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AUCTION SALES.
OAK GO SALE.
<t- BY
JAMES H. TAYLOR,
AUCTIONEER,
Corner'of Broad and Campbell Streets,
AITGI/STA, CtA.
oil Wetiuesday, 3d August.
Commencing at nine o’clock, will bo sold in my '
Store,
the ■cargo of the :
STJEAMSHIP SVBES,
Lately Arrived, Consisting of
GBOOBEIES.
82 Barrels Coffee
15 “ “ Extra:
30 “ Crushed Sugar:
30 “ Brown “
20 Boxes English Yellow Soap:
■”>o “ Domestic Family Soap ;
20 “ Castle Soap:
50 “ Best Starch:
100 Kits Superior Mackerel :
40 Half
4 Barrels “
04 Gross Windsor Soap;
20 Cases Superior Old Cognac Brandy:
* 2 Barrels Whiskey;
10 Bags Sifted Pepper ;
1 Box Oolong Tea ;
•3 Barrels Blacking Powder:
18, Boxer* English Candles;
30 Bales Carolina Rice;
14 Barrels Lard Oil;
I DJRTT O-OOIDS
-900 Doz. Coats' Spool Cotton;
100 Uros3 Super. Bone Buttons;
4 Cases Fronting Linen:
3 Bales Muslin;
222 Lbs. ISIk. Linen Thread;
215 Doz. White Cotton Hose;
240 “ Assorted Gloves;
250 , Pieces Tape Check Muslins ;
20 Cases Bleached Shirtings;
2 Bales Madder Handkerchiefs :
1 Caso Assorted Alpaccas;
2 Cases Mosquito Netting:
2 “ Linen Coats;
2 Bales Cassimore Tweeds:
40 Dozen lloop Skirts:
460 M Needles;
150 Gross Knitting Pins;
300 Doz. Horn Combs;
500 Doz. Pocket and Dressing Combs :
1200 Doz. Ivory Combs;
500 Packs Assorted Pius;
256 Y’ds Canton Crape;
50 Doz. Linen O. Hd’kfs :
2 Cases Imperial Linen ;
2 “ Fancy Madder Prints;
1 Bale Fancy Doe Skin Cassimeve.
7 Bales Fancy Union Tweeds:
I Bale Ilair Line Cloths ;
50 Doz. Men’s Merino Shirts:
250 Bundles Cotton Yarns;
lft Bales Cotton Drills;
Ift. “ £ Shitting:
5 “ t 11
lft “ Heavy Osnaburgs.
~ SXJ2STH)!R/I3±3S
LS Colls Hemp Hope :
250 M. Envelopes:
580 Reams assorted Paper ;
100 Doz. pair Cotton Cards:
45 Gross Lead Pencils :
5000 Pair Leqt Cards:
I (IS Setts Knives aud Forks;
18 Doz. French Calf Skins.
500 Gross Steel fen.-:
100 Gross Pen Holders;
1 Case Straw Hats:
100 l)oz. Pocket IvhiViv ;
1 Caso Wool Hats;
2000 Pairs Children’s Shoes ; «
30 Bundles Seine Twine:
100 Reams Bath Letter Paper;
100 Packs- Hair Pins.
ZDIRYCTO-S &0-
500 Ounces Sulp. <jjninine:
20 Barrels Epsom Salts :
100 Casks Sup.' Carb. Soda:
20 Bids. Sal Soda:
3’Bales Alexandria Senna.;
:» Oases Sanders’ Blue Mass:
1 Case lodide Potass;
“ Hyd. Cam. Greta;
7 Kegs Alcehol —each 18 gallons:
lift Oz. Morphine—Sulp. :
2 Bids. Gum Arabic:
1 Bbl. Ivory Black;
2 Bids. Vinegar.
<Joudiaious--CA.SU.
jy!9 eodtd
TICKING, JIiNIMS, &C.
By JAMES H. TAYLOR,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.'
On Wednesday, Aug'. 3d.
W r ILL be sold in my Store, a fine lot of Staple
Goods, by recent importations, consisting in
part of
Dales Bleached Shirting :
Dales Blue and Brown Denims .
Dales Bed Ticking. ..
