The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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From the South.

a brilliant scouting party under Captain Roddy, was sent from Tupelo a few days since, the result of which is thus officially reported:

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In Camp, August 8, 1862.
General:

Being joined by Captains Earls and Lewis, with their respective commands, we marched to the railroad, expecting to find a train of cars.--Upon arrival we found the train had unloaded two hundred and fifty Federals, who were to march to Decatur, We pursued them by a circuitous route, and came upon the head of their column soon after daylight. Waiting until the whole body had passed, we charged after them in the road, the advance being led by Lieut. Whistenant. We pursued them to within three miles of Decatur, capturing 123 men and one Lieutenant. Of the killed and wounded of the enemy I can give no account, since they were left scattered extensively on the road and in the adjacent cornfields.

We captured 56 guns, which were divided equally among the command.

We suffered a loss of one killed and three wounded, all of Capt. Earie's company, besides three horses.

We went in again yesterday evening near the railroad after forage, and had a skirmish with a scouting party, with no other result than running them to their nests. We burned two trestles, and cut the telegraph wire at two points.

Very respectfully, your ob's serv't,

J. D. Roddy.
Captain Commanding Videttes.
Captain Roddy represents the enemy as fortified at five different places between Tuscumbia and Decatur, on the railroad, visit Town Creek, Courtland, Mallett's Creek, Fox's Creek, and Trinity. Their movements all tend eastward.

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Shooting down runaways.

At the battle of Baton Rouge, the 4th Leran from a battery which they had captured, and thus caused additional loss to the Confederates. A letter to the Mobile Telegraph, which gives this fact, says:

‘ During the day Wingfield's Louisiana cavalry also became frightened at a shadow and fled from the field, riding over several officers and men, and wounding them severely. Among others was Gen. Ben. H. Heim, of Kentucky, who had his leg badly bruised. These fellows were ordered to halt when they passed our lines, but paying no attention to the command, were fired on and a number of them killed and wounded. Another victim to this disgraceful affair was Capt. Alexander Todd, a brother of Mrs. Lincoln and a member of Gen Helm's staff, who was instantly killed.

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Brutality to Confederate citizens.

The Savannah Republican says that soon after the occupation of Memphis by the Federal forces, a difficulty occurred between a Yankee soldier and a citizen named Forrest, brother of our gallant Gen. Forrest, resulting, as might be expected, in the death of the Yankee. Forrest is an infirm man, so much so that his limbs are contracted, and it is with difficulty that he can get about even upon crutches. He was immediately seized by the Federal authorities, and after having been kept in irons for several weeks, he was put into a wooden box, but little longer than his body, bored with holes barely sufficient to admit the necessary air to sustain life. In this condition he was transferred to the most heated part of one of their gunboats, lying opposite the city, where he was fed on bread and water, and steamed to the utmost extent of endurance, without taking the life of their suffering victim. He was in this condition when his brother, Gen. Forrest, made his gallant and successful charge on Murfreesboro', since which time, for reasons fully satisfactory to themselves, they have thought it prudent to liberate their victim and banish him beyond their lines.