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§®UmbM limes. J. W. nABREI, - - - Editor. Thursday Morning, June §5, 1864. The Dillard Cadets.” We learn that thi3 company of boys, or ganized a week or two ago in this city, was disbanded yesterday by order of Gen. Smith. Their roll, when first tendered, con tained some forty odd names, but when order* ed to duty at West Point less than twenty responded. Remaining there a few days they were ordered to this city for the purpose of recruiting their rank3, and yesterday the or der first above referred to was carried into effect. We sympathize with the few brave young spirits who are thus denied an oppor tunity to display their devotion to their coun try by meeting its enemies on the field of bat tle. Some of them are determined not to be foiled in their effort by this cruel order, and will report for duty at the front in a few days. The names of the latter are as follows : Walter Gordon, Howard Williams, Benj. Hatcher, John Martin, John Howard, Ed. Howell, Joe. Bond, W. C. Gray. Sbcbbtaby Wells on Admiral Dupont.— Secretary Wells, says the Charleston Courier , is not always as placid as has been believed. I* a letter to Admiral Depont, published in a correspondence submitted to Congress, he thus walks into the Admiral: “Your prompt abandonment of the harbor of Charleston af ter a brief attack ; your disinclination t® oc cupy the harbor ; your declaration that the monitors could not remain there with safety; your doubts and misgivings in relation to those vessels ; your opposition to naval attack : your omission to suggest or to devise any sys tem “of naval proceeding; your constant complaints, the distrust that painfully pervaded your correspondence ; your distress ing personal anxiety about yourself, that seemed to overshadow your duty ; your as saults upon rebel battteries ; your neglect of any reconnoisance of the harbor obstructions, or if such was ever made, your neglect to in form th« DepartmentTof the fact. These, with querulous and censorious charges which, subsequently during four months leisure, have been garnered up and cherished, and which find expression in your communication re ceived on the 27th ultimo, are agreeably to your wish, all on the files of the Department ; and the failure of the 7th of April has become history. The Battle of Cold Harbor. — A corres pondent of the New York Herald, with Grant's army, in his letter of the sth instant, pub lished in the Herald of the 9th, asserts that all concur in th« opinion that the losses of Gen. Grant on Friday outnumbered all who fell driung the siege of Vicksburg. This cor respondent adds also, that Gen. Grant has at last determined that he will “fight the devil with fire”—in other words, if tlje rebels will persist in entrenching, Gen. Grant intends for the future adopting the same mode of war fare, and predicts glorious results hereafter from the caution of Meade combined with the brilliant strategy of Grant. The Petersburg Express suggests' that the Butcher has re ceived an intimation from Washington, that his wholesale slaughter must stop ; and that as boundless as the resources of the Federal Government have been supposed to be in msn, under the style of fighting adopted by him (Grant) at Spottsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor, they will soon be, if they are not already, exhausted. A Blockade Runner Captured—Despe rate REsfsTANCE. —Lieut. W. B. Eaton, com manding the United States steamer Admiral, writes from on board that vessel, off Velasco, Texas, of tbe capture of the blockade runner Isabel, while attempting to run into the port of Galveston : “Tbe Isabel is a steamer of much notoriety, having made upwards of twen ty successful trips between Havana and the ports of Mobile and Galveston. The chase between the Admiral and the Isabel was an arduous one. The night being dark, it wag with great difficulty the Isabel could be kept in sight, and her commander handled her with great skill and desperate courage, not surrendering until he kad received two broad sides at short range, every shot hitting his vessel, and the tire from the small arras of the Admiral literally driving the men from the wheel. One of the Isabel’s crew was badly wounded, and it was found necessary to am putate his left arm and three fingers of his right hand. Ihe Isabel is one of three steamers which ran out of Galveston on the night of the 30th of April last. She had a cargo of powder, arms, Prussian caps and medicines. During the chase she threw the powder overboard. On the authority ot' a letter recently pub- j tished in one of our religious papers, says the •South t'-ro]i n j an , written by a distinguished i Southern divine, no'T in New York, doubtless ! on parole, it was stated in one of the prayer j meetings in that city, that there has not been i a single conversion in the \ankee array since the war began. <n ou" own, it haS been esti mated that thousand* on thousands have been converted. -•* . mm • —■ - A Washington correspondent says the offi-' eial records of the military