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. - - l .' :. .1 .' I ; . , .k. ;' . '-'v '- '".11'! .( '! - . j'... '.-,. ,-'', A'- ' " ' ' """ " ... ,.i - . " . ' -'- .'- ' '" " - - - fc-. - ; .,v.,-- .' . -'.-...:..: ( ' -.!i a - -" - w- i' .,"- .f.-.4. THE. REGISTER ' pAILY, SEMI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY; ; jSO, SYME EdiTor and Proprietor. a- The DAILY REGISTER U frred to city Subscriber at - "ti rrrt cmts per wek, payable to th. Uiliil. EinKl.oo Lr'rcnrw. Price lor manias $20 per 7. lp for "month j three moatha $; OM motth $3 imrarUbly In -?L?Tbe SKMI-WEEKLT RIQISTKR "is Lol Wy TtwTiT ud ranuT, t $10 per year ; dx months $&-in ad- "The -WEEKLY REGISTER & fa- jTT f to Subscriber, S'JSSitte" oSijSiS perr. marked with iTeroM .iplrea. SaTlheterm .ubecription is .bott tt ojtjiiwM. -.h-eriotion by mail mast do It at their .1 ' . 1 . . ;"'- -,-..'".....' f ' ' . . r,"" 1 - - !h-r ebnzlnr th.ir post office., will pleue' staU the 1 - office t which their AfenU nd nwdilr are i. IXAU per Bvoun (perwere preriousiy re st the rateoftss BOOK end JOB PRIXTXSO of every descripiioii At tbU OfBce with neetaeei end dbpftteh. . YOL- LVII. PETERSBURG VA FHIDAY MD ilNINO, NOYEMBER-20 863; . ' ; ...... . ... ,. . . . i NO. 43. r m ummri i HMlVlJl 1 RIG I 8TBR We are much- pleased to see. that the addi tional ergines and rolling stoek go anxiously looked for by all connected with the Wilming ton and 41anche9'r R&ilrl have arrived, afld, as we might say i have gone. into commission. They have not gfjt tore a day top soon, us we can bear witness. Although are know that the officers cf the road, together with the engineers and conductors, have been doing their test, 'still here were circumst&nces they cohVI not'control, acd .iw. result was that detentions and' Discon nections were frw,nM,f wvmirritf&v of con .i i. ;vir- - 0----J uius vccurrenca, 10 iosHat annoyance of pas notwithstanding our: scantr supply .of canvass, onr einerienee in buildincr ' comiorUble .'hats without too's and material, will be used with all-available 'industry.. Throughout the bri- cade, streets are laid off, each etreet ' being occu pied by two companies confronting each other. 'Twculd be amudnsr to some of your city bat talion soldieTs to see thjese'rude mechanics with improvised tool's lavine the foundation of their cherished plan" of; houFehuilding architecture towit: Huze square chimneys built with logs tanerincr un to the size of a flour barrel others r o r - ' I Uengers, whp, as men will do, verti their spleen'j constructed of small pine poles with rck back j; FRIDAY MOXNINQ, NOVEMBER 20, ISoS. ORTH CAROLINA MATTJfJl. OFFICIAI. VOTE OF THE 8D CONGRES SIONAL DISTRICT. . Wayne June' . sjrapson . Craven Onslow" " Duplin Dcfcne.' HcHael' Faison. Leach Wat - 6 on the first representative Of the'company thev could meet with, which was generally the con duclor, who, in such cases, haVto listen to. any amount of grumbling and growling) not un mixed with erasure of himself. We. know how it is, for we have, participated in breakdowns, (not old Virginia but railroad breakdowns) and we are still a little the worse of the w-eartare- hjr , Ttt ii ' 1 - .T-rti.rewrrrdta been re- tome exclgsively of rocks and mud, while othprs or a more modern And xivinzed appearance are build ioJL.brick. We anticipate the pleasure of datifig our nrxt letter frojxi our own little cbim neycorrer. ' ; '! 1 Yesterday we were called npbh to witness one of ike most harrowing spectacles we ever beheld? tnejexecn,n or a young eoidier in onr regiment woQ naa oeen con a em n 4 38G ' 1 17 246 193 23 75 417. 121 192 10 00 231 00 7 154 720 1493 466 1033 40 177 '29 202' 156 2064 d hv on'rt-martial for iu ecu wsbuuiuuiui uiacuiuiwj nuu ruu- i cuwaruioe in ine lac ot tne enemy, rwas a 4 Frm the above re'.urn it appears that Dr. Lesch, although elecled, gees in as the represeii Urtfvc cf a minority of the voters of the District, a:iJ that any one candidate opposed to his faction cbu'd easily have defeated-him. .Thus McRae and Devane united, beat nim by lou, and tnese in stock, whcb. will push thinga through sat isfactorily, and allow the stock previously on hand to remain long enough in the shops to be thoroughlv repaired. Wilmington Journal. Tb ThirttH inth C. Rkqimxxt at Chickamxuga. The Army correspondent of , the Atlanta Register, writing under date of the 4th mat., says : . One of the most gallant achievements of the war- was the dash of the 89th North Carolina rrgiment in the battle of Chickamauga.. It well deserves the great pra'se it elicited in the army and furnishes .a bright page for history and a glorious theme for soner. Two hundred and ntlAmon both represented the tame idea and the same principle opposition to the creaking thirty-eight men storming and capturing a bat- greeted with his usual welcome scene upon which we will not dwell, deplorine. as we do that this regiment has furnished the first victim for the brigade on a charge so se rious" as that by which this young man has for feited h!s life, and what is even dearer to the Southern" 6oldierehis honor. On Monday last we had quite -a brisk fall of snow, which -was followed by a fierce North wind .subsequently the wind lulled and night wa9 ushered in by a pinching freeze. The sky it no'w overcast, threatening snow clouds are loweririg, but we hope this frigid -visitor. wHl delay his coming until we are comfortably en sconced in our wigwams. 