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r c i :1 v THE CONFEDERATE. A. 2t. GfJTttAs X CO., Proprietors. "TERMS : DAILY EDIT105, for 6 months flj . 3 " i , 1 " - : J TRl-WSF.KLY, frr C months 10 . 3 o WKKKLV EDlTIOX.for fi iuonth 5 ',nno-cription will b received oi ht other lrni5 than the above, "or for a longer or shorter priol. TO CONFEDERATE; , ADVfiRTISIla. . ibVrRTIrfiESrt'lfTR will bo lBserUdjSlTiasB'. Lifts' per sonars f ten lines (of less) tottwh" fnsertion. XJarrisre Notices sad cslfaartrt will b fMl Vtifcla sortlftsssevts. a- n . mm -m w m w w i r nK JOB WoMT,f every, dcpcrffitina w'm le ea VOL. 1. RALEIGH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1864. NO. 23. t'tftr1 at thi. Iffifs with 3irrtcb.e1 as neatlv as nsdosH. fftywh6ro ii 4e SiffYsV Ode. 9f. w WEEK 1 TOE Mr. Holden's Question." Tin inorninjr w have u-.thing to do. and Mr. I!!Jn hu filled last issne with his tlnn lcroMS imputation, we bioh to cca-y the tiefan-.Tc long enough to put the matter at rest; ar. 1 we mea.i to auswrr his-queatiuns for Go. Vnc; tlronj:hlj an. J issptetfully ; not with any tain hope that he will do us justice, nor becauso we suppose for a moment that he ha any honest moti; bat because we wish to in form the publie, once for all, that all Mr. lloldcn'g insinuations ia this Matter, are slanderous; and that his character may he the more thoroughly exposed t the public viw. To the questions : First Did nit yen (Go. Ya) know when you appointed Col McRae, that yea al ready hid a State .Agent in Europe, and that the Urge expense of Col. McRae's mission would be unnecessarily inerred ? " Answer The contract with Mr. Sanders stipulated for its execution at Halifax, Nova 8,oti, and thero was no intention forCol. IdcRao to proceed to Europe. "But Major Sanders (the son of Mr. Geo. N. Panders) was aptured, hi papers seized, the whole plan ef operations, so far as Halifax was concerned, was exposed to the enemy, and it was rendered impossible to execute it at Halifax ; and the interest of the State, nndjusticc to Mr. Sanders, re quired Col. McRae to go on to Europe ; and tiii-t Mr- il-ldeo knew from the contract, The nstnncea of the second question Is " wly df en rot Got. Vance require 0)1. Mc Iia" to ?eUle j'jeounts with the Auditor ?" In tliis question thero is much of state m nt ; and coming from Mr. Holden, much of trior. It is not tru that Col. McRae was eve r d tuiitd a an Editor; that any private comruutte was appointed to settle his ac counts. Col. Me Ran became an editura few days bef.re the passage of the law exempting cditi r-, ir:d is exempted bj virtuo of that law. Mr. Rattle and Mr. Rogers were not a com mit tee to settle Col. McRaA'g accounts; but tley were Trquestid to arbitrate and deter mine liir. compensation, an he had become en titled to additional compensation by reason of the im position of additional duties, after the compensation had been fixed by Gen. Martin ( r the original duties. It was necessary to fix ti e conipcr satiou before the " accounts could be pent to the AudiW for settlement. These gentlemen reduced Col. McRae 'a com pensation below t!ie amount agreed on origi nally "with Gen. Martin, and ho was unwil ling to abide their decision; for it wan not within the scope of the arbitration. The reRons why Gov. Vance does not re quire, and Col. McRae dees not submit his accounts to the Auditor for settlement are two ; First, Major Weston, the agent whom .'ol. McRao appointed when he resumed, and who has disbursed the funds, hus been obliged to correspond. with the Governor relative to certain c f the ods which did not com up io the samples ; it beiuj; his purpose in this eorrftpondence to protect tho interest of the State by 'obtaining on these goods a diminu tion cf price. (Does Mr. Holden object to this?) lie has also been obliged to settle with an insurance company, for damage to some of the goods shipped, and this has in volved delay. Col. McRae has written to Major Weston, urging the transmission of his accounts current ; for he is more anxious for a settlement than Mr. II olden cao possibly te. The second reason against a settlement ran le removed by Gov. Vince at any moment. Col. McR.ie claims an additional compensa tion for the additional service he was called on. to render, to wit: tho effecting the negotia tion itself. Is this not fair? What does Mr