Carolina Watchman

              carolina watchman nhjii-wkkki_,v vol xix salisbury \. c august 5 1861 nl'.misl.k 28 j j bruner editob and proprietor terms $'._.. hi , 8.00 15.00 : sding ten iii the same pro i : - ' li l'avnient alwaj iii ivan • the rout t io 45 < on schenck led his column '■ in aded by tho first and second < hio and w york within a few hundred feel of a masked battery uf six guns they waited j ui our men got up close and tin ii open ii ou them tiring in rapid succession — jet iii . - ti were killed and wounded belong ing to thu new iork sec ml regiment ulld also i hit in the second t milo t*gi merit by the premature discharge of our , own inusktts in their hands a retreat vhm ordered and our men fell back — ' scheuuk tailed to rally his column in any i hi hie ohio and n.w vork men hcalteted through the woods in pursuit of i er and w uler the roar of artillery j ind peals ot musketry were kept up jnces ; nth for a m ie or tv>o along bull run li.e lighting was so general and indistinct il was impossible for us to nan reliably ui xacl position ol the different brigades w e wore j k i ■«__■ centre of t ler's diris .. on the lull jn*i liast of bull run ou , :,,,• warrenton ilo id ahout 2 p m we aw clouds ol dust rising to our l.ii a though ihey were hying lo outflank n and come ou u ii illy rear we called •■ . ci'.d officer attention to it bul there seemed lo bo no man who coiiid have l"e ll.lolcelllel.ls selll foi to covel olll llilllk 1 u tlie left of the road wee sherman's ' and carlisle's batteries drawn up for fight hi the right were some three thousand men consisting of pans of ihe ohio and new vork regimeuls and the new york 69lh i about i o'clock p m their batteries open j ed on u ; every ball was well tired ; lhe first fell in front of the batteries and the next one took oil the heads of two men a ' few yards below us orders were now riven for lhe men to lie down and let the i iiu pass over and just as the order was ' irjven another one swept over our heads and ploughed the lields a few steps in our i rear our battery did imt fire a gun — i lhe enemy were not to be seen owing to dense woods between them and us ( ur heavy siege trun was lying to the rich . i disabled by the carriage being broken | down the balls flew faster and faster and j the batteries were apparently being brought closer about 4 p m a report from man to man thai general cameron's brother co ' i on i of lhe seventy ninth was shot thro j the breast bv a cannon ball and instantly killed lieut col elliott of the seventy-ninth • le toward his regiment having been af ter reinforcements when a cannon ball cut : s horse's head off and threw him down bruising him so that he could hardly es -. ipe all the stragglers now commenced i i inn t w.i id centeiville and the cassions \ i mlances and stiuleis wagons were order ed to be taken back at once toward cell i irville the batteries were ordered around to over our retreat and keep lhe rebels from cutting us from centeiville which was about three miles in our rear and where '"•. had about four or five thousand of a reserve force ihe batteries wheeled off and took up the road and were retreating in good order whet about half a mile out ne oi ilie in carriages was upset a portion of sherman's and carlisle's left in the road-side the gunners cut ling the traces and running their horses ; - put the infantry in a perfect panic ; hey bt ike ranks indiscriminately and com ■ need to run — knapsacks haversacks is cartridge boxes hats and everything i .: thrown in all directions the men *'< ic parched for water and were falling ivery direction officers were equally attiic stricken with the privates and in sin we endeavored to stop lhe retreat irles ogden george r smith sher iff harper russell erred of pittsburg d our men i.ot lo retreat and plead " ' with tears for them to go back and get cameron's bod ; we took muskets *" 1 threatened to shoot down if they did v but we might as well have plead with winds to cease blowing the clouds '*' mist were now perfectly suffocating lhe enemy appeared in sight firing their bins the balls raining upon us thick fcrnerging from the valley we saw tbe re i of the world with the standard of massachusetts fifth waving it over i'1 and pleading for the men to rally abound him ; but it was in vain : they heeded him uot an ollicer asked the pri vil ge of riding behind him ii wan gran led nnd before the imd gonea looyaids a slmi from tl.e ihick«l mruck llie officer in the bend nnd he n < 1 off mr 8te_l man wrapped up tho standard nnd gallop ed about h mile ahead mid nfiei wards uc < eeih-,1 iii tallying ti largn force our friends had now all left and the ti.m.jis ucre flying and hi the cry that tho cavalry were riding i hem down and butch ering all wa marled for < entreville in ih edge of the woods wo noticed mr villard of tho new york herald trying to pacify the men telling them il wan only a panic he was mounted bul could not . take any pamtengers our tliirai wa now 1 painful tin du-.t tilling our nostrils till «,. could scarcely gel