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’‘special attention will be *4ie treatment
of worn om.
1 "“Surgical operations petfonaed for
’i<!tula in Ajjo, Vislco'-Vaginal fistula,
Lydrocelo, Congenital and Aceidentat Phymoeis,
Varicocele, Haemorrhoids or Piles, Callous Imp as
able strictures. False Passage*, I’allapes or Club
n’oot, and contraction of tho fingers, Strabismus or
Squinting, Aneurism,Warix or dilated veins, Ptery
gium, Cataract and Hair Lip; also for the remov
al of all tumors or abnormal growths fr.om'any part
of the body. „ .
Diseases ofthsGenito-Lnnary Bystem.comprsing
tho diirerent stages of Ghonorrhoaa,, Strictures,
Gravel, Spermatorrhea, Syphilis, in its primary
secondary,tertiary and hcriditary forms,will receive
particular attention.
References given whenever desired as well as the
recommendation of many years practice in New Or
leans; Consultation hours every day at his office
in the Masonic Hall Building, from 10 to 12 o’clock
a, m„ and frOin 2to 4 o’clock p, m. Patients willdo
well to call precisely at those hours, as before and
after that time will be devoted to visiting persons in
the city.
Address all commuicationsto
DR. E. A. ROSS3c.
Columbus. Ga,
N. B.—Persons from a distance having servants
requiring surgical or medical treatment, will-be
provi led with comfortable quarters, but in all cases
will have so furnish their own provisions and bed
ding.
will also bestow particular attention to
the treatment of the different forms of Ulcers, Rheu
matism. Gout. Scrofulous affections, Syphilitic erup
tions, and all other chronic diseases of the skin. —
Medicated Fumigations and Steam Sulphurous
Baths, us employed in the hospitals tiPEurope and
America, wni form a part of my treatment,
feh 11 :,m _ E. A. R.
€li»nge of Schedule.
Office Engineer and Superintendent, )
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, >
Charleston, June 7,1561.)
AN THURSDAY, June 9,1864, and until further
U notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.15, a. m.
Arrive in Savannah 5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah ??. 5.30, a. ra.
Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. m.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
leston, and the Central Railroad at tho Junction.
H. S. HAINES,
Juno 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
Change of Schedule.
ON and after Sunday, Juno 'l9th, tho Trains on
tho Muscogee Railroad will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN :
Leave Columbus .6 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon 8 10 P. M,
Arrive at Columbus 4 25 A. M.
FREIGHT TRAIN :
Leave Columbus .5 00 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus ..........4, 55 A. M.
W. L. CLARK,
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee It, R.
“ Notice to Planters and Con
sumers oflron.’*
WE will keep for sale, for Confederate funds, or
exchange for country produce-such as Corn,
Fodder, Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Peas, Potatoes, 1 al
low, Butter, Wheat or Flour— tho following articles,
on hand or made to order:
PLOW AND SCOOTER BAR IRON ;
FLAT, ROUND AND SQUARE BAR IRON;
HOOP, HORSE SHOE, NAIL ROD ;
IRON COTTON TIES (CHEAPER THAN
ROPE) FOR BALING;
SHOVELS AND SPADES ;
FRY PANS;
POT WARE OF SEVERAL DESCRIP
TIONS ;
SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES—FROM 40
TO 100 GALLONS;
SUGAR MILLS—I3 AND 15 INCH,
Wc are prepared to receive and fill orders for any
sizes and quantity of Iron, from our Iron Works
and Rollu,* Mill in Alabama. p &
apr 3 ts Next to New Bridge,
FRICTION fIIATHCES!
'THE Columbus, Ga., Friction Match Company,
A have again resumed operations, and will, in a
few days, bo prepared to supply them in quantity.—
They also mako a superior article of Blacking, which
can be supplied in quantity.
Dealers and others wishing to purchase, can ap
ply to Messrs. Livingston & Cos., or Messrs. Hull &
Duck, who will be kept constantly supplied.
S. D. THOM & CO.,
Manufacturers.
N. B.—lt having cost me about $5,000 in the past
eighteen months, above receipts, to learn how to
make good matches, the public can now rely on get
ting a superior article. S. D. THOM.
Columbus, May l 14, 1861 dtf
ITOTICS.
To Planters and Others !
I WILL EXCHANGE Osma-bursrs, Sheeting and ,
\ Yuras, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. 1 •
will bo found at Robinctt & Cb’s old stand; where I
am manufacturing Candles and Lard Oil for sale.
L. 8. WRIGHT.
june 2 cf ,
and Saddlers'*,
TOOIjS.
rI’HE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the ;
‘ manufacture of the above named articles in this .
city, are prepared to till orders for the same. _ i
Office on Ingle street, a few doors above 0. S. j
Hospital. iJ ARRISOJLBEDELL & CO.
Reference —>Inj. F. W.
