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j. w. WARREH, - - - Editor.
Tuesday Morning, June 21, 1864.
The War.
With the exception of probablo active oper
ation in Kentucky, the past week has been
signalized by little or no tghting. We are
inclined to give some credit to the Yankee
telegram that Morgan’s eexpdition in that
State, has been baulked. His force was en
tirely too small to give promise of any perma
nent good results.' If the expedition had been
entirely successful it is ''ery doubtful whether
the advantage to the cause accraing thereforro
wduld have been*equal to erbat might been
accomplished nearer home. The interruption
of Sherman’s communication with Chattanoo
ga presents a splendid opportunity for the
display of enterprise and daring ; and honors
equal to any that could have been gathered
on the soil of Kentucky, grew luxurious in the
valley of Virginia. Just now we need all
our our resources lor the purposes of defences.
In North Georgia the weather has compelled
a truce the past week and for some days to
come. Parties recently from the front, as,
well as our Atlanta exchanges, inform
us that the enemy is still diligently engaged
in the effort to compel the retreat of our army
across the Chattahoochee. Gen. Johnston’s
dispositions have hitherto foiled this inten
tion, and, it is thought, will continue to do
it. The army is being constantly reinforced
from the hospitals in the rear, and its num
bers are probably greater than at any period
since the campaign began. Its spirit is all
that would be desired.
The situation in Virginia has assumed an
entirely new aspect. Grant has transferred
his whole army to the South side of the James,
and hoped, by stealth, to clutch the honors
that fate has hitherto denied to open, manly
effort. It seems, from Gen. Lee’s dispatch,
that the enemy, for a time, again occupied
Watha.ll Junction ; but he was quickly driven
thence, and we trust and believe that his ten
ure ot a portion’of our line on the South side
of the Appomatox will be equally unstable and
temporary. The same men, with the same
leaders who defeated Grant’s mongrel host in
Spottsylvania and in Hanover, still guard the
approaches to Richmond and the “Cockade
City,” and, both in respect of numbers and
spirit, are fully equal to the task now set be
fore them. ; '
Garrett Davis’ attack, in the Yankee Con
gress, upon “Beast” Butler is as severe and
telling as it is deserved. This scoundrel, says
the Mobile Register,, together with Caleb Cush
ing, took a leading part in the measures which
were the immediate precursors and stepping
stones to the disruption of the old Govern
ment and the war. They were largely in
strumental in conducting the Democratic
party of the South up to the very portal of
secession, and helped to push them through
it, and then, when the South accepted the in
evitable consequence of an appeal to arms to
resist coercion, these same coadjutors desert
to the Abolitionists, and draw the sword to
put down the rebellion. For bis political, as
well as his military ami personal crimes, hang
ing is 100 good for the Beast-of Beasts.
John Cocharano. who bow figures as Vice
Presidential candidate on the Federal ticket
is a bird of the same feather. When l4ie act
o: secession was pending before' the Virginia
Convention, this man came to Richmond as a
sort of ambassador from the Northern Demo
crats, on a mission to try to save the Union
and keep the peace, lie made a speech in
Richmond at’the time, in which lie said that
if Lincoln attempted to coerce the South, he
Would draw the sword in hepdefense, and that
the armies marching on that errand would
lirst have to pass over the dead bodies of the
Northern Democrats, who would shed their
blood until it mu in the gutters of New York,
in defense of their Southern brethorn. He is
now a candidate of the extreme wing of tie
Abolition subjugating party, and stands on a
Convention platform which contains this plank:
“Thirteenth (and last.) That the confiscation
of the lands of the rebels and their distribu
tion among the soldiers and actual settlers
is a measure oi justice.”
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A Horrible Outrage by the Enemy.—
The Richmond Examiner gives the particulars
of an act of brutal lawlessness committed by
the enemy in New Kent county, which, while
it perfectly illustrates the Yankee character,
is too shocking to humanity .and morals for
recital here, but fora desire to vindicate his
tory, ancient and modern, from the suppos
ition that their records blush with a deed
equal to it- in God defying atrocity. Two
young ladies, daughters of one of the most
wealtny and respected citizens of New Kent,
were seized by a squad of the enemy who in
vaded the residence, forced into a chamber
and their maiden person,f violated by the fiends 1
incarnate in the presence of thvir parent*. :
who could do nothing but in: pi ore’ the wretch- j
es to kill them mul commute; a fate worse than j
death We would cover up thes deed, crying j
as it is, and appaling to all the dictates of j
socia. Ire. but t'Pr the couscioumicss that facts i
so damning should go upon the*record to be I
handed down' as evidence against those ex- j
emplars of philanthropy who are warring’;
against liberty, virtue and the social system '
of civilization. Is a Christian government,
such as the Confederate States uphold, to do
nothing in vindication of law, virtue and hu
manity whi'ii outraged bv barbarism*? Can
not GfJeral Lee make a demand upon Grant
lor the persons of the bruits who AIT the
guilty perpetrators of this great crime?—
We are ghul to know the authenticated facts
in the above case are about being Lid before
the Government for its action Sp- Jy, stern,
summary action is demanded; if not. virgin
purity is a byword, and liberty a mockery.
