The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-08

arm, and the command involved ON Lieutenant
CCo,oaeI Fry, who was assisted BIZ Major Skinner
Cu.ouel Gorse, Lieutenant Colonel Mumiord an
/ A"Ji'aht Humphreys of the 18th, and NJ silr Brent
: were on the field in command in different parts G
IT,. All these officers ewere in the thickest of th
I nSn' ana displayed tn utmost cooluess and cour
/ "se: Dot nothing could exceed the cool determi
! nation and fearless daring of the officers and mel
! OF the line in the l7th regiment TIE writer coul
! ""n M optain list OF the killed and wounded
ine Captalns seemed to he marked by the en- =
my, captain Dulaney, of the Fairfax Rifles. wa
fSo. po.. N me shoulder by musket bail. Captain
- ies'nan m was shot in the and side BY buck
snoC These officers were taken from the fald
aaaPea'n b ID. Shackelford, of the Warrenton ri
hes' was shot in the ankle by canister ball. H
81 DIiuaged the wound and remained upon the elC
.,'I ths close OF the fight. No doubt is entertainet
that ali OF them will recover.
mn Increasing.
II ihe NUMBER OF wounded Abolition soldiers in this
hospital at this place has been increased bv racen
h t trals TO near i've hundred. But few more will
We orought down after this week Those hero ar
tkho~iedge the kindness with which they have
oeen treated by the Southern people,
Wounded IEessians
iue central cars brought down yesterday eve.
hlng from Manassas So wounded Hessians who were
immediately ~ conveyed to of the hospitals
FROM the number here, a vast amount Of
PhySic, to say nothing of care and attention must
De used up In order to minister to their wants,
The Cheat River Fight
EStract from private letter from Western Vir-
gina from one of 0glethorpe's Infantry, dated at
Mcdowell, July %:
Capt. Adam has gone after eduipments for us
ana VIII bring US some clothes it be can get them.
we shall stay here three or four weeks to recruit
A the fight at Cheat River we killed some six or
elght hundred of the enemy $50 Union men who
live near there report), while our loss will not ex
ceeo h'ty Killed and wounded. We do not know
OF man of our company killed, though we were
IN the thickest of the fight
we received few of our tents this evening and
put up one for our crowd, and can now get along
very comfortably. We draw rations for thirty
men, and all of them but us are boarding out we
nave plenty to eat, and shall atten up if we stay
mere long. They give us beef lfresh) or bacon
Hour, coffee, salt and candles every dav and have
generally had sugar, but since We have been here
we have not been able to get any, They are ex
recting supply in few davs, and then we shall
have some. We have got along very well so far
as we got lot OF maple sugar the road and have
been using that.
We shall probably go back into the mountains
as soon as we get rested We have now about
o.0O0 men ahead of US, and troops are pouring
along every day, so that we shall soon have plenty
oi troops here to sustain ourselves, When we
arrived here we found an Arkansas regiment
camped here on their way to Monterey, and to day
three Virginia regiments passed through here: one
OF them, under command of Col. Gilham author of
"Gilhams Tactics was the lnest-lookipo set of
mn m, ever saw. Among them company of
LOU II uI1 Dd'tihofe. VINO stole ont OF there
T." at time and formed in Richmond. They will
make their mark whenever they come into action.
Augusta Gd,) Chronicle aud Sentinel.
The Yankee Spy.
ne female prisoner, brought 20 this city on
Wednesday, proves to be Mrs. Curtis of Roches
ter, N. Y, sister of member of the Rochester
regiment. She Is quite young, but by no means
prepossesslng The sleeves of her dress are orna-
inented with velvet tape chevroDs, and the Jockey
hat which she wears is tucked up on one side with
tinr Sho
Is quite talkative, and does not disguise her ami
mostly against the South. Lodgings have beer
provided for her in private house Wing.
River Intelligence.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 3--l2 M.-Tbe weather this morn
ing Is extremely warm. There is considerable ac-
tivity about the evee. A good deal of freight is
being received for the Louisville, which was de-
on her last trip, and will not reach the city
tlll thls afternoon. The river at this point is still
falling slowly. The Kentucky, yesterday had a
good trip from Columbus, including 400 sacks
wheat for reshirment The only arrival this morn
I3s Is the steamer B, P. Cheney, captured at New
Madrid day before yesterday. Shei is fne fleet
craft OF her kind ard it is understood that if Gen.
Pillow had not taken her when he did, Col Prem
tiss, In command at Cairo, intended doing so. So
we let her run as long as they would permit her.
and then captured her and brought her into our
own waters Tor effective service. The steamer W ar
Eagle, \" u. Graham, Empress and City of Alton
are engaged IN transporting Federal troops to
Cairo.
DGubie-Quick.
popular military movement with the Northern
army, taught by Beauregard in one easy lesson
Nemphis Bulletin.
Funeral OF General Barlow
Inc funeral 0bsequies of General Francis S.
Barlow were celebrated in Savannah on Sunday
IN most imposing style. There was an immense
military aud civic procession, comprising all the
companies IN the city, with detachments from the
several garrisons OF the neighboring forts and bat
terles. The cortege started from Christ Church,
where an eloquent funeral sermon was preached by
Bishop Elliott The bells were tolled and minute
guns were fred during the march of the column.
a salute of three rounds was fired by the infantry
anu aTiliIefy over Tie grave.
The Spirit i'm the Southwest.
Passengers from the Southwest report an intense
excitement among all classes of citizens Along
the railroad routes crowds collected asking Tor
chance to go to Virginia. The fact is, if the
Governors Of the Southern States would consent to
it, the rush for Virginia would give all the railroad
companies in the South as much as they could do
for the next six months. The smell of gunpowder
is invigorsting.-Ch Mercury, 28h.
Confederate Bonds
Mr.. Memminger stated on Thursday to the Banks
convention, that the Treasury Department had,
Tor the first time, on that day received proof i'm
pressions Of the Confederate States bonds, which
would soon be issued in sums of SIS, SlO, $40,
and $50.