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J. W. WARRGK, - - - Editor.
Friday Morning. April 29, 1864.
Giving Way.
There is a crumb of hope and comfort in
the market manifestations. During the last
few days there has been an evident shaking
of the “dry bones” of commerce. The de
mand for everything except the absolute
necessaries of life has greatly abated, and
even with these there has been a perceptible
decline. Bacon, which has been selling here
at $4 per pound has “gone off” within the
last few days at $2.50 and one gentleman in
forms us that he purchased some nice hams,
one day this week at $2.25. A friend of ours
who concluded to mix a little syrup with his
“grub” went in search of the article last week
and found a holder who was indifferent about
taking S2O a gallon. Friend did’nt buy. Hol
der came to him the other day and proposed
to take sls— “as it was him.” Friend bor
rowed holder's indifference, and thinks he
will get it at $lO or less. If this be the case
with “necessaries,” what may we not eipect
of luxuries and didoes 7 Things are working.
Dan Rice’ Circus never exhibited more ex
traordinary “ground and lofty tumbling”
than prifeCs will display within th'e next sixty
days. Our advice to everybody is to bold on
to your money, for a while at least.
Taking the Names.—Consuls of foreign
Governments ajid their agents in the Confed
eracy, says she Richmond Whig, are now
busily engaged taking the names of persons
claiming foreign protection, and it i’s presumed
that these Governments intend to take issue
With the Confederacy on the point of the mil
itary service exacted by the last conscription
act of all “white male residents.”
The Conscript Officers, says the Montgom
ery (Ala.) Mail, have been arresting several of
the grasping gentry in that city, for discount
ing five dollar bills.
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The Chronicle & Sentinel announces the
death of Judge Thomas W. Thomas, of Elbert
county, at his residence on Sunday last.
A London paper says that a pneumatic tube
is now in operation between a railroad station
and the post-office ; and that for more than a
year, without a single break or accident, the
mails have been conveyed between the two
points at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
But this is only a small affair, and the capital
ists are beseiging the government to allow them
to construct lines for passengers and other
traffic through all parts of the city. The same
paper gives an estimate, showing that by this
new method of locomotion a speed of six miles
a minwte may very easily be obtained.
An Important Decision in the Confede
rate States District Court. —ln a decision,
remarkable for its learning and ability, (says
the Richmond Sentinel,) Judge IlalyburtoD,
on yesterday, rendered a decision sustaining
the constitutionality of the late act of Con
gress suspending the privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus in certain cases. It was ren
dered after the advantages of two or three
weeks argument; during which, the patience
of the Court was as remarkable as the argu
ment of counsel was interminable in length.
The petitioners ivoro represented by Messrs.
H. S. Foote. R. T. Daniel, Francis L. Smith,
E. Orvis, E. Nance, J. 11. Gilmer, and Marr.
The Government was represented by P. 11.
Aylett, Esq., and Judge Monroe, and the ar
gument of the cases was able and eloquent,
embracing every imaginable objection to the
law. <
After mature deliberation, Judge llalybur"
ton has rendered a decision, which gives to
the act all the force aud vigor which Congress
intended it should possess. Coming, as this
decision does, from a jurist of great learning,
ability and purity of character, it will have
throughout the country, the weight which it
merits.
We feel well assured, that the pow'ers with
winch this act clothes the Executive will not
be abused, and they will not be unnecessarily
exercised.
Torpedoes. —The rebels, says the New
York Times, have begun their naval opera
tions this year by a torpedo war. We have
this morning, two accounts of their labors.—
On the St. John’s river, in Florida, they suc
ceeded in blowing up the steamer Maple Leaf
by a torpedo, and in the James river, they
made a desperate effort to destroy the steam
frigate Minnesota by the same means, but
failed. We have advices from Europe that
Maury was getting extensive experiments
made for him in this branch of the rebel fine
arts. These inventions are probably the re
sults of his efforts. Our vessels on the South
ern seaboard and rivers must keep a shap
lookout for them. * *
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Big Soldier. —There is a member of the
13th New York Heavy Artillery who stands
six feet and eleven inclies in his stockings,
and weighs, when in vigorous health, 300
pounds. His shoes are number eighteen, and
when standing in them he towers far above
the tallest man in his regiment. He boasts of
having lifted 700 pounds with one hand, and
declares not only his ability but willingness to
give the*first rebel he meets a gentle hug.
[Exchange.