Any ii'syturv ot the war published now
would neeessarijy bo drill. lor every one who
can ir. and are familiar «r'ith its incidents.
c see from our exchanges that the late
( ru 'F r *»ins extended from the Mississippi river
1 " Atlantic ocean, *>3 far north as the
tennessee and south to the- Gulf.
rp, v y "♦-*•-*- -
•u Ti,' / U,Kf ‘ Wior, L ‘ ,hHI Fcm ‘ Si annihilated
Smith and "Si™ ”*7 U ® dcr ’'***' samo
at Okaiona
thly 6 arT m w *° on iu South, as
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The Tax Law Amended
The following is tho substance., of the bill j
amending the tax laws of the Confederate
States, passed by Congress on the 13th inst., j
and submitted to the President for his ap
proval: „ _.yV
The Congress of the Confederate States of '
America, do enact, That the Ist, 2d and 3d
sections of the act to levy additional taxes,
etc., appt-ored 17th February, 1864, be amen
ded and re-enacted so as to read as follows .
1. That in addition to the taxes levied by
the tax ict approved 25th April, 1863, fhrfere
shall be levied from 17th February,. 1864, and
collected taxes as follows: . .
X. Upon the value of all property foal, per
sonal .and mixed, of every kind and descrip
tion, not hereinafter exempted or taxed at a
different rate, five per cent. Provided , That
from the tax on the value of property, em
ployed. in agriculture, shall be deducted, the
vaJue of the tax in kind delivered thereform,
(during the same year) as assessed under the
law imposing it, and delivered to the Govern
ment, ( whether delivered during the
yeat, or afterwards, including bacon de
liverable after and not prior to the assessment
of the tax on property employed in agriculture
as aforesaid, etc.,) provided that no credit
shall be allowed beyond five per cent.
11. The value of property taxed under this
section shall be assessed on the basis of the
market value of the same, or similar property
in tbe neighborhood where assessed in the
year 1860, except in the cases where land,
slaves, cotton or tobacco have been purchased
since the lat day of January, 3862, it* which
cage, the said land, slaves, cotton and tobacco
so purchased, shall be assessed at the price
actually paid for the same by the owner; [pro
vided, that land purchased by refugees and
held and occupied by them for their own use
and residence shall be assessed according to
Us market value in the year 1860.]
2. The second section of the tax act, ap
proved 17th Feb. 1864, is repealed, and in lieu
thereof, it is declared that all property and
assets of corporations, associations, and joint
stock companies of every description, whether
incorporated or not, shall be assessed and
taxed in the same manner and to the same
extent »3 the property of individuals, the tax
on such property and assets to be assessed
against and paid by such corporations, asso
ciations and joint stock companies, provided
that no bank or banking company shall' be
liable to pay a tax upon deposits of money to
tho credit of and subject to the checks of ethers;
provided further, that the stock, shares, or
interests representing property or assets in
joint stock companies or associations, shall
not be assessed or taxed ; and provided furth
er, that all property within the enemy’s lines,
be, and the same.is hereby exempt from all
taxation, so long as it remains in the enemy’s
lines.
3. The Is! paragraph of the 3d section of
the act of February 17th, is amended and re
enacted so as to read :
Upon the amount of all gold and silver coin,
gold dust, gold or silver bullion, money held
abroad, or bills of exchange drawn therefor,
and securities payable in foreign countries,
five per cent, to be paid in specie [or Confed
erate notes ot their value as compared with
specie at the time the tax is payable—the rel
ative value of specie and Confederase Treasu
ry notes for thejpurpose of payment under this
act,to be fixed by regulations to be prescribed
by the Commissioaer of Taxes, under the di
rection of the Secretary of the Treasury.]
4. This section exempts from taxation in
come, property and money, except Confede
rate Treasury notas of charitable institutions,
and volunteer navy companies, except income
of latter. It also defines what shall constitute
failure to make due returns of income or prof
its under any law of Congress.
5. This act shall not be'so construed d'/to
subject to taxation, corn, bacon,.and other
agricultural products which were produced in*
the year 1863, and in the possession of the
producer on the 17th of February, 1864, and
necessary for the support of himself and fami
ly during the present year, and from or on
which taxes in kind had been deducted and
, delivered or paid.
j 6. This section levies an additional tax of
! thirty per cent, upon the amount of all profits
! made by selling the articles mentioned in par-
I agraphs one and two of section four of the
■ said act of February 17th,.1864, between the
I said date and Ist July nexo. The articles of
I merchandize referred to are spirituous liquors,
i flour, wheat, corn, rice, sugar, molasses or
| syrup “salt, bacon, pork, hogs, beef orbeefcat-
I tie, sheep, oats, hay, fodder, raw hides, leather
horses, mules, boots, shoes, cotton yarn,
wool, woolen, cotton or mixed cloths, hats,
wagons, harness, ooal, iron, steel and nails.
7. All Treasury notes of the old issue of the
denomination of five dollars not exchanged
for new issue prior t© the Ist day of January,
1860, and which may remain outstanding on
that day, are to be taxed one hundred per
cent. »
8. This section regulates the collection of
advalorem tax on income derived from prop
erty, and prescribes the deduction to be made
in the assessment ofincome derives from man
ufacturing or mining.
