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[Frnm tke Pctertburg Erjircsx.] Skirmishing on the Peninsula. Six Yanke?? h'i/iirl awl Eleven Taken 1'ris oner* : The folio wing particulars of a skirminli which occurred in itie neighborhood of Newport News, on Friday morning, between Confederate and Federal forces, we gain from a gentleman just from Jamestown. It is continued by a gentleman who arrived yesterday afternoon from Yorktown. The Yankees at Newport News have for some lint>. past been sending out parties for the purpose of pillaging lite farms of the residents of the Peninsula?robbing meat' houses, stealing fowls of every kind, and driving oil' cattle, hogs, ?&e Accounts of these contemptible doings had on various occasions leached tieti. Magruder's Headquarters, and were known to Ids forces, but no successful attempt to prevent the depre* dat oils had been made. On Thursday last. Celt Magrudcr left his Headquarters at Yorktown, and went over to Jamestown to view the fortifications at that po nf. Immediately after his departure, an expedition was set on foot to Mirpdsc ami it possible capture uoinu of the thieving Yankees, who were fast becoming a terror in their neigh hoihood. Accordingly a party of 80 picked men was formed, composed of members from the Nottoway and Dinwiddic Cavalry, and possibly some from the Henrico Dragoons. Alter proceeding for some distance in the direction of Newport News, they di vided into two companies?one to act as infantry and the other as cavalry, sent out their pickets and encamped for tin* nignt The infantry were some distance in advance of the cavalry, and the men and horses of both parlies were entirely hidden from view, nhould the enemy appear. Ahum an hour I before sunrise on Friday morning the pick ets brought the Welcome news of the enemy's approach. The number was not less than I *25, and most probably reached as high as 150?nearly double the number of our forces. But brave men are tutappalled by numbers, and a fearless, determined heart, is equal to half a dozen cowards.? Everything was put ill order, and arrange merit* <i!i ii> I lie fiction of our two compuu iea quickly completed. Meantime the enemy last approached?appeared in r>ii^iit. nnd nils allowed to pass the position of our forms. The limu for Notion now arriving, our infantry closed in ihe road behind them.? Discovering this, the enemy iimnedhitclv wheeled and tired, but without mo mti.-h as even hitting any of our men. The tire was returned by our side, and five ot the Yankee* fell dead in their tiacks. Our cavalry now commenced their charge ; but tho enemy, trained in the art of running, bad got ton wind of their true situation, and with out lotting their '-presence of mind" for an instant, turned and s| ed like wild turkeys through the woods All were no so tortu nute, however, for helAecu the two divisions of our forces ?each aiding the other?elev en of the invaders Were captured, together with the wagon and horses tliey hud brought along to haul their id gotlou spoils In the wagon was found another dead body, which the \ nnkees had pitched io making the number killed six. I'uiS iit was i made after the retreating Yakees, but the woods were too thick to n.ake it effective. The prisoners, and we believe all the dead bodies weie taken to Yorktovvn on Friday whence a special messenger was dir-p itched to (Jen Magrooer, at Jamestown, to infomt him of the affair. Thus we have unolher successful and daring encounter to add to the list of brilliant deeds performed by Southern men during the short periisl ol this contest. The tight took place about six miles from Newport, but we are un ible to give the names of any of the parties en gaged. A Confab between ()l<l Abe and Old Seott ?A gentleman, recently arrived from New York, relates a conversation which, as was reported in (Jothum when be left, took place * lew days ago between Abe Lincoln l.L.I).. and Old Fuss and Feathers, during which tin- gooly old soldier told the King of all tlie Abolitionists a most unpalatable truth. It seems that Abinhum nnd Winfield Were riding together, reviewing the Yankee titeri. l-.-j.? .i i?? -? ? ( imiii' j in vntr i ruciin vviimu former remarked lo lite inller, "General, Iiiia is h splendid army?1? mighty large nrinv, and coats t lie Govern men I daily a heap of money ; bill why ia it remaining here idle ? \ ou once penetrated lo the capital of Mexico in three months, with one tilth of the force thai you now have under your eouimand ; why do you uol push on into Virginia and take possession of the capital nf till rebellious Old Dominion " "Ah," replied Old Scott, "the reaeon is plain and palpable : the men who carried me lo the city nf Mexico are the anme that urn now keeping me out of Virginia.'' Col. Wade Hampton.?This gentleman, who commands the splendid South Carolina J?egion, encamped neurlhio city, is the pusr-essor of a princely fortune, and Imn been for many years prominent in the political itfTdirs of his State, ilia library at Greenville. H C? contains