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OULU .UHL 6 TIMES Published Daily (Sundays excepted; ut the rate of uOO per month, or sl2 for three months, ke subscription received, for a longer term than nrte month*. • . . advertising RATES : Advertisements inserted for $2 00 per square for each insertion. Where advertisements are inserted a month, the charge will be S3O per square. Announcing candidates S2O, which must invariably paid in advance. _ By M. CRONLY Auctioneer AUCTION SALE OF IMPORTED goods, BY Catalogue. 0\ THURSDAY. June 30th, 1864, commencing ut io o’clock, a. m., I will sell at my sales rooms No. 2 Granite Row. Wilmington, N. C., the entire c ar ff’oee of Steamships BADGER and LUCY, With large consignments ex ships CHICORA, AL ICE, FANNIE, CITY OF PETERSBURG, and other vessels, viz: Dry-Good*. 18 cases white ground Print3, 17 cases black and white printed Muslin 13 cases Huckaback Towels 11 cases Organdie Muslins 8 bales Army Cloths 7 cases super Hosiery _ 7 cases Coats’ and Clark 3 Spool Cotton % 6 cases finishing Linen Thread 6 bales fancy Shirts . 4 cases solid, broken and moruning Ginghams 3 cases black Lustre 3 cases Confederate Tweeds 3 cases ready made Clothing 2 ca3es,Checks and Stripes, mourning 3 cases coat, vest and bone Buttons 2 bales Barege 2 cases black Satin 2 cases super black Lroadcloth 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 I case Paper Cambric, assorted colors 1 bale Mottled Alpacas 1 case Beauregard Tweeds I ftase Southern Clocking i case Black and W hite Print.- 1 case Shirting 1 case Fancy Snawls t bale Linos, superior ! ca*e Mosquito Netting 1 case Ties, Gloves, &c , , 1 bale super Broad Cloth, assorted colors I case Irish Linen l caso Pant Buttons 1 case Black and A liue I in.^, Shoe*, Leather, &c. 36 trunks Ladies’ Gent’s Children’s Shoes 19 cases Ladies’, Gent’s and Childrens Fr. Loo tees, extra 6 cases Army Shoes c , 7 cases Barton’s Bleached and Brown Shoe Ihread 4 cases Fr Waxed Calf Skins 4 cases Chamois Skins 2 cases Morocco Skins, ij | Cotton Cards, Clothing, &c’ 25 cases Cotton Cards, No. 10s, part Wbittemore s best 1 case Wool Cards 2 cases Chrd Clothing 32xY 2 cases filleting Stationary. 16 cases Cap, Letter and Note Paper 2 cases Gilliott’s Steel Pens 3 cases Pen Holders 1 caso 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 Sugav 60 barrels crushed Sugar 182 kits No. 1 Mackerel 8 casks Chicory „ 10 boxes Sperm Candles 10 bags black Pepper 10 caddies Young Hyson Tea Hardware, &c, 8 tons Hoop Iron . 28 kegs Nails, assorted sizes 4 casks Wire 4 cases Gun Caps 12 bags Shoe 3 cuscs Knives, Files and K&zors Liquor*, Ac. 4 quarter casks pure Cognac Brandy 1 half pipe pure Martel Brandy „ _ ; 1 quarter pipe pure Pinet, Castillion & Cos., Brandy 1 eighth pipe pure Otard, Dupy & Cos., BrancL 10 casks Whiskey 82 casks old Rum 100 casos Holland Gin . 86 demijohns Holland Gin DRAGS, tfc€. 30 cases Liquorice Paste « 94 cases Liquorice Sticks 13 casks Alcohol 14 casks Alum 5 casks Epsom Salts 9 casks Balsam Copaiba 9 bbls Tanner’3 Oil 42 kegs Bi Carb Soda 5 bbls Borax 3 cases Quinine ' 3 cases assorted Drugs 5 bbls Copperas 3 chses PotasaCarb 2 cases Blue Mass 1 case Powd. Ipecac . 1 case lodide Potass and lodine 2 casks Soda Crystals 2 casks Blue Stone 1 case Phosphoras. « june 20 eodtds Change ol Schedule. AN and after Sunday, Juno 19th, the Trains on \»the Vuscogee 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 WX CLAMif' mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R. “Notice to Planters and Con sumers of Iron. 9 ’ WE will kocp for sale, for Confederate funds, or exchange for country produce—such as Corn, Fodder, Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Peas, Potatoes, Tal low, Butter, Wheat or Flour—the following articles, on hand or made to oracr: 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, We are prepared to receive and fill orders for any sizes and quantity of Iron, from our Iron Works and Rolling Mill in Al*bag| p GRAY & apr 3tf # Nest to New Bridge. DON FED EE ATE STATES OF AMERICA, I Medical Purveyor’s Office, 4th District, r Macon, Ga., Jnne 25th, 1854. J Hustard Seed Wanted. This Department is in need of Mustard Seed in any quantity, from one to one thousand pounds.