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The following is an extract from private letter
dated Van Bnreu, Arkansas, July 80. 1t is from
Col. Z. Greer commanding a regiment of cavalry
He says:
| am at present making forced marches with my
regiment, for the purpose of joining Gen. McCu-
lOCh, who is now about ninety miles from Fort
Smith, awaiting Our arrival to advance the en-
emy. We have been two days crossing the Arkan-
river, night and day, which is very high, or we
would swim it with our horses. We have left all
Of our baggage and wagons behind one blanket
guns and munitions of war being all that is needed.
We will make about thirty-hvc or forty miles day
until we reach the enemy. The boys are cheerful,
and cry lead us on!'
We find the following items Of Arkansas intelli-
gence in the Fort Smith Times and Herald of the
29th 20th and 3Oth ult:
The Texas regiment arrived to-day, One bat
TALON has moved on to Van Buren,, and the other
will camp in the noghborhoOd Of this place.
The Cotton Plant Guards, commanded by Capt.
Duboise, numbering near eighty men, arrived here
Yesterday.
The Texas troops are moving of this morning for
MeCultoCh's camp. They are all we'll mounted
and look like they do good service.
Our army is moving on toward Springfield. A
correspondent, in writing to US from Camp stephens,
says: g You will probably hear of US among the
Yankees in few days. We may expect exciting
news this week from Missouri.
Lieut. Morley, Of the Fort Smith Rifles, arrived
here last evening, direct from Gen. McCulioch
camp. He reports all we'll. The Federal forces
are about 10000 strong--5G00 at Mount Vernon
| and the balance in the neighborhood CT Spring
field.
Mr.. Ephraim Spradling, who was with &. A.
| Meyer, returned this morning. He says he came
| Ivy way Of Springfield, and was held as prisoner
there for fourteen days. He reports Maj Sturgss
| about fourteen miles north OF Springfield, VIII
about 5000 men. and as many more at Springfield
| Gen. Lyon is at that pace
Mr. S. says the people of Lcayenworth had thci
ropes ready for hanging the whole of the party
| that were with Meyer. He saw the ropes.
Mai W. r. Bourne and Mr.. S. B. Bennett, Of thi
place returned yesterday from Polk county. The,
| informed us that the body of man was found nea
| the line Of Sebastian and Scott counties, hangip
/ by The neck ii Tree. One leg was Gu
oil to the knee, and the body in such state c
| petreaCtiOn that no one could approach it. !
| black handkerchief was over the face. No one
the neglborhood appears to know anything of tn
matter.
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living in the neighbOrhOod of one another in Al
giers and no complaint made until now. The
woman has lately made herself quite notorious by
an ei0penent from her husband under circum
stances at the least very suspicious. The offence
not being bailable, Blackenbach is in prison.
Return Of Jndge F0Jtter and Capt. Martut.-
Judge F0rtier and Mr.. James Martn returned to-
day from the battlefield beyond Manassas, to
which they repaired on visit to their SONS. It
was with difficulty that they obtained from the
highest sources permission to enter the lines The
designs Of the President and his generals as to the
future, they say, are continually kept behind
/" masked battery"
The Judge gives us some interesting incidents Of
the battle. His account Of the exploits Of the
Tiger Rifles, in Wheat's battalion, is peculiarly so.
Bat twenty-five are known to have been injured.
Those who were missing after the battle have
turned up: they had been off playing the tiger.
One Of them said that when he went in with his
knife, he ripped them mp until he WIS dsgusted
with the pile he had strewn around him.
Major Waitnn's negro servant took three prison
crs, whom he marched in to his master. The Yam
Ree surgeons who are prisoners refuse to attend to
their own wounded.
The Judge came through from Richmond in
seventy-two hours without stopping.
Cir1 Fcr,- The foreman Of one of our ship
yards and steamship engineer had grand battle
on Sunday night. From what We can learn it
began hy the man Of iron and steam receiving
chip in his face from the man Of wood after which
the tools Of both were put pretty actively to work.
until finally the engineer blew up the ship car
penter, who received severe hut not dangerous
Commissions. Whether this explosion is to 70 before
the board q inspectors or not we do not know.
RECORDER E%Gr s5%'s CouR~-F. Barthe was
yesterday sent before First District Court, for
a violent asSGC. ( ana battery upon I.Onis BarthCt
at St. MaTr's Market, some three weeks ago. Bail
was given. Robert Purcell, for assauitng Mrs.
HOdghns and threatening her life. on Howard
street, vas tned 10, and put under peace bonds.
Joseph L.. hlontatgne, f. m c., and Henry Pinto. f..
m C. for abusing auT tlrC ate ming Jane Ernest 1t
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OuTRAGEs BY MONTGOMERY IN THE CHEROKEE Ma
T1oE.-The Fort Smith Times, Of the 2sth ult, CON
tains the following:
Mr.. Gilbert Loornan, who went with G. A. Meyer
with a team in moving the United States troops
from Forts Arbuckle, Washite and Cobb returned
yesterday. He reports that he and several of his
comrades were arrested near Fort Scott by a de-
tachment of Montgomery's band, and that two
wagons and teams, with the contents, were taken
by them. In one of the wagons were some articles
belonging to Capt. Steel, who had resigned and
was on his way to Texas. Most Of the articles
were wearing apparel of Capt. s. and his wife,
worth se7aral hundred dollars. These things were
taken by ihe Lieutenant, who was in command of
about one hundred and thirty men. After the oath
ras administered to the teaGlsters they were per-
nitted TO depart
H. L.. states that these marauders had been in
tn Cherokee Nation committing depredations
They had killed some of the Gherokees and driven
of large number of cattle. hr. /. met Stand
aTate with about three hundred men in pursuit of
them. Some of the teansters returned With Waite
| to take vengeance on the robbers
| Mr.. L. says, while they were administering the
oath to him, seven eight double barrel shot-guns
were pointed at his head.
He further states that Meyer stood MP TO the
cause of the South, and was threatened for it, MIR.
L. thinks Meyer was imprudent in making known
his sentiments.
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Future aFoven,ents.
The writer Of the following, which we extract
from the Richmond correspondence Of the Mont

