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f:.:»o*.crii.'*a« for three months.
Xo sub.-<ei'ii>ii'ju rami'©d for *ieuaer term than
$ > t*C€ month*.
AUfenrisiNu baths:
Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for
'lie first insertion and $1 50 for each additional.
Where advertisements aro inserted a month, the ;
barge will be S2O per square.
Announcing candidatess2o, which must invariably
paid in advance. I
A deduction of 20 per cent, will be made on a
id vert is mg accounts oyer SSO, when promp pay
ment is made.
Change of Schedule.
AW , * March 20th, tbe Trains on
K d X»i will run „ f01i0.,: .
PASSENGER TRAIN:
, rjJumbiis 6 15 P. M.
J-KS3W I § ft-If-
Arrive at Columbus 5 00 A. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN:
Leave Columbus -5 -10 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus ... ....4 35 P. M.
W. L. CLARK,
mar 19 ts Supt. MuSoOgeeß, R.
Adjutant A' Insi’kotorGks’ls Office, t
Richmond, April 9th, 1864. '
[Extract.]
Bprncial Orders, N0.H.”..
* * * * ~ * *
XXIX. Colonel Win. M. Browne, A. D. C. to lliS i
Excellency the President, is temporarily assigned
to the duly of Oo.aman-h- ’ t of C-mscripts for the j
Sfate of Georgia, and will proceed to assume the j
duties thereof under instructions from Bur au of I
Conscription.
By commend of the Secretary of War.
'Signed] -I NO. W. I ELY.
A. A. General.
llkadoiurtkrs or Cokscrij'Thmi. t
-State of Georgia, Macon, April iSm.
Spceial Orders, No. 50. _ t
Hln obedience to s he foregoing order o. the
Secretary of War, I have this day assumed command
of the Conscript service in the State of Georgia.
WAT. M. BROWNE,
Colonel and Commandant of Conscripts,
apl 29 lot
Office Mobile and Girard K. R.. |
Columbus, Ga., April 5, 1801. )
The Stockholders of the Mobile & Girard Railroad
Company, are hereby notified that the five _ per cent
tax, levied by the law passed 1- coruary 17th, 180*.
on the value of all shares held in Railroad or other
Companies, will be paid by the Treasurer at this
oflivc and they will therefore omit the stock held in
this Company in their lists to Assessors.
J. M. FRAZER,
■ Treasurer.
aid on. ___
Police to Planters.
I am authorized by the Government
TO EXCHANGE
Sheetings, €ottoa Yarns,
SU9AR AND OSNABURGS FOR
Bacon Sides,
HltlS AND SH©PI-<DEHS,
for supplying the Army.
JNO. J. Me KEN DUEL,
apl 18 -in .
Xj. 3. witIGtECT,
SUCCESSOR TO ROHINKTT & CO.,
Corner of Broad and Warren Streets, Columbus, Ga.,
MANUFACTUREL OF
Superior Candles and Lard Oil,
AND DEALER IN
GENERAL COUNTRY PRODUCE,
ASNABURGS, Sheetings, Yarns, etc., exchanged
U for Bacon, Lard, Potatoes, o*c.
Tsilluvr and Beeiwax Wanted.
It, is honed that Abe liberal course which will he
~".fed will sr--u-reAgcncro.is patronage,
apnl 20 —lm " .'1:... :i*—
.... -A sjkTg ym Q QQ
(Formerly of Jew Orleans,)
V-Yh SS*37.»
tVIiOLSSALE AND RETAIL
'YIY-GOOLo.
UK ountlv receiving fresh importations. di
i. . , of staple ami taucy Divi
< fi they oiler cheap tor cash.
C.’ s. AIISEN A I-, >
Columbus, Ga.. Aprils, 1864.)
toiler.
S WISH TO EXCHANGE FOE BAO Ola
on equitable ter.ni?,
$!!£»&* MIS is,
inaacfi KeliiU**,
A.ud all kinds PLANTATION IKON; i
Also POWDrill.
As this Bacon is needed to supply the necessities |
of the cuu'loveea of the Ordnance Department, at
this place and Richmond, it is hoped that holders ,
wil give the Government the preference.
F. HUMPHREYS, j
a ,i ■ f Mai. OoindV Arsenal.
liiOL o cS.:Lo st X OA>r cl- =»
02*. E£. A. ftOSSIT.
<»k .VI It ItL A surgeon to the Kew . Orleans *-‘iV
<’ ninlo infirmarytenders Ins sen ices to tat Oit
iaens ot' Columbus in all the branches ot tots proles*
‘' .-'pedal attention will be tie voted, to the treatment
of the diseases ot woiucui. .
