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COLUMBUS TIMhS Published Daily (Sundays exempted) at the rate of $3.50 per month, or $lO for three months. No subscription received for a longer term, than three months. AI>V ERT ISIA'CJ AAT ES : Advertisements inserted fox - $2 00 per square for the first insertion and $1 50 for each additional. Where advertisements are inserted a month, the charge will be S2O per square. Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably be paid in advance. A deduction of 20 percent, will be made on all advertising accounts over SSO, when prompt l»»X* ' inent is made. m Change of Schedule AN and after Sunday, aafolfowsT^ U the Muscogee Railroad wdl r PASSENGER TRAIN: 0 15 P. M. Leave Columbus " _ 2 52 A. M. Arrii" at Mn-on 9 35 p t »> a - «■ FREIGHT TRAIN: ] ea'vc Ou’umbus 5 30 A. M. Afriv ■ .it Columbus t 35 P. M. A W. L. CLARK. mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R. R. NEW BOOKS, NEW BOOKS, JUST RECEIVED! jVH -A. O-A. RIA! by tiie author of BEULAH. For sale by It. 11. .JONES, apl 26 fit 11'-' Broad street. DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES. 4 ia, :i|> iiir rash. $5 Bills taken at par by apl2s 6t If. FISCHACKER. , Police to Planters* l a:n au hy the Government TO EXCHANGE Sheetings, Cotton Yarns, SUGAR AND SSNA6URGS FOR Bacon Sid Los, inns a\i» siuin.KKKs, fur supplying the Array. JNO. J. McKENDREE, apl 18 2m Agent. s. 'W : SIXQ-3BCT, SUCCKSSOR TO ROBINETT & CO., Corner of Broad and Warren Street s, Columbus, Oa., MANUFACTURE! OF Superior Candles and Lard oi3, AND DEALER IN GENERAL COUNTRY PRODUCE, OSNABURGS, Sheetings, Yarns, etc., exchanged for llacon, Lard, Potatoes, etc. Tallow and Beeswax Wanted. It is hoped that the liberal course which will be adopted will secure a generous patronage, april 29—1 in GOODRICH & GO., (Formerly of New Orleans,) 74 BHOAD ST., COLUMBUS, Ur A., WHOLESALE AM) RETAIL Staple cfc Fancy DRY-GOODS. V RE constantly receiving fraffi importations, di -11 rect from Europe, of staple and fancy DRY GOODS, which they offer cheap for cash. fob 5 3m For Jiul&e oi Probate. V{ o arc authorized to announce GEORGE 11. WADDELL, (the present incumbent) for re-election to the office of Probate Judge of Russell county, Ala. Election Ist Monday in May, apl 9 tde Foa PILLOW’S COMMAND." IIKAUQUARTKRS CAVALRY, I Northern District Alabama. J Limit Eugene C. Gordon is authorized, to raise a Company of Cavalry, to be attached to Brig Gen Pillow' comm and, lie may receive persons under 18 and over *5, or any others not suhiee* t*> Muoaiu tion. The company, when raised, will be paid, armed and equipped as other Cavalry in the Con federate service. _ By order of Brig Gen PILLOW. Jno C Burch, A A G. I am now absojit'frotn the Army of Northern Vir ginia, by authority of.the Secretary of War for the purpose of raising this Company. All persons be tween the age's of 17 and 18 and 45 and 50, arc invi ted to join thi ; command, provided they are men ot good moral habits. It. is earnestly desired that those of us who asso ciate ourselves together in this company may again return to our homes with our morals unimpaired. Any person desiring to join can do so by reporting to any enrolling officer, or to Capt. Knight, Provost Marshal at Columbus, who is authorized to grant furloughs until the sth day of May, at which time they will report to me at office Post Commandant at Columbus, Ga., for the purpose of organizing ai'd electing officers, EUGENE C. GORDON, april 21 —Iw Lieut P A C S, Columbus, ten IVil O 1 OtfUTL’Cfl — im. 13. A. ROSSY. GOIIMEIILY Surgeon to the New Orleans "Fe l 1 male Infirmary,” tenders his services to tho Cit irens of Cnlumbu- in all the branches of his profes sion. Sooei.il attontiou will bo devoted .to ihe treatment, I of the diseases ofwomem. j b Surgical operations performed for ; Fistula in Ano, Visico-Vaginal fistula, 1 Hydrocele, Congenital and Accidental Phyraosis, j Viflticoeele, 11-emorrhoids or Piles, Callous Impas sable strictures, False Passages, Tallapoaor Club Foot, and contraction of the fingers. Strabismus or S limiting. Aneurism, Vurix or dilated veins, Ptery gium, Cataract Anti Hair Hip; also for the remov al of all tumors or abnormal growths from any part of the body. Diseases of tits Geuite-Urinary System, eomprsiug tho different stages of Ghtmorrhoea, Strictures, Gravel, Spermatorrhea. Syphilis, in its primary secondsi .. .tertiary and kmiditury i'oruis,wtll receive particular attention. References given whoiiovcr desired as well its the rcoomuicu latum of many.years practice in New Or leans; (’• is.diaiiou hours every day at his office in the Masonic Hall Building, from 10 to 12 o'clock a, m„ and trom 4 o'clock p, m, Patients will do well to call precisely 4t those hours, as before and; after that lime will be devoted to visitios persons in the city. Address all .'