The Shasta courier., 1863-04-18

more effectually TO meet an attack from the
enemy. At this time we could hear the sae-
ny's reveille bugle calls quiet plain. Every
thing il now ID readiness for an attack
Iorpedoes are under all the brigades not de-
stEoyed, leading % the town. A few houses
which interfsref with the rauge Of our gnns
have hscn pulled down. A courier arrived at
seven this morning, bringing information
thatthe enemy Ss advancing on the Summer
ton road With this intelligence came in.
formation that four of our men were captur-
ed five miles from here, on the Providence
Church road. The enemy now occupy our
picket stations in the latter direction. A
few Of our pickles on Hay Island were sur
prised during the night and captured.
Intelligence renched Fortress Monroe on
April 18th, that the enemy retreated four
miles, from Washington. n c. and that
the gunboats sent to Fosters assistance had
succeeded IN running the rebel batteries on
the Pamlico river.
The Latest.
New York, kI8th h-washir gton specials
say the case of the rebel Steamer Peterhoff
continues to engage the attention of the Ad-
ministration, as well as diplomatic circles
here. 1t is understood that Lord Lyons re-
quested that the British mail found on board
be returned to him unopened, and that the
State Department is ready to accede to his
wish.
A rebel telegram, dated Mobile 10th, says
official dispatches say the enemy, 400 in
number, mostly contraband troops. landed at
Pascayoula yesterday, and were attacked by
our cavalry. The enemy lost Is killed. Our
loes was one Lieutenant and one private
wounded. The Yankee gunboats put back to
Ship Island with their wounded.
A late Charleston Mercury, speaking of
Government powder works at Augusta, Ca,
says that when completed they will be the
largest in the world.
Fortress Monroe, 15th.-In regard to af-
fairs at Williamsburg, a courier of to-day
says Gen. Wise has command and is en-
trenching the other side of Williamsburg.
He has orders to take Fort Magruder at all
hazards, but is afraid to make the assault
Our troops are in fine spirits.
New York, 16th.-Jeff Davis has issued
another address to the people of the Southern
Confederacy, urging them to devote their
agricultural labor to the production of food
He says that although the soldiers are on
half rations of meat, there is plenty in the
Confederacy, but that difficulty in trans
portation is now about to be remedied. The
address contains the following:
"To oppose the inyading forces, composed
of levy WHICH already exceed 300, 900
men, we had no resources but the Union
and valor of a people determined to ho free,
and were so destitute of military supplies
that tens Of thousands of our citizens were
reluctantly refused admission into service
from inability to furnish arms, which for
many months some of our strongholds owed
their safety chiefly to the careful consealment
of the fact that we were without supplies of
powder for our cannons. Your devotion and
patriotism triumphed over all their obsticles,
and called into existence munitions of war,
clothing and sustenanee, which enabled our
soldiers to illustrate their yalor on numerous
battle fields, and to inhict crushing blows on
| successive armies, each of which are arro-
giant. foes, fondly alleged to be inrinciable
At no previous period of the war have our
forces been so numerous, SO will organized,
so thorough disciplined as an army, and
equipped, as at present. The season of high
water. on which tho enemy relied to enable
their fleet Of gunboats to penetrate into our
country and deyastate our homes, is fast
passing away, yet our strongholds on the
Mississippi river still defiance to the foe.
Disaster has been the result of their every
effort to reduce the stronghold Of the Missis-
, sippi.
Within few weeks the falling waters
! and increasing heat of summer will complete
their discontinue, and compel their bafiied
and defeated forces to abandon the expedition
the expeditions on which arc based their
chief hopes Of success in cffecting our suiu-
cation. We must not forget, however, that
the war is not yet ended that we are still
confronted by powerful armies and threaten
ed by numerous fleets, and that the Govern
ment which controls these fleets and armies
is driven to the most desperate efforts to cf-
feet its unholy purpose, in which it has thus
far been defeated. 1t will use its utmost en-
ergies to avert the impending doom so fully
merited by the atrocities it has has commit
ted, the savage barbarities it has encouraged,
and the cowardly attempt to excite a seryile
people to a massacre of our wives and daugh-
ters and helpless children. There is but
one danger which tho government of your
choice regards with apprehension. To avert
this danger it appeals to the never failing
patriotism which you have exhibited since
the beginning of the war.