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jf ^ jwSSSM . , ?v <<.,; V- ,-, 31- H i - f -A ' ; THE CAMDEN WEEKLY CONFEDERATE "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, AND THE PRESS IS THE ROYAL THRONE UPON WHICH SHE SITS, AN ENTHRONED MONARCH." VoL III] CAM ORN". S. C.s WEDNESDAY MORATIaSTG, JUNE 8, 1804. CISTo. 10 i ! MnKMBMMMOTBgMWMWMBMMWBMMWBMBIPM3gaWlllll gB?nilBIIIUI I ?BMOB 'iMiiMBBnMBBBMBHBBSSMBBWBBPWWWMCMtl'WBIB MBW?B?WM??MB Cl)f Coiifckratc1 IS PUBLISHED ATI'AMDLN, EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, J i:v :! J. T. liERSHMAN. i Terms of subscription?Five Dollars per nunum- j' Rtd"' Kates of Advertising?Two Dol- , < ars, per square of twelve lines, for first f j liseriion. ami One Dollar and Fifty , Cents for each subsequent one. I ] Communications calculated to advattc j the interest of our District ami State, published free of charge. = -?!] From the Southern Presbyterian. J ?>Iu. Editor : The following exquisite ( lines, worthy of tlie tcndcrest touches of' Hums, purport to have bcoii written by j the wife ofa Texas officer. The authoress will not object, I dare say, to their appropriation with the additiou of a single ' stanza, by a sister of South Carolina, who like her, is a mother, and bereaved and i altyic in the trials of this cruel war. I'm silting all alone, my love. i The babe-have gone to .sleep: Ami I am sad enough, my love, To hide my eyes and weep. i For when the friendly day hits gone. The lonely night will come: Tis sad?so sad to be alone, j ( In a deserted home.' First Emma came, with sunny hair? i .Just like Iter pa's, and said, l,?,l(| l,nl. tuniniF nrnvor " " " w'"vu "v" M I C i . Then went away to bed. i Tlicn Augusta at mother's side, Full weary with her play. To heaven for her father cried; ' 1 And sleeps to rise at day. i I And then came little Minnie bright. With folded weary wings: She closed her dewy eyes of light, The winsome, sleepy thing. And so I'm all alone, my love. And how can I refrain , From weeping, when 1 think, my love, Von nine not come again? ' let still 1 would not have thee here; I'd rather thou would'st find ! A glorious grave in batile there, i Than lag at home behind! Then nobly do your duty, love, ; ( I'll bear this lonely life;' J I'll be a brave dead soldier's love, 1 Before a coward's wife. I For though inv nights whole ages seem, And days drag on like years. ' Bright rays of hope still often gleam, In beauty through my tears. J And hope shines amid those tears? i It points an Iris bright. ( Tlnir rests in love upon the voars To come. God speed the ripht! A Tkxks Win:. . 1 _______________________________ LATEST ARMY NEWS, j | Latest from Gen. Lee's Lines. * Richmond. June 2.?The following , despatch has just been received at the "War' Office : j Headquarters, ) ' Akmv Northern Virginia, -June 2 j , There has been skirmishing along the ( lines to day. Anderson and Hoke attacked the enemy this foreuoon, and ^ drove them to their entrenchmeuts. This afternoon the enemy attacked lleth's j division, but were hansomely repulsed by Cook's and Kirkland's brigades, j Breckinridge and Mahone drove the euerny frotu their front, taking about 150 1 prisoners. ( It is reported that a force of Yankee ' infantry has arrived at Tuotall's Station, f from the White House, extending up the York River Railroad. They state 1 that they belong to Butler's Corps. . Later.? Hoke's division encountered s the enemy's left yesterday morning, in- j flicting a heavy loss upon them, captur- ' ing a Lattery, a stand of colors and uum- 1 bers of prisoners. , < Col. L. M. Keitt, of South Carolina, t was severely wounded yesterday. latest from richmond Richmond, June 2, p. in.? Nothing 1 important transpired in Congress to-day 1 Our forces ou the South side attack- ' ed the Yankees this morning in their ; rifle pits, near Ware's Bottom Church, 1 capturing a hundred of the 7th Connect- 1 ? icut Our loss was trifling. Whilst thus engaged, liosscr's cavalry dashed in, routed the party, capturing 1 oOO horses and a number