Mobile Register, Jllssissippian and Au&usta Con
stitutionalist, please copy one month and send bills j
to this ouice.
mar hi i ff - . 'j
Utfick Mob:lk & Girard R. R. [
Cblumbus, Go., May sth, '6l. )
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of th«
Company, will be held at the Cfliao, Guard, .Ala.,
on SVedtmeday, 6th day of July next, at 11 o'clock,
when the election for President and Directors wilt i
lak0 ]Iv l outer J. M. FRAZER, Sec y.
iny'il tvl , ,
Goverxsihxt Transportation Works, 1 I
(Muu.bus, Ga., June 16, lhdf. i j
a hat o Osnaburgs, Augusta Sheetings and Augus
ta Spun Yarn, some numbers as high as 12, which I
desire to exchange '*on equitable terms for Bacon
and Meal. TUGS. JOHNSON, |
jclTlni Special Ag't Q. M. Dept,
WASTE® F-
Muscogep Railroad Office, \
Columbus, Ga., June- 16th, 1864. J
Ml «£KD a good BOILER M.l KER or BLAGS-
Amvto W L CIAI . K |
jc 17 2w Superintendent Muscogee 11, 12.
0000 MEWS FOR THE LADIES !
ORE AT aEDI CTIOS of PRICES
• ■ ** tiLi * • ( .
- Or-o i •
JUST RIWEIVEIU FRESHASSORTMENT Lv
Ladies’ French Kid Waiters
Casgmers,
Which I ouhUfch-saYfe from to 106 per cent, nc
low former uric*."' . - B. JACK.e'.'N.
Columbus, Ga., June Li.dliU , ,
- -yt . • f V V ,>vat
AUVBA.ISA REHOVsiE.
UriTOX STORAGE,
Y\. r L have room to store several hundred bales Cot-
YY ton. Send forward. KING k ALLEN,
je 21 2w
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Vol. XI.
J. W. WARREN A; €O. Proprietors. J. W. : -IV A RRE3> T ANARUS, Edits? •
AUCTION SALES.
By ft. IRONLY Auctioneer
A LOTION SALE OF
IMPORTED GOODS,
BY
Catalogue.
ON THURSDAY, June 30th, 1864, commencing
at 10 o’clock, a. m., I will sell at my sales rooms No.
2, Granite Row, Wilmington, N. C., the entire c ar
goes of Steamships
BARGER and LUCY,
With large consignments ex ships CIIICORA, AL
ICE, FANNIE, CITY OF PETERSBURG, and
other vessels, viz:
Dry-Good?*.
18 cases white ground Prints,
17 cases black and white printed Muslin
13 cases Huckaback Towels
11 cases Organdie Muslims
8 bales Army Cloths
7 cases super Hosiery
7 cases Coats’ and Clark’s Spool Cotton
<> cases finishing Linen Thread
6 bales fancy Shirts
4 cases solid, broken and moruning Gingham
-3 cases black Lustre
3 cases Confederate Tweeds
3 cases ready made Clothing
2 cases .Checks and Stripes, mourning
3 cases coat, vest and bone Buttons
2 bales Barege
2 cases black Satin
2 cases super black Broadcloth
2 cases Brown Holland
4 cases Flannel Shirts
2 bales mixed Meltons
1 bale blue and grey Serge
1 bale fancy Flannels
1 case Black Alpaca
1 case Black Orleans
1 case Paper Cambric, assorted colors
1 bale Mottled Alpacas
1 case Beauregard Tweeds
1 case Southern Cloaking
1 case Black and White Prints
1 case Shirting
1 case Fancy Shawls
1 bale Linos, superior
1 case Mosquito Netting
1 case Ties, Gloves, &c
1 bale super Broad Cloth, assorted colors
1 case Irish Linen
1 caso Pant Buttons
1 case Black and White Pins.
Shoes, Leather,
36 trunks Ladies’, Gent’s and Children’s Shoes
19 cases Ladies’, Gent’s and Children’s Fr. Bo
otees, extra
6 cases Army Shoes „
7 cases Barton’s Bleached and Brown Shoe Thread
4 cases Fr Waxed Calf Skins
4 cases Chamois Skins
2 cases Morocco Skins.
Cotton Cards, Clothing, &c,
25 cases Cotton Cards, No. 10s, part Whittemore’s
best
1 caso Wool Cards
2 cases Card Clothing 32x4
2 cases filleting
Stationary.
16 cases Cap, Letter and Note Paper
2 cases Gilliott’s Steel Pens
3 cases Pen Holders
1 ease Pencils and Pens
1 case assorted Stationary
Bagging and Rope.
10 bales Gunny Bagging
148 coils Bale Rope
Groceries.
238 bags Rio Coffee
50 barrels brown Sugar
60 barrels crushed Sugar
182 kits No. 1 Mackerel
8 casks Chicory . ,
10 boxes Sperm Caudles
10 bags black Pepper
10 caddies Young Hyson lea
Hardware, &c.
8 tons Hoop iron
28 kegs Nails, assorted sizes
4 easks Wire
■1 cases Gun Caps
12 bags Shot
3 cases Knives, biles and Razors
Liquors, &€.
