Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-09-01
LATEST FROM TINE SOUTH

The Richmond Dispatch Of the So contains
the following intelligence,
"The news from the Rappshsnnock is reprs-
scented a. con used and the report. connictfng
ON last Saturday . heavy artillery duel took riace
AZ the junction Of tho Hedgemaa ard Eastman
river. between nineteen guns Of the Washington
artillery and about forty guns Of the FedeTsls
In the engagement we lest twenty. -four killed and
wounded Among the killed are Lieut.. ]. w.
Brewer, ard ptivstes Taylor Marshall, (son Of A.
J Marshall, Of Fauqu'er,) Walter Chambers and
H. Ross. The enemy were driven across the
Rappshannock, at Burkelev's, and were In full
erals burnt the bri1ee ovet the RappahannCck.
"Passengers who arrived In Richmond on Mon
day evening reported that the Conitderates had
entered Wsrrenton without firing gun and cap
tured large quantities OF commissary and other
stor.s. Also, that the Confederate cavalry had
burned I railroad bridge over Cedar run, cut
ting e tie RETREAT Of the Federals In Il . direc
ton Of Manassas, and that large body Of Cen
fed crate infantry and artillery bad marched down
from Warreoton and taken position between the
F, derals and the point where the bridge was de-
stroved." THE Disratcb does not consider this
latter statement positively correct.
letter had been received in Richmond, dated
Camp on Rappahannock river, August a, which
stated that an order had been received from Gen.
of the army, and not to delay to prepare provi-
siops, as enough had been captured at that point
to feed the whole force for some time"
Several hundred Federal prisoners had been
u,
pe,.ed In Richmond.
Advices from Stanton state that some i've
hundred refugees had arrived there during last
week, principally from Barbour ana Randolph
In tee Confederate Suites Senate, on Monday,
Mr. Clay Introduced bill providing that any
"Federal oHicqr, soldier or adh"rent who NAV fail
into our hands, with counterfeit Confederate
notes In bis p0ssesslon-or who may be proved TO
have passed Of any such-shall be court mar.
tailed and punished with death"
In the House Of Representatives Mr.. Foote Of
fered series Of resolutions favoring an aggre slve
war; also fsvoring proclamation to the lnhabi-
tents Of the Northwestern States offering In guar
antee the free navigation Of the Mississippi and
Ohio rivers to their mouths II they will des,st
from the further prosecution OF the war. The
committee on the ] ldiciary were instructed 70
inquire into the expediency OF regulating by law
the impressment Of private property.
A dispatch to the Mobile Advertiser, dated the
"Autheniic information has been received
here that Bayou Sara has been destroyed by the
Yankees.
"Ba,on Rouge wa, yesterday to have been oc.
cup.ed by Confederate force under Gen Rug
giles. Much damage was done to the lower por-
tion of the city before evacuating -
Capt. Waters, Of the Rapids Rangers, has
notified General Butler Of his determination to
retaliate. He says:
awe are neither pirates nor murderer., as you
have seen At to denounce Us; we fght for our
homes, our families, and our liberty. One Ran
ger shot by you other than by the rules Of civil
lied warfare, will be revenged by hanging every
man who shall claim alleg lance to the United
States government Tho may fall into our haads I"
dispatch dated Jackson. August "a, says that
that number Of negroes have been taken from
the Louisiana planters, and that Gen. ilghmaa
10 on bis way to Vicksburg to receive the ex-
changed prisoners.
The Dispatch In bitter and sarcastic editorial
condemns the defensive policy Of the Confed crate
government, and calls for the raising Of half q
million men to invade the North.
Capt. J. A. Barnett gives notice that Thomss
Waine, who represented himself az coming from
Alexandris, Va, entered his company a sub.
ai'ute on the 10Th Of August. He received ca
that dav 81 AGO, and died on the same day. The
money IL In the hands Of Captain b
The Seventeenth Virginia Regiment has not
disbnnded, but Is with the army on the Kappa.
hammock.