— Four douara per pound will be paid upeu delivery at this Department. Wm. H. PRIOLEAU, i® 2< Gt Surgeon & Medical Purveyor. Vol. XL J. W. WARREH A CO. Proprietors J. W. WARREN, Editor . Exchange Notice, No. 10. Richmond, Va., June 6th, 1864. The following notice is based upon a recent dec laration of Exchange made by the Federal authori ties, bearing date May .7th, 1864, and is supported by valid Federal paroles on file in Imy office. Sec. 1. All Confederate officers and men who have been delivered at City 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 prior to May 7th, 1864, are here by declared to be exchanged. This section, how ever, is not intended to include any officers or men captured at Vicksburg, July 4th, 1863, except such as were declared exchanged by Exchange Notices, numbered six, seven and eight. RO. OULD. June 25 6t Agent of Exchange. Office Ga., Importing & Exporting Company, I Columbus, Ga., June 25th, 1864. / The board of Directors this day declared a Divi dend of two and a half (214) pence on the dollar o the Capital of the company, payable by C. A. Green, at the Bank of ! -olumbus, on and after Ist July next M. L. PATTERSON, Juno 25 lw Secretary. Sun and Enquirer copy. Look Dill for July Ist! The Books for receiving City Tax Returns will be closed by instruction of Council on. Friday, Ist July, when all parties who have failed to give in their re turns, will be double taxed. Parties owning, or acting as agents for ideal Estate or Negroes in the city, will save expense by making immediate returns of the same. Office, till July Ist, at the store of II Middlebrook, on Broad street; after that time, in Ligon’s build ing over Ordnance office. M. M. MOORE, J unc 24 tjyl Clerk. Pay Your Storage. Parties holding cotter- in our respective Ware houses, are requested to pay their storage bills up to the Ist of July proximo. A failure to comply with this request in a reasonable time, will oblige us to collect the amounts due, by Abe sale of enough cot ton to settle the bills. GREENWOOD & GRAY, . HUGHES & HODGES, POWELL, FRAZER A CO. WARNOCK A CO.. KING A ALLEN. June 24 1m NO STARVATION. 300 lbs. Choice Bacon, 50 lbs. Honey, 5 boxes Tobacco (low ) W. H. H. PIIELPS, j e 25 114 Broad Street. ffl DOW!! n SMS!!! _A_T 3VEzvs* X>ESSSJ3LTT?S FROM THE LATE BLOCKADE SALE AT Ga. The goods are all superior to what is offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower than lately. In the assortment can be found : Ladle* 9 Sew Ilats, New Bonnet Ribbons, KeW Belt*, * Bobinet Musquito Netting, Tuckingand Dressing Combs, Ladies 9 lloser>, Three y 9 ds wide Linen Sheeting, Superior Bleached Shirting, Printed Jaciionets, Ginghams, English and French Calicoes, Bombazine, Alpacas, Elegant Leroes. O.A XjXj -A.JSTID S-ElE je 21 ts DJOTIOB. To Planters and Others ! T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and 1 Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. I will be found at Robinett A Cb’s old stand, where I ! am manufacturing Candles and Lard Oil for sale. L S. WRIGHT. jane 2 ts Shoemakers’ and Saddlers’ TOOLS. r PHE UNDERSIGNED having commenced the A manufacture of the above named articles in this city, are prepared to fill orders for the same. Office on Angle street, a! few doors above C. S. Hospital. HARRISON,'BEDELL & CO. Reference —Maj. F. W. Dillard. Mobile Register, Mississippian and Augusta Con stitutionalist, please copy one month and send bills to this office, mar 30 ts ’ Office Mobile & Girard R. R.l Cblumbus, Ga., May sth, ’64.- / The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Company, will be held at the .Office, Girard, Ala., on Wednesday, 6th day of July next, at 11 o’clock, when the election for President and Directors will take place. By order J. M. FRAZER, Sec’y. my‘24 td ______ Government Transportation Works, ? Cblumbus, Ga., June 16, 1864. > I have Osnaburgs, Augusta Sheetings and Augus ta Spun Yarn, some numbers as high as 12, which I desire to exchange Jon equitable terms for Bacon and Meal. THOS. JOHNSON, jel7lm Special Ag’t Q. M. Dept. ~ WAITED! ' Mcscogee Railroad Office, \ Columbus, Ga., June 16th, 1864./ Wl ANTBD a good BOILERMAKER orBLACK SMITH. Apply to W. L. CLARK, je 17 2w Superintendent Muscogee R. B. GOOD NEWS FOR THE LADiES! GREAT REDI T CTIO9i[ of PRICES IN DRY-GOOD S J JUST RECEIVED A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF IDZE^IT-O-OOIDS, Ladie§’ French Kid Gaiters and Fancy Cassimers, Which I offer for sale from 50 to ICO per cent, be low former prices. B. JACKSON. Columbus, Ga., June 21 dim AT REDICED PRICES ! A SUPERIOR ARTICLE OF JAVA COFFEE. JUST receivedfa new lot, and for sale by je 24 6t H. FISHACKER. Columbus, Ga. Wednesday Horning, Jnne 39,1864. Tuesday Evening, =r — ■■■ —— " ■■ : ,i Turg op Service Expiring. —We learn from reliable authority that the time of service of 8000 es Sherman’s troops expired on Saturday last, the 2fkh inst. The time of at least 5000 es the mis— cogenators expired between Resaca and Dallas, the azure-stomachs receiving a final discharge by reason of rebel bullets. This is the best way for their time es service to expire, to benefit us. The Northern papers say that the yankee ad ministration has received assurances, through Mr. Dayton, that the French government will give no •ountenance to the delivery of vessels built in France, under contract with the Confederate au thorities. M. Drouyn de L’Huys has informed Mr. Dayton that the two iron clads built at Bor deaux have been positively sold to a neutral pow er, and that the four clipper ships shall not be permitted to go out of port. Johnston's Army.