The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-05-29
News from outhern Papers.


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News frem Southern Papers.
The Richmond Wig, of May 8, states that
Commander Hollins had been appointed to the
command of the Virginia, Uics Tatnall, resign
ed.
The Governor Of Alabama has ordered all the |
cotton in Montgomery to be deposited in one
warehouse, where its destruction will not en-
danger the city. Owners have the privilege oil
removing their cotton to distance from the
city.
We ara glad to learn, saws The Charleston
Mercury from 8 gentleman who has had oppor-
4tunities for extensive observation, that an unu-
sual quantity of wheat was sown in the upper
part of the State, that the prospect never was
finer, and many suppose the crop will be twice
as large as last years, which was very fne.
THE BANK PINCH. --....o
1t was rumored in the streets yesterday, that
the Union and Planters Blank were taking Con-
federate money in payment of debts, but doing
so under protest. This is very unfortunate, if
true. Indeed, it is calculated to do far more
harm TO the cause than if they refused ii alto
gether. -MemphiS AvGIamche, 14h.
| MARTIAL LAW IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
| Under date of Richmond, May, 1852" JEFF.
Davis issued proclamation declaring that mar
tial law existed cover that part of the State of
South Carolina from the Santee River to South
Edisto River, and Maj. Gen. Pemberston was
placed in charge of the district. johnson Ha-
good, Col. of the st South Carolina Volunteers,
was appointed Provost Marshal for Charleston
and the country surrounding within ten miles,
and under date of May -, issued his proclama
ton forbidding any person to leave the district
without written permit, and prohibiting the
expectation of salt or the distillation or sale of
spirtuous liquors.
WHY YORKTOWN WAS EVACUATED
! We learn that Gen. Johnston fell back from
| Yorktown because he discovered that Gen. Nc
Clellan did not mean to fight him fairly, but to
protract the issue by regular approaches and
siege operations. Gen. Johnston could not af
ford to waste so much time and strength of his
army by awaiting their mole-like operations -
1t was difficult to supply his army at Yorktown,
and his men were being worn out in the trench
es. He preferred making a stand where Nc
CleDlan would be compelled to come after him
and give him manly fight. It is believed that
if the Union Napoleon had attacked Johnston
in his pernsuar lines, the Yankee army would
have been annihiated -MObile Register, 9Th.
PRICES AND CONFEDERATE SCRIP.
We have heard of a good many fabulous prices
asked in these times of scarcity, and have been
surprised to hear that they have been given =
but yesterday demand was made for coffee that
rather took us further than usual. The owner
had but few pounds on hand, and he was de-
termined to make the most of it. 1t was pure
article, and in ordinary times would have been
held at l21 or Is cents; but salt goes at 40 cts.
a pound coffee being rather scarce, is thought
cheap at two dollars and half ii pound, and not
burnt at that. If that is not cheap we do not
! know what is. a few sacks would purchase
! han snuoa asta Mosu,hic Ar1Jaorbn
| THE COTTON BURNERS ON THE RIVERS
| A pondent of The Little Rock True Dem
Ocrat, writing from Memphis on the Both, details
what he saw on the steamboat Alonzo Child
while on the way to that city, and adds After
leaving Helena, we came to the cotton burners;
several large steamers sent out by order of the
! Government to burn all the cotton to be found
anywhere on the river. A dreary, desolate view
it was-the smoking, blackened bales foated
past US, and in some places, the river for miles
was covered with punches of the raw material,
and the thickets that fringed the water were
whitened as if snow drifts were piled up against
their green spring foliage. The heart sickened
at the sad spectacle that necessity had forced
upon us, and as volumes of black smoke wreath
ed up far ahead, the conviction was irresistibly
forced upon all present that we were in the
great theatre of war, where blackness and DESC
lation meet you at every step.
THE DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY THE FEET
From The Mobile Advertiser,
| A gentleman from New Orleans, who repeat
eddy viewed the Federal men, of war from the
| levee they lay IN the stream informs US that
| they bore many marks of the conflict through
which they had passed Some of them were
riddIed with many shot-holes and it was under
stood in the city that the enemy's loss of life
was very heavy. The reportsare that the Con
feGerate hotilla made desperate fight, and that
| the marks of damage on the enemys vessels
were the works of our naval gunners. Many
| of the enemy's vessels had TO constantly keep
their steam pumps going to prevent sinking,
| and large force were at work endeavoring to
raise one of the stocks TO enable the repair Of
damaged The Confederate gunboat McRae,
which came up under a flag of truce, was COM
pletely riddled, and only kept from sinking by
incessaut working Of the steam pumps. She
sunk in a short time after pumping was sus-
pended.
| The captain of the Louisiana is said to have
! lost leg and an arm. The enemy's vessels did
not stay to fight the Louisiana any longer than
they could help, but run right by her, discbarg-
ing their tremendous broadsides at close range,
almost touching her as they passed in up the
river. It was give and take" daring and
dashing policy which succeeded, as dare and
dash generally do in 1t is said that the
enemy have not one single naval trophy of vic
tory, every one of our gunboats having been
destroyed by them in the fight or by ourselves,
and not one surrendered. Their only prizes was
two or three merchant steamers. The Confed-
crate flag was not struck or anything that bore
it on the bosom of the Mississippi, but went up
in fame or down beneath the waters of the great
Southern river, over which it will wave again,
the symbol of empire there. A great loss of life
must have been suffered by our fotilIa
The bombardment of the batteries Just below
the city lasted but an hour and quarter, when
every gun was silenced by the feet, which laid
close up alongside the bank and discharged
broadside after broadside of their heavy arma-
meuts at close range. The batteries mounted
nothing but smooth GAS which were tumbled
over by the great Yankee shot as nine-pins are
bowled down by the players balls. No man
was killed, nor is it believed injured by the bat
teries.
Nashville Editors ia Trouble.
NASHVILLE, May 26.-The United States