.mmuicatious to DU. E. A. 110SSY. Columbus. Ob. „,N. B. —Persons from a distance having servants requiting surgical <t medical treat incut, will be provi oil with comfortable quarters, but in all cases will have o fur. ish tlmir own provisions and bed ding. tcir l will also bestow particular attention to the treatment of the differotu forms of Ulcers, Rheu t .::stions, SypbHitie erup tions. r.: t al; ml ' ’tr nie diseases of tae skin.-* Med'... -ed Eu C an l Steam S;b ’ Baths in ->A Aw'.;,tl» in Europe anu Ann-, t. •• . ’ ... o uiy treatment. fob 11 bm E. A. K. (ity Tims! City Taxes! 1 M . f ’ o found for a few days at the store of li. 1 ''but; ' rook, wlt.-io par ties interested will please call and lu.tke return" of property taxed by tho city. -M. M, MOORE, api 16 2w City Clerk. IE vpyu.vKTEßs Ksaoi.usa Ofiick,) bi« < oNOKKSHf.M M.DISTRII .. V f olumbus, Ga., April 11th, 1864.) All me; oiwt n t’ne ages of 17 and IS, and 45 and 50, in the Third Congressional District, will rendez vous at C' ■lum’.us, Ga., on the leth of April, prepar . itory to mganieiiig themselves into Companies. W. S. WALLACE. Captain and Enrolling Officer. apll2-tf VUiv 11 aaaislai* ior v. THE UNDE.REIGNED is; :co arc * io fill a'.iorders for O Xa T 7 S3 Os a u , >ll V" ; -Mrcssc to the ur..;•••'•a I wiffi Cm m mey enclosed, tinle ordered i, , x , when aiders will be hi id a |-mpi,l sr.u. u. * .. T ILFORD 7.ORKOWSKI £ CA apr 1 l.a „ Vol. XI. J. W. WARREN & C». Proprietors J. w. U AIIREV, Editor (£itg fltilitarg Dimtorg- HEADQUARTERS POST —119 Broad Street, Up Stairs. Col. J. W. Robertson, Com’g. Gapt. Chas. Wood, A. A. G. Capt. J. S. Smith, A A k I G W. T. McKbkdree, Chief Clerk. ENR OL LI EG O FFICE. Capt. W. S. Wallace —rear of Jones’ Building. ORDNA NCE DEE A R TMENT. Cor. Olgcthorpe ami St. Clair Sts. Maj. F. C. Hi Mi’ ll he vs, Com’g. Capt W. Latham, Ex. Officer. Lieut. J. M. Mulder, Military Store Keeper QUARTERMASTER DEFT. At No. 15 Broad Broad St. Maj. F. W. Dillard, Corn’g. Maj. John E. Davis, Post Q. M. Capt. H. D. Cothran, A. Q. M. C O MAI IS SAR Y DEF T. At King, Alien & Cawak’s Warehouse. Maj. A. M. Allen, Com’g. Capt. J. 11. Graybill, A. C. S. ENGINEER 1 S DEFT Capt. Theodore Mop.Rxo. Lieut. W. A. llansell. MEDICAL DEFT. G. B. Douglass, Post Surgeon. (Office at Wayside Home.) J S White, General Hospital Snrg. in Charge. J P Moore, u “ Surgeon. L D Carson, “ “ Ass’t Surgeon. R Fowler, “ “ “ “ W W Dickie, “ u “ “ NAVAL DEFT. Office near the Old Bridge. J. 11. Warner, Chf. Engineer. PR OVO S T MA R SEAL. Capt. Geo. N. Knight, (East of the Bank of Columbus. Examining Board. J S White, Senior Surgeon. The Board meets at the General* Hospital on Tuesdays and Fridays. C. S. ARSENAL, 1 Columbus, Ga.. April 5, 1864. j Notice. I WISH TO EXCHANGE FOR BACON on equitable terms, Sugar Mills, * Sugar and Salt Kettles, And all kinds PLANTATION IRON; Also POWDER. As this Bacon is needed to supply the necessities of the employees of the Ordnance Department, at this place and Richmond, it is hoped that holders wil give the Government the preference. F. O. HUMPHREYS, apl 7 ts Maj. Comd’g Arsenal. “ IVoilce to Planters aisd Coa ssatiiers «3‘ 1r0n. ,? VUE Will keep for ,sale, for Confederate funds, or \V exchange for country produce —such as Corn, Fodder, Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Peas, Potatoes-, Tal low, Butter, 'Wheat of Flour —the following articles, on hand or made to order: PLOW AND SCOOTER BAR IRON ; FLAT, ROUND AND SQUARE BAR IRON; HOOP, HORSE SHOE, NAIL ROD; IRON COTTON TILS (CHEAPER THAN ROPE) FOR BALING ; SHOVELS AND SPADES: r~iv 1 PANS; POT WARE OF SEVERAL DESCRIP TIONS ; SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES—FROM 40 TO 100 GALLONS; SUGAR MILLS—I3 AND 15 INCH, Wo arc prepared to receive and fill orders for any sizes and quantity of iron, from *our iron Works and Rolling Mill in Alabama. JOHN D. GRAY & CO., apr 3 ts Next to New Bridge, Office Mobile and Girard R. R.. ) Columbus, Ga., April 5, 1864. | Thc'Stockholdcrs of the Mobile &’Girard Railroad Company, are hereby notified that the five per cent tax, levied by the law passed February 17th, 1864, on the value of all shares held in Railroad or other Companies, will be paid by the Treasurer at this office and they will therefore emit the stock held in this Company in their lists to Assessors. J. M. FRAZER, aid 6 ts Treasurer. lIEADQ’RS GEORGIA RESERVES, \ Macon, April 18th, 1564. J General Orders, 1 No. 5. j I. Companies and Regiments composed of men between the ages of 17 and IS, and 45 and 50, will bo received and mustered into the service, provided they are organized and tendered within the thirty days prescribed by law for enrollment, after notice by the District Enrolling Officer. 