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Spectator. STAUN i( TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1863. FROM GEN. LEE'S ARMY- During the past week the army of Gen. Lee was in Culpepper whilst that ot Gen'l Meade was in two armies being vis a vis looking at each other, and occasionally givingeach other a shake ofthe bloody hand in the shape of a spirited skirmish.

We do not anticipate a general engagement for several weeks yet. Whether our army is now in Culpepper or has changed its location will be known in proper time. Our army is now at home and is ready to extend to Meade a cordial welcome whenever he may choose to call upon it MEXICO DECLARED AN EMPIRE. Intelligence from the city of Mexico, to the 10th ult, says that a council of notabilities, held on the 10th instant declared that the Mexican nation, thro' them, select an empire as the form of Government, and declare Maximilian, of Austria, Emperor. Should he decline the throne, they implore the French Emperor to select a person in whom he has full confidence to occupy the throne.

The proclamation was immediately made public, and a courier posted to Vera Cruz, and from there it was sent by a French Steamer to Havana. A salute was fired at Vera Cruz in honor ofthe event. THE RECOGNITION QUESTION. It seems that the British Government is so tar lrom recognizing the independence of the Confederacy, that the question recognition is not even to be discussed in the Parliament of that selfish Nation. Mr.

Roebuck has been prevailed upon by Lord Palmerston to withdraw his motion of recognition. This ends the matter tar as Engl itconcerned. We give her over to "hardness of heart and reprobacy ot Of La Belle France we have a better opinion, and look to that nation with hope and confidence. LIEUT. THOS.

C. KINNEY. Died, at Staunton, on the 28th of typhoid fever, Lieut. Thomas C. Kinney, son of the late N.

C. Kinney. He Sraduated with distinction at the Va. lilitary Institute, in IS6I, repaired immediately to the field and was assigned to the command of Gen. Wise as Lieut.

of Artillery, and served with him in his Western campaign and at Roanoke Island, where, after firing in that disastrous fight the last round of ammunition from his howitzer, which was mounted in a three gun battery, on the flank the seacoast batteries, lie fell from the effect of tho concussion of a shell, and was taken prisoner by the forces under Gen. Burnside. After his exchange he was assigned to the staff of Gen. Stonewall" Jackson and served as Lieut, ot Engineers until the fall of his great chief, at tne battle of Chancellorsville. He was transferred to the staff of Maj.

Gen. Edward Johnson, Ewell's corps, and bore up under impaired health until the return ofthe army of General Lee from Pennsylvania to his native soil, when he was strickon down by disease and brought to his home to die. He was a young gentleman of high worth, gallant bearing, affectionate in disposition, dutiful as a soldier, and has died in the very beginning of a promising manhood a martyr in the cause of his country. THE WOUNDED AT In the hospitals at Gettysburg there are, by the statement of a correspondent ofthe New York Herald, about 8,000 wounded Confederate soldiers, and --000 Yankee. There were more cases of amputation with'our soldiers than with the enemy, and they bave been more fatal.

This correspondent says that their arc mucn better managed than ours. He says: "The wounds ofthe patients were inflamed aud the bandages dry. When asked where their nurses were, said they only had one or two to eacn floor, and they could not attend them all. In each corner was a pile of dirt, and the floors were wet from the careless spilling of water when the wounds were wet. We went into the yard, and there werej some two hundred slightly wounded and convalescent able to draw and cook their own rations, eating their breakfasts.

In our hospitals these would have been to their watches with the helpless as nurses but they would not raise a hand to help their more unfortunate fellows. So true is this that many of them express the most ardent desire to get into Union hospitals, where they will have proper GEN ERAL ARMISTEAD. Gen. Arlnistead was left upon the field at Gettysburg in the hands of the enemy, supposed to be mortally wounded. The Northern papers repcrtedhim dead, and gave the particulars of his burial, stating that he was buried in a rough box, and that a board was placed at the head ofthe grave with his name inscribed upon it.

Notwithstanding this statement which seemed to extinguish what lingering hope might have existed that he was still alive, that hope has been revived by the following paiagraph contained in the Richmond Examiner of Thursday last: "Concerning our wounded officers, we learn that a son of Brigadier General Armistead, reported mortally wounded at Gettysburg, is in receipt of a letter from tho General, conveying the gratifying information that he "is It would seem that tho Yankees are bo much under the influence of the "lather of that they can tell the truth neither of the living nor dead. Thp. Hostage response to the announcement that Gen. Wm. H.

F. Lee and Capt. Winder have been laced in confinement at Old Point as ostage3 for the two Yankee officers, Flynn and Sawyer, condemned to be shot by the Confederate authorities, our commissioner has infonr.ed the Federal Government that Confederate Government will not be intimidated by any snch and that the execution of said fficere will take place as soon as President may fit. MORGAN'S RAID. From what we said last week, our readers wi not be much surprised, tho' pained to learn the sad intelligence that Gen.

