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PBESIDMT DAVIS' MESSAGE. Richmond, July 20.?Gentlemen: My message addressed to yon at the commencement of the session contained such full information of the state of the Confederacy as to render it unnecessary that I should now do more than call your attention to snob important facts as have occurred during the recess and to matters connected with public events. I have again to congratulate you on the accession of new members to our Confederation of free, equal and sovereign States. Our loved and honored brethren of North Carolina and Tennessee have conaumated the action foreseen and provided for at your last session, and I have had the gratification of announcing by proclamation, in conformity with law, that those States were admitted into the Southern Confederacy. The people of Virginia also, by a majority previously unknown in her history, have ratified the action of her Convention, by uniting her fortunes with ours. The States of Arkansas, North Carolina and Virgina have likewise adopted the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, and no doubt is entertained of its adoption by Tennessee at the election to be held early next month. I deemed it advisable to direct the removal of the several Executive Departments, with their archives, to this city, to which you had removed the seat of Government. Immediately after your adjournment the aggressive movements of the enemy required prompt and energetic aotion. The accumulation of his forces on the Potomac sufficiently demonstrated his efforts were to be direoted against Virginia, and from no point oould necessary measures for her defence and protection be so efficiently directed as from her own capital. The rapid progress of events for the last few weeks has fully sufficed to strip the veil behind which the true policy and purposes of the Government of the United States had been previously concealed, and their odious features now stand fully revealed. The message of their President and the action of their Congress , during the present month confess their intention of subjugating these States by a war whose folly is only equalled by its wickedness?a war by which it is impossible to . attain the proposed result, whilst its dire , calamities, not to be avoided by us, will fall with double severity on themselves. Commencing in March last, with the attectation of ignoring the secession of seven States < which first organized the Government; ! persisting in April in idle and absnrd as- < sumption of the existence of a riot, which 1 was to be dispersed by a posse com mi tat- 1 ub ; continuing in successive months the 1 false representation that these States in- i tended offensive war in spite of conclusive t evidence to the contrary, furnished as well t by official action, as by the very basis on c which this Government is constituted ; the c President of the United States and his ad- \ visers succeeded in deceiving the people of c those States into the belief that the pur- e pose of this government was not peace at ] home, but conquest abroad ; not defence of 1 its own liberties, but the subversion of those s of the people of the United States. The t scries of manoeuvres by which this impres- ? sion was created, the art with which they c were devised, and the perfidy with which f they were executed, were already known to s you, bat you could scarcely have supposed e that they would be openly avowed, and c their success made the subject of boast and r elf laudation in an Executive message.? f Fortunately for the truth of history, how- j ever, the President of the United States c details with minuteness the attempt to re- a inforce Fort Pickens, in violation of an ar- i mistice of which he confesses to have been j informed, but only by rumors which were ( too vague and uncertain to fix the attention. The hostile expedition dispatched to supply Fort Sumter was admitted to have been undertaken with the knowledge that its success was impossible. The sending of ( notice to the Governor of South Carolina of ^ his intention to use force to accomplish his object, and then quoting from his inaugu- c ral address, gave the assurance that there t could be no conflict unless these States were ^ aggressive. "We were aggressors, he pro- r coeds to declare. His conduct, as just re- * * " i r it. r _ r latea Dy mmseii, was me pertormauce 01 ^ this promise, so free from the power of in- j genious sophistry as that the world should t not be able to misunderstand it, and in de- v fiance of his own statement, that he gave a notice of the approach of a hostile fleet, he t charges these States with becoming the as- t sailauts of the United States, without a gun j in sight or in expectancy, to return their ^ fire, save only a few in the fort. He is, in- ^ deed, fully justified in sayiDg that the case ^ is so free from the power of ingenious so- t phistry that the w?rld will not be able to t misunderstand it. -Under cover of the un- v founded pretence, that the Confederate t States are the assailants, that high function- t ary, after expressing his concern that some t foreign nations had so shaped their action ( as if they supposed an early destruction of , our national Union probable, abandous all t further disguise, and proposes to make this t contest a short and decisive one, by placing g at the control of the government for the c work at least 400,000 men and $400,000,- j 000. The Congress, concurring in the |. doubt thus intimated as to the sufficien-,, cy of the force demanded, has increased it ( to half a million men. This enormous pre- j paration in men and money, for the conduct ? of a war on a scale more gigantic than any ( which the new world ever witnessed, is a , distinct avowal in the eyes of civilized man ( that the United States are engaged in a!, conflict with a great and powerful nation.? | j They are at last compelled to abandon the , pretence of being engaged in dispersing . rioters and suppressing insurrections, and , are driven to the acknowledgment that the , ancient Union has been dissolved. They recognize the separate existence of these . Confederate States by the introduction of nr? All thn nnmrnprnt? cu,?"'ftu ? 