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J. W. ff ABREX, - - - Editor. Thursday Morning, June 9, 1864. It is generally supposed, says the Wilming ton Journal, that George B. McClellan is one of the best satisfied men in all the North. Reviled and disposed from his command his plans sneered at and thrown aside, h#has simply had to bide his time, and the revolving wheel of events has brought him his revenge and his vindication. Grant, “the coming man,” “the man on horseback,” the man of vast con ceptions, original ideas and indomitable pre servance, has, at length, been compelled to fall into the track and follow the example of the “little Napoleon,” whose base and line of operations he has been forced to adopt. It maj be that he will push things more vigorously and less cautiously than his predecessor, but this is just what we suppose General Lee would like. The Harder Grant butts his head against the entrinchments of Richmond, the sooner will he succeed in getting the brains knocked out of his army and the lives out cf his men. It looks indeed as though he was determined to play into Lee’s hands, and do what that able and astute leader wishes him to do. The more vigorous his assaults the better, and we look for such assaults soon jmd often. If he has made up his mind to get into Richmond by the 4th of July, as he is said to have done, he must work hard. He cares little or nothing for the lives of his men it is true, but if he sacrifices them for no re sult, it can hardly help him to the attainment of his ultimate object, for as surely as dead men tell no tale3, so surely do they fight no battles and take no cities. —# An officer writing from Lee’s army to the Richmond Sentinel, speaking of the recent battles in Virginia, says that the principal de velopment which they have made, so far as Grant’s tactics are concerned, is his utter dis regard of the lives of his men. He masses and attacks on small fronts, and in conse quence nearly every ball finds its man. Gen. Lee seems to have perfectly understood his nature from the first, and determined to let him charge. A Munchauskn. —A story published .by a Yankee newspaper represents that “the exec utive officer of the Jones,” a Yankee boat blown up by one of our torpedoes in James river, gave on the occasion the rarest evidence of coolness and skill on record. His vessel, he on board, was “crushed like a piece of pa per,” and as he ascended to the upper air, on a piece of the wreck, drew a revolver and shot dead the man who had exploded the torpedo. Said man was standing on the bank of the riv er, and the narrator of the wonderful feat calls him a “wretch,” and say3 his name is Burton. He adds that “the incident is vouched for.” Hong at Pollard.— The Greenville Observer learns that three men, Charles Hobbs, Richard Solus and Johh Waters, were hung at Pollard, on Friday the 29th. Their crime was piloting deser ters through the lines and other treasonable prac tices. They were well supplied with greenbacks. Hobbs made a full confession, and begged Col. Maury to hare them shot ; but Colonel Maury re plied that ho preferred hanging them. The fleet outside of Fort Morgan consists of seven sloops-of-war, four double-enders and two gunboats of large size. wm • wm The iron and steel ships in progress in the yards on the Mersey (Liverpool,) at last re ports were twenty-eight in number, 28,000 tons in register. Steel is rapidly gaining fa vor with ship builders. One of the wagons of a Yankee trains lately captured by Wheeler was devoted to three abandoned women and their wardrobe equip ments. The Two Dromios. We met with au incident yesterday which puts Billy Shakspore's story to the blush, and ours runs in this wise, as a matter of fact. A venerable and most patriotic gentleman, one of the officers of the Louisiana Belief Committee, whose wife and daughter are now in a Yankee-ridden city, was standing at the door of the committee rooms, on Royal stroct, yesterday, when he saw a young lady approaching, who, in the distance, so strongly re minded him of his daughter that, when she came up and asked him where the room of the commit tee was, he was so paralyzed with astonishment and excitement as to be deprived of the power to show her. ' Seeing this she asked him if he were ill. With etfort he was at last able to say that she was so complete a resemblance of his daughter in New Orleans, he was almost compelled to believe it was she who had dropped down thus suddenly upon him. And to justify “himself he drew from his pocket the treasured photograph of his daugh ter. As soon as tho lady saw it, she exclaimed, ‘‘Sir, this is my picture; I sent it to my husband two months a g3.” Thereupon quite a controversy sprung up be tween the lady and the old gentleman, 6he declair ing that it was the picture of herself, and lie vow ing that he had been in possession of it for tho past five months, and that he had received it from New Orleans with that of his wife’s. The lady was so Dosit;-e, and the resemblances were so per fect, in every particular, age, size, camage, fea tures, even to a pimple on the nose,. that the o i gentleman had to take tho lady up into the com mittee room to prove by that he was really entitled to this pm ur f “ tle _ And even in the room, a i ■ , q full \ elief man 3 lam * J , daughter. The result was that • the lady departed with the understanding that as her Sand was in tho army, she would claim the fatheriy protection of the old Tribune. Vscvpe of a Federal Soldier from Dixie. Yesterday morning, John Monett, 4th Vermont Infantry, captured near Culpeper C. ri., Va., in October last, arrived iu Chattan.oga, having lumped! off the cars between Branchville, b. C„ and Augusta, Ga., in April last, when he was being transported from Richmond to Americas. Re walked all the way a distance of about four hundred miles—in fact, more than that, when we consider the circuits he was compelled to make. Mr. Monett informs us that he represented himself as a furloughed rebel soldier on his way to his regiment, bv which means he received a bountitul sup ply of rations. Twice citizens attempted to arrest him as a deserter, but they were not as desperate as the circumstances made him, and he was not arrested. He traveled almost ex clusively at night. Monett is a modest and iSgfnt man, »»d deserves credit for the successful manner in which he succeeded m bamboozling the rebels.