11. All such Companies and Regiments must re port forthwith after bein§ organized, at Macon, Sa vannah or Atlanta, as required by General Orders No. 4, from these Headquarters. 111. The Officers, both Field and Company, arc to be elected by the men—a majority of all the votes given being necessary to an election. Elections can be hold by one Justice of the Peace and two free holders, or by three Commissioned Officers of the Confederate Army, and tho returns thereof for warded with the muster rolls to these Headquarters. By Command of M A JOR GENERAL HOWELL COBB. R. J. II vllktt, A. A, General. apl2s d6t. Martha A. Taylor) label for Divorce in Marion vs >Superior Court. Returnable to Green B. Taylor. ) September Term, 1864. At Columbus, April 2d, 1864. I T appearing'to the.CourtJbjfthe return of the Sher- I iff. that the defendant is not to be found in the county, and it further appearing to the Court by other evidence that the dei'endeufc does not reside ia the State. , T ANARUS; is therefore ordered by the Court that service be perfected on the defendant by publication of this order once a month for four months, before the next term of the Court, iu some newspaper of this EDMOND H. WORRILL, J. S. C. C. C. A true extract from the minutes, this April sth, Is,>4. GEO. W. itfoDUFI IE, apl 7 mint er^' Shoemakers’ ;md Saddlers’ TOOLS. fr-HE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the L manufacture of the above named articles in this Air. are prepared to fill orders for the saute. Office on Angle street, a 4 few doors above k. S. IL o ital. HARRISON. BEDELL & CO. Reference —Maj. F. W. Dilurd. Mobile Register, MisA siw iau and Augusta Con stitutionalist. please copy one mouth and send bills to "this office. mar Al ts _ WA\Ti;y. i w IN Ito hire one hundred NEGRO Labor <; I Test Mules Teams, 4or 6 mules each, and > Yoke of Oxen to get and haul Timber for tho FU road Bridge, over the Tombigbee river, near i mo polls. ~ 1 a’s want to employ iiiteen Hurpeuiers,w..- mm or negroes for the same work. _ I will pay liberal prices and furntsn rations ana .IL 1 .., i-aic of Mai. M. Mvrnwetlier. tin; r , v p B-4RKERi Ag’t for A. L. Maxwell. apl 13 dlwAwlm Columbus, Oa., Thursday Homing, April 28,1864. Thursday Morning, JApril !8,1864. FOR CHATTAHOOCHEE. Steamer Marianna, Captain H. W. Van Veghten, will leave for C hattahoochee THURSDAY morning at 8 o’clock. * Correspondence of the Times. Dalton, Ga., April 21st, 1864. Ed. Times Indications in front, es well as ac tivity in camp, give promise of a renewal of active operations. Er-- this reaches you we may have abandoned winwr quarters and again spread our blankets in lue open air, in line of battle. Placing our trust in the justness of the cause for which we tight, with a firm reliance upon Divine appro val we are prepared, as this army has ever been, to meet the enemy and defeat him. I scarcely be lieve, however, that he intends risking a general engagement here. The object he has in view. I suspect, is only to hold this army in check whilst Grant attacks Lee with every available man. Although the successful invasion of Georgia and its temporary occupation would do’our pause incalculable mischief, they would be forced as was Sherman in Mississippi to retire whipped by nat ural obstacles if not by force of arms. The last result would be as probable as the first. With Longstreet in East Tenuessoe, and the indomita ble Forrest and Polk in West Tennessee and Mis sissippi, any force they conld bring to hear would be crushed and utterly ruined by the combination. ■Sherman’s mule stealing expedition has learned them a lesson which they will not forget. The man on horseback has Lee and Richmond in his eye, and unless his heart fail him will seek to grasp with his hands that which his ambition covets. The game is doubtless made up, and if he can win, Grant is the greatest captain of the age. All Yankeedom will bend the knee to the new Csesar, and we, whilst we would detest the princi ples for which he fights, would be compelled to ad mire the genius of the man. I fear that we persistently underrate the strength of the enemy and the ability of their leaders. Our constant successes over them in Virginia under the eye of Gen. Lee has given the country a con fidence in its invincibility onlyeujoyed by the le gions of France under Bonaparte. We should re member that he and they had a Waterloo, and whilst