Surgical operations performed lor
Fistula in A no. Vision-\ aginnl fistula,
llydi K-ele, Cougeniial and Accidental t liymosis,
Varicocele, llo’morrhouis or Files, Caucus impas
sable strictures. False Passages, iahapesor Club
Fo-m. and eo.itr.v. tioa of too tuigers, fctrabisinus or
i- iui .il i.ic. Aneurism. Vnnx o dilated veins, 1 tcry
•fium, Cataract and Hair uip; also lor tfio remov
i ~i all tnun.r- r abn.'rina’i i-owtas from any part
of the body. . ,
l»isivv<.>s ot’thstie i‘o-t riy-pry Svstem. o.nnprstn<t
the •lifiV.-eut stage- oi urnrUma, Strictures,
liravo.S, Soermatorrhea. uilis, m its primary
.... .. . . \ i,ortiary and m. nufiary form,.will receive
' U ;. ncc' sriveu when vcr desired as well -as the
ri> • u'u i>, ears iWHCtu© in New Or-
C )u>ait;uie:: uouvs every day at :us office
in itic : VM.uk- ilall L-uildius, irom 10 to o clock
■1 In ’ ■ nil •' 0 40Y.1.mk t>. in. Patients willdo
-v ... iJtoje hours, asbeioris and
at -f . if. ... like ilcvoty.it . vUiunjr persons in
the.city.
. w ait o'.>-iiuiuic..rtion." 1-o
1)U. E. A. R'JSSI.
t. .ium bus. Ga.
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re. " ruy- ,n.y\ > vaaa.-. U w.u 0©
j:rov\ civ.-." cut r; vec u-.eij.
wiii have :v iuv..isU tiieir own i’ 1 ’ 0 ' 1 '* "• u * ne i-
a ;. , ..v carividir uOenfhip to
tiie , \U tol'ulS Ot LlcelS, l.atU
mi:i* VV. . . V u > i,. S.. u;e era!-
... j disc of the nin.
. .;ii -and Stoat.t Sufeuuroiis
V , .-it i c • Uospitalcin Europe cifel
y V \ . .. H oi L;\ ill'uW'T.t.
E. A. R.
i*lu e !?Ia r Auf ' >:t‘f© r y.
'EH K UNDERSIGNED isproyarod t-> fill oil order
Gr I£La I J iO
of a superior ,uaiity. All orders um?t be addtf©*<3
to t:> itadeificu-'u wife Hu- money enclosed. nn!e
or i.• py 'xjue.'.', when orders will be tioeb. a
sh’-yped with l. zoKKOWSKI i r
aprlo Lin .
Fi3&4t
'l'Ll!' UNDERSIGNED Ji»vu:« commenced the
7 ) -tui:,venire of fee above named articles in euis
©■■ v. are prepared to fiil orders for the same.
-~u .i, cle Sir.u-t. a f**w do sibyve <. s .
H- : • ..,k 6 ji A 111 Mod >N. V, I'DELL -7 CO.
K-fereufo—M.,s. j.\ \y # ]»im.ard.
Mobile rl-.rtj:■ did '
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Vol. XI.
J. W. W.4RREX & C®. Proprietors J. XV. WARREN, Editor
AUCTION SALES.
Ui riON SALE IX HTLMIS6TOX.
;■ *' '•
M. LROIILY, Auctioneer.
3y Catalogue
OF
IMPORTED GOODS
CARGOES OF
STEAMSHIPS PET AND LUCY,
WITH SUNDRY CONSIGNMENTS PER
OTHER SHIPS. *
ON WEMESDtY, MAY 11, ’64.
Commencing at 9 o’clock, a. m., wm soil at
my Sales Room. No. 2, Granite Row, Wil
mington, N. C., the Cargoes of the above named
Ships, together with other consignments, consist
ing in part of
Hry-Croodni.
Shales white Flannel, ;0
4 bales blue do '.
S pales scarlet do - ‘ V
2 bales printed do . _
1 bale Magenta do
1 bale.«tone do .i. . -
1 bale assorted do -i&Lx /-■ /
5 cases DeLaincs
3 cases Merino-Shirts
3 bales colored Lenas
3 bales Melton Cloths
2 cases Siikliandkerchiefs
4 cases Gloves, Braids, Ac
2 cases black Alpacca
2 cases fancy Tweeds
2 eases flax Thread
2 cases Pins
2 cases Bone Buttons
2 cases fancy wove Shirts
2 case.-: Black and White Muslin
2 cases Regatta Prints
1 case Bunting, Red, White and Blue
1 ease Long Shawls
1 case Ready Made < 'lathing
1 case Corsetts, Hoop -Skirts, Hosiery, Ac
1 case Pilot Cloth
1 bale Cassimere
1 case Spool Cotton.
Sii©€S.
