 PER DAT. v This popular Hotel has lately been thoroughly reno rated and refurnished, and now possesses all the requl ißeeofa FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. The patronage of Philadelphians and the travelling ynbUc, desiring the best accomodations and moderate sbarges, Is respectfully solicited. je2-8m . H. L. POWERS, Proprietor. A CARD.—THE UNDERSIGNED, JLA_ late of the GIBAKD HOUSE, Philadelphia, have Ipased, for a term of years, WILLARD’S HOTEL, In Washington. They take this occasion to return to their eld friends and customers many thanks for past favors, and beg to assure them that they will be most happy to see them in their new quarters. SYKES, CHADWICK, & 00. WASHIEGTO*, July 16,1861. au2B-ly DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. gOBEET SHOEMAKER & CO., Northeast Comer FOURTH and RACE Streats, PHn.iIDEI.PHXA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, IMPOBTEEB AND DEALEBS i« FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS, KAOTFAOrOBEBS Of WHITE DEAD AND ZINC PAINTS, PUTTY, *O. AOBSIS FOB. THBCKLSSRATED FRENCH ZINC PAINTS. ' Dealers and consumers supplied at VEKX IiUW PKlCisa FUR CASH." * mh29-tsel LOOKING GLASSES. JAMES S. EARLE Jk SON, MANBIAOTUBSIBS AHD IMPOBTBBB o» " laOOKING GL, ASSES. Oil PAINTINGS,. FINE BHGBAYINGB, FIOTUBB AND POBTBAIT FEAMHB, PHOTOGBAPH FBAMES, PHOTOGRAPH AIBCMB, OABTIS-DB-VISIT* POBTBAITB. EARLE’S GAIaIaERIES. 816 CHESTNUT STREET, * ,J«l5 ’ FHH.ADn.FBU. SEWING MACHINES. & WILSON. SEWING MACHINES, ,628 CHESTNUT ST RE ET, WATCHES AND JEWELRY. jfa WATCHES, SOLD AND SILVER CASES. JOS. H- WATSON, JyBl-8m 80. 326 CHESTNUT street. i WATCHES, iiwELRY, &o.' j A FRESH ASSORTMENT, at LESS A THAB FOBMEB PBIOES. FABB & BBOTHBB, Importers, 834 CHESTNUT Street, below Fourth. mh2o.tr ■ ■■' '■ • riAUTlON.— Having seen a spurious \J.- article of Oil branded “J. Batour,” we caution the pnbUo against purchasing the same, ae the,genuine J. latonr Oil can be nrocnred onlr from ns. . JABBTJTOH* A JjAVBBGBB, mylB-tt 302 and 304 Sonth FBOHT Street- THURSDAY/ AUGUST 21,1862. NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS AND TIIE WAR. To the Editor of The Press •• , Sir : Although the task of defending any man, or olass of men, against whom an extensive and bitter public opinion exists, is ono fraught with difficulties of the most unpleasant character, yot a conscientious desire to do justice to tho many news paper correspondents of the oountry impels me to publish.a few facts, gathered iu an experience co vering an association with them sinoo tho com mencement of the war, and prompts me to say that they compose a much-misunderstood class of the eomimfnity^ Token from the sanctum or reporters’ room, whoro he has distinguished himself up to the time of tho breaking out of the war, the Army Correspondent finds himself suddenly transformed into a new existence—life in tho tented field—a very unmilitary man turned literary soldier, lie soon finds his friends are all in the ranks—the soldiers like him, but the field, staff, and line officers are shy and do ' not cultivate his acquaintance, exoept after a battle, when they have numerous incidents to relate and instances of great personal bravery on the battle field to note, whioh tho correspondent as a fair and upright historian cannot fail to appreciate. Upon commencing a oampaign he finds that, al though thousands of dollars’ worth of the Govern ment stores are being "sunk” by the numerous commissaries, he cannot buy, or obtain in any way, a meal’s victuals; and if he cannot get some sort of board among the inhabitants of the land, he must go to the expense of having food prepared and for warded to his .rendezvous, while at every turn he hears the taunts of the officers, in an undertone, YVell, it serves him right. What business has he here?” The private soldier has the impression, from some cause, in many cases, that the war correspondent is pnder pay of the Government. The probable rea son for this is that they are always well-bred enough to obey both the orders of the War Depart ment, and those of the commanding officers, and. that they are continually in communication with the latter, who seldom take the trouble to impart any news, but often give some excellent points for a personal “puff.” . Eighteen months’ experience as a war correspond ent lias given the writer an extensive acquaintance with the members of his profession, and out of fifty, three names whioh he has in his note-book, ho ig enabled to make the following classification of cha racter among them: Twenty-nine are weli-eduoa: ted, talented, and accomplished gentlemen; eleven are of the genus “blower,” and get along well enough everywhere; seven others are enorgetic; enterprising young men, but sadly out of place as army correspondents; throe are regular swindlers, and tho remaining three are said to be Secessionists: -The latter three classes bring much discredit upon the profession, but as they soon discover their cha racters to any one, it is thought, in all charity, that tho whole oorpa of army reporters should not be condemned for the sake of-these few bad men. I am sorry to say that, with six honorable ex ceptions, I never met with an. American army re porter who had given any attention to the study of the art of war theoretically, although quite a num ber have been very successful in criticising strate getioal movements. All could see the brillianoy of General Mitchell’s rapid movement upon Hunts ville, Ala., hut none pretended to fathom Mc- Clellan's design in throwing his army on the penin sula. They thought it some great strategy of the nature of whioh the world was profoundly igno rant, and although anointed the groat expounders for the people, Meroury’s ointment seemed to roll off their heads without the charming effeot. Of ail the great newspaper establishments that send out special correspondents, but two proprietors give positive instructions to tell the plain truth and criticise matters without fear or favor. The sum and substance of much of our army correspondence is, therefore, sensational faots, incoherently strung together, and so besmeared with puffery as to be al most unintelligible when an attempt is made to re capitulate facts with a view to obtaining a result. Most of our generals are shrewd enough to bo aware of-this faot, and often take the special of the ‘‘local" newspaper, qr one of great circulation, into a sort of semi-confidence, imparting highly oolored information about suoh a regiment, euoh a brigade, and such an officer. How many times are correspondents ushered from the presence of an American ■ general, after a long odnferinco, with “ Do not foTget to notice my own personal staff!” whioh means, as every war correspondent knows, “ ono word for my Btaff and two for me. ’ ’ It ia a well- known faot among newspaper men that genera’s very often place every obstacle in the way of the honest, well-meaning reporter when he is trying his best to obtain tho facts concerning army operations; and when the poor follow’s letter is prepared, will detain it without revision; and when it is published, summon tho author to headquarters for a reprimand for making some unimportant mistakes, at the same time making a flattering allusion to the letter of Fluent Puffer, Esq., speoial correspondent of the Manhattan Milk-antl-Water Meddler. In addition to this, the Government essays to have an eye to what correspondents furnish tor publica tion ; and, as an instance of the efficiency of the of ficers selected for this censorship, I cannot refrain from publishing a few facts connected with a case which oame under my immediate notice not long since. Once upon a time a great city wag occupied by the Federal forces, in the great State of Virginia, and the general commanding hastened back from this captnred city to his headquarters, to convey the welcome news to the President and Secretary of "War. An official despatch was soon flashing over the telegraphic wires to the North, announcing that “ two cities had been quietly occupied by our troops, and the navy yard was safe.” While all this was going on the “ navy yard” was burning down, and an enterprising reporter, who witnessed the burning, hastened to the telegraph office and pre pared a despatch for the Northern newspapers, con taining the facts of the burning and other interest ing items. Upon presenting hiß despatch for trans mission he was informed that it could not-be sent, as it was condemned by the censor, beoause it did not agree with the report of the commanding ge neral. • Correspondents may often be imposed upon, and may often wilfully and inadvertently publish false statements, but with all their faults, what would we have known of