1, between them and the United States, not , only by sea, but by land : cot only in ships, but in cars; doc only with these who bear 1 arms, but with the entire population of the Confederate States. Finally, they have re- ! pudiated the foolish conceit that the inhabitants of this Confederacy are still citizens of the United States, for they are waging indiscriminate war upon them all with a savage ferocity unknown to modern civilization. In this war rapine is the rule.? j Private residences, in peaceful rural retreats, are bombarded and burnt. Grain crops in the field are consumed by the torch, 1 and when the torch is not convenient care- 1 ful labor is bestowed to render a complete 1 destruction of every article of use or orna- * tnent remaining in private dwellings, after their inhabitants have fled from the out- ? rages of brutal soldiery. f In 1781, Great Britain, when invadiDg 1 her revolted colonies, took possession of every district in the country near Fortress Monroe, now occupied by the troops of the United States; the houses then inhabited by the people, after being respected and protected by avowed invaders, are now pillaged and destroyed by men who pretend that the victims are their fellow-citizens. Mankind will shudder to hear the tales of the outrages committed on defenceless females by the soldiers of the United States now invading our homes; yet these outrages are prompted by inflamed passions and the madness of intoxication. But who shall depict the horror with which they regard the cool, deliberate malignity with which, under the pretext of suppressing insurrection, said by themselves to be upheld by a minority only of our people, makes especial war on the sick, inoluding women j -L.iJ i r-ii_ J J uuu uuuurcu, auu uy careiuuy ueyiseu measures prevents tbeir obtaining the medicines necessary for their cure. The sacred claims of humanity, respected even during the fury of actual battle by oareful diversion of attack from the hospitals containing the wounded enemies, are outraged in cold blood, by a government and people that pretend to desire a continuance of fraternal connections. All these outrages must remain unavenged, save by universal reprobation of mankind. In all cases where the actual perpetrators of the wrongs escape capture, they admit of no retaliation. The humanity of oar people would shrink instinctively from the bare idea of waging a like war upon the sick, the wounded, the women and the children of the enemy; but there are other savage practices which have been resorted to by the Government of the United States, which do admit of repressioa by retaliation. I have been grieved to see the necessity of enforcing imprisonment. The prisoners of war taken by the enemy on board of the armed schooner Savannah, sailing under our commission, were, as I was credibly advised, treated like common felons, and put iu irons, and confined in a jail usually appropriated to criminals of the worst dye, and threatened with punishment as such. I had made an application for an exchange of these prisoners to ' the commanding officer of the enemy's i squadron off Charleston harbor, but that i officer had already sent his prisoners to < New York when application was made. I ] therefore deemed it my duty to renew my proposed application for exchange to the i constitutional commander in chief of the i irmy and navy of the United States, the 1 only officer having control of the prisoners, i [n making the proposal I informed President ? Lincoln of my resolute purpose to check all \ sarbarities on prisoners of war by such | jeverity of retaliation on prisoners held by ( is, as should secure the abandonment of s .bis practice. This communication was re- i seived aod read by the officer in command ] if the United States army, and a message s vas brought from him by the bearer of my lommunication that a reply would be return- 1 id by President Lincoln as soon as possible ' earnestly hope this promised reply, which t las not yet been received, will convey as- \ urance that prisoners of war will be trea- ] ed in this unhappy contest with that re- ( ;ard to humanity which has been made c sonspicuous in the conduot of modern war- f 'are. As measures of precaution, however, y ind until the promised reply is received, I i till retain in close custody men and officers c aptured from the enemy whom it has beeD r ny pleasure to enlarge on parole, and whose s ate must necessarily depend on that of the irisoners held by the enemy: I append a :opy of my communication to the President md commander-in-chief of the army and ; iavy of the United States, and of the re- f >ort of the officer charged to deliver it? ( marked document.?) There are some other passages in the re- t narkable paper to which I have directed a rour attention, having reference to the pe- f iuliar relations which exist between this t government and the States usually termed t loder slave States, whioh cannot properly t le withheld from notice. The hearts of a iur people are animated by seDtimeots owards the inhabitants of those States ? rhich found expression in your enactment i cfusing to consider them enemies, or toau- r horize hostilities against them; that a t rery large portion of the people of these ? States regard us as bretheru; and that if a mrestrained by the actual presence of large irmies, the subversion of civil authority, e ;nd the declaration of martial law, some of I hem, at least, would joyfully unite with us; 1 bat they are, with entire unanimity, op- t >osed to the prosecution of the war waged a;aiust us?are facts which daily occurring r ivents fully warrant the assertion. The J iresent United States Government refuses \ o recognize in these, our late sister States, a he right of refraining from an attack on a is, and justifies his refusal by the assertion hat the States have no other power than hat reserved to them by the Union and he Constitution, no one of them having sver been a State out of the Union. This aew of the Constitutional relations leads us o consider another assertion of the message; hat the Executive possesses the power of iuspendiug the writ of habeas corpus, and )f delegating that power to military comnanders at his discretion, and both these propositions claim a respect equal to that vhich