we hope and pray for his (Gen. Lee’s) usual success we should so strengthen his arm with ma terial aid that he shall not be outnumbered in the impending gigantic struggle. How many dreds can you spare from your city and adjacent country ? Cannot a company of dainty-fingered gentry, who deal pictured pasteboards by night and obscene oaths on your streets by day, he for warded by the enrolling officer ? A company of young bloods might he raised from proprietors of government distilleries of bad whiskey, which thank God the government never gets. If these resources fail, go to the soap makers, coal burners, hack drivers on mail routes upon which no one lives or expects to live. In your search after re eruitsgo whereon the most menial, and in peace, contemptible occupations were followed, and you find scions of wealth im l fasluou proclaiming with open mouths and dirty hands the necessity and dignity of labor. Urge them to go to the rescue, turn over the distillation of grain, if ft must be dis tilled, te grey-haired men. Leave your soap ope rations to your grandmothers. Let negroes burn the coal, and come out and be a man, or if you are alarmed about the consequences to your cowardly carcass, go hang or bury yourself, and be forgotten by your countrymen who have surrendered all but lile, and daily offer that in defence of liberty which your craven hearts would have surrendered ere the contest began. I had occasion in a previous letter to allude to deserting from the army, and I again take occasion to'ssiy to the wives, sisters and mothers of soldiers to forbear in their correspondence saying any thing calculated to deter men from fulfilling thb obliga tions which every man owes the country of his birth or adoption. Misguided or misjudging peo ple ad home, ready listeners to the most improba ble stories of cursed eroakere, have unintentional ly murdered those for whom they* would have uftil. I am informed by an officer on court-martial duly that nearly ail who arc tried for this offence plead in extenuation, exhortation from wives to come home. A case of this kind has occurred in out company within the last few days. A man from Harris county, Alford by name, a conscript, under the pressing appeals of bis wife, has deserted and if caught will be shot. I pity from my soul her c ondition in such an ev nt. Write and write often to your friends in the army but for their sake do not encourage desertion. The law is death for the first offence, and an unauthorized absence for one day where the intention is to desert makes the of fence. Beware lest the blood of your kindred be upon your own hands. A grand army review occurred on yesterday.— As column after column passed our admired leader I thought of the hundreds who must shortly pass from this scene of pageantry to a review of an en tirely different character. Let us hope that to the eye of the great God they are as well prepared for scrutiny as they were for this martial display. ORDERLY. Our luon-Clads. —We learn, says the Wil mington Journal, that the naval portion of the expedition against Plymouth was under the direction of Commander Cooke, who was on board the iron-clad. Commander James Taylor Wood had charge of the flotilla of launches, etc. Commander Wood holds the military rauk of Colonel, as being a member of the President's staff. The results of the expedition against Ply mouth show us what might be done with our iron-dads, rs they could only get out. and add to our regret at seeing them lying here pris oners. as effectually blockaded by their own draught of water as they could be by the whole navy of the United States. During their progress the Navy Department was im portuned to permit such a modification ot their plans as would reduce their draught so as to enable them to cross the bar, but all in vain: the original plan was persisted ia and the result is before us. They coulu have been made two feet lighter and then would barely have gone over; as the thing now stands it is useless to talk about any such thing. We suppose regrets are useless, but. we can hardly help indulging in them. 0 The Philadelphia Press, on U.. i -olutions to expel Long, of Ohio, says : The Disgrace in Cosgc •>.—•' t two Stall:- ■ i ~ . . ' \\Q justice of the rebellion, and advocate the dis solution of the Union, is shame almost too monstrous to believe. But that these men should not be at once expelled, that they should find other members base enough to defend, a party strong enough to protect them, is something more than shame; it is infamy. Great Heaven! to what have we come, when treason reveals itself on the floor of Congress, and successfully defies the pow er of the law and the indignation of the peo ple. Either we, the people, have failed in our duty in this war, or we have been disgrace fully deceived in sending to Congress the fifty eigiit representatives who refused to expel Messrs. Long and Harris for what they dared to say last week. [From the Goldsboro' State Journal, 22d.J Glorious Xews ! Hoke's Guns have Spoken — Php.