The New York Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1863, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 9847. NEW YORK, WE NEWS FROM THE BEBEL STAVES. Secretary Memminger on the Rebel Currency. Reported Defeat of Union Troops Near Warm Springs, Va. THE SUELLING OF CHATTANOOGA. THE SEAT OF THE NEXT BATTLE. The Capture of Union Vessels on the Rappahannock. FROM THE SOUTHWEST. UNION MOVEMENTS IN NORTH CARGLINA, Ken Ren koe g Our Baltimore Correspondence, Barriwoae, August 11, 1863. Opening of the Baltimore and Ohio Raitroad—The Wheat Harvest at the South, &c. The Paltimere and Obio Railroad was opened for through ‘travel along its whole exteut, from Baltimore aud Wash- ington to Wheeling and Parkersburg, this morning Tue first train loft here, at eight o'clock, and a train carrying the great Western mail will leave every day hereafter ap ‘Shat hour. The railroad company have tho ussurance of the gov- ernment that the road shall be protected henceforward by an adequate military force, and I betieve such a force is Row stationed at the proper points along the rvad. F¥ m the sources of information indicated in my letter of May 20, [ have learned to-day the following facts in ro- gard to the harvest in the South, which has now been gathcred for some woeks. It will be seen that thoy fully eoniirm the theory which I advanced in that letter in re- gard to. au abundant crop this summer. Nay, the reality exceeds those estimates. ‘The wheat harvest in the South this year began about the 8th of June, and it was over about the 10th of July. ‘The following table shows the amount of wheat actually harvested in the States named to the present your and fm the year 1860, The figures of 1860 are from the United States census of that year. Of course the wheat of this yeas is not yet threshed; but the datatrom whieh I get thieve (acts 18 made up by experts, who, having boon on the spot, can easily compute the amonut from the umber v: acres harvested and the condition of the crop:— + WHRAT HARVESTED IN THe POUTH. Bushels. 1880. 1,222,487 9% Bushels, 1803. 3,125,000 be taken 10 Mexico, For what paryene ais will 1 am not informed, a below the latitude of Washington and tae al Kanawha river, were abundaut; and ail of these excest in the direct track of the armies) have been gathered ta order, Rebel Currency. LEITER FROM MR, MEMMINGEI. The following letter from Secretary Memminger to Sevator ilunter, relative to the currency, is publistied — TREASURY DRPARTMENT, CONFEDERATE STATES AMtent 4, ! MOND, August 24, 1863. | f Hon. R. M. T Hunter, Li yda, V: Sin—in repy . inquiries about the Suances I sen) you ac ndenged statement of tie issue of Treasury note- and of We fuuding operations of tue Treasury. You wil see from this @tatement that the funding bis been eminently successiu., and you will learn also that the Amount of outsianding Treasury notes is still wishin the lim ts of the depreciation which | reperted to Congress at the lust session. My report then estimated the amount of civculition which the coustry could probably bear at $150 ,000,000, ‘Thi statement now made shows that the outstanding Treasury notes used as general currency amount almost to three times this amouvt. But, when it ts considered that 4 very iarge portion of these notes are across the Mississippi, it will be apyarent that in the Atlantic States: tho estimate of three to dhe 1s rathor over than under tbe mark. Two absorbeuts are now added which will keep down the excess from new issues—vamely, the taxes the #1¢ of cotton bonds, and w to contribute its portion t9 t ia evory reason to believe that the currency cin be weil sustained It 18 obvious, from this sta Yon of estimating the val parison wicu guid, Is alegether ement, that the popular no of the currency by @com- allacious. for, while the actual volume of curreucy has only beew tereased three fold, its proportion tw gold rates at more thay double that The tact amenut. is, a8 you well know, that, situated as ch a commercial eommodity as pla- As T have already shown, hi irtreerred to, wheat and corn allurd Je standards of value when the {8 NOL con: by # mM Gel obsiruction, and, by referring to these. it will be seeu that the currency bas maintained ite) at the ratio winch the outstanding tssues pive by the statement that, aniting all the va iianers lor funding, there has been fonded ip bonds 2,404,070, to which, According to estimates, there is yet t be added about $70,000 000 more, which are yet ja the hands of the freanury otticers to be funded, meking 1 ail ab out 8302 000,000, Add to this $15,442,000, deposited in the five per cent call loam, and we have an asgregate of nearly $318,000,000 withdrawn from the currency. . Ihis Fowl ts cortainly very (favorable. aod shows that the report ro- veh more the measures adupted Dy Congress have been quite as suce sbas any of us bad anticipated. It is somewhat ie that the Yankeo government should have * or withdrawing their atin, aod statement poblisied ia Mev hants Magactne or Ju y bave funded, o ond bonds, net more than $200,000 000, that there is no reas .n (or distrust wil diress yourselves vigorously to meazures w! will ite further ineress®, we shail be fully able to mainte our ehuse 1 would suggeRt (© you two matters t siveration Owe is the export duty which [ pro fx sod hod (ue Other a renewal of the call loan for all Teasity notes upoo the sume principle with the six per ceat call low which Was reported at the last ression. It ie Worth Lhe experiment to try whether, by allowing » dojws he Treasury Ov interest, we may not be able yattract and retalo there all the Treasury gutes not ac- uelly required for circulation. Very tru yours C.@ MEMMINGER, Secretary of the Treasury. <TAVEMENT OF ee sores, avucer &, 1 Total of ait kinds of gevcral currency poten. $523,114 406 134 600 Kxtiweted ou band for cancellation........6. 