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About Columbus times. (Columbus, Ga.) 1864-1865 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1864)
COLUMBUS TIMES Published Daily (Sundays excepted) at the r&te of $4.00 per month, or sl2 for three month*. No subscription received for a longer term than &e« m•nth*. advertising RATES : Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per iqoare for each insertion. Where adrertiaements are inserted a month, the •barge will be S3O per square. Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably paid in advanee. —————■— ———t Change of Schedule. AN and after Sunday, March 20th, the Train! on U the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows . PASSENGER TRAIN: Leave Colmnbus 15 P- M. Arrive at Macon 2 o 2 A. M. Leave Macon.... 9 35 P. M. Arrive at Columbus 5 00 A. M. FREIGHT TRAIN: Leave Columbus .5 SO A. M. A" 1 ” « Columbns inar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R. Medical Care3l. UR. E. A. ROSSY. FORMERLY Surgeon to the New Orleans “Fe ll male Infirmary,” tenders his services to the Cit izens of Columbus in all the branches of his profes sion. Special attention will bo dovotedjto the treatment of the diseases of womem. MW" Surgical operations performed for Fistula in Ano, Visioo-Vaginal fistula. Hydrocele, Congenital and Accidental Phymosis, Varicocele, Haemorrhoids or Piles, Callous Imjpas <able strictures, False Passages, Tallapesor Club Foot, and contraction of the tinkers, Strabismus or Squinting, Aneurism,'Varix or dilated veins, Ptery gium, Cataract and Hair Lip; also for the remov al of all tumors or abnormal growths from any part of the body. Diseases of ths Genito-Urinary System, comprsiug the different stages of Ghonorrhoea, Strictures, Gravel, Spermatorrhea, Syphilis, in its primary secondary, tertiary and heriditary forms,will receive particular attention. , . , „ References piven whenever desired as well as the recommendation of many years practice in New Or leans; Cousultation hours every day at his office in the Masonic Hall Building, from 10 to 12 o’clock am,, and from 2to 4 o’clock p, in. Patients willdo well 'to call precisely at those hours, as before and after that time will be devoted to visiting personsin ''‘barb, all R(ffisT Columbus. Ga, ' N. !L—Persons from a distance having servants l ing surgical or medical treatment, will be provi ed with comfortable quarters, but in all cases will have lo furnish their own provisions and bed ding. will also bestow particular attention to the treatment ofthe different forms of Ulcers, Rheu matism, Gout. Scrofulous affections, Syphilitic erup t,ions, and all other chronic diseases of the skin. — Medi-.ited Fumigations and Steam Sulphurous Baths as employed in the hospitals in Europe and America, will form a part of my treatment. febUdin E. A, R. To the 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 forwarded 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, Mai. and C. S. may 31 5t “ Notice to Planters and Con sumers of Iron.” WE will keep for sale, for Confederate funds, or 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 ANI) SCOOTER BAH IRON; FLAT, ROUND AND SQUARE BAR IRON: HOOP, HORSE SHOE, NAIL ROD; IRON COTTON TIES (CHEAPER THAN j 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 receive and fill orders for any sizes and quantity of Iron, from our Iron Works and Rolling Mill in Alabama. „ JOHN I). GRAY CO., apr 3 ts Next to New Bridge, Notice to I*S;sfitters. f am -authorized by tbe Government TO EXCHANGE Sheetings, Cotton Yarns, SUQA3 AND OSNABURGS FOR 10£^0023. HAIB ANSP SHOULDERS, for supp King the Army. * JNO. J. McKENDREE, api 18 2m A gem. FRICTION MATHCES! 'rHE Columbus, Ga., Friction Match Company. * have again resumed operations, and will, in a few days, he prepared to supply them in quantity.- They also make a superior article of Blacking, which #au be supplied in quantity. Dealers and others wishing to purchase, can ap ply t.o Messrs. Livingston A Cos., or Messrs. Hull * Duck, who will be kept _su^lmd.^ Manufacturer?. N. B.—lt having cost me about $5,000 in the past eighteen months, above receipts, to learn how to make good matches, the public can now rely on get ting a superior article. 8. D. IIIOjm. Columbus, May 14,1864 dtf stotios. To Planters and Others ! ; I WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and | I Yarns, for Bacon, Lard. Tallow and Beeswax. I , will be found at Robinett & (<< a old sutnd, w neio i am manufaet urin g Candles and Lard Oil .