of prisoners. r Tne flying enemy was pursued almost 1 s to the Court House. r r j a test from tiie armv of general : c johnston. | i Nkw IIorF., .June 2.?The enemy still remains on our right and there has been skirmishing all the morning along ( our right and centre, which still contiu- 1 ues. Dallas was evacuated by the one a my yesterday, who left our wounded ' prisoners behind. The movement seems ^ to have been made hastily. | c Atlanta, June 2.?The retrograde ic movement of thej enemy towards the c Etowah niver is generally accepted here ; * as a relinquishment of the "on to Allan- v ta" movement. The Yankee loss, since ^ their advance from Chattanooga began, is estimated at. 80,000 killed and wounded, with 15,000 sick, missing and pris-! 1 oners. l'ersons from behind the enemy's lines report no trains at Kingston for several days. The forage had all been c eaten and the country stripped of every 1 particle of food. I c : v LATEST FROM THE NORTH. : J BlPHMONPj June 2.?Tbe Pbriadel- t pliin Inquirer of the 80th ultimo 1 been received. The despatches from Grant's army are filled with gasconade. They claim that Lee is completely outijcnerallcd, and that Grant's whole army is already across the Pamunky, nioviu?? "on to llichtnond." o Stein's Faum, Ya., June 2.?Hampton fought Wilson's di ision of Yaukee :avalry, near Ashland, yesterday, defeating aiid pursuing it over three miles, tnd capturing 500 horses and some 75 prisoners. Our loss is estimated 75, l. = "?1 1 ,,ln,t JviiHTu auu n uuuvtuu Yesterday the enemy assaulted our lines at various times, in front of Ileth's division and in front of Anderson's corps, but were handsomely repulsed each lime. A Lout dark last evening, three divisions of the Sixth Yankee Army Corps assaulted Ilokes Division, causing Clingman's North Carolina brigade for a moment to give way. Colonel Tutt's (Jeorgia Hrigadc, however promptly came to its assistance, and recovered nearly all the grouud lost by C'linginnn. We captured 00 prisoners. Our loss is not over two 200. Many of our men are missing, but it is supposed that they will presently come in. This morning the enemy was found to have abandoned the front, of A. P. Hill's corps, stretching from Atlce,s around to the Mcchanicsvillc Pike. Wilcock's skirmishers pushed forward and brought in about MO prisoners. About four o'clock tl.is afternoon, Ewell flanked the cnoinvs right on tlie Mecbaniesville l'ike, capturing over 500 prisoners, including ten commissioned officers, mostly from the 2d", Oth, 11th, 12th and 14th regiments of regulars in the Fifth corps. At seven o'clock p. ni., A'well had taken three lines of the cuemy's breastworks.?Our loss was not heavy : but amongst the killed was the brave Gen. Booles, of Georgia. i'olt) and sl'cc'kssfl'i. exploit below savannah?captuue of tiik yankee steam ell waterwitcil Savannah, May ?The Yankee war steamer Wntrnritrh (4 guns) was boarded at an early hour this morning and after a desperate fight captured, with her entire crew, by a detach men t from the Savannah squadron. Lieut. IV-lot, who led our men was killed, together with the pilot and a few others. The enemy have been repulsed in a recent attack on Baldwin, Fia. More Heavy Fighting in Virginia. Riru.Mftxii, June J?This morning ivas ushered in loud'reports of cannonaling north of the city, continuing until dearly ten o'clock a. rn. About noon it was ascertained that the enemy had .itLacked our lines on the right with desperate energy but had been repulsed bvith ease. The assult was renewed several tiiues with fresh troops, many of whom, it is said, were drunk; but every lttempt to break through our line was lefeated. Andkrson commanded our right and IIn.t. our centre; K.ari.Y commanding Kwell's corps on our left, atackcd the enemy in his front and drove hem back sonic distance. Amongst the casualties on our side were Generals Kirk land and Lane, of North Carolina, wounded?the latter severely, SKCOND DKSPATCIf. Richmond, June 4.?The enemy rclewed his attempt last night to carry a lommanuitig position, near