10, otni And bly beyond the Missiesipp! xen Total of one hiwdred million loan. Funded since February 20, 1863. Funded of auies, May 10, 1863. Total... a bout lo weetatan tn retreated “acm Springs, pursued by cavairy and -artitiery ot were the Firat brtende of thle aemy, Cote Potwn commanding. The eoemy wore ALOU (aree luivusend wtrong, With HR ploces OF uFtivery. e ¥ | unde Briga 1 Averell. Our loss is about two bu dred ki ounsled, Tho enemy’s loss 18 not knows, We bave taken vbout owe hundred and fifty prisomers and a piece o! etiery. AMUEL JONES, Major General, Official : Joun Witma. Lieut, Col, and A, and J. @. ‘the Next Battie, From the Richmond Enquirer, August, 29.) Probably the next ereat battle will be fought in Kast Tennessee, for the occupation of that jinportaat region. ‘The late demonstrations of Rosecraus near Chattanooga may possivly be intended to feei the way round Bragg’s left Hank, and ts towns of upper Georgia have been somewhat alarmed at the prospect of a horde of Yankees og them, but from the beat information we bave been able to procure those demonstrations were a feint wo dis. guise the real aim of a combined movement apoa our great Line of communication through East Ten- ‘easec, to take possession of that country av‘ of the por- ton of Southwestery Virginia through which the same | Hine of railroad Up to the 25th of this month no very serious attempt had been made to penetrate our lines along the Camber- Jand Mountaiue; but the people of Knoxville aod the neighborhood were quite on the alert, and preparations have been made of such @ charac- ter—though we must not mention the disposition of our forces wader Bragg and Buckner—as will be sutli- cleat to effectually defend that m st desirable country. General Buckuer is in immediate command of the region Borth of the Tennessee river, including Knoxville, up to the Virgitia line, and has bodies of troops disposed nearali the passes through the Cumberland Mountains, We have received & \etter from Kuoxyilie which fully de- cribes the operations Of last week on the partof the en- emy, and the greater part of which we extract:-- Friday last Bragg’s headquarters—then im command of Lieutenant General Poik—were startled by a shut from the enemy from the opposite side of the river, where tue enemy had guddeuly aod unexpectedly ap: peared in smali torce, not exceeding two thousyud. Shot and shells were thrown ipto the town throughout the day, with fittie damace elther to buildings or persons. We repiied with cnr field pieces (there are no vice pieces mounted there), but with little or no eiect. Saturday the enemy resumed the Oring, and continued throughout that day; this resulted in nothing Friday, at about clock of cavalry and w'antry, esti- nd, entered the Jittle county county, They destroyed the f two or three citizens totully, and proceeded up the valey in the direstion of Kinston. Saturday they hod halted aa if to rest, Where they are to-day I do not know. Saturday alvo » force of several (a few) thousand appeared before Harrison. and threw some shot acroas the river (so Lam told) into that place. tho enemy at this point have commanding ground, and have been throwing npearthworks, We have rumors of several other detachments on the north of the river, but these have nowb re made «ny itnposing demonstration, Along with all thie, Knoxville, I hear. is full of rumors, to the Sflect that furaside is pushing one or two columns towards Knoxville. No portion of the enemy has made any threatening movement west of Chattanooga, Hence it appears that the time is at hand when the strife is to be for the vecupation of Fast Tennessee, General Gragg, Lam happy to say to you, I believe has. his troops admirably disposed. The © of the Ten- nessee river at any point between Leudon and Bridgeport can be, | think, successfully contested. ‘here are but two or three fords, and these can be easily com- manded; and, indeed, along the entire river line, gene- rally speaking, the low lands are on the north bank, while the commanding hills are on our side. + ‘The General, | am sure, is hourly posted by his signal corps, extending their tine for many miles up and down the river, and by a most perfect system of couriers; so that, with the railroad brokem ¢r the telegraph tine 'in- terrnpted, he will stili heve uninterrupted communication with the extremitios of his tines on either hand, ‘the Ariny of Tennessee is now to have to achieve as great, if not greater, fame than the Army of Virginia, and 1 feel sure they will do 80. Leannot give you the exact strength of this army; it is, however, con- aiderably inferior to that of Rosecrans. understand re- infor cements are arriving from Mississippi. T believe it will be the policy of the enemy not to at- tempt the pussage of tne Tenvessee at nny point wert of udon ‘These demonstrations I regard a mere feinta, I think you will hear that the bloodiest scenes wil! be in front otKnoxville, if Brayg stall choose 40 (ighg there; if not, Bucktor will be constrained to yield the piace, and with it all ot East Tennessee north of the Tennessee. "Tis true, the ecorpation of that portion of Fast Tennessee by the,enemy migut become to them a cul-de-sac, but I should distrust such strategy on our part. Se should we. By this krod of strategy the enemy might get into the whole paws even by way of acul-de- fae. and would Hever wish 10 escape from it again. Kaet ‘Tennessee and our great inland fine of ratiroads aro worth ghting for, and must be ght for. General Bracg has cl bout enough of Tennessee; and with the and ja such conditioa, and drivea 4 the very heart of the Central it urn upou the Yankees who ‘opportunity The Shetting of Chattanooga. (From the ¢ hatte? cage Rebel, August 22.) Oneol ihe most impressive roves we have ever wit- besscd voourre’l in the Presbyterian chureb on yesterday, The services were being hold by the Rev. Dr. Palmer, of W Uriewus, oud Lhe paws and aisies were crowded with ofjcors und soldiers, privete citizens, ladies and children. A prayer had beew said and one of the hymns sang, The organist was absent, aed [ will be thankful,’ continued the minister," a some one to the congregation will raise the tun Th nit tune was raised. the whole congregation in days gone by: the sacred notes in iv the house of God, swelling their Nis glory, and dyiug away at last like the parted days. The second, the long prayer, was begun, when out upon the calm, | air, ther mean aleo sound—the sullen voice of a hos'tle gup—ringmg from the north bavk of the river and echolog back and b ont peak It was suddeu— by surprise; for few, if any, expected the approach of an enemy day was one of fasting and prayer; the public mind was upon its worship. Its erenity bad not been