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J. W. WARREiV, - - - Editor.
Satnrday Morning, June 25, 1864.
Make Food.
In view of the fact that large portions of
the producing section of the Confederacy hare
been and are still being overrun by the ene
my, we suggest to the planteri of the South to
plant corn or peas, or both, in their
which have grown Bmall grain thq present
year, so soon as the baTe b , en
gathered. There is sufficient in this
latitude for corn to matu- e if pi ante d by the
first of July and, w«*’ a tbe usua i seasons in
August and Se»^ t#mber) at j east two-thirds of
a crop be rea ij ze d. By that time, also,
Jhe r- . st crop w jjj bave been disposed of, and
the cultivation of the second will impose but
trifling labor and trouble. In this way a vast
addition may be made to our stock of sup
plies, and that we shall need all that the ut
most diligence 4 and industry can produce,
must be patent to all. .If our cotemporaries
of the press approve the above suggestion, will
they not aid in recommending it to the people.
Struggling for Life.
A Republican journal in N*vr York admit* that
the struggle is becoming a struggle for life, on the
part of the United States as well as thi* country.
It is true, remarks the Richmond Dispatch, the
United States are not invaded, and' the Confede
racy only asks to be let alone. But we need not
invade the United States to strike the sources of
its life. We havo only to make a successful aland,
here, on our own soil, and tho huge fabric of the
Yankee superstructure tumbles to the ground. It
is upon the products of our soil that that fabric
has been built, and as long as wo hold that soil, it
is only a question of time when the end shall
come. The gigantic expenditure of treasure, en
ergy and blood, made by tho North, sufficiently
attests the value it puts upon Southern produc
tions. Its present prosperity is felt by it3 leading
statesmen to be factitious and ephemeral—the hec
tic on the cheek of the consumptive, heralding
decay and death. One more great, convulsive
effort, like the whale is its final agony, and tho
huge carcase of Yankeedom will float helpless on
tho elements it has so often lashed into a foam.
There is not a single department of industry in
tho North which does not look upon the success
of the Confederacy as death to all its interests.
Politicians, soldiers, sailors, bankers, traders, im
porters, coasting men, carriage makers, tailors,
shoemakers, fishermen, shipbuilders, and all the
mechanical avocations connected therewith —every
branch, in short, of manufactures and commerce,
regard this as a struggle for life. The national
vanity, too, which has so often dreamed of univer
sal domination, and, in its measureless self-esteem,
exalted itself to Heaven, begins to fear that it will
be cast down to Hell.
Yes, it is a struggle for life; but not altogether
in the sense that the North regards it. The Nerth
is in reality struggling to put itself to death, to
perish inevitably and igneminiously by its own
hands, to render impossible any resurrection to
life and immortality. The longer it persists in
this barbarous war, the more hopeless becomes the
prospect of such a reconciliation between the two
nations as will give the North the remotest chance
of a restoration of those commercial advantages
which it enjoyed under the old Union, and which
it might havo continued te retain if it had permit
the South to depart in peace.
Even should the idle dream be realized that the j
Southern Confederacy will be subjugated and the
genius of African emancipation flap his sable
wings over our whole territory, the North will
perish more effectually than if the Southern cause
should triumph. No one believes that such aeon
quest can be effected till years of desolating war
have converted the whole land into a wilderness,
and saturated the soil with the blood of the whole
fighting population. The destruction of the
Southern system of labor goe3 hand in hand with
the conquest of the country, and by no other sys
tem can those peculiar staples of the South, which
are the basis of Northern commerce, be cultivated.
The moon-struck theories of abolition fanatics up
on this subject are in opposition to all the teach
ings of experience from the earliest known history
of the American race. Hayti and Jamaica are
fair specimens of the industrial capacities of the
negro when endowed with the gift of freedom.
The negro will not work voluntarily; the white
man, in Southern. fields, cannot. The North is
therefore destroying itself by the prosecution of
this war, and the more successful its arms the
more certain its destruction. If we fall, we shall
fall like the strong man in the temple, and bury
tbo Philistiues i,n a common ruin.
From Mississippi.—A correspondent of the Mo
bile Tribune says that he has seen and conversed
with a gentleman of high standing, who has just re
turned from the Yazoo valley, and whose word can
be relied on, who states thatitho Yankees, in their
last raid, totally and most effectually destroyed
everything that was in their way, laying waste some
of the fiaest plantations in the Confederacy, and
making the rich section of country which, in the
good old times of yore, was justly called the grana
ry of Southwestern Mississippi, a barren wilder
ness.