unifies .uui, U'lJ by our right, but was again rcpulic?l with heavy loss. During the light, General Rreckin idge's horse was killed under him by a licfl in the breast. The General himself received painful, but not serious iuurics, by the sudden fall of his horse. Occasional reports of cannonading have )ccn heard this morning. All was quiet )n the South side of James lliver yescrday. Timri) hkspatcii. HATTLK FIKI.D, nfau Gainf.s, Mn.r., June 3?5 p. in.?Ileth's division paricipatcd with Kwell's in the fight yescrdav, capturing over 200 prisoners, flic battle opened at sunrise this mornng about ten miles below Richmond, (Xtcnding from the Mechanicsvillc Road ?- i:.... u nan a jjuugu uur imu ui jattle is seven inilong, and the enemy nade the attack. The heaviest fighting o n eported was in front, of llodes,' Iverhaw's and Hoke's front, who gallantly epulsed every assault. Our loss was ight?not over 500 killed and woundid; that of the enemy was fully six housnnd?soute estimate it at ten thornnn?. The enemy at one time broke through general Hrcekinridge's Division, capuring three pieces of artillery. Gcner.1 Finegan, however, came up and recapurcd one of the guns immediately. Breckinridge lost, probably, 200 prison:rs. The heaviest lighting was tip to ten 'clock. Since then there has been heavy lannonading and incessant skirmishing. }encrals Finegan and Law were slightly vounded. The former did not leave the ield. OFFICIAL FROM OEN. LEE. UtAU^l All It lib .All.M X Uf lXOlllllMlS ^ i kg ini a, .June 4-3 p. in.?At about mlf past four o'clock this morning the nemy made an attack upon the right of >ur line, in front of Hoke. The assault m the main body of Breckinridge's line ras repulsed without difficulty ; but at engtli the oiietny succeeded in penctraiug a salient angle of Breckinridge's line? ? -3 and captured a portion of a battery poste d . here; but Finegan's Brigade and the j Maryland Battalion drove off the enemy ' with severe loss. Repeated attacks were made upon An- 1 derson's position-chiefly against his right, ;' under Kershaw. They were met with < | great steadiness, and repulsed in every t I instance. The attack extended to our ! ( | extreme left, under Early's left, but in ( : both instances the enemy was repulsed j with heavy loss. j ' Hampton encountered the enemy's ! cavalry near Hall's Shop, and part of\V. II F. Lee's Division drove them from their entrenchments. Our loss to day was small. Our sue- 1 cess, under the blessing of God, was all ' * , j llltll >YU tUUI'i (Signed) R. K. Lee, General. | FROM JOIINSTOji's ARMY. i New Hope, Ga , June 8?2 p in- ? ' | Skirmishing continued during last, night, : and up to the time of writing this, he- , < i twecn the enemy's sharpshooters and | ours, and there has been some artillery " j lighting. The enemy is still mnnicu: vering for the advantage of position ; but i so far lias been properly met. | SKCOND DKSPATCII. 1 ( New Hope, June 8?Kvening.?The | ' enemy is still throwing forward troops on our right. There has been cousider- ! ' able artillery skirmishing this afternoon, j ' (Jen. Kehnls has been very slightly ' | wounded in the thigh. 1'risoncis con- ' I | tiuue to be brought in. J. T. HERSHMAN-Editor. | Camden, Wednesday, Juno 1 j Gen Wade Hampton. It is said that Maj. (Jen. Wade Hampton has killed twenty two men in hand | to hand fights. He alw.rys goes into bat- ' - - % M ' tic in advance ot his troops, generally 1 lias the first blow, and does yeoman's j 1 share of t!.c conflict. ~ < Gen. Toombs. The Savannah Republican leanrs that this gentleman, unwilling to be idle when i' 1 . n , his State is invaded, has joined the mili- 1 tia as a private and reported to (Jen. ' Wayne, at Aalanta, for duty. j( Roturn of our Wcundcd. During the past few days a large nam , ber of our wounded^soldiers have arrived j , home, and many others belonging to Lancaster aud Chesterfield have passed , j through Camden eur'nitc for their res- j pcctivc districts, the most of whom have r found a welcome at the "Soldier's Rest" 1. .. , i ' iu