The free South. (Beaufort, S.C.) 1863-1864, August 15, 1863, Image 3
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ITEMS.
The list of claims filed against the city of
New York for damage and losses incurred during
the late riots, not yet completed, already
- amount to more than seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. The expenses which were in.
carred for extra police and military duties will
increase the liability of the city to at least one
. and a half million of dollars. There will be
redactions made, as some of the claims are ex^
orbitant; but the amount due will not fall short
of a million. This will come out of the city
and county, and will be jnid by all those who
r> , are taxed. The laboring classes as well as the
wealthy will have to loot the bill. Kiots are ex..pensive.
About ten days ago some of Colonel Baker's
u .'letective force arrested at Brentsville a party
tmnute for Richmond, upon whom were found
mate very imjwrtant documents from Washing<
toe, addressed to Jefferson Davis as President
of the Confederate States. Among tliem were
\ ticcurate maps of all the fortifications and defences
of Washington, and a description of the
character of the works, the number of guns in
-N each, and the strength of their garrisons; also a
statement that the rolls would be forwarded by
* x different channel. It is not known what rolls
. were alluded to. The documents have been filed
? in the War Department, and the matter is still
\ ^ raider investigation.
* . The Nashville Prrss states that [the rebels arc
making all their preparations to transport the
- entire wheat crop of East Tennessee to the South,
"N y ~g it shall become necessary for them to evacuate
,A .chat section. Nor will they wait to thresh the
.grain if they are hard pressed. They are even
{ \ .prepared to carry it off in the straw.
\ A Although no oiders to that effect have been
promulgated; it is rumored that if the draft of
x dte first class under the recent enrollment is coninstifficient.
a draft will be made without
v, \ delay upon the second class.
V The delay in carrying out the draft in New
York is partly owing to the fact that there are
\ > V V ^reat mistakes in the enrollment lists. In a
V ^ast number of cases the names of citizens are
\ -) iuplicated, having been entered both at their
* private residences and at their places of business.
Colonel Sanders, who is hunting the KcnTjnckj
raiders, reports to General Burnside that
he has captured three hundred and fifty of them,
Including Colonel Ashby, near Cumberland.
The balance are rapidly flying from the State.
It is now known that the delay in the removal
jf Gen. Hooker from the command of the Army
rf the Potomac was occasioned by the desire
that General Banks should take his place. With
this view General Franklin was sent to Louisiana
to relieve Gen. Banks; bnt the movement
of the army into Maryland was too sudden
Sir the consummation of the project previous to
~Jac affair at Gettysburg, since which it is underwood
that the idea of placing Banks in command !
it* the Army of the Potomac has been abandoned.
When the train bearing John Morgan and
; StaiF reached the depot in Cincinnati, the officer
in charge called out the names of the prisoners
. ind they stepped forward one at a time. When
. John Morgan came forward, some one in the
ktrge crowd yelled " Horse thief. 1 The cry was
Taken up by the crowd and " Horse thief" " Horse
xhief," was heard on all hands, and the demonszrations
appeared very riotous. It is said that
Morgan actually shed tears.
Colonel Richardson, the rebel guerrilla, has
issued an order requiring all men of West Tenn
msec, between eighteen and forty-five to report
, his camp, under the rebel conscription law.
' Thh following barbarous instructions are to gor.
sra his men in earn ing out this order: If a
man should absent himself from home to avoid
this order, burn his house and all his property,
? except such as may be useful to this command.
!i a man resists this by refusing to report, shoot
him down and leave him dying. If a man takes
rcf ugc in his honse and offers resistance, set the
hwase on fire, and guard it, so he may not get
< lot
General Rosecrans issued an order on the 28th
-alt, from headquarters at Winchester, congratihuing
Ids army upon the expulsion of insurgents
< rona. Middle Tennessee, and telling them that
Aev are now called upon to exterminate rebel
?ion in the Eastern part of the State.
It is the belief in Washington that the whole
af Lee's forces, with the exception of A. P.
Hill's corps, ars now south of the Rapidan, and
she* a single brigade of Longstreet's corps occupies
the old position in the rear of FredericksSwrgh.
Richmond papers announce the death of Wm.
I*. Yancey, one of the first and fiercest leaders of
Secession.
