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COLUMBUS TIMES Publi'hed Daily 'Sundnys exempted) at the rate of S.V>O per month,or *K‘ lav three months. Xrt uh’fripttoll fr.|- :i longer tern tinn l href month». r j 3 4DVERTISI\’ U M VI I;m s Advertisements Inserted f*>r $2 00 |»ersq«« r ‘‘ f ' ,T 1 •he first insertion and $1 oO for ea<ffi tuldiß° Dol, Where advertisement* are inserted a mor i; . tm . harse will be S2O per square. . _ irtKl „ Announcing v»hh ’' luU , - ,%au paid in advance." , __ . _« { * , __:|i he made on all t Adc4«.t«.n*ra>!>£«'*,%» w . plvortising account: ovei . • o«nt is made. Change of Schedule. nVno* after Sunday, March 20th, the' train? on ; O tfte oiortnroe Railroad Tcdl run as follows: PASSENGER TItAIN *; ;7 : Leave Columbus .6 1? V* $ Leave Macon ? ;V Arrive at Columbus <> A - Ui FREIGHT TRAIN: Leave Columbus. r ! g£ *-,j Arri.e M Columb,.' mar 19 ts 'Supt.Muscoceeß.il . Omci Mobile and Gihard R. TL.« l Columbus, Ua., April o, iwH.» Tte Stockholders of the Mobile AGirard Railroad Company, are hereby notified that the five per cent tax. levied by the law passed February 17th, 1804, on the value of ail shares held in Railroad cr other Companies, will be paid by the Treasurer at this «ffiee and they will theTeforc omit the stock, held in thp Company in their li:t> to A terrors. J. M, FRAZER, apl C ts ‘ Treasurer. \&Hce to Planters, I am authorized by the Government TO EXCHANGE Sheetings* C otton Yarns* SUGAR ANO OSNARUR@i FOR jßaoon fitic3ios» 9 HAMS A*i» SHOIUsDERS, for supplying the*Army. JNO .1 Mr REM DREE, aid lb 2m Agent. L. S. WB.XGII^, SUCCESSOR TO RQBTNETT 4 00., Corner of Brand and Warren Streets, Catutybui, (?•<-, MANUFACTURED OF Superior Candies and Lard Oil. AND DKALI’.R IN IENERAL COUNTRY PSOBIJCE, ABNABURG3, Sheeting.;, ‘Yarn:*. etc,, exchanged U for Bacon, Laid, Potatoes, fallow si*itl Bees wav Wanted, Ills hoped that tho liberal course- which will be •iiopted will secure a generous patronniie. april 20—1 m wlimH mum Principal Office Macon* ©a. QTOCKITOLDFKS are hereby notified that tin ©Confederate Til V. i- vie.l by the Act. of Comp css dated 17th February, lijijl. on the. Shaves of Stock, will he paid by thejCompany.. _ , ~ . . Stockholders are further notified thnftlmr Anr.i- a S acting will beheld at this office on rhursclay, tm I day of dune nest, when Directors for tho eneu lug year will be elected. ' C. l'-U. > on y. amyr-Jt % An Excellent P!aiifntift» UPoTL* CJKVEN Hundred and twenty acres, three hun dred and fifty open, nearly allfreeh, in splen did repair, excellent fences, gin house. Jots, gates, negro houses, healthy, well watered, nice young orchards, everyth bo/ new, 12 miles below Auburn, near Hociety Hill, In Macon, county, Ala.; all con veniently arranged,“with ft no outlet and range for stock, land fertile, soft and easy of cultivation, an excellent neighborhood. Apply at this office, or 10 11 ‘ Wm F. SAMFORD; may 9thif * Auburn, /Hu. f regh Ground Flour At ONE DOLLAR per pound.— Ten cents less for needy and soldiers’ families. For sale by H. FISH ACKER, lu4, Broad Sirent. tuny 10 fit • Bun and Etfquirct copy. C. S. ARSENAL, \ Columbus, Ga.. April 5,1864. J Notice. I WISH TO EXCHANGE FOR BACON on equitable terras, Sugar Mills, Sugar and Salt IkettScs, And all kinds PLANTATION IiU.LN; Also POWBE*. As thi3 Bacon i? needed to supply the necessities of Jibe e:ni Joyces oi the Ordnance department, at tftUpUceandßichrlond.it i.> hoped that holders wil give the Government the preference, r. r HUMPHREYS, apl 7 ts Maj. Consol's Arsenal. ed 9 oai du l>li. In. . 1 FORMERLY Saigon to the New Orleans-“Fe ! uidle Infirmary.'' tenders his service* to theCit isena ci Columhui in all tke branchc: of hi'iwofes cion. Special attention will be dcrctediU' the treatment of the iisaases of womem. 4NT Surgical operations _ performed for Fistula m Ano, Y r isico-Yaginal fi«tula, Hydroctie. Congenital nod Arrident il Fhvmusis, Vurico. ele, Hemorrhoids or f ile-, v v.u.nv- nup-i --safiU itnetures, False Passages, faliapcsoi Club Foot, and contraction of the fingers, Btt&bGimts or Hquiutiug, Aneurism ,'Varix or dilated vein ■, Pt>ny giuru, Cataract and Hair L'\<>; a-ko tor ihe rmov al of all tumor? o» uhn.uuul growth from an., ram of the body. .... Di»e.i.- i c-? of th< Gei.it.) I unary .'ay- tem,o-ui.u the dintrout ?t:\tre' of Ghoni.rrh.va, Stfi tures, Hf»vel, Spernutorrhea, »SjptpU*. in it? primely ieotfndito .tenuty «uid heriJuary forni*wjM receive particular attention. . „ , Reference? given whenever desireu as well as the recommendation of many years practice in Nor," Or leans: Ouusußation every day at hP otitco In the Masonic 'll. id Building, from Into lz r.’Hoek a, io., and from Zto !.. . i •.A (>, in. Patient »vlildo well to call preelselv at rlib't hr.ure, ro -n.d after that time w dll'- dev-.ted to vi. ii ra p-:?on in the *ity. Address all enmitrai. otton 0 to DR. F. A. ROSSY. Colarabn?. Ga, “N. # 8.