, 1864-08-09
SOUTHERN ITEMS.

ATLANTA Correspondence Mobile Rsei.,er.1
! n many months ago there arrived at :
Confederate port. upon one of the most no
table ofour blockade-ruuners. vcr5 unas,
Wss hardly out Of her tecns-of an extremely
haudseme person She had come to Nassau
from Paris. and sailed thence for the South,
she brought with her an abundant wardrobe,
and eufhcfency Of means to last her two OF
teTee 5ears at the present rates OF living.
Mef object in visiting this country Was to
d1ecoVer the fate Of an only brother, Colo
! Eel In our service, who had placed her at
| GeneYe at school when the war began, she
had not heard from him during ei1 months,
| oeoame anxious. and finally set out on her
long and Perilons journey. Her anxiety
proved too we'll founded. Her brother had
| been Killed at Getty sburg, and sire found
herself alone and q stranger In her native
land. She went first to Augusta, then to
Mobile; here she lost trunk containing all
| her gold. At this critical juncture Of affairs
she met very handsome field of1icer-fell in
loFe-eneaged first in. Irritation, then in IN
amous-and accompanied him US tar as At
!anta On his way to the front. He fell at
Cb1ckamanga What her life became you
can EueEs- She died last week, and WuB
tumbled into the ground in the public ceme-
lery. There's storf for you-Wcep over 1t.
: 1ANKEB sHARrsHoorERs,
Petersburg Correspondents Of Mobile Rceister.1
The p,ckets and skirmishers keep up
pretty constant fire BY moonlight, and the
starpsbooters by day, their object being to
prevent the adverse party from advancing or
6trengtnfng bis WORKS In the dag time the
sklrniehers On both sides are withdrawn
behind the intrenchments, or they..would all
ed in 1i1e-pfts OF behind the breast works,
4 log or trunk Of tree is hid on the too Of
the breastworke, with a crack below suiH-
clently vide 70 admlt rifle; thus the head
OF the sharpshooter is protected while he
takes deliberate aim and speeds his MIME
the eharpshooter is wonderfully accurate, es-
pecially when he is provided with Whit
orth rife, with te1escope-eight. It was
only yesterday that one Of our artlllerists
was Killed at distance Of mile, the ball
passing through his body. About the same
Of Gen; Lee, and ,glancicg, struck his heel,
bnt, unlike Achilles heel, it did not prove
his mortal part A few minutes thereafter a
SECOND ball struck young officer, standing
near IT, general, m passing through The lungs,
Gen. Lee kicked aside the bali that hit his
heel and went on with tue conversation as
II nothing had occurred. According to the
admission Of Northern writers, the aim of
our eharpshooters is equally deadly with
their own.
GETTING OUT or ATLANTA.
can give you no Idea Of the excitementin In
Atlanta. Everybody seems to be hurrSing
OIL, and especially the women. Wagons,
loaded With household furniture, and every
thing else that can he packed upon them,
crowd every street, and women, old and
!oung, md children innnncrable, are hurry
Ing to and flo, leading pet lambs, deer, and
other little household objects Of affection, as
though they intended to save all they could.
Every train OF cars is loaded to its utmost
capacity, and there is no grumbling about
seats. tor cyen the fair cnes are but too glad
to Eet even standing place in box car. The
excitement beats anything ever saw, and
hope may never witness such 1saln. But
in the midst Of all this tho soldiers are cool.
and cheerful, and sanguIne
AsouTHERS STORY or GEN. SHERMAN,
From the Montgomery Joprnal.l -
BeckWtth, the comm1ssars on sherman's
staff, went into the generals tentsa fe y days
since and accoated him thus: "General, We
must make another contract for beef: We
have hot enough to last three months.''
"aaye you enough to last two months q. In
qulred the general "Yes sir.' uWr1l. In
less than two months the army will be in -
or In Atlanta; If 1t goes to the former place
ne shall need 10 beef; If to the latter, We
shall find enough. Nuke no mure contracts,
Beckwith.'
CAPTAIN sEMAEs AND THE EEAR5ARaE.
tFro,n the Atlanta Appeal
Notwithstanding his great and valuable
services. Captain Scmmea will, no doubt, re.
ceiye the censure Of the country, and incur
the displeasure Of his government, for hav-
Ing accepted the challenge Of the kearsAge,
BY which he lost his own noble vessel As
the Alabama was not, In the strict sense Of
the word, vessel Of war, 1t Was no part Of
Captain semmes' duty to ensagc in mortal
combat with the enemy On any other pretext
than that OF selfprotection. It Was rather
Lis duty to have Stunned a conflict with tho
fnemy when 1t was in his power to do so.
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