is felt for the additional statement of ppinion in the same paper, that it is proper, .0 order to execute the laws, that some single law, made in such extreme tenderness pf the citizen's liberty that practically it relieves more of the guilty than the innojent, should, to a very limited extent, be piolated. We may well rejoice that we have forever severed our connection with a Giovernment that thus tramples on all the principles of Constitutional liberty, and svith a people in whose presence such avowils could be hazarded. t?,? J? ,?:n x uc; upciauvuo iu ua uuiu trui uc ^ I catly extended by reason of the policy which < was heretofore secretly entertained, but is { now avowed and acted on by the United 1 States. The forces hitherto raised proved irnple for the defence of the seven States I which originally organized the Confederacy, is is evinced by the fact that, with the exjeption of three fortified islands, whose de- t fence is efficiently aided by a prepondera- 1 ;ing naval force, the enemy has been driven [ jompletely out of those States, and now, at j ;he expiration of five months from the for- , nation of the Government, not a single ( lostile foot presses their soil. I These forces, however, must necessarily \ jrove inadequate to repel invasion by half ( i million of men now proposed by the eneny, and a corresponding increase of our orce will become necessary. ( The recommendation for the raising of i md efficient equipment for this additional orce will be contained in a communication i 'rom the Secretary of War, to which I need a scarcely invite your earnest attention. In my message, delivered in April last, I referred to the promise of abundant crops, with which we are cheered. The grain orops generally have since been harvested, and the yield proved to he the most abundant known in our history. Many believe the supply will be adequate to two years' consumption of our population. Cotton, sugar and tobacco, forming the surplus production of our agriculture, and furnishing the basis of our commercial intercharges, present the most cheering promise, and a kind Providence has smiled on the labor which extracts the teeming wealth of our soil in all portions of our Confederacy. It is the more gratifying to be able to give you this information, because of the need of large and increased expenditures in the supply of our army. Elevated and purified by the sacred cause which they maintain, our fellow-oitizens of every condition of life exhibit the most self-sacrificing devotion ; they manifest a laudable pride in upholding their independence unaided by any resources othei than their own and the immense wealth which a fertile soil and genial climate have accumulated in this Confederacy of agriculturalists, could not be more strikingly displayed than in the large revenues which, with eager zeal, they have contributed at the call of their country. In the single article of cotton the subscription to the loan proposed by the Government cannot fall short of $50,000,000, and will probably largely exoeed that sum ; and scarcely an article required for the consumption of our armies has been provided otherwise than by subscription to the produce loan, so happily devised by your wisdom. The Secretary of the Treaury, in his report submitted to you, will give you the amplest details in connection with that branch of the public service.? But it is not alone in their prompt pecuniary contributions that the noble race of freemen who inhabit these States evince how worthy they are of those liberties which they so well know how to defend. In numbers far exceeding those authorized by your laws, they have pressed the tender of their services against the enemy. Their attitude of calm and sublime devotion to their country?the cool and confident courage with which they are already preparing to meet the threatened invasion in whatever proportions it may assume?the assurance that their sacrifices and their services will be renewed from year to year with unfaltering purpose, until they have nade good to the uttermost their right to ielf-goverment?the generous and almost mquestioning confidence which they disjlay in their Government during the penling struggle, all combine to present a ipectacle such a9 the world has rarely i ever oeeu. jlu spea& ui auujugawu^ u people so united and determined, ia to ipeak a language incomprehensible to them. L'o resist an attack on their rights or their iberties is with them an instinot. Whether this war shall last one, or hrer., or five years, is a problem they vill leave to be solved by the enemy aloDe. [t will last till the enemy shall have withirawn from their borders?till their political rights, their altars and their homes, are 'reed from invasion. Then, aud then only, vill they rest from this struggle, to enjoy n peace the blessings which, with the favor >f Providence, they have secured by the dd of their own strong hearts and sturdy irms. JEFFERSON DAVIS. BATTLE OFTJULL'S RUN, Manassas Junction, Va., July 18? ' o'clock, p. M.?A battle has at last been 'ought and a great victory gained by the Confederate troops. Yesterday morning, our scouts having >rought in the news that the invaders were idvanciug in heavy columns towards Fairax Court House, the Southern pickets at hat place were withdrawn and fell back owards Bull's Run, where a large body of he Confederate troops were concentrated ,nd strongly entrenched. At day break this morning, the enemy irst appeared in force at Bull's Run, where t crosses the road, about three miles northrest of Manassas Junction, and attempted o pass. Our tioops immediately opened ire, which was replied to by the enemy, ,nd the engagement soon became general. On our side. (Ten. ReAtiremird nnmmand. id in person. It is not yet known what Joited States officer conducted the attack. Che fighting extended along Bull's Run for he distance of one mile. The battle lasted, with intermissions, duing the greater part of the day, the United States troops being three times repulsed, vith heavy loss, and three times rallying igain to the attack. At four o'clock in the .fternoon the battle reached its height.? rhe enemy finally gave way and retreated n great confusion towards Alexandria. At. ive o'clock the firing had