Morgan and the greater part of his command have been captured. His command, in his late daring raid thro' Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, consisted of detachments from two brigades numbering 2028 effective men, with four pieces ot artillery, two parrots and two howitzers. They succeeded in passing entirely across the State of Ohio and nad reached the Ohio river, and had commenced crossing to the Virginia side when they were attacked by gunboats in the riv.r and an overwhelming force of infantry and artillery on land. It is said that Gen. Morgan had nearly reached the Virginia shore when, in obedience to the petition of one of his officers on the Ohio side, he turned his horse's head and swam back to take command of his men.

Between three and four hundred succeeded in reaching the Virginia shore in were drowned in crossing, Capt. McLain, and a young man by the name of Those who crossed traveled by the way of Wirt, Braxton and Nicholas counties into Greenbrier county, living on beef alone, without salt, as no bread was to be had. The particulars of the capture of those who failed tv cross are not, as yet, known. Morgan and his officers will le contined in the penitentiary as hostages for the officers of Negroes whom we hold in close confinement. Capt.

S. P. Cunningham who crossed the river in safety furnishes the following summary of the damage Morgan did the enemy in the way of destroying bridges, boats and railroad tracks, He says "On first crossing the Cumberland, we detached two companiesone operate on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the other to operate between Crab Orchard and Somerset, ivy. The first captured two trains and returned to Tennessee. The second captured thirty-live wagons and also returned.

We then detached one hundred men a' Springfield, who marched.to Frankfort, and destroyed a train and the railroad near that point. We also captured a train, witl- a number of officers, on the Louisville and Nashville railroad near a detachment around Louisville, who captured a number of army supplies, and effected a crossing by capturing a steamer between i Louisville and Cincinnati, at Carrolton, and rejoined us in Indiana. We paroled, up to tiie 19th, near 6,000 Federals, they obligating themselves not to take no arms during the war. We destroyed i thirty-four important bridges, destroying the track in sixty places. Our loss was by no means slight: 28 commissioned officers killed, 35 wounded, and 250 men killed, wounded and captured.

By the Federal accounts we killed more than i 200, wounded at least 350, and captured, as before stated, near 6,000. The age to railroads, steamboats and bridges, added to the destruction of public stores and depots, cannot fall far short of We captured three pieces of artillery and one 24-pounder at Lebai non, which we destroyed one a parrot 3-inch gun, at Brandenburg, and a Impounder at Portland." paroles of the prisoners he captured will not be observed, and they will bo compelled to take up arms IMPRESSMENT OF HORSES IN STAUNTON. Last Tuesday was an exciting day in Staunton to all the owners of The impressment officer had it made known very early in the morning, by having all the ways of egress "blockaded," that "he was about," and that he was as anxious to get possession ot equine flesh a. was Richard 111 when he exclaimed on Bosworth field with all the force of his lungs, "A horse A horse My kingdom for a horse! Such was the hurry, and so great the seeming emergency that locks were broken and doors prized off their hinges, as there was not time to wait lor the owners to bring the keys. The horses of physicians and undertakers were taken but were graciously restored to their owners apprised that the sick would die and tne dead go unburied if the horses of physicians and undertakers were not given up.

The citizens were taken by surprise, and were at a loss to know what caused such pressing emergency. They were perfectly willing to give up their horses, if needed, but had some objection to the quo modo manner in which the officer performed his duty. They modestly thought that there was a right and a wrong way of doing a right thing, and were under the impression that the officer did the right thing in the wrong The persons in the best humor on Tuesday last in Staunton were those who were so fortunate as not to own a horse. They gratulated themselves with the Blessed is tlie man who owns "nary a These foitunates would hallo across the street to their friends and inquire, "how are you off for horse flesh?" When they would net the reply, "I didn't have any horsn-jlesh, but all mr have been Fight at Manassa the 23d day of last week, a pretty severe fight occurred at Manassas Gap, between Wright's brigade of Georgians and a force of 6,000 to 8,000 of the This brigade constituted the advance of Ewell's corps, and on arriving in the vicinity ot the Gap it was ascertained that a superior force of the enemy held the mountain pass. It was determined by the commandant of the brigade not to make an attack until the corps came up.

Whilst waiting for our forces to arrive, the enemy sallied forth and attacked the brigade, and forced it to retire. Our men tought with spirit, inflicted heavy loss on the enemy. Our loss was about 200 killed, wounded, and missing. Col. Walker, of the 3d Ga.

Regiment, was wounded in the fight. Death of Col. the Baltimore Gazette, ofthe 27th, we find the following announcement: "Died, July 21st, at the College Hospital, near Gettysburg, ot wounds received July 3d, Col. W. T.

Patton, 7th Virginia infantry, son of the late Hon. John M. Patton, of Richmond." We would invite attention to the advertisement of the Danville Female College, Geo. La Monte, A. President, published in another column.

STAUN TO SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. SOLDIER-, THE GREAT DESIDERATUM. The great need of the South at this time is more soldiers. All of all defeats and losses are attributable to a want of soldiers. As we have before noticed the President has issued a proclamation calling out all men, not exempted by law, between the ages of 18 and 45.