14 cases Ladies and Gents Shoos
3 cases Army Bluchers
1 case Cavalry Boots
4 cases Boys Shoy=
1 case Calf Skins
4 cases Supr Chamois Ski'-.-
1 bale Shoe Thread.
Stationery.
5 cases Stationery
Letter Papers, Pens, Lead Pencils, &c
Colton l a rets, &c.
12 cases Cotton Cards. 500 pair
1 case Superior Card Clothing, 4x31
10 bales Stitching Twine.
Ctroceries.
72 packages superior Green Tea, chests, half
chests find caddies
104 packages Black Tea, chests, half chests and
caddies
22 barrels Crushed Sugar
22 bags Jamaica Coffee
50 boxes Adamantine Candles
17 bags Black Pepper
10 casks C hickory
5 barrels Starch
5 boxes Starch
2-casks Vinegar
50 barrels Mackerel
10 half-barrels Mackerel
35 kitts Mackerel
16 kitts Salmon
55 sacks Liverpool G A Salt
10 casks Table Salt, 102 doz
3 eases Spices.
MSiii'dwsas’e, &c.
0S kegs Cu( Nails, assorted sizes
54 drums Nails
4 tons Nail God Iron
4 eases ‘ utlery
1 case Hatchets
1 case Rasps
1 case Pistol Cartidges
1 case Rifie wipers and girths,
10 eases Gun Caps
1 cask Shoemaker’s Tools.
Oils, <&C,
132 tins Kerosene Oil, 5 gals each
2 casks Whale Oil
i cask Coal Tar.
Drugs,
10 casks Super Mass Liquorice
2 cases Liquorice Root
101 barrels English Copperas
54 kegs Bi Carb Soda
30 drums Balsam Copaiba
29 barrels Alum
10 cases Blue Mass
7 casks Epsom Salts
11 barrels Epsom Salt.-
43 kegs Epsom Salts
12 casks Alcohol
11 barrels Borax
3 barrels Soda Crystals
3 eases Pure Castile Soap, 250 lbs
3 cases Magnesia
2 casks Gum Camphor
2 casks Extract Logwood
2 casks Potash
1 case Gum Shellac
2 kegs Saltpetre
4 Cases Tart Acid
2 cases Baking Powder
1 case Morphia Acet andjMod.
1 ease Phosphorus.
Liquors, &c,
3 half Pipes Pure Martel Brandy
3 half Pipes Old Rum
45 casks Rum
2S casks Pale Ale, 4 dozen each
43 cases Pale Ale. 4 dozen each
90 “ Old Tom Cordial Gin
50 “ D. John’s fine Gin
l4t> •• fine Holland Gin
162 •* superior Cognac Brandy
•20 •• Scotch Whiskey
40 ilindj. bus pure Holland Gin.
Wilmlngt'* . N. C- April 23 tds
•• Notice io Planters and ton
suiiteis of Iron.’*
Vi; E -. ill keep for sale, for Confederate funds, or
-IT e.ve'tan-jie for country produce—such as born,
I- dder. Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Peas, Potatoes, Tai
’W. Burnt, Wheat or Flour—the following articles,
on hand or male to order:
PLOW AND SCOOTER BAR IRON:
FI , AT. UV m : Ni> AND SQU ARE BAR IRON:
its_t. fe. ■ and. . . IP. E. NAIL ROD;
IRON Cv) j’T< >N TIES THAN
ROPE) FOR BALING :
SIIOVELS A'- P SPADES:
FP.Y PANS :
P;>T WARE OP SEVERAL DESCRIP
TIONS ;
SFOAR AM) SALT KETTLES—FROM 40
TO DP) GAEL* >NS ;
SUGAR MILLS—I3 AND 15 INCH.
We are prepared to receive and fill orders for any
sixes'"J..*d uu. uky of Iron, from our Iron « orss
Vr "'i;.. - M-tl in Alabama.
1 and JOHN D. GRAY A CO.,
. .f Next to New Bridge.
Columbus,Ga„ Tail ilif Morning, May 5,1864.
Wednesday Evening:.
1 TEL E3RAP HIS.
Reports of tbe Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
18;53, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Richmon d. May 4. —Burnside's Corps cross
ed tiiii P.apphannock Monday, with tbe excep
tion of a negro brigade left at Manassas.
Special to the Examiner from Hamilton’s
Crossing.—Northern papers of the 30th report
that Grant returned to Washington to demand
the services of McClellan. He refuses to move
with Lis army until the deraaud is complied
with. It is also urgent that Fremont be as
signed to duty.
The Pennsylvania troops whose terms ex
pire in May have notified the Government that
they wiil not obey the orders recently issued
continuing them in service till tbe Ist of July.
Last accounts from Red river represent the
Confederates marching on Grand Ecore. The
Yankees admit a loss of 4,000.
A rupture in the Lincoln Cabinet is report
ed. Chase has resigned.
