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THE. STATE TOURNAL.RALEIGH, N. C. WEDNESMt f SEPimiBER - 3, 1862.
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WEDNESDAY, September 3, 1862.
Public Doccmext.--We return onr thanks to Hon.
A. EL Arlington, for a pamphlet copy of President
Davis' message and valuable accompanying docu-"
' men ts The following interesting facta are gleaned
from the reports of departments : ,
Ta the postal ' departments, the receipts for ten,
. months ending JmieOJiiSexceed those of the late
United Statesjfjsr the' same "time, $59,921, and the
cost of eervieeV Vds reduced by the sum of $1,515,
829. Jn the Treasury; np to the 1st of August, '62,
flthe recwpt were $302,655,196 and the. expenses
$328,748,830 te difference of $26,193,634 being
made up of various balauces to the credit of disburs
ing officeis, which are not yet paid- , The war tax ha
been by the several States as follows: North Caroli
na, $1,400,000'; Virginia, $2,125,000 ; Louisiana,
$2,500,000; Alabama, $3,000,000 ; Georgia, $434,
19 . Florid $225.374 : and MississinoL S 1.487.-
" A Vr f - f t-- T - it ' I W
467 niakme a total ot siu,ibO,yt). oouin uuroiina
has paidiier qtnta in the form of per cent, call ce
tificates Arkansas nd Texas have not been render
ed complete; ' North Carolina and Alabama have
overpaid their respective assessments. From the esti-
Ilia Lea ivr ox unjro- uivuw -- ...
that the monthly pay of the array is, fiel l and staff,
$220,225 ; 25 regiments of cavalry, $1,265,177 ; 100
companies of artillery, $485,152, and 350 regiments
4irftryra,221,Wi.&r 14,725,000 raUons for th
same, $6,600,481. TransporUtion, &c, $4,368,758 ;
pay lor norses 01 nou-couiuiuiuii uiui mw t".'
vates killed in battle, $25,000 ; subsistence bf prison-
' of war, $200,000 ; for the esuUishrneot, supply,
and those attending id hospitals, $537,500 ; Ordnance
.office,$2,200,000 ; Engineer. Bureau, $200,000 ; Post
orBje Department $744,251, tfor the P. M. General,
chiefs ofMJarcausV clerks; messengers and laborers,)
' for 'posUl rfffairs, $138,051 ; Navy Department, $1,
S25 ;. contingent expenses of Navy, $1,000.
'.. The Secretary of the Treasury alludes in his report
to the fearful prevalence of counterfeiting Confederate
, notes, and says:
" Under these circumstances it will be necessary to
change .many of the plates and to make nw issues.
The change .would bo more complete by dispensing
with, the variety of signatures which' are attiiched to
the tber notes. I am informed by the engravers that
' the signatures of, the Kegister and 1 reasurer might
be engraved An Jac simile, and printed, aud that by
stamping an elaborate engraving in colors on the back
of the note the security against counterfeits would be
1 greater ihafii it is at present. The expense of the is
sue would be diminished by dispensing with the nu
.' merous signing clerks, and its more prompt execu
.; tion would be secured. In order to make this change
the. authority of Congress is necessary. The laws
J against counterfeiting (if not already suffiient) must
, be made to embrace these notes. In this connection,
too, it is proper to bring to the notitj of Congress that
the penalties of the law, .while they apply to any
pers- foun I in 'po'ssession of. counterfeit bank notes,
with intent to alter ihein. do n t seem to embrace
notes which are comp' jtely"4illed up and ready for
circulation. .
A Patriotic dFfrcER.Lieuteuaut, James W.
Drauglin, of Edgecombe, formerly f. Capt. Idayo's
artillery, company, like many other vcryoit eel lent of
ficers, failed to be re-elected by his company when it
organized under the Conscript act.. i'llVdid not stitnd
off from the scrvioe'of liis cuuntry; because he could
not he an officer, but' immediately volunteered as a'
yrioate iii another company raised iu his county, al
though he had ample fortune to have hired a sub-
KtituU. . . ' , -i
This h an exa nple worthy- of imitation, and having
hear J of no other instance, jwe record this with spe-
- cial commendation. . . .
IIeukls ik CUs'SEetwi'T. The ful lowing placard,
according to the e-v xorK express, was posted about
the streets of New Haven on Wednesiy ntjrht :
- "Let the standard of the ConfederAte States be car
ried beyond th j boundaries of the Omfederate States
of 'America,' that we may dema'hd from the Federal
Government bur rights and ofir recognition and that
the traitor Lincoln shall knoul U us, while wc dictate
to him our terms."
Another was as follows:
If we arc drafted, shall be treacherous to the
' Government. ,
Southern Independence or Death."
The other : .
"Tne Federal army is njain defeated!
. . GOOD!
Long live Stonewall Jackson !
Down with Abolition sm I"
Gen". Stuart's lath Brilliant Achievement.
The Richmond IVhi of Aug. 28, has the following
account of General Stu irt's late brilliant achievement:
.On Friday Jast, Major .General J. E. IS. Stuart cros
sed Hazel river, at Wei ford's Ford, with abut three
thousand cavalry and prieepded to Waterloo bridge.
From thenco the command advanced to- Warrenton
and waited for, the column to close nj. The advance
guard was then snt f.(at Jbout live miles, and reported
everything quiet. Tljcvcolumn aain' moved forward,
and reached within a mi!o of Gitlett's Station', on the
Orange and. Alexandria' Railroad, alniut dark.
The enemy were completely surrounded and surpris
ed, and their whole force, consisting of about five
thousand men put to flight.
Quartermaster's and commissary stores, wagons,
tents, etc., of the estimated valua of several millions
$ dollars were destroyed by our troops. They also
captured three hundred and sixty-seven prisoners, in
cluding seventeen commissioned -officers, am mg whom
.are one Colonel and three Capt.jtins ; also Gen. Pope's
t.vo horses, his saddle, bridle, sword, uniform, his ser
vant and his quartermaster, (Capt-. Goulding,) and the
quarermaster a horses. Also, $60,000 in specie, and
$20,000 in Treasury notes, and a mail, containing of
ficial letters from Gen. Popeof the highest impor
tance, which are now in the hands of Gen. Lee.
