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The Late Victory in Virginia.
Readers of tbe Courier will accept and prefer
in place of ranch that could be culled from
other sources, the following from the trustworthy
and eminently accurate correspondent of
the Savannah Republican :
Richmond, October 29, 1864.
The details as they come in leave no doubt
that Grant made his grand assault on Thursday,,
the 27th. He may make another effort
between this and the day of the Presidential
election ; but that be took his measures and !
prepared his plans with a view to tbe speedy
capture of Richmond or the Southern Railway,
or both, of them, is now manifest to the dullest
apprehension. As it is, he took nothing by
his Inst move : on the contrary. h:s defeat waR
complete at all points, on the right, on the left
and in the centre. The importance and extent
of our victory do not appear so much
from Gen. Lee's official report, as from trust- i
worthy persons who were present and partici- i
pated in the battle. Indeed, Gen. Lee has an
inveterate habit of understating the losses of
his adversary and of refining away his own victories
; whereas it is the practice of the enemy
to magnify bis triumphs, and not unfrequcntly
to claim a victory where he has suffered a defeat.
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The effect of these diverse policies is as different
as the policies themselves. In the one
caae, the enemy is encouraged ami the war
spirit stimulated; in the other, neither our
army nor our people receive the encourage.ment
which should be derived from our successes.
The re-publication here of the war i
bulletins of the enemy even have a bad effect,
notwithstanding he is known to be a great
asonomist of truth, and in many instances to
ect up claims which are as preposterous as they
6co unfounded. If the positions of the two
armies had been reversed and we had been the
arsaulting, and the enemy the assailing party,
the whole North would be ringing with pueuus
of victory.
It now seems that our success beyond Pc*
tersburg was quite as complete as it was below
Richmond. The enemy got possession of the
Boydton plank road at Burgess' mills, on Ilowanty
Credk, when Mahone moved against him
with three brigades in front and Hampton took
him in the rear. Though he was not then
. v dislodged, Mahone took over |four hundred
prisoners, three stands of colors and six pieces
I of artillery. The latter could not bo brought
off. however, the enemy having possession of
the bridge over the Creek. In the attack subsequently
made by the enemy, Mahone broke
three lines of battle and inflicted a heavy loss
upon the foe, who retired during the night
from the plank road, leaving many of his
wounded and between two and three hundred
dead on the field. Including those made on
the North Bide, quite a thousand well prisoners
were taken during the day.
During these operations on the extreme left
and right, a considerable (demonstration was
made on the centre, between the James and
Appomatox. This was done to prevent rein*
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iorccm.enia irum uuiug scut, uituer tu mu ngut
or the left. Having failed at all other points,
and supposing doubtless that Gen. Lee had
weakened his lines in front of Petersburg' in
order to rcinforee his wings, the enemy, about
" nine o'clock at night, advanced against our
works on the Baxter road, and took possession
of them ; but they were soon driven out. The
two armies, therefore, now occupy the same
relative positions they held before the fight.?
Ar already remarked, Grant took nothing by
his move, but lost more than?a thousand men
for every hundred that Lee lost, in other words,
his loss will not fall short of six or seven thou
j T j c.?
gailUj WUllC JLiCC O UUCO iiVU CAWCU uvc ur OlA
hundred. P. W. A.
Who Invented Hoops.?The oredit of the
invention of hoops belongs, it is said, to Angelique
Milliet, a poor French peasant girl,
who got the index from her hencoops. She
patented the invention and has become very
wealthy.
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Camden, Wednesday, Noremjtjer 9.
J- T- HEBSHMAN^-EditA
One Hundred and Forty-Two T$H)bani)
Converts.?It is estimated that 14^000 soldiers
have been converted in the Co&fedcra\c
States army since the war commenced,*
The Richmond Whig learns that deserters
from the Yankees say that soldiers in Grant's
army were offered one hundred dollars and a
furlough to vote the Republican ticket
Jefferson City is oq the Missouri rrier, near
its .junction with the Osage, and afout one
hundred and fortv miles above St. L&in. Tt
stands, for the most part, on a lofty bjuff, and
is a position of gre3| strength.