— Chattanooga Ga*eLe, 29 th ult. The Pirate Alabama. —At a meeting o some five hundred of the elect of Boston, pn< the morning of the late fast in the Meioman (Tremont Temple,) Rev. M. Grimes (Baptist) of this city rose in the assembly, and earnest ly requested his Christian friends to join him in praying for the- destruction of the Pirate Alabama. He then tell on his knees, and in a very boisterous prayer asked God to run her ashore, high and dry—or if he could not destroy her so, he would sink her to the bottom of ths sea. [ Boston Courier. [From the Augusta Constitutionalist.] “Let tbere be Light.” In the recent war waged between England and France on the one hand, and Russia on the other, there was no probability of the ces sation of hostilities, short of the final exhaus tion of resources, which seemed illimitable. — But the Emperor Nichalas died, and Alexander made peace. * “He bade the deep in]wild commotion flow, And poured an ocean on their march below.” —through all the wonderous history of that people, against all armies, against all odds, against all probabilities; even to tha o throw of Sennacherib — “When the widow* of Ashur wereiouduitheirwan/ And the idol* were broke in the tcmpleofßaal And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the Had belted like snow in the glance of the Lord. The records of ths testimony m the rocks reveal loßg ages of night and dnrk j ness in those typical days ofa million years, through which the earth passed, prior to this Sabbath of rest for her voloanic nature ; yet it was in the very depth of her uncreated night that r “God said light, and light was.” Even bo -"if we deserve His saver—will He look up on our national darkness in some unexpected hour, and say—“ Let there be light j” will lay His physician fingers on the pulses of toe storm and say : “Peace, be still.” We have, to the extent of our poor ability, been trying to impress three things upon that portion of the community who allow U3 to talk to them. First, that no future nope[is unaccompanied by a present duty, and that one of the pressing duties of the hour is, to change the treatment of a case, which has cer tainly not improved much under the blended medicine and surgery of the past. Second, That in the event of the great vic tories which we expect on the waters of the James River or the Chattahoochee, our people should not look for the almost annihilation, or oapture, or even disorderly fight of such im mense armies. Should not be disappointed if the results of victory are not so speedy as they hope for; should not blame our glorious armies if they do not press on with the vigor of fresh troops, after victories which long toil and blood and death, have won. In short, do not be unreasonable. Third, Not to get frightened if we should get the worst of both fights. It is from the consideration of the last and most hopeless proposition, that we wish to in spire hope. Why should we get frightened ? They are miserable people who have been for three years settling stakes to despair by; and locating points, upon the arrival at which we were certainly gone ! There are going ! going ! going ! with the pertinacity of an auctioneer, and we should certainly have been “gone” long ago, if they had owned the large sample of real estate called the Confederacy. We are certainly gone—said they—if our ports are closed, for this is a cotton, and not a grain and meat country, and will cer tainly starve to death t The ports closed, and many people think we should have been better off if the enemy had kept them tight enough to save our gold from the speculators of Europe. We are ruined, they said, if we lose our forts and islands; but it is a debatable question now if we were wise to try to hold them. Save New Orleans and the mouth of the Mississippi—they cried —for they will drive a wedge in there that will split the Confederocy. The wedge was driven, and in catching the Trans-Mississippi half as it fell, the enemy re cently caught a Tartar. The fragment was too hot to hold. Ah yes ! but then we lose Vicksburg and evacuate Tennessee, the blockade we hold on the Great West, will be raised, and with the loss of Tennessee wheat and bacon, we are certainly gone. Well, Vicksburg and Port Hudson fell, and the armies were taken pris oners. Murfreesboro’ was lost and Tennessee with it. The shadows of defeat settled over the man gled hosts of the enemy and the retreating legions of Lee at Gettysburg, and everybody —us among them —got terribly scared. Gold —that Barometer which will say more ofcpre sently—went up with a bound from three and and a half to eighteen and twenty. But the staggered and bleeding Confederacy, lifted her pale, but immortal beauty, amid the throes of the moral earthquake, and spoke a* did the soul of Webster, from his dying lips— “l yet live.” Many there were who said