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J. W. WARREN, - - - Editor.
Saturday Ufomingj May 28, 1864.
The necessities of the Yankee Government
have forced Grant to take up the “onto Rich
mond,” where it was checked two weeks ago
by Lee’s invincibles. Stanton tries to stuff
the beaten and demoralized enemy with the
lie that they are as strong now as when, with
100,000 men they first came upon forbidden
ground. The lie will hardly take. The men
whose ranks were shattered and broken to
pieces by the deadly voliies of Lee’s unshaken
braves, know full weii the extent of the disas
ter they suffered. This kdovvledge will avail,
in the coming conflict, to impress them with a
holy horror of Confederate lead, Lee’s sever
est trial has passed. He will never again
have to meet the numbers or the resolution of
Grant’" army. If Lincoln expects a renomi
nation for the presidency, he should assemble
(he conventiou at once.
Special Correspondence of the Times.
Atlanta, May 20.
Ditlla Times : Sherman is certainly under
taking one of the most remarkable and appa
rently the most hazardous movements known
to me on record —Napoleon’s advance on Mos
cow hardly compares with it. He has now
passed, with his immense army, the geograph
ical centre of the Southern Confederacy which
is near Dalton, and has left his rear exposed
for five hundred miles over hostile and neutral
territory.
It is considered well settled here that the
mass of the Yankee army are now across the
Etowah river, extending from Dallas, in Paul
ding county, back to a Point on that river,,
about seventeen miles from Dallas and six
miles from Rome, the place of crossing.
Burnt Hickory is about eight miles from Dal
las, on his line, and Porodor Springs is be
tween the latter place and Atlanta, about ten
miles. McPherson’s corps occupies Dallas,
and seven other army corps, to-wit: Logan’s,
Palmer’s, Thomas’, Scofield’s, Howard’s, Har
vey’s and Hooker's, are said to be supporting
him on the line designated. The section of
country around Dallas is represented to be
very poor, desolate, undulating, and much of
of it densely wooded, He evidently is care
fully and cautiously avoiding a general en
gagement, and appears, at this time, to be
puzzled to know how to reach Atlanta. Many
think now that he has abandoned the idea of
taking Atlanta and will move in the direction
of West Point and Montgomery, or to the right,
towards Selma, Ala. You will notice from
the map that Dallas is only thirty-five miles
from Newnan, on the At. & West Point Rail
road, and the same distance from Atlanta. I
think his designs are Atlanta, and foiled in
this, he will retire towards Dalton. He may
be moving on the West Point Railroad, and
may send raids to cut the other roads con-
verging at Atlanta, preparatory to an attack ;
but from what I have seen and heard I believe
before he accomplishes even this he will meet
with a most disastrous defeat. Our army now
confronts hitn on a line parallel to his, and
between him and Atlanta. It is twenty miles
from Marietta to Dallas, and Lost Mountain is
half way. Wheeler is operating in the enemy's
rear, as you have seen, and Forrest is übiquit-
ous —ao one that I can find knows where—he
is reported everywhere. It is rumored that
both armies are in line of battle to-day, and if
battle should be delivered in their present po
sition the ground will, in many respects, re
semble the Wilderness, in Virginia. The ene
my will use every effort to avoid an engage
ment and select his position if attacked. He
can get no supplies in the country where he is,
and must draw them from the direction of
Rome. It Sherman should succeed in this
enterprise it would be one of the grandest ex
ploits in modern warfare ; but if he fails, look
at his exposed rear and its length, and see
what a disaster it must be !
I tried to get through to the front to my
brother's command, where I wish to remain
until the fights are over, but have not yet suc
ceeded. If I succeed, which I hope to do in
a few days. I can give you something more
interesting than these hasty lines, thrown to
gether so loosely.
The beautiful town of Marietta being now un
covered, most of the inhabitants are abandon
ing it until the conflict is o v er. The Atlanta
press is making eloquent appeals to the citi
zens of other sections to aid in the support of
refugees from North Georgia, which, I hope,
wi i meet with a cordial response. The ene
my, in keeping with his brutal instincts, are
committing many ravages on the territoay
recently occupied, and spares neither Union
men nor his bitterest foes. He has burned
the two seminaries of learning at Cassville
with two court houses and numerous private
residences ail over the country. I forbear to
mention other outrages. Was any people half
civilized, ever visited with such a scourge as
these hell-inspired vandals. Lincoln has pros
ecuted a war to equalize the races in the
South ; --registered” that oath in High Heaven
to protect the property of the United States,
and ataa wards not content with 'destroying
all the property in the South formerly belong
ing to tho United States in common, when bis
army would reach it, he visits his infernal
malice on uuoffending females by burning
their houses over their heads; he has torn
apart and trampled tl?e ties of nation, of neigh
borhood : sundered friendship with the sword ;
caused father and son to stand with confront
ing weapon? in opposite ranks, and brothers
to grapple in'tue gladitorial embrace. He
has collected men of all sorts of crimes from
ail parts of the world, and houuded on these
blood-painted and gallows-branded wretches
to deaohuo and ravage our possessions, abuse
innocence, hang prisoners, steal negroes and
convert the sweetest homes of happiuess in
to places of son-ow and death. Let us “rise
in the might of outraged innocence; in the
might of pent up volcanic fires ; in the might
of Almighty Providence and Right, and hurl
the invader from our State.” R.
p. S.—Genral Reynolds has just arrived in
Atlanta wounded, and states that Hood's brig
si-’ had a serf re fight at New Hope Church,
4 nriies this side of Dallas on the direct road to
Atlanta, on Wednesday evening. Hood’s di
vision threw up temporary breaskwortes, and
repulsed two desperate assaults made by Hoo
ker's corns with great slaughter to the enemy,
and to u-e Gen. Reyolds' own words, - mirac
ulously small to our own men."
