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jCiliimfcu* &Mt*. 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. ° Y * 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. * * ♦ ♦ 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. : ■ -■tf * • 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. « -<«»».— 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 « ) 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. apl 13 worn