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? f the Can caster fehger. $2 PER ANNUM Big with the woiid(>rN of ?nch pamins IN ADVANCE. SI /fliuilg nail Mitiral dtaBpaptr?Btantth ta tljf 3rta, atitacta, literature, <?&ncatinn, Sgrirultnre, Saternnl Saiprnnnnrntf, /urrigu anil Stompstir Jgrms, anil tljt 3Harkets. .VOLUME XI. LANCASTER C. H, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 23,1862. NUMBER 24. THE LANCASTER LEDGER Published every Wednesday Morning HY W- M. CONNORS, Editor and proprietor. TERMS: jln advance, - $2.00 At the expiration of Six Months, .... 2.60 At the end of the Year, - 8.00 ADVERTISEMENTS. Will be inserted at the following low rates: ,0ne square (of 16 lines or less,) one insertion, .$1; or, if continued, 76 cents for the first insertion, and 60 cents for each subsequent inseron. Tha number of insertions must be written on w .each advertisement, or they will be inserted till ordered out and charged accordingly. The following deductions will be made in favor of standing advertisements : 3 MONTHS. 6 MONTHS. 1 TEAR One Squnre, $3.00 88.00 810.00 Two " 8.00 12.00 16.00 Three " 10.00 15.00 20.00 Half Column, 16.00 22.00 30.00 On?" " 30.00 45.00 60.00 Announcing Candidates for Office, Five Dollars. IKMH-T' a* J' I mj v/uuiinuiiicnuuuH rocommericiing candidates for office and all others of limited or individual interest, charged at advertising raf ss. Obituary Notice" exceeding one .square in length (16 lines) will be charged for the overplus,at regular advertising rates Tributes of Respect, rnted as adTe'Vlisments. No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid. From The North M'CLELLAN'S DEFEAT IN THE NORTH?RUMORS AND SI'BCULATIONS ? COMMENTS OF THE TRESS. ,The recent battle before Richmond engrossed every one in. the North. It was the sole topic. In a long article, review, ing the battle and the situation of Mc .Clellan's army, tbe New York Herald toys: General McClellan has failed to take Richmond, and has suffered aerioua losses in men, artillery and war like materials and stores, in bis struggles to extricate himself from a position rendered untenaKIa frrvm tlm l?nn??? - ? * ? W.W MVIU kuu uv^caw j IblUIUI UCIUOUll Sl'lU |U to the army of the Confederacy, and from the very acanty reinforcements to bis own. With his army thus weakened by battles and. disease, he could not hold his White House operations twenty miles in his rear and his entrenched line of ten miles in front of Richmond. His original plan, if vwe are not mistaken, was to moke bis . whole Potomac army of last winter in a grand semi circle upon Richmond, sweep* ing the entire country from the Potomac ,to the Valley of Virginia before him, and contracting his lines as be advanced upon .Richmond, not from the east, but from the north, thus leaving no loop hole for Confederate raids into ibe Shenandoah Valley, nor any chance to the enemy to ,cut him off from the base of his supplies. Unfortunately, however, this well con* side red plan was set aside by the disor1 ganizing abolition radicals of Congress, aided apd abetted by two or three polit* .'5*1 generals of the Cabinet. In the failure of this great and all important enterpiise we have lost the labors .of a campaign ; and to repair this loss and to drive the Confederates out of Virginia will require an additional budget of many millions to our national debt.? The PresidenWcXnnot fail to see where the responsibility belongs. A very significant feeling of indignation is beginning to develop itself in the public mind .upon the subject, and directly against tbe (Cabinet as at present constituted. Let the Presidept look to bis.Cabinet, and to its reconstruction as a working unit with himself in the prosecution of ibis war for i ."the integrity of the ,Un?on," and not for tbe extirpation of slavery, and all ??i .... W ' J -may be saved. -Let him neglect this eolial doty at thia momentous crisis, and .we may go on from bad to worse until 1 all is lost. I la a second article the Herald charges ; 1 the grossest mismanagement cn the gov- I ernment. The following is but a speci- I men of the criticism of the military nu- ' thcrities : < There is a time to keep silence and p I tUDe to speak. The campaign has con- j < eluded with our repulse from before Rich- I I mood. The campaign to come