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ME- HIS
LARGEsTuRCULlTrON IN THE CITY.
SEF rRsT 4Ya FOURTH P&GES,
GEN. mcUULLoCET's VICTORY IN
wuu.GnUEuV

The victory Of Gen. MCCULLocH at SPRING
field is confirmed this HSrning in snch a man
ner as 70 leave it no LONGER a subject of doubt.
He has met the Hessians under LYON and SIC
GEL and completely routed them, throwing
their .dissrdered columns into disgracefni re-
treat. Ne doubt is left Of Gen. LYoN's DEATH
who probably fell in the last desperate effort to
rally his beaten cohorts. The account of tbs
battle, which we publish, though coming from
the enemy, admits a victory on our part com.
piete 10 every respect. When the truth is
learned from southern sources, we may eXpec'
it TO be not less glorious, in proportion to th'
forces engaged, than any that has yet trans
pired during The progress Of the war.
We may look for vigorous movements on to-
heel Of this result, by McC0LLocH, HARDEE
and PILLow, during the next few weeks. A
fit occasion is presented for them to press OF
their columns toward S. Lonis, sweeping
every vestige Of Llncolnism before them, and
driving Fremont and lis infdel followers from
the soil Of Missouri.
We trust as one Of its legitimate fruits. Il
witness the speedy re-establishment of Gov
ernor JAcKsoN's authority as the lawful eX'
ecu'ive Of the State, and TIE breaking up Of
the bogus, Submission government with the
revolutionary convention which in an evil houl
conceived it,.
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BY Telegraph!
TEE WAR NEWS


NOON DISPATCHES.
ST. LOUIS, August I3.-The Federals have
taken possession Of the police Office.
The Home Guards are under arms
1t is understood that Fremont will declare
martial law. He has borrowed SI25, 600 from
the St. Louis banks.
Heavy siege guns are being mounted, com
ma0ding the approaches to the city.
W~AsHINGToN, August 14-Col. BuIk, com
handing Fort Lafayette, will be sustained by
the government, in disobeying attachment and
ha0edS corpus wTits. Orders went to him to-
day, TO defend himself if attacked.
The New York Times says that Sumter An
derson has determined to take the field. He
says the Union men Of Kentucky are calling
upon him TO DO so.
WAsHINGToN, August 1.-THE war depart
ment has official advIces of the battle in south
western Missouri, and of the death Of General
Lyon.
Col. Hunter has been created a major
general.
Capt. Craven, Of the Potomac fotfUs, re-
ports that not one in twenty OF the people on
the shores OF the Potomac are loyal. He
sometimes thinks, from the manner in which
they annoy the fe~ ieTals, that they are organ-
lied into companies, perhaps regiments.
1t IS reported the s'eam tug Yankee has been
sunk By the steamer Page, of Aqua creek.
ALLEg Aus4Sb Its-LhOEFL 1AEIsOIg
heretofore classed asa submtssionIst, spoke at
Lexington, denouucing the wal, and saying
that the southeTneTs would lose their slaves,
burn their cotton, and sink their plantations,
but would never yield.
MIDNIGHT ~IsPATCHE
RICHMOND, August 14.-George B. Critten-
den, of Kentucky, formerly Of the federal ar
my, has been appointed brigadier- general in
the Confederate army.
New YoRK, August II The banks Of Phil
adelpbia. New York and Boston. have agreed
I to take $4,000, 600 OF the government loan, on
condition that they shall be the sole recipients
Of the treasury.
Robert MuTe, of Charleston, brother Of the
British consul at New Orleans, was arrested
on board the steamship Africa as be was leav-
| ing for Europe. Several papers were found
on him which indicate that be was d bearer OF
dispatches from the Confederates.
WARRINGTON, August 4-The government
regarEs the parole Of prisoners, who have ar
rived here, as OF no effect.
INDIANAPOLIS, August 1.-The following
is from Col. Wallace:
"ATTEYTIoN, ZsUAvEs "A battle has been
fought in Missouri. Gen. Lyon is slain, and
our army is in full retreat. General Fremont
telegraphs for all the available forces in Indi-
ana. Now, OF never! ZDuaves Z return to
campl will give you back your rifles, your
Old officers and flag. The Eleventh awaits
you. Your country calls you louder than ever.
Give her once more your experience and strong
arms. Let us make new renoWn on the banks
| OF the Mississippi. Fill up the camp, Zouaves,
and ! will march you to morrow!
(Signed) "LEwIs WALLACE,
"Colonel.D
LOUISVILLE, August IA full battalion CT
the State Guards paraded to day in regimentsI
drill, in honor Of Col. Morton Morris. The
battalion had no flag whatever.
There is six feet water in the canal here and
rising rapidly.
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OUTRAGE on TIE PRESS