A gentleman who has been on a trip along the
banks of ti.e Mississippi river says that the people
in that region are yet untainted by contact with our
enemy. They are quite loyal to the cause of Free
dom, though they trade to a considerable extent with
the Yankees. Cotton is not being cultivated there
any more than in the interior districts, though the
inducements are great. There is a surprising num
ber of negroes there, considering its proximity to
the enemy. They appear to be as docile as they
ever were before Lincoln’s ukase of emancipation
was fulminated.
Ihe condition of Morgan’s command, as§Hated by
th? Inst dispatches, is a decided improvement upon
the former reports. It was represented that he was
badly whipped, that his men were demoralized and
throwing away their arms, and dispersing through
the country—with scarcely enough of the command
lett to swear by. The last dispatches, however, state
that .Morgan and his men had arrived at Fleixungs
burg, which is only twelve miles from Maysville,
which is on the Ohio river, seventy miles above
Cincinnati. If he was making his way eut of Ken
tucky, he was goinf a roundabout road to do it, for
he was fifty or sixty miles north of Mount Sterlin^
rroSi llie North.
'The New York Herald, of Monday, the 13th
>nst., has been received. It contains the gold quo
tation of the Saturday before, from which we
learn that gold went up to 198 and stayed there.
The following has been the price of gold at the
end of each week since Grant’s victories com
menced : May 21, 133i ; May 2S, 188 ; Juue 4,
191 ; June 11, 198. The general news is not im
portant. We give a brief summary of it :
A dispatch from the headquarters of Grant’s sth
corps, says, “I have been <?,impeiied t-o chronieie
the departure of some regiments whose term of
service uas expired, in nearly every recent tetter,
an 1 goes on to notice tire departure of tha 2d Wis
consin, which carried away 128 men and 15 offi
cers, including two surgeons. It had been in four
’•attles, and lost 793 killed and wouuued.
" ,> ro and his colored infantry is report
* up 50 rebel cavalry on the 10th
-‘ated to be very fa
:ng shoulder
about
Fremont’s Letter of Accep
tance-
Annexed is Fremont’s letter of acceptance
of the nomination of the Cleveland Conven
tion, with its opinion of Lincoln, inclusive:
Gentlemen : In answer to the letter which
I*had th« honor to receiva from you, on the
part of tha Representatives of the people as
sembled at Cleveland on the 31st of May, I
desire to express my thanks for the confidence
which led them to offer me the honorable and
difficult position of their candidate in the ap
proaching Presidential eontest. Very honor
able, because in offering it to me, you act in
the name of a great number of citizens who
seek above all things the good of their country,
and who have no sort of selfish interest m
view. Very difficult, because in accepting the
candidacy you propose to me, I am exposed
to the reproach of creating schism in the
party with which I have been identified.
Had Mr. Lineeln remained faithful to the
principles lie was elected to defend, no schism
could have been created, and no contest could
have been sensible. This is not an ordinary
election. It is a contest for the right even to
have candidates, and not merely, as usual, for
the choice among them. Now, for the
first time since ’76, the question of con
stitutional liberty has been brought directly
before the people for their serious considera
tion and votes. The ordinary rights secured
under the constitution and the laws of the
country have been violated, and. extiaordiary
powers have been usurped by the Executive.
It is directly before the people new to say
whether or not the principles established by
the Revolution are worth maintaining.
If, as we have been taught to believe, those
guarantees for liberty which made the dis
tinctive value and glory of our country, are,
in truth, inviolably sacred, then there must
be a protest against the arbitrary violation
which had not even the excuse of necessity.
The schism is made by those who force the
choice between a shameful silence or a pro
test against wrong. In such considerations
originated the Cleveland Convention. It was
among the objects to arouse the attention of
the people to such facts, and to bring them
to realize that while we are saturating South
ern soil with the best blood of the country in
the name ot liberty, we have really parted
with it at home.
To-day, we have in the country the abuses
tff a military dictation, without its unity of ac
tion and vigor of execution. An administra
tion marked at home by disregard of coasti
tional rights, by its violations of personal lib
erty and the liberty of the press, and, as &
crowning shame, by its abandonment of the
right of asylum, a right especially dear to all
free nations abroad. Its course has been
characterized by a feebleness and want of
principles which has misled European powers,
and driven them to a belief that only com
mercial interests and personal aims are con
cerned, and that no great principles are in
volved in the issue. The admirable conduct
of the people, their leadinessTu make every
sacrifice demanded of them, their forbearance
and silence under the suspension of
everything that could be suspended, their
many acts of heroism and sacrifices, were all
rendered fruitless by the incapacity, or to
speak more exactly, by the personal ends for
which the war was managed.
This incapacity and selfishness naturally
produced such results a3 led the European
powers, and logically enough, to the convic
tion that the North, with its greatly superior
population, its immense resources and its
credit, will never be able to recover the South.
