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iitilumfois Wimts. 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. „ , , 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. j# 25 it; _ 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. — • —■ 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. — » 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. ♦ » ♦ . 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. - - Java Coffee. —Mr. H. Fischacher gives notice that he has on hand a lot of this article at reduced prices. i—— ■ 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. — am 9 m 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. je 25 It SwRJEAT ATTRACTION! THE PLIZE STORY OF BY-G-OjSTE life, AND THE PRIZE POEM ENTITLED JUDITH, Will be commenced in the SOTIiERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE, Published at Augusta, Ga., SATURDAY, July 2d, 1864. < These beautiful Literary efforts, with the usual variety of choice original and selected articles, embracing Romances. Poetry, Essays, Sketches, &c M Will make this popular HOME JOUP.NAL un usually attractive to the Family Circle. Now is the time to subscribe. 15 Copies, 6 Months, ' SIOO. 7 Copies, 6 Months 50. 3 Copies, 5 J/ontks 25. 1 Copy, 6 Months 10. 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