This call is rendered proper, and indeed indispensable, by Lincoln's call for --000 conscripts to swell his forces to be employed for our subjugation. In the language ot the Fayetteville (N. Observer, his armies, whatever force they may amount to, must be met, if it should require every man and boy in the Confederacy. It is a hard duty, it is a duty which cannot be a voidla but with the loss of everything that as individuals and as a community the people of the Confederacy hold dear. The Yankee Congress has passed laws to confiscate the property 0 the people of the Confederacy to emancipate their slavey and the savage malignity of conduct, wherever they have secured a foot-hold in the South, shows, beyond peradventure.

that those laws will be enforced if they ever get the power to enforce them. Their soldiers have been promised farms in the South as the reward of their services in conquering us; and they must be wilfully blind who imagine that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have had a taste of blood and ample liberty to rob and outrage, will ever be permitted to return to the North in case of the conquest of the South. The only hope of preserving the lives and property of non-combatants in the large Northern cities, would lie in the quartering of those blood-thirsty villains at the South. Under such circumstances, and our readers know that we have stated them correctly, it is idle to talk of -peace, until the North shows a willingness to have peace, or at least to enter upon negotiations. That they are not prepared for this is manifest from their refusal even to listen to so distinguished a Commissioner as Vice President Stephens upon a secondary point We repeat, it is idle to talk of peace.

We must talk of war and wage war until the enemy tires ot war. liistory is full of examples for our encouragement, of more unequal and even more bloody wars, that finally resulted iv the triumph of the people fighting for their rights, their homes and their lives. It is the will of God that we suffer occasional disasters. Let us not, by our own will, permit a combination of all the worst disasters that can befall a loss of property, liberty, honor, and eventual loss of life also. Courage, then, Southrons! Brave and true men seize the moment of adversity, not to indulge despair, but to nerve themselves against disaster, and to comp.

1 victory. Assured that we are battling tor the right, nothing but the will of God should conquer us, and will has been, so far, more manifested in our favor than against us. DEATH OF COL. WILLIAM DABNEY STUART We are pained to annouuce tlie death of gallant officer and true gentleman. He died in Staunton on the morniug ofthe 29th of July, of a wound received on the 3d of July, in the memorable charge made by Pickett's division at Gettysburg.

Col. Stuait was the eldest son of the late Thomas J. Stuart of Stauntou, and was born on the 30th of September, 18- --30. He received his collegiate education at the Virginia Military Institute where he graduated with distinction about the year 1850. Upon receiving his degree he was chosen assistant professor of Mathematics in the Institute, which position he held for about three during all of which time he was the intimate friend and daily associate of Stonewall Jackson.

In the tall of 1853 he took charge of a classical school in Georgetown, where he remained for a year or two and then removed to Richmond and established a school preparatory to the University of Virginia. This school he conducted with eminent success until the commencement of the war. When the army of Virginia was organized he was appointed Lieut. Colonel ofthe Regiment of Virginia Volunteers and went at once into active service. At the battle of Bethel he commanded the Virginia infantry and acted with such coolness, skill and gallantry, as to receive the emphatic commendation of Gen.

Magruder who earnestly recommended him promotion. When the suft Virginia Regiment was formed he was appointed its Colonel. In command of this Regiment or of the brigade to which it was attached, Col. Stuart passed through many of the most memorable conflicts ot the war, and it was at the head of this Regiment that he received the wound which terminated his career of usefulness and honor. We are not sufficiently familiar with the details of Col.

servic to give a history of them. He served on the Peninsula, in S. W. Virginia, in East Tennessee, on the Potomac, in N. Carolina, in the campaign neai Bi ffolk, on the Rappahannock, both campaigns in Maryland, and in Pennsylvania.

He participated actively in eight or ten important battles, and in all oi them was distinguished for a calm courage which rendered at all times available and efficient his high capacicies as a trained and tried soldier. Col. Stuart enjoyed in a high degree the friendship and confidence uf General Jackson, and received from him several offers of staff appointments, but General Lee, who also appreciated his merits, objected to his. leaving his regiment. To say of Col.

Stuart that he was a gallant and accomplished officer, a learned and thorough scholar, and a high toned, honorable gentleman, conveys some idea of the loss which the State and the cause have sustained; but to his friends and his family, such terms will no doubt seem but a feeble tribute to one so earnest, so honest, so affectionate, so true in all the relations and duties of life. Nino hundred of Morgan's men have been lodged in camp Chase prison. They will be kept there until the officers of Streight expedition are released from Libby prison. THE CONDUCT OF TIILI ENEMY. Whilst our Government has been trying to induce the enemy to agree to some mutual arrangement that would mitigate the horrors ot war, they serein determined to make the war assume a hue ot darker atrocity.

