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Confederate Conscription Act. ?i #? - -* i tn1 " ' > Trophioi. > We have bcec kindly furnished, by a lady friend, with a number of Yankee trophies, in ahape of correspondence, and captured by a yenng volunteer from our District, in the battle of the Seven Pines. We would be pleased to extract from them* but are too much crowded for room in this issue. ' -?.? Patriotic Families. We have been credibly informed, that on Lynch's Creek there are living two gcutle, men named Phillips and Hklton, who have furnished seventeen sons to the Confederate service?tbe "first ten and the latter seven. What two citizens of the Confederacy can beat that number? Our Cause. Pew of the most far-seeing amongst us had any idea of the tremendous struggle we were about to enter, when the Southern States, one after another, asserted their sovereignty, and withdrew from the Union. Time has shown the wisdom of the course they pursued. The spirit of the Northern hordes have satisfactorily developed their true character; they have trampled upon the Constitution, and callod to tlieir aid the higher law, whenever that instrument stood in their way, by every method that can mark a.tyranny, regardless of the principles that actuated the Colonies in throwing oft the yoke of Great Britain. Without a particle of the claim to enforce the authority which George the III had?have they endeavored to coerce and compel the Southern people to bow to their rule?to be ruled by such miserable demagogues as Lincoln and Seward. t*I.? .1 ?- i - ? auv. uiom/i j vi iuo war nas pui connrnicci our abhorrence of all connection with such people; and much as we have suffered, there is no true Southern man who entertain any other idea than to continue to battlo for our rights, when we have so much at stake?and for the great purposes of establishing a government based upon a constitution wita proper checks and balancos. For this our brave soldiers will contend, and never lay down their arms until their purpose is accomplished.. And as .we believe God rules, so surely do we trust the day is not far distant when our purpose will be accomplished?when we shall be permitted to manage our affairs in our owu way, and to worship God under our own vine and fig tree, and none to molest or deter us from our duty. We should all labor to obtain the great boon?whether in the tented field or attending to useful avocations at home?that these trials may be overruled for our good, that we may come out of them a better and a happier people. The New York Seventh Regiment has again declined to be mustered into service in Washington. On their arrival there it was proposed by their Colonel before them in line. All who refused to be mustered in were requested to step to the rear, and be considered as cowards, whereopon the whole regiment stepped back. News from Richmond. , Richmond, Jane 17.?The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the New York Tribune says that he has been assured, by a gentleman con. nected with the medical department of Mc. Clellan's army, that the Yankee loss in the battles of the Seven Pines was not less than ten thousand?killed, wounded and mitwinrr Ho also writes: MI have the names of gentlemen* whose veracity cannot be disputed, who declare that Gen. McClellan said that his loss in the action of the two days would not fall short of ten thousand." Thero was some heavy skirmishing on the right of oar lines to-day. The city continues perfectly quiet. There is no news of special importance. Gen. Stonewall Jacksoh having been heavily reinforeed, will again take op his line of march towards the Potomac in a few days. Fremont hasundoubtedly abandoned the Valley of the Shenandoah ^?Mercury. WftjP', l(frw '*)f*&&bif, the "ftfcgiom Character W tif Ribeffipn. 3 The folk>#Ug extract from 44* Uffll W4?t#^h>g to ote Southern ClergyBOO! UA more unmitigated, God-forsaken set of scoundrels do. pot livg, than jthe preachers of the Gospel down South. * Of course, yoil most understand that I make honorable exceptions in every denomination. As a general thing? I say it in sorrow and not in anger?the ' most unmitigated set of vil liana they have in the South are the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Episcopalian preachers. We have a single exception in the town in which I live?the Rev. Thomas W. Hume, Rector of the Episcopal Church?a Union man, born aud raised in the town of Knoxville, a graduate of the East Tennessee University;?A slaveholder and a man of property?A very liberal and reliable man. Bishop Odie fhrnisbcd him some months ago with a new prayer The old prayer would not answer, because it required him to pray for the President of tho United States, and to do that was to pray in effect for old Abe Lincoln. That was worse, Bishop Odie thought, than to pray for the devii; and he, therefore, furnished him with another prayer, substituting the President of the Confederate States of America, and the Confederate Government where the United States Government was named or alluded to. Mr. Hume, frankly and promptly, like a man, said be wonld not abandon his prayer book and the regular form; that he did not believe in the Confederate Government or in Jeff Davis. I X A- A I. _ _1 1 11 .11 I repeat, 10 you u/ai uic cnurcncs are an uiicriy ruined at the South; wo are all going to destruction. The ministers, class-leaders, deacons and cxhorters, arc all talking secession, lying secession, drinking mean liquor, and