2r. llarrisoa reached us on Monday, and was ' lis with feel- r. and EUOmiSaiOajBCl Ui o.uwi iu nuitu ur Leach belongs. So Indeed did Mr. Faison also, s-.J with his vote added to thatof-Meltae and . iX;vce it wiH appear that-Dr." Leech is elfcted y 2iK3l votes while the district polled 2674 di rector opposed to him antl his pseudo "conserva tism"" This diviion among the truly conserva tive and -sound . candidates alone elected Dr. -teach, and the 'concentration of the opposing tite upon one man and that a man so notorious ly incompetent as Dr. Leach shows the closeness cf tha party . organization of those destructires who mean to rule or nrn who endowe thj traitorous-communications of "Davidson," or bow the knee before the edicts of the Raleigh Statuiard, which paper ow exults as over ifar. rv triumph, with a jubilation that would hardly bi becoming at a lime of profound peace, and is nuw, under existing circumstances, only to be placed in the same category; witn tne Addling or Nero while Rome was turning. We stood aloof from all -.partyism in the late "e ntest in which, inde?d, we took little or no i.irt, tut we would now suggest wai uiere is an tery of ten gun, supported by a large brigade, ings of sadness wejire called upon to expostulate is a feat which challenges the admiration of the with some oTou'r.city friends'. Friends? Nay, world,, and stoould: secure an immortelle of fame not friends to us. Those who regale themselves for each participant. This famous charge. was in royal splendor upon the graves of famished led bv Jjieul. Uol.. x rant iternolds, tne last l cniidren, mckinz tne life.blood of our countrv, theratreat of our forces in East Tennessee, Un less Burnside overwhelms our little iforce with bis. twenty-five thousand picked troops 1! of wiium iney DOflst. . I ou will pardon me f r pfe suming" to occupy your columns i with this ?ir tic'erbut justica awards "praise to' wiom praise is due and as there are no "special correspon dent ia our i command, I have volunteered; to write and to assure you that we are .not exactly but of the world, as some seeiEio thiilk, but ' re in an important fieldi under a gallant, efficifnt. and! energetic Ifaderj and are proud to knpw that we. are doing- good servica : we are, to say the least, Jearninsr our salt Notwithstanding we.are having, cold weather and snow, we are satisfied We have fine mountain ;beef,- Irish potatoes, salt and flour from the Commissarikt, end cat buy a'pples, onions, apple butter, c, from thfl farmers at moderate prices. $ ? . Worse's Brigade, of Pickett's Division, is still wi Ui' and-lhough thy havea natural desf re to return to their old comrades, they all tefcm contented,! and' are as lively as ever. . The health Qf this, army could not be better man ii is; ana aitnougn -many oi us ar from Richmond and Petersburg, we feel like old mountaineers.. Yoa shall hear from me again when I have anything to write about. i ; . Yours; truly, ';. 1 Southern 'graduate of the Military Academy, of Wett Point. He is a Virginian by birth, and the last cf the Eoglieh house of Mortimer. . His ances'.ore, I am ad vifei, fought at Marston Mcor under Prince Rupert, agaicst the Roundheads. In person, Col. Reynolds is majestic, being six feet two in. statue, having large gray' eyes and Saxon hair. I but give expression to the tenti ment of hundreds in "the tenUd field" when I atfert that sueh gallantry in a youth of twenty two summers should hare a' place in history, and inspire the poet for his most glofioua song. " PROM GEN. LEE'S ARMY." Correspondence of the Daily Ragiiter. Camp 12th Va. Rko't, A. N. V., ". November 11, 1863. MFTflditor ; On Saturday evening last whi.'e tn? JJir. i'SS Nreamingly cogitating on-ihe events of the past i. of meetiog anddefeating parties who keep up .a.m. W jartv agitation witn tneir cwn weapons, xi ihev" iciU organize to stir up strife and do harm, we think it quite proTSable that those opposed to s-ieh ftings will, in self defence as well as from patriotic mo ives, be compelled to rally and or ganize so as to meet and crush ; those, whro. to jromot their pwn ends have been sowing the ' iids of disaffection broadcast. lU, Journal. We cannot help tilling our friend of the Join - ml that this looks very much like locking tbe Ub!e door after the "steed has been stolen." A leng time ago it wa well known that the soi tllsant "Conservative!' p'arty were in a state of thorough organization, and were using the pow er which they 'possessed in the most proscriptive v dinner, as witness the ejection from office of Treasurer Courts and others whom we" could name. When this fact of "Conservative" or canuation was so patent and well known, why was it that thera wsi not a countar organization? We know that bvt spring the iniliatory;steps for ?ach an crganiZition'were-taken, but have nev er yet learned the reason why further progress was not made i the business. Three weeks a?o, e stated that, owing to the vote of the tniemen in the 3d Congressional District being- divided, Iach would be elected, and .this the district would be misreoresented in Concress. The ro- as they flit by on memory's vision, and speculat ing oh tbe course of the future, we-wero aroused from our reverie-by the roar of, artillery to the front. Can it be that our cherished plan. of nestling clown in quiet on the banks of the Rap pahannock to the slep of a R!p'Van Winkle, is to be disturbed by the clangour of war- our "oatlift fh sir" tn hft iTnlfxlfd hv thA rndp - f j blast of the war trumpet, and the orgies :of a drunken fanaticism making hideous scenes. now so trnnquil ? Thus in breathless silence we eo fih-quized, till at Whe ,?hk toiVvtTamo m to arms i ' I W'e quickly