There is a man in one of the North Carolina
Regiments, stationed in tb# eastern part of
that State, who can match this Yankee Go
liab. A communication in the Wilmington
Journal, says that he is at least 7 feet high,
measures 55 inches around the waist, 36 in
the leg, and wear* No. 14 shoes. A special
contract for clothing this “rebel” has to be
made, as he can't begin to wear the ordinary
Tue Climax. —The masterpieee of the Sow
ard-ltussell correspondence about the rams is
the following brief dispateh from Mr. Layard
to Mr. Stuart, Her Majesty’s Charge d’Af
faires at Washington, written the very day
that Mr. Adam s threatening dispatch of same
date was received, and three days before Earl
Russell informed him in three lines that the
threat had succeeded. We give it in full:
Foreign Oflice, Feb. o.
We have given orders to-day to the Com
missioners of Customs at Liverpool to pre
vent the two iron-clads leaving the Mersey.—
These orders had scarcely been sent wlien we
received the note from Mr. Adams, of which
l send you a copy. Mr. Adams is not yet
aware that orders have been given to stop the
vessels. You may inform Mr. Seward confi
dentially of the fact.
Farts for the Times.
Many persons are under misapprehen
sion, or in an uncertainty as to the several
points connected with the currency, taxes,
claims upon the government, etc. The
annexed statement, which appears in the
Richmond Sentinel, will therefore, be
read with interest:
All taxes due to the Government, wheth
er they are the taxes of 1863, but not yet
paid, or the taxes assessed under the law
of 1864, may be paid in four per cent
bonds, or in the certificates on which the
four per cent bonds are to issue. Where
a certificate is greater in amount than the
tax proposed to be paid with it, the tax
collector will issue anew certificate for the
excess—the tax payer making up all frac
tional parts of SIOO in money.
Five dollar notes will be received in
payment of taxes of all kinds, or may be
funded at par in four per cent bonds,
til the first of July next; at which time
they also will be taxed one third.
Nothing can be done with notes for a
hundred dollars but to fund them in four
per cent bonds at two thirds of their face,
and subject also to a tax of $lO per month
on each from the Ist of April.
Notes under $5 are subject to no tax
or limitation, but remain current, as here
tofore, at their full amount.
Notes of $lO, S2O and SSO, may be paid
in taxes or funded in four per cent bonds,
or exchanged for new notes, at two thirds
of their value, until the Ist of January
next, at which time all then outstanding
will be worthless.
The idea has gain considerable circular
tion that claims against the Treasury, ex
isting prior to the Ist of April, would be
paid in the reduced currency, unless pre
sented and collected before the first of
April. This is an error. It is only true
of such claims as had been adjusted and a
warrant or draft issued for the payment.
The settlement had then become a part of
the public records, and the holder of such
draft was of the nature of a despositor in
the Treasury, and if he failed to draw his
money, it became liable to the tax on the
Ist of April! But claims unsettled, or for
which payment had not
will follow the usual rule of being paid in
currency at par at the time of payment.
Bishop Elliot delivered in Christ Church,
Macon, last Tuesday night, a sermon
preached last fast day in Savannah, before
an overflowing congregation. We learn
(for it so happened that we could not be
there,) that the sermon was a very plain,
strong, practical and outspoken view of
duty in the present crisis of the couutry,
and in the course of it he dwelt with much
severity and power upon the effort to crip
ple the country fay sowing dissentions and
distrust of our government, at a moment
requiring the highest exercise of a patri
otic unanimity, fervor and devotion to
rescue every interest from total ruin.
I Mac on Telegraph.
Cure for Hog Chomira. —The follow
ing recipe, says a correspondent of the
Miiledgeville Recorder, has been tried
with success :
1 pint gum turpentine, fresh from the
tree; 1 pint sulphur; 1 table spoonful cops
peras; 1 table spoonful Epsom salts. Mix
the copperas and turpentine in two gal
lons of disli water, and boil, then add the
sulphur and salts. This quality will cure
twenty animals. Hogs will drink it eager
ly, when debarred from water. A day or
two will effeet a certain cure.
It will be seen from the following list of
Yankee military Smiths, which we clip
from the Louisville Journal, that the
Smith fraternity is a martial family :
Major. Gen. Charles L. Smith,
Major Gen. W. F. Smith.
Brig. Gen. W. Leroy Smith.
Brig. Gen. Giles A. Smith.
Brig. Gen. A. J. Smith.
Brig. Gen. M. E. Smith.
Brig, Gen. G. Clay Smith.
Brig. Gen. John E. Smith.
Our Spring Record.
Within the last two months our arms
have achieved signal victories in all the
Confederate States except Missouri. Thus
we have :
In Texas, Benavide’s affair at Laredo.