9. This section provides that all citizens of
any one of the Confederate States temporarily
residing in another State, shall be liable to be
assessed and taxed in the State or district in
: which he may temporarily reside, and it shall
Jbe the duty ol all such who have not. hereto
! fore made return of their taxable property to
i the District assessor whore they may tempo
i rarily reside, within thirty days of the passage
j of this act, to make such return, ami any on
j liable to be. assessed and taxed as aforesaid,
who shall fail or refuse within the said period
of thirty days to make such return, shall b*e
liable to all the pains and penalties imposed
by the laws of the Confedrate States in such
ease,
[The clauses between brackets, indicate the
amendments to those sections in which they
occur.]
Thu Secretary of the Treasury.— During :
a temporary suspension of business in the i
House of Representative yesterday, Mr. Foote
called attention to iiis resolution, introduced j
some days ago and referred to the Judiciary
Committee, relative to the Secretary of tips f
Treasury, and said that it was not his design !
to press the matter further if the gentleman 1
from Louisiana (Mr. Conrad) woujd madee a
statement to the House in reference to a cev
tain declaration made by that" officer. Mr !
Conirad replied that while he was not author
ized'to malts any Alatemeui. to the House. and ;
especially under a threat, be would .say that
Mr. Memminger hod remarked to him in usual
conversation, long before the introduction of
the resolution, that it was his intention to re
sign St the close of the-present session of Con- 1
gress. Mr. Foote rejoined that it was under
stood that Mr. Memminger bad very recently
made a similar declaration to Senator Orr, of j
South Carol inn, and to the chairman of the >
Judiciary Committee;
This Congressional episode goes far to- i
w&rds sustaining a report which has been for
some time in circulation respecting the inteii- ,
tions 01-tlic .vertdftfy of the Treasury. The
only name that we have heard mentioned io
connection with die succession to ihjj office is
< that of Judge Campbell, of the Wkr Depart
meat. — Richmc-ad Dispatch.
We hope the next appointment sill be one
which will give universul satisfaction. Lm ,
us have.a plain, practical man—one who is
thoroughly conversant with financial affairs, j
and we will nave uo more ruinous blunders in
the 1 peas wry D-. part meat.
The negroes are deserting in large numbers
Rom the Yankee ir<**ps around Vicksburg when- ,
ever they have an opportunity. Those who make
their escape into Dixie arc very penitent, and say
that ell <*f them would come ii they cquia. We i
have no doubt ot the iact.
All army « ot respondent says tuat the pickets ot
Lea a:i<i Grant oiten meet- anu have ”u Irum-Ey ,
1 talk,” cxehangiug sugar and coffee, tobacco and j
J papers. It is amusing to soe them backing off j
1 Iroru tLe interview, each keeping his eye open for j
1 an unexpected lire from the other.
WlMtt it‘C osts to Dress a Ladj. |
The “Round Table” anew literary journal j
recently established in "New York, has a
lengthy article on the above .subject, from
which we extract the following :
Take the lady, for instance, who sweeps
the pavements as she passes to the marble
steps of a dry goods palace. Her dress is a
rich mauve moire autique, at eigbt dollars
per yard, and is trimmed with lace leaves,
edged with tiny drop buttons, which we hap
pen to know can be purchased only at six
dollars per paiir. Twelve pairs, including
the epaulets and trimming for the bo<fr, would
be required at the very least, involving a cost
of seventy five dollars for the trimming alone.
Add fifteen yards of moire, at eight dollars,
and you reaeh nearly two hundred dollars,with
out the making, which, together with linings
and minor items, will ba thirty dollars more.
Her magnificent eloak is of sg&lack velvet,
enriched with a profusion of jet and guipure
lace, and was imported at a cost of five hund
red dollars. Her hat is Parisian also, and
with its sweeping plume, which is the envy
of half her female friends, was considered
cheap at fifty dollars.
Were it worth while to come down to
smaller details, we could enumerate her col
lar of real point, which cost fifteen dollars ;
her lace-covered parasol, which cost* twenty
five ; her lace-edged moueboir, a bargain at
forty, and her dainty walking boots, which,
it is complained, do not pay the price of ex
change, at seven dollars per pair. Even, then,
we leave out the jeweled watch, the daintly
fitted gloves, once one dollar, now two dollars
per pair, and two boxes of which scarcely
suffices for a season. Taking the more prom
inent articles of costume, however, which can
be seen at a glance, we have the following
result:
Dress, including trimming and making, <|>22s
Cloak, “ 41 “ “ 500
Mat, “ “ . “ • 50
Parasol, “ “ .. “ “ 25
Collar, ‘ f “ 1! “ 15
Hankerchief, “ ' “ “ 40
Veil, “ “ “ 25
Watch, including chain and charms, 225
Walking boots, - - - - 7
Gloves, ------- 2
$1,114
Pursuing the subject still farther, we find
the followiag aggregate cost of an outfit actu
ally purchased in New York recently, which
we give, without adding to or detracting from
a single figure. The bill of a lady’s furnish
ing establishment for supplying six plain and
six elegant trimmed and embroidered under \
garments of each kind, iucluding a puffed
“corset cover,” was nine hundred and twenty
five dollars. Add to this sum fifty for two
morning wrappers, one woolen the other buff
cambric, with ruffles; one hundred and sev
enty five for white waists, three trimmed with
lace and insertions, and three plain ; sixty
for shoes, which gives two pairs of “mules” or
dressing room slippers, two pairs of kid break
fast slippers, trimmed with ribbons and jet,
two pairs of walking boots, two pair of dress
or carriage boots, and two pairs of embroid
ered “dress” slippers.
