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j. w. WARREN, ... Editor. Tuesday Morning, May 10, 1864. The Mews from Virginia, North Carolina and the trans- Mississippi is absolute!/ intoxicating. The noble arm/ of Gen. Lee is having its own way —turning the flank and whipping thn flgmt of Grant wherever it thinks proper. It is most gratifying to know that oar loss, thus Oar, has been slight in comparison with that of the en emy. We think that the fight has progressed far enough, and the results have been such, to remove all doubt of the final success of our arms. The repeated repulses and defeats the enemy has sustained, together with the fail ure of his combinations everywhere, must ex ert a most demoralizing effect upon him, and render his discomfiture a comparatively easy task. Our gallant little navy is contributing large ly to the general stock of good fortune, and is gloriously defending the Capitol in a point where, heretofore, it has been most vulnera ble. To wind up the day’s work, comes the glad tidings from the West, representing that the reign of poor Banks is about to suffer a “disastrous eclipse.” The news is glorious. Read it and give* thanks to God that He has so signally and mercifully protected us. Gens. Lonqstbet and Bknning.—A special dispatch from “P. W. A.” at Orange C. H. to the Mobile Advertiser A Register conveys the gratifying intelligence that “Gen. Longstreet is doing well” and “Gen. Benning’s wound is not severe.” The Selma Reporter states when the im pressing officers were buying mules in a neigh boring county not very long since, a commit tee of appraisers valued a certain mule at $l,lOO. Afterwards the mule escaped and was taken up as an estray and valued by an other committee, one of whom was on the first committee, at S2OO. Recently our scouts picked up ft few strag- j gling Yankees in the vicinity of the Tennes see river along between Guntersville and De catur. Last week seven were brought to Rome and turned over to Col. Cameron, and on Tuesday two more—one of them, Ist Lieut. Millar, 103d Illinois regiment. A Question in Arithmetic. —The Yankee ac counts from Plymouth, says the Savannah Repub lican, say they lost 1,500 prisoners, including blacks. Within the past week 2,327 have passed through Savannah on route for Camp Sumter* and not a negro among them. The same accounts report the Confederate loss in killed and wounded at 1,700 whilst Gen. Hoke' who commanded our forces, set it down at hetween 300 and 400. The Yankees are famous on arith metic. A Trusty Sentinel. —Some of the officers of Philip's Georgia Legion, in camp near Frede ricksburg, Va., the other night, went on*a "“grand round” expedition. Many of the new recruits surrendered their guns and sabres to the party, but the war-worn veterans on duty that night were not found napping, and promptly refused, in every instance, to give up their arms when they were demanded. One of them, when asked by the major to let him have his carbine a moment, said : “You must call again, sir; I never loan my gun when on duty, but have often loaned the am munition.” That fellow can be trusted as a guard to the commissary of stores even in these times of short rations. 4 Gov. Clark, of Mississippi, by his pi’oclama tion declaring who should be exempt in that State, has made the office of magistrate and constable respectable. The Brandon Republican says : Heretofore it has been a difficult matter to get any one to accept either the office of magistrate or constable; but we now learn that elections have been ordered in every beat in the county, and that in some beats there are as high as eight or ten candidates for each office. We hope the great re spectability to which these offices have attained will not make the incumbents above speaking to their old friends. The anti Abolition Society, of New York, cele brated Thomas Jefferson’s birthday on the I3th inst. The Bth regular toast was “New York over run, conquered and subjugated by New Engiand ism. Let us redeem her.” The last three regu lav toasts were complimentary to the “peace cler gy,” “peace press” and “peace ladies.” The prin cipal Speakers were ox-Governor Seymour, of Con necticut, and Chauncy C. Burr, of New York city —both strong advocates of peace. ♦ m* It .is reported that a body of ten thousand Federal cavalry are at Lexington and Mount Ster ling, Ky., making preparation for a raid into Vir ginia, under the command of Generals Stoneman and Sturgis. If confidence is half the battle, we may consider the "i ankecs at Chattanooga already whipped, for never was more confidence reposed in a leader than our soldiers repose in Joseph E. Johnson. ♦ 4» » Losses in this War.