In Louisiana, Banks’ defeat at Mans*
field, and Banks’ defeat by Dick Taylor;
also the capture of fourteen gunboats above
the falls of Red River.
In Arkansas, the capture of Jackson
port, and possibly by this time the discom
fiture of Steele.
In Kentucky, the capture of Paducah.
In Tennessee, the capture of Fort Pil
low.
In Mississippi, the' defeat of Grierson
and Sherman, the victories of Ross and
Richardson at Yazoo City, and the re
pulse of the enemy by General Wirt Ads
ams.
In Alabama, the Yankee failure at Fo»t
Powell.
In Florida, the victory of Ocean Pond.
In Georgia, the repulse of Crow's Val
ley.
In South Carolina, the confessed failure
of the siege of Charleston.
In North Carolina, the capture of Ply
mouth.
In Virginia, the defeat of Dahlgren’s
raid.
There are still others that we couftl
name, but these are enough to make a re»
spectable record. The omens are most
cheering, and in a few weeks more we
will doubtless be able to chronicle events
which will fill the heart of the patriot with
j oy . —Missus ippia n .
Col. Wm. J. Browne. —This gentle
man who has recently been appointed
Chief of the conscription Bureau of Geor
gia, was the editor ot the Washington
Constitution during the closing years of
Buchanan’s administration, and the Unis
ted States. While under his charge
paper was conducted with surpassing
ability and was thoroughly Southern.
So strong was the editor’s predilections
for the South during the incipient stages
of the revolution that he fell under the
ban of the old Public Functionary, who
transferred the Executive patronage to
another paper. This was about the time
Buchanan’s Cabinet was disolved by the
withdrawal of its Southern members.
And when the hour came for all to take
sides, either one way or the other, Col.
Browne went promptly to his beloved
South. We believe that since that time
he has been intimately connected with
President Davis. He has the ability to
discharge his duties well, and for him all
welcome and the co-operation of good
citizens of Georgia.
\jtfacon Confederate.
A Feminine Wonder.—A writer
from New York describes a masquerade
party given a few evenings since by a
fashionable lady, “formerly a famous
Boston belle,” and in the getting up of it
no end of money was lavished. The
costumes were unique, outre dazzling,*
and gorgeous. The distinguished host-*
ess herself, always fertile iu expedients
immortalized her genius, appearing be
fore her astonished guests with a coronal
of living flame jets. In the course of
the entertainment which lasted until six
o’clock A. M., breakfast duly served* to
the revellers, the wearer of that remark
able headsdress, in a most suave and
gracious manner, revealed the secret of
its success. Attached to the hoop-skirt
was a small gasometer, and a connecting
pipe, passing up beneath the elaborate
braids of her black hair, secured a brils
lianc triumph at the risk of the wearers
life.
A Lesson from History.
The real or affected incredulity of the
Yankee journalists and orators that the
South can never be separated from the
North is not greater than that which was
entertained by the English people in re
gaxd to the separation, of the American
colonies from the mother country. Said
the Rev. Sidney Smith, in one of his
productions, yeare ago, “It is very diffi
cult to make the mass of mankind believe
that the state of things is ever to be other
wise than they have been accustomed to
to see it. 1 have very often heard old
persons describe the impossibility of mak
ing any one believe that the American
colonies could ever be separated from this
country. It was always considered as
an idle dream of discontented politicians,
good enough to fill up the periods of a
speech, but which no practicle man de
void of the spirit of party, considered to
be within thS limits of possibility.
There was a period when the slight
est concession would have satisfied the
Americans; but all the world was in hero'
ics; one set of gentlemen met at the
Lamb, ane another at the Lion; blood and
treasure men breathing war and vengence
and contempt; and in eight years after
wards an awkward looking gentleman in
plain cloth, walked up to the drawing
room of St. James’, in the midst of the
gentlemen of the Lion and Lamb, and
was introduced as the Embassador from
the United States of America
Let the Yankee blood and thunder
men meditate upon that lesson from the
past. It may prepare their minds for the
future.
(Rich. Dis.
On WitSi tlie Dance.
The New Nation, the Fremont organ, pub*
lished in New York, Hits oft' parties at the
White House as follows :
On with the dance, the people will pay the
piper. We recollect that there was music and
festivity also when Lee marched up the She
nandoah, leaving fire and devastation to the
homes of the poor soldiers, while their officers
were joyously celebrating the nuptials of a
young comrade, the son of some political
magnate. Last week the White House was
the scene of gaiety ; this week it was the Rap
pahannock. Where will the next fete be held?
God grant that it may not be on the north of
the Potomac by the light of the incendiary
brands of Stuart’s cavalry.