Next came the millinery bill, which amount
ed to one hundred and sixty dollars for four
hats—one a white lace evening bonnet, an
other a “dress” Neapolitan, the third a straw
for “demi-toilette,” and the fourth a “round”
country hat. Forty and fifty dollars is now
considered a moderate sum to pay for a French
bonnet. Leghorns, trimmed vrith real lace
and plumes, sometimes mount as high as one
hundred and fifty.
The dry goods bill from a single large es
tablishment was fourteen hundred and fifty
dollars, and includes an embroidered white
satin'robe, one hundred and fifty dollars ; a
very handsome new style silk robe, one hun
dred and twenty-five dollars : black silk for a
dress, forty dollars ; violet and gold changea
ble silk, for dress alone, seventy-five dollars ;
two organdie robes, fifty; a cambric robe, fif
teen ; and a summer poplin embrodered, twen
ty-five. A black silk cloak, neatly trimmed
with guipure ornaments, was one hundred and
twenty-five dollars : a real lace shawl, five
hundred dollars ; a Paisley shaWlone hundred
and fifty ; a handsome cloak cf light. Freneh
cloth trimmed with silk rucking and steel
embroidery, seventy: and a small real lace
cap, fifty dollars.
.The dress-maker’s bill for making eight
dresses and finding linings, thread- and the
like, was one hundred and fifty dollars, trim
mings of every other description were supplied
by the lady herself which brought in another
bill, with the details of which we will not wea
ry the reader. We must hot omit, however,
a simple lace evening dress, which cost one
hundred and fifty dollars, including garniture,
nor three head-dresses, the aggregate cost of
which was seventy five dollars. Now add the
following figures r
Under-garments $ 925 00
Morning Wrappers......'. 50 00
White waists.. 175 00
Shoes.... 50 00
80nnet5.;........ 160 00
Dry G00d5........ .......1........;.... 1450 00
| Lace evening dress ; 150 00
Dress-maker’s bill v 150 00
. Head dresses. 75 00
$3195 00
The total here presented was much more
alarming to the young lady principally inter
i ested than it can possibly be to the reader.
D'EomxK of Beecher Stowkjsm.—The silly
cant which concluded Lord Russell’s speech—the
appeal to th* passions and prejudices of a by-gone
age, when Englishmen knew 110 more about South
ern slavery than Mrs. H. B. Stowe could toll them
—the endeavor to cover a false position and wind
up unsuccessfully a lame defence by eliciting a
cheer for emancipation—was worthy of no audi
ence above the level of a tavern debating society.
The blunder showed how completely the speaker
mistook the general feeling not only of the imme
diato audience, but of English society in general.
Once satisfied that the negro, though called a
slave, enjoys as much happiness and personal free-,
dom as he is capable of turning to good account,
no educated Englishman is disposed to indulge in
sentimental pity for hi* imaginary degradation;
while the manful efforts of a people of English
blood, inheriting to the full our English lore of
liberty and pride of national independence, to
preserve the rigid? they hare hitherto maintained
inviolate, to defend tboir country and their homes
against a foreign invader, appeal to all oiir Wrong
est, moss goneroes and universal sympathies.—
No one can enter any of English
man from, the House of Commons downwards,
without perceiving that this is the dominant feel
ing in regard to the American war; that while tba
sentiments of Earl Russell are shared only bv e
tew eccentric sentimentalists, or narrow-minded
political fanatics, the sympathy of educated man
tor the Confederate cause—distinctly as the cause
ot freedom battling for freedom—arc strong and
almost univorsaL Three years ago Lord Russell’*
affectation of Abolition enthusiasm would have
seen, in aim-ist ever 3' circle, tho -correct thiug—a
hollow but decorous formality : now it is a hypoc
risy without move, motive or purpose, a homage
to prejudices which are forgotten, and an offence
to feelings which are general, warn; end vivid.—
Lvadov Stau(lend.
Uses of Rye Straw.
Editor Courier.— ln a recent issue of your pa
por “A Lady of Camden” proposed a mode of mak
ing hats from rye atravv—a specie of sombrero which
I have sebn, and to the usefulness o-t which, in shel
tering the koaM from the heat of the sun, J can tes
tify. There are many other good uses, however, to
which rye straw may be applied besides making
hats. Mh.-yj this cereal grows plentifully, the har
ness maker finds no Letter RUiterial to st iff Ms col
lars with than rye straw chopped up Trie with a cut
ting knife. The go«J house wife who puts down her
own homo-woven raj cm pet, finds nothing to put'
under it, to make it tread more softly, than good,
clean, bright, slippery rye straw. Lastly, the stalks
•if the rye cat just before if lias fully ripened, may
be made into uk>si beautiful window curtains. I
have seen curtains made of this material frequently
and do not hesitato to pranoauee them a* orna
mental as economical. The straw may be painted
*>r dyed any color :o suit the fancy, and a-coat of
varnish im parts,. tQ it a most briihaut appearance.—
They can.de very easily made. Cut tho stalks of (
the same length, and loop them together, one by one
a few inches from each end and in the middle, until \
enough are fastened together for the purpose. At 1
tue places where the straw* are *ewn together -ie,-e
--of gimp or nb V ';o should be- tricked lengthwise, in
order to conceal the threads, she edges and ends
should be bound with any material to suit the tasio
and ornamented with fringe. The curtain in then
attached to a roller and sustained in the window. —
When the work is skillfully executed, these cur- !
tains made of homely rye straw do not lose much by
comparison with the Venetian blinds.