breath binding no hea i way could be made on foot aud be ing liable lo lie shot or hewn down ni moutarily we made for a borne wu heard rubbing th lough the wood and caught him he imd a shot through him in l lit flank aud was bleeding profusely and had no saddle or bridle wu mounted him and clinging to ins mane made for the road aghiu leading lo ' jentre ille here the road was strewn with wrecks of wagons provisions muskets blankets ammunition and everything the men could divest themselves of the ground was full the lields in all dir.ctn.iis wen full i he ti.o oi tin enemy was kept up in the rear l'.i.t ol sherman's battery breakiujg down the men cut the traces and fled we should judge lhat ten thousand guns utid rifle were losl on lhe way while the cartridge boxes bayonets sabre bayonets and swords were innumerable about a mile from cen lie ville nn attempt us made io rally them but w ilh little success a lew thotixand were slopped but many with out weapons < >.. ihe high hill top at entreville a column of infantry wasseen with their gleaming ha nnets < in the lop lhe artillery were also drawn up prepared to fire the garibaldians einstein's and bank er's regiments were drawn up tt the foot of lhe hill aud escaping men ordered to fall in loud cheering was done and the talking cry given but it was of little or no use men had no officers when they did hall and so ihey kept on retreating — water water !" was the cry jive me water or i'll sink was heard from all sides not a diop was to he had lit to drink the wells were till drained and the clouds of dust filled the air at every point we g"t in the tear of a negt'o hut and there secured water thick wiih filth ! but it was the best to be had a number j of buildings were used btr hospitals and on every side cries were made for surgeons all the inhabitants nearly had fled from centreville expecting it to be stormed by tbe rebels guards wee stationed at tbe ' few wells not dry lo allow no water ex cept to the wounded and sick a house on the top of the hill had been burnt the j previous night and what few men could j be induced to work were engaged in throw ing up an embankment some eight feet i thick out of the iiiius and of dirt it was about two hundred feet square orders were now circulated for the men to gather at their last camping ground around cen treville it was heeded by some but oth ers neglected it and kept up the stampede no provisions wen to be had and th men were all hungry having had nothing to eat since two o'clock a m and but little or no water at six and a half o'clock p m when we started for washington the troops were coming in and no on of an coolness or self possession supposed our forces would retreat from centreville the tiring of the enemy was kept upon our rear with artillery and their cavalry rode through and through cutting and slashing with perfect tiendishness \\ e heard of numbers of lhe most infamous and damning acts ever committed hy sav age tribes < kir wounded and dead are nearly all on the battle-field in lhe hands of the enemy such as could crawl or walk were trying to gel away and such pitiable spectacles were seen as made our heart sick ; but wo could not help ih.m ; lhe few ambulances were started oil early with lhe wounded and never returned we saw a number lying on the roadside with medicine chests aud bandages the immense baggage train consisting of some six hundred or a thousand wagons lined the road for a mile and a half on ihe warrenton road toward bull run two miles back of centreville when the panic started tbe wagons tried to fall back on centreville but a number were upset and broken down ; the drivers would imme diately leave them and escape on tho hors es others would throw out their load of provisions and stores and till up with sol diers and muskets tbe body of tbe lug i i i gage however jot in the oar of centre ville < ir opinion is and it can go for what d ia worth that after our army were \ ic lorious we were < 1 - 1 ated v a hank move menl of troops brought up from manassas junction and who attacked sehenck'a nnd ! tyler's unprotected rear il.d this been amply protect and reinforcements turn ed hark the flank movement we could have kept up our advantage nnd drove thrin t the junction itlthougli thev out nn.nl d ti and had every advantage n i ing from cl sing their position and fortifying themselves and their thorough knowledge of the country and its mown laino.is character giving them every na tural advantage col mi led were sent with despatches from on scott while he v\as lying in < viittvx i i io in the hottest of the fight for gen mcdowell which he had orders to deliver immediately lie at once without making any attempt to do so aid if gen scoll wanted to gel his head blown off let him cany them hiins.