We do not hear ol the rebels giving bails in
their camps. Ye men who have forgotten
your country and your duty for pleasure and
ambition, do ye not fear to dance upon the
graves where those dead patriots, your old
comrades, lie buried? Do ye not fear that
the sound of your dancing feet and the joyous
strains of your festive music may disturb their
last slumber, and their outraged shades may
rise up in the midst of your impious revelry
to reproach you with your unseemly gaiety
before a country clothed in mourning.
But what strange sound is this that vibrates
in the air, and sends a shudder through your
hearts ? Is it the echo of your revelry ? No :
the wind comes from the direction of Rich
mond. It is only the plaintive voice of our
wretched children, murmuring in their pris
ons, and with hunger! But what of that?—
Strike up again ; on with the dance ! Whirl
again into the voluptuous vortex of beauty
and flowers, with your arms braced about the
young girls who have come from Washington
to share your revelry ! On with the jest and
merry laugh, and may the plaintive voices
of those who are suffering for their country
and liberty not disturb your cruel joys ; may
the echo not change the sufferer’s complain
ings into curses.
When the country is menaced and rent
asunder by the hands of its own sons, it is not
a time to laugh, to dance, or to attempt to
obliterate tbe reality in bumpers of cham
pagne ; it is a time to face danger; not to
despise suffering, but to share it in silence ; a
time to fight, to triumph, or to die !
Bishop Meade and Gen. Lee. —The South
ern Churchman says :
We see in some of the papers a very foolish
article in regard to an interview between
Bishop Meade and Gen. Lee, the day before
the death of our never to be forgotten Bishop,
The facts of the interview are the following:
Bishop Meade the day before his death sent
for Gen. Lee. The General was in his room
from three to five minutes. As lie spoke to
the General, he called him “Robert,” and said
“you know I taught you your Catechism.”
He spoke to him oniy a few words, as it was
with great difficulty he spoke at all and then
shook hands with him and said, “God bless
you.” There was no scene ; scenic display
was far from Bishop Meade’s character and
would have been disgusting to General Lee.
All the accounts ot the General kneeling
down and the Bishop laying bis hands upon
him, were got up by the sensationists.
Gen. Lee's Table. —The Richmond corres
pondent of the Mobile Register is responsible
for the following:
In Gen. Lee’s tent, meat is eaten but twice
a week ; the General not allowing it oftener,
because be believes indulgence in meat to be
criminal, in the present straightened condition
of the country. His ordinary dinner consists
of a head of cabbage boiled in salt water, and
a pone ot corn bread. In this connection,
rather a comic story is told. Having invited
a^n umber of gentlemen to dine with him, Gen.
Lee, in a fit of extravagance, ordered a sump
tuous repast of cabbage and middling. The
dinner was served, and behold ! a great pile
of cabbage and a bit of middling about 4
inches long and 2 inches acios#. The guests,
with commendable politeness, unanimously
decliued middling, and it remained in the dish
untouched. Next day, Gen. Lee remembering
the delicate tid-bit which had been so provi
dentially preserved, ordered the servant to
bring “that middling.” The man hesitated,
scratched his head, and finally owned up.
i -De sac is, Massa Robert, dat ar middlin’ was
I horrid middlin’; we ail did'nt hab nar spec :
and I done paid it back to de man wkar I go
iit from.” Gen. Lee heaved a sigh of deepets
| disappointment, and pitched into his cabbage
Tub Last of “Tim Morris ” — Tim Morris,
the negro minstrel, who was foity-six in Rich
mond but who will not be more than 35 when
begets to Baltimore, has run the blockade aid
reached the promised land, We find the fol
lowing notice of the escape of Tim in the lix
aminer :
An “Iron-Clad” Buns thk Blockape.—
Tint Morris, nee Joseph Griffin, the irrepressi
ble ‘‘lron-Clad” apprehended as a conscript
has run the blockade by the way of Suffolk,
paying fifteen hundred dollars passage money.
Tim has gone. We will never more see his
renditions of “John Morgan’s got your mule,”
“Wood up,” and the “Grocery Store.” Tim
will make some fat contract with a Yankee
manager, rattle his bones, and we shall read
of the old songs we used to hear. Tim went
through, we understand, blacked up as an
original African, and, as he plays the charac
ter so well, we don’t wonder at his success.
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Gen. Forrest’s Expedition to Kentucky.
