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COLUMBUS TIMES Published Daily (Sundays excepted) at the pate of $4.00 per month, or sl2 for three months. No subscription received for a longer term than three month*. advertising RATES : Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for 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. By Ellis, Livingston & Cos. ON SATURDAY, 4th of June, at 10 o’clock, we will sell in front of our store. 3 BARRELS EXTRA FIXE SYRUP S —ALSO— -20 SACKS OF CHOICE St GAR ! IN 50 LB. SACKS. —ALSO— i 1 BBC. BLACKBERRY WISE.’ A FINE ARTICLE, juno 32t $8 WAHTED. A GOOD RUSSET SHOE-MAKER A Apply to W. L. CLARK, or A B Bostick. my 30 6t . Muscogee R R. YVAXTED ! FIVE NEGRO FELLOWS, \o chop wood on the Mobile k Girard Road, for which liberal hire will be paid by the month or day. 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