The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1862, Page 2

NEW YUKK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1862. INTERESTING FROM THE Rebel Account of the Battle of | Cedar Mountain. ern correspondents, Forney’# Press and the Lienaxp belng SOUTH. the only Eastern papers.at preseut raprogapted Lore, t COURT MaRTIAL OF Col. TH SCR Col, J. B. Turchiny Niaeteent? tial bas occupied the Court Martial tor weeks, has boon cashieret and di nis | Ae this trial hae caused mucl ing piace to be “File right, dah, saw & compny the said dirty balcony had—by the loud eries of “rail ta, daly bi.ger!”’ and looking over the balgoay oO: uegroes marching irom in front ot the ho so in the ¢: regtion of the depot. Each was armed with xu ux@ and thecompany was commanded by ts, The Heute two or three of your neighbors employed to ormation of what you and othe tax you and your rich rebel —my spies—their salaries.” Mr Frierson went Away convinced that oe had better behave bimseli. Another fellow, apologizing fu mation o: a band of gueri then, you are vot 8 nebr you do, p-ighbord to pay hitoserceant and two te were distinguished by jo carry their coats with them. The resi wert ‘The two ce lured olficers seemed 0 enjoy thority with which dey wore attired, but positively the white sergeant fooked as if he had a rather be im tue guard! »poared before auother cowpany came from b | catny to the left cf the hotel and marched in an oposite ‘As I write this, waiting for a train for Briuge- K in the distance throwing up aud inassive character. I bel the negroes exjoy vot So much the labor as the relic. from ation rests Tho truth ie that the colvred pulation, bike their betters, are ‘mighty uncertain” in porta say who a trust them. ‘They furpish us With a good deal of valuable information, which proves that Uieir masters bave oc thom, and much of the information we derive (rom them dave ho occassion to not baving giveu infor. aid be was afraid of then. afraid of me?’ asked the commons, and the sacking Jed forth varied expressions from the North- ppead & brie€ statome No,” said dhe inan, you wou't dostroy m: the lutte brief * eeid the General. * han you do tum you won't serve the guverument for loye, you sall tor the charges aad ‘oi. Larchin, as shown..by ; Thore are three iirst is “‘nogiect of duty , ‘od order and military discipline,’ to this charge gives a full Het of outrages committed by Turchin's men at Athens, some of which are very revolting indeed. Among the tucidente of the plundering and pillaging of tho village I find the follow ing named-— f 80 with foree of arms, entered the private Ha Tone! Malone, ub forced open all che locks of The doors, Drove open all the drawers to the bureaus, the 86- Creury, sidevourd: wardrobes aud teunks ia the house, and em 0! (heir convents, consisin, silver beg silver place, Jewelry, & ge Thoy had hacaiy | SENT TO ASSANSAS A man named Storling Porter, his wife and sister-in- Jay to (ake this morning's (rain make their way to ATkunsas, ted with guerilla bands. y bas boou suspecting them tor some time The women were in 8 of war at Chicago iabiy came with the for approval, He approved two jer prekenee without examining Port, Lean see them at ww: Tho single specithati works of sub-tan.ial From Four to Six Hundred Thousand Bales of Cotton Destroyed. Plantation restectiot past, and iaid ay certain cases. It is bard te Cousiant corres and Indianapo lotters Ww General Negie or unree of then in asion w distrust The Rebel Losses in the Seven Days’ Battles. of valuable clothing, aise, which shows that we piielily on them. ARMY SUPILIES, An immense amount of commissary and qui ‘supplies have accumulated her well guarded to admit of being & temptation to roving Stevenson is @ storehouse for both the Hunisv.iie and Battle creek forces. guarded, and is under the commana of Colonel Harker, The place is tc be still more strongly fortitied. ‘Lhe country in the vieinity 13 capable of strongly fortitied, is ‘Vulgar and proiane language to the females y. These sq ads cere in large numbers, abd plundered the house thoroughly. £1 of suid Muloue, and desu ks. A part of this bri above named Maloue, weeks, debauchi terday she was deivcted. Genorat Negley examined found the coptraband ovrrespondeuce be had susyected, apd had the two Tey ali leivon the morning train wor letters ia er i} the iaw oflice: went wo the "plantatioa of THE ELECTION IN NORTH CAROLINA. Others arrested. ARRIVALS FROM AKKANSAS, On the train on Thursday wes a lady who had just come from Arkansas, and was accompanied ouly yants, svine twenty in number. I introduced myself, and found her to be quite pleasent ‘She instantly suspected [ was a “Yankee Lincolnite’’ and indulged me with several pretty strongly drawn phrases indicative of ber opin- fon of Yankees im general, and eneral Curtis in par- ticular. She was exveediugly handsome, quito young, very ladylike and She ia the wife of Colonel Tappan, of Heleva, Ark., the commanding officer of the Thirteenth Arkansas regi my. She ig the daughter of Judge of this State, aud the niece of Brigadier Anderson, bow commanding in the Army Her husband’s place adjoing and ts now ocoups country, to plunder and pillage. ‘A mob of soldiers the business houses of ir. them of their contents, consisting of sugar, shoes, leather unc other merchandise. ‘Very soon after the command entered the town a soldiers broke into the allveramith by D. H. Friend, and les, 10 the amount of ai post commandant. RICHMOND PRODUCE MARKET. ‘AN opportunity offering wad enmemeatne, Bripaxrorr, Als., August 12, 1862. THE OWATTANOOGA SITUALION, Tsond you with this a map of the situation in front of Chattanooga, which I trust will give the readers of tho HgkaLp @ correct idea of the state of affairs before Chatta” Ihave, by sundry notes on the face of the map? rendered any additional explanations ima great measure Tam indebted to Brigadier General James 8. Negley, commanding a brigade in General Buell’s army, for much valuable information in regard to the position o Chattanooga, the batteries at that point and the topo graphy of the country aloug the road to Chattanooga: | All of this Ihaye attempted to give in the map sent you General Negley is the officer who planned and conducted the expedition to Chattanooga about the lst of June: which expedition resulted, as anticipated, in the evacua- tion of Cumberland Gap. As a reconnoissance, the expo dition has proved of great value in the planning of the Goneral Nogley, it will be remem. bered, retired from in front of Chattanooga on learning that General Buell could not reinforce bim sufficiently to hhoid the place, which he was unable to do with the 6.000 We are now likely to have hard fight for she position once so easily taken by Genera) oh of te conteuts and MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, a mandgntered the house of B. 8. Irwin, wife to ‘cook dipper. for them, and whilst she and her servant were so engaged, they m: the indecent and benstiy pr ed her in the same manuer, powhusending her follinsworth's house was eptered and plundered of ‘and other property by several fired into the Lic in her mauners. ; We publish below an interesting collection of news from the South, taken from the Richmond papers of the: 14th, 15th and 16th inst. ment of the rebel parties, and soine of 6 Louse and threatened to burn it, and used violent and insulting language towards the said Mrs, Salou, rae Care fre: ggommad occasioned mis- carriage, and subsequently her de idiers came to the house of Mrs. Charlotte Hine ron of a colored girl, and Meeting of the Rebel Co’ tion to Secret Se: {From the Richmond Examiner, August 18.) to-day is most safome, PROM » Wt Heleus, Ark. General Curtis’ Mrs, Tappan says that she supposes all the negroes she bas remaining are those accompany ing her. been given her by ber father, had requested tv remain with ber, and had beeu allowed’ passes by General Curtis. ‘The rest of (hose on the plantation of Coloucl Tappan are in tho camp of Geuerai Curus’ army. All of Piliow’s negroes, some three