-iouih Captured * — Twenty-Jive Hundred Yankee Prisoners — Two Gunboats Sunk—Our Loss 250 Killed and Wounded. We have alluded elsewhere to-day to the movements of General Hoke, but from a sense of duty did it darkly. Gen. Hoke, with bis own guns, has now proclaimed to the enemy the object of the mission to Plymouth, and we have nothing now to conceal. A train which left Tarboro’ yesterday ar rived here the same evening, bringing us the gladsome news that Plymouth, with its gar rison of twenty-five hundred men had been captured, and two of the enemy’s gunboats sent to the bottom. Our loss is put down at two hundred and fifty killed and wounded.— Among the noble and lamented patriots who fell, we have only learned the name of the gal lant Col. Mercer, of the 21st Georgia. The Lieutenant Colonel of the same regiment is also reported killed. We have received none of the particulars of this glorious achievement, but confidently re ly on the truth of the main facts stated. It is also said that half the prisoners captured are negroes. We only add for the present, that this i3 not the first field on which General Hoke has written his worth as a man, his bravery as a soldier, his skill as a General, anti his entire consecration to the cause of his country.— May the great Ruler of all worlds and all ar mies preserve his life, and may his adoring country prove herself worthy of his sublime exploits. Os the galiant privates who fought the bat tle, took the town, captured the prisoners and sunk the guuboats, how shall we express the admiration and the gratitude of the country, whose endurance and patriotism, they so no bly illustrate by their unrivalled courage.— These must be manifested by acts —words can not express them. Let us honor the dead by words of sympathy and deeds of benefaction to their mourning relatives, and thus show to the world and each other that we are all mem bers of the same body THE VICTORY CONFIRMED. Since the foregoing was put in type, we have received semi-official corroboration of the statements made therein. The number of prisoners captured will fully reach 2,500. The number of the Yankee slain and wounded, we have not received yet. It is known, however, that one of the two gun boats sunk, had cn board one hundred and twenty men, only seven of whom escaped death. Our loss is correctly stated at about two hundred and fifty killed and wounded, most of them, we are happy to add, but'slight ly wounded in the legs and arms. These losses on our side wore chiefly sustained in a re pulse of our troops received in a charge upon the town, immediately afterwards, it second charge was made with complete success — Ransom’s brigade distinguishing itself in an especial manner. , __ Our forces captured thirty pJ-ecyi-f of artille ry. mostly heavy guns, and an immense amount of ordnance and commissary stores. Plymouth and its Surroundings. —The Richmond Enquirer thus speaks of the cap ture of Plymouth : Plymouth, iu Washington county, North Carolina, the capture of which is thus an nounced, is situated near the entrance.of the Roanoke river into; Albemarle Sound. From Albemarle Sound through Croaton Sound, by Roanoke Island, oup iron-clad gunboat, under Com. Cooke, can jpass round into Pamlico Sound—destroy the enemy’s shipping—all wooden vessels, since no iron-ciad has enter ed Hatteras Inlet—and take •Nevvbern in the rear. From Plymouth via Washington to Newborn, there is a good road—the distance about fifty miles. We look for the most important results in North Carolina in a few dat-s. We are now again near the scene of our first disaster. As Hatteras was the first in the series of impor tant positions captured by the enemy, it would seem that success was about beginning at the very point where disaster commenced. Newbern once more in our possession, would soon restore Beaufort, and with it all of North Carolina—the possession of the great sounds of that State, with Hatteras Inlet, would give us a port not easily blockaded, and the com mand of the greatest corn region of the Con federacy. How About Hanks? Grand Ecore is a little village upon Red River, about four or five miles from Natchi toches and perhaps 90 miles Southeast of Mansfield, where we heard of the last previous great fight between Kirby Smith and Banka