Sympathies which should havo been with us
from the outset of the war were turned against
us, and in this way the Administration has
done the country a double wrong abroad. It
created hostility, or at least indifference,
among those who would have been its friends,
if the real interest of the people could have
been better known, while, at the same time,
it neglected no occasion for making the most
humiliating concessions.
Against this disastrous condition of affairs
the Cleveland Convention was a protest.
The principles which form the basis of its
platform have my unqualified and cordial ap
probation ; but I cannot so heartily concur in
all the measures you propose. Ido not be-
confiscation extended to the prop
erty of all rebels is practicable, and if it were
so, I do not think it a measure of sound poli
cy. It is, in fact, a question belonging to the
people themselves to decide, and is a proper
occasion for the exercise of their original
and sovereign authority. Asa war measure,
in the beginning of a revolt which might be
quelled by prompt severity, I understand the
policy of confiscation, but not as afinal mea
sure of reconstruction after the suppression of
an insurrection.
In the adjustments which are to follow
peace no considerations of vengeance can con
scientiously be admitted.
The object of the war is to make perma
nently secure the peace and happiness of the
whole country, and there was but a single ele
ment in the way of its attainment. This ele
ment of slavery may be considered practically
destroyed in the country, and it needs only
your proposed amendment of the Constitution
to make its destinction complete.
With this extinction of slavery the party di
visions created by it have also disappeared.—
And if, in the history of the country, there has
ever been a time when the American people,
without regard to one or another of the polit
ical divisions, were called upon to give sol
| emnly their voice in a matter which involved
I the safety of the United States, it is assuredly
i the present time.
If the conventional Baltimore will norni
! nate any man whose past life justifies a well
; grounded confidence in his fidelity to our car
j dinal principles, there is no reason why there
| should be any division among the really pa-
I triotic men of the country. To any such I
shall be most happy to give a cordial and ac
j tive support.
My own decided preference is to aid in this
! way, and not to be myself a ©andidate. But if
Mr. Lincoln should be nominated, as I believe
i if would be fatal to the country to indorse a
policy and renew a powar which has cost ui
the lives of thousands of men, and needlessly
put the country on the road to bankruptcy
there will remain no alternative but to organ
; ize against him every element of conscientious
opposition, with the view to prevent the mis
: fortune of his re-election.
In this contingency I accept the nomination
at Cleveland, and. as a preliminary step.’ I
have resigned my commission in the army.
This was a sacrifice it gave me pain to make ;
but I had for a long time fruitlessly endeav
ored to obtain service. I make this sacrifice
now only to regain liberty of speech, and to
leave nothing in the way of discharging, to ray
utmost ability, the task you have set for me.
With my earnest and sincere thanks for
your expressions of confidence and regard, and
for the many honorable terms in which you
acquaint me with the action of the committee,
I »ni, gentlemen, very respectfully, and truly
yours,
J. C. FREMONT.
New York, June 4, L 864.
To Messrs Worthington G. Snethan, of Mary
land : Edw. Gilbert, of New York ; Caspar
Butz, of Illinois ; Chas. E. Moss, of Missouri;
P. N. Sawyer, of Pennsylvania, a committee,’
etc.
'
The Louisville Journal notices the mortify
ing fact that ten of Morgan's men threw a train
off the track near Smithfield, Kentucky, and
captured twenty-six Federal soldiers, to
whom they administered an oath to support
the Southern Confederacy. They were polite
to the ladies, and didn't take any money xcept
Government or company funds, except in a
few instances, where they borrowed some
change from the male passengers to be re
turned ‘‘after the war." The cars, with the
I
exception of the ladies’ coaches, were burned.
; The conduct of the rebels was “strangely
' marked by a show of gallantry and an exhibi
’ of desperado.”
A co _i.mond Sen
tinel s
Jere: - . .p.-, e most elo
quent of mes, at the darkest
period ,i / »i wars of England, com
posed the k )wing, which I find among
his forms of prayer. I copy and submit
it to you, as a precious offering of hum
ble faith, singulaily suited to our condi
tion at this, our own day of tribulation
and of prayer:
A Prayer “At a time of Invasion by
Barbarous Qr Wicked People.
I. O eternal God, Thou alone rulest
the Kingdoms of men; Thou art the
great God of battles and recompenses,
and by Thy glorious wisdom, by thy
mighty power, and Thy secret providence
doth determine the events of war, and the
issues ot human counsels and the returns
of peace and victory; now at least be
pleased to let the light of Thy counten
ance, and the effects of a glorious mercy
and a gracious pardon return to this land.
