Washington telegraph., 1864-07-13


thing in Gen. Stand Waitie's services, and char
acter, particularly attractive to us He is one of
the very few men whose personal acquaintance
we ever desired in advance to make He de-
serves well Of the Confederacy, and shows that
he is sterling stuff
o Last Sunday three Federal deserters rode
into town, having left their command at Caddo
Gap, where there was a scouting party of about
800 Federal cavalry. These deserters are young
men, well dressed, well mounted and intelligent
1hey surrendered themselves to the enrolling
officer at Murfreesborro, who disarmad them and
sent them to report here. They seem anxious
only to get out Of the war. They profess to be
Indianians. They report that Gen. Steele has
about 1400o men at Little Rock and 1000 at
Pine Bluff. but do not profess to do more than
guess at it from Information. They are being
kindly treated, which is all the easier as they
have not the hateful Yankee look about them.
Indeed they seem modest and well behaved
enough to pass for Southern boys
LATEST AND BEsT--Letters by courier yes
'erday noon, from Camden, contain the follow
ing glorious intelligence. We think it will all
turn out substantially true, although first reports
are always more or less erroneous.
One correspondent says:
ION yesterday a telegram from Shreveport,
stated on the authority of Woodville Miss. }
paper, thatJ Johnston had achieved great victory
over sherman at Altoona, in which two Federal
generals were killed This morning Missouri
Democrat of the ID il al headquarters aud con-
1Cms that report, saying that Sherman attacked
ita-7"e's corr IN position, our troops not re-
il,I.-.--g tie hiu until the Yankees hsd advanced
10 within twenty or thirty yards of our lines Of
fntrancbments; that the attack repulsad
with loss of at least 5000 men, (that admission
means ten or twelve thousand, us l take it, and
that our {the leJe) loss was comparatively
slight, ouI men being behind field works. The
enemy is represented to have lost many officers,
among them two geneYals-one Of them being
Hooker, (not Hooker; J the name OF the other |
did not catch, as heard the paper read. The
same paper Intensely radical) stated thsc Chase
had resigned and gave several versions and ex-
plantations of the affair. The refusal of the
Congressional Finance Committee, and some
lough language Of Lincoln, was the immediate
occasion of his resignation but of which the
blair embroglio was the cause dating some time
back. The Mo. Democrat thinks there will be
breaking Mp OF the cabinet, or at least that
Bates aud Blair must retire-(why not Seward
also y Ex-Gov. Todd appointed III place OF
Chase. He declined. I Then Fessenden, OF
4
aace,) was appointed and confirmed. 1t was
not known whether he weuld accept. q doubt
II, as he is understood TO be a man Of fense
Gold was quoted at 265 a 275 buying rates, and
go q 300 selling, and loans at from IL to IA
per cent, (owing as | would infer, to the uni
Eersal want Of confidence of every body in every
thing, because there must be superabundance
al circulating media, such they are. Also,
that glerrillas, as they called, are numerous
and active in Missouri, especially 50 north of
Missouri river, and that in some districts the
Federal inhabitants are leaving the country in
terror OF their lives. A dispatch from Shelby
states that he defeated Carr, with considerable
loss, ESTIMATED at 800 or 400 killed AMI wound
"a, and drove the enemy two miles, and mad
changed his camp higher up White river for
want OF forage"
A dispatch to Camden from Shreveport says
that the ST, Louis Republican of the 23th COZ.
tains an account of the defeat of Hunter in the
valley of Virginia by Breckenridge near Lynch
burg, with great loss III killed and wounded and
about 5000 prisoners. Also that Gen. Ewel
had gone with his corps. about il GOO men, in
the direction OF Washington.
GEN. DOCKERY'S BRIGADE.--We have receiv-
ed letter of the 9th July, from an officer in
Gen. Dockery's brigade, correcting u report
which Seems to have obtained circulation in the
country, to the effect that this brigade had
dwindlei down to the number Of three hundred
men. lie says:
1" But a few days since while this brigade was
undergoing Review and Inspection" at Cam
den, Ark, gentleman of distinction and high
mill ary attainments-a Major General COM
manding in the District of Arkansas-who was
present on the OCCASION after seeing the several
regiments drawn up in line. remarked that Gen.
Dockery commanded the largest brigade in the
District of Arkansas. l viii venture to say
that there is not a brigade of infantry i'll this
district more than half as large as this one and
i will go so far as TO say that there is not one
larger in the Trans-Miss. Department As to
desertions from Gen. Dockerys command, !
will say that we have few in proportion to
numbers in the brigade as any other in the De-
partment Just name a command where the
horses are as accessible to the soldier as they
are to these, and l will show you deserters
Let our Just censure
Attend the true event, and put we on
Industrious soldiership.'"
We publish this with pleasure, and heartily
concur in the conclusion. Gen DockerY ac-
CURED laurels beyond the river rs brave and
gallant soldier. His brigade distinguished
itself for courage and hard fighting at Prairie
d'Anne, Poison Springs, Marks Mill and Jen-
kin's Ferry, and is entitled to due honor from
all the country. These things have already
passed into history, and we hope to have yet
greater to record. In this common cause we
should all have but one common heart, and
spurn a.l military jealousies and personal pre-
iudces