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COLUMBUS TIMES
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No subscription received for a longer term than
three month*.
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each insertion.
Where advertisements aro inserted a month, the
charge will be S3O per square.
Announcing candidates S2O, which most invariably
paid in advance.
Change ot Schedule.
AN and after Sunday, March 20th. the Trains on
V/the Muscogee Itailroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus » -.6 15 P. M.
Arrive at Macon - -‘2 A. M.
Leave Macon..... .J 3o P. M.
Arrive at Columbus 5 00 A. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN:
Leave Columbus _5 30 A. M.
at Columbus 4 35 p. jq
, „ W.L. CLARK,
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
Medical Card.
UK. E. ATROSSY.
i'ORMERLY Surgeon to the New Orleans “Fe
-1 male Infirmary,” tenders his services to the Cit
izens of Columbus m airthe branches of his profes
sion.
Special attention will bo devoted*totho treatment
of tno diseases of womern.
Surgical operations performed for
Fistula in Ann, Vision- Vaginal fistula,
Hydrocele, Congenita! and Accidental Phymosis,
Varicocele, Haemorrhoids or Piles, Callous Impas
> sable strictures, False Passages, Tallapes or Club
Foot, and contraction of the fingers, Strabismus or
Squinting, Aneurism, Varix or dilated veins, Ptery -
glum, Cataract and Hair Lip; also for the remov
al of all tumors or abnormal growths from any part
of the body. .... „ .
Diseases of thsj(Jenito-Urinary System, comprsmg
the different stages of Ghonorrhcea, Strictures,
Gravel, Spermatorrhea, Syphilis, in its primary
' secondary, tertiary and heriditary forms,will receive
particular attention. ... ;.
References given whenever desired as well as the
recommendation of many years practice iu New Or
leans- Cousultation hours every day at his office
in the Masonic Hall Building, from ltt to 12 o’clock
.. in and from 2to 4 o’clock p, m. Patients willdo
well to call precisely at those hours, as before and
after that time will be devoted to visiting personsm
the city.
Add,™ all & a. R O SS Y .
Columbus. Ga,
• B.—Persons from a distance having servants
reuu ring surgical or medical treatment, will be
provi ed with comfortable quarters, but in allleases
will have to furnish their own provisions and bed
ding.
Jftf-Iwill also bestow particular attention to
the treatment of the different forms of Ulcers, Rheu
matism. Gout. Scrofulous affections, Syphilitic erup
tions, and all other chronic diseases of the skin. —
Medicated Fumigations and Steam Sulphurous
, Baths as employed in the hospitals in Europe and
America, witl form a part of iny treatment.
tel.) ; 1 tin E. A. R.
“ Notice to Planters and Con
sumers of Iron.’*
l\TE<will keep for sale, for Confederate funds, or
VY exchange for country produce—such as Corn,
Fodder, Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Peas, Potatoes, Tal
low, Butter, Wheat or Flour—the following articles,
on hand or made to order:
PLOW AND SCOOTER BAR IRON;
FLAT, HOUND AND SQUARE BAR IRON;
HOOP, HORSE SHOE, NAIL ROD;
IRON COTTON TIES (CHEAPER THAN
ROPE) FOR BALING;
SHOVELS AND SPADES ;
FRY PANS;
POT WARE OF SEVERAL DESCRIP
TIONS ;
SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES-—FROM 40
TO 100 GALLONS;
SUGAR MILLS—I3 AND 15 INCH,
We are prepared to recoive and fill orders for any
sizes and quantity of Iron, from our Iron Works
and Rolling Mill in Alabama.
'JOHN D. GRAY Sc CO.,
apr 3 ts Next to New Bridge.
IVotice to Planters.
I am authorized by the Government
TO EXCHANGE
Sheetings, Cotton Yarns,
SUGAR AND OSNABURGS FOR
Bacon Sid.es,
UAIS AID SHOULDERS,
for supplying the Army.
JNO. J. McKfItfDREE,
' apl 18 2m Agent.
FRICTION JIATBCES!
'l'llK Columbus, Ga., Friction Match Company,
1 have again resumed operations, and will, in a
few days, be prepared to supply them in quantity.—
They also make a superior article of Blacking, which
can be supplied in quantity.
Dealers and others wishing to purchase, can ap
ply to Messrs. Livingston & Cos., or Messrs. Hull &
Duck, who will be kept constantly supplied.
S. D. THOM &CO.,
Manufacturers.
N. B.—lt ha ving cost me about $5,000 in the past
eighteen mouths, above receipts, to learn how to
make good matches, tho public can now rely on get
ting a superior article. S. D. THOM.
Columbus, May 14,1864 dtf
Notice !