The writer Of the following, which we extract
from the Richmond correspondence Of the Mont
gomery Mail, occupies, we believe, position
which enables him to speak by the card
A courier arrived here on yesterday from Cor.
Wise, giving the Information that ne had been
forced, by tine overwhelming numbers of the enc
my, to retreat from the town Of Charleston in
Kanawha county, Northwest Virginia. and had
fallen back several miles upon an almost inpreg-
nable nataral defence afforded him by mountain
IN the vicinity, where he should await an attack
from the Is, ,000 of the enemy until Feiuforcenents
were sent him. His own command numbers but
$500. In his retreat he destroyed the only bridge
over large stream, which will produce great de-
lay in the enernys advance.
Gen. Lee has certainly gone to Northwestern
virginia and declared to an officer, who viii soon
join him there, that within eight or ten days rein
forcements amounting to %, 900 men would be
thrown into that putrid aDpendage, and the enc
my be exterminated. Wises retrogrsde move
ment IS only temporary, and the large reinforce
hents already en- route will soon drive the Hes
SLAMS across the Ohio river
ten. Loring, who succeeded the lame1tsd Gen.
1afpet5, with heavy column reapDaar in the
neighborhood of our Laurel Hill and Rich Noun
tlR disasters and while driving the enemy back
TO wheeling and into Ohio or PeyrpgyIyanis Gene.
rais Beauregard and Johnston will be laundering
at the gates Of Washington City
The grand object now ii the capture Of Washing
| ton Clty al ana a. me cry "on 70 Washington" Is
| for the grand march to Richmond
If our Generals had had control Of haf the num-
| ber Of fresh troops y that have come into the
field since the battle at Manassas, they wonl1 now
have possession Of the capital. The amount of the
| recent increase to our TO ces ready tohe made
| to them, seems almost Incredible. A gentleman
who onght to know, informed me on yesterday that
mere than fifty Thousand troops were rafting
| transportation over t4e various railroads Cor,
roboratiye evidence Of which ia furnished by the
great difficulty experienced in having conveyed by
Adams Express or Mail in even twice the ordinary
| time letters to any point-the transportation Of
| soldiers rendering that of all else impossible
| All agree that extensive preparations are ii,
rapid progress at Manassas for an attack upon the
! fortified enemy. The Confederat es are divided
| into corps d'armee. Beauregard is with the main
division at Manassas, while Johnston, whose COM
nland has recently been swollen to twenty thous-
and. is rapidly completing the fortfcafions at
| Falls Church, within four miles Of Alexandra,
which to supersede those at Manassas and serve
as basis of assaults upon the enenys defences Of
! Washington City. These can only be carried by
assault, and the work will be characterized hy hard
| and bloody fighting.
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TIE WITHDRAWAL FROM HAEFER's TEEGv.--A
letter to tile New York Times, under date of
HarpeT;s Ferry, July q, says;
Matters begin to wear an aspect quite cheerful.
For some time the troops have been at the mercy
Of three foes; Placed in nhollow-encompassed on
ell sides BY high hills-and these hills full of can.
non, it would have been in the power Of small
force to have completely annihiated us. This
condition of things we'll known to the late
Communicating thief Of this division. He was en-
treated and eXp0stuated with to give Us relief.
But he paid no attention ID the matter. The last
order that Cen Patterson gave was to knock the
truucheons of the large guns left by the Rebels
The guns were i'll fine order, and can do great
service.
The order has been cOuntermanded and order
sent on to Washington 10 obtain carriages for the
guns. Military men of the highest repute say that
proofs of treachery abundant and will come
out so as to put the treason of Arnold in the shade.
have no doubt of it.
tSu,ad1y, 4. M-Ali night we have been in ex
pectaton of attack. All our wagons and tents
have been sent over the Potomac. Now the
| Twelfth, Fifth and Nineteenth of New York, with
Douhledays Battery, are moving across. Harper's
Ferry is nearly abandoned. The high hills over
against it are full Of cannon and men. 1t COM
| mands the town.
The rebels, 1000 strong, said to be within ten
miles of us, and moving on this way. We can't
| hold the town, but we can the opposite side.
| Hence the move. The Rhode Island Battery is
| here,
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In General Scotts conversation at his dinner
table, upon the subject of the defeat at Manassas,
as reported by Henry J. Raymond, editor of the
New York Times, the following paragraph occurs: :
q But | have lived long enough to know that
human resentment is very bad foundation for a
public policy; and these gentlemen Will live long
enough to learn it too
greater philosophical truth was never enunci-
atel or one that ought to be more carefully con-
sidered by the American people at this time.
Gen. Scott was speaking of certain members OF the
cabinet, who, he declared, allowed their passions,
or their resentment against the South, 10 urge
them into measures iudisCreet and least llkely to
carry out the object of their desires. person
scarcely ever reasons correctly or acts wisely who
is lubOrifg under great resentment and IS III a
state Of towering passion. The resentment and
the passion destroy that cool Judgment which looks
al and weighs everything and considers all proba-
hilitcs on all sides, before it is committed to a
dehnite policy.
Members of the cabinet are not the only persons
who, in this unfortunate business, have been
swayod terribly b9 their resentment and their pas
| Ni0A it has bee great element III our public
orio0n, and h.- the most injurious ctt"Gt. II
| is tlij: ID tHfun d. e 10 be perfectly coil aud
| collected, and K all the difficulties 0t our p0
sjt0n tuFI and square in the face; to listen to I'M
| welcome truths them over in the mind, anC
| then act As reason suggests, and not as passion
| prompts smill amount Of Intelligent reflection
Is worth at this innctnre, in forwarding the cause
| of the Union and riRgug about peace and prog
pcrity, any quantity of violent defamation, ferVit
rhetoric and passionate resolves
Fiuri7 II .,'r
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TRooPs PASSED THRouGH-A portion Gd0-of
the Independent Toombs Georgia Regiment, ar
rived at this place Sunday night last and left on
Monday morning for Richmond, The remander of
the regiment went by way Of Goldsborough, To-
gether with an Alabama regiment, The Georgians
were well entertained at the depot by btr. Frank
lin, the State agent. We visited them while at
their breakfast and found them full of life aud fun.
edy that he declined to go on q dirt train, as he
was dirty enough already. The Captain told him
he must go or be put in irons. "Well,f' said he,
Captain, am getting wrnked by hard service,
and need ironing out" This reply caused burst
of laughter among the boys, in which the Captain
ioined LRaleigh (N. q standard.
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McCLELLAN.--A correspondent of the Richmond