crossed by a shadow , and it was trmt until another and apoher of these upebristian accents trembled in the air, and bied them- selves away to the hills, that it was generally realized that the evemy were be! the town, Without a word of warning. tn the midst of charch services, while macy thousands of men and women thronged the » pinces of pablo worship, the basost of hutnan (i d begun an atteck upon a city crowd: ed with hospitals and refugees from thé bloody pathway of their march, and in no wise essential @ direct apsruit. There was a little bustie and disturbance in the gal- leries, tho noie im the streets grew more distinct and lous near the doors several persona who had other daties, military Or domestic to look to, hastily withdrew , the miss of tho congregation, however. remained in their pieces and the man of God continued his praver It was twpresve im theextreme. There he stood. this exile prescher from the fer South, with eyes and hands raised to herven, not a muscle or expression changed, not a note cred, not # #ign of confusion, excitement or alarm: naught but the calm, Christian face uplifted and full of the tines vasness to al! eave ite devotions which beams from the x true piety. Not only the occasion, bat the pr. ‘as solemnly, eloquently impres: ‘The reverned dector prayed, and his heart was to his prayer; it was the long prayer,and he did not shorten it, he prayed it to the end, and the cannon did not drown it from those who listened, as they could not drown it from the ear of God. fie closed, and then without panic or consternation, although excited and confused, the dense scene eens whilst ebelis were falling on the right and left. All honor to this noble preacher, und to those brave women apd children. r= the Southern Confederacy. | ‘The attack on this place, we are inclined to bell ie A general advance on the ‘of Roseorans to take Chat tane and Northwest Georgia, and drive back Bragg. As we uoder-tund the master, our entire force is, and Las beea, this side of the Tennessee river—making that river the line of defence. The whole country on either file of the river is very mountalnous. The line of de- fence is a very long one—{from near Huntsville on our extreme left far up into Bast Tennessee on the right. The sheiling of Chattanaoga on Friday, and at intervats aince then, is, no doubt, a feint, the true object being to crums (be fiver lo force at some other point, either at Harrison, some twenty miles above 10 Ena Tennewee, of at Bridgeport below. We near that our forees have actually been defeated at Rridgeport and driven away, and that the esemy have thrown over the river, open which they have crossed in con. siderable numbers We cannot positively vouch for the truth of this t, bot we believe ft Is correct. We think a ‘mined movement is pow being made by Rosecrans to cross bis army at Bridgeport and flank Chattanooga on the south, or to cross at Harrison and make a descent upoo the “tale raliroad at or ‘Chick- . and we shall severe baitic ie fought on this side iver ina day or two. The Late Captare of Un Vessels om the Happah: ook. ‘From the Riehmond Examiner, August 20 | We alluded yesterday to some of the reguita of the 0 ret expedition sot on foot several days sce. having for ite object tbe destruction of the Yankee shi; the . We learned yeterday i has received a report, detailing the facta, the ox: jo AO entire succes, Two steamers mouth of . . * . . tfally, your obediens servant, TG J. TAYLOR WOO, Lienenant p flon. 8. R. Macuowy, Heretary of the etteet that our breve wr vomand ? Go) s04 1, Ward, of the | evdents etal, eapruret two vark-y \ DNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ¥, 1863.—TRIPLE SHEET. Oats, the Reliange and Satellite, off the mouth of the , pahannock, ou Saturday miele last, ‘The gunboats, lying uear each other, were captured after a rlight resistence, by the Confederates, who ap- proached in our boats. several of the Yunkee crew were killed and a nomber wounded, Amovg them i Lieutenant Hodge of tho wavy. Various trophies have been secured from the captured Vessels and about sixty prioners, who are now on their way to Richmond, including Capthin Robinson, of the Satellite, ; [From the Richmond Dispatch, August 29,1 ‘The party of Confederates under the command of the gallant Lieutenant John Taylor Wood, on Tuesdhy las Chesapeake Bay, off the mouth of the Rappsbaun P: tured three Yankee transports, the Coquetio, Golden Rod and Twin Brothers, two of them from Philadelphia and ‘ove from Maine. ‘Iwo were laden with anchors and one with coal The Golden Rod was destroyed and tho other two carried to a piace of safety. There were about fifteen prisovers taken on board the three. This makes ninety prisoners, two gunboats and three transports captared by Licutenant Wood sinee he left Richmond on this expedi- on. [From tho Richmond Dispatch, Anguet 27.) Yesterday fifty-two prisouers from the Yankee gun- Doats Reliance and Satellite, including eight negroes avd a dozen petty officers, were lodged in the Libby. J. R. D. Robingon, acting ‘master, commanding the Satellite, was among the petty oilicers. Jeff. Davis a Poor Logict [From the Richmond Seutinel. | The President tells us be wants more men, agony for more men he appeals to the ladies for hel grants ageneral amnesty to all rtors—advertising the smd amuvesty for twenty consecutive days in overy we ip the confederacy, at a cost of thousands of doliars, Geveral Lee appears to be of the same mind with the President, He, too, wants more men, He calis upon ail ais officers and men to join their respective regiments without a moment's delay, and even appeals to the people of the several States to send forth every man capable of Wearing arms. One would suppose that two such high authorities would be apt to know what they are talking about. But the vewspapers, including the President's own dear organs, are dilivently ena in assuring us that the Yankee draft that the Yankee armies are wast Gesertions, and expiring enlistment it army is numericaily greater than Meade’s: and that Lincolu is on bis last legs, in a military point of view. Which are we to believe, the President and General Lee or the newspaperat We can’t believe both; for if the newspapers are to be heeded there is no need for another man in our armies, All