Ilwlden sav to it ? Is this not his habit' with reference to the public priming? For superintending Mr. Sanders' contract, Gov.' YancM agreed, on Gen. Martin's suggestion, to allow $5,000, and $300 per month. Col. McRae claims for the further service, about 1 per cent, on the negotiation, f he and Gov. Vance cannot agree, Col. McRae is willing to refer it to a jury. Is Mr. Holden opposed to this? Col. McRae "is willing to trust the people." Now what has Col. McRae done? He has negotiated a sale of the State bends, for the delivery of Common Rosin "at Wilmington, for one pollar a bahbkl ; and the contract will show that he has netted for the State seTenty-lTve eents per barrel, aftor paying all expenses. Mr. Holden is invited to find a man who will question the excellence of the bargain. For two hundred and twenty-eight thousand barrels of this Common Rosin, Col. McRae has placed in the hands of Major Dowd : 6000 . Over-coats, 6000 Pants, 6000 Jaekets, 6000 Shirts, 6000 Caps, 10,000 Blankets, 10,000 pair Shoes. And the balance in Cloths. The Rosin sold will cost the State, if purchas ed now, about $3 per barrel, or $684,000. The ten thousand pairs of shoes will sell at $100 a pair, or one million of dollars so that the shoes alone will pay for the whole operation, and the balance is clear gain. Having effected such an operation having risked capture by the enemy to do so to saj nothing of the risk of loss of life Col. McRae J has thought five pr cent commission was a J reasooablo charge. It is much less than private companies ymy for similar agencies, nd not more than other States, and the Confederate government pay. We have thus answered Mr. nolden's que .tions, calmly, temperately, fully and frankly. If he possesses a epark 9 manly or honest principle, Le will repent; and net even for malice, nor eat of desperation, continue this ' silly assault. , There is 000 question put by Mr. Holden which merits another answer. He asks: 'And how much gold has Col. McRae re-j ceived, besides the eleven thousand dollars ' which he claims ?" We answer, hot a cent ! neither received, nor. to be recived ; and if Mr. Holden moans ' thU aa anything more tan one of his political attacks then it furnishes evidence of the base ness nf hii own son I, to a degree that wo had notcoHC-ived of him. If it is only ne of hie "honest arts," then it is in aecord with tke habits of his life, and not furtker worth oar notice. In conclusion If Mr. Holden does not wisk us to receivo the compensation we have earn ed, but would like to see it go to a good object, let him accept our proposition lot him con tribute a like sum to the mutilated soldiers, and they shall have ours. He is rich and able has not lost a dollar by tho enemy. : We have am tend reJ, for tho public good ; what wo could easily have saved. But we arc willing to give again. Will Mr. Holden . give to the mutilated soldiers? We take pleasure in laying the following Card from Dr. Leigh before eur readers. Oar article to which it refers, as stated by us yester day, was based upon what we bad heaid fro if others ; and we are glad to record the refutation coutaiued in this Card, as well aa in tho, com munication of " A Siek Soldier, " in another column : G ehkrax Hospital, No. 8, Rnleigh, June 28th, 18(54. Editor Confederate. In reply to an article in your papor of this date, headed ' Peace Institute Hospital," allow me to ay that the statements thcreinnade are incorrect. The patients in this Hospital, in addition to the regular army rations, have all the delicacies that this market will afford. As regards the cleanliness of this Hospital, it will compare favorably with any in the State. From its location it is impossible to place the latrines so that they will not be contiguous to the roads if a proper regard is had to tke health of the patients. This Hospital is open to the in spection of any one who desires to learn the truth, and they can see for themselves the facts upon which the complaints are based. H. G. LEIGH, Surgeon in oharge. Justlc to the Soldiers. The Fayettevillfl Observer, at the sugges tion of a "venerable citixen," proposes a meas ure which we think worthy of earnest conside ration. It is that Congress should give to each soldier a Confederate bond for $500 or 1 $1000, not transferable, bat with interest pay able semi-annually, principal payable