«>i |iUe. L. fe. NViilUIiL. june 2 If Shoemakers’ «nd Saddlers’] TOOIjS. mite T-vpKIISHINED having commenced the citv ll |u e U prepared to‘fill onlcr?”tbr the same 3&r ius,c '&&&£&$&&* c 6. s ' Reference- Maj. F. W. Dillard. • r Mobile Register, Mississippi™ Aug ■titutionalist, please copy one mourn ana acuu 01 to this office. mar 30 t.f - LOST! IN front of John Carughi’s store, a . 1 POCKET BOOK, containing of °id ami 20 of new issue —ami ray foreign fjrotect'on \ -P_-• The finder will pleas© leave it at this office anu i* - ™ W ”TiISODORE KRIKTSCH. tVßflOin & Teams U a.atoil! •fXTE wish to purchase or hire, two or three six H mule teams, for which wo will pay the Highest market price: for particulars apply a* our office near the New Bring*. JOHN D. QAAY it CO. jelO st* * " O*KIOI* Moiulf A Girard u. R. i Obluwbus, Ga., May otn, t>4. > The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Company, wiirbe held at tha .--.‘llee, Guard, A ! a., on ’Wednesday, 6th d;iy of July next, at no<■ ° • when the election for President and Directors ««- take place. By order J. M. FRAZER, Secy. uiy24 td WAMTLD I FIVE NEGRO FELLOWS, to Chop wood on the Mobile & Girard Road, for which liberal hire will be paid by the month or day. Apply to \Y r .C, GRAY, * m/id 2w at Greenwood A Gray (Culimte ilutm. w V-01. XI. J. W. WARREN &. CO. Proprietors ..J. W. WARREN, Editor CATALOGUE SALE OF UfOR IIMBItS, it, it -A-T A-TJOTIOIN". BY 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 gal*. 10 cases Pure Jamaica Rum, 100 gallons each 14 bbl3 do Bourbon Whiskey, 40 do do 18 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 llye 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 Brandy 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 Ilalf-bbl Washing Soda 25 doz Fine Tooth‘Combs 10 kegs Bi Carbonate Soda 3 boxes London Double Crown Yellow Soap, 106 pounds each S 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 — In New Currency or its equivalent, or approved endorsed notes at 60 days with interest Catalogues will be ready by tho 15th of Juno next. may 28-til 18th june AUCTION SALES,, Specia. Catalogue Sale OF AN EXTENSIVE INVOICE OF FRENCH CHIN AW ARE! BY C. B. DAY. AUCTIONEER. Corner of Broad and Jackson streets, ,A-uig*uista 3 Gra. ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22nd. . ,mm • Commencing at nine o’clock, a. m„ I will sell at my store the most extensive, complete and desira ble assorted invoice of Choice French Chinaware, that has been opened within the Confederacy dur ing the past three years. It consists of EIGHTEEN CASKS of ware, of di rect importation from Havre, tho goods having been selected by an c-rpcrte for tho fancy retail trade of Richmond and Memphis, in 1861. Arriving in the latter place just previous to its occupation by the enemy, they were removed into the interior of North Mississippi, remaining there until tlieir late removal to this market. This Choice Lot of Ware embraces four Superb Complete and Highly Ornamented Daßiuet* Setts. Each containing 318 pieces. Also, Plain and Ornamental Breakfast Setts, Tea Setts, and Toilet Setts, j With a varied and extensive Assort- j ment ot' PITCHERS, CUPS and SAUCERS,; SOUP and SAUCE TUREENS, PLATES, DISHES, SUGARS, CAKE BASKETS, CREAMS, BUTTERS, COFFEES, TEA POTS, VASES, CUSTARD CUPS AXD STANDS, CANDLESTICKS, MUGS, kc. This rare lot of goods invites not only the atten ! tion of dealers, but of private gentlemen who de sire to secure a supply of choice table ware, *ueh as : will probably not be again offered during the days 1 of blockade. They are now being opened, and will be ready for exhibition in a few days. The four DINNER SETTS will be offered pri vately, should any one desire to so purchase them j previous to the sale. Catalogues will be ready for distribution the day i previous to the sale. , CbXDiTioxs— I Cash on delivery. jelO eodts WATTED. TO exchange SUGAR for SPRING CHICKENS. I at the rate of two pounds o! ea?ar f»r three i fhiekens The Sugar is a splendid article-much srueriur to any that can now be found in this mar k t l will exchange as iuach as o© pounds in the 1 above manner. For further information apply at the Times Office. • jelO tf* MrSCOGRH RaLLEOAD OrKICK. 1 Columbus, G*., Juiiel-Üb, istH. j Notice, IH? i■»•"* ‘ a<l ‘w J i"claiik. p « lit® » A. B. BOSTICK. FOR SA LE! a AAA LBS. IRON WIRE, Nos. TANARUS, 8 and 10. 