on the Bth April. Between that date and the 15th, if wje may credit Federal accounts as well as our own, there tvere three heavy en gagements. Thus on the Bth the Federals concede that Banks was defeated near Mansfield, while our report stated that he was badly whipped with a loss of 8000 men, 35 cannon, 2000 priso ners and 200 wagons. On the 9th the Feder als report that Banks repulsed an attack of our forcc-s inflicting great loss, bnt that he thought it prudent to continue his retreat before the superior forces of the “rebels." We may credit as much of that account as we please. If any thing of the kind occurred, we imagine it will be found that a portion of our pursuing force may have sustained a tempo rary check. Continuing bis retreat fifty or sixty miles further, Banks is again attacked at Grand Ecore, and in a fight during the 14th and 15th loses hip camp and 4500 men. accor ding to Confederate dispatches. Making every allowance for exaggeration, therefore, we are justified in believing that Banks has been very roughly handled and his whole force is in a-perilous condition. What reinforcements'he could glean at New O Feans and Baton Rouge we do not know; but it is not probable that he left many troops behind him when he set forth upon this grand Red River Expedition. Scanty pepper and salt garrisons we imagine were about all, and un less he can speedily take water by getting on board transports it seems to us that bis army will never get back To Baton Rouge. In a word, the general current of the Trans-Mis sissippi news, though very rnuddy and con fused, warrants the opinion that this Red River Fxp . lition ha- turned out the most dis astrously to the Federals of any campaign of the war.— l~> ~/> Ttb. *53.50 Per Month. A Chance. —Another gratifying piece of intelligence, says the Richmond Whig, is tiial members of the Yankee House of Representa tives have shown themselves bold enough to avow upon the floor, that the Confederate States are entitled to recognition as an inde pendent power, raid the House has found it self unable to expel them for so doing. Two 3 ears or more ago, Senator Bright of Indiana. was expelled from the Senate by a vole not far from unanimous for simply writing an or dinary letter of introduction for a person de siring to make the acquaintance of President Davis. Now. a Representative. Mr. Long, of Ohio, is found, who declares his conviction that the independence of the Confederate States should be recognized; another, Mr. Wood, of New York, avows his concur rence in the opinion; and a third, Mr. Harris - of Maryland, goes farther, denounces the war as infamous and infernal, and invokes the curse of the Almighty upon it; and yet the vote necessary to their expulsion cannot bo obtained. This looks like progress—the de cadence of national insanity and the return of reasou. • A Glorious Achievement In Worth Carolina. Y e have the pleasure of commnnicas ting to our readers the gratifying intelli gence that a combined land and water attack made this week upon the Yankees at Plymouth In this State," by our forces under Gen. Hoke and Commander Cook, has been completed successful, resulting in the capture of the place, with its garrison 30 pieces of artillery, stores and supplies of all kinds. Two Yankee gunboats were sunk and one small steamer captured. The number of prisoners is two thousand five hundred. The place was taken by storm. The Yankee troops at Plymouth were under the command of Brig. Gen 1 Wessels an old army officer, along with his com mand was made prisoner. He is about now an afflicted Wessell. We are without particulars and cannot state the amount of killed and wounded on either side. Ours, we have heard re ported, is not large, but for this we have only a report to depend on and give it for what in may he worth. What we have stated above is certain and beyond ques tion. We trust soon to obtain particu lars. We think there is a mistake in the name of the naval Commander. It seems to us that it ought to be Wood, not Coke. It will be recollected that it was Com mander Wood who led the party that boarded and took a heavy Yankee gun boat under the protection of the Yankee batteries at Newborn. Plymouth is the County seat of Wash- j ington County, situated on the Roanoke River, some eight miles from where it empties into Albermarle Sound. In 1850 its population was 951. At the commencement of war it was probably twelve or thiiteen hundred. It must have been. pretty strongly fortified as is shown by the number of cannon captur ed. The gallant exploit of Gen. Hoke and his brave men is a glorious relief to the gloomy record, of our previous failures at Newbern