Thou seest how great evils we suffer un
der the power and tyranny of war; and
although we submit to and adore Thy jus
tice in our sufferings, yet be pleased to
pity our misery, to hear of our complaints,
and to provide us a remedy against our
present calamities; let not the defenders
of a righteous cause go away ashamed,
nor our counsels be forever confounded,
nor our parties defeated, nor religion sup
pressed, nor learning discountenanced,
and we be spoiled of all those advantages
of piety which Thou has been pleased to
minister to our infirmities, for the inter
est of learning and religion.
11. We confess, O God, that we have
deserved-to be totally extinct and separate
from the communion of saints, and the
comforts of religion, and to be made sers
vants to ignorant, unjust and inferior per
sons, or to suffer any other calamity which
thou shall allot us as the instrument of
thy anger, whom we have so often pro
voked to wrath and jealousy. Lord, we
humbly lie down under the burden of thy
rod, begging thee to remember our sins;
to support us with thy staff, to lift us up
with thy hand, to refresh us with thy
gracious eye; if a cloud- of temporal in
felicities must still encircle us, open unto
us the windows of Heaven that, with an
eye of faith and hope, we may see beyond
the cloud, looking upon those mercies
which, in thy secret Providence and
dom, thou designest all thy servants from
such unlikely and sore distresses. Teach
us diligently to do all our duty, and mer
cifully to submit to all thy will, and, at
last be gracious to thy people, that call
upon thee, that put their trust in thee,
that have laid up all their hopes in the
bosom of God, that, besides thee, have
no helper. Amen.
Education a Luxury. —The Syndic
of Monginffi Mella, in the jurisdiction of
Messina, having received an invitation
from the Provincial Council to send a
young woman from the eommune to sols
low the course of instruction given in the
new normal school just opened in the city,
returned the following answer: ‘‘The
commune of Monginffi Mella does not
recognize the utility of female education,
inasmuch as its women are for the most
part employed in tending cattle and in
providing for the wants of our daily life.
Education is an article of luxury, admis--
sible only in great cities, and never in
poor and miserable communities. Even
if the Government insisted on giving us
a schoolmistress,.she would infallibly die
of starvation. At all events, the commune
is unable to meet the charge of educating
a young woman to become a schoolmis.i
tress. Consequently, the Council has
unanimously decided that the commune
wants no teachers, and that the applicas
tion made to it by the provincial authori
ties be rejected accordingly/’— Gazette of
Messina.
Little Steps Towards Southern
, Independence.
The following list of manufactures of gen
eral utility, not heretofore made in the South,
is copied from exchanges within the past few
days, says the Charlotteville Bulletin. It shows
that our people are really making some pro
gress towards the independence tlfat we hear
talked ofso much. We have not included the
cotton and- jilen mills dotted here and there
in ail the States, or the iron establishments,
or the Government works making arms, pow
der, etc.
We have no doubt there are many other es
tablishments of which we have seen no notice
that are adding to the resources of the coun
try, by making articles that we have hereto
fore depended upon the Yankees to furnish
U3.
Hat Manufactory at Statesville, North Car
olina.
Stocking Factory, at Columbia, South Car
olina.
Stocking Factory at Danville, Virginia.
Bonnet Frame Factory at Newbury, South
Carolina.
Cotton Card Factory at Greenwood, South
Carolina.
Cotton Card Factory at Fayetteville, North
Carolina.
Cotton Card Factory at Columbus, Geor
gia.
Cotton Card Factory at Danville, Virginia.
Two.
Cotton Card Factory at Selma, Alabama.
Cutlery, Knives and Folks, at Raleigh, North
Carolina.
Cotton Batting Factory at Charlotte, North
Carolina.
Corn Broom Factory at Davidson's College,
North Carolina.
Match Factory at Danville, Virginia.
Blanket Manufactory at Montgomery, Ala
bama.
Knitting Needles at Columbia, South Caro
lina.
Glass Manufactory at Richmond, Virginia.
Glass Manufactory at Columbus, Georgia.
Button Manufactory at Columbus, Geor
gia.
Powder Manufactory at Mecklenburg, North
Carolina.
Several Copperas Mines, extensively work
ed in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
One Copperas Mine in Chesterfield, South
I Carolina.
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A Tragedy in England. —On Wednesday
; morning Ricbard Thomas Parker, the wretched
man wh«j on the day previously attempted the
i lives of both es his parents, was brought before
tha Rev. J. T. Becher, one of the Notts magistrates
at Southwell, but in consequence of the precarious
state of his father and mother, the prisoner was
remanded for a week. Eleven gunshot wounds
were found in the face of the old man and eight in
his breast. It is thought the brain of Mrs. Parker
‘ has been reached. They both say “Poor Tom is
net to blame,” and when the old man made his will
yesterday, he wished to leave his son the whole of
his property. “He would never have done it if ha
j had not gone inte a passion with him.” When
p isoaer was apprehended by Police Constable
-\ :e *>aid “I have done it,” and then ear
quired if his mother were dead.— Liver-
TUe Front.
