that General Bragg, in order to exonerate himself for permitting Lieutenant Worden's visit to Captain Adams, stated that the Lieutenant had violated his word of honor; a charge, however, which Mr. Worden emphatically denies-no such pledge having been given. Lieutenant Worden also heard it stated that there was an agreement between Capt. Adams and Gen. Bragg that no attempt should be made to reinforce or take the fort without previous notice to the other party, and that Gen. Bragg accused Captain Adams of violating the agree ment. The excitement in Pensacola and Montgomery can easily be imagined, when it is known that General Bragg had collected a force of one thousand men, and made all preparations to attack the fort on the night when the reinforcements were thrown in. He then ordered the arrest of Mr. Worden. Lieut. Worden was well treated during his imprisonment, and was allowed such provisions as he chose to purchase, receiving all the attention he could expect in his situation. While the seat of Government remained at Montgomery, he received visits from Captain Ingraham, and a large number of other officers, with whom he had been acquainted in the service. Every effort was made on their part to obtain his release or parole. He remained in prison until the 13th of November, and was in regular communication with his friends and family until mail communication was cut off. All letters, excepting some of those from his family, were opened and read before he received them. He had access to the daily papers in Montgomery, and occasionally received papers from Richmond. The tone of the papers, and of persons with whom he conversed, were arrogant and confidant even to boasting, until the arrival of intelligence of the attack and capture of Beaufort by the Federal forces. This news fell like a wet blanket upon all their hopes. They made no secret of denouncing the rebel Government for not making a better defence, declaring there was no safety to the cities on the coast, and that no dependence whatever could be placed upon the fortifications. A tone of despair seemed to prevail, and the people were loud in their denunciations of a Government which gave them no security, nor intelligence of the actual condition of affairs, and the result of operations. On the 13th of November Quartermaster Calhoun informed him that he had received a despatch ordering his release on parole, to go to Richmond to carry out a proposition for an exchange. Lient. Worden left Montgomery on the 14th, having given his parole not to divulge any thing which he might learn while in transit, to the disadvantage of the rebel Government. This parole was of no disadvantage to the National Government, from the fact that he saw nothing. He arrived at Richmond on Sunday evening, November 17th, having been detained one day by failure to connect, and stopped at the Exchange Hotel, which was filled with army officers. He obtained an interview with the Adjutant-General, and Acting Secretary of War Benjamin, and left early on Monday morning for Norfolk, and the following day went on board the frigate Minnesota, at Hampton Roads. After the fight at Santa Rosa Island, Major Vogdes and twenty-two of Wilson's men were confined in jail with him, from whom he learned further of the actual condition of Fort Pickens. He has no doubt that Fort Pickens can easily reduce the batteries and fortifications in the vicinity, as well as Fort McRae. Doc. 205. GEN. PRICE'S PROCLAMATION. The following is the proclamation from Gen. Price, issued at Neosho: FELLOW-CITIZENS: In the month of June last, I was called to the command of a handful of Missourians, who nobly gave up home and comforts to espouse in that gloomy hour the cause of your bleeding country, struggling with the most heartless and cruel despotism known among civilized men. When peace and protection could no longer be enjoyed but at the price of honor and liberty, your chief magistrate called for fifty thousand men to drive the ruthless invaders from a soil made fruitful by your labors and consecrated by your homes. And to that call less than five thousand responded out of a male population exceeding two hundred thousand men. One in forty only stepped forward to defend with their persons and their lives the cause of constitutional liberty and human rights. Some allowances are to be made on the face of the want of military organization, a supposed want of arms, the necessary retreat of the army southwards, the blockade of the river, and the presence of an armed and organized foe. But nearly six months have now elapsed. Your crops have been tilled, your harvests have been reaped, your provision for winter has been made. The army of Missouri, organized and equipped, fought its way to the river. The foe is still in the field. The county bleeds and the people groan under the inflictions of a foe marked with all the characteristics of barbarous warfare. And where now are the fifty thousand, to avenge our wrongs and our country? Had fifty thousand men flocked to our standard, with their shot guns in their hands, there would now be no Federal hirelings in the State to pollute our soil. Instead of ruined counties, starving families, and desolated districts, we should have a people blessed with protection and with stores to supply the want of the necessaries and comforts of life. Where are those fifty thousand The burning fires of patriotism lead us on just at the moment when all