Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-09-15
INTERESTING BATCH OF SOUTHERN NEWS

REBEL TROUBLES ON THB MISSISSIPPI.
The Richmond Exam liner of Friday last says:
There is nothing pleasing from this side of
the Mississippi Senator Brown addressed the
people at Brandon, on the 25th ult., reproarh.
ing them for their timidity, and attempting to
rouse them. There is undoubtedly much de-
moralization in the Cis- Mississippi. The river
is crowded with transports, that might be de-.
stroyed by single battery, bu. the selfish in
telests OF property holders, VINO tear retalia-
ton, secure the transit Of the enemy and repress
these demonstrations Of attack which we had
expected would have, ere this, been made on
the banks Of the Mississippi"
UH1oNIsTs IN JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA.
The Huntsville Confederate denounces sa
company of traitors" (Unionists) in Jackson
county, Alabama. The Confederate says:
at consists of about 80 men, under a man
named Latham, who was a lieutenant in a
company belonging to the sOtA Alabama resi-
ment, Col. Toltart, and deserted shortly after
the battle Of Murfreesbo', went home and or.
ganized the company OF which he is now cap
tain. He is a son OF Jonathan Latham, who
was member Of the Legislature from Jack
son county at the beginning of the war, was
regarded with suspicion then, and has shown
his disloyalty since. He has one or more other
sons in the came category. We have just
learned that this band of traitors are levying
war, adhering to the enemy, and giving aid
and comfort in several ways"
"BETTER DIE THAN BE CONQUERED"
The Richmond Wing has an editorial article
under the head of Better Die than be Con-
quered," which reveals a consciousness that
with all their boastings, the rebels feel their
cause is lost The Wing threatens that in the
last resort the rebels will stake to the woods
and wilderness, like savages, and there fight
against hunger and cold' as long as they NAV
be able.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 18th has
jeremiad upon the peace meetings of North
he ri
soldiers deserving, and complains that detection
is not confined to obscure parties, but that per.
sons of prominence are concerned in it, and
that a candidate for the Confederate Congress
has come out on the reconstruction platform in
the third congressional district of North Caro-
lima.
The Richmond Sentinel of Sept. 18th has the
following dispatches
From the Southwest.
ATLANTA, Sept. 10.-A special dispatch to the
Memphis appeal, dated Jackson, 9TH, saws: The
latest WIS from Vicksburg states that the up
per batteries are manned by negroes. The
Yankees are building new Notifications, and all
edifices which interfere with the new plans
are demolished.
Mounted da negroes rOs have murdered many ci
Grant is reported going to the Southwest.
The Federal trans M ississippi expedition has
all been arrested. Gen. Smith has shipped
A Victory in Tennessee-Capture of Sew.
erai Hundred Prisoners.
From the Richmond Dispatch, of 11th.l
LYNCRBURG, Sept 10.-On Tuesday morn.
ing fight occurred at Telferd's Station, on
the East Tenness ee and Virginia Railroad, 80
miles from Bristol and SO from Knoxville. The
enemy was driven back six miles to Lime.
stone.
There our forces came up with them, and
after short engagement captured several
hundred Yankees and about one hundred East
Tennessee tories, who had gotten into a block
house, from which they were delivering
pretty heavy fire on our troops.
Our casualties were slight. The loss Of the
eEemy is not known, as their dead and
wounded were carried off to the rear in train
on the railroad.a 81
Two hundred and fifty Of the prisoners ar
rived here this evening. ..n.
The rumored capture Of Crowley, Mont
gomery and Nelson, prove unfounded. They
all escaped, and have come through into our
lines. ~
The Richmond papers OF the 18th make no
mention Of affairs at Charleston on the previous
day, when, according to the dispatches from
Fortress Monroe to-day, the white flag was
flying at Moultrie, and the Union troops were
in possession Of considerable potion OF James
Island s..r Fst