will re- j < .quire new troops, new plans, and new J combinations, witb, perhaps, new emer I ? gencies of foreign complications. (The [ t time has come, therefore, to expose, re j c bake and correct the errors and raismsn- ' n ageroent of the past, in order in ? < thorough reformation fqr the future. * , !. The Secretary of War mpkee no pro I fi vieipn tor accident pr emergency, and ia j 0 euea a .call for three hundred ,thousand b troope, not juet before a battle when the ?l people a'* enthuaiaatic, hut j uai on the ll ?eele of a jrfpulae, when the people are ( n ! depressed. When Stanton divided McClellau's command be himself assumed : the practical direct'on of the campaign. [ The people knew and the press announc: ed that JetT. Davis was massing all bis troops at Richmond, just as a good business man concentrates bis moans where be finds the best investment. The Secretary of War could not understand this, j Consequently our forces on James Island i retreated from a foe who had cons to o Richmond; our troops in the Shenandoah built entrenchments agaiust Jackson, who had gone to Richmond ; our troop* at the West stood on the defensive against Beauregard, who had gone to Richmond; and Burnsige sought in vain for the \ North Caro'ina Confederates, who had also gone to Richmond. McC!c!!an was therefore, overwhelmed. EFFECT OF TilK NEWS ON T1IK NOR11I. The News of McClellan'i defeat ha* caused the greatest excitement in the , North. The Herald says : The financial credit of the country has received a shock from the disasters to McClellan's army from which it will not easily recover. Previous to his .being driven back from his position before R;ch mood government Blocks were at an uu exampled premium, and the credit of the country never stood so high. Within a week all this has been chang* eJ, and now government stocks exhibit more unsteadiness than any other class of public securities. The excitement now is but the mere muttering of the storm. Wait until the Ion." lists of Lilln/1 on/1 n./...n/1/..l !- 'l- - 0 i-..v? nuuuuou eta me recent battles before Kichmond are pubtithed, and the storm will be then at its height. Already the people of Philadelphia hoot Stanton's name in the streets, and declare that no more men will enlist while he remains in office. New York city has suffered quite as much as Philadelphia, and shares these sentiments.? Two New York regiments suffered at Bull Run, and the excitement here was fearful. What will it be when the lints of killed and wounded come in now ! WAR Kl'UORS i'ROM WASHINGTON. The correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writes from Washington : There is much interest in Washington to hear the response of the country to the President's new call for volunteers.? The prevailing sentiment is that the enlistment will be too slow to meet the publio demand for an immediate and overwhelming advance upon the rebellion, and that a draft for a half million men would be the proper action at the present moment. No half way measures, | but one finishing blow. Officers from the seat of war on James river, absent on short leave, say that it is the belief that there will be no more fight ing there for a mouth. Both sides were so much shattered, it is thought, that a cessation of actual hostilities may ocour. But the Confederates, if able, will not be slow to renew the conflict. All accounts from the North show that great agitation and hesitation prevail in regard to financial and military pros pects. Capitalists who hold public *e> curities take the alarm. But (be call for the additional force of three hundred thousand men will, it is thought, be met, under the stimulus of the proposed twenty five dollar bounty. A very intelligent person, who deser ted from the Confederates at Richmond, arrived here to-day. lie speaks of their forces as immense, and as being con stanlly augmented by reinforcements under the Conscription Act. TI1K TANKER LOSS IN THE RECENT BATTLES. I The Northern papers are engaged in. i estimating KlcClellan's loss in the recent battles about Richmond. Their estimates rary considerably, but none places his oss at leas than 25,000. From what we . save been able to gather Irom Kichmond, ' MaClellan's loss is judged to be fioin 40, | )00 to 50,000 ?10,000 prisooers, and Vom 30,000 to 40,000 killed and woun- I led, 35,000 muskets and rifles have i >een collected from the battle fields, 40 < :apnon were taken et once, beeidee thoee I ipiked end thrown in the Cbickehominy, < tn<l ftf llA? 1 ? uU.iSii cunapicuoui grove* I >y the retreating Yankee*. McClellan i onceal* the truth on principle, and it i* t ot bkely the North or Europe will get [ The New York Timet say* : j r In all lh* engagement*, Jjlechanicaville I nd Oaiqe*' Jdiil included, ceu hardly ! til short, or much exceed, twenty five tiousaod men. Our lo?