WANTED at the C. S. Arsenal, Columbus, Ga.,
Leather and Hides,'
in large or small quantities, for which tho market .
price will be paid. Parties shipping such to tho un- ( (
dersigned will be insured again*! seizure by officers
or agents of other branches of the Government.
F. C. HUMPHREYS,
may 11 ts Mai. Corndg. Arsenal.
‘ STOVE MOULDERS.”
TWO Stove Moulders can get employment a:
good wages, by application to
‘ HARRISON, BEDELL & CO.
Columbus, Ga.
Augusta Constitutionalist, and Mississippian,
cojy one month and send bills to this office,
may 6 1m
Notice.
lam desirous of establishing a Library for the
use of the Lee Hospital. Contributions of books,
magazines. Ac., are respectfully solicited.
W. N. ROBERTSON,
• Surgeon in Charge,
may IT ts Bee Hospital.
C. S. ARSENAL, , \
Columbus, Ga.. April 5, 1864.)
Notile.
I WISH TO EXCHANGE FOR BACON
on equitable terms,
Sugar Hills,
Sugar and Salt Kettles,
And all binds PLANTATION IRON;
Also POWDER.
\s this Bacon is needed to supply the necessities
of the employees of the Ordnance Department, at
this place and Riciiuioiid, it is hoped that holders
wil give the Government the p^{fsf£g* REYSt
apl 7 ts Maj. Comd’g Arsenal.
Shoemakers 7 and Saddlers’
TOOLS.
r PHE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
1 manufacture of the above named articles in this
city, are prepared to till orders for the same.
Office on Angle street, a few doors above C. S.
Hospital. KARRISON.tBEDELL & CO.
Reference —Maj. F. W. Dillard.
Mobile Register. Mississippian and Augusta Con
stitutionalist, v-lease copy one month and send bills
to this office,
mar 30 ts
City Tax Payers,
lAM instructed by Council to close the book.* foi
receiving 1 CITY*TAX RETURNS, on the Ist da,
of July next. Ail parties not making returns b>
that day will be doubled taxed. -
-Obs My office will continue to be at tne -toie o
H. Middlebrooks, on Broad \£OORE
may 19 2w Clerk.
Notice.
MRS. MAifY H. BEN KING is my duly author
ized Agent for the transaction and settlement
of all business concerning the estate of Col, Seaborn
Jones, deceased.
„ . , „ SEABORN J. BENNING,
Columbus. May 9,4664, lur Adid'r,
±2. ' f •
Vol. XI.
J. W. WARREY & CO. Proprietor 1. J. W. WAHHKV 1,!,, Z
CATALOGUE SALE
OF
iipr mim, «, a,
-A-T A/craarioasr.
RY BELL & CHRISTIAN.
On TUESDAY, 21st day of June next,
at 11 o’clock, in front of our store, Sa
vannah, Ga.,
The following invoices— *
2 puncheons Genuine Holland Gin, 105 gals each
1 do Pure Bourborn'Whiskey, 110 gale.
10 cases Pure Jamaica Rum, 100 gallons each
14 bbls do Bourbon Whiskey, 40 do do
16 chests Preston’s fine Scotch Whiskey
25 cases London Dock Gin
75 boxes do do Port Wine
1 bbl Scotch Whiskey
1 bbl, 4 dozen, Old Rye "Whiskey
10 doz Duff Gordon's Old Brown Sherry
20 doz Superior Old Rye Whiskey
5 bbls do do do
2 bbls Jamaica Rum
20 cases Holland Gin
10 cases Cognac Brandy
1 bbl Holland Gin,
2 bbls Cognac Bralidy
30 bbls Machinery Oil
50 pieces Alex Collie’s Mourning Prints
40 do do do Dark Ground Prints
2 cases Bleached Long Cloth
20 cases Blue Mottled Soap
10 boxes Chemical Works Soap
20 boxes English do
323 yards Bunting
46 pairs Iron Clad Shoes
30 pairs Misses’ Gaiters
2 boxes Borax
Half-bbl Washing Soda
25 doz Fine Tooth Combs
10 kegs Bi Carbonate Soda
3 boxes London Double Crown Yellow Soap, 106
pounds each
8 boxes White Cocoa Nut Soap
22 boxes London bright Yellow Soap
4 pieces seal skin coating 82 yards.
4 pieces Double Width Grey Cloth.
Terms —ln New Currency or it3 equivalent, or
approved endorsed notes at 60 days with interest
Catalogues will be ready by the 15th of June
next. may 28-til 18th june
CARGO SALE.
BY
JAHES H. TAYLOR.