1 quarter Cm ka pure Cognac Brandy
1 half pipe pure Martel Brandy 1
1 quarter pipe pure Pinet, Castillion x Go., Brandy i
1 eighth pipe pure Otard, Dnpy & Go., Brandy |
10 casks Whiskey
82 casks old Ruiu
1(M) cases Holland Gin
86 demijohns Holland Gin
t.r.f .. ; zv-gt tj Si ‘j' j
smuGs,- &i-.
30 cases Liquorice Paste
9-i eases Liquorice Slicks j
13 casks Alcohol
14 casks Alum
K casks Epsom Sails
9 casks Balsam GopaijSa
9 bbls Tanner's Oil
42 kegs Ei Carb Soda
5 bbls Borax
3 cases Quinine
3 cases assorted Drugs,
5 bbls Copperas
3 eases Potasa Carb
2 cases Blue 3f?.s?
1 case Powd. Ipecac
1 case lodido Potass and lodine
2 casks Soda Crystals
2 casks Blue Stone
1 case Phosphorus,
june 20 cbdtds
If MB!! SEW MR!!!
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Mx* is. DESSAU'S.
FR.p THE LATE BLOCKADE SALE AT
M-Vugusta, Ga.
The goods are all superior to what is
offered elsewhere, and wiii be sold lower
than lately. In the. assortment can be
found :
I*adio.s* .Yew llut§,
Yew Sloimct aibboiis.
Xe« Belts,
Boblnet Mssqttit® Yetting,
Brettwln? Combs.
Slescri j
Tlirec j ’dswideLinea Slice! in sr,
Hl®a6h«4 skirting.
Psisited Jaekouets,
Oi!3?tsams.
English and ITench Calicoes,
floiiibtuine, Alpacas,
Elegant Eerces.
o A TSLj JLix-X) SEE IE.
[Ma **
tinted tv Purchase.
4 SMALL HOUSE jffotn or five room?, also■ a
A second-hand Buggy and Harne?’. sta
tiffgr 3 “'' . Time? Office.
Columbus, Ga,. Monday Horaiua, -June ,27.1885.
Mattu’day Evening.
Chatlalioochce. i
The steamer Jackson, will leave for the above and 1
• , J
intermediate landings to-morrow morning at A*
o'clock. j
Exchange Aotiee, Ao. 10. |
Richmond, Ya., June 6th, 1564.
The following notice is based upon a recent dec
laration of Exchange made by tho Federal author!- ;
ties, bearing da: e May t7th, 1864, and 13 supported
by valid Federal paroles on file in liny office.
Sec. 1. All Confederate officers and men whe
have been delivered at Cky Point, Virginia, pre
vious to the Ist of June, 1864, are hereby declared
to be exchanged.
Sec. 2. All Confederate officers and men, and all
civilians who have been captured at any place, and
released on parole pri*r to May 7th, 1864, are here
by declared to bo exchanged. This section, how
ever, is not intended to include any officer* or men
captured at Vicksburg, July 4th, 1863, except such
as ware declared exchanged by Exchange Notices,
numbered six, seven and eight.
RO. OULD,
June 25 6t Agent of Exchange.
Consignees pkr M. *p,R, R.—June .25.— Capt
Cothran, Major Allen. Maj Dillard, D 11. Fowler,
M Doney, Powell, F & Cos., Warnock A Cos., Dr M
Woodruff, Columbus Factory, J R Dawson, Palace
Mills, Grant Factory, John Lawrence, Naval Iron
■P- 8 -- . J .
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Gums Bluff, near Charleston, S. C., )
June 24th, 1864.
Editor Times: Since last I wrote you nothing c. j
much import has transpired in this vicinity, although
the following may interest some of your readers. 1
The monotonous shelling of the city progresses as
j usual, with comparative harmlessness. Another
gun has been recently mounted at Cumming’s Point
j to supply the place of the one known as thojeity gun
which has become so much worn as to be of littl’
service to the enemy. Up to this time the amoufi
of damage done the city will not exceed one tent{
the amount they have expended for ammunition
A J "-~'»rt«nt.oft.hn wear and tear of their .gun
Umcr Ga., Importing k Exporting company,!
Columbus, Ga., June 25th, 1864. J
The beard of Directors this day declared a Divi
dend of two and'a half (2/4) pence on the dollar Os
the Capital of the company, payable by C. A. Green,
at the Bank of Columbus, on and after Ist July next.
* M. L. PATTERSON,
June 25 lw Secretary.
Sun and Enquirer eopy.
A Horrible Outrage. —We learn from the
Petersburg Register that anether most foul' and
brutal outrage has just come to its knowledge.
The Yankee devils visited a respectable house in
Prince George, at which were two ladies, a mother
and an unmarried daughter. The villains strip
ped the ladies stark naked, and made the mother,
in this nude condition, regale them with tunes on
the piano. “Are there no stones in Heaven but
servo for the thunder?”
-
Births in Cura.— lt appears by a communi
cation to tho French Academy that the climate of
Cuba is excedingly favorable to fecuadity. Very
often twelve, and sometimes more than doable that
number of children are found in one family.