— We take from the the Philadelphia North American the follow ing list, made up to the Ist September, 1863, including the battle of Chickamaiiga : CONFEDERATES. Killed W’d’d Pr’n’rs Total. 1860 1,270 3,955 2,772 9,887 1862 14,556 47,204 15,876 77,646 1863 12,321 48,300 71,211 131,332 Total 28,147 99,459 98,858 217,165 Confederates died of disease and sickness from the commencement of the war to the present time, 130,000. FEDERALS. Killed W’d’d Pr'n'rs Total. 1861 4,724 9,791 9,144 23,709 1862 20,879 69,973 46,534 136,386 1863 15,363 53,981 33,281 102,624 Total 40,966 132,745 89,009 262,720 Federals died of disease and sickness dur ing the same time, 290,000. RECAPITULATION. Federal losses in battles, &c., 262 700 “ “ by sickness, &c., 290’,000 Federal total loss in three rears, 552,720 Confederate losses in battles, , 217,465 Confederate loss by sickness, &c -- * 130,000 Confederate total loss in three years, 347,465 Excess of Federal loss. 905 955 The total loss, North and South, according th,i lS ha3 b r 900 ’ 185 ’ which when the full three yeais of war are ended, will rise to a million. | A Script Ural Prophecy—-The End ovths War. —Eddur of (he Savannah lie publican — Let us nutice the prophecy iu Daniel concern ing a war between tne North and South, and . see if there is not an anology sufficient to create the belief that it has reference to the present war. I know tbit commentators have given a different view of the subject ; though none have given positive assurance that their notion was correct^ I would particularly refer to the army rais ed by the King of the North (Dan. xi c: 2 v.); and then «fter Me overthrew of that army, the seeond giant Army (Dan. oc.; 1,3, 14 v.), which met with a similar defeat; then the possession taken of the dalanda and cities; “The tiding out of the Bast ;” andl then the desperate effort to destroy, andms final over throw, in all which,* 5 * ttrWi, we have * dear prophesy from Scripture of the present strug- flfisarr Now as to the time of the end (Dan. xii c.; 6,7, 12 v.) “And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was npon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders ?” The full duration is given—-“a thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.” Now ac cording to this prophecy, if it has reference to the present war. peace may confidently be ex pected between this and the Ist September; counting the days from the first battle at Fort Sumter, April 12th, 1861, it will be observed that the thousand, three hundred and thirty five days will be accomplished on the first of September; 1864. DANIEL. W~ ; [From the Atlanta Reveille, 28th.] Hr. Dawson’s Lecture A leoture on a subject like “National Hon or,” is not apt to attract the curiosity of the populace; hence, the audience that greeted the lecturer at tire At heneum on last evening, although not very large, was composed of the more refined and elegant circles of Atlanta society. We will not attempt more than a passing notice of the lecture of this gentle men, which, in point of merit, in classic dic tion and elegance, to be duly appreciated, needs to be heard. The object of these lec tures is to raise funds for the benefit of the Kentucky soldiers, who, although cut off from every home defence, are nobly Struggling, side by side, with the soldiers of more fortunate States, for the establishment of our liberty and independence. These lectures are con ducted under the auspices of local aid socie ties, through whom the proceeds are trans ferred to the Kentucky Relief Association. The lecturer, instead of being a beneficiary, defrays his own individual expenses, through, a desire to labor for the common good. The motive of his action certainly deserves all praise, and we doubt not, it .will meet with a warm respose in every Southern heart. As we said, it is not our purpose to enter into a review of the leoture. This Would be impos | sible in the brief space and time allotted us. Suffice it to say that the lecture is teeming With pearls of knowledge and wisdom—glow ing with beautiful thoughts and fancies, which are the result of much reflection, deep re search, and a mind of lygh intellectual en dowments. Like the eagle that deigns to rest on naught beneath the mountain tops, his soars unto the ethereal heights of thought, un til its plumage glows in the sunbeams of hea ven. Mr. Dawson is deeply versed in the sci ence and theory of government. Like a phil osopher, the past spreads before him, from Whose page he deduces lessons of wisdom, worthy the consideration of our rulers and statesmen. The veil of the future is illumi mated with the light of the past, as experience revels the precepts taught in the school of the ages. From its source to its terminus, he wanders along the fountain of learning, gath ering the pearls of truth, cast ashore by the waters of revolution as tide-marks of the cen turies. The leoture of Mr. Dawson is characterized by gentleness and courtesy throughout. His purposes is not by anathema to still deeper wound the afflicted, but by persuasion to teach each and all alike the duties which they owe, in this struggle, to country and to God.