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of Prisoners. TANT FROM THE SOUTER. 21 for the. Exchange Lively CYrrespondence Betwoen the Rebel Agent Ould and Gen. Meredith. Rebel Prospects Campaign of the Burning of the Steamer Mary Wilson at Mobile. Successful Blockade Running Into Wilmington. THE HARVESTS, &., &. The Exchange of Prisoners Controversy. {From the Richmond Sentinel, Oct. 12. COMMISSIONER OULD TO COMMISSIONER MEREDITH. BXCHANGE NOTION NO. 6, Ricumonp, Sept. 12, 1803. ‘Tho following Confolorate officers and men, captured at uly 4, 1863, and subsequently paroled, Vicksburg, Mis: have been day exchanged, and are hereby 80 declared:— 1. The officers apd men of General Stevenson's division, 2 The officers and men of General Bowen’s division. 3. The officers and men of Bri; all Confederate oflic been del 1 at City Point at any time previous to Juls 25. 1863, bave been duly exchanged, and are hereby 60 dodiarea RO. OULD, Agent of Exchange. COMMISSIONSR MEREDITH TO COMMIS: R OULD. Hxapguarena, De: following:— A declaration cf exchange having been announced by nt for exchange at Richmond, Va., 1863, 10 meet the same in part, as equivalents, it is hereby deolared that all officers and mon of tbe United States army captured and paroled at R. Ould dated Se Fsq., a mber dier G MENT ) Sevestu Army Corrs, - Fortes Moxnor, Sept. 24,1863. f Hon. Ro-wat Oven, Agent of Pxchange, Richtond, Va:— | Sik—T» moet your declaration 0 exchange of the 12th inet ,1 inform you that I have this day announced the | # and men of tho Second Texas regiment. ers and men of Wau!’s Legion. nd men who have eral Mocre’s ae. Ay ebung: gave Springs capture, th teers, captured at F wnd the capture at Mount Sterli March, 1863; also same b tenant Colonel Ludlow, tures 1383. You will observe that Lieutenant Colonel Ludlow, in these two communications, “did not furnish me with any list, or even give me the number of mon, by which I could deciare equivalents; nor did he give mo any time to prepare my anuoancemont,’* the 24th of September to me. Not only wa wholesale tures, ber 12, 1863 faithful de state bi: rities of an tesy oceurred, rmer practice, and for iieatevant Colonel Ludlow, former ageat of the following dates of thia your, to wit:— »19 and 27, May 12, 26 and 89; June 5, 9 and reia Le declared the exchan: cers and mep the officers an I have parposely NEW YORK parole by reason divcharge their of A of their own o! 1 have said this parse 224 and 23d day of "without any dosiguation of corps, division, bri- regiment or company. Farther than that I have 0 this day, been furnished with a list of those at Mowit’ sterling, or even with the aggregate , then, were the circumstances, and such tho pre- 's under which I deciared the exchange of Septem- pre into minute and consequence of the extraordinary characier of your letter of the 24th of September. | you consider my course to be a dolibernte of good faith on the part of the autho- under whom [ act. In ‘a bungling a way you have used language which caste offensive aspersion both y vovernment I represent. If there had not been aubjects of very grave import to both people referred to in other jons Of your communication [ would have treated it Ube silent contempt it deserved, and returned it to you without comment. For the first time in the corres- of the agents of exchange has any such discour- Lregret it very much Herotofore I ba had occasion to complain of the action of your govern: ment, but it has always been cone with decorum. Bever written a word personally offensive to the federal any timo previous to the 1st September, 1863, are duly exchanged. 8. A. MEREDITH, Brigadier Gen Commissioner for Exchange. ‘The number of officers covered by the first five sections is of your dectaratio The number of ep! ted men is. ‘The number of ofleers covered by sixth sec tion t#.....+.- Repen Tuo number of enlisted men is. Making « total of officers. And total of enlisted men Aggregate... ..... Reduced to enlisted men. Of the ‘edoral troops on’ parole there aro: Oftic wl Enisted men . AGEFOSALO. ws vesnees Reduced to enlisted mea Which gives a balance fn our favor of. Tnow clwim this balance which is du that you retura to thotr paroles all offi neral, 14,865 whom you bave paroled no equivalents, or that you ro- Jeaso av equal number from the prisons in Richmond. Your dee‘aration was wholly unwarranted under tho cartel, and it might with great propriety be set aside. In it you fu\ied to announce to me the sixth section, ag publiaiied 11 the Richmond Enquirer of the 10th tnatant, fourteen en! terms of the cartel, furnish “list,” or even give me the by ‘which T could deciare equivalents, you give me any time to prepare my announcement. There deem it incumbent upon me to state that 1 con sider your course ju this matter a deliberate breach of good faith on tbe part of the autherities under whom you the cartel (General Orders No. act. Tho Sth artic 142, 1862), would have authorized you to disc harge onois of the federal forces, furntebing a “list’”’ of them, and then you could have discharged an equal pumber of your own officers and men ‘from pal cartel Rot only contemplates 4 ‘mutual’ exchange of “lists” (article 5), but expressly declares (article 4) that no ex- change is t be considered complete until ‘the officer or soldier exchanged fr has been actually restored to the lines to which he belongs. ‘As to the paroles given at Gottysburg and elsewhore, ou mado ai argemont with my predecessor, Lieutgrant Jonel Ludlow, to take effect from May 22, 1463, th all persis given, not in ccordance with the cartel, ili and void. How, then, can you claim cons ero: a valid tho Gettysburg paroles? If you bave aay rolls or lista of any mon whom bavo parvied that have not given you credit for, or if there should be apy errors in my account, I will be happy to rectify the same. You declared exchanged, before my predecessor was ro- lieved, certain oiticers captured at Vicksburg, in which declaration be refused to unite. There are but two | officers, 1 believe (Generals Stevenson and Bowen), who aro covered by your declaration of the 12th inst. Ir the other officers named have not been returned to 2, a8 reqaested by Lioutenant Colonel Lud- for their equivalents, The chief ero ‘nd of the objection to that declaration is, that © ho equivalents of the same grade he only condition which would bave warranied your makmg the deciaration), and if we con. genied to tt we would be obliged to offset them by oflicers their paro low, you are indebted to at that t me the fa our possesion wor Of inferior rank In making up the numbor of federal troops to be ex- ed wll those mustered out of the changed. | have tne! 3 = servies, all civcharged, deserted and deceased. fully, your obodient eervant, 8. A MEI 4 NTH, Brigndier Cenoral and Commissioner tor Ex ich covers seventy two officers and eight thousand and men. You did not, according to me with any Dumber of men, nor did should agent of exchange, oF insulted his goverment with a charge of © delfderate breach of good faith. ter of very litte moment tome what may be your opin- jon of my course.” There are some people connected witb this war who, eithor from ignorance or pass! seem to Lave no clear ideas on any subject. only “exalts their folly computed, Tate government, what was deman former practice and the provisions of the cartel. T now proceed to notice the misstatements of your lot- ter. I will not call thom ‘“deliverate,” although you had the means of correcting them at your hand, for such phraseology, 89 open to the imputation of discourtesy and coarsoness, fiuds in such communications ag tho present only the precedent of your oxample. rolls were los 1. Your