hundred in number, are now in the empioy of Uncle Sam. She says General Curtis wil burn Helena, if be bas not already dove av. Bragg’s army is said to be at Tupelo, Miss. las hard from Colonel Tappau that position was boing held by Sragy. Decusep, Franklin Co., IMPORTANT POINTS OF DEFENCE. Tullahoma and Decherd appear to be points of promi nence iu the defensive plans of General Buell; at least they are strongly guarded. The formor is the point o/ the ‘asliville and Chattanooga and Manches- tor and McMinnville railroads, The latter commands the important road to Jasper from Manchesier, a road which, I understand, is not guarded by our Battle creek forces. A short march of these forces at these two points would bring our centre on a line with our right at Daitle creek, and a simultaneous meroment om the part of Neison would bring the whole of Suell's army into line of pattle west of the Sequatclie river. wing would not, howe ‘The meeting of Congress Providence had ordered it with aa eye sing! it would have designated the very mn chosen for the occasion. bers have eome in the spirit which should actuate them and shall enter at once upon the important business de- ir attention, their names will be honored for to come; but if they have met in the selfish spirit of the modern politician, each man to vote himself tuto a brigadier gencralship, a judgeship or some fat office at the disposal of the men in p.ace,it were much better rn at once, and that the grave left to the unaelfish- ness, honesty, patriotism and energy of the State ‘The Confederate Legislature is confronted at the thresh- old of its proceedings by no less a fact, than the rapid re- undred. snd troops by the publ used, in addition to those already invading the poverishment, subjugation 18 formidablé power s has eto Re scan and committed # rape on the pe then entered the house and plundered it of all the sugar, colle, preserves and the like, which ey destroyed or carrie ornaments they could lay their hands on. of J. lotay, of the Twen' rudely aud course! quartered two companies of in! of the confederacy they could find. Before | period which has d off all the pictures aud . Jones was entered by Colonel Miba- urth Illinois Volunteers, who behaved ‘the ladies of the family, He then try in the house—about m quartered his artillery cou,panics plundered the lL provisions and clothing they could lay their \d spoiled the furniture ar . cutting bacon on on ft with an axe, the beds by sleeping in’ th muddy boots on." The library of tue house was destroyed, aud the locks of the buresi ¥ trunks were all forced and their contents pillaged, The fa- mily was carried off, but some of the pieces hay recovered, The store of George R. Peck was entered by large crowd of soldiers and stripped 0: its contents, and the contents pluadered, consistin, forty dollars and ninety cents, an: present campaign. carpets maticiously adjou the parior carpets iblic defence should be ‘that Congress business of pul an., August 11, 2862. men under bis congmand. eigpeenet hey crusting of siz hi ‘THE RRGEL LINE Ro sooner had Negivy retired from before Chattanooga, than the rebe.s moved forward and advanced their lines. They did not balt until Negley placed Starkweather’s bri- gade on the bauks of Battie creek and halted it there. The rebels crossed the Sequawhie and advanced to Jasper. Thence they subsequentiy advanced to the creek, and are now established on its eastern bank, from the crossing of the creek by the road from Jasper to Wiuchester to the the map this line is pointed out. point of crossing by the road named is dignified b; the title of Battlecreek; it is applied is composed of two or three dilapit ings, clustered together, as if attracted bi fresh water from the mountains. This algo extended south of tho Tennessee river to, below and posite Briigeport, Ala., the main camps and force of he Nushville and Chattanooga Rai!- ‘Thia railroad fu. nish country, avowedly for its im| and enslavement. in the field less than three v8 and measures must at once be taken to moet this exigent state of affairs. ‘Unfavorable as this ee may be asto theland forces, junction of the iron safe broken oj of nine hundred and $4,000 worth of charge is of ‘‘conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.” Coloue! Turchin is accused of not pay- ing bis hotel bill at Athens and of faili po to prevent the disgraceful behavior os. ‘The third charge is “disobedience of orders.” Among the specifications it ts charged that he disobeyed the general ordera requiring that peaceful cit:zons should not be molested; that lair compensation be allowed tor use of private property, and that forbidding the wives of officers or men to lodgo in camp. Turchin plead guilty. The court found him guilty of nearly ail the charges, and sentenced him to be dismissed ft the service of the United Staves. approval of the finding of the court by Genoral Buell:— ‘The proceedings of the Court: suance of its sentence Colonel J, B. Turchin, of the teenth Lilinols regiment, ceases to be in tie service of, the ‘Six members of the Court have recommended the ‘clemeney, on the ground that ‘the offence was committed uuder exciting circumstances, and was one rather of omis- sion than of commussion.” ‘Tue General commanding has felt constrained, nevertheless, to carry the sentence into effect, Colonel Turchin was tried for his command @: and in water. Congress has been liberal in Pecaiboead ey sy for that branch of the service; and the moneys which it has bestowed.with lavish hand have been spent with alacrity; but the magnificent vessels on which they have been laid out, have been destroyed by the navy itself as on as their triumphant success and absolute invinci- bility have been demonstrated. We commeuced tha war with @ magnificent and wendorfuliy woll provided navy yard,@ not numerous but most capital navy, and ‘@ prospect of success, upon the water, which if improved, would have lead to groat things. the public interests will allow to be revealed greas, without anything, except that notab! Mr. Mallory, a Navy Department, Navy Bureau, and swarms of navy cl>rks, which the vast establishment of Great Britain would Coe suffice to keep employed. Jt proposed, through the press. to put Mr. Mailcry into Merrimac No. 2, and to blow both pape es ‘A simpler meusure would be a voto of Congress requesting the Presi- dent to place this branch of the service in better hands. should be taken in open session, should be re- corded by ayes and’ noes, and be made a conspi- cuous landmark in the history of the war, and in the career of a Congress which has nothing to inspire vote would disclose at what members had come here to serve the public interest and what to servo their own selfish end: to the powers having the dispensation of patr @ vote would give the people new hope. them hope in Congress—a thing whic! bad before. Looking gress ag but an offshoot Tennessee iiver. On ut the town or vil , gain & position on the Sv- qvatchie without a fight, Hoxce [shall remain convenient This is not contraband. nothing which the rebels beyond Battle creek and the ‘Tennessee river do not know. BRIGADE COMM4NDERS, General Spoed. 