2,000 june 1-. T. S. SPEAR, Columbus, Ga., Thursday Morning, June 16,1864. __ _ ________ Wednesday Evening. Notice. Hbadquarters Post, \ Columbus, Ga., June 9th, 1864. j General Order No. 2. In compliance with Special Orders No. 149, Head Quarters Department South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, the undersigned hereby transfers the com mand of this Post to Major Geo. 0. Dawson, F. C. HUMPHREYS, Major, Jtc. * Headquarters Po3t, \ Columbns, Ga., June 9, ’64. > General Orders,\ No. l. ; In pursuance of Special Orders, No. 149, Head quarters Department, the undersigned hereby as sumes command of this Post. Existing orders and regulations will remain in force until further or ders. GEO. 0. DAWSON. Major Comdg. ♦STEnquirer and Sun copy. je9 ts m -♦ m Army Correspondence of the Savannah Republican. Army of Northxrn Virginia, ) Cold Harbor, June 8, 1864. f With unimportant exceptions, the hostile armies occupy the same positions they held at the date o) my last letter. Grant has not moved to the right, as was generally supposed two days ago, but withdrew his right wing some two miles behind a swamp, where he immediately went to work *nd intrenched him self. This swamp and these intrenchraents render the position of the right wing of his army unassailable Why did he make this change in his lines ? It would seem that he was apprehensive of an attaok from Lee, and that from the offensive, he was about to put his army on the defensive. The true key to his conduct is found in the fact that the Baltimore Convention assembled yesterday. He made a bold push to destroy Lee’s army and reach Richmond in time to influence the action of the convention, and fiading that he has done neither, but, on the contrary, has had his own army pretty effec tually cut to pieces, he is now disposed to keep the peace, at lea fer a season, until he can reorganize and reernit his beaten and demoral ized forces. If he himself should be the nom inee of the convention, or his master, Mr. Lincoln, then more blood will be spilled ; for the political necessities of the candidate cho sen by the convention will render it necessary for the armies to be kept in motion. It is hoped, however, that neither Grant nor Stan ton, the Federal Secretary of War, will, now that the convention has assembled, ever again find it necessary lo publish Bulletins from the army which they and every man in the army knew at the lime to be false in every particu lar. I can safely affirm, upon my own knowl edge and upon the evidence that cannot'be successfully controveited, that the published telegrams which Grant sent to Washington, and the telegrams which Stanlon sent from the latter place to New York, in almost every instance, have not a particle of foundation in truth. I may have fallen into occasional er rors myself*—as, for example, in my estimate of the casualties of the enemy, and in other particulars where I have had to rely upon the reports of others, and especially in matters of mere judgment—but it may be truthfully as serted that. any account differing substantially from that with which you have been furnished in these letters, is to the extent of that differ ence incorrect and untrue. The force of public opinion, or some object which he hoped to accomplish during the pen dency of the truce, compelled Grant to come down from his strife and are Gen. Lee’s per mission to bury his dead. His request was granted the moment he put it in proper form, and from 7 till 10 o’clock night before last was set apart as the time in which he might perform his humane duty —a duty which the Confed erates would hare performed far him, but for the tire*of his sharpshooters Gen. Lee’s let ter did not reach him in season, and conse quently tbe work of interment was necessari ly postponed until another hour could be des ignated. His conduct, even in this particular, was influenced, doubtless, by the necessities of the party which met in convention yester day. Had*he applied sooner, the confession of defeat thereby implied, would have fallen like a thunderbolt upou the convention and the people whom he had been endeavoring by his untruthful bulletins to beguile into the belief that he had been victorious instead of having been beaten. One thing must be confessed, that while Grant’s plan us campaign lias beeu faultly and unwise to the last degree, he has, nevertheless, prosecuted his advance up to the present time with great eneigy and skill. He, doubtless, expected when he succeeded in crossing the Rapidan and turning Lee’s right wing, that the latter would retire upon Richmond, and that there wonld be a race between them as to which o»e should arrive there first. If such