authorities show that upward of one hundred and fifty female recruits have been discovered and made to resume the garments of war Eighteen flat cars loaded with artillery and wagons, captured by Forrest, arrived at Merid ian on the 16th. The hospitals at Washington are being cleared of the slightly wounded, who will be sent North. The capacity of the hospitals has been and is being increased fifty per ct. The number of wounded from the recent bat tle fields in Virginia sent there is over thirty thousand. Geographical,. —Missouri, Arkansas, Lou isiana, Texas and the newspaper correspond ents all lie beyond the Mississippi- Some ot the correspondents, as well as parts ot Louis iana lie also on this side ol the great river. •4 - It is believed that the address or manifesto recently adopted by both houses ot the Con federate Congress, is from the pen of Hon. Win. C. Hives, of Virginia. 4 Respectable Duped ; MARRIAGE ON A SHORT ACQUAINTANCE. A letter from Palmyra (N. Y.) to the Rochester Express, tells this curious stos ry : A remarkable (Leap Year) courtship and marriage came off in our quiet vil lage last week, resulting disastrously to all the parties concerned. The whole case is not so fully developed as to enable 6ne to give a full relation. It seems that a Miss C. M., a highly respected young lady of 20 years, had beep holding a cor* respondence with a yov*ng officer in a mili tary camp in New Jersey—who had sent her an introductory letter vouching for his respectability. Said letter was written by an acquanitance of hers, who also was an officer. Several letters passed, he sending his photograph, and a request for her photograph; all this was very plea3s ant and honorable. On Monday of last week a young and rather prepossessing man of about five-and twenty years, dressed in military clothing, arrived, and called on the lady and ans nounced himself as her dear correspond ! ent; he was cordially received as such by | Miss C. M., notwithstanding the parties failed to discover any similarity of like ness between him and the photograph, but this he explained to her satisfaction by saying it was taken before he went in to service three years ago. Monday and Tuesday things went on lovingly, and he visited the morning prayer meetings, sang and spoke, and all were greatly edified thereby. The account that he gave of himself was that he had resigned about four months previous, was now a Deputy Provost Marshal, was at Vicksburg when taken prisoner, an inmate of Libby Prison eight months, and was in the Gettysburg fight. On Tuesday night, much against the will of parents and friends, they were married. The next day he began to look after some workmen to paint and paper his new father-in-law’s house. His bar gain with the painters was fair, showing plenty of greenbacks, and offering to pay down oa fulfilment of the contract. He looked at a number of fine residences, but failed to strike a bargain. In conver sation with the clergyman who married them, he stated that he had lost, on Main street, SSOO, but being a stranger, and having already gained some notoriety, he would not advertise it—“he did not care for the money.” He claimed to be the owner of a farm of two hundred acres, near Elmira. Friday afternoon, Mr. offis cer, who had already assumed two or three names; procured a carriage and horses of Mr. Sweeney, of the Eagle, and rode out, but did not, it seems, return as per agree ment. In the morning a letter for the bride, which was opened by the parents, and found to be from her true correspon dent, the owner of the photograph. This document resulted in sending officers Clark and Howe in pursuit of the team and the deluded bride. At Canandaigua he was arrested, iron> ed and placed in durance vile, The eyes of the late Mrs. C. M. being opened, she upbraided him for his deceit, and declared she would return home, which she did. The young scamp had to be knocked down before he would yield. To officer Clark he confessed he was a deserter from the army, and wished him to call the Provost Marshal, preferring to fall into his hands. Officer Clark deeming it pro per to notify the Provost, did so. I During the few moments absence, the prisoner had wrenched off his irons, and burnt such papers in his possession as he thought proper. He is certainly a most accomplished villain. The affair has caused much excitement. It is due the parents ot the misguided young lady to say that they were opposed to the hasty ! marriage, and insisted on a week’s time, but the couple were determined, and threatened going somewhere else to have the ceremony consummated, and fearing that would make the affair more ridicu lous, they reluctantly and fearfully con sented. From the Petersburg Express. Affairs In Petersburg and Its Vicinity. A good many of our citizens, actuated by a not very unnatural or unreasonable curiosity, spent a portion of their time Tuesday, in viewing Butler’s lofty observatory down the river, at Cobb s. It can be seen very distinct ly from some ot our house-tops and from the eminences around the city. Being a