repaired to the front, keep ng step to the mU61C OfC-UT guns appeal nucr pei.rever hArarfvl over hill and dale, to the mountains be rA ' W-o were readv for mortal combat to wr;tle one more with out old enemy the armv of the Potomac. I The incessant picket firing in our immediate fnnt indicated the direction Irom wmcb tne ene my was approaching. Two brigades wero has tened across the river at the, pontoon crossing fHavB' Louisiana, and Hoke's North Carolina), to support the picket3. Bi it remeinb-red, that at this point we had converted the earthworks thu nemv had nreviously constructed, into a bulwark for our own defence, and in them placed these two brigades. Mahone's brigade, in the meanwhile, awaiting order on this side of the river, with the exception of -to 12th Virginia regrment, wuiou wtu ui ixci cu w jm-ni. wo at a point (higher up) that the enemy had pre viously spanned wiui pjnioons. -F.rA nur.denlovmcent on the river bank was and inflictinc: wounds more crhastlv on the sol dier than minnie or shrapnel. 'Tia the extor tioner of whom we speaki-and in behalf of some of our friends, who.cut off from the' society of tne iovea ones at uome py tne stern necessities or war, and unable to minister to their wants and absolute need, the cry comes, from their lisping oaoes ana emaciated wives, osreaa : Bread ! I The stoutf st heart amongst U3 qiiHils-- men wno nave dared the iron hail men who have withstood the storms- of winter, the suns of -summer and have experienced all the ho'ors of war witn scarce a shudder. He can, perhaps, stand the .pinchings of hunger and suffer more for a cause so dear to'every freeman s heart. He can, perhaps, eke out a miserable exis'emco on his pound of flour and pound, of beef per day; but when the question propounds it9elt to his mind, How are tbe sucklings and wjves to subsist at prices so a'arming, when the market is glutted with the staffof life? These are serious thoughts to the soldiers whose families are d pendent upon the small pittance they receive irom the government for support. Beware, extortioners, how ye tamper with the soldiers lorb'aranco. ''Oro to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon ouJ Your gold and silver is cankered ;' the ru t of them shall be. a witness against ycu. and shall eat your flesh as it "were firo. Ye have heaped treasure togttberfor. tb last days." Aoved in your accumu latva wealth and unholy gatherings because pe-r-chanco letters of Jiving fire, written by bandless fingers, has not imcribed on the "walls of your palace, as of the Chaldean King, "Menz, mene, tekel upharsin." A doom, nevertheless, as cer tain and as ignominious; awaits you. "Coming' events cast their shadows before.," and we con jure you in tiruo to avert that doom, to turn from the htnh crime of gorging your pockets at the expense of a bleeding country, and the wails of our mother?, wives, and children lor bread. These reflections were tuggested by the effect I've seen visited .upon some of our test and' most patriotic soldiers. A-LriiA. FROM WESTERN VIRGINIA AND EAST. TENNESSEE. 1 suit has verified the prediction, and Leach, as in- completed, a furious fira of musketry, acebmpa nifd bv a vocuerous cneer. was neara vu our riirbt. indicating a niarht attack upon our posi tion at the railrOad, by which means the enemy hoped to accomplish by niht what he dared not nnHArtake bv'davlierht. With heavy force he charged the earthworks in front, regardless of the havoc our well directed musketry was mak ing in his dense columns. Three times the surg ing mass was hasten back, and while our brave comrades were thus engaged in hurlin?Jbck the intoxicated columns'of the enemy, : bis" ulterior obiect Was not developed until the stars and strings were floating defiantly over the head of those who bad cleared the way in front while being enveloped inthe rear. They were flanke1, ami th enemv were upon them in fancied competent a man as can be conceived of for the jwill take h:s seat as a member oj congress. We do not know who is, to blme-for this catas trophe McRae, Faison or Devane. We only know that Dr. Leach, n exceedingly vain, an exceedingly weak and "fin exceedingly mulish man, will misrepresent? a true district in the Confederate Congress! and that is more than- enoiiih for us to knowi Northern account Sate tnat tbe U. S.itetfmer .Julton reached New York on the, 8th instant; having in. tow as a prize the steamship Margaret and Jes-ie, .from Nassau .and Wilmington, N. V. The prize was captured on the 5th instant, f -rty raries south ot she JTryiag .ran onoais, ai er fourUen hourj. The Margwet htriumph, when with clubbed guns the assailants ter h chase of - ... - s . ar.d .'Jessie,., as we rearn, uciongea io jonn .Krazor & Co., of - Wilmington, and was com inhnded by Captain Robert Lockwood. . The Richmond Dispatch says : The Margaret and Jesne, which was captured oil" Wilmington on the 6th by the Fulton, had a valuable ca"rgo on. The Captain might have gotten bjr-off, but having ladies on board he hove to when several shoti hal been fired. ' The following -is a list ot her passengers who have arrived in. New York, and ar,e in prison there : Mjss Maria Sparks, Mrs. Bourne, J." B. Baggott, A. McLay, S Ev Wartzfaider, W. Collin?, J. liurko and C. W. Craig. Miss Sparks was on her way home to Richmond, having been at school in England. - ; North Caroltna Elicttohs. The following i the following is the .official vote in the 5th l'on -ressional DL-trict: TuBrxa. f ARRKfOTOif. Wake, Orange, Nab, Granville, Franklin; Warren," .1259 1091 245. 