that our soil was in our purse, and when our credit sunk below zero, our patriotism would freeze. Yet our soldiers fought when a year’s pay would not buy a pair of boots and we have just survived a repudiation of one-third of our currency. But, insists the dwarf baby of the giant De spair, our last granary is Cherokee Georgia, and if we lose Atlanta, where, oh where will they stop ? The enemy are within thirty mile3 of Atlanta, and may get there, and yet there seems less uneasiness now, than when Bragg evacuated Chattanooga. Wise was that old saying of the Latins, 11 Nil admirarv ’ —ber astonished at nothing. Our sol diers fight with rocks when their ammunition gives out, and yet the books consider defeat inevitable in such case3. It is no purpose of ours to build up hopes upon the sandy foundations of usual war cal culations. We well nigh went crazy with de light over the protestations of the leaders of the Northern Peace Democracy ; but one of the Richmond papers was wise enough to see through the joy, that the tints of the rainbovr were but lingering drops of the storm, and to ask if the armed thousands of the North who set free all the negroes they could find were not as fair an illustration of the purpose of our Western brothers, as the stump-made assertions of Vallandigham & Cos., that it should never be done ? , We trust to no counter revolution in the North, for New York burnt a few houses, and threw a few stones, and then submitted to the draft. We trust little to the peace party in the next election, for, Ist, and the peace men have been terribly beaten before the people, as in the one hundred thousand Abolition majority of Ohio. 2d, the spoils for office are -such enormous levers of bribery, that most of our party, when defeated in our hope for Douglas and the Na tional Democracy, took position for secession; because the party defeaied while in power, had little hope to rebuild its broken ramparts under the guns of Black Republicanism. 3d, we doubt if there be many peace men who have yet made up ttweir minds to let us stay 4 out of the Union and tax their horn flints and wooden nutmegs. Gen. Lee at Arlington Heights, and Gen. Johnston's guns in battery on the hills above Cincinnati, will have far more influence on the vote which is to depose Lincoln, than will any love for us. There is a Barometer, however, and we re gret t,o say that the delicate instrument is more easily obtained North than South. It is worshipped among some of the North ern brethren, and is said to mingle it rites with the adoring hymns of some of their churches ; it is hung up in their Banks, and on Wall street certain Bulls and Bears are employed to guard it. Iu ashington City, a magnificent temple, surrounded by 'vastcol umns of granite, has been built to supply mercury iu its tube. Their National Barome- ter is Gold. The Northern man’s purse strings are tied around his heart, and the news—“gold in New York 300"—would cheer us more than any other. Clouds come and go without rain, and all signs fail in dry weather; but when the quick silver falls in the green-backed instru ment, the Yankee ship had best take in sails. Be the Avar then a long one, and the green backs will multiply, and when no one cares to sell for what each man has enough of, gold wiU go up then and enlisting go down, and we can wear out their endurance if we can wear out their credit. As we have before stated, a nation whose existence is in question, whose entire slave property, and consequent agricul ! tural interests, is confessedly threatened with i entire destruction —such a nation can and will I endure financial troubles and personal and : general privations, which the other side can- I not. | We can then see two reasonable and not very remote probabilities: Ist. The defeat of Lincoln by the electoral vote, in consequence of the distrust of his ultimate success which will follow the signal defeat of his armies. 2d. The lowering of public faith there to such a degree that Yankee cuteness will recognize a treaty of peace with us as a nation, as the better alternative of national bankruptcy. Yet aa we intimated at the outset, the Al mighty loves to work through “ways we have not known,” and to show His infinite great ness in our infinite weakness. Therefore, our only counsel is to strike steadily on the rock, and if the water of national salvation flow not at the first or third blow, to strike till it does. The Wilkin3 Macawber policy of for something to turn up,” k is much laughed at bat if we remember the story correctly, that veritable “Wilkins” did “turn up” with a com- petency in Australia. There is no question of the power or good ness of God. The only question of His bless ing is, do we deserve it ? If not, we had best improve ; for the only reason He ever gave the Assyrian King for sending him out to eat grass was, that he might know who “ruled in the kingdoms of men.” The only question of our success is, the question of duty performed; and the nonsense gotten up in the form of appeals to the patri otism of the people is a waste of breath. Pa triotism is love of country, and we all love the country just as far as the present or ulti mate interest directs, and no further. Free dom is the great interest, but property and comfort.are not minor ones. National libei’ty is the aggregate of personal* liberty, and eve rybody is a patriot who sees that the interests of self and home and children are bound up in the cause. Indifference to individual weal, alienates hearts; and the nation and its armies are made up of individuals. No use to talk, but much use to act. The duty, then, is not on the