By telegraph from northern sources, we have
information that on the 18th inst, the Bangor
(Me.) Democrat was destroyed by a mob, in
consequence of its denunciation of the policy
Of Lincoln's administration. During an alarm
Of fire a crowd entered the Office, cleaned it Of
verythiDg it contained, and turned the con-
tents into the street. Mr.. Emory, the editor
Of the paper, escaped unharmed. A man
named Jones, who made some demonstrations
in opposition to the acts Of the mob, was badly
used, but was finally rescued and put in Jail.
The occurrence which took place on the 18th
inst, is another instance Of abolition %intOlsr-
ance to be remembered.
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- lac letter, ION New N. san.

The week has been a disastrous one among
the merchants and commission houses. The
failures have been very numerous and very
heavy, but the daily journals, as a general
rule, have RETAINED from printing them, for
Fear of aggravlting TIE depression already ex-
isting. The most important suspension Of the
season, perhaps, was that Of Messrs. GIahin 81
Meilen, a firm whose standing has been
A No. l, for a period of twenty years past.
Their liabilities are enoTmous-some saw as
high as S2,S00,000; but their assets are under
stood to be much more than an Offset to their
obligations. This failure produced a profound
sensation in business circles during the day,
and the belief is general that it will bring down
many other houses in the same line Of business.
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REPORTED CAPTURE OF THE LINcoLE
STEAMER CRUsADER.-Tne Charleston Court
er gives the following extract from a private
letter received in that city, dated Tampa, Au-
gust 1, 1861:
News reached here last night Of the cap.
ture Of the United States steamer Crusader BY
the Confederate States steamer Sumpter.
trust it is 20. The news was brought by the
schooner WandeFer, which was seized BY toe
Lincoln government, and is now used az a
transport to the blocksding feet stationed Of
this bar.
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SUNDRIEN.
Elmwood HALE Institute,
HsGT' EInstO0Oa Csssseferg,
Memphis, Teflss.

Rev. J. D.. Principal.
TTH next session Of this Iastitution wiz oDen IN
a HOSDAY, the "a day Of September next. Il is
the desgn Of the Principal TO make this a high sshooI,
II which youth can e,eive q finished Acad. mic educa-
tiol, and slso a preparatory school to quality young
men ior any class 10 Ooiege they may wish 70 enter.
Tuition rom S4to 81 payable at the close Of each
quarter. au13-Im
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CoNTRABAND.-A large quantity of contra
band goods, consisting of swords, revolvers,
and a Confederate generals uniform, were
seized 1T Terre Haute, Indiana, on Friday.
Tae goods were valued at from three to five
thousand dollars. The owner made his
escape.
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THE WOUNDED OF THE ENEMY AT
RICHMOND.

The Richmond papers assert that there are
about fire hundred wounded federalists from
the field of Manassas now lying disabled in
the hospitals Of that city.
To skulk the responsibility of taking charge
of these creatures, the contemplate authorities
at Washington persist in heir determination
to disregard the ordinary cOurtesies of civilized
warfare, so far as to refuse extending to us our
natural rights as belligerents. They are very
willing to find an apology for their disgrace
fol conduct in this paltry subterfuge, and ex-
psct, from all appearances, that our govern
ment will perform those Offices Of humanity
toward their wounded which would come in
better taste from themselves.
This brutal insensibility to shame will cover
the Yankee character, if possible, with still
deeper and darker infamy.
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IVY Hill AGADEHY OF NgHPHlg,