8. Fry, of Kentucky, ts in command at this place. General Fry is the man who killed Zollicoffer, if the unreliable rumors of a battle are to be believed. brigadier General Jas. B. Steadman,flate Colonel of the Fourteenth Uhio infantry, to-day assumed command of tho late General Robert L. McCook’s brigade, which was the Third brigade of the Army of the Ohio, and in Major Genera! Thomas’ First the latter specification, to the right wing. Treinen road as tar east as Shell Mound. supplies for the rebel army aud counects it with Rich- mond and the Kast, and Mobile and the whole South, in- cluding Vicksburg. General Buel! will have to strive against all those advautages which the rebels have in tho means of rapid and effective concentration of troops to oppose him should he venture to move against Chaita- uooga, The same argument is good in tho case of Gen. Morgan, in front of Knoxville, A demonstration against now to cause the evacuation of the vther, a3 Ne,ley’s expedition did in a former instance. THR SEQUATOBIE VALLEY. The rebels hold the Sequatchie valley with pertinacity, aad will uct give it up without e struggle. This valley is being only one hundred is, however, one of the richest in Lastern or Middle Teanesses, @ud its present harvest is important in the eyes of the rebels. besides, it has good roads by which to reach Middie Tennessee and all that Splendid country east of Nasbvilie and about the vicinity Carthage, &c. The upper counties te, Warren, Van Buren and Uver- y them, and from thence, through the Sequutehie valley to Chactanvoga, the golden harvest is True, Gen. Dumout of the Union, rebelg. came back Gon. Nelson hae, however, taken possession of that important will hold it tor the future. important to tho rebels, because it is an outl nd gous, large quantities of which are evel rough heutucky to the South. illus iuto Kentucky. ‘The rebels also hold it in hopeser son making {t the road by.which domoustrate agafnst Nashville. the valley it is very evideut that it would Buell’s troops to de.ead Alurf: Ville, while at the same Ume At any wate, however, wit aint Sequatchie between them, neither force will be en- xbled to do much in au offe ‘The following is the We are now, 80 far as Con approved, and in_pur- either placs is not likely the disorderly conduct of of Athens, and the sen- tence ot the Court rests on that mailer alone; but on the y It {8 proper to look beyond the record of the Court, It is a fact of suflicient notoriety, that similar disorders, though not to the same extent, course of Colonel Turchin’s command wherever it has gone. 9 guestion is not whether fused Fry rvlce, res: demands | au ord ence of individual is adiderent matter, ten troops and the destruction of not mean vigorous aster, and is punished mics. The General Steadmau's of the Second Minnesota; Ninth Ohio (German), and che Kignteeath regulars—three, battalions. The late coptiimation of Colouel Steadman is a tardy jus. tice done to a gallant officer who will till the place of the lamented Bob. MeCook. As Colonel of the Fourt Colonel Steadman vied with Colonel Harlan, of the Kentucky, as to who should first euter the stronghold of Zoriicoffer at Mill Spring. He will lead bis men in tho fu- with he sume daring gallantry as he dispinyed ou that occasion aud afterwards at Corinth. RAL M?COOK'S MURDER. Tam told that the Ninth Ohio regiment has fearfully ed the marder of Goneral McCook. ded that the murderors were citizous living bo- ven Wiuchoster and Salem, and that be was led into an ambush by the inan with whom he (Geueral McUvok) halted the night previous, he could not be found. zon8, who were suspectod of being engaged in the mur © reported to have been bung by the Ninta Uhio; but! do not state this asa fact. that a large number of houses iu the vicinuy of the mor- der have been destroyed, and meu, women and children have tied ‘rom the syvengers. impossible to restrain the men of the Ninth Ohio, wardiy abd inhuman murder is characterized by no uusting circumsiances, aud there are nono to be a who appear tw rogret that the fury of these moa has had no reetraint, DAATH OF CATA Other uo leas cowar: question of clemency It stall and Darrow, miles ia length; but the public contidence. once to the country have marked the for that {s proper whenever the t. It should then be done by autbori- The to lawie: for it would give the preset Confoderato Coo. preseui rate Con- ‘the. corrupt one that broke in two at Washington by its own rottenness, and cousidert sh the war placed at the disposal of the Confederate administration, a booty‘which the vir- tue of the old Congress could never have withstood; the Southern public from the first dismissed from ite mind any expectations of ee and vigorous ton eae looking public good questing change in the admin! ment would at once identify the majority of with the people, and rouse the Executive shock, which would give such an impetus to public affairs Marylan of McMinnville, ¥ of Putnam, Deki ton are still held’ ans disgrace aud dis- severity in all ar- the disorders were those which demanded the strict- discipline. ‘The cominand was supposed to be in the presence of an enemy that migh of any confusi arfare; it met with the greatest circumsiances under w! MeMinnvule and the vast patronage w: when he went away the committed were vat observance It is generally advantage very man should have been over the town and couutry In, point of fact dhe that good order was violated om by the habitual neglect ynmander were unavailin, of it might be of vilal {mpor- The Bequactnie valley is also ; fe istration of the Nav ‘The house of this wai erimipallty is not so mu the particilar oconaion he orders of the time when the observant tamoe, ‘o onel Turohin had been in command of the Eighth bri- gade for five months, and is fairly responsible for a stato of discipline which has done injustice to we four line’ regi- it was composed. The Gen than once, about the time of the or- nization of the brigade. There were none in the army service, and he still bas con- ee By, 00 = neral BUELL. it is cocupied b; was burned, bu ly being transporte yy an electrical also an iniet for It is Certain, however, that our armies soon be heard of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Though an indispensable meagure, the creation of a Bavy is of secondary importance to the business, demand- ing the immediate action of Congress, of increasing our army to the size exacted by the now measures’ of the euemy. It is not a proposition admitting of debate that ‘ibed tn the Conscript law will have to be transcended, and a mew army raised from my and above thirty-five. But a radical difference will have to be observed in the method of creat- ing this new army. The chief objection to the Conscript law of last April was the fact that the business trusted to the Confederate government. State Logis. Jatures haying neglected the subject at their winter ses- sions and adjourned, no alternative was left in the preas- img exigency of that critical period but to waive all objections of detait, and to acquiesce in ® measure then become absolutely essential to the salvat Probably it would have been bett if Congress had entrusted the enrollment, organization and mustering of the conscripts to the superior ene: lity and patriotism of the State governments; for federate authorities have not yet executed the Conscript law. But this was not the view taken at the time. Having now the benefit of experienco imperatively the policy of Congress to ca! to enroll, commission and organize tbe army of second ciass oomsoripts, which the preparations of the enemy re- quive W be brought into the fieid. once make the appeal to the States, this new army will evou now be raised bufore the first class eonscripts are yet fully raustered juto the service. The ret two weeks of the present session will entitle the Congress Lo the lusting gratitude or the eternal curses: of the country. No assembly of men ever before had 30 certain an epportunity of winnin, recent Legislature of Virginia, which, after Congress had stuinpeded from Richmond, after the government had seized the railroads to transport away its baggage, and while every confederate officer was pluming his wings for Jitght, resolutely deciared that Richmond must be defund- cd to the last extremity, authorizing the govern hoid it if every building were sholied to the ground, that Legislature will receive honor through allgime, The pre- sent Congress havo like honor to win, and some shame to ‘From the Charleaton Mercu: hat do the people know of doings of their represontatives in be calied to account for their stewardship and be under- standingiy approved of or rejected? They bave covered themseives with the mantle of socresy. They establish. ed @ rule amongst themselves that if apy of their numbers: should presume to communicate anything of its transac- tions to bis constituents he should be expelled from Con- gress, thus