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Richmond Dispatch. Monday morning...May 26 1862. From the North.the fight at Drury's bluff,&c.

The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, under date of May 18th, sends the following:

The great anxiety which has prevailed here for a week past to hear from the expedition up James river has at last been gratified.

This afternoon the little Naugatuck was descried coming down the Roads, and immediately the anxious ones hurried to the beach to ask whether "the Monitor was shelling Richmond? "

Having conversed with one of the officers of the Naugatuck, I am enabled to give you the following interesting particulars:

Last Sunday morning the Monitor, Galena, and Naugatuck, started for the rebel capital via James river. They were soon followed by the Aroustock and Port Royal.

They silenced several of the batteries which lined the snore, and passed some with the most contemptuous silence.

The Captain of the Monitor stood upon the turret and waved his cap to a battery which he considered unworthy of the notice of his pet, although three balls struck the M turret with considerable force.

The progress of the fleet was a continued success until they arrived to within about seven miles of Richmond. Here the river takes a sharp turn around a propitious bluff fully one hundred and fifty feet in Leight..

Upon the top of this bluff the rebels have erected a most scientific and formidable battery, mounting many guns of superior range and calibre. This battery commands the river in the most effective manner and its on became evident to our fleet that an engagement of no ordinary character was imminent.

On last Thursday morning, at seven o'clock, our fleet formed their line of battle, and commenced the reduction of the rebel stronghold.

From the unusual elevation of the battery, and the difficulty our men experienced in getting the proper range they were for a time unable to do any execution. In the mean-time the battery poured an incessant fire of shell and ball down upon the decks of our vessels, and did a fearful work!

The Naugatuck, after several brilliant shots, burst her one hundred-pound rifled Parrott gun, killing the gunner and wounding several others. Having no other armament, except two boarding howitzers, and being thus disabled, she withdrew from the engagement.

The Galena suffered, severally — the rebel shots riddling her deck with great ease, and several of the balls entering her side. Fourteen of her crew were killed and thirteen wounded; the majority of the latter, however, will recover. Those who were killed are terribly cut and mangled — some beyond the hope of recognition. For one hour the Galena was exposed to the entire fire of the rebel battery. On account of the narrowness of the channel, she could not "spring" or turn so as to work to advantage.

The Monitor, however, maintained her superior strength and invulnerability. The balls glanced harmless from her tower of strength, and fell into the placid waters of the river. For sometime she labored under the greatest difficulty in acquiring the requisite elevation for her guns. But having once obtained it, she poured her missiles with fearful effect upon the battery, and thus encouraging her associates, the fleet belched forth such an iron half that the battery was silenced for three quarters of an hour. At this juncture our vessels ran short of ammunition, and retired from action, while the rebels remanned their guns and again commenced the conflict. A portion of the fleet came down the river to Jamestown island, near Williamsburg. The Monitor and Galena remained in order to keep the rebels awake, the Monitor firing regularly once in two minutes, (it is stated above that the ammunition gave out — liars should have good memories,) fully sustaining the reputation of the "cheese-box" The Aristook and Port Royal were not materially injured. the action lasted four hours and a half, constituting one of the most brilliant of the war.

About a quarter of a mile further up the river the rebels have made a strong barricade to the further progress of a hostile fleet. They have sunk the Yorktown and Jamestown in the channel, and driven immense piles from one side of the river to the other, forming a stockade similar to that in the entrance to the Norfolk harbor.

The guns of the battery are said to be manned by the remnants of the crews of the Merrimac, Yorktown and Jamestown — The firing was excellent, showing a great deal of skill.

The Naugatuck escaped serious injury by having her pilot house and deck protected by iron rails laid transversely.

The body of Mr. Borrum, gunner of the Galena, has been brought here for interment.

Accounts from Fortress Monroe. Baltimore, May 19.

--The Old Point boat arrived this morning at the usual hour.

A gentleman who was at Fortress Monroe and Norfolk yesterday, furnishes the following information:

The repulse of the gunboats at Fort Darling, seven or eight miles below Richmond was generally regarded as a very serious affair, though no full account of it has been made public.

On board the Naugatuck eighteen men were reported killed by the explosion of her big-gun. The boat was, of course, made useless in the fight and was withdrawn.

The Galena was riddled by the shots from the rebel batteries, having been "perorated, " as the dispatch said, no less than eighteen times. The loss of life on board was not stated, but it was thought to be heavy.

The Monitor was struck repeatedly, but was said to be uninjured. She, however, could do nothing offensive, as the batteries are on so high a bluff that it was impossible to give her guns sufficient elevation for the proper range.

Affairs were quiet at Norfolk yesterday, but the people still manifest an insolent and sullen disposition, and say that the United States troops will soon be driven out of the place.

Several attempts to assassinate Union soldiers have been made lately, and yesterday an affair occurred which caused some uneasiness.

Col. Brown, of the Twentieth Indiana regiment, stationed at Portsmouth, went out of town in the morning to take a side. In an hour or two afterwards his horse came into town wounded and riderless, and it was feared that the Colonel had been killed or captured.

It is reported that the Galena was considerably damaged by the shot from the rebel batteries.

The Post-Office in Norfolk has been reopened by Col. Trott, of the Department.--No postmaster has yet been selected.

Seward and Welles at Norfolk.

Secretaries Seward and Welles reached Fortress Monroe from Washington last Friday, and left the same evening in a special steamer for Norfolk. They were received with the proper salute and ceremony, and remained in the city until late next morning, when they returned, visiting on their way back the wreck of the Merrimac.

The repulse of the gunboats had a depressing effect at Philadelphia and New York.--The Philadelphia Inquirer says "our people have acquired such voracious appetites for victory, that nothing short of complete and instant triumph in every undertaking will now satisfy them. Hence the news of the temporary check to the James river squadron, on Thursday last, threw a film of shadow over the broad countenance of the public. "

A letter from New York, dated May 19th says "the town was in a very bad humor all the morning. The unsatisfactory telegram about the mishap to our gunboats up the James river was productive of a very general diffusion of blues. That class of people who always prefer the gloomy side of a picture were certain that the affair was a regular 'skedaddle,' and that the prestige of the Monitor was gone."

The Rev. Dr. Bothune, of the Reformed Dutch Church, is dead.

The movements of the Eastern and Western armies, for prudential motives, will be kept very quiet for the next three or four days, unless, in the meantime, a decisive battle takes place.

It is estimated that over 500 vessels will sail for the Southern ports by the 1st of June.--There will be at least 200 clearances for cargoes of ice.

Lincoln has repudiated Gen. Hunter a proclamation, and that officer, it is said, will probably resign.

A thrilling record.

--The only information as to the last moments of two hundred and five persons who perished by the late colliery accident at Hartly, England, was found on a strap of paper in the pocket of one of them written while they were a waiting death. It says that three of the men looked ill, and that a prayer-masting was held before death terminated their sufferings, at which several of the men delivered exhortations.

Mr. Ransom Holloway, of Edgefield District, C., was struck by lightning- while on his field a few days ago, and instantly killed. Mr. H. was an old and respected citizen.

The Campaign in Southwestern Virginia. [correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Southwestern, Va. May 20, 1862.

Having seen frequent misrepresentations of Col. Jennifer's conduct, for " abandoning" Mercer county recently to the enemy, and for "alarming" the community in this section, as well as the Confederate Government, it has occurred to me that a simple and brief narration of facts might not prove unacceptable to a newspaper having that reputation for fairness which, even its enemies confess, has always characterized the Dispatch.

Col. Jennifer had judiciously chosen Rocky Gap — a point a few miles this side of Mercer Court-House — for the main body of his cavalry regiment, and had placed the remainder under Lieut-Col. Henry Fitzhugh, at the latter place. Thus matters stood when Captain Foley, a trusty scout, commanding a small partisan force, and a brave and noble fellow, brought intelligence to Lt.-Col. Fitzbugh that the enemy was advancing in large force. Lt. Col. Fitzhugh communicated this information to Col. Jennifer, and in reply was instructed by the latter to keep a constant watch upon the enemy, and to exercise his discretion in harassing his advance, if opportunity should Under these circumstances Lt.-Col. Fitzhugh moved forward with all his available force in the direction of the enemy. In the meantime the most active and vigorous efforts were directed to removing our stores of every description from Mercer Court House. And as it is upon this subject that such false reports have been circulated including among other statements one that Col. Jennifer left behind or burned, besides immense quartermaster and commissary stores, several hundred small arms, let me say that there is not a word of truth in them not a gun, not a pistol, not as once of powder or lead, was left or destroyed All were saved. Indeed, everything of every description was safely removed, except a few bushels of oats and a few pounds of bacon, and these, the merest trifle in quantity, were destroyed.

But to return to the movement of Lieut.-Col. Fitzhugh. During his march, this gallant officer learned from his scouts that the advance guard of the enemy had encamped for the night at a Mr. Fleshman's, a point about sixteen miles the other side of Mercer C. H. He determined at once to attack them, hoping to surprise them; but at all events, by a bold and offensive movement upon the advance guard, to intimidate the main body and retard its movements so as to secure time for the complete removal of our stores at Mercer C. H., and enable the Government to assemble a force on the railroad, upon which it was manifest the enemy was marching by way of Mercer C. H.

The attack was made about daylight by Lieut. -Col Fitzhugh, his force being divided into three parts. One division of his little force attacked the enemy on the right flank, another on the left, while Fitzhugh had the third party in person immediately along the road, to draw the enemy's fire, and thus enable the other two parties to get as close as possible without resistance.

The enemy, though surprised, made a gallant resistance. They poured their first fire upon our men in the road, killing two and wounding several others, among whom was the former quartermaster of the regiment, James Ward. No better man ever yielded up his life in behalf of his country. Our men returned the fire; the two parties on the right and left did the same thing, and all rushed upon the Yankees with a yell. For a time complete success seemed certain. Many Yankees were killed outright, many others fell wounded, while a few escaped by taking to their heels; but the greater portion of them took refuge in a large two-story log house near by, and barricaded the doors. The removal of the chinking between the huge logs furnished them with admirable loop-holes; from these they maintained the fight vigorously.--Lieut.-Col. Fitzhugh attempted to storm the house, but though our men made heroic efforts, it was found to be impracticable. It was in one of these charges that the brave Capt. Foley fell mortally wounded. The now impregnable position of the enemy rendering a farther attack unavailing, and the main body of the Yankees rapidly approaching to the relief of their advance guard, our little force had no option but to withdraw. It requires great fact to do this successfully — but it was done most consummately. A few of our most active sharpshooters were stationed at various points, who kept up a vigorous fire at the loop holes of the house, while our main body withdrew with their dead and wounded, in such a manner as to make the enemy mistake the movement for a new disposition of our troops for a renewal of the fight. Our sharpshooters did not leave until a regiment of the main body of the Yankees arrived, and then joined our retreating column. The enemy pushed on in pursuit with his main body, preceded by a large cavalry force. These made desperate efforts throughout the day to attack our little force, now cumbered with the conveyance of the dead and dying; but a succession of ambuscades into which the Yankee knights fell taught them to be wary. Thus our forces reached Mercer C. H., beyond which the enemy did not pursue. Col. Jennifer then met Lieut.-Col. Fitzhugh, and, taking command, directed operations from that point. Penetrating the intentions of the enemy to march upon the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and knowing his strength, Col. Jennifer at once apprised our Government of the necessity of immediate reinforcements. For this he was coinsured a an "alarmist" He was also gravely consured for not remaining at Mercer C H., and thereby preventing the farther advance of this "squad" of Yankees — everybody insisting that it was only a hundred ra hundred and fifty of the enemy on a marauding excursion. The very newspapers of Richmond have teemed with such censures upon Colonel Jennifer. Now, let the facts, as they have subsequently transpired, come to his vindication. The Government fortunately did heel Col Jennifer's "alarms," and sent Gen Heth, with several thousand men, to his assistance. Did they find there was nothing for them to do when they came? The enemy had already penetrated to Giles C. H., and Gen Heth's forces come not an hour too soon. They drove the Yankee advanced guard from that point five or six miles, and since that time have found themselves confronted by a force of the enemy greater than our own, and this is now supposed to be but half the force with which the enemy marched upon Mercer C. H., the remainder being at the latter place So much for Col. Jennser's "alarms," and the censures upon him for not keeping back this force with one regiment of cavalry. G.

The Nineteenth Virginia regiment.

To the Editors of the Dispatch:

Simply for the purpose of correcting an error that was published in one of your city papers, and not with the view of boasting of the deeds of the 19th Virginia regiment, Col John B. Strange, commanding, I assert it as a fact, easily established by innumerable witnesses, that the 19th Virginia regiment charged the enemy's line at the battle of Williamsburg, captured the Excelsior battery of seven guns, removed all the available pieces from the field, and took nearly, if not quite, two hundred prisoners. The prisoners were delivered to the cavalry and brought to Richmond; the artillery was manned by our own men, delivered to the Ordnance Department, and the receipt therefore taken in the name of the 19th regiment. This charge upon the enemy, entirely successful as it was, was ordered by our Colonel, executed under the eye of our Brigadier-General, (Pickett,) and received unqualified praise from Generals Hill. Pickett, and the men and officers of the veteran 8th and 17th regiments, who saw and applauded the bravery of our gallant men. Some portion of the 17th regiment, (Col. Corse's,) just on our left, were with us in this charge, and should share the credit of the affair; but never until it appeared in the Enquirer, of last week, had I heard that the 1st Virginia regiment laid any claim to the capture of the battery. They may have taken a battery, but they did not take, or help to take, the battery which the 19th regiment took at the point of the bayonet, held, brought from the field, and now hold a receipt therefore. These are the facts easily established.

An Officer of the 19th Va. Regiment.

The Bridge of honor.

To the Editors of the Dispatch.

It is an evident fact that the private ranks of our army contain as much talent and laudable ambition as the official lines. The flower populace of the South, endeared, refined and wealthy, are soldiers in the cause of freedom and justice, Consequently much merit has gone unrewarded. It is highly essential, in this critical era of our history, when every atom of aid is materially important, that all superior talent should be brought into requisition. The inquiry here arises in what manner can this object be effected? Simply by the reward of modest merit. Gen. Beauregard has proffered a badge of honor to all who may distinguish themselves on the field of battle. Nothing could be a more urging incentive to deeds of gallantry and daring than this. The brave and deserving here recognize a hope that they will reap the honor of their action. It is to be hoped our Generals will all follow the example of the brave and generous Beauregard. If done, a strength equivalent to two regiments will be attached to every brigade of our army. Ajays

Howard's Grans, Richmond, May 21st.

A British war steamer came to anchor off Charleston bar last Wednesday afternoon.

The fall of New Orleans.

To the Editors of the Dispatch:

May I be permitted through your column to communicate so we facts relative to the capture of New Orleans not generally known to the public? Prior to the fall of the city, the impression of every one. both civilians and military men, was that it had been so fortified, and the entrance so guarded, as to render it impregnable. In this they were right. It had thus been prepared, and there was no fear nor doubt as to the result of anything that could be brought by man against our troops'position; but the unlooked for and irresistible act of nature cannot be resisted. A few nights before the attack commenced, and when the river had risen to an unprecedented height, and was rushing along with irresistible power, a terrific storm took place, sweeping away the barriers upon which we had relied to detain the enemy's vessels under the fire of the forts until they could be destroyed. This changed the whole face of affairs. The waters swept over the whole adjacent country, drowned out the troops stationed above the forts, and laid several inches deep in the forts themselves. Our sharps hooters in the woods below were for several days knee-deep in water, and from Fort St. Pallip for miles above the whole country was one vast sheet of water, connecting the river with the Gulf. Our labor of months was thus swept away in a few hours. There were no defences afloat of any consequence that could act as a substitute for the river obstructions, and hence when the enemy's fleet made a dash in full force, thirteen of their ships succeeded in getting by and sinking all the steamers that were destined to co-operate with the forts.

