gressmen were standing. One ball fell direct- | been heavy. Among the killed, is said to be one ly in the midst of a group of Congressmen, among whom was Owen Lovejoy, but injured no one, the members scampering in different directions, sheltering among trees, &c. It is said to have been admirably served, too, as the heavy list of killed and the disabling of Sherman's battery amply testify. There were a number of ritle-pits also in front of the batteries, from which much execution was done by expert riflemen. The Congressmen were greatly impressed with the extent and magnitude of the earthworks, intrenchments, &c., erected by the Confederates from Alexandria to Centreville and beyond. They were all of the most formidable and extensive character. Colonel Fountain-at least, a deserter so stated. The excesses of the Federal troops in Virginia are exciting general indignation among army officers. A member of Congress, who visited the scene this morning, states that the village of Germantown has been entirely burnt, with the exception of one house, in which lay a sick man, who had been robbed, he was told, by an army surgeon, of nearly every article he possessed of the slightest value, even to his jack-knife. Gen. McDowell has issued orders that the first soldier detected in perpetrating these depredations shall be shot, and has ordered that a guard be placed over the principal residences of any town the troops may enter. MEMPHIS "APPEAL" ACCOUNT. It is thought by them that Manassas Junction is encircled by a chain of batteries, which can only be penetrated by severe fighting. All RICHMOND, July 19, 1861. the intrenchments evidence consummate skill A slight skirmish occurred between the conin their construction. The entire column under tending forces at Fairfax Court House on WedGen. McDowell fell back at 8 o'clock on Thurs-nesday, which resulted in the Federals occupyday evening, a short distance from Centreville, where they encamped. They were joined during the evening by Heintzelman's command, and on the succeeding morning by that of Col. Burnside, all of which troops are encamped there. Later in the evening, Gen. Schenck's brigade of Ohio troops was sent forward on the Hainesville road to flank the batteries, but no tidings had been heard of them up to 8 o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning, when the Congressmen left Gen. McDowell's head-quarters, bringing with them his despatches to the War Depart ment. ing the town, the Confederate forces retiring to Centreville. On Thursday a general engagement occurred, extending along the line from Centreville to Bull Run. The enemy's column numbered twenty thousand, and was under the command of Major-General McDowell and two brigadiers. The confederate forces were led by Generals Bonham and Longstreet, and numbered eight thousand. In the attack the Yankees were repulsed with great slaughter, while the Confederate loss was very trifling. The War Department furnished no particulars. The Virginia and South Carolina troops were the principal sufferers, they being in the advance of our forces. No officers of distinction were killed. These despatches put the loss of the Federalists in killed at 5, but Mr. McClernand states that he himself saw a greater number than that RICHMOND, July 19.-Beauregard achieved a killed. All of these gentlemen agree in esti- great victory to-day. At daybreak this morninating the number killed at 100. The disparing the enemy appeared in force at Bull Run, ity between the statements of the gentlemen and the official despatches is accounted for by the fact that the latter are based upon the returns of the surgeons, and that many of the killed are oftentimes never reported until after the publication of the official accounts. and attempted to cross the stream. A severe battle ensued, three miles northwest of Manassas. Beauregard commanded in person. Federal commander not yet known. The battle was at its height at four o'clock in the afternoon. Ceased at five. The enemy repulsed three times. They retreated in confusion, having suffered a considerable loss. Our casualties were small. The First and Seventeenth Virginia regiments were prominent in the fight. Col. Moore was slightly wounded. The Washington Artillery, of New Orleans, did great execution. The fight extended all along the whole line from Bull Run nearly a mile. Wm. Singser, rifleman, killed a federal officer of high rank, and took seven hundred dollars in gold from his person. Capt. Delaney, of the Seventh Virginia regiGeneral McDowell expressed no fears of be- ment, was slightly wounded. A shot passed ing attacked, but seemed apprehensive of some through the kitchen of a house in which Beauof the volunteer corps stumbling upon a mask-regard was at dinner. The enemy fired into ed battery, and thus "precipitating a general engagement." One remarkable fact which commanded the special attention of the members of Congress was the absence, from