On Wednesday, June 15th. *
COMMENCING at 9 o’clock, will he sold in my
store, corner of Broad and Campbell streets,
Augusta, Ga., a desirable assortment of Goods im
ported in steamer Hansa and other vessels, consis
ting in part of—
-10 cases—Foolscap Paper;
Letter Paper, Ruled;
Note Paper Ruled;
Buff, Cream and White Envelopes ;
Large Yellow Wove Post Paper ;
Thin Cream Laid Post Paper.
50 cases—Light Fancy Prints;
Dark Fancy Prints;
Madder Fast Color Prints;
Black and White Prints ;
Chintz and Shirting Prints :
Purple and Lavender Prints.
5 eases—Earlston Ginghams ;
Solid Checked Ginghams ;
Plain and Fancy Ginghams.
21 cases—36 in. Bleached Shirting:
Fine Cambric Shirting;
33 inch Long Cloth ;
i 40 inch Pillow Case Cotton.
1 case—Printed French Lustres.
j
8 cases—lrish Linen Fronting;
100 inch Linen Sheeting:
Inch Shirting, Linen.
6 eases —Organdie Muslins:
Fancy Printed Muslins;
Black and White Muslins;
1 case —Expansion Skirts.
10 cases —Madder Square Handkerchiefs:
Medium Madder Handkerchiefs;
Cochineal Handkerchiefs :
Printed Turkey Red Handkerchiefs;
Cambric Handkerchiefs.
5 cases—Ladies' white Cotton Hose;
Mens’ Half Hose.
• *
2 cases—Black Alpacas.
1 case—Crepe Moietie ;
1 case—6-4 Fancy Cassimeres: #
3 Bales —Red Flannel:
Magenta aud Plaid Flai nel.
2 cases—Union Stripes.
10 cases—Best Sewing Needles :
Hair Pins, Crochet Needles;
Spool Cotton, Pen Holders.
2 cases —English Pins.
4 cases—Bone Buttons ;
Looking Glasses.
5 cases —Pocket Knives:
Table Cutlery;
Shoe Hammers, Piaeers, Ac.
1000 pair—Leaf Cotton Cards.
40 eases—Straw Hats ;
Super White Felt Hats:
Youths’ Hats and Caps ;
Wool Hats, super.
4 barrfts—Best Writing Ink :
20 kegs—Bi-Carbonate Soda :
50 eases—Super Brandy :
25 cases “Old Tom” Gin .
10 cases—Sparkling Champagne:
25 cases —Aie and Porter :
3 barrels-Whiskey :
30 bags—Sifted Black Pepper :
5 chests —Oolong Tea;
5 bags —Rio Coffee;
5 bags-Prepared Chicory ;
40 cases-Assorted Drugs: _
5 kegs-810 lb. nett Cream Tartar, warranted
. pure ;
IS kegs-112 lb. each, Eug, Epsom Saits, asst'd :
25 drums-1000 lb. Bals. Copaiva. strictly pure
It) cases-Ladies aud Mens’ Shoes ;
10 doz.—Patent Leather.
ALSO,
50 bales—4-4 Brown Sheetings
7-S I 'vn Sheetings:
7-8 v u Drillings.
B
Conditions, cash' delivery,
may 23-lfit JAMES H. TAYLOR.
Columbus, Ga., Saturday Morning, June 4,.1864.
Friday Evening.
For City Sexton,
R. T. SIMONS is a candidate for the office of
: City Sexton. Election Saturday next, June 4th.
may 30tde
To tlic Planters!
The demand on this Section from the Army for
Corn is pressing and heavy. Our stock on hand is
nearly exhausted.
I earnestly beg every planter to deliver at his
nearest depot, on Rail Road or River, fifty to five
hundred bushels of Shelled Corn, to be consigned to
me within the next ten days; of which notify me. —
Sacks will be torwarded or delivered as ordered.
I know the great press upon Planters at this sea
son in cultivating crops, but the urgent necessity of
our army, at this time, makes the above request
necessary.
I trust every planter will respond promptly, to his
utmost ability.
A. M. ALLEN.
Maj. and C. S.
may 315 t
List of Casualties in the iith Georgia.
FROM THE 9th TO THB 21ST OF MAY.
Col. C. H. Way, commanding. *
Cos A. Capt J W Brantley.—Killed, none.—
Wounded—Privates C M New3om, in shoul
der; Solomon Baker, in knee, slightly. Miss
ing-Privates J R Hodge, J B Morrison, Green
Payne, F M Lawson. £
Cos B, Capt G W Moody.—Killed, none.
Wounded—Privates DW Summeral, in shoul
der, slightly ; Isaac Moody, iu arm, severe ;
Jacob Carter, arm broken, severely.; Missing
—Privates G W Dyal, M Hughes.
