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The sentiment of the people of Ohio is so much divided at present on the war policy of the Administration, that a Union Convention has been called to meet on Thursday, September 5th, at Columbus.
From North Carolina. Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 5.
--Reliable authority states that neither Ocracoke or Oregon Inlets, nor Roanoke Island had been occupied by the enemy as late as last Sunday.
No Federal crafts of any kind was seen in the Sound at that time.
No Federal fleet was seen off the coast between Cape Lookout and Cape Fear either on Tuesday or Wednesday last.
Naval-engagement Louisville, Sept. 5.
--The Cairo gun-boats Tyler and Lexington, off Hychman, engaged the Confederate gun-boat Yankee, supported by two batteries on shore.
The Federal boats fired twenty shots, and then returned to Cairo uninjured.
General Grant took command to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: September 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], How I fell in love. (search)
Democratic Convention. Strauss, N. Y., Sept. 5.
--Herman J. Redfield was elected permanent President of the Convention.
Both wings-- the Mozart and the Tamamny Hall Democrats — were seated, and cast 17 votes each.
Progress of the war in Missouri. Quincy, Ill., Sept. 5.
--The Confederates, with 20,000 troops and two field pieces, are located between Hunnewell and Shelbins.
The telegraph line and railroad operations have been stopped.
Gen. Pope will soon, it is stated, proceed to the scene of action.
Col. Hulbut is reported to be in West Shelbina with 1,500 Federal troops.
Democratic Convention. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 5.
--There has been the usual quantity of excitement and crimination and recrimination in the Democratic Convention which is in session here.
The Mozart delegation has been expelled from the Convention.
Manassas, Sept. 5th.
In a previous letter I spoke of the ceremony of raising a monument upon the spot where the noble Bartow fell while leading on his men in the battle of the 21st.
The members of the 8th Georgia Regiment, desiring to erect some memorial on the spot, purchased a shaft which was placed in position yesterday evening.
It was reported that General Toombs and Vice-President Stephens would both speak upon the occasion, and consequently a large crowd of soldiers walked to the field, some from a distance of six and eight miles.
When I arrived, about one thousand were present, and others were pouring in from every quarter.
Groups of soldiers were roaming about in every direction over the battle-field, gathering relics of the fight and gazing at every object of interest connected with it. The cen- tre of attraction was the Evans house, which was so riddled with shot, and which now stands a perfect ruin, with holes marking the passage of cannon shot, and with
Notes of the war.Latest from the Northern papers.
We have received New York and Baltimore papers as late as Saturday last, from which we continue the notes of war matters, as reported by the enemy:
The death of President Davis Reiterated--an attack Apprehended at Washington.
The New York Herald's Washington correspondent (Sept. 5) makes the following statement, which will be read with interest, notwithstanding the ignorance betrayed by the writer:
The city to-day has been filled with the excitement of deferred expectation.
At sunset last evening the impression was general that this morning's sun would rise upon a battle-field on the Potomac, where the two great armies, for so many weeks gradually approaching each other, would be met in the thundering shock that would convulse the whole country, and decide the result of the contest between the Government and the rebels.
This expectation was not without reason.
The crisis in the fate of the rebels is at hand.
Their
Camp Ellis, Fairfax county, Sept. 5
To the Editors of the Dispatch:--My attention has been called to a communication from Fair-fax Court-House, signed "Ithuriel," which appeared in your paper of the 26th of August, in which there is the following statement:
"The regiments immediately around Fair-fax compose the Brigade of Gen Longstreet.
Many of them were formerly in the brigade of Gen. Early, of Franklin county, but became dissatisfied with him in consequence of an error into which he fell during the battle of the 21st--mistaking the enemy, who had hoisted a Confederate flag, for his friends, and refusing to permit his man to fire.
The 7th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Col. Jas, L. Kemper — the idol of his men and the bride of the State--comprised a portion of this brigade, and were drawn up fronting the enemy in order of battle.
During the formation, a fierce volley from the disguised Federals was poured into a portion of it. Still the command of Gen. Early was, 'Bo