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Otago Daily Times, Issue 188, 23 June 1862, Page 4

General Beauregard published the following order of the. day on.assuming commaffl of the army in the Mississippi:—'" ""Head-quarters of the Mississippi, Jackson, Tennessee, March 6,1862. "General Order. —Soldiers,—l assumethisdnythe command of the Army of the Mississippi, for the defence of our homesteads and liberties, and to resist the sucjugation, spoliation, and dishonour of our people. Our mothers and wives, our sisters and children, expect us to do our duty, even to the sacrifice of our lives. ■ , " Our losses since the commencement of the present war, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, are now about the same as those of the enemy. "He must be made to atone for tho3e reverses we have lately experienced. Those reverses, far from disheartening, must nerve us to new deeds of valour and patriotism, and should inspire us with an unconquerably determination to drive back our invaders. " Should any one in this nnny'be unequal to the task before" us, let him transfer his arms and equipments at once to braver, firmer hands, and return to his home, • " Our cause is as just and sacred as ever animated men to take up arms; and if we are true to it and to ourselves, with the continued protection of the Almighty, we must and shall triumph.

' GeNRAL M'GLEIiIAN AND PRESIDENT LINCOLN. — Thei President himself became suspicious .about the young General's great plans, and is said to have uttered confidentially, " I don't think that fellow has any plan at all.'' When at last M'Clellan went to Harper's Ferry, great excitement prevailed in all the camps along the Potomac, and the General's admirers and friends predicted wonders of strategy. However, what the General accomplished there was not'particularly. important, and people laughed -when they heard that he nad forgotten his artillery when crossing the Potomac. President Lincoln, however, did hot laugh, but sent him, it is said, a very laconical telegraphic message,—" Why; the d——didn't, you send for your guns?1' On which'the General an-, swered, "Ishall explain all on my return." That explanation between '.'Old Abe,". the General, and the Secretary of War, Mr.. Stanton, was rather stormy, and finished with the Secretary's saying, '.' If you do not advance in ten day's from to-day I shall find somebody else who does."—Correspondence of The Times. ... .■ ' . ,

Governor Brown, of Georgia, .in a proclamation forbidding the manufacture of- ardent, spirits, says:— " Gun metal used in the manufacture of field-pieces is composed of ninety parts of copper and ten of tin. The copper stills of Georgia, which are now heavy columbiads of destruction aimed against'our own people, would, if manufactured into \cannon, make many a battery of six-pounders, to be turned against; the enemy. Upon" this material-tlnis employed in our holy, cause, we would invoke God's; blessing.-' Upon it as now employed we can Only expect his curse."