Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-08-24
A despatch from, his surgeon, D. B. Conrad. de-
scribes his Hound as fracture of the thigh, which
may ranliire anu:1tatinn

scrlbeS his xound fracture of the thigh, whicn
may require any1tatinn
In this ensaeetlea1 the old North State frrnlshec
cne Com:nahdsr. P a. Murphy, Of the "Se'ma,
who fought hissship against the Hartford (s,xtseh
guns) with nv-h skill, until all hope Of victory
vanished, ard then. IS if msdness drove him on &c
rsn up, fred Dad side into her, and surrendered
The Ssn.j,el If the 15,h says the following off,
cial dispstch was received at che War Department
Saturdav:
MorIl..., August H. Nothing late from Fort
Morgan. The wires are broken. Gen. Forest drove
the enemys adv ancs out OF Oxford last night.
All tue particulars of Fort Gaines surrender
Gated w'h she eDeny, slsd ra'tie fcr,s without hu
t6orhs, His Fort was in good consition-the gar
rson having suffered little. =
He made no reply to repeated orders and signals
from Gen. Pags to hold his Fort, and surrendered
upcn conditions not known here.
d. H. MAuRY. He;or General.
From accounts in rhe telegraph ':al.:nn, taken
f,om New Orleans papers, the Yaukee feet must
have suffered terribly in the late conflict with
small, bnt gallant force.
Tho prospect is very hopeful of g successful do
fence of the city Of Mobile Notwithstanding the
strange conduct, if no. treason, Of Colonel AT
ders0n.
Northern News.
PETERSBURG, Aug. 14th, 1s64.-The New York
Herald, of the 11th instant contains five columns
OF the proceedings of q great mass meeting recon.
mending Mcclellan for President One hundred
thousand people were present
The Queen of England in proroguing Parliament,
declared the purposes of the government were to
adhere to the neutral policy.
: The Herald says that Grant, when he visited
Washington, left the army of the Potomac comman-
ded by Bui-er, and intimates that Grant wants
Meade removed
The Herald says that if Staunton is removed,
Butler will be Secretary of War.
RICHMOND Aug. 18th, 1854 Baltimore papers of
the 18th inst have been received. They contain
nothing definite from the Shenandoah Valley. It
is believed EARLY is retiring before superior forces
who are advancing against him.
A telegram from New York reports the capture
and destruction Of seven vessels about sixty miles
southeast of Sandy Hook, by a new Confederate
steamer called the Tallahassee.
An arrival from New Orleans brings the report
that the Oonfederates are in strong force outside of
Algiers, and were fortifyng the position with the
intention OF making it base OF operations.
G'errlilas continue very active in Kentucky.
Staunton has not resigned and says having been
solicited to accept Of the Office he will not volunta.
rily relnqulsh it.
Petitions are being circulated in Ohio and other
States, requesting the postponement Of the draft uu-
til an attempt Can be made by negos ton to secure
The New York Herald thinks the time has ar.
rived when the Administration, on behalf of peace
and reunion, may advantageously open the door to
armistics and aconveation Of the States. The Her.
az advises LINCOLN to send three cOmsaissiensrs to
The Paris Presss under reserve announces the
conclusion of peace between Germany and Denmark
Terms unknown.
The Confederate loan was still advancing. Uni
ted States stocks were further depressed.
From the Washington Correspondence of the New York
Times.
1t is understood that Generals Meade and Burn.
side severally cast the blame of the last asco be-
fore Petersburg on each other 1t seems that on
the ngIt befrle The attack, certain notifications
were ade by General Meade in the plan of assault
which had oeer agreed on with General Burnside.
The later clsins that this gave him the notion that
General Meade would personally be present to su.
rernteati a. ack bot the result was thatBneith
er Meade EOr Burnside were there and an Opsration
which, o. al others, demanded The personal p esence
inteeei ce ard inspiration of the leader of the or
my, was LETT slpless aff.ir.
The court Of inquiry. T in session in the case.
will it is to be horsd, develop all the facts and sf
fix the blame where ls properly belongs.
Gea. Losam's Official Re port.
HEADe'Rs, DEr'T AND ARMY OF Tenn. }
Before Alfalfa, Ga, July p, 1864
ing general summary of tbs result of the attack o
the enemy On tLs army or the 22d IL slant: Total
lass in>kllle1, wounded sad missing 352l and ter
pieces OF artillery.
we have buried and delivered to the enemy
UNDER fig of truce selt in by them IN front Of
the Third division of the Seventeenth scn,y corps
ono Thousand o. their killed
The nnmteI of TIE dead in front Of the Fourth
division OF .oe same corps inc!nl:ng those on the
! sronnd not now occupied by our troops General
Blair reports will swell the number of sheir deat
! on his front to two thousand
The Hunter Of tneii dead buried in frcot of tie
Fifteenth corps MP to this hour is three hundred a.
sixty, and the commanding officer reports ttas a;
least as many more are yet unburied buryire
/ parties being still at work.
| The number Of dead buried in front of the SIX
teenth corps was 422. We have over 900 Of ihe,
wounded our hands, the larger number q
wounded being carried off during the night after the
engagement by them. We captured eighteen
stands Of colors, end have them now. We. also
captured five thousand stand of arms
The stack was made on our lines seven timec
and was seven times repulsed. Hoods and Hardee'
corps and Wheeler's cavalry engaged us. We hav.
sent to the rear one thousand prisoners, including
thirty. three commissioned officers of high rank
We still occupy the field, and the troops are in tas
spirits. detailed and full report will be forward
ed as soon as complete.
RKcAPIrULArloN
Our total loss 1921. Enemy's dead thus ia,
reported buried or delivered to them, B,220 Tota
of prisoners sent North, l,0l7. Total of prisoner.
wounded in our hands, 1000. Estimated loss O
the enemy ut least 10000.
Very respectfully,
Your ob't serv't,
JOHN A. LOGAN, Maj Gen.
Major General W. T. Sherman, eonmandin,
Military Division of the Mississippi
From Europe.
THE QUEENS SPEECH.
On the afternoon of the Both ult, Parliament wa.
formally prorogued. The Queens speech wa.
delivered by the Lord Chancellor. In regard t.
America the speech saws:
Her Majesty deeply lsments that the civil wa,
in North America has not been brought to q close
Her Majesty will continue to observe strict neu
tralty between the belligerents, and would reioic,
at friendly reconciliation between the eOntendine
parties. Her Majesty has observed with satisfsc
ton that the distress whieh the civil war in NORTH
America has created in some If the manufacturing
districts has to a great extent abated, and hel
Majesty trusts that increased supplies Of The raw
materials of industry may be extracted from coun
ul>, ;k has e.,