that we have to do is to stand perfectly still and see Lincoln's legions vanish joto thin air. Then we will march to Boston without the slightest inconvenience or interraption; and we will be able to do that next fall, This is no time to trifle with the people, They are not arrant fools. ‘Their spirits are not to be kept up by conflicting statements. ‘They know that the new conscription of men up to Leg, dra and the callot the President and the appeal of General Leo do not tally with the sanguine articles of the newspapers. What they want 1s no de.usive bepes, but the assurance that the President intends to act with wisdom and energy: We do want more men. The Yankees are try- ing to play another trick on us. Just before the bi of ‘chancel lorsville they assured us that Hooker's army was only seventy thousand strong, and just before Grant captured Grand Gulf they assured us that there would be nO more general engagements during the war. Reliable gentiemen who Lave been through the Northwest brought ews tbat peace and an alliance with the confederacy ‘were positively determined on. ‘They are trying to fool us again. Reliable gentlemen, “just returned from Washington,’ arrive almest daily within our lines, to assure us that Meade is ‘receiving no reinforcements except a few negro regiments,” &c. We have had enough of this stuff to satisfy even the ad- minivtration, This is the calm before the storm. That storm Will not wait for the dog days to expire. constantly being reinforced and 8 Is Rosecrans, and the first ching we know Lee will be attacked on both flanks, East Tennersee invaded by forty thousand men and Mo- bile invested by way of V'ascagoula. The house must be set in order and kept so, for the storm will soon burst 19 all its fury. The Rebel Volanteer Navy. From the same papor. j ‘When afloat there ia little or no danger of those ven- sels belug captored or interrupted, if wisely managed, and the cruising grounds be away from our coast, and out of the usual track of Yankee war steamers. Of the feathered bipeds that cause such perturbation in Ube owl yard, not one in a thousand js deatroyed by the unfeather- ‘od biped’s gun; for he ‘keeps his weather eye open,’” swoops to bis prey and is of lke a shooting star, So ‘with our sea hawks aod eagles in the illimitabie waters of ocean, Always on tho wateh, and swoopiug to their prey, and swift as the wind, they may roam for years without molestation and sweep the enemy's commerce from the seas as with a besom of deatruction. Even the conspicuous Alabama und Horida, observed of all the world, and the special ob\ectsof Mr. Doodle’s rage, and of pursuit by his cruisers, bave ws t been over taken, or met against their will, How more will Of all rigs and sizes, escape, cruising out of range of the enemy's war stouine’s, vever seckin., but avoiding fights, and having the heels of @ race borre ? ‘Our government and citizens should use every exertion jn this bebaif; and even if we lose al) the aod except enongh to afford sovereignty a resting place these ships ought still to be put to sea; for they may, and probably will, largely contribute to our salvation, If we pat forth riots—whenever we ‘and the signs aro all ined people, in such a er be enb- all our efforts—the endeavors of can help the cause, we will prevall in our favor. A united and deter country, and fighting for such a cause, cam dued. Moreover, God fights for us; time fights (or un: the elements fight for ua; circumstances tor us, the moral sense of We world i# a host in our favor, Rebe) Accounts from the Southwest. The following telegrams are publisned by the Rich- mond papers — Jackson, Mina, Auguat 25, 1863. A gentleman from Vicksburg reports an important military movement on foot. Ist character has not trans. pired. A person from Benton also re & foreo of Ubree thousand Yankees moving from Yazoo City towards Benton. A party of our cavatry lotely crowed the Big Back and went within eight tmilesof Vicksburg, where they met a line of neggo pickets and chased them from their posts. The Yankee cavalry came up to their assistance, whea our men retired. Jacnsox, Mise., August 26, 1863. Grapt has taken a force from Vicksbarg up the White river, after General Price, who has lately given the Yao keos 4 tremenduous thrashing in that quarter. Gen, Grant bas latoly issued orders to the citizens of Warren and [Hinds counties to return to their homer and reaame their usual avocations.. ue aays that they shall be protected in ali property except such as is necessary for the army; and that all property taken by the army abail be duly purchased by commissioned officers, and paid (or. He advises the people to regard their slaves as free, and contract with them for labor, or dispense with their services. The order was td go into effect on the 25th. Federal offionr# condemn the pillaging of their troops east of the Big Binck, bat say. If our cavalry is not with: drawn, they will advance with a large force and lay waste the whole country. Jackson, August 27, 1863. The Yankees are in force four miles below Raymond, Four federal prisoners and coe negro arrived bere yeater day. No news from the froot this morning. The Late Traitor, J. B. Floyd. From the Richmond Dispa August 29.) The death of General Jobn B. Floyd, of Virginia, was announced in our last, The Braminer says he died of the effects of jaundice and — in their worst forms. Un- der these he bas been suflering since April last. He re- ceived the sacraments of religion before he died, and re- marked that he wax ‘about to leave the world without any regrets and any fears." Generai Floyd was a man of very superior talents and of commanding presence. Hix oratory we bave heard de- weribed as of the highest order. We never had the plea sare of hearing him ourselves His manners were frank and ploasing, and his disposition Kind and generous He was very approachable, and the blest person was re ceived with gontieners and rexpect To his enemies he was placable, and to his friends he was as true as terted The fing of Virgivia was yor half mast on her Capitol, in hovor to the memory distinguished seo z, ished in the Kiehmool a sigue ae eld yeaterday on the body, and a verdict of ental murder rendered 1) the come. e 1 Yankee tata a0) Wehnren ; alll sails 4 Wordav morning, that