ten or twelve thousand volumes, including ahoul fifteen hundred on Atweriein history. The library fills two largo rooms, and cost, probably, twenty thousand dollars.?Richmond Disp/Uch The War Cry ?One of Lincoln's regiinert is lately paraded the streets of New f York with a b.tuier emblazoned with the wuida MJJi'Ut| mid B-milv." The motto raptuiMUaly applauded multitude , pJimy lit* whole line of naroh. New York Dally News on Linooln's Message. The following is In ken from the N. Y. j News, n staunch Soulliern paper in feeling, ' ! and w hich Ims set at defiance the repeated | threats of the rowdy mobroorats of New : York city ever since the war commenced : j I j I j Depraved and hardened in falsehood and j deceit was the brain that conceived and the ! i hand that penned the Presidents recent ines { i sage. It is a tissue of misstatements, per- I versions of well known historical facts, II j logical deductions, and impudent proposi | tions from beginning to end. It is untrue j \ that the originnl policy of Sir. Lincoln was ! j "to exhaust peaceful measures before resorting to stronger ones " Me declared thy I contrary in nearly every one of the speech ; I es he delivered between Springfield and Harrisburg, and in his war proclamation he distinctly averred that his Inaugural Address meant war. It is untrue that "lie only intended originally, to hold the places not .. j . f ? ? f - i ! yei wresMiu irmii i?i\i<'vrniuicni. in rii* inaugural be openly threatened to retake "all property belonging to the United States' and, at Indianapolis and Cleveland, he pro claimed that to send an army into South Carolina, "would not he invasion," and that to aeize the fortresses in the hands of the seceding States would not be coercion.? The whole Fort Suuiter story, as related by the President, is so infamou.dy mendacious that no one acquainted with the real facts of the case, or who has read the statements of Judge Campbell and of the three Com missioners from Montgomery, can fail to pronounce the fabrications it contains more worthy of the denizen of a State prison, than of the head of an enlightened people l.ine by line, the sentences of the Presiden tiul apology for endeavoring to re-enforce and provision Major Anderson, are so pack xviili deliberate untruths, that each syllable may be sail' to embody some separate falsehood of its own. Mr. Lincoln passes from his Fort Sumter romance to the beginning of the war. Me falsely states that "no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Govern iiient, and so to resist the force etnploved for its destruction by force for ils'preserra lion " No choice left! By the advice of his abolition associates, he actually swindled tin* country irito tin- fratricidal conflict which he so basely inaugurated. Ncitller could lie Hiiniriion "out the war power of tlie Government," f<>r outside of the twelve thousand men comp i?ing the Federal army such n "war power" did riot exist, nor could i', without perjury, lie created by him.? Neither had any force been employed for the destruction of the Government," and consequently no "force for its preservation was needed From so buseless and empty a preface, Mr. I.incoln goes on to justify his subsequent proceedings. In the teeth of (lis pretended respect lor authority, he rcc ogni/.cs the bogus Governor and l.egislu lure of Western Virginia, and misstates the material facts connected with the action of that Slate, lie says that the call fur three years volunteers was "ventured upon whether legal or not, under what appeared to be a necessity, trusting then, as now,that Congress would ratify the name !** lie tlien proceeds to justify the violation of the suspension of writ of habeas corpus, with a detail of untruths with respect to the cause of ihat high banded measure, which we shall take a future occasion to expose as ihev deserve. With a wretchedness of S| ecial pleading seldom equaled, he enden vors to show that the frnuiers of the Constitution intended to intrust the President wi.li the power of Melting the writ aside, although in the preceding paragraph he had virtually confessed thai he had been gu.lty of a shameful usurpation in doing so. In face of the fact thai the relations of the U. States with foreign Powers nre of (he most precarious description, and that we lire, perhaps, on the eve of a War with both Great Hritaiu and France, and n?