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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-08-08

that open plateau, every portion of which
was under the sweeping and drec: range
Of their six batteries and The enemy's
long range rifles. Language cauno. pic
ture the scene. nor tell the uninitiated
ear OF the kissing. whirring. boiling,
seethlng. maddening screams of the shot
ana shell that plowed burrows by our feet,
thInned our ranks, or burst before. above
and beyond US. making the gathering
night hideous with their funeral sounds.
Besides this. their long range rifles kept
the air filled with Minnie balls.
There was no panic amid all this. no
lncontinent running. no dropping of guns.
no extra haste. Most of the men loaded
and fired as they retired to the crest OF
the bill. whence the charge began. 1t
was in this charge that the gallant Capt.
Briggs of Gen Semmes' Staff was struck
down. and taken up supposed to be
dead. He has since partially recovered
1t was near this field that the lamented
Lieut. Richard Potter of Toombs' Brig
ade fell Gen. Semmes himself fell on
the field from exhaustion I met him
again though during the short hours of
night as steady in his saddle as ever,
gathering bis brigade to their new camp
across the Charles City road.
With few exceptions the Brigade Was
in place next morning. save the one
fourth Of those engaged in the figh, who
lay dead or ble' ding on the field of glory
Yours truly.
I0en. Paul ]. Semmes, Of Columbus, Ca,
is brother of our fellow-citisen Capt. John
R. Semmes- As Georgian, we are proud of
bim and his noble brigade, and transfer to
our columns with pleasure the above graphic
description of their heroic exploits on the
battlefield of Richmond-ED. CIrrElx.1
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By TELEGRAPH.

MOBILE. Aug. "a special dispatch
to The Advertiser and Register. dated
Richmond. Aug 9Th. say the Federals
have quit Malvern Hill. Their move
ment upon that point was either recon
noisance or feint to cover the transport of
troops across the river. The Federals
have fallen back on the south side Of the
river and are entreuching at Coggins'
Point and below. Three of Cobb's le-
gion were taken prisoners at Malvern
Hill.
MOBILE, Aug. 9.-The St. Louis Re-
publican dated Aug. 4th, says that The
rebel Guerrillas hare taken complete
possession of Missouri and are daily
growing into vast army nearly three
thousand OF them have crossed the Mis-
souri, under Porter and Joe Thomof5on.
cleaning home guards and militia and
as they progress they are raising number
less recruits for the Confederate army.
Six hundred men have turned up At
Birds Point. threatening Cairo, where
there Is but small garrison. Gamble
finds IL impossible under the eircumstan-
ces to get the militia 10 respond 10 his
call, and has issued another impotent
appeal to them to rally. complaining
of their apathy in the Federal cause.
GoRDossvILLE, August l0-The bat
tie at Southwestern Mountain. fouobt
Yesterday, was complete victory over
the enemy. Stonewall repulsed Pope
and drove him several miles from lis
position.
Three hundred prisoners have arrived.
Brigadier- General Prince and
.wenty>nine officers. Gen. Charles 5.
Winder was killed.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-08-08