at the end of 20 years. We agree with the Observer, that there are many considerations which favor this idea. In the first place, the s ddiers have not been adequately paid, as all admit, 3 d this not for laek of will, but only because of tho want of means. $500 or JklOOO would in some meas ure atone for this; aud posterity can and ought to pay it. In the next place, tho game of the demagogues who will be prepared to preach repudiation that infamous idea would bo effectually blocked. Not a man of them would ever dare to broach'sach an idea, if there were a million or half a million of such bonds in the hands of as many soldiers or their widows and orphan children. Still again, it would do much towards putting an end to desertions. Only those would receive such a bond as continued In the rarvtce faith ful to the and, or bad been disabled in tho ser vice, or the represents?) ve of such as had sacrificed their lives in service. To all these it would not only be an annual pension, but would be more a badge of honor, the highest that a grateful country could bestow upen the achievers of its liberties its saviors, under God, from a worse than Egyptian bondage. Deserters would be marked by being refused a participation in this benefit. It is pxjposed that the bonds should cot be transferable, for the puipose of saving the recipients from the clutches of the speculators. We do not think that any one will object to such an addition to the national debt. The country owes that, and mucli.more, to the brave soldiers. And its independence achiev ed, the Confederacy will sprjng forward in such a career of prosperity as will enable it to meet all its obligations, large though they may b. Aw Editor's Idea of Babiis. An edi tor who has been married about a year, speak- ! tag of his baby, says :The delight of the j days, the torments of tho nights elegant in ! full dress, but horrible in dishabille beauti-1 ful on the smile, but maddening on the yell exquisitely in place in the nursery, but aw fully out of place in the parlor, or railway carriage the well-spring of delight, and the recipient of unlimited spankings the glory of " pa," and tho happiness of " ma," who wouldn't bavo 'em? Far the Confederate. Pbac HosriTAL, Halrigh N. C. June 28, 1864. Jti'-ssrs. Ediors : I fiud in thi morning's issuoof the Confederate, an Editorial on a commtfnication received from "A Wound! Soldier," in whicfl grievous complaints " are made of the treatment of the soldiers, inmates of this institution. You will please give mo small space in your paper iu 'reply to the same. I don't prejend to know anything of the treatment this wounded soldier " has ro ceived at this Hospital, but I can speak for jnyself ami others of this ward, and as far as my observation has extended, there is no reason of complaint of thetreatmeat here. I have been here three weeks, and have been treated in every respect as well as at any hos pital in the Confederacy. I have received treatment at Winder Hospital aud Jackson Hospital,. Richmond, Va.,aod I have received as good attention at this, as at either f the above named Hospitals. Surgeon Leigh does everything within his power to make every thing aliout the Hospital neat and clean. .The fare is inferior touonein the Confederacy, and good enough for any " Wounded "or sick Soldier." The Assistant Surgeons are very attentive to the patients, and also all of the attendants in the hospital. I can say for my self and all that I have spoken with on the subject, that the charge is without foundat'yi, as far as our knowledge extends. But you will find in ail places like this, "croakers and grumblers," ready as any time to find fault of the Confederacy. A SICK SOLDIER. The Junior Editor of this paper is well ac quainted with the writer of the above note, and knows him to be a gentleman of charac ter, and that his statement ia worthy of full confidence. And while we are glad to have his undoubted testimony of the management of the Peace Institute Hospital, it is due to the facts to state that soldiers from all the Hos pitals here, are going through the city, repre senting to private families that they are sadly in want of vegetable diet. We learn from Dr. Leigh that he purchases all he can gel but cannot procure as much as Is needed. We presume it is the same case with the other Hospitals. We hope, therefore, our