ceased altogether. The First and Seventeenth Regiments of Virginia Volunteers were conspicuous in he action, and behaved nobly. The Washngton Artillery, of New Orleans, under Major Walton, also, occupied a prominent josition, and worked their butteries with reraendous effect. The loss on our side was but slight.? iVilliam Sangster, one of our riflemen, was tilled. Capt. Dulany, of the Seventeenth Virginia Regiment, was wounded in the irm. Col. Moore was also slightly woundid. An United States officer of high rank vas killed and his horse taken. Upon his person was found ?700 in gold. A shot passed through the kitchen of the muse where General Beauregard was at lienor. The enemy, it is supposed discovered his whereabouts. They also fired in:o our hospital, notwithstanding that they must have?seen the yellow flag flying. W <t lio no tin unfkontin in^A??mn<tAn nn ?T UMW uv uuvuwuvio iuiutwatiuu uo jrcu joncerning the number of the forces engaged or the amount of the loss of the enemy. It i9, however, known to be very heavy.? rhe impression prevails here that the bat:le will be renewed to morrow. Another Account. liicn.MOND, July 18.?Apparently auihentic advices from Manassas state that the United States troops advanced this morning n a column of 10,000 men, and that, after four hours' fighting, they were repulsed vith immense slaughter by the Confederate ;roops, numbering 7000, under Geo. Bonlam. The Northern forceBatlast accounts vere retreating in the direction of AleianIria. We have no further details. Further Particulars. Manassas Junction, Va., July 19.? )ne o'clock p. m.?Up to this hour nothng has been seen of the enemy. Owing to the extent of the line of fightng yesterday, it is very difficult to gather, it this point, the correct particulars of the battle. Our total loss in killed and wounded did not exceed 60. The oarnage in the ranks of the enemy was far greater. It it generally estimated at 600, bat may have been more. Major Walton's splendid battalion ol Washington Artillery, from New OrleanSj held a very prominent position in the action, and covered themselves with glory.? With their seven field pieces they engaged Sherman's famous battery of TJ. S. Flying Artillery. Sherman had fifteen guns, but, notwithstanding the disparity of force, sucb was the galling and vigorous fire of the Washington Artillery, that he was forced to shift his position no less than fifteen times, tlis battery was nnaiiy silenced and ' forced to retreat with great loss. Of the Washington Artillery only one man was killed and four wounded. Theii names are as follows: killed, Private George Muz; wounded, Capt. Eschlrman and Privates Baker, Tarleton and Zuble. Major Harris, of the Eleventh Regiment Virginia Volunteers, was mortally wounded, and died this morning. Private Thomas Sangster, of the Alexandria (Va.) Riflemen, was shot through the heart and instantly killed. Col. Haye's Louisiana Regiment was among the troops engaged. They made a splendid bayonet charge, scattering the enemy in every direotion. It has been ascertained that Gen. McDowell, in person, commanded the attack. Among the fruits of the viotory I may mention a very large quantity of improved arms thrown away by the Yankees in their hasty retreat, and taken by our forces. The Latest. Nine O'Clock, p. m.?Everything has been quiet this afternoon. The enemy, having obtained permission, under a flag of truce, to bury their dead, h-ve been busily engaged in so doing for several hours. Their loss certainly exceeded 500. Our loss was less than twenty killed, and thirty or forty wounded. Gen. Bonbam, who commanded the brigade that did the fighting, had under him only 3,000 men, made up of Virginians, South CaroliniauB and Lousianians. The enemy had between 5000 and 6,000 engaged. We have taken two cannon and 500 stand of arms from the enemy. It was Thomas Sangster, and not William, who was killed among the Alexandria Riflemen. X' iity nuiiuciu IOUUCIO, pnuuipouj Pennsylvanians, arrived here today from Winchester. We are hourly looking for a renewal of the attack. Accounts from Bichmond. Richmond, July 19?Noon.?The Secretary of War and Adjutant-General informed me that they have no particulars as to the Confederate loss, or names of those killed or wounded in the battle yesterday on Bull's Run near Maossaas. Private reports so far refer only to small losses in Virginia Regiments. The loss of the Confederates is vastly disproportioned to tV at supposed to be the loss of the enemy. We will send details as soon as received. The Secretary of War says he has no details of the fight at Rich Mountain, or of Garnett's conflict. Richmond, July 19, 8 p. m.?Passengers from Manassas Junction report that 142 of the Southern troops are killed, wounded and missing. An inspection of the field of battle to-day disclosed the fact tbat no less than 986 of the Northern invaders were left dead on the field. About thirty of the wounded were brought here on the cars tonight. Also one dead body. News from the Enemy. Washington, July 19.?The N. York Commercial says that information has been received at the War Department that the Bull Creek battery was taken, but there were no particulars. The Times says their loss was one hundred killed and wounded. This will hasten the attack on Manassas, which will doubtless occur to-morrow. The Confederates lost but few. The Tribune, on the authority of the finnrafnru nf War nava that mora than fifYu J -- .. ?J V were killed, including five captain and six lieutenants. From another source it was reported that Bull's Creek was carried by the Zouaves and the Massachnsetts 5th. Craig and Richardson, of Illinois, left Bull Creek at 8 o'clock this morning, who report no general fighting 6ince yesterday, wheu the federalists fell back. But early in the morning occasional firing was heard from skirmishers. McDowel told Richardson that he should hereafter examine the locations of the enemy's batteries before engaging them. The World Bays there is no truth in the report of fighting at Bull's Point to-day. Scott's army made no new move to-day, nor are they likely before Saturday. The Post says the official report says there were twelve killed and forty wounded, but it was supposed that more killed and wounded