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THE FREE SOUTH, SAT!
Ou Tuesday night the steamer Rnth was burned
on the Mississippi a few miles below Cairo,
boat and cargo being a total loss, including two
i and a half millions in Government funds. Payi
master Greentvall and thr<v>
?* w v?v? au ?v?v iv/oi ^ aiiu
several other Paymasters barely escaped with
their lives. The funds lost were for the payment
of Gen. Grant's men, who will thus be
forced to " wait a little longer " for their greenbacks.
Advices from Vicksburg' inform us that in the
recent advance on Jackson, letters were captured
confirming the treason of Ex-President James
Buchanan, and proving Gen. Scott's accusations
against him to be true. Gen. Sherman's losses
in his campaign against Joe Johnston amounted
to about a thousand men. The army is now being
completely reorganized, preparatory to further
important orations.
There was some excitement in Columbus, Ohio,
on the 5th, occassioned bv the tearing down of
a Vallandigam flag by some invalid soldiers.?
The Copperheads gathered in considerable numbers,
and beat a sick soldier for expressing his
approval of the act. Another flag was to be hung
out, and further trouble was expected.
By the Steamship JlecLi, we receive advices
from Europe three days later, to the 20th ult.
The full extent of the recent rebel reverses had
l>ccome known in England, and the effect was-a
decided turn in affairs favorable to the North.?
The rebel cotton loan stock declined at once to
18 and 20 per cent, discount, and though it subsequently
rallied a few per cent, it evidently received
a blow from which its friends can liardly
exjiect it to recover. News of the New-York
riots had also been received, but they were not
generally regarded as of much importance.
The Richmond Enquirer clamors for the immediate
murder of Captains Flynn and Sawyer,
the Union officers set apart by Davis for vengeance.
The paper says the people are thirsting
for their blood, and sharply reproves Davis for
delay.
A large concourse of citizens and soldiers on the
1st inst., united in paying the Last tribute of respect
to the remains of the late Brig. Gen. Geo.
C. Strong, who died from wounds received in
the assault upon Fort Wagner, Charleston Harbor,
on the 18th ult. The funeral took place
from St. Paul's Methodist Church, New York,
the Rev. Dr. Durbin delivered an eloquent address
upon the life and character of the deceased.
A large procession followed the body to Greenwood
cemetery, w^ere the remains were interred
with military honors.
President Lincoln has not drawn his salary
for the past year from the Treasury. When reminded
by friends that by putting the same
upon interest he would receive an income of at
least twelve hundred dollars, he replied that he
thought the United States needed the use of the
money quite as much as any person, and he
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would lei u remain.
In the United States District Court, on the
1st inst., Judge Betts rendered decrees of condemnation
of the British steamers Peterhoff,
Springbok, and others, and their cargoes, the
aggregate mine of which will amount to over
$1,500,000.
The death of Maj. McCook furnishes some
melancholy coincidences in the history of his
family in connection with the war. His youngest
son Charles, was killed at the first battle of
Bull Kan, on the 21st day of July, 1861; his
son, Col. Robert McCook, was killed on the 21st
day of July, 1862; and the father was himself
killed on the 21st day of July, 1863.
The great raider, Morgan, is done for at last,
and wiped out, along with twenty-nine eo-thieves.
He was incarcerated on the 30th, in that staunch
hotel, called the Ohio Penitentiary. They were
delivered over to Capt. Meriou by the military
authorities, and immediately put through the
same motions as other criminals?persons searched,
hair and beards shared, bathed and clad in
clean suits. Morgan and Cluke submitted very
quietly, but some of the younger thieves demured
bitterly until told them must submit. Morgan
had his belt filled with gold, greenbacks
and Confederate notes. One who had before
broken his parole, refused to strip, when it was
instantly done for him. Cluke begged for his
moustacne, dot n was no go?h was razorcu.?
They will be compelled to submit to prison discipline,
but confined apart from the convicts,
and guarded day and night by the military.?
One or two talked about retaliation, but the rule
against speaking was instantly enforced. A
negro convict did the barbering for the chivalry.
There arc three fathers in East Nottingham,
Township, Chester county, Pa., who have fourteen
sons in the Union armv.