ON JACT5ON STREET.
BETWEEN L~AUDE2DALE n LAROsE sFREETs-
T1HE 29th session Of Ihi4 Institution will commence
4 on the SECOND AOEDAY Of septeH Der next.
Proper assistance viii be IN attendance.
suti-2ts K AYS Principal.
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PREPARING FOR DEFENsE.-A subscription
paper is now being circulated in Hannibal,
Missouri, for the purpose of having two can
non cast, with the view Of planting a battery
on the nights commanding the city.
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CT ]. D. B. De5Ow, Esq, has accepted
the Office Of superintendent in-chief of the
cotton, provision, and mineral supply loan Of
the Confederate States, tenGersd him by Sec
retary Memmlnger.
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The Fort Smith Times of tue Sth inst, con-
tains the following:
MoRE TExANs.-Another company Of Tex
ans arrived here this morning from Hunt coun-
ty, composed Of thirty-fVe well mounted, well
armed meR, under the command of Judge James
B. Stevens, Independent and well provided with
provisions Of all kinds, tuily able TO support
themselves during the time they may be needed.
They intend 10 attach themselves to the com
mand Of Gen. McCuiloch. This company is
composed of the bess men in Texas.
FAYETTEVILLE, August is. t. Cottrell, of
Van Buren,, iuss from Missouri, says, the fede-
raj troops retrrated Sunday last, from Pond
Sprinss, four miles west of Springfield, to eight
miles beyond Springfield, on the Bolivar road,
and are now throwing up entertainments. The
number of federal troops is ten thousand.
McCulloch sent a detachment of 5000 caval-
~ at y NJ, Sunday night. His infantry IS
supposed to be a. Springfield now.
F~AYETTEvmLE. August 6.-Supposing that
you will bear al kinds Of reports about the
skirmish which took place between Capt.
Rief;s company and the fedsTalists, on last
Saturday, l give it TO you as l heard it from
one who was present.
Gen. Raines, with 800 men, was ordered TO
90 out upon a scouting expedition; about TWEEN
" miles from Springfield they saw several
hundred Of the enemy Raines ordered them
to charge, but on reaching the top Of a bill,
and seeing the superior numbers Of the enemy,
they were ordered to retreat. They all obeyed
except Capt. Ref and seventeen OF bis men;
about twenty federais advanced; the man in
command approached Ref, saying: "SurTen-
der, you DID rebels % His reply was a load
of buck shot. Our boys fought b%ravslY, kill
ing eleven, certainly, and perhaps more; Ref
killed four himself. He has become quite a
%"lion," as great a ~favorite with his men as
Gen. McCulloch. forgot to nentiorthat the
first man killed is supposed to be Capt. Stur-
gis, recently stationed at Fort Smith. None
Of our men billed; several wounded, but not
mortality. J. Ii. S.
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We are authorized to announce WV. T.. AXE az q
candidate for tse Office OF Constable in the WIN Civil
District Election Saturday next, August ITth.
auIs-.ds
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~ A recent letter from New York says
that England, in pursuance Of the demands Of
fbe commercial and manufacturing interest,"
will Off 20 mediate between the contehding
psrsies In americas that the C. 5. A. win &C
cent the mediation and if Lincoln refuses to
10 so, then England and France will raise the
AlreksIn
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Cor. RICHARD THoMAs.-The Baltimore
CLn. Of Wehnesdav last. sava:

Col. Richard Thomas Zarovia, Of the Con-
federate army, formerly Richard Thomas, Of
st. Mary's county, MI, whose name was
changed as above by a previous act ofthe Vir-
ginia legislature, is cautiously guarded. At
night he is placed in a cell for greater secu-
rity. He is allowed, with the other prisoners,
the privilege of walking through the grounds
for exercise at stated times, in company with
a guard, but he has hitherto refused to avail
himself Of Il. He is said to have received a
great many testimonials of sympathy from the
ladies OF the city, including table delieacies,
and any number of embroidered slippers, etc.
He is allowed to receive the visits of his rela-
tiyes. The other prisoners have fewer re-
strictions imposed upon them.
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A letter from Knoxville, signed "Mtssissip-
piai,'' contains the following paragraph; 81
find in sou. h-esstern Tennessee a much better
state Of feeling for the South than has yet
been manifested by its inhabitants but north
eastern Tennessee is still turbulent and in an
excited state, on account Of the arrest of BaX-
ter, Nelson, the suppression of BrownlOw's
paper, and the capture of Captain Thornburg,
who was leading a company into Kentucky, to
assist Lincoln-his company being routed by
the cavalry sent against him, himself shot
and captured, and thirty Of his men
driven back to Tennessee-forty escap-
ing into Kentucky. Two or three com
panies having gone from Eastern Tennes-
see into Kentucky, to assist Lincoln, the neu-
trality of Kentucky has been violated by these
troops, and Gov. Harris should inform Gov.
MagOfin Of the fact, so that be can either ar
rest them or have them driven out. We learn
this morning that The Eastern Tennesseeans
are going over in hundreds to Kentucky to Join
the Unionists in that State this should be
looked after and attended to at once"
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sV9OE&cR.