this place. The Number of WoundedThe Kuijnirrr has a statement on the authority of the officer of the Hospital , 1 - . .? . . t . . i e i .. l J l/epanmcnr, mat cue loiai 01 wuuiiucu ! soldiers sent from Lee's army, on ac- , c count of .he late engagements, to Charlottesville, Staunton, and other towns, ' , as well as to Miat city, is 11,130. The ,j total from (Jen. llcauregard's operations on the South-side is 3,040. i I Military Power of tlie Confederacy. There is no example in history, says , I the Atlanta Confederacy, of the military J 1 power exhibited by the Confederacy. ! With no previous martial habits - with c ! a population immersed in civil pursuis? ' ! she presents the extraordinary spectacle 1 I of half a million of men inarms out of j a populatiou of little more than five ( millions, including the eleven Confed- a crate States and excluding the slaves. !i There is no parallel to this in modern times. The highest ratio of the Euro- ! 1 pean armies to tlie total amount of the ! population of the States to which they ] | respectively belong as one and a half jj percent. The military on the war cstub- s j lishnicnt in France is about 500,000 j' ' out of a population of 36,000,000. Aus. i s 1 trsa, Russia and Prussia present about n | the same proportion, while Great Bri- P tain is below it. The Yankee nation 0 has sbout 700,000 men under arms, : which, in a population of 23,000,000, is little more than throe and a duarter e per cent ^ The difference is to be accounted for ^ on two grounds: 1st. The magnitude of tlie contest. 0 2d. The unity of our people. t The grand mistake made by the Yan- :i kces has been in comparing the relative j . fT . . n numbers of the sections. Ii-nv is it pos-1 c sible, they reason, that three-fourths ' \\ should not vanquish and subjugate one- ! a fourth? In this calculation they took j " no account of the moral clement., but a s 1 looked to numerical superiority . and u : brute force. They could not lift their ! *1 grovelling conceptions to the elevation j of thought that places in array against mercenaries, men who were fighting for I (j their liberties, their homes, and their! S wives and children. tl Out of MoneyThis is the paradoxical condition in which Mr. Mcmmingcr, the creator.of so many hundred millions of paper inopey, finds his Treasury to day. Money, money . verywhere, but not a dollar of the issue to pay off just?claims with. Why? Because the money-making department was turned topsy-turvy by the packing off of tlie note signers to Columbia, South Carolina, and tlie nervous fright into which Mr. Mem mi tiger was thrown by t lie Northern flourish of trumpets that preceled advance of Grant, s hosts. Wed tieslay, the first June, is pay day in all the Qovcrmcnt departments and offices, and j lie devil will he to pay between the poor ;lerk and Government emoloyees and the landladies and landlords for board due ' tud not paid.?liiihmoml examiner, LAST NIGHT'S MAILT | From Richmod. Richmond, June (j.?It is reported that Grant has retreated from Rally's front. The object probably to mass his forces for another desperate assilut. Advices from the Valley indicate that lie Yankees are marching on Staunton. Our forces being unable to prevent their advance. LATER. It is reported that the Yankees have occupied Staunton. Atlanta, June G. ? It is reported that the enemy are moving towards Altoona. Hooker's corps are fortifying the hills between Acliwoith and Altoona. The following is a list of the Generals from .South C:iroli:.n: Mnj.Goo.Il II. Anderson, army Northern Virginia. Maj. Gen. Wade Ilamton, army North-. :irn Virginia. Maj. Gen. Benjamin linger. Chief Inspector of Ordnance C. S A., Now in Trans Mississippi Department. Maj. Gen. .Stephen I). Leo, Department Mississippi. Brig Gen. M. C. IJutlcr, army Northern Virginia. Brig. Gen. Win. Butler, Department. Brig. (ion. N. G. Evans, Department South Carolina. Georgia and Florida Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Drayton, Trans V'ississppi Department. Brig. Gen. S. W. Ferguson, Department