Greeley is making stump speeches' New
England; and is returning to his old p)|nciples
ontheUnion question. In'bis Hartford ^speech,
tha other day, he declared that, ff thi. Southern
people decided by a fair vote to go out of
the Union, he was in favor of letting'shem do
so. That is precisely ^liat he said in:J.83L
Schenectady. (New York) boasts $|novelty
;n n i.?- L o?:i u dtiiv *
iu juui uuiimu jLu ua? a uuujr pujjvr WH" twu
editors, one Republican and the otb?'Democrat,
vrho have a page of every day's Jfa?er.?
The second page is for McClellan $nd ^jet)iirtl
for Lincoln, and spirited contro^rsiesj^re constantly
going on within the limits ofV single
sheet.
Lincoln has been frightened out of the
Soldiers' Home back to the White Hffise.g A
-letter says . " 'Rot'
ous signals have been observed in that direction,
and last night the suspicious indications
of an attempted raid -had multioled to such an
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exteut as to induce the President to abandon
bis insufficiently guarded suburban residence.
Editor Wanted.?An editor is wanted in
the office of the Hendersouville (N. C.) Times.
The present editor desires to retire. This is a
good berth for some one who is too feeble to
be a soldier, and who desires a situation well
guarded against "conscription." The applicant
must be of moial habits, educated, and
"sound on the goose." Address W.L.Love,
llcndersorfvillc, N. C.
Rampant.?It is odd to find the word ram\pant
expressive of anything high-handed and
over bearing. The word literally means in the
French, creeping or crawling. The misapplication
had its rise in the jargon of heraldry,
where a lion or other animal, represented with
the feet as if in movement, was termed rampant?from
the word ramper, to creep. So
that a poor man making his way on all fours,
is really and truly the rampant individual, after
all.
Thl New Governor of Georgia.?Gen.
Logan, who formerly commanded the 16th
Yankee army corps, says the Augusta C)onstilutionalist,
has beensyppointed to the command
of Atlanta and declared Military Governor of
Georgia. He is now on a visit to Ohio, and
Gen. Osteriiaus commands in his ste?d. Ify
the time he is ready to return, we hope that
our civil Governor will be prepared to givo
him and Baron Oysterhouse a fitting reception.
The inaugural ceremony to take place at the
Hotel de Andersonville.
Proclamation of Governor Bradford Declaring
Maryland a Free StateThe
Court of Appeals, at Annapolis, having
affirmed the decision of Judge Martin in refusing
to grant a mandamus against the Governor
in relation to the soldiers' vote on the
new Constitution, Gov. Bradford has pioclaimed
the new Free State Constitution of Maryland.
.
<?he Governor's proclamation says:
Upon actually counting and casting np the
vote returned to me, for and against such Coni
stitution, including the soldiers' yote afore- f
said1, it doth appear that jhere were 30,174
ballots for the Constitution and 29,799 against
th6 Constitution ; and. there being, therefore,
of the aggregate veto so cast, a majority in
favor of'tbe- adoption of the said Constitution,
Now, therefore, if Augustus W.Bradford,
Governor of the'State of Maryland, etc., do by
this my proclamation declare atid make known
that the said constitution and form of government^
framed and adopted by the. convention
aforesaid, has been adopted by a majority of
the voters of the State; and .that, in. the pursuance
of the provisions therein contained? the
same will go into effect as the' proper constitution
aod form of g'dVernmeht of this'State^ su*
percedjng the one now existing, on the first
day of Novotpber next, etc.
A Scout's Adventure.