Si ice, the Ith of July, they have sent no -exchanged prisoners to the South, thou -h we have been sending prisoners -Xorth in etrict observance of the cartel 0 exchange Seeingthat the eneirr, act ing'in bad faith, and that i am( i to send our prisoners our commissioner of exchange has at length refused to send pnsonei. Wj So there is now a total suspension of exchange. Ihe enemy our prisoners into Fort Delaware Where they die very fast, and those that do not die contract diseases render them invalids for life Upon these facts, the Richmond Enquirer pertinently remarks as follows: We may as well consider and under stand the meaning ot this new of discontinuing the exchange, and killing off Confederate prisoners by disease. It means that as the Yankees have more men in their country than we have, and also possess the facility of procuring as many mercenaries as they need from foreign countries, they intend to wear down our military material and, in the long run, they hope to get through with us by this simple They judiciously reflect that We hold fewer prisoners than they do; and that even if we had as many, they can better spare their men than we ours nay, that if we kept five to their one, the balance would still be against us. They do not care for their soldiers, who are chiefly hired foreign mercenaries; and they can always fill their ranks again from the swarming hives of Europe.

At this game the stakes are not equal. The simple narrative we have given will sufficiently explain the insolent reception which was given to Mr. Stephens' humane mission, having in view some arrangement which should mitigate the horrors of war, arid prevent the necessity of bloody retaliation they desire and intend to aggravate the horrors of war, and to provoke bloody retaliation. The same explanation wiil serve for the proceedings of the enemy in regard to the two officers of our army, who were recruiting in Kentucky, and happened to fall into the hands of the Yankees they were executed as spies, or robbers. Our Government applied to the enemy's Government, asking to be informed ofthe charge these officers no reply was given.

Thereupon the Confederate Government caused Federal officers of equal rank to be chosen by lot, in order to be executed by way of retaliation. On this becoming; known at Washington, orders were given to thrust into a dungeon two wounded officers, General AY. H. F. Lee, and )apt.

Winder, the sons of our great General, Robert E. Lee, and General Winder, Chief Provost Marsha! at Richmond, in that if we dared retaliate for tiie death ofthe two recruiting officers in Kentucky, those two men should be out to death. Tiiis is not military retaliation in the first place, the grades are not equal in the next the victims are not chosen oy lot. It is no: retaliation, but a cowardly blow aimed at the dearest affections of special viduais; it is not retaliation, but a deliberate challenge to the general hoisting of the Black Flag along the whole line. There is no use in disguising to ourselves the purport of the policy we have here described.

It is war to the knife. Our Government has done all that was possible to do in order to avoid the terrible issue. When we had a large excess of prisoners, we sent them away before they were exchanged. When our army has been in the enemy's country, it was strictly ordered to respect private property and to spare non-combatants, though the property of our people had been systematically destroyed, and our helpless women and little had been driven out homeless and iked upon the world. All this forbearance and chivalrous courtesy on our this "Christianity and civilization," as Gen- Lee been thrown away upon such an enemy.

We have been casting our pearls before swine, indeed. What, then, is to be done The people will look to our Government for an answer. Illness of Gen. Kichmond Examiner of Thursday last states that General John B. Floyd, who, since his retirement from the army, has been an invalid from disease contracted in the camp, now lies dangerously ill at the residence of his son-in-law, near Abingdon, Virginia, and but slight hopes are entertained of his recovery.

The Confederacy, and especially the people of Virginia, will receive this announcement with sorrow. PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION. We invite attention to the proclamation of President Davis appointing Friday, the 21st of this month, as a day of fasting, humiliation and and express the hope that it will be observed in the proper christian spirit. It will be 1 'served that the President attributes ou: trials and reveises to the prevalence oi the sins of presumptuous cc, and the idolatrous worship of Mammon. Our people have been too forgettul of the living God, from wh( in all blessings flow, and have been recklessly seeking gain, seemingly oblivious of the fact thatit is impossible to serve God and Mammon.

It is too true, as the President says, "that the love of lucre has eaten, like a into the very heart oi the land, converting too many of us into worshippers of gain, and rendering them unmindful it their duty to their fellowmen, and to their God." As long as the people practice the sin of extortion upon each other, and the officers of the Confederacy rob the Government, we cannot expect to be vouchsaied the boon of freedom and independence. Columbus Times estimates that the extension of the Conscription from 40 to 45 years of age will add --000 men to our army. Hon. Jno. J.

Crittenden died at Frankfort, on the 16th ult. He died irom general debility 1 old age, without pain or struggle, ami in full possession of his faculties. His age was 77. THE AMERICAN QUESTION IN FRANCE. The Pari, correspondent of the New York under July 7th, writes The has at length the imperial version of the interview between his Majesty and Mr.

