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Democratic State Ticket.
A.IIDITOR GENERAL,
ISAAC SLESILER, Union County
- SURVEYOR GENERAL
JA= I I I P.-BAltilt. Allegitony County.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET
FOR O. 0 iSR xxzr,l DISTRICT.
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THE DEMOCRATIC conviN-
T.TON.
When we consider the intense heat of the
_ weather, and the extraordinary excitement
of the times, occasioned by military dis
plays and enlistments, the Democratic
County Convention of Wednesday was an
- important and well attended assemblage.
Out of the seventy-seven election districts
in our county, fifty-nine were represented,
constituting quite a large convention for
the season and the times.
The Gazelle appears surprised that, the
Convention was nut larger than it was i and
endeavors to make a point oat of the fact
that Judge Wilkins was not nominated for
the State Senate. In order to relieve our
neighbor upon this point we will state that
the Judge wasn't seriously a candidate for
the nomination, and the use of his name
was wholly unauthorized. He wasn't, we
understand, even iu the city, and his
township was not represented in the Con
vention. This will explain to the Gazette
why Judge Wilkins was not nominated—l
who, if he had been, would yesterday have
been denounced by that paper as "a
Breckinridge traitor."
The.coming convention of the Gazette's
party will, doubtless, be more largely at
tended than ours was; there is no doubt
of that. Every district will send in rep
resentatives,-and in some .of them there
will be - double sets of delegates contesting
each other's claims to seats in the Conven
tion. Look at the long list of published
aspirants for the various county nomina
tions. and one can easily predict a fall, if
note harmonious convention. The Ga
zette's advertising columns have for six
months been crowded by these announce
ments, and the different aspirants have
during that period been securing the coun
ty from its centre to its confines. Not so
with Democrats ; not a name was offered
through the Post, and no fulsome commu
nications, urging leather-headed individu
als for legislative dignities who had far
better enlist, in the ranks of oar army,
There they might be of some little service,
but for legislators they won't answer the
purpose. True, they are no worse than
some who have gone before them, but that
is no excuse in times like these. The
country is in trouble, requiring all the
able bodied men we can spare, and the
multitude of hungry abolition office hunt
ers of this county should furnish a regi
ment, at least, of the additional three
hundred thousand called Tor. Bat will
they do it? Not they. They will take
civil service, even down to -the popular
business of assessing and collecting taxes;
but their appreciation of sound constitu
tions and whole skins is entirely too deli
cate to permit them to enter into the ser
vice. Even now, while the whole-sou-led
Democrats and patriotic Republicans are
properly impressed with their duties as
citizens of an imperiled Union, these
hundreds of abolition office hunters are
prowling about the country, laying
their traps to carry delegates, and
endeavoring to impress the country people
with their immense patriotism by de
nouncing a want of it in their Democratic
neighbors. These fellows have no fears
of hereafter, although they have of rebel
bullets, and their greatest desire in thi
transitory state of ours is, to obtain sub
sistence without labor and a little noto.
riety by being placed occasionally upon
some unimportant committee.
It will be worth the time expended for
one - to - spend an hour or two in the coming
Republican Convention. There will b e
assembled all the candidates—numbering
several hundred—and the delegates elect
ed, each one-of whom has been promised
something, and who will no doubt be our
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future tax assessors and collectors. Thera
will be no difficulty in having a full Con
vention, when such rare inducements are
held out.;_ With Democrats it is different;
we have no patronage to aronse.partisan
feeling, and even if we 'had, the Democ-
racy are too thoroughly engaged in help
ing to save the Union to be tempted there
by. from their glorious and patriotic par
Cassius N. Cliiy.
Cassius M. Clay has returned to New
York. The statement made a day or two
ago that he will go back to Russia, proves
correct.. He, himself, said yesterday that
he would be glad to serve his country here,
but found his views of the mode of mnduct
leg the war, as far as slavery is concerned,
couldn't be harmonized with those of the
Administration. It would not, therefore,
do for him to go into the war, becau se b e
would be constantly hampered ; and if he
atiompted WO what he thought neoe sgary ,
woad Nabs* nhelvid ilk. Fremont
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A. GREAT EMPIRE IN MEXICO.
Oar own domestic convulsions have
attracted so much of our people's atten-
tion, that we have neglected- the echeines
and operations of our foreign opponents.