—A private note to the Caro linian, from a division commander in Johnston’s army, says: “Sherman is at last at the end of his rope. His losses in killed, wounded, stragglers and sick, owing to the manoeuvres of Johnston, have been not less than 10,000 men; and as the two armies now stand, we can whip him any day in a fair general engagement. Sherman can corns no further.” Results of Sherman’s Advance.—As one ofthe results ofthe advance of Sherman, we notice, in the Chattanooga Gazette, of the 2d, eight columns of casualties in the Ist, 2d and 3d divisions of the 20th Federal corps, in an engagement on the 25th ult— There are nearly one thousand names in the list, many of the wounded dying soon after the fight, and a large proportion shot “in the back.’.’ From the number of Dutch that were killed and woun ded, we judge that the quantity of lager shed on the occasion was immense. There was quite a respec- of killed. At the cargo sales a few days since in Au gusta, merchandise experienced a decline of about fifty per cent. The editor of the Charlotte Bulletin left Petersburg ou last Friday morning. He says : “Business in Petersburg is almost entirely suspended ; but we think very few have left the city, except to go into the entrenchments. We saw about as many ladies on Sycamore street last Wednesday and Thursday as we ever did when the stores were all open and Yankee fabrics were exhibited in every win dow. The veriest veteran could not listen to the rattle of musketry and the booming of cannon with greater nonchalance than do the citizens of Petersburg. Verily, the denizens of the Cockade city, male and female, are a brave people.” .Situation In Front—Johnson’* STRATEGY. The enemy, in the telegrams copied under the appropriate head, are forced to compliment the great ability with which Gen. Johnston has conducted the retreat from Dalton, and the sagacity with which he has steadily thwarted all their elforts to flank him with their superior numbers. We have heard military men say that this retreat, when it comes to be understood, will immortalize Gen. Johnston, and place his name among the highest on the roll of great military strategists. The following paragraph from the cor* respondence of the Atlanta Appeal may explain some changes in our lines %hich have been made within a few days: Our troops are more confident than ever that they have the enemy in their grasp. They believe that Old Joe, is studying Sherman, as he would a book, that he has j been waltzing with him now for nearly j one month over a space not exceeding | twelve miles square and during this waltz he has learned the calibre of his antago i nist, and will ere long fall upon the Yan kee leader crushing his columns as he would a dried leaf. The enemy is cer tainly beginning to be demoralized. They do not know what to think of the tactics of our General. If they move to the left our columns are already there, if they whirl to the right, Old Joe has anticipated them, and thrown a force sufficient to counteract the move. They doubtless think that Kennesaw mountain is an ad* vantage to the Southern army as it ex« tends our lines as much as fifteen thou sand men would. This extension of the line, it is said, will prevent the enemy from flanking our position. To flank us now the enemy will have to withdraw and take another route to Atlanta. The Federal Government is getting desperate and consequently, we may expect desperate attempts from the two large armies of Yankeedom—one here and the other in Virginia. If our people are true to themselves and the country, these armies in two months will be worn out, disheartened and demoralized, and will ere this fall of autumn’s leaves retrace their march, mere skeletons of what they were when they essayed to give the crushing blow to the rebellion. To do this, however, there is much to be done. The soldier should do his duty in the field, and the citizen at home should sustain the army and the country, contri' buting all in his power to keep up the ar my, for upon this depends our salvation as a people. The Atlanta papers, for the past day or two, have acted very much as if possessed of a secret they would like to disclose, if it were only prudent, and some of them openly hiDt a conviction that Sherman’s onward progress has been virtually brought to a close. Os course they can mean nothing else than what happens when an interloper is kicked out of doors—in brief, trouble in the rear. We expect that the lapse of a few more hours