Firing lias been heard ah day io day. and
it is tiiougUt that Hardee has been engaged.—
This in i- 'hat the enemy have again turn
ed dire-.- .v •> Atlanta. Gcu Reynolds says
his force is l-iCr.odo.
lae great battle will be fought in a few
and it b thought near the Chattahoochee.
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| From tlie Front.
Firing Saturday Morning-Heavy Canonidmg—
Heavy Firing again Yesterday Morning—ln
cidents .
Saturday morning was ushered in by the
booming of heavy cannon, which was dis
tinctly heard in every portion of our city. As
usual, curiosity was on tip-toe to learn the
cause, and hundreds of enquiries were pro
pounded at every step, but no one could give
any satisfactory explanation. Every man
gave what he thought was the cause, and
where it was. It was finally ascertained to
be an attempt on the part of the enemy’s gun
boats to drop a few two hundred pound shells
in the vicinity of Fort Clifton. The boats
stood off at a great distance, entirely out of
sight of the Fort, the rough handling they re
ceived from Martin’s men at that point some
eight or ten days ago, having inspired a most
wholesome dread of that formidable little
fortification.
During the day Saturday, on our extreme
front, there was slight skirmishing, such as
is almost inevitable, where two formidable
armies confront each other —nothing more.—
The casualties were very slight.
THE FIRING SATURDAY NIGHT.
The firing Saturday night commenced about
11 o’clock, and was continued for thirty min
utes without intermission, and with a seeming
severity, which has not been equalled at any
period since the enemy landed in this vicinity.
The booming of the guns seemed as one con
tinous roar and the roar and the roll of the
musketry could be heard distinctly. Many
of our citizens came out from their bed?, thin
king the attempt for the possession of Peters
tersburg had commenced at last, and repaired
to the surrounding hills to seo the flashes of
the guns, locate the scene of action, and spec
ulate upon results. The night was not clou
dy, but a thick haze invested the air, and all
the surroundings were propititous for convey
ing the sound directly to the city. At half
past eleven precisely, the firing ceased, and
the citizens again retired to their beds, re
solved upon rising early yesterday to ascer
tain the cause of so reckless an expenditure
of gunpowder. Before daydawn, tidings were
picketing very heavily, and so were the ene
my. Upon our attempting to relieve picket
Saturday night, the enemy construed-it into
an advance and opened fire. This roused our
boys, who joined with our pickets iu respon
ding, and the firing became as general for a
half hour as though both armies were engaged
in a struggle for the mastery. A n occasional
gun was heard during the night, but amount
ed to nothing more than such random shots
generally do.
We heard of but one casualty from the fir
ing Saturday night, although there were doubt
less several. Capt. Marshall, of Fanquier,
commanding Stribiing’s battery, was painful
ly, but not seriously wounded. A Minnie ball
struck him in the mouth, carrying away two
or three teeth, and liberating the flesh. He
has been removed to the residence of Alexan
der Donnan, Esq , and was as comfortable
yesterday as circumstances would permit.
yesterday’s operations.
There were several heavy guns heard yes
terday. During the morning, we learn that
there was much skirmishing, but the particu
lars have not reached us. No decisive results
were attained, as none were expected. Dur
ing the past two or three days, there is no de
nying the fact, that we have at least gained
very important positions, which, in war, are
sometimes as desirable a3 the winning of a
battle, as when the battle does come off, the
position contributes very largely in aiding the
victor. However, what the desirable posi
tions are worth, will be more fully developed
in a few days.
CAPTURE OF A PICKET PO3T,
At an early hour Saturday morning, we
succeeded in capturing a picket post of the
enemy’s, and gathered up twenty * three blue
bellies, all of whom, were duly forwarded to
Petersburg. They now ““miscegenate” with
their brethren at the McEnery prison on Wash
ington street.
THE LIGHTING FRIDAY.
We regret to state that from misinformation,
and from the fact that we were unable to reach
sources where correct information would most like
ly have been furnished us, we entirely omitted to
mention a portion of the troops engaged in tbo
gallant fighting of Friday. We have since learned
that the hardest fighting on that day was done by
the 17th and 18th South Carolina Regiments, in
the vicinity of Ware Bottom Church, a locality
widely and familiarly known in Petersburg. These
gallant regiments, led by their noblo Brigadier
General S. W. Walker, in the face of a terrific fire,
charged the formidable fortifications of the enemy,
and carried them at the point of the bayonet. In
this charge we regret to hear that General Wa'ker
was captured by the enemy and is now a prisoner
in their hands. Unfamiliar with the ground, and
fired by apatriotie zeal, he kept ahead of his troops,
and thus unthinkingly got into the enemy’s lines.