—ALSO
Casks of Socket Shovels and Spades :
Casks of Knives and Forks:
Oases of Cut Tacks:
Cases of Wood Screws:
Cases of Handsaws;
Cases of Mill, Saw and Taper Files :
Cases of Cotton Cards, .to.:
Holland Gin in cases:
11 cases Morphine;
East India Rhubarb:
Cases Carb of Potash: •
l case Bengal Indigo;
Cases Powdered Cubebs and Jalap;
Ipecac, Oil of Almonds:
Calomel, Opium, Arrow Root:
Oil of Peppermint:
tbses Huckaback Towels ;
Corsetts. India Rubber Shoes.
Ladies’ Straw Bonnets and ilats:
10 cases Ladies’ and Misses’ French Shoes, very
tine.
CONDITIONS CASH.
jy 2* uu
Mm, m $.«, tut
BY
JAMES H. TAYLOR.
Al GUislA, Ci A.
/
On Ike 3d ol August,
l* r ILL be sold in my Store, without reserve, the
VV Chrgo of the Steamship Prince Albert, just ar
rived, to-wit:
28 casks English Copperas :
2t>o casks Supr Carb Soda :
20 barrels Sal Soda :
17 barrels Epsom Salts:
2 " Alum;
5 bales Hops;
8 casks Alcohol;
31! coils Manilla Rope:
25 bags Sifted Pepper, Am.
july_2s td - : ;
TO HIRE!
F OIi balance of the year fifteen able-bodied
Negro M«u and seventeen Negro Y> omen.
Applv soon to R. M. GUN BA, Ag t.
.iul 28 ts
iYotiet* to j)eMoi a § and Cred
itors.
ABL persons indebted to the estate of .S’caborn
• Sues, deceased, are required to make imme
dn e payment, acd those having claims againstsaid
estate are required to render them in terms of the
law to the undersigned
SEABORN J. BENNING, Adm’r.
By MARY 11. BENNING, Agent.
HU 28 wfit
Cfflliwto Itme.v
_ . . •
VoL XI.
J. W. WABREiY & CO. Proprietors..... j. w, WABREK, Editor
Notice.
All Officers or Men registered as patients in
this hospital in private quarters will report I jure*
oiately in Person, or they will be reported to
Their commands as deserters.
W. A. ROBERTSON,
jul29 d3t Surg. in charge Lee Hospital.
Headquarters Conscript Service l
Augusta, July 25,1864. ’ j
Uau ral Orders, I
No. 42. /
The following extract from Circular, No. 24, Bu
i reauof Omscription, (current series,) is published
for the information and guidance of all concerned :
11. The sale to the Government or to the families
of soldiers, at prices fixed by th® Commissioners of
the State, under the Impressment Act, of the mar
ketable surplus remaining after furnishing the Gov
ernment with the stipulated quantity of provisions,
and which he may raise from year to year, while his
exemption continues, is made by the act of Con
gress, approved February 17th, 1864, one of the
conditions of exemption allowed to an overseer or
agriculturalist. A claim is asserted by some of
those exempted as agriculturalists to exchange such
part of the aforesaid surplus as they may please, for
supplies of provisions, clothirg, and the like, to be
consumed in family U3e, and to sell to the Govern
ment or to the families of soldiers only what re
mains of such surplus after making said exchanges.
The claim - is in violatian of the law and of their
contract with the Government, and cannot be al
lowed.
Upon satisfactory evidence being furnished that
persons exempted as overseers or agriculturalists
have or are thus disposing of their surplus produc- i
tions by exchange as aforesaid, Enrolling Officers
will arrest all such persons, forward them to their
nearest camp of instruction, to be retained there
until final action shall be taken and announced in
their cases, and forward through the proper chan
nels of communication to this. Bureau a report of
all the facts and circumstances of each case.
Every agriculturalist or overseer, upon receiving
his certificate of exemption, should be informed
that the action indicated above will be taken in the
event of his not disposing of his marketable sup
plies in accordance with the requirements of the
law.”
By order of
Col. \VM. M. BROWNE,
Commandant.
P. Lou.nkv, Li. uudAdi’m
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the”ATLANTA
uiiunKnHn.
The undersigned proprietor of the ATLANTA
Daily and Weekly Intelligencer,
announces to the public that he has made arrange
ments for the publication of these Journals in this
city (Macon) and that in. a few days subscribers to
the same wilt be furnished as usual with their pa
pers :
Correspondents, advertisers and all persons hav
ing business with the
insrTELT_iia-E3sro ieir,
will pleasse address their communications to
The InlelStsfencer Office,
Macon, Georgia.