at a siugle blow custing aside the people and ‘annibilating all responsibility to them. The conseq is the peupie are utterly in the dark as to the travsac- tions Of their representatives for their liberty, all that is dear to men. representative to the people; lot them know nothing of. ‘bis actings and doings as their representativ: what avail ie the representative;to the people. neither control him nor rule themselves. The represun- tative becomes an irresponsible ruler of the peopie, or, what is more probable, the tool whom all patronage flows, to carry out his despo.tc people to voto themselves, through their representa- Lives, it is clear they must know ali his transactions, and be ableto support or repudiate them, and to continue or to change their agent, the representative, Tuke, for in- stance, acase by way of illustration. tion of the provisional “The President il receive (or tion at the rate of $25, boro, the Key to Nash- eatly cudanger the Tennessee appears to have been those reginents more which be expected better fidence that they will realize those ex Janus B, Fur, Colonel and Chief 1 and staif are still here. commands the district, and it division. Lioutevant Colonel is Provost Marshal of the city. © way for some time to ‘Thus much ia regard to the topographical, situa- the limits of ago DAVIDSON, THAT KENTUCKY. y gueritla raids have lately boon committed In this vicinity, and the Fourteenth Ohio, Tenth Keatucky auc Second Maive, hate boen exasperaied to such # degree thut they deciare they will take no more gucriliag ; risoners. Aa account has already veen seat you Of the capture of bwocumpanies of (he Tenth Kentucky, bo- youd Tuscumbia, a week since. Gen, Buell bas made it the Aubject of « general order, wuich has doubiless reached ; Unyustly condemus Captain ninand for cowardice, this raid has just been de « RIGHT. of the Ohio is beeoming prolific of major ‘e have now not less thau six officers of that isious. They sre the Major ‘al Buell; Major General Geo, W. Thomas, First division, promoted for the success at Mii Spring; Major Geuoral Alex. McDowell McCovk, Se- cond division, who won his new grade at Shiloli; General Mitchel, Third division, who won his rank by his peculiar styl of telegraphing; Major General Nelson who was promoted for 1muan ef war work at Shilob, sn Mayor General Thomas L. Crittenden, who a) additional star on the same bloody feld. General Buell’s was due him for the strategy displayed by him ia plan. ing the campaigu so badly executed by Grant; but his- wry will place bis p.omotion to the ‘fellantry displayed si the Sixth di rade iu an army of six di eneral Commanding, Gen Personal Intelligence. General Bates and famiiy left the Metropoli- tan Hotel for Washington yesterday. Colonel 1. C. Hunt, of York Volunteers ; Cs the Ninety-second ptain R. H. Scott, of the United States Army; Lieutenant 8, Cary, Jr., of the United State Navy; James Bonnell, of Wisconsin, and G. J. Cunningham, 0! Boston, are stopping at the Brevoort House, Robert T. Lincoln arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday Long Branch, en route to Washington, for which city he left last evenio, Baron Stoeek!, Prussian Minister to the United States; M. Bodisoo, of the Russian Legation at Washington; Dr. of the Unitea States Army; Major Thomas Marton, of Newburg; J. C. Kennedy and wife, A P. jot, Jr., and E. G. Thompson, of New York, are stopping at the Clarendon Hotel. Capt. Snyder, of the United States Army;S. Witt and family, of Cleveland; G. W. Alexander, of St. Louis; G. R. Barker, of Vermout,and A. L. Hoppe, of Illinois, are stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Hon. Alfred Ely,of Rochester; Col. Mix, of Washing- Heouan,’ Capt. Boben and Capt. Kurker, of Philadelphia; Capt.’ De Haven, of the United States Navy; i. Moore and family, of Louisville, Ky,; ww Gricaus, and 5.Jack, of Memphis, are sto We St. Nicholas Hotel. Hon .H. Bridge, L. John-on and 8. ton ; Col. Benedict, of Alban; you, aud which, 1 vai = yped in an ac A wounded and paroled y reported yesterday that F $ escape from his bulls catering his body aud ia Davidson was ar Vrevious to the r: oung Davidson capiors, und was shot, uin y killing bim. gallant young of in Kentucky it is plainly and 1 upon the States not met with an opportunity to win the same The third division of General Mitchel is now commanded by a Brigudier, in the staiwart person of the Rossoau, of Keutucky. rai commands, the two divisions of M {Crittenden iorm the right of the Army of the Oliv, now encamped on Buttle creck, four miles from tois point, and corming also the advance, du the two commands the past few mouths, but Lam nut abie to give the orgatfization a this thne. CAMP IN GH MOUNTAINS. Ido not know that rebel shells can reach tho camp of Gen. Mel ook, but assurediy rebel eyesight can. The camp is 4 most beautiful one, sti etching for miles along the side © the mountain, and lvokiog particularly handsome in ite even and regula ly Inid out streets aod great ceutral the nearuess of the besutiful water of the river and creek seems to have ispired the men with newly burnished ideas of Cleanlivess aud regularity. The camp is certuwly distiuguishabie tor these two peculiarities— jarities, coajdering the usual conuiuon of caups in mmediaie front of an enemy. More care 18 geve- raily taken wo make onesuif secut sbaje vl a0 advanciy, d the faithiess act of Buck ¢ biw from tho State. Will be regretted by maoy warm persoua the gailaut men of bis company aud r If Congress 8! a laut wovell H OC these seve. r Generals Molook GUBKILLA RAD ed and twenty con Thore have beon honor or infumy. 3 frum Deca f night at the duriug tbe bight Elliott couse Ol & MAD UAL bing was wrong ents moved forward, the house of a mac ew armed vol witenant Gorsage, of + phia, E. Oaxtord and KE. Bowen, of Chicago, 3. Hamilwn, ot Lynn, Stuas., 8. E. Barber and wife, of Ohio; H. G: Eastman, of Poughkeepsie, and Mr. Redfield and wile, of kimira, were among the arrivals at the Astor House the guerrillas. Was at last compeliod ‘he! actings and Congress? Can they from bom be was s: der by vue vi he 4 against danger in the there is little danger rebels in the front of Méucok and Not only would it be hazardous tor them to attempt to crows wad attack us, but flags of truce and rendered the situation less dungervus than if picket skirmishing was nut forbiddea, ist Oring. An agreement ex- isis between the two forecs that pickets shuil not bo wantouly fired upou by either party, and the Tenness (lis creak are cones wacers, im wilich either par y can bathe with impuuity. Coayersations, uniutercsti:g ag @ general thing, wke tried my lun, on a rebel picket, in hopes of establishing & Medium of oxchang outhera papers. Police Intelligence. LyrerreninG wr tHe Drart.—hary McFariane and Auno Hogan, two domestics, were arrested yesterday b officer Rightmine, of the Twenty-first ward, on a charg, of withboiding information relative to the inmates of the house-iiabie to be draited. Provost Marshal kenuedy, who discharyed ther, deeming the offence not to ave been committed knowingly. ASSAULT ON 4 PoLiceMaN,—Qilicer Day, of the Seventh precinct, was taking prisoner through Washington strect yesterday, when a crowd of men and women made an assault on him, rescued the prisoner, wrested the club trom his baad und beat lim over the bead with it. oiliver waa conveyed, seriously injured, te the station li. Thornes, the sa by taking Wo’ his heew, | amicable arrangements hat ihere are no ahtcms, wot rillaa were commanded by one Moulton, Ala.