-Person? from a distance having e. ivir t? req.i rins, or mtdn’.d trcauncm. v-di be with ..ou for table qnailc.?.lul ir. :.li, n. c will have to tuvnirh their own proviuous and u • L dtn&. also bestow p&tijcuhu aiTr-.plloit io the treatment ..t ihe different fi rms of VTcsvvTlliou Gout. Sci.Julousfitlftcuoi. 3 ; j. i'oUtr?emp. Suns, and ait other chronic di:vr.<<: 1 the ddn Med icaicd I uiiuxati us and oi.co.it. Suijdiurcus Bath?, ns empfi .. :d tn the hospitals in Europe and America, will ton.. .» part of icy treatpient feb 11 :tin E. A, it. Crlu? flaiHifheloii. yp t\NP FIHIGNIP i crop's ved <•'. «>*» (C 2 X. C 7 2ES c * a sr.lw.ri r quality. AH order? mu:f t :> Lire.- -< w the undersigned wifhithe mcney euc-b «jd, ante Grdfrad by Express, whe® orders will >■ fibed v •hipped with C, 0 D. ALFRED ZORKOTYSjSII x LG. apr l?) Ira ShopiitakeiV and Saddlers’ 0 T*rio« having eommenced tu«» manufacture of tiu* above muued t.ilk !c • li; iin,* C, (?A»?lI^ r€ V ar * s> orders for tUe ' ' lntsl ° ir r V,V, n rfr>w door? above » • «. stUn o tfcl*nr 1 * glst i ir * Wiasisaippian and Augusta Con to thVs oflS; P C ° ry ° E£ motth acd'send bills star si) if * Cflliiiliir limes. • - -AG . . . - . • Vol XI. .1, W. WARREN & CO. 1^priet®r*.::r;b7. : ...b.;....:.2;;'...:....V....;.':..; j. W. WARREN, Editor ditii military EHrectorg- HEAD QUARTERS PORT—II 9 Broad Street, Up Stairs. Cok J. Vv r . Roßßr.fsojr, Com'g. Gapt, Chas. Wood, A. A. G. Capt. ,T. S. South, A A A IG \Y. T. McKknubup, Chief Clerk. ENROLLING OFFICE. Capt W, S. WALticr—rear of Jones' Building. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT Cor, Oigetborpe and Si. Clnir Sts. Maj. F. C Humphreys, Com'g. Capt TV. Latham, Ex. Officer. Lieut- J. M. MtfUDEK, Military Store Keeper Q FAR I ERMA STEP DEF T At No, 15 Broad Broad Si. Maj. F- W. Dillard, Com’g- Maj. Joh.n E. Davis, Post Q. M, Capr H D Cothran, A. Q, M. C OMMfS.SAR r DEF T At iving, Allen k Camak';’Warehohae. Map A. M. Allen, Com'g. Capt J. 11. Geaybill, A. C. 3. ENGINEER’S DEFT Capt Theodore Moreno. Lisnl W. A. Hansel j,. MEDICAL DEF 7. G B. Douglass, Post Burgeon. (Office at Wayside Home.) I 3 White, General Hospital Barg, in Charge, J P Moore, “ * Surgeon. L I) Carson, “ fl Ass’tßmgai.n. P. Fowler, “ “ “ “ TV TV Du'KrK, “ “ “ H NA VAC DEFT. offic6 t u«HV the Old Budge, i TT Warner, Chf. Engineer. PROVOST MARSHAL. Capt. Geo.- N. Kniomt, (Fact of the Bank-of Columbus. IXiHiiinink ISoiii and. J 3 White, Senior Surgeon, The Board ifieets at Cue General Hospital on Tuesdays und Fridays, <sUORKiHA»-dlm i«ii C ouaHy : {IDLE NISI. Whereas, Amanda L Cattle, Avl lb minir-tratvix upon the estate of David L, Murry, deceased, having applied for letters of disjmnissiun from said Administrathpi, These are ihereforeto cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to show if any they have, svhy said Adminis- - ft at rix hould not be dismissed from said adminis t ration. Given under my hand and official signature, Op— ! tober sth, 1W33. MALOOM HAIR, dec 12 mfim Ordinary. C’uuxity s WHEREAS, B. A. Slary, Administrator upon the estate, of Joseph N, .'-(ary, late of said county, dceenaed, having appliod for fetters ofdismssion from said administration. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office within the time pre scribed by law. to show cause, if any they have, why said letters of dismission should* not bo granted to said applicant on tho first Monday in October next. Given under ray hand and official signature. Jan. 22d, 1354. , MAI.COM HAIR, .km 2-)ir,otn Ordinary. GEORCrlA—Marloia County: IjULE NISI. Whereas Carrie James, Adra’x on It the estate of Daniel James, Jr., having peti tioned this Court for letters of dismission from said Administration. These are therefore to cite and! admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to be and appear at mv office within the time pre scribed by law, aud show cause if any they have, why said Administratrix should not be dismissed from said Administration on the first Monday in July, 1864. Given under my hand and official signature, this December the 7th, 1860. luALCOM HAIR, dee 14 mt>m Ordinary. PETTY i SAWYERS, 4o and 47, Not ill Water Street, MOBILE, ALABAMA. Brokers and Bankers, PEATJSBS IN oor 4 n, SILVKR, BANK STOCKS and BONDS, STATE TREASURY ."VOTES iiTERLIM, HAVANA, NASSAU, AIVU nOMUSTIii EXCHABSCfE. Aljso, • Stock-; in all the different Steamers, | Sloopa and Schooners engaged in run ning the blockade nOSEX DECEIVED 4YB PAIS OUT ON DEPOSIT, Y\ 0 buy and :ii !l on cm own account or on commission All letter'- and enquiries prompt ly answered apl Id wdin N&'w Sla^re THOMAS L. FRAZER & GO., l.,iir j:i M oj UtitiviM il, Fraztr a- Atlanta, 'jit., Market Sfi ect, above Montgomery Hall, ! ]AYF fitted up, and are now prepared to receive 1 aud tuvommodnle at mart, all Negroes which may ha consigned to them. They will buy and sail on Cuuimhston. and torwaixl yr.H*ee.U with prorujitnes:- and dispatch. They keep, constantly on hand a larav imd well selected ?tock, such as l amiHo.