It appears to be represented and credited that only three ships passed our forts; whereas, thirteen, including four heavy ships of 32 guns each, went by. All our vessels, after desperate and bloody fight, were sunk or burnt except the Louisiana.

We see it stated in the Memphis Avalanche, of the 14th inst., that there were in Fort Jackson only three ten-inch columbiads; not one in Fort St. Philip. These three heavy guns were the only ones in the whole department Both forts had together ten or eleven eight-inch columbiads, and Fort Jackson had one seven inch rifle gun, loaned from the navy. The last ten-inch columbiad arrived in New Orleans but a few days before the fight, and was mounted immediately in the fort.

Very respectfully. Col. John Morgan.

--Although we have published several accounts of Morgan's latest exploit, we copy another, from the Atlanta Confederacy, which will repay perusal. That paper says:

This greatly distinguished partisan chief passed through here yesterday (Tuesday) morning, on his way to Corinth — making no stop, much to the regret of our people, who were anxious to get a look at him.

Since the 24th April last he has traveled 1,000 miles, captured and paroled 780 Federals, destroyed two trains and a depot, and burnt three bridges on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and captured $30,000 in Federal funds, which he disposed of in a way eminently becoming a Christian, Southern gentleman, and a humane warrior, as related by us yesterday.

When he captured the passenger train, the Yankee women on it, who were going down to Nashville, were panic-stricken with the sorest fright. They had a terror of him from what they had previously heard of him. As he stepped on the car and they learned it was Morgan, they yelled with fright as though Old Nick had suddenly appeared before them. "Ladies," said he, "I am a Southern soldier, and hold that ladies and their baggage are sacred, and to be scrupulously respected everywhere. This engine is worth much to the enemies of my country, and I greatly desire to destroy it; but it and two cars shall be spared to carry you back to Louisville. You are helpless women" When he had thus spoken, a perfect shower of thanks — real gratitude — was awarded him by the women.

One of them then approached him, with hands clasped, in the most imploring attitude, and in piteous accents bagged that her husband might not be killed "Madam," responded the gallant partisan, "I cannot promise you that; your husband shall be left with you — take care of him and keep him from being killed if you can;" whereupon she frantically seized his hands, and with a joy that was uncontrollable, bedewed them with her tears, while she imprinted on them a warm kiss of gratitude for this assurance that her husband should neither be killed nor taken from her.

We learn that Morgan attributes his disaster at Lebanon to having men with him — especially captains and other officers — who are not of his own choosing — and that he has gone to Gen. Beauregard to get permission to choose his own men to operate with him in all future undertakings.

P. S.--We are authentically informed that the packages of money captured by Morgan were not all opened by him till he reached Chattanooga, when he found it to amount to $850,000.

Another El Dorado.

--The London Times publishes some wonderful statements respecting the new gold district of Carriboo, British Columbia, located about 500 miles inland to the northeast of the month of Frazer river, on the Pacific coast. If reports are true, wealth can be had merely for picking up, over a considerable stretch of country. These golden treasures lie amid a rugged mass of mountains, and were not discovered until 1860. Within two years a well-peopled district have arisen, with all the adjuncts of civilization, including plenty of grog-shops. The gold country is about 30 by 50 miles square, so far as explored. The precious metal is in coarse, granulated lumps, mixed with gravel, with occasional pure nuggets of considerable size. The mining holes are described as shining with gold. Veins and boulders of tempting quarts are seen in every direction among the hills. About $1,700 was dug out of two crevices in the rock less than three feet under the surface.

The best claim on Van winkle creek produced $100 to $200 per day to the hand. On Keithlev's creek the companies were making from $50 to $100 per day to the hand, and on hill-side, (dry iggings,) $120 a man per day. On Antler creek the rocker yielded 50 ounces of gold, (or $850,) in a single fo Two men below the town of Antler ve taken out $8,000 with a rocker since last spring. A man who had left Victoria penniless, returned last autumn with $2,000 in dust, which he had dug in about two months. The average yield on the fluming claims is 60 ounces a day to the hand. Water for sluicing sold at 50 cents an inch, (cubic measure flowing through a square table,) yet, after paying this heavy charge, the yield left $40 to $60 a day to the miner. The gains of the miners far surpass anything recorded of California of Australia. One miner says his claim will last ten years "to work it out" Labor commands $8 per day with board; so that an industrious man cannot fall to make money — Gold dust be worth $16.30 to $16.50 per ounce, or $17 in payment for goods. It averages about 850-100 the fine, though some specimens assayed 918. The winter climate of Carriboo is not worse than that of Canada. The Indians are peaceable. Among the drawbacks are the want of good roads, and the consequent difficulty to obtaining supplies of provisions and tools, for both of which very high prices have to be paid. Probably the lowest price paid for any article of food is $1 per pound, on the California scale twelve years ago. The mining season continues from May to October; but as tunnelling has commenced, there will be no difficulty in the mines all the year through. These stories do not rest on the best authority, for the London Times correspondence has acquired a strong savor of blunder headed exaggeration. But the letter writer at Carriboo declares that he has personal knowledge of the truth of what he relates.

Halleck's advance

--He Must Fight--The Corinth correspondent of the Memphis Appeal, under date of May 14th, says:

Halleck is gradually moving up from Monterey with the main body of his army, entrenching himself at strong points, working the roads and making good bridges over the creeks and swamps, as he cautiously advances. He has resorted to every means to ascertain our position, and, in order to approach our lines on the left, he sent Col. Elliot: with a flag of truce, the other day, under the pretext to exchange one of our captains for his engineers, a lieutenant colonel. The truth is, the imposition was so base that the flag of truce should have been disregarded, and Elliott and his escort made prisoners. It may take the enemy several days yet to make his reconnaissances, in order to get into position for a regular siege of Corinth, in the planting of his heavy guns, etc. Any hour, however, may bring on au engagement of a portion of our forces on either wing with the enemy's advance.

It is now impossible for Halleck to recede. He must push on, whatever be the consequences, and the abolition government is, no doubt, urging him forward, as every day adds to the immense debt, and like the adding of straws to the camel's burthen, must soon break his back. It is the turning point in the history of our revolution, and must decide the late of the North. It will be the first grand decisive battle in our revolutionary struggle the result of which must give us the independence, or indefinitely prolong the war.

Death of De. Alonzo Church.

--Alonzo Church, P. D., for many years President of the Georgia State University, died at his residence near Athena, Ga., on Sunday week.

Another "Rebellion" in Yankee land.

The Yankees, says the Charleston Marcry, are troubled with another "rebellion," and their military forces have been summoned to put it down. It is a new and other "rebellion" than that in the South, and is, by way of distinction, called "The Coal Miners Rebellion." It was precipitated by an outbreak among the coal miners of the Schuylkill region in Pennsylvania, and is only the beginning of the many "rebellions" that must soon take place among the poor and laboring classes of the North from the effects of the war. Poverty and destitution are sorely pinching the artisans and laborers of the North, and what we read here from the New York Herald is but a picture of the hundred "strikes" and "ricts" that this war must bring about between the poor and rich of the North. The correspondent writes of the outbreak on the Schuylkill:

I have just returned from the scene of hostilities in Schuylkill county, having accompanied the military force thither. Since my return upwards of two hundred additional troops have been ordered to Minersville, and also a battery of howitzers, making in all about four hundred soldiers, fully supplied with sixty charges each, and food for an indefinite period. Four other companies in the United States service, connected with Colonel Wm. H. Yenton's regiment of militia, are under arms and awaiting orders to move.

It is possible that the fears of the county authorities and of the mine owners have magnified this difficulty, but it is evident that the mutineers are numerous, determined, and well armed, and only need the will to make a long and vigorous defence.

It arises from the tyranny of mining capitalists, as regards both the amount of wages paid to the operatives and the manner in which such wages are doled out.

Probably an equal amount of wretchedness is remarked of no other class but the coal miners of this State. The average amount of wages paid to miners is about five dollars per week, and this most generally, is not paid in cash, but in "orders" upon storekeepers in the employment of the mining companies.--The operatives in this way not only receive paltry pay, but they are swindled by the capitalists, and compelled to take merchandize at the capitalists' own rate; so that they barely obtain the necessaries of life.

This year was made an era for a "strike" upon a grand scale, and, taking advantage of the absence of all military organizations from the county, the operatives proceeded to ensure their demands by force. They seized the collieries of the Forest Improvement Company, (now controlled by New York capitalists,) interdicted all employees from working, under threat of death, and, by putting out the fires at the collieries, stopped the pumps that cleared the mines of water, whereby they were soon flooded.

The sheriff of Schuylkill county found that he could make no arrests, and that he could not summon a posse of citizens to assist him, the sympathies of the mass being with the "strikers." The latter grew defiant, held meetings at Forestville, Hecklsville, Thomaston, and other points, and made preparations to organize a general strike throughout the whole coal region. The few that insisted upon working at the old rates were roughly had died, the contractors and agents of the mine owners were threatened with loss of life and property if they maintained opposition, and the sheriff was too weak either in spirit or in force to assert the law and arrest the ringleaders.

The latter had organized the strike cunningly and executed it unflinchingly. Colliers of one mine enforced the strike upon an other, so that no employee appeared where he could be recognized. In this way the officers are yet baffled as to the whereabouts of the ringleaders. About fifteen hundred men were numbered in the primary offensive measures, and their numbers are increasing.--The locality where hostilities commenced is noted for the turbulence of its denizens, murders and riots being frequent occurrences there, and ignorance and drunkenness being characteristic of the populace.

Their high-handed proceedings left the law no option but force, and the Governor called upon General Paterson (of Harper's Ferry fame) to deputize certain men to quell the riot. They stealthily moved out towards Forestville, the infected district, with loaded muskets and set bayonets, and this morning had mounted guard over all the colliers, to the great astonishment of the mutineers.

The latter are fleets, and threaten to retake the mines. I rode among them at dawn to-day, and they seemed unanimous as to their grievances, asserting that they meant to abolish the "order" system, and to secure equal and definite rates for their services, so that they would be out of the reach of want. The sheriff, meantime, has ordered the troops to stand fast, and the reinforcements that went on to-day indicate fears of rupture. If difficulties occur they will be of a serious character, as the miners are embittered by the presence of soldiers, and they are all armed with their favorite mountain rifles. Many of them were in the three months service, and have the elements of military discipline among them. They are nearly all Irish.

The Forest Improvement Company is working mainly upon Government orders, and if the sums demanded are paid, the capitalists say that they cannot fulfill the contracts, which name a certain amount of money per ton.--The damage to the mines has been considerable.

Seizure of the Dutch Consulate in New Orleans.

--The following, from the New Orleans See, of the 13th inst., is the best account we have seem of a proceeding of the infamous Butler, heretofore noticed:

Since our last publication, matters of considerable interest have occurred. On Saturday a file of soldiers, commanded by a United States officer, repaired to the building on

Canal street

, occupied as the Hope insurance Company and as the Consulate of the Netherlands. The flag was floating at the time from the edifice. The Federal officer demanded the key of the vault, but was told by Mr. Couturie, the Dutch Consul, that the vault was the property of the Consulate, that the key was in his possession, and would not be given up also, that he protested against the military occupation of his Consular apartments. at the command of the Federal officer, Mr. Couturie was searched, the key taken from him, the vault opened, and the specie carried off. At half-past 6 o'clock Mr. Couturie was informed that he was at liberty. The first act on recovering his freedom was to strike his flag, and to draw up an account of the proceedings. The money held by the Consul belonged to the banking house of Hope, of Amsterdam, and had been deposited with the Consul as the property of a subject of Holland. Mr. Couturie himself is a Frenchman.

In the meanwhile a detachment of soldiers was stationed at the doors of the Canal Bank, corner of

Camp

and

Gravier

streets, and at the private banking house of Sam Smith &Co., next door to the Canal Bank. At about half-past 3 o'clock P. M., a Federal picket was placed under the porch and at the doors of the building situated corner of

Magazine

and

Natchez

streets, occupied by the French and Spanish Consuls, with their respective flags floating from it. Soon after the Federal sentinels were withdrawn by order of Gen. Builer. The foreign population, though somewhat excited by this unexpected event, refrained, as we learned, from all untoward or intemperate demonstrations. Notes have been exchanged between the French and Spanish Consuls on the one hand, and the Commander-in-Chief on the other, but of their contents we are not advised. All the foreign Consuls have had a conference in reference to the circumstances above narrated. We have stated the faces to the best of our knowledge, and refrain from comment for obvious reasons.

The Yankees and the Southern Church.

--The secular papers now and then give us a picture of the evils that would result to our Southern land in the event of the triumph of the Federal arms. It is shocking enough — a loss of every thing earthly that an enlightened and cultivated people can hold dear. But there is one aspect of the subject that has not been presented. What are the Southern churches to expect when the invader has completed our subjugation — if unhappily that day should ever come? And what will be the fate of those ministers who dare to remain firm to their principles and resist the tyranny of the conqueror? We have already published a counts of clergymen on Southern soil seized while leading their congregations in worship because they would not pray for the President of the United States--we have seen how one was publicly beaten, under the eye of a Federal officer, because he would not receive in his house a soldier who sought to intrude himself there. We have heard of others abused, imprisoned and impoverished, by a wicked and rapacious enemy. From all we can gather, we infer that the pulpit and the press will be subjected to the vilest despotism, and free thought and free speech wholly interdicted, in case they get possession of our country.

All the labor of years in building up churches free from fanaticism will be lost. Northern missionaries will swarm over the land, and the long arm of the Northern ecclesiastical power will be stretched out over our people, sustained in its by the longer arm of We must all pray at the point of the as our enemies this, or only pray in secret.--Southern Christian Advocate.

The Yankees on Cockepur Island, below Savannah, sent up a balloon on Wednesday to reconnoitre for marked batteries.

Lost, Strayed, &c.

Boarding.

Life & fire Insurance.

Hospitals.

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Richmond Dispatch. Monday morning........May 26, 1862. Union of the South.

The idea that the Confederate Government ever intended to abandon Virginia, is an ingenious device of the enemy to sow dissensions between what are called the Border and the Cotton States. We do not believe that such an idea ever rose spontaneously in one loyal Virginia heart. It is on its very face the suggestion of a secret and insidious enemy in our midst, and falling upon minds rendered despondent and distrustful by adversity, has taken root among a few, who, under other circumstances, could never have entertained so unworthy a suspicion. We would never dream of discussing such a matter gravely. To forsake Virginia after the sacrifices she has made for the common cause, would involve a heartlessness equalled only by its folly. For our own part, we desire to ignore all distinctions between Cotton States and Border States. We only know the South, and are sure that its interests, its sentiments, its hopes, in this great struggle, are one and indivisible.

In times like these we should banish from our midst every element of sectional and party discord. There is no cause for the existence of either now — for the first there need never be. In institutions, in blood, in manners, habits, interests, and all that makes a nation one, the South are a homogeneous people. The planting and manufacturing interests, instead of being antagonistic, ought only to form new bonds of Union. The very diversity of interests, like the difference of conformation between the sexes, is a source of harmony and strength, instead of discord and weakness.--Moreover, if we had no other bond of Union, the supreme and universal hate of the invaders should make us a band of brothers till the end of time.

Let us have faith in God and in each other.

The negro and the Yankee.

We noticed on Friday the case of the negro, who was hung by the Yankees at West Point upon the charge of having murdered two soldiers in a Massachusetts regiment "for their money" Is there a man in the South who believes that the negro did this thing? We have yet to know the instance of a murder being perpetrated by a negro for money. The negro will kill in a passion or in a fit of jealousy; possibly he might kill in endeavoring to escape upon the commission of burglary to get groceries or whiskey of wearing apparel yet we know of no such case. But that he will deliberately kill a man to rob him of money we do not believe, and we never heard of an instance to show that he will. As sure as there are murderers and robbers amongst the Yankees, this negro whom they have hung was guiltless of the crime of killing two Massachusetts soldiers "for their money." We do not believe he killed them at all. The negro is not given to any such desperate act as that of killing two men at once, and at a time, too, when he is in a strange situation, amongst men who have changed his social relation, and while his mind must have been naturally occupied with this new position of his prospects. The story is incredible. If the truth is ever known, it will appear that the men, if killed by the negro at all, were killed for other cause than that alleged; but it will be ascertained that he did not kill them at all, and that some other person killed and robbed them.

