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4tw lll'lply w .... ) 882 per annum ON THE rKST SIDE OF TRADE STREET CHARACTER IS A3 IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GLORY OF THE ONE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF THE OTHER. IN ADVANCE. CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1862. W TAffiS Editor and Proprietor. ELEVENTH VOLUME If UMBER 533. THE (Published every Tuesday, WILLIAM J. YATES, KDITGll AND PROPRIETOR. $2 IX ADVANCE. jt-y Transient advertisements must bo paid for in dvauce. Advertisements not marked on the manuscript or a fpei-lfic time, will be inserted until forbid, and harged accordingly. COSSCKIPTIOX, nBAPQCARTFRS CaMP OF I.VSTRrCTIO.N, " Near Iialeigh, June 2Gth, 1802. J SrttCtAL OnnER No. 1. I. All prr5oi)9 subject to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled ' an act further to provide for the Public Defence," approved the 16th of April 1862, and known as the Conscription Act, are hereby ordered to apjiejir at tln-ir rRul:ir Regimental muster ground in their re:'the comities, on the 8th day of July, prox. II. The Conscripts after enrollment are hereby or dered to nj -.pear at the Courthouse of their respective counties, on the 15th July, proximo, prepared to pro ceed forthwith to this camp of instruction. III. The enrolling officers will have instructions to trraut exemptions as prescribed by law, hereto appendix!. IV. Officers commanding regiments and companies of the Militia of this State, will immediately notify their respective commands, and warn all v'-'on liable to Conscription to comply ptojiptly wilh the above order, Nes. 1 and 2. V. AH persons subject to enrollment, who may wish to Volunteer, must join companies in . Confederate fervice on the 1 "ith April last, According to law; and consequently are prohibited from recruiting or organiz ing oew companies or regiments, Partizjui or Rangers exi-epled. liv order: PETER MALLETT. Major and Ass't Adj'l Uen'l, P. C. S. A. WAR DEPARTMENT, AnjcfAXT asu Inspector (Jknkrais Office, Richmond, May 19, 18G1. Tkneral Orders, No. 37. I. The following act a-id regulations in reference thereto, are published for the information of all con cerned. An Act to exempt certain person from enrollment for service in the armies of the Confederate iStstes. SEC. 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 rub-s to be pre scribed by the Secretary of War all in the service or employ of the Confederate States all judicial and exe cutive officers of the Confederate or State Governments the members of both Houses of Congress and the Legislatures of the several States and their respective officers all clerks of the olhccrs of the Mate ami 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 teb graphic operators and ministers of religion in the regular discharge of ministerial duties all engaged in work ing iron mines, furnaces:, and foundries all journey man printers actually employed in printing newspapers all presidents and professors of colleges and acade mies, and all "teachers having as many as twenty rcholars superintendents of the public hospitals, lunatic asylums, aud the regular nurses and attendants therein, aud the teachers employed in the Institutions for the deaf and dumb, aud blind iu each apothecary store now established and doing business, one apothe cary 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, aud are hereby exempted frem military service in the armies of the Confederate States. Ap proved April 21, 1802. II. By the above act of Congress, the following classes of persons are exempt from enrollment for military service: Justices of the Peace; Sheriffs ami Deputy Sheriffs; Clerks and Deputy Clerks, allowed bylaw; Masters and Commissioners in Chancery; Ditri- and State Attor neys ; Attorney General ; Postmasters and Deputy Postmasters, and Clerks allowed by law; Commission ers of Revenue, and foreigners who have not acquired domicil in the Confederate States. III. The following are not exempt : Military Officers not in actual service; persons exempt by State laws, but not by the above act; foreigners who have acquired domicil iu the Confederate States. IV. No persons other than those expressly named or properly implied in the above act can be exempted, ex cept by furnishing a substitute, from military service, in conformity with regulations already published, (General Orders No. 20,) 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 substitute have bten accepted. Other cer tificates of exemption will be granted by the enrolling officer only, who will receive full instrnctions in regard to the conditions aud mode of exemption. Ap plications for exemption cannot, therefore, be consid ered by the War Department. S. COOPER, Ad jt and lnp. General. ATTE.VriOA TO AIAj. 2i0 Reams of Writing Paper, 100,000 Envelopes, Ja.