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1 V '''if..'.-: " !' ii' Z-1 VOL.LXill j ''"'"'J. .j'J.I;5" I-"--:,' ' -j&AljEiGll WEpNESDAT!"MORNiNG MAY 113 1863. " , - yfftj.g- I r I i JNO W. SYM, B4ttokd Proprietor. ; Uamrp'4 by party rr to lir Ui brottwi. j SATURDAY MOKJOSa, MAT t, 16S. THE GREAT 11ATXI.ES THEAP- iPAJIATINOCK. i We pobli&li io-daj m foil an account of the la'e grnd batUei on the Uappabannockj aa oua Bichmona .UDOWmforanes -cp.ioaw time bare been .enabled to famish. DJ8 perbapa will lape before full par ticnlars ean be obtained, ! Enough; howeter, Is kooirn to satisfy oi ibat cmr inniea hate been glorious ly auooessful, although at mournfully heaty coat of life to ni. Among the wounded from thia 8tate, we grieve to learn is a ion of the Rev. Dr.Smedesj of tjaa city, who it report ed to have received a mortal wound. Col. B; Q. Haywood it reported to have been aevere lv wounded in4he aide. Col. Wn. B. Cox was aliebtly wounded. The Baleigh Pro gress of veaterday publishes the"13eath of 41 E. Manly, aged 17 year and a son of Judge MT,!tr f the SnBreme Court. He died of wounds received on the 2d inst. The conjecture made ia the RichmondSi- tintl on Wednesday, that Hooker had not reerossed the Kappahannook, tarns out to be true. He is said to be fortifying himself and to be receiving reinforcements, bo we may expect at any' moment to hear of, another bloody battle. TT5?-Sineatheabvawas written, we have been indebted to Mr. John Speimtn, of the State Journal, for the following dispatch, which ihowa, that Fighting Joe has contrived with his army, to get back Jo the North side of the Rappahannock. What next ? Will fighting Joe hang hfcnself or wait to be hang ? Bennett threatened him in case of a failure with an awful fata. LATEST FROa THE RAPPAH AXNOCK. ESCAPE OF HOOKEfi'S ARMY. Richmohd, May 8, 10 A. M. The following has jut been received dated Chan eel lorsville, 7tb: . -7b At Excellency Prvident Dans: After'driving Sedgewick acrosa the Rappahan nock on the night of the 4th,I returned on the 3th to Chancellorsville. The march was delayed by a storm which con tinued all night and the following day. In placing the troops in position on the morn ing of the 6th to attack Hooker.I ascertained he.had abandoned his fortified position. .The. line of skirmishers pressed forward until they came with in range of the enemy'h batteries placed on the north side of the Rappahannock, which, from the configuration of the ground, completely command ed this Bide. Uis army therefore escaped with the loss of a ew additional prisoners. . Signed, S. E. 1.EE, Gen. Commanding. KF" Some days sinoe the Raleigh Progress stated that an original Secessionist of John s ton County, sold a lot of cotton to a party, and after delivering a portion of it for Con federate money, refused-to deliver the re mainder for that currency. The Raleigh Progress accompanied the statement with a gaseous threat, which, cp to this time, has not been executed, pf plaoing tb,e name of the original Secessionist on the roll of in famy." Why has not that threat been exe cuted by the potent Editor of the, Raleigh Progress ? Why has this threat been kept suspended, like the sword of Damocles, over the head of the unhappy original Secession ist by the cruel and at the same time potent Editor of the ! Progress f We wiU tell the reader. The Editor of the Raleigh Ptbgress is afraid to execute his threat. We defy him to da so, and we tell him frankly that if he does not come out with the name in twenty four hours after he reads what we are now writing tte will publish the whole transac tion, ruxmis and all, and let the public see who is the original Secessionist, whose name the potent Editor of the Raleigh Progress means to inscribe on the "roll of infamy." HuhoI The Henderson villa Times, of the 30lh April, say s j ; L.VJ. A man by the name of Grooms paid the penalty tha law by hanging U Wayne iville, N. C.on the 16th inst., lor killing a young man about twelva months ago, for courting bis daughter. It is said he spilt the young man 'a head open with V ? ?ttett.ehPPA Mm to pieces. Qrooma denied killing him to the last, though he was seen and lid tba killing on bis Wifo and daugh r, saying he was innocwit of the charge,- , Fiv Hwiri)axi Mi iv Ova avz a HAtr Horas. Some ot tha mosi dUtingulihed engi neers in Trance are said to have approvtd a plan for a railwsy from Paris to UarseUIes by which the journey, which now consumes eighteen hours, may be made in one hour and a half. The dU tance Is & hundred and ten miles. The plan, .i"011? 