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Dave dociigd upon the qualtdcaitian of °° rete Fegimenis, and Captain Charles B Thomspeot, alde'de- to General Rosecrans, has been ene, and Colone] Mebaidtsi, eoloee! b Iinoie, bas been made coloned of the ober mayro hene:it. The following is the organisation of Signe! b’s regiment:— —Charies R. Thompseo. erant Coume—Wm. Kk. Bellon. Firet Licutenant, C. Ream. ony Kaptain, Tht Firet Lieo- capt ma 2 J. Jaggs Second Lieutanany, B. Cook. regiment numbers nine bamdred and eighty cn- men, and Colonel Thompsonfakes command to-day, priing for pioneer duty to Oglonel W. P. Tunes. Tho organization ts" tha/ same aa‘ in the regular ACCOUNTS. » Rosecrans Sigeiting Chattancoga. Currrancoas, August 22—Noon, of some appeared on the opposite side river yesterday aljout tem o’elock, and commenced hing the place, witheut warping. Our batterics re promptly, and th@artiliery duel continued until Ave nek P.M. A little Sytrl, daughter of F. G. Roche, of nville, was mortaily wounded; also one lady. The 1 ‘at the rivexy was badly wounded. The enemy wards retired. ‘Ail quiet to-doy. Fight Wewr Sparta, Tenn. Axtayts, August 22, 1863. Yetter to thesConfetrracy, from Forrest's command, that Colewel Dibreil bad another fight with seven of Yankee cavalry, op the 17th instant, at jj*@, Tenv., @nd -repulsed ‘them with a loss of forty ii sy killed and wounded. ‘Diereli’e force was eix hun- strong. His loss ig tworkilled, seven wounded, amd j}ve missing. i} in reported ‘by passengers that the Yauives were Ming Chattanooga yesterday. IVAL OP THE 8.00P-OP-WAR BROOKLYN. toh ef Her Services 8! cere and Paymaster Woetbary on ra, die 0 United Btates steam slonp-ol-war Brooklyn,” Cap- mAs, arrived here yesterday morning, frow Port ‘2ist, and Charleston bar 22d. She bronght+o this bodies of Captain Rodgers and Paymaster Wood- L}, of the Monitor Catekill. The following io = hist James Forney. Albert 8 Uarker. ineer—B. E, Chassainy. james Atkins, Alex. V. Engineers—Jocoe 3.. Hrizbt, Joseph a, Jevro Walton, Kdward ). Jehuson. Robertson. aates Clerk—Win. Master's Matea—-Henry I, Laster, Robert Heards- 8. Bolles, J Buck, Heery LD. Jupes. ‘Neeelmer ans, He oni W.v Firat Lieutenant Marines H.-s. Bartlett, ‘Assiatant Engineer Joseph W. ~yunoy. ecrew sleop-o!- war Brooklyn was built et the yard |. H, Webb, in this city, in 195%, aud sone of the fecthy coustrocted ships of ber vlaes m the navy, | | ‘worthousand and seventy tans, und in general out- i{® vot ublike the Hartford, Ricuinond, Pemsacola and li oter. i} first-service was.in the Homes juadran, uuder the of Flag Odiver Wm. J. MoCinney, Admiral D. j}ragat, then & captain, commanded: the ship. and MriMoLane, oir Minister, and dr. Mekige of Legation, to Mexico, where she waited for them back to the United States. moutbe-and theo returned to thin port. In 156i, weimg attached to the Hone squadron, Captain of her, and retained it wptil thebensking ont 10. ie wareredias rendered excellent s@rvioe, an! was she-serly part of her cruise by Captain Thos, peomber , 1961,.thie ship left he Philadelphia Navy o join ihe West Gulf squadron, @n 224 of January, he arrived at Ship Island and.reported to Flag | him was ordered to viockade | SVT Mekenn, aod t Ou Febromy 2whe received orders to blookade VOutre, Misriseippi river, where ehe arrived at M. the same day. Pebraary 19. chased and the. steamer Magnolia, loaded with 1, cotton, and retarned ty the blockade em tho | gof the 20th of Febroary, where be remained fharch 1J. She then felt ior the Southwest last, [Bipjt river, on ine EAD. Sucenoded in eromsiny the pony with ibe flagship Htarttord, amd anchored I Town, where she was employed several days, fF down topgallancm mts and spare rigzing, rendiig ahove in boats arth arra her chain areior he 15: in !, stew tho naval with fighting sbowt Ap Feweusry, wy tae Fiver w or 2 aonipany with dhe ud wed at the soone «! the Pope ond ho i a Ape having te 1 the ship being be starved river low Pert at wr wp the a Sacks Hock A. at UY ship participate °! guoyoste, and at eaght She paswed : thy A. M. wore », and at noun bt Delow Pnglial od the here \nine boaies ave var adiairal for the wurreadort aetory mi anchored 26th went miley ® own 00 OF cnurmer, mit army, transporte e& 00 th Ow Vicksburg, and om ny four milee oartiespated ja tn geno, neh of Jung the wits \ y when the fleet ran past the ata art kK open the lint mato. ind the thoughts lenutiing the delighted ail on bourd, i Joly abe wad oga'n @t anchor olf New Orlous er f Angst 6 Besed of the appearance anees above