that portion of Virginia visited by them, of all the male inhabitants capable of bearing arms. They state that they saw but few people, and those were chiefly old women and children. The women seemed to regard the soldiers with bitter hostility, and, to quote the language of one of the Congressmen, their " eyes fairly flashed fire whenever they looked at a soldier." The loss of the Confederates was not known, but is conjectured by the Federalists to have the Confederate hospital, notwithstanding the yellow flag waved from it. LATER-Apparently reliable advices from Fairfax, say the Federalists advanced this morn ing, ten thousand strong, and after a four hours' | same service, in his present command, which fight were repulsed by seven thousand Confederates under Gen. Bonham, and retired toward Alexandria. Doo. 105. WAR DEPARTMENT ORDER. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, July 19, 1861. 1. BREVET SECOND-LIEUTENANT CLARENCE DERRICK, Corps of Engineers, Brevet SecondLieutenant James P. Parker, Fourth Infantry, and Brevet Second-Lieutenant Frank A. Reynolds, Second Dragoons, members of the class just graduated at West Point, having tendered their resignations in the face of the enemy, are dismissed from the service of the United States, to date from the 16th inst. 2. Military Storekeeper and Paymaster, Dennis Murphy, Ordnance Department, is hereby dismissed from the army. 3. Officers mustering in troops will be careful that men from one company or detachment are not borrowed for the occasion to swell the ranks of others about to be mustered. In future no volunteer will be mustered into the service who is unable to speak the English language. Mustering officers will at all times hold themselves in readiness to muster out of service such regiments of volunteers as may be entitled to their discharge. will in future be called the Department of Maryland, head-quarters at Baltimore. Upon being relieved by Major-General Dix, MajorGeneral Banks will proceed to the Valley of Virginia, and assume command of the army now under Major-General Patterson, when that Department will be called the Department of the Shenandoah, head-quarters in the field. 3. The following-named general officers will be honorably discharged upon the expiration of their terms of service, as set hereinafter opposite their respective names, viz.: New York State Militia-Major-General Sanford, August 18, 1861. New Jersey Volunteers-Brigadier-General Theo. Runyon, July 30, 1861. Ohio Volunteers-Brigadier-General J. D. Cox, July 30, 1861. Brigadier-General N. Schlesh, July 30, 1861. Brigadier-General J. N. Bates, August 27, 1861. Indiana Volunteers-Brigadier-General T. A. Morris, July 27, 1861. 4. Surgeons of brigades rank as surgeons only. 5. Officers mustering out volunteers will charge upon the rolls the indebtedness of the troops to the State by what they were furnished. By order, L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General. Doc. 107. ST. CHARLES, Mo., July 19, 1861. To the People of North Missouri: 4. Officers of the volunteer service tendering their resignations will forward them through the PROCLAMATION OF BRIG.-GEN. POPE intermediate commanders to the officer commanding the department or corps d'armée in which they may be serving, who is hereby authorized to grant them honorable discharges. This commander will immediately report his action to the Adjutant-General of the Army, who will communicate the same to the Governor of the State to which the officer belongs. Vacancies occurring among the commissioned officers in volunteer regiments will be filled by the Gov-surances that you would respect the laws of the ernors of the respective States by which the rest were furnished. Information of such appointments will in all cases be furnished to the Adjutant-General of the Army. By order. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General. Doo. 106. GENERAL ORDER No. 46. By virtue of proper authority, I have assumed the command in North Missouri. I appear among you with force strong enough to maintain the authority of the Government, and too strong to be resisted by any means in your possession usual in warfare. Upon your own as United States and preserve peace, no troops 1. MAJOR-GENERAL ROBERT PATTERSON of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, will be honorably discharged from the service of the United States, against the Federal authority, who attempt to I, therefore, warn all persons taken in arms on the 27th instant, when his term of duty will commit depredation upon public or private propexpire. Brevet Major-General Cadwalader, al-erty, or who molest unoffending and peaceful so of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, will be hon- citizens, that they will be dealt with in the orably discharged upon the receipt of this order, most summary manner, without awaiting civil as his term of service expires to-day. 2. Major-General Dix, of the United