might forever be saved. Numbers give strength. Numbers intimidate the foe. Numbers save the necessity of often fighting battles. Numbers make our arms ir resistible. Numbers command universal respect and insure confidence. men? Are Missourians no longer true to themselves? Are they a timid, time-serving race, fit only for subjugation to a despot? Awake, my countrymen, to a sense of what constitutes the dignity of true greatness of a people! A few men have fought your battles. A few have dared the dangers of the battle-field. A few have borne the hardships of the camp,-the We must have fifty thousand men. Let the scorching of the sun of summer, the frosts of herdsman leave his folds, let the farmer leave winter, the privations incident to our circum- his field, let the mechanic leave his shop, let the stances, fatigue, hunger and thirst, often without lawyer leave his office, till we restore the su blankets, without shoes, with the cold, wet earth premacy of the law. Let the aspirants to office for a bed, the sky for a covering, and a stone for a and place know, that they will be weighed in the pillow; glad only to meet the enemy in the field, balance of patriotism, and may be found want where some paid the noblest devotion known ing. If there be any craven, cringing spirits, among men on earth to the cause of your coun- who have not the greatness of soul to respond try and your rights, with their lives. But to their country's call for help, let them stay at where one has been lost by battle, many have home, and let only the brave and true come out been lost by disease induced by privation. Dur- to join their brethren in the tented field. Come ing all these trials we murmured not. We of- with supplies of clothing, and tents, if you can fered all we had on earth at the altar of our procure them. common country, our own beloved Missouri; and we only now ask our fellow citizens, our brethren, to come to us, and help maintain what we have gained, to win our glorious inheritance from the cruel hand of the spoiler and oppressor. Come to us, brave sons of the Missouri valley! Rally to our standard! I must have fifty thousand men. I call upon you, in the name of your country, for fifty thousand men. Do you stay at home to take care of us and your property? Millions of dollars have been lost because you stayed at home. Do you stay at home for protection? More men have been murdered at home than I have lost in five successive battles. Do you stay at home to secure terms with the enemy? Then I warn you, the day may soon come, when you will be surrendered to the mercies of that enemy, and your substance given to the Hessians and the Jayhawkers. I cannot, I will not, attribute such motives to you, my countrymen. But where are our Southern Rights friends? We must drive the oppressor from our land. I must have fifty thousand men. Now is the crisis of your fate; now is the golden opportunity to save the State; now is the time for your political salvation. The time of the enlistment of our brave bands is beginning to expire. Do not hold their patience beyond endurance. Do not longer sicken their hearts by hopes deferred. Boys and small property holders have in the main fought the battles for the protection of your property, and when they ask, where are the men for whom we are fighting, how can I explain, my fellow-citizens? I call upon you, by every consideration of interest, by every desire of safety, by every tie that binds you to home and country, delay no longer. Let the dead bury the dead. Leave your property to take care of itself. Come to the army of Missouri-not for a week, or a month, but to free your country. "Strike, till each armed foe expires! Come with your guns of any description, that can be made to bring down a foe. If you have no arms, come without them. Bring cooking utensils and rations for a few weeks. Bring no horses to remain with the army, except those necessary for transportation. We must have fifty thousand men. Give me these men, and, by the help of God, I will drive the hireling thieves and marauders from the State. But if, Missourians, you fail now to rise in your strength and avail yourselves of this opportunity to work for honor and liberty, you cannot say we have not done all we could to save you. You will be advised in time at what point to report for organization and active service. Leave your property at home. What if it all be taken? We have twenty million dollars worth of northern means in Missouri which cannot be recovered when we are once a free State, which will indemnify every citizen who may have lost a dollar by adhesion to the cause of your country. But, in the name of God and the attributes of manhood, let me appeal to you by considerations nobler and firmer than money. Are we a generation of drivelling, snivelling, degraded slaves; or are we men, who can maintain the rights bequeathed to us by our fathers? These rights cannot be surrendered. They are founded on principles, pure, and high, and sacred. Be yours the office to choose between the glory of a free country and a just government, or the bondage of your children. I, at least, will nerer see the chains fastened upon my country, I will ask for six and a half feet of Missouri soil on which to repose, for I will not live to see my people enslaved. Are you coming? Fifty thousand men of Missouri shall move to victory with the tread of a giant. Come on, my brave fifty thousand heroes-gallant, unconquerable