-t received at the store of KOOP.Y1 ANN & PHELPS. Mav 27. 1802 tf CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, President. Alex II Stephens of Georgia, Vice President. J. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, Secretary of State. G. W. Randolph, of Virginia, Secretary of War. C. G. Memminger, of South Carolina, Secretary of the Treasury. S. II. Mallory, of Florida, Secretary of the Navy. Thos. II. Watts, of Alabama, Chief of the Depart ment of Justice or Attorney General. J. II. Reagan, of Texas. Postmaster General. MEMBERS OF THE FIRST PERMANENT CONFEDERATE CONGRESS. SENATE. Wil., Charlotte At Ruth. Railroad WESTERN DIVISION. On and after Monday the 15th inst-af. the Passenger and Mail Train will bj run on this Road daily (Sunday ex.epit.l) as follows: going west. Lkatr. 7 on A. M. 7 43 " 8 15 " 8 40 Lkats. II 00 A. M. 11 23 " 11 50 " 11 17 P. M. Charlotte, Tuckasegee, Brevard, fdiaron, I-incolnton, GOING EAST. Eincolnton, Sharon, Brevard, Tuckasegee Charlotte, By order, Arrive. 7 43 A. M. 8 10 " 9 00 " Arrive. 11 20 A. M. 11 45 " 12 15 P. M. 1 00 V. A. McBEE, Acting Master Ot Tr:lnaimrtolU . ... "j'vtwiiun Liacoluton, April 4, ISol ALABAMA. Win L Yancy, Clement C Clay. ARKANSAS. Robert W Johnson, Charles B Mitchell. FLORIDA. A E Maxwell, J M Baker. GEORGIA. Benjamin II Hill, John W Lewis. LOUISIANA. Edward Sparrow, T J Semmes. MISSISSIPPI. Albert G Brown, James Phelan VIRGINIA. R M T Hunter, WuiB Pienton. NORTH CAROLINA, George Davis, Win T Dortch. SOUTH CAROLINA. Robert W Barnwell, James L Orr. TENNESSEE. Langdon C Haynes, Gustavus A Henry. TEXAS- Louis T Wigfall, W S Oldham. KENTUCKY. II C Burnett. William E Simms. MISSOURI. John B Clark, R S Y Peyton. Total number, 2G. HOUSE. Thomas S. Bocock, Speaker. ALABAMA. Thomas J Foster, ti X Chilton, Win R Smith, 7 'David Clopton, John P Ralls, 8 James L Pugh, J L M Curry, 9 E S Dargan. Francis S Lyon, ARKANSAS. Felix J Balson, 3 Augustus II Garland, Grandiaon D Royster, 4 Thos B Hanly. FLORIDA. James B Hawkins, 2 Hilton. GEORGIA. Julian Hartridge, 6 William W Clark, C J Munuerlyn. 7 Robt P Trippe, Hines Holt, 8 L J Gartrell. A II Kenan, 9 Hardy Strickland, David W Lewis, 10 A B Wright. KENTUCKY. Alfred Boyd, 7 II W Bruce, John W Crockett, 8 S S Scott, II E Read. OEM Bruce, George W Ewing, 10 J W Moore. J S Chrisman, 11 R J Breckinridge, Jr., T L Burnett, 12 John M Elliott. LOUISIANA. Charles J Villiere, 4 Lucien J Dupre, Charles M Conrad, 5 John F Lewis, Duncan F Kenner, G John Perkins, Jr. MISSISSIPPI. John J McRae, 5 II C Chambers, S W Clapp, 6 O R Singleton, Reuben Davis, 7 E Barksdale. Israel Welch. MISSOURI. John Ilyer, 5 XV XV Cook, Camper W Bell, G Thos W Freeman, George W Vest, 7 Thos A Harris. A II Conrew, NORTH CAROLINA. XV N II Smith, 6 Thomas S Ashe, Robert R Bridgers, 7 James R McLean, Owen R Kenan. 8 William Lander, T D McDowell. 9 B S Gaither, Archibald Arrington, 10 A T Davidson. SOUTH CAROLINA. W W Boyce, 4 John McQueen. 1'oreher Miles, o James i arrar, i M L Bonham, G L M Ager. TENNESSEE. J T Heiskell, 7 G W Jones, W G Swtuiii, 8 Thomas Menees, V II Tebbs, 9 J D C Adkins, E L Gardenshiie, 10 Bullock, II S Foote, 11 David M Currin. M P Gentry. TEXAS. John A Wilcox. 4 Wm B Wright, Peter W Gray, 5 Malcolm Graham, Claiborne C Herbert, G B F Sexton. VIRGINIA. M R II Garnett. 9 William Smith, Johu R Chambliss, 10 Alex R Botrler, James Lyons, Jl John B Baldwin, Roger A Pryor, 12 Walter R Staples, Thomas S Bocock, 13 Walter Preston, John Goode, Jr, 14 Albert G Jenkins, .lamps P Holcombe, 15 Robert Johnson, Dan'l C Dcjarnette, 16 Charles W Russell. Total number 107. 