Raton Rowge, Immedimely gor bo ugeoinpany with the Marafund, datermived to two k OC lae, Arrived at Setum Rouge early p isy, cod found that Commodore etter had Be destrartirn of Se rebel rem Piirved exer to Now @rieama om the 100, of thA river and ran over dawagoe Ore rovnired to the om the 7th OF Votober com. Wloekade of Moot! nd rejoin the sbip, and on the ae it) « very ealt a ith etarted out rf of her participatl to remain very rer bie piace until the as relieve! and started for enty ane jnnntbe Rrowk |) mad of the Byentys se. | OP the Toad to -Littic was detached, and Captain W.8:Walker took | meretful dispositions, no * » the | ary { ¢ Gul and burneey agarrmaved up ard (ook part in POO thew rahrongt’ FEW 9 MOSBY’S GUERILLAS. Experi¢nce of Two Union Sutlers while fo the Hands of These Rebels. The Supposed Loyal Farmers Holding eneral Hooker’s Safeguard Belonging to the Gang. How the Rebels Avoided Our Pursuing Cavalry. The High Prices Demanded for Every- thing Consumed by the Prisoners. HE HORRORS OF LIBBY PRISON, One of Our Imprisoned Correspond- ents Heard From, &., ae, ae ‘@ar Washington Correspondcnee. ‘Waemmaron, August 24, 1863. Mencre. McCarty and Jenninge, of New York, arrived ‘here yesterday from: Richmond. They were of a party of ten sutlers and satlers’ clerks who were exchanged by a mistake of the exchange officers om the other side. They ‘were there rated as soldiers, or at least, in the military service below the grade of commissioned officers, but were received by Major Mulford, the Union Commission- er Of Exchange, only a6 released civilians, They were ‘captured a few weeks ago on the road from Alexandria to Fairfax Court House. The folowing is their statement-of ‘Ubelr experience: YOR PTATEWERY. We were captured on the 11th of Augest by Major Mon- Dy, with a command of a hundred men, composed of de- tachments from Hampton legion, Stuart's cavalry, White’s battalion aud Moshy*s guerillas, all picked’men, } Tp that command was P, McVay, of Philadelphia, formerly e“drammer”’ for a house in Philadelphia. We were ran in off tite main road about owe hundred yards, the ‘horses unliitched From ume wagons, the wagens rum down a deep ravine, and all the pritonees mounted bareback. A re- port reached Mosby that car -gavairy was coming, when he started, marching us wat{l three o'clock the next morving (the 12th). At tmat time wo had rencbed a farm house owned by a man named Clare rendezvous of Mosby's wang when they make their raidts-on that topnpike. We were called from sleep to'breakfrst-at five e'vlock. The ‘Darn was full of corn, come that way. Here'we peid two dollars for the privi- Jege of washing oursetves. MARROW WACAPK: OF MOSKY’S YORUM. We were then wardhed to Mechanicsburg, five miles distant. Ther® we mw on the cross roads three regi ments of infantry wed one of cavairy of Union troopa. Mosby escaped then by running into (he woorls, aided Dy the fermers along tha Poate, who acted as guides. We ner turnpike ontil wereachéd Little Washimgton. One of our party escaned at Goose creek by faling off his horee. One contraband @is0 efcaped the next night. We hae been driven more tharathundred mile ap to this Cime Wocunpedsn atenre wrod alter a heuwy fart of rain, WEI WAR MOMHY—LOT AL TARMEKS, We bad been dnformed that Mosby would perote ue.e this pomt, but Mosby himself did pot come. At every Jarm douse @ farmer-would mount Mm horve and excort ue through ‘bridle pauks to next farmers, aud x0 on. Wo would thas mareh sometiines twenty-‘ive miles out of the direct dine to avoid ine.ting the Union cavairy. We wore started-out on foot aver the Blue Ridge on the rugged path, where their vcuvalry had to diemount,and lead their Rorees up the hills;guided by faremers in the neigtbor hoota, Another contraband here excaped. We were anarches nil day and cllowed te weep at night in a denert ed negro-cabim av the headquaitereof the Rappahannock fu Blue the Ridge. AMD MARCHINGUAND MARDER FARE—MOSHY'S OCR, Oa Vritay, tho Lith, we were marched ten miles over valley snd mountain, living ov cormDread and sour tilk. | Here we party escaped. '@ turned over to the Twelfth had transacted their business, andsben broughe | Vitsiale (rebel) "regiment, much to our relief, as we She was gone about | had experisneed so many bardshipmand indignities at the hands of.our captors. Mosby's asen seem to bave beeu nolected eapocially-with rafereuce to their savage and up The liewtenaxt of the weifth Vir. ginin cavelry aitowod us to take Ainuer at the hotel, this being the fest square meal we badenioyed in four days. We paid for a ulein dinner for fifteen thirty two dollars in Cgreenbanke.”’ shortly afier dinner our cavairy made a dash into Little Waehineton after Ihe rebel cavairy Tau OS again ants Che mountane, ing double quick, en- gacing witty of the Union cavalry with a battalion of theirs in ambush ihitering own men terribly. Our sotired in some comfusiwn. We were then marehet over the moun aud stopped at Sperry ville for the might, baying marcned over the mountains, to avoid meeting the only about tive ned were a Wo sleep to the puipit A supper for irae eos om $40 in Confede tet of rye 00! yew and butier “ had sipper the of achurok, rate mouey , anil ex One breskiast next worning the came amonnt, The nw who esexpad youre ht wwithin ove mile of the Vatow pockets hy the Twetith Vir- giviacavatry at night. Ow Sat we were marched te | Culpepper at » ye On this ye uther of General fooker, wit W of atlegian He som keoured the largest amount of Kine ony oF Mospy’s mon. Here one of one number, Mr John MeCarty w York, a od bread abd milk, and gro Of the party, seventy four yeure old, wave ont he feuards were provulled 1 to leave b Uo t ria ue 1 bowst loudly of the way t ar ed t reboi guar’. Wit ne tony at a tavern, where w 4 Avie are mck for fifteen drink whine Ane er covet od the hat of one f party, and demanded it, threat ening t) whip the owner if be were refused, and apon reta eal actonll to exewnte h Ign, But war com 1 ne & 4, The regular soldiers of the * : # ine ho easiest mareh we bad was from. vile (o Culpepper. The guard would not “ st i rudely by the eitiz but told them that we were their prisoners, and If we f ated thy 1 ty Riebmoud ae prison wa ce COLPRETER AT BONDOWDN nin’ mee not have crerted 9 greater : m than we smong the inhabitanis, 0 plekets were onl w duetant. Squads of de serters from fot Imboden's cavalry passe Gut of (wo brigades whea entered Virginia trom Pennsylvania they y ter two regiments We were t ver to tho prevent guard at Culpepper plrcod in the hose without anything to eat, and ‘\ebliged to u | cep: while the stench woe lntwleri the care im the mor h tysour hoote. and sent Cour! dolare Confeterave money fe Krom thence we were carried to dordonawilie aud © The Provost Marshal s' tbe latter place “greeubueke” yonnn tag @)t Confederate noter > aT MGaMOND, ton we were taken (> Kicluoond, arriving Aboat mundaw ore marched past Jef Davie’ nag sino bo the Provost Marshal's, who committe! ue at once to the Libby priew, and pineedamen the second tow Amode (pwarde Of two bowtred Dniom priemers, com primes 20 shades end classes—lawyers, Qamere, mutiers, fay Sere and deser\ers from our ramke, many of them sa when they came into title world. The sight we wehiél bere was shocking. The dimenaious of the room in onic they were confined was forty feet by eoventy, . with yan #ight font coiling, W fronted on Carey stress, with the rear om Canal, im sight of Jomen rive, An Soon Ae WO were nebered into this oor reeking with fith and vor W were placot ford for twen wv tog hed w wat © ‘went ot \orhcing mir on room we were berieged by these poor fellows 4 "mnEIME iA HUOErER, Thre with ida wirien for the news (ram the North, and the par. ticolare gf the fights at Viekeborg, Port Hodeom ang § Oharlestom, Alter looking sroond om the feor for nome Lime we found a eyot, snd Ie Wn to get herent “em — ‘They feed their horses here. And | the hostews eaid they feed both fides atfice when they | yw mtroek the main romt from the iime we left the + Washington another of our | HERALD, THURSDAY, much needed. It was tmpoesible Ww keep ab ease oF catch a nap while the vermin were literally devouring us. The older prisoners seemed to take it us a m.ttor of course, and aid until morning im uund sleep, when our astonishment and @iegum wes intevmiied to ree every man sitting wp in bed buvtirg for the vermin in what Metle clothing be poseecesed. It wan the regular erder of the morning. Our breakfast tm the morning, be tween nine id tem O'chck, consisted of four @unces of broad and one of beef, bone, which stenk #o badly, and was a full of maggots that we, as uew beginners on such fare, turned from 1 i utter disgust, and threw i) away. We afterwards learned better manners, and devoured 1+ with as much relish as those who had been in the prison longer. What we abandoned was greedily devoured by erbers. At euudomn we were called to dinner, which we ate standing. 