Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-10-28
LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.


| q MS Amy between large portion OF Meade's s
| force AT Culpeper, and Washington
1t he have succeeded. the result would have
| permanently cured the Army of the Potoma..
OF IT'S chronic disease, the f'rurigo Ricomoadisa-
enemy bee anne cognizant of the plan at ths mo.
! ment OF Its execution, and refreated with suf-
to destroy @ g tue ei 5hsS sto5s
| OF Centrevllle. 1t is impossible to follow them,
| lor the country is desert ip which our army
| could not live, while the enemy would ha
at the door Of his magazines in Washington
One hrht-apparentiy between division of
The Confederate army and a larger body of the
| enemy-occurred during the movement, in
which we lost $50 prisoners, five pieces of can
non, and were generally worsted. Why such
nght occurred cannot now be said. 1t can
scarcely have been the intention of Lee to nit
one aivision against two army corps. At pres
ent the collision bears the appearance OF an
ambuscade, or OF a blunder, which was not re-
deemed by energy or conduct.
There are generals who have the gift of in.
spring their troops with their own gallantry
and there are Generals who have not that gin.
1t would appear that Lewisburg, Gettysburg,
and Bristow Station are illustrations of this
| truth.
| In the meantime, the loss at that place was
elsewhere. Against Mcade's $50 prisoners Lee
| has placed 200 and the campaign in Northern
| Virginia has closed for the season nearly at
| the spot where it began two years ago, with the
enemy in retreat, and our own army yictorious.
though baftled.
The Slave Revolt in Hancock, Ga
Inc reported insurrection Of blacks in Han
cock county seems to have been a more serious
analr than first supposed. From reliable in.
formation communicated to us quite a large
number OF negroes are implicated in the in
tended revolt Their organization was COM
piete, and officers chosen from that of major
general down TO corporal. The chief of the
conspiracy is an artful and intelligent fellow.
VINO was well Qualified to be leader OF such
dangerous enterprise.
He was the Major General of the for ,es, and
proceeded to Atlanta on business connected
with the plot The plan was laid to join Rose
Grams when he arrived and captured Atlanta.
after first killing off the old white men. and
women and children, and appropriatIng the
young women as wives. To this they were
who are now injecting the whole country "a
number of the ringleaders of the plot have
been arrested and lodged in the Hancock Jail,
snd with them the Major General, who was
brought in irons from Atlanta.
On arriving at the jail and Seeing his COM
RACES RACES asrlbbed, ne said to them scornfully,
then subsidized INTO stubborn Silence IN referenee
to his object. Judge Thomas has ordered an
o s En ns naResoE s1aF aSs third
and properly punish these misguided and des-
perafa m contents, if found guilty, they are
sure to be, from the disclosures already made
Let other communities take warning.-Nacon
Confederate, 14h. ..s
Arrested and Sent to Richmond.
The Staunton Spectator says that ON the 12th
lnsta Mt the Confederate pickets west Of Meadow
Bluff, Greehbrler county, arrested Mr.. Thad-
deus Jones and son Of Mr. Waldron. formerly
contractor on the Covington and Ohio railroad,
while attempting to "work their way in. o the
lines Of the enemy. Mr.. Jones, b. fore the war,
lived In Washington City, but has been living
Tor the past two or three years at the White
Sulphur Springs, where he acted as agent, su.
perintendent and salesman for Mr.. william
CaiWel,, one OF the proprietors OF the White
Sulphur Springs.
Additional Southern News.
The Richmond Daily Ezpress, Of October
oath. gives det allied particulars Of Gen. Lees
movement and says the rebel troops had all
doubtless recrossed the Rappahannock. The
enemy attempted no advance upon our retiring
columns, if, indeed, they knew Of 1t. Thus you
see the campaign is over. Its results are briefly
sumed up:-We have captured about fifteen
hundred of the enemy, with some small arms
and wounded at least as many more. and tore
I twenty five miles, with a loss Of not over
twelve hundred in killed and wounded, some
few prisoners and four pieces of artillery fthose
lost BY Hills Corps at Bristow Stauon.l
Whether the game was worth the candle
will not attempt to decide. Some think we
have We done DO , wonders 1t has only taken ten days
Stuart started on Saturday last on a raid.
but came upon column Of the enerny's infan-
try near Urainsvi1le, and was compelled to
ss,uIn without accomplishing his object, Gen!
airy in ekrmishinE the latter part Of Monday.
near Warrenton junction, on the river, with.
Nudt Ies du 1 dIn MOI aOVISeO.
The correspondent Of the Espress, writing
from the army, complains that the soldiers Of j
Lees army are absolutely barefooted, and az,
the Government cannot furnish shoes, private
munifcence is appealed to; and the women arc
also appealed to fog aid, as the soldiers badly
neec socks.
A letter dated Army Northern Virginia, Bris-
tow Station, Va, Thursday, October Is, 1863,
says:
it is certainly a little singular, and fact
calling for explanation, that pursuing army
should have its artillery captured by its re-
treating adversary. 1t must have resulted from
gross mismanagement somewhere. But as at
blame. General Cook, who commanded the
two krigades. says, as am informed, that his
men fought well. but that they were not prop
mile in rear; and further, that his men had to
a. the IN t ns ssHnnag 10 @
hi to en- pcoun.er, at the same time, a superior
force in front, and on his flank or rather in his
rear.
This may or may not be the explanation; L
cannot say. made efforts to find Gen. Cook,
hut was unable to do SO. I passed over the
field to day; it is immediately at the railway
which we charged at the Yankees, is an open
field, skirted at its further edge by pine forest.
As soon as our men emerged from this forest
enem,'s batteries, which were situated ON q
crest just below the railroad station This
crest was the highest elevation in the Eeigh-
spoken terminates in high bank on the upper
side of the railroad, and il was behind this that
the enemy were concealed, and from which
they poured their murderous fire upon our
men, and one that succeeded in driving them
completely back. No further effort was made
yesterday evening to dislodge them Thls
morning the Yankee bird had flown.
"PFACR MOVEMENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Carolina in our Newbern correspondence. It
appears that q commissioner from the rebel I
element has arrived there with certain propo-
sitions regarding sgreat national convention"
nronosed to be held for the settlement OF the ,
war, but the precise plan nor the probable re-
snIfs do not seem very clear, further than that
Il is based upon the assumption that larxe
| norton OF the people Of the other Southern
States, as well as North Carolina, ara disposed
towards peace and reconstruction upon fair
terms, and that free ballot taken upon the de-
cisions of the proposed convention shall rexu-
late the claims OF both sections Of the country,
which are expected to be laid down on the
principle of mutual forgiveness etc, Mean