will bring us intelligence that something has already happened in that quarter. In point of fact, we know that there has already been j a beginning — for a letter from Gass Coun-1 ty, dated the 20 th, says that two divis ions of Wheeler’s Cavalry were then tear> ing up the railroad. Much power to their elbows. —Macon Telegraph , 2 8th. ml# * * * r . ; , ” .» ™ Army Correspondence or tike Savannah Republican. THE OPERATIONS BEFORE PETERSBURG Army Northern VimomiA, 4 Petersburg, Virginia, June 19th. / I reached this place this forenoon—too late to enter much into detail in regard to the op erations in this vicinity for the last few days. I From all accounts, there has been more or less j fighting day and night since Wednesday the j 15th inst. It was during the night of that day that the enemy made hia first serious assault, and carried a large section of our outer line, extending from the Appomatox far around to she right. Oar force was very weak* consist ing chiefly of Wise’s brigade, and a few com paratively worthless citizens that had been dragged out to the lines and put in position for the militia. The remainder of Beaure gard s troops, not many at most at that time, wa3 holding the line in front of Bermuda | Hundreds between the James aud Apporualox. ; Had the enemy pressed his advantage at the | time, he might easily have occupied Peters : burg. The fighting continued at intervals on ! Thursday and Thursday night, by which time ; Bnshrod Johnson’s division had arrived, and ] soon thereafter Hoke’s division appeared on | the field. With these two divisions, part of 1 Grade’s brigade and the Sixty-fourth Georgia i regiment which was not then attached to any i brigade, but has to-day been added to Col- I quitt’s, Beauregard maintained his ground un | til 8 o’clock yesterday (Saturday) moving against the greater part of Grant's army.— What greater praise can be bestowed upon any commander than this simple statement pro claims. About half past three o'clock, Friday morn ing, just after the moon had sunk below the western horizon, the enemy crept through the thick undergrowth in front of battery No. 16, on the Baxter road, which is on our right, and got within a few paces of that work be fore they were discovered. They were in heavy force—two heavy to be resisted, and the | result was they carried the battery or redoubt, i and drove the Confederates away. Indeed, | the wonder is that they did not carry all parts j of the line, so great was the disparity between j the forces of the respective armies. Our lines ! extended from a point on the Appomatox three miles below the town, around to the east and southeast, a distance of five miles, and to de fend them we had only two divisions and a fraction. Col. Powhattan R Page of the 26th Virginia, commanding Wise’s brigade at the time, received a mortal wound during the as sault, and died soon thereafter. The battery of the Macon (Ga.) Light Artillery, consist ing of four 12 pounder Napoleons, was lost, in spite of the gallantry of the officers and men. Twenty-one of their horses were killed, and their infantry supports having been forced back, it was found impossible to bring off the guns. Skirmishing continued throughout the day along the greater part of the lines. At three o’clock the enemy assaulted Battery No. 17, an important position next to Battery No. 16, but they were driven back with considerable loss. An hour later they charged our works on the hill near New Market Race Course, and were again repulsed, but with still heavier loss. At 6 o’clock the assault was renewed in front of Batteries Nos. 17, 18, 19 and 20, and as night approached the cannonade became general along the whole line from No. 20 around to the Appomattox on the left. .-Aware of the comparative weakness of Beauregard’s force, and stimulated by the desire to get possession of Petersburg, Grant made a desperate effort to bear down all opposition and enter the town. He massed his forces, as he did at: Spottsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor, and rushed them against our positions as if he believed that numbers aud brute force could accomplish everything. His heaviest assault was made upon Wise’s and Elli ott’s (late Evans’) brigades, of Johnson’s division. Wise at length gave way, and one regiment of Elliott’s, and the enemy poured in through the gap in a stream that cau be compared only to the Mississippi river when it breaks through the levee and submerges the adjacent | plantations. Fortu nately, Ransom es the same division and Grade were near at hand; Colquitt and Clingman, of Hoke's division, rushed forward also to close the gap which grew wider every moment. The shock wa3 terrible. Night had now set in, but the jets of fire from the musketry and the tongues of flame from