advocating the cause of Jeff Davis and the Devil. They have abandoned God aDd his holy reli. gion." From nioiiiplila. We are in receipt of the Memphis Avalanche of the 11th inst The Avalanche seems to be gently easing down into Abraham's bosoin.? As to the state of the city it says:. There have been no Union demonstrations, such* as our present rulers perhaps expected? and as some of our ultra and uncompromising sccc^ion friends feared and predicted. Our people have thus far demeaned themselves with propriety and dignity. We hav$ heard of concessions from a few, who occupied the 1 front ranks of OHr earliest and original scccs- 1 sionists. From the suspected and harrassed ' Union men, we have yet to learn any disparag- J ing conduct and bearing, cither towards the Federals or their ncighl>ors, wh* to some ex- 1 tent, had reviled and annoyed them in the past. 1 The city is quiet and orderly, and, all things ' considered, we are doing far better than was apprehended. Onr population sepnis, so far as * we can judge, to fear no undue or harsh op- ' pression at the hands of present rulers. We repeat, we offer these statements for the benefit of our country friends, and from no de- J sire to offer praise or to sing pseons to our Federal opponents now in our midst. They have invaded our State and taken forcible pos- 1 session of our city, and we, with others, feel humbled and downcast; for we, as one man, ' had offered resistance to their success, and , i have been foiled in our attempts to stop their march, and all alike must partake of a national humiliation?feel their pride wounded, and our future in gloom and embarrassment. Let us bear with manly fortitude what we are unable to avoid. This is true philosphy ? a philosophy suited to our condition. Provisions.?We learn that already there is a fleet of flat boats coming down the river with provisions, and that by Thursday we shall have the Piatt Valley here on her return trip. The i prospect, therefore, is good for an abundance of provisions. , The Federal army is increasing, and will soon reach a large and commanding force?so we hear stated. We suppose the fact to be 1 what we have indicated. Rumor savs Confederate cavalry hangs around the skirts*of our Alf n rt/1 f It of ^1 111 ITT ftl A A MA ( a.ti.v/) 1 - ? tsitijr, nuu iiuau uoiijr nc nio vioilCU l?y 118 1116111' bers in citizens' clothes. We do not credit this rumor. . We notice, in the advertising columns, many offers to take Confederate money at par for I property. The Federal commandant declares he will not interfere with the monetery concerns of the city, and the banks and people are left free to take whatever they please as money. I The city is not under martial law. / x it ' MMP^^t^JpC|DMi#WTtl|r lUff thrown into a state of feverish excitement by thejraga* tidings (hat there h?d been bloody 1 '1. _ A.- cs_ 1 A ill' _ ? J vorjt n owcBBJonviue, od Mow island. From the fast, the news was of an encouraging character, inasmuch as we were assured that a mere handful of our brave troops had repulseda heavy column of the enemy, thrown forward to assault the battery at Becessionville, manned by a portion Colonel Lamar's Regiment of Artillery, S. C. V. From th<f various accounts which we have received, we have collated the following facts in relatiou to the battle: THB ADVANCE OF THE ENKMV. About dawn yesterday morning our pickets in front of Lamar's battery were driven in, and almost simultaneously, the enemy's column was seen four hundred yards off, advancing with the bayonet, at double quick, to the assault. Our troops, within the battery, had been bard at work the evening before in throwing up another battery, and were almost worn out with fatigue. The first round that was fired at the Yankees was by Col. T. G. Lamar himself. His men hastened with alacrity to their piece*, and were soon pouring grape and canister against the rapidly approaching enemy. At each discharge great gaps were visible in the Yankee ranks, but still they came on, without firing a single volley. It was afterwards ascertained that their muskets were empty, and that they had actually hoped to carry the battery with the bayonet alone. But the rapid and fearful cannonade and fusilade against them was too severe for their nerves, and when close to our entrenchments they wavered, reeled and finally fled in disorder. 8ECOND AND THIRD CHARGES. But a very short time elapsed before the enemy,s column, rcinfprced by infantry and artillery, re-formed and again came forward. This time they did not disdain the use of cartriges, but poured heavy volleys against our battery as they advanced. But again the terrible discharges of grape and canister mowed down tho approaching line, and notwithstanding the remonstrances of their officers, again the Yankees broke and retreated, pell-mell, from the field.?A third time the enemy formed his line and advanced in a last desperate effort to gain the battery, but again in vain. The assailants had reached tho ditch, and some of them succeeded in mounting tho embankment* but they paid for their rashness with their lives, ana tneir comrades behind, taking warning from their fate, fled once more, this time not to be rallied to a direct charge. Our men ill bear witness to the obstinate bravery of the iinemy on this occasion. Between the charges which proved so disastrous to the Yankees, a galling fire Was kept up against our battery from three gunboats in the creek, about 1700 yards cast of our position. A. cross fire was also