decided novelty in these parts, it is not wonderful that it should attract the notice which it re ceives. The purposes for which it was erected are obvious enough, but not such as to cre ate the slightest uneasiness, as there are no guns mounted on its summit throwing shells to a distance of seven miles. It is a harmless military structure, serving only to gratify the extreme and invincible Yankee propensity for prying Yesterday morning there was some little i excitement arising from the report that the : enemy were again advancing upon our city, j and that skirmishing was going on at or near j Jordan’s farm, some two or three miles below, j What foundation there’ was for the report, we j are not particularly informed at the hour we ; are writing, (12 o’clock Wednesday; but to j judge from the quiet in oup streets, we should , think that but little danger is apprehended. : The forces which we have here are all m thru, proper places, prepared to give the A ankees a j proper reception, should they venture upon another visit. We know that Grant has shded his army ; around from the Pamunky to the James, and j that he can effect a landing on the South side of that river, or the Appomattox, suould he , feel disposed in his desperate condition to try the experiment. He has succeeded in doug ♦ ing Lee by & .nocturnal stampede lioni his j York River base, but his great adversary s eve is upon him as closely as ever, and he will find himself vigorously confronted in any new aggressive movement, in whatever direction it may be made. He confessed to a defeat when he slided down from the Wilderness via Fredericksburg to the Pamunkey. When he furtively abandoned the latter for the * James, it was a double confession to the same | effect. Gen. Lee is fully up to the game he (Grant) is playing, has become thoroughly acquainted with his military character, can readily penetrate bis designs, and is as well | prepared to baffle them as ever. He has fol lowed him from the hills ot Spottsylvania to the swamps of the Cliickaiiominy, confront ing him at every step. He will continue to follow him until he abandons his crazy en terprise altogether, and retires from our wa ters, as McClellan did, Th&t his movements and intentions are properly suspected and appreciated in Rich mond and the requisite provisions made to meet and frustrate them, we are assured by , the Whig of yesterday, as will appear from the following extract from the leading edi torial : It will now be Grant s effort to precipitate alar ,r e body of his forces upon Petersburg, which i.e may fancy of as much importance : to Richmond as Grand Gulf was to \icks i burg. Herein, he again errs; but to what i extent we shall not be in haste to inform him. . There are contingencies which may serve ere long to enlighten him. aai that very sudden ly. Around Petersburg, there are fortihca tions superior to those which held Ulysses m check for two months before Y icksburg. be hind these works, there is no incompeten leader with an army disgusted and dishear tened at his imbecility. The first engineer of the age and a field captain equal to any in the world is there ; his troops have unbounded confidence in him; he has proved them and him on many fields ; he awakens enthu siasm as none other can awaken it; and when Grant comes in contact with him, he will find another master, nay, two masters; for the day which sees the bulk of Grant’s army on the southside will find the two best heads, and the twe bravest, purest and most magnani mous hearts on this continent opposed to him; and that will be a field day, indeed. Grant’s soldiers compiain that they have been forced into slaughter pens. Do they wish a fair, open fight, with the odds two te one in their favor ? Let them pitch their picks and spades into James River and draw out their line of battle en the southside.— They shall have an entertainment which shall satisfy the survivors for the remainder of their natural lives. Our word for it, their appetite for war will cease from that time.l But they have enough of battle diet already. Lieut. Russell assures us that they are tired of butting their heads against fortifications, and will gladly hail the day when they can sit down and dig, while the batteries do their fighting. If they prefer that game, let them try it. The struggle will last a little longer, but the end will be the same. In time and blood, we shall ma)te them pay roundly for every inch they gain ; and if, eventually, they get possession of the Cockade city (an im probable event,) they will have buried before its walls twice as many men as Grant had in the beginning of the campaign, and four times as many as the Yankees can afford to lose. [From the Richmond Sentinel.] Victory over Sheridan Enemy s Loss Fifteen Hundred—Hampton and Fitz Lee in Pursuit-of the flying Yankees. An officer who was wounded in the late fight, and who left the command at 5 p. m. oa Tuesday, furnishes us with the following par iculars of the late glorious aehievment of ou r cavalry : Sheridan’s force consisted of Gregg’s and