Many Cuban beauties become mothers at thirteen,
and reappear in that character up to the age of
fifty.
Promoted. —Bushrod Jehnsten, whoso Brigade
has been conspicuously engaged in the recent bat
tle* on the Southside, has, on aocoHnt of distin
guished gallantry, been made a Major General.
Tnx Fourth of Jult.— About two years ago,
says the Richmond Dispatch, the Yankees boasted
that they would celebrate their 4th es July in
Richmond. Their Grand Army, headed by the
ablest of their Generals, was then on tho same
spot it now occupies. They are again full of
prophecy and patriotism. Grant, who celebrated
his last 4th in Vicksburg, will celebrate the next
4th in Richmond 1 Perhaps se! But the Scrip
tin'© saith: “Let not him that putteth on his har
ness beast himself like him that taketh it off.”
Suspension of the Privilege ol
the Writ of Habeas Corpus
Congress haying failed to re-enact the law
authorizing the suspension of the privilege of
the writ of Habeas Corpus, that law falls to
the ground by its own limitation, in August
next. But not so the political howl that has
been raised over it. We only hope that events
soon so bo developed may not show that Con
gress. in failing to re-enact the law, were
wanting in firmness and prudence, if not also
in patriotism. It is true, there was much
clamor against it, and it was natural that there
should be. The country at large could not
! appreciate its necessity, from the fact that tha
i peculiar circumstaaces that called it forth
j were of a nature that could not be made pub.
| lie without information ty the enemy that
might be dangerous to the country. Thus
! the great body of the people, the patriotic
: and unsuspecting people, saw a valued priv
! ilege suspended without adequate expiana
; tion or due assignment of reasons showing
! the necessity of such suspension. It was true
! that the position of the country rendered such
explanation impossible for the time being, aud
a little reflection upon this fact might have
stilled the tumult, and at least leu to a sus
pension of judgment until such time as judg
ment could be formed in view of a full knowl
edge of the facts. But it will naturally sug
gest itself to the mind that there were those
who knew or suspected reasons that could not
| publicly b« assigned : who saw or thought
■ they saw that their own traitorous designs
and factious courses must- be put a stop to,
even if their own personal safety and comfort
should not be seriously interfered with. These
people in the absence of information which
the Administration could not give ccnsisteni
ly with a due regard to the public interests,
set themselves to work ta poison mind with
| suggestions of treason against public libeity.
!of tyranny and. wrong.- They worked cau
tiously and adroitly. They enlisted the pride
or vanity cf ailTthese whb were and are in
clined to take offence'at anything about which
i they are not consul:ec, or the details of which
are conceafeli XrGRi; them, no matter what the
necessity ebcM woncealmer.L The 4 arm oil
was ve-.c'vsueJ. IntensiSe ' • "■?flec
tion was : no .cyper.ii p
mejst : demaLogatCten yew re.m
--; u... me . suite i in the
nrospeot.oi immunity•.
Muon, of CQurse, dfijeyi-J's tyjojf 'hyprogr''? •
of the great military events how going-on near
Richmond or in' Northern. G eorgia Let these
things turn out favorably: and faction aid
treachery wTI! low.ft their tone, or become
1 imnoter.t for evil. On the contrary, let dis
t aster, or even the appearance of disaster over
> take our arms, an J the people at large —due
patriot* and lova. ?o’t*ncrn neople wiil n t
need that Congress or the admin**‘-ration
should assign to litem the reason :or dhe sus
petsion oi the privilege of the writ pf Habeas
t Corpus. Those reasons will then be patent
r to all lan L literally ''plenty as blackberries
Wilrr.iz.jlan Journal
TFrorn Ur© Petersburg Eiprc?*, 21’sGT 1
From the ITanL
So Genetat Ehjatfmeiif'Yt fftrtkfy- — Star*
fitkhipg—the Etieyly Shell thrCity
• —Our Troope Eager for the Fray.
Contrary to public expectation -there was
not a general engagement yesterday between
the two great armies now massed near the
.corporate limits of Petersburg. From certain
movements of the enemy,' which were unmis
takeably apparent oa Sunday, every body with
whom we conversed, fully expected the ball
to open at an early hour yesterday, j*
thought too, that the chief efforts of ths foe
would be directed against onr left, as in that
direction he was observed actively moving
on Sunday. But as an evidence of the uncer
tainty of military operations, all was unusu
ally quiet up to half past six o’clocklast even
ing, on that part of the enemy's lines. It may
be that the enemy contemplates an assault
here, and as it is very near the river and would
give him control of that important stream, we
should not be surprised at any moment to
hear that Grant had made one of his charac
teristic assaults in the vicinity of Jordan’s
Farm, but, of course, he is under the eye of
watchful leaders, and strike where he will an
opposition, will be offered, that will test the
metaland endurances of his hordes to their
fullest capacity.