652 57 3551 2375 431 327 334 420 420 461 2375 . Turner's majority, 1176 - m ' , PaoMoTioss. A correspoadent ot the 20th Sortb Carolina Regiment, now. in Virginia, .wrrVt as' follows r -'i Lieut. Col. Nelson Slough, of lha 20th N. C. Regiment, has tendered his" resignation, having leer, elected Sheriff of his County, and haying also b come incapacitated for activo service from wound, &c. . - --'! i Lieut. Seth RDbbins, of Co. G, hes also ten-4-rcd his rfsignation from ill health. " Lieut. J. Trolan4 h.i V Mn,t apuincy or Co. D, vice Stanly.-resigned and n ir tit fi. V ' I ' .. . r. lfill . r n i:.. ' " . . . wp turned anon, and a fearful hand to hand encounter ensued, which resulted in the loss of several hundred prisoners and four pieces of ar tillery to us, with but few killed or wounded.. Thus by a vatly superior force in front and rear, our troops were assailed, with their communica tion with the south, bank of the river entirely cutoff. Mcst. of the two brigades escaped by swimming theriver andforcing their way under cover of darkness through the lines guard ing the bridge. It is known that the enemy suf fered terribjy in killed and wounded in this mad "charge on our front. If he calls this a victory 'tis a dear bought one to him, at a price too ex travagant for our emulation "Ais .stouuy ai- . Correspondence of the Daily Register. Dep't Wjcsterx Va. and E.'Tknw., flftmn of-OtPv Batterv. near ' r e ' i Blountsville, Tenn., Nov. 10, J863. ) Mr. Editor : Some time ago I saw in your pa- Ser a notica of the appointment of Mj. Gen.'.R. lansom to the command of the East Tennessee Department, and a nothing ba'ibeen said pf this gallant ofEcer by the pross since he has been here with us. the public in your vicinity might, un justly think that he is "doing nothing to perpet uate the, fame" which he so just:y meritea1 ana won upon the fields which immortalized the "old army ot the Jrotomac. .; iui ii we view iacis as thev are, it will be seen that Gen, K.'s.talents as aa officer have produced great results m the management-of this command. It is a'fact eon- ceded oy every one, mat me co:nmauu m en ern Virginia ha3 suffered more for want of dis eivline than that of any other portion of our allant army; ana wny z .Because lienerai oam ones has had & large territory to defe nd -with but a small force to do it, andjhis force ha? been so scattered ihat he could notive his personal attention Jto it. and hence the lack of discipline. Now his department is divided into two dis- and extending into Tennessee is commsnded, tn person, dv opn, itaosrm. yjn taiciug com mand, Uen. j. issued very rigid orders in regard to 'the damage and destruction of private and public property, and in regard to soldiers strag gling on the march and leaving their camps without permi6sion,-he was particularly severe. Tents, baggage and cooking utensils were so re duced as vo be transported upon, less than half the wagons formerly used for-this purpose, and these extra teams placed at the disposal ot the . From the .Richmond Examiner. j DISASTER TO GENERAL HOKE'S BRI- .' GADE. .'. .: - .-'. 1 At our Old Camps oir thb-Rapidan ;'.' November 10th, 1863. To the Editor of the Examiner ; . , A history of the misfortune which befel our brigade on the afternoon of S'urday, the 7lh mst., is due to the friends cf the unfortunate ofli cers and soldiers at home. I therefore bee: leave to offer, for the information of such,.only such ln- foraiatioa a I have been able to ga'.her from.the omcers wno escapea :r un r naav, tue Aiouisiaca brigade, under Bngapex-General Hayes, was sen across the Rappahannock to act as a pickot guard at the point Whore the railroad . from Culpepr -jljbk; . s.v au. c ix aoc si vecua ruiav7 xiauj.'auau" nock. Whilst the enemy , held this road during tue laiipr pari, oi toe summer no uaa inrown up a lipe of breastworks from a p- int. a shori dis tance below the end t-f the . rail road bridge, on the I other 6ide, which works facd- from the riyer an,d r . J J jt - . a i - - r . . oxienueu some aissance up, ana aiyej giog iroyi the river. . ..; j . : ' , ' - . r; -The Lanisianians occupied the lower part ;0f these works. The rbntooh bridge, the on'v place of crossing for. Infantry, : being upon their'lefh and about one hundred yards above where the railroad bridge had J been burned. At half-past 2 o clcftk P. the loDg roll was bf;at in our encampment, afld every man fit for duty call ell upon to fall in : ve knew not why",; as we had: no artillery, the day lin quite windy, and our camp. beinz about fit miles from the river. The whole of Early's division wa3 marchfd rapidly to the river. Brigadier-General Hoke's, brigade at tnree regiments, inopixia, rmv-iuunn snu xuiiv seventh, now commanded by Ci'lor.el A.C. Gods- win, fornsJarly first? nr5vost-marshal of mcTiJ, was ordered lover thei riVcr to occupy the extreme left of the reatwork?. inis oneaie crossed ihe river under a heavy fire of artiller.vi, (for The Louisiarjian8 ' were alrcwdy, .sustaining a furiniaiLeA''"' -mbmrl brttte-iae).-. Th!3 fire jrom iu aruuery ana snarpsnoctgrs was Kepi A DISASTROUS BALLOON EXCURSION ' There jsls a grand Dallocn excursion from Paris three weeks ago. It was a monster bal loon, and carried a twostory wicker house with thirteen persons in it . The trip was t be made- to ot. Jreiersourg, Kussm, and a taw days before the Emperor Naboleon had presented one of the proprietors of the balloon with $5,000, to aid in perfecting his, scheme for navigating the air. The fConsiitutionnel gives tbe followingCcount of the Sreight.for the excursion i . : The balloon was called "The Giant ;" it Was White The car carriedsome legs "of , mutton, ices, albbster, champagne, carriaffe wheels' Cha- terms or XirVIKTISlNOi t i ' J I ADTXKTisHKjfTi wm b Imwrtod In. the'DAiLTl BIlfl. 