MCGLE1LAN.--a correspondent OF Inc hlcnnQnd
Examiner writes:
Fhe desperate manner in which the drowning
Lincoln Government has caught at the Mcclellan
straw, exhibits, in their military affairs, that
peculiar from hand to mouth u eXpediency char
acteristic which has marked the political course of
the Northern people from the civil revolution Of
1860. know Mcclellan we'll we etossed in the
same steamer when he en- route for Europe,
with Mordecai and Deafield, to visit the Crimea.
saw great deal of Mcclellan in Paris. We dined
at the same table (at the Great Britain Hotel or
caiG) almost daily for three weeks, when other
special invitations did not separate US. have q
distinct recollection Of the man; and as compared
with Davis or Beauregard he is nothing
Mcclellan comes Of good cross-Scotch Irish,
but of g the breed know nothing" The animal
preponderates over the intellectual to such de-
gree as to destroy his mental intellect. he has
light hair. with redsh tinge in it, sandy Whlskers
and an intensely nervous organization. | mention
these things, because they Indicate the tempera-
ment of the man. which is an important matter in
Il commander Mcclellan is rash man that is,
he has great deal of " clash " about him. But
do rot believe that he manage o large army.
he does not possess that peculiar organization es-
sential to long continued effort. McCellan's forte
consists in his knowledge of Prussian and Austrian
tactics his thorough information in regard to the
military habits Of the German militia and his
familiarity with that language After leaving
Paris. believe, he went to the Crimea vim Berlin
and Vienna, 1aEiug German military affars his
speciality. If he is ever dangerous TO US at ALL it
will be after he has had ample time to organize an
army Of Germans from the West, commanded by
German officers.
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MORE PR1soNERs.-Siuce the first fight near Man
assas the trains from that section have been busily
engaged in bringing Yankee prisoners 70 Rich
mond. There are some twelve or fifteen hundred
now here, including about $50 wounded 4 large
number were brought down Saturday, and yester-
%" Regulars" some Zouaves from Ne York city.
and Brooklyn, and some of the Massachusetts and
Maine Volunteers, and some other States. Two or
three hundred more prisoners are expected here
to-day. The wounded prisoners are receiving the
attention of our best physicians.
IRcbuoud Fuunirer 9Th.
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WHOLESALE HANGING IN TExAs.-The Austin M
telligencer of the oath has the following:
By Wm. Wilson, mail carrier on the Gatesville
route, we learn that Thursday, 18th inst, there
were nine men hung at the head Of Nei!l's creek,
in Coryell county. The circumstances, as5 we
gather, were about these A man named Under
wood. and three or four men named Barnes, with
other persons, making in all nine. had short
moved into that county and had established stock
rancho. One of the men was killed and tha other
horribly mutilated and left for dead but be so far
recovered MS to crawl to Gatesye. He gave in
formation Of the facts and the people of the county
immediately assembled together in great numbers,
arrested the nine men and hung them all till dead.
Much excitement existed throughout the country
about this whole matter.
By N. P. McGuire from Burnet, we learn that n.
considerable number OF Indians have again made
their appearance on Grape creek and the Sandies.
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R0WDY TKUOPS.-A humber ot the Grand juno
ton prisoners, concerned in the late melancholy
altray there, arrived here on Monday night. A por-
ton of them were sent away the same evening;
the remainder proved very nischievous and quar-.
resome yesterday. The worst OF them were put
in close custody. The guard Of the Gneirilias,
under Captain Mailman, convinced them that no
Grand Junction tricks could he played in Memphis.
They will be sent ont Of this city 10 day.
E.8It54 49, - sssS &um rs Appeal, Wednesday,
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IHy TIE sourHwEsrEry a,D AMERICAN i1:;Es.