— Whatever evils may exist, he does not believe are to be eradicated by vituperation, but on the other hand, by gentle and loving words- Unlike most lecturers and speakers, he fails to see in the speculator, that insatiable vam pire, whose only thirst is tbe last drop of his unfortunate victim’s blood. In them, he be holds many noble exceptions, such as contrib ute magnanimously of their gain to the needy and distressed. He finds in the possessor of fortune accumulated before the war, who still 'persistently holds on to his coffers, a far worse enemy to society and the country than in him whose prosperity has but added to a generous disposition the means of becoming a public benefactor. As an orator, Mr. Dawson has few equals. Whilst his style is ornate, he is forcible and logical in tbe application of truth to the just rewards of.exhalted patriot ism. His gestures give double force and ex pression to the language of his thought. His elocution, to the charm of native grace, adds the crowning accomplishments of tbe schools. The cultivated ear is captivated by the musi cal flow of his polished sentences, and his voice varying in modulation with the spirit of his discourse rises and falls like the cadence of a song. In the peculiar condition of the Kentucky soldiers, Mr. Dawson views a spectacle of more al grandeur and sublime patriotism—a lov ot country unabating in its zeal, which is too often, under similar circumstances, is shaken in faith and weakened in fidelity, Mr. Daw son is a student and a scholar. He has been taught in the school of thought. His theories of government are those of the true philoso pher, and founded in the eternal principles of truth. The purpose of Mr. Dawson can but be highly appreciated wherever he ap peals to a generous public. The soldiers in whose behalf he pleeds, are now sear-worn veterans of the war. Shiloh, Donaldson, Ba ton Rouge, Murfreesboro’, and a hundred oth er fields bloody strife, are livieg monu ments of their valor and devotion to a cause for which they have given all to secure the independence of these Confederate- States, and the establishment of a principles. Smilingr Skies. Os a truth, Providence smiles upon the Con federate cause. For nearly six months past we have had a series of victories, great and small, with scarcely a single reverse ; and as time wears on our successes appear to be crowding to a culmination. The papers of yesterday were filled with good news from all quarters of the compass. Victories in Louisi ana and Arkansas ; the Yankees routed near Vicksburg, and their Government plantations broken up ; gunboats and transports on the Red river blown up by the enemy to prevent them from falling into our hands ; the enemy foiled at Tunnel Hill; Washington, in North Carolina, evacuated; The Louisianians in Mobile firing a salute in honor of Gen. Tay lor’s victory ; millions of pounds of bacon and immense stores of clothing, arms and ammu nition arrived safely at a Confederate port, raid to be “recently opened to blockade run ners ; ’ and last, but not least, Grant refusing so move his army because his troops are leav ing him, and making a peremptory demand for the restoration of McClellan, the most hate ful of men to Lincoln, Did any one paper in the Confederacy since its formation ever con tain so much news ? Our character has been tested by reverses the most serious and protracted, and now it seems we are to be subjected to the much harder test us propriety. The weak man is made boastful and vain-glorious by even a trivial success, but there is an amount of good fortune which always humbles the true man to the dust, and makes him cry, “Not unto me, not unto me.” It does, indeed, appear that the time is at hand wheu the people of the South will be blessed with success to complete that the proudest spirit will be vanquished by an overwhelming sense of gratitude. [Richmond Whig, sth. A chap dovrn in New Haven had courted a girl’ giving her a large number of presents, to keep her admiration all right; but and fferences arose, and a big squabble was the result. Offended lover calls on his Mary Ann, and requests "that dress-pattern'’ given her last week. She passed over the de ; manded dry goods. **Tll take that photograph | album, if you please.” She extracted the pictures ' and returned the volume. “Give me back that ring!” No sooner said than done. “Now, I just want you to take out those teeth I paid thirty dollars for, and give them back to me in about four