TP.IPTOLEMUS. I
TSLSgSAPg IQ. ■
Reports e! the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress b) tho year
1863. by J. S, Thrasher, m the Clerks office of
the District Court of the Confederate States tor
the Northern District of Georgia. ’ N
Latest from Virginia.
Latest from tbe Georgia Froß4,
&c*f &c.j Ac.
Petersburg, June 20.— -Since yesterday’ no
thing of interest has transpired..
To-day, there has been some cannonading and
also skirmishing.
Yesterday Gen. Meade sent in a.flag of truce to
Gen. Slauregard requesting permission to bury
his dead which was not granted.
The City Council to-day held a meeting and
sent a committee to Gen. Beauregard to ask advice
in regard to the removal of non-combatants. Gen.
B. replied that no notice had been given by the
enemy of their purpose to shell she city, but it
would be prudent for tnose who could to remove
to the lower part es the city, and for women and
children to remain in cellars.
Very few shells have been thrown ihto the city
to-day. i ; •
Grant’s lines reach from James river across to
. the Appomattox to within two miles of the Wel
don railroad.
Advices from Liberty this morning say that
Hunter had been pursued through that place, and
was retreating towards Buford’s Gap in considera
ble confusion, and that some prisoners had been
taken and more doubtless would be.
The enemy at this writing seem to he moving
towards the Weldon Railroad. Our Genorals will
doubtless be prepared for them/
Richmond, June 20. —Unofficial intelligence
from that the Yankees are in re
heat at Liberty and a large number captured.
Sheridan is reported to-day as moving in the di
rection of James River with the remnant of his
command. The capture of the entire party is con
fidently anticipated.
Marietta, June 20. —The enemy’s cavalry
made a demonstration this morning from Big
Shanty towards Canton on our right, and were me* 1
by a division of ours, when they precipitately fled.
Our army is being daily reinforced ’by slightly
wounded and con’, alescent troops. No croaker
ism or criticism of the army, but the greatest con
fidence is manifested by both officers and men in
the capacity and ultimate success of General
Johnston.
44 Any Offiaev Man.’’
The “Herald” has a lengthy editorial upon the
nominees es the Baltimore Convention. It at
tacks Lincoln with great bitterness, and calls for
Grant, McClellan, Sherman, Hancock, Thomas,
“or any ether man,” to oppose tho rail splitter.
Tho “Herald” says:
The nomination of Abraham Lincoln for g sec
ond term of four years in the Presidency, has fallen
like a wet blanket upon the leaders of the radical
abolition elements of tbe republican party. To
reconcile them to Old Abe, all that thoy could have
asked for under any other man is conceded in the
platform of the nominating Convention; but still
they regard themselves as tho victims of a bad
bargain. They cannot be jolly; they do not pre
tend to be comfortable; they have their regrets,
doubts, misgivings and apprehensions to such an
extent that, we are afraid they will fly off the track
and bounce over to General Fremont before the
summer is ended.
The New York Tribune, for instance, instead of
hailing Old Abe’s nomination with a “God bless
Abraham Lincoln!” as it hailed his first emanci
pation proclamation, comes forth with a limping
gait, a downcast face, and a very doleful jeremi
ade. Old-White Coat is apprehensive that Lin
coln’s budget of blunders, imbecilities and usur
patious of the last three years, with all their
dreadful consequences, will mako so heavy a bur
den upon his back as to break him d#wn. In fact,
“all the hates and spites and slights of a four
years’ momentous struggle are to bo conjured up
against him.” Accordingly, Greeley was in favor
of spikiDg this gun, and of bringing forward a
new man, with a cleaner bill of health. There is
much practical common sense in this view of the
question, although we verily believe that the in
superable objections of Greeley to Lincoln lie in
the fact that Mr. Seward and his good man Fri
day, Thurlow Weed, have been retained and still
continue advancing in favor at the White House,
“up stairs and down stairs,” notwithstanding the
desperate and protracted efforts for three years of
the Greeley faction to supplant these lucky, cour
teous and cunning political tricksters, Mr. Seward
and his henchman.
Tho poets of the Eveniug Post are as dismally
doleful over the Convention triumph of, Lincoln as
the Tribune. They complain that “Mr. Lincoln is
slow;” that “;he suffered his best opportunities to
pass;” that '.'without knowledge of men, he gets
about him unworthy persons, like Cameron, and
clings to useless instruments, like McClellan;” that
he listens to schemers and istriguers, and that
when he gets into tho right course he drifts into
it “as the last expedient;” that “there is nothing
high, generous or heroic in the tone of his admin
istration;” that he has beon a temporizer with
slavery, and still continued to deal too tenderly
and obsequiously with it after all the world had
discovered that slavery was the cause, the purpose
and the strength of the rebellion. But yet, upon
a pinch, and considering that he is now associated
with Andy Johnson, and has his instructions laid
down in the new party platform. Old Abe may be
tolerated, and may possibly become acceptable for
a second term even to the dainty but fanatical
radicals of the Post. *He is a bitter pill to swal
low, but if there is no help for it they will try to
gulp him down. They have, some interest in the
public plunder, or they would drop him at ohcc.