—The Tenn|ssee riyer in the latter part of
its course, crosses the State of Tennessee al
most due north in direction, and also nearly
parallel to the Mississippi, which is about a
hundred miles distant on the west. Forrest’s
rout lay about midway between these two riv
ers, and terminated at Paducah, on the Ohio
river, at the mouth of the Tennessee. Dres
den, from which bis dispatch to Gen. Polk was
dated, when on his return to Paducah, is near
the northern boundaries of Teanessee, 199
miles west of Nashville. Ripley, at which
the prisoners have arrived, is in the northern
part of Mississippi. In contemplating this
great advance of Forrest, one cannot but ask
where is that mighty cavalry host under
Grierson and Smith thatdately moved down
to Memphis to co-operate with Sherman?—
Forrest seems to have everything his own
way.
The Contrast.— A reader of the Charles
ton Mercury sends that paper the following
two facts from Drayton's Memoirs of South
Carolina, pages 226 and 273, vol. Ist:
Then and Noio. —From tlffe Bth of March to
the 26th of April, 1775, there was collected
for the poor of Boston, Mass., from St. Phil
lip’s Parish, Charleston, S. C., £1.400 in cash,
and 66 barrels of rice; from St. Michael’s
Parish £7OO in cash, and 14 barrels of rice;
from St. Stephen’s Parish, £6OO in cash ; from
St. Paul’s Parish, £6OO in cash.
Yankee Method of Returning Borrowed Am
munition.—The efforts of Gen. Washington to
expel the British forces from Boston, in 1775
would probably have failed but for the timely
arrival of a supply of powder sent to the then
suffering Yankees by the citizens of Charles
ton, S. C., who obtained it from their good
friends at Savannah, Ga. The Yankee, Quincy
Adams Gillmore, has been for eight months
past’ returning this powder to " Charleston
(mixed with Greek fire) inside incendiary
shells.
The Currency Mending— the Good Time
Coming. —With heartfelt gladnesss we hail, at
last, the first substantial signs of a general
tumble in prices in this community. Even a
casual observer must remark the evident eager
ness of the holders of provisions to get their
stock off their hands as soon as may be. But
ter and lard and sugar and eggs, we notice,
are every day placarded, at lower prices by
the provision, shops, and the end is not yet.—
The glorious spring weather, which is at last
upon us, is bringing down upon the exhorbi
tant rates for fuel; and a still more glorious
spring campaign will, we trust, have a similar
effect upon prices generally. In truth, there
is, and will continue to be room enough for
abatement in the prevailing mania of extortion.
But the sudden contraction of the cur
rency begins to produce its certain result.—
Money so lately a drug in the market has
now grown scarce. It is difficult, in fact, al
most impossible, to borrow, and the times
have become so tight that the harvest of the
Auctioneers, seem to be at an end. “Fives"
are sought for with as much avidity as though
they were a portion of the new issue, and ev
erything indicates a marked and immediate
improvement in tiie currency and’corresoond
iug fall in prices. Let (lie good work go on.
J Char. Mercury.
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Mr. Mason in England.— The*following refer
ence to Mr. Mason, and the cause of the Coufed.
orate States, we extract from a letter in the New
Times, from its London correspondent, dated the
25th of March :
Asa somewhat experienced London correspon
dent, I should like to know where other gentiemen
similarly engaged, get the news they now and
then send across the Atlantic. The story of immi
nent French recognition, I am aware was in .the
financial column of the Morning Post, though I
have not found out how it got there, hut what
lively genius invented the hegira of the Confede
rate Commissioner ? I can answer for Mr. Mason.
He took his accustomed walk last Wednesday in
Hyde Park, looking as fresh and rosy, as rotund
and happy, as ever he looked in the Senate Cham
ber. He wore a grey coat, but not of Virginia
Homespun, ana his long locks of gray hair flying
in the wind. lam told that he is more than ever
sanguine of the success of his rebellious compatri
ots ; that he boasts that the Southern Army was
never so strong, so well supplied, so determined as
now ; that it is an army of veterans, that will
scatter the fresh levies of the North like chaff be
fore the whirlwind. He has gone, my informant
says, to spend the Easter holidays with Mr. Berea
ford Hope and a large circle of Southern sympa
thizers.
The opinions or statements of Mr. Mason may
not be of much importance, but they are in accor
dance with Southern letters received in London,
and with t/ho opinions of Englishmen who have
lately com;e from Richmond. It is the general be
lief that the war may last as long as it has lasted,
and that the South which only to resist, can do no
better novf than she could two or three years ago.
The New Yobk Press — lts Division. —ln a
letter from Montreal to the Charleston Courier
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dated 25th ult., we find the Gothamite press thus
classified:
A prominent feature of New York has always
been its newspaper press. Before the war our
people used to be familiar with the peculiarities
of all the leading journals. They preserve still
the same characteristics. The Herald is quite as
ridiculous and bombastic as of old. A while ago
it was urging Lincoln for President, Suddenly
it dropped Abraham and took up General Grant.