-. jlou-o ServantSi Oe.uietaanV Body Servants, Seamstre^?. B..ys and Girls, oraill descriptions, Caipehtev?, Biacksmiths, _Shomakers, Field Hand?, they respectfully refer to the following weil hr.own gentlemen, vir Hon. John A. Elmore, Major J,L.Calhoun, Will i .ot Taytor iCo . a I*. A att, Shular & Ardis, Mcntffc.niery _A3r. ; J C. Coleman & Cos., Mobile, Ala-Hvffrr uelnbav.i A- Bro„ Savannah, Ga. i ll OS. L, FRAZER, Montgomery, Ala. A. FRAZEII. V. . F SMITH. Anhnrn,- Aia. W. ii to 1.3 Asor.t P. S.—Uty pstt ry3? etftfuHr solicited. All orders catenuiy aiten-led to. mruT? dim worn ' WAITED. I WANT to hire one hundred NEGRO Laborer. Ten Mule? Teams, 4 or 6 mules each, and L- Yoke of Ouento get and ken! Timber for the ts-l road Bridge, over the Tombigbee river, near H raopoli?. , I also want tdvyempipy .fifteen ihrfi(&p,GU3, .v. men or negroes for the sotno work. I will pay liberal price* and furnish ration* turn quarters for the men. Address me at Demopeus, Ala., care of Mat. M. Merriwether, Eng'r Corps. • w. p. barker, A*’t for A. L. Maxwell. apl 13 dlw&wlm Columbus, 6a., Tuesday Morning, May 17,1864. “ Notice to Planters and Con sumers or iron.” T\ r E will keep for sale, for Confederate funds, or V? exchange for country produce—such as Corn, Fodder, Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Peas. Potatoes, Tal low. Blitter, Flour—thefollowing articles, on hand or made to order: • . PLOW AND SCOOTER BAR IRON; FLAT, ROUND AND SQUARE BAR IRON; HOOP, HORSE SHOE, NAIL ROD • IRON COTTON TIES (CHEAPER THAN ROPE) FOR BALING; SHOVELS AND SPA DES; FRY PANS; POT WARE OF SEVERAL DESCRIP TIONS'; SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES— FROM 40 TO 100 GALLONS; SUGAR MILLS—I3 AND 15 INCH' Wo arc prepared to receive ana fill orders for any sizes and quantity of Iren, from our. Iron Works and Rolling Mill in Alabama. JOHN D. GRA_Y & CO„ opr S ts Next to New Bridge, STATE OF GEORGIA, } Adjutant and Inspector Gen’s Office, > Milledgoville, May 7tb, 13(54. J General Orders No. 18, It having been officially reported to me that the Miiitia organizations under the Act of December the 14tb,1563, “To organize the Militia of the State of Georgia and for other purposes,” ha ve been comple ted in the following armed Senatorial or Military Districts, to-wit: The Ctb, lith, 20th, 24th, 26th, 27th, 33d, 37th and 39th, embracing the counties of Echols, Lowndes, Berrien, Clay, Randolph, Terrell, Marion, Chatta hoochee, Muscogee, Spaulding, Butts, Forayth, Newton. Walton, Clarke, Hull, Banks. Jackson, Troup, Hurd, Carroll, Cherokee, Milton and For syth. . ... Now, therefore. I, Joseph E, Brown, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, do hereby declare the Militia organizations theretofore existing lin said Districts, under tho Military Code of Georgia, sits pended, and do relieve the Militia Officers under said previous organisations from their commands, and do hold said Officers subject to all the Military duties imposed by the Ant of December the 14th, 1863, above mentioned, upon persons of the same age with themselves. By the Governor: JOSEPH E, BROWN, Governor and Commanjer-in-Chief. Henry C. VYavne, Adit. & Ins, Gen‘l. may ID 11. - HEADQUARTERS POST, I 1 . COLUMN S, iti, May 9th. 1864.1 GENERAL ORDERS, ) « No. 12. J In obedience to Special Orders from Headquar ters of Department of South Carolina , Georgia and Florida, the undersigned hereby transfers the com mand of this to Maj. F. C, Humphreys. •T. W. ROBE EPSON. Col. Comdg. HEADQUARTERS POST. I Columbus, Oa., May cth, 1864/ The undersigned hereby assumes command of this post. Existing order : and regulations will remain in force ‘ F. C. HUMPHREYS,, may 10 1m - Major Comdg, Headquarters of Conscription, \ ■ Macon, Ha,,. May 9, 1864./ General Orders, No, 35. I. After the expiration of thirty days from the publication of the notice in each county for the en rollment of persons between the ages of 17 and 18 and 45 and 50 years in the Reserve Corps, District and County Enrolling Officers will proceed prompf ly and energetically to enroll all who have failed up to that time to report as required. 