seconds 1” This was too much of a “gam .ttd the female be.! . haatjr rrtMfc The fallowing correspondence between private J. Elliott., Uo. &• 16fcli Mississipri regiment, Harris' Brigade, and General Lee has been furnished ns by a member of the regiment: •to. years under your leadership and having ob served, 'frith pride and admiration, your heroic courage, your untiring, self sacrificing devotion to our cause, wavering faruai i» -Qjur„ sUmnte triumph and above nil, your paternal cure and kind solicitude for the welfare of those under your command, I have been induced to send this pipe, carved with my own hand, during the leasure hours of camp life as a slight testimonial of my esteem and re gard. Having been compelled to do the carving entirely with a penknife, it is but-an humble token; yet I feel assured that it will be accepted by you as an ev>* idence of our high appreciation of our distinguished commander. Trusting that it may serve in some de-e --gree to cheer your moments of care and enliven your hours of leisure; hoping also that ere long you may be permitted to smoke the “pipe of peace” in your native land, rendered free and happy by your noble exertions, and among a grate ful people, who will honor and venerate your name as long as time shall last, I remain, with much respect Your devoted follower, GRANVILLE J. ELLIOTT. Hedquarters Army Northern Ya. ) March 23, 1864. j Mr. Granville J. Elliott I am very much obliged to you for the handsome pipe you have so kindly sent me. It is beautxfuly carved, and my ad miration at its execution is enhanced when I consider opportunites and implements. Cordially joining in your aspirations for peace, and trusting that fredom and hap« piness may soon be restored to your suff ering State, with thanks for your kind sentiments. I am very respectulfuly, Your obedient servant, R. E. LEE. Confederate Perseverance Ac knowledged. While many of our own people are of opinion but little has been done to get to sea a Confede rate navy, or that but little effort has been extend ed in this direction, some of our enemies give our navy’department no little credit for perseverance under difficulties, and are surprised that so much has been accomplished when the obstacles to suc cess seemed so insurmountable. We have before us the Chicago Times of the 19th ult., which says we have been indefatigable in our attempts to construct a fleet- that no amount of ill-luck or misfortune seems iu the least to daunt us, but on the contrary, the more our efforts lack success, the more determinined we are in the prosecution. This is certainly a feather for Mr. Mallory. The Times enumerates such of our efforts as have come to its knowledge, as follows : Thus, when the Virginia was sunk on the At lantic coast, they built a fleet on the Mississippi. In a little while, this was sunk, burned or cap tured, and the rebels then built the Atlanta. She was literaley smashed by the monstrous projec tiles of the Woehawkcn before her career had fairly commenced, but, undaunted, the Confede rates labored on, until to-day, when they have some dozen or fifteen iron-clads completed and afloat upon the few rivers and harbors yet in their possession. In the same manner—with the same persistence, and with the same ill luck—have the Confede rates attempted to construct a fleet of iron-clads in foreign ports. They made a constract in England for a small fleet; the vessels were in part paid for and nearly completed, when the British govern ment placed its grasp upon the vessels and forbade their departure. Still buoyant, the Confederates tnrned their attention across the channel to La Belle France. Napoleon was supposed to possess a sort of sneaking attachment for the unfledged Confederacy ; and it was believed that here suc cess might finallly be induced to crown * their ef forts. A naval builder named M. Arman was found who agreed to construct four iron-clad rams for an adequate consideration, to be paid in five instalments. The first fifth, of 730,000 francs, was paid; the vessels were progressing rapidly to wards completion, when suddenly the Nemesis of Confederate naval operations again crossed the path of the rebel Commissioners; this time in the person of Mr. Dayton. Mr. Dayton had been as untiring in France as was Mr. Adams in England. He overwhelmed M. Drouyn de L’Huys with letters and documentary proofs, until that gentleman either to escape boring, or convinced of the justice of the step, induced his “dear colleague,” the Minister of the Marine, to stop the arming of the vessels, and to take such steps as will prevent their being turned over to tho Confederates when completed. Grant and McClellan. If it be true, as stated by the Fredericks burg correspondent of the Examiner, that Grant has made a