Now the only man to save the yankee3 from the
impending ruin is this same Grant, while old Abe
is nothing but a “smutty joker,” to use the Her
ald’s refrain. Bennett goes into whipping Eng
land and France off hand, and is willing to par
don the rebels if they will embrace the amnesty,
and would not object to the escape of Jeff Davis,
provided he crawled off quietly through Texas in
to Mexico.
The Tribune has distinguished itself lately by
coming out as an advocate of amalgamation.—
That reminds me that Rev. Dr. Tyng has de
clared lately in the pulpit that the negro is su
perior to the white man. Greely belongs to the
anti-Lincoln faction of the Republican party,
and inclines towards Chase or Fremont.
The Times is the official organ of Lincoln.—
It is violent, vindictive and mendacious in its
abolitionism.
The World belongs to the piebald Democracy;
that is a small clique of weak-kneed politicians,
who believe “slavery is dead” and the war ought
to be prosecuted, though it is all wrong. It is
the vehicle of considerable high-sounding rhet
oric.
The News and Day Book are peace papers,
even tjO the extent of recognizing the indepen
dence of the South.
The Journal ot Commerce gives the war a
weak support and would advocate peace if it had
the courage.
The Post is a malignant enemy of the South.
It is rj&bjd on the war question.
The Express has a mixed creed. It supports
I the war and goes for peace, and praises Jeff Da
I vis and wants to see him hanged, and denounces
i slavery and opposes abolitionism, and is in a
muddle generally.
The old Commercial Advertiser is now conduct
ed by Huribut, formerly of Charleston, and still
later of the Richmond prisons. When our au
thorities arrested him he was indignant that his
devotion to the South should be questioned, but he
goes in for a “vigorous prosecution of the war”
now.
GITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR.
Notice.
All packages or boxes, for members of my com
.pany, Lct ai the Alabama Warehouse, [will bo for
warded to the.command, near Macon, Ga.
0. CROMWELL,
apt 30 ts Uapt.
Notice. —Delegates ti the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Chureh, to convene in Charlotte,
C., on the sth of May, are informed that the
military authorities hare granted special permis
sion to members to travel to Charlotte, and return.
They can obtain passports, therefore, at any Pro
vost Marshal’s office.
GEO. H. W. PETRIE.
Other papers will oblidge very much by giving
circulation to this notice.
Auction Catalogue Sale. —Public attention
is called to the advertisement of an extensive cat
alogue sale of imported goods, by M. Cronly, Auc
tioneer, at Wilmington, N. C., on Wednesday, 11th
day of May next. The assortment is a very desi
rable one, as will be seen by the list, embracing
dry goods, stationery, drugs, liquors, hardware,
shoes, cotton cards, <kc. Merchants will probably
consult their interest, by being in attendance at
the sale.
Spring Eever. —This disease is becoming quite
prevalent owing to to the ardent temperature of
old Sol for the last day or two., It requires a con
siderable effort to keep both eyes open while per
ambulating the streets, and all attempts at mental
exercise are futile. The peculiar languor incident
to this season of the year is quite oppressive. The
dearth of local matters of interest fortunately re
lieves us from any excessive anxiety in regard to
getting up a “sensation,” and we have therefore
wisely concluded to let our column go by default,
in the hope that something will turn up soon, to
give us an opportunity to “expand.” AYonder if
folks expect much from Local Fditors? Alas ! if
so, what a disappointment awaits them. If they
don’t expect anything, then we are all right and
so is the reader!
The Free School Pic Nic. —We trust our
people will remember this affair which comes off
to-morrow at Gamp Montgomery. Asa majority
of these children are orphans and the children of
soldiers in the army, and consequently will not be
able to contribute anything in the-way of [articles
for a dinner, it is to be hoped that the liberal
hearted of the community, will send them the ne
cessary supplies to enable the children to enjoy a
hearty dinner. It may be urged that the present
is no time for such frivolities, and the extravagan
ces indulged in on such occasions. Granted. But
other schools will set the example on this festal
day, and we believe these children should be al
lowed the same indulgence. Besides, it rarely
happens that this class are privilegedfo enjoy such
pleasures, and we can conceive of no impropriety
in making their little hearts glad with one good
substantial dinner. Christ in his teachings par
ticularly commended the poor to the kind consid
eration and liberality of the people. Let the
Christian portion of the community especially, re
member that favors conferred upon the poor and
helpless, will be considered and rewarded as kind
ness manifested to Christ himself.