11. District Enrolling Officers will make weekly returns to these Headquartors of persons Enrolled during the week, giving a discriptive list, together with the excuses of the parties for having failed to enroll .within the thirty days. When satisfactory excuses for the failure are not rendered, the penal ty provided by law will be rigidly enforced, a nd the parties sent to Companies in the fieieft 111. All persons enrolled Under this order wilt be forwarded immediately to the Camp of last motion in this city. IV. Persons who have failed to enroll within the [ thirty days after publication in their respective | counties, and who after that time make applications 'or details will not be allowed the privilege of a fur* lough of sixty days generally granted those who have promptly obeyed the law. V. Enrolling Officers will bo held to . a strict re sponsibility for the prompt execution of this order. By'order of COL. WM. ts. BItOWNE, CouidTo f Conscripts for Ga. ! P Looxrv, Liqut. <fc Adj’t. j may 12 3t CIROITIiAm. CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,] QUAETKRMiSTf'.R GxJTEBAI/s Os RICE, ) Richmond, April 23, 1364, j All Officers and Agents of this Department aie hereby notified that in order to introduce, proper uniformity and system in connection-wiih tho con tracts executed with the 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, is entrusted, exclusively, with'the duty of contacting in behalf of this Department, with t he- Factories in the State s of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. He will respond to requisitions for material, made upon him by Gamer* In charge of Deporn for the manufacture „fclothing. A. K. LAWTON, may Him Quart erajacter General. SIOO Reward, apprehension and delivery to rae of nr-yro . hoy GEORGE, who run away from S. Arsenal two weeks ago. Said boy is 19 year's old. sfeet.6 incho® high, bad on when be left white clothes. ' Cant. MARSHALL, Columbus. May 9. —Ts Ib-rVv House. WMTEB. ASM A LL comfortable dwelling, situated In aeon* venient part ..f tlr* city to bqcines* A liberal pime per moth wul be paid for such s. place. Apply at * THIS OFFICE. may. lo ff ~ LOST, GOLD SPECTACLES and CASE, between the Quarter master's office and Post Officaon Bread street, about'l2 it,on Monday.' The finder will he liberally rewarded by leaving them at the office of Maj. Dillard ‘may 10 ts N. J. TISDALE. Bank of Cdluinhi^, itcckholdcrs are hereby noiihsd that the Confed erate Tax levied by the net c-f Ccngr-tss dated Eeb, IT, 1364, on the Shares c’f this Bonk, will be paid by the Bank. * D. ADAMS, Colunsbu... Ga. ; May 10.—2 w Cashier, £schanfe Notice \o. 9. Richuosp, Vj„ May 2d. 1364. AU Confederate officers and men who have .been delivered at City Point, Virginia, at any time pre vious to the 20:n of April, 1365, arc hereby declare*! to be duly exchanged. RO. OUED, may 10 fit Agent of Exchange, Yiouday Evening. Fuilhev Arfoiintu from Vir ginia. The following press dispatches we find in the- Augusta papers of the Istb, which from some cause failed to reach us by telegraph : Orakgr Court House, May 7.—The press correspondent left the front at 4 o'clock a, m., bringing the following reliable information : Gen. Ewell again repulsed the enemy yes terday, who advanced on his front, with "five lines, of fiat Go. The Yankee loss is terrible, especially in *Esrlv’3- front, Ewell's los3 is very cm ail. About 12 o’clock, yesterday, the enemy having previously attacked Heth and Wilcox and driven them back, Longstreet planned and was in the act of executing a. flank movement on the enemy's left wing," when, by the mis take of our men. he was fired upon, Lieut. Gen. Longstreet. and staff were severely, though not mortally wounded. Gen. Long street was wounded ift the shoulder-—so *ay the Burgeons with whom the press correspon dent conversed, and who examined his wound. Brig Gen. Jenkins, of- South Carolina, was killed at the same time. Our troops contin ued to press the enemy, until about 4 o’clock, driving back their left and centre some two miles—oar left, standing fast in its position. Last night our men he’d possession of the enemy’s battle-field on the left and centre, capturing a number of the enemy’s wounded and some of the. dead. The enemy fought yesterday most obstinately on all parts of the line One success war very great, though not decisive. Just hefore daylight some picket firing was heard in front of Hill's corps, and about six A. M., cannonading, lasting half an hour, on Ewell’s line. Our loss thus far is about five thousand, of whom a large proportion are slightly woun ded. The proportion of officers to privates killed and wounded is very much larger than in any previous fight. The Yankee General Ilayes is reported killed, and. a dead Yankee General with the initials U H. 11. 