the artillery lit up the earth and the sky and pointed the way to the warring hosts. If the en emy were successful, Petersburg must fall, and with its fall what other evils would befal us I need not now pause to ©numerate; if, notwithstanding their late success, they were yet repulsed, all might be saved. Both parties understood the im portance of the stake as they hugged'each other in mortal combat. The one covered the ground with their swelling masses ; the other was only a handful; and yet the latter, gathering itself up, and binding itself together like a ball, was burled against the multitudinous foe with a skill and force which nothing human could stand before and live. The enemy were driven back and out ofthe works with great loss, and the guns belonging to Blount’s (Ga.) battery, which had behaved with so much gallantry, but which was lost, when the Federals broke over the works, were recaptured. The fight new. ceased, and the women and children and old men, who had crowded the hills and housetops, tearful spectators of the unequal combat, retired to their beds with grateful hearts. At 8 o’clock, Beauregard withdrew his forces and occupied anew and better line of entrenchments he bad thrown up a short distance beyond those he abandoned. At 8 o’clock next morning (jeaterday) Ker shaw’s veteran division reached the field after a rapid march all night, and relieved Johnson’s, which had been in the trenches, day and night, sinee Thursday morning. In a short time Fields’ and Pickett’s divisions were placed in position, and still later other forces belonging to Lee’s grand army made their appearance. Feeble assaults were made at intervals yester day, and were repeated last night; a brigade was brought up here and there and hurled against our steady lines, as one would cast a stone against a wall of adamant ; but in every instance the ene my were repulsed with but little effort. Constant skirmishing and artillery firing have been kept up to-day, but without results. It was a strange oommingling of sounds at 10 o’clock this morning —the soft, sweet tones of the church bells inviting the people to the house of prayer, and the boom of cannon and crash of shells summoning the unfor tunate soldier to the dark abodes of eternity, The one wa3 the gentle messenger of peace and life— the other the dread summons of suffering and dsath ! Petersburg is now safe against assault, though it is within range of the enemy’s long range guns. A number of shells hare exploded in the streets, but thus far only eleven persons hare been hurt, including one old negro woman killed. General Lee waited almost too long before he sent the much needed reinforcement 0 , as but for the heroic resis tance of Beauregard and his command the city must have fallen. The people have removed from the eastern’part of the town to places es greater Safe ty- Grant’s entire army is now in front of Peters burg and Lee’s is where it should be. Warren’s corps was sent around by water from West Point, but it is here, and parts of it have been already en gaged. We have just heard that Early and Breckin ridge attacked Hunter yesterday, near Lynchburg and beat him badly. At last accounts the latter, who is reported to be without supplies was in full retreat. P. W. A. There having been considerable dispute, says the Mississippian, whether the paroled prisoners in camp at Demopolis and other point!, were ex changed or not under the late order of Commissioner Ould, we state for the benefit of those concerned t hat the department at Richmond has been tele graphed to on the subject by those in command .of the paroled prisoners at Demopolis, and received the reply that they had not been exchanged. $4.00 Per Month The Louisville Journal of the 9tb gires an interesting description of the uncertainty of railroad travelling in Kentucky during (be presence of “J. Morgan From persons who were passengers on the cars and eye witnesses to the whole affair, we have learned the full details of the capture. When about half a mile this side of Smithfield the train was thrown violently from the track by the previous removal of several rails. A volley of carbine and pistol shots were dis charged into the cars at the same time. A number of passengers were aboard, and in all about twenty soldiers, but six of whom were armed. The others were stragglers, being returned to their regiments. So sudden and unexpected was.the attack on the train that everybody lost control of themselves, and iu a perfect state of alarm, surrendered without the slightest resistance. The guerilla band numbered ten men, and they claimed to be soldiers of Gen. John Morgan’s command.