Roebuck, so graphically described by the latter. The official journal of Sunday morning last contains the following The journals have given publicity to an incident which occurred in the House of Commons during the session of Tuesday last, on tbe occasion of the proposition of Mr. Roebuck. A few explanations will suffice to dissipate the misunderstanding to which this incident has givcu and Lindsay visited Fontainebleau for the purpose of Km to make an official movemeut at London tor the recognition of the Southern States, as, in tbeir opinion, this recognition would not put an end to the struggle which overwhelms with blood the United States. The Emperor expressed to them his desire to see peace established in those territories, but observed to them that, tbe proposition of mediation addressed to London month cf October last not having been agreed to by England, he did not think it his duty to make a new one before he was sure of its acceptance that nevertheless the Ambassador of France at London would receive instructions to sound the intentions of Lord Pal.

merston upon this point, and to give him to unstand that if the English Cabinet believed that the recognition ot tbe South would put an end to the war the Emperor would be disposed to follow it in this direction. All impartial men will see by this simple statement that the Emperor has not endeavored, as certain sheets pretend, tv influence the British Parliament by means ol iwo of its members, and that everything was limited to frank explanations, exchanged in au interview which his Majesty had no reason to refuse. The secessionists here considers thi. document as a decided expression of opinion on the part of the Freeh government in favor of the recognition ofthe Southern assert that this will take place in the course of a month. Mr.

Slidell, who has returned from England, is said to have freely expressed this opinion. That the statement contains the expression ot a disposition on the part of tbe Emperor to recognise the Southern Confederacy seems to be the opinion of all th. journals which have remarked upon it. MEADE'S MENDACITY. The following official communication from General Lee illustrates the unreliability of despatches emanating from Yankee Generals HSADft ABM.

V-H-IKIA, 21atJaly, 1863. General S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General, C. S. Richmond, Va have seen in Northern papers what purported io be an official despatch from Gun.

Meade, stating that he had captured a brigade oi infautry, two pieces of artillery, two caissons aad a large number of small arms, as this army retired to the South of the Potomac, on the 13th and 14th insts. This dispatch has been copied into the Richmond papers, and as its official character may cause it to be beiieved, I desire to state that it is incorrect. The enemy did not capture any organized body of men on that occasion, but only stragglers and such as were left asleep on the road, exhausted by the fatigue and exposure of one ot the most inclement nights 1 have ever known at this of the year. It rained without cessation, rendering the road by which our troops marched to the bridge at Falling Waters very difficult to pass, and causing much delay that the last of tha troops did not cross the river at the bridge until 1, P. M.

on the While the column was thus detained on the road, a number ot men, worn down with fatig-e, lay down in barns, and by the roadside, and though officers were sent back to arouse them, as the troops moved on, the darkness and rain prevented them irom finding all, and many were iv this way loft behind. Two guns were left in road. The horaes that drew tnem became exhausted, and the officers went forward to procure others. When they returned, the rear of the column had passed the guns so far that it was deemed unsafe to send bacK. for them, and they were thus lost.

No arms, cannon, or prisoners were taken by the enemy in battle, but only such as were left behind under the circumstances I have described. The number of stragglers thus lost I am unable to state with accuracy, but it is greatly exaggerated in tbe despatch referred to. I am, with great respect, Your obedient servant, I R. E. Lbb, General.

Proclamation Governor Brown, oy following is abstract of the recent proclamation of Goveruor Brown, of Georgia All officers who have not volunteered under the call for 8,000 men for home deience by August 4th, will be subject to conscription. Constables and Justices of the Peace subject just as militia The draft is ordered to take place on the 4th of August. All men between the ages of 18 and 45, whether exempt or not under conscription act, are liable to the draft to raise the quota of each county under th. cali for troops for State defence. No draft will take place if a sufficient number volrtnteer to raise each county's quota.

If a man has a substitute in service, or has an appointment under a Confederate officer, with but little to din he will be subject to the draft. Operatives of factories, must form companies for local defence. Minisjters ot religion, telegraph operatives, Justices interior Court, or county agents charged, with the duty of relieving the necessities of soldiers' families except two of the latter to each county, not subject to the draft. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. The President has issued a strong appeal to the soldiers oi the Confederacy absent from their commands to return immediately, and promises amnesty to all who are absent without leave if they return within twenty days from this date, after which time all will be treated and punished as deserters.

General Lee and President Davis have both issued calls ior soldiers to return emergency is great and every soldier should be at his post of duty. The address was received too late for insertioa in this issue. The Baltimore Gazette, says The Ist Michigan Kegiment, which went into the battle of Manassa- with 1,050 men, and has since had recruits to the number of 640, came out of the battle of Gettysburg with only 87 men. Every field officer and captain was killed. It carried into the fight 220 men.

The brigade to which it was attached carried in 2,100 men, and came out with 300. The officer who was so kind as to furnish us with the list of the casualties in the 25th Kegt. which we published last week neglected to state that private George Dennis was captured, and that private J. J. Beard was left to wait on the in the hands of the enemy.

ISF'Hon. Wm. L. Yanceit, an eloquent and able member of the Confederate Senate, died on the 28th at his residence, near Montgomery, Alabama, after an illness of four weeks, from the effects ot kidney disease. Lt.

Col. Henry Clay Pate, of the sth Virginia Cavalry. Fitz Lee's brigade, who was wounded in the cavalry battle at Aldie, is now lying at a private house in Clarke county. He is recovering. ISP The Provost Marshal General announces from Washington that the place of a drafted man who had been exempted by payment of $300, will not be filled by another draitod man.