Cos C, Capt F M Brantley—Killed, none.
Wounded—Privates J Veal, leg, severely ; J
F Simmons, hand, slightly ; W Gleason, hip,
dangerously ; Dan Lewis, cheek, slightly.
Cos. D, Capt. Miller commanding.—Killed, none.
Wounded, none.
Cos. E, Jlapt. H. M. Talley, comd’g.—Killed
none. Wounded—lst Lt J H Griffin, in shoulder,
dangerously; Corp J H Stevens, in hand, severely,
(since amputated); Privates V Nix, in hip, dan
gerously ; E Rooks, in hand, slightly.
Cos. F, Capt J W Anderson, comd’g.—Killed,
none. Wounded, none. Missing Private James
Ream
Cos. G, Capt N B Roberts ooind’g.—Killed none.
Wounded, Privates J B Harroll, in right shoulder,
mortally; Chas Kirkland, in hand, slightly; Lt
G E Thomas, jn cheek, slightly. Missing, Pri
vates W S Wade, M Dunn.
Cos. H, Capt C R Russell, comd’g.—Killed none.
Wounded, Privates A Evenridge, inarm, slightly;
Albert McCants. Missing, Private Geo Stripling.
Cos. I, Capt L L Elkins, comd’g.—Killed, none.
Wounded, none. Missing, Private I J Lanier.
Cos. K, Capt R Bennett, comd’g.—Killed none.
Wounded none. Missing none.
Recapitulation—Killed, 5, wounded, 19, miss
ing, 11.
The Wilmington Journal has learned that
Gapt. J. M. Robinson, corps of engineers,
Confederate States army, has assigned
to duty between Richmond and Wilmington,
as inspector of railroad of transportation, to
assist that lino in obtaining additional mean*
of transportation, and to see that all is done
that can be done—which arrangement, we
learn, is cordially assented to by the North
Carolina roads, and it is presumed also by
those north of Wilmington.
Turkey and Russia. — The uneasiness felt
around the shores of the Black Sea has not dimin
ished. Both Russian and Turkish forces are being
assembled, and a fleet of iron-clads, supported by
13 gunboats, has been launched at Nicotaliff. An
iron-clad built in America for the Russian "Black
Sea service, has been stopped at the Dardanelles by
the Turkish authorities.
An Empty Honor. —Lincoln has directed that
certain little signal stations and fortifications
which the yankees occupy in various parts of the
hereafter known as Fort Wadsworth,
Fort Sedgwick, Fort .jHays, Fort Rice, Fort Rob
inson, etc., etc., in memory of certain Yankee
Generals, who have recently been made to bite the
dust by Confederate bullets. What a bubble 1
Attempt to Escape. —The Yankee officers
confined at Camp Oglethorpe, in this city,
says the Macon Confederate, started a tunnel
the other night by which means they hoped
to escape. They had made an excavation of
about five feet before discovered. The dirt
was concealed in blankets. This tunneling
business is getting very common among the
prisoners of both sides, but it has not been
very successful recently.
A Paris correspondent of a New York papers say
that Louis Napoleon has suppressed the publication
in French journals of the late aetion of the Federal
House of Representatives on the Monroe doctrine,
in relation to the French invasion of Mexico.
Yankee News from the St. Johxs River.—
Joseph Remmington as U. S. Marshal for the North
ern District of Florida, advertises the property of
Hon. David L Yulee, Gen Jos Finnegan, A H Cole,
Jacob Cohen, Dr D P Beatty, Frederick Clark, Jos
E Broome, Daniel Chlahan, Colonel E Timanus and
Capt Felix Livingston, in the town of Fernandina,
to be sold as sequestrated property.
Brig Gen Birney has been superceded by Brig
Gen Geo H Gordon, in the command of the District
of Florida.
How Grant’s Troops have been Slaughtered*
From various letters written from Grant’s army to
the Northern papers the reader can form some idea
of how Grant's troops have been slaughtered under
his standing order to “send the men in." The Yer
naont brigade lost Cols. Foster. Sft>ne, Lewis, and
Barry, besides any number of line officer*. Os the
4th Vermont regiment only ninety men and five
officers were left. The brigade to which the Baxter
Zouaves, of Philadelphia, belonged was almost de
, stroyed. The 93d N. Y. regiment went in 55*4strong,
and in the Wilderness fights alone was redueed to
less than 200.
Another Forrest.— Captain William H, Forrest,
a younger b:other of the General, and Captain Ferd
Rodgers, as chivalrous of Forrest, with sixty men,
: encountered about eighty of the enemy on Friday.
