The Corinth war eagle. [volume] (Corinth, Miss.) 1862-186?, 1862-08-07
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BOLIVAR THREATENED!
THE BRITISH SEND CANNON TO THE
SOUTHERN OONFEDERAOY
FROM CHARLESTON, 5. c.
THE REBELS IN NORTHERN MISSOURI.

It is reported that Villepinge and COM
mand is marching on Bolivar
Jackson used a pontoon bridge built by
negroes of the residents to cross Forked Deer
river.
Heavy cannOnading was heard at or near
Bolivar on Saturday and Sunday.
On. Saturday the telegraph lines were des-
troyed and portions of the Ohio and Mobile
Railroad torn up near Humboldt Our troops
were fortifying Bolivar. A quantity of cot
ton lying at Fulton was protected by gun
boat.
CANNoN.-@Twenty-t two pieces of artillery,
part of the eighty pieces taken by the Eng
lish from the Russians at the battle of Inker-
mann, and presented to the Confederacy by
British merchants, drought over in the Nash
Ville,) have arrived at Macon. They bear
evidence of having seen service. With some
alterations, they will hereafter speak for
themselves in manner highly creditabl e.
Some thirty eight pieces more are expected
at the same place.
New York, August 2.-The Hilton Head
correspondence of the Herald, dated 10Th
ult., says refugee from Charleston reports
Gen. Smiths command there. The rebels
have sent nire infantry and two cavalry regi-
ments to Richmond, and otherwise depleted
their force by large guards on the Savannah
Railroad.
Every one capable of bearing arms is forced
to volunteer in the Southern army.
Two iron clad rams, similar to the Merri
mac, are being constructed in Charleston to
destroy the blockaders.
The steamers Herald and Memphis had
arrived from Liverpool, with valuable sup
plies, and the steamer Economist was ex-
pected, and had probably reached there, as
large sidoIwheel steamer ran In last Friday.
The feet off Charleston has been augment
ed, and it is now thought impossible for YES
sells there to get out without capture.
The rebel steamer Nashville Is covered
under an eight-gun rebel battery in Dobay
| Sound, with the gunboats Paul Jones and
keystone State watching her.
The rebels have appeared pretty strongly
posted opposite Dawfuski. and our troops
| have left that island
| The rebels burned the wreck of the
steamer Winfield Scott on Wednesday night.
! Quincy, H., August about one humid
red and fifty rebels, under Dunn, attacked
| Canton, Mo, sixteen miles north of this
place, last night. They shot VIM. Cornegy
in order to get some rifles stor ed in his ware
house. He is not expected to live. They
then took the rifles. plundered the store of
what they wanted, and left The amount of
damage done has not been ascertained.
! Advices have been received By Gen. Strong
! from Bloomfield, Mo-, that about one hun
| dred of Coleman'S men were surrounded in
that town by some five or six hundred reb-
els, and that a sharp fight was going on, and
that our troops thought they could sustain
| themselves until reinforcements could reach
them.
Letters from a rebel mail, captured at Cor
! NTH on the goth ult., indicate rebel move
ment on Chattanooga and Nashville.
An officer, writing from .Harrisons Land
! ing to a gentleman in Washington, says all
is quiet on che James River. One corps af-
ter another is being received by General Nc
Clellan, and the troops make very fine APP
! pearance.
The soldiers are in good spirits, and will
be ready to deal heavy blow when the time
comes TO strike. If New England, the Mid
die States, and the Great West, only do their
duty now, this wicked rebellion will be for-
ever crushed God grant that the call for
more men will be speedily responded to.