computation of paroles is incorrect on both sides. As to your item of 1,208 officers and 14,865 mon, embraced by tho first five sections of my exchange notice, I have no exception to make. Some of our Vicksburg and 1 have not the means of making an accurate computation as to them. t ai up to Respect- change, COMMISSIONS OULD TO COMMISSIONER MEREDITH. Brig. Gen. 3. A Sin—Your com that all oMcers and 6 tured and | voled at tember, 150.) aro di ly exch to wit—Nu 49, No 100 and » respecting paroles and exchanges be continued. words, | prop#e thatthe whole question of determined by the general orders of the United cording to other. On the ear: ernment of (ho United States officers an! moo ber ween Ub Theat 0 9punitio gave You my ronsops time, and did not then ask conformity ' with the stipulations should be regarded ag valy Agreemont regard *‘as null and void’ Certain datos, which were Atipolations of the cartel wioly 8, OF that it bo decided by former prac- tice.” You have neither accepted nor declined either branch of that proposal, atthough | have, both in personal interview and by letter, soliciied you to do one or the day you submitted to me your pro- position, which, unlike mine, was prepared beforchand, and which 1s ns follows:—i propose ,on bebalf of the gow: at ali paroles given by 23d day of May, 18 3, not in confor nll be regards { pubiishy ‘wish to have any discussion about the matter, yg ow wabject, however. you pat a memorandum at the of the proposition, saying that the proposal waa in reply to my letter of August 6, 1863, and in Leu Of the proposition therein made by me. You would pot, | 4id not, disclaim the implication which b contained, nor bave you done #0 since. Sth of August only demanded, 12 compliance with you ‘own General Order No. 100, that ii you rejected the pa- roles the eatery should be delivered to us. You tot me that you would transmit my proposl- welined. I Tn the tirst place, 1 informed you that the Confederate autuorities had never, roles, “not in of the cartel,’, lturther told you that an roles between jot in conformity with the was an impiteation that Paroles Hiab'e to the same objection before t nd after the last should be regarded as valid, and ‘was, therefore, necessarily vicious on Rs very face, [ also told you that another reason tor declining your pro: Position was the one which caused you to make it, to Wit:—That the paroles which bad been givon to us were between the dates ermbraged in your proposition, while there given to you were before and after. When I made the objection to your proposal, that it ine timated that paroles ‘not in conformity with the Stipulations of the cartel’ before the 2d of May, ‘afer the 34 of July of this yoar, were to be re as valid, I naked you to stato, in writing, that no such intimation was conveyed. This you decline to do, saying, somewhat brusquely, that you did not first named ie tier Ricumonn, Oot. 2, 1363. nt of Exchange:— of tho 24th uit. declaring n of the United States Army, cap- ay time previous to the 1st of Sep. cd, has been received. You aro aware that when 1 mot you on the 24th of Au- gust last at City Point, 1 made to you the followieg propo- Bal. to wit—"T propose that all’ paroles, on both sides, heretofore given, shail be detertnined by the goueral or- ders tasued by the War Department ot the United States, . 207, of this year, accord ing to thoir reapoctive dates, and in con’ormity with paragraph 131, of General Order No. 100, 80 long A8 atid naragraph was in force, If this proposition is not acc¥ptable. 1 pro. oge hat the praction heretofore adopted In other roles be tates, ac od to both Upon my proposition of the dh you had not. Lion to Washington, and give me a speedy auswer in per- non of by letter. On the Tth of September 1 complained that no reply 1 ad been returned, althoueb two weeks had elapsed, and two boats lind bein deapatched to City Puint mine the titae T in'ormed you date of our interview. At the samo Uhat the Confederate authorities wai cording! of this plain following day (that being the Boulos, woeld reek pou) ehaaged a por ion of the Vicksbr Wert aaa SBE time ould eftyton ember, ti + in parsuance ed pon! that. om the when the lero ex 1 gave ws — he is free of his wher to demand that, warront of your oWn goverel order for that demand bat in vaio. So far {te own generat order, your Jont, while the order was in , aM General Order No. 207, convened a court of in- nt required the court to give its opinion on the Whetber Major luane and ioe ever aad paced yo oe JR | thon’ of Hou the divisions, brigades, reg'metie aud batteries. I | tale parole yor sa) thousind and the time of the of aud 5,014 enlisted m oné anno giv eq announcement. September 1 18,610 men. leet what fodera’ f doclarati gate of such a natu Any agreement with the right to claim the paro’ first oiticial letter which I ever addressed to you waa in relation to (his very subject. 1863, and is as follows:— Brigadier Bini ROpERT OLD, agen The General urier No, which Lieut. Col. Ladiow } Ho May Tan ite one ‘huvdred. and. thirty-arst pars, graph. pr at, “IC the government | Srore of the parole: the furtioa eheas ‘mast returo in coptivity; and. ehonld the enemy refuce to receive bim, parole.” In mo communication, in riew with either Bieut, Gol. Ladiow or as under Coogideration, did I ever tail Four moverament reiected the i Your second item, however, of 72 officers and 8,014 men, embracing the sixth section of my exchange notice, inthe frat place, all the officers on both who bave been delivered at City changed. They were specially exci your Vicksburg computation which alow ‘one by w A. Menepren, Agent of Exchange:-— til Gaaettr, of the date of a letter from Lieutenant Coldnel eof the date of July 7, 1863, addressed to Lo ft is the following \. te ave the honor also to atate that since the 22d it has been Aietinetly understood between Mr. Ould Mosel that all en} that ail paroles are r and Navy Ofte nares must be reduced be seremnrace. cones Tapee tindor aot Foturn juto captivity, 1 See em 4 iw my poxteaaon more valid tian would be an equiva loved, that, 14 addition, 2 (on O° twelve tbonswnd ange, Unab, as ab of thy asents Of ex aed a Specnl Ox- + the equivalents, 1 bol avail yourself "8 and nies who mate. ‘This gotification nce with former practice, mended, by the Bfth providing for the mai nabling @uch party (o re r8 and mon as of refer you ge Of federal ofli- Ja one of Liat. Col. Ludlow’s communications of May 80, 1863, he says:—-I have declared exchanged the Holly Nineiy first regiment Iinois Volun- abethtown, Ky., December 27, 15 on the 22d and 234 meu of the Indianola. ‘The exact numbers I have not at hand, but they foot up foine hundreds lesa than the balance due. you with the exact numbers as soon a8 received.’ that conveyed that communication brought another written subsequently, but dated the game day, a8 follows:—*'I have deciared exchanged the Fifty-irst (6186) regiment Indiana Volunteers, Seventy-third regiment Indiana Volunteers, aud Third regiment Ohio Volunteers. These number each jess three hundred men, and com pose & part of Streight’s brigade. declaration the Kightioth regiment Illinois Volunteers, and fifty-cigit members of the First Tennessee cavalry,” The enlisted men alone, designated in either one of the communications, exceeded the “balance” due to Licu- The excess in both communica- tions was 2,290, without taking into account ‘the ab Mount Sterling on the 22d and 23d of Mai 1 will furnish 1 will add to the above T quote from your letter of that the cage, but he made a exchange of the Mount Sterling — cap- by a simple refereuco to it as being yn Myself and the It is a mat- 0 ‘The opinion ofsuch, even if uttered in tho language of courtesy, is but of ttle avail, but if expressed with intemperance, ? ‘There has been no breach of faith on the part of the Confederate States, ‘deliberate’ or otherwise You were importuned to agree to some fair principle by which paroles could be adjusted and 4fter patient waiting—after failure on part to respond affirmatively or negatively—the Confede- through its agent of exchange, ald i by courtesy, and justified both by Point are ex- Major Mul- fact. Ali Confederate roldiers who were delivered at City Point up to May 23, 1863, including said date, were declared excuanged by Lioutenant Colonel Ludlow, while tie federal troops were only exchanged 1°63, The number of Confederate soldiers, rednced to privates, delivered Point trom May 2% to July 25 (the date named in my i 5,881, instead of 8,014, rolls show this very clearly. Of the federal troop there are seventy six officers acd eighty three mon, If those delivered at City Point, you make an error ourself, They nave been exchanged. From the last exchange Der, 1863 (tho time named ip your notice), 1 bave delivered at City Point al eighteen thousand six hundred and ten. hese are on parole. I bave other ‘nfl staan poasession, amounting to at loart sixteco Allow iug, therefore, correct, you Owe me, upon the last notice published, more than seven owing you Many of tht ferred have at 8 OD ninvtesn these officers are thousand, of my ten and twenty-four, as you claim. sixteen thousand paroles to which I have re- deen acknowledged by Lieutenant Colonel Ludiow in bis correspondence. 80 much as to putation and your exchange notice based upon it, 2. You say I failed to announce to you ‘the sixth sec. tion of my exchange notice, ag published in the Rich- mond Enquir-r of the 10th inst., which covers 72 officers .”” This isnot so. On the Ist of Augnst jast T informed you in writing that i bad de- clared exchanged all Con‘ederate delivered nt City P ries were made ‘25, and, therefc the other. City Pe cause soldiers who had been ntup to July 20, 1853. No delive City Potut between July 20 and July uncement was the sane a3 1 did Bot inform you of the exchange of the it men in my letter of the 11th September, be- had already notified you on the Ist of August, 3. You say I did not furnish you with any list, or even the number of men, by which you ovuld declare lents, nor did T give you any time t You were furnished with paroled men delivered at City Point, numbering up to As to other parcels held b; ms, yeu fnjled to'necept or decline the terms upon whici they were to be commuted and adj it was weeless to send them. You had duplicates of many of them in your possession. If there was any parucular capture on parole, or any cial class of paroled men whom you wisbed to do- are exchanged, you had only to announce that fact and the lists would be furnished if I bad them and With what propriety could I send you which i believed to be in accordance with the carte!, but which you intimated you would decline to acknowledge? Moreover, according to my interpretation of the cartel, that instrument very clearly gives the right to you to se ofiicers aod men shali be relieved from — parole, whonever | discharge our officers and men row U T claim the same ri te pated: and, therefore, ad or ought to have ht when you deciare an exchange of T bad sent you lists of sach of your n as were relieved from their parole by my of exchange, I would, in effect, have vivlated that provision of the cartel which gives the right to*each rty to relieve from parole si And men ns the party may choose. nei of their own officers It was entirely un- sary for me to give you the number of men whom notice declared exchanged, They were all Vicksburg captures owt ity Point deliveries, You had the rolis of in your possession as much information 4s i could communicate, even if 1 had held the Vicksburg rolis, whieh ald not. Tbave already proved to the record Uhat the former federal agent, when he declared exch»ayes, gave uoithor I'ste bor the mumber of men. however, A more recent caso. You yourself have f ta cwceping exchange. You bave not furnished me with any liste or designation of corps, division, bri egiment of company, notwithstanding the elnmor ve raived about my Smission in those particulars. jection 48 to want of time for the jon of Your AbLouscemest is a small one at best. Rot make it incumbent upon me to give you time. Your deceswor did not give it to me. The corres) wever, Derween us, before the 12th of September, a8 miust have prevented a surprise. 1 did not make any such agreement with your le you state, nor did | over ‘hich 1 renounced ren at Gettysburg. ‘The cartel does It bears date August 1, i Willian volonel, ‘thal deciaret le which had been adopted by the ta entirely ris G ang 100, iamued at Washi first not HEALY, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1863—TRIPLE SHEET. Sener sn a 1863, should be placed on duty without exchange, OF be mnetiee Poveatnl 8 of Affairs ou the Rapidan, | to strengthen Correspoudeuce as 3 general order required the latter, but the court EAR ine Ravwan, Och. 7, ‘They have been compclled to strip Meade tw that point nd that the government was free to place those ‘Tho removal of a large boty of infantry, amounting to Raa plans. om ‘on the defensive, and put him upon a re- on duty without exchange The reason | WO corps, from Moado’s army to the Western theatre of recognized. It ta true that Iwas informed that certaim | Mand are makiug preparationgfor a long march. They | great armica the same instrument, that the paroled officer? must re Nocturnal raids to the rear of the Yankeo lines is be- | meat and fourth? His prosent soldiers wore enlisted for ura into captivity if his pardle wes not approved. In | coming quite fashionable now. Scarcely a vight passes | three years, and the three years will expire next eg Other words, on that (May 23, 1863,) Lieutenant Col | bul what & Yankce picket is killed or captured, He has long ceased to obtain troopa from volunteering, Ludlow, with little or no comment, delivered to me (ion. Last night ® purty, consisting of meu from Jonea’ | even under the seduction of grout bounties. He bas tried eral No, 10) a8 thé rules adopted for the government of | brigade, captured six prisoners and tweuy-two horsee, | the draft, aud it te pronounced a failure. The bag the federal army. | never had any intimation that al! the ng One and wound:ng two Yankees. short, is showing great signs of exhaustion. Lincola provisions of General Order No, 100 did not continue ia Letters found upon tho person of one of the prisonars, of | got his last army, and It is not likely be can hold that ba- force, until Lreceived, on the Sth of July, 1803, the fol- | Gate the 7th October, corrovorate the statement of tho | Yond its term of ‘eniistment. The negroes avd conscript lowing lotier from Lie‘itewaat Colonel Ludlow — Prisouers that Kilpatrick's command is going soon to | Substitutes aro otherwise his aolo and slim relianoe. Font Moxnox, Juiy 7, 1863 | Tedueasee. ‘The writer of the same also alluded toa divi- | | The Confoderate States havo beon the weaker but Hon. Ronrrt Ourn, Agent for Exchange of Prisoners: — sion review of Kilpatrick's commaad, which ocourred on | the more resolute Power in this contest, We jix—I herewith enclose Wo you & capy of Geueral Order | tho Sth. ave been the more resolute because of the groat- No. 297, which conta ns some’ additional provistons to those ‘The frequent incursions which our mea now make,un- | Of stake we have had in issue. ‘iho Yankocs mentioned in ply Communication to you of the 42d May last, | dor cover of might, ito the enemy’s camps, are having @ | have fought for advantage—we