Whatever the Yankee may say of the negro, and whatever follies he may commit under the delusion practiced upon him by the cunning serpent from the North now tracing his disgusting trail through the garden of the South, he has not yet interfered with the Yankee in his vocation of murdering that he may steal. He may steal a little — mostly something to eat, or now and then something to wear, as he is vain, and likes to sport a shining coat or bit of jewelry; but he will not murder to get them. So the Yankee need not be cruel to the negro on the suspicion that he meditates any such infringement of his prerogatives. As the Divine Thug of the age — the especial favorite of Heaven, commissioned in his own conceit to kill other people, and appropriate their money, and their goods, and their horses and asses, and cattle and flocks, to his own use — he will have no rival. He can have none. The negro may be vain, and have a good appetite, and seek to gratify his little vanities and his large appetites by small thefts; but he is not malignant, he is not avaricious, he is not selfish, like his Yankee hypocritical sympathizer. He will not murder, and steal, and secrete, and accumulate stores by appropriating to himself the property and substance of other people. He is a simple child, who gratifies the feeling of the hour and takes no care for the future. --He is a more innocent being than his pretended friend — he can never become his rival in the prominent features of his Southern raid, and is without doubt most grossly libelled in the alleged act of murdering two Massachusetts men "for money."

Encouraging military merit.

We are glad to see that Gen. Beauregard has issued an order awarding a badge of merit to every officer and soldier distinguishing himself in battles hereafter — the names of such to be reported to a military commission, on whose recommendation he will receive the reward of patriotism from the hands of the General.

We have great faith in any military system by which merit can be rewarded, and the right man put in the right place. A great secret of the wonderful military success of France is that the humblest soldier who performs great deeds is rewarded, and that the way to promotion is open to the rank and file. Napoleon owed much of his good fortune to his keen discernment of talent and merit among subalterns and privates. Nearly all his great Generals were from the ranks. Massena had been a drummer boy; Junto a cobbler; Kliber, the immortal conqueror of Egypt, was the son of a poor peasant. Imagine Bonaparte, on the eve of a battle, surrounded by a cavalcade of political Generals! His address to them would be very brief. He would repeat in their ears those famous words of his--"The General who is not a soldier is a monkey," and would order them with the "asses and savannas to the centre."

Our Southern army, composed in its rank and file of the first gentlemen of the land, ought to be as capable as that of France of furnishing great military leaders. Such rewards as that proposed by Beauregard, who understands thoroughly the character of the Southern volunteer, will give a new impetus to the energies of our gallant troops. Distinction and glory are the vital breath of the soldier. It should be known that merit will be recognized, honored, and promoted, in whatever grade it may be exhibited.

Burning the Cotton.

--The Vicksburg Whig learns that the entire cotton crop in Arkansas will be burned. The banks of all the navigable streams have already been cleared of the staple by the flames. The people are cheerfully aiding the Government in destroying it.

A letter from Newark N. C., dated the 08th of May, save the Yankee soldiers are dying at the rate of twenty-five a day. The same letter says a Yankee officer of high rank was lately killed in a picket skirmish.

The New York Herald says that General McClellan was struck by a place of shell in the battle of Williamsburg, but was not injured.

Yellow Jack.

We are greatly gratified to learn that "Yellow Jack" has already made his appearance in New Orleans. He is somewhat earlier than usual this season, but he has the Southern virtue of hospitality and does not like to keep his guests long waiting. There are many strangers now visiting the domains of Yellow Jack, and though they come uninvited, they will be none the less welcome to him. With an appetite whetted by a two year's fast, he must have gazed with greedy eyes from the swamps and bayous upon the pompous procession of war vessels and the swarming legions of the land, hastening to "seize, occupy and possess" the salubrious dominions of "Bronze John." Farragut and Butler, the Federal drovers, have crowded this plague market with a lot of fat Yankee cattle, and scarcely are they well installed in their quarters before the saffron-colored old gormandizer and gourmand makes his appearance.

Three deaths in New Orleans already from yellow fever! Three deaths in the bright month of May, when the Crescent City is usually the healthiest city in the Southern clime. Well done, Yellow Jack! This gives earnest of business, honest friend. We have been disappointed in some expected allies, but we shall not be disappointed of thee. We look forward with inexpressible delight to the feast of fat things that is spreading before "Bronze John." It gives us joy to think that we have one auxiliary who will be as merciless to the foe as they have been to us, who will give them a touch of their own hard, remorseless, insensate cruelty; who will fix a man trap for these burglars and murderers, in which they will struggle and howl in vain. --The blood stained wretches! Thank Heaven that some of them at least are likely to get their deserts.

Let them hold on to New Orleans if they can! We defy them to do it! We only hope they will try. Our greatest fear is that they will evacuate the city. We want them to stay until "Bronze John"--blessings on his solemn face and annihilating breath — compels them to evacuate the city by way of the graveyard.--When he hoists the black flag, they may hoist white or black, as suits their fancy; no squeamish qualms of humanity ever soften his purposes.

In the words of Israel's valiant king: "They compassed me about with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my good will. Let Satan stand at their right hand and let their prayers be turned into sin. Let their days be few; let their posterity be destroyed, and in the next generation let their name be clean put out. Break the jawbones of the lions, O, Lord. Cast forth thy lightnings and tear them; shoot out thine arrows and consume them."--Amen! Amen!

The way to Fill up ranks and Recall stragglers.

The Whig of Saturday makes the following timely suggestion touching the best way of recalling stragglers to their posts and filling up the ranks of our army. There is nothing more true than that if it were announced from the highest authorities in the army and the Government that inaction was at an end, and from this time forth there was to be no interregnum — no long period of camp life, with its fever and death decimating our ranks — no defensive policy, but that the army would be kept in motion, and sent after the enemy, pursuing him wherever to be found, until the end of the war — the stragglers would return, the ranks be filled, and fresh inspiration be given to the spirit of our cause. The Whig says:

If our Generals wish to bring back to camp the innumerable stragglers who throng the streets of our city; if they desire the return to the post of duty of the thousands of truant soldiers scattered throughout the Commonwealth; na- if they wish the sick in the hospitals to recover their health and to rejoin their comrades in the army, let a proclamation be issued, in good faith, assuring the men that the day of inaction and retreat is past; that Beauregard's battle-cry, "Forward! always forward!" shall be re-echoed on the plains of Eastern Virginia, "until the last armed foe expires," or is driven from the land. Such a summons as this would far excel in potency the signal of Roderick Dhu. It would send a thrill of hope and joy throughout the land, and infuse new life into the people. The soldiers would be aroused from the indifference which forced marches and half rations have superinduced, and with souls reanimated by undying love of country and hatred of Yankees, they would be ready to follow him who might lead into the "thickest of the fray."

Late from New Orleans.

--We make our thanks (days the Mobile Advertiser) to Captain James L. White, commanding a company at Bayous Bay're, for a copy of the New Orleans True Delta, of Friday morning last. It was taken from a party of men in a sail boat, arrested at the Bayou on Sunday.

The Delta has learned from a copy of the Jackson Mississippian of the battle of Elk river and the evacuation of Norfolk. We clip the following local items:

Carnal Hot.--This forenoon the Thirteenth Connecticut regiment was marched from the levee out

Podagras street

to St. Charles, down St. Charles to Canal and thence to the Custom House. As they marched along under their heavy knapsacks, sweltering in their heavy woollen clothing, the very looks of the men said as plain as language could have done, "It's 'carnal hot." The sun did come down pretty warm, but it was nothing to what it will be in the course of a month or two.

Precisions.--Two steamboats came into port yesterday, with provisions from Red river, and others are expected soon to follow.--These arrivals, with the beeves which are arriving from Texas, must bring a speedy change in the condition of our domestic market places.

Prayer Contraband.

--It appears that Picayune Butler intends to regulate the religion of the people of New Orleans. Apprehending that they might do some obnoxious praying on last Friday, he issued the following order. Butler, by his brutal orders, is doing good service in the Southern cause:

Notice. Headqr's Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, May 18, 1862.

General Orders, No. 27.

It having come to the knowledge of the Commanding General that Friday next is proposed to be observed as a day of fasting and prayer, in obedience to some supposed proclamation of one Jefferson Davis, in the several churches of the city, it is ordered that no such observance he had.

"Churches and religious houses are to be kept open as in times of profound peace," but no religious exercises are to be had upon the supposed authority above mentioned.

By command of Major-Gen. Butler

Geo. C. Strong, A. A. General.

Interesting from New Mexico.

--The Jackson Mississippian, of the 17th inst., says:

We learn from a passenger just through from Texas, that an engagement between 1,700 of Gen. Sibley's brigade, and 2,300 Federals, occurred on the 10th ult., at Glorieta Canon, New Mexico. Col. Scurry, commanding, had his men posted in the Canon through which the Federals were compelled to pass to communicate with Fort Craig.

About 600 of the enemy were killed and wounded, and less than 100 of Scurry's men — among whom, however, were Majors Raguet and Shropshire killed, and Lieut.-Col. Sutton mortally wounded.

Gen. Sibley's A. D. C., Capt. Ochiltree who was bearer of dispatches from Gen. Sibley, reported to our informant that the result of the battle of Glorieta would be, the surrender of Fort Craig to our forces, and the occupation of all New Mexico and Arizona by the Confederates.

The last case of Extortion.

--"Aunty, what do you ask for buttermilk now?" said a little newspaper boy to a negro woman named Rose, in the market the other morning.--"Dime a glass" "How is that, you used to charge only a picayune?" "I know, but fend has " "Oh! there a fact gross is higher"

The Northern papers say that the Sickles brigade suffered severely in the battle of Williamsburg. The loss in killed and wounded is given at 250.

Two Federal blockading vessels fired several shots at Fort Fisher, Wilmington harbor, last Wednesday.

Local matters. Deserter shot.

--An attempt was made on Saturday to arrest a deserter from Captain Samuel Bayly's heavy artillery company, who, it appears, had sought the shelter supposed to be afforded by Richmond, after joining the company as a substitute and pocketing a very good consideration therefore. A Sergeant and two privates met him on

12th street

, near the Beauregard Saloon, and he was commanded to halt. This he was not unwilling to do; but when informed that he was expected to fall in and march to camp, he interposed most insuperable objections to the proceedings. He could not go; had no idea of trying, and they had better not attempt to force him. The Sergeant ordered one of the men to load his gun and another to take hold of the delinquent. The deserter operated in his resistance so effectually as to disarm one of the men, when the command was given to the other to fire, which he did, wounding the recusant party in a serious manner, and rendering his capture very easy. A conveyance was procured, and the deserter was taken to the nearest hospital, where, yesterday, he was receiving medical treatment, though the prospects of his ultimate recovery were slight. In very many instances it has happened that parties who have sold themselves as substitutes have proved the worst kind of soldiers, and have shown themselves utterly forgetful of all principle, though an attention to their pecuniary interest when entering the service would seem to imply that they were not unmindful of the main chance.

Accidentally shot.

--The servant of an officer undertook, on Saturday, to unload his master's baggage in front of the Exchange Hotel. While doing so a Colt's pistol went off and sent a bullet through his foot, producing an ugly wound. Singular to say, the same bullet afterwards glanced, and passed into the body of a negro standing by, producing a very serious wound, and one that is likely to prove fatal.--The accident in all its phases may be considered a singular one.

Pardoned.

--A man named Edward Dunnavant was pardoned and released from the Penitentiary on Friday by Gov. Letcher. Dunnavant was tried before Judge Nash about four years since in the Circuit Court of Prince George county, and sent up for six years for burglary and larceny. The exploits of Dunnavant, at the time of their occurrence, created a considerable excitement in the region round about Petersburg, where the prisoner and his exploits were familiar to the old-fashioned people of that locality.

Police Court.

--The sitting magistrate distinguished himself on Saturday, by dispensing justice to a batch of small fry cases, which, though by no means "too numerous to mention," are scarcely worth the space here given them, much less the huge folio page appropriated to their elucidation upon the massive journal of the Court. It would seem that the combination of the civil and military elements in the administration of local justice, has had a tendency to abash offenders into at least a status of intermittent decency.

Alfred, slave of Edward Freeman, arrested without a pass, and supposed to be a runaway, was committed to be called for.

John Moore, whose domestic infelicities have formed the basis of sundry paragraphs heretofore, was arraigned on the charge of assaulting his wife. The assault was rather apocryphal than otherwise,--in other words, when submitted to the test of an examination, proved to have no more substantial foundation than the "baseless fabric of a vision." Mrs. Moore had evidently seen double when her vision embraced her "gude man" in the attitude of an avenging spirit. This was the idea of the Head of Police, and being communicated to the parties, one of them quitted "the presence" highly jubilant, while the other, judging from appearances, had feelings "more easily imagined than described. "

Matilda Pleasants, a free negress, arrested for beating the child of H. Copeland, was fined $10, and ordered to suffer a physical demonstration at the hands of an officer of police.

A. Chann was fined $2 for allowing a dead dog to remain on his lot.

C. H. Powell, summoned up for permitting a nuisance, had his case continued.

"Reliable."

--The reliable man who usually furnishes the texts for all the war talk indulged in, in this locality arrived on Saturday last and gave an animated account of a skirmish said to have occurred on the day in question between the Abolition and Confederate forces at the head of

Mechanicsville turnpike

, on the other side of Chickahominy river, part of the proceeds of which were an indefinite number of wounded and dead Confederates, half a dozen cart loads of dead Yankees and thirty live ones. On inquiring at the C. S. Military Prison yesterday morning, we learned that four prisoners of war had been received there on Saturday from Giles county, but none from the head of the turnpike. There was some cannonading there at an early hour on Saturday morning, but we believe the result has not yet transpired.

The camps and hospitals — interesting facts.

--Rev. Mr. Dickinson has done us the kindness of supplying us with the reports of the colporteurs now at work among the soldiers in and around the city. He has here seven men, whose whole time is given to this service, while twice that number give portions of their time. One of these gentlemen reports having sold at the rate of $30 worth of religious books a day, besides giving away large numbers. For several days he has sold as much as $45 worth. This shows how anxious soldiers are for reading matter, and at the same time it proves that they are men who appreciate religious truth.

These reports make mention of the kind aid which officers and surgeons render the colporteurs. They are welcomed, and are furnished every facility of reaching the men.--This is right, and we accord it to the honor of the authorities.

From one of the reports we copy the following interesting paragraphs:

"I visited an interesting young man, the near relative of a distinguished clergyman of this State, and, as he was not a professor of religion, I tried to explain to him the plan of salvation." He listened attentively, and then raised himself in his bed and said, 'Read to me some comforting passages of Scripture.' Day after day it was my pleasure to visit this dear young man, who, far from home and friends, was sinking beneath the ravages of disease. The light gradually dawned upon his soul until he could rejoice in the love of Christ. 'How do you feel now?' I inquired on one occasion. He replied, 'I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.' At another time, upon being asked how he was, he said, 'I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better,' Again he said, 'To me the grave has no victory, and death has no sting;' and so it was, for in an ecstasy of joy he passed away to his final home.

"I have been spending some days among the sick at Ashland. The doctors are very kind to me. Two of them said to me, 'We are glad to have you here. We wish you to instruct the patients in regard to divine things, for they are dying very fast.' Though from the beginning of the war I have been constantly engaged in working among the soldiers, I never felt more encouraged and hopeful than at present."

A good Joke.