'Um. a which sliding is Xpu,nlD0n wh has been sfb mitted to the Emperor for hie approbation. , Oax!txi OxT. The eitiaens ef Washington; N. af having betrayed soma sympathy with the Col federates during the. siege .of that placethe amndr hat ordered that all ah.!! viour rerrtarkt on tna Jla-on-luisien corrc pondence, I tMfik equal to anything that has ever appeared in the Standard or eliQwhere. . The truth, ought to be tol to the originator! of thU cruel'war. It ia the only thing lacking to 'put them' ta theirtroe position. If they, were once as tbay should be torn of their corruptly pur. chaaed huDora the, people could rUe ia their niajety and maintain their rights." . t , " The .above u one of the ohoioe extracts madel by the Editor of. the Balelgw Standard from bis correspondence. We confmented on the Standard's remarks . on the Mason- Russell correspondence" at the" time they A Lm' mawnaAn nrtt 2 s . t - 4 x. IV -.V as unpatriotic, as taking Sides iWlth the dlS- rofnrAnrf'nf t hn YtrftiaK Mlnldlflr to- t , - ; .'.' wards this eountry; and recogoixmg, as far as wu aonoernea. vnii no uiuer uuuiuciu piper has done, the Yankee blockade as effi cient and lawful: The article of the Wan ard, we believed, and . still think, was not written?by its Editor, but by the "Eminent Lawyer" and avowed reconstruotionist and Yankee sympathiser, whose use' ad libitum of the Standard's editorial" columns has not and cannot be -denied. The correspondent from Rutherford but echoes the Standard when he charges upon the South the origina- tion of "this oruel war.?1 : The Standard . - made this charge two years ago, and its con frere, the "Eminent Lawyer," when disposed to do so, will tell any body that even now, while .we know that the Yankees have burnt ourtpwns, ravaged our ooasts, stolen our property,-viola ted our women,' shot down our people in cold blood,tnd done every other act and thing which Cin brand the perpetrators with undying mfa- my, they have been a slandered people," and that "Southern soldiers have perpetrated on Southern people greater outrages than ever have been inflioted by the Yankees! !" Great Qodl And: the man ottering these to remain in the capital of a State in the' heart of the Confederacy, and pour forth his treason through the columns of a paper of whose circulation its proprietor is constantly boasting! Yes! herein Raleigh, the Capi tal of a State which has Bent forth thousands and tens of thousands, and twenties and fif ties and sixties and seventies .of thousands of its bravest and best to repel the brutal invaders of our homes, a man, eminent in his profession, and but lately an omoer under the State Government, walks abroad and proclaims that .Yankees have been slandered, and that Southern soldiers have done the mischief to Southern people1 that the men who, with their lives in their hands, have left "wife, children and friends," and all the endearments of home, to drive back a foe whose proclaimed errand is our subjugation or tftrminatinn. hftTa-ono tis the Greatest I t - I ' o I of wrongs! . What an insult to the memory of the gallant dead whose bones bleach on so many Southern fields, aqd , whose blood was a libation poured forth 'on the altar of Southern Liberty ! ' What an aggravation of the unutterable woes of widowed women and orphaned children I Is not this mau's; mid night couoh haunted by the shades of these martyrs in the cause! of Liberty ? ' Does be not hear the wails of the widow and the fath erless 1 Or is he as callous as those for whose dark deeds he, is aa apologist, and with whom tie again wishes to live in union and. claim as' his fellow-citizens ? i GALLANT CONDUCT. We learn from an nfficial .and perfectly reliable eonree that the following men of Whitford's Battalion, have greatly distln gnished themseryes by attacking and taking prisoners from the Yankee rear guard. ; i Privates . Wo. Caton, John Oatoa, and Alexander Pritchett. '.-- -.vyt " . . a Sergeant S. Dixon, Privates B. Edwards, J. Griffin, Henderson HU1, 8. Whitford, Henry Gaskins, L. Furlder, J. Emerell, T. Askins, and James SpOoh. In the oase of the first three mentioned, L the captures were made in fnll view of a Yankee Brigade, and they were a week in getting their prisoners out of the swamp and through the Yankee lines. "All the captures' were boldly and. successfully made. -Such gallant conduct as this deserves the highest praise, and we have reason to believe that it has not esoaped the attention of the General commanding. . . ' . ' 1 Col. Zabvoxx. This distinguished victim to the implacable hatred of Lincoln and hit minions, arrived in Richmond 'yesterday from Petersburg, having been exchanged several days since at City Point ; Yesterday CoL Zarvona . had inn inter view with Oov.Letcher,and wsawarmly.we'comed by him. He .afterwards reported to Adjutant General Richardson for duty, and visited General winder. lie was everywhere welcomed with a warm greeting, and the expression of sat -faction at bis. having escaped the horrors of Fort Lay fay -e tte endured by him tinea 1861 was universal. Prom long confinement in a dungeon, the health of Col! Zarvona has bean much, impaired. On his way from Port Lafayette he war-put in Fort Dela ware for two