1 nxAj,i ana wiiXLT, npoo the JhUowtnc tr M'aquare daya 44 6ol: aqVar. 2 men. . 1 square 4 frj, pi 00 (l aqar 8 oionth. oo : -jf. daja ;$T 60 J 1 aquare 0 jipatba m K!ua ,r week"t 00 f I aqoare li oonth - -1300 . Eight Ikies or lw otmititmtas a square, jldverfia aiuat -Win advance for their adwtfaeBieato. .j M 1 . Special -Notices, leaded, wul beehamd them DjlUm J quare for each insertioB. . . " - h Tyf f, . Hf Bellgioua 4n4 Yuneral ffotil, 'oni dollar each. J . . ' ., t 7- 7 TELEGRAPHIC BJE.Y0 0? TIZE PRESS. ASSOClAnOK. - Entered according toJtct of Cpngreas in toe fUr .1863, by . T. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk's office of the DUtriot Court of the Confederate Statee,ftrtbe Northern Dlatrlt of Georgia, , -. FROMtCHARLESTON. uHARLKsxox, ov. is, v. ju..-rJririog; the enemy has , been rapid and ; cdntfouous al . No monitors' day from mortars and rifled guns engage j. An occasional shot and thrown by the enemy at Fort Moultrie this af ternoon. Someew shots fell at Mount Pleasant, i hell hss"been The monitors fired a few shots up until alter sunset Tne, other two brigades otf firmeS bv all "the prisoners who escaped aftef the Quartermaster, to facilitate the mode of provid terrible melee had quieted down, that the enemy's ing forage , and supplies, loss- was heavier, than the. j whole force we had engaged. They also state that the charging col umns had been drugged with a stimulant known in the army as "Dutch courage." If this be thir victory, let the,m make the" most ot it. Paring tbe night our picket lines were with drawn fronrthe immediate, vicinity 5of the river, andthenext morning our line of, ba'tle' was drawn several mi es back,' with out right rest ing on Poner mountain and our left somewhefe beyond the Riieyville turnpt e. , fWe awajted pie advance of the enemy with the most sanguinq hopes of victory, should he attack Toward - i ii,. ... uns on ine leu openeu on iuo cue Scarcely a month has elapsed since Gen. K. took command of this district, but in that time he has placed his , troops upon an equal footing with those of the Jiiastern army in every respect. While on the march, there is no straggling, no leaving the road to trespass upon citizen' prop- rty or rremues, and wnne in camp ienco raiis are not burned, sentinels do not "loiter oh post,. and the men are , drilled regularly and correctly. The who6 command has been thoroughly regen eratfd, and the conseqUencei3 this: inefficiency cannot be surpassed Oux cavalry, which has long been, in the habit of running from the VYank?," met the . enemy last Saturday, the 10th instant, near. Rogersville, and instead of retreating, they stoodv their, Lieut ''. vice Mercer, killed at Gettysburg. -pi. right, cf Co. F, with a Corporal ofl " Com Dan v. wmra .1 3 i ei ea ton , far froen our ,ines h Jj tfa giment evening our inv's skirmishers and reconnoitering parties, at which time quite a number of the enemy were and instead ot retreating, wey, . a . v..:,.,. kaw. i. in r.;T...i.iinnrA.1 irronnd and routed the opposing force, which dieting the movemenOofthe enemy on Sunday, wasjsuperer in numbers o ours.- That gallant 2Sd so many vague fpeculatioa we forbeir officer,-Brig, Gen Wm. E. Jone?, commanded frina description if he movements of the our cavalry in this affaxr.and waa ably a.sistd nn Sundar. It was. rumored quite ..tun by Col. Guiltner, ot tne u anuTii . I : . . ..i.. rv--omv Woa: DhA vmmsnddd. trea. jonn o. vviuiains oiu JlrirSSS me" upTr"5 bVadl-General was previously Thieved I. SUtK helietthat wo retired to the and ordered to Richmond. In, Urn ghtwe Rin dan to prevent a flank movemerrt of the captured 834 priseners and a splendidly quiPPea Rapldan to.prevens uu. battery of four gun, besides over- one thousand facts of the case will be rrade" known by horses and a large lot 'quartermaster's and The facts ot M. Z'll deem it con commissary stores, all of which . are safe.: -No rtLfirtSiK of om forces,' doiibt you have heard of the- above mentioned traband to speak otP?t ! flghtf but I have mentioned it as an Stance in A Ti?nXZ w-Vh.General -Hansom's discipline has 1e,n 8tb. and after an all ni?ht march, reached the south biwtoiwe aapiu.., Mot .. hft bas rendered to our -cause. IXSJZStiSKto ' uVm not taT. t. r,,a in T.ur p.p.r;,g..n General Earlv's division, commanied bv Bri gadier-Ganerals Gordon and .Pegrkm, were hold in position on this side tho river. By sunset ih en.cmy had estorded: his lines,"-in ha form of a halfhmoon, so as to envelop, our fairies entirely1, his r'ght snl l?ft resii.ng orfjtoa river above an below.' At tbe same time-he bad.' formed.' three lines of attack, one behind the other, to .assault the works hed by General Hayes and the riijht of Hoke's brigade. - The sun had gone down when this terrible otsbt wa3 made, Althouoli the pdds wer8 greatly against us, and we had oil ly four pieces of -artiHery on - that, side of tha river, our men received the ahock as brave men pnjy do.