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J! W. WARREN, - - - Editor.
Friday Morning. June S4, 1864,
Worse Scared than Hnrt.
The apprehension, which has found a very
general expression in our exchanges, of a total
destruction of the wheat crop by the recent
spell of wet weather, is unfounded. That the
quality of the product has received some in
jury is, doubtless, true. It is also
the amount of the yield has been considerably
redueed; but that, in both respects, the injury
is anything lilae as great as is represented or
feared, is not true. If every grain that may
be gathered should be found to have sprouted
it is very certain that we shall hot be able to
seed another crop ; but, for food , the damage
sustained will be equal to only one-eighth, or,
at furthest, to one-sixth of the crop. The
germ sustains about this proportion to the re
maining farinaceous substance of the grain,
and this (the germinating property,) is all that
is destroyed by the process of sprouting.
When the grain is dried, the sprout decays
and is easily rubbed off, and the flour, though
perhaps not as sightly as)under different cir
cumstances, is as nutritious, and, in the dark,
tastes quite as well as though no disaster to
the wheat had happened. The only fear we
have is that we may not be able to save suffi
cient seed for another crop. Let no planter
decline to save his wheat because it has
sprouted. He should cut it immediately and
thresh and sun it as soon as possible. It
would be to his interest, also, to lose as little
lime as he may in having it converted into
flour.
That persons who do not believe in prayer
should not attend prayer meeting or public
worship, unless occasionally on Sunday for
the sake of fashion, says the Charleston Cou
rier, is not surprising.
We are surprised, however, and with some
exchanges, we avow our surprise at the scant
attendance on prayer, in proportion to the
number of those who must he supposed to
believe in prayer.
Daily prayer meetings are now held in sev
eral cities in view of the war and its terrible
ordeal. Without admitting all or half that
our enemies say concerning the decisive im
portance of any city, we must admit that the
fall of either of the chief cities now closely
threatened, would be a sore evil, and prolong
the war beyond all conjecture. Our brave
soldiers in arms pray, as well as watch and
light, and we are told that in the long run the
best and most successful fighting and watch
ing are clone by those who pray most habitu
ally and fervently.
It is a very smtiil token of sympathy and
approval for us who are so far exempt from
the active duties of the front to show our
friends that we pray for them. To put it on
higher ground or motive, fraternal sympathy
and recognition should take to the place where
prayer is wont to be made, all believers in
prayer who can attend without neglect of
other pressing duties.
Cotton for Wounds. —The Carolinian is
inlormed bj Dr. Still, the well known druggist
of Columbia, that burnt cotton is one of the
best articles, next to lint, which can be ap
plied to a wound. The latter cannot always
be had; the former is abundant and easily ob
tained. livery one has noticed that raw cot
ton, when plunged in water is scarcely more
than dampened externally ; when burned or
scorched and submitted to the same process it
is instantly wet through. This is owing to
the destruction of the only principle which it
contains, which oil prevents the healthy use
of cotton on wounds.
Prisoners of War North and South. —lt
is question now not easily decided, says the
Richmond Examiner, which of the sections at
war holds the - greatest number of prisoners
Grant has given us not a few in the East,
while Banks and Steele in the Trans-Mississ
ippi have added many thousands. The latest
reports from the prison post, gives the follow
ing exhibit of prisoners actually held in the
Confederacy, viz : At, Andersonville, Georgia,
twenty-five thousand ; at Macon, twelve hun
dred officers ; at Lynchburg, fifteen hundred ;
at Danville, one thousand ; at Richmond, one
thousand ; at other points east of the Missis
sippi, one thousand ; in the Trans-Mississippi,
eight thousand. This gives about thirty-eight
thousand prisoners of war. The enemy do
not actually hold over twenty-five thousand
of our soldiers, though when those paroled
and sent southward come to be counted, it
will approximate near thirty thousand. So
far, the war ledger balances on the Confede
rate side, and the scale of numbers have turn
ed in our favor.
Confederate Silk Thread.— Mrs. W. G.
Morris, of Wetumpka, (says the Montgomery
Advertiser,) has presented us with a few skeins
of black sewing- silk thread of her owu man
ufacture, which will compare favorably in all
respects with any that has come through the
blockade from foreign countries. Mrs. M.
raises her own silkworms and mulberry-leaves
to feed them, and from the coopon obtains the
silk to make tho thread. We are glad to learn
that she has succeeded in her efforts to supply
herself and others with an article of thread
which is essential and exceedingly dear. The
silk worm and the mulberry flourish well in
this latitude as repeated trials in former years
have demonstrated ; and we do not see why
in these war times, when finger silk is, and
necessarily must be, at prices beyond the
reach of but few. that our people do not make
themselves independent in this particular.—
Mrs. Morris has our thanks for the present,
and our best wishes for her continued suc
cess.
