The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-13

peE1oeo oexo9o eAe regiment thta morning,
They were diasraced for outrsees psrpetyated
GO the property OF reputed Seceseionists. by
Lleas. Ssratton and eight tprivates Of the
Subsequently the COMM .s,oned officers OF
the regiment appealed to Gen. Mcclellan to
revoke the sentence and give tho innocent
members chance TO redeem the reputation
o. o. tne company. After considering the case,
the General acceded to the desire, and the
arms werr restored. Lieut. Stratton and his
guilty friends 20 home in disgrace.
An official report from Col Tyler, dated
snis morning, at Weston, states that six Of
mis- men surprised sixteen mounted men. in
camp. between Weston and Bulltown, yes.
terday, and took six of them, with their arms
and horses prisoners. They will be sent 10
Columbia.
The same blatherskite correspondent tele.
graphed on the sth of July. from Buckhannon,
that ga courier arrived from Webster, re.
ports that four companies of the 10th Ohio
Regiment, at Chenille. about 10 miles dis.
tant to the Southwest, are besieged BY a picked
Regiment Of virginians and 800 militia un.
der o. Jennings Wise.'
1t will be seen. by reference to our telegraph
column, that report afterwards reached
Cincinnati that Capt. Wise had captured a
battalion or SO Of Hsssians at Chenille. We
hope this may prove true
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch
1Ae Season in Cherokee, Georgfd-The Block
uds-"Nobody Hurt" in the South by tide
pdrfure Of Volunteer Companfss-Santa
dnnd's Soord-Virgtnid and Gsor gia Pa
frtots Compared, dc.
RohE, FLOYD Co., GA. July Q, 1851.
Thanks TO the genial showers Of Heaven,
the corn and cotton crops Of upper Georgia
are most promising. II We had the entire
control Of the elements. we could not have a
more propitious season. Providence Is GER
tainly smiling benignly upon us, in spite Of
the maledictlons of our Yankee enemies
while protecting our lighting boys in battle
and crowning our arms with signal victory in
every engagement, He is bounteously supply
ing all our physical wants from the products
OF our rich and fertile Sou thern land. Who
cares for Old Abe's ''blockade p" 1t may de-
prive us Of dried Goldfish and New England
rum, made of pumpkin molasses, but 81
gusss" we will survive the shock
Another company, the Cedartown Guards,
left our city for Richmond yesterday. COM
manded by the gallant Capt Borders, who
distinguished himself in the memorable bat.
tie at San Jacinto in the Texan war OF indie
pendence. He is now the owner of the sword
captured from Santa Anna in that engage.
ment, presented to him by Judge Lamar,
brother Of Gen. Lamar and still another
company will leave On Monday next, COM
manded by Capt. Hart, who, like his native
State, "Old Rip" awoke very slowly from
her Union slumbers, but vino is now fully
aroused, and will, If opportunity should Of
1er administer OplateS to Old Abe'S "Wido
Awakes" that will consign them to that
"sleep that knows no waking -
/ was greatly amused this evening, by "a"
correspondent of the Atlanta Southern Con-
yederacy, writing from Fairfax Court House,
Va, July LIST, saying-"The truth is the Vir.
ginians are rather slow coaches, except when
they are in pursuit of an Office This, from
q Georgian, Is decidedly rich, par ticularly the
latter part Of the sentence. A native African,
from the Southern coast Of Guinea, might
with the same propriety call his brother
Guinea "nigger" black, by way Of reproach.-
If Nirginians can beat Georgians in seeming
an Office in every breeze that reaches them
from either their Federal or State capital,
they are trump cards and no mistake.
We have in our city very we'll drilled ju-
venile volunteer company, numbering from
forty to fifty, composed of youths from IL to
IS years Of age They are handsomely uni
formed, and present. In their regular semi
weekly turn outs, very military and war.
like appearance. They have been furnished
with arms, and from the skilltul manner In
which they handle them, l have no donbt they
could put to fiighs twice their number of old
Abe's most experienced veterans in the run
ming business. But, pleasantly aside, the
Rome City Guards are not TO be grinned at as
a military arm of defence, and the organiza-
ton OF such companies all over the South
nigh be prudential meas ure Tor future home
protection, when our able bodied men have
all entered the service and repaired to the
scene of war, A MILITIA Private