The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-07-15
NORTHERN ITEMS

special despatch to the Mobile Tribune
dated Grenada, 9Th, says that Northern papers Of
the 9th. contain copious accounts of McClellans
defeat in Virginia. They claim TO have captured
700 prisoners, and acknowledge loss of 10000
men, 30 pieces of artillery, and large amount Of
commissary and ordnance stores. The following
named Generals they confess to have been cap
+ tured: Reynolds and Mccall. Gen. Rasin was
killed. and Gems Meade, Burns, Sumner, Heintz
leman and numerous field officers were wounded
On the 9th day Of the battle, McClellan's French
staff officers left him and proceeded home on the
first boat. They will doubtless carry reliable
news to their country.
1t is reported that a@other Federal gun-boat
has been sunk'by our batteries on White River
In the Senate, MIR Chandler, of Michigan, said
that Mr. Stanton had nothing to do with putting
the army in the marshes Of the Chickahominy
This matter of gross crmuality, which
should consign the criminal to eternal detestaton
The criminal.is either Abraham Lincoln or Geo.
B. Mcclellan. There is no third man. In his
judgment, the criminal should suffer the extreme
penalty Of the law. Stanton is ursparingly de-
nounced by the Herald.
Gold in New York is quoted at 11O}. The
exports of specie since January have been thirty
one millions. Same time last year six millions.
CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN TIE WEsT.-The
military situation at the West Is not what it
should be. Gen. Curt. is retreating, with a
prospect that he will lose his army and leave
Missouri undefended. Gen. Mitchell is retiring
before the Confederatcs in Tennessee, and Gen.
Morgan is marching in the opposite direction from,
nOXvllle Confederate armies are turning up In
every direction, and forces nowhere as
strong as they should be. The Confederate con-
scription act, which went into operation in Feb
ruary last, has produced its fruit in filing the
Confederate rank and file with men of more de-
terniined stamp than the volunteers.-Ncu York
World, JuIy l.
GEN. HUNTERS NEGRO BR1GADE-The rumor
from Port Royal by the arrival to-day is, that
Gen. Hunter ordered his newly organized Negro
Brigade to James Island to join in the attack
there; but that several Of the officers refused to
go there in company with negroes, and that,
therefore the prof ect of sending the negroes was
abandoned. Two surgeons are board Of the
Ericsson, sent home by Gen Hunter for refusing
to act as Brigade Surgeons to the negro regiments.
Two or three weeks ago, several white men came
into Beaufort, painted black, and succeeded, IN
der the privilege and protection OF their color in
capturing some of our small boats near there, and
getting of with them successfully:
What the Republican Senator from New Jersey
said in the United States Senate seems to be more
anu confirmed from South Carolina, that
white soldiers, especially from the Middle and
Western States, will not fight in company with
negroes. Even the New England regiments don't
like their company.-N. I. Express.
SOLDIERS TO BE BURIED BY CONTRACT
despatch dated Washington, July ID, says, the
existing condition of affairs forces the Government
to the anomaly of inviting proposals for burying
deceased soldiers for the next six months y con-
tract for collins has already been awarded, and the
work ut ;nterment is so extensive that the depart
ment deems it proper to relieve the soldiers from
that service and assign it to the civil service
der co3tract.
SHIELDS AND MCDoWELL.-It is stated as
notorious fact that Gen. Shields, in personal
alteration with his superior, Gen. Mcdowell at
Front Royal, drew his sword upon him and made
use of very violent and uncomplimcntary epithets,
and that in the course of his remarks he alluded to
his favorite theme, the battle of Winchester, and
placed it in invidious contrast with the battle of
Bull Run.