General Cooper has issued orders to carry into effect the act ot Congress, requiring all Quartermasters and Commissaries to detail such disabled soldiers as may be necessaiy for service in their respective offices. "Citizens so employed will be reported enrolling officers for conscription. PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT DAVIS. Again do I call upon the people of the people who believe that the Lord reigneth, and that His overruling Providence ordereth all unite in prayer and humble submission under His chastening to beseech His favor on our suffering country. It is meet that when trials and reverses befal us we should seek to take home to our hearts and consciences the lessons which they teach, and profit by the self-examination for wh'ch they prepare us.

Had not our successes on land and sea made us self-confident and forgetful our reliance on Him? Had not the love of lucre eaten like a gangrene into the very heart of the land, converting too many among us int worshippers of gain and rendering them uamindful of their duty to their country, to their fellow-men and to their God Who then will presume to complain that we been chastened or to despair of our just cause and the protection of our Heavenly Father. Let us rather receive in humble thankfulness the lesson He has taught us in our recent reverses, devoutly acknowledging that to flira, and not to our own feeble arms, are due the honor and the glory of victory that from Him, in His paternal Providence, come the anguish and sufferings of defeat, and that, whether in victory or defeat, our humble supplications are due at His footstool. Now, therefore, Jefferson Davis, President of these Confederate States, do issue this, my proclamation, setting apart Friday, the 21st day of August ensuing, as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer and I hereby do invite the people of the Confederate States to repair, on that day, tc their respective places of public worship, and to unite io supplication lor the favor and protection of that God who has hitherto conducted us safely through all the dangers that environed us In faith whereof, I have hereunto seal. Vset my hand and seal of tho ate States, at Richmond, this twentyfirst day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand oight hundred and sixty-three. JEFFEFvSON DAVIS.

By the President: J. P. Benjamin. Secretary of State. GEN.

LEE'S ORDER. Headquab.ers Akmit July 26th, 1863. General Orders, No. 80. All officers and soldiers now absent tbis army, who are able to do duty and not detached on special service, are ordered to return immediately.

The Commanding General calls upon all soldiers to rejoin their respective regiments at once. To remain at home in this the hour of our country's need, is unworthy the manhood of a Southern Soldier. While you proudly boast that you belong to the Army of Northern Vir ginia, let it not be said tbat you deserted your comrades in a contest in which everything you hold dear is at stake. The Commanding General appeals to the people of the States, to send forth, every man able to bear arms to aid the brave soldiers, who have so often beaten back our foes, to strike a decisive blow for the safety and sanctity of our homes, and the independence of our country. By command of General K.

E. LEE. K. H. Chilton, A.

A. I. G. Mayor Opdyke, of New York, has vetoed the ordinance to pay conscripts $300 commutation, on the a-iound of vagueness and illegality, and because is a propitiatory measure appease the mob. SPECIAL NOTICES.

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No attention wiil be paid to orders for the paper, unless the price of subscription accompany the order. Obituahms must in ail cases be paid in ad anc at the rate of ten cents pcs For announcing candidates for office, we invariably charge Five Dollars- ANNOUNCEMENTS. ILTE are authorized to announce COL. ROBT. L.

VV DOYLE, as a candidate for the office of Attorney for the Commonwealth for Augusta County. WE are authorized to announce CHAPMAN JOHNSON, as a candidate for the office of Attorney for the Commonwealth for Augusta County. iggP We are authorized to announce GEORGE M. COCHRAN, as a candid ate for the office of Commonwealth Attorney, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Col. Wm.

H. Harman. A To the People qf Augusta County At the solicitation of a number of persons, 1 now, in change of my purpose upon the subject entertained until recently, announce my willingness tc continue to hold the office of Commonwealth's Attorney for your county during the unexpired remnant of its present term, if if be your pleasure that should do so. JOHN N. HENDREN, August 4tli 1863.

MARRIED. On the 30th ultimo, by Rev. Wm. S. Baird, Mr.

HENRY SMITH and Miss MARY ANN of Augusta county. piED. Died, on Friday evening, the 24th of July, 1863, Miss MARY ANN, second daughter of Samuel and Martha Gordon, in the 24t- year of her age. a protracted illness of a complication of diseases of tbe stoiiiaoh and lungs, which she bore with great fortitude and christian resignation never a murmur was expressed, always pleasant and cheerful, retaining her mentnl faculties to her last. It was scaroely four mouths since she followed a beloved brother to the grave where she now rests by his side.

She was ami able in 1 er soosition, a kind, loving and affection ate daughter, sister and friend. She lived and died without an euomy. She gave no cause to have one. I do not ever to heard her speak an unkind or uncharitable word of any one. She had much of that love which thinketh no evil, hopeth all things, and b.lieveth all things, and was ever ready to forgive.