--Some time ago one of the "mulish," an officer, was passing up

Broad street

, and just in advance of him were the Provost Marshal's pikemen. Knowing that some of them were decidedly green, he determined to astonish the guardians of the city.

Pikes--"Hault!"

Melish--"What for?"

Pikes--"Your pass, sir."

Melish--"Do you know who you are talking to, sir? I am Gen. Lee."

Pikes--"Oh! beg pardon, pass on, sir."

The "melish" did pass on much to his amusement, and as he cast, in the words of the poet, "one longing, lingering look behind," he observed the pikemen admiring him with astonishment, and no doubt thanking their stars that they were so fortunate as to fall in with the Commander in Chief in their official business! They are in many instances stupid beyond forbearance in the discharge of their duty. A few days ago, a big buck negro came down

Broad street

, on horseback, dressed up in full dress uniform, at a splurging pace, and when near the Provost Marshal's office one of the canine species, not liking his looks, attacked him; whereupon his ebony majesty drew his six-barreled repeater and deliberately shot poor Tray dead, when the streets were crowded with ladies and children. Strange to say, the pikemen did not interfere with Cuffy, nor ask him for his pass or his authority for shooting the dog, notwithstanding they were spectators to the whole proceedings. We were under the necessity some time ago of having to show these same pikemen the Assistant Provost Marshal's office!

Alarm of fire.

--An alarm of fire was sounded on Saturday night about 10 o'clock. The indications of the bell pointed to the 3d Ward, but no light was perceived coming from that region, and the majority of the people concluded it was a false alarm, and so it was as far as we could find out.

The Post Office.

--Why is it that a soldier or a citizen, who sees a letter advertised in the papers for himself, cannot get it at the Post-Office without paying the advertising price in coin? Few persons, except the extortioners, have even two cents in specie, and therefore, under the present Post-Office regulations, they are unable to buy their advertised letters, even though they offer for it a Confederate postage stamp, amounting to five times the tax placed upon it by the law. If this is right, then we are unable to see how it is made so. It seems to us as bad as the refusal to take Confederate notes.

Send in your Negroes.

--The Provost Marshal has had occasion again to call on the owners of negroes to come forward and tender their services in behalf of the Confederacy. The number heretofore offered has not proved sufficient for the requirements of the times. Let slave owners attend to this matter, and save the Provost Marshal the disagreeable necessity of an indiscriminate impressment. In such times as these the convenience of the individual must give place to considerations of public good. There are plenty of negroes in Richmond now idle, who might be advantageously used in aiding the Government in the great struggle which it is now waging with the agents of an unscrupulous despotism.

Provision for the wounded.

--A "physician requests us to "call the attention of owners of harness horses to the necessity of sending their wagons (spring wagons, if possible,) to bring in the wounded." He says, "Many a soldier bleeds to death from want of speedy attention, and citizens of Richmond ought not to permit a single horse to remain in the stable while the battle is going on, or wounded men to bring away." As a matter of precaution, and an indication of what may be required, the above suggestions are seasonable. We trust our citizens will not be unmindful of their duty.

Send vegetables.

--We would earnestly impress upon our friends in the country, that the convalescence of our soldiers now languishing in the various hospitals in this city would be speedily promoted by a supply of fresh vegetables. Let all who have our country's cause at heart, and who sympathize with the brave men who are now prostrated by disease, contribute all the vegetables they can afford, and our hospitals will soon be emptied.

Local defence.

--Attention is requested to the advertisement headed. "For Local Defence," in the defence of the Confederate capital. Recruits will not be required to go in the field, but will be retained in this city.--We assure those desiring to join a good company that it will be to their advantage to call at the place designated, as the officer about to raise the company is a gentleman, and a soldier also, having been in service since the commencement of the war, in the capacity of a 1st Lieutenant.

Partisan corps.

--Attention is directed to the advertisement of Lieutenant G. W. Emack, in another column, in which he proposes to raise a partisan corps. His company will be attached to the troops composing the Maryland Line, under General Stewart. The Maryland Line has acquired glory and distinction in all the contests which it has heretofore had with the enemy, and if allowed the opportunity, will acquire new laurels.

A murder was reported as having occurred on

17th street

late on Saturday evening or on Sunday morning. We could find out none of the particulars. Possibly a soldier shot a resident citizen and possibly not.

Confirmation.

--The Right Rev. Bishop Johns confirmed several ladies and gentlemen yesterday evening in the Monumental Church.

Benjamin Franklin Butler.

Our readers need no incentive beyond Butler's infamous order to the ladies of New Orleans to make them hate the very name of the detestable scamp; but the subjoined article from the Wilmington Journal lays the lash upon the villain with such a vim that we cannot refrain from copying it:

We saw him at the Charleston Convention in May, 1860, and of all that assemblage of sharpers, inside and outside of the Convention, there was no countenance that could approach his in all that makes man hate his race. He seemed to be man only because he could talk. His smile was a scowl; his looks greedy and devouring; his eye like a serpent's, without its charm; his nose mounting the air for prey, his forehead low, skulking, and brutal. Instantly we thought of the line--

"A man may smile and smile, and be a villain still."

But seeing the creature could not smile our loathing was turned to pity, to think he was so blasted in the making, and his villainy had destroyed even his power to smile.

When we heard that he was appointed to the command of the Federal forces in the Gulf, we were convinced more than ever of the malignity and abandonment of Northern rule. Nothing but the deepest hatred for a chivalrous people; nothing but the most artful and ingenious cruelty; nothing but the most reckless desperation, could have suggested the appointment of such a thing to bear rule, even for a brief day, over a generous, high-minded people.

And the tool is proving himself in every way worthy his masters. He has not gone to work with masterly skill to bow his victims by degrees to the yoke. His malignity has no gradation — his malice knows no control. A one bound he has passed into the lowest, deeper "than which no lower lies." His proclamation to the ladies of New Orleans is the grandest conception of malicious, cruel, brutal, abandoned wickedness that could have emanated this side the nether pit. Whose mind but that of this wretch could have broken through all the wonted realms of thought and the catalogue of retaliatory punishments and have brought to light so terrible a retribution as that proposed to be inflicted on the virtuous and Christian women of a Southern city? Was it not beyond the conception of any other man or devil? If he had thought of imprisonment, or banishment, or personal chastisement, or even death, enormous as either of these would be in proportion to the alleged offence, we could see some connection between the offence and the penalty. But none but the devil or his angels could have conceived of the plan to treat a respectable, virtuous woman, perhaps an aged mother, as a common harlot, for no other reason than expressing her disgust for a conquering foe! Is there no flaming thunderbolt reserved in the red hand of vengeance to drive this demon back to the pit below? It cannot be that the God of mercy will long allow this offspring of the Prince of Darkness to roam the earth in human shape!

If so, then we must be content, and believe it will be fore our good. Let him drill, drill, drill, deeper and deeper into the great heart of this great people. The end will be well. --The waters which burst forth at every turn will grow more and more bitter, day by day, until no branch, not even the olive branch of peace, can ever restore their sweetness. We believe it to be settled in the counsels of God that the North and the South shall be divided, the one from the other, and that forever! Let the villain drive the iron into the soul — the deeper the better. The separation, already complete, will continue till time shall be no more. Let the Red Sea, and the mountains, and the wilderness, be betwixt us and them; and how better can it be than by the employment of just such agencies, mean and despicable though they be in the eyes of men?--God in his wisdom has accomplished great objects in times gone by, by the employment of frogs, and locusts, and murrain, and files; why in this day may he not accomplish this great work of eternal separation by even a meaner thing?

So, let us not despond. Now is the time for a righteous wrath and vengeance. No mother will now longer detain her son from the field. Every sister will gird her brother's armor on, and bid him haste. Everyman who respects virtue and himself will give his all to finish our mighty undertaking. How dare we longer call ourselves men, if we do not rise with all the means that God has placed in our hands, and crush, as an adder, the wretches who can imagine — not to say avow — their intentions, for any cause whatever, to treat our wives, and mothers, and daughters, as hariots, "plying their avocations."

The history of the world does not furnish a parallel proclamation, and yet, the Greeks, the Romans the Spa- the Britons, and the Saxous performed deeds of daring and valor in defence of their wives and altars, to which nothing that we have done in defence of dearer rights can be compared.

Hon. Jere Clemens.

--The numerous admirers of this gifted Alabamian will learn with feelings of deepest regret that he has forsaken the Confederate cause, and given in his allegiance to the Lincoln Government. He was in Huntsville at the time of its capture by the Yankees, and made no effort to escape. Only a few weeks after their arrival he became very intimate with the commanding General, and now goes about the streets representing the Southern cause in its worst light, and endeavoring to persuade all his friends to join with the Federal cause. So far he has only found four of the citizens of Huntsville who were so destitute of principle and honor as to link their destiny with the destroyers of our homes and our peace. This comes from a source entitled to the highest credit.

We copy the foregoing from the Atlanta Commonwealth, of the 20th inst. When we consider those long accession proclivities of Mr. Clemens, and his apparently earnest labors in behalf of the Confederacy, the statement seems almost incredible.

News of the War.

The following summary is made up from the latest Southern papers received at this office:

From North Alabama.

A correspondent from a member of the First Louisiana cavalry writes an interesting letter to the Mobile Tribune, which we copy:

We are at present encamped within a half mile of the Tennessee river, having been in the saddle for the last three weeks, scouting the country from Inke, Miss., to the borders of Tennessee. During that time we have met the enemy in four different engagements, and we feel a thrill of pride in being able so state that on every occasion the impetuous valor of our gallant boys have sent them flying from the soil which they pollute with their presence.

The first fight occurred near Tuscumbia, in which Capt Cannon with a hundred men, ten from each company, engaged a force of the enemy's cavalry and infantry, outnumbering him three to one, one morning about daylight as they were moving on towards Decatur.--They instantly drew up on seeing him and sent the hissing bullets in showers amongst our boys for a while, but were unable to withstand the fiery charge of Captain Cannon and his brave troopers, who broke and scattered them like chaff before the wind, killing a number of them without losing a single man himself, and rejoining the main body of the regiment the next day, bringing with him twenty- seven prisoners as trophies of his victory. Four of them were negroes, who, in a fit of gallantry, had thrown aside their plowshares to testify their devotion to Uncle Abe on the "tented field," three of whom Colonel Scott returned to their owner; the fourth one, a notorious villain, was taken to the battle field and hung.

After the attack of Capt. Cannon, the enemy retreated with such rapidity that they forgot to take their prisoners with them, and never stopped until they were safe on the cars, bound for Decatur, where they burnt the fine railroad bridge which spans the river at that place.

We rode leisurely along through the beautiful scenery of North Alabama, the people welcoming us with manifestations of delight, and hailing us as their deliverers from insult and outrage, in further quest of those gentry that thus make war upon the lovely ladies as well as the men of our beloved South.

On arriving at this place (Courtland) Col. Scott learned that there was a large number of the enemy at Athens, about thirty miles from here, and resolving to attack them, we crossed the river in flat-boats, on Wednesday, 30th April, and, traveling all night, the first beams of the morning sun found us within three miles of Athens.

Col. Scott sent forward an advance guard to attack the pickets and draw them out, throwing the rest of his men in line of battle. The advance guard consisted of some forty men, under Capt. Leake--his own company and a portion of the Morgan Rangers — and on getting within fifty yards of them Capt. Leake rung out the charge, and away we went, with the rapidity of lightning, right on them, the Yankees scattering to the right and left and firing volley after volley as they ran.

Capt. Leake then ordered us to return, and, in a short time, as was anticipated, here came the Lincoln chivalry, their bright bayonets glistening in the sun, breathing vengeance against the daring rebels who owned Col. Scott as their leader; but our Colonel, not at all dismayed by the formidable array, calmly ordered Lieut. Holmes to turn loose his howitzers on them, and with a storm of shot and shell we swept the woods of the cowardly mi creants.

We pursued them at a hard gallop into and through Athens. About fifty of the command, armed with shot guns and the howitzer battery, under Lieut.-Col. Nixon, pursued them seven miles on the Huntsville road. From time to time they ambuscaded us and made a stand, and on every occasion we dislodged them. We returned to Athens with the loss of one man killed and two wounded. On our way back we passed eighteen or twenty of their dead bodies.

At the same time that Col. Nixon was sent in pursuit with the shot guns, Capt. Cannon was placed in command of the Rifles, and sent to cut off a train of cars at Limestone, eighteen miles distant. He reached the place, and after a sharp fight whipped the guard, and tore up the railroad track before the arrival of the train, and when it came it piled up beautifully. He took twenty-one prisoners, including two Captains, and burned eleven card loaded with provisions, and returned to Athens without the loss of a man.

Col. Scott thought it best to recross the river, as we were short of ammunition and he anticipated an early attack, and sure enough the next day, when Col. Scott, our artillery, and more than half of the regiment, had crossed Elk river, a small stream, three miles from the Tennessee, a picket came rushing to, announcing that a large body of Yankee cavalry were light on us. Lieut.-Col. Nixon immediately formed us into line, when they came, 250 strong, sweeping down on us in a gallant and magnificent charge through the open field; but our boys, cool and collected, waited until they got within 150 yards of them and then poured a deadly fire into them, employing fifteen saddles of their riders, and the rest flying in disorder and confusion, their Colonel being mortally wounded.

Two of our boys were killed in the charge, both belonging to the Morgan Rangers. One of them, James Crawford, a brave, noble fellow, was formerly a pilot on Red river, and is well and favorably known in New Orleans.

Lieut.-Col. Nixon elicited the admiration of us all by his gallant and chivalric bearing both here and in Athens. Though he ordered us to dismount to receive the charge, he sat upon his horse, a conspicuous mark for the iron shower that poured around us, as cool and self-possessed as if he were at a festive gathering.

More about live John Morgan.

Everything in regard to the heroic partisan, John T. Morgan, is interesting, and we therefore copy a narrative of his movements from the Montgomery Advertiser, of Thursday last:

The veritable Col. John T. Morgan, of Kentucky, who has produced so much consternation among the Yankee invaders by his dashing exploits, was certainly in this city on Tuesday evening. While in our midst he visited the house of Hon. Wm. P. Chilton, whose lady is his second cousin. His presence at the Exchange attracted a large crowd of spectators, all eager to see the hero of so many successful skirmishes. The quiet simplicity of his manner and dress impressed all more than ever that he is the man of the true metal he is represented to be. Col. Morgan looks to be about thirty years of age, has light hair and whiskers, and gray eyes, is some six feet high, and weighs perhaps a hundred and seventy pounds. He is as mild and gentle as a woman, and is so careful of the feelings of others that he would not want-only give a wound to them for anything in the world. His magnanimity was beautifully illustrated only the other day, in the capture of a Yankee train and passengers between Nashville and Bowling Green. The train consisted of an engine and fifty-three cars, which he burnt and destroyed, of course, to weaken the enemy as much as possible in a legitimate way. The engine was one of the most magnificent machines ever put in motion. It had just been imported from the North, for the purpose of drawing the immense military trains of the enemy over the mountain railroads. He also captured a large amount of money from the train, which was taken care of. Of the passengers, he paroled the Yankee officers, and did not molest the civilians who were not in the war. The women, however, fearing that they would be treated as their own authorities are in the habit of outraging our ladies, appealed to Col. Morgan not to hurt them. With the gallantry of the true Southern gentleman, he told them that he left it for the vandals of the North to search the persons and insult the honor of helpless women, and that they were as safe from intrusion of injury in his presence as if at home defended by their husbands. One of them, a young married woman about sixteen, begged him not to hurt her husband who was a prisoner. He assured her that he would be treated as kindly as he deserved, and he did not know that it would be kindness to him; but to save her any further trouble, he would release him in her hands. She expressed herself very grateful for her prize.