1b consisted of four ounce of) Quer Cannon Balls Sweeping Dread and 8 pint of will, composed of fab ol, Dieck beans, maggote and dirt, We aban- domed ovr soup on the Gsst taste of it. Immodiately the men rushed from the table liko @ pack of husgry wolves, crowding arcond w#,and begging an for what our stomachs, as yet unaccustomed to sueh carrion food, Utterly refused, Men of age, wealth, education and Fefinement, reared jn the lap of luxury, craved and ecrambied for the crumbs that feel from our table, and offered 1 do ua the most menial rervice for them, ‘The horrors of this prison cannot be described, and could: Dut @ faint glimmer of the truth ftash upon the people of the North, and especially the War Department, it would not de long ,ere such retaliatory measures wore adopted towards rebel prisoners in our bande, as would bring the rebels to some seaee of mercy and common humasity in ‘the treatment of Union prisoners in their prieo@n, Many of thadeserters from our sido now take the oath of alie- glance to Jeff, Davis’ government, merely for the sake of Deing sent te tho fortifications of Richmond, where their condition is immasratty improved. MK, WOLALEY Mr. Bulkley, Tima. correspondent, war traneferred to Bello leland about two weeks ago. 4 man TRICE. On one ovcasion our boys hid away their greenbacks. ‘The fact wasdiscevered by the officers of the prison, and they adopted a eubterfuge to get them, after vainly en. Geavoring to discover them by a search. They renteome “‘gharkies’’ to the boys with silver, offering sixteen dol- lars in silver for twenty in greenbacks. accepted by many. The i day @ guard was detailed, coule hare secured the greenbacks, THE UMOW PRIBONER®. Ninety-five por cent of Union primonere go to Richraone well, except from exteustion, caused by long mayches. After'a few day’s the tmtervais between the flag of truce boats, which are ouly a few days, from two to three hundred sick accumu. late at Aiken’s Land@ing from the Richmond prisons. NA one-third of our prisoners at Belle Inland have | toate <r shelter of ary Kind, though the nights are very cold, and & heavy fog setules on the cont ening | mitt ten o'clock in the morning A Trmaxr, “Onr privopers mufferinore than ther would offocwise } on account of the tyranny‘of a man mame! Rows Burn 4 bein, formerly of Now York, but a Southerner by birth. Ho was formerly doing Business for a firm in Warren | atreet. Ove prisoner was put im clone confinement on | wread and wator for four days becanse be tooked down | from the window of Meprison amd asked who way veter | a peculiarly shaped het just paswing Veneatls. 1) is wot | trne that the reveiw are obliged from necessity to feed our prigenera ae they 60, Coemand rive are abundant, They do wet refand wtollar of the money thay tokee rom ‘our men. | The Chase ‘After Movhy’s aud White's Guerttiwe—Mosby Meported Fatally Weanted. Wasuiretoy, Augest 26, 180%. Dering the dakt foursdeys Mosby and White have been | weonrimg tbe ‘courttry from Dravesville to within » few miles of Avevendria, exptweing: horees, entiers’ trains Ac. White bese command of about ix hondred men and has hie headquarters wt Middietmcy, Mo abowt sixty men, but was seinforced by White to time, ar oronsion requised, Small parties were sem out im avery-dfrection on Sunday aud Monday, one of whioh crossed the Potomac a short dietance above the Chain Britigey dertroyed & canal boat, captured a few horees, and ‘did some other damage of a trifling character, “Anether party vistted the government farms, | concealing ‘their horees ender a railroad bridge, and reaching the-tents 0: the officers bevore being discovered | Afowehots from the guarde drove the gnesritien off | hewever. before they had time ty commit any depreda- tiona, and the gang started for the Grange and Alexan. dete ratiroad. On Mouday -Moseby- led a farce towards Annaddale, while @ portion of White's command scoured the } neighborhood o! Fall's Church mad Ralloy's Orows--ode Upon that dey a large drove of cattle and horses mad ! ween sent out to the front from Alexandria, and the horses, {nlling bebind the vattle, and having » sumall. escert, were ettacked near Anuandale ly Motby, w seccecded im capturing & number of animals and caping without loss. A sort time after the Fighth Mernsy wania « | oamme ny, waivy ertook the guerilins, and re shan Oxi, of the bw recaptured a and ited ws far xs Mil) aw) seat back Crow @ small wagon for a woun newr the wounded wm had eee te scone en the rebel up the Leeshorg pike. through Dranesville, to whieb point they cavalry with om. of the eng passed ving the were parsed hy {Mt of ate Neing along the route taken by te the wounded man | was Mosehy, es are reper by hie men as a very oon daiecier, thé