and Washington. We do not like venturing criticisms upon military conduct, but we cannot help expressing our opinion that, had the late expedition against Newbern been under the command of Gen. Hoke, or had that talented and enterprising young, leader been permitted to have his own way on that occasion; Newbern would have been ours. We do not hold this opinion without a good reason. ! But let us not dwell upon past failures | save as beacons to guard us against fu* ' ture errors. Let us look to the present J and rejoice at the auspicious opening of I the campaign in North. This well-deliv ered blow will do much to raise the spii> its of our own troops and depress those of the Yankees. It is the first instance in war where we have been able to re take from the Yankees a position accessi ble to their gunboats. We trust that it will not be the last. Iloke, Ransom, Kemper and others, have now shown that it can be done, and we may look for many brilliant repetitions. If Mr. Burnside comes along with his army of fifteen thousand green Yankees and as many black negroes, he will find that the ball has fairly opened without waiting for his presence, and if he stays he will be compelled to tread a measure with those who will be so killingly pos lite. We would be glad even at this early moment to give just credit to all who bore a part in the capture of the Yankees at Plymouth, but are unable to do so. Os course we will take pleasure in giving names and particulars when we can get them. Amid the excitement of such news it is painful to reflect that even the most glorious victory is clouded by the knowh edge that there is a long list of killed and wounded to be made out. Is this the price of liberty —a terrible price, but one that has always to be paid. P. S.—Since writing the above we have deceived a dispatch from our atteiv tive friends of the Goldsboro State Jours nal which communicates the same facts with those already stated, and adds that our reported loss is two hundred and fijty. [ Wilmington Journal. French Profit or the Mexican Expedition.— The Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph, say-;: The General Transalantic Company’- .-'learner, the Louisiana, which lately arrived at Saint Nuzaire, from Mexico,*brought the first lot of bullion and ingots, sent by way of Vera t'Vur. dnee the com mencement of hostilities. The roads being now comparatively secure between the capital and that port, a first convoy of 1,600,000 piastres—*,OUO,OOUf.— was able without danger to reach the latter place on the day before the departure of the ves«'L About one half of the were retained at Vera Cruz by the Paymaster General of the French army to meet the wants ofthe expedition, audit was a sum 0f604.000 piastres, or 3,500,00<jf. which were shipped on bound, and have been since delivered at Paris. •a. ALi jL'tm aT vJt m Reports of the Press Association. Lntar«.i acconliiiar to rv-t of Cougp-* in llio ye.ir 1-Svl, by J. S. in the Clerk'* office of tlie District Court of the Confederate Stated for the Northern District of Georgia. Gp.axgk C. If.,' 2(>tli. —Two deserters from Hancock ? 3d Corps entered our lines to-day. They say Grant and Meade reviewed that turps ou Friday last, and that orders to move this week, with five days rations, have been issued to the Yankee arm}'. AH quiet in our front to-day. Not Sa.suiunk.— The Louisville Journal s less sangune of Grant s success in Virginia than any Yankee journal we have yet seen.— It prolesses the inmost confidence iu the mil itary geuius of Gen Grant, but, at the same time, has some uaplea-ant misgivings as to the capture of Richmond. We make a short extract from Prentices article which will show him a pretty good reasoner: Grant may gather two hundred thousand or three or four hundred thousand men ill front, but even such a force, advancing to a direct attack ou Richmond, would in all proba bility be driven back from (he quad ruple lines of powerful fortifications, forti fications within fortifications, constructed up on the principles of military engineering and by the incessant labor of a large army ot men at work stiß. Richmond is fortified far more formidably than Vicksburg, and yet we must remember that all of the three or four terrible assaults made by Gen. Grant's veterans upon Vicksburg were bloody failures. It is true that a Federal army mightT>e sent in the rear of Richmond to cut off rebel supplies from that city, but the Janies Ri v er would still be open to the mouth, add, unless the flauking arm}' should he tremendous iu num bers. more tremendous, in fact, than we could render it, Lee, with his whole force, could, perhaps, make a sudden