After Col. Morgan had entered the carriage to go to the boat, he was brought a dispatch from the telegraph office, informing him that a passenger who had arrived at Chattanooga, stated that Lt.-Col. Wood and the men of his command, who were taken from him a short time ago at Lebanon, Tennessee, had captured the boat that was conveying the down the Cumberland river from Nashville, and made good their escape somewhere near Clarksville. Col. Morgan was confident it was true, and felt greatly rejoiced that his comrades should have escaped a loathsome imprisonment. As he rode off from the exchange, the crowd gave him three hearty cheers. After he had reached the boat that was to take him to Mobile, he was informed that one of the Yankee prisoners from Tuscaloosa, a member of the 5th Ohio regiment, who was sick in the other boat which had just come in, desired to see him. He promptly made his way through the crowd of prisoners to find what the Ohioan wanted. When there, he was told by the unfortunate victim of Northern fanaticism, that he had fought against him (Morgan) on one occasion, regarding him then as a great monster, but was glad now to know him better. He also told him where some of his captured men were, and how they were treated. Col. Morgan presented him some Yankee money, taken from his brethren in arms against us and returned to his own boat. A short time after be parted with his friends and left for Corinth on business connected with his command.

The Yankees at Pascagoula.

The Mobile Register extracts the following from a private letter, dated Pascagoula, May 17:

We had a visit from the enemy yesterday evening. Three sailing vessels anchored op-

posite the village, and sent three boats ashore. The boats landed at the hotel wharf, and an officer and one seaman come on shores. The officer stated that they had understood that some schooners were here ready to run the blockade with cotton, and they (the Federals) had been sent to capture them. On being assured that there was no vessel of the kind here, he said he was misinformed, &c., and appeared satisfied that he would find none.

In the course of the conversation, he said he thought Mobile would be attacked soon, perhaps after they got through on the Mississippi river. Com. Farragut had gone up towards Vicksburg. He also said that the French Consul at New Orleans was out on their fleet during the bombardment at Fort Jackson, and had expressed himself dissatisfied with the manner in which he had been treated by the Confederates at Fort Jackson. It appears from his statement that they took Capt. Pegram, who was on the Nashville. Capt. Pegram is reported as having been in command of one of our gunboats about Fort Jackson.

[The statement about the capture of Capt. Pegram is a falsehood.]

Ransom's Cavalry in a skirmish.

Our Richmond readers no doubt remember the splendid regiment of North Carolina cavalry commanded by Col. Ransom, which encamped for a short period near this place last summer. They will therefore be interested in perusing the following account of a recent skirmish in which the regiment was engaged, which is furnished by a correspondent of the Raleigh Standard, under date of May 17:

I have the pleasure of announcing to you a very "handsome" skirmish which occurred on our lines on the 15th, between a portion of the 2d cavalry, and an column of the enemy. Early in the morning, an advanced scouting party of the Yankees attacked our videttes on the road leading to Newbern from Trenton, on the north side of the Trent; the videttes retreating, hotly pursued by the Yankees, who, I guess, were felicitating themselves upon "dispersing rebels" in such a hasty manner. The reserve of the pickets, commanded by Lieuts Rogers and Graham and stationed a short distance off the main road, suddenly entered the road, upon the alarm being given, and charged down upon the column of Yankee cavalry moving rapidly up. Then commenced the ball. Our men discharged their firearms as promptly as possible — then drew their sabres, and went to work in regular style. The galling fire they had given the enemy on coming up, and their thrilling yells as they bare down on them, added decidedly to the discomfiture of the blue coats, and they commenced falling back. The platoon which had pursued the fugitive videttes hearing the fighting in their rear, wheeled, and our men found themselves attacked by this body also in their rear. Then commenced a conflict which I imagine was proportionately similar to that which Eckmuhl and Cow pens witnessed. The steel of foemen rang vividly against that of his antagonist, and cries of agony (I am told by one who heard) mingled with the shouts of enthusiasm and the sharp cracks of small arms. The Yankees contested well the ground for about half a mile, and until their infantry and cavalry made their appearance on the roadside, and in a small old field. Our men having cut through the force attacking them in their rear, on seeing their infantry, immediately withdrew out of range to await further demonstrations.

The Yankees now returned to where the fight was opened, hastily collected their dead and wounded, burned the church and dwellings around which the fight raged, and concluding that it would not be advisable to await further movements on our part, beat a retreat to their encampment, completely foiled in their attempts to force a column upon Trenton, which they evidently designed doing. Their loss, as reported by citizens who saw, was five ambulance loads of dead and wounded, and five prisoners, which fell into our hands, together with eight horses and their equipments, several pistols, sabres, and other cavalry accoutrements. Their force was 200 cavalry, 2,000 infantry, and a battery of cannon. Our force was between 40 and 50 cavalry, from the companies of Capt. Hays, Capt. Andrew, and Capt. Turner, almost the entire number being from Capt. Hayes company, commanded by Lieut. Rogers. We lost one man killed, (Mr. Ray, of Capt. Hayes company,) with several slightly wounded, mostly with sabres. We lost two or three horses killed.

From Vicksburg.

The latest newspaper intelligence from Vicksburg is contained in the Jackson Mississippian, of the 19th inst. The following particulars are gathered from a gentleman who left the beleaguered city on the evening of the 18th:

Five of the Yankee gunboats arrived with in range of our batteries at 12 o'clock, M., and one shot from our guns fired across the bow of the foremost vessel brought them to. They sent a message with a flag of truce to Mayor Lindsay, demanding the surrender of the city. The Mayor replied, with significant terseness and pointedness, that if they wanted the city to come and take it.

They then communicated with the Confederate authorities, demanding, it is supposed, the surrender of our forts just below Vicksburg, which was of course as promptly and peremptorily refused. After this the gunboats weighed anchor and dropped down the river. It is believed that they went down to report progress, and bring up the balance of their gunboats for the purpose of opening the bombardment.

Since the appearance of the boats yesterday, noon, we learn that two large additional columbiads have been mounted in our forts.--We are very well prepared for the enemy's approach, and he will have a nice time passing by the forts. From past experience, however, we should be prepared for the successful passage of the enemy's boats; but we sincerely hope that we may never hear of the surrender of Vicksburg.

The same paper also says:

Gov. Pettus, we learn, is at Vicksburg, and will perhaps remain during the bombardment of the city. The people of Mississippi are willing to trust the Governor's spunk. He will never surrender to an insolent Yankee. Full of the spirit which ought to animate the bosom of every Southern freeman, he would prefer death to surrender.

Sappers and Miners.

The Knoxville Register, of the 22d, publishes a paragraph which shows the efficiency of the branch of the service which heads this article.

We have been permitted to peruse a letter to a gentleman in this city, from Lieutenant G. R. Margraves, commanding a company of Sappers and Miners near Chattanooga, from which we learn that the bridge over Lookout Creek, recently burnt, has been repaired, and that the railroad connection between Chattanooga and Bridgeport is again complete; thus reopening the supply of coal to our Southern foundries and factories. This company of Sappers and Miners, by their industry on this as well as other occasions, have rendered most efficient service to the Confederacy, and Lieut. Margraves is winning for himself an enviable reputation as an energetic and skillful military engineer.

The city of Richmond.

The Raleigh State Journal, of Saturday last, says in regard to the present condition of our city:

Richmond still stands, and we trust in God will still stand, after the enemy has expended his fury upon it. The calm, however, which has succeeded the first essay of his gunboats is ominous. McClellan is throwing his coils around it. Burnside, it is surmised, it proceeding up the James river in order to give more vitality and life to the anaconda by uniting his forces with McClellan. Soon that river will be covered with his ships of war, bristling with huge mortars and rifle cannon, and prepared to do their work at long range. From all points in the old Union reinforcements will be collected, and the combined land and naval forces of the Northern despot will descend as an avalanche upon the devoted city. In numbers the assailants are likely to surpass any army which in modern times has ever invested a city. In ferocity, cruelty, and brutality of purpose, that army has never had a prototype. The chivalrous French fought for Napoleon, the name of the "Little Corporal" being sufficient to incite them to deeds of daring courage which have never been surpassed. When George the Third made war upon his American Colonies, the British soldier fought for his King, and the deluded tory regarded it a sort of sacrilege to renounce his allegiance to the British throne. But for whom does the depraved Yankee and the foreign mercenary fight? The name of Abraham Lincoln has no charms for the most dissolute ear. The old Union, as it was, has no enemies, and therefore they are not fighting for their country. They have nothing to impel them to deeds on blood and carnage — nothing to incite them to rape and murder, but unbridled and insatiable avarice.--They are worse than tyrants, for even tyrants fight for dominion and glory, but the accursed mercenary Yankee is fighting for the profits of Southern commerce and the prospect of appropriating to his own unhallowed use Southern farms and Southern wealth.

Of such fiendish hell hounds is the army which threatens Richmond composed, impelled by the passions of furies and guided by satanic cunning, they are congregating around it, and like hungry wolves are yelling their fiendish desire to their lust and their avarice on the "beauty and booty" which it contains. To their numbers there is no limit. McClellan can command reinforcements until his wildest ambition is satisfied. The fleets of Butler and Burnside stand ready to do his bidding by sea; while the whole land forces of his despotic master are no doubt held subject to his order. At the lowest estimate, we see nothing to prevent McClellan from assembling an army of three hundred thousand men to assist him in the reduction of the city.

We will not speculate on the movements or resources of Gen. Johnston to meet this overwhelming force. It is plain that whatever forces Gen. Johnston may have, McClellan is likely to outnumber him. It is true, Johnston has the advantage, such as it is, in this case, of selecting his own ground; but in point of numbers and military equipments, he is likely to labor under disadvantages for which no advantage of position can fairly compensate. Still, we believe, and have reason to believe, Johnston will be victorious. By whatever route McClellan may conclude to approach the city, Johnston knows how to meet him. If foiled, as he seems to be, in his attempt to reach Richmond by his present route from Yorktown and Fortress Monroe, he should transfer his base of operations to Norfolk and advance from that direction, he will only multiply his own difficulties and add nothing to the embarrassments of Johnston's army. If he cross the river, Johnston can also cross; and if he advance on Johnston's present lines, he will advance on certain destruction.

Of course should Burnside seek to co-operate with McClellan on the south of the James river, the large forces which have been keeping Burnside within his limited lines, on the coast of North Carolina, will be ordered to follow him to aid in the defence of Richmond. Indeed, however large an Army McClellan may seek to bring against Richmond our Commander-in-Chief will seek to meet with adequate numbers, so far as in his power.

But after all we have been speculating when we only intended to speak of facts. Having recorded our firm belief in the success of our arms at Richmond, we may be pardoned for dissenting from those who seem to suppose that Richmond is the Confederacy. If beaten at Richmond, we are not a subjugated people, unless we ignominiously make it our own choice. If our army, for prudential reasons, fall back from Richmond, we will still see no cause for croaking and despair, though we will feel deep regret. With President Davis, we are inclined to the opinion that Virginia affords twenty battle-fields outside of Richmond and its environs. The fall of Richmond, with or without a battle, will not decide the fate of the Confederacy. An invaded people, goaded to desperation by the wrongs and insolence of a barbarous enemy, cannot consent to suspend their last hope of liberty on the precarious fate of a single town, whatever its position on the map or national importance, to be decided by a single battle. Without the hope bordering on the assurance of victory, it would be madness to fight at Richmond or anywhere else. McClellan refused to fight Johnston when the latter tendered him the gauge of battle, and retired like a whipped cur by the same route by which he had advanced. Now that he can choose his own ground and appoint his own time, and specify his own numbers, supposing that he can do so, shall uninformed popular clamor urge Johnston to give him battle under any and all circumstances? Madness and folly could not go farther than this, and it is to be hoped the Richmond papers, the Richmond people, and every citizen and soldier in the entire Confederacy, will resolve beforehand to acquiesce confidingly in whatever course the Generals commanding may ultimately pursue, be the consequences what they may.--Those Generals possess the confidence of the people in its widest extent. Lee, Johnston, Hill, Magruder, Longstreet, are names which inspire confidence and hope wherever uttered in the South. Lee and Johnston are confessedly two of the most accomplished military men of the day, in whose hands all our people are willing to trust their cause.--Let them, then, act as circumstances may dictate. If they fight at Richmond, it is well. If they retire or retreat to some other point, true wisdom will have been their counsellor. Newspapers should be silent while Generals prepare for battle. Such of the people as are non-combatants should place their fingers on their lips, and, retiring to their closets, commit their cause to their Generals and their God. The newspaper Generals of the North precipitated the battle of Manassas, and the result is before the country. Let it no be said that the newspapers and the outside public opinion of the South shall attempt to dictate to Southern Generals when, where, or under what circumstances, they shall meet the enemy.

We conclude, then, by repeating that the fate of the Confederacy is not suspended on the fate of Richmond. Should Richmond fall into the hands of the Vandals and Turks who threaten its destruction, it will indeed be a grievous, but not irreparable disaster.--Of its fall, however, our fears are not perplexing. That object can never be effected by the army which Gen. McClellan at present commands. With that army alone he dares not meet Johnston. Should it be doubled, however, as it possibly can and may be, and perhaps trebled, it will then be for the gallant Johnston to say whether he will risk a battle against such unequal odds. Under God and the able and wise Generals whose counsel he can command, let Johnston's will be done, and let every man and woman in the Confederacy resolve, when it has been done, to say, Amen.

Maryland.

An extract from a private letter, dated Baltimore, and published in the Charleston Mercury, will be read with much interest:

The first blood shed in the Southern cause was shed here. Surely we have deserved better recompense than to see our bravest men in gloomy cells; our tender, delicate women imprisoned in Washington, with an abolition guard around them, and our poor in every ward of the city in a state of absolute starvation. Our ladies have been active in their cause; but these times have compelled every family to retrench. Last night we had an amateur concert for the relief of our poor.--It is certain that, if something is not speedily done for us, there will be refugees from Baltimore, begging shelter, in every province in Canada. They cannot get South, and they would scorn to receive anything from a Yankee.

General--, whom President Davis has kept so long in this State, to be ready to take command of the Maryland forces, when they have the privilege of joining the South, is very restive; says he has been dallied with long enough; and, if his services are not brought into action speedily, he will go abroad; he cannot stand this oppression any longer. The Yankees keep a close watch upon him, in common with hundreds of others among our first gentlemen, but they little dream that they are watching a Major General of the Confederate Army. Our men are, indeed, crestfallen. How could they be otherwise, when our hated and insolent Yankee foes are at all times in our streets, threatening us with their bayonets. But we still hope, and, be assured that, as our poet say.

"There's Life in the Old Land yet!"

We, the ladies of Baltimore, are ready to make forts of our houses, and arm ourselves with hot water; stones, or any other effective appliances within our grasp, to free our State from the foul invaders.

We hear that Gen. Lee is Commander-in-Chief. He has our cause at heart; he lived among us once we remember him as one of us. We are greatly encouraged since hearing of his appointment.

The last Confederate Fast Day was gloriously kept here. Churches all open, and as crowded as they are on Good Friday, with humble trusting suppliants imploring success for the Generals in the right cause. How is it, that with brave, skillful Generals, and with the most efficient fighting material, our armies should have been so ingloriously inactive during the winter?

Dr.--has recently heard that Dr. Warren, who has charge of the Maryland hospital in Richmond, needs medicines. He will start in a day or two for the Confederate capital. I shall accompany him, as the dangers he encounters en route for Richmond are greatly lessened if he has a lady under his protection. We will be but a day or two in Richmond; Dr.--will be anxious to return to his family; and to be away several weeks, suspected as he is, would result in his being incarcerated in some Northern fort. We will come loaded with quinine, morphia, mercury, etc., enough to last one hospital, I hope, until the war is over.

