Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-08-17
WAR NEWS.
From Atlanta.

and the firing between the skirmishers Major
General Bates received slight flesh wound in the
leg.
No serious result is apprehended from the enc
my's massing on our right and endeaVorns TO ex
tend their lines in he,drection of the West Point
railroad.
A few shots were fred at the city yesterday
Brisk shelling commenced at ! l O'Clock last night,
and continued four hours. No personal casualties
are reported.
From the North. '"t :
RIcusoND, Ang. llth.-Thursday last the Ord.
nance Depot at City Point exploded killing large
number Of yankee soldiers. :.
The New York Times says chat large force is
concentrating on the upper Potomac to operate
against the rebss in that section Grant and staff
visited Harper's Ferry on last Sunday.
Private advices 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 residence 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 Blairs
house, near Washington.
Petersburg.
There has been nothing of interest transporting
in this quarter. But few shells thrown al the city
The enemy has contracted his lines ami is now
acting more in the defensive than usual.
A Baltimore dispatch of the 9Th says: "Gen.
Grant was In Washington yesterday, on military
business. He has returned to the army. 1t is as
serted he has gone up the Baltimore aud 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
safe return.
We think there is no doubt that everything is
progressing favorably for the Confederates in the
Valley.-.Sentinet.
From the United States.
Gen. Hunter has been superseded in the com
mani of the Army of the Upper Potomac by Gen.
Sheridan.
OF rhrty.two hundred men comprising McCook' s
command only some six hundred succeeded In re-
| turning to Sherman's lines.
There are no longer any Federal troops on the
main land Of Texas. The garrison at Brownsville
has been withdrawn. The munitions and supplies
at that place were sent to BrazOs aud New Orleans.
Two hundred and fifty refugees, fearing the ven
geance of the Confederates left Brownsville with
the troops, and were to DO forwarded to New Or
| leans.
| Armed launches at the mouth of the Mississippi
! have rendered the navigation Of that river below
New Oreaus so dangerous that the Yankee pilots
| are afraid to venture out. On the 18th ut, the
lighthouse tender Martha was captured and destroy
| ed by an armed launch in Chandelier Bay.
The publication of the Eoeaing Bulletin news.
paper of Baltimore, was suppressed, late on SAtur
day evening, by order Of Gen. Wallace, commanding
the Middle Department, in consequence OF The pub
c;tIon in the second edition of two objectionable
ARTICLES copied from the New York Freemen's Jour
n1L The office was closed, and any further attempt
To publish the paper will subject the publishers to
arr est and the office to seizure.
One thousand Confederate prisoners arrived in
New York on Tuesday morning, on the Arago, from
Pv mt Lookout, Md, and left the same afternoon by
! the Eric railroad for Eimira. g.
dispatch from Washington, dated August 9th
says an order has been issued directing that there
shall be no more drafting under previous calls fo
troops. all deficiencies now outstanding shall u
carried 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
ings were instituted to damages for the sup
preston of the World ard Journal of Commerce
and also to punish the General for "inclsng to riot,
etc. The decision is in strict accordance with tn
we'll known political proclivties of the Judge. Tn
General is committed, like any other criminal,
q quote from the decision) to await the action o
the Grand Jury. But as one Grand Jury has al
ready refused to act in the premises, what will hi
honor do if thai refusal shall be persisted in ~
Sentinel
| From Grants Army.
dispatch from the Army of the Potomac state
that the rebels exploded mine under Of OIL
works in front Of Petersburg, on Friday, but sue
ceeded in dong very little damage. The rebel
| kt,o;r Holl
the explosion took place forty yards in front of GU
works They attempted an assault afterwards, bu
were repused with considerable loss. Both annie
are engaged in strengthening their defensive works
A few days since Fl fly rebe. deserters attempte
to come into our lines in body, but our troop:
, not understanding their intention, fred on then
. and twenty-nine Of the number were killed Q
wounded.
We have no desire to comment on the extraord
nary proceedings at Fort Gaines, unless more es
picit account is given of the affair than that fur
nlshed by telegraph. Col. Anderson, without h
can explain his conduct deserves the seyerest per
: atty known to military law.
Col. Charles D. Anderson was born In South
Carolina, but was appointed cadet at West Pon
from Texas, in 1850, remained two years, and fail
ed to graduate. In 1855 be was appointed 2
lieutenant in the 4th U. s, artillery. In the be
, ginning of the war he was in Mobile, and wa
there elected Colonel of the 2lst Alabama.
compliment to his regiment he had himself regis
tered from Alabama His mothers and sisters ar
said to be nov in Mobile He was popular, we ar
informed, with his comrades.-SentineL
There have been no later dispatches from Nc
bile than have already been published
Later from the North.
PETERSBURG, Aug. l2.-Northern dates of tn
10th state that unofficial dispatches claim grea
victory for Averill over McOauseland and Brsdle
johnson, on the 7th, near Moorefeld, in Hard
county. Johnston and staff were captured but es
capped. 1t is also claimed that or 600 prisoners
with trains, colors and arms, were captured
The Commercial Advertiser of the 9Th saw
that both Sherman and Thomas have telsgraphe
to Washington that Atlanta will certainly fall thi
week.
A rebel wagon train, numbering IS wagons, ha