were his calculations he was convinced of his error at th« Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House, where be became satisfied that the Confederates had not retreated upon the capital, and that he and his well appointed j army were not able to force them tiom their position. This discovery cost him 40,000 men. i Under these circumstances but two alterna tives were left him—either to retire and aban- i don the undertaking, or to imitate the crab and advance sideways. He adopted the latter plan, and so conducted his march as at the same time to cover Washington and threaten Richmond. Whatever, therefore, Grant swung round to the right, Lee was compelled to re tire and take up anew position, unless he had been willing to “swap queens’’ and give Rich mond for Washington. But even when he ; advanced most rapidly. Grant so managed his i arm vas to keep it always between Lee and the Federal capital, and yet to threaten Rich ’ raond all the while. His manner of advance enabled him to avoid the necessity of detach ing a force to cover his capital, as McClellan i did in 1862, when he, or rather his govern ' ment, placed McDowellat Fredericksburg yith a column of 40,000 men. And yet McClellan’3 plan of campaign was the better and safer of 1 the two; for he reached Grant's present posi -1 tion with trifling loss, whereas Grant s loss far ! exceeds the 40,000 men McClellan left at Fred- J ericksburg, and against which Grant has now nothing to show. It is his march from Spotts- vlvania Court Hou ? e only that can be charac terised as skillful aud energetic; hi* plan of I campaign was a stupendous blunder, as the i result has shown. But if Grant has acted unwisely. Lee has ac ted most wisely. He took the full measure Jof Grant at the outest; he knew he was a rap , id marcher and a rash commander, who cared but little for the lives of his men, and would rush them against a wall of iron if it stood in his way. He very properly, therefore, espe cially as his antagonist far outnumbered him, acted on the defensive, and constructed en trenchments wherever he could, and suffered * Grant to come up. as he knew he would, and i dash his brains against our works. The re sult is, Grant's army has been depleted one half, while Lee's is still intact, ready to be used when the proper time comes with terri ble effect, as the enemy will discover in due season. The War Nevrs. ALL QUIET IX FRONT—SHERIDAN S RAIDING PARTY. There is no news of interest from Gefl. Lee’s army. Grant is reported still to be busily engaged in fortifying in our front, and evi dently does not design to accept or offer bat tle again until he is reinforced; even then opinions differ as to whether he will fight in his present position, or attempt to make his way to James river, where he would have the co-operation of the gunboats and Butler’s forces on the Southside. Whatever may be his intention, our army is, ready to-day to enter into a general engagement, with the ut most confidence as to the result. Accounts from Bottom’s; Bridge represent everything quiet in that direction. shiridan’s movements. . An official dispatch, received yesterday, states that Sheridan’s forces encamped on Thursday night at New Market, in Spottsyl vania eountr, about five miles from Ohiids burg, and ten miles south of Spottsylvania Court House. We have good authority tor stating that General Hampton was between them and Gordonsville. A citizen of Caro line aounty, who arrived in this city yester day, states that Sheridan’s command is about 8,000 strong, with ten pieces of artillery, and that they moved in three columns. Other accounts, however, represent the force as con siderably greater in numerical strength. A rumor was in circulation yesterday that Hampton had surprised the enemy’s camp and put them to rout, but this lacks confirmation. We only know with certainty that some pris oners had been captured, who were seen by a scout yesterday on the way to Richmond. FROM THE VALLEY OF VIRGINIA. We have received some further intelligence from the Valley. Crook and Awerill joined Hunter on Wednesday at Staunton, at which time a portion of their forces were on the Greenville and Middltbrook road. On the same day, at 3 o’clock p. m., five hundred cav alry made a demonstration on Waynesboro’, on the Greenville and Staunton road, and were repulsed by Gen. Imboden. The enemy retreated to Staunton, burning the Fishers ville Depot on the route. Pope, with a force of 4,000, was reported moving down the Valley to reinforce Hunter. The enemy have no supplies, but subsist off the country. They were doubtless aware of the richness of the region into which they have penetrated, and will strip the inhabitants of everything they possess. A dispatch from Mountain Top says our troops are in fine spirits, and anxious to meas ure strength with the enemy. The Yankee cavalry made another advanee on Thursday, but were easily repulsed by Imboden’s in fantry.