11. V. BECK WITH I Has constantly on hand , WATCHES, JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C, 1 Of the best English and American manufacturers, j Call and examine his stock before purchasing elsewhere. t Watch crystal put in for 25 cent? each. Jaaoir-, lfGi y I GOVERNMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA. Henry T. Clark. Governor ex officio. Salary 3,000 per annum. P il tki Co;rper, Secretary to the Governor. Sal niy, exclusive of fees. 0. I'.utus II. Page, Secretary of State. Salary $800. Dut.iel W. Courts, Treasurer. Salary $2,000. W. R. Richardson, chief clerk to the Treasurer. Salary $1,200. C. H. Brogden, Comptroller. Salary $1,000, Oliver 11 Perry. Librarian. The Council of State is composed of the following gentlemen? Council Wooten of Lenoir, President, John W Cunningham of Person, David Murphy of Cumberland. Wm A Ferguson of Bertie,. J F Graves of Surry, J J Long of Northampton, W L Hillard of Buncombe. Governor's Aids Hon Danl M Barringer, Spier Whitaker. Literary Board Henry T Clark, President ex officio: Arch'J Henderson of Rowan, Jas B Gor don of Wilkes. Wm J Yates of Mecklenburg. Internal Improvement Board Henry T Clark President ex officio; James Fulton of New Han over, N M Long of Halifax, The General Assembly commences its session on the third Monday of November every alternate year. The next election fer members, and for Governor, will beheld on the first Thursday of August, 18G2. IVOTICE TO DEBTORS. The Foundry and Machine shop of the late firm of ALEXANDER k McDOUGALD having been sold, notice is hereby given to those indebted to the concern to come forward immediately and make settlement by cash or note; and those having claims against the firm will present them for settlement. The under signed i authorized to attend to settlements. June IT, 1802 HENRY ALEXANDER. WtBUxn Shmnrrat. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Jgy The Depiocrat will le diieontinucd to all subtcri lera at the expiration of the time for which it is paid. Those who want to continue must renew before or at the ex piration of their time. The dunning business is unpleasant, and we do not want to engagt in it again. Those who are in arrears, and whose paper have been discontinued, will ob lige us if they will pay up without putting us to further trouble about it. fig? The attention of all parties interested is called to the following order from Gov. Clark, directing the arrest of all persons belonging to the Confederate army who are absent without leave: State of N. C, Executive Department, ") Raleigh, August 22, 18G2. The Sheriffs and Constables of this State are hereby authorized and directed to arrest all persons belonging to the Confederate army who are absent without leave. For each arrest they will be entitled to a reward from the Confederate government of 815 for each one confined in jail, or 30 if uenveieU to the Cuinp oi Instruction, near tialeigh,or to a Confederate officer. To secure these arrest?, the above named offi cers will call on any assistance and use all the power and authority belonging to their offices. HENRY T. CLARK, Governor of North Carolina. fig?1" We would suggest (says ti e Wilmington Journal) to farmers, that in putting up meat this fall and winter, they ought to make thoir calcula tions to use at least 50 per cent more salt, taking the nominal bushel as a standard, than they formerly did of the Liverpool or Turk's Island salt. There is at least that much difference in weight. This suggestion we are requested to make by one who knows, and we know ourselves where some as fine meat as we ever saw came to spoil from want of sufficient salt, it having been put up probably with the same measure of sound salt that bad for merly been used of the heavier sack salt. . Piedmont Kailkiuu. We understand that Messrs. Wilkes, of Charlotte, have taken the con tact for building the railroad from Greensboro to i)anville, and that they will immediately com mence operations on an extensive scale, and com plete the road as soon as possible. They are de irous of hiring a large number of hands to work on the road. (7reeshoro Patriot. Cargo Sales Vre understand that the cargo sold in W ilmington, on Thursday, brought enor nous prices. Common calicoes were sold at SI 80 per yard; salt S57 per sack; coffee 61 90 per pound; tea 9 to 811 per pound. The