States forces, will relieve Major-General Banks, of the process. JNO. POPE, Brigadier-General U. S. A., Commanding. Doo. 108. GEN. MCCLELLAN TO HIS SOLDIERS. '} HEAD-QUARTERS ARMY OF OCCUPATION, WESTERN VIRGINIA, BEVERLY, VA., July 19, 1861. SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY OF THE WEST: I am more than satisfied with you. You have annihilated two armies, commanded by educated and experienced soldiers, intrenched in mountain fastnesses and fortified at their leisure. You have taken five guns, twelve colors, fifteen hundred stand of arms, one thousand prisoners, including more than forty officers. One of the second commanders of the rebels is a prisoner, the other lost his life on the field of battle. You have killed more than two hundred and fifty of the enemy, who has lost all his baggage and camp equipage. All this has been accomplished with the loss of twenty brave men killed and sixty wounded on your part. You have proved that Union men, fighting. for the preservation of our Government, are more than a match for our misguided and erring brothers. More than this, you have shown mercy to the vanquished. You have made long and arduous marches, with insufficient food, frequently exposed to the inclemency of the weather. I have not hesitated to demand this of you, feeling that I could rely on your endurance, patriotism, and courage. In the future I may have still greater demands to make upon you, still greater sacrifices for you to offer. It shall be my care to provide for you to the extent of my ability; but I know now that, by your valor and endurance, you will accomplish all that is asked. Soldiers! I have confidence in you, and I trust you have learned to confide in me. Remember that discipline and subordination are qualities of equal value with courage. I am proud to say that you have gained the highest reward that American troops can receive-the thanks of Congress and the applause of your fellow-citizens. GEO. B. MCCLELLAN, Major-General. Doc. 109. THE STANDING COMMITTEES. On Foreign Affairs.-Messrs. Rhett, Nisbet, Perkins, Walker, Keitt. On Finance.-Messrs. Toombs, Barnwell, Kenner, Barry, McRae. On Commercial Affairs.-Messrs. Memminger, Crawford, De Clouet, Morton, Curry. On the Judiciary.-Messrs. Clayton, Withers, Hale, Cobb, Harris. On Naval Affairs.-Messrs. Conrad, Chesnut, Smith, Wright, Owens. On Military Affairs.-Messrs. Bartow, Miles, THE "CONFEDERATE" GOVERNMENT. Sparrow, Kenan, Anderson. On Postal Affairs.-Messrs. Chilton, Boyce, Hill, Harrison, Curry. On Patents.-Messrs. Brooke, Wilson, Lewis, Hill, Kenner. On Territories.-Messrs. Chesnut, Campbell, Marshall, Nisbet, Fearn. On Public Lands.-Messrs. Marshall, Harris, Fearn, Anderson, Wright. On Indian Affairs.-Messrs. Morton, Hale, Lewis, Keitt, Sparrow. On Printing-Messrs. T. R. R. Cobb, Harrison, Milés, Chilton, Perkins. On Accounts.-Messrs. Owens, DeClouet, Campbell, Smith, Crawford. On Engrossments.-Messrs. Shorter, Wilson, Kenan, McRae, Bartow MESSAGE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. DELIVERED AT RICHMOND JULY 20. Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate States of America: I have again to congratulate you on the accession of new members to our Confederation of free and equally sovereign States. Our loved and honored brethren of North Carolina and Tennessee have consummated the action foreseen and provided for at your last session, and I have had the gratification of announcing, by proclamation, in conformity with law, that these States were admitted into the Confederacy. The people of Virginia, also, by a majority previously unknown in our history, have ratified the action of her Convention uniting her fortunes with ours. The States of Arkansas, North Carolina, and Virginia have likewise adopted the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, and no doubt is entertained of its adoption by Tennessee, at the election to be held early in next month. the President of the United States and his advisers succeeded in deceiving the people of these States into the belief that the purpose of this Government was not peace at home, but conquest abroad; not defence of its own liberMy message addressed to you at the com- ties, but subversion of those of the people of mencement of the last session contained such the United States. The series of manoeuvres full information of the state of the Confederacy by which this impression was created; the art as to render it unnecessary that I should now with which they were devised, and the perfidy do more than call your attention to such im- with which they were executed, were already portant facts as have occurred during the re-known to you, but you could scarcely have supcess, and the matters connected with the public posed that they would be openly avowed, and defence. their success made the subject of boast and self-laudation in an executive message. Fortunately for truth and history, however, the President