citizens will send to the Hospitals, vegetables of all kinds, and we are assured they will be grate fully received as donations, or purchased, if H price is demanded though we hopo there is no one with so little gratitude as to ask p y 'for vegetables to be used by Wounded and sick soldiers. We have cm plaints cf a certain ward mas ter who is unduly partial in his attentions to the yankVes in his hospital. We shall en quirenuto his case. We shall strive not to censwie where no blame is duo ; but we sitall not refrain where it is. The invalids in our Hospitals must be well eared for. For tb Confederate. Got. Vance and Mr. Holden. I propose, Messrs. Editors, to say a Tow words relative to the two men whose names head this article. They are both candidates for Governor. Their past acta and present opinions are subjects of just criticism. For the first time since I beoaine a voter, I find myself without a candidate for the highest office in the State. At the last election t voted against Gov. Vance and for Col. Johnston. Gov. Vance has disappointed me. He has made us a most excellent Governor, is an able statesman and a brave soldier. Ha has done much for the soldiers families, and for the soldier himself. In ray humble opinion we eannot get another who will sorre us any more faithfully than he has done ; although we might have gotten one who would have agreed with us more entirely. Bat the day is now past. We must now choose between Vance and Holden. I prefer the former, and shall cheerfully support him, be lieving him to be a pure and patrjotic man ; although I don't agree with him entirely, and have never claimed to be a member of his party. And now for Mr. Holden. There was a time when I had a better opinion of him. In 1856 I looked upon him as both an earnest and able secessionist. If he teas earnest then, be has proven himself to be false si nee. If he was not earnest then, he is unworthy to be trusted at any time. In 1858 when the great and good Judge EJlis was nominated for Governor, Mr. Holden was a candidate before the Charlotte Convention. After Judge Ellis defeated him for the nomtna tion he acted nobly in sustaining him. as I ' thought, with earnestness and power. But I was mistaken. He was wanting in earnestness again. In 1860 Mr. Holden advocated the nomination and election of Douglas to the Presidency. Was Le in earnest then ? If so he was again false to his sentiments and his feelings for he supported Breckinridge. Verily I claim him as my Protean hero. ' How stands Mr. Holden as a oandidate for Governor? Will be get any votes? I don't know a man that will support him in Northamp ton. Every man that I have heard express himself is for Vance, save one, and be is opposed to Holden. I venture the prediction that Holden will not get a vote in this county, unless the voter presents a folded ticket and a mean countenance. There are too sets of candidates for the Legislature, but none of them are for Holden. If I thought Mr. Holden was as true to as as I did in 1866, 1 would pity him. But I cannot pity him now. Ho has changed his ntember eiiip to the Conservative party aud by that party will be murdered. Nokthamptoji . June 25th, 1864. The Standard wants Gov. Vanes to have "Lt. Howard tried and punished, for en con r aging mob law." The hyena Is tho only animal, we believe, that makes war npna tho dead in their graves. Lt. Howard fills a pat riot's grave. He fell a noble martyr to his country's cause a few weeks ago, while driving back the yankees from Richmond, and thus protecting Mr. Holden s person, property and family. And yet for his base selfish ends, he would invoke punishment upon him. Sham ! shame 1 For" tho Confederate-. Lewi 1lns KKq., Ac, 4c, " Lewis H tnon, E-q--, is a candidate for th Commons in Davidson county. Mr. Han a gentleman of ability and a Conservative af ter th siraitt-st sect." The above is from tho yiandarit of a recent date. Now, Mi. Editor, the inquiry natural ly arises, who is this'M. I lanes. Ep, stu dent at law, lieutenant of militia, rmnlic mill er, Sec, &c, ? IlnVnn will allow me spae in your paper, 1 will fry touswcthe mqui ry in part. Perhaps it would sufficient foe those who ae not initiated, to sit ply say tht he is a Convention agitator bawler. But others, and premature pears who are to be blessd or cursed in the ensuing election by his suc cess