About 4 o'clock, the enemy rallied and nrade a fee
ble attack on one column, but were soon driven off.
Gen. Stuart and his command returned to Warrenton
Spwffgs, on Saturday, with the loss of but two killed
and five wounded. The enemy were in full retreat,
leaving a small force to try to check the expected ad
vance of our troops. It is supposed they will make a
stand at Alexandria, Gen. Stuart was at the bead ot
the column during the entire march. Col. Lee, of the
Ninth Virginia Cavalry, leT the charge upon the
Yankees. General' Pope's sword was captured by Mr.
Chas. Miucgerode, of this city.
We are indebted for the above highly interesting
itiformationto Mr. W. Keith Armistead, of the 6th
Virgina Cavalry, who accompanied the expedition,
and was in the fight near Catletu. Mr Armistead
was, utHjlrecently, a clerk in the Adjutant General's
office in this city, but resigned his position, with pat
riotic zeal, to'enter the cavajy service. : He bad the
fatisfaetion of terminating the mortal career of atleat
'one iff the accursed invaders of our foil.
. Mr. A. brought with him the handsome uniform
coat, late the property of Gen. Pope, as appears from
the inscription on the collar. This trophy is now in
p issession of Gov. Letcher, t t whom it was sent as a
present, we believe, by Gen.: Stuart.- As the fftiit
around the ChickahouiHiy- by Gen. Stuart was the
fore- runnef of the defeat "of MeClellan's army, we hope
that this 8imilar7hut more brilliant, event may be the
precursor of the total dispersion alk) annihilation of the
Yankee invaders.
From Cumberland Gap. The Kncxville Register
of Saturday last, s 3 s the Federals are, by degrees,
or in smaif parcels, evacuating Cumberland Gap, via
the Harler.iad into Kentucky, and that, unless they
- arc about five toone the Yankees cannot allow them
selves to be overtaken .by our army.
The Register also reports a smart skirmish between
one of ouj Georgia battalions and an Ohio regiment
or a portign thereof, four miles north of Cumberland
- ;PaP bi which ie latter was smartly worsted los
ing ten ki'lcil oh' the field. Our los was two killed,
and the Yankees left in double quick time for their
fortifications at the Gap.. - ; V
' The Quincey Herald says twenty-one Confederate
prisoners were shot at Macon, Mo., on the 1 2th t for
fcreakinjr- their parole; and twelve more are under
s2nten.ee of death
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:i t -1 -. The Conscript Bill. .
The new' measure for increasing the array U occu
pying the attention of Congress. In the Senate an
addition or amendment to the former law has passed.-
The object of this amendment is to cause to be en
rolled every mati between the ages of 18 and 35, with
oot exception. 1 The language of the law is as follows.
We are glad to see that our. tpilitia ofiScers will be
compeileil to take the field either as militia or as sol
diers : - " ?;'--''":" ; ';' !": "';-.,-'- ;.;"" ;:
"Tharall white men who are resiienta of the Con
federate States, between the ages of eighteen and
thirty-five years who hav not already been enrolled
shall be immediately enrolled under instructions
heretofore or which may hereafter be given by the
Secretary of War, and reported by the enrollinj
ofi;c3r, wherever found, whether within the State or
County of i heir residence or. not 4 and such persons,
when so enrolled, shall be included in the provisions
of the above recited act as fully as if enrolled under
that act, within the States of which they may be, re
sidents; provided, that this act shall not extens; to any:
member of a military organization, under any States
law, while' he remains In actual service, without the
limits of the State of which he is a. citizen ; provided,
er. that the "President is authorized to suspend
execution of this act or the act to which this is an
amendment, or any special provision of said acts, in
any locality where he believes such suspension will
promote the public interest." ' t-
Whether the House of Representatives will be satis
fied with this law will shortly be seen.
The Senate has the question of substitutes before it. ,
A very dangerous amendment was attempted to be
put upon the bill giving the owners of fifty negroea
exclusive privileges over those not owning so many
or none at all, under the plea that so large a body of
negroes should not be left without a head.' True, they
should ript. Bjt the owner is not necessarily thsonly
head to which they can be mad a subject. What head
are the negroes of President Davis under? Such
amendments won't do. The negroes of any commis
sioned officer aro perfectly reliable. Those who be
long to privates and conscripts must be made to be
have themselves. The following is the exemption
clause so far as it has gone : ,
"That hereafter substitutes for persons liable .to mil
itary' duty shall uot.be allowed, except in cases where
the person ottering me suosututeissKuiea ana actuai
ly employed in some mechanical pursuit, the prosecu
tion of whiclj, at the time, the Secretary of War may
declare to be4mportant.to the public interests: Pro
vided, That in all cases where substitutes are;- received,
the'persoirfurnishiog the substitute shall guarantee his
fidelity, aud in case he deserts, the principal shall be
held to service as if no substitute had been furnished
by him." ' ' .,
The Battle of Cedar Run.
- A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer, writes
from Gordonsville, August 14, s follows :
I send you a short note of the above battle, fought
on Siturday. the 10th of August, between -our forces
under Gen. Jackson, and the Yankees under Pope,
bnl immediately commanded by Generals McDowell
and Banks. The battle was fought along the line of
Cedar Creek, and commenced about four o'clock p. m.
The troops engaged on our side were Gen. Ewell's
Division, a portion.of the 1st Division, consisting of
the 1st Brigade, Gen. Winder, the 21 Brigade, Col.