were in the woods. Louisville, July 19.?Dispatches from St. Louis and other points in Missouri are utterly useless, and private letters equally so. Indications are plain that the entire State is in a blaze, and nothing allowed to be'published or go through the mail tending to encourage the patriots. Nothing but items stating that McCulloch had quarreled with Jackson and gone home, and it is impossible but fhere will be an entire annihilation of the secession camps, and that in districts where all are secessionists, and where there are no St. Louis Dutch ; but that Illinois soldiers have arrived is allowed to be published. Richmond, July 20.?By a telegram irorn etaunton, yesterday momiDg, the report of the safety, at Monteiey, of Ramsey's Georgia regiment and all the survivors of Pegram's command, is confirmed. Patterson crossed the Putomac at Harper's Ferry, and will probably make a conjunction with McDowell near Manassas. Northern Account of the Bull Creek Fight. Washington, (via Norfolk,) July 20. Full particulars of the Bull Creek engagement state that three Federal companies crossing a ravine received a raking fire, killing a number, but they stood their ground, covering the retreat of a brass cannon and Sherman's battery, the horses of which were disabled. Four regimeuts, which were supported by cavalry, joined in the battle. The Southerners used their guns well. The federals again advanced and encountered a raking fire. The federal guns were put in position, and poured grape and canister into the Southerners till the ammunition was exhausted. Several federal guns were disabled. The total loss of the federals is estimated at forty s killed. Gen. Tyler ordered the federals to i fall back. Wilcox's division was ordered i to attempt to outflank the Ball Creek batteries. A dispatch received by the War F Department to-day says that the fight at , Ball Creek is still going on. ; 1 HAT BATTLE AT MAIM! Mannassas Junction, Saturday night, ' Jnly 20.?DariDg the greater part of yes| terday afternoon we were busy in burying ( the dead near Ball's Run. We, however, | have information that the Northern forces | are concentrating against us in immense numbers, and they are throwing up earthworks and planting batteries with great energy, as if to renew the attack on oar , troops. We await the onset with the utmost confidence. Gen. Patterson, with his entire force, has abandoned Martinsbarg, and is now hastening to form a junction with McDowell. Troops are being thrown across the river in heavy bodieB from Washington, and everything indicates that onr position will be attacked speedily by an overwhelming force. General Beauregard yesterday afternoon issued orders that all civilians, women, and children, should leave Manassas Junotion forthwith; he evidently expects a great battle here to morrow. Manassas Junction, Sunday night, July 21, 7 o'clock.?At the Stone Bridge on Bull's Bun near this place the Southern , troops are again victorious. The slaughter on both sides was terrifio. Gen. Johnston, who had been summoned ( from Winchester to come to the aid of General Beauregard, arrived here with his entire force in time to take part in the battle. Gen. Beauregard had his horse shot t from under him while leading Hampton's ^ Legion into position. r Gen. Johnston, during the hottest of the < fight, seized the colors of a wavering regiment, and rallied them in person to the ? charge. It is impossible at this moment to ? estimate the number of the dead and c wounded. c It is reported that the Commander in- ^ Chief of the United States forces, General T -T\ 11 " 11 J - J irioi/uweu, is aiorutny wuuuueu. r On our side Col. Francis S. Bartow, of ^ Georgia, who was acting as Brigadier Gen- j eral, was mortally wounded, and is since ( reported doad. o The battle began at 8 a. m., and lasted j. until 6 p. m. a The enemy is now in full retreat and hot- e ly pursued by our cavalry. Manassas Junction, July 21.?111 t o'clock, p. m.?Amid the bustle and excite- , ment here it is exceedingly difficult to get f the correct particulars of the great battle of t to day. The enemy opened their batteries of heavy artillery and small field pieces at j McLean's Ford, about eight o'clock in the morning. The engagement above the Stone c Bridge on Bull Run began about ten o'- a clock. The enemy's force, as near as can t be ascertained, was at least 50,000; uui a owd force but 20,000. ( Gen. N. G. Evans, of South Carolina, j led the first brigade into action. AmoDg 0 the Southern forces prominently engaged, f were Col. Sloan's 4th regiment, and Col. Wade Hampton's legion, all of which are c South Carolina volunteers. c Only three men were wounded in Col. n Kershaw's Regiment. fi In Col. Sloan's Regimentand Hampton's c Legion the loss of life was greater. Adju- s tant Theo. G. Baker and Capt. James Con- ^ ner, of the Washington Light Infantry, ^ Hampton's Legion, were slightly wounded; p Lieut. Col. B. J. Johnson, of the Legion, was killed; Captains Earle and Eobols a were slightly wounded. c Men never fought more desperately than did ours to-day. We have captured eigh- n teen pieces of artillery, and 400 prisoners. c The number killed and wounded cannot be assertained with any accuracy until to morrow. Our loss is estimated at 200 killed and 300 wounded, while the loss of the b enemy could not have been less than seve- a ral thousand. . b These figures, however, may be wide of the mark, for the line of battle was extend- a ed, and it was almost dark wheo the enemy gave way. The Washington Artillery, of New Or- rj leans, was again in the foremost place, and did most effective work. Their fire fell up- n on the ranks of the foe with murderous ef- n feet. p The Oglethorpe Infantry, of Savannah, ^ were cut to pieces. f( Col. Bartow's fine regiment of Georgians j( were nearly annihilated. Gen. Barnard E. Bee, of South Carolina, was mortally< t] wounded. Col. Wade Hampton was slight- e ly wounded. ti Gen. Johnston commanded the left wing, jj and Gen. Beauregard the right wing. e The reports that reach us here state j that our force was not less than 75,000 men, a and that the enemy had over 100,000.? ^ These statements are probably exaggerated, t( but it is certain that the leaders on both n sides