True. —The Boston Courier, which, from
its surroundings, should know whereof it af
firms in the appended extract, says, it is im
possible to converse ten minutes with an av
erage abolitionist without being satisfied that
his ruling passion is not love of liberty, or
even of the negro, but hatred, dire, malignant,
unrelenting hatred of the Southern people.—
To ruin the objects of his made rage, he is
willing t» sacrifice every interest of the-coun
try, to demoralize Us population, see its best
blood shed in civil strife, and its V whole future
mortgaged in irretrievable dj;bt. Religion,
honor, patriotism—all are swallowed up iu
his blind passion, and hatred of his own coun
trymen.
A Whole Family Poisoned.—A family of
tome six white persons, we learn, (says the
Charleston Courier, 21st,) was poisoned Mon
day from partaking, by mistake, of a prepared
dish from the plant known as Stramonium, or
sameetown weed. Jhe female who prepared
it also ate heartilV, and her condition last
evening was extremely critical. She had,
doubtless, mistaken the plant which she ob
tained from the garden for some other veget
able. The other parties are believed to be
out of danger.
Among the late decrees of confiscation in
Washington, we notice the property of Gov.
Leteher, Trusten Polk, late Senator from
Missouri; Wm. T. Smithson, Judge Scarbo
rough, Com. French Forrest, and Judge
Campbell, late of the Supreme Court of the
United States. The property of George S.
Houston, of Alabama, was libelled, but a
quantity of evidence was submitted, showing
thgt he had firmly adhered to the Union,
throughout the troubles, and the libel was
suspended indefinitely.
Prospects of the South.
i The New York papers teem with mat
ter that is significant of a state of things
that is rapidly approaching, that will shake
the foundation of the national credit, and
the financial system of the country. The
restiveness of the people under the con
tinually advancing prices, is growing eve
ry day, and the columns of the papers are
filled with communications denouncing
the extortioners and speculators. “Com"
ing events cast their shadows before, ” and
it needs not the power of divination to
foretel that the day is not far distant
when we shall see the whole social, politi
cal, and financial fabric of the North
shattered to pieces. It totters already,
' Within six months every article of do
mestic consumption has gone up one hun
dred per cent, and some as high as one
hundred and fifty, and every announce',
ment of a rise in price is greeted by the
poor deluded people with howls of an."
I guish.
Let us consider, then, what are the
prospects of peace for the South in the
impending crash at the North. When
the crisis shall come (and if to this be
added the •■defeat or failure of Grant in
Virginia) the first result will be the nomi*
nation of a peace candidate for the presi
dency. This, we think, in the event of
either of the contingencies we have men
tioned—either military or financial—must
be the inevitable consequence of the tre
mendous reaction that will be sure to set
in against the administration and the war
party. The majority of the people of
the North are already convinced of the
utter hopelessness of the South ever be
ing subjugated; they know the South is
comparatively stronger to-day than it was
three years ago; and is capable of carry
ing on a defensive war for twenty years.
It may be said by the advocates of the
North, that the war lias not yet entailed
on them a tithe of the sufferings and
hardships that it has on the South. But
the cases are diametrically opposite. The
South is invaded and fighting in defense
of its liberties ; it must fight and there'
fore submits willingly to all the inconven
ience of a depreciated currency; they
are also a united people. The North is
fighting an aggressive ‘ .war. It is not
forced to continue the contest, and when
the war shall entail on the Northern peo
ple a tenth part of the privations that the
South has endured, they will clamor loud
ly for peace—peace on any terms. They
will not submit, as the South has done,
to a depreciation of their currency much
over two hundred and fifty per cent., nor
will they ever submit to fund their notes
at three for two in Mr. Chase’s low inters
est bonds. They will not patiently sub",
mit to a rise of five or six hundredfper
cent, in the prime necessities of life.