Don’t Like Yankee Freedom. —l’resly, the
negro of J. J. Cohen, who ran away some
three months since, returned last week. He
says he spent most of the time daring his ab
sence in the vicinity of Stevenson and Bridge
port ; that all runaway negroes were urged to
volunteer in the Federal army, and were told
that if they did not do so, before the Ist of
May, they would then be conscribed. He pre
ferred his former place and condition to the
ranks of the abolition army, and so “vamoosed
the rauohe.” He says that Mr. Ramsey’s three
servants are at Nashville—lke and Frank are
in the army, but Henry was exempt on ac
count of his age.
■ He thinks the Federals get most of their in
formation, in regard to matters this side of
the line, through negroes and white women—
more or less of the latter he saw going to
headquarters every day. Presley says it puts
a nigger to his best to pass the Yankee lines
coming this way.
The above is probably about as reliable as
any ‘‘contraband” news, and our readers may
take if for what they think it is worth.
[Rome Courier.
Mechanics. —We concur with the Appeal
that every skillful artisan, whatever branch
of the mechanical profession they may pursue,
can render more available service to their
country in the workshop than in the field.—
The Lincoln Government understands this
fully, and are offering extra inducements to
secure mechanics. Look at the deplorable
condition of our railroads and other interests
requiring the aid of the mechanics. The stur
dy sons of toil should be well paid for their
labor, and every inducement offered them.—
Many who, after working hard all day, on vis
iting their families, find them wanting many
of the necessaries of life, because their wages
are insufficient to procure them, often declare
that they prefer going-to the army than labor
ing under such circumstances. We trust that
tiiis worthy class in the Confederate States
may meet with more liberal encouragement.
[Mississippian.
Not (4.lite. —The Richmond Whig of the
17th, says that Governor Vance by his Fay
etteville speech is an advocate of “.peace by
the intervention of the States.” Gov. Vance
himself says that peace can only be made
through the Confederate Government. The
Governor says : “Why not appeal to the Gov
ernment through the Legislature, and your
Governor will unite with you in that appeal,
to present some terms of peace to the enemy,
or, while we wage war, to offer to negotiate
for peace.” If peace or negotiations for peace
could be brought about ‘by the intervention
of the States,’' - why appeal to the Confederate
Government? Governor Vance h. 13 nothing
to do with the foolish political heresy of “sep
arate State action-” it is strange into what
culpable inaccuracies the desire to say sharp
things, and especially to sneer at the Confed
erate Government and to d—n all who don’t
d—n it, leads a paper so essentially true and
respectable as the Whig.
[ Wilmington Journal
Tlie Women of Bforlii Carolina,
The ladies of Raleigh, N. C., held a meeting re
cently and adopted, among others, the following
resolutions:
Resolved, That the noble and gallant conduct
of our Southern soldiers on the field of battle, their
endurance and patience under fatigue and priva
tions pf all kinds, and their readiness ever to meet
the foe with their strong arms and stout hearts,
challenge our warmest admiration and gratitude,
and inspire-ns with confidence that they will al
ways be our protectors from the presence of the
hated enemy.
Resolved, That the war is prosecuted by the
South to secure its liberty and independence: with
these, should hail peace as the greatest of earthly
blessings ; without them, peace would be but the
beginning of our degradation and humiliation as
! a people.
Resolved, That the women of the South regard
j this war as involving not only its liberty and in
i dependence, but their own station in society and
• the happiness of the domestic circle : the subjuga-
I tion of their sex and the obliteration of those vir
i lues of purity and innocence which form its peeu
j liar charm : and that we look to the army with
! mingled anxiety and confidence to shield us from
j this the greatest of calamities.
Resolved, That our fathers, brothers, and
sweethearts, and all others iu the army, possess
our warmest thanks for their unceasing efforts du
: ring three long years in defence of liberty, and
| independence, and ourselves : that we pray daily
for their protection from ali barm, and that we
shall hail thair return from the field at the end of
| the war, the conquerors in a hundred battles, as
I tbe brightest days in our lives—greeting them
with rejoicings, gratitude, and love.
Literary and Scientific Generals.
—Some eminent commanders have not
been scholars. But the three greatest
srenerals the world ever produced—Alex
ander, Caesar and Napoleon—were all men
of letters. The first an annotator on Ho*
mer, lh j second a elas ‘eal author, the
tit lid ap m ivjsop ner, it :. * had not been
an emperor. "Bo you think." said Na
poleon, "if t had not been geueraldnu
chief, and the instrument of fate to a
mighty nation, that I would have accep
ted place and No; I would
have thrown myself into the study of ex
act science; my path would have been that
of Galileo and Newton, and, since I have
always succeeded in my great enterprises,
I should have highly distinguished my
self also in my scientific labors. I shonld
have left the memory of beautiful discov
eries"
A Bone of Contention Amonff
the Abolitionists.