Garnett, and tho 3d Brigade, Gen. Taliaferro, and a
small part of the Division of Gen. A. IV Hill,-consisting
of the Brigadesof Gererals Branch and Archer,
and perhaps another, of which I am uninformed 3"he
1st Division was under command of Brigadier Gene
ral Winder." The troops under General Ewell were
on the right, and. the 1st Division on the left, while
that portion of General Hill's Division, which was
engaged, came up after the battle commenced. '
The enemy were strongly posted on a declivity
sloping towards our-lines, their cavalry iu front.
Our battefies from both divisions opened upon the
cavalry at long range and a very few shots sufficed
to make them "pass to the rcar Their infantry
then occupying the position in front of their batte
ries, which commenced shelling our t-oops over the
heads of their infantry. The can nonadiug, was very
severe on both sides, and our loss was heavy, and :
especially so in the 1st Division, though that of the
enemy was terrible. General Winder fell early -in ,
the action, having been struck in the side by a shell.
The command then devolved Upon Brigadier-General
William B. Taliaferro. About this time the enemy,
attempted to surround oin left vring by rapid'y ex- ,
tending their extreme right so as to extend beyond (
the extreme left of the 2d Brigade under Gdonel
Garnett, The fire upon this brigade was very severe !
The 1st Brigade, under Colonel Ronald, was or- i
dercd 0 the left of the 2d, -as a support, while the 3d, :
under Colonel A. Taliaferro, Was rapidly advau ed'to
the right of it through the open' field. Some disor
der had occurred consequent upon the elongation of
ths enemy's right, which was promptly checked by i
the arrival of ihe 1st Brigade and the presence of ;
General Jacksou in the thickest of the fight. The '
enemy, after a terrible conflict, in which the brigades
of Generals Branch and Archer gallantly and effect
ively participated, were repulsed. To change the !
tide now rapidly turning against them, the ecemy or
dered a cavalry charge, which was commenced in '
g'Hxi stylts on the 3d brigade, which gave them an en-
blading fire, which broke them, when they hlea to the
right and received m passing, the full fire of the 4Jd .
& d General Braiwm's brigade, and fled precipitately, .
with great loss. I The enemy then broke before our f
charge and fired, aud were pursued for several miles,
uutil night intervened to save them, and Jthe pursuit t
was abandoned. General Prince was captured, and
surrendered to General Taliaferro. '
The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded, was f
not less than 1,500, while ours was about 500,'falling j
most heavily on the division of General Taliaferro. -Night
was the Blutnhcrof Banks and McDowell, and
had it not intervened, their ruin would have been in
evitable. Not being cognizant ef the battle on the right, I
cannot speak of the command of General Ewell, ex
cept to say it did all that gallantry could do, (as it
always does); and one brigade under General Erly,
fought most gallantly, next to the 3d brigade of Gen
eral Taliaferro. All the troops -did their d tty, and it
would be invidious to name regiments where nil did ,
so well. The gallant Winder fell ; also Colonel Cun
ningham of the 21st, and Colonel Curtis of the 23d.
Colonel 0. came to the 23d a private from Brooke
county, and was elected Lieutenant Colonel, and has
waled bis devotion to Virginia upon the battle field.
General Taliaferro was slightly wounded, and had his
horse shot under him, and his Adjutant', Captain Pen
dleton, lost, his Ie from a bombshell, while gallantly
performing his dnty on the field. - Alpha.
Vallandigham's Speech. The last great speeel
01 i auanmgnam, says ine juoimo uegisier, nas arus
ed the .whole people of the West. A gentleman who
has read it says it is. the most powerful, masterly and
el quent speech he ever read. He calls upon the peo
ple of the West "to save themselves from the thraldom '
of Lincoln tyranny, and says their only salvation is to
cut off all connection with the Northeast, and set up
an independent Republic of their own. With the
West thus disaffected, we may march through., their
territory toHhe very heart of Liacolndom !
From the upper Rappahannock. Intelligence
from this section Thursday was very limited. The -
Evqu irer learns from a gentleman who leftitapidan
in the morning, that tho result of the engagement at
Salem, Fauquier county, near Catlctt Station, on
Tuesday, was the utter rout of the enemy, and the
capture ef eight thousand, prisoners and three hun
dred 'wagons loaded with commissary stores. The
gentleman states that he obtained this'news from an
agenL-for the Mobile press, and it has been since as
certained that the telegraph operator refused to trans
mit the messages, because it would violate the stand
ing orders established by the government.-
Gerge Burger was .shot on Sullivan's island, near
Charleston, S. C, last Thursday, for attempting to
desert, and persuading others to desert. . He was a
naUye of New Yorfcr -,J V '.
The same day the Federal fleet made an. attack ou
Fort Beauregard, ou same island, without doing it any
damage. '.:. ; . '-.. ..
A large number of Yankees are going over the Can
ada line and taking the oath of allegiance to the Brit
ish goverumeut to avoid being drafted.
tne
7" f ...Vote of the State. ? - ;
..We pubh'sh to-day the detailed official vote of the
Sute for Governor. It foots up - ' ?
Vance, J2,823
Johuiton, : 20,174
, VanceV majority, , ,32,649
At the first g'anee this may appear to be a most ex
traordinary Vote, when it is considered that some of
Che unscrupulous supporters of Col Vance made the
secession of the State and the war against the Yankees
the chief issue. Bat this rote will bear examination,
and, it will be discovered that it is by no means very
extraordinary indeed that "nobody's hurt"
The aggregate vote of the State is abont 130,000.!
If this be so, and we deduct the vote just given for
Vance and Johnston, there isau unpolled vote in the
State and the army of 47,030, and CjI. Vance lacks
12,177 of having a majority of the vote of the State.
But we will take certain numbers to base our calcu
lation upon. The vote given two years ago for Ellis
and Pool was 112,586. The vote just given for Vance
and Johnston was 72,907, showing a falling oflf, or an
unpolled vote of 39,58(5. This unpolled vote added to
that received by Mr. Johnston would have given
him a majority of 8,400 over Col. Vaace. Col. Vance
therefore, has failed to obtain, a majority of the votes
of the State, even by this calculation, of 3,476. : "
Col. Vance has not received as many votes afov.