On other portions, of the lines there was
heavy skirmishing yesterday, but nothing
more. - The enemy have learned a lesson du
ring the past four or five days, which has not
been without its salutary effects. Heapproacli
es now with great caution, and the least show
of determined opposition on our part, gener
ally causes him to desist. This especially
the case yesterday.
ARTILLERY PRACTICE.
There was considerable artillery practice yester
day, as must always be the case whero two armies
of such magnitude ooufront each othor. The dam
age inflicted, if any, we could not ascertain.
THB enemy’s BARBARITY.
The inhuman, uncivilized and anti Christian
practice of the barbarous foe, was continued yes
terday without abatement. All the day long, at
intervals of every five minutes, his shell were
thrown into the city. Fortunately, the ingenious
foe have discovered no plan or method of deaden
ing or destroying the sound, when they hurl their
deadly missiles into our midst, and every report
which falls upon the ear, puts all persons in ex
posed situations on the watch. Their whizzing
sound and rapid flight through the air, are easily
heard and sees, and hence we are glad to know
that the damage inflicted yesterday amounted to
comparatively nothing. We heard of a little
bricks and mortar being displaced, the pavements
torn up in two or three streets, and in one instance
a largo store door on Sycamore street was un
hinged. But we heard of no injury to life or limb
yesterday, and the enemy probably threw an ag
gregate of 150 or more shells into the city’s limits.
A GREAT DELUSION.
It is quite evident from a speech delivered by
Lincoln in Philadelphia on Thursday last, that his
ticklers, Grant and Stanton, have impressed upon
his obtuse brain the ridiculous idea, that the army
of the Potomac now occupies a position, from
which it cannot bo driven by Gen. Lee. This
speech will be found in another portion of to-day’s
Express. Never, however, did Lincoln laber un
der a more fallacious idea. Os all the positions
the Army of the Potomac has occupied, and they
have been numerous, no one has been more preca
rious than the present. In due time Old Aba will
learn to his sorrow, that our opinion on this matter
is correct, and that of his “greatest of all living
generals” wrong.
THE FLAGS OF TRUCE.
The flags of truce sent in by the enemy Satur
day, and referred to by us yesterday, was forward
ed by that cautious Yankee cemmander, Meade.
He desired the privilege of burying his dead. Fer
obvious reasons, which it is not neeessary here to
mention, Gen. Beauregard courteously, but per
emptorily declined to grant the requests. It seems
a little singular, that in all the heavy fights in the
Wilderness and around Spetsylvania Courthouse,
thousands upon thousands of Yankee dead, were
permitted to bako and fester, and yet no solieitude
was manifested for their burial. But now when
the fatal casualties are not near so large, because
of the fewer numbers eugaged, the enemy mani
fests an undue anxiety to put his dead under the
sod. This glaring inconsistency must strike eve
ry reader at the first glance.
THE EXEMT’S STRENGTH.
An ordinarily intelligent Teuton, who fell into
our hands Saturday night, gave the bravo Confed
erate who captured him, a ; statement of Grant’s
forces, which is believed teibe in the main correct.
He says Grant’s army now! on the seuth side of
James river, is composed 1 of tho Second, Fifth,
Ninth, Tenth, Eighteenth and Twentieth Corps.—
The Second, commanded by Hancock*; the Fifth
by. Warren, and tho Ninth by Burnside, are ail op
erating around Petersburg. The Eighteenth, com
manded by Baldy Smith, is at and near Bermuda
j- Hundreds.*! Tho Tenth, Eigth and Twentieth,
! have no regular commanders, and are held near
l City Point as a reserve. All these army corps
have been fearfully reduced sinco the commence
! incut of the present campaign, and many of the
regiments composing them, do not now muster 200
men.
The prisoner who furnishes this information,
1 says he was enlisted in Germany two and a half
years ago, and for the sole purpose of fightiag in
! the Yankee army. 110 is highly pleased at the
idea of being taken prisoner.
LATEST,
Last evening about seven o'clock, the enemy
was observed to doublehis pickets on our extreme
| left—a generally sure indication of an attack on
! his part. Up to one o’clock; this morning, no en
gagement had occurred, but there was much pick
,ei Sriug going on. | ,
Greek Met ‘Greek. —The following is an ex
tract from a private letter written by a lady in the
Trans-Mississippi department to a gentleman in
Shubina, Miss. It is another one of tho misfor
tunes, so many of which have occurred in the Vir
ginia army :
<f A sad misfortune occurred at tixo.battie of
Pleasant Hiifr A large battery of the enemy had
been playing-on our flanks for some time, commit
ting terrible destruction. Col. Parse ns who com
mands a brigade qi Texans, commenced a move
ment to charge and secure tho battery. He Suc
ceeded in capturing it after a desperate struggle;
and immediately turned it on the flying foe. Gen.
Churchill, commanding a brigade of Arkansian?.
about the jaine time, commenced a charge on the
same battery, he thinking that the enemy still
held it. Parsons thinking Churchill was the eno
my attempting to retake tha battery, turned lire
guns upon him. A despsrate fight ensued. Too
mistake was not dissevered untii Gen. CiiurcßUi
arrived n't ice battery . and saw the colors. The
1 o 5« here w:-.s heavier than*: any point vu ue.Lat*
lift-field."