Atlanta, June 23 —2 M.
Late last evening Hood's corps attacked the
enemy, taking two lines of his entrenchments
and capturing twelve pieces of artillery. It
was one of the fiercest encounters of the cam
paign. We lost Heavily in officers and men,
but not severely as the enemy, who were driv
en with great slaughter from two lines of
their entrenchments, which are now in our
possession. These were temporary works
and not the enemy’s mainline. Brown’s Ten
nessee Brigade suffered most severely. Gen.
Brown is at present confined to his room in
this city by severe illness, and was not in
command at the time. Among the gallant
officers of his brigade who fell was Col. C. H.
Walker, of the 3d Tennessee, (Brown’s old reg
iment) whose head was taken off by a cannon
ball.
Col. Ed. Cook, of Franklin, Tenn., command
ing Brown’s brigade, was severely wounded
in the shoulder. He was brought down this
morning.
A number of other officers, whose names we
did not learn, were killed and wounded in
this brigade, which is now commanded by a
Major.
General Pettus, we learn, was killed in the
charge, and Col. James Bow, of the 10th Mis
sissippi, had his left arm fractured.
Our loss, according to the most reliable in
telligence we could obtain, will reach five
hundred, killed and wounded.
We captured a large number of prisoners
and killed and wounded scores.
Stevenson’s division Jed in the charge, cap
turing two lines of breastworks and twelve of
the enemy’s guns. The fight lasted until far
in the night and the firing was heard in this
city at 11 o'clock last night.
Altogether it is represented as the most
brilliant affair of the campaign, but it has
cost us heavily, in the loss of many valued and
loved men.
Up to this writing we have heard nothing
of the operations of this morning. Ninety
Yankee prisoners were brought down this
morning, including one or two offioors.
This morning about 2 o’clock one hundred
of the wounded reached this city. The wounds
of this train were very severe and many of
the sufferers had their limbs amputated.
Another train of one hundred reached here
about an hour since, consisting chiefly of
slightly wounded men.
Southern Confederacy , 2-Uh.
Tlie Great Plan of tills Cam
paign.
The St. Louis Republican, at the opening of
this campaign, published the following:
This theory which limits Gen. Grant’s plan
of campaign to the capture of Richmond, does
but half justice. He may capture the rebel
capital without capturing the rebel Govern
ment machinery, and wflthout overthrowing
Lee’s army. In that event, further active and
prompt operations will be necessary. General
Grant foresees this, and has provided for it.
He has not only formed a. plan for the capture
of Richmond, but has arranged a perfect
scheme for the prosecution of the campaign
afterward, as a little attention to the compre
hensive movements now going on in Virginia
will reveal.
The first and most important of these move
ments is that of the Army of the Potomac
against Lee. The second is that of Sigel and
Stahl, up the Shenandoah Valley towards
Staunton, with the view first of procuring
possession of the Virginia Central Railroad,
running from Richmond through Gordons
ville, Charlottesville, and Staunton to the
west, and ultimately of effecting a lodgment
upon the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad at
Lynchburg. The third is that of Averill, who
is moving towards the same great railroad,
with the design of striking it at or near Sa
lem. The fourth is that of General Crook, in
West Virginia, who is moving with a strong
force and large supplies from Charleston tow
ards Newbefti, on the same railroad. The fifth
is that of Major Gallup, who is moving up the
Virginia side of the Big Sandy river, towards
Abingdon, on the same road.
All these movements have one object —to
secure possession of different points on the
same road, and the whole plan is to move our
base line of operations (hitherto along the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad) one hundred
and fifty miles,, southward, and establish it on
the great Virginia and Tennessee railroad,
leading from Richmond to Knoxville, and pro
longed thence to Chattanooga. Once secure
ly lodged on this road, we will be able to re
pair, and use it for the transportation of men
and supplies from Washington and Richmond
through Virginia to Chattanooga and Nash
ville. It is the most important road in the
whole South. The loss of it to the rebels
would be irreparable, and its advantage to us
would be incalculable.
Atrocious Vandalism ottlie en
emy at Lexington.
Authentic Lexington state that
every building connected with the Virginia
Military Institute was burned, except the
house occupied by the family of General Smith,
the Superintendant.
Lexington contains a college which was
endowed by General Washington, and bears
his name. Prominent in the Campus was a
fine stature of the noble patron, erected as a
memorial of bis munificence, and of the grati
tude of the friends of the college. This stat
ue of Washington, thus erected and thus con
secrated, the Yankees have sacreligiously sto
len and hauled away. They loaded it up in
their wagons, and seat it off to Beverly. Gen.
Hunter has made his name immortal.
