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WU instate ®tas. .1. W. WARREN, - - - Editor. Saturday Morning, June 18, 1864. ‘..Several exchanges have actually or inci dentally adopted “South-land” as a convenient cOinmou designation for the territory of the Confederate States. That we need a territo rial designation more convenient and manage- IvTia in verse and speech for common use, than thi officii and political title, “Confederate States of America,” is admitted by all and is but a continuance of the want felt under the United States, to supply which many sugges tions have been made. We repeatedly invoked consideration to this mattei, and believe wc may claim for the Courier the firs nrooosilion of “South-land,” which has been adopted at least by the author of a prize Song ]a We ‘shalta pleased, however, to receive „o“n, an/proposal, 0f.., or correspondents who can offer . name bet ter in all respects and considerations. 1,1 1 [Charleston Courier. We fully concur with the Charleston Corn ier, in the sentiments expressed in the above extract; but we object to the name suggested. Indeed, we think that the national appellative should be reserved, until our independence shall be secured. That being made sure, the Couriers own State should have the honor of giving a name to the Confederacy, and ‘‘Pal metto” would be the name that we would suggest. But while the country is smarting under the consequences of the revolution which she has initiated, she stands where Mosps stood, when troubles gathered upon the people whom he led out of bondage: the special object of blame for no fault of hers. We trust that the same spirit moved both, and that like rewards will be vouchsafed to both. But while thousands of our countrymen in tribulation, are sighing for flesh-pots of Yan kccdorn, it is no time to propose honors to the heroic State. Nor is it altogether certain as yet that we shall gain our independence ; and if we must fall, let us not gladden the hearts of the Yankees by falling under that name. The best name that we could select at this time would be “Washingtonia.” Then if we fall, let the Yankees take to themselves the glory of having conquered a people, fighting under the name of the man who gave them independence, and for the principles which they asserted, he espoused, and the whole country agonized to establish through seven 'bloody jrears. # Joint Resolution Declaring the dispositions, principles and pur poses of the Confederate States in relation to the existing war ivith the United States. Whereas, it is due to the great cause of humanity and civilization, and especially to the heroic sacrifices of their gallant army in the field, that no means, consistent with a proper self-respect and the approved usages of nations, should be omitted by the Confed erates States to enlighten the public opinion of the world with regard to the true character of the struggle in which they are eng%ged, and the dispositions, principles and purposes by which they are actuated; therefore. Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the following manifes to be issued in their name and by their author ity, and that the President be requested to cause copies thereof to be transmitted to our commissioners abroad to the end that she same may be laid before foreigu Govern ments. Manifesto of the Congress of the Confederate States of America relative to the existing tear with the United States. The Congress of the Confederate States of America acknowledging, their responsibility to the opinion of the civilized world, to the great law of Christian philanthropy, and to the Supreme Ruler of the universe, for the part they have been compelled to bear in tbe sad spectacle of war and carnage which this •ontinent has, for the last three years, exhib ited to the eyes of afflicted humanity, deems the present a fitting occasion to declare the principles, the sentiments and the purposes by which they have been and are still actu ated. They have ever deeply deplored the neces sity which constrained them to take up arms in defence of their rights and of the free in stitutions derived from their ancestors ; and there is nothing they more ardently desire than peace, whenever their enemy, by ceasing from the unhallowed war waged upon them, shall permit them to .enjoy in peace the shel tering protection of those hereditary rights and of those cherished institutions. The se ries of successes with which it has pleased Almighty God, in so signal a manner, to bless our arms on almost every point of our invaded bordeis since the opening of the present cam paign, enables us to profess this desire of peace in the interests of civilization and hu manity without danger of having our motives misinterpreted, or of the declaration ascribed to any unmanly sentiment or any distrust of our ability fully to maintain our cause. The repeated and disastrous checks, foreshadow ing ultimate discomfitthre, which their gigan* tic army, directed against the capital of the Confederacy, has already met with, are but a continuation of the same providential success for us. We do not refer these successes in any spirit of vain boasting, but in humble ac knowledgment of that Almighty protection which has vouchsafed and granted them. The world must now see that eight millions of people, inhabiting so extensive a territory, with such varied resources and such numer ous facilities for defences as the benignant bounty of nature has bestowed upon us, and animated with one spirit to encounter every privation and sacrifice of ease, of health, of property, of life itself, rather than be degraded form the condition of free and independent States into which they were born, can never be conquered. Will not our adversaries them selves begin to feel that humanity has bled long enough ; that