Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-09-11
They have become con-

men from this town., They have become CON-
xerssnt with the management of the big guns
There 10 also very excellent battery Of flying
artillery under Cspt. Braxton: and yesterday
smother very efficient flying artillery company
came up from Richmond with six large pieces,
including rifed gun, two howitsers, and three
other brass pieces and SO horses There is also
. Baltimore company, and in its composition
and organization it resembles eur Washington
Artillery. There is an ample force hero to re-
pei any attempts to land hostile force. The
water defenses are under the command Of Cap
tain Lynch, formerly of the U. S. Navy, and
well known as the author of the Interesting
book on the Dead Sea. He is an excellent off.
Ger, and enjoys the confidence of all the SOL
diers under him.-Cor. ~ o. Delta, Aug 81
VIRGINIA sHINPLAsrERs PRONOUNCED WORTH
LESS.
Every bank, every town and village corpo.
ration, even the State itself, and private bank
ers, are deluging the State with wretched cur
rency, in notes from Eve cents to one dollar
Gold and silver are eagerly bought up at per
cent. premium for these notes. and carefully
boarded away. Of course this currency never
can and never will be redeemed, and when il
begins to decline it will be bought up by those
who have issued it, at an enormous shave-alI
OF which will fall upon the people and enure
to the benefit of the Corporation. And yet it
was gravely proposed that our banks should
agree to cooperate with banks which sanction
and are engaged in this gigantic fraud, and re-
ceiys and pay out shinplasters as they do their
own notes. 1t may be practicable for our
banks to aid in giving value and strength to
the issues OF the Confederate Government but
when ii is proposed to seduce or drive them
into an alliance with banks managed on the
false principles which prevail in this and other
parts OF the South, the people ought to be
aroused to vigilance and stern resistance to all
such schemes. s.-Correspondsnce ". 0. Delta
DISEASE IN THE REBEL CAMPS.
The present Is the sickly season in this coun-
try, (Fredricksburg, Va.,) and our camps are
suffering from prevalence Of measles and
typhoid fever. All the towns are burdened
with great number of sick, to whom the peo-
pie never weary in acts of kindness and hospi-
tality. This sickness supplies an additional
argument to the many others in favor of an
early advance of our army.-SpectQI cores
poHdence NeU Orleans Delta.
regret to be compelled to give you a most
unfavorable account of the health of our troops
now in the field. The inaction of the several
large bodies of men in different portions of the
Commonwealth for three weeks past, must be
attributed chiefly to the crowded state of their
hospitals. In the peninsula the typhoid fever
has been prevalent, though happily not in q
malignant form. At Manassas and Aauia
Greek, also, this malady has prostrated a con-
siderable number. In Richmond, or rather in
the camps around it, fifty per cent of the
troops have been stricken down with the mea-
sizes Private hospitals for the reception and
better treatment Of the invalids have been
opened from day to day, until every street,
almost every square of the city, has its long
sck list, and the ladies are worn out in their
attentions to the sufferers They do not weary
in the spirit Of their good work but excessive
watching will exhaust the physical powers. As
yet there has been no great fatality among the
thousands OF cases, but just as sosn as a dozen
have been discharged as we'll, from q hospital,
their beds have been filed, and there is no
dlninution in the number Of new cases.-RieA-
nuOSd correspondence Memphis Appeal.
Since We pitched our camp here gloom and
sorrow have saddened the oountenances of all,
owing to the distressing fact that disease and
death have prevailed among US. Our exposed
condition during our camp on Bull Run, and
the want of proper food and water, was a seri-
Gus blow to this regiment and to all the troops
that were likewise unfortunate. In proof of
THIS L Will mention that out of forty-seven
hundred In the brigade, only twenty three
hundred reported for duty Oh the 10Th inst. :,
and companies that before ordinarily turned
out ON drill and parade from sixty. five to nine
~ men, do not turn out now more than eight
and ten files per day. The hsrdships and suf-
ter1ngs consequent upon the movements of
Gen. JOhnston's division of the army. which
resulted in such glorious success to our cause
ut Manassas, has, L dare say, Frustrated fully
one-third Of his force. Nearly every day the
sound of musketry proclsims the death of some
Southern hero who has fallen a victim to dis
ease in the camp, and over whose grave blank
cartridges are fired as the last military honor
paid to the dead
UNION FEELING IN EAST TENNESSEE
Wsoonversed yesterday with distinguished
gentleman from Augusta, just on his return
from Virginia. He disclosed to US facts and
circumstances which prove beyond doubt that
East Tennessee is rotten to the core on the
secession question. He travelled over the rail-
road from Bristol to Knoxville He witnessed
the greatest indignities toward the wonnd ed