■ the 24th May, 13 miles of Holly Spring? Forrest
i and Rodgers killed 12 and captured ’ of the enemy
: without the loss of a man. These two daring Cap*
i tains have gone towards Memphis to destroy the
railway from Memphis to Germantown. They will
have finished their work b#ore this can reach the
Yankees.
■ [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]
Akmv Northern Virginia, )
Banks of the Chickahomiay, May 29. j
; You hare already been advised ofthemove
raent of Grant's army down the east bank of
the Pamunkey. Thi3 charge in front made
j it necessary for Gen. Lee to abandon his very
: strong position behind the North Anna, and
; to march down the south, side of the Pamun
: key. Grant had twelve hours thestartof him,
however, having taken advantage of the dark
j ness on the night of the 26th and put his
| whole army in motion. He bad the advan
tage also of a shorter and more direct read to
t Hanover Town and New Castle, the point at
! which he has thrown a considerable force
| across the river. It is not known whether his
j entire army has crossed to the south bank,
but the cavalry report two corps at least, and
j probably more, on this side; nor is it known
how far he has advanced out from the river.—
But whatever his position, or plans, or numbers
it is believed that he has been completely
checkmated by Gea. Lee's last move upon the
military chessboard. It would be obviously
improper to be more particular, but I may
venture to say that the army, including offi
cers and men. was never more satisfied with
the situation, never more resolute, and never
more confident of success.
But will Grant move against Richmond by
the route taken by McClellan ? Can lie expect,
after his experience at Spottsylvauia Court
House, to be able to cross the Chiekahominy
and carry the Works by which the capital is
defended? Prisoners say he has promised his
men that he will not require them to attack
Confederate breastworks auy more, nor will
he expect them hereafter to do any but the
most necessary work on the Sabbath. If it be
true, tHen he will find it necessary to attack
Richmond from some other point than the
Chiekahominy. What route he will take? Will
he move upon Atiee’s station, on the Virgin
ia Central railway, as some imagine ? or will
he march over the crimson fields of Mechan
icsville, Gaines’ * Mill, and Frazer’s Farm ? or
will he try to reach the James river, form a
junction with Butler, and then throw his
whole army across the Richmond and Peters
burg aud the Richmond and Danville railroad
and thus cut our communications with the
more Southern States ?
This last plah would be in accordance with the
movement by which he enveloped Vicksburg, and
destroyed all hope of succor. Butler is already
firmly fixed on the narrow neck of land at Ber
muda Hundreds, his flanks and rear protected by
the James and Appomattox rivers, and his front
by a formidable line of entrenchments. Should
Grant once succeed in forming a junction with
him, and especially in transferring his army to the
south side of the James river, he might take posi
tion behind the Appomattox, occupy Petersburg,
and cut the only two railroad lines by which our
supplies are drawn. I say he might do this—it
should be added, provided he did not have Lee and
Beauregard to codtend with. With these masters
of the art of war before him, he will find it, let us
hope, an impossible undertaking. But that he has
such scheme in his daring brain is not at all
improbable.
I rode along the lines to-day, aud found the men
resting after their many marches and hard battles.
Some were reading their well-thumbed Bibles;
some were indicting letters to the loved ones at
home, to assure them of their safety : some were
sleeping—perchance dreaming of the bloody work
still remaining to be done : others were enjoying
the music of the brigade bands, as they rehearsed
those solemn and touching airs which the grand
old masters of the art divine, in their most holy
and impassioned moods, have given to tba world;
and others again were sitting under the trees, with
their arms stacked near at hand, listening to the
Word of Life, as preached by those faithful ser
vants of God, the hardy, zealous, self-denying
chaplains of the army. As the army thus rested
—its great heart quiet, its huge arms unstrung,
its fleet feet still—l could but reflect, and wonder
as I reflected, that this vast machine, this mighty
giant, this great, unmeasured, and immeasurable
power, should be so terrible in battle, and yet so
calm and gentle and devout in the hour of peace.
It has been unusually quiet to-day; not a gun
has been fired along the lines. Nor is it probable
that there will be a battle very soon. Yesterday
evening there was a severe engagement between
portions of Hampton’s and Fitzliugh Lee’s cavalry
commands and the Federal cavalry, but I am not
informed of the details. I only know that it is re
ported that the Fifth South Carolina, Colonel Dun
novant, and the Twentieth Georgia Battalion,
Maj. Miller, a portion of the new cavalry forces
that came on recently from the South, were en
gaged, behaved very hanjisomely, and suffered
considerably. They repulsed the enemy’s cavalry
and drove them back upon Warren’s corps, which
they also attacked. It was here that they suffered
most. It is said that Major Miller was killed, with
many others, and that Colonel Dunnovant lost an
arm. Saj.t.ust.
Miscelaneous.