All JOB and GOVERNMENT WORK
on hand will be resumed at an early day.
JARED I, WHITAKER,
Proprietor.
ju!27 It
Flag of Truce Letters.
CONPF.BKRATK STATES OF AMERICA, I
War Department, "A
Bureau of Exchange, )
Richmond, Va„ July Ist, 1564.
1. Ail letters to go North by flag of truce must be
sent to this office.
I 2. Each letter must be inclosed in a separate en
velope and addressed to me, Bureau of Exchange,
Richmond, Va.
3. No letter must exceed in. length one page of
I ordinary sized letter paper, and its contents be con
fined strictly to personal or family matters No
letter alluding to the movements or localities ot
troops will be allowed to pass.
4. Each letter mast contain a United States post 1
age stamp, or its equivalent in silver or United
States currency. These regulations will be rigidly
enforced, and no letter transmitted in which they
are not Strictly observed. _ ** T ,
ROB T Ol LD.
Agent of Exchange.
[Official.!
W H Hatch. Captain and A A G.
,iuly22 6t
Shoemaker*' and Saddlers’
TOOLS.
'IMIE 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 A CO.
Reference —Maj. F. W. Dilearbc ’
Mobile Regis or. Missi*sippian and Augusta Con
stitutionalist, please copy one month and senu mils
to this offiee.
mar 30 ts
NOTICE.
To Planter* and Other* !
T WILL EXCHANGE Osnaburgs, Sheeting and
I Yarns, for Bacon, Lard, Tallow and Beeswax. I
will be found hi Robinctt A Oo s old stand, where 1
am manufacturing Candles an^Lardg^foyMe.
june 2 ts
ANand after the Ist July, my office and dwell-
U ing will be on Broad st.„ at the residence of the
la iSMtf W. J. MURRELL. M D.
Columbus, Ga Tuesday Morning, August 2,1864.
iiw GOODS!! SEW GOODS!!!
.A.T
i Mx-ss. DESSAU’S.
! FROM THE LATE BLOCKADE SALE AT
-A.ugu.sta, G-a.
The goods aiv all superior to what is
; offered elsewhere, and will be sold lower
’ than lately. In the assortment can be
f found :
I Ladies’ Yew Hats,
lew Bonnet Ribbons.
New Belts.
Boblnet Mosquito Yetting,
Tucking and Dressing- Combs,
Ladies 9 Uo ierj,
Three y’ds wide Linen Sheeting,
Superior Bleached Shirting.
Printed Jacßonets,
Ginghams,
English and French Calicoes,
Bombazine, Alpacas,
Elegant Leroes.
OA TjXj jwnjd see.
,ie 21 ts
MedLical Card.
E. A. ROSSI.
FORMERLY Surgeon to the New Orleans ‘‘Fe
ll male Infirmary,” tenders his services to the Cit
izens of Columbus in all the branches of his profes
sion.
Special attention will be devotedjto the treatment
of the diseases ofwoinem.
Surgical operations performed for
Fistula in Ano, Visico-Vaginal fistula,
Hydrocele, Congenital and Accidental Phymosis,
Varicocele, Haemorrhoids or Piles, Callous Impas
sable strictures, False Passages, Tallapes or Club
Foot,, and contraction of the fingers, Strabismus or
Squinting, Aneurism,iVarix or dilated veins, Ptery
gium, Cataract and Hair Lip; also for the remov
al of all tumors or abnormal growths from.any part
of the body.
.'-‘Diseases of tlis Genito-Urinary System, comprsing
the different stages of Ghonorrhcea, Strictures,
Gravel, Spermatorrhea, Syphilis, in its primary
secondary,tertiary and heriditary forms,will receive
particular attention.
References given whenever desired as well as the
recommendation of many years practice in New Or
leans; Cousultation hours every day at his office
in the Masonic Hall Building, from 10 to 12 o’clock
a, m„ and from 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
ihe city.
Address all coiumuications to
DR. E. A. ROSSY.
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 1
will have to furbish their own provisions and bed
: ding.
asr-L 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, as employed in the hospitals in Europe and
\meriea.- wi" fbr>l*;i part of my treatment.
febll 3m E. A. R.
Change of Schedule.
Gkfftk Engineer and Superintendent, i
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, r
. Charleston, June 7,1884.)