or defeat, demand a more explicit answer. In advance, I know ho will thank me for disclosing to the world the existence of a geuius so long enshrouded by his own innwtc modesty. Ho was once a member of the Leg islature voted to call a Convention, in order that North Caroliua ' mi;lit taki her own affairs into her own hands,' ( is he wants her to do again,) and take her proud stand witn her sister States oj tho South " for weal or woe, fpr life or death."' He opposed the dis ruption of the Union in the beginning, (as who did not 1 ) but said he to tho members of the Convention : If I had been a delegate M tho Convention, I would" have voted just as you have done." H was all riht then. Soon affer this, at a inuer ground, at the tsnliciratien of friends, although deploying the disruption ot tho old Union, he is heard, with a xincc of fine eloquence and the most pathet ic appeals,! urging the people to come forth. in the defence of thir rights and to stand united as one man, for, said he. " what was once your section, has now become your country I ' He stood up tKen like a man. So confident and determined was he then that he, engaged in speculation, soon made a large sum of money, and yet itemed to be all right. A little later, and bohold a change comes ovor the spirit f his dreams; and it is said, with how much truth 1 do not know, that his heart had been withdrawn from "this contest" of Southern independence, and that outsiders were left to infer that i had sold his luge accumulations of Confederate for Bank bills. Moreover, be despouded give up Richmond bowed his head and died to the cause of the South. When "little Mac," with "the finest army the world ever saw," had been repulsed from before Richmond, by the firm valor cf the Sonth. a friend inquired of Mr. Haues as to the news from Virginia. What, do you suppose was his reply ? Certainly he said wehavo whipped the Yankees, didn't ho? No. He did not. You have whipped thein, " was his reply. Jon why don't you say, we have whipped them?" con tinued his interrogater. He replied, I will say what I please." All saw then that he was gone. Mr. Hanes was soon af'eraards nfflicicri wiih a miserable cacoethes tcribendi, and, (be ia a notoriouoly modest man) creeps up in the columns of the Standard over the signature of Davidson." Not content with this, he " comes to the scratch again, " ofer the same signature, but in order that the world might trace np his habitation and real nam, he hails from Clftn monsville. Every one who saw them, romtm berS UK pandering, otr4f otb lmimy :t those articles. All the Yankee world took the Standard and " Davidson " to their embrace at once, and thence forward, for 41 life and death, " they were one and inseparable. Is there sueh a man living in Clemmonsville ? It is a quiet little village, and one' might suppose too warm a cliraOo for this Northern Davidson" and reconstruction shriektr. He d not live them, and he wronges those true iud tried people of that village by this unfortunate and inordinate propensity to mingle with his superiors. The eounty of Davidson ought to pOtest against this sacrilegious use of her good name by one of her recreant sons. But soon weary of embracing the yankees at so great a distance, he is seen goinf about J with reconstruction ami thirty years omanci-H pationin one hand, and H dden s Convention scheme in the other. He gar Forsyth a noble lift in the Convention movement, anil notified the Standard that Davidwu would soor. follow her example. She moved not at his bidding. , Gradual emancipation was his plan, for tho 4,cure ol all our ills," and a speedy yankee embrace Hh again announces himself a candidate for fhe Legislature. But he falters. Tho battles before Richmond are still in proggress. and it is said he determines to await the results of those fights before he takes a positiou for either ot the Gubernatorial candidates. Thus he stands now. Holden and the yankees have somewhat abashed him. They should not be so furious in their love attacks hereafter. Others are entitled to a place in their affections ; for it is said that some, whose head and heart should have been engaged in the service of their country, assis ted this "gentleman of ability" in his labor of love for the edification of 11 olden and the yankee nation. Thus Messrs. Editors, I have briefly touched few points in