and overwhelming dash upon it, for the Federal armies, the one in front of Richmond and the other in the rear, would be too widely apart to co-operate with each other, or even to know each other’s pe rils and need. It seems hardly possible that, even with our immense resources, we can fur nish two -armies, each able of itself to cope successfully with the vast army that Gen. Lee can gather at the tremendous stronghold of Richmond. There does not seem to be much if any alarm at the rebel capital. If (here were a good deel more, we should like the in dication. The Federal Currency. —The New \ork Mercury in commenting upon the certainty of a great financial smash up at the North, makes the an nexed remarks about greenbacks: The best commentary on the quack legislation by which Congress has at. tempted to reduce the price of gold, by adding to the causes which raised it above the value of paper issues of the Government, is contained in the latest quotations of Wall street. The Gold Bill, which was to bring gold down to a level with greenbacks, has become a law and gold goes up more rapidly than before. The result of this experi ment ought to satisfy everybody that other methods must be adopted to maintain the credit of the currency, or the country will speedly plunge into the abyss of National bankruptcy to ward which it is now hurrying at rail road speed. Instead of the price of gold being the result of speculation in the article, the fact is the other way. While the precious metal has only advanced seventy per cent, all other commodities of traffic have gone up on an average, at least one hundred per cent, and many articles have trebled or quadrupled in value. The way for Congress to arrest the downward tendency of the currency is to pile on taxation to an extent that will sustain the government and furn ish a substantial basis for the national j finances. At the same time, instead of turning out new issues of government j promises to pay by steam power, those ' already .afloat should be largely cur | tailed. Unless this is done, we have the I practical example of the South before ; our eyes, to show where the present j system of financiering leads. Like causes produce like results; and unless Congress at once sets to work in the right direction, the time is rot far dis tant when our paper money will be as the Assignats of the French Revolution or the shinplasters of the rebels. Every advance in the price of gold marks an increase in the price of the necessaries of life, which will soon be beyond the reach of the great mass of the people. And yet, if tho currency collapses, everything goes with it. While these facts are self-evident, Congress meets the cricis as if they would quench a conflagration by hea ping fuel on the flames and go on indul gingiti Buncombe and billingsgate to the top of their bent. Let them turn their attention to practical statesman ship, and leave oratory for the present to Miss Dickinson and Daniel Pratt. The Yankees seem apprehensive of an attack on San Francisco, California from the ‘Anglo Chinese’ fleet suppos ed to have been secured by our Govern ment. Works have been lately thrown up at Fort Point and Alcatrez Island, and the following vessels are kept close at hand: Sharbrick, 5 guns; Narragan sett, 11 ; Saranac 9; Monitor, 1 ; Cyane 18 ; Lancaster, 22; St- Mary’s 22 and Waren, 2. The papers are urging upon the authorises neces sity of adding to these 'h'-i -dve and defensive means, by at os < < i..-log the guns of the sunken Alonitv Cm .rnnche, from the hole of the Aquilia, mid moun ting them in square batteries, or on some steamer, for temporary service till the apprehended peril is past.— W hether their dangers are real or imag inary remains to be seen. >’os*4liern Items. Gen. Forrest crossed the river Cold Water going &outh. withs,ooo captured horses and nineteen hun dred wagons of plunder. * . The latest European advices state that our new ironclad steamer South Carolina, just .opt.of an European port, had captured the Yankee ship AV lianee, valued at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Forrest s attach upon Fort Pil’ow is regarded as the boldest and most sanguinary of the war. The 13th Tennessee Regiment, who were in the Fort, were cut to pieces. Light hunured were killed outright, besides three hundred negroes,' with their horses. The terror and excitement produced intense feel ing at the North against the Governor of Illinois, for granting conuni-cions to officers to command negro regiments. Thirty-five French detective- who had arrived in New York, created much speculation. The French beet have sailed from .the mouth of the liio Grande.