The North has a vast population of mes
chanics, factory operatives and laborers,
who would starve under such a system of
inflated prices and comparatively low wa
ges, and it is on this we base our opinion,
that the grand financial crash that is
“looming up”—not ia the “dim,” but the
very clear “vista of the future,” is bound
to bring about a tremendous and sudden
reaction that must result in peace to the
South. We say sudden reaction because
we do not believe the depreciation of the
currency in the North can take that slow
and gradual course that has characterized
the movement in the Confederacy. It
will be a sudden smash up of the whole
financial system. The large commercial
houses, the great and important centres,
Wall street, Broadway, Fifth Avanue,
Society—whether upper tendom or lower
tendom—all will be disorganization, con
fusion, panic, chaos, and universal discord
will reign supreme. This seems to us to
be the condition of things that is rapidly
approaching, and that the Federal Gov
ernment—Nero like—is anxious to pre- !
cipitate.
In endeavoring thus to portray the
! cheering prospeets of the Confederate
! States, we have depicted only the future
condition of matters in the North arising
out of the disorganization of the financial
system. We have not laid any great
stress on the other elements favorable te
the South. The contingency of military
reverses, the continually growing discon
tent of the people and opposition to the
war, thq, probable resistance to the new
draft of three hundred thousand addi
tional men, the division of political par
ties, the organized opposition to the ad
ministration, and the increasing strength
and boldness of the peace party, these
are troubles enough to menace the Feder
al administration; but if, in addition to
these, Leo still remains invincible and de
feats Grant, or even maintains his ground,
nothing can prevent the popular reaction
against the war and the nomination .of a
peace candidate at the Democratic Con
vention at Chicago, and if elected, peace
is almost assured.-- London jiajper.
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Cotton for Wounds.— The Columbia South. Ca
rolinian is informed by Dr. Sill, the well-known
druggist of that city, that burnt cotton is one of the
best articles, next to lint, which can be applied to a
wound. Ike latter cannot always be had : the for
mer is, abundant and easily obtained. Every one
has noticed that raw cotton, when plunged in water
is seareiy more than dampened externally; wh.n
burned or scorched and submitted to the same pro
cess, it is instantly wet through. This is owing to
the destruction of the oily principle which it con
tains, which oil prevents the healthy use of cotton
on wounds.
t A writer in the Petersburg Express, argues
; that the only way left to end this war. is to
take no more prisoners on Southern soil.
General Breckinridge. —This gal
lant General, whose manly form was as
conspicuous among Southern chieftains in
the bloody battles of Shiloh, Murfrees*
boro, and Chickamauga as was over that
of Harry of Navarre among his plumed
knights, was unhorsed and temporarily
disabled in the fight on Friday. By the
fell of his faithful charger, that was in*
stantly killed, his left leg, we are sorry to
learn, was temporarily disabled. It is
cheering, however, to know that in a few
days he will be again in his saddle ready
to lead his veteran division to victory.
Breckinridge came not into the army an
unknown knight, with visor down, but as
the representative of nearly the united
electoral vote of the Southern States in
the last Presidential contest under the old
Union. Hence the eyes of the people
have ever been upon him and he has yet
to disappoint their expectations. Sir
Walter Scott would have been a greater
poet had he not been so great a novelist,
and Gen. Breckinridge would already
have gained more renown as a warrior
had he not previously attained so high a
position as a statesman. But, indepen
dent of this in the estimation of our peo
ple, he has achieved much, and with the
continued protection of a merciful Provi
dence will, as the war continues, do more,
so that when it closes and the end seems
not distant the brave Kentuckian will ap
pear prominent in the central group of
the heroes that led the unconquerable le
gions who gained our independence.—•
Rich. Whig.
Mutual Supply Associations.
We have repeatedly urged the formation of
“Mutual Supply Associations,” in this city,
but our people ha v e preferred to remain the
victims of extortioners and middlemen. It
is gratifying to observe, however, that in those
cities where the utility of co-operation in se
curing supplies has been appreciated and prac
ticed, the results have been highly beneficial
to all concerned. The following is from the
Columbia South Carolinian of a late date:
[Richmond Whig.
The Mutual Supply Association.— One of
the greatest blessings with which the city of
Columbia is favored is the institution which
bears the above name. Originated in that
spirit that “blesseth him that gives and him
that takes,” for the purpose of aiding the pub
lic in purchasing the necessaries of life at,
prices below those which prevail elsewhere
it has on in its good work, si
lently but certainly achieving its noble
Hundreds of families derive daily bonefit from
its existence, and thousands upon thousands
of dollars have been economized since it com
menced operations. The Association consists
of stockholders, directors and a president.—
The price of the shares is SIOO each, and the
issue was speedily absorbed, so that none are
now to be had except by transfer from the
original owners. Gentleman of- means pur
chased largely, that they might have the pow
er of donating to others not so prosperous the
privilege of buying provisions, and in this
manner a vast amount of good has been done.