Contributions sent to the school room at the Af- j
rican church near the river, or to Camp Montgom
ery, Saturday morning, will be thankfully received
by the teachers, Mr. Sartwell and Mrs. McKenzie.
Can It Be ?—We learn from a gentleman who
knows that a splendid lot of bacon and lard were
offered in this city yesterday at the reduced price 3
of $2 for now currency. Wc look upon this as a
hopeful augury, and trust that when the new cur
rency gets in general circulation, there will be some
grand and lofty tumbling in the prices of every
thing in the way of provisions. Appearances in
dicate that we arc to have a considerable strin
gency in the money market during the present
Spring and Summer, owing to the inability of
Secretary Memminger to get his money in circu
lation in time to meet the wants of the public,
hail to anything and everything that will have
tendency to bring down the necessaries of life to
living rates.
Rain and llail. —About 6 o’clock yesterday j
evening, we were visited by a regular old fash*
ioned rain attended by the usual accompania
meuts of lightning, thunder and hail, the lat
ter not very profuse, but still enough to make
the spectacle interesting. The rain was boun-
I
tiful and we trust will be productive of much
good to the growing crops as well as bring
about a healthy and agreeable change in the
atmosphere. Thank God for his goodness.
Announcement Extraordinary.— Our devil
(N0.2) made his debut before a Columbus public
yesterdayin a suit of summer “harness.” The sight
to us, wa3 deeply affecting, inasmuch as it was a
a reminder that our own wardrobe for the coming
season is uncomfortably slim, and nary money
to replenish.
Capt. Lockhart. —This gallant soldier
leaves for his command to-day, at Bristol. He
has enjoyed among his many friends in this
section, a brief respite from camp life, and
he carries with him to the field of honor and
duty the best wishes of our whole community.
Duppel. —We see it stated that thi3 place be
fore which seems desperate fighting was going on
at late accounts, is a fortress, which the Danes
have surrounded with a series of ingenious and
novel defenses. The first obstruction which its
assailants will meet is an irregular line of masked
ditches, with sharp sticks firmly fixed at the bot
tom to |impale the unlucky man who may fall
next come a .lino of chevoux de frise;
then another of large man traps, and finally, a
common wire fence—the latter a simple but very
effective impediment to both infantry and cavalry.
Not content with these lines of circumvallation,
the Danish engineers have crowned both scarp
and counter-scarp of the earthworks with palisades
created with a bristling line of sharp swords, an
expedient borrowed appartently from the French
defenses of the beach at Badajos. Both within
and without the works, are fixed planks studdied
with long nails, the points upwards, and concealed
by a light covering of earth. In addition the
works are extensively mined.
The Produce Loan. —The General Agent
of the Produce Loan is instituting a careful
examination into the condition of Government
Cottons, stored in various districts of the
South. Persons having charge of the same
are to be held liable for all damage and cost
resulting from insecure shelter, or neglect
otherwise. Cotton left on abandoned planta
tions is to be removed to secure locations, and
properly cared for.
To secure the observance of these require
ments, sub-agents are required to make regu
lar and frequent reports in detail. It is time
] that steps should be taken to hold to a proper
responsibility those who are charged with the
duty of preserving government produce,
whether of the loan or tax in kind. It is im
possible to estimate the waste that has resul
ted in some localities through the indifference
and carelessness of government agents.
• [Righmond Whig.
The Capture of F|,bhm.u,.
w e have some additional particulars <>f
ture of Plymouth by Gen. Hoke . ° f the Ca P*
The force engaged on our side wa3 HoWa w
ade, commanded by Col. Mercer, of the 21st 'a?*
Ransom s brigade, commanded by Gen R ana J
Col t (VHW.) bngad.fe?r m .?d“ 8 T;
retired behind their fortificatioiu. j” ’aa’theT
ring commenced a white obieot w ns st . ,
field in front, which was supposed to bTa flag 1 of
truce, but which proved on inspection to be a^ar
lL» P w i i ere b 7 * ha Yankee3 for artillery
practice. In the same field there were several ta r 7
gets planted, and by previous practice the enemy
had gotten a perfect range of all the approaches
to their works. The Yankees opened on the skir
mishers with the large guns in the fort which theT
were approaching, in which was mounted a 100-
pounder Parrott and 8 inch Columbiad. No as
sault was made on Sunday afternoon, though the
skirmishers were kept out.
tbeafternoon a gunboat came out from
behind the town and started up the river with a
pleasure party on board. Our artillery opened on
her, but though struck she proceeded on up the
river, landed her passengers, and that night at
tempted to drop down to the town. She was a*aia
attacked by the artillery, and by some sharpshoot
ers posted on the banks for the purpose, but with
out stopping her.