-ll ; ij would not do so and ihey iievei went we left gutitreville with the cheering news that general mansfield with artillery and an immense lurue was coming up to turn the rebels back about a mile kast of cenlrevilln we met the first new jet sey with their * lolonel ruling at iheir head and his staff pleading lor the men to re ! tnin ins drummer corps were pluyiug yankee doodle and their colors were flying ; lhe men kept cheering all lhe time and urging ii another lo return ihey were nearly worn out with their lore i march from vienna they were follow ed by the new jersey third they inspired courage into the retreat ing soldiers but many fell exhausted by lhe way-side considering it sa <• to remain a i'w minutes longer to rest large num belli of the men fell into iheir old camp grounds and the baggage wagons drove int lhe lields all along the road ; but the most sorrowful sight was lhe loss of pro visions and all kinds of btores lhat liued the toad tor five miles tin cowardly retreat on the morning of the fight by the pennsylvania fourth and various batteries had <•« depressing ef fect upon our force and enconraged the rebels by the story that our men were run ning that their " tune was up is an excuse that will not answer they fled ig nominiously when onr country needed them — philadelphia km hirer a northern congressman at tlte but tle of pull's run — mr llicbardson a member of congress from illinois who was at ihe fight at bull's ltun has written a letter to the baltimore suit giving an ne count of tbe affair lie bays lhat the ac tion was commenced by general tyler of connecticut nt hall past one o'clock on thursday — that the michigan maine and wisconsin regiments stood iheir ground bravely while the new york twelfell and massachusetts regiments run with all their might throwing away iheir arms knap sacks and in fact everything lhat impe ded their progress the men say lhat their officers lack courage and wer the first to " take the backtrack it seems that the only regiment who could be relied on in their greatest emergency were com posed of foreigners — the nov york 6_uh irish ami lhe 70th scotch the writer gives it as his opinion that manassas cannot b taken with 50.0uu men in two months and that the north has been greatly deceived not only in the numbers and discipline of the southern ers but in their fighting qualities — rush ing as thev did into battle with a siiottt which rose above tbe roar of lhe cannon whilst their artillery was served in unsur passed style one ball fell directly amidst a group of congressmen amongst whom was owen lovejoy which caused a ludic rous scampering and dodging behind trees very unbecoming the dignitaries t ne re markable feature which impressed itself on the minds of the congressmen d tiring their route to the scene of action was the ab sence of all the male population capable of bearing arms the tew whom they saw were decrepit old men and women whose eyes fairly flashed tire at the sight of the j yankee soldiers an important arrangement — the i banks in richmond and those in savannah including the branches of each have made arrangements by which their notes will bo received bv each other at par volunteers and others may now go directly to tbe banks of tbe two cit ies and get full value of their money cannot a similar arrangement be made between the banks in other cities deep river coal ah the coal v tlie deep river region in now about to l.e brought into nol ico it may not be inappropriate t moke i bo me explanations concerning it and tbe operations being carried i>n there all bituminous coal contains more or ic sulphur and this sulphur in creases in quantity the nearer you approach the out-crop hence the best 1 and purest coal i obtained from deep shaft workings there ii hut one shaft as yet in tin deep river region it is at egypt and persons purchasing cow should be particular in inquiring if it came from egypt if they wish to obtain the best quali l v mine i so fur so many exaggerated statements have gone forth ns to making f il und iron in that region t hat i took t he tn iiible to ex'tmine into what had been lone nnd to observe what is likely tobo done at the fannville place a greal mass of machinery c bus been put up but so far as the ma king of oil it was a la i i lire only one barrel having been made in a week r this result was the fault of the works and their management not of the black band iron tire a good quality of oil can be made aud pr lit ace lire to the operator if a different style of works were put up and it is now worth ; ho attention of our people at the tysor place where i had sen announced in the paper that vast quantities of iron had been made i found several changes from the orig inal plan of the works — changes which have resulted in nothing but loss bnf as now they have returned to the original old plan t a catalan forge bomotl ing may be done when t he works are completed at ( ro 1 ill ten miles north of deep river a furnace is being put up and will be at work in about two weeks the ore at this place is very superior and was used during the revolution at egypt a very superior quality of coal is being taking out and one hundred tons a daycaneasly be ta ken out the only drawback is the unfinished state of road . i make these statements because i learn a quantify of out-crop coal has gone to market