have fought for tetecsbs haens bene a touine rnited Siates and Con’ | good effect. Our dismouuted men are in this way mount- | life. Thoy can slop when they chooss—we cannot. tid released prawugrat bf auieats anew and places, varcind | ‘ing themselves, while the enemy aro suffering (rom a con- | We have thus moro than mado up for inferior numbers cartel Boquent state of demoralix: and numerous other disadvantages. It was natural that ‘The government of the United States will not recognize It ta said tht they are afraid Lo go to water thoir horacs | the North, fighting voluntarily, would break down soonor and not expect the Confederate authorities to recognize | without taking their arms with them. than we, fighting trom the compulsion of self-defence such unauthorized paroles, Prisoners released on parole Y Yostordyy, three armed Yankees wore captured b: and ever animated even to the exertions ot despair by (he 28d SE May, will Bol be taeue ded aay notice to you of the | cornfield guard of ono man, right Adjinie Uwe origade | vengotul threats of our fosn te mesnias bon and strike will not be exchanged. p eocampments. They had been three days wandering loat | hard, and strike with alt our might; our Qeliverance draws Where prisoners of war bave been released without the | Within our lines. migh. delivery specified in the cartel, mince the 22d of May last, wuch release will be regarded ‘as unconditional, and the Operati im the Southwest. Affairs at Mobile. : prisoners Telemed i} ausect , orders without ae ¢. | (From the correspondence of the Richmond Whig, Oct. 4.) MoutLs, Oct, 12, 1863 clita atten ae re , Barone ANOOGA, Oot. 6—Monday,, A. M. ‘Tho steamor Mary Wilson, connocted with the Mobile Your correspondent bas evidently arrived hero “}i and Great Northern Railroad, was burned on Sunday. Lieut, Colonel, and Agent fof ins Ma Priscuers. in timo”—not porhaps to geo anotiicr great battle, tat About seventy lives wero lost. Toe mails, freight and ‘The “notice” referred to in Lieutenant Colonel Lud- | Witness movements that may, by the blessing of God, | steamboat aro a total loss. low’a letter was the delivery of General Oraer No. 100, redound as much to our glory and succoss as if thoy were Mone, Oct. 14, 1863 santa i pnp so argh ome ges | eS a ek paca ac ee, | mikes a et i and te el 5 for defence, : , ‘by the provisions of Ore fo. 207, which boars m~ lied in its iy ondy ty that of , ie) rans, | &t her by the blockaders, Sho sustained no injury, and Auoriton of the pixotos of Buaag and alouie vo te court | The gamo of battle, aheroforo played for upon a | 18 ow pate withia the bay. Of inquiry, two days aftor its finding, and novoral days | thoatre whero tho antagonists aro well matched. | Who- ; : ater our captures in the Gettyal Campaign. On tI 3 shall < lly deolded by the follor the brXcd- Nows from Charleston. th of July , 1803, Tieutoonat Colood Ludlow substantially | word noe oven ene Bragg can sufficiently peaetrate ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER BGAUREGARD. informs me that al he notifled me on tho 22d of | ‘he future to foretell. ‘The Charleston Mercury an} May that paragraph 131 of jor No. 100 was to | Thoro are ‘ow maps accessible tothe public which gives | The steamer Beauregard, Captain Lyons, baa arrivod be and continue in eon: — git ike i tenet one a correct idea of the topography of tho locality, and | gafoly in a Confoderats port. xi of the caso, and in view of what had taken place in Mai Tthero-ore hazard a briel pen and ink sketch to All tho | This was tho language furmorly wacd by the Charleston May, and Genoral Order No. 207, although it was issued | {t should be called a mountaiv, for at intervals it at- July’3, 1868, should be construed as bearing date the 22d | tains @ height of three hundred feet, and presents a SH, NIG RABBLE GUN AT CHARLESTON, of May procodin, ne steep, stony, jagged, wooded declivity on either aldo, | The csrrespondent of the Augusta Chronicle and Senti- It will Say that Lioutenant Colonel Ludiow, in | Which ronderd ascent almost impossible, except where | Mel, writing trom Charleston under date of the 6th ist, his letter to me of the 7th of July, nowhere says i had | $e winding roads cut for army purposes have removed | S878 — a mado any agreement with him, and yot it boars tho rame | ‘ho greatest obstacies, This ridge runs in x southwest T think the two hundred pound balls now thrown at ol date as Ks letter to Colonel Kelton. “tt is. apparent on the | of'y directionn until it unites at MoLempre’s Cove—say | Sumter sorve rather to strevgthen than weaken, Tho face of the paper that he ia conveying tome certain in. | twenty to twenty-five miles below uawhere it forms | Vast amount of debris strown around that fortress will be, formation for tho first time, abd toate this information 18 | AB acute wngle with another sitnilar ridge, which I can by the woight and force of the alot, pulverised and solld- the “-additioual provisions’” of General Order No. 207, one | best designate as the riage of Lookout Mountains, since | ied as a sequence, more strong and less dangerous than of which set aside paragraph 131 of Gonoral Orders ‘No, | the Jatter is the name ef the poak which terminates the when simply in a crumbled state, " 3 100. The court of inquiry, In ite Guding (sce Army and | TADEe, and overshadows, as it were, (he plains of Chatta. | Our big gan, No. 2, was Brought to trial last evening, Navy Oficial Gazete, July 14, 1863,) says I was novi. | 200g. Tho Missionary Ridge and Lookout Ridgo thus | 4nd, whatis better, without mishap, firing progressively fled, &c. Lieutenant ‘Colonel Ludio m4 his letter to | FU0 nearly parallel with cach other, separated only by a | With thirty-five, forty, forty-Ave and fifty pound car- Colonel Kelton, saya it was distinctly understood between | Valley some threo or four miles in breadth. The latter | tridges Do not know the place of destiation, but hope Mr. Ould and mysoif, &c. You, in your letter of tho 2ith | Partakes of the general feature of tho surrounding coun | £0 See it Boon in position aud rew.'y to burl destruction on of Soptember; say I made an agrcoment with your predo- | UY, boing broken Into buinps, rocky emineuces, ravines, | the foe whenover be may think proper to advance. My cessor. ‘The hotification first rises to an understanding, | Woded hill tops and lowly vales, with hore and there an | impresaian now, from appearances and accumulated and is then cleyated into an ‘agreement. What further | intersecting ribbon of water. Tho nearest stream to us facts, 1s, toat the enemy's land and naval forces will Promotion it will receive remains to be seen, is called tho Chattanooga creck, and is vn the loft of the | Move against us ia less thay a week's time, Wo are You havo chirsed a deliberate broach of good faith | Army line, running towards the Tennessee. The Chicka. | ready upon the part of the Confederate States. Tet me bring | mauga is of much more respectable dimensions, and REVIEW OF REBEL TROOPS ON JAMES ISLAND. to your attention an incident connected with this matter | emptics :nto the Teanessee about six miles on our right (Telegraphic despatch to the Richmond Sentinel. } of roloase from paroles. On March 9, 1863, Goneral Schonck, | _ TWF? vour attention now to our front. Glance across to Cuarteston , Oct. 16, 1863. of immortal memory, issued a General Ordgg No. 15, re. | Lookout Point, which rears ita lofty head until it oxtchos Goneral Beauregard, accompanied by Gener! Pierro quiring all officers and men who had been Pe tured ‘ana | the shadows of the ciouds At its base commences tho | Soule and stall, reviewed the troops of General Taliaferro’s ‘led in hig