tears and blood and treas- ure enough have been expended in a bootless undertaking, covering their land, no less than ours,'with a pall of mourning, and exposing tlrtm far more than ourselves to the catastro- j phe of financial exhaustion and bankruptcy, not to speak of the loss of their liberties by the despotism engendered in an aggressive war, upon the liberties ot another and kindred people ’ Will they be willing, by a longer perserverance in a wanton and hopeless con- test, to make this continent, which they so long boasted to be the chosen abode of liberty and self-government, of peace and a higher civilization, the theatre of the most causeless and prodigal effusion or blood which the world has ever seen, of a virtual relapse into the barbarisms of the ruder ages, and of the destruction of constitutional freedom by the lawlessness of usurped power? These are questions which our adversaries will decide tor themselves. V*'e desire to stand acquitted before the tribunal ot the world, ns well as in the eyes of Omniscient Justice, of any responsibility for the origin or prolongation of a, war as contrary to the spir it of the age as to the traditions and acknowl edged maxims of the political system of Amer ica. ; -V**,* continent, whatever opinion may have F*7*}" and olacwhere, it has ever been held and-ac , r i “ e parties that Government,-to be lawful, must he lounded on the consent of the governed. We were forced to disaolve our federal connection with our former associates by their ag gressions on the fundamental principles of our compact of union with them; and in doing so we exercise a right consecrated in tho great charter •f American liberty—the right ot a * r ® e P eo P le » when a government proves destructive of the ends for which it was established, to recur to original j principles a.d te institute new guards for their se curity. The separate independence of the States, as sovereign and co-equal members of the 1 ederal Union, had never boon surrendered, and the pre tension of applying to independent communities, so constituted and organized, the ordinary ru.es ot coercion, and reducing rebellious subjects to ooe dience, was a solecism in terms, as well as an out rage on the principles of law. The war made upon the Confederate States was, therefore, wholly one of aggression. On our side, it has been strictly defensive. Born the descendants of a gallant ancestry, ded option but to stand up in defence of vio i ate d firesides, of eur desecrated altar jb.. _ reßcr i p tive liberties and birthright, and of P. P institutions which guard andpretoet have not interfered, nor do we wish, may ner whatever, to interfere with h . q hostility and prosperity of the Sdates *rr y ' of their against us, or with the freest a* ve P uoliev destinies in any form of action, or they mav think proper to adopt fer themselves. AlUwe ask. is alike immunity for ourselves, and to be left in the undisturbed enjoyment of those inalienable rights of “life, liberty, and the pmsmi of happiness,” which our common ancestors de dared to be tho equal heritage of all the parties to the soeial compact. , ~ Let them forbear aggressions upon us, and me war is at an end. If there be questions which re quire adjustment by negotiation, we have ever been willing and are still willing to enter into com munication with our adversaries in a spirit ot peace, of equity, and manly frankness. Stron 1 iiiatieo of our c&uscj iu tho the persuasion ot tne jusuco ui vu* j gallant devotion of our citizen-soldiers, and of the whole body of our people, and above all in the gracious protection of Heaven, we are not afraid to avow a sincere desire for peace on terms consis tent with our honor and the permanent security of our rights, and an earnest aspiration to see the world once more restored to tho benificent pursuits of industry and of mutual intercourse and ex changes, so essential to its well-being, and which have been so gravely interrupted by the existence of this unnatural war in America. But if our adversaries, or those whom they have placed in authority, deaf to the voice of reason and justice, steeled against the dictates of both prudence and humanity by the presumptuous and delusive confidence in their own numbers, or those of their black and foreign mercenaries, shall de termine upon an indefinite prolongation of the contest, upon them be the responsibility of a de cision so ruinous to themselves, and so injurious to the interests and repose of mankind. . For ourselves, wo have no fear of tho result. The wildest pictures eve'r drawn of a disordered imagination comes short of the extravagance which could dream of the. conquest of eight mill ions of people, resolved with one mind “to die freemen rather than live slaves,” and forewarned by the savage and exterminating spirit in w hich this war has been waged upon them, and by the mad avowals of its patrons and supporters, of the worse than Egyptian bondage that awaits them in tho event of thuir subjugation. With these declarations of our dispositions, our principles, and our purposes, we commit our cause to the enlightened judgment of the world, to the sober reflection of our adversaries themselves, and to the solemn and righteous arbitrament of Hoaven. Latest from Europe. THE LATE BATTLES IN VIRGINIA. Opinions of the British Press—They Generally Favor the Confederate Cause. have received at this office, says tho Petersburg Express, 13th, very late and in teresting European news.