* in prisoner* i* eavy. \Ve h*?e left thousand* of woun v led in their hand*. -Included in our lo** l brre were many of our tiu??i ??fliv?-r-, the i< umber of line, company and *tafl off! ! n ' cers killed and disabled being unusually I large. Gen. Marcy, Chief of McClellan's staff, I es times the entire loss of McClellan's army at 30,000. "tub FEDERAL DISASTERS IN VIRGINIA ? EUROPEAN INTERVENTION TIIE PROD A IILE CONSEQUENCE." This is the heading of an article in the . New York Herald. The papers have ! stopped calling llie defeat a "masterly j movement," and are coming down to the ] truth. The following is the article : The series of Federal disasters in Vir ginia, ending with the latest and greatest of aII?the retreat of Gen. McClellan's army before superior numbers?is well calculated to stir the national heart to its depths. The whole country is roused. I and everybody inquires what is the cause of the misfortune ! The blame does not rest with the brave troops who have been j sacrificed, fighting like heroes, nor with , the General, who, at the outset, said he would do the best he could with the small number of troops entrusted to him, but with the imbecility of the Navy and the War Departments. It was General I McGlellan's purpose to proceed up the James river at lirst ; but our incompe tent Navy Department was unable to clear it for him, notwithstanding the tm j menso number of vessels at the com mand of Commodore Goldsborough. The Merrimac was permitted to control the waters of the James river till it was loo late, and the rebels had possession of the stiong points on its bai.ks. Had the river been under control of our fleet when Gen. NlcClellan was ordered to match up noo debt. Among the danger*, too, of ^iiropeun I'owert will be revolution at tome, organised by the Democracy in ^ ympHiby with ike United States. Suck are aocne of tlie difficulties iu< olved in ike meddling of European na ions with our domestic affairs. Yet there fj i too much reason to believe that they in leditate intervention, and (bat they will ( ci the York peninsula, a very dit^pent story would be told to-day. The Jaiues would have been his basis of operations f[om the beginning, instead of the York and the l'auiunkey ; and supported by the gunboats, he would have been in Rich ruond a month ago. The War I)epart ment cut up aud divided McClellan's army in spite of all his remonstrances, sending one portion here and another there in order to give position and conse quence to political Generals, while the rebels cot ceutraled their whole force around Richmond?the decisive point of the theatre of war. The re.-ult was a serious reverse to our arms. If this blow ' had been brought about by design on j the part of our high officials, it could j hardly have been more disastrous. That the radicals intended to have McCle.'lan ' repulsed on the Chickahoininy, as they caused 13anks to be repulsed on the She uandoab, there cannot exist a doubt. liut there it something still worse to be apprehended, 'the news of the disss \ ter has gone to Kurope and upon its heels will probably follow Intervention on the part of France aud England, if not of all the maritime powers of Europe j The practical question is, what ought I to be now done in the crisis that it upon us ? The first thing the people ought to 1 do is to demand the removal of the im j becilea from the Navy and War Depart- J inents, who have brought such disgrace upon our arms. The next motft essential thing is to secure the coast from the Rio Grande to the Kennebec?to strengthen the fortifications already in existeoce, and j to aod new works wherever they may be ' needed ; and, lastly, to organize a home 1 guard to man the artillery, and practice j constantly at the guns. In the meantime the fleet of gunboats ought to be made ' stronger, and the new iron clad vessel* ought to be hastened to completion.? ! 