AN THURSDAY, June 9, 1864, and until further
notice, the Schedule of the Passenger train will
be as follow, viz:
Leave Charleston 9.45, a. ni.
Arrive in Savannah 5.40, p. m.
Leave Savannah 5,30, a. in.
| Arrive in Charleston 1.15, p. in.
This Train makes direct connections, going north
i and south, with the Northeastern Railroad at Char
■ leston, and the Central Railroad at the Junction.
11. S. HAINES,
June 14 ts Engineer and Superintendent.
~FRI€TIQIir ffIATHCES!
j i HE Columbus, Ga., Friction Match Company,
; 1 have again resumed operations, and will, in a
: few days, be prepared to supply them in quantity.—
| They also make 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 &
1 Duck, who will be kept constantly supplied.
; S. D. THOM & CO.,
M anufactur ers.
N. B. —It 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. I). THOM.
Columbus, May 14,1864 dtf
Change ot Schedule.
ON and after Sunday, June 19th, the Trains on
the Muscogee Railroad will run as follows :
PASSENGER TRAIN:
Leave Columbus „6 45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon 3 25 A. M.
Leave Macon , 810 P. M
; Arrive at Columhds 425A. K.
. FREIGHT TRAIN:
Leave Columbus 5 00 A, M,
Arrive at Columbus 4 55 A. M.
j W.L. CLARK,
mar 19 ts Supt. Muscogee R, R.
‘‘ Notice to Planters ami Con
sumers of Iron.
YkT E will keep for sale, for Confederate funds, or
V i 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 order:
PLOW AND SCOOTER BAR IRON:
FLAT, ROUND AND SQUARE BAR IRON;
HOOP. HORSE SHOE, NAIL ROD;
IRON COTTON TIES (CHEAPER THAN
HOPE) FOR BALING ;
SHOVELS AND SPADES
FRY PANS:
POT TAPE or ■ SEVERAL DESCRIP
i TIONS :
SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES- —FROM 4u
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 Alabama.
JOHN D. GRAY & CO.,
apr 3 ts Nextl o New Bridge,
Negro Teamsters Wanted!
I wish to hire a number of Negro Teamsters for
the Army of Tennessee. Citizens having such hands
i will please notify me immediately: as in this way
j a number of seldiers may be relieved to strengthen
our struggling army. Apply to
t THOS. C. JOHNSON.
! ,iul27 2w Government Transportation Works.
§IOO Reward.
iOST. in this city, on the ißth inst.. a Diamom*
j Fix, with two sets. It is believed to have been
• lost near Dawson’s corner. The above reward will
I be paid by leaving it at this Office. july2s lw
S3O Reward.
f I WILL pay the above reward for 808, a black
L boy, about 24 years old. He has beer out three
or four weeks, and is supposed to be lurking about
„ the city. JNO. H. BASS,
jy 4 t)
Wanted Immediately.
’l'WO STONE MASONS Applyto
j 1 jy 6th lrn GREENWOOD * GRAY,
Southern Confederacy cony In md forward bill
.Holiday Evening.
Personal.— Col. Waters. Inspector of Conscrip
tion for Georgia and Alabama arrived in thU city
on yesterday from the West.
Gen. Bragg arrived in this city yesterday after
noon by special train from Montgomery, and is
we learn the guest of Mr. Win. Garrard.
For Chattahooche.— Thesteamer Jackson will
leave for the above and intermediate landings to
morrow (Tuesday) morning at 9 ohrioek.
We fight during the fourth year of the war
with this advantage over the enemy, that in
the event even of our utter defeat,* we may
still carry on the struggle; while he, if only
materially checked or discomfited, must at
once abandon the contest. From the fact that
we are battling for all that makes life worth
possessing, it is impossible that we should ever
yield while there is a single moral or physical
resource left us unexhausted ; we are in a
condition that compels us to act like the brave
Greek, who, with one hand lopped off alter
the other, still clung to the retreating Persian
galley with desperate teeth. Not so our foe.