had concentrated their whole available n force to take part in the battle. At. one time during the battle Sherman's ^ celebrated battery of the United States fly- ^ ing artillery was on the point of destroying Hampton's legion, when Col. Garland, of tj the 11th Virginia, was ordered to charge the battery at the point of the bayonet. He j immediately led the Virginians to thek nViornrn nn/lnr fi f<*rrihln firn on ^ aftav n. I _ M UUII1WIU UAVj Ull U MAW* % ^ fierce struggle captured the entire battery, and turned its guns upon the enemy. Richmond, July 22.?President Davis, ^ in a dispatch to tho Secretary of War, announces a complete and decisive viotory yesterday near Manassas. The enemy after a ten hours' battle, fled precipitately from the field, in the direction of Leesburg ^ and Centreville, pursued by our cavalry and light infantry until night put an end to the pursuit. The enemy left on the ^ field large stores of munitions of war and ^ arms, and vast piles of slain. Everywhere J in the direction of their fight were dead bodies, and the neighboring farm-houses ^ and road were crowded with tho wounded of the enemy. The Confederate forces immediately en- j gaged were 15,000; the federal force estimated at 35,000. These figures refer to ? the left wing only, where the battle principally raged, and do not include the right and centre, whioh were only partially enga- ^ ged. The entire Confederate force was ^ about 40,000; the federal force nearly 80,- Pc 000. The enemy lost several batteries of field ac artillery and one regimental stand of colors. ^ No particulars have been received of the killed and wounded on either side up to 1 te p. m. to day. ar Richmond, July 22.?Reports received lere of the killed and wounded were so un eliable last night, in the excitement and jonfusioD following the victory at Manassas, that I refrained mentioning them, fearfal )f giving causeless pain to anxious hearts, A.mong the dead are Generals Bartow, of Georgia, Bee, of South Carolina, Kirby Smith, of Florida, Col. Johnson, of Hampton's Legion. Gen. Beauregard and staff ire safe. Beauregard's horse was shot unier him.1 General Joseph R. Johnson commanded the left, where the eoemy made their fieriest attack, and Gen. Beuaregard commanled the right. President Davis reached the field at noon, md took command of the centre. When ihe left was pressed the severest, the centre lisengaged a portion of the enemy's force md decided the fortune of the day. No )ther reliable reports have since been reseived, but are hourly expected. It is itated that the enemy was commanded by jenerals Scott, Patterson and McDowell ?the latter reported to be seriously wounled. Lieut. Hood, of Crump's company, from Western Virginia, arrived here last evening well; he says that all the company 'and ;he regiment are safe at Monterey. Young Pool, of Cramp's company, was very slighty hurt in the thigh. Nobody else is known a have been hurt. Passengers state that Gen. Wise won a lecided victory in Kanawha Valley last veek, killing 150 of the enemy, and losing put few. Nothing later from Manassas at 10 o'slock. The Southern Congress. Richmond, July 22.?Congress met at loon, and, after prayer, the following dispatch, dated Manassas, Sunday night, was ead by the Clerk : <To Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant General: Night has closed upon a hard-fought ield. Our forces have won a glorious vicory. The enemy was routed, and fled presipitately, abandoning a very large amount >f arms, munitions, knapsacks and bag ;age. me ground was strewn ror tunes vith those killed, and the farm-houses and he grounds around were filled with his founded. The pursuit was continued aong several routes towards Leesburg and Centreville until darkness covered the fujitives. We have captured several field latteries and a regimental stand of arms, ,nd one United States flag. Many prisonirs have been taken. Too much praise cannot be bestowed for he gallantry of all the troops. The battle fas mainly fought on our left, several miles rom our field. Our force was 15,000; hat of the enemy was estimated at35-,000. "Signed, . Jeff. Davis.**.. The following resolntions were offered by Jr. Memminger, and unanimously adopted: Resolved, That we recognize the hand if the Most High God, the King of kings md the Lord of lords, in the glorious viecry with which He hath crowned our army it Manassas; and that the people of the Confederate States are invited, by approbate services, on the ensuing Sabbath, to iffer up their united thanksgivingand praise or this mighty deliverance. Resolved, That, deeply deploring the neessity which has washed the soil of our ountry with the blood of so many of her loblest sons, we offer to their respective amilies and friends our warmest and most ordial sympathy, assuring them that the acrifioes made will be consecrated in the learts of our people, and will there enshrine he names of the gallant dead as the chamions of free and constitutional liberty. Resolved, That we approve of the prompt nd patriotio effort of the Mayor of the ity of Richmond, to make provision for be wounded, and that a Committee of one lember from each State be appointed to o-operatc in the plan. Resolved, That Congress do now adDurn. The city is full of rumors about the numer of killed and wounded of both sides, nd movements are on foot for ascertaining, _x _11 1* 1_1_ * ui au reports are uneny unrenauie. The body of Col". Francis S. Bartow, d perhaps others, is expected on the train )-night. 