Others have taken but a single share, which
entitles them to draw from the Association
the amount of $25 per week, in such articles
as may be on laud—as, for instance,- flour,
lard, meat3. 'grist, corn, &c. Some idea of
the amount of business done may be inferred
from the fact that within a few months, much
lesst lian a year, upwards of $700,000 have
been paid out for provisions, and the financial
exodus is on the increase. No profits are
made, except such as are barely sufficient to
pay the expenses of the establishment, and
none are expected to be made, .since the amount
originally invested is to be returned in full to
the individual shareholders. We make these
remarks to call attention to the advantage of
establishing in every town a similar institution
for the relief of the pressing necessities which
are afflicting the rich and poor alike.
[From the Macon Telegraph.]
City News.
Bridge Gone.— The City Brigde over the
Oomulgee broke in two Sunday night at 11
o’clock, and now lies a wreck upon the stream,
the two havles drifted round by the force of
the current, but the outer ends still fast to
their respective banks, where they should be
secured at once so as not to be carried down
against the railway bridge, a quarter a mile
below. The accident cannot be traced to any
extraordinary stage of water, as it is still far
below the line of a high spring fresh ; but it
is probably due,to the gradual undermining of
the central abutment, which,* never properly
built, has been settling and getting more in
secure for some time past. Some say it was
struck by a raft, but we doubt it. It fell from
a defect in the foundation, and took a good
time to tall—at midnight when there was
nobody upon it—but a bad time in respect to
the difficulty of building another. The City
Bridge was built in 1830,
Homicide.— We regret to learn that Mr.
AndersoD, the worthy keeper of the Macon
Guard House, came to his death on Saturday
ight last, from injuries received at the hands
•fa Federal prisoner attempting to escape.
Two of them rushed upon Mr. Anderson when
opening the door of their call. One passed
him and got off; but after a hard struggle he
secured the other. At night, complainin'* of
pain from injuries received in the struggle, a
dose of morphine was administered to him
and he went io sleep and never woke again.
A post mortem examination disclosed fatal
injuries received in the violent struggle with
the Yankee prisoner.
Telegraphic Inteiireuption.—As the tele
graphic lines eastward and northward crossed
the river on the city bridge, its destruction
interrupted communication yesterday, but we
hope it will be restored in time for our main
edition.
fciEGE of Charleston. —The enemy contin
ue to to keep up a vigorous shelling of the
city. Since our last report up to six o’clock
Sunday evening, sixty-five shots had been
fired.
Heavy firing was also kept up on Secession
ville during Saturday. We have heard of no
casualties.
A late Yankee paper says: “Gen. Foster,
in command near Charleston, has ordered the
fire on the city to be increased.”
Battery Gregg fired some half a dozen shots
at Fort Sumter Sunday.— Courier , 20 ih.
Since our last report no change of import
ance has occurred. Thirty-seven shots were
fired at the city- during the last twenty-four
hoars ending at six o’clock Monday evening.
About eleven o'clock Monday morning Batte
ry Gregg opened upon Fort Sumter and fired
some twenty-two shots. Some few shots were
heard in the direction of Secessionville.
No change in the fleet is reported.— lb., 21.
The following act makes an important ad
dition to the taxes', as established by other
laws :
An act to raise money to increase the pay of
soldiers.
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That upon all subjects of
taxation, under existing tax laws, there shall
be assessed and levied a tax equal to one-fifth
of the amount of the present tax on the same
subjects for the year 1864; which tax shall
be payable only in Confederate Treasury notes,
of the new issue, and shall be collected at the
same time with other taxes on the same sub
jects. under laws now in force.
Skc. 2. The money arising from tiie tax
hereby imposed, shall be appropriated, first to
the payment of the increased compensation of
the soldiers, under the act passed at the pres
ent session.
JEL3 Or P HIS.
Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in theyear
1863. by J. S. Thbashkr, m the Clerk's office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Interesting Northern News.
Latest from the Georgia Front.
&C.j &C») &c.
Mobile, Jane 23.—A special to the Evening
News from Senatobia says that Northern papers
report Morgan at Flemmgsburg, on the 14th with
3000 men.
It is said Borbridge dispatohed a false loss.
One hundred and seventy of Morgan’s men
would not leave the State.
Vall&ndigham was at Dayton. He said he had
calculated the consequences if arrested, but an eye
for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, so help him the ever
living Jehovah. He would remain quiet till after
the Chicago Convention.