a body of Yaukoos, variously estimated at frow five to ten thousand. was acain Laresteainy the salt works and the Tenncseee Railroad, m the ¥ ty oi Now river bridge. The repirt was generally beioved to be well founced, and the oree at Lya hourg was ordered to be in Foadiness L) answer any ca'l which might be made, A Rebel Piratical Organization. ‘The following Advertisement is from the columns of tho Richmond Lraminer of tho 24th ults— UNTERIE NAVY COMPAS serviews Of & commer the Board bas dete years’ naval experienc Commence operations (orthwith, and lor that pury irea the subscriptions to bo paid up immediately, desiring 9 subscribe are urged to do Bo without delay , a8 the books wii bo closed as soon as the eapical is mnade up. Je Le APPERSON, ifreasurer. It would seem frem the above notice that the rebels are about issuing letters of marque to private companies, and that they have their mind's eye fixed many privateer vowels now fitting out in Bi upon our commerce The Price of Newspaper ulteratare in the South. ‘The Monteomery (Ga.) Mail says —We observe that the newspapers of Atianta, . Dave just been advance. ing their rates, which are now as follows: — Daily papers per month... Daily papers per co), v. ‘Yo news dealers, per copy A oie No subseriptions received for more than two months, Advertisements two dollars per square for the first luser- ion, and ope dollar avd fifty cents for each continuance, -$3 00 20 Headquarters of General Pillow. The Montgomery ( ja.) Moilot the 18th Inst saya ‘The headquarters of Goucral Pillow have been transterred from Marietta,Ga., to Columbus, Mies the Selma pa pers mention that he passed through that town on bis way to the latter place some days ago, Treachery in the Camp The Augusta Sentine! says that one of the Brooks guns lately forwarded from Kichmond to Charleston was found to bave been spiked on its arrival at the latter place, Our St. Louls Correspondence. $9, Lovis, August 26, 1863. Who « Quantrell?—Retaliation Proposed—Horrora “of Guerilla War—Important General Order—Gen. Ewing Awake —Big Robbery, £c. The Lawrence massacre still excites public atten. tion, A meeting of merchants was held here yesterday to make arrangements for raising funds to relieve the sufferers. Sub-committees were appointed to collect unds and provisions, . Quantrell, or Quaptril, the jeader of the rebels in thie borrible affair, has been frequently menticaed in the Henaup correspondence, is a dangerous man. He is an Ohioan by birth, and kept a school in Westport several months, He is about five fect ten inches in height, weighs about one bondred and sixty younds, and wel; proportioned throughout. He !s keen and unscrupulous. Had {t been for his interest to join the Union side he would have done so without hesitation, He first ap- peared on the scene as a guerlila leader in December, 1861, and ever since has been more or less active, He has made frequent ri joto Kansas on a email scale, and defied pursuit in Western Missouri. Nearly ali of bis gang have joined him in Jackson county, and the outrages on the Union people of the border form a thrilling chap- ter of the horrors of war. Some time ago Quantrel) was in Richmond, Va., and made a speech, in which he boasted of having killed seventy Yankees with bis own hands—a highly meritorious performance in the estima. tion of the rebels. ‘ The question.of retaliation for the burping of Lawrence is already mooted. Jeff. Davis is responsible for this gros violation of the laws of war. Quantrel! has o Colonel's commission from the rebet War Department to raise, arm, equip and subsist & band of partisan rangers. THs last Crime i str ply murder—wanton murder. No troop were stationed wt Lawrence, and the raid was prompted by an infernal spirit of malice towards the pro- perty of Union men, ‘The great express robbery in this city on the night of the 2 or morning of the 24th caused considesable ex- citement. The United States Express Company is @ ruf- forer by this adroit robbery to tie tune of $50,000, but ie abfindantly able t sustain the joss, The details show culpable carelossnesw in leaving one of the wind open, but the gromwest part of the adair was aulowing a clerk to sloop with the safe key under nis pillow. Too robbers applied ebloroform to the clerk and porter, and easily ectected the robbery. They are safoas far as heard from with their booty ‘Detectives were notified vefore a sin- gle train left the city, but it is believed the money 1s loxt irrevocably, not the slightest (race of it has been dis- covered. Guoriila uprisings are reported in all parts of North Missouri. Yesterday the telegraph operator at Sturgeon, on the North Missouri Railroad, notified the saperinten- dent that the Union men were fleeing from that neighbe hood on account of guerillas, and that he would not main there. A large force of cavairy bas been from various points north and routh to bent up © * gueriiias, Cobb is second only t+ Quantrel! in guerilia experience in Missdurt, and if allowed to cacapo will canes trouble. He i reported new to have three hundred men in (he saddie under his command. Guerilla outrages fare iunumerable. Guertllaa rise up and disappear with the quickness of night and day. General Schofield har issued a spirited general order warning ail rebels returned from the South that, unless they surrender as prisouers of war, and are released oper restrictions, they will be treated as outuawe. Joa citizens to bear art in self-defence. 