weeks. He reports that Cant. Ro. ,W. Baylor, of the Jefferson county cavalry, is retained mere and rerused an exchange, the Yan kees say because he fired on a flag of trace. - Thia Baylor pronounced a fiction. Before his capture he was very energetic in his movements against tha Yankees, and this hat more to do with his be ing kept than, any violation by nim of the rule, of if it. RUifioond DimpwUh, ttf. ? Frbui ibe Kicdmond xmi&er of Wednesday. PROil ' FREDERICKSBURG T II R E E ' VICTORIES IN ONE DAY THfi YANKEE ARMY -'DRIVEN NORTH OF ; THE RAPPAHANNOCK G EN EB AL JACKSON SHOT BY HIS OWN TROOPS IN THE -NIGH T HIS : "WOUNDS. , ; ' , The following dispatch .was received from Geuiaci's last night : if, . r Hraas, 10 o'clock,' A." M , May 5, 1863. To lira ExceclKnct Pbksidknt Davis : :.. i, :Ai the close of the" battle of Chancelloraville, on Sunday, ,the enemy was reported advancing from Fredericksburg In our rear; - General Mc Lawar waa seot back to arrest bis progress, and Mnnliiul fclm hftndKemlv.that afternoon. Learn-: l lnw.Vit thf fare consisted of two COID3, under u u M - w J . . . r m - 1 Generat SeJeewick.I determined to attack it.and m9Ihe(i 6lck yertarday with General Anderson, I anA .rfnftincr wtfi' McLaws and Early m the at- ternoon. succeeded, by the blessing of HcaTen, in .;'General Sege wick over the river. We nmv reocc-upieu rrwouwuu'6i "-r;. retnaint sbutb of the Rappahannock in its vicin- "(Signed,' ' "ROBERT E. LEE, General." From this it Will be seen that our armies were thrice victorious on the sam d&j. Hooker, was Koaten. Ia addition; to the above, our information ai to r UUl iuivi - h r.ptionlAr nf three ereat battles menuonea therein amounts fo next to nothing. We have beard of no casualties with sufficient certainty to fael authorize! lo publish tnem. , hra vMtedavibv the announcement that a J&- irram harf hsen rpaivd from uenerai jlhw.ubmhb, that Hooker and bis stafl had Deen capiureu. The only foundation for thw .tory,ittarnedbot,y.. last that AtrainsSn 1 . a & Jfa.K Sia mm A m I J .11 n AO S lii T ft i III Hi 1 LliH r - . , waa fhat the oneratOT at 'Guinea's iuformed th operat ft , hore that such a report was in circula tion at the former place. A teleerram on vesteriav morning announced the fact that General Jackson's arm bad been am- nntatnd. and that ha was doinsr well. Mrs.-ack son. who is at present in the city, has been inform ed by a letter of the melancholy circumstances under which the General received nis wounus. Thelollowiag are the facts of most unhappy. fhaflftttpr? At midnitrht. on Saturday night, his men beinr drawn up in line of battle, a body of troops was seen at a snor aw- uuiua iii nuiauuo v oui uuo. w...0 whether they were friends or enemies, usneral Jackson and staff rode forward to ascertain. Whilst he was engaged in reconnoitering, bis men beinr unaware of his movemeni, mtstooK himielf and staff for enemies and fired a volley Into them, instantly killing one of his stall and severely wounding General Jackson an 1 .Major Crutchfleld. One bullet passed tnrougn tne uen- eral'a right hd. whilst another struck his left arm below tha elbow and; raneinsr unward. snatterea the Done near the shoulder. He instantly fell to r - a the pronnd. His brot&er-m law. wno was wun him, laid down beside him to ascertain the cnar- acier of his wounds. In a moment the unknown troops in front, who proved to be the enemy, ad vanced and captured two omer stan omcers wuo were standing over the General without notic ing him. Soonafter, four of our men placed nim on a stretcher, and were, bearing hltn to tne rear, when thev were' all shot down. The injury, to his rieht band is severe, one of the bones having been shot awav. but it is believed he will ulti mately recover its use. J From the Richmond Enquirer of Tu'wday. THE YANKEE RAID. The Yanttee forces lately engaged in raids upon the. railroads, were composed of twenty-eight reg imen t, all under Gen. Stoneraan, a force of, at least, 15,000 men. The detachment of so large a body of troops upon such ao expedition, while a battle like that iusttougnt in epoisyiyania was in actual delivery, will rem'in one ot toe mex nlicablemanoeavies of Yankee s'rategy. Fifteen . . . - .