Wilson’s divisions, (six brigades) numbering between nine and ten thousand men, with four pieces of artillery. The enemy marched through Caroline county, over the Orange Spring road from Polecat station on the Fredericksburg railroad. On Sunday, the lltk inst., skirmishing com menced two miles this side of Trevillian s, a station on the Central road, sixty seven miles from Richmond. Fitz Lee attacked them in the flank, this side of Louisa C. H., while Hampton engaged them in front, immediately on the railroad. The fight commenced about ten o’clock a. m. At noon the enemy succeed ed in throwing fifteen hundred men byMe chanicsville, a small place near Trevillian’s, capturing our wagon train, all the led horses and a number of prisoners. Rosser’s brigade, which was immediately ordered to the*Vescue of the train, succeeded in re-capturing all the horses and wagons, all the prisoners*, besides capturing two hundred and fifty of the enemy. Gen. Fitz Lee captured one hundred and fifty prisoners, General Custar’s headquarters and three pieces of artillery. On Sunday, the 12th inst, Generals Hamp ton and Fitz Lee, having united their divis ions, the fighting again commenced, lasting from Boon until nine o’clock at night. The enemy charged our hastily constructed breast works three times and were as often repulsed with heavy loss. We drove them from the field, and held possession of it. At midnight, the enemy commenced retreat ing in the same direction they had advanced, leaving their dead and wounded in oar hands. They left 87 wounded and six dead in the hos pital at Trevillian’s, 57 in another field hospital, and a large number at other points. On Sunday night we had 517 prisoners and their estimated loss in killed, wounded and prisoners was 1,500. Our informant counted 150 dead Yankees on the field. Among the wouaded prisoners are two Lieut Colonels.— The enemy are represented as demoralized, without rations or forage, their horses bioken down—6oo dismounted men were counted by a citizen as they passed his house. Hampton is pressing their rear, as rapidly as his jaded horses can move, while Fitz Lee is endeavor ing to cut them off. They have gone in the direction of Ely’s ford, the lowest one on the Rapidan, hoping to take the Rapidan and Rappahannock, between then# and their pur suers. The officers captured say it was their inten tion to strikeGoruonsvilleand Charloltesvllle, destroy the public -buildings and stores, and form a junction with Crook and Averill. — They have been most signally defeated in their vandal intentions. Northern News. General Grant was born in Clermont county, Ohio, April twenty'.eight, 1822, and is, consequently, years old. Major General Buell has been muster ed out of the volunteer service, having refused to take a command under General Canby. The colored division of the Ninth corps has not been with the Army of the Potomac since it left the Wilderness. Total number of guns on uli the harbor defences of San Francisco, will, in a few months, be nearly five hundred. Major-General Foster has assumed command of Hilton Head, &c. General Shepley has been placed in command of the department of Pastern Virginia, embracing Fortress Monroe, Norfolk, Portsmouth, York town and the eastern shore. Lincoln was invited, to attend the Grant meeting at New York, June fourth. He wx’ote, approving anything that would strengthen General Grant and the armies, hoping that the result of the meeting would be men and guns to support them. A slave owner in the Federal lines in Virginia flogged bis female chattels, and Yankee General Wilde had him tied, and permitted the woman to repay the blows with interest. The widow of the late ex-president Tvler has written to Lincoln, complaining of the act; she is indignant that a Virginia gentleman should be jflireated thus. It is anticipated that the mortality in Washington hospitals will be very great, as a large portion of the cases are of men so severely wounded _ that they were left at Fredericksburg until they could be moved on litters. Twenty-eight dead were lying in one hospital to-day. Remarkable Coincidences. —At Spottsyl vania Court House, Brigadier General Henry H. Walker, of Genera] A. F. Hill’s corps, lost his foot. In D. fl. Hill's attack upon the entrenched camp at Bermuda Hundreds, Brig. Gen. Win. , S. Walker was severely mounded in the foot, and taken prisoner. i Major General Wra. 11. T. Walker was shot , through the foot in the recent engagement near Dallas. Ga.. between Johnston and Gher man. | The commander of the Stonewall Brigade. General Janies L. \Valker, was badly wounded j in the great battle of May the 12th. when Ed ; ward Johnston’s division suffered considera ble loss. Gen. MarmaJuke killed, in a duel. General Marsh .Valter, of Arkansas. * iW W** Scouts from Ferguson's brigade, recently captured five mail carrier? in Gen. Sherman’s S army 2E115 RArHIG. Reports of the Press Association, Entered according to act of Congtoss in the year 1863. by J. S, Thrasher, in the Cl< rk s office of the District Court of the Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. From Trans-Mississippi. « -■ Latest from the Georgia Front. Interesting Northern News. &e*9 &LC»f &c» * Marietta, June 22.