Last year, when Napoleon concluded to
invade Mexico, many of our public men
were impressed with the idea of his hav
ing an understanding with oar rebel
government. Intelligence has been re
ceived by the latest foreign arrival
that England has become satisfiedof the
Emperor's designs, and is now negotia
ting with our government to prevent
their consummation. "The statesmen
of . England," says the Philadelphia
Journal, "seem to have discovered the.
plot, and informed our government of its
existence." We trust the proper action
will be taken in the premises. There is
a deep schenie on foot to divide our coun
try and set up a monarchy on our South
ern border. While the Abolitionists are
howling over the negro, regardless of the
white man's welfare, and occupying the
attention of our people with their crazy
and treasonable twaddle, we may "wake
up some fine morning" to find France,
with her immense navy, joined with the
`Confederate States of America,' in an at
titude of hostility to the United States,
ready to blockade our Northern ports
and to land men and munitions of war cn
the Southern coast. It is time for our
Northern humanitarians to turn their at
tention to white men's- interests, and
cease discouraging enlistments, for the
is that we shall soon need more
men in the field than our people now
believe necessary to save the country.
ANOTHER ASPIRANT.
Mr. Josiah Copley is out in the Gazette,
demonstrating the truth announced the
other day by Mr. Williams, that "great
occasionsproducegreat men." Mr. Copley,
like Mr. Williams, offers himself for Con:
gress in the 23d district, and like him also,
he, in a mortal column, discusses the "mo
mentous issues" which will likely fall upon
the attention of the next Congress, Mr.
Copley closes his communication with the
following well worded paragraph:
To meet wisely and well the rapidly
varying
. phases of this great revolution,
and to give direction to the mighty forces
which impel it, is the great task that, for
years to come, will devolve upon Congress.
It is a fearful responsibility, requiring
wisdom, discretion and courage. 'I obe a
member of a body clothed with such pow
ers, and responsible to God and men for
their proper exercise, is not a position to
be lightly assumed, nor ono to he sought
for selfish ends. If you deem me worthy
of such a trust, you will say so by your
suffrages; but to urge you to do so by per
sonal solicitation would be to outrage my
own sense of propriety, and I believe yours.
also.
When Mr. Copley send:, his nppeal to
the Republicans of his district, and at the
same time declines to " outrage their sense
of propriety by personal solicitation,' he
draws it rather mild. Bat what is too
heavy for our limited comprehension is the
willingness manifested by gentlemen of
Mr. Copley's delicate constitatioe to wil
lingly assume the load of responsibility
which they are sure will oppress the next
Congress. The self-sacrificing spirit
which prompts this is only equaled by the
charming simplicity of Mr. Copley's mode
of electioneering. We can uot, however,
hope that he may be " eminently success
fal," for the reason that a high sense of
duty compels as to go for another.
How Shall the Fifty Companies
be made up?
There are yet less than two thousand
men mustered into the service of the
United States in this city, in response to
the specific call of the Governor made on
the 7th of July, for fifty companies, or, as
it was - intended, five thousand men.—
This number was also a part of the twen
ty-one regiments only, and not the full
proportion of the State's 300,000. It re
quires at least 2,600 more to comply with
that call, or twenty-five companies more—
-1 seventy-five companies in all. On Yester
day morning there were but eighteen
hundred and fifty men on the muster rolls
of the six regiments recruiting in response
to that call in this city, and the fulleSt
regiment had less than six hundred men.
These are facts which it is high time
made an impression on the public mind.
The sixteenth of August has been assigned
as the limit of time for which volunteers
will be accepted, but it is evident that
eight or ten days more must be allowed or
the whole number will have to be taken
by draft. It is not so munch the draft itself
we fear, as the imputation of having ne
glected to promote volunteering while
volunteers are so freely offered elsewhere.
The first five or six regiments should have
been made up with promptness, and every
appliance should be resorted to for this
purpose which the present condition of
affairs suggests. The people here are not
less patriotic, or less deeply moved than
elsewhere, as we believe there is evidence
that cannot be controverted: but for smile
reason there has been a want of espe:ial
exertion directed to making up the new
regiments. Time has slipped on for it
month, leaving two or three of the regi
ments at thattime fairly started, and in one
case almost recruited full for the three
months' service, in a position no better
than if no movement had been made to
arouse the public feeling in favor of vol
unteering.
