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For each additional line, 91. f Announcements of Marriages or Deaths ; Notices ol us Meetings published GRATIS and solicited. Tributes of Respect rated as advertisements. Obituary Notices exceeding one square in length, charged for the overplus at regular advertising rates *?* Personal Communications, when admissible; communications of limited or individual interest, oi recommendations of Candidates for offices of honor, prof itortrust. will be charged for at from 3 to 10 cents per tina Battle of Shlloh?The Second Day's Fight. Battle-Field of Shiloe, (Near the Tennessee River,) Monday Night, April 7, 1862. We have had another day of battle and blood. The fight was renewed this morning, at eight o'clook, by the enemy, who had been reinforced daring the night, and with the exception of short breathing spells it raged with tremendoas violenoe and fury until night separated the combatants. The unnrflhensions exrressed in my letter of -f I last night have been realized. Boell did oome up this morning, and with him came J&rge reinforcements. Bat I am anticipating the events of the day. Let me resume the narrative where my last letter left it, and rehearse the varying fortunes of the day in the order of their oocarrenoe. This is necessary to a proper understanding of the battle; and until the general sketch of ontline is drawn, it will be impossible to enter into those minor details which constitute an interesting feature in the picture. Night alone prevented ns from reaping the fruits of our brilliant victory of yesterday. It was quite dark when we chased the enemy baok to Pittsburg Landing, where he sought protection from his gunboats and river works. Had Beauregard possessed the power of Joshua to oommand the sun to stand still in the heavens for the spaoe of an hour, our victory would have been as complete as that of the great Hebrew warrior. As it was, we expected tc be able to capture so mnoh of the Federal army this morning as oould not be transferred to the other bank of the river last night, unless large reinforoements should come to their relief. The enemy received the most important aid from his gun-boats. Indeed, be is indebted to these gun-beats for his escape from certain destruction.? They, together with his river works, answered the valuable purpose of fortifications, to which he oould retire when beaten ? iU. w;?!? rtnlo nnr lirrht, fifllfi UU bUO IKU1U* VT I?u VM?J vw? ?? pieces, it was impossible to operate at Qigbt with any hope of success against these works and boats, or to prosecute daring the heavy storm that followed, the work of completing the victory. Oar forces had reached the river in one or two places as night came on, and in this way had gained some knowledge of the ground and the nature and position of the enemy's defences.?' With this knowledge, and the enemy driven into close quarters and caught between our lines and the river, there was every reason to believe we would be able to oapture the larger part of his forces this morning, provided they were not reinforced daring the night or transferred to the othei bank of the river. The boats kept up a constant firing du ring the night from their heavy guns. Il appears that the enemy did not seek to re cross the river. Knowing that large rein forcements were at hand, he held his posi tion on the river bank until this morning Gen. Beauregard knew there was a divisior of 7,000 men at Crump's Landing, a fev miles Delow Pittsburg, and he gave order last night to proceed against them this mor ning and to capture them. This divisior succeeded, however, in forming a junctior with the forces at Pittsburg, and at eigh o'clock this morning, the Federals, thai reinforced, moved out from the river an< offered us battle. They must have knowi that other reinforcements were at hand and that they would arrive upon the fieli at an eaily hour. The fight was renewe' L - ? J Prnnn ritror n aoout a ajiie uuu ? uau uvuj ...v., midway between the river and the Federa encampment. The enemy came np to the work wit! great spirit and resolution. Appeals ha> doubtless been made to the men during th night, and the re possession of their camj represented to them as a point of hono fror. which there could be no escape. Th attack was directed against our centre ; am though vigorous and spirited, and not ex pected, it was repulsed, and the enem; driven back with great slaughter. He ral lied again, however, and this time he move< with an increased force upon our righ wing Here, too, he was repulsed an forced to retire. His next attempt was di rected against our left wing, his attac growing more vigorous and his forces in creasing with each succeeding movemeni Indeed, it was now evident that he had re ceived large accessions to his ranks, an that we had fresh troops and heavy odds t contend against. But the Confederate nobly did their duty, and the attack on th left was also repulsed. The enemy agai retired, but only for a time; for Buell1 forces had now come up, and the attac was renewed all along our lines, on th right, centre and left. Simultaneously wit this, an attempt was made to turn both on wings. The battle now raged with indescribabl fury. I have never heard or imagined an thing like the roar of the artillery, and tb incessant rattling of the small arms. Tf deep thunder bass of the one, and tl sharp, shrill tenor of the other, intermii gled with the shrieks of bursting shells an the whizziDg of cleaving rifled cannon ball were grand beyond description. It was the awful Hymn of Battle, rolling upward to the skies and literally shaking the earth beneath. It was a solemn anthem, the notes of whioh were traced in blood and ottered from brazen throats, that might i have satisfied Mars himself. The Confederates stood their ground agaiost the furious onset, and for the fourth , time the^nemy was compelled to retire.? J It was now one o'clock. Our men were | greatly exhausted; they had fought eighteen hours, and withal had slept but little, [ having been engaged