'he Washington Accounts Westward. Louisville, Jnly 22.?The following ews of the Confederate victory creates the lost intense excitement here, startling the ublic mind; the morning dispatches from Washington proclaiming a brilliant victory jr the federalists. There was great rejicing among the State Rights men. Washington, Monday noon. ? Oar roops, after gaining a great victory were ventually repnlsed and commenced a re:eat on Washington. After this informaon from Centreville last night a series of vents, took place in the highest degree isastrous, and many confused statements re prevailing; but enough is known to 'arrant the statement that we have suffered > a degree which casts gloom over the remants of our army, and excites the deepest lelancholly throughout Washington. The carnage was tromendously heavy on oth sides, and ours represented as frightll. We were advancing to take the maskd batteries gradually, but surely, driving le enemy towards Manassas, when the nemy seemed to be reinforced by General ohnson. Wc were immediately driven ack, and a panic among our troops sudenly occurred. A regular stampede took lace. It is understood that McDowell unertook to make a stand near Centreville, ut the panic was so fearful that the whole rmy became demoralized, and it was iraDssible to check them either at Centreville r at Fairfax C. H. Large numbers of troops in their retreat >11 by the wayside from exhaustion, and ere scattered along the route. On the ay from Fairfax Court House the road om Bull's Bun was strewn with guns and aapsacks discarded by our troops, the lat- ' r to facilitate their retreat, t i General McDowell was in rear of the reeating forces, endeavoring to rally the en, but was only partially successful. Only 200 of the Firemen Zouaves are ] ft from the slaughter. The 69th and 1 her New York regiments suffered fright- ( illy. j Sherman's, Carlisle's, Griffin's and the . rest Point batteries were taken by the anfederates, and also the eight siege 32- ' >under rifle oannon. i Col. Wilcox the commander of the brig- 1 le, and Capt. McCook were killed. Col. | cintzelman was wounded. , Washington is the scene of the most in- i nse excitement. Wagons are continually i riving bringing the dead and wounded. ? The feeling in the city is awfully distressing. Both telegraph and steamboat communication with Alexandria is unrestricted, to satisfy the public. The greatesc alarm exists throughout the city?the fortifications are being strongly reinforoed with fresh troops. It is supposed that Gen. Mansfield will take command of the fortifications on the other side of the river. Large rifled cannon and mortars are being rapidly sent over. Ik foMk YORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MOBBING, JULY 25,1861. (?7-Mr. John R. Allen, Pout Master at Cheater, la our authorized agent; and fully empowered to receive money for this office, and give receipt* for the same. {Jt?- In case t where subscribers do not take the Ejwjirer roin the post-office, Post-Masters arc requested to notify ua nimedlately. {Sj-Subscribers desiring their papers cuiuged must mention the Post Office from, as well as the one to, which they desire the chagcn to be made.. THE ENQUIBEB. After the present week, we deem it prudent, in order to prevent an early suspension, to issue only half sheet. Our papermakers have notified us, that owing to the want of necessary chemicals, and which cannot be obtained at present, they will probably be unable to supply us with paper when our stock on hand is exhausted. We have a sufficient quantity of paper in the office to print a half sheet eaoh week until about the 1st of December next, by which time we hope to be able to make arrangements for a regular supply of the proper size. .. We regret the necessity of pursuing the course indicated above, yet feeling conscious that the circumstances are beyond our control, we hope that our readers will be disposed to bear with us until we can do better. Six of the papers heretofore published in the State have suspended, and nearly as many more are being issued on half sheets. As there will be but few advertisements, oar readers will lose more in surplus paper than in the quantity of matter. We shall use our best endeavors to make the half sheet interesting. S&* Attention is directed to the advertisement of Mr. R. E. Guthrie,. offering fine stock for sale. ' . .> * " HON. A. H. STEPHENS' SPEECH. On the outside of this week's issue, we print the' admirable speeoh of Hon. A. H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States, delivered recently at Augusta, on the subject of the produce loan. Tbe length of tbe speech should deter no one from giving it a careful reading. THE PRODUCE LOAN. In addition to Col. Wilson, Col. A. B. Springs has been appointed a Commissioner in York District to solicit subscriptions to the Pioduce Loan. In order to more fully present the subject to the consideration of our people, the Commissioners?Cols. Wilson and Springs?publish a call for a,public meeting on sale day next. See.A'e advertisement. ^ , fy' ' A CALL FOE MORE VOLtWftTEES. We take very special pleasure quailing the attention of our readers to tfe$advertisement of Col. W. H. M<^rkre?-in this issue. The war is now raging tyfty on the soil of the "Old Dominiou/jJ*Our own' brave Carolinians have throMflfthemselves in the breach to stop Lincol^Pdogs of war. But unless God, in mercy; will drive out and restrain these wicked and bloody men, who would desolate our lands, desecrate our altars and pollute our homes, we have only seen and felt the beginning of this most atrocious war. Doubtless, as soon as our rtlimnto trill nprmif: the fnnl invftdar will endeavor,to plant his polluting foot upon the soil of our own beloved State. We did not need a Bennett to herald this fact. We know our enemies have neither forgotten the 20th of December, nor the 13th of April. If they had us in their power, they would give us no choice but that of death, or a degradation tenfold worse. Who, then, that is able to bear arms, will not spring to the rescue, willing either to fly to the succor of those who are now so gallantly breasting a mighty storm of wrath and death on the soil of a sister State, or to take position wherever his bleeding country may cry for help? We know none in "Old York'.' are disposed to claim the protection of Lincol nism. On the contrary, the universal sentiment is extermination before subjugation. Then, fellow citizens, let us prove our manhood by rallying around the standard of our country and saying to our leaders : "Zfere ice are, ready to suffer and to die in defence of our liberties, our homes, our altars, our wives and our children." We need scarcely say a word to those, who are ready to obey the call of their country, to induce them to join the company, Col. McCorkle proposes to raise and command. Every one who knows him, will readily admit, he possesses eminent qualifications tor the Captaincy of a Volunteer Company. He is a man of singular prudenoe and caution ; quick to peroeive, and remarkably 1 prompt and energetic in action, he has a heart full of kindness and generosity. None ! could be more considerate of the comfort of his men, than he would be. His bravery 1 1 ' 1/ i is unquestioned. When a boy at school, though distinguished for his kind, friendly ind generous disposition, yet none dared, * svantonly insnlt "Billie McCorkle.