Henderson, of Missouri, a Black Republican,
has lately delivered in the Lincoln Senate a
speech upon tbe two sides of the war question,
which is severely exercising the abolition
press. The Louisville Journal copies so mueh
as is quoted below, and makes it the theinh of
an extended bomily, charging upon the Re
publicans a design to defeat reconstruc
tion of a UThion under the Constitution, and if
they cannot aboiitionize the South, then they
prefer to acknowledge her independence:
IIEXDEUSOX’S SPEECH.
There are but two sides to the question.—
The one is Union without slavery ; the other
is tbe immediate and unconditional acknowl
edgment of the Southern Confederacy.
Therefore, let the elements of opposition
at once combine so that the friends of the
Union may determine upon the beet course to
secure peace. If these demons are too strong
to be subdued except at the expense of our
own liberties and the loss of every good for
which the Government was established, the
sooner we know the fact and act upon it, the
better.
* * * * *
If it becomes evident that the friends of
slavery are strong enough in this country to
resist all reasonable efforts to subdue them,
I shall act upon ft. I am not prepared to
ruin the country in a vain effort to do what
cannot be done. Shall this war go on forever ?
Is this common cry of “the last man and the
last dollar” poetry, patriotism, braggadocio?
Should the war go on until the public debt
equals the entire wealth of the country ?
Should the whole capital of the people be
forced into Federal securities, and the secu
rities made the basis of an irredeemable paper
circulation? Should it goon until misery
broods over our whole land; until the civil
authorities shall become impotent and all
rights of person and property stand at the
mercy of military forever? Should it go on
until the members of the Senate and House
of Representatives shall owe their places here
to tbe bayonet instead of the ballot box ; until
they become as contemptible as the Rump
Parliament that so long enacted the military
usurpation to the overthrow of the English
Constitution, to be firmly expelled from place
by the power they had so basely served ?
Should it go until corruption and fraud, the
necessary concomitants ot civil war shall have
crept into high places and put on the garb of
puritanisra ; until offices becomes so numerous
that official patronage may quarter one-half
of the people upon the other half, and given
them the means of perpetrating their own
power? Shall it contintue until exhausted,
the nation would welcome the coming of a
Cromwell or a Bonaparte, until provost mar
shals with military police shall be stationed at
every village into the Northern States displa
cing the civil authority, issuing orders for
governing people heretofore supposed to be
able to govern themselves, teaching how God
shall be worshipped, prescribing new and
strange offenses and punishing them by courts
martial? Shall it continue until financial
ruin brings misery, and misery rushes into
anarchy, when no hope but despotism i3 left ?
I once before stated, and I now repeat the
opinion, that if the people of the seceded
States were all united as men are united when
inspired by a just cause, when urged on by
convictions of duty to self, to country and to
God, they could never be conquered. History
furnishes no example of such a thing, and I
saw no special reason why the general cur
rent of experience should be broken in this
case. I thought, however, they could be con
quered, because I did not believe they were
united.
VC ->
Mr. President, we have expended two thou
sand millions of treasure ; we daily expend
thre'e millions more. The daily destruction
of property well nigh equals the expenditure,
thereby decreasing our means oi payment in
the same ratio in which the burdens of in
debtedness are increased, The border States
have been ravaged, desolated, and now their
population is living to the wilderness terri
tories of the West to escape the curses of
what we call American civilization. They
seek peace in order that when all else has
been lost the future rewards of labor may be
preserved for the comfort and support of their
families. To the holy purposes of restoring
the Union wo hive given a million of lives,
and a half million brave soldiers now stand
r -ady to add their blood to the sanguine lake
that knows no filling. lierx-flion is confront
ing us yet. I.- it weaker than it was? Public
opinion says yes. Take the newspaper press
of our country and add for yourselves the re
ported desertions or rebel troops for the la3t
two years, and it equals the original militia
strength of the South. The same authority
tells us that the rebel armies are in a state of
starvation, and in the same column reports
the destruction of commissary stores on the
outskirts of rebeldom sufficient to subsist
their armies for three months We are told
by the reports of chief engineers and major
generals in command that forts have. been
levelled by our artillery, have become a mass
of shapeless ruins and unavailable for defense.
These forts, for six months thereafter, have
held in security Confederate garrisons, and
they yet frown defiance at our iron-clad na
vies.
For three years the armies o£the rebellion
have defied our power. In April, 1861, the
Executive and his advisers thought that
75,000 men copld suppress the outbreak in
three months. In July, 1861, the Congress
supposed that 500,000 men would soon com
plete the work.j With an army of many hun
dreds of thousands now in the field, the same
authorities regard it necessary to add 700,000
more to the present.