This is the general belief in the army, and it is
strengthened by a circumstance which occurred
soon after we occupied the entrenchments, for
which so fierce a struggle had been waged. A few
minutes after we took possession a loud cheer was
heard in the Yankee camp, and the supposition is,
that it was over the capture of Gen. Walker. We
trust that he was captured uninjured. Gen. Wal
ker is represented to us as being every inch the
soldier. He is a graduate of West Point, was in
the old army, and better than all, is a warm hear
ted devout Christian, as well as a true patriot.—
His brigade is the same formerly commanded by
Gen. Evans, of Leesburg fame.
butler’s dtjplicitt.
Among the sufferers by the robbery and thieving
of tho enemy during their recent advance, is Mr.
0. P. Copeland, a portrait painter of considerable
merit, who occupies the neat cottage building to
the left of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad
two miles from Port Walthall Junction, and the
same distance from Chester. Butler visited the
house, accompanied by a body guard of eight
hundred negro cavalry, and spent nearly the
whole of one day on the prtmises. He informed
Mr. and Mr3. Copeland that a battle was almost
inevitable in that particular locality, and that if
they remained, their lives would be in great peril.
From considerations of humanity alone, he felt
constrained to send them to the rear, but they were
assured that their property should be protected.—
The Boast had the duplicity to add to Mrs Cope
laud, ‘"General Butler, Madam, is a man of his
word—his pledge is his bond, and whatever he
says, you may rely upon.” With this assurance,
Mr. and Mrs. Copeland left their homes and their
all, to the care of the robbers. Under ordinary
circumstances, they would not have been surprised,
but after the solemn assurances of Butler, they
were astounded upon returning, to find that the
building had been ransacked and plundered, and
they despoiled of every valuable they possessed.—
Even a canvass, on which Mr. Copeland had pain
ted the portrait of a lovely child for an emintnt
Brunswick physician, was appropriated by the
vandals, and used as a stretcher to bear from the
field the body of some miserable Yankee dog in
human form. Mrs. Copeland’s wedding riug was
stolen from a trunk, and every imaginable article
of any value carried off. Upon ascertaining her
losses, and bow grossly the solemn promises of
Butler had been falsified, Mrs Copeland addressed
a poliic note to the Beast, reminding him of his
assurances.
This was handed to one of his Stan, who faith- j
fully promised to deliver it, and at the same time ;
added, “General Butler is a gentleman and a man j
of his word; he will fulfill to the letter every prom- !
ise; he is a man of strong feelings, but when a I
friend he is a friend indeed, as when an enemy i
he is an enemy of the most bitter kind.” Up to |
Saturday last, Mrs. Copeland had not received one ■
word of reply from the Beast, and we do not sup
pose she ever will.
CAPTURE Or LIEUT. HOWLETT.
We regret to hear that Lieut Henry 0. Howlatt. ,
of the sth Va. Cavalry, Captain Pannill's Compa
ny, who was wounded some time since in a cavalry
fight near Brandy Station, and was at home on fur
lough. was captured by the enemy a few days since
at the house of arciative in Chesterfield. We have
not heard the particulars of his capture, but pre
sume that the enemy received information of his
whereabouts through negroes, and that he was
surrounded and surprised. Ke was engaged in the
coal business in this city for many years, and was
widely known among our people.
THE SITUATION.
Our forcts now occupy a line some three er four
miles east >f the railroad having forced the ene
my east of Turkey Bend on James River. Our
right rests on the Appomattox and our left on the
James. The enemy will soon be compelled to
abandon the Bermuda Hundred? Ne . i-c altogether,
as there is now scarcely room for him to e\en bi
vouac an army on the contracted space ieft to a,in.
Every day his situation grows more and more pre
carious.
Yankee Accounts from Arkan
sas.
The following news from Arkansas is tele
graphed by way of St. Louis :
The expedition of Gen. Steele toward
Shreveport has ended with his return, under
rather exciting circumstances to Little Rock.
Gen. Steele left Little Rock with some
12,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, the latter
under Gen. Carr. Arkadelphia was occupied
without difficulty, and a force moved forward
to Camden.
Between Arkadelphia and Camden a sub
sistence train of 180 wagons was cut off and
captured by the enemy, together with the es
cort of 480 men, who suddenly found them
selves in the hands of a superior force, and
made little resistance.
At Camden, Steele soon found the rebels,
about 8,000 strong, cavalry in his rear, and
240 wagons, dispatched from Camden toward
Pine Bluff for stores, with an escort of 1,600
men, were captured by the enemy.
The steamer Alamo, with twenty tuns of
ammunition for Steele and hi3 army, was sunk
40 miles below Little Rock, on coming in col
lision with another steamer. The pilot who
had charge of the boat was put under arre3t
on suspicion of treachery, but subsequently
was released. Steele could find no stores to
subsist his troops on, and had to reduce their
allowance to quarter rations.
Gen. Price undertook to retain Gen. Steele
at Camden, while Gen. Marmaduke set off for
Little Rock. Steele, for the safety of the cap
ital of Arkansas, with its Union population
and millions of dollars’ worth of Union stores,
and for the rescue of his army, broke through
the lines of Gen. Price, and set out to get to
Little Rock in time to save it from Marma
duke, who was also making every exertion to
reach and bag the proposed game.
Marmaduke approached Little Rock, throw
ing shells into the city on the afternoon of the
Ist instant. Shortly afterward Carr’s cavalry
came up, and these joining the troops at the
po3t, compelled Marmaduke to relinquish his
undertaking, made little resistance, as
the main body of Steele’s army was rapidly
arriving.
