Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-28

teefs, S00OVUO; Tor transportation, $500 000; for
| the Ordinance Department including the purchase
of machinery, &c. s4500,000.
The Examiner publishes all the war intelligence
on our side contained in the New York papers of
the 2lst and Baltimore papers Ct the 22d.
Alex Il. Stephens addressed q meeting at War
renton, Ga, on Monday. The meeting subscribed
$500 bales Of cotton for the war and promised to
| increase it 60 1000.
The Virginia Convention on the 24th, discussed
the subject of forming land coastguard in ex
posed counties not yet invaded
An ordinance organizing a guerrilla volunteer
force was specially referred. This legalizes XII
criminal outrages by the guerrillas even to death
without jury or clergy upon all opponents.
Another authorizing the removal of State Bansys
was passed.
Also another releasing Banks from specie pay
ments.
The subject { regulating all the State bonds
was debated and laid over for future consdera
| ton.
CGNcNyArI, June 26.-Special dispatches from
Grafton say Col. McCooks German regiment moved
to Phillippi yesterday morning.
Sergeant Durham, of the Ninth Indiana Regiment,
| who is the best scout in the service, an old com
rade Of Kit Carson, returned yesterday after being
three days inside the enemies lines. He remained
in the rebel camp several hours and reports their
numbers at $780, including 500 cavalry. Two of
the infantry regiments are South Carolina troops.
These have plenty guns. but of miscellaneous
character. They have five 6-pounders, two in a
| masked battery Wise was expected with three
more regiments As soon these arrived they
| would attack the Camp at Phillippi and they de-
clared they would give no quarter
Durham recently had an only brother hung in
South Carolina under most agra waiting circum-
stances and he has sworn revenge. He shot three
rebels while out this time, one Lieutenant.
Gen. McCellans address to the soldiers is an in
dicaton of speedy engagement.
Couriers just In from Phillippi, say everything is
L ready for an instant move.
All is quiet at Cumberland and Piedmont The
forces on both sides are concentrating. Our troops
are in fine spirits and eager for action.
Gov. Perpont, of Virginia, to day appointed Col.
Kelly Brigadier General of the Western Virginia
troops.
HAGERsrowX, Nd, June 26-Intelligence is re.
ceived to-day indicating that Gov. Wise dverged
| from the line Of attack on Mcclellan column and
has gone with 1000 men 10 repel the expedition
SAID to have gone up the Kanawha
| The secession force at Romney does not exceed
1900 men.
Col. Jackson is opposite Williamsport with five
rebel regiments 1t is also stated that 1000 Virginia
troops encsmped near Falling Water, five miles
from Williamsport
| An express arrived from Bunker's Hill, saying
| 5000 Virginia troops lying there and at Mar
tinsburg, and various points along the Potomac be-
tween Hancock and Harper's Ferry. strong bat
| terry is being raised upon wooded hill overlooking
| the Fair Grounds at Winchester. When Gen. John
ston evacuated Harper's Ferry his whole column
marched to CharlestOwn and from thence to Bunker
| Hill, and when on Sunday Gen. Patterson's column
| crossed the river, he drew up his whole fierce IN
line Of battle, expecting to be attacked from Bunker
! Hill. A large portion of Gen. Johnston force
| turned to Winchester.
| CINCINNATI, June 26.-There is no truth whatever
| in the statement that General Mcclellan has made
! compact with General Buckner. of Kentucky, not
to enter occupy that State. Buckner has repeat
eddy renewed professions of determination to pre-
vent the entrance of secession troops into Kentucky
or their passage through it, but Gen. Mcclellan has
entered into agreements whatever with restrain
| ing the United States Government or himself.
WASHINGTON June 26.-All the reports and spec
ulations about disposition the part of the Presi
dent, Cabinet, General Scott, anybody else to
favor compromise delay, have no foundation or
truth.
GREAT SICKNESS AND SERIOUS MORTALITY AMONG THE
TROOPS AT WASHINGTON AND ALEX ANDRIA-THE THREE
MONTHS MEN CONC HoNE-NIGHTLY LOSSES AT THE
OUTPOsTs.