0." supposed to be Couch or Casey, was fnuud in Ewell’s front. The fight occurred in a densely wooded country, Litt-lo or no artillery was brought into action. At one time yesterday, when the enemy were heavily pressing Hill’s men. General Kershaw opportunely, by double quicking with his troops, arrived on the field, checked, repulsed and pursued the enemy, thus turning the for tunes of the day at that end. of the line. The battle-field extends over a space of eight miles in length. Rosser’, cavalry fought the en emy all day, on our extreme right losing heavily and gaining nothing important. Ewell captured two pieces of artillery iu ihe fight of Thursday and twelve hundred prisoners. The wounded arc arriving and receiving every attention. General It. 11. Anderson is now commanding in place ofLongstreet. Two thousand well and wounded prisoners have been captured thus far. The battle ground extends from the Rapidan river lo the plank road, and is about twenty-five miles east of this place. The battle is not yet. ended. Weather hot and sultry. . Orange C. 11. May 7. — Gordon’s Georgia brig ade and Johnston’s North Carolina brigade of Ewell’s corps, turned tjhd enemy’s extreme right flank, about four miles above Germanna Ford, last evening, between sunset and dark, capturing four hundred prisoners, including Brig. Generals Seymour and Shaller. The enemy* completely surprised, hastily fled on finding their breastworks turned and stormed. There are rumors here that Mosby has whipped the negro troop?, capturing some,'and burning some bridges in Fauquier county. Orange C. 11., May 7. —Trustworthy advices from the from, as late as 1 o’clock. P. M-, repre sent that there was no general engagement tip io that time. Lieut. Gen. Longstrcet’s condition to-day ir re ported asm nc!t improve^ There was some-cannonading oa.the extreme right, and left during tbo morning, but ii to nothing of importance, A negro soldier, an infant ryman, the first ever captured by this army, was taken hear Brandy station yesterday, and brought in hero to-day'.— He says that he belong- to the Twenty-seventh Ohio, Burnside’s corps. The enemy have been fortifying all- day, as if to provoke General Led to attack him. Orange 0. 11, May ti. Advices from tbo front-to sunrise this morning report that there was no gen end engagement yes terday, only heavy skirmishing. The impression paavailed last night that the enemy were falling back towards Culpeper on Fredericksburg. The negro troops occupying Brandy Station ad vanced out to Culpepper Court House Friday ancl occupied it. Yesterday then - went back to Brandy Station, set fire to the stores —principally quar termaster’s—and then marched lo join Grant. Scouts says that the enemy Lave abandoned the line of the Orange railway, and up cars are run ning on it. It is supposed that Grant tow intends to make Fredericksburg his base, Ewell holds iheroad leading to Germanna ford, but the enemy, it is said, have two ford? by which to recross the river to Cnlpeppr-r if they wish. Stuart was yesterday engaged with ihe enemy on our right, and it wns reported he was com pelled to give back until Hamuron joined, when he forced the enemy to retire. The enemy's kisses, thus far, arc- estimated at eighteen thousand- Ours wilkreach seven thou sand. The Yankee Get. Hays i3 certainly killed.— Wadsworth is wounded and a prisoner—he may recover. Oglesby is reported killed Twenty-four hundred privates and one hundred commissioned officer? thus far bare been registered here,’piot including the Yankee w ounded, of which we captured some fifteen hundred, rhieflvjn front of Hill and Longstreet on Friday. Our men began ycMerday evening to bury our own and the Yank.-.- dead. Siegel occupied Wincher ter on Friday with oimo infantry and fi.OGu cavalry. The country be; when the H tppahamiock and Potomac i- reported to be filled with Y'nnkeo de serters. Mostly captured two wagon train?, heavily la den, and horse-, attached, near Martinsburg. on Thursday. The latest from the front, at twelve M., to day, represents the enemy falling hack towards Fred ericksburg, and our troops following them closely. .Episcopal Council,-tOhi visit to Colum bus. Ga.. last week, in attendance upon the Episcopal Council, wo.-. v.-i > pleasant indeed. Quite a large number 01 d.e clergy of the church fnd of toy delegates were .ia attend ance, Bishop Elliott presiding over the delib erations of the body The- proceedings-of the Connell were most cat apnioua, and to add to the pleasure of the occasion, the citizens all seemed to vie with each other in t-heir offices of kindness to the clergy and laity—all of. whom were generously entertained at the homes of the citizens. Columbus is certainlv a most hospitable place and w? shall ever vr it the Queen 0 the Chpiiahcecinv with pleasure. To the prr=3 of Colutubu: we must return heart-felt tbanks fojj the courteous manner m which we were u< ;itcl by them. —!