>t ini possibly Spain, Mr. Lincoln asserts thnl a "general sympathy is manifested with this country throughout the world." Neverthc less, he confesses that his own policy hud ol theui lo believe thai the "early de*-truc I.on of our National Union was probable * lie then proceeds to the single paragraph which embodies all for which he really fell compelled to call Cpngress together, namely, to obtain money, lie wnnls, he auys, "at least 400,000 inon and $ 100 000,000 and pre'siijiposes a debt for the present year of no less than $000,000,000, which lie flip pantly tells us is really no amount at all, "a less sum per lit ad than was the debt of oqj It evolution when we came out of that j struggle ; and surely," he continues, "oach man lias as strung a motive now to preI serve our liberties (!!) as each had then to J establish them." What reckless sublimity I ?f ImniwliiiH ' 1 linf liherli.,-" I/, h? i ? ?r- - -f-;- *" _r'" served" by bankrupting the Republic, in or der to enslave ten millions of our fellowI citizens. nod reduce their territory to the condition of n wretched, subjugated province ! The remainder of tbe message is exelu | sively devoted ton miserable essay on Ntate i I sovereignly, in which the exploded errors I of Federalism are swamped in so silly, dis! connected umi slovenly manner, that even 1 our most ferocious Republican coteinpora r.es are ashamed and -lisgus'ed w'.tli 'lie per 1 formanee. He interlards it with pusibaoi ' mo . appeals, ad misericordiam, bad juices I and hypocritical buncombe for the benefit of the Heecher and Tyng achoul of parsons I which are simply nauseous The only true statement this or any other portion of the ' docunieht contains is, that not a single reg intent hue been sent South "out of which a President, Cabinet nnd Congress could ' not be selected," as good as those now* in Washington No sensible man will dispute '.Ins. Mr Lincoln would have been nearer the truth had he declared that it would he j Impossible to choose from the very worst regiment, even in Missouri, s Chief Magistrate sod Government more untruthful, dishonest arid undeserving of public confidence. Equestrianthip.?To ride a horse without saddle or bridle, at full apeed, la generally esteemed a Very good feat ; but add to that mo mrowuijj i>i ino |?rr?ou oi win rioer completely under ilie home'* Itelly, (merely holding on by Hie le|'l leg) ?nd picking up t pjntol which lay upon lite gro-ind end shooting it under lite nitimal's neck, is something which we think very few Yankees, could do, JSocli n lent we ??w )esierd*y peil'oimed by s I'eiM Hunger.?Richmond ( Diaystrk ** | [ From the Charleston A/rrcury. j When it the War to End 1?And How to End It. In Hie very excellent speech of Mr Sle pheus, which We published in our Saturday's issue, Mr. Stephens uses the following lun- ! gunge: ' Hut upon this subject of the war, I will detail! you a few minutes, because it is a common inquiry with lite, how. tong 1 think the war will last ? whether or not it will be a short one Well, my countrymen. I will leil you tiiis.lnnl it is known only to the Ruler of events. It is curtained from mortal knowledge mid mortal vision. I know I not ; 1 wo old not know if I could It is the nitiitcrioos future ; but tnere is one thing I can lv!i you with confidence, and Hint it, it is going to last until the enemy is whipped arul driven from our soil. [Tremendous up plause ] And it will require men and moii i ev to do it, and the best way to make it n ! Iiort w ar is to send men into the field, and to ruise means enough to support them in | the field to drive the enemy out. That is the 1 best way." Now we do not deny that Mr. Stephens' ! way of ending the war is a good w ny, and ! n m/li I Iti tie used It is tin, old. fimlniinod ! way by which wars nre usually terminated : and which ended the wur ut" '76, after seven I years lighting, by the capture of l,urd Cornwalli* a* Yorktown. VVuh a large force of j superior volunteers, promptly in the tieid. and a da?h:ng campaign, early commenced, the South might have shown the North the trouble, and danger, and loss of the war they have undertaken. They might have been brought to their senses and to terms of peace. Hut, with the sort of defensive campaign, with a small force to contend against odds, what is the prospect ? VViiuu we triU be able to wii'p and diive out the enemy front our noil is, as Air Stephens I says, shrouded "ill the mysterious lulure " As yet, we have made no gre.il progress in i this way of ending the war. It depends at- j most entirely upon the Kxecutive Wnether We should have one hundred thousand men, from the other Confederate Slates, m Virginia, or only those we now have, has been an nllitir lor his discretion. Mis energy makes the war Ijng or short Hut, fortunately lor die Confederate Slates, thev have an instrumentality no olh er people possess, or, we believe, ever nave possessed, to end speedily tne war between lliein and the Uniied .States. Cotton and tobacco are not simple article* id' trade and commerce. They can be made great politi cul engines, influencing and controlling the welfare and policy of all the great nation* of ihe earth I'lace the alternative plainly i before Croat Britain and 1'Vaiice ?of doing | w ithout our cotton and tobacco for only the next six months, or making treaties with un, putting us on the footing of the most fa vored nations nnd thev will make the treaties. We suppose, of course, that during this time our inilitar* stilus i.< not uiater:,.n.. i i? .i .. i...i.i ..... Ambassadors ??f tint United Stale* ui Lun , don an>i Paris, tluii the United State* will conquer the Uoiifedemte Stale* by the winter, mid iliui furnish tireut Britain and I France with our cotton and tobacco, is like ' Iv to be realized?