The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-08-22
WAR NEWS.
= A disretcb to the St. Louis r'nior y;

! an account Of reccut affair in the rear IF
! Na,chrz. Miss. which has before been brief
! y noticed. On the 2t;h ult. a detachment
! of three hundred mounted infantry. under
, MINOR Warden, of General Raneon's Staff,
left Natchez on 4 ro!ssance TO Liberty,
/ thirty miles ont. Sun,nnit, thirty miles fi,rh.
or, and Woodvile, some ten miles beyond
Summit. At the latter place they destroyed
! five locomotives. thirty three platform and
twelve passenger cars. At Woodville they
destroyed The Rebel cotton factory. cotton
, manufacturers goods to the amount of two
millions worth when they started on their
return. The Rebel General Logan hearing
of these proceedings. started in pursuit with
about 1900 men, of which the 1llh Arkaif.
sas formed part. Warden succeeded in
reaching Natchez in safety Logan. pur.
, sued, however. to our picket lines before
! leaving, burned the bridge over St. Catha.
rue creek. three miles from the city, and
then retreated.
A large meeting of the loyal citizens of
North Carolina was held at Washington.
North Carolina, on the It'll instant. They
p tsscd resolutions sympathizing with the
conservative party in the State, which is OPP
posing the Rebel tyranny. The Raleigh
Standard denonnccs the treachery Of the
Rebel leaders. exposes the failure of their
schemes, and proposes an immediate appli-
cation to the North for peace.
The articles that have appeared in the
Raleigh. N. c.. Stamford. arra,gning the
Rebel authorities and favoring the return of
North Carolina to the Union. are reported to
be written by the President ufthc Governors
Council. and to have the approval Of Gov
ernor Vance.
Colonel BURKE. of General RosEcRANs'
had a
states, among other items ofintcrest, that
Pember;on's Vickshu,g army has gone to
pieces. The Texans and Alahanlians were
leaving it in numheress squads. Over ten
thousand Tennesseeans have reported to the
Provost Marshal of the army of the Cum.
bcrland, as descrtors from the Rebels, having
come into our lines since General R"secrans
advance on Tulahomn. The army is in SPLEEN
d d condition and anxious for fight, but the
Rebel picicts tantalize our men and laugh at
them. asserting that we can never catch them
So long us Bragg. who can ont run Rosecrans.
is in command. Bragg is able to do moth
ing but retreat, which seems to be his forte
III war.
Lieutenant. Colonel BIGCs, with the One.
hundred .and.twenty-lhird Illinois NJ onnted
Infantry. made an incursion into Alabama
week before last, and was successful in dis,
persing a band of Rebels near the junction
of Larkin's Fork and Point Rock River. A
number Of prisoners taken. and refugees
came from their hiding places and joined
Colonel li!.s C, mnand along his entire
route. They say that the Rebel CONSUMPTION
forces every male citizen ut all able to bear
arms into the service, when they arc hurried
off to Rome, Georgia where they are max.
ing great efforts to collect an army to resist
the expected advance of General Rosecrans.
- By the Fulton. from Port ROYAL. on
Sunday last. we have highly important for
nation regarding the seige of Charleston.
Owing TO some trouble about the quality Of
the ammunition and the serious indispostion
of Gen. Gilmore. the attack for the 18th inst.
did not take place. On Saturday the shore
batteries opened fire for the purpose Of
obtaining the range, and report has il that
they knocked three holes in the walls of
Sumter. The impression was that Sumter
would be evacuated by the Rebels, who
would possibly blow it up. Breastworks, n
mile in length, have been erected on James
Island, with, however, but few guns mounted.
The weather was very fine and the sea calm.
Everything being ready for the attack, our
batteries were expect to open fire on Mon.
day last.
The New Ironsides was to engage Wagner
and silence her guns, while the Monitors and
shore batteries engaged Sumter Moultric
was to be bombarbed at the same time by
the mortar boats and the wooden fleet
- The old regiments in the Army of the
Potomac are filing up at the rate of thou.
sand day, from the drafted men or their
substitutes. The number is growing greater
each day. and in very short time Meade
army will be up to its full compliment
" hat is to become of Lees army. or how il
is to he filed so as to Withstand Meade. even
Jeff Davis does not know. He cannot re-
ceive any new troops without robbing some
otkcr army of its men. Folks division of
Bragg's army, it is said, has re gently joined
Lee.
The army of Gen. Rosecrans is now
ENJOYING peaceful possession of the whole
Of Middle Tennessee. and the troops are in
excellent health and spirits all anxious to
move forward and occupy the railroads of
northern Georgia, and in connection with
General Gilmore, divide the remainder of
the Confederacy into two poweress frag.
ments.
Intelligence from the hlockading feet
off Savannah states that Rebel iron clad
ram, the companion of the Atlanta, recently
started to go TO sea, h,. her machinery
proved defective and she returned to Sa.
vannah A Rebel blockade runner had also
exploded her boiler in the river, killing all
her crew and destroying the vessel. The
Governor of Georgia was imprcssing slaves
to work on the Notifications Of Savannah.
Another disaster to the Rebel rams has
occnred in the blowing up of the Robert
Habersham, on the Savannah River Her
crew were all killed by the explosion or
scalded to death. With commendable per.
severance the Savannah People are building
another ram, which Uncle Sans Monitors
will attend to whenever the ladies of that
city desire to make another excursion sea
ward.
Admiral Porter notifies the captains of
steamboats, on the Mississippi. that at all
points whsre there might be danger OF at.
tack from guerrillas, he has stationed armed
vessels. Woodng stations, under cover OF
gunboats, will soon be in operation along
the river.
Numbers of men, white and black,
were daily arriving at Natchez, refugees
from the Consumption of jeff Davis. All