■«€•■ unw Uail-. gepen*?. The Association cf Chaplains and Mission aries of the army of Tennessee, offer a prite of ?2T5 for the b®"t trac! on 1 The importance of the ofibe of Cfaplain anl the obligation resting on the comntnnets to appoint Chap lains," to be published hy the Evangelical Tract Society. Those disposed to write on this important subject, will please ?eud their manuscript to Rev A W Miller, Chairman Publishing Com mittee £. T. §., Petersburg, Ya. $3.50 Per Mont k Gol. IV. H. Sparks, l a refugee from Louisiana, oug and farora bly known as u prominent lawyer and politician, honored us with a visit to-day.— lie handed us thefollowing beautiful lines «om rosod by himtelf. which wo take pleasure in r«- pr.nlneing May Song. BY W. H. SPARKS. This song was sung by a choir, in tho presenco of 700 children, at a May Day Celebration, under the laurels adjacent to the fair city of Baton Rouge, La. The groen laurels which were made vocal by the music have since been destroyed by the vandals that now occupy thatportion of the State. The spring time has como and the leaves and the flowers, Are green o’er the woods and bright on the bowers ; The birds sweetly singing from bush and from tree, And tho woods all alive with their love and their glee, , Rising in gratitude to Him who has given Here in this bright world, so much c.f His heaven. The spring time has come and how sweetly and bright The dear smiling sun, pours his warmth and his light 0 er the green oftheeartli, as it smiles in his ray, This beautiful morning of soft, sunny May ; \ieldmg its homage to Him who has given, Tn the fields and the-woods <?o much of His Heaven. The spring iime has coma and sweet blushing flowers, Smile with her sunshine, weep with her showers : Here with hearts full of hope, we come ami with these, A festival offering ’neath these green shaded trees Make to our God, who so kindly has given A foretaste in these of the beauties of Heaven. 9 Then sing, gladly sing! from the heart we rejoice! Let tho soul give her raptures, and gratitude voice, Her inconse pour out in the flush of delight For these beauties and blessings, this sunshine and light— For us they were wade, to us they were given To lift from the earth our thoughts up to Heaven. Brave Wohejh.—When tho Yankees made a dash upon the Railroad nea r ltesaca the other day, they Cut iha wire of the telegraph. No sooner ‘■had they gotten out of sight than Mra, Buehman, ofvVhitfield county, and her sister, Miss Carrie Sims went to work to repair the damage. They found it a rather difficult job, of course, but timely aid was afforded them by a Confederate officer who happened to be passing, and the work was speedily accomplished. These ladies are the daughters of Colonel Hen ry L. Sims, of Catoosa. lie ought lo be proud es them. The bar rooms in Richmond, Va., were all closed on the Ist inst., in obeclL encif to the law of the last Legislature prohibiting the grant of licenses. A breach of law subjects the bar, liquors, fixtures and the house, if it belongs to the owner of the bav, to confiscation. Disconsolate topers were offering ten dollars for a cock tail, without svccess. What will Cons greßsmen do? ♦ ; Talented Youth.— A good anecdoto is told of a house painter’s son, who used the brush dexterously, but had acquired the habit of “putting it on too thick.” One day his father, after having frequent ly .scolded him for his lavish daubing, and all to mi purpose, gave him a severe flagellation. “There, you young rascal,” paid he after preforming the painful duty, “how do you like that?” “Well, don’t kuovv, dad,” whined the boy in reply, “but it seems to me that you put il on a darned sight thicker than 1 did. ■“Hard Tack:.’’— The first number of this comic paper Iras nuwle its appearance, ami, in execution ami comicality, h the best thing of flie kind sv have seen in the Confederacy.— It is published at Atlanta by John [{. Seals A. Cos. Bill Arp’’ is one of its contributor-, and the following extract from hi- -‘greeting" is a specimen of the contents : lam of opinyun, Mr. Tak, that the Sitty of Atlanty arc a glouti place for your enterprise. I had the honor to visit that Gate Sitty very recently, and observed that your good people, and especially your females do laugii more at lesser things than any place I wer ever iu.— The folks at the Hotel laffed at me hekaus I kalled for soap to wash with- -sed I ought to hav brought my soap with me At the sup per table, I kalled for a tumbler of water, and they laffed agin, and sed they would furnish the water if would furnish the tumbler.