GnK; Blake, one of General A/ P. Hill's
moaf daring and successful scouts,.had rather
a singular and- ludicrous adventure some days
ago. lie was captured bv thfc enemv and sent;
to City Point as-a. spy. "Fortunately, be had ,
papers 6n hi?pcrsjfa to provo who and what j'
he was. Having been eaptured sevgral times'}
before, he di<f not lose his gplf possession, but
looked'"^out An to"tee whether he eonld not
mape good his escape as . he bad" done on so I
maiSy-flrevious accounts. He was not long 1n
discovering a newly drafted rnanf whose ai^ ,
pearanae showed he was well to do in tqP
world, and.whose melancholy visage told unmistakably
his dislike of the army.
Blake made up to him immediately, andf
entering into conversation, soon learned that
he was the most anxious of living Yankees to
return "to hnm," and willing to run considerable
risk to aceoniDlish his Durnnse. Blake's
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ready wit and eool head quickly .CQpcocfed a
plan. They flipped behind^* honse and exchanged
clothes, Blake assuming the Yankee's
ntune and the Yankee Blake's?tlfe Yankee
TTitendhig tcrgo'dort^R) Porflresi Mtiti^eTftNr "
prisoner of war, take the oath of allegiance,
and return to the bosom of his family and
pumpkin patch.
Just then it occurred to Blake that he lrad
gotten himself into a decidedly bad scrape.?
Said he to himself,-f'lf I go to this man's
company and try to palm myself off as bio), I
wi/l certainly be detected and forthwith hung
as a spy. That won't begin to do. I will
walk up the road and see if something won't
turn up." No sooner said than done. lie
had walked but a f w hundred yards before be
met a Yankee, mounted on a horse and leading
two others. "Where did you get those
horses?" enquired Blake sternly. "Got'em
up the road a bit," said the Yankee; "they
are stray horses," he added aDolocizinedv.
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Blake put on him most peremptory manner.
"Stray devils!" he cried; "you know they
are not stray horses. If you don't get down
this instant, you rogoe, I'll report you to headquarters
and have you shot for a thief."
The Yankee jumped down as quick as lightning.
Blake took bis place, and after some
little trouble in avoiding the onetby's pickets,brought
two of the bosses safely into our lines.
What became of the poor fellow with whom he
swapped clothes it is impossible to say.
Richmond Examiner.
In anticipation of the defeat of "Old Abe,"
in the approaching Presidential election, the
following business Card has been published:
A. LINCOLN,
Attorney and Counsellor atLaxe.
springfield, ill.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
My.old customers and others are no doubt '
aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing
the stream, and will be glad to know that 1
I will be back on the same side from which I '
started, on or before the 4th of March next, 1
when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Bis- 1
pense Law, make Jokes, Split Rails, and per- (
form other matters in a small way. 1
Reducing the Democratic Vote.?Two
deserters from the one-hundredth New York 1
regiment, who came into our lines yesterday, 1
state that recently a vote was taken in one of }
the army corps, and that two New York regi- 1
ments voted en masse for McClellan. This i
made Butler very irate, and on Thursday the t
two offending regiments were put intfl the battle's
front, each losing more than half their
men. The truth of this statement is in part 1
corroborated by the fact that the majority of
prisoners taken belong to New York regiments. ^
Richmond Examiner.
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/Ht^bd's Army on the March.
. Wejtokc the t'oilowiDg from the.Montgome- ; '
ry Mail of Wednesday : * ^ ^
Th6 first intelligent account wa have rcceiv- 1
ed of the whereabouts and situation of the,
Army of Tennessee, reaches us through a private
letter to a well known gentleman of this ??|
city. On the 23d ultimo, Hood's army pftased ' . jfc
Brooksville in North Alabama. At tbb point
it separSted in. three columns, all makifig for
the Tennessee river, at three different p'oints-*-\j*^M
Decatnr, Whitesburg, atyl Gunter's Landing. *
Sherman's armv followed npnrlrnn In !?? v'-v^na
Coosa river. ilia advance skirmished wiih.'
Wheeler's cavalry up to die vicinity of Gad*-. "|SH
den. Here the Federal commander halted, and?
then "Went back, apparently nonplussed at.tft# ^ y&m
movements of our army. By this time it
sppposecU that the tbree^columirs of ouf hrtny
are safely over the river* and that they have
converged apmewhgre in the vicinity of Huntsville.