this man's political course. There are many others, that may bo brought to lisht as occasion may require. SIT LUX. A Correspondent, has addressed us a com munication, in which he draws the Inference that he was intended as the Wardm aster, of whom it was reported to us there was one suspected ot undue partiality to .the yankees in Hospital here. The gingerly sty bain whieh he notices the matter, is rather remarkable; and the manner, too objectionable lo vs, to a core insertion. A more prudent article would have been published. Laboe Mining Company. A company has been organized in South Carolina to work a rich mine of lead, iron, gold and silver eresy situated in Cherokee county, N. C. It has been surveyed by an Engineer of the Confed erate government, whose report led to the or ganization of this company, with a capital of $1,000,006. Six handred negroes, captured and stolon by Grant's men, have boon sent to tke bobs at Arlington. Forrest's late Fight. A correpo!idnt of the M-ihfte Adetrliktr writing from Tupelo, M spyW. under daio ol Juno 15. gives tho am.ex aont ih For rest's laie fight. : On the 1st nf June G.n. For,nwt more l eastward. He had been apprr;rj fr time that a fore of from 6000 to.fliiSnvJ was being fitted out an Memphis foe an xp. -ditbm to Sherman's anwy, in charge of 40& wtagoim load of supplies, and fur tho purpose liao of furnishing this mnch more transportation, with a rane ambulance rraio, and tweniv-fur pieces of an illery, with the troops that ac companied them to Slfrrnaan. H is force, con -Msting only of two brigade ffor Chalmers went s":newher some tiuae&go immediate ly retarded to' pounce uoon th onr nr niicier ong we reinrned from Ox fori, and Johnson's command came down from North Alabama. Thns tftis flrce, thongh not half as lage as that of the enemy, was at o:ic, id unexpe t edly to the enemy, soncentrsted on the M bile and Ohio road and just in . time to head him at Brice's crefs roads, six miles fn.. Baldwin. Skirmishing Jbegau about 8 o'clock in the moruing by fjol. liuckei ;CoI. Johnston soon came up and assisted to held the enemy in check; Col. Lyon, with his Kentucky Br's adc, came in bef. re 12 o'clock, ai.d Col. B !" Sl!lla?ta,brigi4H6W'i,h the "ceP'i"" of tl.e lhird Tei.n-ssie, commanded by Co!. Bartcan. who was sent to the enemy rear- read, d the field at I o'cUk. Tie mmy teemed frustrld by this sudden resistance u his frmit, yu poshed vigorously forward an! en deavored to overrun our forces. Tno fi-htim' for the next three hours was severe ard charge fter charge w mad, cohi-wn after-colu.nn was hurled with headlong, ih.pctu -ity by tho enr. against 11s, and l,y us agiukt the ene my. At 4 o'clock fhe 2d Tenesse had reached ti e rear of tho en.vny, and nln s furious attack. The enemy ac first ssnt back a regiment oj infantry, then 300e.valrj, and becoming Mill mor alarmed at the . b-un ey of the attack in front and the appearand of a force in his rear, ei.t back all his cavalry and commenced a retreat. His force i fr..t weredrivjsu dismay, and the w boloibody of his troop demoralized. W2 (, artillery. Cvalry. infantry, nagrm, and w. v. ult d. went back in mi confus d mass, blocking up tho roads and running through v ds and fields. O'er two hundicd wagoi.s and f irtn piece of artillery wore 'abandoned in less tha on ii ur after the retriat began. Our force pursued until dirJc and ti.n camped f..r the night. Tiie greatest j-ity inflictod upon us during thi eng.ment was by an ambnscaoV. WiU n s and Russell's regiments, ot Bel. s brigade, sufio-ed severely It is unfortunate that m..re canti.ni was nt xcrcis.d to provet,t such unuieossary Jan- ThenumUrof VilVd and w.,i:ided in this fi ;hi r. our sido was over tiiro hundred. The loss of theenemv in kilKl and wounded was n.u a thousand. Tho enemy's forre was (our brlcades, two of cavalry, commanded by Grierson, and two of uiiamry, an unuer ling lien. Sturis;and the u..ui.n;m.i- iMung tun, numbered not less than nine iti..unt. -'i. riuai,tn wd as a train gnani. Hut few negroes have been captured. They made goud their escape. 'Pi : i . 1 i in- miinuii wii renewed ear v m mnn inr. Gen. Forrest followi Iwora dwt;rV,i with Imeacort and 7th" Tenness-e.