and given some dissatisfaction and that the plain simple truth as to what is doing on deep river may be known [ fayelteville observer capture of a brig and cargo we learn that the brig inn welsh ' bound iv trinidad du cuba for falmouth eng for orders was cap tured by the privateer jeff davis ' off tho banks of newfoundland on the 16th of july with a cargo con sisting of 273 h 1 tils 54 tierces and 28 barrels muscovado sugar and 4;jb ' boxes clarified do she was placed in possession of a prize crew who took her into a southern port the captain and prize crew arrived here tins morning and will we learn : make arrangements for tiie disposal of her cargo i the captain states that the jeff ' davis came out of charleston on the listh ot june and ran tbe block ade aud had previous to the cap ture of the john welsh boarded two other vessels one i»f which proved t be a vessel from maryland but had instructions it appears from president davis not to be molested if met hy a privateer the other was a yankee craft which bad pre vious to her being boarded changed her paper but as there is no deceiv ing the boys of tl.e jell davis she wan taken and a prize crew placed j on board the cargo and vessels are worth over 100,000 ; pretty good these hard times — savannah repub j lican mecklenburg county court last week appropriated 10,000 to aid the fami lies of volunteers in need col li \\ . alexander was appointed treasurer and john l brown commissary with assistants has overman esq is the assistant for charlotte district further particulars will be published next week — charlotte dew mourning the annexed timely and appropri ate remarks which we coppy from the richmond whig are worthy the special attention of our readers we are aware it is thought by many thai a failure to put on mourn ing after the death ol'a relative in dicates a want of tbe appreciation of etiquette if not down right indiffer ence but we are one of those who think that in voiy many eases a breech of the rule il more appropri ate and honorable than its strict ob servance even where tho strongest affections exist it is a mere fash ion but to the remarks of the wnig : a suggestion we would respect fully suggest to our citizens in.l in deed io those of the confederate states generally that the usual em blems of external mourning be dis pensed with those who have lost re lations who were bravely sustaining i their country's right and in this mel with a glorious death apart from tbe distressing an gloomy aspect it would give to ouj streets and to our churches amid the great cause for rejoicing whicl the almighty litis vouchsafed to us by a victory almost unparalelled there is another very strong reason for not adopting the habiliments o mourning many families who have lost a dear relative cannot well al ford in these times to incur the ex pense of mourning suits at the great ly increased cost of them even i possible to obtain them at any price the heart may feel as deeply as tho it beat under a colored vestment another consideration may very properly bo suggested in tlie fad that the hiss of a father a son a hue band or a brother however poignao the sorrow it may carry to the b earl i of the bereaved is under the cir cumstances of the present war u cause for that bitterness of moil ril ing which attends the ordinary dis pensations of providence because the gloom is brightened by tbe glo ry in the discharge of the holiest ob ligation of duty andrew johnson — this notori ous traitor who now misrepresents tennessee in the rump congress 1 /*> made a speech a few days since on the joint resolution to approve ano confirm certain acts of lincoln for suppressing insurrection and rebell ion in the course of his remarks as we find them reported in a north em paper he contended that lincoln had a perfect right to violate the constitution for the laws of the land yankee land were not regar ded by the south that the cannon oi the confederate army are almo ", within range of washington gen rals davis lee and beauregalsi leading them suppose said john son that they were to advance to night subjugate the city overthrow and expel the authorities of the gov erment would there be tiny consti tutional authority in this — any law with such ridiculous twaddle as this did johnson continue to regale the senate for one or more hours lie once enjoyd some reputation for talent he now proves himself t be both knave and fool death of a noeth carolinian we regret to announce tbe death of j j stevens a member of one of the n carolina regiments who breathed his last at the east hill hospital in this city on wednesday since his admission into tbe hospital he baa been too ill to give any account of himself or relatives or bis regiment his postoffice is unknown and there fore no steps can be taken in regard to his remains any information respecting him can be obtained by addressing dr 0 f couoh of this city our north carolina contem poraries will no doubt confer a great favor upon the relatives and inenuu of the deceased if they will bimp this paragraph to their notice