Ellis got two years ago, by 6,640 ; nor yet-as many
as John Pool received (though he was beaten)
by 300. Those votes, as compared with Col. Vance's
stood : -
Ellis, 59,463
Pool, rt ,63,123
Vance, a 52,823
We regret we cannot procure the entire vote of the
army in the late election; The Vance papers, we
no ticc, suddenly ceased to publish the returnsj when
they ceased to be flattering. We have the returns
from forty regiments, and the vote of each regiment
averaged 281. Taking all our forces together, ex
clusive of conscripts, we had in the service in the
State and out of it say 60 regiments, with an average
vote for each regiment of 600. This would give an
aggregate vote in the army of 32,600; but of this
vote only 18,268 were polled, leaving uncoiled
14,235 votes.' Of the votes given in the army, Col.
Vance received some 10,00(. Mr. J h;iston some
8,000, with the fraction between them.
We believe the foregoing calculations are as nearbja
correct as they can be. And they show, b-iefly, that
Col. Vance does not represent a majority ; of the
people or the soldiers.
That oro third of the v6tcs of the State had no
hand in tho contest, though a ."Statesman" was in
volved.. ' " ' . - .
And that iieaily one-half of the soldiers did not vote
r the "hero." ' ' :
Colonel Vauce wfl therefore take notice" that the
clique that put himjinto office and out of the army,
are tioUthe people ojll e Stite, d not compose a ma
jority of them, andjpuinot keep him in office. It re
mains to bu S 'eu whether ha will court the continued
support of the clique or secure the support ot the
majority, amongst whom wo humbly class ourselves,
and amongst whom Colonel Vance miy "class more .
than one-half of those who voted for him -whilst they
cursed the clique. Over forty thousand of the best
men in the State to.)d aloof in the late contemptible
squabble for spoils. . Every single tool of the clique
was in requisition and did bul b's--. Every good man
who voted with tho clique, from whatever cause, will
vote for the State and against the clique when occa-
sr ... '
sum may require; these hints Uolonel Vunce must
take. $is election is no a Fcderal-Whig-Kuownoth-
lng-uonservauvc tnumpn. it oare not so oe pro
claimec by those who think they. can so mike it. We
shall si iortly have Governor Vance's inaugural, and
we trust;he will allude to these things. .
Th'e Army of the Potomac
The Cincinnati Gazette says one of the most dismal
and discouraging pictures of the war is that developed
officially recently in the Senate. The Gazette adds:
Out of the most dismal and discouraging pictures
of the war is that developed officially in the Senate
on Wednesday. These facts have already been laid
before the public through our columns; but now that
they are officially promulgated they must strike the
loyal people with doubl ' force. The'array of the Po
tomac was originally 230,00Q strong. Prior to the
5th of April, according to. the testimony of the As-,
sistant Secretary of War, Tucker, McGJellan had 120,
000 men at Yorktown. Subsequently, Franklin's di
vision, 12,000 ; McCal's division, 10,000; 11,000
from Baltimore and Fortress Monroe," and Shields'
division, 5,000, were sent to him, making a total of
158,000. General Meigs and Wlidswortb testified that
McUlellan lud alt he -asked for.' Only nineteen regi
ments were left to guard-Washington. The corres
pondent of the Commercial telegraphs th it the re
sjxjnsibility for Ball's Bluff is divided lctween Stone
and McClellan ; yet Stone was sent to Fort Warren,
while McClellan has' been suffered to hold in his
hands the destinies of this great nation.
It is known that the Pre-uderitsaid, on his return
fronv'Jaraes river, that McClellan could account for
only half the men sent to him. Of the 158,000 brave
men he had upon tho Peninsula, only 85,000 were
effective when the battles commenced, aud when he
finally lauded on James river, only 60,000 could be
mustered for active duty. Thus from the time lie
landed at. Yorktown to the beginning bt the great bat
tles, he lost, it seems, in various ways, 73.000, and
between the! landing and the close of the seven davs'
fighting, 98,1000 out of the 153,000 had been killed,,
had died in the swamps, or had by sickness' been ren
dered unfit for service. These are the facts, as they
ard now before the country. The picture, we repeat,
is the most .dismal and discouraging that could be
presented.' It is sickening to think that the finest
army ihe world ever saw; should have been thus sa
crificed and nothing accomplished.
These developments relieve" Secretary Stanton from
trie charges1 made against him by the partizans of a
Geueral who has in less than asyearIost nearly 100,
000 out of 230.000 men without accomplishing any
thing; leaving the rebels stronger and the govern
ment weaker iu Eastern Virginia than they were six
months agol Aud we have authority for saying that
Secretary Stanton, stands higher with the President
now than at any previous time; s.d experiepec havr
ingj made plain the wisdom of the policy and the
plans that be-fa vomd. The people who have been
niiiUed" by a blind or unscrupulous press, will not be
ikw' to do justice to Mr. Stanton. He will rise high
'er in the estimation of the loyal people, from the gross
and undeserved abuse which has been heaped upon
him.- f '
In view of the facts presented, it is not strange that
the people should demand a new war policy. It
would We strange, indeed, it would-be criminal if the
voice ff the people did not rattle, iii. thunder tones,
arouad the ears of the President, for new men to di
rect affairs in the field, and new measures to govern
the couduct of the war. ' . "
A Slight Brush at City Point. On Wednes
day night, the enemy's gun boats in James river land
ec some two cr three barges filled with men at City
Point, v They were not disturbed until yesterday
morning, when our picket blazM away at the group,
and some two or three were seen to tall.'. The whole
party speedily scampered to the barges and pulled off
for the gunboats. Oue of the boats then dropped
down the river, took' positibn, and bo.barded tlie
Point for some half hour or "more," No damage' what
ever was done to our men, J ut it is tlight theri
fibd'plece with which we replied from shore, sent
more than oue shot into-the pil atical craft. The ob
ject of the landing in such small lore didnot trans
pire, but one or two very plausib e conjectures have
been suggested. Petcriburg Express r 29. ' V J ;
There are sai l to be ' more Yankee tents spread out
at Newport Nes now tliarfat'an-r timo sincd the war
tcmmffitedV
Prom tto EaftSnnock.