whole cargo was sold in about four or five hours. The attendance of buyers was very large. More Arrivals We understand that two steamers have recent'iy arrived in a Confederate port, . t witn assorted cargoes. Miss Green, a loyal young lady in one of the northwestern counties in Virginia, was arrested and put in jail in Buckhannon, Upshur county, on a charge of cutting telegraph wires in the Yan kee army. When interrogated, she confessed she had cut the wires, and said that she would do so igainifsetat liberty, at the same time refusing to take the oath of Yankee servitude. One end if the wire cut was stuck in the ground several inches, and when asked why she did that, she re plied that a great many Yankees had been killed, md as that wire pointed the way they had gone, it would doubtless be used to know if there was rjooi for any more. Richmond Dispatch. Major-General T. 11. Holmes. This offi cer arrived in this city a few days since, and on yesterday assumed command of the department composed of Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Louisiana ind the Indian country. We regard him as one of the ablest and most experienced officers in the Southern army, and are gratified that he has been assigned to the command of this department. Little Rock Democrut, 13A nit. In East Tennessee the sale of leather, except to the Confederate Quartermaster has been forbidden, unless by special permit, and then the price is limited to $1 per pound for sole leather, and SI 25 per pound for upper. IRON FOR SALE. I have on hand, at my Furnace in Lincoln county, 6 miles east of Lincolnton, about 20,000 LBS. of WROUGHT IRON tyre plow moulds, bars, Ac. I aui prepared to cast machine irons of all kinds, hollow-ware, salt pans, &c. Orders solicited terms cash. J. W. DERR, July 22, 1862 6m-pd, Spring Hill Forge WANTED. Twenty hands can find immediate employment by applying at the Envelope Manufactory of J. H. STEVENS & CO., June 17, 1862 tf Opposite the Postoffice. KOTICE. A Hospital having been established in this place for the care of transient sick and wounded soldiers, all such will report to R. KIDDER GREGORY, Act. As t. Surgeon C. S. A., in charge of the Hospital at Char lotte, N. C. P. S. Ladies in the town aud surrounding country are requested to send bandages, lint, and old linen, as large quantities are necessary. July 15, 1862 BLANTON DUNCAN, Columbia, S. C, (Formerly of Kentucky) is prepared to fill orders to anv extent in Engraving and Printing BANK NOTES, Bills of Exchange, Ac. Engravings upon Steel or Stone. Large supplies of Bank Note and other paper will be kept. August 5, 1862 3m Fi7l:i for stock. Any quantity of Linseed Oil Cake for sale at St. Catharine's Mills, near Charlotte. July 15, 1862 . The market price paid for Hides, by w T May 13, 1862 tf S. M. HOWELL. MORGAN'S FIGHT NEAR GAL. LATIN. The following letter, giving an account of the late victory by Col. Morgan over the Yankees, near Gallatin, Tenn., we copy from the Knoxville Register : Lenoir's, Tenn , Aug. 20, 'G2. Your readers have doubtless learned ere this of the recent battle between Gen. Morgan and Gen. Johnson, of the Federal army. I have just re turned from the scene of the brilliant exploits of the ubiquitous Morgan in Middle Tennessee. On Wednesday morning, an Indiana regiment was despatched from Nashville by rail, us far as the burnt bridge at Sandersville, from thence to proceed on foot to Gallatin, to recapture that place, and at the same time (if possible) to capture the redoubtable John Morgan. The Colonel of this regiment (Hefferen) entered Gallatin, and arrested every male citizen, including many of the oldest in the county; he permitted his men to sack the stores and destroy the property of quiet, peaceable citizens; and also to enter the Masonic Lodge at Gallatin and scatter the furniture and paraphanalia of the order in every direction. They then proceeded with their captives down the road towards Nashville. In the meantime, Gen. Morgan, with 1200 men, returned to Galla tin from Hartsville, and hearing of the recent visit of the " Y"anks' started with his command in pursuit. He chased the Ind'anians t within ten miles of Nashville, killing some fifty or sixty and capturing about fifty prisoners. At the junction of