Nor is this all. Lexington i3 the home of
Ex-Governor Letcher. There, in a house mod
est in pretention, but commodious and com
fortable, he dwelt with his family. It is now
in ashes; with dll its effects, it has been de
stroyed by Hunter and his vandals. Thisbea3t
ly outrage will commend Gov. Letcher still
more closely to the sympathies and the favor
of Virginians. His fidelity as Virginia's Gov
ernor has met with this reward from her ene
mies—what response shall we make? Will
our people stand by and see him suffer a los3
which he can ill afford—without some testi
monial that shall attest our sympathy and re
trieve his loss ? We trust not*
When the enemy burned his hotise, they re
fused to,allow' his wife to retain a change of
clothes for herself or children. Everything
was given to the devouring elements by these
brutes. The house of Gen. F. H. Smith, Su
perintsndant of ; the Virginia Military Institute
was aho ordered by Hunter to be-burned, but
he was told that the General’s daughter was
so extremely ill .that her life would be forfeited
by her removal, and even then, this worse than
barbarian, reiterated his orders until remon
strated wdtb by some of his officers, when he
consented to spare the house, though with
marked reluctance. —Richmond Sentinel.
Late expression of English opinio# show
that, though warped by the bitter prejudices
of hatred to slavery, and their .undisguised
sympathy with the United States, the deeds
of heroism and daring achievements of our
Confederate armies, have wrung from them,
though reluciantiy, the meed of praise justly
due them. Even our armies are forced to ad
mit that this praise is not unworthily bestow
ed. They have at last, after witnessing
our gallant strugg.r- for three years against
overpowering numbers, unmoved, compelled
to admit that so far the enemy has not ac
complished anything towards our subjugation,
nor has he the rtmotest chances of doing so.
[Charleston Courier.
The Countryman of the 14th inst., contains
a,genially appreciative notice and criticalsketch
of the poetical efforts ofTlenry Lrnden Flash,
now editor of Macon (Ga.) Confederate, and
in prose and poetry one of the most gifted wri
ters ofhisyears and ourday.
He has passed a varied and traveling iife,
although he has not tel begun his fourth de
cade. and has not found a wife.
• He has given some gems of verse that ex
cite in all critical admirers a fervent, wish and
hope that he will laboriously and faithfully
improve his gift and bless the worid with more
, elaborate efforts. —Charleston Courier.
CITY MATTERS.
T. J. JACKSON, LOCAL EDITOR
Divine Services
Are held at Temperance Hall on evey Sunday at
10 a. m., and Bp. m. Seats all free.
There will also be divine service at Pierce Chapel
each Sabbath afternoon commencing at 4 o’clock.
IVotice,
J. Hanserd and’other members of the Douglas
Relief Committee, leave for the army this (Satur
day) evening. Contributions of vegetables left at
Goodrich k Co.’s store, will be reoeived and taken
in efcarge’.by them.
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Orric* Post Commissary,, i
Columbus, June 23d, 1804. S
In pursuance of General Orders, No. 52, A. and I.
G. 0., June 12th,’.1864, the schedule for sales *and
issues to Officers is changed.
Officers at Post are entitled to draw one ration in
stead of purchasing one, commencing June 13th.
Those Officers at Post who hare purchased for the
whole of June, may have their certificates revised
and the amount paid for provisions, from the 13th
to 30th June, refunded, upon calling at this Office
prior to Ist prox., and ’making the necessary pro
vision return. J. H. GRAYBILL,
je 25 3t Capt. and A. C. S.
; A Concert Tuesday Sight
On Tuesday night next a concert will be given
at Temperance Hall, by the amateurs of this city,
assisted by Mr. E. 0. Eaton of New Orleans, who
is too well known to the musical world as the com
poser of some of the most popular and beautify
ballads of the day to require further comment. —
The accomplished Madame Bailini has tendered
her services and will superintend the concert, and
we do not fear but that it will be a perfect success.
In addition to this little Ella Montgomery, who
has on a former occasion delighted a Columbus
publie. will take part. The proceeds of this con
cert will bo appropriated to the maimed soldiers
of the Confederacy. We think we can promise net
only a rich musical treat to our citizens, but a
crowded house to the Ladies, at whose instance
this matter has been taken in hand.
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The War Tax. —Mr. Swift, the Confederate
Tax Assessor in this city, has kindly furnished us
with the following information in reference to the
suspension of the assessment and collection of tax
es for the prosent, and the course to be pursued by
holders of five dollar bills, which he has just re
ceived from the State Collector, Judge E. G. Cab
iness:
“Congress haring, at the session lately closed,
made some amendments to the tax act of February
17, 1864, all assessments and collections must be
suspended until further instructions are received.
“If tax payers have five dollar bills which they
desire to use in payment of their taxes, they can
do it, and save themselves from loss by funding
them and using the certificates, when the taxes
become due.”