e the slevuidee blo “ . pluces the route of the y ih drops of Diwod ie che cond, wd to curry the wounded man to Se he eoal receive medierL attention, it & fat dew hor alrerdy ene On Sunday wight sby war within throa mile of Alexandr | men, im the pte sence of one r h ngled wit the party t th ret ‘ portunity he " ya ture tt government horses penned in the outwkirts, The fa that he had penetrated so . tin within wd a grentor vigila ' we nec bo eurpr 4 Alexa w we aoe 1 t exption s few wr the woods and transoiit imtelligem be ‘ Hat vt an be mo doubt that we ' quither y nd perbaps w renults to ourrelvee White int ‘ Moontarm “ 1pm 8 Witoout A mow warn ia he Boount Mri wetecavairy hae done ¢ er vee th eheeieg up the gueciiies und. proveniieg 0 predation; Wut wnti a + foree ie vent in pur. | anit of White wo rb ntions hear of hin poratious tb ty, He bas 0 driven beyond tt A several thoes during the jest month, only w follow back peo the oar retura ng env pture men Tee, Bod AYR RCA 1b ie to bo hoped hereafter that rebel cavalry will at apt outside our fortileations m Canard from Canada—tte- ada Over to Tomewre, Augurt 1863 of Wday smaguncet the discovery of a pht tw betray Onpada into the hands of the ) government, and save Mr, Archibald, the Brith Conmal at New York, has communicated t Pirrtieh authorities he (arte to the Tho above is wuquestionably ® canard. 18 te ned fror informed pe amd. [oie sium “. knowledge ahatever im British circle of sock a move. went on Linen jack's, Manager Moss reaping a rich harvest in retarn for hin enterpries in iotrodacing to the New York public the original ghost, It was ® hazardous speculation t open this theatre in the dog day? and we take pleasure in an. ) the treachery of & mare. her of his company Mr Mose has lent the monopoly of Ghost vusiners but to mi « Ma Bicnt tatrod netinw ' ge fOMe att BOTIV® ware ow carryne ‘The offer was ) tae mags of rains. which seized all the sitver. Tnis was the only way theyy | passing through tbe east wall, gotng in one side and dmetment they become invalids. Mm | Wagner and Gregg every dey, keeping them quiet while AUGUST 27, 1863—TRIPLE SHEET. CHARLESTON. The Latest Union and Rebel Accounts. four timer, Five private aud ty 0 Degroes were wousded o Somter, Tho onemy on Wagner caused five casualties, iB- @oeding Captain Robert Pringlo, willed, Our ebarp shooters aro annoying the Yankees considerably, It ® supposed that the enemy burst ono of their Parrott GUNA yenterday afternoon. Abeloven o'clock laat night a communication frem the enemy unsigned, was sent to Gen, Beauregard, demanding the surrender of Sumter and the Morris Island batteries, with @ notification that the city would be shelled “et fo four hours if the demand was pot eomplied with. Beauregard was on a reconnoiseance, aud Geveral Jorden SUMTER DEMOLISHED returned it for the signature of the writer. About two e’clock thie morning the esemy began throwing shelle “i fate the city from @ battery on tho marsh between Mor- via and James i#landy, and distant five iniles from the elty. Twelve eight-inch Parrott shells fell in the ity, Dut caused no casualties, The transaction is regarded us ‘an outrage on civilized warfare, The shelling had » good eflect in hastening the exodus of won-combatante, At daylight this morning the enemy opeved fire vig @rovsly on Bunter, The Iromaides has since opened. Bumter ia replying. Wagner is firing briskly on the enemy's advanced works, four hundred and Alty yards from our battery. Through the Fort, The Old Flag Probably Floating Over the Ruins, {From By latent despatches ort Aumter had net yet evacuated by ovr troops, (hough it bad been almort jo ruina by the heavy Farrot yuu it It be ev evacuated the lose will be now eunall, asthe enemy not cecupy it, and tho harbor ty effectuatly defended by new fortifications, No walis of briel or stowe can ever re sist such a comnenale as has been directed ayainat Suter, and the trae dejences af the harbor and city are 4 the mu merous other forts, bitilt like Wagmer, on which Ure heavy but Liste ‘Waprecsion. He will fenerat Fembert wu, in bie plans , had tong siuce left ort Sumter Opening of the Bombardment of Charleston. Fifteen Shots Fired Into the City, ae, UNION ACCOUNTS. Oey CHaniamtow, August 21—Noon. Port Sumter still flies the rebel fing; but its weet wall an the delence is ap fleree as the arsault have been able (o throw a few shells inte th Lance of five mites; und we are told that ¢ hav protested against such proceeding on the & humanity. His protest will be of little neo indewd eaunot disable thore