- Thfv Luisianians fought witlj a des peration. The enemy's front -line was torn tq ietea and scattered '.'in confusion. Bving rein4 forcfd by the second and third Hnes, the er.emyj agnin advancel .upon; the worts, and by over powering numbers, leaped tha w6rks into the ditch, and came to a hand-to-band fight. i OOr brave men, being tbu? so "greatly outnuru- beredj were compelled . to .Wd. S-;rr.e"'6orr.enf dered ; others rtfsbed to the por.'toon and escaped;'; some others," being cut off from that, plunged in to the river bolow and swam across, a few being drowned ; General Hays escaped after ho had fcur-T-enderrd : Colonels Monaan ard Peek awfttfi the river. Mcr2r than half this brigade are mis sine. Tbf extreme right of General Hobo's bri P ; , , l ' i i . i ji 3 : gaue iougpi.wun efJai vtuuur aim t.uarei a smui lar fate. The possession of the works held by the Louisjanians gave the enemy possess of of J,be nontoon bridfre. and thus cutoff General Hoke's brigade from 'any escape excert by swimming Our extrenfe right being thrown back, ihe brave Colonel Godwin, although surrounded Oifall ailesT except on the riverside, still fought on, and whn cimf.elled t yield ground to "over whelraiing odds, fell back with aforca of bbout. seventy-five m?n, still retu-rning the enemy s fire," and refused t surrender; .until: fighting was, useless.. ', '" Lit utenantCo!r.nel Tate an'd Major-York.'Cap- ' tan3 McPherson acd Ray and Lleutenant-Mebane, of the Siith, with Cap; ain Adftms, of the staff, broke, away ana escwpea over tue Driago in loe ilArfcry33.; Lieatenants Williams.-. Smith and Fitzgerald, of the Fifty-fourth ; Bro jvn, of. the piXUJ; WHO a it w utueiej piuugcj uiu lua ritcr and swain saflycvcr!; but, unforlunateljr,XsoTne others were drowned." -Lieutenant-Colonel H. iJones, Jr., of! the. Fifty-Beventh, and,-Captain WhUe,' of the Sixth, plunged in to swim, but th? coldness ' of the water compelled them to. pat '.back. ; . ' Ii : 1 . ; ;.' , . , ' The casualties of oun brigade' are small in kill ed and ' wounded. Adjutant Mebahe," "of the Sixth, woundf dinarm and.Bide; William John ston, Captain.White's company, wounded in thigh, severely, though cot mortally; Sergeant Crisrnan, Car tain Hooper's company, killed. '. Tte brigade is almost annihilaVd. jT&e Fifty-fourth regiment has .only 'one captain j (PachaH) felt,' with five lieutenants," and aboutl-iifteen? men i remaining. Tlo fragments of the! brigade are !now collected Under .the command of Lieutenant'ColoneJ Tat9, of the Sixth, arid attached to the' Louisiana brig'- ade. ' "'These fragments! new nimber about'two hundred and seventy - five men. . This is a serious disaster, so far a3 oar feelings aie concerned, "but !' J .' .LiL. . i. a.' ' a. i : mi. :- 11 UOa hot, entue our Lupvs aa tu jsueceoa.- sad affair took place in the presence of General :Lea'and" MajoiGoneraT Early, who bad arrived on this side tM river. ' '.' ' The loss of ihS enemy his ben -seiioa?, as the" ground in freat of vur works was lijeraUy co er, ed with his ; dead. At midnight on Saturday sight General Jiee began to fall back. Oil Sunday morning he" for mod the line of battle beyond Cl peper; but al ihough tMe enemy thad forced the guard at Kelly's iord,i and compelled General Rhods to tah back ' with a Jrs3 of two hundred men killed, wounded; and miing-l-ryet no at-, tack was made on us, by the Infantry Ijd t e afternoon the enemy ' cavalry tacked General Wilcoxs briga4d, and rwtre badly cot up. j Dur ing Sunday .night General Lee fell back to his old position, south of. theKapid Ann. '- , ' 1 P. S. Lieutenants Morr;son, Lefler and May nard, of 4he Fifty-seventh Are all aafe.'i ; I ; ' - . ' ! ' " JohjstPari, Chaplain Fifty-fourth" regiment N. U T. Will the. North Carolina papers please, eopy. teffu, Margany wine, -swords, Lyons' -sausages. guns, a wild boar s headi peaking trumpet, a dinner service in handsome porcelain, a printing press, aiable," and everything necessary for phds- lograpny. it was mpujited by -.Madame da Princess de-la Tourd'Auvergn, Jules and Louis Go'dard, -Messrs. Nadar,de St, Martin, Delessertj the Prince Witgenstein, Tournachon, St. Felix. Pailiat, Thirion, an anonymous individual, and mysclt. . -;. ",, . . i M. Eugene Arnoult, the anonymous passeneer. furnishes La Nation with the following account 'of th disastrous experiment, da' ed from Hanov ver, in Belgium. Thev left Paris at 5 minutes to 5. o'clock on the evening of the 15th ult You saw rs leave the-Champ der Mafs on Sun day. You wre a witness of the majestic ascent ot tne tjiant, raising into the a'r. amid thei plause of the crowd. They cried.to us from b low, Bm voyager Alas I ' At nine o'clock at night we were at Erauelines. we passed over M alines," and towards midnight we were m notisna., ; -We ro e very high, 'but it was necessary to coie down to see where we were. Ignorant of 4hat, our position was a critpal one. Below, as lar a wb could see, were marshes, and in the dis tahce. we could hear the roar of the sea. We ; threw out ba'last, and, mounting again, soon lost sight of the earth. What a niffht 1 Nobody siepii, as you may suppose ; tor the idea of jalhn into the s.ea had nothing pleasant about it, an it was necessary, to keep ft. look out ih order to effect, if necessary, a descent. My compass showed that we, wefe going towards tte east that i fo-gay, toWa'-di Germany. In th morning, after a frugal break;fat m9de in the cloud, we redescended. An immense plain was Denpatn us. : xne villages appeared to us like children's toys ; rfvesrs seemed like little rivulets ; it was magical. t;Th sun shone splen-j tn has been unanim dialy over all. " Towards eight o'clock we. ar-thSenatWudgeof the Sul rivea near a greax lace; tflrere'l found out my bearings, and announced tht we were at the end of H-Hand, near the, sea. We were com pelled to think of landing Inf order to take iittle ballast. Unhappily the heavens had made us forget the ? arth, over whiCi