III YAH - MtssoUR I.-Inlormatien
of the following character was received
here By Col. Marsh this morning. from
Jefferson City,
1t noon, yesterday. the Federal forces
at Moore's Mills, seven miles east of
Fulton, were attacked BY the rebels,
nine hundred strong. The Union troops
were under the command of Col. Guitar,
and consisted of his own force and some
reinforcements under Lieut. Col Shelter
and Majors Caldwell and Cooper, in all
six hundred strong. They were attacked
at noon by the rebels. who evidently re-
lied on superior numbers for victory.
A desperate fight instantly commenced,
and lasted until 4 O'Clock in the afternoon.
The rebels fought well but were finally
routed by the Federal troops. One
hundred Confederates were killed and
wounded. and one taken prisoner The
Union Joss was forty FIVE.
4 considerable quantity of ammunition.
baggage, etc, was captured and good
many guns. Col. Guitar Immediately
resumed pursuit o. the rebels, and pros
poets are that he ,vlll overtake them
again. Cobb one of the Confederate
leaders, is reported killed.
Col. Guitars force consisted of the 9Th
Missouri State militia and 81 Iowa.
The principal officers engaged, besides
Col. Guitar. were Lieut. Col. Shaffer
and Major Cooper. of the Missouri troops. |
and Major Caldwell. of the Iowa force. !.
81. Louis Republican. /
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SAVANNAH, August 1I.-The pickets
on Wilmington Island, report that the
steamer General Lee of Savannah, with
a flag of truce. was fred on from Fort
Pulaski and captured Yesterday. Capt.
Stuart, of Gen. MERGERS staff. and Capt.
II. Is. Frazer of Augusta were among the
captured.
RICHMOND. Aug. 1l-Northern papers
with dates to the 7th. give an account of
an immense war meeting held in Wash
lngton last Wednesday. Old Abe was
present and made a speech He re-
ferred to the quarrel between Mcclellan
and the Secretary of War, and said the
dispute was not so serious as it was sup
posed, and arose simply from a question
of how many men Nc Clellan had Many
supposed that the Secretary of War had
not reinforced him TO the extent he might
have done. This was not SO the Score
tary of War had never withheld .nv one
thing in his power to give, and was not
to blame for not giving when he had
none to give. In conclusion we refer to
Mcclellan in complimentary terms, and
believed him to be brave and able man.
hhA A0Oh pun i4AAAStA what Hau 0EFn
charged upon the Secretary of War-the
Withholding of men from him.
Speeches were also made BIZ Gen.
Shields, Hon. Robert J. Walker. Senator
Harlan, Ex-Governor Broughtwen of
Mass. Gen. Shipley. Military Govern
or of Louisiana, and number of 9th
ers. On the conclusion of Shippley's
speech. it being announced that be was
the man who hung Mumford in New
Orleans, for hauling down the Yankee
flag, the meeting gave three cheers for
him. Shippley disclaimed the credit of
the act, and said the honor belonged to
Butler.
The Northern papers have accounts of
the skirmish at Malvern Hill. They
represent it as great victory. and say
the rebels were put 10 flight and pursued
within ten miles of Richmond. They
claim to have taken one hundred pris-
oners. Their loss is put down as three
killed and eleven wounded.
The editors of the Harrisburg Patriot
have been arrested for the publication of
seditious articles and sent to Fort Ne
Henry.
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FEDERAL COMMANDERS CHAGRINED.-
The Federal officers at Vicksburg are no
doubt greatly mortified at the success of
the Arkansas. One letter writer says
Commodores Farragut and Davis still
feel greatly chagrined that the Arkansas
should have escaped from all our vessels,
and the former little gentleman, after the
engagement, was one of the most excited
and indignant persons [ have seen for
month and would have gone into the
Jaws of the orthodox hell to remove the
stain be felt upon his reputation as a ma
val commander. 1--WE must take her
(the Arkansas) by all means" he said.
1--WE must not let her rest we must fol-
low her, if need be, to the Gulf of Mexico.
D-n it, what will be said of US? Let a
little boat like that escape a whole feet
It's disgraceful. We must wipe out the
disgrace, if it takes every mans life in
the feet. We must do it, by c."
Commodore Davis is more self dis
ciplined than Farragut, but the memory
of Tuesday is thorn in his side. and the
desperate engagement with the batteries
of Vicksburg and his pursuit of the reb-
ell gunboat were the offspring of his dis
content.
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SKETCH OF GEN. PoPE.-The following
brief sketch of Gen. Pope. which we
find in one of the Northern papers, is
made interesting by the promotion of its
subject to the command of the Yankee
army in the Valley of Virginia:
Major eneral Pope IS a man nearly
forty years of age, a native of Kentucky,
but citizen of Illinois, and graduate
of West Point, which academy he entered
in 1898. He graduated in l842. stand
ing high in large class, and was ap-
pointed to the army from the State Of
Illinois, entering the service as a breVet
Second Lieutenant of Typographical En-
giueers. He was engaged in Mexico.
and was brevetted First Lieutenant for
gall ant and meritorious conduct in sew
eral conflicts in Monterey-the brevet
bearing date from September esd. 1846
On the 23d OF February, 1847, he was
brevetled Captain for gallant and meri
torious conduct in the battle of Buena
Vista In l849 be conducted the Min
nesots on IN exploring expedition, hav-
ing accomplished which. he acted as
Typographical Engineer in New Mex
leo until 1853, when he was assigned to
the command of one of the expeditions to
survey the route of the Pacific Railroad.
From 1884 to 1859 he was engaged in
the exploration of the Rocky Mountains,
during which time-viz: on the fst of
July l859-he took the actual rank of
Captain in the corps OF Typographical
Engineers. On the 18th of March, 1861,
he was made Brigadier- General of vol
unteers. He held a command 10 Missouri
for some time before he became parlic-
ularly noted but when Gen. Haleck
took charge of the disorganized depart
ment, he. having great confidence in
Brigsdier- General Pope, gave him the
~ Gen. David E. Twiggs, who re-
Gently died at his home in Georgia, was
= native of that State, and born in 1889
In 1919 he entered the army of the
United States on the 18th OF March of
that year received the appointment of
Captain in the 9th Infantry. On the
3Olh of June. 1915, he was appointed
Brigadier General, and on the 25I of
September of the samesyesr was brevet-
ed Major General. He served with dis
tinction in the Indian wars in Alabama.
aud also in the war with Mexico, his
gallautry being most conspicuous in the
battle of Cerro Gordo and when the
latter war was closed, the happy com
plment was paid him of being 1.-The hero
OF all the battles and none of the letters. +"
In 1860 when his State cut loose from
the old Union he surrendered his COM
mand in Texas to the Confederates, and
rendered his own services TO our govern
ment, which were accepted, and he was
Immediately placed in command of New
Orleans but his age and feeble health
soon compelled him 10 resign
Vicks5urg Wig.
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The Charleston Courier says the Pres
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The Charleston Courier says the Pres
ident of the Confederate States has vetoed
more bills than all the Presidents of the
United States from Washington to An
drew Jackson inclusive.
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DIE {: o,