-- i j thousand cavalry is a mot tormiuaoie iorce, anu, , i 3 it.. :i i ; v. judiciously used,on the baitle-field, might have caused us irreparable loss. But Hooker has seen fit to expend this formidable force, not upon tne battle field, but upon the undetended rauroaa?, and what damage las he done? From all we can gather, . tnree engines bave beeftDartiallv destroyed, the. rails torn up at sev eral points on the lines, creating a delay of trans- portation or possibly two or inrea cays, xae ex aCVamount of the injury done to the railroads, has not been ascertained, ana tne rumors aaa rep'rw tare so conflicting and contradictory that is it folly to repeat them. VVe iearn rrom a gentleman who was captured by them at Aihlartd, and whose horse was taken, that no damage was done to tho cars, except, perhaps, to the engine; that the force was expecting to be captured; that a Col, Davis, commanding the force, so expressed himself; that hungry, dispirited and jaded, many of the men expressed openly a desire to be captured. Their main object was avowed to bo the destruction of the Central Railroad bridge over ibe (Jbikanomi ny, which they acconlplished. Not being grati fied by being captured, .they are said to ha va cross ed the Chickahominy at Meadow Bridges, and gone over the Pamunkey at Uld Cburcb, and to be making their way either to Gloucester Point or the Rappahannock, Another party under Col. Windham passed J through Louisa county -towards Columbia, on the canal, and being olio wed by tien. W..U. F.Lee, were overtaken and dispersed with the losi of thirty prisoners and six killed. The destruction pr injury of the canal was! prevented by Gen. Lee, raiiv nfka unfiMd In fi)rtu 1 h am n nnn' thafi rataa rom the blown and jaded condition of his horses. . i; . . Towards yesterday afternoon public excitement abated, as the true intelligence came in, as to the extent and design of the depredations committed by the enterprising raid -makers, from the other side of the Rappahannock. The particulars? of the raid at TrevillianV. Louisa and Frederick's Hall, on the Central road,,, were given on-fes.ter-day, ar nearly as could be; ascertained. We havo further intelligence of the; attack on Ashland, and yesterday's ne ws of the raid on other points, which may be summed up as follows : The enemy, about five hundred strong, (caval. ry,) entered Ashland about half-past four o'clock, on Sunday afternoon, and piled up a dumber of logs on the railroad track, to obstruct tha passage ot the down train - which soon after ; appeared. As it came up, tney took possession pf it, setnre to the engine and several ef the oars, after" rob bing mail cars of a bout a peck of miscellaneous letters, (none of any importance.) and, detaching a portion of the train e-jiitaining about two hun dred sick and wounded Con fed era tea, a part of whom escaped, the rest were paroled. ,' y They tore up soma twenty-five feet of the track at Ashland Station, and performed asimilar "feat" some half a mile below, besides breaking into a small wooden culvert, which latter was the principal damage done on the road.- The engine of the material train, which they also captured, they ran off the track, but did not injure it, Their last achievement was tne Durning or Air? Crenshaw'a barn, ' in Hhe vicinity. The whole amount of damage will be repaired by to-day. From Ashland y proceeded to Atlee's on tte Central rafl'road, whicji they reached yesterday morn in?, where thev tore up a' portion of the 1 tracK, and came down to tne unicxanommy ana destroyed the bridgeAn old locomotive.the uAu. KUfta" which was recaatured from the enemy last year, was sent up with several persons on board to ascertain damages, and reached Atlea s just in time to be taken, the passengers escaping by tak ing to the wood. Tha engine waa set agoing by ? the Yunkees," and ran Intd tha.(JhicVahouiiny at iho PldS which they had caed in. The-dam ' age done here was "very slight tio bridge being a Bmaifrvuucern, ana tne rest of the dipage hard ly wonh mentioning U, h ww- Pary ,lctl m concert with (heae,. pots, doing no other .injury . wrthy4 ootice. tV rv"',"vlHy W,:WMU i.?.u iney.indq.-proceeded down the North bahk of Willwmsbarg. There.were many rumors afloat as wBrr -movements after tTiir oparauorjaf, at Alleys, which wjd-eni Unnecessary to mention, there being 'no truth in thena. - Above U to be bund all-that Approaches relia bility as 'to thelhfiiVw rlnnn hv thmtt rairli ' t r j .,. .1 ! j ----- -j . , From the Richmond Eiaminer, pf Wedneiday! - THE GREAT, YANKEE RAID. ! The faid Was still the theme of public conver- gation yesterday, and thousands of wild ru mors and circulation. But the edge of the thing was evidently worn off, and stories which would have been greedily swallowed on the day before were received,, with' wholesome- skepticism. ' Several unshM!catcd farmers, "who galloped ibeir hr83S into town to bring information of the advance of countlesi t Yankees, got only derision for their pains.' Yet, after tha boldness evinced by tha en- i .i -i - ' i -'"' . 