Engaged in a war almost wholly of offence,
he has not the same inducements to tax to
their utmost capacity his energies and his
strength ; when these have been expended to
a certain extent, the laws of human passions,
which are the same in nations as in individ
uals, will constrain him to abandon an under
taking, the cost of which so far exceeds the
outlay. That the Yankees are approaching
this point, and what is better that they know
they are approaching it, is evident not only
from the growing numbers of the peace party
at the North, but from the vastness of the
efforts which those to whom the thought of
peace is still abhorrent, are putting forth at
this moment. They are perfectly aware that,
unless successful, it is the last blow they will
ever be able to deliver, arid they are therefore
crowding into it, as far as is in their power,
all the muscle and sinew of the nation.
Having stretched to the utmost limits then
credit and the people’s patience, and seeing
nothing but bankruptcy, revolution and an
archy behind them—in a word, having parted
with an immense deal of their capital, whether
in money or men, they are now testing the
last throw of the gambler and doubling the
stakes. This, too. thanks to the unequalled
courage of our armies, they will lose, we be
lieve, and then we have but to look to the
present state of affairs in the United States to
see wlpvt will be the result. Gold rising to
an unprecedented height; Seymour pitting
himself against the General Government, and
calling out 70,000 men to enforce a warrant
against one of its minions: Vallandigham,
backed by a large and enthusiastic party, re
turning in ostentatious defiance of his illegal
sentence of exile : Chase, with the instinct of
a rat that quits a sinking ship, resigning the
Secretaryship; Kentucky in such a condition
as to necessitate the proclamation of martial
law—these are elements of discord that are
gathering so fast and looming up so large and
formidable, that he who sees in them no signs
of the coming ruin must be blind, indeed.—
Thus it happens that the United States is now
like a huge fabric tottering to its destruction.
Powerful engines in the shape of immeuse
armies are at work to prop it up, but it needs
only a single strong, external push, and it is
gone. That push we must give at all hazards.
Soldiers of Lee and Ilbod, place your strong
shoulders against the shaking structure, and
.bear it to the earth, though it should crush
you in its fall.— Columbia South Carolinian. „
Eujsioi'.s ai Frenclt latervesi
tiffin.
From a Paris Letter.]
The talk of mediation continues, and the
secessionists assert that France has again in
formed England that slxe is ready to join in an
offer of mediation, whenever England may
think proper. On our side we have no certain
means of knowing whether this be true or
not ; but inasmuch as the moment, according
to all precedent, is the : one which is not gen
erally chosen as the proper one for such an
offer, we may assume with the greatest secur
ity that this, like Lee and Johnston’s “draw
ing” operations, is a delusion. The moment
for the offer of mediation is whenever one of
the combatants is beaten but will only accept
terms of settlement from a third party, or
when the two combatants are both exhausted
and are resting on their arms, waiting for
somethinu to turn up. Neither of these con
ditions have yet arrived, at least so far as the
North is concerned, and as no mediation would
be offered but in the interest of the rebellion
—that is to say, no mediation to which Eng
land was a party—none will probably be offer
ed under the present aspect of affairs. The
secessionists here hoped that Lord Palmerston,
alarmed at the prospect of being thrown out
of power, would so far come over on Tory
ground as to go with France in the offer of
mediation : it has been asserted that he even
pledged himself to this line of conduct. But
whether this be true or not, it is evident that
a Tory Cabinet could do little more for the
rebellion than the present one has done, and
that the existence of the present cabinet turns
upon European and not American affairs.
ARREST OF a BRITISH SUBJECT IN BOSTON.
In the House of Lords, on the 21st of June,
the Earl of Derby said he wished to put a
question to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
of which he had given him private notice.
He was informed that a gentleman named
Lovejoy, a British subject, and a merchant of
Montreal, had arrived a short time since in a
British packet—the Asia—at the port of Bos
ton. and upon his arrival there he was brought
before the United States authorities, who im
mediately took him into custody. That cc
cu v red on the 26th of last month, and he was
brought before the Commissary General for
the purpose of being examined, but without
being told what the charges were which were
breught against him. His papers were taken
from him, and he remained in prison ten days,
at the end of which time his* papers were re
stored without explanation, and he was told
that he might leave prison.
Earl Russell said that in the latest despatch
es from Lord Ivons there was no reference to
the case of Mr. Lovejoy. It was very proba
ble that by the next despatches some account
of it might be received. When such cases as
the imprisonment of British subjects did oc
cur. as they unfortunately did very frequently;
Lord Lyons always called the attention of the
American Government to them and required
an explanation. In case it appeared that
Lord Lyons’ attention bad not been directed
to the case, he would write to him and bring
it under his notice. •
The Earl or Derby regretted to hear that j
these cases were of frequent occurrence, for j
they certainly had not been communicated to
Parliament. He trusted the noble lord would
aot lose sight of the subject.