of the United States details, with minuteness, the attempt to reinforce Fort Pickens, in violation of an armistice of which he confessed to have been informed, but only by rumors, too vague and uncertain to fix the attention of the hostile expedition despatched to supply Fort Sumter, admitted to have been undertaken with the knowledge that its success was impossible. The sending of a notice to the Governor of South Carolina of his intention to use force to accomplish his object, and then quoting from his inaugural address the assurance that "there could be no conflict unless these States were the aggressors," he proceeds to declare his conduct, as just related by himself, was the performance of a promise, so free from the power of ingenious sophistry as that the world should not be able to misunderstand it; and in defiance of his own statement that he gave notice of the approach of a hostile fleet, he charges these States with becoming the assailants of the United States, without a gun in sight, or in expectancy, to return their fire, save only a few in the fort. He is, indeed, fully justified in saying that the case is so free from the power of ingenious sophistry that the world will not be able to misunderstand it. Under cover of this unfounded pretence, that the Confederate States are the assailants, that high functionary, after expressing his concern that some foreign nations had so shaped their action as if they supposed the early destruction of the national Union probable, abandons all further disguise, and proposes to make this contest a short and decisive one, by placing at the control of the Government for the work at least four hundred thousand men, and four hundred millions of dollars. The Congress, concurring in the doubt thus intimated as to the sufficiency of the force demanded, has increased it to half a million of men. I deemed it advisable to direct the removal of the several executive departments, with their archives, to this city, to which you have removed the seat of Government. Immediately after your adjournment, the aggressive movements of the enemy required prompt, energetic action. The accumulation of his forces on the Potomac sufficiently demonstrated that his efforts were to be directed against Virginia, and from no point could necessary measures for her defence and protection be so effectively decided, as from her own capital. The rapid progress of events, for the last few weeks, has fully sufficed to lift the veil, behind which the true policy and purposes of the Government of the United States had been previously concealed. Their odious features now stand fully revealed. The message of their President, and the action of their Congress during the present month, confess their intention of the subjugation of these States, by a war, by which it is impossible to attain the proposed result, while its dire calamities, not to be avoided by us, will fall with double severity on themselves. Commencing in March last, with the affectation of ignoring the secession of seven States, which first organized this Government; persevering in April in the idle and absurd assumption of the existence of a riot, which was to be dispersed by a posse comitatus; continuing in successive months the false representation that these States intended an offensive war, in spite of conclusive evidence to the contrary, furnished as well by official action as by the very basis on which this Government is constituted, VOL. II.-Doc. 28 These enormous preparations in men and money, for the conduct of the war, on a scale more grand than any which the new world ever witnessed, is a distinct avowal, in the eyes of civilized man, that the United States are engaged in a conflict with a great and powerful nation. They are at last compelled to abandon the pretence of being engaged in dispersing rioters and suppressing insurrections, and are driven to the acknowledgment that the ancient Union has been dissolved. They recognize the separate existence of these Confederate States, by an interdictive embargo and blockade of all commerce between them and the United States, not only by sea, but by land; not only in ships, but in cars; not only with those who bear arms, but with the entire population of the Confederate States. Finally, they have repudiated the foolish conceit that the inhabitants of this Confederacy are still citizens of the United States; for they are waging an indiscriminate war upon them all, with savage ferocity, unknown in modern civilization. prisoners of war by such severity of retaliation on prisoners held by us as should secure the abandonment of the practice. This communication was received and read by an officer in command of the United States forces, and a message was brought from him by the bearer of my communication, that a reply would be returned by President Lincoln as soon as possible. I earnestly hope this promised reply (which has not yet been received) will convey