—Richmond Dispatch , 11 th. Thu Tinder Mircies of the Wicked.— The Vicksburg correspondent of the New York Tribune gives the following account of the negroes torn from their homes by Gen. Sher man in Mississippi : Some 3,000 slaves, of all ages and colors reached here yesterday. It was one of the saddest spectacles witnessed for a long time in Vicksburg. The women and children were almost starved and half naked. Such a ter rible picture of abject want and squalid mis ery can neither be imagined nor portrayed with pen. Many of the women and children were sick with fevers, brought on by the great fatigue and exposure of the long march from Meridian, Enterprise, Quitman and other places. Will not the friends of freedom and the humane philanthropists of the North come forward at once, and with their generous hands rescue these liberated slaves from pre mature graves. We learn from the Boston Courier of a later date that the suffering of these poor homeless wretches continued in all its intensity. No more political capital could bo made out of them, and nothing was done to help them. They were free to perish. —. <»—«. (From the Macon Telegraph.) From Morgan’s Command. In Camp, 13 Miles from the Kr. Line, ] Juno Ist, 1864. j Mr. Clisbt: —I this morning bid adieu to “Dixie.” The long wished for orders have come at last, and we are already one day’s march on our way to the green waving fields of Kentucky. Morgan is in the saddle once more, and ere long the Yanks will tremble at his sudden approach.— We have 2500 of the best; men that ever drew the blade in defence of Southern liberties. We intend to hare whsjt the motto on our ban ner calls for, “Southern Rights, or Northern Guts.” I must bid adieu to you and all my Georgia friends. Excuse this short epistle, for the shrill notes of the bugle are blowing “saddle up ! You will hear from me again, if I should be tunate enough to get back to Dixie once more. Respectfully, Eugene Graves, Morgan’s Command. - A Northern Description of the Situation. —The Washington correspondent of the Cinoin nati Commercial gets off the following happy hit at street corner campaigners. We will only re mark that Washington can hardly be ahead of Nashville in the conveniences of mud or dust in which to draw diagrams, and we have »o reason to think that eur population are at all inferior in the endowments of intuitive strategy .* Washington, May 2, 1864. Everybody in Washington Beems to be afflicted with “situation on the brain”—which, however, is but a patriotic anxiety far the success of the Union army, and a desire to demonstrate how easily it can be brought about, and how certain it is to bo achieved. In front of every hotel, and at every street corner, you will see little groups of honor able gentlemen, and gentlemen who are not as honorable as they might be, perhaps, discussing the relative positions of Lee and Grant with great vehemence, and demonstrating how Grant will flank Lee and get to Richmond, or "how Lee will flank Grant and try to get to Washington—every proposition happily illustrated by an engraving with the point es a walking stick in the dust of the sidewalk. [Washington is a good place for such | illustrations. You can always sketch out a map of the word either in the dust or the mud on the sidewalk.] The “artist" makes a straight line — “That's Grant's army.” “Yes, very well,” says the bystander. Another straight line—“ That’s Lee.” “Os course, that’s plain enough.” “Well, here’s Richmond”—and the artist per forates a little mud heap in the rear of both lines. The problem is now pretty nearly solved. With the whole sidewalk to operate on, it would be very strange if Grant couldn't swing his line around ! into the rear of Lee's and march into the rebel capital. In the ardor of their patriotism the citi sen campaigners usually negleet to give Lee a I chance to fortify—or even to fall back before the i invinoibie oolumns oftae Union leaders. Here’s ; Grant ; here’s Lee, and here’s Richmond”—ail done in two strokes and a dot of the walking stiek. i Carlyle’s “Iliad in a Nutshell” is nowhere, com pared with this Laconic demonstration of the great i problem of Giant and Lee. Walking stick strategy is the thing after all. It will break the back bona of the rebellion quicker than anything I know of. ■ * ■ Many ladies think themselves utterly unable to walk a mile, would gladly danca three times that distance. $4.00 Fer Month TELBSR APEIC. Reports of the Press Association Entered aecordin* to act of Congress in the yeai J- S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office ol the District Court of the Confederate States foi the Northern District of Georgia. Latest from Virginia! Official Dispatch from General Lee. Grant Recreating to the James River. &c., Ac. Richmond, June 15.