—a person whe is descrived as very much of a geu i the Fourteeutia Oli, was recognized by guerillas as 8 desorter trom an Alabay was retained, the subels promising ‘They were brought before red Boutral ground, Cut oif the responsibil oman A maa named Fegiment, aud to porole him with by which 1 hoped ly @cupy oO the une the projecwed trans.er failed, there eppearing to the paper vam THE KREKL VORUK BEYOND TH RIVER. With a gvod glass the tous of the rebeis can be seen ™ the Ligh hills about ctevenson, but they are not ib.e frou Ueidgeport, ou account of the tbick timber ‘Yhe main camps of the rabels ap- peur, irum Lue best reports, 0 be abut Shell Mound, is underswod to be the headquarters of Major K 1 cannot state detioively what trovpys compose Kragy 8 cominund or bis force; but a very igh military Authority puts it at 90,000. preseu.ed by the same oulicer that this force is Battered irom Chavtabouge (0 Anox ville, and is capable of concen- irstion at any pent along the river within afew hours, ‘ie lines of Lhe cabels av Haitie creck extend as fullows:— vove the purihern side of the Battie Creek and Ja8,er foul, as shown on the mep, along the east side of © creek lo (he river. Theuce, crossing the Tenuessee, vilvw@ the course of that scrouin unui tt reaches 1 opposite Bridge, ort i that a large force of rebels has crossed the chie river and advanced in such a manner as to op: extended front to General Neiwon at destin ut as nothing can be sown, aud little t 1able head, ib 8 impossible te speak positively of the t O} the Lormer this much that it #80 large that I fear it aust jorce inactivity upou us for sume time to come, for we want full regiments and more of them. Sievewson, Ala., Auguat 12, 1862. the Executive, from 1 AND Mow DUMLT. One begins to realize whet it is to be inan enemy's @ountry whea be tra ga Railroad w this p correspondent accompa this part of the country, there was nothing of the strange scenes—or rather Scone, for it ry few miles along the road, of infautry,and many fro v3 be uo temptation Work i THe Provost Mansuat’s Orrics.—On the 15th inst. Deputy Provost Marsial commenced to vise pass ports, and on that day vised pinety-eight; on the 2isty one hundred and one; on the 22d, eighty-six, and yoster” ty. Most of tho persons who have applicd for te are unuaturalized, and therefore not liable to be drafted. Several, however, applied who are native In all of these latter cases the parties wore sent to Marshal Murray's office and bound ufder a penalty of $1,000 to hold themselves in readiness ior the fu April jast, your obstructing the view expedition inte wescribed as foilo: 18 services & Cora) ,000 per annum, and he receive, during that period, any other cmolument {rem ‘this confederacy or any of the States thereof.” it is im. ible to mistake these words of the coustitution. jumman language could not de\tse a more distinct decia- ration that the President annum’ as his omoluwent, and nothing more, L we turn to the act of this Congress, soon after the President wag ingtalled in oftic:. and we Mud the folowing resoiution:—'ihe Cuugreas ot the Confederate Stutes of Ainerica do resvive that the committee vo arrange for government buiidings be auth rized to lease a furuished mansion for the residence of the President of the Oun- Hore is & résolulion to add to the uments” of the President o furnished mansion, qual to seven thousand dollars—making his emolumeuts tluciy-two thousand dollars instead of tweuty-five thou- Do the people know how their representatives vowed on this plain and palpabie viviatiun of the constitu. tion for the beneilt of the President? Avether matter we would.notice is the Presidential Js undersioed that President Davis veloed more bilis of the d*rovisional Congress than all the Presisents of led States from Georye Washington lo Andrew Jace any where how their jils; and, second, m supported this | Bragg, commanding. ‘ows monotonous—ol wo 1 gither saw our s Orgsixa or New Rooms at rap Haus or Justron.— justice Brennan will open his~wourt to-day in the new rooms of the Hall of Justice. The new rooms are fitted prightly and comfértad: may well congratulate himself in getting out of the old lugubrious luoking place be has hitherto occupied. aud Loog Island manner, and the Jus- foucrate States,” —The forts wouls f the outline of the tim and Departures. x positivu of (he rebels. Livenroot.—Steamship Ui ky Mra A Ford, rt ossiter, James Kiley, PM Kr f ‘ i Charles H Dou; of Baitimore—Mi y be suiely said (uree culidren and inte ‘Terant, Kev I’ G Delany, ery, Lauria Ss Scott, Mr and Mrs Adolph Gur Brockw.aun, TH Ourtia, Jr, three children anu infant; Julia Hout Pedro Bont, Jow oh Pokies ja Colonel Harrison, Thirty-ninth Indiana Velunteets, is post commandant ag this point, . MoCouk, the senior Major Gen- 18 in couneyand of tu Mutuew Davis, wit Do thu peopie k: represeutetives voted—fiist, on these on the vetoes upon them? outrageous abuse of the veto power? Do the peopls know? Do they kuow what part their representatives played in thoae grave travsactions? Did they vote for the bills aud then stultify themscives by uphoiaing the vetoes of the Or did they oppose the bills ond consistently uphold the vetoes of the Executive’ knows? ‘Ile people are called upon to vote for their re- presentatives in profund ignorance of their course in all these niuttors—an ignorance forced upon them by their representatives thomselyes, Cap any other exeni)lifea. tions be necessary to prove the utter imoompatibility of secret sessivis iu Congress with the right of the people to vulo themacives? {Frem the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.) It was expected that an opportunist people to see and hear what most directly concurned them, but the Congress tus far appears to have acted bat,the membors of that body alone t they alune had @ right to kuow ‘The veil of secresy bas beon tirown over almost the entire proceedings. In secret aud aioue, behind dors securely locked, to prevent their cur stituents from Wecoming iayuls, Yao movers have ¢ Held at this point F Dovel, Bol MeDermot, Mrs we L. Gomes, Joseph MeKun, oocell, Titus Bartineli, Mise Mary Huntsvitug, A Angust 18, 1552 PRRSONAL OWNKY AY le bxvoutive upon them? nu shia region, because | have imagined y, © Popenhusen, New York, yeverness and five ‘children, Movers Louis ana . Mr and Mra G Laurent, ‘gene Tilimavn, s r to Spain, lady avy Ht Flegentielm, ia good order by thy thet in their w proved interesting news to trabemit, tious have enlightened the Hamann readers as ivity inthis depertment, tify it, hold that the mo. tives of commanding officers are not to be too Lghuly con demned, toastnueh as it is not possible for thos tue mystory to judge impartially of such ollicers’ conduct; the hue and ery whieh T oxides, thore is no 6 that wy observa. ¥ von Wochentelit, I cannot prim ueriliag inwy take tiug it could be re- tor the past i much and heard much te y XBGRO DRIGADR OF LADONERS would be given the t General Boeli is not disposed, iain onvineed, to he I order of the Pr oyment Of negroes as labur: ent in regard Wo Lhe O° This has beew charged \ 1 Congress was doing. and, therefore, 1 do not Yura; ha Dunbaug, Beada. fod cost of my fr orentine Lew pren, Piniauelpiias Miss elizale Puikp Bauer, New Vora, M aad obi oT ndephawaud other in 4 Bonen, Bai ? 1 be OvUid be Ratisflod with the jo two pioturos visible from the dirty vn cony 1 as ewakoued (rola my usinted With their move. arated aud marked gub ou | hwony w aey, Wowever, LuAt the oroakers are the We... | tho logistotion of the country, and the neopto have no® be sulle od W Dooome aware of measures di y ig thew interests. They can comjectuze w has babu the course pursued by individual inembers om mat- tors of vital interest to the country, but that is and koow not whether to appreve or condemm. The only in- jurnialion youchsaled to them occasionally is, that Con- | s 0-8, in its wisdom, has seen Mt to pass tis or that im. portant meaaure, and now calls on the people to give it « hoarty support, because a contrary course would create iv tstons in the country. We hava never approved of the secret policy of Con- Gress, and do not believe that tt is in a danoe with tbe spirit of the Contederate constitution, or that it is cal- qiluted © subserve Lhe best interesis of the country. We regard \t a8 pernicious, both in principle apd prac- tice; as being calculated to engender distrust in the heartsot the people, and gives free rein to corrupt and and unprincipled politicians to work out their own de- in. uncontrolled by any