—The enemy attempted to tur* our left this morning but were foiled. Very vigorous shelling has been going on all day in front of Hardee’s corps. Two of the enemy’s lines of battle drove Har dee’s pickets in. They were permitted to come up when our batteries opened on them a terrific fire, driving them back with much slaughter. Meridian, June 22.—The Clarion has received trustwortny information from Trans-Mississippi that Gen. Dick Taylor has been released from du ty at his own request, by Kirby Smith. Reason unknown. * There are 11,000 Yankees still at Morganza on the Mississippi river. Mobile, June 22.—A special to the Register & Advertiser from Senatobia, state that Memphis papers of the 18th say that Vallandigham suddenly appeared at the Democratic Convention at Hamil ton, Ohio, and was elected a delegate to the Chi cago Convention: He urged discretion; Lincoln might deprive him of life, and not again of liberty. He has left for Dayton, and there are fears of an outbreak there. Speeches at the Convention pledged the Democ racy of the State to defend Vallandigham and in dividual rights under the Constitution. From Louisiana. — The Mobile Tribuae has ad vices from New Orleans to tlie 10th. The follow ing is extracted from a letter dated at Brashear City, June 7th Berwick City, opposite Brashear, was partially destroyed by fire a week or two ago. All the up per portion was destroyed. No one seems to know what was the origin of the tire. Guerrilla bands are numerous on the west bank of tbe Teche, and they frequently came down to within a short distance of Berwick, but the country has so long depredated upon by them, that little injury can now be accomplished. They annoy the Union pickets occasionally, but in ten er twelve attempts which they have made to gobble some ®f the boys, they have been invariably repulsed. Not Easy.—From reliable informafifcoa re ceived through gentlemen from the rear of our army, we learn that the Yankees are not very jubilant over their successes, so far, or very hopeful for the future. Some of our cavalry are still operating in their rear, and their sit uation is becoming daily more unsatisfactory to them. A gentlemen left Cone Spring, which is sixteen miles from Rome, on Tuesday last. So far the enemy have not required any one to take the oath of allegiance to their Govern ment, and whilst negroes are seduced from their owners, so far their deportment has been kind. Our people in th® overrun portion are true and hopeful, having every confidence that that portion of our State will yet. be redeemed from Yankee rule. —Atlanta Register , 21s/. Tbe Situation in our Front. j Our lines extend across the Kenesaw Mountain, in front of Marietta. Any further information of the position, whether of the right or left wings, would be indiscreet, in consideration of the proximity of the enemy and the facility for the transmission of news across the line. The enemy, abandoning his move against our right by the Roswell route, is now shift ing his forces to the left, in an effort to zig zag as much closer as possible to the Chatta hoochee. Thaf stream is now much swollen by the recent heavy rains and is still rising. Furloughed soldiers arrived here last even ing from Campbelton, a few miles below, 011 the river, who left that point in apprehension of a cavalry raid in that direction. They re port that several citizens of Campbellton have removed their families and household goods. It is also reported that firing was heard the other night in the direction of Salt Spring, and Sweetwater Town, probably the result of a collision between our cavalry on the out- posts and a Yankee party of raiders. On Saturday night a party of Yankee cav alry came within eight mile3 of the Chatta hoochee, no doubt on an expedition of recon noissance. At this writing all is quiet in front, save ! the occasional sharpshooting which has oc curred daily since the Yankees approached our positions in front of Marietta. —Southern Confederacy, ‘l'ld. Yankee Depredations in Alabama. —The Mississippian learns by a letter from an intel ligent gentleman at Gadsden, Alabama, under date of th/e 13th instant, that the 17th army corps (Fc/’lerals) passed through that section of the State a short time since. - They left Ten nessee river at Decatur, passing through Sum merville, : Warrenton, Guntersville, Van Bu ren, Blue; Pond, Cedar Bluff, to Rome, Geor gia. In Cherokee county, Alabama, they com mitted all manner of depredations. Their force was variously estimated at from nine to fifteen thousand. They had a large wagon train, and took off' everything valuable they could find. They drove off all the horses, mules and cows, and shot down sows and pigs too poor to eat. The poor people in the sec tion through which the vandals passed are left in a rriost deplorable condition. They are without'njieat or bread, and without the means ot obtaining the necessaries of life. Their crops and; fencing have been destroyed, their beds and furniture thrown in tlie wells and weighted down with timber. Federal Finances. The following extract, from the Washington cor respondent of the Herald, exhibits in the strongest light the bankrupt condition of the Yankee Govern ment. of the Government have been run up from two millions per day, in 1362 and 1863, to four millions per day in 1864 : Owing to the largely increased expenses of the Government, officially announced by Mr. Chase, in his proposal’s for the new loan, it is estimated that four millions a day will hardly be sufficient to meet the accumulating requisition upon the Treasury.