1 Lastly, let the 300,000 men called for by ' the President be speedily enrolled, organized, and brought into tho Held. Thus ' prepared tor the powers disposed to inter- | vene, they may shrink back from the ' cor sequences, or should they be rash enough to assail us, we can retaliate 1 ' upon them with terrible voogeauce. Not only can we wrest froin them ' every foot of toil on this continent, and 1 on all the islands which belong to it, hut 1 we can carry the war into Europe. There ' are plenty of Irishmen throughout the Northern States who want to go to Ire ^ land with arms in their hands. Then, if f the country is forcibly broken up bv for- i 1 sign interference, the loss of American jonds, amounting to six or eight millions )f dollars, due to English capitalists, is Heritable. If the republic is divided it j s no longer the United States, and the juestioo is which halt of it will he res- j ^ >onsible to foreign countries for the com- ^ attempt it if our statesmen are not care- | ful ami energolic. Our people should be prepared for tbis emergency. It is ex- I trrmely probable that they will make tbe recent disaster in Virginia an excuse ( for the recognition of tbe independence | of tbe so called Confederate States, and tbat step would involve consequences of the most tremendous character. Our cit izons should hold a great public meeting, where the voice of the people could bo heard and the conservative strength and power of this metropolis made manifest. Gen Lee's Address to His Soldiers. VVa Imv ..... -.I...;... " "V ' ......... r. ble address of Gen. H. E Lee to I lie gal j lant troops whose patriotic sacrifices have Accomplished tlie salvation of the Con federate capital, and inflicted a Mow I upon the forces of the North which must have a most crushing effect. Rarely in the annals of warfare lias such a series of ( successes attended the efforts of a brave and devoted army ; and this address of | the Commander in Chief is as well tueri ted as it is chaste and appropriate. The brief recapitulation of the results of the battles around Richmond atlords some idea of the obstacles that have been met and overcome by our fo?ces. llKAOgl"AKTKH8 IN TIIK FlKLD, ) July 7ib, 1802. J General Order*, iVo 75. The General Commanding, profoundly grateful to the only Giver of all victory for the signal success with which he lias blessed our arms, tenders his warmest thanks and congratulations to the army by whose valor 6tich splendid results have been achieved. On Thursday, June 2Gth, the pow erful and thoroughly equipped unity of the enemy was entrenched in works vast in extent and most formidable iu character, within sight of our Capitol. To-day the remains of that confide lit and threatening host lie upon the hanks of James river, thirty miles from Rich uiond, seeking to recover, under the protection of his gunboats, from the effects of a series of disastrous defeats. The battle beginning on the afternoon of the 2Gth June, above Mechanicsviile, continued until the night of July 1st, with only such intervals as were neces-ary to pursue mid overtake the llymg foe.? fits strong entrenchments and ohslmate resistance were overcome, and our army swept resistless y down tue north side of the Chickahominy, until it reached the rear of the enemy, and brok* li s com ruunication with the York, capturing or causing the destruction of many vnluahle stores, and, by tbe decisive battle of Fri day, forcing the enemy from his line of powerful fortifications on tLe south side of the Chickahominy, and driving him to a precipitate retreat. This victorious army pursued, as rapidly as the obntruc lions placed by the enemy in his rear would permit, three times overtaking his flying column, and as often driving him with slaughter from the field, leaving his numerous dead arid wounded iu our hands in every conflict. The immediate fruits of our success nre tue renet or Uichmond from a slate 1 of siege, (lie route of the great army tliat t ' so long menaced i'A safety, many thou 1 ' sand prisoner*, including officers of high rank, the capture or destruction of stores ' to the value of millions, and the acquiei ' 1 j lion cf thousands of arms and fifty one