— •They were armed with revolvers and carbines, and aside from their citizen dress, presented the appearance of soldiers. Immediately after the surrender the arms were taken from the Federal soldiers and bro ken to pieces. The chief then administered to them an oath, requiring them to support the Southern Confederacy, or at least, not to make war upon it. No written parole was demanded ; they seemed to be satisfied with making the “Yanks” swallow the verbal oath. Asa general thing the passengers were treated in a civil manner. A few persons were rob bed of small amounts of money, but to pil lage did not seem to be the object of the band. The baggage car and two passenger coaches were destroyed by fire. The cap tured soldiers were forced to carry rails and kindle the flames which consumed the cars.— The two rear coaches were occupied by ladies, and with a show of gallantry the guerrillas rolled the coaches back from the main train, which saved them from destruction. The ex press goods and trunks were thrown from the cars before they were set on fire. None of the baggage belonging to the passengers was in terfered with, the mail was not opened or ri fled, though a few of the way packages were burned with the cars. One of the ladies, who stood a short distance from the scene of disaster and witnessed the whole affair, was approached by one of the guerrillas and offered an orange. She de clined the proffered gift, but wfis obliged to accept it, as they strongly insisted that she should receive a slight memento from rebel hands. After completing their work of de struction the band moved off'in the direction of Smithfield. The leader, who claimed to be a Lieutenant, was recognized as a well known citizen, living in the vicinity of Vandyke’s Mills. It is almost impossible to conjecture what the object of the guerrillas was in mak ing an attack upon the train. They did not seem to have a desire to plunder the passen gers as a general thing. They only robbed parties whom they thought had in their pos session Government or Company funds. The simple destruction of a train by a party of this kind does not seem to form sufficient cause for the attack, and such proceedings are somewhat unusual by guerilla bands. What ever their object was, we must admit that their actions were strangely marked by a show of gallantry and an exhibition of the desper ado. A more close inquiry into the case may furnish a solution to the riddle. Incident of Forrest’s Flglit. Associated with Ripley, we have an incident occurring in its vicinity. After our victory a remarkably pious and benevolent old lady was standing by the little garden gate, rather demonstrative in her expressions of extrava gant blessings upon the soldiers as they pass ed, and apparently in a paroxyism of anxiety to gaze upon and speak with the hero of the hour. Gen. Forrest, passing by shortly after terwards, upon being informed of the lady’s desire to see him, rode forward with his usual gallantry to gratify her wish, his stern classic featers for a mSment wearing a smile of ex quisite sweetness, as he observed her advanc ed age, at the same time accosting her with the customary salutation. The good old lady, elevating her spectacles to a comfortable po sition above her eyes, seriously interlacing her fingers, and extending them in an attitude to command attention, said in earnest tones of full meaning; "Gen. Forrest: I have heard it said that you are a wicked man ; but how can that be possible when you are prosperous in all your battles, and God, it is said, never prospers the wicked?” To which remarkable assault, Geu. Forrest replied in clear, measured accents : “My good lady, I claim no merit for my suc cess ; that must be attributable to the just ness alone of the cause I espouse. I am mere ly an instrument in the hands of an Omnipo tent Deity to work out his infalible designs, and it can matter very Jittle, in the honorable and faithful discharge of the duties assigned me by my country, whether I am a devout Christian or its opposite; the righteous cause will triumph all the same. I admit with gratitude that Heaven Jhas kindly preserved me thus far, and I trust I am not as wicked as represented,” “Ah, no,” vehemently exclaimed the lady, “you cannot be. The constant, imminent danger surrounding you; your frequent ex posure in the very jaws of peril, and your as tonishing preservation attest as much. Heav en.has spared you for your goodness and for the sake of just cause. Glory to God in the highest! Glory to Gen. Forrest!” And pas sionately covering her features with her hands, she found relief to her religious enthusiasm in a flood of generous tears. Gen. Forrest, accompanied by his staff, rode slowly off, perhaps in a train of musings for his own future welfare. Who can say ? A Beautiful Sentiment.