batteries which fired the ehetle, The Yankoo commanders, with thelr customary bravado, have demanded a « der of Port Sumter and of our forts om Morris Jxlind; but ia (hie they can by no means be indulged. They will fn they are tow opty at the weginning of the siege Heaton, aod between them and shat city is still « flery path to tra [From the Ricnmoud kxominer, August From # private letter frou Charlevion we gather the following items, which will be read with interest at this timex It hae been expected for a week back that Fort Shmter would fall under the coutinuous *ireain of shot oud abveli from the enemy's fect--one 0! the mons formideblo and powerful naval armadas ever known te the world The fort was under command of ¢ Officer, who did everything that of human power to make a si walla wore protected by piled tors inside sume twenty feet thick. the walis of t #ix feo thick. (his muking an obstruc rand of twenty wx feet; but even th tho furious and concentrated axganit of (he enemy's whole fest. Nothing could be impregnabie to the tre ae. &e. Bhelis go into the for! and explode innide, some of them coming out of the otber. ‘We now have five weather, and st in expected thet the Monitors wit! go in force to Sumter this afternocn ‘The Iromsides and our wooden veaseis have sbelied not Rhott, © most gallant ald wothin the Loupas our shore batteries are hammeriny Suinter, feven North Carolina deserters from Su!livan's laiaae wore picked up ia. boat Inet night by the Montank. ‘They say that the rebels are preparing to abasdon Sumter and blew it op; that they hive been taking the KUNE OULO! Hever siuee the AtiAck pou it iD April last, | whieb demoustrated their inabitity to bold It; that there | are nut more than <tx or eght guos mow in the fort, the rem: Qi ekeray” the cordon of beer barrels im merely injenstod to mustain the telegraph wire between Sumter aud Moultrie, and in uo part of the ob structions of ths harber; tint the North Carolima troops are anxious to go tine, and are alinost in w atate of amutiny; timt Lhe rebels all anticipate the fail of Charies. ton; that the walix o ousively breucied | WL Aprit, aud that there iv a great wearcity of provisions | among the rebel® Tho fing oF Sarater bas been shOl Away four times, now thre is uo Mag » ‘The rebel batteries on Jsrues Island terow shells night | aud day ince our Ne de not cause more thin one “or two cesnalties duty | | more than a week, With the fall of Fort Sumier it ix thought that the | enemy Will next attempt to carry, Hattery Wagner. ‘This by @ position on Morris Telind, directly facing the beach, abot a inite and an'air line, below Port Samter, Rattory Wageer, o imbere and Fait and some twenty foot Any assault the enem M way inake. Ober defences, Katto: w Gregg. yn | three-quarters of amie from Port Sumter: ¥ ov the south end of the island. It ts me that the guns erected by us on Jawer Islond will onnmand Morris Island, and it ia hoped, when our batteries there open on the enemy, he will be dis lodged from his present foothold on Morrix Ivland Our forces on Morrie Island under the mand of Beigati ¢ doneral He rb aotive and judicions oflieer, are within a few hundred yards of each other, and the enemy's advance live is wiltim some eight lundred yarde ‘of Battery Wagner. Semier were ad AdwicalDabigrew is anzivns w Wt tho Army and Naval} Zhewgh Morvis dsland movil fall, Charleston oil yet | buttery faian Sommer, oxpenting to have plenty of work | Piciney, boris Ripley amd Johvism, amd mer than all, | for the Monitors in -taking the Interior line of devences of he he parmisieble obstructions that barricule the hevbor the approach to the vty ‘Though a|) these ehould fa!1, the feeting of Charlastou, we are assured, is, never murrender’ the peopie are united to A man never W give up the oity while one brick Taats upon avother, and if the enemy #bould sneceed, Wy his anparior force, in taking the ik will be only to find (Ca mass of ainoulderiug rotus. There never wae sueb a determination among ® people, abd the iast may had rather see the torch applied ty big home by o men than it sball be polluted by tif treat of That now besiege that city, Uhireting, ax tho pantiy for bin prey. CENTRAL ton. Owe Coamrmmon, Augoms 42, 1868, Sumter (his orning is a9 imninenses ruin, Vhe rear wall is baitered down and the interior of the fort is open to view Our sbeila etrh which is areauy Lirely throagh the f | | i | Phe tag of Sumter wan shot away four times on Triday A new tag i up thie morning The weather ie very hot, and no ice i# to be bad AMERICA, feat over Sumter ‘0 Arrival of the North Star from A Mag of truce wax sent to Wagner on Friday mo: my | Aspinwa fivieg coased daring the interview, when it was re. sumed again. be, General Gilimore notified General Beaarogard that he would commevee to shell the city within forty.eight | houre.requessing him to remove the women aod chil. | August 16, arrived at this port yesterday dren. ‘The following is ber specie lint — be. | ‘Trewiiole Monitor fee: went up on Friday might for | Order cesses $9,000 Welle, Fargo ko. $47,000 otber kenault . 