4 i v - rr . -r"v vi "u. ykj thorities to arrest his career,, citizens could! not 1 Entirely easy. He hadheen permitted to cross ,pD Brook creek and come wi-.bin two miles ofithe city, and there Was no absolute assurance that he i mitiui. nut repgitk ami wvuu eiiRiiu uia yuU i ' whebic 'TUET yankek cavalry are. un the Fredericksburg road to repair the track, pad been frightened back when within three miles of Ashland by tie report that the Yankees held that place in force and had cannon planted on Ibe track. Tte telegraph operator, who was on his train,- refused to return, and proceeded on a hand car to Ashjand. Jiarly yesterday morning he tfle graphed to Richmond that there was no enemy in sight and that all was quiet- He, however-, said that residents informed him that during '.the pW vious day Yankee pickets had at different times looked into, the place. We -think there is jitle doubt that the scoundrels were looking twr sqme one to whom they might give themselves upi The. operator during the morning connected She broken wiroj, thereby ait once putting tfia city! in communication with Guinea Station. This ras prima facie evidence that lb ere wa3 no one jay along tho entire line of thi3 railroad.. Repirts. were constantly brought in that there were se veral, large bodies of hostile cavalry scattered over tho country of the upper James rver, burning he barns and dwellings, and driving off the npgroes and stock. About ten'o'clock a farmer livingfon tho " Westham plank road, two miles wst of he city, came in with the announcement that three thousand Yankee cavalry had bivouacked oil bis place the night before, and were, at the time of the temng, sua mere, x wo nours later,, tne om la dies the city heard and tremblingly believed that a column' of six hundred thousand mount ed Yankees were marching on Richmond by the towpath of the James river and Kanawha Carial. But the best opinion on the subject of the where abouts of the enemy was that be bad swept py like an innocuous whirlwind and was gone. After leaving Hanover 'Court House .and the Caicka- homigy Bridge, he was next heard from ini New Kent county, their appearance at which place de serves a separate notice. 1 Col. R. T. W. Duke of the 46 '.h Virginia, be ing in the lower end of New Kent with one hun dred and fifty men, j-eceived orders to repair to Richmond. Embarking his men on train on the xur& iiver raiiruau no proceeaea to ooey tDe or der. As the train reached Tunstall's station 4 miles from this city, it was fired int x bysom foijr hundred Yankee cavalry : The cars were instant ly slopped and the boys of the gallant 46th io- I : t- j -. .f Li.iiL .Jj 6tantly springing out; formed in line of battle and returned the fire cf the enemy. The Yankees, afraid to charge, tood off at long range and used their carbines. Col. Duke, seeing; that the Yan kees had ho thought of coming to close quarters, ordered his men to chartre. At the near approach ef our men they wheeled and fled, not, bywevefh without loss. They left six men" dead upon the field ; and flilaen others, among whom was Lieut. Marsh, were taken prisoners." ; ANOTHER AQCOXT31T OF- THE FIGHT. Tha following ia .furnished bv a .narttc'ioant in the fights On Moriday, the 4th iqst-i.Col. Puk with the 46th Virginia regiment, of Gen. Wise's rm - j - .- 7 & w ii i brigade,.ar rived at Tunstall's station, from below New Kent Court House, where his regiment, tof gether with other portions of Gan. Wise's .com mand, have been doing good service. Col. Duke was under orders to report ror duty at liicwnqna; with his regiment, the old 46th, Before the time fortbe train to leave, Alaj. Wise rode a short dis-t tance iroid the depot, and met a regiment of cav alry. : He, hailed to know who they were. ' The reply was; "We are Virginia cavalry." "Then bait," saii the Major, "and let the, officer in com- mand advance alone." The whole body charged on him. and when in a fe paces many fired, but without enact, xie wneeiea nis norse and aasnea hjipfe- tn tha denot. The Yankees for it waa' a portion of their cavaTry bich had made the1 late: raid-dashed up and fared on our men sitting on the open "fears. But they found they had ridden; jin to a hornet's nestF for quick aa thought the 46th; responded in such manner as to drive tham awav. and thus save the railroad. Col. Duke, with his officers and meo, . deserve great credit for their crallant conduct, as the. Yankee force was 'five to, one. The enemy had many of their horses killed, and nve tanen , six oi ineir men were Killed and , thirteen taken prisoners. , We had only two man wounded. Doubtless In 'future they will beware of s tne wise men, ( raiders captured; All told,; twenty-two of the Yankees engaged in the raid near the city have been captured. Six were taken by. the citizens on Monday, fifteen by Col. DukeJ at Tunstall's, and one coolly rode into the city and d wn to the doors of the Libby pris on, and delivered himself up. i Just as the adven turer; reached the Libby all the Yankee prisoners then in the1 city were dn the point of being sent to City Point under flag of truce. When the I rai der was informed that he was to be. sent to his own country immediately, he expressed great dissatisfaction, and said he thought it was not do ing tha right thing by him ; that he bad expected 1 have peen permitted to remain a lew days to see the city. . ; .' , Among , the prisoners taken are Lieutenant Marsh, of the 4th New York cavalry. ' His left arm wa3 fractured in the elbow during the en Eftsemartt. ! Ha would have ben retained hero until recovered of his wound, but that a Yankee 1 surgeon who examined him said -he would run no risk by 'making the trip.