- fi-htine ine enemy urui the other commiwd came up At Ktpley a desperate faht ensued, in which hell s brigade and Lvon's -Treat I v distinrMia) rd themselves, charging into ti.e town and driving the Yankees fr mi every stronghold they had taken, killing, woundmz. and ca- turing five hundred or mur'a. Th nnatv took the Salem road.and w re pressed every men oi me way. a icrrinie Mii'mst-a le was given them by Col. Barleau. near Saiern. Having gained a position on their fitnk in advance of the column, he disinonctod and marched his command within nxty yards of i . me roau. as me column came on, tho mad was crowded with infantry and cavalrv. One snect oi nre iroin his line, and hundreds lav a nors au combat. Charging immediately upon the road still limner execution wasenccted until com pel led to give way. The 95th Ohio regiment which was in mo rear oi tne column., aud hard press ed bv Col Lvon. surrendered Th varlnn troops of Gen. Buford's command in this, the second day of the pursuit, capturodja thous and prisoners. Having followed the enemy nearly to Lw Grange, and put his column to flight in fragments, the tntona nmnnsriAHl their return on the mornin?of thm 19th and scoured the woods to the left of the Salem road back to Ripley. The result hs hern that seven or eisht hundred more straw! imr yankees were caught. G riersvn and Stnrgis deserted their commands beyond Ripley, and nea u iiau range. The outrages committed by the enemy in the expedition exceeded all former example. Houses were robbed of every article necessary to the sunnort of familiest. IjHImi inltrl and outraged ; children robbed of their cloth- i . ing, ana iou nsaeu, crying and hnngry; old men choked and 2a?eed. and in unmnm inifn. cos beaten nearly to death ; women kicked out of doors for murmnrinsr at these wrnnoa mnd knocked down by buck negroes in tho presence of their husbands. Those are some of the iniuries that tho Door neonlo of North If ii a a s sinni have had U endure within the lnt tan davs: and it is things like these that malr them grateful once more for their deliverance. and have nerved the arms of Forrest's sol . diers to fight like demons aad to perform deeds of darioc rnuallec in historr. Tha Snath. ern man wno would "not fight bow, is nlt for freedom, aad ought net to enjoy it. The Misaisninai Prairi Nw -i'wm k following fact derived from Forrest's chief quartermaster: Yankees killed 1000 ; wounded 1500 ; es tnred ZOOO. Also xvq wagons ; 60 ambu lances : 17 nieces of artillerv with riiunni . 500 mules ; 100 horses ; 500,000 rounds small arms ammunition; 10.000 rounds cannon am munition : 5.000 stand small arms Aft Ann V W - - f VVVVV pounds pilot bread ; 50 barrels sur; HO t acks of coffee; $200,000 worth of mdi. no 10 I barrels of whisky, and shovtb, prul., xs. carpenters too's, vie, m.laigo inimU-is Kfif ORT5 Otff K FRESH fJIAioN.. t rt)ca Cf b. initoB's ifnj; If ARtKttA) Jn.a .-AHVst un Uls? nwrsinr. tbo tSemy, cffrttjc of s part Vf Pal- ssra, jsahiMfisld'f. Blalr'f,- f.iftf srd's aad U- Can's 4ittm0t sttfpleW Of gars' fw as aagla in rtif fortiatations (NsvV Aft ceatr, held by CheattlSts and Clebnrne. fhy AireVed defiant U np if stvon llae of bstt.Vsr frf rnservrd their Are Setil they appr4 wnttiw B few vards ef the brfittworkl, when tht Hi4 with grape, eaaister aad muoketry, ereatiug jrVeaTf havwe is. their raoks. The Are was rapid an ab stractive that the enemy eoflld not fsllv aad wa driven hack with a kis of k(ff-tn lOd and l,f00 aten. W oaptarsd aboat 100 Srisowsfs, iacla dieg Lint. Col. John Baker, ef tke 74th tllinots, Capt. S. . Wakefi'ld of th 54th fdddts snd IX Jno. II. York ef the 64 Indiana, iw stales f colors, one presented to tho 27ta Illlavvrsi t Brig. jkn. B a ford. 'The wotxis whore the dead aad wenndesl are now Ijing, is on lire, making it impossible to brief theta off. Oar loss, owing to our men beiag pro tectee' hy breastworks, is vrry small. Qur right centre, the 43 d Georgia rtrioieat, C1. Oo-don, Mercer's brigade, deploye4 as skirmishers, acted with gallantry, and Jield a head to hand fgb with the enemy natd relieved. The troops ei' gaged ia tho f rst meatiened action, were Maary's snd Vsnchaa's brigades and Cheatham's die ieion of Polk's corps, and Lowrj's brigade sad CIs barn's division. Brig. Oea. sttllpbaU, ,vankee) eommandtnc tho O rst brigade seeond h.rition o EJfowsrd's 4th army Corps, killed, si reported by hi own men taken prisoners. Wagoners is Billpbsll's brigade suf Ibred very srferelv.t Jforthera Ifrws MOniLC, Jnne 2T. Tke Ktgtr