much of the prece, ding night in searohingout and taking care j of the wounded. It was evident, too, that ' - * f J J the enemy bad been largely reimorceu, ?uu ; that each sacoeeding attack was made by [ fresh troops and overwhelming numbers.? . In view of these facts, and in order to rest ! bis men, and to prevent an unnecessary loss of life, Gen. Beauregard availed himself of the falling back of tho Federals, to with: draw his troops to the enemy's line of encampment, where we rested last night.? ; This was about a mile and a half from the point where the fight commenoed this mor: ni?gThe enemy hesitated for some time, but finally came up and renewed the conflict. He was met with undiminished courage and resolution by the Confederates, who displayed the greatest possible gallantry.? The battle raged on, and night alone separated the combatants. At length the enemy fell back, and so did the Confederates ?both sides badly worsted and severely punished Hardee, who commanded the front line or corps, held his ground until the enemy withdrew. Our reserves had been engaged throughout the day, and Polk, Bragg, and Hardee, eaoh in his proper position, were iu immediate command upon the field, and nobly co-operated in the work of the day. They deserve - ? v ? j : great oredit, as do toe ongaae auu tegimental officers, and the gallant spirits whom they led to battle. Gen. Breckinridge particularly distinguished himself. Though not a military man by profession, General Beauregard?is reported to have said that he displayed great aptitude and sagacity, and handled his brigade with skill and judgment. Having said thus much, I feel it to be ' my duty as a faithful chronicler of the times, to refer to a matter here which had a controlling influenoe upon the fortunes of the day. Our attack yesterday was so sudden and successful that tho enemy found it impossible to remove his quartermaster and commissary stores, or even to save the baggage of the men. The temptation thus presented was too great for our troops to resist.? Sunday night, large numbers of them, supposing there would be no more fighting, set to work to gather up such spoils as the Federal encampment contained There were arms, over-coats, caps, shoes, coffee, sugar, provisions, trunks, blankets, liquors, private letters, and numberless other things which the enemy had been compelled to abandon. Suoh of our troops as were not engaged in searching out the wounded and dead, or were not restrained by a sense of duty, wandered from their respective oamps, and spent muoh of the night in plundering. Orders had been issued by General Beauregard positively prohibiting anything of the kind, but many of the troops are raw, and officers and men were alike elated at our suocess, and, consequently, the necessary steps were not taken to enforce the orders of the Commander-in-Chief. At an early hour this morning, the men renewed their search after the spoils of victory, and many of them were separated from their ormmanders when the enemy renewed the battle. Some of them had even started back to their camp3, loaded with such articles as they had been able to find. After deducting the killed and wounded and tnose wno were engaged in removing . the wounded, it would be no exaggeration to say five thousand sound and able bodied . men had thus wandered out of the line, . and took no part whatever in the battle to. day. On the other hand, the enemy had been largely reinforced. , Thus, with a diminished force on our j part, we had to meet fresh troops and a 3 more numerous army than that we encountered yesterday, and thus, too, the spoils 3 have prevented us from again driving the 3 enemy baok into the Tennessee, notwitht standing the great odds in his favor. 3 It was well enough, while the confliot j lasted, that our troops should exchange j their smooth bored muskets and shot guns for the splendid arms thrown away by the I retreating foe; but there can be no excuse 3 for the disgraceful proceedings to which I r have alluded. J The spoils of victory are not less demoralizing than defeat and disaster. Such is h the lesson taught by history in all ages of j the world, from the time when Achan was e reduced by the "wedge of gold," down to p the present day. It is hoped that the exr perience of this day will not be thrown ae way, either by our officers or soldiers. 3 P. W. A. y Fort Pillow?The siege of this fort i- was commenced on the 12th instant, by the i enemy's gun-boats. The fort is situated t about eighty-five miles above Memphis, and d is said to be one of the strongest points on i- the river. It is on the Tennessee side. It k is fortified by twenty guns?six rifled oan i- non, 32 pounders; thirteen smooth-bore, t. same size, and one 11 inch Columbiad.? !- The channel of the river is within one d hundred yards of the guns, and no boats, o of however light draught, can pass, (says :s one writer from that plaoe,) at a greater e distance. A deep ditch, rampart and fine n military road, extend from the river front 's on the right, to the river front ?n the left, k in the form of a horse-shoe, on the brow of e the highest hills, fully mounted with heavy h guns at the salient angles; some idea of ir the extent of which may be formed- by the fact that it would require 20,000 men, [e formed in line of battle, to cover its circuit, iv In the rear, outside the ramparts, the woods ie are not ooly cut, but stripped of all limbs ie for over five hundred yards?and is again ie further strengthened by an almost impassaa ble morass, which stretches inward and upid ward of the river as far as the eye can a, reach. From the Savannah Republican, 33d. The Surrender of Pulaski, The atory of the Charleston prisoners, obtained from the Federals, varying materially from the aocoants that bad previously reached us through our own sources, we had a long interview yesterday with Corporal Charles T. Law, of the Phoenix Riflemen, who brought up the news of the surrender of the Fort, and was present at the time the Confederate flag was lowered.? His statement is