—Headquarters, June 14th, 9 o'clock, P. M. —The force of the enemy Itentioned in my last dispatch, being on the Long Bridge road, disappeared during the night. It was probably advanced to cover the movement of the main body, mest of which, a* far as I can learn, crossed the Cbickahominy at Long Bridge and below, and has reached James river at Westover and Wilcox’s land ing. • A portion of Grant’s army upon leaving our front at Cold Harbor, is reported to have pro ceeded to the White House, and embarked at that place. Everything is said to have been removed. The Depot at the White House broken up, cars, engine, railroad iron and bridge timber brought to that point, were also re-shipped. Respectfully, R. E. LEE, Gen’l. Richmond, June 14. — Our cavalry yesterday evening gave back some two miles above Rid dle’s shop towards Richmond until strength ened by Wilcox’s and a part of Mahone’s in fantry, when the enemy’s force, consisting of two divisions of infantry, artillery and caval ry, were encountered and driven back some three or four miles below Riddle’s shop to wards Long Bridge, thereby recovering the road to Malvern Hill, which the enemy atone time held. This move of the enemy was a mere feint. Last night they again withdrew from our front, and are reported to-day to be moving towards James river at Shirly, on both sides of the Chickahominy. Some seventy more prisoners, captured in their breastworks in the brush of yesterday, have been brought in. Grant’s exact whereabouts or intentions have not been ascertained. Richmond, June 13.—The Washington Chron icle of tho 12th has been received. Gold at the first board, 199 J. Morgan is reported as leaving Kentucky by nearly the same direction as ho entered. Other news unimportant. Miscellaneous. A dispatch from Cairo, on the sth, says the ateamer Missouri, from New Orleans, was fired into at Columbia by a battery. Sixty shots were fired at her, eight of which struck. But one person was woun ded. Most of the boats lately burned at New Orleans belonged to the Government, and were valued at $250,000. The fire was the work of an incendiary. A dispatch from St. Louis, dated June 5, represents the Confederates as very ac tive in the neighborhood of Cape Girar deau. On the night of the 2d two hun dred guerillas were in camp near Pittson, at a mill, grinding corn. A force of guer* illas is reported on Cave Island, and an other band at Doneghan. Col. Rogers, commanding at Cape Girardeau, thinks the movements of the guerillas are inten ded to cover an attack upon some import tant point, and that Mcßae will probably make a demonstration on Patterson. An extract from the Washington cor respondence of the Herald exhibits in the strongest light the bankrupt condition of the Yankee Government. The expenses of the Government have been run np from two millions per day, in 1802 and 1863, to four millions per day in 1864. A dispatch from Col. Rogers, dated Cape Girardeau, June 3, says: “The whole company of guerillas crossed the river and swamp, and were within eight miles of here last night. They have cut the telegraph line to New Madrid.” The presence of these bands of gueril las is accounted for by the abandonment of Batesville and Jackson port by the Uns ion troops, which leaves the country open to the rebels of Arkansas. A daily line of fast Government steam ers between Washington and White House, on the Pamunkey, has been estate lished, making the trip in about twenty hours. They are to carry officers and sol diers and light stores to White ‘House, and bring back wounded. Fremont and Cochrane, have accepted the nomination of the Cleveland Conven tion. Fremont, as a he says, to accepting the nomination, has re signed his commission in the army. He is very bitter on Lincoln in his letter of acceptance. Chili is reported to have joined Peru in the war with Spain. The seizure of the Chincha Islands by the latter is warm ly resented by Bolivia also. Smith’s corps and two divisions of Giil more’s corps were seat from Butler to Grant. The New York World gives an account of the trigin of anew political and military or ganization. called the “D. M. D.,” or Defend ers of the Monroe Doctrine. The movement, ; it is Bail, originated with a New York officer, while engaged in the Seathwest. He started a secret clan in Memphis, and 300a after an other in New Orleans. Another was organ zed in Buffalo, and others are forming in New York city. These defenders propose, iL is said, to aid Jaarez against the French in Mex i iico. Nxw Papkh Mills.