pieces of superior artillery. The service rendered to the country in | this rliort hut eventful period can scarco | ly be estimated, and the General Companding cannot adequately express his tdmiralioii of the courage, endurance, J , tnd soldierly couduct of the officers and j ( ucn engaged. Those brilliant results have cost us : nany brave men, but while we mourn ! he lors of our gallant Jead, let us not | orget that they died nobly in defence of < heir country's freedom, and have linked heir memory with an event that will live j < or ever in the hearts of a grateful people. < Soldiers ! Your country will thank you 1 or the heroic conduct you have die- j f dayed?conduct worthy of men encraoed i ct ct i n a cause ho just and sacred, And deser t mg a nation's gratitude and paise. lly command of General Lee. c (Signed.) U. II. Chilton, A. A. General. I * Salt.? We are pleased to say thai this { nosl indispensable article is being inanu | sctured in considerable quantities around |, ur city, some twelve boiling establisln p lents being in operation in and near ibis p lace. Tbe yield is or soon will be about M birty thousand (30,000) bushels per an* ol urn, which can be increased to almost ^ ny amount. The great source of ex g, ense is the fuel, but eipenence will no pi oubt soon suggest many improvements (;< i tl.e mode of boiling.? Charleston Mtr- to *ry- ' lp Address ok (Jen. McClkllan to tiik Akmy oftiie Potomac.? Washington, July 0.?Advices froin the Army of the P Potomac, up to Saturday night, indicate vi thai all is quiet and the army in good I spirits. ly IIkadquaktbrs Army oktiik Potomac, ) i Camp near Harrison's Landing, > July 4. 1802 ) 1 ^ Sohfitrs of the Army of the Potomac: ? Your achievements of tlie past ten ^ days hnve illustrated the valor and endu ! | ranee of the American soldier. Attacked ni by superior forces and without hope of t reinforcements, you have succeeded in j Qj chancing your base of operations by a jn Hank movement, always regarded as the ij most hazardous of military operations ? You have saved all your guns, except a (jj few lost in battle, taking in leturn guns and colors from the enemy. ?ii - ill Upon your march you have been as- ? sailed day after day, with desperate fury a, by men of the same race and nation, skillfully massed and led. Under every HS disadvantage of number, and necessarily of position also, you have in every con- R:( llict beaten back your foes witb enorinous slaughter. |u Your conduct ranks you among the ,j celebrated armies of history. None will r.ow question what each of you tnay al v; ways with pride say, 4 / btlonyed to the j( Army of the Potomac/" You have R( reached this new base complete in organ- i,| icalion, and unimpaired in spirit. The al enemy may at any lime attack you ? we are prepared to meet them. I have personally established your lines. Let them come, and we will convert their repulse into a final defeat. ^ Your (ioverument is atrenplheniner ,n r? o you with the resources of h great people. On ibis, our nation's birthday, we de *' clare to our foes, who aie rebels against '' the best interests of mankind, that this ^ army shall enter ilia capital of the so l' called Confederacy ; that our naiioual * II Constitution sliall prevail, and that the Union, which can alone insure internal 111 peace and external security to each Stale, rc must and shall be preserved, cost wliat it may in time, treasure, and blood. * GEO. H. McCLKLLAN, Major General Commanding. ai Lateii Fitou Pottr Koran?Tbe stea mor Arago arrived at New York on Sat* urJay, with dates frotn Port Royal to the 1st inst. The New York Express has the following news by her. The new military Governor of South Carolina, General Kufus Saxon, has ar rived at Heaufort, which place has been jl designated as bis future residence. Thus far General Saxon has hot issued any proclamation or made any appointment. General Hunter is tuucb censured by all the otlLers for his conduct at the bat lie of James island. Though the withdrawal of the troops frotn James' Island is said to be but a t)< sanitary measure, it is uot looked upon tii with much favor by the soldiers, who say fo that there was no necessity for taking the j J< place at so great a sacrifice of human life, i It and giving it up now. j k< All the hospitals at Ilillon