Columbia, S. C., June 23.—At auction sale yes
terday, of 6 per cent, non-taxable bonds, prices
ranged from 151 to 135 and closed at the latter
quotation, at which the bulk es the bonds were
sold.
Aggregate of sales, $665,000.
Marietta, June 23.—About 5 o'clock last eve
ning the enemy attempted to take the works on
our extreme left when they were met by Hind
man’s and Stevenson’s divisions and driven back
through three lines of battle, with heavy loss, for
upwards of two hours. The action was very
spirited.
We captured 60 prisoners—one commissioned
officer.
We lost no prisoners.
Stevenson’s division suffered most, particularly
Brown’s brigade.
Light skirmishing has been going on this morn
ing.
The Florida correspondent of the New York
Tribune, describing a raid by General Barney,
says : *
“Unionists were not interferred with on the
march, but the portable property of all avowed
rebels was confiscated, and a large amount of
cattle, horses, vehicles, &c., retained for the
.use of the Quartermaster’s Department.”
This means simply that Barney led a pack
of avowed thieves through the country. ‘Port
able property’ is a cant phrase among gentle
men of that profession for spoons, money, jew
elry. &c. Such are Lincoln’s soldier# and
Union restorers.
Liucoln has declared the exequatur of Charles
Hunt, Belgian Consul at St. Louis, Mo., null and
void, becauso he claimed exemption from military
service on the ground that he'was a consul.
The Marietta Front.
Last night our lines extended from the Ken
nesaw Mountain towards on
the right, and on the left, southwest from Ma
rietta to a chain of hills which command and
reach to th® Chattahoochee river. This line,
though an pjxtended one, is said to possess
many advantages of defense, and all the gaps
are strongly guarded. The position in front
of Marietta is a natural defence, with the Big
Kennesaw and Little Kennesaw, equal, it is
said, to a corps of musketeers.
On Monday night the enemy charged Wal
ker’s Division, situated in the vicinity of Pow
der Spring, and were handsomely repulsed.—
About 8 o’clock the same evening, a brigade
of Walker’s Division, in turn, charged the en
emy, when a brisk fight ensued, almost hand
to hand, as some of the participants report,
which resulted iu the driving o t the enemy
back upon their works. In this charge many
of our men wore severely wouaded and a
number killed.
Colquitt’s old regiment (46th Ga.) suffered
severely, every officer in the regiment having
been bit but eleven. Some of the wounded
were brought: down last evening, and on the
same train fifty four Yankee prisoners.
Two regiments of Gist’s Brigade, the 16th
S. C. and the 46th Georgia, were engaged.—
In the former, Major O. C. O’Neil was killed
and Capt. W. A. Gibb’s, Cos. D, shot through
the thigh. In the latter, Capts Collyer, Cos. A,
and Tillman, Cos. C, and Lieutenant Wormack
were killed. The Yankee force being very
large, they held their line, but with severe
loss. Our men are said to have fought with
great spirit.
A continued movement towards the left by
the enemy has compelled counter movements
on our part. Hood’s corps and Hardee’s now
occupy a pesilion iu the neighborhood ofSym
yrna Church.
There was some skirmshingyesterday, com
paratively insignificant in result.— Southern
Confederacy , 23d.
[Special to the Mobile Register.]
Senatobia, June 20.—Northern dates to th<j
15th received
»Teu thousand wounited from Shermans
army had arrived at Nashville and Louisville.
A correspondent of the Chicago Times says
that up to the 2d their loss in skirmishim*
around Dallas was 3,000.
Johnston s retreat from Dalton was master
ly. His strategy excited the admiration of all.
The vigilance of the rebels proved more
than a match for the Federals.
Sherman is represented stronger than at
Resaea.
General Wheeler is tearing up the railroad
near Calhoun, and throwing trains off the
track with torpedoes.
Cincinnati papers of the 14th say Morgan’s
force is scattered and demoralized by defeat
at Cynthiana. Burbridge is still pursuing
him.
Ohio regiments paroled by Morgan have ar
rived at Cincinnati.
Kentucky is full of guerillas.
The majority of Banks’ army is still at Mor
gauza, under Emory. The fourth division,
under Warren, has gone below. The balance
of the 13th corps goes to Carrollton to spend
the summer.
•Gen. Taylor is reported as having passed
through Monroe on the 10th with fifteen thou
sand men.
The navigation of the Mississippi i3 consid
ed scarcely freer than before the capture of
Vicksburg.
Sturgis lost in the fight with Forrest about
6,000 men.
Another force, organized by A. J. Smith,
left Memphis, hunting Forrest.