The Arkansas legislature was in se33ion,
and probably not one of the members, if
caught, -would have been spared by the exas
perated foe
General Price s forces are still lingering in
the vicinity, stripping off the desolated coun
try anew.
The Movements in Front.
The extensive maneuvres of armies, offen
sive and defensive, in our front for the past
week, in all probability, will culminate in a
general battle at some point, selected or acci
dental, between Dallas, in Paulding county,
and Ackworth and the Chattahoochee River.
When and where this event may occur cannot
be definitely stated, even by the Commander
in-Chief of the Array of Tennessee, who con
trols the moves, at least on our side of the
struggle.
The enemy, it is said, started, with Gen.
Sherman in chief command, with eight army
corps from Ringgold, estimated at upwards of
one hundred thousand men. These army
corps are those of Logan, Palmer, Thomas,
Schofield, Howard, Harvey McPherson, and
Hooker
McPherson’s corps moved down the Cedar
Town Valley, along the main road from Rome.
The advance of his column was met beyond
Dallas by Polk’s corp3 and checked, on Tues
day afternoon, at which time a skirmish also
occurred between our troops ana a Yankee
force at Burnt Hickory, on the road running
from Dalton to Centreville. Burnt Hickory is
about eight miles to the north-east of Dallas,
and the latter is about twenty miles north
west of Marietta. Paulding county, of which
it is the county seat, is varied in surface, on
the north side being hilly, and the remainder
level land. The section of country through
which the enemy approach it is almost desti
tute of provisions, little or no crop having
been made there during the past season.
But, to the invading column of the enemy the in
convenience of subsistence will be trifling in com
parison to the inconvenience of an encounter with
the massed forces of Johnston, who, we begin to be
lieve, has determined te bring his adversary to a
trial of arms before another league of territory is
yielded.
We trunk that all uneasiness and apprehension
would be dissipated among non-combatants in the
rear if all could once appreciate the strong force
and the advantageous resources which Johnston in
his present position commands.
He has an army of over 70,000 proved and veteran
troops.
His rear line of communication is secure and his
trains safe behind thE Chattahoochee.
His strength has gathered, and that of the enemy
has materially diminished, by the retrograde.
Atlanta, his depot of supplies and of munitions of
war, almost within ear-shot of hi3 order, is safer,
from the proximity of his army, against raid or
feneral advance, than before the enemy flanked
im into his present position, and from which they
cannot now well escape him without battle.
The decks are all bleared for action, and General
Johnston is prepared to move in any direction
across the circle covering the front of Atlanta. The
city of Atlanta is not endangered. In the event of
a general battle, an effort may be made to reach it
with cavalry, but against this attempt every pre •
caution will be taken. It behooves the citizens,
therefore, to lend every assistance to the military in
the preparations for its defence, which we believe
ther will eagerly do. There can be mustered in At
lanta at any moment enough muskets to repel any
mere raid that may be brought against it, and from
any other assault it is as free from danger as when
our original lines were established at Bowling
Green, Kentucky.
Tlie Front.
We arc without any additional information of a
positive character from the front, indeed the eity
is excited with fewer rumors than usual. Parties
who left Marietta at a late hour last night, and
the vicinity of the Chattahoochee this morning,
report heavy cannonading was heard in the direc
tion of Lost Mountain and Dallas, commencing
about 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon and continu
ing until nightfall. What the nature of the en
gagement, if one took place, was, has not trans
pired in this city. It is very probable that a hard
fight occurred, or that one will take place in the
section named at an early hour, for our army is
after the advancing column of the enemy, and will,
if possible, force an encounter. The afternoon
train from Marietta will probably bring us reports
of what occurred yesterday evening.
We have some additional intelligence of the op
erations of Gen. Wheeler near Cass station, referrred
to in our morning edition. He left his camp on
the 23d, on the Etowah, and proceeded to the
rear of the Yankee army. At Cassville, on the
morning of the 24th, a large wagon train was cap
tured by the 3th Confederate regiment, and im
mediately started toward our lines. The Yankee
cavalry, a portion of Woolford’s Kentucky brig
ade, drove them from the field, and Harrison’s
Texas brigade was ordered up. The Bth Texas
charged the advancing Yankees, and forced them
to fly in confusion, and recaptured the train with
some two hundred prisoners. A number of wag
ons were burned, and over 100 were brought off
in safety. During the melee the Yankees burned
a train of cars at the depot. About the same time
Gen. Dibrell's command burned a train of 75
wagons at the depot above.
LATER AND BETTER.
An official dispatch from Marietta confirms the
cheering reports of the operations of our cavalry.
It says: -‘Wheeler captured 260 leaded wagons at
Cassville, brought off 80, and burned the rest;
whipped Woolford’s cavalry brigade; brought in
150 prisoners.
The same dispatch, which is dated last eveving,
says : “The armies are near each other. A little
skirmishing. All well.
A few of the wounded in the skirmish near
Dallas, on Tutsday evening, arrived in this city
this morning. When they left yesterday morning
our army was in line of battle near Dallas.
[Memphi* Appeal, 26 th.