* The British opin ion of ths great struggle in Virginia, will be ascertained upon a perusal of the following extracts : lord palmkrston’s report of the pctsition OF THE ARMIES. In the House of Commons on the 27th of May, Mr. Hilliburton asked the noble lord at the head of the government whether he had received any intelligence confirming the ru mored defeat of the Federals by Gen. Lee. Lord Palmerston —The latest intelligence that I have seen in the papers to-day, was up to, I think, the 16th. At that time no fresh action had taken place between the armies. They were looking at each other. I have not seen the more recent accounts to which the honorable member refers. Sir W. Frazer asked whether tho Admiralty had any additional intelligence. Lord C. Paget —No. ENCOURAGING FROM THE THUNDERER. [From the London Times, May 28th.] * * * The actual capture of Richmond, even if that triumph should crown Grant’s despsrate enterprise, will not bring the North a step nearer to the restoration of the Union or the conquest of the South. The saying of President Davis that the war could be pro longed for twenty years, even in the State of Virginia, after Richmond had fallen, will be in everybody’s recollection, and if Grant ever reaches that city he may find that his tool and resolute adversary, after exacting the ut most obtainable price for it in blood and slaughter will leave the position in his hands with no greater value in it than attached to the Wilderness after it had served its time and the fighting was done. After what has now been divulged of the plans and recorded of the operations of the contending armies we can estimate witli little difficulty the prospects of the campaign. It is litterally a question of military arithmetic. Putting aside for the moment the value of the prize and the im portance or unimportance of the result, we have only to calculate whether Lee, with the resources at his command, can, by the process which he is so effectually employing, exhaust the resources of Grant before he reaches Richmond, or whether, on the contrary, in the common consumption of life, Grant can out- last Lee. If Grant possess strength enough to continue to attack as he has attacked, it is clear that in the end he will arrive, in some plight or other, before the defences of Rich mond, and, if he can still maintain the same rate of expenditure, will some day enter the city. He, himself writes Secretary* Stanton : “I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer,” and he has shown by his conduct that we may take him at his word. If, however, his cool, resolute and skillful ad versary, should be strong enough to continue up to the walls of the capital, the tactics which he has hitherto employed, and if he can make Grant pay at the current rate for every mile of ground, it may be a question whether the resources or endurance of the federals themselves will prove as inexhaustible as the obstinacy of their General. At present we j can only see that this dreadful game has been I played by both parties through twelve days of battle and carnage, without surrender on either side. We have heard what Grant na& been doing, and he himself does lull justice, in his curt, but truthful dispatches, to the un conquerable heroism of his adversary. It is the rudest and most savage issue of the war— who can stand the most killing? It is more than ever difficut to predict the result ot a contest of endurance, but the advantages ol ; ground, position and intelligence, arc with the Confederates, and Washington has more than once been in greater danger ot capture than we believe Richmond to be now. WHAT THE WHIGS AND GOVERNMENT MEN THINK OF THE YANKEE TKICMPKS. TFrom the London Post (Cabinet Organ) May L 28th.] If the North really-consider the battle in Virginia a victory, I! can only be because they have been so accusiPitVA ti Jo be disgracefully beaten in that quarter by fepn. Lee. that they look upon anything shot t of utter and disas trous defeat as. n triumph. Upon r he same principle, it Js ju-esuravd that shot: id Grant be ultimately dri^^- back and routed, they will not takt-rit to heart, having become so habituated to failure, that they regard it as the normal and natural order ot things. Any- i thing s hoti.Qi" repulse and the narrowest pos- i sible esb»pe from complete destruction for the Grand Army of the Potomac, in its - ; oti to : Richmond" exploits, will indeed be agreeable 3Umri?° for the Feuerals— almost as street a surprise as the unexpected oaptu.e o, :»tc.i mond would be lor the South. It would be a novelty in its way. perfectly original and un ique The latest telegrams from the North, i which we print to-day. tend to show that if the Federals succeed in fighting a drawn bat tle which, for them, is virtually equivalent to a defeat, they may think themselves fortunate. Both the flank and the direct attempts to reach Richmond, have thus far signally fail ed. The pretended retreat of Gen. Lee, and his “pursuit” by Grant, previously asserted by the Federals, are now expresely contradicted by them. ****** It is a great mistake to estimate the merits of a cause by the ability and preseverance with which it is conducted. The Thug will track his unconscious victim for days and weeks, or even months, through cold and hunger, and a thousand difficulties to strangle him at last— not for gain, not for the smallest fraction of any tangible good to be got for himself by it, but simply to fulfill what he considers his du ty to the sanguinary dfvinity he worships. So in the Northern armies, there is r no doubt, besides mercenaries, many a grim fanatic, laboring under the'delusion that he is fighting “the battles of the Lord,” in a crusade against slavery—many a political enthusiast, who is ready with the best and most disinterested intentions, to offer up six millions of South erners on the bloody shrine of “the Union as it was.” But after all the truth is, that the North do not fight so well as the South. [From the London Herald, (Derby Organ) May 27th, 1864.] WHAT THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY THINK. If the American quarrel is to be decided by the