4 promises rebels who lay down their arms. apd take an oath of allegiance, and give bow for good bebay ior heresfter, that they shall be released. This is deemet by some to bo a vieiation of a gone ral order of the War Department forbidding the release of rebel prisoners who take (he oath of allegiance, wo lees they prove that they were impressed into rebel ser view, which very few Missouri rebels can do. The Geueral threatens revere punishment to boshwhackers Genera! Ewing, who commands the Kansas divtrict and the western counties of this State, not only orders all armed bushy hackers to be shot down on sight, and their families seut South through our lines, but he pro tives all negroes belonging to disinyal persons that they stall have free passes and military pro tection the river into Kansas they apply With General J vtaarters in Kansas City other. the rebela ot Western Missour! if there are any left, i)! feel the tron heel of war very eflectasily, Negroes, «hether belonging te loyal or disloyal masters, whi be as valueless as lock in the celebrated moon boax It is plearant amid these scenes of carnage and woo caused by rebels to find one instance of really ren srk honesty on the part of a rebel. Such an instance \t if my Jot to record, The rovrmate of Mr. J P. Dano, the deceased correspondent of the fixes, who died below Helena very euddenly, was a repel Driwoner fi joha 1). Mi St. Lows on parole. Whea Mr. Dunn's elects were re moved iron the beat at Helena his watch and fob chain wereorrrivoked, having been left in bis berth, After the beat loft Helena Mr. Murphy found the watch and Tetaiced it IM bik POmnension, expecting to notity Himnain of fact. Me was sent to street prem om arriving here, and aceidentaily heard o( (he whereabouts of a HeRato correspondent, whom bo “cut for, and after satiatying the authorities it way al Straight, promptly handed over the teh for transmission to Mr. Dean's family, As peren Know any th Of the wateh bot bimest!, and an dot (0 Was IIpoRn bad he kept it, the bonesty of the prisoner Marphy im bighly commendable. He hax ath of allegiance aed promises taoopduct him welt ans loyal citizen henceforth, The word of such a man, thoogh @ rebdl Revetatere, may bo reised upon ‘Bevers! (oliticianm were badly ay. A morn. ing paper announced the arrival General U Grant frow Viekeborg (Mra, and during (he day a One brass _— wae hired epeaches prepared an angementa inade a erenad ben ight cone (he Mivtake was evident and the eerenade wae doverred Severs steamboat captaios Rave dineraced theruseinee on the river recently by « very contemptible practios. ‘They engace Contrabands down the river as deck bande, promimog 0 pay them on arrival here, When the beats reach “t Lowls the contrabands are torned ashore and payment roused. Measures have been lakeu to correct tints ab ore. Information has been reorived that Colonel Cond, of the Tweiih Kansas, with @ forces of mounted men, ison bin way (rom Canevilie, Mo. to the Indian omntry, to open communsoation for reiatorcamcets (rv Sy ring held for General Hams Nothing had been from tbe Incter of lator date than August 10, when bis witasteon was pot at all : keg of pow ser wae which bet the Our Pontoons in Virginia, TO THY EDITOR OF, THE MEKALD. Waruinarox, 0, C., 1863, In your papor {8 an article on the subject of pontoon bridges. In the opening sentence of that article you state “that tho terrible disasters at Fredericksburg and other places, which resulted ia such slaughter and disgrace to the Uvion, were caused by the abominable abortions called pontoons. "” You also go on to stato that ‘in this particular a! th» world if abead of us:'? that Groat Britain, Gormany vod Ruseia have adopted a much better Kyat ch caine from an Americas, and which consists of light corrugated iron wagon bodies of auch dimension aad form as to serve as a wagon for the trausportation of mupplies—a | boat with which tho troops can cross rivers—a raft to carry heavy ordnance; but, most important of all, as @ bridge. You thenask tem was not, in hy {9 It that this or vomo better ays: atoly after tho Inte fisasters, subutt- tuted for the Abed pontoons, projected by imbocties, umior the Secretary of War, and which have carried such desolation to every family #"" If the people of this country conld he mate to believe that our recent disasters were cased by oar aystem of pontoon bridges, that this Kystem was projected by im. deciles under tho Secretary of War,’ and that thie wicked abortion must eoutinue to be made “to serve pri vate interests, regardless of consequences,” ther be no doubs bat that they would at once demand a reform in this branch of our ser vico; that the *imbectles” should Atonce be disgraced, and that all “private jaterests’? growing out of the presont system should bo sacritic Such, indecd, would appoar to bo the object of your article, Now, Mr. Editor, 1 think you have beon misinformed on this subject, and asf am responsible more than avy other person for the system of pontoon bridges which wo have in our service, and as the whole army kuews that T am responsible, I must beg your indulgence while [un dertake to ofrrect the errors into which you may have inadvertently been led, ‘The questions whieh the public care to have antwered are these: — 2. Are wo behind the agen our system of pontoou T maintain that we are not, 2. Is our system the best that is kuown to the nations of Europe? wintata that it is 3. Was due inquiry made as to what was the best tem of pontoon bridges now jn uso in England, Fraj Russia, Austria, Prussia and the German States be: our present system of pontoon bridges was adopted? maintain that it wae. in bo improved? I answer, al! analogy a Be, and that it will be her j nica! ingenuity of our people invited st improvements, before this ayate: bridges was cally determined upon? I maintain that it was. 6. 18 the War Department, or the persons, whethor ‘{mbootles’? or not, who sre acting under it, now roady to adopt an Improved system of military bridges if one can be found’ J majutain thit it is both ready and will ing to do so A vithple statement of the facts in the case will be the easiest way to show the grounds upon which I baso my answers Lo these questions, In the month of September, 1561, General MoCiellan sent for me and told me tat he wanted tne to get up ten or twelve bridge trains for our armies. J had not asked for thia duty; 1 had simply to obey orders. 