OFFICE or SWAMP LAND C0-MXIssIONER.l
LAKE VILLsGE. Angus 5th. 1861.
proposals viii b. received a. tnis ofdce until the
Z FIRST NONDAT IN September, 1861. for an the
levee work in Caic0t county, Arkansas.
Contract viii De EwsrvEd tJ-fde Tow 20 and HssL
bii.er. SAMUEL r. Ike Pses'Gt.
By 2. G.. SLAUGHTsg,
aui4-w2t Secretary.
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MILITARY HITS!
Special Order No. 79.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS No. -
MEMPHIS. August 7, 1881.
THE CO&hITTTBE OF sAFETT, appointed by tbs
i citizens o. Memphis, Is hereby Tec1rnized aud as
crpted By me as a part or the police organization I hsgs
instituted Tor the preservation o. order. and The a.
fective security OK the ptbIie interests e~euerany.
POLK.
au9-lw Major General Co1aanding.
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FLAG OF TEUCE FROM GENERAL JOHN
sTov - GENERAL B|EAUREGARD NEARLY
CAUGHT.-A dispatch dated Washington,
August %, says:
This evening, at eight o'clock, flag Of truce
from Gen. Johnston came within our lines at
BaiIey'5 Cross Roads, bearing dispatches
from Johnston (borne by Lieut.. Hanger, Of the
Oh Georgia regiment), addressed to General
Mcdowell. The flag bearer was at once con-
Quoted TO the tent Of acting Brigader- General
McGann, who caused the packages borne to
be sent to Gen. Mcdowell, keeping the bearer
and his attendants in bis camp. last night
Gen. Mcdowell sent duplicates OF the dis
patches in question to Gen. Mcclellan, and
this morning they were duly laid before the
president. Their contents, Of which we know
nothing, are, however, said and believed to be
OF Importance.
On yesterday General Beauregard was
accommodating, in person, WithiR three or fouI
miles Of the chain bridge, and had left a party
Of ten or fifteen Of his troops scouting there,
but ten minutes before the latter were all made
prisoners by Capt. Motto, OF New York, AMI
a federal company that went out for the pur-
pose Of capturing them. Til distance was
about six miles from Washington.
HUNDRED EXPEDITION AGAINST GEN. Pill.
Low.-The Macon Telegraph learns the follow.
ing from an eminent divine Of that city, who
dined with Gov. Harris, Of Tennessee, OF
Sunday last;
Gov. Harris stated that be bad received a
courier direct from St. Louis, Mo-, with the
important tidjngs that Gen. Fremont was fit
ting gunboats and an army Of $4,000 men to
operate by land and water against Pillow, at
New Madrid, (sbOut one hundred miles below
Cairo) and he Dad dispatched a courier to
Gen. Pillow Informing him Of his portions
position and advising him to retreat back into
the country, as be bad but about 5000 men.
Gov. Harris stated that be could put $4,000
troops, armed and equipped, in the field in
one cay, and would send reiDforcements to
Gen. Pillow. The expedition was expected ts
reach New Madrid on Tuesday, but perhaps
may have been retarded 4 day or two in their
PROGRESS.
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News FROM RICHIoED.-Ths Charlesto
NsrcprH has the following:

@H1NHo A N@aA @Ag (AGAA Z
Mercury has the following:
RICHMOND, August 1O.-Congress will Ger
taiDly adjourn on Monday, the 18Th inst, to
meet again in November.
The question eff placing an embargo on cot
ton, tobacco, etc, is said to be now uncer
discussion in Congress. The measure is likely
to be defeated, owing TO the want OF nerve. It
is feared that England, France and Spain,
might think it impolitic in the Confederate
States not to allow an arrangement between
the United States and themselves for obtaining
these necessary articles. Therefore Congress
will probably not prosibi. the expectation Of
these articles.
The question of laying discriminating duties
upon imports brought South from northern
ports for the purpose Of encouraging direct
trade with Europe, will also, probably, be de-
cided negatively. The Government is said to
be opposed to both these measures.
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8e0 A0brrtjsen1fnts.
SID RQgnnasN.

7 OST. close BY the Gas works, a MULEM
II with white star on hind hip. The fusrr r.
Will receive the above reward on dslivsring
the Mule at No. 81 Main street. 49,
auIE-3
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SEa'GweN.

