Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-08-16
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lines yesterday except the usual artillery practice
and the firing between thu sskirmishers. Maior
General Bates received slight flesh wound in the
leg -,
No serious result is apprehended from the ene-
my's massng on our right and endeavoring to ex
tend their lines in the direction of the West Point
railroad -Esssl.-'.s s5--7t..
few shots were fred ut the city Yesterday
Brisk shelling commenced at IL o'clock last night
and continued four hours. No personal casualties
are reported. ..sg- - e - fl'-'-s.t.2 81
From the North. .
RICHMOND, Aug 11th-Thursday last the Ord.
nance Depot at City Point exploded killing large
number Of yankee soldiers. :
The New York Times says that large force is
concentrating on the upper Potomac to operate
against the rebels in that section Grant and staff
visited Harper's Ferry on last Sunday.
Private adsices from Kentucky represent quite
revolution in public sentiment progressing in that
State Several prominent citizens, heretofore Union
men, are now cooperating with the peace party
The residences of the widow of the late Major John
Seldom brother Of the Secretary Of War, in Stat
ford county, was burnt by order Of Butler, in re-
taliation for the burning Of Montgomery Blair's
house, near Washington.
Petersburg.
There has been nothing of interest transpiring
in this quarter But few shells thrown al the city.
The enemy has contracted his lines and is now
acting more in the defensive than usual"
Baltimore dispatch of the 9Th says: I" Gen.
Grant was in Washington yesterday, on military
business He has returned to the army. Il is as
serted he has gone up the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad"
From the upper Potomac. .
General Early reports officially on the 9Th inst,
that General McCausland had arrived in Hardy
county, having sustained very little loss. The
statement in the Yankee papers of his defeat on
which the rumors of Wednesday were based, being
untrue. -
Dispatches received in this city yesterday from
General Bradley Johnson's command, report his
We think there is no doubt that everything is
progressing favorably for the Oonfederates in the
Valiey.-SeHtinet.
From the United states.
Gen. Hunter has been superseded in the com.
mand of the Army of the Upper Potomac by Gen.
Sheridan. -.-... =
OF thirty two hundred men comprising McCook's
command, only some six hundred succeeded in re-
turning to Shermans lines. -
There are no longer any Federal troops on the
main land If Texas The garrison at Brownsville
has been withdrawn. The munitions and supplies
at that place were sent to Brazos and New Orleans
Two hundred and fifty refugees, fearing the ven
geance Of the Confederates, left Brownsville with
the troops, and were TO be forwarded to New Or
leans
Armed launches at the mouth of the Mississippi
have rendered the navigation of that river below
New Orleaus so dangerous that the Yankee pilots
are afraid to venture out On the 10th ult, the
lighthouse tender Martha was captured and destroy
ed by an armed launch in Chandelier Bay. -
The publication of the Eoening Bulletin news
paper, Of Baltimore, was suppressed, late on SAtur
dry evening, by order of Gen. Wallace, commanding
the Middle Department. in consequence of the pub
licatOn in the second edition of two Objectionable
ar 'IcleS copied from the New York FTeemeIS Jour
NJ The Office was closed, and any further attempt
To publish the paper will subject the publishers to
arrest and the Office to seizure.
One thousand Confederate prisoners arrived in
New York on Tuesday morning. on the Arago from
Point Lookout Nd, and left the same afternoon by
the Erie railroad for Elmira
dispatch from Washington, dated August 9Th,
Says an order has been issued directing that there
shall be more drafting under previous calls for
troops. All Deficiencies now outstanding shall be
earned to the draft to take place in September
The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia
Inquirer, of the 9th, says:
Judge RUSSELL this morning delivered his decis-
ion In the case of Gen. Dix, against whom proceed
ngs instituted to recover damages for the sup
| preston of the World and Journal of Commerce.
and also to punish the General for inciting riot
etc The decision is in strict accordance with the
well known political procliVities of the Judge. The
| General is committed, f" like any other criminal"
q quote from the decison,) to await the action Of
the Grand Jury. But as one Grand Jury has al
ready refused TO act in the premises, what will his
honor do if that refusal shall be persisted in ?"-
Sentinel
From Grants Army.
dispatch from the Army of the Potomac states
that the rebels exploded mine under one of our
works in front of Petersburg, on Friday, but sue
ceeded in dong very little damage. The rebels
managed their mining operations very badly, and
the explosion took place forty yards in front Of
works They attempted an assault afterwards but
were repused with considerable loss. Both armies
are engaged in strengthening their defensive works.
A few days since d fly rebe! deserters attempted
to come into our lines in a body, but our troops,
not understanding their intention, fired on them,
and twenty-nine of the number were killed or
wounded. : s-a@ A----
Mobile,
We have no desire to compent on the extraordi-
| nary proceedings at Fort Gaines, unless more ex-
plicit account is given Of the affair than that fur
nished by telegraph. Col. Anderson, without he
canexplain his conduct deserves the severest pen
atty known to military law.
| Col Charles d. Anderson was born IN South
Carolina but was appointed q cadet at West Point
from Texas, ip 1860, remained two years, and fail
| ed to graduate. In 1856 he was appointed I'd
| lieutenant in the 4th U. s. artillery. In the be-
| ginning Of the war he was in Mobile, and was
there elected Colonel of the 2lst Alabama. In
| compliment to his regiment he had himself regis
tered from Alabama. His mothers and sisters are
said to be now in Mobile. He was popular, we are
informed, with his comrades-SentineL
There have been no later dispatches from No.
bile than have already been published,
L4Ier from the North.
PETERSBURG, Aug I2.-Northern dates of the
10th state that unofficial dispatches claim great
victory for Averil over McCauseland and Bradley
johnson, on the 7th, near Moore6eld, in Hardy
county. Johnston and staff were captured but es.
| caned It is also claimed that X 600 DrisonerS.
with trains, colors and arms, were captured
The Commercial Advertiser" Of the 9th says
that both Sherman and Thomas have telegraphed
to Washington that Atlanta will certainly fall this