The newa from the army on and beyond the Rappa
foil uvii couuKHiag om nigniy en
wuraging. The Lynchburg Rryiniaa of Saturday
MM t ! . .
says : - wnust we con w get no ' positive in formation
by the train Lart evening, we heard that a strictly
prirate disrjatcli "hai been received to the effect tliat
Jackson, Stnart and Trimble .had gained a success
more brilliant than any reported. The telegraph is
under restraint, or we should have more."
Since writing the above, the Tirgiuian has come
into possession of information considered perfectly
reliable, to the effect that Gen Stuart, with bis cav
alry, had occupietiCentreville and beyond.
hftavr firm nndar tin 'TmU. - ?.i
-SU...-.IIUVH oocup.eu j - j "Tuveuu wnicn is on iy tour miles thgre
Manassas Station, having taken a large amount of --i 7, VTeral force of from seventy-five to one liuri
commissary and quartermaster', stores. A Urge I Snnret W.M lhe flture the passenger
KeporU from different sources seem to confirm the llbPut A o clock, they ventured to the railroad, and in
capture of 2,000 negroes by Jackson, who is said to ! . T v?mtea the sound of the engine was heard. A
be near Salem. Rome of the negroes are said to be
runaways from Lynchburg.
The Lyuchburg Republican of Saturday has cheer
ing intelligence from our army in Fauquier up to
Friday night. A signal victory by Jackson over a
portion of the Yankee vandals near Waterloo
is con-
naently proclaimed. The number of prisoners is put
down at 1,600. A large number of wagons, horses
mnfes; runaway negroes, and a vast amount of mn. i -
nitions"and stores constitute the booty. .
The Republicani&j the retreat of the Yankee ar
my from Warrenton. in the direction" of Alexandria i. .
completely mtereepted by ow occupation ofManasi
T, d .heir n,y ,out8 ot throagh the
uiuiuaot iu-Kuiieporg, ana thence to Lesburg, in
Loudon.
The Lynchburg Virginian of Monday say:
"Passengers by the Orange . train Saturday night
brought rumors of tfrree severe engagements between
the forces of Geu. Ewell and the enemy at Bristow
Station, on Friday. It is represented that in the two
first we'gaiued no advanLige, but in the third our
forces achieved a splendid success, whipping the ene
my Very badly and capturing several thousand pris
oners. Bristow s Station is only five or sir mill tM
side of Manassas Junction. We ive this report with
out vouching for its accuracy! but have reason to be
lieve that it is, in the main, correct."
The Lynchburg and Richm ud papers of Monday
all agree in the belief that Stuart had advanced ou
the Orange railroad to the Bull Run brdge, which he
burned 'on Thursday and then advanced to Dye's sta
tion, where he ambuscaded and intercepted several
trains from Alexandria,' capturing 2,003 prisneri, to
gether with all.the officers, regimjutal aa l company,
and a quantity of arms and ammunition, whicii were
being taken to Pope. Two trains, numbering soni3
thirty-five or forty cars au 1 four enginea, were tak.jn,
all of which were destroyed. General StuliVt return
ed to Manas.us after this brillia.it exuljit without
losing a man.
There are also repbrtsofa severe battle at or ne tr
Bristow station, f .ur miles this side of Manassas, on
Friday, between thd divisijn of G vvjr.il Evell nil
the enemy. General E.veil ia .reported to hav,e been
twice driven from his po-utio.i with severe loss, but
being rjinfjrjod, fiiilly drjvj the e iemy fron tlwir
position, capturing several batteries a;iJ five thousaud
prisouers.
' Reports vary a to tha I c ility of tliis fight, one
placing it at Bristow Slati n sli I ths othrtor nsar
the PI ains, on tho Manassas Gip Riilroii. If the
fight really occurred, as stated, we are of the opinion
that the latter is tlu cjrr-jct l uv'.'ni. R;p rts arj
variou3alSj as to the troops engigl. Smi h iving
it thit Jackson, A. P. Hill and E well were all ia tha""
fight, and others th it the b ittle w ts fought by E.veil
.alone.. 4
T.ie above is t!i3 only intellig?nc-3 proper f r p-ib-Iication
received on Saturday from the locality of tha
Rappahannock. The position asig ij I to the variou4
diyisious of our army by the inform iti jj wj pxsess
i; would be improper to notice. Saffice it to say that
every ite of intelligence g c.i to o j.ifinn tha bjlief
we have so often expressed of a brilliant and decisive
triumph over Pope.
; THBILLr.NO NEWS! ANOTHER VICTORY !
As we go to press, we receive the following grate
ful announcement, for which we are indebted to Mr.
Duli.i, of.the Southern Express Telegraph in this city
It is made in Gen.1 Leefs peculiar graphic stylo and
will thrill the great heart of the Confederacy with pro
found gratitude to God :
Richmond, Sept. 1st, 1862.
The following dispatch was received by President
Davis this evening, about 6 o'clock.:-
. Headquarters, N. W. Va
si
Gbo-vetos, Aug. 30, 10 P. M.
; ( Via Rapidan Sept. 1st.)
This army achieved to-day, a signal victory on the
plains of Manassas,' over the combined forces of Gen-,
erals McClellan and Pope. On the 28th and 29tb
each wing under Generals Longstreet and Jackson
repulsed, with valor, attacks ruade on them sepa
rately. , -. " '
' . We mourn the loss of our gallant dead in every
conflict, 3'et our gratitude to Almighty God for his
mercies .rise highe each day. To Ilim; and to the
valor of our troops, a nation's gratitude is due.
(Signed) R. E. LEE.