Important Order. —The following appears in
the Cincinnati Commercial of the 9th :
The inhabitants in towns and villages on the
Cumberland, Upper Tennessee and Ohio rivers,
and their tributaries, will be held accountable for
any outrages committed by guerillas, or others, in
their neighborhood, and commanding officers of
gunboats are hereby instructed to shell and burn
all property where such outrage.? are allowed to
take piaee. Should any steamers be fired upon at
any place, inhabitants in the vicinity will at once
take 1 : steps for their owu protection, where such
outrages have been committed, as this order will
most certainly be enforced. All prisoners captured
as guerillas will be shot on approval of Admiral
Porter. Officers of thi3 district are enjoined to ex
ercise vigilance, discretion and courage, and if
captured by surprise or otherwise, will necessarily
have to suffer the consequences of their neglect of
duty. Lrßot Fitch, Lient. Comi’r.
Com-d’g Bth Dis’t Miss. Squadron,
gBLSffRAPHIG.
SPECIAL TO THE DAILY TIMES.
Our Victory at New Hope I
General Reynolds Doing Well*
Wheeler’s Cavalry Fight!
In the Firb, via Atlanta, May 27.—The fight of
New Hope on Wednesday was a decided victory.
There was no general engagement on Thursday.
Sharp skirmishing took place Jon Friday morn
ing on our right with ineffectual demonstrations
against the West Point Railroad.
Our loss thus far less than one thousand; that
of the enemy at least two to our one.
Gen. Reynolds, wounded in the battle of New
Hope, is in excellent condition and out of danger.
No officer of rank was killed in the fight of New
Hope between Hooker’s Corps, and Stevenson,
Hindman and Stewart.
Wheeler’s cavalry fight at Allatoona was suc
cessful.
The Federal wagon train one hundred strong
has reached our lines. R.
Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S, Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Ashland, May 27.—Our army is moving rap
idly in a line almost parallel with the route which
Grant is following.
At 12 o’clock, a heavy force of the enemy had
appeared at Hanover C. H., and were pressing our
cavalry back at that point.
Two prisoners just brought in, belonging to the
Sixth Corps, say their command received orders
yesterday to march to the White House.
Richmond, May 27.—Official information has
been received that the advance of Grant’s left
crossed the Pamunky this morning moving in this
direction.
Richmond, May 27.—The flag of truce steamer
arrived at Aiken’s Landing last night bringing 5
officers, a daughter of Gen. Lee, and dispatches
from Commissioner Ould.
Several transports with troops came up behind
the truce boat.
Atlanta, May 27.—Letters from the Press Re
porter on the field says that operations yesterday
were confined to skirmishing, the enemy feeling
our position.
Our right rests on the road from Acworth to
Dallas about 3 miles northeast from New Hope
church and extends from the latter place nearly
west.
The movements of the enemy continue to ex
extend from our right, indicating a disposition to
get nearer Etowah river and bridge.
Firing was heard early this morning but soon
died away.
Mobile, May 27.—A special to the Register
from Senatobia, 27th, says :
N. Y. Herald’s Waehington correspondent says
that Butler’s campaign up to Monday night cannot
be considered a defeat.
The rebel fortifications on the south side of the
river were immense and impregnable.
Butler’s los3 was 2500.
Medary ha3 been arrested and brought to Cin
cinnati.
A special to the New York Times says that the
sth Army Corps lost 1250 killed, and 11,070
wounded, and 1170 missing.
Stragglers from the whole army was estimated
at 12,000 on the 19th.
Chicago Times correspondent of the 17th says
that losses at Resaca foot up 600 killed, 3000
wfcunded and 400 missing.
Hooker was slightly wounded, Kilpatrick seri
ously, Manson painfully, and Willock mortally.
Kentucky provost marshals to enroll negroes
take them as substitutes.
Richmond, May 27th.—The Herald of the
24th, has been received.
Stanton’3 dispatch to Dix, of the 23d, says :
Many thousand veteran troops have been for
warded to Grant.
Upwards of 20,000 sick and wounded have
been transported from the battle-field to Wash
ington.
Over 3,000 prisoners arrived at tho prison
depot.
The army of the Potomac i3 now as fully as
strong in numbers and better equipped thap
when the campaign opened.
The preamble quotes the statement of the Mon
iteur that satisfactory explanations had been re
ceived by the French government.
Admiral Porter official dispatch states that the
vessels caught above the falis at Alexandria have
been relieved by means of tbo dam which enabled
the vessels to pass the falls.
Gold in New York 182.
The World <Sc Journal of Commerce has been
suppressed by military authorities. A reso
lution censuring the suppression, has been
introduced in tho House of Representatives.
Objections being made, the motion to
suspend the rules was rejected by twenty-five
majority.
House adopted a resolution and adjourned
until 6th of June.
Davis of Maryland, offeied a resolution,
which was unanimously adopted, asking the
President to communicate if any explanation
had been given to France bearing upon the
resolution in reference to Mexico, which unan
imously passed the House on the 4th April.
Meade’s Battle Order.
The following is the battle order of the Federal
commander in the field, previous to the late battles
in Virginia: i
Headq’rs Army of the Potomac, May 4,1864. —
Soldiers —Again you are called upon to advance up
on the enemies of your country. The time and oc
casion are deemed opportune by your commanding
general to address you a few words of confidence
and caution. Y'ou have been re-organized, strength
ened and fully equipped iu every respect. You
form part of several armies of your country, the
whole under the direction of an able and distin
guished General, who enjoy3 the confidence of the
Government, the people and the army. Your
movement being in co-operation with others is of
the utmost importance. No effort will be left un
spared to make it successful.