department, ad. particularly in the She- | broad open basin, on whose rugged surface two armios | division on James Island this morning. ‘The display, was handoah valley, but who bad not been exchanged, toro. | 20W rest in battie array. At this point yon cannot see | magnificent, and tho treops prosonted an ina ‘ap turn to duty 90’ poualty of being considered desertors. | tho Tennessce, which runs near its base; but from the rance. The length of tho line was about three miles. Your Gonoval Oniet No 40 fa forse at thar tines Fobra. | line Of green that marks the river bank you have some | The bavnersof many of the rogiments were inscribed with ary 23, 1863—in section eight, provided that if the on. | Ides of tho serpontine.curves which adds much to the | the names of batties in which they bad been engaged, gigemoat which a prisoner walle was not approves by | Picturesque beauty of the locality. Our batteries are firing about as usual to-day, the enemy Fis government, holwas bound to retare ant surrender | . Stfetching across the broadest of theso water out'ines | making no roply. It is rumored that, the Yankeos have nimsoie ‘as @ prisoner of war. ‘Tbe samo General | {fom shore to shore, in the form of a crescent, with tho | rofused the Frenchy vessels outside permission to com- Order—No. 49—in the same section oight, uses these | CoDvexity towards us, is the front luo o! the tederal | municate. memorable words, which Tow set up agalish your pro- | Srmy. Tebind this, cdacealed by a hill and foliage, is the sent oxtraordinary claims, to wit:—“ His own govern- | City of Chattanooga, portions of tho suburbs only being From Norther ment cannot at the same time disown his engagement and | Visible, On the right of the town the view of the Ten- | FIGHT WITH JOE JOHNSTON refuse his return as a prisoner.” In spite of those bonest | 202800 is distinct and unobstructed and the enemy aro OONSE3SE3. TO CONSIDERABLE words, General Schonck issued bis order, which to this | Plainly visible crossing and recrossing on # pon DESPATCH OF THE AFFAIR, day has not been countormanded, in effect’ directing not | bridge. Another similar structure ig in the roar of the Mermian, Oct. 15, 1863. only that such ag wore captured aud paroled after March | City aud out of sight. Behind this picture loo To Genoral 8. Coorer:— 9, 1863, should return to duty, but also all who had been | 0000 background of mountains whose umbrageo ‘Tho following dospatch has been recoived, dated Ox captured and paroled under the circumstances namod, | Present to view au unbroken density of forest. ford, 14tn:— since the beginning of hostilities, on penalty of being | 00 the opposite borders of the river there is a narrow Eleven regiments of cavalry, with nine pieces of artil cousidered |. At that very time and after- f oggos ground, gently d.scending from the mountains. | iery, pursued us. We sfirmished with shem all the way, wards, evon to ag late as Stonoman’s raid, the for ia is covered with federal tents, in numbers sufficieut | fought them for four hours near Babalia, end again at the mer gent of exchange was charging against me | indicate the presence there of strong reserves. Tho | river, where they wore repulsed and xetired, after buru- and receiving credit for captures and paroles | main body of the enemy, however, appear to bo on this | ing Wyatt. Our loss is considerable, but the number is similar to those repudiated by Schenck’ or. | #ido of tho river, their encompmenta boing alligued in the | not kaown on account of so much atrageling. We eavod der, It is due to Lioutenant 1 Ludlow that | direction of the intrenchments, Those are Continuoua, | ur grain and captured property. J. E. JOHNSTON. T should gay that, when the matter was brought to his at. | nd connected by three o: four very strong fortillcations, ae arabe lared benck’ originally built by us and enlarg: ry tne fedorals. 1 tention, ‘he declared that Sebenck’s action was without | irifor aro planted on belgbts, In such inapner that each | Successful Biockadt Hensing inte Wit- ity under the order, Still the order waa | commands the other, and are in turn protected or covered Troma ihé Ticheneta Sentinel: Oct. 17 ’ ‘but, on the contrary, has been fol- | by other works of a Ginlar charactor on still higher olo-'| gy, .,lprom, the Richmond Sentinel, Ook: 17.) lowed and sustained by General Urder No. 207. I havo re- | vations in the rear. AL some portions of the front, we oe eae Donne oe ‘Sener’ know that the enemy have three lives of works, bul eee ne roto yacen ts have reported under | (ther points there appear to be only ove or two, om Bermuda. ‘Her. cargo coosiats of clothes, blankets in your lottor of 24th of Soptoimber, and others, youre | . As you may imaginefrom this descrintion, roughly as | Bd shoes for the North Carolina troops: and cotton an for, ia connection with our Gettysburg captures, to “«pa- | itis drawn, the scene before us is strikingly graud and | Wool cards, to be (urn! people at ogat, roles not in accordance with the cartel.” The phrase fig- | suggestive. The mountains, the river, the two armies emer ures not only in your gorrespondence, but in the findings | like wary ti ‘8 couched for @ fresh attack, the move- Soathern Harv: of your courts, and ‘in some of your general orders, | ments of individuals in the federal line, the grouping of From the Richmond Sentin oe eeetee eee mone fordel reer, ‘assure | vents and men, the movements of bodies of the enemy, | A gentleman just from Groene county, Ga., informs the ‘that. the Confederate ernment considers 18, the ever changing trains of | Macon Confederate that tue harvest o: corn is amazing in The cartel to be binding, and imperative to. the | Wagous, the lazy attitudes of the pickets, the ocessiona! | its quantity. The thing ef one planter Is ten thousand fullest extent of any amd all of ite provisions. 1 | Spirts of smoke from riflea, and the sbarp twang that Dusbols, and another ‘expected to gather one hundred havo never asked you bo respect parole which is incon | floats on to our eara, tho music of bands and drum corps, | thousand bushels. Peas are in wonderful quantities, and sistent with that instrament. You say the Gettysburg | the mio; smoke of the camp Gres of the two armies | sweet potatocs encumber the ground. i’eanuts are alike paroles are in contravention of the cartel. Lot me give | rising and drifting upward in ® single cloud, the clear | abundant. This is good ews. We sball need some of you some of them—all or nearly all of (hem beiong to one | Sunsbine, the mountain shadows, aud. the ten thousand | this corn in Virginia de the other class: Gotails that might be mentivaed, all go to make up | | We understand thet the corn erop in Alabame is the - | a pictureof life, beauty and excitement such as this conti- | most abundant which bas been gathored in that State for ET heey Tecot bet wohake nent never bofore presented to human coutemplation, sevoral yoars past. A private letter has boen received ia petite a 60 ore, ‘tho qitiet of the past week has been varied by a | this city from a gentleman residing in Alnxbama, in which be prejudi commenced about ten o'clock this morn- | the writer sta\os that his crop has moro than realized his noy, if noe for purposes | most ardent expectations. Ho will have a surplus over y fire like ourselves, | his actual wants of tea thousand bushels. it. 15.) Sut ke thorsdsives they shail be recorded; but it (¢ not ths pare PARSOD: he s i pat tt it noe, te er Personal Inteiligence. First Lieut. and Adjutant ine Fecsayfeas. Vi of any writer to anticipate events or speculate upon mat: | Aion, Thomas S. Hocock, Speaker of the House of Repre- prisoner becriber, war, red near