Head are an filled with the sick and woundeJ, but the | V mortality does not excee<l five per day, j at chiefly wounded, the weather inducing ' w mortification ol the wounds. All the w available transports are being got ready pi to take tbe wounded men North. m Hilton Head is overrun with fleas, e<! which penetrate everything with their re ilings, and to far no remedy It as been of v? iiny avail. I fu The famous negro brigade remains 0j quartered at Hilton Head, on General | lu liraylon's plantation. A few men are j H jaily sent to lite Head as a working part j)4 ly, but, it is said that this plan would m iooii be abandoned. . jh Situation or ArrAiaa.?The attitude nr >f affair* below this city hss undergone l'' to material change within the past lew " la)s, so lur an any material movements if the two armies have been developed. It whs stated yesterday that the Yankee P? brces were making some demonstration* n front of our line of pickets, hut nothing TI| o indicate an early attack had occurred. \ jH It is probable that the enemy has re* Ml eived large reinfoicemenla within the >ast few days, and it may be that the Je iroject of reducing Richmond is not en I i? irely abandoned ; but it is scarcely to be ou resumed that even with reinforcements, ?(l e will make any formidable demonstra* ba ion for some tune to come. As we ex* ib< ressed yesterday, it is not likely that he 'ill be able to perfect the reorganisation f his forces at liarkeley, and when he * vacuates that point, it will, perhaps, b? Sl? ills a view to reach some position of Hu renter security, where hie army can be ?0( ut in good condition for active opt?ai , ons. A few days, bowavar, will seree i develop !? purposes and indicate his er* Jllcj.? fitchntona Uttpatch, \4(h ??#/. i c?ti iron TI1K I.ANC AST*' R LKIK1KH.J Mr. Editor.?In the 20th Chapter of t roverbs, the 4th verse reads as follows, ( 2 : J f Answer not a fool according to his fob j " lest thou also be like unto him. | t And the 5th verse as follows, viz : I Answer a fool according to his folly, j * st he be wise in his own conceit. i ( And in the Acts of the (ieneral Assem j * ly of the State of South Carolina, in ] i 801, No. 4509, page 15. the 1st Section > * r Article in the Act reads as follows, viz: I lie it enacted by the Senate and House | t r Representatives4iow met and sitting * i General Assembly, and by the author* | I y of the same, That not less than 5 nor " lore than 10 free holders, in each tax istrict in lite State, shall be appointed t t herein provided, who shall be called { le "Soldiers Hoard of Relief,who shall / tntinue in ofltce during the existing war, td for four mouths thereafter, etc. And the 8lh Article or Section reads ^ follows, viz : t That each of the said Hoards shall com j st of not more than ten nor less than tivj ( arsons, to be appointed by joint Ueso- t ilion of lite General Assembly, to con , nue in oflice for one year. , The writer would be glad if some Di v ne would show us liow we are to un , errtand the two lexis above, and, for ime member of lite last General Assent I-j to give us tho meaning of these two nicies in the Act referred to. 4 AN INQUIRER. ; Later from Europe. ? Richmond, July 14?The stearcship u uropa has arrived at Cape Race, bncg- ^ g Liverpool dales to the 2d inst. 1 he correpondence in relation to the v is currently report*) that the President |y Hindu a demand upon the United 4,1 lire authorities for the surrender of lt| itler to the Confederate Government ; q J in the event of a refusal, the law in aliation will he enforced upon a FedI Major General captured in the re- } it battle below Kicbinoed. up fc.mily Si. 1'ierre has been published ( oin which, il appears that Adams, the v ai.kee Minister, had not receded from H le position first assumed l#V him. . In the llrilish House of Lords, Ixrnl i rougham S lid that lie deplored the strife " i America and its consequences to Eu | ?pe. He thought it impossible, however, c r England to interfeie, but expressed y te opinion that the Americans would r ie tlie suicidal character ol the struggle, ii nd come to an am cable arrangement * ;fore they entirely lost, as a nation, the ispecl and atFcclioL of Europe. In the House of Commons, Lord I'al- .1 erslon said that interference in the A- > erican war now coulil