<if course these nation* will not make trcuties with Hie Unut'cderule State*. They are waiting now to m-e to u liicli power?tlie Confederate or the Uni led Slutes? they must be indebted lor their necessary supply of cotton and tobacco.? Let it tie innde plain, by tlie military status of tbe Confederate S'utes, Unit they can and will control tbeir cotton and tobacco crop, and there will not be much doubt a-, to toe course these nations will pursue. It is tbeir policy to accept of war witli the United ."Slates, rather Until be deprived of it. lflbe United States cooosea war with them on account of tneir recognizing our independence, nod assuming commercial rein lions with us, that will speediiv end tlie war with us. A war with France, Ureal Hritnin and the < onfederate Slates, against the United Stales, cannot be long (in the contrary, if they continue the wur with the Confederate States alone, after mler-nr linn, nl commercial relations exist between France, Ureal Hrituin and tint Confederate Slates, the war miial be equally short in its duration. The blockade of our porta must j be broken up. To obtain our cotton and | tobacco, and to send us tbeir manufactured coinmodi.ies in return, these nations must have free access to our poits. If we re ceive their manufactured commodities in our porta, we will have the revenue resulting front tlie duties laid upon them. Nor will these commodities or the revenue re suiting from them, be limited by our coosuuiption There is auch a thing as smug gliug even in war, especially when our whole coast will be free of blockading Meets and crnieera. And we will linve their com mores on the high sens exposed to our pri vateera. fitted up in all parta of the world France, Ureal Britain and Spain have thought proper to interpolate a new feature in the laws of nations, by which our priva teem are excluded from entering their porta and there selling their prizes. We will j take cure, in the treaty which they shall pro pose, that this interpolation against us ia i wiped out- We will then, with our porta I open, with a free commercial intercourse I between Franee, Great Britain, Spain and our*elvea, and a boundless field for privateering, he in u position speedly to lermi nate the war And slionld it continue, it will be shorn of ila chief dangers and aolfer ings, whilst it will throw upon the Unned States such an accumulation of weuknssa ; and embarrassment as must speedily present to them the alternative of peace or ruin. Cotton and tobacco, if rightly used, is stronger than armies?more potent than \ victories?to obtsiu independence and peace j If we allow foreign nations to obtain our cotton nod tobacco, the war may last for I many years. If we withhold these pr<>due ln?n? Iroui their conaiimplioii, it will not luel one. Whether (he war will be long or short te not n mutter of geuernlaliip, but of , atute?uiannhip. The approaching (Jongrena of the Confederate Hui?n will settle our ; fule on lliie great matter, ho tiUlly affecting j the welfare end independence of the Confederate Hlatee, end the peace of the whole i worid. Rag*.?H.tVe uli you rnga?cotton, fla:t, I lieinp, et?.,-en<1 theio to ninrket, where you ciin realize S centa it pound. The Konth ] tvenra out more mich good than two such Norlha, and yet the North satrea double the quantitv of rage for making paper l<*t Una be changed hereafter. Have the rugs to make paper, and thereby Mve money.? CKorloiU RnUetin i The War and the Northern Congreaa. The Baltimore Exchange, ilevult* nn editorial to the probable action of the (Jon greet* at Washington, concluding with the subjoined expressive language : i It* the members of the present Congress resolutely casting themselves loose from the trammels of partV, disregarding all aectioal attiliatiooh, and trampling prejudice nnd tanaiicism beneath their feet, were capable of "rising to the height of the occasion, they might win lor themselves itnmor tal honor. Hut the temper ill which they assemble, tlm programme which is already marked out for tliem, and the measures which it is confidently stated they are pro pared to sanction, denote but too clearly j tli.it they are willing slaves to the madness of the hour, and Unit truth ami reason, Christian principles an J humane feelings, the promptings of patriotism and the teachings of history, will be alike lost upon them They nre tor war?war ?n a scale hitherto happily unknown in this country?n war which, if prosecuted in the evil spirit that has prompted its initial proceedings, will be marked by cruellies and hurbanlie* as re puguant to tliu spirit of liio age as it w ill be fatal to llie liberties of this people- A war so instigated and so conducted can have tmi one result?the South will triumph ; It r everything that the South elierirhes is at stake upon the issue, and every instinct of manhoott revolts at the ides of subjugation Tne Southern people may be made to suffer much, but