“NoLsstTFXEH Battle Afar JjFr.
tentioa was coiled yeaiejday at nqon, to &
noise as of distant cannonading- I: eaiis.steu
of verv rarvi 1 ■‘'thuds, frequent.}' so xap. jas
to rutvhv.a each other. This noise uad been
heard in town an*l vicinity since six o’clock
in 11 i* - ;uorrui>g.-au»a.»u \siji2 wliunicil to proceed
from the cannonading at Marietta. \* e aeard
it. as we thought, distinctly. an,i so -did otuer
' bv-sLinders : but others' still doubted'dr de
&kji if. At onr request the telegraAh*oper«-
tcr'lnquired iit Atlanta whether cannonading
was. hi *va; fold that there wa ?
. he&vv ruing. unj!!.er:«i*at!y. “southing 4;*4
turned up ' invli r front. Tbe dlstanoe
right line is about nlhady-iwo, and a
uentle breeze set du#c*.y irciu .nc '-lide fte!
We arc iacNhei to think that firing fr.-ra
that field was distinctly heard la town, qnd
probably much more 'distinc-tiy-heard in the
• elevated suburbs — M-'-.n T~.lijr.cph., ‘ijth
$4.00 Per Month
• [Yorrejpondenr© of sue Memphis Appeal, j
Letter ffom Mississippi.
• FermTs GreeU Yiciony—Alrtcitit? and Grihio
1 of Styra Soldiers—llow Ai\*njrcf— Tits • Tsn
nostetans Feud and RctntmbPr.
Okaloxa, Miss,, June 14, ISO 4.
There is but one fact significant, above all
others, in connection with the recent victory
of Gen. Forr-st—it is the first which has been
won by the smaller over th# huger force.
! where the inequality in numbers was so gregt
that every participant in the struggle must
1 have been conscious of the relative strength
|of the combatants. Strategy, Forrest's name
I and confidence in their leader, won the day.
i The Yankees and negroes supposed Forrest m
Middle Tennessee, and came forth simply to
slaughter the helpless, to plunder and deso
late the country.
Forrest's strength in the contest was about
3500 men. The number of negroes and
whites is not accurately ascertained. Prison
ers say that their force was twelve or fifteen
thousand. Telegraphic dispatches have given j
the general results of the battle, but many j
days must elapse* before the details arc known.
Prisoners are constantly brought in by the
country people. Very few negroes, it seems,
have been captured. Perhaps not more than
forty or fifty have appeared at headquarters.
Most of them fled as soon as it was known
that Forrest was on the battlefield. Those
that were taken escaped (?) The soldiers say
they “lost them.”
You may know that most of Forrest’s men
are from Western Tennessee. Before the bat
tle, fugitives from the counties through which
Sturgis and his troop3 were advancing, cam*
into our camp detailing incidents which made
j men shudder who are accustomed to scenes
of violence and bloodshed. I cannot recite
the stories of these poor frightened people.
Robbery, rapine, and the assassination of men
and women, were the least of crimes commit
ted while the “Avengers of Fort Pillow” ever
ran and the country. Ilude unlet
tered men, who had fought at Shiloh, and in
many subsequent battles, wept like children
when they heard qf the enormities which their
mothers, sisters and wives had been subjected
by the negro mercenaries of Sturgis. The
mildest, most peaceable of our soldiers be
came madmen when they heard how the per
sons of their kinswomen were violated. The
negroes were regardless of the age, condition,
sex, or entreties *f their victims. In one in
stance, the grandmother, daughter, and grand
daughter, were each, in the same room, held
by the drunken brutes and subjected to out
rages, by the bare recital of which humanity
is appalled. A young wife, enciente, taken to
a negro encampment, and, tied to stakes driv
en in the ground, was made to minister to the
hell-born passions of a dozen fiends. Death,
in mercy, came to her relief. A little boy,
who sought to defend his mother, w'as brutal
ly bayoneted. \Yhen their savage lusts were
gratified, th® victims here and there were
burned in their dwellings. Instantly, in some
instances, came to the relief of sufferings such
as never were inflicted upon human creaiures
by remorseless fiend* in human shape. Ter
ror, and th« agony of hopeless shame, and
famin*, and fire, and blood, and the assassin
ation of the helpless and unoffending, marked
the progress of the “Avengers of Fort Pillow.”
It is not strange that negro prisoners were
“lost.” The whites who led them on and in
cited them to these.damnable deeds deierre a
more terrible punishment. Yet we have sent
three thousand of those whit* men to prison
to b* exchanged. Simple justice demands
their instant execution by the hangman’s
rope.