lear of popular displeasure. While the doors of Congress remain closed bad men will be cnablid to plot and in secret, unchecked by: the foar of popular manifestations of disapproval. Itits oniy by oxposing the acts of members of the government to the criticism of the people that they can be mada to feel coutinually & due sense of the importance of their duties and the welght of t)@respongibility resting upon them; but while Congress sits with closed doors; and the acts of government are matured in secret, this wholesome ¢rit'-, cism cannot be exercised with discrimination, and, as a ousequeuce, thore is no proper feeling of responsibility on the part of thogo entrusted with the management of the affairs of the country. ‘We hope, therefore, that when reas moete scalp in August, a resolution will be to open the doors and allow the people to enter ‘and see ani hear for themselves what their represente- tives are doing. Lag the darkness which has heretofore enveloped everything connected with the government be dispelled; let the light of day shine in upon the machinery of government, then if members do vy receive the confidence and Ope of the people, itis because they have not deserved them, (From/tho Columbus (Miss.) Republio.} Seorot sessions of Congress are in the highest degree dangerous to the liberties and iuterasis uf the people, Lat «8 tako warning by a chapter in the caily history of the late United States, which, im its infancy, was for some time on the brink of ruin; though, as the ‘question that nearly caused it, was only debated in secret sessions of Congress, the pceple were not aware of {t till more than ‘thirty years alter the danger providentially averted. In 1736, John Jey, Secre- tary of Foreign Affairs, who had been’ auihor- ized to institute a negotiation with the Spanish governmont, laid before Congress, a8a profound secret, & proposition to ubandon the navigation of the Mis sissippi river to Spain for the poriod of twonty-five or thirty years, ag an equivalent for a treaty of commerce with that nation. This suicidal measure would have ine- vitably led to a separation between the Fastern aud West- crn country. It would have been a relinquishment of five-eighths of the territury of the United States, and an abandonment of the fairest subject for the payment of the public debt contracted by the Revolutionary war, which would thus have been chained on the ueck of the country in wm. Had the people been aware of what was going on they would never have permittod such ion to agitate the counsels of tbe uatien; but the whole affair was veiled in darknoss, and so continued un- til the year 1818, when a resolution a et autho- rizing the publication of the secret jo of the old Congress. Questions no fess vitally interesting will have to be met yas people of tho Contederate States. Let them take timely warning, and watch with a jealous and Suspicious eye every attempt by Congress to sit with closed doors. [From the Atlanta (@s.) Confederacy. Congress reassembles on the 18th. We hope body, when it meets again, will not sit with closed doors, put: ting its light under a bushel. We want its deeds and say- ings Lefore the world, dene in the face of open day, go the people may know who to blame or praise for the folly or wisdom of its acts. Rebel Postal Mismanagement. {rom the Atlanta (Ga.) Confederacy.) There are afew things we will name which we hope will be done speedily by Congress. Wo hoje the present rates of postage will be reduced. The rates were in- ceeased, no doubt, with a view to increasing the income, and making the departmont self-sustaining. We have no doubt the revenue has.been lessened instead of increased without reducing the expensosa cent. We know of no safer rule to judge of others that by ourselves. We know that we do not write half as many letters as we did when postage was five cents, and we did not then write half ag many as we did when postage was only threo cents. We feelsure the same be truthfully said of a great majority of the people. If this be go, the in- crease of the rates ia not only unwise but suicidal—cal- culated to aggravate the evil it waa intended to remedy. Thon let it be reduced. It will surely benefit the peo- ple, and it cannot harm the government, . Our postal system is a one in other respects, The immense amount of registertpg and way billing, an’ the thousands of other useless labors and expenditures atiach- ed to its routine, could be well dispensed with. The law bow requires a register to be kept of ove letter sent and roceived. This is all nonsenao. We id have a uniform rate of postage, and do away with all registering of letters, except such ag the writers dosire to have regis- tered, and for which they should be required to pay an extra amount as a registry fec., Nine-tenths of tho letters sent are of no special importance to the writers; and no body would be seriously inconveniences, or incur any ‘special loss, if nine-tenths of the letters sent were lost in tranamission. Then letters are not worth making a record of; and if not worth it, the expense and trouble of Going it would be saved, But the people have no confidence in the mails as a moans of the safe transmission of valuable letters or pack- ages. It ts uncertain and irresponsible. The government should be made responsible for the safe delivery of evory letter entrusted to its agents for transmission through the mail, and be bound by the laws applicable to common carriers—especially should the government be hold ro- sponsible not only for the safe delivery, but for the prompt delivery of every valuable etter.’ Such should @ rogistered; and for this the writers should pay a higher rate of postago—say double, treble, or quadruple, oon percent upon the value, as may be thought The law now prohibits the people from sending lettors by any otbor 2.10 of conveyance than through the mails, yet refuses to med the government enjvying this meno- poly responsible tor anything consigned to its care for transportation. More perfect despotic absoluiion than this a mae macy tn eB So agave toby any people on earth, however irresponsible inding «+ 2, Tr aij ond ecrvile the other” Our govecninent sed obligations upon the whole people and all privy tore 8, prises, from which it — itself and its o while ontorcing through heavy penalties a n the premises. It compels all “common carrier to bo responsible, bat monopolizes, by the sti: power, one whole brauch of the carrying trace, and by the same power refuses to bocome responsible. It is an outrage. The government, if it undertakes to do any por- tion of the carry ing trade, should be subject to the sane liabilities it imposes on others, and put itself into fair competition with private enterprise; and if it could not do work better and cheaper than individuals it should give it up. But after having created this irresponsible monopoly, the inconvenience of which it tries to impose on the people under penaities, tt does not itself make use of its ‘own regources of transportation in sending valuable let- ters and packages. ‘The goyernment has no confidence in ita own institution which it impor°s on the community and compels them either to ue or pay tribute to, under heavy penalties; for it does no: send its own valuabie let- tors and packages by mail, out seads them by expross— ‘@ responsible institution. ‘The Post Office laws, in more respects than one or two, are au outrage on a free people. But let us have cheap postage at once, and reform the System as early as we cad. The Price of Cotton. [From the Richmond Whig, August 16.) The Mobile Aegister says cotion has a, shown that it still lives. Long dormant in the gin louses of the Planters, it is aroused to life as a commercial commodity by the magic of our military successes, and with the vigorous vitality which pertains to intrinsic values, re- sponds to the reciation which it has in fore) kots. The sudden advance of cotton to some twenty cents per pound in Georgia markets, and to figures ap- proaching these in other domestic markets, is} of course, directiy