shoulders of the peope, for they obey and suffer, not plan and direct. The duty is, of the Government to the people ; and if the Government keep the people in love with the cause, no power, nor league of powers on earth can subjugate us. If by error or indifference one man becomes indifferent to our success, the Government has done a gre&t wrong to the people who trust their all to its keeping. The people alienated, will submit when the enemy pass them and leave them behind, and so much country is then conquered ; but if their hearts are with us, then the labor of him—condemned by the gods to roll up forever the stone which al ways rebounded—will be light to their task of holding down a people, who will spring up elastic into fiercer rebellion, from beneath the feet that have just trampled them down. Ye who have in your keeping that keystone of Freedom, Popular Confidence, look well to your trust. The lips of posterity and the Angels of Judgment will require it at your hands. Do your duty to us, as we will do ours to our children and God— “And the sun shall not shine on the morn that shall see, Dismembered or conquered, the flag of the free.” Kentucky Miscegenators.— The Chattanooga Gazette, says, “the Uncon* ditional Union Convention, at Louisville, on the 25th, was a complete success. Fiftyvsix counties were represented, pat* riotic resolutions were adopted, and the firmest determination was manifested to carry the State before the people next fall. Dr. Robert J. Breckinridge, another dis* tinguished gentleman, addressed th^ meet ing” - The Guthrie-Prentice party held a con« vention at the same time, to appoint dele gates to Chicago. Billy Mulligan Fights a Duel. The Sacramento (California) Union says that the notorious Billy Mulligan fought a duel at Austin, California, on the 20th of April, with one Tom Cole* man. The cause of the quarrel is un known. The weapons were revolvers; six shots were fired, and two hundred spectators were present. The Union says : Coleman won the choice of position and word—the agreement being after the word, “gentlemen, are you ready ? fire”— after the word “fire,” both to fire indis criminately. Both the principals exhib* ited the utmost coolness and unflinching nerves, though it was evident that Mullis gan had somewhat the advantage, as his every movement showed evidence of his being an expert, while Coleman appeared somewhat awkward and clumsy. After taking their position on the ground, Barney Mulligan shook hands with his brother and retired—-B«adshaw gave the word, and both pistols were dis*» charged almost simultaneously. At the first fire, however, both shots fell short* At the second fire Mulligan’s shot broke the second finger of Coleman’s right hand, which occasioned him some difficulty in cocking his pistol, though he maintained his position without flinching, and con* tinued firing, all his shots seeming to fall short, however, as Mulligan did not re ceive a scratch. It is thought Coleman’s fourth shot went off prematurely, as the ball struck near the feet of Capt. Duncan, throwing the sand in his face. Mulligan’s fifth shot took effect in the fleshy part of Cole man’s thigh, inflicting a slight flesh wound. His last shot was made with such deliberation, that it seemed almost impossible he should fail to kill his ans tagonist; but the ball went wide of its mark. Mulligan cocked his pistol, evi dently thinking he had another shot; but, seeing Coleman hesitate, or have some difficulty about cocking his pistol, he said, “Are you out, sir?” Coleman replied, “1 believe I am,” although he had only fired five shots. After the first fire Bradshaw said to Coleman, “Tom, raise your fire.” Both parties maintained their original positions, firing without advancing. At the con* elusion Mulligan desired the pistols loads ed again, but the seconds very properly would not permit it* Neither of these duellists is likely to receive a commission in the United States sharp-shooters. Yankee Movements in Florida. —The Yank ees have evacuated Pilatka, but they are still as thick as bees up and down on the east bank of the St. John’s river. They are fortifying Orange Mills, 10 miles north of Pilatka. Their objeot soems to be evidently to plunder and steal cattle and bogs—which at this time undoubtedly pays them better than fighting. They have greatly tho advantage over us in transportation, etc., on the river. _ . On Thursday, the 19th inst., Capt. J. J. Dicker son of the 2d Florida Cavalry, at the head of a small but gallant party of his command, captured at Welatka, a small village on the eastern bank of the St. Johns, in Putnam county, the entire garri son stationed at that place, consisting of one Cap tain, one Assistant Surgeon, 44 non-commissioned officers and privates, 11 negroes, 2 tories, ;> horses and wagons, arms, ammunition, &c., Ac. Capt. Dickerson surrounded the place under cover of night and the commanding officer upon learning that he was hemmed in, made an unconditional surrender without firing a gun. — Fam. Friend. In Chickasaw county, Mississippi, on the 24th ult., by John Brown, Esq., Mr. Lorenzo Day, to Miss Martha A. Week. A day is make —a week is lost, But time should not complain; There’ll soon be little days enough, To make the week again. _ , . „ [Prairie Aet os, '.IC. Reports of the Press Association. Entered aocording to act of Cormress in the year 1863, by J. STThbabher, m she Clerk soffioeof the Durtrict Court of the Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. Latest from Virginia, All Quiet Along the Lines* Grant Sends a Flag of Truce. Proceedings of Congress. &c»f Ac,) Ac, Richmond, June B.