blew a wind so violent that in a few minutes our anchors enormous fulcrums of iron were broken.. The valvO was shut, and the balloon, which would carry as no longc, began a giddycarper. We rose from twenty to thirty metres, and fell with incredible force. Little by . little the balloon ceased to rase, and the car fell upon its side. Then began a furious, disordered race : all dis appeared - before us trees, thickets, walls, all broken or. burst, through by the shock : it was frightful,. Sometimes it was a lake, in whichr wa p'-tingcd ; eyes from No flri repor ng on We have -heard of nq casualties. irom the JTort this evening, ' . , f SECOND DISPATCH.! ; Charlest ojr, Nov.; 14. Modera Sumter was kept up last night No report from, the-fort yet this morning. One man was killed at Moultrie yesterday,;: . I ' THIRD DlSPATC'lT.J Charleston. Nov; 14. The enemy's fire on, Fort Sumter lias been continuous and sfoidy to- davl He onened fire this even in er on James' Is land and Moultrie. Lamar and battiry! Simp- - Kins replied jno casualties reported inis even- , FROM THE ARMY OF TENNES: Atlanta, Nov. 13. -Nothing from fth A party of Geotgia State, Troops killed on the line between Georgia Carolina the notorious B'ryson and thirty-four of his gang, i '. ' - - A special dispatch to the Register Water, Nov'. 12th, says the Federals moved all thei? supplies to Enoxilli tv and live on ..rations. ' The deserters tured were executed hev yesterday A special dispatch- to' the : Intel that two Yankee officers who have and and da afront ' Indians " f - I North , :. L . ''- I' M tea sweet. . .. have, rei . ' .', fir safe ' " ' : i j re-cap- I ; come into our camp i report that. Grant soon to assault Lookout Mountain. is on half rations. 7 f lays serted and fexpects. (Hi army FROM ABINGDON jump- GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. Milledsyille, Nov.l4.j-Hon. X 'H. i kin has been unanimously confirmed py tbe preme Court of the State of .Georgia. Both houses . have passed 'resolu tions requesting the Secretary .inf Wiri to. re yoke the authority of impres ing officers j and to appoint Citizens not liable to the coaspfiption to. those offices. - 1 np " . . J I Abingdon, Nov. 14 Nothing (furitilr ( from East Tennessee. The weather is cloufljf slight-snow is falling. THE SrRENGTn OF THE TWO ARMIES AT CHICK AMAUGA.I The Army correspondent of netimes it was a late, in whictr . ,, j. j, k ,.1 4 t bog. the thick mud of which en- wr.tmg under date, of thoOj Instant, f !i:- .nd our eyes. "It was madden- says: ; ' I j . ' terca pur inou: ing. ".tor, stop: wo shouted, enraged with Uie mon-ter wno vm dragging us along A railway was t;etore us a train passing ' it stopped at our cries, but we carried aWy the tel egraphic posts and wire. Aninstant afterwards we perceived in the distance a red house I see it now; the wind bore us straight for this house. It was death for nil, for we should be dashed to pieces'.. JSo one Fp'.kp.- btranse to say, of those nine pfrsor.s, one oi wnom was a Hay, who were clinging to a slender screen of out, foT Whom every second seemed counted, not ore had any fear. All tongues were mute, fill faces were calm. Nadar held his wite, coverine her With riis fc.oly. Poor woman ! Every 'shock seemed to breaR her to pieces. .. -Jules Uodard toen tried and acepmphshed an act oF subiime heroism. He clambered up into he netting. .the shocks of which were so terrible that three limrs he" fell on my head.- At leng-th he reached the cord of the valve, opened; it, and tbe gas having a way of escape the monster ceased to rise, but it still shot along in a horizon tal lino- with prodigious rapidity. There lwere we squatting down upon the frail osier car Tiike enca ?' we cried, when a tree, was in the way. We turned irom it, and the tree was bro ken, but, tbealloon wa discharging its gas, and "if. tn immense plain ve were crossing had yet a. few league?, we were saved. But suddenly a forest Bppearedtu the horizon ; we must leap, out at whatever rik, for tbe car would be dahed to pieces at the .first '.collision with' thosa trees. I got d wn into the car, and raising myself I know not bow, I for I suffered from k wound in my knes, my trousers were torn, f , I jumped, and made, I' know , 'not how'maay revolution , and un upon- my head. Alter a minute's dizziness 1 rcse. :. The Car wa? .then far off. By the aid of a stick I drajrel myself." to ithe forest, .and havirg gone a few steps I heard some groans. ' St. Felix was stretched on the soil, frightfully disfigured; his body.wavorie wound ; ha had jin arm broken, the chest torn, find an aflkTe dislc- catea. The car had aispr)rarl. Alter crossing sa fiver I hearda crv. f . i Nadsr was strptched on tha ground with a dis- loc'ated 'thigh his wife h sd fallen 'into the riveK jAnolrior companion was jhaitired. Wo occupied iourselves- with bt. Felix and-JSadar, ana b:s wife. In tryvfjg -to ..assist the laiter-I was nearty jdrowned, for I foil intothe wa'er and sank. jThey picked mc uplHnin, and I found the bath had don me good. By the ts htanc-r of the in jhabittntsnfce salvage was got together. 'Vehicles were brought." They placed us upon taw-.'. My jknts bltd ; my l:.ins and head seemed to be like jminceuieat ;,but ' 1 ;did not lose my presence of mi-nd afl inslanf and for a second 1 felt myself . pumiiiated at looKlng irom tne trus3 of straw at Ithose clouds which in the night I had under my est, it wasln this way we reached ituthem, in iapover. ... . -. . ( j ' ' . ! ' '.; . In seventeen hours W& had made nearly two hundred and fifty leagirs. Our course infernale bad covered a soce of three leagues.' 