^ In 1 She sacrifices of ease, pecuniary interest and ' domestic happiness, which he makes in 1 Toing to the war, we have a sufficient guar- \ inty that his ancestral love of independence < itill lives and burns in his heart. * t EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Tudoe Hall, Prince Williams, Va., 1 Tuesday Morning, July 16, 1861. J Dear Enquirer :?The Northern Congress has progressed quite far enough with its business to show completely the cloven foot. Notwithstanding the vile despot at their head, in his nondescript message, confesses to repeated violations of the constitution by himself to maintain its authority intact over others; yet^ they legalize his usurpations, and place at his disposal 500,000 men and two hundred and fifty million dollars. They . have not stopt a moment for the "sober, second thought;" and the otherwise ridiculous assertion of the message that any Yankee, regiment conld furnish a president, a cabinet, a congress and perhaps a supreme oonrt abundantly able a. infunn lU QUUilUISlCl C/tC ^UTCI UUiOUV^ ?-v Ieaat plausible, in the sight of their reckless and fanatical legislation. It is evident now. that, so far as those who govern Yankeedom is concerned, this war is to be prosecuted to the bloody and desolating end; there being only 7 in the bouse and 12 in the senate opposed to a "rale or ruin" conflict. AH that remains for us to do is to accept the gauntlet thrown down to us, girdle up our loins, and drive the invader. back. We have all the hallowed memories of the past, and all the precious hopes of the future, to nerve us. Commerce is our "man-of-war." What re. ? ... mains of reason and humanity at the North, already growing to a head Mid opposing a manly front to Lincolnism, will operate against every new effort tcraise men and money. . England and France will soon t ' reoogoize our independence; and the stalwart arms and stout hearts of the South can soon accomplish thebalanee.. * Never," to compare great things with small, did a hungry .pig -more diliigently seek admittance into a peach orchard or a wheat field, thao "Old Fass and Feathers" has sought a broad and' easy way for his plundering hordes of reflndd savages, into the land whiah gave him births First with Old Point Comfort asjai^pointU'appui," l: i t- - j i. ii n:j lie IOOKCU out upuu me nuu vuiuco auu WJbscco fields of the Peninsula; but be soou found the game blocked there. At Aequia s* Zr . -c Creek he was repulsed La a single engagement ' Snob is the wall of living flesh and steel, of "masked batteries" and "lariats," wbioh Beauregard has ^planted in his path via Alexandria and Manassas, that, although a month or "so out on their march, his senatorial regiments have'nt got out of sigixt of home. At the gaifkt which they have been moving, a pert snail or a nocto-i ' w ^ genariau donkey could out-travel them. There is still one route apparently open; and that is through the region of the Wheeling traitors, and thence along the fertile and beautiful valley walled in by the Blue Ridge and Alleghany mountains. The two columns of the invaders, beaded by Patterson and MoClellan, have, indeed, advanced as far as Martinsburg and Laurel Hill; and Seott seems to be bending all his operations to help them onward. A number of regiments have recently marched thitherward from Washington. One purpose of this is i-' i.i? . .1 1. e .1 uouuuess to occupy mc pmcc ut tuc iuiccmonths volunteers, many of whom have gone home; but another, perhaps, is taincrease their numbers absolutely in Western Virginia, which appears to Soott to invite invasion. The clue to all his plans is Eiohmond, beyond question." He expects assistance from the disaffected citixens, until he can 0 * set his tyrant heel 'firmly' upon the neck of his mother; and then, with die abundant harvest of the Valley to feast upon, he woald stab her to death in cold blood at bis leisure. If ever?if evgr a worse onrse than marked Cain's brow can fall upon man, we predict it for this monstrous ingrate who would slay, not one, bat a hundred thousand brothers, to become- the co-heir of Lincoln to an "immortality of infamy.*' This is certainly the most feasible and tempting route for invading V irginia ; and they seem at least somewhat disposed to < fight. We have, indeed, various and conflicting accounts of an engagement at Laurel Hill between Col. Garnett's and Gen. McClellan's. forces which began on Sunday morning and continued till Monday evening; but as these accounts are so unsatisfactory, and as you will likely gee full accounts before this reaches you, we forbear to make any statements. Conquering or oonquered, our troops will not give up the struggle when so much is at stake, after one?no! nor after a dozen, or fifty reverses. The volunteers, no one doubts, will do their part; and the Virginia militia, thoroughly acquainted with the country and in love with the cause, will do more than theirs. While we are inclined to think that for a month or so at least the war news of Virginia will come | chiefly from the Valley and the mountains, and that fighting harder and on a more extensive scale than we have yet experienced will soon be done there; we at the same time believe that Johnson and Wise will be Fabius and Scipo enough, and too much, for their Hannibal. When we reflect upon the smiling plenty ind social happiness which lie before these vandalizing hordes, and the ruin and out age whioh follow in their wake, it is enough a stir a fever in the pulse of age, and make ill, men, women and children, all, all, relolve to die with weapons in their hands, rather than be overrun by such ruthless and jrutal invaders. The story of private property destroyed, innocent and helpless ^ vomen insulted and even manacled ; of jhurches shut and pastor and congregation ;urned out of doors for daring to sympa