Who is the man that thinks the rebellion is
weaker to-day than it once was, two or three
years ago ? It is easy to say we think it
weaker. Indeed, it may not be strong ; but
our actions give no evidence that such is our
opinion. If deceiving others be excusable, if
is scarcely so to deceive ourselves.
A Cavtios.—iTlie L} nebburg Virginian of Tuts
day,says :
A friend of ours had a misfortune Sunday night
which sorely distresses him. He was coming up
from Richan ;:1 u the South-side train, end be
coming sleepy, in unsuspecting mood resigned
himself to the soothing embraces of slumber.—
When Le aw-.-ke, to his great dismay, his hat was
gone. Some light-fingered knight had gently
lifted it from his unwary head and departed. It
was anew and very fine French hat, ar.d had a
warm-place in the aubclions of our bereft friend.—
He is inconsolable with grief.
Extremes do meet. Another gentleman on the
same train, a Confederate officer of this Post, had
a similar misfortune the same night—only his feet
were despoiled instead of his hea l. His boots
having been removed for the greater comfort of
Ids feet, in like manner.war spirited away. The
couple presented a forlorn aspect coming up town
in the morning, the one bareheaded an i Re other
!»a refooted.
We publish this for toe benefit of ' g
public, guc'i things are of 9v rr J • . <.* •; rt; •.
Be vigilant u. 4 y■irgu >r w ■ v .; .j
$8.50 Per Month.
[Correspondence of the Charleston Mercury.]
JLetter from |tichinoiid.
Richmond, Friday, April 27.
Grant not at Chattanooga—Delay on the Rapt
da n—Sentinel and Bragg—Stephens’ Record
—The R e d R{ ver Expedition — Gen. Holmes
Youths of Richmond Called Out—Six Per
Cents— Maearia. etc.
The report that Grant is at Chattanooga is
not credited here. Rut why this delay on the 1
Rapidan, and is it likely Grant should risk his
reputation by leaving a successful for an un- 1
successful field? “It is Lincoln’s policy to I
have Grant defeated,” will be said. But not *
at tbe risk of losiug his capital. Victory is ,
more needed than the defeat of a possible po
litical rival.
The Sentinel thiuks a fight imminent be
tween Lee and Grant. Per contra, General
Bragg is said to be of opinion that no fight of
importance will occur on the Rapidan, but
that the main attack oi the enemy will be
made from the Reninsula or on the south side
of James river. Which of the two military
opinions is the wiser, remains to be decided.
A private letter from an officer in Lee’s army
says there is no indication of immediate hos
tilities.
Vice President Steplieus’ past recoid is be
ing unearthed for the benefit ot the readers 6f
the Enquirer. The same amount of industry
expended on the record of othevs in the high
places might prove even more remunerative.
There are many “quaint and curious volumes
e* forgotten lore’’ in the history of our poli
ticians. But what boots it to remember the
past or to quicken the pale embers of by-gone
dissensions ?
Bauks’ Red River expedition is said to have
been undertaken at the suggestion of the
Yankee cotton men in New Orleans, who
promised Banks a million of dollars if he
would hold the country long enough to get
the cotton out. He failed, but we destroyed
a vast number of bales which might have
been saved. Our city papers are skeptical
enough to doubt the accuracy of the “Western
Despatches” which come from Mobile.
The assignment of Lieutenant General
Holmes to the command of the North Carolina
reserves is deemed an odd administration
comment on its own promotions. General
Ransom’s appointment in place ot General
Elzey is favorably regflrded, although a Vir
ginian would have been preferred. The
youths of the city, between 16 and 18 years of
age, are called out to-morrow.
The six per cents advertised at auctiou on
the 12th of May will bring, it is thought, 120
to 125. The city is exercised about horse im
pressments. Rev. S. B. Sutherland, of your
city, lectures to-morrow evening on “Charies
ton its history, its people, and its military
situation.” West & Johnston have just pub
lished “Maearia,” by the author of “Beulah.”
It is very clear and very warm—not the book,
but tbe weather. Hermes. ?
The Plymouth Pilgrims and Exchange.—
Eleven hundred of the Federal prisoners
captured at Plymouth, N. C., had passed
through Macon up to Monday morning. Five
hundred and two more will get liere°at three
o’clock Monday, evening, (2d.) We under
stand there are now eleven thousand prisoners
at Camp Sumter, and there will be over twelve*
thousand when the whole of the Plymouth
capture arrives. That is getting to be a pop
ulous spot, and we really hope our Govern
ment will hurry on the negotiations for ex
change. The punctilios raised against treat
ing with Beast Butler, we must regard aa un
fortunate. The Yankee Government had the
right to select it3 own representative, and
they displayed in this instance a nice regard
of what was due to themselves and the fitness
of things, which we should have left‘unchal
lenged. If they had chosen Apolyon as their
representative, we would have treated with
him, and never for a moment questioned his
t»Ue so represent that government and people.
