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No general engagement has taken place in either department of our armies during the past week. The situation of our armies, as far as we can learn, presents a very active appearance, and we have no doubt, ere many days elapse, to have the pleasure of recording a glorious victory in more than one department.
The same stillness prevails in front of Petersburg that has marked the progress of the campaign for some days past. Grant is making another demonstration on the north side of the James, by sending over a large body of troops. This may only be a repetition of his strategy, previous to his springing the mine, on the 30th July, with the object in view to draw off our forces from his front, and then strike a blow for the reduction of Petersburg. A few days will develoope [sic] his plans, and, whatever they may be, he will find Gen. Lee, as ever, ready to foil him at every point.
From Atlanta we learn, by telegraph, that, with the exception of some heavy skirmishing and occasional shells thrown into the city, nothing has transpired at that point during the past week. Some of the shells thrown into the city had scriptural quotations in Hebrew pasted on them.
The news received by late telegrams, and through the Mobile papers, is not calculated to exonerate from blame, (if not from disgrace) the conduct of Col. Anderson, commanding the garrison at fort Gaines, and Col. Williams, at Fort Powell. The Mobile Register pronounces the capitulation of Fort Gaines, and the evacuation of Fort Powell, as humiliating to our people, and disgraceful to the officers in command.
The cause of the Confederacy will never be upheld, nor our cities saved from destruction, by giving up strong works of defence without a struggle. Officers must be placed in command of such defences who know their duty, and thus knowing it, will endeavor to perform it at all and every hazard.
Had Cols. Anderson and Williams tried the mettle of their respective garrisons, and the power of their guns against the Yankee fleet, and were then compelled, either by the force of superior numbers, or the overpowering weight of metal brought to bear against them, to give up their works, then, in that case, they would have received the plaudits of a grateful people, and their names written, in living characters, on the pages of their country's history.
But as it is, the belief and opinions at prese[n]t entertained by our people in regard to their conduct and actions, without being removed, will brand them as traitors to our common country, and their names ever held in the most profound contempt.
Notwithstanding this defection on the part of these officers, Mobile still stands, proudly defiant as ever; her citizens were arming to aid the regular troops in its defence, and the willingness and alacrity with which the people of all classes have rushed to the defences of the city, must be gratifying to the pride of every Confederate and every Mobilian.
The entire line of works is manned, and if we get none of the reinforcements that are on the way to the city, it can be held against all the available forces the enemy can bring against it. Mobile is, in fact and deed stripped for the fight, and the public composure tells unerringly of the public determination:
From the Valley we have various rumors, (at this writing) without any thing strictly authentic. Gen. Early, from the most reliable information, is at or near Strasburg, awaiting the approach of the enemy. Some skirmishing is said to be going on between the armies, and a great battle is said to be imminent. Joe Hooker is, according to the reports of prisoners, in command of the Yankee army.
A few days ago Mosby attacked one of the enemy's wagon trains at Berryville, in Clarke county, destroyed it, and captured a quartermaster's wagon, with a large amount in greenbacks. He also took some two hundred or three hundred prisoners, who were at Gordonsville yesterday on their way South. Good for Mosby.
Later from Richmond.
An official dispatch, received last night states that the enemy, yesterday, made a determined attack on our line between the Darbytown and Charles City road, and at one time broke through, but he was repulsed and our original positions re-occupied.
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Ran away from the subscriber near Waynesboro, Augusta County, on Sunday morning the 14th inst, my negro Boy named
Tom,
about 19 years of age, black skin, and about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches in height. He had on when he left, a blue coat, grey cloth hat, and brown pants. It is probable that he is taken to the Mountain, intending to travel through it, and by that means make his escape.
David D. Koiner.
August 19.--5t.
"The following, from the Hartford Times, shows that some people in the North are capable of judging impartially of Grant's campaign--the most stupendous failure of modern times:"