Nrw, “if such things occur in the green tree,
what shall we have in the dry?'’ King Shoddy
has theSe dictatorial anti-slavery radicals at-last
under his feet, excepting the legion that, foresee
ing wbaf was coming, struck out at the Cleveland
convention for the independent radical, free soil,
free speech, free men and Fremont movement. As
the Presidential agitation, thus formally inaugu-
goes on. the abolition radicals will he ab
sorbed in the independent Fremont organization,
and the honest, original anti-slavery Lir coin men,
who have become thoroughly disgusted, with his
artful dodges and paltry cxpedienfs on the slavery
question, and with his shoddy pipeiayers, may bo
counted by thousands and ten's of.thousands. The
independent anti-Lincoln radicals, as between tho
Baltimore and Chicago contentions, will hold the
balance of power; and, under this conviction, the
cold and grumbling adhesion of-such journals as
the New York Tribune and Evening Post to the
fortunes of Lincoln may soon be changed into tho
most violent opposition as the cauldron begins to
boil and bubble. Let ns watch the political caul
dron : for it is full of explosive combustibles.
Mexico and Rome. —The Vienna Presse recently
contained the following curious article on the rela
tions of Koine with the new Mexican empire, which
we find translated for the NewY'ork Evening Post 1
The Mexican Monarchy is indebted not only to
ro-aet against the Anglo Saxon race and the Dem
ocratic ideal of Northern America, but also against
American Protestantism. Hence the immense en
thusiasm with which the clerical party of both hem
ispheres his welcomed the advent of .Maximil
ian I.
By the erection of this throne Napaieon 111 has
rendered an immense service to the Church, and 1
this service is so highly appreciated by the Court of
Rome, that important concessions have been made
therefor by the French Government.
In view of the advantages that the Court of Rome
anticipates from Mexico, it has appeared necessary
to have itseif represented there by a personality, de
cided and energetic. The Pope has, therefore cho
sen (i-n accordance with the advice of Antonelli,) as.
Nuncio to Mexico, tho Minister of War of Rome,
Moneignar de M erode, who, on this occasion will be
made a Cardinal. As Merode wtflffcot on g»od term?
with the French, it is thought, 100. that this distant ,
appointment will be saiisfactoty to tr.e Court of the
Tui Meries,
But a greater concession made to France will be
the speedy elevation, at the approaching eonsistory .
of the Abbe Lucien Bonaparte, long a resident of,
Rome, and the cameriere of the Pope, to the rank’
of Cardinal. j
The Prince Lucien would then be eligible to the
Papacy, aed,upon ike death of Pius IX, :he ion
claves assembles under the protection of French ;
i-ayOnets —how can ae help * ending a very good •
chance lor Gbc* ion Pius IX can tuns; await the,
end of ni.- Uiiys-in per If a Ccriapii re mounts 1
pontiiiciai throne, by Papacy, and us tumgaral pos- •
sessions areiSate, we must =y.y we are now witness
ing very extraordinary things. An Austrian arch
duke ascends the threne erected by a French Em
peror, and the Emperor of Mexico becomes', by force
of circumstances, tae mediator between the Tuille
ries and the Vatican.
CITY MATTERS.
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T. J. JACKSON,. ..LOCAL EDITOR
Douglas Amlmlamce Corps
; ’ Will leave in a [few days for G-en. Johnston’s army
and needT&LPPlies, and call upon those who have re
lations in that army, and all other persons interested
to contribute the following articles:
UncookocL hams, 'rice, coffee, tea, sugar, wines,
whiskey and other liquors, flour, socks, bandages,
and other articlos that may contribute to the reliof
of our sick and wounded soldiers.
Coatribtttiona will be left at Goodrich «fc Go’s, or
Urqtftart St Chapman’s Drug store.
Any person unable to give any of the above ar
ticles can contribute money. g CHAPMAN
C. G. Holmes, Sec’y.
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Douglas Ambulance Committee
Columbus, June 17tk, 1864.
At an election held this day to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the-resignation Os H. L. Goodrich as
President, Wm. 11. Young was duly elected to fill
said vacancy.
The following compose the officers ol the Corps :
Wm. H. Young, President.
F. S. Chapman, Vice President.
C. G. Holmes, Secretary.
H. H. Epping, Treasurer.
W. H. Brannon, Steward.
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Arrival of L '€?/ Bowers, Esq.
We are now enabled with some degree of cer
tainty to anneunco the arrival of this gentleman
in Cojumbus, without fear of contradiction er
criticism. Wo ; have seen him with our mortal
eyes, not dimly, not obscurely, spiritually, micro
scopically, telescopically or telegraphically ; not
in imaginative dreams or fancy picture?, but opti
cally, plainly, palpably, personally, obviously,
perspicuously, face to face. We not only saw him,
but felt him. In addition te this, we have the evi
dence of several others who did the same things.
The result proves that while we must have been
mistaken in seeing him several days ago, we ar e
at least a witch at guessing, for he looks remarka
bly well and appears to be in fine spirits.
♦ ♦
Ambulance Corps.— ln view of an early 7 call
Yo the battle field, the Douglas Ambulance corps,
calls earnestly for such articles as will enable it to
meet the ends of its organization in its labors of
love and mercy. Wc solicit the special attention
of our readers to the call, and trust the demands
will be met in a spirit of promptness and liberal
ity commensurate with the urgent emergency of
the ease.