Butler, it is true, was an outlaw under the
proclamation of our President, but that, like
the Emancipation 'proclamation of Lincoln,
was s dead letter, until an opportunity occur
red to put it in force, and meanwhile his po
sition as Federal Agent of Exchange could
not have affected his status one way or the
other. We were negotiating for our own ben
efit and not for that of the Lincolnites; and
the fact that they chose for their agent a man
infamous for his crimes and outrage? in the
opinion of the whole civilized world, was not
a point to which we had any reason to object.
It was rather a matter for gratulation.
f Macon Telegraph.
We find the following in tho Atlanta Reveille of
Sunday :
To the JFpie.vds ok the Reveille. —We take
pleasure in announcing to our friends and the
public generally, that wo have purchased, and will
to-morrow assume control of the Southern Con
federacy, now being published in this city. By
this arrangement we secure an old, well-established
paper, and one of the best arranged offices in the
South. We will endeavor in this paper to carry
out the principles and the intentions of the Rev
eille, and will accord in that journal the same
cordial support to our excellent Chief Magistrate,
President Davis, that we have promised in the
Reveille. We will also fill the contracts of the
Reveille as to subscriptions, <fce., in the Southern
Confederacy; and we a*k of our numerous friends,
both in the army and at home, to extend to us in
our new enterprise the same kindly support they
have given us in the Reveille.
CAMP, WITHERS & CO.
A Federal Opinion or our Defen
ces.—Yankee letttgr writers think that
our position in North Georgia a formula 1 -'
ble one. We trust their ideas of it will
prove correct. One of them'writes as fol
lows in regard to them:
We never beheld so formidable a posri
tion for defence as the Confederates have
at Dalton. Reaching out into the gorge
from the perfectly impassable mountains
on either side, spur after spur could be
seen, rising one above the other, as you
looked toward Dalton, and forming a se=*
ies of fortifications as perfect in design as
the hand of man ever traced, while vastly
superior in magnitude to aught that he
ever constructed. These natural fortifi
cations extend all around the place, and
are rilled with sharp-shooters who pick
out our men with great ease.
Confidence of our Leaders.—A
note from Virginia informs the Carolin
nian that Davis never looked
more satisfied, Mr. Seddou never less
grim, Mr. Benjamin never more compla
cent. Mr. Benjamin was never more com*
posed, Mr. Mallorj’ never less unhappy,
Gen. Lee never more calm, Lonastreet
never more jubilant, and the remainder
of our great men generally never appear
ed more hopeful than they do at the pres
ent moment. Either some good news
has arrived or is at band. Gen. Grant
is said to be the worst scared man
who ever commanded a Fedcrt i-army,
and what is better than all. we know the
enemy’s plans from Alpha to Gmega.”
1 ■ ■
Comsiiontleiicj a liic Daily Times.
a ST4T,y *- Kmcmich’s Landing, I
t * Miles West of Charleston, April 30 'O4. j
1 citor Tinas: Thinking you heat but little
j th,s < l liart ©r with the exception of a ali K h#
the c,, ntinui>(l },; e g„ 0 f t h e p ; t j j
| concluded to drop you a line. l
T* * CUti ° n are in fine conditio*
j Goods of all kinds are extiavagantiy high in
By- But for the free market, the poor would snf
cer very much for the necessaries of life. Mono*
becoming more scarce will cause many of tho shop
eepers to fall in their prices, who' hm-e gone up
at any and every opportunity, but have never
found an opportunity to fall until now.
I visited the city on the 28th inst., in a smaD
sail boat, and after passing through the narrows t*
rear of Sullivan's Island and entering the harbor,
the enemy opened upon us with a 30 pounder
rott. from Battery Gregg, with good shooting, but
the wind being in our favor, in connection of thoir
not being well skilled in shooting “on the wing,*
we were soon out of range. They often praL
tice at small craft sailing across the harbor, but
more often at SumUr, against whoso glorious old
walls, now scarred by the many deadly missiles of
Dahigren and Gilmore, she still stauds in sublim*
defiance.
The enemy have been comparatively quiet set
two weeks past as they have been rvecit i»g another
supply of ammunition from the south end ofth*
island. They are again working on the “Swam>
Angel,” which has been silent for some time past
Battery Gregg has done all the firing recently
V agner beiug at too long a range. Battery Gregg
has been named Fort Putnam, in honor of the Col
onel of a New Hampshire regiment, and Battery
Wagner, Fort Shaw, in honor of the Colonel ofth#
54th Massachusetts (negro) Regiment. Both were
killed in the assault on Wagner, on the 18th July,
1863.
Another monitor made its appearance inside tha
bar a few days ago, making six, one of which an
chors off W%ner on picket alternately for twenty
four hours each.
The shelling of the city for throe days past has
been slight, lho city is t now divided into two
parts, out of range, aud in range,, or Gilroorevill#
as tho latter is sometimes called. The lower part
(Gilmoreville) is almost deserted, audit makes one
feel quite sadgo on the battery, where he has
been accustomed to seo it thronged with the fair,
aud find its beautiful promenades now blocked up
with eolumbiads 4 or dalghrens. As I was going
up King street, just getting “out of range,” I saw
quite a rush from a building, and on seeing some
iriends from Columbus in tho flying party, Iques
tioned them and found a shell had struck the
house and caused them to emigrate to “out of*
range, at the same time giving the Yankee re
ply, we were not routed, only ajjehango of base/*
Iho Plymouth Pilgrims (Yanks captured aft
Plymouth) were expected te pass through on their
way to Americus, Ga., last night. Two desertera
from the enemy on Kiawah Island, enme into our
lines three days ago, saying a great many others
would do likewise when an opportunity presented
itself. Their excuse for desertion in his own
words was, “too much nigger” soldier.)
Gon. Beauregard has been ordered to the De«
partmentof North Carolina, aud Gen. Sam Jones
will succeed him iu this Department.
It was once said when a man arrived at the age
of twenty one he could think for himself and not
before. It is now different, as he has to be over
fifty before he can think, aDd as I have not yet
arrived at that age, I reckon I shall have to close
and let Mas Jeff do my thinking for me, as he does
for all between the agos of 17 and 50.
C. A. S.
Siege "of Charleston.
Two Hundred and Ninety—Eighth Day.
Since our last report the cnetny has kept
up a steady bombardment of Fort Sumter
from the mortar batteries. Three hun
dred and ninety-five shells were thrown
from Friday morning up to dark Saturday
evening, without injury to the fort and no
casualties.
On Sunday the enemy again opened
heavily on the fort witli mortars, which
was kept up till dark. During the day
tbe Yankees were observed hauling fresh
supplies of ammunition to the mortar bat
teries. Fort Moultrie and our batteries
on James’ Island opened fire for a short
time on the parties, compelling them to
-go under cover.
A desultory fire has been kept up on
the city. Twelve shells were thrown Sat
urday and ten Sunday. ,
Several more vessels, deeply laden,
passed the Bar Saturday and Sunday, sail
ing Southward.
No change in the fleet is reported.
[ Courier , 2d.
Fears of Invasion of Ohio.—Sever
eral of the Governors of Western States
are in Washington urging upon the Pres
ident the propriety of calling out two
hundred thousand more men for the
pose of guarding against the invasion of
States bordering on the Ohio river. It is
said that the President favors the plan,
and will soon call for two hundred thorns
and volunteers from Western States only.
In the course of last week, two broad sheets
were posted on the gates and doors of Roman
Catholic churches in Dublin. Bath aresigned
•‘Sacerdos.” One is headed, “Letters of his
Holiness, Pius fX, on the American War,” and
the others, “Letters of John Mitcbel, Wm.
Smith O’Brien, John Martin, and “Sacerdos,”
on the American War.” Their object is to
discourage Federal enlistment in Ireland.
SBS Reward,
LEFT my house about tho 25th April, my son
LEWIS DUER aged 11 years, had on when
he left a Grey Jeans coat, Rrown pants and cap.
The above reward will no paid for his recovery or
any information of hi? whereabouts.
JOHN W. DUER,
Palace Mills.
Columbus, May 4, 1 6 b 3t'
CONFEDERATE ST 'TEA OF AMERICA.
Wak Dkpartmf.st, I
Bureau of Conscription, r
Richmond Va., April 21st. 1864. )
Circular No. 19. £
Commandant*are instructed to investigate with
special care tbe cases of persons claiming to bo
citizens of Maryland. Unless the parties can
prove beyond all reasonable doubt, that they are
not “residents of the Confederate States,” they will
be assigned to the army in accordance with existing
regulations for tbe disposition of Conscripts. In case
such proof is given, the parties will da forthwith 1 e
ported to this Bureau with descriptive h-G, and
notified that they will be expected to report in per
son either to Major General Elzey at fciaunton or
Colonel Bradley T. Johnson, at Hanover Junction,
Virginia for incorporation with the Maryland line,
failing to do which they will render themselves liable
to be considered alien enemies.
By order of
COL. JOHN S. PRESTON,
Superintendent.
c. IE Duvkikld, A. A. G.
Ilo’qns Consent ptiox Sksvick of Ga.,l
Macon, April 29, 1361. >
Official copy. P. LOONEY,
apl 30 Iw Lieut, and Adjutant.