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Jt,B S JOHN w. FORNEY.
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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.
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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.