Arrival or Prisjers. The Central train yes
terday alteruoon brought diwn the prisoners captured
by General Stu lit 'on Friday night last. They num-.
ber three hundred and thirty-two, of whom ten are .
commissioned officers, whose names we append:. Win.
J. Leonard, Colonel, Purnell Legion, Maryland regi
ment; L. E. Mnith, 2d Virginia regiment ;"C. A.
Goulding, General Pope's staff; first Lieutenants W.
H. 'Hogarth, Purnell Legion; .T. B. Winslow, Penn
sylvania Rifles; H. C. Capron, 1st Rhode Island cav
alry ; J. F. Rcinicker, Purnell Legion ; Second Lieu
tenants T. B. Moore, Harris light cavalry ; Albert J.
Brooks, Purnell Legion. In addition to those brutigh t
on the Central train, some ten or fifteen prisoners were
brought dowu from! Lynchburg, and committed to the"
Iibby prison ou Cary street. A rigid search was in
stituted upon all of, the parties, and on the persons of
a few were found some very interesting and doubtless
valuable papers. We were shown a deed executed by
the "Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax. Baron
of Cameron, in that part of Great jBritain called Scot
land, and proprietor of the orth-ern Neck of Virgin
ia," conveying a tract of 129 acres of land in Culpep
er county to Isaac Campliell, Sad dated October 6,
1776. Also, a deed executed by the same party, con
veying a certain tract of land in the county of Fairfax
to "George Fairfax, Esq., and Sarah Carlyle, -sorT and
daughter of William Fairfax, Esql, of th I county.
.and dated in 1748. Besides these, the same party
had in his possession several other deeds, and any T
Dumberof blank certificates of stock in the Sperry
ville and Rappahannock Turnpike Gmpany. All
these were, of course, stolen from the 'clerk's office of
Culpepcr or Fairfax counties,- and were, perliaps, in
tended to be used by tho enterprising Yankee as a, li-
1tle to the lands which they onvey.r a century ago.
Another party bad prepared himself in ad vauce with
the means of escape, aud had in his boot a saw some
eighteen , inches dn length. With the exception of
the officers, the party seemed to be well satisfied with
their situation. Richmond; Dispatch, 29,
Feom Clkbehland Gat. A " letter from a gen
tleman in Gen. Smith's army, dated near Cumberland
Ford, lhe 21st inat., eonfirms the report of the surren
der of the Federal forces at the Gap. lhe letter fur
ther stated that on the 18th a mail bag from Morgan's
army to Bneli was captured, informing him of tha
daiigeroos situation of his command, and further, that
he then had in camp only twelve days half ration,
and asking that h be reinforced or a diversion be
made in his favor--5icA. Dispatch, 2Wh. - '
I Capture Of aBailrdad Train Between Win.
y . 1 " -
wrawr aa narpers jrerry,
On Wednesday Week Captain TlitW'i
I cavalry, under the coram aud of Lieutenant Rouse,
p was ordered from camp, at JJarrisonburgto Mount
-vD, In onenanaoau county, for the purpose of
performing picket daty at that point. Leaving a suf
ficient picket force for the post, unoer the command
or a Sergeant, the balance of the company, thirty
men, under Lieutenant Rouse and Baylor, proceeded
?0wL5e. V "ey 4road- Thursday night they stayed
at Woodstock, ana at noon the n-xtd.iy thoy left that
place and went down as far as.Newtown, eight miles
" iu;uesMfr, wnocn they reached about lOoclock.
They travelled all that night, and encamped near the
. line of Jefferson and Clarke counties, between Sura-'
mit Point and WadMrMl- . ii...kf.L .
"i thA (licni.. l? i ? , - .. f
' lSp06.U,M wa? ma.do of th8 Qd oUstruc-
..v,.. were at once placed oa the track to bring the
train to a halt. When the train had reached within
one hundred yards of the obstructions the command
y. was given to halt, but the frightened' engineer took'
juo heed of the command. A fire -was then opened
. upon the train frim some dozen or moae jevolvers,
and Verv soon th rthslrnrlrl fkne Ware irk a K I a--! '-Wa
i 'rain brought to a stand still. The cars were at once
j entered, and the Yankee soldiers on board, eight in'
1 . OD uwir wav. to.fm tuar .companies in Win-
f Chester, were sjenred. 'ITifl anont f a A x,ri J V..m
j Company, who attempted to efitat his escape, was
' ! fkot M' batlly wounded in the thigh: The ex-
' VmoO r m inA.i I L .1 . T
i Press par was opened, and baskets of cliampazoe and
"f delicous -fruit rVUna,;jind,.paeil of by
XZSX&2&
aoilars, consigned to a Federal payman in Winches
ter, was extracted, with a number of other valuable
particles. The United States mail was also secured,
contaiuiog, amongst etlier ilocuments, official dispatch-
es from General Pope to Brigadier General White, at
Winchester. -.' I'hese dispatches have been forwarded
to General Jackson. Fires were then built in the two
passenger cars, and firewood piled on to facilitate ihe
j burning. A full head of steam was put on the en-
gine, and the machiue started iu the direction of Win
! Chester. ,
The prisoners captured on the train were placed
under Lieutenant.. Roland and thirteen men, whilst
the remaining seventeen, under Lieutenants Rouse and
Baylor,, proceeded to Smithfield, in Jefferson county;
15 miles below "Winchester. Within half a -.wile 'of
the town they captured the Yankee pickets, whomis
took our forces for a scouting party of thejx own men.
On questioning these pickets it was ascertained that
tne force in towrfconsistod of fourteen men. A charge
was ordered, and the Yankees taken completely by
surprise, and surrendered without firing a shot. The
spoils at this point were 17 horses, (some of them very
-fine ones.) '20 . Colt's navy revolvers, 5 Sharp's car-
j bines, in fine condition, 18 Yankee saddles, bridles,
f and trapping, and a larso number of izum overcoats.
i
blankets, tie Richmond Dispatch, August 30iA.
i
1 Affairs os the PenIkscla. Information from
l the Peninsula isup to Saturday last. The Yankee
advance pickets were six miles from Williamsburg.