The New York Express says : ‘-'Grant has
tried his own and McClellan’s route, and will
now trie Butler’s.” _
Fort Dre wry is represented as closely- in
vested.
Sheridan, in conjunction with Hunter, is to
tear up the railroad, capture Lynchburg, and
cut of communication with Richmond.
Senatobia, June 21.—The Memphis Argus of i
the 18th has been received.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
News says:
‘•lt is estimated that one thousand wounded per j
day were received at the hospitals here fur the ten
days previous to the 11th. there were already
thirty five thousand in the hospitals within the j
city.’;
The Times' correspondent from Sherman’s army
says :
‘•The rebel night attacks are draining our ranks 1
as effectually by piecemeal as wholesale slaughter
in 'battle. A retreat would be worse than a second
Moscow. It would be better to lose the whole ar
my in a desperate advance than to lose it in an
Attempt to save it by retreat”
Grant's new base is south of Janies river.
European news to the 4th had been received.
The London Times affairs iu Virginia
very unfavorable to the Federals, and anticipates
Grant’s failure.
Advices from Denmark continue warlike, and I
the indications are that the war will go on.
In New York on the 13th gold closed at 1974. ]
Cotton, 120 to 121.
CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR
.To Chaplains, SurgbonS and Adjutants.—
We will take it as a special favor if Chaplains,
Surgeons and Adjutants of Georgia regiments in
the army, will furnish us with lists of the killed
and wounded immediately after each engagement.
—— ♦
Suspended. —lt will be seen by orders from
Maj. Dawson that the impressment of tegiots in
thus city and ricinit j has been suspended fer the
present. Cuffee can now display his ivory on the
street with impunity. Come out from your hole
nigger!
Hbaty. —Between our obstreperous hopeful,
Josif, and our unmitigated Blaok friend, at Eufau
la, we fare but badly. We see, heweyer, the for
mer refuses to unite with John in his onslaughts
against eur devoted self, presuming, we suppose,
that it is criminal enough to wallop his “daddy”
without forming an alliance with strangers to do
him violence. Josif was always a considerate
child.
Mechanic’s Wages. —One of the most unwise
and injudicious measures ever enacted by the
Confederate Congress was that of cutting down and
keepiing down the wages of detailed mechanics;—
It is a notorious fact that wages have been put
at such a low figure that mechanics have not been
enabled to support themselves in a decent manner.
While mechanics, other than those detailed, have
been earning from ten tp twenty dollars a day, ac
cording to their expertness in their professions,
detailed men have only been getting from $3 to
$6 per day—sums not adequate to their support in
these times of enormous prices. Many of them
have been compelled to rent rooms and sustain
themselves and that in a very penurious style. It
is a maxim of the Book that the laborer is worthy
of his hire, and the fact is discreditable to the
Government that ho does not get it. Mechanical
skill and inventive ingenuity have been the right
arm of the revolution. Without mechanics we
should long ere this have been subjugated, for
without the of their labor, the soldier
could not have fought the battles. The Govern
ment should take a pride in fostering all branches
of mechanical skill and labor, by holding up the
dignity of labor and by paying liberal wages to its
artizans, It should have offered inducements to
skillful artificers in other countries to come i
among us instead of going on the principle of a
niggardly economy. The complaints are coming
up from the mechanics throughout the Confede
racy of the inadequacy of their remuneration, and
the effect will be, unless steps are taken by the
Government to do them justice, to force the best
workmen from the country. Men have found a
way to leave, and they will do so again, if they
find they cannot by honest and useful toil earn a
livelihood. At the time Congress passed the law
to pay detailed men three dollars a day, living was
three times cheaper than now, and if it was
deemed a just compensation then it cannot be so
considered now. Let the matter be brought to
the attention of Congress at once. We hope the
press throughout the Confederacy will ventilate
the subject well. It is but justice to men who
have been forced to make such pecuniary sacrifice.
It will take at least ten dollars a day to enable
a man to live now, and ho will have to exercise
economy at that.
Wounded. —We regr-et to learn that Vallentine
Wildman, of Capt. Croft’s Battery, had his right
arm shot off in the battle at Marietta, Wednesday.
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Killed. —J. M. Johnson, son-in-law of Col.
Redding, of Chattahoochee county, was killed in
the fight at Marietta, Wednesday evening. Mr.
