The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-08-26
Special Dispatches to the Philadelphia Inquirer. 10
Highly Interesting from Rich
mOnti--Details said TO be Reliable.


We learn from Richmond, through Genera
Lee, himself, that tie whoie c9eetiOe i rec Q
! The rebels whea Ne assault was made upon
our right ring al NechanicspiHe was but 79,
600. From the first to the eighth of Augrs
they received from the South and southwest
thirty eight thousand troops, well clothed anc
armed. They now have about ono hundred
and fifty thousand Electives, hut many Of then
are fresh troops
General Lee considers them better thai
ours, but there is no compromise! no surrcn
der! each one being impelled by an intense
hatred of the who's n orth that can never b,
/ conciliated Lee enterlans no hope of rtacb
ing Pennsylvania, but does expect 10 tax,
Washington. The idea Of invasion of hC
whole North is still kept up through til,
army. All their wrath is now vented upor
Pope; Mcclellan seems to claim no longel
their attention. jeff Davis boats that hC
will carry out his threat upon Pope's officers
aud seems buoyant and confident of success
He considers Richmond as safe for them a,
we do Washington. 1t has never been evac
uated since commoton there in Apra, Wher
10 was entirely unprotected. ts it
! General Lee says they have plenty of arms
and ammunition, that he has million pounds
Of Bacon in one warehouse in Richmond, aud
laughs at the idea Of starving lhem OFT. He
says il we had followed them last March
when they relreated from Manassas, they
would have had to surrender or disband, a,
they were nearly out Of ammunition aud had
none of any account for the artillery; now
they have no difficulty in running the block
ado.
jeff. Davis says Lincoln dare not draft
that be can get no more volunteers aud that
the opposition to the party in power will pre-.
vent draft by force it necessary.
The New York papers aid The Philadel
phia Inquirer are received as the day comes.
A returned prisoner recently went down
from Baltimore with $4,000 Of gold face upon
his person.
No hopes have been entertained of the
mediation OF armed Intervention by England
or Franco, since the arrival of the steamer on
the sixth Of August. and they are denounced
as freely now as they ankees"
Lee is now the popular General and conf
dence in him aud Davis is unbounde1. Mag
ruder was tried by court marshal for being
drunk at Malvern Hill, aud acquitted Uo
denied having touched liquor that day; he
says he has sworn TO drink no moro until this
war is over.
Beauregard is still an invalid at the Springs
and his physician says he will never recover
sufficiently 10 take command of an army
Whisky, excitement and exposure have
brought disease to bis yitals that he can never
shake off. cas- s 80 so yf
The line of works around Richmond are
now all heavily mounted with 32-pound guns,
and 60 carry ii by assault would cause a loss
Of thirty thousand to ninty thousand lives
the gunc have been mounted aud the works
completed and extended since their re.rl al
from Yorktown. y.
No fears are now entertained Of their slaves
being interfered with. Tie say the time bas
gone oy for that; that no proclamation, nc
act of Congress would strip them Of their ser
vices, or induce them 10 fight against them
for us. They have on all occasions and in al
places announced to them that VIC intedded
to take them aud sell them TO pay the ex
penses Of the war, and that we intend to com
NIT all manner of atrocities upon them. The
recent "negro riots" in the North are used ts
show that the North are no friends Of theirs
and that they have nothing 10 hope for excep
| in the repuse Of the Yankees. ln -at