steadily maintained against us from two land batteries which the enemy bad erected?one on the edgo of the wood in which the fight with the 47th Georgia Regiment occurred last week, and another between bhat point and the position occupied by the gunboats. Sherman's famous field battery also took part in the engagement, being divided in to two sections, which played upon different parts of our works. THE FLANK MOVEMENTS. It had now become evident to the enemy that the men who held our battery had no idea of yielding it, and the plan of attack from the front was given up. Flanking bodies were thrown forward to assault our works from the direction of the marshes which skirted our battery on either side. On the east side of the battery the movement was speedily frustrated, and the few bold men who ventured close enough to pour their fire into the post, soon fell. No less than seventeen were killed, just outside the ditch, and one, who had mounted the parapet, fell on the top, pierced by eight balls. NINTH (HIGHLANDERS.) On the west side of the battery the attack was more serious. The famous New York Seventy-ninth Regiment took up a position so as to enfilade our guns, and kept up a constant and effective fire of musketry to drive off our gunners. They wero met by the Charleston Battalion and the Eutaw Regiment. For a titne, forced back with grlat sUngkter, and the dar wm ?nn. I will farther state that the place baa been held for the past two weeks by the Charleston Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Gaillard, and Smith's Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel A* D. Smith, assisted by a deUchroeat of Colonel Lamar's Artillery. The entire force was at the entrenchments erecting batteries, aft least five hundred yards from their quarters, when the news came that the enemy was advancing* three thousand strong. Before the two battalions, numbering not more than three huudred and fifty effective men, could rush to their quarters and return with their arms, the euemy bad mounted the parapet and wore scaling the embankment. Nothing but the bravery and deadly aim of the two small battalions saved the day. Two much credit cannot be awarded to Col. Lamar's Artillery for keeping the enemy in check until wo came up. Three" times were* the enemy repulsed, but as often returned tothe fight. At last the Louisiana Battalion coming up, were hastily placed in position by If ft i * - major^xiuason, under a Heavy tire from theenemy. Tbo Louisianans behaved nobly, and* again put the vandals to flight. The field isours, with a large number of killed, wounded and prisoners, on the part of the enemy, together with guns and equipments captured.? Our troops behaved gallantly?nobly and forcibly, illustrating the truth that "the battle is not to the strong alone." B. F. Miller, Ad'jt Smith's Batalion. THE RELATIVE L088E8. Our total loss, as nearly as we can ascertain, was about 40 killed and 100 wounded. Tho enemy's losses was far heavier. We buried, yesterday, one hundred and forty dead Yankees left upon the field We say Yankees, using the designation as one common to the whole army of the invaders; but, in truth, tho men who did the fighting against us yesterday morning were nearly all Europeans, and, in the lineaments of the dead, the Scottish type was markedly predominant. We captured seventy prisoners. As for the number of the enemy wounded, no correct estimate can be made.? ' A Glad to get rid of the unwelcome task of caring for maimed vandals, our men suffered the enemy's ambulances to come within point blank range of their guns and to carry off the wounded, who must have numbered three hundred, at least. THE LATE8T FROM JAMES' ISLAND FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE BATTLE OF 8KCEB8I0NV1LLE. The lowering aspect of tho sky on Monday was succeeded about midnight by a light misty drizzle, which, on Tuesday morning, had become a settled rain, transforming James* Island into one vast expanse of mud, and, of course, effectually checking all active military operations. The task of burying the dead and cleaning away the debri.9 of the fight consumed the greater part of the forenoon. During the day Gen. Pempcrton, accompanied by Adjutant Gen. Cooper and Commodore Ingrabam, visited the scene of the late action, and, after inspecting the positions and lines of attack, expressed themselves as highly pleased with the manner in which the defence had been conducted. The full official accounts of the casualties in the the battle have not yet been handed in, and we will not anticipate them by further conjecfnro Wn " ?" " >" U ^ 4,--i " ??.v. ..v moj ?ayi uwuvci, tuiii, aner carc~ ful investigation, we are satisfied that the approximate estimate given in our issue of Tuesday is, as near as may be, correct the number of prisoners was larger than at first reported, numbering 107 in all. Of these 40 are wounded. Several were brought to the city yesterday. The prisoners say that their first party in advance, the 8th Michigan, was nearly annihilated. They estimate their force on Jamc's Island at about nine thousand, all under the command of Gen. Stevens, formerly stationed at Beaufort. They state that the five regiments engaged on their side were the 8th Michigan, 47th New York, 79th Highlander, 3d Rhode Island, 28th Massachusetts, and a detachment of the 47th Pensylvania. One of their officers who rode a cream colored horse during the action, and who was prominent, by reason of his constant efforts to rally bis ^ar