Eari Russell said that when he had des
cribed these of imprisonment as being
common, he did aot mean imprisonment with
out reason : for when explanation came to be
given, ;t generally appeared that the United
States Government had some reason to induce
tham to believe that the persons imprisoned
had been engag-’i in affording assistance to
tkeir enemies
$4.00 Per Month
Prizes in British Ports.
To prevent a recurrence of the trouble
which grew out of the case of the Tusca>
loosa, at the Cape, the British Govern
ment have issued explicit directions for
the guidance of Colonial Governors in
similar cases. The instructions of the
; Colonial Ministers are these:
“If any prize captured by a ship-of-war
of either of the belligerent owners shall
be brought by the captors within Her
Majesty’s jurisdiction, notice shall be giv
en by the Governor to the captors imme
diately to depart and remove such prize.
. “A vessel which shall have been actu
ally and bona fide converted into and used
as a public vessel of war shall not be
deemed to be a prize within the meaning
of these rules.
‘•'lf any prize shall be brought within
*her Majesty’s jurisdiction through mere
j stress of weather, or other extreme and
i unavoidable necessity, the. Governor may
i allow for her removal such time as he may
I consider necessary.
| “If any prize shall not be removed at
the time prescribed to the captors by the
. Governor, the Governor may detain such
prize until her Majesty’s pleasure shall be
. made known.
“If any prize shall have beeu captured
! by any violation of the territory and ter
j ritorial waters of her Majesty, the Gover
-1 nor may detain such prize until her Maj
i esty’s pleasure shall be made known.”
Improvements in Artillery.
A meeting of the members of the Royal United
Service Institution took place last night in tho
theatre of the institution in Whitehall yard: Ad
miral Sir Frederick Nicholson in the chair, for
the purpose of hearing a paper read by Comman
der R. A. E. Scott, R. N., ‘On Improvements in
Artillery at Home and Abroad.’
Captain Scott, after briefly summing up tho
principal points noticed by him in former papers
on the same subjects, remarked upon tho great im
provements which resulted from the various expe
riments at Sheeburyness, and the importance of
ventilating the gun question in a country like this,
so successful in inventions. It was those experi
ments which had so much tended to stimulate tho
energy of the iron manufacturers of the country
in order to produce the best materials for tho
manufacture of guns and armour plates a r - well as
shot and shells : and it should be recollected that
it was by little improvements successively carried
out that the great invention came at last to ba ac
complished.
England was the great iron-plate market of the
world, and her true policy was also to make her
gun factory the mart of the world. lie next re
ferred to the various changes which were taking
place in the manufacture of ordnance in the North
ern and Southern States of America, and observed
that the Americans had at length turned their at
tention to steel, and had paid £IO,OOO for the
right of using the Bessemer process, which, they
were intending to commence immediately. The
Americans did not uso solid shot: they thought
hollow shot preferable, as taking off much weight
and attaining greater velocity. Their idea was
that the smashing effect was the point most to be
desired : and they were accordingly constructing
a number of large fifteen inch boro guns, with
’which they wore notifying all tlieir seaboards.
There was no doubt that the power of damage
done by a shot was in proportion to the weight of
the powder. Great attention had also been given
iu America to the manufacture of gun carriages,
and, as regarded their strength and the general
arrangements for working them it might be said
that tho American gun carriage was superior to
that of any other nation. The Prussian system,
which was like the Parott and Manton systems
has been brought to great perfection. The Prus
sians had converted their brass guns into rifle,
and it was a shot from a steel twenty-four pounder
which had recently done such damage to the Dan
ish cupola ship. The Russians had recently been
making great experiments, and were using guns
like the French, and it was supposed that the
nine inch and eleven inch guns manufactured by
the Blakeley Company were intended for Russia.