At White Sulphur Springs. Grimes county. Texas,
Col. CRosLFY s. SzrpAoRE, Of Madison county.
Mss, II the 55th year Of lis age.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-08-08

Necessity has no law, but an ancom-
mon number of LAWYERS.
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SKlRM1sH IN NORTH CAROLINA On
the eth ult., a Federal force of 500
infantry, with cavalry and artillery, at
tempted to cross White Oak river in Ons-
low county, n. C. They were met by
125 of our cavalry, commanded by Capt.
E. D. Ward. The Wilmington Journal
says
The fight lasted about three hours,
when Captain Ward fell back q short
distance out of the range of their artil>
lery. They continued to she'll the woods
until near dark, when they fell back
In the engagement we had one man.
Sergeant Williams of the Gatlin Drag
oons, wounded in both legs. and one
horse wounded By the bursting of she'll
Captain Ward learns from citizens along
the line of the enemy's retreat, that we
killed two dead on the spot, wounded
eleven badly, and several slightly
Among those badly was their Colonel.
who was shot from his horse. They
curse our two barrel.ed cavalry" and
say they want shot guns, too. They
fell back about seven miles. to Mrs.
Bryan's. where they met more of their
men, They were there on the 28th,
500 strong. among them FIVE hundred
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TRAPPING ON THE CoNsTIrUnoN.-
The Senate on Monday, by vote of %
against IT. passed the bill introduced
some weeks since by Mr.. Sumner, we
think, to admit Western Virginia to the
rights and privileges of a sovereign State
This act is in direct violation of Sec
ton 8, Article ", of the Constitution,
which reads as follows
New States may be admitted BY the
Congress into the Union but no new
State shall be formed or erected within
the jurisdiction of any other State nor
any State be formed by the junction of
two or more States or parts of States.
without The consent Of the Legislature of
the States concerned, as we'll as of Con-
gress.'
In case so plain. no argument is nee
essary to show that every Senator who
voted for this Western Virginia bill
trampled his oath in the dust
Do Congressman think that by such
legislation as this they are to restore the
Union ? We doubt if single Senator
who voted for this bill has one particle of
hope of bringing the Southern States
again in subsection 10 the Constitution.
Providence Post.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-05-22
THE EVACUATION OF YORKTOWN.