Dividing the eighteen hundred men
found in the first five regiments authorized
equally, and there are b,.t, 360 men apiece,
on an average less than half full, though
two of them are more than half full. The
progress, by companies, is still less com
plete, but three or four being complete in
the entire list. This is tar short of the
requirement of fifty companies. flow
shall they be made up? Will the draft be
delayed to give us tame, or must half of
them be added to that intended as the only
draft, the second call for 300,000 men. It
is for the city to answer. Personal exer
tion and ajudicious use of bounties:ought
to accomplish the result. Men should be
willing to abandon their business and go
into the street to work for it, if no other
form of work will answer. If an advance
on the bounties how offered will do it, let
that advance be made. It is said that a
vague doubt still exists as to the actual
payment of bounties, and that men in
numbers offer to enlist if their families
can immediately be provided for. What-
ever i necessary we beg may be done, and
done without delay.
We clip the above from the Philadelphia
Norih American of Wednesday. This is
a lamentable condition of affairs in the
city of '•Brotherly love." In Allegheny ,
county, with one third less population, we
Lave recruited at least fifteen hundred
more men—and could swell the list to five
thousand if we had, as is the ease in Phil
adelphia, the bounty money to give, or a
definite mower, from authority, that the
overplue world be credited to the draft.
As Governor" Curtin is now in Washington,
seeking light, weluipe to- be able in a day
or two to announce anion? that 'Alla
illionY county has t i glialfri# 6l o4' men
sad not bees oblged pisfunit
•• hos duty.
FOREIGN NEWS
One of the tno:it rernarkiid,le speeches
delivered during the preient - session of the
English House of Commons. is that in
which Mr. Cobden, on August Ist, review.
ed the policy of the Palmerston Ministry:
"I tell him now—for it is the bat thing
to be plain and open, and 1 say into his
face, for I don't want to go down into
the country and say it behind his back—
that be has been first and foremost in all
the extravagant expenditure of the last
twenty years. ["Hear."] • I have some
times sat down and tried to settle in my
own mind whatamouta of money the noble
lord has cost this country. From 1810,
dating from that Syrian business, which
first ocoasioned a permanent rise in our
estimates—by the way in which, in
conjunction with the late Admiral
Napier, he constantly stimulated and
worried Sir Robert Peel to inereas.
ed expenditure—taking into account his
Chinese wars, his Afghan, his Persian
war; his expeditions here, there and
everywhere-; his fortification scheme—
which I suppose we must now accept with
all its consequences of increased military
expenditure - the least I can put the noble
lord down to have cost us is £100,000,000
sterling. L" Hear; hear," and a laugh.]
Now., with all his merits, I think he is very
dear at the price. [Laughter.] But how
has the noble lord managed to get this ex
' penditure increased from the budget of
the right honorable gentleman opposite in
IScB to the budget of my right honorable
friend below by .£8,300,000 sterling
It has been a constant and systematic agi
tation in this country. He has been the
greatest agitatr.r I know in favor of expen
sive establishments. [Wear, hear.] It
has always been, either in this house, or
at a Lord Mayor's feast, or at a school
meeting, or a ride corps meeting, or a
mediseval ceremony, such as the installation
of a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports at
Dover, a cry of danger and invasion from
Fran c e. ft is a very curious and extraor
dinary thing. The noble lord and his
friends came into office on two grounds
—that they would give us a better reform
bill than the honorable gentlemen oppo
site, and that they were the party which
could always keep us on friendly terms
with France. It has ended in their kick
ing reform out of existence altogether,
[cheers] and we have had nothing but a
cry of invasion fi-om France ever since.
[Cheers.]
Pram the Time,July fo.
Th. 3 colors of the dying dolphin are said
to he very various and beautiful in their
variety. The creature quivers and flutters
in its suffocating agony. and the sunbeam s
glance in differing angles from its scales.
Perhaps it might be just the same if we
could see it as plainly in full life. sporting
joyously upon the surface; and it may be,
therefore, scarcely logical to infer from
continual change of aile!ct. and from con
smnt diversity of color, a gradual decrease
of vital energy. Yet there is something
shout the varying tints and painful strag
gles of that spasmodic monster which now
lies quivering upon the Western shores of
the Atlantic, which seggests that it be
coming exhausted. Every mail brings us
FOIr., entirely new phase of public opinion.
York, there are changes trout
brilliant green to deep yellow, and from
deep, yellow to dark gray; while Boston
subsides from the brightest crimson to the
dimmest dun.