the hißtory of the campaign oh the Peninsula, but for their reports ? The official despatches of GeneraPMcClellan, during the whole length of the expedition, would not fill one of the open columns of The Press. The courage of army correspondents has often been spoken of lightly in the North, but the history ofthisw,ar will exhibit many instances of personal bravery f exhibited by this class of public servants. I have seen them exposing their lives, unmindful of danger, where the battle raged the hottest, ad mired by the soldiers, but often blamed for fool hardiness, for making these great personal risks, for the sake of obtaining news, and especially per fecting their lists of killed andwounded, , Daring., the war, thus far,..four, correspondents have die'd at their posts from disease contracted while in the army; three have died from wounds received in battle; seven have been taken prison, era; and two have gone over to the enemy. If any distinguished literary man should ever determine to risk his reputation in writing a history of this war, we would advise him to go to the army correspondents for its true and asyet secret historical character. These men can tell him privately how this has been a brainless war thus far . They can show him how men—traitors—have reoeived the best contracts, and, while imperfectly filling them, have been communicating our j lans, suoh as we had, to the enemy. They will tell him how South ern officers commanded some of onr outposts, in constant communication with the enemy, and how men, known to be traitors, were filling high posi tions in onr army. They can tell him, too, (though they'dare not publish the fact,) of how certain major generals have been surprised by the enemy in the Bast and West, while they lay drunk in their tents, and how these men were complimented, in stead of being cashiered, by the commanding gene rals, for fear that their valuable services would be lost to the army in tho future. In fact, they will tell the historian how, with abundance of men and means to have crushed the rebellion right out, these means have nearly all been wasted in the faoe of the foe, while the enemy, according to Wil cox, Corcoran, Bowman, and.;Y6gdes, Is stronger to- day than ever before, because he has ooHeoted and concentrated his men and means, and has a set tled system of prosecuting the war. I find, Mr. Editor, that my communication is growing too,long to be read, and so I wills close with a briet allusion to the reports of the battle of Slaughter’s Mountain. The people notice a great . difference between the official report of General Pope and the letters of army correspondents I happen to know that there were but three reporters actually present at that battle, and many of the “special reports” published were written by per sons stationed somewhere between Waahingten and Culpeper. Theso reporters picked up their state ments from stragglers’, just as Bull Run Russell used to do, and' made their own additions where ever a hiatus in the aocount presented itself, bat did the latter without Bull Run Russell’s regard , for probabilities. The battle of Slaughter’s Monn | tain was a military mistake—a failure—a battle . that should never have been fought in tho manner it was. . Common sense will tell any man that wiile Gen. Banks sacrificed two splendid brigades PHILADELPHIA. ILADELPHM, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1862. to keep tho enemy in cheok all day, McDowell's men and Sigel’s men, wlio could feel, the artil lery causiDg the esrth - to . tremble beneath their feet, should haye been reinforcing , seir lighting brethren and executing at least two flank movement* upon Stonewall. Japkson, renter ing his, crossing the Bapidan impossible, and the oapture of his whole army probable. Thofaotshat Jackson was allowed to reoross a swollen river yith a large army, leaving soarcely a straggler bound, or tho moral effect of a cannon shell whistling in his roar, can never reflect credit upon our goneuls. The heroes of Slaughter’s Mountain were Bapks, Geary, and Prince, and the people will remember them. We sent the flag of truce tetheenpiy , spkiDg permission to bury our dead, 'and he lefl the field at: his leisure unmolested, with a brigflier general and staff and four hundred other valuable prisoners, but not- until he was satisfied tha he would be crushed by the Army of Virginia Call the men fought like the men commanded by Bajor General Nathaniel P. Banks. . j, I 1 bodiontl “SpEClAe'' . am, sir, yours ot Jiontly, Washington, August 20,1862. FROM THE ARMY OF VIRGINI, 'Special Correspondence of The Press.] Burnside’s Cobps, ; Rapidan Station, 0. &A. R. R., i 9 Miles beyond Culpeper Court House, Va. Saturday, August 10, 186: Maj. General Reno’s division arrived at ’Uuji point last evening, after a march of two nights ani three days. We left Fredericksburg at 7P. All the same evening I dated my last lotter, ana marohed until daylight 'next morning, when the column halted until 8 A. M., and then resumed' tlv line of march. We reached Beaiton, a stationiOl the Orange and Manassas Railroad, on Thursday morning, When wo took the' cars, arriving "at UiV pepor Court House the same afternoon. j ■ The'division bivouacked in the open field mt]i the day following; when it again advanced; uUI it arrived at this poind? where it is halted, end now occupies a portion of a farm owned by a rebel who left last Saturday or Sunday, when Jacksot, feared that Burnside was getting in his rear. / - " a qsneral move ik thogbess. : : Burnside’s corps have the extreme left. .Ageip ral move is .in progress, and the divisions are fit a: temporary halt, until the ammunition and provision trains come up. ■ ■- ,/•■./•? - The weather is cool and . pleasant, similar- to the latter part of September. A few degrees lower last night would have produced frost. " There sas a general remark among the men at the cooliess of the nights in this seotion of Virginia. We-sobposo the mountain ranges of the Blue Ridge, which are hut a few miles distant, have probably some baring upon the subject. i , Wo have lost the run of The Press, and ; it is doubtful when you receive this letter. Our' mail communication in this locality is not yet in progress, and we, therefore, forward this correspondence rather “in the dark” as to when you will re oeive it. ! When we reaoh a “ permanent base of opera tions,” .we shall advise you. Our own individual baso is within the limits of a fifty acre field, penning this correspondence, and amusing ourselves wit nessing the combats between the troops and several nests of bees, which the men have accidentally stirred up. From present appearances it is very probable that the bees will hold the field. ' - ■ ' ■ J. P.. Jn. VERY LATE SOUTHERN NEWS. Richmond Dates of the 16th. The Fight at Cumberland Gap “Only the Beginning.” FIRCMM GORDONSVXLLB. JACKSON’S OFFICIAL. DESPATCH* “OUR ARMS BLESSED WI.TH ANOTHER VICTORY. We have received files of Richmond papers to the 16th inst. From East Tennessee it is stated: The engage ment at Tazewell last week is but the beginning of active operations in that quarter. Information of a much more important movement in that direc tion will be received before the expiration of an other week.. Oar officers and men are fully alive to an opportunity of Striking a blow at,ths~minions of Lincoln, and stirring nows will reaoh us ere many days. MEETING OF CONGRESS. The Confederate Congress will reassomble at the Capitol in this city on Monday next. Among the many matters of importance, claiming their atten tion, is one already brought to the .notice ef the grand jury of Richmond. We allude to the oases of persons guilty-of stealing and arming our slaves and inciting them to rebellion and insurrection- We have laws imposing sevore penalties again3t persons stealing negroes, and it is no palliation of the offence that the thieves are Federal seldiers. Some policy should bo adopted by the Government for the severe and summary punishment of every captured Yankee any way instrumental in despoil- ing Southern men of their property, and we earnesl ly invoke the attention of Congress to the subject. YANKEE PAH.BBB AT VICKSBUKG. Gen. Van Dorn estimates the shell thrown by the enemy, during the bombardment, at 300,600. With this stupendous expenditure of ammunition nothing whs accomplished save considerable damage to buildings and ■ a very Blight deßtruotion of life. The Yankees left about six hundred and fifty men entrenched id bomb-proof ditches. Some are-vic tims of fever, some of the Arkansas. In plain words, they all died. ... FROM- GORDONSVILLE, hatest reports to half past twelve yesterday,'re present everything quiet; It-is said that the forces under Pope are concentrating in Madison county, and will perhaps-attempt a Bank movement on Jackson,-while Burnside, who is being heavily re inforced by McClellan, advances through Culpeper and Orange. _ • OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM GENERAL JACKSON, Bichmond, August 12.