ERON the subscriber, on July Ii,h. IssiA
II two sorrel MARE MULES. thirteen or ~
Thirteen hands high, and harness marked. 49,
viii give q liberal reward for thar eiveryEkZ1
TO me-, or for any Information so that can get them.
THOS J.. WGIL
Six and . half miles from Memphis, on Memphis aai
Big Greek Plaukroad. an E-fva
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THE PEACE PARrV.-Day by day the peace
party in this country is growing stronger and
stronger. The first flush Of angry excitement
having passed away, and the stern and horri-
bic realities OF war having begun to manifest
themselves, the conservative thinking portion
of the community are beginning to ask them
selves what can be gained by all this bloodshed
and devastation? and they find the question,
when considered in its various bearings, far
more easily asked than answered. Each day
the suicidal policy Of the administration be-
comes more and more evident. Zach day the
people see more clearly that it is folly to build
up an immense national debt to lie like an in
cubus upon the energies and resources OF the
country for years. They are beginning to IN
darstand that the sacrifice of thousands of
lives is wrong, when calm negotiation will set
tie every difference. They have abundant evil
dence that the war, if prolonged, viii utterly
ruin every business man at the North, and
throw the entire laboTiRg class into a state of
restitution and distress never before witnessed
on this continent. Because Of these facts the
friends Ct peace are daily becoming holder and
more numerous.-PGtsrsOR On. j. Register.
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EgTA late New York Herald throws out
tha foIIowinr Gfaslpr -

the following 'feeier:"
There has been considerable discussion
among military men in Washington, within
the past few days as to the propriety Of attack
ing Charleston by sea, with a view to divert
tie forces OF the rebels from their position in
Virginia, where they have manifestly eoncen-
trated their largest army. It was thought
mat such a movement would be an excellent
piece of strategy in the present condition OF
affairs, vet it is not very probable thatit will
be adOpted.
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SKERWISH WITH THE ENEMY
NEAR EIRD,S POINT.

The following dispatch, received at the tele-
graph Office on yesterday by Col. COLEMAN,
shows that the Tennessee boys are giving a
good account Of themselves. Let FEEMoET's
Hessians look out
RANDOLPH, August 1A-One of our cavalry
companies, sixty strong, fell in with two bun
bred feSeralists, sixteen miles from New Mad
rid, yesterday, and killed eight or ten federals
and took seventeen prisoners and about twenty
FIVE horses.
ca The Chattanooga Gazette, in mention
ing the arrest Of the traitor NELSON, asserts
that maps containing a careful and accurate
delineation Of all the mountain passes in East
Tennessee, from Chattanooga to Bristol, were
found in bis possession. This, says the Gazette,
is no sensation item it is now knoDH to be
true. Had be succeeded in passing through
Virginia and reaching Washington, the au-
:horities there would have been put In posses
sion Of a full and accurate statement Of our
strong and weak points in East Tennessee,
and every mountain pass in the Cumberland
range would have become known to Scott and
the federal army. His arrest does seem like a
timely interposition Of Divine Providence, as
it may yet save East Tennessee from being
drenchei with the blood OF our own citizens,
and prevent our soil from becoming the arena
Of strife between The northern and southern
armies.
e. The Fredericksburg (va.) Recorder
states that Ely, the Republican congressman
wBo was captured at Manassas, and is now
confined at Richmond, was visited a few days
ago by Msssrs. Keitt, Bocock and Pryor, who
informed him they called on an errand of
mercy, and were DESTROYS of doing something
to better bis condition, provided it did not con-
fict with the military regulations. It is re-
lated that the earnestness of these gentlemen in
their proposal, and their generous forget
fitness Of Old party lines, which always dis
tinguishes tie true southern gentleman, affect
ed the prisoner powerfully, and that shedding
tears he flung his arms around them and said
that "he had often heard of southern chiyalry,
but he was now able to appreciate it fulIy,'
His repentance comes TOO late.
c5~ B~rownlow's traitorous sheet, the Knox
vile Wing, has been suppressed as a sedi'iOus
and iDcsndiary publication. The patience Of
the Safe authorities tolerated it until further
endurance ceased to be virtue. We acknowl.
edge such a proceeding a desperate remedy
but the disease itself was certainly desperate
and required something beyond ordinary treat
ment. In times Of revolution and war The
maxim Of salus Populi sgpremea lez must occa-
sionally obtain.
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Gg= Although the official reports Of the va
rious commanders engaged in tie battle Of the
DIST ult., have been received at Richmond, the
Secretary Of War has given positive i%nstruc-
lions to suppress their publication.
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EF A Washington letter writer says the
negroes who are employed in the federal ser
vice eat and sleep with the white soldiers. All
right and proper. The men who are lighting
for tie equality Of the negro should not OBJ
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FFHO take charge OF a PLANTATIONS and sixty bands,
! Hine miles below Memoirs, on t1e Mississippi riv-
er. mzn without, or with a very small family L.
wzn'ei; also, or experience in planting Apply %
walker Nielsen * Co., Msmphis, or. on the plantation,
10 Lauli 1Vl g. EESLET, JR.