Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-09-06

news CaINS " tilSi 40 piSAoetAS S'N'A@0S ~
who wanders in a weary land. Gen. Buffers
achievements have been sounded by his own
boastings and their laudatious, until ne is now
grand star in the Northern SKY. lie has
hed to " ashington to look after honors and
reintorcements! Mcclellan is in danger OF
losing his position. One slip, ono mishap, and
the hero Of Hatteras may displacc the present
centre of Northern trust, the untried "Napo.
leon :" and Butler be hailed as the one ordained
to show the way to Richmond. He has at
least one qualification; he has found out that
it does not lead by Bethel.
The Baltimore " Exchange" takes business
view of the achievement, which plays sad work
with the poetic imasinings and rhetorical
1ourishes in which it has been heralded to the
world It says:
The sand batteries captured ure IN per-
| iectly barren shore, upwards of eighty miles
from the nearest habitable part Of North Caro-.
lima.
It should BIZ observed that whilst the Fede.
raj despatch claims 730 prisoners, the Official
report of Commodore Stringham makes the
number G15. Mr.. Snowden Andrews, cf Ma
ryland. was not there. He is in command oil
a company Of light artillery, and when last
heard from was at Richmond. Instead o'
"forts" we have sand batteries; and while
there is nobody hurt" on the Federal side, we
gather frcm the Government dispatches that
! the bombardment was kept up the greater
part Of two days, when the magazine oil the
Confederates exploded For once we have
! nrettv clear statement of numbers, 800 on
the Federal side, without the fleet and about
| 700 ON the other. The Harriet Lane is lost,
her guns being FIRST thrown overheard.
SKETCH OF PRESIDENT DAVIS.
A correspondent Of the Philadelphia "Chris
tisn Observer" gives the following description
of one who is portrayed in the North as tht
embodiment Of all political evil. It is from
letter dated Richmond July a4Lh, three day:
after the battle of Manassas:
After witnessing this solemn scene, lthe re-
ception of the bodies OF the Confederate ofhcer:
killed in this engag4ment &c.,) went, IN com
pany with Rev DR.. Mel, to the Spotswo'(
Hotel, and heard thrilling, eloquent accHunt
of the battle from the lips Of the PresldeE
himself He IS not fluent speaker; nc doe
not hesitate, yet his words seem to come VIII
| etfort-out they come with p0aceF "Hell theJ
do come. have often heard him speak before
Every word he ut.ers Arills-it seems to conn
from bis heart direct to the heart of those I'D
dressed. He is one Of the piainest, most un
assuming, but most kind hearted, afIectlonat'
Christian gentlemen ever saw. Efc!ybody
who knows him loves President Davis. iii
soldiers will willingly die for him-so will ;h
citizens if he calls ON them. he occupies
space in their Learts second only to that whiel
Washington held in the hearts of our grand
fathers. He paid noble tribute to the Valo
and determination Of the soldiers-Eghting evol
after their limbs had been shot ot, and en-
couraging the others to push on when thel
were unable to rise from their bloody couche
Of turf. He also paid we'll merited comPll
ment to the considerate manner in which tn
wounded and prisoners Of the Federal arm!
were treated even by the owners of the faFn
houses on the road (where they were carried
who had been plundered and pillaged 6y som
Of their number, and he commended their de
termination as worthy Of every SoutherneT
''never to be haughIy to the humble, nor hum
BILE to the naughty"