—7 he following official despatch was received at headquarters here to-day : , . ' Valley Distkict, August 11, G# A. H. - Colonel : On the evening of the 9th inat., God. Messed onr artne with'another victory. The battle was 'mar Cedar Bun, about six miles from, Onlpeper Court-House. The enemy’s force, according, to the statements of pri soners;' consisted of Generals Banks’, SlcDoweU’sVand Bigel’s commands. We have over 430 prisoners, includl ring Brigadier-General Prince,.. Whilst our 1 : list iof-killed is Use than that or-the enemy jet we havo, to mourn the loss of some of our best officers and men. Brigadier General Charles Winder was mortally ' wounded whilst ably discharging his duty at the head of his command, which was the advance of the left wing of the army. We have collected about 1,600 small arms and other ordnance stores. I am, Colonel, your ob’t. serv’t.,: „ T. J. JACkSON, - • Mejor General Commanding. Colonel B. H. -Chilton, A. A. G. V THE EAST KICK OP THE DYIkG BEAST. '• [From toe Petersburg Express, 13th J The “ Twenty-million ” northern Behemoth that rußbed so furiously into the bloody arena of war some Sixteen months ago, threatening, 1 with frightful pawings and roarings, to smash up everything in Its way, is now in; a: moribund state. The dying monster has convul sively. gathered up all its remaining vital'energies for a last Bpaimodlc kick, after which it will be food for buz zards., to plainer speech,"Lincoln has called for 600,000 more men, which is tantamount to a declaration that the North.la at its last gasp, and is writhing hr the final paroxysm of her fury, preparatory to her giving up the ghost . Let the South ■ rejoice over the desperate condi tion ot her accursed foe, as manifested in this dernier resort. Ail that Bhe has got to do-ia to make ready for administering another blow a la Ghtokahomfay, which will put an end to her troubles, and rid her forever of her brutal invaders. . There iB “ weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth” amongst the Yankees over this call for 600,000 men, which“comes home to their business and bosoms ” The foreign material for filling up their army is pretty well exhausted, and now the real, genuine scions of the old Pilgrim and Butch stocks have to face the Southern chivalry. Wo are glad of thin It is high time that the Abolitionists and their backers of the native breed,- who are the authors of the war, ebould he made to feel ite horrors In their proper persons. They are at last snared in their own net, and are about to undergo the punishment due to their crimes: fora greater, punishment could’ not' he inflicted upon those trembling, shivering wretches, than dragging them before the “rebel” bayonets and batteries, to bo shot down and cut to pieces tike the thousands whom they pitilessly consigned to this fate before their turn came. It it as:a\rful time at preseatinYankeedom. The “draft” is about as welcome up In thitlatlludo as would be the Angel of Death. There 1» a-universal consterna tion, which produces the moat dismal scenes, especially amongst the rampant) , rabid fanatics, who, when they put the red ball of war in motion, had not the remotest conception that any occasion could arise that would ex poee one of themaelveo to bodily harm. Already are they twisting and twirling and squirming in all sorts of ways to escape the fearful call. They are not exactly the crea tures to prove tbeir faith by their works when they have to do It by fighting, Horace Greeley would see every negro slave roasted alive over slow fires upon gridirons before ho would put' himself within range of a loaded and cocked rebel rifle. Bo wonld Seward, so would Lincoln, so would Garrison, Gerritt Smith, and alt the other Aboli tion villians, that gdbblo so terrlbly about war and blood when they know that their carcases are. not in peril. They care not bow many hecatombs of ignorant foreigners fall victims to the deviUsh cause which they themselves ere afraid to fight for. They can read with perfect com- • posure and complacency the long lists of killed and wounded of those deluded hirelings of Lincaln which every battle rune up. Bat now, thank Heaven, the “rebels” will have a chance of settling accounts with them, or with some of them, it is to he hoped, in their , own persons. A; great- many of them, we know, will dodge thedraft by flying the country, or by purchasing substitutes, or. by Ijing .cxcusca —but oil cannot do so. We would ;bo delighted above all things if tho 600,000 leyy could be made up exclusively of the Greeleyite wing of ‘ these ■ fanatics—these preachers of war and etavesi of fear—these women in men’s apparel—these ltone in tongue and hares in heart—these white-livered, chtoken-spirited, shoop nerved imps of thunder, who have convulsed the coun try with their machinations, and now, when they: are : confronted boldly with the consequences of their villainy and folly, would creep through augur holes to escape from the peril of lire and limb which they have brought upon themselves, now it is upon them. Why, even Mo hammed and, hie followers had the courage to fight for their godleßß creed. We have scarcely read of an im postor who did hot dare to strike with his own hands a blow in: defence of his doctrine; however false and infamous. It remained for Abolitionist Greeley and his disciples: to show ibo world an exsimple of cow ardice without a parallel in the bißtory of imposture. A cause in which itß owh zealots will not fight is one of tho remarkable andmaliee of earth, reserved for the Yankee freedom Bhriekers to shine in. THE WAR IN ARKANSAS. 'Special Correspondence of The Frew.] ' Helena, Ark., July 12,1862: Appearance of the Country. I hare boon hero.two.days, and a century foobly expresses the real length of-mystay. I had some notion of’acoompanying the . army in its overland i trip to Little Rook, but my'experience has driven I all such insane thoughts out of my head. - Such a ! wretched, God-forsaken oven I never conceived i before. Imagine a long prairie, at the present I stage of water, about twenty feet above the level of I the river, half a mile in breadth, and of indefinite length,' and aovered with six inches of impalpable .dust, under oover of which some one hundred and fifty, sutlers, some two thousand white men, fivp hundred mule teams, and ten thousand negroes move mistily about, biding their deeds of darkness. There are a few'seattered houses, mostly of wood, all constructed with a due regard to the circulation , of air and dust. The dust takes a very ungentle- I manly advantage of the opportunity, and forces its unwelcome presence into the most sacred shrine. When the soldiers first oamo, and some are no better : now, they Were fearfully ragged, but dust I and perspiration made a.very good substitute for i clothing. Everythingislitorailypaintedwithdust. i Nobody pretends to try to keep clean. Not a breath i of fresh air is to be had for love or money. There i is an apology for a levee, -which was- overflowed in the spring, and was broken through in several placeß. It is.now one dust heap,- and-.with a singu lar disregard of comfort and' cleanliness, many of i the residences are built just behind it, whore the dnst oan blow nicely, and without any oxtra exer tion, directly into the front windows. E von for the purposo-focwhiohajeveejs usually intended, it is an abortivo' little porformanaev rot in«T T »s,, t _t] ul water was two feet above the highest point of it, .and every house in town was five feet under water. '(There are no years that some water does not come •In, and consequentlythe whole of the'towu is once dr twice ayear converted-into a swamp, orrathor a Take, degenerating, as the hot weather comes on, 'into a Slough of Despond. I have not had the cou rage to pass .beyond the bluffs into the country be yond, but lam informed that the land is low and swampy, and-intersected byorooks. Xtio horrors of living-in suoh a place are too muoh for contem plation, the heat. Maoaulay says ho who has nover seen a storm in the tropics, may be said not to know what a thun der-storm is, he -who hss never aeon the Himalayas may be said never to have seen mountain scenery, »Dd he who has never , road Barrere’s' Memoirs may be said not.to know what it is to lie., To,that famous olimnx lot me add that he who has novor been in Helena does not know what heat is. Thero are many thiDgs about this war which Northern people-who stay at home