ordeal of battle, it can hardly be said to be in a fair way of receiving any distinct solu tion at present. Though some fifty thousand men at least have been killed and wounded in a week, mail after mail which brings us news from the battle fields in Virginia represents the result of this fighting as still indecisive. The circumstances are such as to suggest to us a very precise balance of advantages on either side—enough, indeed, to make us doubtful as to the issue of events. On the one side the power of almost overwhelming numbers, with a ferocious energy which has not been parall eled in the former history of the war —on the other side the perfection of scientific strategy , with an equal determination to conquer or die. As the battle between Greeks and Trojans, where the Father of the gods considered it such a perfect match that he urged upon his fellow banqueters the propriety of not inter fering on either side, so -as to spoil the game, this great match between the Federal and the Confederate, seems so even that the very ex pression of sympathy for either, from the far off spectators of the combat, has something of unfairness in it. We will do Gen. Grant the justice to say that he has made the most di rect, and perhaps the most skillful attack that has yet been levelled at the Southern capital. It must be confessed, however, that all previ ous attacks have been miserable failures ; and it is not improbable that this will turn out to be the completest failure of all, for the very reason that it has approached nearest to a success. On the morning of the 13th May, the Feder als found that the enemy had disappeared from their front, and the latest accounts leave them following slowly and painfully through thick mud that offers a serious impedi ment to the transport of artillery. Time will show the object of the Southern General in this movement. He may wish to prevent his right flank from being turned by an advance along the Fredericksburg railroad. He may find the position on the Po creek too favorable to the Federal artillery and too far from his supplies. The advance of Butler along James river may have made him anxious about the safety of Richmond. He may wish to draw the Federal army into the heart of a difficult country, some ten miles futher South of its base of operations, that he may be the better enabled to surround it and complete its de struction. The position of Grant is now per ilous in an extreme degree. He has gone bo far that he has no longer an opportunity of escape in case of danger. There is, to all ap pearance, but one alternative left to him—he musteither drive Lee from his front, or be him self annihilated. [From the London Telegraph, May 27.] GRANT MUST GO FORWARD. As long, indeed, as Grant moves onward, so long will New York believe in him. But suppose he calls a halt—suppose that his crip pled forces are held for more than a few days in check before some other rifle pits and breast works stronger than those at Spottsyh ania ? To measure the probable re-action, wt must remember that au almost bloodless victory was hoped for, and that the same journal which records these sanguinary struggles, very recently expressed its opinion that the cam paign would result “in the rebel evacuation of the city, and Lee’s retreat into North Carolina without a battle, in order to save his army.”— That dream,-at any rate, has been dispelled; and on the first indication of evil fortune, New York, suddenly recovering from an ex citement that is almost madness, will confess that twenty miles of Virginia soil may have been dearly won at the price of men for every mile. [From the Manchester Examiner, May 28.] THE FEELING IN MANCHESTER. * * * A survey of these diffi culties will enable us to understand the con siderations which General Lee must take into account in determining the tactics of the cam paign. A retreat to Richmond "would simplify the situation, and seem to afford him so many advantages—if that is the word to use where everything looks disadvantageous—that we shall not be surprised to hear of his marching thither at once. He is menaced with an ava lanche of disaster, and if he should avert it from crushing him it will be next to a miracle of energy and skill. In coolness, infertility of resources, in promptness of decision, and, above all, in unflinching resplution, Grant has immeasurably distanced his predecessors. — The federal soldiers have fought as they never fought before on the soil of Virginia, than which, perhaps, no tribute to their prowess could be higher. It is simple truth to say, that tho Confederates have astonished the world by their heroism. It Q** s been a revelation of Southern character which their antecedents led but few to anticipate, and which, even from those who most severely c >n demn the cause for which they have taken up arms, must command all the respect which the highest military qualities can inspire. OPINION IN LIVERPOOL. (From the Liverpool Mercury, May 27'.) « * * General Grant will have to* follow them, dragging all his supplies over broken roads and through swollen streams. All the circumstan ces of these desperate battles give one a high re spect for ihe bra very both of the Federal and Con federate armies; but all the generalship appears to be on the side of the Confederates. Gen. Lee seems to have the power of compelling Gen. Grant to fight him in the positions most favorable for an invading army. It is doubtful whether the fede rals have been able to use their splendid artillery in any of the recent battles, while the Confede rates have been able to. make much use of theirs. A Prophecy About to be Fulfilled. —The Atlanta Confederacy says: It is a weather prophecy with the French that, if the Bth day of June fall on a and’ that particular Wednesday should be'* ; a '"-day of