Johnson’s lady was at the Muscogee depot yes
terday afternoon where she received tho sad news,
and we never witnessed a more heartrending spec
tacle than the frantic grief to which she gave
vent. Oh, this desolating war, how much hap
piness it has destroyed 1 how many hopes it has
crushed. The" heart grows sick at the contempla
tion. May God turn back this tide of woe that is
Sweeping off the stays of so many trusting hearts.
m
About one hundred Yankee prisoners, more or
less, arrived here last night, en route for Ander
sonville, Ga.
loafer from the North.
We are enabled, says the Petersburg Ex
press of the 17th, through the courtesy of a
friend, to us, last evening a copy of the New
York Herald of Monday, June 13th. It is one
day later than has been heretofore received in
this region of our State, but it contains little
or nothing of special interest. Sunday pre
ceeciing the Issue of this number of the Herald,
the gold quotations arc omitted. The follow
ing is the latest from Staunton to Dix :
SECRETARY STANTON TO DIX.
War Department, ) \
Washington, June 12—12 M. /
Major General Dix :
A dispatch from Gen. Huntef, dated at six j
o’clock, on the morning of the Bth instant, at !
Staunton, reports that—• ;
“We met the enemy at Piedmont last Sun- !
day, the sth instant, killing Wm. E. Jones, their i
commanding General, and totally routing them j
after a batlle often hours’ duration. We have |
captured one thousand five hundred prisoners j
altogether—one thousand men and over sixty >
officers on the field of battle—also three j
thousand stand of arms, three pieces of artil- j
lery and a vast quantity of stores. We have j
to day effected a junction with Gens. Crook i
and Averill.”
It is stated in another dispatch, unofficial, ;
dated at Staunton, June 9, that “our infantry I
is now-engaged in burning ties and bending j
rails, east and west. All government and !
railroad buildings have been burned atStaun- j
ton. We leave to-morrow.”
A dispatch from Gen. Grant’s headquarters, |
dated yesterday at 4 P. M., reports that “rebel
cavalry having yesterday made a dash into
Wilson's lines, near the Lenny House, Wilson,
this morning sent out a part of Mclntosh’s j
brigade to see where the enemy was. Their
pickets were driven back and their outer lines
forced, the cavalry passing over the entrench
ments about a mile west of Bethesda church,
Mclntosh came upon Field’s division of infan- ■
try, and, having accomplished the purpose of j
his reconnaissance, retired. He killed and
wounded a number of rebels in his progress, i
and brought away four or five prisoners. He :
had sixteen men killed and wounded .
Dispatches from General Sherman, dated at
his headquarters, Big, Shanty, Georgia, this
morning, hare been received. They state
that our lines were within four or five hundred
yards of the enemy ; but no fighting yet.
Edwin M. Stanton.
Secretary ol War.
France and our Cause. —A correspondent of the
New York Herald writes from Paris, under date of
the 16t'n May : " ith the present prospects of peace
in Europe, you may rest assured that if Napoleon
can hnd any reasonable pretext for it, he will give
his Southern friends at least the moral aid of their
existence as a nation. I hazard the prediction that
should Grant % beaten, a month will not elapse
before Mr. Slidell mil be received in his official ca
pacity at the Tun lories.*’
The Mississippi an. —An extra edition of the
Daily Mississippiau is now issued at Jackson, the
Capital of the State, the home of the Mississippian.
We congratulate the enterprising proprietors on be
ing able to get home, and trust that invaders may
never gain contaminate *he streets of Jackson with
their presence.
The TjqfDGR Mercies of the AbolitioNi&is.—
The Vicksburg correspondent of the New York Tri
bune gives the following account of the condition
of the negroes torn from their homes by Gen. Sher
man in Mississippi:
Some 3,000 slaves, of all ages and colors, have
reached here. It was one of the saddest spectacles
witnessed for a long time in Vicksburg. The women
and children were almost starved and naif naked.—
Such a terrible picture of abject want and misery
can neither be imagined or portrayed with pen.—
Many of the w omen and children were sick with fe
vers, brought on by the great fatigue and exposure
es the long march from Meridian, Enterprise, Quit
man, an other places. Will not the friends of free
dom and the human philanthropists of the North
come forward at C2CC, with their generous
hands'resctiY these liberated slaves from prematuij
graves?” rjg-"
.We learn from the Boston CounSf later date
that the suffering of these poor homeless wretches
continued in all its intensity. No mere political
capital could be made out of them, and nothingWM
done to help them. They were free to perish.
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On Tuesday last, says the Prairie News, 33l
prisoners passed down, and yesterday ISS more.
We learn that those yet at Guntown and Baldwin
will swell the number to 1,500 or over. They are
very severe en their General, Sturgis, and seem to
regret his escape no less than their own capture.