can never comprehend; Among others, the heat. To' feel the sun turn, to pass from the shade into the sun, I feel as thongh you were passing close by a burning-house, to place your hand out at the window and feel it bake, while the rest of your body is oomfortable, tobe continually, night and day, without a moment’s cessation, in a perspiration, which is rendered pro fuse by the slightest exertion, such as writing, playing the piano, or playing a game of billiards, to be glued to a chair if you sit in it five minutes, to cross a street for the sake of ten yards -of shade; to have no appetite and eat nothing more than barely enough to sustain life, to drink ravenously whenever you see anything in a liquid form, to abhor tobacco, and sneer at the finest regalias, to roll at night from side to side in your bed, crazed nearly to death by the eternal hum of mosquitoes, and to wake in the morning unrefreshed, only to go through the same round of fretting and sweat ing and swearing, and when you leave to haven, bill of two dollars and a half a day thrust in your face by a blatant Secessionist; this, moro than this, it is ■to visit Helena, -1 could beat out -my brains against the nearest door-post for having been such a fool as to come here; hut having come, and survived for two days, I have faint hopes of re turning to that comparative paradise, the lovely city of Memphis. THE HOTEL. Yes, my friends, there is a hotel in Helena. It is a two-story house, just behind the dustiest part of the leVee, and has one cool place about it-r-tha open hail from front to rear of the house, in the second story. The dining-room is a low, hot, ricketty old kitchen The fare consists of roast pork, boiled ham, some very good vegetables, sinco they are not cooked in cistern water, in which you can perceive, with Hie naked eyo, a large and-well selected assortment of bugs, mostly of a brilliant -red color, and innumerable logs; a drink, said to be coffee, but which I should call a decoction of tanbark and dish: water, and flies ad libitum. The landlord is Major somebody, very large and fat, and is always swearing at niggers. He is a rank Secessionist, and has a “ mufftash on his faoo.’ 1 Elis daughters would bo pretty, but that they dip snuff, chew tobacco, and bang from morning to night on a wheezy, snorting old piano .of the year one, and tuned last at the foundation of Rome. The old lady is as fat as her lord and master, talks like a—yes, like two nigger-wenches, and can , lie like a Jew. For all this entertainment you pay two dollars and a half a day. There is no other hotel in the place, which is surely a morcy, if they were all like the Commercial. THE NEGROES arc everywhere. I never saw such crowds of them. Ragged, jolly, good-natured, lazy, and jubilant follows they are too. ' They really think the tables are turned. They steal all their master’s property and sell it, they put on airs before white folks, they don’t work any more nor any harder than they want to, and they get all they want to eat. They are coming into our lines in crowds every day. It ia hardly fair, perhapß, to characterize General Curtis’conduct in regard to the- negroes without seeing his documents, and knowing what he has to say ; but the universal judgment of his officers, and of. all who have had occasion to observe his course, is-that it has been very injudicious. On the latter part of.his march he confiscated all he could find, and gaye them- a general invitation to come with the army. It was rather galling to our men to-have these negroes who did no work fed, when the army was on half, and even quarter ra tions, and to soo them riding in the train wagons, while they had to maroh through the dust. Along <the march-frem Jaoksonport to Helena, our road •was much obstructed by fallen timber. Through ‘the whole of this seotion Curtis took along all the ’negroes'he could find, men, women, and children, and the result may be imagined. The soldiers and officers took to “ negro stealing” just for the fun of the,thing, and the camps were filled with this black rabble. Cases have been known where officers have gone to the negroes of planters, who may for aught they know, have been Union men, and enticed them to go away. Now, the objection to all this is, not that the negroes are freed—they will all bo free by and by, but such conduct is utterly subversive of all, discipline. It gets the privates and subalterns of the army into the way of taking private property without the authority of their commanding officer. When a general is marching through a country, particularly an enemy’s country, he may take whatever property he wants and use it for the purposes of his army or his march. But such proceedings are arbitrary enough, and productive enough of injustice at best, and the little safeguard that even the slight formail" ties of military law and military necessity may .be able to give the unfortunate victims of a hostile army should be afforded them, and a subordinate officer or a private should never be allowed to ap propriate private property! when his superior 'officer is within reach and can take the responsibility and give the order. The march of Curtis’ army was characterized by'.the greatest depredations, and,the odium it brought on the name of ihc federal troops is not to,be mentioned with the disorganization and lack of‘discipline it produced among the men. It is reported and hoped that General Curtis has been superseded. If such be thqease, his successor will have a very difficult task to root out the bad habits he has taught his men. He is said to ba canvassing for United States Senator from lowa. Everybody here hopes he will be elected. He has been in the habit of giving ‘‘free papers” to negroes. What they amount to, or where on earth be gets the au thority for such aots, noboSy'knows, or pretends to guess. I have not been able to get at the number be has “freed,” but the two thousand I see stated in the Northern papers is unquestionably an exag geration. After he had “ freed” them he did not make them work, nor did he make their freedom conditional upon their working, but he let them lie about, awayfrotn their homes and the localities where they- could • get employment, and support themselves, if the time ever shall come when they can have the privilege of trying it, and close on the ' heels of our army, where they are little bettor than ’ a nuisance, Still, if these are the only abuses and inconveniences that are to fellow toe emancipation' of negroes, we may think ourselves lucky. When the confiscation act comes to .be properly applied through.the edict of the courts, every negro that is emancipated will be left right in his tracks, and can by some System of organized labor-be-made useful to the country,'and can tod in the develop ment of its resources; but to emancipate them in this belter- skelter sort of way, compels them to run away, and gets them into unsettled, roving ways of life, and unless we are careful, we shall have a perfect band of gypsies overrunning toe land. But this is not the plaoe for a dissertation on the eman cipation question. Tho views I expressed in-my last as to what should be the policy of the Government on the cotton question have received very dooided con firmation what I have Been in Helena. Gene ral Curtis has now taken the whole matter into Us COTTON. ■' own hands, and - undertakes to control everything. To get a‘permit to buy you m%t; go;to: General Curtis; to be able to ship.you .must go to General Curtis; to bp-able to get ;transportation you must go to General Curtis. .Still, his policy is to get the cotton to this place,; honestly if you oan, but get it So after one has ebtained a permit to buy, a per mit to ship, and an order for transportation, and has invested his money honestly, he has to run another blookade at Memphis. Now this is al Wrong.’ There should bo some ’ settled policy; there Bhould be some,way of knowing just what may be expooted. If the Government leaves these matters in the hands of the military commanders of departments let lis know that. If the rules of our military commanders permit us to buy cotton and ship it to the borders of another department, and'the oommander of that department can con fiscate and sell, by the hands of the quarter master, the cotton thus honeßtly bought and ship ped in pursuance of the law and authority of a lawful roprosontative of the Government, however monstrous such a doctrine may be, lot us know it. Let us no longer be in the dark. My opinion, that the military idea of the Govern ment policy is the best, is still more strongly con firmed. Let the Government seize the cotton, give reoeipts for it, carry it to Boston or New York, and sell it. Then let them deduct the expenses and hold the money, subject to the order of the party frbm whom the cotton was purchased, who, if he be;a loyal man,’will get his money; if not, the Government will have confisoated his property in the most simple, economical, and effectual man ner.' All the military men who do not wish to Bpe-: culate themselves. wish this might be done. It seeureß the ootton, it deprives the. South of gold, and secured for loyal men the full value of their ootton. Neither- of. these very valuable Objects has been sccuredT>y tne prw.ov ; NEW COTTON ORDER. A new'orde* of General Grant’s, dated August 6, which -1 suppose you have seen, reached here to-day. It is to the same effect as the order of General Sherman in relation to tho same matter, and prohibits the deportation of coin, treasury notes, or other property for. the purpose of trading with the South. It orders the seizure of all ootton coming to Memphis, and says none.will be allowed to pass without the special order of the Treasury Department. .(General Bhermanrvotood oven' the- Treasury Department) GOVERNMENT CALLED bN FOR RELIEF, But I am informed, on the best authority, that authentic representations of tho ohaotio state of affairs here have been mado at Washington, and the Government will soon announco a definite policy. There are other reasons why this should be done as quickly as possible. It Is not fair to accuse public men anonymously of acts which are not proved by evidence patent to everybody, but I hardly think the officials here desorvo the benefit of that chari table rule. An agent of the Treasury Department, who has been here making investigations into those matters said, yesterday, that he had been in public life for twenty years and never saw corruption that began to equal what there was here. ; By and by I may give you an inkling of it, hut at present let me tell you how the cotton is procured. A great deal, of it is brought in by negroes who sell it for five or ten dollars a bale. It is worth two hundred in New York. They steal it from their masters, some of whom have run away and some have not. Af ter they get the money they don’t know the value of it, and tho soldiers steal it from thorn. Two soldiers, the night before last, met a white man, from whom they demanded his money or his life; and as he'had two hundred dollars in gold in one pocket and six hundred dollars in treasury notes in' the other, he gave them , tho gold and they went away satisfied. Of course, they will steal from negroes A darkey came running into General Washburno’S office the other day and wanted a pass to go across the river; he had one, he said, but it was from the wrong “orifisor.” Ho was going across the river with some white folks to show them his massa’s plantation where there were one hundred and five bales of cotton, and they were going to haul it to the river bank opposite Helena, Where they would sell it. General Washburne asked the negro how much he was going to ask for it.’ “ I dunno,” says Sambo. “ Massa’s run away and de obersecr’s run away and de cotton is dar, and white inassa git ’em and pay darkey.” “ Well, should yon think five dollars a bale would bo "enough?” “Yes, inassa, I reokon.” Now, tho rascals who got that cotton will make twenty thou sand dollars put of it. The Government might just as well have that as not. General Washburne or dered tho negro to report to General Curtis when . he got back, and not to sell a bale until he had seen him. Butihe nigger won’t know enough to do ■ that, and probably the “white massa’s” specula- safe enough. Another: Two hundred bales of cotton came up river, bought, as the vouchor stated, for twenty-five cents a pound, to be paid after the war is over. The contract was witnessed by a bri gadier general or a colonel, I have forgot which. -. This pretends to be a Btriet compliance with Gen. Grant’s order, but it is in reality either a forced or a sham sale. BAD EFFECTS OF COTTON ON OVR ARMV OFFICERS. The fact is you cannot begin to conceive-the frauds and peculations and the abuses of official po- ' sition which are going on hero every - day. If the army stays-at Helena, tho officers will all be either siok or so rioh that they won’t be fit for anything but gemiimen. As in California and Australia the troops could not be kept together for the gold, so here very few cau.be found who do not, to some ex tent, negleot their duties for cotton speculations. Colonels lend their wagons and their troops as escorts, buy a few bales themselves, and are willing to lend their influence to those who give them a “ bonus” for it. Quartermasters are in the largeßt sort of demand. Scouts and pickets, who are sup posed to know all that is going on in the outside world, are more valuable for thoir knowledge of cotton than for what they know of tho enemy. THE JEWS These creatures are here, as everywhere with the army, in hordes. It is they who have in reality made the practice of cotton trading almost disrepu table ' They care not how they get their cotton so that they get it “shsep.” They will run any risks. to their lifeor their funds to find out choice chances to buy cotton for almost nothing. They hire negroes to,steto from their masters, from buyers* from toe levy generally, and from each other. I really boliove that among those harpies the rule of fionesty among thieves does not hold, for they skin each other without meroy. They swarm out on too roads leading into the coun try, and'meet wagons carrying cotton.to the levee. . There they cajole toe drivers with whisky or money, and get them to carry it to some other plaoe than the one to which it was destined; or if the owner is with it, and has sold it, they will offer him a cent a pound more than his other bargain. They are largely in the sutler business, but suoh as deal'in that small way atb mere plebeians. There are some representatives here of the leading houses in St. Bonis and Cincinnati, and they are investing . tol the way from twenty-five to a hundred, thou sand dollars in cotton. STEALING. Thieving is the grand universal prevailing vice of a soldier. Everything about him tends to confound in his mind tho distinctions of 'mum, and tuum. Almost all the property they see is Government property, which better men than they think; them selves fully authorized-to steal. In marching 'tfclOUgtl ine Ctymitrjry-tho Jforttgmg-Kfta.apot-fcoon-oyja,.^ tematized and kept under the control of our officers, as it ought to have boon. Men and subalterns have been allowed too much license, and the result has been to make the army a set of robbers. Soldiers will steal everything. I remember a good story of a colonel of one of the Ohio regiments in the army before Corinth. A resident of the country came in' o his camp and wanted leave, to searob for a horse he had lost. While he stood talking with the oelonel, holding in-his hand the bridle of the horse he had been riding, up came two men, and while one of them slips the bridle off' the horse’s head the other holds it up in his hand until the first had tak en the; horse by the forelook out of sight, the colonel all tho time keeping the butternut’s atten tion engaged. When butternut turns around to go, be finds, instead of a horse, his bridle, held up in the air about as high as a horse’s head. This is a fact.' The soldiers of this army, having had more, ex perience than the generality of soldiers in the thieving art, have acquired the greatest passion for the amusement of appropriating otlie'r people’s goods. It is not safe to leave a horse without watching for a single moment. . If a soldier wants a ride he is just as likely to jump on the first horse he sees as not. Mules are stolen right out of the harness..- When the men crowd around the narrow opening of a sutler's tent, they invariably steal' more than they buy. When goods are piled on the levee, welting a few momenta .to be carried upon the bank, or on hoard the boat, they are almost sure to be decimated, by , thieves. The stealing propensities of the army extend to everybody who has long been in contact with them. Now, the steamboat men on.the Mississippi river have always been noted for their exalted virtue, and particu larly Mritheir strict and conscientious honesty. But “evu communications,” ko., 40., you know, and the last sad result of the vicious associations of the steamboat:men Is seen in the following fact, which , I have just learned from the best authority: From Memphis to Helena the steamboats will, as a very great favor, carry sutlers’ goods,, but they will hot give bills of lading for them, nor will, they be re sponsible for. loss. They usua’ly make the trip from Memphis in the night, and after dark they go about among the sutlers’, goods foraging.’ They break open boxes of wine and take out from, one to five boxesi 'They takei'halves of cheese and a heavy discount out of the gingerbread, oraokers, butter, eggs, and every manner of eatable and drinkable * th&toan be made useful on board a steamboat. TWO CENTS. Thus 5 they supply thexaselrea without 5 coBt, and ai they have given nabillaoflading.-andare not re eponuibla for loss, they are “ all; right,’’,, and .charge it to the long account. Our delight? ful landlord makes the day hideous,with com* plaints of the soldiers. .They steal his knives and forks, his tumblers, his. soap and towels, and—for which’ may they be' everlastingly burned—-his mosquito bars, leaving the future denisens of the rookery to the added horror Of Helena mosquitoes, which are celebrated; by the way, for wearing drcssswords, navy revolvers,-and Chinese gongs. When the'officers of Gen. Steele’s staff arrived here, after,their long trip, through the State, they had, of course, a “ big wash” on hand, and ope of them told me that, out of four dozen handkercbiofe mid from a dozen and a half.to three dozen of every other article of clothing, ho only got Back, on an average, three of each kind. ' This is a, great country, that is a fact. 1 ,/ THE NJSWS i Here, - I have written you a long mess of stuff, and have not yet come to tho news. There is but little of general; interest, but it all points to the general result of successes, or rather successful raids, of tho Seoesh. Here, as everywhere else, guerilla parties are 'organizing and making attacks npon our foroes whenever they see a weak point, ’which they can attaok without danger to them selves: T will give you the several items of inte rest that have occurred; here of late; all of which, you will see, point to the same general result. : . THE FIRST WISCOMiIN CAYAMtr, Under Colonel Daniels, was left at Cape Girardeau to guard , that point,. They had been there same three months and had done most excellent service. No rebels had appeared in the neighborhood with out being promptly oloaned out, and the pointj which iB -one of great strategic importance,jyas took it into’ his head, not orc/era but" indefiance of express orders, to take; a little trip across the country to Helena, and, so off he starts. Tho march is described as being straggling and dis orderly in the extreme, squads and companies of men being detached and left to guard points of supposed importance, and the whole command being very muoh scattered. Of bourse,' such/ a freak as this was not gorog to be very long kept from the vigilant Secesh, and by the time the wagon-train got to', the St. Francis river it was attacked and , captured; i; The men were quietly sleeping in their tents, at daylight, when, without a moment’s warn ing, a Bodyiof Texan Hangers, reported at twelve hundred but in.reality about one hundred and fifty, rushed upon them,; put; them to flight, and took their wagons. There were seventy of our men, of whom eight were killed and thirty wounded. About twenty of the Seoeßh were killed, from which it seems that our men must have made a good fight. Some few .escaped, and, made for Helena, where General Steele, who wasinoommand,^entreinforce ments to Clarendon, where it was supposed a con siderable force had rallied. Five, regiments of in- Tanty, a battalion of cavalry, and were Sent out under command of General flovey. De spatches haye been received from them, saying that they found no enemy. They remain there for farther orders. If this army goes to Little Rook they will stay thero, hut nothing . can be decided until General Curtis or his successor arrives, for it is very currently reported that General Curtis is to be superseded. ■ SKIKMISH AT PILLOW'S PLANTATION. , A detachment of the 47th Indiana Regiment and the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry was sent by Gen. Wash burne, who commands the brigade of; which they compose a part, over into Mississippi, dirootly op posite hero, with orders to seize all cotton belonging to holed Secessionists, mid to prevent the burning of cotton by the guerillas. On Sunday night a squad of about twenty of the Wisconsin regiment halted ■for the night at a cotton-press. About half a mile in their rear a portion of the Indiana regiment halted also for the night; Another detachment, from the Indiana regiment was sent to scour the country, and directed to meet the Wisconsin men at the cotton-press, when both were to fail back to the main body. The In diana men lost their road, and, at daylight, the Wisconsin men were surprised in their beds by a party of about forty guerillas. Before they could wake several of them were sabred, but, in a mo ment, they were up and began a running fight. The detachment in their rear hearing the firing came up, and the guerillas skedaddled, with a loss of two killed and several wounded. Our loss was one killed and ten or twelve wounded. One man was struck with a Knife across the nose, outtihg it quite in two. The rebels seized him by the heels and tried to drag him off as a prisoner, but they had caught a tartar. He would not go. He fought, and bit, and kicked so hard that they had to drop 'him and seek safety in flight ; but before they left him they cut.his face all to pieces. They tried to cut his throat, but, being unacquainted "with the precise locality of the jugular Tain, only succeeded in cutting his windpipe. The Wisconsin men had no pickets out, and no watch of any sort. If they had been thus prepared they would not have lost a man. As it was, they lost some seven or eight in the way of prisoners. The parties attacking them .were certainly guerillas—one of their men eon. _fessed it; and if they are caught they will be ■ hung. A force has been sent in pursuit of them. This skirmish occurred close by the plantations of -the brother of General Pillow and Captain Brown, of the Arkansas, and their cotton is now being hauled to the bank of the river. INTERCEPTED DESPATCHES About two weekßago, a large and valuable mail from Little Book to the east was intercepted by some of our troops, and it proved' to contain im portant despatches from General Hindman to Rich mond. Hegave a most gloomy and. desponding view of affairs in Arkansas. He said that he had about 30,000 troops in all, some at Little Rock, but mostly scattered through his “ schools of in struction,” but that of those hot more than three thousand were armed, the balance being a mere mob, kept together more by want of anything better to do than patriotism. He said he had not an officer under him who was worth his salt—not: .one. ’All his work he had to do himself, without a • particle of help. There was no one oompetent to drill and instruct either men or offices, and, in - short, unless he was speedily supplied ; with , arms, and some oompetent officers were sent to him, he might as well give up and let the Yankee hordes rule the State. The mes senger who parried this mail was foolishly al lowed to escape, and he undoubtedly carried the news of the capture to Hindman. Daybeforo yes terdayanother capture was made of a mail, but evidently a bogus one, intended to correct the effect of the genuine one. Thero are two despatches from Hindman, and two or three private letters, one of which is in Hindman’s handwriting, and. signed “ Tebbetts,” purporting to be a friendly letter to one << Jameß T. Logan, Jackson, Mississippi.” These despatches are not so voluminous as the .others, and are very different in tone. They com mence by saying that it Is hardly safe to send im portant despatches in’ the unsettled state of the country, but that General Cooper’s peremptory or der admits of no delay. General Hindman is very ;much gratified to hear that General Bragg is to have command of thb Department. - He has ! taken the responsibility of delaying to obey the orders to move upon the enemy at Helena “at onoe,” as they are probably based upon an erroneous idea of his strength and resources. He farther says 11 1 have in camps of instruction at this plaoo and Fine Bluff “aßbuntSjWOtreiteonvo-menf-weH-iirrmod-!