the Edgefield and Ky. R. R. and the Louisville and Nashville Road, the Yankees made a stand be hind a triangular stockade work, when Gen. Mor gan drew off bis men, rather than sacrifice them in the attempt to capture the few Yankees that had taken retugo there, and returned to Gallatin. In the fight at the Junction two of his officers were killed Lieut. J. A. Smith of Co. "A" and Adjutant Nilcs. Only three of his men were wounded. At Gallatin the next morning intelligence reached Morgan that Gen. Johnson, with a large Federal cavalry force, was rapidly advancing. Morgan rallied his men and moved out the Harts ville road to meet him. Roth parties ran together at the First Toll Gate on the Hartsville road, and the fight commenced, but ceased shortly, at the appearance of a flag of truce from the Yankees. Johnson requested an armistice. He was taken by surprise, and his men were not all together. Morgan sent word to him that he had been fol lowing him from point to point, and now he could get it. The fight was resumed, and shortly ended in a complete victory for Morgan Gen. Johnson, 600 of his men, having surrendered. About five hundred escaped by fording the Cumberland, swimming the river, and leaving their horses on the wrong side and getting on the safe side of that stream in the speediest and most practicable way possible. As I came up to Lebanon about 4 o'clock on the evening of the fight, I saw John son's men "skedadling" (to quote a Yankee vul garism) in the most disgraceful manner. Many of them were hatless and even bootless after their fruitless effort to capture John Morgan. They tarried not in Lebanon, nor even till they landed safely in Nashville. Many of them on foot, were pressing horses snd vehicles of every kind with which to get away from Morgan, and their guns and accoutrements were strewn from Lebanon to the toll gate near est to Nashville. They acknowledged themselves to the citizens of Lebanon that they were badly whipped, in fact, "cut all to pieces." Morgan, I believe, is still at Hartsville, or perhaps at Galla tin, and Forest must have joined him by this time. New recruits were flocking to Morgan from every direction in Kentucky and Tennessee and the citizens are once again hopeful of deliverance from the Philistines. Counterfeit Confederate Notes. As it is causing a great deal of trouble to distinguish the genuine Confederate note from the counterfeit (of the denomination of 320, 50 and 3100) we present below a description of both the genuine and counterfeit : The one hundred dollar bills genuine, has in left hand corner, a sailor with black belt and buckle and two stones under his feet, whilst the counterfeit has a sailor with white belt and buckle and three stones under his feet. The fifties genuine, has a blacksmith with black hammer and scraggy hair, showing skull left band, whilst the counterfeit has a blacksmith with white streak on edge, black hammer, and well brushed hair, showing none of the skull left hand. The twenties genuine, in the figure 2 of the 20, the body end tail of the 2 are joined together, and the two black hearts between the two X's are apart right hand corner. The counterfeit has the tail of the figure 2 separated from the body of the 2 by a black line, and the two hearts be tween the two X's are joined together right hand. The following is another description, evidently of the same counterfeits: On the one hundred's in the centre vignette in genuine, the mule stands at the cotton sciw slight' quartering, as if going around in the circle, presenting nearly a full backside view of the mule. In the counterfeit the mule quarters around considerably, showing Dearly broad side.. In the genuine between the feet of the sailor on the left corner, there are two little ttones in the counterfeit there are three slones. On the filtie3 centre vignette a woman is hold ing up the lid of the chest in the genuine, there is a lock on the chest in the counterfeit, the lock is not so perceptible. On the left lower corner in the genuine, the hair of the bare headed man is brushed smoothly, as if with a wet brush and to cover a partially bald head ; in the counterfeit the hair looks as if blown by the wind. The rule work in the right upper corner die (50) is different in the