only aggravate a alters. llotb England and France, he Med, would be delighted to lake niedi- ory steps, and, wheu a fitting opporlun- 'I y arises, lie should h?ok upon il both as duty and a pleasure. The English journals are strenuously rging upon their Government the necesly of taking steps to put a speedy end t i the war. *Tim Enkmv'm Lobsks?We are satis- d d that our papers greatly underrate u ie losses of the enemy in the battles be tl re Richuiond. We understand General a illusion says they lost greatly more liian 1 J,000 at Seven i'lnes. One of the Yan >e papers sat s their losses have now been icerlairied to have exceeded 13,000.? ^ r'e learn that captive officers estimate it \ . not one man short of 20,000, killed, it oumled and missing. Our own loss tl as 5,800 in round numbers. Yankee I 'isonera say they tost in the last battles ' >t less than 50,000 men, killed, wound- j I and prisoners. This estimate is cor iboraled by every person we have con r?ed with, who had an opportunity lo rm a judgement. Including the battle Williamsburg, and tbe lost from sick ?ss, we feel convinced thai McClellan it ^ sufferer, since be landed on the fatal tninaula, to (be lune of at least 80,000 j n. Our own lots?putting that in tbe at battles at 15,000, killed, wounded id misting, is about 25,000 in tbe last ree. months. McClellan bat been aev. f al timet reinforced ; on one occation by J ),00^ men. He hae now probably, |> lout 70,000 with bun.?Richmond Dia> ti tfh' > The Mikdek or Mumhonu ? Rbtalia ** ?x.?The Kicbmood Dispatch, ofThure e, y last, taya: "Tbe banging of a citi a of New Orleans, named Mtimford, by , t order of General II. F. Holler? a ed unsurpassed in atrocity by anything ^ tbe history ol tbe war ? occasioned an C tburtl if indignation throughout the tire Confederacy, and tbe Government doubtless given due Consideration to j i matter, wub a view to retaliation.? Ik-uY Tilk Dead.? We again call at^ ention to llie numbers of unhuried dead hat lie about Oakwood Cemolery. A renlleman who visited this burial ground i day or two ago says he saw no less han forty or fifty coffins with their ghasU y contents exposed to the sweltering ray# the July sun, the lids in many install:es being forced oil'by the swollen bodies % liiliM ittnr tl tnoel nfTnncivo i. rtl iioiu 'I'lti* I* ts ??" ?>*? " s a great evil, and should at once he remidied. Surely enough hands can U* ob ained to perforin the rite of scpultute? ho last testimonial of respect which can )e tendered to the unfortunate men who tave fallen in the defence of our country. ? Richmond l)i*/xitch. Important from Mkmimiis.?Gkksa'a, Miss., July 14 ?The Memphis papers >f the 11th inst., contain an order from teneral Grant, banishing from the citv ifter fivo days notice, the families of all tersons connected in any manner with he Confederate Army, or holding oflice iruler the Confederate Guveri merit, or lidding any State, County or municipal ifltces, and claiming to owe allegiance to tie Confederate States. The Birne tyrat deal rule is applied to the families of hose who have come South. This order vill expel fully two thirds of the families low residing in Memphis. $7.1 ICEWAltD! It una way from w here we hud tliein rr^ hired, near Chester, in June last, our Jgs three Negro men, viz : BILL, Cll.liS nd HKNHY. Bill and Uiles we bought the I tthof last November, at the estate sale of Kd. I .each in Broad lliver, in York District. They ieing brothers and having relations in the icighborhood where vve purchased them, it * more than likeley they have made their vnv hack to their old neighborhood. Hill is about gf> years old, 5 IVet 8 inches igh, will weigh 150 or ItiU pounds; is ery black ; rather sharped face, speaks jtiiek when spoken to. Riles, his brother, is about 'J4 years old i feet 9 inches high ; will weigh 100 lbs s very black, and walks with Ids head up nd feet turned out it; front. Henry, we purchased, Jan l.ofCol.C. lives on the Catawba river. He is '23 years ild, well sot, 5 feet 10 incites high,and will veigh 175 pounds ; has a heavy brow and peaks slowly; has some character as a unnwny. May go to Charleston or Washigton city, it is hard telling where he will 0 as he is a gentleman of travel. They II run oil' about the same time. 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