A correspondent Of q cOtemporary, whose COM
Illumination seems to have escaped Government in~
spection gives the following account of the condi-
ton OF the Federal troops in and around Washing
ton
4 very considerable portion Of the effective strength
of the army is broken dOlrR Nth sickness That ter
ribe disorder the dy sentery blood tlux spread
ing among the regiments enCamped on the Virginia
which accompanies it is perfectly frghtful. With
in a very brief period one of the New York regi-
ments have lost sixty men by this disease alone A
large number of the 69th are also down low with
it. Many Of the other regiments are begin
ming to feel its effects but ss'yet, not severess
ly. There are or rather were, two days ago. no
less than 700 men in the wards of the hospital at
Georgetown, and 1t is more than probable that the
number has been greatly increased since, although
they are sending home such of the three months
mi able 10 be moved SDPadtlV 6 IL
bic.
The three months volunteers, nearly to a man
will refuse TO take service again when their term of
enlistment expires. The earlier Pennsylvania reg-
ments will be paid off and disbanded i'll about two
weeks-the remainder have as yet from three to
five weeks to serve. They are bent on getting back
20 their friends and acquaintance they
can get dscharge-mOre than one of them have
actually mutilated themselves to effect this end
more speedily. 1t is so with the rest of the reg-
ments. None but the poor wretches who have
friends will consent TO enlist for the They
also having an anxious time of it at the outposts
over the river. Not night passes but the sentines
are picked off By the Confederates.
Every morning the light guard is sent out to
bring in the dead and the numbers are daily in
creasing. Already the killed and wounded at the
outposts alone would count up hundreds. You
now in possession of the main reasons why the
Government is so eagerly calling for additional
regiments Ii is nv candid opinion that the army,
broken down by sickness it is, and soon to be
weakened by the loss of the three months vOlun-
teers is in no condition to take the field, and the
corners will scarcely fare any better than those
who are already here.
THE CONFEDERATE ARMY AND sCOTTs MOVEMENTS.
The Washington correspondent OF the New York
Herald speaking of the Southern army and General
SCo1T's movements, says:
They have plenty of artillery, and we are at last
discovering that they know how to use it. The ta-
ONT Of rl and MaUrudar Is davalODnU in
Fairfax county, along the lower Potomac and at
Yorktown. You know all about operations at the
latter point but yoH may not have heard that GOV
ert batteries quietly forming at every important
bend and strait OF the river between Mount Vernon
and Hampstead Point and it is not impossible that
their opening and the closing OF water ap-
proach 10 Washington may be cOincdent. To-day
we also learn that these favorite masked batteries
have been planted on the turnpike TO Fairfax, and
again on the Railroad to Vienna, and it is supposed
that they crouch in the thckets of almost every
thOroughfare leading over to the enemy's lin.
The Texas Rangers are confident from their own
investigation and from the holiness with which the
secession pickets approached our camps, that eff
fort is continually praCtCed to induce squads of the
Federal soldiers TO pursue them until led into these
ambuscades In throwing out troops to Fails
Church, and securing ten miles of the LOudOun and
Hampshire Railroad, Gen. SCOT makes the first ad-
vance towards the occupation of Fairfax Court
House. Those who supposed he would march a
column fifteen miles from the river-base in one
movement failed of their reckoning. And yet he
must have the Court House, since, in the first place.
the thirty miles of hostile territory between our
Arlington line and Manassas Junction afford the
seCeasonists too much room for their guerilla ad
vanCes retreats, and ambuScades. The two armies
must be more nearly face to face to insure square
8nd open warface. And again, the immense column
to be gatheged here will require all the distance
from the Potomac to the Court House for its pro-
per disposition and eneampment Gen. Scott wishes
this body well across the river before a main ad-
vance is made. Once over and organized, it will
be ready 10 move With the new arrivals of troops,
we have now about 40 900 troops in the district of
which "a OOJ are already on the Virginia side Ere
long, however, portion of these, enlisted for three
months only may elect to return to their workshops
and cornfelds.
THE WAR IN MHSSO u IL L.