rain, each succeeding day for a period of forty shaii also be a day of showers. The Sth of the present dismal June did come in on a Wednes day. Each su -feeding twenty-four hours up to the present writing has had its one or bait dozen show- rs. The ,Ta:':e skies are still om i-t, with anything bat a fair prospect of a cess . ini, and the French idea may hold good here in our West ern land, to the discomfiture <>f Sherman and his teamsters, and to the disgust of all untented sol diers. The roads are in terrible condition, with their accumulation of finished el ay and water. Gen. Seymour’s predictions concerning the Par rott shells may perhaps fail in distance. With the brut intentions possible the |makeis and timers of these implements of ••union” may not succeed in tin owing their fraternal arguments and appeals for reconsrructior to the distance of six and a h.tif miles. To give the Yankee prisoners the her it of the and üb' ar.d better opportunities of observa tion. thev h mid be distributed so that some may be well within hat range and all close up to Ouarier, lit.'.-. Geh. Grant's army ward robe” is said to consist of a held glass, a briar-wood pipe, a fvoth brush and corkscrew. gBLBgRAPHIO;, Reports of the Press Association. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1863. by J. S, Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the Confederate States for tho Northern District of Georgia. Latest from Virginia. Enemy Repulsed at Petersburg. Latest from the Georgia Front. Sherman Again Driven Bark. &C>t &C»t &c. Petersburg, June 17.—The assault on Battery 16 last evening was handsomely repulsed by Bush rod Johnson’s division, and about 450 prisoners captured belonging to Hancock’s corps. They state that Gen. Barton was mortally wounded. Our forces" met with a slight reverse at the same point this morning, but an assault at the same place at 3 o’clock this afternoon was re pulsed. It is believed that the enemy have a heavy force massed in front of Petersburg. Col. Page, Wise’s Brigade, killed this morning; Capt. Fred Carter, Richmond Blues, wounded Wednesday night, died to-day ; Col. Randolph Thomasson, mortally wounded in the same fight, doing well; Lieut. Col. Wise, severely wounded, improving. Three Miles West op Marietta, June 17. The enemy made an attack in three lines of battle on our extreme left near Lost Mountain and wore received with terrific volleys of artillery and mus ketry. They were driven backwards and our forces strewed the ground with dead and wounded of the enemy. Mhe fight occurred at 2p. m: Full accounts not yet received. The enemy cannonade our works in the centre of our lines furiously. Both lines remain substantially the same as yesterday. The enemy continue foitifying. They attempt cd'to shell our Signal Corps on Ivennessaw Moun tain but they could not reach the top of the moun tain. Clinton, La., June 17.—Wednesday morning at daylight, Col. Scott’s batteries attacked and drove off gunboats 53 and tho Bragg, at Como Landing and Radeliffe’s Ferry. The engagement lasted four hours, when the gunboat Lafayette cameup and S<?ptt withdrew. Last night the engagement was renewed and the Bragg was towed off with thirty shot through her. jfj There is much moving of Yankee transports up and down the river between Port Hudson and New Orleans. Meridian, June IS.—The latest reports from the Mississippi river state that Marmaduke has gone towards Little Rock. A. J. Smith landed troops below Marmaduke and was about to flank him when he withdrew taking all his booty and stores with him. Marmaduke has injured a great many of the enemy’s vessels in the river. The small pox is very bad in the Yankee camps at Vicksburg and is spreading among the citizens. Gold in Vicksburg, 207. Another Massacre Probable.— We clip the following item from the news column of the N. Y. Herald of the 3d. We hope our authorities will look closely to the matter and demand an eye for an eye: General Butler has issued an order that the Rebel prisoners captured by General Wild in his recent engagements on James river, and sent to Fortress Monroe, shall be returned to Gen. Wild’s headquar ters, to be dealt with in some fashion not made known. The order is interpreted to moan some re taliation for the shooting of colored troops captured from General Wild. Missouri Congressmen. —The following are the newly elected Congressmen from Missouri: First District—Thomas I^Suead. Second District—N. L. Norton- Third District—John B. Clark. Fourth District—A. H. Conrow. Fifth District—George G. Vest. Sixth District—Peter L. Wilkes. Seventh District—Robert A. Hatcher. From the Richmond Enquirer. Th* following spicy and characteristic poetical epistle, from the versatile pen of “Asa Hartz,” was recently.receivcd by flag of truce, by Judge Robert Ould, Commissioner for the exchange of prisoners, and is sent us, to be preserved in “glorious page di urnal.” “Asa” has been a prisoner of war for nearly a year, and no wonder he is getting tired of “rusti cating on Johnson’s Island.” His case deserves the attention of the authorities. It won’t do to let such a “trump” “go up the spout Block 1, Room 12, ] Johnson’s Island, Ohio, r April 26, 1864. j Dear Uncle Bob, I fear your head H h aSVS$ tie »;?»!!