thus matters mostly up to 11 o'clock yesterday (Sunday) morning.
At deck, an attack was made along the front of the entire line, and was removed at 2 A. M., In frontier Conn.
Rocker, Ramsey, and Edmund, possibility ....
Four losses.
Col. Black, of Pennsylvania, was killed, his head blown off by a shell.
When we lost, Easton's battery, we lost its valuable commander besides.
Ten guns were taken from us by a sudden flank attack, covered by the thick smoke which hung around the piecestry is about annihilated.--Nearly every officer in it is killed or wounded.
The 14th also suffered severely.
Major Roselle, of the regulars, a kinsman of Gen. McClellan's, is killed; Col. Platt, of a New York regiment, is also killed, and Lieut. Cols. Black and Sweitzer.
Our loss in officers is very marked.
Indeed, the disproportion in numbers was so extraordinary, and the obstinacy of our troops so unyielding, that our losses were inevitably large.
The artillery in both Porter's and Sm
A soldier Accidentally killed.
--On the night of the 5th instant, at the camp within a few miles of Staunton, Lieut. Crawford of Chester district, S. C., was thrown from his horse and dragged, (his foot hanging in the stirrup,) and was so severely injured that he died the next day. He belonged to Col. Black's South Carolina cavalry.
odiest day of the war has closed.
McCown's division attacked the enemy's right, driving them back with great slaughter.
By 3 o'clock in the afternoon the enemy had been driven back six miles from our left and centre.
Gen. Willick and a number of other Abolition officers are prisoners.
Gans. Byll, McCook, and Woodraff are killed.
Our loss is heavy, but the enemy's is estimated at five to our one!
"Gen. Rains, Col. McHair, and Col. Antry, of the 27th Mississippi, and Lieut. B. C. Enou.
Trieste, of the 1st Louisiana, are killed.
Col. Black, of the 5th Georgia and Col. Fisk, of the 25th Louisiana are mortally wounded.
Generals Bragg and Poll displayed great judgment and heroism.
Whiten's cavalry captured 200 prisoners, with a large supply of wagon trains and 400 beeves.
Yesterday General Wheeler burnt 280 wagons in the enemy's rear, and captured 800 prisoners
Our troops covers themselves with glory.
The battle may be renewed to morrow morning.
A steamer destroyed Charleston, April 12.
--Last night the steamer Stonewall Jackson, formerly the Leopard, while attempting to run into this harbor was hotly charred by a half dozen blockaders.
which field at the Stonewall, and she received several shots through her hull Capt Black, finding it impossible to escapes, can the steamer on the back and burned her. The crew and passengers took to the boats and have reached here.
Very little was saved excepting the mails and the passengers' effects.
The steamer burned to the water a edge in sight of the Yankees.
Her cargo consisted of several pieces of field artillery, two hundred barrels of saltpetre.
forty thousand army shoes, and a large assortment of merchandize.
he Confederate steamer Stonewall Jackson
The steamer Stonewall Jackson, Capt. Black, started for a Confederate port on the 24th ult., and returned to Nassau the he did not take his canvas off and that his course was in another direction Capt. Black jogged quickly along, but about half an hour the rose rapidly from the sealy with the glass he was discovered to be a steamed with large paddle boxes.
Capt Black immediately altered his course south by east, keeping the Yankee parabola wits hopes, commenced to bang away with impotent fury.
About 4½ o'clock P. M. Captain Black may be said to have non the race, his competitor being fairly distanced andonewall steamer back into Nassau.
I am told by the passengers on board that Capt. Black disposed the most admirable coolness readiness and courage, during the long self-possession of the Captain and his staff of officers.
On the other hand Capt Black speaks in the warmest terms of the conduct of his men. It is evident that it
ahone's brigade.
This force resisted the enemy until Hampton's cavalry came up, when the battle was joined between our cavalry and that of the enemy.
During some portions of the engagement the fighting is represented to have been very severe.