Lik.);qol), NVIIIOI Li:AA ,t.:t ,ja
trailers, has taken to hang them, and New
York, which existed by the sla w; l a b or o f
the South, has taken to spoil; of iE dis
paragingly. The signs, which are so en
couraging to philanthropists, are of no good
augury for the Union. Itoston loved the
slave. trade as a maritime interest. and
Nov York, which had millions invest,l
in the planters' harvests, loved slavery as
the security of her sunk capital. In these
great cities we have seen a succession of
very varying demonstrations • llosf on
hated us most bitterly for our anti•slavery
sympathies, and desired to go to war with
us to shut out our manufactures. New
York hated us also for Abolitionist pro
clivities, but feared to go to war with us,
let she should for ever lose her Southern
debtors and her tributary provinces.
Defiance to England had its flush and
passed away; a rush en masse to arms to
crush the rebellion succeeded, and is now '
fading like a dissolving view; sympathy
with injured Fremont and sympathy with
the negro took the next turn : defiance to
all Abolitionists and a warning to Europe
an Anti-Slavery societies was the succeed
ing change iu the color of this floundering
&die.; and now we have a mild and flut
tering agitation at New York, a succession
of every hue, and a reiteration of Slavery
said Abolition, protective tariffs and free
commerce, the expulsion of all who dis
sent, and the coercion of all who remain,
and, in a mild and mitigated form, a dec
laration that the Union is an institution of
Divine right, "written by Providence as
an eternal decree upon the rivers and
mountains of the Continent.'
'The Confiscation Bill
From the Loudon Times, July 30.
lu the meantime, what is the occupatini.
of the federal legislators? While their
chief general is shat up in a little patch of
ground under the protection of his gun
boats, and the President is in vain asking
for volunteers to reiniinTe hitn, while the
reckle93 policy of the dominant party is
urging even the Unionists of the border
States into opposition and rousing a spirit
of desperate resistance in the Southwest,
the two houses, as they exist at Wash
ington, are engaged in passing what they
call a confiscation bill, devoting to capi
tal punishmetn eight millions of people! It
is impossible to conceive a more potent
display of spice than this piece of legis
lation, which the Republican party would
act consent to modify, even at the instance
of Mr. Lincoln. The idea of further em
bittering an already hopeless struggle by
threatening the whole Souther popula
tion with death, or five years' imprison
ment, could enter only into the minds of:
the men who were so anxious last year to
carry out there political theory by executing'
a privateer's crew at the certain cost of a
bloody reprisal on federal prisoners. At
the present the number of Northern
soldiers in the hands of the Confederates
probably exceeds that of the Confeder
ates who ate prisoners at the North, and
any attempt to add to the horrors of the
war by a series of judical murders would
provoke the just retaliation of the Confed
erates. Happily, it is certain that no
ruler will ever dare to put in force this
scandalous law. It will only remain a
monument of infamy to those who passed
it, and be ranked hereafter with the at
tempted destruction of Charleston harbor
and the savage vagaries of General Butler,
SPAIN
The Pirate Sander...U. S. Naval
Movements in the Mediterra
nean. -
Correspondence of the New York Tribune.
PORT OF ALGESIRAS, SPAIN, 1
July 18th, '62, j
The United States steam sloop-of-war
Kearsarge remains on her station in this
bay, watching the pirate craft Sumter, now
Lying off Gibraltar flying her bastard flag.
It is reported, with some foundation of
truthfulness, that English parties in Liver
pool have either bought or are negotia
ting tor the latter vessel. An official from
Gibraltar has visited her, and the question
very properly arises--what was his mission?
Was it to ascertain her tonnage, to deliver'
an official measure from the (imam of
Gibraltar, or to dine on kW' itllvteslei
with rebel acne ? It is well
some weeks ago a check was given to ne
gotiations for the Sumter by assurances
from an American merchant that a trans
fer of the properly, under present circum
stances, would he hazardous and illegal.
ThiS notorious craft, once se much feared
by our merchant shipmasters, is. without
doubt; very much out of repair, if not en
tirely unfit for active service. Her com
mander, Semmes, went to England some
time ago, and men in Gibraltar are positive
that there are in England more than a half
dozen fast and powerful steamers fitting
out to supply the Confederate navy, one
of which is supposed to be intended for
the 1 above named rebel. Cosetter and
Bullock are also reported to be ready to
assume command, if t hey have not already,
of newly fitted war vessels. In anticipa
tion of any movement of these or otner
Confederate privateers or naval vessels,
the American Minister at Port James re
qUested the presence of the steamer Tus
carora, then lying in the port of Cadiz, at
Southampton, at which port she has re
cently arrived. The storeship Release is
in the Mediterranean, on her return
from the naval store house at Spezzia.