thev will inflict much suffering in return, and the end of all j will be a treaty of peace ami the recognilion of tlio Southern Confederacy as an hi i dependent power Yet U.e North will have war. und Congress will respond to the sanguinary appeal, and tnueh blond will How and much treasure ho wasted, anil when ruin stalks over all the land, ami the Wail ol w idows and orphans is heard on every passing breeze?why I hem we shall have peace. Were it not better that we should hale it now ? Gen Scott's Children. ? It may not be generally known to tins community that with.n forty I'eet of one of the batteries now being erected for the defence of Kicli uiond, two children of Cieiit. Gen Winticlil ' Scott lie buried. v\ e refer to the fortifications being thrown up on .Mr Mnyo'a plan ... ..a;..!..-.. ?. . ? .. ? ..HUM, ?r.J Ul I IIC 1' 11 J' j and commanding James Itiver. When we , reflect upon Virginia's relation* to Gen. ?*cott, and Scott's relation* to Virgini i? j llint In* Win born and reared upon t.cr ma | lerual sod, and married one of tier d.mgli j ler?, tbat Ilia nearest relative* in toe world 1 are among her citizens and lighting for her defence?that children of hi* own flenb | and blood, alas we bur we cannot any, of ' in* love, lie buried beneath her soil ; when j we recollect the honor* that Virginia in Iter , pride ha* shown liiin, and the countless I kindncH*es tier citizen* have aliowered upon hiiu, it almost surpasses hiiiitsn ? redo lily to | believe lloil he eould have lurried (lie iula | inous ingrute mid traitor that he is If there i i* a tender emotion m feding of love >n hi* j nature, would lie ,>ot naturally turn to the grate ol bis children ? Ala*! hi* long { connection with toe Yankee* and Yankee- I Join, h i* corrupted his nature, and he now j *lalids, one of them by adoption, a violator | of liis .ilh-gi.itice to hi* native Sla'.e, and a i betrayer of Ilia country. He lias become n J Yankee?tbat i* a lusting disgrace.? I'etrrs I burg Kxjrrrss CSen Scott'I Speech be fire. *the Virginia legislature?The follown.g extract is la- | ken from a speech of Gen Scott, deliveied I before the Legi*lature of Virginia in 1858: I Mr President anil Senators :?I cannot j gite expression to ihu deep emotiona of | pleasure which I experience at tin* recep lion in iny nutlve Slate (utile did I expect to meet with such honors here, and from you I hnd myself iu Hie midst of roun try men?my dear countrymen?native of the State which w is Hie cradle of my lir*t ambition In my long career?more reinar kablc, perhaps, for iis length than it* hril liaucy?I have ever felt Hie reaponsibility inherited by my lirth. I have always said what will Virgini i suy of ma ! and when, in the course of my public life, I have always remembered, at its u>< at important points, that I bore a portion of her honour upon my shoulder*, I have said that if I proved recreant, I would be doubly d.unned in her estimation and that of my country. _ ^ m Grtgg't Regiment.?Three companies of Col Maxey Giegg's First Ktgiun-nl South Carolina Volunteer* are encamped near thix city, and are now ready for service. They j hate been performing the latter for over *ix | months, but ure *lill willing to go oil till the war is ended and Southern indupen j deuce secured. The men of the nlmve reg' imeiit, w hone time being out, have availed themselves of'the opportunity to go home ' arid viail their relative*, will aoon be back. I Tiieir gallant commander, Muxcy Gregg, haa been appointed a Colonel in the Con federate Statea Army. Uke hia men, lie ia a* true nu steel and firm a* the granite of the everluaimg hills.? Richmnn.1 Oiepalck. Coffee Secured?Ws received a letteit some days ago. from the vicinity of Norfolk giving an account o( the departure of an i expedition to secure a cargo of coffee in a i wrecked vessel on the North Carolina eosat, which the l.incnlnite* were said to be watching. We deemed it prudent to supprea? the information ; but now learn that the cargo, consisting of some 4,600 -.ag?, Was secured without difficulty. A portion of it I will be brought to itichmond.? Richmond Die patch. Guerilla Rangers? Violet" writes to the Savannah Kepublican from Richmond : * \ great many applications are made daily to the War Department fer permits to visu m? o.aue next*, m rangers Tor guerilla service. Amongst these, I found Hoo Simeon Fair, State Solicitor; Henry Buial, Chairman of Representation irom Clmrlea ion ill llouae of Delegates; States It Gist, Adjutant and Inspector General of the Sl-te; and Samuel Y. Tapper, leading fireman of Charleston oily, all of South Carolina ? They are horsed, accoutred and armed at their own expense, and are determined to see service " Kaleiom. N. C July 14.?Minnie halls and carttdges are being made here by the hundred thousands. Mr. Palmer at the Deaf nnd Dumb Aailum haaa large nuinoer of pafriotia hoys and girls at work in tha bndntn. Our Flag of TruceThe Richmond Whig, of Friday furnishpi 1 the following interesting item : Lust Sunday, I?ient. Col. Tlios. H. Tay' lor, C. S. A , of Kemiickv, left thin city foi Wanliington, hearing n letter from President Davis to President Lincoln, understood t< be an official notification of the course that 1 will be pursued by thin Government in tin , event of the execution or other criminn | punishment of the prisoners token on boartl ttie pri\nicer Savannah Col.'P. proceeded to the headquarters of Celt. Heauregard, bv whom it is said, he was furnished with 1 a letter to Celt. McDowell, in command of | the Lincoln forces on this side of the I'm tomitc. He then proceeded to Fnirfnv C, II , where lie was furnished with an escort of twelve men and two tntu-co,-ntuis-noiii-d officers, under command of s Lieutenant, with n while flag. Thence he proceeded to wards Arlington, encountering 11 squadron of th? enemy's dragoons when within about seven miles of that place, to whose corn mnnding officersh? inudo known his errand Arriving at Arlington, (lenerul Scott was notified of hi* (ireHfiiiT, and sent it carri ige to convey him to \Vu*hington. whore lie nr rived nbout 9 o'clock Mondut night, and delivered hi* letter to Gen. Scott ? Lincoln not being vi*iblo. (Nil. T ?a? then reconvened to Arlington, where ho *pent the night mid the next day ??? encorted back through the enemy'* line*. Gen. S. informed hint that an nttnwcr to the letter of which he wan bearer would he forwarded to tin* city b\ one of hi* orticera, and requeated 'Nil. '1' to deliver In* "kind regard*" to General* l**o and Beauregard. 'Nil. 'I' while in the oiieuiy'* line* tviia treated with all the c?urte*ie* of the profe*?ion. War Items. Portland. Me.. July 13 ?The hark Mary Goodell, united here to day, report* that *he wa* boarded by the privateer Jeff" Daiit from ('hnrlealoii, which ha* captured scVo* rnl veaaels within the pa.*t week Ualtimork, July 13 ?The privateer Je/f Davit li*i* captured tii.ee Northern Vexaeta oil Cnpe 11 a it era*. Uo?TON,Ju!y 13?'I ha achoonei Knchan trett. of tni* port, ha* heen eap'ured hy the privateer J<ff Dai i% The frigate Yincenne* i* looking for the Jrff Davit. Homo.*, July 16. ? A French atcaiucr, witli an Admiral, iiaa nri ive>i at I lull lux, aid i* awaiting the arrival of *i\ other*, when the French fleet nails South. Richmond, July 15?Thirteen prisoner* und two apiew were brongul here todiv from Yorktown. CommodoreTittn.il invite* proposal* for the con?t'uetioii, ht contract, of live am.a 11 Veaaels lor the C. S? *er\ ice. Col Drr't lleaiinrnl ? Thi* If. i?imml i f brave mill gall.ml until, who a I the greatest sacrifices have voiunleered their servile* to the Confederate Slate*-for and d iring the war, will encamp at SandV Spring* on Fri dav, the lUth intl. TIim Kegiment will reitnuu there hut a short time and will ni ne directly l?? Virginia ?I'ic.keui Courtrr. Arrival nj a Spy?A limn whnae name we are unable to learn, and who belonged to one of the companies in our army, was brought to tliia city yeaterday an n *pv ? When deteeied, he had concealed ?m hia perann a number of lilo* for spiking guns, and after discovering that it w a* U*eie*? to deny lii* guilt, lie confessed that lie bad on der the protniae of n large remuneration from the Yankee authorities at Washington, j< ined our army with the intention of api king nil of our guns and when Uiu feat wan accomplished ol (riving the necessary intelligence to the enemy to enable Itiem to tnareli on u*. Ilaupily the rascal wna prevented from consummating hi* purpose.? lie w a* handed over to the military author itie*, and will ?ye truat imethia desert.*. ? Richmond Enquirer French Consul ?The Charleston Court er of yeaterday haa the following note : "M De St Andre, tvhoae wppoin'.m *nl aa French Consul was lately reported in the Courier, hna arrived and taken I odg inga at the Mills House with lii* family." It would be inte'enting to know to what Government on this aide the Monsieur is accredited, la it to Iincnln or to the Confederate States ? If to the former, ia lie recognized in Chnrleaton in his official capacity ??Southern (iuardian. A letter from Fort I'iekena to I he New York Times aaya that the llritish fleet have engaged all the coal that can be oblaiiu-d in Cub* ; which the writer takes a aver* unkind, n* it will render the Yankee ship* of little value in the Galf. ami pot uti end to the blockude, until eoal can be got elsewhere. The writer also says ibal the arrival of the Kngliah Meet will w ithdraw most of the Yankee ahips from Foil I'iekena ? their presence being necessary oil along the coast Cop ar tner sh ip. CAMDKN, S. C rpilE FIRM ofC. MATHKSON &. CO. .1. being ttiis day dissolved by its own limitation, the undersigned have formed a "partnership under tho uutne ot MATH?80V * CO. for the pnr(*Mu of continuing the business in all iU departments,and hope by strict at Isnlioii to merit a continuance of the patronage so liberally bestowed on the late lirui. C. BKI.I,, J AS. 0. MATHKSON. July 1st ISA I 18 Baoou ! Baoon!! /5AAA LBS, PRIME NIIHI'II CAROUUU OLI.NA BACON lor sale low for cash ONLY, by HASSKLTINE 6L MASSKY. July 10. 