Soldiers, the eyes of the whole country are look
ing with anxious hope ;o the blow you are about to
strike in the mo3t 3acred cause that ever called men
to arms, iijsmember your homes, your wives, and
your children, and bear in mind that the sooner
you will return to enjoy the benefits and blessings of
peace. Beat with patiencelthe hardships and sacri
fices you will be called on to endure, and have con
fidence in your officers and in each other.
Keep your ranks on the march and on the battle
field, 'and let each man earnestly implore Gad’s
blessing, and endeavor by his thoughts and actions
to render himself worthy of the favor he 3eeks ;
and, with clear consciences and strong arms, actu
ated by a high sense of duty in fighting to preserve
the government and institutions handed down to us
by our forefathers, and true to ourselves, victory,
under God’s blessing, must and will attend our ef
forts.
George E. Meade,
Major Gen. Cbmd'g.
3, Wiuiams, A- A* G*
The w ife and daughters of the distinguished
Chieftain. Gen. R. E. Lee, by their individual
labor and persevering industry, furnished Po
spv’s (now Harris’) brigade with 19(1 pairs of
souk? for the winter just ending. We know
not how far their liberality and untiring ex
ertions fcave gone to supply the wants of needy
soldiers belonging to other regiments and
brigades, but the above is a correct statement
of the number of socks given as a private do
nation to Horns' brigade — San. R,°p.
CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR
Consignees Per M. k G. R. R—Maj Allen, Capt
Cbthran, Roberts k Cos, F W Gibson, J H Butt,
Powell, F k Cos. R W k B Monroe, J W Churchill.
Spencer <fe Abbott, C C Johnson, G Woodruff & Cos,
Eagle Factory, T C Johnson.
A War Picture. —The following graphic war
picture was drawn by a New York divine in 1858
—that year so remarkable on this continent for
the deep religious sentiment that pervaded all
classes and sections. How applicable to, and pro
phetic of, the present 3tate of things in America.
After alluding to the mitigating circumstances of
war among civilized nations, the writer goes or to
say :
“Yet, hew terrible with all these softenings of
its grimness, and spite of all these abatements is
war, even in our own more favored age. Think
of its carnage not only, but of the bereaved homes
where the dead are long missed and bitteriy
mourned. Think of the trade, study and business
broken up ; the wealth squandered ; the maimed
in limb, and the broken in health, who lost in its
exposures and campaigns, a strength and whole
ness which were never to return; of the trodden
harvest field, and the burned village, and the land
dispeopled and desolate. Think of the profligacy,
lawlessness, riot and profanity, that walk in the
train of battle, and that linger long after the re
turn of peace. Think of the alarms, and wander
ings, and severances inflicted upon the families
which found their homes to lie in the track of in
vasion, and who were scattered like a brood of
frightened partridges from the hovering of the
hawk—to hide themselves where they could and as
they best might. And thus dealt upon in its de-
tails, war even in its lightest and most harmless
shape, is no small evil. Make all property liable
to confiscation, and every age and every sex the
common prey of massacre. And suppose such a
war let loose upon some community whom modern
civilization and long peace had made careless and
defenceless, destitute of arms and unapt to use
them if possessed. How horrible would be the
rush of blood, and rapine and fire, over a people
and a land thus grown unused to the conflict, and
standii g like ripe grain in thickest swath to meet
the keen scythe of the terrible mower, Death, as
it took its widest swing. The land would be like
Eden before the Invader, and like the burning
cities of the plain behind his fiery march. You
would be reminded of the boast of the old barba
rian chief, that the sod dinted by the hoof of his
steed, never grew green again.”
Delightful Weather. —Since the late season
able rain, the weather has been most pleasant.—
The ardent rays of old Sol have been tempered
bygrefreshing and healthful breezes, and occasion
ally fSe dark blue of heaven’s cerulean vault has
been obsessed byAhe silver lining of intervening
clouds. If our national sky wa3 only irradiatod
by such cheerful gleams, and grim-visaged war
would once more smooth his wrinkled front, we
should again feel disposed to take happiness by
the hand, and commingle our smiles with those of
Nature.
Sound on the. Ladies.— ls the Columbus ladies
were in need of a champion other than those now
illustrating their fealty upon the bloody battle
fields of the republic, we know of none we could
more conscientiously recommend than that name
less, mysterious, and exceedingly susceptible Lo
cal of the Sun, who spasmodically goes off ever
now and then into the most ecstatic “squisms,”
the sublimest apostrophes, the profoundest excla
mations, the intensest agonies, and the most bril
liant perorations in laudation of the sex. Verily,
our ladies are most fortunate in finding such an
ardent devotee in our midst, and need never fear
a failure of reaching ultimately the giddy heights
of fame. Now let none of the fair sex say that we
are merely envious because we can’t talk so pretty.
Quite a mistake. All know we make no attempts
at flattery. But, sympathetically speaking, we
can think of no remedy for the multiform ailments
of said Local but to get married. That’ll knock
the sycophant and romance out of him quick.
