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[for the Richmond Dispatch.]
Richmond, August 4th. To the Editor of the Dispatch-- Dear Sir:
The inclosed letter, which I have just received from an English officer, who took part in the famous fight of the 21st ult., may be of interest to your readers.
I have, therefore, great pleasure in placing it at your service. Very truly, yours, S. Phillips Day,
Special Correspondent of the London Morning Herald and the Morning Chronicle.
"headquarters Confederate Army, "Manassas Junction, July 20 "My dear Day:
The accounts which you read in the Richmond papers about the great battle which has just come off, are not in the least exaggerated.
You may give them verbatim to the London press.
I could never have contemplated that such a terrible disaster would have befallen the Northern arms.
Their army was well appointed, well organized, and provided with a splendid artillery, the entire of which fell into our hands.--Wheat's Battalion, (to which I was at
The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The efficient blockade. (search)
The news from Europe.
The outline of European news received here by telegraph was of so vague a character as to render necessary a republication of a portion of it. The New York papers of Monday furnish the subjoined details:
News of the battle of Bull Run was received in England on Sunday, 4th of August. It caused a profound sensation.
Northern Americans were much depressed, and the Southerners correspondingly elated.
There was almost a collision in the Liverpool News Room.
Mr. Russell's letter to the London Times was confined to graphic details of the route of the Northern army.
He calls it a cowardly rout, a miserable, causeless panic, and disgraceful to men in uniform not soldiers.
The London Times editorially says the victory was a complete one.
The Union army lost all, even their military honor, and wishes it could find something in it to congratulate either victors or vanquished, but sees nothing but what must stimulate the evil passions of both comba
A fall in the Alps.
--A French Baroness Killed.--The New York Albion publishes a letter from Geneva, dated Aug. 4th, from which we make the following extract:
On Saturday, in company with a young Englishman, I started from the little inn of Schwarenback for the Gemmi Pass, having sent back our horses to Kandersteg, where we slept the preceding nigh.
The morning was very cloudy and disagreeable, and there was very little prospect of pleasure from the trip; but we were not disposed to grumble, because up to this time we had been particularly favored with fine weather at every point — in fact, we had enjoyed days as clear and cloudless as we were accustomed to in America.
About one hour from our starting point, (distances here, as you are aware, are known as in the East by hours and not by miles,) on a steep and narrow turn is the precipitous downward path, the mutes which carried an unfortunate French lady stumbled on the near fore-leg, throwing her clean out of the sa
The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Another interesting narrative of a cruise in the ocean. (search)
Important from the North
reported resignation of Secretary Seward--alleged Refusal of Governors to Furnish more troops, &c.
Lynchburg, Aug. 4
--The following special dispatch was received by the Republican this morning, from Charlottesville, dated 4th: The National Intelligencer and Baltimore Sun, of late date, have been received in Staunton.
They announce the resignation of Seward, and state that the Governors of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Connecticut, refuse to send more men in the field.
The National Intelligencer accuses Seward of having been engaged for the last 60 days, though England, to bring about an armistices.
Vallandigham is stumping Ohio against the war and the Administration, addressing immense audiences with great favor and applause.
Yankee outrages in Tennessee. Chattanooga, Aug. 4.
--McMinnville, Tenn., was occupied by about 7,000 Yankee troops last Saturday--probably Bull Nelson's division.
A detachment of Gen. Forrest's cavalry was in the place Friday, but was smart enough to evade capture.
A man who run their lines from McMinnville states that be heard the shrieks of women from almost every house in the town.
He thinks that the Yankee command must have been turned loose at will to pillage and outrage.
The shrieks were agonizing.