- Went out to a store, to do bo me tradin—-saw lots of fine looking women, and the More had women for clerks—Asc-d em it they had a black woman’s vale, and they laffed ai that, and wanted to know if the vale wer for my wife, or my sarvent? “Darn the sarvent," said I, “1 wan; a vale for Mrs. Arp.'' They ehowed rae one for 800 dollars, which I ad vised em to lay aside for Mr. Memrainger, who made all the money. Axed em if they had any Hiot, and they laffed most tremendious, and sed perhaps 1 dident know I was in a “mil lenium store Sed they only kept ladies’ good3 lor sale. Wherefore, I felt konstrained to depart those konst prematurely. Went to the Hotel and were dunned for ray Bill—told emlwassent goin till mornin, and they re marked that all Bills bad to be paid iu ad vance. So I settled up and found myself poorer and lighter. Konkluded to leave the Gate Sitty by the next train if I could find tire Gate. Next mornin, l prepared to take the cars, but in trying to git aboard, was told that my passport, which I got at home, only let me cum into the Sity, but woudlent let go out, I lost that train. Went to the Pars Port Otic and axed for a paper to go home—sed they dident know me, that 1 must get a \ ou eher Axed em wher I would find it, and they laffed powerfully. Explained what they meant, and 1 told em I dident kno nobody and nobody kngw and me—whereupon a kind-hearted old mac :ed to the officer. “Let.the fool have' a pass, he won’t hurt nobody. Got reddyfor the next train just in time. A feller on the platform axed for my_ticket—-told him I did ent have a ticket. While I was gitten the same, the train left mo agin, and a fefier in the meantime kindly took charge of the kon lento of my saddle-bags. Durtn the day I T sold ihe saddle-bags for 20 dollars, and hare since the bill was koumerfec-t.— Shore enuffl eskaped from our Butifol Sitty on the next train, kalled the Goober train, and after we had krossed the Chattyhoochy I felt my .self comparatively safe agin, ontil puttin out rny head to see another train go by, some friendly solder jost took my hat off and har ried it klean away bak to your butiful sitty free of charge. I would be obleeged to you, Mr. Tak, if you would keep a look out for any solger you see with too hstts : for one of em is mine Berlin, shore. T a! L a » R APHIS. Reports of the I’rrss Is&orialion. ILircred tfcCordinsc to act of Omm™, • ~ the Northern District of Georgia. ■ d'tes fo* Meridian, May 14th.—A force of Yankee under Gcu. McArthur, variously estimate'd at 000 8.000, was at Pickens' Station on the Mississippi Central Railroad at noon to-dny, moving towards Grenada. Five thousand Yankees arc at Bio- Blacl Bridge. 3 Gen. H. \Y. Sloeumb at VMt? burg. Tlte Rebel Iron-Clad*. Thirty Birth at the South and Tatev.\ r;or> Cntwtff froh Europe. Correspondence of tho X. Y. IVorld.l Baetimore, April 21. —From the sources of information alluded to in a recent letter, I ha\e derived the following facts in relation to the naval plans of the rebels : The operations of the Confederates in the campaigns of 1864 will not be confined to the manoeuvres of their laud forces. If their plans are earned out, naval operations on a large scale will form a prominent part of the exer tions which they will put forth. Without in cluding their foreign built vessels, of which I will speak presently, and excluding also such vessels as the Georgia, which are used merelv a~ stationary floating batteries, thev have built themselves, mostly from their own ma terials, and have now at their command, a iieet ot no less than thirty-one iron-clad vos scls. More than twenty of thf* srul most powerful of these vessels, as ha? bee." demonstrated b\ actual experiment, arc fullv capable of coastwke and river navigation, and are therefore capable of taking part in otlVif*- lve naval warfare. There are four of iron-clad vessels at Mi re report, on Red river, in Northwestern Louisiana. They will no doubt take part in the engagement, with the Federal forces con cerned in the present Red river expedition, if the recent repulse ot the latter has not been so severe as to cause the abandonment of the expedition. Iu the Ea t there an* two iron clad vessels at Rinr.fon, and one near Gold?, boro, on the Neure river : two on Tar river at a point where the latter crosses the Wilming ton and Weldon railroad; and certainly two (or three, if the last one recently building is completed) at Halifax, on the Roanoke river. These seven iron-clad in North Car olina are intended mainly, at present, at least, for the defense of the important railroad from Wilmington to Richmond and iu order to pre vent Union troops or vessels from advancing on that road from Newborn, or from Alfce marie or Pamlico sound. But there is nothing in their construction which would prevent them from navigating these rivers to their mouths and sailing along the coast, for the experience of their trial trips has proved them to be seaworthy in every respect. They are mounted with guns of English manufacture. The five Iron-clad vessels at Mobile, thefivft at Charleston, and (he one in tLe Savannah, river, were all so accurately described in the World, a short time ago, that I need only refer to them. There are besides, at Charleston, two powerful iron-clad steam rams, one