1. MeMurray & Co. 1,000 oy ply pace at Order 1 M6006 Total , The Parsaic got aground, and so moch time war loat | Hamburger A Go 6000 PROM asin WAL } in getting her off (nat the expedition was abandoned for | G. B. Upton 6.000 Ribon ke Mono. 200 } the night. (he rebels did not discover her position, Lay hel onan Death tend S00 | thoogh abe was willin Uaif senile of the fort Cinta. (ae hoe a Mr. W. HH. Sttmer's De u nmap a. 4,000 Fetes & Vettic “oo Por rmee Moveen Hrewster Colgate & Homtinan 4poT nt ORNL TCO ob ; to wl from) which wel | gratifying inteiliges net. hee ime Port Sumiar ix m rain bay ing been Battered down Ws the monster Parott guue of Pay eon ee bare | wmpletion of the Kattread Nag beard on Ane General Gilmore's jand and Admire! Dabigron’s vava _ og Mabiagron S068 On Amert | Satterie of 4 Britith Harhe-lio Bolivia avd CRle— Ant Prewh HN WR DMPO RT : agua Canat, de. Pavawa, Aogaet 18, 186% throw at Clty Point, and deracy ,as to tbe ly hare the telegraph ' ' + aya 1 Stone yoy lagt there bas been only the arrival of the nothing Whacaver ot ne t npendng Valpe wn the south, and th i ore Reeve nay ™ D 6 arrived on the ih and the that the (the , med state ' ¢ strongly fortified » t Therd le ad Ot news, In Chi ave the Yorkee gone ae hind a gra mn the oceasien ne Ores rebel payers ' Me vevonrks ‘ ma Biinely Unrowgh Sontag ' att wt win te, wih tion . THE LATEST REBEL ACCOUNTS, mm ‘ r be Oring ‘ k t y 7 . . war eroved t “ hor m tinand a a ‘ " ‘ ‘ * nt . ‘ ‘ . “ » a a . ‘ tire ' " and (wo they wie Yanker eapper amet ty Ake opprosetinn » a! ~ ” as A batter mm the na “ee aot from Wagner die ¢ om . the poy ebiod and {be James Intaud bat ° ‘ t te ter em " . wel Ya an, ony . z 4 . ihe my o . . * : sarperoy, Aug oh - # be fire uf the yi tan hat © bas deca ae than ever today. A bew battery of P. Wrott gume open Bene “4 on Surmter thie tr 1 the tres h we been conce: trated you the ew ye guna, The « aS ia i of the fort we f robeen yo She oo he —— wail @ also crom)iing into @ heap OF rutne " The ting has boon «uo! away twice Wo day, . © De Ne the ore Sey 6, 38 > during the « Aagetadl te whet of, end the tag tot eee OM Som Bel be atte files {row the raiue of the #outh wail . ettht womtben age e Jost before eunet mtr red eeveral sh BAM be | jrowmvirs, wine was cocagiog Pattery Wagner A Mow tor tig morning Syed at Pomtar while @ @klng « reoonnovsance, bul wer not Fen ore ia ne CAjmct of cxmnaitiw The eappere wre wankva * Wagner ‘The Vonkes oMcer ktied oe Monday w one of the Man tore spe aeh on Mat Wey (AS Tee mediiention fae more (aeorabin @ To ered le (atone ame mec, Aegowt OF, 1088 From @ve o'clock A. Wo unt! seven @ clock youtariay, the enemys o6 ator Semler wae vere senders who Pare Inumsaiet Pore her ont hominime, | hae one ot Pikes; } have ads thew te rc on ott At.) Tee heney, Sine Bundrei 04 twenty three ghote wore LNA TT) somit teem tot Qred, 20d coven Wnntred an@ four struck ibe co ae ie fork, either cotaide of inside The exstarn (ace at ihe fort SUIS Rmteny: im owe 0% OO the Gort end aed the shh. 8 ; The fog Was thot drwy | PTO OO - : iendous missiles that have povred on Fort Sumter for | nd | 4 IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS Anne Effect of Quantrell’s Destruc- tion of Lawrence. The Border War Reopened with Great Fury. Citizens of the Missourl Border Countieny Ordered to Leave the Country. Raid of the Kansas Men Into Missouri. The Buildings in Cass Covaty Given to the Flames, Over One Handred Rebel Sympathi- zers Killed, &e., ae. ae. Juavenwomrnt, August 2°, 1809, General Lane has returned to Lawrence, A meeting wor held on bis return, when ye vad the cliem, had killed forty-one of Quen i ee Major Clark and » den ‘The people of Haliwin Quantrell in pasehy @ ford, and aay if Pluto had done bis doty they have whipped the rebely Lane is organizing i rays he will go inte Minsourl on the #th of Sopter ber, He lett Genera! wing only upen a pledge that Pwing would teene ono dow db recting ai] the eitizens of Jhokeom, Case, Bates, ard vark of Vernon