The fine sloop -of-war Constellation is also
in the Mediterranean, and is at present
the flag-ship of the squadron for all prac
tical purposes. On Sunday last,while the
crew of the Kearsarge were taking their
customary bath, a huge ground-shark ap
peared among them, and attacking one
E,dward 11. Tibbets, caught him immedi
ately under the armpit on one side and
dragged him to the bottom. ft is the only
instailce of the kind known in this vicinity.
The Ocean Spray,Capt. Stubbs, arrived
at this port two days ago, and will sail by
the first fair wind for Boston.
The Charleston Mercury on Gen
l'he scoundrel assumes that he is a gen
tleman; his soldiers are all, every man of
them. Gentlemen always pass by ''com
mon women— unheeded, except to call a
watchman if annoyed. • No other way of
treating them was ever heard of among
troops. Therefore his orders meant no
more than to confer upon his soldiers the
privilege of giving the females of New
Orleans in charge to a watchman at dis
cretion. Pure Butler, innocent Butler,
ignorant Butler! Transparent hypocrite
and Unblushing liar, as well as beast. That
he has lived to edit this precious epistle
is certainly a marvel.
A Southern Snob's Opinion of a
Common Soldler .
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Ifin Richmond correspondent :if The
Charleston CouriersayE:
YOur uneducated soldier on the contrary
is always complaining. He grunts at a
scratch, imagines he is going to die with
every pea-bite, makes "much ado about
nothing," gives trouble to the nurses,
always wants something he can't get, and
swears rippingly because his attendants
don't furnish him tea and toast, iced lem
onade. and all the luxuries of which he
dreams. Go within six inches of his per
son, and he yells nt you like a madman
from fear that you may touch him, and on
the whole he is one of the most disagree
able and dirty subjects which either cur
geonor nurse has to encounter. Petting
spoils, such men as these, presumption is
that because they are wounded soldiers
they deserve more than everybody else,
renders them stingy selfih and obstinate in
the highest degree.
I. have seen strong, hearty :Mows, bare
ly disabled, refuse, though their canteens
were full of water, a drink to almost dying
men.seizelu port the best places and greatest
comforts, ignore the existence of every
body else nut their soulless selves. --
This is what 1 mean by the difference,
always perceptible between the ignorant
sud
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Letter from Gen.Roseerans.
fiLtoor - Anrrus ARMY MISSISS'AVPI,
July 156:2.
Onuten:•itil: -My fellow citizenswill excuse a few words addressed to them
on
I fie PHE9ENT SATIONAL
Southern conspirators and traitors arro
gantly despised our friendship. We told
th,in We could maintain at all costs and
hazards the constitutional rights of the
Sonth,holding them as sacred as our own.
They cared naught for this, and adopted
"Ride or Ruin . ' for their motto.
They have driven us into this cruel war
againia a peopl , whose interests and ours
are common, and compelled us to fight our
own brethren in defense of our laws and
liberties. •
For' more than a year we have been eti
gaged'in this struggle, into which an arro
gant :tad dictatorial slave oligarchy has
driven a tree, happy and peaceful people,
fighting for the rights of all. With true
bravery and invincible patience our citi
zen soldiers hare stood on this ground to
the present moment, against violators of
the laws of war and humanity Remaining
true to their principles, they have said by
words .and actions to their fellow -citizens
in the South:— "We fight for common
rights; it' we win, you win; if the Govern
ment is maintained, you will dwell under
its protecting shadows as freely as we."
And there we stand and thus we say.
But if the Confederates prevail, farewell
peace and safety to us—farewell freedom
forever! Their principles and leaders are
known'te us. They cheated us, crying out
no cm - Trion, holding out false hopes and
deceitful assurances of friendly regard,
while assivisin like they were preparing to
destroy% our Government., and reduce us
to anarchy or servitude. The past year's
experience renders it certain that, if they
triumph, blood and desolation, fire and
sword, or arhitary subjection to their will
await everyman who has manhood enough
to dislike their system of Slavery, toler
able only as a cruel necessity, but as
r.
principle, hateful to God and mat,.
They will omit no means, honest or dis
honest,) to insure success. Misrepresent
ing and calumniating our motives, ridicn
ling our honest efforts to mitigate the hor
rors of War, and inflaming the passions of
the popnlace by low epithets, are among
the milder and more ordinary means re
ported to by this pseudo "chivalry," the
meanest aristocracy that ever stood at the
head i:pfU civilized society.