The general? impWssion is that its fu- BraS
tnre coirrso'^will be fn the direction of Tuscumr '
bia. Everything was progressing favorably' %
and all were in confident spirits.
sOur .cavalry officers appear to be in doubt. * .
themselves as to the foree and designs of tbfc;< y '
ehemy o? the Coosa. $here is no doubt, bow
ever, b?t thar they a^e in the tei(;hborhodd of'1 ' $588
Cedar Bluff witb .infantry, cavalry and artiK j: ;'
lery. -On last Thursday iLforce of fifteen hunjdred
'cavalry, under Kflpatrick, advanced tor Ijp
Ladiga, thirteen miles northeast of this place,
and m thin eouiity. ^hey were met by Gen.
Ferguson's brigade, an?$a bard fight of ten
hours' duration followecF Ferguson finally ?
drove the enemy'from every point of the field ' ?
aad eaptured bis dlhd, mortally wounded and
three pnsotofera.- They left twelve of the form- *
er on the grotond. Iu threir'retreat the enemy
took the Borne road. Subsequent ^coutiDg
parties failed to di^over any force tbls side of
the Coosa. %.
31an} officers of Geo.- Wheeler's ccvalrjr arc
o? the o pinion that SherafaTi will a rong
forco down the Selrnat and Blue Mouataio
Railroad, and that hq is under the impression
tbat Hood.w drawing bis supplies over that
way. Gen. Wheeler has received instructionsto
full back in front vof such a column sbonld;
it advance. Nothing wonld gratify Geo# Hood1
more than for Sherman to make such a disposition
of auy of his army corps, while be is redeeming
TeBnesse. My own impression isthat
no such expedition will be made. There* ^
is nothing along that line upon which to sub- *
sist a force strong enough to make the ^itoove-ment
successful. *?. . . ? *
It is further hoped that the Yankee Genera?
will hold on to - Atlanta and all other captured
points between there aud Chattanooga until!
the grand battle for Tennessee is fought. If . ,
that is done our success ifr assured. There
was a rumor at General BfeauregardVbead-*
quarters the otberfoay that Atlanta had been
captured by General person; "I hope,"'said
the General, "that it is not true; I expect it
to be captured but not now.,lr
Th^'theory advanced b^oneof your city cotemporaries
that Corinth and1 Shiloh are again
to be occupied, is wholly untrue. For that ^ .
matter these historic places are already in' "our .
possession. But now, as three years ago, they
are of no strategic importance. The present ' <
grand advance has a far deeper meaning: thaw
that.
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A High Old Toddy?Dr. Dickson of New"
York, editor of the Scalpel, whose grandfather (
owned the site of Fort Lee, near the Hudson
river, and about 11 miles above the city, on
the New Jersey s;de, mentions as one of the
incidents of the occupation of that section of
the country by the Hessian troops under Ge?eral,Kuyp.iausen,
during the Revolution off
76, that the tLssian soldiers rolled a barrel!
_/? _ j i t f* t A - it- ? '
or sugar ana a oarrei o* wntssey out 01 iaecollar,
emptied the contents of both into therain-hogshead,
stirred the compound with a<?
Pence rail, and used their shoes for drinking:ups.
Some of-them got tight, which is-surprising.
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Big Game.?Brigadier-General A? N." Bufie,
commanding First division cavalry, Bejartment
West Virginia,Sheridan's army, who~
vas "gobbled" receqtly by Colonel Moshy> arived
in Richmond yesterday, and was oomnitted
to the Libby. Gen. Duffie" is a Frenchnan,
was born in Parts, and would pass for a
;entlcman in any other than Yankee oompa- '
iy?Richmond Examiner.
Why. does oar market'house rcqemble a-' fl
>arber shop ? 'H. ' .
Because every body goes there to be shaved*
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