On Monday our forces held the position assumed
Sunday evening, the enemy shelling at times furi
°"slL, this shelling the following casualties
of which we have heard,'occurred in the Ist Vir'
ginia regiment: Delaware McMinn, wounded in
the side, supposed mortally; Frank Josephs, ankle
crushed; Theo. J. Robertson, in eight places al
slight; Lieut. Payne, face slight.
On Tuesday, it seems, heavy fighting occurred,
with varied success, and on Wednesday moraine
the place was carried by assault, llokrt brigade
entering and charging with the bayonet uo the
principal streets. Col. Mercer, who led them, was
killed.. During Tuesday our artillery, including
the Fayette Artillery, of Richmond, was planted
within 150 yards of the fortifications and opened
fire. The Fayette Artillery, it is stated, suffered
heavily from the enemy's fire.
The gunboat which went out of the Roanoke it
is said made short work of the shipping in front of
the towir.
Sunday morning our cavalry pickets found a
negro spy coming into our lines wearing the dress
of a field hand, and having a red handkerchief
tied around his head. Under this dress was fouud
the full uniform of a Yankee soldier. The ncno
was hung on the spot.— Rich. Dis. 23 d. . 3
HEADQUARTERS POST,*£»: }
„„„„„ Columbus, Ga, April 25,13*34./
GENERAL ORDERS, /
No. 10. S
. 11. Officers, Government Contractors, and all other
persons having control of, or in their employ, de
tached soldiers or detailed enrolled men, are hereby
informed that such soldiers and men arc subject,
with reference to furloughs, in every particular, to
the same rules, regulations and restrictions, as sol
diers in the field, and all applications for furloughs
over 48 hours by detached soldiers or detailed en
rolled men, should be made in the prescribed form
to be found in the Army Regulations, and forwarded
by their immediate officers, through these Head
quarters, for the approval of the General Command
ing the Military District of Georgia. Detached or
det ailed men leaving their work in violatiion of this
order, will have their details revoked,
111. All men between the ages of seventeen and fif
ly years employed in Government shops or by Gov
i eminent Contractor#, should, in every instance be
enrolled. By.order of
COL. ROBERTSON.
Chas. AYood, A. A. G. apr 23-lw
AUCTIONSALES.
By Livingston & Cos.
NEGRO BOY TO HIRE,
\WTLL be hired on Tuesday, May 3d, in front of
Y * our store, at 11 o’clock,
A Likely Aegro ISoy, IS years o.tj
good waggoner and farm hand,
apl 28td $7 50
By Ellis, Cos.
SATURDAY, 30th of April, at 11 o'clock, we
\J will sell in front of our store,
10 Sacks Salt,
5 Boxes Sugar,
10 Boxes Tobacco,
20 Reams Letter Paper.
10 Wire-grass Hats,
ci Hardware, Crockery, Furniture, Boots,
Shoes, &c„ Ac.,
apr 28-57.50
By Eosette, lawlioii. & Cos.
Furniture at Auction !
Bureaus, Side Boards, Wardrobes,
Bedsteads, Washstands,
Cane and Split-bottomed Chairs,
Rocking Chairs,
Feather Beds, Mattresses
Feather Pillows,
2 Mantel Clocks,
Wash Bowl and Pitchers,
Water Buckets,
Tin Buckets, Tin Cans;
1 Large Pot,
Shovel and Tongs,
1 Sifter,
Oil Lamps,
Large Lot School Benches and Desks
2 Carpets,
1 Lot Sugar.
apr 28-td
Wanted Immediately!
I desire to contract for
150,000 SHINGLES.
To be delivered as soon as practicable.
F. C. HUMPHREYS,
Major <fcc., Comd’g Arsenal.
Columbus Arsenal, April 28. 6t
PETTY l SAWYERS,
45 and 47, North Water Street,
MOBILE, ALABAMA.
Brokers and Bankers,
DEALERS IN
GOLD,
SILVER,
IM\K JNOTES,
STOCKS and RONDS,
STATE TREASURY NOTES
STERLING,
HAVANA,
INASSAU,
AXD DOMESTIC EXCHANGE.
Also,
Stocks in all the different Steamers,
Sloops and Schooners engaged in run
ning the blockade.
HONEY RECEIVE® AND
PAIOOUT ON DEPOSIT.
We buy and sell on our own account
or on commission.
Ail letters and enquiries prompt
ly answered.
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