peremptory demand on Lincoln for the services of McClellan in the forthcoming campaign, there is something at fault above and beyond the impaired morale of Grant’s army. We suspect the politicians, at the bidding of the financiers, have touched a secret spring, to which Grant respond? in spite of himself. McClellan is the favorite of the war Democrats, who, perhaps, begin to feel with Long, of Ohio, that they have been fighting on a false issue. The inexorable log ic of events—the failure of Lincoln’s drafts, the manifest weakness of the Union armies, the numerous successes of the Confederates, the bold front presented by Lee and Johnston, and the tottering condition of the finances— all these things cannot fail to have had an effect upon the War Democrats, who, it must be remembered represent Wall street. The war having reduced itself to very nar row limits, and to one or at most two issues— towit: the coming battles in Georgia and Virginia—the Money-Kings begin to feel ner vous. If Grant is beaten, or Sherman—what then ? What becomes of our investments ? Who will prevent the armies from disbanding when the nation is bankrupt and the people are maddened and bewildered ? If the armies scatter of their own accord, chaos will cope again. It is too much to risk upon a single battle or two battles. There must be some thing to fall back upon. We must either not fight at all, or we must fight under conditions which will make defeat tolerable to the Amer ican people. To prevent anarchy at home, we must conclude peace while our armies are yet | intact and under control. Else, we must, by i calling McClellan to the field, re-inspire the : Democratic masses, so that, in case of defeat, i they will not turn upon the Republicans, but i will rally again to the support of the Govern i ment and enable it to raise another army, j large enough at least to resist invasion and 1 keep dowd the mob. i This we take to be the meaning of Grant’s i demand for McClellan.— Richmond Whig. ♦ ♦ . The trains run through without any inter ruption from Mobile to Okolona, from which point a train goes occasionally to Tupelo, about thirty miles above. The entire track to Corinth will be in complete repair in less than two week3. So much for the determina tion of the commanding general, who declares that he can rebuild railroads as fast as the 1 enemy can destroy them. SSISGEAFaiS. Reports of the Press Association. Fntefed according to act n tho year theDisteict 6mirt of the Confederate StateTfor tho Northern District of Georgia. GMyuraiA! Lee Victorious iv Every Encounter! The Yankees at w*l-, tham Junction! i?Ti i yiormn / Richmond, May Spottsylvania C. H., Bth.) —Hon. J. A. Seddon, Secretary of War: After a sharp encounter with the sth Army Corps, and Warles’ and Terret’s Divis ions of cavalry, R. H. Ajiderson, with the ad vance of the army, repulsed the enemy with heavy slaughter and took possession of the Court House. I am most greatful to the Giver of all Victories that our loss is small. (Signed) • d*. E. LEE. RiCHMOND,"9th. —The interruption of tele graphic communication between Richmond and Weldon with the hourly expectation that the line would be: restored, has caused an ac cumulation of press reports at this point, the material points, of which are subjoined :—Or r&nge C. H., 7th.- —Ewell again repulsed the enemy yesterday. The Yankee loss was ter rible, especially in Early’s front. Ewell’s loss small. Last night our men held possession of the enemy’s battle field on the left and centre, capturing a number of wounded. Our success very great, but not decisive. The charge of Gordon’s brigade ted as the grandest of the war. /*_ ; Our loss thu3 far, is about five thousand, of whom the larger proportion is slightly woun ded. The fight occurred in a densely wooded country, and hence little or no artillery was used. In the fight at Chester on Saturday, mid way between Richmond and Petersburg, the Yankees were repulsed, with a loss of 1,000 killed and wounded. All the Yankee officers, 1,000 in number have been sent to Danville. On Saturday before leaving they became very refractory. ; An official telegram from Harrisonburg, be lieved to be reliable’says that McNeil struck the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Piedmont on Sat urday destroying the Jbridge and machine shops and nine locomotives. Damage several [millions of dollars. Northern news of the sth quote gold at 180.1 {[Maximillian had sailed for Mexico." The Alexandria had been given dip to the JownJ ers. Cotton advancing in Liverpool. Richmond, May 8. —The enemy "in Chesterfield county have withdrawn from the Railroad to their intrenchments. Smith and Gilmer’s cavalry arc directing the expedition. Their headquarters are at City Point where negro brigade is entrenched. No fightiag at Waltham Junction to-day. “The enemy’s loss yesterday was 1000 killed and wounded. Butler made a narrow escape [from five of our pickets near City Point on Friday evening. A telegram from Gen. Lee says the enemy has advanced his position, marching towards Frede ericksburg. The news is favorably construed in "official quarters. May 9.