—Grant sent Gen. Lee the flag of truce yesterday for the purpose of return ing a detail of ours improperly captured while burying the dead, last night, and to apologize for taking them. Nothing of interest has transpired to-day. Richmond, June B.—United States papers of the 4th have been received. Gold in New York, 192. Grant’s dispatches of the 2nd claim that the en emy’s works at Cold Harbor were carried jon the previous afternoon. Tho enemy made repeated assaults and was repulsed with loss ia every in stance. Several hundred prisoners were taken. Other dispatches equally fabulous from Butler and other sources are published, probably with the view of influencing the action of the Repub lican Convention which met in Baltimore yester day. Richmond, June B. —The Senate sustained the President’s veto of the joint resolution for the ex emption of editors and employees of magazines and periodicals from military service, Also, rejected the bill increasing ordnance of fleers, returned by the President. TLe appropriation bill passed without amend ment. ment. • The House joint resolutions of thanks to Gen. Taylor and officers were concurred in. The tax bill was further discussed.' Tho House was occupied in the discussion of the Senate impressment bill until recess. [From the Atlanta Intelligencer, Bth.] TIJE SITUATION. ARMY OF TENNESSEE. The rains of the past few days hare made the roads almost impassable, thereby retard ing active! army movements of the heavier kind. Notwithstanding all this, however, the shifting of large bodies of troops continues. Sherman seems to have changed his entire plan of advance.by our left, and now seems to be concentrating a formidable movement on our right. We look on the entire plan, however, as the one originally planned before Dalton, and that thus far it has been consummated in ac cordance with the original design. The fight and demonstration about Dallas were only intended to attract our attention from his main designs. The eventual with drawal of Sherman’s army disclosed to our commander the fact that the enemy had grad ually massed his forces on the Etowah and Allatoona hills, and was securing them against us. He immediately began to construct the bridge over the Etowah river and doubtless, with the advantages he has to produce such a work, has it in a condition for his trains to pass over by this time. He secures a strong, impenetrable base at Allatoona, with good mountain roads traversing in all directions, to operate against his antagonist. Doubtless, he will push a strong force down the railroad, maintaining*it as a central line on which to operate, and Gen. Johnston will be necessitated to retire as he has done hith erto. We do not suppose it is possible for our General to oppose the steady, onward march of the enemy until their plan is devel oped, when we hare no doubt that the rapid combinations and quick onset for which our commander is noted, will be suddenly made, and we have no doubt of the result. But that it is probable our forces will be on the line of the Chattahoochee ere long we haye no doubt. This will be unavoidable, and to us, is no sign of weakness, or ominous of evils results. We look on Sherman as be ing pre-eminently a magnificent raider. His tactics are exclusively confined to heavy dis placement movements. He hurls his masses occasionally against our lines, but during the very heat of the engagement, he sets in mo tion an extensive flank movement, which, from the nature of the country, has been thus far successful to every particular. But the business is coming to a point. There is a line where offensive movements cannot be of any farther avail, except they consist of heavy overwhelmingassaults. When such a course i3 decided on and attempted, the grandeur of the great Yankee enterprise will prove utterly fruitless, and sink into a contemptible retreat before the terrible re pulse, and then the advance of oi^. invincible soldiers. Our great fear is that the Attila who con fronts us, will send out his rapid moving mounted infantry columns and raid on either flank, striking at the various points of great est interest to us on either side of this great central depot. These movements are calcu lated to do us serious injury, and having been foreshadowed by Sherman in bis letter, and in every action since the promulgation of that paper, it becomes our duty to watch and re sist them as much as possible. We cannot afford to dissipate our cavalry or any portion! of our array, in counteracting such movements, therefore we must be pre pared to submit to them, if overpowering and to keep them harnessed as much as possible, thereby destroying'their efficacy. From the Front. —We understand that all was comparatively quiet along our lines iu Chesterfield yesterday. The enemy manifested no disposition to deprive us of the advantages we gained on Thursday, and our forces were content to let the invaders rest. An occasional discharge of mus ketry was heard, and once in a while the enemy fired a field piece, but neither weapon inflicted any damage whatever upon our hoys. The gunboats were.more noisy and demonstra tive than usual. They cavorted up and down the James and Appomattox, blazing away at every bush and tree, but accomplishing nothing what ever save a vast and profitless expenditure of shell and gunpowder. Our soldiers sit behind their breastworks as unconcerned as if there were not a gunboat within a thousand miles of them. The information we receive from the Prince George side of the line is also without interest.