The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1864-07-07
From tho 'front.'

The Atlanta Register OF July I'd says:
There were no movements OF import
ance at the Front yesterday. The report
that tho onemy attempted TO storm tho
works in front Of Gen. Cheathari's com
smand, as telegraphed from Marietta yes
terday. turns out TO have beenan attempt
10 establish and fortily A line ofpickets
On the south east part ofthe ridge occupi-
ed BY Chealham There was consider
able amount OF powder burnt, great
deal of which it is said might as well have
been saved.
Nothing official has been received of
the reported reverse OF Pillow at LaFay-
cite. He Is said to have taken the Court
House, and several hundred prisoners,
but the Yankees being subsequently re-
inlorced- he was attacked and in conge-
quenceof being largely outnumbered was
obliged TO fall back. He is said TO have
made desperate. resistance, though los
ing several hundred men in killed and
wounded. Sixty OF the Federal prisoners
captured by him had arrived at Selma,
Alabama.
A correspondent Of the Register, writ
| ing from Marietta July LIST, says:
The firing yesterday morning at o.
clock originated in relieving the LIST. 9th,
and 9th regiments Of ManY,s brigade,
who werein the trenches. The Yankees
thought we were falling back or adyanc
ing, and opened upon us and advance
their picket line. Just here the lines are
very close TO each other, not being furth-
or than fifty steps apart. The Yankee
Notifications are just under the crest of a
hill, which shelters them in some degree
| from our fire. They watch each other
closely, and exposure Of any part of the
person lisa signal for the firing-oIa dozen
guns.
Yesterday morning at nine o'clock, Col.
Paul Jones, from Obion county, West
Tennessee, commanding SD Tennessee
Regiment, was shot through the head
iust below the ear, and killed instantly,
from the Yankee skirmish line. He
was good citizen, an excellent officer,
and brave man. He was the senior
Colonel in his Brigade, and would have
made good Brigadier.
The other day during The burying Of
the dead, while the two armiees wer mix
ling freely with each other, seeming 10 the
forget for tilae their late hostile attitude,
man in StrahPs Brigade puddenly en-
countered a brother among the Yankee
living and another lying whit he dead.
1t was a sad documentary upon the un-
natural nature of the strife. and doubt
less tho brothers feltit 80. How little
they dreamed when boys together around
u common hearthstone, that as nen they
should meet thus and perform the piiin-
fnl task OF. burying their dead brother.
could not learn their name.
The scarcity of tobacco in tho Yankee
army is remarkable. They got all they
could from our boys the other day. The
article Iyery ordinary issued TO them by
the Confederacy, but for it the Yankees
would exchange anything they had. Some
of our men, who happened to be supplied
received for it oil cloths, hats, knives,
meerchaum pipes. watches and coffee.
Some Of the bargains would provoke a
smile from the graVest face. II was All
odd sight
The Appeal OF the lst says
All was quiet at the front this morning.
Both armies maintain their relative posi- |
tions. On our right the enemyi is about
two miles from our lines, on.the left about |
four miles. while on the. center they are
not over sixty yards distant. II is thought
that Sherman. may celebrate the 4lh inst.
by desperate attempt to break through
our lines.
Froma Trustworthy source we learn
that party OF scouts numbering about
forty, under command Of CAPITA. Harvey,
on tho 25th ult., struck the Western and 4
Atlantic railroad at point about two and
I hall mi!es above ReSacic and ciptnred
md burned a Train OF about fifteen c,as
ieaded with commissary stores, and pro
,eeded to Tilton, captured and burned
,wo trains, fifteen cars each, loaded with |
ordinance and forage. The party captur
ID some eighty-eight prisoners, who were
aiken to Cave Spring and forwarded to
Blue Mountain. They burned The rail
Dad bridge at Tilton and cut the tele-
,raph wires. 1t is reported that Ten
Iessee scout above Tiltoh has ran off the
rack and destroyed two or three trains, /
ore up the track, and cut the telegraph
Tres. Lieut. Baker, commanding ascout a
ng party, ran off two trains at a point be-
wv Resaca, at night, but owing to the a
lrge number Of Yankees in the neigh
orhood, he was unable to destroy them.