I must tell you of a visit I paid to Fort McHenry a few days ago. You know I have an appetite for adventure, and as Captain — was there a prisoner, and had not been allowed any communication with his family, I played Union, and so was admitted. I feigned to be deaf, and had old Dix screaming at me more vociferously than Stentor himself. You would have been amused to hear me tell the old vandal that I had come to the fort "to see that poor deluded prisoner, Capt.--,to try to convince him of his error." The General, no doubt, thought the gentle remonstrances of a woman would be more effectual than the rigorous surveillance that is every day exercised upon him. So I was left in the cell with the prisoner — the guards being outside I, "the rebel girl," have thus been diplomatic enough to accomplish an interview with a poor prisoner; carried letters to him in my sleeves, and heard from him, though I was so deaf, all that he wished me to tell his friends. The guards were just at the door, believing that if he said anything to me they could hear it; and so they could, when, at intervals, I made him talk as though I were deaf. When I left, Gen, Dix thanked me cordially for my effort to bring Capt.--to the right way of thinking.

I shall send this by the underground railroad, which is quite as regular in its schedule and far more convenient to our people than the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, over which the Lincolnites are now as jubilant that they have patched up what they call "the rebel work," I take as great as interest in the Underground Railroad as Cameron the late Yankee War Secretary did in the Northern and Central Railroad, in which he owned a quantity of stock. You know that while he was in the Cabinet he compelled the soldiers ordered from various portions of the North to travel hundreds of miles out of their way, so that, by passing over his road, they might increase its receipts. Poor miserly wretch to such a shift was be reduced to supply the place of the Southern travel so much missed this year on all the Northern roads.

Southern news is very scarce indeed. Our

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The South Carolina coast.

Charleston Mercury, of the 23d, has the

interesting accounts of the enemy operations upon the Stone river. Three enemy's gunboats remained off Batte- during Wednesday last. They kept fire of shell at the pickets and all persons who exposed themselves to within range. A picket of nine consisting of the 3d Sergeant, a Corpe and seven privates, were posted for purpose of observation on Battery Island. Their of retreat was soon discovered, and a of shells and shrapnel shot was di- at them. Three of the privates at once but the others took refuge in a neigh- bomb proof, under a mistaken construction of their orders. Having remained pool of duty long enough for the enemy land a large party and surround them, taken prisoners. This detachment to Captain Jones's company, 24th South Carolina Volunteers, Col- H. Stevens. The sergeant in com- of the picket is highly spoken of by commanding officer as a brave and obe- soldier, and the loss of him and his is much regretted.

The evacuation of Coles's Island and Battery at was entirely successful. Everything that was movable, and Lt. T. of the Gist Artillery, who was in of the retreat from the last-named proposed to take down the barracks, of the material, which is reported and float it to a place of safety; but cessity" prevented this. After of the buildings, &c, a fire was around the flag- staff, and this too was

Wednesday afternoon the enemy passed distance above Battery Island.-- had been piled at this point on from the banks out as far as the This was left open, to be finished at time; but the fact that the work was the enemy all anxiety in the exact location of the channel.

Wednesday night the pickets of the Rangers caught Sergeant Wilson, Battalion of Artillery, in the Battery island. Upon being in-, be inquired particularly after headquarters, saying that be see him on important business, as transfer from his company to Unfortunately for him, he showed having been up to his waist in mud, picket of leave, " and was heading in the direction of the fleet, when at sunset. He was escorted by his friend to General Gist's headquartered thence to the city on Thursday Subsequent inquiries show that Wilson deserted from his company Tuesday evening, under suspicion of watch He is an old der have before a court-martial for some se- but, as the court was very lenient Wilson thought he would try a visit to the fleet.

of two heavy guns, in position on of the outer lines of defence, having been after being dissented by the whether by order or not, we are us- to say.

a quiet reminder of the sort of atten- showered upon our pickets and a detach- of the Gist Artillery, (who are in the we have in our office an eleven inches which was dropped quite near to a young Lieutenant of artillery on act. Of course, our townsman and collected, as is his wont, but, that he finds fault with his war horse, disposition is to shy towards a shell fass is burning

gudtie man who had a view of the States vessels off Battery island on Tuesday, from a distance of about half a we learn that one of them has the ap- of being a large fore and aft schooner fitted up as a propeller. With the in, one of them passed out of the rav- tops of the masts being plainly visible look her course to the ocean. The vigilance is used, and every move of the enemy is promptly reported. We however, the generally expressed that half a doz in heavy guns on island would have kept the enemy out Of course, his presence there the removal of a large force of as, and the consequent loss of the crops on the sever plantations.

Sentiment increase in Nashville?

give some selections from the Nashville of the 8th inst., which show that the pashed to the wall to make any of display of Union feeling in Tennessee; love the Lax--Under this head the Union "the State remains the same in all jurisdiction and resources the laws same, the same offices are to be filled As who stands back from the of Union at a time like this, lends his to anarchy and despotism. Such an his own brow with the name and will forever debar himself hope of honor and promotion in the This is a critical time in the fortunes On, for a few more of the true heroic

is an artful appeal to those whom the hope to induce to enlist in this war the Union" by the promise of office and of honor and promotion in the future ! at time in the fortunes of men!" Cortion is the chief instrument.

warfare" is the caption of the leader additional, which betrays the terror that Morgan has excited among the Union in Tennessee, and Says: "It becomes immediate duty of the Government to for this warfare. Let our cavalry be increased instantly, and properly buted. Let every city and district, there is a strong rebel element, be placed martial law of the most rigid character without delivery. Wherever there is evident that the inhabitants of a district the guerillas in any way, let them to military punishment and their to compensate for the losses men. Let every man who assists marriding hands understand that by so forfeits life and property without There is no policy or humanity in measures to cure a disease so terrible burned off or cut off. We have reason to believe that the rebel leaders begun a guerilla warfare in this State, there are wealthy rebels in this city in the secret of the whole plan, and Morgan, Wood, and Scott, by money by information. We have no doubt that pass between the guerillas and their every night. We call upon General Dupont and Governor Johnson to out these scoundrels immediately, and to all rebel communication There much lenity and forbearance al- and the safety of every Union man in and in Tennessee is imperiled by it. manners to think of winning over rebel leaders by-clemency. they drushed out. Let justice draw her and bring it down heavily.

Johnson doubtless thinks these blus- threats about seizing property will like a charm on the "wealthy rebels" and the surrounding country, as is frighten the timid into a confession of sentiment

The War in the Southwest.

letter to the Memphis Appeal, from Corinth, May 15, says:

have at last reached that stage of the however; when the final issue must be The decisive conflict cannot be avoided bager. A fight, then, must be here, or here, soon, that will go far towards de- the great struggle, whether we are to hewers of wood and drawers of to we hate, or whether we are to All the available resources of the and Northwest, both of men and money, concentrated before us. Defeat would destruction. Retreat, worse. For it involve all alike in irremediable ruin degrace. Fight, then, they must, and before the summer solstice is over. And result of that fight it depends whether are to overrun their country or they ours. The issue is a great one. It the end of the war. Everything de- upon it. Hence Halleck's hesitation of Government. If he is whipped here, as pubtiess will be, and his whole army is pieces, not only will all the country of us be open to our victorious army. all the land will go up such a how has never been heard from any

Destruction of Cotton in the South.

following is a copy of a dispatch, dated Moore,

, May 8th, received in Richmond May 9th.

J. P. Benjamin: The Governor of Lon- to inform you that all the Mississippi river up to the month has been burns, and all on its is ready for the torch. He issued mation ordering its destruction in the it could not be removed into the into. but the spontaneous action of the people participated his order. We have traveled Red and Ouachita rivers since the fall Orleans, and find the sentiments of supposititious to destroy the whole ther than permit a pound to fall into of the enemy. The capital is fixed at Opelousas.

this, if necessary, for the information of the people.

I. O. Manning, A. D. C.

and returned.

--Eleven Negroes to measure. Wm. Ballard and Robt upon, of Montgomery, escaped from endeworing to make their way enemy's lines about New rever, but cluded to return. They were sent and hired out yesterday. The he thankful that the sober, sec- occurred to them, and that they not now in Yankee hands--Lynchburg

Richmond Dispatch. Monday morning...May 28, 1862. The War news.

We may look upon the work which is to terminate in the conquest, or successful defence of the capital of the South, as actually commenced. The frock of the despot is now near her temple door, and his armed legion are within cannon range of the Executive emanation itself. The frequent skirmishes that have taken place, and are continually occurring, are but the faint murmuring of the turbulent storm that is soon to burst upon us.--There is no want of confidence in the result — The general belief is, that our defence will not only be successful, but glorious. Our people are hopeful and sanguine; and the Government, when it resolved never to surrender the capital without a desperate resistance, did more to elevate itself in public estimation than anything it has accomplished since the commencement of the war.

The reports in reference to the skirmishing that has taken place around the city are, as might be expected, various and conflicting; so much so that no two accounts concur. Even the exact locality of the fight on Saturday is difficult to determine, to one not familiar with the region of country where it occurred. As well as we have been able to learn, the engagement was near the Meadow Bridge, over the Chickahominy, and between the Horse Swamp and the month of Brooke creek. Our casualties in this skirmish were slight, but we have not been able to obtain a list of them.

About 9 o'clock another brisk engagement was commenced on the New Bridge Road, near New Bridge, some nine miles below the city. Our forces in this fight consisted of Semmee's brigade, composed of the 6th and 10th Louisiana, the 10th Georgia, and 15th Virginia regiments. The first named regiment was picketed at or near the bridge, and was attacked by a superior force of the enemy, but held its position. The fight lasted for several hours, and during its progress about forty were wounded in the fifth Louisiana, among them Lieuts. Johnson and Steinman, the former in the arm and the latter in the breast.

Yesterday, as far as we are informed, matters were quiet along our entire lines, nothing occurring to disturb the quiet which usually precedes the storm. It may be that before this reaches the reader, the salvos of artillery and the rattle of musketry will fall upon the ears of our citizens. It is unnecessary for us to caution them to maintain their calmness and composure. They have for more than a week been looking for active operations, and as a relief from suspense they rather desire than dread an engagement.

Late in the afternoon, and after the above was put in type, rapid discharges of artillery were distinctly heard below the city. The cause of the firing, or its result, we have not learned.

We have no late advices from Corinth. The last dispatch from that point announced an anticipated general engagement on Thursday last, between the forces of Beauregard and Halleck. From the fact that nothing has been received from that quarter, we infer that the expected fight did not occur. All accounts concur in stating that the decisive struggle must soon commence, and it is highly probable that the fate of Richmond and the great Mississippi Valley will be decided within the same week.

Another victory in the Valley.

It was announced yesterday early in the day that a dispatch had been received, giving intelligence of a victory over the enemy by the forces under Gen. Jackson. Upon inquiry at the Departments, we learned that no official information of an engagement had been received, but that it was generally believed that our forces had encountered a body of the enemy at Front Royal, in Warren county, and had routed them, capturing several pieces of artillery, a large quantity of ordnance stores, and a considerable number of prisoners.

From a gentleman who left Staunton yesterday morning we learn that a courier from the army of Gen. Jackson arrived at that point on Saturday evening, and brought dispatches to Gen. Johnson, substantially confirming the above statement. Information received from private sources deemed entirely worthy of credit, assure us that Gen. Jackson was within four miles of Front Royal on Friday morning, and the town was occupied by about 1,500 Federal troops. We presume that it was this force with which he had the engagement reported, and the hope is reasonably entertained that he had succeeded in bagging the whole party. There is no probability that "old Stonewall" will permit the Yankees to stagnate during their sojourn in the Valley, if he is permitted to continue his operations against them.

We learn from a gentleman who left Winchester in the early part of last week, and succeeded in flanking the Yankee pickets, that the unscrupulous scamps have commenced a system of incendiarism in that town and the counties of Jefferson and Clarke. During the week they burned the Medical College in Winchester, in which was deposited the carcass of John Brown's worthless son, who met his deserved fate at Harper's Ferry. Denning's regiment of Cincinnati Dutch, which rendered itself notorious in Hampshire co. last winter, by burning and wantonly destroying everything within reach, had gone down into Clarke and Jefferson, and from lights continually observed in that direction, from Winchester, it was believed that they were indulging their favorite mode of warfare, by applying the torch to the property of defenceless citizens. A few evenings before our informant left Winchester, a brilliant light was noticed in the direction of Charleston, and apprehensions were entertained that the town had been fired by the desperadoes

A brave officer wounded.

We regret to learn that Capt. T. L. Rosser, of the 2d company Washington Artillery, was wounded in the skirmish at Mechanicsville on Saturday morning. He had command of his own and other artillery on the occasion. After fighting for some time, and while engaged in posting a piece to protect it from the enemy's fire, he was struck by the fragment of a shell, which tors the flesh from his right arm, causing a severs lacerated wound. His horse was also shot under him. About this time the order came for our force to fall back, and the artillery withdrew from the field in beautiful style, in the face of the fire of the enemy. In this engagement, it is perhaps unnecessary to add, the Washington Artillery maintained the high reputation it has won in many previous engagements. Capt. Rosser is now in the city at the house of Dr. Gibson, on

Franklin street

A Confederate ship Rescued from her captors.

The Mobile Advertiser, of the 20th, publishes a telegram from Charleston, which we have no recollection of having seen in any other quarter. It states that the captain and crew of the Charleston ship Emily St. Pierre, captured some time ago by the blockaders off Charleston harbor, rose on their captors, who were taking the vessel to New York, overpowered the Yankee prize crew who had been placed in charge of her, and carried the vessel back to Liverpool.

Mr. Adams, the United States Minister to England, on learning of her arrival, demanded from the British Government the restoration of the vessel.

The security of the statement above made we have no means of determining, but hope it may be correct. We have observed nothing with reference to it in any Northern news that has reached us.

Contributions.

The Ladies' Defence Association has received the following contributions from the ladies of Smithfield: From Lieut. Col. F. H. Archer, $670; from Lieut. Paul Carrington, of Arkansas, $50.

To the owners of Horses and wagons.

In all human probability the next few days will witness, in the immediate vicinity of Richmond, one of the most desperate conflicts of which we have any record. It is within the power of the citizens of this city to contribute greatly to the relief of the sufferings of those who may be wounded in the impending battle. There are hundreds of good harness horses, and comfortable carriages and spring-wagons, that are doing nothing. When the fight does commence, let these be brought into service, and let them be sent to the field in charge of careful drivers, to bring off the unfortunate wounded. Many valuable lives may be thus saved, and much suffering salivated. This much is due from the citizens of Richmond to the soldiers who are periling their lives in its defence. A single horse should not be permitted to remain in the stable while the battle is raging or a wounded than remains upon the field.

Yankees in Monroe.

Intelligence has reached this city by passengers coming through, that about eighty of the Yankee cavalry made their appearance at Sweet Springs, Monroe county, on Wednesday last, and left after searching the Post-Office and robbing the mail.

They told the citizens they only came to inform them that they were under the Government of Pierpont, and that there was a sufficient force in the neighborhood to protect the loyal citizens, and enforce obedience to their Government.

Recovering.

We see it stated in the Lynchburg Republican, of the 24th inst., that Maj Jas C. Campball, of the 48th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, who was dangerously wounded in the late battle near McDowell, in Highland county, is rapidly improving. He was severely wounded in the breast by a piece of shell.--The Major is at his home in Abingdon.

[for the Richmond Dispatch]a thrilling Incident of the War.

On Saturday, May 24th, 1862, in the venerable and well-known county of Hanover, a regiment of Yankee cavalry, armed with swords, pistols, lances, and warlike instruments of every description, designed to waylay, murder and otherwise injure the Confederates, indulged in an advance movement from the Old Church, on the county road, and after driving in the Confederate pickets, made a desperate charge over a small ravine, and succeeded in capturing two diminutive cow-minders, the property of Dr. Price After this gallant exploit, "bearing their blushing honors thick upon them," the regiment fell back triumphantly, the little contrabands bringing up the rear. They had proceeded only about two miles, or more, when, becoming dissatisfied with their position in the Yankee army, and remembering with regret "the loved ones at home," the unlucky captives took the first opportunity which presented itself of evincing their dissatisfaction by beating a most precipitate retreat home wards, in a fortunate moment, when their captors' eyes were turned in another direction

All is now quiet. No more warlike demonstrations have since been made by the enemy in this quarter. Veritas.