counterfeit somewhat from the genuiue. On the twenties jn the left hand vignette in the genuine, the brim of the sailor's hat is clear of the coat collar behind and there is shading behind the ship in the rear of the sailor. In the cont.terfeit the hat brim touches the coat collar, and th;re is no shading behind the ship. A YANKEE VIEW OP THEIR AFFAIRS IN THE WEST. A -correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writing fromMemphis on the 8th ult., gives the following lugubrious account of their affairs in the West and South-west : Continued rumors reach us regarding the movc-menfe-of Bragg into East' Tennessee. I do not know whether to regard it as a tue to deceive our commanders, or a real military expedition. mere are unquestionably a large number of rebel troops in that direction, and the whole talk of the inhabitants through Northern Mississippi is that Biagg hzs gone there himself. If so he has left force enough to look after his interests here, and that force is in command of a man who knows well how to wield it, to wit: General Price. Un der these circumstances we are safe from serious molestation just at present, Ruell must first be conquered. Arkansas is being overrun by strong guerrilla bands. Hindman has a collected force of twenty five -or thirty thousand, and there are almost as many more ranging this country for spoils. There have been a number of skirmishes, of which no body seems to have the rights, and nothing is known except that strong federal expeditions have been attacked and overpowered, and that a large number of prisoners and valuable stores have been taken from us. There will probably be some im portant movements in that locality before long. A good doal has been pnid in connection with the Vicksburg affiir, about sending troops there and reducing the place by a siege. This is all very well for those who know nothing of the cli mate of the country, but they who have been there are keenly alive to the perils of that cam paign. None have ventured it and come off un scathed. Our flotilla is full of wan countenances. atid death has been among its brave men to an alarming extent. Officers and men have both suf fered. The former have been seriously ill, and the latter have died like rotten sheep. The sol dier fared uo better, and some of the regiments went back with almost decimated ranks. This is the true history of the siege of Vicksburg. The Yazoo river was fitly named by the red skinned hunters who traversed its tortuous chan nel in days gone by. Yazoo Death river What could be more significant? Their symbolical lan guage never fail them, and in this instance it was well applied, for, if it be not a river of death then none exist. Old settlers tell me that no man can drink its water in the hot season and live longer than a few months. It is impregnated with such rank vegetable matter, gathered from the tropical luxuriance which borders its banks and those of its tributaries, that its water is conveyed into slow poison, which is sure to destroy human life. If you would find a counterpart to its sombre shades and its stained, murky waters, you must go into the depth of swamps, which it drains, and look upon the green scum and crawling reptiles who shun the sunlight and breed pestilence and death alone. The simple substance of it is, that an army of twenty-five thousand men would find their graves between now and the first of October, with out ever facing the enemy. The flotilla has al ready accomplished its destiny in that line, and, if an army is to be maintained anywhere in that locality it must be removed -from the river, and provided with pure water and you might dig un til you lost daylight in that red hot soil, and not find enongh to wet the palm of the hand. I suppose by this time you have undergone- va rious surmises in regard to the northern trip which Com. Davis and Gen Curtis are making. The precise reasons for their pilgrimage to the seat of authority are not known, but the nature of their derelictions is public enough. Davis proved him self an infant in conception, and an imbecile in execution, from the uioiuent he left Memphis to besiege Vicksburg until he came away with the indelliblc disgrace of having been whipped and bullied by the Arkansas into abject 