Mississippi. Brig. Gen. S. II. Gist, army of Tt'Ulessee. Brig. Gen Johnson Ilagood, Depart- , nent No-tli Carolina and .Smith Virginia. Brig. Gelt. .Joseph B. Kershaw, army Northern V irginia. Brig. Gen. Samuel McGowan/jnrmy >nnii(Tii \ irgnnu. ]{ri-'. Gen. A. M. Manigaulf, army of C o ' *> Tennessee. Grig. (Ifii. Abncr I'oirin, army North- ! :rt? A*ir?ririia. ]5ri^?. Gen. R. S. Ripley, Department ( 3011th Carolina, Georgia an J Florida. Grig. Gen. C. 11. Stevens* army of Tennessee. Grig. Gen. James II. Trapier, Dcpartncnt South Caroliua, Georgia and i Florida. Sicgel's Defeat. Stanton makes the disaster of Siegel piite as had as the Confederate history 1 if it. In his official telegram he says: Despatches from General Siegel, receivid this evening, report that on Sunday lie ' ought the forces of Echols and I in Pud en, j mder Greckinridge, at New Market that he enemy's forjcs were superior in iinm- I >er, anil that lie gradually withdrew from ; he battle lield and rocrosscd the Slieu- j tidoah, having lost live pieces of artillery, j ibout six hundred killed and wounded, ! mi liftv prisoners, but brincinir all his i trains and all the wounded that could be j . ansported from the battle field. He.states that in consequence of the | nng line and the trains that had to bejtiardcd, lie could not bring more than ix regiments into the fight, besides the rtillery and cavalry, and that the enemy iad about seven thousand infantry, bcides other arms; that his retrograde uovemcnts to Strasburg was effected in ierfect orrder, without any loss of material r men. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. An officer who participated in the i ngagement of the 15th instant at New darlcet, under Gen. Sicgel, writes as ollows: The fighting was terrific, the most so f any battle in the Valley. Wc could i nly bring about 5 000 men into the fight; ! he enemv numbered 10 000 to IS.000. ! ^ ^ - - 11 I tul fought like devils. Our cavalry ; lehaved badly, and some of the iufantry ; o better; but the latter werejallied, the i avalry could not be. General Siegel ras in front, and in the thick of the battle 11 day, encouraging, directing, and leadag the men. The bullets were dense all bout him; one or two of his staff were lightly injured, several had horses shot mler them. 'he Number of the Confederate I Prisoners. 1 . The report of the U. S. Commissary , 1 leneral. of Prisoners, accomoanviuir ' ' 1 y o [ | ecretary of War's report, shows that i I uc nnmbcr of Confedcrare officers and '' men copturcd by the Yankees -^inee tlie ! beginning of (be war 14: One Lieutenant General, five Major Generals, twenty-five Brigadier Generals, ISO Colonels, 146 Lieutenant Col- 1 oucls, 244 Majors, 2,497 Captains, 5,811 1 Lieutenants, 5,568 non commissioned I officers, 121,156 privates, and 6,800 1 ai- . 1 _ _ .1 .11 _ , i .. t ! citizens. v./i iiicsc iuey (t:iii on nuim ?i : the date of (lie report 29,229 officers-' and men, among whom were one Major (leneral and seven Brigadiers There had been 121,937 rebels exchanged j against 110,800 I'nion men returned The exchange of officers on both sides are computed at their exchangeable value in privates. Since the date of"! the above report there have ben less than one thousand exchanges, and very j" few captures on cither side. The fig- j ares, are, consequently, approximately j correct. No statement has been furnished of (he number of prisoners held by the Confederates. The Late Cavalry Fight Near at 1 Lee's Station. The Km miner says. On Saturday morning our cavalry entered die enemy's lines about the June- j tinn and captured all their pickets.Soon after this?about 12 o'clock our force fell" upon the enemy near Flaws' shop, about four miles of Alice's station, 1 and a fight commenced. For prudeti- ! tial rcrsons, we omit to name the particular regiments engaged on our side, hut our forces were entirely of cavalry. The fielit was desperate for the time. I ; The enemy advanced three times, l>uf each time was repulsed and driven hack for two miles. At this