— The causes of this great increase of expenditures are apparant. The total number of men called out tor the army under the proclamations, up to this time, is 2,139,000. Added to this source of expense is the navy, in cluding five hundred and eighty-eight vessels aid forty-four thousand seamen. The loans and liabili ties authorised by acts of Congress, which are now nearly all exhausted, amount to two thousand sev en hundred and seventy four millions nine hundred and twelve thousand eight hundred nnd eighteen dollars. During the year 1862 and 1863 the expenses of the Government did not exceed two millions per day; but they have now been run up to four millions daily by the increase of prices, aswell as of the army and navy, and interest on the public debt. It is thus found that the receipts from revenue, internal tax and subscriptions to the ten forty bonds are in adequate to: the daily requirements of the treasury. Unless the loans fail, the Secretary will not prob ably resort to the further issue of non-interest bear ing notes ; but he is obliged to continue the issue of five per cent legal tenders, and it is understood that inn few days six per cent, legal tenders, now being printed, will be substituted. It is not believed that these notes will materially inflate prices. They will necessary form a large part of our currency until about six months interest shall have accrued, when it is expected that .by compounding interest they will be retired from circulation. It is yei to be as certained whether this process of adding to the pub lic debt will avoida further inflation of the currency. It is not deemed expedient to create a stringent money market, as that would unavoidably keep jhese.notes afloat much longer than an easy ene. — The five percents, with from three to six months in terest accrued, are now paid to the army, and cir j culate as currency as freely as the ordinary legal 1 tenders. * CITY MATTERS. T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR Douglas Ambulance Comnlittee Will leave for the Army this (THURSDAY) even ing, and respectfully solicit contributions of un cooked provisions, vegetables, Ac. F. S. CHAPMAN. Vice President. C. G. Holmes, See’y. je 23 It _ Consignees per M. & P. R. R.—June 23.—Capts Cothran and Cook, LMaj Allen, Maj Humphries, Palice Mills, J M Watt, Dr M Woodruff, Powell, F & Cos., Eagle Factory, S Green, D H Fowler, Gam mell, L W Rasdol, G H Hargraves, T H Spear, F M Gibson, Judge Echols, J D Nance, Biadford and Snow, Hughes & H, D W Adams, Warnock A Cos, The Union Prayer Meetings. —lt will b® re membered that the daily Union Prayer Meetings ase still ia progress, and ar® being held this week at St. Paul's (new) Methodist Church. We are sorry to learn from the ministers that these meet ings have been but thinly attended for some time, owing we presum® to the late inclement weather. It is unnecessary to assure our readers that the same exigencies which called these meetings into being still exist, and prayer is as much a necessity now as over. We are still beleaguered by immense armies in Georgia and in Virginia, and at any moment the blow is liable to fall which is to strike off our shackles, or send among us a horde of un principled foes. The lives of our loved ones hang suspended on the issue, and their souls are in dan ger of being hurled without a moment’s warning into the presence of the august Judge of quick and dead. As to the power and efficacy of prayer, the Christian world all agree. As long as Abram importuned, the guilty cities of the plain were spared; while Jacob wrestled, Heaven lent a lis tening ear. In obedience to prayer the sun stood still. When Moses prayed, guilty Israel was spared. As long as the hands of Moses were up held, Israel prevailed. In answer to prayer Hez ekiah’s life was spared. The prayer of the church shall raise the sick. From the righteous, prayer availeth much. Many more instances es its effica cy might be given. Then remember the daily prayer meetings for the country. Nobody was ever yet charged with praying too much when of fered in spirit and truth. The Impressment of Negroes. —Several hun dred negroes have been impressed during the last day or two by the Commandant of the Post here in virtua of authority from Gen. Johnston, -to be sent to the front to work on fortifications. We have not seen so much excitement among the brethren of African ’scent in many a day. They have bean lifted by the military wherever found* and we saw very few of the tribe in circulation yesterday afternoon. If there he any that have not been “nabbed,” they deem it imprudent and unhealthy to show themselves. It has been amu sing in many cases to observe the astonishment visible on the phizzes of these sable gentry when informed that Gen. Johnston wanted them, and some have been frightened nearly out of their wits by the belief that they were to take up arms and go in rather close proximity to gunpowder.