Get. | tors prognant with vital lasues before they can be safely | sentatives of the Confederate States, is ou a visit to this 39 of honor not to take up arms | mentioned. : city, is looking tu fine hoalth. ry ae © op rate ~ ites or to ye ee Another feature observab!o to-day, for the first time, ia whatever, formation, d 4 van, $e oe cee gr rise in the Tennessee river. The pontoon an apparent ne ented tee rennnke’: | bridge belore referred to, which was two days azo two . feet above the surface of tho waler, has now one end ‘ preys the yp he bumanit ROY NK. totally submerged, #0 that passers are compeliod to halt ACTING BRIGADIEN GEN MALLON. Goional One Peni Vole. | on ono sido fod oli up thts breeches. Whather the bridge | | Thus chivalrous young oMoer, wh> was Kiled in the inet say | bas sunk or the river hes risen { will not undertake to | Aght at Bristoe Station last Wedoesday, was a native of she gus mines peaked Batt Martial rea | fy. 190ithor caso fertility of the enemy will sou fied | Booyiyn, and was ouly lito moro than twenty-seven dance: ‘carte! rem for evil, an ir transportaation from the x ate bie yg sondtyeqa ig DOeeet gp een cea sili iad years of age at the time of his death. Hoe was formerly ile Throughout the army the impresssion prevaila that | jn the wholesale produce commission business in this Pa., are parol - | Rosecrans will not evacuate Chattsnooga unless forced to | ; % “Not io take up arms against do so, and relying upon bis strong position--his fortified | it, snd waa wel! known and hizbly esteomed on ‘Change. Be ate uty dient torte, sata until sogaiaehy | Wills aut earthworks—ratber courts than avoids attack, | He went to Washington ip Apri!, 1861, a8 a private in the Cronauged: this paroe is unconditional, cand if not erecag- | Our mon will go anywhere if so ordered, and they wili | racks of Captwia W. H. Ribblot’s company of the nized by the ‘authorities of the United’ Bates government, | carry ay position held by their adversary, but whether | seveuth regiment, Now York state National d. He all le "ge themselves to repair to daa prisoners of | the goin of positiin wil compensate for tho loss ot life | subsequently ited tho Mo-art regiment, con ‘at the expiration of twenty days from thisate. fucis@st to a victory, 18 @ question that may well be | Colonel Keiliey bis Ueothoc i Ine, heiding Does the cartel contempiate that these officers and men | w jm the balance. You may depend wpon it, how- | mand the rank of first lieutonant,’ He serve with the should be returned to duty without exchange’ 11 n0 | ever, that Rosecrans will not be allowed to remain undis- | Army of the Potomac through all its exmpalns. On the where _ 80 upon its face, When we were without any | turbed in has present position, peninsula he was acing assistant adjutant general on the cartel, all such paroles, aii, in fact, all military paroles, | The army is to admirable condition--full of enthusinam | Siarof General Kearue Ile wos uext transferred aud were respected. The live Yo the greatuoss Of the exigency, and well worthy | promoted to the majority of the Tammany regiment, @Ho change was to adjust of the hopes and prayers of the people for whom they re | acted ag Acting Assistant Provost Marenai Ganeral and men who bad been ca #0 gallantly contending Hood, [ leara, is slowly improv. | ¢5 Hooker's grand, divieion when. General Burn cartel was signod, If tt had been intended by the cartel | ing—but his condition is still crisical. Weathor cold, aud | 49 was ia chic’ ‘command, aud at a Inter period to repudiate such paroles as were given at Gettys- | on the ridge especially, a man feels like anything but | held tue same position in cobnection with -hy Se-ond burg, or upon any battle field, a provision to that effect, in | *+Missionary.”” corps. On the death of Colonel Charles, biajor Mallon distinet terms, would bave been incorporated in tt. That | P. 8.—I learn from one of our generals that Whecler has | Wag promoted to the coloneley of the Forty-second New instrument was intended to apply to ‘al! prisoners of war | burnt a train of five hundred wazous ia Sequatchie valley, | York Voluutuors, tor which he was urgently pressed by held by either party,” to sugh as were ia military depots | the enemy's rear. An officer. recen arrived bere. re | Generals Hooker, Hancock and Hays. He 4 com. oF prisoas, to such as bad been removed from the battle | ports that he beard cannonading in that direction, amd a | mand of the fosiment. at ttle of Gettys field or place of capture, and reduced into actual pos: | fight has donbtloss t ken piace Dueg. He had been recently i city to procire session. It left tho force and effect of military paroles and ‘The statement is veribied by one of the federal pickets | roinforcements of couscripts for his decimated tho respect which should be paid to them, to be deter- | on the river, who shouted across to one of the Confede- | Cormmand. In the flbt of the Locond corps at Briese mined by the usages of civilized nations of modern times. | rates, “Look bore, Confed, your d——d cavairy has been | Srition General bialion had command of the Third bri. Itcertainly did not purpose to prevent a wounded officer | upsetting our wagon trains. Are you going to starvqus | page oi the Second division, Ai (he head of his brigade, or man from entering into a stipulation not to take up | out,” # ini the face of the enemy, be received a f shot im the arms until exchanged, as the condition of bis re- ‘The Marion Visitor says the Sixty-third Virginia rogl- | stomach, and was a corpse aif au hour. He ‘el! at lease. when bis lifo would be at the serious risk of | ment entered the fight at Chickainauga with one hundred | iho post of honor and in defence of ® country whose {f he did not make the contract. Nor vices it any | and seventy-five men, and came out with a loss of seven- | nonin cause was mat dear to him. He was ah accom where deny the right of any soldier, wounded of not, to | teen killed and forty wounded. A number of the wounded | Hiished geatloman and a most efficent oillcer. Dind his government by his military obligation when be | have since died Captain 8. E. Suodgras:, of Washington | P'iii.' remains reached Jersey City early ou Monday morn 1s in tho hands of tho enemy. The ‘lattor part of article | county, was killed, and Captain Joho Oury and Captain | jpg and were conveyed to tho roaidence of his aMlictog seven does not really coutrovert this view. That clause | Hampton were severely wounded. é fatuljy, in Little Water street, Brooklyn. ‘The funeral intended to give “the commanders of two opposing (From the Savannal Republican} will take place to-day. armies” the power of declaring an exchange of prisoners, WHY ORNERAL POLK'S DELAY. Lieutenant Thomas Mation, brother of the General, was with the further right of paroling whatever surplus A friend recently from Upper Georgia informs us that | padiy wounved in the battle of Gettysburg, and is still in there might be after the exchange was arranged. With: | tho roason of General Polk's failuro to carry out the order | very feobie health. out such clause, the two commanders would have no | to renew the battle of Chickamauga by daylight, was bis | " General Mallon leaves @ wife and two very young chil right to declare an exchange. It was therefore inserted. | inability to flod his aids, in order to circulate the nec*s- | dron to bewall him. His mother is also living. These Until recently nobody ever pretended that the cartel | sary orders among his be ie first assistant was | ajicted relatives will bave tho cordial sympathy of the forbid tho giv! and reciving of ordinary military | sent for, but could not be . A second and third | pumerous friends of the gallant fellow, thus early in life paroles, The uniform practco under tho carte! tor nearly | were also misaing, and when he came up with the fourth | strickon to the earth. year sanctioned them. Whatevor, however, may be | It was near tou C'clck instead of “-daylight.””