Camp near Richmond, May 22, 1862.

To the Editors of the Dispatch.

In you issue of the 15th of May, I find a statement to the effect that a member of the Lynchburg Artillery was taken prisoner at Williamsburg, and afterwards sent North in preference to coming South. As the old "Latham Battery" is the only one raised in Lynchburg that participated in the fight, I would state that it is not correct that any member went North. Two of them were taken prisoners on the retreat, and both were paroled. Wm H. Bell, one of them, was in the fight (with the writer of this) all day Monday, and was completely broken down. The order was imperative that no one was to ride on the retreat, so he had to lay down by the way and submit to his fate. The other. Thos. Fox, was not in the fight, (as but two of our guns were engaged,) but he was sick and unable to travel, and no means of conveyance had been provided for either the wounded, sick, or broken-down soldiers on the way; but this was unavoidable. Yet the poor soldier, who, weary and sick, falls by the war, should not be charged with disloyalty Trusting this may find a place in the Dispatch, whose presence has once again become a welcome, messenger in our camp.

I remain, &c., W. S. K.

Do you want any Eggs?

--The following good story is told by the correspondent of the Chicago Post writing from one of Commodore Foote's gunboats:

"The towboat Aips yesterday dropped down to a position alongside of the Carondelet for the purpose of taking in tow a barge of coal and removing it farther up the stream. It presented a fair mark to the rebels, and they, unable to resist the temptation, blazed away. Some half dozen shells flew around her in a manner not calculated to give those on board assurance of personal safety. A day or two previous the boat had been at Cairo, and a cabin boy on board had purchased several dozen eggs. He then regarded the opportunity as an excellent one to offer the then fruit' for sale to the men on the gunboat.--Seizing his basket he boarded the miniature man-of-war. As he reached the spar deck a shot struck close beside the boat. The boy heeded it not, but halling the first sailor who chanced to be on deck, drawlingly inquired, 'Do you want any eggs?' 'Get out of this,' was the reply, 'don't you see they are shooting at us?' 'Do you want any eggs?' was the only notice the boy gave the timely warning. 'D — n your eggs. I tell you no; don't you see they are shooting at us?' 'Let 'em shoot,' said the imperturbable youth; 'do you want any eggs?' At this critical moment a mortar beside the gunboat was discharged.--The concussion broke every egg in the basket. For the first time he was moved. 'Confound their pictures!' he ejaculated, 'there's a dollar and a half gone to smash, anyhow.'"

Transportation of the dead

--As the peculiar circumstances of the times renders this sad duty to our friends often necessary, and generally very expensive, or even impracticable, to procure iron coffins for the purpose, we would call attention to the following simple means by which it can be effected, at any season, at a very moderate cost. Take any wooden coffin, and after the body is deposited in it, wrap it in a cotton cloth which has been perfectly saturated in tar that has been heated to a boiling point. This renders it even more impervious to the escape of official than the best iron coffin. This can be placed in a box of much less size than those usually used where charcoal is introduced to all the space between the coffin and the box to absorb the effluvia.

If it is wished to show the face of the deceased, glass can be inserted in the lid, and covered with paper so that the cloth can be cut and the features exposed, the paper preventing the tar from interfering with the glass. The writer his seen bodies transported long distances in this manner, in warm weather, without the least inconvenience--Macon Messenger.

Papers from all parts of Georgia represent the wheat crop as greatly improving in appearance, and promising a good yield.

The Yankees captured at City Point have been sent to Salisbury, N. C.

Married.

At Union Station church, on Thursday, the 22d inst., by the Rev Mr. Christian, James H. Coghill to Miss S. Addie Kelly, third daughter of Nelson Kelly, Esq., all of Henrico county.

Lynchburg papers please copy.

Died,

On the 65th inst., Judge Robert Duncan, 1st Lieut Co. D, 19th regiment Mississippi Volunteers.

His funeral will take place from the residence of Mr. Peter G. Trueheart, corner of Franklin and 231 streets, this morning at 10 o'clock. His friends and comrades in arms, and the Masonic fraternity, are respectfully invited to attend without further notice.

After a very brief illness, Mr. James D. Thomas, in the 31d year of his age.

The friends and acquaintances of the family are requested to attend the funeral services, which will take place at St. James Church (Dr. Peterkin's,) this afternoon at 6 o'clock

Obituary.

No nobler sacrifice has been offered up in this unholy war than that of Francis H. Abbot, son of the late Wm. R. Abbot, of Georgetown, D C, aged 21 years, who was killed while gallantly charging upon the enemy in the battle near Williamsburg on Monday, the 5th of May. He was one of the first among the volunteers of the District who manfully refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Federal Government, and soon afterwards came to Virginia and entered the ranks of the "Alexandria Raflement" and from that day was ever among the foremost in the discharge of his duty, and fell fighting, as his Colonel said, "in the front of his company — a brave and trusty soldier, and a son of whom any mother might be proud"

With a heart as noble and generous as it was brave and true, he ever won the regard of his companions and the esteem of his officers. As a son, his devotion to his widowed mother ever spoke his eulogy, and the can from hellions soul exclaim, "I thank my God upon every remembrance of thee."

From his early youth he had been a devoted member of the Episcopal Church, and as a soldier of the Cross he thought as manfully under the banner of his salvation as under the banner of his country, and though his crave may be unmarked and the ba-of affection never bedew it, yet the hearts of those he loved will make many pilgrimages to the spot where.

"He sleeps his last sleep, He has fought his last battle"

Special Notices.

Amusements.

Lost, Strayed, &c.

Ealr Estate for Sale.

Personal.

Wants,

Substitute Notices.

Military Notices. Headqr's Dep't Henrico, May 25th, 1862.

an Appeal to the people of Richmond.

In order to obviate, if possible, the disagreeable necessity of impressing hands for Government work, an appear is again made to the people.

All hands voluntarily offered will be paid one dollar per day, payment made weekly if required so long.

John H. Winder, my 26--1w Brigadier-General. Notice--first Alabama Hospital.

--All patients registered at this Hospital and remaining in private quarters, are ordered to report immediately, either in person or through some regular practitioner of medicine, military or civil. Falling to do so, they will be published as deserters.

By order of Surg. Geo. C. S. A. J. D. Morgan, Asst. Surg P. A. U. S. in charge. my 26--1t* Second Alabama Hospital, Richmond, Va., May 26, 1862.

all soldiers registered in this Hospital as out-patients will report here within twenty four hours, or they will be advertised as deserters.

By order of Surgeon General. Paul Delacy Baker, my 26--1t* Surg. P. A. C. S, in charge. Third Alabama Hospital Richmond, May 26, 1862

all-out-patients of this Hospital will report to me within twenty-four hours; failing to do so, they will be advertised us deserters

By order of the Surgeon General. C. J. Clark, my 26--1t* Surg. P. A. C. S., in charge. Headqr's W. L. Cavalry, May 26, 1862.

attention, Caskie Rangers — All members of this command absent from camp without leave from the commanding officer, will be published in to-morrow's Dispatch.

By order my 26--1t Robert A. Caskie, Capt.

W. B. Lindsay will be pleased to confer with members of the quondam Dickinson's Artillery. Those joining Bayly's Heavy, Artillery will receive $50 county, and two months back pay. Apply at the corner of

12th

and

Franklin streets

W. R. Lindsay, my 26--6t* Recruiting Sergeant. For local defence

--Having received authority to raise a company for local defence at the Seat of Government, those wishing to enlist will apply immediately at the Recruiting Office on

Broad

, between

6th

and

7th

streets, from 8 A. M. to 2 P. M., and from 4 to 6 P. M. my 26--7t*

Attention, Marylanders!

--The undersigned is alone authorized to recruit for the Maryland Line.

The attention of all Marylanders is called to this organization, and to the necessity of perfecting it as speedily as possible.

Under the late Conscription Act, Marylanders who are enlisted for twelve months, are entitled to their discharge at the expiration of that time; and to such discharged men a bounty of $50 will be paid upon their re-enlistment, and the option given them of entering either arm of service — artillery, cavalry, or infantry, and of electing their own officers.

Transferred men from other regiments, under General Orders No. 3, and Special Orders No. 107, from the War Department, are entitled to the same rights of service and election; and by the act of Congress authorising such, transfers can only be made to the Maryland Line.

George H. Kyle,

No. 14 Pearl street

, Major and Recruiting Officer Maryland Line my 20--5teod(if)* Com'r Watson's Office. Richmond, 24th May, 1862

In the District Court of the Confederate States of America for the Eastern District Virginia--

Captain George N. Hollins, a commissioned officer of the Confederate States Navy, and late commander of the prize steamer the "Saint Nicholas," on behalf as well of the Confederate States as of himself and of the officers and crew of the prize steamer aforesaid...Libeliant, against in Admiralty.

The schooner "Margaret," of New York, her tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo. In Admiralty.

The same...Libellant, against in Admiralty.

The schooner "Mary Pearce," of Boston, her tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo in Admiralty.

Under the orders in these cases, entered the 5th of May, 1862, I am directed to ascertain the names of the officers and crew of the said steamer Saint Nicholas, at the time of the capture of the said schooner Margaret, and of the said schooner Mary Pearce, and the names of all other persons who may have been aboard the said steamer at the time of the capture aforesaid, and aiding and assisting in said capture, and the rank and nature of the services, as far as can be ascertained, rendered by each--first giving notice of this reference by advertisement in the Richmond Dispatch for at least ten days, and that he make report to the Court with all convenient speed.

Wm. F. Watson, my 26--20; Commissioner.

Auction Sales.

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Richmond Dispatch. Monday morning...., May 26, 1862. To him who Despairs. Tho' the roofs be on fire — tho' our rivers run blood, Tho' their flags on the bill, on, the plain, on the flood; Tho' their bayonets bristle, and abouts read the sir-- Faint heart, do not atter the cry of despair! There'd moon looked down on the field of the slain, The gaunt vulture soar after the desolate plain; By the love once that martied in glory it, there, Arouse from thy stupor, and never despair! We have mountains that lift their gray peeks to the skin-- We have reform whose crack to the war-yell in piles-- We have sinewy arms-- we have son's that will dare-- While these are our safeguards, why, doubter, despair. The great God it just, and be blesses the right, He makes the weak rise like a glint in might. When he strikes for his borne and the tender once there-- There's hope in each blow — there's shame in despair. Then, shoulder to shoulder, push with a tread, That will shake the loose earth that is heaped o'er the deed; Bear the torch and the sword to the proud tyrant's lair. Let the wold battle about drown the wail of despair. Despair ! while the old man can flourish? his staff-- Despair ! while the boy at the invader can laugh-- Despair ! while our daughters and wives kneel in prayer, And our mothers scream out, "don't despair.-- don't despair." Ge, preach to the rock on the lone ocean shore, And tell it to battle the billows no more-- While there's life there is hope, for the death-blow prepare; It is glotions to battle — it is base to despair ! An Impressive epistle.

A young woman, named Mary Moore, poisoned herself at Trowbridge, on the 8th, because her sweetheart had intimated to her that, in consequence of some alleged bad conduct on her part, he intended to leave home, and wander as an outcast, and beg his bread. Before taking the poison, she wrote the following letter to him: "Trowbridge, March 8, 1862. My Dear William — By the time you read this, I shall, in all probability, he cold in death. Do not, I beseech you, cherish Ill will and hatred towards me even in my grave. I love you more than I do my life-- If I live, it must be without you, but what comfort have I of my life. It is very wrong and wicked, I know, to wish to rush headlong into the presence of my Maker. But what can I do ? My very soul recoils at the prospect of death

My hopes and fears start up alarmed and o'er Life's narrow verge, look down — on what; A fathomless shays — a dread eternity, New surely noise.

Yet, William, could I be assured of forgiveness. I should die comparatively happy. I would brave everything for your sake.

With thee I hoped to pass the pleasing day, Till in thins arms an age of joy were past; Then, old with love, insensibly decay. and on thy besom gently breathe my last

I have forever forfeited your love, I know, by my conduct towards you. I am not, nor have I ever been, as bad as you think I have *** You have been kind and good to me, more than many would have been May the Load reward you for it. *** You did once love me. O, William, it is my dying request — do not spurn it, turn to the Lord while yet there is time. You have not long to live, make the most of the time you have. Stay at home for my sike, and be as happy as you can there. Do not reproach yourself for my death I deserve it; but do think as kindly as you can of me *** Once more let me entreat you to forgive me. Good bye, my dearest William; tongue cannot tell how much I love you May you be happy and forget me. If it is possible *** I will appear to you after death, and assure you of my never-dying love [The following is written in deceater's blood;] Good bye, my dearest, forever Yours, Mary Moore Good bye; be happy, William. for my sake" It appears that in June 1869, the deceased's sweetheart wrote an extraordinary declaration of his attachment to the deceased, upon which he called upon the host of Heaven to witness "this solemn and binding oath, " "that he would devote his life and everything connected therewith to her service" This epistle is written in blood, and concludes, "Signed by Alfred Will am Pitney, in his own heart's blood" At the inquest on Tuesday, the jury returned a verdict that the deceased came by her death from the effects of landan om administered by her own hand, but there was no evidence to show what state of mind she was in at the time-- English paper.

Railroads. &c.

Business Notices.

Professional Cards.

Exchange Brokers.

For Rent and Lease.

Runaways. Twenty-five dollars reward.

Left my house, on

Grace street

, between

7th

and

8th

, on yesterday evening, my woman Polly. She is about 35 years old; dark complexion, and spare made. She carried off her calld, (a male,) some 7 or 8 months old, but quite delicate. I have no doubt she is concealed in the city, as she has a number of relatives hore. The above reward will be paid for her apprehension and delivery at my office, on Shockoe Slip, or secured in jail.

my 24--6 Wm. R. Pugh.

$25 reward.

--Left my premises on the 2th inst, my man William, (calling himself Plummer.) Said man is a dark ginger-cake color, about 5 feet high, 25 years old, no beard; no scar remembered; had on a light suit of clothes, black oil-cloth cap, trimmed with red flannel; was raised in the city of Richmond, and left my house with the intention of going to Richmond, by way of Richmond and Danville railroad. William is a good brick and rock mason.

Wm. S. Moseley.

Address: Hed Cak Grove, Charlotte co.,

Va. my 28--3t

$50 reward.

--I will pay the above reward for the arrest and delivery to me of a man calling himself John Manning. Said Manning is 25 or 30 years old, stout but straight figure, 5 feet 6 or 10 inches high, of fair skin, ruddy complexion, light eyes, dark, sandy hair, inclined to curl, and was, when he deserted, well dressed in a gray sack coat and dark pantaloons. He had a recent paper from C. S. Court of his intention to be naturalized He is doubtless lurking about Richmond, endeavoring to hire himself as a substitute. He is an Irishmen.

W. T. Patton,

Lt.-Col. Commanding 7th Reg Va, 1st Brigade, Longstreet's Division.

my 21--6t

$20 reward.

--The above reward will be paid for any information that will lea to the recovery of my boy Daniel. He is 15 years of age, of light complexion, five feet six inches high, and was last seen at Williamsburg, Va, on the 4th, May He was unwell, and may have gone with the wagons of another brigade. Address

J. R. Seay,

Co. C, 9th Reg't S. C. V.,

Longstreet a Division, Richmond, Va

my 20--6t*

$50 reward.

--Left my residence on

Franklin street

, between

7th

and

8th

, on Saturday, 10th instant, my negro man Ralph. The above reward will be paid for his arrest and delivery to me, or placed in any jail so that I can get him. He is about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, light mulatto, high cheek nones, and a full suit of nearly straight hair, out closely.

my 19--12t* A. L. Ellett.