Turning home he had the gratification of seeing
important improvements taking place in the plans
which had been laid down by Sir William Arm
strong : and he believed the breach loading prin
ciple was flickering in the socket, and would ere
long be finally abandoned. Referring to the three
systems, namely, breech-loader, shuntarifilng and
muzzle-loader, Captain Scott showed that recent
experiments had established the vast superiority
of the last named. England had the bast armour
plates, and she had also ships better adapted to
carry the additional thickness than any other na
tion in the world. As to the material and con
struction of guns, the Arsenal, since it was set
free, turned out excellent weapons, and effective
shot; but he could not say that thoy had yet at
tained to the best means of fighting their iron
clad?. This subject required ventilation. What
was essential to bo known before this couutry en
tered into a naval war was, what was to be done
to make a complete cenquust with the less loss of
life, and the least damage to tho ships engaged;
and this knowledge once gained, there was no fear
but that England would hold her undisputed sway
as mistress of the seas. —Foreign Paper.
An Exhausted People, —We are playing a
terrible game. Half of -the people of the North
are “stock mad,” and bubble companies are in
creasing daily. We are prepared for a crash which
will startle Europe : for, when it does come, it is
not the people merely that will break, but it is the
Government also. Greenbacks are sinking in
value daily, and the cost of the necesraries of life
are inefeasing fearfully. The huge tax bill now
being prepared in Congress will grind out of labor
“four hundred million per year.” I should say it
will attempt this feat, but labor cannot respond,
and this huge tax bill will fail in its operations.—
The rich State of Ohio ha3 already commenced to
grieve over her prospects. Wait, if you groan
now, what will you do when peace is declared, and
'the whole domain, from the Atlantic to the Missis
sippi, from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico,
prostrate from exhaustion, is as silent as the grave?
A leading Ohio journal says: “Hew can we raise
the enormous taxes? A family of six persons will
pay $72 per year. The average earnings of the
people are not over $75 per year each, aud one
sixth, therefore, of all we create must go to the
support of the damnable Lincoln dynasty.” To
pay*her share to day of this war debt, Ohio would
have to part with one-third of her property.—
Every individual in that State would have to give
up one-third of his possessions. Carry on the
war four years longer and it would eat up every
dollar.—-V. Y. Day Book.
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The Chattanooga Rebel gets the following
figures from the U. S. National Almanac. From
which an estimate may be made of the number of
Federal troops whose term of service expires this
year. In June, 1861, there were 51,000 t r oops
mustered into service for three years; in July,
62,000 ; in August, 60,000; in September, 78,000;
in October, 64,000; in November, 58,000: and in
December, 51,000 —in all 419,000. If, say 3 the
Rebel, we suppose that two-thirds of these have
been discharged, have died, or have deserted, there
will then be left the number of 139,000 to be mus
tered out of service before the Ist of January next.
“A distinguished military surgeon has remark
ed that 100,000 francs spent-in fresh vegetables
will save 500,000 francs from the expense of siek
soldiers entering the hospital, beside the use of the
men for active service. Os the dried vegetables,
rice is among the best for feeding troops. It is
easily carried, easily cooked, easily digested, ana
is one of the most wholesome farinacions articles
correcting, as it often does, the tendency to intes
tinal fluxes, and yet in the rice growing country
of the Confederate •- it is sparieg;
ly re ear troops.”
Eeorria Tea!
We are indebted to Dr. A. L. Acee. of
BelJeview. Talbot county* Ga., for liberal
sample ot genuine (Chinese) tea, of his
| own raising and curit g. We have seen
aware for some time that the Doctor was
engaged in the. tea culture: but we cou«
| less ourselves agreeably surprised at the
appearance and quality of the sample sent
; us. Though not rolled or manipulated
; after the somewhat questionable fashion
1 of the “Celestials," the the of Dr. Aeee
possessses, to our taste, a most excellent
and delicate flavor, and could not fail of
; securing the strong approval of all lovers
of that cup which “cheers but does not
inebriate.” It is, indeed, very good and
: pleasant, and could we be sure of an abun
dant supply of it, we would never sigh
for any of the “blockade” trash for which
such fabulous prices are now paid.
We have no doubt the tea plant will
soon be successfully cultivated throughout
the South ; and for the encouragement of
our readers, we present a few extracts
from a letter of Dr. Aeee :
“I have sent you a bottle of Bouehontr
tea, which I prepare for domestic use.
having ; used it in place of coffee or th
foreign article for three years.
“I am satisfied that upon trial the ma
jority cf fellow citizens would set aside
the imported article ; the taste improves
wonderfully upon frequent use. To pre
pare it in the rolled state is a national
vanity with the Celestials, I suppose to
prevent fraud.