—Steele’s army, 9000 strong, surrendered to Gen. Price at Camden, Ark., on the 28th ult. Gen. Taylor has demanded the surrender of Al exandria where Banks’ forces are fortified. The result of the demand is not known. At last ac counts the enemy were attempting to dam up Red river to get their boats over the Rapids. Mobile, May 9. —The operator at Senatobia telegraphs on the 7th, on the authority of the Memphis Bulletin, of the 6th, that 2400 of Steele’s troops had arrived at Little Rock. The balance was 25 miles out. Steele’s loss was heavy. He had destroyed all his trains and lo3t nearly all his artillery. Ho was followed by Marmaduke and Flanagun to Little Rock. Pine Bluff is thought to be defensible. Brookhaven, May 9.—lt is reported on the authority of Col. D. L. Gage,, who crossed the Mississippi river an the sth, that dispatches from Kirby Smith to Gen. Tom Taylor state that Banks i3 shut up at Alexandria. The Confederates are below cutting off Banks’ supplies. The Yankees are trying to dafn up the mouth of the falls, to got out their gunboats. Goldsboro, May 9.—The expedition to New bern has returned. We captured 63 prisoners, Our loss slight. Gen. John S. Williams, of Kentucky, has been transferred from Virginia to take com mand of the Kentucky cavalry in the array of Gen. Johnston. Significant Political Movement. —The Republican Convention, which was appointed to meet in Baltimore on the 7th day of June next, to nominate their candidate for President has under consideration the propriety of post poning the time of meeting. It is significant. It shows that Lincoln is growing fearful of his re-election. The call urges, amongst oth er reasons for the postponement: “The country is not now in a position to en ter into a Presidential contact. It is very im portant that all parties friendly to the Gov ernment shall be united in support of a single candidate, and that when a selection shall be made, it shall be acquiesced in by all loyal sections of the country, and by all branches of the loyal party. It is equally clear that such unanimity cannot at present be obtained and it is not believed that it can be reached as early as the day named by you for the Nation al Convention. Upon the result of the meas ures adopted by the Administration to finish the war during the present spring and sum mer, will depend the wish ofthe people to con tinue in power their present leaders, or to change them for those from whom they may expect other and more satisfactory results. The Sugar Beet. —To what extent has the sugar beet been tried on Confederate soil ? Is it not worthy of a trial, as well for 3Ugar as for its other values? We find in a late Brit ish paper the following statement: The production of sugar from beets has now come to be a leading interest in several Eu ropean countries. It is the most important crop in the Empire of France. In 1361,142,- 000 tons were raised in that country, against I 9,000 tons in 1830. In Belgium the crop in 1861, was 18,000 tons. In Girnw y a very I large amount was produce I; the rg . V a te for ; Europe exceeding, in IBsi. 20. 0 ton* i worth more than $40,000,000. ’ ’ CITY MATTERS. T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR. For C hattahoochee. The Steamer Indian will leave for Chattahoochee to-morrow [Wednesday] moraine at 9 o'clock. Yew Advertisements- Nathan Crown offers a liberal reward for an estray mare. Mr. Fishacher has fresh ground flour which he offers at SI,OO per pound. N. J. Tisdale offers a liberal reward for a pair of gold spectacles lost on Broad Street. The Bank of Columbus gives notice that it will pay the tax on stock. Dkownid. —We learn that a little boy about eight years old, son of Green Sauls, of this place, was drowned in the Chattahoochee river yestarday, near the hospital while bath ing. Will repeated warnings never deter pa rents from allowing their little boys to go into the river ? Too much solicitude can not be manifested in this regard. Blind Tom.—The friends of good piano music will be pleased to learn that Blind Tom will hold a musical levee at Temperance Hall to-night. His merits as a performer are too well known in the community to require any extended notice from us. Sales To-Day.— Ellis, Livingston 4 Cos., will have an important sale to-day at their auction room, comprising dry-goods, groceries, negroes, shoos, hats, 4c. The public should be on band. A Probable Quietus. — We learn that several of our ministers, administered quite a severe re buke on Sabbath, to the spirit of levity, and fri volity which seems to have seized hold upon our people of late. The time is unquestionably inop portune for amusements, unless their innocence be obvious and well-defined. There seems, however, to be a great diversity of opinion on this particular point. A Good Move.— There is a move on foot in the churches in this city to supply the hospitals with religious reading. We learn that the idea origi] nated with the Baptist church, and that denom ination has made arrangements to supply many numbers of the Christian Index and Southwestern Baptist. The Methodist church is making ar rangements to furnish the Christian Advocate, and subscriptions for that purpose will be received by Revs. Messrs. Harrison and Key. The object is commendable, and we trust will receive the neces sary encouragement at once. It is proper that these brave men, who have unfortunately become the inmates of these hospitals, should not only have their physical but mental wants supplied. For the Daily Times. Recruiting Service. Saith Battle, one morning, ‘'my brigade is small, Recruiting is needed for the summer campaign, My ranks are too thin, conscription’s too slow, We must fill up the place of the sick and the slain.” To these solemn words a Pickett replied, “You need only give me a recruiting detail; — Forgetting recruits in the infant ry service, ’Tis I who never have known the word ‘fail.’ ” “But stop, my dear sir, for once you’re mistaken, — In a moment I’ll bring to your mind the con viction— I’m needing recruits, buttAe icar will be over, Ere your* will be subject to the present conscrip tion.” Generous. —Mr. Junius A. Fox, of Char lotte, North Carolina, well known to the citi zens of Columbus, gives notice through the papers that he will pay the tuition, in the best schools of the country, of any disabled sol diers from Mecklenburg county, N. C., for a sufficient length of time to qualify them for business, by which they may make for them selves a support. Such disinterested munifi cence bespeaks a noble soul. MARRIED At the residence of the bride’s father, by the Rev. Wm, H. Ellison, on Wednesday evening, the 20th ult., Capt. A. H. Pickett, A. A. G. Battle’s brigade, Virginia, to Miss Jennie E. daughter of Maj. R. H, Potfell, of Union Springs, Ala. “There’s a hlis3 beyend all that the minstrel ha3 told, When two that are linked in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing, and brow never cold, Love on through all ills and love on till they die 1 One hour of a passion so sacrediis worth, Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss, And, oh! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this.” * WAITED. A SMALL comfortable dwelling:, situated in a eori . venient part of the city to business. A liberal price per moth will be paid for such a place. Apply at THIS OFFICE, may 110 ts Fresh Ground Flour At ONE DOLLAR per pound.— Ten cents less for needy and soldiers’ families. For sale by H. FISHACKER, 104, Broad Street. may 10 6t Sun aud Enquirer copy. _ T LOST. GOLD SPECTACLES and CASE, between the Quartermaster’s office and Pest Office on Broad street, about 12 M., on Monday. The finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving them at the office of Maj. Dillard. may 10 ts N. J. TISDALE. Estraved, A GRAY MARE, ten years old, medium height, shod all round, from my residence, in Colum bus, Georgia, on Sunday evening the Bth day of May. A liberal reward will be paid for her de livery to me in Columbus, or for any information that will lead to her recovery. May 10 ts NATHAN CROWN. An Excellent Plantation For Sale. SEVEN Hundred and twenty acres, three hun dred and fifty open, nearly all fresh, in -splen did repair, excellent fences, gin house, lots, "gates, negro houses, healthy, well watered, nice young orchards, everything new, 12 miles below Auburn, near Society Hill, in Macon, county, Ala.; all con veniently fine outlet and range for stock, land fertile, soft and easy of cultivation, an excellent neighborhood. Applv at this office, or to Win. F. SAMFORD, may 9ta tf* Auburn, Ala. HEADQ’RS GEORGIA „ Macon, MavtH V E-S , General Orders, ) 1 bs6j. ’ J No. 7. > I. All persons liable to serve in sh » and who have not joined will report forthwith at Macon Allan? COtB C nah where squads have been formed V port as such, and companies will be once by uniting them. De or * a () IL The District Enrolling Officers win ward-tooao of the above , Dd *r spective Headquarters, who hare not ? th#ir * ized into companies. ot beet > ot tll 111. After the expiration of thirt lowed for joining companies in the R * 4 * yj 4b Enrolling Officers will rigidly enfor- Cosr >t quiring those between 17 and 18 and « -Ll**’ **■ enrolled and their names forwarded t??, 50, mandantof Conscripts—as they then ha to.be sent to the Army in the field. COtn ® By command of Maj. Gen. HOWELL cm,, Commanding G a pf Lamar Cobb, Maj. &a.a.A i. 0 ’ may 6 lw To the StochholdiiS^jr-. > Bridge. The City Council having agreed to take th v Bridge upon certain conditions, it become,? . * ry that- the Stockholders should meet to const i subject You are therefore earnestly req u 'f 1 meet onlMonday next at Williams’ 4 Iverson’,? ° at 4o’clock p. m. Those who cannot attenrl son should have proxies, J. M. Watt Columbus, May 9, It « — becy, Notice. Muscogee .Railroad Company Columbus, Ga., May 6, 18§4 On and after this instant Confederate 1 re ,... _ Notes of the denomination of Five Dollar? w ~ received only at a discount of 33j per cent '“ * , , . J M BIVINS, Treu may 7—lw The Douglas Ambulance Corp, Solicit contributions from the citizens 0 f r umbus, of lint, old linen, bandages, soap, wisj. liquors, pickles, preserves, provisions, oranyothe articles usually necessary for;thesick and wounds on the battle field. Send to Goodrich 4 Cos., to be packed ately. H. L. GOODRICH, Pres. B. R. c. ma J 3tf Columbus, 6a. Notice. 11RS. MAA’Y 11. BENNING is my duly auth - "* ivedAgent for. the transaction and settlew-■. of all business concerning the estate of Col, Seab m Jones, deceased. „ , , SEABORN J. BENNING Columbus. May 9,4364. lm Adm’r. “STOVE MOITLDERsj’ - TWO Stove Moulders can get employmrot « good wages, by application to HARRISON, BEDELL A CO. Columbus, Ga. Augusta Constitutionalist, and Mississippian, copy one month and send bills to this office, may 6 lm Augusta Sheeting for Corn. I WILL EXCHANGE 11-4 YARDS OF AUGUSTA SHEETING FOR . ONE BUSHEL OF CORJ\\ J. F. WINTER, President may 6 3t Rock Island Paper Mills. SSOO REWARD! I WILL pay a reward of Five Hundred Dollars sot the apprehension of, with proof to convict, the person or persons who on the night of the 28th Inst., stole a 7 inch RUBBER BELT from the Foandrj connected with these Works. may 2-3 t HANDS WANTED. I IBERAL hire will be paid for five or ten hands JU by the month or day. mays-d2w GREENWOOD & QUAY. CIRCULAR. CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, Quartermaster General's Office, Richmond, April 23, 1864. , All Officers and Agents of this Department sf« hereby notified that in order to intro'duce propsr uniformity and system in connection with the con tracts executed with the Factories on Govern oust account, and to increase thereby the yield thereof Major G. W. Cunningham, Quartermaster, hereto fore in charge of the Depot at Atlanta, Georgia, is entrusted, exclusively, with'the duty of contracting in behalf of this Department, with the Factories in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. He will respond to requisitions for material, mil* upon him by Officers in charge of Depots for th* manufacture of clothing. A. R. LAWTON, may 3 lm Quartermaster Genera!. AUCTION SALES. By Ellis, Livingston A Cos. ON TUESDAY 10th of May, at 10 o’clock, we sell in front of our store 5 Bales Roswell Factory Yarns, from Bto 900 yds very heavy Osnaburgs, j ui.vou a. **«,ent Cloth tor shoes. 52 sacks Salt, 6 boxes Sugar, 1 case Boys Felt Hats, 70 pr Ladies calf and goat skin shoes. Likely Young Negroes. Julius, 22 years old, field hand, and his wifb 25 years old, both likely, Cody, 24 year3 old and her children. Sold for and on account of a refugee frJ® Mississippi. Also, a fine close carriage, may 9, 1864. $12,50. By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. ON Tuesday, 10th May, at 11 o’clock, we will in front of our store, A One-horse Rockaway, has been but little used. | 3 Fine Double Barrel Shot Gun* I may 9 $5 25 I Bv Rosette, Lawhon, A Cos I Executors Sale of Household and KitehfS f Furniture. WILL be sold on Friday, the 20th day of in frontof our auction room, at 10 1-2 o’clo s I all the HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN I of the late Mrs. Lucinda Salisbury, consisting : I part of 1 Bureaus, Wardrobes, Bed Sieads, Mattrasses, Chairs, Tables, Crockery Ware, Silver and Plated Spoons, Knives ai-- Forks, &c. One Cooking Stove and Furniture, One Cow and Calf, Sow and Pig s - , 5 Shares Mobile & Girard R. R 5,01> 1 80 acre Land Warrant. W. L. SALISBURY, may 9td $59& Executor GIIE IT SOFTH£K\ I.VSFBIVfE (and Principal Office, Macon, Ga. STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified that • Tax, levied by the Act of Conf rt ;V dated 17th February, 1864, on the Shares of M ' ' will be raid by the Company. . , Stockholders are fnrther notified thnt their meeting will beheld at this office on Thursday. .' 2d day of June next, when Directors for the e|-f ing year will be elected. C. DAT, BCC. • ■ may 2-3 t