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
ON Saturday, 26th June, at 10 o’clock, we will
in front of our 3tore,
SO Tierces Choice Rice.
33 Sacks Salt,
Lot Desirable Furniture,
Clothing, Ladies’ Gaiters,
Hats, &c., &c.
TO BE HIRED,
For the balance of the year, a NEGItO
WOMAN, a good house servant.
je 23 td sls
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos.
/AN Saturday '26th June, at 10 o’clock, we will sell
in front of our.storc,
16 Hogs One year Old,
1 Fine Cow and Calf.
3 or 3 Cikely Mules.
je 23 td $6
By Ellis, Eivingston A Cos
ON TLESDAY, 28th June, at 10 o’clock, we will
sell in front of our store, for and on account of
a refugee, the following likely young negroes:
Mary, Very Likely, 12 years old,
Sicily, Very Likely, 22 years old,
Maria, Very Likely, 20 years old,
Frances, Very Likely 18 years old.
Sale without reserve,
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Watchman Wanted.
A GOOD MAN can find employment a3 Watch
man at a Warehouse, by applying at this office.
Comfortable quarters will bo furnished. None war -
ted unless they are well recommended,
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Enquirer copy.
•PH i; ua »ts -
WANTS to er gage Buttermilk, (10 gallons) daily,
for Marshall Hospital.
ITTANTS to exchange for and on account of Mar
ti shall Hospital, Sheeting for Butter, Eggs and
Chickens.
TXTANTS to exchange Cotton Cards (WhitcmoreV:
Vi for Country Produce or cash.
WANTS to exchange 400 lbs. choice Sugar for any
kind of country produce or sell it for cash
'\^l' ANTS to exchange Naiis for Bacon or Flour.
WANTS to sell 1000 Confederate Cups and lot of
Pitchers.
WANTS to sell three gross Confederate Glass
lumblers or exchange for country produce.
WANTS to sell at wholesale or retail fine assort
’i ment smoking and chewing Tobacco.
Wto sell or exchange for country produce,
i T Cooking Soda.
One Dozen Japanned Waiters,
One Dozen Glass Goblets and Cut Glass
Tumblers,
10 Dozen Glass Gallon Jars, suitable for
Pickles and Preserves.
W. H. H. PIIELPS,
114 Broad Street.
.June 23 dstwlt
Wanted to Purchase.
A SMALL HOUSE of four or five rooms, also a
second-hand Buggy and Harness. Address sta
ting terms, X. Y.
je 23 3t* Times Office.
it linltw wosTii
AT
DESSAU^S.
FROM THE LATE BLOCKADE SALE AT
-AaTgiista, G-a.
The goods are all superior to what is
offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower
j than lately. In the assortment can b *
; found :
Eadles’ Sew Hats,
®ew Bonnet Ribbons,
Vew Ue'ts,
Bobiaiet 3iasquiio Setting,
Tucking and Dressing Combs.
Cadies’ Slosei*>,
Tfireey’dswideldnen Sheeting.
Superior Bleached Shirting,
Printed JTackonefs,
Gingitams,
English and French Calicoes.
Bombazine, Alpacas,
Elegant Eeroes.
O-A LL -AUsTID SEE
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IVotfce to Gas Consumers.
All parties usuing Gas who have not settled u.
their bills for the last Quarter, are notified that un
less payment is made before the last of this month
the Gas will be cut off said premises.
We are in’need of money and.cannot carry on 'Ui
works without it.
By order of the President.
C. E. DEXTER,
~je 2[ 5t Treasurer
GOOD NEWS FOR THE LADIES 1
GREAT R EDI CTIOS of PRIC ES
IN
dry-goods l
Jl ST RECEIVED A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF
ID^TT-O-OOIDS,
l ailies' French Kid Waiter*
and Fancy Fassimers,
Which I offer for sale from 50 to 100 per cent, be
low former prices. B. JACKSON.
Columbus, Ga., June 21 dim
ALABAMA WAREHOi^F,
COTTON STORAGE.
Yv* E have room to store several hundred bales Cot
•; ton. Send forward. KING <& ALLEN.
.ie 21 2w
WANTED. *
'pO exchange SCGAiI for SPRING CHICKENS,
! at the rate of two pounds of Sugar for throe
Chickens. The Sugar is a splendid article—muck
superior to any that can now be found in this mar
ket. I will exchange as much as 50 pounds in the
above manner. For further information appte >r
the Times Offioe. ; e lQ ts