M ore Sick Soldiers. —Eight car loads of sick
and wounded soldiers reached this city Thursday
night by special train and have been apportioned
to the various hospitals.
Bold Achievement by a Boy. —The Brandon
Republican states that Henry F. Hodges, a boy
not yet eighteen years of age, joined Capt. W. P.
Maxey’s company of cavalry a few weeks since,
but being a poor boy, he was unable to procure a
horse and get ready by the time the company
started. His captain gave him a furlough for a
few days, when he determined to capture a horse
from the enemy, and started for the Big Black.—
He got a negro to take him across the river in a
skiff, where he concealed himse f until Un opportu
nity offered when he mounted a fine Yankee horse
swam him across the river, and made his way into
our linos. That boy will make a soldier.
[Correspondence of the Atlanta Confederacy.]
Atlanta, Wednesday, May 25.
Everything is very quiet along the line in
front, and your correspondent has sought the
gay metropolis for a bit of recreation.
Gay, did. I say? Pardon me, I would scarce
recognize its changed, tumultuous aspect.
The sunny side of Whitehall, which erst did
glisten with stars and bars, and petticoats,
seems to be in a paripatetic condition, block
aded with guards and jammed with bales and
boxes of merchandize. Surely you are not
expecting a visit from Sherman, or any other
distinguished foreigner? Why, I found half
a dozen ladies of my acquaintance packing
their preserves in bandboxes and their bon
nets in butter kegs, out of downright confus
ion, they said; four old gentlemen locked
themselves in their patent safes, (for safe
keeping, I suppose,) where they will have to
be dug out with pike and mattock, as they
drew the keys and keyholes i» after them;
and even one of my canine friends, partaking
of the general disquiet, and having perused
the ferocious proclamation of Marshal Jones,
had found a dry well and wa3 stocking it with
provisions for a siege, when I assured him with
tears in my eyes that there is not the least dan
ger in the'world ! Odds, tremors and quakes,
are ye going insane ?
But let’s be serious, I frankly confess my
surprise. To a cool, unagitated mind the
scenes transpiring from hour to hour in the
streets of Atlanta are very diverting. Why
what a panic you have wrought here in this
vestibule of the Empire State. I have passed
the morning upon Whitehall street watching
the ebb and flow of popular feeling and taking
notes upon the versatile physiognomy of the
town. It is magical, the change. Bur. two
weeks ore gone, and confidence stood like a
pillar of fire before every shop and at every
corner: now the very signs are creepiug in
doors and the street crossings disclose the
most eager multitudes of tradesmen, dealing
exclusively in rumors, speculations upon re
ports, extortioners of mischief out of each idle
story that flies on the great, national, anti
galvanic. non-eonnuctive grape: in? battery!
The operators thereof, to my thinking, would
find a deal better work behind a dozen batte
ries of a different description that I know of,
and as for those who betray so much simplic
ity as to believe all they hear, they would be
happier, and just as healthy, at the Yont!
Aye. the front! It is not sued a very ugiy
place as you might suppose. There the lads
are as cheerful as crickets and sing along from
morning until night, even though they be riv
alled by the shells. The front is i jolly place,
and cooler than Atlanta. Come lei us seek its
shades of green, its pleasant nooks and coves!
its river views, its drums and fifes and flags,
The blue sky above us. the blue coats before
us, around us the blue fields of grass and grain,
we have only to prime our piece and prove
ourself one, two or three, of an hundred thou
sand patriots. Listen! Do you not hear the
shrill whistle of the iron horse ? He scenteth
the battle from afar and 3nort«th for the fray.
But hark, there is another sound ! It ia the
cheer of the troops who are going to the front.
They too are eager for the fight. Will you
join them? Will you step forth from your
very shrine to a field which is to decide whether
it shall be yours forever or that of an alien
master ? To the front, to the front! At least
to the trenches with musket, with bayonet,
with conscious right and resolution! We shall
carry the day, never fear it. We shall whip
back the foe. There is a handfull of us who
have undertaken the job, and we are bound to
finish it. General Johnston says so, and also
that inner spirit which prompts men to do
defy and dare. Hurrah for the front! Hurrah
for the line, be it Etowah or Chattahoochee 1
And three times three hurrahs for the victory
we are going to win ! We shall make the old
dry woodlands ring with rifle and cannon and
we shall strew the sands with Yankee bones.
Os all the races since John Gilpin, not except
ing the “Camp Town Races,” the race back to
Middle Tennessee will be the hottest, the
speediest, aye, and the bloodiest!
WAVERLY.
OBITUARY.
Died, at Atlanta, Ga., on the 17th inst., Captain
WALKER ANDERSON, A. A. A, G.. Tucker’s
Brigade, Army of Tennessee, of wounds received in
the battle of Resaca, on the 15th instant, aged 27
years.
Among the thousands who have offered up their
lives on the altar of their country, no truer patriot,
or more gallant officer, can be found than tne sub
ject of the above notice.
One of the first to fly to arms at the call of his
country, he assisted at the capture of the Forts at
Pensacola, in January, 1861. While at Pensacola,
he participated in the night attack on Santa Bosa
Island, and when our troops were driven off by the
enemy he was the last rt an to leave the island, hav
ing waded out to the last boat that left.