—l saw a mourner standing at even tide near the grave of one dearest to him on earth. The memory of joys that were past crowded on his soul. “Ah, is this,” said he, “all that remains of one so loved and so love ly? I ask, but no one answers. Oh, my loved one will not hear ! Oh, death, inexorable death! what ha3 thou done ? Let me bow my sorrows in the slumbers of the grave.” While thus in agony, the gentle form of Christianity came by. She bade him look upward, and to the eye of faith the heavens were disclosed. He heard the song and transport of the great multitude which no man can number around the throne. There were spirits of the just men made perfect—the spirit of her he mourned, There happiness was pure, permanent and perfect. The mourner then wiped away the tears from his eyes, : took courage, and thanked God. * ! A11 the days of my appointed time,” says he, “will I wait till my change come,” and be returned to the duties of life no longer sorrowing as those who have no hope. jffc of Charleston. Tiirce Hundred and L'j'j. The bombardment of tin? city continues about the same. Since our last report fifty six shots have been fired up to six o clock Friday evening. Considerable firing also took place between battery Gregg and our batteries on Sullivan’s and James' Tslatid. Battery Gregg fired another volley at Fort Sumter last evening in response to the firing of sundown fun at the fort. Some fcV shots were also red at Snmter during the daf. Heavy firing was heard about ten o clock 'Friday morning in the direction of Stcno. Tho cause was not ascertained. The Yankees are still hard at work on Gregg, Wagner and the Middle Battery. No change in the fleet is reported. [ Courier, 25 (h. Tn* Cotton Question. —The London Daily “sews” says the cotton question is becoming one of serious interest, as there is a general disposition to believe that the war in the United States is approaching a final issue, and the restoration of peace will simply end in the re-opening of the greatest cotton mar ket of the world. The ‘ News” shows that unless the greatest prudence is exercised, the sudden influx of an artificially scarce com modity, aud the consequent heavy fall in pri ces, mav prove most disasirous. When Petersburg was suddenly assaulted va W ednesday last, General Beauregard, in order to give it support, withdrew his forces from tho works which stretched across from tho James to the Ap pomattox, and confined the Yankees to Bermuda Hundreds. The next morning the Yankees per ceiving this evacuation, advanced and took pos session, and penetrated beyond to the railroad, which they interrupted. On Thursday, General Leo reeovored a portion of those works from the enemy ; and on Friday night, as tho despatch in another column states, he recovered the residue. We are exceedingly gratified to be able to an nounce this, because it was of great consequence tu. hold these works. Without them the railroan hence to Petersburg would be too insecure for use, aud we should then be deprived of the immense advantages of an easy and rapid connection with that city. Wo have heard an incident of tho charge on Friday night for the recovery of these works, which deserves to be mentioned, Tho lino of bat tle was formed, and the charge ordered, but af terwards a delay being considered desirable, it was countermanded. The countermand reached only a part of tho troops. The rest accordingly moved forward. Tho Texans of Fields’ division were among those that were halted ; but seeing the other part of the line move on, they became restless, aud finally impracticable. By ones, and twos, and squads, they broke ranksancl went for ward. The contagion spread, until soon’ the whole command, officers and all, took up the well known yell, and rushed on like a storm.— The works were every where carried, and what is extremely gratifying, with but little loss. G«n. Leo is reported to have remarked that he had known of men straggling to the rear, but had never before heard of their straggling to the front. —Richmond Sentinel. A squad of Yankees, captured in Sherman’s rear, arrived here yesterday evening by the Ala bama and Tennessee Railroad. This is anew source of supply of nriscegenators. It is reported that a small force of our cavalry made a dash on the Rome and Kingston Railroad and de stroyed a supply train a few days ago. —Selma Dispatch. The Sun of Austerlitz. On the 2d day of December, 1806, rose the “.Sun of Austcrlitz.” Its light revealed to Napoleon the certainty of the great victory of that day. His forces cohsisted of 75,000 men, occupying a semi-circle of heights. Tho allied Austrian and Russian army 96,000 strong, had held, twenty-four hours previous a position equally strong, on the heights of rrotzon; but by skillful manoeuvre, Napoleon had induced them to believe that he feared a battle, and now at the break of day, he beheld their army, like