B0sToN, August S.--The CunaTd Royal mail
steamship Europa has arrived from Liverpool on
the 9th, and Queenstown on the 18th ult.
LIVERPOOL, July 27.-The sales Of cotton to-
day Saturday, were 1900 bales, the marke.
closing firm.
LONDON, July 27.-ConsoIs S9T to 40.
HAvEE, July 27.-New Orleans Tres Ordinare
ll7f., Bas lI2i. The sales of the week comprised
10 ,OGO bales.
General News.
Sir Charles Wood, in the House of Lords, said
that this years product of Indian cotton reached
three hundred thousand bales, showing an in-
crease.
The Italian peoples protest against the French
occupation of Rome was receiving an immense
number of signatures.
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CKors IN NORTHERN LoUlSIAXA,-The OuaChita
Register Of Tuesday last says
The first installment Of the present crop is safe.
Without hardly drop of rain, the fodder has ali
been saved and more and a better quality than
ever before. We can all do without importing any
of Helpers great hay crop. The corn is most
abundant; every planter in this region without d
single exception, has made enough and many can
spare fully half their crop. Cotton is now wanting
rain, and from present appearances will soon have
refreshing showers. The plant is fully large
row as it ever obtained last year. Our planters
Will. from the present appearances, make more
cotton than last year.
FRoM RlCHMoSD.--The Dispatch Of Monday has
the following:
DEATH OF A LOUISIANA SOLDlER.-Nr. n. r.
Fisher, of the Sixth Louisiana regiment, from
AyOyelles parish, Louisiana, was buried on Satur-
day, at Hollywood Cemetery, with appropriate ser
vices. He died at the hospital, of typhoid fever.
"MEN OF WAR."-During the last few DAYS sew
eral thousand soldiers have arrived in this vicinity
the last installment being regiment of GeOrgians
Those unarmed supplied Immediately on their
arrival at the general rendezvous in this city.
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BROTHER vs.. BRoruna.-The New York Herald