counties, except thore in Kansas City, Wert Harrigenville and Inlepentenee, to leave the country within Afleen dayw, Towing has (sued the order, and the people of Kavgas are going into Missourt to see the order executed. The people have demanded the order naved Dy the general commanding, and the people will seo tt They say they will have no more of the Seho- field Ewing orders, Pwing is frightened, and jn the chase after Quantrel! was fn « cotaplete quandary, He is looked upon as being a yenerad without heart or brains Aboot filty of (he most noted setesh of Platt county subscribed from une to (en dolare each for the Lawrence fund, Dy #9 doing they expect to escape the anticipated desolation of Western Miesgurl, General Dwing has returond to Kansas City Quantret! bad with bin ». Hayes, brother of N. 7 Dick Yeaeer, Ilt, Coorge Tod and Younger, with dived snd fifty we0 on whom they could depend Ja a fight, witty ato ndred and Mifty move of the citizens of Platt, ay, tateyotte, Jnckwon, Cass and Vatow umd ow executed counties-not over three bundred in all, Qiantrel! sn are Louight reported eoattered im Mie 1 sour Martial law ts publisbe! tm Leavenworth, vor wil) be practicnlly 4 18 no Provowt Marshal or eo! diere bore to eptoree it, aud nothing tode if they were here. Mortial Jaw oveme! as farce, and ended in a fear ful tragedy. One thoy and Kage men will be lo Missourt the wee Up to the morning one bmodred and thirty-thrés } nodies were buried Im La *, ‘The rommine of seven more b. Jes were found, One huetred amd eighty we | butldings eurnd, baghty of them were vricw Sixty five « i were ou Mitaachusete atrest. There | are eighty-tive widows and two @emdred and ferty of. phans made by Quantrall'e raid ave hes ommeuced rebuilding hin house Three haveanbecribed ome hundred thouseyd dollars to the Free State Hotel, anown an the *iidritge 1" Several merchants © commenced rehaila All the laboring tosm in town will be wot at work to-morrow to clear of (pe rains. In spite of the terrible calamity, the people are im gred rile, All the town fm the Atate have sent in large sume f money. Fyeu the meu berned out on Quantrell'e retreat have rent in loads of vegetables and prowisian® A than wee to-day tried in Lawrenes ana found guilty of Doing » npy for Queatrell and was hanged. The chef of the civil ed lndiaus of the Deinwares sod the Meee sed Vones offered their services to Lone, Reports just in eay the buildings in Cage county four), are on fire, aud over one hundred of the * moa thiners are killed. A feartol retribar | Missoar! | Order my rebel | Hot for the Mem ple from the we larder Counties. COPY, Angast 26, 1863, The following extracts are taken from Geveral Orders | No. 11, \saned at thee hewdyuarters Auge 2) A‘l persons living i Jackwon, Case amd Mates coun ier, Miewourl, and that part of Vernon county in od tn thie di those Nving within one mile man's Mill, Viesnapt le onlerampl there in pert of Kew torn dip, Jackson county, northof thie cree and were f ihe Hig Hine, embra ‘ug Kaan city and Wertp hereby ordered to remove loom thelr present platen of j ence w Aftown froma the dale nereor | These who within that prowe their ioyaiy to the eatiatnetion the commandiny — offere of the military station peareat their present plecon of re fidence, wil receive from him cert Gentes xtating the fant of thete loyalty aud th 5 t thee wit thew ft onm be " focoty y ones . | will be permistnd * 10 aay miliary eceriae ' wr tthe “inte of Kanwe ware 6 te 6 ty w herder of (be Miata Alot ers hel! remow & 10h Oflerre command 1 COMMpaNion wn t wrving are . that a . uy oF diet eh ton ot a ate required wre ’ wt there, aed . ‘ wee t eran and ‘ FROM THE SOUTHWEST, Hi ported Dewth of ‘ Hel Ciemerat Kin Moute for Mempninnttoavy € of Hebel cout emeral Mere Ha pedte ted Miver . . © wees : oonl Gr ‘ — river coon The Cntom Me ' “ eee, Magen Oh Veet we Winer 9 comineed ar red at Memphin am the 2408 (neta, from Vawwn ty Jovving come (ram Vetetbory Ta renee, AN the Inter ples they met Cotmnet Pou pr ce, eb Terentiy Sew royed we mney rele ruil i prerty ran, Wintore Woghh © O00 hundred priewere Cenare! Dawe wk ee ATKARONS RpERNION are pre emrrng finely, Thave hae boon te battle 68 yet tet one aie prowee Captare nad s (me Rebel Generai ‘TReem poem. 9%. Lovee, Avgmet te. ieee serene (0m Genera: Vise te General Beretess mht Reet cage Otene Wontaon's cavalry mate « (id Pocahetaa A, ed pened sewerel wande of corre, Copter ing Aon ane bunived prieoners fener Ren ne ne ont ue oortal Jet Thempes ane ot

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