“The Souchong is never imported into
this country, but reserved for the Crown.
The black or aristocratic tea is prepared
from leaves near the ground—Souchong
next above—the liyson next, and Gun
powder from top leaves.
“Tea has advanced, with other articles
of its class, beyond the reach of the poor.
Every citizen should raise it for the sick,
either in his own family or that of liis
neighbors. As it is a vigorous plant, re*
sisting our several winters, with a little
attention every person can have his grove
of tea plants and revel in the luxury.
We find our hot summer suns more
destructive to the tea plant than the cold
est weather of winter. We shall be glad
of an article on the subject from our
friend, Mr. Acee, aud trust he will soon
be able to supply the public with plants
and directions for culture.- Southern Cul
tivator.
War Jokes of tiie Louisville Jour
nal.—A correspoudent ol tho St. Louis
News says that “General Butler has more
brains in the smallest toe of his foot than
the whole kennel of his traducers.” Pros
bably then his toes are the thinking part
of him, and they thought iu the late bat
les near Petersburg that it was time to be
off on the treble quick.
Major General Seigel, at the breaking
out of the rebellion, was ihe respectable
keeper of a respectable cigar store in St.
Louis. The people smoked a good many
of his cigars, a good article, and now
they have smoked him, not so good an
article.
ft e saw a company of negro soldiers
yesterday upon the street. Most of them
looked as if they wouldn’t be half so for
midable against rebels as against hen
roosts.
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Served Him Right. —A negro man
belonging to F. B. McKerrall, Esq., ol'
Greene county, a few days since, attacked
a school girl about four miles from Eutaw,
and attempted to violate her person Fail
ing to accomplish his hellish purpose, lie
fled, and was rapidly pursued. After
three or four days he was apprehended
and tried by a committee of about forty of
the most respectable citizens and condemn
ed to be burned to death on the spot
where he attempted the outrage. This
sentence was put into execution on Saturn
day last, at 11 o’clock, in the presence of
the committee and hundreds of negroes.
The punishment was unequal and se*
vere, but the diabolical wretch deserved
it- Such prompt and terrible retribution
will do more to prevent a recurrence of
such crimes than any other within the
power of man.— Selma Reporter.
; [From the Richmond Dispatch of the 25th.]
The War Sews.
For two or three nights past the quiet
on the lines in front of Petersburg has
! been interrupted by heavy and rapid can-,
nonading. On Saturday nigh t, In partic-*
ular, a fierce artillery duel took place, con
j tinuing for an hour or more. We learn
that our batteries opened upon the enemy’s
mortar lines, and it is presumed that the
fire had some effect, for on yesterday the
Yankees were perfectly docile, and desist
ed irt a great measure from their accuss
j tomed practice of shelling the city.
It was currently reported yesterday that
! Grant was again “changing his base” by
! making a movement to the North side of
James river; but we have been unable to
i learn that it has any foundation in fact.
The only thing known with certainty is
that some movement has been in progress
in the enemy’s camp, but the people of
Petersburg seem to be as much mystified
in regard to its nature as those living at a
greater distance from the scene of opera
tions. It is stated on what is deemed
| good authority that Grant is moving his
forces on the two rivers—the Appamattox
and the James. The scarcity of water in
■ the interior doubtless had something to do
with this movement; but the more prob
able solution is that it was done for the
convenience of moving the troops to any
particular locality on the north side of the
J ames, or the Chesterfield side of the Ap
-1 popaattox, where they may be needed. It
i is no doubt true that some portion of the
“Army of the Potomac” has crossed the
river, but not in sufficient force to indL
cate an abandonment of the present line
of operations.
. The train last evening brought over a
dozen or so Yankee prisoners, who allowed
their zeal to move “on to Richmond” to
get the better of their discretion, and thus
fell into the hands of the Confederates.
We learned last night, from a perfectly
reliable source, that the enemy crossed a
small force of infantry, on their pontoons,
to the north side of J ames river on Fridav
night, but none since. This intelligence
completely explodes one of the current
rumors of Sunday.
Raid ox Gaixsville, Geobgia.—A party of Yan
kee raiders came to the Chattahoochee, about seven
miles irojii Gainesville. Jor the purpose of makin-a
raid m the direction of Athens, The enemy wera
met by a small force under General Youn*?, wh~
burned the bridge and checked the advance of tlx#
raid.
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