minute as to details, and so entirely consistent throughout, that, independent of his high oharaoter for truth and honor, it seems to us that no man who speaks with him can doubt it. We annex it from notes taken in the course of conversation, and it will be read with interest, being a much fuller aocouot than has hitb erto appeared. Corpora] Law arrived at the fort in company with the signal man, whom he went to pilot, at 5 o'clock Friday morning?the day of (be surrender. He remained inside the works during the whole of the bombardment on that day, and left as the flag was lowered, making his way to the South wharf as the enemy's steamer was approaching the North Landing. When the bombardment commenced on Thursday, none of the enemy's batteries on Tybee were visible, except from the smoke, whioh pointed oat the different localities to onr garrison. The shot and shell from the fort soon removed all obstacles of trees and sand, when all were disoernable. They were four in number?two mortar, one rifle and one Parrot gun, the last mentioned being a short distance above the burnt chimneys, opposite to King's Landing.? They all bore chiefly on the South-east angle of the fort. The firing of the enemy on Thursday was not so effective as to create an apprehension that the work would fall. The enemy were obtaining the range of their guns for the operations of night and the day following. Most of their shells fell outside the fort, tearing up the earth in every direction. The yard of the V, or demiloon, on the West side, was plowed up as if dag into pits, by the shell which went over the fort. Still a large breach was made in the wall, and the rifled guns poured shot and shell through it, utterly demolishing the bomb-proof timbers, and damaging the officers' quarters. The North east casemates were all in which the garrison bunked with any security whatever, through Thursday night; though but little sleep was enjoyed, as the enemy threw twelve shells per hour into the fort until daylight. These facts were obtained from the officers of the garrison. Corporal Law witnessed the whole of Friday's fight for himself, mingling freely with the garrison throughout the terrible scene. It is impossible to give his account on paper. The firing from both sides was equally rapid and destructive, so far as oould be ascertained On the part of the enemy, one mortar battery was completely silenoed, a portion of the rifle battery, and seven out of ten guns of the Parrott battery dismounted. One mortar had been planted on the North-west corner of Cockspur during the night ot Wednesday, but this was silenoed early in the fight, and seven kegs of their powder captured. At the close of the fight all the parapet guns of the fort were dismounted except three?two ten-inch columbiads, known as "Beauregard" and "Jeff. Davis," but one of whioh bore on the island, and a rifle cannon. Every case-mate gun on the South-east section of the fort, from No. 7 to No. 13, including all that oould be brought to bear on the enemy's batteries, except one, were dismounted, and the casemate walls breached, in almost every in stanoe, to the extent of the arch, say between five and six feet in width. The moat outside was so filled with brick and mortar that one could have passed over dry shod. The offioers' quarters were torn to pieces, the bomb-proof timbers scattered in every direction over the yard, and the gates to the entrance knooked off. The parapet walls on the Tybee side were all gone, in many places, down to the level of the earth on the casemates. The protection to the magazine in the North-west angle of the fort had all been shot away, the entire cor ner of the magazine next the passage-way was shot off, and the powder exposed while three shot had actually penetrated the ohamber; of this Corporal Law is positive, for he examined it for himself before leaving. Such was the condition of affairs, when Col. Olmstead called a council of officers in a casemate, and without a dissenting voice, they all acquiesced in the necessity of a capitulation, in order to save the garrison from utter destruction by an explosion, which was momentarily threatened. Accordingly, at 2 o'clock p. m., the men were called from the guns and the flag lowered. Early in the day, Col. Olmstead had no doubt of his ability to silence every battery on the island, and to this end he determined when night came and the enemy's Are was slackened to change the position of all his heavy guns so as to bring them to bear on the enemy. As the day progressed, however, his situation became desperate, and he was forced to yield under the circumstances stated. Corporal Law witnessed the whole fight of Friday, and says a braver and more determined garrison are not to. be found in all the annals of history. Every man did his duty with alacrity, and there being few guns that bore on the enemy, there was a continued contest as to who should man them. When volunteers were called for to perform any laborious duty there was a rush of the men from every company in the fort. All did their duty, and did it fearlessly throughout the engagement, and to the very moment of the capitulation.? Among the last guns fired were those on the parapet, and the men stood there exposed to a storm of iron hail to the last.? All this, our informant says, Col Olmstead and his offioers will verify when they have an opportunity of being heard. Corporal Law saw the wounded. A member of the Wise Guards had one leg shot off, and the other badly crushed. One Oglethorpe lost an arm, and had the other shattered, and shoulder badly damaged? thinks he coald not have survived. Another Oglethorpe lost a hand. A member of another company, not recolleoted, lost a foot. He intended getting a list of names and partionlars to bring up at night, not anticipating so early a surrender. Sergeant Major Lewis told him none of the Savannah boys were seriously hart. Col. Olmstead also told him be would send up a report at the close of the day's operations, but the enemy's movements towards the fort were so rapid after the flag was lowered, he being under no obligations to remain, not being a member of the garrison, hn had no time to wait for it. and then made bis escape. It may be considered strange that, under tbe circumstances, no more damage was sustained by tbe garrison. It is a mystery, but not incredible, after the experience of Moultrie and Sumter. We may add that Corporal Law is regarded by those who know him best as a man of integrity and trutb. His commander, a gentleman of high, public and social position, writes us in a note, that from an intimate knowledge of bis .