southern men! We await your coming. STERLING PRICE, Major-General Commanding Doc. 206. THE SCHOONER "E. WITHINGTON." THE following particulars of the capture of the schooner is taken from a letter dated Hilton Head, December 1st: I received an invitation to go down to Tybee Light in steamer Ben Deford, and gladly accepted the opportunity to see the rebel country. Before starting, we took on board three hundred soldiers as guard, and started on Friday afternoon at four o'clock. We arrived off Tybee Light at dusk, and waited till morning to enter the channel and land the men. Next morning we got under way, and having anchored, prepared to disembark the men. While disembarking, we discovered a schooner with all sail set, steering dead on to the beach. Our captain immediately exclaimed, "That is a rebel schooner trying to run the blockade, and finding she cannot, the captain will beach her." As soon as we had landed the men, the captain of the Ben Deford, young Deford of Baltimore, Pilot Norris, and myself, took a boat and started for the schooner. On landing and getting nearer, we met the captain of the rebel vessel in charge of a marine. The schooner proved to be the E. Withington, with a cargo of coffee. A little further on we met the mate, the same way, and on arriving at the schooner, found her to be, as we supposed, trying to run the blockade, and loaded with cigars, coffee, oranges, wines, olives, and a variety of small stores, which were immediately taken by our forces. I took four boxes of cigars and some oranges, and my friends did the same. This makes one of seven vessels which they have taken at this place within a short time. This finished our tour for Saturday. The soldiers then commenced to reconnoitre the island. All this time we were within gunshot of Fort Pulaski, and yet received no notice from it, and the rebel steamer Gordon was looking on. After lying here all night, we started this morning for Port Royal, and arrived here at nine o'clock A. M. After supper this evening I found Capt. Eldridge on the steamer Atlantic, with Messrs. Eben Bacon and Joseph Balch, President of the Boylston Insurance Office in Boston, and had a long talk with them, and received from them much information from home. Doc. 207. H. COL. LEADBETTER'S PROCLAMATION TO THE CITIZENS OF EAST TENNESSEE. To the Citizens of East Tennessee: established by the voice of the people you did ill to distract the country by angry words and insurrectionary tumult. In doing this you commit the highest crime known to the laws. Out of the Southern Confederacy no people possess such elements of prosperity and happiness as those of East Tennessee. The Southern market which you have hitherto enjoyed only in competition with a host of eager Northern rivals, will now be shared with a few States of the Confederacy, equally fortunate, politically and geographically. Every product of your agriculture and workshops will now find a prompt sale at high prices, and, so long as cotton grows on Confederate soil, so long will the money which it brings flow from the South through all your channels of trade.. At this moment you might be at war with the United States, or any foreign nation, and yet not suffer a tenth part of the evils which pursue you in this domestic strife. No man's life or property is safe, no woman or child can sleep in quiet. You are deluded by selfish demagogues, who take care for their own personal safety. You are citizens of Tennessee, and your State one of the Confederate States. So long as you are up in arms against these States, can you look for any thing but the invasion of your homes and the wasting of your substance? This condition of things must be ended. The Government commands the peace, and sends troops to enforce the order. I proclaim that every man who comes in promptly and delivers up his arms, will be pardoned on taking the oath of allegiance. All men taken in arins against the Government, will be transported to the military prison at Tuscaloosa, and be confined there during the war. Bridge burners and destroyers of railroad tracks are excepted from among those pardonable. They will be tried by drumhead court-martial, and be hung on the spot. D. LEADBETTER, Colonel Commanding. Doc. 208. THE MANUFACTURE OF SALT. ITS NECESSITY AT THE SOUTH. THE Norfolk (Va.) Day Book of November 30, holds the following language on this subject: An opportunity is now presented to individuals or companies, whereby they may not only make money, but give an expression of patriotism which will be too plain to be misapprehended. We refer to the manufacture of salt, as it is well known this article may be manufactured all along our coast, in great plenty and at but little expense; the only process necessary, being the boiling of the water and bleaching the salt, and the only outlay, that attending the purchase of pans and the price paid for labor. Hitherto, the great difficulty in the way of the manufacture of salt, has been the them; and for the maintenance by force of arms of the independence we have proclaimed, we have sent our armies to the field. We have supplied them with arms and munitions of war, and in every sense they are a formidable body. But, as strong and formidable as they are, it is possible to reduce them to the helplessness of children, and that by the simple process of withholding salt from them. Its absence from their food will occasion disease and eventually death, and