a huge boa, having unwound its coil; trailing its slow, pon derous length around its front, in order to attack his right wing. The French army saw, as with its leader’s eye, the blunder of the allies. The length of their were ex - posed, while Napoleon from his semi-circle, could launch one of the spokers of his power to attack them in any or all quarters, His generals were eager to begin. “Wait twenty minutes,” said Napoleon; “when the enemy is taking a false move they must not be interrupted.” The twenty minutes elapsed, the movement was complete, the blunder irretrievable. Thon Napoleon mounted his herse and saidtojhis troopsl: “Soldiers, to-day we will finish the campaign.” At the same time the ordor of attack was given, and the mighty living anaconda was cut to pieces.— The Russians, after suffering great slaughter, were retreating across the frozen lake. Napoleon rode along the lines and shouted: “Engulphlthem! engulph them l” The artillerists elevated their pieces, and by drop ping their balls from a height upon the ice, broke it up, and overwhelmed the flying enemy. This was Napoleon’s greatest victory and most brilliant stroke of genius. Afterward on tho eve of any battle, he had only to remind the soldiers that the sun of Austerlitz would look down upon their actions to inspire them with the most enthusiastic courage. The prestige of some such achievement is a highly necessary stimulant to tho bravery of troops. It, inspires them with confidence in their own prowess. Pride in their leader, and a sublime, haughty joy, in the certainty of victory under his eye. Pajusian to the Cobe. —There is a good anecdote told of two Paris editors—X and Y. At the begin ning of the winter they were in conversation, and X, being a bachelor, asked of Y, who was just mar «?SvfT do you like your new condition?”— Ah., my dear, there is nothing like being married. You cannot imagine how happy I am. When lam at work my wife is at tax side, and at the conclusion of each paragraph I embrace her. That is charm ing.” Now I understand,” Xlretorted, “why your paragraphs are so short.” This conversation soon spread, and fronj that time Y’s articles were consul ted by the public as the thermometer of his conju gal felicity. During two months, Y’s articles were disjointed and curt, and all the women were jeal ous of Madame Y, Bnt gradually the periods elon gated, and at last Madame V. opened Afr. Y’s pa per, and casting a rapid glance over the paper ex claimed: “Whatl but a single paragraph in the whole article! Poor woman, a divorce will assuredly follow ?” An officer in McGowan’s Brigade writes to his father in this city that he has been informed on good authority that President Lincoln has received re** liable information that Grant is very much afraid that Lee wtll attact him and that a part of his army, at least 12,000 men, whose term of service has expired have notified Grant that they will not fight and that if they are forced into battle they yvill fight their wav out. Here is a paragraph from a Northern paper, that ought to remind our government that it is high time to resort to the long talked of lex tallonis: On the 29th ult., by order of General Brown carried out by provost marshal Switzler of the central district of Missouri, Francis Had ley, alias Joseph Anderson, was shot to death with musketry, at Warrensburg, Missouri Gen. Brown had obtained sufficient evidence to satisfy him that Hadley had participated in the Lawrence massacre under Quantrell. The Alban? Dream.—The dream of the venerable old gentleman of Albany, in which the Angel Gabriel revealed to him that the existence of the war depended upon the suc cess of Johnston’s army, and that the scales of fate would be about balanced until the waning of year, when a warrior from the south would join Johnston and rout the enemy ha3 been interpreted by an aged gentleman of this city. He says that the warrior from the south is Bedford Forrest, who, at the head of a large army, will march through Middle and East Tennessee, and capture Chattanooga and Daf ton, when Sherman, attempting to retreat, w.ll be almost annihilated, the result proving a i ortown to the Confederate arm3. [Appeal, 2oth. It is reported that Major Battle and Captain Stur divant, of Sturdivant’s battery, who were captured in the’fight of Thursday, 16th inst., near Petersburg, w hile being taken to the rear by a negro guard, murdered by the black savages. This was re ported in'Petersburg, and Yankee prisoners cap tured in the fight of Friday night confirm the story. If this cold blooded murder be true, we hopo our •rOTermnent may be aroused to some measure of retaliation. A letter from the front says that a shell fall in Bledsoe's Battery on Wednesday and killed Capt, Bledsoe and twelve of bis men.