ad Aivrtt. er has a speeial dipateh frm Soaatohia, whieh sars that reliable Memphis intelligeat it u the effect, thai it is believed Whbere will earn mand the expedition to reinforce Sherman aft he hs whipped Forrrtt, with a reinforeameat now aambtiing twenty thnatand, which h iateads to wrii: Gold at Mesfiphis 20 Ife eottca. Confederate money 21 etats a tk" dnllsr, aad H risiag rapid It. () fieials ia bad haraor, iadj.atiag nafavor sble b'vi. A nouor is eortent that G'sat has telejraphed Lineo;n t.iat he i ttrd .if-tU nalsrUkia;, and h u.f 'un and tak ehr(e hiTHRtf. ThaChleago Timti andiM. hais Rrpnhliean of the 3m bare been reeivd, and say that the Chi. ago rnTntion is p'i"priH till Anjast 29. fii is York oa.'.V 11 1. 225 elossd at 216. The At thama h bn'a4 to ship Roekingham from Cdtio. FortherFroa the Krti. ATLANTA, June 27. Th Jpptnl has reeeh, ed Nabville Utt t the 22d. The latest neng feom Grant's a-ruy nwar Petersbnrs;, says, that cos rrary to expectation ne g-neral afsment. but heavy fighting go'n oa, with raltt fswrable, thoaVh not decisire. The yankees claim to have e'ptared 22 guns in the operations roan 4 Petert hare. Birney's division threw f vo shells into tbs eity. Difpatehes front Grant's Bdtuartrs to WaiaiartOD, say thero was sorer I rhiinr yes terday alonr the rr -tr portion nf Ik liaen. Wo sniaodkai little e.teent on nr left. New York dates of Ins inn say Mold f 1. Cot- ton 15P. Nasi, fill papers elsim thst Tf"kr took Lost vaounttin on the 1 41th, by ansaalt, eaptariag 1999 prisen-rs and two oannsn. Sehfld attacked and captured rm mil. rrm the top or which Sherman eoanied tkt koa in Marietta. Th rebdwArk are reported very strong, eztending fron L-t monntain le Black Jack mountain. covering Marietta aad the Ruilrosd. If looker snceeeds in driving them rrom their works entire ly on their left flank, s movement whieh has hither, to been eitrensely difficalt, will be open and they ean be flanked with caso ana ortTta front their Present strong poMtion, and they ean make no sueeessful stand sonth of it. Stanton anaonnees a tvlcgrsra front Sherman, that Johnston retreated on the night of the 17th, and that he pnrsned him to tho Chattahoochee. The death of Oea. Polk was announced officially by Station In Washing ton, on the 20th. It is beli.ved that Ce a cress will ad j earn in ten days. The Secretary of th Treas ury has aeeepted all bids fr bnds payable ia 1881 at 4 per etnt, premie mand upward. O0LD8B0R0', Jane 2. Private advices re present Kaats as rnnning front W. F. Loo oa Sanday, front Stanton bridge, on tho Sonthslde road, with Doaring ia his front, towards Wtldea r Grant's army. , Official informations from Weldon to-day, says K ants is going there. The wires are working through to Richmond. bnt not a .Vress dispatch from that direction has been received in two dsys. mere is a rumor here mat Urant has been dri ven from his fortifications around Petersburg to -his gua boats in the river. Col. Msllett haa received a dispatch, stating that th Raiders were met and defeated at Stanton bridge on th Dan- vine roau. We res-ret to learn that t . John A. Raker of 6th N. C. Cavalry, was ea, tared in on of tho skirmishs near Pti seurg, day or two aro. mis is su me news wo aavs. Caors a so Politics. A letter from a sb seriber ia Richmond eennty ssys: We aro barvestias ear oarlv whaat tn weak later tbaa usual. I do act think sa average srop will bo made for tho land sown, en accoaot of the scab, produeed by tho heavy rales or wibb m xtisy, wnen tse wnoat was ia bloom. The eat crops nsvor looked tetter. Bat little cotton planted, except by tho Hehiealtos. - . mava e en too noioen aoctrino is at lsw ebb, aad some ef tbe Deideattcs aro beginning to cry war," " we mast whip tbe yanks, " Independosoo, " Jte.f caased I have bo duht by the stetns of affairs ia Virginia. In ear oonnty Iloldon wiU get a small vote, considering the influence on deswored te bo exerted. Ie our aein-hberhoed there are bnt two Holdeaitoa. and tha lk suriy as car day brightens." FoytifvilU Ob server. YbB Bottlers Belief Boeletr. Being now organised, all contributions to tho cams will bo tbaskfally received. Donations of provisions or stores msy be sent to the President, Mrs. S. H. Roosas ; donations in money, to tho sws a en wst - . . irearurer, mrs. w . E.LMS. 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