Rain. —To all human appearances we hare had
a sufficiency of rain to answer all practical pur
poses at least for the present. The heavens have
been in the melting mood now for some two weeks,
and since Friday last, rain has been falling al
most incessantly. Judging from a mere tempo
ral standpoint, much evil is likely to result, and
poor human nature ever ready to complain, is dis
posed to murmur against that Providence in whose
hands are not only the minutest interests of life,
but tho grand future of eternity. It is, however*
not wise or just to complain. Whatever the God
of earth and heaven does, must bo right. We are
as ignorant as short-sighted, and eften mistake
those operations of Heaven’s laws, which are full
of blessing and big with mercy. Besides God is
His own arbiter, and interpreter, and will do what
seemetk to Him good—with all our complaining
and fretting to tho centrary, notwithstanding. The
only proper view we can take of the dispensations
of Providence, whether they affect our mere per
sonal good, or embitter even the wholo of tho fu
ture, it is to feel that God is at the helm, —that He
is “too wise to err, too good to be unkind,” and
yield a full and cheerful acquiescence to all His
dealings. This is the only method by which we
can feel reconciled to his way’s, and draw that
sound philosophy which renders life endurable
and paints the future with the brightest hopes.—
We should feel thankful that there is a merciful
and omniscient God who rules, for if left to work
out our own happiness and destiny we should fall
into irretrievable disasters which would result in
woes the most direful.
Dr. Stone, of New Orleans. —We learn from
a reliable gentleman who left New Orleans two
weeks ago, that Surgeon Warren Stone es that
city, is still alive. This will be a source of un
speakable pleasure to his many friends and rela
tives this side of the Mississippi river who haTe
mourned for him as dead. The profession at large
will especially be rejoiced to hear that he is still
able to wield the scalpel. Our readers will re
member the time that “the Beast” had him
confined at Fort Jackson for no other reason
than that of being a true and devoted friend of the
South. For reasons best known to “the Beast,” he
released him without letting the world know why.
When Yankee Sherman was wounded at Baton
Rouge, this Nestor of Southern surgeons amputa
ted bi3 leg. He only consented to do so on the
written condition that the Abolition Government
would allow the Southern prisoners who might bo
taken to New Orleans- to choose their own sur
geons from the city, when siek or wounded, aud
Prof. Warren Stone has from that day to this been
untiring in his efforts to render our poor captives’
stay in that subdued city as comfortable as possi
ble.
Tbe St. Charles is used as a Government build
ing. The City Hotel is 3tili open. Most of the
other hotels are pressed for Yankee purpesea.
The negro soldiers and officers are impudent and
reckless. Some sf our slaves are still true and
only wait until the hated stars and stripes shalj
again be trailed in tho dust to return to their own
ers.
Death of Samusi. McClary.—The following
dispatch was received in this city yesterday :
Marietta; June 19.
Mrs. S. MeClarg, {Care Col. Crawford) —Your
husband was killed yesterday. I forward ki3 ra
msons'this morniug. Jno. M. Scott.
Mr.-- McClary was formerly a merchant in Fort
Gaines, Ga., but resided in this city several years
prior to the war. He entered the service over two
years ago, as 2d Lieutenant in a company raised
here which wa3 attached t<* the 5 4th Georgia. He
was a clever gentleman of wealth aad influence
and a brave soldier, and leaves a wife and three
children and msay friends to mourn his loss. —
Thus our 1-oved and honored men aro failing, and
fresh wounds are daily being opened in the hearts
of our people.
Sales To-Day. —By advertisement our readers
will leara that Ellis, Livingston A Cos. will sell to
day, at auetion, negroes, sail, sugar, tobacco
whiskey, clothing, furniture, <ie.
Olr River. —The Chattahoochee was booming
at this point Sunday and Monday, having spread
its bounds considerably, if not more. If the good
can contribute anything to the discomfit of our
foa a without hurting us, it will bavu a tine effect
■ .
Auction Salks. —By advertisement it will be
seen that M. Cronly will sell in Wilmington, on
the 30th of June, large and valuable cargoes Or
imported goods, consisting of dry goods, groce
ries, liquors, drugs,cotton cards, Ac. The atten
tion'of the trade is invited.
Another Present, —We are indebted t some
mysterious feminine somebody tor a very pretty
embroidered tobacco bag, of artistic parts and
fastidious finish. IVe don’t know who its ;r_.m
could't say whether she’s ugly or pretty, good,
bad or indifferent, seraphic cr fallen, bur, presume
3he« all right.
Another Demonstration against
Petersburg. —Various rumors, were in
circulation yesterday relative to another
advance of the enemy upon Petersburg
We learned last night that at an early
hour yesterday morning a force approach*
ed Petersburg by the City Point road;
were engaged during the day with oy.r .
troops at Dearing’s farm, two miles dis*
tant from the city, and were driven back
On application at headquarters to learn
the situation of affairs, we Auiiv-vu to OUIUiA
any information whatever; but though it
lacks official confirmation, the reader may
rely upon the correotness of the abovs
statement. Rumor magnified this affair
into a direct attack upon Petersburg, the
capture of the second line of fortifications,
and gave a high coloring to the picture
generally; but rumor in this instance was
decidedly at fault. We may receive furs
ther information by telegraph before the
hour of going to press.