. If this be int SAREON damp; eee) neti the deterinination as to this matter, It is eutiraly cleat | true, the names of the delinquent officers should be beld | THE LATR COLON sa that at the fime tho Gettysburg paroles were given your | up fur pabite condemnation. Such culpable remusness is COMMON COUNCIL. own Ey _ pe hong the parole Mee foo not to be overio ked. sal bd te ‘vhe remains of the late Colone! James ©. Motion, of the roved the party should return to ovr joes. Many of the ‘Some reports sa} at sevon o'clock in the moruing , 4 7 Paroles ind.cate on thoir face that ui rereona’ giving General Polk wos nA himself out of bed | Forty-fourth (Tammany) rogtimont, of New York, ar them were aware of that fact. | have thorefore demand: rived in this city on Mouday in charye of his brother, ed that if you raject those paroles the partics who gave Rebel Prospects of the Campaign. Lieutenant Thomas Mallon, and taken to the residence of them sbould ‘be returned tous. The question pawen es m the Richmond Whig, Oct. rr] } . his family, if Little Water stree,. Colote! Mallon was an f# not so much whether you wil! regard these paroles as As the ing season of the third year of tho war | acting brigadier general at the recent battle of Bristoe iber ou will eomrly witb a rule of your | approaches tes ten, toe princi pat omg the enemy, | Station, Va., where he }st his lite, At the meeting of pte bar ‘hich was advertised to us as being the | bruised, bleeding and alarmed, is ongeged with ali ite | the Common Council Inst evening, Alderman Strong ni- controlling law of the case. might digging into the earth for safety. The second | luded to the services deconsed had rendered to bis coun. I know not what you mean by your reference on yout.| largost force, the once Grand Army of the Potomac, ia | try in terms of deserved praise, and oilered the following third page to article four of the cartol. All tho fleeing before the advancing corps of General Lee. The | resolutions, which were uuantuious'y ad pled — and men whom { declared oxcbanged wero ‘actually re: | third, under Banks, a portion of which has just been so Whereas, it has come ta the Knowledge of the Common ne: Allon, stored to our lines’ All the officers and men whom {| yerely chastised by @ bandful of men, is vaguely and | Council that Acting ral James Fequested you to select as oyuivalents for thom in thee: feebiy attorpuing some ‘movement ‘galost Texas,” The Sree ei ees Clarapnasen 0s, tapeion Seaton. Voy change ‘bind been restored to your lines.”” fou under Grant, has ceased to bo an army of of | during the recut to make public acknowledenent The parties whom I have declared exchanged have not | fence. | The fifth, under Gillmore, with a number of iron- ‘deceased boon “returned to thelr paroles, as requested, by Liou: | clads to aid bim, Inys futile sige to Charleston, No. | St,theservices of, the rareaneginet reer tenant Colonel Indiow.” I do not understand by what | where lee bave ‘they anything more than garrisons by ‘That in the death of Acting fort of reading Of the exchange notice of thé 19th of | or raiding forces, at ail pols the Confederate Jomo 5 our country has lost September you make out that only “two officers’ (Gene | forces are oble tn defy them. A fow wooks now and | brave soldier, 8 food, lovat cit a Stovenson and Bowen) wero exchanged. My let- | all fighting dependent on marching @d manauvering | Spirit, Of pairiotem, y -* B- f.-4-~ tors of July 13, September 11 wed September 26 will I will be at an end tih the middle of next erring. ‘By that word, he won his way. stop by step, to the prov 4 post the Vicksburg priscours, officers and men, | time all the trained and seanoned troops of the enemy he ro nobly filled when death claimed him from us. deciared exchanged will have so nearly completed their term of enlistment, | Who shall say that merit bath not its reward? For bis coun pa. objection to the declaration of the exchange of it no valuable service can be got out of them. try’a cause he hath iaid down his life. Hiscountey will al officers gener! paroled at Vicksburg, because there onary substitutes will be the ooly | bopor his memory, . were no equivalents of same grade, i exploded by the cat Yankee nation, to fight their battles. | , Resolved. That to bx bereaved widow we oniead our wy ut at ber. Je ore the Provision of the cartel which declares that +‘men and | These fact: press upon the attention :f the Wasbing- | privil of miugiing oar ‘einer re regrets ber deepest officers of lower grades may be exchanged for offeors of | ton Congrees thin winter—a Congrosa, most of whom are Girone over ‘the hero's grave nig ‘higher grade," belie de Lostile to the war, They will ee the meres Resoived. That this Common Counell wilt attend the fo- pa a Feo: tho items of your letter of | sity of denitng means to er ne armies, or of taking | nei aes Aor that ° Pte day we ate. rogrot ‘extreme jength of the * steps to bring alouta peace, 1 jormer seems ta layed mash, . Ihave, however, ovafiood myrelt tone inser Of tani | hopeless wdertik ig! The alternative wil present many eer on ae ee ee ee A Copy Of thes@reselu tons, suitably en- anted, whall be went to the damily of do- letter, atd to auch rubjects as were diroctiy connected |, Ospeciully in view of the approaching election with [ts contents. Mm a future communieation Lwitieall | of Presi and it is far from imp that it may bo to your attention the instances of the violation of the ear: | accepted. We may indulge this hope without relaxing | coased. tol by So pat author ition, Notw ithetanding the ex. | vigilance or exertion, {tr Dears oe AKER ERLE. e? sudden rd for that instrament, 1 “aie: be 0 . ¥@ continued those Violations from its The announcement of the death of A moment Bi this morning awakens Kindly recolicet| of one who ory force han be- | ta life was all kindness.and whose circle of friendship about firty-f , Reneselaer 3 H: be = now inform )ou, im view of the recent declaration of exchange made by Fou, coapied with your failure ether to agree to or decline le ty you om the of our people aro | taking eucouragement from it. Tims was that Qeeccay ly ‘Bch of August Inst, in in Lo paroles, Ud the Com | go far outwumbered us at ai) points that we couid only federate auth rites wil consider them-eves entirel: ‘app cach bis —G at any by 8 chcent tha iberty 10 pursue ANY COUrEE AS Lo eXchange OF Par which would exn<e the abandonment of come oche: pal. | ich they may deem wight and proper uudor all their. tioa, “Thus we bad to abandon the valley to Patierson | Cumetances of the case. At the same time, fam directed — and to Fremont wen wo fought the first Macasass ant {0 OXpress their entire Wilingness to ACopt any fein, peat | Eves after thus eoocoa and reciprocal rulo in reiation to those aubjeris, withoat i paring furces. any delay. Respectfully, your obedient servant, 1 Jorger thas full handed of soktiers ROBT OULD, agent -¥ Exchange. 