They force peaceful citizens of the
United States into their ranks, on the
grounds l of an allegiance set up by them
selves against that which they owe to a
lawful and just Government. With the
heel of military despotism on the necks of
a prostrate people, they hunt them from
their homes under a relentless conscrip
tion, and drive them before their cavalry,
or force them to become outlaws or guer
rillas,
They hold men who have served their
Limo out, and if they cannot be coerced
into remaining in the service, shoot them.
If the poor fellows try to get away, they
hunt them with guerrilla bands of cavalry;
and, in some instances, have used blood
hounds for that purpose.
Thus.. by conscription and detention,
they fill up their thinned ranks and keep
up their forces. Such aro the men and
means against which we have to combat.
Under these circumstances, I do not
hesitate to say that life and liberty depend
upon the wisdom, vigor and promptitude
of the action of the people of the United
States. What they ought to do is, first,
to fill up . promptly the old regiments to
their maximum strength. Thisis the only
way to get experienced soldiers in time to
answer the purpose: Men who go into
these regiments will have hardy, experi
enced officers, who know how to care fo
and instruct them, and have much better
prospects for comfort, • health and honor
than in regiments wholly new. Caution
&al people, for the sake of all , they hold
diar, not to disregard this il retommenda•
I
The promptness will bat* 'gilt.
lice to put us beyond the reach of such
disasters as have (neared elsewhere, and
the nation's life or death lies in the issue.
2(1. The greatest care &Mid be taken,
after this has been' done;to give those who
go into new regiments good officers.
Those cowards and skulks, old grannies,
fogies and goodfor-nothings of every
class and grade,who have left or been driv
en from the service, and are hanging
around for promotion, should be carefully
excluded from the service. Their name
is legion, their excuses for leaving as va
rious; sick wives, dying babies must cover
the face of the country, judging by the let
ters of such which come to headquarters.
Beware of them. The capture of a reg
iment, the loss of a battle, or the corm
.try's disgrace by an incompetent or worth
less officer can hardly be atoned for by
the appointing power.
3d. Let the officers for the new regi
ments he taken from those, tried, ap
proved and now in the field: This will
give promotion to the meritorious now
in the service.
Let the motto in every mind be—
n° what you do well, but above all, do
it quickly. W. S. ROSECRAN3.
The' Corporal and the President.
While our army lay before Yorktown
the rebels had a small work which caused
much annoyance to our workmen, and
General McClellan ordered a dash to be
made upon it, with a view to ascertain its
strength and its surroundings, and, if pos
sible, to carry and destroy the work. Ac
cordingly a company ofsixty men were de
tailed from one of our bravest regiments
;1 for this desperate undertaking. On the
night appointed—for it had been deter
mined to make a night attack—the men
were drawn up in front of the camp, in a
cold, drizzling rain, awaiting the order to
to march, when a private of another com
pany came up to the captain andsaid "Capt
C., there is one man in your company who
has no file closer can't I go?" The cap
tain expressed his willingness provided his
own captain would consent. This was
soon obtained and the volunteer, was in
his place in the ranks. The attack was
made; the rebels driven from their work.
but not without loss, for one-third of the
brave men were left on trio field as the
rest rushed forward upon.the enemy. Our
friend escaped, and upon his return was
presented with a corporal's chevrons:—
Through all the fights about Fair Oaks he
was one of the foremost, and at last re
ceived a ball which entered his wrist and
passed up into his elbow, shattering the
the bones and tearing the flesh in a hor
rible manner: yet not a murmur has been
heard from him. He was sent to one of
the hospitals in Washington, and is now
able to go about with his arm in splinters.
Disabled from the use of a musket, and
still anxious to serve his country, he ap
plied for a furlough to go to his native State
and raise a company of volunteers,having
one arm left, with which he could wield a
sword; but red tape could not allow it, and
instead of meeting with any sympathy or
encouragement, Order No. prohibiting
furloughs, was thrust at him. and he was
told if the Governor would commission him
he would be discharged. The Governor
will not cotnmission unless he raises the
men, and thus the poor fellow is kept in
thE hospital till such time as the surgeons
rthoose to discharge him as adisabled sol
dier. As this was a case not within the
meaning or intent of the order prohibiting
furloughs, a friteld who had known of his
bravery and daring applied to the Presi
dent to ask his interference. The Presi
den expresssd deep sympathy for him but de
dined to cut the red tape which binds our
government together. He said, the Cor
poral's ease is hard one, and reminds me
of a story told by Judge 8., of Ilinois ofthe
officers of some county town in Ireland,
who met and resolved: First, to build a
new jail: second to build it out of the old
one: and third, to keep the prsoners in
the old jail till the new one was built---
And thus the country loses the service a
as brave a soldier as she has in her ranks.
and a trap man is kept caged in the hosp
tai while !mulling to be in the field. •
Good !
