The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-07-03
ELE RAPHIC.
Fight at Chafleson.
Fort MONROE,

tain a brief account from Charleston of the
bloody battle fought Monday last, between
five Federal reg giments and a battery OF
Parrott's guns and parts of four rebel regi-
ments and battery. The battle lasted all
day, with heavy loss on both sides. The
Charleston Mercury feared the battle
would be renewed the next day aud ex-
pressed apprehensions for the safety of the
city in consequence of the great exhaustion
Of the Southern troops and the loss of
many officers. Gems. Evans and Pember-
ton had conplimented the rebel troops for
their bravery in standing up under the
heavy fire of shot and shell from our gun
boats and batteries.
The fight took place four miles from
Charleston, and from the tone of an editor
ial in the Mercury should think the rebels
have been cut off from James Island by
our gunboats. If this should be So,
Charleston must fall soon.
The Charleston Mercury of the 18th,
says in relation to the battle of the previous
day /: "The Federals made three charges
with the bayonet on the Confederate bat
teIy, under command of Col. Lamar, once
without firing a single shot. At each dis
charge it says great gaps were visible in the
Yankee lines The Federals finding the
battery men unyielding, next tried flank
ing movement on both sides, and that on
the west side seriously threatened the rebels
for time, but reinforcements coming up
the Federals were repulsed. The rebel loss
is stated at 40 killed and 140 wounded.
The rebels say they killed 140 Yankees
and captured 20 prisoners. The Federals
carried off their wounded, which they (the
rebels) estimate at 400.
The account is evidently nc-sided, and
will doubtless prove less fatal to life on our
side, and more injurious to the rebels than
here stated.
Another correspondent writing under the
same date, says: II am positively assured
10y parties who are reliably informed, that
the life of the arbitrator, jeff Davis, is
in extreme danger, the rebels looking upon
him with the utmost suspicion. 1t is even
averred that he is prevented, by an armed
force, from escaping out of the country.
He is the object Of general distrust.-
Handbills in every variety are displayed all
over the city denouncing JEFF: Davis, and
applying to him ridiculous and opprobious
epithets. The rebels declare it is the in
teution Of Davis to desert them.
From New Orleans.
There has been no rebel force near Baton
Rouge, except band of about two hund-
red guerillas scattered between this city and
Clinton.
A few days ago Gen. Williams sent Col.
McMillep, Of the 2lst Indiana, with
guard to siezc some property. As they
were on the road they were fred upon BY
two guerillas, and Col. McMillen slightly
wounded with buckshot. The guard fired
upon the rascals and killed one and captur-
ed the other. Gen. Williams wrote to Gen.
Butler for instructions as to the course he
should pursue towards gueriIlas.
The General answered as follows:
Headquarters, Department of the Gulf,
New Orleans, June 12th.-You ask me
what shall be done with Guer;llas They
should be captured, tried at the drumkead
BY military commission, and shoot every
man, their property destroyed, and every
means taken to show them that they are
enemies of the human race, not soldiers,
but murdercrs and land pirates. There is
only one way in which you can err towards
them and that is by want of prompt
severity. by order of Maj Gen. Butler,
Il. Il. DAVIS
From England.
The London Times regards the defeat of
Banks as one of the most important sue.
cesses of the Confederates on account of the
lesson it teaches the North, showing that
efforts and sacrifices greater than any that
have gone before must be made, if even
border State is to be won back to the Union.
Hopes of an early solution must be dispel
led, and in the meantime increasing debts |
and mutual hatred tend to make a new
Union more and more impracticablc.
1he DAILY News treats the defeat of
Banks as quite uuimportant and not in the
slightest degree calculated to disconcert
McClellan's plans 1t was nothing more
than mere raid of Confederates.
The Morning Post denounces in the bit.
terest terms Buffers proclamation relative
to the women of New Orleans, and thinks
the Government is bound to recall and
court martial him, and says that such an
act as this if not promptly disavowed would
soon turn the scale, finally and decisively,
IN favor Of the Confederate cause.
Questions have been put in both Houses
of Parliament in relation to the rumors of
mediation in America, and Gen. Buffers
relating to the ladies Earl
Russel and LORD Palmerston said the medi-
'tion rumors were unfounded. No promo
itions on the subject had been made. and
here Epra no nresnnf intnni;an &c