4 10 which they are Bow rodnoed to order { culterad Society , and was wet usotul apd actye tn Rosecrans. wired (© return © the enemy as prisoners of war. of (the Richmoud an many minor positions, or gredtty reducing Cran or) given by the court was, not that the federal agevt | 804100, ts conirmed by the statements of Yaukee | Such is the condition to which the in Power Gods aud myself had agreed’ to regard euch paroics aa | prisoners. , Some who wore captured last night by @ party | itself now reduced. It deoms itself happy if it can main- tovaitd, but Gat Lhad been notified they would not bo | from Jones’ brigato, stato that General Kilpatrick's com. | tain an even fight, in Virginia and in Tuaneasee, whore the move. paroies would pot be considered as valid, but | was also | *4y that the general impression is that this command wi! If such be our enemy's condition now, at the close of botitied at the same time, by the same hand and through | 9 1 Texnessee the third campaign, what wild it be at the beginning of the ee just made her third trip be Wilmington] operators had come to the conclusion that ‘How is it, Br General, that you and 1 ditior if ‘hat has become of your free soli’ ree foil?” auld the Princo; *that is al! right; I kop it in & box.” Genoral Yi was & man of true courage, of much heart, snd of more than ordinary twent. He bad bis foibles, but these were dimmed by. Many mont excel lent and commanding traits of character. By the older members of the bar be will be romembored’as their com ocr and associate. by the younger ones as tbe ret encourage aud cheer them fn their-elforts. Gr bis memory. FINANC AL AND COMMERCIAL. Turspay, Oct. 20—6 P. M. The money market is without change, notwith- standing the large accumulation of money in the Bub-Treasury. At six per cent brokers in good credit get all they want; some lenders who tried pretty hard to-day to place all their money at seven found it impossible to do 80 on satisiectéry security. Speculators are paying seven per cent, and some of them, who are not able to give 20 a 26 per cent margin, find the market active enowgh. | When the Secretary of the Treasury céased ixsu- ing legal tenders some months ago, there were $35,000,000 of these notes in the hands of the en gravers in varioas stages of completion. Séme time ago the order was given to finish them, and they are*® now being forwarded to Washington at the rate of a million or two per day to be registered and paid out to the creditors of government, The government in getting money so rapidly under the recent nego- tiations of Treasury notes and from the subacrip- tions for 5-20 bonds, that some heavy payments have been and are about to be made to depositors on call, and the prospect is that the total disburse: ments during the next ten or fifteen days will be the heaviest ever made since the war began. Gold has not been active to-day. ‘The price has ranged from 149 to 150; at the close it droppea to 147%. Exchange is very duil. We quote bankers? sterling at 164 a 165, with few transac- tions. No epggic export of consequence is looke? for to-morrow, and less confidence is expressed in the advance of gold than was the case before the positions of Meade and Rosecrans were understood and the elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania had taken place. A change came over the stock market to-day— greater, in reality, than the mere quotations reveal. For a fortnight or more the great operators have been letting the market take care of itself. A few have been selling stocks short; but the bulk of them bave been content to stand aloof, in the hope that stocks, thus left in weak Hands, would gradu- ally settle down, and enable the leviathans of the market to joad up anew at lower figures, This calculation has been realized to a moderate ex tent. Stocks have settled down somewhat, but not as much as was hoped. Meanwhile the volume of money has been steadily increasing, railway traffic has continued to devélop, public con- fidence in railway property has continued to gain strength, and all the influences which have carried railway stocks to their present prices have continued to operate. To-day it looked as though some gt least of the great these causes would lead to another speculative movement, with or without their assistance, and, somewhat tired of inaction, had begun again to'lay in parcels of stocks. This was especially the case with Pittsburg, which suld at the first board at 104 against 101 yesterday; New York Central, which rose 2 per cent at the same board, and Erie, which rose 1 per cent. Harlem, which is the most lively fancy of the day, sold at 75 be- fore the board, at 81 at the board, and at 86 imme- diately afterward—the advance of ‘ll per cent being simultaneous with the announcement that | Judge Hogeboom had decided the Broadway Rail- road case against the company. Most brokers are sick of dealing in this stock, and decline to receive orders to buy or sell it, . A meeting of the direc- tors is called for to-morrow, to determine a course of action. Cumberland ros: 14% per cent on the belief that Lee will attempt no raid into Maryland. Hudson also advanced 1 per cent and Fort Wayne 1, The greatest advance of the morning was, how- ever, in guaranteed, which rose 10 per cent. This sharp advance has been ascribed to an intention on the part of the directors to pay the holders of the guaranteed the 60 per cent back dividends dae on their stock. Itawill, however, be presently dis- covered that it arises from a much simpler cause— viz: the scarcity of the stock. When guaranteed was selling at 115 a 120 it was the cheapest stock on the list, and was quietly bought up by people who knew all about the company, Wall street operators, knowing nothing of this, undertook to short, and now they are haviog a good time in try! ek for delivery, The hold- ers of the guaranteed are not at all disposed to jeopard the 10 per cent they are now sure of by commencing a doubtful lawsuit for back dividends; they will not oppose the 8% per cent dividend on the common stock, which wili probably be paid in February. Gov- ernments were firm to-day; the sixes of 1881 sold at 4 advance. W'th the coupons of 1881 at 10914, the 5-20 bonds ought to be a good purchase at par. At the one P. M. call the market was steady. In the afternoon there was no material change in the general list. Harlem sold as high as 90, dropping afterward to 89, and 88% at the public board. The feature of the afternoon market was a violent benr attack on old Southern, which was hammered down from 86 to 83 in about en hour. No paint was given for the movement. It is pretty well un- derstood that the idea of instituting legal proceea- ings against the company for paying off $1,500,000 of debt by an issue of $1,500,000 of stock at 108 has been absstoned, and the probability is that the seliers simp! wed each other blindly, without knowing pny ground for their a . At the four P. M. call the decline in old Southern af- fected the whole market, which was 4 a 4% lower all round. The following were the closing quota- tions: — US 6's, '81 reg.107 4108 = Harlom prot..107 a 10736 US 6's, '61,c0u.108 9 109 Tr, 190 0... 107, @ 107K 96 4 0 100 a bam F i ie Nass 8 aR, “10854 @ 108; 62 -11036 @ 111 . 6} » 1436 8115, 228 8 20 107 # 107K 185% 0.198% Fort Wayne Bbc a 85M. ah ton oe Suen aes % Firie preferred. 108% judeon River.138 8 139 er mind | = habe BBR BAI diya 44 ‘The Hadson River Railroad Company declared & dividend to-day of ten per cent in scrip, bearing six per cent interest, and payable by the company on any @ividend day hereafter, on giving thirty ays notice of their intention to do so. The scrip: will probably sell at 95 or horesboute, The com- pany had only some $550,000 of cash on hand, and cou'd not have paid a cash dividend without leav- ing itself inan wnsafe position. This scrip divi- dend may not please the present holders of the stock, who may object to see it doctine; but it in! sures the comversion of the third mortgage bonds, and if any @ividend atall was expedient—a point of some uncertainty—this was the best shape to make it io. ‘The business of the Sub-Troasury was as follows