She had no fears of death. Pr.yer was a constant duty which she delighted in. Sweet Mary Ann is now at Her sufferings and her sorrows past, Her sins we trust were all forgiven; tier soul with Chiiat is now in heaven. Weep not my iriends, I'm gone before To Canaan's happy, peaceful shore I'repare, then, all come to me To spend a blessed eternity. July 2i', On the -4th of at the bos.

at Lvnchbnrg, Mr DAVID HELL, sth Va. There was no soldier in the Confederttd army brave thaa Mr Bell. In Spriug Hill, in Augusta county, on the evening of the7wi JOHN in the 64th cf his ago. Died, in West the of NANCY DAVIS wile of Ambrose aged years. 5 and 13 HEW HpAXES TAXES FOR 1 The State A County TAXES for 1863 are now due, and must be paid promptly; the deputies will be at the following places on the following days, to wit: On the 12th day of August at Swoope's Depot.

Mint Spring, Mt. Meridian, Spring Hill, und Fishersville; on the 13tit at Stuart's Draft, Deer held, Craigsville, Sangersville, and Parnassus on the llth at Deorfiu'd, New-Port, Greenville, Sherando. Mt. Solon and New Hope; on the 15th tMiddlebrook, Waynesboro', Churchville, and Mt. Sidney; and at Stauntou on the 17th.

I have made aa arrangement by vvLich I can mate the "old is.ue" of Confederate money available until the 17th ot August, and will receive it in payment of Taxes until th; day, if the parties meet the Collectors at the places. Alter tne 17th no ConfT.er-te be receh-J except that dated since the lsl day of April, 1868. A. H. Aug county.

Vindicator eepy 17th. PUBLIC suoscnber will ex.osc to public sale, ou THURSDAY, the 31.t a tine Buli, four years old, of good also, a number of youug Cattle, various ages, among them are several Heifers. It is likely other Property will be udded to the sale Sale to commence at lo o'cl'ok, A M. Terms Cash. Aug 4-2ts.

ARCH. P. STUART. Auctioneers. PUBLIC SALE OE VALUABLE STOCK.

Will be sold, at Public Auction, on ATURDAY, August Bth, at FishersTille, a very valuable lot of Colts and young Cattle, consisting of 4 three year old Colts, well grown 3 two years eld; and four yearlings. Also, 27 head of ycuDg Cattle, (some good beef,) and 2 fresh Cows wito Cah es at tbeir Also, 6 Mules. W. A. BRADFORD.

Ann. fltf-W ADVERTISEHSIfTJ- FOR be sol-TinTfront of mv oh- 1 6 in S' a on SATURDAY, AUGUST a ract containing about 60 acres, -aid land lies about one mile and a quarter from Staunton, adjoi. run the 1 of Geo Baylor and others, fronting on the ubl -c road leading from Staunton to TOa Church, and, if properly farmed, crops aboul; weU BiaTj hood. TERMS Either on Tim' asmay suit purchaser. Aug 4 I foi next Adv.

i. 2. A fall, aad Mi-pa of 3. A standard of and thorough initruction. 4.

A tine library, extensive Apparatui aud tea Pianos. 5. Spacious and well arranged Buildings and Grounds. 6. Special attention paid to Manners and Deportment.

7. Well furnished Booms, good fare, and special care in sickness. 8. The home character and influence of the school. For a Catalogue or further information, GEOBGE LA MONTE, A.

Aug. Prosident. PUBLIC will ofler for sale, at tbe late residenco of Jacob Hart, dec'd on the loth of AUGUST, the Personal Property, of said Hart, cons'stiiag of Horses, Cattle. Sheep and Hogs, Household and Kitchen Furniture, kc. Sale to commrnce at 1 o'clock.

Aug. JAMES HENBY, A of Overpaid $2.00. Jacoo Hart, dec'd. VIRGINIA rules held in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court for Augusta County, the 3d day of August, 1863. William G.

Sterrett, Adm'r of David Sterrett, and Wm. A. Sterrett, and Ann F. Sterrett, Pltffs. Sterrett, James Trimbleand Isabella his wife, and George Trimble and Mary Jane his wife, Delta.

The object of tbis suit is to obt.in a decree of Court to make conveyance of land sold by David Sterrett in his lite-time, and the Defendants not having entered their appearance, and it appearing by evidence that they are not res-dents of this Commonwealth, lt is ordered that they appear here within one month atter due publication of this notice, and do what is necessary to protect their interest. A Aug A. F. KINNEY, Clk. PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL Having sold my Farm.

I will offer, at Public Auction, (without reserve,) on WEDNESDAY, 19TH OF AUGUST, near Churchville, all uuy PERSONAL PROPERTY, in part of the following, viz: 7 head of young, and several very fine Brood Mares all my Cattle them 1 some very fine Milch Cows; 35 or 40 Hogs; 1 Koad Wagon (J set of Wagon Harness and Plow Harness; all my Farming Implements; 150 or bushels of Wheat, tha growing crop ol Corn, Potatoes, some Hay; Wheat Fan a Grind-Stone ot fine quality all my Household and Kitchen amongst it a good new Sofa, set new cane-bottom Bureau, Centre-Table, good Cooking Stove, Parlor Stove, with various other articles not necessary to enumerate. Should the 19th be a wet day, the s.le will take place the next fair day. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock. Terms made known on day of sale. it SAMUEL MYERS.

wish to hire a good hand to work at tbe Tanning Business. Liberal wages and constant employment wiil be given. Aug J. D. BROWN CO.

