The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1861-11-08

other prominent officials. A general Kil-
kenny e9t eight is impending throughout
Lincolndom
A dispatch datedat Wilmington, North
Carolina, 4th inst says reliable iHtelli.
gence from Goldsboro to headquarters
has been received. The steamer Union.
Of the Federal feet, went ashore fifteen
miles from Fort Macon on Saturday night.
She had passed to the south Of Frying
Pan shoals, when sho was driven back ~
the gale
She was loaded with horses, gun oarri4
ages, powder, &c. But very little Of any
value was saved. seyenty-three prison
oss we're taken.
A small Federal steamer was off Smith
vile Saturday evening with a Gag flying,
but she could not be found yesterday.
Intelligence from the feet is to the
effect that two Of tho gunboats wese
beached on the coast Of South Carolins
and their crews taken prisoners.
A dispatch from Charleston says thA
reports Of tho Bleaching of the two gun
boat is confirmed. Another dispatch from
Wilmington Of the same date saysseyenty-
three prisoners from the steamer Union,
arrived in Goldsboro' at noon to-day, and
proceeded to Raleigh under escort Of
guard. These vessels were probably a
portion Of Lincolns Armada. Al two
O'Clock on the 18th, twenty-three Federal
vessels were seen standing of Por. Royal.
If they attempt to land there Their object
must be Charleston or Savannah. Port
Royal 10 one of the best harbors on the
coast, and being indiffereutly provided
with defenses, will furnish good point
for the Lincolnites to disembarlt for 4
land attack on either Of the above named
cities. But it shows the stupidity Of th'
Lincoln Government in supposing that
with 5000 THE alleged number of troop
they have sent out or even with $4,000
they could hold and occupy any impor
tant Southern port.
A rumor recently prevailed in Rich
mond, that Gen. Beauregard had tenderel
his resignation. A later dispatch says +
had died out. 1t is supposed to have orr
ginated in the fact that Gen. BeNuregard'
report Of the battle of Manassas, con
veyed censure on the President for in
terferins with his operations in the field
and preventing his capturing Washing
ton and relieving Maryland. This is givel
for what it is worth.
Brigadier Gen. W. II. T. Walker, has re
signed his commission in the Confedera,
army, on the ground that he has beer
sighted by the President in the selection
Of Generals of division, and junior officer
appointed over his head. A spicy CORES
pondence between him and the Secretar,
Of War has been published, in which W
think he takes very little that adds TO hi
credit. He was an officer Of the oil
United States army, from Georgia, an
ia beyond doubt a gallant commander
and a true Southern man. The President
from having been in the army himsel
and afterwards Secretary Of War, is q
good, and perhaps a better judge Of tn
, character of the officers who compose
the U. 9. army, as any living man. Tn
matter. is causing considerable excite
ment, but we think Gen. Walkers cours
tends only to show that there are men
this world whom no considerations
public good can cause to forget then
selves, or abate their personal vanity an
ambition. There arc men who woul
have kept their personal grievances
= themselves until the war was over, an
not for personal reasons have stirred up
muss which can only prove detrimental
the common cause to which we all pr
fess to DO devoted.
Dispatches from Western Virginia, CIV
favorable account of affairs in that qua
ter. The Lynchburg Republican, has r
ceived intelligence, derived from priva'
letter written by tho wife Of one OF OF
. officers, of the occupation of Charleston
in the Kanawha Valley, by 1900 oil OF
J troops, composed Of JenlSinss cavalry an
, Phillips's Legion.
Gen. Floyd was in supporting distanC
and expected in Charleston in o ie
days.
; The effect of this occupation is to cut 0
the supplies from ROsecrans and Cox an
thus force their surrender or preoipitate
retreat from the Kanawha Valley '
Somerville.
' From Missouri and Kentucky, the oth'
I points where the war is raging, 'our new
. i indiRnite and unsatisfactory. The COZ
tending forces appear to be nearly equa
but as the Lincoln army appears to
i mainly composed of rifFraff, raised iro'
7, other States, it will require large pr
r ponderance of numbers in this kind
, cattle, to triumph over men fighting upo
the soil Of their native South. A bait
, is reported near Frederioktown' Missouri
between the troops of Gen NJ JET
( Thompson, and about three times the
, number of Lincolnites, in which ale
thew thought they had him securely hen
med in. he repulsed them, and brousi
! off his army in good order. Another
J reported in Eastern Kentucky betwee
the Confederate forces under Zolicotie
: r...l,,;,os IN which tho fOFmC