It is stated that the enemy’s.transports,
numbering ten of twelve, ascended James
river on Tuesday, and landed troops at
Bermuda Hundred. If this be so, the
troops were probably a portion of Baidy
Smith’s force, shipped from the White
House back to Butler- Richmond Bis*
patchy 16f/i.
Kentucky.— Northern papers of the 2d report or
the authority of officers frem Columbus and Padu
cah, that Gen. Buford had, within a few days, mad?
his appearance at Dukedom, forty miles from Pa
ducah, with from 12,000 to 15,000 men, part ofiFo.
rest’s command. The report says: They have beer,
gradually concentrating for the past week, and are
undoubtedly intending mischief in Kentucky.
Funeral Notice.
The friends and acquaintances of Lieut. S. Mc-
Larey and Mrs. McLarey, are respectfully invi
to attend the funeral of the former, at their resi
dence, near the Methodist E.Negro Church, TUES
DAY morning, at 9 o’clock,
june 21 It
Notice to Cias CostsEiuiei si.
AU parties usuiug Gas who have not settled u;>
their bills for tho last Quarter, aro notified that un
less payment is made before the last of this mont h
tho Gas will be cut off said premises.
We are in'noed of money andjeannot carry on out
works without it.
By order of the President.
C. E. DEXTER,
je 21 St Treasurer.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE LADIES l
GREATREDICTIOS ofPRICES
IN
DRY-GOODS!
JUST RECEIVED A FRESH ASSORTMENT OK
IDZR^-OOOIDS,
i allies’ French Kid Gaiter*
and Fancy Cassimers,
Which I offer for sale from 50 to 100 per cent, be
j low former prices. B. JACKSON,
j Columbus, Ga., June 21 dim
ALABAMA WAREHOUSE.
COTTON STORAGE.
\I7E have room to stere several hundred bales Cr-
M ton. Send forward. KING A ALLEN.
| je 21 2w
I IWcw 4*oods, Jflllew
A T MRS. DESSAU’S, from the late Blockade
lA Auction Sale at Augusta. The goods are all su
jierior to what is offered elsewhere, and will be sold
lower than lately.
Come and see.
je 21 ts
AUCTION,
: 33y JOH3ST C^TTXIST.
ON Thursday the 23d inst., at 11 o’clock in front of
my auction room, I will sell
StO Ilexes of Tobacco,
Modern Grade. Five dollar bills taken at par. Thi
is the last chance to invest 85 bills and save the dis
count,
je 21 tds
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
ON TUESDAY, 21st of June, at 10 o'clock, we
will soil in front of our store,
All Extra IV©. 1 Negro Boy.
IS years old, good house servant and carriage driver,
je 21 $2
By Ellis, Eirmgston & Cos
AN TUESDAY, 21st June, at 10 o’clock, we will
sell in front of our store,
Likely Negro Woman, 20 years old.
Cook washer and Ironer.
8 bbls. Superior Whiskey.
6 boxes Choice Sugar,
500 lbs. Fine Smoking Tobacco.
11 boxes Chewing Tobacco,
88 Sacks and Barrels Salt.
A “No. 1” Two-horse Spring Was on,
Lot Trace Chains,
Lot Cottonades,
Furniture, Clothing,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, &e.
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WANTED.
TO exchange SUGAR for SPRING CHICKEN.-
I at the rate of two pounds of Sugar for three
Chickens. The Sugar is a splendid article—mu -
superior to any that can now be found in this mar
ket. I will exchange rs much as 50 pounds in the
above manner. For further information apply *
the Times Office. * jelO tt
Lo
* N INDIA RUBBER OVERCOAT between -
±x Post Office and Muscogee Depot, on the afte:
noon of 17th June. The finder will please leave
at the Times Office. R. J. MOSE
jo 18 3t
By Ellis, 4V. Cos
To Refugees, Lawyers, Doctors ant! Other;
r j'HE HOUSE AND LOT situated at Craw: >rd
A Ala., formerly owned by .Judge Tate, is now iy
sale at a reduced price. House has five well fine
large rooms, good oyr houses, vineyards, fine
young orchards of desirable fruit, 116 acres land at
tached, with fine well and spring of water. Tho.-
who wafft a comfortable and healthy place iu a goo 1
neighbohood, will do well to apply soon. Other*
land ra-ijoining can be bought at reasonable rate-.
junelT ot S2O
Government Transportation Works.
Columbus, Ga., June 16,
I have Osnabnrgs, Augusta Sheetings and Ait
ta Spun Yarn, some numbers as high as 12, w':
desire to exchange fort equitable terms for Bv
j and Meal. TIIOS. JOHNSON
jelTlm Special Ag't Q. M. Dep
WAITED!
Muscogee Railroad Oftick.
Columbus, Ga., June b’th, Ido*.
\,V ANTED a good BOILER MAKER or BLA
SMITH. Apply to
. ST, IK E '•>-*•- «/*■'
je IT 2w Suy.y to. -.ci Muscogee ii.
Change oi
/ >S and after Sunday. June 10th, the T-* : r
’/the • uscogee Railroad will run as:oL:.v-
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 4o P. M
A- rive at Macon ;> 2fi A. .V
Leave Macon ~.S 10 P.
Arrive at Columbus ff h . .*■■■
.FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Cchimbus 5 00 A >
Arrive at Columbus 4 5b A.-
W.L. CLARE
mar,l9tf Supt. Muscogee R, K