■ “I- I "'' And ask if you can bring about Some certain moans to get me out t Hav’nt y( u got a led ral Aiaje Vmr resting in some Dixie cage. Who see his loving maria, Or visit once again his farm, >( Or gaze upon his garden sass, Or see once more his bright eyed ,ass . Ilav’nt you one of these, isay, Whom you would hue to swap away, For me, a man of vim—of parts Swap him, in short, tor Asa Hart a T I’ve been here, now, almost a year, And sigh for liberty, so dear! I’ve tried by every means I knew To bid this Isle a fond adieu; Du«* holes, scaled walls, .parsed through the gate, With Yankee cap upon my pate. \r.d when I went out on the ice, And thought I’d got away so nic-c, l met a blue’coat in any route, WhCtiuickly m adorn*.; lace about ; March’d me, wads diabolic grin, _ Back to the gate, and turned me mj I’ve swallowed strange, That bad a wbnjßToout exenange; Grew fat with joy, and lean with sorrow, Was'“up” to-day and’ down to-morrow . Implored, with earnestness of soul, To be released upon parole! Wrote Ben. F. B. a spicy letter. And told him he could not do oettcr Than let me out for thirty days, • I read his answer in amaze ! _ He said that "things” were mix and up, now. In such a way, he knew not how, The favor that I asked about, Gould well be granted. Had no douot, That "things” would soon be so arranged, That all of us would be exchanged, That ended it. I wrote to I rentice, Who several times nad kindly lent his ! Purse and name to those whom chance^ : And "pomp and glorious circumstance, | Jla.d Sent to rusticate a while, „ F Within the “pns on Jonnson s Isle, r Well) George D. wrote to Gen. Terry, i Commandant here—a good man, very— ’ And told hjm if he'd iet me out, For thirty days, or thereabout, i He’d take line down into Kentucky— j See that I did nt cut in> -ucs> , i Would go my ail m any sum i That, when they wanted uie—/ and come . I Gen .-Terry wrote him pack. , 1 That he must walk the beaten track. . "I really thought,” said he, you knew it. That Staunton, and he alone, can do it. ! Thus ended that plan. I've no doubt, That I'm almost "gone up the spout. Uni ess you can devise some mean-, To give me change of air ami scenes. By special swap. Now, uncle Bob.p Be patent with me 1 Bo nqf too *. * Me of the hope I fondly euemsii. s. Do not leave me here to peri- i. . I've shuttled. cut tne cards, and dynut. Have played my bower, otsyo.-s is teit, More than the loss of fi-tny lucre.) • P',. u . c ~iK y in? hand—save me the euchre! And when your latest breath departs,, You’ll die bewailed by Asc Horn ! p. 5 . When you. in answeriug this, shall write. Address me—“ Major Geo. McKnight, , Pris. of war’” Be cautious, very. And add ou—"care ofGen’l Terry. ' CITY MATTERS. T. J. JACKSON,.....*. LOCAL EDITOR. Divine Services Are held at Temperance Hall on evey Sunday at 10 a, m., and Bp. m. Seats all free. Bivine Service. Rev. Dr. Gutheim, late of New Orleans, will preah Sermons at the Synagogue this (Saturday) and Sun day at 10 a. m. Douglas Amfciilamce Corps Columbus, June 16th, 1864. At a meeting held this day the following resolu tion was adopted: That' the thanks of the Committee are due, and hereby tendered to the President and Directers of the Muscogee Railroad Company, for their kind ness in gratuitously furnishing them with a car, for their use in their recent trip to Marietta and baek, also to the other Railroad Companies, on route, for their assistancelin enabling them tolavoid delay. H. L. GOODRICH, President. C. G. Holmes, Sec’y. je 18 2t Capt. Cropp.— The telegraph on Thursday af ternoon brought the sad intelligence that this gal lant officer was mortally wounded and had fallen into the hands of the enemy at Petersburg. This is sad news to his many friends in this part of the country. It will be recollected that at the break ing out of the war he commanded a splendid com pany raised at Apalachicola, which we believe, was attached to the 6th Florida. Th*t regiment was at first stationed at Pensacola, and Captain Cropp was a participant in the famous and gal lant night assault on Santa Rosa. also par ticipated in the battle of Shiloh, in which he was seriously wounded, and after the expiration of the term of service of tho 6th Florida, he assisted in the formation of Capt. Moise’s Cavalry Rangers, in which he was chosen 2d Lieutenant. This com pany attached to the 7th Confederate cavalry, rendered efficient services in North Carolina and Virginia. Some months since he was appointed to a captaincy in this regiment, which position ho held at the time Os the unfortunate occurrence which has probably terminated his life. All tes timony unites in pronouncing Capt. Cropp, an honorable and much respected gentleman and a brave and chivalrous officer. A Veteran Campaigner. —We paid a vis’t yesterday to the Government gun-repairing shop, under tho superintendence of Maj. llarding, and through his politeness and that of Mr. Dillon, were shown through the shop. Among other cu riosities in the way of ancient and antiquated fire arms, we saw a London Tower musket made in the year 1762, which, though of course affected by the ravages of time, and in the old style, is still in a good state of preservation. An hundred and two years old! What an age for a gun, and what an eventful tale it could unfold were it gifted with the power of speech ? It has doubtless killed its man—probably many—in its day. It doubtless fought through the Revolution, commencing in 1776; whether ia favor of or against American liberty we cannot, tell. It next probably took part in some of the Indian wars ; then in the war of 1812 ; then in the Indian war of 1836 and ’37 ; thoff in thß Mexican war of 1845 and ’46, and lastly, perhaps, has borne a part in the present revolution. We feol a veneration for ancient things, and right gladly would we the his tory of this venerable gun. We feel confident it would be a bistory replete with interest. A relic of Washington’s days, how sacred! —those days that tried men’s souls. It has come down through the long line of American statesmen; has lived to see the formation and dissolution of the great American republic; and while its founders and statesmen lie mouldering in common dust, and the Government of their labors and eloquence has van ished like “the baseless fabric ©f a vision,” tbe old gun still survives, and still has tho gift of ut terance, and the power