juncture the I enemy advanced to the support of their ; cavalry a whole corps of infantry afterwards discovered to he the Fifth army corps, and the tight was renewed Here the light raged for an hour, when our ; men, who had no infantry support, and lighing themselves pressed hy overpowering numbers of the enemy, fell back! for about a mile, retiring slowly and in pi rfeet order, the enemy showing no ; disposition to pursue. Our forces held their position at night. Our loss is variously estimated, but the be?t informed S' uic s say that it will hardly reach two t hundred in killed and wounded. A Mutilated Regiment. There is, perhaps, no regiment in the i service which presents such evidences of the havoc of war,as the Second Louisiana. It left lo.nie over eleven lion- j 1-1 - ?i ....ir,.i,.,..,.,. lire; MIi'iiu, mm nun ruiu nu. nvo.j , lossc.- was rccruitcs art 1 in appeared at <? ttvshnrg it u itt be filler one thousand. ! Then: it lost seven hundred and fifty of that number, or just throe fourths. It was on hand, however, with organization complete, in the recent battles in Virginia being attached to Stafford's brigade, Kwell's corps. It was prominent in the Wil ierncss fiulit and again ar S'pottsylvania Court House, in which last battle if lost its Colonel, Williams, anu other officers, coming out with hut fifteen muskets left. Thus stands the heroic band at present. What a sad, 1 but glorious, spectacle it presents Curious Discovery. It is said that Mayor Tietuann, at his paint fac'ory in Manhattanville, has accidentally made a discovery which threatens to revolutionize floriculture. One of the factory hands having thrown some j liquid green paint of a particular kind on a flower bed occupied by white anemones, the flowers have since made their appearance with petals as grass The paint had very penetrating chemical mixture, which Mr. Ticmnnn has since ap- j plied with other colors, to other plants, ! annual, biennial, and of the shrub kind? the result, being invariably that the flow- j ers so watered took the hue of the liquid deposited at their roots. J5y continuing j experiments early next year, during seed time, and applying different colors, wc shall no doubt bo enabled to "paint the lily," which was Solomon's ambition. [ Xeic York Tribune. ? Impressment of Milch Cows. Article VI11 of the General Orders of Adjutant General .Cooper, published or..i. ..< \t 1. M II III .'ltllUU, H;V7j "No impressment under tliis or any other order shall be made of milch cows, or of the- breeding stock of any firm or plantation." And yet, in violation of this most peremptory order, many milch cows have been impressed by men professing to act under orders. It will be well for farmers to demand an exhibition of the authority upon which General , Cooper's order is violated. The Difference. One of the officers recently captured by Forrest, made the following remark to Capt Henderson, as the latter reports 11 to the Montgomery Advertiser: "The most astounding thing that has arrested j ' my attention since I have been in cap- j ] ,l.? I ' IIYIljr y IS lllU UIIII1UI II1MI IIJ- ??pii iv ?/ | your soldiers.?They arc living upou 1 short rations of bread and meat, and I , ' have never heard a complaint escape ' their lips. They never mention their ' pay as a matter of importance, and seem ' entirely devoted to a principle. On the other hand, our troops have every ( luxury that men could desire, evrcy com- '' fort which the nation can supply, and yet are filled with discontent. They are ' clamoring for their pay as though it1 lyere the sole object- 1 candidly acknow-; ( lerigo that the contrast strikes tne with ( Jisiuay." ' ' 4* % 2d Regiment. S. C. V. In the recent battles near Chancellors* villc anil Spotsylvania C. II. V.: Co A?Wounded: Corp Geo Brans, leg amputated; P H Joyncr, slight. Co B?Wounded: N P Ileuning, R II lira inlet, slight; Thos Johnson, severe; G W Wiiliams, mortal, since dead. Co K?Wounded: J E Nettles, leg ampufared. _ Co F?Killed: John Robinson. Wounded: Capt W C Vance, Wm Chipley. J