—The Atlanta Appca of Saturday, has the following : Fulton Papke Mills. —We are extremely delighted yesterday evening on a visit to ih • Fulton Paper Mills, to witness the energy with which this valuable enterprise is being conducted. It is situated on the classic wa ters of Sugar creek in DeKalb county, about lii|Biks distant from the Gate City, and sur rounded by picturesque hills and dales On the 24th of June, 1863, the work was inaugu rated by the eotmnenoement of a dam across tho creek to supply water fer the huge rag wheel. The dam ie massive and substantial, affording an abundant supply of water. Ar rangements are being perfected sot the con ducting of pure spring water to the building, for the purpose of aiding in the manufacture of a whiter and better article of paper. The buildings and machinery are new and perfect, and although not complete in alls its detail!, under the guidance and skill of its energetic foreman, Mr. T. F. Scully, a veteran in the business, the mills are turning out an excel lent article of paper. It is not as white desired, because they have not, as yes , secured bleaching powder, but the body is good. Sev eral months ago, ere they commenced making felts at Columbus, Mr. Scully, assisted by a lady, spun the filling and wots the dryer felts now used in the mill. The felt is equal to th* best English manufactured, and attests the capacity of our people to manufacture all nec essary articles. Capt. G. J. Foreacre, well known to our citizens for his ability and en terprize, is superintendent. The success o f this enterprise is equivalent to a brilliant vic tory. . . . * One Plain Question. There are pauses in the life of nations, as of men, which compel reflection and self-ques tioning; pauses mercifully giantcd by a gra cious Providence te tbe inteat that we may clearly see our true position, and may then speed stoutly onward in a course, however rongh, which is illuminated by the light of an approving conscience; or, else turn back and flee in horror and remorse from some abyss of darkness and destruction. Such a pause is new. After fearful throes and wres tlings, we have had a breathing space, and now the dark-stained sword is leaping from the scabbard. On the banks of the Potomac we are mustering countless hosts, perhaps to perish like their predecessors. From the Mississippi comes the rautterings of incipient battle, and the fierce shout of a defiant foe.— Few weeks can now pass ere the millions of our people writhe once more in the agonies of expectation, hope, grief and despair. A few days more, perhaps, and some, till now, un heard of field, will have its name stained dark ly on that calendar of fratricidal blood, whose first red mark was crimsoned on the brow of Cain. But for a moment, we may pause, and if our voice can yet be heard above the fiddling of the White House, Ihe wild saturnalia of a forgotten God and outraged human nature, to ask: What is all this for? Aye, press the question home—what is it for ? The track of the three years past, is marked by devasta tions, fire and sword. Within our own homes are th# dark weeds of mourning. In the dwellings of our enemies, the Eye which guar ded rebel Israel from Egypt, can alone see how Rachel weeps for her children, for to us she wears the proud front of a Judith, or the noble air of the mother of the Maccabees.— Our chief boast lately was that she was starv ing. Look at our trophies. The blazing roof, the desolated lands, the bloody sod, the crowd ed hospital, the presidential joke, thousands upon thousands of maimed cripples, hundred and hundreds of thousands of millions of debt. What it is all for? Assuredly, the Judge of all the Earth will take no trifling answer from the authors of these horrors. The lords of misrule, whose carnival is graced by those grim bonbons, used to tell us that the war was for the Union, the suppres sion of a lawless insurrection and rebellion and the preservation of the great hope of con stitutional liberty throughout the world.