The captain of the captured blockade run
ner Greyhound, which reached Boston on
Thursday afternoon, escaped during the ex
citement'incident to her arrival. The ship
was surrounded by bewitsfrom the shore, and
there being little or no longboat kept, the
captured captain availed himself of the neg
lect, and got ashore, dodging hi3 captors.
Gen. Kilpatrick, in a dispatch to his family
at Buttermilk Falls, N. Y., says that although
! his wounds are slight, they will compel him
| to give up his command, and he is, therefore,
on his way home. He was wounded near
| Summerville, Ga., while leading a cavalry
: charge in the rear of Johnston's army.
The Alexandria (Va.) Journal says that
Monday afternoon fifteen officers and three
hundred men, all of them skedaddlers from
Grants army, were forwarded to Belle Plain
to be returned to their regiments. The offi
cers were marched in the rear of their men,
and some of them were handcuffed together.
The Journal adds: A aad but just «-
\ ample.” •
Here is another similar statement from a
Baltimore paper:
Last night a body of stragglers arrived here
i from Washington, to the number of six hun
dred, including seventeen officers, some of
; them having surgeons’ certificates of disabili
ty, and others slightly wounded. General
Meade has ordered the latter to be tried by
court martial. Many resignations have been
sent in within the past two days. All will
have to be accepted for the good of the ser
vice, as it is believed that no officers capable
and disposed to perform his duty at this time
would resign.
A letter from Fortress Monroe says the
steamer Dictator, from Newbern and Hatteras
Inlet, reports that a bottle was picked up off
Hatteras on the 20th. containing a record of
the loss of the steamer Manhattan at sea. She
was from Wilmington, N. C., bound to Ber
muda. A large lot of cotton was picked up
off Hatteras on the 20.
On Thursday the members of the Ladies’
■ Loyal League held their anniversary meeting
at the Church of the Puritans, at New York.
Mrs. Stanton presiding. Addresses ■Were
made by Luereiia Bott, Wendell Phillips, and
George Thompson.
General Hooker, it seems, was not wounded
in the recent battles at and near Resaca. The
sufferer was Brig. Gen. Harker.
Butler’s Medical Director puts his loss in
the great fight of Monday at jh-» thousand, ex
clusive of Beckman ? brigade, which i~ re
ported as nearly alt misting.
Ihe General Webb, killed in one of the recent
, battles in Spottsjlvania, is a son of Jas. Watson
Webb, formerly of the New York Courier and
Enquirer, and now Minister to Brasil.
$4.00 Per Month
Reports of tlie Press Association.
®?a!;s> et L a<^ or Hlnja; to act of Congress in the year
n* Thrasher, in the Clerk's office of
Latest from Virginia.
Heavy Skirmishing:!
! 9
Confederates Invariably Victorious \
| Gen. Doles of Georgia Killed
j Stork’s Farm, June 2d, via Richmond.—
Hampton fought Wilson’s Division of Yankee
Cavalry near Ashland yesterday defeating ami
pursuing them over three miles, and capturing
some 75 prisoners and 300 horses. Our loss
is estimated at 75.
The enemy during the day yesterday as
saulted our lines at various times in front of
Hetli s anj] Reed s, and in Anderson’s Corps
front, and were handsomely repulsed each
time.
About dark yesterday three divisions of the
oth Yankee Corps assaulted Hoke’s Division,
causing Clingman’s North Carolina Brigade
for a Avhile to give way, but Colquitt’s Georgia
Brigade quickly came to its assistance, recov
ering nearly all the ground lost by Clingraan.
Our loss not over 200. We captured sixty
prisoners.
Good many of our men are missing, but it
is supposed they will come in.
This morning Che enemy were found to have
abandoned the front of A. P. Hill's corps,
stretching from Atlee’s pearly around to Me
chanicsville Pike. Wilcox’s skirmishers push
ed forward and brought in about 100 priso
ners. *
This evening about 4 o’clock, Ewell flanked
the enemy Meehaniosville Pike on their
right, capturing over 500 prisoners, including
10 commissioned officers, mostly from the 2d,
9tb, 11th, 12th, and 14th Regiments of regu
lars in the sth corps, and at 7 o’clock Ewell
had taken three lines of the enemy’s breast
works.
Our loss not heavy, but among the killed
is the brave Gen. Doles, of Georgia.
—i > , ;
Stanton’s Latest Official Ga
zette.
The following is the lates* “official gazette,”
as the Y’ankee papers call it, of Secretary
Stanton:
Washington, May 22, 1:35 p. m.