You have heard that our soldiers buried
negroes alive at Fort Pillow. This is true.—
At the first fire, after Ferreat’s men scaled the
walls, many of the negroes threw down their
arms and fells as if they were dead. They
persisted in the pretence, and could enly be
restered at the point of the bayonet. To re
suscitate some ©f them, mere terrified than
the rest, they were rolled into the trenches
mads’ as receptables for the fallen. Vitality
was not restored till breathing was obstructed,
and then the resurrection began. On these
tacts is based the pretext for the crimes com
mitted by Sturgis, Grierson, and their follow
ers. Yeu must remember, too, that in the ex
tremity of their terror, or for other roasons,
the Yankees and negroes in Fort Pillow, neg
lected to haul down their flag. In truth, re
lying upon their gunboats, the officers expec
ted to annihilate our forces after we had en
tered the fortifications. They did not intend
to surrender.
A terrible retribution, in any event, has bo- j
fallen the ignorant, deluded Africans 1 nr- ;
: nished with arms, besotted by whisky, misled
| by lies, maddened by hope3 which they can
! never realize, they have 'committed crimes
; which makes the blood run cold, and must ;
I shock tho moral sentiment of the age. The ,
'world hardly know which to condemn most, ]
) the falsehood of the resort of the committee j
I of Federal Congressmen which'investigated ,
i the “Fort Pillow massacre,” or the conduct |
iof the ravage brutes employed to avenge it.— 1
! If all that is alleged in this congressional re- ;
i port be true, tbare would be found no justi- ;
i ficationfor the unheard of enormities prac- I
liced upon helpless women, more liolpless old ,
age, and helpless poverty, by the mob of Biur- I
derers and lawless miscreants wne [©Lowed ,
i Sturgis from Memphis: The crimes of But- ;
' ler, the paragon of brutes, have lost their (
! blackness ; Milroy would adorn the calendar ;
| of saints ; Sherman beoomes an angel of mer- j
| cy, compared with this hell'born monster, who j
I incites negroe3 to the commission of crimes ,
; such as were never perpetrated since chris- j
: tianity illuminated the hopes and sanctified |
1 the purposes of men and nations.
Let me assure you, in conclusion, that what ,
I have written of the enormities of Sturgis’
army, is not a recital of individual crimes. * |
Those only escaped who.fled before the inva
ding host. There is not a household from j
i Germantown, in Tennessee, to the scene of
, Forrest’s unparalleled triumph, some of whose
members was not a sufferer at the hands of j
Sturgis. To robbery, these people areeccus
tomed ; they have borne insults and tyranny;
they are accustomed to taunts of drunken
Irishmen, and brutal Dutchmen, and the petty
thefts of astute Yankees; but never before
• have all crimes constituting the calendar
of all infamy overwhelmed tho country;
never before was chastity a .mockery;
age a crime ; .and women’s virtue the ]
| incentive to deeds that wou.-i awaken curses ;
iu ths lowest caverns of Le’L Brbwnlow.
’ Johnston, Lincoln, and th.' -uade of John
I Brown can now rejoice. Eerffoff-'ru ha? cul
minated, in rane ; assassination in thu murder
of women and (children, and half a* million
armed rob’ue: 3 s’lu ban * r .s
in human shape, occupy es
the South. May Gqd defend thy right, and
guide aL onr -arxuitjs, 23 was tn it devoted
band led by Bt.nord Foryest. S. L.
, -* —»
Victory wear Xy&ctiborg.
The followingdiapatca from Gen. Lee, we
find iu the Richmond capers of fffte 2Gb, m die ate.; 1
that Harder's carec-rha? been suddenly stopped:
June at, ii'-’t
To Urn.. Jieerevrry of. Y~ar : .
A <iisi>ateb from New London sta.es m3
, sault was made on •TCtrliae- at Lynchburg la-n.uo-t
ami repulsed by troops that ban arrived- A hen
• the rest of our force came u I’ J.[*^ a gJ,.7!‘^ C
• made to attack tnis mornmf, bat the i„
j treated in confusion. Oxy troops
Signed, General. • 1
- **' ' * ‘ I
Fimrmmtmut Muannl&£. —it will
be recollected that after the terrible
slaughter of Grant’s men on the od, he
allowed his woundSd to remain on the
ground outside of our works lor several
days, unable to H*ha.the ground* and pre
ferring to let them perish for want
sistance so sending a flag of truce asking
permission to bury the dead. The flag
would have been au admission of defeat,
and his humanity win? not strong qnqugh
to overcome his, vanity. At last he sent a
flag* with a proposition, not for a truce to
lary his' dead, hut th'at firing should oeafec
Oil hot a sides until the dead on- both sides
"could be buriecl. tfen. Lee at once peis
ceived the trick, and answered that lie
had ra dead or wounded outsido of his
Tiae|. After equivocating and prevarica-*
iiug;for several days J&rant was
obliged at last to in>k Cora truce, aud it
was granted him. Hero was an unmis
takable confession 0/ defeat. A corn's*
pendent, however, of the New York Times,
writes a long letter, describing the mings
ling of both parties 6n the field of the
dead, each removing its own men Ac
cording to this man’s account, It was an
arrangement mutually agreed on, and net
a simple permission on the part of
eral Lee, aud thus it will be represented
in every paper in Yaukeedom, Can any
body imagine anything more unutterably
base !— li felt. Disjxi (ch .