(Law's) character, he will "guarantee the truth of every statement be shall make." The Quintumvirate. Mr. Editor :?The tameness with which the press of the State has submitted to the Convention throwing its mantle of sovereignty upon a few of its own members, yclept "The Executive Counoil," must not be taken as evidence that the people are at all satisfied with so grosB a violation of tbe trost reposed in that body. The Convention was called for a special purpose?to withdraw the State from the Federal Union ?and having executed that trust, its functions were at an end. It had just as muoh authority to interfere with the judicial tenure, with the basis of representation, the classification of taxable property or anything else, as it had to transfer its power to an irresponsible junta. We have talked with some of the members of the Convention on this subject, who deolare that it was not their understanding that a Counoil with such powers was to spring out of the Ordinance. One saye that the Counoil was specially organized foi the protection of the low country, which olaimed a more efficient protection than the ftnvernnr seemed inclined to offer. An other says that it was not deemed prudent to entrust the disbursement of the large appropriations made by the Convention, to any one head, and that the Counoil was appointed to assist his JExcellenoy, as well aE to be a check upon inefficient expenditure of the public money. The truth is, not many of the members of that august bodj seem to know what they were doing ; thej knew that the enemy was at our doors, thai evidences of ineffieienoy were all around us, that something must be done,, and done quickly, so they shut their eyes to the con sequences, and grasped at the only remedy offered them. The people have heretofore submitted without a murmur, because they felt thata more vigorous policy had become necessarj and they were willing to submit to martia! law, to anything, for an improvement.? They have been disappointed j the evolu tions of the Qaintumvirate have been a se ries of marchings and counter-marchings Order No. 1 of to-day has been counter manded by Order No. 2 of tomorrow.? New versions of old laws, and new modi fications of new ones, have followed thick and fast?to-day we are to volunteer ; to morrow to draft j next day to conscript: then to valunteer a little longer ; and thee "quien sabe ?" Yesterday, I heard a distiller say that he should run up another hundred bushels o: corn this week. Take care of the Govern or's Council, said one. Oh, replied th< fellow, "Tne officers ain't all got their sup plies yet, and nobody knows what's law for I see every day's paper that comes oui contradicts or upsets yesterday's doings.' The war upon the liquor shops and distille ries was a righteous one, and would kav< been sustained by the people, but it fel short of efficiency, by giving time to th< topers in the arm} to till their jugs, anc the distillers to run day and night and d< great mischief. Nor is this all. They art still "running," and the Council know it Liquor is still sold in the doggeriei through the back door. The Council needf one more department to perfect its organl zation, aud we respectfully suggest it?s Deteotive Police Department. It will thei be able to pry into all the private affairs o the citizens, and punish, as well as pro mote, the deserving. The demoralization of the military spiri of the State has been completed by the u surpation of the Quintumvirs to appoin the officers over the new levies. It is con trary to the spirit of our institutions?con trary to the laws of the Confederate States and an insult to the people. A writer ove; the letter "Q-," in the Carolinian, wit! quite an official air, calls the broadside oi the Edgefield Advertiser "hustings decla mation" and makes the grave charge, "frou intimate knowledge and experience, thai not more than one-third of the officers, fielc and company, of the regiments now in Vir ginia are qualified for their positions."? Now, if we were to go out on the hunt o: men afraid of "hustings deolamation," wt would know exactly where to find them.? The oharge of inefficiency of our officers ir Virwinift will not he so easilv established * It is a very easy matter to make bold asser tions, but one thing is oertain, it will tak< something more than an assertion to fix the charge of incompetency npon two-thirds ol the men who have commanded the Sowei of the South Carolina army for a year pasi under great embarrassments. And there is aaother thing certain, the Council will have a hard road to travel. Has it the nerve tc reject any officer elected by a oompany? has it the nerve to refuse appointments t( its pets, its particular favorites or friends i Let us not be understood as impeaching tbt integrity of the Council. We number a mongst its members some warm persona friends, whom we could not suspect of im proper conduct, but the times require per sonal considerations to be laid aside, anc facts to be dealt with as they stand out af feoting the country's reputation. Has an; member of the Council aohieved a militar; reputation ? Has any one been in rappor with the military men in the army or in the militia, long enough and olose enough to be capable of selecting officers ? What member of the Council can speak for the qualification of an officer from Anderson, Pickens or Greenville ? What can Mr. Hayne, who has been the better part of a life time in Alabama, Mr. Cbesnut, who