— The Ethiope sistering have come in also for thoir share of the excitement. The fact that “'hubby’* was to figure among the dramatis persons of mili tary heroes didn’t set well on their “stummicks,” and many an anxious enquiry was afloat as to what all this ado was about. The masters, too, were taken aback, and some who ordinarily were supposed t© have negroes, when it come to the pinch couldn’t think of “ary” one, except a crip ple, an exempt, or something of that sort. The first instalment of about two or three hundred were sent off yesterday, to he followed we sup pose by others to-day. Some of the uegroes took this “joke” in good glee, and went off in fine spirits. ‘ Good News. —The b«st news we have to com municate this morning, (and we don’t know that it can be considered news, unless some of our read ers have been asleep during the last twenty-four hours) is that the bad spell of weather appears to be broke —whether it broke empty or full handed we know not, but would infer the former from the quantity of rain that kas recently fallen. Be this as it may, yesterday up to the hour of writing was a delightful day—the sun shining out beauti fully, a fine breeze in circulation, the streets fast drji*g, the ladies coming out from their lurking places, and everybody feeling more comfortable than for some time. But we reckon we had better not brag too much till ;We see how the pleasant c hange holds out, for it might rain again before this paragraph sees the light, and our reaction in feeling might prove fatal. Off Again. —lt will he seen that the Columbus Ambulance Corps leaves for the front again this afternoon and solicits contributions of uncooked provisions, vegetables, Ac., for the sick and wounded. Let their wants be amply met by our citizens, as it is most important that they be ena bled in a proper manner*to fulfil the ends of their noble mission. This corps, as well as others, has been of immense benefit to the suffering soldier*, and we trust that the bless ings of many that were ready to perish may be heaped upon them. ♦ ’ ♦ Phelps in Want. —We wera always afraid Billy Phelps would come to want. Sure enough he has, and by reference to advertisement it will be seen that his wants aro numerous. Well, friend Phelps, many others have come to want, to whom the idea is most abhorrent. Want has straitened us all, and poverty can lower the prowdr 1 est crest. That miserable renegade Andy Johnston, came \ very near losing his “light” in Nashville the other day. A drunken Yankee officer fired at him with a pistol, the ball grazing the skin and going through his coat. We are indebted says the Prairie News, to Prof. M. E. Bacon, for the following statistics of the bat tle of Tishomingo Creek, which he obtained fro in ; Gen. Forrest's Chief Quartermaster : Yankees killed 11,000 : wounded 1,500; captured 2,000. Also 200 wagons, 50 ambulances, 19 pieces of artillery with caisons. 500 mules, 100 horses, 500,- i 000 rounds small arm ammunition; 10,000 rounds ! cannon ammmunijdon, 5,000 stand small arms. 20,000 lbs. pilot bread ; 50 barrels sugar; i.30 sacks j of coffee; $200,000 worth of medicines; ten barrels of whisky, and shovels, spades, axes, carpenters tools Ac., Ac., in large numbers. Lincoln, when verbally informed of his renomi nation, replied : “I know no reason to doubt that I , shall accept the nomination tendered, and yet, per haps, I should not declare definitely before reading and considering what is called the platform.” Losses in Virginia.— The Virginia army cor. respondent of the Mobile Advertiser and Register, writes as follows: “I ihave endeavored to-day to obtain an official statement of our casualties on the 3d, but did not succeed. I learned enough, however to venture to say that they do not exceed 1000; and that in all the engagements, skirmishes and picket firing that have occurred since we left Hanover Junction, they do not exceed 2000. The loss of the feuemy is probably ten times as great—say 20,000.” What Texas Women are Doing. —A private letter from a lady in Texas says: “Since I com menced making cloth, I have made 2,700 yards for myself and 300 for others. The girls dress in home spun and like it.” Three cheers for the fair daugh ters of Texas. The enemy have sunk five vessels inTreni's Reach on the James river, to prevent our iron-dads ;rom descending the river and attacking their fleet.