The evacuation of Yorktown, and its &C.
cupation by the army of Mcclellan, with
the capture of all the defences and heavy
guns of the enemy, is the great news of the
day. The magnitude and Importance of
this blow, and McClellan's success, may be
understood by recalling to mind the fall Of
New Orleans and Gen. LovelPs retreat
therefrom, and more especially the pre-
cisely similar results which occurred after
years siege by the allies before Sebasto-
pol.
The Russians were bombarded until their
defences we're no longer tenable. At night
they retreated, crossing to the north shore
of the harbor unobserved by the enemy, al
though commanded by the NEST skillful
generals and engineers of Europe. Meth
er the allied fleets nor armies could prevent
this retreat; yet the victory was gained, and
Pellissier and his generals were the con
querors of besieged line of temporary
earthworks precisely similar to those that
Mcclellan and his generals have now so
gloriously captured at Yorktown. We may
hope that the result will prove as disastrous
to our enemies as in the parallel case in the
Crimea.
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aTIfvou want to know what Western Kansas

III you want to know what Western Kansas
u.s. Just read the splendid account Of it which we
publish to-day. by an intelligent, uninterested
witness who has travelled over almost the entire
State. He is . member of Company A, Twelfth
Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, and speaks the
mind of nineteen-twentieths of the Wisconsin
boys. We predict, that at the close of the war
twelve hundred men, with families, belonging to
these two regiments, will settle in the neighbor-
hood of Junction. They will make class of
highly desirable citizens by any community,
and their susceptibility to the attractions of our
neighborhood is but sample of what it would
be were it better known.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC
Gen. Hunter Free. the Slaves!

Gen. Hunter Frees the Slaves!
Gen. Hunters proclamation is as follows
The three States of Georgia, Florida and
South Carolina, comprising the military
Department of the South, having declared
themselves no longer under the protection
Of the United States, it became my military
duty to declare martial law. This was
accordingly done on the 18th Of April.
Slavery and martial law in free country
are altogether incompatible. Persons In
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina here
tofore held as slaves are thesefore declared
forever free.
The Pacific Railroad Bill
CAIcAoo, May Is.
In the Senate on Tuesday, McDougal,
ftom the special committee, reported back
the Pacific Railroad bill and moved it be
made the special order for Thursday. Mo-
ton rejected-17 to 49,.
From Corinth.
CAIRO, May Is.
Gen. Mitchell has formed q junction
with Gen. Pope's army. When he arrived
he brought $500 prisoners, captured in
Northern Alabama, which are now on their
way to Cairo.
Our exact loss in the battle of Farming
ton has been finally ascertained, viz: killed
and wounded thirty, missing and taken
prisoners one hundred and fifty.
From Pittsburg we have nothing of
positive character. Halleck is advancing
slowly and cautiously, terrifying as he ad-
vances. All his movements are predicated
on the suppositiou that the enemy is in
force, and that they will make stand. At
headquarters the number Of the enemy is
estimated at 10000.
Deserters from Corinth say that the First
Alabama, First Louisiana and two Irish
resgiments were in state of mutiny
during the late engagement. A General
officer was killed, supposed to be General
Bragg.
Losses at williamsburg and West Point.
Governor Sprague says our losses at
Williamsburg in killed, wounded and miss
ng, will amount to about 1000; that the
rebel loss was not less. He says the battle
at West Point, under Gen. Franklin, was
much more severe than reported that at
least 500 of our men were taken prisoners,
the enemy taking advantage of the landing
of our troops. The gunboats came up in
good time, and saved Gen. Franklin from
suffering a severe disaster.
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sheriff 3 sale.
County of Davis. S.

State of Kansas, s.
County of Davis. &C.
James Armstrong VS.. Edward P. Burgess.
10y virtue of an order Of sale issued out Of
I'D the Third Judicial District Court, sitting
in and for Davis county, Kansas, wherein
James Armstrong is Plaintiff, and Edward T.
Burgess is defendant, 1 will, on Saturday the
Dist day of June, 1862, between the hours OF
ten o'clock, a. m. and four o'clock P. m of said
day, at the Court House door in the City OF
Junction, in said Davis county and State OF
Kansas, offer for sale at public auction, all the
right, title, and interest Of said Edward r.
Burgess in and to the following real estate,
to wit /: the north half of the north. east quar-
ter, and the south half Of the south east quar-
ter, and lots four, five six, seven and ten, IN
section number thirty. and lots two and three
in section tAirty-cne, in township twelve, range
five in Davis county, Kansas. and lot NUMBER
eleven in section twenty-five In township
twelve range four, in said Davis county, Kansas,
and will he sold as the property Of Edward r;
Burgess, to the highest bidder for cash in hand
to satisfy said order of sale.
1T. GEERY, Sheriff.
BY A. W. CALLEN,. Under Sheriff.
Sheriffs Office, Junction, Kansas, May %.
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PARsON BR0WNLOW'S BOOK.

