The Free South, 1863-10-10

. rumen cu iiku iiiuuiiuu^ **tgyk ttVxe v^f1 1 erect as staincs." ; Of the 8, (XX) Union soldiers wounded in the i recent battles in Noathern Georgia, only 2,000 ! received serious hnrts. i Romantic Escape of laion foldleni. We copy from northern papers the following acconnt of the escape of three meu of the 7th Conn., who armed back to their regiment last week : Yesterday four men in the rough uniforms of rebel soldiers, arrived at the Fortress from Newport News. They proved to be four of our own men who fiad thus disguised themselves to facilitate their es~" : cape. They were cuptured on the 18th of July last, in the first terrific chartre of our t troops on Fort Wagner. Three of theui belong to the 7th Connecticut regiment. They represent their sufferings during 41 their weary journey toward their freedom ns terrible: They left on the e.voning of the i>th of September, without being peri reived or molested in any manner. The i fortifications of Petersburg they state to i lx> quite formidable; They -passed three lines of these and weco not interfered with, ! doubtless on account of their uniforms, i Though they were successful ig their bold 1 undertaking, they did not lack hair breadth crapes and persistent pursuit. Beyond tlu? rebel lines and on the neutral ground between the contestants, they were in more danger of capture than iu the very } midst of their enemies ; for now their . uniforms, which had been before a jr- " pert and safeguard, became the most h _ means of their betnral back to captivity. Rebel devices for the capture of deser! ters rendered the position how a very I ticklish one. Men are engaged specially by the rebel government for the apprcI hiinainti fk4 uiu.ti nf tlioii* n. m..v

1 York City than from any other part of the coun' . f One of the rebtri Captains taken prisoner by j Gen. Kilpatrick at* Madison Conrt I loose says j that uone of Gen. Lee's soldiers have been sent ; oat of VirgiAia since Gen. Meade commenced | to advance ; that, on tire contrary, Lee has reI oently received considerable reinforecmcuts of i fresh conscripts. This captaiu confirms the report that Gen. Pemberton's men composed part of the forces n^jthich (Jen. Bragg sought to ; overwhelmn Kv rans. 1 When asked on^what pretext they were pnt j into the ranks btrfd-c they had bceu exchanged, | he replied that on^flie second day of the buttle i of Gettysburg, "sOO^of our men who liad been : taken prisoners and paroled on the first day | were recaptured in arms, j Advices from Bermuda to the 18th in?r. are , received. The steamer fired into in Charleston ! Harbor some time since by Fot^t Mcjnltrie, by - mistake, and s unk, was the famous Sumter. ' She was convcying^rebcl soldiers from one point ' to another, and had (>30'souls uiionrd, 20 of | whom were lost. The merchants of Bermuda continued thetr ovations to the officers of block 1 ade-runners. There are now some 20 vessels engaged in the business. The railway liuc to Plantation Clonhrook was opened on the 1st of August. The outrages in the parishes of Sr.* Thomas, St. James, and St, George had been suppressed. Toe / land of Antigua was suffering greatly irom drouth. It was rumored that

We copied the other duy from a Washington paper a statement that Oapu. Sawyer untTFlynn (the men whom Davis had set apart for execution, in retaliation for the rebel recruiting officers hung bv Gen. Burn side), were kept in a cage. W e are glad to state thnf such is not the fact, A gentleman very lately front Richmond says that they are treated in all respects the Ifcme as other prisoners. To invent such stories of barl>arity shows a mind rmwr wicked; the man who did it deserves the punishment he atygjes others of inflicting. / : On the 2Jkl nit., a train arrived from JfYnnkfort at Louisville, Ky? containing 1,162. rebel prisoners, a part of this captured at Cumberland Gap by Gen. llurn>ide at the time of the surrender of that place. The prisoners were a very common looking set of fellows, and dressed in every costume coueeivable. The remainder, nearly in number, were to arrive ou the 20th, and be sent forward to Cump Douglas. The prisoners arrived represented four regiments, from Virginia. Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. The expedition to Texas has not been abandoned in consequence of the late disaster at Sabine l'ass. We learn from New Orleans that the movement wiH now be made overland, and

daylight the ])<i Soto signaled oi>c of the other | gyiboats and both put out for the tug. They ! hi* twenty miles out, captured her, J L and brought Tier buck, with all on board, to the { l'ass. The men who attempted to "confiscate" i the tug were brought tuck in irons. The Richmond Keamiaer, of Saturday, is un- j happy over Chattanooga. It says: After two distinct ert'ort* for the recapture of Chattanooga, we hare now the Intelligence that the enemy is still in possession of that stronghold, and jtreugthening its works. While events linger i * in Tennessee, the sttnatiou in Northern Vir- j become critical. . The enemy is pre- j Aj" a gc"cml attack on the line of the jhipidAn, and massing his forces at Culpepper. He js <dso locconnoiteriug and encroaching 011 ; thrrailroad and river, and indicates a detenui- J ?atioa to fight." The same r*per has a de>- j patch from Atlanta saying: "Reports of the condition of affairs above are conflicting. We 1 are inclined to 1*1 ieve that the enemy arc for- I Viifying Chattanooga. Our lines arc within four ! miles of that place. There was no fighting yes- j terday. Gen. Rosecrans has sent in two Hags j - - ? ? I