'submission The fear of losing a vessel was strong enough to overcome the hope of glory, and there was noth ing but folding of hands and crossing of arms. The results of the expedition were these : Gained nothing. Lost the Carondolet shot to pieces, the Lrfuisvillc disabled, the Benton riddled, the Tyler demolished, the Essex and Sumter thrown away, and the rams Lancaster and Queen sent into dry docks for weeks. The loss of the Essex, alone, to the river flotilla, is irreparable. She has been under reconstruction for six months, and has cost a mint of money, and on her first trip she was cut off and compelled to go to New Orleans. The gunboat flotilla is actually ruined, and we shall know it to our sorrow before sixty days pass over our heads. Geu. Curtis has made himself conspicuous in two or three ways. The unlicensed system which governed his movements in Arkansas has brought misery to thousands of unprotected families, and a corresponding degree of obloquy to the Union cause. He was of course compelled to subsist upon the country through which he passed, but that was ho reason why houses should be despoiled and burned, innocent white women outraged, avid black ones converted into the instruments of a promiscuous harlotagc which it would be hard to find a parallel for. These performances were the work of stragglers and unknown persons, and should not be charged to the main army ; but the cause will be made to father it all, and the com mander must be held responsible. He should have prevented such discrediKble occurrences. His refusal to go to Vicksburg was based on two or three reasons. One was that which has already been eulargfd upon in this letter the deadly nature of the climate and locality. Anoth er is that his force is nearly all cavalry, and in tended for a moving campaign, rather than a sta tionary 6iege. A third was that his appointed field was Arkansas and .Missouri, and his. prefer ence a border warfare. Among all these he found sufficienUground for a very peremptory refusal to obey the order of his superior officer. Loud complaints weie also made of his cotton transactions. Only privileged persons were al lowed to buy cotton, and they bought at rates which made independent fortunes in a day. All that has been done away by the opening of the market to all competitors, and much injustice has thus been remedied. A scout who has just returned from a week's journey in the neighborhood of the rebel array re ports that Bragg has gone off after Buell, leaving a force of 4U,0U0 men under Price at Tupelo. He took about the same number with him, to which will be joined Kirby Smith's division of 12,000 men, and other Alabama troops. Decatur is said to have been already occupied. . Guerrilla raids in Arkansas are becoming fre quent, and some bloody battles have been fought. Reports reached Helena yesterday that six hun dred Texans had surrounded one hundred Feder als near the head of the L'Anguele rier. The steamer Hamilton Belle was immediately ordered up with a force of infantry on board, while five or six hundred cavalry were despatched by land The reinforcements arrived only in time to find that one hundred of the 1st Wisconsin cavalry had been literally cut to pieces by a regiment of Tex as rangers. Our wounded, about forty-five or fifty, were im mediately taken on board the boat, while all the cavalry that had arrived started in pursuit of the enemy. Out of one hundred men only 18 or 20 escaped, the balance were killed, wounded or taken prisoners. The whole train, numbering 25 or 30 wagons, was taken or destroyed, together with all the horses, arms, and ammunition. Some 12 or 14 of our men were killed on tho spot, and about the same number of rebels. Thtj Hamilton Pike arrived at the wharf late last evening, from the scene of battle, with forty five or fifty wounded on board. The Bulletin, abolition republican sheet of this city, inakes the following assertion this morning: "Never fcince the war began have the Confederates been mure determined, or felt n-r on tvr Annflrlni j - -v-vwa VMV1W in the success of the rebellion." TERRIBLE STEAMBOAT DISASTER. Late Memphis papers contain the foUowimr particulars of a serious disaster on the Mississippi, low that city, on Thursday, the 21st ult.: "The