To Major Gen'l Dix , New Y ork :J
Dispatohes from Major Gen. Canby, dated
at the mouth of Red river, at midnight, May
15tli, state that Admiral Porter has just ar
rived, and that the remainder of the gunboats
will arrive to-night. Gen. Banks will proba
bly reach Semmesport, on the Atohafalava,
to-morrow. A dispatch from Admiral Porter,
dated on board his flag ship, Black Hawk, at
the mouth of Red river, May 16th,. states that
the portion of the squadron above the fall, at.
Alexandria have been released from their un
pleasant position, owing to the indefatigable
exertions of Lieut. Col. Bailey, acting engi
neer of the nineteenth army corps, who pro
posed and built a tree dam of six hundred
feet across the river at the lower falls, which
enabled all the vessels to pass in safety the
backwater of the Mississippi, reaching Alex
andria, and allowed them to pass over all the
shoals and the obstructions planted by the en
emy to a point of safety. Lieut. Col. Baily
will b% immediately nominated for promotion
for distinguished and meritorious service.
An unofficial report from Cairo, dated May
22d, states that the army and gunboats were
all safe at the mouth of "the Red River and at
Semmesport.
Major General Sherman, by a tispatch at
8:00 P. M. last night, reports that he will be
ready by morning to resume his operations.
Returned veterans and regiments, he says,
have more than replaced all losses and de
tachments.
We have no official reports since my last
telegram from General Grantor General But
ler.
Official reports of this Department show
that witiiin eight days after the great battle
of Spottsylvania Court House many thousand
veteran troops have been forwarded to Gen.
Grant. The whole army has been amply sup
plied with full rations of subsistence. Up
wards of twenty thousand sick and wounded
have been transported from the field of battle
to the Washington Hospitals, and placed un
der surgical care. Over eight thousand pris
oners have been transported from the field to
prison depots, and a large amount of artille
ry and other impediments of an active cam
paign brought away.
Several trains and fresh cavalry horses have
been forwarded to the army, and the grand
army of the Potomac is now fully as strong in
numbers, and better equipped, supplied, and
furnished, than when the campaign opened,
j Several thousand reinforcements have also
i been forwarded to other armies in the field,
| and ample supplies to all.
j Du-ring the same time 30,000 volunteers for
100 days have been mustered into the service,
clothed, armed, equipped and transported to
their respective positions. This statement is
due to the chiefs of the army, staff and bureau,
i and their respective corps, to whom the credit
belongs. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War,.
Northern Items.
We are indebted to J O A Gerry, Esq., of Lake
City, Fla., just here from Nassau, for a look at some
New York papers as late as the 21st. As Mr. G. was
on his way South and could not spare the papers, he
favored us with the following items gleaned from
them:
The bogus proclamation, purporting to have been
issued by Lincoln, calling for 400,000 fresh troops,
•etc., for publishing which the New York World and
Journal of Commerce were suspended, has been
traced to Mr. Howard, the city Editor of the Breek
lyn Eagle. He has been sent to Fort Lafayette.
The U.S. Army and Navy Journal estimates Gen.
Grant’s loss, up to the 14th of May, at 33,000 killed
and wounded.
Maxirnillian and the Empress arrived at Madeira
on the 29tli of April, and sailed the next day for
Vera Cruz. They are no doubt in the city of Mex
ico by this time.
The authorities at New York would not permit
any papers to go to the Bahamas by the last steamer
to Nassau outside of the regular mails. Indeed the
greater portion of ail mail matter, English and
American, was detained in New York. Grant’s loss
up to the 21it inst., was popularly estimated at fig
ures ranging from 60 to 75 thousand.
There was much rejoicing in Nassau at the Cbn
tederate successes. — 'Wilmington Journal.
Grant's Losses. —We have now the actual
: losses in two of hi? corps—lß,ooo in one, 13,000
. in the other. Grant has four corps, and an aver
age of 14,000 loss in each corps would make
56,000. Add their acknowledgement of 12,000
straggler?, ani you hare 68,000 aggregate los3.
Interesting Memphis News.—A
, cor respondent of the Mobile Advertie r
and Register , writing from Longwood,
Miss., May 24th says :
Persons lately out from Memphis re*
port the grand reason why Washburne
i closed the blockade so strictly there) (al
j lowing no person to leave the city after
the 15th,) was that the fact might bo
concealed from us of his having sent all
the troops from that place except a small
garrison, composed mostly of negroes.
They state further that Yankee officers
and citizens all agree that if Lee and
Johnston succeed in whipping their two
antagonists, the war will eud before the
winter j and they further state, (which
I give for what it is worth,) that it is cur
rently reported in Memphis that there is
an understanding between Reward and
the principal European to
the effect that the United States shall
have this year (campaign, they sajj)H
the rebellion,” and in case of fails
ure, tney will acknowledge the South
forthwith.