4 N4jv -that it is V.ver.I ha7e same thudderings.- It does not signify ; we.' have made ja good journey, and I marvel t sc wrth what jicditferesce we may re- gard the most frightful- death forr belidei the prospect of bing dashed about onf our way, we Lul that of " gaining the Sta'j.'and hdw long dfcvtllH tun liaiwv It'oorl Inort T am" 1a rtawa ieeu this 'happier Jyet at i-having to narrate it to you. These Germans who gurroojid us'are bfave people, and we have beea a3 wtli cared foras the resources of the little spot wiil allqw. ."'. j, -.a. 1 have just reached Hanover with my eompanior $1 and reopen 'my letter1 to tell you so. The KingBa sent an aid-d9'-camp to us. " Are we at the. end or our. reverses f At any rate, L aca inclined to think they can no longer laugh at u Parii. We have keptour promises, and and i i. tbe . Richmond Since the Federal pre?s, following thd example of Gen. Rusecrans, persists in altribuurig their defeat st CbickamaugH to the overwhelming num. ' ber3 of the Confederates, it may hot tel Amiss to correct this shallow faleeh6cd, and especially sinde even some'of burr 'own public prints seenf to take., less pleasure in contemplating the grektfvictory gained upon thai blpody' field than tieydo in finding fault with Gen. Bragg. The fallowing , estimate of the strerglh of the Federa army '.Is based tTpon recwrts obtained from ;.thre lifierent and well informed sources just before- thef battle, . anil am satisfied, as you would beJf Tuj! wire in . . ' m . . . ' - . .. . - 1 possession oi an. tne iacts, tnat it the truth very nearly, r. - , McCoolc's .cofpi, threo divisions, J ' man's,';Da vis's and'R. R. Johnson',) Thomas's, corrs, four divisions, Kltqu seau's, Neglev's: Urannan's .and Re nolds.l . " ' . -. I Crittenden's ; corps, three divisions, (Pk mer s Van Cleave' and Woods, Granger's reserve 'cor p, three difisiob (Morgan's, Steadman's and Granger's MOT This is exclusive.of Stanley's corps ofi composed Of three divisions. Somejsrn meats from ihis large force, say 12,001 were on duty in tbe rear, leaving 69,00 men, who were actually present and en .Opposed to this formidable army, Ge an uot nave exclusive oi cavalry. "40,6X)0.men. And, 3 et his brave troor Imates 18,000 1 25,000 . I -18,000 lB.coy t7,0fjo , -' -Housu rent: fuel and provisions are going up rapfdly. in Washington City. Houses are rents ing for Si,200 $1,500. $2,000,!$3;000, $3,600- From $40 to $120 a monh is the price of a single iurnisbed room for a single gentleman. ' . JLeei has risen to thirty-five cents, and butter fifty, cents per pound, and eggs thirty-six cents per dozen. P lal is selling at $ 1 1 per ton , and wood ; $8, $9 and $10 per cord. ! - 1 : pieces' uf artillery, 25,000 stand, cjt smlll arms, . between 20 and 30 flags, and considerable military stores.. This must be accounted a creat victory. and if ibe.commsnding General did otprss bis advantages as vigorously aa we coula I wb, t should be remembered that General L4ife1l into a similar error at Fredericksburg. iNeldber Gen eral knew how complete was the defeat w bis sd j yersary until st mrt days had elapsed, ana then the . merest military tjro Wai able tofpoipl evitthe- mistake that had ,been committed - There w ie3s excus?, j ho'Tever, 11 any were ntedfd, ln Gen. Lee's case than in Gen. Bragg's; for tbe , country in which tbe latter operated waa unfavor able, his transportation Intuulcint,andhis. sup-. pne3 . pareiy sumcient lor nis iroepsj rwnea in . camp ; wucreas, the reverse ot ail thes was true in the case 01 the former. . . 1 . 117..-M : y . : a : . 1 ' " " H v. ; 1 "' AVERILL'S MOVEMENTS THE ENEMY ; BELIEVED TO- BE ADVANCING ON V STAUNTON.;- : 1 - j. ' j From Staunton we have some further partite- ulars of the movements of the enemy's, forces under Gen. Averiil, and" the operations of car "- own forces in conseqqnte. When Gten, Imbcn den lenrned of Avtrill's advance Ihtolthe coun IUjs of Pocahontas and Grpenbrirj hernoved ra- ' pidly to the aid of Gen. Echols apd'CoL Wm. -L. Jackson, who had formed a'junctiori'at a point ' Jcnown as lroop Mountain, tome Zd miles north west of Lewisburg. '' : On the route.Gen. I., was -rein forced by the Home Gdnrds of Rockbridge and th cadets of ' the Virginia Military Institute. The fiemy hav- J ing defeated Jackson atd Echols,, turned in the directioil of Covington, about two faiiles from which point they wtrb met W Imbod'm'4 forces. -Fire was immediately opened opop . the enemy's advance; which jenused-him toj-etire., Imbodn' force being Coo small to justify a pursiiit,,he fell back, blockading the road, to Bliffajo Gap, in . Augusta, county. Tbeene'my are reported jto . have since made th&r appearance at llightown, in Highland county! fity miles Westfof Staun-'.. ton. ' .-,- i ;-'wt.v? J A ; letter j receiyed frpmk Staunton iyei teray . states that the Yankees took possessioriof Wood . stock, Shenandoah county,' on Tuesday .last!--' Whether, they continue to occupjyjtlour infor- 4; mation does not staU, thdugii they occupied the town at last accounts. RUhmoit DifMich. . t' , : ' '" ''. -i ! 1 ' ". " A Misa JcV was preset t "ata'ptarfy recefiUy,; and in the course of the eveiaor.oui' one osed, the. ver, beauty, quoUtior. '-A . ihiDg of beauty is- a joy for-. when She exclairaed, I'm jglaj I'm not a itj, forj i shouldn't like lo be a Jo forever. ' ' ' ' . .' ' 'A r,vm -n umtngton Journal. , JUKI UJWM. . ' 9 T I-! '
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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