New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-29


were carried to the Office of the Provost Marshal
and thence to the e. s. Prison, Of Cary and
Twentieth streets. The squad CONTESTED oil one
Lieutenant, two Orderly Sergeants, one Corporal
and three priyates, belonging to the 5'h ihdians
Cavalry.
From Ia. Richmond Examiner Of ht 2ah.
FROM THE Inns BELOW RICHMOND.
We learn that on "Wednesday, between two and
three o'clock, ~ M, considerable skirDlSn oc'
CURED near Ladd's store, l8 miles below Richmond
between the 4th Virginia cavalry and large
cavalry force of the enemy. The gunboats arc SAID
to have fired two SHELLS during the skirmish. We
Lave been unable to obtain any particulars.
Persons who came from the upper end oil CharIes
City county last evening report that the enemy Is
engaged obsrucing the river several miles below
Drury's Bluff, If the Yankees believe the accounts
which their papers publish of terrible iron.clsd
monster, which they Say is soon to desc M IRON
Richmond upon their fleet, there may possibly be
some truth in this rumor Though We thiuk it likely
that what was thought by distant observers to be
attempts to obstruct the channel was nothing more
than eortsto get atoa some gunboats or transports
which had grounded on Haruron's bar.
The enemy's pickets extend TO the Long Bridge
aud to the Forge Bridge, on the Chickahominy, TO
the north and east Of their position at Berkeley and
Westover
TIE VIRGINIA CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Owing to the recent .ids of the Yankee cavalry,
1t was not considered prudent to run tho regular
trains this road yesterday No through train lett
this city, and the train from the stopped at Cor.
louisville. When the road will resume its regular
operations we are not informed. We think il likely
that for some time the Company may lind 1t expe-
pedient for obvious reasons, TO withhold their run
hing hours from publication. II has very evidently
been the object of the enemy to capture the trains
and fnll knowledge of the schedule time OF the
road was very near browning their last attempt with
succees.
It is believed tina. no Yankees approached the
road Yesterday, though ut one time yesterday morn
ing fears were excited here by the refusal OF the
wire 10 work beyond Beaver Dam. About
o clock however Y dispatch was received from
Frederick Hail. ten miles above Beaver Dam, stat
ing that the wire was down etween that point aud
Gordonsyile. 1t is thought the interruption was
the result OF an accident as for reasons which II Is
impo tic to explain enemy is believed TO have
yentured on that section Of the road.
OFFICERS CAPTURED Ar MURFREEsBoRO'.
Some of the officers captured at Murfreesboro'
reached Atisnta, Ga., hast Tuesday, Ell route for
their prison at Madison. Among them was ten L.
Crittenden. We were much disappointed, says 1he
atlanta Inehgeneer, IN the verifying OF the report
that the Gen. Cnttenden was not Tom Cristenden,
Of Kentucky Tho Gen. Cnttenden who ia a pris.
oner is from Indiana, and is, we learn relative of
the weak old traitor John j. Crlltenden, once the
pride of old Kentucky.
PROM ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA.
Gen. Bell, the Union commandant At ~. Angus
tine ued poet orders the I'd OF july that every
white male citizen above the age OF ii should take
the oath Of allegiance to the United States Govern
ment by noon OF 9TH instant, or be removed be-
yond the Ickets; and that any person, male or fe-
male vs. o should by word, deed or manner, show
disrcspect 10 the United States Government should
be sted and placed beyond the lines OF The post
These orders amount to the Virtual eAhe oil All Tue
Southern citizens Of the town.
TIE CoNPIsCATIoN BILL.
md
documents with the following remarks:
Through a special source are enabled TO give
this morning tie Northern Confscaion bill rs finally
raised by Congress. IL il law which affects
I thousands Of citizens in the South, and we would
advise them 10 preserve copy OF 1t for reference.
lie question what property IL liable TO conhs-
cation in the North il one that deeply concerns
many Il our raders, and Is one that almost dAiiy
aTiser.
As far as the war has been fought, its results, In
military point of view are deeply Illuminating 20 tie
North The war was commenced IN the North with
the most intense expressions OF contempt lot us a
yersaTy; the idea Of the contest being extended
beyond a few mouths Wa derided and spat upon; in
that short time il believed the flag VI the Union
would float over the cities and towns Of the south,
and the lodies Of traitors" daugle from the battle
meni. Of Washington.
This was not hffec.atiOn. II was calculated by
many Ieope, IN spirit Of eandor, that contest so
uueaual N the material elements Of strength that
betxeeu The North and the South would b. speedily
d,fermped The North had twenty millions OF
u.ople 10 break the power OF eight millions; bad
"A ,niltia force about three times as strong as that OK
lie South; il mad The regular army; II had an i'm
mense advantage over the South In navy, the value
~ which NAV ue appreciated when il Is known that
its sebieyemen,s in the have been greater than
,bo.e Of the land forces and that is strength, with
prono.ed ADDITIONS TO its active war vessels IS esti-
mated to-day IN the North ne equivalent 10 an army
Of half million men,
VIII tho south was cut of from the world by the
,,;c,ions of the blockade, without commerce, with
In, .canty manufactures and few supplies on bahn,
The North bad all the ports OF the woid open 10 It's
,bps; il had furnaces founderies ara workshops
~, ,annfactuIng resources compared with those OF
- South were ns five hundred 20 one; the great
III. Of Europe were oyen to it for supplies OF arms
nd tore.; there was nothing of material resource,
nothing OF the apparatus OF conquest tha' WAS nov
within its reach. ,
Tbe,e immense elements Of superior1ty on the
mart OF the North have not rernnined IDLE IN her
Lands They have been exercised with tremendous
merry Within the las, fifteen mOnths the Govern
neut Al Washington has put forth all us power 10
snbiuqaie the Sou.h; IL has contracted debt FIX
ar seven times more than thai OF the SOUTH u has
caIled out more than half million soldiers 1t has
rnt Europe under contribution 10 furnish u not only
nm, bat soldiers to IRE them; II has leu no re-
source untricd, and omitted 10 condition OF enc
cess. " ,.,
The result Of al this immense and boosted supe-
riority on the part of the North, coupled with the
mo., immense exortions ID that the South remains
The result il Illuminating enough 10
tbe warlke reputation Of the North. IL has not
been separated from it's feeble adversary by seas or
mouniainr, bat only by geographical line; nature
has not inlerfered TO protect the weak from the
stropg; three 4" Grand Armies have advanced in
lie Confederate territory; and yet, to-day, the
YANKEES hold IN Virginia ana Tennessee only the
ground they stsnd upon and the south in spirit, is
more nyinribo than ever.
The humiliation " the North in the eyes Of war