TODAY, AUGUST 15, 1863
[From the New York papers of August Sth.[
By telegraph from Memphis we leam that a
scout who left Meriden on Saturday, and Okolona
on Sunday reported that General Joe Johnston's
army was at Enterprise and Brandon, under
the direct command of General ,Hardee. Most
of the rebel force at the former place were ready
to move at a moment's notice. Cars were readr
for the accommodation of the troops. General
Johnston went to Mobile on the 27th of July. It
was thought the rebels wonld remain where they
were unless Mobile was attacked. Johnston is
said to have lost ten thousand men by desertion
since the fall of Vick&nrg, and the remainder
of his force was terribly demoralized. A great
many secret societies bad been organized for the i
purpose of bringing the State bock into the j
Union. Haggles was at Columbus, Miss., i
Chalmers at West Point, and Tippah on the !
Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
The Mobile News says General Grant's army
J has mostly gone to Virginia, where it states the
j great final struggle is to take place. The same j
paper inveighs bitterly against the conduct of ;
! Grant in paroling the troops at Vicksburg, and
I hopes his head will be cut off, for he could not
' have struck a heavier blow at the confederal.
It represents Pemberton's army as being depressed,
and as discouraging and decimating
Johnston's ranks, while they eat up his stores,
j By the jmroling, the Texas and Alabama soldiers
are said to be lost irrecoverably. Complaint
is made that the soldiers are ordered to
report again to Pemberton as fast as exchanged,
which it is said they will not do, as they hate
him. To put Pemberton at the head of that
army again is asserted to be equivalent to its
annihilation.
Gen. Pemberton has issued an order to the
paroled army of Vicksburg, giving the men
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leave ot aosenee ror tnirty uavs irora me uaie 01
the order, to enable them to visit their homes.
He confidently hopes that not one man of the
army of Vicksburg will be found absent from
his post at the expiration of tliat period, but the
accounts which hare reached us of their numerous
desertions indicate that his hopes will be
disappointed. The Richmond Jjixjxitch says
that at the end of thirty days the command is to
be reassembled at Demopolis, Ala., where it will
be armed and equipped to meet the enemy.
A correspondent of the St. Louis Jiej>u6/icnn i
gives the names of no less than thirty-four steamers
which have been destroyed on the Yazoo
river and its tributaries, by the rebels, during
the last few months, to prevent their falling into
our hands. Most of them had been converted
into gunboats. Among them was the former
Star of the West. She was used by the Confederates
as a transport, and was sunk in the
Tallabatchee River, near Fort Pemberton, to
obstruct the channel during the Yazoo Pass expedition.
Gen. Foster has issued an order directing the
enlistment of a colored regiment within' the
limits of the late department of Virginia, Gen.
Dix's. Gen. Foster has also authorized General
Wild, commanding colored troops in North
Carolina,^" to take possession of all unoccupied
and unowned land on Roanoke Island, for the
purpose of distributing the same to the families
of negro soldiers and other contrabands in the
service of the Uuited States."
A correspondent of the Herald, dating Jacksou,
Miss., 11th, reports that the library of Jeff.
Dans has been captured. It comprises several
bushels of private and political papers of the
arch traitor. Several letters on secession date
back to 18.")0, and the collection will bring to
light the whole secret history of secession. The 1
letters are from both Northern and Southern
traitors. i
The one hundred-pounder rifled cannon on I
board the revenue steamer Naugatuck burst yes- j
terday while the crew were at target practice.? !
the entire breech of the gun was forced out, and
passed through the pilot house, smokestack, 1
deckhouse and cabin, prostrating all bands and j i
knocked one man overboard, and severely injur- I i
ing five persons. ]
The people of North Carolina who desire
peace are alarmed at Jeff. Davis' recent proclamation,
and are fiving into the swamps and '
mountains to escape conscription. The Union ]
feeling in that State makes stronger manifests- i
tions every day. The people only look with |
hope for the protection of the old flag.
Philadelphia has got through with the draft.?
Out of a population of 567,000, there have been i
18,000 men drawn. This ratio applied to New
York would call for about 30,000.
Commander Byson has been ordered to the
command of the iron-clad Lehigh, and Commander
Caldwell to the Gtauciu.j
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NO. 32.