attributable 0 the new flush of coufidence which our recent sucovsses have inspired, promising that the time will come, at a period not vory remote, when the buyers of the outside world will be enabled to purchase. But will tlie advance of prices be sustained? If, as is very unlikely, a sudden peace should opeu our ports to coninerce, would, those who hold cotton at a cost of twenty cents be able to gave themsclves? A brief caicu- lati * saa scem to defMonstrato that they would be safe enough. It might be estimated that the last year's crop was three aud @ half or four million bales, but it is unneces sary to be procise as to figures, inasmuch as we kiow that the demands oi the consuming world were up to the yield, and that there is no other supply on bapa in tho worid but this, and that no more will be raised in the South this season than will compensate what bas beom destroyed and supply the dei for home consumption Indeed, thore is reason ty doubt that this season's plant. ing will supply the home demand and com the amount destroyed, whieh has probably been from four to siz hundred (housand Lales—downrless nearer tha lader than the former, for in the rich country along the Missi-sippi the destruction was almost total, This, at the reopening of in- toroourse, we shall Lave but the amount of a single crop to offer to the world, which will come hungrily into our market to find reliei trom the cotton fauiue, ils sock of aw cotton exhausted, and its supplies of manufactured o.tion runming very short and heldat bigh prices. ‘Thus not only the necessities of industry, which appeal to hu manity and to the interosts of vapital, but Lhe wecossities of consuinption which ereate the commerce (bat sustains and fosiers the foriner, wii combine (o assure tho main. tenance of the highest rates for the votton we will have to well. At is the trade demand for cotton gopds on which we may contdently rely to keep up the prices Wo figures that warrant the howe trasactions wt this time at quotations now ruling in Gourgia aud elsewhere, Wo must cousider that the stuck of mavulactured goods is rupning?very low ‘and that belore our purts are opened two ps of eottou will be lacking Ww tho regulary, sources of supply. ‘This doficit must necessarily keep up the priges of goods, aud the sustained high price ot the raw sluple Will be the consejuence. Our planters will jose notuing by not planting cotton, for they will realize something (rut their provision produce, and will receive noarly or quite as much fur one crop as they would for two, and fur several succeeding crops the prices will be Dotter than of old, and greatly in advance of what they would be should two or more Grupe Le trown upon the Market at once twstead of one, One CFp i, dud Le one cau foresee how mauy will be, mi to the pots, and Years will pass before prices ar¢ brought dewn to their oid le Shall the Cartel Stand? {From the Kichmond Whig, August 15) Tne cartel of exchanga adopted by the governments now at war, is framed, in tho main in accordance with those enlighvoned pringtpies which have done go uueh to initigate the horrors Of modern wariare. Under the ordi- nary circumsiancea of a war between Powers holding the sanie acknowledged slatus, with tho existouce of ueiher depending on Fesuit of the stroggiv, ite conditions might be considered unexveptionable, frue, we surren- doc & args oxcess of prisoners, bul iD deuling with ap ea ia Se ee a ee ee ee eee eS eS att honorable exemy, to whom the obligation of a parole would be sagret, this would be no disadvantage, wid, should the fortase oi war ever shift the balsuce, the ‘enemy would ix tire have to exercise the same Libera ty. Would be ty» cuse were we engaged in war with one Of the Kuropeng rations, arising out of avy of those questions which are she usual causes of rupture botween independent Powers, Yut tue chiracter of the poople with whom we are contending, and ibe yery na ture of the struggle in which weare involved jsugger grave doubts as to the policy of tho muasure. Of the faitblessness of our enemy we have had abv dant proots, both -in the us prior to the com meacoment of hostilities aud i the actuai progress of Lhe war. In this very matter of parole, it may be-reneto bored that the prisoners taken by Gon. Price at Lex " returned home before it was annou in the newspapers that they would itamedixtely re ent the service. ‘ibis was mentioned as au evidence of their patriotiam, and with ao apparent blindness to the per fidy of tbe violation of thet parole, ‘The fact is unaeniablo the Yankee is gifted with a large amount of counting, untaperca by the fetters of a rigid morality; In bis code it is an ovi- dence of superior intelligence to overreach an adversary in war or a customer in peace, His commercial honor— the quality for which he was best known and appreci Atod—is Tauked very low throughout the world, and i is one of the least perenne. to the South from separation, that she will be freed from the contagninating s1igias cof association, and that her charac ter will bo Fiagea by her own merits, not contounded # with that race with which she has no aifinity. Whether” the unstable condition of Nerthern society, arising from the restless uatureof the poopie, and Wie shifting ele- mente of which it Me coenpeedt has produced that free dom from moral restraint so characteristic of the reckless and grasping adventurer; whether that admixture of foreign ingredients, ao profusely poured out from the ruro- pean hive, renders the compound turbid and corrupt, or to whatever other cause it may pe ascribed, the Northern standard of morality is painfully low. The Yankee bas nei- ther the knightly taith ofthe Norman nor the honest di- rectness of the Saxon, which it was the boast ot their English decendants to buve 30 successfully blended. What reliance cau be placed upon the faithful obsery ance of a parole by a people whose ideas of honor ot go utilitarian acast, ruled, too, by men who have given us suoh signal illustrations of their punic faith? Will they, who proclaim ao abandonment of the rules of civilized wartare, and who spurn the common dictates 0/ humanity, be restrained by a point of honor? Suppose a critical juncture of afinirs to have arrived, an urgent de mand for men upon soune important polut, are the rulers of the United States the men (0 forego ® chance of de cisive success rather than violatea parolo? Recently their paroled meu iiave been ordered to report at specilied points. May this uot well be suspected to be for organi- zation, either for present sorvice,or asa resorve for tn- ture emergency ? ‘A second serious objection arises from the nature of th war iteolf, It is a war of conquest on the part of tho North— a suppression of a“rebeilion;” and, if it could be successful, every stipulation entered into with us im our condition ’of quisi-nationality would be deemed to be abi . An independent nation, though defeated, has still the right to demand the fulfilment of agreements; subjugated rebels cau only impiore the clemcncy of the vernment, We believe confidently that our subjection {Pim a en a qi ear 8 possible. It will be said, ‘render it absurd for the rebels to de- mand thofuifilment of stipulations entered into under such different circumstances.” ‘They are no longer to be considered as bolligerents, and have consequent.y for- feited the rights attaching to them in that capuoity.”