— When this hideous war began, they dared not show the Mephistopheles that grinned behind this graceful mask of Union patriotism and world-wide brotherhood. They knew that we and all mankind would have shrunk back with execration from the fiend. They trusted to the bloodsmell that should make us wild, and craze onr wits, and blind our eyes to everything but blood. “I knew they would do it,” Mr. Lincoln is reported to have said, when informed that Sumter had been flred cn. And the Abolition Mephisto pheles laughed gleefully thereat. He knew what we would do; and, Heaven forgive us. he tyid only too well gauged our readiness to do his devilish behests. But the time has come when, with tbe cool smile of accomplished villiany, tho mask may be thrown oft’. “The little job,” as our rev erend chief magistrate would say, “has paid, and now the flag of the abolition pirate may be run up. “The mask of Mephistophelus is off.” Eve ry pretence that brought our sons and broth ers, by the hundred thousand, to be slaugh tered in the shambles cf the South, is now ac knowledged by the abolition ruinists to have been false. We have been mocked, deluded, hoodwinked. This is not a war for the Union and Constitution. They are “abrogated.” It is not a lawful war for the establishment of constitutional authority. It is professedly an unconstitutional an unjust war for the con quest of a free and independent nation of our own speech and our own blood. Once, then, again we ask-. What is all this war of conquest for? What liaTe we made, what can we make at best, but more blood shed and more debt? Sir Robert Walpole used to say that he never read history, for that he knew was false ; and when we &ck the question what all this is for, we seek no an swer from the Abolition Mephistophelies.— That we certainly false. But from the hon est, concientious masses who have been de luded by pretenses and blinded by the mad ness of the hour—the men who are always more and more ready to correct than commit a wrong—the men wh# do not believe in tho “Anti-LSJavery Bible and the Anti-Slavery God”—the men who do not believe in a Goa who is “the author of peace and lover of con cord,” a God that “verily judgeth the earth”— the men who feei that we shall ail have yet to answer for this great “bloodgiltiness”—from these we do ask that, before they shall again be blinded with tbe red glare of the lurid war light, they demanded of their own ( eonscieneea. as in the sight of God. What is this for?— And, if there b* no better reason than the pleasure of blood-thirsty parasites and the amusement of a toculer Chief Magistrate, then let them join, with all good men, in hurjing from their seats the foul conspirators at Wash ington, who plotted a nation’s folly, andTiave played upon our noblest impulses and princi ples to make us tools and playthings of a bloo dy abolition Moloch.—Y. V. Xews. m » m Frem the Memphis Appeal, 13th. The Front. But little additional of importance can be repor tedfrem the front ia Georgia. Sheruian is stated to be strongly intrenching in his new position, a; if intending to make it the base of anew combinatiea of operation*. Our information from various sources 'l3 that tho bridge over,tbe Etowah has been rebuit, but wo have no report that trains have been run to that point. __ Big Sh inty is occupied by the enemy, who aro reported by refugees to have been more outrageous in their conduct towards the citizens than at any other point. Our lines extend from the northwest side of Ken aesaw mountain to a point east of tbe railroad, crossing the latter ab ‘Ut three milts above Marietta Polk’s corps was yesterday on the left, Hood’s in the 1 center, and Hardee’s on the richt, Sheruian appears to be directing his “flank” movements on our right, and to have abandoned the ( “,,n to Atlanta” movement via Dallas. Os course i his changes have induced corresponding move . inents on the part of our forces ; but there is noth - ' ing in the latter to warrant the fears that obtained i in some quarters in the rear yesterday. A: tho ! front it is understood all is <joing on well. Ine reply ,of the President to Governor Vance, i says the Examiner, must be allowod to be consid | ®red to he exclusive,straight-forward and thorough, j If there were anything honest in tho whole outcry j about negotiations for Peace, this letter would id »ae the remainder of the war.
