Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-11-18

from planters and residents acquainted with the
facts Of the csse stste that very little, IL any cot
ton will be found In bales and storehouses.-
Some Of the crops In the Geld Will De destroyed,
and some we know have been destroyed.
TIE SLACK FLAG.
We have information, says the Richmond Dis
patch that the authorities OF South Carolina have
communicated with the government upon the
subject Of hosting the black flag, to which allu-
sion has been made, since the attack upon the
coast Of that State. II 10 believed that Gen. Lee
has received orders from the War Department
| urging that those captured must be regarded as
prisoners of war, which will be disregarded by
| the authorities Of South Carolina, and that The
same course will be pursued which Goveanor
Wise adopted at the tune OF the John Brown RAID
upon Harperis Ferry, "when we are done with
| the invader. the Confederate government may
have them.
| REPORT FROM EAST TEsNBssEE-DARIEe ApvsN-
ruRK OF A SCOUTING PART7.
The ruihors IN regard to the btirnihE OF bridges
\ on The wate re- Of the Boston, in Fast Tennessee,
| says the Richmond Dispatch, have subsidized into
the authenticated fact that the only ones succe
fully fired this side of Knoxville are the Union
| Station Bridge, ten les from Bristol and anoth.
| er at Lick Creek, further on. Some two hundred
| feet of the bridge hrst named were destroyed;
and IL will require but short time 70 restore ii
/ sufficiently for the running Of trains.
| There are reports of the burning of two bridges
/ on the Georgia and Tennessee Railroad, and some
facts have been communicated to US relative to an
attempt to burn the Long Bridge at Strawberry
Il Ils
toned there to guard II 50 w fifteen men approach,
and used his pistol and dOuble-barEel shot gun
with such effect as TO keep them at bay until as
| s'stance arrived but he was very badly wounded
| himself. Two or three arrests have been made
Of suspected parties In the neighhorhO0d
We have received the particulars OF the Skin
| mish CaTter's Station, last Sunday night.
| In consequence Of private intelligence received
| at Bristol Of the doings Of the Union men in
| East Tennessee, Captain Miller picked upa party
Of twenty-five young men, accompanied by Mr..
J. Howard as volunteer, and started from
| Bristol by the railroad on Sunday evening at
| O'Clock. They sent lanterns ahead Of the train,
and found the track torn up between Wautauga
and the Union Station bridge, but the damage
| was soon repaired, and they passed over safely
| Arriving at Carter's station, they stopped and
threw out pickets, and about midnight the little
scouting party under Captain Miller started to
explore the country. They had proceeded some
three and a half miles through Carter county.
Tennessee, when they Were met by pretty
heavy fire from riaes and shot guns, which was
promptly returned, ard the skiTmish was kept
Up with spirit for half an hour. The Lincolnites
| were some three hundred strong, and constituted
the advance Of body Of eight hundred station
ed I'm Elizabethtown, the mountain stronghold OF
| the traitors. We may state here that these men
| las has been since asceftained from prisoners)
expected a reinforcement Of 500 men from Wau-
| tauga county, North Carolina, a disafected re-
gion adjoining johnson county, Tennessee. In
the fight the enemy were driven out Of the woods,
| nine killed and five taken prisoners. The re-
| mainder retreatsd, and our scouts returned to-
wards their camp Captain Miller received a
| charge Of buckshot through his coat, and TIVE OF
his men were slightly wounded In the feet. The
prisoners were taken to the cavalry camp at Car
| ter's Station.
| PASSED THROUGH.
| Col. Stovalis battalion, numbering sabout sir
hundred men, passed through Lynchburg Oh
Tuesday, from Richmond, to engage in an i'm
portant work in East Tennessee.
| THE ENEMY ADVANCING TOWARDS SOUTHWESTERN
| VIRGINIA.
| We have reliable intelligence, In a letter Of re-
cent date from citizen Of Southwestern Viz
| ginia, that the enemy has advanced with nine
| regiments upon Prestonburg, Floyd county, Ky.
and that Col John 5. Williams, the commander
Of the small Confederate force at that place, ha,
retreated, probably to Pound Gap, on the bound
1870 miles from Abingdon, and the design is ap
| parently to get possession of the Virginia and
| Tennessee Railroad. Col. w illiams had Sethe
| the numbers nor the arms to cope with superior
| force, and his retreat was consequently pruden
tial movement-RichmondD Dispatch.