&Diring his short ttay at the Libby prison he conversed freely 1 with the o ulcers in charge. He said that Hooker's cavalry force amounted to Upwards of twenty thousand, but that only about a thousand bad .coma further south than Liuisa Court House, and that none of them had expected to escape capture. ' THE NtJMBSR OF TH Ti.SK KB CAVALft'X, We see np reason to change, tha opinion ex Sressed ou yesterday, that the whole force of thq Tankae cavalry engaged in tho, raid near this city aid- not exceed eight hundred, comprisin g jtogeiher, the' 12ih - Illinois and 4tb New York regiments,' commanded repectively, by Colonala m : : 1 r- . ., i , i s Lfivia ana jiipatnck. Bat that th original "xpeditijn, of which that Just mentioried was an oflshoot, was vastly mora numerous, we have good reason to believe. There arrived in this citv on veslerdav two young men, W. B. Fitzgerald and J, B. Biewuv - m vt 'iw v irgmia cavairy wno were on Uatnr uav nasen prisoners bvthe YankAM. t locality known as Orange Spring, in the county . xuojr wre i a me nanus oi tne x an- kees during Saturday and Sunday, and what we shall now sterw what they learned by beresay Ay,d. . tthiArvajkin durif fif their captivity. On Fridaythe first day of May, Gf heral Stone man crossed the Rappahannock at Kelley'a Ford. ari'i nie iiHpiaa, at itaccoon Ford, with the following regiments of cavalry : Harris' light cavairy, ine ist juoryiand,; 1st Hew, Jersey, 1st Maine, 2d New York, 10th New York, 9th Pennsylvania Lnhcerp, 2i 5th and 6th regulars, 3d Indiana, 4ti New- York mounted rifles, and .iu jli.iui.m9. na proceeaea airect to tne L. antral railroad, of which he took possession from Treviliian's. nine miles southeast of ftnr. donsvillr, to Fieierick'a Hall , a p iat . fifty miles iruiu jA,iennjonay tbe course 4pf tne. railroad. At Thompson's Cross Roads, near thetailread he encountered and destroyed sixteen wagons Jb- ionging to lienerarvv, H. F. Leo's division and enroute for Gordonsville. Having established bimself on the seventeen miles of railroad indica ted, he sent detachments against Columbia, Gooch land Court House, and nerhans other nlacea. Along; with these partios were sent three batteries of flying artillery of six guns each. Sir Percy Wyndham and General Buford were on Stone- mana staff. -Our informants heard that Averili and Stabl, with separate commands, crossed the Rappahannock, at the aame time with Stonemah, but could not learn .whither they had gpnev The country peole along the railroad fled, at the ap proach of? the enemy. To this, however, there was cne ignoble 'exception. A matt- at Louisa Court House named Hodges, a deserter from tha Twenty-sixth Virginia, welcomed the Yankees with many demonstrations of joy, took the oath of allegiance and tried to persuade our 'informants to do the same. Four deserters from Confederate regiments aho took the oath at Louisa Court JLiouse. The iankees tendered them the oath J and tben cursed them aud kicked them out of camp for taking it. As much of the foregoing information was necessarily received through Yankee sources, it may he believed .or utterly dis carded, according to the fancy of the reader THE TRAIL OF THE RAIDERS. ' We have been at soma pains to ascertain the routes taken by the Yankee cavalry during the recent raid, and give the reader the result of our investigations. On Saturday a heavy force of cavalry, pe&utjas six thousand took . possession of the Central railroad between Treviliian's and Frederick's Hall. The 4lh New York Rifles, Cobonel Kilpatrick, between four and five "oun dred strong, started towards Goochland. We lose sight ot them from. Saturday until Sunday night, when they appeared on the northeastern border of that county. On Mbnoay ibey burnt Hungary station on the Fredericksburg road, and thence came towards - Richmond, crossed the Brooke, stole Stewart's and Young's horses near tne city, and tnen lul lowed the recently construct ed -military road leading to the Chickahominy bridge, near the Meadow Bridges. ! After de stroying a portion of the Chickahominv bridee and the engine Auguata, they took up their line of march for the Old Church in Hanover. The Twelfth Illinois, Col. Davis, left Lonisia C 13. at the same time with the New York .fourth. They reached -Ashland about three o'clock Sunday-evening, captured the ambulance train, and after paroling the sick and wounded burning two engines, and cutting the telegraph wires, proceeded to Hanover Courthoose, on the Central road, . .'' v We have already mentioned the performances oi wis pariy at ma piace. xney lett there on Monday morning earl v. and at eleven