to make itself felt. Maj. Harding informs us that it is his purpose to put this dilapidated fusilee in the best state of repair of which it is susceptible, and proservo it as a memorial of things that were. Murder. —We learn that John Croghan was murdered Thursday night in this city by Richard Moore. Croghan was a policeman. The Coro ner’s verdict was that the case was one of volun tary murder. Moore is now in jail. The Wheat Crop. —Considerable apprehension is felt regarding the wheat crop in this section owing to the continued prevalence of the rainy season. We hear of some cases where farmers have cut their wheat, shocked it in tho field, and now after a week’s rain upon it in this situation the grains arc beginning to sprout. We trust such cases are few, us at this time, when so much de pendence is felt i# tbe crop, as well as every other article of food tbe soil can produce, it would be a serious drawback to our people to lose their wheat* Melons. —We have it from authority (ordina rily not very” reliable) that there were yesterday in this market, a couple ot small water-melons lor sale, at the moderate sum of $3 each. We hail this as good nows and trust soon to see the mar ket stocked with this delicious and healthy melon. We fear, however, that this rainy season will se riously damafs the prospect of a fin© crop. ♦ —♦ Distinguished Arrival.— We stop the press to announce that the first musquito of the season made his appearance in this city night. That he is the forciunuci of a long race o this musical insect, there can be little doubt. The London Quarterly contains a most interes ting article on t&q Excavations at Pompeii, worth the attention of all who aro capable of taking pleasure in information which throws light on the domestic life of the greatest' nation that ever ruled on earth— thqt is to say of all who do Eot think that a copy of the Times contains m*>re wis dom than tlie whole ot Thucydides. It notices a valuable discovery made by the present guardian of the buried city —that it is possible, by pouring plaster into the cavities where the volcanic mud ha? suffocated and buried the inhabitants of Pom peii. tc obtain an exact model of the form, feat ures ar,d?4n#?-of tbe sufferers, as they were at the time oAiWljyiestrucUon. In this manner some interesTuV^i jfur-es, andfome curious details as to the secrets of tvVomjHnsjJi lady’s toilet, have been procured. At is a surpiiso to find t,ie goiment which was held peculiar to thefceltic barbarians— so peculiar that it gave a name which distinguished -Transalpine Gaul (braccata) fr m Cisalpine (to- w< rn by the women es an Italian city tiior nuahlv and. completely Roman. Siege of Charleston —Th ■■■? JL, ,-H-ed o;>d Forty -Second D ty. —The enemy's boats. were un u-ua’ly busy Tu sd-ay keeping irp communication between 'he vessels inside be ir amt the ■nocka ders. It is believed that General Foster nas as sumed command of the Yankee dep.iruncpr. F is ter has t..e i\nuia. ion of being uii active and en terpri-ing commander. and w.U try As hand at getting,up some expedition inland. The enemy fired some five shots from Ba'tery iregg at F rt tiunuer in the foroi.o >n, and six shots at the city. Some few shots were exchanged between Battery Gregg and Sullivan a I*,aim »at torie?, and also with the James' Island butter.es. — A large ir.-tusp >rt came in from 'he South ■» Mon day, “auJ, we earn, land and a largo number of troops ou the South end of Folly Island. ' Tbe enemy were s ;il shelling the city at the hour of closing our repart. — Courier, 1 5th. [Special Correspondence Memphis Appeal.] From the Front- In the Field, June 15, 1864. Notwithstanding the great activity mani fested by the enemy yesterday, they arc com paratively quiet to-day. Shelling alono- Walker’s and Cheatham's lines, is kept up ularly, but slowly, and with little effect to us. The position occupied by General Bate, on Pine mountain, where Gen. Polk met hu’ua timely end, was shelled yesterday furiously and accurately throughout the day. The skirmishers of Tyler’s brigade were at tacked by a line of the enemy’s, almost equal to a line of battle, and one part forced back. Major Kindrick, of the 37th Georgia regiment was desperately, and it feared mortally, woun ded ; also fifteen or twenty of the same regi ment wonnded. The 4th Georgia sharpshooters were order ed to the support of Major Kindrick’s line, and succeeded in re-establishing it, with the loss ot tour or five wounded. Pine mountain is an abrupt ridge, some three fourths of a mile long, unconnected with anv other hill, and situated in front of our main line of battle. Bate’s gallant division was thrown from the extreme left of army at Dallas, after turning the enemy’s right, to our ex treme right, and has occupied this isolated position, unconnected with any other line, ever since, (eight days) until last night, when it was quietly withdrawn within our works. This command it seems was stationed on Pine mountain as a force of observatiun, and to engage the attention of the enemy until our main lines should be established/ The de sired object being accomplished, the command was removed, not, however, without inflicting, at different times, severe loss upon the enemy. Their double lines of skirmishers were in every instance except the one mentioned, repulsed easily, and at that point their temporary ad vantage wrested from them. This division, composed of the flower of Kentucky, Georgia and Florida, and com manded by the untiring, brave and dashing Bate, has won new. laurels in four distinct engagements since leaving Dalton. It has marched as far, skirmished as much, fought more, and suffered, in proportion to its num bers, far more severely than any other divis ion in the army. It has accomplished the first and only achievement of the kind that