— Below the obstructions and in the Reach, there are ten steamer behind the monitors. Management of Govsenu-v r - Montgomery correspondent of the Mobile V"’ IV CSIStCr ; Writes t 0 that i’ourna! under ' of the 14th mst : By some sort of bad luck 0 r K t nmnagement, a large amount of Government W has been exposed to the heavy rains of the p^, ff w Hu * c . pJcsof sacks, filled with this staple - life, were to be seen lying at the wharf yesteG ‘ mornrng, soaking wet. and we understand there t a largo number xn the same condition at the ra road depot. This is unfortunate, to say the least i* it, and it does seem that such evil - m i ght h ' bee* prevented by proper diligence an<i precaution This ,3 no time to throw away, or permit to be w/ People” S ° neCdfUl f ° r ° Ur ami?3 DIED, At the the residence of Augusta Rm w t la ” °v.° tho ' llth iDst -> Annie Bloust, oahf child of Joseph G. and Maria L. Blount, aged Iv years, ’ ‘ * *- r A sweet flower that had been nursed with tender est care, and had shed a grateful fragrance for sir short years in its earthly garden, has withered Iroa human sight only to be transplanted hence, 'and bloom in immortal beauty in the paradise of God My beautiful! my only one! I’ve lain thee down to rest, And lightly crossed thy lily hands Above thy marble breast. Thy little heart is pulseless now. With all its wealth of love; Its hying spirit was so pure, God called it up above. “PHELPS’ WANTS,* WANTS to exchange for and on account of Mi Chickens* Hospita ’ Sheeting for Butter. Egg; a;ii WANTS to exchange Cotton Cards (Whitemore’- T F for Country Produce or cash. WANTS to exchange 400 lbs. choice Sugar for in» kind of country produce or sell it for cask ‘ to exchange Nails for Bacon er Flour. WANTS to sell 1000 Confederate Cups and lo* 5' Pitchers. WANTS to sell three gross Confederate <;; a <s iumblers or exchange for country produce. WANTS to sell at wholesale or retail fine a?son 1 T ment smoking and chewing Tobacco. W to £ cll or exchange for country pro! ; , 11 Cooking Soda. One Dozen Japanned Waiters, One Dozen Glass Goblets and Cut 1 ; . Tumblers, 10 Dozen Glass Gallon Jars, suitable for Pickles and Preserves. W. H. 11. PHELPS. 114 Broad Street. June 23 dotwlt Southern Mechanics’ Union. The Southern Mechanics Union will meet at tin room of the Vice President, J A Colvin, in the Mj sonic Building, this, Thursday evening, at eight o’clock. By order of the President ISAAC G. DENSON. June 22—It . Sec’y Wanted to Purchase. A SMALL HOUSE of four or five rooms, also il second-hand Buggy and Harness. Address sta ting terms, X, Y. je 23 3t* Times Otfi ji. NOTICE! .Headquarters Post, < Columbus, Ga., June 21, 1864. ) The following dispatch has just been received a these Headquarters : Atlanta, June 21st. Commandant Post, Columbus, Ga. Ge n eral Johnston orders that you immediately proceed to impress every able bodied negro man within your reach, and send them on first train to this place to-day. Let the impressment be prompt and thorough. Each negro will bring with him blanket, and either an axe, shovel or pick, and 'suf ficientjcooking utensils. They will not be require, longer than a week. (Signed,) M. J. W.RIGHT, Brigadier Genera!. The citizens of Columbus and the vicinity, arc ur gently requested to respond promptly, and repo: their names to the Provast Marshal. GEO. O. DAWSON, Major, Commanding Post. je 22 2t 1(1 GOODS ! ! M GOODS!!! AT Mrs. DESSAU’S. FROM THE LATE BLOCKADE SALE AT _A_uiguista, Ga. The goods are all superior to what i* offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower than lately. In the assortment can b found : Ladies’ Hew Oats, Hew ISoiiiict Ribbons. New Belts, Bobinet Musquito Netting. Tucking! mid Dressing Combs. Ladies’ Iloser}, Three y’ds wide Linen Sheeting Superior Bleached Shilling. Printed Jackonets, Ginghams, English and French Calicoes, Bombazine, Alpacas, Elegant Leroes. GA LL .A-ItTE SEE. je 21 ts Notice to Gas Consumers. Ail parties usuing Gas who have not settled ui their bills for the last Quarter, are notified that un less payment is made before the last of this nun the Gas will be cut off said premises. We are in need of money and.cannot carry on works without it. By order of the President. C. E. DEXTER. je 2l 5t Treasurer. GOOD NEWS FOR THE LADIES! GRE ITREDIXTIOA of I»RIC I> IN DRY-OOOI>S * JUST RECEIVED A FRESH ASSORTMENT )F :o:R/Y--a-oo:Ds, Ladies’ French Kid Gaiter* and Fancy Cassimers, Which I offer for sale from 50 to 100 per cent. •- low former prices. B. JACKSON Columbus, Ga., June 21 dim. W AREHOI St. COTTON STORAGE. YU E have room to store several hundred baies Co' “ ton. Send forward. KING ALLE-- je 21 2w AKTIOV JOHN C^YTXUSr. AN Thursday the 23d in.~t., at 11 o'clock in from o my auction room, I will sell •20 Itoxes «l Tobacco. Modern Grade. Five dollar bills taken at par. IU is the last chance to invest $5 bills and save the count. je 21 tus ______ WANTED. -TO exchange SUGAR for SPRING CHICKEN' I at the rate of two pounds of Sugar for tare- Chickens. The Sugar is a splendid article— aw-’ :i superior to any that can now be found in this m > ‘ ket. I will exchange much as 50 pounds in ' J ' above manner. Fop further information a Pi?; 7 the Times Office. iel l .' ti'