In the early part of the fight Capt. E. W. Branch, commanding the Grays, from this city, was killed, and his body brought to the city by the Central train last evening.
Hampton's Legion sustained the greater part of the loss inflicted upon us. Col. Black was shot through the hand with a Minnie ball; Col. Baker's arm was shattered, and Col. Young received a severe wound in the breast.
The Legion is now commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel.
Our cavalry fought them a distance of six miles, gradually falling back upon our infantry supports.
The enemy, however, did not afford these supports an opportunity to engage in the fight, but retired as soon as they came up. Our loss was some fifteen killed and from sixty to seventy wounded. The loss of
e Government, but sometimes he had difficulty in getting them over the river; that once they were five days without receiving any food, and the negroes in their despair threatened to kill him, thinking the taut was his. He also stated that they had no tents or shelter except brush to shield them from the sun, or storm, or dews of night.
Captain A — stated to me that there were in his camp 2,000, at Young's Point 8,551; on Papaw Island, where he purposed gathering most of them, 2,800; and on Black's plantation, on the Yazoo, 2,400--in all over 16,000. One morning I went among the wretched masses where they were hauled to the bank of the river, preparatory to being sent across.
I tried in vain to find some women who were able to work, as we wished their labor at our house.--All were either sick or taking care of the sick.
I saw nothing but one sad scene of misery.
I hope you may be able to do more for these suffering ignorant beings than is in my power to devise, and that God may bl
rticle to the soldiers comfort being blankets.
The lack of them could readily be supplemented if the people only possessed a tithe of the patriotism they exhibited in the outset of this war.
The country will be gratified to learn of the return to command of Major-Gen. Wade Hampton, now commanding a division of cavalry in the army.
Gen. H. was wounded at Gettysburg.
The cavalry corps is composed of Hampton's and Fitz Lee's divisions, the whole under command of Maj.-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, who ought for his gallantry and worth to be a Lieut.-General.
The field hospital accommodations in this army are as follows: A general hospital for corps No. 2, under Dr. Black; one for corps No. 3, under Dr. Iliggin bottom.
There is also a receiving and forwarding hospital, under Dr. Claggett, assisted by Dr. Newton.
All of these are now located at Orange C. H. Persons coming here and seeking information of their sick friends can get it by applying at one of the three departments. X.
but a short time.
Our loss was small.
For several days past the enemy has been picketing in front of Bermuda Hundred with negroes.
In front and on the line of the Weldon railroad there is little or no change.
The enemy has been engaged to-day shifting forces from their right to their left.
Butler's cavalry engaged the enemy's cavalry nine miles below here night before last, and repulsed an effort they were making to drive in our picket lines.
Our loss was small.
Heavy firing has for the last hour been heard some distance down the line of the Weidon railroad; cause unexplained.
[Second Dispatch.] Petersburg, August 25.
--The New York Herald of the 12d has a letter from Niagara Falls, which says Judge Black, Attorney-General under Buchanan, and Hay, Lincoln's private secretary, have had another interview with Clay, Holcombe & Co., and that Lincoln is about to offer an armistice, and propose a meeting of commissioners in Baltimore or some other border city.
his was in progress, Kennedy asked General Beale for a handkerchief, and used it. When the black cap was placed upon his head, he asked, "Am I going to wear this thing to the gallows?" The answer: "Yes. "
The preparations being now complete, the procession formed in line, and as it passed out of the cell door, Kennedy turned to General Beale, with the remark: "This is a cowardly murder."
About five minutes past 1 o'clock the procession marched to the gallows, Chaplain Burke and Lieutenant Black, officer of the day, walking first, followed by Kennedy and General Beale.
The guard brought up the rear.
The garrison of the fort (Seventeenth regiment of regulars) stood in two lines on either side of the scaffold.
One hundred and ninety bounty-jumpers and brokers, previously marched out of their cells, occupied the background, the brokers separated by a short interval from their victims.
A dozen newspaper reporters stood near the gallows.
The first act under the gallows was t