the very object for which they were organized will be defeated, not by the process of opposing hosts, but by the process we have just given. That there is a scarcity of salt we need not endeavor to hide; and equally apparent is the fact, that if it is not manufactured among us, our people-our army-must suffer for it. Now, does not the individual who supplies this great necessity to the armies of this country, serve her as acceptably and as successfully as the glittering hosts who stand upon her borders for her defence? What could these hosts accomplish, should he withhold that which is essential to their health and life? Their proud banners would soon trail in the dust, and that which is now difficult to our foes, would then become easy. If it should be replied, to what we have written, that no such danger as we apprehend will ever come to pass, and that we are giving too much importance to a small consideration, we have only to say that he who thus thinks cannot be acquainted with the facts which have suggested this article. lack of the pans necessary to the boiling of the water. This difficulty, we are glad to state, has been removed by the proprietors of the Atlantic Iron Works of this city, who, if we are rightly informed, are prepared to fill orders for these pans. When we say that money may be made by any enterprising individual, or individuals, who may engage in this business, we mean precisely what we say, and we mean further that it may be made without any exorbitant charge upon the article. Salt is a necessary, not a luxury of life. Sugar, coffee, and very many other articles, may be dispensed with, and man will be none the worse off for the deprivation; but with salt it is different. Man's health-aye, his very life-depends upon the presence of this article in the food which he consumes; hence, it is not a question with him whether he will use salt or not, but a sheer necessity-an imperative nature that compels him to its use. Its use, then, is universal-the rich, the poor, the high, the low, the great and the small, all require salt, and must have it. Consequently it is an article for which there is always a sale, and which must be had at all hazards. He, then, who undertakes to supply this demand, does it with the perfect knowledge beforehand, that he will sell all of the article that he can possibly make. There is not the least reason for him to apprehend that he can make so much salt that he will never find a market for it; on the contrary, he should and will have reason to congratulate himself if, after his best efforts, he shall be able to meet the demands upon him. For this reason he can manufacture the article and sell it at a reasonable price and make money. His outlay has been small-so small, indeed, as to be liquidated by the sums realized from the sale of the sacks with which he introduces himself in the market. His expenses are exceedingly light, his stock is always salable, and therefore he can afford to sell at a price at which all can pur- SIR: Since the 18th of November the enemy chase, and accumulate in the end a handsome have accumulated at Newport News several sum as the result of his labor. But not only small gunboats and armed tugs. Learning that will he make money, but he will display a they were in the habit of sending several of patriotism which none can misinterpret. He is these gunboats up the river at night, and withnot the only patriot, who goes to the tented drawing them in the morning, induced me to field and meets the enemy in sanguinary strife. take the first favorable opportunity to surprise Every individual who lends his aid to the es- and attack them. This morning being dark tablishment and maintenance of his govern- and suitable for the enterprise, I left our an ment, whether it be by military achievements chorage, off Mulberry Island, at four o'clock in the field, or in the thousand and one ways A. M., and proceeded cautiously down the river, which present themselves in the path of the all lights carefully concealed. I regret, how civilian, is a patriot. He who places the means ever, to say, that I was disappointed in not of sustenance within the reach of his people, finding the steamers as high up the river as ! and he who at the point of the bayonet protects expected. At early daylight we discovered the means thus afforded, are alike patriots, four steamers anchored in line, this side of the though they labor in different fields. Now let frigates, but in supporting distance of them, us see if we cannot with this view of the sub- and the battery at Newport News. We roundject, prove the man who undertakes the man-ed to at a supposed distance of a mile, and ufacture of salt at this important crisis a patriot, commenced the attack with our port battery exhibiting his patriotism in the very act of the and pivot guns, which was returned by the undertaking. We are a people battling for our steamers and the battery on shore, from rifled rights for the protection of our homes and fire- and other guns. Many of the rifled shells came sides from a ruthless foe who seeks to desecrate near and over us, and one struck us, going Doc. 209. FIGHT WITH THE PATRICK HENRY OFFICIAL REPORT BY HER COMMANDER. through the pilot house, and exploding in the starboard hammock nettings, producing slight injury, and wounding one of the pilots and a seaman, very slightly, by the splinters. The engagement lasted two hours, when we returned to our anchorage, the enemy evincing no disposition to advance, either during the engagement or afterwards. We expended twentyeight shells and thirteen solid shot, some of which must have struck, but with what injury to the enemy we are unable to say. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JOHN R. TUCKER, Commander C. S. N. HON. S. R. MALLORY, Sec'y of Navy, Richmond. A NATIONAL ACCOUNT. * * * ON BOARD THE GUNBOAT SAUSHEENE, At six o'clock this morning, in the gloaming, as I still lay snug in my berth, on board the gunboat Sausheene, boom came the roar of a heavy gun, and the yell of a big shell passing over us. In about one minute and a half I was dressed and on deck. At short distance from us lay the little fleet of three small gunboatsthe Hetzel, Saybrook, and Whitehead-in line of battle, and two miles off up the river, just discernible in the heavy morning mists, lay the long hull of the rebel steamer Patrick Henry, the masts hidden by the fog and the smoke of her guns. In another minute we opened on her with our thirty-two-pounder. The rest of the fleet pitched in with their various armaments. Our orders being positive, in case of attack, to fall back on the heavy ships of war lying off Newport News-we being merely a picket guard-we slowly dropped down the river, firing at every moment, and thus led on the enemy until we were within three miles of the frigates. At this moment we perceived that the Patrick Henry was aground, by her remaining stationary and working her engines disconnected. We ran alongside the senior officer's steamer, Capt. Davenport, stated this fact, proposing to run up and rake her before she could get off, but that officer refused, on the ground that the enemy's metal was heavier and her sides iron-plated, rendering it imprudent to attack at close quarters with our small boats. So we had to content ourselves with lying off and practicing long-range firing at the pirate. The Patrick Henry's sides appear to be only plated about the bulwarks. No signs of them could be discerned below, nor does she draw water enough to make it probable that she has plates all over, as, with her armament, she would be very deep. With a glass, her decks could be seen to be crowded with men-three to four hundred at least. Her firing was very good, the shells striking all around us, sometimes striking within twenty feet of us, the pieces flying over us like a flock of birds. During the heaviest firing, we were surprised to see, just ahead of us, a small wherry with an officer and a black man in it. It lay in the track of VOL. III.-Doc. 87 the shells, and every few minutes would be half submerged by the bursting of them on the water. After the fight was over, we found it to be a young officer, Capt. Drake De Kay, of the army, aid to a General on shore, who had pulled off alone to join in the fun. He came on board, to the great relief of his nigger, who was nearly white with fear. The firing was kept up for about two hours-no damage being done on our side, and our shots only hulling the Patrick Henry, and one or two shells bursting over her, the effect of which it was impossible to make out. She then veered around, and, firing a few random shots as a parting salute, steamed rapidly up the James River. Had we had one or two regular gunboats, and not weak tug-boats with heavy guns mounted on them, we could have run up and cut out the rebel flag-ship; but with the poor tubs we have, nothing could be done more than we did do. A SECESSION ACCOUNT. NORFOLK, December 3, 1861. For some days past two or three of the Federal gunboats have been in the habit of running up James River five or six miles above Newport News each evening, and remaining there all night. What the object of this was is unknown, unless it may have been to keep a watch on the movements of the Confederate steamer Patrick Henry. These gunboats on Sunday evening repeated this same manœuvre, and on yesterday morning the Patrick Henry got under way from her position further up James River and came down. On seeing her, the gunboats left immediately and put out down the river towards the blockading ships. The Patrick Henry continued her chase after them, and they ran in under the protection of the guns of the frigates Cumberland and Congress and the fort at Newport News. The Patrick Henry opened fire among them, after getting a desirable position, from her after-gun, firing shell; and, our informant tells, for as much as a half hour she continued to drop her shell on and around the frigate Congress, many of which it is believed, bursted on her decks, with what effect we shall be unable to determine, as the Federals keep all such matters too close. The engagement commenced about quarter-past six and lasted two hours. During the time, the gunboats would frequently sally out from behind the frigates to give the Patrick.Henry a shot, and on such occasion she would soon force them back by a well-directed shot, several of which, it is believed, struck these gunboats. Two of them, (there were four altogether,) after receiving a shot from the Patrick Henry, retired to the immediate vicinity of the wharf at Newport News, while the other two kept their position out of harm's way in the rear of the frigates. They at one time made an attempt to pass up James River so as to flank the Patrick Henry, and, when getting well out from under the protection of the frigate's batteries, the Patrick Henry put chase after them, and they |