When Napoleon had reached Wilna, in
his invasion of ltussia, in 1812, a deputa
tion of serfs from one of the most popus
lous districts of the country waited upon
him aud pledged that if he would issue
a proclamation emancipating the serfs
they would join him to a man. But he
declined their overtures, for the leason
that it would give a ferocious turn to the
wav, causing horrible devastation and un
heard of murders. He should, he said,
be espousing the cause of barbarism against
civilization. He could not for a moment
entertain the proposition. Be it remem
bered that the Ilussiau serf was a white
man, of the same race with his master,
and fully as capable of improvement;
whereas, the negro is of African descent,
and has never been left to himself in any
part ot the world without degenerating
into a Barbarian. By the employment of
the negro the Yankee is actually warring
against civilization. But leaving that
fact out of the question, can anything be
more pitiful than the position of the Y
kee, calling upon the negro to assist him
in subduing a people whom he boasted of
his ability to demolish in ninety days ?
What is it but a confession that we are
superiors in the proportion of lwenty*to
five ?— Richmond Dispatch.
• ■ tm • mm
Hunter Running. —Major General
Hunter, the chief object of whose expes
dition, we arc informed by a late number
of the New York Tribune, was the caps
ture of Lynchburg, is rapidly retreating
before the Confederate forces now pursu
ing him. An account from a highly au
thentic source reached here yesterday,
which states that the enemy had been
whipped out of Liberty, Bedford county.
They retreated in the direction of Bu
ford’s Gap, in great disorder and confu*
sion. Some two or three hundred prison
ers, and three pieces of cannon fell into
our hands. We hope soon to hear of
Hunter’s utter rout. — Petersburg Express,
21 st.
We find in the Wilmington Daily Journal
a letter from a Nassau correspondent, giviag
a list of the vessels which have run or attemp
ted to run the blockade at that port, with the
fate of each, from which it appears that out
of 425 attempts to run the blockade from Nas
sau alone, 363 have been successful, and only
62, or about one in seven, unsuccessful. Thia
record should make the European powers blush
for shame, if they have any shame left, when
ever they look at their celebrated Treaty es
Paris, which requires that blockades shall he
made efficient or that they shall not be re
garded.
Plenty of Meat.— The Government has i»-
formed the tithing agents that the bacon ly
ing at their depots as a loan will not be need
ed, and the agents desire us to request all
such as have loaned bacon at the depot* to
call and take it away.— Milton (N. C.) Chron
icle.
By Klii*, Livingston & Cos
ON TUESDAY, 28th June, at 10 o’clock, we wii!
sell in front of our store, lor and on account of
. a refugee, the following likely young negroes:
! Mary, Very Likely, 12 years old,
j Sicily, Very Likely, 22 years old,
j Maria, Very Likely, 20 years old,
> lu’ances, Very Likely 18 years old.
Sale without reserve.
| je 24 td $lO
jßy Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
ON TUESDAY, 28th pf June, at 10 o’clock, wo
will sell in front of our store,
! A FUSE HARNESS AND SADDLE HORSE.
| je 25 *fi __
Cook Ossl for J uly Ist!
The Books for receiving City Tax Returns wiii be
! closed by instruction of Council on'Friday, Ist July,
when all parties who have failed to give in their r -
turns, will be double taxed.
Parties owning, or acting as agents for £cal Estate
or Negroes in the city, will save expense by makiiu
immediate returns of the same. «
Office, till July let, at the store of II Middleorook,
| on Broad street; after that time, ia Lig&nT build -
i ing over Ordnance office.
M. M. MOORE,
June 24 tjyl Claiu.
To the Citizens of Columbus and Tieinity.
r TVILL commence, on Tuesdav the 2cth in!t.,. to
I clean out the Cemetery, and I wish those having
burying ground ia the same, to send me a hand wim
hoe and rake. Those having no one to send, will
’ please clean out their ground at once, so that I can
have tho rubbish hauled out. Let no one vmit for
i hjg neighbor. Let all send mebelp who can, and I
will put the Cemetery in fine order.
: * K. T. .TIMON3,
June 24 td - -- Sexton.
V Pay Your Storage.
Parties holding cotton? in our respective TYarC
hou-es, ax>; requested to pay their tioragc bills up L)
the Ist of July proximo. A failure to comply with
fhis request in »reasonable,time, wiii obiigs us so
■ collect the amounts due, by tb<e sale of enauga co.-
ton to setfle the bills. ***“
GREENWOOD k GRAY:
HUGIIE? & HODGES,
POWELL, FRAZER *'■<?».
WARNOCH and CO:,
RING k ALLEb,
Jt&e 24 Issi . ,'
AT REIHCLD PUIcSY
k SIPERIOR ARTICLE OF
JAVA COFFEE,
JUST received anew lot, and for sale by
je 24 6- H. FISH AC K SR.
K’ . .' •;*"