— There were no hostile demonstrations on the part of either the invaded or the invaded, during yes terday. For the nonec, we presume all parties thought that this carnage being enacted on the north side of the James should suffice for one day. We may have some stirring news to-day, howev er. Gen. Beauregard is not the man to let the en emy rest two consecutive days.— Pet. Express, 4t/t. The Beast Wants a Hat.— The Chicago Times tells the following op Beast Butler: J. F. Whipple, a h'atter, doing business in New York, was sworn before the select committee to in quire into the contracts of the Government, and de tailed a transaction with Gen.'Butler and his staff. Mr. Whipple had With him samples of caps. He Butler took a sample in his hand and came up to me and asked me the price. I told him sls per dozen, 5 per ct. off for cash in hand. The Gen eral said ‘■‘Sow the question is this, and we might as well talk it right out—can you let us have 6,000 at your price, giving my quartermaster ten per ct. to divide around.” I think these are the exact words*** Mr. Whipple told the General he had mistake’n his man. The General only wished to make seven hundred and fifty 6 n 'he little purchase, and i who believes thy > 'arting on his New Or- j leans expedition - liberal towards the j government ’ r : t and the inhabi- j tants of th -re? The General or course in at was only a way ’■_e 1, t terests of God and t- he is “a respeeta bio generally are “re spt • , the report of the v huge fabrication. CITY MATTERS. T. J. JACKSON,- LOCAL EDITOR g; Sales To-Day. —Ellis, Livingston A Cos. will sell to-day at their auction room, cotton cards, salt, tobacco, sugar, paper, vinegar, Ac. See ad vertisement. Impressment Mania. —This mania is again raging in our vicinity. We have heard of several gentlemen who have been relieved of fino horses and mules in the last day or two. They are needed, and our people must submit with the best grace they can. We trust, however, that the ag ricultural interest will not suffer detriment by this impressment. From a Young Soldier Who Hasn’t yet Smelt Gunpowder. —The following is an extract from a private letter written by a youthful soldier lately joined the navy. He resided in this city for some time, and writes as though he were now enjoying the hey-day of military life, or in more common parlance eating his “gingerbread.” The letter will-be found interesting to our readers en his line of travel, from Fort Valley to Eufaula, as well as to some, perhaps, in our midst, who think like him that soldiers would make the best of “Lo cals,” as their experience would often enable them to elaborate on subjects of more general interest than “rats.” Eufaula, JuneS, 1564. * * * About ten o’clock I- started from Fort Vailey for this place, and as good fortune would hare it I got a seat such as it was, and to hold it spread myself for a nap. I slept soundly for some time when I heard a tremendous clatter and rustling. Thinks I the ladies’ car is full and the conductor is going to put some nuisances (fj in here, but thinking that there might be only one I could possibly get a seat with her, so I took as much of the sour as possible from my naturally Union face, and was just going to ask one to take my seat when I was besieged on all sides by calico, hoops, waiters, baskets, jugs/- Ac., while butter milk, biscuit, ham, eggs, bread and jpickles were thrust upon me in such profusion that I scarcely had time to take any. However, I pitched in, and if I didn’t make all m these delicacies get up, or rather, down, for a while, then good Jwomen don’t live in Georgia. After these ministering angels left, I couldn’t help coming to the conclusion that the women folks are not such a bad institution after all. When the cars stopped at Smithville, I had another sample of the ladies’ generosity in the way of chicken, Irish potatoes, slapjacks, milk and the like. What a pity some soldiers are not “Lo cals,” or rather “Locals,” soldiers, when we have such admirable chances for a puff. I think such deeds as these would be a much more interesting subject than rata which seem to be very mueh in favor with your friend, Jackson. * Some six or seven hundred prisoners passed down just ahead of us to Americus where they are as thick as ants, and are dying at tho rate of twen ty to thirty a day. Meat. —lt has been said that a large pro portion of the cases of Summer sickness is at tributable to the excessive indulgence by our people in the use of meats, and we concur in the belief. There is a plenty of other food that can be obtained which would answer the same purpose as meat, and can be bought much cheaper. We regard the present exces sive indulgence in meat by our people as a mere habit, which they should try and rid themselves of, and especially is it important, when the prices of that article rule so high as they do now. A Liberal Streak. —In the absence of inte resting items about town, we are reduced to the necessity of puffing the Times office generally.