Capt. James M, Marris, of Darien, Ga., in command of a company stationed on the coast near that place, died last week from a disease contracted while on duty.
t valuable articles of the citizens have been removed to places of safety, beyond the reach of the invader's grasp.
All business at Darten has been suspended, and the mer have removed all their goods from the place.
We learn that the people of Darien, with the true spirit which ever actuated them and their ancestors, have determined not to allow the mean cowardice of their towns of Jacksonville and Nashville, (we mean the Republican portion of them, but have resolved, if the Yankees attempt to land at that place, to fight them to the death, and never surrender the town while there is a man left a defend it.
There was stored at Darien a large quantity of rein and turpentine, all of which was destroyed yesterday by order of the military authorities.
We also learn that all the timber — and there was a large amount of it in the difference booms — has been turned shrift; and as there was a heavy fresher in the river, it will soon be beyond the reach of the Yankees and far out to
The destruction of Darien.
--The destruction of the town of Darien, Ga., on the 11th inst., by the Yankees has been noticed.
All the churches, the market-house, court-house, jail, private houses, stores, and even stables, were burnt, the soldiers putting turpentine on the floors and setting fire to it. The soldiers in this Darien, Ga., on the 11th inst., by the Yankees has been noticed.
All the churches, the market-house, court-house, jail, private houses, stores, and even stables, were burnt, the soldiers putting turpentine on the floors and setting fire to it. The soldiers in this outrage were negroes, officered by Massachusetts and Pennsylvania men. They shot down cows in the street and left them lying there.
A letter says:
They have left nothing but the chimneys standing in all Darien.
They took every negro that was in the place, forcing some to go with their guns pointed at them all the time.
One standing in all Darien.
They took every negro that was in the place, forcing some to go with their guns pointed at them all the time.
One negro woman ran from them and they shot her in the head, and then carried her on board their boat.
They have taken the schr. Pet, that was ready to sail for Nassau with a cargo of cotton.
ester, though they sowed, they should never reap.
We maintain that unbounded retaliation is the only way to prevent the renewal of such outrages as have been practiced on us. We cannot make matters worse.
We have tried meekness, we have tried submission, we have tried respect for the laws of war, and the rights of property.
What has been the result?
Accumulated outrages — additional wrong — increased insult.
While we are "respecting private property" they are landing negroes to burn Darien.
While we are abstaining from pillage, Mrs. Milroy is decamping from Winchester with huge trunks full of stolen spoons, ladies' dresses, jewelry, and other valuables.
While we are manifesting a tender regard for the subsistence of the burly Dutch farmers that inhabit the Valley of Pennsylvania, the brutes who are on their side are endeavoring to starve all the women and children in the Southern Confederacy.
This should not be our policy, had we the control of affairs, and it is very well
results of a civil or intestine war. He characterizes all who call to their aid such material, in the language of the publicists, as barbarians, &c.
In conclusion, he asks whether the acts which resulted in the burning of the villages of Darien, Ga., and Bluffton, and the ravages on the Combahee, are regarded by Gen. Gillmore as legitimate measures of war, which he will feel authorized to resort to hereafter.
He forwarded accounts taken from Northern papers of the raids on Darien, BlufftDarien, Bluffton, Combahee, &c.
Gen. Gillmore to Gen. Beauregard.
Gen. Gillmore addresses Gen. Beauregard from headquarters, in the field, Morris Island, under date of July 18, and acknowledges the receipt of Gen. Beauregard's communication of July 4, written with a view of effecting some understanding as to the future conduct of the war in this quarter.
He states that, while he and his Government will scrupulously endeavor to conduct the war upon principles established by usage among civilized nati
cotton, 35 boxes tobacco, &c. Two hundred and ninety bales of the cotton was owned by the owners of the steamer, and the balance by the crew.
She had a crew of nineteen persons on board, all of whom were captured except two, viz: James Dean, of Darien, a pilot, and Wm. Dunn, a seaman, of this city.--The others were taken prisoners, and are in the hands of the enemy.
The enemy discovered the Chatham early in the morning and fired twenty- three shells at her, and then opened with musketry from ree shells at her, and then opened with musketry from their boats.
The enemy's barges boarded her and took possession of the steamer.
Among the captured are Capt. Martinsborough; Archie, mate; Captain Frazier, of Augusta; Evans, shipkeeper; John Parry, first engineer; Joseph Willing, second engineer; John Waters, Patrick Dacey, Chas. Stark, and John Gregor, firemen, all of Savannah; and firemen Thompson, of Darien.
The Chatham was owned by a stock company in this city.--Savannah News, 20th.
What is to be Settled for.
--The Yankees have made the use of the torch legitimate against them by the burning of the following towns: Germantown and Madison Courthouse, in Virginia; Washington, North Carolina; Bluffton, South Carolina; Darien and St. Mary's, Georgia; Jacksonville and Tampa Bay, Florida; Jackson, Mississippi; Greenville, and other towns in Arkansas; Alexandria and New Iberia, Louisiana; Hickman, Randolph, Lake Providence, Bayon Sara, Plaquemine, Donaldsonville, and every other town on the Mississippi river, from the mouth of the Ohio to New Orleans, except Memphis, Natchez, Vicksburg and Baton Rouge.
is not certain that he has even yet reached Millen, though the fact is assumed.
At 4 o'clock P. M., last Friday, the telegraph operator at Millen announced that Sherman was within four miles of the place, and that he himself was on the point of bidding it a hearty adieu.
Nothing has been heard from there since.
He had then been within twenty miles of Millen for nearly a week.
When Sherman advanced on Milledgeville, one of his columns moved against Macon.
Official information was received here last night that this column had disappeared from the neighborhood of Macon.
It is now, no doubt, moving to join Sherman in the neighborhood of Millen, and it was for this that Sherman has been waiting.
His forces being massed, he will strike out for his objective point, which, it is believed, is Darien, rear the mouth of the Alabama river, fifty miles south of Savannah.
It is reported that General Dick Taylor has been put in command of our cavalry now operating against Sherman.