Bill-holders have but a few days to fund, and
to save themselves will have to act promptly.
Southern Express Cos. —We are indebted to
the Southern Express Company for repeated fa
vors, for which thanks are due.
Vegetables.— Although we hear much of th®
profusion of vegetables, we are forced to the con
clusion that there are not so many as usual ped
dling around this market. The owners of those
that are brought in seem to Operate on the opinion
that the world is made of money. Cucumbers
and squashes were offered yesterday at $2,50 per
dozen, but whether they were sold for it or net we
cannot say. We saw one old woman turning from
a wagon in well pictured disgust, affirming most
positively that she would not eat squashes till they
get down to a dollar per dozen.- She knew they
were not worth more.
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Commendable. —Mr. Simons, the City Sexton,
proposes to clean up the cemetery, and calls upon
those owning lots to assist him. Let the assistance
be given. All should feel a pride in seeing this
last repository of loved ones kept in fine condition.
Columbus Free School. —This school has ta
ken recess until Ist October, having closed its sec
ond quarter last evening. The decided success
which has crowned the enterprise so far is even in
advance of the most sanguine expectations of its
friends. It is to be hoped that its future will be
abundantly productive of good. Its founders de
serve the gratitude of mankind, and the schod will
prove a standing monument to their praise.
Timely Warning. —The City Clerk, Mr. Moore,
gives notice that his books for receiving *ity tax
returns will be closed on the Ist of July, when de
faulters will be double taxed. Those interested
had better respond promptly, as it is no easy mat
ter to pay single tax nowadays.
Field and Fireside.— This interesting South
ern weekly gives notice that it will commence the
publication in a few days of a beautiful prize story,
entitled “By-gone Life.” Let Southern readers
encourage home efforts t© improve the standard of
literature.
St. John’s Day. —The Masonic fraternity in our
city, celebrated this time-honored anniversary
yesterday by procession and public address.
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Warehouse Notice. —By advertisement it will
be see ihat the warehousemen in this city require
all arrearages on cotton to be paid up to the first
of July, in default of which they will proceed to
sell enough cotter, to Rdjust their claims.
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Java Coffee. —Mr. H. Fischacher gives notice
that he has on hand a lot of this article at reduced
prices.
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Sales To-Day. —Ellis, Livingston k Cos. pre
pose to sell to-day at auction, stock, rice, tobacco,
salt, furniture, clothing, shoes, <ic. See advertise
ment.
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Short-Hand Writfr3, —A committee of the Con
federate Senate invite proposals till next September
from short-hand writers, for making verbatim re
ports of the debates of the Confederate States Sen
ate at its next session. The Senate committee think
that four men can do the work required. Proposals
will be received by Hon. James L. Orr, chairman of
the committee, Anderson, S. C.
Ottawa Indians Captured. —The Yankees
have drawn upon all the nationalities of the world
for soldiers to fight their battles. We have cap
tured from their armies, not only the genuine Yan
kee, but the unadulterated African, the English
man, the Frenchman, the Scotchnau, the Irish
man, the Dutchman, the Italian, the Swis3, and
these in small numbers, as all who have seen
or convened with the prisoners can testify to. —
And we have reason to believe that there is a con
siderable sprinkling of the Chinese element in the
Northern Army, as well as of other nationalities
not mentioned above. But they have anew source
of strength—the Indians of the Northwest. On
Saturday morning a batch of sixteen of these war
riors of the forest, belonging to a Michigan regi
ment, were captured while making a charge upon
our lines. They belong to the Ottawa tribe, anu
arc real gingerbread chaps. Their long, straight,
black hair, their countenance and stalwart
forms, attracted uo little attention from our citi
zens. They speak English as well as most of the
soldiers in the Yankee army, and say they are
fighting the battles of the North because they be
lieve the North to be right. They take their cap
tivitv quietly so far, but the long confinement be
fore them, will doubtless work ill to both body and
mind. —P terslurg Express.
Lisur. Gbn. Ewell. —Lieut. Gen. Ewell has
been suffering considerably of late with ill
health. which is probably the cause of his be
ing assigned to duty at Richmond. He is
succeeded ia the command of his corps—* -
second— by Gen. Early, who has been pror?"
ted t® the rank of lieutenant-general r
Ewell has acted truly a brilliant parting l
field. His successor, Gen. Early, too. ha= It
en ample reason for the promotion with wh;
he has been honored. a ‘ C!l
News Summary.—A correspondent
of the Mobile Tribune, writing from Sum*
ter county, Ala., says the corn crop never
looked better than at present, unless in
some of the low, wet places that have
been inundated by the recent severe rains
The wheat is much better than he ever
saw it, and a greater abundance is plan,
ted.