$50 reward.

--Ranaway from the owner, on

Second street

, near Main, in this city, on Monday night, the 12th inst, a negro girl, Ann Jackson. She is of a bright, brown color, and of about the age of 14, and 5 ½ feet in height. It is believed she was enticed away by a free boy of the name of Wilson Page, and is now in or near the city. The above reward will be paid for her arrest and return to us.

Barksdale & Bro.,

Corner

Cary

and

13th streets

, up stairs.

my 14--2w

Notice.

--Ranaway from the subscriber, near Dayton, Marengo county, Ala., my dining-room servant, James, sometimes calling himself James Clarke, a bright mulatto, about twenty-five year of age, slightly bowlegged; was raised in Richmond, Va., by a Mr. Totty. His parents still live there — James was in the army last summer at Winchester. A reasonable reward will be paid for his apprehension and confinement in jail so that I get him again.

my 10--1m* Edward Baptist.

$25 reward.

--Ranaway from my store, on Tuesday morning, 15th instant, my Negro Boy, Lewis Washington. He is a bright mulatto, thick set, about 5 feet high, 15 years old; had on when last seen a brown sack coat, brown pants, and a military cap. The above reward will be paid for his delivery to me.

S. S. Cottrell,

ap 2--ts

No. 139 Main street

Personal.

Banks & small notes.

Military Notices. Headqr's 4th Va Cavalry, near Meadow's Bridge, May 21, 1862.

A Number of men belonging to this Regiment are absent without leave It they do not join the Regiment at once, their names, and the circumstances under which they left, will be published.

By order of Col. B. H. Robertson. Walter K. Martin, Adjutant my 24--3t Notice.

--All out-patines registries in the Benner Hospital, will report within 24 hours, either in person or through some regular practitioner of medicine. military or civil. Failing to do which, they will be advertised as deserters.

Wm. Alex Thom P. A. C. S., my 24--3t* Surgeon Banner Hospital. Henrico Artillery. Ritter's battery.

All men absent from this company without leave are hereby ordered to report themselves forthwith for duty, at the camp at Fairfield Base Course, or they will be advertised and treated as deserters.

The following parties are deserters — for whose apprehension and delivery to any officer a liberal reward will be paid:

Peter Brennan, Jas. De Courcey, Anthony Doherty, Patrick Doherty, Thos. Gleason, John Grady, Jas. A. Harvey, Martin Harvey, Alex's Henderson, Timothy Sullivan, John R. Woodward, Patrick Hartnett, Jerry Lyons, Roger Meghan, Patrick Maloney, Bernard McDearmon, Daniel Murphy, Simon O'Neill, Michael Sullivan, Thos Welsh.

Meghan and Maloney took away horses belonging to the battery.

W. B. Ritter, Captain my 23--3* Com'g Company. Attention ! Marylanders.

The undersigned is authorized by the Secretary of War to enlist a Partisan Company of Marylanders, to be attached to the Maryland Line, under the orders of Brigadier-General Stewart; to be enlisted for the war, and to receive the same bounty, ($50,) pay, &c, as other volunteers.

Horses will be furnished by private contribution to those who are enable to procure them, and the Government will furnish arms and equipments where needed.

Native or adopted citizens of Maryland now in the service, in any regiment other than the 1st Maryland regiment, who wish to join this arm of service can be transferred under General Order No. 8. Special Order S. O. 167, by application to Major Geo H. Kyle, or to

G. M. Emack, Lt. C. S. A. and Recruiting Officer. my 23--1w*

No. 14 Pearl st

, Richmond. Partisan Troop for Kentucky and Tennessee.

--I am authorized to raise a Partisan Troop for operations in Kentucky and Tennessee. Those who wish to join in this "dashing," "dare-devil" business, and serve their country like good and true men, can do so by applying to me. --There will be $50 county granted by the Government, and the troop will be well mounted and thoroughly equipped ! None but sound, good, dashing fellows need apply; for, as the service will be chivalrous, adventurous, and dangerous, none but unexceptionable young men will be received. Those who wish to emulate Morgan and his troop have now an opportunity by applying to

Capt Wm H Rowan, No. 12, Columbian Hotel,

13th street

. my 23--6t* Special. Notice.

In consequence of not being able to purchase horses in Richmond, I have deemed it best to make Lynchburg the point of render your for my company of Partisan Rangers. Additional members will be received. The attention of those desiring to join my company is called to the fact that they will be furnished with horses and equipments, and the usual bounty of $50 will be paid. My office, on Bank, near

10th street

, will be kept open, where transportation to place of rendezvous can be had. I am anxious to go into service at an early day; hence, those who feel disposed to join my company will please report at once.

my 23--6t* L R. Smoot. Maryland Line.

--I am authorized to raise an Infantry Company for the Mary lend Line. Citizens of Maryland desiring to unite themselves with the line, are invited to join me.--The company will elect its own officers I can be found for the present at the Pay Office of the Confederate Forces, corner of

Bank

and

10th streets

. Bounty and transportation furnished without delay.

Campbell. W. Pinckney. my 22--131stM* Of Maryland. Partisan Rangers.

--Authorized by the Secretary of War. According to the recent act of Congress, creating a "Partisan Corp," to muster into service a squadron of two or more companies of Mounted Randers of immediate action, I call upon my friends from the country lying between the "Blue Ridge" and the "Occoquan," to unite with me in this favored corps, as by previous experience as a Cavalry officer, engaged for twelve months in similar service with a knowledge of the field of operations. I believe we may contribute much to the benefit of our cause.

Communications may be addressed me at Gordonsville, Orange county Va, Recruits will be provided for at that Station.

Bounty. $50. Pay, &c, as Cavalry.

Ed. B. Powell. Late Captain Co. F, 6th Va. Cavalry. my 21--6t* Headquarters Co F, 23d Va. Vols, army of the Valley.

deserters. --Private John T. Warrener, of Company F, after receiving his bounty and furlough, has never returned. Said Warrener is about 21 years of age; medium size; red, fluffy face; curly hair. and altogether has a had countenance. Up to the time of re-enlistment, be had been of very little service to his company. He is supposed to be lurking in the neighborhood of Rockett's.

On the 5th of May, private S. P. Johnson, aged 36 years. He, by his previous course of conduct, seems entirely indisposed to serve his country. Whatever is one the above-named men will be paid for their delivery at camp.

Other members of this corps abrupt on sick furloughs, will report immediately at headquarters-- It unable by sickness, they will send a surgeon's certificate to hat effect.

my 20--14t* T. S Michael, Captain. Maryland Partisan corps.

The attention of Maryland and District men is called to this service, to which they are so particularly adapted, and which will give them the best opportunity to avenge the insulins offered to our glorious old State.

Already three entire companies of the 1st Maryland regiment have joined, and a majority from several of the other companies have requested to be transferred.

This corps will be independent of all other commands, save that of the General commanding the Department of Virginia, and will act as nearly as possible on the frontiers of Maryland.

As the Conscription act dose not apply to Marylanders, they occupy the same position. as though it bad never been passed, and hence all 12 months men can claim transfer to this corps, if re- enlisted; or, if not re-enlisted, can be discharged upon or after the expiration of their term of service.

Horses will be furnished those who desire to join the Cavalry and are unable to provide their own.

In addition to the pay, rations, and bounty, (which are the same as in regular service,) the value of all capture from the enemy will be distributed among the men.

The corps will be composed of Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry, and commanded by a distinguished officer of the army.

Individuals or companies desirous of joining the command will apply to

J. A. Weston, my 14--ts

15 Pearl street

Attention, Martin's battery !

--All member of this command who are absent without leave, will report at once at "Camp Lee," or they will be reported to the Provost Guard and arrested as deserters.

Persons wishing to join the company will apply to Serg't Pulliam, at the Recruiting office, corner of

Bank

and

12th streets

S. Taylor Martin, Captain. ap 31--ts Attention, light Artillery.

--I am authorized by the Governor to receive substitutes in my company of Light Artillery, and to master them in as they come. Those, therefore, who desire to procure substitutes, or who wish to become substitutes, should call at once at my headquarters, Johnson & Guigon's office, under the Whig Building.

A. B. Guigon, mh 28--3t Captain Light Artillery. Special notice.

--Persons belonging to the 8th and 14th Alabama, and the 14th Louisiana regiments--Pryor's Brigade — will report at once to their respective Regimental Headquarters. Otherwise they will be published and prosecuted as deserters.

By order of Brig. Gen. Payor: my 19--7t* Jno. E. Jones. A D. C. Partisan Rangers.--

My Battalion of Mounted Rangers will be ready to take the field in two weeks. Only one more company required. Those wishing to unite will please address me immediately.

Lt. Col. W. C. Claiborne, my 10--ts Richmond. Va. Maryland Partisan corps.

--It is proposed to organize a Partisan corps of Maryland men, to act as nearly as possible on the frontier of our own State.

The corps to consist of Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry, and to be under command of Colonel Walter H. Jenifer, who has accepted the same.

Horses will be furnished to those who desire to join the cavalry if unable to provide their own.

The Secretary of War having decided that Marylanders are exempt from the provisions of the Conscription act, all twelve months men from that State call claim transfer to this corps at or after the expiration of their term of service

Pay, rations and bounty same as in regular service.

J A. Weston. my 10--ts

15 Pearl street

. Military Notices. Exemption.

The following General Order is published by authority of the Secretary of War:

War Department,

Adj't and Insp's Gen.'s Office,

Richmond, May 19, 1862.

General Orders, No. 37.

I. The following act and regulations in reference thereto, are published for the information of all concerned:

an act to exempt certain persons from enrollment for service in the armies of the Confederate States.

Section I: The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all persons who shall be held to be unfit for military service under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of War--all in the service or employ of the Confederate States--all judicial and executive officers of he Confederate or State Government — the members of both Houses of Congress and the Legislatures of the several States and their respective officers — all clerks of the officers of the state and Confederate Governments allowed by law — all engaged in carrying the mails — all ferrymen on post routes — all pilots and persons engaged in the marine service on river and railroad routes of transportation — telegraphic operators and ministers of religion in the regular discharge of ministerial duties — all engaged in working front mines, furnaces, and foundries — all journeymen printers actually employed in printing newspapers — all presidents and professors of colleges and academies, and all teachers having as many as twenty scholars --superintendents of the public hospitals, lunatic asylums, and the regular nurses and attendants therein, and the teachers employed in the institutions for the deaf and dumb and blind — in each apothecary store now established and doing business, one apothecary in good standing, who is a practical druggist — superintendents and operatives in wool and cotton factories who may be exempted by the Secretary of War, shall be, and are hereby, exempted from military service in the armies of the Confederate States.

Approved April 21, 1862.

II. By the above act of Congress, the following classes of persons are exempt from enrollment for military service:

Justices of the Peace; Sheriff and Deputy Sheriffs; Clerks and Deputy Clerks, allowed by law; Masters and Commissioners in Chancery, district and State Attorneys; Attorney General; Postmasters and Deputy Postmasters, and clerks allowed by law; Commissioners of Revenue, and foreigners who have not acquired domicil in the Confederate States.

III. The following are not exempt;

Militia officers not in actual service; persons exempt by State laws, but not by the above act; foreigners who have acquired domicil in the Confederate States.

IV. No persons other than those expressly named or property implied in the above act can be exempted, except by furnishing a substitute, exempt from military service in conformity with regulations already published, (General Orders No. 29;) and such exemption is valid only so long as the said substitute is legally exempt.

V. Persons who have furnished substitutes will receive their certificates of exemption from the Captains of companies, or the Commandants of camps, by whom the substitutes have been accepted. Other certificates of exemption will be granted by the enrolling officers only, who will receive full instructions in regard to the conditions and mode of exemptions. Applications for exemption cannot, therefore, be considered by the War Department.

By command of the Secretary of War.

S. Cooper.

Adj't and Insp'r Gen'l.

The following are the regulations concerning substitutes, above referred to:

General Orders. No. 29.

I. The following regulations concerning substitutes in the army are published by the direction of the Secretary of War:

1. Any non-commissioned officer or soldier not indebted to the Government, who wishes to procure a substitute, may obtain from his captain a permit for the proposed substitute to report himself at the camp of the company for examination; and such permit shall operate as a passport, but shall not entitle the holder to transportation at the expense of the Government.

2. It the substitute be exempt from military duty, and, on examination by a surgeon or assistant surgeon of the army, he pronounced sound and in all respects fit for military service, he shall be enrolled and mustered into service for three years, unless the war sooner terminate; and the non-commissioned officer or soldier procuring him shall thereupon be discharged, but shall not be entitled to transportation at the expense of the Government.

3. If a non-commissioned officer or soldier discharged by reason of a substitute be indebted to the Government, the officer granting the discharge shall be liable for the debt.

4. All pay and allowance due to the non-commissioned officer or soldier discharged shall go to the substitute at the next pay day.

5. Substitution shall not exceed one per month in each company, and shall be noted in the next morning report, master roll, and monthly return.

II. When any person liable to military duty under the act of Congress, but not mustered into service in any company, desires to furnish a substitute, he shall report himself, with the substitute, to the commandant of a camp of instruction, for recruits raised under the said act; and if the substitute be lawfully exempt from military duty, and, on examination by a surgeon or assistant surgeon, be pronounced sound, and in all respects fit for military service, he may be accepted and enrolled, and the person furnishing such a substitute may be discharged by the commandant of the camp. But no substitute shall be entitled to transportation or other allowance at the expense of the Government until so accepted and enrolled.

my 20--d1w.

Headqr's Dep't of Henrico.Richmond May 15th 1862General Orders, no.--

* * * * * *

I. At a General Court-Martial assembled at Richmond, Va., pursuant to Paragraph II, Special Orders No. 57, Headquarters Department Henrico, April 2d, 1862, were arraigned and tried--

1st. * * * * * *

2d. Captain Wm. F. McLean. of Company (A) 59th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, formerly known as the Ren McCulloch Rangers 2d Regiment Infantry, Wise Legion, upon the following charges and specifications (The specifications being so various and detailed are omitted in this order)

Charge first.

Exciting muting in a company in the service of the Confederate States, in violation of the 7th Article of War.

Charge Second

Fraudulent conversion to his own use of property belonging to others, which came into his possession by virtue of his office as Captain.

Charge Third

Allowing members of his company to leave the service without a proper discharge.

To which charges and specifications the accused pleaded Not Guilty, and the Court having maturely considered the evidence adduced, find the said Captain William F. McLean, as follows:

"On the first specification of the first charge, Guilty, except the words, 'addressed to him as Captain of said Company;' On the second specification of first charge, Guilty; On the first specification of-first charge, Not Guilty; On the fourth specification of first charge, Guilty; On the first charge, Guilty; On the first specification of second charge, Guilty; On the second specification of second charge, Not Guilty; On the third specification of second charge, Guilty; On the fourth specification of second charge, Not Guilty; On the second charge, Guilty; On the specification of third charge, Not Guilty; On the third charge, Not Guilty."

And the Court therefore sentences the said Captain Wm F. McLean "to be cashiered, and do order that his offence name, place of bode, and punishment, be published in the news papers of Richmond, Va, and New Orleans,

II. The proceedings, findings, and sentence of the Court in the foregoing case are hereby approved; and the said Captain Wm. F. McLean, of New Orleans La., ceases from this date to be an officer of the Confederate States Army.

* * * * * * * * *

By order of Brig.-Gen. John H Winder, Commanding, &c. L. R. Page, A. A. General. my 20--6t Notice.

--All members of the Allen Artillery absent with or without leave, will report immediately at Battery No. 3, or they will be published as deserters.

By order of T. P. Wilkinson, Captain Commanding Allen Artillery my 20--6t* Geo. W. Boss, O. S.

Real Estate for Sale.

Summer Resorts.

Dissolutions, &c.

Millinery.

Tobacco Dealers.

Cotton & wool Cards.

Packet lines.

Hardware, iron. "