— Having given the dovil a “lift,” we now propose to elevate one of our compositors, who, in a fit of good feeling, yesterday, invested $lO in cigars and treated the whole office. This gentleman is a fair representative of the craft, has travelled much, read much, and made sundry observations in times past; and like the majority of his ilk, is liberal to a fault. Since tho war he has not been able to change “spots” very often, having once had a very narrow escape from being “gobbled” by that bane of fluctuating mechanics—conscription. Hurrah! for the craft. In inteiligence they yield the palm to none. Their liberality is as proverbial as their poverty. They work harder than any men in the world, and as a general thing they are law abiding and honest. We have never heard of one being hung, although, perhaps some of them have deserved hanging. A Local in Luck. —Mr. Rockmore of Barbour county has sent tho Local of the Spirit of the South at Eufaula, a fine ham. Mr. Black justly, wo think, goes off into hysterics over the agreeable and valuable present, and from the lofty heights of his exaltation, contemptuously looks down upon those gassy specimens of the scribbling fraternity who take on so ever a boquet of flowers or a bowl of strawberries, and asks what would be the effect upon their mental balance of such a gift. Look here John, you must have had “this child” iu your eyo when you penned that paragraph. Well, it would be hard to divine in advance, what effect such a sensation would have. Suppose’you send it up, mine ugly brother. We think we could “spin out” a column of mighty pretty stuff about it, and hide it away as quick as the next one. Our Devil goes a Soldiering.— We are in luck. We have three devils (some people have a great mony more) numbered respectively 1, 2 and 3. No. 1 is our astute devil, who came mighty near being “gobbled” by Capt. Davis, the enrolling officer, a few weeks ago, and upon the brilliant fund of whose experience we have so often drawn. No. 2is the owner of the veritable “pup” alluded to in our yes terday morning's paper, and though not deemed so prolific in infernal ingenuity as his illustrious com peer, is nevertheless supposed by the girla to be the best looking (pardon the inference that girls have any dealings with such abandoned spirits. ) No. 3is the youngest, greenest, and laziest of the lovely trio, not yet having become fully familiar ized with the wily subtleties of his more advanced associates. Well, this latter, tired of his experience with the little “jokers,” the types, and wishing to enter au arena where the road to fame would be shorter, and the prospect of remuneration more certain, surreptitiously picked up his “duds” last Saturday and slipped off with the boy company to improve his waning fortunes in the tented field.— He arrived at West Point and was taking his first lessons in guarding bridges, when his old dad, ’ who had closely pursued upon his heels over-hauled the young sauce-box, and who then and there put a rather dampening and effectual quietus upon tho youngster’s glowing military aspirations. Buz reach ed home a sadder and wiser dog, and says he is more than ever convinced of the pertinency of the old line—“the course of true love never runs smooth.” He*is, however, a very philosophic imp, and con soles himself hugely on the fact of his having had a free ride to West Point and back. Major General Lovell left Columbia on Tuesday for Johnston’s army. Several weeks »ago General Johnston applied to the President for the appoint ment of General Lovell as a cerps commander. The President did not grant the request, and General Lovell accordingly goes as a volunteer, ready to perform such service as may be for him by the Commander- in-shies. Vinegar. —Take one quart of blackberries, add three quarts of water and two spoonsful of sugar or molasses, put in a demijohn and set it in the sun for about two weeks, and you will have excel lent Vinegar. RapofiTa <ur the Teachers of the Colt mht < I ree School.— Frou, report of Mr. Sartweii, the teacher of the male to the Trus tees of the Free School established by EagU Factory, we learn that during the past quarter, the 2d of tho session, 190 boys have been in attend, ance. Os these 46 are the children of Factory op. eratives; 48, of widows; 26, of soldiers who a r « now in sdTvico, and 38 of deceased soldiers ; and 32 the children of citizens. The average daily »t --tendance is about 100. There is a scarcity of “Spellers” and “Dixie Readers.” Mr. Jackson (the L®cal of the Times) has consented to give th« pupils daily instruction in Sacred Music, and Rev. J. H. DeVotie, according to a previous prom ise, has presented toerory child, that could read a neatly bound Testament. The school generally is making improvement.. From the report of Mrs. T. L. McKenzie, the able, patient, and capable instructress of the Fe male Department, we learn that daring the same quarter 163 girls have attended tho school, and the average daily attendance is 120. Os this num ber there are 20 children of soldiers now in tho army, aud 30 of deceased soldiers; 40 children of Factory operatives; 30 of widows; and 48, of cit izens. We copy the following from the report'of Mrs. McKenzie : “It affords the ’ Principal great pleasure to report that there has been a marked improvement in the deportment and and progress of the school during the quarter. By a mild but firm discipline, and a constant effort to substitute the stimulus of rewards for well doing, instead of punishments fer disobedieneo, the pupils have ex hibited an earnest desire for improvement, and a commendable spirit of emulation. The school is opened and closed regularly with exercises in vocal music in which the children take great delight, and the refining intiuence of music is clearly demonstrated. The children are very tractable and easily managed. Indeed I haT® found them, as a class, much more easily re duced to order and discipline than any number of children with which I have ever associated in a public school.” From these reports it will be seen that 358 pu pils of both sexes are members of this school.