-jVyOTICE TO CONSCRIPTS. To persons between the of eighteen und Forty-live years who bave not been previously enrolled: In obedience to the Proclamation of His Excellency President of the Confederate States, ah persons not previously enrolled in the llth Congressional District, the of eighteen and whether reai-Bntaof any otherportion of the State or other States, hereby require- to 1 report i Hoard and Em oiling Officers io. lite places aud on the days tr Tceofth.Kxaming Board. notice pi 'oiisl" I'Jive li Kb -ped beeu due he ay' tot upon by the i iHcr Attention Is led Par lb, See. i aud 3, General Orders S2, A anu I.

G. All the laws applicable to deserters shall be applied to such consciipt. as tail t. repair to the places of rendezvous for enrollment or who -'hall desert after enrolment. All the agencies employed for the apprehension and confinement ot deserters and their transportation to their respective commands, ah.il be applicable to persons liable to duty as conscripts, who shall fail torepair to the place of rendezvous alter the of this cali.

J. 8. BYERS, and Enrolling otticer, llth Cong. Diet. The undersigned, one oi ihe Fxaming Board, ior the llth Congressional District, uuder General Orders No.

82, Adjutant Inspector General's Office, ereby gives to an whom it may concera, that he has appointed the following places aad days for the examination of conscripts in the llth Congressional District, in pursua.ee of the above notice. Augusta county, August, sth, and 7th, Staunton. Rookingham 11, and 13th, Harrisonburg. Rockbridge 18th, l'Jth, and 20th, Lexington. Bath, 25th.

M.lboro. Alleghany, 27th, Covington, Highland, Sept Ist McDowell. Pendleton, 3d, Fiankhn. Pocahontas; llth Huntersville. WM.

B. SHELBY, Examining Board for lith Cocy. July $iyr I Stolen, from the pasture of the subscriber, near Fisherev-ille, on the night of the 19th a DARK BAY HORSE, years old, about 15 hands high, of slender form, a small blaze in forehead, some white about the nose, walks, trots, lopes well, has been us-1 as a Cavalry horse, belongs to a member ofthe South Carolina regiment, was lett with mo to rest be recruited. In the absence of the owner. I will for the arrest and conviction of thief, or $25 lor the return of the horse.

ADDISON DOLD. July Any peison that has lost a COW, about twelve or thirteen years old. She is a little briudle cow, with a little white along her belly, she has long horns turned up in front, and she came to my house on the 3th day of June, 1.6.. This cow can be found at Nimrod lilackwell's, one mile and a half south of Burkes Mill, near the Valley pike. She also has a orop off her left ear.

SCfIOOL, NOTICE I will re-open m- Female School on the FIRST OF SEPTEMBER on larger Misa Lictie Garber will take charge of the French and Latin classes, and i will have all the assistance in the English branches that may be necessary. MAKY .1. HALI WIN. Oii from the pasture of M. G.

Harman. about the 88d of month, ONE SMALL SORRKL bright coior, blaze lace, and some wntte on his feet. Any informancn concerning him wil! be rcceiVvd and paid for. The hotse belongs to a sick soldier now in Staunton Hospu.i. U.

July Agent for M. (J. HARMAN. Ai, irom the mi ot the subscriber in Stauntou, on or about Wednesday, July 15th, uiy COW. is about four yean old, of small size, ol a r.ddisb color, with white spots and lines on her legs, au o.

while spot on her forehead. Her ears are slit. informal ion concerning her wili be thank'u'iy Ct ived July 23-3ts. HEA with me to i fit A single oison EAT LOG PL tor sale at iVMI i Jiineli' Drugstore Accounts due may be pa-d to Josepii A. 1, Preeldant, or George E.

Price, Treasure! of Staunton Gas Company, and claims against us should he presented to them. No ene else is authorized to transact business for us. July 8t WATERHOUSE BOWES. Yin copy. A SUBSTITUTE, for the war, with the privilege oi joining any company he chooses.

Fei which a handsome price will be Enquir- at this office. Jul7 REW on the lustant, out of mv field, at ihe head of Walker'a, Creek, TWO MARES, the one a roan, 8 years old, feet 2 inches high, well built. I think she has a small star in foiehead, and a small collar mark on the right shoulder she trots well and paces excellent. Tt.e other a bay hl'y, 3 years old, a.out hve feet high. No marks recollected, and barefooted when taken.

The roan was shod all round. were also taken with them The above reward will be given for the mares or any information that will lead to their recovery. MAR'IIN MILLAR, July Summerdean, Augusta Va. OCHOOL AT THE AUGUSTA CHURCH, The undersigned have secured the service, of C. M.

PACKER, who has heretofore conducted the School for many years, and the public patronage ia respectfully solicited. The Session will commence the first Monday iv Sentembei, and close ou Wednesday, the 23d of June WILLIAM Jat-T-l- BARN.RE-GEll.