1 knew some thing of the subject before undertaking it, and I hed the wantatane Captain Dave, of the Corps of Enginoers, who had given {tas much atteution, both practically ana theoretically, as any other man in the country, The General told me that he did not wish to “the my hanay,”” that he thought it best not to give me positive orders in writing—usually done im military mattery—as to what £ shout do in the performance of Uhis duty, Ho advired me to look well mto the #: of bridges pow in aso in Europe, and adopt such, or such combinations of several, ax I thought best, with any improvements that might be suggested, keeping In view all tho tine the character of the rivers to be crossed, particularly in Virginty, the fact that the country was wooded, and therefore afforded ma terials for more substantial bridges than cold be made by pontoons, that there would bo great mechanioal «kill in the army, and that it would be supplied with all neces. sary toola, Such, in general terms, were my instractions, and f not about executing them, After examining tho diferent systems of military bridges then in use in Kurope, | came to the couctusion that the French was the best. T accord ingly adopted the French pontoon ay the jis Of our ayn. tein, For this conclusion T respectiully protest against being called an “imbecile ander the Secretary of War." My own researches had led me to belleve that the French pontoon was the boat boat theo ated io making military bridges, The experiinents that bad bees mado with ft at Wost Point had jo Captain Duane to the samo conclusion, and, besides this, General MeClellan was of the same opinion, Now, General MoClellan at that time probably had more knowledge of pontoon bridg: any other man in the United Mtates Ho had for im Years been on daty, o# an Ofllcer, with our only company of engineer nolaiors at Wert Point. He thore thorowbiy studied the subject of pontoon bridges, both theoretically ant practically. Ho alterwards travelled ali over Enrope, during the Crimean war, and exainived the diferent kinds Of military bridges tben in une, giving Uke subject his par ticular attention. With all na knowledge about pontoon bridges, he cotneided in oplaion with Captain Paane and myself, aod, if imbeotity mast be charged the em ployos of the War Department, he moat abare it with a, It should be stated, however, that [ did not coofee my. nolf exclusively to the French pontoons. ‘The oppartunt of hot sultered to able woodun scows, « bri ro 4. Can this ey of opinion af to the superiority of tho latter 1 also tid made an ‘advanced guard train’ of cagvaer, after the manner of the Russians, This wax used on the Chick bominy, and i@ even lighter than the corragatea wagon bodies In adalwen f alwy had a trestle train nv after the manner of the Austrians. Bat mrt ion Orta Of all, | did not forget the corrugated trea wagon bodies, which bad for many years been onel in our service in cromsing Ue 1 bad ope hundred of these wagons A rafte of them but uever succesded jo making a bridge, We exyerimentod with them, bow Fanti it was the concurrent opinion of oll whe wit the experiment# except perhape the manufac tarer, that were not ruled tw supports 0% they had been the ease in re the continent, when there wax plenty of tine, they bad been used an & makeshilt for « bovt, pid sochetiones with succens: but, ae they are now mate, it war found that we could not make ® practicable bridge with them im any reasonable tine, Doubtions they may be Improved hare after bueso may the art of printing. The enemy were (68, and WO wanted pontonen, ) Papers; we must bave both, «ith out waiting for futare improvements, { will add, in oon {Our pouton trains have been emin-atly wxe- sccoustul. General Hanke Gret used then at Harper's Ferry, ia crossing the Potomec, berore Geverat Met iettne ied the eoolnaainr campaign. Govern! Metiellan wan Umrre atl naw the bridge, but "ugeested bo improvements They were of great uae during the fhage of Yorktown in landing (roopa at Poyuesin river, im buliding several bag bridges over Wormlay s creek. At Went Polat General Fravkiin landed the whois of bin divitiom nod all hiv actillery in & tow bouts with the ail of shes pootomna. We again used them when we were advaccing on Kichineod it croming the Chiekabominy river, and io tke retreat from Herrson ® Landing neatly the whole of Geoerst Motlelian’s army, with a) (is tmpedimenta, passed over & bridge, at the mouth of this stream, some two thonsaod (eet lng —» fons whied deserves a name in history Again, after battle of Antiotamn, nearly the whole of our ariny the f tomae on these bridges. No senident har forges have learned that they are areu Qosers bold & pontonm brides 7 qomtion as we ite rity ix ever reined. The follrwing by an extract of from Heiguiier General |. Harward, the Chef Eagineor A the Army of the Potomac — Cover Lorna, Seem Pan Core Va, Tone 16, 1800 Gen. JG Terms, Chiel Vogioser United sates army, Washingwm, D.C. z ; . . ir ehort experiance has chown thet the French bat a applicabiiity for tet On tena there i water, and fpakee § pertertiy reliable bridge. The Birage treetia britge sngerne anretabee nd only M1 for advanced guards We browght te Indie robher pontoons with ae, | ebemid comeider it ve the trewtie bridge, bet not reliable for the weer of « laren arty. Sich were the General Metvtian’s Chet * York own, at Weat (Dickahominy Bu y me frin’l sh the Rapeahawner when erat wasted, 4 @ Oo . PRICE THREE CENTS, THE CAPTURE OF JEFF, THO VIP SON. Oar Pilot Knob Correspondence. Pitor Kxom, Mo., August 26, 166%, Affairs at P Kuol-—Ueserters from | whaburg Ariw Vows from Arhune dy—éttmation of Uve Reber Armay— Keb Movements —The* Last Ditelt West of the, Miasise Veripaese Cavernar-— Movements of Jef, Thome am for iis Ca ure ow Mews Carrick Othe Jet. Baggel—I! + Hisory and tha Vote be Place Uyon Him mente of Troop Probable Crp ured, LE © the departure of General Lavideon's expedition ris on its way to Little Rock, there bie been Hite Of interest from 4. pulnt, Au ccousional wk irunlnl and ea, ture Of guerillas have been almost "he only events of a warlike charactor for the past two m Once In wwhile some over exeltod scout brings a woloome int yoo thal the enemy i¢ but a stort distances away and moving to attack this post, The information has te ¥ turned out to be untrue. co the raid of Mar inaduke, in which he was ko promptly mot and repulsed there hus been uo orgauized force of the rebel army in ride the State Lines, La our present conditiog we would lighted to have them advanes, for wo could not fail 1 them a severe punishment, The revel loaders are Wo wary tO re; @at thelr attempt to reach Cape Girardeau and Pilot Kaob, and they have thus fur quietly kept them Liu a euort divtance of their base on the White river, Jt will surprine the readers of he Hiatus to fear that we hav d at this point many of the deserters from Pemberion # late Vieksvury army; but such & (ie ones, Parobing that army at Vicksburg, aud potting i out