—l—Uorro in damps of instruction sis or eight thousand men, either wholly unarmed, or else armed with guns that are of little use; such as shot guns,-carbines, Ac. The arms brought over by Captain Hart, together with those brought by General Parsons, have re lieved me of embarrassment, and enabled me to make effective Hw greater part of my oommand. If Major Bankhead arrives-safely, as I think'ho 'wiil, I can then arm the balance of my men. I have six batteries, containing forty brass pieoes and ono battery of iron guns, Ac.', Ao , to offset what he bad said before that, he had not a piece of artillery that could be depended upon. Ho winds up by saying that when Major Bankhead arrives, he shall have an armed effective force of 24,000 to 26,000 infantry, 6,000 cavalry, and 54 pieces of artillery. He then details his plan of operations, which is' to draw the enemy out of range' of his gunboats, and annihilate him. How easy it is to make men on paper.. These despatches are known to bo false, and the others genuine by other signs than Internal evidence. The others were in a large mail-bag with some 500 other letters. These have only two or three letters with them, in one of whioh the ar rival of the'gunboats up the river; is announced several days before they could really have heard it. The plan was a good one, but bunglingly executed. v The. gunboat Flirt is still here, and the Arkansas is reported at the mouth of White river,.. If that is so, our supplies to General Hovey’s expedition will be intercepted, and we shall have to furnish his troops by land, which will be slower and more expensive./, • General Curtis has just returhod. Casco. GBNEBAL McOALX. AT HOMK.-Gsneral McCall reached homo, by private conveyance from Wiimmgton, .. ata late hoar.on Saturday, night, and ,JiL a _®'5 CU3 ' tcmed seat at the Episcopal Ohnrdi, in Jhie borough, on Sunday morning. During the J* iTine service,a ferTent.prayer of and.return from captivity, * ““'‘e l>y the Bet. Mr. Newton, the effeot of which upon the congregation "was* most effective and impresrivo. After gerrice,;the gallant soldier was eurrounded by Ml friends and neigh ' bora, who gave him ouch a heartfelt welcome as hia true : srd tried cervices to his country liohiy merited.—lFesf Chester Republican, 19tA. NBEB COTTON —Free cotton is the name which might with propriety bo given to a now kind of fibre which has recently been brought from the Andes, where it growa ih perfection as high as the fortieth parallel of latitude, and where "the", ground'ia covered for several 'weekranhuaily'with sSiow. ‘lt-ia’ a perehhial treei and lives .for many years. If cannotbedistlngiiishod from the finegradee of Bonthern cotton. —Ntviburyport Herald. THE WAR PRESS. (PUBLISHED WEEKLY.) Tffli WA> Pause will beeent to subscribers by man (per annum In advance) at.............. 82.99 Three Copies tt u 5.00 Hv « “ “ « .............. 8.00 *» “ “ <« 12.00 Larger Globe will bo charged at the same rato—thog j 20. copies will cost $24; SOooplea will cost 860,and : 10Q copies $l2O. Yor a Glob of Twenty-one or over. we wlB aend.aa Extra Copy to the gettcr-np of the Club. Postmasters are revested to act as Agents** Tob Wax Pbbss. • <• • Advertisements Inserted* at the nanal rates. Sis tinea oOnßtltnte a wmare.. FROM THE# SOUTHWEST. The Invasion of .Kentucky—Official Re , p.ort ,of theGnerilla Morgan. > „ .HKADQriAItTJinftjMOBOAN’S COMMAND; Ksoxvii.i.k, Tenn , July 30 ■2b Major Gtnerh’.XlsßirSli'Smith 1 , Commanding Dt. Cksksal : I have the honor to retort that, upon the sW of the engagement at Tompkinsvllle, a full report of * c ■ * TB aheady sent you, I moved mycommand, consisting of my own regiment, Ibo Goorgi , regiment of partisam.rangers,, commanded by 001. A. A. Hunt, and Major Gaiio’s Texas squadron, to which were attached two companlss*cf’ Tennessee cavalry, in the directioriof Glasgow, which place X reached at 12 o’clock last night. There were but few troops in the town, who fled at our approach. .The’ commissary stores, clothing, &o.i toge ther with alarge supply .of medical stores, found in Glas gow were burned; and the’ guns werrdistributed among my command, abont two hundred of which were unarmed when I left Knexville. ': * • I]rom Glasgow, I! proceeded aloujg the main Lexingto* halting for a time near,Cave city,— iny objectbeing to induce the belief that X intended de- Bteoying.the railroad bridge between Bowling Green and Woodsonville I caused wires, connecting wlth aporta- We battery that I carried with me, to be attached to the CaTB * “4 intercepted a num ber or despatches. At Barren river I detached three companies, under Captain Jack Alien, to move forward rapidly and destroy the Salt river bridge, tbatthe troops along the line of* railroad might he prevented from re turning to Loui-vilie. . • . .. On the following nwrningT moved on toward Lebanon, distant thirty-fivo miles from Barren riveri At II o’clock at night I reached, the bridge over Bolling, Fork, six miles from Lebanon.* The enemy had reoeived 'in formation of my approach from their spies; '• and my ad vacce was fired upon at the Bridge. After a short light the force at;tho bridge was dispersed and the plaaka which bad been torn up, having been replaced, the com mand moved forward to Lebanon. Abbatrtwo miles from the town a ehirmish commenced between two" companiag that I cair ed to dismount and a force of the enemy posted upon the road, which wm soon ended br its dispersion and captor.e. Xieut. Col. A. X Jofansom commanding the troops in town, surrendered, and I on tered the place. The prisoners taken, in * number about sixty-five, were paroled. V: I took Immediate possessionjjtth»-<-~s™P a rsfia in -^TOr^eo-ortnaoaswua— informing him half been a company of Texan Bange^tnoTO^t^^j;* 8 stroy the railroad bridge oh the lißbanon bfSnc£;,HrV " ha successfully accomplished in .time to prevent shear rival of the troops "T burned two long buildings full of commissary stores, -consisting of upwards of five hun dred sacks of coffee and a large amount of all other sup plies in hulk, marked [for the army at Gnmberland Gap. I also destroyed a very largo amount of clothing, boots, Sc. I burned the hospital buildings, which appeared t» have been recently erected and fitted up; together with abont thirty.five wagons and fifty-three new ambu lances. I found in' the place a large store of medicines, five thousand stand of arms with accoutrements, abont two thousand sabres, and an immense quantity of ammu nition, sbeii. See. 1 distributed' the best arms among my command, and loaded one wagon with them, to be given 'to the recruits that I expected to join me. I also loaded one wagon with ammunition. The remainder of the arms, ammunition, and the hospital and medical stores 1 destroyed.*" v*"., .*'■;..* **>*;..■ . .’While in*liebanoh,:'Xasofirtamed from telegraphicdhe (■patches that I 'intercepted, that the force which had been started from Lebanon Junction to reinforce Lieut. Col. Johnson, had met and driven back the force under Capt. Jack Allen, killing one of his men, and preventing him from accomplishing the purpose for which he had been detailed. * , I proceeded fro'ni Lebanon on the following day through Springfield to MacksviUe, at which point I was attacked by Home Guards.' Two of my men were taken prisoners, 'and one severely wounded.* I remained; at MacksviUe that night to recover the prisoners, which X did early tbs next morning. I then left for Harrodstmrg, capturing a Federal captain and -lieutenant on the road; reached Harrodsbnrg at half past 12 o’clock, and found that the Home Guard of air that portion of conntryhad tied to Loxingtori. A fores; was also stationed, on the bridge where the Lexington road crossed the Kentucky river. My reception at this place p*as very encouraging.* The ’whole population appeared to turn out and vie with eaoh other as to'who should show ns most attention. I left Harrodsbnrg at six o’clock the same evening, and moved to Lawrencebnrg, twenty miles distant, threatening Frankfort in order to drawoff the troops from Georgetown*: Bemained there until the return of my courier from Frankfort, who brought the information that there was a force in Frankfort of two or three thou sand men, consisting of Home Guards collected from the adjacent counties, and a few regular troops. ■ ■-t From Lawrencebnrg I proceeded to Shryko’s Ferry, on the Kentucky river, raised the boa!, which had been sunken, and crossed .that evening, reaching ’V’eraaStesat seven o’clock. I found this place abandoned by its de fenders, who had fled to-Lexington; remained there that night, and on the next morning marched toward George town. While at Versailles; I took about three hundred Government horses and mules. I passed through Midway on the road to Georgetown, and was informed just before reaching the place that a train from Frankfort was nearly, dno, with two regiments of Federate. X tors up the track, and posted a howitzer to command it, arid formed my command along the tine of .the road; but the train was warned of our presence, and returned to Frankfort Having taken posiession of the telegraph office,- I intercepted a despatch asking if the road was clear, and if it would be safe to start the train from Lexington .: I replied to, send the train, and made preparations to receive it; but it was also turned back, and escaped. ■. I reached Georgetown, twelve