Washington telegraph., 1864-07-27
Interesting Correspondence.
CAMDEN, ARK, yzly II. IS6,

DEAR SIR: inclose late Metropoli-
tan Record, which, as you will find. contains
some noticeable articles.
The latest dates received here are a Chicago
Times Of the 9th and Memphis Bulletin of the
10th.
Fessonden has accepted and qualified Chase
goes out hostile to Lincoln Gold is fluctuatin.-
| at, say250. The Yankee Congress fnally ad-
iourned on the ith, after levying a tax Of 10
per cent. on Incomes, and repeating the $500
exemption in their conScription law and thus
aving the draft to be- enforced at the pleasure e
of Lincoln. Grant is reported to have made q
demand for 500, 900 more men. Eariv's column
has advanced from Harper's Ferry into Mary
land, vaiJuslv estimated at from 10000 to 80 =
900 strong. Lincoln has called for about 40 900
militia from Pennsylvania and New York, for
| 100 days, to repel the threatened Invasion OF
PENNSYLVANIA. | fear this movement of Ear
| lys will have the effect to recruit the Federal
armies; and once in, the men will be retained.
| though it certainly argues that Gen Lee has
| men enough and to spare for the defences of
| Richmond) The capture of the entire cavalry
| force of Wilson and kautz is confirmed, but
| there does not seem to have been any foundation
| Tor the reported defeat of Grant at Bermuda
| hundreds, or the capture of Burnside's corps
| near Petersburg. The main force of Grant is
| at Petersburg. and on the 4th the town was
| furiously bombarded. (This is regarded an
| act of vandalism, because the defencss sought
| to be taken the Hights around Petersburg
the town itself being of no strategic importance.
| Col. Bowman, superintendent at West Point,
| has been removed, because he invited Mcclellan
te deliver address at the laying OF the corner
| stone of monument there.
| The recent election in Memphis being distaste-
| ful TO the Fedetal General commanding there
| (Washburnr) he has displaced the Mayor and
! Council, and established municipal government
of his own He had shertly before substituted q
! military commission in lieu of all the civil tri-
! bunals which he abolished.
Lincoln has issued another proclamation. with
| elaborate recitals. and which concludes with a
| renewal of his former proclamation. suspending
the writ of habeas corpus, and declaring mar
tial law throughout the State of Kentucky
(This is significant as showing the state of affairs
| in Kentucky. Martial law does not necessarily
| result from suspension of habeas corpus. IL
| this additional turn of the screw in Kentucky
means anything, it means that Kentucky is sub
| ject TO no law but that of a military camp. and
he may be expected soon to begin wholesale
| system of arrests in that State.(
| Captain Srmmes. being forced 10 put out OF
| Cherbourg III consequence of an order from the
| French ovcrnmcnt, al the instigation and pro-
| test of Mr.. Dayton, made virtue of necessity.
| challenged the Kcarsage, and steamed out TO at
! tack her. The Alabama in some respects
unseaworthy, aud her machinery was soon rem
/ utGtu uS' I'SS DN an tV'lltnIdl Sllpt AtCOIulHE
| TO Yankee admissions she was no more match
| for the kcarsage than n merchantmen To the Al
ALBANIA y lively sympathy prevails in England
| for Capt. Semmes sword is to be presented
to him, by small subscriptions in high circles,
/ in lieu of the one that went down in the Ala
banIa, and he announces that he will have =
| New Alabama at sea bv the Middle of August
His old crew are with him, under pay. at Paris.
| The kearssge captured only 6S OF his officers
| and men. iIr. DAYTON decided that they coul
not be paroled. The Yankees are reioicingo .-
the victory, and Winslow is promoted to b. sn
| Admiral.
| No satisfactory result had beef, attsinsi ia
the European Conference at London, an va=
| not likely 70 be. AS the armistce expired ure-
| the end OF June, it is probable that host -.''
have been resumed and that England has l.
come a party TO the war on the side Of 'eu-
mark
You viii see by the paper sent you, n no'ic'
| of serious rupture between the Gar aud tha
| Pope growing cut of Russian barbarities in Po-
| land.
The steamboats, nj New Orleans AMI Memphis
/ have been impressed What this means has not
transpired We may surmise THAI il m. ans an
| other expedition from Vicksburr towards Selma,
OF from Gaines Landing into Arkansas.
CAMDEN, July %, 1854
Dear Sir: 7 give Won the substance of North
ern news contained in the Chicago Times and
| St. Louis Republican. both of the lith. received
here yesterday. Here follows news which may
be found in our telegraphic dispa'ch"s.l
In addition to the steamboats, impressed n
New Orlaans and Memphis, nine transports iisv.
| recently passed down ont of White river Thl
! may have been done TO save them from Shelby
and the guerrillas rs White river IS rrttiucvery
! low, but apprchend soon concentrated move
ment of the enemy from Vickshurg eastward
or from Gaines Landing into Arkansas, to h
determined on according to future Develop
ments
| The Yankee Congress passed Winter Davis
bill, upsetiing Lincoln's amnesty and onr-t'uth
| reconstruction proclamation of last December
| II provided for reconstruction by maj 1Iitv
and was a blow aimed al Lincoln. whose plan
| was to secure The votes of those States in thc
Electoral college. He now comes out with Az
| extraordinary {even so for him. and the Rcpub
lican thinks il must he a forgery proclamation
of the 9th, and which may well be regarded as
the most cOnsummate act of buffoonery he ever
perp-trated. H proclaimS that he did not sign
the bill bccaus" twas presented To him at So short
| 4 period before the final adjournment; that i
does injustice IN loral citizens of Arkansas ana
Louisiana who complied with his proclamation
doubts if his plan not the best; ms good
deal tn say in n inUd1l0d wav about the Con
gressional pIaH. and winds ND by saying Of
understood him correctly. that when States IN
rebellion have, in his judgment, progressed sum
ciently far, he win appoint military governor
so that they NAV take steps to reconstruct under
that act (which IS no law. Th" door thus re-
mains open for him to get their votes by some
| scratch.
The lates. foreign advices render it probable
! that hUstilitiss in Europe Were resumed at tlie
close of June. and that England would be drawn
| into the war on the side of Denmark. Ii is also
| reported that the Germanic States claim not to
be bound by the treaty of the Five Powers at
Paris, aud threaten to resort to priva'erring by
inviting to their aid. under letters of mar1uc
cruisers from all nations. 1t occurs to IN. that
in case England does embark in that war, inss.
much as that, for eighteen months past, two
| thirds of the Yankee commerce has been carried
| on under British colors, our willy and astute
| foe may be startled by new aspect OF tht
war. aud sudden turn of affairs not put down
in their programme.
! Accounts continue of active guerilla warfare
| in Missouri. and there reports of fresh ont
breaks among the people of Illinois
From GEoRGIA.-We have report
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