All these statements I give as I got
them, but, whether true or not, one thing
is very certain, the Yankee residents and
soldiers of Memphis are trembling in
their shoes, and well they may be, for
they need not be surprised on any line
morning to wake up and find General For
rest, instead of General Washburne, in
command of the city.
The truth of the business is, the Yanks
are preparing to evacuate Memphis, and
if General Johnston succeeds (to use his
own language) in beating Sherman, Mem*
phis will be given up.
Thk Nigqbr Troops.— From the correspon-
the Augusta Constitutionalist we
copy the following paragraph :
In a late Yankee paper coming to my hands
I find some intelligence that may be of inter
est. A great victory, or rather a zuccession
of victories, is of course claimed, and the larg
est type is displayed to air the lies es forty
pieces of cannon captured, “thousands of priv
oners taken,” Lee outflanked,” &c. It is sta
ted that the v ast majority of the wounds re
ceived by Grant’s forces are in the body and
lower limbs, “the rebels firing unusually low
on the occasion,” a fine proof, by the by, com
ing from the., enemy, of the coolness of our
men. Richmond, it is said, "will surely be
reached by the 4th of July.” What a fearful
price it would oost! It would be a terrible
triumph. Grant could s*y, like the Greek
General Pyrrhps, “another such victory, and
lam undone.” Burnsides’ niggers are high
ly complimented by the Yankee correspon
dents, one of whom says of our prisoners, “it
was amusing to hear the negroes enquire jest
inglj) ’ “How is you, boss, mighty good ting
we didn’t git you ; we would never tuck you
prisoners.” The prisoners became infuriated
and begged to have their will of the negroes
five minutes. “Remember Fort Pillow,” the
negroes would urge. “We will cut your
black throats,” was the threat of the others.
Thus the two races reviled each other. The
master was prisoners; the bondman free and
a soldier. From the faot that five oolumna of
the precious sheet, the Norfolk New Regime,
are filled up with sentences of oourt martial
for desertion, I apprehend the defenders af
the old flag, are far from being steadfast to
their colors. The death penalty is meted out
unsparingly to the white soldiers, while the
niggers are generally set to hard labor, etc.
A Paper Suspended in Balti
more.
The Baltimore American has an announce
ment of a suspension in that city, as follows:
Yesterday afternoon Major Gen. Lew Wal
lace, commandant of the Middle Department,
issued an order prohibiting the further publi
cation of the Evening Transcript published
by Mr. Wm, H. Neilson, on Baltimore street,
near Gay, on the charge of disloyalty, in pub
lishing as a telegraphic dispatch a statement
giving a grossly exaggerated estimate of the
losses of the Army of the Potomac, and cred
iting the samfe to the Associated Press corres
pondent at Washington, thereby seeking to
establish its reliability. The dispatch read as
follows:
Washington, May 15th.—I have no facts to
send you. The report that a great battle was
in progress yesterday is not believed. As to
the result of the ten days’ fighting, we have
not lost in killed, wounded and missing, leS3
than . seventy thousand men.— Associated
Press.
more.
Gen. Wallace on Tuesday summoned the
editor of the Transcript to account for the
malicious paragraph, who, in justification
said that he obtained it from a Philadelphia
Sunday paper, either the Transcript or Mer
cury. At the request of General Wallace the
agent of the Associated Press at Philadelphia
was telegraphed on the subject, who stated
that such a statement was made by the Sunday
Mercury of that city, but it was not by that
paper credited to the Associated Press, nor
was it furnished to that paper by any agent of
the Association, as the paper in question did
not take the Associated Press news.- Thus it
was proven that the attaching of the words
“Associated Press” to the statement was
the act of the editor of the Evening Transcript
here, and being viewed as an evidence of a
disloyal effort to prejudice the cause of the
Government by publishing an evidently gross
exaggeratin of the losses of our army, the
commanding General deemed it his duty to
suppress the further publication of the paper
by the issue of the following order ;
Headq’rs Middle Dep’t, Bth Army Corps, 1
Baltimore, May 18th, 1864.
Mr. C. W. Tayleure :
Sir: You are ordered to discontinue the
publication of the Evening Transcript.
If another issue of the paper makes its ap
pearance the publishing office will be taken
possession of, and all parties concerned will
be arrested.
[Signed] LEW WALLACE,
Maj. Gen. Com’g Middle Dep't.
A true copy: Sam’l R. Lawrence, A. A. G.
The Herald of the 17th says there was a Lincola
rally in New York.
A mass meeting was held in New York on the
13th, under the auspices of the Lincoln Club, in
opposition to the postponement of the Republican
Convention, and in favor of the re-nomination o?
Lincoln to the Presidency.
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