The commutation money paid bv those drifted
will amount, it is supposed, to some forty or fifty
millions of dollars throughout the country. The
United States Collector it Lancaster, l'enn., has
received $79,000, and exempted two handled
and sixty-five men in consequence.
Lee, in a general order, calls on all offices
and soldiers of his array to return, and makes
strong appeals to the patriotism of the South to
send forth every man capable of bearing arms to
aid in striking a decisive blew.
oenerai Meouc's torces are now so located as
to render any advance of Lee's army impottible
without certain defeat. The sutler's trains are
now protected by an armed escort from Washington
to the army, in consequence of the goerilia
attacks of the enemy.
The rebels confess that in the recent fight at
Manassas Gap they lost two thousand three hot-'
dred in killed and wounded.
Among the recent arrivals ot Mobile from Europe
was Pierre Sonle, who, it is said, was oat
sanguine of meditation on the part of the French
Emperor on account of the popularity of the
movement in Mexico.
Gen. Grant, in his official despatch, says that during
his operations in Mississippi he captured,
thirty-nine thousand rebel prisoners, thirty-one
thousand of whom he paroled, and eight thousand
lie sent North.
Gen. Hcrron's division while at Natchex, destroyed
an immense amount of rebel stores, and
captured a large quantity of salt from Louisiana
for General Lee's army, and a supply of cattle
from Texas.
The Atlanta Appeal of the 24th tilt., think*
that llosecrans is moving on Selina. The same
paper says that the mountains in North-Western.
Georgia are full of rebel deserters.
The Richmond papers represent that General
Lee's Army is in good spirits, and that a general
battle on the line of the Rapidan is not impossible,
as General Lee is reported to be quite
ready.
The lack of horses in the rebel army is demonstrated
by an order recently promulgated ixt
Gen. Lee's camp, dismoirntiny all of the Quar
tcrmaster and Commissary attaches.
Twenty-nine millions fire hundred and thirtj
thousand dollars have recently been forwarded
to the National armies for the payment of the
troops for the months of May and June.
CoL Grierson, the hero of the ride from Tennessee
to New Orleans, is at Vicksburg. He
will probably participate in Grant's new campaign.
The rebels considered they had a good joke
on us when they defended Manassas with wocden.
guns. While acknowledging the corn, we beg
leave to call their attention to several woodenmortars
that gave them more annoyance at
Vicksburg than all other guns. The mortaxa
threw six, twelve and twenty-four pound shell
with considerable accuracy. Captain Trissdlian,
a "fighting Irishman," on Gen. Logan's
staff, conceived the idea of manufacturing mortars
from logs. Securing sereral sound log%.
he had them bored out and then hooped tbenx
with iron. With a small charge of powder they
answered better than iron mortars, for they wmIb
little noise. The rebels confessed that mom
damage was done bv these shells than anv *8
threw into Vicksburg.
Assy or nil Potomac; I
August 2d. 1S63. /
General Bnford's cavalry, artillery and a sapporting
infantry force yesterday crossed the BapDahannock
at the railroad station. Tbenee witfe
his cavalry anfl artillery he proceeded towards
Culpepper, driving Stuart's cavalry before hiflK.
When near Culpepper General Buford encountered
a large rebel force of infantry and artillery,
and a fierce fight ensued, lasting until dark,
when he withdrew to a strong position position
east of Brandy Station. The loss on both side*
was considerable. This rcconnoisance confirms
the concentration of Lee's force near Culpepper,
and indicated that his present headquarters aro
at Stevensburg, four miles southeast of Culpepper.
The twenty-nine sutler wagons captured near
Fairfax, Thursday night by Mosby and his band
were recaptured, with all their contents, Friday
morning, near Aldie, by the Second Massachusetts
cavalry. A skirmish ensued between tha
guerrillas and our advance guard, but on the approach
of the main body Mosby fled, closely
pursued by the cavalry. Several of the enemy
? 1 l-'H--1 ??1 htit nA rorvirf
are reponeu Kiiieu uuu nuuuuw, uut uv iv^..
has been yet received of the result of the parsuit
This morning a detachment of onr carairy
killed two and captured two others of Mor?
by's band near New Baltimore, and were engaged
in ferreting out others.
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