UUI AUUJHIUtt IK^inicni n ?r> viuvivm Viv... | Maury to put dovm the disturbance, bat they . J Jo duty. The Mobile Cadets then j muds, and were defeated and forced : t women. Peaceful measures finally (_ famine-stricken women. The proclaimed their detenu inati!"*1 were net rapidly deviled to relieve igs or to atop the war. to burn the The parked Viekaburg prisoners at sobering tiic greatest hardships for ., , wantageud food, and openly declare that if they are forced into the ticld again they will leave ip the first battle. It is supposed of the J?7,OU0 men; paroled at Vicksburg, not more than 5.000 will over be forced into the ranks, : Gold ha?l declined at Xcw Orleans to 37<$40 j<cr ' <*nt premium. The bar pilot who brought the j Morning Star out of die S. TV. Pass reported ' that the small tug Leviathan, then lying under f the guns of the De Soto, was boarded the night I before (Sept. 21) by u party of men wlw> came j out in a small U?at from shore, took posuONsion i of the tug and'carried her out to sea. - Two ori -threegunboats were lying bv when tbo tug was | taken, but the loss was not dibcovercd till the j Ixnriathan was several miles out in the gulf. At f

! the Duk^ of ^ to Ik; made governor of the inland of Jamaica, l'rovost Marshal General Frv officially inI torms (for. Yates of Illinois that that State is credited with an excess of 44.Bo I men on all calls up to June II, 1863. The quota under the present call being dG,700, there will be no draft, and the balance, 8,151, will be credited in an future call. About 280 rebel earalrymen, who were captured at Gettysburg and hare since taken the oath of allegiance, hare nrrired at Baltimore. I They arc to join the .Id Maryland. Among their otth'ere in ('apt. A. J. l'embertou. a brother of the rebel Genenil reniborton. | Mr. C. W. Whitney, the designer and bnildj cr of the Keokuk, associated with Messrs. J ohn?son A- Ilig^i'W of >"cir York, has entered into a | contract with the Government to raise the above vessel, now lving sunk off Morris island. The ? V " I work is to be pro-ecqted at once. An oftieer attached to the fleet in Charleston t | harbor, in speaking of the New Ironsides, says ; "she has been mulcr steam forpvef, a year and I has never needed repairs. The iron plaring,

? ' ? " - - : JEAUFORT, S. C., SATt) but the details are withheld. The rebel army lias not attempted to molest Gen. Rosecrans in his prc-ient position, and Col. Wilder, of his cavalry force, reports matters in the front to be more favorable. He says Longstreet's men arrived t? the cars while the luwtle wa? opening. The bridge over the Tennessee river at Bridgeport is to be rebuilt, and will thereby open, railroad communication with the North, via Nashville and Chattanooga. It is reported at Nashville that Gen. Bnrnside has reached the point Hrhcre he was expected to prevent the tlank movement of the enemy. The St. Lonis Ref?ibficaa of Thursday states that Gen. Smith's division, of Gen. Grant's army, left Memphis several days ago to reinforce (Jen. Kosccrans, and thatorlter troops arc doubtless en route. Adi-rpatch from Cairo to the the Chicago Tribune, dated Sept. 23, states that the Government had taken up SO steamers for the tran-jK>rtation of t FOODS.

the large force to be engaged in the undertaking were going forward as rapidly as the transportation facilities imM admit, by war of Brxsheur City and Berwick Bay. From the New Orleans Era of September 17, we learn tbat the blockade runners, h'oj\ A/.ibitiim and Monh/omrrif, were all captured on lift; 12th ult., hv our cruisers, in the vicinity of Ship island. These priitcs are all valuable. The Montfiomcn/ was taken hy the gunboat lb Soto, and the Tennessee tvas conspicuous in the capture of the others. The United States steam fraiisjiort Daniel Wtbster, reports that when passing Matthias l'oint, on the 24th inst.. all the buildings at that plaeo were discovered to be on tire. Four Union gunboats and one transport were lying off the port. The Secretary of War directs that colored volunteers from New .Jersey und Deleware be mustered into the regiments forming at Philadelphia, credit taring given therefor to those Statesjc* 1 -