The small pox still continues to rage in
Mobile.
The last Legislature having passed an
act authorizing the State Treasurer to
redeem or cancel the Georgia eight and
six per cent. Treasury Notes (issued in
1862 and 1868, and payable in specie or
eight and six per cent. Bonds six months
after a Treaty of Peace) by issuing Trea
sury Certificates of Deposit for the same
in sums of not less than &5,000, payable
in the same manner as the Notes, we learn
that up to the Ist inst., $720,000 of the
eight per C|pts. and $165,000 of the six
per cents, (in all $885,000) had been
brought in for exchange and cancellation
on which day the same were, as required
by law, burned by the Treasurer and
Comptroller General in the presence oi
the Governor.
Shelling the City.
The Yankees still continue their barbarous
practice of shelling the city, and exposing the
lives of its defenseless women and children to
the dangers of their murderous missiles. Sat
urday and even yesterday, wlfen the people
were wont to gather together in the churches,
they scattered their shells screaming and
bursting through the town. It w r ould seem
appropriate to any other nation of the uni
verse, professing civilization and Christianity,
but the Yankee nation, that even an enemy
should be allowed to worship their God in
peace, but the experience of yesterday, show
ed the fallacy of any such expectation from
them.
On Saturday afternoon, as a group of ladies
and gentlemen were conversing near the cor
ner of Sycamore street, a shell descended al
most in their very midst, and glancing up
wards, fell again in Mr. Geo. Bain’s backyard,
striking bis little son, some four years of age,
and nearly killing him. The little fellow was
struck in the stomach and was immediately
rendered insensible, from which state he had
not recovered yesterday.
On the lines of Sycamore and Bollingbrook
streets, and in the vicinity of the Norfolk and
City Point depots, the shells fell and explo
ded repeatedly, sometimes causing slight
damage to property.
Blandford—from one extremity to the other
—and Pocahontas have suffered, the former
quite heavily. • The people have been mostly
compelled to abandon that portion of the town
On Saturday afternoon, a shell burst
through a kitchen in the rear of Mr. Knock’s
tailor establishment. Syeamore street, fright
ening the occupants, but inflicting no injury.
We understand also, that Mrs. Whitmore’s
residence on Bollingbrook Street was penetra
ted by one of these missiles on Saturday, and
considerable damage done.
But it would be an almost endless task to
mention the various localities in which these
shells fall, All the eastern portion of the city
i3 exposed to their violence, and they fall all
oVer it.
It affords us some satisfaction to state that
on yesterday, the Rock House on Market street,
occupied as a prison by the captured Yankees
from Grant’s army, was also struck. The
shell passed through the building from top to
bottom, but did not burst, else we might have
had the additional satisfaction of recording
the death of several of the Yandals—killed by
their own friends. The prisoners immediately
petitioned for a removal of quarters, but were
met with the response that they must take
their chances. It is in contemplation to place
them in confinement in buildings more expos
ed to the shelling.
For every person—white or black—injured
by these shells, the General commanding
should cause a Yankee prisoner to be put to
death. Such barbarous practices should
meet with desperate remedies. The whole
people would sustain such a measure.
[Petersburg Express , 20 ih.
Tribute of Respect.
In Camp near Marietta, Ga., \
June 17 th, 1864./
At a meeting of Company “E,” 3d Ga., Cavalry,
this !day held, Lieut. Boynton was called to the
Chair and explained the object of the meeting. J.
L. Boynton, J. C. Morton and A. C. Trotman, being
appointed a committee, the following preamble and
resolutions, expressive of their loss in the death of
their friend and brother soldier, Wm. 11. Young,
jr., who received his death wound in action on the
11th inst., while advancing with undaunted courage
on an insolent foe, near Noon Day Post Office, Cobb
eounty, Ga., were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, Ithas pleased an AllwiseGodin His in
scrutable Providence, to take from our ranks our
beloved friend and comrade in arms, therefore, 1
Resolved, Ist. That we, the members of company
E, acknowledge in his death the loss of a dear and
noble, a brave and gallant soldier, whose amiable
and courteous disposition had won for him the love
and admiration of all who knew him. We will ever
remember and strive to imitate his noble virtues,
and hope that his untimely removal from our midst
may cause his comrades in arras to heed the Saviour’s
warning, ‘‘Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as
ye think not the Son of man cometh.”
2d. That.we tender to his bereaved parents and
relatives our heart felt sympathy, trusting and be
lieving that the oil and wino es Divine consolation
may be poured into tfieir hearts.
3d. That a copy of this be forwarded to Ithe rela
tives of the deceased, and to the Columbus Times
and Sun for publication.
Lieut. C. E. BOYNTON,
Chairman.
H. A. Boynton, Sec’y.
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