-Nim. Our Mechanics. —There is a pressing de mand for the artisans at home, in the foundry, the madbine shop, the harness and saddlery departments, and in all the ramifications of mechanical society, the feeling of necessity develops itself, and the expression of the thought is, is it no |disgrace foi these men to remain away from the field. The mechanic who makes the 13 inch shell at the foundry ia as much the auxiliary of war as the man who puts it ia the mortar. The mechanics who are at home must stay there. The pressing demands of the Government require it. It is not because they won’t fight that they are not in front. If any one thinks so, and would in form any one of them within the limits of our acquaintance, he or they might be led to change their opinions. Hence, in view of the above facts, we dislike to hear men, many of whom never drew a sword or shouldered a musket, and who never intend t®, constantly barking at mechanics. Why don’t they go to the field? [Talledega Reporter. Excitement in Peru. — W e continue to hear of "wars and rumors of wars.” Europe seems to be on the eve of a general clash of arms, growing out of the Dane German controversy. The following paragraph from the New lork Herald shows that a collision between Spam and Peru is not probable: , _ , We have highly important news from Peru by the steamers which arrived here yesterday from Aspin wall. War had been commenced on that republic, in a most extraordinary manner, by Admiral Pin zon, commanding the Spanish squadron in tho Pa cific, the first overt acts having been committed on the 15th April, when, without any declaration of war by Spain, or any previous notice, such as is customary with all civilized nations, the Admiral, for an aggrievanco alleged to have been suffered by one of his countrymen at the hands of some Peru vians, proceeded to take possession, in the name of Spain, of the Chincha Islands, the property of Peru, and of a Peruvian vessel which he found in that vicinity. He then sailed for the port of Callao, with tho in tention of seizing all the naval vessels of tho re public lying there; but in this he was frustrated, the Peruvians having received timely notice of his designs. Great indignation and oxcitemont pre vailed throughout the country on account of tneso outrages on the part of the Spaniards and the au thorities and people were preparing to defend their sovereignty and reclaim their territory. At our latest it was not known whether tho Spanish Gov ernment sanctioned these proceedings of their agents. Not only were the people of Peru them selves enthusiastically united in the determination to support their government and repel these aggres sions, but they had also the sympathy and the pledge of support of the most influential resident foreign ers, who in public meetings had strongly condemned the conduct of Admiral Pinson. Drunken Wisdom;—A tipsy Indian having strayed from his wigwam, found himself lost on trying to return to it. After looking about in strange lodges here and there, the Indian ex claimed in dismay, “Injun lost!” but recovering himself, and unwilling to acknowledge such short sightedness, continued, drawing himself up, “No, Injun not lost—wigwam lost (and striking his breast) —Injun here!” “You have not a drop of the great Napo leon’s bloed in your veins,” said testy old Je rome one day in a pet to his nephew, the Em peror. “Well,” replied Louis Napoleon,” “at all events, I have his whole family on my shoulder.”' Office Mobile & Girard R. R.\ Columbus, Ga., May sth, ’64. J The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Company, will bo held at tho ICffice, Girard, Ala., on Wednesday, 6th day of July next, at 11 o’cloek, when the election f*r President and Directors will take place. By order J. M. FRAZER, Sec’y. my 24 td SIOO REWARD! LOST, on the 7th inst., between Mrs. Dr. Davis’ and. the Naval Iron Works, my POCKET BOOK, containing two hundred and eighty five dollars —eighty five dollars in Confederate Treasury Notes of the new issue and the balance of the ola. The finder by leaving the same at the Times Office will receive the above reward in the old issue. jeß 3t Cotton Cards for Corn or Bacon. I WILL exchange a pair of Whittemore’s No. 10, Cotton Cards for 7 bushels of Corn, or 20 pound* of Bacon. The Cards are the best. J. F. WINTER, President, Rock Island Paper Mill*. je4 6t FOR EXCHANGE !~ OAAA LBS. GOOD HAMS will be exchanged for ZUU'J SIDES. Apply at Muscogee Jia.il l Road De pot to W. L. CLARK, my 30 2w SFOAR! SF<*AJR !! K BOXES CHOICE SUGAR. 0 For sale by GOODRICH & CO. je 7 lw STRAYED! FROM the Orphan Asylum, at Cblumbus, one white and brown COW, with both ears notched; also two year old CALVES, one resembling the cow, the other dark brown. A liberal reward will be paid for their delivery at the Asylum, or any in formation thankfully received. je? 2t EAST CAEE! PERSONS who have npt yet handed in their Tithe List for 1864, are requested to do so, by the 15th inst., as I am determined not to wait a day after that time expires. Persons who are required by Tax Act, Feb. 17th, 1864, to pay an additional in come tax for 1863 will now como to the Office and make said returns, a* the forms for said tax have been received. _ „ _ „ W. G. JOHNSON, je6 St Assessor for District 41. “ $oO REWARD! QTRAYED—A large Brindle Milch Cow with O small horns, turning back at the end. -tie 13 iu good order and is supposed to b ®,“ a n*hee was fait the place of Porter ro*L? Se An?fnf?r° m d m on received at the office of the Eagle Factory, and the above re™rd Paid for the cow. •? 0 notice. To Planters and Others! T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and i Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. I will be found at Robinett & Cb’s old stand, where I am manufacturing Candles and for sale. L. S. WRIGHT. June 2 ts