* Such reasoning will suffice for the buffoon who sits in the executive chuir, or the quibbling trickster who occupies the State Department at Washington. Tho virtuous pub: lio of Boston und Now York will applaud the statosmaa- like views of their leaders and will echo the sentiment— a8 thorouyh a cover for treachory a8 was ever men! reservation with the cunning casuist~‘‘that no faith ie to be kept with rebeis.’” These objections may bo considered of some force. The President. has added another. Hiw proolautation de- clares that the cartel would mever have been agreed to, had he been aware of the barbarous warfare sauctivn by the enemy. If this wore a good reason against mak: ing the agreement, 18 it not @ valid one for abrogating i? No violation of faith attaches to a refusal to adhore to it inthe future. It ig im the nature of @ treaty, which, though professiag to be perpetual, it is i tho power of either party to aunul, its justification in doing 80 depend- ing upon the causes by which it is impelled. Afver car- rying out faithfully the provisions of the cartol with ree spoct to the prisoners in our hands at tho time of its sig- nature, it would seem to be perfectly competent for our government, and consistent wits good faith, to suspend its operations for the future. Let this be done univer- sally, ag it basalready been done in reference to par- ticwar corps of the enemy, and we shal! probably see that improvement in his conduct which has always fol- lowed vigorous and decicied action oa our part. The Battle of Cedar Mountai REBEL ACCOUNT OF THE AFFAIR. (From the Richmond Enquirer, August 14.) We present such additivaul particulars ia regard to the late brilliant victory in Culpeper county as were received yesterday through Various sources, On heer the 9th inst., the First brigade, command- ed by General Winder, the Svcond brigade, Colonel Gar- nett, and the Thir@ brigade, General ‘aliaferro, attackoé the enemy at Mitobell’s station. ‘The fight raged furiously during the day, when a portion of the third brigade be- came surrounded and were compelled to fight their Ak 4 out with severe loss. The Forty-eighth Virginia, whi ‘ts attached to this brigade, went into the fight with 528 men and came out with ouly 150. The First brigade was composed of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Twenty-seventh and Tuirty-fifth Virginia regi) \ ments; Second brigade, Twenty-first, Forty-second, Forty- eighth Virginia regiments, and the irish battalion; Third brigade, Thirty-seventh, Tenth and Thirteenth Virginia, Forty-seventh and Forty-cighth Alabama, An intelligent correspondent sends us the following, dated on tne battle field, Sunday morning, three A. M.:— General Jackson has fought the Yankees and has again whipped them. We left from above Gordonsville on Fri- day, about haif-past three o’clock A. M., ou an advauce movement. About the middie of the day our cavairy came in contact with the Yankee cavalry, and alter & sharp engagement they took to their heels, losiag about twenty xilied. We took about forty prisoners, with their camp and camp equipage. Our loss was none. ‘Our troops encamped Friday night on Gurnctt’s farm. Karly on Saturday morning we again took up the line of march, and about nine o'clock discovered the Yankee mage | drawn up in live in great force, about one and a mile in advance. After waitin for some time to fad out their intention, we had about half-past eleven o’cinck to open upon them with two pieces from two batterios, on across tire. Our shots were well directed. I was stand- tng on my horse by the cannon that fired the first shot which feil in line a short distance in frontof them. The next I saw fall among them. Genoral Ewell then tid the meu to give it to them as fast as they could load, which was done until they all disappeared behind the cor ot Our infantry was then adva:ced,and about tive o'clock began ove of the must rapid and se emenis of the war. We suilered severeiy for @ short time, uatil we got our men up, when we gave it to them, hot abd heavy,and drove them back with great loss. Our firing did not cease until about one o'clock at nicht. They lett their dead and wounded on the fleld, with about four huodred prizoners, which we marched to the rear. ‘They outuumbored us very considerably. It is thought that the ongugement will beg again early, if wo can find them. Our wagons have all been ordered forward with a good supply of cowmissary stores. Tho exact l-cality of the fight on Saturday, is said to have been on the plantation of Rev. D. F. Slaughter, near Mitcheli’s station. The Lynchburg says that the number of troops engaged on either side ts tated have been vi unequal, aod the fight is reproseuted to have been terri- ble in the extrome, A part oi Ewell’ division ied in the attack, which was subsequently reiuforced by @ portion of A. P. Hill’s division, the whole numbering about fifteen thousand, against about twenty-five thousand of the enemy. Our losses aro notdefiuitely ascertained, but are Supposed to reach about six hundred wounded ‘and oe hundred killed, The evemy’s estimated to be much heavier in killed and wounded, besides four hi prisoners, including a large proportivn of officers. ‘The enemy rotreated alter several hours? desperate re- sistance, leaviug the ground covered with arms and ordnance stores. We secured about one thousand stand of muskets and rifles, besides a large number of pistole, swords, &c. ‘We had some seventy-five or a hundred missing, but it ia supposed tle number will be largely reduced, us they were constantly rejoining their commands. We took no long the enomy having succeeded in getting the: in olf. ‘here baye been occasional skirmishes since the fight of Saturday, but they resulted in nothing of « serious character. The evemy fell back to the neighborhood of Culpepper Court House, carrying off the most of their dead aod wounded, though @ number of the latter were left on the field, and feil into eur bands. y wer and sent to the euemy’s lines under @ flug of truce. ‘The reported death of Col. Cunningham, Twenty-first Virginia, is suid te be anerror. He is stated to be un- burt It is understood that Gen. Jackson’s army has fall Davk tha late battle ground voluntarily and for good from reasons. General Jachsuu’s Late Lior: (B)> (From the Richmond Whig, August 10.) An aid of General Jackson, who was present at the bat- tle of Cedar croek, (urnishes us some interesting particu lare of the engagement. The victory was so compleve that a bevy of Yarkee officers, under a flag of truce three days afterwards, admittwod that it would be absurd to deny it, and laid a wager with one of our generals that not evan Pope would pretend that it was anything but a defeat to them, Our iniermact estimates the force en- gaged on our sido at 8, that of the enemy at 20,000, Our killed apd wounded numbered, according to General Jackson's Medical Director, 600,01 whom not more than 160 wore kistod, ‘The loss of the enemy, in killed, wound- ed and miseing, is estimated at from 2,000 to 3,000. We took two splendid Napoleon guns, ti'tewn hundred stand of small arms, twelve loads of ammuagition, four stand of colors, and nearly or quite 500 prisoners. fight began with skirmishing about two o’clock, some six intles this side of Culpepper Court House, At four o’clock it had become active and hot, and was continued until near pine o'clock at night, at which time the enemy had been driven to withia twe miles of the Court House, At this point @ heavy battery had besa lanted, abd the Genoral, thinking it injadicious to ttack it till morning, ordered a halt, In the morn. og the enemy bai abandoned the position and inade no response to shell thrown in the direction they wore supposed to vceapy. ‘Lhe enemy were cvrmmancied by Mcbowell, Banks and Sigel Pope reached ine scene of action the next day, We vcoupied the bitile ground till Monday evening. Tuesday moining the euem, sent ambulances on the field under white flags, uu under cover of them attempted to advance a jn C8. Gen, Stuart, who happened as the time tu be on the fleld. with not more thae two or three attendants, sent word to Pope that if he advanced any further he would mas- sacre every ambulance driver and surgeon on the fled. Pove replied, professing bis chagrin, and that he did wot know that the ambumaces were ing white flags,.and couclided by asking tH two 0’ to bury bis déad, Stdurt replied that it would be for hito to finish the job in that time, and that he would give him ti sundown, And this was done. During the hottest port of the Aght General Jackgon pat the Of bis old Stonewall Hrigade, infusing into that baud 1 lei Gos au ardor and finpewucmnty poriqutly inresiat- himself at