The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-08-05

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xAs sde q the Big Black, bos considerable Damoes IN
Oserbaas' old ntrenchments opposite Edwards Ferry
Into Oar Hands by the Fall OF Weeks
busg.
rhe Yauhes papers that thsy captured 81 vichs
bag 81 900 prscners among whom were soe lieutenant
general four major generals ana ioereen or &c ssSe
Arms This account 10 most exagerated First, the en-
Tire captured win NOT reach shove 1000 secondly,
there were only three major generals Capsufedvz: Ma
r Generals smith, Forney and Stevenson. Ths briga
dber generals were foIo~s-Brgadior Generals He
miaes and Bu'ord making total Of nine brgadiors and
not fourteen the Yankees say The captured artillery
w not ninety Ss q I me ss ana %
small captured was large, for the reason that
We bad gained large numbers from the enemy during The
dead In front Of our ranks and on Sunday the 70
requested them 70 permit 70 bury their dead During
picked up and brought They numbered several thou
sand and added greatly 70 The number OF arms in our
possession. The total amount captured from must
have been about forty Thousand. The captured gene
rails artillery and small arms was large enough without
nO be- %SSs SI 40 hey give % he Splendid story
major generals fourteen brgadfer generals one hundred
and fifty pieces Of artillery and thirty one Thousand pr
scners captured. The amount Of ammunition was i'm
mense there being sufficient TO have lasted no for ex
months
Another Account OF Those Spells.
writer in the Mobile Register, who sens himself
ousiy pubsned "tnat there was NOT enough ammunition
left in vcksburg the morning OF the Surrender 10 have
lasted twenty four ncurs hard nsntSs ne presents an
~ 900 rounds Of xeA ammunition 400 900 musket cart
ridges and 400 900 percussion caps surrendered 70 sne
information, he says, wa received from parties
nsctsd with the Ordinance Department
Some One 90 Blame for tho Fall Of vicks.
From the Mobile Tribuns.1
We do not ti0n the va0r OF our armies At tho two
points alluded to- the fighting qualities and skn Of the
two commanders, but IL 10 impossible to deny that
pard0nabie neglect somewhere tho management Of the
comnssariat.
On whose shoulders ought the blame Of this criminal
negligence TO fA7 II belongs somewhere beyond ques
tioD and ought 10 be visited by instant and relentless
punishment me ..,.. 49,.
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most reckless and shameless spirit Of corruption has
marked Of the commssay agents Of the Confederate
Controlled them. Fortunes have been made by thsm
Dosss 70 their cap ~ 'y'se ''" 's"' p0'
The Deserters from the Rebel Army OF the
M1ssissippi.
From the Richmond Examiner, July 3O.l
The papers report that the ssssippans
in the army there are deserving In large numbers and
have refused TO assist in longer defending their State We
IFrom the Richmond Examinen August1l
we mentioned few days ago that BE Mississppi
General Johnston We felt dsinclned give credence
TO the report We believed that Mississippi like NEST Of
tmorous and cowardy traitors who ready TO yield 10
the domination Of tho iastdy foe at the first approach
any aisacton has been produced among her troops
n the field doubt not the OWL seed has been Town BY
this class o. nsr population Such state Of feeling Is
L prevailng n Mississippi the homo Of the President.
Bearing upon this point the Mobile Register has very
weak kneed every Southern State consider and reflect
We have jasi Seen letter from pretty high up sns
Mobile and Ohio road which says there are some who
have become very weak in the faith since the fall Of
vckburg opened the prospect that that part Of Msss
fore Vhining for peace and reconstruction without
knowing who these people are venture to say they
in the last dch patriots before the began and who
have done little or nothing In personal service
tr1DutlOns 70 Inc cause since the ngnt1ng began Ninety
Line 70 one that they men who have property lose
and who vainly fancy that they save il BY getting
down upon tha knees In ths black ranuhinan Goparn
mani ssai q q ~ H. s~.sA~. -
OF One thing We are positively certain, that 70 man
with soul his body who has once bad thai foul pone
struggle who has once bad his lows country touched
and his indignant hatred Of wrong end oppression knded
by the atrocities Of our enelee, dream OF lay
ing down his arms and crying peace, until the last
Yankee enemy has been driven from the soil. We have
patience to write Of such miserable potr0one What
yield this great prize for which torrents Of most
precious blood have been she'd because your farms and
and richest valleys ravaged, her people turned
out houselcss ard her fields bacKened and desolaed
by the torch and tread OF the invader Have not
Louisiana and her great commercial city, New
Orleans, been year under the neel Of the
couqueror and do not the dres of patriotic resistance
and daughtersp Are better than they3 Cannot
you suffer and endure in holy well 40 tney7
Shame your craven weakness, and greater shame
the mbece stupidity that supposes that by sacrificing
your and your country you may save your vile
trash called property. Fools " the abolition arms ri
umph may pile up your oaths as high as 81 Peter
dome-you may periodically damn yourselves TO the
profoundes. depths OF namy and steep souls in the
turptude Of vile abjurator OF your country and her
cred cause, and you will yet not your property.
OF all the stark mad fools and empty headed idiots that
we Of this Garth, the Southern submjs
sionis reconstruconst at this stage Of the game
the biggest starkest and the emptest u the prey
sion Of all you possess to be gobbed by the invader
for this is tho philosophy and programme Of the war 30
seize aud conscae the property OF tho South 10 the
North from remediess bankruptcy and ruin.
Affairs In Georgia.