' During the1 retreat about 20,000 passed oer the rout
I by Diaskou bridge, and stripped the whole country
through winch they traveled of everything like pro
visions for man and beast. Their wagons were driv
en into the fields, the corn pujled and loaded up, and
then they would drive on. What they could not
take they destroyed. AtKltham they fired a barn
containing 500 bushels wheat, after first sprinkling
he floor with sulphur to reuder it more 'combustible.
They burned Mrs. Caroline Christian's house, at the
Forge, in New Kent, and Wm. A. Blay ton's house,
near Diasko j bridge, was also destroyed. Several
houses in its vicinty were torn down, and the timber
used to rebuild the bridge which had been torn up
by onr troops in their retreat from Yorktown.
Among those who left with the Yankee were M.
Q. Oilman, of the 3rd Virginia cavalry, and John
Jennings, of the 53rd Virginia, infantry. At every
step of the march the Yankees were fearful of and
expected an attack from our tro-ps. There1 arc
about 800 or 1,000 Yankee troops in Williamsburg.
Deserters have informed our troops where many
secreted arms were. About 125 Enfield rifles arrived
at the York river depot yesterday, which were dis
covered at the .White House by their information.
The same parties offered to guide our men to where
1,500 pistols had been hidden. The county of New
Kent is literally laid waste. Its citizens' have Kt
everything. One of them, Mr. O. .11. Taylor, a
scout in our army, lost $4-30 worth of provender by
one squad of three Yankee, who loaded their wa
gons, and went off. The citizens of thai county aud
Xiie country through .Which' the enemy passelr except
on the river banks, are really su.Teriug f rfood, aud
anxiously expect our g vernmcnt to take some steps
for their relief. One gentleman, Mr. Beverley An
derson, has offered to tell his corn, which he saved,
at $4 a liarrel to thosfc in need, j.nd it is hoped that
those as fortunate as he may be as liber L.
Many of tho Yankee -troops visiting the farm
house on the retreat, expressed the wish that the
"d d war was over and they were at home." Rich.
Dlipakh, 21th.
mwm w 11 7 1
From the Rappahannock, Tho news fr;m the
ines of the Rappahannock, 'though' not so full and
c Miiplete as we could desire, is nevertheless interest
ing ami important. Itjs understood a perfectly re
liable that the advance of our forces hnye reached
Manassas Junction, where they captured somo c'ght
or ten heavy guns and an immense quantity of Valu
able storts.
The portion of the Yankee army under Pope was
at. Warrenton on Wednesday, and it is stated that its
retreat in the direction of Alexandria is entirely in
tercepted. The only route by which he couid reach
t,hat point is by way of the Junction, which is now
in possession of our forces. It is not probable that
he will succeed in forcing his w ty bick to the Poto
mac by taking that route. If this stitement be cor
rect and we have no reason to question its authen
ticity the only road for his escapj would seem to be
by' way of the Plains to' Middleburg, and from thence
to Leesbnrg, in Loudon coty.
Burnside, with bis army corps, was .at Fredericks
burg yesterday, nd was rein forced by two division
of the army lately , under McCleila ibut will never1,
reach Tope. Richmond Dispatch, 20tk.
Good.News fhom Cumberland Gap. Advices
from Baptist's Gap, hear Cumberland Gap, inform
us that a few days since sixty i horse and 6 horse
wagons were captured fronTthe Federals, containing,
as estimated by our Quartermaster, ten day's rations
for our forces, .one barrel of wine and one of alcohol.
Our men intercepted a dispatch from the Federals to
thilr headquarters, saying that they had then oijy
three days' rations and, wanted a leinforccment if
sfx regiments, or they would have to evacuate the
Gap.. Our forces went on from there aud bagged
Col. Huck's regiment of Tennessee tories, except a
few stragglers, and',. parole! them, requiring them to,
ro North,but still held on to Iluck and other offi
cers. These tories reported, our informant, a he
conversed with several of them, that they arg willing
to Iks captured and released from obligitionSfo fight
any more against the South, being heartily tired of
the service. They said three or four hundre l nvcre
then prisoners, aud about three hundred had previ
ously deserted. Gen. Sindb's , headqvartcrs are at
Cumberland Ford. The Yankees had tried to evacu
ate fhe Gap. -fft'cA. Dispatch 27A.
fW Fight at Citt Poikt. Wc are pleased to"
hear that in the brusli at City Point Thursday , our
sharpshooters certaioly made five of the Yankee in
vaders who had landed bitejth j dust. The gunboat,
which came up sulwequently and -filled the adjacent
woods with shell, was theJTcazr. a rmall steadier
captured from tho Cn federates in James river not
Ion" since. Two rifle sliot were sent, through her,
oneof which killed the pilot at the wheel-house.
- .? . - Petersburg Express, Aug. 80. 7
jyk'McaLti -ThU traitor is still confined in Cas
tle "Thunder," awaiting a trial by court-martial; An
armed guard is always near bis', person;" and there is
little danger that be will eycape a trial. The Doctori
is a plain hiking countryman, and not calculated to
attract the attention by his looks which his crimes
have directed upon UmRichmondDispJicht2ilh.
Pope grand army bas further'distinguished Itself
by burning the beautiful Hotel and surrounding build
ings at the Fauquier White Sulphur Spring-, near
Warrcntcn, Virginia. , ; , - . i
1
yote of tho State for
-1
GoToraor-ofilciAl.
Cocktixs,
Alamance,
Alexander,
Anson,
Alleghany,
Ashe, .
Beaufort,
Bertie,
Bladen,
Brunswick,
Buncombe,
x. JonxsTosfi
LJJurke,
lyaoarras,
Caldwell,
Camden.