has been in Congress, or Gov. Pickens, who has been in Russia, know of the military oapacity of the men in their Congressional Districts ? They must, from necessity, be governed by the representations, recommendations, &c., of other friends, and will there J^e- any greater security in that than in the .election made by the soldiers ? It has been hinted that selections will be made from "those who have borne the brant nf nn? rtftmnnicrn." fUn it be done ?? "" v"" ?I o? ? - Would our officers in Virginia leave their posts?would they be allowed to do it?? And if only one-third of the officers in Virginia, field and company, are competent, would it not be miserable policy to break up the efficiency of our army there, by removing the competent offioers, and allowing the incompetent, by seniority, to fill their places ? And if the "instincts of the men" failed in the eleotion of good officers in Virginia, it is but fair to infer that the same failure oocurred in offioering the regiments on the ooast. ~ We challenge a comparison. And will it do to make selections from that quarter ? The only resort of the Council will bo to select from the huge pile of ap' plioants on its table, a task wbioh we do 1 not envy them. . A BACK COUNTRYMAN. ' The Evaouation and Surrender of Island No. 10?Our Loss. The Memphis Appeal, of the 12th inst., gives the following account of the fall of Island No. 10: On Tuesday April 2, the gnns of Ruck; er's battery were spiked on the succeeding Friday evening, the enemy's gun-boat and tug passed the island during a storm. On Saturday night, the enemy, with a gun boat, engaged Ruoker's battery, the guns ; of which bad been restored to fighting oon> dition) while attention was engaged with > this boat, a second gun-boat slipped down ' unperceived, except by the men at one of the batteries, who fired two shots at her i without effect. Things were now getting serious; the enemy had possession of the river below the island. General Mackall ' therefore on Sunday night, April 6, moved the infantry and Stewart's battery to the Tennesseee shore, to protect the landings i from anticipated attacks. The artillerists, i numbering about four hundred, alone re inained on the island. On the succeeding ' day (Monday) the enemy assumed the ofr fensive below the island. They first silent ced a battery manned by a detachment of > Southern Guards, as explained by us two > or three days ago; the guns were spiked and the limbers cut. Other batteries we ' had on this side below the island were successively silenced. At 10 o'clock in the I morning, they landed troops on the Ten' nessee side. This, of course, made the r continuance of our men on the island no I longer possible for any useful purpose, and measures were taken with a view to desert ing a spot that will ever be memorable for the bold stand made there against the at tack of the enemy's gun-boats. The guns, seventy in number, were - spiked with rat-tail files softened at the end; balls were then rammed in at the : mazzle?they would turn the soft end of - the file and clinch it. The transports and I wharf-boats at the landing, of which we i gave a list on Tuesday evening last, were scuttled and sunk in deep water; the Yazoo ; and De Soto were kept until dnsk to oonf vey the artillerists to the main land, and - when that servioe was performed, they, too, s were ordered to be sunk, but it was ro mored that their captains had refused to > scuttle theui. The floating battery was t scuttled and cut loose; some of the Federerals boarded her, but they found their - prize in a sinking condition. The ammu nition* in the magazine was wholly or par1 tially destroyed. On the two wharf-boats 5 lying at the shore were provisions for one 1 month?the whole was sunk and destroyed. % ' * Ulrt r\f amall armu gn/| J l\ OUUgiUCiauiC l|uaubiujf Vi UUJWU aiuiu) uuvi ' the private baggage of the officers and oth ers, suffered the same fate as the other ] property. i These important matters being arranged, . the time had arrived to Beoure personal i safety. The number of sick was very ) large; there wa9 no help for them ; they f must necessarily full into the hands of the . foe. The greater portion of them marohed down the Tipton ville road; these fell into t the hands of the invading troops, and were . compelled to stack arms and surrender.? t The number of persons taken prisoners is . estimated at two thousand. Gen. Mackall . and staff were among them. ) A correspondent of the St. Louis Rer publican says : i The floating battery, formerly the Pelif can dock at New Orleans, drifted down to . Madrid, and was secured Ave miles below i there. When first seen it came sweepiug t down with the current towards the upper 1 battery, and the garrison, supposing an at. tempt probable to run the blockade, imrne. diately manned their guns. Eight cannon f could be counted upon it, all bearing di5 rectly at the fort, aod when within range . the latter opened fire. Receiving no ret spon8e, they perceived the battery had been . deserted, and oeased. This occurred the . evening previous to the evacuation and sur5 render of the rebels. Two transports with ; great difficulty, atter several tiours, got toe f battery to shore. It was fall of water, the enemy having tried hard to sink it, and t dragged the immense anchor attached very 3 easily. The hall is one handred and eighty > feet long and sixty wide, built like that of > a large steamer, decked very strongly, and - the gnns all mounted along one side and ) the ends. To counter-balance this great weight was a quantity of heavy ballast on 3 the outer side, and also the ammunition, - with the baggagj of the crew. There were I several truaks filled with good clothing and . articles of private comfort, some revolvers, . and one or two rifles, books and bundles of 1 letters. A most curious feature of the battery was j two small engines below in the hold, intenf ded to work a couple of pumps, and fill at t pleasure the affair with water. There was also, by way of cargo, eight torpedoes, bi hundreds of