miles from Lexington, that evening. Just before entering the town, I was in formed that a small force of home guards had mustered to oppose UB. I sent them word to surrender their arms, arid they should not be molested, but they fled. Th* people of Georgetown also welcomed us with gladness, and provided my troops with everything that they needed, I remained at Georgetown two days, during which time t sent out a company under .Captain McMillan to destroy the track between Midway and Lexington, and Midway arid* Frankfort, arid to blow up the stone bridge on that road, which he successfully accomplished. Hearing that a company of home’gnarda wore encamped at “ Stamp ing Ground,” thirteen miles distant, I despatched, a com pany under Captain Hamilton to break up tha encamp ment, bum the tents and stores, and destroy the guo*. This was also accomplished, Oaplain Hamilton taking fifteen prisoners and all their guns, and destroying a large amount of medical and, commissary supplies. I also, while at Georgetown, sent Captain Gastleman with hia company to destroy the railroad bridges between Paris and Lexington, and report to me at Winchester. This wasdone. Determining to move on Paris, with a view of return irg, and hearing that the place was being rapidly rein forced from Gynthiana, I deemed it of great important to cut off the communication from that place, while I drew off the troops that wore already there by a feint on Lexington. I therefore despatched a portion of tw» companies toward Lexington, with instructions to drive the pickets to the very entrance of the city, while I moved the command toward Gyntbiaua. When I arrived within three miles of the place, I learned that it was de fended by a considerable force of infantry, cavalry, and artillery. I despatched the Texas squadron, under Ma jor Gano, to enter the town on the right, and the Georgia regiment to cross the river and get into the rear, while I moved my own regiment, with the artillery, under the command of Lieutenant J. B. Harris, down tha Georgetown pike. *: A severe engagement took place, which lasted about an h.mr and a half, before the enemy were driven into the town, and compelled to surrender. I took* four hundred and* twenty prisoners, including abont seventy home guards. I regret to have tomea tion the loss of eight of my nien in killed, and tweoty -nine wounded. The enemy's loss was ninety-four killed and wounded, according to their own account. Their excess in killed and wounded is remarkable, as they fought ua from behind stone fences, and fired at us from buildings as we charged through the town. We cap tured a very fine ,12-pounder hrqss piece of artillery, to gether with a large number ofsmall arms, and abont , three hundred Government horses. The arms and Go vernment stores were burned, and as many of the horse* as we could bring with us were kept. I found a very large'supply of commissary and medical stores, tented guns, and ammunition, at this place, which I destroyed. The paroled prisoners were sent tinder an escort to Fal mouth, where they took the train for Cincinnati. 1 proceeded next morning towards Paris, and was met on the road by the bearer of a flag of truce, offering* the unconditional surrender of the place. I reached Paris • at four o’clock, remained there that night, and started * towards Winchester’ next morning. As my command was filing out of Paris, on the Winchester pike, ! dis covered a large force of Federate coming toward tha town, from the direction of Lexington. Theyimmedi* ~ - ately countermarched, supposing, no doubt, that my in tention was to get into the rear. This enabled me to bring off my entire command without molestation, with the exception of two of my pickets, who were probably surprised. Breached Winchester that day, at twelve o’clock, and remained until four o’clock, when I pro ceeded toward Bichmond. At Winchester I found a number of arms; which were destroyed. * ■ X arrived at Bichmond at*l2 o’clock that night,, and remained until nex t afternoon, ween I proceeded to Grab Orchard. I hod determined to make a Btand at* Bioh mond Bnd await reinforcements, as the whole people ap ; peared ready to rise and join me, but I received informa tion thatlargebodies .of cavalry, under General Oiay Smith, and Colonels Wqolford, Metcalf, Mnndy;' and Wyukoop, were endeavoring to surround ms at this place.. So I moved on to Grab Orchard. There I ; at tached ray portable battery to the telegraph ieadlrig from - Stanford to Louisville,and learned the exact position of the enemy’s forces, and directed my movements ac cordingly. - - -.* Leaving Grab Orchard at 11 o’clock, I arrived at So merset, distant twenty.eight miles,.at sundown. -I took possession of the. telegraph, and countermanded all the previous orders that had been given by Gen. Boyle to In tercept me, and rein aimd In perfect security ail night. I found a very large supply of commissary stores, cloth ing, blankets, shoes, bats, etc. - ; at this place, whioh were destroyed- I blbo found the arms that had been taken from Gen. Zollicoffer, together with large quantities of shell end ammunition, all of which were destroyed. l ako burned at this place, arid Grab Orchard, about oae hundred and thirty Government , wagons. From Somer set I proceeded to, Monticetio, and from thence to between Livingston and Sparta,’ where my command is .now eri - 'Ut.ll,*o -- * _ I left Knexville on the ithaay of this month with about nine hundred men, and returned to Livingston on the 28th inst. with nearly twelve hundred, having been absent just twenty-four daye, during which time I travelled over a thousand miles, captured seventeen towns, destroyed Bit the Government supplies and arms In them, dispersed about fifteen hundred home guards, and paroled nearly twelve hundred; regular troops. I lost jn killed, wounded, and missing, of the number that I carried into Kentucky, abont ninety. All of which is respectfully submitted. JOHN H. MORGAN, Acting Brigadier General, 0. S. A. The Enrollment of Colored Citizens ia Massachusetts. The Attorney General has -written the following letter to the assessors on the subject of the enrollment of colored citizens: ' AttobxeY Gesebal’s Office, " ' Boston, August 15,1882. • Gentlemen: Tour letter, inquiring why the recent order of hie Excellency provides that the new enrollment shall Include the namee of colored as well as white citi zens, admits of a brief and simple answer. ... ' “ The General Government has authority to determine who shall and who : may hot. compose the militia, and, : having so determined, the State Government has no legal authority to prescribe a different enrolment —[B Gray 635 1 Such was the language of the Justices of the Su preme Court of Massachusetts in reply to certain ques tions proposed to them by the Governor and Council in December, 3859, after the Legislature struck out the word white from the militia law of Massachusetts, an Altera tion in consequence of which Governor Banks was con strained to veto the whole body of the general etatntea. And the application of this well, ret tied constitutional principle is decisive of the question which now exercises jour minds. I An act of Congress passed in May, 1792, requires that ii each and every free able-bodied white mate citizen of thß respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of the age of eighteen years and under the. age of forty five years (except as is hereinafter excepted) shall seve rally and respectively be enrolled in the militia,” Ac. While this Jaw was in force none hot white men could b» enrolled, and the veto by which Gov. Banks thwarted attempts to enroll others was sustained alike by principle and authority. . But an act of Congress, passed July 17,1862, materially alter* the previously existing laws of the United States, viz: those of 1792 and 1795, and-Pre videß that “the enrollment ot the militia shall to all oases . include aU able-bodied male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, and shall be apportioned among the States according to representative . The entliori tire of Massachusetts have nomorerightto diminish its Quota of troops by refusing to enroll blaok mMi” tban ttoy would have to reduce the age at .which the obUgation of -military.service.terminateß, from forty fivetoferty years. 'The only possible qureUen now open t« whether colored men are citizens of Hasiachusetto, which ns one, I presume, .will have the hardihood tode n v inasmuch* as they tee tax payers, voters, jurors, and eligible to office, and there Is no ineauality founded upon distinctions of races known to our laws. . Very re&pectfuUy, your obedient set yant, , * <• . DWKBT FvSTKB.
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