o'clock. A. M.t attacked the York River train at Tun stall's station. Afier being defeated by the Forty sixtn Virginia, it is believed that they repaired to the neighborhood of the Old Church, and formed a junction with the Fourth New York, and the whole crossed the Pamunkey at New Castle, or some of the fords lower down the .ream. . . It has been all along1 believed that a much heavier force than either of those just mentioned left LooisiaCourl House on Saturday mornjng, and . wnt in tho direction f Columbia, on -the J&jiei River Ctnal; v vlanv rumors of the inovti- ment8 of. this dotachment have reached us, but among them all, nothing in ftnv wise turstworthy or tangible. These Gen. William Hi F. Lee met and defeated at Columbia, from which place it is most probable that they returned to Columbia by the shortest cut. We hear a thousand rumors of another detachment who Have been operating be- iwutsu uuiuiuuia auu iuis city, uus vaeys ovme w us in such confused and questionable shape, that we can make noticing of them. One man brought the report last night that General Stone raan and staff were seen on Monday on the Three Chop rood filteen miles from tho city, but be could give no further account. The only certain intel- iigence we have from Goochland if that. forty negroes ran a way trom the Dover coal boats on Monday? night, and went in search of the Yan kees. " .. . V VV J. ' Whether .the enemy still hold the 'Central road at Louisia Court House-we have not learned. They werej there on Monday morning! and were reported to have done no injury of consequence to the road. If Stonedan has' heard the result of the battle of Cbancdlorsville, he has no doubt attempted to return north of the Rappahannock by the same route over which he: came. ' - ' thbT latest, ' At a late hour, last night General Pettigrew lescraphed from .Hanover Junction that' there was no enemy ih that vicinity. A great light, as of a house on fir, was seen in a due west direc tion by our pickets on the river, six miles from the city. 1 Cinnonading was believed to have beard in the same direction, but it may been thunder. , THE EXEMPTION ACT. : The following is a copy of tha act amenda tory of the ''Exemption Act" of last session, as passed by Congr.ess on last Thursday : ? ' ' . - - "an act To repeal certain clauses of an act entitled an act to exempt certain persons from, military service, etc:, approved 1 1th- October, 1862: 1, The Congress of the Confederate States of Americado enact;Thatso much of tie act approved October Uth, 1862, as exempts from military ser vice "one person, either as agen t, owner, or over seer, on each, plantation" on which one white per son is required to be : kaot by; thev laws or ordi nances of any Slate, and on which there . is no White maleadult not liaWe to military service, and in States having no such law), one person, as agent, owner, or overseers, on each plantation of twenty. negroes, and on which there is no white male adult not .liable tb military" aarvics, and also the following clause; of said act, to wit ; "and. fartbermore, for additional police for eue- f ry twenty negroes, on two or more plantations, within ove miles qj eacn otner, ana each having less'than twenty negroes, andon which there is jno white male adult not liable to military duty, ipn a, person being the eldest of the owners or oyer- seers on sucn piantaiioos, be and are uerepy re- -n .-5. . ; 2 Ff the police, and management of slaves there shall be exempted one person on each farni orplajitation, the sole property Of a minor, a per- V spn of unsound mind, a feme pole, or a person ab- s v j sent from home in the military or navat service ot " tha Confederacy,' oa which (here are twenty or more siaves,proMtetf, the person lo exempted was. employed and acting as an overseer previous to the 16th April, 1862, and there Is ao whHe malo adult op said farm oV pUnlation who U not liable to military duty, which fact shall be verified by the affidavits of said person and two rMDctable ciiizehfr and shall fc filed with the rffioor;. andi provided; the-owner ol auch faifm or 1 plan tatiod, his1 agent r legal rerresentativ. shall iitA f!l'iU and deliver thesamo to the lehtolliiig offlcer.that after diliir en t effort no oversee. can be procured. for such farm or-plantation not liable to nsilttary dutyj providedutthcrf that this elauts shall . ttof-W ' extend to any frm or plantation ion which the v i negroes have been placed' by f division from any other farm or pIantation,;ainea the 11th day of October, 1862: provided further, that for every ; person exempted a aforesaid, and during the pe riod of such exempti6n, there shall be paid annu ally into the pubfio treasury bj the owners of such slaves, the sum of five hundred dollars.' 