4 radical paper in Worcester prints its
leadinceditorials in the form of letters ad
dressed to President Lincoln, Secretary
Seward, urging ultra measures; and
the .iornmencement of one to Mr. Seward
cites, as an illustration. why he ought to
listen to the editor,the story of Gen. lila •
...her, who inquired of a cow-boy the met
to Waterioo. To this the Boston Post re
plies as tialows:—"The editor of the Wor
cester Palladium thinks because Gen.
Blucher talked to a vow boy, Secretory
Seward should listen to a calf:"
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Reported Battle at Cumberland
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MORGAN'S FORCES SURPRISED AT
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&c. &c. &. tke
MEMPHIS, August 11.—The Grenada
Appeal, of the Bth, has a dispatch from
Cumberland Gap saying there had been a
battle there between Gen. Raines and
Gen. Carter, resulting in the defeat of
the latter and capture of the entire Union
army, stores, & - c. It is stated that 7,000
prisoners were taken. The same paper
says that Buell is in a precarious position.
These are rebel reports and are not con
sidered reliable.
The news from below is conflicting.—
From the Appeal we learn that Breckin
ridge attacked Baton Rouge with three
thousand troops, and was repulsed. flee.
Clark, of the Confederate army, was se
verely wounded—not killed, as previously
reported. The Federal General Williams
is reported killed. After n fight of three
hours the rebels withdrew.
Breckinridge's dispatch says the attack
would be renewed, but no further mention
is made of the affair.
The Appeal publishes the report of the
blowing up of the ram Arkansas. but is
inclined to doubt it.
Rebel reports represent Buell as having
Kirby Smith in the front, with Polk and
Bragg in the rear.
It is openly stated that Van Dorn and
Breckinridge are combining their forces
for an attack on New Orleans. It is in
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NASHVILLE, August 13. —Col. Miller,
commanding this post, left for Gallatin
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Important from Gov: Curtin
Correspondence between Oeo•
eralHeck and the Rebel
General Lee.
TUE NEGRO BRIGADE A FAriMiR
The Great Scull leate.-.
HAMILL AGAIN VICTIM/oi.
MouNr.ils; Aug.:Et 13, 6 p. m.—
Headquarters Army of Virginisti--ToNf@j.,
General Balled:, General-in -Chief
Thursday morning the enemy crossed the
Rapidan at Barnet Vs Fork, in heavy force,
and advanced strongly on the road to Cul
pepper and Madison Court House. I had
established my whole force on the •turn
pike between Culpepper and Sperryville,
ready to concentrate at either place as
soon as theenemy's planswere developed.
Early on Friday it became apparent that
the move on Bladison Court House was
merely a feint to detain the army Corp.' of
General Sigel at Sperryville, and the main
attack of the enemywould be at Culpep
per, to which . place I had thrown forward
part of Bunks' and McDowell's corps.
Brigadier General Bayard, with part of
the rear of McDowell's corps, who was in
the advance near the Rapidan, fell slowly
back, rleluying and embarrassing the ene
my's advance as far as possible, and cap.
taring some of the men. The forces of
Banks, Sigel, and ene of thss division@ of
McDowell's eurps, were rapidly concen
trated at Culpepper daring Friday and
Friday night. Banks' ourps being,paehod
forward ti ve mites south ut Culpepper with -
Riekett's division of McDowell 's corps
three miles in his rear. The corps of
Sigel, which had searched all-night, was
halted in Culpepp,r to rest for a sew
hours. •
On Saturday the enemy advanced rapid
,y Co Cedar Mountain, the sides of which
they occupied in heavy force. General
Banks was instructed to take up his poSi
ties on the ground occupied by G'rawford4l
brigade, of his command, which had been
,hrown out the day previous to observe
the enemy's movements. He was sdi ,
rected not to advance beyond that ineilt,
and, if attacked by the enemy, to defend
his position and send hack timely notice.