1801. . 6000 POUNDS IRON." INCLUDING Flow Iron,Plow steel, Ac F??r aale at JONES CROCKETT'S. Feb IS, 1881 ? ltf John Anderson. , THIS Thorough bred Jack is oul of MAKKNGO. He ia .6 hands high, 4 yaara old, dark tr??u gray, and finely proportioned. He will aland the Fall aeaaon at this place, on the following ioima ll'na 11 saw ...r A lii Ail ?.? < VI MIT xnisiMi, W tjUKtiUr C. It. tfcpt 18, 1M0.-SU7 w BU8INE9S CARDS. KERSHAW <fe CONNORS. 1 COPA RTNIC RH IN TUB PRACTICE OP r I L A W A N 1) E Q U I T V \ LAKCASTEKVILLR, 3. C. .! ir Will attend promptly to all buaiuoas , ; entrusted to tliem. I J. II KKRSHAW, | \Y\ M. CONNORS. I ! Camden S. C. Lancaater, C. II. Aug. 10, 1859. i j DAWKINS & WYLIE, Attorneys at L? a w AND soi.icrrous i.\ equity^ j Will practi'-e in Laucaaier and the aurrouiidiiig ! ' Diatrict*. orric* in tii* court Herat at I 1 M I' 1 O 'P L< It U I I t L.' .? i < n .1 ii W .1 O I I J IV V I I i I? h , O . Vy , | Particular attention given to collecting claim*. | VOL. TIIOA. N (lAWKIMft. MA J. JOHN II. WTLIK. I | Union, C. 11., 8. C. I.ancaater, C. II., 8, C | ! March tl, I8G<?, 6? If Chambers, Barnes 8c Co , F A C T () K S ' and General Commission Merchant*, i j *outli Atlantic Wliarf, j t;u MILKSTO.N. s. j Kkikiikii to? A. MA; K Kennedy, 0. Math- j eaon Ac Co., and K. \V. tionncy, Camden, 8. C. i Jam. S Ciiamiucra, Charleston, 8. C. liao. W. Ih rmim, Kt-r.li.iw District, S. C. Jso. W. Ciiamhkr-i, Charleston, 8. C. Sept. till lit, I8t5n. 33? 1 y?paid, j Dr. AliF-RED CRAVEN, j 11 Meaiilctll *urg?'?ii Ih-nlUI, j VOKKMI I.K, n. c., 1 i Ult ra iiia I'mfemdiinitl Seiviee* to the eili* j Sella ill Ijinonaler Vilh-gc ;?nd surrounding j country AltTI KiCI A I. TKKVll inserted on <??ld | INnle, from one to a toll sett. June I llli. IHftK IH-lv MELTON & WITHERSPOON i m m ii i> \r p .t i rn i > ttr I /\ 1 L U U ? T, I ? A 1 1 i :\ ? j AMI Solicitors in Equity. | Will practice in Lancaster ami lln surroun. j ding Dixtrii'iii. j I). I> MkI.TOM, I II J. WirilKKsPoo*. Olic*lcr, S. <'. | l. i n'.ntrt C II. January II. I8?i'i. 48?H. (J. W. Wii.i.iiu*. I S It'iBr K Ai.u??n j l Varkvillt. >S. I.' \ ) l,.iiicastcrville,X C j WILLIAMS Jk ALLISON. | A T r 0 It N K Y 8 A T L A W ASM Solioitors iu Equity. I.ANC VSTfclt. C. II , ti. C. Will practice in the Distiicl of iMivMUr, Prompt attention given to Collections j July lili MMJ. Jl ?If i South Carolina, I.AN1-ASTKK OlsntliT BY I'. T. II \MMO\H, K??|, Ordinal*) for ah id District. WIIKKKASJrftt-r?oii Il?.ilc ?inl Wiinmtii i j lit* I |C llAs ll|iplic?l lo l|H fill L'llcl. III' \l| I ministration on nil and "iiigul.tr the (iiin<l.i ; niul Chatties, Kiglil* and ('until* of John , : \V. lluik Kmj. I a If ol I ne Dis'riel afore* I I *sid. deceased TIIKSB are. therefore, lo cite unit ml. ! j monisli nil niul singular, the kindred and j creditor* of tin* said deceased, to be ami appear before me at our ne\t Ordinary'* ' Court lor the said district, to be holileii al I .alienater Court House on the 'Jlhu dar of Julv iiiNl to show cause, if tiny, why the said admit istrution should not lie ornu ted. (iitcn under my band and seal, I hi* 15 h dav j i -sse j of July, in the year of our i J I- S. > la?rd one thounand eight hundred j f ^es. j mid ??i\tyoiie and iuthe eight* .sixth j year of the Independence of I lie Slate of i South Carolina l?. T. HAMMOND o l. i?. July 17. ? '23,-T.. p I 50 , Bank of the State or SO II T 11 0 A It 01-1 N A. CiiaklksToM, I'Jtli February, 1881. The la'glalnliire liming, at it* late srsi nion, authorized the Jssue of limi t* to the I amount ol 875.000. bearing an interest of 1 V# 1'^>I tu*f Mofil t-.m k? f iJl. | , . ,?r.??luillK tin- fund* required to sustain the >Sliln in | Hit- net of leautning hur ri|(liU of sovereign | ly, tliis Hunk in flow prepared to iliaprme of ' tlie Bonds. They are i?rfcd in sums of : 850, #loo. ami $5ou An opportunity in | thus aifordril every citizen to maks n vrciirv ! ami profitable investment, whi'e contribuling aid to lite muse in which the State is engaged. With the view of enabling clti- I i zens in any part of the State to ahum in , the Unn, the l/lfrki of llie t'ourta of-lhe ; several districts have been required to open | hooka of subscription for the Slock. Soi. j (able arrangements will be mude for furnishing the Honda on the receipt of tiie mon- ' ey, at an early day after each subscription, Ima been made. Kngageiuenta tor the purchase of Honda may be made at the ilank, or at nuy of ila Branches. It Is probable that, at the next Session of ilia legislature, those parlies who desire it rosy nave their Bonds converted into Stock. j C M. FUKUAN, Pr*tidi>w Feb 05.3tf_ \ Notion , IS IIKKKBV GIVEN that all persona hav- I I Iflff Liiuiiiia?a Lai la-nvu-l m .. ..... ?w mm II, mm NIC \v .CTX of the Court of Common Plana, will call uti Mr. Jaiuaa C. Iluwy, who ia authorized and appointed to transact all bu?inaaa lor ; m? during my absence. HIRAM J. HANCOCK. Clerk C. C. P. ' April 11, 1861. lOlf Ifotioe. RUNAWAV from the auberriber. on tha