1 " 38uch other persons ihalll' be empted as thV President shall be ;tatfied ought to be exwnpted,-. r i in oissncia or country deprived or white or slave labor indispensable to the nrodectlon oCerain or provisions, neccessar for the iupport of the pop ulation remain in is at home, anid alse. on aca jnnt of justice, equity, And necessity. " : !y - 4. m addition to the State o fucers exempted by the act of October, llth 1862 there shall, .also,. be exeihpted.aU State officers, whom 'tho Govern or of any State may claim to have exempted for the due administration of tho Gvernment and laws thereof; but thia exemption shall not contin ue inany State after the adjournment of the next regular session of iu Legislature,! unless such Legislature shall by law exempt them from mili tary duty in the Provisional Army of tha Confed erate States,; , '.,., :....! s- . ,- CHURCH B 17 R NINO IN. FLORIDA-A . i SCENE.' ; A letter from Jacksonville, i Fla., givi an ao- count of the scene which followed the barbarous burning of xthe Catholic Church there by' tho th r" Maine regiment, fresh from the land of convent .-.'S burning mobs and "Hiss" inquisition committees. The two Irish companies having Leon sent out of tfiVway on purpose; the . Maine regiment marched up to the Church, and, after glutting their . beastly minds by desecrating the house of God,cut ting and defacing thesaCred symbol of religion, ' set fire to the building, destroying everything, The clergy man's dwelling shared the same tate. Nought was respected, dolhingj saved. ! . The news of these outrages havxngf reached the -Irish, companies, they rushed fto. tha sconce of ' wanton destruction, but too late to save. Many actually wept because of their ioabilHy to do any good. ; Tpen, filled with hate at the doers of this mischief, and unmindful of the disparity of num't v" bers, they tamed upon the D wn Easters, wheU a fierce street fight ensued, whioh could onl, be quelled by the ordering put of the entire Yankee , force, whose-united eft' rts wore necessary to dls-' arm the two companies. I., ; ,- The Irishmen were carried on boSrd the gun boats in irons, Still defiart, and swearing yet" to wreak an ample vangeanca upon the slab-sided I ' sons of Maine. An It'uh. o3cur assured me, bo and his men were amply punishisd for! fraternizing ' and fighting with such dastards as these Yankees, ' and although now in a minority they would yet land where other Irish, troops would hear their ' story, and the fight would be renewed until satis ' faction was bad,' Fob tbi Ri eisTia. T0 MISS LIZZIE W. E- r fassib a. In childhood's bright and hakpy hours, .'- Er wa had learned the world's eol ways. We gave each other friendships flowSra We.loveb each other's praise. Side by side, we tripped along! The sandy path to tha old school. room ., , Bright our facss, gay oar socg, free oar tools from gloom. . Ah I Jittlo dreamed car bduyant hearts,' '. That either ever could grow oold, And pierce the other with keen darts - Trom the poignard that falie friendship's holJ. Bat a chasm yawns between us now-f- Si , lhou movest on the sonnv tide-i . - 'I know not whenoe it eame nor howj , L .1 only know 'tisdeep and wide. . r - Thy bosom now' doth never.heare , When anguish swells mine ewn, And tha dark hoars through whieh Igrlere, Art all to tht$ unknown, j ; I woald not have thee elasp again j 1 - v Qn earth the blading links ojf yorej ' But in Htac Lizzie, throw the chajn V - Around my yiolding heart onoe mere. ..' i i ' ...... TaOPBtKBOMX, N, C. .- 5W FOKXHlIUafT. "I CONTRAST. f J u - The Roses have pat forth m lai And the bloom is on the pea i l And the hamming bird is shoetlngpait, ' la wildly wanton glee j i J f. Th mocking bird isull of Song, And the clouds are fall of rai&f And every breeie'that sighs along!, . Says, Spring time's eomji again . au here, is peaoe, and quiet, bat " On Rappahannock's horey ' h Death rides upon the hortling shot . " Shoals in tho cannon's roar if j i And tftere, instead, of .song of bltdsi . And ro;es springing bloom. The jar of battle's rattling chords. Its blood red dyes of Doom. ' And therm, instead of springing llfei , Warmed by the South wind's breath, " . Tha ghastly Areher whets his knifc ' To earva the feast orDeathi l auu Are, uuteaa oi oamaiers song, mtn varied doloet tones, j The roar of eoafiiot heaves' along, I With mlnglad yeMs and groans.1 Let' him who roams without alarm. ' With flowers around his feet, ,f ' Think on the soldier's weary armj . His bloody Tindtog sheet i! ; F , i , And as he views his peaceful home j With ealm and hopefut midf Offer a brotheti hand to iJUm The oWi'r left behind. ' r. The spring is very backward here iadaeJ Bzu3ra-i.YVU.i.e. Mav Srd. X8S3. M u I 1 h I V I: XJK1 'ii .. - . . ' - - - ..a. i- ...... i , - k a - . ; ' -- . . ? ; ; . ': I - . v .. . . .... , , ' - ; . - ' k,
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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May 13, 1863, edition 1
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