sky-rookets, a couple of eleo- L trio batteries and coils of submarine cable. r< The ooocern seemed only a large specimen ol from the thousands of novel, infernal and al useless machines the rebels have favor- m ed science with lately. On the deck a six- lc ty-four lay dismounted, its carriage shiver- st ed to pieces by a ball. rc Passing Island No. 10, the most notice- p able token of war's iuin is the steamboats it sunken and destroyed. On all sides they ti lay?some oapable of being saved, others ft the upper deoks only visible. Tbe John p Simonds, a fine Memphis and New Orleans p packet, was broken in two. The Admiral c< had been a hospital boat, and on board b were a hundred poor wretches, half dead i> from disease and neglect. They were kind- a ly . cared for, measures for their a immediate comfort being taken by Col. Bo- tl ford. On the shore were crowds of sailors b and soldiers wandering around among the li profusion of ammunition and stores. a Three flags were captured, one of which e bore the ioscriptioo: "Equal justioe to ri each new partner iu the new firm." o Once, while a group of officers were ait- fi ting at dinner, one of the great shells fell C suddenly among them, crushing through the table. All scattered and got safely away before it exploded. Another struck on the floating battery, dismounted a gun, D and burst, but all on board were at the ^ moment down below. The iebels regarded 8 their huge visitors as curiosities, and fragments were found put away in many tents, * carefully labelled. It cow becomes a ques- 9 tion how to dispose ot the prisoners, and 11 every exertion is being made to ship them D immediately to St. Louis, where they will * arrive before many days. ? Northern Lies.?The Washington * Government has appointed a day of thanks- t giving for tfle Northern "victory" at Shiloh ? and proposes to deseorate the churches of Almighty God by the parade in its sanotu- t aries of one of its infamous lies to cajole c the people. The hypooritical spirit of this s falsehood is not more remarkable than its r daring profanity. This conduct of Presi- f dent Lincoln, in appealing by proclamation t to the churohes to impose a lie upon the c people, is an infamous example of degrada- o tion and hypoorisy quite characteristic of 1 the man who, a few weeks after the*death t of his own son, illuminated his bouse with 1 the lights of a grand ball ; and instead of c sopping out his goggle eyes with tears, sb j the Northern papers represented him in a danger of doing from his indefatigable grief < for his son, was, after a few weeks, giving c ? krtll ?t WKWa Wnnuo afr. vhinh. Wft fl a uai* an tuo ?* uiuu xavwuvi m* conclude from Jenkins* aoconnts, Mrs. a Lincoln was remarkable for wearing a dress e three inches longer than usual, and u01d Abe" was wittier, coarser, and drunker a than at aoy former period of his life. t There is no serious reason for the gross 1 and remarkable perversion of /acts display- a ed alike in the official reports of the Wash- ington Government and the lies of Nor- i thern journals, in every stage of the cur- < rent history of the war. The North writes a and speaks for an audience, that must be systematically deceived to induce them to continue the war. Its appeal is not to men of education, commanding the confidence a and guarding the destinies of their fellow- c citizens, but to such an audience as the i alien rabble at New York, or the fanatical f abolitionists of Boston. This deception is a simply one of the necessities of the Wash- 1 ington Government, and will be continued i to the extent even of religious thanksgiv- < ings as long as there are fools to hurrah over imaginary victories, or white cravated priests of abolition to preach oertain deliv- j erance to the people, and fill the sanctuaries of the church with the stench of flagrant | lies.?Richmond Examiner. , How the Women Make Powder. , Wo copy a portion of a letter addressed \ to Lieut. MoClung, at Knoxville, by a la dyin Sullivan County, East Tennessee. ( I saw some weeks ago in the Register J an article on the "Making of Saltpetre," 1 and that the earth under old houses con- ( tained more or less nitre. I also learned that the Goverament was in great need of f saltpetre, in order to make powder for our * brave boys now in the field. Well, sir, I ' felt, though I am a woman, th^t it was my i duty to do what I could for my country; J so, having an old bouse with dry dirt under it, I determined to make a trial. I threw out the ashes in my ash-hopper, and * had two others built. I then had the dirt 1 under the house dug up and put into the 1 hoppers. I then run water through one of ,he t hoppers, and then passed the water through t the other two. After which I added lye j to the water until the curdling ceased :? t I then boiled it until it was thick, when the pot was set off the fire. In a few hours ( the saltpetre had formed into beautiful r I crystals. I poured water three times ( through eaoh hopper, aud then boiled it j down. The result is just one hundred pounds of beautiful saltpetre, aooording to ] my husband's weighing. It was very lit- ( tie trouble to me. Now, sir, I see you are the agent of the , Government. I want to hand it over to ( you to be used in defending my country. j The Knoxville Register adds, that a a citizen cf Jefferson County, Tenn., made a from the dust beneath a single old house ? two hundred and eight pounds of saltpetre, which, with the nitre and sulphur added, ] was converted into two hundred and fifty s pounds of powder. Everybody can do ^ something to help on the cause. t ? ? g Exemptions Under the Conscription Law op Congress.?The following ( exemption bill was passed by Congress and ( signed by the President just before the t adjournment: ? A biU to be entitled "An act to exempt t certain persons from enrolment for ter c vice in the armies of the Confederate ? States." Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That a all persons who shall be held to -be unfit c for military service under rules to be pre- c soribed by the Secretary of War; all in the s service or employ of the Confederate States; c all judicial and exeoutive officers of Con- t federate or State Governments; the mem- a an of both houses of Congress, and the egisiaturea of tbe several States and their jspective officers; all olerks of the officers F the State and Confederate Governments llowed by law; all engaged in carrying the tails; all ferrymen on post routes; all piits and persons engaged in the marine srvioe, and in aetoal service on river and lilroad routes or transportation; telegrahio operatives and ministers of religion, i tbe regular discharge of ministerial dues ; all engaged in working iron mines, lrnaces and foundries; all journeyman rinters aotually employed in printing newsapers; all presidents and professors of alleges and academies, and all teachers aviog as many as twenty scholars; superitendents of the public hospitals, lunatic sylams, and the regular nurses and attend ts therein, and the teachers employed in be institutions for the deaf dumb and lind; in each apothecary store now eatabished one apothecary in good standing, rho is a praotioal druggist; superintend' nts and operatives in wool and other facto* ies who may be exempted by the Secretary f War, shall be, and are hereby exempted rom military service in the armies of the ionfederate States. Cowards. A Yankee correspondent of the 6inoinati Gazette gives a graphio account of the attle of Shiloh, admitting the defeat. He| ays. On the bluffe above the t river b a sight bat may well make our oheeks tingle with hame for some of our soldiers. There are idt less than three thousand skulkers liiing the banks. Ask them why don't hey go to their places in the line: "Oh, ur regiment b all cat to pieoes." "Why ion't yoa go to where it is forming again ?" <1 can't find it." and the hoik looks as if bat would be the very last thing he would rant to do. . Officers are around among them, trying o hunt up their men, storming, coaxing, ommanding?cursing, I am afraid.. One trange fellow?a Major, if I remember a-1 ight?in making a sort of elevated, euperioe Fourth of July speeoh to everybody I hat will listen to him. He means well, lertainly: ."Men of Kentucky, of Illinois, j if Ohio, of Iowa, of Indiana, I implore you,j ' beg of you, come up now. Help us hrougb two hours more. By all that you iold. dear, by the homes that you hope to lefend, by the flag you love, by the States ion honor, by all your love of country, by ill your hatred of treason, I conjure you, some up and do your duty now." And so in for quantity. "That feller's a good peaker," was the only response I heard, ind the fellow who gave it nestled most mugly behind his treo as he spoke. I know well enough the nature of the ikulking animal in any army during a batle. I had seen their performances before, )ut never on so large a scale?never with inch an utter siokness of heart as I looked ?as now. Still, I do not believe there vas very mnch more than the average per sentage. It was a big army, and the runiways all sought the landing. From the Columbia goutb Carolinian. Mr. Editor: No one can mistake the igns of the times. There is a feeling of lissension springing up iu our State, which tis painful to contemplate. Is this a time or dissension ? Is this a time for party itrife 1 Never, since the days nf our revoution, has there been a time when patriotsm called so loudly on every Carolinian to mite as a ba'nd of brothers and take up "Arms against a sea of troublea, And by opposing nobly end them." Our State Convention, no doubt, honesty impressed with the arduous labors and ;reat responsibilities of our Governor, bought it wise and safest to appoint an Executive Council. These gentlemen are veil known to the people of South Carolila. and have and deserve their confidence. rhe organization .of this Council coald nevjr have been the oooseqaeooe of any want )f confidence in the Chief Executive. It s true Governor Pickens, as all other men eminent in the political contests of the day, ias his opponents, bat it is an error to mppose that the great masses of th* people iver doubted his ability, his patriotism, or lis devotion to bis native State. Whatev>r coarse, therefore, oar Convention may hink proper to take, let the people cordialy sustain them. Let them be vigilant and irm and determined, and with one arm md one heart, meet the enemy and show hem by oar acts that we are indeed "teribly in earnest." Hampden. The Governor and Council.?At he close of the last session of the Convenion of South Carolina an ordinance was lassed by that body investing the Goverlor and Counoil with dictatorial anthority. This authority has been exeroised with>ut stint, and so far as we are able to judge nay be extended indefinitely as long as the Convention is willing to leave everything n the hands of these gentlemen. There is no sense in talking about a Republican form of Government if this Counoil of Five is to rule the State. There is no looser any use for the Con rention or the Legislature. The ConvenjoD should have adjourned sine die wheD hey passed the Ordinance of Secession, md when they adopted the provisional md permanent constitutions of the Confediracy. ' i A meeting of the people of Edgefield District was held, some days ago, in whioh trong resolutions were adopted in favor of getting rid of this anomaly in oar Governnent, bnt we have seen no response from my quarter. Now we do not object so much to the Jouncil for what they have .don?; on the contrary, we approve of a great deal of! heir action; but it is the prinoiple. The J afety of the people is the supreme law, rat we see no necessity in the present oirramstances of the conntry to have an imterium in impcrio.? Chester Standard. The Tomato should receive particular ittention from oar farmers. Its extensive inltivation is necessary for the preservation if the health of our soldiers. The Tomato eems to have a direct and pecoliar action in the liver, produoing all the beneficial ifieots of mercurial preparations, without my of the injurious. It is said that the great encoess of the celebrated Spanish. Bitters of Dr. Zavia is owing to its principal ingredient being the active principle of this plant. In confirmation of its value, we have heard ooe of oar moat distinguish*' . .. ,, ed physicians remark that whenever be fcft nowell in the spring of the year, he knew that it arose from toqxp of his liver, and he invariably relieved himself by partaking of this vegetable at his dinner. We trust, that oar troops will l>e freelysnppliedwith ><. .... 