At the battles of Shiloh and Farmington, he dis
tinguished himself by his gallantry. Accompany
ing the army on the Kentucky campaign, he again
won the admiration of all who saw him, in the
j bloody fight of Perryville. His company, being
nearly all killed, was consolidated, and his services
being highly appreciated by his commanding offi
cers, he was assigned to staff duties, on the staff of
Brig. Gen. Patten Anderson.
At the battles of Murfreesboro, Missionary Ridge,
and Resaca, he was, as usual, distinguished by his
coql courage and zeal in the discharge of his duty.
Mortally wounded in the last, he cheerfully laid
down his life in his country’s cause.
Capt, Anderson’s gallantry was the least of his
virtues. Intimately associated with him for the last
two years, the writer can bear testimony to his
moral werth.
His uniform consistency in all that distinguishes
the Christian gentleman won for him the admiration
and respect of all who came in contact with him.—
His superiors trusted and relied upon him, his in
feriors respected and obeyed.
Exposed to all the temptations of a camp, at
times sorely tried by circumstances calculated to
test his temper and patience to its fullest extent, he
suffered nothing to tempt him to waver for one mo
ment from his usual calm course.
So remarkable %nd striking were Capt. Ander
son’s characteristics, that they attracted the atten
tion of every one, even the most irreligious, and I
have frequently heard the remark made, “Wal
ker Anderson is the most consistent Christian that
I ever saw."
It may be truly said of him that he was "sans
peur et sans, reproche .” C. T.
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos
FOII $5 BILLS AT PAR.
ON TUESDAY 31st of May, at 10 o’clock, we will
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Mil UIUIM 01 (MOM!
Nos. 73 ; 74, 75 and 76, lately owned by
John Wool folk’s estate; situated North
of the Cemetery and in the neighborhood
of Messrs. Cowdery and Win. Redd, being
very desirable building Lots.
—also—
-76 SACKS SALT;
1 FINE MELODEON:
16 BOXES GOOD TOBACCO ,
Blacking, Matches, Sugar, Window
Curtains, Carpeting, Shoes, Hats, Cloth
ing &c., &c.
my 2Std S2O
FOR SALE!
A FINE COW and CALF,
ix Apply to Capt. T. MORENO.
my 23 It*
RICE! RICE!!
'T'WELVE CASKS, just received from Savannah,
A a superior article.
For sale by GREENWOOD & GRAY.
my 27 lw
STRAYED
FROM the subscriber, on the 22d inst., a BAY
HORSE, a little under medium heighth, com
pactly made, short neck, rather heavy mane and
tail, has some appearance of descent from Canadian
stock, rides very well and was in fine order and
keeping. Any information of him will be thank
fully received and payment made for expense and
trouble incurred. GEO. STEWART,
my 26 4t* Union Springs, Ala.
TIOT OF TtLTOBLERS !
TUST RECEIVED and for sale at Wholesale and
** Retail.
my 27 6t H. FISCHACHER.
WANTED !
FIVE NEGRO FELLOWS, to chop wood on the
Mobile & Girard Road, for which liberal hire
will be paid by the month or day.
Apply to W. C, GRAY,
my 26 2w at Greenwood Sc Gray’s.
NOTICE!
TATHILE absent from the city, no person is author
n ized to transact any business for our firm, or for
us individually. WARNOCK <fc CO.
my 26 4t
Notice.
OFFICE CHIEF Q. M. i
Columbus, Ga., May 24, ’64. >
I am instructed by the Quartermaster General to
assist in the purchase of Grain, and other supplies,
for the armies of Virginia and Tennessee. Both
armies aro beseiged by the enemy and mutt be sus
tained. The Planters of the country, who have
been unmolested by the ravages of the enemy, can
easily feed our armies, and I call on them, in tha
name of all that is sacred, to sell to my co-workera
and agents their produce without delay.
I also beseech manufacturers, mechanics, mer
chants, and all to sell what supplies may be needed
for Government use.
I have no money to pay for the articles needed,
for the reason that all the officers, clerk3 and em
ployees of the different Bureaus, at Richmond, are
in the army assisting in driving the foe from our
soil. I telegraphed for money and received the fol
lowing patriotic dispatch from the Quartermaster
General:
“We have had no mail from the South for two
weeks. Officers and Employees of the Department
nearly all in the field, and it is therefore impossible
to send money at present. No loyal citizen can re
fuse to sell you supplies for the soldiers at a moment
like this. Give certificate of indebtedness.”
F. W. DILLARD,
Major & Q. M.
and Enquirer copy one week. my2s
Notice,
OFFICE CHIEF Q. M. t
Columbus, Ga,, May 24, ’64. /
Major John E. Davis is relieved from the duties
of the Post, and will be assigned to the Pay De
partment.
Major Dillard will act as Post Q. M.. till further
QOtlCe ' F. W. DILLARD,
Major & Q. M_-
4S~Sun and Enquirer copy one wtek. my2s
NILE STOLEN.
I PROM the subscriber’s lot, on the sth ins?., one
! large Bay Horse ML LE, about ten years o.d.
No marks recollected. Any information
him will be liberally rewarded. Address
scriber at LaGracge, Ga.
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' Office Mobile A Girard R- B-l
Cblurabus, Ga., May •*th, 64. f
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
Company, will be held at the Office, Girard. Ala.
„ Wrfjlslv. *b of Juiyr.ext. at U o'clock
when the election, for President and Di actors win
take place. _
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