tile oor lines, was of the greatest stroker of policy thas bas occurred during the war, Had the soldiers been Kept ax prisoners and taken North for cou: finernent, they would Lave been ultimately exe gut to City Point, Va, ‘Ibis would have returned them noarly ali to the servico of tho rebel guverameat. Wheu Ubey wore paroled in Vicksburg Chousands of them at once made thelr way homeward, in spite of the reno strances of their oilleers. Five thousand in ope body turned olf from the road leading to Jackson, when they were & few miles east of Vicksburg, aud mado thoir way dircet- ly to the river, Thego were mainly Texas, Arkauras and Miesourt mea, and the majority of thea managed ty some way to crows the Missixeipp! Many of those from Missourt have succeeded in working their way north through Joulsiaoa aod Arkansas aud reaching their native State, They all boar marks of an ariaoua aed Aatiguing march through the thinly #ettied country, and were evidently convinced that they have hed their rights ws fully as they will avor be able to obtain them. Seouts from this point roam freely through Arkanaay, ree one and our commanders are fully ax weil pomted as the officers af Jieleos cx be al of the rebel movements aro folly watchod, snd it is diffoult tor them to make apy change Of po sitlon without our being well inormed inn vory short (ime. ihe latest jowbigence trv gents him forti(ying at Bayou Metaire oo thy Little Rock to Clareadon, He had twelve thoaand voter Nis command, and bad ordered Marmadaxe avs Torbr deo wo jon bite. ‘Marmaduke bad born at imuesy iio for sone time with about two thousand men, acting as a sort ot advanced guard Lo protect 1 ttle Rock. thu bodgo, with a WHOL SPHug Tver, short Tietance to the } te f Latesvitie, and was lookiug oftor the culee tion of forage for bin own Cormmead and that of Genera Mormaduke It har boon currently reported around Title Rock that Kirby smith aud Magroder wore @m the way to join Price, abd Uiat Cooper bad been erderet vw Tall back from Yort srath to Little Kook. — The plat a8 to eotiect all the available forces at that point end make w oak truggié (or (he country wont of the Misut der, smith and Cooper joining Price woatd bintd torce to tweul) ve Ubinty (howand men, Ww hardly eu were ordered in that @irection, af Texal wood thes be Leff uncovered, Hrico will no doubt m: ke ax vigoroan renittance ne pow #ible; Dot he m hardy corte 19 Wave the senbstance of hie incendiary a Hauyion, Va. Not loug wines | was mo Srtained thal eturte were boing Mads to OFgAni7e (Hood AMouretet Guard fhe reve pave been « concede Unat Minoo dom at belwg Ww doray, lk with De remomnberods that hee Aegean, Bub i seuteaamt Governor ron away after the vin IseL 4, Avrkeneas, Jaa wir Lee comes, and the Domnif as the ehiet of Miskourt in pice of the deocwss. Mr Hey panied Marmad ke to Cone Girardenn, peeing (0 rmch St. Laois ena eetaby there, OWovinetaces + e beltee teroed with Mormeduke on Ca rebel retreat juts Arkauewt. Sor nery two years the rebel ciaimans t the chie’ maogietengy of the State hae been bo thar oaly for @ tingle ec tui sei) baa to contend Gimt be ls Gov eruur a (ha Mate, and i= highly juceuned because bis edicia wore not obeyed by the sovereign pepe of Mine art ‘The Mimsourt tate Goard whieh followed tho fortenes of Governor Jackson and PUeriiog Vrice, went to pleces shortly after the battle of Vea lige the remoanta a i were formed int) & Missourt brigade, ander Generst Roweo, aad anited with the Army of the Massuniyp) Thig brigade was destroyed in the ba Genk Fork Gibeoh ie May Jaat, neariy mil the and meu faling lot owe bande, They aro at present inmates of tor military prison at Allow, Hitnois, General Gowen mot bis death recently in Minwiant yt Brigadior Gererat M. Jed Thompson was sent by Gene. ral Pree and Governor Neynokds tw Pocahontas to rear cAvize tho old Militia Hae nard, Twas thought that Ly wonding carne apfesie Lnroughout Missour) suelent ten could be gathered to form a brigmie, and yomebly a diviswn. Jed, was to be the om 4 promined to atrike on wh ant olay @ ue ie bOrcerr, and terror ininand of Colonel Liv io notry. Toe deceit of aah nanted by frieetinr General } ink, haw ite headquarters here, A wrtion of the raveiry under Colmel Livingston's eotamand wad pot i readiness moving ealvntan ae rapidly ae ye wnible, IL consiied of two batiaeos of the Third regiment of to Mitta cavelry, under comtnand of (motel ihe force maved Out (form bere wt day light om ant Misaourl, inet hy one battalion of the ot Vocehoutar, two queria leaders former beng 00 reer on Spring river, It cowd ty be Caper ted Uheat wth these objects would be atiened, bol \t wae Uy wht that tight eucened ( Lak’ hg ne of the prizes ab mrt The ylao, an devned by Generst PEK sed Cowel Liv pes wo a ingaton was for (be bie & the juoetion 4 Jacksonvert. Ih was thee to be devided. by one rowd aod th deg uy he oiber bring them ¥ wien frm tee ti dawn of Gay wae the for entermge tb Ahonght that st theb bo lait set ve enyy tng the jectent weep, ab) hie re tiers aoult be lose Wateh’ul than at an carter or ater hour, The piso wae carrie! out & the letter, The aalume was Givided, and jart at Cay down on the £34 oor (rooms caine dashing io from bao ai The town aod is oroapana were lalen con y by wurprinn. Jeet wakes, aed altar rubbing bie winted te heeow what 1 Leet Aaeneed reel wae 8 Whee aot Khvat it was caused by the Brwtile Vantin hemmed be Cd t believe there was ure of them paurer thin Urner ine He was em comvine dh bie error Uy beng urdered to rartender, As it wae tot jommibin for bien by dy amy thing in a few herre they arrive, cine toh wit» otal, sued eovertin (he Principe prieoner, Ove! © ees Somers to Piet Knob, under whit Bit main fares mervod we the 4 the boys Of taking Berbritze °) © Jef 8 yam v dens thet af Jenepe, Me, he parton eh Mayen taken, and from the wire the Werte 4 & he denignad argunining om ectewnire crmmomed weoeral Themnyem «i renetows Sows any Kqntiel tats & whew tLe prime aeetie Hawi) Grent one brigeter ‘Od O00 Ge oe Ol ee ether we gree tee err ft See Te ee vhorly 0 thee rebate amnert thal cry ere mening te te don Ce te BROkOne tame are meme y the A bet emt orn when tie romte te Virg he 0 oot pore tt shee ved ere ” AM Ge vem saye trom! 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