has occurred during the campaign, that I am aware of—it forced the enemy from a strongly fortified line in front of our left near Dallas, and occupied two miles of his works. Had this occurred in Virginia, it would have im mortalized to fame the gallant major-general and brave officers and men under him for gaining so signal a victory, HARVEY. From the Richmond Enquirer, 13th' From tlie Talley. Early yesterday morning rumor reported the cap ture'of Lexington by the enemy under Crook and Averill. As the same rumor had onco before gone the rounds, not much credit was given it, but lit be ing afterwards confirmed by official intelligence, the question was at last settled. The enemy’s forces were reported to be about sixteen thousand strong, and consisted mainly es cavalry, with a dozen pieces ofartillery. They advanced byjtwo roads, leading from Staunton, and formed a junction several mile3 north east of Lexington, where they arrived on Sat urday morning. It is believed that they burned the Institute. From Lexington it was supposed that they would proceed to Lynchburg, about forty miles distant. Lexington is 146 miles west of .Richmond. is the capital of Rockbridge couni y, and is situated on the west bank of North River, a branch qfthe Jame 3. It contains a neat court house, a jail, four or five ehurches, of various denominations, the Virginia Military Institute, the Ann Smith Female Seminary, Washington College, about twenty stores, two week ly newspapers, and about twolthousand inhabitants. Washington College was originally established as an academy in 1776, under the name of Liberty Hall.— In 1776 it received its first regular (fndpwment from George Washington, and from that time took the name of the Washington Academy, and by an act of the Virginia Legislature, in 1812, was changtd to Washington College. It has a fine library, consist ing of 6.200 volumes. One hundred shares of the James River and Kenawah Canal Company, left by Washington to found this College, yields annually $2,500. The Virginia Military Institute, which i*> supposed to have been burned, was built on the plan orfhe U. S. Military Academy at West Point. It was a handsome structure, and enjoyed, as a milita ry institute, a fine reputation. The advance of the enemy upon Lexington wa> resisted by Gen. McCausland, but his forces were entirely inadequate for tne purpose of seriously checking it. McCausland, outnumbered and flanked on both sides, fell back to Balcony, with the Falls Cadets. A portion of Averill’s .forces i§ reported, Jin well informed quarters, to have diverged from the Lex infiton stage road, at Fairfield, and crossed the Blue iZidge into Nelson county. Here they are said to have made a descent upon the Lynchburg and Charlottesville railroad at Tye river bridge (twenty four miles from Lynchburg), where they burned the bridge and committed other excesses.— It wa3 supposed that they would make a feint upon Lynchburg, cross the James and pitch upon the High Bridge over the Appomattaox, destroy it, and complete the detour by going on, in Kautz’s tracks, to Butler’s department. . This supposition, however, is provisional. The demonstration on Lynchburg may not be a feint, but if foiled, the High Bridge may be the point ot attack as an alternative. Yesterday evening offi cial information had been received that the enemy had in the morning burned Arrington depot, and passed on to Amherst Court House, which is only twelve miles from Lynchburg. Their force is be lieved to be eight or ten thiusand strong, and is said to be under the immediate command of Gen. Crook. Later —Information received last night states that the enemy had arrived within six miles ot Lynchburg. FUNERAL NOTICE. The friends and acquaintances of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Johnson are invited to attend the funeral of their infant daughter, Joanna Lou isa, from their residence on Mclntosh street, THIS (Saturday) AFTERNOON, at half-past five o’clock. * MARRIED. At the residence of the bride’s uncle, by Rev. T. H. Stout, on the evening of the 14th inst., Capt. J. Berrien Oliver, of this city, to Miss Bella, daugh ter of the late Hon. A. C. S. Alexander, of Early county, Ga. Lost. A N INDIA RUBBER OVERCOAT between the A. Post Office'and Muscogee Depot, on the at ter - neon of 17th June. The finder will please leave it at the Times Office. R. J. MOsLd. je 18 3t By Ihllis, Livingston & Cos AT PRIVATE SALE. OXE CASE MOIRXHG PRIM'S, * JUST RECEIVED, je 17 2t $4 By LlSis, To Refugees, Lawyers, Doctors and Other* r rHE HOUSE AND LOT situated at Crawfor A Ala., formerly owned by Judge Tate, is now tor sale at a reduced price. House has five well fine large rooms, good >ut houses, good vineyards, fine young orchards of desirable fruit, 116 acres land at tached, with fine well and spring of water. Those who want a comfortable and healthy place in a good neighbohood, will do well to apply soon Other land radjoining can be bought at reasonable rates. junelT 5t # S2O Government Transportation Works, i • 6'oluubus, Ga., June 16, 1864. ‘ I have Osaaburgs, Augusta Sheetings and Augus ta Spun Yarn, some numbers as high as 12, which I desire to exchange‘on equitable terms for and Meal. THO§. JOHNSON. jelTlm Special Ag’t Q. M. Dept. WAITED! Muscogee Railroad Otfi'k. ’ 1 Columbus, G»., June loth, Idii... U’ANTED ago and BOILER MAKER orBI.A K SMITH. Apply to W. L. CLARK je 17 2w Superintendent Muscogee R. .: Chasige ot AN and after Sunday, June; 19th. tne {ran. - on ■ • the >iusco£et* Railroad will run as *o*l A' \> VSSKNGER TRAIN : Leave Columbus * V ?. M. Arrive at Ma.-ou •* go A. .') ; <?.>ve Macon - in P. if. \--:v» at Cdiimh-us i lA P V. FREIGHT TRAIN: Leave Columbus 5 Oi) A. M Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. if W. L. CLARK. mar It? ts Supt. Muscogee R, F.