BROTHER VS.. BRoTuEa.-The New York Herald
says:
The following is copy of a note from rebel
officer to friend in the Union service, referring to
the fact Of finding the body of q relative on the
battlefield at Bali Run:
IREsRuRG, July a. 1861.
Dear IFudSie-I found your unfortunate brother
Doug. dead on the battlefield yesterday. We
gave him a soldiers grave. and read the burial
Service of the Episcopal Church over him. He
will be laid in the graveyard at Avene to-day. l
will write you full particulars in few days.
Your aft c!5r.,ta cousin, 4RfHTR NJ. C.
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II tie Richmond Dispatch We find the follow

II the Eichmond Dispatch We find the follow
ing:
We are indebted to . gallant ca ccr Of the army
for the following correspondence, cusu'n- on an
uUderhGE3ed and miserable attemnt OF General
Cameron, L. s. Secretary Of War to obtain the
body Of hi brother, arG at the same time ignore
the fact that it is " belljgerent nation by whom
the North has been defeated. ell. Beauregard' i
reply is model and confirms our impression, in
reuGiGg letter accepting a sword from the New
Orleans ladies' that he write IS well as ! , can
fight. What comprehensiveness, dignity and pa
triotsm in the brief answer of this glorious hero
in the right place. He wie!ds the sword o. Wash.
iDgtOn, and the pen of Hamilton:
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JUL4 80 - 1851.



or nl.nadrs ol.c.r Of Confederate Arr.y:
Sir Hend this by friend and trusty servant
who is well known to many officers in your amy.
He is sent fo? the purpose of obtaining from yen
permit Tor Fl. s. NcGraw and myself to pass your
lines to obtain the LOdy Of Col Cameron. who fell
in the action Of yesterday. My solictuGe in this
matter is an impulse Of private character. The
rigid rules established u Washington with refer
ence to flags Of truce prevent me from carrying
out my wishes without proceeding as I am now
doing. believe General 3. will recoLect re while
resident in New Orleans: tut if President avis,
General ! ee, General Johnston, General Wi~fall,
Ools. Miles, Z eitt or Nithers, are present, they
will not hesitate to yOUch for me. Cen Bonham
and il fact nearly all your Of GERS. know RE. In
addition to the qualification Of performing sacred
duty, would be highly delighted to meet in your
camp many Of my most valued friends 1t IS pre-
per for re to ado that har not been in any men
mcr connected with the action OF tie Government
here, and that an neutral.
Very respectfully, EUrrs, etc,
signed ARNOLD HARRIS.
Please make the passport for 4, Harris Il. s.
Mclir&W and two servants. have not naT.ed my
friend Or servant for prudential reasons, but either
Of the gentlemen above named Can vcuch f0c them
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1t has been limited that the New York ZouaVes
(pet lambs) offered up by Father Abraham
as sin Offering. R4TI lis .saIzs5sl.SsI
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TWO DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
THE COTTON MARKET FIRM.

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP EUROPA
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FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 9, 1861.

reLEoaAp4ro TO The NEW ORLEANS CRESCENT
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S)artttuLar Autnas.


# CTIzEEs' BANK LOUISIANA, !
New Orleans, Aug. 8. 1851. j.
BgeAt meeting OF the Board of Directors
held semi Annual Dividend Of NINE fht
CENT declared of the profits of the bHkng depart
the last six MONTHS payable and nfter MONDAY,
18th Instant.
au5 EuG. ROUSSEAU, Cashier