S Clianey, slight; Lieut Alex Mfc-r " Neill, P M Fuller, severe. Co G?Killed: Sergt J J Murchisbn Wounded: R .J Rlnckman, J W Rone,' siigbt; W M Rlackman, A J Smail, severe; K R Robinson, dangerously. Co II?Killed: Corp S A PougiasS, A M Williams. Wounded: Sergt S C Gardner; J R Kcnuington,* R Sutton severe: W C Adkins, arm amputated; J It Harris, sliglit. Co I?Killed: 10 Kcrrison, WPS Frieks. Wounded: S. rgt R II Scriven, .J Brown, slightCo Iv? Killed: Capt .Jnfyn Webb, Sergt .J R Simmons, J Bull. Wounded: Sergt F C Ferrura, J Raily, W P Roll, slight; .) M Reason, hand amputated. Casualties in Lieut. Col. Haskell's Regiment, S.C. Cavalry. List of casualties iri Capt James L. Ruby's and Capt. P. Pubosc (late E. M. Roy kin) companies of South Carolina Cavalry, commended by Lieut. Col. A. C. II isktdl. in the cavalry liirLt at cross lloads, near "Old Church," on the 30th Mav, 18C4. Field Officers?Wounded : Lieut Col A C Haskell, severely, not dangerous: Major K M Ilnykiti, severely in thigh Capt Jas Doby's Company?Killed Corpl J 15 Cureton, Wounded: Scrgts Jno 15 Lee, in wrist severely; W Whitaker slightly in head; C'WpI II 0 Salinond, Privates Jno Turnhull, ./no Mulholland, Jno Player, K W.Parker, all slightly in hand; T II Clark, in thigh. Missing: Lieut U P liotuiey, Privates I) Mcllace, S 15 Edwards, J A Davis, A Massoy. Captain PPubose's Company- - Wounded: ('apt Dubosc, leg painfully; Lieut J W Anants. *leg slightly; privates A Xcuffer, mortally, and missing; S Kirklaud, leg and hand severely; S Hcckham, shoulder severely; .1 Dusenberrv, face severely; J M Depusson, foot, slightly; K D Cole, face do; DG Young, arm severely. Missing: L:out W K Johp-on, Sergeant T L IJoykon, Privates L II Deas, T A Hoggins, 1) II Strother. (Signed) S. Watt wardiaw, .... aojniani. \ Direct Answers. I Tiie New Market correspondent of tlic lGehmond f/isjui/i/i furnishes the following anecdote : A few daySxHncc a Yankee upstart summonced an aged civilian to appear before hirti to furnish some information. When duly arraigned, the Yankee began : Do you know of any one who has furnished supplies to the rebels ? Old man?[ believe I do. Yank ?Who was if'! 1 Aiis. ?General JJauks. Yank.?Sergcaut, take him to the guard-house, Wait a while. Now, old white-h aded rebel, mind whose presence you are in, and answer correctly. Do ^ yon know any one who has been passing through our lines and back again C O # G to the rebels, carrying information: * t- I 1 gjj? ;\ns.? ICS, Mr, l (IO. Vank.? Who was it? ff Ans.?General J. K. 11. Stuart. Vank ?Sergeant, take bim to the fl guard h'juse. Distances on the State Road. || The following table of distan- M cos of the Georgia Road will be || valuable for reference: Number of miles from?Atlan- || ta to Vining. 1 ] ; Vining to Mari- l| etta, '.): Marietta to Acworth, 15; I Aewortli to Altoonn, 5: Altoona, H to Cartersville 8 Cartersvillc" to 'm Cass, 5; Cass to Kingston, 6: . H Kingston to Adairvillc 10 ; 'Bj Adairsville to Calhoon, 10; Cal- - B boon to Resaca, 5; Resaca to Til- , -M ton,6; Tilton to Halton 10; :J? Dalton to Tunnel IlTll, 7; Tunnel 4 Bj Hill to Ringold, 8; Ringold, ^to- fB Chikamauga, 10; Chickamaugato :J| Boyce 6; Boyce to Chattanocga, :M i : Home, by the railroaa, is If w miles West of Kingston. rag The following is from a Yankee,diary, |||J captured in the Prcwry's Bluff fight: Butler's Narrow Escape.?Afc about 5 o'clock, Gen. Butler and staff1 . rode through the different regiments, and * were cheered with a long and continuous cheer. Gen. Butler advanced to tbo. outpost, where I was stationed, and stilt gaga Forward he went, until he was fired upon by a party of guerillas, who had been $|S| concealed behind a church?some 200. |?3| yards beyond the outpost. One of the Um General's orderlies was taken, prisoner^ ittcr being severely wounded, lien, Butler uarrowly escaped capture. We *$8g ion Id have taken a very pleasaut gquie of JiSS?3 " J"?rAer''(Yankce spelling) on the H| [teueral's coat tail, so straight did it stick out behind, qs be fairly flew tp (bp