ao'Ji June, Colombo* MeManue, a ) mulatto hoy, bouud to ma. I forewarn any and all peraon* front e n boring or feeding i lb- aatd hoy. I will give a llbaral reward > lor Itia delivery, or eonflncnmi.l, ao that I i can gat lum. JOHN MINUt?. La neater C. It July 10, ' LATEST INTKLLiOENCE !! I FORT SUMTRR TO BR 2 EVACUATED !! ! rllK.lt KMY INFORM THE CITI/.K.NH J <?f l#ancniterville mid the *l>intriol in general, that I have removed to one doof I went of \V I.. Ilowio'* Carriage Factor/i a where I tvould hit pleaded to nee tnv old rnnloaiera and I lie halni.ee of mankind. I ain manufacturing Saddle* nn4 Wi^ llarnean ol nil kinda nod qualities I nod have constantly on hundvevurything in my line of bunincm I I'nr111? r aav that the SA 1)1)1.KS I mail'' II file til re, I Hill warrant to laal looker tlialf two Northern itlttde, at llie aume price ami in as workmanlike manner. N'otoing hut the Very IBeMt Jlaterinl Used, mid none hut good workman to if i turn i/vnirun nn . I Ai/inur AUiunEi 11. |JT M'l. IIHPAIMNO UONK A*. SHORT NO NOB "A Mtilcti in lime nave* nine." I niii<lruly tiiinkfu! In llie public for lite very liberal pulriuunje heretofore limlnwril, and iriiit by I it i tli t'n I tnrk itmi litii.j price*) to uit-iii your further favor*. \V. II. I1UKNS. March ?. 1H*?I -4-1 >. LOOK IT THIS! TIIK SUIISCItlllKKH WOIII.I) rr ?|iect 1 ii 11 v infill III the eitizelia nf I jincaater Village ami vicinity. Iliat V^B^'I'ey have permanently lncate-1 anil atnhliahed it Boot and Shoe Shop at iliia place, ami will be liappv in it ail mi nil l!i:tt ilcaire work done They pul up work ill the moat faaliinttahle ami durable atyb-a, an J Warrant to weir well BOOTS AND SHOES ol ill! tlcacriplinh* in-uic to order at anort notice. All work wairanted UA per cant belter ll nil Northern lllake. (iive u? a trial nlid we are ronlidrlil a at* JB_ )UHM| <.H/R IU lliUM (IMiruUCHni tog lh?'f ow" *>uIm. II* will aiAii^Hb. i?K ,h* wuod il R. D. M. Dtfolap'*. ' ry I* in* Ut-ooiu sod will *?? ***ry pr*v*ol M?id*nU, felt lh* **tmnb*r I* r**ponaibl? if any atiould tpeur Turin*, RIO nraurjuic*, diH Ui* liiuo tb* io?re prow* to l>* with fu*t. la *11 ?*? wn?r* oiarv* ?r? iMiird, lh* o? ur at lh* iliu* Urixd, rrtjwMiH* for ?rvt?*:2 rtfl.i?r*f T. K CURKTON. UmhUt, April W, ?feM ?t-?f i?l..et|..n will In- llii* ri'Biilt. I hf~ Our bIiu|i it niivf una il'ior Sniitii ufiii.. Ii'.ltf.r oltiee TKU.MSi.ASH. CUMPSTON A KELLBU ^ ui?. I. IHliU,? I v . $60 REWARD. i. KUNAWaV, fi?m tlie Subscriber, liv. Mr ill]; near Willi,. I'laiun I 'lienleilirid ?w Ihatrict s. (<? hIiuiiI lOtli of Annual l.tial 111 v Neyro fellow lien. lie it J 4 yearn uf ?i(i., of n ) elb.w i-li rouiploxion, nluinti bltck. b it lit! huiu.1 nbii.it l?.y pound*, about ti I?',.| 1 liacu hi^h. lit* ?*l?, Willi h firm Mti'p mi'l CAfiim bimaelf erect, it in 11kviy til* I It. li will rllile.nur to llitkc Inn way In n free SUti*. Any pernon who will arrest tile nal.l Nejffo mill l...l;|e hill! I'l* all* mill' J ill -o Ill it I call ({ -l iillll or .leliivr iiiiii lo iiie mI hiy reaidehce nli.,11 recnie tile almi,* reward I will nlao Jfive ?|iJD retard lor proof ailllieienl to cohViel, ahj w hile person or person*, of harboring the aid buy or Irving iii lb-el iii* VV M. M. Itl.AKKNKV. Feb 13 13'i I. I -it. Charlotte I Je .line rat mi l S ,Ubu y Watch, man w ill pleaae t'op,, and inn.-it until for. bill unit tor w ard bill* to lhi? olliee. Notioo. * VI.I. I'ernoun limin|{ den.and* a^'aiiut the Knlate of Raleigh IiMtiiinolid, lata of l.meanter |)i?lrict, deve??cd, are hereby li*.lined to .itt.-nd, either personally or by their Atlorne., in .the Ordinary*# * omt lo be lo.ltieii at Italic**!,*r Court I louse on the *>111 day of August next, to mtiblinli their respective claim*, and accept or ol.jeet to tlie pro, i*iot?n made by the *ani it I lam* iii'.lid. dee d , iii bla Lite W ill itnU Teniain.'iit, for ilie put nienl of all of Iii* just debt*. In default all anl?*ct)'irut elaliiia will la- tiebirel b, tne true iutciiin.n ?f this notice, thin tlie 3d Julie. IHtii I'. T IIA.MMO\l?. O. I. i> June 5, 1 Mr. 1 17tf DE A HALES, i cS55o= RBSI'KCTKUU.V OFPKRH ins hkkvickh as sur., (iKON DKMTISTTO TIIB Citizen# of lailieantvrillle and Dinlrict.? All operation* performed in the beat poaai*' nit? maiinrr. cflnpon ArtiAoial Teeth inaerieu on plat* from a uin^le Tooth to i full ?ktt. Cliargea reasonable nn?l ail work war* r no ted. WATCH Repairing proinply attended lu and all work warranted. Nov. 7, 18?0. 3?tf. DON ZAOIC, PKKMjNtf DKaIKINU TlIK Rervlce* of a large and w ell formed JACK, wlA be accommodated by applying at the aub-* *S auriber'e reeidence, Ave milea dvulli of lain-, t'aaler C. II. Terms $ 10 inaeraoee. Far-, eon* living at a distance will be acoommodule J with good p.tat urea without addition* at charge W. J. McII.WaIN. Marcii 6, l?6l. 4-ttin. Notioe. DUK1NU my abaeore Ceorge U?C. Witherapoon will act aa my Agent and At* lornvy in feel, and ia aut loru-rd to repreeent me. IAMB8 II. WlrilK$3lg|)N. M U L E ?T . 'pilK AUUSKJliIUKlt UFFKlflPQgp: