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Ifee tolling is SiiH W. J. W. WABBES. - - - Editor. Wednesday Morning, May 11, 1864. \r Tiie Sick and Wounded Soldier* of Ken tucky. We slave already noticed that Mr. Andrew H. H. pawson will deliver an address in Temperance Hall this evening for the benefit of the sick and battle-scarred soldiers of Ken tucky. As is the invariable custom of Mr. Dawson, wherever his lecture has been re peated, the Ladies’ Relief Society will receive the entire proceeds of the occasion, and ap ply it to the high and holy uses for which it is intended. These proceeds consist solely of the price of admittance to the Hall. No further contributions will be asked or expec ted. The speaker has no interest in it what ever, further than such as every good and patriotic man must feel and take in the effort to relieve the sufferings of his unfortunate and afflicted countryman. Mr. Dawson’s exertions in this behalf, at other places, we are pleased to state, have been crowned with the most abundaut and rrratifying success. The ad dress has everywhere been received with marked tokens of approbation ; and the unan imous verdict of the press in our sister cities, together with ' • own knowledge of the speaker’s ability, justify us in promising a literary repast of rare merit to his audience this evening. We trust that the citizens of Columbus will, by an overwhelming demon stration to-night, testify their appreciation of the heroic fortitude and self-sacrificing pa triotism of the sons of this down-trodden, but soon to be regenerated State. The Battle in Virginia. We have accounts of four days of continvt bus fighting between the opposing armies in Northern Virginia, and, as yet, no general and decisive engagement has occurred. The de lay of this closing act of the tragedy, is a mat ter of some mystery. It vas thought that Grant, confiding in the strength of his great numbers, and the moral force of his own pres tige, would gather up his whole power and seek to crush Lee’s army with one overwhel ming blow. Instead of this, however, he has been fighting by detachments and in detail, and seems anxious to postpone the final test. Whether this policy be wise on his part, we may not be able to.determine, but it is quite ap parent that the repeated repulses he receives from day to day, cannot be improving to the morale and spirits of his troops. He may, possibly, expect by this desultory fighting to wear out the patience and physical energy of our men, or he may be manoeuverin’g, before delivering a final battle, to turn Gen. Lee’s right flank, and thus place himself between our army and Richmond. The location of the last battle reported by Gen. Lee, would seem to declare this to be his object. That reportstate# that the advance of our army came up with the enemy at Spottsylvania Court House. This point is about 15 miles South west from Fredericksburg, and is in a direct line to Richmond from where the enemy cross ed the Radidifi. V e have no idea that Grant will succeed in the execution of this design. As he marches South, Lee will certainly keep pace with him, until he thinks the time ha3 come for dealing the decisive blow. As to our means of rein forcing Gen. Lee we can only conjecture. We see not why his strength might not be increas ed, or replenished, from East Tennessee and South Western Virginia, and, if need be, from North Carolina. Wo have long since, how ever, turned over this matter to President Davis an cl Mr. Secretary Seddon, and there, for tne present at least, we are willing for the trust to remain. So far as we can understand it, every .nature of -‘the situation” is most cheering. Governor Brown’s Extra Session, No. 5. THE MILITARY BILL. I have proved that the act suspending the tv lit of habeas corpus t is constitutional; that the grounds upca which the Governor aud Mr. Stephens assail it, never entered into the brain of man until they were assumed by them. This fact, of itself, should have con demned them in the judgment of all who do cot love men more than truth, and personal friendships more than the safety and glory of their country. But at a wearisome length, both to myself and my readers, I have discuss ed them and shown their fallacy from be ginning to end—l have shown that both those gentlemen encouraged ihe passage of the act by taking no exceptions to a similar act pass ed more than a year before this—one of them, indeed, distinctly admitting its constitution ality in an official document identical in name and attribute with that in which he now denied* it. A few more words upon this head, and I dismiss it. I Gv believe, that in the whole range of Brltisu jurisf.i udenc, a solitary case can be found vphere a judge ever granted the writ to bring up a soldier in the army or navy, where that fact was judicially made known to him before the issuing of the writ or set him at iioeity where .t came out at the hearing, j upon the letarn of the writ. The courts of! that .country consider the civil and military ! departments of the government as distinct j and separate fre-m each other. So are they in 1 this country. It would amaze all England to j hear of a judge granting the writ upon the j application of one, setting forth in his petition, ! that hew s a soldier in the army, but entitled to a discharge, &c. It would have amazed Chiet Justice Marshall, that any one, claiming to be a lawyer, should have presented such a petition to him ; and he was the head of the Courts waicii Lave alone jurisdiction in such matters, if any court has, but the courts miiii ■ ry. It would Gave amazed Chancellor to ice the judge of a State Court gravely deliberating under the writ of habeas corpus, waether a scidier in the army was duly ealist c-... whether he was cf the proper age to en list—whether Lis time had not run out v.’.iiufcr tie wus subject to draft, &c., &e. By tie way. we know something of the views of ta.s g/ta*, man upon this sub' ♦. Furguson applied :o -;-. c Court fort t , beas corpus, eeU.tcg -.oveu-tbat he vr*r , ’ !j, ,- ,-army c t ■ ’ ,■. -led Sir. 4 . , ) : *J • • ‘er of I the United States army; the judges refused j to grant the writ, as it was a matter aiismg under, or by color of the authority of the l United States, and a Judge of the Supreme or District Courts had clear and unquestionable jurisdiction in the matter, and could afford requisite relief. Kent C. J. distinctly denied the jurisdiction ®f a State Courtin the matter, and a majority of the court concurred with him, though one or two of the judges said they would not commit themselves on the question of jurisdiction ; but all concurred in the decision, 9J. R. 239. Scarcely a ground can now be assumed by a soldier or marine, for release from army or navy, which will be found decided adverse to the applicant ia some of the following cases: 1 J. 0. 136, 1 Mason 71, 11 Serg. & Raw. 93, 1 Burr 339, 16 Eng. Com. Law Rep, 179, 2 Hall’s Law Jour. 192, T. U.P. Chari. R 142, 5 Hill (N.Y.)RI6. Kent is right beyond controversy. The army is a creature of Congress. Redress of griev ances in it must come through them and them alone. The soldiers in it are not prisoners— they are not in custody. It is only such that can be released by habeas corpus , and only by juicTges whose jurisdiction is co-extensive with the army, and not by the thousand judges whom the States may stiek up and fling in the pathway of the army. Among these there can be no uniformity of decision. A man may sue out the writ in every State through which he is marched ; for the decision in one, will be no bar to the hearing in another. In the writ of habeas corpus no judge has authority to de cide more than that the applicant is in legal or illegal custody ; but these judges de cide whether they shall stay in, or come out, of the army. Was such a use ever made of the writ, out of the United or Confederate States? And this is the judiciary, which Gov, Brown, with a fiery tongue, asks the President “whether he can no longer trust ?” If they would keep within their proper boundary, there should be no need of suspending the writ; but as they will not, the wisest and safest coarse that Congress could pursue, to prevent open collision between the States and the Confederate Government, was to suspend the writ entirely. Why does the Governor put his question to the President ? Did he suspend the writ ? “No, but he asked that it might be suspended.” A grand reason, truly, to come from a man who lays by the side of his question bn application to the legislature to pass six unconstitutional laws for his ao THE MILITARY BILL. •sr The following principles of law I presume no man will deny : “As war cannot be carried on without sol diers, it is evident that whoever has the right of making war has also naturally that of rais ing troops.” u Every citizen is bound to serve and defend the State as far as he is capable.” “Every man Capable of bearing arms should take tjiem up at the first order of him who has the power of making war.” “In former times and especially in small States, immediately on a declaration of war, every man becomes a soldier ; the whole com munity took up arms and engaged in the war.” “As every citizen or subject is bound to serve the State, the Sovereign has a right* to enlist whom he pleases.” “No person is naturally exempt from taking up arms in defence of the State—the obliga tion of every member of society being the same.” Thus speaks Vattei; aud thus speaks every writer upon the Law of Nations of any note in the world. These are fundamental princi ples, with which the framers of all our con stitutions were perfectly familiar. They learned from sad experience under the first government, that it would never do to de pend upon the States, for the troops necessary to carry on war, by the United States. When they framed, therefore, the Constitution of 1787 they gave to Congress the exclusive power of declaring war, and raising armies by a direct demand upon the people of all the States. When they gave that power to Con gress, they gave it, in all its amplitude, as fully as any Sovereign in the world possesses it. This power had to be lodged in some hands, or the country must become impotent in war. There were but three departments of the government to which it could be com mitted: the States, the President, or Congress. They had tried it wiih the States, and proved by sad experience that it would not do to en trust it to them. To have committed it to the President (a single man) would have been in the highest degree dangerous. They there fore committed it to Congress—the immediate representatives of the people of ail the States, whose own interests were iuvolved in a faith ful exercise of the trust, and who were readily removable if they abused it. They never have abused it, and until they lose both their senses and their relish for office, they never will. If they have not the power of calling to the field the whole force of the country, who may they call out 2 Have they abused the confidence reposed in them during this war? No, until the very existence of the republic was imperiled, until the officers of the army called for more troops, they were as liberal in exemptions, as any patriot could desire them to be. Where were the “more troops’ to come from ? Those between the ages of 18 and 45 were exhausted, or nearly so. The spirit of volunteering was quenched, desertions from the army were weakening it every day, all Georgia was sinking in despon dency ; more troops were needed ; where were they to come from ? I agree with Mr. Stephens, that for us to attempt to keep aa many troops in the field as our adversaries would be preposterous; not | more preposterous however than Gov. Brown's i notion that we should limit the number to two hundred thousand, and retreat before the euemy until he exhausts himself; when we are able to put three hundred and fifty thou sand in the field, and by bold fighting, drive him from the country. The Fabian policy will do as a last resort; but if we had adopted it at the beginning of this war, we would have been a ruined people two years ago. But what I think, or the Governor thinks upon this matter, is of uo consequence. It belongs to the President acting under the authority of Congress, and to him aione to deter mine not only when the exigency exists for calling troops to the field, bat for deter mining the number and kind of troops that shall be called. So said the Supreme Court with the great Marshal at its head, in the case cf Mavtjn and Mott, 12 Wheat. R. 19. Wo :-ld that the decision in that case could be road to every man who baa read Governor Bruwti’s Me— that they might see wlint a vast diffe.rt.iic*- there is between common sense and uncommon sense, in the exposition of constitutional law. Nor is this the only case, by several, in which the same thing has been decided. “But it is a most dangerous power. So the Lupreme Court admits, and it gives a j most satisfactory answer to the suggestion, but too long for me to quote. My short an swer to it, and to*all objections to dangerous powers given to men by the constitution, is, blame the framers of the constitution who gave the power, not their fiduciaries who ex ercise it. This way of setting the clauses of the constitution at war with eabh other, by strained, fhr-fetebed, unheard-of construc tions—this way of trying to destroy the con fidence of the people in the government of their own making by representing two de partments of it as complotDbg the overthrow of their liberty simply because those depart ments have exercised an unquestionable right, —this way of drawing shocking pictures of tyranny, oppression and cruelty which may result from the exercise of a lawful power, speaking of them as already upon the people, and encouraging the people to resist the pow er, as though it had been actually thus abused, is certainly the boldest stride to anarchy that ever was taken by reasonable beings, in a free country. “A sovereign State,” says the Gov ernor in the language of his compeer of Vir ginia, without a soldier, and “without the dig nity of strength, stripped of all her men, and with only the form and pageantry of power, would indeed be nothing more than a wretch ed dependency, to which I should grieve to see our proud old commonwealth reduced.” The Sovereign States of Tennessee and Arkan sas are precisely in this condition ; and Lou isiana and Mississippi but little better pff.— Had the Governors of those States enrolled every effective man in them, including legis lators, judges and State officers of every des cription, and united them with the Confede rate forces sent out to defend them, they might now have been in the enjoyment of a “Sover eignty” of some “dignity and strength,” and not be wanting even “the form and pageantry of power.” And if Governor Brown, now, would for a few weeks, uuite the twenty-five thousand men which he is laboring with all his might to keep out of the army, or the half of them, to Johnston’s forces, he would insure his State from the fate of those just mentioned. - But no, be must reserve these for State de fence, and the execution of the laws. A pret ty defence they will be if Johnston'is van quished. Put two hundred thousand in the field, says he, and let the balance go to mak ing meat and bread for them. This done, set them trotting before the Yankees, and of course lei the Yankees come and eat up the meat and bread, with their thanks to Governor Brown for supplying them so bountifully! This is the policy he would pursue, aDd he would tear up the Confederate Government root and branch because it ventures to differ with him! By the way, I believe Gov. Brown himself, complains of these meat and bread makers for the army, that they hold on to it when made, and will not sell it to the Government but at ruinous prices ; and he asks of the leg islature power to make them disgorge upon reasonable terms. Thus every petard that he prepares to launch against the central Gov ernment explodes in his own face. A. B. LONGSTREET. Mr. Benjamin A. Grist of Marietta pro poses to compile and publish in monthly numbers, in book form, “The Roll ot Honor; or Biographical Sketches of Geor gia’s noble Dead,” at sl2 a year or ten copies for one year SIOO, to be continued until the Roll is completed, and “until the name and deeds of each Georgia’s noble dead are recorded upon the Roll of Hons or.” The compiler says that “each Biograph ical Sketch must be accompanied by the name of at least one subscriber and ten dollars to defray the expense and labor in volved in the preparation and compila tion of the Sketches, for which a receipt will be given entitling the holder to a copy of the work at the subscription price.” He further says, “the subscription money will be received until further notice; but persons desiring the work will please send on their names, and the Post Office to which they desire it to be sent.” From North Georgia. —Sometime since, Oapt. Turner of Wheeler’s cavalry, having determined to take a number of Yankee pickets in out of the wet, sent a squad of men to the rear of the picket stand, with instructions to build a fence across a lane through which the Yankees would have to pass on their return to wards Chattanooga. The scrap of fencing having been completed, Oapt. Turner made a dash at the pickets, and the pick-, ets made a dash toward the Yankee en* campment. Into the lane they went with Turner and his men at their heels. We have no record of the number killed and captured, but!very few of that squad of pickets reported at regimental head> quarters next morning. From Mississippi.— The Meridian Clarion says the withdrawal of the Yan kee forces from Big Black shows the ens emy’s weakness at Vicksburg. There are not troops enough to hold the point allud ed to, aud the city from our cavalry. So General Dennis has gone behind the for tifications around the city. According to late advices from Vicks urg the mortality there is unnaturally reat for this season m • From the Coast. —The Republican of Saturday says heavy firing was heard from four until seven o’clock yesterday morn-- ning apparently from the coast but no one seemed able to settle on the exact direc tion. Up to last night the authorities had received no information of its where" abouts or object. We shall not be sur prised if the enemy should make a num» ! ber of demonstrations on the coast in the ! next ten days by way of aiding operations ; elsewhere. In this case there was prob-. ably a blockade runner in the scrape. From Charleston. —There has been no change of importance. Seven shells were fired at the city, and two volleys from the eight mortars on Fort Snmter. Some firing through the day was b*ard in the direction of Stono, the cause of which was not as certained. The enemy were still at work on the middle battery. No change in the fleet. Five Dollar Bills. —The Muscogee Rail road has determined to discount five dollar bills from and after this date. CELEG-RAPHIC. * Reports of the Press Association. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1863, by J. S, Thrasher, in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. Latest from the Front ! Wheeler and Grigsby in the Saddle! Dispatch troiiK General Hood ! General Johnston’s Strategy J Onr Troops In Fine Spirits S D altos, M a 7 10.—The enemy cut the railroad between ihis point and Resaca yesterday evening. Grigsby’s brigade fought them four miles, making a stubborn resistance. The enemy's force was estimated at 10,000, and was composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery. Wheeler had a sharp engagement with their cavalry on the Cleveland read, yesterday after noon, driving them and captaring 90 prisoners, including Col. LaG range, commanding a brigade and It commissioned officers. The enemy moved last night in the direction of Resaca with the,majority of their forces. Our trqqps are in fine spirits. The Mwkees were circulating handbills through their commands yesterday, stating that Grant had routed Lee qpd was marching on Richmond. Our prospects are very bright. No fears felt in regard to the result. Atlanta, May 10.—A telegram from General Hood to the Superintendent of the Western <fc At lantic Railroad, says : The road is all clear ; send trains as usual. The affair at Dalton was a plan of Gen. Johnston to capture the enemy. Snake Gap was left open. Troops have been sent to the rear of it, and everything ir prepared to meet him in "front. It is not yet known if the enemy is bagged. [Special to the Montgomery Advertiser.] Dalton, May B. —Skirmishing commenced early this the Cleveland road, on the right. The Tenth Confederate cavalry charged the enemy, who, in ambush, killed and wounded 30 of our men. Wheeler’s escort then drove the enemy back with our loss avenged. The enemy also advanced on our left cen tre and was repulsed. A column of cavalry advanced towards Resaca this morning, but was repulsed and driven four miles the other side by Grigsby’s gallant brigade. A column of infantry is reported marching towards Rome. The enemy’s manoeuvres, so far, are com plicated and deceptive. The demonstration on our rear is supposed to be designed to cover an assault in front. No battle yet. ORA. Gex. Robert F. Hoke. —The name of this gal lant officer, the hero of Plymouth, who has re cently been made a Major General, to date from the capture of that place, i3 destined to occupy a prominent position in the history of our struggle for liberty. From a friend, the Christian Sun ob tains the following information concerning the General: Robert F. Hoko is a native of Lincoln county, N. C. His father was a candidate for Gov ernor when he died. Robert was born about 1835, and is now about twenty nine years of age, and is therefore next to the youngest Major General in the Confederate service. At the time of the breaking up of the Peace Conference he held a .commission in one of the Governin' irtments at Washington. He immediate } ,ed aud went home, to take command of t, y in his native county, to go to Charleston Tins was be fore any ordinance of secession i . . .. a passed by North Carolina. His company was placed in the .«* Ninth Caro lina Regiment, under command o ... H. Hill. At the battle of Bethel, he distin 0 himself, and was honorably mentioned by the commander of the regiment. He was some time after promoted to Major in the 33d Regiment, commanded by Col. Avery. At the battle of Newbern this regi ment distinguished itself and Col. Avery was wounded and captured. The Lieut. Colonel was also wounded, and the command devolved on Maj. Hoke. In command of the 33d Regiment, he fought through the battles around Richmond, and was soon after promoted to Colonelof the 25th N. C. Regiment, and placed in Rranch’s Brigade. Some ttme previous to the battle of Chancellors - ville, he was promoted to Brigadier General. At that battle he made a dashing charge with his brigade upon Sedgwick’s corps, and was wounded places. He had not sufficiently reeovered from his wounds to be at Gettysburg, and soon after the return of his hrigade from Maryland he was assigned to duty in his native State. General Hoke is nearly six feet in height, stands erect, has dark hair and dark eyes, and is noted as a high toned Christian genlleman, having been for several years a communicant in the Prstestant Episcopal Church. He is a pious, praying man. We record this fact with pleasure, and on it we found our hope of his rising still higher, and en dearing himself to the people of North Carolina -and the whole Confederacy. Opr Prisoners at Point Lookout. —From officers who came up by the last flag of truce from Fortress Monroe, we have some news from our prisoners at Point Lookout: Anew horror has been added to prison life at Point Lookout since the capture of Fort Pillow.— The post is garrisoned by negroes, and they seem to have been made perfect demons by the 3tories of the:i‘massacre” of the blacks at Fort Pillow.— They not only tyrannize and insult our men, in every conceivable manner, but they have taken to shooting our prisoners, on the merest pretext, in revenge for the Fort Pillow affair. Up to the time of the leaving of our informant, three of our men had been shot, one killed, by these negro guards, and sueh was their revengeful passion and the wantonness of their firing that our prisoners had to be guarded lest the slightest pretext might be seized upon as an excuse for one of these black savages discharging his musket upon them. The Yankees continue their game of attempting to seduce our men into taking the oath of alleg£ ance, but with few exceptional cases, all their al lurements and blandishments fail to induce our men to desert our cause. The Fort Pillow “Massacre” Messrs. Wade and Gooch, of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, arrived at Cairo on the 21st ult , to investigate the Fort Pillow “massa cre.” Generals Hurlbut and Leggett had also reached there. The Yankees continue their *raw kead-and-bioody bones stories of the affair. A despatch from St. Louis adds tho following to the budget of ridiculous stories .- Edward B. Beaton, a native of Waltham, Ver mont, who was in the fort during the Forrest at tack, was examined at General Rosecrans’ head quarters on Tuesday last, and fully corroborated all previous reports of rebel barbarities there, and made an additional statement, that bloodhounds were used to discover the hiding places of those wlo escaped the massacre. He says that reliable reports state that Major BeadfiJrd was shot and hung near Covington. The Northern papers publish a letter written by a Yankee Colonel to Senator Wilson, in regard to the affair of Fort Piliow. After reciting all the particulars and relieving himself of a great storm of words this belligerent Colonel closes in the fol lowing savage style: ,1 write to you as a man whose awe of chivalry wjd not prevent your advocacy of stern measures of!justice and retaliation. If these wretches or any portion of them, are ever held as prisoners of war, injustice is done our army. I wish I was charged with the execution of five rebels for each ne»ro murdered at Fort Pillow. CITY MATTERS. T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR. e , ■ ■■yryj ■ 1 V* ' rzzzzzz zm—L— For Chattahoochee. The Steamer Indian will leave for Chattahoochee to-morrow f Wednesday] morning at 9 o’clock. Blind Tom. —lt will be seen that Tom’s secoud concert at Temperanre Hall takes place next Thursday night, on which occasion he will per form several original pieces. Go and hear him. You will doubtless be pleased. Our Alabama readers between this and Montgomery will ob serve that Tom will pay them a visit soon. See bis appointments and bear them in mind. The Turf.— The lovers of the sports of the turf will see by an advertisement elsewhere that the Spring Races over the Chattahoochee course will commence on Tuesday the 24th inst., and continue five days, under the superintendence of C. S. & P. W. Pryor. Auction Sales. —The following prices were obtained at Ellis, Livingston <fc Co.’s auction, yes terday, for the articles herein enumerated. Salt, 55 to 57 cts. per lb.; sugar, $4,00; tobacco, smoking, $1,05; gold watches, from S3OO to $550; one negro boy, $2000; a man and his wife, $5,800 ; bacon, damaged, $2,00 per lb; shoes, $55; one rockaway, $975. While these prices indicate that money is still plentiful, they also exhibit a great falling off from the figures ruling a few months ago. In Memobiam.—Our devil has left us—(who would have ever thought that his Satanic Majesty would quit a Local ?) —and wo can no longer draw from the inexhaustible treasury of his bril liant endowments. How often we have been in debted to his playful humor, his unfathomable ge nius, his blighting sarcasm, his brilliant wit, for the materials of a readable article. But, alas !we can no longer soar on borrowed pinionis, no longer shine with a reflected light. He was a funny devil, too, and well do we remember his do-funny antics, and his curious and remarkably cute tricks. But now he’s “played out,” at least, so far as all ad vantage to ourself is concerned, and henceforth others must bask in the sunshine of his smiles, and draw from the welling fountains of his inimitable genius. In sadness we exclaim— “ ’Twas ever thus from childhood’s hour, I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay, I never yet loved tree or flower, But ’twas the first to fade away.” The Union Prayer Meeting will be held during the present week at the new Methodist church.— The public, and especially Christians are invited to attend. A Change.— lt will be seen from General Orders No. 12, that Col. Robertson has transferred the position of Commandant of Post at this place to Maj. P. C. Humphreys, who formerly filled the po sition with credit to himself and satisfaction to the public. Important to Militia Officers. —The atten tion of militia officers in districts and counties specified are referred to General Orders, No, 18, from the Adjutant end Inspector General’s office, at Millcdgeville, dated May 7th, 1864. Officers enumerated are by these orders relieved from past immunities, and are now subject to military duty in the regular army. A Correction. Mb. Editor : la justice to one of the religious denominations please to inform your readers that the “Good Move” alluded to in your paper yes terday, for supplying the General Hospital with religious reading, was “begun” some time since. — In March last the First Presbyterian Church of this city provided fifty copies of the Southern Presbyterian, and seventy-five copies of the Sol diers’ Visitor, for the use of the same institution. JUSTICE. Notice ! WANTED at the C. S. Arsenal, Cblumbus, Ga., leather and Hides,; in large or small quantities, for which the market price will be paid. Parties shipping such to the un dersigned will be insured against seizure by officers or agents of other branches of the Government. F. C. HUMPHREYS, may 11 ts Maj. Comdg. Arsenal. BUND TOM’S Second. Concert, ON THURSDAY EVENINO AT TEMPERANCE HALL, Tom will play the Soldier’s Adieu 2 With other Compositions of his own. Also his great THE BATTLE OF MANASSAS I Tom will grive a Concert at : Auburn, Monday evening, I6th May, Locbapoka, Tuesday “ 17th n Notasulga, Wednesday “ 18th “ Tuskegee, Thursday “ 19th “ Montgomery, Friday “ 20th “ Montgomery papers please notice, may 10 td HACES 2 CHATTAHOOCHEE. COURSE, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ffllHE Race3 over the above Course will com- X mence on Tuesday, 24th inst., and continue five days. First day—Stake for 2 year olds, mile heats, SSOO entrance—half forfeit. Second Day—Stake for three year old, mile heats, SSOO entrance—half forfeit. Third day—Purse race of SSOO, two mile heats. Fourth day—Stake for 3 year olds, two mile heats, SSOO entrance—half forfeit. Fifth day—Post Stake, SI,OOO entrance, half for feit, three'mile heats. In the Post Stake three good horses will start, and perhaps four. C. S. & P. W. PRYOR, may 11 ts Proprietors. WAHTED. A SMALL comfortable dwelling, situated in a con venient part of the city to business. A liberal price per moth will be paid for 3uch a place. Apply at ' THIS OFFICE. may t lO ts 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. 10 ts N. J. TISDALE. Bank of Columbus. Stockholders are hereby notified that the Oonfed- j erate Tax, levied by the act of Congress dated Feb. ' 17,1864, on the Shares of this Bank, will be paid by j the Bank. . D. ADAMS, J Columbus, Ga., May 10. —2w Cashier. | Exchange Hotter Ho. 9. Richmond, Va„ May 2d, 1361. All Confederate officers and men who have been delivered at City Point, Virginia, at any time pre vious to the 20th of April, 1865, are hereby declared to be duly exchanged, RO. CULD, may 10 6t Agent of t’rcb iiearq’RSGeorgia up , , Miictui.M-.' ci'7” GbNERaL Ord«Rß. [ No. 7. I. All persons iiabi: to servo in the //cw.?r vc <Jb-~ and who have not joined some organised company will report forthwith at ,11a a on. Atlanta or .Sava£ nab, where squads have been formed. They can re port as such, and companies will be organized once by uniting them. " 11. The District Enrolling Officers will Ben d f 0 ward—to one of the above points—all at thei spective Headquarters, who have not beon orgsuT ized into companies. 8 111. After the expiration of thirty days al lowed for joining companies in the Reserve Cor Enrolling Officers will rigidly enforce the law *** quiring those between 17 and 18 and 45 and 50 to b' enrolled and their names forwarded to the C mandant of Conscripts—as they then become liabT to.be sent to the Army in the field. By command of Maj. Gen. HOWELL COBB. r „ . Commanding Ga. Reserves! Lamar Cobb, Maj- A a. a. & i. q. may 6 lw To the Bridge. The City Council having agreed to take the New Bridge upon certain conditions, it becomes necessa ry that the Stockholders should meet to consider the subject. You are therefore earnestly requested ta meet on Monday next at Williams’ & Iverson’s office at 4 o’clock p. m. Those who cannot attend in per son should have proxies. J. M. WATT, Columbus, May 9, It Sec’y Notice* Muscogee TJailroad Company, ) Columbus, Ga., May 6,1864. j On and after this instant Confederate Treasury Notes of the denomination of Fivo Dollars willbt received only at a discount of 331 per cent. J M BIVINS. Treas, may 7—lw The Douglas Ambulance Corps Solicit contributions from the citizens of Col umbus, of lint, old linen, bandages, soap, wineSy liquors, pickles, preserves, provisions, or any other articles usually necessary forjthe sick and wounded on the battle field. Send to Goodrich & Cos., to be packed immedi ately. H. L. GOODRICH, Pres. B. R. C. may 3 ts Columbus, Ga. Wot ice. MRS, MAi?Y H, BENNINGismy duly author ized Agent for the transaction and settlement of all business concerning the estate of Col. Seabor* Jones, deceased, SEABORN J. BENNING, Columbus. May 9,4864, lm Adm’r, “STOVE NIOTEDERS.” TWO Stove Moulders can get employment at 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 VARDS OP AUGUSTA SHEETING FOR ONE BUSHEL OF CORN. 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 oonviet. the person or persons who on the night of the 28th Inst., stole a 7 inch RUBBER BELT from the Foundry connected with these Works. J. H. WARNER, may 2-3 t Chief Eng. C. S. N HANDS WANTED. f IBERAL hire will be paid for five or ten hands xj by the month or day. mays-d2w GREENWOOD k GRAY. CIRCULAR. CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,) Quartermaster General’s Office, }■ Richmond, April 23, 1864. j All Officers and Agents of this Department ar® hereby notified that in order to introduce proper uniformity and system in connection with the con tracts executed with tho Factories on Government account, and to increase thereby the yield thereof. Major G. W. Cunningham, Quartermaster, hereto fore in charge of the Depot at Atlanta, Georgia, in entrusted, exclusively, withjthc duty, of contracting in behalf of this Department, with the Factories ia the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,, Florida, and Mississippi. He will respond to requisitions for material, made upon him by Officers in charge of Depots for th® manufacture of clothing. A. R. LAWTON, • j may 3 lin Quartermaster General, f ■ - jj» AUCTION SALES, By Rosette, Lawhon, & €o Executors Sale of Household and iitehea Furniture. WILL be sold on Friday, the 20th day of May, in frontofour auction room, at 10 1-2 o’clock, all the HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN Furnitare of the late Mrs. Lucinda Salisbury, consisting in part of Bureaus, Wardrobes, Bed Sieads, Mattrasses, Chairs, Tables, Crocker? Ware, Silver aud Plated Spoons, Knives and Forks, &c One Cooking Stove and Furniture, One Cow and Calf, Sow and Pigs, 5 Shares Mobile & Girard R. R, Stock; 1 80 acre Land Warrant. W. L. SALISBURY, may 9 td ss9i Executor GREAT SOUTHERN IN SIAM, Principal Office* Macon, Ga. STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified that th® Tax, levied by the Act of Congress dated 17th February, 1864, on the Shares of Stock; will be paid by the Company. Stockholders arefnrther notified thnt their Annxa! meeting will beheld at this office on Thursday, the 2d day of June next, when Directors for the ensu ing year will be elected. C. DAY, Sec’y. may 2-3 t Estrayed, A GRAY MARE, ten years old, medium height, shod all round, from my residence, in Colum bus, Georgia, on Sund > 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, lets, gates, negro houses, healthy, well watered, nice young orchards, everything new, 12 miles below Auburn, near Society Hill, in Macon, ccunty, Ala.; all con veniently arranged,"with fine outlet and range for stock, land fertile, soft and easy of cultivation, excellent neighborhood. Apply at this office, or to Wm. F. SAMFORD, may 9th tf* Auburn, Ala. Fresh Ground Flour At ONE DOLLAR per pound. Ten cents less for needy and soldiers’ families. F"r sale by !!. FISIIACKER, PH, Broad Street. 1 n it 4