It was tar desire to have timo to *give
the ctnip of Sigel all the rest possible, after
their furred marches. and to being forward
all the tor6es at my disposal. The artil
lery of the enemy early in the af.
te.noon, let he made no adranef3 until
nearly five o'clock. at which time a few
!skirmishers were thrown forward on each
side, under cover of the heaVy woods, in
which his force was concealed, and by
pushing forward a strong force in the rear
of his skirmishers and Gen. Banks Ad
vanced to the attack. The engagement
did not fairly open untiN o'clock, but for .
one and a half hours was furious and un
ceasing throughout. The cannonading,
which, at first, was desultory, directed
I mainly against the cavalry, I have con
tinued to receive reports from Gen. Banks
that no attack was apprehended, and that
no considerable - infantry force of the
enemy had come forward yet towards him.
In the evening the increasaof the artillery
firing having satisfied me that an engage--
mem might he at hand, though the busi
ness of the hour rendered it un
likely, I ordered General McDowell- to
advance General Ricketts' division to the
support of Banks. and directed General
Sigel - to bring his men upon the ground as
soon as possible. -I arrived personally on
the field at, 7 o'elock p. and found the
action raging furiously. The infantry fire
was incessant and severe. I found Gen.
Banks holding the position he- had
taken up early is the morning. His
losses were heavy. I licketts' division was
immediately pushed forward and occupied
the right of Barks: the brigades of. Craw
ford and Gordon being directed to change
their position from the right and Mass
theme- el ves in the centre. Before thisaliame
could he effected it was quite dark; though
the artillery lire conitnued at Abort range,
without intermission. The artillery fire
was continued at night by the 2d and sth
Maine batteries, in Ricketts' division:
This fire was most destructive, and was
readily observable the next morning in
the dead men and horses and broken gun
carriages of the enemy's batteries which
had been advanced ngainst it.
Our troops rested on their arms during
the night, in line of battle, the heavy
shelling being kept up on both sides until'
midnight. At daylight. the next morning
the enemy fell back ten miles from' Our
front and stillhig her up the mountain. Our
pickets at once advanced and occupied the
grounds. The fatigue of the troops trollt
long marches and excessive heat made it
impossible for either aide to resume' .
the action on Sunday. The men were al-.
lowed to rest and recruit the whole day.
Our only active operations being of the
cavalry on the eniqny's flank and rear.
Monday' 1555 spina in burying the dead
and in getting on' the wounded. The
slaughter was severe on both sidesal e
most of Eke tieht ing being hand to'
hand. The dead bodies of both-.
armies were fiend mingled together
in tuns=e, over the whole ground of the
conflict. The burying of the dead was not:
completed until dark off Monday, the
heat being so terrible that severe work • .
was impossible. On Monday night the:
enemy fled from the field, leaving many of
his 'dead unburied and his wounded
on the ground and along the road to
Orange Court House, as will be seen
from Gen. Be despatch. A cavalry
awl artillery force tinder Oen. Buford was_
thrown forward in pursuit
and followed the enemy to the Raidtki,'
over which he pasted with his rear card:
by 10 o'clock in the morning; lads of our
infantry followed—the remainder moved
forward in the morning. The behaviour
of Banks' corps du ring the action was very
fine; No more gallantry and daring
could be exhibited by any troo pe.--- -
I cannot speak too highly of the intrepid
ity of Gen. Banks himself during the whole
of the engagement. He was in the front,
and exposed ae much as any man in his
command. His example was :of the
'greatest benefit to his troops; 'end ha
merits, and should receive, the coat-.
mendation of his government, Gen
erals Williams, Augur; - Gorden', 'Craw
ford, Prince, Green and Geary behivea
with conspicuous gallantry. Aummweal'
Geary were severely wounded, and Prince,
by losing his way in the dark while
passing from one flank to the - ether.:
fell into the enemy's hands. I deiiim
publicly to express my appreciation of the
•rompt and skillful manner in whielfGen:7:
erals McDowell and Sigel brought for
ward their respective commands and.
tablished them on the field, and of theizif,
cheerful and hearty co-operaton with vie,'
from beginning to end. Brigadier Gen ,
eral Roberts, chief of cavalry of tide:Grew
was with the advance of our feta* on;
Friday and Saturday and ma's conspicuous
for his gallantry amid for the valuable aid •
I he rendered to Gene Banks and Crawford.
Our loss in killed, wounded and toiiiing." 7
was about 1500, of whom 290 were tan'
'prisoners. As might be expected - from the
character of the engagement, a very /aria -
proportion of these were killed: Thy'
enemy's loss in gilled, wounded: 7 *K:
priftners, we are satisfied, is much inViiss.S- •
cesa of our own. . •
A full list of the casualties wfltbetrani
witted as soon as possible, together with a
detailed report, in which rehell'eaditavor
to do Anise to all. _
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