Geo. w. Childs, the great Philadelphia
publisher, is publishing narrative of the
perils, adventures and sufferings of the Rev.
William G. Brownlow among the secession
lists of Tennessee. Apologize & Co., No.
43 Main Street, Cincinnati, are publishers
for the entire West, to whom all Western
orders must be addressed. The reputation
of the Parson is sufficient voucher for what
is contained in the following prospectus
The manuscript is completed, aud is now
in press and will be issued about the first of
June. The appearance and Typography of
the work will be of the first class, and it
will be fully and handsomely illustrated
with sketches of the scenes referred to, and
a finely engraved steel portrait of the author,
AS to its contents We have no hesitation
in saying that the public will be startled at
this narrative of facts. 1t will lay bare the
prosecutions and cruelties which marked
the development of the secession conspiracy
in Tennessee,-the disasters and the ruin
with which it devastated communities once
prosperous, and sundered families once hap
py; more than all, it will expose the bad
and reckless ambition and the relentlessness
and bloodthirstiness by which the ringlead.
ers of the conspiracy were stimulated to
their work of crime and treason.
The narrative is of personal experience
The author vouches for the accuracy of its
statements. The public may therefore
accept it as not only reliable but peculiar
chapter in the history of the times, and we
are confident that no more significant, start
ling, or instructive memorial of the rebel
lion, in its minute personal and social
bearings, is now accessible.
The public are well aware that Mr..
Brownlow is bold speaking map. In this
narrative of his sufferings, composed mostly
while in custody in the Jail at Knoxville,
be has uttered his thoughts in language of
extraordinary force and fearlessness, scath
ing his adversaries even while in their
power, and appealing to his countrymen
even from his cell, with the urgency of a
martyr.
1t ,cM be published IN one volunae, 12mo..
handsomely bound IN cloth, Of about 400
pages. Printed on fine paper. and will be
beautifully illustrated with IL or 10 fue
full-page cngravings besides the portrait
referred to above. 1t will also contain
fac -simile Of the Parsons famous letter to
J. P. Benjamin, where he tells the rebel
Secretary Of War that he will do for the
Southern Confederacy what the devil never
did, viz: leave the State" The retail
price will be Sl.25.
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The RErRoGRApE MovEMENr-Last Sunday
morning an order came from headquarters to the
forces lying in this vicinity to march imme-
-diately and hastily for Fort Leavenworth. The
detachment Of Jennison's Regiment that started
last Thursday was pursued and brought back.
Monday morning the First and Seventh Kansas
marched of, while the Wisconsin Twelfth and
Thirteenth remained until Tuesday morning.
The Kansas Second remains here-it is rumored
that half the regiment is 10 90 to New Mexico as
an escort for the supply trains there destined,
while the remaining half win garrison Fort
Riley. Their destination is Tennessee. The
order was received with shouts of joy by the
boys who marched. they being pleased with the
prospects of more active service; but the Second
which is fighting regiment, don't ike the ides
Of being placed on Home Guard duty in this
wilderness, and we know it caused considerable
profanity among the boys.
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Administrators Notice.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
N letters of administration on the estate of
Robert Heiserman, deceased, have been q anted
to the undersigned by the Judge Of the Probate
Court of Davis county, Kansas. bearing date
25th day Of April, 1862. All persons indebted
to said estate are required to call Immediately
and settle, and those having claims against said
estate are required to exhibit them for allow
ance within one year from the date Of said
letters, or they may be precluded from any
benefit Of said estate. and if said claims be not
exhibited within three years they will be for
ever barred. GEORGE MONTAGUE,
May is. 1862. Administrator
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DIEp.-Charles A. Woods, who was wounded
in the second assault on the Frontier office on
the evening of the 18th of March, died in this
city last Monday morning. He was an indus
trious, sober, honest, straightforward, and agree
able man. His awful fate is but another warning
of the uncertainty Of the approach Of the mon
ster, Death. However much We may deprecate
lmobocncy, yet We believe his sufferings and
. death to be attributable to the damnable heresy
of.secession now devastating the country.
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a. We received call the other day from
Captain JOHN GARDNER, Of Company Z, Second
Kansas He is graduate of the old Allegheny
Portage Railroad, in Pennsylvania, which in its
day turned out nothing but "perfect bricks. !"
He served calamity through the Mexican war,
with the Second Pennsylvania Regiment, SO
that his metal has been already tested He is
an affable and agreeable gentleman, and equally
good looking