of which is commanded by Capt, Ingraham. At Richmond, and between that city and Fort Darling, there arc ten iron-clad vessels, most of them mounted with rifled guns. Os these the Merrimao No. 2 is the largest and most formidable. -Her armament consists of six guns, namely : Two heavy columbiada on each side, one 10-inch rilled gun at the bow and another at the stern. These gnus all car ry the steel pointed projectiles, which crash through and through the sides of our own iron-clad Galena, as if they had been mndo of pine boards. These ironclad vessels will plin an important part in the defense of Richmond, if that city is attacked by way of James river or from the south. But it seems most proba ble now that we will first hear of them at the mouth of James river, in Hampton Rords, or, perhaps, even sailing up the Potomac. In regard to the iron-clad vessels that havo .been built for the Confederates in too ports of Great Britain and France during tbo last eighteen months, my information is positive that they will find their way across the At lantic before the cud of June. Arrangement?, have been made tor (betransfer of 1 hose ves sels Unit were built for - the Emperor of Ohi na/’to parties^who cannot be identified with the South ; and, allot- the transfer hati bean made, the governments of France and Eng land can no longer interfere with them. Tue parties alluded to will then take them to a t enport in some Other couMry where, by a process well-known in nmrinmo practice, the vessels will ultimately come into the poszea Sion of agents of the Confederacy. These vee sol-:, o( which there are about twenty in all, are built expressly for ocean navigation, and some of them arc of t he same r lasts as the War rior and La (Hoi re. They are all constructed in the very best manner, by the most expe rieticed European shipbuilders, plated with iron or malleable steel to a thickness that de lies penetration, and mounted with armament?) far superior to anything now afloat in Ameri can waters. When these vessels reach our shores they will not be used for defense. To break tbo blockade of Charleston, Vvilming jon and Savannah, will be iheir first attempt: and, after that, it is expected that they will attack some of the seaports iu the Nor then.-. States. The Confederates arc also making ccitve preparations for breaking tho blockade of Charleston, ifidepen.leiif of the arrival transatlantic fleet. They are preparing, by mean3 of torpedoes and other methods of subraariue explosions, to attack our fleet ot Iron-dads in the part wtievc they, like Achilies, are alone vnluera file to such ussayltß, name-ly : in the heel. In other words, they seek to direct the mistiles of their submarine warfare against our iron oiad vessels to the part not protected by thee iron armor, the wooden hull, some distance below tho water line. The explosion in the James river wap only an experiment It will soon be followed by attempja against th.e block ading fieri at Charleston—attempts which they believe, and which there is reason to feat will be more snccesai.il than that against the Minnesota. Cxei. MiCKi.SR.-~We had the pleasure last evening of a visit from this.intrepid and val uable scout, who has done such admirable service on the coast of South Carolina from the beginning of the war until now. He Uin robust health, his exposure am> hardships seeming hot to Lave had the slightest effect upon him. May ho live through the war and come out of it sound in hodv as he i« in soul The Captain informs us that a deserter from ’.be o2d Pennsylvania, who was stationed oh j Pinckney Island; reports that nearly all tho iankec force on the South Carolina coaA . has been sent to Virginia. There arc but ; three regiments left on Morris Island, ana four—two and a half white and one and a halt black—on Hilton Head.— Sav. Getting Ifappjc. Xue editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer cut in the followirg strain ip a '■hort le.®ier oi recent date. The Maj. evidently attended a revi val when he went to the Capital However at this moment, there i« nothing to make a long face visible, even though it be the visage of a monomaniac grumbler. It ia good cn onr entire border, so very good that we aro saa guine beyond all that imagination can conceive,— The silver lining is visible, and reader, by the om c ipetent tonch of the Almighty tha golden cloud will h« rolled up like a scroll and the beautiful world of welcome peace Ues within view. Does cot yonr heart beat a little faster, and do you not feel warmer as the thought pervades you that peace to scar, and then for the safety and paradise lik* joys of home - To thor.fi whose homes are ovei the border. *■*«• wiry Tty .—■ - , -wrriiniTii ®>'KHL ? I.ii ingston & Cos. A No. 1 Wheeler & WHjion Sewing Machine, nearly new may 16 $3 §0