stern wheel steamer Accacia, on her way down to Helena, with a passenger and crew list of over one hundred and fifty, struck a snag about 2 o'clock a. m., and was so badly damaged as to sink almost immediately. The water rushed into the hold with extreme rapidity, and in five minutes from the time of striking, the boat keeled over and completely capsized. The "sky-light" parted from the rest, and with the "texas" or pilot-houfo and the state rooms, connected with it, floated. The hull completely capsized, and in doing so, glided from the shoal where the accident took place, and sunk into deep water. So rapidly did all this take place, the shock the rush of waters into the hull below the rolling overboard of the chimneys above the riving of parting timbers, as the hurricane deck separated from the cabin, and this at a time when nearly every tenant of the ill fated boat -was in deep sleep, that there was no opportunity for one to help another. Those who were on the hurricane deck heard agonizing cries, heart-rending exclamation, and vain calls for bHp from those below. Then they and the rest were all struggling in the waves that surged wild ly round the spot where the capsized boat was swallowed up. Of the passengers, it is estimated that at least one-half (seventy-five persons) perished. Ono white woman and a colored chambermaid were saved ; five ladies were carried down when the boiler deck broke from the bull and the hurricane deck from that. None of the survivors saw any thing of the ladi.-s. They probably, in their wild fright, made some attempt at dress from the sug gestions of instinctive modesty, and those few mo ments were fatal. The captain, clerk and crew, with the exception, perhaps, of some of the deck hands and the negro cook, got safely to land.- -There was on board eight thousand dollars in gold, besides the freight, valued at two thousand dollars." THE RAID BY GEN. STUART. If we had not heard ono word of this affair from Confederate sources, tho following account from a Yankee correspondent, would have assured us of a complete success to the Confederates. Tha correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, writ ing from Manassas, Sunday, Aug. 24, after stating the details of the fight when it first began, con cludes as follows : "The hospital at Catlett's Station, was "sacked," and all the sick taken out South. The rebels then had their own way, and pillaged and plun dered to their hearts' content. The sutler wagons were plundered of such articles as the scamps wanted and then burnt. The rebels remained near the Station nearly jive hours, doing as they pleased. A fearful thunderstorm raged daring the whole time of the attack. The lightning was almost blinding, and the thunder was most appal lingly fearful. The rain fell in drenching tor rents. While one of the rebel regiments was at work immediately at the Station, another dashed upon Gen. Pope's wagon train, half a mile further up the road. The train was guarded by about two hundred of the Pennsylvania Bucktails, under Colonel Kane, who had just reached here the previous day, since being wounded at Cross Keyes. The men rushed out and fired a volley in the darkness; the rebels fell back, but advanced again, aud surrounding the whole party, took Col. Kaos and some one hundred and forty-nine of bis men prisoners. But Providence favoring, Col. Kane, . encouraging his men, sent them out one by one to the rear in the storm, and when all were out, followed himself, and while the rebels were ab sorbed by the storm, escaped. Fourteen of tho same gallant men charged on a body of the rebel cavalry, killing a large number of their horses, which lay along the Orange and Alexandria rail road. The rebels then popped over to Pope's wagons, took all his fancy horses, papers, &c, and burned his two wagons. They also robbed and burned two sutler's wagons, and three of the sup ply wagon?, with all the equipage of General Pope and others, which they did not want Tbs rebels took some half dozen horses from MeDow- -it . an1 all nn'vat afsip nnmnlotol mm. mazing bis mess chests and wagon. Among others of our men taken prisoners, were Maj. Wm. Painter, Division Quartermaster; Capt F-cd Gerkcer, Brigade Quartermaster, and Capt D. R. Jones, Commissary."