4 it, as it is both hygienio and nourishing.^ 'r* - . -- * * From the Lancsstcr Ledger. The Cotton States have not for mawps^ T yean made anything like enough clothr^> and'provisions to support themselves. They cannot import themselves. They cannot ' import these from other States; they mmfc j either make them this year or go naked asd starve; the one would be aftpbasaut, even in summer, the other is horrible to contemplate. The Cotton States will be oy^? ran by large armies in many places, desolating a great extent of territory, and much of the produotive. labor of the necessaries ' of life will be employed iu the- arm* end unless nearly the whole of the undisturbed portions of our country producei bread stuff, we must expect a famine. Let our people seriously?aye solemnly, think of this and prepare against it. Why produce cotton, bat to he barntT for it could not be sold bat to supply out factories?and we have more on hand now than is necessary for that purpose. I would not give air cents for a bale of cotton prednced this yea*.. Ye men who are so affile. 3ted with the cursed love of money as to raise cotton now, incur a shocking responsibility Your oottori will not satisfy th# oetitions of the- starving for- bread-r-aad don't flatter yourselves with the selfish option that you will be undisturbed because you have made enough for yourselves.-?- * You may hear the cry, "bread or blood." J. F. G. MITTAG. I??> *" i1 ? . ' The Yankee Spies at Chattanooga, We learo, and vouch for the truth of the statement, that twonty three of the Yankee spies concerned in life late daring attempt to barn the bridges of theStatoRaed, for which purpose the seizure of ao-engitie; on the road was recently effected, have been captured, aod the most of them, on Friday, were put upon trial before a milLtary court at Qbattanooga, ordered-$o convene theie by Gen. Ledbetter, the Confederate commander of that post. The result of the trial we do not know. We legfly ** however, that the captured meats confew ^ their guilt, but claim, some of them, that tbey were ordered.. here from their regimeots' The leader, we also learn, is a man named Andrews, who is known to have once lived here. Whet* captured, he offeiwd^vflfp 7 000 to be released. Several thousand.dollars have been found nponbigperson. ^ He is an unmitigated Yankee scoundrel, but reckless and daring. He, we learn, confesses nothing. The result of the trial of these men** . have not yet beard. Possibly we may never hear it. But if it be proper, and it be made known to us, shall inform our readers.?Atlanta Intelligencer. I?-The Yankees at Port Royal are getting tired of supporting the negroes stolen by tbem from the Carolinians. A reporter of the New York Herald complains thlV the "pesky createre" do nothing bat till they make themselves sick, and thev are actually dvine from over-eating ^'1 aod want of exercise. He complains-that no work can be got oat of thdrn, and that to feed twenty-five tboneand of themnow in possession of the Yankees, costs their Government about ten tbonsand dollars a day; There is also difficulty among the missionaries at Port Royal. They don't ' make satisfactory progress in the work of enligbtning the contrabands, and some gf the old spinsters that have been sent oat from Boston for that purpose, express themselves very much disgusted at the couduot of the officers and soldiers, and the treatment tbey receive from them. Wise Je* rusha Pettybone despairs of ever elevating the moral or iotellectnal obaraoter of the little niggerlings,.and is horribly shocked at the immodesty of her colored sisters.? . Miss Jerosha is becoming heartily tired of her mission down South, and is anxigas to go to bam.?Savannah Netty. The Yankees at Huntsville?General Kirby Smith's Command.?The Atlanta (Ga.) Commonwealth 1 earns, from a private letter, that Geo. Kirby Smith, with a large force, is at Bridgeport, Jackson County, Ala., sixteen miles,firom Huntsville, where he will establish his headquarters for the present. It was to this place our force, two thousand strong, retreated when the Yankees entered Hantsvitle. - A gentleman just escaped from the latter town gives the pleasing intelligence that they have found no sympathizers of their caose there, and the ladies are very haughty and indignant to both Federal officers and soldiers. As oar forces now have possession of Stevenson, and are being largely reinforced, it is believed that the Yankees will soon evaouate Hantsville, as a point too much exposed to suit their purpose, Gen. Smith is rebuilding the bridge aoross the Tennessee River, destroyed by by onr forces, and he will then, no doubt, * - * " - make an attempt to rorra a junction wita General Beanregard. Northern Taxes.?The Northern people have rushed into every kind of expense to carry on the war of subjugation, regardless of the fntnre. They are issuing promises to pay without count, as fast as their presses can print them. The Cincinnati Timet is authority for saying that by the first of the approaching July their war debt will be one thousand five hundred millions of dollars; and that owing to the increased expense of transportation in conducting the invasion into the interior of the South, their Secretary of War asserts that the expense of the War is now five millions of dollars a day. I?" The Abolition General Prentiss, while ander parole and on his way South, was arrested at Jaokson, Mississippi, by order of Governor Pettus, for disorderly conduct, drunkenness, and the use of language unbecoming a gentleman.