the assurance that prisoners of war will be priated to criminals of the worst dye, and threatened with punishment as such. I had made application for the exchange of these prisoners to the commanding officer of the eneiny's squadron off Charleston, but that offcer had already sent the prisoners to New York when application was made. I therefore deemed it my duty to renew the proposal for the exchange to the constitutional commanderin-chief of the army and navy of the United States, the only officer having control of the prisoners. To this end, I despatched an officer to him under a flag of truce, and, in making the In this war, rapine is the rule; private proposal, I informed President Lincoln of my houses, in beautiful rural retreats, are bom-resolute purpose to check all barbarities on barded and burnt; grain crops in the field are consumed by the torch, and, when the torch is not convenient, careful labor is bestowed to render complete the destruction of every article of use or ornament remaining in private dwellings after their inhabitants have fled from the outrages of brute soldiery. In 1781 Great Britain, when invading the revolted_colonies, took possession of every district and county near Fortress Monroe, now occupied by the troops of the United States. The houses then inhabited by the people, after being respected and pro-treated, in this unhappy contest, with that retected by avowed invaders, are now pillaged gard for humanity, which has made such conand destroyed by men who pretend that Vir- spicuous progress in the conduct of modern ginians are their fellow-citizens. Mankind will warfare. As measures of precaution, however, shudder at the tales of the outrages committed and until this promised reply is received, I still on defenceless families by soldiers of the United retain in close custody some officers captured States, now invading our homes; yet these from the enemy, whom it had been my pleasoutrages are prompted by inflamed passions ure previously to set at large on parole, and and the madness of intoxication. But who whose fate must necessarily depend on that of shall depict the horror they entertain for the prisoners held by the enemy. I append a copy cool and deliberate malignancy which, under of any communication to the President and comthe pretext of suppressing insurrection, (said by mander-in-chief of the army and navy of the themselves to be upheld by a minority only of United States, and of the report of the officer our people,) makes special war on the sick, in- charged to deliver my communication. There cluding children and women, by carefully-de-are some other passages in the remarkable pavised measures to prevent them from obtaining per to which I have directed your attention, the medicines necessary for their cure. The having reference to the peculiar relations which sacred claims of humanity, respected even dur- exist between this Government and the States ing the fury of actual battle, by careful diver- usually termed Border Slave States, which cansion of attack from hospitals containing wound-not properly be withheld from notice. The ed enemies, are outraged in cold blood by a Government and people that pretend to desire a continuance of fraternal connections. All these outrages must remain unavenged by the universal reprehension of mankind. In all cases where the actual perpetrators of the wrongs escape capture, they admit of no retaliation. The humanity of our people would shrink instinctively from the bare idea of urging a like war upon the sick, the women, and the children of an enemy. But there are other savage practices which have been resorted to by the Government of the United States, which do admit of repression by retaliation, and I have been driven to the necessity of enforcing the repression. The prisoners of war taken by the enemy on board the armed schooner Savannah, sailing under our commission, were, as I was credibly advised, treated like common felons, put in irons, confined in a jail usually appro hearts of our people are animated by sentiments toward the inhabitants of these States, which found expression in your enactment refusing to consider them enemies, or authorize hostilities against them. That a very large portion of the people of these States regard us as brethren; that, if unrestrained by the actual presence of large armies, subversion of civil authority, and declaration of martial law, some of them, at least, would joyfully unite with us; that they are, with almost entire unanimity, opposed to the prosecution of the war waged against us, are facts of which daily-recurring events fully warrant the assertion that the President of the United States refuses to recognize in these, our late sister States, the right of refraining from attack upon us, and justifies his refusal by the assertion that the States have no other power than that reserved to them in the Union by the Constitution. Now, one of them having ever |