Carteret,
Caswell, . .'-
Catawba,
Chatham,
Cherokee,
Chowan,
Clay,
Cleaveland,
Columbus,
Craven,
Cumberland,
297
Cumtuck,
Davidi
Davie,
Duplin.
Edgecombe,
Forsyth, :
Franklin,
Gaston,' .
Gates,' ' '
Granville,
Green; -Guilford,
,
Ualifax,
Haruett.
1
Haywootl,
Henderson,
Hertford,
Hvde,
Iredell,
Jarkson,
Job stou,
Jones,
Lenoir,
Lincoln,
Macon,
Madison,!;
Martin,
McDowell,
Mecklenburg,
Montgtnnery,
Moore,
Nash,
New Hanover,
Northampton,
Onslow,
Orange,
Pasquotank,
r
erquimaus,
Person,
-Pitt,
Polk, -
Randolph,
Richninrd,
Riilieson,
,RKkingham,
Rowan,
Rutherford,
Sampson,
G34
Stokes,
Sftrry,
Tyrrell,
Union,
Wake,
Warren,
Washington,
Watauga,
Wayne,
Wikcs,
Wilson,
Yadkin,-
Yancey,
706
16.13'"
188
1172
14 .
62.82:
"20,174 .
82,649
20,174
Vance's majority,
Death of Hon. Warren Wihslow. Many f
our citizens tfere startled on Saturday morning last
by the announcement that this distingnishetl member
of our community had departed this lifo during the
previous night. He had been for '"m my" "months (j,
wretthed health, but had 60 far rallied as to be in thov
strevts occasiouall- during the last mdnth'or two,
and hopes had.becu indulged.-of hi1 recovery. -We
uppjhet therefore, that the summons came suddenly
He was we think, alut 5 years of age; wa a gentle
man of decided ability, of highly cultivated nMtid,nd.
of more than ordinary conversational powers. He
had lccn a leading -Member of the Bar; "Senator' hi '
our 6 ate Legislature, Spetker of the Senate, and 'by
virtue thereof C overnor of the" State ff a sh'Wt perioiJ,
on thi election of Gov. Head to the Ui S." Senate;
afterwards for fotir years Representative iti,the U. S.
G)ngress from this District, and member" of the State .
Convention from Cumberland and Harnett. Fayette
title Vbsercer, Aug. 18A. -
Genkkal. Lee's Command. Contrary tt expecta
tion, up to a lato hour last night, nothing bid reach
ed Us from the army of General Lee, uow far advanc
ed beyond Culpeptr. There were many rumors up
on the arrival of the Richmond train, but they were
,.t . Bn'ffi.-i'onitv well authenticated to sertir confi- i
dence. It is stated that the uniform coat rf the brag
gart P.pe, with many of his papers, which wer cap .
tured Tuesday by our Arces, reached Richmond yes-,
terday, and were immeliately seat to the Exe utire
Mans"i.u, uww occupiol by Governor Letcher. Wc
trust that this may be so, aud think it very probable
that if the uniform of Pope has fallen into cur hand,
the wearer cann t be far off. Petersburg Express?
28tfi. ' - . - '. .-' - ' ' " J.
General' Joseph
from his wonnd.
K. Johnston has fully recovered
Wanted.
15 crery county accessible to a Railroad or Ca
nal, a reliable, .iodartriooj partDflr or Sffent. wits
iome ra an, borsei and s-agon, if possible, to act ia eomeert
with the advertiser in s very lacrstive baiaes, ia which
the proflU are equally divided. , -
Add row, with real name and stamp enclosed, Bos '
P. O., Richmond, Yav" ; - . - ;
Sept 3
--r
Just Received. r
a cpivvnm .nhUltnte for Toffee. Price CO
ai i t.f, i'Escc-D.
repv
Sharon
for Sale.
THE undersigned offers
and tfulr valuable property
the a bo re desirable
-hih U htlr L now a
Leir Street, in the eastern paoftbe fMj
inahea.thy,qnietaDdreUred
Mineral Sprws; WD,cn," . ".ZuZt Jri "rf.
come.UU moraiiu..r -- --- v
lot conUini between mi rZ7--
ioi con,n --- :.,erflerf with .uteir,
r" R cedkr and eauWba, Thebajemeat
ree CTre, wmcu
native oaw, nicim,, --
granite; shov. the nt f tfJSlR.
IV VSH V ,W"S rw
are seven nnotuau. " irsh d Bastrr
places, including a large t.'T0
n the baiemen'bMos twe wide halls, P
other down stairs. Therj is s Jr "Smn!
front, with grBit flft6r hJSSt
audrVotecteU
siDgle arched or Gotuie pores J" "T ' .. h --.ated
Tbl .tatelr, double P&to
eLiinney aad sssath Pieces, are nn
hopses consist of a lar ge, Z JZt foratack. U
bX barn, with a 1 tat EfiftS&&
W1MJk The?e U a ran.- snd never
SSSSam- with . brook wbk"h Z& v
fine facUUiea fot raUiar wUr foU. Ths wa
XsndVis choice sbrkbery, ia Urge sad aduurablradap
ted to tne production of the' vario.s kinds of vttabUa.
iBfront of ihs idling Us san dial, which .stands 0a a
nwble pedestal, and a ehssU. and besaUfs piece of
sUtnary, repreacating the Goddess of owe with flowing
ringlet falling ia soft, prefusion aroand her saowy ekr?
m d wearing a floral wreath UstefuUy arranged spop her
Esoefnl htadrtaninffbeaidVa W.-jf flo-r-rs with -aaet
ia Jier right haad. - There Is a line UtUe crop of
con?, peas, .reetVd Irish poUtoes, tsrnips and ,
bles oi the premises, which, together with th. Imnwhats.
JosLssioB. which can be given, renders it a rJV
Uwse desirops of pmrehuingr . healthy, msgniScent and
romantie residence at the Capital of the Su. pERRy j
Eswgb, sit 3. r : ; . w-r
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